m THE PEOPLE’S PAPER. ’ Largest Circulation. =-&—_*—_—_———__————___———_ Q LEAos in ADVEsTiSirs. em... Wants, ‘l Cent a Word; “Equal and Exact Justice to all Men of Wleatgiler State or Persuasion, Religious or Political.”—_jeferson Vol. I, No. 231-. Norwalk, Coma, Tuesdlly Evening, November 17, 1891. Price One Cent. The Daily Gazette Is. issued very week-day at 3 P. lit, at ONE CENT PER com. The Cheapest Rates for Advertising, and Tim LAncEsT CIRCULATION. The Weekly Gazette. (Combined with Fridays Dailv.l Is issued every Friday at Noon. at mass OEN'rs PER con, 03 $1.50 ran YEAR. The Daily and Weeklyll Served to Local Subscribers at us cams PER WEEK. on $5.00 PER YEAR. A. H. BYINGTON. Proprietor war This paper has the largest circulation of my paper in the State west ofBridqepm-t. JOB PRINTING. Kn. HARRY M. GARDNER, .13., formerly of New York City, is the superintendent of our Printing Departments. He is an experienced Book, Job and Newspaper Printer, and all work entrusted to him will be satisfactorily done. Special care and attention given to CHURCH AND SOCIETY PRINTING. The Menace of Free Trade. The New York Recorder most truth- fully and with conipicuo us aptnes's and brevity, thus states the true purpose and intent of the American system of protection. It says: The object of protective tariff is to prevent Ameri- can workmen from being thrown out of employment or their wages cut down by the competition of foreign pauper labor. The peril from European industrial competition was never greater than now. The masses in Europe are tax. worn, restless. hungry and eager for any employment to keep body and soul together. But for the tariff safe- guard our workers would not be very much better off than those miserable millions, in spite of peace and plenty throughout our land. Under such conditions every step toward free trade is a move to reduce American wages or destroy American employ- ment. Our true policy, not only for. our own industrious citizens but for hu-l manity also, is to sustain the American standard of living wages and to feed the hungry of the world from our bountiful crops at fair prices and with- out extortion. Such is the course of affairs in this day of our great pros- perity. There is not likely to be any change for the worse solong as Repub— lican labor-protecting policy is ad- hered to. On the contrary, the ad- vantages of commercial reciprocity as the logical development of industrial protection will make American trans- actions greater and American profits larger. At such a time what suicidal folly it would be to lower 'or abolish protec- tion, discard reciprocity and take the first fatal step toward British free trade! ~ “See what comes when people swim out over their heads in crucifying the King’sEnglish. Here is the spright- ly GAZETTE telling us that all our city water is good for is ‘personal absolu-‘ tion.’ The editor meant ‘ablution,’ of course, but then why don’t he say ‘washing,’ a term which he as well as others .can understand. Whv drag the Catholic church into it ?”—Mechanics’ Journal. This is what the GA ZETTE did say : Personal ablution is one of the hereditary habits here at the Borou h, and it is some consolation to know tgat if all our people will not “drink of it,” they are glad to “lave in it, and bathe in it,” whenever they can, and are dul grateful to South Norwalk for its graci- Ous kindness in coming to our assist- ance in this our hour of dire destitution and neces91ty.—GAZETTE, Nov. 9. The word absolution is not in our article, so we do not tell “us” or any- body else, “that all our city water is good for, is personal absolution.” We do not deny that any man who would endeavor to put an unkind, ungrateful, or disrespectful construction on our article, needs both absolutien and ablu- tion, and a good deal of both. But, seriously, we are unwilling to believe that Mr. Ellendorf is so desirous of provoking a quarrel with the GAZETTE as to fabricate a false charge, or that he was in a condition of inability to read, when he penned the above un- founded accusation. Yet how else are we to account for his pedantic and en- 4 tirely baseless assault. _..._.__...___‘...'._ ._._._._. .— It was bright and breezy Dr. Nolan, of Bayonne,N.J., formerly of Norwalk, ‘ who sent Father Slocum that fifty dol- lars for St. Mary’s Fair, and not Dr- Noble, as our types made us say yesterl‘ day. «9H-___-_ -—Leg of Lamb 1% cents at Adams Bros’. 