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A Great Preacher.

Phillips Brooks, who is sepulchred
to-day, died, as such a man might wish
to die, in the plentitude of his powers
and at the height of his fame and in-
fluence, with the record of a brilliantly
successful ministry and the highest evi-
dence of the approval of the Church he
served. Of all men of our time, there
has been none whose fervent zeal and
persuasive spirituality of thought and
speech, have more strongly recalled
the ministry of St. Paul, and there can
be no doubt that he could echo in his
heart the great Apostle’s thought, “To-
me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
Like him he worked unceasingly till
the summons came, and the loss is to
those he leaves behind.“ ‘ -‘ -"

It is a loss that will be felt not only
by the Diocese of Massachusetts or by
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States, but will be recognized
by Christian people generally and
throughout the English speaking world.
For many years Phillips Brooks has
been a distinct individual figure, a per-
sonal force in the religious thought of
the day, a preacher whose audience
was as wide as humanity. More than
thirty years ago says the Times of that
city, conservative Philadelphia began
to talk of the eloquent young priest
who was drawing crowds to an obscure
church up town, and when, a. little
later, he was called to one of the large st
and wealthiest parishes in the city, the
same gifts and qualities were only
transferred to a wider field. Gradually
but rapidly his field expanded, till he
became as well known in England as
in America, and as popular everywhere
as in his own congregation.

He was a great preacher. How rare
the true vocation of a preacher is, peo-
ple do not always recognize. There
could be no mistake about Phillips
Brooks’ especial gift. It was not mere 1y
his extraordinary fluency of speech,
nor only the big, strong personality
that held the attention fixed through
all this bewildering flow of words. The
secret of his power was in his spiritual
energy, his- broad human sympathy
and the exalted plane of religious
thought to which he raised it, and,
above all, in his intense realization of
the personal Christ, in intimate rela-
tion with the common life of man.

It was this combination of gifts, the
intellectual and personal endowments,
disciplined by high culture and in-
spired by a fervid and aspiring relig-
ious spirit, that made Phillips Brooks
the potent personality he was. His
disposition was manly, sunny, hopeful,
and full of sympathy not only with the
active life about him, but not less with
the intellectual life and its anxious
seeking and striving. The Splendid
eloquence of his patriotic appeals in
the war-time is well remembered, and
throughout his ministry his broad hu-
manitarianism has been conspicuous.
His intellectual force and the apparent
freedom of his lofty religious thought,
attracted the attention of multitudes to
whom the clear teaching of systematic
theology had appealed in vain, and the
recent large growth of the Episcopal
church in Massachusetts may be
ascribed in great measure to impulses
derived from his preaching.

Dr. Brooks’ election to the bishopric
of Massachusetts was essentially 9. rec-
ognition of his personal power, which
involved no necessary acquiescence in
his individual theological attitude. On
the other hand, the opposition and con-
troversy it excited betrayed no dissent
from the affectionate admiration every-
where inspired by the splendor of his
gifts, the purity and beauty of his
spiritual life and the lovliness of his
character. The clergy of Massachu-
setts simply chose the foremost of their
number to be their leader and com-
mander, while there are some who, re-
calling St. Paullgdeclaration about the
different vocafibns, believed that the
special gifts of this great preacher—-
apostle, prophet, evangelist, as he
might be—were not those most essen-
tial in the office and work of a bishop.
Whether they were right ,or wrong
there has not been time to determine.
In any event, it is doubtful if Dr.
Brooks’ administration of his diocese,
which he had little more than begun,
could have added to the brightness of
his fame, and he leaves no successor of-
like commanding poWer.

And yet his influence will not die
with him, for the reason that it was the
Vital, quickening, elevating influence
of an earnest Christian faith, stirring
men to higher and nobler thoughts of

ual and personal endowments excelled
in no one of our .time, that made him
everywhere conspicuous, he consecrated
them wholly to the sacred ministry to
iwhich he had been called, to‘ the service
of his fellowmen and to the glory .of
God, and taught by example as by pre-
cept the worth and manly beauty of a
Christian faith and life. Such lives as
this,“ whatever their immediate fruit,
impart an impulse to the church and to
humanity that long survives the spoken
or the . written word- that made the
preacher’s fame.

