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THE LIVE NEWS OF TO-DAY.
Dr. and Mrs. Paige sail for Europe
to-day.
Letter Carriers Matheis and Haley
have “swapped” routes today.
—-Special sale of Extracts to-day at
Betts & Farrington’s. 140 3t
The bed rocks for the Club House
underpinning are being laid to-day.
—Extracts at cost at Betts & Farting. '
ton’s.
- 140 31‘.
Mrs. D. M. Couch and Miss Mary
Chichester graced Bridgeport with
their presence yesterday.
Mr. and'Mrs. Charles Hill and family,
with Miss Lina Couch, leave to-day for
a month’s sojourn in Canaan.
Mrs. Charles Dennis and Mrs. George
Chelwell are still at the White 3Moun-
tains, and shivering with the cold.
—Try a bottle of Foss’ Extract, all
flavors at Betts & Farrington’s. 140 3t
Ason was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. H. Fitch of N ewtown avenue,
Thursday night.
—An extra fine line of Tea at 50 cents
per pound, worth 60 cents, at Betts &
Farrington’s. ' 140 3t
—--See advertisement dog lost. 28 -3
The twenty-fifth annual re-union of
the gallant old Fifth Ct. Vol. is to be
held at Hartford, August 8th.
. 3 20c. at Betts &Farrington’s.*
Eversley Childs 1n Brooklyn :3
...= ~. ...
In the tennis game yesterday, Lock"
wood beat Knapp, 6- 4, 6- 3.
-_,,.
Betts & Farrington’ s. 140 3t
Aura-re ;:
Good Deacon Main and wife are
port road. . 3
Mrs. N. A. Mosman is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Frederick. Belden, on the
Green. ' 3: _______ .
Miss (10er of Hartford has? been visa.
iting Mrs. George R. Cowles on the
Green. ,
Mr. Frank Williams has returned to
Cambridge. Mass, where he has been
pursuing his theological studies.
_Foss’ Vanilla Extract 2 oz. bottles
' 140 3t
ter are 'at Bethlehem, N. H. ‘for the hay
fever season.
Heins’ band made the town vocal
with music this noon, advertising the
South N orwalk building lot sale. .
The latest news from Miller received
today, who attempted suicide at White
Oak Shade, is to the effect that there
is a possibility of .his recovery.
The members of Pioneer Hook and
ally notified by Chief Prowitt to be
present at the meeting of the Board of
Engineers next Wednesday evening at
8jo’clock, when the trouble in the com-
pany will be'fully inquired into.
Miss Amelia Fortune of Norwalk,
Cenn. , is visiting her friends in J efi'e1-
son. ——[Jefi'erson, O. Gazett tt.e
Miss Fortune 1s one of the phenome-V
113.1 and hustling compositors of the
DAILY GAZETTE tome, and a most
worthy young lady she is, if she did
come from the McKinley state. . . 3 ."
There was a sudden drop in wat-
Farringt‘on’s delivery wagon this morn»-
ing. Of course the GAZETTE reporter
was “onto it” if not into it, at once,
but the large and luscious 0110 sent to
our office wasn’t the crushed vermilian
that painted the street red in front of
their store. Hence this item.
Manager Adams has a force of scrub-
bers at work this morning cleaning up
the interior of the Opera House. Mr.
Adams proposes to open with a clean
——Huyler’s celebrated candies in
sealed packages just .received at C.
DeKlyn & Son’s. 282t
Miss Susie Penfield of East Berlin is;
spending a couple of weeks with her
aunt, Mrs. Edwin ’ G. Hoyt, 21 Arch
street.
The burning of the town of Norwalk:;
and the “Battle of Norwalk” occurred
one hundred and twelve years ago
to-day.
—Huy_ler ’s _
sealed packages just received at C.
DeKlyn & Son’s. 28 2t
Miss Imogene Baldwin, of East Nor-
walk, goes to Minnesota on the editor-
ial trip, with her brother, Dr. A. H.
Baldwin. ' '
—Huy1er’s
sealed packages just received at C.
DeKlyn &- Son’s. 28 2t
The Junior Y. M. C. A. ball club de-
feated the Winnipauk’s yesterday af-
ternoon at the Fair.grounds;oscore, 6
to O in favor of the Y. M. C. A."s.
Comrades of the 17th Regiment have
some idea that their reunion on the 28th
of August will be held in New Canaan,
but, if not, at some central shore re-
sort.
