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OUR J ()BJIIL G DEPARTMEJVT.
MR. HARRY M. GARDNER. JR., of New York,
has charge of the GAZETTE’s Engraving, Book
and Jobbing Department. He is an expert
and experienced Job Printer, and no work en-
trusted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done.
IERSE TALES OF THE TOWN.
The Grace Church Ladies Guild, met
at Mrs. Van Buren’s yesterday.
Mr. S. K. Stanley gave a wagonette
party to Roton Point yesterday.
—--Ladies Home Journal for _ Sept.
now ready and for sale by Benedict. .
At Easton, Md., the canneries are
buying peaches at five cents a basket.
The National Order of the Sons _of
Veterans are in session at Minneapolis.
The session of the Chautauqua As-
sembly for 1891 came to a close, yester-
ay.
The scafi'olding around the tall Elec-
tlric Light chimney has been taken
own.
—The finest line of Harmonicas ever
shown in this town at Be nedict’s News
Room. 172 tf.
Don't forget the 17th Ct. reunion on
Friday at New Canaan. » It will be
worth attending.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Fillow, of No. 5
Chestnut street, are visiting friends at
Westburg, N. Y.
The Right Hon. Henry Cecil Raikes,
M. P., the Postmaster-General of Eng-
land, died yesterday.
The Alpha Wheel club will take a
run to Roton Point to-night, if the
weather be favorable.
The humidity yesterday was the high~
est this year on a clear day, being only
three degrees from rain.
Charles Brockway, messenger of the
state senate. is critically ill at his
home in Middletown.
Col. F. St. John Lockwood was down
to Sea Bright recently and spent a day
and night with Mr. Trippe.
Secretary Foster issued a notice yes-
terday, that the unextended 4 1-2 per
cent bonds Will be paid upon maturity.
—-Say! The finest line of smoking
tobaccos, (Marburg Bros. Celebrated
Brands) can be found at Benedict’s
Cigar Emporium . 172 t
Governor Page, of Vermont, has se-
lected the successor of Senator Ed-
munds: Secretary Proctor is believed
to be the appointee.
The $200,000 fire on the Harlem Riv-
er, is .said to have had its origin in care-
less c1 arette smoking, the smokers be-
ing la s under the legal age. v
The Alpha Wheel club will take a
run about town this evening. The start
will be made from the front of J ack-
son’s jewelry store at 8.15 sharp.
Dr. Aaron P. Brown, brother of Sen-
ator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia,
died last night at Smyrna, Ga. He was
a surgeon in the Confederate army.
Mr. and Mrs. James Seofield have
gone to visit friends for a few days at
North Stamford, and will then return
End start off on a more extended outing
our.
Our venerable Wilton friend, Judge
George A. Davenport, was in town to-
day and as usual “basket-ing in the
sunshine” of Norwalk’s meditative
clams.
Detectives Frank Murphy and Miller
are searching New Haven for Mrs.
Marie Rhinehart, whois suing million-
aire .Edward Malley for breach of
promise.
The compositors emplo ed by the
New York Recorder struc last night
because of the discharge of the union
foreman and the employment of a
non~union man in his place.
.—26 choice cigars for $1.00 at Bene-
dict’s News Depot. 172 tf.
A man who arrived from Cuba last
Friday was sick in Fordham with symp—
tcms hke those of yellow fever; one of
his fellow-passengers died in Brooklyn,
but an autopsy showed that he had ma-
larial fever. _
The thick fog which has covered Bar
Harbor for three days, necessitated
the postponement of the fleet drill. It
W111 commence to-morrow morning at
10 o’clock. The programme contem-
p'lates an exercise of six hours’ dura-
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IT HAS NO RIVAL.
IF YOU HAVE
PEOPLE BUY,
READ, A WANT
STUDY AND UT ADVERTISE
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Corporal Honnecker says a. rose by
any other name will smell as rank.
_ Robert I. Blaikesle, of Fair Haven,
is spending; few days in’ town with his
cousm, J. . Larmer, Jr.
Austin Nichol’s house in Trumbull
was robbed of $200 by burglars early
yesterday morning.
Cashier Lewis Green is expected
home from his great “ Wild West ” ed-
itorial trip on Thursday.
