TERMS II F SUBSBIIIP'I’IDI. it? Two Dollars per year, in advance.‘®h RATES FOR ADVEBIISIIG All! JOB PRINTING urnished on a plication at the Office. (Birdinary and triinsient advs., 1 inch,.‘. week, $1.00 Each subsequent insertion, up to 4 times, .50 Half incn. half of above rates. One column, ordinary adv., one time. - One column, reading matter, one time, . LOCALS in reading matter columns, per line, Births, Marriages and Deathsinserted free. Advertising of Funeral Notices, - - i._00 Liberal terms to yearly and half-yearly advertis- ers. and ten per cent. discount on all advs. pre- paid for three months or over. . THE GAZETTE J on PRINTING DEPARTMENT is equipped with the best facilities for turning out First Class Work of every description. All orders for frinting. Engraving and Boon Binding. execu- ted promptly. and will be as well anti reasonably done as anywhere LOCAL ITEMS. Mayor Patrick Gleason, of Long Island City was in town Monday. a first-class advertisement. Betliel and Danbury are turning out large numbers of napped hats The new proprietors of the Danbury Register are making it very good. Miss Esther L. Smith is visiting her sis- ter, Mrs. Frank H. Hoyt, at Stamford. F. C Smalley, late editor of the Danbury Register, is to open a grocery store in that town. Michael Becker, of South Norwalk,dicd yesterday afternoon, after a lOng and pain ful illness. Col. C. A. Converse, of Norwich, was in town last week visiting his daughter Mrs. A. E. Austin. . Canaan Mountain and other elevations in Litchfield county were covered with snow last week. Hon. A. H. Byingtou was called Ly an important engagement to Washington on Saturday last. The incandescent lights are a great suc- cess A certain Norwalkei' calls them “indecent lights.” Charles Adams did duty for Chief of Police Lockwood, while the latter was away on the trip to Gettysburg. Treasurer George E. Miller is having the Carter homestead on Beldcn avenue Editor Bailey accompanied the Danbury delegation of veterans to Gettysburg last week, and his published report is charac- teristic. #w” The State agricultural fair this year had a deficiency of $3,000 and the directors have voted to borrow the money to make it good. , Senator llawlcy has gone to his winter home, in Washington, to reside. Senator Platt has engaged winter quarters at. the Shoreham. 0. L. Bassett. the Castlecootc milkinan, is making it uncomfortable for the game in Milton and other wild places in Lifeli- field county. The Greenwich Graphic people sued ' the town last week to recover pay for printing the town reports. The case was compromised, however. samvvtit‘r‘lfi“ . . . . ‘ - tuba“-.. David B. Tincklcr, a native and life long 7 resident of Norwalk, has removed to ; Westport, greatly to the regret of many of , his neighbors and business acquaintances. The Pansy for October is fully equal to . any of its predecessors. A look at the i1- ; lustrations is a pleasure, and the reading is charming. D. Lothrop & 00., Boston. Mr. J. M. Kilboy has resigned his po- sition in the GAZETTE job department,_and has accepted a situation as general man- ager of a 'large printing house in New Haven. The story extensivley circulated by the press that a Danbury woman narrOwly es- caped being buried alive while in a trance last Week, is pronounced a falsehood by the News. The superbly gorgeous sunset Wed- nesday evening last, started the query whether it was all on account of Hon. ‘ Asa Smith’s birthday or George B. St. John’s wedding. =The court of burgesses met in special ' session Monday evening and unanimously 1 lected William E. Montgomery clerk 0f . he board to succeed Winthrop H. Perry, 1,; sq., resigned. 5 Rev. A. P. Marvin, of Lancaster, Mass, . icd of heart failure, Saturday. He was I} a native of Lyme, in this state, and a man ‘ Of high literary attainments. H is ministry ' as able, faithful and fruitful. The county commissioners in Litchfield ounty have fully decided to place the iccnse fees for liquor sellers in those i owns where licensetprevails up to the ighest point allowed by law, $500. A dog fight occurred in’a barn in',We=t- ort, on Monday night, between dogs be- onging to-Ed. Lynch and John. Madden, fNorwalk. The tussle was described as n elegant one, and as Lynch’s dog ate e most cars he was declared the winner. onsiderable cash was doggone after the .ewmg was