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\ Norwalk, Gena, Monday Evening, Jane 1‘, 1891. .
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THE LIVE. NEWS OF TO-DAY.
A perfect day was yesterday.
James J. Canfield of Danbury, spent
Sunday in town.
Captain Fred Perkins of New York,
was in town Memorial Day.
Mr. Henry S. Bissell is home again
from his recent western trip.
Mrs. R. C. M. Page was a visitor at
Grace Rectory last week.
Miss Ewing of Iowa is a guest of her
friend Mrs. Henry S. Bissell on Mott
place.
Thomas Keen of Birmingham is vis-
iting Thomas S. Osborn on Merwin
street.
Andrew Nash, Gen. Ferry’s body
guard during the war, was in. town Sat-
urday. '
Horace Olmstead and wife of New
York were visitors at his father’s, Gen.
Olmstead’s, Decoration Day.
Carpenters Union 746 will meet -to-
morrow evening to nominate officers for
the ensuing term.
Captain E. E. Howes of the Agricul-
tural Department, Washington, is vis-
iting his sister, Mrs. C. N. Wood.
—When you clean house have your—
carpets cleaned at the Norwalk Carpet
Cleaning works, 14 Knight street. 7t111
‘ It is remarked that on no former hol-
iday were there so many intoxicated
people seen on our streets.
Elwood S.Hahd, of Chicago, has de-
cided on plans for his new house at Os-
borne’s point, Southport.
J —Picture Frames at J. T. Prowitt’s.
Goocl work at low prices, W. P. Whit-
ney in charge. . No. 45 Main street. .
John H. Ferris has the contract for
furnishing 500,000 bricks to be used in
Remember that Sir Joseph Porter,
K. C. B., and his sisters and his cousins
and his aunts, are to be at Music Hall
to-mo’rrow evening.
The borough having twenty days from
to-day in which to make answer to Mr.
Maples’ hose injunction case, nothing
was done at Danbury today.
Speaking of .Mr. Cleveland’s desire
to again be a candidate the Sun with its
usual acerbity assures him that “the
south is anti-fat. ”
Richard G. N ickerson, engineer of
the New Haven Water works and a son
of Alonzo Nickerson, Esq, of Chapel St.
was in town Saturday.
To-day at 2 p. m. the selectmen, jus-
tices, constables and grand jurors will
meet to choose forty persons to serve
as jurors for one year from Sept. 1st.
The indications at Albany point to
the nomination by the democrats of
Roswell P. Flower for Governor. If so
he will be able and willing to “pay the
freight.”
We would call the attention of house-
keepers to the recommendation given
Mr. Avery in another column, for the
satisfactory manner in which he is
changing over common flat irons.
The G. A. R. boys dedicated a Sol~
diers’ monument at Mt. Vernon Satur-
day. The GAZETTE is indebted to Col.
Henry Huss the prime mover. in that
enterprise for an invite.
While ex-Governor Tom Waller with
soap-covered hands was choking a
sneak thief who was making off with
his gold-headed cane in the wash room
of the Palmer House in Chieago,Thurs-
day, another thief stole his our hat. ,
Beltaire, Lurch & 00., the Danbury
hat manufacturers, have closed a con-
tract with the Danbury Building com-
a three story building, 30x60 feet, and
will cost in the neighborhood of $3000.
—'—Ice Cream made fresh daily and
sold , wholesale . ‘and retail in
quantities over the counter, or
delivered to customers’ houses. Also
served by the plate to customers in our
cream parlor.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Mallory are in town.
——Waitress wanted at No’rwalk Hotel.
James L. Ambler andison, were in
town Saturday.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Allen of New
Milford are visiting on West avenue.
Bonny Yalensian Fred. Lockwood
was home from New Haven over Sun-
‘ day.
Mr. and Mrs. Eversley Childs and
Mr. Ed. Curtis spent Sunday in Nor-
Walk.
Mr. William B. E. Lockwood has re-
turned to his home after an absence of
several months. \
Mr. and Mrs. George Butterworth of
New York, have been visiting relatives
on the Green.
Mr. Fred. Lockwood, son of Col. F.
St. John Lockwood, is home from col-
lege for a few days.
Mrs. Honnecker has had her house
repainted a light shade, of yellow with
trimmings of red.
