Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-24
CITY NEWS.

died late yesterday afternoon at the | home of her parents, S3 River street. ] The funeral was held at 2:3O this after noon.
 Alfred F. Didsbury and Miss Frances J. Mullaney were married at $ o'clock last evening by Rev Dr Rowland. Mir and Mrs Didsbury will reside at 2O9 Bank street. The correspondents of the Connecti- cut Catholic throughout the state will have their fifteenth annual reunion and banquet at Savin Rock on Saturday afternoon next at 3 o'clock.
 | Phoenix Fire company, No l, will hold a special meeting to- morrow evening at s o'clock, and as important business is | to be transacted, every member is re- quested to be present.
 Rev Fathers Mulcahy. Lynch, Kennedy, Duggan, Lawless, Treanor, Murphy, Bourret and Martin attended ! the funeral of Rt Rev Bishop McMahon to- day. Over 300 priests assisted at the funeral.
 Peter J. Begley and Miss Sarah Nc Nish were married at the Immaculate Conception church at o'clock this af- ternoon, by the Rev. Father Downey. The best couple were Patrick Begley and Miss Maggie McNish.
 The fourth annual barbecue of the | DuICuSIS IEClSCllNe dSSOCldllOn WILL pe held on the base ball grounds next Thursday. There will be a street parade at noon and concert by the American band at 2:30. The dinner will be free.
 Rudolph Lautenbach, of The Water bury Turn Nerein, has passed the ex- amination for admission to the teachers semlnary at Milwaukee, and will leave for that city next Monday. The society will tender him a benefit tomorrow evening at Turn hall.
 The funeral of Mrs Eunice Tucker Booth was held from her late residence on Church street yesterday afternoon. The pall-bearers were: E. c. Lewis, A s. Chase, F. J. Kingsbury. N. J. Welton, J. s. Elton and D. S. Plume. Inter- ment was in Riverside cemetery.
 Mary A. Garren, aged 20 years, died last night at the residence of her father, Patrick Garren of 199 Bishop street. The funeral will take place Saturday morning at S:30 with services at the Immaculate conception church and in terment Tn St Joseph's cemetery. The deceased was the sister of John F. IGarren.
 The special acts passed at the last ses- sion of the legislature will be ready for distribution the last of the week. The , town clerks in the different towns will F be supplied first and then the public The book this year makes a volume of , nearly 1900 pages and is more than double the size of any copy of the special acts ever issued.
 !, The will of the late John Calvin f was admitted to probate to-day. Pat rick Holohan was appointed executor. After few minor bequests to relatives the property is divided about equally be , tween Mrs Patrick Holohan. daughter Of the testator and his grandson, John IF. Lawlor. George H. CoweI and Mortimer Heffernan were appoirt ted as Appraisers.
 Mrs Julia Coughlin, aged 46 years wife of Lawrence Coughlin of 9 Fay Tor street, died last night. She was the ), Dennis and Patrick Coughlin. The funeral will be held at o'clock to-mor, row to the church of the Sacred Heart where requiem high mass will be cele- brated. 1nterment in St Joseph's ceme- tery.
 The New England road will give all excursion to Boston Friday, the special . train leaving this city at 1:l2. The fare for the round trip is Sl.15, including 8 trip to Naugatuck beach, Bass point. Nahant, or admission to the base ball game between Boston and Cleveland |, The return train will leave Boston al 1:l5 p. m., or tickets are good returning lon the regular trans Saturday. 'l Silver dollars of the coinage of 1S1> o are the most conspicuous pieces of money !, in local circulation. A great many were Ispread about town last week and they d are still here. They are circulated to a l. great extent, as no one cares about handling the clumsy coin and every one seeks to pass them off. A singular fact is that all of them are apparently brand Thew, which indicates that they have been hoarded somewhere, and were only brought forth when currency was at q Ipremium.
 A prepossessing man of 6j, glib oi N tongue, registered at the New Haven house few days ago as "Col E. B. Fair banks of Boston" He represented him self as the head af the big Fairbanks scale concern and endeavored to nego = tiate loan. The hotel people suspected him of crookedness before he had I worked" them to any great extent and the "coloner skipped the town. The l. fellow answers the description of a no torious hotel beat and the police of New 0 England cities have been warned tt look out for hirl.
 There is very little demand for the Columbian postage stamp at present When they were first put on sale the de n mand for them was very heavy. but their size soon made them unpopular They required too much "licking" tc ]. make them stick. In many cases they trespasSed on the printed advertisement, on the envelopes of business firms After this year no more of the stamp = will be printed, but it may take severa years to use those already in the hand. of the postmasters.
 With the coming of fall local fisher
 men are beginning to talk of the pros
 poets of trout fishing in Connect1cu
 streams. The majority of these stream
 are posted and the good fishing depend
 almost entirely on the stocking of tn,
 streams. The different methods oi
 stocking these streams are topics o P general interest. Game Warden Collin l. is an enthusiastic believer in the intro or duction of yearling trout in Connection 6, streams and feels confident that the re
 suit would be far more satisfactory thai
 the present methods of cultivating trou
 fry.
 The three days national convention O
 the Ancient Order of Foresters of Amer
 ica, will open in New Haven, Septem