a" 11' m THE PEOPLE’S PAPER. Largest Circulation. Vol. I, No. 200. The Daily ‘Gazette 15 issued my week-day at 3 1’. AL. at ONE CENT PER com. The Cheapest Rates for Advertising, and THE LARGEST CIRCULATION. The Weekly Gazette. [Combined with Friday 3 Damn] is issued every Friday at Noon, at THREE CENTS PER COPY, OR $1.50 PER YEAR. The Daily and Weekly. Served to Local Subscribers at rm CENTS PER WEEK. on $5.00 PER YEAR. A. H. BYINGTON. Proprietor. this paper has the largest circulation of :1 HI paper in. the Slate west of Bridgeport. 0 DR JOBBIL‘ G DEI’ARTBIENT. lln. HARRY M. GARDNER. JR. of New York, has charge of the GAZETTE’S Engraving, Book and Jobbing Department. He is an expert .~: ml experienced Job Printer. and no work en t rusted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done. And Now a Mother. It will be remembered that some time since the DAILY GAZETTE deli- cately announced the fact given out by the close friends and admirers of that sweetest and most gracious bride, who had ever graced the White House, that she was soon to bless the ex-President’s home and glorify her womanhood by motherhood. The happy event oc- curred on Saturday and ex-President Cleveland is now the father of a bright, blue-eyed girl baby, weighing eight pounds. The electric wires have been crowded ever since with congratulatory messages sent the happy parents. ”A“ __--_ -,_ ... «.___.x_~___. Consolidated Trial To—morrow. The commissioners appointed by the Superior Court to hear and determine the questions of damages to the prop- erty at East Norwalk belonging to Wil- liam H. Comstock of Norwalk, and Mr. Parker of California, are to sit at the city council room at South Norwalk to-morrow. The appraisers are Sena- tor D. M. Read, of Bridgeport, Hon. Samuel Tweedy, of Danbury, and Frank Hoyt, Esq., of Stamford. Hon. John S. Seymour is counsel for Mr. Com- stock, and he and A. E. Austin counsel for Mr. Parker, and Stoddard, Bishop St Shelton, of Bridgeport, counsel for the Consolidated Railroad. Happenings To—night. Monthly meeting of St. Mary’s T. A. B. society. Meeting Our Brothers Lodge. <-o—>———A - —~ ' TERSE TALES OF THE lOWN. Right away up—to the Danbury fair. Election tO-day, Danbury fair to- morrow. _ _______ Both parties had polled a heavy vote up to noon to-day. Yale won the football game from the Crescents Saturday. Score 26 to 0. ' St. Paul’s Guild meets to-morrow, Tuesday afternoon, at the Parish rooms. The bans of . Peter J. O’Brien and Miss Mary A. Burns were published at St. Mary’s church yesterday. Mrs. E. Parsons, of .New Haven, Ispent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Samuel Talcott, on Union Park. —CHAMBERMAID wanted immediately at the American House. 40tf Gilbert—Horton’s new house on the ’Silver Mine road, has been painted and is now nearly ready for accupaney. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Bishop enter- tained the Rev. Dr. Clark, of Middle- town, who conducted the services at Grace church yesterday. —-LAUanEss wanted immediately at the American House. 40tf Bas1l Drew, a war veteran, was killed by the ghost train at Bridgeport yes- terday. He was employed by the Con— solidated Company. ——Pay your Town Tax on or before next Saturday, the 10th instant, and save 9 per cent. interest. 40 3t Mrs. Eastern—“My goodness me ! Hiram ! I see by the papers that a man just died, aged 118 years.” _Mr. Eastern—“ Wall, wan't it ’bout time, Maria?” James R. Young of Sterling, Conn., " dled yesterday in Springfield, Mass. In gomg down stairs he turned his ankle and fell, fracturing his skull. He died In a few hours. He was 82 years old. —Pay your Town Tax on or before next Saturdayuthe 10th instant, and save 9 per cent. interest. 40 3t . —-_Dr. Estebrooke, the painless dent- 1st, 1s d01ng great work at the Mahack- emo hotel, South Norwalk. Those who need work In his line should call at once. 199tf LizZie E. D. Thayer is the train-dev- spatcher of the New London Northern railroad, and is, perhaps, the only wo- man in the world who holds such a po- s1tion. Her ofiice is in New London. 