They felled one of the big elm trees
on the Union Company’s property on
Belden avenue yesterday, as it stood in
the way of the sidewalk improvements.
Mr. Edward C. Betts of Pueblo,Col.,
who has been visiting his father, C. O.
C. Betts, Esq., returns to Colorado,
Saturday. His sister, Miss Sallie, will
accompany him.
The twenty-ninth annual reunion of
the Veteran Associationof the Twenty-
second Regiment, Connecticut Volun-
teers,,will be held in Thompsonville,
Wednesday, September 23.
Two hydrants were set yesterday on
Spring Hill, and another is to be put in
place to-day near the residence of Cap-
tain G. A. White, which finishes the
complement and Spring Hill job.
Henry R. Plimpton, who, with his
brother. J. L. Plimpton, introduced
roller skating twenty-five years ago,
died last night in Boston in his seventy-
second year. He and his .brother were
furniture manufacturers.
Builder S. B. Wilson has caught the
well fever and is going to pipe his
grounds in the rear of his residence for
water that he can conscientiously treat
his friends to when they call. Wilson
is a great “ pipe-layer ” anyway.
Mrs. Tom Thumb, who is one of the
most popular “freaks” in America, is
paid $500 a week by her managers.
She has a handsome home in Bridge-
port, Conn., and when not under an
engagement lives there in luxury and
ease.
It is reported that .Miss Gwendoline
Caldwell is negotiating for the beauti-
ful estate on the cliffs at Newport which
belonged to the late George Bancroft,
and should she succeed invbuying the
property she says she will erect a $1,-
000,000 cottage.
There’s a woman at work in the Patent
office at Washington looking up all the
records and models of women’s inven-
tions from the beginning of our coun-
try till now, these statistics being de-
sired by the Women Board of Managers
for the Chicago Fair. 1
George Henry Crane, of Greenport,
L. I., was arrested for forgery, Sunday,
at the instance of Martin B. Waller,
son of ex-Governor Waller, of this state,
while he was en route to New York
with his fiancee, Miss Alice Conway,
Of Southold.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore E. Smith, of
Camp street, were blessed witha bran
new, bouncing baby boy on Sunday
This is approaching so dangerously
near the happy home of our friend Geo.
Ward Selleck, as to be extra hazardous.
Harper Brothers’ circus showed at
Thompsonville Saturday and when the
tent was filled with people the employes
refused to go on because they had not
been paid. The people demanded their
money but it was found that the treas-
urer had decamped Then the people
wrecked everything they could.
Mr. Wm. F. Trippe, the proprietor
of the drug store in the Park Place
ruin, is known to be among the dead,
though his body has not yet been re-
covered, as his gold watch, with
initials en raved on the case was found.
He was we 1 known and a general favor-
ite in Norwalk, and sold large quanti-
ties of supplies to the South Norwalk
hatting firms.
Mrs. E. P. Weed has hada pipe well
sunk in the rear yard of her residence
and at a depth of only sixteen feet be-
low the surface, a vein of clear, cold
water was struck, which indicates the
ex1stence of a spring there. We hear
Of several others who are going back to
their old time wells after their vexa-
tions experiences this summer with the
public water.
Wilton sent, on yesterday’s excur.
sion to'Saratoga, Seth L Grumman
Jr., Miss Emma Grumman, and Miss
Florence Sturges; Weston, Miss Ida
Coley, Charles E. Wheeler, Miss Helen
Hill and Lloyd Godfrey ; West Nor-
walk, Mr. and Mrs. T. H Hoyt, and
Miss Jennie Fillow ; Norwalk, A. H.
Hoyt and wife, Mrs. and Miss Hull
and Mrs. J. B. Betts.
A supposition has prevailed in town
that the W. G. McDonald who was kill-
ed in the terrible Park Place disaster
was our former Norwalk Willis McDon-
ald, who wedded one of the Cole sis-
ters. This, we are rejoiced to state, is
not so, as the McDonald killed, was a
Scotehman and a book-binder. The
Mr. Lindsay, who lost his life, was a
brother of the worthy son of Old Scot-
land who furnished the DAILY GAZETTE
With its new dress of beautifully cut
Scotch-face types, so recently.
