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LOCAL ITEMS
We are 90 years old to-day. '
Fred. Stanley is home from College.
Mr. and Mrs Eversley Cirilds are in
town.
What; rso rareas aJune day on Christ-
mas? V'h‘f'if 1‘ _
George W. Gregory, the popular livery-
man, is ill.
Mrs. Pinneo left Norwalk for Colorado,
on Thursday.” 9
Miss Mary Chichester gave a Christmas
tree to her scholars.
2Mrs. Mead’s Hillside ' School reopens
Friday, January 3d.
E. K. Lockwood & Co. are running off
the Jaqui stock, .__,_____ . i.
The Pimldmb Celebrated its first
century last week. ‘ ‘ . _ Y
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. S. Bissell are quite
u ncomforztably ill.
Mr. W. G. Lineburg,of Bridgeport, Was
in Norwalk yesterday.
The “grip” has invaded both newspaper
ofilces' 1n the borough.
J. P. Moody, of Syracuse, is visiting his
parents over the holidays.
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Poet Bross’s “Delirium” got into the
Press and Printer‘last week.
Miss Fannie Bell Curtis is home from
Willimantic for the holidays.
Pews are to be sold at the First Congre-
gational church next Tiresday.
“Austin Creekenof-Norwalk, *ls said tow
L have been granted a pension.
Miss Stevens’ deservedly popular school
for children will reopen Jan. 6th.
Mr. and Mrs. George R. Cowles are
spending the winter in New York.
rut-s. LeGrand C. Betts, and little daugh-
ter are visiting frinds in Waterbury.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark and son, of Elm
street, spent Christmas in Brooklyn.
That idiotic McGinty sell is said to be
responsible for four murders already.
The annual town meeting was held
yesterday afternoon, and laid a tax of ten
mills. '
C. 0. Gates, Esq., a former popular
teacher at Dr. Fitch’s school, was 1n town
Friday.
Wm. B. Beers, of New York, spent
Christmas at his uncle’s, Mr. Morgan T.
Smith.
Miss Fannie Stanley went to Washing-
ton, Monday, where she expects to visit a
month.
Mr. Buck. Hoyt and wife Were guests
of Mr. Hoyt’s mother, on East avenue,
Christmas. ‘
The bright little son of Mr. George W.
Raymond on South Union avenue, is
quite sick. _ - , 2
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Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Bishop expect to
leave town Friday for a month’s sojourn
in New York.
Mrs. CharlesJ'. Street, son and daugh-
ter, now of New Rochelle, have been vis-
iting in town.
Gen. and Mrs. Craufurd spent Christ-
mas with M1. and Mrs. Wm. E. Smith, at
Glenridge, N. J. 2
Mrs. E. P. Weed and son Edward go to
Atlanta, Ga., where they will remain for
a month or more.
Miss May Clark, of Washington, con-
templates a visit to New Mexico, as aman-
uensis for a lady novelist.
Mrs. James VanBuren and son are visit-
ing at Mrs. VanBurcn’s father’s, the Hon
Asa Smith, on East avenue.
Judge Selleck, it is said, has not yet
relinquished his idea of moving to Bridge-
port for permanent residence.
Sam Smith, of New York, the well
known museum lecturer, spent amer-ry
Christmas with friends in town.
Officer Thomas Kennedy, the best
known member of the New Haven police
force, died Monday of paralysis.
Mr. and Mrs Robert Way and child, of
'Hartford, are visiting Mrs. Way’s mother,
Mrs. John Camp, on East avenue.
It is stated that Mrs. Eben Hill presented
one hundred dollars to each of her twelve
E-sTABIQIsHED 1.800 '
Messrs. _ Cowlcs «it Mental] are the first in
itch? distribution of gorgeous inSurance
lenddrs fer 1890. .
'Filpr’bi'g billbboard at the corner of
Leonard and Water streetg, was blown
down, or), Thursday night. 1 .
