The examiner., 1886-03-20
WATERBURY.

WATERBURY.
 'sWho pays the salary of the clerk to tn, board of selectmen g" question HI EXAMINER asked six weeks ago: No an swer has yet been received.
 l Work has been csmihenced upon Ass Peck's new building on Bank St. near tht the depot. It is needless to say that there was a large concourse of laborers waiting I for job when the fence was removed; but it was only drop in the bucket, the small nnmber of laborers that were required.
 It is now nearly three weeks since the petition for employment of tax payers and resid ants on city work was referred to the city attorney and law committee, and not meeting of the committee has been called to consider it. It will have to be read ill the council the first Monday in April.
 At Union Temperance HalI, 13 Abbott avenue, Sunday evening, Mar. 21, at : o'clock, Elder L. F. Baker will speak on the labor question. Workingmen of all nationalities and creeds are cordially in vited. Elder Baker is an able speaker, and those who come will no doubt listen to | a very profitable discourse.
 Judge Cowell went to Washington last week. He advocates high tariff for the protection to American industry at home, and in the new Republican League. We wonder if as attorney for the De Bordis Go. and other Russian capitalists interested in iron manufacturing, he will object to a reduction of the duty in Russia sheet-iron in the Morrison Bill. If run1or is correct, the judge went to Washington to See that this interest was protected. There are no iron mines in the second ward.
 The Ladies are organizing a something for the benefit of the Hospital, and among l other attractions several maiden ladies are to dance the flower dance. We are sure that all the bald-headed gents will pay a premium for front seats, and the sum real | ized ought to endow cot in the hospital that our grandchildren will enjoy, for sure ly this generation will get no benefit from it, as no one seems to know where the money has gone to that has already been raised.
 One night last week quite a crowd col lected In front of business place In the center to hear a noise which seemed to em- anate from within. Although those outside could not place the noise, some thought the merchant was whipping his wife. A passer- by says, By gobbs, it's rat!" others thought bald-headed eagle was being framed and he was protesting for his hber- ty, others thought it pig in the fence; but when the crowd pushed their way in they found it was only a Jew peddler with his peculiar intonations.
 A clergyman in town has the misfortune to have name same as the travelling bill poster of Philadelphia drug concern, and when a package of posters came to town recently they were delivered ta the domi- nie, who paid for what he thought was his prize As the church has had no donation party this year he was not at all surprised to find only package of posters, but within there was also some pads which would an swer his purpose to write sermons on, so the posters went to the children and the pads put to the good use that clergymen usually put such things. But few days after along came the bill-poster for hie goods, and with an express-man called upon | the reverend sir only to have the door shut in his face. While thinking what to do in the express office in comes the clergyman to complain of the intrusion, but was soon made to understand the situation, and we can give him the credit of apologising like a man, and treating the bill poster like a lord thereafter.
 As we said last week the political pot is boiling, the Republican League is canvass ing for members, and talk gllbly of getting half thousand. They intend to have such an fron-clad organization as to hold their voters srom indulging in mugwumpery in the future. They say they will make it hot for traitors. It looks as if the party of Thigh moral ideas" was degenerating into sort of Philadelphia ring where the rowdy element runs the machine. There is more uneasiness too in the Democratic camp than appears on the surface. Parson Atwater and Al. Martin are not the only kickers against Boss Connolly; but J. J. Mcdonald kicks like steer, and doesn't | y1f trh ho are some others of the original Know nothings who ave been voting the Demo caatic ticket the last dozen years, who complain that native Americans not put on guard. They cite the last Demo cratic town convention where the 9 del egates were all Irish-Americans. Even Connolly admits that that was a mistake, and has told his lieutenant Jimmie Hines, 1 that it must not happen again; that Ger man or two must be chosen from the third ward, and few Americans from the aris- tocratic second. Then some of the Irish Democrats who have voted the Straight ticket" and have helped to keep the flag to the front for forty years, are restlye in the new harness. John Ryan, Patrick Hoi han, Thomas Martin and John Thompson and others say that the idea of tMilesy's" dictating to them how they should vote, is preposterous. They don't believe he is the | congressman Mitchell in. the post office ] game. We'll it is none of our funeral. In the Workingmen's party, every honest man is boss, aye, king, for the people are sovereign. The ring masters will find it harder work next fall to dictate nomina- tions than ever before; and when they have made up their slates there will be imminent danger of them being broken. There is a dearth of news in the commu- nifty. No scandals among the ordinary ev- ery-day class of people have in the past week occurred for the American or Repub- lican to print, and among the wealthy and respectable" if they have happened, they l have been sufficiently concealed as not yet to have cropped out. It is wonder that the community and these Thigh toned'' journals do not fall back on the Kendrick divorce matter. By the way, while speak ing of this, an article has been going the rounds of an allowance of $10O to Mrs. Kendrick, by Judge Stoddard, recently, as pay to Lynde Harrison to contest the case. This strikes us as peculiar, for two reasons. 1st. The amount is unusual, the ordinary recognized allowance being in such cases $50 or $35, 2d. It was obtained after l Lynde Harrison's law partner, Cable, had agreed with MT. Kendrick and his attorney