'was alive and feeling fairlywell. GAZ TT “Equal and Exact J usticc to all Men of Whatever State or Persuasion, Religious or Political.”e—Jey7fei~307z, Sunol trotted a half mile in 1:03 at Stockton, Cal., Saturday. William Staley, of New York, is vis- iting his nephew, George Allen. All'the air is redolent _of sweet cider in the vicinity of Partrick’s Newtown avenue mill. Ex-Senator Asa Smith was back from Boston in time to help save the borough from destruction to-day. ' Atty. J. Belden Hurlbutt is in New York to-day, attending to an important legal case for 8. Norwalk client. “The rich,” remarked a Hebrew. the other day, “eat venison because 1t 1’s deer. I eat muttonbecause it is sheep. Miss Elizabeth Raymond of Wilton, . and her nephew Charles M. Ambler, have returned from the White Moun- tains. John F. Darrow, the East Norwalk milkman, wheeled to Bridgeport one day last week in an hour and twenty minutes. ‘ Work on moving the organ and re- arranging the chancel of St. Paul’s church 1s to be commenced to-morrow. For the present, the church will wor-p ship in the Sunday school rooms. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, who arrived in New York on Saturdayfrom Boston, was the guest of Mrs. RussellHarrison at the Plaza Hotel. Mrs. Harrison spent the day uietly receiving numer- ous friends. he will leave for Wash- ington this morning. Pastors with the name of Ebenezer H. Fillow for Burgess, were sent out through the mail Saturday evening, in N ew York city fashion and it is not a bad fashion either, for the two cent stamp on each letter helps support the P. 0. Department, at least. The Hon. Joseph D. Place of South Woodstock, Conn., died on Friday at the advanced age of 84 years. He was a life-long resident Of the town and when younger a prominent business man. ’ Up to the time of his last illness he continued in charge of his own busi- ness. The family of Postmaster General Wanamaker returned from Europe yes- terday on the steamship La Touraine. When the revenue cutter went down the bay to meet the steamer,Postmaster General Wanamaker was on board, and at. Quarantine he was transferred to the steamship. Philip White, colored, was perhaps fatally stabbed at Bridgeport last night. He has been paying his respects to Flora Nichols, and it was his night to call. Her other lover, John Jones, was there when he called, and they decided to fight for Flora. Jones used a razor and White is now in the hospital. ' Everything indicates that the Con- ductors’ fair, which opens in New Ha- ven next Monday, will be a great suc? cess and immensely popular. Great in- terest is awakened concerning it all along the lines, and there will be a large number of new and novel exhibits, and also a large number of costly and val- uable prizes. The following pupils of room NO. 6 Over River School, were not absent or tardy during the month of September : Florence Hawxhurst, Harry H, tt, Ward Gregory, Nellie Hodshon, 111ie Acker, Kittie Brotherton, Willie Rowe, Jesse Taylor, Charlie Greenwood,Ed-ith Nickerson, Vernon Miller, Charlie Schumann. ~ Word was sent to Police Headquar- ters Saturday evening that a man was lying dead, or drunk, or both—across the sidewalk in front of the residence of Selectman Daskam, on East-avenue. Officers Adams and Morehouse pro- ceeded down the avenue as far as the Borough line, but no traces of any corpse could be found. A Middletown negro named Charles Daniel, aged eighty-five years, an in- mate of the Middletown almshouse, was reported to have died Friday. His friends secured a minister, dug a grave and purchased a coffin, but when they went to the hospital they found Daniel They then departed, but Saturday morning at five o’clock Daniel died. The Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ asso- ciation of New York, which has been in the habit of contributing to the state campaign fund,towhich it did contribute a large sum to' help elect Governor Hill three years ago, has decided not to in- terfere for either gubernatorial candi- date this fall. The reason for this lack of action is said to be the belief of the . dealers that their business will not suffer, no matter which candidate is elected. Miss Mary Stuart returned from Washington, Conn., Saturday, 'in time to conduct the services of the King’s Daughters, at the Congregational chapel, in place of Mrs.Dr. Noble who, on account of her illness, was unable to be present. Interesting addresses were made by Dr. Noble and Rev. Mr. Elwood, the latter expressing his regret that on account of illness, his wife was unable to be present, to meet the number who came to bid her “God Speed.” ‘ Millinery Opening. ——Mrs. Fawcett’s annual opening of Fall and Winter