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LOCAL ITEMS.
Gen. Willis McDonald, of New York, is
visiting friends in town.
Tire next meeting of the court of bur-
gesscs will be held on Monday evening
next.
The gambling house keepers of Bridge-
port are now defending themselves in the
courts. _‘___._~
John P. Treadwcll and Buckingham
Lockwood are Shooting things down in
Virginia _ ‘
John Malone, it is said, is booked for the
position of commissioner of public works
for the borough._______
Prof. H. N. Day, LL.D., of Yale, aged
eighty-seven, died Sunday, of pleurisy,
after a brief illness.
Uncle John Collins, ex-Alderman Gus
Franke and Alderman Sloan have. just
shaken off the grippe.
The Bridgeportpapers say the engage-
ment of W. G. Lineburgh, jr., and Miss
Belle S. Wallace is announced.
Lyman Abbot will be installed as pastor
of Plymouth church, and successor to
Henry Ward Beecher, Thursday.
The burgesses’ action in selecting their
appointees for the police force evokes eon-
sidcrable comment, much of which is ad-
verse. , _
Captain John P. Pinkerman, of the
Bridgeport police force, is under a rc‘st,be'-
ing incarcerated at his home with the
grippe. _ ‘
Companv F minstrels contemplate psi-'-
footing a permanent menstrel organization
and giving another entertainment late in
the season. ' V
Danbury had forty-seven fires in 1889,
resulting in aggregate damage of $150,000.
The fire-bug’s fun comes high, but he
must have it. ,
The always bright and pure Norwalk
GAZETTE has commenced its 90th volume,
and is yet as sturdy as an oak—Port
Chester flntg'pfise. .- _ .
Rev..3fi‘. E. Hopkins, of New Canaan, is’
to deliver an address in the new Congre—
gational church this afternoon. He will
be well worth hearing. ‘ '
Miss Mamie L. l-Iavilanrl and Charles J.
Palmer, were married on Thursday even-
ing last, at the residence of the bride’s
brother, on Main street.
The “Phoenix,” a. thrilling and realistic
drama Will probably.be produced in the
Opera House on the 3lst inst. under the
auspices of Phoenix Engine company.
F. W. Bolaude has a touch of the grip.
———Brzfdgeport Standard. '
You’re right, he has.
two weeks ago.
He was married
The marriage of Miss Alice Village, of.
South Norwalk, while on her death-bed,
to Mr. Walter Hall, last week, has given
the papers something to talk about.
Themas J. Rambo, living on Spring
street, has become violently insane through
epilepsy and will be removed to the
Middletown asylum. He has a family.
Judge Edward W. Seymour, of the
Supreme Court, is seriously ill at the
home of his brother, the Rev. 0. Storrs
Seymour, rector of Christ church, Hart-
ford. ‘
H. D. Averill, ex-gencral ticket agent of
the Housatonic road, and a most estimable
and popular gentleman, died at his late
residence in Stratford Fridiy morning,
aged 41 years.
Mayor Hart of Boston has notified the
electric light companies that no contracts
will be made hereafter in excess of forty
cents per lamp per night, instead of sixty-
five cents as heretofore.
Phoenix Engine company haVe made an
engagement with Milton Nolles to give
his celebrated play, “the l’hmnix,” at the
Opera liouse, on January 31st, for the
benefit of the company.
N orwalk brethrenvisited Temple Lodge,
F. and A. M., in Wéstport Thursday even-
leg when the new officers of that lodge
were installed and a gold headed cane
presented to Post Master Oscar Smith.
Michael/Shady, .who is seriously ill'
pneumonia, was reported dead one 'day
last week, but it Was'a'false report. Mike
isn’t going to die till after he has had that
foot race'wit‘h Dan. Connolly on the race
action brought by plaintiff to recover
,jail in Bridgeport awaiting trial. He will
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ORWALK
An Enterprising Republican Journal, espeially devoted to Local News and Interests.
N ORWALK, CONN., \leiSNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1890.