281 2t TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN. How is this for an April day ? See advertisement Gold Beads lost. Charles E. Keith of Waterbury, is in town. __ Norwalk Wheel Club Minstrels at Music Hall to-night. The horse show was opened" at the Madison Square Garden yesterday. President Harrison left Washington for Benjers, Md., to shoot ducks, yes- terday. The Y. M. C. A. football team will play the return game With Westport to-morrow. The case of John Weyerhauser wds this morning adjourned to Monday, November 23. , Charles Pardee of Chestnut street, has accepted a position With Anton Stommell of Water street. Frank C. Aliny pleaded guilty at Plymouth, N. EL, yesterday, of the murder of Christie Warden. Our Brothers’ Lodge worked the first degree last evening and the goat was in antic condition. ' A receiver was appointed for the New York, Maine and New Brunswmk Steamship Company yesterday. —-Remember you get a carriage free to and from the I.- M. U. Ball Thanks- giving Eve, by purchasmg an admission ticket. ,__. . _‘ An adjourned meeting of the Fire Police will be held te-morrow evening, at their rooms in the Hardenbrook building. —Have you purchased your ticket to the I. M. U. Ball on Thanksgiving Eve., and received your carriage check? Charles Warren’s condition this morning was reported as much worse. and doubts are expressed that he W111 live the day out. The old rotten planks covering the railroad cut, up to Dann’s stable, need repairing again. In many places they are clearly unsafe. J. Haydn Wand, of New Haven, who will take part in the cantata_ of “The Holy City,” is said to be a Violoncello player of great ability. Representatives of all the farmers’ organizations in the country are gath- ered at Indianapolis for the great con- vention there this week. The Rev. Dr. Briggs’ case was ap- pealed by the Prosecuting Committee to the General Assembly,and the Pres- bytery discussed the revision report. Argument was begun in the United States Supreme Court yesterday in the anti-lottery cases, in which the consti- tionality of the recent anti-lottery law is involved. The civil case of Lawlor vs. Schlitt was before Justice Mead last' evening, and after several witnesses were exam- ined the case was adjourned until Fri- day eveiing. The marriage of Miss Margaret Bren- nan, of Franklin avenue, and William Fallon, of New York, is announced to take place at 9 o’clock a. m., on the 25th of this month. The interminable case of Sarah J. Comstock, et a1. against William H. Olmstead of Union Park, is to be up before the Common Pleas at Bridge- port to-morrow. Dennis Rich, a Birmingham carpen- ter, claims the championship of the state as a raccoon hunter. He has kill- ed since the first of October over forty raccoons, besides several foxes. This morning there was a strin of dogs across Water street reaching rom Bette & Farrington’s store to Gusows- ki’s tailor shop. What a glorious place for raising sheep N orwalk would be. Henry F. English, of New Haven, son of the late Governor James E. English, has bought a lot and will erect a fine building, which he will present to the New Haven Colony Historical Society. _ The County Commissioners will be in session to.morrow morning at 10 o’clock, at the Selectmen’s ofiice, to hear the remonstrance against the flouting of aliquor license to James . O’Reilly. TO-morrow evening Captain W. G. Dickinson speaks at- the Soldiers’ Home at Noroton, on the invitation of the Superintendent, Captain Coe. The subject will be “The Battle of Bull Run as I Saw It.” ‘ ‘ Thelate Rev. Henry Willis Sudlow, an assistant priest of the Cat olic Apos- tohc Church on Fifty-seventh street, New York City, was born in New Mil- ford, this state, February 28, 1811, and 1married Miss Amelia Sturges of Wil- on. Our. Brothers’ Lodge has received an invitation from Rev. F. E. Robbins, pastor of the Baptist Church. to attend that church in a body on Sunday oven- ing, Dec. 13th,. on which evening he “li' take as his subject “Odd Fellow- s 1p. F. E. Sturges, the Westport taxider-' mist. has purchased Wadham’s big deer and is going to Set up the entire animal as near to life as possible. Who is to get the toothsome saddles and steaks out of this beauty of the forest, we do not learn. that the rainfall was .too light _to re- plenish the reservmrs appreciably; business begins to