Some three hundred invitations to
attend the graduating exercises of 001.
Roberts’ school have been sent out.
Undertaker Jennings took a load of
chairs to Grace church last night to
supply seats to the crowd of visitors to
that church. _____ i
The marriage of Patrick Carroll and
Maggie German will take place in St.
Mary’s church to-morrow morning at
8:30, with a mass. '
The 65th anniversary meeting of the
American Home Missionary Society
will be held at Saratoga commencing
to-morrow and continuinguntil Friday.
The twenty-first Annual Re-union of
the Connecticut Masonic Veteran Asso-
ciation will be holden at Bristol,
Thursday, June 25th, 1891, at eleven a.
m. '
The friends of Mrs. Stephen Com-
stock will learn with regret that she has
been seriously ill for several days, but
she was reported somewhat better this
morning.
Charles H. Finney, son cf Wm. Fin-
ney of Merwin street, met with a seri-
ous mishap Fhiday at his home in South
Salem; A timber fell upon and badly
crushed his foot, necessitating the am-
putation of one of his toes.
Joseph Brown, Luddington’s burglar
confederate, was arrested in Branch-
ville on Saturday and is safely locked
up in the Danbury jail. The first crime
for which Brown must answer will be
the recent robbery of Frank Taylor’s
house in Ridgefield. _
Isaac Bowe is solicitin signatures to
a petition to Gov. Bulke ey asking that
Henry Matheis be reinstated. * * *
The petition is not likely to amount to
a hill of beans.——[B. W. Maples.
That settles it ! You might as well
tear it up, Ike. _ -_
Percy Glendenning and Harry Mitch-
ell left Saturday via Albany for Roch-
ester, where after visiting and possibly
jumping Genessee Falls as Sam Patch
did, they'proceed to Buffalo, thence to
Niagara, and thence home via the N. Y.
& Erie, halting at Portage Falls and
Watkins Glen. _ _
Among the guests of the Wat"?
Witch, of the Atlantic Yacht club Sat
urday, was Mr. Isaac Jennings of Scuth
Norwalk. The Water Witch was win-
tered and fitted out at Westport. Her
commander, Capt. Fairchild, who is a
salt-water sailor, wasn’t happy because
it didn’t blow hard enough for him.
The Belden avenue neighbors of Mr.
and Mrs. John Spencer were startled,
as well as delighted last Thursday, to
see a babe about their house. It was
the nineteenth anniversary of their
marriage, but when their friends
learned that both had sailed for Liv er-
pool that morning, the excitement im-
mediately subsiflfi__
At the regular meeting this evening
of the Court of Burgesses there is not
likely to be much excitement. Although
Borough Engineer Wood' has submit-
ted three grades for the proposed Mill
hill improvement the highway commit-
tee has not, thus far, been able to con-
sider any of them, therefore this im-
portant topic is not likely to be more
than touched upon to-night.
The .Court of Burgesses shall have
power to organize and continue a fire
department, and to procure suitable ap-
paratus, land and buildin’ s therefor.—
[Extract from Borough C arter. -
The above is a correct copy of a
clause in our borough constitution and
the question arises, in what way does it
invalidate the Court of Burgesses’pows
or to procure “suitable apparatus?” '15
hose for the fire department? .
, A New York dispatch says that Mrs..v
Laura Kendrick, wife of Green' Ken-
drick, ex-mayor of Waterb_ury,has been
' ' solute divorce from her
hhhhhhildhnsahg once lived in Norwalk.
——[Houi'. . . . . . _
01115119. This, is another divorced
wife,7sandwiched. in between the, Nor-
walk? wife, which was missed _by_ the
Compliments of the Dhinr GAZETTE"
to its host of readers I Andhow do you
like us, now that we have waxed four
columns bigger and are still growing?
Price only our: CENT. ' I '
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TFHJE GQXEENQRSHIPQ ‘
Delays In the Quo Warranto Case
Caused by the Illness of Counsel. .
The limit under the law during which
Judge Morris could file his reply to the
answerof. Morgan G. Bulkeleyiin the
quo warranto case expired last week
Thursday, but the reply was not filed.
