Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
CITY NEWS.

wlN meet ln the t1lSn SCHOOL Lhls eVen- ing.
 Mrs Mary Burns, wife of John Burns, and mother of Policeman Burns, died this afternoon.
 The greatest show on earth is called Barnum's. The greatest washing com pound is called lavine.
 X Waterbury man named Daily was arrested in Bridgeport yesterday for being drunk and disorderly. 4 pair of eye glasses were lost in the casino last night. The finder can leave them with the manager.
 The Scovill company are still turning out thousands of the little pocket banks. The demand for them is large. There will be large audience present at the opera house this evening, to hear the Rev Father Mulcahy lecture on ''The Passion Play"
 Great sale at Brett & Co.'S. They have placed in their north window mems suits which formerly cost from SIS to SIS. Price now $l0.
 The New Haven Blues. at their meet ing last night, voted to attend the grand military ball to be given by Go A. Sec ond regiment, in City hall next Tuesday evening.
 
 ents with one pound of tea. Read their list of special prizes in their announce ment of to-day. It will interest you. Benjamin Holt, supreme organizer of the United Endowment league, will de- liver an address upon "The Principles of Go operative Insurance" in Music hall this evening. Ladies and gentlemen admitted free.
 Kieran A. Egan, aged If years and II | months, eldest son of Constable James J. Egan, died at the home of his parento at 10 o'clock this morning, from pneu- ! monia. The funeral will be held Sunday l afternoon.
 By means of fraudulent promises to | make valuable gifts to purchasers, C.. w. Wright has succeeded in selling at $2 per dozen quite a large amount of ! worthless cough mixture to store keep CTS in New Haven.
 William Rocket, who drank glassful of benzine Wednesday is still in a criti- | cal condition, at the town house. The | mans relatives say he swallowed the stuff while suffering from insanity, and not in mistake for liquor as was reported. William G. Arnold, for eight years | in the employ of Miss Martha Kendrick, will leave next Monday for Butte City. Montana, to accept position with the Parrott Copper and Silver company. l Mir Arnold has hosts of friends here who will be sorry to learn of his intentions.
 The funeral of Miss Lizzie German took place to the church of the Immacu- late Conception thls morning, where a requiem mass was celebrated by the Rev Father Mulcahy. The pallbearers were: J. H. Moran, William Mccormick, William Ellis, Michael Preston, c. R. Bannon and w. c. Bahnon. The annual concert and sociable of Barcelona council, k. of C., will be held l in City hall this evening. The concert ! will begin at s o'clock. many of the best singers of the ely assisting. At 9:3O the grand march will form and dancing will be the order until late hour. The affair promises to be a success, The funeral of Johanna Healey was held this morning at the church of the Immaculate Conception, where a re- quiem high mass was celebrated by Father Fleming, and was largely attend ed. The pallbearers were: James O'Don- | nell, Stephen Sullivan, Patrick Hanlon, Michael O'Connor, John Lynch and Philip Healey.
 The reduction in the wholesale price of sugar has been of no benefit to the retailers, as rivalry has been started | since the law went into effect, and each
 retailer is trying to see how many pounds of sugar he can sell for dollar,
 in and effort to go the next man one
 better. Ut is case of dog eat dog ,'' said grocer yesterday. ''The con sumer is benefited, but we are not. | There never was any money for a re-
 taller in sugar, and if this thing keeps
 on there will be less."
 The Lancasterian School association
 held a meeting in New Haven Wednes-
 day night and voted to hold the annual meeting of the association in Warner
 hall April 23. There will be collation.
 served on this occasion. This is the an niversary of the date of John E. LovelIs
 birthday. He will be 96 years of age then. One Cf the members reported
 that the physician who is attending MT
 Lowell in Waterbury says, that Mir Lov- ell, if he continues in his present state
 of health, will be well enough to attend
 the annual meeting. About $500 has been raised by the members of the asSo-
 citation for Mir Lovells benefit in re-
 sponse to an appeal for funds.
 The remains of the late Charles H.
 Adams arrived here from Aiken, s. c.
 at o'clock yesterday afternoon, and at
 4:45 services were held at the Hall
 memorial chapel, Rev Dr Rowland off
 ciating. The funeral procession was
 headed by the Silver Drum corps with
 untitled drums, k. F. Durand division,
 Speedwell lodge and Comstock lodge,
 K. of P. At the grave the ritual of the
 order was read and each member threw
 a sprig of myrtle into the open grave e.
 The floral offerings were very beautiful.
 From Speed well lodge there was large
 pillow of roses; from E. F. Durand
 division a broken column; from the
 druggists and drug clerks of Waterbury a large pillow of violets and roses; from
 Chris Strobel magnificent piece, ''The
 Gates Ajar;" from w. w. Dikeman, the
 partner of the deceased, a handsome
 basket of choice flowers; from the two
 children of the deceased, a pillow with
 the inscription "Papa;" from F. D.
 Young handsome floral emblem, and
 several smaller offerings. The drug