’i They that won’t be counseled can’t he helped. ---FrankllII. We therefore counsel you to - EAdverlise in the Daily Gazelle. [chansons e 93% i E uuuuuuuuuu LIL” II H II II ll ll ll ll ll llHITlJl 1111 “ll 1] H ”TI “Equal and Exact J astioe to cgll Men of Whatever State or Persuascon. Religious or Political. ”—Jeferson ONE CENT A WORD. II'IAIlIIeItlsIeI' In lhe Daily Gazelleg It xmmfll II II II II II llJl II II II II II II II II WTI - - '4 ., 1.1-. Vol. I, No'. 141.; Norwalk Conn., Monday Evening, July 13 1891 IW 1 Price One Cent. The Daily Gazette Is issued every week—day at 8 P. 11L, at ~ ONI CENT PER corr. ' The Cheapest Rate. foe Advertising. and T1111 LARGEST CIRCULATION. The Weekly Gazette, ' " [Combined with Fridav’s Daile Is issued every Friday at Noon, at THREE CENTs PER COPY. on $1.50 PER YEAR. The Daily and Weekly. Served to Local Subscribers at TEN CENTS PER WEEK, on $5.00 PER YEAR. A. H. BYINGTON. Proprietor. . This paper has the largest circulation of any paper inIthe State west of Bridgepbrt. 0 UR J OBBIL‘ 6- DEPARTMENT. Mn. HARRY M. GARDNER, J11" of New York, has charge of the GAZETTE’s Engraving, Book and Jobbing Department. He is an expert and experiencéd Job Printer, and no work en- trusted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done. T THE LIVE NEWS OF TO-DAY. Dr. N. A. Mosman spent Sunday in town. The Epworth League of the Metho- dist church hold ameeting this evening. Miss Sarah Stevens Is visiting friends in Newark. Miss Florence Selleck is Ivisiting friends in town. Mrs. John Treadwell and children are at Lake Waramaug. The infant child of Dr. and Mrs. Many is quite sick. ' Miss Jessie Barnes of Brooklyn. is. visiting her sister Mrs. W. A. Curtis. —Special sale of Extracts tO-day at Betts & Farrington’s. 140 3t Frank Lockwood was a visitor at Chas. S. Lockwood’s, his brother, Sun- day. —Extracts at costat Butts & Farring- ton’s. 140 3t Mrs. Richardson and daughter of Brooklyn are guests of Mrs Daniel Nash. __ We are requested to state that the Wall street base ballists are anxious to meet the Main street base ballists on the diamond in mortal combat. —Try a bottle of Foss’ Extract, all, flavors at Betts & Farrington’s. 140 3t John Doty of Gunther’s great fur store in New York,‘and his little son were guests at his mother’s on West avenue over Sunday. Miss Jennie Stevenson, of New York, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Murray on Academy street. The bricklayers’ strike at New Haven is ended, the men having accepted the terms of the boss masons. —--See advertisement dog lost. 28-3t A meeting is to be held this after- noon at the Congregational parsonage in the interest of the new hospit a1 pro- ject. I~Extracts at half price to- day at Betts & Farrington’ s. 140 3t Professor Fairlamb’s boy choir of St. Paul’s church meets this evening. The choir is making most encouraging pro- gress. —Foss’ Vanilla Extract 2 oz. bottles 20c. at Betts & F‘arrington’s. 140 3t Miss Clara Smith leaves this week for a trip to the White Mountains in com- pany with Mr. and Mrs. George But- terworth. ' Miss Watkins, who has been visiting her brother and family at the Grace church rectory for the past few weeks left town this morning. Master Joseph Lynes of Trinity church choir, New York, is visiting Mrs. E. P. Weed. While here he will sing in Grace church choir. Mrs. George Bundle formerly of Winnipauk and now of Brooklyn is visiting her relatives Mr. Stepnen H. Smith and family on N ewtown avenue. Burton Brown, aged 15, dived into a small pond near Southington yesterday and his head went into the mud two feet. Before help came he was dead. Mrs. Rebecca Conn of New York was arrested at the wedding of her sister in New Haven Saturday evening, charged with stealing 350 from her stop—brother aged 16.. President Hill of the Norwalk Iron Works has taken his two little sons and Master Albert Mossman up to Mrs.» Lock’s at North Bethel, Maine, one of the ideal spots that artists and trout fishermen delight to visit. A Schooner 1s discharoing a load of clay at the Pottery wharf f01 the Messrs Lycett. ’ an extra jug of ballast this tlme - ’ The Christian Endeavor delegates to ' the mumber “of 15,000 ”are "having” a great time at the Minneapolis conven- __ tion. The next-annual'meeting will be held at New York. I During the service yesterday in St. Paul’s chapel, Lewisb'oro, Mr. and Mrs. Gould Rockwell of Ridgefield, stood sponser at the baptism 'of a’neice of Mrs. Rockwell. Milk producers along the lineOf the