v fi. Largest Circulation. 1.13 PEOPLE’S PAPER- “a Vol.1, No. 206.} S 1“Eqaal"and Exact Justice to all Men of Whatevér State or Persuasion, Religious or P0litical.”—Jeferson Norwalk, Conn, Tuesday Evening, October 13, 1891. LEADS in ADVERTISING. ‘ifi' ‘ Wants, I Cent a Word. Price One Cent. The Daily Gazette is issued very week-day at 3 P. M" at ONE CERT PER COPY. Cheapest Rate: for Advertising. and THE LARGEST CIRCULATION. The Weekly Gazette. (Combined with Fridays Dailv.l .13 issued ever-y Friday tit Noon. at me; cnxrs PER com. on $1.50 PER ram. The Daily and Weekly. Served to Local Subscribers at run CENTS PER WEEK. on $5.00 PER YEAR. A. H. Brixerox. Proprietor. Q..c_.._._......... .-. _.;:. This paper has the largest circulation of any paper in. the Siate west ofBridqeport. 1‘ "' "" " "'1 _ ._'::Z?:TT:__:E_.::'—__“ 0 (IR JOBBIfi‘ G DEPARTBIJL‘NT. \in. HAnni' M. GARDNER. Jn. of New York, has charge of the G.A.ZETTE‘S Engraving. Book and Jobbing Department. He is an expert .~ mi experienced Job Printer. and no work en- t-nsted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done. Special Notice. The DAILY GAZETTE may be found at Winnipauk every evening at the stores of J. C. Randle. and Miss Aiken’s,near the upper mill. 4—0->-—-—‘ ————---- Happenings To—night. . Japanese Tea, by Broad River Band of Hope at chapel, Carryalls from the Bridge. _- 40.... , W TERS—i TALES OF THE TOWN. Benjamin Mallory, of New London, is in town to-day. The Slattery case is down for trial at Bridgeport, to-day. John K. Hyatt is home from Talla- poosa on 'a short visit. The name of the Connecticut Guards' man has been changed to the National Guardsman. __ The annual drill and inspection of the Bridgeport fire department takes place Thursday. When the first day of the Bridge- port walking match closed last night, Herty held the lead. Horace E. Dann and William H. Lockwood started for Red Bank,N. J ., this morning, on business. A dead porpoise weighing nearly 200 pounds was found on the shore at West Haven, a few mornings ago. Timothy Hartigan, aged twenty-two, of Unionville, was badly hurt yesterday by the cars at Farmington. The National league of Great Britain has issued a manifesto on the cause of Irish independence in Great Britain. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the First Baptist church will hold a sociable and cake sale in the lecture room this even-. ing. The entertainment and sociable of Pilgrim Council, which was postponed on Sept. 28, will be held on Thursday evening. ’ An electric car was run into by a Long Island railroad train at Flushing yesterday morning, fatally injuring one person and severely bruising two others. Thousands of persons, who were un- able Sunday to pay their last respects to the dead Chieftain, besieged the city hall yesterday and crowded around Mr. Parnell’s tomb at the Glasnevin ceme- ery. William Hawkins of Birmingham, on waking yesterday morning, found a big rat in his bed, and after seizing it by the neck and choking it out of ex- istence, found that it weighed a pound and a half. ' The receipts from customs at New York during the first ten days of Octo- ber were $2,884,550, a decrease of $4,588,386 as compared With the re- ceipts during the corresponding period of last year. Three ladies represented Norwalk in the Niagara excursion, which left at. 6.19 this morning. They were the', Misses Eliza and Louise Spillane, and,‘ Miss K. L. Tierney, and they carried their furs, muffs, etc., with theme" In accordance with a time-honored custom, the judges anddefficers of the United States Supreme Court signalized the beginning of the new term of the court by an official 'visit to the presi- dent of the United States yesterday. By leaving his safe unlocked, it hav- ing been forced by burglars twice in the past three years, the postmaster at Glastonbur had his loss from a third burglary, w ich occurred Sunday night, limited to $1, there being no necessity of repairing the safe. The state board of veterinary sur- geons says that the symptoms of the isease with which cattle, in Monroe, Trumbull and Long Hillare afflicted resembles Texas fever, and thefarmers of Huntington think the same disease. is afflicting their cattle. Patrick Flanagan, Etencecl to/bc hanged May 2, 1892, or the murder of‘ McDei'mott at 'Waterb'ury, now in jail, , is in the last stages of quick consump- tion. Sheriff