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LOCAL ITEMS.
It was a Waterdoo.
Wm. G. Thomas, jr., has gone to St.
Louis.
, The two cottages on the Morgan prop-
rety are being rapidly enclOsed.
Editor Jones, of the Westporter came
over to Norwalk, Monday, to see if it
rained here. ‘
Edward Ferris, of South Norwalk, has
commenced the study of law in the office
of Captain Frost.
A western paper says that Col. Bob
Ingersoll is growing whiskers. So is his
theological theory.
The President has issued a proclamation
admitting Washington Territory as a
State of the Union.
Mr. and Mrs. Eli S. Quintard were
guests over Sunday at Mr. Fred. T. Betts’
on the Church Green.
Mr. Wm. B. E. Lockwood, although
able to be about his home, still continues
quite uncomfortably ill.
Mr. and Mrs. James Kiley, of Bridge-
port, celebrated the 50th anniversary of
their marriage on Saturday.
George W. McLean, receiver of taxes in
the city of New York, has collected $19,-
218,607 in the last four weeks.
John Ennis of Bridgeport attempted
suicide last week because he discovered
that his marriage was a failure.
Daniel Dougherty will repeat his talk
on “Oratory” again this season. He re-
ceives from $200 to $300 a lecture.
Corporal Tanner says the Lord chasten-
eth whom he loveth and ergo, He loves
the Republican party as never before.
Mr. Edison says he receives an average
of 1,000 letters daily, many of which con-
tain 05ers of marriage with his daughter.
Mrs. M. A. Dugan, of Bridgeport, has
received notice that she has fallen heiress
to an estate of $60,000 in Northampton,
Mass.
The man who poisons his neighbor’s
;£ cows should have his ears cut off and the
1 word “coward” branded upon his fore-
? head.
Morris J. Bissell who has been visiting
. his father, Rev. S. B. S. Bissell, with his
bride, has returned to his western home
’-. at St. Joe, Mo.
Boroughites should remember to pay
‘1 their water rents before the 20th inst.
Clerk Camp will receive all such with his
blandest smile.
, Up to date twenty-five military resigna-
tion’s have been sent in from the First
, regiment as a result of the polo decision
ii of the Governor. ‘
Boss Volk, the hat manufacturer, took
the foremen of the various departments in
his hat shop, to Westport on Saturday
and treated them to a dinner.
And now it is George M. Benedict and
Charles A. Blackman who have purchased
villa lots on the Morgan estate, expecting
to erect residences thereon.
. H. H. Belden, of Westport, advertises
, in another column that he wants a dry
‘1; goods clerk. Here is a good chance for
3 some of our sprightly young men.
W. S. Crofut has taken the Connecticut
5 agency for the Hall Safe and Look com-
, pany, of New York, and is “on the road”
fl working his talking glands for all they are
3 worth.
Readman keeps a novel weather record
_v of his own, which shows that since the
4’3 24th of October there have been fifteen
I. cloudy and stormy days, and but three
, sunny ones.
The newspaper men of Hartford “got
together” last week and organized a local
:- press club. They have the material in
‘ that lively city for a‘hustling and success-
ful organization.
Ahoming pigeon only 9 months old,
lately sold to New York— parties, has re-
turned to Toronto from Bridgeport. This
is one of the longest flights on record for
so younga bird.
The Litchfield county commissioners
have fixed the license fees at $500 for a
full license and $200 for a beer license in
towns of 3,000 inhabitants, an increase of
$200 and $100 respectively.
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ESTABLISHED 1800
VOLUME DEXXIX.
The Berkshire county press club’s an-
nual meeting and banquet will be held to-
morrow evening at the American House,
Pittsfield. It will be a jolly gathering of
Berkshire’s brains and beauty.
Mrs. Nathan Lounsbury, the mother of
Ex-Governor Phineas C. Lounsbury, aged
82, was stricken with apoplexy at her
home in Ridgefield Sunday evening, and
her recovery is very doubtful.
A handsome crayon portrait of hand—
some Chief Engineer Sam..5:'McGowan is
exhibited in the window of Baxter’s drug
store and is much admired. Chief Mc-
Gowan is a good looking man.
A Westport friend sends over greetings
and wants to know if we've heard from
Ohio. Yes, we have, and it still seems to
be round at each end and “hi” in the mid-
dle. But did you hear from Dakota?
We congratulate our neighbor Danbury
on its earnest efforts to improve the mor-
als of the boys. Some of them need it.—
Ansom'a Sentinel.