over. ESTABLISHED 1800 VOLUiyiE LXXXIX. Norma/k Gazette, in that pious city a few weeks ago and cut them with a razor, one across the fore- , head and the other deeply in the side. Charles Lccs, a Bgidgeport negro, got into a fight with a cobple of negro women —For grates, covers, centers bricks, or ‘ anything in the stove. repair line, go to Austin’s Foundry and save jobbers’ prof- its. Brook street, rear Gregory’s stable. No stove or range that We cannot repair. Hon.Isaac 0. Lewis, the well-known Universalist philanthropist of Mcriden, has deeded his new block in that city, just completed at an expense of $75,000, _ to the City Mission, a charitable organiza- tion. Senator Sherman, in an address at Orr. ville, Ohio, last week, said: “I would rather be ruled by the meanest tyrant that ever cursed mankind titan be habitually cheated by the classes out of my right to _._______ vote.” That acrostic of Brother Golden’s was , Mrs. E. Parmly gave a ’bus ride to Nor- walk Saturday afternoon, in honor of Mr. Clapp Parmly. The young people, on returning from the ride, enjoyed a social evening at the Parmly residence —1}ridqc- port Standard. The muskrat, the goose bone, and the corn husk have held their annual caucus, and the face of the returns points to a mild winter. Such unanimity on this point. cannot help but be assuring to the coal dealers. Miss Mattie Parsells, for some time a popular saleslady at Street‘s dry goods store, is now in the cloak department of the D. M. Read 00., Bridgeport, where she will be happy to meet any of her Norwalk friends. Charles T. Sniffen Will relinquish the cafe in the Norwalk Hotel on the first of next month, and expects to take charge of a place in Danbury. Landlord Mc- Pherson has made application for a license for the bar in the hotel. The oyster steamers “Albert J. Hoyt.” and “J. H. Lowndes,” of South Norwalk, had a race on Monday for $500 a side, the “Hoyt” winning. The course was from Caukccn‘s Island buoy to Poiiit-tio—i’oint, off Sti'att‘ord, 23 miles. Thomas Di'ury was awarded a prize $15 gold—headed cane for winning a recent penochlc tournamentiii Bridgeport. Rufus Lyon, of the Ft'trmrr, should have tried for it. He’s the champion newspaper pcnochlist of the state. Wedding cards received in Norwalk announce the marriage, on the 29th iiist., in St.Joscph, Missouri, of Morris J. Bis‘ sell to Sella I. Lorinor, both of St.Joseph. They are expected at the old home here about the close of this week. The Governor has issued an elaborate proclamation giving the result of the late vote on the Prohilniiou Amendment, from which it appears that ’72, 53 votes were cast in all. of which 22,379 were in its favor, and 43,974 against it. The engineer and a deck hand oiiun oyster steamer in the harbor got into a knock down argument a few days ago, and after complaint to the South Norwalk authorities the matter was settled by the combatants kissing and making up. The New Milford. Gazette alfvertises for a boy to learn the printing business, and adds, “Only a boy who means business need apply.” Brother Belles will find that they all “mean business” at the start an :1 Hill the whole business shortly after. We have received a package of docu- ments, maps, etc. demonstrating St. Louis’ superior claim to the world’s fair of 1892, and an urgent request to advocate those claims editorially. Can’t do it. St. Louis may have the next Columbus fair ——not thisSfair, some other fair. The Congregational church society held a meeting, on Friday evening, at which Colonel. F. St. John-Lockwood presided. It was voted to extend a call to the Rev. Dr. Noble, of Washington, to become pastor of the church at a salary of $2,000 with the parsonage and a conditiona allowance, in addition, of $1,000. The fire department fair to be held in Music Hall by the South Norwalk depart- ment during the- week beginning Nov. 11th, promises to be a most successful affair. 