THE PEOPLE’S PAPER. Largest Circulation. Vol. I, No. 241.. “Equal and Exact Justice to all Men, of Whateéer State or Persuasion, Religious or Potiticaz,:,_,7,f,,,0,, Norwalk, Conn., Wednesday Evening, Beeember 2., 1891. Lassen Manners; Price One Cent; The Daily Gazette Is issued very week-day at 3 P. M, at ZONE CENT PER com. The Cheapest Rates for Advertising, and THE LARGEST CIRCULATION. The Weekly Gazette. [Combined with Friday s Dailv.l Is issued every Friday at Noon, at mass CENTS PEE com, 03 $1.50 PER YEAR. The Daily-and Weekly. served to Local Subscribers at TEN GENTS PEE WEEK. on $5.00 Pan YEAR. A. H. BrrNGTON. Proprietor. 3 - This paper has the largest circulation of any paper in the State west of Bridgeport. - JOB PRINTIN G. MR. HARRY M. GARDNER. JE.. 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. Bad Roads in Connecticut. The Hartford Post prints a communi— cation of great interest and importance from Dr. J. H. Chapin of the topogra- phical survey concerning the roads of Connecticut which in his travels over the state he has found bad. The bad engineering and worst economy shown in the almost universal condi- tion of the roads in this country has been the subject of much discussion lately. There are a large number of citizens interested in better roads, but to none is it a more vital matter than to the people living in country towns. The dirt road, the only avenue of traf- fic between the farmer and the "rest of the world, remains practically the same as it was at the beginning of the cen- tury. g In every other respect the century has been one of amazing progress. Its industrial and productive capacities have been multiplied by the devices of improvement ; but in this one instance we have remained stationary. We have the excuse that the country has grown up during a period in which a great share af the functions of the old roads has been usurped by the railroads; but when we remember the immense im- portance still left to the country roads in the marketing of agricultural pro- ducts, the neglect of the known means of improvement forms a strikingly un- favorable contrast with the economy of labor established in every other direc- tion. The farmer has been quick to adopt the use of machinery, which en- ables one man to do what formerly re- < quired'three or four ; but he has whol—I ly neglected the art of road-building by which hecould do with one horse the work that now compels him to use two and sometimes four. . .«*>N.LA. . WHAT MISS SPINSTER SAYS: .That Mr. C. F. Osborn visited the big City yesterday. . That according to appearances “ The Bugle” Wlll find a permanent place in most of our homes. It is a distinct suc- cess. ' That there is snow to the north of us, snow to the south of us and snow to the wfest of us, but not a flake in the midst 0 us. That we understand that the pro- ceeds of St. Paul’s church fair will be, used to'pay for the vestments of the boy ch01r. We hope all will attend and make it a financial success. That the last month in the year has got here, and we wish it a merry Christ- mas. It brought skates, mufi's and red noses, and put a thin layer of ice onthe ponds and rivers. Now look out for skating obituaries. That Mrs. Charles Mallory of West avenue went down to New York yester- day to visit her daughter, Mrs. Nash. The remarkable part is, she is eighty- seven years and ten months old and is as hale and active as a woman of fifty“ Mr. Field at Death’s Door.‘ Cyrus W. Field, the hero of the At- lantic cable,the man whom John Bright called in the British Parliament “the Columbus of modern times who, by his cable, .had moored the New World alongmde of the Olc,” celebrated his seventy-second birthday yesterday. He received thousands of messages by cable and telegraph, and hundreds of people called at his home to wish him “many happy returns of the day,” while he, poor man, was literally dyin of a broken heart. While prostrated - with grief for the death of his wife, he is sunk into the deepest depths of woe, in his honored old age b shame at the fraudulent practices of is eldest son, who has wrecked himself and his part- ners and dragged a respectable firm into disgrace and ruin; with that son smitten With insanity; with a loved daughter (Mrs. Lindley) mortally ill,— truly the hand of cruel fate is restin heav1ly upon one whom all the worl has honored. 