.fli .a' I Largest Circulation. THE PEOPLE’S PAPER. NOR —-_ Vol.1,No. 217. _ “Equal and Exact J asttce to aZ‘ZMén up 6 :- .«r ...,: V I I i Norwalk, Conn, Wednesday Evening, October 28, 1891. @ ~of Whatever: State or Pcrsaasion, Religious or ,Political.”—qu‘érson, Wants, ' I Cent a Word...'.;‘ #- Price one Cent. The Dailyr Gazette Is issued ccrz/ meek-day 411:3 1’. 111., at- om: CENT PEn COPY. The Cheapest Rates fer Advertising. and THE LARGEST CIRCULATION. - The Weekly Gazette. [Combined with Friday-s Da11v.l 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 us CENTS PER WEEK, or. $5.00 PEI: YEAR. A. H. Brnvo'ros. Proprietor This paper has the largest circulation of any paper in the State west of'Bridgcport. 0 UR J OBBIJ“ G DEPARTMENT. Mn. HARRY M. GARDNER. 33. of New York, his charge of the GAZETTE‘s Engraving, Book and J obbing’Department. He is an expert a lid experienced Job Printer. and no work on- lh‘ usted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done. Happenings To-nlsrht. Hospital Fain—Armor y. Opera House. —Frost 85 Fanshaw’s Co. coo—m-u ____.__-, —- TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN. Weddings have become epidemic. Attorney John J. Walsh is on the sick list. Mr. Henry Smith. of Ridgefield, was in town yesterday. ~—Porter House Steak, 16c. People’s Market, 21 Wall street. 214tf “ Gus ” Newcomb is rep airing the New Canaan road, a la scraper. Services at St. Paul’s will be held up 7 fiairs in the church next Sunday. 12:: ' ev. Mr. Watkins and family? will ach home on Friday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert O: Benedict are expected home from their wedding trip this afternoon. ' It is generally accepted in Washing- ton that Stephen B. Elkins will be the next Secretary of War. Mr. Cito Hatch has rented the Ira Cole house on Union Park, and will take posession next week. Five persons were killed and a large number wounded in a railroad accident yesterday, near Glenwood, Minn. —-WOMAN WANTED for general work, at the American House, All ain St. 216tf Mr. James E. Ells expects to leave for his customary winter s0]ourn in Florida the first of the coming month. Mrs. Lucius Chandler, mother of Louise Chandler Moulton, died. last night, at Putnam, aged seventy-eIght. The New Haven County Commission- ers have decided not to increase the grice of liquor licenses from $400 to 500. A horse driven by a lady, fell at the corner of Wall and Knight streets, yes- fierday afternoon and skinned both uses. The Y. M. C. A. football eleven go to Stratford this afternoon where they will meet the Stratford Athletic Club’s team and teach them a few tricks of the gam e. A quartette cOmposed of George R. Nash, Fred. Hodshon, S. M. Sterling and Alex. Leslie Aust1n, will render several selections at the Armory this evening. —The price of 13 cabinet photographs at Readman’s is only $2.50 and a nice 8x10 gilt frame, with mat, will be only 50 cts. more. Grover O. E. Wilson has found his lost dog. He is a noble specimen of the thoroughbred English mastifi', though he looks like a genuine mug- wump. Fire last night in the basement of the J. L. Mott iron works, Beekman and Cliff streets, from unknown cause, did $1,000 damage to the building and $500 to the stock. Insured. Thomas B. DeForest was yesterday unanimously elected president of the Bridgeport National Bank at a meeting of the directors, to succeed Munson Hawley deceased. The work of fitting thepassenger cars of the Consolidated road with the steam heating apparatus is nearly finished. There are now but 15 or 20 cars. that have not been equipped. Work on the remainder of the fence on Riverside avenue, in front of the property of John Greenwood, which was to have been erected by the bor- ough, has been commenced. Gen. Olmstead went up to Hartford last evening. It looked suspiciously like “ Politics,” but as the. GAZETTE is now a strictly “ non-partisan ” paper, perhaps we haven’t guessed it straight. . —3 pounds good Beefsteak, 25 cents. People’s Market, 21 Wall street. 