Hats and Bonnets and Millinery Goods generally, will take place to-day at her Main street empor— ium, and continue through Monday and Tuesday of next week. She is, confi- dent that the ladies of Norwalk and vi- cinity will concede to her the credit of showing some of the most tasteful nov- elties in ladies head-wear ever before shown in this town. Don’t mistake the number, 17 Main street. N orwalk, Conn., Monday Evening, October 5, 1891. Miss Annie Mahon was killed in a _ runaway accident at Hartford yesterday by jumping from the carriage. Ex-President Cleveland will preside at the opening of Flower’s“ campaign, ' in New York city, Thursday evening. Engineer WOod and men, are at Dari- en to-day, surveying the property re- cently purchased by Theophlle Euph- raf. . Judge John'M. Hall of Willimantic is to hold the Civil Term of the Superior Court beginning next week at Bridge- port. Powderly will stand as republican candidate for election to the proposed constitutional convention of Pennsyl- vania. The great stallion race for a purse of $10,000, between Nelson and Allerton, takes place at Grand Rapids, M1ch., Thursday. An Italian string gutter band, con- sisting of two or three fiddlers and a harpist, entertained the Borough pub- lic Saturday night. The DAILY GAZETTE is in receipt of a dainty box of cake from the Wilton, Treadwell-Brady wedding. Prosperity is sure to attend all those who thus re- member the printer. —Tickets for the Concert in the Nor- walk M. E. church, Wednesday even- ing 250, for sale at Mr. Pinneo’s and Gregory’s Drug Store,and I. M.Hoyt’s, South Norwalk. 3t200 The Jersey City Argus speaks of E. L. Colwell, who recites at the Norwalk M. E. church Wednesday evening, as having a pleasing presence, a well modulated voice and possesses a droll humor, which is perfectly irresistible. —Pay your Town Tax on or before next Saturday, the 10th instant, and save 9 per cent interest. 40 3t David Dickinson died on Saturday at his home in Middletown, Conn., aged 76. He was a member of the original Mansfield Guard, and at one time was Captain of Company I, Second Regi- ment, C N He was a veteran of the war. Principal George H. Turner, of the Bridgeport Business College has brought suit for $10,000 against pretty Lela Heisler for slander. It is claimed that the suit is an attempt to break up the business of a rival school which Miss Heisler attends. Borough Clerk Hubbell showed his genuine modesty and manliness as well as magninimity, to-day, by declining to vote for himself for Town Clerk and voted for Herbert R, Smith. Now if Smith was equally courteous the “hon- ors are easy. ” ' Mr. Wm. E. Montgomery is confined to his house to-day, being quite serious— ly indisposed. But this ought not and probably will not lessen his vote for Treasurer, as “Billy” alwayshas a clev- er sort of a way of running ahe ad of his party ticket. Mrs. Frank Gorham, the young wife of a well-to-do farmer nearBridgeport, attempted suicide by drinking poison last night. J ealously was the cause. She left the house for a moment and was found lying outside. Her concli- tion is critical. In the town of Huntington to-day there will be a big fight over the ques- tion of license. Theliquor dealers who were forced out of business a year ago are said to have a fund of $5,000 for in- fluencing the election. In the Shelton Mission Chapel last evening prayers for a no-license vote were offered. After twenty years of faithful and honorable service on the Norwalk Horse Railroad, George B. Meeker on Satur- day asked to be relieved, and his re- quest was granted. Mr. Meeker is get- ting toward the three seore and ten-year mark, and resigned his position volun- tarily, all reports to the contrary not- withstanding. His plans for the future are as yet unknown. A large party of friends met at the home of Miss Julia Walkin on Wilton Avenue last Thursday evening and gave her a pleasant surprise. Games, music and singing by the Baritone Quartette were enjoyed, afterward all adjourned to the dining room where a tempting sup- per was served. Among the guests as- sembled were the Misses Bella and Kate Roberts, Lillie Hendricks, Hattie Crawford, Emma Beers, Tillie Morrell and Messrs. Fred Miles, CharlieDowns, George Merritt and Fred Ambler. James M. Atwood the ex-car driver, and wrecker of the Lycett home, left town Saturday on the 1.07 train for White River