Tomlinson says that Flan- agan could not live throu h the winter and he would cheat the go. lows. The town of Hitchcock, S. D_., came near being destroyed by a prairie fire Sunday. A telegram to the secretary of the navy yesterday afternoon says that the Despatch has “broken up.” The total amount of 4% per cent. bonds redeemed to date is $19,734,800, leaving outstanding $5,769,900. Of the 937.000 ounces of silver which were yesterday offered for sale to the treasury department 500,000 ounces were purchased. The big exhibition and fair of the railroad conductors at New Haven Armory, was opened last night in the presence of 5,000 people. Herbert De’Witt Brown, of Norwalk, and Miss Hattie Josephine Hickok. of Wilton, are to be married at the Wilton Congregational church, Oct. 28th. The total number of pensions grant- ed during the week ending October 3. was 7,190, on which the aggregate first payment amounted to $1,009,014. William Heaney, the engineer charged with having caused the Hawleyville ac- Cident, surrendered himself yesterday, and was released on $2,000 bonds. J. D. Seymour, :of Sonthington, has 8. Concord grapevine on one stem of which, eight inches long, he picked five large clusters of perfect grapes. Sunday . night’s frost destroyed a quarter million dollars worth of grapes in Chautauqua County. Another to- night will do an equal amount of dam- age. The regular meeting of Norwalk As- sembly, No. 97, of the Non~Secret En- dowment Order'will be held this even- ing in their room at the Y. M. C A. rooms. 1~ There is a very strong prospect that the reat football game on Thanksgiv- ing ay between Princeton and Yale will be played this year on the Polo grounds. . The biggest black bass taken in east- ern Connecticut this season was caught by C. H. Starry, of XVillimantic in Square Pond, Tolland, recently. It weighed seven pounds. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ending October 10, was $899,692. The issue during the corresponding period of last year amounted to $1,381,498. Last night was an unusually heavy one for freight on the Housatonic road, five freight trains, which should have gone up before midnight last night, be- ing detained until this morning. The members of Pioneer Hook & Ladder company will be measured for their new suits to-morrow evening, at the truck house. All members are re- quested to be present at 8 o’clock. Democratic Comptroller Staub re— fused to meet with the Republican treasurer of the state yesterday to fix the vslue of non-resident stock in banks and insurance companies for taxation. Rather than have the delirium tremens, which he was on the verge of from excessive drinking, C. J. Maher, an electric light lineman of Meriden, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat yesterday. A number of sporting men from Bridgeport, Ansonia and Danbury have chartered the Bond-Currier, of Bridge- port, for a ducking expedition to the Thimble Islands, to leave in a short time. The mailing desk in the post office has been moved nearer the wall in the office, and the change gives about four feet additional space for Postmaster Hubbell and his assistants to navigate around in. Baby Ruth Cleveland is to be pre- sented with a gold spoon by the Clover Club of New York. The handle willbe a four-leafed clover made of solid beat- en gold and along the stem will be ele- gant filagree work. ' The United States Supreme Court convened at noon yesterda .- for the October term. Justice Field “presiding in the absence of Chief J usge Fuller. Justices Bradley and Gray re als’fo ab- sent, owing to illness. ’ it. -—- George, alias “Spider” Anderson,the colored jockey who fatally shot William Robinson in a saloon at Gloucester City, N. J.,and who has been in hiding, went to the county jail yesterday morn- ing and surrendered himself. » Narramour, the Wesleyan University student, whose disappearance on Sept. 30 created a sensation at the college, is reported to have been seen in Hartford on Oct 4,by college students. The fac- ulty sent parties yesterday to follow up the clue. Fifteen indictments for manslaugh- ter in the first degree have been found at Auburn against Conductor Tobin of the West Shore freight train which was wrecked by the St. Louis express. near Montezuma, on August 15. when fifteen Italians were killed. ‘.,..»The.