Thirty-four'bodies were taken out of
the Park Place ruins up to 1 o’clock
this morning. The ghastly search is
being continued, and every hour adds
to the heartrending finds. It is be-
lieved that when all are recovered, the
number of dead will not fall much short
of a hundred. A Norwalk gentleman
met a friend who had left the restau-
rant but a moment before the crash
and he said he left fully thirty to forty
persons at their lunch, who must have
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N orwalk, Conn., Tuesday EYening, August 25, 1891.
Rather Sharp.
When the borough gave the city a
permit to lay their water mainsthrough
Stewart avenue, it restricted the city
from tapping the mains to, supply
water to customers. Acting Warden
Bowe hearing that the contract had
been violated, looked the matter up
and learned that the pipes had been
tapped and demanded that the taps be
plugged, and the city live up to its part
of the contract.
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100 Years Old.
On Sunday Mrs. Catharine Chapman
Gould, of East Granby, completed her
one hundredth year. When told that
she was 100 years old she could not be-
lieve it and insisted that she was but
ninety-seven, but her friends finally
convinced he}.
More Snakes. ,
Jerry Canfield, of Hamburg, an em-
ploye ofa saw mill, says that a black
snake eleven feet long and whose body
was as thick as a man’s wrist, was cut
in two by him and that then one part
coiled itself around his legs, binding
them together and rendering him help-
less, so that he fell against machiner y
and had both legs broken.
Forgot the Boy.
George Bunt, an eccentric farmer of
North Lyne, while heading-a barrel on
Saturday, placed his young deaf and
dumb soninside to hold the head while
he tightened the hoops. Bunt com-
pleted his work and forgot all about
the boy in the barrel.
The little chap remained there until
Sunday, almost twenty-four hours. He
went into convulsions ’when rescued
and it is feared he will die. Bu nt has
been arrested. ‘ .
It Pays to Advertise In the “Hush-
Ilng” Daily Gazette.
Last evening we advertised a fan lost
of chief value to its owner. The GA-
ZETTE had scarce gotten on the street
when the adv. caught the eye of Mr.
George Ward Selleck, who had picked
up the fan and left it with Mrs. New-
kirk to await an owner’s call for it. The
curious part of the story is that the
lady losing the fan was all the time at
the next door to Mrs. Newkirk’s and
both of course ignorant of the relation
each lady bore to the other, until the
“hustling” GAZETTE elucidated the sit-
nation.
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A Very Moderate Charge.
Considerable censorious criticism has
been indulged in, and by members of
the borough court as well as by others,
because lawyer Warner charged the
borough $20 a day for attendance upon
the Daskam walk and tree case. Mr.
Warner probably will not very greatly
esteem the DAILY GAZETTE’s opinion in
the case, but it strikes the “little hust-
ler” that a man who has been a mem-
ber of the bar more than a quarter of a
century, a member of Congress, a bor-
ough clerk and all that, and who .isn’t
worth $20 a day to sit on such a com-
mission, cannot be esteemed a promi-
nent professional man.
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Slept at Hls Post.
_Michael Sullivan, brakeman on the
night freight, New York and New Eng-
land Railroad, was run over and horn-
bly mutilated near the Sandy Hook
station about 11.15 p. m. on Saturday.
He was sent back to flag another
train. It was his first trip over the
road, and he mistook the track on
which the train was to pass. He sat
down on the rail to wait, fell asleep and
ten or twelve cars ran over him, nearly
severing one arm and one leg and mang-
ling his body. He was conscious when
taken'up and lived long enough to tell
how 1t_happened. He was a strong,
well-built fellow, about 23 years Old,
and leaves a wife and one child, who
are in Philadelphia.
It is said that he had been on duty
for twenty successive hours at the time
of the accident.
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Death of Edltor Scanlon.
John Scanlon, editor and proprietor
of the Connecticut Catholic, died sud-
denly at 5 o’clock yesterday morning
from heart trouble. Mr. Scanlon was
born in Sun sbury in 1857, where he re-
ceived a common school education. Af-
ter his family removed to Hartford in
1872, he was sent to Niagara college,
from which he graduated in‘1877. After
his return he studied law with H de &
J 051m and was admitted to the ar in
1882. . Soon afterwards he was associa-
ted w1th his brother, Michael F. Scan-
lon, as editorpf the ConnecticutCatho-
110. He was in the legislature in 1886
and 1887 and chairman of the commit-
tee on forfeited rights and on incor-
porations. He was state auditor for one
year and county auditor for two years.
