Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-30

The High Rock grove band, Prof Mo- Cam of Naugatuck, leader, closed the sea- sons engagement at the grove to-day. The place will be open for some time yet, but parties who desire to picnic there and want to try their skill at waltz or polka will be obliged to furnish their own music. The season was a very successful one and the management was all that could be de- sired.
 There will be running race at the Driving park Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, for fifty bushels of oats, to be di- vided in four parts. for horses that never beat three and a half minutes. To road carts good purse will be offered pro- vided horses enough enter. Entries to close tomorrow night. Send all applica- tions for entries to M. Lynch. Admission to park will be free.
 The work of relaying the sidewalks on I both sides of South Main street. from Ben- edict k Burnham's to the junction of Wash ington and South Main streets, is now completed, and the whole place is in splen- did condition. Benedict < Burnham, Steele IE Johnson and the Waterbury But ton Go liked the block paving so well that | they covered their driveways with that kind of material. the former paving the whole yard in front of the wire mill, Kittie, the four year old daughter of Mir and Mrs Michael Sullivan, 320 Baldwin street. was playing in the yard in the rear of her home this afternoon. when some one tbrew a bottle or glass from the yer anda of the building and struck the child on the forehead. knocking her senseless | The screams of the other children brought the mother of the little girl to the scene. She lifted the child in her arms and car ried her into the Peoples drug store. Blood was streaming from two gashes on the right side of her forehead and one fn- ger was badly cut. Dr McAvoy was called and after stopping the flow of blood, put three stitches in the wound in the girls forehead and one in the cut on her finger l No one seemed to know who threw the glass.
 The Sacred Heart drum corps made things lively about town last night. The | boys made a very creditable showing at the annual convention in Meriden and it was | decided to celebrate the event with street | parade. It was a surprise to everybody and the excellent music, which could be heard all over the city, was greatly enjoyed and drew an immense throng of people in to the center A call was made at the newspaper offices. When the musicians reached the DEMOCRAT office the place was | filled with base ball cranks and the subject was dropped for the time being, and all l turned out to listens to the music. In a | few seconds the streets was blocked with sightseers and at the conclusion of an ex- cellent rendition of Annie Laurie the boys were treated to an ovation by the big au- dience. In several places along the line of march red fire was burned and sky roc kets discharged. On their way home the boys serenaded Father Treanor.
 Harry Burners famious bulldog, "Trix. !" has got himself and master into a peck of trouble at Atlantic City He lost control of his temper the other day and attacked a woman, tearing her clothing and sinking his teeth into her flesh. The case was put into the hands of an attorney and it is said that b. fore the matter is settled it will cost MT Durner all the money he is worth The dog is possessed of almost human intelll- gence, but seemed to lose sight of the fact that there are others besides himself and his master in the world. Trix was born and reared in Waterbury. spending most of his time on Grand street. still he never made friends with any of his neighbors, but always stood ready to obey the con- mand of his master. Waterbury people would regret to hear of Mir Durner getting into trouble in this way for he was popular in this city and while all admired his dog still there were those who predicted that sooner or latter he would commit some act which would result in trouble for his owner