To-day, Miss Ann Jennings of Mer-
win street reaches her eighty-first year
and her friends propose to make it
pleasant for her by giving her a “high-
tea” surprise party.
The many friends of Mrs. Levi War-
ner will be glad to learn that she has so
far recovered from her recent danger-
ous illness that she hopes to be able _to
ride out 1n a few days. .
“Campy” says its a durned Republi.
can lie that he ever tried to dragoon
faithful Frank Beers and that if they
don’t stop concocting such slanders on
him he’ll join Lynde Harrison’ s new
partv of kickers.‘
Buxton’ 8 golden sorrell truck horse,
in backing up to the Boston store this
noon, slipped on the smooth “cobble
stones and fell flat. He made things
lively for a few minutes in his struggles
to get up, and finally got up doing no
l during the season.7
1 posted 1n the hall notifying purchasers
l of tickets that the stamping of feet and
! instant ej ectment
celebrated candies in :_
:celebrated candies in?
to , market to-day, a' two. quart
' Sample of which was A'3left with
the Editor, and to 3 beat out
house and keep it _in that condition
NotiCes will be
whistling will be a sufficient cause for
James Landrigan' Consumed Several
pints of fire water last evening and
this morning about 2 o’clock Oflicer
Morehouse found him trying to mak e
l 9. “Francis Wilson slide” down the
E stairs leading to Slattery’ s barber shop.
This morning Judge Coolidge pro-
nounced the slide bogus and gave Jim
:85 and costs, which he will pay with a
'ter'm 1n Bridgeport jail.
L_ Telegrapher Johnny Hoyt Was inno-
: cently made the victim of, to' him, a
serious joke at the post ofiicethis morn-
;ing. He was handed out a plethoric
3 package addressed to‘ “J. H. Hoyt. ”
l He opened it and found a bundle of la-
gbels thus inscribed, “Diadem Whiskey
Bottled byJ. H. Hoyt, Norwalk, Ct”
Johnny will make oath it is the Water
streetJ. H.a11d'3not the depot J. H.
who owns the labels. 3 " .
Frank Brainard' was sent down to
Peach Islandiyesterday to do a job of
sign painting by Francis & Co. The
clothing sale was so brisk at their well
stocked store, that night came with
never a thought of per Bramard for
whom they were to send, and he was
left there a prisoner without a boat or
knowing how to swim ashore. About
nine o’clock he hailed a belated cys-
terman who took him on board and
thus saved him from an all night vigil
on the lonely island, or a watery grave.
There are some‘who may doubt 1‘Mr.
Ben Allen’s statement 1n regard to the
earliness of his strawberries, where he
asserts that boys Were in the next lot
snowballing when he began picking.
But for an extended season Geo C.
Comstock breaks the record, having
brought a crate of delicious berries in.
the claim of» being the latest in market,
to compare with Mr. Allen’s “earliest
of all” as above, Mr. Comstock states
that men were seen Cutting ice ’ in the
neighborhood of his berry patch only
injury to anything.
Miss Mary Stewar, ~ is Vlsltmg Mrs E:
;naan‘3
L-Extrgcts at half price t5 day at .
guests at Walter Fitchfls on the West-3 -'
Mrs. Charles _T. Leonard and daugh- .
ermelons from the taillboard of Betts &3 .
~West. yesterda afternoon,B
this morning.
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Dr. ”1A HéBalflw1nwonld announce
to his friends and'patlentfilthat during
’hiS‘gfe1v day’s absence in the west he
has engaged Dr. Keeler of New Ca-
‘ito attend to his professmnal busi-
=;"':Dr.~Keeler'w1ll be at’Dr. Bald-
win’ 8 office from 2 to 3 and from ’7 to 8
p. m. daily, and attend patients at their
homes as required. 140 1tpd
How sweet a thing it is to see breth-
ren dwell in unity. H. Lynde Harri-
son in an open letter. in the Palladium
has let his heels fly at Editor Porter of
the Hartford Post, because the latter
as a member of the House .committee,
did not report on the dead-lock issue,
what Harrison advisedwould be wise
and best. Last evening in the Post,-
Brother Porter gets back at Harrison
and reminds one of Mugo Park’s ac-
count of how exhilerating it is. ;to hunt
tigers until the tiger turns ‘ and hunts
you. ‘
The Sentinel printed, on Thursday,a
very readable article concerning the
Summer Home which the church of the
Holy Trinity, New York city, establish-
ed 1n East Nor walk in the spring of
1889. It was such an attractive article
that we read it a second time, and as we
read, the story appeared strangely fa-I
miliar. Investigation proved that it was
taken bodll Th from an article that ap-
peared in e Hour of August 17,1889.
