Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-07-30
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 A NOVEL feature of the Springfield system is the letting of electric cars to parties who wish to hire. The price of a car is S2 an hour. It is convenient for Or party to thus charter a car and ride as far as they desire. A car can be run over any of the lines, as they are under one management. When a car is thus hired, sign Especial car" is placed on the sides. Many have been hired this summer to run to different points of in l terest.
 THE season comes on apace when the small boy partakes too freely of green apples and becomes painfully aware of the fact that he has been fooling with something that does not fit him just right.
 HAVE you noticed it? There are more mosquitoes in Waterbury this summer than have been seen here since the town was redeemed from the primeyal swamp. I have heard the fact com mented upon by many people, and if you get down to a conversation on the subject you will find that half the men you meet, and women, too, for that matter, have suffered from an infusion of poison from the vicious little insects during the past month. Perhaps the heat and humidity having something to do with the propagation of the pests and perhaps they come up from Bridgeport. At any rate. they have their lances sharpened and are hungry for gore. x*x
 THE announcement officially made in these columns few days ago that E., G. Kilduff, the efficient and popular city, clerk, would retire from public life I at the close of his present term of office. had scarcely been made when the friends of John &. Neagle and James L.. Duncan prepared and placed in the market booms for their favorites, It is conceded that the nomination will fall to either one or the other, but which it shall be, is more than care to predict. Of the two MT Neagle is the most widely known. He was clerk of the Center school district for several terms and gave an excellent account of his stewardship. He was defeated for re- election two years ago by the votes of democrats who laid certain charges at his door for which, am told, there was no foundation. MT Neagle's friends say that his erstwhile enemies will make ''amende honorable'' this fall by work ing for him for the city cierkship. James l.. Duncan is the candidate of the first ward club and is a hustler. He has served as assistant in the town clerk s office and did considerable work for the tax revision committee. At present he has charge of the democratic headquarters on Exchange place. He has never held an elective office, but is free from political entanglements and his friends regard him as a winner. M
 A MIDDLE AGED, smooth faced gentle man, dressed in black, wearing a silk tile and an anti-saloon air, presented his ticket to the baggage master at the Naugatuck station this morning and | asked that the trunk to which he pointed be checked to Thomaston, An expressman had set the trunk on end
 with an emphasis peculiar to his busi- ness, only moment before, and when the baggage master wheeled it around
 preparatory to placing it on the truck it ! was notlced that quite pool had gath
 cred where it stood. Thoughts of the
 horrible trunk mystery passed through
 the minds of the on lockers. In a few
 minutes the air became impregnated
 with we'll known odor which seemed
 to have been waited from the Nauga-
 tuck Valley brewery. That seemed i'm.
 possible as not leaf was stirring any,
 where. Some one suggested the trunk
 might be the cause. The suggestion
 was selzed upon as an explanation of
 the mystery and an examination fol
 lowed. Sure enough, that trunk con-
 talned beer; plain, simple ,plebeian beer. "Cy" reached in his pocket for a piece of chalk and tho letters "B. O." were
 put on every side. The crowd objected thinking the letters stood for bad odor,
 but the genial baggage master ex. plained Cant leave it on me. That means in bad order when checked"