VOLUME XC.
ESTABLISHED 1800
An Enterprising Republican. Journal, especially devoted to Local “Newsi‘iand Interests.
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Y LOCAL ITEMS:
Mrs. LeGrand Betts is visiting friends
in Waterbury. '_
Mrs. Dr. Allen, of New Milford, is visit-
ing in Norwalk.
Mr. and Mrs. John Spencer have re-‘
turned from Florida. ‘
The new dock back of Hill’s lumber
yard is nearly completed.
Mrs. A. B. Coley, of Norwalk, visited
Bedding friends last week.
We are obliged to curtail our correspon-
dence somewhat this week.
The Ass Smith property on East avenue
is to be sold at auction on Thursday.
Miss Clara Street, of New York, is
visiting at her uncle’s, Mr. C. T. Leonard.
G. B. Bunnell, the showman. and wife,
of New Haven, were in town on Sunday,
James Nolan, of Danbury, was robbed
byahighwayman in New York on Sat-
urday.
The opinion prevails among those who
believe it, that the backbone of winter is_
broken.
Minot Partrick contemplates moving his
family soon from East Norwalk to the
torough. ,
Mr. J. E. Thompson, of Ogdeiisburgli,
. Y., visited Norwalk friends on Friday
and Saturday.
Comstock Brotliers’ handsome store is
now gloriously illuminated with incan-
. escent lights.
Miss TreadWeli has returned from New
I. ilford, where she had been spending
everal weeks. ..
Anumber of Norwalkers attended an
njoyable social gathering at Greenfield
: ill, on Wednesday.
The ever genial Col. Chas. A. Converse,
IfNOK'WiCh, with his wife, visited Nor-
'- alk friends last week.
Ex-Ofiicer Al. DeForest is doing some
laborate work in the paper hanging and
ecorating line nowadays.
A mandolin and guitar orchestra of
:panish students made sweet music in the
labile places Monday night.
——Mr. B. S. Blascer is to sell his stock
f crockery at auction on Thursday,March
7th, afternoon and evening.
Tully & Sheehan opened their new
' hoe store on Main street Saturday, with
n encouraging boom of patronage.
001. Frank S. Roberts, of the Norwalk
l ilitary school, has purchased the James
I . Selleck place on East avenue.
Bethel has introduced Danbury .gas,
nd now gets her lighting juice as well
5 her fighting juice from Beantown.
Miss Angie Hull, and her brother Fred,
f Danbiiry, haVe been visiting their
ncle, J. 0. Collins, at the American
ouse. __ ..
It is by no meansa cheering assurance
If local prosperity, to say that our under-
wkers have all the business they can
ttend to. '
The New Preston correspondent of the
' itchfield Enquirer says that the contract
as been closed for the branch road to War-
, usug lake.
Miss Mead’s-school, Hillside, will give
reception 'on Friday evening, when a
i ch programme of enjoyable attractions
: ill be presented.
, Miss iInez Keeler, daughter of Land-
E rd E. O. Keeler, of the New Hotel, has
rted for Chicago and other points west,
r arm-extended visit.
Dr. and Mrs. Noble are moving into
' eCongregational parsonage this week,
d their regular Monday receptions will
" - omitted for two weeks.
The cannon‘ading is still carried furious-
on by the dynamiters who are blasting
l t the rocks on Water street for Plait
ice’snew business block.
In r. and Mrs. William Williams, of
nbury, were found unconscious in their
0 Saturday morning,_gasphyxiated by
.51 gas. Both will'recoyer.
‘Don’t you think curl-doctors are an
usually Iliandsome lot.; of men ?" said
e Norwalk girl, to another. "Yes,
cod 1 do; some of them are (just kill-
” .
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Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Talcott will move
next week from their present residence on
Belden Avenue to No. 4 Union Park.
George 'I‘. Merrill, recently sexton of St.
Paul’s church, who disappeared a couple
of months ago, has not yet returned, and
his whereabouts are still unknown to his
family.
A tramp who said his name was Win.
Buckley, and his home Ohio, was arrested
Wednesday, and fined $7. and costs by.
Justice Austin. He is now jailed at
Bridgeport.
An East Norwalk youngster defined the
word “unsophisticated,” as “being stran.
gled with coal gas.” He said his mother
had it once when she left the lids off the
stove on going to bed. .
Ohio’s secretary of state asks ’to have
his own bond. increased, and the city
comptroller at Pittsburg has filed a protest
against an increase in his salary. Why,
what is this world coming to?