214tf Mrs. Fenton Pomeroy has been quite ill at her home on Leonard street. Mr. Pomeroy was sent for from Boston and arrived yesterday, but as Mrs. Pome- roy 1s greatly improved, he has again , returned. Dwyer’s Band serenaded Con. How- ard, at Mamaroneck, last evening. About twenty members of the Alpha Wheel Club will take part 1n the parade at Danbury to-night. John O’Connor was given Justice Coolidge’s usual valentme, “$1 . and costs," this morning, for drunkenness. The propeller brought up a 5000-lb. ofiice safe for the Norwalk Gas Co. to stow away their dividends and sur- plus in. ‘ ——Just received 150 pairs Ladies Kid Waukenphast $3.00 Shoes, will be sold for two weeks at 32.50, B. C. and l)., Hoyt it Son. 217-4t. Fairchild Smith of Black Rock, while at work in the flower beds at his home Monday, was bitten on the hand by 9. spotted adder. Irving E. Knapp, an Ansonia meat market clerk, and Josie Marcella of that town.eloped yesterday. Both were of marriageble age. P. Delaney, the man who takes care of the fourth floor of the state capitol, had a paralytic shock yesterday after- noon and was carried to his home. ~Spare Ribs and Sausage, 12c. Peo- ple’s Market, 21 Wall street. 214tf The new Brooklyn-Boston trains over the Housatonic and N ew England route will probably have their time length- ened about half an hour in the next ar- rangement of the time-table. Arow occurred in the rooms over Adams’ market on Main street, last evening, in which one of the principals had his head quite badly cut and the other receiVed ‘ ‘two lovely black eyes. ” -—Corporal James Tanner of Wash- ington, D. 0., will attend the Fair of Hobbie Post, G. A. B., at Stamford Friday evening of this week, no mis- take. F. A. FARLEY. .217 3t -_ , Gov. Bulkeley and staff visited Hob- bie Post fair in the Town Hall in Stam- ford, Monday evening. The executive party were cordially received and en- tertained by a citizens’ committee and members of the G. A. R —New Smoked Hams, 12950. People’s Market, 21 Wall street. 214tf Prof. George R. Nash will give an exhibition of fancy club sw1ng1ng a the Armory this evening. As George is an expert with the clubs, 1t wlll pay you to attend the fair this evening and witness his exhibition. Mrs. Moses S. Elmore died at her home on Leonard-st. yesterday. aged 50 Deceased was the wife of Moses years. S. Elmore, an employee. of G. & S. H. Holmes. The funeral Wlll take place from her late residence to-morrow af- ternoon. In another column will be found the fall and winter announcement of T. J Byrnes, the expert tailor. Mr. Byrnes has an endless variety of suitings from which to make a selection. Read his advertisement, give him a call, and be convinced. Hon. John S. Seymour Spoke in Brooklyn last night for Flower, and candidate Fassett for himself. We are inclined to think Norwalk settled it, so if the great Empire State oes Demo- cratic next week we shal all know what did it. The 9:23 train‘on the Housatonic road, this morning, frightened a horse belonging to the American Baking company, which was standing near Dann’s harness store. The animal cut up all sorts of capers. danced a break- down, and almost turned a somersault before it was quieted. Yesterday we stated that John Green- wood had started the frame of his new house on Riverside avenue. In this we were a little premature, as the cellar is not as yet, completed, but Mr. Green- wood expects to have the house com- pleted and occupied, ’ere snow flies. Louis, the three-year-old son of Al- bert L. and Susan Lane, died at the residence of his parents on Leonard street, thls morning, of membranous croup. The little fellow had only been sick since Sunday, and it was thought that he had a strong chance of recov— ery 11p to last evening, when he rapidly grew worse. The quartette choir of St. Paul’s Church, which has rendered snob fine music during their engagement, closed their services on Sunday. Too much credit cannot be given Mrs. S. H. Hunt- ington for the able manner in which she conducted this choir during their stay. Mr. P.’ M. Knapp is engaged in getting up a volunteer quartette to ren- der music until the boy choir is ready. Mr. Jesse Hopson has started home-. ward from Texas with his truant and sick boy. They will return via Galves- ton. At last accounts the Loomis boy, who is really “to manhood grown,” was reputabl and remuneratively em- ployed, and 1s parents have no cause for special solicitude about him. In- deed, many of his friends think it will , be for the makin that he took Mr. went West. Selectman Raymond went to Bridge- port yesterday and made arrangements for the funeral of “Grandma” Benson who died at the Bridgeport hospital yesterday morning. Undertaker Greg- ory of South Norwalk will bring the remains to East Norwalk today, and the funeral will take place from the East avenue church to-morrow after- noon at 2.30. The interment will be in the East Norwalk cemetery. of the yOung man reeley’s advice ;,and ‘ WHAT MISS SPINSTER SAYS-l: That the Y. M. C. A. football team play at