The delays that have attended the pro-
gress of the case make it reasonably
certain that it cannot come before the
Supreme Court before the _October
term. Judge Morris when asked the
cause of the delay said:
“The rumor that there is a money
trouble between us and my counsel is
untrue, and the assertion that I take.
only a languid interest in the Govern!
orship question is absurd. I take a
keener interest in it than anybody else,
except my counsel and Gen. Merwin.
I am anxious to see the matter deter-
mined by the courts as soon as possi-'
ble. All that can cut the knot now is a
court decision. - This is the only thing
that can be effective, and I am anxious
for it. The only reason that my reply
was not ready on— Wednesday was the
illness of Gov. Ingersoll, whom we con-
sult at every step.”
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Serlous Accident.
As Mr. Silas Olmstead of Cranberry
Plains, was driving home Saturday
evening about 7 o’clock, with his wife
and her daughter,they were run into by
a runaway horse when near the apex of
Mill hill. His wagon was overturned
and badly smashed and his horse clear-
ed from it, while the other horse was
thrown down and the two intoxicated
young men from New Canaan were"
fired as from a cannon .ahead of their
prostrate horse. Mr. Olmstead soon
found that though badly shaken up, he
was not seriously injured, but that his
wife and daughter were under his otter-
‘urneu wagon and the‘ fallen“ horse was
kicking and struggling to get up in
such close proximity as to endanger,
their lives. He did‘the best * he , could,
got the feet of the fallen horseout from
under his carriage,righted it and found
Mrs. Olmstead cut and bleeding and
dazed from her fright and injuries,
while his daughter had her dress com-
pletely torn from her by the hoofs of
the struggling horse. Mr. J. W. Hy-
att happened'to be near, and ordered
the two drunken men who had caused
the trouble arrested, and then assist-
ed to carry Mrs. Olmstead in-
to Mrs. Honnecker’s bakery,”
where Drs. McLean and Hunt-
ington were soon in attendance upon
her. She had-a sevei'e cut ever the eye
and across the forehead and was bleed-
ing from the nose and a bad cut to the
bones across the back of her hand ev-
idently done by the fallen horse’s iron
shoes. Some two hours later a hack
was obtained from Dann’s and the la-
dies taken ,to their homes. The New
Canaan herse was taken to Dunn’s and
the men arrested by Oflicers Gormley
and Morehouse.
One was released as he was not at
fault, and the other, who drove the
horse was jailed until to-day when he
was released on bail; He 'Will'be tried
at 4 o’clock this afternoon, before J us-
tice Coolidge. They are two hitherto
reputable young men, employed in the
New Canaan bakery, and had driven a
livery horse to Dorlon’s Point, where
the driver at least had gotten full of
lashing his horse into a run up East
avenue. His companion, it is claimed,
sought to wrest the reins from him to
prevent the collision but was unable to
do so. It was a narrow escape frOm a
fatal injury to Mrs. Olmstead. '
Union Memorial Servlces at the 2d
M. E. Church. .— . _
Last night a union memorial service
was held at the Methodist church. to
which the G‘. A. R. veterans were in-
vited. The church was packed, the
choir rendered excellent'musio and the
pastor delivered a sermon of unusual
power and ability, Rev. Dr. Noble and
Rev. Mr. Robbins assisting.
At the Driving Park.
There was an excellent attendance at
the sweepstakes race at the fair ground
Saturday afternoon. . The, horse of
Thomas Quinlan of Westport, .wonth'e
race in 2. 44, with Winfield S. Bouton’s
horse second and George Finch’s third.
John Raymond’s .fine stepper cast- a.
shoe in the first heat and was with.
drawn, Trainer Lockwood gave the
finest exhibition of horse flesh ever
seen at this track. Gossip, J r. , made a
mile in 2.21 flat, which is said to be the
best time ever made in Nerwalk. ..
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Mrs. Charles Dennison of Brooklyn,
Mrs. John Chapman, and Mrs. I. J.
"There is Aiways' Room “1,75,57,53,; .
A Fine Street liéiafdé:
the spirit of the day,_asthe was seen .
G. A. R. Mertprial Services.
1 tithes rand
Bunting all Along the ‘Llne.
Eloquent Speeches at
- .The‘fifir'no'ry.