0‘.- _—$50,000 worth, of dry goods and kitchen furnishings must be sold at the Norwalk Beston Store between now and January 1st, as Mr. O’Gorman re- tires from the. business on, that date. The prices which they have placed on their goods will convince you that they? are determined to. reduce their stock as speedily as pOSSIb'le. 237tf These are glorious winter days. Buckingham Post election to-night. Mrs. LeGrand'C. Betts is ill with la grippe. _ _‘_.___ Mrs. Rev. Dr. Noble is believed to be considerably better. Miss Juliet Gregory, of Danbury, is, visiting friends in town. James Moore, aged 84, of Roxbury, Ct., is visiting friends in town. —-13 pounds Fresh Pork for $1. Peo- ples Market, 21 Wall street. 238tf C. V. Case, station agent of the Hou- satonic road at Shelton, has reSigned. P. W. Dwver has been doing jury duty at Bridgeport for the past two days. ____ The neatest and nicest $3.00 Kid Shoes at Hoyt’s, 37 Wall street. 240-51: Steeple Charlie is at work painting the clock tower of the High School at Hartford. . —Lamps sold at bottom prices at R. Goldschmidt’s, 18 Water street. 240 tf The condition of Col. George M. White has not materially changed for several days. In the town and city election at New Haven yesterday the Democrats car- ried the day. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Patterson, nee Millie Lawrence, in New York city on Monday. Mrs. Rev. Dr. VanAlstyne is ex- pected home to—day from her v1s1t to her daughter in Hartford. Manager Bunnell has booked Sarah Bernhardt for the Hyperion Theatre, New Haven, Christmas Eve. A few pairs of the $3.00 Wauken- phast Shoes selling at $2. 50, 4at Itloyt’s. 2 0-5 A double mail service is_ soonto be inaugurated between. Willimantic and New Haven via the 'Air Line. Mrs. Lucy S. Camp, wife of Hiram Camp, eX-preSident 0f_the.NeW-Earep Clock Company, died yesterday. By falling from a'staging in Water- bury, yesterday, Michael Armouz and Chas. Calson received fatal injuries. The Anchor Line steamer Philadel- phia struck a rock and was sunk near the mouth of the Detroit river yester- day morning. _ ._ __ A horse owned by W. A. Finch, of East Norwalk, fell at the corner of Wall and Knight streets, this morning, but was not injured. The trial of the divorce suit of Lady Russell against her young husband, Earl Russell, proved sensational to London society, yesterday. ‘ ~COOK (female) WANTED immediate- ly at Collins’ American House. 238tf Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Davenport, for- merly of Wilton but now of Waterbury, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding Monday evening. More disgraceful facts in the career of Edward M. Field have come to light. The young man is accused of having robbed his father even to the pOint of rum. The orchestra of the Uncle Josh Spruceby show at the Opera House last night, was unusually good for a travgling show and was heartily en- core . The session of the superior criminal court at Hartford was adjourned yes- terday shortly after being convened, owing to the illness of Judge Hall of Bridgeport. ‘ —The largest stock of bar glassware in town at R. Goldschmidt’s, 18 Water street. . 2‘10 tf Representative Crisp appears to be in the lead in the contest for the Speaker- ship, but Mr. Springer’s chances seem to be growing and Mr. Mills is more than hopeful. Costa Rica is seeking to arrange a reciprocity treaty with the United States on‘ the lines of the one agreed upon six years ago, but not confirmed by the Senate. , At Professor Baker’s rehearsal yes- terday, at Grace church, the water-mo- tor gave out and he had to send relays of his boy choir down stairs to pump wind into the organ. -.. -h. -A. Yesterday six masked robbers at Glendale, Mo., stopped a train, blew open the express car door with dyna- mite, stole $20,000 worth of property belongin to the Adams Express Com- pany an escaped. Captain J. B. Ford, founder of the plate glass industry in America, is to have a statute erected in his honor by his own workmen. Captain Ford re- sides in Pittsburg, and is now 80 years old and a millionaire. The lon delay in putting up the