At the time of his death he was one of
the actin school visitors, He Was a
staunch emocrat. ,
A Catholic Church Robbed.
FORT DODGE, la, Aug. 25.-The Catholic
church at Eagle Grove was broken into by
burglars and a valuable gold and silver
chalice, together with a number of altar
Ornaments, stolen. The charity box was
also broken open and its contents ex-
tracted.
A Yacht Ashore.
SHELTER IsLAND, Aug. 25.—The sloop
New York, went ashore during a storm
If the weather should prove flne she may
be got off in a short time. She belongs to
perished in the ruins.
the Atlantic Fact club of Brooklyn.
yacht Aria, owned by C. W. Opdyke, of ,
,Van Alstyne, who is at Brockville,
'Our Leaky Dam.
Ed. DAILY GAZETTE :-—In your clear
and candid statement of. the details Of-
the borough wat 'r situation,_published 3
yesterday, must not the pubhc come to l
the logical conclusion that our Water ,
Commissioners have been as cooly in- I
different and .philosophicall uncon- :
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corned as the old;colored fid ler who, 2
seated in the only spot in his cabin .
where the rain was not pouring through .
was asked- by thetctranger who ran into ,
his quarters to escape a deluging rain,
why he didn’t fix his roof. "Cause,
Massa, it rains ,too drea’ful hard.”
V‘Yes, but why don’t you fix it when it
don’t rain ? ’ “Cause, Boss, . den it
doant want any fixin." Last spring
our dam didn't 113% repairing for there
was water enoug . Now it can’t be
fixed, because the water” is- too scarce.
Is not that just the size of it ?
, ' . TAx KioxER‘.
This much is to'be ,shi'd in justifica-
tion of the actionfii'j rather non-action
Of our Water Chinnfissioners. When
the present yearggppned, ,they found
themselves confrbht’étf" with defective
pipes and endless leaks, all over the
borough. Theregwas scarce a hydrant
in the entire borough that wasgnot so
rusted or broken as tube unfitfor ser-
vice. The reservoirs_y,;andg aservoir
gates were also all out ‘0f7-fl'iepair, and
one universal state of' slip-shod neglect
and the most utterly wasteful economy
or rather parsimony in the previous
care of our priceless blessing, Of public
water. shown to exist. "Our present
board have battled with these difficul-
ties as best they Could and have gotten
gates and pipe find,‘llyd1fhnts in a
reasonably goodjEOiiditidn {at a mini-
mum of cost to burtaxpayers. They
did not foreseé' the unprecedented
drought that has prevailed. all over
New England the present summer, else
they would have provided against the
not very serious inconvenience the
people of the borbugh have been called
on to endure iii consequence 30f our
leaking reservoir : dam. Supposing
this summer would be akin to others
past, that serious and expensive job
was not attempted, as it must be in the
near future. The borough has been .
outrageously swindled in the construct-
ion of its Grupe reservoir dam, and if
our Commissioners have erred at all,
it has been because they deemedthe
repair ofthe borough service more im-
mediately important, and because they
wished to put off the rebuilding or re-
puddling of the dam, as long as possi-
ble in mercy to our already groaning
and ”kicking” taxpayers. Had there
been no long continued drought, their
action would have been deemed praise-
vwdrthyfi Ehéiheer Wood expresses the
opinion that fully two-thirds of all our
storage water has been wasted through
the leaky Grupe dam and that only
one-third of the vast reserve has ever
reached the borough in its pipes. It is
the purpose of the Water Commission-
ers to at once call for estimates and
plans for the best method of repairing
this dam, and as far as such competent
parties can be found, who are residents
of Norwalk, to give them the prefer-
ence in the bidding. This is as it
should be, and will commend itself to
the approval of our taxpayers.
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St. Mary’s Marble Altars.
Rev. Father Slocum congratulated
his people on their liberality in con-
tributing so generously for the new.
pure white marble altars recently or-
deredby their pastor for St. Mary’s.
