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Johnny Donnelly is now employed at M. Ratchford’s Mrs. Arthur G. Earle is home from Colorado Springs. Mr. David B. Hill sailed yesterday for Europe for a protracted tour. F. Bailwitz has leased the James L. Ambler place on Mott avenue. Ben Bechtel, the barber, is soon to help shave Gus Newman’s customers. George I. anton has been enjoying a business trip through the sunny south. Joe Emmett.’s jamboreein Philadelphia last week wound up in St. Joseph’s Hos— pital. Mrs. William Bearse was given a sur— prise party at her reSidence Wednesday night. Frank Sheldon was fined by Judge Knapp $2 and costs, on Friday, fordrunk- enness. _ __ Force of habit is a great thing. The Vermont democrats have issued a call for a state election. ' The Washington express train is prom- ised again, this time to positively appear en the 20th inst. No more open butcher shops or meat markets on Sunday—by order of the Butchers’ association. The Company F minstiels, of Norwalk; will appear at Stamford on the 23d, and at Westport on the 24th. George S. Raymond, the wanderer, was found in Lewisboro and brought back to his home in Five Mile River. A glance at the Rhode Island election returns would indicate that Providence has trirned its back on the republican party. The American Squadron of Evolution ' has succeeded in introducing “Dancing in the barn” to several ports on the Mediter— ranean. Artist Cornell’s men are decorating the front of Hoyt & Meyers’ place of business with a delightful yellow—a sort of belated horse car color. Putnam HOSe company’s first annual ball will be given this evening in Music Hall. Professor Smythe’s orchestra wil1 furnish music, Such a spirit of municipal reform is regnant in New York now, that politics will not be able to declare its regular serm- annual dividend. Niagara Falls is the latest New York town to join the democratic early spring procession. It is hardly necessary to. add that it went with a rush. The vacant presidency of Mount Hol- ' yoke College, at South Hadley, Mass, has been offered to Mrs. Lizzie Mead, widow ’lof Prof. Hiram Mead, of Oberlin. Lieutenant Colonel James C. Crowe received his appointment Tuesday from Adjutant General Embler, the appoint- ment dating from March 22, 1890. "‘Where is McGinty, sir?” said she. “He’s down beneath the sea,” said he. g‘Why did he go there, sir?” asked she. ‘ For divers reasons,” answered he. The first base ball game of the season will be fought. at 801th Norwalk on Saturday afternoon between the Winni- pauks and the Allingtons of New York. l. The one hundredth anniversary of the organization of the Second Baptist Society lif Danbury, was celebrated on Sunday -ith appropriate and elaborate ceremo- ;. ies. - i The members of Buckingham Post, G. "~. u. are invited, with their wives, to ttend the Post on Wednesday evening f yinvitation of the ladies of the Relief _ orps. . Dr. Knrrmann, of Bridgeport, it is said, i ill sue the Waterbury Sunday Herald , r slander in an article charging the actor with improper conduct with a lady atient. ——_Mr. E. T. Whitney is in company With is son, W. P. Whitney, at 51 Main street. icturcs and framing is their business, 130 crayon portraits. Mr. E. T.’s life ng experience in photography is a guar- ..t,ee of getting truthful portraits. '$ An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially ’ F dev3ted to Local News and Interests. N ORWALK, CONN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16,1890. General Alfred H. Terry now lives in retirementoat his his beautiful home on Hiilhouse avenue, New Haven, 00““- His health is very poor and he goes out very little. It has been discovered that Daniel Webster was at cue time the editor of a college paper. It may require some time, but a map’s sins generally manage to catch up with him. Three freight cars Were smashed up considerably by an engine from Wilson Point, on the H. R. R., at South Norwalk Friday morning, the result of carelessness on the part of somebody. Clarence Smith, the pretty little gentle- man who has for some time clerked at Smith Brothers’ shoe store, on Main street has gone to Burlington, Iowa, to peddle programmes for White’s circus. The prohibition States can always be depended upon to produce new and start— ling fads in dissipation. A young man has just died 'at Dover, N. H., from the effects of drinking Jamaica ginger. On May 1st Company F will be ten years old and they propose to celebrate the occasion. The arrangements are not definitely settled as yet, but there is no doubt of a good