TIP ' inevitable tendency towards ultimate ’m PEOPLE’S PAPER. Largest Circulation. Vol. I, No. 233. “Equal and Exact Justice to all Men of r il' l'. a ' 9‘ ,. Np “SW/M” _/ '_ . Norwalk, Conn., Thursday Evening, November '19, l89l. Whatever State or Persuasion, Religious or PoliticaZ.”—Jeflerson Laws in ADVERTIsm Wants, I Cent a Word Price One (lent The Daily Gazette Is issued new week-day at 3 P. 11.. at one exam pun son. The Cheapest Rates for Advertising. and ran LARGEST CIRCULATION. The Weekly Gazette. [Combined with Friday 5 Dailvd Is issued every Friday at Noon. at music CENT! run corr. on 31.50 mm YEAR. The Daily and Weekly. Served to Local Subscribers at was ours run WEEK. on $5.00 run run. A. H. vaarox. Proprietor w n: This paper has the largest circulation of any paper in the State west of Bridgeport. The Position of Canada. Any one who has ‘paid the least at- tention to public utterances and news- paper discussions going on in Canada the past year, and especially the past few months. cannot have failed to note the growing discontent among the more intelligent and business masses of our northern neighbors. Mr. Erastus Wi- nans, a native of Canada and now a resident in New York, has been both logical and eloquent in his speechesand written arguments. showing Canada’s annexation to the United States. He makes this conclusion so clear, that despite the natural bias of nationality and a hitherto conspicuous loyalty to the mother country. large numbers of able and influential men connected with the Dominion Government have accepted Winan’s opinions as being as absolutely conclusive as logical demon- stration can make them. A most sig- nificant article on “The Position of Canada.” appeared day before yester» day in the Toronto, Ontario, News, which is one of the ablcst as well as re- putedly conservative papers of the Do- minion. It says that the population statistics recently issued by the Do- minion Government has caused a feel- ing of unrest and discontent and that there is too much reason to fear that a feeling in favor of a radical change in our political status is even greater and more general than appears on the sur- face. The News continues : “ That our present trade relations with other countries are not such as promise re- lief from our unfortunate condition of semi-stagnation may be acknowledged. i We are not only shut out of the United States market. but are in a fair way of being excluded from the market of every state on this continent which is of use to us. The big Republic already has a treaty of commerce with Brazil, with Cuba, with Porto Rico and with San Domingo, and negotiations are in progress for the extension of whatlooks like the beginning of a great American zollverein, with Canada left out. Over the ocean the prospect is but little more encouraging. We have the open mar— ket of Great Britain, but every other nation has the same. The farmers of the United States have this advantage over us : they have not only their home market, from which we are excluded. but that of Brazil and of the Spanish West Indies, from which we are about to be shut out; and they also have, save in the matter of cattle, just the same fa- cilities for selling their products in the English market that we have.” The News concludes : “ But if our present position is bad, there is a way out of it. In fact, there are two ways. If the Dominion will signify its readi- ness to accept commercial union, we could have all Americans have to offer us in the way of markets. On the other hand we are in a position to make a trade arrangement with the mother country. We can offer her absolutely free entry for all her manufactured goods in return for a discriminatory tariff in favor of our products of field, forest, mine and sea entering Great Britain. Two courses are, therefore, open. One or the other must be taken, as it is impossible that we should go on as at present, shut out of the markets of this continent, and met on equal terms by our rivals, in the mother lands. ” _._._.—._—..._.... _.---.