.‘ AN- OYSTER EXHIBIT. The fact that Connecticut is far ahead of any of her sister states in the Union in the cultivation of ovsters induced Superintendent W. H. Hills to secure an oyster exhibit prepared by David C . Sanford, the engineer of the shell fish commission, and it will be shown in the art room in the library in Bridge- port. . ‘ . Mr. Sanford has made alife long study of the oyster. He is familiar with all its habits and mode of living. He has advanced ideas which have been accepted by some of the. greatest sci- entists of modern times, and is regard- ed as an able authority on the succu- lent bivalve. SJ well known is he to the oystermen. of this country that when Dr. Esherberm of Germany came to this country a short time ago to ac- quire information on the subject, he. was told to come to Connecticut, and given a letter‘of introduction to Mr. Sanford. At one time Germany produced more oysters than any other country in the world. Gradually this industry fell off until now they produce less than any other country. The German govern- ment wishing to revive the oyster trade, sent Dr. Esherberm on a tour of investigation, and he has just concluded his studies in this state. The exhibit which can be seen in the library was prepared by Engineer Sanford at his request and will be taken abroad in December by that gentleman and ex- hibit in Germany during the winter. The various specimens are arranged in glass cases. Beginning with the spawn one week old, the exhibit shows the oyster at various ages up to five years. At the earliest period nothing can be seen but a mere speck of flint like substance. Even at this early age the oyster has a shell. It gradually increases in size until it is five weeks old when the second shell appears. At three months old the oyster is perfectly developed although small in size. There is a great difference between the cultivated land the uncultivated bi- valve. The former is of a scallop shell and is more marketable especially for foreign trade owing to the fact that they pack better than the natural oys- ter. The latter is long with no charac- teristics. Sometimes three or four will be found growing together. These can not be shipped any great distance ow- ing to the fact that they are apt to open their shells during the voyage and al; low the liquor to escape. Then they die. The cultivated oyster being smaller and rounder is wedged in with his ,fellows in a'-barreland.,caungtppen his shell. .. - ‘ There is a difference between the oys- ters grown on a mud bottom and those that breed on a sandy soil. The former stand upright on one end and will measure seven inches in length, while the hard soil oyster is compact, round and firm. The exhibit also shows the enemies of the oyster. The two principal ones are the star fish and the drill, a species of snail. The latter are armed at one point with a sharp end. They lie along side of an oyster and drill a small hole through which the heart of the oyster is extracted. The star fish is not equipped with the same weapons as the drill, but on the underside it has a number of small suckers, which force open the shell of the oyster. Then an acid is discharged which stupefies the bivalve and while in that condidion it is devoured. The star fish may be gotten rid of by a de-’ vice known as the mop dredge. It is somewhat like the ordinary dredge, ex- cept that wrapped around the iron bot- tom are strands of cotton waste which trail along and the young star fish catch in the fibres and are brought on board the oyster steamers. Tsen they are dropped in vats of boiling water and scalded. After this has been ac- complished they are dumped overboard again. . In one corner of the art room are three models of the boats that have been in use during the past twenty-five years for catching oysters. The first is“. a mere dugout, capable of containing“ 70 bushels of oysters. The second is a sharpie that will hold 200 bushels. The last is a model of the latest style of oys- ter steamer and will carry 2,300 bushels. The exhibit is a very interesting one. On the 14th of November it will close and on the 17th of the same month, Mr. Sinford will deliver a lecture on the oyster and the work of the shell fish commission. #‘ .f Old Norwalk’s Ohio Daughter. A special despatch from Canton to to-day’s New York Herald, says that “ New England and Norwalk, the new > England of the Western reserve. gave " the keynote to the day’s demonstration, and the women of the picturesque little transplanted Connecticut city in North- ern Ohio, and the members of'a Boston newspaper’s excursion from a half. dozen New England States, divided the honors of the day. , ‘ There have been many delegations- exclusively of women here this summer, but it remained for the .Ladies’ McKin- ley club, of Norwalk, to set an example of earnestness of purpose and intensity - - of zeal, that has not been exceeded here.” , Norwalli, Ohid, is a thrifty and stal- wart daughter of our own venerable, beautiful and much beloved, Nor-walk, DERAILED AT , 'NOR_W_A_L_K DRAW. Miraculous Escape of the Bos- ton Express, Early This _ Morning. nus cam shines sroon Winsorru. Automatic Switch