/ D A I L Y - N O R w A L K - .G AZ EITIIT E. One Cent. ~One Cnet. Absolutely Independent. TUESDAY, JANUARY 13. 1891. TELEPH ON I NG EXTRA ORDINAR 1'. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Clemens on Sunday heard a sermon by telephone at their home in Hartford, delivered by Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, at the Park Church in Elmira, N. Y. , who preached on the life of Mrs. Olivia Langdon, the mother of Mrs. Clemens. The receiver of the long distance telephone was placed on the pulpit, hidden by a bank of flowers. The sermon was plainly heard, although it passed over the line by way of Syracuse, Albany and Springfield, 3. distance of about 450 miles. In the evening a number of Mr. Beecher’s friends in Buffalo, heard his sermon in the same way. SISTER PARSJNS LIKES Us. Our good friend Sister Parsons, of Winsted, editress of the Mayflower, a bright but flighty periodical, devoted to Women’s Rights and the Prohibi- tion cause, gives the DAILY GAZETTE a cordial welcome and an approving smile, in the following characteristic letter: EDITOR GAZETTE :——We are glad you've started out with a daily filled with so much vim. Yes, of course you will succeed; can’t help it; never fear, if you do as you talk, you Will not want for support. We have here in Wmsted a daily and we are real lonesome on the days when it does ,not come. We are a very busy people; we have no time to run to our neighbors to get the news, but we know that Just before dark the newsboy will throw into our door the fresh daily. The City daily does not tell us “our Winsted home and about town news.” 'Glad that you are not one-sided, but W111 let all tell their story. As a daily is read by all classes, all should have a hearing in its columns. We are acquainted - with papers that on one taking them up and knowing nothing about politics, would think that there was not, and never had'been, but one party, and that was the one they belonged to, “the Repub-. lican party,” but we know that we all want to be good Samaritans, and not pass by on the other side, but we Pro- hibitionists ,will stop and pick up the wounded'men. - ;;-'-"+__«.. Yours M. A. P. West;Winsted, Conn. 00. : masons. AND COMMERCIAL M Quotations of the New York Stock ‘ ' Exchange. F NI! Your, Jan. 12.—Money on call loaned at usy rates—viz, 3@4 per cent. Exchange firm; W rates, 84.83%@4.87; actual rates, 84.82%@ 4.88 for sixty days, and [email protected]}fi for demand. Governments steady; currency, 65, 109 bid: 4s, coupon, 120 bid; 4353, do., 1039.1 bid. The stock market was very active this morn- ing. Business was on a larger scale than on any morning for months, 218,000 shares having been sold up to midday. At the opening there was great activity, and dealings were attended with much excitement. The Sugar trust was the great Ieature. Its first sale was at an advance of 3% per cent. over its final price of Saturday. The dealings in it were enormous, and its price ad- vanced at the rate of 1 per cent. on each sale un- til it finally reached 81% against 70% Saturday. There was of course considerable feverishness in connection with the dealings. and its price re- acted to 78%, in which neighborhood it was main- tained during the hour. The general list, while sharing in the early strength and activity, was somewhat irregular in the latter part of the first hour. Missouri Pacific was strong, advancing M. Northern Pacific and Chicago Gas were also act- ive and strong, and each advanced 1 per cent. With the exception of the speculatives named the net result'of the first hour‘s trading was to leave figures slightly lower for the general list. The market was less active in the hour to noon. The Villards and Grangers were the features of the second hour. Prices were stronger, however, although still feverish. Sugar advanced 1%, and the general list made slight fractional gains. At the close the market was dull, but firm. Closing prices: U. S. Express...... 69 Del., L. & West...137£~§ C., C., C. & I ....... 62% Erie ............... 20% N. Y. Central. . . . . .103}§ Lake Shore ........ 107% Illinois Central . . . .100 Northwest . ....... 106% Northern Pacific... 27% Do. pref ........... 137 Do. pref ........... 69% Pacific Mail ....... 34% Central Pacific ..... 30 Reading ....... 33% Union Pacific ...... 46% St. Paul ........ .. . Missouri Pacific 6554 Wabash ............ 10 Texas Pacific ...... 15% Bur. & Quincy.... 92 Altondc T. H ...... 29 Ore. R’y & Nav... 81% Canada Southern. . 49% Ore. & Trans ...... — Canada Pacific 74% Rich. &. Terminal“ 17% N Y. & N E ....... 36% Sugar Trust' ....... 