---_ . . The News Thls Morning. The Junta is in full control of the Brazrhan Province of Rio Grande do Sn], and 13 making preparations for war. Several tin plate works in South Wales have shut down this week. At the Farmers’ Convention in Indi- anapolis, there was developed a large falling olfm membership, resulting in lack of funds. The New York water famine was ost- poned, though not wholly avert , by the recent rainfall. ' ' ‘ The competition of mounted police at the horse show was greatly enjoyed; prizes awarded. The New Orleans Cotton Exchan 6 reported its receipts yesterday tfie largest in the h1story of the port. _ Miss. Bessie Blosson, one of the pret- tiest glrls of Geneo, Nev., has elope‘d w1th an Indian of the Washoe tribe. The National Association of Carriage an . Harness Manufacturers met at Springfield, Mass, yesterday. '\ TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN. On her last voyage the Ethiopa ran into a whale and cut it in two. A warm wave is surely coming,'Hor- ace Hubbell is around to-day With his straw hat on. wGeorge H. Raymond contemplated building two cottages on his Elm street lots. -..- . The City of Springfield ran ashore on the shoals just below Higganum yesterday. ”____-_ ’ fiS. Craufurd, Esq., Westport's dis- tinguished Representative, was domg N orwalk to-day. Ebenezer Hill, of the Norwalk Iron Works, has been granted a patent on air compressors. —You can buy a $20 club watch at A. W. Austin’s jewelry store for $12, and have it warranted. Good Uncle John Collins has decor- ated his American House dining room with an outfit of comfortable, . new chairs. _ . ‘ At a meeting of the Fire Police, held last evening, John Lowth was elected secretary, in place of H. C. Mosher re- signed. The remains of Mrs. Sarah Saunders, who died at the Alms House Tuesday, will be taken to Brookfield, today, for interment. ’ Capt. Austin of New Haven says he has heard from the yacht Florence, re- ported yesterday as lost, and that she is all right. David D. Stevenson, who has for a long time been engineer on the Con— solidated road, died last night after an illness of but a few days. A leadin, article in Carter Harrison’s Chicago Times is headed, “Driven to Drink.” Yet he has only been a week in the editorial harness. The Treasury officials have discover- ed a dangerous counterfeit of the twen- ty-dollar gold certificates, and we now scan our bills very closely. --Don’t buy your turkey until you have examined the stock and prices at the People’s Market. 233tf Cold winter swooped down upon us with mid-winter vigor, but to-morrow the clerk of the weather promises us milder weather again. ,.,..The. -. November number of “The Bugled’ the monthly paper issued by the first and second classes at the N or- walk Military Institute, is out. ~Buy a ticket for the I. M. U. Ball Thanksgiving Eve, and get a carnage to take you and your best girl to and from the hall free. Fourteen poor little smelt, wiggled their way up the creek this morning and found seventeen fishermen waiting for them with all the alluring paraph- ernalia of their art. N0 football game will be played at the fair grounds, Saturday. by the Y. M. C. A. team, as most of the players will go to Springfield and witness the Yale-Harvard game. '—There will be 200 turkeys at the Peoplg's Market on Wednesday next. 233i On Saturday last. a new internal reve- nne law went into effect prohibiting the packing of my kind of pictures or ad- vertising matter in packages of smok- ing or chewing tobacco. Prof. J. Haydn Wand. who is to play the Violoncello at the Friday evening concert at the Congregational Church, stands at the head of that particular line of playing in this country. Governor Bulkeley and Colonel William H. Stevenson. accompanied by President Starbuck, attended land- lord Houlihan’s annual hunting ban- quet at N ewtown, last evening. Frank C. Almy yesterday, in the Ply- mouth, (N. H.,) court room told how he killed his sweetheart, Christie War- den. A love letter from her to him was read. Impulsive insanity is the defence. The fish commissioners at Hartford esterday morning awarded Mr. Fol~ ett, of Windham, a contract for sup- plying 400,000 young trout, to be given away free to all who apply before March 1. _ Yesterday’s session of the Protestant Episcopal Convention was opened b Senator Edniunds. Rev. Dr. Peere 4. Alsop, of BrOoklyn, read a paper on ‘fSocialism,” which was subsequently discussed. Mr. Sell, the London advertising agent, has applied for space at the orld’s Fair, to exhibit specimens of all of the leading newspapers of the world whmh have been printed during the last two centuries. W, G. Nickerson, H. S. Ambler, William McCormmk, Miss Mary Mc- Cormick, .William Johnson, James _'Kear'ney-and James Carrigan, are the lucky drawers of gold watches in the watch club drawing. ' Andrew and David Waterbury, the two