Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-26
CITY AND SUBURBS.

whose bid was $1O,175.
 Conductor Granger, who succeeded Con ductor Benedict on the S:26 a. m. passen- ger train, has resigned.
 The Rev A. G. Eggleston, pastor of the M. E. church, will preach at the Mission chapel in Union city next Sunday after noon.
 The committee to make arrange ments for the reception of Martin Scully will meet at the Y. M. c. L. A. rooms at 8 o'clock this evening.
 The coal traffic over the Naugatuck di vision is very heavy at present, owing to the recent arrival of large number of tows of coal at Bridgeport
 Michael Breslin and Miss Jennie Daley were married by the Rev Father Mulcahy at the church of Immaculate Conception at 7:30 a. m. to-day.
 It is reported that the citizens of Nauga- tuck will soon take action toward the erec- ton of new bridge to span the Nauga- tuck river at Union City.
 The note books found in a on the Naugatuck road few evenings ago were the property of Judge Torrance. They were returned to him this morning.
 The newsboys on the Naugatuck road gather large punches of trailing arbutus in Winsted every day and cannot supply their customers the demand is so great
 Old smoking car Mo- IS on the Nauga- tuck road came up oD the 9 o'clock train last night, repainted and renumbered 312. All traces of her ownership have dis appeared.
 Sheriff Gates took Owen R. Hawley, w. H. Scovill and ''Tobacco Jack" Connolly down to jail this afternoon. There was very affectionate parting between young Connolly and his mother.
 The hearing the connection of the Meriden and Waterbury railroad with the Consolidated road, was postponed until May at 1 o'clock yesterday at the office of the railroad commissioners at the capitol.
 Last night the prisoners awaiting trial before the superior court were locked up two in cell at the police station. Tuesday night the accommodations were so small that three and four men were confined in one cell.
 Sheriff Gates supplies the prisoners with they devour the contents with as much avidity with which they clean the bill of fare furnished by Bolster and served by Deputy Sheriff Futile.
 About 60 members of Comstock and Speedwell lodges, K. of F., went to Nauga- tuck last evening to assist in the celebra- tion of the first anniversary of the grand lodge They returned to the city on the special train in charge of Conductor Nc Kinney, arriving at 12 o'clock.
 The Connecticut branch of the Feder- ation of Trades is about to make a special effort to enforce the law regarding the employment of children and women Several violations of the law have been re- ,4o1 @o 4lo< >f Tod . they will be thoroughly investigated.
 During the past week with the prospect of fine weather over fifteen bootblacks, ranging in age from five to fifteen years have been shining shoes at the NaugatucB station One little fellow says he isn't five years old until next month and by the time he reaches the age of ten he will be { professional at the business.
 It has been decided to continue the Sacred Heart church choir festival until tomorrow evening. All who have not yet attended should go and help out the good cause. Twenty-Five cents secures a chance on five useful articles as follows, dress pattern. $1O gold piece, half dozen shirts, ton of coal, barrell of flour.
 Martin Carroll of Bethlehem recently re- moved to this city. Yesterday he went to Bethlehem and returned last evening with about two tons of hay and 2,0O0 laths. Soon after crossing the iron bridge some one shouted to him that his load was on fire A crowd soon collected and attempted to put out the flames but it was found necessary to overturn the rigging to save the wagon. Carroll thinks that the fire was due to friction caused by the rubbing of the wheel on the road.
 Fire broke out about 7 o'clock last evening in the rear of B. J. Manville & company's machine shop on Meadow stree and an alarm was sent in from box 312 Meadow and Bank streets. The depart ment turned out promptly and got two streams upon the flames. The fire wa located in pile of charcoal in the rear O. the machine shop and high board fenc, runs from one building to the other Against this the charcoal, which was de livered yesterday, was piled up. Fortunate ly both buildings are brick and the fire wa confined to the fence and the charcoal ant the damage was very slight.
 The North Main street sewer Contracto McManus expects to complete the middl of next week, when he will commenc work on his new contract in Hawkins Adams, Hopkins and Pearl streets Tn work on the present sewer has been delaye by hard digging just above Hitchcock pond. At depth of four or five feet
 
 cult to get trench through it as solid roc and the contractor gets nothing extra flo the work. MT McManus says he is losin $50 day on this portion of the contract There are about 300 feet of pipe to be lai on this section before the work is con pleted.
 A Hartford exchange comes in with thi peculiar mathematic notice: "The electio takes place November 6 this year, and an young man, otherwise qualified, can vot that day if his birthday on which he call himself 21 doesn't come until the da after, that is November 7. It seems queer but it's legal fact. The man whose birth day is the seventh becomes twenty-one g midnight after the sixth. The law recoe nizes no parts of days, and so, legally,i if h is twenty-one at any time of the sixth, he twenty one all day of the sixth and ca vote on that day. It is a matter that ha been tested and demonstrated, that an. young man, reading this, who thinks h will be twenty-one on seventh because it his birthday, is hereby advised that he wi be twenty-one on the sixth, and it is hi duty and privilege to get himself made voter in due season."