front of t 9 Club House is attributed to the delays in getting the necessary terracotta ornaments and bricks, and now it is the frost, as no mortar (can be used outside in freezing weather. * country. ' ‘ Mr. Clarence Smith and. family are to visit his old home on West avenue, to- morrow. —Gold, Silver, Fancy Carved Ivory and Natural Crook Walking Canes at A. W. Austin’s Jewelry Store. Conrad Engel will open a billiard and pool parlor this evening, in the rooms of his barber shop recently vacated by C. E. Miller. Ex-Senator Blair has decided to prac- tice law at Manchester, N. H., instead of trying a hazard of new fortunes out West. fl C. W. Barnum, of Lime Rock, pro- poses to take to the World’s Fair, in 1893, his yoke of twin steers weighing now 5,630 pounds. _ . . The Derby Transcript alleges "that the government owes Contractor ‘Al Daggett $100,000 for postal cards man- ufactured the past three months. .. The Yorktown has arrived at Valpa- raiso, Chili. The Intendente of that city has asked for the Baltimore sur- geon’s evidence as to the nature of Boatswain’s Mate Riggin’s wounds. Some idea of the quantity of wal- nuts raised this year can be formed from the fact that one farm, that of Milo \Voodward in North Stonington, has produced sixty bushels of the nuts. Barn-storming companies should at least have gentlemen for ticket takers. We have in our mind’s eye the ticket taker of the Josh Spruceby :company, who evidently does not know how to be a gentleman. —The largest stock of lamps in town, at R. Goldschmidt’s 18 Water street. 240 tf Louis Harriot, the alleged murderer of Mrs. Charles T. Leonard at Atlantic Highlands, N. J ., is thought by Ferdi- nand Mutter, of Newark, N. J ., to be the man who killed Mrs. Mutter more than two years ago. * The time for holding the funeral of the late Dr. George Bridges has been changed. The obsequies will take place tomorrow at 1 o’clock from the house, followed by services at the Congrega- tional Church at 1.30 p. m. Geologists are wondering over a foot print found in a rock on top of the Blue Mountains. They think the fol- low who made it was of a much earlier date than any they had hitherto calcu— lated on for human beings in this Mrs. Sarah M. Frisbie, widow of Isaac E. Frisbie, a former prominent citizen of Hartford, died at the resi— dence of her son, E. C. Frisbie of that city, Monday night in the 80th year of her age. She had been in declining health for some time past. —My stock of lamps and glassware must be closed out by January 1st, in order to make alterations in my busi- ness. R. Goldschmidt, 18 \Vater street. 240 tf " Judge Perry of the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday rendered judgment for the costs of trial for defendants in the suit of Wm. H. Olmstead vs. Zal- mon Comstock and wife, and judgment for defendant in the suit of Sarah J. Comstock vs. W. H. Olmstead. Gladstone is not a litt‘erateur by pro- fession, yet he gets prices for what he writes which put to shame the pay of all but a scant half dozen literary peo- ‘ple the world over. For a short article it is said he is paid $1,000, and for 5,000 words he is known to have received $2,000. . The Cleveland baby was taken to Lakewood yesterday and New York papers illustrated the event and gave it columns. One paper will doubtless soon be offering a trip to Europe to that member of its staff who gets a “scoop” on the first tooth—New Ha- ven Palladium. The Bridgeport Farmer yesterday published an account of a terrible struggle between a tramp and aMrs. McMullen, a hard-working aged Irish woman of New Canaan, which was ' probably copied from the fake New York World. The story has no found- ation whatever. . Miss Fannie Ward and Miss Nina Farrington, two young actresses, and Miss Ward’s mother, claim to have been robbed of their jewgls and money by the driver of the carriage which was taking them to‘Mrs. Ward’s home at Ninety-first street and West-End ave- nue, last evening. During the past ten or twelve years, advertisements have been gradually abandoning rocks, fences and moun- tain scenery, and have been domesti- eating themselves 'in magazines and newspapers. And they seem likelyto effect better results in their latter state. —Julian Hawthorne. —Prime cuts of roast beef at 12% ceiitsfat People’s Market, 21 Wall street. 