brothers from New Canaan, were arrested in New YOrk yesterday morn- ing while trying to pawn a $500 dia- mond ring alleged to have been stolen from Dr. Good, of that city. -Norwslk bridge souvenir 93999.5 at A. W. Austin’s jewelry. store. . ‘- W. J. Florence, the actor, is holding his own, but he is not yet out of danger. A- vigilance committee has been formed at McDonald, Pa, to make ' short work of fire bugs. H. W. Gilbert, President and Gener- . til-manager of the Gilbert & Arnold Land 00., of West Superior,_ Wis, is spending a few days with his father, Harmon Gilbert, of Wilton. The corner-stone for the new House- tonic freight depot at Bridgeport Wlll be of white marble, finely carved. and will bear the names of President Star— buck and Vice-President Stevenson cut in high relief. Mrs. Lydia Merrell Hawley, widow of the late Rev. Francis liawley, and step-mother of Senator l-lawley, died at her residence in Oakland, Cal.. on the 7th inst, at the advanced age of 83 years and 8 months. The Methodist general missionary committee finished its business at Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday and ad- journed‘sine die. The total sum of money, for thedisposal of which the committee voted is $1,222,000. The children at the Knight street M. E. Church Concert last night, exceeded all exliectations in the fine manner of rendering their various parts. Quite a large audience was present and a mod- erate sum Was realized in aid of their Sunday School. New York Fish Commissioner Black- ford has received from the United States Fish Uommissicn 501110 2.000 tench, for distnbution in New York State, Connecticut and New Jersey, in order to ascertain their adaptability to the waters of those states. In our notice of the Norwalk Wheel Club’s Minstrels yesterday, we omitted to mention the solo of Mr. 'ciorace S. Hatch, which was the gem of the even- ing. The types also made us say that the Adelpha Wheel Club occupied a box instead of the Alpha Club. Charles S. Carpenter, employed at Cousins’ shoe shop, was taken w1th a fit this morning in front of the reSI- dence of J. Belden Hurlbutt on Main street. Carpenter was taken to Dr. Huntington’s office and after a few minutes was able to walk home. The New Haven and Derby freight train on the Housatonic road, which passes through Norwalk at about9 a. m., broke in two near the electr1c light station this morning. The end of the train started down the grade butthe brakes were applied before any ser1ous "Tlamage was done. ' Alfred Sanford, of Bedding, under- went an operation Monday, by wh1ch there was removed from his bladder astone Weighing a trifle over three ounces. It was as large around as an ordinary hen’s egg. This is one of the largest formations of the klnd known in medical history. Parkhurst'Robinson, one of the best known men in Eastern Connecticut, founder of the Robinson & Fowler Foundry Company in Plainfield, died at that place yesterday, aged 80.. 1115 death was the result of a fall thIe at work on the roof of a barn near h1s res- idence a few days ago. Eli Logan, who had for many years been among Connecticut’s successful woolen manufacturers and resided in Norwich all his life, died yesterday, aged 77. In his fifty years as a woolen mill owner he amassed a large fortune, but he died a comparatively poor man, owing to his generosity. whlch was known throughout all New England. Three special trains will be run over the Consolidated road next Saturday from New York, to accommodate those wishing to witness the football match between Harvard and Yale, to take place at Springfield. The trains will run on fast express time, and will leave early in the morning. All drawtenders along the road are warned to look out for them. Col. F. St. John Lockwood accom- panied Rev. Dr. Noble to Southport Fasterday, where some two hundred airfield Co. pastors and prominent parishioners sat down to a sumptuous banquet, prepared by the ladies of the Congregational Church there. After the feast, numbers of speeches were made, of which that by Dr. Noble was admitted to be the best of all. An effort is being made by thc‘New York bicylcle clubs to establish indoor racing t is winter on a permanent basis. The promoters of the sport have beer discussing the advisability of holding big indoor race meets and tournaments. and they have come to the conclusion that the scheme is a good one and can be made practicable. According to the plans already formed. several race