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LOCAL ITEMS. “Ed.” Bennett, Esq., was in town over Sunday. And now gold is being discovered in Stratford. Miss Sallie Betts is expected home from Pittsfield to-day. Barney Feeney—is doing local work in the absence of John Wade. Mr. Charles W. Hoyt has returned from a week’s vacation at Saratoga. The smiling face of Arthur Earle is to be seen on our streets again. Congressman S. S. Cox is believed to he fatally ill at his home in New York. The Y. M. C. A. base ball team will play the New Canaans atthe Fair Grounds, to. day. Dry-goodsman Hoyt and Mr. Jas. Sco- field’s little son Fred were in Saratoga, last week. Mrs. Lowth expects to sail for America from Liverpool on the City of Paris on .‘he 18th inst. The Twenty-third regiment, C. V., held its annual reunion at Seaside Park, Bridge- port yesterday. There will be no extra session of con- gress. That was decided at a cabinet meeting on Saturday. Stephen H. Smith, Esq., and family expect to return from their protracted visit to Ocean Grove to-day. ‘ i To—morrow the big ,butchers’ barbecue eventuates in Bridgeport and Norwalk will be largely represented. Bluefish are being caught by the thou- sands in the harbor. The run is nearly equal to that of two years ago. At a meeting of the town of Vernon on Saturday it was voted to issue $125,000 of 3?; per cent. bonds at thirty years. Veterans! Remember the first meeting of Buckingham Post, ”Sr. A. R. for the fall of 1889 will be held this evening. Miss Edie Miller, of New Haven, who has been visiting Miss Susie Hartwick, of South Norwalk, returned home yesterday. 15.00 Sermons of unusual power and excel- lence are reported to have been preached in the churches on the green, on Sunday. It is rumored that Dr. W. C. Burke, Jr. is practicing pitching ball. to relieve "Tim” Keefe, of the New York base ball club. ' A Bag Baby drew a large audience to the Opera House on Saturday evening, and the applause was generous and fre- quent. The water main trouble has n)t yet been definitely determined. It is still con- jectnred to be wind and mud in the pipe, and mostly the latter. Norwalk was founded in 1649—is it too early to prepare for our 250th anniversary, so as to keep in the procession of other Connecticut towns. The Typothctae held a special meeting at Branford yesterday to elect delegates to the St. Louis convention of the National Typothetzc of America. Burglar-s have been operating recently at Woodmont, near Merwin’s Point, and on Friday night made two attempts on Linley’s store. Each time they were dis- covered and fired at but escaped. The advertisement of Dr. W. H. Badld- win, dentist, appears in another column. Dr. Baldwin is a skilled workman, and is building up a large and lucrative practice in Norwalk by the excellence of his work. Mr. Thom, the bright young civil engi- neer, who for the past three months has been located here on the Government ge- ological survey, was transferred on Thurs- day to Stamford, to prosecute the work there. Mrs. Henry J. Grumman is visiting friends in Montreal, Canada. She writes ‘ from there that no rain has fallen in that ' part of Canada for ten consecutive weeks and the:dust is knee deep and well nigh unbearable. _ Saturday afternoon a collision occurred in the Housatonic yard, at Bridgeport, between a baggage car and a sleeper while the cars were being switched on a side track. The platforms and part of the top of both cars were smashed in but they were soon on their way to the repair shop and will be out again in a few days. Messrs. Clara and Ida Judson, who have been spending atwo weeks’ vacation with friends in town, returned to their home in Stratford Thursday. Miss Nellie Welton, the accomplished linguist and great American traveler in and over Europe, expects to leave for her home in Waterbury to-day. Alarge crowd of people came out on the street on Monday evening to hear Glover’s band play on the roof of Dann’s harness store, Hadden’s building. The Farmer tells of a negro woman in Bridgeport who gave birth.1ast week to a pair of twins, one white and the other black. This seems to be in the line of Rosie Rowe’s theory of the transfusion of blood. Dr. James G. Gregory and wife, James H. Bailey and J. Arthur Pinneo, left Satur- day for a trip up the sound in the palatial steamer Pilgrim, en route to Boston. Their excursion was for health and rest and a sniff of sea air. Miss Ollie Olmstead, of New York city, is again visiting her cousin Mrs. William Keyes, me Miss Lilias Selleck. When last here, this attractive and accomplished young lady made a decided flutter be- neath numerous young weskits. The body of John McArthur was brought to Salisbury, on Saturday, for burial. He was run over and instantly killed while uncoupling cars at Halifax, N. S. He leaves a wife and one child. He