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TERSE TALES OF THE TIMES.

Annual reunion and roll call at the
Congregational church, to-night.

 

 

—Hale’s Emulsion, 50 cents. 526 tf

The New Haven Steamboat. Com-
pany held its seventy-first annual meet-
ing, yesterday. - .

The big buoy at the entrance of
Bridgeport harbor was carried away by
the ice yesterday.

Greedy Bridgeport monopolized a
great deal of the time of the General
Assembly, yesterday.

i—HALE’S LUNG BALSAM 25¢.

529-tf '

Thirty years ago to-day “Fighting
the

J oe. Hooker” took command of
Army of the Potomac.

 

Of'course Mr. Dana will never for-
give Mi'. Cleveland for attending the
funeral of ex-President Hayes.

Advance sheets of the ofiicial Oath.-
olic directory of the United States
gives the Catholic population at 8,806,;-
095.

Icemen say that men can see to read
a newspaper through the clear ten-inch
ice in the Hudson River near Pough-
keepsie. .

An Orchard street man is using one
of the new Columbian stamps for a
bunion plaster. He says that it covers
a long felt ache. ‘

—-3 packages or rolls of Toilet Paper
for 25 cents. H. H. Williams 15 Wall
street. 230-212

Edwin Hoyt of New Canaan has
been elected one of the County Vice-
presidents of the Connecticut Pom-
ological society.

Another cold wave is zeroically make-
ing its way towards Norwalk. It comes
from the west “With a go east and
freeze up the country.” ,

Mr. Depew recently gave as his defi-
nition of a mugwump: “A man who
cannot agree with anybody but him-
self, and about that he is in doubt. "I

The thawing out of a frozen water
pipe in front of the Centennial build-
ingon Wall street, yesterday afternoon
was witnessed by abuot a dozen mem-
bers of the Sons of Rest. -

 

——For meats of all kinds at the lowest
living prices call at Raymond and
Lockwood’s No. 22 Main street. Adams
Bros. old stand. 428 1w

Looking up at his faithful and be-
loved servant, the bishop said :“Katie,
you can go. I shall not need you any
more. I am going home. ” These
were Phillips Brooks’ last words.

While cutting tent stakes at the Bar-
num show headquarters in Bridgeport
last night, Robert Schultz cut off four
of his toes with an axe. The only thing
right about it was the foot that was cut.

General Francis A. Walker, formerly
of New Haven and now of Boston, has
been elected corresponding member of
the section of political economy of the
French Academy of Moral and Politi-
cal Sciences.

Three men were sent to jail in New
Havon, yesterday, for neglecting to
prov1de for their families. We re ret
the truth of the statement but or-
walk could fill an ordinary jail with
just such characters.

Connecticut pensions: Original—A1-
bert C. Aldrich Additional—Ch arles
H. Thompson, Charles E. Davis, Ben-
jamin Prmdle. ,Re-issue—Frank T.
Sickler. Original widows, etc.,— J on.
E‘el’fie C. Harmount, minor of Wallace

11 er.

The Danbury note case, Taylor vs.
Taylor, in which the plaintifi seeks to
recover from the defendant was deci-
ded yesterday. The jury after being
out for a short time brought in a ver-
dict for the defendants, holding that
they had Virtually paid the note as
claimed by them. -

—The place—A. H. Hoyt 8; Son. Re-
duction of 5.0 cents per pair on 2.50
3.50, 4.00, 4.50, and 5.00 shoes. Well
known lines, also great bargains in old
lots ladies shoes. Lot‘at 1.50, also lot
at 1.25. Regular price was from 2.00 to
5.00,. machine and hand se'wed. Hoyts’
37 Wall street. 529~4t

“Most editors.” says an exchange,
“are acquainted with the man who
takes more papers than he can read and
consequently has no use for his heme
paper.” But let his neighbors pay
him a surprise visit on the occasion of
a birthday or wedding anniversary, or
let his fellow church members make
him a present, then he wants mention
of it in a local paper, although he “is
taking. so many papers that he cannot
help his local paper by subscribing for

 

love and life and duty. With intellect:

 

 

it or patronizing it'in any way.”