meets will be arranged for some time during the latter part of next month and January. They will be held either at Madison Square Garden or the American Institute. The Dudley Buck Compan .95 enter- tainment at the Opera House sat night, well sustained their high reputation. ' It was uite largely attended by our best peop e‘,who (resolved 9. better fate than they were in a hall cold enough to freeze it Laplander although it is said both stuves Were going at full head. ‘It wasafortunate circumstance that the pieces rendered were so deserving of encores that it gave the audience a decent opportunity of warming its blend by excessive hand clapping and stamping without exciting the per- formers’ suspicion that it was done to over-do or guy, then. —~F-r_ank Leslie’s Popular Monthly for Christmas is ready and Benedict has it. 232% - to "be chilled through and throu‘gh,as‘ WHAT Miss SPINSTER SAYS: That Miss Florence Selleck left town yesterday for her home at Woodmont, after a five‘weeks’ visit with friends in town. -, That Mrs. William H. Smith is in New York for a-few days. That Mrs. Penoyer, of Arch street, is in Brooklyn for a few weekgwith her son. " _ That the New York horse show is un- doub‘edly the finest exhibition of horse flesh ever witnessed in this countr .- The display of human beauty in t e boxes appear to be equally impressive. ‘ That now it is an Astor baby. The latest arrival belongs'to the fifth gen— eration which has borne that name in America, and its sex will enable it to wear the name of John Jacob, and in- herit a fortime estimated at about $150.- 000.000. That the Thursday evening lecture at Grace Church by Rev. Mr. Watkins deserves to be well attended. The lectures are principally to the confirma- tion class. They are a revelation clear and full of unaffected piety, anda great benefit to all. That in these hurried days, when the exactions of social and business life ab- sorb so much of time and thought, when the struggle of life is so intense and unrelenting ; in this age of “short- hand.” of “type-writers” and of "pri vate secretaries.” the question “Is let ter writing-a lost art,” is certainly a debatable one. . ._.-_.‘-p—.-...-... ~ William Wardwell showed a pair of four-year-old steers this morning in front of his market, which were as fine a pair as ever entered this town. The pair weighed in the neighborhood of 3,200 p unds and took the first pre- mium at the Danbury Fair this fall. They were purchased by Mr. VVardwell from Samuel Lockwood of North Wil- ton, and will be butchered. Papers were served yesterday on the Consolidated read in the suit brought by Patricn Bohan. of Wallingford, as administrator of the estate of Frank Bohan, who was killed on the grade- crossing there August 6, while driving in front of'a switching freight train. Damages to the amount of $5.000 are claimed and negligence on the part of the road’s employees is alleged. The latest thing in table linen deco- ration is the butter-plate doyly. It is made of white grass linen embroidered and out in the shape of a flower, usual- ly a rose or, a pansy, wrought in the natural tint. One of the doll’s house dude is placed just above the forks at each plate, and the butter plate is set “upon it bythe maid. The doyly is not removed with the plate, as it is sup- posed to form part of the decoration of the table. The Y. M. C. A. and the Westport football teams played on the fair grounds yesterday afternoon, and al- though the former eleven was made up mostly of substitutes, they succeeded in winning by a score (-f 4 to 0. The game was the most exciting played by the Y. M. C. A. - team this season, the touch-down being made by Raymond in the first half of the game. and no other points were scored durmg the play. TWENTY DEGREES BELO‘V ZERO. A Cold “’avo in the Northwest Kills Stock and Crops. ST. PAUL, Nov. 19.