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Engraving and Book Binding. execu— . ted promptly, and will be as well and reasonably done as anywhere. - 1 5052275231.; Miss Russell of Boston is visting Nor- walk friends. Heine’s band will give the next open air concert of the course. Miss Cora Barnum has returned from a weeks’ visit to Wilton. Mrs. Jacob Godfrey is seriously ill at her home on Hurlbutt street. A large party from Cannons enjoyed the day at Roton Point last Friday. Mrs. Dr. J. Orr—Barbour Visited friends in western New York, last week. H. S. Davis is sojourning with relatives and friends in Burlington, Vermont. Miss Mamie Wolf of New York is a guest of Miss May Walters on Belden avenue. ' Mr. O T. Hungerford, of Hartford, an err-journalist, visited Norwalk relatives on Monday. “Bob” Adams has bought out John Devine’s saloon opposue the horse car depot. Mr. and Mrs. John Doty and son, of New York, are visiting at James Thomas’ on West avenue. ExPresident Hayes expects to visit Mansfield, Conn., the home of his mother’s family, this fall. The members of the Y. M. C. A. will take a moonlight excursion on the steamer Medea this evening. A Watertown correspondent writes: “Mrs. William Warner of Norwalk is visit- ing relatives in town. Mrs. Dr. J. G. Barbour has taken a house in Washington for the winter, and will leave Norwalk some time next week. The Lobster Club, of Brooklyn! came up to Dorlon Point yesterday and partook of one of Landlord “Ollie” Dorlon’s best shore dinners. ' Watermelon cuts are the rage among the S. of T. divisions. The melons are well shaken before taken, and the eaters well griped after taking. The GAZETTE job printing office is the best equipped in this section, and esti— mates are cheerfully given on all kinds of book, job and commercial printing. The young son and daughter of the Rt. Rev. W. J. Boone, Missionary Bishop of China, are spending a few weeks with Rev. C. M. Selleck on East avenue. The “Repeat or go to helll!” artist has been killed by the cars again. The only fault the public finds with this peripatetic charcoal evangelist is that he refuses to stay killed. The enterprising proprietors of the Bridgeport Post are compelled by the in- crease in their bustness to put in a new perfecting press of double their present capacity. Good. At the A. M. E. church next Sunday services will be held at 10.30 a. m. and 3.00 p. m. In the evening, (7.00) there will be preaching by Rev. J. W. Leekins, of Bridgeport. The announcement of the Storrs agri- cultural school, at Mansfield, appears in another column. This school has an ex— cellent reputation and will next term be larger than ever. The opening attraction of. the season at Music Hall will be Frank Jones, in Si “Perkins,” who is well known here. Si will have his thrashing machine on the spot to-morrow night. Dr. G. R. McGonegal will Spend all of next week at Trinity Lake, and if he suc- ceeds in the desperate resolve that brings him there, the lake will not have a single fish left to its back when he takes his departure. There will be a grand carnival of dec- orated boats with fireworks and music, on Fiucli’s Island, fronting the hotel at Indian Harbor, Greenwich, on Saturday evening of this week. Other games, contests and pastimes will make it an enjoyable event. Miss Mead’s home school for girls and young ladies Opens at Hillside on October 3d, for which applications for admission may be made at once. This school is bound to become one of the foremost educational institutions of its class in this region, and therel is no reason to doubt that the fall term will be an auspicious inauguration. The Danbury Register says “the Nor- walk papers are fighting like bulls.” Not so. A couple of them are simply making faces at each other. When Norwalk pa- pers fight they fight like tigers—bulls are nowhere. Iowa claims to have a citizen who never went: fishing in his life. What an even- ing’s entertainment it would be to sit down and hear that man and John Wade tell of the vast number and enormous sized fish they have caught. ——W. B. Hall 62; Co., the dry goods men of Bridgeport will close their establish- ment on Thursday, Aug. 15th, for invent- ory, and to complete the annexation of the new additions. The special bargain sale will be continued throughout the month. Conductor Sam. Arnold, of the fast Pittsfield express train, with his baggage- master, Murphy, strolled up to the bor- ough yesterday forenoon, for the first time since they have been on the new trains. Sam. thinks there is more life and busines here than in South Norwalk‘ and may move his family here. John A. Riggs has purchased the entire stock of the late firm of Quintard & Son, from the trustee of the insolvent estate, and has opened up for business. Mr. Riggs made many friends during his