THE PEOPLE’S PAPER. Largest Circulation. iffi Vol. 1, N0. 215. r ' :x..\>.~§\ \\ ’1’ Norwalk, Conn, Monday Evening, October 26, 1891. only? ,, “1'51"? \wl‘xq’f'jkJan-2.3:, 3 “Equal and Exact J ustiee to all Men of Whatever State or Persuasion, Religious or ,Politieal.”—Jeflerson LEAES in ADVERTISING. Wants, I Cent a Word. fi ‘ Price One Cent. The Daily Gazette Is issued very week-day at 3 P. M.. at ONE CENT PER com. The Cheapest Rates for Advertising, and THE LARGEST CIRCULATION. The Weekly Gazette. [Combined with Friday's Daile Is issued every Friday at Noon. at THREE CEN'rs PER corv, OB $1.50 PER YEAR. The Daily and Weekly.f Served to Local Subscribers at us CENTS PER WEEK. on $5.00 PER YEAR. A. H. Brineron. Proprietor This paper has the largest circulation of any paper in the State west of Bridgeport. O U R J OBBIN G DEPARTMENT. 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- tr nsted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done. Happenings To-night. Hospital Fain—Armory. Opera House—Asa Jenkins. «+>———~~~--~« Contested Wills. . Among the very few blessings vouch- safed to the poor is the consciousness of every poor man that there will be no contest over his will, no squabble when he is dead, over the division of his goods and chattels. Rarely does a wealthy person depart from this world leaving behind a goodly estate par— celled out by a will, but forthwith some sort of, a contest is instituted. The ca- pacity of financial acquisition is clearly proven by the official inventory, but the capacity of testamentary cliSposi- tion is often savagely attacked. There would be fewer contested wills if men would be their own executors. How many charities have had to fight for what was clearly and freely given be- cause the givers preferred to sign a will instead of a check. Had Samuel J. Tilden bestowed as much thought and attention upon securing the incor— poration of the Tilden Library as he did upon that long-winded will which he signed, and had he, when the Li- brary was duly incorporated, drawn his check for its endowment the con- test over his will would have been fore- stalled. The recent contest over the Fayerweather millions has hardly faded from our memories. Messrs. Tilden and Fayerweather both knew how and where they intended to dispose of their wealth, but they preferred to depute their benevolence to agents, and as a consequence the Tilden Library is un- built, and the Fayerweather benefici- aries had rather a close call. H. B. Smith, of Smithville, N. J ., left in his will provisions to establish certain benevolent institutions. One court has upset his will, the next higher court has sustained it, and now it goes to the Court of Appeals. Had Smith built and endowed these proposed institu- tions in his life-time there would not“ probably have been any contests over his will, nor the tearing away of a veil which hid certain moral delinquencies. All wills are not just, and mostwills are ill considered, and to this cause may be traced most if not all of the flaws usually found in wills. However satis- factory a death-bed repentance may be to the theologian, a death bed will is not satisfactory to the lawyer who drafts it, as it were, under whip and spur. There is an impression extant that the making of a will hastens the approach of death, and until this im» pression fades away we shall have _a perennial crop of death-bed wills with all the faults of haste and the deficien- cies of a mind weakened by disease, followed by the aftermath of contests and unseemly exhibitions of family skeletons. If, therefore, one designs to be chari- table it is best to do it by deed or check and not bya will. It will be known for a certainty that the bounty has gone straight to the mark, and whatever may be the fate of the will left behind the good work done stands. The treatment of heirs presumptive re- quires more generosity than tact. “Ac cording to law” generally suits, and they would probably respect the mem— ory of a testator who built up his will on those lines, but if the heirs-pre- sumptive, to use an expressive but in- elegant phrase, “are not in it,” the good name of the testator will be at- tacked under circumstances which pre- clude reply or explanation, and his reputation will be assailed, and his his- tory ransacked, as heartlessly as if he were running for office. _ Take in Your Tax List. After Saturday of this week ten per