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Vol. I, No. 250. .Norwalk, Conn, Tuesday .Eirening, December 15, 1891. Pricéflne Cent I
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Mn. HARRY M. GARDNER. Jn.. 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
clone. Special care and atteiition given to
CHURCHEAND SOCIETY EI’RINTING.
Home Soc iables at Music Hall :to-
night.
France has broken ogdiplo matic re—
lations with Bulgaria.
~Norwalk Bridge Souven ir Spoons,
at A. W. Austins. 250tf
Phillips Brooks entered on his fifty-
scventh year, Sunday.
Henry J. Grumman and John Smith
left for Niagara Falls, to-day.
Colonel W. E. Merrill, U. S. Army,
dropped dead in a railway train in Illi-
nois, yesterday.
John E.'Adams, the clothier, is. con-
fined to his home with illness. ——M1ddlc-
town, N. Y. Times.
——A very fine assortment of triplicate
mirrors in oak, celluloid and plush at
G. A. Gregory & Co. -
Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls_;has been
elected president of the Atchison,Kan.,
chamber of commerce. 3
'4A'EEI'BE‘g'r‘Eéh' away with each do’z‘.
Holliday Photo’s at Lewis’ 11 Main St.
E. M. Field was arrested on a charge
of grand larceny, and was locked up
at Police Headquarters.
President Low_of Columbia College
gave a big reception Friday evening in
honor of Edmund C. Steedman.
Dr. G. H. \Vilson is the republican
candidate for mayor in Meriden and
Dr. A. 'W. Tracy the democratic.
Rev. Dr. Augustus Baird and his
.sister, Mrs. James Nall, of Detroit, at-
tended Dr. Noble’s church, Sunday.
Albert Kunze, residing on the Step
Rock road, reports wild violets in full
bloom in that neighborhood, yesterday.
Charles Vincent paid $1 and costs to
Justice Coolidge last evening, for be-
ing “under the influence” Saturday
night. .
—P. S. Bartlett movement in 14 kt.,
Essex gold filled case, warranted to
wear 20 years. for $22.00, at A. W. Aus-
tin’s. 250tf.
Principal A. B. Fifield of Eaton
school, New Haven, is in danger of
prosecution for severely flogging Lewis
Greene.
Let’s get all the comfort we can out
of the daily announcement that the
doctors say the grip is of a “mild”type
this winter.
Court N arruk, A. O. R, will hold an
important business meeting at their
rooms in the GAZETTE building Thurs-
day evening.
The Carpenters and Joiners Union,
No. 746,will elect officers at their meet
ing this evening in their rooms in the
GAZETTE building.
Concord Division, S. of T., will at-
tend the anniversary of Friendly
Greeting Division, S. Of T., at Silver
Mine, Thursday evening.
Pl mouth Church, Milford, of which
the ev. Mr. Upson is pastor, will cele-
brate its one hundred and fiftieth an-
niversary Dec. 20, 21 and 22.
Thirty men were drowned bysthe
wreck of the ship Enterkin off the
English coast; the recent storm did
much damage in Great Britain.
The Century Co. is about to publish,
in cheap tract from, the editorials on
“Cheap-Money Experiments” which
have been appearing in The Century.
Rev. A. N. Lewis, of New Haven,
formerly rector in Trinity church in
Westport, has accepted a parish in
Vermont, and has moved to that State.
The annual meeting of the state board
of agriculture will be held at New Bri-
tain for three days this week, beginning
tic-day and continuing through Thurs-
. ay.. ,
The decrease in two years of $250,-
(l79, 350 in the interest bearing debt of
the country is arecord of which the ex-
To-morrow is the thirty-third anni-
versary of the organization of Phoenix
engine company.
Guthrie’s woods at Silver Mine were
afire Sunday night and considerable
cord wood was destroyed.
George P. Lawrence, a resident of
Saugatuck and a brother of Mrs. Rob-
ert S. Craufurd, died suddenly at his
home last night. .
—Nickle’Alarm Clocks at87 cts. each,
at A. \V. Austin’s. ' 250tf
Litchfield has completed her sewers,
14,500 feet with branches, at a cost of
just within $6,000. It was a surface
system, without manholes, and 8-inch
outlet. .
Rev. James'xE. Sentz, of the First
Presbyterian Church, of Morrisania,
was accused yesterday. before the
Presbytery of causing dissensions in
his church.