The telephone company have shut down
on dead-head press messages. The cor.
respondents who so copiously furnished
mis-information -to the daily papers,
worked the privilege to death.
F. S. Banks, contractor,'is making. ex.
tensive repairs on the Gregory place on
Belden Hill, and will transform it into a
delightful summer residence for the heirs
of the Gregory estate.
George D. Rogers, of Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, at one time keeper of the
Brunswick “Hotel,” is~iu town with a
view to finding a ina'rketfor ice, to be
shipped from New Hampshire.
The injunction restraining the Consol-
idated road from building a covered
platform on land near the Miller & Strick-
land property in Bridgeport, has been
dissolved, and the platform will be built.
[The annual meeting of ,the Connecticut
Press Association will be held in Hartford
on Good Friday. The business meeting
will be held at the rooms of the Hartford
Press Club, and a banquet will be served.
_,___.
Gus. Franke is making elaborate im-
provements in his barber shop, Gaznrrn
building, including a new floor, new and-
elegant paper on the walls and ceiling,
and the introduction -' ’o’f "incandescent
lights. ,
Volunteer Hose company, of East Nor-
walk, will give an entertainment in Ran-
dall’s Hall, on Wednesday evening, April
9th. There will be dramatic, literary and
musical features and a good time gen-
erally.
As we are not likely, at this late stage
of the season, to have any more frosts
heavy enough to blight the cobblestones
in our street pavements, they are being.
uncovered by the hoe brigade of the
street cleaning bureau.
Mena Ambler, employed at the Loans-
bury Mathewson shoe ,manufactory, was
credited with 180 votes in Sunday’s
World, in the contest for___the gold and
diamond necklace. Make it not less
than 400 by next Sunday.
The GazE‘i‘Tk has more‘and better fa-
cilities for turning ' outf‘fi'ob printing of
every description than any other printing
ofiice in town, and for excellence of work-
manship, promptness and reasonable
prices, it leads them all.
—Do not sign your initials only if you
expi ct to receive the cook book mailed
free by the Cleveland Baking Powder Co.,
81 and 83 Fulton street, New York. Sign
your full name and address, and the book
will beforthcoming at once.
The Bridgeport Scientific Society has
recently been presented an Indian’s scalp
from Mexico. It was sent by a philan-
thropist who was moved to pity by the
Park City’s everlasting and unavailing
efforts to scoop Norwalk’s scalp.
John Bray returned here from Prov-
idence on Saturday to arrange for the
removal of his family and household
effects to that city. The family will
. go to-day and Mr. Bray will probably
remain till the early part of next week.
The fourth annual donation of the A.
M. E. church, for the benefit of the Rev.
S. P. Shepard, will be held in the Athen-
zeum to-morrow (Thursday) evening. The
committees in charge have arranged for
an enjoyable evening of social festivity.
Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson
has caused 31,000 Democratic postmasters
to walk the plank during the year he has
been in office. The work of correcting
the mistake the country made in electing
a Democratic President goes bravely on.
“The Two Barneys,” to be presented in
the Opera House 'tliis (Wednesday) even-
ing is highlyspoken of by the press, and
will undoubtedly tickle our people who
attend. A grand street parade will be
made at noon, with “music by the band.”
“Paul” the Gaznm’s Westport corre-
spondent, sets forth thisweek the advan—
tages that present themselves to the prom
jectors .of a prospective fair and cattle
show in Westport, to fill the aching void
"created by the sad demise of the‘Norwalk
anniial‘ fair. ,- ,
numbers.
Francis L. Aiken, aged 71 years, died
at his home in Silver Mine Sunday. He
was a well "known citizen and a prominent
and zealous worker in the cause of tem-
perance, a cause which loses a sturdy
prop in his death. -
Bob Adams opened his Saloon in the
old Merrill building on the bridge yester-
day. He has put in entirely new fixtures
and re-m‘odeled the interior of the store
beyond recognition. His brother Will
will be aesociated with him.
On Wednesday evening, as Mrs. E. C.
Quintard was stepping from the evening
train north, at the Catherine street station,
the train started and she was thrown vio—
lently to the ground, sustaining injuries
to her spine which will keep her confined
to her room for several weeks.
A western firm have been distributing
yard sticks and cakes of soap about town
this week. It is said that at the Italian
barracks the soap was utilized in soup
and the yard sticks used to cook it.
There were others to whom the proper
use of the soap was apparently as foreign
as to those at the barracks—Record,
Mrs. Deborah Dann celebrated her 92d
birthday at‘her home in East Norwalk
Tuesday. There was'a large assembling
ofherdescendantsin honor of the occasion.