cent. penalty is added to every tax list not previously brought in and sworn to before the town assessors. This is not at all optional with the board of assess- ors but is a provision of law that they cannot deviate from. The board sits daily at the Selectmen’s office over the savings bank. Many soldiers have been forced to pay this ten per cent. penalty from not properly understanding the law in regard to the U. S. service ex- emption, That releases 31,000 of prop- erty from taxation, but it does not re- lease the ten per cent. penalty in any case where a soldier does not take in his list, even though he may not have over one or five hundred dollars of tax- able estate. Nor is it in the power of the Board of Relief to abate the addi- tional ten per cent levied by the assess- ors. So, to save all trouble, let every property holder carry in his list. Smith—Dobbs. Married, at the residence of the bride’s father,on Wednesday morning, Oct, 2lst, in the City of Danbury. Conn, Miss Eflie B. Dobbs to Mr. William L. Smith, both of Danbury. After the ceremony, the bridal party departed upon- their wedding trip, which will occupy about ten days, and. on their return they will take up their residence, and go to housekeeping on George street, in a home of their own. already prepared. The bride is the youngest of five sisters, all of whom have married, and the daughter of Mr. Theo. Dobbs, for about 40 years a resi- dent of Orange, N. J., and well and favorably known there. She is a lineal descendant of the family from whom Dobb’s Ferry, New York, received its name. The groom is a half brother of Mr. J. M. Bailey, editor and proprie- tor of the Danbury News, and fills an important position in the printing de- partment of that establishment. He isayoung man of steady and indus- trious habits, and an ornament to the profession. We know of no young couple who have entered upon their matrimonial career with brighter pros- pects, and it is our earnest hope,coupled, with the sincere wish, that the end of their. lives may be as happy as is its be- ginning. God in mercy, bless you. keep you. Fill your hearts with wedded truth. So that when old age shall greet you, It shall find you as in youth. 0. Autumn Tints. If any one wants to see the autumnal tints in more than their usual supernal glories of lurid red and shades of scar- let, yellow and brown, juSL take a drive to “Putnam Park” any sun-shiny day, Where “ The earth is crowned with heaven, . And every common bush anre With God.’ .0. TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN. C. R. Bouton, of New Haven, spent Sunday in to .vn. TheGehebe case was again postponed Saturday for one week. —-—New Smoked Hams, 1250. People’s Market, 21 Wall street. 214tf Taxpayers should call to mind the necess1ty of handing in their lists at once. .—Genuine Milwaukee,bottled by the 0r1ental Bottling Company, 3 Water street. 215-8t Dr. I. R. Sanford, of South Norwalk, has been visiting W. B. Peck, of South Egremont, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Munson Raymond, of New York,spent Sunday at the parental. home on Knight street. —~_Wallace & Co.’s most excellentCon- fections, at G. A. Gregory & Co.’s, 38 Wall street. -_ 214-3t Mrs. Burroughs, who has been visit- ing her mother, Mrs. Emily Mott, leaves town to-day for her homel, in Cleveland. —Great Bar rains in MILLINERY. All goods at two-t irds their value, at the Boston store for the next ten days. 215-3W President Dwight, whose health has been greatly improved by his European amp, W111 resume his duties at Yale to- ay. ' —_‘-Vallace & Co.’s most excellent Con- fections, at G. A. Gregory & Co.’s, 38 Wall street. _ _ 214-3t Austin Gibbons, light-weight pugilist, took out his second papers in the Pas- saic county court Saturday, and is now an American citizen. Rev. Mr. Watkins will be home again this week and a most hearty and royal welcome will await him and his good lady, by his parishoners. The funeral of Capt. Enos Frisbie of Harwinton, who died at the age of 100 years, 4 months and 8 days, takes place in that town to-morrow. —Jacob Hoffman’s Manipole Lager, bottled by the Oriental Bottling com- pany. 215-31; The old pavilion at Flushing Bay, once owned and run by Harry Hill as a sporting resort, was destroyed by fire 338m 11 o’clock last night. Loss $15,- Miss Grace Seymour, formerly of Norwalk, and who is now connected With the New Haven training school