_ Mrs Cafrre Louhpw an'd darrghte
Sadrr, .of B“ J19 trepott', w-qre- in town Thurs-:-
dayscalhughnyold friends; ' -
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walkers. are “enjoying” la grippe.
Mr. C. E. Reurson has purchased a
farm at Annapolis,- Maryland and will
leave 111 a few days to take possession.
Postmaster Golding 1s justly proud of
his big new safe, which he has all ready,
as he says, for his republican successor.
“La Grippe” seems to be spreading oVer
the entire globe. In Paris it runs into
pneumonia and has been appallingly fatal.
fl Am n'dd telegraikh iwas received at Birm-
{inghsm on Wednesday. It said: “Merry
Christmas! Mother is dying. Come at
Once." '
The Norwalk Lock Company will com-
mence work again on Monday, January
6th, after having shut down for the holi-
days-
George W. Simmonds, of Bridgeport, is
organizing branches of the state liquor
and‘cities. ,
The board of relief of the town have a
notice in another column stating time and
2‘place of meeting to '1-_eceivc applications
’for abatement.
The efforts made b‘ythc various Sabbath
Schools to render the Christmas festival a
happy one for the children, were crowned
with 'unusual success.
mas. He has received and accepted a
position'with the American Bank Note
Company New York city. -
The gale Thursday night swept Mr.
John Buckley’s front door mat from his
stOop and landed it in a neighbor’s door
yard several rods away.
—The best andmcst reasonable mer-
chant tailor in town is F. Kocour, of Main
street. Try him andxprOVc to your own
satisfaction that this is true.
Just. at ihrs season our people are 61011.;
bly afflicted. Most at them are not only
gripped with the Russian grip, but bill-
ions with the annual bills.
“Mr. Wm. Shea, of Norwalk, was mar-
Tied to Miss Sabina Gray on Thursday
afternoon," says the Housatonic corres-
pondent of the Berkshire News.
The ladies of the First Congregational
church are arranging for a public recep-
tion to be given Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Noble
It will probably occur week after next.
Mr'. J. M. Kilboy, of New Haven, for-
merly foreman of the GAZETTE office, and
his wife and son, spent Christmas at. the
home of his parents, 44 Plymouth avcrrve.
It is mentioned as a “new departure”
that large numbers of our Norwalk ladies
are keeping personal bank accounts, de-
positing and giving checks "just like any
other man.”
A man named Shihiok J ugigs has been
sentenced to death by electricity in New
York. [Its name sounds as if he had
already been mixed up. with the electric
Wires somewhere. .
It is rumored about town that the Rev.
Mr. Richardson, the brilliant young
assistant rector at St. Paul’s, is liable to
receive a call from an influential church
in Orange, N. J.
Cashier Wm. A. Curtis is reported to
have leased the mansion now occupied by
Mr. J. Winthrop Perry, and will remove
‘into the same after Mr. Perry returns to
his home in Southport.
The Waterbury Sunday Herald has a
new business manager,xMr. .«Henry W
Moses, who is said to be a hustler, and
under his management'that Swift journal
is expected to be Swifter than ever.
Mrs. F. W. Perry left _ last week for
Pasadena, Cal. It is probable that Judge
Perry himself will follow in the dim and
dusky future and that they will make the
Golden state their permanent home.
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The Lady Godiva did not walk last
Sunday. Furthermore not a blind was
closed, not a curtain was pulled down be-
tween the hours of three and four. The
GAZETTE is the paper to advertise in.
Mr. Allen Betts had a narrow escape
from a serious injury Monday. His horse
ran into Mr.‘ Cornwall’s fence, wrecking
his carriage and throwing out Mr. Betts,
but fortunately without disabling him.
The West avenue whist club that was
to have met at Judge Woodward’s New
Year’s night, has been postponed on
account of the death of Miss Edith Ambler
who was a former member of the club-
One of the pathetic incidents attending
the demise of Miss Edith Ambler, was the
well known fact that she was engaged in
the preparation of her wedding trousseau,
grandchildren as a Christmas gift.
when strrc‘ so down by her fatal illness.
r’tures taken with
' carriage 1n Fairfield county for a bick-
Gen“. Charles Olmstead and wife, Cash-I .
