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WHAT THEY SAY

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IT INTO FOUR PARTS, AND'
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NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 28.1897.

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. PAPER THAT THE GAZETTEIQ"
A NEWSY PAPER.‘ :TIIAT Tnl
GAZETTE IS ,A CLEAN? PAPER.
‘THAT EVERY PAGE OF THE
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*B. w; MAPLES. '
His Career—Ngin Norwalk
and Elsewhere.

A Chapter From the Files of The Weekly
Gazette.

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Brainerd W. Maples with the failing
circulation of his two-cent yellow jour-
nal confronting him, under the nom de
plume oftUncle Bob, yesterday turned
over in his sty and penned one of his
characteristic slanders.

It is unnecessary to inform the Older
residents of N orwalk of the character
and standing of this man Maples, but.
to the younger and the newcomer we
know of no better reply to his dirt than
to republish the following from the
WEEKLY GAZETTE of November 23,
1887:

A double apology is due our. readers
for the space occupied tO-day in strip-

ing the feathers from the “dirty bird
that fouls his own nest,” and struts be-
fore the public with all the grotesque
vanity and self-importance of a turkey
cock. But we promise that it shall be
a double jackass-power lie, of extra
malignity that can tempt us to notice
the miscreant again.

THIS ONCE ONLY:
Begging the Reader’s Pardon.

Disagreeable as it is to us, and unin-
teresting as it may be to the general
reader, yet “the dog having returned
to his vomit,” it becomes in a sense, a
public dutyfor us to make reply, for
this once only. All our readers Will
hear us witness that for years we have
borne the abuse and slanders of this
“Ruffian Of the Connecticut Press”
without answering back a word. He
has persistently abused and vilified us
(as he has scores of others) with all the
venom of his envious and malignant na-
ture. The brutal and cutting ingenu-
ity with which he concocts his violous
and abusive slanders, are well knbwn
in this community, where he has so
long prided himself upon his power to
make his victims smart under his vig-
orous lashings. The Satanic talents of
a fiend could invent no more exaspera-
ting methods of taunting and torment-
ing those whom his envy or malice se-
lects for assault. He has vilified us not
only, but every member of our family,
we believe, as well. Yet during all
these-long years, we have borne his
abuse in silence, and never soiled our
columns with his disreputable name.
We have never sought to meddle
or interfere in any manner, with the
business welfare or career of this spec-
imen of depravity. We have as stu-
diously avoided trade, rivalry or com-
petition, as we have all contact with
his Offensive person. When accident to
his office machinery has prevented his
printing his vile sheet at home, we
have always accorded him the custo-
mary business courtesies of freely us-
ing our presses, even though the edi-
tions we were printing for him, con-
tained his usual rancorous assaults up-
on us or ours. When the president Of
a railroad he always vilifies, showed us

_,,.a letter cravenly begging a free pass,
we argued that it be sent, and was told
that reflecting on our advice, it was
sent to him. Whena bundle of printed
affidavits, alleging his participation in
disgraceful immorality was sent us, we
instantly ordered them‘sent to him,
and they were so sent, without outside
eyes ever seeing them while in our pos-
session. When some helpless victim
of his assaults has appealed to us for
space in our paper to resent his wan-
ton insults. we have always declined,
and urged that the creature must have
been born with somesort of a mental
obliquity, who thus could never rest
unless in an unprovoked quarrel and vi-
ciously assaulting some one. We have
tried to persuade ourself during all
these yearsvof his wanton abuse, borne
in silence by us, that his vilifications
were equivalent to commendation from
decent men. We have vainly hoped
that he would sometime ,come to the
view that the world was wide enough
for him to thrive on his own dunghill,
and thus be led to cease his dastardly
assaults on his betters. But it seems
that all our kindness and forbearance
has but stimulated his rage, for like
the swine that he is, he “turns again
to rend” us. Our generous treatment
of him, seems only to have intensified

- his colossal Self conceit and egregrious
egotism, so that, as we are told, he
has interpreted our failure to “strike
back” as an evidence of our terror of

 

 

 

- him. Growing more audacious with

' this impunity, his latest attempt is, by
the most atrocious falsifications, to ar-
ray the Masonic order against‘ us, and
thus to bring serious injury to our bus-
iness standing among those whose good