-Bro'therhood of St. Andrew of iififizfiaul’s church are to listen to a de- H‘bat’efl'at the Parish rooms, Thursday evening, given by Mr. Frank Bouton and Wallace Taylor on the Lee side, and Mr. R. G. Hanford and St. John Merrill on the Grant side, the subject being “which was the greatest soldier, Lee or Grant ?” All young men of the parish are invited. The Danbury fair total. admission s were 4,600 against 5,300 last year. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wal- ter Wilkinson of Plattville avenue yes- terday. —-Get a gas stove for this cool spell of weather. Furnished at cost by the Gas Co. The thermometer dropped below the freezing point in several parts of the state Sunday night, and late vege- tables of course suffered. —Dr. Estebrooke has proven the ex- cellence of his system of painless work and should have abundance of patron- age during the rest of his stay. 205tf One of the largest hop growers on the Pacific Coast got a growth of 5, 592 pounds of hops on an acre of 816 hills. A yield of 1,000 pounds to an acre in the average yard is considered fair. —A reporter of this paper had a bad tooth extracted by Dr. Estebrooke and says-it is a great success. He felt no pain and his mouth got well at once. tf205 The keeper of a bar-room in San- Francisco, while among his casks in the cellar, was killed by the explosion of an empty cask, one of the staves crushing his skull. His light ignited the accumulated fumes in the cask. Five century plants, all in bloom, is the interesting and very rare sight now to be seen in Los Angeles, in the gar- den of the Church of Our Lady of All Angels. They are said to be growmg about a foot 0. day. The Rev. George P. Hallahan, late pastor of St. John’s Church, Lake Ma— hopac, died yesterday at the home of his parents in the village of West Ches- ter. He was in his 36th year. ‘His fun— eral will take place on Wednesday at St. Raymond’s Church, West Chester, at 10.30 a. in. Rev. W. H. Potter, D. D., one of the eminent ministers of the Methodist Church South, died at Austell, Ga., Sunday night. Ten years ago he was a delegate to the Ecumenical Council in London and make a speech, and was also a delegate to the Ecumenical Council held in Washington lately, but did not attend because of ill health. On a farm two miles from North Lyme is an old well ~ which is full of eels. The well was dug abouta cen- tury ago and for fifteen years past it has been unused. When the farm was sold to Almon Korowsky, a Russian Jew, a few weeks ago and he cleaned cleaned out the well he found 162 eels. ——No need to start heater or put up winter stove yet. A gas stove will warm the room at one quarter the expense. Showman G. B. Bunnell has engaged Music Hall for the night of the 24th, at which time he will present a high class vaudeville company, numbering among its members the celebrated Nelson fam- ily of acrobats. The company numbers over twenty-five members and is first- class in every particular. Popular prices here will prevail despite the high character of the show. Look out for particulars in Friday’s GAZETTE. The passengers that came across from Oyster Bay to \Vilson Point Sunday night in the Cape Charles, thought they had a lively time of it. but if they will read the experiences of passengers who have been coming into New York the past few days in ocean'steamships, they will realize that their shaking up cross- ing the Sound was as a summer zephyr compared to a western cyclone, on the ocean. ~—You can change a gas stove from room to room. No ashes. No dust. The ridiculous Geo. H. Waterbury trespass case, was worried along all day yesteaday and up to nearly eight o’clock last night, when the jury being unable to agree, the case was adjourn- ed till Monday in order to permit the jury to view the premises. Mr. Wa- terbury for some reason best known to himself, but certainly not to accommo- date either his own counsel and wit- nesses or those of the other side, had this Cobble Hill case brought at the police court room at South Norwalk. Every horseman in the country will eagerly watch for news to-day from Steekton, 0211., where the great mare Sunol will do battle to save the world’s record for the stable of Robert Bonner. Nancy Hanks has come dangerously near the mark made by Maud S., and it has been Mr. Bonner’s ambition that Sunol should take the place so long held by the one with whom she will soon be a stable mate. It would be a great triumph, and one to be wished for, if Sunol should come east with the world’s record. Her recent half mile made in 1 :03, gives hopes that she will. —A gas stove is always ready for business. Furnished at cost by the Gas Co. Cardinal Manning,in referring to cer- tain church methods of raising money says : ‘ ‘All my life long I have done my utmost to prevent the holding of be.