Memorial day dawned wet and foggy
but before noon. the clouds cleared
away and the sun ‘f'ca‘me out with up:
those catalogucdi“';_or ’“tlfo "leng’marchfi
around'the circumference of the city
and borough and East Norwalk. The
whole town was aflKiiie, with the dear
old flag at half mast, and red,rwhite
and blue decorati‘gns. This was, .es-
pecially "so onEas’t and West avenues,
and about the centres of the city. and
borough. . _
Tristram and Hyatt had a tall white
monumental shaft; erected in their
store window ‘ and: decorated 'w'ith'fa’
wreath and efl‘igy'mofa soldieratres’t.‘
In the west window of Street’s fistore
was an attractive and appropriate draph
ing of mourning and a large palm in
the center. Others had different forms
of commemorative decorations.
Soon after 1 o’clock the procession
was formed in frent of Buckingham
Post’s headquarters... .001. Roberts’
school consistinggf some 80eadi§ts in
full uniform, and'headed ’by‘ a drum
corps took the head of the line,
followed by the town, cityandborough
authorities and clergy, ,. Gen. Couch
and other veterans in 7‘ carriages, while
Hope Hose company and Some 80'
to 100 of Buckingham Post men and
about 50 from Douglas Fowler Post,‘
with Glover’s band," brought up the
rear. There were also in line two
omnibus loads of little girls, prettily
uniformed, and gaily swinging small
flags. The omnibus Newport, bore
aloft a banner with “Center 1 School”
on its folds. The'march around, the
circuit of the town was quickly ., made
and but three halts called to rest the:
old “vets” and the splendidly mach“;
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iiizt buil‘d'isfig eatgldgh phhliigifi‘ afih’fi‘t’éi’:
Dr. Van Alstyne opened the exercises
by prayer. Adjt. Bradley Keith read
the general orders appropriate to. the
day. and Commander Bradley wel-
comed the two Posts, and the assem-
bled citizens, 5when Rev. Dr. Noble
delivered the \following eloquent and
patriotic address on
OUR oouu'rnr’s DEAD. ,
Standing 'one bright summer day
under the soft Italian skies by the old
Roman Forum, that most fascinating
of all spots on the iace of the earth,
there came to my mind _the ancient
legend tellin of a day in its history
when the eart‘ opened and a great
gulf yawne’d; and the ,augurs ~and
soothsayers united in. .declaringtthat
the awful chasm would. never close
until there had gone into its ,rapacious
mouth the most precious thing in_ all
the city. As patricians and plebeians
looked curiously into each other’s eyes
wondering what could be the _most'
precious thing in the eternal city, a
young soldier in the glow and glory of
early manhood, armed and mounted, '
rode. to the brink of the horr1d‘chasm‘-
and pausing only long enough to de-
clare that there could be nothing 50‘
precious as human life given to one’s
country, leaped into the gulf and'disap-
peered forever from mortal View. It is
only an old Roman legend, but is it
not a prefigurement of what was to be-
fall, centuries afterward, our beloved
American Republic ? -' Is it not' a his-
toric fact that in 1861 the ill-boding
gulf _of southern secession divided
families, communities, states, ea the
nation itself ? And into this g f went
the most priceless things the republic
possessed—years of time, millions of
.money and hundreds of thousands of.
the noblest lives in the land ?, 5, 1 -,
Thirty years ago, in, the ,g.sweet
spring-time, the booming of cannon 1n
the harbor of Charleston awoke our
people from a half century of peace.
Fort Sumter was fired on and her flag
went dowm in sorrow not unmingled
With wrath. All over the north, all
'over the south, citizens of this great
repubhc, having a common ancestry, a
common history and a common herb,
tage’, sprang to arms, and civil war wlth'_
its untold herrors was upon us. To use
the prophetic words of Webster, “the
land was rent with own feud. and
drenched with fraternal blood.” Four
years later, and in .the. same sweet
was furled, the old flag restored to
Sumter and the armies of both Sides
disbanded and‘ all returned to the en-
, joyments of home and the industries of
peace. '.
Since that eventful day by the Appo-
mattox, two decades of reconstructed
national life have come and gone, and
now we look uppn a picture of unpar-
alleled prosperity. , w . - ,
Towns and cities are. Springing f up;
throughout the land. The hum of re-
munerative industry is in the air. In
the faces of the people is confident ex-
pectation of “better times coming.”