Junction, Vt., where a married daughter resides and where he clalms to own a farm. He stated to an acquaintance before leaving that he did not know, as yet, whether he would work on hisjfarm or go to Boston to find employment. It is too bad, that such a man as he could. not Have been sent out of town either with a coat of tarand feathers, or else in a box bear- ing the business card of Undertaker Raymond. ‘ Captain Clinton Seeley, of the Alpha Wheel Club, upheld the dignity Of Norwalk, and his reputation as awheel- man, Saturday, at Boston, when he came in third in the 25 mile bi- cycle road race of the Boston A. A. Ninety-three racers started in the race and Seeley lead a handicap of seven minutes, and was one of the "six con- testants who broke the world’s record of 1 hour, 25 minutes and 59 seconds, making the twenty-five miles in 1 hour 24 minutes and 31 seconds; The prize: whichthe received was a $40 lawn ten- nis se . ’ of the enticing poker‘chip was Company F. is being paid off to-day. See advertisement Engine and Boiler for sale. : Not a single case was on the police docket this morning. " Commencing to-morrow morning and continuing during fair week, a special train will leave Norwalk for Danbury at 9.09. The regular trains are 9.23 a. m. and 12.17and 2.28 p. m. “Fletcher” wheel has arrived. Be at Sullivan’s Cigar Store, South Norwalk, to-night, without fail,to sign certificate of membership. Club almost full. Last chance to join for $1.50. . Whitney, agent. ,. 200-1t Among the venerable ‘patriarchs who came to the polls to-day was Mr. Robert Guthrie, of Silver Mine, who will reach his 90th year in December. He is as bright in intellectlas ever, and as spry of limb as many a‘man of half his years. L There will be a meefing of the Sons of St. George at the residence of Mr. ‘Geo. Parrot, 60 Wilton avenue, to~ morrow evening at 8 o’clock. All wish- ing to become charter members are in- vited to attend as thelcharter will be closed at this meeting, ' Some of the Plymouth avenue young men have formed a club, and hired the old but on the Sticky Plains road, re- cently vacated by the.f[talians, and all day yesterday the gay and festive clink heard, and one game was in progress all night. Burgess Bowe returned last evening from atwo weeks’ trip through Con- necticut and in New York city. While in Canaan, Conn., he stopped with Mr. John Rodemyer, J r., and states that the reports that the the genial J ohn was ill and would probably loose his eye-sight, are without foundation. It is said that quite a large and ex- cited “Sunday School class,” met _ es- terday in the second story of the air- field Co. Bank building,to “religiously and piously” (after the manner of Mr. Toodles,) consider the ways and means of saving all that was possible to be saved from the anticipated wreck of one of the Borough tickets. Harrison C. Bouton has been pro- moted to the conductorship on the horse railroad line, made vacant by the resignation of George R. Meeker, and A. S. Lane now fills'Bo‘uton’s old posi- tion. Wilber F. Andrews is the new driver on the Winnipauk branch, vice Atwood, removed and gone to parts unknown, and Henry Matheis is being broken in as extra man. _,,_ ————-———. coo ADDITIONAL SOUTH NORWALK. The Richardson 8: Morgan Co. are shipping large invoices of goods'm their me. The engagement of Mr. S. Lansing Hall and Miss Laura Cook, of Darlen, is announced. President Miller presided at the U. G. T. R. meeting yesterday. Two young men signed the pledge. The Y. W. C. T. Union meeting yes- terday, though not very largely at- tended was an interesting one. Mr. and Mrs. Freeland Olesworth, of Oneonta, N. Y., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bucknam of this city. There is lots of quiet scratching b e- ing done in this city to; day, and a cor- responding amount of itching for office. A large contingent Of colored people left for the Danbury fair this mornmg , where they are to serve as waiters. The city today has been almost as quiet as on a Sunday. But one man has acted as if intoxicated, and he claimed to be suffering from the intense heat. A ten ton engine arrived on the Con- solidated road, this morning, for the Volk Hat 00., also a portable en~1ne for the Stephen Hoyts’ Sons, of New Canaan. But little electioneering is being done to-day, and such as is being done is so quietly done, ’tis hard to realize that it is done. Some