for nurses, is visiting her home in South N orwalk. Saturday evening St. John council, the Bridgeport branch of the Ameri- can Order of Steam Engineers, with- drew from the Supreme Council and formed themselves into a new society. While Sheriff Toner and wifefiwere on their way to the funeral of Mrs. Mulligan, on Hoyt street. yesterday, the nut on the front wheel came off, and the wheel started to follow the nut, but was discovered in time to prevent a serious accident. \_, ,_, "‘ , Edward-Brennan, of Bridgeport, was in town yesterday. All the liquor licenses in the county expire on Saturday, the last day of October. John Cavanaugh has accepted a posi- tion at \Vaterbury and left Saturday for that place. _0____“ ‘ ——Ale and Porter,bottled by the Ori- ental Bottling company. 215-3t The leading boy choirs of Connecti- cut will hold a convention in Hartford, November 3rd. _ A new gate was put in the water main at the corner of Franklin and Belden avenues, yesterday. Marketman Wadhams business has assumed such gigantic proportions that he has secured Miss Mamie Beers as cashier. - —Porter House Steak, 16c. People’s Market, 21 Wall street. 214tf . Cards are out announcing the mar- riage of \Villiam Sharon, of Norwalk, to Miss Mary O’Brien, of Bridgeport. James Ellis was before Justice Cool- idge.this morning, charged with drunk- enness. He paid the costs of the case and was discharged. A race for $250 a side between two Stamford three-year-old colts, is ex— pected to take place at the Fair Grounds, this afternoon. The funeral of Mrs. Mary J. Bayles, of East Norwalk, was held from her late residence yesterday. The inter- ment was at Union cemetery. ABoston firm is at the Electric Light Station to-day, covering the boilers and , steam pipes with a plastic, non-heat- conducting preparation of asbestos,etc. —Spare Ribs and Sausage, 12c. Peo- ple’s Market, 21 Wall street. 214tf .. . _--_...,_ Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Tripp enter- tained their friends Saturday evening at their home on Chapel street. A large number were present, and sing- ing and dancing was kept up until a late hour. A new boiler will be put into the old Shepherd factory on Hoyt street, to- morrow, which Hodson & Cole, the hatters, will occupy, and the firm ex- pects to commence work in about two weeks. Frank Grace and a load of coal were unceremoniously “dumped ”in front of the Union school, Saturday afternoon, by the hind wheel of the wagon refus- ing to act in concert with the other wheels. Miss Ella Ewing is a “sweet sixteen,” lithe and willowy girl only eight feet and two inches tall in her stockings, who comes to a New York dime museum to-day to bewitch those dudes lVIdQ eflect the society of tall young a les. Who weeps with you when you are sad, and laughs with you when you are glad, and smiles at you when you are mad—the editor. Who owns a heart as well as check, possessed of spirit proud, yet meek, and lives on forty cents a weekwthe editor.—Ex. The Right Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D., will deliver the Communion address before the Church Congress to :19 held at Washington, D. 0., beginning on November 17. George F. Edmunds will preside. will be discussed by leading clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Rev. B. F. Reazor, of Orange, read a circular from his pulpit yesterday at the morning service, calling upon ev- ery voter in the congregation, irre- spective of party, to vote for candidates who pledge themselves to work for the abolishment of horse racing and pool selling in New Jersey. Miss Townsend, who has been spend- ing the summer with her Aunt, Mrs. Edwin Clark, of Elm street, leaves town to-day, for New York city. She will be accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Hurd and family, of Texas, who have been guests at the Norwalk Hotel dur- ing the past week. Miss Townsend ex- pects to return to Norwalk after a visit in New York city. When Janitor Hanford Smith opened the Opera House this morning he dis- covered the place full of smoke. Rein- forced bv 9. DAILY GAZETTE scribe, he hunted the place high, low, jack and the game, but could not discover from whence the smoke came. until going down stairs, he found that the clerk in Glover’s grocery store had started a fire and that a cup in the chimney, which runs through the Opera House, had fallen out, letting all the smoke in- to that reom. An old