Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-10-18

are in it. In fact, there Is nobody Tn 1t except the trusts and combines" which are largely controlled by British capital.
 WILLIAM RILEY, whose family has mourned him as dead for many years, and for whom stone is erected in a Hingham, Massachusetts, cemetery, has written from Maine in regard to getting out pension papers. The present pen sion laws seem to be sort of "Rise up, William Riley !'
 SEEING is believing. An Idaho bank on which there was a run piled upon the counter what was supposed to be $A0,0 ,00O in gold. This stopped the run and brought in depositors, and when the trouble was over the gold was taken down. The packages contained iron washers cut to the thickness and size of SEQ gold pieces.
 ONE of the most encouraging signs of the times for the democrats is the rise of the young man to leadership in the party. The democratic party will always be triumphant whiie it can com. mand the respect and support of the young men. Their adherence is proof that it is party of high principles and advanced ideas. And their adherence means success.
 IN Germany the teachers are alarmed over the increase in the number of stam- merers among the children in the schools. It has been ascertained that the defect is to a certain degree conta- gious among the younger pupils, the number of cases steadily increasing as the children remain in school. The matter is considered of so much moment that special course of instruction is given to teachers to enable them to cure the defect by scientific treatment.
 DENEI SOUTH BROOKLYN.
 AT the recent town meeting a vote was passed instructing the selectmen to employ counsel to oppose an honest effort that is being made to open to the public the large tracts of land in South Brooklyn by extending South Leonard street and completing the bridge the buttresses for which were built years ago. It is safe to say that half of those such power, did not fully understand what such action implied. The building of the bridge connecting Hope vile with Brooklyn is a public necessity, opening up as it would hundreds of acres of unim- proved land which is now almost free from taxation. We know it to be a fact that manufacturing concern which is paying taxes upon $150.000 in another town, would have located in this section but for the neglect of the town to eXpend few thousand dollars in building bridge to the main high way. And now an acid factory is being built in the hope that in the near future the streets pointing toward it will be thrown open. At present it is com pletely landlocked. Many who own lots on the lower end of South Leonard street have not improved their property by the erection of buildings for the sole South Main street they would be like rats in trap. We have not one cents worth of personal interest in this matter, but speak for what we know will be great public improvement. The same cry as is made now was heard ten or eleven years ago when the Burnham street bridge was proposed and it required herculean effort to overcome the opposition to that improvement. And what would Brook lyn be to-day without the Burnham street bridge! We hope the selectmer will not make the great mistake oi denying to the people of the most rapidly growing section of the town that which is their right. A bridge car be built for much less than $10,000 and this is all that is asked at the present time Representative citizens of the town, ir respective of political affiliations, should attend the hearing upon the matter be fore the county commissioners in New Haven, Monday forenoon. /
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