At Best.
The funeral of Miss Edith Ambler was
attended from her Childhood’s home on
Tuesday afternoon, last. The house was
crowded with sorrowing friends and large
numbers were unable to gain admittance.
Rev. Mr. Torrey, her pastor, delivered a
fitting and touching address, and Rev. Mr.
McGonegal led in an especially appropriate
and fervent prayer. Mrs. Miller, Miss Byx'
bee, Dr. McGonegal and O. B. Jackson,
sang “Sister, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely,”
and “Asleep in Jesus, Blessed Sleep.” At
the close, Mrs. Huntington sang 9N earer
My God to Thee,” when Rev. Mr. Selleck
read the beautiful burial services of his
church. The remains were tenderly lain in
aheliotrope plush casket and enshrouded in
robes befitting the earthly bride the beauti-
ful sleeper so soon expected to have become,
while her remains, the casket and the room,
were embowered in a profusion of the rarest
flowers, which loving hearts and hands had
bonntifully bestowed. The tenderness and
delicacy with which Underteleer Raymond
and Massrs. Coolidge and Stearns performed
their respective duties on the mournful oc-
casion, was a most grateful tribute to the
departed and the bereaved, and was gener-
ally remarked. Never has a similar occa-
sion here, so thoroughly stirred the deepest
sympathies of all hearts and so emphasized
the great poet’s “touch of nature which
makes the whole world kin,” as the untime-
ly death of this sweet child.
[ A Tempest in a Tea-Pot.
The dark, ominous storm cloud of an
impending war is hovering in the heavens
and casts its threatening shadow upon the
roof of the Armory. As yet it is no big-
ger than a man’s hand, but it grows apaoe,
and the low rumble of the distant thunder
foretells the coming storm. As yet the
virgin sward about the Armory has not
been soaked with rivulets of bloody gore
nor mussed up with the sputtered brains
of warriors met in fierce and mortal con-
flict. But the crisis is at hand, and mili-
tary blood is boiling like the political pot
before a borough election. Although
“military circles throughout the state”
cannot be said to be “watching the out-
come with intense anxrety,” yet it is
watched here with interest and amuse-
ment. A factional fight in the ranks of
Company F is the cause of the agitation,
and it all grows out of the minstrel show.
The story of the unpleasantness (so far as
can be gleaned fromthcinterestcd parties
and sympathizers on both sides, who are
extremely difficult to approach and pro-
_ vokingly closennouthed on the subject,)
I is about as follows:
The minstrels, having scored such a
flattering success in the Opera House last
month, arranged to repeat their perform-
ance in New Canaan, in response to re—
quests from citizens of that place, (which
performance, by the by, takes place this
-—Wednesday—evening.) A‘ measure--
ment of the New Canaan stage, however,
showed it to be too small to permit the
proper execution of the silent drill, which
was a very attractive feature or the perform
ance here, and it was decided to omit the
drill and substitute a laughable sketch.
The members of the silent drill protested
against being left out in the cold and ac-
cused the minstrels of breaking faith in
order to swell their own proportion of the
receipts, which are to be divided among
the participants; they also objected to the
further use of the name “Company F
Minstrels” unless the drill was included
in the sharing, and forbade the use of the
“properties” belonging to the company.
The minstrels got together, declared the
old minstrcl company disbanded, and im—
mediately reorganich with the drill mem—
bers left out. Then the music began.
Both sides had their sympathizcrs in the
mmpany who had taken no part in the
minstrel performance, and these factions
hcld secret meetings, organized a plan of
campaign and discussed their mutual
grievances, each from its own standpoint.
They met in brilliantly lighted parlors, in
deep, dark sub-cellars, in side alleys and
wherever else they could manage to get
two 01' three to gather together, guarding
against intrusion by a system of grips,
signals, passwords,oaths and other mum-
, mery requisite to safe and sure secrecy,
‘ that would have done credit to a nest of
Molly Maguires or a den of Anarchists.
At these meetings the most persuasive
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Horse Notes.
Dr. Tracy has purchased Ward Bros.’
brown stepper.
Theo. Price drives a handsome youngster
by his favorite stallion.
Vet. Taylor has a fine yearling out of his
pet mare by Theo. Price's stallion.
J. W. Andrews has a nice filly out of the
standard bred mare, Miss Fairfield, sired by
Clayland.
The famous young thoroughbred runner,
El Rio Rey, has recovered from his recent
attack of bronchitis.
The renowned racer Parole is peacefully
ending his days at Mr. Lorrilard’s Rancocas
stock farm.