con- nection with the Messrs. Quintard as pre- scription clerk, and there is no doubt he will make a success of his new venture. On Tuesday last, at Dorlon’s Point, the Norwalk Rifle and Gun Club held a shoot. About eighty gentlemen from different parts of the state entered, and many fine scores were made. Owing to the large attendance it was found to be impossible to go through all the events on the pro- gramme. The affair was a big success. The many friends of Prof. B. Perrin, of Cleveland, formerly of Hartford, will be pained to hear of the death of his wife, which occurred on Thursday after a long and hopeless struggle against consump- tion. Prof. Perrin’s father and mother were both killed in the Park Central dis- aster in Hartford, and now this blow, which was already inevitable at that time, is added. Mrs. Perrin leaves two little boys—Religious Herald. Members of the Crofut family held a pic- nic and reunion at the residence of Mr. Josiah Raymond on the Westport road on Friday. About fifty members of the fami- ly were present, from Utica, Stamford, Bridgeport. Darien, New Canaan and other places in and out of the state, and the occasion was greatly enjoyed. Messrs. Samuel Sniffen, Samuel Booth and A. N. Garnsey, of Danbury attended the butchers’ barbecue “in a body” on Wednesday. When they strolled up to the spot where the meat was being roasted, Mr. Bommos, the master of cookery spied them and instantly gave the order to his assistants to “put one more steer on the spits and poke up the fire.” In his Washington letter this week our Senior gives some facts relating to the ancestry and career of the late T. B. Gun- ning, who was recently frozen to death in South America, that will be read with interest by our local readers, to whom the wild and flashy course of the erratic and unfortunate young man during his resi- dence in this locality, is well known. The New Milford Gazette considers it- self lucky in having a benefactor who presented the editor with some “fine eat- ing apples” last week. The Norwalk GAZETTE has a Santa. Claus, Mr. Walter Fitch, who brings in a generous supply of apples, pears, etc. nearly every day the year ’round,and has done so for a number of years. Those unearthly shrieks, yells and ear- splitting whistling through the fingers, which have so terrified peaceful dwellers on the church green of late, turns out not to be the calling of Fred Betts’ deaf dog, after all, but the attempt of sundry of the sons of sunny Italy, dwelling at the bar- racks, down near the lock-up, to render Italian Opera while “obfuscated” with borough beer and fire-water. Glover’s baud gave another open air L concert on Monday evening from the roof of Jerry Donovan’s corner block over a portion of the Boston store, where the har- mony of the music was beautifully muf— fled against the walls on two sides. It would have been an improvement upon this arrangement if the band had been locked up in an air-tight collar on the out- skirts of the town. Why not give the band a good place to play? City Editor F. A. Wood of the Bridge- port Standard, the newly appointed Quarter-master Sergeant of the Fourth regiment, was in town on Wednesday and visited the big butchers’ barbecue, possi- bly withaview to acquiring by observation knowledge that will be useful to him in his official capacity at the military en- campment next week, concerning the proper way to feed a big and hungry crowd. _______ The three days trotting of the Gentle- men’s Driving Association, beginning on Wednesday next at the Fair Grounds, should be borne in mind by our readers. There will be a large attendance and some interesting and exciting racing, for good purses. N ORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 4., 1889. Sheriff Toner, of Norwalk, threw the natives of Bridgeport into a frenzy of ex- citement the other day by walking toward the depot with a metallic contrivance on his shoulder, which a knowing citizen was positive could be nothing less than a dynamite bomb, and there was a hasty conference between a newspaper man and an officer regarding the advisability of arresting the sheriff as a suspicious char- acter. However, he reached the depot just in time to board a train for home, and escaped. The internal machine was a safety valve for the sheriff’s boiler used at his fellow shop. Roton Point booms this season With picnics from far and near, and the popu- larity of the resort is increasing under the personal management of Mr. Knubel, of the firm of Finkenstcin & Knubel. One of the most enjoyable picnic excursions to the Point thus far was that of the Mt. Vernon Quartette Club, a German singing association, held on Thursday last, which brought' a considerable and desirable crowd to the Point, who made the spot resound with their German songs under the efficient