Evening gazette, Tuesday, March 31, 1896 · page 1

 

 

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Vol. VI. Whole No. 133]

NATIONA_L_EAPITAT.

An Early Adjournment of Con-
gress Probable. ’

 

Live Washington News and Chat.

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The Republican leaders in the House
are confidently counting on an early
adjournment, and the most reliable
straw to indicate the probable date com-
es from Mr..Dingley, chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee. and the
man who has the ”confidence of the
Speaker to a‘greater extent than any
other man on the floor. The Maine
statesman has been figuring on adjourn-
ment June 1, but is now of the opinion
that it can be'forced two weeks earlier.

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Quite a number of Democratic mem-
bers of the House are looking forward
to taking part in the celebration of Jef-
ferson’s birthday at Monticello, April
13, under the auspices of the National
Association of Democratic Clubs. A
special train will be run over the South-
ern, reaching the mansion a'ter dinner.
Speeches will be made by ex-Gov. Rus-
sell, of Massachusetts, and Senator Dan-
iel, of Virginia. A special car has been
provided in the President, Vice Presi-
dent, and Cabinet.

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A New England member of the House
received an amusing letter from one of
his constituents a short time ago. She
is a widow, and applied for a pension,
In the course of her letter she stated
that from the time her husband had
come home from the war until his death
she had “supported him on the paint of

her needle.”
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Personally conducted excursions
from New England states are greatly in
evidence this week, a party of 181 Bos-
ton school teachers arrived Saturday
and will remain till Thursday. Some 300
more are due here April 4, to be fol-
lowed by 10:) on the 11th and 125 on the
16th.

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Dr. W. A. Crofi‘ut, an irrepressible
son of Connecticut, introduced in a
most happy manner Col. Robert G. In-
gersoll to a rousing meeting of the
“Secular League” yesterday afternoon.
Dr. Crofi'ut is just now engaged in a
spirited defense of the objects and pur-
poses of the League, in a series of 8.1-.
ticles in the Post, with Rev. Dr. Sun-
derland. A bill is before Congress to
introduce “God in the Constitution”
and another for the betser protection of
the Christian Sabbath. Good .Dr. S.
pleads the law stopping all secular
work and sports on the Lord’s Day,
urging particularly that the foreign
element (mostly Italians) in our Na-
tional Capital of all places, ought not
to be allowed to destroy this best of
American institutions, the American
Sabbath, and put a foreign Sunday of
toil and dissipation in its place.

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In his letter to-day, Crofi'ut quotes
Dr. S. as saying that the First Presby-
terian church after living more. than
half a century without a charter, was
incorporated by Congress in 1868, and
adds, “I don’t know what Brother Crof-
fut will do about this.” To which
Crofl‘ut responds: “Nothing, if. the
First Presbyterian church will pay its
taxes. If it continues to hold valuable
property and shirk its taxes—if it per-
sists in occupying its premises at the
expense of others—if it declines to be
bound by the reciprocal rules of equity
which binds all other business corpora-
tions in this city—it will hear a loud

’ and continually swelling chorus of re-
monstrance which will ring in its cor-
porate ears till justice is done,” and
adds as a clincher, that “there is no

reason why everybody should not be .

taxed to pay the ministers’ salaries as
they are now taxed to pay the churches’

taxes.”
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Little but routine business was tran-
sacted in either house of Congress to-
day.

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Theo. F. Shuey and Edward V. Mur-
phylwere unanimously chosen to sue-
ceed the late Dennis F. Murphy, in
charge of the stenographic staff of the

Senate.
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Senator Mitchell gave notice that
he would go on with the Du Pont con-
test to-morrow.

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. Senator Davis introduced a bill pro-
viding for the election of a delegate in
Congress from Alaska.
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Walter 1. Miller and wife of Derby
stopped here on their return from Flor-
ida. ‘

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Norwalk, Conn, Tuesday Evening, March 3], 1896'.

Price OncCent.

 

STDLE HIS TROUSERS

Burglars Visit Several Houses
on West Main Street.

 

 

They Use Nippers in Gaining an Entrance.

Burglars visited the residences of .

James L. Grrifl'eth, Eben Eaton and
James E. Wixon at an early hour yes-
terday morning, all residents of West
Main street.