She gave particularly bright ocular and
oral demonstration of the happiness it
afforded her ‘to greet those present.
Mr. Lucius Tuttle has been appointed
general manager of the Consolidated road,
a positidn which was created for him,
" but which is practically a continuance of
the office of general superintendent, lately
abolished. Mr. Tuttle’s salary, it is said,
will be $12,000 and he begins his duties
May 1st. -
Louis Potter’s temperance billiard and
pool parlors in the rooms lately vacated
by the Star Shoe Store folks. are the finest
in arrangement and equipment in this
region, and have enjoyed from the opening,
a phenomenal run of business. It very.
evidently fills a long felt want for an
excellent class of our young men.
Miss Nora Wallace, who had made New
York her home for some years past,
daughterof Wm. wallacc of Norwalk,
7died'in‘New York’on Saturday and was
brought-here for burial. on Monday. The"
funeral took place at St. Mary’s church
yesterday forenoon, the cortege being one
of the largest seen here . in some time.
Deceased was 32 years-old.
—-—i———
We have seen Norwalk’s minstrel talent,
and on Thursday afternoon we had the
pleasure of seeing its circus talent. which
"Smithy” says “downs ’cm all.”—-New
Oanaan Messenger.
What does this mean? Have some of
our youngsters been down there and had
their horses run away with them? or
what?
At present it is by no means certain
that there will be any World’s Fair at all.
—Journal.
Then what’s the matter with agitating a
revival of the Fairfield County Agricul-
tural Society’s cattle show on the Norwalk
Fair Grounds for 1892 ? The world should-
not be compelled to struggle along With-;
out some kind of gomgs-on in that year.
Norwalk via New Canaan Messenger :—
Mr. A. H. Hoyt, of Norwalk, secured the
spindle wagon rallied off at the Hotel.—
Mr. Charles A. Acton, of Norwalk, has
sold to Mr. Francis Snyder, of the same
place, his property in this town known as
the "John Abbott place.” on Canoe Hill.
——Salem Lodge, No. 36, A. O. U. W..
held a grand good meeting at their room
‘Tuesday evening. Visiting brothers were
present from South Norwalk, New Haven
and Waterbury. The order is growing in
A bustling Irish woman went into Smith
Brothers’ shoe store h few days ago and
made a purchase. After the transaction
Mr. Smith remarked to her: “You are
entitled to a guess on the number of beans
in the jar, which gives you a chance of
‘ winning the piano.” The woman looked
at the jar containing” about two quartsof
beans shook her head and Whisked out of
the door, remarking as she went: “Oh,
the divill no. I haven’t time to count
thim.” »
The project of inducing the Blackmore
heater manufacturing concern, of Canada,
to locate in Norwalk, seems likely to fall
through. The company gave our board
of trade to understand that if $10,000 of
the stock of the concern would be taken
by local capitalists, the works would be
removed here. Err-Warden Coolidge has
pretty thoroughly canvassed the moneyed
'men of the borough and succeeded in
securing pledges to the amount of $4,500,
and there the thing sticks.
At just six o’clock Saturday afternoon,
during a brief lull in the storm, there was
a sudden and vivid flash of lightning,
followed by a single clap of thunder.
This unexpected exhibition 'set the proph-_
ets'to prophesying that it was . going to
clear up right away, that it was geing to
rain' harder than ever right aWay, that it
was. going to clear of! cold, warm,.
medium, rare, .well done, and, in short,
weather waspromised "to be served up in
every style and variety. :It continued,
however, to drizzle-drank right along,
just the same as it did'before. ‘ I
Birthday parties seem to be of quite
. frequent occurrence among the little
folks. Last week Saturday the four-year-
old daughter of Judge Austin entertained
her little friends in a. very charming man-
ner, while a few days previous the two
bright little sons of Mr. John S, Seymour
gave a delightful birthday party to about
twenty-five of their young friends.