was 30 years of age and a native of Salisbury. Supt. Lyon of the Housatonic road has sent out more warnings to boys who jump on and off trains, to discontinue the practice or be arrested. The boys who indulge in this dangerous pastime will now choose between the hospital and the jail. The fair to be given by the G. A. R. and Company D at the 'Armory from the 16th to the 2lst inst., promises to be a most enjoyable affair. An attractive pro- gramme is prepared and there can be no doubt of the success of the undertaking. Genial “Sam.” Fessendeu is now at his home in Stamford nursing his injured limb and not his wrath, and is as comfort- able as could be expected under the cir- cumstances. His leg was not broken as first reported, but only severely jammed. New Milford Gazette :—Miss Martha D. Treadwell who has been in Norwalk for the past month, returned to this village on Monday.-——George Lockwood and Charles Clark of Norwalk have been visiting friends in this village and at the lake this week. The tipping of a ladder precipitated Jabez Wheater a distance of several feet on Friday afternoon. He struck on his tool chest and the edge of a small square penetrated his hip to the depth of two inches, makinga painful but not serious wound. Selectman Daskam says the town of Norwalk has over two hundred miles of highways to repair and care for, outside of the city limits of South Norwalk and the borough limits of Norwalk. No wonder so large an appropriation is need- ed every year for highways. “Uncle” George Holmes says he is still determined to visit Saratoga before snow flies unless Charley Betts “fiunks” and backs square out. as he always does just as Uncle George gets his extra pair of hose and clean dickcy packed into his portmanteau ready for a start. The largest consignment of lime shipped over the Housatonic road in years was shipped on Tuesday by the Canaan Lime Company, of which H. R. clerk S. A. Eddy is president. The shipment was 2,000 barrels, its transportation requiring a train of twenty freight cars. The new transfer steamer, Maryland, to cost about $150,000, will be completed in October, and Washington express trains will then again be run over the Consoli- dated road. ‘ This road uses six tow boats and twenty floats for transferring freight cars around New York city. The colored people have arranged for a very interesting and novel entertainment to come off in the Odd Fellows’ Hall, in GAZETTE Building, Thursday evening of this Week, in aid of the A. M. E. church, Knight street, and it is to be hoped their appeal and efforts for so noble a charity will be liberally responded to by our townspe0ple. S. A. Eddy, of Canaan, clerk of the House of Representatives, will on Wed- nesday of next week marry Miss Jennie Tuckerman, of Jamestown, N. 7', “Sam” is one of the rising young men of his sec- tion and has hosts of friends throughout the state who will deluge him with con- gratulations. There were two of the largest elms in St. Paul’s church yard felled last week in consequence of old age and decay in their trunks. One fell across the street, so as to arrest travel for several hours, on the route to and from Westport and Newtown avenues. All teams had to make a detour up and down behind the church. The Miss Ainscoe, who played so clevl erly the parts of Jessie Richmond and Mrs. Gaffield at the Rag Baby show Saturday evening at the Opera House, is a daughter of Captain Ainscoe. who was a member of the Seventeenth Conn. Volunteers’ hand during the war, and is now a member of the Seventh regiment band, of New York. If our borough or South Norwalk city officials are really in earnest in their pro— fessed desire to give us better highways, all they have to do is to visit Stamford and see what a sensible set of public officials, backed by equally sensible inhabitants, are now doing in the way of MacAdam~ izing the road-beds of that thrifty town. An east end man went to New York yesterday and visited the‘Eden Musce. He was greatly interested in the works of art to be seen there and sat down on a bench by the side of a stranger, as he thought. The east end man began asking the stranger questions about the place, but got no answer. The cast ender looked closer at the stranger, and then got up and walk- ed off muttering: “I’m a —— fool.” The stranger was wax—Bridgeport Post. The Warehouse Point correspondent of the Springfield Republican writes to to that paper: “William N. Wilson and Miss Lizzie A. Wonldhave were married by Rev. C. A. Stenhouse Monday fore- noon at the home of the bride’s parents on Prospect street. It now comes out that the two persons interested were married secretly nearly a year and a half ago, no one being aware of the alliance except the immediate relatives.” If there was any one thing more than another, that evoked the public gratitude towards our