Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-22
CITY NEWS.

 evening.
 The funeral of Mrs Abigail Sandland will take place from her late residence on Prospect street at o'clock tomorrow afternoon, with services at St Johns church and interment in Riverside ceme- tery.
 yespers will be sung in St Cecilia's church at 7:30 this evening. Afterwards an entertainment will be given in Concor- dia hall by the dramatic club of the parish. Those who took part in "Chimes of Normandy" are invited to attend the entertainment.
 Deputy Sheriff Carmody to-day served papers on City Clerk Grady in another suit for anullment of assessment of bene- fits and damages by reason of the layout of North Willow street The suit is brought through Terry < Bronson for St Jchn's parish.
 The St AIoysius Drum corps has ac- cepted an invitation to att, nd the ball of the St Patrick's T. A. B society at New Haven on Thanksgiving eve. The boys are making great preparation for the event and propose to cut quite A dash among
 their friends of the Elm City.
 The East and West Main street water mains are now connected with the big pipe in Exchange place and President Welton | of the water board say the men will com mence at the South Main street connection tomorrow and expects that the whole job will be finished up by tomorrow night. The elegant Pullman vestibule buffet parlor car. Violet" which will take the Waterbury party to Springfield Saturday to
 witness the great football match. is at the | New England depot and is admired by a | large crowd of spectators. It has a seat | inn aanafity Of thirtu and ic the handsomest Car ever seen at the New England depot.
 Thomas Hart. aged 36 years. died at his residence, 25 Canal street last night of diphtheria. The funeral took place at o'clock this afternoon with interment in Calvary cemetery. By instruction from Health Officer Robbins Undertaken Bergin | had the remains encased Tn an air tight
 casket and they were not taken to the church. the funeral servIce being con-
 ducted st the house.
 The employees of the Matthews < Will l lard Co gave private dance at Quigley's hall last evening. about fifty couples taking part. including a few invited friends. Music was furnished by Hes orchestra; Professor Probst, prompter
 Mir Mulligan of Merlden and Miss Mamie Scully of Daubury gave an exhibition of clog and jig dancing.
 The Southern New England Telephone l company hereafter will use larger copper wire in equipping all trunk lines. This is done hoping to obyiate breaking of wires | by ice storms General Superintendent Baker has given orders to replace all lines
 with wire weighing 122 pounds to the mile | instead of 1O4 pounds. The breaking stress of the former is 553 pounds as against 342 pounds on the wire which has
 been in use.
 Special forecast for Connecticut: Fair, stationary temperature, variable wind s shifting to southerly. Clear weather pre-
 valls in New England; dense fog envel- | opes the coast from New York to Jackson
 vile while fair and generally clear
 weather prevails in all other districts. In
 this section and the northwest the temper ature has remained stationary; in all other | sections 1t has risen, most markedly
 throughout the Mississippi valley. The funeral of Mrs Sarah E. Gilbert | took place from her late residence, corner of North Main and Kingsbury streets, at | o'clock this afternoon. Services were held | at the house and were conducted by the
 Rev Gardner Eldridge of the First Metho- dist church. The pallbearers were I Charles Bronson. James F.. Platt, Lucius P. Woodruff and I. A. Spencer. Inter- ment was ln Riverside cemetery. The funeral was private.
 The case of Mrs John Wall against the
 estate of Michael Wall was argued in the superior court at New Haven this morning | and went to the jury at 3 o'clock this af- | ternoon. Argument on demurrer in the | case of Charles Leffier against the city are being made this sfternoon. Yesterday q I verdict was rendered for the plaintiff to re- | cover S1 .03O and costs in the case of l Dennis Donahy against Willis D. Upson and George F.. Alcott.
 It is not generally known, but the Iaun- dry of E. R. Davis receives no complaints | that they wear out shirts, for they are put ting on free of cost new collar and wrist | bands when needed. They have been | doing this for some time and have made
 no fuss about it. We think the public should know it that there is a firm in the city that Is trying to please their GUS | toners. They also do plain mendiug and put buttons on when needed, ID fact they do all they can to please their customers and do good work.
 Timothy O'Brien. aged 4S years a granite cutter, was struck by the cars in New York
 Mondsy evening and died from the effects of his injuries Tuesday night Tte deceased was at one time employed by the
 firm of Jackson Son. tkis city. He HAo a OAOAACA OL IllCudtl hhlSu or
 1S1 Charles street. The remains were
 brought to Waterbury on the II:l2 train
 this morning in charge of Undertaken
 Mulville and the funeral took place from | the depot, with services at St Patrick's
 church and interm-nt in St Joseph's
 cemetery
 A large audience lister ed to Dr Burton's
 lecture on George Eliot at the First church
 conference room last night. Among other
 things MT Burton said: George Eliot stands first novelist of the country greater than Dickens and Thackery-,he
 latter was more trilIiaBt at times in liter ary style. but wrote only of tue nobility and gentry. Dickens caricatured There | is no fault to be found in the construction 1 of George EIiot's novels |" Mrs Humphrey
 Ward was considered the only woman | novelist worthy to be considered the sue cessor of George Fl ot.
 The old signal which has done service
 for several years at the New York X New | England station has outlived its time of
 usefulness and is to-day being replaced by | what Is known the Abernethy signal
 the first of the kind ever set up by the
 New York & New England Railroad com | pany. It is called the three position
 train order or block signal. the only abso- | lutrly safe signal and switch system in
 existence. It is made of steel with cast
 arm and patent light arrangement. stands
 about twen'y one feet in height and
 can be seen at great distance.
 There Is no climbing to hoist the light,
 which can be inserted at the bottom aud
 drawn to the top of the pole with the ut
 most ease fan like signal which is
 surmounted throws out red or white sig
 nal as the occasion may require. William H. Swain, teamster for Pier
 pont Brothers. was driving along West
 Main street yesterday afternoon, when l portion of fha trnllev u-ira fell md s4.r,ah.