Commenting on the borough ice dealers
harvestinghce on a recent Sunday, on the
principle,"“The better the day the better
the ice,” the Mechanies’ilournal, of South
Norwalk remarks :—
So that is your theology is it? That’s
the kind of christians you are in the bor-
ough?'~'7 Well, now, that would not do
down our way. We would eat our butter
next summer with a spoon, we would feed
our babies on sour milk, we would eat
meat in the last stages of—consum tion
before we would use one ound 0 ice
harvested on the Sabbath Bay! We are
good, we are! And you’ll go to the place
where you’ll want ice a good deal more
than you do‘now !‘ '
Brother Hoyt, managor of Music Hall,
datewith the great Gilmore and his world
renowned band, for a grand matinee per—
formance at Music Hall on Friday, April
11th. ‘ This will be unquestionably the
choicest and greatestmusical event of the
season and cannot fall of drawing an audi—
ence that will fill the house. Gilmore’s
fameas'an unequalled musical director is
unboundpd, and thesimple announcement
of his appearance here, with his army of
artists, should be a sufficient advertise-
ment. _
' Frank B. Taylor has gone South for his
health. He will locate for a time in Chat-
tanooga,‘ Tenn., where he intends to
engage-in .some kind of business. George
N. Morgan, his partner, says Frank will
manufacture southern ice for northern
consumption—Standard. ,
The genial detective has a host of
friendsin this section who will regret that
failing health compels him to seek a more
cOngenial climate, and who earnestly
hope he may be speedily and permanently
benefited "by the change, and return
feeling "just as young as he used to be.”
Meantime, what will his Siamese twin
brother, George Morgan, do for a play.
mate?
The “surprise reception” given last,
Friday evening-by the King’s Daughters,
at the residence of Mrs. Charles Betta,
was a grand success both socially and
financially. There were more than 150
people present, and they were most
pleasantly entertained. Mr. Hanford, the
florist, very kindly lent his aid, banking
the staircase with his beautiful palms, and
decorating the parlors and the tea table
with orchids and other flowers, a cour-
tesy which was highly apprecmted by the
King’s Daughters. This is the first of a
series of entertainments to be given the
coming months by theivarious circles of
King’s Daughters connected with the
First Congregational church.
“Them beans” at Smith Brothers’ shoe
stere,.were counted by four reporters on
Mondayevening,.in the presence of an im.
mense ' crowd: The count showed that
the jar. contained 16,323 beans. A canvass
of the list' of1 . guesses, numbering not far
from 5,000, showed that the nearest gues‘s
was made by Frank Foster, the carman,
who named 16,883 as his guess, which was
Only ten out of the Way. He was accord-
ingly proclaimed the lucky winner of the
handsome Keller piano which has been on
exhibitiOn in . the, show window of the
store for several {months, and which is
valued at $350. The guesses ranged from
144' to 1,000,050. There were quite a num».
ber within 24 of the exact number.
'The glanders epidemic is spreading to
an alarming extent among the horses of
the borough and city, and strange as it
may seem, the generality of horse. owners
appear utterly indifferent in the matter of
necessary precautions against the pesti-
lence. “The Gszsr‘ra next, week will pub-
lish? an article .on the subject, from a
capable'and. reliable'authority on the horse
and its diseases,‘setting forth the symp-
‘toms, development and consequences of
this malady and the measures that should
be adopted for its prevention. Readers
of the Gamma who are owners of horses,
should not fail to study it' carefully and
act upon its suggestions for their own
good. ' ,
It is told of a certain well known and
popular cigar drummer from South Nor-
walk, that recently while on his way to
Litchfield, via Shepaug road, he stepped
off the train at Roxbury station long
NORWALK, CONN., "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1890.
It
is entitled to the gratitude of the music -
. lovers of this region for having secured a
enough to telephone to a Litchfield livery-.
man to “have a horse and carriage at the
depot.” When he arrived at Litchfield
he found that preparations had been made
to transport a corpse from the train, and
on casually inquiring cf the agent, “who’s
dead?" be nearly fainted, away when he
was informed that the liveryman had
received a message from Mr. Blank, (him.
self,) ordering “a hearse and carriage.”
The drummer says the next time he tele.
phones a message, he’ll first ask the chap
at the other end if his ears have been dug
out.
—Mr, B. S. Blascer is to sell his 'stock
of crockery at auction on. Thursday,March
27th,.aftcrnoon and evening. .
Miss Maud Sherwood is to give a mu.
sical recital for the entertainment of her
young schoolmates and friends, at her
home on Isaacs street this afternoon.
Miss Maud is a pianist of phenomenal
skill for one so young, and her little
entertainment will be most enjoyable for
those privileged to hear it.
Microscopic writing seems to be the
rage in some parts of the state, especially
in Hartford. Mrs. J. W. Wood, of that
city, has recently written 4,041 words on
one side of a postal card. Mr. S. E.