be retarded by the drouth. __ _____ There was a panic on Saturday on. the Vienna bourse, caused by a re« ported utterance of the Emperor, to the effect that the European Situation was critical. .. . ._ Dr. John Clarkson Jay,a son of Peter Augustus Jay and grandson of John Jay, died at his home, “Rye,” at Rye, Westchester County, Sunday, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. .Mrs. Besant, the Theosophist, who has been ordered to take a rest, will sail for New York on the steamship City of Rome, on Wednesday. She will stay in America a few weeks, and will lecture once. Conrad Enoel yesterday received a letter from Germany, informing him of the death of his father, which oc- curred at Wabern, on Sept. 24th. Mr. Engel was 69 years of age, and a man of considerable property. ——Leg of Mutton 122}: cents at Adams Bros’. ’ ' 22-31 2t. Miss Nash is to preside at the organ and Prof. Baker will conduct the rich and rare musical entertainment of solos. duetts, trios, quartetts and choruses, to be given at the First Congregational Church on Friday evening. Don’t forget to help out the poor col- ored children Of the Knight street M. E. church Sunday School at their_con- cert and festival to—morrow night. There will be singing there worth go- ing way down to Dixie to hear. ' Grover O. E. Wilson’s big mastifl' dog has a military taste and spends much of his spare time down at the Armory; indeed, he shows almost human ingenuity in his methods_of cheating his watchers and slipping away to the Armory. He has as much military taste as Captain Rose. At the New Canaan two hundredth celebration at St. Mark’s Church Sun- day, in reading ever the old, historical records of that church away back in the last century, there were four ancestral relatives of oil" First Selectman, Oscar W. Raymond, who were chosen war- dens and vesti‘ymen in the same year. Patriotic Andrew Nash,who was Gen. 0. S. Ferry’s body servants during the fore part of the war and who is now an inmate of the Noroton Soldiers’ Home, was in town yesterday. Andrew says that any man who would grumble at his food or treatment at the Noroton Home would find fault in paradise. “ In the city ordinance court, Thurs- day afternoon,” notes the Louisville (K 7.) Courier-Journal, “ the weeklyin- stallment of boys charged With riding on the street cars was presented by the watchful police and each boy was duly fined $5, which fine was satisfied by the parents giving a good whipping to each offending youngster.” The case of Engel vs. Miller was ad- journed this morning until Fridav, when it will be tried before Justice Mead. Engel has brought suit against Miller for the rent, which Engel had raised from $8 a month to $25, and which Miller has refused to pay, claim; ing that he held a verbal lease of the rooms for one year. Prof. Daniel Shaw, of Chicago, gave an exhibition of fancy pool playing, and finger billiards last evening, at the Orient parlors. As a fancy poolist, the Professor beats any thing we ever saw, making some of the most difficult shots imaginable, with perfect ease. After the exhibition, Shaw played a 75 point game of continuous pool with James Hamilton, of South Norwalk, defeating him by the score of 75 to 47. One object of the recent tariff bill was to protect American manufactories like those at Rockville in this state, from the competition of Bradford, Eng- land, mills. The British trade figures for April, May, and June, show that in those three months in 1890 Bradford exported to this country $6,577,635 and in the same period of 1891 $2,862,651 ; in other words the exports fell off $3,- 750,000 or more than half.——Courant. “There is a certain excitement,” re- marks the New York Sun, “in the ju- dicial life in some parts of the country. A North Carolina judge was hunted out of .his court room by a young man With a revolver a day or two ago, and about the same time a California judge shot in self-defense a party to a suit tried before him. The sculptors and the painters are wrong in portraying J us- tice with a sword, She carries a pop.” Among the beautiful “memorial” windows that adorn the magnificent new First Reformed Church,on Seventh avenue, Brooklyn, there is one of un- usual richness and beauty, presented by Mrs. George Kissam in memory of her husband, the late George F. Kis- sam, so many years a resident of Nor- walki; his daughter,Miss Lillie Kissam, also