78 General Markets. NEW YORK, Jan. m—FLOUE—Dull, but steady; Minnesota extra, [email protected]; fine, [email protected]; superfine, [email protected]; city mill extras, [email protected] for West Indies. WHEAT—Opened firm at $40. advance, further improved Me, then yielded under free sales and declined 15c. At noon the market was weak; receipts, 6,600 bushels; shipments, 15,896 bushels; No. 2 mixed, $1.05}§@1.06 cash; do., January, 31.03%; do., May, 81.04%; do., July, 99% . CORN—Opened firm at %c. advance, and fur. ther improved Me. This was followed byade- cline of lgfic. At midday the market was weak; receipts, 93,600 bushels; shipments,,_1,440 bushels; No. 2 mixed, male. cash; do., January, «Ma; do., May, 60%. OATS—Dull; mceipts, 133.0(1) bushels: ship- ments, 1,000 bushels; No. 2 mixed, 51%@52c. cash: do., January, 51%: do., May, 5550. PORK—Dull; mess, sums for new. LARD—Quiet: January, $6.20; May, $6.55. MOLASSES—Dull; New Orleans, 18am. TURPENTINE—Quiet and firm at 390400. ROSIN—Quiet; strained to good, [email protected]. 3;;REIGHTS—Dull; grain to Liverpool, steam, BUTTER—Quiet, but firm; western creamery, fancy, 28c. CHEESE—Firm; western fiat, WW. , EGGS—Quiet. but steady; state, fresh, new 28a; western, do., 265027;; ' SUGAR-Refined quiet; cut loaf and crushedl 6360-: granulated, 6 tit-1%.; mold A, 6c. TALLO W—Firm, but quiep; mime city, me, 00F£EE- Spot lots steady; fair Rio card goes, c. Money Packages Stolen. JACKSONVILLE, Illa, Jan. 13,—During the temporary absence of its agent the ofiice of the Pacific Express company at this place was broken into by burglars and ten or. twelve money packages carried away. As they were transfer packages, and the way bills were also stolen, it was impossible to state the amount of money secured. There is no clew to the perpe- trators as yet. Ofiicers, of the company are in the city investigating the matter. The Roberts Iron Works in Ruins. CAMBnmenronr, Mass, Jan.‘ 14.—Fire was discovered at 5:35 Monday morning in the Roberts Iron works, one of the finest plants of that kind in New England. Be- fore the firemen could get down to work, . the whole building was enveloped in flames and was soon destroyed. The fine engines, boilers, etc., were a mass of twist- ed iron. The loss will reach $75,000. IWNIINGIINNHNNS The Subsidy and Anti-Subsidy Lob- bies Exchange Compliments. BRIBERY REGRIMINATION S. Each Side Openly Making Charges Against the Other, but Both Wax Prosperous. Carlisle Doesn’t Read the Papers. Senator Hearst Improving. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-—The fight on the subsidy bill has reached its height in the largest lobby that has been seen here for years swarming about. the Capitol. The members of the j subsidy lobby, who have been pretty roughly handled by the press, are now charging that there is also as strong a lobby as themselves employed by those interested in, free ships to fight the bill. Each is openly charging the other with bribery. This bill will be disposed of, one way or another, on Tuesday, which fact will be greatly lamented by the proprietors of the leading public resorts, for the lobbyists have been living high, and. champagne has flewed as freely as water, while can- vasback ducks have been as common an article of food as bacon is among the col- ored population. It is also a notable fact that since the bill has been up some of the old time lobbyists that for a year or more have presented a seedy appearance have blossomed out in fashionable attire. Carlisle Surprised. Some of the ablest and most conspicuous members of congress seldom read the daily newspapers, and there seems to be a mys- tery' as to how they keep up with the times. It is often said by those who are acquainted with Senator Carlisle that his knowledge comes from inspiration instead of from reading. Your correspondent heard 8. Ken- tucky congressman. Monday say that he visited Mr. Carlisle’s house Sunday night, and referred to the fact that the Kentucky Democracy had selected Col. Henry Wat- terson to represent them on the national committee. Senator Carlisle expressed surprise at hearing this, and asked whose place Mr. Watterson had taken. He was told that he had taken the place of Col. McHenry. Then the senator asked what had become of McHenry, who was one of the leading men of his party in the “Bluegrass” state. “Why, he is dead, and all the papers had a long account of his demise,” said the congressman. “Oh, Senator Carlisle never reads the newspapers, you know,” spoke up Mrs. Carlisle. ‘ Personal Chat. There are a. large number of visitors at present in this city, and none of them is attracting more attention than the bright young journalist Arthur Brisbane, the editor of The New York Evening Sun. Mr. Brisbane is a favorite with all the leaders of society here. It is stated by some of his friends that the announcement of his marriage to the daughter of one of the wealthiest and best known citizens in Chicago will soon be made public. . The young lady is at present visiting in the city. Members of Senator Hearst’s family re- ported the senator’s condition Monday much improved. On Sunday the senator partook of solid nourishment with relish. The Growing Treasury Surplus. Secretary Windom is authority for the statement that the growing treasury sur- plus cannot now be used in the purchase of 4 per cent. bonds, for the reason that it will be needed to meet pension payments due next month aggregating $25,000,000. The available cash surplus is now $18,000,- 000, but by continued excess of receipts over expenditures it will probably reach the required amount bythe time indicated. The secretary is of opinion that the busi- ness of the country would be improved by making these pension payments monthly instead of quarterly, as at present, and he has made a. recommendation to that effect to the proper congressional committees. Ii this is done, he says, it will do away with the necessity of keeping a large sum oi money in the treasury vaults for three months, when it might just as well be in the hands of the people entitled to it. Commander Reiter’s Case. