Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-08
Weather.
CITY AND SUBURBS,

Guernsey s. Parsons left town this morn ing for New London.
 Charles Grilley lost two valuable pet skye terriers yesterday.
 Shoninger's Musical Monthly for August is ready for distribution.
 The Shalvey Brothers have purchased the Karcher saloon on Bank street.
 A small break in the Maple street water main was repaired early this morning
 First Selectman Doherty has been ap- pointed conservator over August Bayer, vice Daniel F. Webster, resigned
 The seventh annual picnic of the Rose Hill Hose company will be held at the base ball grounds Thursday, August 16.
 The remains of Mrs Maria Miner, wife of the Rev N. w. Miner, who died in New York Saturday, were brought to this city to-day for internent.
 Lieutenants Moses and Halpin left this afternoon to be examined by the Second regiment officers for their commissions previous to going to camp.
 Workmen have commenced laying the concrete on the West Main street bridge, and barring accidents the bridge will be open for travel by Sunday morning.
 W llIle ScolV was arrested yesterday afternoon for calling Mrs Kate McGrath a "Sreenhorn." The case was nolled by the prosecuting attorney this morning.
 The north store in the new Masonic temple has been rented by D. H. Tierney to J. N. Clifford, of Lynn, Mass, who will open house decorating establishment
 Company G held a very successful drill in the guard mounting exercise last night, and nnfll tha will ha inued two evenings n week, Tuesday and Thursday.
 The NJ. w. &, c. R. road has effected an amicable settlement with the city in re- gard to the South Main street bridge and the matter has been adjusted to the satis- faction of all the parties interested
 A. P, Viets of Franklin street has sent to the Waterbury Blank Book company to be bound the complete issue of Harper's Magazine from the first number published in June, 1850, up to the present year
 The newspaper train out of New York at 5.01 this morning was delayed several hours at Harrison, by one of the trucks of apassenger coach leaving the track The Naugatuck division trains were delayed, the ll.1I train being over 30 minutes late The New York papers came up on this train.
 Agent Manwaring at the New England station says no instructions have been re- celved here regarding the special train bearing the remains of General Sheridan which it was thought would pass through Waterbury. It is probable that the train will come over the New England road to Hartford, where the remains will be trans ferred to the Consolidated road.
 The Arion glee club and banjo club. composed of some of Waterbury's best musicians, with the exception of Dr Pucci of Thomaston, who is the leader, are ex- pecting to visit several popular shore re- sorts within short time on a concert tour. Both of the clubs are first class and cannot fail of meeting with much deserved success.
 Four of our most esteemed young men participated in a carriage ride last Sunday and friend has kindly related to the DEMOCRAT very interesting experience of the said young gentleman. Want of space will prevent us from dwelling at length on that eventfnl ride. But we will just say that telegraph poles can withstand very strong shock, but since Sunday the wires on the line between here and New Haven have been i'll very disabled condi- uon. The walking, too, from New Haven Is not considered the most desirable by ex- pert pedestrians.
 The DEMOCRAT does not intend to have any ct its subscribers disappointed in the non-appearance of his or her paper for even one night. But sometimes unforeseen circumstances arise which necessitate longer time in delivering the paper than usual. Such case happened last evening when the carrier on one of the most ex- tended routes failed to appear. As con sequence the subscribers did not receive their papers until very late Any failure to receive the paper, if reported at once to this office by the subscribers, will be considered favor and care will be taken to prevent a recurrence The following officers were elected for the ensuing year at the meeting of the l State Firemens association Monday: I. B. | Hyatt of Meriden, president; Nicholas 1 Staub of New Milford, Henry J. Eaton of | Hartford, J. k. Spaulding of Winsted, A. | C. Hendrick of New Haven, F. B. Boards l ley of Bridgeport, J. B. Carrier of Norwich, | c. N. Daniels of Willimantic, John Wag- her of Rockville, and F. w. Wiley of Mid dletown, vice presidents John s. Jones of l Westport, secretary Samuel c. Snagc of Waterbury, treasurer; delegate large to national convention J. s. Jones of West port. The next convention will be held in Hartford
 AN EXCITING RUNAWAY,