8t By. orders issued yesterday ~ from .the adjutant-general’s office, Second Lieu- tenant Barber of Wallingford. is ap- pointed Captain of Company K, Second Regiment, vice LaBarnes, resigned, and Henry Norton of Wallingford, Sec- ond Lieutenant, vice Barber promoted; both with rank from November 17th, 189 . In the United States Court at Hart- ford yesterday, true bills were found against John G. Chapman, of New Haven, for violation of the pensmn law ; Burt L. Dorman, for robbing the mails at Willimantic, and Paul Conrad and others, of New Orleans, for using the mails for distributing lottery cir- culars. , LICENSifliiUSED. The County Commissioners refuse to grant burgess O’Rellly a Lloense‘to Sell Liquors on Main Street. [Special to the GAZE'PTEJ In October last burgess James H. O’Reilly applied to the County Com- missioners fora license to sell intoxi- eating liquors at his store No. 168 Main street. Immediately after the publica- tion of the notice of application the residents of that street started a re- monstrance against a' license being granted, which was signed by every resident and‘property holder, except one, and Lawyer E. M. Lockwood was engaged by therremonstrants. Burgess O’Reilly engaged Lawyer J. Belden Hurlbutt, and a two days’ ex- amination of witnesses for and against the granting of a license took place be- fore the County Commissioners in the Borough Court room. After the argu- ments of counsel the Commissioners re- served their decision. At their meet ing in Bridgeport this morning they decided not to grant O’Reilly a license on the ground that it was against the rules of the Commissioners to grant a license to any one on residence Streets when the residents protest. ———-—-——-~ 0 e e The New York state board of can- vassers begins work at Albany to-day. The Cobble Hillians, since their phe- nomenal luck in winning diamonds, gold watches,,etc., at the St. Mary’s Fair, don’t speak to their “Dublin” and upper Fair street neighbors now when they pass. Daniel Maylon was found asleep in Austin’s foundry early this morning by Officer Morehouse and arrested. He was dischargefd by Justice Coolidge as he had been given permi-ion to sleep there. 3 The town will pay the costs. The death of three of the four child- ren of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Strong of East Windsor frbm diphtheria has been noted in the Courant. Yesterday the youngest and last child died of the dread disease. .. Mr. and Mrs. Strong” have the sympathy of all their acquaint- ances in their bereavement—Hartford Courant. \A —~————-—— 0.. _._,_.__.. ———~- There are only'70,000 folks in Ice- land, but they print eight neWSpapers on the island. As a result, about the whole population is educated, in the sense that the number of illiterates is very small. These papers have the characteristic of being made up in the main of original contributions. They report European and American affairs very briefly. The election of a new Chief Engineer and assistants of the Norwalk Fire De- partment will take place some time this month. At a meeting of the Phoenix engine company, held last evening, the company by a vote of 12 to 10, decided to nomin te G. A. Franke for chief. Frederic W. Smith for 1st assistant and John Kelly for 2d assistant. No action was taken by the other com- panics. A Boston correspondent writes: “General Butler took a, severe cold a few ’weeks ago. He has been under the constant care of his physician ever since and is unable to leave his room. He sits in his dressing-gown and slip- pers before an open grate and listens to the reading of the newspapers for a little while and then lies down and tries to sleep- But he gets no' better from day to day.” “ William J. Florence,” says the New York Sun, “ was one of six intimate friends, famous as wits and jokers. The five besides himself were John T. Ray- mond, Larry Jerome, William R. Tra- vers, E. A. Sothern and Captain W. M. Conner. All are now dead except Con- ner. Florence was buried yesterday. Captain Conner is very ill with the dropsy on a ranch near Hot Springs, . Ark. ” Julian Hawthorne relates that when Mr. Blaine spoke the other day of hav- ing