Housatonic system think that the new transit line across the sound will open up to them the Brooklyn market, which has heretofore been practically monopolized by Long Island farmers. The Alerts, a newly organized ball club, would like to hear from and ar— range games with any uniformed base ball club, whose members are under 20 years of age, in this section. Clune and Sheehan are the battery of this new club. The New York letter carriers deliv- ered during the year ending June 30 over two hundred and Sixty-five million pieces of mail matter. The cle1ks, hand- a round thousand million pieces. F. Martiniand Anello Leonora, two representatives of sunny Italy, quar- elled over a game of cards on Saturday and Martini struck Anello on the head with a wooden club. Judge Coolidge took a hand in the game shortly after, and fined them both a dollar and costs, which they paid and were released Mr. Robert Dix, a b10ther-in~law of Mr. Charles F. Tristram of Tristram & Hyatt, died at River Head, ‘L. I., of lung hemorrhage on Friday. I His fu- neral took place in Brooklyn last eve- ning. and Mr. Tristram and his wife, who is a sister of the deceased, went down yesterday to attend theiun‘eral. Mr. Dix’s father is traveling in Europe. The only surviving granddaughter of the late enPresident Andrew Johnson died yesterday in Colorado, where she hed been staying for some months hop- ing to recover her health. During the Johnson administration she was “Little Belle Patterson,” and scarcely less be- loved by the President than was her mother, his eldest daughter. The White House was full of little folks dur- ing President Johnson’ sadministration but this graceful little girl was his idol. How is this for the latest down east snake story . A man down in Norwich the other day, took the stone cover 011‘ an old dry well in his pasture and saw at the bottom of it a ball Of braided black snakes bigger than a lager beer keg. He ran to the house and got his revolver and a box of cartridges. He blew in all his cartridges, and the well . was boiling over with escaping snakes when he got through with them. He got 18 dead snakes in the well, and more than three times that number got away. The biggest Snake'bagged was over seven feet long and the smallest one more than four feet. _______....,_.___ More Injunctions. It was after eleven o’clock Saturday night when Warden Keeler was sleep- ing the sleep of one who was ”at peace with all the world and the rest of man- kind, ” as President Zachary _ITayloi wrote in his first message to Congress, that he was aroused from his virtuous stable JohnuLockwood who had come to serve an injunction, issued by Judge Kelsey, restraining the borough of Nor- walk from cutting down the bank. and destroying the shade trees in front of the Bennett homestead on East ave- nue. The warden got up out of his bed, took his revolver out from under his pillowand cautiously descended the He was not dressed for company, yet his apparel made him look to Lockwood more like an angel'ready' to go up, than in any costume the officer had ever seen him in before. When he saw it was only “good-natured John Lockwood the war- den’s trepidatiOn all vanished, and he told him that he had felt lonesome all day because no borough injunction had been served and so he had gone to bed a little earlier than was his custom when out with the boys. The business was 'soon concluded, service of the in- junction papers endorsed and each bade the other “good night,” the warden as- suring John that no man would obey the laws of the land with more scrupu- lous fidelity than he, and that so long as he remained wa1den of the borough he should faithfully execute each and eVery law, if 'he perished' 1n the attempt. J. HeIn. Hoyt has ncone dOwn the harbor again to- day fishing He took. led on an average considerably more; than three million pieces of all ki1'1'ds'1ng a day, or a gr and total f'o1 the year of": -‘ slumbers by the stalwart form of Con-' stairs, not knowing what might be up._ $11161) III CllNNONS A DIemelltIed YIOUHg IMan Hangs ' Himself. William D. Crozer, aged 26, a de- mented young man from Huntington, L. I., who has been living with Ben- jamin F. Brown at Cannons, hung him- self just outside of his bedroom door at an early hour this morning. Crozer was at the Wilton depot last: night con- versing JOVially with some young friends, betraying no symptoms Of any purpose of self destruction. A Stricken Family. . A few days before the Over-River school closed, little