Records - kept by Boston dentists
showed that fillings made in Henry L.
Norcross’ teeth closely correspondwith
those found in the head of the dyna-
mite thrower.
New York Representative men of the
dry goods trade decided to ask the
Legislature to expend $500,000 to rep-
resent the State properly at the World’s
Fair, yesterday.
Speaker Crisp is still working on the
House committees, but the republican
caucus has decided upon the assign-
ments from that party to the com-
mittees, of the Senate,
Justices Brown and Lamar of the S11-
preme Court of the United States are
confined to their homes with attacks of
the grippe, which has also affected
other members of the court in a milder
form.
.Mr. Henry W. Knight startles Meth-
odist ministers at their weekly meeting
by proposing a plan for establishing
billiard rooms and bowling alleys in
churches to attract poor people away
from the saloons.
Carroll Johnson’s Gossoon show at
the Operameise last night, was far
too good 'a rendition of Irish charac-
ters for the slim audience'present Pelo-
ple- Seem to be holdihg back their small
change for Christmas. ~
Oliver P. Sarle. , of ‘WarwiCk', R.’ I.,
was yesterday fined $50 and costs,
amounting to $135.50, in the United
States district court for ,.refi1.sing to
answer certain questions propounded
by the census collector last June.
Mrs. George Rodgers, mother of
Attorney Frank L. Rodgers, died at
the Bridgeport hospital at 8 o’clock
yesterday morning, from the efforts of
an operation performed Saturday for
the removal of an ovarian tumor.
P. B. Armstrong, president of the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the
Fire Association, and the Armstrong
Fire Insurance Company, all of New
York city, announced yesterday that
he had retired from the fire insurance
business.
The annual meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture will be held at
New Britain for three days thisweek,
beginning to-day, and continuing
through Thursday. Mr. George Com-
stock, of Broad River, represents Nor-
walk there.
——'All visitors will be welcome and
will find our price the lowest. Quality
of goods considered at A. W. Austin’s
jewelry store. It
The grand jury yesterday returned
true bills in the Quay libel suits against
the Post Publishin Company of Pitts—
burg, and Albert J. Bard and James
Mills, proprietor and editor respect.
ively. The suite will probably come up
in a few days.
A week ago Sunday the Rev. Mr.
Tillman, of the 'Wheat Street Baptist
Church, Atlanta, Ga..immersed eighty-
seven converts in forty minutes by the
watch. “He feels sure he has broken
the best previous recorc .” reports the
Atlanta Constitution.
The dentist who attended to the
teeth of Henry L. Norcross, the sup-.
posed bomb thrower, describes his
work, which corresponds with the
teeth in the head at the Morgue. An
examination of the brain of the dyna-
miter shows that he was insane.
“Brewer G.‘ F. Lauer, {of Reading,”
relates the Philadelphia Record, “ cast
out in a bottle 100 miles at sea a note,
saying that the finderwould receive $5
upon the return of the note to him. It
has just come from a very poor fisher-
man, John F. Gifford,‘Vestport,Mass.”
Joseph Wright, an ex-soldier, from
New York State, struck town yesterday
and proceeded to get “loaded.” He
was found lust night in a helpless con-
dition and jailed. This morning J us—
tice Coolidge gave him ten days in
:vhich to get the poison out of his sys-
em.
The Beckwith Almanac is out for
1892, with the face of its ancient found-
er on its first page and as familiar to
every New Haven student as Yale Col-
lege itself. It is edited by the old En-
gineer’s daughter, and published by
the E. B. Sheldon Co. at ten cents per
copy.
Giles . C. Wickwire, for the past six
years postmaster at Colchester, died
there Sunday. of paralysis. He had
held many town offices. He had been
a member of the Le islature and was a
keeper of the New ondon county jail
for four years. He leaves a wife, three
huberant American has a right to be
proud.. " ,
sons and one daughter. .
The Evening Sentinel.
Silas Hurd, a well-known and re-
spected citizen of Stamford. died Sun-
day, aged seventy—seven. -
Rev. Dr. N'oble is hoping to get Will
Carlton to give one of his popular read-
ings in aid of the Congregational
Church debt, some time in January.