- zaars, lotteries or raffles for works of charity or religion. It seems to me that our Lord’s work ought to be done in our Lord’s way, for His sake and with the purest motive. Anything of self or of the world mixing in so far do- stroys the purity of the motive, and. as St. Paul says of charity, may reduce them to nothing. We are all in danger of these lower motives, and we certainly ought not to encourage them.” Candi— nal Manning is a Roman Catholic from whom many Protestants can learn a good deal. __ ___ -—This cold spell will not last long, but a gas stove will make sitting room or bed room comfortable while it con- tinues. TEMPERANCE RALLY. Ringing Weiss from Rev. J. L. James, Rev: F. E. Robbins and Epthers. 'Yesterday afternoon Concord Divi- s1on, Sons of Temperance, welcomed to their Still the District Divisions, of Fairfield county.‘ Business relating to Division work occupied the afternoon, after which an elegant repast was fur- nished b the Ladies of Concord Di- v1s1on. n the evening the proceedings were open and the public welcome to listen to addresses. A good audience was in attendance. Mr. Fred. Hawley, of New Canaan, presided and intro- duced the speakers. Rev. F. E. Robbins, of this city,‘ opened the exercises with prayer. The first_speaker was the Grand Worthy Patriarch, E. PéKendrick, of New Ha- ven, who Spoke for fifteen minutes upon the necessity of personal respon- s1bility of every temperance man and woman, striving as though the whole responsibility rested upon him or upon her. Men said : “Wait till the time is ripe.” The English told Cromwell to “wait until the iron was hot,” but Cromwell replied “I will pound the iron until it becomes hot.” Thatis the spirit needed now, pounding all along the line. Rev. F. W. Crowder, of Five Mile River, most eloquently brought to the mind of the audience the evils of in— temperance and portrayed with start- ling realism, the curse that ever follows in the trail of drink, and earnestly ap- pealed to the friends of temperance, for more energetic action in arousing public sentiment to the fearful wrong which was being perpetrated against this peace and welfare of this commu- ni v. Roy. F. E. Robbins, pastor of the First Baptist church, was the next speaker, and spoke for 10 minutes with characteristic earnestness. Thespeaker said that while he recognized the great importance of the social element in this, as well as in church work, still the cause appealed to him, as one de- manding the most serious and fearless consecration. Rebellion was not sup- pressed by sponge cake and lemonade, nor revolution effected by secret meet- ings and sweet songs. The battle with the rum seller, must be an open and fearless one. It is business, not pleas- ure.' It means sacrifice, calumny, os- tramsm, broken heads. Like everv other reform, it has a fearful price, yet that price must be paid. The rum seller to-day is on top. Herein our city he rules. He pays no heed to the remon- strance of Wife or mother. He spurns the law and defies all authority. He assaults with impunity and almost murders, yet is his case continued until the public mind forgets. The drunkards he makes run down and almost kill innocent and help-' less women, .before our eyes, and still no v01ce is heard to call a halt. The temperance element,where is that ? It 18 not even brave enough to give the voter a chance to protest. Why. said the speaker, there are more men strad- ling a cider barrel, bound for that su- preme abomination, the cider mill, passmg my house every day, than there are honest temperance men in the whole town. Is it not time that men and women, who really have the inter- est of this town at heart, cease their kid glove tactics, call in the aid of Al- mighty God, and put an end to this work of the devil. The Rev. J. L. James, of Rockville, was the last speaker. He said that he thoroughly endorsed every word of the preceding speaker. He did think it true, and he appealed to the Christian to begin this “awakening” at