Daily Norwalk gazette and Saturday's Norwalk record, Friday, April 3, 1891 · page 1

 

 

 

 

 

“Equal and Exact Justice

to all Men of Whatever State or Pei'saasiOn, Religious Or P0litical.”—+Je19”ersmz

 

 

 

 

Vol. I, No. 72.

Norwalk, Conn., Friday Evening, April 3,1891.

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THE LIVE NEWS OF TO-DAY.

Cricket club meeting this evening in
the Y. M. C. A. parlors.

.Mr. Fred. Stanley is home from VVil-
liamstown for a few days.

A'large tree on. StgpflRock road was
blown down during the storm last night.

Repairs are being made at the rec-
tory of St. Paul’s church for the new
Rector.

Miss Mary Bissell of Pittsfield is
visiting, with her sister, at Mrs. C. C.
' Betts’s. _H__~_

Mr. George R. Cowles has been con-
fined to the house by an attack of la
grippe.

With cheap sugai in effect the Me-
Kinley law will have a fair inning with
the consumers.

Connecticut’s gubernatorial seal has
become every bit as annoying as the
Behring Sea seal.

 

A New York reporter has been as-
. .saulted for telling the truth about the
~Guttenberg races.

 

iEx-Mail Carrier, ' David Spicer, is
snoring into the upper part of William
isturge’s house On Step Rock road.

Vermont has appropriated $5,000 for
:1. World’s Fair exhibit. It will proba-
bly consist of a few jugs of maple sugar
sap.

Actor George Clark is building a tow-
or or lookout, ”on top of his “Clark’s
.Folly” house, on Prospect avenue, fac-
ing Long Island Sound.

Blackman has removed to the N or-
walk Club rooms over Fred. Mead’s and
is fitting up his picture gallery and re-
ception rooms in splendid style.

Norwalk ladies probably had receiv-
ed an inkling of what the weather was
to be, when they appointed Wednesday
night instead of last night for their ball.

The Rector-elect of St. Paul’s, Rev.
Mr. Graham, is the owner of a valuable
cow which is now up the Hudson river.
It is to be brought here this week.

Delinquent tax payers in the North
Center School district should hurry up
:as the time is fast approaching when
their property will be advertised for
sale. _. .. _____ _

“Spring, gentle spring” 1s here, but
lingering in the lap of winter, as the
snowy landscape to-day gives evidence
that she comes with slow and reluctant
step.

The children’s ofi'ering at St. Paul’s
on Easter afternoon at the exercises,
was $126. In addition to this is the val-
ue of their Lenten work done which is
marked at $75.

Conductor \Villiams’ entire family
have been prostrated with sickness, and
all confined to their beds at the same
time, threatened with fever, the
effects of bad sew e1 age. >

'The Greek play “ Antigone,” upon
which the ladies of New Haven have
expended six months’ careful study and
preparation, is ready and will be given
to- night at the Hyperion Theater.

The first concert and ball of the
N O1wa1k Hat Makers’ Association, to
be given at Music Hall, South Norwalk,
will occur Tuesday evening, April 7th.
'The tickets, admitting gentleman and
ladies, are $1, and preparations are be-
ing made to have the affair one of unu-
sual brilliancy.

Rev. Mr. Graham and wife are to be
present at the reception of the Ladies
of St. Paul’s Guild on Tuesday evening
next at the parish rooms. Cake, cream
and coffee, which are to be generously
donated, will in like manners be gen-
erously served on this occasion. We
bespeak a social and pleasant time.

v Children’s solid sch0o1 shoes 740 at
Hoyt’s. lt

- to retailers.

 

Miss Bessie Bates spent Easter with
her auntMrs. O. H. Jones, of Redding.

Mrs. Phebe Selleck has been visiting
her aunt Miss Polly Selleck of Bedding.

Misses May and Emily Jennings are
visiting at Mr. James D. J ennings’s on

Elm street.

Mr. W. Bates has received three or-
ders for headstones tO go to Newton.
One is of marble and two are of gran-
ite.