~opinion we have always striven to de-
serve. This insolence and malevolence
is unbearable, and, for the first time,
we last week made deserved answer to

.the villain. If now the mirror we are
about to hold up before his evil eyes,
that he “may see himself as others see

, him,” is not flattering to his arrogant

and unbounded self-esteem, he has only
his own malignant nature to thank for
this public exhibition of. the unsavory
likeness. With that alert and vicious

cunning, of which he is so an accom»

plished a master, he would make us ap-
pear as disreputable a trickster as him-
self in the conduct of our business.
Possibly this should not occasion sur-
prise. When one -looks- at his low,
glowering brow, it would seem that the
rAlmighty had emblazoned “BRUTE”

~ . thereon, in letters of eneifaceable brass.

 

'fifty years of unceasing careand toil in

' confidence and esteem.

Off the cu‘rr snapping -at-.»his heels

.sessed of character or influence enough

through our long and busy nevirspaper
career, to guard our reputation with
jealous care. Nor have we any apology
to make for having craved the gOOd
Opinion of honest men. But if after

the service of the GAZETTE, striving
ever and always to do what we could
to promote the growth and fair fame
of our incomparably beautiful town and
the prosperity and happiness of its cit-

 

izens, we are to be esteemed a “liar”
and “swmdler,” on the statement of a .
creature notoriously devoid of the com~
monest decencies of life, then indeed it ‘
is time for us to retire from public ob- |
servation. '

But, it cannot be, that in the minds
of honorable men, the meanest creature
that walks the earth could be damaged
by the slanders of such a vile J anus-
faced libeler. The best people of Nor-
ivalk have ever stood by us in our se-
verest trials. In financial disaster they
have promptly proffered all needful
aid. In times of deeper distr‘ess, when
the hearts of true men melt and fuse to-
gether, we have had in lavish measure
the sustaining power Of their beneficial

ln justice, however, to ourselves and
a host of- others, let us rapidly review
some of the disreputable incidents in
the career of this journalistic adven-
turer, who while not even a resident of
Norwalk, comes over here from West-
port to “boss” all our public affairs to
browbeat or lam’poon our Officials, and
to scandalize our people, whenever they
run counter to his wishes. The town
of his residence has ample experience
of his quality. His abuse and long con-
tinued fusilade upon Rev. A. N. Lewis,
his persistent detraction of H. H. Bel-
den, Esq., and other reputable resi-
dents in Westport, are not forgotten.

His bitter onslaughts on the New
Haven Railroad because of his expul-
sion from their cars, his outrageous
abuse of Judge Minor because of his
judicial connection with the suit that
followed, know all the people. The
judge threatened to punish him by
prosecution, but finding it impossible
to recover any judgment for damages
that might be accorded -him,abandoned
the purpose. Then followed his viru-
lent abuse of Hon. Wm. D. Bishop,
Hon. John M. Hall and other distin-
guished citizens of the State. In our
own town his spiteful attacks upon Se-
lectman Isaac Selleck were kept up till
a threat of personal chastisement end-
ed the cringing coward’s assaults.
Then his persistent and relentless at-
tacks upon our present honored U. S.
Treasurer, James W. Hyatt, should be
recalled. Hyatt, by an apt illustra-
tion of worldly tact and Wisdom, called