heard with his own ears Webster and Clay, he asked the Secretary of State how the contemporary Congres— sional orators compare with those of the Webster-Clay epoch, and that the Secretary of State, thoughtfully strok- ing his chin, made reply as follows : “I don’t know that we have any great ora- tors in Congress just now, but a num- ber of great debaters.” John Scott, of Silver Mine, became and was found intoxicated, last, even- ing. About 9_o’clock his horse wan- dered into builder AWilson’s yard on Cross street, and Scott, in trying to get the reins from under the animal’s tail, lost his balance and pitched to the ground, head foremost. When taken before Justice Coolidge this morning his face looked like a cross between the map of Africa and a crazy . quilt, and the Justice compassionately let him off witgafine of $1 and costs which he pai . — Last August a prominent citizen and his sons, of Harwinton, .had some trouble with their pair of oxen. The team became stuck in the mire, and one of the oxen lay down and would not get up again. In order to make the ox get up one of the sons took a wiSp of hay, lit it and put it under the ox. The ,fire soon spread to the hay, which was burned with the cart, and the ox was badly burned on one side. The ox has since been in a terrible con— dition, and the Humane society is after the man who fired the ox. Have a Care, Boys. Some half dozen Uuion school boys broke through the ice on Derry’s Pond at the noon recess yesterday. They all escaped with a good wetting up to their waists. The time for drowning of boys on weak ice has opened, and every brave, wide-awake boy should have sense enough to be very careful. Little Charlie Miller was drowned in Long Island city yesterday within a stone’s throw of the First Ward Public School building on Sixth street in si ht of several hundred school children. T16 met death in a heroic attempt to save Johnnie Adams. a companion, from be- incr drowned. In his attempt to rescue Ac ams the ice gave way under Miller, and in an instant both boys were in the same predicament, floundering in five- foot deep of icy water. The boys con- tinued to struggle, and piece by piece the ice gave way under their weight as they frantically fought to reach the surface. It was apparent to the sight- seers,who stood helplessly by,that little Charlie Miller’s fight fer life was be- coming fainter and fainter. Planks and boards were sent for, but too late. CharlieMiller was no ,more. The ex- posure was too much for the brave lit- tle fellow. He had become benumbed and exhausted, and soon disappeared underneath the ice. Just at this juncture the school jani- tor, Maurice O’Keefe, hastened to the scene With a long rope, and by his ef- forts doubtless, the life of young Adams was saved from the fate of his com- panion. O’Keefe also broke through the ice and stood up to his neck in wa- ter before he succeded in getting young Adams to clutch the life-line. Painter Edward Lonergan then brought his scaffolding, and, with the aid of a fire- hook from the school-house, succeeded, after a fifteen minutes’ search, in re- covering the body of the little dead hero. Charlie Miller. COO-— Postmaster Rider’s Horse Runs Away. A horse belonging to Postmaster Harry Rider, of East N orwalk, was hitched in front of Gregory’s drug store last evening about 7.30 o’clock, when the band belonging to the com- pany which was playing at the Opera House, came- out to play. When the band struck up, it frightened the ani- mal, who broke his bridle and ran down ~Wall street ata terrific clip. While going up Mill Hill a young manjumped into the rear of the carriage, intending to grasp the reins and stop the horse, but after he had succeeded in getting into the carriage he discovered that the __h9.¥ss..