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The hatting trade is lively.
Thirty deaths were reported in town, last
month.
Mr. and Mrs. Eversley Childs spent
Sunday in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bissell, of Brook-
lyn. spent Sunday in town.
Mr. O. T. Hungerford, of Hartford,
visited friends in town on Thursday.
Henry Stanton is quite ill with pneu-
monia, at his home on Orchard street.
Miss Woodward will entertain the East
and West avenue Whist Clubs next week.
Co. C, of the Fifth battalion, Bridgeport,
has been disbanded for the good of the ser 7.
vice.
Edward Hoyt goes to Stamford to. ac—
cept a position with the Yale & Towne
company.
. James Charlton, a former resident 0
this place, died on Blackwell’s Island,
yesterday.
The engagement of Miss Lillian Sher-
man and Dentist James C. Ncwkirk, is
announced.
Miss Fannie Stanley returned on Wed—
nesday from a protracted visit to the
national capital.
Mrs. S. B. S. Bissell and Mrs. Charles
Betts expect soon to visit the beautiful
city of Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Bissell and fam-
ily will occupy the Bishop house on Mott
avenue after April 1st.
The annual convention of the Prohib-
itionists (if this county will be held in
South Norwalk to-day.
Jeremiah chdes died at his home in
Wilton, Sunday, aged 78 years. Burgess
Sloan is his grandson.
W. F. DcKlyn has bought the Seymour
Curtis’ place on Mott avenue, and will
occupy it after April lst.
Mr. Edward B. Perry, the celebrated
blind pianist, gave a recital at Mrs. Mead’s
school Friday evening.
Conductor Cornstock now runs his old
train on the Danbury & Norwalk division
—-the evening mixed train.
Stamford is following the excellent
example recently set by Norwalk, in the
formation of a board of trade.
The D.‘&N., railroad station is to be
lighted by the Norwalk and South Nor-
walk Electric Light Company.
Some of the boys of Stamford are
arranging to give a minstrel performance
in that town and New Canaan.
A ten hour square heel and toe walking
match will beheld in the Town Hall. Stam-
ford, on Washington’s birthday.
Last Sunday, Rev. C. E. Torrey com-
menced the fourth year of a very success-
ful pastorate at the Baptist church.
On Wednesday evening, in East Nor-
walk, Rev. C. M. Pegg united in marriage
Charles Weed and Miss Sadie Phillips.
The members of the Pioneer Hook and
Ladder company will elect their officers
for the coming year to-morrow evening.
-—A good second-hand Singer sewing
machine, in first class order, for sale
cheap. Mrs.'W. E. Buxton, 68 Wall st.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Bishop and family,
Who have been spending the past month
in the City, returned home Saturday last.
The Rev.Mr.Atwood,who drives on the
Winnipauk horse car line, has moved his
family from Main street to North avenue.
The Court of Burgesses have settled
Michael Sheedy’s claim of $500 against the
borough for the loss of , a horse, for $150,
The Broom Maker of Carlsbad drew a
7 good sized audience to Music Hall Satur—
1 day night to witness an excellent perform-
ance. . .
Dr. G. G. Hitchcock, brother of Dr.
Dexter Hitchcock, of this place, is dan-
gerously ill at his home in South Hadley,
Mass.
The funeral of Van Colegrovc,:son of
Officer Colegrovc, of South Norwalk, was
held on Wednesday. Members of Heine’s
and Glover’s band attended, the remains
being . escorted to Riverside cemetery
with muffled drums.
At Music Hall, this Wednesday evening,
Will be held the first annual ball given by
Mayflower Hook and Ladder and Bose
company. '
Austin’s foundry, situated on Honnecker
Terrace, is so crowded with orders that
a night gang as well as a day gang, is
employed.
The Virginia house of delegates has
passed a stringent bill making railroad
companies responsible for injuries sustain-
ed by employcs.