They first attempted to gain an en-
trance to James Grifi'eth’s house by
using a pair of nippers on the key in

the door on the east- side of. the house,

and succeded in turning the tumbler of

the look, but the (luul' was bolted and

they could not open it. ,

They then went to the west side 'of
the house and tried the nippers on the
key in the lock. This door leads into
Mr. Grifieth’s sleeping room, and there
was a light burning. Mr. Grifi'eth
heard them and getting out Of bed se-
cured his revolver, blew out the light
and wentt) the door. Evidently the
burglars heard him moving about, for
they hastily ran off from the stoop and
before he could get a shot atthsm were
out of pistol range.

Eben Eaton’s house was also visited
by the gentry. An unsuccessful at-
tempt was made to get into the house
by the way of the front door. Failing
in this they went to the bay window,
tore open a blind and with some instru-
ment or other succeeded in breaking
the window-catch.

They crawled through the window
into the sitting-room and found their
way about by the use of matches. Mrs.
Easton awoke and her attention was at-
tracted by a smell of burning matches.
She awakened her husband to whom it
quickly became evident that there
were burglars in the house, and he
started to investigate, With the result
that he saw two men'dash through the
room into the kitchen and out of the
door. Returning to his room he dis-
covered that the burglars had taken his
trousers with them, and that they had
also helped themselves to two shirt
studs which were-of little value. The
trousers were found in the dooryard,
but the pockets had- been rifled of about
$1 in cash and some small trinkets

The residence of James E. Wixon‘.

was also entered much in the‘same way
as at Mr. Eaton’s, a catch in the bay
window being forced off, after a vain
attempt to turn the key in the door
with a. pair of nippers. The thieves
were evidently hungry as they helped
themselves to meat and other edibles
in a liberal manner, not. forgetting milk
with which to wash the food down
their throats. Partially burned matches
were strewed about the fl )or. Nothing
of value was found to be missing.

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0. U. A. M.

The supreme body of ex councillors
of the Order of United American Me-
chanics has been instituted. .

The new organization which is to be
composed exclusively of ex-councillors
of the subordinate councils of the O.
U. A. M. is to be known as the Senate
of Ex-Councillors of the O. U. A. M. of
the U. S. and is constituted with power
to grant charters for and institute state
and subordinate branches, to promul-
gate laws for their government, and
adopt a ritualistic work for their use.

After the organization was effected
the officers of the body were elected as
follows: President, H. J. Seeley,
Bridgeport; vice-president, L. D. Leon-
ard, Litchfield; reporter, C. H. Adams,
South Norwalk; treasurer, Captain
James F. Smith, New London; marshal,
Mr. Waldorf, Bridgeport; door-keeper,
P. Gablin, Long Hill; guard, J. E.
Thomas, Strut-ford; Chaplain. Rev. J.
Hanlenbeek, Norwalk; past president,
G. K. Birdsey, Bridgeport.

The motto adopted is “Fidelity to
American Principles and Institutions.”

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Needs Amending.

Editor Rodemeyer will ride a high
grade bicycle during the coming season.
—News.

This statement is entirely too broad
and needs amending. John made one
attempt to ride this wheel, the attempt
being chronicled in the EVENING GA-
ZETTE, since which time the machine
has been hidden away in the pi box.
We opine that he will not ride it on
account of his parenthetical appendages
and therefore move to insert the word
“try” after the ~word“will,” so as to read
Editor Rodemeyer will :try to ride a
high grade bicycle. It is hoped the
amendment will be accepted before the
undertaker is called in.

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Cattle Roasted Alive.

Two barns, the property of the Er-
sham .estate, and located in North
Bridgeport, were burned last night, to-
gether with 16 head of cattle and a lot
of agricultural implements.

 

 

 

 

 

DARIEN’S DEFECTS.

Rev. Mr. UtleylPays His Re-
spects to the Town
Before Leaving.

 

Says it is I50 Years Behind the Age.

Rev. W. L. Utley has been in the
ministry for four months and spent
these and several months before in
Darien. He was previously a news-
paper man, and a. good .one. He said
good-bye to the Unitarian society of
DlTit-ln Sunday night, and the society
accepted his resignation, with regret.
He has accepted a, call to the pastorate
of the Long Ridge Universalist church,
and will enter upon the duties of that
charge next Sunday.

He felt he had a word to say before
leaving which it was expedient for him
to say and good for the people to hear.
The town was 150 years behind the
times. He had done a good deal of
traveling, and had seen a great many
towns, but this town ranked first in its
lack of public spirit and enterprise.

Darien property owners regarded the
inventor of the sidewalk a traitor, and
he would meet a traitors fate if he
showed up in the town. A man, who
says: 'fWe need fire protection” is no
better than one of theweak and un—
regenerate. A few lanterns scattered
over tne town would be a useless ex-
pense and extravagance. As for the
trolley they didn’t propose to have
them ring that bell and go like Chicago
through the town, if they could help
themselves.

