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WITH OUR SOLDIERS.
AFTER A DRAWING BY W. A. ROGERS.
A CHRISTMAS—BOX IFIIO'M HOME. FRONT IIARPEII‘S \VEEKLY
Reproduced from Harper’s Weekly.
By Permission
Copyright, 1898, by Harper 6: Brothers
Sll Vigil.
Mrs. Nicola Passeo Adjuidged
Insane and Sent to the
Town Farm.
BECAME CANTANKEROUS.
At the Town Farm a woman who is
thought to be a raving maniac is mak-
ing things unpleasant for Superintend-
ant Hoyt and other inmates of the
house.
It will be remembered that on Fri-
day last. an Italian woman, accordingl
to a published statement,
speeding up Wilton avenue with a
thinly clad child in her arms and that
was 5001]
she was pursued oy a man who seem-
ingly had vengeance in his eye.
The woman got out of the man’s
reach by running" into the LLISCIIIC ni
theJa'nes Burns' residence and then
quickly made ier way to the attic
where, hire‘ging the child in her arur-=,
she onyx-trod :is if in terror. in a corner
of the building.
I’Ier jiiirsiier re:u::u:_:d to his home a.
short distance front the Burns house.
The woman was fill-s. Nicola I’assco,
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the wife of a \‘x'ilton
maker.
The woman managed to elude her
pursucr and escaped from the house»
and went with her child to the home of
Frank Leone on Marshall street, South
Norwalk. ' .
She and the child were, welcomed.
Inter, Mrs. Leone became alarmed at
the actions of her visitor, who, She was
under the II-lllI'CrSIUI‘l, had gone daft.
Dr. I ‘lirk Was summoned and after see-
ing Lil; wcman, pronounced her insane.
Chief-Vollmer was advised of. the sit-
uation and conferred with Town physi-
cian and Mayor-elect Coburn who ad-
vised that the wom in be placed. under
duress, but did not favor her commit-
ment to the station-house.
He suggested that some arrangement
be made with the selectmen for her
transfer to the Town Farm.
The suggestion was acted upon and
after considerable trouble the ‘ Chief
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succeeded in getting the now thorough-
’ 1y crazed woman to that institution».
The husband has chargeof the two
--.,,children.
BllllfllllllS IBUUI.
Thieves Loot Two Stamfor
Jewelry Stores, Sunday
Morning.
MUCHPLUNDER SECURED
STAMFORD, Dec. 19.—~Early Sunday
morning, burglars entered the jewel-
ry stores of Alexander Weed and Sigis-
mund Kronholtz, both located on Main
street, in the center of the city and
secured upwards of $1,500 worth of
booty in each placu. Entrance was
made by the rear. The goods taken
Were of a miscellaneous nature, includ-
ing watches, chains, charms, optical
goods and opera glasses.
At VVeed’s the door had been forced,
while at Kronholtz’s iron bars that
protected at rear window were forced
and the glass broken sufficiently to ad-
mit a person’s body.
The burglary at \Veed's store was
discovered Sunday morning. but. it was
not until afternoon that. it occurred to
the police that other st:_)re~: might have
been visited, and then the :;e.;.;;n<l hur-
glary bame to light.
Tue burglars had l’cltlffi'lfll a llllllt'l
of a door in “’0ch store. leading into
it hallway and it had the appearance
of being cut with 11.jackknife, which
would suggest the wort of amateurs,
while at Kronholtsz's burglzir's tools
were used. The, police thus 'l'arihuve
I o clue. ,
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A Suggestion.
Perhaps a suggestion to those who
propose giving stationery as a X’mas
present to a friend will not come amiss.
Dame Fashion says that the tiny me-
dallion monograms which for the past
two years have been the ultra. expres-
sion of fashionable taste are going out
and in their places a new caprice is in
favor. That is that the very latest sta-
tionery wrinkle does away with_the
monogram or crest, and calls for the
full name, without title, of her who
writes the letter, placed in the upper
left hand corner in old Roman letters}
,The style is very. attractive and looks
extremely well.
The Christmagfgitgl of the First.
Methodist church will be held Tuesday
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Christmas With Our Soldiers.
It is safe to say that Christmas day
of 1898 will be a st1ange and interest-
sing one to a few thousand American
volunteers who are stationed in Cuba,
3 Puerto Rico, or away across the Pacific
in the Philippines. Many of these s01-
diers and sailors will this year spend
i their first Christmas away from home;
,many of them heretofore have never
I been more than a hundred miles away
from their native town. Of course,
" tney may have a little twinge of home-
sickness. but the av‘era g‘e American
soldier in good health and spirits
doesn’t need much sympathy.
