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V, eventful
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24,1896.
Honest vs. Fake Journalism.
The New York Herald was among _
other papers to publish the faked mur-
der yarn, referred to in the GAZETTE of
Monday as purporting to have occurred
at Easton. The story was discredited
by us at the time as it bore all the
spurious earmarks of the professional
Connecticut {newspaper fakir. The
.Herald means to serve its patrons with
honest news and so bold was the sen-
sational yarn from Easton, that it set
itself to work to discover 'if there was
any grounds whatever, for the antro-
cious lie and with the following result,
which it gives in its yesterday’s edition:
ALLEGED MURDER nrsrnova'n.
13y Telegraph To The Herald]
I have made every effort to verify a
story sent to several New York news-
papers, including the Herald, last night
from this city regarding an alleged
murder in a deserted house near Easton,
but have been unable to do so.
It is possible that the story grew out
of an orgy in a vacant house near
Bridgeport, in which several tramps
and a. disreputable woman were cen-
fisrned. The persons mentioned as
mm "*9: found a dying woman in a house
near .531. atom are not known in that
village, no: 1. as any one there heard of
the alleged crime.
The story referred to 1.1 the a‘GCVB
despatch was sent to the Herald. by its[
.correspondent, L. W. Wilson. who ,3?“ ‘1
Hers no long--
er connected “w .the Herald. Thestory
was “150 £9 .15 to other New York news-
papers 8 nd printed by them, as it was
ii? the Herald. The result of a
.norough investigation is g iven in the
despatch receiVed last night.
This morning's Herald supplements
the above with the following editorial
on the subject:
mrosrrron 0N NEWSPAPERS.
The unfounded story of a strange
murder sent from Bridgeport, Conn.,
and printed in several papers of this
city Monday morning suggests the need
ofastern law for the punishment of
every perpetrator of such impositions
on the press and public.
However careful a journal may be in
the selection of its correspondents and
in the efforts to verify its telegraphic
news, it cannot claim infallibility in
this respect any more than a well man-
aged bank or business house can boast
absolute exemption from imposition by
an unfaithful employee 'or a dishonest
outsider. But while a bank which be-
comes the victimof forgery or a busi-
ness house of fraudulent practices may
reach the culprit by the arm of the
criminal law, the only remedy’in the
hands of a newspaper when imposed
upon by the author of a false report is
promptly to dismiss the offender in its
employ. '
There is in this state a law for the
punishment of any person who know-
ingly and wilfully sends t6 a paper for
publication a false report. which is libel-
ous. This is not enough. There
should be a law in every state to reach
every culprit who deliberately sends
false and mischievous reports to the
press, whether they be libelous or not.
The punishment of such oft’enders
would be in the public interest as well
as for the protection of reputable
ournals.
This should prove a warning to the
youthful fakirs here in Norwalk who
fill the New York Sunday and other
papers with sensational creations made
from whole cloth and frequently gross-
ly libelous as to indiv1duals. Such
work isa disgrace to decent journals
and journalism. The writers of them
here in Norwalk are known and it is to
be hoped the same fate of summary dis-
missal will await them unleS1 they
Such
correspondents are a curse and a dis-
grace to our town and to the New York
papers publishing their lying, fake,
contributions. Decent New York news-
papers should put an end to the dis.
reputable business as promptly as has
the Herald.
stop their abominable practices.
-——OOO
‘Ex-Secretary Bristow. ,,
The death of, Benjamin H. Bristow
recalls to the public mind one Iof the
heroic figures of our political history
of twenty years ago. Though he was
butashort time prominent in public
life, and on his retirement ceased en~
tirely to take any active part in politics,
he exerted, during his official career,
an influence of so far-reaching a char-
acter that his brief service as Secretary
‘~ of the Treasury may well be called
._.-
THE EVENING" GAZETTE
He was a sound lawyer and a bravely
honest man, who had discharged his
‘ duties‘as one of the law officers of the
government with modest efficiency, but
was little known'to the public when Gen-
the Treasury. He was well fitted for
the responsibilities of this great office,
which was then as now an exacting one,
and he was peculiarly fitted for are-
sponsibility such as latter Secretaries
have not had to meet, the detection and
suppression, the exposure and punish-
ment, of the frauds that had grown up
and had become securely entrenched in
the internal revenue service.