How about the girls—some of them ?
The incandescent lights are a great suc-
cess A certain Norwalker calls them
“indecent llghts.”—GAZETTE. Shocking I
That is, the electric lights are—Berkshire
News. That’s why.
Between the winter blizzards, the sum-
mer droughts and the flinty souls of the
usurers who hold mortgages on their
farms, those poor fellows up in North
Dakota are having a pretty hard time of
it.
The county commissioners granted a
few licenses to Norwalk applicants on
Thursday, and refused iour, against the
granting of which remonstrances had been
filed. A number of applicants did not
appear at the first session of the commis-
Sioners.
Company F minstrels will give their
entertainment in the Opera House Thurs.-
day evening, December 5th. The boys
are practising assiduously and are deter-
mined to give the best show they have
ever given.
Rosie Rowe’s "Random Ramblings” are
received too late for insertion in this weeks
issue of the GAZETTE. Rosie should get
her communications to this office not
later than Monday noon in order to insure
insertion the same week.
Rev. Mr. Richardson repeated by re-
quest Sunday evening, his sermon on
Christian Unity, to a full church of in-
terested hearers. It is a sermon worthy
a careful writing out and printing for a
more permanent existence.
Attention is called to the announcement
in another column of Miss Callaway’s
lectures at Hillside. Miss Callaway is a
most charming lady and a delightful lec-
turer. She is the author of a book entitled
“Hints to a Silent Friend.”
The Rev. R. Otis Sherwood, of North
Abington, Mass, his wife and two child
ren, and his wife’s mother, spent the
greater portion of the week in Norwalk,
the guests Mr. Sherwood’s brother. L. L.
Sherwood, on Isaacs street.
Ed. Apell jumped from a moving train
at Bridgeport Wednesday evening, on
which he was bidding a friend good-bye,
and striking a post had a narrow escape
from falling under the wheels. As it was
he received rather severe injuries.
Rev. Dr. John Chester, pastor of the
Metropolitan Presbyterian church, Wash-
ington, is the leading candidate for chap-
lain of the next House of Representatives.
Dr. Chester is well and favorably known.
to several residents of Norwalk.
George Clason, who recently left Nor-
walk to “join the regular army oh,” was
in town on Monday dressed in his impos-
ing military rig that gave him a decidedly
soldierly bearing. He is at present sta-
tioned at the fort on David’s Island.
Fingerabuzz saw if you will, try to
stop a thunderbolt, pull a lion’s tail, kick
a can of nitro glycerine, outstare a boa-
constrictor, swim over Niagara, wrestle
with a hungry bear, catch a rifle ball in
your mouth, or fool with a jealous man’s
pretty wife,—do any of these things, but
do not “monkey" with a live newspaper.
It’s loaded—Bangor News.
Another set of weather prophets seem
to be pretty well agreed, now, upon a
cold, dry Winter. The cold will come as
compensation for the warmth of last win-
ter, and the dryness for the long reign of
showers and atmospheric humidity of the
last season. _______
Mrs. Matt Carpenter, widow of the late
Wisconsin Senator of that name, lives in
London, where she brought up her son,
Paul Carpenter. They are both prom.
inent personages at the United States
legation and in the American circle of the
British metropolis.
The overhead check-rein for the horse is
a refined and steady torture, not for the
strain backward of the neck, but because
the animal cannot see the ground on
which he is stepping. The swaying of his
head from side to side is evidence of his
trying to find whet—Boston Transcript.
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford, who spent
the summer with their mother, Mrs. S.
H. Bailey, on the Church Green, reached
their home in Nevada, last week. They
report having encountered a furious snow
storm when they reached Colorado.
'l‘he terrible'blizzard in New Mexico is
unprecedented in the history of that Ter-
ritory. It will be some days yet, lnvfore
the list of its casualties is complete, but
the loss of human life is no doubt great
and of stock enormous.
A thrifty looking bed of lettiice growing
in the front window of the Beehive restau-
rant attracts much attention. Landlord
Peet exgects to serve up “home made’
lettuce,‘ fresh from the garden, to his
guests with their Thanksgiving and Christ-
mas dinners.
The longest pole knocks the persim-
mons. This is all very good so long as
the pole does not kick and annihilate the
fruitgatherer. James Gallion, oi' Scy-
mour. Ind., won the wager in a persim-
mon eating contest. His opponents are
invited to be pallbearers.