Mrs. Edward Lycett, formerly of
Bridgeport, and well-known . 1n Nor-
walk, died last week at the res1dence of
her son, William Lycett,_ at Atlanta,
Ga. - .
Giles C. Wickwire, for the past six
years postmaster at Colchester, who
was stricken with a paralytic shock _re-
cently, died Saturday, never havmg
regained consciousness.
The Miss Addie Bruce, who was
among those murdered recently at New
Smyrna, Fla, was well-known in
Bridgeport, where she frequently Vis-
ited at Mrs. Handford Lyon’s, on
Golden hill. . .
Albert Vortelle, bf Centervlllp, who
about Thanksgiving while d'eSpondent
over his failure to secure Work out his
throat with suicidal intent, died at the
hospital at 10 o’clock last evening. ,Vor-
telle hgiieen an inmate of tho- hespi-'
tal sin ogimitting the deed.
Josiah M' ot, once the law partner
of Presiden Franklin Pierce, died at
Concord, N. H., yesterday morning,
aged‘seventy-three. He was Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas, an ex-'
president and a director of . the ,Con-
cord Railroad and prominently identi-
fied with man’yufinancial institutions.
The New York Sun’s English cable
letter says the Cunard people have a
new steamer in the works that is to be
far and away ahead of the City of New
York and Teutonic in "size and speed.
The other lines are arranging for cor-
respondingly bigger boats, but the
Cunarders are six months ahead With
their work.
The grippe continues to rage fiercely
in Norwich. and the death rate last
month was 51, the largest in the ltownls
history. In New Haven the grippe is
.‘ quite light, the majority of cases being
mere ordinary coldsN‘ The death rate
is larger than usual. In.Hartford also
the grippe ;is of a much milder type
than two years agogé
—For‘ the finest selected stock of
ladies’ and gent’s gold
watches, bought after the recent reduc-
tions made by the compainies and sold
at corresponding prices, go to A. W
Austin’s. . 1t
“Michael Gallagheifw’as fortndW‘wal-
lowing in a gigantic jag of joy,” at the
foot of Mill Hill by Officer Adams last
evening. As his condition was caused
by intoxicants, the officer arrested him
and landed him in the lock-up with
considerable difiiculty. This morning
Justice Coolidge fined him $53 and costs
and Michael is now in Bridgeport.
Surgeon Melancthon L. Ruth, of the
United States Navy, died at the Naval
Hospital, Brooklyn, at a quarter past
seven o’clock yesterday morning in his
forty—seventh year. Dr. Ruth was one
of the best known men in the United
States Navy. He was an excellent
physician, an able surgeon and, social-
ly, one of the most popular men in
Washington.
Edward M. Field. of the failed bank-
ing firm of Field, Lindley, Weichers -&
Co., was arrested yesterday by three
detectives at the Manchester Mansion,
9. private asylum near Tuckahoe, N; Y.
He is now locked up in police headquar-
ters in New York. The arrest was made
on a warrant issued by Judge Martino,
and the charge is grand larceny in the
second degree.
For about a year the Winchester Re-
peating Arms company of New Haven
has been experimenting with a machine
gun which, in many respects, is a mar-
velous invention. Its principal feature
is the rapidity with which it may be
fired. At a recent test made at the fac-
tory 900 shots were fired by the gun in
one minute, only one barrel being used.
The officers of Welcome Stranger
Lodge, S. of T., were installed last
evening by District Deputy Thomas
Pollard of Bridgeport. After the in-
stallation services were over, short ad~
dresses were made by the District Dep-
uty, Past President Foster, of Bridge-
port, W. P. Arthur Williamson and
others. The entertainment committee
of the lodge meets this evening at their
hall on Water street: .
—~Gold, Silver and Ivory-headed
Walking Canes, atA. W. Austin’s. 250tf
Not only the public, but even’ the
birds seem to appreciate the value of
While out
walking in the Vicinity of Pine Island
cemetery one afternoon last week a
young lady, residing on West avenue.
found a bird’s nest made out of frag:
ments of this paper.—Sentinel.
Well, yes, it hadn’t occurred to us
before, but. the esteemed Sentinel is
undoubtedly a good thing to take tothe
cemetery to make a last season’s bird’s
nest of.