“sign'Iand token of the tragic years of
fratricidal strife. You and , my com-
rades, belong to a mutilated generation.
crutch, the artificial limb; the empty
sleeve. . In our hospitals and soldi‘prs’
kl homesWe see an increasing? multitjide
of- those whose health and strength ‘;
ha’Ve failed because of the drafts made
on their Vitality a quarter of a century
weeklies. Our Miss Nash was divorced
MARY HONNECKER, No. 2 Wall street
a year and morelago.
_ Mallory were guests at the Norwalk-ho-r.
tel on Decoration Day. '
ago. vMay. the day never comes. when)A
:thje nationgsi'iall jail- tqf .tendgriy fierce-
comfortablb‘ ‘. vii "th.3~},e’speciaiiyé for -
spring—time, the flag=of4the.-.lost cause '
And yet all about us we note many a '-
Look where you may you behold the ;
I: for her brexédefendem Yet after 5311
the most; pathetic exponents cf -tlie
awfulnessgfizour civil war, are nbt 'th‘e.
maimed body“ and the empty sleeVes (if
our living heroes, but the green mounds
of our country’s ’ ‘ “
our have strewn with beautiful flowers.
he’s’e' are’the mute monuments that
speak to us; mosteloquently of the real
worth of-themation’s life. Fromevery
rank .—and"‘station in life they came,
pressing , eagerly to. inscribe their
names on the immortal , roll .of our
country’s defenders: .- -vIs it not meet to
make their graves fragrant with flow-
ers. :"-. ' . '
,3 "Bhifl‘, oh‘skies in peace above them,
'5 Fresh ye garlands still remain '
~j :sAngels guardtheir’dreamless slumb
eace be With ye, gallant slain.”
What was it that impelledthese men
to go forth to the red field of battle?
It- was patriotism ; that noble sentiment
which moved-- the, heart of the sweet
Singer of' Israel; When he exclaimed:
‘ijrIeforget thee, oh Jerusalem, let my
right" hand forget its cunning, and m
tongue cleave, to the roof of my mouth: ’
The preservation of the snation’s life
was the: end and aim of~our country’s
heroic dead: " f '
. ' Injthe. sweet charity of this inciner-
ers.
shall come to include thenbrave boys in
my as well as the brave boys in blue ?
t was the sad fate of not a few of these
gallantmen _to be drawn into the maelé
strom of_ c1v11'war'with no adequate ap-
prehensmn of the real issues ' of that
awful conflict. In a deep and true
sense “they knew not what they did.”
And though they went down to their
graves battling not only for a lost but
also for a wrong cause, so superb was
their valor, so splendid their endur-
ance, that for one, I long for the day,
when all bitterness gone from our
hearts, the people 'of the north and the
people of the south; marching under
our country’s one flag, shall unite in
remembering" all their heroic sons who
sleep in the silent brotherhood of
death. I I: I
At Arlington stands a memorial stone
knoWn as the tomb of “our unknown
dead.” Beneath this stone repose the
bones of over 2,000 of our country’s de-
fenders. * * * This tomb of the un-
known at Arlington is the most pathet-
ic, the most profoundly affecting me-
morial upon which my eyes have ever
rested. In the 79 national cemeteries
of the land theremay be counted to-day
nearly 350,000 graves. Of this number
more than 146,000 are marked “un-
known.” * * * But blessed be God,
these dead men shall live. This is the
,affirmation' ofthe prophet, They live
jin the preserved live Of our once‘im-
sense , ’t‘o‘éheylinooltretheiie Valencia ..
of the earth, a reconciled . and
reconstructed country, and the white
winged Angel of peace and prosperity
is brooding over every portion of our
fair land. * * * Our country’s dead
live in the affectionate remembrance of
their gratefulfellow countrymen. The
garlands we lay upon their graves
will wither, the sweet fragrance of the
flowers will perish, even the storied
marble that marks their resting place
will crumble into, dust, but the brave
deeds and the brave doors, are beyond
the reach of the corroding finger of
time. . -
‘,"Nor wreck, nor change. nor winter’s blight,
Nor time’s remorseless doom.
Shall mar one ray of glory’s light
That gilds their deathless tomb.”