:ier .W. A Curtis, with hosts of other Nor-0 ‘
dcalers’ association in surrorrnding towns '
Chas J.\ McLean, was homexChrist-,
An Enterprrs 1&5 Repubhcan Journal, especial}
: Neg, ALK CONN., WE
The members of Hope Hose company”;
celebrated Christmas by having their pic-
the handsomest hos0
{groundfi 2 L .
Beware, f’thesh gratuitous prescriptions
for influenzamln Many of themi“ lire worSe
2 ;_and more dangerous than the’ disease. lf ,
i’you are sick you need a doctor.
are well let the medicine alone.
The remains of Wm. M. Secley, t-he
brakeman who was killed‘ht L1tt"le Ferry ..
Dec. 14, were interred in Riverside come-
terylast'l‘uesaay. Butler Lodge, I. 0. 0..
{F., of South Norwalk attended.
“Theparliamentof nations, the federation
.of the world, ” which Tennyson had in
.mind when he wrote his Locksley Hall, is
now realized. Every nation ‘recogniZes
every other nation by a universal “grip.”
Yardmaster George H. Franklin of the
Housatonic road at Danbury was given a 1
fine-gold watch-émthlhrifitmawdhemgift of
the largest local patrons of the road—‘lhe
big manufacturers and principal mer-‘
chants. - - 2'.
While the GAZETTE is being printed the
Opera House 1s gay and lively with the
festivities of the New Year’s ball of
Catholic Council, Knights of Columbus.
Heine’s full band gives a concert preceding
the hop,
Tire third annual New Year’s recepticn
of the Y. M. C A., which was announced
to be given to-day from 3 to 10 p. m.. will
be changed to a memorial meeting out cf
respcot to the bereavement of its president,
MZi’eAmbler...
Tim Howard was the lucky guesser of
the weight of the pig 'which was drawn at
the store of George Low, on Main street,
Christmas Day. The weight of the porker
Was 111% pounds, while Mr. :Howard' s
guess was 112.
Chief Engineer Prowitt, of the borough
fire department has submitted his annual
report of the condition of the department.
which is an interesting document. It also
gives the number and location of fires
during the year.
The Herald new issues, with its Sunday a.,.
edition, a supplement devoted to Connec-
ticut news and gossip. Tire Herald thus' .
follows the example of the World, and-
between the two the Nutmeg state is «_
exhaustively gleaned. ,, _. - 1
Mr. Louis Seymour, a brother of Attor-
ney John S. Seymour, sails for London in
February, en route to South Africa to
superintend a newly devised machrne in
one of the great diamond mines tlure.
His wife accompanies him.
Among the nice things John Wade got
in hislittlc stocking on Christmas was a
note from hrs brother Will, in Norwalk.
Ohio, asking him to please find enclosed
a lock of hair from the head of a bran new
nephew, born on the 23d.
Alderman Isaac Bows and wife spent
Sunday with friends in New Haven. The
Alderman is “laying off” this week in
order to favor his feet. with which he has
some trouble, caused by constantly stand-
ing 11p to his duties as conductor.
Some of our exchanges are poking fun
at Norwalk and charging that the Presi-
dent of our Board of Trade is under arrest
for rum selling! This item may be a joke
on the city. but it certainly doesn’t
belong to the borough of Norwalk,
Agent Charles E. Olds was presented
with a gold headed cane and a smoking
set by the employes at Wilson Point, on
Wednesday. He, in turn, gave them a
Christmas dinner. Mr. Olds is very pop-
rrlar with hrs employes, and deservedly so.
The following officers were elected by
Butler Lodge, 1. O. 0. F., Wednesday
evening: N. G., H. S. Selleck; V. G.,
George Whelpley; Rec. Sec., E. 0. Car-
mell; Treas., H. S. Rood; Trustees,. H.
