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MONDAY. DECEMBER 31 1894. .
The Daily Gazette,'established in 1890
The Weekly Gazette in 1800.
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POSTAGE I’RE-T’AID.
A Happy New Year.
The GAZETTE with sincerity
earnestness, extends to its thousands of
readers, its hundreds of advefiing
atrons, and its friends innumerable,
the hearty wish "and hope, that the
morrow shall usher in to one and all, a
prosperous and “Happy New Year.”
No paper will be issued from this of-
ties, and the post office will open and
close as usual on a legal holiday, the
stores generally doing the same.
Again, a Happy New Year to all.
Conquest of Diphtheria.
The New York Herald is very exult-
ant over the pronounced success of the
new diphtheria. cure and the public‘
owe that paper a large debt of gratitude
for the interest it has taken in it and
giving the remedy so worldswide a
publication. It saysz~
“Diphtheria as a dangerous disease
exists no longer.” These are the words
of Professor Behring, the discoverer of
the wonderful new remedy for diph-
theria. Professor Behring says that
in a-hundred thousand serious cases of
the disease treated and recorded, the
mortality, which formerly averaged
about fifty per cent, sank at once to
twenty _per cent, and he is confident
that the mortality will soon be reduced
t3 five per cent. In other words, this
“cruel, pitiless disease, is practically
canquei-ed.”
Itisapleasnre to note the warmth
of welcome the medical world of Paris
and thegovernment are- according to
the distinguished German discoverer.
The lost provinces are forgotten in the
enthusiastic working together of scien-
tistsof both nations, in the endeavor to
save humanity from one of its most
fital afiiictions. The government has
shown itself equally appreciative. Pro-
fessor Behring was received by M.
Dupuy, the President of the Council of
Ministers, who informed him of the in-
tention of the government to bestow
upon him the. decoration of the Legion
of Honor. The bestowal of the dis-,
tinctiOn does honor to the entire French
people.”
Now let our medical savants give
their best efforts, for the discovery of
an equally efficatious remedy for scarlet
fever, that terror and peril to infantile
life.
and
Typhoid Germs in Oysters.
A dispatch from Washington thus
details the results of the U. 8. Fish
Commission’s examination into the re-
cent typhoid cases in this state alleged
to have resulted from eating Iaw
oysters taken from New Haven harbor.
These charges the dispatch says have
furnished the occasion for criticisms
directed against the Fish Commission
for its failure to detect the presence of
disease germs upon the oyster-beds in
Long Island Sound in its investigations
in that region over three years ago-
The facts of the case, prove that these
Criticisms are unjust. In 1889 reports
were put in circulation to the effect
that the waters of Long, Island Sound
were becoming seriously contaminated
from the inflow of sewage at different
places along its shores, the assumption
also being made that the tidal circula-
tion through the Sound was insufficient
to remove these impurities, which must
therefore be rapidly increasing, to the
great detriment of the oystervbeds.
As these stories were calculated to in.
jiire the extensive oyster interests of
Connecticut, the Fish Commission in-
vestigated the matter in connection
with the study of the star. fish depreda-
tious, then in progress.
For this purpose one of {the most
proficient physical hydrographers in
the country and of a competent or-
ganic chemist, were employed, both of
whom were attached to the steamer
Fish Hawk, during the summer of
1890. The inquiries and experiments
of these experts were conducted with
. thoroughness and in accordance with
the most approved methods, and by
those} qualified to judge, their re-
sults must be regarded as conclusive
for the region examined—namely, the
open waters of the Sound and some of
the larger bays which open into it.
The conclusions reached were to the
eil'ect that the general conditions of
Long Island Sound and of the other
Waters referred to, are far from inimi-
ciil to the healthy growth of oysters,
and that no danger is to be apprehend.
ed in respect to those raised in the area
so defined. . '
The fact has long been known and
repeatedly brought to notice, that not
only sedentary aquatic animals, like
the oyster and clam, but even the free-
swimming fishes, may beV'Seriously af-
fected as food by their immediate sup.
roundings. The special case of typhoid
poisoning which started this inquiry,
originated in certain oysters planted
about 300 feet of the mouth of a sewer.
along the course of which several cases
of typhoid fever were under treat-
ment, the excreta from -,the patients
passing into this sewer. The correc
tion of such evils belongs to local
boards of health, as the Fish Commis-
sion has no power to determine what
spots may be used for the final process
of preparing oysters for the market.