—Reports are still coming in with regard to the cold wave. At many points the weather is as cold as that usually recorded in midwinter. The limit has been reached at Red Lake Falls, at which place a fall to 20 below zero is re- ported. Sand Center reported 12 below, Crookston 14:, Barnesville 10 and Hal- lock 16. South Dakota suflers intensely, the reg lster in that state being all the way from f to 16 below zero. There was considerable delay to the trains, and the excessively cold weather came so suddenly that it found people in many places short of coal and with their stock almost wholly un- protected. From the Sioux reservation and points on the Missouri river came stories of the loss of stock. Many cattle Were frozen. David Hall, of Sully county, lost 3,000 head of sheep. ‘ ’ Reports from North Dakota say the temperature is very frigid as far west as Minot; the ground is so thoroughly frozen that no further attempts will be made at fall plowing. Reports as to the condition of the wheat crop are conflicting, those sent out by the railroads stating that nearly all wheat in shock has been thrashed and that wheat in stack can be thrashed at any time. The correspond- ents, however, give a far less glowing view of the situation, saying hundreds of acres are in shock and can be now used for nothing except for feed in the straw. Shultels Repeats His Charges. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Herman J. Shul- teis, appointed a member of the United States treasury commission to visit Europe last summer and investigate the pauper immigration problem, and who has cre- ated a sensation by the charges he has made of immorality among immigrants on ocean steamers, arrived in Washington and had an extended interview with Act- ing Secretary Spaulding. Subsequently he called on Commissioner Owen. To both of them he reiterated his published. abacunt of immorality among-the steerag‘e passengers of the Servia, in which he came ' "across the ocean disguised as an immif’ grant. He did not. submit'awritten re: port, but in conjunction with the other commissions will make a report of his ob4 servations in Europe. To Stop the Prize Fight. OLNEYVILLE, R. I., Nov. 19.——An ordi- nance was passed yesterday by the town council prohibiting private exhibitions of “athletics,” “round fights,” etc. This ordinance was adopted for the purpose of stopping the fight between Sullivan and Conley, which. is scheduled to occur at the OWille Athletic club rooms Thursday night. The club officials say theexhibiv tion will came of as announced. Reception. .There is to be a- card Reception given at the Norwalk Military Insti- tute, on Tuesday evening next. Nov. 24th. - _-_ __~..___4*>.__.._..--___. Big Stakes- Don. J. Leathers, president of the Grand Rapids Trotting association, Will offer $100,000 for a great week of races at the meeting of the Michigan horse breeders in Grand Rapids, the last week in August, 1892. ——<9—~«-- Aw-.." St. Paul’s Church Fair. The good ladies of St. Paul’s church and parish are making very extreme and elaborate preparations for opening thelr Fair at the Opera House, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, December 2d and 3d. so. ~—-———_-_.. Fitch—Hanford. g-Miss May Fitch, daughter of Mrs. ~=Alm1ra Fitch, and Louis Hanford, of Danbury, were married yesterday af- ternoon at the residence of the bride’s mother. on Maple street, by Rev. Geo. Van Alstyne. A brother of the groom acted as best man and Miss Florence Fitch as bridesmaid. —“———CO.- St. Mary’s Fair. The ladies of St. Mary’s Church are hard at work at the Opera House to- day, getting ready for their annual fair, which Is to open to-morrow. This Will be, as all its predecessors have been, the most successful entertain- ment of the year, both financially and soc1ally. There will be no complaint of a cold hall during the continuance of this fair, which is always densely packed. .49, A Brakeman Killed. Yesterday afternoon as train 207 was coming down from Springfield, head brakeman Charles F. Gifford of New Haven, fell from the first car under the wheels at Wallingford. His right leg and arm were terribly mangled. He was picked up and placed in the caboose of the next freight train down. He dled on the way to New Haven. He was twenty-three years old and leaves a wife and baby. "—09. — -»»~ Fell Under a. Train. F. T. Bommos, a well known man of Bridgeport, and acting tax collector, fell undera train near the depot last evening, sustaining injuries that will prove atal. The base of his skull was crushed in and he was otherwise in- jured. It IS supposed that he attempted to jump from the train after it had gamed some headway. He was senior member of the firm of Bom1nos&Biltz, butchers. ~ ~~————< o»——~——— ~-— Millions in Black Cats. James Wardner of the Concolidated Black Cat Company, is at San Fran- cisco from Fair Haven, Wash. He is one of. the stockholders of a novel com- pany just organized on Puget Sound, for the propagation of black cats. An island is to be purchased so that the cats cannot mingle with other cuts of the