La grippe has made Mrs. D. Ickers, of
Columbus. Ohio, a widow at the tender age
of fourteen years, after a wedded bliss of
scarcely three weeks.
The Rev C. M. Selleck preached a
beautiful sermon at St. Pan’s ohm-ch last
Sunday morning. The Rev.5Mr. Curson
preached in the CVening.
Revs. J. A. Biddle and Homer N. Dun-
ning officiated at the funeral of Miss Isa-
bella Guyer, daughter of T. B. Guycr, of
Roton Hill, last Saturday.
Rev. C. E. Torry has extended an invi-
tation to the Norwalk Fire Department to
attend the regular scrvrces of the Baptist
church on Sunday evening next.
flConrad Engel, of this place, and Miss
Katherine Sommers, of South Norwalk,
were married Monday evening. The
groom is a well known tonsorial artist.
The youngest millionaire in New York:
if not in the world, is Marshall Roberts,
son of the late Marshall 0. Roberts, who
is worth $5,000,000, and only ten years
old. -.
' The funeral of Jehial Rockwellfwhb
died on Friday, was held Monday after;
noon, Rev. C. M. Selleck officiating.
Deceased was awell known blacksmith
in town. M _,-,__-.
Prof. W.G. Newel'l, who has conducted
alarge dancing class in Music Hall the
past season, has arranged to have a class
exhibition and reception next Friday
evening. _
While a funeral procession was passing
this Office last week, a mourner, in a
paroxysm of grief, smashed one of the
glass doors out of the coach in which he
was riding. a
A stock company composed of Bridgeport
and Boston men has leased the factory for-
merly run by Brown & M cCannu, in South
Norwalk, and will manufacture a cheap
grade of hats. ~___W
The marriage of Mr. Charles B. Read,
son of Hon. D.'M. Read, of Bridgeport,
and Miss Eleanor Atkinson, of the same
city, will take place on Thursday evening
of next Week.
Company D tendered to Douglass Fow-
ler Post a complimentary reception and
bean bake at the Armory on Thursday
evening, which was a most enjoyable
social affair. __
The efforts to Ariicricanize the Chinese
seem about as futile as the attempts to
solve the race problem. The heathen still
persist in starting their New Year by pay-
ing all their debts.
The Housatonic Railroad Company has
placed an order with the Rogers’ Locomo-
tive Company, for five new engines for use
upon the main line and branches of the
Housatonic system.
The new Southis booming with an ac-
tivity which permits the hope that in time
it will adopt the other half of the epigram-
matic advice to raise more cotton and less
of the infernal article.
A Putnam constable advertises that he
is willing to pay $25 for “Two Boy
Burglars.” He can get all he wants of
them in Bridgeport. where the supply is
far in excess of the demand.
By a singular coincidence Editors Betts
and Wade were inspired with the same
idea, of burlesquing the New York Sun-
day papers’ suburban illustratcd biogra—
phical correspondence, last Saturday.
Raymond Bros., of South Norwalk, are
distributing a handsome calendar among
their patrons. It is published by the Law-
rence Cement Co., which firm is represent-
ed in this town by the Messrs. Raymond. .
Some unprincipled Democrat has started
the story that Wanamaker was at one
time in his life addicted to writing poetry.
There is nothing too mean for a Democrat
to accuse a Republican Officeholder of
doing—Kansas City Globe.
The annual state convention of the Sons
of Herman was held in South Norwalk
last week. Fourteen lodges were repre-
sented by forty-seven delegates, and a
number of the officers of the Grand Lodge
were present.
The gross earnings of the New York &
New England railroad for December are
as follows: $473,265; increase, $43,396.
For the quarter, December 31, gross
$1,502,960, increase $87,096, net $575,636,
increase $78,956. '
Abold burglar burgled the Ridgefleld
depot last Wednesday and stole about
$40. He was captured after an exerting
chase ina swamp near Cannons, where
he threw all the money away when he
saw escape_was impossible.
