Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-03-16
( CITY NEWS.

being held at 80 AIMS church has been
very large.
The Rev Francis 7. Russell Of st Mar.
garet's school, leaves on Friday for trip
through the south.
W. 81. Casey win open his new place
at the corner Of South Main and Liberty
streets tomorrow evening.
Mrs Henry u. Bavier and Miss Mamie
CLARK Of Lenox, Mass, pre- visiting with
Adolph Bavier on Round hill.
The supreme court has affirmed the
appointment Of B. j. Smith as executor
OF the estate Of Bridget Smith, his moth
The annual Bociable OF the Young
Mems Literary association win be held
in Music hall on Friday evening, April
W. w. Shepard and w. n. Hunger
ford attended the concert given by
Professor Hayes at southington, last
night.
The Rev Father Mulcahy will lecture
in the Catholic church at Thompsonville
tomorrow evening on tThe Early Irish
CLARK & Cannon of this city, who
opened u drug store in New Britain
some time ago, have decided to return
to this city on April /.
The Rev Father O'DonneIl will preach
on the life of st Patrick at the lenten
services In the church of the Immacu-
late Conception this evening,
Vespers and sermon this evening at
the Sacred Heart church, in honor of
Ireland's patron, st Patrick, and high
mass at a. m. tomorrow.
Boys and girls. sidewalk roller skates
given with tea and baking powder at
the New York and China Tea Co, 1S1
South Main street. Blanks now ready.
Michael Pagan, aged 20 years, died
yesterday afternoon at his home on
Canal street. The funeral will take
place to st Patrick's church at 8 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon.
Virgil D. Kenerson, foreman of the
copper mill Of the Benedict & Burn
ham Manufacturing company, left this
morning for Jacksonville, Fla, where he
illspend few weeks.
A new lodge of the A. o. U. W., will
be organized in this city Friday night at
Pythian hall. Several preliminary
meetings have already been held, and
the new lodge will start off with large
membership:
The interior of the Manufacturers,
National bank, recently remodeled, is
beautifully papered with ''lincrusta
walton" the work of L. F. Haase. 1t
is handsome piece of work and is
greatly admired.
| The New Haven county conference of
the prohibition party occurs tomorrow
in this city. 1t will be addressed by
Van Bennett OF Kansas, and additional
delegates to the national convention in
June will be selected.
A coal barge while passing through a
drawbridge on the New England road,
last evening In Boston, became stuck
and all westbound trains which pass
over the New England road out of
Boston were blocked for Ave hours.
Judge Bradstreet suspended Judgment
on two first time cases of drunkenness
in the police court this morning, and
imposed a fine Of So and costs on
Anthony Efel, young man of 10 years,
who has been charged with the same
offense before now.
Grand knight Phelan and Grand
Secretary Colwell, of the Knights of
Columbus, returned from Boston yester-
day. They report that a lodge with
forty members is ready to start in
Boston and another of the same size in
Springfield.
There will be a meeting of the board
of road commissioners this evening, at
| which will be discussed the methods for
getting the trap rock from the Cheshire
notch. Yesterday a committee from
the board visited the quarry and much
information was obtained.
Bridgeport Union: A very ENJOYABLE
two hours was spent yesterday after.
noon at the house of Mrs ]. 81. Hall,
204 Fairfield avenue, where the ladies
of the Bridgeport English Literary
circle listened to an address by the
Ndtm 70 - R.I
woman's clubs, Mrs E. o. r. Abbott of
Waterbury.
The endowment fund of the Con-
necticut Literary institute has been in
creased over 800 during the past
week, and now amounts to 1924. 600.
Any youth above thirteen years in Con
necticut is at liberty to compete for free
scholarship in the examinations. Ex-
aminations may be held at any point in
the state.
Superintendent Howe of the reform
school at Meriden called in the
directors Of his institution yesterday to
talk over the matter of introducing
knitting machines into the school, The
subject was discussed at length and it
was decided to have Superintendent
Howe pay visit to some institution
to see how the scheme worked there.
He went to New York to-day to look
over the house Of refuge.
= Agitation has begun now in many
places and is likely to be taken up
generally, to abolish the ''three DAYS
grace" now allowed for the maturity of
various evidences Of indebtedness. The
time passed long ago, If it ever was,
when the borrower got any benefit from
this provision. The lender recognizes
the three days, to be sure, saws the
Hartford Courant, but he tacks on the
interest just the same and the advan-
tage is purely imaginary.
According to the state manual which
has just been issued, there are in Wa
terbury ten priests, and fifteen ministers
of the following denominations:
Protestant Episcopal four, Congrega-
tional four, Methodist Episcopal three,
Baptist two, Advent Christian one