Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-09-05
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

Henry A. Hellmann has returned
from n trip to Atlantic City
Miss Katie Loughman. n clerk in
kelly's hank street bakery. left to-day for
visit to friends in Hartford.
There will bs q special meeting of Pro
tective Hose company. No 4. at 8 O'Clock
tonight. A full attendance is requested.
William Kelleher of 25 South Leonard
street, a telephone lineman, fell about
twenty-five feet from a pole on North Main
street yesterday afternoon. receiving
serious injuries
Anthony Carroll of 154 South Main
street. an employee of Benedict & Burn-I
hams, received a bad cut on the forcing n
of the right hand. while ut work TO-DAY
DIR Frost rendered surgical aid.
Fire Commissioner John McAuliffe is ex.
hibiting some rare specimens of old coins.
among them being an English halfpenny
bearing the date of 1907 and half-cent
piece of United States coin dated 1907.
The former is an heirloom in the Me
Aulitfe family for over twenty years.
Who is responsible for the condition
of the sidewalk between the Bank street
bridge and the New England railroad
crossing? II certainly does not belong to
n poor man. It is all owned IN part by
the city of Waterbury. the New England
road and Holmes. Booth & Haydeps. II
would not be bad idea to refer this TO
the prosecuting attorney along with the
case against DR. C. Art. Ward.
Michael Harry of South Brooklyn is
| the proud owner of the finest specimen o!
whitethorn bush ever seen in the state.
1t came direct from the old country. and.
with several other imported shrubs and
flowers which are set out in his garden.
presents very inviting appearance. MIR
Harry says that he expects to live TO hear
that tree referred TO with as much rever-
ence as 1.-THE hawthorn bush with seats l e
meath its shade" immortalized in Gold
smiths Deserted Village"
A man who lives on Railroad Hill
street and works in the Buckle shop. de
clares he saw a ghost on the Washington
avenue bridge while on his way home the
other evening. and when asked what il
looked like he said he could not tell. He
| thought il was a woman whom he knew
and spoke to her and for a reply received n
slap in the face with what he thinks was a
hambag filed with cobblestones. When he
recovered from the shock and looked
around there was no one visible. but he
thought he could hear some one laugh on
the high arch overhead. and looking up
ward received a shower of cobblestones IN
I tue lace. lie ueClueu not 10 tAAtHlue
the case any further and started for home
fully convinced tina: what he had seen was
something unnatural
A resident of Jackson street. who has
been reading of all the public improve
ments that have been made in that section
of the city. desires to inform the members
of the road board that there is a place ii
Waterbury known rs Jackson street. and
curiously enough. the street has not beer
discovered by the street inspector or any
| of his men. He wishes TO inform the pow
ers that be that the place referred to Is il
the rear of Plume & Atwood's factory. and
that n visit from the road board when or
one of its outings would be n rare treat &c
the residents and taxpayers in that street
I'm fact" he said. "a visit from this hor
orable body would be rs much Of sur
prise 90 us all as il Barnum's circus par
AIDE should pass by our doors. The only
city or town official we know anything
about Is the collector"