Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-12-14
CITY NEWS.

Don forget the the DOyS CluO enIeI- tainment this evening at o'clock at their rooms.
 Shelton Sperry, formerly resident of this city, died to-day at the home of George N. Fenn, in Prospect.
 J. Costello lodge, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, will give grand ball at City hall on the eveRing of Febru- ary 5.
 Mary, infant daughter of William Daley, of 66 PemLerton street, died yesterday. The funeral took place this afternoon.
 T. H. Costello of Chicago has pre- sented handsome emblem of the order of Railway Trainmen to R. H. Costello lodge, of this city.
 A meeting of the four divisions of Hibernians and the O. A. H. rifles, will be held in St Patrick's hall at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening.
 The adjourned town meeting for the purpose of hearing the report of the committee on court house will be held tomorrow evening.
 Conductor J. c. Mcfarland of the Naugatuck division, who was suffer ing from a sprained ankle and an attack of grip, to-day resumed his old position.
 Elizabeth Matthews, aged + years, daughter of David Matthews, died Saturday at her parents home on River street. The funeral took place to St Ann's church this afternoon.
 William Dodds, tillerman on No 2's truck, who is i'll at the hospital, suffer ing with typhoid fever, is getting better and his friends hope for his speedy recovery.
 A horse attached to light carriage ran away on South Main street last night. A lady who was driving was thrown out, receiving slight injuries about the head. Her wounds were dressed at Callender's drug store.
 The appraisers on the estate of P. J. Strain handed in their inventory to the probate court this morning. The estate inventories $1,440.55. Trustee D. F. Webster will sell the stock at private sale.
 Go E, Hibernian rifles, have rented the commodious rooms under the rooms they formerly occupied on Phoenix avenue. The company is increasing in membership and drills are being held weekly. Colonel Donoghue will be here in January to inspect the company.
 The funeral of the late Mrs Ellen Barry of Baldwin street took place at 1:3O yesterday afternoon to St Patrick church. The pallbearers were John Carney, Thomas Kelly, Andrew Leary stephen Tanglay, Frank Sheehy and Michael O'Brien.
 The directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, at theil regular meeting held in New York on Saturday, declared the usual quarterly dividend of 9 per cent, payable tC stockholders January 2, 1892. Includ. ing the recent issue of S4,600, ,000 of new stock the stock of the road is now S23, | 300,000, the quarterly dividend upor which will be $582, ,500. This IS the firs dividend in which the last new issue oi stock has participated.
 A box car which was on side track on the New Haven & Derby road neal the freight depot in Ansonia, was set or fire about o'clock yesterday morning man, who rung in the alarm. In the car were about thirty barrels of kero sene oil. consigned to the Apothecaries Hall company of this city and both tht car and the oil were destroyed by the | flames. The Eagle hose company re sponded and prevented the flame. spreading to adjoining cars. The New York 6 New England roaC has on account of the freight blockadt and the want of sufficient storage room for freight cars been obliged to conver the west bound track between Manches ter and Vernon into a siding. The latter part of last week there were from 300 to 400 cars on this track. Mancheste instead of Vernon is now the casterl terminus of the double track and al west bound trains stop there. The blockade of freight has been largel, caused by the holiday rush of trad which is the largest in years.
 The annual meeting of the stat board of agriculture will be held at Nev Britain for three days this week, be ginning tomorrow and continuin, through Thursday. In the programm already printed no mention was mad of the talk to be gwen Wednesda, morning by J. Warren Smith of tn weather bureau of Cambridge, Mass He will explain the system of forecast and warnings, and there will be al op ortunity for inquiry and explana tion. While this is a subject of particu lar interest to tobacco growers, yet al cultivators will find it interesting an useful.
 G. L. Barker Gone.