J. F. Gilbert, of Ridgefield, a mail con-
tractor of several years standing, has sus-
pended paymcnt and has had an agent
Visit some of the carriers employed by
him and make an offer of 50 per cent. of
their claims in full settlement. None of
them have accepted the offer.
New Canaan Messenger :-Mr. Darby
who removed his shoe business from Nor-
walk to the old clothing factory in this
place, began busines this week with about
half a dozen men.‘ After he gets every-
thing in shape he will employ twelve or
fifteen hands. He has a very convenient
place for his business.
Post-ofl‘lce Inspector Bario is ‘searching
for a woman named Ida Peck, who has
been swindling post-office employee in
various parts of the state. Her system
has been to buy a stamp, and then quickly
to hide a part of the change given for $5
or $10, and to demand the deficit. She
has been traced as far as New Haven.
—Don’t miss Leland Powers on Wed-
nesday, the 20th. Y. M. C. A.
Charles Smith and Charles Barnes have
leased a room in the old Phoenix building,
where they will carry on the cobbling
business. Both are veteran shoemakeis,
and the best of work is guaranteed at
surprisingly low prices. Mr. Smith car-
ried on the cobbling business in the GA-
ZETTE building several years ago, and his
work always gave the best of satisfaction. .
Two little children on Belden avenue
are disconsolate over the loss of their
Maltese kitten. It is supposed to have
been picked up or followed some one
away early Sunday morning. Any one
knowing its whereabouts will gladden the
sorrow laden hearts of two little girls and
be rewarded for their trouble if they will
send or leave word at this oflice.
A thief entered a Bridgeporter’s house
on Friday, in broad daylight, took up a
spring bed and walked. It was probably
the same ambitious individual who stole
the organ from the Greens Farmes church
a few days before and it is feared his next
capture will be the Gem rink, which
would leave Bridgeport more disconsolate '
than if she were to lose the court house or
some of her churches.
———Read adv. of “Turkey” in another
column, and “how to enjoy it.”
The Norwalk GAZETTE insinuates that
our Board of Police Commissioners have
periodical paroxysms of virtue and that
when these occur somebody gets hurt to
keep up appearances. and that the light-
ning of their wrath is as likely to strike
the just as the unjust. The Leader must
take exceptions to the sentiments express-
ed by our venerable contemporary. Our
Board of Police Commissioners, we regret
to say, have no paroxysms of Virtue; in
fact, virtue has no standing whatsoever
in the presence of this tribunal.—Brz'dge-
port Leader.
The members of the Norwalk Club are
making arrangements for a billiard tour
nament, which is to held on Monday, 18th
inst., among the members of the club.
The contest for the first and second prizes
will be a handicap, the players being
graded from one hundred down. Thus a
man in the one hundred class will have to
give a man in the fifty class fifty points.
Every contestant that loses a game drops
out.
The democratic governor-elect of Iowa,
when asked for a reason for the land-
slide in that state, frankly said :—
“It seems to me a fair indication that a
majority of the people of Iowa are tired of
the workings of the prohibition law and
prefer a good license law as the better
method of regulating the liquor traffic.
Other questions entered into the result,
of course; but it would seem as if the pro-
hibiton question was the greatest issue, as
the two parties were squarely opposed to
each other on that matter.”
Bridgeport, it is said, is soon to have a
new demdcratic one cent evening paper.
If there is one thing on which Bridgeport
and Norwalk can shake hands across the
muddy chasm in mutual commiseration,
it is the lamentable insufficiency of local
newspapers. Bridgeport, has only four
dailies and three weeklies, and Norwalk is'
compelled to worry along with only five
weeklies and one daily The long felt.
want in Bridgeport it seems, is to be some-
what filled by a democratic daily. Now
will not somebody, moved by feelings of
pity for a soulfully sighing and hungrily
hankering public, start another paper in
N orwalk ?—Reoord’s Dutch Contributor.
—-For freshest aad best of oysters, clams
and sea food call on George Ayres, at
Model market.
An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests.
Henry Green and Vet Taylor, the sports-
men who depdpulated theLitchfield coun-
t ' ‘_ of game last week, returned home
,_ _ 352 well pleased and satisfied with
their week’s outing. Their game came on
.ahead of them by express.
The President has paid a tribute to the
war veterans by appointing Colonel Chas.
P. Lincoln of Michigan Second Deputy
Commissioner of Pensions. This selec-
tion was made at the suggestion of Com-
missioner Raum. It is heartily indorsed
by G. A. R. men and Republicans gener-
a iy.