The piano-forte lecture recital given by
Mr. Edward Baxter Perry at Mrs. Mcad’s
school, Hillside, on Friday evening last,
was one of the most enjoyable musical
feasts of the season. A large company of
music lovers was in attendance.
Wm. H. Malay, a well known Bridgeport
letter carrier committed suicide Monday, by
cutting his throat with a razor. He was 47
years of age, a veteran of the war, and had
been a letter carrier since the inauguration
of the free delivery syztem in that city.
Last Sunday morning, at the First
Congregational church, the Dr. Noble
preached on “ The Ministry of Tribula-
tion.” In the evening, his theme was, “A
Noble Character—How can it be Achiev-
ed,” the sermon being of especial interest
to young people.
Henry M. Copp, of Bridgeport, a war
veteran, after working years to establish
his claim to a pension, and finally succeed-
ed, did not live to enjoy it. He died sud-
denly at his store on Wednesday, the
same day the news came that his pension
had been granted.
Attention is called to a card in thisissue
addressed to the ladies from S. T. Taylor,
of New York, stating that Mrs. J. L.
Gedney will be at the Mahackemo Hotel,
South Norwalk, Tuesday, February 11th,
for a short time to teach their celebrated
system of dress cutting.
A quarterly meeting will be held in the
A. M. E. Church, Rev. S. P. Shepard,
pastor, next Sunday, love feast at 10.30 a.
m., preaching at 3 p. m., sacramental ser-
vice at 7.30 p. m. Rev. T. B. Geda, P.
E., and Rev. W. N. Berry will be present.
All are cordially invited.
President Oliver E. Wilson and Vice-
President John H. Lee, of the Board of
Trade, will leave for Winsted to-day,
taking part this evening in a board of
trade banquet at the Hotel Andrews.
They expect to return with a good many
pointers of benefit to the local board.
By means of Nellie Bly, the New York
World has demonstrated the fact that a
cultured and refined lady can travel
around the world without hurt or moles—
tation. Willthe World now try the ex—
periment of sending Nellie around a couple
of New York blocks and see what luck
she will have ?——Bn'dgeport News.
Electrimty is the out-door light of the
future. The naptha lamps must go.—
Hartford Post.
Aye; but there’s the rub. Several
times out of a few, the internal things
won’t go.
At a special meeting of the Norwalk
club held at their rooms last week Tuesday
evening, to consider the matter of lighting
the rooms by electricity, there was con-
siderable discussion, and the matter was
referred back to the board of directors
who were to report last evening.
Among other attractions at the meeting
of Fair-field county Prohibitionists at South
Norwalk, Wednesday. February 5th, will
be Prof. Dickie, chairman of the national
executive committee, who is to be present
and deliver an address. A good attend-
ance is urged, as the meeting is to be im-
portant. Several from this town will
probably attend.—Newtown Bee.
Selectman Franklin A. Tolles is soon to
occupy his new house on Chapel street,
City. On Wednesday evening he and his
wife were given a party at their present
home on South Main street. It was a
decidedly pleasant affair and a happy
finale to a many years’ residence at his
present home.
The committee appointed by the board
of trade on Monday evening, to collect
and compile statistics relative to Norwalk
and her advantages and industries, should
have included General Charles Olmstead.
Atwenty years term of service as post.
master" in a town ought to qualify a
man to speak with a degree of confidence
on the amount, diversity and character of
the business carried on in that town.—
Record. ,
Rev. Archibald Wheaton, of the South
Norwalk Baptist church, was given a
reception in the church parlors Wednes-
day evening. H. M. Prowitt read an
original poem, remarks were made by
Revs. Torrey and Biddle, and there was
vocal and instrumental music by Mrs. C.
F. Bontwell and the Misses Willard and
Vosburg. Miss Guy gave a pleasing rec-
itation.