surrounding regions, and there the black cat breed is to be perpetuated. These black cats will live on fish and thus the expense of running the big cat ranch w1llbe reduced to a minimum. The cats are to be raised for their fur. and the projectors expect to make mil- llons out of it. Most of the 'original stock Wlll be brought from Holland. A Dredger Attached. M. S. Burgess and A. W. Bump of Derby, attached the Government dredger Knickerbocker yesterday af- ternoon for a debt of $300. The dredger has been at work all the fall on the channel of the Housatonic river and the crew have bouaht all their pro- v1310ns of this firm, to ling them that they would pay up when the job was finlshed. ‘ahey laid in an unusually large stock of provisions and about midnight Tuesday started down the river, headed for New York. They stopped at Stratford to telegraph for a larger tug to two. them down the sound and while waiting for it the papers were served on them and the boat at- tached by constable Stage, of Stratford. An Indian Skeleton. A remarkable discovery was made in the qulet old village of Southport by a number of Bridgeport men who are em! ployed there, Monday afternoon. A skeleton of a man measuring in length almost 81x feet, and in an excellent state of preservation. was unearthed by John Coleman of Noble avenue. About two weeks ago Michael Con- ners, the concrete, curb and gutter con. tractor, of this city, accepted a job to lay a number of feet of sidewalk in Southport. A gang of men, 12 in all, was sent from this city to take charge of the job. A large sand bank in the western part of the town was used to complete the tar walk which was to be 9.1 . About 4 o’clock Monday afternoon, when the men were about to relinquish their labor for the day, Mr. Coleman saw. something which resembled the head of a human being protruding from the sandy substance. He called his compamons' attention to the fact and an investigation proved that the, object was a human skeleton. The’men hastily removed the skeletonsto’ one of their carts and it was brought to this- city. ,. _ _M_1‘. Coleman hasth'eskull‘in his 1305-. session at his home, and; it is the object of much curiosity. It Certainly .is a. most remorkable specimen of physiog- nomy. N 0 one can tell how the skeleton came to be buried in that place other w1se than the locality has always been known as a site of an Indian burying ground centuries ago. The skeleton is supposed to be the remains of one of the numerous tribes, possibly the Pequonnocky which inhahited the vil- lage before it became known to modern c1v1112ation.~——Bridgeport Union. —'—All the latest Games out can be found at Benedict’s. 232d Time to Calla Halt. Notwithstanding that Health Officer McKeon has forbidden the emptying out upon the streets of the foul and polluted water pumped out of the sewer catch basins. this same offence was again repeated yesterday in Leonard street. close by where Dr. Bohannan asserts thelives of two children have beenalready sacrificed in consequence of the inexcusably outrageous practice. 0.. Connecticut and the World’s Fair. A dispatch from Hartford this'morn- ing, gives this doleful outlook for Con- necticut’s chance of making a credit- able exhibit at the coming World’s Fair. It says = . Connecticut is heavily handicapped 1n the matter of her representation at the. great 011108.00 Fair by the present legislative deadIock. N o appropriation . for the Falr has been made by the Legis- lature. and 1f the body adjourns next January Without doing any business it Will be impossible to secure an appro- priation earlier than J annary, 1893, when the new Legislature Convenes. This would leave Connecticut without a dollar available for the purposes of her representation at Chicago other than such as might be raised by private subscrIptlons. Hoyt—Bailwitz. About sixty relatives and friends gathered at the residence of Mr. and 111's. Gould Hoyt, on r’rospect avenue, last evening, to witness the marriage of their daughter Lucy Anne, to Geo. J. Ballwitz. The ceremony, was per- formed under an arch of evergreens. by Rev. S. ’1‘. Graham, assisted by the Rev. Charles M. Selleck. The bride was attired in a handsome traveling dress of golden-brown broadcloth. -Af— ter the ceremony a reception was held. followed by a collation, after which the happy young couple took the 10.23 train for New York, followed by a gen- erous supply of rice and old shoes. The couple will be gone about a