S. Brown, A. L. Benedict, Geo. F. Bearse.
W. N. Simons came up here from Nor-
walk Tuesday and since then has been
busy packing up his worldly goods. which
were sent to his new home to day. He
followed them this afternoon, accom-
panied by Mrs. Simone. Their address
will be 30 Franklyn avenue, Norwalk. —
Mer idea. Jam nal.
At Uncle John Collins’ restaurant a
Christmas display of napkins folded in all
sorts of fanciful and elaborate designs
filled the long center table and attracted
considerable attention and admiration. It
was the skillful work of the head waiter
Charles Lindstrom. ‘
On Monday, the 01d horse that draws
the Dickerman tea wagon about, got into
a cistern which some idiot constructed
beneath the bottom planking of his stable,
at the Case place on Lewis street, and
was in the water some three hours before
a force of men could haul the half
drowned animal out.
One touch of nature makes the world
kin, and universal brotherhood has
touched the influenza belt. The red nose
of the poet, the sneeze of the peasant, the
aches, shivers, and chills racking imperial
spines and congealing plebeian blood,
brings, as it were, the social skylight down
and lays it over the cellare-loor.
If you.
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”The days have begun to lengthen, and
accordingly if the old saw retains its po—
teney, the cold may be expected to “begin
to rengthen,” a prospect not necessarily
fuugof terms when the humid, limpid,
languid weather thus far vouchsafed us
is cbnsidered.
Hianche, a five year old daughter of Mr.
' and; Mrs. Will DeKIyn, wandered away
from home Wednesday afternoon. After
and all night’s search the little one was
foutid at the home of a family on Chest-
-nrrt.:strect,8011h Norwalk, where she “as
i being kindly cared for.
l
tThe statement is made on the evidence
fu'i'hished 1n the New York Srinday news-
papers, that Bridgeport has no rival on
the globe for sending out intensely sensa-
tional and Wildly inaccurate misinforma-
tion. But isn’t Norwalk creeping up very
discreditably to a close second.
Henry T. Sperry has retired from 1he
Hartford Evening Post on account of 1m-
palred health, and will he succeeded by
John Addison Porter,a b1 ight Yale man.
— Major John C. Kinney retires from the
Hartford L'ourant, and is also succeeded
by a Yale man, Mr. E. J. Phelps.
Tire most remarkable thing aboutChrist-
mas was the “Heather. It was a summer
day' in Chicago, and instead of sleiglring
and skating, the young folks played cro-
quet in the parks. Reports from all parts
of the country state that the weather is
the most remarkable ever known in De-
camber.
An official bulletin issued from the Con
ans Bureau at Washington states that for
di 'ded into two districts, Fairfleld, Litcir-
lie?! and New Haven countics forming
one, and Hartford, Middlesex, New Lon-
don, Tollarrd and Windham counties con-
flirting the other.
. The Yale student who has been sus-
glam-d for pouring three quarts of cham-
tjragne into a tame bear got just what he
jglcs'erved. Such conduct as his is in the
Sihiahest degree reprehensible. It has not
only a bad moral influence on the bear,
shut it was a shocking waste of valuable
'anaterial, some think.
7: The first number of Kate Field’s Was/r.
Tire new publica-
fti 'n. is a twenty-four page quarto, printed
.. kly. Its style is bright and dashing.
'and' its columns indicate that it enjoys. a
sound backing. The GAZETTE extends
the compliments of the season and wishes
its bright and gifted owner abundant
success.
Major J. C. Kinney, who is shortly to
become postmaster at Hartford has resign-
ed lris position as city editor of the Hart-
ford (7om2ant. Edward J. Phelps has suc-
ceeded him. Mr. Phelps is son of Prof.
Phelps of Andover, and a brother of Eliz-
abeth Strrart Phelps. He graduated froru
Yale in ’86, and has been connected with
the Com'anf. for a year past.
é'ingto-n is now issued.