. The new night policemen found, on their
first Saturday night of duty, that, not-
withstanding the general depression of
business in nearly all other branches of
industry, there is considerable animation
in their especial line, for last Saturday
night, between “scrapping matches” and
hilarious drunks at unseemly hours, they
found abundant opportunity for the exer-
cise of their official authority.
Connecticut pensions z—Original, Miles
S. Farlin, Danbury; Orville A. Root, Meri-
den; Charles Leyerzaph, New Haven;
William Chibbery,’ Moodus; Charles F;
Chapel, Uncasville; Adolphus Moflit,
J ewett City; William H. Day, Salem ; Elias
N. Osborn, Danbury; Henry M. 'Copps,
Bridgeport ; Abel Steele. Wethersfield;
Mary, widow of Otis F. Luce, SouthMan-
chester; Maria, widow of Charles T. Lind-
sey, New Haven ; Anna, widow of John
Boehm, New Haven.
An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests.
' N ORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1890.
.i's‘ThC pastors, Sunday School superin-
tendents, teachers and workers of the
various Sunday Schools in Norwalk and
vicinity are to meet in the Sunday School
rooms of the Methodist church, Norwalk,
on Monday evening, February 10th, at
7.45 o’clock, for the discussion of ways
and means to the furtherance of Sunday
School interests. Mr. W. H. Hull, State
Superintendent, and other prominent
leaders in this department of Christian
work will be present and address the
meeting.
The brother of President Harrison’s
pr’mate secretary, :Mr. A. J. Halford, has
written for the March number of the
Philadelphia Ladies’ Home Journal, an
article on “Mrs. Harrison’s Daily Life in
The White House,” prepared with the
consent and assistance of Mrs. Harrison.
Anew portrait of the lady of the White
House, especially taken for this article,
and a view of the upstairs family rooms
of the Executive Mansion, are among the
illustrations which will accompany Mr.
Halford’s first magazine effort.
Mr. John Carmody, died at his home on
Wednesday morning, after an illness of
several weeks duration of Bright’s disease
and dropsy. He was a native of Ireland
and was over sixty years of age. For
nearly forty years he has been engaged in
the business of a carman, and was respect-
ed by all for his honesty and uprightness.
He- leaves a widow and two sons and two
daughters to mourn his loss. His funeral
was largely attended from St. Mary’s
church Friday morning. Deceased was
at one time an active worker in St. Mary’s
T. A. B. Society.
The Superior Court has discontinued the
following Norwalk cases: S. E. Olmstead,
vs. T. L. Sanford, etx. Court list,——Leon-
ard & Son vs. Thomaston Water 00.;
Franklin A. Tolles vs. Charles A. Ambler,
&c.; Esther M. Lockwood vs. George A.
Lockwood; Rose McAlpine (2500. vs. Clar-
ence B. Coolidge; State of Connecticut vs.
J. Fitch Ma‘rlory et. al., Stoddard, Lover-
ing & Co. vs. Clarence B. Coolidge; Mc-
Neely & Co. vs. Clarence B. Coolidge;
Frances KeOgh vs. Daniel Keogh; Isabelle
T. Hallock vs. George W. Hallock; Chris-
tine M. L. Gunnings appeal; Brainard W.
Maples vs. Hart Denton; Charles Lapham
vs. George F. Quintard, et. ux.
The opening of the Spring styles of
domestic wash fabrics took place Satur-
day morning at The D. M. Read 00?
The center tables throughout the main
store were filled with the different pat-
terns, while the shelving was reserved for
sample pieces of each style. This show-
ing is by far ilre largest they have had of
domestic goods, To-day they open the
foreign goods and in these will be found
styles exclusive to this firm, as the selec-
tions and importation orders were given
last Fall. They also opened the embroi-
deries for the coming Spring trade, and in
these will be found the choicest of pat-
terns.
The next regular meeting of the Nor-
walk Christian Endeavor Union, will be
held with the society of the First Congre-
gational church, Norwalk, on Tuesday
evening, February 11th, at 8.30 o’clock.