Fortunately Throws the Train Off the Track—Big Engine Goes Down the Embankment at the Bear of The Olsen Store—Engineer and Fire- man lump for Their Lives—Who is to Blame for the Accident? A thrilling escape from arepetition of the Norwalk draw horror of forty odd years ago, was experiencedafew minutes after 12 Tuesday morning. Theftst- Boston express, leaving the Grand Central depot at eleven o’clock, last night and stopping at Stamford. who made up of engine, tender, baggage car, Adams Express car, smoker and three sleepers. The train pissed our szation at usual speed and the draw. had just been opened for a boat to pass through. open and the train was hurled on tothe siding constructed so as to derail it in a deep bed of sand and bring it to a stop. I In this case, so great was the Speed that the force of stopping the engine as it ground its way into the sand threw it and the tender down a 20-foot embank- ment, where it landed bottom side up The engineer,Patterson, and fireman, as they felt the engine topple over jumped off into the sand and saved their lives. The baggage and express car were also derailed but did not go down the embankment. The train separated from the above two cars and the passengers who got off to see what was the matter, at first could hardly realize the nature of the accident and many were the expressions of thankfulness that there had been no lOSl of life and a miraculous escape from the entire train plunging into the river, a disaster only averted by the sure working of the safeguard or auto- matic switch. The cars Ieftpn the track were taken to New Haven by the 12:03 a. m. train from New York, which is due at our depot at 1:11 and the through passen- -~gers dispatched to Boston. The wrecking train from New Haven got down here between two and three o’clock next morning in charge of su- perintendent of motive power J. W. Leary. Road Master F. R. Cotes of Stamford also came up and both of- ficials are actively superintending the raising of the overturned engine and tender, which it is expected willbe ac- complished within a few hours and without interruption of travel on the road. Night operator McCoy who was in the signal tower just east of the washing- ton street bridge, insists that he set his signals all right against this train, and the engineer is (qually positive that it was not. The fact that the bridge draw and the safety switch could not open without the propel: setting of the signal, renders it pretty certain that the engineer labors under the influence of a fatal error. The safety switch is located about fifty feet east of the signal tower and the engine and tender were overturned and buried in the sand some 75 feet fur- ther on and direct-1y iii the rear of Olsen’s shoe store on the south side of the high embankment. ‘ Petroleum . for tbc_ll_l_ll19$. Germs cause lung and throat diseases. Some germs are vegetable— “fungi.” Some are animal -— “ bacilli.” Neither kind can flourish if the system i; in perfect health. Healthy tissues resist disease germs. Unfortunately few people are perfectly healthy all the time. The days that find usalittle out of health are the days that disease germs obtain a lodgment, Nature t/zen needs kelp. Angler’s Petroleum Emulsion is that help. It is'an antiseptic—a purifier of dis- eased parts, an expeller of disease germs. It makes the tissues inhospitable and uninhabitable; the germs abandon their feeding ground, die, pass out of the system. That is one thing that Angler’s Petro- leum Emulsion does. . The other thing is that it rebuilds tlzose infected and diseased tissues. It soothes and heals the inflamed mucous membranes. It cleanses the congested parts of poisonous matter. - It is unequalled in the treatment of chronic coughs, consumption, bronchitis, and all weaknesses of the lung. It aids the enfeebled digestion. It corrects the perverted bowel action. It feeds the exhausted nerves. It makes new, sound flesh, revitalized and nourishing blood. It fattens. It does all t/zese things. Thousands of physicians prescribe it as a welcome substitute for Cod-Liver Oil. It is perfectly agreeable (0 take. It disturbs no function; it is as well adapted for the feeble invalid or delicate child as for the more robust. . It is a. wonderful remedy. It is medicines—it is food. . Druggists 50c. and 1.00. Pamphlet free. Angler Chemical Company, Boston. ’ ‘ This Sct the automatic safety sw1tch . 