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A Small Fire.
The fire department responded to an
alarm of fire from box 34 shortly before
12 o’clock, yesterday morning. The
fire was in the house of Mrs. Sarah A.
Warren, on Orchard street, and in
rooms occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Starr. The fire was extinguished be-
fore the firemen reached the scene.
One theory of the cause of the fire is
that a cat upset a chair on which. was a
lap-robe which coming in contact With
the kitchen stove became ignited _and
set fire to a barrel of light kindlings
near by. This communicated With the
mantel which was burned, as was also
a window sash. The carpet was also
burned. The loss is estimated at about
$50. Mr. and Mrs. Starr were in the
parlor at the time of the fire, which'was
discovered by Mrs. Starr on going into
the kitchen to look out for some cook-
ing which she was doing. As she open-
ed the door a dense volume oi_smokle
met her, and without waiting to investi
gate the cause, she threw up a window
and jumped on to the lean-to roof,
yelled fire and was about to jump to
the ground, when Charley Brotherton
came to her rescue with a ladder, but
she regained her courage and went
geek into the house through the Win.
ow. ..
In the meantime the flames had been
quenched by Mr. Starr with a few pails
of water.
The firemen responded promptly to
the alarm whicn had been sent in by
Fred Brotherton.
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ADMIT ITS EFFICACY.
Dr. David Kennedy’s Favorite Rem-
edy all it is claimed.
The interest taken in the almost
miraculous cures made by Dr Kenndy’s
Favorite Remedy, at Athens, N. Y.,
and other places, resulted in the Al.
bany, N. Y., Journal sending a special
representative to Athens to investi-
gate the cases, and it was found that
many ‘of the cures made by this med-
icine were simply wonderful.
In the cases of Mr. Lewis Clow, who
had chronic kidney disease, Mrs. Cas-
per Brooks suffering from female
troubles and Mrs. Wm. Tiffany, who
suffered from general prostration, all
of these cases were abandoned by their
attending physicians. Dr. Dav1d Ken-
nedy’s Favorite Remedy was then used
by them and in every case an absolute
cure'was effected.
6.
Amusements.
no rT’s 'ornna House.
More, the universal favorite, imper-
‘sonator of ingenue parts, coniinencesa
week’s engagement at Hoyt’s Opera
House, to-night. This little lady who
is a fit successOr to Maggie Mitchel,
will present an entire new repertoire of
plays during the .week, opening iofnight
with her latest success, “Pretty Poll.”
The supporting company is strong and
well balanced. The American Quar-
tette, late of the Manola-Mason com-
pany, will appear at every performance.
There will be matinees Thursday and
Saturday, with a special matinee on
Tuesday, New Year day.
A Norwalk Strauss. - ’
The Frugal Coal company has been
established in Norwalk by J. H. Louder.
He will sell a ticket for $1 entitling the
holder to four bushels at twenty-five
cents per bushel. Persons buying coal
at this price will pay $6 per ton. This
scheme will prove handy to families
having little money and scant storage
room. Mr. Louder says that there is
an average of 23 to 24 bushels in a torn,
therefore his profits will be small.
Tickets can be obtained at the restau-
rant, 23 Wall street, or by ordering
them from the driver. Persons not
having tickets will be charged the for-
mer retail prices. The tickets will save
twenty cents on every four bushels and
over $2 on a ton.
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At Last. '
After being nearly bounded to death
by the neWSpaper reporters, to learn
the latestvictim of a quarantine, El ealth
Ofilcer Tracey, on‘Sunday, had the
satisfaction of placing a large and ele-
gant yellow card on the door of the
residence of F. A. Taylor of the GA-
ZETTE, whose daughter is suffering with
a mild attack of diphtheria. Fritz .is
outside the quarantine, however, and
will continue to furnish the GAZETTE
readers with all the local happenings as
of old. ‘
And Still They Come.
Investigation of the Central National
Bank of Rome, N. Y., shows overdrafts
of $57,000.
A New York clerk has disappeared,
and it is found that he has stolen about
$3,500.
To-day it is the Hudson River Na-'
tional Bank of Hudson, N. Y., that has
been robbed of some $15,000 by its
bookkeeper.
—Fine line holiday candy from 8c. lb.
up, N,Y.Confectionery store, 19 Main st.
