Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-21
CITY AND SUBURBS.


 road goes into effect to tomorrow.
 The Third division, A o. H., have ar ranged to give festival August 29 and 30. The regular monthly collection in St Patricks church will be taken up to- morrow
 The barge, James E. English, is un- loading 300, GOO feet of lumber at Bridge port for this city.
 A Cleveland and Thurman banner will be hung across Bank street, Brooklyn, in about two weeks.
 The annual reunion of the Connecticut Commercial Travellers association will be held at Branford next Friday.
 The funeral of Mrs Honora Butler will take place at 2:30 tomorrow, instead of this morning as announced last evening. Improvements ure going on at the High school to the extent of new fence, re- grading, and general renovating of the grounds.
 There will be no further meetings of the third order of St Dominck until August 4 that day being the feast of the patron saint of the order.
 Another water main break on Bank street near the ApOthecaries hall is under mining the pavement, makino large and dangerous hole there.
 heF T dtuer 1reanOr, pastor or the Cnurcn Of the Sacred Heart, has removed from the 227 East Main street to Taylor avenue, in the rear of the church.
 The second annual picnic and Scottish games of the Burns club will be held at the base ball grounds next Saturday. Ladies will be admitted free after 6 o'clock in the evening.
 Chatfield camp, s. of ", are giving their picnic at the West End grounds this afternoon. Among the features is a ball game between the Athletics and Naugatucks.
 Three new telegraphic wires are being built along the line of the Meriden, Water bury and Connecticut River railroad, two of which are to be used by the railroad and one for commercial purposes.
 At St Pauls Methodist church tomorrow there will be preaching at 10:30 and 7:30 by the pastor, Rev E. c. Fullar. Morning subject: ''Scenes an Lessons from Jacobs We'll" Evening, "A Temperance Sermon' (not politicaD.
 Mad River grange has accepted the invi tation of Thomas Fairclough, of Wolcott, to visit him Monday afternoon July 30 and celebrate the twenty-frst birthday of his daughter Julia The meeting will be held under large tent and all friends of the grange are invited
 The other day while party were driv ing past Pawson park they discovered number of young men playing ball, and on inquiry found that they were the ball nine of Columbia council, K. of C., prac- ticinc. Since the club is reported prac ticing every day it is evident they mean to ''do up'' the Sheridan council nine if possible.
 The Rose Hill social club will give a banuuet tonight at their rooms in honor of their newly elected officers who are: George Gibson, president; Mathew Smith, vice president; Joseph Worsley, recording secretary; J. 1. Condon, financial secre tarv: M A Wallace, treasurer, and Charles Delaney, Joseph Riley and Thomas Begley, standing committee.
 F. L. Smith, for the past nineteen years with the New York. New Haven X Hart ford River railroad company at New Haven, has been appointed general ticket agent of Meriden, Waterbury X Connec ticut River railroad with headquarters at West Main street passenger station in Mer iden. MT Smith comes highly recon mended and no doubt will prove most courteous and faithful official.
 A few nights since a crowd of young men who were just returning from fish ing trip bringing back as their luck an immense eel stopped at the Chinese
 
 menced to bother the celestials. One of the Chinamen, when the boys went out, hid red hot iron behind the door in an ticipatiOn of their return. They did re- turn a few minutes afterward, and one of them showed the eel in front of the China mans face. With a yell of fright he sprung onto the table and rolled over on the hot iron, and with another yell of pain made for the door. His gibberish could l>o hnt words could be made out: ''Burnes self. No burnee d. Melican man."
 The case against John Cronin, charged with burglarizing Morris Quinlan's saloon last Sunday night was called in the police court this morning, and resulted in the binding over of Cronin under $500 bonds. The case against Cronin was worked up by Officer Haley, who learned that on the day after the robbery Cronin visited Richard Claxton's house on Hill street, and had in his possession a number of bottles of liquor similar to those stolen from the saloon Willie Madden a lad of 10, testified to meeting Cronin and McEllgott the cemetery road and giving them ride to Grove street. They gave him 10 pennies, but afterwards took back five. MT and Mrs Claxton testified to the appearance of the men at their house. Cronin himself said he was to drunk that he did not re member anything or It, put HIS teStlnonE as to this point did not agree with that oi other witnesses. His father furnished { bond fol his appearance at the next term of the superior court.
 Says the Shelton Advertiser: One of oul prominent young ladies expresses the opin ion that there are some very funny young men in Waterbury. Wednesday night while in that city, she was introduced to { young man, who, learning that she in tended to return home in the morning, in formed her that he intended to drive al far south as Beacon Falls, and would b. pleased to carry her to Ansonia. Sh' promptly declined, but he insisted, ant finally to quiet him, agreed to ride hom with him, saying that he must be ready tc start at 5:30 a. m. As soon as he left th