last year’s board of borough officials, it was their construction of the inexpensive, but beautiful little flower mounds which bedecked our parks and highway triangles. This year’s board has not been quite as aesthetic or liberal in this direction, but they deserve and will re- ceive the public’s thankful approbation for the construction of such a flower mound in the center of the hitherto little, weed-grown triangle between the Van Buren place and the Armory. Blizzards, cyclones, clondbursts and other surrounding phenomena are in. significant compared with the wonders of the grand “Danbury Fair,” now so rapidly approaching. Like a gigantic car of triumph, freighted with marvels of all kinds, its wheels well oiled, perfectly equipped and cleverly engineered, it starts on its annual run on the seventh of Oct., makinga record always unparalleled. All aboard for the great outing, which this year will outrival itself. Everything along the line is booming, and multitudes are awaiting the start, eager for their share in the enjoyment ahead. Acorrespondent set-tles the setting question like this: “A man, or woman either, can set a hen, although they cannot sit her, neither can they sit on her although the old hen might sit on them by the hour if they would allow. A man cannot set on the wash bench, but he could set the basin on it, and neither the basin nor the grammar- ians would object. He could sit on the dog’s tail if the dog were willing, or he might set his foot on it. But if he should set on the aforesaid tail or sit his foot there the grammarians aswell as the dog would howl. And yet as strange as it may seem, the man might set the tail aside and then sit down, and neither be assault- ed by the dog nor the grammarians.” John H. Wade’s annual vacation of two weeks began on Monday. That morning he took his wife and little Ralph aboard the Danbury train for Bedding Ridge. He also took his trusty rifle along carefully wrapped up in a silk muffler, with which he will again tantalize that perennial woodchuck, whose life he has made mis- erable every fall for years past, and whom he will continue to persecute until old age, or somebody who can shoot, in mercy puts the poor “chuck” out of the world. On Saturday next John will embark for Norwalk, Ohio, to visit his brother and see what the wild and woolly west looks like. The season for oyster spawn to “set” is about ended, and the situation as regards the future supply from this year’s set in these waters is discouraging to the major-- ity of the planters. Most of those having inshore beds report a fairly good deposit, but in deeper waters the number of infant oysters that have become attached to the shells or other hard material forming the bottom is so small as to be of very little account. Planter L. S. Morris has some beds off Southport in which scarcely a trace of the seed from this year’s spawn can be detected. Other cultivators report a like failure in the set. On the beds in more shallow waters a better condition prevails, but oystermen generally find the outlook for the year anything but satisfac— tory—Bridgeport Farmer. The abuse of Pension CommissionerTan- ner by the democratic and mugwump press has not shaken the confidence of the Grand Army veterans in him. At the en- campment at Milwaukee, Thursday, resolu- . tions were passed thanking President Harri- son for Mr. Tanner’s appointment as com- missioner of pensions and declaring that “notwithstanding the assaults made on him, we decla_e our complete confidence in his integrity, and our approval of his endeavors to do all that can. be done under the laws for the veterans of the war and in connection with him we ask a full investigation of his administration of the afiiiirs of the pension bureau.” An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests. That little Colyer kid is still making it pleasant for Uncle Walter Fitch, although Walter lives in hopes that before the heavy frosts come, a kind providence Will take him back to New York. The child had heard the country talk about going “berry- ing" and so when it was time to go down to the pasture lot a few evenings ago for that old cow, which has been such an unaccountable and amazing wonder to his infantile mind, he put it this way: “Say, Uncle Walter, may I go cowiug with you again to-night ? ” Between the hours of 2 and 2:30 Sun- day afternoon the offices of the Southern New England Telephone Company, at Falls Village, and the Western Union Tel- egraph Company were entered by a sneak thief. About four dollars in specie was taken from the money drawer, a pocket- book containing about $80in bills and two dollars in specie, belonging to Miss Perry, the Telephone company’s manager, and also a pocketbook belonging to Miss Con- sidine, telephone operator, containing about $30. No clue to the thief as