At the annual meeting of the First Cou-
gregational Society, held Monday evening,
the annual report of the financial condi-
tion of the society was read, and the fol-
lowing committec was chosen for the
ensuing year: 0. E. Wilson, chairman;
George B. St. John, clerk and treasurer;
E. O. Kceler, J. C. Randle. The annual
meeting of the church will be held Friday
evening.
We promised some of 0111' exchanges
A (‘ hristmas turk; they think it strange is.
That we should fail—here’s our excuse.
If we did not keep our word
Blame not us. but blame the bird—
Our Christmas turkey was a. goose.
—Berkshir 8 news. V
Never mind what your excuse is,
That your turlr a simple goose is—
To get either, y0n are lucky.
But your turkeys, geese or chickens,
Could be beat, all to the dickens.
Witha tender litt‘e duckle.
Buckingham Post of the Borough, will
have a public installation of its efiicers on
the evening of Jan 8th at the Athenaaum.
The ladies of the Relief Corps connected
with the Post, propose .to take advantage
of this interesting occasion by giving our
veterans a good and substantial srrpper.
To do this they must have liberal aid from
the town people, for which purpose each
one may expect to be called upon to con-
tribute generously to this end.
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The officers of the 1st regiment, whose
resignations were handed in some time
ago, owing to the renting of their armory
at Hartford to the polo players, and were
returned by the execrrtive because the
reasons were not deemed sufficient, have
prepared new resignations. These will
be held to await the outcome of a “parlcy”
which is now going on quietly. A “truce”
will be maintained until the end of the
conference, which is expected to end in
peace.
Col. Henry Huss succeeds Mr. neckin-
bush as Postmaster at Mount ernon.
There have been two factions of Republi-
cans fighting like Kilkenny cats for that
plum, and of course the frozen out crowd
does not like the elevation of the Colonel.
For our par,t we think the appointment
an excellent one, and congratulate Mount
Vernon on the appointment of so com-
petent a man. Mr. Quackinbush’s term
expired sometime ago, but the fight be-
fore mentioned prevented an earlier divi-
sion of the loaves and fishes. ——Portcheater
Journal.
3“; devoted to Local News and Interests.
the taking of statistics Connecticut will be
BNESDAY, JANUARY 1,1890
y
Tire editors of the Tribune, World and
Herald are permanently absent from their
respective oflices, while Mr. Dana, of the
Sun, has been in . Europe for several
months, and still these metropolitan jour-
nals manage to get on reasonably well,
but of course are not up ‘ to the "standard
of our Norwalk Ishmaelitish free lance.
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who often
visits Concord, N. H., in his private car
to meet his son, who is at St. Paul’s
school, two and one-half miles from the
city, is a welcome guest to the hack
drivers, to whom he hands a $5 note for
passage from thecity to the school, refus-
ing any change, the regular fare being $2.
One of t‘1cse intelligent and valuable
collie dogs of (Dr. Gregory’s died on Fri-
day last-of heart trouble, which had
superinduced a complication of other dis-
eases, as Dr. Bridges learned by ia post
mortem examination. Its mate, for a day
or more after the dog’s death, wept con-
stantly, ran about irither and you in
search of the missing one and appeared
heart broken and inconsolable in its bc-'
reavement.
On a splendid evening when the moon
was near the meridian, shedding light 011
,thewaters off our beautiful park, a few
persons were in a grocer y store on State
street, among them a veteran of the clam
grounds. One of the party acccstedlthis
veteran and said: “Mr. W——, why don’t
'y on go clamming by moonlight?” The re-
ply came quickly, and with appearance of
scorn and contempt: “Clamming by moon-
light! You blamed fool, don’t you know
that when the moon is up the trdc is up.”
—-Standard.
The question of nominating Col. W.