there are, though, who expect excitement later in the day. Expressman Cavanagh is moving the. household effects of Asbury Horne, from Franklin street, to Stamford, to- day. Mr. Home is employed at the Yale & Towne M’f’g Co., in Stamford. Hon. Wm. C. Street went fishing Saturday, and is willino to make out that he caught five fish. He claims however, that he would have 'eaught more if Old Sol had not handicapped him. All members of the Young Women’s Christian Temperance Union are spe- cially requested to be present at the semi-annual business meeting of the Union to-morrow evening at 7.30 o’clock, as business of tmportanceis to be brought before the meeting. Mr. J. H. Travis, who for the past two years has been prescription clerk at the Baxter Pharmacy, has resigned to accept a position in the drug store of H. A. Dupee at Bridgeport. Mr. Tra- vis has made a large number of friends who will regret his leaving town. He will go to his home in Cohoes, N.*Y., to-day for a short vacation. The water-supply pipe of the Consoli- dated road at this station was broken off by a work train at 12.30 this noon. The locomotive water-tank had just been filled and the locomotive started up, the pipe striking and throwing the fireman over on the tender, and break- ing off at its base, else the fireman would have met with a serious injury. It will take considerable time to repair it. Indeed a new standard will have to be substituted. \ Governor Blgelow’s Condition. Last‘ni ht the condition e'x-Gover- nor Bige ow was reported as being much improved. He is suffering little pain now. ~ “ Roasted to Death. . Three persons were roasted to death 1n 8. five story tenement at the corner of Hudson and Dominick streets,N. Y. , about2 o’clock this morning. Best Creamery Butter, —For sale at F. W. Smith’s ‘meat market, 55 Main street, and only twenty-eight cents a pound. Try it anduyou will be convinced. tf Mrs, Cleveland and Daughter. “At the residence of ex—President Cleveland it was said last night that «both Mrs. Cleveland and her baby were doing well. There were but few callers during the day. Carpenters Take Notice. Norwalk Union, No. 746, of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of .America, will hold its regu- lar meeting to-morrow, Tuesday even- ing, in the Sons of Temperance Hall, GAZETTE building, Been Married 65 Years. David S. Woodworth and wife of Lebanon, Conn., celebrated the sixty- fifth 'anniversaryof their marriage in that town Saturday night. They are both over ninety, and have lived in Lebanon all their lives. .6. — .-..____,.. Mrs. Frank Leslie Weds. Mrs. Frank Leslie, the publisher,and William C. Kingsbury Wilde, a young- er brother Of the aesthetic poet, Oscar Wilde, were married at the Church of Stranger. New York, last evening, by Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems. ——-—-————OOO———-—-—-— Samuel of Posen on Trial. . The trial of M. B. Curtis for murder- 1ng Officer Grant was resumed in San Francisco Saturday. Three witnesses were produced by the prosecution. Each was badly tangled up by the de- fense in the cross-examination. The defense will make every effort to prove malice and crooked work in securing evidence on the part of Officer Grant’s friends. -<»o~ Y. M. C. A. NOTES. .Both the Bible class and song ser- vice were well attended yesterday. There will be a special meeting of the Ladies Aux1liary to-morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock, in the association rooms. The gymnasium committee will meet to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock. Hydrophobla. Two weeks ago a dog owned by J. C. Ladd_ of Lebanon. Conn., went mad and blt several other dogs and animals. One farmer named Lamb lost several valuable sheep, and Saturday two dogs that had been bitten became mad and had to be killed. To add to the excite— ment, John Noble of Baltic, who was bitten by Ladd’s dog, is suffering from rabies. The selectmen have ordered the dogs of the town either muzzled or killed at once. Saturdav’s Races. ’The Matinee races at the Fair Grounds Saturday afternoon were wit- nessed by a small crowd of spectators. The trotting was fair, and enjoyed by all. It is proposed to give these races every Saturday, as they are a source of a good deal of enjoyment to our local horsemen. The following are the sum- maries: ' srthur H. Ke’eler’s b. p. 1 1 W. S. Bouton’s s. g. 2 2 J . Woodhull b. g._ 3 3 Time 2 ;43 2:37 , B. Lockwood’s b. g., Little Sam 2 3 1 2 J. H. Ferris"? m. 1me 2:42 2:38 2:40. ~00. At the South Norwalk Congrega- tional Church. The annual meeting of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Societies of Fair- field county, will be held in the above church on Wednesday. October 7th. Devotional meeting at 9.30. Regular sessions at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. ' Mrs. Edward Hume, of Bombay, will address the ladies, also Mrs. Montgom- ery, formerly of Turkey. Miss Prud- den, Secretary of Mission Circles, will speak in the afternoon on Mission Cir- cle work. All the ladies, and especially the youn er ones of the churches, are most cor ially invited to attend. _. _. n...‘ ,_x___-. Off to Europe. W. B. Roberts, the former valet of the late P. T. Barnum, is on his way to Europe. The interest attaching to Roberts comes through the fact that he is acolored man, and, it is charged, eloped With Caroline Lewis, the pretty wh1te En lish waiting maid who took care of rs. Barnum. The elopement took place from Bridgeport. As said, Miss Lewis disappeared from the Bar- num mansion at that time, and Roberts also disappeared. Last night the broth- er of Roberts stated that Miss Lewis had sailed for England yesterday with W. B. Roberts. He denied that the couple were married, but added that they would stay .with the‘ parents of Miss Lewis for: several months. _ . The Danbury Fair." The Danbury fair opens to-morrow, tle will be held. The trotting will com- mence on Wednesday with the 2:32 class, for which a purse of $300 is offered. The 2:40 class, purse $200, is to follow. Another purse of $200 is offered for foals of 1888. ~ The programme for Thursday is as follows: 2:21 class, purse $300; 2 :30 class, purse $300; 2 :45 class, purse $200. For Frida the following is the pro- gramme: ree-for-all, pacers, $300; 2 :27 class. $300; 2:35 class, $250. Saturday the following: 2 :25 class for trotters arid pacers, $300 ; 2 :48 class, trotters, $200; foals of 1889, purse $150. when the exhlbition of horses and cat- . Arrested for Tapping the Wires. Frederick J. Flynn and Robert J. Parks were arrested by the New Haven pohce yesterday afternoon and locked up. They claim to belong to Bridge port, and are employed by the Consoli- dated Railroad in the signal towers. They are accused of tapping the wires of the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany, and thus getting the results of the Morris Park and Jerome Park races before the pool rooms. The loop which runs to Thomas J. Brady’sp‘ool room was tapped last Thursday, and the Op- erator in the pool room was unable to get the result of the races. In the meantime, Flynn and Parks were plac- 1ng money on the results. They, how- ever,’ made very little money, owing to the Imperfect working of the wire. Under section 1,477 of the General Statutes. the accused men are liable to a fine of not more than $200 or impris- onment in jail of not more than one year, or both. Danbury’s Water Famine and Hats. , A press dispatch from Danbury in yesterday’s papers, states that unless rain falls there soon, the batting indus- try there will have to stop. It further says that Danbury is the largest hat.- ting district in the country, and 8,000 men, women, and children are em- ployed in the forty factories here. Upon them are dependent at least 4,000 more people, so that it becomes a very serious matter. Hatting cannot be car- ried on without large quantities of water. Erom the time the hat body receives its first wetting in the cone tub, althrough the various processes of hardening, sizing, stiffening, coloring, shaping, brimming, and blocking, it is necessary to use water. The two reser- v01rs supplying the factories are now dry, and the third and fourth are little better than mud holes. There is not two weeks’ supply left. The hat manué facturers have agreed that in the event of one firm having to shut down from lack of water all will do the same thing. The shipments of hats to the New York market are about 1,000 cases less a week now than a year ago,,owing to the lack of water. - -— —————<-o-> FIRED 0N BY RUSSI’ANs. Two Vessels in a Raid on Seals Had a Thrilling Experience. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5.