by throwinor him little bones of pa-
tronage. ’lhen we see him as abjectly
obsequious in his devotion to Mr. Hyatt
as he was abusive, before. As ever
“bending the pendent hinges of the
knee that thrift may follow fawning.”
Then follows his scandalous assaults
upon a public school teacher at .Winni-
'pauk. Then the far more cowardly
and brutal scourgings of a defenceless
orphan girl, a teacher in the Over
River school, whom he drove from the
town and to the verge of insanity, by
his merciless lashings. He would bor-
row money of the late Mr. S. E. Olm-
stead and repay him by abuse and
ridicule of Dr. Coolidge. a member of
his family. -Professing friendship for
Judge Andrew Selleck, he 'would
treacherously stab him viciously as he
did so many others, trying alternately,
to make him ridiculous and odious in
the community. .
And so we might go on ad nauseam. But
what is the use. As all know, neither
age nor sex nor condition have been
secure from his assailing. Whether
in his vile assaults upon innocent and
defenceless individuals, ,or his leaden
attempts to be funny (as in the “sand
bank”—savings bank scare,) he every-
where hasshown himself to be utterly
devoid of moral sense, and as unfit to
havea newspaper as a maniac a stil-
letto. The injury this creature has
done the fair fame of our town, and the
extent of the odium he has brought
down upOn Norwalk, cannot be exag-
gerated. Said Governor Minor in an
indignant outburst, “I would no more
let a friend of mine buy property or a
home in N orwalk than I would in the
lowest slums of New York, for there
must be something wrong in any com-
munity where such a miscreant is tol-
erated and such a vile sheet can find
support.” The good judge, one of the
kindliest-hearted of men, did not pause
to realize that in every community such
creatures .find lodgment and secure a
certain sort of short~lived following. 2
Some men tolerate him who fear~
malicious exposure of V their faults;
some who see a pole-cat in their path
prefer'to “go around it” to being soiled
in an attempt to kick it from their way;
others of timid and shrinking natures
prefer to blandly smile on the reckless
assassin of character, than to expose
themselves and families to assault.
Others with an “itch for office” fawn
about him and tickle his vanity, in the
hope that though he may not begpos-

to command or change a vote, he can
help to “keep One before the people.”
Another class. of the “baser sort”
gravitate towards such a specimen of
depravity as naturally as fies to tainted
meat. Yet one and all down' deep in
their heart of hearts, loathe and de-
spile him. .

Just now, with impudence colossal,
he essays to coerce Gov. Lounsbury in-
to calling an extra session Of the Legis-
lature, while with equal arrogance and
“cheek” . he assumes to , control and
manage the Masonic organization of
St. J ohn’s Lodge. As to the Governor,
he has succeeded in exposing him to
undeserved embarrassments and more
than all else, jeopardized the interest
the people feelin‘an extra session, be-'
cause of his conceited and impertinent
officiousness. Moreover, he has ex-
posed the Governor to such' unjust and
rmortifying. jibes as the following: .

From Editorial N. Y. Ev’g. Post.

 

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weekly paper, who openly boasts of. his
power over the Governor, a few weeks
ago started an agitation for the calling
of a special session of the Legislature,
to repeal the existing law; and he in-
duced the Governor to appoint a hear-
ing upon the subject, and then a
second hearing, and now to consent to
a third.” ‘
From Hartford Cor. N. Y. .Ev’g Sun.

“N ow there is no sentiment any-
where in the State in favor of an extra
session except in Fairfield county, and
there it has been drummed up by
Barney Maples, who is a man of great
energy, whatever his discretion and
charms of personal habit may be.”

"* * * * “His course in inviting rep-
resentatives of the several towns to
meet him at the State House last Mon-
day and talk over the expediency of
calling an extra session of the Legisla-
ture has occasioned general surprise.

Instead of the expected hundreds less
than thirty were present. This little
handful looked very lonesome as they.
bunched themselves in the open space
in front of the clerk’s desk in Repre-
sentativcs’ hall, where the Governor
presided, assisted by Editor Maples of
the Norwalk Hour, who acted as master
of ceremonies and—7 chief spokesman.
Maples expressed great indignation at
the failure of the railroad commission-
ers to put in an appearance, and when
he suggested that another conference
should be held, Lounsbury, who gen-
erally sneezes whenever the editor of
the Hour takes snuff, ordered an ad-
journment. ” ,

The usual result of this rufiian’s
“bossing” was seen in the defeat of
Hon. F. W. Bruggerhofi in his race for
Congress. Without knowing the crea-
ture, he placed him in charge of his
canvas and entrusted him with its
funds. The leach lost him his election
in a district where the Democrats can
elect their candidates at will.