0n the opening night there will be a grand concert under the auspices of Old Well hook and Lander company. Thomas O’Halloran,‘Who lives en Spring Hill, was arrested Wednesday morning by Deputy Sherifi Toner, on complaint: of his wife, for drunkenness and breach Of the peace. He was taken ‘ before Justice Austin, found guilty, ahdfined $7 and thirty days’ imprisonment,,from which he tookl an appeal. . Michael Nolan went O’Halloran's bonds in the sum of $75. A coaching party consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Brenson, Mrs. Burke- Roche and F. K. Sturges passed through this village, Monday, having left Lenox in the morning en route fOr Greenfield Hills, Conn: At Shefiield a relay of four horses were in waiting and they proceeded on their ,Ijourney. At Conway’s the party was .regaled with an elegant dinner be- ginning w1th soup, taking in fish, roasts, game, entrees, a dainty desert, etc.’ This is their third visit at the Miller House.— Barkahire News. ' Bridgeport scorcs another point in her murder record. Last Saturday night Frederick Merrill went home beastly drunk and clubbed and choked his wife into unconsciousness, in which condition she remained until Monday morning when she died in the hospital. Merrill was ar— rested. When he got sober and realized his awful crime he became frantic with grief and wept like a baby. The incandescent ‘lights and the store circuit of arc lights were not working on Monday evening, owing to a break dowu in some of the machinery at the engine and dynamo house. When subscribers were given notice early in the evening, some busybody attempted to create a mis- chievous prejudice by ‘in'silruuating that there was some “funny business” for which the management was responsible. Mrs. Annie Jenness-Miller has the cor- rect idea. The only way to bring about dress reform is to devise garments that are more graceful and more beautiful than those now in vogue. The average woman considers it her first duty to look hand- some , and anything that assists or de— tracts from that end gets treated accord- ingly. No sensible woman is going to make herself look like a bump simply for hygienic purposes. —Wonders will never cease, and the li. M. Read 00., of Bridgeport, are now ofi’ering first-class Tapestry Biussels Car- pets of choice patterns, and their own manufacture, at the unprecedented price of 50 cents a yard, and Body Brussels at 75 cents, retail. Their salesrooms are crowded with customers rushing for these never before heard of bargains, and thous- ands upon thousands of yards have al- ready been sold. S. P. Thrasher, of New Haven, was all last week at Washington trying to bring to the attention of the maritime congress, in scssmn there, his unique, ingenious and completely effective compass and fog signal chart. It would seem that -Mr. Thrashei"s device would reduce the dan- gers of collisions of vessels at night and in fogs to the lowest possible minimum, and this is the opinioa of all the nautical expeits who have seen it. Wm. E. Garrison, of Danbury, went out coon hunting Tuesday last on Bear moun- taiii. His dog finally treed a coon, but for a time Garrison was unable to locate him. Finally he discovered the creature in a hollow place in the trunk of the tree near the ground. His tail was about the only visible part, and this he seized hold of and pulled him out. Garrison would have been glad to have dropped him on the spot were it possrblc. He tried hard to shake the acquaintance, but it seemed impossible. lie was badly bitten on thcindex finger of his right hand at the second joint ; this was so completely laid open that the joint was nearly severed—Danburg News. Stamford, Conn., says the Critic, is the Mecca of the. theatrical profession. Les- tt-i- Wallnck liVed and died there. A. M. Palmer lives there; so does Daniel Froli- man and the brothers Mallory. Now, Charles Bernard, the author of the popu- lar play, “The County Fair,” has built. a wonderful little house there, a sott of saints’ rest for playwrights. The theat- rical colony are about to build a lyccum of their own, where they can rehearse plays in summer that are to be produced in fall and winter. - This is a' shocking Story that comes from Danbury, and should rtccivc Rosie Rowe’s vehement condemnation: A cruel trick was played on a Danbury girl the other day. The damsel in ques- tion is very fat and very sensitive regard- ing her avoirdupois, but a couple of young men determined to find out her weight, and they succeeded. One managed to stop the rotund damsel upon the town hay scales, where he engaged her in con- versation, and while they talked the other wretch Weighed the pair. When the young man’s weight was Substructed from the whole, 301 pounds was left to the credit of the girl. The recent