Kabaosa Encampment will meet to-
night.

Confectioner, Water Commissioner
and Justice Frederick Mead is on the
sick list.

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Attorney J. Belden Hurlbutt was out
to-dayvfor the first time after a three
weeks’ illness. ~

The semi-annual banquet of the Vet-
eran Odd Fellows’ association Will be
held in New Haven, Feb. 22d.

Attorneys Hurlbutt, Seymour, and
Warner, are at the Superior Court to-
day, trying the case of the Norwalk
Gas Light Co. vs. the Borough of Nor-
walk. 4

Fred Hall of Norwalk, and Dan Fal-
vcy of Providence, R. L, played a
match game of pool at the Richmond
Hoiase, New Haven, last night, for $50
a SI e. ,

Methodist church will hold a social tea
to-morrow evening, between the hours
5 and 7 o’clock, at the residence of Mr.
Plat-t Price, on West avenue.

The water main on Wilton avenue
near the house of Sydney Williams
has quite a leak in it caused by amis-
taken blow from a“ pickaxe in the
hands of a workman who was digging
for a frozen house supply pipe. ‘

Miss Nettie Byxbee, daughter of ex-
Colector John C. Byxbee, and Louis
Parker both prominent people of Mei-i-
den, and having relatives in Norwalk,
have announced their marriage en-
gagement. The wedding Will take
place after Easter. -

Mrs. John T. Kernan, who some time
ago, was deserted by her husband and
was recently arrested for 'selling intox-
icants without a license, at her home
on Ward street, and who 'was discharg-
ed, was this morning furnished a home
at the alms-house. .

Commencing Sunday, February 5,
the train known as the “Washington
express” will be run over the Consoli-
dated road’s own tracks from New
York to Providence, via the Shore
Line from New Haven. Horetofore
this train has used the tracks of the
'New York and New England road from
Hartford to Boston. .

The party who made a trip in a car-
ryall to the home of Charles Mann, in
Wilton, last night did not get home
until 5 o’clock' this morning. While
they were returning and when near
the Winnipauk mills, the wagon-pole
broke and considerable delay was
caused before the damage could be
repaired.

Wm. Hess, who has purchased the
barber shop formerly conducted by
Conrad Engel, on Main street, took
possession of the same to-day. Mr.
Hess comes well recommended, and he
“has been for three years foreman in
the tensorial rooms of the Marlborough
hotel, New York. Read his adv. in an~
other column. ,

 

 

—-Notlce.

The members of Buckingham Post
No. 12, G. A. R are requested to
meet at the Post room Friday, Jan.
27th, at 1 o’clock p. m.,‘to attend the
funeral of Comrade Isaac A. Smith.

All ex-members of the 17th regiment,
C. V., are invited.

Geo. W. RAYMOND, Adjutant.
Mrs. Barnum Resigns.

Owing to illness Mrs. P. T. Barnum
yesterday resigned as vice-president of
the ladies’ board of state world’s fair
managers. Mrs. M. G. Bulkeley re-
signed as president. Mrs. George H.
Knight was chosen president.

The commissioners also met., They
asked for an appropriation of $75,000
by the state.

 

 

0..

Opera House.

' George A. Hill’s People’s Theatre
company presented another pleasing
bill at the Opera House last night. It
was “Sol’s Gal or Down on the Farm.”
Miss Alice Kemp, the pretty and vivac-
ious little actress made a decided hit
in the character of Mercy Baxter, the
country girl, and did some excellent
emotional acting. George A. Hill, as
Mercy’s father, won plaudits of the
audience. H. J. Irving as Prof. Potts,
kept the audience, in the best of humor.
The other characters in the cast,
Messrs. Harry Brenridge, J. E. Lewis,
John Shea, D. F. Gallagher, Constance
Barrington, Ray Earle and Genie
Howard are also deserving of mention.
The specialties as usual were raptur-
ously received by the audience. The
company will remain the rest of the
week, with a new programme every
night and a matinee on Saturday. To-
night “True Irish Hearts” will be pre-
sented and" all who attend can feel
assured of being well entertained.