presented a large and beautifulBible for the pulpit of this Church in memory of her father. Mrs. Dolly Robinson of Dallas, Tex., seems a woman Of much strength of mind. When her husband was run in for attempted burglary at Chicago, the other day, a letter from her was found in his pocket. “‘Frank,” she had writ- ten, “Can’t you nerve up strength enough to get out and take a gun and the first man you spot do him ? Frank, ifI could get $100 that way I could pay off the balance on the furniture Charley bought and would start for This morning’s New York papers say _ WHAT MI’SS SPINSTER/SAYS: That the Chrysanthemum show at Hanford’s floral hall was a tribute to the dainty, to the beautiful, which al. though evoking superlative expressions last year, has this year surpassed all former displays of _ the-flower which is so constantlyfgrowmg in popular cul— ture and appreciation ; it demonstrates what can be done in our climate with the fair offspring of Asiatic sun. The green-houses‘being made efi'ulgent with the immense massing of the many petaled and gloriously hued blooms presented a picture to delight the eye. After passing near the entrance an ex- quisite butterfly orchid is suspended over the scene of bewildering. beauty in the dense ranks of potted chrysan- themums. The specimens of golden, saffron and pale yellow blooms were unsurpassed in richness by anything heretofore presented ; all in all it was a display once Seen is never forgotten. That Mrs. A. E. Austin is at Norwich for a few weeks visit at the parental home. That Miss Clara Smith returned to- day from a two weeks visit with rela- tives in New York.‘ That the Forgot-me-not circle, a. branch of the King’s Daughters, met with Mrs. Frank Curtis yesterday, and elected their officers. Miss Alice B. Cram was chosen president, Miss L. Brinkie Woodward secretary, Miss Florence Wigham treasurer. That the eclipse of the moon threw itself and all other entertainments in the shade. That the educational institution in« town that has not got a foot-ball team might as well shut up shop. is hidden under a bushel. That it is rather significant to read that MissLord,uhe lecturer on Christian Sci- ence healing, has gone to the south of Italy for the winter on account of poor health,which compelled her to abandon her lecture tour in the midst of heavy engagements. That the New York World gives the famOus rain compeller, a chance to dis- tinguish himself free of expense. That the hatchet is king in the East avenue improvements. The noble and historic old elm, planted by Colonial Gov. Fitch, is in danger, and the family bowed down by a weight Of woe at its wanton destruction, vials of wrath are poured out by the passers by, at the sacrifice. Why can’t we spare the trees in our mad rush for im- provements“? EDITOR OF GAZETTE :—In yesterday’s issue of the “Bright Little Daily” it was stated that .On Sunday morning .' ‘Father Slocum announced to his con- gregation that he had received from Dr. Noble the sum of fifty dollars to- ward the Fair, which opens Friday night at the Opera House.” “Verily a generous act is like a city set on a hill that cannot be hid.” Shakespeare is right, “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world 1” I had thought that not even in left hand knew what my right ban was doing. And now it seems I did not know myself! Certainly I am not con- scious of having made the donation with which I am credited, but as Father Slocum has announced it to his con- gregation, it must be so. It is prob- ably a case of what the philosophers call “unconscious cerebration.” I will only add that of all Fathers in the church there is none to whose Fair it would give me more pleasure to con- tribute than to Father Slocum’s, and inasmuch as he is proverbial for his generosity and a firm believer in reci- procity. I shall doubtless have the pleasure in the near future, _of announcing to my congregation that Father Slocum has donated fifty dollars to the Feast of Nations, that will be given in the chapel of the Congregational church, on the evening of co. 8th, where the good Father himself Will be cordially welcomed and the best of the feast set before him. Thanking him in advance for his gen- erous gift, I am, yours very‘truly, THOMAS K. NOBLE. P. S.