marriage of a young lady of 50, near Norwalk, to an elderly gentle- man of 21 summers—and winters—is crit- icised unfavorably by some thoughtless persons who forget that love is blind, and therefore is not supposed to see just where to place his dart most appropriately in all cases. However, - a correspondent of the GAZETTE makes it all right. He deprecatcs criticism and claims it was a really sensi- ble occurrence. “The bride,” he says, “was sensible in taking to husband a boy young ‘and fresh and tender, and the boy showed excellent judgment in placing him- ,self under: the protection of a woman qualified by age and experience with the world, to bring him up to be agood man ”' This ought to settle it.—Stamford Adso- cate. ’ ‘ Says the Stamford Record: The Green- wich News is enjoying a season Of unal- loyed prosperity, and, through the secre- tary of state, who started the paper, the ‘ News printed four hundred thousand pro- hibition tickets. We have no knowledge of what the News received for the] work, but at 50 cents a thousand, (a low price), $2,000 was turned into the coffers of that paper. We rejoice with the News in its good luck in having got the four. hundred thousand tickets out on time, and without mistake, but we regret that the secretary of state could not have had more “plums”- of this ,kind to dispense, and perhaps other offices might have been favored with some, profitable contracts. An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests. N ORWALK, CONN., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1889. Rev. Di. Newman Smythe, of the Cen-' ter church, in speaking to Yale theological students at the recent New York meeting of the American board of commissioneis' of foreign, missions, said: “I devoutly trust the time will soon come when no man in the-Congregational churches will desire, and no man in the name of the Congregational church will avail to put fetters ontthe feet of any man who may wish to runi in any way of missionary ser- vice.” EditorDana of the Sun is happy over the prOSpbet of a new postage stamp to supersede the “sickly green” one that he has fought against so steadily and so fero- ciously. He says: “The death warrant of the sickly green two-cent postage stamp was signed yesterday. Have pa- tience fd- a few weeks while Brother John is w rking off his stock on hand of sickly greens, and with the Happy New Year the bargain counters of his depart- ment will begin to glow like a healthy girl’s cheek after exercise in the Open air.” The New York, Bridgeport and Eastern railway corporation which has recently been for ~d out of the remains of the old Olmstes " 'Irsllel, is at great pains to in form thegpublic through the columns of the Bridgeport papers that it is not going tobe a party to a big fight in the next legis- lature of Connecticut. HoweVer, it would not be safe to predict that the next session of the legislature will not hear from the new corporation in some manner.—Hart- ford Print. Well,:,.why should not thewConnecticut legislatg‘e treat this interest as fairly and justly hat of the great “Consolidated,” when i lls for legislative assistance! The grand division of the Sons of Tem- perance“ met at New Haven Thursday at the Athcnteum. Charles A. Baldwin pre- sided. It was shown that there were 3,- 398 members of the order, that it was in a flourishing condition, and that $2,568 had been paid out for charity duringr the year. These officers were chosen: G \V. P , George R. Bill of New Haven ; G. W. A., Samuel E. Frisbie of Milford ; scribe, W. F. Mar of West Haven ; treasurer, Charles E. Hart of New Haven; chaplain, Rev. M. S. Phillips; conductor, Mary Soper of Hartford ; sentinel, Frank T. Sanford of New Canaan. . Mr. Henry Tristram, says a Darien cor- respondent, has been the subject ofagood deal of comment, owing to a mistake of his which caused him much inconvenience He went to Norwalk last Tuesday evening intending to return on the 8:18 train. he express train happened to be late that evening, and mistaking the train Mr. Tris- tram embarked upon it, but was much surprised and cliagrincd to see the train dash past the Darien station. The gentle- man was compelled to go to New York, and returned on the theatre train to Nor- walk From there he walked home, ar- riving at 33 o’clock a. in. The Ansonia Sentinel observes that; “the