leadership of Prof. F. A. Rockar, awell-known music writer and dealer, and publisher of the Welcome, a musical and home journal. ' Under the very appropriate heading, “Got ’cm again,” Editor Bigelow, of the Portland Record tells of another big snake which was laid on his table the other day, and which measured four and a half feet long. For a strictly temperate man Bige- low seems to be more hopelessly addicted to the snake seeing habit than any tecto- taler of our acquaintance. It is to be borne in mind that Bigelow always pro- fesses to see his snakes lying on his table instead of nestling in his boots—but it may also be borne in mind that he is near- sighted and very tall and unable to see from his eyes to his boots without the aid of a telescope. Mrs. Clarence Kent gave birth to a one pound boy baby in Danbury on Tuesday last, and the incident is heralded as the event of the season in the little city. The child is described in characteristic Bean- town dialect as "about as big as a pint of beans.” It is appropriate that the :young- est city in the state should produce the smallest youngsters in the state. No doubt when the city gets older she will have bigger babies, and it is not at all un- likely that this smallest youngster in the youngest city will prove the biggest attrac- tion at the biggest fair this fall, outside of that wedding in front of the grand stand. Monday afternoon a polisher in the Si- monde foundry was frightfully cut on the head and face by a register top, which he was polishing on an emery wheel, being hurled from his graSp by the force of the wheel and striking him in the face. A frightful gash was cut from his forehead. down along the side of his nose and over his lip. His skull, above the eye was slightly fractured. The blow knocked him unconscious and he bled profusely. Dr. Baldwin attended him, seWed up his wounds and he was taken to the New Haven hospital Monday afternoon. He was a new employe at the foundry, hav- ing been on duty there only a couple of days. He hailed from New Haven where he has a family. The Danbury News says a drove of mus- tangs went up the Housatonic valley the other day. The owners stopped in Brook- field and allowed the horses to graze on the green in front of George C. Jones’ residence. A dog belonging to the neigh- borhood came out and began to bark at the animals. Quicker than the flash from a gun five or six of the ponies With ears back and mouths open, showing all their molars went for the dog. The dog got out for all he was worth, but was seized by one of themlby the nape of the neck and actually thrown over a stone wall. This probably saved the dog’s life. He was not so seriously injured but that he ate his supper, although he retired early to his coop and seemed greatly fright- ened. __ John Wade,(“ ’Fraid-of-a-horse,”) eager- ly paid ten cents foreign postage due on a formidable looking blue envelope bearing the London postmark, last week, and hustled back to his den, locked himself in, and, with eyes bulging out with intense expectancy, his breath coming with dull, sickening pants, he hastily and carefully tore open the precious envelope, and was almost overcome to find within—a quack circular. Profiting by Wade’s experience, another scribe declined to pay the requi- site 10 cents postage due, and take a sim- ilar envelope from the post office, hence the document was ad vertised by the post master, in the Record, among a list of let- ters “uncalled for.” Wade, naturally chagrincd by the thought of being the only person in town to be sold by the shrewd Londoner’s little skin game, en- closed the circular iii a new envelope, ad- * dressed it to the otherscribe, who had laughed at his misfortune, and dropped it, without a stamp, in the post office. The ~ other chap willingly paid the two cents due, took the letter out, and swore when he found the circular, with Wade’s ear- marks on it. _ The imaginative Bi-idgepmt reporter of the New York Sun chronicles a remarka- ble dog story, of a “large handsome dog” that imitates the whistle of the passing locomotives’ two long and two short toots, —“who-o-o, who-o-o, who, who! "—so accurately that “he has fooled a great many people.” It is quite likely, how- ever, that in that specialty. the afore- said reporter is far ahead of the dog. Stamford was the scene of a murder on Friday night, and to make the affair still more tragic, the murdered man was killed by his own brother. William James Walk- er, the victim, was until a few weeks ago,,a resident of South Norwalk, and was ’about 29 years old. On Friday night he went, in company with his brother Edward, to a saloon kept by Bartley Ryle, in-Westcotts, a suburb of Stamford, where Edward got into a fight with one Phil. O'Brien. The wife of the latter, hearing the melee, rushed in and implor- ed the