Stratford to-day. That Miss Baird and her scholars had supper at the Armory last evening. That there seems to be an epidemic of petty thieving about town. That Mrs. Vanderhoef’s new horses are the envy of half the women in town. That rumor has it that 001.. Roberts and his cadets will visit the fair Frlday evening. That many football players now wear a big rubber nose to protect their faces in the gentle game. It is held in place with a strap around the forehead and by the teeth of the player. That the letter boxes in the postoflice at the Country Store at the Armory, look old' and experienced enough to have come down from the Revolution- ary War, but the letters are a 19th cen- tury production and have the old pecu- liar charm that a live letter always has and all visitors can have one from their best girl by calling early. That a physician declares that women and children suffer ten times more from the effects of hot bread, pastry, dump- lings and pie crust, than from anv con- tagion that may be rampant. Lop ofi' everything from the desert but ripe fruit, debar all pancakesand hot muf- fins and biscuits from the breakfast ta- ble, and in one year there will bea very perceptible improvement in the health and complexion of the family. .90 -- Walter Trumbull, oldest son of ex Senator Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, died in Chicago Monday. He was grad- uated at the United States Naval Acad- emy and was for a time in journalism. The Trumbulls’ are of an old Connecti- cut-family. The members of the Alpha Wheel Club, who are going to Danbury this evening to take part in the lantern pa- rade and smoker given by the Danbury Wheel Club, are requested to meet at the club’s headquarters, room N o. 1 Masonic building, as early as 6 o’clock. Frank D. Munger, of Hartford, at present a postal cleu k on the Consolida- ted road, has been offered and accepted the position of superintendent of the registry division in the Hartford post- oflice, which will be vacated by Capt. J. L. Bennett, November 15. Mr.Mun- ger has a large acquaintance in the postal service who recognize his fitness for the position. A Bridgeport man drove to N orwalk yesterday afternoon and put his horse "up atDann’srstable. He'spent-theeve- ‘ 1; ,n1ng“d01ng the town,” and “seeing the boys,” and when he turned up at the stable again he was in such a be- muggled condition that the proprietor of the place would not let him have his- horse. He made his bed on the safe for the night, slept ofi his jag, and this morning started again for Bridgeport. The fall crop of pole-cats seems to be unusually large this year. In addition to the disastrous experiences of “Gus” Newcomb, reported “exclusively in the GAZETTE" Monday, another story reaches us of a resident near the, First Congregational church, who, a few evenings since, essayed to pick up a young cat, which was not a cat. The elusive and pungent, but pretty little creature, was too spry for our friend’s effort to catch it, and so a dire cat- astrophe was escaped. But the most interesting incident connected with the event, was, that with caudal apendage held aloft, the little fellow made di- rectly for the church, under a possible delusion that stronger doctrines were needed there. —4-o->r—-——————— . Annual Inspection. The annual inspection of the State military property at the Armory, takes place to-day. Company D’s property was inspected this morning, and Com- pany F’s will meet a like fate this af- ternoon. Jerome Bristol, aged nine, a pupil in the Centre District School at Brook- field, found a pistol on his way to' school yesterday. While exammingr the weapon he accidentally discharged it, the bullet entering his abdomen. The shot attracted the attention of some schoolmates and two physicians were immediately summoned. The boy was removed to his home, but the doc— tors, after a thorough examination, were unable to locate the bullet. His recovery is doubtful. .... Trist ram & Hyatt. , Just six months ago this enterprising firm of young dry goods men opened their handsome store in the GAZETTE building, and by enterprise, honest dealing, and the faculty for keeping on hand just what every one wanted. they have built up a business second to none in Norwalk. Both of the proprietors are well and favorably known here, having grown up among us. That they have come to stay is an assured fact, and that they will 1n the future, as in the past, endeavor to keep on' hand the very best stock of dry goods to be had in this section of the state. -—-— ——-——--<ro > Fired by Lightning. ITHACA, N. Y., Oct. 28.