Lovejoy, of the same city, however, has
eclipsed her feet by writing 4,216 words
on a postal card with an ordinary fine
point steel pen. He wrote without the
fectly legible. To give the reader an idea
of the amount of {reading matter 4,216
words will represent, we may say that it
would fill more than four columns of the
Gamma, set in this type. We hear you
I say, that isaheap of writing to get on
one side of a postal card.
Mr. Charles H. Smith, who resided on
the Westport road, (died on Sunday morn-
ing at his home, death resulting from a
stroke of paralysis which he suffered the
day before. He was 63years ‘of age, a
native of this town. He was a shoemaker
by trade and was well known and respect
ed. A wife and three children survive
him, one daughter being the wife of Fred.
A. Taylor, of the Gazer-rs office, another
the wife of Charles F. Tinckler, of Newark,
N. J ., the only surviving son being Chas.
M. Smith of Norwalk.
falls with a double weight upon the
family at this time while their grief is still
keen over the death of another son, Oscar:
which occurred only two weeks ago. Mr.
Smith’s remains were interred yesterday
afternoon, the funeral taking place at his
late residence.
The field and line officers of the 4th
regiment met in Bridgeport Saturday and
elected oflicers. Lieutenant-Colonel Skin-
ner, of Winsted, was chosen colonel, to
succeed 001. T. L. Watson, now brigader.
general. Major J. C. Crowe, of South
Norwalk, was elected lieutenant-colonel,
and Captain Cornell, of company B.
Bridgeport, was made major. 'lhese are
all in the line of promotion excepting in
the case-of Major Cornell, who was elected
over the head‘of Capt. A. A. Betts, of Co.
F, N orwalk, who has for some years been
the senior captain of the regiment and one
of its most efficient officers, and whbse
claims to promotion were overruled for no
valid reason excepting that when it comes
to a contest between Norwalk and Bridge-
port, the earth and the fullness thereof are
the legitimate property of the latter.
W. T. Peat, of the Beehive restaurant,
was the lowest bidder for the contract for
carrying the mails between Nerwalk and
South Norwalk, his bid being $447 for
the year. Mr. Bennett received $468 last
year. Either one is a ridiculously low
price for the work, which is worth $1,000.
Mr. Peat, however, haying other business
to fallback on, will be able to work in
the job as an outside consideration and
make it pay him. It is to be hoped,
though, he will improve the service, and
be reasonably expeditions in getting. his
pouches up from the city. The public
are tired of waiting from one-half to
three-quarters of an hour after schedule
time for their mails "to smile when there
is no reasonable excuse for the delay
excepting the personal convenience of the
carrier.
The “‘ydt'mg‘ést soldier” continues to bob
up scieneiy in various quarters. The
claims of R. M. Rose, of Norwalk, set forth
in the Gazar'rn, have been published all
over the state and have drawn out other
babies of their regiments. The Hartford
Times trots out Thomas scuthergill, of
South Windsor, who enlisted at 14 years
of age, something over six months older
than Mr. Rose at the time of enlisting, and
a few months older than Fred H. Nichols,
of Bridgeport, who claims to have been
the youngest Connecticut volunteer. The
New Hartford Tribune, commenting on
these infant warriors, says: “Soldiers in
this vicinity have heretofore looked upon
Col. S. B. Home, of Winsted, as the young-
est Connecticut volunteer, but if the above
facts and dates are correct, 001. Home has
at least three rivals now in the state.”
Alfred Knox, a newsboy, was taken in
custody by Chief Buttery on Saturday,
charged with stealing a pocket book con—
taining about $14.50 from shoemaker
John Fritz’s bench. drawer. The boy
stoutly maintained his innocence, and
subsequently the money was found in one
place and the wallet in another, both in-
side the shop. The auspicious actions of
the boy, and all the circumstances of the
case, however, go to show that the boy
had taken the pocket book from the
ing baulked by the vigilance of Mr. Fritz
from replacing the despoiled wallet in the
drawer, had tucked the money in a crevice
near the door and deposited the wallet in
asmall box on a shelf, his'cunning design
evidently-having. been to leave the empty
wallet in its usual, place, to mystify its
owneras to how the money got out.
aid of any glass and- every letter is per-‘
The burden ~
drawer, abstracted a roll of bills, and be- '
When a Westport girl loves a fellow,
she loves him like everything. There’s
no monkey-business about a Westpor-t
girl’s love. if reports be true a couple of
Westport factory girls, who were smitten
with the charms of thesame fellow, had
a prize fight the other night, to settle the
question of which one he might glove.