{The December installment of the Gen-
tury Lincoln Life will deal with the fall
of Richmond and Lincoln’s extraordinary
visit to the captured city. In this connec-
tion the authors will give an interestinr
unpublished correspondence between Lin-
coln and Grant, on the subject of Robert
Lincoln’s taking a place on the staff of the
General.
Noyes Barber, 9. war veteran, of South
Norwalk, who has been ill and practically
helpless for a long time with a painful
and hopeless ailment, will go next week
to the National Soldiers’ Home at Hamp-
ton, Va. He has an excellent war record,
having served in Company C, Twelfth N.
Y. ZInfantry; Company I, First Connec-
ticut Cavalry, as sergeant, and as pay-
master’s clerk in the U. S. navy.
Beginning with January lst next, tne
' Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., will be-
come one of the editors of The Ladies’ Home
Journal, of Philadelphia. The famous
preacher will have a regular department
each month, written by himself, with the
title “Under My Study Lamp.” His first
- contribution will appear in the January
number of the Journal. Dr. Talmage’s sal-
ary is said to be one of the largest ever paid
for editorial work.
Louis Verlin, the lessee of the Castle-
coote farm, is arranging to have a "hog
guessing” at his creamery. on Thanksgiv-
ing day in the afternoon, which cannot fail
of being amusing and interesting. Tickets
will be sold on which the purchaser will
inscribe the number of pounds he thinks
the hog will weigh, and the closest guesser
wins the hog, which is to be slaughtered
on the spot. The hog to be thus sacrificed
is mmonster poiker, one year old, and Will
be a prize for the lucky winner.
The New York Sun says: “ExGov—
ernor Lounsbury, of Connecticut, who is
the owner of Echo camp on Raquette
Lake, caught the other day with rod and
reel the largest black bass ever caught
in the Adirondacs. It weighed seven
and a quarter pounds and measured
twenty-one inches from nose to tail;
Width of tail when spread, six inches;
back, seven inches thick. Raquette is a
famous resort for lake trout and black
bass.”
——Leland T. Powers in David Garrick,
at the Y. M. C. A.. Wednesday, Nov. 20.
Tickets 35 and 50 cts
Senator I. N. Bartram, of Sharon, under
whose supervision the work of fixing up
the grounds about the Putnam monument
at Redding is being done, was present at
the Masonic jubilation Thursday evening.
The Senator is no dude and doesn’t go a
cent on style, and when he mingles with his
workmen, not only is be literally “one of
them,” but so far from manifesting any
conspicuous mark of distinction, that a
friend, in describing the Senator for the
benefit of another party, is said to have
done it like this: “You go down where
that gang of men are at work, and pick
out the homeliest man in the lot—the one
without a necktie—that’s Senator Bartram,
the contractor.”—Record.
The soul, says Dr. H. Stevens, of Phila-
delphia, is located in the corpus callosum,
a little spongy body situated at the base of
the brain, which has defied the efforts of
physicians in their endeavors to ascertain
its uses in the human anatomy. “The
corpus callosum,” said the doctor, “is the
seat of the imperishable mind, and is the
great reservoir and storehouse of elec-
tricity, which is abstracted from the blood
in the arteries, and conveyed through the
nerves up the spinal cord to the corpus
callosum.” That settles it.
The ladies of the Norwalk Baptist
church held their quarterly mission meet-
ing instead of the weekly prayer meeting
Thursday evening, Mrs. C. E. Torrey pre-
siding. Among the interesting features
of the programme was a paper by Mrs.
Miller on “Open Doors, Shall We Enter ;”
a poem. “The Famine Cry,” by Miss
Florence G. Lyrics; 9. paper on “Our
Individual Responsibility,” by Miss M. A.
Hyatt, and a litter from Miss Righter, a
missionary in China. Rev. C. E. Torrey,
the pastor, gave a very interesting talk on
“China’s Millions.”
A delegation of Masons from Sagamore
lodge of New York visited St.John’s lodge
on Thursday evening to witness the work—
ing of the third degree and pay their fra-
ternal respects. Large numbers of breth-
ren from various other lodges were also
present and all pronounced the work of
St.John’s lodge equal to the best. The
Grand lodge was well represented. After
the closing of the lodge a magnificentban-
quet was served by Steward E. M. Mer-
ritt which was discussed with vigor and
every evidence of approbation by the large
assemblage.
NORWALK, CONN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 43, 1889.
On Friday evening the Grand Army
boys have a very rare literary entertain-
ment in store for the public, it being Rev.