mcn to stop fighting. William Walker struck her and dragged her out of the saloon. Edward let up on O'Brien and reproved his brother for striking a woman, and a desperate fight took place between the brothers, in the course of which Edward drew a revolver and shot William in the left breast, the ball going almost through the body. The wounded man lived only six minutes. Edward then accused Ryle, the pr0prietor, of kill- ing his brother, and persisted in the accu- sation till Sheriff Bolster, of Stamford, came up and arrested the accuser who at once wilted. The murderer was taken to jail. Both men had unsavory reputations. It is simply another case of “rum did it.” Next Monday Connecticut’s “bold sol- dier boys” will depart for a week’s duty at Niantic. The camp ground is now nearly ready and in a description of it the New Haven Palladium says: “The parade ground has undergone many changes and a board fence has been erected at the southwestern corner. The old guard house has gone and in its place stands a new andmore substantial building; and other improvements have been made. There will be but four tents more than there were last year. These are for the occupancy of the Third Machine Platoon, which disbanded shortly before the en- campment last year, and which has re- cently, re-organized. The grounds have been‘kept in fertile condition this year and forty tons of hay is the result. This will be used to feed the horses in camp. The rations allowed the horses are twelve quarts of oats and fourteen pounds of hay daily. Among other improvements which will be noticed at camp is a blacksmith shop. Hereafter soldiers who are sick at camp will not be carried to the hospital on a stretcher, as an ambulance drawn by a horse will always be ready for duty at a minute’s call. The old system relative to the ambulance corps 'will be maintained. Camp Bulkeley will no doubt be theequal in every way of any of its predecessors, and in many ways it will be superior to any of them.” The N orwalks joined the Atlantic league last Thursday, and played their first game on the Baxter grounds, Friday, with the Hartfords. It was an unusually flue game, and had there been any other than a Hartford man for umpire, the Norwalks would have won. Score, Norwalks, 1 Hartfords 2. Even with the score against them, the Norwalks showed that they can hold their own with any club in the At- lantic league. Saturday the Norwalks 'went to Hart- ford and played another close and exciting game. Score, Norwalks 4 Hartford 5. The New Haven Journal and Courier in speaking of the Norwalks says: The sensation of the week has been the play- ing of the Norwalks since being admitted to the Atlantic league. On Friday at South Norwalk the home team outbatted and outfielded the Hartfords, but lost the game, 2 to 1. Ridley pitched for Norwalk and but four hits were made 'of’f‘ him. In Hartford Saturday the score was 5 to 4 in favor of Hartford. This|certainly shows that the Norwalks can hold their own with the teams in this league. Williams pitched for the Norwalks and but seven hits were made of him, while Norwalk got nine off O’Connell. Norwalk had one more error than Hartford. Manager Don- nclly has been looking after pitchers, but if Ridley and Williams can do as well against the other teams as they did against Hartford he need not be at all worried. There is one position that the manager will have to make a change in—that of Sullivan at short. In Gilbert he has a fine third baseman and also a heavy hitter. The Y. M. C. A. club defeated a picked nine on the Fair grounds, Friday last. Score, 13 to 5. The Actor’s club came up from New York last Saturday, to cross bats with the Independents, and for the second time the rain prevented the game. Evidently the five A’s are Jonah’s. A game between hatters and cigar mak- ers was played on the Baxter grounds Monday, the former winning, 18 to 15. The Y. M. C. A. and the Pioneer Hook and Ladder clubs will play ball on the Fair grounds this afternoon. The officers and members of St! John’s Lodge F. and A. M. will on the evening of Monday, Sept 2d, go to Ridgefield and work the third degree in the new lodge room in that place. The Ridgefield breth- ren may be depended upon to give the St. Johns’ a pleasant time in exchange for first-class “work,” and there will undoubt- edly be a large attendance from several lodges. There is considerable complaint about the condition of the town roads in various localities. Certain particsfiwho drive con- siderable in all parts of the town, aver that the roads on Prospect Hill and Wilton avenue were ploughed up last spring as a beginning of thorough repairs, but since that time nothing has been done to them, and the fact of their having been ploughed makes them much worse than if they had been left in their original villainous