Many of the old-time ra:ers. when broken
dm‘n, end their days performing menirl
work.
Checkmate, that won :0 many races in
1879-81, and in three years won for his own-
er $32,000 beside enriching his backers
nearly a quarter of a million, was at last
accounts pulling a stage With an old mule
For Sale by:
H. CLOVER .0 SON, Norwalk.
FIXNEGAN & O’RETLLY, "
C. II. VALDEN, "
F. B. GREGORY,
E. N. SIPPEBLY,
l'I. ()SBORN.
Lexis (.- co.
West port .
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fora mate.
Joe Blackburn, as a. yearling, sold for
$0,500; three years later he was bought for
8105. He is now used as a buggy horse at
Long Branch.
The once famous Booljack of 1880—84 won
for his owner, Milton Young, $100,000
and captured 49 races before he was six
years old, broke down and Was afterward
Last year he was
made a buggy horse.
again put in training, started in the three~
quarter dash on the BrOoklyn course, came
either side, “"35 fired Off in withering in last, but is said to have received more
denunciation of the other faction; in applauselhan the winner.
bravely and fearlessly maintaining the --
right and justice of its own cause, and in 7‘ 9M Contemporaries. _
devising and executing plans of mutual prank “ ' Bolande, one Of the brightest
hos‘ility The results of this orgam7ed of the Standard’s brightyoung men, was
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warfare were, that the minstrelitcs, 0n married at Long Hm on how 16‘" S eve,
their part, proceeded vigorously with to Miss MCd.O.m C. Be‘ach, daughter. of it
their arrangements to show in New Ca prominent Citizen of 'lrumbull. A list of
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man rehearsed diligently, and, as a mas— the Wedding grits lS interesting reading,
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ter stroke of strategy secured possession and includes Clnekenng pianos, gold
of the “properties,” which are at this watches, diamonds, sealskin cloaks,
moment in the New Canaan Hall ready purses of gold, furniture, and an endless
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for use to-niwht The results of the variety of other useful and ornamental
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drillites’ deliberations were made manifest ‘m’clts’ "'0 Wthh {Ml would “ad the
on Friday in a card published in the New cordial (’OdSpCLd O the (’“EUE'
Canaan iIIcsscnr/er and signed by Licut. Our brave old esteemed contemporary,
Wm M Stevens Vincent Honnecker and the Berkshire Courier celebrated its 56th
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Charles J. Betts, war-mug the public that , birthday 135‘; “ 091" A Lappy New 1“",
“the troupe advertising themselves as 1‘ many happy returns, and more power to
Company F Minstrels are not the same i you, neighbor!
company that appeared in the Norwalk
Opera House,” etc. It would seem, how~
ever, that the minstrclites must have
pumped a leaky member of the drillites’
faction and got a hint of their intentions,
for immediately following the above card
in the Messenger was a statement signed
by the “Managers of 00. F ;1\linstrels,”
setting forth that notwithstanding certain
false and malicious representations, the
company was the same and the programme
the same, barring only the silent drill.
The affair causes intense excitement in
Company F, and there is ominous talk of
courts martial, suspensions, cxpulsrons,
etc. Meantime it is a valuable adverti-c-
mcnt for the show in New Canaan to-night.
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perry Davis’
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[travels with the Meridcn polo learn to
{encourage them with his smiles, which
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i an inspiration, and have repeatedly helped
' the team to wrest victory from defeat.
Bridgeport, it is said, is to have a new
illustrated weekly paper to be published
by Henry West Vail,
Shore Line Times and has lived in Wash-
ington for some years past.
New Year by putting on a bran new dress.
It is a handsome. solid and reliable jour-
nal.
Our philanthropic old contemporary,
the Hartford Times, treated about 400
newsboys to a New Year’s dinner on
Wednesday.
This is a season of newspaperbirthdays.
The Rockville Journal, a bright and good
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An Explosion.
()ur friend E. K. Lockwood has lived all
his early and mature family life, without
any hot water boiler in his house. He has,
with seductive argument, convinced hun-
dreds of his customers of the absolute neces-
sity of all civilized nations and people intro-
ducing the hot water boiler. He has suc-
cessfully accomplished this praiseworthy
business scheme, in numerous cases, even
'~ where bathing was not hereditary in the
family and yet with never a hot water boil-
' er in his own house. But a short time since
he took an old and long used boiler out of a
customer’s house and not to let it be wasted
intrcduced it into his own. Lo, the result 1
A few nights since a terrific explosion sent
noise and steam, and soot and ashes and
things all over his erst peaceful and silent
kitchen. His, and the neighbors’ first
thought was of dynamite bombs, or eXplod-
7 ing torpedoes, but it was none of these and
nothing less than the rusty old water boiler
he had tried in his spirit of strict economy,
to utilize by setting up as the first of its
kind in his kitchen. Who shall dare say
hereafter that friend Luckwood does not
treat himself worse and more ungenerously
than he does anybody else.
