Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-14
CITY NEWS.
Haddock this week 5c at City Fish

Haddock this week 5c at City Fish market, North River shad..
 Jeremiah J. Dillane, of Bishop street, who was reported very i'll few days ago, was able to move about the house yesterday.
 The degree team of Court Oregon, F. of A., will hold a meeting in Pyth ian hall this evening at 7:15 sharp. Every member is requested to be pres ent.
 George B. Lawton, aged 55 years, died this morning at his home in Cheshire. The funeral will take place Saturday.
 James Egan, son of the chief of po- lice, who has been sick for some time with the prevailing illness, was con siderably improved last evening.
 American lodge, No A. A. o. U. w., will initiate one candidate this even- ing in Mechanics hall, and after the regular meeting a smoker will be held. The president of Division No ,, A. O. H., has called a special meeting for 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Mat ters of a social and business nature are to be transacted.
 y died to-day at her home on Wood street. The remains will be taken to Windsor Hill for burial tomorrow morning ill charge of Undertaken Stewart of Burrall's.
 The management at Polls an- nounces that no seats ordered for Den man Thompson's performance of ''The Old Homestead" will be kept beyond 6 o'clock this evening. All seats unre- deemed at that time will again be placed on sale.
 Judge Bradstreet presided at this mornings session of the city court. 1 William Thompson was the only pris- 1 oner before the court He was charged | with theft of three suits of mems un- ! dprwcar valued at S:2 from Alfred Aailhiot's store on South Main street. An Italian named Charles Dondero, l who said he was out of a job teStl- 1 fled to witnessing the theft. ThOmp- son was fined S7 and costs and sen | fenced to thirty days in jail. He has | been playing the part of an unfortu- nate through the stores and saloons on South Main street.
 There will be a full rehearsal at City hall this evening of the whole program ! of the entertainment which Is to be | given by the Catholic Women'S aSso- ciation at the same hall on Sunday evening next. The rehearsal will be- gin promptly at s o'clock. This en- tertainment will be one of the princi- pal features of the celebration of St patrick'S day and undoubtedly there | will be q large attendance. The young ladies have worked hard and faithful ly 10 make the program an interesting one and the various scenes will be in teresting and novel.
 John T. Brophy and Michael Mur- phy, of the Murphy Bros. Bank street, have discovered a new fishing place, | which is evidently q piscatorial Eldo- rado. They were ''out'' yesterday in this newly discovered place and re turned with a catch that amazed all who saw it. It consisted of 125 of the finest piclerel that ever took a hook. The catch was considerably frightened while they were telling of their adventures in 2 ''place" on Bald win street but the fishermen had been so successful that they did not mind the good natured theft. When asked where the new fishing place is they replied, "Uh," and now everybody is wondering where on earth "Uh'' is. It was never heard of before. either in the fourth or fifth ward. There is q substantial belief that it is not far from a well known fish market on Baldwin street.
 A couple of persons came near being run over on the bridge that spans the Mad river on Washington avenue a quitting time last night. The stree was crowded with people hurryine home from work when a man accom- panied by a lady drove along Wash. ington avenue towards South Ma,r street behind a little white horse ani bounded onto the bridge with sucl speed that one or two persons got ou of the way on account of their re markable presence of mind. The mar in the team didn't seem to care |: picayune whether he had knocked them down or not, but pushed rgh
 ahead with all the speed his old nae 1 could muster up. This is not right
 Because a man has a horse to prope
 him to and from work is no reaso1
 why he should show such contemp
 for people who are obliged to walk
 Many shop hands who live on the out
 skirts drive in and leave their horse.
 standing in sheds until they ge
 through working. When the animal
 are hitched up and headed for hom, they do theirsprettiest for the first fivt
 or ten minutes, and in consequence
 pedestrians have to be on the alert tt
 keep out of their way. The poorer tn. 1 horse the faster he is allOwed-per
 haps we should have said compelled
 to go. so that one stands in more dan
 ger from the old skates" than he doe
 from real steppers. Those in chars,
 of the latter appear to realize that tn,
 man on foot has rights which they ar
 obliged to respect, while drivers of tn
 other class of horses act as if they be lieved that the earth belongs to then and their plugs" and that folks afoo
 are nothing short of trespassers upo, l their premises.