The examiner., 1886-01-16
SEYMOUR.

The winter term of schools commences last Monday, with new teachers in some o the departments.
 Dr. Potter, who left town to start busi ness in Bridgeport, has returned, and re perts the outlook unfavorable.
 The Nashville students are billed to ap pear here tomorrow evening. Fiery re served seat has been taken and were in de mand, which makes sure of full house.
 The tower of the plush mill is about com plete, and c. E. Warner, of Ansonia, i busy putting in the electric clock. It is re ported that the proprietor of the nail shoI and brass mill have also contracted with Mir Warner for electric clocks to be placed il l their mills.
 Business is unusually good. The plust mill has two sets of hands at work, and TUT their mill both night and day in order te fill contracts. The brass mill is running to its full capacity, new machinery and helr being added. All the other factories are also running full time. and the laborers here with few exceptions are quite satisfied with circumstances. ., E.t Quite sensation was produced in town a few days ago when it was found an elope ment had taken place. As your cores pondent learns, the facts are these: Joseph Carrie, who has a wife and children, in duced Miss Grace Washband, a miss of seventeen years living with her mother, to take gold watch and chain and $100 in money and run away with him. Their whereabouts has not been ascertained as and when found the full measIre-,o- Cor law will be given such 8 scoundrel.
 Public speakers and singers find B. H. Douglass & Sons Capsicum Cough Drops sure remedy for hoarseness. Sold everywhere. Price 15c per qr. pound. 3
 WATERBURY.
 General Kellogg has had to bring suit to collect fee for services three years ago in securing a charter for the Parallel railroad We hope he will succeed, for any opposition to the power of the Consolidated railroad is a public benefit. By the way it has just leaked out that Litchfeld county post master employed on the lobby in this case received pay from both companies. The railroad will fight shy of him hereafter.
 We see by Tuesday mornings news that a six-years old boy has been sent to the re- form school by Southington justice. 1rn- less the boy was an embryo Cain or an in fant Guiteau the justice ought to be i'm peached.
 Representative Lee, of Meriden, who will be one of the leading members of the legis- lature. says he has become independently poor by his own exertions. Nothing strange in that. There are hundreds of working men in Waterbury who can truthfully say the same, and there are more to follow.
 The common council voted Monday night to borrow $30, 1000 more for current ex- penses-$42, 900 has already been borrowed, and all at six per cent. It looks as if pretty much all of our 1886 tax would be spent before it is collected in May, and then we shall have to go on tick again. But salaries are raised and big expenditures made all the same, as if the city was rich, and workingmen did not pay the bulk of the expenses.
 Judge Cowelrs friends say that his salary was not increased during his continuance in office. As judge of the city court he had $1, 800. In 1881 the district court of Water Woodbury and Southbury-added to the jurisdiction of the court, and for this new court a salary of $2, 800 was granted. The old salary was all paid by the city, while $2,OO0 of the new salary was paid out of the state treasury, the district court being considered state court.
 A good story is told of our genial judge while occupying the bench of the police court few years since. The audience one morning had been unusually noisy and un- easy, when the judge suddenly remarked, ''Mr. Sheriff, we must have more order in court. I have already been obliged to send three men to jail without being able to catch on to one word of the testimony"
 The public are to be congratulated on the result of the legal hearing in the matter of the attempt of the New York and New England Railroad company to close River side and Burnham streets. For once the people have won, and their interests have been protected in court in the face of rail-, road corporation. ' Technical objections were raised in behalf of the company and much legel sparring, which were all brushed aside calmly by Judge Cole, with the remark that ''public necessity and convenience should decide the case instead of any other consideration. The decision of Judg Cole is honest, concise, straightforward, and manly. It would be we'll if all judges feared corporations and their power as little as he seems to fear them.
 Judge Cowell met with an accident last week while fishing in the reservoir for pike. When his pole showed something captured he ran with zeal but fell on the ice. For few moments he was senseless, but after the
 
 came to. There is moral to this, which some of the judges professional brethren would do we'll to take to heart. The pike is dishonest, voracious, and greedy fish Only those who are like him in character should attempt to catch him. ''It takes a thief to catch one." Judge Cowell should regard his provident,al fall as tribute to himself personally, and rebuke to his pro- fessional brethren who stood their ground unharmed "when Warren fell"
 It is strange how much a horse knows Monday morning fine iron-grey ran down North Main street about Briggs corner. It is true he took the sidewalk, for he had certain sympathy for human beings and their paths in life. Hs stopped in front of Wilson's hardware store and, in a mute sort of way, gave the by-standers to understand that he was Tall right" At safe distance from the opposite corner of the street ex- Mayor Matthews gave orders as to what should be done. He evidently supposed that as Mayor Boughton's increase of salary had not yet been fixed up, he himself 'held over," so to speak. The ''silver grey" had cleared himself of the vehicle, but ex-Mayor Matthews ordered him to be "unhitched at once." The mandate was useless one at that stage of the game. The horse looked around knowingly, laughed sort of s'horse laugh," and, in English, he evidently meant to say, II don't let any thing pass me with