Our Grand Army boys are ready to
celebrate the 25th anniversary of the
Order next Monday evening with be-
coming ceremony.

R. L. Ells is still confined to his
house in consequence of the injury re-
cently received by slipping down on
the icy pavement, and he a profession-
al me man at that.

 

—Trout hooks, first quality,snelled, 300
pm dozen. Trout leaders, first quality,
30 feet, 100 each. Trout rods, Calcutta,
bamboo. jointed, 350 each, at Bay-
mond’s’ 4 Water street. 317*

—-“Ella” shoes sold only at Hoyt’s. 1t

Scheele, the murderer, is believed

by his attendant to be failing in
strength. “I believe,” he says, “that
Scheele will be dead before the date
set for his execution. ”

—Madame Forrest, Clairvoyant," has
arrived at 48 South Main street, South
Norwalk, where she can be consulted
on all affairs of life. She will astonish
you with her revelations. ltp.

Pitcher Sworbach, late of the Nor-
walks and Captain Jack James have
signed with the Russell, Birdsall and
Ward base ball nine of Port Chester,
New York, for the coming season.

——I. Hall, piano and furniture mover.
Office and residence 106 Main street.

It is said that not a few of the one
hundred people who went to the Opera
House last evening to see the “Out of
Sight” performance wished they had
been “out of sight” also.

—-The “Ella” Beats 1111 $2. shoes. 1t.

Those souvenir bells which were
cast at the Baltimore foundry out of
the metal of the centenarian First Con-
gregational church bell, are “now on
their way to Norwalk and their distri-
bution 1s awaited with more than ordi-
nary interest.

 

The Minnesota State Reformatory at
St. Cloud must be a good institution to
escape from, judging from the fact that
Chief DeForest has received another
circular giving the names of four “tick-
et of leave” men who recently departed
for “parts unknown.”

Stanley Macy, he of “Kindergarden”
fame, and late star with C. O. D., is
with the “Hearts of New York” com-
pany, which plays at the Opera House,
Monday evening, playing the part Of a
crafty eccentric lawyer. Macy is hav-
ing a new play written for himself.

—Don’t fail to hear Madame Con-
stance Howard in her Wagner Musical
Lectures at the Congregational Chapel.
the 7th, 10th and 14th, of April, at 2:30
and 8:00 p. m. Tickets for sale at Pin-
neo’s. 70-3t

Owing to lastnight’s storm, telephone
communication with Bridgeport. Dan-
bury and New Haven was totally sus-
pended. Only one line of telegraph
could be worked last night to Hartford
and but two lines to New York. It is
believed that regular communication
will be restored before night.

Representative Porter, of Pomfret,
says that whatever sneers may be made
against our legislature, at least it de-
serves credit for having so far avoided
any of those disgraceful episodes which
have lately occurred in a number of
the general assemblies of other states,
notably in New Hampshire, Colorado,
Arkansas, Kansas and West Virginia,
where from time to time profanity has
held high carnival and at times actual
personal contact has taken place.

 

In an old copy of the Norman; GA-
ZETTE dated May 10, 1831, we find the
following advertisement of a Brewery,
and we should be pleased if any of our

older citizens could inform us where.

the same was located :
BREWERY AT SAUGATUCK.

J. R. Pratt informs the public that he
has opened an establishment at the
above place for the manufacture and
sale of genuine English porter, ale and
table ale. The two former at 2 shillings
per gallon, and table ale which he par-
ticularly recommends for family use, at
one shilling. A11 allowance will be made
Good Hops wanted. Fire-
wood and any kind of farm produce
taken in payment at a fair price-~—
[Westporten '

 

 

WHAT MISS SPINSTER SAYS; '

That the members of the New Hamp-
shire legislature rose above party and
laid local option on the shelf. =

That the never-failing sign of spring,
the book-beer goat, has finally ventur-
ed to make its bow.

That New York’s Napoleon of finance
answers to the name of Silver. He
ought to be very popular in the West.