hat' was shoved into the opening and the Fire Depart- ment was not called. The Hon. Henry B. Norton died in Norwich, Conn., on Sunday evening, aged 84 years. He was one of the most prominent business men in eastern Connecticut, being 0105er identified for most of his life with the business, educational and religious welfare of the community. He was, at the time of his death, President of the Atta- waugan Manufacturing Company, Pres- ident of the Norwich Free Academy, and a director in the People’s line of steamers between'New York and Al- bany, the Norwich Bleaching Com- pany, the the Richmond Stove Works, the Bulletin Company, and other com- panies. During the war he acted as a confidential special agent of Gov. Buckingham in looking after the in-. terests of Connecticut troops at the front. In 1880 he was the first-named candidate for Presidential elector on the successful Republican tick et. Subjects of importance , WHAT Miss SPINSTER SAYS: That Mr. Howard Earle was in town Saturday. -_‘ That next Frida v will be Hallow’een. That the rehearsal of the Japanese Wedding will be at Mrs. Van Buren’s Tuesday evening at half past seven sharp. 5,1.- That we ad say "Rah to the woman who gave the first donation in money to the July booth. The women are still to the fore in every good word and work. , That the slender, well formed woman looks well in a Japanese gown, but be- ware of indulging in the new fad, ye dames and demoiselles, if nature has been generous. in giving you flesh. That the opening of the chestnut burs is of particular interest at this season. The good qualities of the roasted chest- nut as an article of food are not wholly appreciated. The raw chestnut is rath- er indigestible and slightly astringent, but the roasted, and especially the boil- ed nut, may be eaten in large quanti- ties without ill. effects. That Norwalk may or may not have electric street car lines down East av- enue. 'The two latest inventions of Edison may be worth consideration. It is said that the experiments have been completed and proved satisfactory and the invention now passes out of the experimental stage into the second stage, its adoption to practical use. If it proves to be as successful as pre- dicted, why not Norwalk be the first town to adopt the new system. That the Hospital Fair is in the field for active work this week. The enter- prise and public spirit of the women is worthy of all praise. They have been instrumental in securing odd and fan- ciful devices hitherto unheard of, to tempt the public. They have not been discouraged or cast down by apparent defeat. We heartily give all encour- agement and wish all success to the women engaged in the fair, for better- ing the condition of the sick in our town. That ever since Eve’s curiosity about that garden of Eden apple put the idea of clothes into Adam’s head, man has been having trouble with his trousers. And that he has never since been quite happy in wearing them‘is a fact so no- torlous that some philosophers have ex- pressed surprise that woman should have become inspired with dress-reform ard or and begun an agitation in favor of wearing the trousers. It is the re- fractory brace and the inevitable and uncontrollable tendency of trousers to bag at the knees that inflict misery up- on almost everv man. Human ingenu- 1ty has been taxed for a decade and more to produces. suspender that will suspend without bursting off a button somewhere at the most inopportune moment. What the race of man awaits with anxiety is the coming of the trou- sers that cannot have at the knees even if they want to. ortune and fame await the master—mind that shall meet this crying need. ——<+ Mr. and Mrs. Cheesbro of Milwaukee are vis1ting at Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 'l‘alcott’s on Union Park. 4 Mr. Ira Cole has just had a splendid tarred walk laid along the Elmorest avenue front of his recently purchased Woodbury mansion. It is now reported that Burgess O’Reilly will abandon his application for a license and go it “dry” another year, with his grocery. j—Wallace & Co. ’s most excellent Con- fections, at G. A. Gregory & Co.’s, 38 Wall street. 