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SOUTH NORWALK.
The South ;Norwa.l
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orders for Job Printing,
Homer M. Byinzton. Manager.
No. 12 North Main Street,
as well as
K Office of the Gazette Is at the store of New~
where Advertisements and
Items of News. can be left with
Butler Lodge will rehearse the Ini-
tiatory degree this evening.
The Hungarian societv gave a dance
in Germania Hall last night.
Attorney John H. Light is in Bridge-
port to-day in the Common Pleas court.
Colfax Encampment worked the first
degree on several candidates last night.
The Knights of the Mystic Chain met
in; their hall on Washington street last
night. , .
The “ Twin City Wheelmen” meet in
their new rooms on Washington street
for the first time, this evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Milford A. Griffin have
purchased new wheels, on which :they
intend to explore the different roadslgof
the twin cities.
Uncas Tribe of Red Men will work the
Adoption degree on several candidates
in their Wigwam on Washington street
this evening. _
The Governing Committee, of the
Yacht club, meet witlr Vice-Commo-
dore, A. E. Chasm’ar, of Washington
street, this evening. '
The regular meeting of the Board of
Managers of the Woman’s Exchange,
will be held on Thursday morning,
May 7, at 10 o’clock. ‘
Elmer Lavine, one of Newman &
Pinuey’s paper hangers, has gone to
Danbury to be married to one of that
city’s fair maidens. !
Mrs. James K. Crofut, of Simsbury,
Mass, who has been visiting Mrs. Ed-
ward Matthewson, of West avenue, re-
turned home yesterday. ,
Charles Livingston. a Consolidated
freight brakemam fell from the top of
a car at Harlem, just before noon to-
day, and had his right arm cut off.
James Monahan was arrested last
night for dunkenness and before Judge
Hubbell this morning his case was con-
tinued until next Tuesday morning at 9
o’clock. . .
Tallmadge Baker and James L. Hoyt
are acting as jurymen on the civil side
in the Common Pleas court at Bridge-
port to-day. F. S. Lyon, Sr. is acting
on the criminal side.
Edgar Bouton appeared before Judge
Hubbell in the Town Court this morn-
ing charged with drunkenness. As
Bouton is an old offender the Judge
sentenced him to sixty days in Jail.
At the council meeting last evening
City Attorney Light announced that
the Consolidated railroad would prob-
ably sign the deeds conveying their
property on Railroad Place to the city,
some time to-day.
Landlord Hall of the City Hotel has
presented his son James with a fine
turnout consisting of a handsome pony
and wagon, which arrived last night in
charge of Fred Stabell. It is needless
to say that “Jimmy’, is the happiest boy
in South Norwalk to-day. '
Among the candidates for patrolman
on the police force, to fill the position
made vacant by the resignation to officer
Decker, is E. V. Baker. It is quite
generally understood that unless Mr.
Baker resigns as Chief Engineer of the
fire department his appointment will
not be considered.
The Young Woman’s club held their
regular monthly business meeting last
evening in G. S. North’s studio, and
transacted routine business, Whittier
was the subject of the literary meeting,
and Miss Mary Clarkin read a paper on
' “ The Life of John G. Whitter,” while
. Mrs. J. Milton Coburn and Miss Sev.
mour read some of his poems. The ad-
vertisement game was then indulged in
and Miss Katherine Reynolds succeed-
ed in winning the prize. Refreshments
were served after which the ladies ad-
‘journld. ’
E. B. Magnus, whose cottage at
Hickory Bluff was ransacked by burg-
lars, Was in town yesterday and notified
Chief of Police Vollmer as to what was
missing. He said as far as he knew
only one of his wife’s dresses and a sack,
his black overcoat, and a spy glass were
taken. If Mr. Thomas’ loss is no heav
for than Mr. Magnus’ the burglars did
not have much success in the operations,
Mr. Thomas has not as yet notified the
Chief as to his loss. ,
Henry Williams appeared before
Judge Hubbell in the Town Court this
morning charged With assault and
breach of the peace. Williams’ arrest is
the result of theWater street brawl which
was told in the EVENING Gaznrrr: some
time ago. The witnesses of the brawl
testify that Williams was one of the
contestants and he testifies he was not.
The case was continued until to-mor-
row morning at 9 o’clock. The case is
attracting a good deal of interest and
the court room will no doubt be crowd
ed.
CAUGHT IN THE TRAP.
An Old Vermont Farmer’s Device for Pro-
tecting His Henroost.
“The neatest case of catching a.
chicken thief I ever heard of,” said a
Maine merchant, according to the Lex-
ington Journal, “occurred where I used
to live in Vermont. There was a fellow
round there who was a wonderful horse
trainer, but good for nothing else, be-
ing shady in other ways. People hired
him to break colts, and he had the pe- -
culiar habit of: hitching up at night and
driving off, nobody knew where. He
was thought to be a. thief, and that his
night trips were for that purpose. He
was engaged by an old farmer to break
a colt, and as soon as the trips began
the old man’s chickens began to disap-
pear. The old man thought hard over
the subject. Then he said to the horse
trainer one evening: ‘Johnny, some-
bodyis stealing my chickens, and I’m
going to set a. bear trap for ’im.’ ‘Best
thing you can do, deacon,’ replied
Johnny, picking his teeth with a straw.
