Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-10
CITY NEWS.
Tomorrow is ourran's bargain day.

before .he Catholic club Of Hartford tc- night. at the celebration of'Ladies' night"
 The members Of the Fourth division, \. OH, will meet in St Patrick's hall to- morrow evening instead of G. A. R hall tonight.
 The funeral of Mrs Abby Ruel Partree will take place from her late residence. 261 West Main street, at ? o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
 The rainfall of to-day vas fgu ed up ct 1:3O o'clock this afternoon by N. J. welton os the water board End amounted to aln ost an inch and three quarters of water.
 Services were l,eld for the late Mary Gro we'll Harden Elsdon, wife of Rev W. P. | Eldson, at the First Baptist church st | o'clock this ait moon. Tie remains will | be taken to BTewsters for burial tomorrow | morning.
 Tke peoples party club. No ?. will meet | in room 10, Lilley block. at o'clock this | evening to nominate two candidates for representatives of the peoples party of l Waterbury. Club No 1 will meet for the same purpose and in the same place to- morrow night l Captain Charles w. Eddy. manager of 1 the kirmts<, has been presented with a | handsome time piecs, one of the Water 1 bury Watch Co.'S best makes and neatest patterns. It has plain gold cases except that it bears the monogram. of "C. w. E." on the back case.
 Townsend lodge fair continues to draw a full house each evening. Last night the place was crowded and the stage perform ance and other attractions were up to the usual standard. Tonight the Mount Choral colOred quartette will appear and Ideal Baujo club will be in attendance Wadhams' post. No 49, G. A. R, will hold a rousing camp fire tomorrow night It will be the annual muster and inspec- tion and Commander Quigley has received | word from comrades of various posts of their inter t on to be Iress Ut. Assistant | Inspector Fad -s of Stanley post. New Bri- tain, will be the inspecting officer. Colo neI G. D. Bates of Putnam, department inspector. will also be present. as will comrades of Custer post. San ly Hook. and IsDeu post. Nau .atuck.
 The rainstorm Of this morning made l travel almost impossible at some points on 1 the electric road in the Vicinity of Union city At that point the road bed Is sof. and the sand was forced Tn on the rails at some places to depth of d couple of feet. | making It impossible for the motormen to | s-e the track. At the Union City switch l about 9:30 o'clock this morning one of the cars got of the rails and had to be toweti
 
 men are busy looking after defective points and every precaution Is being used 10 avoid delay.
 There will bs a joint meeting of the town school visitors and the selectmen in the police court room at $ o'clock tomorrow night, to apportion the annual appropria- ton for teachers in the town schools. If It can be shown that the different school districts intend to pay teachers S1U per week 1t Is expected that the joint meeting will agree on that amount, but if it should appear that the committeeman intend hiring teachers for q or $ a week and using the rest of the money for fuel and ! Otker purposes, the meeting will cut the i appropriation down so that the committee men cannot play this trick on the town. At the meeting of the water committee last night the meeting was discussing the adEiSatlllty of imposing a fine of Sl5 Der | day on Contractor McManus for every day | after the time limit of hIs contract. Some one asked the city attorney if such fine would be legal supposing that the state of the weather intrrtered with the progress ut the work The city attorney sail.
 'Ies. John 0 Ncill got a house built for nothing III case of the same kind. His contract called for A penalty of S2O for every day the house was net finished in | the prescribed time and in conseuuence he got the house pretty cheap.
 Leslie L Archer was arrested tlis after noon for defraudiRg under false pretenses. Archer formerly kept & livery stable on Sc"ylll street. la on Maple avenue, and at the present time conducts a place. on Ph6nlx avenue. He is trader in horses aud male '.dicker" with
 William A. Merrill. groceryman, on High street He was to ;give Merrill horse | in which he was to receive s60 in cash. two
 horses and SIG worth of groceries. Archer received the money and gro- | cerles before Merrill dlscoysrel that the horse he had purchased was badly fOundered. He refused to accept the horse and the trader would not return his money. He then had a warrant made out for Archer's arrest. Oscar Parker b.siled him out
 | Special forecast for rConnecticut:-Hsavy rains teddy and to- night in eastern DOT | lons, followed by clearing and probably talr Tn southern portions Thursday; colder Tn southern portions Thursday morning. colder in western portions Thursday even ing The storm yesterday central at Sa- vaEhah has moved up the coast with un- | usual rapidity and now central on the Jersey coast It is isaccompanied by heavy rains and dangerous gales, Block Island I reporting 12 miles east. Clear and far
 weather prevails west of the Mississippi.
 with clearing along the South Atlantic coast and heavy rains and gales along the | North Atlantic. The temperature has fallen in the west and along the Atlantic | coast. In the central valleys and northern lake region 1t has risen
 The attendance at the kirmess last night
 WAS large and from an artistic and fpap. | clal standpoint the affair can be called an 1 unqualified success. The posing was | graceful and natural and the costumes elaborate. The drill of sixteen misses. which concluded last nights proRramme. l was almost perfect Edward Beach. Inikado, and his tiny assistants received n | liberal share of we'll deserved applause Miss Gretter. also. sang, danced and acted Ike professional. The little cupids
 were too sweet for anything and Leila Ale. IntJre, pretty little girl, rendered two gems Of song. Miss Smith and Mir Kel
 logg made an ideal Cynthia and Reuben. and the Choristers sang we'll The recita
 uon, ''RscI for a Bride" was we'll rem dered In fact the entire programme is
 worthy of praise. Some good seats may yet be secured for this evening. | L. J. Atwood presided at the specisl meeting of the members of the Second | Congregational church held in the Y. NJ. c. A building last night to discuss the ad. visibility of purchasing additional land on the north and east side of the new church | on West Main street and to take action on a proposition to sell the old parsonage on Prospect street and to take measures for the building of a new one in case of such sale George E. Judd kept a record of the minutes and John Woodward explained the necessity Of the proposed new change. israel Holmes, the owner of the land,