'ered that his train had been switched, Connecticut. w in E if by -- ‘N o R w A L K A singular fact was that the Conduc- tor and most of the passengers scarcely felt a jar and Were notavareljof the startling nature of the accident for more than a minute afteyt'he engine had rolled down the sandibank. , Said J. E. Dennis of New Haven, 9. passenger: “I‘his miraculous escape speaks volumes for the block signal system in vogue on the Consolidated railroad. If the system had not been in perfect working order last nightI believe there would have been a ter- rible disaster. When the train stopped none of the passengers realized the danger they had escaped. Nearly all of the passengers in the sleepers slept on and some of them will probably not know there was an accident until tney reach Boston. There was scarcely a jar.” Another passenger on the wrecked train said this morning: “It was a miraculous escape. The throwing of that train on the siding shows the perfect system of the road at this point. If it hadn’t been for the perfect working of that automatic de- vice, there might have been an awful railroad fatality. You remember this is the very spot where many years ago, I think in 1854, a railroad train plunged into the river and I think 45 persons. were killed- I understand the signalst were set against the engineer, warning him that the draw was open, and to bring his train to a stop. But they say he did not see the signals and ran by them. “At this late hour I write to testify of the efficiency and perfect manage- ment of the Consolidated railroad. Such an accident could not have hap- pened on hardly any other railroad in this country without being attended with disastrous results.” “I consider the lives of the passen- gers on this train were saved by the prompt action of the engineer, George Patterson, who, as soon as he discov- put on the air brakes and brought the train to a standstill. The momentum of the train threw the engine and bag“ gage car ofi‘ the track. The engineer, with rare presence of mind, opened his air valve and stood at his post while the engine plunged down the embankment. His fireman, Edward Kenyon, stood manfully with him. “Had the engineer not' performed this heroic act all of the cars would have gone down the embankment. . ._ While men were engaged in cutting down some trees on West Main street yesterday afternoon a branch struck a wire which caused the fire alarm bell to ring several times. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Mallory, 'have . I]. FOUND “Ell u, BED. Norwalk people were greatly sur- prised at an early hour Wednesday to learn of the sudden death of William H. Seymour at his home,corner‘*of Main and West Main'streets. The deceased was a tinsmith by trade and was employed by F. J. Curtis & Co. He was at Work yesterday and left for home last evening in apparently his usual health. Reaching home he ate his supper and sat talking with his family for a while after which he retired, but making no complaint of feeling ill. This morning his wife arose as is her custom. at an early hour, and prepared breakfast. As ~Mr. Seymour did not come down stairs Mrs. Seymour went to the room and found her husband as supposed, asleep. This surprised her and she stepped to the bed and tried to arouse him and was horrified to find that he was dead. ‘ Other members of the family were aroused and Dr. S. H. Huntington was summoned who quickly saw that th man was beyond all human aid and ex- pressed it as his Opinion that he had been dead for an hour or more. Coroner Burke was summoned and rendered a verdict of death from apoplexy. I The deceased leaves a wife and one son. and was in the 80th year of his age. He Was born in Meriden where he learned the trade of a tinsmith, and came from that place to Norwalk in 1845 to meet “Lock” Hyatt and go with him to Washington, N. C. He met Hyatt at the tin store of S. & L. Curtis, but for some reason did not go south, James Collins, then an apprentice at Curtis’ going in his stead. He then engaged to work for the Cortises and has remaine d in the em- ploy of the firm ever since, and during its several changes, with the exception of about three months iii 1843 when he was at work for Lockwood & Haight, thus making an almost continuous em- ployment with one concern for over fifty years. Mr. Seymour was a member of Our Brothers’ Lodge. He never sought public office and never allowed offices to be forced upon him. In his demise the town of Norwalk loses an old and respected citizen. It is remarked that on the day of his arrival in town there was general train- ing on a large vacant lot now covered by the Wheeler straw factory and scores of dwellings. A7 The election returns will be received at Buckingham Post headquarters Tues- been spending a few days in town. day night. .Catarr 11‘“ . How many people in this climate are wholly free from Catarrh? Not a great many, indeed. _ Now, if you happen to have a bottle of that l’l’llneral water you have probably heard of,— l A In IA-NAT.L'J.B le just give it a fair trial. stamps to pay postage ; it is a Specific is a good thing to have in the house. THE YPSILANTI SPECIFIC CO.__.__—" WFor Sale by EDWARD P. WEED, Druggist, Norwalk. ‘ N We can’t tell you here how to use it, but: our Home Treatment Boo/t: tells; send 10 cents in NERTAI— wfi'ifi" good investment. Ypsilanti BOSTON, MASS. The PREPARATIONS F0 R Creat . or November 3are alre PRESIDENT uyiggn STATES Is to be Elected, and the ..THE.. 