Amongfgthe divorces granted by the
superior court.in Bridgeport last week
was one separating Henry Stadler from
Magdalena Stadler, the former from Nor-
walk, the latter from Germany; cause,
desertion.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson is said to
have made a very lucky hit with “The
Prince and the Pauper” dramatized from
Mark Twain’s work. It is to be brought
out at the Broadway Theater, New York,
January 20.
1
Charles Lounsbury, who was stricken
with paralysis at his home on Orchard
street early last week, died on Saturday.
Deceased was a shoemaker and 77 years
of age. I-Iis funeral was attended yester—
day morning.
Jolrn Wade’s recent attempt at horse-
back riding, which was described in our
last issue, threw him into the “grippe,”
which kept him confined to the house
“with a dark brown taste in his mouth”
for nearly a week.
Nor-walk
The correspondent of the
Standard says :——Mr. John I. Blair’s pres-
ent, on the occasion of the marriage of his
nephew, Dr. W. A Vail, to Mrs. Helen
H. Uhle, was a check for $20,000. Dr.
Vail is his private secretary.”
Tire aged Wm. H. Brown, who for sev-
eral days has been dangerously ill at his
home on Orchard street, wiilr the “grippe’
and heart trouble, and who on Saturday
was thought to be dying, has since rallied
and it is belicyed will recover.
Two years ago Walter C. Sheldon, of
Providence, was worth $75,000. Four-
teen montlis afterwards he was selling
clams for a living. On Fridaylast he bal~
anced accounts with a dose of morphine.
The moral needs no elucidation.
The “grip‘pe” is interfering most auda-
ciously with the affairs of our educational
institutions. On Monday four teachers
and one hundred and twenty scholars in
the Over River school were compelled by
the epidemic to remain at home.
Doc. Mosher, cigar dealer, has just re-
ceived a silver hunting case watch from a
cigarette manufacturing firm, as a premi-
um for large sales of them: infernal pests.
A few months ago Doc. received a lady’s
gold watch from the same firm.
\
The commissioner," of' agriculture for
Vermont has painted his state red by-vpub
lishing a map giving all towns liaving1,500 .
or more acres of valiant land in that bril-
liant color. Tire rest is left white, and the
showing makes the people feel blue. I
John Bray was presented with a gold-
headed cane by the Pioneer Hook and
Ladder Company at their regular meeting
last Thursday evening. The gift was
made in recognition of Mr. Bray‘s long
service as treasurer of the company.
i Tire caselof Lindsley vs. Gunning. an
about $12,000 for work, etc., on the big
Gunning farm at Wilton, was decided in
the superior court at Bridgeport, Thurs-
day, in favorof the defendant, Mrs. T. Li.
Gunning. ' '
George Brown, of Wilton, came to town.
Monday, got helplessly drunk, and was
locked up. YeSterday morning Justice
Selleck recited his moral lecture to him
and promised to see him about going to
jail, or paying a fine or something on the
25th inst.
Wm. Andrews, a tramp, who attempted
to outrage Mrs. Adelaide Van Haltz,u
young married woman of SOuthport, on a
lonely road near that town last week,iis in
probably get, as he deserves, a long term
of imprisonment.
V “Littel’s Living Age” has begun “its
184th volume. It is one of the cheapest
and best reprint magazines in America,
and enables its readers to enjoy the, best
writings of the best writers in the old
world on all topics. It is published by
Littell & 03., Boston.
The next sociable of Pioneer Hook and
Ladder company will be held in the
Athenaaum on Thursday evening, January
23d. Preparations for the annual ball of.
this company are now being made, and
the date and place of holding it will be
announced in due time.
Last Sunday a handsome and intelligent
maltese cat that had for some time made
its home about the basement of Belts &
Farrington’s store. was pounced upon by
a big bull-dog. The poor cat was cruelly
bitten and mangled, and Officer More-
lrousc put it out of its misery with a pistol
ball. . - '
A “literary, scientific, and social so-
ciety” in Philadelphia was refused a char.