 

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Forge r-s Capture-.3

Oflicer Finn made an important cap-
ture last night in Bridgeport in the ar-
rest of George F. Brower and Joseph
Brooks, the former a professional for-
ger from New York. This morning
Charles Brenner told Ofiicer Fallon
that Brower had unfolded to him a
scheme whereby both could make $200
daily. The scheme was to pass forged
notes on coal merchants. Finn took
the matter in charge and succeeded in
running down Brower and Brooks.

At headquarters the prisoners were
searched and on Brower was found sev-
en notes secured from the First Na-
tional Bank, signed by W. B. Hall &
Co., for sums ranging from ten to
twenty-five dollars. It was learned that
Brower unsuccessfully tried to pass the
notes in two coal ofiices. He secured a
dozen notes from the bank. What he
did with the others is not known.
Brooks, who belongs here, claims that
he did not know that the checks were

 

irregular.

The Willing Workers Circle of the ’

 

. It Beats th iumber 1
If the water in‘ .t pipe is frozen,
and access caane-h '7 to the place con-
gealed put a piece «guicklime on the
spot, and it Will ‘ge‘rat'e a heat that
will soon thaw out t e. _ .

If a fire hydrant ' frozen, unscrew
the cap, and drop 1 good'si‘zed lump
of unslaked lime, d pour in ‘some
water, and your "h t will, soon be
in working order. -

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. .To Be Hosea For.

weekly press of the; state will frame a
judicious law or ame‘ndthe present li-
bel law so that it will sustain and pro-
tect a publisher ingiy‘ging the news, and
an editor in offering? Wholesome criti-
cisms without being subject to the an-
noyance of a libel suit brought by par-
ties in poverty, and who are in hopes
to mlake the publisher sensitive to their
one . '

— '*' n.
Pink-Merkle.

At the home of the bride in. Brook-
lyn, last evening, there occurred avery
pretty wedding. The principals were
Miss Bertha E. Pink and Mr. Frank C.
Merkle, and the ceremony, which was
after the Episcopal form, was per-
formed by Rev. Mr. Britton Clark of
the Lee Avenue Congregational church.
The bride looked very sweet and pretty
attired in a traveling dress of pearl
grey with pearl colored trimmings and
carried a bouquet 'of white pinks. .The
bridesmaid was Miss Josie Pink, a sis-
ter of the bride, and the groom’s best
man was Mr. Walter .Higgenbottom of
New York. A wedding feast was served
after which Mr. and Mrs. Merkle went
to their new home oh Lenox avenue,
Harlem. They were showered with
congratulations, old' slippers, rice, etc. ,
and were also handsomely remembered
with many useful and~valuable pres-
ents. Those from Norwalk who were
present are the Misses Josie and Susie
Pink and Mr. Nelson Ackner. The
bride at one time lived on West Main
street, this place, and has many friends
here who will wish her a hen voyage
on the sea of matrimony, and a full
measure of happiness during life.

Phillips Bifo’oks-

The mortal remains bf the pulpit ora-
tor of America, the late Phillips
Brooks, will to-day be committed, in
Mount Auburn, to the earth, by that
prelate’s close and cherished friend,
Dr. Henry C. Potter,'%Bishop of New
York. Andover, Essex, Boston and
Norwalk, well knew the distinguished
family, and probably 'urned much of
the dust of its departed members. It
is a fact interesting of mention that the
soil of our old town holds representa-
tives of both of the notable European
Phillips households. The descendants
of the late Bishop’s branch lie in sever-
al of our cemeteries, while one in im-
mediate line from Vrederyck Philipse,
Lord of the manor and son of Honora-
able Viscount Philipse of Bohemia,
sleeps within our domain. Some of our
old burial grounds are rich in historic
wealth, and-Norwalk somewhere hides
aburial plot, the discovery of which
would solve one of the hitherto unex-
plained New England problems. Our
oldest God’s acre, viz: that in East
Norwalk, contains no inscription of
earlier date than 1703. Where sleep
the men and women of 1649 to 1700?
Where are those most important colo-
nists, Matthew Marvin, Sr., and Jr.,
Ephraim Lockwood, Matthew St,John,
Richard Seymour, Thomas Fitch, Sr.,
and Jr., Richard Webb, John Platt,
John Gregory, Walter Hoyt, Nathaniel
Ely, Thomas Betts, Thomas Hanford
and other prominent settlers buried ?
It does not answer to reply that tomb-
stones were not erected at that early
day ; we find them in other places, and
it does not seem probable that men of
position and influence, as were many
of these, should have filled Norwalk
unmarked .‘graves. We need an His-
torical Society to look into these mat-
ers.