“When I first came to the town,” he
continued, “the selectmen had put no-
tices up around to the effect that bicy-n
cles must keep off the sidewalk. No
sidewalk could be found and the signs
were taken in. Idon’t know a single
unselfish enterprise in the toWn outside
the Noroton club, and that has had the
asthma. The great question to be set-
tled first, last and all the time, is, What
doI get out of it? If proposed im-
provements are not stuck in front of

my dooryard, where I Can see—them and‘

have a string tied to them, I won’t vote
for them.”

The speaker then compared Darien
with other towns not half its size and
‘not five years old.

He referred to the fact that a certain
merchant had told him that two-thirds
of his bad debts were owed by church
peOple, and felt, that if people paid

their debts before they paid their min-‘

ister. there would be less ministers in
Darien. There were lots of young men
in Darien, but not in the church; the
church was neglecting its duty. He did
not blame young men for not going to
church, when they were told every time
they were miserable, undone sinners,
children of the devil and on the road to
'hell. He felt there was too much class
distinction in the churches. “There
are,” said he, “more cheerful places to
go to than a Darien church. No won-
der the young men would rather go fish-
ing or call upon some good looking
girl.”

The ministers of Darien, he said,
were neglecting a solemn duty, and if
their religion was true, would be held
to a great account. There were some
ministers who were altogether too ofli-
ciohs; they seemed to think the respon-
sibility of the town rested upon them;
they were too active in politics and
public affairs generally. They regarded
the ministry as a sort of divine detect-
ive agency, and spent their time in
spotting saloons and buying beer on
Sunday. They buy beer on Sunday as
evidence and when they appear in
court their testimony is thrown out,
because never having tasted it, they
don’t know whether it is beer or fizz
water. He thought ministers would
make more friends in the long run by
attending to their own affairs.

He closed the second part of (his dis-
course with a word about the gossips.
He said he did not known that the gos-
sips in Darien were any worse than

were certainly as bad. He spoke of the
wholesale scandal and slander retailed
by soap-box orators in the vilest kind
of language. He accused himself of
having listened to them for manner’s
sake. The churches might do a work
by furnishing these individuals with
some profitable employment.

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Ex-Sheritf Clarkson Home.

Ex-Sheriff R. L. Clarkson returned
home Sunday evening from his, four
months’ stay in St. Augustine,Fla.,- and
he returns with 17 more pounds of fresh
on him and a face tanned by Florida
sun. He says he never felt better in
his life. His wife and two young
daughters accompanied him, and they,
too, have enjoyed the trip. His wife

 

 

has been especially benefitted.

those in any other small town, but they-

HE HELPED HIMSELF.
A16 Wilton B—MTdi—ar Decamps

' with $l00 Belonging to
His Landlady.

 

[He May Return, But It Is Doubtful.

Some weeks since. there arrived in
Wilton a man who gave his name as
Benjamin Willets. He was seeking a
place to board and was accommodated
at the home of Mrs. Henry W. Mitchell.

He did not appear to have any visible
means of support but paid his board re-
gularly, and that was all that could be
reasonably expected of a boarder.

But then it is always the unexpected
that happens.

Last night the boarder disappeared
and this morning Mrs. Mitchell found
that a roll of money containing about
$190 was missing from a bureau drawer
where she had placed it. ’

Officer Morehouse was advised of the
theft this morning and was given a fair-
ly good description of the man suspect-
ed o‘f having stolen the money. It may
be that the fellow will be foolish enough
to come here to “blow in” his ill-gotten
gains but it is the more probable that
he will place a greater distance between
himself and his remunerative boarding
hopes.

 

BOXING AT HARTFORD.

 

Lou‘Webster of East Norwalk Knocked Out
in the First Round.

 

The Capitol Wheel club had a boxing
exhibition at the Auditorium in Hart-
ford last night. All the events on the
program were pulled off.

Stephen Mahoney, of Boston, de~
feated Jack Kempt of New Jersey, in
four rounds.

Jenny Morelock, of Danbury, de-
fevited Jack Sullivan, of Braintree, in
two rounds.

The next event was an eight-round

’bout‘between Louis Webster ofSonth

Norwalk and Jack Lynch of Brooklyn.
Webster had the advantage of Lynch
in height and reach. -

Webster led and landed all over his
opponent. chasing him around the ring
and adopted whirlwind tactics without
the necessary‘science. His blows were
not effective. Lynch smiled and let fly
his right which caught Webster squarely
on the j-iw and he dropped to the floor
and not rising in fifteen seconds was
counted out.

