Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-09-28
CITY NEWS.

The board of fire commissioners will |
meet this evening.
The selectmen and registrars qualified |
312 voters on Saturday.
The annual collection at st Patrick's |
church was taken up yesterday.
Ticket agent Manwaring has received
the excursion tickets for the Danbury
fair.
A meeting of the Choral society will
be held in Carrollton council hall this
evening.
Gus Cappento, an Italian who keeps
fruit store on East Main street, found a
tarantula on n bunch of bananas this
morning.
The ST Thomas cadets of the Brooklyn
parish will attend the bazaar and fair at
the Notre Dame convent, tomorrow
evening.
The Rev Father Mulcahy, chaplain of
the four divisions of the A. o. H., will
deliver an address before the members
at st Patrick's hall this evening.
The eight days pay for encampment
at Mantle has arrived for the two local
companies. Tonight the members of
Co A will receive their money and to-
morrow night Co G's members will be
paid.
"A
to compel Comptroller Staub to pay the
military encampment bill of 500, 5000.
The writ is returnable in the superior.
court of Hartford courts on the second
Tuesday of October before Judge Robin
son.
The probability of rainy days for Oc-
tober, as shown by the records of obser-
walton, in possession of the United
States weather bureau at Washington,
from 1871 to 1888 inclusive, for this city
and vicinity, will be thirty-five per cent
or about nine days out of thirty-one.
The new fast train to run between
Waterbury and New York on the Nau-
gatuck road next month will not stop at
Derby, it is said, although stopping at
Ansonia. This has aroused the citizens
of Derby and they are calling on the
board of trade to do something about
the matter.
When Richard Costello, the freight
conductor of the New England road was
killed at New Britain early in August
last, a search was made for his car book
and it could not be found. On Satur-
day TIE book was found by man named
Gibson in a lot between Black Rock and
Plainville, and given to James Dalton,
the baggage master. Mr. Dalton handed
it to the New England officials.
A dramatic club has been formed in
st Patrick's parish. Friday night last a
meeting was held and J. F. Calvin was
elected manas er, Miss B. Coogan musical
director, William Hetherington secre-
tary, and Miss Lizzie Fitzgerald treasur-
err. The company will meet one week
from Thursday evening next. 1t is prob
| able that the first dramatic effort of the
organization will be the production of
the strong Irish drama Eileen Oge."
Why would it not be good idea for
| the New England folks to buy or lease
| the Meriden & Waterbury road, and eX-
| tend it to Willimantic. That could be
done cheaper than double tracking their
own road through the rocks and noun
| tains of western Connecticut. The
Meriden, Waterbury & Connecticut
| River line could be used for traffic one
| way, and the main line for that going
the other. While it is not known that
the Meriden & Waterbury road people
would SELL it is safe to say that they
would if they got their price -Meriden
| Journal.
| The first event at the Second regiment
rifle shooting contest, which occurs at
the Quinnipiac range October Z, will be
a company team match at 200 and 500
| yards. The entrance fee is $40 for each
team. The second event will be ut 200
| yards distance, open to amy member OF
the regiment in fatigue uniform. En-
trance fee to each match will be %
cents. Thirty per cent of the entrance
money is to be expended in
prizes. The Colonel Smith badge, the
Licutenant-Co Colonel Bacon medal, and
the General Ford medal will also be shot
for in this contest. The third mattel
will be open only to the commissioned
officers of the regiment. The first priz,
in this contest is the Colonel BanC
badge. The second is an officers sword
A special prize, the gift of Lieutenant
ID. l.. Barber of X company, will bt
awarded to the man making the highes
Iscore in the company team competition
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