Miss Ethel Mead, aged seven, child of Frederick Mead, was permitted to accompany a little girl friend there to school. As a result of it as her parents and their physician be- lieve, she contracted diphtheria. She ‘was yery ill, but being naturallya strong, healthy child she soon recover- ed and in a cautious way went about again. Soon her younger sister, Kitty, : was taken down with the dread disease. Ethel was immediately sent to her ' aunt’s, Mrs Blackman’s, fearing the sister’s illness might cause a relapse. She remained at Mrs. Blackman’s until a week ago Satu1day when the child became so homesick to see her people that her aunt permitted her to go home. ; The mother thinking it unwise for her ' to remain at home, allowed Miss Alice Selleck to take her down to her home on Merwin street. She remainedthere till the end of the week, when symp- toms of a renewed attack of the dread disease set in, when Miss Selleck took her home. Here she has remained up to the present writing very ill with the terrible malady, yet: apparently im- proving. Meantime little Kitty has been growing worse, and to-day her precious little life is almost despaired of. Last Thursday night Mr. Frederick Mead, the father, was stricken with it, and has been a terrible sufferer since and gradually growing worse up to the present moment. From the dreadfully contagious nature of the disease, neigh- bors could not and cannot do what they would wish in the way of assistance, but one trained nurse from the New Haven hospital has been with them and this morning another was to come, for yesterday the poor mother, Vovertaxed with work and worry and‘watching' be? sideher dear ones, went down with the terrible malady and is a very danger- ously sick woman. the whole community goes out in un- stinted measui etc the stricken family. Dr. Emily Pardee, assisted by Dr. Hitchcock, have the cases in charge, Dr. Emily remaining there all of Sat- urday and Sunday nights and doing all in human power for the sufferers. Every effort and precaution is also taken to prevent a spread of the fearful disease from their house to others. Seldom has a family In healthful Norwalk been so sorely stricken as this, and in every one’s heart it awakens that “touch of naturewhich makes the whole world kin.” __Nfi _..-___..‘...>._r_..'_ _ _.... Labor-Day. The General Committee on the labor day industrial parade and picnic met at the Mahackemo Hotel Friday evening and appointed the following sub—com- mittees: , ON PARADE. A H McChesney of the IHat Finishers W J Keith “ Iron Moulders Joseph O’Brien “ ~' Cigar Makers George Wells “ Engineers W G Hoffman “ Elastic Webb Workers John Kelly ' “ Brass Moulders E L Griswold “ Nerwalk Carpenters E N Jarvis “, S Norwalk “ George Robins “ Bricklayers A; Masons_ ON sron'rs Wm Thies I of the Cigar Makers C J Conley .- ' ' “ Iron Moulders A J Brewer "- , Engineers Herman Webel “ Elastic Webb Workers “ S Norwalk Carpenters Alex Tooker ' ON PRINTING. . George Semson of the Brass Moulders B R Reynolds “ - Cigar Makers H S Pickering “ Engineers ON PBIVILEGES. Henry Swint I Of the ' Hat Finishers W H Stevens “ S Norwalk Carpenters :ON MUSIC FOB:GROUNDS. Charles Lynch of the ' Hat Finishers PB Downing “ I Brass Moulders ON JOURNAL. - ' J W Scully of the Hat Finishers A Williamson “ Elastic Webb Workeis 0N TRANSPORTATION. _ W Thies of the Cigar Makers ON (111011an AND .LIGHTS. Wm C Conley of the [1 on Moulder s H E Buckingham “ Norwalk Carpenters The fair grounds have been secured ' for the picnic, and the committee pro- pose to give a parade showing the in- dustr ice of the town anda picnicworthy the patronage of the public. —An extra fine line of Tea at 50 cents per pound, worth 60 cents, at Bette & Farrington’ s. 140 3t .I superior to any show ever here. _menagerie though not large, contained The sympathy of . * ' A Sloonyfi-Cht-Stolen. 