—Robert Marsh’s burns, south of this city, were struck by lightning and set on fire. The barns, four horses and a valuable blooded cow were consumed. ‘ France Ignores Morocco. PAms, Oct. 28.—The colonial council’s committee on Algerian affairs has decided upon the immediate occupation of the Touut Cases, to the title of which Morocco lays claim. ' lli'rs. Chandler Dead. PUTUAM, Conn., Oct. 28.—Mrs. Lucius Chandler, mother of Louise Chandler Moulton, died, aged seventy-eight. Mrs. Parnell Improving. LONDON, Oct. 28.—Mrs. Parnell’s phys- ical condition is slightly improved. She is now able to partake of food. The Hospital Falr. Last night the weather was more pro- pitious than the previous evening and as a consequence,§a large crowd was in attendance at, tithe Armory. The tickets sold shotved there were be- tween six and seven hundred paid ad- missions. Besides the prettily and very tastefully arrayed Booths, the Bower built through the centre of the hall was a very attractive feature. In this, guests could enjoy their ices, creams and confections, and imagine themselves in some tropical clime and bower. The graceful and always pretty little girls, dressed as gypsies, who went about selling boutoniers, corsage bouquets,and baskets of flowers,were a very bewitching feature and did a thrifty merchandizing trade. Altogether, the scene presented from the gallery seats, looking down upon the gay and moving throng and the vast and brilliantly lighted hall, is a picture worth ten times the admission. The fair will be open this afternoon and evening. _. ..__T. _....+».._._A._ ——If you think of giving Photographs for Christmas ._'esents, don’t put it off too long. Go t Readman’s in GAZETTE building beforethe rush sets in. 215tf ~-——-—— —' —-- 05 An Appeal to the Charitable. When the Knight street church was completed, the little band of colored worshipers there found themselves in- volved in a debt of some two hundred dollars over and above what it was pos- sible for them, at that time, to raise, as it was additional to the very consider- able amount the - had themselves con- tributed and col ected from other kind friends. This remaining indebtedness has been carried to the present time, and now it must be paid, and Deacon John D. Taylor is calling on the good people of the town for contributions to that Worthy end, One generous gen- tleman haspledged him $25, anda noble lady $10 more, but he is still far short of the amount he must raise and we be- speak for Deacon Taylor a generous reception by our citizens, as his cause is a noble one and his needs are great and pressing. _..___.__‘.- >_.___._. .__.___ —Great Bargains in MILLINERT. All goods at two~thirds their value, at the Boston store for the next, ten days. ' 215-3w <13“ - <6>——~-« Supreme Court of Errors. The October term of the Supreme Court of Errors opened in the Civil Superior Court room yesterday morn- ing at 10 o’clock. The docket to be heard at this term comprises the fol- lowing: Old cases: Fairfield county vs. the Connecticut Humane society, an appeal from the court of probate; Emil S. Mayhew vs. Jacob S. Mayhew; ar- garet Whalen vs. Geo. M. Olmstead et al., George E. Hobbs vs. Geo. W. Simmonds et al. New cases : Fairfield county—Hawley Bradley vs. Cunning- ham &, Foran; Gabriel Huth vs Hum— boldt Stamm. No. 153 O. U. R. M.; Arunah M. Prior vs. Christian Swartz ; the Manresa Institute et al. vs. the town of Norwalk. —Fresh Hams, 12c.' People’s Mar- ket, 21 Wall street, 214tf .__._——~——-... -___.__..._..... A Polltloal Rumor. It is rumored in Hartford that the friends of Gov. Hill in Connecticut are trying to carry out a deep laid plan to capture the Connecticut delegates to the next Democratic National conven- tion. The plan is to compel Mr. Davis to retire from the chairmanship of the State committee, and have William H. Talmadge, of Stamford, appointed in his place. Mr. Talmadge is known to be an ardent Hill man, and is said to have declared that he would spend money freely to defeat Mr. Cleveland, even if he was nominated. It is firmly believed by many that Mr. Eaton and Judge Burdsall are at the bottom of the movement. AAA Lots of Accidents. Two freight trains collided at Bos- ton Corners, on the Central New Eng - land road, yesterday afternoon. Four cars were smashed and the track torn up. A wrecking train from West Win- sted had started to relieve the wreck when a car broke loose and ran a mile down grade intoa sand bank at East Winsted, where it was crushed. Mon- day night a freight train backed a ainst passenger train at West Winste and damaged one end of a passenger coach. ' O..