time among the boys. The ladies of the Congregational church will give an “orange tea” at the chapel of their church, Friday evening. The pro— ceeds are to be devoted towards the ex— pense incurred in refitting the paronage. The telegraph operators of the Danbury and Nor-walk division of the Housatonic system are ,to give a ball at Cannons Station on the evening of April 17. There have been issued about 150 invitations for the event. Landlord Geliebe, of the Bohemia Hotel, afiirms that the first harbor plunge bath of the season was taken on Sunday by Con Cook, whose boat sneaked out from under him while fishing down near the draw bridge. Grocer Bailwitz, who has learned by a painful personal experience that “misfortunes never come singly,” was thrown from his wagon Thursday evening and considerably shaken up, but not seri- ously injured. Johnny O’Connell, aged 15, employed in the Western Union Telegraph office in Birmingham, was found dead in his bed Tuesday. The cause of his death was paralysis of the heart, caused by excessive cigarette smoking. AVVestei'n editor thinks the First As- sistant Postmaster General is underpaid- Even the fourth-class Democratic post. masters wonder how Mr. Clarkson can afford to put in so much time for the salary he receives ' ~——Finest ever made in town—the “Nor- walk Club” Cigars. A meeting of the property owners likely to be effected by the proposed widening of Wall street was held at the burgesses’ rooms Monday evening. The final result of the meeting will probably be favorable to the widening project. D. S. Nash, the crippled medicine peddler who has for some years been a Lfamiliar figure' throughout Fairfield county, died at his home in Weston on Saturday. of pneumonia, after a week’s illness. He was 47 years of age. The Post says a man drove from Waterbury to Bridgeport on Sunday, a distance of 32 miles, and made“quick time, considering the load that was carried.” That reference to the “load” is very ingeniously put, neighbor Wood. Mrs. J. E. Keeler died at her residence on West Main str'eet, on Sunday morning, the result of a stroke of paralysis sus- tained on Thursday last. Her age was 57 years. The funeral will take place at her late residence this afternoon at'two o’clock. The woman whose strange death caused the police officials to make an investiga- tion, was a Bridgeport woman. She was known in' Bridgeport as Mary Connell, and bad a millinery store at 90 Fairfield avenue. She has three sisters now living there. __ The marriage of Miss Fannie Wilson, daughter of Hon. 0. E. Wilson, to Robert G. Wilson, son of the late J. W. Wilson, Esq., is announced to take place on May 6th, in the Congregational church. The Rev. Dr. T. K. Noble will perform the ceremony. The grand concert of Gilmore’s great band in Music Hall, on Friday afternoon, was, as was predicted for it, the finest musical event of the season. Every seat should have been occupied and Manager lioyt ought to have made a nice pocketful of money out of it. . —-For sale everywhere—“Norwalk Club” Cigars. Smoke no other. The grounds about William Jennings’ place, on Orchard street, are being graded and the two tall and aged pine trees in front of the house have been cut down, ,the .result being marked and pleasing. The premises are now used as an annex to Miss Baird’s school. Marketmen Elbert Adams and Frank Merrill have made a contract for an ice manufacturing machine, which will be put in operation by the first of June, It will be located near the electric light station, whence the power will be obtain- ed, George Simmonds of Bridgeport, was convicted Saturday morning of violating the screen law, and was fined fifty dollars. The police Sunday visited seven saloons and obtained sufficient cvrdence to convict all the proprietors. Warrants have been iisued. ___._.. A meeting of the local ice dealers was held Monday evening, when it was decided not to establish any set price at present, owing to the difference in the various grades of ice which must be procured from different places, making it almost impossible to secure ice of uniform quality. Deputy Sheriff Charles M. Doran of Bethel, was in town yesterday with his hand clenched in the shape of a dull, sick- ening thud, and a desperate gleam in his weather eye. It is suspected that he was on the trail of the villain who put his picture in the World recently in the group of Fairfield deputies. Jessie Hale of Portland left his home last Friday evening, saying he was going for a walk. He did not return and Sunday his body was found in a pond half a mile from his