yet. These offices are in the same room, situa- ted up stairs in the Housatonic Railroad Company’s depot. Surveys are being made for a railroad to connect Danbury with the Harlem road and thus make a short and direct route to New York state for the city. The busi~ ness men of Danbury and property own- ers are interested in the scheme. The route is about sixteen miles long and will leave the Harlem tracks at Ketona, N. Y., and pass through Ridgebury and North Salem and enter Danbury near the fair. grounds. Mostof the land will be given to the company, as the owners wish the road to be put through. The route has been surveyed about two-thirds of the way and a company will be formed when it is completed. Hon. John L. Sullivan, the pngilist, is out in a letter requesting aiifpminatiou from the democratic party ofsBoston to congress. He says: “I have always sup- ported the democratic party and have always voted for it. I am sound as far as feel thatI deserve the support of the party on thpt score.” He remarks that he has “personal friends and general admirers enough in Boston to elect him anyhow.” That is all very nice, but suppose when John gets to congress he should be seized with one of his “turns” and clean out the whole house of congress, democrats as well as republicans, what would aesthetic Boston then do or say? Speaking to aBee reporter about Wilson Point, and the work now going on there, Colonel W. H. Stevenson, of the Housa- tonic system said: “Yes, we’re doing a little at the Point. We’ll spend a couple of hundred thousand dollars and then, in in a few weeks, probably, we’ll be in shape to run through cars from Boston to New York, by way of the New England, Danbury & Norwalk division of the Hous- atonic and freight car transfer steamer from Wilson Point. But only the through cars will be sent this way; all freight which mustbe transferred, or is in broken bulk, will come to Bridgeport, be unload- ed there and sent to New York; the freight steamer Phillip D. Lefevre will continue to run on this line—Newtown Bee. Judge Andrew Selleck with his accus- tomed enterprise, has made a very desira— ble improvement in front of his bookstore building by relaying and smoothing up the flag-stones of his sidewalk. Few of our good townspeople have any idea of Judge Selleck’s deep-seated love of the beautiful. In art and nature and especial- ly in all matters connected with the book and stationery trade, his aesthetic taste rules him with almost ungovernable en- thusiasm. Had he been blessed with the wealth of the Astors, Goulds and Vander- bilts, he would have had his home adorn- ed with the choicest works of the oldest masters and blessed our town by the gift of a public library of the choicest gems of literature and the costliest works of art. Would we had more like him. The Y. M. C. A. ball team of Danbury, who came down here on Labor Day to defeat the local Y. M. C. A. team, but instead went home beaten themselves, are pleading baby and decline to give their consent to the prize, a bag of bats contributed by Smith Brothers, being turned over to the victors. Their principal ground for protest was that one of the. INorwalk players who played during the first few innings was not a member of the 5’. M. C. A. This peurile allegation was technically true, as the player had not yet been elected a member, although his appli- cation for membership was at that time on file with the secretary and was awaiting action by the asssociation. However, to pacify the visitors, the player was laid off, and another member of the Y. M. C. A. substituted with the result of defeating the Beantowners 10 to 9. Still they kicked against allowing the bats to the winners, notwithstanding the donors of the bats agree that Norwalk is entitled to the trophy. However the Norwalkers have signified their willingness to win the bats again or as many times as the Danburians want them to play, and have agreed to play two games more, one of which will take place on the 23d inst. at Danbury. my political record is .concerned,.and .I, N ORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 l, 1889. The next meeting of the Connecticut Weekly Press association will be held at Highland Lake, West Winsted on Monday of next week, when the members will be the guests of Editor Vaill of the Winsted Herald. N. W. Kennedy of Putnam will read a paper “In defence of foreign adver- tising,” and U. S. Senator O, H. Platt is expected to be present and say something about “Public Officials and the Press.” The Housatonic railroad company’s second annual excursion to Niagara Falls will be given on Friday of this week. The train will leave Bridgeport at 4.50 p. m. and arrive at the Falls at 7.20 Saturday morning. The fare for the round trip is only $9.00, the tickets being good to re- turn on any train leaving Niagara Falls before