Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-29
CITY AND SUBURBS.

U111 ANU sDUUUllDOs
 MT and Mrs Thomas Kane returned from their wedding trip last evening.
 The Hibernian rifles will hold their last drill during the season this evening
 Sergeant Eannon is still confined to his house, and probably will be for few weeks.
 Oh! What fall was there! June 2Gd, 96 deg; 24th, 91; 25th, 89; 26th, 79; 27th, 76: 28th, 5S; 29th, 5A.
 The Young Mems Democratic club have ordered new banner which will probably be swung over South Main street.
 Wadhams' post will give their annual picnic this year, on August IA, at Pawson park, going by rail to New Haven and thence by boat.
 M J. Neligan, principal of the Porter street school, yesterday lost his English setter ''Van," by distemper. The dog was valued at upwards of S1OO.
 Several Naugatuck people have found out that Robert Emery Clark, the portrait painter who skipped this town some time ago, had victimized them.
 The case of John H. Bilson, of Nauga- tuck vs Charles D. Weaver, petition for disclosure of the garnishee, was heard be- fore Judge Bradstreet this morning.
 Miss Mamie Henry, who has been study ing at the convent, in company with Miss Nellie Brennan of Naugatuck, left on the D. m. train to-day to spend her vacation at her home in Millbrook, N. Y.
 Albert Yohausen, the crazy Swedis h tailor who was taken to the town house a short time ago pending his removal to MiddletOwn, is so much recovered that 1t IS doubtful if he will be removed.
 The I. o. o. F. encampment last even ing elected the following officers: Ira Moore, chief patriarch; D. M. Davis, high priest; A. H. Mills senior warden; G. T. Barnes junior warden; Alfred Straw, scribe; George Barnes, treasurer.
 The stone crusher question, which was much agitated last fall, seems to have en- tirely dropped out of sight. The machine is stored at the quarry below Railroad Hill, and the boiler is being used to pump water into the Cooke street reservoir.
 The cold storm of the past two days has cadsed considerable discomfort, to thinly clad people who looked for nothing of the kind. The rain was needed. So was the cold-several days ago. In this city, the mercury fell fifty degrees lower than it was Saturday.
 Weeds full band of Hartford, J. P. King leader, has been engaged by the Con- solidated road to furnish music at High Rock grove, July A. Company A, of this city will picnic at the grove that day, and the music will be as good, if not better, than in former years.
 Frederick William lodge, K. of F., met at American hotel last evening and made arrangements for the installation of the new lodge on July 10. All of the state officers will be present, and after the cer- emonies which will commence at o'clock, there will be banquet served.
 The annual picnic of Company A, at High Rock grove July 4, gives promise of being as successful as usual notwithstand- ing the counter attraction at Bridgeport There will be racing, games, dancing, a special range for rifle practice and num- erous other amusements. The fare for the round trip will be S5 cents.
 It is not improbable that the field day of the A. O. F., which has been fixed for Monday, August 6, at Seaside park, Bridge, port, will be changed. A committee has been appointed for the purpose of com pleting all arrangements, and will report at the district meeting to be held on Satur day, July 7, upon the advisability of chang ing the date.
 The result of the tour of inspection o1
 
 w. & c. R. railroad, yesterday. was the acceptance of the line, which they found to be in unusually good shape for new road. At one or two trestles they recon mended more flling-in, which the com pany had already arranged for, and sug gested that for the present trains be no run too rapidly. y.-Meriden Journal.
 The Hartford Times has discovered poison that will kill buffalo bugs. It ii injected with hypodermic syringe, at tht point where the bugs diaphragm is attach ed to it's thorax. The poison causes paraly- sis of the muscles of the diaphragm, re sulting in short breath, acema of the kid neys and subsequent prostration of the ap petite. Unable longer to eat carpets tn. bug dies in the course of a few weeks.
 At the annual meeting of court Han cock, A. o. F., held last evening the fol lowing officers were elected Thomas Lud dy, chief ranger; John Walsh, sub chic ranger; Dennis F. Murnane, recording sec retary; John Delaney, senior woodward Leo P. Bovally, junior woodward Thoma McEvoy, senior beadle, and William Cor man, junior beadle Court physician O'Hara, and druggist Bossidy held over fo another six months.
 Should tomorrow be fair the work o1 the cemetery road will be finished Ther.
  laborers at work on it for three weeks ant 1000 yards of filling put in. The road i now almost level from the West Main stree bridge to Bank street, and taken with tn Watertown road will make one of tn incest drives for miles around. The ney iron fence about the cemetery and the i'm provements to be made in the shrubber will add greatly to it's appearance.
 There were three Jacks in the prisoners box this morning, all charged with drunk enness. John McCann is minor, an said he got his liquor in a South Mai street saloon. John McMahon and Johl P. O'Brien are knights of the road an were found near the Naugatuck depo asleep O'Brien claimed a residence i Richmond, Virginia, and was fancy sig portrait painter. He says he is the artis who painted 'Christ at Prayer" from tn 30th chapter of Leviticus. He said he we poisoned with mercury, and took whiske as an antidote. All three will languish { the town house for few weeks workin out $5 fines.
 A new borer, or thought to be new these parts, says the New London Day, ha attracted attention to-day on lilly stree where several of them have been at wor