2 Some time during Friday night or ' Saturday morning the sloop yacht Wild Bird, belonging to Merrill White of New Haven, was stolen from her anchorage off HeatoVn’ s dock. There is no IclueItoV the thieves. of the cabin also being drab' 1n color. ' In length it is 23 feet Over all, and has a nine foot beam. ——~- ~ 4«-~—-'~vo>—— — «M— W. L. Main’ sCircus. I The Ashtabula. News says. —Walter L. Main’s circus drew a big crowd last Thursday afternoon and evening, about every seat in the mammoth tent being filled. The circus performance was The some very fine animals. The Objection- of this kind are carefully excluded by Mr. Main, who evidently takes pride in giving the people a clean, first class entertainment, and to this may be, at- tributed his wonderful success. I This show ' will exhibit at South NOrwalk IWednesday, J uly‘i15. Phillips Brooks! Election Assured. A majority of the bishops of the Pro- testant Episcopal church have voted in favor of the confirmation of the Rev. Phillips Brooks as bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts. The exact number of votes for and against him is not .known here yet. He received atf' least 34 out Of 67. Dr. Brooks was elected bishop on April 30. It took over a month to get the hpproval of a majori- ty of the standing committee of. the different dioceses and then it went to the bishops. When Bishop Williams, the presiding bishop ofthe church re- ceives word fromthe diocese of Massa- chusetts that preparations have been made for the consecration Of Bishop Brooks, he will appoint three bishops to ofliciate at the ceremony. V Burninggof Norwalk . In Saturday’ s DAILY GAZETTE the fact was stated that just 112 years ago that day, Norwalk was burned by the British troops under General Tryon. We now give these few additional par- ticulars of that hihtoric event so locally interesting : Those of our soldiers who from dawn had commanded Grumé: man’s Hill were dispossessed of the' same by the British at about 8 or 9 o’clock in the morning, and the main action of the day and its final confliCt commenced about 10 a. m. on France street, at which points nineteen hun- dred of "Gen. Tryon’s twenty-five hun- dred men were met and Opposed by only Some four hundred militiamen, in- cluding volunteers. . The conflagration and sacking 'of the townwere completed at about noon, when Tryon ordered a retreat. He lost about twenty men, the graves Of some Of whom are, (so claims ancient tradition,) upon a» gen- tle bank, under a small cluster of trees, just to the'east of the extreme upper end of France street. —————-——-4—o—>——-——-—-—, - Harrison Letter Comments. -' The Hartford Courant’s reporter con- tributes the following to the Harrison- Porter literature. Said Mr. Porter: “In my opinionl Mr. Harrison may be paving the way to slide over to the democratic party. He may want to join that party because he thinks his ‘usefulness’ would have a better field. This letter is simply a mock holding;1 up of his hands 1n 1101 horror of the dis- honorable’ act. oft e republican party, so that he will have a good excuse to give the public for his chan e.” “Mr. Harrison,” says r. Porter, “has tried to be the dictator of the re- publican party, and he hasn’tbeen able to succeed.” He worked very hard to accomplish his end, but the committee could not act otherwise than they did, in view of the evidence and the facts _brought to their- knowledge.” GOVERNOR BULKELEY’ s VIEWS. . While Mr. Porter and the Courant man were talking, Governor Bulkeley came in and entered into the convei sa. tion with Some spirit. “That letter,” said he, “is the groan of a deposed ppliticalleadera Mr. Har- rison tried to impress his views upon the committee in order that the two. branches of the Legislature might get at work and his lobby have a chance to Operate. If he had succeeded he would have been on top. He failed and he sees he is overthrown. This matter goes back further than the meeting of the le islature. It _be ins with last fall’s e ection, When,' 111' t e Opinion Of many republicans—and I see no reason to differ with them—Mr. Harrison help- ed to defeat enough republican candi- dates for the senate to turn that body over to the democrats.” . “ Governor Bulkeley said it Was true . that he had no knowledge of what the report of the committee was to be until it was presented to the House. _ JUDGE MORRIS’S OPINION. Judge Luzon B. Morris was seer.- by a Register reporter, and he declined to give expression to his views on the sub- ject. He said: — ‘ ‘It' 1s a fight between the republicans, _ which I propose to let the republicans fight out among themselves, but I don’t think our case will be injured by the true facts In the case as they W111 prob- ably be brought out.” The yacht was painted white, with drab deck,- the top-L LdOor 1n the same manner. closing the opening. THE D0011 BROKEN IN A Drunken Vlllaln Breaks Into a HOUSE ON U'lllOH AVG. ._._ ,. HéI'I'III - Was, 'after Ia Sewmg Machine. Some time ago a better by the name of Arthur Leary was keeping company ‘I'witll arladyIWhOl boarded at. the house of Mrs. Ann Gallagher on Union Ave. During that time he presented