H. Stevenson for Governor on the demo-
cratic ticket next fall, which was origi-
nally suggested by Col. E. M. Graves, of
Hartford, is revived again. and is receiv:
ing considerable (liSCussion throughout
the state, notwithstanding the genial Col-
onel persrstently states that he is not a can-
didate for the nomination and that his
railroad interests demand all his lime and-
attention. -
In order to stimulate: subscriptions to
the National Monument Fund, the weekly
Mail and Express has agreed with the
Grant Monument Association that it \will
turnoverto thafund the total receipts
from all its yearly subscriptions to the
paper at the rate of $2. a year. To put
the proposition in another form, the week-
ly Mail and Emmy-.98 offers to every person
who subscribes $2. to the. Grant Monu-
ment Fund a copy of the paper free for a
year.
To emphasize the fact that the weather
on Christmas was most rtmarkable, an
item is going the rounds of the state
papers saying something about a Norwalk
farmer sowing a field of rye on that day.
The paragraph might have gone 011 to
say that a field of bare rock was also seen
or: that day. And also that the disastrous
rcsrrlts of a hilarious commingling of the
two might have been seen on llrat day
and on the next. Some folks saw lots of
things on that day that others with better
vision couldn’t see at all.
Read the advertisement of the Middle
sex Banking Company, of Middletown,
Conu., in another column. This Com-
pany is said to be one of the safest in the
state, of which one can purchase Bonds;
for they are examined regularly by the
Bank Commissioners. the same as any
National or Savings Bank. The deben-
tures they offer are very good and they
have them in any demonination. Our
readers should not forget one important
feature in dealing with this Company:
trustees may invest trustee funds in these
Bonds, :1 privilegethat was granted at the
last session of the Connecticut legislature,
and the issue of the bonds is limited. No
fear of an over issue of bonds.
Some very hypercritieal persons out in
Ohio are finding fault because the statue
of Apollo at the Ada Normal School is
clothed in a pair of knee breeches. His-
torians differ somewhat as to what par-
ticular piedes of wearing apparel went to
make up the favorite costume of the late
Mr. Apollo, and in view of this fact it is
not at all strange that the faculty of the
Ada college should prefer the knee
breeches theory. Brrt the Ada faculty at ,
east showed refinement of taste and sen-
sibility, compared with the miserable mis-
creant who bedaubed Judge Selleck’s
statue of Venus with rod paint and thus
forced him to build a house about her to
protect her from the public gum and the
wet.
Tire Connecticut edition of the Sunday
Herald- contained a column of Norwalk
society gossip, including a portrait of
Mayor Wilcox and a sketch of Warden
John H. Lee, the new rulers of South Nor-
walk and Norwalk. It gives agr'aphic
and interesting biography of Mr. Lee,
from the green days of his rusticus boy-
hood, to his present eminence as chief exec-
utive officer of the boroughand acknowledg-
ed leader of Norwalk elite society ; dilatcs
upon his magnetism and universal and rec-
ognized popularity, and his unquestioned
ability in various directions. It also de-
votes considerable space to detailing the
accomplishments of his charming wife,
who shares with him the distinction of be-
ing at the head of Norwalk society.
Two DOLLARS A YEAR
NUMBER 1.
Tire court of burgesses of11889 is no
more. Their last meeting was held on
-Monday evening, when no business of
importance was transacted. _ The warden
and burgesses indulged in a little mutual
admiration, and it was voted to have
Warden Coolidge’s handsome and intel-
lectual features immortalized in a portrait
for the walls of the room. according to
custom. At the close of the session all
hands went out and ate some oysters at
the warden’s expense to assuage the
. grief of the final meeting and final parting
8% a borough board.
On New Year’s day the skating rink
will be revived again in Norwalk, and
all lovers of roller skating will be able to
enjoy the Sport to their heart’s content.
Tire armory will be the sc’ene'of this
enjoyable eXcrcise, which will be enliv-
ened by other attractions. Heine’s band
will frrruish nrrrsic. In the afternoon a
gameof polo will be played beteeen Stam-
ford and Norwalk teams, and in the overr-
ing the polo contestants will be the St.