1016 2t
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Democrats to Meet.‘
The democratic state central commit-
tee is to meet in the Hotel Heublein,
Hartford, Wednesday, at 2 p. in, for
the purpose of electing a chairman of
the committee. The present chairman
is Clinton B. Davis of Eligganum. He
and there is talk of a change.
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Cooking Main Off.
A cocking main which was arranged
between Bridgeport and Darien birds
has fallen through. There were to
have been nine battles, $25 a battle and
$100 on the main. Saturday the Darien
people notified Bridgeport that the
main would have to be declared off.
They forfeited $25.
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—-Unheard of prices in candy, N. Y.
Confectionery Store, 19 Main street, 8,
10, 15, 20 and 250' per pound. 1015 2t
The “Honest Plumber.”
.Read the adv. of Holmesthe Wateri
for fattening, in a small river within’
street ”Honest Plumberfil
TERSE IAL’ES‘C’F T'ii‘r'ilMEs.
The citycouncil will meet tonight. ~
Make out yOur list of “swear oil's.”
No GAZETTE will be issued to-morrow.
Make your good resolutions to-mor-
row. .
town to day. .
'M. Shields returns to Haverhill,
Mass, to-day.
I The grand list. of Bridgeport foots up
$57, 000, 000. f
The Noramake club will meet Wed»
nesday night. ,
John Tullvhas moved into rooms in
the Hadden building.
The reporter wishes you one and all
a “Happy New Year.”
The GAZETTE extends a “Happy New
Year” to Mayor Hubbell.
.Our Brothers’ Lodge, I. O. O. F.,
Will elect ofiicers to-night.
Watch night services will-Elie held at
the Methodist church, to-night. _
.Just keep tally and see howl-many
tissues you write 1894 when you mean
J5.
The officers of the Norwalk Carpen-
ter’ls1 Union will be installed to-morrow
nig t.
The County Commissioners have re-
fused a license to C. W. Sherwood of
Stratford.
The County Commissioners have re-
fused a license to C. W. Sherwood of
Stratford. _______.
John H. McMahon, the well known
catcher, died at his home in Bridgeport,
yesterday.
_The annual meeting of Phoenix En-
gmecompany will be held on Tuesday
evening, Jan. 8.
The bids for constructing the Ridge-
field water works will be opened in
that town today.
There will be a midnight service at
Grace church. this evening, commenc-
ing at 11:30 o’clock. .
The members of the Tennis club and
their friends will dance in the Opera
House, to-morrow nignt. ' '
The board of assessors‘have com-
pleted their work and the books are
ready for yourinspection. '
_Lee On, a_ Stamford Ilaundryman,
mixed raw opium with his food,on Sat-
urday and died soon after; - -
Walter Burlingame has resigned his
membership in_ Dwyer's City of Nor~
walk band and joined Heine’s band...
the Boston Store last Monday morning.
Masses will be celebrated .at St,
Mary’s church at 5:30. and 8 o’clock, to-
morrow. _ The 8 o’clOck mass will be a
high mass.
.Governor Cofiin was .given a recep-
tion at Hartford on Saturday. A large
number of people called and paid their
respects.
Justice Rose, this morning, sentenced
Michael Hurley to thirty days in jail.
The pr1soner was charged with being‘
intoxicated.
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_The Messrs. Grumman, of Olden
Time Root Beer fame, are giving their
patrons cats, of which they have some.
thing like 2,000.
Telegrams from Florida announce
the ruin of the orange aw in most
parts of that state, owing to the extreme
cold snap there of late.
, Mate John Riley of the yacht Mar-
guerite, _1s home again. He reports
Captnltiley as being chock. full of
Electricity and as happy as an electric
e . .
.If you are going to take your best
girl out for a sleigh ride on New Years,
go to “Horry” Dann’s fer your turnout.
{is has the finest horses and sleighs in
own.
The Slavery Days company met with
grief in this city, Saturday night, and
disbanded. Landlord Garrison of the
American House, is a loser to the tune
of several dollars.
Mrs. Mary A. Derard, sister of the
late John A._Honnecker, died in Brodk-
lyn, .on Friday, aged 60 years. Her
remains will be brought here for in-
terment this afternoon.
Mrs. P. T. Barnum has left Bridge-
port and Will henceforth live in
England. _ Her handsome residence
Marina, built expressly for her by Mr.
Barnum, is offered for sale.