week, the greater part of wh'ch will be spent at Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Bailwitz were the recipients of a large number of handsome and useful presents, and the bride’s present from the groom was a beautiful gold watch. ——————-eoe——————~——-———— it was Mr. Barnum’s Wish. _ Mrs. P. T. Barnum has issued invita- tions to members of the Bridgeport press for Friday evening, Nov. 20, at 8 o’clock at “Marina.” The object of the assembly is in con- formity with the wish of the late P. T. Barnum. who, before his death, ex- pressed the desire that Mrs. Barnum at an early date invite the editors and re- porters of the local press to enjoy the ‘ mus1c of the large orchestrion which the great showman imported and to which during his last sickness he was fond of listening. Besides the orches- trion there is a magnificent piece of marble statuary “Youth,” which Mr. Barnum presented to his wife three days before he died. Mrs. Barnum has selected Friday evening fora reception of the news- paper men and no doubt the entertain- ment will be a very elegant affair.— Bridgeport Farmer. O. —Dr. McDonald, M. C. D., of No. 7 Harriet street, can be seen now at 37 West Main street. «v-»- ,-_ ~—-~—-— The George Low Case. NORWALK, Nov. 19. 1831. EDITOR OF DAILY GAZETTE: Your candid remarks in yesterday’s issue on the George Low insurance policy prompts me to say that I have known Mr. Low since his boyhood,aud met him nearly- every day. I have ha'd‘considerable business transactions with him ; he was the administrator on the Keena estate, and I state that dur— ing my acquaintance with him, and my repeated conversations with him al- most daily, I never saw the signs of any excessive use of liquor on him. The Saturday previous to his death. I met him near the residence of Mr. Munson Hoyt. and he then told me he felt very sick with sore throat and pain in the chest. That was the last time I saw him alive. As to the statement that “he drank himself to death,” it is only an “insurance dodge,” and it won’t work worth a cent, before any honest jury. ReSpectfully, JUSTICE. _____ wh- __.. Rapid Transit to Norwalk. There can be no enterprise that will benefit Westport more than a grand transit railroad to N orwalk. The beau- tiful lay of land north of the Connecti- cut turnpike between Westport and. Norwalk cannot be surpassed anywhere between New York and New Haven. and if it could be made accessible by a grand transit road. it would soon be occupied and built up. The, route should be laid out one—quarter ofa mile north of the turnpike and connect with the Danbury road at the Fair Grounds in Norwalk and terminate at a point about a thousand feet north of the property of the Westport Sanitarium. The cost of the road would be $50,000, and it would add to the value of West- port a quarter of a million. It takes now three quarters of an .hour. to o to N orwalk, which is nearly three mi es away; '--If' this'road could be constructed, . Norwalk could, he rose] .cd infive minutes. , asavmg of $50 a day to .Wes‘tport' for all timeto command the read would not stop” here, as Greenfield H111 would at once have the road extended, and it would only be a matter of time ere it would he'continued up the valley to Hawle ville. If estport will only polish up its brains, the scheme can be put through. James Dillon, the Pacific Railroad con- tractor will build it in two months. Westport wants quick transit to Nor- walk. This scheme would add 25 per cent to the value of Westport property, and both places would be greatly b'ene'l' fitedz—Westporter. . _ ,—-—Benediet' has thaDfilineator 0_ December. I ”j ‘ " 232d; ,2 It _, would be _ JOB PRINTING. Mn. Hannr M. GAR-3;“, J in, formerly ' New Yerk City. is the superintendent of or hinting Departments. He is an experienc , look, Job and Newspaper Printer, and all work entrusted to him will be satisfactorily, done. Special care and attention given to I CHURCH AND SOCIETY PRINTING. A Bad Accldent. . Mr. John Morton was engaged to move a boiler from the South Norwalk freight office to R. G. Millard’s factory: at West Norwalk. He was riding on: top of the boiler. As the team was turn-'- ing'into a lane leading to the factory, one of the wagon wheels struck a rock and Mr. Morton was thrown off. One wheel of the wagon struck his right leg and mangled the flesh from the thigh down, uncovering the knee-cap, mak- ing a rugged wound but breaking no bones. His left leg was considerably bruised. He was taken home and Dr. Baker dressed the wounds. , some weeks before he will be able to be > , out again, and several more in whichhe _ will probably go lame. ' Q This Puzzles the Doctors. CROSWELL, Mich, Nov. 19.