The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-30
Talked About.
Entcrtainments This Evening.

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INFANTRY HALIr-Polo; Providence va Lynn.
TRocADERo-Miss Hapdys Reception.
The elaborate musical program at the
celebration of the 10Th anniversary OF St.
James church last evening, was rendered
by the surpliced boy choir.
The winter is over, consequently the
Eastern agents of the anthracite coal
trade have had a meeting and reduced the
price to go into effect April2.
1t is not often that Speaker Owen is
seen around the streets of Providence
these times. He is devoting his entire
attention 10 the more unruly voters Of
SciIuate.
A. c. Boyden, principal OF the State
Normal School, Connecticut, VIII lecture
in the Normal school Saturday afternoon
at 30 o'clock. His subject will be "The
Art OF Teaching"
The first paragraph under printing the
ballots" in the morning paper this a. IN.
is enough to drive man 10 drink. But
il counts lines just the same IN the Kim
dergarten department..
Frank Garvin, a native OF Pawtucket
and clever dancer and Irish female i'm
personator, will appear in Lothrop's
Pawtucket Opera House tomorrow even.
ing during the performance OF "The Boy
Tramp"
The colored Republicans of the Seventh
Ward met last evening and elected j. Nj.
Casar II. l.. Bailey, j. Greene, Il. Saun-
ders and &. III. Thompson as delegates TO
the city convention at 9S Weybosset
street, this evening.
General John NJ. Brennan meterialized
in Pawtucket last evening on the platform
with his former political side partner.
Hugh's chances are slim enough without
enlisting Jacks agency to hurry him
into the darksome grave.
There ought to be no objection to the
adjournment of the General Assembly to
April 10. The victors and the vanquished
should have a weeks respite from the
trials and triumphs incident TO the ener-
waiting experiences of lection night.
The State printer is busily engaged in
preparing the ballots for the election next
week. There are 100000 ballots TO be
printed for the thirty-siX towns and
cities, represented by a polling places.
The first shipment was made yesterday.
Pitcher received suit of clothes and
IS from the penitentiary officials when he
was disc charged at Montreal. Bennett is
living on the fat of the land IN some un-
discoverable retreat and doubtless SYM
pathizes with his less fortunate fellow
absconder.
The river and harbor appropriation bill
reported 10 the National House of Repre-
sentatives today allots to Rhode Island
S55,00o, distributed as follows: Newport,
S7 500; Pawtucket, SO 800; Providence
river and Narragansett bay, Si7 500; Green
| jacket shoal, q, 500
The Senate will concur in the resolution
of adjournment from tomorrow until
Tuesday, April 10. An interval OF week
is vouchsafed TO the candidates for re-elec-
tion 60 recover from the heights of JOY or
depths of despair which the return from
the polls will engender.
The little town of Westerly has two
| daily papers and both are noted all over
the country. The Sun is the only evening
| paper in the United States that issues a
/ Sunday evening instead of Saturday
| evening paper, while The Tribune is the
only Prohibition daily in the land.
The Elmwood Parlor Gathering Associa-
| tion, will be the beneficiary of a parlor
entertainment at Mrs. Richard Cross, 1874
! Hanover street, Monday, April 2, at s
D. m. Proceeds to be equally shared with
| the two objects of the association namely,
Temperance" and the Bethany Home"
Gov. Davis told the Democracy of Paw
| tucket that IL was great pleasure to
! speak to the people eunhandicapped. by not
| being n candidate. According to this
| theory David 5. Baker should experience
corresponding misery in the present cam
paign.
Hon. Adm y. Capron of Smithfield is TO
address the East Providence Republicans
! this evening. The ex-Speaker of the
! House has watched the legislative con-
| troversy from afar, but he is amply quail
fed to pay his respects TO the "Rump"
Democracy from personal acquaintance
with such shining lights as Honey, Owen
and Garvin.
The Democratic managers are confident
| that they have won over the Industrial
Alliance and Socialistic Labor parties to
their cause on the strength OF the recent
| Manton demonstration. But the ballot
reform Law is in operation, and many of
them are proof against the evils OF un-
scrupulous supervisors when their mater
ial welfare Is at stake.
P.J. Mccarthy, Esq. has been honored
with the vice presidency of the Rhode
Island Society for the Revival the Irish
Language. III he should become as fluent
and verbose in the nse of his mother
tongue as marks his exercise of the En-
glish dialect, he is destin, to secure the
professorship at some famous institution
of learning.
The General Assembly having given
the city the authority 10 appropriate the
money for the pedestal to the Dexter
statue on the training field, no further
obstacle will prevent the contamination
OF the public spirited enterprise OF ex-
Alderman Henry &. Clark, who donated
$1,000 for the casting of the bronze
memorial.
As the Senate Committee has arranged
for another hearing on the nine hour bill,
to which the wage earners have been in
vited, the consideration of the measure
must necessarily be postponed until after
election. Such a vital factor in determin-
ing the relations OF employer and en-
ployed should be thoroughly and intclli-
gently treated.
Sundry malicious wearers OF the Easter
pink are perpetrating old time jokes upon
the unwary without waiting for. All
Fools Day. They invite a close scent OF
the fragrant eXotics and by pressing
concealed spring besprinkie tho eyes OF
the smeller with "a jet OF Pawtuxet aqua.
The victim generally leads Che way 90
cigor counter or neighboring saloon and
then proceeds 20 possess himself OF the
means TO execute the trick upon some
other fellow.