 

 

...
USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLA,IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES”.
Much Ado About Nothing.

It has been observed for some weeks
that the .curtain in the window at No.
51 Main street has been drawn down

 

 

ago Henry Tom came here and opened
the store as a Chinese laundry. For a
time Henry seemed to have a good
trade. About a month ago he became
ill and went to a New York hospital,
sending another Celestial to conduct
the laundry during his absence. The
new-comer did not succeed very well
and Saturday night was seen to pull
down the shade and lock the door, since
which time his exact whereabouts have
not been known. Several customers
have called for-goods left_ at the laun-
dry but were unable to gain admittance.
Neighbors began to suspect that all
was not right, and came to believe that
the Chinaman had looked himself in
the store and had either committed su-
icide or died a natural death, and that
his remains were lying in. the store.
No unusual odor was noticed about the
place but this was accounted for on the
score of the extremely cold weather,
and that the body therefore had not
become decomposed. _

The landlord of the store, it is said,
has been questioned about the matter,
and told of the fears of certain ones,
but he only smiled at their fears and
said, “ Oh, I guess it’s all right.” They
are awfully anxious, though, to have
him unlock the store and prove that
there is no genuine foundation for their
fears. ,

The above in substance is the story
as told to a GAZETTE reporter, who,
scenting an item, visited Ying Lee, a
Chinaman who has a laundry on Main
street. He said that Henry found busi-
ness very poor, and that he gave it up
and _went to New York. He laughed at
the idea of there being a Chinese corpse
in_the store, but suggested that there
- might be a few soiled shirts, etc. The
fact of the departure of Henry seemed
to afford him great satisfaction, as it

 

l tended to. increase his own business.

pply .—'Hartford .

It is to be hoped that the, daily and.

and the door locked. Some four years $1 35

It is estimate

 

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”iWJflplear Outithe Quacks. -

The; ,_,_ jto-be presented to the pres-
ent legislature for the enactment of a
medical practice act seems almost cer-
tain of passage.

For a number of years Connecticut’s
reputable physicians have attempted to
bring about a change in .the system of
medical Jurisprudence of the state, but
the scheme has fallen through, princi-
pally on account of the disagreement
of the doctors themselves. " _

The different schools of medicine
w‘ere unable to agree as to what the
articles of the bill should constitute,
and as the doctors themselves could
not. agree, it is not surprising that the
legislators took little interest in the
matter.

The bill seems now to be nearer pas-
sage than ever before, for it is becom-
ing_customary to pass such laws in the
yarious states. There is hardly a state
in the Union at present that does not
have some such restricting law. Con-
necticut is one of the few states that
has not. _

Dr. C. A. Lindsley says: “It is not
because the other professions require a
license for'their practice, but the bill
is entirely in the interests of the public
welfare.

“Human life is too precious a pos-
sessmn to be entrusted to the ignorant
and unskilled. The city of Bridgeport
has already secured such a law, requir-
ing that all the doctors practicing med-
IClIle in that city shall be registered
with certain facts concerning their
ability and fitness. The good results
of this statute can already be seen.
Six quacks have left the city—New
Haven Palladium.

~' Skating Contest.