—Mrs. Jenny Watson began about three months ago to complain of a stiffness of the joints, ac- companied by a dull pain. The other day" she had so far regained strength as to get out of her bed. She had no sooner as- sumed a standing position than the bones of her leg broke in a half dozen places. She was placed upon her bed again and she raised her arms, letting them fall heavily. The bones in both arms cracked in several . places. Several of the woman’s ribs Were - also broken in her paroxysms of pain. Her physician has been unable to set the injured members. Mrs. Watson sufiers the most intense pain. The medical fra- ternity here are greatly puzzled and at a loss how to treat the case. Not That Mr. Edmonds. ' NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-——Mr. J. Wesley Ed- monds, a. resident of Orange, N. J., and dOing business in railroad supplies at 270 West street, in this city, called at police headquarters to make it clear that he is not the J. \Vesley Edmonds accused in a. dispatch from Bridgeport, Conn., of en. ticing girls from their homes for immoral purposes. He has, however, had delivered to him a. number of letters addressed to J. W. Edmonds at various places in this city, where the party was not found, and the letters returned to the postofl'ice. These letters when opened proved to be from young girls and women in response to cir- culars evidently sent out for immoral purposes. Young Drexel lVIarriod. VINCENTOWN. N. J., Nov. 19.-—Miss M. S. Irick and Mr. George Washington Childs Drexel, the youngest son of Mr. A. J. Drexel, the banker, were married in the Trinity Protestant Episcopal church. Bishop Scarborough, of New Jersey, per- formed the ceremony, assisted by Rev. James W. Smith, the rector. The church was handsomely decorated. Owing to the illness of Mrs. Drexel, the bridegroom’s mother, the wedding was private, none but the members of the family and their most intimate friends being present. There were no bridesmaids. Mr. Anthony J. “Drexel, the groom’s father, was present at the ceremony. - , British Barge and Crew Go Down. LONDON, Nov. 19.5—3A serious, loss hap- pened to the British channel squadron while exchanging courtesies with the Spaniards in Arosa. bay near Corunna. After the entertainment the vice consul was sent ashore in the steam barge from the British flagship. After landing the vice consul the steam barge started on its ' return. A heavy sea was running and the barge shipped water to such an ex- tent that it foundered; the engineer and four of the crew were drowned. A Divorce That Stirred Society. Osnxosn, Wis, Nov. 19.—-A divorce was granted yesterday to Minnie E. Hims- baugh from John W. Himebaugh, on the ground of cruelty. The defendant is a vice president and treasurer of the Paine Lumber company. The family is promi- nent in society, and the divorce causes a sensation, especially as it is connected with sensational rumors of domestic troubles Mrs. Himebaugh was allowed alimony-of $15,000. - - ‘ FUN _“IN IT.“ f ‘Another wreck on the New Haven th1s morning.” “No. How did it happen?” “The train boy dropped abox of his candles out of the window and threw the car off the track.”—Brooklyn Life. _ Paying Teller—You will have to be identified —have some one introduce you to me—before I can cash this check. ’ Young Lady (haughtily) —'But I do not care to know you sin—Judge. “Send me _up a cocktail,” said the gueat at a CMame hotel. _ ' “, an’t o it. sir—but I’ll at on some ink,” said the boy. ‘ j g y :(‘g deii’t want any ink.” " ' . ’ gay, guess .you never tried our ink, 434a you! ’f-éeNew York Sun. ' ‘ ner he heard a. footstep in the htuiqnaly’ as “Only papa," she Whispered. He moved about uneasily- . ' “Don t be afraid.” she murmured ;— “you can surely trust papaL” ' :‘I don’t know.” hesaid, 'doubtfully. - 9 Oh, Arthur,” she cried, throwing her arms abOut his neck appealingly, f‘you certainly ought to; nobody else - 1n: town w111.”—Det‘ro'it Free Press. “Who is that a he'as'ked The Judge—What’sthe .1. i: .. 0- thisman? _- fllgleagamst The .Policeman—.Impersgnating an officer,.sor. - He wor thryin' to, help ‘a lady across Broadwa acme 9171360133: nearer lichen—«Bus ,~ It will be
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