Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-14
CITY NEWS.

uc OCulOCTaIlN AsSOClAIlOn Will meet l
this evening, in room Platts building. |
The Catholic Legion will hold a regu- i
lar meeting this evening in Carrollton |
council hall.
Major Dickinson will make his first
appearance as major at the battalion
drill tomorrow evening.
The Goth annual reunion of the Con
necticut Cavalry association will be held
at Savin Rock next Thursday.
O'Brien, the baker, Bishop and Bald
win streets, is selling seven loaves of
fresh bread for twenty-five cents.
There will be no band concert this
evening, on account of the opening Of
the season at Jacques opera house.
Tomorrow being the feast of the As
sumption of the Virgin Mary, it will be
observed as holyday by Catholics.
The Trott Baking company have sent
word to the Bakers union that the
union rules will be adopted on August
10.
Special meeting of the common coun-
Gil this evening, to consider the ques-
ton of abolishing the Washington ave
nue. crossing.
Willard L. Munson and Mrs George
E. Reynolds were married by the Rev
DIR Davenport, at the parsonage of the
Second church on Saturday evening.
There is no indication of dull times at
Curran's. The immense throng that
visited the store last week not only
bought piles of goods, but showed a
most cheerful disposition.
Committeeman Dugan of the First
ward has called meeting of the demo-
cratic town committee for tomorrow
evening, for the purpose of electing a
II chairman and
Rev NJ. P. Lawlor, Mrs Mary \. Law
lor, Master NJ. J. Lawlor. John McGIv-
ney, the Misses Annie and Maggie Nc
IGivney,T. d. Barlow, F. Z. Cross, d.
B. Wilson, J. X. Davis and John J.
McCauley have gone to Chicago.
Counterfeit quarters are in circula-
ton. They are a very clever imita-
ton Of the genuine twenty-five-cent
piece. They may easily be detected,
however, by dropping them on some
hard substance. They have not the
clear, ringing sound of the genuine
quarter, but have dull sound as though
made Of composition of lead and other
metal.
TheI uneral of Annie J. Wallace was
held at Q o'clock Yesterday morning to
the Sacred heart church where the fun
eral services were offered by Rev Father
| Treanor. The psllbearers were Maurice
Culhane, John Franklin. Charles Mon
Afghan, Charles Blackburn, William
Blackburn. The remains were CON
veyed to st Joseph's cemetery, Bristol
by Undertaken Mulville.
| A meeting of the Granite State Provi
dent association of Manch ester. y. II
was held Saturday evening in Attorney
Mattison's office. when the following
officers were elected: c. S Chapman,
Rrasilarf.
E. n. Folsom, secretary; w. r Matti
son, treasurer and attorney; Chauncey
Seeley, A. A. Crane, j. F. Plat. c. w
Frost, and J. H. Lines, directors. The
assets of the association are 81 200. OO(
and during the past year the manager
M c. II. Kibbe, has loaned over SEQ .OOC
on new houses.
Joseph Natus, who for the past five
seasons has been stage manager, inter
locutor and tenor balladist with Prim
rose & West, has accepted a hattering
offer to appear in white face this season
| with Hoyt & Thomas Brass Monkey
company. He will essay the part OF
Barnes, the tough boy, and will also be
one of the "Razzle Dazzle" trio. He has
many friends in this city who are aware
OF his ability and who will be confident
that his success in white face will if any.
thing surpass that of his work in the
burnt cork arena.
The funeral of Mrs John J. Scullv wa.
largely attended from the family resi-
dence on Washington street at $50
O'Clock this morning to st Patrick
church, where a mass of requiem was
celebrated by the pastor, Rev j. H
Duggan. The pallbearers were. James
]. Cassin, Felix Mcdonald, Michael
Wren, Edward Mcdonald, Cornelius
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the floral offerings were: A large bank
of flowers from the employees Of Steele
& Johnson's; standing wreath, Mr. ard
/ Mrs Michael Curley: standing star, MI
and Mrs P. w. Conner; star, Miss Rose
F. Donshue.
One of the employees of the street de.
partment dumped load of dirt scraped
from the gutter. into hole made in
the street by SATURDAY. nights rain.
The dirt was pretty well mlXei up with
grass and Morris the clothier at the cor.
ner of South Main and Scovin streets
did not think it was just the thing at
such place, and claimed besides that
it would emit foul odOr. Mr. Morris
reported the matter to Mayor Webster
and his honor and Inspector Moses Wis
| tied the place and after an investigation
| thought there was nothing wrong under
the circumstances as the street inspector
Il can not get first class material for
streets. We should think a few loads
Of crushed stone might be used in cases
Of this kind around the center of the
city.
1t appears that the repeal of the dis
closure" law, so called. bv the last legis
lature, did not repeal. Section 3l0j OF
the general statutes was the one repeal.
ed. Section 3105 is the old disclosure
law that requires person who had been
arrested for intoxicatiOn to disclose
where he got his liquor. SO far 50 good.
But that section 3105 is among the stat
utes of 1888 revision. Now it happened
that in 1899 the Legislature passed a new
disclosure law which superseded that
of 1888, and so the legislature of 1898
when it repealed section 31O5. repealed
law already dead and the "disclosure'
law still holds. 1t is whispered that
there was pool" of money behind the
repeal movement of 1898 and that those
who paid their money got nothing in re
turn. 1t is an amusing situation.
Just this time Of year frauds ant
fakirs are unusually plenty. The crayor
portrait scheme is one of the most
worked in this vicinity, and numerou.
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