About 60 of the,70 applicants for li-
censes in Danbury have taken out their
license. The balance will take them
out this week. Last year there were
100 applications in Danbury.
On Jan. 1 a slight reduction in news-
Will go into effect. Eleven varieties of
enve Opes are affected but only large
purchasers Will reap any material bene-
has been chairman for several. terms ht
While playing “shinny” on the Un-
ion factory pond, Saturday, “Ed”
Reardon and “Joe” O’Brien collided.
the former ' ceiving an ugly cut over
iris eye and he latter a bad cut on his
1p-
“Jacob,” Fred Mead’s baker, has
accepted a situation in Boston and
Harry Leobold has secured the ser-
vices of a comet player to furnish his
patrons withfiniusic ighile‘undergoing'a
s ave. ' ‘ "
Belle Whipple, a member of the demi
mondain, has been missing from Bridge-
éifrequent declarations of her intention
l to commit suicide.
* innit; oi" Giiis.‘
*- Too lilapiderowth Or too
Charles DeKlyn ofDanbury, is in .
No‘clueh'as a’slyet been obtained of.
the burglars who blew open the safe at.
paper wrappers and stamped envelopes-
port since Christmas eve, when she was,
' celebrating by a glorious drunk and
Absorbing Study.
Causes ital Waxy, Bloodless Look
trialling lloallli. _
Try Paine’s Celery Com-
' pound fora few Weeks.’
m saga... Healtbw'll soon
Return.
Languor Will. Disappear and
Nervoitmess Go.
. Mothers with daughters that are yet
young often ask themselves:
“How can in girls be saved from
nervousness an life long weakness?”
It falls to the mother with her clear,
thoughtful eyes, to see that the health
and future happiness of her daughter»
is not sacrificed to excessive study, or
to any unreasonable excitement. The
signs of failing health and weakness;
pale cheeks, languid behavior colorleiis
lips, growing thinness, irratibility—all'
these ring alarm in her mind, for they
point, each with its separate finger, to
but one cause: thin, watery blood, and
an already impaired nervous system.
Parents should begin at the first
symptom of such tendency to change
this unfortunatehabit of the-body. The
real nerve food, Paine’s celery com.
pound, if used with the attention to
regularity, that any able physician’s
.prescription requires—(this remarkably
effective blood maker and nerve food
scientist than Prof. Edward E. Phelps,
M. D., . D., of the Dartmouth
Medical School), if taken as Prof.
Phelps urgently advises, is sure to
cause fort with ,a clearly observed
change in the tired, badly nourished
body.
A single week will show that the
“rundown” a stem is appopriating more
of the food t at is taken into the body,
and rapidly building up .the weakened
parts. Languor will disappear; the
spirits will be raised; the nervous af-
fections, dyspepsia, neuralgia, and de-
pression that went with the former ex-
hausted condition, will no longer afilict
the nerves. ‘ ' '
For overwrought, worried parents,
for thin, pale children, for the aged,
who are most apt to be afflicted with
rheumatism andsleeplessness, and for
any who lack strength there is nothing
that progressive physicians rely on so
invariably as Paine’s celery compound.
It makes new blood. It stores the net.
vous tissues all over the body With
fresh material. It cleanses every bit
of harmful humor from the blood and
sends it brisk] through the arteries
laden with foot for the deepest, most
vital tissues. f "
‘ There’s returning health and an act-
ive, full~fed state of the body in Paine’s
celery compound.
at.
A new theatre is to be built in wash-
ington, on the site of the house in
which James G. Blaine died, where
Secretary Seward was attempted to be
assassinated and in front of which Gen.
Sickles shot Barton Key.
‘ .—Knights of Columbus sociable. at
their hall, Monday Dec. 31 ;_ good time.
The last surviving child of Eldridge
'1‘. Gerry, one of the signers of t e
Declaration of Independence, Miss
Emily L. Gerry, died at her home in
New Haven, Saturday afternoon. Miss
Gerry was 92 years of age.
Mrs. J. Lawrence Stevens was thrown
from a sleigh in front of the post-office,
this morning, but fortunately escaped
injury. Rev. Father Slocum, who was
passing, gallantly. came to the rescue,
and received the hearty thanks of Mrs.
Stevens. . .
