Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-25
CITY NEWS.

'
 Dr North returned last evening from a pleasant vacation spent in England.
 A special meeting of the Brass City Hose Co will be held tomorrow evening.
 Miss Emma Carey, bookkeeper for the Waterbury Furniture Go, is enjoy ing two weeks vacation.
 Cornelius O'Hearn, aged 26 years, died from consumption at the town house last night.
 Miss Mary McEvoy left this morning for Woodmont, where she will join her sister, Mrs James E. Watts.
 Prosecuting Attorney Kellogg has been confined to the house for the past week, suffering from n quinsy sore throat.
 The condition of John Egan, who is | confined to the hospital suffering from the injuries inflicted by his wife, is no better.
 The Mayflower Hook and Ladder Go, of Norwalk, has declined to take part in the hose laying contest in this city on tiremen's parade day.
 The Willimantic Chronicle says that P. Contaldi of Waterbury has been awarded the contract for building sewers in four streets of that city.
 William H. Hall and Mrs Anna A. Shannon were married by the Rev J. G. Davenport at the brides home, on West Main street, at 4:3O yesterday afternoon.
 Lawyer Case, manager of the republi- can case in the controversy over the state officers, is reported as expressing an opinion that the legislaturn will do nothing when 1t rcaSSembleS on the 21th of September.
 The laws of the state of Connecticut relating to schools have been issued in l,Nr of the state board of education. The docu- ment consists of l25 pages and contains all the laws up to date
 Papers were served by Constable Egan to-day, on Edward McGrath, in the in- terest of Robert Fruin, who asks for an order to divide the real estate owned jointly by himself and MCGrath, and for statement of rents collected by the latter.
 John J. Hanley and Miss Margaret Bowling were married this morning at the church of the Immaculate Concep- ton. The best couple were Francis Cassidy and Miss Mar y Bowling. The ceremony was performed by Rev Father MulCahy.
 Rose Hill hose company, No 5, will hold a special meeting this evening for the purpose of receiving their new regu- lation uniforms which are being furnish ed by the Waterbury One Price Cloth ing company, except the caps, which the Danbury Hat store furnishes.
 The excursion of the Patrick Sarsfield club of this city and the Celtic Literary association of Ansonia to Coney Island yesterday was the largest of the season, requiring thirty-one coaches to accom- modate the excursionists. The Water bury and Naugatuck parties numbered about 900 people, and reached home shortly after midnight.
 Rev Father Higgins of New Haven, Rev Father Treanor of Waterbury, Cor poration Counsel Driscoll of New Haven, Mayor Tracy of Meriden and John J. Phelan of Bridgeport will meet \ in New Haven this week to select an orator for the Columbian celebration, which takes place October II. Arch bishop Williams of Boston will probably be the orator selected.
 The large number of pack peddlers who are in the city and the constant in- | crease which almost every train from the south brings Is attracting attention. The people of New York, Baltimore, Boston and seaport cities and towns gen erally are using every precautionary measure to prevent the appearance of cholera and look upon peddlers with distrust. They travel about from house to house encountering every stage of the sanitary condition of the commun- ity and people should be very careful.
 The Connecticut Civil Engineers association held its summer meeting at the city surveyors office in Meriden yes terday. The officers and executive com mittee received reports. Engineer Bishop of Middletown, extended an invi- tation to the association to go on a yachting trip in September. The Isewerage plans were inspected by the body. At noon the association members had dinner at the Winthrop. City En' gineer Cairns, F. w. LafOrge, w. G. Smith, J. Carpenter and Porter l.. Wood of this city were present.
 When Major George H. Woods was in Chicago recently he was much grati. fled to find the work of the woman's board of the state for the worlds fair SC much appreciated. The chief clerk of the director-general expressed to Major Woods the general pleasure enjoyed by the knowledge of the systematic work
 which was being done by the Connecti
 cut ladies, and similar appreciation was depressed in the woman's department
 the department of fine arts and by several newspaper men whom Major
 Woods met. The general opinion seemed to be that the women of Con
 necticut were doing excellent work eX
 ceedingly well, and were ahead oi some states and abreast of all in the
 work of woman's sphere.
 Brakeman Charles Maloy of Conduct or Munson's New Haven & Waterbury freight train, lost valuable gold watch while at work in the Ansonia yard:
 Tuesday afternoon. It was new
 watch, purchased only a week ago. Ht
 looked at it when the train was nearing nI in 70
 and later found the chain dangling from
 his vest and the watch missing, tho chain being broken close to the snap
 He thinks it was thrown out of hi! [ pocket just above the Maple street
 bridge as he was standing on top of ont of the passenger excursion coaches, the
 train backing up the siding. Seeing
 that the coach was about to collide witt
 a stationary flat car with much force ht
 jumped into the air as they struck tC avoid being thrown down, and thinks ht
 must have thrown it out of his pocke