home, in the store and factory, and not to let up anywhere. Prof. Ferris presided at the organ and led the singing, which, with recita- tions by Mrs. Lewis R. June and Mrs. Emma F. Merrill, New Canaan, added greatly to the enjoyment of the exer- c15es. . _ . A spirit “of intense earnestness pre- vailed, while the enthusiastic sympathy With the speakers promises well for a more aggress1ve activity in temperance work in Norwalk. Big Sale of Trotters in Kentucky. Woodward & Shanklin’s great sale of trotting stock opened at Lexington, Ky., yesterday. Two thousand persons were present and bid lively on the horses. Twenty-seven head brought $46,415, an average of $1,719 per head. Of those selling for $500 and over were the following which come to Connecti- cut: Persona, b. f., by Belmont, dam Nec- tarine, $710. Gallant, b. c., yearling, by Red Wilkes, dam Belva, by Belmont, $3,400. Opera, ch. f., 3, by Robert McGreg- or, dam Zilpah by CuVier, all three to Andy Welch of Hartford, $1,300. This is the sale which is being attend- ed'by T. S. Morison, of Norwalk, and S. H. Rundell, of Danbury, who areiin Kentucky with sharp eyes out for any desirable horse prizes and to witness the great race between Allerton and Nancy Hanks on Thursday. Nancy Hanks and Allerton met last summer at Independence, Iowa. Nan- cy Hanks beatAllertonin three straight heats, trotted in 2.12, 2.12%, 2.12, the fastest time ever made in a trotting race. Messrs. W. R. Allen, of Allen Farm, Pittsfield, C. H. Kerner, A. C. Hall, A. A. Bonner, C. H. Chatfield, Hamilton Busby of Turf, Field and Farm, and others, left in a special car on Saturday for Lexington, to see the great race’be- tween Nancy Hanks and Allerton. ———~————<-¢>——-—-———' Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The regular bi-monthly business meeting of the association was held last night and 13 new members elected. The gymnasium and educational com- mittees Will-meet this evening. ' Thrown From the Train. 1:. Thomas Grady, of Stratford, an em- ployee on the Consolidated railroad, between South Norwalk and Sauga- tuck, was thrown from the train at Saugatuck at 7.15 this morning, from a rear car, and besides being seriously cut.about the head and receiving bruises on the body, had his ankle broken. He was taken into the bag- gage room and his wounds were dressed by medical examiner Powers. .9. .-~— ~.-._....- EUnion Cemetery. We are glad to note the fact that the owners and managers of Union ceme- tery are resolutely cleaning up lots and avenues, trimming trees and hedges, etc., etc., and giving to that garden of our dead a thorough renovation. There is nothing that more emphatically shows a high and tender civilization than the respectful care of the sepul- chres of the departed. Nor is there ever a harsher emphasis given to Rip Van Winkle’s pathetic soliloquy. “and are we so soon forgotten when we are dead ?”, than a neglected grave yards. ' Turning Out Postal Cards. The postal card factory at Shelton is turning out 2,500,000 cards per day. This includes all three kinds that are being made. The number of cards re- quired to be in the vaults before the is- suance of the new series is 90,000,000— 40. 000, 000 of which will be kept at Shel- ton and the remainder distributed be- tween St. Louis and Chicago agencies. The St. Louis agency is now full and the Chicago agency is within 10,000,000 of the required number. The biggest ordinary day’s run made recently was only a few days ago when2,800.000cards were turned out. The Labor Convention. The Connecticut Branch of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor convened in Germanic Hall, at 11 o’clock yesterday. Forty delegates, representing 18,000 workingmen, were present at the open— ing of the convention. There were five lady delegates from the Danbury Hat Trimmers’ Association. - After organizing and appointing committees an adjournment was taken until two o’clock. The convention will no doubt, be of great interest and hen. efit to the workingmen of the State. The convention will continue to-day and editor Thomas H. Crosby, of the New Britain Independent will deliver an address. He is spoken of as an elo- quent orator and tariff: expounder. or. — A Brakeman Killed. At Fairfield, yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock, while a freight train was passing through that place, Henry Merritt, a brakeman, belonging in New York, fell from one of the cars and was run over and killed. He was on the small platform of a freight car attending to the brakes when he met his death. In some unaccountable manner he missed his footing as the train was nearing the Mill Plain crossing and fell betweenathe cars. He held onto the step until he reached a point where some changes are being made in the tracks. His dangling form struck an obstruction and he was thrown under the wheels which passed over his body just above the thigh cutting him in two. The remains were taken to New Haven. «— .