midnight of the following Monday. Sleeping car berths can be reserved by applying to A. W. Perrin, general ticket agent, Bridgeport. A number of Norwalk- ers will go on the excursion. We noticed in our last week’s issue the fact that the great a renowned seed house of J. M. Thorburn & 00., 15 John street, New York, were exhibiting eighty varie- ties of the tomato. This exhibit, which attracted much attention by reason of its real merit as well as prodigious number, is to be forwarded to the agricultural de- partment at Washington, we learn, for further exhibit and a chance to officially inspect the varieties and the merits of each. This firm has a new tomato propa- gation which exceeds all known varieties in its good qualities, but probably their greatest seed wonder of recent years is a hybrid grain of wheat and rye, proven to come true to its new variety and in pomt of fact, being an entirely new grain. This enterprising house is said to have paid the philosophical and scientific propagator $750 for the first pint of this new grain sown. The physicians will play ball with the druggists on the Baxter Grounds on Fri- day afternoon, (not Saturday as stated in the Record). Admission tickets are sold at 25 cents, the proceeds to be set aside as a nucleus for a hospital fund. The estab- lishmcnt ofa hospital in Norwalk would be a consummation long and devoutly wished, and there should he no difficulty in raising all the funds required. The base ball game, as the initiatory step, should and undoubtedly will realize a handsome prptit, and many pe0ple will purchase admission tickets solely to help along the good cause. The Housatonic and Consolidated roads, we understand, have each promised to endow a bed in the institution, and we venture the prediction that, the ball once fairly rolling, the pro- moters of the scheme will be given a sur- prise in the spontaneity and willingness with which voluntary and substantial aid will come to the front. Meantime get your tickets for the ball game on Friday. The Bridgeport Farmer of Saturday says :—“There is much alarm in Stratford over the cases of diphtheria at the Strat- ford Home, and the health committee of the town has been asked to prevent an epidemic. During the past few days three more cases of diphtheria have been reported at the Home. The county com- missioners have taken precautions to pre- vent the disease from spreading, but they seem to have been unavailing, and it is now feared that all in the institution will be victims of the disease. The Stratford health committee, the county commission- ers and Dr. Lindsley, secretary of the state board of health, visited the Home to-day, and held a consultation to determine what siep had better be taken. The health committee strongly favored sending all the children away from the place with a view to preventing an epidemic both in the institution and the town. The five patients have been moved to a tent and are attended by skilled nurses. Stratford people are not so anxious to retain the Home as they were a few months ago.” ——Visitors to the second floor of the Boston store would hardly recognize the old parlors of the Hotel Brunswick. The transformation is complete. The removal of the partitions, the re-arrangement of the entire floor, the grand staircase at the north, the rich and elegant decorations of the walls and ceiling, the spacious bow window, all combine to make the old hotel rooms a veritable palace of art and elegance. The greater portion of the floor front is devoted to the Art department of the Boston store, which is under the per- sonal supervision of W. P. Whitney, and in this department the refined and artistic eye may find a feast. Here is a profusion of pictures in Pastel, Artetypes, Steel Engravings, Paintings, etc., copies of the masterpieces of the world ; Frames of the latest designs and at low prices; artists -materials in complete variety; photograph albums in bewildering variety and aston- ishinglylow figures. A great feature is the writing paper counter, where, in boxes or by quires, is kept an enormous amount of letter paper and envelopes of every quality at prices so low as to be ridiculous. In fact anything that could properly come under the head of art productions or ar- tists’ sundries is here found, tastily and artistically arranged and politely and cheerfully exhibited for inspection. Two DOLLARS A YEAR NUMBER 37. The card of Mr. C. B. DeKlyn in an- other column in to-day’s paper, will be read with sincere regret by his hosts of friends in and about Norwalk. But “business is business,” and he having struckabonanza in New York it is not snprising that the larger magnet pulls him away from old friends. old associations and the old business here in Norwalk. He will for the present at least retain his family residence here while his business passes