the lady with a seWing machine, which she kept in her room at 'the house. It seems, however, that the lady had gone away without taking the machine, Of which Leary became aware and decided to get the machine back. Early this - 1' n - able features’too often found with shows _mor ing Leary filled himself With fire Water and proceeded to Mrs. Gallagher’s lesidence and knocked. Mrs. Gallag- her, who..was in an inner room and not dressed, called to him that she would open the door as soon as she could dress: This did not suit Leary and he proceeded to break. in: the doOr and “gain admission. Not Seeing any one and hearing Mrs. Gallagher In her room he proceeded to break in her bedroom , When he found that his friend had left the house and he was confronting Mrs. Gallagher instead, he made a hasty retreat and has not been seen since. —_——-————--<-O>~~—-———— — The Hubbs’ Fire. Since giving the details of the burn- ing of the Dwyer barn, occupied by Arthur Hubbs, on Saturday, we have been furnished these additional partic- ulars. Mr. Hubbs, his wife and daughter had been out riding Friday evening he. bind the horse that was burned. He putvthe horse in the stall andlocked the barn securely and went home at about 9:30. ' He went to bed about 10, and was not out of his room until awakened by the fire alarm at 1 o’clock Saturday morning. On going to his bed-room window he Saw his barn in flames and so notified his wife. He then hastily dressed and ran to the barn to save his horse. He wrenched the hasp 011‘ the door and burned his hands in so doing, but his horse was dead and roast- ing inside. The poor animal had no doubt been suffocated by the smoke. The fact that Mr. Hubbs has been three times burned out .in an almost identical way, and all three‘ of the barns in the same Mmediate neighborhood and that he has kept fully insured, has led to manysurmises unfavorable to -him, in the absence of any other plausible explanation of the ' event. But Mr. Hubbs advances the theory that there is some onepersistently pursuing him, either from motives of envy, revenge‘or some mania for barn-burning, and the insurance officers are inclined to -his theory. It seems conclusive from the state- ments made by Mr. Hubbs’ wife and his aged father, who is now hear his end it is feared, and who is a man re- spected by everybody and above all suspicion and reproach, that Mr. Arth - ur Hubbs was not out of his house from half past nine of Friday night until h e ‘ went to the fire after 1 o’clock next morning. Another incident is in point. The wife and family of Mr. Hubbs were very ardently attached to the horse, in- deed had never had one .which was so endeared to them. It unquestionably had been a very superior animal and Mr. Hubbs himself had professed un- usual fondness for the beast. I All these facts are inconsistent with the theory that he was in any way con- nected with the incendiarism. I Another story went flying about the town Saturday that a Mrs. Hasting vis- iting her sick mother, residing in the old Isaac Selleck house on Harbor ave- nue and close to the burning barn, had, seen a man of Mr. Hubbs size and ap- pearance peering into her bed-room window only a few minutes before the fire started. A DAILY GAZETTE scribe called on Mrs. Hasting on Saturday evening and obtained a clear and can- did statement of that point. Mrs. Hen- ry Hasting lives in Stamford. She is the daughter of Alexander Britto who resides in the old Selleck house... Her mother being incurably 111 as it is fear- ed, came over hereto stay with her a short time. The invalid is confined in the northeast corner room on the ground floor. The daughter slept Fri- day night' In the room connecting with her mother’s on the west. She had been up and down most of the night at. tending upon her mother and also was ill herself with a sick headache. A light had ;. been burning in her mother’s room all-night and the door was open between them. The blinds to her win- dow were thrown wide openand caught back on the side of the house in the us- “ual fashion. Her lower window and curtain were also left up to admit the air and there was only 3. W116 flyscreIen A little before 1 o’clock she had just-dropped down on- the Outside of the bed. when she heard the outside of the wire netting of the window. She thought it might be :a cat, until looking quickly in that direc- tion she saw the face of a strange man pressing close against the wire. no one she had ever seen. She knows Mr. Hubbs perfectly well by