con- dition. These complaints would seem to warrant an investigation at least. Great preparations are being made in Hartford for the three days’ session of the Connecticcut State Firemeu’s Association to be held in that city August 13th. The association was incorporated by the legis- lature of 1885, and has the control of an annual appropriation of $5,000 from the state, which is used as a relief fund for firemen disabled in the line of duty and for the assistance of widows and orphans of the firemen who were killed while en- gaged in service. It is the nearest thing to a pension fund that exists in the state. The address of welcome Will be delivered by Mayor John G. Root, of Hartford, and be responded to by Isaac 0. Hyatt, of Meriden. Several from this town will attend. Frederick P. Beardsley, of Bridge port, is a vice-president of the association. The Danbury fire fiend will fare badly if he is caught. Public excitement, fear and indignation in that city will diminish only when the Scoundrel is well punished. There were three incendiary fires on Fri- day night, in one of which a human be ing was burned to death, and early yester- day morning three more fires occurred, one of which totally destroyed the large hat manufactory of Dexter Brothers. The first fire of Friday night was at the “Danbury House,” a low resort on Ives street, and was extinguished without dif- ficulty. The second wasin the rear of the Central Hotel on White street in a group of frame buildings, and here the firemen had hard work to conquer the flames. Considerable damage was done, and here the frightfully charred body of Barney VanWie, a dissipated character was found in the ruins. The third fire was on an ur— frequented road and although not a serious fire, an investigation justified the officials in arresting Mrs.Albert Dugan on a charge of setting her own house on fire. The last three fires, with the exception of de- stroying Dexter’s hat factory, were not at- tended with great damage. The J. M. Ives furnishing store on Main street was somewhat damaged, and the property in the rear of White street, which had been set on fire before, was again ignited. The efiicient police department did heroic ser- vice in every instance and is deserving of all praise. . The decease recently of Charles M. Church, Esq., recalls the old members of the ancient Norwalk family of that name. About one hundred and fifty years ago, a young man of pluck and energy, and hear- ing the name of Ebenezer Church, came to this town and engaged in manufacturing. He was evidently a young man of character and soon became acquainted with our prom- inent citizens of thal day, and anon married a daughter of Gov. Fitch’s cousin John. This lady, the N orwalk church mother, lived but a few years, and her husband took to him a second wife, who was grand. aunt of the late Charles Hoyt, Esq., and of the present Gen. W. T. Sherman, of the -U. 8. Army. This second Mrs. Church was the grandmother of Mr. Charles M. Church who was buried last monday, his mother having belonged to the well known Marvin family. When but a boy the enterpris- ing youth went to New York city and there made his mark. His industry and integrity and signal business abilities had won for him a coveted name and success, and with him another worthy, reliable and highly re- spectable old-time metropolitan merchant passes away. He had been of much help in Brooklyn to the church of his ancestors,and after a lingering illness died peacefully in its communion. He loved during the years of his strength, and also while he had been in failing health, to visit N orwalk, where he was always welcomed by deeply devot- ed relatives. The funeral was attended by the Rev. Cornelius Twing and the rector of St. Paul’s, Norwalk. The remains was taken to the family plot in the rural ceme- tery just outside the city, accompanied thereto by the clergy and the family of the deceased, and a number of the N orwalk re- lations. At the close of the committal of: flee the beautiful lines beginning, “Our Heavenly Father, in thy keeping, Leave we here Thy servant sleeping.” were recited by one of the clergy. Several children survive their father, whose well es- tablished business house will still be kept up by the sons. . An Enterprising Republican J ournal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests. glittTWO DOLLARS A YEAR NUMBER 33. “A big thing, with everybody to it.” That is the Norwalker’s definition of a Barbecue, such as the Norwalk butchers had arranged at the Fair Ground on Wed- nesday. And such a barbecurious crowd as it called together! Ten thousand people from near and remote: from “over the hills and far away ;” people of every degree of wealth and social station from the sublime to the starved-to-death. They came into town in squads, in