But it was mighty“ good reading even if
it was two years old. —[H our. '
Fie, fie, John, why don’t you con-
gratulate your esteemed contemporary
on being only two yearsbehind 1n' serv-
. . [.mg up the news?
Ladder company havel-been indiigtiduga ;-
Should any one remark the red face
and scarlet nose on Builde1 Wilson, it
'wasn’t caused this time by his going
a-fishing and taking, as so many do,
fire-water for bait, but yesterday he
gaily sailed his shallop down and about"
the islands just to show the harbor skip-
peis a few frills 1n sailing. He enjoy-
wed .h1mself immensely until the time
came to set sail for home, when every
Ebre'ath of wind died 'out and the poor
fellow had to haul in sail and row
home. Well, to_ say. that Wilson’s
3‘ ‘wind? “died outf’firji that fi ve mile pull
is to state it too mildly.
Just before his departurfie for the
W. Ma-
ples sllced off t e end 0t h1s left thumb
ma paper cutter. He slapped the sev-
er ed part back 1n place and a physician
secured it there with strips of sticking
plaster and prophesied that it would be
as good as ever in a week or two. —-Hour.
Had he taken heed of the GAZETTE’ or
frequent notes of warning. he wouldn’t
have been fooling around edged tools.
Nevertheless the GAZETTE trusts that
tho’ he left us sliced and disabled, he
will return restored and sound in limb,
and wind, and clothed and on his right
mind But with giddy Dr.- Baldwin
and money sharp Green as traveling
comp anions, the outlook isn’tassuring.
CHURCH SERVICES.
FIRST BAPTIST 4F. E. Robbins, pas-
tor. Service at 10. 30 and 7. 30. Sub
ject, morning. “The Light of Life.”
Evening, “The Last Invitation to
Come.” ‘During the early part of the
evening service, a short service of song
will be held. Strangers cordially wel-
comed. All seats free. At the- weekly
Thursday evening prayer meetings of
the First Baptist church, Pastor Rob-
bins gives an half hour’s exposition of
the coming Sunday School lesson, “In-
ternational Series.” These lectures
are public, teachers and scholars are
cordially welcome; followed by half
hour of prayer and praise.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL.——Rev. Thos
K. Noble, pastor. Services at 10: 30 a.
m. and 7: 30 p. m.Mor31'1’ing subject.
“The Power of the Cress.” Evening
subject, “Some Excellen'cies of the Con-
gregational Way.” The public cor-
dially invited.
ST. PAUL’s. ——Rev. S. T. Grahamrrec-
tor. 10- 30 a. m., divine service with
sermon; subject, “The Philosophy of
Exaltation 'or Pre- eminence in the Ser-
vice of Christ. ”- 7: 30 p. m. divine ser-
vice with sermon, subject, . “Gambling
in HighLife—a Chapter from Recent
English History.” Sunday School 12
m. A cordial welcome to all.
GRACE CHURCH, July 12th. —,-Seventh
Sunday after Trinity. 10: 30 a. m. Morn-
ing Prayer, Litany and sermon. 12 m.
Sunday School. 7: -30? p. m. Evening
Prayer and sermon. All are welcome.
KNIGHT STREET A. M. E.C311URciI-.'
Rev. W. M. Berry, pastor. Services at
11 a; m’. and -:7 30 p. 111. Sunday school
at12in. Y P. S. C. E. meetsat4p in.
each Sabbath..Classmeet1ngs on Tues-
day evenings. .
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’l‘ho July Cotton Crop
WASHINGTON, July 113. —The folloWing is
the July cotton crop report :-—The aver-
ago for the Whole breadth has advan'cod
three points, standing at 886. _This is
three points below the July ietin'n of last
year and One above that of 1889.1n but
four seasons since 1874 have the July re-
tu1ns been so low. The 1'etu1ns of condi-'
tion by States are as follows :—V_l3rginia,
82; North Carolina, 77; South Carolina, 80;“
Gemkia, 85; Florida 94; \luh.1n_1u,87; Mis-
sissippi, 91; Louisiana, 90; Texas, 85; Ar-
kansas, 93 ’lenncssce. 82. . .
serge crowd of people to town.
street parade was grand and imposing,‘
neighbors. _
;bors get cut of it is affecting.