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—The case of Com- mander Reiter is now in the hands of Sec- retary Tracy officially. It excites much interest in naval circles because of the pe- culiar circumstances surrounding it, and the anomalous position it occupies. ' Secretary Tracy reprimanded Command- er Reiter for his action, or lack of action, in the Barrundia affair, and now Com- mander Reiter demands a. court martial to determine whether his conduct was not proper. It is said at the navy department that a court martial will probably be ac- corded him. - In that case, if the court martial justi- fies Commander Reiter in his conduct in the Barrundia affair, it will by implica- tion censure Secretary Tracy for having reprimanded the officer when he should not have been reprimanded. 0n the other hand, if it condemns Com- mander Reiter, it will be adding a punish- ment as well as approving the reprimand, and whatever the conclusion of the court, the reprimand of Secretary Tracy, as the official head of the navy, will stand as the official utterance of the navy department as to Commander Reiter’s conduct. Quay’s Substitute Elections Bill. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—~Mr. Quay intro- duced in the senate a substitute to the federal elections bill Monday. The prin- cipal point of difierence is in the last sec- tion' of the bill, which is as follows: When it shall appear to the satisfaction of the president of the United States that (in any locality) the provisions of this law cannot otherwise be executed, it shall be his duty and he is hereby empowered to suspend there the writ of habeas corpus, and to employ the armed forces of the United States, naval and military, for its enforce- ment, and for the protection of the officers whose duties are herein provided for. ' Mutinied on Shipboard. NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—The steamer Yuca- tan, of the New York and Cuba line, ar. rived here today from Havana with seven of the crew of the American bark Matan. zas, who mutinied while the vessel was at Matanzas taking in a lead of sugar. The mutineers were taken charge of by the United States authorities. Two of Her Crew Lest. GLOUCESTER, M ass, Jan. 13.-~The schoon- er Monitor, from the Banks, reports that the lWhooner Nellie G. Thurston lost twc Of her crew by the cupsizing of a dory. \ x I. THE NICARAGUA CANAL.» It Will Be One of the Nineteenth Cont. ury's Greatest Achievements. NEwYom-z. Jan. 13.—The secretary of the Nicaragua Final Constructioncompany, at No. 44 “fall street, has prepared an' ac count of the explorations and surveys for the canal from 1502 to the present time, together with a statement showing the re- lations thereto of the government of the United States. He says: Extensive machine shops are in process of construction and erection at Greytown for the use of the company and for the re- pairs of its dredging plant and for railroad work. The company has now in its em- ploy about 1,000 men. It appears that al- ready between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 have been expended in and about the prosecut tion of this gigantic enterprise, and it would seem unreasonable to expect con- gress-. to consider for a moment a. proposi- tion to destroy or cripple an enterprise of such magnitude, which had been given ex- istence so. recently under authority 01 law and under the express sanction and approbation of a governmeut of more than 60,000,000 of people except for most con- vincing reason. This enterprise, if successfully consum- mated, as» we have every reason to be- lieve it will be, will constitute one of the greatest achievements of the N ineteeutl: century. The committee deem it but fail to an enterprise of such magnitude that it should be given a reasonable time to dem- onstrate that those who have undertaken ii are prosecuting the same in good faith, and that in their early movements they ought not to be hampered by captions and carping critics. If prosecuted in earnest the enterprise is entitled to the encourage ment of the government, and those who have embarked capital and labor in it are entitled to the opportunity to demonstrate their good faith or the reverse. Sprinkled with Kerosene. JERSEY CITY, Jan. l3.