‘ls1,ee§.llsve..a;..h- sells on. erase. the reins were of no use in stopping the runaway. The young man jumped out again, and the horse continued down East avenue. When he came to Burgess Vanderhoef’s residence some- thing in the yard attracted his atten- tion and he went in to investigate. Not finding things familiar there, he turned around, came out again, and proceeded down East avenue to his own stable and there Mr. Rider found him. No damage was done other than the break- ing of the bridle. —OQ. The Boston Store. The many readers of the DAILY GA- ZETTE-must bear with us for a few days, as our great local mart of trade, the Norwalk Macy’s, as it were, has monop— olized a full half page of our space in announcing its dissolution of co-part- nership sales. As is known, Mr. O’Gor- mam goes to Detroit the first of the new year and Mr. George R. Van Al- styne, who closes out the South Nor- walk store, succeeds him here at the Borough. Mr. O’Gorman possesses in a large degree the commercial enter- prise and dash, so suited to the VVest- ern methods of trade, and we are not at all surprised that such a pent-up Utica as Norwalk, is not afield wide enough either for his ambition or for his commanding powers. At the City of the Lakes he will find more ample scope for his really remarkable capa- bilities, while he leaves here a most worthy‘successor in the person of the wide-awake young Mr. Van Alstyne. ,.__._____4+ The New Armored Cruiser. The launch of the cruiser New York to-day at the Cramps’ shipyard is an event to be regarded by every Ameri- can with patriotic pride. This new ship will be the largest and most for- midable cruiser afloat in the naval ser- - vice of the United States. With a dis- placement of 8,150 tons, a speed of 20 knots, a powerful battery, and a cruis- ing radius of 13,000 miles under 10- knot speed, the New York will repre- sent the maximum degree of efficiency in defensive and offensive operations to which American naval science has at- tained. _._,____I St. Paul’s Boy Choir. The corrected list of the members of the surpliced choir is as follows : SOPRANo—Harry Balcome, Willie James, Lyman Hoyt, Benny Mosher, Willie Rose,_ Arthur Malkin, Royal Ellis, Harry Hyatt, Howard Keeler, Herbert Pollard, Russell Beers, Oliver Nickerson, Eddie Lockwood, Herbert Graham, Thomas Balcome, Marvin Lockwood. ALTO—David Pollard, Chas. Hose. good, Ralph Bray. _ ' Timon—Geo. Brady, Chas. Fillow, Giecifge Bromfield, Irving Hall, James _ a . - Duff Opera Company. Manager Hoyt has secured the cele- brated Duff Opera Company for Mus1c Hall to-morrow nightzwhe'n the Queen’s Mate, a comic Opera in three acts, will be rendered. Our citv friends are in- deed fortunate in having a chance to hear the Duff Company. Mills Platform. AbsOlute free trade. An income tax. Cleveland at any cost. And Tammany, of course, at any price.——New York Herald. .- SOUTH NORWALK. Tim GAZETTE is on sale at the news ofiico of Fred Coleman, J.H.11‘lynn, W.L.Ather- ton, and H. E. Bodwell. Advertisements and Orders for all kinds 0] JOB PRINT- ING received at our branch office on Rail- road Square. Mr. George Youngs is connecting his ~ house with the Orchard street sewer. Miss Mary Dingee, of Roton Hill, o‘oes to New York for the winter, on Friday. There .is a sloop at the Washington street bridge Witha load of Long Is- land clams. “Johnny”Cashow was out to-day with a new bicycle. He is as happy as if in receipt of a new steamboat. There is a, great treat in store for the people of this town at the Congrega- tional Church next Wednesday evening. The following gentlemen left here for a trip to Niagara Falls yesterday: George Lockwood, Herman Snyder and Chas. Doty. A. carload of switches for the Housa- tonic road arrived this a. 111. They are not of the kind used when most of you went to school. The Symphony orchestra met for practice last night. They are rapidly improvmg, and _we shall expect to hear Eome good music from them this win- er. ‘ The Messrs. Baxter, pharmacists, have put in a handsome fountain of marble With 'silver trimmings, from which they Wlll soon be drawing hot chocolate, etc. Mr. Wm. Wright and Miss Mary Dibble were married at the home of the bride on Van Zandt avenue, last evening by Rev. C. M. Pegg. They Will res1de on Cottage avenue. About 12 o’clock Mr. and Mrs. Wright were serenaded by a calathumpian band. Yesterday afternoon a horse dragging a load of potatoes fell down from sheer exhaustion while walking along Or- chard street. It required the united exert-ions of'four men to place the poor animal on his feet again after being freed from the harness. 