ter recently because‘ the- court discovered
that it had purchased a sideboard before
it had procured a library. What a pity»
South Norwalk ceiild not have had such a
“court” before its fiiniousClub was launch-
Tlie total amount received in the state in
1889 from liquor licences, 2.124, Was
$527,783,33; from beer licenses, 118, $12,-
869.67; druggists’ licenses, 292'. $11,607.84;
total number of licenses, 2,535; received,
Maurice G. Buttery, the newly electi
chief of police, is a veteran of the la
war and a member of the Grand Arm,
He was a member of \the Seventeen!
regiment, and comes from good old stocl
his great grandfather having served
the Revolutionary ‘War, he being a_ met
her of the Morgan; Light Cavalry of Vi
ginia. -' . ,
Nathaniel Raymond, bretheruof Samd
Raymond, of the batting firm of Raymol
& Comstock, died of consumption in Sour
Norwalk, on Thursday, at the age of {3
years. He was well known among hi-
ters and was a man of excellent qualitii
of mind and heart. He formerly lived 1
Bethel, where he had many friends. l.
was a bachelor. 1
The contractors who sank the artesia
well at Fitch’s Home last year, are e-
pected to commence operations soon, i
order to obtain a greater supply of wate‘ .
and probably another well will have to h
dug. They contracted to furnish a col
tain amount of water and will probabl‘;
have to do it before they handle much 0
the money therefor. .
Capt. Charles F. Mills was looking
around Saturday for the men who en;
tered his ofiiCe at Wilson Point, Friday
night and stole a red hot stove. When
Mr. Mills left the building the stove was
burning brightly and when he returned
a few minutes later it was missing—Sen-
tinel.
And no wonder. If the stove was
“burning brightly” when Mills went out,
it probably burned up before ire got back .
Mrs. Zerali Hawkins died in Rosendale,
Wisconsin, on Monday of' last week, aged
81 years. Many of the residents of Nor-
walk will remember Mr. and Mrs Haw-
kinswhile residents of Flax Hill. From
there they removed «to Wisconsin, Mr.
Hawkins dying soon after, leaving his
widow a member of Mr. Charles Sey-
mour’s family, where she resided until
her death.
The Journal tells of a woman who es-
caped from the almshouse last week and
related to a friend a story of ill treatment,
starvation and tyranny at the hands of the
keeper, who, according to the woman,
compels the inmates to “go hungry and
sit without fire all day.” How much of
truth there is in the complaint it is not
unfortunates are misused.
THE Gaznrrn’s advertising columns fur-
nish the best medium for legitimate busi-
ness to enlarge its trade. The GAZETTn’s
readers are of the most intelligent, thrifty
and progressive people. Itjis more'wide—
1y read in the Homes and Families of
Norwalk and vicinity, than any-other local
paper and consequently is the best medi-
um through wliieh enterprising trades-
people can reach the purchasing classes.
Judge W. D. Kelly, “the father of the
House,” after thirty years’ continuous ser-
vrec as a representative from Pennsylvania,
rested Friday, and the place, which has
known him so long will know him no more
forever. Earnest lll his convictions, iii-
dustrious in his duties, strong in his sense
of justice, ripe in experience and versed
in the requisites of his position, he leaves
a vacancy which will be hard to fill.
There has been expressed by some of
the members of the Young Men’s Chris-
tian Association, a wish that there might
be an orchestra formed of the members,
and if there is interest enough shown to
warrant the formation of an orchestra, the
rmatter will be gladly considered. .Any
one who would like to join one if formed,
are requested to see either Mr. Harry
~Hanford or the General Secretary aboutit.
The Electric Light company elected
these directors at the annual meeting
Mondayz—Charles Olmsiead, George It.
Cowles, John H. Hoyt, Charles E. Dus-
tin, and E. T Jackson. Tire directors
subsequently re-elected Mr. Olmsieadi
president; Mr. Cowles, vice-president;
Mr. Hoyt, secretary; and Mr. Dustin,
treasurer. A committee ecosisting of
Gen. Olmstead and J. S. Seymour. Esq.,
was chosen. to take measures for the im-
mediate enlargement of the plant.