Several Norwalk people are in Stam-
ford to-day to witness the 100 mile race
on skates at the Cove pond between
Ennis, Donoghue and Franklin. The
Advocate says = “Betting on the result
is_pretty brisk and considerable money
Will be staked to-day and to-morrow.
What money has been put up so far is
on Donoghue and Ennis. Mr. Ennis
holds at present tne world’s champion-
ship as a long distance skater. He
made a record of 11" hours and 37 min-
utes in Chicago in 1879. In a contest
in New York in 1881 it is claimed that
he skated the same distance in 10 hours,
57 minutes, ‘but the track had to be
changed and the time was never put on
record. Among his numerous trophies
is a handsome belt awarded to him
when he became champion skater of
the world. All of the skaters will wear
sweaters. The only skates of Ameri-
can manufacture worn in the race will
be those of Mr. Ennis. Donoghue and
Franklin will use skates of Norwegian
make.

Donoghue is generally admitted to
be the best skater in America for short
distances, but has yet to show what he
can do. in a 100-mile race with such
competitors as he will have to-morrow.
At Red Bank, last Wednesday, he
skated two miles in 6 minutes, 3 2-5 see-
onds, and he has a record of one mile
in 2 minutes, 56 seconds.

At 1 o’clock the score was as follows :

Donoghue, 63 miles. ' .

Franklin, 56% miles.

Ennis, 56 miles.

 

Board at'ChIcago.

In answer to the many inquiries from
boards of trade and similar bodies con-
cerning the alleged plan to demand ex-
tortionate prices, for accommodations
in Chicago next summer, Major W.
Marsh Kasson, at the request of the
Director-General, has prepared the fol-
lowmg report from the bureau of pub-
lic comfort: » .

This bureau has been established by
the World’s Columbian exposition to
co-operate, through its hotels and
rooming departments, to the best of its
ability,- With the citizens of Chicago
for the comfort and protection of visi-
tors, to secure. for them suitable and
des1rable lodgings at fair and reason-
able prices.

Inquiries were sent out some time
ago to householders having furnished
rooms to let, to learn, as far as possi-
ble, prices that would be expected
therefor, and. the following statement
gives the general average quotations
received in reply,'to cover accommoda-
tions for over 16,000 people in the best
part of the city lying between, North
avenue and Seventy-ninth street.

. Price of rooms per da without board:

Single room, single ed, one person,
Double room, double bed, one per-
son, $2.12; two persons. $2.70.

Double—bedded room, two double
beds, two persons, $3.50.

Double-bedded room,
beds, three persons $4.15.

Double-bedded room, two double
beds, four persons $5.50. ~

The prices given above do not in-
clude large first-class hotels nor promi-
nentnew buildings in course of erec-
tion in the Vicinity. of Jackson park. _

The great mass of visitors will doubt-
less _prefer the quiet and economy of
furnished rooms such as alluded to,
and appartment hotels, arranging to
take their meals from day to day
wherever it ma suit their convenience.
that from. $50 000 to
100,000 people can be served da' y with
meals Within the exposition grounds
alone while'the number of hotels and
restaurants is constantly increasing.

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, Oysters.
In the towns up east, oysters were
advanced in price from $1.10 to $1.60 a

gallon, early in the week, and the price _

has been going up like the thermome-
ter on a hot day. Some of the oyster-
men have been able to get a few by,
cutting holes in the ice and raising
them (the oysters) with hand-tongs.-
No more oysters are coming from
Chesapeake Bay, late reports showing
that the southern oystermen are not
much better off than those in Connec-
ticut. Capts. Stevens and Rowlannd

of Rowayton, who send oysters to the '

Norwalk markets, found that they
could get a price for their stock in
New York which the ,poor people in.

_Norwalk could not afford __to pay, and

have naturally shipped them to the me-
tropolis, where they have ' been retail-

ing for about 65 cents a quart. ~Advo-'
. cute. ' ' . " -

 

Transfer theDrawbrldgos.
. Representative Lees of Westport has
introduced a bill in the legislature for
an act, which if passed, will affect a
large number of towns in this state.
It is as follows: '

_Sec. 1.. The towns, cities and coun-
ties owningpr haying an interest in
any drawbridges in the state, are here-
by authorized at a town, city or coun-
ty meeting of their representatives,
specially warned and held for that pur-
pose, to vote to transfer and convey to
the state of Connecticut, all their re-
spective right, title and interest in and
to such bridge or bridges, together
Wlth the stock, property, and franchises
pertaining to.the same‘ and held by
said corporation or corporations.