— —-—10 lb‘s. of Pork or Sausage for $1 at the Peoples’ Market, 21 WalT St. 214tf. __..___——.__.o A . ~____._ .__- .-..__ _Dogs Kllled. His Sheep. The Court of Common Pleas opened yesterday, Judge John H. Perry on the bench. " The case of David H. Van Hoosear against the town of Wilton, was heard. In July last some sheep be- longing to Van Hoosear were killed by dogs. The selectmen, in accord with the law appraised the damages at $84. This amount Van Hoosear refused, claiming them to be worth $160. The town declined to pay that amount, and he therefore brings suit. ———————-—-OOO Outcome of a Horsewhlpplng. John J. Burns and Samuel Rome are rival saloon keepers. Ill feeling existed between the men for some time. Fri- day afternoon of last week, Burns used a horsewhip with telling effect on Rome’s back. A warrant was issued for the 'former’s arrest yesterday. —Genuine Milwaukee, 75 cents per dozen, bottled by the Oriental Bottling Company, 3 Water street. . 215-3t_ A Caught at Last. ‘ J eems” Mitchell was in Readman’s the other day trying to make a con- tract for a life-sized photo of himself, feet and all, when, as is his wont, he went on to telling thrilling stories, among which was one about the New York bunco steererspicking him up as a flat and before he knew it, got him locked up‘ in a dark room, and that he barely escaped with his life, etc. New “J some” is a restless creature and had hardly fin1shed his story when Read-. man was called away. To occupy the time he went huntingabout,and sooner than he expected, found himself in the photographer’s strictly private “dark room” under the stairs and just at the entrance to his gallery. There was a fresh breeze blowing through the hall, and the door has a snap-catch on it and before poor Mitchell knew what he was about the door slammed shut behind him and he was locked up in the dark oom. He kicked and pounded for release, but all to no purpose, for Readman was busy and no one chanced to pass through the hall. In' this dark closet there is a small ventilating window about the size of an ocean steamer’s stateroom port-hole. In his despera- tion, Mitchell pried out the obstructing llght and craned his long neck through the hole in the wall and thus exhibited only his frizzled head on the outside. From this point, his projecting caput was seen from Lawyer Hurlbutt’s rear wmdow, but as his face was invisible, no one could conjecture w ho it was,and the strange apparition, coupled with his unearthly yells for “help,” "fire,” “murder,” etc., led to the belief that Readman had some crazy lunatic im- prisoned there for safe keeping. The yells of a Comanche .savage, were not a circumstance to poor Mitchell’s screams for rescue. At last George Honnecker’s attention was ar- rested, and going to see what the un- usual uprmr was all about, on opening the snap-catch from the outside, found poor Mitchell an involuntary, but self- incarcerated prisoner therein. It took but a few moments to wash the blood from the scratches on his face and neck, where he had Crowded his head through the port hole, and then a sadder but a wiser man, he rushed over to Ward- well’s market to relate his blood-curd- ling experience and escape, but not un- til he had implored Honnecker and all, “For God’s sake don’t let the DAILY GAZETTE get on to this.” J e ems isn’t investigating “dark rooms” any more. .0. The Pier to the Saugatuck Bridge Carrled Away- One of the guard piers to the Sauga- tuck carriage bridge, which some of ' the papers are speaking of as spile piers, is in fact a pier without spiles sunk to position in the water by a weight of stone—a regular cheat for which a round price was paid in town money. The pier looked well enough and was all right until the stones were dis- placed. Then the structure floated away, the current taking it ,down to- wards the railroad bridge, where it now lies. The pier on the north side of the bridge is of the same character— ready to leave the moment the ‘stones holding it are displaced. This miser- able work was done under the eyes of the selectmen at the time, and the con- tractors who wore patent leather shoes and good clothes, were able to make officials believe that kind of work was good work. The town paid the bill, and, as is well known, the contractors did not allow any grass to grow under their feet as they strode from town. Within twenty years carriage bridges at Saugatuck have cost Westport over $60,000.