Up to the noon service on Sunday he
had received some three thousand dol-
lars in contributions and the new pieces
to replace the broken ones, (which it
was at first feared might delay the
work considerably) Will be in readi-
ness to set as the other work progresses.
When these altars are completed, no
finer ones will be found in Connecti-
cut.
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Green Mountain Grape.
To-day the pomologists, the fruit cul—
turists, agriculturists, gardeners, and.
others interested in the new and wonder-
ful seedling grape, first discovered grow-
ing on the Green Mountain sides in old
Vermont, and very properly green in
its color as'well as rich, juicy and de-
licious in flavor as an average hot
house production, are to meet on the
nursery grounds of Stephen _Hoyt’s
Sons, in New Canaan, and see and test
and eat this.vigorous growing and ex-
quisitely flavored grape. A big crowd
may be expected to be present and
serve on the testing committee.
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Lawn Tennis.
The opening games for the county
championship will begin on, the ~Nor-
walk grounds to-morrow afternoon.
The games will be as follows : Singles,
Russell vs. Rathborne, at 2:30 ; Conovor
v9. Tweedy. at 2:30 ; Knapp vs. Kerr, at
3:15; Copp vs. Burchard, at 3:15
Wheeler vs. Lockwood, at 4; Frazier
vs. Acton, at 4; and Carhart .vs. Mal.
lory, at 4:45. ‘ '
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In a letter received from ReY. Geosge
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tario, he states that he is well and ‘
greatly enjoying his vacatiOn.
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ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
IN THE lNTERESTS OF FLORISTS,
FRUIT GROWERS AND GARDENERS.
Experiments with strawberries at the
New York Agricultural Experiment Sta-
“om—Director Collier Names a. Few
Varieties That Will Give Satisfaction.
_ Directgi' Collier says, in a bulletin
sent out: “To one who contemplates set-
tings. bcdof'strawberries-the knowledge
of theyperfcctflowering and, 'stillate va-
rietieé isnecessary, for if e latter are
alone planted the results will be a very
meager crop .or none at, all. But the
pistillate vifieties being'the most pro-
ductive it is usual to plant largely of
them, and by settings perfect flowering
variety every third 0 » fourth row they
become fertilized su ciently to yield
their-full crop.
“I advise spring planting, although a
fair yield may be had from August set
plants. I recommend for a kitchen gar-
den-the following varieties: Bombs. and
Haverland for early, Butts Seedling
and Daisy for medium, Crawford and
Middlefield for late. These planted in
the order named will give each alternate
row of pistillate varieties, insuring a
perfect pollination. While I consider
these varieties the best of the newer
kinds for the purpow mined, there are
several .of the older varieties that will
givegood satisfaction,as Bidwell,Charles
Downing, Crescent, Cumberland, and on
heavy soilnone are better than Sharp-
less.”
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CRESCENT FERTILIZED WITH OLD TRON-
CIAAD‘ ' -
Alarge amount of work has been done
inthe greenhouse in the way of system-
atic crossing of varieties, When the pol-
le'nized plants are perfected their fruits
many " gave products so utterly unlike
the fruits of either parent that drawings
of several were made, one of which is
incorporated here with the idea of
studying the potency of the pollen of
different varieties. Inthe cut is repre-
sented Crescent fertilized with Old Iron-
clad. The fruits are more of the Iron-
clad type than Crescent, but the largest
fruit flattened much more than is typi-
cal of either parent. Crescent fertilized
withLenning White bore largo fruits-,2:
unlikeeither parent. Crescent fertilized
with Sharpless bore fruits close to Cres-
cent type without any resemblance to
Sharpless. Every plant of Crescent
without regard to the pollen variety
had fruits of wide variation.
Plantsof Johnson’s Late fertilized with
three different varieties show great resist-
ing quelities, as every fruit is of the type
of the female plant. TIES is in line with
the mfim to be solved, viz.: Can a
pistillate plant of vigorous growth and
marked characteristics (fertilized with
pollen from a weaker growing variety
yet potent to transnrit its staminate
parts)'be made tohold its habits and also
become perfect flowering. If so, can we
not produce strains of strawberries as
distinct and as well adapted to the sev-
eral uses for shipping, canning, table,
etc, as there have been "bred distinct
breeds of cattle, etc»?