214-3t Several Norwalk wheelmen wheeled to New York yesterday. Stephen Com- stok and Howard Doty went down on an early train and wheeled home by way of Tarrytown, and Clinton Seeley and Fred. Brady did just the reverse, wheeling to the city and coming home on the train. Acow- belonging to Edward Gorm- ley of Prospect avenue.got into a neigh- boring orchard, Saturday, and after eating so many apples that she got what vulgar people call a “jag,” stag erd home and laid herself down and ied. Her remains are now in possession of Sheriff Toner. ‘ . Fire Bug at Work. An unsuccessful attempt was made some time between Saturday night and early this morning, to set fire to the outbuilding in the rear of the tea store, at 41 Main street. The building was locked late Saturday night. when the the store was closed, and this morning when it was opened a large pile of burned paper was found in one corner.- The paper had been saturated with kerosene and dropped in through the side window, and it is a wonder that the place was not burned down. ‘ Over Twanty Thousand Will Strike. LONDON, Oct. 26.—A crisis is at hand in . the marine engineering trade of the north of England. The union having demanded an entire abolition of overtime the em- ployers offered a compromise by promising to restrict the hours of overwork. This proposal was rejected, and the union re- solved in favor of attacking the various firms in detail. To Checkmate this move the employers associated together for mu- tus protection, and gave a week’s notice of ismissal to about 25 per cent. of the employes. There are 30,000 men afiected by the trouble, and of these 22,000 will give notice of a strike Monday. Governor Pattison’s Peril. HARRISBURG, Oct. 26,—While Governor Pattison and members of his staff were qualifying as marksmen at the Governor’s Troop range some members of the Harris- burg Gun club began firing at clay pl- geons. The shot whizzed about the govern- or’s party, all of whom, except the gov- ernor, sought cover, and at lastastray shot struck him on the back of the head. The shot did not pierce the skin, but it was stinging and painful. ii BIG grams. Uniting the City and Borough. Romantic Villa Sites Opene . Engineer Rider has, for the past few weeks, been engaged in surveying and laying out roads, parks, ponds and villa sites at South Norwalk, which for ro- mantic beauty and sightlin'ess, pro bably cannot be exceeded, if equaled any- where on the Connecticut coast from New York to the Rhode Island line. The locality is so wild, rocky, oftimes precipitous, and hitherto hard of access, that no engineer not having the land- scape gardener instinct possessed byEn- gineer Rider in so large a degree, would ever have had the skill or the fortitude to have tackled so stupendous an un- dertaking,and least of all, been able to have convinced the owners of the prop- erty, through which his general plan runs, that the work could be made re— munerative. The proprietors of the property are Messrs. Edwin Baird, D. E. Disbrow, the estates of George and Wm. H. Benedict and of Ebenezer Hill. The plan contemplates the open- ing of a highway from West avenue on the southwest side ofthe new stone Con- gregational Church and leading up the easy grade in its rear, to and through the hitherto wild and rocky pasture fields of the A. E. Baird estate. The crest of this high plateau is here reached and the road, by circular and winding ways, extends due northward across the old east and west road, running from the Stamford pike and coming out on West avenue at the Methodist parson- age. Here the new road strikes the Benedict estate and the wildest and most picturesque situations on the whole plot are revealed. A little north of the old George Benedict homestead and on the crest of the rocks in its rear, this road winds around to the edge of the bluff, and Norwalk, South Norwalk, Long Island shores, the Sound, the highlands of Westport, Southport, Wes- ton, Wilton and Bedding are plainly discernible and a panorama spread out before the eye, that will astonish as well as delight any one not having already visited the spot. This spot and picture far surpasses the much noted bluff view in the rear of the city of Montreal. The Engineer’s skill is conspicuously shown at this point in the circular turn 'given the road around a series of old, jagged and century seared rocks, which may have floated down in the glacial period and been carefully deposited on and about this point. A large number of villa site lots are here laid out, similarly to those on the Baird property. Thence “the road winds amid rockeries, old for- est trees, through ravines and over knolls, until, having passed