Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-27
CITY NEWS.


 The board og trade win meet this evening.
 No freight trains of any description will be run on the Naugatuck division | on Memorial day.
 The Ladies Sewing society of the First | Baptist church gave a strawberry festi- | val last evening in the church parlors.
 Read the opening chapters of GA Plain Man" in this issue of the DEMO- | GRAF.
 Notice of appeal was given yesterday in the Force vs Gregory case and the matter will be taken to the supreme court.
 Every purchaser of tea, coffee or baking powder will receive a souvenir tomorrow at J. F. Phelan's, Platt's block.
 -The eighth grade of the Bank street which Representative Saxe gave in the High school this afternoon. "A
 $, w, Kellogg and wife, who have been seeking health and rest at Hot Springs, N. O., have returned home much improved.
 Weather prediction: Showers, fol- lowed by fair weather this evening. Fair weather, stationary temperature for Saturday and Sunday. The circus will come in from Hart ford, on the New England road, early tomorrow morning. Yesterday the show was in New Britain and on Mon- day Bridgeport will be visited.
 John Henderson, jr, will build a two story frame house, fitted up with all modern conveniences, on Washing ton avenue. The plans have just been completed and work will be commenced at once.
 Daniel T. Hart, through his attorney, R. A. Lowe, brought suit this afternoon against James Sutton for $500 for goods sold. The case is returnable in the dis trict court on the first Tuesday in Sep. tember.
 Captain 0. O. Ford's resignation, as inspector of rife practice, has been re- ceived by Colonel Doherty. The reason alleged is pressure of business. Captain Ford has been praised on all sides as a highly efficient officer.
 John w. Mahony, the High street grocer, left for New York this after noon. Tomorrow morning he will embark for England on the Aurania of the Cunard line. He will take up the study of dentistry at Bradford.
 The funeral of Mrs Thomas McCann \ took place to the church of the Imma- culate Conception this morning at 9 o'clock. The pallbearers were Michael Donahue, Patrick Gilmore, Thomas Sheron, William Dunn, John Coffey and Arthur Cassidy.
 A petition for the revocation of the liquor license of Charles Durham of Waterbury, was dismissed by the county commissioners yesterday. The claim was that he had a door open be- tween his saloon and dwelling apart ments.
 E. R. French of this city has passed the examinations of the electrical engin- eering course in the Massachusetts In stitue of Technology, at Boston, where he has been studying during the past four years, and will receive the degree lof bachelor of science on next Tuesday.
 At a meeting of the Ecclesiastical Fsociety of the Second church, last night, it was voted to sell the present church property on North Main street, to the Todd Fellows, for $32,000, the terms being $5,000 down and the balance on July 1, 1884, The church society will erect new edifice on West Main street.
 At meeting of the directors of the Todd Fellows Mutual Aid association, in New Haven, last evening, twenty appli- cants for membership were accepted. Death benefits of 5000 each were voted to the widows of l.. Greenbaum of Hartford, Isaac B. Segar of Bridge bort and Thomas R. Martin of Water bury.
 The committee appointed by the board of education to visit the schools which had applied for assistants, have man. aged to supply all needs at present by changes, except in the Sperry street school. They have appoiated Miss Annie Russell as an assistant in thif school and she will commence her duties on Tuesday, May 31.
 State Secretary John D. Cunningham is making arrangements with General Passenger Agent Hampstead, of the Consolidated road, for transporting the several divisions of the Ancient Order of Hibernians to Bridgeport next month. The officers of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Connecticut have been invited to participate in the , Iparade.
 The annual picnic of Go E, Hiberniar rifles, will be held on the West End grounds tomorrow afternoon and even !, ling. Great preparations have beer ,; made for the event and it goes without saying that it will be successful. Great interest Is centered in the tug of wal Tournament and the other sports alsC Twill be interesting. There win be danc ing afternoon and evening.
 An alarm from box 15, corner of Eas Main and Cherry streets, called the de pertinent to the old Porter homestead at the junction of East Main and Col, streets, last evening a little before o'clock. It was found that the chimney had been clogged up so as to shut off thu drafts from stove in the lower part O the building and the house had conse quently filled with smoke. No damag, of any kind was done.
 At the Red Mems council fire in Hart ford yesterday twenty past granI sachems were present. In the after noon the following great chiefs wer, raised: Grand sachem, J. Frank Terev ' of Birmingham; grand senior saga more, Dr Charles R. Upson of Water bury; grand keeper of records, J. w
 Hatstat of New Haven; grand keepe of wampum, Henry K. White of Meri