Stimulants for Pot Plants.
When roots are few and the'plants are
almost at rest moisture is needed to
soften the soil, and few if any stimu-
lants are needed. But when all the
virtue is out of the soil, and the plants
begin to show signs of distress, stimu-
lants are inorder. The beneficial effects
from manure when judiciously applied
are recognized. In Rural Home the
following hints appear:
A valuable liquid is made by using
ammonia, putting about one teaspoonful
to two quarts of water, when watering
the plants. - ‘
Callas ’will bear stimulating to almost
any-degree. Give them an abundance
of stable manure and warm water.
Give your pinks a little lime water,
but never stimulate them with guano or
anything of the sort.
Give roses 3. little powdered charcoal
or weak soot tea. If flowers do not
: mature well they may be made to by
placing a layer of powdered charcoal
half an inch deep on the earth in the
pot.
Commercial fertilizers or plant food
should not be. applied oftener than once
in two weeks. Stir up the soil around
the edge of the pot and sprinkle in a
small tablespoonnt' of the fertilizer,
watering the soil slightly immediately
after.
.1111 stimulants should be applied with
me. ' Begonias are particularly sensi-
tive tovthem, and they should be used
but seldom on geraniums, but to roses,
fmhsias, carnations, heliotropes and.
Others they may be given with more
safety.
Themew blackcap raspberry, mgr-o-
ilseed : under the name of “Lorett,”"’ha.s
various merits claimed for it, among
whichsare hardy, vigorous and product-
wecanes, with berries large as the Gregg,
-“Equal and Exact Justice to all Men of Whatever; State or PerSuasio‘ngReZig‘ious or POZitical.”—Jqferson
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M J amen Russell Lowell.
Dead in his stately prime! He wins his rest
Right royally, his labors being great.
The world will show him honor, and renown
brows.
Sure is his welcome in the mystic land:
Sage Emerson will greet him; calmly glad
Because a kinsman comes; and he shall mark
Where Bryant walks the asphodelian fields
Seeking a heavenly mate for that earth flower,
The Gentian. whereof once he fitly sung.
Another friend, whose name the nations speak
With equal love and reverence, and whose
song
Is clear as any bird’s the Spring-time knows.
Longfellow, too. shall haste to make him feel
The bliss of brotherly reunion there.
Nor these alone,—but others of the race,
The elder bards? poets of alien tongues
(Living in common at the court of heaven)
Shall one and all give greeting as is meet
Whenever that most august company
Admits a peer. And so he takes his place,
Nor seems unwonted to supernal ways.
-—BionARi> BURTON.
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A Wonderful _ Performance.
Equilibrium personified is the way to
describe the Balancing Act of the fam-
ous English Artiste, Ena Bertoldi, who
appears in this country for the first
time with the Boston Howard Athen-
aeum Star Specialty 00.. Miss Bertoldi
is one Of the highest priced performers
who ever came to this country, because
she is all alone in her line of business
and because her art is most wonderful.
Miss Bertoldi is described on the pro-
gram as a hand balancer—this is but an
inade uate title; it is but a. hint as to
what idle lady really is. Up and down
ladders in the most perilous hand bal-
ancing position, and supporting her
graceful form in artistic posing, sus-
taining herself with only a hol w1th
her pearly teeth on the. neck Of an or-
dinar bottle over which she suspends
horse 1‘, seems to be an actual delight
to her, so easily, airily and gracefu 1y
does she perform the perilous feat. The
embodiment of grace and fearlessncss,
as seen in her unequaled ContOrtion
Act, charms all beholders. Nature and
art have combined to make Miss Ber-
toldi a pleasing picture, and hcr .aston-
ishing performance is surelyimm1table.
Miss Bertoldi will be at the Opera
House, Saturday evening, August 29th,
and exhibit her wonderful art to a Nor-
walk audience.
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A False Alarm.