house. He was about sixty years old, and had been despondcnt for two or' three menths. It was doubtless a case of Sir:— cide. The “adjourned sale” of the Asa Smith property on East avenue, advertised to take place yesterday afternoon, called out a crowd of four, including the auctioneer, and after a round of hand-shaking and a season of social intercourse, the gathering dispersed, leaving the auction business, as Auctioneer Mitchell put it, “in statu quo.” The New York authorities have decided to allow representatives of the press associations to witness the electrical departure offmurderer Kemmler. This is a plain violation of the law, but the officials realize the fact that all efforts to secure secret executions would fail, and prefer to have‘llie affair written up in an intelligent and accurate manner. Fully 300 sporting men witnessed ‘an exciting cocking main near Greenwich Saturday night between Norwalk and Mt. Vernon birds. The stakes were $25 on each battle and $250 on the result. Tire Mt. Vernon birds won three on! of five battles. A special battle between a Nor- walk and :1 Stamford bird for a nurse of $100 was won by theNorwallr bird. There was a lively hearing before the county commissioners at South Norwalk Monday, on the matter of granting Jacob Wolf a license for a new saloon to be opened near the South Norwalk post office, on Railroad Square. Lawyer Hurlbutt appeared for the applicant and Capt. Frost for the remonstrants. At this writing no decision has been received. George B. Edmonds, the newly appoint- ed colleetor of the port of Bridgeport, will, as soon as he receives his commission, appoint George E. Melius his deputy collector. This will give the present deputy, George N. Morgan, an opportn- nity to perfect and devote his entire time and attention to booming the pickerel persuader invented by himself and Detec- tive Taylor. -—The debentures of the Middlesex’ Banking Company of Middletown Conn,, are among the safest and most convenient of securities, By a law passed at the last session of the Connecticut legislature, trustees, executors, administrators and guardians, were authorized to invest in them. This class of investors are largely taking advantage of the permission to do so. __ Blifkins says the spring bonnets remind him of the spring sermons, both are so very flowery. He might have added that both display a great deal of labor and thought. It might also be said without disparagement of the .sermons that the bonnet is most likely to keep the average young man awake, when he follows “ that love of a bonnet to the place where the gospel is dispensed With,” as Mrs. Part— ington phrased it. - Judge Austin has fined and costed a number of convivial citizens since our last issue, including John Weston, for a spree on Thursday; Wm. Benedict, who got just drunk and mischievous enough for costs without the fine; John Tierney, for break_ ing the peace and likewise the windows in Holmes & Keelei’s; Jim Burncs, for “monkeying with the buzz-saw" in the way of interfering With the officers who were breaking up a fight near Hanlon’s saloon Saturday night. “Only a Farmer’s Daughter” is booked for the town hall May 4th.—Pittsfield Gall. Possibly the people of Pittsfield would not scruple to attend the theatre on the Sabbath,but we doubt that our young friend Fred G. Mead, who plays Sammy Green, in'Only a Farmer’s Daughter, can be induced to cut up his monkey shines on the stage-on the Lord’s day. :- 'diate Mr, Charles W. Thorn, special organ- izer for the Mercantile Co-Operative Bank, of New York, is at the Norwalk Hotel, where he will be pleased to see any who may desire to learn something of the modus operandi of the bank. Marshall Hapgood was struck by the Gilt Edge express, at Stamford, about 6 o’clock, Friday evening, and was instantly killed. He was crossing over the tracks above the depot when the engine struck him, hurtling him thnty feet into the air. He had been warned that the express was near but gave no heed to cries of danger. He was about fifty-five years old and was watchman at the Stamford depot at one time. Another oldest railroad employe is trotted out by the Bridgeport Post. He is Thomas Burns, a track walker, who has been in the employ of the II. R. R. since 1844,and was a section boss during the first 26 years. He is said to be a remarkably sprightly man for his age, and walks twenty miles every day. He has worked under these road masters :—A. D. Smith, H. Hedden, Churchill, S. Avery, Collier, John Lane, Charles Lane, Samuel Greer and F. C. Clark. The members of Union Chapel. West