——-I take this opportunity of ex- tending to Father Slocum and all his flock a cordial invitation to come to our church next Friday evening and enjoy with us the cantata of “The Holy City,” which will be rendered by the Norwalk Choral Society, assisted by eminent talent from abroad. K N Death in Sewerage. Two-more children of Mr. Albert Lane, of theHorseRailway, are seriously ill at their home on Leonard street. Dr. Bohannan being called and hearing the particulars of the recent deaths of his other two children, from diphtheretic croup, at once instituted a search for a cause. He was not long in arriving at a very positive conclusion. He, it is stated to us by one of the parents, has no doubt whatever that the illnesses and deaths of his children were caused by the emptying of the water, charged with foecal matter, out of the sewer catch-basins on the street. This dis- gusting and dangerous practice should by our authorities. —eoe ——~——-— .-—— .. —- Home Again, etc. Mr. George Clark sailed from Liver- pool on Saturday last in the Etruria, and is due in New York on Friday night, so that if all goes well with him on the ocean, as may heaven grant, he Wlll be here in Norwalk in ample time to attend Church next Sunday. + W. J. Florence’s Condition. The condition of W. J. Florence, the actor, who is dangerously ill of pneu— monia at the Continental Hotel, Phila- delphia, is still critical, but better than last night. The dispatches in the even- ing papers last night announcing his death were incorrect. ’ CO V Judge Perry is a. humorist of the Chicago. Get the money, if you have to get a gun and do your worst.” first water, and as a smoker, can beat a royal Turkr "' . ts light . be at once and peremptorily stopped Severely lhjured. A horse belonging to Elmer Miller, a tin pedler of East Norwalk, became frightened at a piece of tin roofing, which covered a cow shed, alongside of a house on Spring Hill, about 1 o’clock this afternoon, and completely demolished the wagon and threw out Stephen D. Byxbee, Jr., of South Norwalk, who was in the wagon, in. juring him severely and breaking his collar bone. Byxbee was attended by Dr. Phinuey, and taken in his home in a coach. ‘ -» 0 so »—-~—————-——--— A Credit to Machlaeport. Two old Machiasport fishermen,aged 78 and 82, who weathered a dangerous gale in their small boat and came home dripping wet but with ninety-one fish in the dory, after spending all night out at sea, are the pride and wonder of the town.——Kennebec Journal. _... ._.-_-_...<..’_. ... _ 1 "Eternal Vigilance,” Etc. ~ We would call the attention of our anti-Catholic contemporaries to the fact that the new Masonic Temple in Chicago is to contain 1,100 rooms, just the number that are in the Vatican palace. How plainly may we see in this the insidious influence of the Ro- man hierarchy l—Boston Post. 0.. Obituary. JOHN -H. TWEEDY, The Hon. John H. Tweedy, formerly of Danbury, a graduate of Yale in the class of 1834, died at his home in Mil- wankee last week Thursday. He went west soon after gladuation, had been a delegate in Congress from the territory of Wisconsin and as such drew the en- abling act for the admission of the state. The Vlater Famine. Augusta, Me., was in darkness last night as the water in the river was too low to run the elctric light plant. There is imminent danger of a water famine at Orange, N. J. . New York’s condition is daily grow- ing more alarming. Last week the New York city Water Commissioners were over to see Mr. Van Buren, hoping to get Brooklyn to help them out. but found Broo lyn could not spare a drop. ‘40.- Barn Burned. Last evening about 9.15 the large barn belonging to David Wakeman in Black Rock caught fire and was burned to the ground, owing to the total ab— sence of water. Over 40 tons of hay and a large num- ber of agricultural implements were in the barn. Several horses were rescued with great difficulty. The barn was comparatively new and was 135 feet in lenglah. T 6 fire is supposed to be incendiary as two suspicious looking individuals were seen loitering about early in the evening. Loss about $3,000. Honored Old Age. Mr. Horace Staples, of Westport, taking advantage of the warm, sunny day on Saturday, drove over here and made a call on General Couch and then, as is his wonted custom, called at the office of the GAZETTE, and although in his ninetieth year, he came as spryly up the stairs as most men of sixty. His 4-mind is apparently as clear and alert as it was some seventy years ago, when he first became