The Norwalk GAZETTE with the New
Year, began the 90th year of its career as
a trusted and safe exponent of public
opinion. For nearly a century its clean
columns have made it a welcome visitor to
the very best homes in Connecticut, and
we hope the grand old paper will live to
celebrate many more anniversaries. Edi.
tor Byington, the venerable proprietor,‘has
every reason to be proud of the record of
his paper, which, like wine, has improved
with age. John Rodemeyer, the Associate
Editor, has everyreason to appropriate
some of the credit for the recent success
of the paper.-—Portcheater Journal.
It is hard to get ahead of a theatrical
manager. The clergy of Beaver Falls,
Penn., waxed indignant the other day at
some pictorial advertisements of a traveling
company. and they threatened to tear them
down. Hearing of this the lessees of the
Opera House immediately had every female
figure in the bills covered with an apron.
Thus the claims of decency were recognized
and the show got a tremendous advertise-
ment, which resulted in packing the house-
--Tnfbune. ,
How it would draw if at the next Opera
House show, Manager Stanley would set
Judge Selieck's Venus on the stage, as one
track.
$552,460.83; paid county treasurers, 827.-
633.04; paid town treasurers, $524,719.04.
of the attractions.
l
known, but it is hard to believe-that our:
Ofllcer Al. DeForest had to walk the
plank together with Chief Lockwood. To
the victors belong the spoils, it is true, and
the borough democrats apparently remem-
ber this. ut why they should oust “AL,”
who is a good democrat, a good officer,
and who has worked hard forhis party on
every occasion. no one understands. But
perhaps he don’t belong to the particular
clique that is running the borough at
present. Never mind, AL, it is a long
lane that has no turning, and the turning
point of this is already visible in the dis-
tance—Journal. '
Real Estate Agent Wilson has disposed
of Eugene J. Murphy’s house and lot. on
Leonard street to Mary Ann Curley. Also
three building lots belonging to John
Greenwood, on Riverside avenue, to Philo
W. Bates, who will open a stone quarry
thereon. Also a building lot on Chestnut
street to Hodges & Brown, who are now
building thereon a double cottage. Also
two lots belonging to the Chichester
estate, corner Stewart avenue and Valley
place, to Patrick Buckley.
" ’INew time tables went into effect on all
divisions of the Housatonic system last
Sunday. Some changes of importance
have been made on the Danbury & Nor-
walk divisron. The South Norwalk and
Pittsfield express trains have been with-
dgnwn for the winter. Tire afternoon
liiiiin from Danbury to Wilson Point is a
half hour earlier, arriving here at about 4
dfilcck. Trains on the Ridgcfield branch
runabout ten minutes earlier than for-
nérly.
1, With Canaanites a stomach sociable (as
Harence Humphrey calls a church sup-
ier) transcends all other entertainments,
ind empty seats‘and empty purses greet
guy lecturer or showman who follows in
lie wake of an orthodox or evangelical
peculative picnic.——0anaan News.
,EFiei Neighbor Beckley; it’s unpatriotic
ti'give your own town a black eye like
lint. It’s as bad as a recent pessimistic
pith-la, about Norwalk “rotting out,” that
tirrednp local pride and evoked so much
'loquence of protest.
f The dissension in the society of St.
l’aul’s church is agitating the newsmpers
if the state to a ridiculous degree. Press
lespatches and special correspondence
from Nor-walk represent the church dis-
igreement in a contorted and exaggerated
nape that would justify the apprehension
pip, the unfortunate condition of affairs
his almost reachedz'astage where blood is
likely to flow. Good taste would seem to
dictate that as little notoriety as possible
be giien the affair, and that facts be
rigidly'ladhercd to in all allusions to it.
Theicases against E. H. Mathewson,
Captaii Russell Frost, Christian Swartz,
and Cinstable Conley, for contempt of
court ii replevying the seized liquor of
the South Nor-walk club before judgment
had bein rendered in the seizure cases,
came ip before J ustiCe 'Morrell, on Satur-
day. All the defendents pleaded guilty,
except'pg Conley, but offered in extenua-
tion th; plea that there was no criminal
intent. l They were let off on payment of
costs, ilotwitlistanding the justice found
that tliire was a technical case of con-
tempt iigainst them. Conley was acquit-
ted.