There is a law in North Carolina
making burglary a capital offence, and
a man is to be hanged this week for
violating it. The theory of it is that, a
burglar who enters an inhabited house
at night goes prepared to commit mur-
der and will not hesitate to take the
life of any one if necessary to make
good his escape. If any crime short of
murder calls for punishment by death
it would seem to be burglar . Noth-
ing terrorizes a sleeping family or en-
dangers, the lives of its members more
than the discovery of a burglar in the
house. There are not a few who will
say that the North Carolina law ought
to be adopted in every State.
American _
ton, went out on the stoop of his store
Saturday evening to throw awaya pail
of water. In the darkness, all around,
he did not observe the presence and
bland countenance of Ol‘Vllle .Smith.
who at the instantwas approaching and
who received the full contents of the
water pail over his-,head and ears and
in his‘face. Orville says he has no
theological. rejudices against. immer-
sion but he 'on’t Want it administered
in any such unclerical way as this.
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Under Judge Barnard’s order the
Dutchess Co. canvassers have counted
the so-called “masked” ballots which
theyundertook tothrow out in order to
manufacture an apparent majority for
the defeated democratic Candidate for
state senator. ‘-‘Here were thirty-one
ballots,” said theajiidge from the bench
Saturday morning, “With only an ink
mark on them—nothing whatever to
show that there (’was any des1gn in
placing it therewor that there was-any-
thing connected with the ballot signify-
ing (evil) intent, n the part of_ the
voters. You can‘t c eprive those thirty-
one men of their votes because they
happened to have an "ink mark'on them.”
At her marriage at Washington last
week to Samuel Slater, of Providence,
Miss Enid Hun ,wore a wedding-gown
thus described :{‘It was made of ivory
white satin clotl‘iiof gold, brocaded in
true levers’..k_nots. festooned across the
front with rdrefold Italian blond lace,
which hadbe‘efi in the family since it
was first wornupon the wedding—gown
of her grandmother. Clusters of
orange bloss'oms; caught the festoons of
lace and were also used to fasten the
long tulle veil. The high-neck bodies
was cut V shape in front, and from a
band of ribbon about the throat was
w’orn a sapphire pendant set in dia-
monds, a truelovers’ knot of diamonds
forming the loOp through which the
ribbon passed.”
Completed His Eightieth Year.
Ex-President‘ Noah Porter of Yale
complesed his ei‘ghtieth year yesterday.
He is quite feeble, but still gives lec-
tures at the college with full mental
vigor.
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Firemen.
The'Borough firemen are to meet to-‘
night in joint convention for the pur-.
pose of casting their united votes for
the ones they dgsire to be put in nomi-
nation for appjntment by the Hon.
the Court of Burgesses; -Much inter-
est is manifestiin this meeting, and
while excitement runs somewhat high,
a more amiable feeling seems to have
gained ascendancy the. past few days.
For Chief Engineer, the struggle is
confined to Ch'emerowittand Ex-Bur-
gess Franke. 1n betting, the odds‘are
with Prowitt. For assistants several
candidates are in the field, but all good
men. And may the best man win.
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A Presentation.
When Prof. Edward Brennan, for-
merly organist of St. Mary’s church,
arrived at Mrs. Mary Harkinfs resi-
dence on Franklin avenue last evening
to give Miss Harkins her usual music
lesson, he found the choir which sings
at the 8.30 o’clock service of St. Mary’s _
church, present in a body, and without
losing any time. the young ladies pre-
sented their former organist with a
handsowe initial ring with the letter
“B” in the center studded with dia-
monds. The professor was quite over-
come by the beautiful present, but
thanked his donors in a few appropriate
words, after which a bountiful repast
was served and the remainder of- the
evening was taken up with chOice mu.-
sical selections.
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Grip Epidemic.
Grip seems to be epidemic in all parts
of the state. Many hundreds of seri-
ous cases have and are reported at Nor-
wich and the local physicians are so
tired out they cannot attend half the
calls upon them because of the preva-
lence of this malady.
In New Haven yesterday health Ofii-
cer Wright said that there was 2,500
cases of grip in that city. The cases
are even more numerous than during
the epidemic of two years ago, although
the symptoms do not seem to be so se-
vere. In' all the neighboring towns
the disease appears to be spreading.
_ In Birmingham yesterday. Samuel P.
Davis, Harry Jacob and Mrs. Harry
Jacob, members of one family, all died
of pneumonia, superinduced by the
grip. A nurse in the. family is also at
the point of death. The grip seems to
have become epidemic in that vicinity.
