The examiner., 1885-12-19
BIRMINGHAM.

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 BIRMINGHAM.
 Affairs at the Silver shop look, to an un.
 interested observer, to be changed ,.bnt such
 is not the fact. MT. Miller is getting de
 cidedly blue over the appearance of things.
 He has been around and tried to soft-soap
 some of the boys into going back, but it thus far. The boys stand firmer than ever and good many will even demand more than they did at the start, namely the re- moval of Mr Miller. They say that they
 will never work under him again There is now in the shop at work 3S what? We can't say man, because no one with any semblance of manhood would take strik- CTS place. Besides, the "scabs" are not even tolerable workmen. Telegrams have been sent all over the country and lots of men have come here, but the men usually left town on the next train. A few, 8 very few scabs have remained and went to work They are led out to dinner in the same manner as the, inhabitants of Black well s Island, and under charge of police man at that. Several large cases of goods were received at the depot this week for the silver shop, and it is thought to be re- turned goods. If so, the boyctot has bectme effective quicker than was thought. An agent of the Birmingham Cutlery Co.
 
 people thought he was selling Derby Silver Co.'S goods under new trade mark. All these facts tend to encourage the strikers and 1t is highly probable that an inventory will soon be taken, and at the next meet ing of the stockholders the shop will go under new management, join the combina- tion, and be once more as prosperous as it was previous to the management which has So nearly ruined 1t. -S --zrss1. vrSse
 The "Al Star Minstrel and Speciality Combination" are meeting with good sue cess on their tour through the State. On their opening night in Branford they were greeted with over-howing house, and many were turned away unable to gain ad- mittance. Their trip thus far has been an unqualified success, and very forcibly de- monstrates the fact that the working pee pie are fast beginning to realize that Ian injury to one is the concern of all." Many people visit the 'show" filled only with sympathy for the cause-that of helping the Derby Silver strikers, but they leave the hall with aching sides and the uniform impression that they had received their moneys worth. The troupe will play in Danbury tonight, Saturday., and next week in Naugatuck, Seymour, and Ansonia and will close their first two-weeks engage ments on Christmas night in the Tingue rink ill Birmingham, where they will un- doubtedly be applauded with full house. Besides meeting their own expenses they have already netted nice sum for the strikers. Let the good work continue
 At the last meeting of the K. of L. it was voted to boycott J. NJ. Wise, the con fectioner and baker, and also w. G Boothe the meat dealer in Shelton. As near as we can learn Mir. Boothe thought he could sneak around after dark and supply the ''scao" boarding house, undetected, but people were wide awake, and caught him in the act.
 Two cases of assault have occurred in our usually quiet town, this week, one vic tim being our telephone communicant, Mir Sanford, and the other a woman, Mrs Both were seriously injured. We hope that the perpetrators of these as saults will be found and get their just de- serts.
 There is a narrow road beginning at about Bridge street and running parallel with, and on the east side of the Nauga- tuck railroad track, and ending at the Com mon ground below, called Circus lot. This narrow lane is celled Canal street. It is, presumably, the property of the borough, and is kept in repair(0 at the expense of the same. For years it has been the great conduct to carry off the slime and filth of
 
 low, where after storm miniature lake with innumerable islands is formed, and the nasty effiuvia laid there until the sum- mer sun dried it up and the wind dispelled 1t in masmatic gases which were the source of great annoyance, and consequent ill health to the residents of lower Main street. The road bed of this little street was natur- ally low, and the property holders along it's line had maintained for years sidewalk fx0A <lo highest side, which kept the waters con- fined to the middle of the road, and thus protected their cellars from an inflow and heir property from flooding. This the bor- ough authorities compelled them to do at their own expense many years ago when they petitioned for relief, and it was to many of them very expensive affair. Now the present board of Warden and Burgesses has gone to work, plowed up and destroyed this dyke of defence, de- stroyed their sidewalk, and made gutter there which comes within eighteen inches of the cellar walls of some of the houses This sluice-way is as totally inadequate to carry off the great floods which usually come down there, the bed of the Nauga- tuck Is to accommodate the Father of Wa ters. And it's as certain as fate that the cellars of the houses 1t endangers can not help being flooded this fall and winter. And then comes suits for damages. The borough is involved iu liquidation, and the lawyers are happy through the pigheaded ness of our paid servants. Indeed, the en- tire undertaking is as narrow and one sided the train of ideas which flow through the shallow channels of the War den's brain. The property holders should investigate, and call borough meeting and stop this proceeding. There is no req son why the gutters should not be made on the west side of the street next the railroad track, the land slopes naturally towards the river. We id there was no reason; let Us qualify it. There is no good reason unless the railroad corporation would ob- ject In that event their rights being par amount we would have to submit to the in evitable.
 CHRISTMAS IS COMING.
 Chester D. Fisk &5 Co.,, the Main street shoe loa ierS are off, rrjn0 fancy S1i Drers for