Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-27
CITY NEWS.

Mrs NJ. J. Tinkham of Bridgeport and | daughter Elinor are spending the | holidays with Mrs Phoebe Gill.
 J. N. Perkins has returned to the | management of the branch store of J. | E. Roe at 736 East Main street.
 Edward Fish and wife of Pittsield, Mass, are spending the holidays with relatives at 73 Clay street, in this city.
 Henry B. Holmes of Trenton, N. J., former Waterbury boy, is spending a few days with his parents in this city. Mrs J. H. Wilton will leave tomorrow morning for a weeks stay with friends in New York city.
 Frank P. Brett and John Fitzpatrick were appointed commissioners on the insolvent estate of Kingsley & Burke to-day.
 George Smith, chief of the Walling- ford fire department, spent Christmas in this city with his father, Charles Smith.
 The Manhan department of the Wa | terbury Brass company will be forced to shut down for some days owing to the breaking of a main shaft yesterday. w. c. Benedict of Bridgeport, with his wife and daughter, spent Christmas with hls son, Assistant Superintendent | G. w. Benedict of the NaugatuCk division.
 Bishop McMahon administered con- firmation to large class at St Johns church in Watertown to-day. The clergy from several parishes assisted in the services with the pastor, Rev J. H. O'Donnell.
 Dr Axtelle gave a dinner to the hostlers of Partree's stables at David's restaurant last night. This annual dinner is a custom of the doctors and is always looked forward to with pleasure.
 Three prisoners were discharged from | the Wethersfield state prison, Saturday, as follows: James Moran, sentenced for one year from Stamford for bur glary; John Sheridan, from Bridgeport. two years for burglary, and Patrick Ryan from Bridgeport, two years and six months, for burglary.
 The Revs J. A. Mulcahy and Hugh Treanor attended the meetings of the different diocesan boards of which they are members, at the residence of Bishop McMahon in Hartford yesterday. Father Mulcahy is one of the consulters of the bishop, and Father Treanor is a member of the diocesan school board.
 Burglars entered the ticket office at the New England station Sunday night
  an entrance to the station by way of window in the water closet and then pried off two of the iron bars protecting the ticket office window. It is evident that something scared them for they took nothing. the only evidence of their presence being the muddy tracks on the | floor.
 The weather during the past four days has been the coldest of the season, in | Waterbury, and indeed all through New England. Yesterday morning the zero point was reached in several places in this city. Exactly a year ago to-day we had cold wave which lasted three days, but it was not as severe as the present wave, which is very persistent. The icemen are happy and say that a ten inch crop can be harvested already.
 A mail car on the Naugatuck division l of the Consolidated road was blown to pieces at East Winsted Sunday evening by the bursting of the steam heating pipes. The car stood empty on siding near the round house and connection was made with steam pipes from the building to thaw out the pipes under the car, which were frozen. The pipes burst with sufficient force to blow out the sides and back of the car, nearly demolishing it. No one was injured.
 The Acme base ball club has been in vited to send delegates to the Inter national hotel. New York. on January B. when the project of forming a middle states league will be discussed. The cities which will be represented at the meeting are Poughkeopsie, Newburg and Kingston, N. N., Hoboken. Patter- son and Trenton, N. J. and Scranton, Wilkesbarre, Pottsville and Jeaneville. Penn. The Acme club will also be represented and delegates will be chosen | this week.
 The new fire alarm boxes have been placed in position and the attention of firemen is called to the fact that the numbers of some of the old boxes have been changed. The new boxes are: No 5, at the works of the Scovill Manu- featuring Go. and No @, corner of Dub lin street and Doolittle alley. The box at the Watch factory is now No 43. in stead of 36 as heretofore; the Water bury Brass Go box is B, instead of 24: the number of the box at the corner of South Main and Washington streets has been changed from B to 41: that at the | corner of West Main and Willow is now 32 instead of 1. and box 3S. corner of South Main and Grand street has been changed to 4.
 The "assembly" at Leavenworth hall last evening was the first of series. and brought together a charming party of ladies and gentlemen. The costumes of the ladies were bright and pretty. while the gentlemen in their dress suits were as gallant and courteous as the occasion required. At 93O the grand march was formed. Hon John O'Nein and Mrs O'Neill leading. The fourteen numbers on the programme were finished about 1 o'clock. Among the out of town guests present were the Misses Lambert of Philadelphia, Mir and Mrs John M Sweeney, Dr Delaney and Miss McNallv of Naugatuck, Joseph Roper of Bridgeport and Messrs Lane and Fitzpatrick of New Haven.
 Janitor Loughlin of City hall and Driver Jim Flynn of No Is supply wagon are on the war path to-day. The cause of this sudden uprising is as fol lows: The janitor was presented with the "lulu bird" which figured as an ad- vertisement for the Red Mems fair. Will Gillette, who made the presenta-