There are more than twenty cases with-
in a few blocks of one another. An-
sonia is also afflicted.
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_ —Don’t fail to attend the entertain-
ment and sociable of Pilgrim Council,
0. U. A. M., on Thursday eve, Dec. 17.
Tickets admitting gentleman and ladies
25 cents, f0r sale at the door.
Should be Fixed. . .
. There is a break in the concrete walk
in front of the Norwalk Hotel caused
by the tearing up of the curb stones,
that has already resulted in a large
number of pitches and stumbles, and
in some three or four cases, quite pain-
ful confusions. to pedestrians. The
street lights are so adjusted that per-
sons walking westward cannot see this
ragged and jagged edge of walk over-
hanging the street crossing and the re-
sult is a pitch or a fall. Last evening a
Mott avenuelady struck this spOt. with
the usual result of” severely bruising
her foot and jarring her person. The
condition in which this piece , of walk
has been left all summer in the very
center of the borough is utterly inex-
cusable.
without further delay,a short cross walk
of flag stones should be laid from the
wooden bridge to the concrete walk, as
a pond of water continually collects
there at every rain. It is not probable
that our borough authorities have any
idea of the extent of this nuisance, else
it would long since have been cor-
rected. ' . .
When fixed, as it should be.
P
,era-l Whittlesby and General Daniel
about four miles from Winsted and for
William H. Platt’s suit against Minnie
L. T. Platt for absolute divorce will be
tried to-day before Justice Clements in
the Brooklyn City Court. The co-re-
spondent in the case is Martin B. Wal-
ler, a son of ex-Governor D. M. Waller
of Connecticut.
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A Rival of Mr. Finnegan.
(Kennebec Journal.)
A resident of Calais, who had been
seriously ill for ten days, supposed he
was dying Sunday morning, soon after
midnight, and sent a messenger for his
doctor, who, two hours later, had not
appeared. The patient told his wife
he could not wait longer, as he was in
so much pain, so he arose, dressed and
went for the doctor himself! This is
almost equal to the historical exploit of
Mr. Tim Finnegan at his own wake.
Church Choirs. Take Notice!
A bright Waterbury boy, who was
taken to church for the first time 83.11
Episcopal Church) and sat with is
mother in the choir, was very much
taken with the “Gloria,” but also very
much puzzled. “Say, mother,” he
asked on his return home, “why did
Glory beat the Father?” “ ‘Glory
beat the Father 1’ what on earth do you
mean?” said the mother. “Why, yes,
you sang it over and over again in
church this morning—‘Glory beat the
Father.’ Say, mother, what had the
Father been doing to Glory?” And
that mother tries to sing more distinct—
ly now—Waterbury American. 1*?
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Eleventh Army Corps Dinner. ..
General Carl Schurz presided at the
annual dinner of the 11th Army Corps
Association, held in N. Y. last evening.
General Sigel, General Stahl, General
0. 0. Howard, Captain Dilger, Gener-
’al Osborn, General Habercromb, Gen-
Butterfield were some of those who
were present and related war reminis-
cences.
Letters of regret were received from
Generals Orlando Smith and Darius
Couch, of Norwalk. John C. Ropes, of
Boston, and Major Stein,-of Washing-
ton, were elected honorary members of
the association.
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' ——Diamond and Fancy Stone Rings,
at A. W. Austin’s Jewelry Store.
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A Moving Boulder. ,
A Winsted despatch tells the story of
aten ton boulder that is claimed to
have moved forty feet in a score of
years without human agency and geol-
ogists and savants are invited to solve
the problem. The stcne is in West
Hill Pond, in the town of Winchester,
years it has been a sort of boundary
mark. Recent surveys show that it is
not where it was ten years ago by sev- .
eral feet. The water in the pond is
ten feet below its natural level and the
rock is partly out of water. In front of
it a heap of stones and gravel has been
forced up as it has moved onward, and
in its rear-is a deep channel through
which the rock ploughed its way. Many
level-headed and truthful people say
they have known of this phenomenon
for twenty years.
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Down they go.