He is going to have a good time, and
is sure to celebrate Christmas in a fit-
ting and appropriate vay wherever he
is, in Ponce or Santiago or Manila. It
will be a novel and exciting day to
him, with much to attract and much to
interest. There will be cock-fights and
bull-fights and a thousand queer for-
eignfestivities. Incidentally, we may
rest assured that the American soldier
will contribute his share towards the
general enjoyments and introt 11cc some
striking features of his own invention.
But the Christmas season of 1898 will
find a great number of our soldiers and
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sailors on sick-beds in hot ind rocking
hospitals, and for these it .vill be a
long, homesick day. Our illustration,
taken ['2 02.1 the Christmas issue of liar-
per’s ‘~. ~cekly, shows one of our soldiers
in a imspitttl tent at Santiago, and if
tthhrisl in'zs hm; is nota home Ch rist-
mas dinner. it is the next thing to it.
iifidfidfi BLAZES. ‘-
A Match and a Kerosene Lamp Cause Two
Fires.
Corporal Ira Lockwood of Co. L, U.
S. V. at his home on Chestnut street,
Sunday afternoon, avm-ted what might
I have prom-d to. be a serious blaze. A
l lighted match was thrown on, the par-
l lor carpet. which set tire to the fringe
of a lounge and then communicated
with the curtains. A few pailsiof water
properly directed, extinguished the
blaze before any great amount of dam-
age had been done.
' A match which Mrs. C. A. Scofield
ofCamp'street, had used in lighting a.
lamp setfire to her dress, Friday night.
Mrs. Scofield escaped serious injury,
the flames being extinguished by her
husband who fortunately happened to
be present.’
The Christmas concert, and festive.
of the Swedish Congregational Sunday
school, will be held’next Sunday night
at 7 O’clock, at the church, in River-
side avenuc. An interesting pregram
I is being arranged for the occasion.
. sunwuu nus. '
James Green of Norfolk Got
in the Way and His.
Arm Broken.
TELLS HIS ,EXPERIENCE.
The following appearsin the Norfolk
correspondence of the VVinsted Citizen:
James Green, a veteran of the civil
war, was caught last week in a shower
of pigs and now carries a. broken right
rm in a sling as a result. Green is em-
ployed on a large dairy, farm between
‘ Canaan and Norfolk, and has charge of
fifty or sixty head of dairy cows.
Last Tuesday, as he was standing on
the main floor of the big cow barn, he
suddenly heard a soft, fat thud and
ooked up just in time to see a young
pig—or the remnants of a. young pig—
bound up from the floor.
Before he had time to move the per-
formance was repeated and another
promising hog was hurled into eternity
. without benefit of clergy. Green, how-
ever, had located the storm center by
this time and had discovered that it
was confined to the center of the barn
——the hay shoot, reaching up fully fifty
feet to the lofts, being the vortex
through which the meteoric porkers
were descending. '
“When I seed th’ third pig splash,”
says Green in describing the accident,
“I says t’ myself, ‘Green,’ I says,
‘there’s sumthin’ wrong with ’em pigs,’
an’ I starts over t’ find aout ‘what’s
.I end peer up t’ see for myself when
long cunis another; ’peured s’if he’d
jest throwed hisself at me, deliberate—
brushed my face’s he went by, and had
he put off his jump a second longer,
he’d struck me jest where he’d kal’lat-
all th" pork as is rightfully cumin’ tcw
me, and mebby I kin view this affair
full's well from some other standpoint
It don’t seem now's I loitered ’round
'deliberatin’ longer’n necessary, but th’
one as made the descend cum plumb
for me, and would have squashed all
over my face,if I hadn’t put up my arm
jest in time.
“I saved my face, but he broke my
arm. Hit me so hard I went down like
a steer and lay right at the mercy of
’em fallin’ pigs—exposed to th’ hull
storm. Two more come through an’
hit me on the way ’fore I could turn to
an’ crawl aout th’ way, but their blows
was glancin’ an’ only bruised me some.”
The pigs had climbed up the narrow
er, approaching too near the shoot, had
fallen through. The others,determined
that their leader should not enjoy the
sport alone, followed him as fast as they
could. Fifteen came through altogeth-
er and all were killed.
Green was in the battles of Antietam,
Shiloh, and was with Grant through
the \‘v’ilderncss. and he never received
a scratch.
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CIIRE‘fiClGIISiIC Acknowledgment of a Gift From
9. Soldiers’ Home Veteran.
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:\Ili:llitei .‘xlc.\iaboii of the Soldiers'
lionu: at Non-oton Heights recently
sent to (‘itizen ('1‘ col-ge- l\‘i-::n.:is Train 1t
cane. carved in symbolic manner by
.Iohn )vIcManus of the Home. The. late
Bcnjzuniri Fitch, founder of the Home,
had Inisix'iess relations with Citizen
Train in the days of the famous Amer-
ican clipper ship, and the latter w111
treasure the stick as a memento of his
old friend. Lie acknowledged the gift
_in the following characteristic note to
Mr. I\lc.\lahon, dated Mills Place Hotel,
New York, Dec. 1;}: .