Be, it ours, oh friends, to cherish
their memory, imitate their virtues, ,
emulate their example and enter at
last into their glorious rest. .
:. Dr. Noble’s eloquent address was fol-
lowed by an address from Mr. E. J.
Hill, as follows :
In the little villa e ofLebanon, is a
plain, wooden buil ing, used a century
ago as a country store. For many
years it has. 1‘ een falling into decay. .
Over its t i‘eshold Washington, and
Putnam, and Frank 'n had passed, and
within its walls, soldiers, statesmen and
financiers, had planned and counseled
for the welfare of the people.
It was the birthplace of a . state and
the nursery of a republic.
The store of Jonathan Trumbull, be-
came the “war oflice” of “Brother J one-
than.”
Unused, neglected and abandoned,
a few days ago it was about to be de-
stroyed, when the Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution acquired the title, and
a fortnight hence they will reconstruct
it as a memorial of the men who gave
.all that they had to build the nation
,whi ch the Grand Army of the Republic
’fought to save. . _
= And not only in Connecticut, but IE.
every state in the union, men and wom-
en are searching the old records to
prove their kinship ‘ to the patriots
gone, and preserving with unwonted
care and honest pride, the mementoes
of the revolution- ' »
And proud he is, and proud he has a
right to be, who from the founding of
acolony, to citizenship in the grandest
nation on the globe, can trace, in his
own name, an unfailing record of
loyalty and patriotism, and honorable
public service; '
I speak of this to-day, veterans of the
Grand Army, because it is our Me-
morial day, and , I would ave ou
know how bye and bye upon this ay',
, lien‘the Grand Army of the 11v1ng
Shall have become the Grand Army‘pf
the dead, your sons and grandsons W111
look upon your graves, reusit the old
homes "where you lived, recall the
mighty work that you performed, think
how you suffered, endured and tri-
umphed, rejoice in the glorious hberty
Which .you preserved for them, and
thank God that their fathers ave to
them the priceless heritage o a sol-
dier’s name. _. . _.
, You’lovingly 5 deck With. flowers to-
’day the graves of those who fought
side by side with you to make the peo-
ple free. _
The flowers will w .ther soon._
a "'See to wit that whiletyou live, the
books of ever Post shall bear the
€record of the code that cannot die.
And not only that, but I so to you,
ithat you can give to the c dren who
rbear your name no more precious leg-
:' acy than, your own simple narrative of
[your-5 share in the great struggle“
dead, which toid‘ay ._
ial time, may I net venture to suggest .
the hope that this tender, remembrance -
Bye and bye, the muster roll and dis-
charge, the commission and shoulder
strap, the sword and the gun, yes, even
the old buttons, will be precious relics
[in the homes that are yet to be.
The state in which you live has
given to all the worlda perfect record
jof h'er soldiers’ names; it is your work
‘to recite to your posterity the splendid
story of your lives. '
. Tell of the dear ones, and the homes
you-left of the long, weary round of
drill, and life in camp, of the horrible
hell of battle, of the screech of shell,
and sharp, quick song of rifle‘ball, of
{the wounds, the Sickness and disease,
' of ' torture and starvation in Libby
Prison and Belle Isle, of the glad sight
.of the old flag once more, and the re-
turn of those on thought dead.
Tell all you. now _of the brave deeds
of the boy's who died, and when your
story is ful y written. the half will not
be told, for in that awful time great
.thin s were done, both on the southern
batt e field, and in the quiet northern
'home, of which the world can never
know.
. Up and down these Norwalk streets,
beneath these branchin elms, men and
women daily walked, w 056 lives were
full of greatness. '
History. tells of a Spartan mother,
who,_heari 0- that herson was killed in
fighting for s couutry, coldly answer-.
ed, ,“I brought him into the world for
no other on ."
But such a. woman, who would say
such words, could never know the sor-
row or feel the sacred joy, that filled
the heart of Electa Ruscoe, when from
her life she took her all, and sent five
stalwart boys to battle for the ri ht.
Thank God! they all came bach, and
some are here today.
