Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-01
CITY NEWS.

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 The board of trade will hold an inn portant meeting this evening.
 The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'S office has been moved to Platts block.
 Attorney Thomas Donahue is very | low at his home on East Main street.
 Excelsior Council, O. U. A. M., gave a | sociable in Mechanics hall last evening. l H. s. Chase's Gordon setter, Leo, one of the best known dogs in the city, is | dead. Mir and Mrs Charles A. Colley re- evening.
 The Young Mems Fourth Ward Democratic club will meet tonight in the hall of the Women's Relief corps. The Cassidy block on South Main street is to have the floors lowered and the front of the building brought out even with the line of the sidewalk. Miss Elizabeth Corbett, aged 19 years, died last evening at her home on West Main street. The remains will be taken tomorrow to Great Burlington, Mass, for interment.
 Great Sachem John w. Hatstat of New Haven and Great Junior Sagamore John P. Harbison of Hartford, visited Tunxis Tribe, I. O. R. M., at their wig wam last night.
 Some of the experts say that trout fishing will not be good under two weeks, as the streams are ice chilled and snow chilled. After that time good fronting is promised.
 Eva M. Munson, aged 9 years, daughter of Mir and Mrs William H. Munson, 8 Summer street, died yester- day from diphtheria. The funeral was held in the afternoon.
 The regular weekly meeting of the board of trade will be held this evening. It is expected that the committee ap- pointed to confer with the Consolidated road regarding better train service to New York, will report progress.
 The Second regiment band, under the leadership of Fred Guilford, has been thoroughly reorganized. New blood has been infused into it and the mem bers are enthusiastic in their work to make the band second to none in the state.
 L. c. Bird, the popular young order clerk of Eaton, Cole & Burnham's. has resigned his position to accept a position in one of the Consolidated railroad towers in Waterbury. Mir Bird was held in high esteem by his fellow workmen and he will be greatly missed.-Bridge- port Union.
 Chief Snagg, as treasurer of the State Firemen's association, today mailed checks to the heirs of Charles Alexander of Meriden and Martin Corbett of Middletown, members of the associa- tion, who died from diseases contracted while in the discharge of their duties. Mir Alexander's heirs receive $568 and MT Corbett's $158.
 A meeting of representative demo. crats will be held in Concordia hall al S:30 o'clock this evening, the announced object of the gathering being to con sider the advisability of placing in nomi nation a Waterbury man for congres sional honors. There should be a large attendance in order that the matter may be thoroughly debated from every point of view.
 [ The fiscal year at the post office closed j. yesterday. The gross receipts during | the year amounted to $51 ,593.22. ThC gross receipts for the year ending Marcl }. 31, 1891, were $46, ,477.46, showing al f increase of $5,105.76 during the yea which ended yesterday. The receipt for last month were $4,194.20. Tn, total receipts for the quarter ending las night were $15, ,O82 80.
 Plans have just been completed b, . Architect Joseph Jackson for thre story block, two flats on each floor frame building, with bay windows ant verandas and all modern improvements = for Richard F. Phelan. The buildin, will be erected on the corner of Bald win and Washington streets, and worI has already begun on the cellar.
 Yesterday was the nineteenth ami r versary of the marriage of Mrs Dor Munson, vice-president of Wadham Relief Corps. In commemoration O the event social gathering of the ladie ! Of the corps was held yesterday after ] noon and evening, and Mrs Munson wa \ made the recipient of many gifts | among them being handsome crayol landscape and easel.
 The Boys club will give a gymnasium class exhibition in Music hail on Tues ? day evening next, commencing at
 o'clock, tickets 25 cents. The proceed will be devoted to the running expenses This will give the public a chance O seeing what the Boys club is doing, Tn entertainment will consist of tumbline of dumb-bell and Indian club classes, hoI |, lzontal bar performances, clog dancing !: slack wire walking, etc.
 President Parsons, of the New Tor
 G New England, says nothing but lay N low. The next move of the New Eng le land railroad game may be in tn nature ot a checkmate to the Ney Haven people. About the time that = comfortable short interest is created i New England stock we may expect tn announcement of their next move For the present, however, Mir Clark an his friends have their innings.
 s. A. Eddy, clerk of the Connection legislature, and Burton Pierce, hay = shipped from Canaan to Chicago thre hickory logs, each foot in diameter, 2 feet long and straight as an arrow, to b used in the conetruction of a rusti building composed of wood from ever state in the union, at the worlds fai1 the three sticks are to be bound topethe in the rough and will constitute sinpI