That with the prospect of a fine J er-
sey peach crop, and an extra large out-
put Of Georgia watermelons, it is hard
to understand where Gen. Butle1 finds
his war signs.

That notwithstanding the' fact that he
is handicapped by his old scandal, and
the indcrsement of Wales, Sir Charles
Dilke expressesg Great confidence in his
ability to find his way back into poli-
tics and society.

That the Morrison presidential boom
has been formally launched in the col-
umns of the Cincinnati Enquirer, its
editor having cracked the timid craft
over the bow with .a champagne inter.
view, as she slid gracefully down the
ways.

That the great Baptist University of
Chicago is to be ready for‘ the recep-
tion Of students on the let of October,
1892, by which time its endowmentwill
probably have reached $10,000, 000, to
which Mr. John D .Rockefeller alone has
already contributed $1,600,000. Al-
though owned and controlled by Bap-
tists, it will not confine itself to secta-
rian instruction, but will adopt the plan
of university extensmn and occupy a
broad educational basis.

That the n10narchical old dames of
Europe are cackling in an alarmed cho-
rus, berating gay Brother Jonathan at
great rate, .and warning their pretty
young colonial daughters against the
awful evils of flirting in an annexation
sort of way. But these are degenerate
days, and frisky maidens do not take as
kindly to the restraints .of the mater-
nal apron strings as they once did, pre-
ferring to do their conjugation think-
ing for themselves. ,_

That the condition of our roads is
fearful to Contemplate ‘ The main
thing is to secure something like
scientific knowledge in the construction
of the roads, and mixture of materials.
The vicious idea that anybody can
make a road by shoveling dirt into the
middle of it from the gutter, or hauling
it there by means of a scraper must be
abandoned at the outset. Until that is
done no reform will be possible.

That yachtmen will feel like taking a
reef in their trousers, now that the
names of their yachts have got to. be
painted only on the stern.

That Senator Seymour and family are
residents of East avenue now.

That the secret of success of popular
preachers is due in a measure to their
being finished actors.

That tobe prettily shod and nicely
gloved is the pride of every American
woman. '

That the chief inspiration of the great
painters has come from the Christian
religion. If the world owed no other
debt to the Christian religion than for
the art which it has stimulated, this
alone would have vindicated its right
to be.

That teacloths and cozies are made
of materials and with embroidery
matching the china. The breakfast
table alone is spread with the snowy
linen immortalized in song and story,
and traces of color innovations are seen
even here, for the napkins are: fre-
quently embroidered in some delicate
flower.

That Christian Science has nothing
in common with “mind cure,” any
more than with “faith cure,” with which
in popular apprehension it IS ofter as-
sociated

Marshall P. Wilder To-night.

The entertainment committee of the
Young Men’s Christian Association
have gone to a large expense to’ give
the people of Norwalk an opportunity
to hear the famous humorist, Marshall
1?. Wilder, and their efi'orts should be
appreciated by a large audience. With
the company is Mrs. Jennie Hall Wade,
the leading soprano, singer in Beecher’s
church, Brooklyn, whose singing will
be a treat in itself.

Seats can be secured at Pinneo’s un-
til 7 o’clock and after that at the box
ofiice in the opera house.

Y. M. C. A. NOTES.

The Junior Department of the Asso-
ciation will hold their regular monthly
business meeting this evening at eight
o ’.clock

Every person wishing to spend a
pleasant evening should attend the'clos-
ing entertainment in the Association
course this evening, at the Opera House
and hear Marshall P. Wilder, the fun-
ny man. .He has a world-wide reputa
tion, and as this is his first appearance

in Norwalk, he should be greeted with

a full house.

. pews.

 

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BROAD RIVER

“Speed the plow” 15 a motto that has
been acted upon generally in this vi-
einity for the past few days, but this
morning it looked as if the snow plow
would be the proper thing.