-~ -—»— —4 0»__—.__.— An Enjoyable Night. One of the brightest performances ever witnessed, says Guy Pemberton in the Evening Sun, is that delightful, whimsical, natural play “She Couldn’t Marry Three.” It is homelike, the story most probable and interesting, causing tears of sympathy or hearty laughter. Unconsciously you are in- terested in Miss Kennedy’s portrayal of “Bess.” You laugh and cry with her as she flits like a beam of light through each act of the play. She laughs, cries, sings, dances; she’s a hoyden, a trusting little fisher maiden, and no matter what she does she carries you along with her an unreSisting worshiper at her shrine. . What a sturdy, massive, picturesque figure Mr. Sullivan is in the character of “Davie,” the rough fisherman and heroic lover ; his quiet intensity sug- gest the strength of the ocean. An I laugh with reminiscent pleasure as I recall that delightful, verdant, up- roarious, foolish “Bob Backus” as played by Mr. Kennedy. I surren- dered at once; I’m laughing yet, and I advise those who deplore the fact that we have so few good plays, go see “She Couldn’t ,Marry Three,” and be happy- ~ ——-—»-—————-<->——- 1...... Connecticut’s New Snarl. Connecticut’s law required the meet- ing yesterday of the State Board of Equalization, which is composed of the State Treasurer andComptroller. Treas- urer Henry, the republican hold-over, was in his office to-day prepared to act. But Comptroller Soaub. who is a demo- crat, had been advised by his counsel that he could not recognize Henry’s right to act and must recognize Mar Vln H. Sanger, democratic candidate for treasurer last November, _who claims an election by a clear majority of 290. Sanger and Staub proceeded to _the place provided by law for the meeting, the Treasurer’s office. Henryhad at the entrance a burly deputy sheriff, who told Staub that he might enter, but that Sanger, while free to make a some] call, would be expelled by force if .he sought to enter in any assumed official charac- ter. Staub and Sanger then held a meeting on tho door-mat and elected E. W. Moore chief clerk of the Equali- zation Board. Then they met and per- formed the duties of the Board. Hen- ry claims that their action is illegal, and that the corporations assessed can rain 9 payment of their taxes, estimated at 9. out $100,000. Staub’s counsel de- nies this. Thus the state of Connecti- cut has apparently two acting treasur- ers, one in the treasurer’s office, and the other exercising the rights and functions of that office elsewhere. Free Ride to the Fair. General Manager Tuttle, of the Con- solidated railroad, has issued an order notifying all employees of the road and their families who may wish to visit New Haven to attend the conductors’ fair, the present week, that free trans- portation Wlll _ be ' furnished to them gomgand coming, and superintendents of d1V1810nS are instructed to issue the same upon application. This will en- able many an employee to attend who would otherWise have to stay at home. 0‘. No Action Yet. The Board of Directors of the New York .Base BallClub, met in thePotter Building yesterday afternoon to act on the report of the committee appointed to investigate the playing and manage- ment of the Giants in the now famous Boston games. Ow1ng to pressing business engage- ments Mr. Van Cott had to be excused, and as the directors desired a full board in acting upon a matter of so much im- portance, they adjourned to meet again this afternoon at 4 o’clock at the same place, when a full representation of the board will be present. ~0— An Unknown Man Killed. Aman supposed, to be an employee on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad fell off the train last evening near the tin bridge at Cedar Hill, near New Haven. He was picked up and taken to the hospital where it was found that his skull was crushedp He was in an unconscious state and it was expected that he would die before daylight. .HIS pockets were searched at the hos- pital and in them were found an opened letter addressed to Michael Griffen, Meriden, and also apass issued by Gen- eral Manager Tuttle in the name of John McGowan. He was found b the operator of Cedar Hill station ying across the tracks about five minutes be- fore the north bound train came along. ——————— —»— n o o———.