'From what we learn the animal was a case for the attention of the humane officers. The South N orwalk Athletic Club cel- ebrated their 1st anniversary last even- ing, by givmg a sociable at their rooms on Washington street. A pleasant time was had, the only thing to mar the pleasures being the sudden cutting of the incandescent lights for nearly two hours. Fortunately the parlor is sup- plied w1th_ gas jets and these were lighted until the incandescents were in form again. ‘E‘ast ‘evefiifig;""‘tivb*"lidys who gave theirtnames as Arthur Davis, a_ed 16 years, and Thomas Hennigan, aged 13 years, and their home as Lorimer street, New York, were found acting strangely on the station platform. A party of whom one of_ the lads asked a question, became suspicious that all was not right and escorted them to the City Hotel. This . morning Chief Vollmer", after questioning them, let them go. The Hennigan boy claims that his father is a New York detective. He said that some two weeks ago he was on a visit here with his mother. That yesterday she gave him 335 and sent him here with a_ message to friends in N orwalk, cau- tioning him not to spend the whole amount. Not caring to come alone he invited the Davis boy to accompany him. The Davis boy had $2.15. Hen- nigan named over several Borough resi- dents whom he claims are his relatives. He seems to be a bright kind of a boy. The Chief did not altogether credit his story, and believes that his recent visit here led him to purloin the money and return. He claims that his mother lived on Chapel street, Borough, about nine years ago. ——— ——— ~~-——< -G>—v————-—— Barn Burned. The large barn of Fred North, ice- man, of Roxbury, Conn., was burned early this morning, consuming eleven horses and two cows. Ladies’ Bazar. This afternoon and evening and to- morrow afternoon and evening, the la- dies of St. Paul’s Church will give an entertainment at the Opera House, in- teresting, entertaining and instructive, and it is to be hoped that their earnest efforts to please the public and also ob- tain funds for their church work, will be most liberally rewarded. 00. Death of Deacon Lewis Fitch. ' Deacon Lewis Fitch, for many years in the clothing business in New Haven and Macon, Ga., died yesterday, aged 89. ’ Since the war he had been cut of busmess. havmg accumulated a consid- erable fortune. For many years he was a deacon in the Church of the Re- deemer, New Haven. He leaves a wife, a son, the Rev. William Fitch, an Epis- copal rector in Brooklyn, N. Y., and an unmarried daughter. Deacon Fitch was a native of N orwalk and was a brother of Selectman Daskam’s mother. —Ladi_es’ and Gents’ Gold Watches, from plain polished to richly engraved cases, and from Heavy Gents’ Watches to the now, close, compact hand-made cases recently put on the market; you can find the best stock to select from at reasonable prices at A. W. Austin’s. Three painters employed by L. F. Haaz, of Waterbury, had a narrow es- cape from death yesterday. They were on a scaffold which was being raised. It had reached the fourth story, when the ropes ave way. Henry Keating rasped a win ow Sill and saved himse f from falling. Michael Ammaug hadan arm broken and was injured internally. Charles Carlson sustained an injury to the spine. John Duran‘d, who died at Avalon; Pa., and was buried at Rochester. N. Ye, November 28, was long prominent as an executive railway manager. He was born in Cheshire in 1819, and his youth was spent in Berlin of this state. For several years he occupied arespon- sible position in the employ of the Con- solidated‘road. - WREGKME RllIL. 'f: A Switch Engine Causes '2 Bad? WPeCk at Wilson POlnt. Several Severely injured. I . There was quite an' accident at Wil-r son Point early this morning, causing considerable damage to railroad pro-g perty, some delay in trains, but for-7 tunately with no loss of life. Engineer . Frank Morgan, \of locomotive No. 41,» i with a train of seventeen cars, was .en- 3 gaged in “throwing” some of the train on the steamer Express and was" moving his train ahead to a point near the semiphore signal house, and had ,- ' got perhaps six car lengths past the ’ junction where the main tracks con: nect with one of the sidings when, »- ‘ switcher locomotive No. 14, engineer Barney Neary, came along on the main track and striking a car loaded