Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-04
CITY AND SUBURBS.

 Officer John Pagan has been laid up for the past three days from severe attack of malarial fever. Jeremiah Fitzpatrick, the efficient truant | officer, left this morning for few days visit to Saratoga. M. J. Hayes has remodeled the store at 22S East Main street and to-day opened n frst-class sample room. The parlor suit still remains uncalled for at the New England shoe store. No S20 is the lucky number. Miss Floretta Chaveau, niece of the sheriff of Montreal, is visiting with the family of John O'Neill Jr.
 w. O. Guilford and Nathan Merrill were the delegates fron this city to the pro hibition convention at Hartford.
 The remains of Mrs Margaret Ennis, who died yesterday on Baldwin street, will be taken to Cheshire tomorrow for interment. There will be meeting of the third order of St Dominick at o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the church of the Sacred Heart.
 Miss Lucie Pitts of Louisiana and MT Carl Hackett of Boston will assist the Trinity church choir at the 10:30 service tomorrow morning.
 The street sweeper was out again last night. person standing twenty feet from the machine could not see it so great was the cloud of dust raised.
 MT and Mrs Charles Tellar of West Dover street have the sympathy of their friends in the loss of their infant daughter Mary, who died this morning. Funeral to morrow afternoon at p. m.
 Contractor James Sutton will leave for the "old country about September 1 i'll response to message from his father who IS in his declining years. MT Sutton expects to be gone about month and a half
 F. H. Krebs, Jr, who for the past three weeks has been connected with the Morn Ing Republican ln repOrtorial capacity, has severed his connection with that journal and left for his home in Boston this afternoon.
 It is probable that the Scovill Manu- featuring company and Randolph & Cloves will close their factories August in order to accommodate their workmen, the majority of whom desire to attend the A. O. F. field day exercises at Bridgeport.
 Phoenix engine was tested by engineer Sword and assistant Morgan at the Man han raceway last evening and notwithstand- ing the fact that the machine has not been used since the horses were placed ill No 2's house, everything worked to perfection
 John T. Connolly, who has been super intendent of construction on the Meriden. Waterbury and Connecticut River railroad since 1t was first begun, has resigned his position to go to his home ill New Jersey. The employees of the road presented him with purse of $200 as a token of esteem. Henry Collins, twenty three years of age, brother of William H. Collins, the Ma1 at his residence on Cole street this morn ing. Funeral services will be held from church of the Immaculate Conception Monday morning at o'clock.
 Ticket Agent Manwaring of the New England station now sells throu. .h tickets to Bar Harbor by way of the New England road to Boston, where the handsome steamer "Olivette" leaves every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for this popular summer resort. The fare is $S O6 or round trip tickets $1512.
 The road commissioners with Engineer Weld paid visit to Burnham street last evening to the site ot the proposed bridge of the new railroad. The railroad com pany wished to build the bridge with thirteen feet headway, but on the return of the commissioners to the city hall Il vote was passed voting it fourteen feet high and the full width of the road.
 The common council met Monday night and several important questions will be presented. Among others is an extrs appropriation for the street department including 5000 for paving Exchange place-which it iS assured can he hor rowed at 4 per cem-and the assessmen, of damages and bc',efits arising from the layout of Vine street, which includes th. costly bank wall along the property of the Waterbury Manufacturing company.
 There was sad and touching scene al the Naugatuck station yesterday after noon. A sEabbily dressed woman w;tl her two mouths old babe in her arrs ana boy of seven by her side, eagerly scannaG the faces of the crowd awaiting the ar rival Of the 2:42 train. Soon Officer Moor. came along with three prisoners to b, taken to jail, one of the number being tb. woman's husband. The little boy wep bitterly and the woman seemed heart broken. Her husband had been drinkine and was fined in the police court for breacf of the peace as we'll as intoxication.
 The fare from this city to the man, towns on the Shore Line divisions hay, been slightly advano ed by the Consolidated road officials. The following is the new schedule of rates: Clinton, $1 40; Lyme $1.7O; Crescent, Beach, $1. SC; O;New London $2.1O; Stony Creek $1.15; Fair Haven, % cents, East Haven, 9J cents, Guilford $1 25 Pine Orchard, S1.10; Branford, $1.O5 Madison, $l.35. The fare from this city to New Haven via tha Derby road has beer raised to S5 cents, and the rate to Saratoo, cut down five cents making the fare s4. 3s and to Philadelphia D. 20 a reduction ot hree cents.