The Masonic Lodge he seeks to man-
age dil'fers greatly from him in that its
other members are gentlemen. They
are men who too highly revere the sa-.
cred and sublime rights of the order to
permit him to turn its rooms into con-
vivial smoking and midnight card play-
ing. That he will cause its division
or ruin soon or late, if allowed to “run”
it as he now assumes to do, needs no
prophet to predict. Nothing seems so
fatally disastrous to any person 01‘ cause
as his treacherous friendship. It has
been remarked that with all his unpar-
donable assaults upon Rector Lewis, of
Westport, he never dealt him so damag-
Ing a blow as he gavexthe sainted Wil-
liams,when he forced himself into social
familiarity with the sick clergyman on
a voyage across the ”Atlantic: The
merited denunciations of Governor

Minor from the platform of the Repub-'

lican State Convention at New Haven
is in point. He charged that coming
to the convention as a self-appointed
delegate from the Republicans of West-
port, it was with treachery in his heart
and the deliberate" purpose of betray-
ing our candidates and doing. all he
could to defeat the ticket he with pre-
sumptious impertinence sought to help
put in nomination.” Swelling with
indignation at his notorious party
treachery, the Governor continued:
“he was never known to join a party or
espouse a cause except that he might
the more easily betray it.”

At one time he is seen shambling
about our Legislature with elephantine
ponderosity, and fairly staggering un-
der the weight Of his own egotistical
.self importance. At another, boasting
of the fabulous sums he is receiving as
a railroad. lobbyist, and then greedily
pocketing the two hundred dollars our
legislators- are weak or wicked enough
to vote from the state treasury as a
“sop” to the reporters, supposably as a
reward for their having said, agreeable
things about the “Legislative Mutual
Admiration Society.” But at alltimes
and in all places, he is deemed the
same consumate ass and general nui-
sance, with'out wit or discernment
enough to see that he is the laughing
stock and “butt’, of those who find
amusement in his stilted airs and
egregious self-conceit.

When the railroad commissioners
were examining the lay-out of the
“Olmstead parallel” they openly
charged that hewas the first to plant
his Obese body on the rear and best
seat of their hack, thus forcing two of
the board to ride backwards. This ill
mannered impertinence they said could
have been borne with more patience
had it not been for the soiled linen he
invariably wore, and the offensive odor
emanating from his person. At an-
other time ‘he crowds himself, with
the rudeness of a boor, into the family,
circle of President Watrons, waited to‘
dine with them with unwelcome famil- '
iarity, and in the sublimity of his ig-
norance, showed his elation at the so-

-cial eminence he had thus. gained, by

coming away and bragging 'about the
courtesy, which, unrestrained, would
have shown him out the door. This
social exploit he climaxed, (when of-
fered a cigar from his box by the too
indulgent Watrous), by filling his pock-
ets with the president’s costly and fra-
grant Havanas. A caustic lashing of
the president’s road followed, and the
next chapter was a craven letter beg-
ging a free pass from the same official
over the road he has so incessantly de-
nounced. .

Again he' is seen pushing his repul
sive person into the hospitable man-
sion of Governor Lounsbury at Ridge-
field.‘ He shoves his feet and legs, he;
reditarily unused to all ablutions, .un-
der the Governor’s mahogany. He
stays and stays and dines and sleeps
and then breakfasts, before their un-
invited guest depar s. Thence coming

_,to Norwalk he false y boasts with the

egotistic silliness of a child, that he

had been sent for by Governor Louns-

bury to discuss great affairs of state.
Possibly a man who could not‘ find a

welcome entrance to' a half dozen

houses in'all Norwalk might. be 'forgiv:
.en for this sill elation. "
ters not, whet er he,,With.swinish glut-
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or voraciOusly devouring the few little
fishes the Neptune boys had toiled all
day to catch; or forcing his way, unin-
vited, With his party of kith and kin,
into President ,Clark’s private car and
without invite, sitting down with his

retinue to the private spread and de- ,

‘vouring the president’s scanty lunch;
or writing letters to ’the “New York
Times and Sun in laudations of himself
as means great leader of the extra
session '5 project; or pushing himself
ahead {with his usual ofirontery, as the
chief‘manager generalissimo and mas-
ter'ofceremOnies for the installation
services to come off at the Armory on
Tuesday next—he must arrange the
programme, fix the speakers, and in
fine, always “be captain else no one
can train; ”—-—it matters not when or
where, it, is always the same utter dis-
regard of all. propriety and decency,
and ever and always a:- swinish disre-
gard-of the feelings of .others. And
this is the sort of creature, the hissing
viper, with ink for poison and types
for a bludgeon, who essays'to drive by
such, brute force our Governor, our
Legislature, our railroads, our town,
our -}borough,‘our societies, and the
peo ‘lelof Norwalk, to abjectly do his
bid ang, or failing to comply, to be as-
saultpd and besmeared by his malevo-
lent‘ aledictions. .