-—Bridgeport Post. ooo——————~———-- ' A Golden Weddlng. The Hon. Lyman W. Coe and Mrs. 006 of Torrington will according to the Torrin ton Register, celebrate on the 3d of ovember their golden wedding, and at the same time their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. K. Godfrey, will celebrate their silver wedding. Mr. Coe, as a former mem- ber of the Senate and as head of the 000 Brass Company, has a very w1de acquaintance, in social, political and business circles. His father the Hon. Israel W. Coe, is still in good health-— the. oldest living member of the Con- necticut Legislature. Mr. Lyman W. 000, it will be re- membered, was the unsuccessful Re- publican nominee for Congress in this d1strict, some few years since. -._.___. ..-,_ ______ Agaln‘s’t'the Check—Rein. A professional horse trainer, calls at- tention to the fact that phenomenal Sunol made her unrivaled mile in 2084,L without a check-rein, and then goes on to say : What more can be saidurging its removal from our race horses ? Sunol is owned by Mr. Robert Bonner, was raised on Mr. Leland Stanford’s farm, and best of all, trained by Mr. Charles Marvin, who has written so much against the check-rein. In view of these facts, it is most earnestly suggested to all Fair mana- gers that the purses next year be ofi'ered for the best time without check-reins l ———-<+>—-—-—-——. Wedding Bells. It is on dit, that orange blossoms are to adorn the fair brow of a local bride of more than ordinary graces of mind and person, some time urin the com- ing month of November. T e “ h1gh- contracting parties” whom _Dame Ru- mor credits With this‘Pfruition of all earthly bliss. are Mr. Samuel L. Weed, eldest son of the latdEdward P. Weed, and Miss Edith Street, eldest daughter of Drygoodsman Edward Street. + Town Meeting. At the adjourned annual town meeting held yesterday, only about a couple of dozen were in attendance, yet as it was part and parcel of the regular meeting and any number could vote appropria- tions, five thousand dollars were voted to be appropriated for the care of our town, city and borough highways dur- ing the ensuing year, when the meeting adjourned. ‘ ‘ has been going on. Sen. Seymour’s Brooklyn Speech. Senator John S. Seymour addressed a large audience in the South Brooklyn Democratic Club House last night, fol— lowing the Hon. D. A. Boody,the Dem- ocratic candidate for Mayor, who re- signed his seat in Congress to accept this nomination. Senator Seymour first discussed the tarifl‘ as it affected Brooklyn industries, then the World’s, Fair, then Warner Miller’s pos1t10n, predicted the election of Flower by a majority of 30,000, and the elect10n of a Democratic majority in the New York State Senate. 'On the Connecticut situation, we giy‘e his speech at length : Repubhcan politics are fraught with danger to the general good, Its ten- denc1es_are toward few rule. Every- where. in all states, and in the federal government, 1ts plots, its policy, its constitution-making are all in the di- rection of securing greater voting strength than belongs to it. In a wide sense, .the contest is around the rep) 6- sentative princlple, we fox it and they agamst It. The government of the people, by the people, and for the peo- ple, the lofty purpose of the fathers of of the republic, revivified in the lofty utterance of Lincoln, has been de— graded .1nto a mean purpose of govern- ment of the people, by the few, for the benefit of a part of the few. New states haw been created out of popula- tions as few in number as the eight- eenthward In this city, or a county in the country. wherever it was ascer- tained that their two Senators, and their representative in Congress would be Republican. _ Of all the pregnant sayings of the masterly platform of principles adopted by your recent State Convention. those respectmg the suffrage, the fair repre- sentatlon of the people in the legis- latlve bodies of the country, stand out w1th_ the noblest prominence. They have a Wider application to public affairs than any other. And in the whole body of the terrible indictment against the Republlcan scheme, the strongest is that cant'ained in the words, “It covert- ly lends 1ts influence to the restriction of manhood suffrage.” None comes home w1th greater force to a Democrat 1n another . state. You charge them With deprlving you of a congressman from this state, by a false count of the people. You charge them with pre- venting a re—apportionment of the