droves, in coaches, on horseback, on foot, in single file and hand and hand, and the influx continued from early morning till after- noon. The parade of butchers on horseback and in wagons, each dressed in white and looking like a jolly ghost, started shortly after 11 o’clock, a half hour behind time,. as all parades iueVitably do, headed by Heine’s full band and a file of big, fat and frolicsomelooking Bridgeport meat car- penters, each formidably armed with a cleaver having a tin blade as large as an insurance policy, at “the right of the line.” The line of march took them all through this section of the county and it was nearly two o’clock when the Fair Grounds were reached. And when at last the procession and the sight-seers bad all arrived, the best portion of the ground was full, and a fair percentage of the crowd proceeded to get into the same joy- f ul condition. ' And what an interesting medley it was that surged around the enclosure where the busy butchers bumped against one another and knocked the trays from one another’s hands in their confused endeav- ors to wait upon the mob that clamored for sandwiches from the monster roast in the open air. The cityofied dude and the gawky bumpkin from the mountains, the digni- fied,banker and the uncouth bushwhacker, the jeweled belle in silks and smirks and the tanned and stalwart country lass with big feet, prize package breast-pin and faded and tattered parasol; the gambler and the missionary, the tipsy bummer and the long-faced prohibitionist—all huddled around the roast in a surging, pushing, hauling, noisy, hungry mob, bowling and grabbing for sandwiches, which were dealt out impartially, irrespective of race, color or previous condition of appetite. The roast itself was an interesting fea- ture of the affair, and was superintended by Bommos & Biltz, of Bridgeport, who had gotten up a dozen similar ones, and who informed a reporter, by the way, that this was the biggest and most suc- cessful barbecue, in every way, they had ever seen. The number of cattle and sheep that made up the roast was—but as the announcement that preceded the bar- becue on the posters, and the report of the masters that came subsequently, showed a slight disagreement in the num- ber, and as the same. matter has precipita- teda red-hot newspaper controversy in South Norwalk, it is safe and judicious only to state thata whole herd of cattle and an entire flock of lambs were roasted and eaten at the barbecue. the herd and flock being about the same in number as you may have seen on afarm. And to give emphasis to the statement that there was a large and hungry multitude in attendance it may be further remarked that there was not nearly meat .enough to feed them all. Although nobody was limited to any number of sandwiches, some would take one simply for the ex- perience of eating of a wholesale roast, while one two-legged porker, who had escaped from his pen, crowded his way to the railing and asked for “three beef and two lamb sandwiches,” conveying the idea that he had a family or group to provide for On receiving his fodder he was observed to withdraw to a shady spot under a tree where he sat and devoured the entire five sandwiches and immediately returned to the railing and asked for two more which followed the others. The poor fellow had undoubtedly fasted for three days in an- ticipation of a square meal for nothing. The contests were—some of them—in- teresting, and have all been fully reported by the local papers, and probably all of our readers know by this time that the trotting race was won by Mr. Woodhull’s “Frank,” three straight heats, in 2:5351, 2:53 and 2.51; the running race by Prow- itt’s Peggy; the three mile foot race by Ben Hamilton; Mr. Tuft’s horse ran a half mile in 58 seconds; the greased pig was captured by John Britt, of Winni- pauk; the greased pole prize was awarded to John Scofield, of Weston, and the base ball match was won by the Norwalk butchers by a score of 1’7 to 6. The danc- ing in the evening was participated in by a large crowd and was kept up till a late hour. Fritz-choes from the Republican :-—From theappcarance of some back-yards in town the occupants of the houses in front of them are expecting a snowstorm or are courting a visit from the undertaker.— Mrs. Chas. L. Millard, of New Britain, is visiting her mother Mrs. Geo. Ward Sel- leck. Her little babe finds much delight in pulling Mr. Sellcck’s big mustache—~— “Tne Danbury News man” and his dogs have been “doing” Bell Island this week. He (Mr. Bailey,) has discovered that the island(?) is shaped like a dumb-bell and inclines to the belief that from this re- semblance the place gained its name. Mr. Bell, the former owner of the land, would hardly agree with him on the subject.
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