I. M. Foster’s noted and notable lecture
on “Life in Andersonville.” Wherever
it has been delivered it has been received
with enthusiastic acclaims and as he is
one of the most popular and eloquent
speakers in the public lecture field, we
hope to see the Opera House filled on this
occasion.
An engagement has been made with
Rev. Dr. Seward to fill the pulpit of the
First Congregational church here in Nor-
walk, until such time as Rev. Dr. Noble,
of Wa‘shington, can enter upon an active
acceptance of the call extended him to
become permanent pastor of the church.
Dr. Seward is an exceptionally able ser-
monizer and has recently been supplying
the pulpit of the Congregational church in
Wilton.
The contest, which has for some time
been quietly waged in regard to the equal
education of men and women at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania was decided by
the trustees on Wednesday last in favor of
women. Young ladies attending the uni-
versity will have all the advantages now
possessed by the other sex. The courses
of study will be parallel; there will be but
one faculty; examinations will cover the
same ground; and prizes and scholarships
will be open to all students. Thus one
step farther has been made on the high-
way of enlightened progress.
Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton, of New
York, makes the entirely reasonable
though not very original suggestion that
in order to keep well and be happy, men
should rise early in the morning, eat a
good breakfast, finish their work for the
day by 4 or 5 o’clock, eat a good dinner,
take things easy afterwards, go to bed
early and get a good night’s rest. From
the fact that most people who can follow
this advice won’t do it, we presume that
Doctor Hamilton intends his remarks for
the benefit of editors of newspapers, who
would if they could.
Rev. Mr. Cuuz, at present a resident of
East Norwalk, who is a German minister,
and has held the position of a professor
of German in the city schools of Johns-
town, Pa., until the direful Conemaugh
calamity deprived him of his family and
all his possessions, is forming classes
in either German or Latin and will give
instruction on the piano. As aJohnstown
sufierer he deserves the patronage of
our people and as his recommendations
from influential Johnstown people are all
0 K., we hope he Will obtain a successful
patronage. He may be addressed at East
Norwalk.
The concert given in Music Hall, on
Monday evening, as the inauguration of
the firemen’s fair, was one of the most en-
joyable musical entertainments ever given
in South Norwalk. It was given under
the auspices of the Old Well Hook and
Ladder company and included the best
local talent available, assisted by the Am-
phion club of Brooklyn, which was a most
acceptable feature of the entertainment.
The commedietta in one act, by Messrs.
Frisby, Lauder and Taylor, was laughable
and clean and reflected credit on the
boys. The house was filled to its utmost
capacity and all were well pleased, the
only cause for complaint being thatothe
management gave too much for the money.
The use of the Australian ballot system
at the last election in Massachusetts
seems to have been in every way satis-
factory. Under it people can vote with-
out boss dictation and their will may be
fairly ascertained. Neither party can
claim exclusive credit for the adaption of
the new law. The Democrats started, and
the Republicans adopted, the legislation.
The initial expense of the system is pretty
heavy. The cost to Massachusetts and
the city of Boston will this year aggregate
$80,000. But the money for fixtures and
furniture will not be a recurring yearly
expense, and the cost of printing and dis-
tributing ballots, heretofore borne by can-
didates, should be deducted. At all events
the money is well spent if it secures a se-
cret and free ballot.
On Friday morning John Greenwood,
living on Belden avenue, discovered that
one of his cows, a valuable Jersey, was
ailing, and being unable to determine the
cause, be summoned a doctor, who after
diagnosing the case from the symptoms,
said it was simply the result of some
foreign substance in the stomach, which
would probably not prove serious. How-
ever, the animal speedily grew worse and
died in the afternoon. An examination of
the carcasswas made and it was found that
the animal had been poisoned with arsenic.
This is the fourth cow that Mr. Green-
wood has had poisoned within two years,
besides one horse. It is evident that Mr.
Greenwood has an implacable and per-
sistent enemy who is pursuing him in a
most cowardly and vindictive manner.
The cow that died on Friday could have
been sold only a short time ago for $100.
It is to be hoped that the cowardly wretch
who thus gratifles his spite, may be speed-
ily brought to justice and summarily dealt
with.
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR
NUMBER 46.
S. K. Stanley 'has sold out his retail
cigar and stationery business to Morris
Benedict who formerly had a news stand
in the post office, afterwards in the new
Hadden block-and subsequently purchased
George Low’s grocery business cul Main
street. The stock at the Stanley store is
now being inventoried and the purchase
price, it is unoflicially stated will be not
far from $5,000. Mr. Stanley will retain
his wholesale cigar business and manu-
factory, to which he will devote his entire
time and attention.