—Boots and Shoes reduced 20 per
cent. until January 1st, at Jarvis Kel-
logg’s. «. 249tf
Wilton-
There is an active movement for a
new and more modern town house, al-
though the present one is several cen-
turies ahead of Norwalk’s prehistoric
town hall. »
The town vote on paying a bounty to
soldiers was voted down by 25 against,
to 9 for. There were about fifty 'pre-
sent at the meeting, but only thirty-
four votes cast. The feeling seemed to
be general that the town was under no
legal or moral obligation to pay the
bounty and so it was overwhelmingly .
voted down.
News reached Wilton last evening of
the death of Mrs. Sarah E. Wife of John
Davenport, at the home Of her SOD,
Frank Davenport, at IndianM’OhS, Ind.
on the 13th, inst. Mrs. Davenport WES
a sister of the late Mrs.John Comstock,
recently deceased and the mother 0f Ex~
Mayor Comstock, of South NOIWMk-
In the death of these sisters, Wilton and
Brooklyn sustain the loss of twO very
superior and most lovable women. hey
were daughters of Err-Congressman
Thomas R. Whitney. deceased, of New
York, who was well and favorably
known in this section of our state.
—~We solicit your attention to our dis-
play of cut glass bottles, fancy silver
articles. pocket-books and numerous
other things suitable for Xmaspresents
at G. A. Gregory & Co. -
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_ A National Family Paper.
The announcements of the Youth’s
Companion for 1892, which we have re-
ceived, seem to touch about all healthy.
tastes. Its fiction embraces folk-lore,
serial, sea, adventure and holiday
stories. Frank Stockton, Clark Rus-
sell, Will Allen Dromgoole, Mary Cath-
erine Lee are a few of the distinguished
story- writers.
Its general articles cover a wide range.
Self-Education, Business Success, Col-
lege Success, Girls Who Think They
Can Write, Natural Histor , Railway-
Life, Boys and ‘ Girls at t 6 World’s
Fair, Glimpses of Royalty, How to See
Great Cities, Practical Advice,are some
of the lines to be written on by emi~
nent specialists. '
Gladstone, De Lesseps, Vasili Vere-
stchagin, Cyrus W. Field, 'Andrew
Carnegie, Mrs. Henry M. Stanley ar
among, the contributors. The Com-
panion readers thus come into persona
touch with the people whose greatness .
makes , our age famous. Its 500,000
subscribers show how it is appreciated.
Whoever subscribes now for 1892
gets it free from the time the subscrip-
tion is received till Jan. 1, 1892. $1.75
a year. EAddress the Youth’s Compan-
The weather to-dag/ promises to be.
cloudy, with no decided temperature
changes. and light rain, possibly be-
coming heavy in the evening. To-mor-
row it promises to be generally from
cloudy and slightly warmer, preceded
by rain and followed by colder, clear-
ing weather. , .
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SOUTH. NORWALK.
The GAZETTE on sale at the news office
of Fred Calenf i, J.H.11"Iynn, W.L.Ather-
ton, and H. ElBodwcll. Advertisements
and Orders for;all kinds of JOB PRINT-
ING received at our branch ofl'ice on Rall-
road Square.
The Niagara excursionists leave here
today. ' .;
The_steame_r and Currier,of Bridge-
port, is in this portg‘-.
'An installment of thirty Italians ar-
rived here last evening.
The South Norwalk Athletic club will
hold a meeting this evening.
_Builder.J. R. Raymond is re-roofing
his extens1ve shops on Water street.
The second of the Home Sociables
Will be held at Music Hall this evening.
Regular communication of Old Well
Lod e, F. (Y; A. M., to-night. Election
of o , cers. '
A branch of the Non-Secret Endow-
mentsomety will be organized in East
Norwalk to-night.
Messrs. C. H. Trowbridge and R. \H.
Rowan returned last night from a two
weeks’ trip in the South.
Butler Lodge, I. 0. O. F., will work
the second degree tomorrow night.
Officers will also be nominated.
. —Ladies Writing Tablets. Fin‘e Sta-
tionary, Fancy Ink Wells Gold Pens
and Female, at Plaisted’s Drug store.
A large elm tree in front of James H.
Knapp’s residence on West avenue,
was cut down yesterday. It was slowly
but surely dying. _
George B. Weed, the shoe manu-
facturer, has taken to his bed and it is
feared that it is for the last time. His
disease is diabetes.
There will be an excursion train from
Pittsfield to‘ Brooklyn, via the Long
Island route to-day. They will have a
“rocky” time on the Sound.