There’s Always Room a: the’ Top.
Looking down serenely from the top”!
where "there are no business envies,’
jealousies or.hatreds,t and- “with malice
toward none and charity for all,” the
DAILY GAZETTE is sincerely sorry to
learn that Mr. Maples, of the Hour, left:
for; the West last evening, in a seriously'
broken state of health.
More A ' d Residents.
This addition gs been sent us of res-
idonts of Norwalklover 80 years:
John W. Benton and wife, both over
;.Mrs Susan Youngs, 82; Priscilla
Morgan, 83’; Mrs. Maria Partric (Pop-
lar Plains), 88, David Fillow, 82, Miss
Ann Jennings, 81, and Mrs. Margaret
Wilson, 88. Mrs. Stephen Hoyt of New
Canaan 18 now in her 87th year.
“There is Nothing 30- Successful as
_ Success.”
The hustling little DAILT GAZETTE is,
" not only read by everybody, but seems
to be everybody’ s favorite medium for
advertising. We give the following to-
tal of new advertisefiients taken from
our books. which were published 1n the
» GAZETTE for the months named: —_~
Total new advs. for Apr11 1'55
1: u er 3. or (;.May: 159
“ ‘ “ “ June, 168
“ Thus far for the month of July, al-
though always deemed a dull month
for business, the indications are that
our total of new advertisements will-
; exceed any one of the three months giv-
on above.
11111 ~——4- .-
‘ Important to_Militiamen.
In generalerd‘ers No 3 just issued by
Brigadier General Watson, paragraph
eleven says. “The militia law of this
state. in requiring the attendance at
camp of every member of its National
Guard says:
frOm any of the roll-calls will be deem-
ed as absence for the entire day, and so
reported oh the pay roll.’ The penalty
for each day of such absence is a fine
of $5, and for any unsoldierly conduct,
or disobedience of orders, the fine of
$10 may be imposed and the offender
may be put under arrest, during such
n‘ding officers are
directef‘to see tho? nlisted men, ab-
' V ‘ 1‘ .e legally notified
of fines, and that the fines are col-
lected. ”
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Walterl... Main’ s Big Show. 3
The Ohio Patriot says: Walter L.
Main’ s circus and Menagerie pitched,
its tent here last Friday and drew a
The
the horses in line being exceptionally
finer. specimens of} the equine ' raCe.
Probably: no Show that has ever' ap-
peared in New Lisbon has given such
universal satisfaction. The term- mar-~
velous is the only one that can convey
an adequate idea of the trapeze and
acrobatic feats. , The performance as
neat as clean as any ever seen here and
the advertised programme was com-.
pletely carried out. This feature ac-
counts for its extreme popularity
wherever it is, exhibited. The side-
show and the concert were first-class in
every particular. It short, there is '
splendid array of talent with this com-
pany, and each and all possess draw-
ing qualities. It is the best tent show
on the road.
This show will exhibit at South Nor-
Walk, Wednesday, July 15.
That Delightful Parrot.
Ex-U. S. Treasurer and' now Presi-
dent of the Fairfield County National
bank and president of the Norwalk
horse railway and a half dozen other
enterprises of magnitude, keeps a par-
r0t. That parrot like most of its kind
is a voluble talker and screecher. It
is an object of interest, amusement
and pleasure to the family and to the
The “pleasure” the neigh-
' J. A.
Osborn, Hyatt’s nearest neighbor, has
been known, in the efi‘usiveness of his
ecStacy over that parrot. to remark,
that as between a bird of that descrip-
tion and a Mistsissippi high-pressure
steamboat,_a steam calliope or our de-
testable steam roller, give him all
three of the latter and take away the—
angelic bird. Well, during Mr. Hy-
att’s recent visit of a week in Boston,
(every moment of which was occupied
signing the fast selling bonds of the
‘Georgla-Alabama Investment’ "and
Development 00,”) some friend of Hy-
att surreptitiously taught that bird of
paradise to yell“Tallapoosa,” “How are
yen Tallapcosa9” “Hello, Georgia.
Alabama,” so that poor Hyatt can’t get
in gun shot of h1s parrot without. hav-
‘ ing Georgia-Alabama or' Tallapo'o'sa,
He can’t find,
screeched into his ears.
out who did this bit of mischief, but he
suspects Kimmy. 'If his suspiCiOns can
be confirmed by proof, away go 3 all of.