An elegant granite sarcophagus is
being placed in the Norwalk cemetery
to~day., asja memorial to the late Harvey
Fitch. Also a monument for the late
Henry Berg. The work is being done
bv Mr. P. W. Bates of the Norwalk
Granite Works.
is the formula of no less eminent‘ a '
A large crowd was on the Union fac- .
tory pond, yesterday, enjoying a season 4
of skating. Two young men who ought
to have been engaged in different busi-
ness got into a fight instead of the
pond and blackened each others eyes.
The fracas did not result in the arrest
of either of the belligerents.
-—Pictures framed at Hayes’ Main st.
10 3 if.
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. 'Morc Felice Corruption.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo. Dec. 31.-——City Attor-
ney J amcs Mytton has made formal charges
of bribery and protection of vice against
may lcadrto a" public. investigation.
Mary . Anderson Convalescent.“
Lennon, filers... '81.—-_—_-Mrs. éA-ntonio Na-
verro,~f_ormeijly .Mary Anderson, the cele-
Dcc. 7, the childilyiinga few hours later,
is 'now convalescent. '
The-.1‘olice ‘Were Napping.
PROVIDENCE, Doc. 31.—Comstock 8.:
Son’s meatbouse, a block from the Con.
tral police station, was robbed last night,
burglars breaking open the safe and get-
ting 8500.." ' _ -
., “’illa Go t'o‘n. Redeiver.
BOSTON, Dec. Shy—Judge Morton has
granted the appi‘icatlon_,of Dr. Edwin A.
Sunberufor disappointment of a receiver
for the Debenturc lnvcstment company.
Another Dunn-aver! Yacht.
LONDON, Dec. 31.—Lord Diinraven has
ordered a. 20 i-atcr racing cutter from
Somcrs 6.5 } sync. The cutter is to be
built from u design by A. S; Payne.
A Love. Sick Suicide.
Brink-UK)“ l'vw. lily—Michael Schrnnk,
aged [7. izziitgiiil liiiiisoli' iii the attic Of his
foster iiiui im- :—a house yostmiliiy out of love
fora y.,i.ii,' girl of his own age.
_ Auni'lli-r Sit. Johns Failure.
_S'i'. Jung-s, , 72, Dec. 81.—,.—Thorburn~
the police force and the-police judge that ‘
brat‘ed actress, .wlio'was delivered of a son -
ngnétl. 'i' .“.i ‘." 3'1".
~ ~iidcblcd to t 6 Union
tank 31 (Iii. . -, .il‘ '.
fair-caning .41.“: sis/$15 merchants- have aefpgsha, ox-khizdive 013 Egypt, is dying; .
ROME AND antiwar SOCIETIES.
The Cond'emnatory yecpeefilaas Yet Only
V ' 1 Under Consideration; .
first... nee. aid—it is not; true that at"
statusof- the se‘cretsoeisties—thc Sons of
--Temperance, Odd’Fcllows and Knights of
ythias—has been settled for members of
the Catholic church in the United States.'
There is the best of authority fer saying
that a decree condemning these societies
and a form for the promulgation of the
decree have been sent out by a congrega-
tion of Roman theologians and have been
by order of the pope submitted to the
bishops of America, from whom the pups
wishes to‘hear before a final decision.
The bishops in’ the various states of
- America are now consulting together and
Writing to Rome their opinions.
The submission of the decree to the
American prelates was confidential.
Suffering From Want of Coal.
MassinLon. 0., Dec. ,31.——Wlth the tem-
perature hovering around zero, many of
be idle coal miners are without fuel to
heat their houses. ‘ Coal is so scarce that
there is‘ not enough to keep the pumps ge-
ing atthc mines, and the operators will
ioombcj-compcllcd to buy outside fuel in
(tract to keep. their property from going to
destruction. ,
A Woman Elected by Mistake.
Four DODGE, 1a., Dec. 31,—As the re-
sult of a clerical error in an election ballot
Iowa will for the first time in its history
have a female justice of the peace. The
intention was to nominate her husband,
but by mistake his wife’s initials were
used, and she was elected. As there was
no legal obstacle to her filling the place,
Ihc has been sworn in.
General Foster Starts
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81.—Ex-Sccretary of
State John W. Foster started from Wash-
ington yesterday for Japan. where he will
join the peace commissioners of the Chi-
nese government to act as their legal ad-
visor. He was accompanied by Mr. John
Henderson, the son of cx-Scnator Hender-
son of Missouri, who gocsin the capacity
of secretary to General Fester.
Attempted to Lynch Him.