a subscriber to the old GAZETTE and he now takes as lively an interest in our national affairs, and especially our finances. as ever. Hisi a beautiful and honored old age, and may the present generation rise up and call him blessed. WOOD—“d Don’t speak now as they pass. Drygoodsman Scofield. seized with the prevailing spirit of enterprise, im- provement and progress, has very nicely painted up his residence. and on Saturday essayed to paint his barn as well. New, this little barn is on the line between himself and his hitherto pleasant and amiable neighbor Mr. John Spencer. So, when it came to paint the Spencer side of the barn, Scofield’s pigment artist, according to all ancient and. honorable custom, moved his ladder around into the Spencer ard and began to ply his brush, w en Mr. Spencer appeared on the scene and peremptorily ordered him ofl his premises; he giving the painter to understand that no emmi- sary of Scofield’s should trespass on his grounds to decorate and adorn his master’s barn. Scofield and Spencer don’t speak now as they pass on the street. ———————<+>———-——— Church Servlce'at Somers. A N orwalk party went, after the New Canaan centennary Observances yester- morning, to St. Luke’s church, Somers, in which church at 35; o’clock p. m. , Rt. Rev. Dr. Henry ’C. Potter held a con- firmation. ,Evening pra er was read by the rector of the paris , Rev. B. C. Russell, assisted by Rev. Mr. Selleck of N orwalk. The members Of the class were then confirmed, which oflice was followed by a masterly discourse from Bishop Potter, based upon the second lesson for the evening. The Bishop was most happy, and his words made and left a deep impression upon the minds of those who listened to his fervent elo- quncee. During the past week St. Luke’s lost a prominent member of the parish, and one of wide Westchester county celeb- rity, Hart Purdy, Esq., of the founder family of Purdy’s' Station, N. Y. ,For the past two years Mr. Purdy has suf- fered from lung difficulty and his life has been prolonged through the most tender and watchful ministrations of devoted ones.,. He leaves a widow and four children to succeed to his honors and‘possessions. . " Would Net Admit Mr. Sanger. Treasurer Sanger and Comptroller Staub constituting the state board of equalization met at Hartford, yester- day to_consider the annual returns "of the railroad stocks for taxation. They went to the treasurer’s office. A sheriff refused to admit Mr. Sanger and the two returned. O. Sixty Thousand Dollars Offered for Arion. Ever since Senator Stanford’s two- year-old colt Arion trotted a mile in 2.10% numerous offers of purchase have been made to him. One telegraphic bid was received by nator Stanford offering $60,000 for colt, but a re- ply was returned to effect that 860,- 000 would not buy on -half of Arion. Thanks Awfully. ———The Ball Committee of the I. M. U. 209, desire to extend their thanks to Mr. Thomas C. Creamer, of Court Ma- hackemo, for his kind advertisement of the carriages which they will provide free to every purchaser of a ticket to their ball at Music Hall, Thanksgiving Eve, and they also extend to him the assurance of their distinguished con- elderation. '——CO Another Post Office Robbed. . The post office at Seymour was vis- ited by burglars yesterday morning, who blew open the safe and carried off $150 worth of stamps, $16 in “shin- plasters,” and some valuable papers be- longing to Mr. Tucker, the ex-post- master. It is believed that the burg- lars are the same as those who wrecked the Highwood post office in Hamden last week, for their Operations were identical. Riverside Cemetery. Sculptor Bates has just erected a beautiful granite monument on the family lot Of Warden-elect Kimmey in Riverside Cemetery Mr. George R. Cowles has purchased two of the most desirable lots in those beautiful grounds. They are at the apex of the round hill at the southwest side of the cemetery. Mr. Robert Van Buren has purchased two very sightly and prettily located lots in this beautiful garden of the dead. —- .____T_..