The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-06
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EntertaInments This Evening.

Entertainments This Evening.
PROVIDENCE OPERA HoUsE-camille DAT
vile in "venus."
b. f. KEITHs OPERA HOUSE." The Dazzier.p
LoTHRoPs OPERA HOUSE" Frou-Fro
WESTMINSTER NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Spec
ialty Company.
Spring seems to have sprung.
The Mems Mission at st. Marys Church
opened yesterday.
A pension has been issued to Albert
A. Cole of Olneyville.
II is very lamblike at the start, but per-
haps il will be different before All Fools
day. Keep your coats on.
Mr.. James Tourtellot and his daughter,
Miss Flora Tourtellot, have returned from
their visit to North Carolina.
Rev. Percy S. Grant of the Church OF
the Ascension, New York, will officiate at
the Lenten services at Grace Church this
evening.
The executive committee of the Repub-
lican State League will meet at the Nara
gansett Hotel Thursday afternoon at 2;30
O'Clock.
James Walton, five years old, was re-
turned to his home, 81 John street, by the
police last evening. He was found astray
on Market square.
The annual session of the Grand En-
campment of Odd Fellows will be con-
vened In Odd Fellows Hall tomorrow.
morning at 10 o'clock.
Judge Patterson, who will speak at the
Business Mems meeting and banquet to-
morrow evening, will be the guest OF
Gardiner G. Sims at his home on Benefit
street.
Councilman Burdick is inconsolable.
Thrice has he cleared his throat to deliver
that 'type-written oration, and now he
must lay it on the shelf unhonored and
unsung.
Mr.. John Shepard, Jr., will entertain
distinguished guests OF the Business
Mems Association, Governor Brown, State
and city officials at the Squantum Club
tomorrow.
At a recent meeting of the Providence
Washington Fire Insurance Company 1t
was decided to withdraw all its agencies
from Vermont, tho heavy taxation max
ing profit impossible.
Senator Aldrich arrived in the city to-
day and there was q protractcd conference
over the Senatorial candidacv of Mr..
Rocker in the back Office OF the Union
Railroad Company.
The physical department of the Young
Mems Christian Association announces a
"public class night" this evening. A musi-
cal, literary and athletic entertainment
will make up popular program.
P.J. Mccarthy, the astute parliament
tartan, was the victim of so-called "trick
legislation" last night. He lacked the CO.
operation of the "Kump" majority in the
House to pursue the same tactics.
Hon. Mellen Chamberlain, who was
formerly the librarian at the Boston Pub
lie Library, will read paper on Some
Political Maxims " before the Rhode Is
land Historical Society this evening.
The voting population will not be Obliged
hereafter to utilize the cross mark in
expressing their preference for justices of
the peace. The ballot is sufficiently COM
plicated at present to the avearge suf-
fragist.
In the announcement of the perform
ances of Seabrooke in ''The Isle OF Cham
pagne" at the Providence Opera House
next week 1t was stated that there would
be matinee Monday. 1t should have
read Wednesday.
The Rhode Island Business Mems Asso-
citation will observe Ladies' Night" at
the Trocadero tomorrow evening. Judge
Patterson and ex-Commissioner Black
will make addresses on subjects of vital
interest to the association.
BY the will OF Alice Cornell, which was
filed for probate at Newport yesterday, the
sum of $500 is given to each of the three
Misses Peckhams Of this city. There Is
also a bequest of 5000 for the Rhode
Island Society of Friends.
II is folly to indulge in predictions as TO
the adjournment OF the Legislature, but
the planting season is at hand and the
sturdy yeoman, who is in the majority, is
likely to shake the capitol for the farm
and corner grocery In the near future.
When the train that was due in this
city at 6:15 o'clock arrived at the station
bullet was found imbeded in the wood