The men engaged in digging Mr.
Horton’s cellar, have discovered a vein
of fine building sand. ‘

At the quarterly meeting inf the
chapel, Wednesday evening, at which
Mr. Edgar Buttery presided, business
of much importance was transacted.
Reports of the trustees, secretary
and treasurer of the society, Sunday
school and Band of Hope, were heard
with interest. Four persons were
elected as members of the society, and
it was decided to have some improve-
ments made around the chapel this

~ spring. Unusual efforts will be made

in the preparations for the annual
strawberry festival in June.

Kellogg & Simpson affirm that owing
to the decline in the price of sugar,
they do not expect to give it away,
neithei will they donate a set of silver
spoons with every dollar’s worth sold,
but they can and will furnish the fami-
1y sweetening as cheap as anybody in
town, so that no man will be obliged to
depend entirely on his wife’ s smiles to
sweeten the morning coffee.

The proverbial familiarity of Old
Winter with Spring, may be all right
and proper, but it is decidedly unpleas-
ant to. the average out-door worker.
Only a day or two ago one of our
prominent fruit growers was seen sit-
ting in the shade fanning himself with
his hat, and last evening about 6
o’clock he was setting out strawberry
plants in a snowstorm, with a huge
overcoat on, and muffled up to the
ears. Consistency may be a jewel, but
humanity in general, and the weather
in particular, do not meet the require-
ments. '

On the morning of ‘ April 1st, in the
“wee small” hours, “Broad River
J ames” aroused himself fr om his drow-
sy bed, and with a neighbor, proceeded

~ on a long-anticipated trip up among

the hills, somewhere this side of Dan-
bury, to a certain trout stream, which
shall be nameless, for the avowed pur-
pose of capturing a mess of the “speck-
led beauties,” for breakfast. It is un-
necessary to state that these disciples
of the famed “Isaac” returned with the
proverbial fisherman’s luck and three
diminutive specimens to show for their
morning’s sport. It was a bad day for
trout fishing, and William L. thinks
the deadlock at Hartford has some-
thing to do with it; he looks for better
luck when everything has been proper-
ly adjusted in that quarter.

 

 

Slttings at Grace Church.
——Sittings may be engaged in Grace
Church by applying to Mr. A. C. Gold-
ing, at the church building, where he
will be daily, with a diagram of the
68tf.

 

Summary of To-day’s General
News.

Cable dispatches from Rome repre-
sent the state Of public and official feel-
ing there with regard to the New Or-
leans question as intensely bitter.

The official correspondence between
the State Department and the Italian
Legation at Washington in regard to
the recall of the Italian Minister, Baron
Fava is made public.

Secretary Tracy will urge upon the
next Congress the necessity for several
additional battle ships.

Mrs. Warfield, wife of the man'who
was found living in a Brooklyn'fiat
with Grace Keys, daughter of a wealthy
Brooklyn merchant, charges Miss Keys
with having caused Warfield to desert
his wife and four children four years
ago.

Firebugs kindled a blaze in a New
York tenement, endangering the lives
of 100 sleeping people. It was the
fourth mysterious fire in the building
within a year.

Nearly forty rec1uits to the Salva-
tion Army were sworn in by Mrs. Gen-
eral Booth.

Premier Rudini replies to Mr. Blaine
that Italy does not demafid the punish-
ment of the New Orleans lynchers .be-
fore trial, but merely that the federal
government will use its good oflicers to
hasten the trial before the New Orleans
courts.

Secretary Blaine’s reply to Baron

Fava’s note was warmly praised by men
of all parties at the National Capital;
the Italian Premier’ s note to Marquis
Imperiali was looked upon as the first
step toward a resumption of amicable
relations between the two Governments.
Striking coke workmen attacked the
Morewood works of ' the H. C. Frick
Company, in the Connellsville region;
they were fired upon by deputy-sheriffs

and eleven of the assailants were killed ,

and over forty wounded.

News was received that Warner Mil-
ler anda party who were on their way
to inspect the N icaragua Canal had been
stranded on a reef.

 

THE HELLER E.STATE

Local Creditors Secure The Ap-
pointment of an Administrator.