The report says there were only about a
dozen witnesses to the fight, which took
place in the loft of an old building, and
the battle and the fellow were won by
Miss Annie Loverie, who ended the fight
with a swinging iiglit hander on . the jaw
of her antagonist, Miss MamiciMeDermott.
They fiercely fit, and scratched and bit,
and had some awful tusslcs; they filled .
the air with blood and hair, and crushed
each other’s bustles; they pulled and
hauled, and :kickcdiiand mauled, till ,
Mamie, with aflbellow, (when Annie’s
paw struck on her jaw,) said, “Quit i you
take the fellow.”
Everybody knows what kind of a time
the monkey and the parrot had. - Well.
they’re having just such a season of
festive hilarity in the neighborhood of
Honnecker Terrace. On Sunday Wm.
Meseberg, who keeps a Teutonic restau-
rant ncar the horse car depot, cauSed the
arrest of a German baker who bakes
those famous two-pound lanes for eight
cents at the well known Honnecker
bakery, and who wears cheerfully and
uncomplainingly the impressive name of
Leopold Baumgartner, on a charge of
smashing the windows of the Meseberg
restaurant on Sunday morning, Meat-berg
charging that the damage was done by '
the prisoner because he was turned out of
the place Saturday night for being drunk
and using naughty words. Mr. Baum-
gartner wasjbrought before Judge Austin
Monday and fined in the aggregate $8.76.
He paid up and immediately complained
' of Mesebcrg, alleging that he had bought
his liquor in the restaurant. which has no
license. Chief Buttery and Constable
Dann searched the place and fonnda
bottle of wine and a half bottle of cider,
and Meseberg was arrested for selling.
His case will be heard today. Meseberg,
after giving assurance of his appearance
for trial, proceeded forthwith to give the
ball another kick, and got out another
complaint against Baumgartuer, for
drunken and disorderly (lOlldllci‘ and in-
sulting language in the restaurant, and
the offender was re-arrested, marched up
in front of Judge Austin’s withering frown
the second time, and furnished bonds
in $50 to appear on Thursday for cate-
chism. Even this was not enough, and as
the ball had almost srppped rolling, Meso-
berg gave it another vigorous kick with
both feet by swearing out a third com—
plaint charging Baum-etc. with malicious
damage to property, etc., and the poor
devil was arrested the third time by
Sheriff Toner in a civil action for: dam-
' ages, requiring him to give bonds in the
sum of $100 for his appearance for trial
on the 5th of April. Up to the hour of
going to press this is the last writ issued
in the idotic matter, but it is darkly and
secretly hinted among the Philistines that
there is another hen on.
We have received a communication from
Rev. F. B. Cunz, the .German Lutheran
minister, of South Norwalk, who was
last week arrested and'fined $13 for as-
sault at his boarding house. Mr.,Cunz’s
letter is too long to be of use, but sets
forth that he was unjustly dealt with;
that he did not “swear terribly” as report»
ed, but that the profanity was used by his
landlord, Lyle, the writer admitting that
he himself did “condemn him in the name
of God” for his persecution, but was in no
sense of the term blasphemous. Be dep-
recates the brutality of the officer who
arrested him, and who threatened ‘to
“break my bones,” and thus “frightened
my poor sick boy who had net yet recov-
ered from the exposure incidental: to the .
Johnstown flood, so that he fell under a
severe nervous spasm which may even, ‘
prove fatal.” The trial, says the writer,
was a farce, dictated by malice ands
spirit of persecution, and the penalty was
unjust. Of the merits of the misunder-
standing which brought about the verdict,
we know nothing, as the verdicts ' of the
justice before whom the case was tried,
we believe, are not generally. accepted as
a criterion of the guilt or innocence of the
parties accused, and his process of ju-
dicial reasoning has long since become .a
by-word with the public. Cunz may or
may not have been guilty of a misde-
meanor, technically or in fact. In either
event, the exercise of our much boasted
spirit of Christian sympathy and forbear-
ance would seem to be not'altogether in-
compatible with a little consideration for
an unfortunate, homeless and compara-
tively friendless man, whose mindand
heart are constantly filled with the awful
memories of the Johnstown flood, the
most appalling disaster» of ‘the century,
which swept away and crushed before his
eyes his wife, children, friends, home—-
everything; and ' befOre whose mental
vision the horrible scene is always present.
Some little forbearance with thetpossible
_.sud 'natural irritability of a mind . thus
heavily burdened might surely be found,
even among heathen.
Additional Locals on fourth page.
Norwalk Chronicler