Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-01-02
CITY NEWS.


 water supply tonight.
 The Mills meeting in the City hall last night was attended by about eight hundred people.
 Joseph and Frank O'Nein leave to-mor- TOW to resume their studies at the George town university.
 In the police court this morning Billy" Bottome was sentenced to thirty days in jail for drunkenness.
 C. W. Clark and wife of Northfield, went to Aiken, S. c. on the 1O45 train from the Naugatuck depot to-day.
 In the probate court to-day Edward McGrath was appointed trustee on the in solvent estate of Samuel Weinstein.
 The Bridgeport Y. M. c. A. bowling team played a return game with the local association team yesterday, and met with defeat by the score of 2,770 to 2,536.
 Mrs Mary Horton, aged "A. died last evening at the residence of her daughter, Mrs Laura E. Pearsall, on Bucks hill. The funeral will take place Thursday afternoon.
 The corridor of the City hall was thronged all day with men seeking em- ployment from the selectmen. Selectman Pinney spent all the afternoon hearing applicants and writing out orders for as many as possible of the men.
 The twenty annual promenade concert and ball of the Waterbury fire de partment will be given in the City hall on Friday evening, January 12. Music will be furnished by the Eighth regiment band of New York. professor Crowley, leader. Free carriages will be in attendance as usual.
 The contract for furnishing the new almshouse has been awarded to L. E. Lewis, the South Main street furniture dealer. The furniture will be put in at once, and the new almshouse, which has furnished so much topic for discussion, in and out of town meetings, will be ready for occupancy in short time.
 The supply of potatoes at the relief bu- reau is fast becoming exhausted. A sufi- cient amount of other provisions is still on hand. The following contributions have been received to-day: Mrs F. B. Rice, clothing; Mir Hotchkiss of Water town. clothing; Miss Mabel Vorra, cloth ing; Miss Annie McCann, clothing,
 Seventeen deputy sheriffs of this county gave testimonial banquet to Charles A. Tomlinson, the sheriff of New Haven coun- ty, in Heublein's cafe at New Haven, last evening. Sheriff Tomlinson was presented with handsome badge, suitably engraved in token of the estimation in which he is held by the sheriffs of New Haven county
 Owing to the tie up on the New England road by reason of the attachment on its rolling stock in East Hartford, the business interests of the towns along the line have been seriously affected It has beer found almost impossible to deliver freight on schedule time. The beneficiary of the he-up is the United States Express Go whose business has more than doubled and which is now taxed to its utmost capa city.
 The fourth annual concert and sociablt of the Brooklyn Athletic club in the audi torium yesterday afternoon and evening was largely attended in the evening" The grand march of $50 couples was led bN Thomas Begnal and Miss Mary Prior. Tht pair of opera glasses went to the lady hold ing ticket No. go. It was one of the ,bes managed and most enjoyable sociables o the season, and netted the club a hand some sum.
 Candidates for the office of deputy col lector for thes Waterbury district are anx iously awaiting the announcement whicf may be made any day. The following ap pointments were made to-day by Collector Byxbee: Deputy Collector Edgar N. Ston, l of Norwalk, vice Sidney E. Hawley; James l Y. Squires of Stafford, vice Charles H. Rob bins; John J. Gilmartin of Providence vice A. o. Coates; Stamp Deputy JohI 1 Grimshaw of Providence, vice Georg, i Gardner Jr, Record Clerk Theo NJ. Byx bee of Meriden, vice George Wright Thomas F. Clark of Providence. vice E. G Hutchinson.
 An interesting case has been decided b, | a Hartford justice, who gave judgment il the case of Peter Brandon against Greer Cross council, K. of C., for the plaintiff tt recover the full amount claimed. NJ Brandon met with an accident which h, claimed laid him up for five weeks, ant | that he was entitled to benefit of $5 fo each week. The defendant did not dis pute the fact that there was benefit du, to Mr Brandon, but claimed that he was a work part of the time. although not at hi usual occupation, for which he claimed benefits. It is probable that an appea will be taken.
 | The new hotel fire law is a peculiar on, in its construction, and is formed on tn same lines as law that was beaten by tn hotel keepers of New York a short tim l makes no one person liable in case of ne glect The hotel men of this state are al agreeable set of men, and are certainl, ready and say they are willing to compl, with any reasonable law. They believ | that 1t would Le as beneficial to themselve as to their patrons, to comply with a Inv | regulating fire escapes, but such a law a the one put forth at present, they say, i unconstitutional and not few are talkinl of fighting it, even if they put in escapes dozen times more expensive.
 Mayor Webster presided at the meetin of the board of fire commissioners las night. There were present Commissioner Hart, Driggs, McAuliff and Chief Snagg The monthly bills were read and ordere, paid. A bill of $2.75 from D. E Carroll for damage to one of his wagons, caused by the fire truck running into it whil going to a fire, was ordered paid. Tn chief was instructed to look up the ex pense of repairing the floor of No Is en zine house, it having become too weak t sustain the steamer, which has been re moved to No 6's house for safety. Commis sioner McAuliff and Chief Snagg wer elected a committee to wait on the Electri Light company and see if they could no reduce the expense of lights during tn I til next Monday night.
 There will be four eclipses in 1894, tw of the sun and two of the moon, the for mer occurring on the 20th of March an 14th of September. the latter on the 9th 0 April and 28th of September. Of tn lunar eclipse, the second will be visible il this part of the country, but of the tw solar eclipses neither.will be visible here There will occur transit of Mercury owe the suns disc on the 10th of November visible here and also generally on tn western portion of Europe, Africa, Nortl and South America and the Pacific ocean The planet Venus, still playing the part o evening star, will attain the greatest bril- Iiancy on the 10th of January, and Jupite will brightly shine during each night o l the month. Mars and Saturn will not b seen at great advantage during the month while some of the finest consultations vii render the Armament extraordinarily beau tiful. The five circumpolar and abou | k1xa S1AR,ax