—Fire was discov- ered on the premises occupied by the Flor- ence mission, at 72 Morris street, which was extinguished by engine company No. 2 without an alarm, and before the flames had gained much headway. Chief arrier made an investigation, and found t 'at the fire was of incendiary origin, kerosene oil having been sprinkled upon the floor occu- pied by the Mission society. The floor over the mission room is occupied asaliving room by Roman Gevinski, and the base- ment floor by him as a. butcher shop, on which there is an insurance of $500. Ge- vinski, aged 47, and his son Henry, aged 17 years, were arrested on a charge 01 arson, and Justice Stilsing committed them for examination. Bogus Divorcer Hughes Pleads Guilty. NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-—The sharp practi- tioners, Messrs. William Duryea Hughes and William H. Buttner, whose exploits in divorcing people have made them notori- one within the past few weeks, were taken before Recorder Smythe in the general sessions Monday. There was no ceremony in placing either of the disgraced lawyers before the bar. Hughes pleaded guilty tc the charge of procuring a fraudulent di- vorce. He was remanded for sentence. Buttner asked for a. further continuance. He is under tWO indictments. To one of these he has pleaded not guilty, and he is still considering how he shall plead to the other. He was granted until Wednesday. ’Frisco's Cathedral Dedicated. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13. —St. Mary’s ca thedral, the largest and finest church edi- fice On the Pacific coast, was dedicated Sunday. .It took several years to complete the structure. The building cost $00,000. The sermon at high mass was preached by Bishop J. L. Spaulding, of Peoria, and Archbishop Gross preached in the even- ing. The dedication was celebrated by Archbishop Riordan. Many prominent state and municipal officials were present, as well as Catholic clergymen from all parts of the Pacific coast. ' A Double Tragedy. ST. LOUIS, Jan. Iii—Frank F. Mitchell, a well known race horse gambler, shot and instantly killed Dolly Mayo shortly before 2 o’clock Monday morning. He then fired a bullet into his own brain and died a few minutes afterward. Mitchell had quarreled with the girl. Her real name is said to be Sallie Hendrickson, and she is said to be a daughter of respectable parents living at Pittsburg, Pa. Mitchell hailed from Cincinnati, where his family now resides. Wrongfully Charged with Arson. SEYMOUR, Conn., Jan. 13.~—Jacob Idle- stein has brought suit against Sharon S. Beach, claiming that his reputation has been damaged to the extent of @300. Idlestein rented a store of Beach and short- ly- afterward the building was burned. Beach charged Idlestein with arson, and the latter was held in jail pending trial when the case was nolled. Idlestein claims that the unsustained charge has damaged his business standing. Didn’t Mind 3 Little Thing Like That. WHEELING, W. Va, Jan. 13.—A case which has puzzled the physicians is re ported from Stonington, W. Va. In a sa- loon fight Henry Plankenship was struck on the head with an ax, and a piece of skull, described as being “as large as a man’s hand,” with a. quantity of brains, were cut ofl? and fell to the floor. Physi- cians said death would result in a few minutes, but it didn’t, and the patient is improving. Attacked by Hungry Wolves. . WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 13.-Wolves are in- vading the western border counties of Kansas in great packs in search of food. Ashort distance from Liberal yesterday Mrs. Garvey and her child were attacked by a pack of wolves a few steps from their home, and while the wbman escaped with but slight injuries the child was carried some distance and mangled so horribly that it cannot recover. Tied Hand and Foot and Robbed. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Jan. 13.—At an early hour Monday the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy depot was robbed, the operator being tied hand and foot. About $50 in money, numerous tickets and the teleg- rapher’s watch were taken. The robber afterward stole a. horse from a neighbor- ing stable and escaped. . - Seals in New York Harbor. NEW YORK, Jan. lit—Within the last two weeks a. large number of seals have been seen in and around the harbor dis- porting themselves. The boatmcn at the Battery say that when it is a cold winter the seals always make their appearance in the bay, but rarely until ice appears. Thirty Horses Burned to Death. CHICAGO, Jan. .13.—The stables of the French Amusement company, a traveling circus located at 1620 State street, caught fire'Monday morning and burned, entail- ing a loss of $40,000. About thirty horses '. were burned to death. - ' I RWA u Weekly and Daily combined sent to subscribers every week $5.00 day in the year for Delivered by carriers in Norwalk, per week, Weekly, for 1891, wAll subscriptions strictly in advance. $1.50 __....._ M‘s-M. .. ._... .._.. ADVERTISING CHEAPER and More Cupies «Circulatcd 1 than any other Paper? — In IlaiI [III NI a Word. ’ ‘ Ur [IN Bill a Line eYea .4 Specials among Reading Matter 10 Cents a Line; sun wants AVERAGE A LINE.- ‘ u. , Plll . JOB PRINTING. . « The Gazette has Secured the I Best Job Printer A to Be Found and No One Can Surpass UsineDoing * First-Class Work. snuu. Norma-nn'rwnu lTTllllTlllN = um T0 10 cents ‘ e
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