Rev. Henry A. Davenport, of Bridgeport,
will address the young people, subject,
“Endeavor Crumbs.” Let us have a
grand rally of Endeavor-ere. A cordial
invitation is hereby extended to all so-
cieties of young people in Norwalk and
vicinity whether bearing the name of Y.
P. S. C. E. or not. Our annual pass.
word is, “We are laborers together with
God.” Come one, come all.
Of the celebrated actor, Edward P.
Sullivan, who, supported by Rose Stahl,
will appear in the Opera House next
week, a New York paper says :-—.
Mr. Sullivan, as Jean Renoud, com-
bines with a commanding figure an excel-
lent voice,- and excellent control of it.
His description of the battle of Fontenoy,
in the second'act of the prologue, fairly
carried away his audience, and his work
throughout the play showed a very high
standard of excellence. To Miss Rose
Stahl, who played the parts first of Mad-
eline Renoud and subsequently of Ad-
rienne, scarcely too much praise can be
given. Her conception of a part difficult
in itself was most admirable, and she
gave evidence .of talent which should
carry her high in her chosen profession.
The second young people’s musical of
Norwalk was given by Miss Bessie
Bridge’s, at the residence {of . her parents
on Isaacs street, Friday evening last.
Those present were, May Scofield, May
Adams, Vera Wood, Clara Kellogg,
Bertie Sammis, Hattie McPherson, Julia
Staub, Millie Wilcox, Maude Sherwood,
Mable and Florence Wigham and others.
Pieces were rendered by members of the
club and others present. After refresh-
ments were served, charades were in-
dulged in interspersed with duets etc.,
which were rendered in a very creditable
manner. The entertainment was kept up
till eleven o’clock, all voting it a very en-
joyable affair. These young people have
formed a musical club for mutual im-
provement and social intercourse between
its members and their friends and will
hold entertairiments ' throughout the
season every two weeks. ‘
It is still very generally suspected that
our wide-awake and enterprisrng citizen,
Ed. 0. Keeler, has that “new hotel”
scheme, concealed somewhere about his
person, and will. before huckleberries are
ripe, make it materialize. It is certainly
to be hoped so, for what can be more
ridiculous than to invite strangers here to
view our unrivaled advantages for man-
ufacturing and general business, and then
force them to camp out over night on the
common, because we have no hotel!
Miss Nettie Ball and Mr. Aurelius J.
Meeker were united in the bonds of wed-
lock, at the residence of the mother of the
bride, Mrs. M. Ball, on West avenue, last
week Tuesday evening. Thecercmony was
performed by Rev. Mr. Noble shortly
after 6 o’clock in the presence of the
guests, who were near relatives of the
contracting parties. Aftcrthe ceremony
a bountiful Wedding supper was‘served.
The bride was the recipient of. many
beautiful and costly presents. The happy
couple left for New York on their honey-
moon shortly after supper, and, on Wed-
nesday afternoon, took the steamer
Cherokee for Jacksonville, Florida. Dur-
ing their stay in Florida they will make
Deland their headquarters. They expect
to arrive home next April, and will reside
at the Norwalk Hotel.
Editor Ellendorf, of the Journal, whose
portrait among the Norwalk editors in
the Sunday World two weeks ago, beamed
upon the readers with a “East den gesehn?”
expression of countenance indicating a
desire to dispose of clothing, pants but-
tons, handkerchiefs, etc., “so sheep as
neffer vas,” protests, as he is righteously
entitled to do. thus:
A caricature which purported to be
a “cut” of 'our human face divine horrified
and astonished the reader of last Sunday’s
World in this city. It was a “cut” indeed,
the cut direct. It made us ask, “Is this
us? are we him?” Still. the.cut was no
worse than the geography of the reporter
which located the university of Balls in
the city of Berlin. In spite of all these
physiognomical and geographical errors
we do’not feel very much cut up about
the matter and have some compassion left
for the other victims: of the enterprising
emissary of the World. ‘
We have received from N orwalk. Flori-
da, the following complimentary card, to
our former fellow townsman Lieut. H. E.