Augustine’s, of Bridgeport; and the NM-
walks. Barlow Connolly. formerly ofthe
Winnipauk B. B. Club, will rush for the
Norwalks. Afternoon at 2 o’clock; even-
ing at 7. ‘
Mr. Lester Bennett, the Weston mail
carrier had a very narrow escape. from
being shot through the head, about 10:33
o’clock, last Thursday morning. lie
Was fooling and joking with the clerk,
Harry Mitchell, who took from a drawer
a pistol belonging to Letter Carrier Henry
Matheis, and in frrn pointed it at Bennett.
Immediately following was a loud report,
and Bennett jumped 11p exclaiming: “I’m
shot.” The bullet passed so closely to his
forrhead that he actually felt it, although
he was not hit.’ Mitchell said the pistol
had laid around for some time and he did
not know that it was loaded Mntheis
had loaded it only a day or two prevrous.
The “Chinatown” of New York rs s'irred
to its depth over the defection of a promi-
nent Celestial. Mr. Chrr Forrg has been
hopelessly Christiauized and American-
ized. 91x years ago Ml'. Fong became a
regular Sunday school attendant. receiv-
'ing instructions ‘in the Bible class tot-:1 -
lovely Brooklyn belle.
A few y‘éurs later
his precocious grasp on the Christian vir-
tues added value to his unusual business
capacities and he was made cashier in the
Japanese store of Kwong, Houg Long &
Co He has now proved all the qualifica-
tions for American citizenshrp by eloping
with his Sunday school teacher, leaving a
tlrirty-thousand-dollar hold in the cashier’s
till and planting for his posterity a re—
spectable family tree wrthiu the borders
of Canada.
Tire Co. F minstre's, whose recent en-
tcrtcinment in Norwalk was so successful
and which they were obliged to repeat in
order to accommodate a number of ticket
purchasers who were unable. owing to
the crowd, to get into the hall on the first
night. are billed to appear in Raymond’s
Hall, New Canaan, 011 Wednesday even-
ing, 81h inst., when they will present the
same programme given here, with the
exception of the silent drill, which they
are obliged to omit on account of the
limited capacity of the stage. Tire inter-
esting song and dance sketch, “The
Happy Hottentots,” will be substituted,
however. Reports from New Canaan in-
dicate that the citizens of that town will
give our boys a good patronage, and they
may be assured they Will be given their
money’s worth of fun, frolic and song.
The members of the colored lodge of
Odd Fellows, whose lodge rooms are. in
the GAZETTE Building, have purchased a
safe for the secure keeping of the archives
of the lodge. The safe was hauled up the
stairs with ropes on Monday by a gang of
experts. When near the head of the
second flight in some unexpected manner
the safe got away from them and went
thundering and . crashing to the foot,
where it fetched up against 'a partition
with a bang that nearly knocked the brick
wall through, and frightened a compositor
so he spelled Senator Hill’s name with an
“e,” and startled a lady, who was just.
sitting for her photo in Readman’s. so
the camera, which was “exposer ” at the
instant, made her face look like apumpkin
jack lantern. However, luckily and al.
most mrraculously nobody was hurt.
Some weeks ago several prominent
citizens of South Norwalk met for the
purpose of forming a board of trade which
should be merged under the name of the
South Norwalk club. It was proposed to
build afine club house for the purpose.
Rooms were at once fitted up. Along
with the other social features of the club
was a large sideboard and a steward
T'hursday James (101 don the steward, was
arrested and charged with selling liquor
without a license, the club having failed
to obtain a license. Judge Morreli decid-
ed that he could not be held, as he was
acting as the agent of the social board of
trade. It was maintained that liquor
should not be dispensed there without a
license and this morning Hon. E. A.
Woodward, tr‘easurer ef the club, was ar-
rested, charged with the offense. He fur-
nished bonds for $200 and the case was
continued until Tuesday. As the club is
made up of the most prominent business
men in Norwalk, strictly speaking, the ar-
rest this morning has caused much excite.
m.ent .- Saturday evening’s Brzdgepm tPost
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