__‘+>__ The Clinton Election. In the Clinton election case, heard yesterday, Judge Phelps found that the republican ballots were illegal for hav- ing blanks after certain offices and the democratic ballots for using the word “committee” of the town deposit fund in place of the word agent. The re- publican candidate for first selectman, E. W. Wellman, was found to have one more vote than the democratic candi- date, Samuel Wilcox, who contested the election. A decision against the plaintifi‘ must be given. By agreement the case was reserved for the Supreme Court. ~—-—-~—-——<~o—> Mr. Hale’s Georgia Orchard. . The Fort Valley (Houston County) Ga., Enterprise reports the arrival there last Saturday of J. H. Hale, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Hale, Mr. John Mal- umphey, Mr. Theron Evans and Mr. Albert Thompson, of the Hale Georgia Orchard Company. Mr. Hale has or- ganized this company in order to de- velop the large fruit farm, which he has project-edthere. It comprises 887 acres with 125,000 peach trees, and is in what Mr. Hale, with his large experi- ence, considers one of the best possible locations. The enterprise Will be watched with interest. Those engaged in it are confident that it will prove in all respects a success. ‘0. Settled Out of Court. The suit of Eugene I. Bunten, ad- ministrator against the Housatonic R. R. Co., was settled yesterday. The plaintiff’s son was killed at Danbury about eighteen months ago in a singu- lar manner, He was a newsboy employed by the New York & Eastern News Company. and living in Bridgeport. He was standing in the doorway of one of the defendant company’s baggage cars at- tached to a train entering the depot yard at Danbury. The train struck a car which had been carelessly left stand- ing upon another track, too near to the main track. The shock caused the door to slide forward with great force, catching the boy’s head and crushing it against the jamb. He died almost instantly. The father sued the com- pany for $5, 000 damages. 0 Grief that is Grief. ~‘-‘The baby is dead.” _ . What a world of pathos there is in those few short words, and what a pang it sendsrthrough the hearts, of the ab- sent members of -a family wherein there is a cherub of an infant brother or sister ‘to receive such sad intelli- gence as that the little loved one is no more. But when a young mother loses her first and only child that is grief that is grief. The father can love, too, and caress and feel a father’s pride. and he can weepand feel desolate. Time Will temper his grief, but a mother never ceases to lament the death of her first- born child. _ “It has been more than thirty years since we lost one,” writes Bill Arp in the Atlanta Constitution, “but the lit: tle garments that he wore are hidden away somewhere, and sometimes I_ see the mother fondling them as they lie in the old trunk—the trunk that holds the heart’s best treasures. It was Sterne who said : ‘God tempers the w1nd to the shorn lamb,’ and so in time the young mother’s grief _ will be sweeter than it is sad, and she will rise from it with a hope and a trust that she never knew before. A child in heaven is a bend that cannot be broken—it is not lost—it is saved. But still the pang of separation is very crushing to .the par- ent’s heart. How the worldshrinks up ; how mean and insignificant are all its pleasures. I have felt that way, and been comforted with the feeling, and so I know has every parent who has lost a child.” .Health would remove it'for the asking. Fire l 7 ‘ ., The alarm from box 15 at 12:20 tO-day: was for the burning of a» chimney~ on a Smith street. The fire was extin-, guished with a few buckets of water without the aid of the fire department, which,however, was promptly Oif hand-1 In the excitement of the fire, Taft’s clothing store door blew to so violently as to smash out one of its large lights. co Fire Bug Again. Another unsuccessful attempt was made sometime last night to set fire to the out-house in the rear of No. 41 , Main street. A large amount of paper ‘ and straw was thrown inside of the place through a window and then set a-fire, : but as in the former attempt, the stuff “ ‘ burned itself out without doing any damage to the building. It is very. ev1dent that somebody wants the out- house removed,and it should be, but by. , setting fire to it the adjoining property is endangered. and we have no hesi- ~ tency in saying that the Board of . —»- —-—«-~-—- --——<‘. . A number of Norwalk Englishmen, interested in the formation of a lodge of the Order of St. George, met at the .7 rooms of the Iron Moulders’ Union, on Wall street, last evening, and the new ' lodge was regularly installed by Dist- rict Deputy William H. Forster, of ’ Bridgeport. The new lodge will be known as Welcome Stranger Lodge, No. 364, S. of St. G., and starts with a ‘ membership of twenty-five. About fifty out-of-t-own visitors were present, and ' after the installation, were royally en- tertained by their new Norwalk 'breth- ren. _ .. -.