Sec. 2. Upon such transfer being
made to the said state, it shall be the
duty of the state to take _ the charge,
management and control of said bridges,
and to keep, maintain and operate, re-
build, repair and control them as free
public bridges, and to appoint draw-
tenders to open and shut the draws for
vessels, and to take care of the bridges.

Sec. .3. The cost of maintaining, oper-
ating, controlling and repairing such
bridges soacquired and held by the
state, and the salaries of such draw-
tenders shall be paid by the state of
Connecticut.

.9.

SldetracKed.

Yesterday afternoon as Conductor
“ Dan ” McIntyre, of the Consolidated
road, was on Wall street talking to a
friend, a cloud of smoke and steam
puffed up through the planks of the
railroad tunnel. He asked his friend
what train it was and was told that it
was Conductor Vaughn’s train down to
South Norwalk. He said “ I guess I’ll
take it ” and started on a run across the
street, as he supposed, to the depot.
Two or three ladies were about enter-
ing the post office door and he politely
but impatiently waited for them to go
in. . He then dashed by them and up
to the. delivery Window, saying “ Give
me a ticket to South Norwalk.” Post-
master Hubbell suggested that he had
made a mistake, and informed him that
the only thing he had on sale was
Columbia .postage stamps. “ Dan ”
turned on his heel and went out of the
door as quickly as if shot from a cata-
pault, followed by a roar of laughter.
He dodged into the entrance to the in-

surance office in his. haste to reach the ,

depot. but found out his mistake in
time to board the train.

Mllltary Regulations Revlslon

Referring to the announcement that
a commission will be appointed by Ad-
jutant General Bradley to revise the
regulations of the Connecticut N ation-
al guard, the Hartford Courant notes
that neither the First regiment nor the
Fourth regiment, the colonels of which
are both lawyers and military men of
large experience, is yet named on the
board. It_ says that if a reformation
ofthe regiments is intended some rad-
ical changes in the militia law will first
be necessary. The . present regula-
tions are based on a law compiled by a
board of which_the late Brigadier Gen-
eral S. R. Smith was the head, and
adopted in 1884.

. In compiling the regulations, exten-
sive quotations were made fronf the
Massachusetts regulations, then con-
sidered to be the best book of the
kind extant. Since then other states
have made regulations far more com-
plete and accurate than the Connecti-
cut book.

The fact that Colonel Tyler was on
Monday granted leave of absence for
twenty days, and that Lieutenant Bow-
en has been notified that he will be
ordered to Alabama, renders it im-
probable that the board when appoint-
ed w111 be constituted as has been
announced. _Military men have ex-
pressed surprise, says the Courant,
that an enlisted man should be consid-
ered as a member of the board, it
being against all rules, orders and the
etiquette of regular army or militia
procedure to appoint other than com-
missioned officers on military boards.

 

Free Trlp to Washln gton R ecord.

Followingiis the score to date, of, the
balloting in the contest for the GA-
znr'rii’s free railroad ticket to Wash-
ington, D. C., and return, on the occas-
ion of President Cleveland’s inaugura-

 

tion :
Rhody MoGinnis 1005 ‘
James M. Creagh 993 '
W. H. Johnson 395
James T. Hubbell 278

saac Bowe 236
E. N . Sloan 211
James Mitchell 77
John Ford . 58
Oliver R.-Mumford 48
Jose 11 Leipmk 45
Fran Street 37
Patrick O’Hara 33

. 0. Bennett 31
H. M. Benedict 25
J. Arthur Pinneo 20
Michael Barber 19
Wallace Dann 17
Thomas Ward J r 13
Thomas McQuillan ’ 10

Owing to the large number of single ballots
handed in we have decided to publish the
names only of those candidates who have re-
ceived ten or more votes.