through the property of Mrs. Eben Hill, comes out on Cedar street. From this point, ex-Sherifi‘ Swartz, who has come into control of the John S. Sammie home- stead property, takes up the line of this new Rider road and cuts it through the rear portions of the Sammie estate, opening large numbers of wild, and so far as view is concerned, wonderfully attractive building sites, and then runs his road out on the west, by easy grades into the Connecticut Turnpike at a point opposite the termination of .the new Elm Crest avenue, just cut through the Woodbury property by Mr. Ira Cole. One of the best features of this exten- sive and wonderfully beautiful and pic- turesque villa site scheme, is that the larger portion of the lots are arranged so as to be sold to thrifty mechanics. merchants and others of small means. No such line of wildly beautiful prop- erty can be found elsewhere in this or any other shore town of our acquaint- ance, and when the roads are complet- ed, it will furnish the people of Norwalk the most charmingly romantic drive of all the beautiful scenery revealing sec— tions of the rarely beautiful and varied water views and landscapes of our town. Mr. Rider has had between fifty and seventy-five Italians laborers at work for several weeks, and if the fall weath- er remains propitious for out-door work, he hopes to get it all completed by or before Christmas, and furnish a highway with such easy grades that it can be trotted over from the Connecti- cut Turnpike, opposite Seymour Place. up or down to the exit, just beside the South Norwalk Congregational Church. A walk over this region of almost Al- pine wildness, will well repay any one with an eye for the beautiful. 0 —10 lbs. of Pork or Sausage for $1 at the Peoples’ Market, 21 Wal St. 214tf. ———-——————09 As We Expected. Senator John S. Seymour makes a pilgrimage to Brooklyn to-morrow night to take the stump for Flower, Tammany, Boody, 66 id omne genus. +>——————————- ' . Town Meeting. Don’t forget the annual town meet- ing to be held to-morrow afternoon. DARIEN. The Rev. Mr. Underwood of North- ampton, Mass, one of the most elo- quent as well as successful Evangelists 1n the Presbyterian fold, has for the pastweek held afternoon and evening serv1ces 1n the Brick church, so-called, and an .unusual degree of religious in- terest is being manifested in conse- quence. The reverend gentleman’s re- marks are pungent and pointed and are- framed in carefully worded lan- guage that carries conviction. He is very. prolific of anecdotes as well as citations from actual experiences, which when told by one having a perfect command of language are always of ab- sorblng interest. The regular pastor, Rev. Mr. Austin, has labored unceas- ingly for years past in sowing the good seed that it would seem are about to take root and spring forth into a boun- tiful harvest. Already a number of conversmns. are announced and the good work is to be continued the pres- ent week. Meetings are held every af- ternoon at 3 and every evening at 7.30, exceptlng on Mondays and Saturdays. The Methodist people commence a series of rev1val services in their church this afternoon and two able divines are to conduct the meetings. A larger au- dience would have been assured had they deferred their revival season until Rev. Mr. Underwood had finished his labors, but Darien, like other towns of 1ts kind, has abundant work for God’s people to do, and the greater the num- ber engaged, more speedy and more encouragmg will be the results. If any of our N orwalk people desire to. listen to an old time sermon that will rivet their attention from the open- 1ng to its close, drive over and listen to Rev. Mr. Underwood, and our word for it, they will not be disappointed. .9. At the Fair Grounds. Quite a large crowd gathered at the Fair Grounds Saturday afternoon to Witness the matinee races and the foot- ball match. - _ Two racee were trotted, one in fast time, Ike Hamilton, of South N orwalk, havmg the honor of driving both win- ners. The following are the results : Ike Hamilton’s Nellie G., J. Woodhull’s Phil W.. B. Lockwood’s Dick. Time 2:53, 2:50. J. H. Ferris’ Kitty. S. Lownds’ Pete, W. S. Bouton’s Charlie D. Time 2:41}§, 2:410. During the races a colt belonging to John H. Knapp, of South N orwalk, was brought out, and sent a mile, without (as one of the judges remarked,) a skip in the fast time of 2:76. After put- ting their heads