Between four and five o’clock this
morning Augustus Partrick. in great
excitement, hallooedSherifi' Toner from
his virtuous slumbers and announced
the pleasing intelligence that his 'five
cows had been in his garden all night
and had ruined everythin . The sher-
ifi' jumped out of bed, ca ed his be to
rush after the cows and then told ar—
trick to 0 home, estimate the damage
and sen him the bill, &c. The sheriff s
son, smarter than his father, knew he
had locked the cattle all in the barn the
night before, and so before racing over
to Partrick’s he took a look into the
barn and there saw all of his cows sol-
emly chewin their ends and innocent
“Of thé‘ch'ar'g' iof destroying the garden
of the aforesaid Partrick. But his ar-
den was ruined, neverthelesshan he
has the culprits locked up awaiting an
owner. .
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Famlly Records Broken.
The largest family ever landed at the
New York Barge Office were passengers
on the Normannia. which arrived yes-
terday. The party consisted of Isaac
Rosenstein, his wife and their twenty;
four children. The head Of the f_am1 y
is 46 and his wife 45. The children
range in age from 2 to 25. The family
came from Suzarina, a provmcial town
ployed as a tailor.
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Richard Webb Found.
teriously disappeared from Springfield,
Mass. His bicycle was found on the
North-End bridge, and it was supposed
that he had been drowned in the on-
necticut river. Friends _of his have
lately discovered that he is_ alive and
well and working near Benmngton, Vt.
His purpose in keeping his whereabouts
a secret is not known.
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Base Ball Games Yesterday.
National league—~New York 3, Cin—
cinnati, 2; Brooklyn 1, Chicago 4 ;
Pittsburghfi, 1l43oston 3; Cleveland 0,
Philadel ia .
Ameridhn association—Boston 5, Ath-
letic 3; Baltimore 13, Washington 0.
Eastern association—Buffalo 9, Syra-
cuse 8 ; Albany 2, Rochester 0.
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Cold Wave.
A phenomenal cold wave is prevailing
over southwestern Iowa. The mercury
fell from 90 degrees in the shade to 35
degrees in less than twenty-four hours.
Reports from all parts of the state show
that light frosts occurred, but vegeta-
tion has not been hurt. Corn is all
right.
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Beats Hampson.
Harr Thorner, the son of million-
aire Dr}: Thorner, is locked up at Buf-
falo on the charge of bigamy. He is
on] 18, and is said to have three Wives
in ifi'erent parts of the country—one
in Buffalo, one in Boston and one
in Philadelphia.
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Of Interest to Liquor Dealersfli’i
“The Commissioners of the . eight
counties will assemble at Normch on
Thursda of this week to discuss the
advisab' ity of increasing license fees
. and restricting the number of saloons -
throughout the state.
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The Yacht Aria, Floated.
Th sloo cht Aria, which went
ashofae at Shzlater Island durm the
.. with only slight amage.‘
blow Sunday ni ht, has been oated
A United 3
Shall twins the fadeless wreath above his A
in Russia, where the father was emu
Two years ago Richard A. Webb mys- ..
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A DUEL TO THE DEATH.
ates Marshal and a Des-
0 Kill Each Other.
CALDWELL, Kan., Aug. 25.—Deputy
nlted States Marshal Ed Short cafitured
gharles Bryant, one of the noted alton
gang of train robbers in the Cherokee
strip. Yesterday he took his prisoner
aboard the Rock Island train at Hennes'
Bey, Oklahoma, to take him to Wichita. He
placed the handcuffed prisoner in the bag
gage car, going outside to guard against
any attempt at rescue.
He left a revolver with the baggageman
for protectinn, and the baggageman’s care-
leesness is responsible for the subsequent
tragedy. He laid the revolver down on
the safe in the car and Bryant soon se-
cured it. As the train was slowmgup for
Waukomis he opened the door of the car.
Short was standin on the platform of the
smoker with a. Winchester rifle in his
hand. Bryant quickly raised the revolvci
and fired, the ball going through Short 2
body. Short returned the fire With his
rifle. -
Both men received their death wounds
in the first two shots, but both kept on
firing. Bryant emptied the six_ chambers
of his pistol-and Short fired eight shots
from his Winchester. The c of both
ars were riddled with bullets. John
, obson, a rominent druggist from _El
Reno, was s tttng in the front end of the
smoker when one of the bullets crashed
through the window, striking him in the
arm, passing completely through it, but
luckily just missing the bones and arteries. .
Bryant was the first man to drop, and
he fell, head foremost, down the steps.