—After an ab- sence of seven months the sealing schooner Edward E. \Vebster, Captain McLean, are rived here. The sailors say that the Web ster was joined off Copper island on July 24 by the schooner Hamilton Lewis, com- manded by.a brother of Captain McLean, and a joint raid was made on therook‘ cries. A large number of seals were killed by the sailors, when the Russian authori= ties opened fire on them, firing volley after volley. Captain McLean, of the Webster, nevertheless ordered the crew out again on the following day, and when some 0 them refused to go they were put in irons and fed on bread and water. ,The Webster brings back 1,300 skins. News has been received here of the schooner Nicolina, which sailed from San Francisco two years ago on a whaling trip. She is fast in the ice 01f Point Franklin and will not be able to get out till next summer. It had previously been reported that the crews of the schooners Grampus and Amy D. Hume, together with that of the“ Nicolina, had been mas: sacred by the natives. The advices re» ceived happily put an end to this report. HYDROPHOBIA AT A PARTY. A Young Woman Begins to Bark at a Social Gathering in Hex: Honor. WILKESBARRE, Pa, Oct. 5.—While Miss Lizzie Constable, 'a highly esteemed young woman of Plymouth, gave a. birthday party at her residehce. on Eno street, she was seized with spasms and began to bark like a dog. Two years ago Miss Constable was bit- ten by a pet dog. .She always had a. fear that she would die of hydrophobia. Last week she read an account in a newspaper about a man in the west dying from the disease.- She was much agitated then and said, “Isn’t it awful to die that way.” It is said that after reading the paper Miss Constable became very melancholy. Her parents tried to cheer her up, and did eyerything to get her mind off the subject. IMiss Constable is twenty-one years of age and is a favorite in Plymouth. One Man and Two Dogs Attacked. LEBANON, Conn., Oct. 5.—Two weeks ago a dog owned by J. C. Ladd went mad and bit several other dogs and animals. One farmer named Lamb lost several valuable sheep, and two dogs that were bitten became mad and had to be killed. To add to the excitement John Noble, of suffering from rabies. Evangelist O’Connor Imprisoned. NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—The Rev. James A. O’Connor, the ex-priest, evangelist and editor of The Converted Catholic, slept last night in a. cell in the Church street police station. He was locked up for in toxication. ' They Have Been Married Sixty-five Years. LEBANON, Conn., Oct. 5,—David S. Woodworth and wife celebrated the sixty- fifth anniversary of their marriage at their residence in this town Saturday night. They are each over ninety years of age. BRIEF DIENTION. Mrs. Anna Johnson, of Muskegon, Mich, who was injured in the Erie wreck last Wednesday, died of her injuries. ’ Pension payments for the first three days of October amounted to $4,700,000. Attorney General Miller has appointed W. D. Frazee assiflant United States dis- trict attorney for Mississippi, vice-rMont- gomery, resigned. The Harvard football team defeated the Dartmouth eleven by a. score 0156 to 0. President Harrison has recognized En- rique Toriello as consul general ad interim of Guatemala at San Francisco. A strong and steady snowstorm is pre vailingin Deadwood, S. D. ' The Monroe county Leaguerof Repub- lican clubs has been organized in Roches- ter, N. Y. Thirty-one Republican cam“ paign clubs joined the League. I _____.— Baltic, who was bitten by Ladd’s dog, is” memmwmmm; Wants, l Cent rasi'E’W‘ord. ——— __._ Price One Cent. Dravv Tender Killed at Stratford.7 Azel Drew, the aged draw tender at the bridge over the Housatonic, near Stratfor , was struck by a freight tram last night, and instantly killed. He was to have been married next Wednes~ day. + Fell Between the Cars. John O’Hara, of Bridgeport, aged 30, unmarried, was killed by a train on the Housatonic railroad at Newtown yes- terday. He was passing ' between the cars when he lost his balance and fell to the track. His body was ground to . pieces. . - —-——-————<.