together, the judges added the seconds up and announced the time as 3.16. The football match between the Y. M. C. A. team and the Volunteer Hose Company eleven, of East Norwalk, was watched with even more interest than the races. The up-town team was not nearly as heavy as their East N orwalk opponents, but when it came to the tricks of the game. the latter weren’t ‘_‘in it.” Two or three players were in- jured and carriedfrom the field during the game but up to the time of our go- ing to press, we have not heard of their decease. The score at the end of the game was 16 to 0, in favor of the N or- walk eleven. Bishop and Camp did the best work for the Y. M. C. A. temp-A CON)“ RFD—A NIH CO 00 O. A Narrow Escape. Frank Finch and his brother George had anarrow escape from being killed last night, and, even as it was, Frank, while not dangerously hurt, is quite seriously injured. Frank is employed at Riggs’ drug store. He is a son of William Finch. the truckman, who liVes on Van Zandt avenue. Last evening the two young men were in their father’s barn, and were wrestling in a Sportivemanner, when both fell near the feet of a large black horse. The horse, a gentle one, by the way, feeling something unusual about its heels, stepped to one side and on the face of Frank, causing ugly wounds near .1118 nose and on his neck and rendering him unconscious. Frank was picked up and taken into the house and Dr. Higgins summoned, who hopes to pull him through all right. George escaped with a few slight scratches. .That neither were killed or more seriously injured seems miraculous. Mr. 111. Finch told your reporter that had 1t been his other horse no doubt either or both of the boys would have been killed or maimed for life. ——-———-——~4-o->—-———-—— Surgical Aid Refused. When the head of his axe flew off and terribly injured the head of his son Harry, aged four years, a few days ago, as relate in the DAILY GAZETTE, Ly- man G. Tibbals,of Winchester hastened to Winsted, six miles distant, for the family physician. Dr. Welch. The doc- tor, however, from jealousy, the family claim, caused by the summons of an- other physician at the birth of the child, refused to attend. Half dis- tracted at the reply, Mr. Tibbals drove back to Winchester and the frantic mother told him he must return to Winsted and compel Dr. Welch to come to their assistance. On his return the doctor’s office was locked. It was three o’clock in the afternoon before another physician could be found. The accident happened about nine in the morning. 00. Run Over. Saturday evening, as a Hungarian woman, in the employ of H. Tilly, was, ‘ with a female friend, crossing near the Mahackemo building, a team ran into them and both were hurled to the ground. The carriage wheel ran over the woman in the employ of Mr. Tilly She was picked up and taken into Hoyt’s drug store, where it was found that her leg was somewhat injured. Her companion picked herself up, escaping with a. few slight scratches. Both are all right to-day, unless it be that the former walks a little lame. It is stated that the team was being driven very rapidly. The crossing is a very dangerous one, and especially so at night. house. it was not a Cat. “ Gus” Newcomb has two pet kittens" .— at his home on West Main street that ,: he is very proud of, and every evemng after dark “ Gus” carefully feeds them and locks them in his barn, that no - harm befall them during the night. On Saturday evening he gave his hostler ,. strict instructions to lock them in the -‘" barn, but in some manner the barn door ~ was left ajar and one of the kittens ' journeyed out to gaze at the stars, " “ Gus.” ever watchful of his pets, saw her perambulating about the lawn and immediately captured her and put her inside the barn and slammed the door. As he started away he glanced at the place where his pots were fed each day - and was surprised to see the other cat quietly eating an extra meal. Tiptoe- x ing up behind her “ Gus” grabbed his pet, but 10 and behold, it was not. his pet, nor the pet of any of his neigh- bors. With a howl he dropped the sup- posed cat and rushed to the house for his gun, but when he returned, the sup- posed cat was missin“. Returning the gun to the house “ us” put for the fence where, holding on by both hands, he reluctantly yielded up 1118 supper 1_n a fit of sea-sickness and then made he usual Saturday night journey to the Bridge for his