Rhoades:
HEADQUARTERS FanMnns’ ALLIANCE,
No. 465.
NORWALK, Fla, Jan. 2d, 1890.
Farmer-’3 Alliance No. 465, of Norwalk
Fla., appreciating the courtesy which
prompted Lieut. Henry E. Rhoades, U. S.
Navy, to deliver before it his deeply in-
teresting and instructive lecture on personal
experiences in the Arctic Regions, wish to
express to him its estimation of the runs-
terly manner in which his subject was
presented; thank him for an enjoyable and
instructive evening; and acknowledge the
kindly courtesy which actuated him. It
is also the wish that Lieutenant Rhoades
should know that he carries back with
him to the busy world the best wishes,
and will be held in kindly remembrance
by every member of our brotherhood. By
order of the Alliance,
ROBERT M. BARD, President.
L. W. KERVAN, Secretary.
This is the wicked way the N. Y. Sun
states it :——
“Gen. Harrison has been busy engaged
since the fourth of fast March in trying to
get a second term by making a‘failure of
his first.”
If Chauncey M. Dcpew and Thomas C.
Platt should really contend for the Senate
somebody would get left. And 'it wouldn’t
be Thomas C. Platt.
Barnum has been giving lectures in Lon-
don for the benefit of the Irish Industrial
Union—and Barnum.
If a man wants an exciting game of
chance, let him deposit his money in a
New York bank to-day and guess what he
will have to-morrow.
District Attorney Fellows of New York
has flunked once more in the hoodle cases.
All District Attorney Fellows needs to
make a pretty-good District Attorney is a
new man in his place.
“It kills an editor to appoint him to
office” asserts an unduly excited exchange.
Yet there are a great many editors who
take their lives in their hands that way.
Judge Van Wyck, of the New York city
court, was arrested, locked up, and fined
for getting drunk at the French ball. The
judge is forty-two years of age and ought
to have known better.
The seventeenth annual meeting of the
Ladies’ Association for Home and Foreign
Work, connected with the First Congre—
gational church, was held on Friday.
An address 0: “Home Land Work” was
given by Mrs. J. A. Biddle, of South Nor-
walk ; “The Foreign Field,” by Mrs.
Melville E. Mead, of Norwalk ; “My Mis-
sionary 'Creed,” by Mrs. T. K. Noble, and
extracts from letters from Rev. Frederick
J. Curtis, of Japan, were also read. The
following resolutions were passed in ref—
erence to the sudden death of one of its
members :—
WHEREAS, God in His all-wise Providence
has so suddenly taken from us one dear sister
and co-worker, Mas. Josnrn C. RANDLE,
Resolved, That in her cheerful disposition.
her energy and enthusiasm, her fulfillment of
of any duty connected with the church she
loved, her charity for all in which she had won
from her pastor the title of a “happiness
maker,” we do fully realize the great loss we
have sustained by her removal and desire in
this way to show our appreciation of her as a
member of the Ladies’ Association since its
first formation.
Resolved, That we tender to her immediate
family and to her brothers and sisters our
slncerest sym athy, and pray God that He will
bestow upon t cm the spiritual comfort they
so much need in this their hour of trial.
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR
NUMBER 6.
People with hobbies are calculated to
do considerable mischief in this world.
The New York Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children succeeded in pre-
venting the appearance of twelve children
in the production of Bluebeard, J r., in
that city. The children would have been
on the stage, about ten minutes each even-
ing and earned $5 per week. They would
have been well cared for by competent at-
tendants, and as one of the mothers of the
proscribed little ones explained, this
money would have enabled them to have
good, warm winter clothing which they
will now be compelled to go without.