' Horatius defendin the bridge at
Rome has been the t eme of poets and
for more than twenty centuries that
one example of magnificent braver
has had the admiration of the worl ,
but when Armisted Pomeroy, a mod-
est citizen of our own town, sprang
With a knife between his teeth, into the
waters of Mobile Bay, and cut the
cable of a rebel ship, amid a storm of
rebel bullets, he more than matched
the Roman courage.
_And yet this man, a Virginian by
birth, who gave up family and friends,
and an almost certain prospect of im-
portant place in the Confederate navy
because, to use his own w‘ords, he had
“sworn to defend the flag,” this man a
few short months ago, was carried to
his humble grave, unknown to almost
all of you.
Friends, I simply tell but two of the
many. instances of sacrifice and devo-
tion in the war time long since past,
JELLEIQIEHQXQ that. every man who
the union army, dedicated his life: t6
his country’s cause, and in so domg
by that act. alone deserved, and should
receive froma grateful people, all of
the love and all of the honor and all of
the reward that it is 'in their power to
bestow. ,
Cover them with flowers today, the
grave of. every union soldier gone, and
old their memories dear.
Soon all will be at rest, but while
any live, may no want or suffering come
to them, rather, from the wonderful
prosperity which they made'possible,
may a thankful nation’s gratitude be
gladly shown. - -
Following ex-Senator ' Hill, Rev.
Messrs. Robbins and Watkins made
'brief remarks. Mr. Watkins advised
all his hearers to do as he had recently
done, visit Gettysburg and the other
battle fields of the war so as to impress
the memory of the dire conflict indelli-
bly on the mind. Maj. Gen. Couch
was then called upon and paid a glow-
ing and well deserved tribute to the
patriotic mothers, wives, sisters and
sweethearts, who surrendered their
dear ones to duty, and cheered and
comforted them with letters from home
while at the front. It was these heroic
and self-sacrificing women who suffered
the most keenly and silently during the
war. Capt. Russell Frost was then
called on and paid Gen. Couch the
high 'and well-deserved compliment of
stating that in an interview with Gen.
Sherman a short time prior to his death,
he had spoken of his dear friend, Gen.
Couch, in the most enthusiastic and
commendatory terms. Rev. Mr. Haul-
enbeek then spoke briefly, when Rev.
Dr. Van Alstyne closed the exercises
with the benediction, and the crowds
dispersed. _
The Women’s Relief Corps was out
in full force and so was the woman with
the crying baby, who always crowds
with her terrified child into every such
jam, to annoy speakers and audience
alike. All in all, Decoration day 1891,
was exceptionally successful and nota-
ble in the annals of such demonstra-
tions in Norwalk.
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Explosion!
Early this mbrning on starting fires
in the Honnecker Bakery, an explosion
took placethat made the building trem-
ble and blew coal and ashes all about. It
also blew out a stove pipe cap in the
parlor over the stere and drove ashes
and soot all over the carpet. Some
forty,to sixty loaves of bread were de-
stroyed. A strong smell of burnt pow-.
der pervaded the house and the con- , -
clusion is that one of the cartridges '
used in blasting coal at the mines was
shoveled into the furnace with the coal,
The Tennis Club’s grounds presented
a gay appearnce Saturday. All day
long the balls were flying, . and. when
evening came the season was opened
by the first dance of the year. Quite
a number of gentlemen
town were present.
[gave himself to God and the right, and J
which came from Meeker’s. ‘ .
from out of ,
egntta’, divided
laws: *C-lass‘A, ' ,
A, . harlesivaoby .
Naishijiili'd, 28. ‘ .
yingudf Julia, 23‘ ’
., . .mth'" fr; 20:15.; (5,, 311.-
-1enstino,sun!seahh giant; Sam Weston,
'May Queen,¥23"ft..: Class E, W. E. 05’.-
borne, ' Un‘dinfe,'-1_8;;lift.'; J; P. Crossman
Daisy, 14 finafiid lHezekiah Smith,
White Wing,l;15fh ' ' ’
The start,éaiid;finish was ever an im-
aginaryllfiiéi ', rawn from 'Dorlofil’f' Point
dock to ”a: Staffiegboat anchored off
abreast 'of} said 'ock. » The can buoy
on the southeast: oint of Peach Island
Flats wasltokbe left op the, starboard.
laud cu thpitoutiva’i‘, course, and the
h outward 'turningjsppomt _ for the First,
Second, Thirdfind Fourth classes was
the susthzgneago buoy off Stamford,
about 10 miletififThe turning point {for
the Fifth classgwagGreen’s Reef bell
buoy, abOut,8~_miles.l _ ' 7 '
Promptly‘at 1' o’clock. the Prets boat
Minetta, Commodore'dohnl’toberts and '
Captain Mosher,'ca"rried the Judges E.