sight and knows it was not him, though unable to more fully describe the man. She thought it to be some one confused by liquor, who had been attracted to her heard probably caused by his hand or wire. She says she was not frightened in the least as she was fully awake and her father was just across the hall. She got up peered out into the dark, but could see no further trace of the man, who had dodged away as soon as he saw her. She then threw herself upon the bed again and had not lain there more than ten minutes before she heard a terrible kicking by Hobbs’ horse. While listening to the horse she saw a light suddenly flash on her wall She sprang out of bed and hurried to thelwindow when she saw a flame creep- ing up the crack between to boards at the south-east end of the barn and about five feet from the ground. She called her father and alarmedthe house and when she returned to the window the upper part of the barn inside seem- ed all ablaze. The struggles Of the horse had also ceased, from which she reasoned that he must be dead, as he probably was, though her father hur- ried to the yard half dazed hoping to rescue it. This is the detail substance of her account of the man’s face at the window and of her having no doubt been the first to see the fire. From it no possible foundation exists for sup- posing, as was claimed, that the man’s face resembled M1. Hubbs’. So that up to date all theories, like the fire, end in smoke, but a Ii (1 investigation should be made and, 1possible,°the criminal guilty of these1 thrice repeated fires ar- rested and duly punished. ’ A Presentation. During the service of St. Paul’s Sun- day school yesterday the children were treated with a visit from the Rev. Mr. Selleck. His coming to spend a Sun- day with them had been anticipated for a number of weeks past, but as the time had not been set, his coming so quietly among them as he did yesterday, made it indeed a pleasant and agreeable sur- prise. Mr. Selleck took his seat with the Rev. Mr. Graham in the. chancel of the Sunday school, and after Mr. Graham’s usual instruction to the school, the In- fant Department, whose membership is now seventy,with their teacher, passed from their room into the larger room to greet their former rector. In view of his being with the school this day, Mr. Graham opened the appropriate service set apartfor Mr. Selleck’s coming, with interesting remarks, showing to him the tender love and affection the whole school still holds toward him their form- er rector and esteemed friend. In view of the fact that Mr. Selleck’s duties, since his leaving them as rector, had been such that he could not sooner be with them,Mr. Graham thought some punishment, by way of correction, for his long absence should be administer- ed. Mr. Graham then invited the offi- cers of the school to bring into the room some article by which Mr. Selleck might be chastised. The oflicers'of the school then retired for a few moments and returned carrying an article that was placed before Mr. Selleck, and upon unveiling the same, Mr. Graham, on behalf of the school, presented to him a handsome plush re- clining chair, also a pair of fine gold eye glasses, as a gift from the Sunday school to him their former rector and cherished friend, and in token of their great love and affection towards him. Mr. Selleck replied,and in words appropriate for the occasion, and spok- en as they were from the heart of a de- vout and faithful servant of Christ, to those who were present. Both to those connected with the school and the many parishioners present it was an occasion long to be remembered. He expressed himself as greatly pleased to be with them and to see so many Of them to- gether. He spoke to them of what there was that each one could do to build up and strengthen God’s kingdom in their parish. He expressed his affectionate thanks f01 the gifts presented him, and wished them—all a hearty “God bless you.” The school then sang that soul- inspiring hymn, “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” with great earnestness. They then gathered around Mr. Selleck and with congratulations retired. to their homes. Will of the Late Dr. Alsbp. The will of the late Dr. Joseph W. Alsopwas admitted to probate at Mid- dletown Saturday. A bequest of $1,000 is made to the Indian Hill Cemetery as— sociation, and the rest of the estate is divided equally among the testator’s children. a scratching and rubbing noise across- It was . window by her light and the noise she . the rim of his hat grating across the PRESS TELEGRNNS SpecIally Wll’Bd to the Norwalk « Daily.