———~ _., , Bridgeport Standard. Cur truly esteemed contemporary of the Park City «came out last evening in an entirely new dress and adopting the modern eight-page form. But its en- terprise extends far beyond this. It has a new web-perfecting press, that prints, pastes, fonts, folds and counts twelve thousand papers per hour. It will, it says, maintain its old and well-established reputation for reliabil- ity and enterprise, and continue to be in the future as safe and welcome in the households of its patrons, as it has been for so many years in the past and kept in every department fully up to the demands of the best journalism of the day. .9 —-Porterhouse Steak 18 cents, at the People’s Market, 20 Wall street ; Sir- lom Steak 14 cents; Round Steak 123; cents ; Shoulder Steak 10 cents; Roasts of Beef, Pork and Mutton 12:1; cents; Sausage 12% cents; All goods war- ranted satisfactory and full weight, or return them and get your money at the People’s Market, 20 Wall street. 206tf <~o->~——— The Railroad Hearing. At the railroad hearing on East Nor- walk property yesterday, which was held at the Mahackemo Hotel before Samuel Tweedy, D. M. Read and Frank H. Hoyt, the question was what the damages were to the W. W. COm- stock property at Fort Point for a gore across his front and lowering the high- way the entire length of the property, so as to allow it to pass under the rail- road. Twelve of the best judges of real estatein that vicinity put the net damages from $3,000 to $5,000. . The Parker property on the south Side of the track running from a new street to the channel, was discussed at the same time, the witnesses putting the damages to that at from $1,500 to $2,000. ohn S. Seymour represented the property owners and William D. Bishop, Jr. the railroad. The case will be finished to-morrow. in the Police Court. The court house presented an unusu- ally clean appearance this morning when Judge Coolidge took his seat to mete out justice to the prisoners in the deck. The Judge on entering and glar- ing around, remarked : “I suppose we are inde oted to the DAILY: GAZETTE for the remarkably clean appearance of the room this morning.” In this the Judge was mistaken, however, as one of the steam pipes overhead had become so disgusted with the filthy appearance of the room that it gave way yesterday and deluged the room as well as the Housatonic depot platform below. The first prisoner to greet His Honor was John Clarity. who was charged with beating his wife. For this innocent pastime the Judge gave him $5 and costs. John 'Doran, claiming Baltimore as his last residence, and Charles A. Byington of Wilton were both charged with being drunk. His Honor decided- that both were guilty and gave John $3 and costs ahd'Charles $1 and costs. As John was not a' bloated bondholder. he journeyed over to Bridgeport to make the acquaintance of Sheriff Clarkson. Charles, having friends in town, paid up and was released. —-————~—oo. CALIFORNIA SBAKEN UP. A Terrific Earthquake Smashes Things Generally in Napa. NAPA, Oct. 13.-—The heaviest earth— quake shock ever felt here was experi- enced at 10:34 o’clock last night. People rushed into the streets in night clothing in great excitement. Chimneys toppled over and several buildings were cracked and badly shaken. Drug store fixtures suffered greatly, bottles being thrown from the shelves to the floor. The walls of the Masonic temple, :1. fine building, were cracked by the shock. At the State Insane asylum great- excitement prevailed the patients being almost uncontrollable. It is reported that the building was cracked and that other damage was done. WHERE All THEY? Two Norwalk Men Go Down the Harbor Sunday Morning and Fail to Return; Searching Parties Out. Considerable anxiety is felt for the safety of Edwin Fitch, a shoemaker, and Edward J. Scofield, employed by J. T. Prowitt, who went down the