The work of relaying about 600 feet
horse railway track from a point in
Iront of . the Van Buren residence,
north, Will be commenced to-morrow.
The store in the Verity building on
the Washington street bridge has been
leased to a shoe dealer. It was,but'.‘re-
cently vacated by a party iiifithe'fl same
business. 7’ '5 9-
We crib the following bit of unadul-
terated truth: “There is one .Tthing
dumber than an oyster, to-wit, the rail-
road man when there has beena smash-
up on his road.”
At the meeting of Douglas Fowler
Post last evening, two new recruits
were added to the roll. ’Tis stated that
twelve more have signified their inten-
tion of joining the Post.
, The committee appointed by the City
Council, to abate a nuisance near the
Solmans’ hat factory, have a dad a
contract to A. Bach, to connect the
two sewers, at a cost of $200.
While being transferred from the
Cape Charles, at Wilson Point, last
night, two freight cars jumped the
tracks. There was a report that they
were tumbled into the creek.
The pancake: sociable at the home of
Miss Bertha Brown, last evening, was
a happy and satisfying afi'air. It was
under the auspices of the King’s
Daughters of Trinity church.
John Wells, of the Housatonic rail-
road, was in receipt of a letter plainly
addressed, which was mailed to him
three days previous from Stratford.
Uncle Sam ought to do better than this.
Capt. Wm. Lowndes, of the steamer
J. Howard Lowndes, lost a valuable
gold watch overboard while the boat
was moored at a wharf. in this city, last
evening. Fred Tobey W111 try and re-
cover it. ‘ ,
The loan exhibition and entertain-
ment to be given at the res1dence of A.
.J. Crofut, to-morrow evening, prom-
ises to be a fine affair. Especially will
this be true of the vocal and instru-
mental part of it. .
The high east wind has caused a
heavy sea on the Sound and. a dozen or
more oyster steamers are in port by
reason thereof. There is an unusual
quantity of water in the harbor for the
same reason.
The annual meeting of the Norwalk
Butchers’ association was heldat Ben-
nett& Husted’s market, this city, last
evening. The old board of officers,
with J. E. Wixon, president Royal Ad-
ams, secretary, and A. G. Judson,
treasurer, were re-elected.
Messrs. D. M. Read, of Bridgeport,
L. D. Brewster, of Danbury, and
W. Belden, of Wilton, are in sesSion at
the Mahackemo hotel, as appraisers on
the Christian Swartz property, wanted
by the Consolidated railroad. A large
number of witnesses have been suin-
moned both from the Borough and this
City. Both sides are also represented
by attorneys.
The case of the Metropolitan Ins.
00., vs. Gustav Pitzer was called be-
fore Justice Morrell, yesterday. Mr.
Pitzcr did not appear andithe case was
decided in favor of the company. The
case as mentioned in this columnryes-
terday, was brought to recover on a
bond of $1007given by Mr. Pitzer to one, '
of the company’s agents against whom
judgment was some weeks since given.
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Excitement in Old Saybrook.
Henry Havens, a worthless character
of Old Saybrook,‘ broke into a house
Sunday in that place and attempted to
criminally assault nine-year-Old Bessie
Belcher. She screamed and attracted
help. Havens was captured, and mo
violence was at one time feared in the
ion, Boston, Mass.
case. . .
Of the “Midnight Alarm” which aria:
evening, the Providence Record says:
popular house was crowded. And the
piece and players merited their recep-
tion. “The Midnight Alarm” is not so
fiery as it seems, but just as attractive
and more instructive than if fire 'ran
through every scene.
The lot is sim-
ple yet very attractive. p
There is noth-
all our cities.
The situations are all exciting, yet
never absurd or too far fetched. The
people in the play are all well trained
artists. Each part is interpreted with
skill and _judgment.
There is a delightful absence of rant
or sensation craving situations. It is
all- through, a very pleasing perfor-
mance. The stage fittings, the leadin
scenes, were marvels of machine wor
on the stage, and'were strikingly beau-
tiful. Such plays, after a day’s work,"
are delightfully refreshing.”