- Gazette. Edward Burgess Dead. BOSTON, July 13‘. ——Edward Burgess, the celebrated yacht designer, died from typhOid fever about four o’clock yesterday afternoon at his residence in Boston. He was bern at West Sand- wich, Mass. .,, J une 30,1848, and gradu- atecl from Harvard in 1871. In 1888 the college conferred upon him the de- gree of A. M. f Edward Burgess was known through. out the world as a very successful yacht designei. The victories of the boats f1 om his hands' in the still well remem- bered battles for the America’s Cup gave him a position that was enviable and his death is an irreparable loss to the yachting community of the United States. With one of his br others,1 Mr. B111 gess eight years ago opened a yachting agency in Boston, and soon after began designing yachts. Geneial Charles J. Paine, a very warm friend of his, and, as is known, one of the best amateur yachtsmen in this coun- try, told Mr. Burgess during a spirited conversation on yacht building that he had long desired to again bring about an international race for the America’s Cup, that the English might have an opportunity of winning it if they could. The result of this conversation was the buildingof the Puritan that beat the Genesta in 1885. That victory gave Mr. Burgess all the business of yacht designing he wanted, and his orders increased to such an extent that he was unable at times to do all the work that was required of him. In the year 1886 General Paine desired another yacht built, this time for‘himself, and from Mr. Burgess’ de- sign, which included manv of General Paine’s ideas, the Mayflower was pro- duced. And the Mayflower beat the Galatea. That was in 1886. Once more Burgess was called upon by Gen- eral Paine, and in 1887 the Volunteer was produced. Her record is known and the way she succeeded in defeat- ing the Thistle forms an important part of the history of the great yachting .strife between ~Great Britain and America. Father Donohue Dead. LAKEVILLE, July 13,—Rev. Patrick Donohue, pastor of the Roman Catho- lic church at this place, died yesterday morning of Bright’s disease after a month’s illness. He was a cousin of Dr. Donohue of Waterbury, where his funeral will be held on Tuesday morn- mg. —-—» ~—-—<-¢~>~————— '— , Runaways. Samuel Morehouse hired f‘Horry" Dann’s pacer yesterday afternoon and drove home andvhitched the animal securely, as he thought, but something frightened the horse and he made a spring, breaking his hitch rein and then dashing down Main street on a run. At the corner of Main and Wall streets he collided with “ghost car No. 10, which chanced to be. passing at that moment, with such force that it drove the end of the shaft through the side of the car, and threw the horse. He was secured before any great amount of damage was done. Contractor Queen’s double team ran away and cOllided and upset another team on the WestpOrt road yesterday, and brought up by Wedging themselves between one of Walter Fitch’s trees and his fence. No serious damage was done. ; ~fliriily Horrible. The latest contributions from the SouthNorwalkwater mains are at three- pound eel and a snapping turt1e*n1ne inches' 1n cir cumferen‘ce. The t1 ouble with the South Nor walk water has at last been discovered. appears that the fluid is chock full of uioglena volvox. This is certainly a very distressing condition of affairs, but nothing can be ained by 1188131112 the matter quiet. —[ [Bonn We knew there was something dread- ful 1n the South Norwalk water, for we saw a man on the Danbury cars try to swallow a mouthful of it recently and he couldn’t do it. But we didn’t sus- pect it to be as bad as stated by the Hour in the last paragraph above. “Uroglena volvox I” flIirabuli dicta. Any one would think ‘I‘IurOglena” hor- rid enough without adding “v01vox.” No wonder Editor Ellendorf is forced to forego his favorite cold water bever- age and drink beer. New Canaan’ 3 Fair. -—Tl_1e ladies _Of the Congregational church of New Canaan, will give their annual fair and sOcial gathering on Thur sday, July 16th, in Nichols’ Opera House. Being a moonlight night, the young men can enjoy a delightful drive from New Canaan to Norwalk after having enjoyed a tasteful dinner ar- ranged by the ladies, to be served at 6 p. m. Tkere is no question but that the ladies will eclipse all other previous efforts. .28 7t.
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