Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-31
CITY NEWS.

slightly cooler Saturday morning, westerly winds.
 There will be rehearsal of the Sacred Heart church choir at the residence Of Mrs Lucien Wolff tonight.
 Mrs James E. Lynch and two daughters and Miss Margaret Reilly of Highland ave nue. have gone to New York to spend a few days with relatives.
 The Bronson library will be open for the distribution of books tomorrow. The reading and reference rooms are not yet ready.
 A. W. Castle has sold his East Main street market to J. H. Mccarthy. who has been manager of the store. Mir Castle will be found at the old stand. corner of South Main and Union streets.
 Miss Ella McMahon of 69 Abbott ave nue has accepted a position as stenog- rapher with the Goodyear Rubber Co of Naugatuck. Miss McMahon is a graduate of Harrington's business college and school | of shorthand.
 A large crowd enjoyed the concert on the green last night. There is nothing able to bring out the people in such large | numbers as the announcement of A con- cert programme. and nothing that gives more general satisfaction.
 The Rev Father O'Donnell of Water town was presented last evening with a | hand ome carriage and harness by his parishioners. The committee of presen- tation were John Colgan, representing Wa tertown. and Charles Missell of Oakville. About 3:30 this morning Patrolman | Brickel sent in an alarm of fire from No 5's engine honse. The fire was in an out house in the rear of the residence of Joseph Shrahan, 452 Baldwin street. The | st Eas HaStroraI hr1tr oil thar Ia, | age occurred.
 1 It is very probable that Judge Callahan of New Haven will try the case against Mrs George R. Thomas tomorrow morn Ing Judge Root is disqualified by virtue of his connection with the Thomas divorce matter. and Judge Bradstreet is not in clined to try the case.
 l The mayor and road board went on a tour of inspection this afternoon. They visited the corner of South Main and Clay streets to make an investigation in con- nection with bill for sidewalk laying that W. J. Schlegel has been dunning the city for semi-occasionally for ten years. Other Park avenue. Bergen stre, [. Laurel street. William street and the corner of Washing l ton avenue and South Wilson street. William Murphy who Is under arrest in Hartford charged with passing forged checks. gOt,,i some Uf his fine work in Waterbury this week Tuesday night he went into the shoe store of Milton. Byrnes X Thompson and purchased a pair of shoes, giving in payment a check for s14 50. made pay able 10 himself and signed E. w. Robbins He was paid the balance of the check and departed. When the check was deposited the forgery was discovered at once. Will liam Milton of the firm went to Hartford yesterday and identified Murphy His right name is Reilly and his home is in Meriden.
 William Bruder. for drunkenness, was fined 5 this morning Bernard A. Sulli- van for the same offense got the same dose. as did Maurice Bunce. Yesterday afternoon Patrick Calvin, while standing near the hack stand, got into a dispute with Joseph Dolan, a hack driver. vho he said. tried u drive over him. Dolan jumped from his hack and ''biffed" Gal win lD the eye, backing that optic. This morning several hackmen and bystanders testified to the assault. Dolan said Calvin followed and called him names. Judge Root sentenced him to jail for six months. He took an appel.
 Letter Carrier Royal E. Meyers sent in his It rtsignatiOn to Postmaster Fitzpatrick this morning. The resignation will take effect tC-mOrrow- His reason for resign ing was that he intends to take course of medicine and will in a few weeks enter the college of Physicians and Surgeons iE Baltimore. Letter Carrier Meyers hai been connected with the department fol about two years and delivered in the ) Brooklyn district. Postmaster Fitzpatrick has already a, pointed William Precht, ont of the substitutes. to the position. H, was senior substitute by reason of havinC a few points in percentage on examination over Peter Fox. the other substitute. The latter will now do all the substitute work It Is so near the end of vacations that nc other substitute will be appointed.
 About the hardest working men in tn, community nowadays are those who gC about on ice wagons, but the approach O cool weather enables them to see an enc to their hardships Their day is often good fifteen hours long and they do no get any too much pay. The hard tune, had driven into the work some men who are too slight physically to stand tn, stain. but still they keep up under i rather than be idle. The icemen literall, work for the pennies. for a majority oi orders are for five or ten cent pieces daily s and the thrifty housewife saves her smal a change for the iceman. Thus when h, gets around to headquarters he has pocket full of change. The ice dealer gather Tn about as many pennies as goo( sized newspaper office.
 Everybody will welcome the coming O the Adam Forepaugh shows to this city to morrow. It has ever been reliabl, honest concern which tells the truth in it, advertisements and gives to patrons aI ample return for the money invested, anC A person feels sure of seeing tho best O shows when he goes to See the Forepaurh This year the shows have made many radi cal departures from the programme of for mer yeals. Perhaps additions" would be better term to use than departures, as all the standard features of the shows a, seen when they were last here are retained Without going into details anyone can Sc, by the advertisements of the shows what { tremendous list of novelties are an ncunced, and when it is known that any thing advertised by the Adam Forepaugl shows Is always carried out to the very let ter, no further argument is necessary.
 Judge Cowell of the town school com mittee has announced the result of the ex animation of applicants for teachers in tn, town schools. Thirteen applicants hav been examined and all went above tn minimum mark. One more applicant vii be examined to-day. The applicants wer
 marked on a scale of one hundred for tn maximum point and seventy-one for tn
 minimum. Nellie Bowling came ou away ahead of all competitors, runnin
 her marking up to ninety-three Then came Anna L. Smith, SS; Lillian E Carr. S7; Mary L. Killoughev, Sl. Other s who passed successfully are: Hattie Ly !, man. Belle E. Griswold. Mary l. Gold smith. Mary Reilly. Nellie Hayden, T.ssi, o Garvey. Rose MulIigan, Mabel R. Cromp ton and Nellie Houlihan. The examina ton consists of r ading. writing spelling d arithmetic. geography. grammar and ele 6 ments of physiology. The applicant showed great proficiency in the differen N | StuHiHS cpalIiun rrh;.h tI~ Aou-