with nineteen tons of brass, wasStopped, but not‘before the steam cylinder box had been badly jammed and the side of the cab ripped and torn. It was also thrown from the track and al- most stood on its head. The end of the car struck was mashed in, but it was put on the track again, and later loaded on the steamer Express. . comotive No. 41, did not leave the , : tracks. A gang of men were quickly at work and before 9.30 the wreck was cleared up. Patrick Kelly, conductor of the switcher train, was riding on the engine when the collision occurred, and had his hand frightfully jammed. There were injuries received by one or two others but they were very slight. Supt. Payne was at the scene at an early hour, and closely following the wrecking train from Danbury. Trains are again running on time. The Long Island Express was delayed about three hours by reason of the wreck, and Conductor Vaughn’s up train was, about one hour and a half behind time. ————.—————-—reeo Opera,House. Says an exchange: May Russell’s big burlesque show at Cronheiin’s is drawing enormous houses. There was ,r never a better company in this theatre.» The artists are among the best in the business. Fred. Fish and Bob Rich- mond are great comedians, and have made grand reputations in the old as well as in the new world. Terry Fer— guson and his handsome wife are a fine team. The former scores a big hit as “Judge Blufl'”in “Jack’s Ante,” one of the best after pieces ever presented at a variety theatre. Edward Estus is a marvellous equilibrist, and Jack Crawford and Ed. Bowers are capital comedians and good looking Pauline Batcheller a veritable queen of bur- lesque. A most conscientiously little actress is pretty and shapely Belle Stewert. Her get up, acting, singing and dancing in the burlesque and after piece are excellent. This petite West- ern girl is a thorough artist. C. L. Simmons, the whole-souled proprietor of the company has reason to be proud of his collection of stars. - Novel Capture of a Fox. Two or three nights ago a fox, while prowling about the western part of South Glastonbury, near the river, caught his tail in a barbed wire fence. ‘ In some way, evidently in an attempt to escape, he twisted it about the wire several times and finally firmly anchor- ed himself in this novel way. . Of course it did not take very long for some one to discover his plight. in the morning and the Miller boys put an end to his chicken-stealing with their guns. The statements rest on perfectly unassailable testimony and the incident makes, it is believed, a thoroughly unique record in the history of fox‘ “hunting ” in Connecticut. It is pro- bably the best thing a barbed wire fence ever did—Hartford Courant. / .0 FUN ”IN IT.”' “Five cents to ride on one of them“ . cars ?” said the visitor in New York, who had climbed up to the elevated railway station. “Yes,” was the reply. -"Well, now I understand what high- isvay robbery means.”—Washington tar. ' ‘ ‘When I ask a man to have a drink I want him to have what suits him.” ‘ _‘ ‘Anything with a stick in it will suit - I me.” Waiter, a cocktail, with orange bitters for me,and a bottle of mucilage for Mr. Bangs.”——N. Y. Herald. First Burglar——“I guess this is the , wimmin’s apartment, Jim.” Second Burglar—“Then take my advice and keep out. There ain’t no fun robbin’ a woman, she screams so like blazes. It ’pears to me that wimmin folks ain’t got no regards for no one’s feelings but their own.”——Life. - . “Oh, mammal” cried Willie, on see- ing a zebra for the first time, “do come here, and see this poor little convict . pony.”——Harper’s Young People. Children’s Sayings—Charlie and Amy ' .. were looking at the moon. “What a ’ good man beautiful moon,” said Amy. “Man!” repeated Charlie reprovingly, “If ever , there was a gentleman, God is one.”— 1, Kate Field’s Washington. , “Well, Johnnie, what are you thank...' . ful for?” asked- the invited guest, “Nut-bin,” said the 'boy. “I ain’t'had . any luck in a year. Only had one cold ' all the fall, ‘n’ that wasn’t bad enofl'gh . to keep me out of school more’n a day. My chum’s had mump’s, ‘n’ has been cutthree weeks.”‘-—Harper’s Bazartj. Lo- _ ' :31. 0d was to make such a ' '
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