Naugatuck division of the Consol- idated railroad is celebrated for its ex- emption from accidents. There is good reason for this. Twice each year the energetic superintendent of the division, George W. Beach, tramps the whole length of the line, examining every bridge and culvert, looking at the switches, the rails, the roadbcd and every detail of the road by which accidents are liable to be caused. In this Mr. Beach sets an exam- plc of diligence and devotion to other superintendents which might be followed with benefit to the traveling public. We doubt if there is another man in the coun- try in his position who does this.” Prof. A. G. Newell, of Bridgeport, was in town on Friday, with a view to making arrangements for the formation of a class in dancing in Music Hall during the com- ing season. Prof. Newcll has an exten- sive and most enviable reputation as an efiicicnt and thorough instructor in the “poetry 'of motion” and is a member of the American Society of the Professors of Dancing, an organization to which none but the most proficient instructors of widely recognized ability are eligible. He is desirous of enlisting the interest of our local select schools in his project, in which he is eminently successful in other places, .and it is safe to predict that he will secure a large class and turn out many accom- plished dancers at the close of the term. The news about Stanley’s return is get- ting to be as dubious and perplexing as a, Signa‘l Office weather bulletin. .He has been lost and found so often, and has con- sumed so much time in ineffectual efforts to emerge from his African hiding place, that all Zanzibar dispatches about the a semi-mythical character. The latest in- telligence is indeed more reassuring inas- much as it reports him as being at only a month’s distance from Mpwampwa, but we have previously known of‘his being near Njiji,:Msani, and other unpronounceable' places, and yet getting loSt'again almoét beyondfhope of recovery. Captain Wiss— man"s:pi'esence with him this time inspires some confidence, for 'Wissman shows a provvess in slaughtering Africans equal to that of Rider Haggai-d’s heroes, and the chances are that he will come through all right. !‘ ,. Portchestcr Enterprise .-—“The Schu- bert quartet will give its first concert in the Congregational church at Norwalk The date is not yet known, btit it will be announced as soon as the new organ is in readiness. The Scliuberts will appear with an excellent company in this place on November 2lst. The company has two dates in Brooklyn in January.” 0 The fall elections come next week Tuesday, when Massachusetts, Ohio, Iowa, New Jersey, Mississippi and Virginia will choose governors and other officers. and New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Nebraska minor officials. To some extent the results may reflect the temper of the people toward the administration, and. again the popular drift on the main issue that divides the parties in the nation. But as a rule, and especially in the states where the contest has become most excit- ing, local questions will prove a determin- . ing feature of the canvass. Mrs. George W. Sellcck, in accordance ' with her usual custom, gave her annual reception and dinner to a number of her aged lady friends at‘her home on Merwin street: on Wednesday evening. The occa- sion was, as it invariably is, a successful social affair, and highly enjoyed. The following were present: Mrs. Sarah Can- field, aged 90 years; Mrs. Catherine Mc- Donald, 88; Mrs. Betsy Hubbell, 88; Mrs. Lucy Selleck, 84; Mrs. Laura Morehouse, 81; Mrs. Amy Dana, 74; Mrs. EliZabetli Lounsbury, 73; Mrs. Margaret Bunting, 72; Mrs. Sarah Weber, 71; Mrs. Sarah Rockwell, 67. Besides these, Mrs. Dr. Van Alstyne and other invited guests, without regard to age, were present. Secretary Noble is sharply censured by the Brooklyn Times for “projecting his side of the Tanner controversy into public notice,” and declared “sadly lacking in the discretion which is essential to a suc- cessful politician.” The Times regards the appointment of Noble to the cabinet a greater mistake than that of Tanner to the Pension Commissionership, and adds: “We are not prepared to say that the acts of Commissioner Tanner were always jud'iCious, but the difficulties of' his post- tion, with a bitter enemy poisoning the car of his chief