In order to protect their interests,
'which appeared to be in jeopardy,
several local creditors of the late M.
Heller, including Holmes 8: Keeler,
and J. T. Prowitt, made application
yesterday to the Probate Court for the
appointment of an administratm, and
Dr. C. B. Coolidge was appointed. It
is understood that Mrs. Heller claims
she executed a bill of sale of the prop-
erty in question‘to New York parties on
the 24th ult., but inasmuch as there had
actually been no transfer of title or
ownership, the law presupposes some-
thing of the appearance of intended
fraud, hence the action just taken by
local creditors.

 

-~ .0.

Chas. F. Tristam and Lester Hyatt,
under the firm name of Tristam & Hy-
at, expect to occupy the Ambler store
on its surrender by Wm. B. Hall & Co.

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Substitute for Camp.

NOW that the Legislature has ad-
j ourned without passing appropriations
there seems to be little or no probabili-
ty of the Connecticut militia going to
Niantic this year for the annual en-
campment. The boys are somewhat
disappointed over- the prospect that
they will be deprived of the usual week
of outing, and a scheme for a substi-
tute for camp week is already on foot
among some of the organizations. The
plan is to enjoy a week’s camp life at
or near Niantic at some favorable spot
on the shore. This will have all the
pleasures with none of the irksome re-
strictions of military discipline. It
would seem that some such plan might
meet with favor 1n more than one com-
pany.

 

 

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A Rare Entertainment.

The coming musical lectures of Mme.
Constance Howard, which are to be
given in the Lecture room of the Con-
gregational Church the afternoons of
the 7th and 10th and evening of the 14th
of this month, will undoubtedly be
most interesting to lovers of music, and
as well to everyone interested in the
development of art and literature. The
ladies having the matter more especial-
ly in hand are Mrs. G. Willis White,
Mrs. W. H. Smith, Mrs. James G.
Gregory and Miss Pinneo. The Wo-
man’s Club has also interested itself
and has sold a number of tickets.

A proper understanding of the Music-
Dramas of Richard Wagner is becom-
ing a subject of paramount importance
in the history of the development of art
in our country.

The enthusiasm with which his operas
are everywhere received, and the pow-
erful influence they exert over audi-
ences of the highest culture, are strong
evidences of the vitality and depth of
Wagner’s music. No name in the his-
tory of modern music has excited great-
er attention or more controversy.

As translations of his literary works
(in nine volumes) are seldom attempt-
ed, his art theories and philosophy are
but little understood. A hearing Of his
operas is only to be obtained through a
visit to those art centres where wealth
and culture go hand in hand. Even
then, a study of the historic and le-
gendary sources of his libretti, is in-
dispensable to a complete artistic cn-
joyment of these stupendous master-
works

The comedy Of The Alastersingei s of
N117 e-mberg, contains all of the elements
of popularity. It Is a stirring and pic-
turesque view of life and customs 1n the
quaint old city of Nuremberg, towards
the middle of the 16th century, and
throws a strong light upon the mind
and character of Hans Sachs, the great-

est poet of that time.

Madame Howai (1 having been p1 esent
at the first public performances of the
Trilogy of the “Ring of the Nibelangen”
in 1876, and also, of that of “Parsifal”
in 1882, at Bayreuth, has since that time
been a student of these works, and this
has been to her a labor of love. She
gives a short lecture before each act
descriptive of the period of the play, its
dramatic action and the characteristics
of its personages; the music of the en-
tire opera being played, and the prin-
cipal morceaux as arranged by Jacll,
Bendel, Tausig, and Von Bulow added,
to give effectiveness to the climax peri-
ods of the work. An important ele-
ment is an analysis throughout of the
musical motives which Wagner em-
ployed to illustrate his leading drama-
tic ideas, to which he had the faculty
of imparting a characteristic coloring
suitable in mood to the situation, by
changes in instrumentation, by har-
monic modulation or by figuration.
These she fully indicates in her Recitals,
which are as entertaining from a liter-
ary and musical point of view, as they
are instructive and facsinating. Mme.
Howard is gifted with rare ability as an
exponent of Wagner, both as alecturer
and as a brilliant pianist and thorough

musician.