-.AA—4.°.>.__.--.. .-. ._.__ Internal Revenue Receipts for a Year. . WASHING-TON, Nov. lit—The annual re- port of Internal Revenue Commissioner Mason for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1891, shows that the actual receipts of the -' bureau for the year were $145,035,415:— The ‘ _ commissioner estimates the receipts for the current fiscal year at $150,000,000. Re- ~ .ceipts of taxes on spirits during the past fiscal year were $83,335,963; from fermented liquors, $28,565,129; from oleomargarine, $1,077,824, and from miscellaneous sources, ' $260,127. A Cyclone Strikes Syracuse. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Nov. 17.—A cyclone struck this city Monday, causing some ”damage on the outskirts and totally wrecking a. block of new buildings in the heart of the city. There was probably no loss of life, though it will be impossible to speak positively till the ruins have been searched. This is being done. Bad Things to Handle. , NYACK, N. Y., Nov. 17.—Emil Smith, employed by John Cooper, one of the best known residents of Pearl River, Rockland county, while handling a revolver acci- dently dischargediit, shooting Mr. Cooper’s son Clarence in the leg, puncturing the groin. The wound is considered as prob- ably fatal. A Steamship Wrecked. GALVESTON, Nov. 17.—Intelligence has been received here of the loss of the Amer- ican steamship Brigham. The steamer ro- ; cently left Philadelphia with a cargo of . steel rails for Velasco, Tex. The vessel ' went ashore ofl the Western Dry Rocks, on the coast of Florida, and will be a total loss. ’ , A Texas Bank Fails. TYLER, Tex, Nov. 17.——The well known banking house of Bonner &. Bonner has failed. So far as can be ascertained, the liabilities of the bank will exceed $500,000. The assets are said to more than cover the liabilities, but it is not known whether they will realize sufficient to pay the debts: Senator Deane .Very Ill. HUDSON, N. Y., N ov. 17.——Senator G. A. Deane’s condition shows no improvement. He is suffering from 'a. complication of troubles, aggravated by the campaigning the senator made in the recent election. Dr. S. L. Smith says Mr. Deane’s condition is very critical. ., ,- ————————————-—— \. Didn’t Practice What He Preacher]. AUGUSTA, Me., Nov. 17.—J. A. Carr, 01‘ East Winthrop, who for many years has, as a. fish and game warden, been active in prosecuting offenders against the fish and game laws, was arrested by the sheriff for killing muskrats out of season. Billy Florence Out of Danger. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 17.—William J. Florence, the actor, who was attacked by pneumonia. on Saturday night, and whose condition was serious yesterday, is much improved, and his physicians believe him to be out of danger. Campo Pleaded Not Guilty. . NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-——General Julius ' Campo, the young South American who is under indictment for the larceny of Mrs. Charles H. Trotterer’s jewelry, pleaded not guilty, and was held in $7,000 ‘ bail to answer. - 7 , Millionaire Bolton Robbed. TROY, N. .Y., Nov. lit—The residence of, William Bolton, the millionaire brewer, at . Lansingburg, was entered by burglars, who secured over $6,000. worth of jewelry and valuable curios. ' ' ‘ - The Horse Show Open. l' ’ . , NEW YORK, Nov. - 17.—,_-The seventh an- nual exhibit of the National Horse Show’, Association of America. is- in progressat ' the Madison Square Garden amphitheater. There are in all 1,066 entries of the finest- specimens of horseflesh. Kicked to Death by a Horse. . . KENOSHA, Wis, Nov.'17.—fJames Heye, - four years old, was killed in his father’s barn by the kick of a. vicious horse. His? grandfather, Oliver Hoye,'.tried to rescue: him and was also kicked by the animalg, Hewill die. , . ’ ‘4 The President Goes Hunting. , WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-—The president,'- ' accompanied by ex—Sena'tor Sewell, of N ow,- Jersey, left Washington Monday afternoon ’ for Bengies, Md., on a hunting trip. HQ.“ will be absenttsvo or three days; ~ .r . v
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