WOOSTER, 0., Doc. 31.—Chrlstian R.
Hymer has entered suit for $10, 000 against
several prominent citizens of Dalton, 0..
alleging that they attempted to? lynch him
last October on the suspicion that he was
the incendiary who fired the town of D315
ton, which was destroyed by fire at that
time. __._._____.________
Examining Chicago's Police.
CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—The examination
under the new civil service government of
the Chicago police force has been begun.
Every policeman on the rolls must submit
to a physical and mental examination, and
those failin g to reach the required standard
will be dismissed.
An Embezzler Surrenders.
MOBILE, Dec. 81.-George A. Pearce,
formerly of Mobile, but now of Abilene,
Tex, surrendered to Sheriff Doriand Fri-
day night. He is charged with embezzl-
ing $104,000 of the funds of the Planters
and Mcrchants’ Insurance company.
For the Minneapolis.
MINNEAPOLIS, Doc. BIA-The citizens’
committee have given an order to a New
York firm for a solid silver dinner service
for the United States cruiser Minneapolis
as a compliment from the city, after which
the speedicstvc'ssel afloat is named.
15 1101101110110 to Go?
BERLIN, Dec. 31.——Rumors are new in
circulation to the efi‘ect that Prince Ho-
henlohe, the chancellor, only intended to
act as an interim chancellor, and that the
emperor's real choice for chancellor is
Count Botho zu Eulenburg.
Croker 'Dldn't Meet Cochran.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31,—The anxiously ex-
pected meeting between Richard Croker
and W. Bourke Cocki'an did not material-
ize as was expectcd'whcn the Tammany
Hall executive committee met, as neither
gentleman was there.
Showalter \Von.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—J. W. Showalter
won the twenty-fifth game of the series
and the match against Ad Albin at the
Manhattan Chess club. Final score: Sho-
walter, 10; Albin, 7; drawn, 8.
Bulgaria and Russia.
SOFIA, Dec. 81.—The sobranje has passed
a bill granting amnesty to political offend-
ers, including Zankofi and Karavelofl. i
This is regarded as sealing the Russo-Bul-
garian rapprochmcnt.
The Usual Result.
ROME, Ga., Dec. ill—Friday night Dora
Williams locked her three children in her
home and went visiting. The result was
that the home and all the children were
burned. '
The Boiler Exploded.
MADRID, Dec. -31.—The engine of a
freight train exploded yesterday near Bil-
boa. The engineer was killed, several per-
sons were injured and much damage was
done. ‘
Arthur Irwin to Coach. . ~
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. slz—Arthur Irwin
will again coach the University of Penn-
sylvania baseball team this winter. The‘
. team will begin training on Jan.15.
Killed In a Quarrcl.
AVONIA, Kan, Dec. 31.—William Black,
a. coal miner, was last night instantly
killed by Dr. Mullen, a. prominent physi-
cian at Lebanan, during a quarrel.
é Editor Button Dead. .
LYNCHBURG, Va, Dec. 31.—Charles W.
Button, for many,years the editor of the
Lynchburg Virginian, died at his residence
in Appomattox yesterday, aged 72.
Murdered by Mexicans.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, Dec. 31.—B. Mc-
Gee, aprominent stockman, was murdered
.Friday by two Mexicans while hunting on
file N uces 'river.
The Albe Place Burned.
MOBILE, Dec. 31.—The Albe place, on
the Bay shell road, one of the finest man-
sions in the south, was destroyed by fire
Friday night.
Colonel Parke Dead.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.——Thc war depart-
ment has been informed of the death at
Omaha of Colonel John B. Parke, Second
infantry.
~' Murder at the Card Table.
NORMAN, ’ 0. T., - Dec. -.3-1.-——In a fight
over-a gainb of cards’la’st night-J. B. _Hil-
leanft-er was shot‘ and killed by M. T.
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Ismail Paella Dead.”
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:DRAMA.AND OPERA.
PALMER ,cox’s, BROWNIES‘GRCW m
PUBLIC FAVOR. "
Grand Opera Promises Greater Successes
than iii Aclii‘evcd Last Season. Many of
Snrdou’s Plays in America. Living Pic-
turee Approaching Suggestluncss.
