Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-02


corning the income tax, were presented in
the house of representatives yesterday by
Representative Russell.
Every democrat should constitute him.
self worker for the success of the party at
the special election for town clerk. You
can do this by urging your neighbor to
vote
Coasting will be permitted on the fol-
lowing streets between and IL p. M,
except Sunday, until further notice: Cen
trail avenue, Walnut, Wolcott, Liberty and
Porter streets.
Mrs Susan C. Hopson, 73, wife of the
late o. L. Hopson, died in New Haven
Yesterday. The remains will be brought
to this city on the Hip train tomorrow
and inferred in Riverside cemetery.
The work of taking an inventory of all
the property held by the New York & New
England railroad was begun yesterday.
This is made necessary by the appoint
ment of receivers. The regular inventory
was taken September 80 last.
An Italian woman living at the corner of
Catherine lane and Chatfeld avenue tried
to chop wood with bread knife yesterday
and in doing so received bad cut on the
wrist severing the cords and one of the
arteries. DR. Frost dressed the wound.
The local union of BARRIERS met in Labor
hall last night and effected a perma-
nent organization. The temporary officers
elected at a recent meeting were appointed
to act for six months. There are about ITO
BARRIERS in the city, over fifty of whom be-
long to the union.
The numerical strength of the Connecti-
cut National Guard January l, 1894 as
returned by Adjutant General Bradley to
the United States war department. was
2,747, divided as follows: Commissioned
officers 1856, non-commissioned officers
SO, musicians POI, privates 1,790.
The remains of christina Sharp were
brought to this city on the 1:12 train this
afternoon and taken to the Second church,
where funeral services were held, thence to
Riveride cemetery for burial. The pail
bearers were D. L. Smith, L. n. Davis,
Homer Keller and Charles Seymour.
The dance and sociable IN Concordia
hall, under the auspices of the French
Canadian band and the Canadian Institute
was largely attended last night. Over one
hundred couples took part in the march,
which was led by F. Lavigne and Miss
Alder. The French band orchestra fur
nished the music and Joseph Bourret
prompted.
1ruant Officer Fitzpatrick says there has
been very little truancy among the
children attending the public schools this
winter. Some of the children are not at
tending school, but this is due to the need
of sufficient clothing rather than a de-
sire to remain away from school. A good
many children are home for want of shoes.
Vote early on Monday. At the last local
election more than one hundred democrat
ic voters in the fourth ward arrived at the
polls too late.
Thirty-one persons received supplies at
the relief bureau yesterday. This is about
the average number of daily applicants
and the superintendent estimates that
each one receives about one dollars worth
of goods. From this it will be seen that
the expense of the bureau is some
where in the neighborhood of 5000 week,
and this does not include the wages of the
superintendent and his assistants.
Thomas F. Tennian, brother of Rev j.
C. Tennian of Providence, R. l., died in
that city yesterday. The remains will be
brought to Waterbury Saturday evening.
The funeral will take place at $50 a. M.
Monday from the residence of the sister of
the deceased, Mrs R. A. Martin, East
Farm street. to the Immaculate Concep-
JOseph's cemetery.
Mayor Kilduff presided at the monthly
meeting of the board of finance
last night. Bills to the amount of $27,-
600 were approved and signed A bill of
S26.7S from the Southern New England
Telephone company was referred back to
the judge of the police court The mayor
said the bill was not contracted by city
officials. but by local lawyers and others
who have no right to use the telephone at
the clty's expense.
The Acme Dramatic club held another
successful rehearsal last night at the Acme
rooms and now everything is in readiness
for the full dress rehearsal Sunday at
jacques opera house at IL O'Clock. The
two frames of pictures of the various
scenes of the play are attracting much at
tention in E. L. Turner's and the Epson
Jewelry Co.'S windows The reserved
tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at NJ.
F. Daily & Cos drug store. Tickets are
for sale by the members of the club and
ais at P. w. Gamers grocery store, Stone
street.
The arrangements for the annual mas
queTade ball of the Concordia Singing
society have been completed. The com
mittee of arrangements will see to it that
everything is conducted in proper man
ner. No Objectionable parties will be al
lowed in the hall. A prize of $40 will be
given to the lady wearing the handsomest
costume; SO to the most comical group of
five or more; So to the most comical group
of three or more. A New York costumer
will be at Concordia hall on the night be-
fore the ball and also on the evening of
the ball.
has an advertisement in another column,
offering to sell lsphones outright for
81. so and to furnish the equipments at
correspondingly low figure. These tele-
phones are not of the most improved pat
tern, of course but are intended to pro-
vide communication between different
parts of building. or to connect buildings
a short distance apart. 1t will give the
business man a cheap and convenient
means of communication between his
house and his store or factory, and will be
useful in many other cases.
The Catholic Total Abstinence union of
Connecticut held its semi-annual meeting
in New Haven Wednesday. The board of
government voted to change the date of the
annual state parade at New Britain from
July 26 TO the last Thursday in June. This
WAS done at the request of the New Britain
societies, as the last Thursday in June will
be much more convenient to them. The
membership Is 1880. William Fl. Doyle
of Bridgeport, state editor of the union, re-
signed few weeks ago and his successor
was elected in John G. MCGOWAN of the
st Ignarius society, New Haven. County
directors were instructed TO az the date
on which rallies could be conveniently
held in their jurisdictions during the next
two or TIN ee months and to communicate
TO the secretary 50 that speakers could be
engaged for different places.