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She sued for breach of promise, proved
her case, and the jury awarded her one
cent damages. The judge in parting ad-
monished her for the future to be on her
guard against book agents. For it oc-
curred that way. Her young affections
were cnsnared over literature. How
glibly he talked! What beautiful books
he had, and in them what sublime elo-
quence, what deep patlies, what tender
sensibilities there were! Great Czesar!
If you can’t believe a book agent who can
you believe ?
Rev. Dr. H. C. Hovey, of Bridgeport,
last Sunday preached a sermon on litera-
ture a portion of which is thus reported
by the News:
"Probably no class of human beings see
more of the Shams and shames, the frauds
and follies, the crimes and miseries of
mankind than are seen by the patient men
who, often for very inadequat pay, pick
and cull, writeup or kindly suppress what
they see. An editor died, and another
being. asked what he died of replied, ‘Of
working 24 hours a day! ’ Over-worked,
soured and vexed, a good and faithful
man quietly slipped from the tiipod to the
tombfand his paper came out the next
morning as usual. Newspaper men need
God as much as any men on earth, and
none can _do more for Him than they. It
was a minister. Rev J essc Glover by name
who started the first American printing
press, and there should ever be the closest
alliance between the press and the pulpit.
The surest way to elevate the newspapers
of the land is to give those who makethem
a place in our sympathies, your apprecia-
tion and your prayers.
Down with the deadly electric wires!
Down With them! Bury them under
ground; brick them up in the sewer;
sink them beneath the depths of the
ocean; put them anywhere—but away
With them! They have indulged in un-
becoming familiarity with “Rufe” Adams
and Bill James, the roofers, and that’s the
reason why. Whileht work making some
repairs on the roof of the GAZETTE Build-
ing one day last week Rufc accidentally
backed up against a low telephone wire.
It was “alive”—suffimently so to give
Rufe a perceptible shock, and with a
whoop that would have put a Comanche
Indian to flight, he sprang sprang into
the air, dropped on his knees, clasped his
hands and muttered something about
having died in the discharge of his duty,
and having his portrait printed in the
papers. Bill James, the boss of the job,
finally succeeded in convincing Rafe that
he was still alive, and that the wire didn’t
have current enough to kill a big strong
man like him. and to further reassure
Rafe, Bill himself walked bravely up to
the wire and boldly grabbed it in his
hands. He didn’t cling to it long, how-
ever, for at that particular instant, Bill
thinks, it must have been transmitting a
message from Water Commissioner
Moody to the editor on Isaacs street,
judging from the heat and “thrill” it im-
parted to him. He let go, jumped back
calling loudly on Holy Moses and Mr.
Byron Godfrey, rushed to Rufc’s side and
thus addressed his companion in misery:
“Fly with me! let us leave this place;
let us go far away from here and endeavor
to forget this} awful experience—come.”
They went. Three minutes later two
shocked roofers might have been seen in
Mike Ratchford’s forgetting.
George Brown of Cannons Station is a
sportsman who knows the habits and
the haunts of all the birds of the air and
the beasts of the fieldithat build theirnests
and dig their holes within twenty miles of.
Cannons or Wilton. Moreover he: is an
expert shot, as it is the purpose. of this
paragraph to prove. One day last week,
early in the morning, George took his gun
and started out for a day’s hunting. He
scoured the woods over hill and down
dale, he hunted high and he hunted low,
moving with the silent, stealthy tread of
the forest ranger and with eyes alert and
piercing to the very depths of the densest
thickets, but not a sight did he get of
game. The foxes and squirrels and rab-
bits and partridges all knew his prowess
and hid themselves in terror at his ap-
proach. After wearily tramping all the
day without seeing so much as a chip-
munk he started for home. While tramp-
ing along the lonely read he all at once
caught sight of what he took to be a rab-
bit some distance ahead of him. He rais-
ed his trusty gun, aimed and fired at the
supposed rabbit which howled in agony,
fell over, kicked, and died just as George
came rushing up with his gun still smok-
ing, to find to his horror that instead of a"
rabbit it was a valuable setter dog belong
ing to Wes. Barrett. Mournfully then he
shouldered his gun, and sadly and pain-
fully apprehensive he finished his journey
home. It cost him about $50 to settle for
the dog and he doesn’t hunt now.
Norwalk Chronicler