Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-01
Weather.

cooler fair weather.
 CITY AND SUBURBS.
 The Rev J. A. Gardiner will preach at the Advent church this evening
 Work will be commenced on the paving of South Main street one week from Mon day.
 The St Kiezemer society will give their second annual picnic at the ball grounds, June 23.
 It was Attorney Root not Lowe who issued the writs against delinquent mil itary tax payers.
 The Silver Drum corps will lead the pro- cession to the picnic of the Hibernian Rifles next Monday.
 Michael Lawlor has handed in his resig- nation to chief Egan as supernumerary on the police department.
 The regular meeting of the Waterbury democratic club will be held in their hall in Browns block this evening.
 Patrick Sherlock, machinist at the Farrell Foundry and Machine company's, caught his thumb in machine this morn ing and tore the nail off.
 The funeral of Thomas McAndrews, who committed suicide at his residence on Grand street Tuesday night, took place this morning. Only immediate relatives of the deceased were present.
 The newspaper men of Meriden are wor rying over the possibility of their watches being made worthless when the new electric The Waterbury is proof against magnetiza- tion.-Ansonia Sentinel,
 Robert Wolff, who was run over by horsecar Tuesday night, and it was feared had his ribs and back broken is surprising his physicians by his rapid strides towards recovery. He is being well cared for by the societies of which he is number, and it is expected he will be. about in two weeks.
 Early this morning a dog having some appearance of madness ran about in the rear of John Ryan's saloon, snapping at everything he met. Officer Dean happened to be passing and being notified got fly ing shot at the animal, and the bullet en- tering behind the ear, the poor animal was put out of misery.
 Next week will be very busy one among the city boards. The court of common council and fire commissioners will meet Monday evening; the police commissioners Tuesday evening; the board of road and sewer commissioners Wednesday evening; board of finance Thursday, and the board of health Friday.
 In accordance with present regulations enlistments into the Connecticut National guards will cease at the end of the present month and be resumed after the return of the regiments from the annual encamp- ment. The regulation is good one be- cause it puts stop to the practice of former years when men were enlisted just before encampment and went to camp utterly unacquainted with the duties of a soldier and drag upon the rest of the or ganization.
 Alexander Kipnis was the lucky guesse1 upon the Star Clothing company's jar of buttons, winning the large Shoninger piano one of his guesses, 1883, being within one of the number of buttons in the jar. The buttons were countedby Town Clerk White and Sheriff McDonald and the number il the jar found to be 1889. Seven partie. had guessed 1880, and there were sixty-si1 guesses within twenty of the number il the jar. The guesses ranged all the way from 100 to 33,O0O.
 Work on the stone work of the Meride1 & Waterbury railroad bridge at the Dublil street crossing is rapidly advancing, ant crowds eagerly watch the operations daily At the Scovill Manufacturing company sluiceway the large bank of dirt is bein removed and 8 derrick erected for the pun pose of laying the stoAe work of the wal that is to be built there. Below Scovill' bridge another derrick is being put up, ,an it is evidently the intention of the con tractors to make rapid progress with tn work during the summer months.
 About 10 o'clock last night party re turning from Naugatuck found hors and carriage unoccupied standing in tn road near Smith & Griggs' factory. Il the carriage was handkerchief covere, with blood. A diligent search was mad in the neighborhood with the expectation of finding some one with cut head but without success. The outfit wa brought to this city and turned over to tn police who found that it was the propert.. of liverymen Peter Kelly who had rented it to some young men early in the dey.
 Liveryman Peter Kelly is the owner of five year old gray mare. The mare for tn last two weeks has been the centre of at traction for number of would be jockeys and at least dozen have tried to ride her but all succeeded in being spread ..arount the yard in divers positions. A few night ago we'll known Brooklyn machinist wh' was extolling his own merits as horsema1 happened into MT Kelly's stable, and be
 
 could not ride the mare. saddle wa procured and he mounted the horse. II about three seconds he was seen pickin himself up from the bottom of an adjacen sand bank. He says he fell off but ther is slight difference of opinion between him and the spectators
 Shortly after midnight last night Office Fagans attention was attracted by tw young men who were acting rather sus piciously on East Main street. He fol lowed them about for an hour and fnall cornered them on East Main street. The, proved to be John Brennan, the city hal burglar, who is at present under bonds fo good behavior and young man name, Keefe, who was convicted of burglarizinl Pierce's store on the Abrigador som months ago. The officer thought the bes place for them was under lock and ke and accordingly arrested them as sus picious characters. They were not takel to the police court this morning, tn authorities detaining them to await de velopments. This afternoon Brennan