har- bor Sundaymorning, in a 12 foot flat bottom skiff, and who, up to this writ— ing, have not returned. ., The two men left J enning’s dock about 9 o’clock Sunday, morning in Fitch’s 12 . foot boat for a- days’s fishing. They informeda friend that they intended going to Copp’s Rock, a favorite spot of Fitch’s and a place where he invariably goes. The wind was blowing quite brisk about the time they started, and so the little mutton-leg sail, which the boat was supplied with, was hoisted and they sped along at a lively rate of speed. They passed a boat containing Geo. Northrop and Cornelius Pierce near the oyster docks and exchanged saluta— tions. At this time they were headed in the direction of Dorlon Point. \Vhen Northrop’s boat reached the point it was headed to the south, to- ward the light house, and at that time Fitch’s boat was going in the direction. of Betts’ Island. This was the last seen of them. North- rop came home on Sunday afternoon, about 4 o’clock, and on the way en- countered quite a severe squall. They saw nothing of Fitch or his boat. The supposition is that the party finding the sea too much for their little boat put ashore at Betts’ Island, and have not been able to get off as the wind has been blowing toward the is_ land ever since Sunday and the waves have beenunusually high. Another point in favor of the party being on the island is that Fitch is well acquainted with the man who lives in the little house on the island, and has often put in there during rain storms. “Speeler” Smith also informed a DAI- LY GAZETTE reporter, this morning, that he thought he saw the boat hauled up on Betts’ Island Sunday afternoon. - Charles Sanford, a son-in-law of Mr. Fitch, started for Calf Pasture this morning, where he will row to the is- land and search for the missing men. Later—Sanford returned shortly be- fore we went to press and stated that the men were found on Betts’ Island and were taken off this noon by Capt. Decker on his tug “Ripple. ” Charles Brotherton, who has also been on the island since Sunday, was left there, he preferring to remain until the storm abates. __.______..., A Runaway. Not to be outdone by C. L. Glover’s horse, the black horse and handsome new wagon of grocer G. W. Raymond, which was left standing in front of Mr. James H. Bailey’s residence, started off this morning to give the DAILY GAZETTE an item. He dashed down Mill Hill and up Main street, and into the yard in the rear of the Taylors’ blacksmith shop, where he stopped as though ready to instruct “Vet” into the mysterious ofa game of euchre. Strange to say nothing was'broken nor did he collide with a vehicle on the way. ' .._._._—-——————— WHAT MISS SPINSTER SAYS: That milk which has changed maybe rendered fit for use again by stirring in a little soda. That a tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will aid the whitening process, and not injure the fabric. . That the recuperative force of nature works wonders—especially upon w1d- owers. .. That paint stains that as dry and old may be removed from. Cotton or Woolen goods with chloroform. First cover the spot with olive oil or butter. That Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox con- .‘c __rs with Kate Field, and is sure that a“ l bachelors over 40 ought to be taxed in proportion to the number of single women over 39 in any state, the net proceeds to be used for the support of maiden ladies. . That the New York Herald gives a “daily hint from Paris.” which sug- ests many tasteful additions to the feminine wardrobe. “The latest thing in belts” shows four leather belts worn one above the other, each fastened by a buckle. This would seem to be the first practical attempt to carry out the vernacular injunction to “whoop ’er up.” That Mrs. Paxton, the energetic mayor of Kiowa, Kan, has been mak- ing the liveliest kind of war on the Kiowan saloon men, destroying their stock in trade, nailing up their doors, etc. In consequence the cattlemen of the vicinage do not find Kiowa so at- tractive as it used to be. and do not visit it so frequently. Now we hear that the Kiowan store-keepers have drawn up a- round-robin, asking Mrs. Paxton to resign the mayoralty for the good of trade, and retire to private life. It is even asserted that the list of sign- ers includes the mayor’s husband, Mr. Paxton.
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