Dear Citizen Michael McMahon:
How very odd that you should send
Lovely can-c (carved by McManus),
Where old soldiers cheer our banners
From Soldiers" Home, built by old
friend.
In eight. on him fired and fifty—three,
A " lmrque ” was sent by old friend
Filtrll, }
Cargo of " notions’; sent to me.
At Melbourne (in the Austraf Sea),
And profit helped to make him rich!
And now from his old Soldiers’ Home,
You send me soldiers’ souvenir,
For which I return good-Will cheer,
A cheer for each soldier alone.
Am writing now my autobiog,
Exposing the frauds of history,
Coloring tikuth’s’ psych1c-mystery,
And then out of Republic fog, . ' -
(Flood, fire, fraud, famine), still in
00.9.“
Debauching Christ_a:i .ty—
What will become u
throne ‘9
How sad your words, yo,
church and
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No wonder tears came to my eyes,
The “setting sun ” again will rise;
Rising or setting, new re shines, ’
(Re)creation, that never dies!
ailin’ ’em.an’was 'est gettin’over where '
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ed tew. Thinksey this is gettin’ ‘baout .
creeturs was t’ quick for me. The next
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INNIIIIIIIIMIIIS
0f County Receipts and Ex-
penditures for Next
Fiscal Year.
DAN BU RY COURT HOUSE
Will be Built Without Issuing Bonds, But With
. Slight Tax Increase.
The county commissioners have. pre—
pared their annual estimates of receipts
and expenditures of the county for the
next fiscal year. The estimated re-
ceipts are $91,600 and the expenses
$108,420. This deficiency is due to the
extra expense entailed by the building
of the new court house in Danbury.
The commissioners propose to build
this addition to the county property
without issuing bonds. The court
house will cost $45,000. Of this sum
the town of Danbury pays $10,000.
The balance will be met by increasing
the tax rate for this year one-tenth of
a mill, which will raise about $11,000.
The balance will be met by the surplus
which is always left by the ordinary
two-tenths of a mill tax.
The deficiency for this year will be
carried along by the commissioners
as a floating indebtedness to be taken
up as the surplus revenue will permit.
The commissioners expect to raise
the revenue from the following sources :
Tax of- three-tenths of a mill, $38,000;
from the state for board of prisoners,
$22,000; from the state for board of
children, $10,000; from liquor licenses,
$11,000; from labor of prisoner“, $1,200;
from the town of Danbury, $0,000; from
all other sources, $400; total, $91,600.
The expense side shows the following
demands: Jails, $27,775; court houses,
$23,645; county home, $12,000; Danbury
courthouse, $45,000; total, $108,42 .
Leaving out the extraordinary ex—
pense of $45,000 for the new court
house, the actual expense for the year
is estimated at $63,000, which is a lower
figure than during the present year.
These estimates w ill be mailed to
every representative and senator in
the county so that he may have a fair
opportunity to acquaint himself with
the figures before the annual meeting
for the laying of the tax, which will
be at Hartford some time in February.
Colfax Encampment, I. O. O. F.,
elected the following officers Monday
evening:
C. P.—George Tobey.
S. W.—-D. Burr Beach.
H. P.—-A. L. Benedict.
J. VV.——Frank Adams.
Scribe—John Batterson.
Treasurer—J. TV. Hoyt.
They will be installed January 16.
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There were 1,905 insane persons con-
fined to the Connecticut Hospital for
the Insane on the first day of this
month, adecrease of one during the
month of November. Thirty-two were
admitted, 11 died and 22 were dis-
charged last month.
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House Hot Houseand Bedding and ’ege-
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tended td. fi mgcemetery lots at
HENRY TILLY.
CARRIAGE MAKER,
SOUTH NORWALIL' 0
——Manufa.c ture rof—
Famlli Carriages. Ilclnl‘lfltBlIMifiS in
ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING.
Raymond &Son.
Successors to George H Raymond}
Furniture Dealers and
General Funeral Directors
46 and 48 hlaln St, Ilorwalli', 093m.
Residence, Berkelev Place.
telephone No. 77-4.
YOII KNOW
“A Good Thing” when you
see ilk—almost every one does.
The line of Suitings I am of-
fering for "
$6.00
and upwards are each and
every one a good thing. Just
a matter of choice for the dif-
ferent tastes. The assort—
ment includes all kinds, light
and dark-91 fine collection.
Pants, $3.50.
FRANK COCO,
36 Main St., Norwalk.
Cleaning, Repairing and Dyeing.
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