state in assembly districts, and these charges are true. N 0 language is too strong with which to condemn the set purpose to herd together Democratic voters in districts in order to keep from them their fair representation in the legisla tive body which rules over them. This they have done in this state ; this is a wrong you will right in the election. In this part of your contest the Dem- ocracy of Connecticut is with you. Connecticut is a constitutional gerry- mander from one end of the state to the other. Population has long since ceased to be a guide in measuring out constituencies entitled to representa- tion in either branch of the General Assembly. With us, everything goes by towns. No town has less than one repre- sentative in the lower house, no matter how small it may be ; no town has more than two, no matter how large it may be; and some of the smallest also have two. The very smallest town in the state, away up on the Massachusetts line, with a popula- tion of 421, including women and chil- dren, sends two representatives. The city of Bridgeport with 48,866 inhabi- tants, the city of Hartford with 53,230, the city of New Haven with 86,045 in- habitants, send only two each. Forty- four small towns of the state, each hav- ing a population of less than a thou- sand inhabitants, and together having a population of but 30,881, send fifty- four members out of the 252 to the gen- eral assembly; while the city of Water- bury with a greater populationthan the whole forty-four combined, sends but two. The 17 largest towns of the state with four-sevenths of the entire popu- lation of the state, together send up but thirty-four members, or less than one-seventh of the entire bodv. This is the body that appoints gover- nors when no one candidate gets more votesthan all the others put together. The people have had nothing to say about the election of a governor up there since 1882, when Thomas M. Wal- ler was elected. The unrepresentative legislature has done the business every time, and appointed a Republican. Last year Luzon B. Morris, the Dem- ocratic candidate for . Governor. got more votes than all his competitors combined, but under the pretext that the general assembly could revise the election, the Republican branch refused to declare the result for months, and then declared contrary to the returns, while the Republican former Governor, who himself was never elected by the people, holds over by force. When the Democratic Governor elect takes the case to the courts, the Repub- licans delay by all known dev1ces, and finally plead that the court has no juris- diction, after having cstentatiously proclaimed to the world that they were ready and eager to go to the courts at any time, in any form. There is a ground swell of deep and determined feeling throughout the state. Were it not that the people be- lieve that the courts will take j urisdlc- tion, and decide the case, and were it not that there is an abiding conscious- ness that following that decision there must soon come a time when the people will sit in judgment on these plotters, and will smite them deeper than plum- met ever sounded, there would be an uprising in that land of steady hab1ts that would seat Morris in the capitol by arms. ' There has been no legislation, no ap- propriation of money for public purp- oses, no appointments to offiée requiring senatorial approval, while this had work But there is one compensating gain for all the loss and disgrace of t is contest: There will be a revision of the constitution, re-instat- ing the principles of government by the people there, and securing to Our- selves and our posterity the right and the fruits of manhood suffrage. Record Broken. , The Teutonic has been heard" from . agaln. She arrived at Liverpool yes- _v ’ terday five days, twenty-one hours and '_ three mmutes from New York, having beaten the fastest previous record from New York to Liverpool, and this, too, in the face of very severe weather. Instantly Kllled. Last evening the Boston and New _. York limited express from Springfield was delayed fifty minutes at Windsor, , two stations north of Hartford, the de- ' » lay being caused by a woman who was . struck by the train and instantly killed. The train hands could not learn who‘ the woman was. O Stricken While on Duty. Thomas M. Collins, fireman on a frei ht engine on the Consolidated roa , was struck with apoplexy while on dutyand is in New Haven hospital, still unconscious. He has a wife near Amsterdam, N. Y., and a sister in N ew