into the experienced hands of his father and brother, who have for many years successfully conducted the same- business in Danbury. Guilford celebrated its 250th an niver- sary, Monday. Historical sermons were preached Sunday in the church at Madi- son by Rev. J. A. Gallup, and at the Guil- ford church by Rev. C. L. Kitchell of New Haven. The exercises, Monday, included a poem by Prof. C. T. Johnson of Trinity college and historical papers by L. H. Steiner of Baltimore, Md., and Henry P. Robinson of Guilford. A historical ad- dress was delivered by Prof. H art of Trin- ity college, in the morning, and in the af- ternoon Col. T. W. lligginson of Cam- bridge spoke on “Whitefield and Higgin- son,” Prof. W. R. Dudley of Cornell uni- versity on “The other founders” and Rev. John E. Todd on “Distinguished natives of Guilford and Madison.” A man is liable to a fine of $25 in Lon- don for “sweeping or throwing any refuse, dirt, ashes, decayed fruit, upon the foot or carriage-way pavements.” In Paris when a man throws a scrap of paper into the street he is waited upon by a polite gen- d’armes who requests him to pick it‘ up. In Hartford the average citizen imagines that the street is a very convenient recep- tacle. for refuse which there is no room for on his premises. The true way to keep a street clean is to see to it that it does not get dirty-—Hartford Post. ' In Norwalk borough our oflicials have very much to their credit, arranged to have all such refuse carted off at the pub- lic expense, if only the citizens of cleanly instincts will deposit the same in any rc- ceptacle where truckmen can gather it up, and quite generally is this “reform” in our local sanitary methods observed. We ought'to have-a law with severe penalties against the practice,all too common every- where,of throwing fruit and especially ba- nana peels on the walks. We have had several quite severe accidents from this cause, one of a lady maimed and made a sufferer for life from stepping upon 3. ba- nana peel which had been carelessly thrown upon the sidewalk. A belated traveler, while driving from Norwalk to Westport about midnight on Saturday night was startled, while going through Peat Swamp, by his horse sudden- ly coming to a stand-still and prancing and shying to one side with every indication 0f fright and terror. The driver jumped to the ground, took the affrightcd animal by the bridle and peered ahead to ascertain the cause of its alarm. In the dim light of the moon he discerned about a hundred yards ahead what appeared to be a log lying across the road from one side to the other. He attempted to lead the horse ahead, intending to remove the log, which he thought had been placed there by some mischief loving boys, but the animal re- fused to he led and nearly escaped in its frantic efforts to back farther away from the object in the road. The gentleman’s confidence in the sagacity of the horse prompted him to investigate. He tied the horse toa sapling and went ahead. On arriving at the log he gave it a kick and was astonished to find it soft and yielding to the touch. His curiosity now being roused to the highest pitch he struck a match, bent down to examine the sur— face of the thing closely, and nearly fell over backward on observing that it ex- panded and contracted with the pulsa- tions of life, and even while he stood spell-bound, rooted to the spot,'a quiver ran through the thing and, glancing along its length, he saw with horror the mon- strous head of the serpent reared high in the air, its awful mouth wide open and its hideous eyes, like balls of fire, evidently looking straight at him, the head swaying to and fro like an inverted clock pen- dulum. By this time the man recovered his senses sufficient to realize his desper— ate predicament and, drawing a revolver from his pocket, he fired two shots at the flaming eyes and ran for his horse. At least one of his bullets must have taken effect, for as he ran he heard the most violent thrashing and snapping of under- brush, and, on turning his head, he saw the “log” being swiftly dragged across the road into the swamp, and as the tail end was snatched across out of sight it was whisking and lashing the air like the snapper one horse whip, cutting down sprouts and stripping the bark from the trees in its way. The enormous reptile was headed towards Walter Fitch’s farm, and is supposed to be the “thief” who has for months past been depopulating Mr. Fitch’s hennery. It may have escaped from the Barnum menagerie at the time of the big fire at the circus winter quar- ters. If anybody—especially Bigelow,.cf the Portland Record—doubts this story and cares to have it verified, if he will come over here Mr. Fitch will show him the road, the swamp and the moon that shone down upon the scene.
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