Norwalk, held a sociable at the residence of Raymond Johnson, I‘liursday evening. Music, dancing and refreshments were enjoyed untilalate hour. A number of young‘ladies and gentlemen were present from this place. Tire affair was announc- ed for Tuesday evening, but was post- poned owing to the unpropritious weather. A like sociable will be held at the res- idence of Lewis Gregory, in West Nor- walk, two weeks from Tuesday evening. It is not often a pastor secs such imme- results from his exhortations as was witnessed in a church not many miles from Norwalk Sunday. The sub- ject of the sermon was “Tithes,” and the dutyof giving to the support of the church. At the close of the services, as the congregation were leaving the church, they were somewhat surprised to find that a hen had strayed into the vestibule and set them all a good example" by depositing an egg as her share of the contribution. The affair caused no end of merriment, and theegg is to be decorated with some appropriate inscriptions and presented to the pastor asan example of the power of eloquence—Sentinel. There Wigs "a misunderstanding at the horse car depot, on Saturday, which brought a couple of pngnacious employes together in a ferocious encounter. Dr. Tim Healey was bottle holder, sponge holder and referee, and the scrimmage would have developed some fine points in pugilism, and made a record for one or both of the combatants if “Pi” Mullen had not deliberately broken it up by turn- ing the hose on the fighters and drenching them both to the skin. The Parlor Rock picnic grounds on the Housatonic road, are being improved for the business of the coming season, which is sure to be large, as manager Harris is even now receiving applications for dates at the rate of three a week. The dancing pavilion is to be enlarged, a long side track is being built at the entrance to the grounds, a $3,000 merry-go-round is to be put in, the/base ball field has been im- proved and all. the buildings on the grounds have been thoroughly renovated and put in first-class repair, ‘ The Knights of Honor, of Bethel, gave a minstrel entertainment, on Wednesday evening of last week, which was attended by a few from Norwalk. The programme was far above the average amateur per- formance, and many of the specialists acquitted themselves in. a manner that would reflect credit upon some profes- sionals. Charles Frendenthal, formerly ' of Norwalk, was a whole show in himself as end man, and his tambourine thumping and facial cortortions were a prominent feature of the entertainment. —-Try the latest and best—“Norwalk Club” Cigar. Danbury New; They have learned away up in Winsted that there is a pros- pect of Danbury securing one of two pro- posed railroads this year, and this is the route the Winsted Leader maps out for it, as an extension of the Shepaug from Hawleyville : It is to start on the Harlem railroad about a mile north of Katonah, and thence run to Danbury, through North Salem and Ridgefield, a distance of fourteen miles, and ultimately to extend to Winsted. The route from Danbury to Harlem was surveyed last summer, and work will be commenced on it this month. As our New Canaan correspondent re- marks, U. Grant Houston was the tramp who was baptized by Dr. Talmage in the river Jordan. It was just such a whim as might be expected to seize just such a character as Houston, whose methods and notions, when at West Norwalk, were, like those of the heathen Chinee, f‘pecu- liar.” Those who enjoyed the privilege of witnessing his performances in this region will not be surprised to learn of , his dive into the Jordan, nor would they be sur- prised or grieved it they were to learn that he had emulated another character in scriptural history, and had himself swallowed by a whale. The Westporter says that Engineer Rider, of Norwalk, with a corps of assistants, was in town making surveys and taking measurements for proposed water works. From their work thus far these facts were learned, viz..