WSOIG hymn“ Grocers Jill
week.
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all the brilliancy of its old-time splendor,
and again shines for all. It is as full of
pith and pepper as ever, and will find a
welcome wherever it sheds its genial
rays.
The Church Record, organ of the Epis-
copal church, published at Southport, was
attached on Saturday by a New York
paper manufacturer named Merriam for
$1,700, and also by Fred Bronson, from
whomit borrowed money, for $1,500.
The Verdict Unanimous.
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Room iippiy to CHARLES omusgaan.
locking paper, arrived at voting age last
Ingersoll’s Christmas.
Strange as it may appear, Colonel Robt.
G. Inger-soil has never given an opinion on
the great holiday of Christmas. In all his
lectures, addresses, and writings his idea
of the greatest holiday of the Christian
world has never been expressed. The fol-
lowing from his pen will therefore be of
the greater interest, as it is on a subject
of which the world has n t yet heard the
greatest infidel of his age speak :
My family and I regard Christmases a
holiday. That is to say, a day of rest and
pleasure; at day to get acquainted with
each other; a day to recall old memories
and for the cutivation of social amenities.
The festival now called Christmas is far
older than Christanity. It was known
and celebrated for thousands of years be-
fore the cstablishment of what is know as
our religion.
it is a relic of sun worship—it is the day
on which the sun triumphs over the hosts
of darkness, and thousands of years before
the New Testament was written, thou-
sands of years before the republic of Rome
existed, before one stone of Athens was
laid, before the Pharoahs ruled in Egypt,
before the religion of Brahma, before the
Sanscrit was spoken—men and women
crawled out or their caves, pushed the
matted hair from their eyes and greeted
the triumph of the sun over the powers of
night.
There are many relics of this worship,
among which is the shaving of the priests’
head,,lcaving the spot shaven surrounded
by hair, in imitation of the rays of the
sun. There is still another relic. The
ministers of our day close their eyes in
prayer. When men worshipped the sun,
when they l0oked at that luminary and
implored its assistance, they shut their
eyes as a matter of necessity. Afterward
priests, looking at their idols glittering
with gems, shut their eyes in flattery,
pretending that they could not bear the
effulgence of the presence, and to—day,
thousands of years after the old ideas have
passed away. the modern parson, without
knowing the origin of the custom, closes
his eyes when he prays
There are many other relics and souve-
nirs of the dead worship of the sun, and
this festival was adopted by Egyptians,
Greeks, Romans, and by Christians.
As a matter of fact Christianity furnish-
ed new steam for an old engine, infused a
new spirit into an old religion; and as a
matter of course, the old festival remain-
ed.
For all of our festivals you will find
corresponding pagan festivals. For in-
stance, take the Eucharist—the commun-
ion where persons partake of the body
and blood of the deity. This is an ex-
ceedingly old custom. Among the an-
cients they ate cake made of corn, in hon-
or of Ceres, and they called these cakes
the flesh of the goddess; and they drank
wine in honor of Bacchus, and called this
wine the blood of their god.
And so 1 could go on giving the pagan
origin of every Christian ceremony and
custom. The probability is that the wor-
ship of the sun was once substantially
universal, and consequently the festival of
Christmas was equally Widespread. As
other religious have been produced the
old customs have been adopted and con-
tinued. So that the result is, this festival
of Christmas is almost world wide.
It is popular because it is a holiday.
Over-worked people are glad of days that
bring rest and recreation and allow them
to meet their families and their friends.
They are glad of days when they give and
receive gifts—evidences of friendship, of
remembrance and love. It is popular be-
cause it is really human, and because it is
now interwoven with our customs, habits,
literature, and thoughts.
For my part, lam perfectly willing to
have two or three a year—the more holi-
days, the better. Many peoplc have an
idea that I am opposed to Sunday. I am
perfectly willing to have two a week. All
1 insist on is that these days shall be for
the benefit of the people, and that they
shall be kept, not in a way to make folks
miserable, or sad, or hungry, but in a way
to make people happy, and to add a little
to the joy of life. Of course, I am in favor
of everybody keeping holidays to suit
himself, provrded he does not interfere
wuhothcrs, and I am perfectly willing
lthat everybody should go to church on
ithat day, provided he is willing that I
should so somewhere else.”
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