Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-14
CITY NEWS.

in St Mary's school yard at o'clock this evening
 Meeting of the police commissioners at 7:3O this evening and of the board of alder men at o'clock.
 4 meeting of the local divisions of Hibernians and Ie Hibernian Rifles will be held at o'clo this evening
 The solemn ceremony known as the pro- fession of the children of Mary was held at the Sacred Heart church at 7:30 last evening.
 Loren R. Carter. real estate agent. has sold for H. c. Tallerdy his property, To- cated on the Watertown road, to H. M. Kelley.
 The members of the Concordia society and their families spent a few hours in very pleasant manner in Concordia hall last night.
 Last battalion drill of the season in the armory tonight. Guard mount will be called at 7:45 Dancing will begin at 9. The American full brass band will be in attendance.
 Miss Lillian NJ. Barnes. daughter of Mrs | George Barnes, and Joseph $. Irving of New York. were married yesterday at the family residence, 60 Abbott avenue, the | Rev Dr Davenport officiating.
 Mrs Emma J. Hayes of 68 Maple street has been appointed deaconess to assist the Rev Gardener Eldridge of the First Metho- dist church. She will commence her duties on June l, at a salary of S40O per year. Danbury Dispatch: Are the authorities in Danbury going to take any action in the matter of the smallpox patient being sent in crowded car. from Waterbury to this city: It is incredible that any one 'could be so cruel as to endanger a car full or people in such a way.
 At a meeting of the Acme Social club yesterday the following officers were elect ed for six months: President, Patrick S. Bergin; vice-president. James T. Fox; re- 1 cordlng secretary, T. NJ. Freney; financial secretary. George w. Jackson; treasurer, | Thomas F. Bergin.
 John Buttomer presided at the meeting m Labor hall Saturday night, called to dis cUss the advisabllity of organizing a peo- pl-'s party club. A motion that such a 1 club be established brought forth bitter | opposition from members of the socialist party who were present. The opponents finally left the meeting, after which the motion Was put and carEed About fifty names were received for the new organiza- 1 ton.
 In the police court to-day Patrick Me | Caul-y charged with assault on Samuel Lize.- It will be remembered that some weeks ago Lize was met on East Main street by the McCauley brothers, where, he clalmed, they assaulted him because he l had presented bill to theIr mother. One of the brothers was fined at that time, but l the other was not caught. McCauley l pleaded guilty this morning and would say nothing. He was fined $50 and costs and took appeal.
 The funeral of Peter Schrffer took place l this morning to St Cecllias chapel, where a mass of requiem was celebrated by the i Rev Dr M.-rtin. The pallbearers, all members of the Brass Moulders' union, 1 No N2G. were: Edward Costigan, Francis Lawlor, LrErence Griffin, John Flaherty, | Charles Curtin and Hermann Stitfier There was a handsome pillow of flowers from the Brass Moulders' union. Inter- meIt was in Calvary cemetery.
 Tho Southern New England Telephone | company is engaged in most important line of work, the result of which promises 1 to he of great interest to their subscribers
 and thr public generally. It Is not un- 1 likely system will be soon established | which will enable telephone patrons to use ] Instruments at d fixed charge for each call. l i1-r- will probably be according to the l new llaH scale of prices varying with the number of calls each subscriber make s 1 turing given period There Is to be q | change in the system of interstate eX- 1 changes also. The efforts of President 1 Tyler in the It organization of the system of fixing charges for telephone service, it ! l. uuderstood on good authority, will lead l ia the near future to concerted action on the part of all the Bell exchanges of the 1 country.
 ] Wadhams post Memorial day committee 1 have appointed a committee from Abraham Lincoln camp, $. of ", consisting of NJ. i L. Weiuuer, Lieutenant FitzsimOns, Dr l Quisley uLl F. Harting to assist at the
 flag raising at Prospect on Memorial day. The delegation will start from G. A. R hall at 1:20 in buSses, escorted by Matta-
 trek Drum corps. Ex-AIayor Webster will
 make an address at the soldiers monu-
 ment in this city at 1O:3O. At the services
 in the opera house at , o'clock Rev Dr Anderson will read poem and the Rev J. A Mulcahy will exhibit some stereolticon | views of scenes from the battlefields of the civil war. There will be singing by a
 guartettc The WomGn's Relief corps will hold services for the unknown dead at | Riverside cemetery at 1: 30 o'clock. At the meeting of the Waterbury Tem- ] p-Ttnce R-form league in the opera house yy>trrlay afternoon Rev J. C.. Davenport lead the bible lesson and William G. Skinner of New Haven offered the open
 ing prayer, after which Mir and Mrs c. c.
 BeVeridge of Fremont Neb sang. $. W.
 Goodyear announced that the Rev MI
 Nichols lad decided to remain resident
 of the league. Mir Nichols said l. had
 been trying for the last two years to live on his salary and make quarter go as far
 aS a dollar He had squeezed the eagle uatil 1t Laa squeaked good many times. Mr Nichols will receive a little salary for
 conducting the meetings. Mir Nichols iR-
 troduced Allen B. Lincoln of the New
 England Home, who spoke interestingly on the "UnderIying Principle of True
 Temperance Reform" The collection amounted to SIS 59.
 The opening meeting of St Joseph
 Temperance society in St Patlick's hall
 .aSt night was largely attended. D. J.
 Casey opened the meeting. Then came a
 fan drill by sixteen little girls, pupils of
 St DIary's school. Emil Beerbaum ren-
 dered a zither solo and was encored The
 Misses Clara and Josephine Mcknight delighted the audience with violin and piano duet "How He Saved St MichaeT'
 was given with touching effect and good elocutiOn by Miss Mar Corcoran. For an encore Miss Corcoran rendered, Said She, Said He" D. J. Dunn gave tenor solo and was well received. Miss Kate GlOster gave a soprano solo; she was en- cored- B. J. Smith gave practical talk on temperance. A soprauo solo was ren- dered in a very acceptable manner by Miss Lizzie Lawlor Miss Emma Farrell and NJ. T. Mtloney rendered vocal duet, Holy Mother Guide His Footsteps" which was followed by the closing number. quar- tette by Mrs J. T. Freney, Miss Elizabeth