Little Dollie Dutton, as she was known
the country over, is dead, and the once
famous midget has been interred privately
in the family lot at Hudson, Mass. Mrs.
Alice M. r‘ewin was her married name
and she was a native 'of Sudbury, Mass.
She lived for some time in the famous
Wayside inn in the neighborhood of that
town. It was some twenty-one years ago
that she retired from the public gaze, after
having been exhibited in nearly all the
states of the Union. For eleven years she
has been an inmate of the Worcester in-
sane asylum and at that institution sire
(lied on Monday last. Her weight was
only 15 pounds and her height only 29
inches. She leaves a mother and brother,
who reside in Hudson.
Bronson Howard is said to have origin-
ally written “Shenandoah” as an experi-
ment. He realizes what a fund of rich
dramatic material there was to be mined
from the unwritten history of the Civil
War, but he also realized the extreme
finesse and careful treatment required in
order to avoid the pitfalls surrounding the
great issue which was the life and soul of
the war while it lasted. That his judg-
ment was not misdirected and that in his
experiment he builded better than he
hoped, is proved by the wonderful popu-
larity which “Shenandoah” has enjoyed
from the very first night. Proctor’s 23d
St. Theatre, where it is now running, is
packed at every performance with enthu-
siastic audience and “standing room only”
has become a by-word at that theatre.
Arrangements have ‘been completed by
the management to continue the run of
“Shenandoah” atProctor’s Theatre until
February 2d next, when the play will be
sent on a tour of the larger cities of the
United States. Therefore, the readers of
the Gazsrrn who desire a genuine dramat-
ic treat should make an early opportunity
to vinit New'York and see this play.
More cases of sick headache, bilious-
ness, constipation, can be cured in less
time, with less medicine, and for less
'moaev, by using Carter’s Little Lchr
Pills, than by any other means.
The musical and literary entertainment
to be given under the auspices of St.
Paul’s Sunday school on Friday evening
promises to be a most enjoyable one.
Prof. R. G. Hibbard, the eleeutionist and
reader, will be a drawing feature, and the
singing and musical numbers by Misses.
Byxbee and Staab will be a treat.
Tire hearing on the Consolidated road’s
injunction restraining the Hausatonic
road from putting down a connecting
track across the tracks of the Consolidated,
in Bridgeport, :occupied two days, and
was concluded Monday afternoon. -A
large number of witnesses were called on
each side. Col. Stevenson’s examination
was the longest and, as usual, llre most
exhilarating for the spectators, the battle
of wits and intellects between the Colonel
and the opposing counsel being spirited
and interesting. The Consolidated road
was represented by Attorneys W. D.
Bishop, Jr., and Stoddard, and the Housi- .- “C _ , ‘ , n f, B"l , , C _
atonic by Judge DeForest, of Bridgeport, ‘1' mt S “am out 0 m gtport, If ort
and Professor Baldwin, of New Haven.
Judge Hall reserves his decision.
The following, from the New York Sun
of Monday, will interest our readers, re-
ferring, as it does, to a gentleman well-
known in Norwalk, being a son—in-iaw of
Henry I. Hoyt, Esq. His friends will
readily accept his statement to a reporter,
that “he has done his duty honorably and
s not afraid to face the issue in the
courts” :— _
There will be called for trial in the
Supreme court to—day a suit begun by
Mis» Clara Carter, daughter of Samuel
Cfil'ii‘l', the founder of the Carter Medicine
company. against Mr. Brent Good, the
administrator of her father’s estate. She.
complains that he misappropriated stock
valued by her at $600,000. Miss Carter is
stopping at present, it is said, at Old Point
Comfort. ,Mr. Good refused to talk about
the caseiast night further than to deny
the charges, and to assert that he had
done his duty honorably and was not
afraid to face the issue in the courts.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ronk gave a pink
tea and reception at their residence back
of the boat house on Monday evening.
Mr. Ronk informs our society reporter,
who was prevented from attending, by
reason of a prior engagement, that it was
one of the most recherche and decollete af—g
fairs ever held in the neighborhood of
Pine Island cemetery, and was attended
‘by the moat-fi'z‘orwswelement of the “Four
Hundred” of that district. “There was
seven gals and a whole snag of fellows,”
said Mr. Rank, “and we had the nicest
time you ever see. We had a fiddler
there and we danced till most daylight.