N othing could have been more brilliant
in actual achievement or richer in prom-
ise than the opening of the opera season
interpreted by such artists as Mme. M01-
ba, J can and Edouard dc Beaks and P01
Planonn, is a. constant delight. To. say
anything new of awcrk that has been
heard for nearly 30 years is next to line
possible. It is pleasant to note, however,”
that this opera is at last and most do-
servedly meeting with that appreciation
which was denied it for many years. Per-
rhaps Jean dc Reske’s incomparable em-
bodiment of Romeo has as much to do
with the present popularity of the work
as anything else. Mme. Melba seems to
have caught something of the tenor’s
spirit. I for my own part took much
kecner delight in the beautifully poetic
and tender manner which marked her
singing of the balcony scene music than
in the brilliant waltz which the audience
insisted upon hearing the second time.
' But then sustained tones coming from so
pure a voice always gives one more pleas-
ure than the most intricate and dazzling
feats of vocalization. Edouard dc Rezke
was the Friar. His is such a gloriously
sonorous voice that you can never think
of anything else. Like his brother, he is
always bent on being dramatically dis-
creet, but whether he happens to sing
Marcel or Friar Laurence or the King in
Lorengrin, you always catch yourself
saying, “Heavens, what a voice!”
M. Sardou will be well represented on
the New York stage this season. Besides
“A Woman’s Silence,” two more of the
great French playwright’s latest works
are. to be produced here Within the
next two months, while Mrs. Langtry
promises us a revival of “La Patric,”
probably in January. The first of the
new plays to be seen is “Grinniondd,”
which Mme. Bernhardt has just produced
in Paris with great success, it the Parisian
press is to be believed, and which Miss
Fanny Davenport will present to the
American public for the first time at the
Fifth Avenue Theatre in December. The
‘ other new play 1 refer to is "Mme. Sans
Gene,” in which Miss Katherine Kidder
will be seen at the Broadway Theatre on
January 14, and which Mlle. Rejaue will
present in the original at Abbey’s about
a month later. Of “Gismonda” the
French critics say it is “a work of high
literary merit, as well as of real dramatic
power.”
Few productions this winter have so
minimized the usual difference between
promise, and accomplishment as the
dramatic resentment of Palmer Cox’s
familiar “ rownies.” The exactness with
which these whimsical figures have been
transferred to the stage is a matter of
considerable doubt, but there is enough
of the familiar characteristics of the
playful people to give to the performance
a refreshingly novel aspect. Of course,
actors could never be found who possess,
even approximately, appropriate physical
qualifications for brownies. and the at-
.means would have made them too un~
wieldy for activity. A good enough illu-
sion has been secured, however, to supply
new and picturesque figures to the light
style of entertainment. This in itself is
an accomplishment to be grateful for,
but the attention that the brownies at-
tract is deserved for more important
reasons. It is not to Mr. Cox’s quaint
costumes, or the graceful designs of Mr.
Birch, that the brownies owe their pros.
parity in their fleshly form so much as to
the fact that they have been endowed in
their new creation with nimble brains as
well as heels, with a brightness of speech
and a 'spryuess of humor that their pan-
tomimic predecessors seldom possessed.
Credit for this is doubtless due to Ben
Teal, the director of the production.
There is no dazzling Wit in the brownies’
talk, nor any triumphs of humor, but it
is all cleaigcut. It may be simple in its
intent at times, but the leaden dullness of
what we have often received as stage
humor in such performaucés is gratefully
missed. The lyrics are as simple, but as
effective, and are often poetical in their
,Whimsicalities of rhyme and fancy. The
costumes designed by Reginald Birch are
genuinely artistic. The “Brownies”
dressmaking bills are probably not to be
compared in size to “Cinderella’s,” nor
are the surroundings ever so grand. But
thereis noticeable in costume, scenery,
and action theforce of an intelligence
‘than unrpll yards of stuffs and scenery
before the gaze of an audience that is
dazzled into, an indiflercncc as-vto what
it hears so long as it sees.» There are some
delightfully ,eflective scones among the
browuies’ surroundings, and the final one
is particularly striking in its arrange
ment of colors and its grouping. Its suc-
case is not, however, due to any extrava-
gance of outlay, but to an artistic taste
and direction which shovvs how much
more should be valued such a. faculty in
a. play’s production.
