Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-19
CITY NEWS.

J. Blakesley of Linden street died yeSter- day. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. 8H
 At the adjourned meeting of the board of fire commissioners last evening, the con tract for furnishing the coal for theEdepart- ment was awarded to Matthew Kennedy.
 The Naugatuck division began to fill its ice houses from the company's pond at Burrville to-day. The crop is of very fine quality and averages nine inches in thick ness.
 home, 136 East Liberty street, at 3:l5 this afternoon. aged 62 years. from heart fail ure. The deceased was a sister of Mrs Jeremiah Lyons.
 The articles contributed 10 the relief bureau on Scovill street to-day were a bar rel of flour from N. w. Heater, and cloth ing from Charles E. Smith, F.. J. Bayliss and Miss E. E. Claxton.
 Sheridan council, K. of C., has changed its place of meeting from St Patricks hall | to Pythian hall, Bank street. The council will hold its regular monthly meeting on the first Sunday of each month.
 Useful presents are all the rage this sea- son. and the line of beautiful slippers that Damon X Shippy have displayed in the front of their store, is calculated to catch 
 The Waterbury Democratic association held an enthusiastic meeting at its rooms in the Platt block last evening and com pleted the business for 1893. Several ap- plications for membership were received.
 The funeral of Miss Alice Gallagher will take place from the family residence. 3S Orchard street, at 30 tomorrow morning | with services in the Sacred Heart church and interment in St Joseph's cemetery,
 Miss Mary Brick. aged 45 years. died at the almShouSe early this morning. The remains were removed to Bergin's morgue from where the funeral will be held to- morrow afternoon unless friends make different arrangements.
 The last excursion of the season to New York will be given by the New England road tomorrow. the special train leaving this city at S:l5. Tickets are good return ing by regular trains on December 2l and p. The fare for the round trip is Sl .25. The City Grocery company has been or SaniZed with a capital of $500 in thirty two shares of $25 each, all pald in. The subscribers to the capital stock are: H. L. Slauson. Charles Thatcher and John Nor ton. each eight shares, and Thomas Norton and o. J. Hart, four shares each. Thomas J. Campion, formerly of this city, who for several years has been re- porter on the Hartford Times. was taken to the Hartford hospital yesterday suffering from an aggravated case of the grip. \ Connecticut Associated Press dispatch this afternoon states that he Is in a critical condition.
 Postmaster General BiSsell has taken ac- ton in regard to the postal card business and has, as was anticipated, approved the finding of the commissioners and ordered that Woolworth be allowed to proceed with his contract This. of course. decides the matter of the losing of this industry to shelton, and its re-establishment at Castle | ton.
 The center district committee heidi special meeting last evening to award the contract for the addition to the Long Hill school house Tracy Brothers having | withdrawn their bid of $1 ,995, which was accepted by the committee Saturday even | ing. The contract was awarded to Chaun- cey Seeley for S2.36S.
 The committee on teachers of the board of education held special meeting yester- | day afternoon and it Was decided to dis pense with the services of some of the night school teachers, owing to the falling of in attendance. Four teachers were | dropped, two of the Bank street. one of the East Gaylord and one of the Bishop | street schools.
 The funeral of Mrs Ann Geraghty was | held at S:3O this morning from her late home on Cooke street to the Immaculate Conception courch. where a mass of re- quiem was celebrated by tho Rev Father | Lynch. The pallbearers were Daniel Cronan. Thomas Butler. Edward Hardy, James Kelly. William Finnegan and Daniel FinneGAn. lnterment was in St Joseph's cemetery.
 At the annual meeting of Court Han | cock. A. 0. F. of A.. held last evening the | following list of officers was chosen: C. R., NJ. J. keefe; $. C. R., Thomas ]. Beg nall; treasurer, James A. Hynes; F. &, | Edward B. Hardie k. S, Edward F. Hy- land: $. w. John Butler; J. w, Leo P. BOvally; s. B. Edward J. Kane; J. B., Patrick Brosnan; physician, B. A. O'Hara. Court Nigilant, A. O. F. of A. held its annual meeting last evening and elected officers as follows: (. R., E. F. Grady; S. c. R., George Marshall; F. &. Thomas Finnegan; R. &. Daniel Dwyer; treasurer. James CasS; $. w, John Hogan; J. w, William Bart; s. B. Thomas Barrett; I. B.. Edward Barrett; trustee for three years, Eugene Greenwood; physician, Dr J. J. McAvoy.
 Mrs Sarah May Carder, wife of Lewis James Carder. business manager of the Sunday Globe, died at the home of her parents in Watertown yesterday afternoon after a few days illness with peritonitis. Mir and Mrs Carder had been married less than two months and her taking away Is sad in the extreme. The funeral will take place from the home of her parents on
 Wednesday afternoon at 80 o'clock.
 Superintendent Moran of the almshouse took John Sullivan to the asylum at Middletown to-day. Sullivan has been in- | c. T l.,- l., l I | by charitably disposed people. He claimed to be the owner of the Naugatuck railroad, the street railway and the con- | vent of Notre Dame. Lately he has created scene around the convent sev- eral times, and 1t was thought best to have him cared for at Middletown. To-day in the Jewish calendar is the an. nual fast of Tebeth. It is one of the four | fasts commemorative of mournful episodes | in the history of the Jewish nation. On this day, the tenth of Tebeth, Nebuchad- | nezZar came up against Jerusalum and put it in state of seize. until the 17th of | Tamuz. when he renewed the siege and captured the city and burned it's glorious temple. on the 9th day of Alb. The occur renee is referred to in II Kings and in the book of the great prophet Ezekiel. who mentions it as having happened "on that self same day.
 The supreme chief ranger of the ancient | Order of Foresters hasannOunced that the following change was made in the law re- lating to the election of officers at the last | session of the supreme court. The chief | ranger. sub chief ranger, recording secre- | tary, senior and junior woodwartfs senior | and junior beadles. are elected for aterm of six months. beginning with the first regular meeting in January and July of each year. The financial secretary and treasurer are elected for one year, com meneing at the first regular meeting in January.
 The members of the Friendly league have decided to have a Christmas tree for little girls. at their headquarters. Platt's l buildinG D East Main street room & At ]