We didn’t have a drop of nothin’ to drink,
and there wasn’t the first sign of a fight.
It irisn’t no such a d— jamboree as the
boys had the night I and Auntie Miller.
was married.” The next sociable of the
series will be held at the same place later
in the season, when the programme will
be varied with a raffle for an unregistered
dog.
As predicted, Hon. James XV. Hyatt,
was yesterday elected president of the
Fairfield County National Bank, to sue-
ceed Colonel F. St. John Lockwood. The
elections in the local banks. held yester—
day, are as follows :— '
Fairficld County.—Dire‘ctors—F. St.
John Lockwood, W. B. E. Lockwood, Ira
Cole, D. H. Miller, Edwin O. Keeler. Levi
Warner, Moses H. Glover, J. W. Hyatt:
Ofiicers—James W. Hyatt, president; E.
O. Keeler, vice—president; L. C. Green,
cashier; C. E. Hoyt, teller.
National Bank of Norwalk.—Directors
—-E. Hill, E. K. Lockwood, E. Beard, E.
J. Hill, J. A. Osborn, B. W. FitCh, W. G.
Thomas, O. E. Wilson, W. F. Bishop.
Officers—E Hill, president; E. J. Hill,
vice-president; H. I’. Pribe, cashier; J. P.
Treadwell, teller.
Central National.—Directors—Geo. M.
Holmes, E. L. Boyer, P. L. Cunningham,
H. F. Guthrie, Geo. Holmes, Gardiner S.
Hutchinson, J. T. Prowiit, Thomas S.
Morison, Horace E. Darin. Officers—Geo.
M. Holmes, president; Eugene L. Boyer,
vice-president; W. A. Curtis, cashier; H.
T. Sheffield, teller.
City Bank.—Directors—Robt. H.Rowan,
John H. Knapp, Tallmadge Baker, Edwin
Adams, Josiah R. Marvin, John H. Ferris,
Christian Swartz, Edwin H. Mathewson,
Henry Seymour.
W. B. Hall & Co. have had a large trade
during the Christmas season, but have on
hand too many seal cloaks, furs and fine
winter dress goods. They propose to closo
them out and have put prices on the red
tickets that will astonish all visitors. The
Standard of the 4th thus speaks of them:
The crewds who visited the store of W.
B. Hall 85 Co. during the holiday period had
a chance to note the,low prices at which
everything in the dress goods line, and
especially books and other objects for
presents, Were offered. A second visit by
the same crowds will enable them to
obserVe attached to about all there is in
the store, red’tickets in addition to the
tickets bearing original price marks of the
goods. The reduction range from 10 to
25 per cent., and in view of the real value
of the offerings is truly a sweeping one.
The early application of the red tickets
indicating the reduction is made for two
reasons: a vaster stock than in any pre-
viops year placed before theifirm’s pui-
roiis, and a proportionately larger volume
of odds and ends, the whole of which it is
preposed to sacrifice, as per the red tick-
ets, forilie sake ofgeiting them out of lire
way“ Those who know what the asking
price of these goods was before Christmas
and who now see the very same thing in»
log lower as the percentage of reduction
. indicates. may see that now is the time to
biiy‘to advantage.
ZETTE.
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR
NUMBER 8.
Tire marriage of Misleenuic E. Stanton,
of Norwalk, to Mr. Frederick W. Wood.
of Danbury, was solemnized in the Meth-
odist church on Wednesday evening, by
Rev. Dr. VanAlstyne, in the presence of
a large number of invited guests. After
the ceremony a reception was held at the
residence of the bride’s parents and the
happy couple left for New York for a
brief tour. They will reside in Danbury.
There was an elegant display of useful
and ornamental wedding gifts. '
The right man in the right place would
be Conductor Coit as general passenger
agent of some railway—Canaan News.