Sunday dinner. The first person he encountered on Main street was Hen. Grumman, who stop- ped him for a chat. Just as “ Gus” was branching off into politics, Hen. stop- ped him with the remark: “Great - Scott! ‘Gus,’ why don’t you hang your overcoat out on the line and get the smell of moth balls out of it?” “It ain’t moth balls,” quoth “ Gus.” “Good night,” said Hen, as he darted in to get one of George Allen’s 1nv1g- orators. With a quickened step “ Gus ” made for Taylor’s hardware store where he seated himself beside the stove to hear Taylor tell about the crabs he caught at Compo. Here the stove got In its work, and the party quickly shoved their chairs back away from “Gus”’ neighborhOOd, Taylor at the same time remarking that the smell of moth balls had an unpleasant effect on him, and he would continue his story some other time. Glad for an excuse the entire party decamped, followed by “Gus” who wandered over to Ward- well’s market. Here they were all glad to see ’ and remark- ed on how he _’ looked. Seating himself in the llttle office “Gus” listened patiently to one of B111 Mitchell’s best stories, but his stay was short. With that far away look that Bill gets in his off eye, he edged towards , the door, while George Ayres’ oysters and clams gasped for fresh a1r. Gain- in the front door Bill turned towards “ us” and yelled, “For the Lord’s sake ‘Gus’ get out of here and bury your clothes. We can stand anything but fluid extract of Mephitls.” Wlth a weary smile “Gus” arose andwended his way home, acting as guilty and crest-fallen as if he had lost an elec- tion, and vowing that he would never again pick up a strange _cat. if it was to cause him such “sinking” spells at the stomach and make his friends desert and shy away from him worse than if he had been a victim of small-pox. One of the most cunous things about the disastrous mistake was that whererer “Gus.” wandered about the bridge, some one would shout out, “Great Caesar’s ghost ! who is frying sauer kraut around here ?”and it is said several parties rushedinto "Jim” Betts’ store and wildly demanded to know if his stock of Limburger hadn’t spofled on his hands. ——If you think of giving Photographs for Christmas presents, don’t put it off too long. Go to Readman’s in GAZETTE building before the rush sets in. 215tf —-———<+ All This Week. Frost & Fanshawe’s Company, which played in Norwalk last January three nights, are to return for a week’sen- gagement, commencing this evenmg, at popular prices, and will open 1n the same play they did on‘their former visit. “Asa Jenkins.” We clip the fol- . lowing notice of a recent performance, from the Pittsburg Leader of Pitts- .burg, Pa. : “Asa Jenkins, or away down in Maine,” was presented by the Frost & Fanshawe 00. last night to a.roar1n.g Everyuct in this serlo-comic drama aroused peal on peal of stormy applause. It is one of the best thlngs ever given here. It was played w1thout a blunder or a single fault. A. L. Fan- shawe, as “Asa Jenkins,” beggars de- scription. Every word and movement was explosively illustrative of “ Down East” rusticity, while all coarseness was lost in warm-hearted, sturdy hon- esty, and heroic championship of the right. It is equally impossible to por- tray Miss Pearlie Emmett in her won- derful illustration of that true Yankee girl, “ Minty Bartlette.” The above matchless pair were splendldly sup- ported by other actors to whom jus- tice cannot be done for want of space. -O—D————- ——Fresh Hams, 12c. ket, 21 Wall street. People’s Mar - 214tf 0. With Us Again. Don Juan St. Carlo, the African cow- boy, is again in town, for the first time in over a month. Don Juan does not come back in as good condition as he was when he left. He has been em- ployed at White Plains, N. Y., and on Monday, Oct. 12, he and another man named Henry Brewer, having nothing else to do, indulged in a shooting match, the result of which was that Don Juan comes back to his old home and first love Wlth. a large sized bullet-hole through his left cheek. +>————— More Bodies Found. The bodies of four more of the crew. of the schooner Red Wing, of Noank, which was wrecked near Indian River Inlet, Delaware, have been found near Indian River life station. They will be kept as long as possible for identifica- ion. —<<>>——-—— —3 pounds good Beefsteak, 25 cents. P60P16'5 Market, 21 Wall street. 214tf ..-' l
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