A. Woodwards thn H. Richards and
JoSeph A Yolk-Loni; to the stake boat.
At 1.15 tlhe signdl €53,350 get ready was
fired and ten minutes after the report
of the startin gun, for the, first class
was heard, ‘fo owed at intei‘vals of five
minutes by the, signal fer the other
classes, giving each class 'five minutes
in which to" cross the-line. :5 _
The follopvingvrecdrd glves the time
of each boat? .5 ‘ r . .
~ . ' pset orrcc .— .
E19131}; alliime. ed Time.
. 92 it. MIS. ILM. '
br »
'n"“7:10:25 5 16:10 5:43:10 fer, .' I
ot‘A‘sé‘iz.T-J ’ 'tf “s5.
nlia. 1:34 7%, 7,:20 5:46 5345 -... ,
Mayfi-ucen, 1:34 ""'-~7:22:40~5:48:‘40 5:44;»1 “1-
Cora. 1:31:58 7:11:50 5:59:52 5:30:52
l 3“ cmss‘c _
Ada, 133?:27 7.51057 5233:30 5:23:30
A. Reed, 1"- -"»1:4¥:27 7:13zg0 5:35:53 5:35:53
“ -‘~'cnissn’. 7 .
uaker City, 1:43:12 7:10.45 5:27:33 5:25:33
ayflower, 1:46:40 57:13:27 5:26:47 5:23:47
Sunbeam, 1:43:10 7:15.28 5:32:18 5-2738
May Queen,» 1:46:39 7:13,;25 5:26:46 5:26:46
cuss E. '
Undine, . 1:54 @7: 9:15 5:15:15. 5:15:15
Daisy. _ ”1.54 6:36:30 4:42:30 4:38:30
White Wing 1:49:41 "0:47:50 4:58: 9 1:55: 9
Hoton Point.
The Opening of Rciton Point on Me-
mOrial day was” on, the grandest scale
ever held there", thousands of visitors
being present. «Heine’s band furnished
music and the mvijtion was crowded
with mgrry dancers, ,while allabout the
grove were people, whogwere enjoying
themselyes as .nhver before. The
Grand Republicstopped, to let off a
large party of picnichers, and the
steamer Media washiourl-y augmenting
the crowd. The, “management did
everything possible ‘ior the comfort and 55,
pleasurg of their guests, and the busi-
ness at this delightful reSoi’thad' a most
auspicious Openings-and the annrrn-
predicts a pleasinchntinuance o‘fthe
same. ,Ervefything necessary for, the
enjoyment-9f Vialhhi'sis being rapidly
providfi-mfidpMe‘ssfi. Einkenstein &
Kelly eVidehtly'intend making it one;
of the mo . gopmagsufimehresorts on
the Sound. '
{5.
, .BtcfiietAecéidehts.t , ‘
Messrs. Vogel‘and'Ctomstock started .
out on their-wheelsSaturday afternoon, i.
and hadsfi’i'sahid .i‘nn‘hown-Wést avenue '
and 3012988 1338'; lewgr‘; bridge, and'up-
East Bivennefaifilfiitdf avoid. the cobhig‘ii, -
stoneeavenoents tttho foot of Mill hm,"
“711991831 aroundNorth avenue and ' in
coming downethe, hit at it's junction
with Matt street"; and while Mr. Vogcl
had his’feejz' off his: «treiadles or was
“coastin’grzf, asthb 5bicych§ts term it, he,
espiedhteoht ahpad'of him and in. en-
deafyol’i'lgjtdtntnand before he could
catch-life'tf’ea'dledhgain, his wheel got ..
“12 mafia)" find! dashed hing into the 9].,
iron Watfiiiig-v taiik'fi,’ He gsfiotained '9 ’
i l in '1'" boheof hisfldé‘fi
.' to
nkle' joint, W111
Norwalk Chronicler