A new lot of “living pictures” is shown
in “Little Christopher Columbus,” at the
Garden. There are sixteen of the tab-
leaux, and a round dozen are imitations
of masterpieces of the nude in art. The
naked figures are feminine, of course, and
consist' of live women posed against
painted backgrounds. The present set is
bolder than 1the previous one in its me
ponderance of unclothed bodies. The
poor creatures thus exposed to public
beautiful in face. They are nearly or
quite nude, so far as the eye of the spec«
tator can discern, the texture and hue of
the gossamer covering, where there is
any, being an undetectable counterfeit of
skin. In most cases the woman is dis-
played almost compietely in such a skin‘-
tight envelope, from neck to the very ends
of her fingers and toes, every detail of her
physical exterior distinctly visible under
the intense light that is thrown on the
ure in the thiu,soft cover, or a sign of
anything except skin next to its under-
side, to relieve the illusion that it is all
her own surface that is in view. Of course
there is excellentart in the wonderful
fidelitygvith which these women repro-
duce the famous pictures of Bougereau,
Heyse,-Ho’ttot and Bisson, audthcy will
on thataccount be defended against the
-"cha.rge of indg’cency. Bum-Twhat would
be,said of an exhibition of exclusively
‘ nude works at the Academy of Design?
A'nd’would‘tthése “living pictures” draw
in the money that they do if the women .
fin them were not alive?
ranmmr“v"
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in New York. "Romeo and Juliet,” when ‘
tempt to secure this cflect by artificial.
.making; anefifort to do something else.
view are symmetrical in form and often'
\ . . .
“picture,” and Without a seam or JOlnt- "
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m unawarst kind troubledme :0“. years. A
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P. 0. Plush“
Webster, N. H.
aarsaparllla, and I can truly say I ammuch bet
ter. Iliavc not had a headache for sometime
lieorl’sté i Cures
and am he tter in every way, in fact, I feel like I
sew person. MM. 1’. 0. Pnnsnunx.
Hood’. Pill. cure mum. and billoucncu
Hoyt’s Opera House.
One solid week. commencing
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3lsl, I894.
Matinee Tuesday. (New Years Dav). Thurs-
day and Saturday. The comedy sunbeam
EEQELA
And a selected company presenting Mora’s
lavestfiuccesses at popular prices.
MO DAY—“Pretty P01.” 2 .
TUESDAY MATINEE—( New Years Day)
“Sea. Sands.” '
TUESDAY NIGHT—"La BellelMidge."
WEDNESDAY NIGH"-— " Canny's Cross
Roads
THURSDAY MATINEE—‘jFogg’s Ferry.”
Tnunsmv NIGHT—“N116
FRIDAY NIGHT—"A Prett
SATURDAY MATINE ‘
une.
SATURDAY NIGHT—3 'Rhcdy.”
Price 10, 20 and 30c. Seats on sale at Pia-is-
ted’s and Gregory’s drug stores.
The American Quartet. late of the Manolo.
Masm Company. wrll appear at every perfor
mance.
Oideii."
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DIED.
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December 27th, 1894. CAPT. HENRY WILSON.
U, S. N,. aged 66 cars. _ ,
Relatives and frien s are inv1ted to attend
the funeral. from City Hotel, South Nor-
walk, on Monday December 31, at 2 p. m.
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walk. on the assessment list of 1894, ill
meet in the office of the Selectmen, Monday.
Jan. 7th. 1895. at 2 o’clock; Wednesday even~
ing, January 9th at 7 O’clock; Saturday, J anu-
ary 12th. at 2 o’clock; Wednesday evening
January 16th. at 7' o’clock; Saturday, January
19th, at zo’clock: Wednesday evening. Janu-
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at 2 o’clock. for the purpose of hearing and de-
termining any and all appeals made to them
from the doings of the assessors. The Board
of Belief will meet with the assessors as a joint
board Saturday January 12th, at 2 o’clock, for
the purpose of abating the polls of sick and
disabled persons,
Norwalk, Conn., December 24th, 1894,
B. S. KEITH. '
HENRY SEYMOUR.
HENRY D. FOXJ
Board of Belief.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
Falriield Bounty National Bank.
Norwalk Conn, D... 24th,189t.
The Board of. Directors have this day de-
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to stockholders On and after January 2nd.
1895, .The transfer books will remain closed
until that date.
. L. C. GREEN. Cashier.
SDUIH NDIIWALK’SAVINGS BANK
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South Norwalk.Conn. Dec. 26. 1894
At a meeting of the managers of_ this bank.
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declared for the SIX months ending January
1 1895, payable on and after January 10, 1895.
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1895»
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