Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-03
CITY NEWS.

The new sewer on the upper end of
Cooke street has just been completed, and
the street put in fine condition.
The regular quarterly conference of the
Catholic clergy of this diocese will be held
in Hartford on Tuesday and Thursday of
next week.
Joe Knox, the contortionist. will leave
on Monday to join the New York Comedy
Company and Vaudeville Stars at Towan-
da, Pa. y:
Good shoa5 and slippers can always be
found at a first class shoe house. E.
Finn sells nothing but the best at his re-
liable store.
William F. Brederlow had the thumb of
his left hand badly crushed by gear
wheel at Benedict & Burnham's mill this
morning. DR. Frost rendered surgical aid
Comstock lodge, X. of P. will 90 to New
Haven on the $3.50 train this evening, to
be resent at the institution of a new
lodge. The lodges team will work the
third degree.
Two boys giving their names as Edward
Carroll, Is, and John Hayes, 16, of Wa
terbury. applied for lodgings in the Meri-
den police station last night. The police
in this city We're notified and the boys will
be sent home to-day.
The railroad commissioners are making
their semi-annual inspection of the Con-
necticut portion of the New England road
to-day. They are accompanied by General
Superintendent Barton and Superintendent
Quigg of the western division. The party
took dinner in Waterbury.
Willie Conlon, the little nephew of Will
liam and Thomas Conlon, who was so
severely burned about six weeks ago while
playing with matches, was removed to the
l., Al.
ing for treatment. The little fellow was
more severely burned than was thought at
first and his recovery has been very slow.
James A. Hynes received telegram to-
day requesting him to go to Meriden at
once. Mr. Hynes is a prominent candi-
date for the position of deputy collector,
and his friends place great significance in
the call to Meriden, where John C. Byx-
bee, the newly appointed collector for this
district lives. Mr. Hynes went to Meriden
this afternoon.
The Consolidated road officials take no
stock in the reported boom for the New
England road, and think there will be no
extension built as is talked of They
doubt very much also whether President
Mcleod will be able to raise the funds
needed for the big job and say the pro-
posed extension will cost a heap more
money than President Mcleod estimates
The mails have not in years been as
light as for the last three months. 1t is
one of the effects of the hard times. Many
firms which do great deal of advertising
in the fall by means of circulars which
they send through the mails failed to do so
this fall. As many of the large factories
shut down and other business houses did
not do their regular amount of business
correspondence was small.
The case of Henry H Peck vs. Charles
Miller, argument on demurrer, was heard
in the superior court before Judge Ham
ersley in this city to-day. The plaintiff
brings suit to restrain the defendant from
using the firm name Miller Il Peck. The
| court adjourned until Tuesday, November
IA. when the case of Ellen Hughes VS. the
City of Waterbury will be the first to be
disposed of.
]. 5. Mcdonald who will provide part
of the capital to build it, says the new rail-
road which is to give the New York & New
| England company an entrance into New
York city. will be built during the year
1894, and will be open for business by
January l, 1885, if not before. President
Mcleod is quoted as saying that he has
sought the cooperation of the Manhattan
| Elevated Railroad company and the men
who are projecting the new road can pay
| for the work
Weather prophets in the neighborhood
of Essex are predicting an unusually severe
winter. Among the many signs they
notice are that the husks on corn are much
thicker than usual this year and of a deep
orange tint, instead of light lemon hue.
This is one of the signs of the approach of
| a very severe winter. The goose bone
also reveals larger and whittier spots than
usual and the hogs pelt runs jagged in
stead of smooth. Muskrats have begun to
| build large huts in the meadows. Those
who have observed the preparation of the
| chipmunks and squirrels assert that tLray
are laying in big stores of nuts.
The approach of Thanksgiving is re-
minder that Connecticut has fewer holi-
days than almost any other state, outside
of Sundays the only other days on which
business is legally suspended being Fourth
| of July and Christmas. The good citizen
has only fifty-four days in all, when he can
rest to his hearts content. The holiday
being made by each state for itself, there
are good many differences in the list
Throughout the union. Fast day, Thanks
giving. Labor day, Washington's birthday,
New Years and half dozen other DAYS are
distinguished in various parts of the coun-
try. New York, it is said, can count up
more than sixty holidays. 1t wouldn't
hurt the Nutmeg state to have few more.
1t is said. and truly. that men may rise
on stepping stones of their dead selves to
mightier things" John Costello, the vet
eran tramp printer, who but recently
posed as the horrible example" for Tenn
peranee Toiler Murphy, has himself turned
orator and is laboring for the reformation
of his fellow craftsmen at Bridgeport.
John relates several good stories of a once
'jamboureeing" duo that spent whole
night in seeing each other home. Mr. Cos
tello speaks from facts, he says, and tells
| this particular story on himself and
Francis Murphy, the now great Temperance
evangelist and father of Thomas E. Muir
| ply. Mr. Costello speaks at New Britain on
Saturday night.
The ten new big consolidation engines
recently received by the New England
road will be put into service in about ten
days. The bridges have been strength
ened throughout the extra western di-
vision. The cabs have been found to be
so constructed as to make it difficult for
the engines to pass through tunnels and
| under overhead structures. They are
somewhat wider than they should be and
slight alterations will be necessary. The
smoke stack is fourteen feet high and il
was feared that such would not allow
passage under the bridges rs Boston is ap-
preached. 1t has been found, however,
that the bridges are fourteen feet and, one
inch high, which does away with that diff
Guilty.
The Murphy temperance meetings were
continued in the auditorium again last
night and a large audience was present
A delegation of prominent business men
from New Britain occupied seats on the
platform and addresses eIIlogistic of the
young temperance orator were made by
Charles S. Landers, F. L. Hungerford, D.
o. Rogers and the Rev l. F. Stidham of
the delegation. Murphy announced that
there would be no1meeting Saturday even