.Is. t not high time for decent, self-
respl cting men 'to face and defy the
prespmption and assumption of such a
characterless creature? It is impossi-
ble forhonorable manhood to long en-
dure," the degrading and intolerable
dictation of such treacherous and self-
asseilted leadership. If it were not so
unbearably disgusting it would be irre-
sistibly grotesque to see the airs of
self-importance put on by this. public
nuisance, as if, in his own conceit, he
believed himself to be a " little tin god
on wheels. ” ‘

We have endeavored to give a faith-
ful portrait of the vile slanderer, who
for ten years, more or less, has so atro-
ciously assailed us. We have “set
down naught in malice.” We should
despise ourself did we cherish any
feeling deeper than pity, for any hu-
man being with a nature so gnarled,
sour and miserable. If our picture is

not pleasing to him he has himself only.

to thank for its presentation to his own
and the public view. The unprovok‘ed
“ wrath he has nursed and kept warm "

”so many years and poured out upon us

and ours, with such constant and- un-

stinted bitterness, could not alone have

forced us to break our long enduring
silence. But when at last, by the most
audacious slander, he revealed his pur-
pose to array against us the largest lo-
cal organization of men whose good

feeling we cannot too highly prize; to"

the end that serious injury might come

to the business we have devoted a whole .

life-time to establish, self respect and
duty demanded that we should break
silence and reply to the assassin of
character in a measure somewhat
commensurate with his atrocious lie.
If he thinks the portrait incorrect or
overdrawn he can invite us into court
and let us prove by unimpeachable wit-
nesses, how much blacker our truthful
picture can be made than we have
here painted it. .

And now we are done. Of course he
will go on slandering us “ with malice
aforethought and malice prepensel ”
But we promise that it shall be a slan-
der effecting Others more than ourself

and of extra damaging malignity that,
shall tempt us to Waste space in these

columns in any “talk back,” to him
again. Hereafter, as in the long past,
we, for ourself, propose to indure his
slanders, his insulting and exaspera-
ting taunts, without a word of reply or
rebuke. We are willing to call the ac-
count square to date if he is, but let us
beseech him to spare us his praise.
Let him live and thrive in the congen-
ial cess-pool of his choice, but let him
remember that there is a limit to the
public patience and forbearance. If
he has any sense at all he will call a
halt in his ' mad career Of universal
and Ishmaelitish' assault and battery.
Our sincerest wish isthat for his own
sake he might at once enter upon this
reform, and then, in the name of all
the gods, take a bath.

We now forever leave the nauseat-
ing subject with the calm and kindly
philosophy of Uncle Toby to the fly;
"Go, ‘go, poor devil! I’will not harm
thee; this world is wide enough for
me and thee. ” 1 .

P. S. Since theabOve was first pub-
lished Maples has been bounced from
the Masonic Lodge and also from the
public schools of Norwalk, thus further
adding to his record. V '

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em: ARREST.

lo hn Weeks" Arrested for Complicity in the
Murder of Farmer Nichols.

 

The Bridgeport police and Pinker-
ton detectives yesterday arrested John
Weeks at BOoth’s Hill, for complicity
in the murder of Farmer Nichols at
Daniels Farms. His suspected accom-
plice, Charles Bonay escaped. .

Threw His Rider

Archie Abbott was thrown from, a
horse which he was riding on Wall
street this morning, by reason of the
turning of the saddle which had been
insecurely fastened. He escaped in-
jury. The horse was stopped in front
of a sign announcingbargainsat the
Boston store.

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Fair Thursday.

—_EASTMAN.’S ‘POCKET KODAK’S re.
,duced from $5 to $2.50, "at Riggs’ -Drug'

 

. ~ 7 postponed until next
~ Showers this afternoon and tomight. _ ' i ‘

THAT GAZETTE LIE. ‘

Gardiner and Mitchell Attempt to Bolster
Up Their Fake Pictures.