Says the Philadelphia Telegram :—.—
“Miss Akerstrom came to us com-
mended as a small edition of Lotta or
Maggie Mitchell, and indeed there is a
likeness in the kind of roles she essays
in her play, "A Little Busybody,”Miss
Akerstrom has ample opportunities to
display her abilities.
of an excellent order, and her work as
the halfWitted boy in the third act was
highly creditable.
unusually strong one. John E. Bren-
nanas Rastus Henry made a decided
hit, and his contortions were exceed-
ingly amusmg. The Mirror quartet in
dialect songs proved enjoyable, and in
the second act they won for themselves
an: successive recalls.”
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BRITAIN’S FURIOUS‘ GALES.
the Ship Enterkin “’ns “’i'ecked and
Thirty Lives “’ere Lost.
LONDON, Dec. 15.—The most serious dis—
aster that has occurred during the storm
which has been raging over the British isles
IS the wreck of the British ship Enterkin,
Captain Sinclair, which was bound from
Hull to Brisbane. She was caught in the
storm while bound down the channel and
was driven up on the Galloper Sands Off the
port of Rainsgate, county of Kent. Thirty
lives were lost in this (lisstf-"i', every person
bxcept an apprentice boy being drowned. .
The Enterkin encountered the hurricane
on Saturday night. She was standing on
an inshore tack and the wind blew so
furiously that it was impossible to carry
sail enough to prevent her from making
leeway, and she was driven ashore ahnost
broadside on.
After she had struck a part of the crew
succeeded in launching a boat and got clear
of the ship. They were almost immediately
thrown ‘intojthe scat'by the swamping of
their bfiw'high roller which broke over
the Ste“ filled it. - Eyery' man who was,
in the boat was drowned.
, Soon afterward the ship was struck by a
tremendously high sea and she heeled over,
throwing every person aboard of her into
the water. Only one of them, the appren.
tice boy, whose name is Lewis, succeeded
in gaining the weather rigging, which, by
the heeling over of the vessel, was just‘
awash. Here the lad remained throughout
the night, drenched and almost frozen. '
On Sunday morning a fishing smack under
very short sail sighted the wreck and bore
down to it. \Vith much difficulty a. boat
was got alongside the Enterkin, and Lewis
was taken Off. Many of the thirty drowned
seamen were foreigners.
BISHOP MERRILL INDIGNANT.
ing a Liturgy 1!. Pack of Lies.
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—It was stated in a dis-
patch from New York printed in Sunday’s
papers that Bishop Newman, of Omaha,
was authority for the statement that the
Methodist Episcopal church would soon
adopt the Wesley liturgy, which does not
differ materially from the service used in
the Episcopalian churches. According to
the dispatch, a conference of eminent Meth-
odist divines had been held somewhere in,
the east and the subject thoroughly dis
cussed.
A reporter called upon Bishop Merrill to
19am his views on the subject of adopting
the liturgy. The bishop drew his coat closely
arOund him and passionately exclaimed:
want to have anything to do with Sunday
papers or those who take them. Good
8. rear door. .
Dr. N. H. Axtell, pastor of Wesley
church, said: “I think Bishop Newman
must have referred to some informal dis?
cussion, and declined to say Where it had
been held, because he knew it was not an-
thoritative. N 0 conference has the right to
change the ritual.”
Other leading pastors doubt Whether
Bishop Newman ever declared a conference
had been held to discuss the question of
liturgy or no liturgy.
SHOE NEH/15'.
Bninenronr. Conn. December 15, 1891.
The weather tO-da’l/ : Cloudy.
Sixty—two styles of men’s
slippers to choose from. I
haven’t counted the women’s,
a hundred sure. ,
Half a dozen pretty styles,
of leather slippers at $1, qual-
ity that is hard to match.
Some good onos at .$1.40,
several colors, some patent
leather trimmed, a variety of
shapes. , . .
Handsome styles at $2and
$2.55. ‘
Real seal leather at $3, very
fine soft leather.
A new style of seal leather,
out high in front, $3.50.
Seal ankle slippers $4.
b ,. Goat ankle slippers $3.50.
JOHN G. HOWLAND. .
405 Main Street. ‘
peered at the Opera House Thursdar'
“From ‘pit to dome’ last night this ‘ 1
ing in it that does not happen daily in. I
Her dancing is -.
Her company is an -
He Pronounces the Report About Adopt- —
“It’s all a pack of nonsense and lies. I don’t . ’
evening.” And the bishop vanished through ,
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