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Killed by Electricity

HARTFORD, April 3. —Brackin, the
hack driver, was driving abOut3I o ’Iclock
this morning, when, at the corner of
Capitol avenue and Broad street, one
of the horses came in contact with an
electric light wire. The horse was in-
stantly killed, and Brackin,’ 1n helping
to unharness, also received a severe
shock. «*

A Howling Northeaster.

ASBURY, N. J ., April 3.—The heaviest
northeast storm known here for years
set in at nightfall yesterday. Sandy
Hook bay is'full of vessels which have
sought refuge there. Considerable
damage was done along the coast.

The storm which raged so violently
came from the great lakes. For the
past few days there has been a storm
center in the lake region, and this has
moved from the St., Lawrence Valley
along the Atlantic coast. A new storm
center has formed near Louisville, Ky.,
and is advancing northeast into the
Ohio Valley, and may follow somewhat
in the rear of the lake depression.

Death of Albert Pike.
WASHINGTON, April 3.——General Al-
bert Pike,grand commander of Scottish
Rite Masonry of the southern jurisdic-
tion and the chief of the royal order of
Scotland for this country, died last eve-
ning at the home of the supreme cpun-
Oil of the order, where he had lived for
several years. The cause Of death was
a paralysis of the organs of the throat,
which has prevented him from taking
food or drink since March 21. It is said
that General Pike has appointed Josiah
H. Drummond of Maine as his succes-
sor as head of the Royal Order of Scot-
land, and it is probable that his succes-
sor in the Scottish Rite will be either
Surgeon-General J. M. Browne, U. S.
N., Thomas H. Caswell of California,
Thomas M. Dudley Of Kentucky.

Albert Pike fought in the Mexican
war and on the Confederate side in the
late war. He has written many Mason-
ic works of great research and has been

 

 

 

 

 

for years the highest authority on Ma-

sonic matters. He was an intimate
friend of Webster, Clay, Calhoun and
other famous men of ante-bellum days.

_A..-- _..—_. ... - ..__-._ __._.

—A New York costumer will be at
the Armory on Saturday and Monday
with a complete assortment of costumes
for rental for the forthcoming masquer-
ade ball of Co. D, 4th Regt. C. N. G.

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Going Into Court.
[New Haven Journal and Courier.]

There will be no rest. Judge Mor-
ris has announced that he will bring
quo warranto proceedings against Gov-
ernor Bulkeley. We suppose hisclaim
will be that the court has no right to go
behind the returns, and that it must
tell the legislature that it has not done
right in failing to declare Judge Morris
governor.

There are quite as many opinions
about the jurisdiction and probable ac-
tion of the court as there have been
about the legislature. Some good law-
yers think the court will say that the
whole matter belongs to the legislature
and will refuse to consider it. If this
should happen of course no progress
would be made. If, however, the
court should decide to go into the whole
matter its decision would doubtless
make some things clearer than they
have been, and perhaps when the legis-
lature came together again the decision
would be accepted by both parties.

Time will tell. It seems to us that
the case would be in better shape for
the court if Judge Morris had done
some act pertaining to the office of gov-
ernor and then been inquired of by
GovernOr Bulkeley. But nobody can
be entirely pleased in this muddle. It
is to be hoped that the court will feel
able to deal with the question. Unless
it can there is no hope for any' settle-
ment.

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—-Misses’ solid school shoes 89c at
Hoyt’s. 1t
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Certain Clergymen Make a Protest.

A good many Episcopal clergymen
have protested against the course pur-
sued by Dr. cher Newton and Dr.
Rainsford.

The crime of which these gentlemen
are accused is so grave that nothing
short of boiling them in oil will appar-
ently satisfy the restless and excited
complainants.

They have been guilty on several oc-
casions of inviting ministers of other
denominations to preach to Episcopal
congregations the gospel of peace and
good will.

Not that Dr. Rainsford andDr. New-
ton love Episcopalianism less, but that

they love Christianity more—[Herald
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-The “ Ella ” Kid shoe better than
ever. It