—that the sills of the old church on the hill are 93 feet above the door step of the Westporter ofice, while the land at the Adams property on the former Brinkerhoff premises is over 200 feet, and the residence of John Kuhn, at Spring Hill, is 160 feet. The Stamford Advocate says:—-”Mrs. Ferdinand Ward, died at. her home in Stamford, Wednesday evening, at seven o’clock. The cause was acute peritonitis, from which she suffered greatly for forty- eight hours. Previous to the attack she had been in the enjoyment of fair health. She bore the great sorrow of her life in a way that won the sympathy and respect of all who knew her, and her sad and sud- den death is sincerely lamented by her many friends here and elsewhere.” Her husband, who is Serving a ten years’ sentence in Sing Sing state prison, broke down completely on hearing of his wife‘s sudden death. He has yet two years more to serve. Mrs. John Ludford has a copy of the original issue of the Ulster County, N. Y., Gazette, printed January 4, 1800. The paper contains an account of the death and funeral services of Washington. The paper is remarkably well preserved and is a valuable curiosity—Bridgeport Post. We trust the Post has not been imposed upon. The number of the paper referred to was printed in fac simile a number of years after the date of its original publi- cation, and “the woods are full” of these copies. We have had dozens of copies of this posthumous edition brought to the editorial desk by people who cherished them as “valuable curiosities," believing ‘ them to be of the original edition. The funeral of Mrs. Ferdinand Ward, wife of the former New York banker now in prison at Sing Sing, N. Y., was held at Stamford Saturday, and the services, which weremadc as unostentatious as. possible, were attended by only a few per- sonal friends. Mr Ward was not permit- ted to attend. although every effort was made to persuade the prison officials to allow him to go. The floral offerings completely covered the casket, and a bunclrof violets from the prison conserva- tory was placed in the dead woman’s hand. Rev. Mr. Vail, a former pastor and an intimate friend of the family, conducted the simple services. The only child, a seven-years-old boy, has been provided for by his father. The commencement exercises of the graduating class of the Center school will be held this (Wednesday) evening in the Opera House. The attendance is likely to be ing: as about 700 invitations have been issued. The graduates are Annie J. Brown, Flora B. Foote, Annie S. Burr, Bertha M. Stout, Ella L. Scofield and Nathan P.'Hnnter. The programme con- sists of essays by the graduates, inter- spersed with music. Nathan P. Hunter will deliver the salutatory address and the essays will be as follows: Limits, Miss Scofield ;- Human Sacrifices, Miss Brown; Some bricks in the Structure of Civiliza- tion, Miss Foote; A Peace Policy, Mr. Hunter; Reminiscences, Miss Burr; Our Flag, Miss Stout ; Valedictory, Miss Brown. On Friday evening, from 8 to 11 o’clock, the graduates will hold a recep- tion~at the Center School. Theodore Price, the well known horse breeder and farmer. who lived on the West Norwalk road, died at his late resi- dence on Wednesday last, after a short and painful confinement with a compli- cation of ailments, in his 58th year. He was a man of upright character, liberal, large hearted, plain spoken and peculiarly companionable, and his friendships extended to the outermost limits of his acquaintance. His funeral took place at the house on Sunday afternoon, and was attended by a vast congregation of friends of the deceased, the assemblage being so large that the addresses, by Rev. Messrs. C. J. North and C, E. Torrey, were made on the porch in order that those outside might hear. The interment was in the family plot on. the homestead premises. On Tuesday evening George Deering, who is employed on the Nerwalk Horse Railway Company, drove two or three trips over the Winnipauk branch, reliev- ing Lewis Benedict, one of the regular drivers. Instead of turning the cash box over to Mr. Benedict when he came in on his last trip as usual, Deering placed it under_lock and key in one of the closets in the conductors’ room, and gave the key to the night watchman. The next morn- ing, when the. cash box was opened, (Mr. Benedict found that all the envelopes had been tern open and the cash extracted, Which amounted to about $11. Deering has not been seen since he delivered the key to the Watchman, and' suspicion is very strong that there was no money in the box when it was left in the closet. Deering is a married man with one child. He had been employed for some time as an extra driver and was considered honest. TE. ' Two DOLLARS A YEARi NUMBER 1 6. The epidemic of glanders among the horses of this region continues to rage, and new cases are coming to the front every day. Within the last week Dr. Bridges shot horses belonging to Butcher Malmo, of South Norwalk; Buxton & Brundagc, expressmen, and Frank Olm- stead, of West N‘orwalk. besides quaran- tining a horse in South Norwalk. Other cases will probably receive his attention soon. The dissatisfied female operatives