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A New THE ‘. Weekly 1 Tribune. ' ltural De artment. Market Agricu Faghion Plates with Comic Pictures. , make up an ideal New York Weekly Tribune CASH IN The Norwalk Fire Illtlllaltfl Ci Has now Completed ts _ 32d SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR, And has not_ outstanding a dollar of unpai losses or claims for losses. No sound com puny insures for less _ A. G. McIlwaine. Pres..G. B. St. J ohn.Vice-Pre ‘ F, E. Shaw, Sec. Geo. B. Cowles. Resident Sec b o exerts a. A meniscus One of the most skillfully planned jail escapes on record in White Plains was effected Tuesday evening when Jacques or James, one of the men con- cerned in the murder of Walker B. Adams at Bedford Station on August 20, made his way to freedom. Jacques was the man shot by William Adams. The bullet from the rifle pene- trated his lungs. He had partly recov- ered, but was allowed to remain separa ted from the rest of the prisoners be- cause of his weak condition, He was not locked up in the men’s part of the jail, but had a cell in the women’s de- partment. This is not as strong or secure as the other wing, and he also escaped constant observation by the other prisoners. The doctors have thought for some time that he was much better than he pretended to be, but he protested that he was Still very ill. His actions last evening prove that he was much better than he seemed, and that he carefully planned his escape. He had outside help, and the moment he was free from the jail he was hustled into a buggy and driven rapidly away: He had about ten minutes’ start .of tie authorities, and appears to have made good use of it. _ The escape was o irried out probably about 6 o’clock. Jacques,it appears,had in some manner become possessed of tools, with which he sawed the window bars of his cell. .How he did this is un- certain. He removed the bars by sev- ering the small thread which still held them. Then it was an easy drop to the ground, and he was away. Toe buggy was waiting for him close to the jail, and he was into it and started on his flight before even the escape was sus- pected. Keeper’ R vbbins is on duty during the day in the partof the jail where the escaped murderer was confined. In the evening Keeper Breeze is on duty. Robbins went off duty at 5:25 p. mu leaving the prisoner alone. The night guard did not enter the section until between 6:20 and 6:30. During the in. terval the prisoner had made good his escape. ' There is absolutely no clew as to which direction the wagon with the escaped prisoner in it had taken. It is generally believed that it was driven straight across the country into Con- necticut. The driver, however, may have taken any one of a number of other routes. Jacques formerly lived in Oak street, New York, and was under indictment for'murder in the first degree. He was considereda desperate man. As soon as the escape was discovered, every place in the county and the police of New York city were notified .of.,the affair, and the authorities asked to be on the lookout for the escaped man. Jacques is about forty-five years old. He has a light complexion, light mne- tache and wore a gray suit of clothes. He is about five feet seven inches in height. The crime for which the escaped prisoner was held occurredlearly on the morning of Aug. 20 last. William Adams and his father, Walker B. Adams, kept a store at Bedford Station Shortly after midnight the burglar alarm sounded and the two started for the store. As the elder man reached the rear he was shot down by one of four burglars. William Adams wound- ed three of the burglars, and one ”es- caped unharmed. Jacques and John Jenkins were un- able to escape owing to their wounds. They were found bleeding near the scene of the tragedy and transferred to the lockup at Mount Kisco. Four days later Jenkins died. The day be- fore Jenkins’ death John Clare,another of the burglars, the third wounded by Adams, died in a Brooklyn hospital from the result of his wound. He had reached Brooklyn in safety, and sought aid in the hospital. J acqueslin gered for several days,with the chances against his recovery, but he finally survived and was taken to the jail at White Plains for greater security. A Suggestion for Biéyclists. Out at the Minnesota Transfer Col. Lander was located some weeks ago, a gentleman much interested in the cat- tle business, and a ranchman of many year’s experience. He was much dis- gusted‘qvith the way the dogs in the .vicinity barked and jumped at him as hearode along'on his wheel or pony, so not'long ago he determined to put a stop‘to the annoyance. He is as ex— pert a. lassoistas can be found in the cattle regions, so he got into the habit 'of carrying his lariat with him. The instant a dog would start out from some lawn with a bark in his mouth and a savage look in his eye, and an ugly, carnivorous wrinkle around his nose, the Colonel would calmly raise himself in his saddle and lasso the cur. Then he would pull a taut rope, and off he would go, drag— ging the dog after him to a private burying ground which he has estab- lished. at the Transfer. There’s a sug- gestion here for the dog catcher. _0bdurate. "Have you any objection to my marrying your daughter?” “None whatever.” _“But I cannot live without her.” However, the old man was obdu- rate, and the youth had no hope left wed him despite her father’s oppo- sition—Detroit Tribune. — “_~ A STORY or STEWART. ' MURAT HALSTEAD RELATES HOW HE AVOIDED A LIBEL SUIT. The Millionaire Invited Him to Dinner 3‘ the Marble Mansion, and Advised Him ' to “ Say a Good Word fora Poor Devil” as Often as Possible. . Murat Halstead writes in the New York Sun concerning an unwarranted libel which was published against A. T. Stewart in‘the Cincinnati Com- mercial while Halstead was its editor. The story came from a. New York correspondent, and was printed dur- ing Hnlstead’s absence. It was a ma- licious lie. as the editor knew as soon as he saw it, but explanations and re fractions were unavailing in appeas- ing Mr. Stewart’s wrath. “My next errand,” writes Halstead. “upon my next visit to New York. was to call upon Judge Hilton. He was courteous, and asked me to take a chair. I said: ‘You are Mr. Stew- art’s legal adviser, are you not?’ The answer was in the affirmative, and I hastened to say that when I was in New York a few weeks before Mr Stewart had sought to find me, and had been unable to do so. Of course, his lawyer knew What the case was. I need not go into that. I wanted it settled, particularly did not want to be sought and not found. I would be in New York five days, was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, breakfasted a: 9 and dined at 5:30. The Judge smiled grimly and looked at his watch It was quarter after eleven. He said: ‘Will you call again about 1 o’clock —any time from 1 to 2?’ I made the engagement, and was on time. The Judge picked up his hat, and said: ‘Mr. Stewart wishes to see you, and we will walk over at once.’ Judge Hilton’s office was just across the corner of the City Hall Park from unless he could induce his beloved to Stewart’s Chambers street store. I said to the Judge I did not wish to go and be scolded by Mr. Stewart, and instructed about the crimes of newspapers, and Judge Hilton said: ‘Mr. Stewart does not wish to see you . for that purpose. He wants to be ac- quainted with you. He is pleased ,because you called in such a way. If you had known him all your life, and played to get his good opinion, you. could not have done it better.’ “In two minutes we were passing in the central room of three partitioned off from the main body of the Cham- bers street store. . ’ “Mr. Stewart. with a brief smile that was not all a smile, said: “ ‘You Western editors deal terribly with us here, it seems, sometimes, and I cannot but wonder why I should be personally maligned and assailed. I do not know what I have done to pro- voke it. Can you tell me how to ac- count for it? I am gratified that you have come. It was what. I did not expect, but why am I an object of such strange interest to newspapers in the distance? I answered: ‘Mr. Stewart, the fact I believe is that the public are interested because you are reserved, and the writers of the let- ters full of gossip about you have no idea that they are striking a private citizen. They look upon you not as a person, but an institution, and they have no more notion of slandering you and hurting. a man’s feelings than they would have of being offensive to the City Hall here in objecting to its architecture.’ “Mr. Stewart said that was a new view of the matter, and he could not consent to it. ‘I am a private per- son,’ he said, ‘and they publish these unaccountable things, utterly remote, from truth, as there are many who know it, as Judge Hilton knows. How such things go about, and are fitted to such special occasions, and find‘ ways into newspapers, I cannot understand. Now the story that was printedin St. Louis and Cincinnati was a total surprise. I cannot imag- ine its origin.’ “Judge Hilton laughed, and said it ‘had no origin,’ and the subject was passed. Mr. Stewart asked in a kind? Iy way several personal questions, and then whether I would be in the city over the following Sunday. “ ‘I do not want to" put you in jail,’ said he. ‘I want you to dine with me,’ and when I said my engagements took me out of town on Saturday he said: ‘Then remember that'I want you to dine with me when you come again.’ I give a dinner at my house every Sunday evening at 7 o’clock, and when you are in New York on Sunday send me your card the day before, and dine with me.’ “As I was going be came up to me quickly and put the fingers of his right hand on my right shoulder, and said impressively: .“ ‘I want you to believe—and 1 would that all who know me or care to hear of me should know that which I now say—that I have reached that time in life and that accumulation of fortune. that I care far more for the good opinion of people than for all the money I can make. I am a much older man than yourself, and you will allow me for that reason and by reason of the circumstances that bring us together, to give you—as you are in a position from .which your words go a long way—to give you a few words of advice: Have a. care . how you use your power, and say .a good word for a poor devil as often as you can.’ “I accepted Mr. Stewart’s invitation to dinner, and repeatedly dined with him in his marble home. He was .a gracious host, plain, neat, simple in manner, with a voice that always was composed.” _ He Had Them. “Have you get low shoes?” inquired the customer of the new clerk. “Yes, sir,” replied the clerk; “.wc marked the entire stock down yester- . . day.”—Trenton State Gazette.
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