In last night’s yellow journal Gardi-
ner and Mitchell made a weak attempt

‘to bolster up a fake entertainment
which they were endeavoring to impose
upon the public as the original pictures
of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight taken
at Carson City. ' _

We congratulate this worthy pair in
Selecting the sewer they did in which
to dump their swill.

In'answering them we must beg to
drop Fred Mitchell entirely. His rec-
ord here and in New York is ,too well
known ' and needs 'no further holding
up at our hands. Surfice to say that he
did not advertise in the GAZETTE ,last
year, his credit having run out a long
time since. ~ .

As to the letter from W. A. Brady,
the GAZETTE did not state that Drug-
gists- Weed and Tomlinson had re-
ceived such a letter. The statement
was made that such a letter was writ-
ten, and the letter press copy _ of that
letter with Mr. Brady’s signature at-
tached, is in the possession of the GA-
ZETTE and can be seen by any one de-
siring to do so. .

As to the pictures themselves, we
have the word of a representative of
the company that they are rnot those
taken by the Veriscope-at Carson City,
and owned by Mr. Brady. Perhaps
Mr. Gardiner will still deny that they
are not fake pictures of the fight ?

The storyof soliciting an advertiseé
ment from a circus agent is too silly to
contradict. It is a lie pure and simple.

The “denunciation ” referred to was
a news item stating that Constable
Hunt had arrested an emyloye for a
board bill. :

“We once advertised in the GAZETTE
and paid money'for which we got no re-
turn.- Consequently all advertising in
itséolumnswas withdrawn,” say Mes-
srs. Gardiner & Mitchell.

This is true in one sense only—'—they
did advertise. Mitchell some years

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”ago advertised imth‘e. GAZETTE‘and'Uur‘ -

bOOks' are still looking for the' pay.
Gardiner we did not know, (but hope to
know him better ere many days,) and
we allowed him to make a contract
with us for advertising, last year. The
bill for the same is now in a lawyer’s
hands for collection and the last we
heard Gardiner had offered to pay fifty
cents on the dollar.

To fully substantiate the GAZETTE’S
position we refer Mr. Gardiner to the
few who attended the performance last
night and to the mammoth posters
about town bearing the name of W. A.
Brady pronouncing the pictures ' fakes

 

IT wAs'A'cow.
A Derby Bicyclist' Has a Dream of
Bliss.

The Derby Transcript says that a
young lady of that city, who has =-re-

bicycle repairer of a dream she ex-
perienced. While riding through the
country she was seized with a desire to
rest. ‘She had ridden many miles and
was weary._ She saw an Open lot
ahead, in which were several large
shade trees. Letting down the ‘bars
she went into the lot, and, leaning her
wheel‘against a tree,sought.a soft,cool,
shady place under the tree, and- was
soon in slumber. ‘

, As she dreamed, visions of her
cyclometer passed before her, the fig-
ures far up in the hundred thousands.
This was bliss indeéd. But soon a sub-
tle change came over her, and it seemed
as if some large body was hovering
near. This she soon made out to be a

edkiss after kiss upon her' lips. This
was delightful to her, but alas! the
beautiful experience was not to last.
She awoke, and with screams of horror
fled from the spot. A brindle cow had
been standing over her, licking her
face. When she returned home, her
parents wondered why one side of her

than the other. She has no further de-
sire to sleep and dream in orchards,
where there are cattle.

‘ B. e. e.

The proposed Butchers’ Big Barbe-

cue which was to have 'taken place at

the Fair Gro’unds'to-day, has been

postponed until to-Inorrow. If it

storms on that day it will be further
Wednesday.

¥

'Wordin A ppointed.
‘ The President yesterday, appointed
Thomas C. _-Wordin, of Bridgeport, as-’

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and cautioning the-public against them. .

cently taken to bicycle-riding, told her

man. ' Coming close to her, he implan '1

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HqEI‘MA‘KEslI RAIN.

St. Swithin, the SaihtN/ho Brings Rain
—Who He is enemy It "Rains.
_.4_..__.

St. Swithin was avenerable and saint .