can be readily appicciatcd, and it must be said that since his retire- ment he has shown an unexpected degree of self-restraint iii the discussmn of the reasons that compelled hisrcsignatiou. It is ‘Noblc’s niouth’ and not ‘Taniicr’s . mouth’ that has precipitated this contro- versy.” The veterans of the 17th C. V. arrived home last evening and all report an en- joyable trip. But perhaps the most pleas- ed man of the kit was Sai'gcant P. Wade who was presented Willi a $250 hunting ease gold watch for his services on behalf of the association. The presentation was a complete surprise to the genial sergeant but nevertheless be is worthy of it and no one who knows him will envy him his good fortune. The inside of the watch case is suitably inscribed and on the out~ side the monogram “P. W.” is engraved. ‘l'hc charm is a drum, the center of which is made from a piece of an oak tree on Barlo A’s Knoll. The presentation was made Tuesday evening, the speech being by Col. Henry Huss, While the veterans weie at Gettysburg they presented Mr. D. Blocker With a set of engrossed resolu— tions. Mr. Blocker is the man who has for years taken care oftlic association’s flag at Gettysburg. At the last reunion it was voted to present him with a suitable token of rccugnitiou in appreciation of his services—11,05. Post. W. R. Atkinson, who has charge of making the. topographical survey of the state, is now at work on a section of 225 square miles, which includes Cheshire, Meridcn, Southington, and Bristol. A sig- nal for the purpose of triangulation has been placed on the top of Meridcn peak, something under 35 feet high, and the ac- curate measurement to the top of the sig- nal is 1,035 feet, making the peak some- thing over 1,000 feet high. The old coast survey made it 992 feet. The measure- ment to the top of Wolcott church spire is 858 feet. In PrOSpect and Wolcott are good farms at an elevation of 800 feet,says the Hartford Times, while at the east is a rocky ledge with no fai-ming‘land over400 feet high. The height of Mount Sanford, between Prospect and Mount Carmel, is some 900 feet, while Mount Carmel reach- es only about 790 feet. 4, The Abe Patte—isc-n—P—ogt, G. A. R. of Pittsburg, Pa. has made an innovation in the way of a sentimental resolution, which will at least produce for it a certain stamp of notoriety, and sets a pattern not likely to be universally followed, by adopting the following: ‘ 7WnnnnAs. The survivors of the 2d Maryland (rebel) Regiment have erected on the battlefield of Gettysburg, within four feet of the monument erected by a loyal Maryland regiment, a monument commemorating the disloyal deeds of said . * rebel re mom and there is ever indica- movements of the explorer have acquired . g ’ y tion that 'other rebel organizations and regiments will, if permitted, follow the example, and thus’ undertake to make treason honorable; therefore be it 1 Resolved. That theAbc Patterson Post, composed of men who gave their best ser- vices in defense of the flag and many of whom shed their blood on the battlefield . of Gettysburg, desire to enter their solemn protest against this sa'crilege and most emphatically denounce any such intrusion by traitors upon sacred soil and ask that the Gettysburg Battlefield Association, the chairman of which is ouryrorthy Governor and ' comrade, Hon. James A. Beaver, cause said rebel monument to be removed and express orders given that no more of that nature be erected. ' AZET TE. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR NUMBER 44.. j A. Giddings, a well to do farmer living in New Milford, died suddenly Monday while carting a load of coal near Brook- field station. He was seen to topple over and fall from the wagon and when picked tip he lived but a few minutes Heart. disease was the cause. He was 55 years of age. The attorney general of the United States has announced in reference to a case brought to test the regulation that inmates of the Srldiers’ Home at Newton must surrender their pensions to the authorities of the lion e. ‘ The pt nsiovi laws of the United States guard with great care the soldier’s property iii and his rights of possession of his pension certifi- cate, and if at any time the soldier Thomas Rabbcth may desire to do so, he may de- mand of thelsupcrintendent of' Fitch’s Home his pension certificate and any further retention of it would be a violation of section 4745 R. 8.. as amended by sec- tion 2 of an not approved February 2811), 1883, and punishable by the pains and penalties therein descx ibed.