em- ployed at the Bridgeport Corset Company’s factory in East Bridgeport resumed work Monday morning, says the New, the difficulty existing between them and their employers having been satisfactorily adjusted. By the new arrangement the young women will suffer a reduction of three cents in a bundle of 25 corsets, on a certain line of goods, and the rate on another line Was increased 16 cents per hundred. The young women are very happy over the result of the brief strike, and speak in the highest terms of the manner in which they were treated by their employers. Miss Ella Betts, head operator in the telephone central office for't'ne past six years, has resigned her [osition and will start in a few days for a protracted visit to Chicago, Minneapolis and other cities in the West, for rest and recreation, to which she is eminently entitled by reason of her long, constant and faithful term of service in the ofiice. Miss Betts enjoys the distinction of being among the most efficient telephone operators in the employ - of the Southern New England Company, as she is indisputably one of the most prompt and obliging little ladies in or out of the employ of any company, and her l cheery responses to the ringing of the bell will be missed by all the subscribers on the Circuit. She will carry with her the good will of all, and nunibei'lcss wishes for a pleasant and profitable future, Hello, Ella! Good-bye! —Dr. John Henry Gray, in his History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People of China, claims that co-opeiutive banks doing a building and loan business existed 200 years B. C. France, Germany and Italy have their co-opei-ative banks. England according to the registrar’s re- turns of 1887, ordered by the House of Commons, has 2,318 co-operative banks. Mr. M J. Brown, of Philadelphia, Pa., in his statistics for 1888 of building soci- eties or co-operative banks, as he says they should be called, gives reports of 4,000 associations in the United States. The Mercantile (Jo-operative Bank, of 37 and 39 Wall street, New York, has adopt- ed the best features of the systems of leading associations. It will repay all desiring to invest either large or small amounts to investigate this superior system before investing elsewhere. Charles W. Thorn, special organizer for the Bank, is stopping at the Norwalk Hotel, and wil be pleased to give a full explanation of its co-operative workings. Agreeable to remonstrances from Five Mile River, the county commissioners have refused tojgrant a license to Fink- enstein & Knubel, the lessees of Roton Point, notwithstanding petitions, numer- ously signed, were presented, asking that the license be granted. There is con- siderable feeling and much intemperate talk on both sides, over the matter. The ground of remonstrance, it is understood, was not so much based upon the prop- osition that Finkenstein 8r. Knubel are not fit persons to have a license, as upon the fact. that the remonstrants oppose the granting of a license for the place to any- body, regardless of fitness or any qualifi- cation whatsoever, the location alone making it objectionable. It is said that the owner threatens, if no license can be obtained. to close the place and fence it in, and warn all persons against trespass- ing—thus abolishing what has come to be widely known as a most delightful and eligible resort for picnickers and excur- sionists. —The “Norwalk Club," the ne plus ultra of Cigars. Ask for it. The annual meeting of the Norwalk Club was held at the Club rooms Mondayr evening, for the election of officers for the ensuing year. It was expected, in View of a certain amount of grumbling, that the meeting would be exciting and develop a coriSiderable amount of opposition to the regular nominations slated by the nomi- nating committee several nights’before. The opposition, hoWever, showed but little strength, and. the officers chosen were substantially the same that appeared on the slate. The new board of ofiicers is. as follows :—President, R O. Keeler; vice president, James W. Hyatt; secre- tary, Fred C. Bennett; treasurer, ‘J. Arthur Pinneo ; directors, Asa R. Wood- ward, C. W. Many, T. S. Vanderhoef, T. S. Morison, Ira Cole, J. A.'Osborn, C, B. Coolidge. W. F. Acton Councilmen; George M. Holmes, William A. Curtis, Edward Street, George E. Miller, Charles Olmstead, J. Thornton Prowitt, W. Frank ; Bishop, 9. Willinghite, Elbert s. Adams, " , .. Henry P. Price, Legrand Raymond, John S H. Lee; auditors, .John P. Treadwell, . James H. Bailey. '
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