York city, but they cannot be reached as then addresses are unknown. Comptroller Staub Caned. Comptroller Staub and Superintend- ent Goeble of the state capitol. were yesterday presented with handsome canes by the employee of the capitol building. The Comptroller’s cane was of orange wood with gold head. and Superintendent Goeble’s of the same wood with silver head. Both were hand- :omely engraved with a suitable inscrip- 10n. *. Shot Her Dead in the Ring. During a performance of Orfl’s cir- cus at Berlin last night Mme. Borchardt, a favorite equestrienne, alloped into the ring, bowing and smi ing toward a group of young ofiicers. The clown of the circus, her husband, became wild with jealousy, and drawing a revolver shot the women dead in the ring. —————--——00 A Paiiiful Accident. John Haggarty, an employs of the Housatonic Railroad company, met with a painful accident while switchin cars at Shelton yesterday. He was ri - ing on the step of the switch engine when a stake fell from one of the cars, the end of which 'stuck into the ground . 3 and before Haggerty could save him- self the other end struck his leg, cut- ting a gash in it which took ten stitches to close up. ’ Diphtherla Proves Fatal. That there have been five cases of diphtheria among the scholars in room No. 4, Lovell school, and that-two deaths have resulted, was reported tom the board of health by Health Officer ~ ' Wright, last night. He added that . since the presence of the disease had been discovered a rule had been adopted by President French that any scholar suffering from a sore throat must not come to school—Palladium. 0 Very Ill. . Although a good deal of apprehen- sion is felt for General White, hopes of h1s recovery are by no means given up. He 15 under the skillful care ‘of Dr. W. . D. Anderson, the physician in attend~ . ance, and Dr. McNeil has been called in for consultation in the case. The General passed a much easier day yes- ‘ “ ’ terday than he has had before during h1s illness, although he is very ill yet. but if no new complication arises he Will probably recover.——New Haven Journal. 9 Capt. lra Betts. The late Capt. Ira Betts, of Wilton, whose death was recent] announced in these columns, receive his military title on account of his having been com- mander of a company 'of Wiltonian militia more than a half century ago. He used to conduct quite a large hat shop at that period, near his home at South Wilton. on the banks’ of the N or- walk river. He, with the late LeGrand - Sturges, it used to be claimed, were the only two practical batters living who could catch a rabbit, prepare its fur and turn it out a complete and finished hat, curled, bound, lined and trimmed and all complete, with their own hands and without the assistance of any one else, from beginning to completion.' Prior to the war, he used to be a regular at- tendent each Monday night at the ses- sion of our Brothers Lodge. I. O. O. F. here in Norwalk, and as a sort of con- necting link between the past and pre- sent, he was always interesting and in- structive. He was the father of Capt. A. A. Betts, of Norwalk, as we have be- fore stated. o-‘>—~—— Opera House. “ Lost in a Great City ” was pro- duced at the Opera House last evenin . by the Frost & Fanshawe 00., an proved to be a strong sensational story ' of high life and low life in the metron- olis, well put together. Mr. Fanshawey in the double role of the Hartley broth- ers, one who is imprisoned for murder, 1 the other who ferrets out the‘ asSassins andbrmgs them to justice, had a most exacting part in which he acquitted himself finely, assuming a number of disguises to foil those he sought. His meeting with his sister in the first act, after searching for her ten years, was a strongly acted scene. Mr. Herring" ton’s J ew, Moses Levi, caught the house and dehghted the audience every time he came upon the stage. He was Baxé ter street personified. Mr. Dunn was. a dago vlllaln, whom a New Orleans mob would have dealt with in short or-_ der. Mr. E. A. Stevens and Mrs. J es:- sie Griswold, the Italian hag, gave strong character impersonations; the, remainder of the cast was equal to théi requirements. To-night the amusing comedy-drama, “ The Country" Postfl" master,’_’_ introducing several special? ties. On Saturday afternoon a matinee will be iven, and the boy or girl mali— mg; the argest number of words fr‘dm. lirost & Fanshawe ” will be presented With the handsome gold watch, now 01.1 exhibitlon. .'
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