Charlie Matthews, of Danbury, and
Jim McVey, of New York, fought eight
rounds to a draw. '

The lieutenant of police and four of-
floors were present, and refused to per-
mit knockouts or counting out. ‘

New Ice Pond.

Selectmanilfernll having razed the
“little forest.” that stood in the way of
the deVelopment of his proposed new
ice pond will as soon as the season per-
mits commence the construction of a
dam 235 feet in length and to the
heighth of about ten feet with an over-
flow of about two feet more. The
amount of territory overflowed will be
about ten acres and it has a frontage on
the road leading to what is known as
the five corners, on the main avenue to
New Canaan. ‘It is fed by springs and
Mr. Merrill feels assured of a superior
quality of ice for his next winter’s har-
vest. ~

 

 

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Happy Man.

Francis Duff, the veteran shoe maker
of Greenwich, claims to have disclosed
the secret of perpetual motion, he hav-
ing just completed a machine which is
reputed to have that power. He says
that he has spent about twenty years on
the difficult problem. He had made a
previous model, but the machine broke.
Now he is perfecting another.

 

Cleveland’s Minstrels.

Manager Hoyt has secured W. S.
Cleveland’s big double minst-rels for
Easter Monday afternoon and evening.
Cleveland is always up and doing and
itis said that his efforts this year sur.
pass all previous records. As it is some
time since a good minstrel troupe has
been in town, he should have a good
house. -

Accidcntally Shot.

Harry, the eighteen year-old son of
Police Commissioner Thomas P. Taylor,
of Bridgeport, was accidently shot
while shooting at a target yesterday.
The bullet passed through his arm and
lodged in the flesh below the armpit.
It was removed by Dr. Sheedy.

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School, Lodge, Society, Club or Fire Gom- ~
‘ pony in Fairlield Coonty.

fire company? .
Which one has the most admirers and friends?

Doubtless these questions are beyond the power of any"

absolute answer, but THE EVENING GAZETTE offers an
exceptional opportunity to make the test. THE GAZETTE pro-
poses to poll the votes of the people. And the voting is to
have zest in it. It is made worth while to vote. There is a
magnificent prize at stake.

THE GAZETTE Will give A $400 UPRIGHT PIANO to the
school, lodge, society, club or fire, company which gets the
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home, and in all its musical qualities it is unsurpassed. In
every sense it is a perfect and beautiful instrument equal to
the best that can be anywhere bought for 35400 IN‘ GOLD.
The following are the rules which govern the voting: -
1—THE GAZETTE will print. each day a blank coupon, each coupon being
good for one vote for the school. lodge, society, club or fire com—
pany the owner of the ctupon may select—the blank lines in the
coupon to be filled out with the name and address. The coupon
today is at the end of this article. . ,

2—The contest will close on July 2, and the winner announced on July 3.

3—Ary school, lodge, society, club or fire company in F airfield County is
eligible.

4—A full record of the voting will be published up to date every evening
in THE GAZETTE, but votes received after 10 A. M. will not be re«

corded until a da'y later.
5—Coupons must. be filled out in a plain handwriting, for otherwise blund-
ers can not be avoided and votes will be lost. Blank coupons, (if

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party buying one does not get merely a handsome case, He
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Norwalk Yacht Club ............................................................................... 4974
Hope Hose Company..... ........................................................................... 4808
St. Mary’s School_ ............................. 3657
Welcome Stranger Lodge .................................................................... . 1015
Center School ................................. . ....................................... . ............... 642
Pequonock Pleasure Club .............. . .......................................................... 488'
Over River School.. ................................................................. '... ............... 347
Pioneer Castle .......................................................... . ............................. 92
T. F. E. Club ...... _. ................................................................................... 70
Arion Singing Society .......................................................... ‘ .................. (i 0
T.G. L. C ...................... .............................. ' ................................ ...... 36
Sword Fish Club .............................. ...'...‘ .............................................. .. 23
Norwalk Liederkronz................ ....... 19
Combo Engine 00., Westport ............................................................ 10
N. R. 0---- ........ ........... _ ................... . ........ 8
Catholic Union Council .......... . ...................... . .................... 3
Uncas Tribe ............................................................ . 3
Knob Outing Club......... ........................................................ 2
Pine Ledge Club ............................................ . ..... ....... .............. 2
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