>-————— Silver: Wedding. _ ~ Mr. and" Mrs. George” F. Quintard will celebrate the 25th anniversary. of their _ marriage on Saturday evening next at‘ their residence, No. 10 Arch street. The silver-weddingbells ought to ring out generously and joyously on that auSpicmus occasion. ~——‘—~—<+>———————-— Soon to Appear. Past judgement must be set aside. The kings of minstrel managers, Strafi’in & Luciers, have this season organized one of the largest and finest minstrel companies containing all the reputable talent, both foreign and native, that is worth hearing or seeing. This organi- zation is without the shadow of doubt the most thorough, high finished and expensive that has ever been presented to the people of this or any other coun- try. Hundreds of dollars, or what would be considered a fortune in the _ ordinary walks of‘life, have been ex- pended 1n costumes and stage proper- ties, presenting as special features for the present season the greatest results ‘ ever attained in minstrelsy including a grand satin and plush first part, com- pleted at an expense of $10,000, the magnificence of which cannot be des- cribed, but must be seen before their royal elegance can be realized. There are in all upwards of 25 peOple employed in this big city organization. The noted and greatest minstrel company, Luciers’ Consolidated Minstrels and Russian Uniform Band will appear at the (8)pera House Friday evening Octo- er . +>_,_____.__ — Obituary. ELMINA COMSTOCK. This most estimable woman, after long weary months of suffering, caused by the railroad accident that killed her husband outright, expired at her home in Wilton yesterday. Mrs. Comstock was the daughter of the late Darius St. John of New Canaan and was widely ,kppwn _and,,_b_el,Q.Yed in the two » towns where her life was passed. Her house wasever open to friendsvor to the needy and her kindness of heart was manifest on all'occasions. She was a member of and an earnest worker in the Congre- gational church at Wilton and her activities and helping hands will be greatly missed in the church as well as social circles of the town. She had many warm friends here in Norwalk who will cherish her memory asa noble woman, a faithful friend, a devoted wife and mother. ———<+>—-————— SIGNIFICANCE OF SIGNS._ The \Vomlcn Indian, The Three Balls and the Barber’s Pole. We a‘l know that a wooden Indian is set up in front of a cigar or tobacco store, three balls at a pawnbroker’s door and’ a striped pole immovably fixed somewhere near the entrance to a barber shop. But why? ' Anthuarians tell us that the wooden Indian is a tobacco sign,because tobac- co is an American weed and that it was originally used by the Indians. Butthls same antiquarian gets tangled occa- sionally and tells you that tobacco has been in use for over 3,000 years among the Chinese. . Meyen, in his “Geo- graphy of Plants,” is of the opinion that the smoking of of tobacco is of great antiquity among the Chinese, because he has observed carvings of tobacco pipes upon monuments Whose ages run back into the thousands of ' years, and they are exactly like the Celestial tobacco pipe to-day, too. If this isafact it would be much more appropriate to use the figure of a Chinaman in place of the wooden In- dian now used by dealers in the “filthy weed.” Three reasons are given to account for the origin of the pawnbroker’s sign. One says that the balls are used because they were the emblems of St. Nicholas, who is said to have given three purses of gold to three virgin sisters to enable them to marry. Another legend attributes the use of the three balls to the members of the Lombard family, the first great money-lenders of England. They were druggists before they became capitalists, and used the three golden pills in memory of their old calling. Still another story attributes their original use to the Medici family of France. The Medicis were money- lenders, who used the three pills as a. pun on their medical—sounding name. . Last, but not least, the barbers of long ago were barber-surgeons, but the rapid advance of surgical science has caused them to fall from their - high estate. The gilt knob at the end of the barber’s pole of to-day repre- sents a brass basin, which but a few decades since was actually suspended . from the pole. The basin had a notch cut in it to fit the throat, and was used in lathering the “customer, prepara- tory to shaving him. The pole repre- sents the staff held by the patient who ' came to the barber-surgeon to be bled. The two spiral stripes painted around it signify'the two bandages, 'one for twisting around the arm previous to the act of phlebotomy, or blood-let- ting, the other forbidding when the §eration was completed—SE Louis epublie. ' . ,7;
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