Short caught him by the legs and held
him, with his head almost touching the
ground. We called to the conductor, and
when he got to him he said, “I have got
hi , Jim, and he has got me.”
The prisoner was dead when icked
from the platform and carrie into.
car. Short died in ten minutes.
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DEATH ROVERS O’ER THEM.
A Ship’s Crew and Sixty Passengers in
Deadly Peril.
MONTREAL, Que, Aug. 25.—-The news
was received here late last night from
the ll hthouse keeper at West Point, that
the sc ooner Ellen and Mary went ashore
in a dense fog two miles east of English
bay, the northwestern point of the Island
of Anticosti. The schooner, besides a. crew
of seven on board, had sixty passengers,
mostly women and children.
It is stated that the only boat 0 rried b
schooner was smashed to pieces me _
ately after the vessel struck, and as it is
Im ossible to reach her from the shore it
Is probable, should the storm which
threatens break, all on board will perish.
When the fog lifted those on board
could be plainly seen from the shore, rush-
ing about the deck as though distracted.
,Hcrbert Mapes’ Sad End.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—Herbert Mapes,
the famous Columbia college athlete, Was
growned before his in ther’s eyes while
athing in the surf at ire island yester-
day. Mr. Ma es was an excellent swim-
mer and was ar out beyond the breakers,
when he was seen to be frantically signal‘
lug for help. Several persons started to
the rescue, but before they reached him
he disappeared beneath the waves. Herd
bert Mapes was twenty-four years old. He
was one of a trio of brothers who havj
many imes carried the blue and white 0
Colum la college to the front in athletic
contests.
Father Dcnt’s Suit. '
BROOKLYN, Aug. 25.—The Rev. Father
rancis Dent, who sues the Societ of
riars, Order of St. Francis, for '
amages for having expelled him from the
order and to compel them to reinstfis
hug W25 in the supreme court. _ I!
9. led 0 8.133136 a motion to com e1 the
le
efend ts to certain papers in he a .
03. ounsel for he defense expllaing
tepaersha.ben ed‘ t‘
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dget area on denied at er bent Sin -
Ion.
The President at Saratoga.
SA ATOGA, Aug. 25.——The president sp 1:
on ay morning in his rooms, at 2%
rand Union, with Private Secretary Ha 4
0rd, attending to a large batch of privatr
and state letters which had accumulated,
over Sunda . t noon he went out drivin
lth Priva ecretary Halford and Co
g S. Clement, visiting Saratoga lake a
odlaw? park In the afterno n he h ,
an nvitat on re option at the ompclaii
house, on South roadway.
. The Strike on the Erie.
MUNOI , 1nd,, Au . Sta—General a-
el- Bradbury’s or er for the 51;" £13
alnmen on the Lake Erie and Weste
sfilmad to go to work or be discharge
not have the desired effect, and the
company has discharged the men andis
advertising for others. A com ittee rep"
resenting t e strikers came to uncle to
induce the ort Wayne branch of the road
0 join the strike and thereby tie up the
whole system. ~
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A Lunatic Kills His Mother.
. COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. 25.—Cha.rles King,
a mild mannered patient at the Insane
asylum, secured permission to visit his
mother, Mrs. Hattie King, at Circleville,
and- while she was pre arlng a meal slip-
fed up behind her an shot her through 1
he body, killing her almost instantl . "
go then tried to shoot an aunt, but faile .
e labored under the delusion that his
mother had caused his incarceration in the
asylum. ’
. Shot Himself Before a Mirror.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25.—-Frank John4
son of New York, hot himself in his
rooin in the Bingham ouse with a41-call-
her revolver. He was taken to the J offer
son hosp tal and is not expected to re-
cover. . Johnson ls said 0 be con-
nected with a mining firm. A Octor was
immediately summoned. It was found
:,that the man had shot himself in the back
gt Eh: head, using a. mirror to direct the
u e .
A Wee, Tiny Tot. - ’
DANBURY, Conn, Aug. 25.—-A babe born '
here last week weighs less. than two
pounds. When born it weighed one pound
and two ounces. Its length is that of an
ordinary lead pencil. The parents are Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Warner, of Locust street.
The child is in perfect health.
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