 
 

‘ PRIOEONE CENT

with a local habitation and aname. He ."

was tutor to the great King Alfred,

and accompanied him to Rome. . In A. "
D, 852 he was consecrated Bishop of.

Winchester. _ William of Maimesbury,
in his chronicles, says Bishop Swithin
built several churches and always trav‘s
elledthrough his diocese on foot to
avoid the appearance of ostentation.

E'smthin died on July 2; AD 862, and ’

was buried, according to his own det
'\

sire, outside the cathedral, for he had ,

declared that he was not Worthy to find:
a sepulchre within the sacred edifice.
But a century later he was canonized
by the Pope of Rome, and the monks of
Winchester then determined to .exhume
his body and bury it within the cathe~
.dral. ‘ - . '
The removal ’ofthe body was fixed to
take place on July 15, but was delayed
in consequence of a heavy fall of rain,
which continued without intermission
for forty days.

garding St. Swithin’s Day prevails.

‘

. PERSONAL NOTES.

Miss Fannie Pilgrim, of New YOrk‘,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. R. Nash
of Main street. ‘ '

J ohn'McNall has gone to Buffalo.

Miss Nina A. Lewis. of Norwalk, is
a guest of Miss Lulu M. Snifien, in
Danbury. ,

James M. Creagh of Bethel was a
guest of James M. Creagh of N orwalk
yesterday. '

Reporter J. J. Dingwell of the’World
was in town yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Reed of‘Danbury.
are visiting friends in town. '

Miss Ella Cahill, .cashier at the Stara
hand laundry, is taking week’s vaca-
tion. She expects during the time. to
become an expert natatorial queen.

- Miss Kringle“ King of ‘Westport ‘ is a?
guest of Miss Maud Weaver of Main
street. ' , '

Miss Richard {Biker and daughter,

_
.7

Edith, who have been the guests of.

Miss Cora Byxbee :returned to their
home in Brooklyn yesterday.

“It Was Horrible.”

It was a disappointed audience that
witnessed the alleged entertainment
given in the Opera House last night.
The show was at all odds the worst of
its kind ever seen in town. A weak
attempt was made to slur the GAZETTE
but the effort proved only to be as
laughable as the “wind up” scene with
two “counterparts” sparring with their
feet while “counterparts” stood, on
their heads. There are comparatively
few who this morning will confess to
having been present, and when they
do “Fake,”
rather sporty judgment of the show.
One of the number speaks of it as 'hav-
ing been horrible.

A
V

Run a Boy Down.

Monday evening as Deputy Sheriff
Fred S. Lyon was pedaling his bicycle
on Riverside avenue, East Norwalk a
boy ran in front of the wheel and
there was a collapse. The deputy,
weight nearly 200, fell on the’ wheel
and crushed it out of shape. The lad‘
escaped with a few bruises. After the
accident Lyon threw his wheel onto a
convenient bank, and finding the boy’s

_

2

And it is from this cir-li‘fi
cumstance that the current belief re-f ’

“Rotten,” etc. is' their '

home ordered a physician to dress his '
wounds which fortunately were not of ‘

a serious nature. _ «

' Belton wths.

In the matter of the petition of Mich- ’

ael Conney, of Georgetown, for the
fOreclosure of a mechanicslean against
John Belton and wife of the same town,
Judge George W. Wheeler has decided
in favor of the latter. Hurlbutt and
Gregory represented Belton and wife
and J. A. Gray Conney. . '

V‘ ‘v‘ 7‘

Yacht, Mabel Back.

Commodore Bishop and his yachting
party have arrived home from a ‘two
weeks’ trip down east. And none of
them are glad of their return. Evi-
dence that they enjoyed Ithemselves
while away. , l ' .

 

Bankers Dissolve Partnership.
- The. dissolution of the firm. of Bene4
dict Brothers, bankers and brokers,
compbsed of L. L. Benedict and James
H. Benedict, ~ J r., was announced on
the stock exchange Monday. They
are nephews of the late Mrs... Le Grand
Lockwood, ' "
Postponed.
2 -—The' Butchers’: Barbecue is post-

 

'pOned¥,until to-morrow, and if stormy; " '
until next Wednesday. , __QOmmittee. ,