Not Half Done.

In the Senate. yesterday afternoon
Senator Morgan introduced a bill for , ,
an act allowmg bank examiners their
actual expenses in addition to their sal-
aries. The bill was drafted by Hon. J.
H. Swartwout of Stamford who will
speak upon it before the Judiciary
committee. Mr. Swartwout has dis-

covered that. under the present system
of limiting the examiners’ expense ac-
counts their work is not half done. For
instance, the bank examiner will make
a trip to a New York safe deposit com-,
pany to examine securities belonging
to a bank in Norwalk. While there, in
order to save expense, he‘ will also ex-
amine the securities of banks in Stam-
ford, New London, Waterbury, and
other places. The consequence is that
before he gets around to the banks to
look into their cash deposits a week or
more will have elapsed. giving the
banks a chance to manipulate their se-
curities half a dozen times and if nec-
essary bolster up their deposits. Should
he first examine the cash deposits and
the securities afterward. the rule ap-
plies the same. The idea is_ that for the
'proper protection of depos1t_ors the ex-
amination of cash and securities should.
be made as nearly at the same time as
possible. The matter does not apply to
"the lar or cities of the state, where
banks Eeep their securities in local safe
deposit vaults, as much as. the smaller
towns the banks of which keep their so-
curities with New York safe deposiit
companies.

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USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLA,IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES.”

0..

Double Ripper Accident.

It is estimated that there are some.
thing over two hundred of those_ inno-
cent looking but deadly double-rippers
owned in, the Borough. Two. young-
sters named Sherwood, and livmg on
Maple street, are the proud possessors
of one of the “monsters” which last
night proved itself to be worthy of its
name, the scene of its deviltry being
near Prospect Hill. The double-ripe
per was at the top of the hill and Mrs.
Edwin G. Hoyt and Mrs. Dav1d Os-
borne were invited by the lads to take
a ride, which they accepted. The
other passengers were Mrs. Osborne 3
son David and her little daughter, b'e-
sides the two Sher wood boys.

The start was made, and the double~

ripper shot down the hill With the ve-
locity of a hurricane. Suddenly there.
was a stop and the party were over-
turned into the street. The head of
the ripper had crashed intona. lamp-
post at the corner of Franklin avenue
and Prospect hill street. ,
‘ It was found that the younger mem—
bers of the party has escaped With-a
few slight scratches, but Mrs, Osborne
and Mrs. Hoyt were not so fortunate.
The latter received severe bruises to
one of her legs and on the head. Mrs.
Osborne was found to be seriously in-
jured and was taken to her home and
Dr. Phinney summoned. He made an
examination and found that sue had
suffered a broken kneepan.

That the accident dld not prove of a
fatal nature is a surpriso to_those who
witnessed it. No doubt it W111 be some
days before either Mrs. Osborne or
Mrs. Hoyt will again venture to coast
on a double-ripper, if indeed they
ever do.

USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLA, IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES. ”

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5m lHNlLK.

A lively meetingwas held in the
Volunteer Hose House last evening to
take action in the matter of annexation
of this place under the government of
South Norwalk. . _ .
After the nominations of William
lWorden and John W. Mama to act as
chairman of the meeting were “ knock-
ed out ” Mr. James L. Hoyt was elect-
ed to preside. _

The following resolution was then
presented: .

Resolved, That in is the Sense of this
meeting and to the interests of East
Norwalk that we remain as we are. .

The resolution provoked a warm dis- .
cussion, and the sufilect of annexation
was pretty thoroug

y ventilated.
A vote was finally called for,

 

which
showed the majority of those present
were not in favor of annexation, but
the vote was doubted, which caused a
diviSion of the house to get at the vote.

After the house hadbeen diVided and

' the noses counted it was found that

those in favor of the resolution were
in the majority by nearly four to one.
As stated at the commencement of
this article the meeting was a lively one
and D. P. Morrell & Co. were not in it
a little bit, and fully proved that the
best laid plans of mice and men aft

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USE DANA’S VSARSAPARILLAJT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES.”

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