“ The Port Chester Journal thus gives some local scandal mongers to understand that it “is onto them,” and it is now likely private character will be safe from their poisoned tongues: “Lord, who shall abide in Thy taber- nacle? who shall dwell in Thy holy liili ?” “He that backbiteth not with his tongue nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.”—Psalm xv, 1st and 3d verses. If there are any persons in this community who are in the habit of backbitiug, and yet who profess Lto be followers of the Lowly One, it wili be well for them to read the above and mmdanpassages. If they do not and are not guided by them it may be all the worse for them. We understand that one of the “weaker vessels” has been notified to retract her “babblings” or suffer the consequences. ’ “Grandma” Mary Brow“, the oldest res- ident of Winsted, reached her 100th birth- day Saturday. On the previous evening friends and neighbors called upon her and made her a present of $100 in gold—a dol— lar for every year of her life. She was born the year when George Washington United States, and was a yoiing woman of 23 when the war of 1812 between the Unit— ed Statcs and Great Britain broke out. For years her bright mental condition and physical activity have attracted attention to her, and she has been regarded as among the most Wonderful of Connecticut’s cen- tenarians. 0n the Monday following her 100th birthday she died from the effects of a severe fall a week or so previous. It was, however, considered providential that she was permitted to see the comple- tion of a hundred years of existence. The Silver Mine correspondent of the New Canaan Messenger is indignant at certain reports of a certain wedding that recently appeared in a certain local paper. He says: “Seine of the statements are true, but the larger part of them are new, and as is quite common with gossipy papers the new is not true and the true is not now. Do respectable people like their family affairs brought out after the manner of a caricature? Or, let us ask, is it the right thing for any editor who regards the golden rule to do such things for a few cents? The minister and the family concerned are not pleased with such trifling. and pronounce it wicked lying. There are several different ways of dealing with such abuses. One is a reasonab e exposure of suclv trash, and another is proceedings in the law courts, but the shortest and most expeditious is what some editors are familiar with—a cowhiding. We only mention this latter one and do not recommend it.” When tax assessor Harvey Fitch occu— pied the same ofi‘lce during a former term, some grumbler who had brought his tax list to the assessors’ room, revengcd him— self for his oppressive taxation,on Mr. Fitch by stealing his hat. Mr. Fitch was oblig— ed to bu: or borrow a hat or go home barehcaded. He never forgot the theft nor forgave the thief. 'This circumstance was recalled one day last week by seeing Mr. Fitch rush frantically down the stairs of the bank building from his ofiice, bare- headed and with a look of desperate rc- solve on his erstwhile calm and benevo- lent face. At the outer door he paused and darted quick, anxious glances up the street and down the street and across the street. Judge Sellebk came along and. observing the assessor’s agitation, said, “Harvey, you’d better go back and put yoi'ir hat on, or you’ll catch , cold.” “That’s just what I’m looking for,”re-~ plied the assessor, as he shot a glance around the coiner. “Some unscrupulous scoundrel has stolen 'my hat again,, . and taken my- overcoat with it. me; there isn’t enough in it to keep me in his steps up stairs to nurse .his grief, and a few minutes later a man'slyly chamber; ' ed up to the clothes press, quietly. took 011: an overcoat,'hung it on a hook, hung his hat on another and took down a different coat and hat, putting themon as he stole' quietly down stairs. He had swapped with the assessor by mistake and came back to rectify the error. ' began his first term as Presulcnt. or the 3 This assessor business is played out with hats.” Silently andin sadness heretraced. . I
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