All lovers of good music should attend
this evening the opening entertainment in
the series of entertainment to be given by
the Young Men’s Christian Association
during the presentzwinter and spring for
the purpose of raising funds with which
to furnish the proposed new rooms, the
association expect to add to their present
quarters. The opening entertainment
Will be a concert by Foster’s celebrated
New York Stars andgwill consist of solos,
duets, whistling solos and humorous
recitations. The company} have a great
many ;very fine testimonials from other
associations who have used them and‘ the
programme that is to} be rendered here
this evening is one of the finest. Tickets
for the course of threefentertainments,
including reserved seats, are one dollar,
and single tickets 35 Ct'lJtS. The Opera
House should belcrowdcd.
Sunday evening, just after the shades of
night had fallen, the di n, uncertain light
of a tallow dip might have been seen
flickering on the stoop of Kellogg’s gro-
cery store, at the head of Belden avenue,
where half a dozen boys of tender age
were congregated and deeply engrossed in
a game of draw poker at ten Cents a cor-
ner. The game had progressed to an ex-
citing stage. and had approached one of
its numerous climaxes, where a confident
player had “seen” tire-blnfler and gone
him ten cents better and been “cal-ed,”
wlien,--after?a hand of three kings and a
pair of aces was about to scoop the pot,.a
gruff voice remarked that the ace of
clubs was higher than that, and the
burly form of Ofliccr Gormley, who
had come upon the scene unawarcs,
and his capacious hand scooped in the
pot. which contained about 75 cents. The
kids wilted instantly and pleaded for mer-
cy, and were assured by the officer that,
while they would not be arrested this time,
he was simply acting under orders to
hunt up the custom of gambling at that
spot, and would take in every mother’s
son of Eliem if he ever caught them there
’again. The boys gave their solemn word
of honor that it would never occur again,
and for that reason their names are not
given in this paragraph.
The benefit performance of “The Phce-
nix,” by Milton Noble’s excellent company
under the auspices of the Phoenix Engine
company, on Friday evening, drew a
large and select audience to the Opera
House. The play was admirably pre-
sented, and frequent and prolonged ap-
plause attested the appreciation of the
audience. At the close of the performance
several of the actors accepted the invita-
tion of the Engine company, to repair to
the engine house for a little season of
social enjoyment and some refreshments.
They had hardly settled themselves in the
luxurious chairs and sofas of the Phoenix
parlor, when, as if by a pre-conceived
arrangement to give their guests the full
benefit of a firemcn’s exhibition, the
alarm of fire was sounded, and the fire
fighters sprang to their feet, grabbed the
rope to their hose cart, and whisked out
into the street and off to the scene of the
confiagration at the Arnold foundry before
the actors had hardly time to realize what
was taking place. It took but a short
time to extinguish the fire, and the fire-
men returned, wet and exhausted, to the
engine house, where the festivities were
continued as if no interruption had-oc-
curred. The rest of the evening was
passed in pleasant social intercourse, the
visitors contributing to the enjoyment of
the occasion with songs, recitations. rema
iniscences, etc. Mr, H. D. Clifton the
“Irish Lawyer” of the Phoenix drama,
recited most impressively a. classic Greek
war poem. Mr. Clifton, some 25 or 30
years ago, was a boarding pupil at Rev.
C. M. Selleck’s school in Norwalk, and to
this day treasures copies of the old GA-
zirrri: which he has preserved since his
schoolboy days in this town. Mr. L. R.
Willard, the detective and journalist of
the play, recited Shakespeare’s Seven
Ages of Man, which was received with
great applause. Mr. Clifford Dempsey,
who so artistically portrayed the heavy
villain of the play, was also present, and
made many friends by his versatility and
genial qualities. Mr. Dempsey is 9. Con-
necticut boy, having been bornin Winsted
about 23 years ago. He is an actor of
exceptional ability and has a promising
future ahead of him. The party at the
engine house broke up at a-late hour,
after a season of most enjoyable festivity,
and the entertainers and guests parted
with the mutual conviction that everybody
, was a royal good fellow.
Norwalk Chronicler