Kimmy’s chances fora nOmination' to'
the. presidency before. ;the National
convention. In such case Hyatt would
declare unalterably and unfalteringly
for Cleveland. Moral. -—Don’t keep a
parrot. If you do, kill it.
‘Absence without leave 3
.4
' Tim.
ll MIDNIGHT FIRE
Qur Regular Barn Burning.
A Viottm For the Third Time.
Ab0ut half past one o’clock this morn-
ing, the fire alarm sounded for a fire,
near the corner of Chapel street and;
'HarbOr avenue, and the electric light
whistle shri'ekeda still louder alarm. -'
Hope Hose company was first on the
scene, which proved to be the barn
owned by P. H. Dwyer and occupied
by Arthur Hubbs.
The hose company was delayed in
getting. to the fire by the fact that a'
'long'fréiglit train stood across Water
street and did not move till several
precious minutes had. elapsed. Then
their wrench for turning. on the water"
for the hose from. the new hydrants
brOke before the screw could be turned
and another had to be procured. By
this time the barn was pretty Well de-
stroyed.
In it was a good horse, a peddler’ s
wagon, a buggy, harness and sleigh,
valued in all at from $350 to $400. 0.
E. Wilson had 8500 insurance on them,
so that Mr. Hubbs’ loss, it is widely be-
lieved will not exceed the insurance.
Mr. Dwyer'had $100 on hisbarn, and
his less w‘111 be about $100 above that.
His house was also blistered by the
heat and a large amount of property
was imperiled.
This is the thirdltime that this same
-misfortun‘e has overtaken Mr. Hubbs, .
and it is singular, at least, that a man
withdut an enemy in the world, so far
as he knows, or can conjecture, should
be thus relentlessly pursued.
One of the graphic incidents of the fire
was a bevy of Hope Hose boys dashing
into the flames and hauling out aburn—
ing wagOn, and blistering their hands
in so doing. 3
Another was tax-policeman Tim Mc:
‘ Carthy taking the hose up a ladder on
his shoulder, to pour water into the
flameswithout a nozzle on the hose,
') when it wiggled about and began pour-
ing a cold stream down his neck and
out through the leg of- his policeman
pants. “Oh, oh, horrors!” shouted
“Shut her off, or you’ll spoil my
police suit. I never hadso much cold'
water down 'my neck since I was born. ”
3
"The. Consolidated Enjolnod.
The Consolidated road has met with'
another check in its four-tracking im-
pr0vements‘ at Greens Farms. This
time it is in the form of an injunction
sworn out by Austin Jennings of that
place through his attorney, George W.
Wheeler of Bridgeport, and was served
alupon the officials of the road by Depu-
ty Sherifi‘ Leonard Thursday, the re~
sult being that work was immediately
suspended. 3 .
The property now in dispute between
Mr. Jennings and the railroad company
is a piece of land 150'_feet in width be-
tween Mr. Jennings’ front fence and.
the highway leading up. to the Greens
Farms bridge. Mr. Jennings claims
that he owns this strip of'land, although
it has not been fenced in, while the
railroad company claims that it belongs
to the town and has a right to take a
‘slice from it for the four-tracking im-
provements. - '
Recently a board (of appraisers ap-
pointed by the superior court, settled
‘the dispute arising over‘ the amountthat
should be paid by.the railroad company
to Mr. Jennings fer the land south of
-{Mr. Jennings’ "front fence, but at that
time nothing was said about. the lawn
in front. Therefore, when the improve-
ments reached this point, Mr. Jennings
at once became desirous of coming to
an understanding in the matter. He
learned that the railroad oficials claim-
ed a right to ;take aslice ofi' this 150-
foot strip on the ground that it was
town property, and accordingly when
the work reached the point in dispute,
he prayed out the injunction to prevent
them going any farther.‘ The writ 1s
returnable to the September term of '
the superior court Stoddard, Bishop
& Shelton represent the railroad com-
pany', and they will probably endeavor
to secure a speedy hearing on the mat:
Most of the superior court judges
ter.
are away on their vacations at this sea-
son of the year, however, and if it is
found that one cannot be procured
readily to hear a motion for the disso-
lution of the injunction, a compromise
will probably be’efi'ected by the. rail-
road company, as it desires to push the
work of four-tracking ahead with all
possible rapidity.
EXTRA SOUTH NORWALK NEWS.