This proposition will receive an emphat-
ic veto from the regular passengers and
commuters who patronize “Coit’s train,”
as it has come to be designated. Few, if
any of them, would put themselves to the
inconvenience of getting up in the middle
of the night and eating tiieir‘breakfast by
moonlight in order to be in time to” catch
himself were not in charge to enliven the
trip With his greeting, his joke, his art
criticisms and his arguments on tariff
reform and pure and unadulterated Jef-
fersonian democracy. No, no; “Cort’s
train” without Coit would be like the play.
of Hamlet with the wiiole performance
left out. I '
It is expected that at the next sessron of
the Legislature the bill for a new insane
asylum, which was defeated a year ago,
will be revived. Statistics show that insan-
ity is increasiiig; there are 60 towns in the
state whose population is less than the
number of insane at Middletown. The
aggregateincrcasein the number of pa-
tients at the asylum during the past de-
cade has been about 800, or an average
annual increase of 80. A majority of the
1,3001unatics were committed by probate
courts. although small precentages were
committed by the Soldiers’ hospital board,
by the governor’s orders, by the county
commissioners, by the superior courts and
by the police courts and a'few by their
friends as private patients. Of the total
nomberof patients admitted to the asy-
‘lum, lovesickness was the predisposing
cause in 203 cases, about two-thirds of the
heart-brokcnlunatics being women. Other
leading causes: Anxiety, 175; domestic
troubles, 91; epilepsy, 185; ill-health, 444
intemperauce, 431; overWOrk, 151; old age,
97; and fluctuations of fortune, 59. Farm-
ing is the occupation that claims a very
large continent of men, 426 tillers of the
soil having been quartered within the asy-
lum. ‘
The new Congregational church, in
South'Norwalk, was dedicated Sunday at
10:30 a.'m. At an early hour every pew
was occupied, and when the services be-
gan over 1,200 people were present. A
profusion of choice flowers were about
the altar. Tallmadge Baker, chairman of
the building committee, reported that the _
cost of the edifice was over $75,000.
Jacob M. Layton, the treasurer, reported
that the debt of the society was $29,000.
The pastor, the Rev. J. A. Biddle, offered
the prayer of dedication. Tire Rev. Dr.-
A. F. Baird, of New York, secretary of
the 'American Missionary Association,
preached a sermon upon the uses to which
a church should be put. Tire Baptist and
Methodist churches were closed in the
evening, and union services were iield at
the new church. Tire Rev. H. C. Hovcy,
of Bridgeport, preached and and a special
musical programme was given. The
dedicatory exercises will be continued all
the week. Among those who are to take
part are Professor William R. Harper, of
Yale University; the Rev. Dr. William
Kincaird, of New York ; the Rev. Samuel
Scoville, of Stamford; the Rev. F. E.
Hopkins, of New Canaan, and the Rev.
Dr. T. K. Noble, of Norwalk.
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Co. F minstrels filled their engagement
in New Canaan on Wednesday evening,
and were greeted by a large, select and ap‘
preCiative audience. They gave a short
parade in the afternoon, headed by the
Americus drum corps, all the members. of
the company and drum corps being in
military uniform and making a handsome.
appearance. Notwithstanding adverse
circumstances which hedged them about
—the active opposition of some of the
members of Co. F, the fact that a profes-
sional minstrel company was billed to ap-
pear in the same hall on thcnext night,the -
disagreeable and threatening weather—they
realized a neat little sum after defraying
all expenses, which they purpose to make
the nucleus of a permanent fund, and the
company is to form a permanent and in-
dependent niinstrel organization. The
New Canaan Messenger says of their per-
formance in that town :—
00. F Minstrels, of Norwalk, gave a
very good performance in Raymond’s Hall,
Wednesday evening, before a good audi.
ence. The attempt ofa few disgruntled
persons in the Co. to injure this perform-
ance by inserting a card in this paper last .
Week only served as an advertisement.
Tire Norwalk boys, for amateurs, did
much better than was expected of them,
and presented a very fine appearance up-
on the stage in part-first, We think they
were well satisfied with their reception,
and our people were well pleased With
what they received as an equivalent for
the price of admission. The end men and
Hen. Matheis were immense, and Nash's
club swinging was much admired.
Norwalk Chronicler