Even those younger readers to whom
General Bristow's name is not familiar
have heard of, if they do not remember,
the great Whisky Ring, the scandal
that was raised by the prosecutions and
the tremendous political influence that
was brough to bear upon the Secretary
to induce him to “let up." But Bris-
tow had enlisted for the war, and
though he was unable finally to pre-
vail against the forces opposed to him,
he did break the power of the Whisky
Ring and destroy its political control.
It was his courageous administration
in the Treasury that made Bristow the
candidate for President of those Res
publicans who were opposed both to
the administration wing of the party,
whose candidate was Oliver H. Morton,
and to the contending element repre-
sented by Blaine.
They stood by Bristcw through six
ballots 1n the convention, till Morton’s
strength had gone to Blaine, -and then
they went to Governor Hayes, of Ohio,
and brought about his nomination.
This was practically the end of the old
regime, and though Bristow himself
199.11 119 part is the gentleness, the re-
sult was largely due to his couragwus
personality.
After this General Bristow engaged
in the practice of his profession, where
he achieVed avery high position, tak-
ing some part, at times, in matters of
public concern, but not of a political
character. He was one of those men
who do not seek ‘preferment, but who
meet the duty that comes to them with
courage and devotion. and who occa-
sionaliy have the opportunity of per-
cures their name a place in history.
0.
’ WALKING EGYPT.
Semi-Religious Custom in
Southern Georgia.
“You pretend to know enough to
come to congress from Georgia,” re~
torted the colonel, disgustedly, “and
don’t know what ‘walking Egypt’ is?
“Well, it’s a grand Indian file pro-
cession to which the colored race gives
vay once a year in its churches They
lift sup their voices in a. horrible wail,
the congregation does, and suddenly a
negro jumps up in the aisle.
“Next a sister jumps up. She places-
her hands on his shoulders, and there
they stand jumping up and down,
stiff-kneed, like you’ve seen sheep when
feeling festive.
“Usually these two are a. misfit—he a
small, runty little fellow, she a big
strapping wench.
“The singing moans on. Others get
up until the whole congregation is in
procession. hands forward resting on
the sho ulders' in front, like a lot of pen-
itentiary people going to dinner.
“Keeping a jerky time to the moan-
ing, the procession, like a. long, black
centipede, jumps and jerks its way up
one aisle, down another,” says the
Washington Post, “until their religious
fervor has cooled.
“That’s ‘walking Egypt,’ and I sup-
pose the rite was imported from
Guinea two hundred years ago.’
\
A Curious
ALVAREZ, the tenor, has been en-
gaged by Sir Augustus Harris to sing
for three years during the two months
and a half of the London season. For
the first year he will receive $4, 800, for
the second 86,0 .30, and for the third $7, -
000.
Lrszr was one of the kindest of men.
He was always ready to oblige young
musical artists. and when they played
before him frequently gave them valu-
able points in regard to the manner in
which the composition should have
been rendered.
SOMEOF THE LATE INVENTIONS.
A FRENCHMAN has patented an ap-
paratus to take off and put on a man’s
coat.
A CARRIAGE propelled by a little pe-
troleum engine recently made the trip
between London and Datchctt. Eng-
land, a. distance of fifty-six miles, in
five hours and a. quarter.
FURS are now cut from the skin by
machinery, special devices of wonder-
ful ingenuity clipping the fur so close
to the skin as practically to shave the
exterior of the hide.
A FLYING MACHINE, operated with
pedals attached to revolving fans, has
been invented by a machinist of Rouen.
It is something like a. bicycle. ' The in-
ventor’s son, starting on it from an
elevation of one hundred and twenty-
five feet, made half a mile through the
air in less than three minutes.
Frvn SHILLINGB fine was paid by the
first man to use a. tricycle cabin Lon-
don, propelled by a. man in front and
another behind. A crowd collected,
blocking the street, so the police ar-
rested him and an alderman held that
he was obstructing trafi'ic, imposing a.
fine solow that he Could not appeal.
eral Grant appointed him Secretary 'of ’
forming a great public service that se- -
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