John Ferris has leased his Darie‘n
store to Mather 85 Grumman, and the-
fact gives Mr. Ferris a new lease of life.
, Mrs. George ‘W. Hallock, wife of (one
of the hustling reporters of the Dan:
bury News, is visiting friends 'in this .
city.
' Have you seen those hollyhocks in
Gould Seymour’s yard on West avenue.
There are several varities or colors of
them and they present a decidedly
pretty appearance.
A movement' 18 on foot to secure the
introduction of the borough water into
the East N orwalk school. It is claimed
that the well water now in use’is ren-
dered unhealthy by reason of its prox-
imity to the privy vaults. '
“Teddy Lightning,” 9. hatter, well
known in this city, was arrested in
Danbury' yesterday. He was ' found
bunking in a barn. He was sent tothe
workhous’e for fifteen days. The News
says that he declared that he would
Teddy is a vie-3
'tim of rum and has been arrested here
never come out alive.
many a time.
~ Mrs. Frank Godson through a letter
in the Journal claims that she and her.
husband have been “persecuted” by
city officials. Certain it is that they
were prosecuted for selling liquor with-
'out a license and fined 825. Mrs. God-
son promises some new developments
in the case when it is tried before the
Superior court. An “old man” is lia-
’ ble to catch it.
Among our aged citizens not hereto-
fore mentioned in the GAZETTE list of
old people is the Widow Betsey Lock-
wood of West Norwalk, who lacks
scarce three years of being a centen-
narian. Last winter at the age of 96
.years she had a severe attack of the
grip and it was feared that she would
die, but she recovered and to-day is
much more active than many persons
of half her years. She is to Revolution-
ary pensioner, her father having shoul-.
dered a musket in defence of his couné
try in those days.
More Norwalk Ancient History.
The first mayor of the city of St.
Johns, in the province of New Bruns-
wick, was an East avenue lad who was-
born in East N orwalk in 1755, and
brought up about half Way between
the foot of “Good man Hoyt’s (now
Earle’s)Hill, ” and the ancient Tide mill.
His father is interred in the East N or-
walk cemetery, but the grave of his
mother, who was buried with consid-
erable circumstance from Bowling
Green, New York, is in Trinity church
yard in the same city. This, one of our
own down town youth of whom a chron-
icler says: “His was one of the finest
of human faces,” enjoyed an honor
that has probably fallen to no other
American, in that he once entertained
the great grandfather of the present
Emperor of Germany, who is just now
the subject of such magnificent demon-
strations abroad as the guest of his roy-
al grandmother Queen Victoria. His
nephew wasapatron of one of those
boys’ boarding seminaries for which
N orwalk, Greenfield Hill, New Canaan,
Wilton and Weston have long been
famous, the son of whom was a school-
mate and afterwards a Yale classmate
of our revered citizen Rev. S. B. S.
Bissell, who holds in such tender re-
membrance the many delightful com-
rades of his early life; while his grand-
son Buchannan Winthrop, Esq., was
last month elected a member of the
corporatian of Yale university. It has
fallen to few Norwalk boys to attain to
the celebrlty ofNehemiah Rogers, Sr. ,
who died Sept. 20, 1849, at the age of
ninety-four. *
Did They Romance?
Warner Keeler, the New Canaan
butcher, sent two little kids down here
last night as they stated, one about a
dozen years old and the other younger,
to ride up alpair of horses which they
weretold were to come. up from New
York on the propeller. They walked
down and got here about 9 p. on. No
horses came here on the propeller, and
so they, having no] money, wandered
about our streets. not knowing what to
do. _ They were picked up after mid-
night and taken .to Dann’s stable where
a bed ' of clean straw was made for
them and where they slept till the first
Streak of day when they streaked it
back to New Canaan, with all their hap-
py visions of a horseback ride extin-.
guishcd. On questioning them, the eld-,
est admitted that he had started with ' I
fifteen cents and that one of the sa-
loons here sold him .a small bottle of
whisky fer his money. ’ He thought
they might be very cold if they stayed
out all night and had best have the
whisky. It would be an interesting
fact for our police to learn who it was
who sold these children the bottle of
whisky. The horses, if they came at all,
came no doubt by. the steamboat at
South Norwalk. Altogether, it was a
queer story these urchins from a town
‘3‘ gone wet” told our reporter.
PRESS TELEGRHMS
SpeCIaIIy Wood to the Norwalk
" DaIIy Gazette.
Rescued- the Child.