‘It’s pretty hard to set,’ said the farm-
er; ‘won’t you help me?’ ‘Yes, indeed,’
Johnny answered with alacrity. So
they went and set the trap very care-
fullyat the back of the henhouse. ‘I
think the thief gets in this way,’ said
the man, ‘and I guess I’ll get him if he
comes to-night.’ ‘Guess you will, dea-
con,’ Johnny chuckled.
“After Johnny had driven off at
nightfall, as usual, the deacon hustled
out and moved the bear trap around to
the front door of the hen house.
Johnny thought he was all right when
a. few hours later he crept slyly up to
the place. ‘Deacon thinks he’ll get the
chap to-night,’ he laughed to himself,
‘but I guess I won’t go in the back way
this time.’ The deacon heard his
terrific yell when the trap sprung and
knew well enough who was in his trap.
‘Ha, ha, Johnny, is that you‘?’ he asked
in mock seriousness. ‘Told you I’d get
the thief to-night, didn’t 1‘.” Johnny
was a. high tempered fellow and des-
perate when triilcd with. He lived
around there afterward, and sometimes
the boys, when they were safely out of
his reach on t1 3 other side of the river,
or something of that sort, would sing
out to him: ‘Catching any bears now,
Johnny?’ But they never dared to say
‘bear’ to him if he had any chance to
get at them.”
A WI LDWOOD SCHOOL.
How a Raccoon Mother Gave Her Young
Ones a Lesson in Urawfish Catching.
A correspondent of the Chicago News
describes a. wildwood scene which he
aptly terms the counterpart of a boy’s
school. He was one day sitting quietly
on a. log near a. creek, when there came
pacing down a little path an old mother
raccoon with five young ones. The
little fellows were about as large as
half-grown cats, and no kittens were
ever more intent on mischief. The
mother had apparently brought them
to the water to teach them to catch
crawfish. '
She first got her family in line at the
water’s edge; then she perched herself
upon 2. rock and gravely reached down
into a hole and brought up a. crawfish.
While she was washing it a little coon
broke ranks, darted forward and seized
the prey from beneath his mother’s
nose. .
This Started a row, and all the little
follows were badly mixed, while the old
one was administering bites and cuffs
indiscriminately among the scholars.
She finally succeeded in restoring
order, and. then sent one of the little
coons to try his luck in anotner hole.
Here the fun bcgan in earnest, and
all the mischievous boys that ever made
a. teacher’s heart ache were angels of
goodness when compared with these
litt c coons. They pinched each oth-
cr’s tails, nipped each other’s ears, hit
each o‘thcr’s legs, and worried the old
coon until she turned to and gave them
a. general cui’fing all around.
It seemed to me that each little coon
knew his lesson perfectly, and was de-
tcrinined to get all the fun possible,
for when the mother coon became so
angry that she made her bites felt, the
little fellows caught, washed and ate
their crawfisli with all the ability of
veterans.
The comically grave faces of the little,
follows as they reached down into the
crawfish holes and gropcd about for the
fish were too much for my risibilitics,
and I gave such a. hearty laugh that
the school was instantly dismissed.
Sailing Round the World Alone.
Capt. J oshua, Slocum, who sailed
from East Boston nearly a year ago to
circumnavigate the globe in his 40-foot
sloop Spray, has beenheard from as
being at Sandy Point, in the Straits of
Magellan, on February 16,. His original
intention was to make the trip to the
westward by the way of the Isthmus of
Panama, but finding that it would be
impossible to transport his vessel across
the isthmus, he determined to make the
journey, by sailing east. He crossed
the Atlantic, and had reached Gibraltar,
but hearing there that there were pi-
rates in the Red sea, he again turned
westward, and after a tempestuous pas-
sage across the Atlantic, reached Per-
nambuC), Brazil, on October 5, which
was the last heard of him until. the
news just received—Boston Transcript.
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Not long ago a Russian judge was
called upon to decide a knotty point re-
lating to a promissory note, which the
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Henry’s Day.” N OW it happens that
there is no such saint’s day in the Ortho-
dox Russian calendar. Hence,
bond in, which it could not be said that
debtor had made payable on saintl
how ,
could the court give judgment on n‘ .
: .111eg for payment on that day.-
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the debtor nod made default? Yet
justice evidently required that the.
lender of the money should be repaid.
Then it occur-red to the judge, who had
a share of the shrewdness of Sancho
Panza. or the wit of Joe Miller, that the
festival of “All Saints” must necessari-
ly include even the dubious saint in
question, and he gave judgment accord-
No. 770
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