Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-22
CITY NEWS.

quarters n room 1u, irving block. See the costumes the lady orchestra will wear at the Turner's bal masque-
 A son was born yesterday to Mir and Mrs Michael Drum of School street.
 Phelan's damaged goods will be sold at auction Thursday regardless of cost.
 Mir and Mrs Martin Parkinson of Ridge street are the happy parents of baby boy
 Special forecast for Connecticut: Fair, on Wednesday; colder tonight and We'd nesday.
 Charles Francis, infant son of MT and Mrs Henry Freeman. died to-day. Flu neral private.
 If you have an appeal to present to the board of relief send it along at once. The board will sit but three days moro. Thurs day. Friday and Saturday of this week.
 The terms of six convicts at the state prison will expire in February. Eighteen have been discharged this month and the terms of six others will expire before Feb ruary l.
 The will of Adele Pollak was filed for probate to-day. She leaves all her prop erty to her husband. who is also named as execUtor.
 Dr P. c. Whittemore eye specialist, from New Haven, will soon visit this city. Occu- lar headache and complicated visual de- fleets a speciality.
 The funeral of Mrs Mary A. Evans will take place at o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the residence of her daughter, Mrs L. Smith, 17 Brown place Mary Hamilton. the five years old daughter of Mir and Mrs w. J. Hamilton os 52 Cooke street died last night of diphtheria. The funeral took place this afternoon with interment in Calvary ceme- tery.
 The infant son of $. A. Shippy of 46 Chestnut avenue, died suddenly in his mothers arms yesterday afternoon. The child was apparently in the best of health. when death came and snatched it away without moments warning. Owing to the absence of the organizer, who found it ne cessary to return home on account of illness, the St Vincent de Paul society was not organized in the Immacu- late Conceptior parish last night. There will be meeting held for this purpose on next Monday night
 Travellers to Southington report that J. Norris Barnes peach orchard on top of the mountain has been nearly ruined bS the ice storms of the last week. This or chard is considered the finest in this sec ton of the state. but the trees are split and broken so as to present a sorry spec tacle.
 The Rev John c. Davenport. D. D, | pastor of the Second Congregational church, received unanimous call to be- cone pastor of the First Congregational church of Pasadena, Cal, The offer Is a tiattering one, but wlthal, the Rev Mir l DaVaDnOrt has pODcln5e6 remain in Waterbury.
 Edward Tracy, Jr. and Miss Belinda Mccoy were married at 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon by the Very Rev J. A Mulcahy John E. Htrbourne was best man and Miss Sadie Mccoy, sister of the bride, acted as bridesmaid. A reception was held at the home of the brides mother Mrs Cecihl A. Mccoy. 477 East Man street
 At the semi-aEnuAl meeting of the l Catholic Literary association. held in th cir rooms last Sunday, William c. keenan Was rr-tlected Urea ;ursr This Is Mir | Keenan, twenty fifth consecutive term ot | office as treasurer of the society, and his services iu that capacity seem to be de sired all he more as the years roll by.
 Prof Rosa's first of series of SIX lee lures on Electricity" under the auspices of tEr University exttnsiOu was gwen ill LcAvrnwnrth hall last night and WAS | largely uttend+d W. H. Pierce. presi- dent ot tne as>OclatIon, introduced the l speaktr. lroG RoSa'S discourse was very interesting. and the audience was much pleased with his lucid method of explain Ing his subject.
 The report of Assistant Adjutant G, ne ral John H Thatcher of the Connecticut Grand Army shows that the total member ship December 3l. 1894, was 9.643. There were l42 deaths i'll the state during the year. The It, total loss in membership was 6 During the year the order eN- pended not Iar from Slu, ,0O0 ln charities The expenditures for the last six months ot the year i'll behalf of charity amounted to 8 264 9S. There are seventy-two posts in the state
 The committee on extras for work on the pipe line and dam held 8 meeting yesterday afternoon. The claim of Martin Lips ot S3 372 for building 2Sl feet of cut stone dry wall masonry in the Morse meadows. was rejected. The specified tIonS do hot call for cut stone, The con tract price according to the plans will amount to about $60u John W. Gaffney & Co have claims tor tAtrLS amounting to over SlN Umu Alter considerable discus sion on the Ill itIer acton was postponed until some future meeting.
 A large nu hence witnessed the exempli- lie .tlon of the new work by Court Falcon's s degree tealn at the meeting ot Court Han cock last night A social session followed with ChIer Ranger Edwerd J. Ke,.ne as master of crremoLIes. Among those who contributed to the programme of exercises were J A. GArde Ot Court Falcon and | Y (HOnHInU nf (nurf Ernitful Vine The affair was big success and showed beyond a doubt that interest in forestry Is not on the wane in Waterbury.
 Digging for gold and silver with con- siderable success. That's what Martin and Frank McEvoy are doing ID the rnins of the LaWlor block. On the night of the fire the family had to leave in their night clothes and many valuable articles were left behind Yesterday Martin McEvoy picked up watch that he had left in bis pocket on the morning of his escape from the fire gold watch belonging to Rev Father Liwlor, valued at S30O was picked up ln tn shape of nugget of gold Frank McEvOy found silver watch and some coin he had left in his clothes. The funeral Of Edward Ball took place from his late residence oD Wilson street to St Patrick's church at S:15 this morning where mass of requiem was celebrated. The Bricklayers and Masons' Independ- ent union attended the funeral in a body. The pallbearers were Joseph Leggett, Charles Butterby, John McEvoy. William Bowe. Peter Carey and William Forrest Special delegates to represent the union were: President John H. Suder, Reuben Teal. William Tinsley and Charl Lock wood luterment Was at St Joseph's cemetery.
 In yesterdays dispatches to the DEMO. GRAF it was stated that the Boston dry goods store at Norwich had been bur.