CONccRn, July 11. —As a freighttrain
was going west from Pittsfield on the
Suncook Valley Railroad, the engineer
Charles ,J Hutchins, saw a short dis-
tance ahead. a little child on the track.
It being impossible to stop the train
before reaching the child, he went for-
ward to the pilot in the hope of grasp.
ing and rescuing the little one.
A sudden lurch of the locomotive
threw him on' the ground beside the
track. The engine kndcked down and
passed ov'er- the child who, when dis-
covered by the engineer under the
slowly moving train, was attempting to
crawl out between the wheels.
Hutchins,hang1nrr to the side of a
'car, reachedthroug hthe truck frame,
caught the child and holding it safely,
was dragged by the train until it was
stopped. The child: was unhurt, but
the engineer was slightly bruised.
Q .
New Route to Boston. _
NEW YORK, July 11.—There were two
announcements made yesterday of sig-
nificance in. the-railroad world. One
was that Austin Corbin had resigned as
a director of the Central railroad of
New Jersey, and the other was that the
Long Island . interests had completed
negotiations which might lead to the
establishment of a new raih'oad compe-
tition between New York and Boston.
The storyof the new route from Brook-
lyn to ‘New England points is easily
told. Mr. Corbin was in a hurry to go
to his New Hampshire country place
yesterday and he left the following
statement as his expression of opinion :
(“The‘Long Island railroad officials
admit that a contract, has been entered
into between the N ew' York and New
England, the Housatonic and the Long
Island railroad for a regular passenger
service between Flatbush avenue,
Brooklyn, Long Island City and Bos-
ton, over the lines of the three roads—
the Long Island to Oyster Bay, the
Housatonic from Oyster Bay to Haw-
leyville, ’ Conn., and the New York and
New England from Hawleyville to
Boston. Arrangements have also been
made for the handling of freight over
these lines to and from all points _on
Long Island and especially Brooklyn.
They say that this contract is not nec-
cessarily antagoniStic to the New York
New Haven and Hartford, because it is
more especially in- the interest of
Brooklyn business. It is not expected
that the new line will do a passenger
service from NewYork city to Boston,
but that it will take all the business be-
tween Boston and New England points
and Brooklyn, because the time will be
exactly the same from ‘Flatbush avenue
to Boston, as is now made by the fast-
est trains from the Grand Central Sta-
tion over the New York, New Haven
and Hartford road to Boston, and will
save. all Brooklyn passengers the loss,
of time in going from Brooklyn to the
Grand Central station, as well as the
annoyance incident td’the transfer of
baggage. -_Passenge1'. cars will be run
directly through f1om Flatbush ave- '
nue to Boston, without change, the cars
being tr ansferr ed only a short d1stance
on the sound by float, so that a person.
can take a seat at Flatbush avenue in
Brooklyn, and be landed at the New
York and New England station 1n Bos-
.......... Sleepers
ton and Br ooklyn, Overthis same 1 cute.”
As soon as the legal proceedings in -
volving the Oyster Bay property are
determined, the‘Long Island company
will begin the work necessary. to effect
the successful operation of the new
line. It was said by Mr Corbin’ s
friends that it would not take more
than th1ee months to complete the nec
essary anangements for the establish-
ment of the new line.
09'“—
O‘iio Democr. 113"; Ph- no.
WASHINGTON, July 11. —Judge W elling-
ton S1111“ ('1. chairman of the Democriatc
State Executive Committee of Ohio, is in
the City, and 111 talking about. the demo-
crutzc convention to be lield next week
says the to there will be a. frcc- coma-ge
plank in the platform and that Neal’s
name will not come before‘ the convention
He predicts that Campbell will be the
unanimous choice. 3: — _,
New Route Eustward
NEW YORK, July‘ll’. -—Aust1n Coibin au-
thorizes the announcement that a con-
tract has been signed by the New York
and New England,” the “Heusatonic and
the Lcng' Island Railioad COmDames
for regular passenger service of trains
between the _Flatbush avenue, Brook-
lyn, and the Hunter’s Point depots 0‘
the Long Island Railroad and Boston
and intermediate points over the lines
of the three roads named. The route Will
be via the Long Island Railroad to 03'5"
ter Bay, via. the Housatonic, thence 1:0
Hawleyville, Conn., anv‘d thence. via the
N. Y. and N. E. to Boston. Arrangements
also being made for the handling 0‘
gimme: theatres mute
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