NORWALK GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY JULY 16. 1890.
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EDITORIAL LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. 0., July 14, ’00.
DEAR GAZETTE :—The two days of
intensely torrid weather last week, when
the thermometer jumped up to par, gave
fresh impetus to the question of adjourn-
ment, but as soon as the “cool wave”
spread over the capital city the matter
again languished, and, although a caucus
of republican senators was held to discuss
the subject of disposing of pending legis-
lation and arranging for some probable
time for adjournment, that event is as
remote and uncertain as ever. In the
House Representative \Villiains, of Ohio,
nevertheless expressed the hopes of many
members by introducing a resolution,
which was referred to the committee on
rules, providing that the president of the
Senate and the speaker of the House be
authorized to close the present session of
the Fifty—first Congress by adjourning
their respective houses on the 3lst day of
July, 1890 at 2 p. m.
This will have very little effect on the
Senate’s action, and no one can forsee
when an adjournment can be reached
until it is settled what fate is to befall the
tariff and federal elections bills. Other
caucuses are expected to be held on the
subject the present week. and nearly
everybody in and about100ngress feels a
hope that at least some time in the distant
future may be set for a final adjournment.
No one now seems to think an adjourn-
ment possible before the middle ofAiigust
or first of September.
SILVER BILL mssnn.
In accordance with the understanding
reached on Friday, the House on Saturday
considered the conference report on the
Silver bill. After four hours of debate
the vote was taken, the report being
adopted—yeas. 122; nays, 90. The bill
now goes to the President for his approval,
which is assured.
Mr. Conger, chairman of the House
ceinage committee, opened the discussion.
Hm- explained the general effect of the bill,
which he said would give the country at
the present price of silver, an increase of
$57,780,000 a year. If silver Went up to
a par with gold it would give an increase
of $70,000,000. The last section of the
bill unlocked $70,00 ‘000 now tied up for
the redemption of bank notes, making the
total increase of circulation in the next
twelve months $140,000,000.
sr‘iisinv iiiLLs PASSED.
Senator Frye has made a vigorous and
able fight for his shipping bills and, on
Saturday, had the satisfaction of seeing
them pass by a good strong majority. Of
course the subsidy features drew the
fiercest democratic fire all along the line,
but without damaging effect. After a
long discussion both the tonnage and mail
subsidy bills passed the Senate just prior
to adjournment Saturday evening. The
former bill was passed by a party vote
substantially, the only exceptions being
that Mr.Payne voted with the republicans
for the bill, Messrs. Edmunds and Plumb
with the democrats against it. Immedi-
ately after this bill was disposed of, the
postal subsidy bill was voted upon and
passed yeas, 2S; nays, 16.
In the discussion preceding the vote
Mr. \‘est made a forcible address against
the bills,directing his arguments against
certain favorite theories concerning inter—
natiz-nrtl commerce. His prediction was
that the proposed subsidies would never
bringr a dollar of foreign commerce to the
country, but would go into the pockets of
'he idea
the lllLd who go: the contract.
that commerce followed the flag, Mr. cht
said. was a monstrous fallacy. Commerce
did not follow the flag; the flag followed
commerce.
Mr. George, in addressing the Senate,
said the bills professed to be bills to
increase foreign commerce, and yet next
week the Senate would have to consider
the tariff bill-4t bill to destroy foreign
commerce. Without imports a country
could not keep up experts, for inter-
national commerce had to be directly or
indirectly an exchange. No nation could
long buy unless it could sell. It had been
stated, without contradiction, that there
were already too many vessels engaged in
the trade between the United States and
Eur0pe, and how could the American
foreign trade be increased by putting
more ships in the business? As to the
Latin—American states he wanted to know
how, if Americans could not compete in
their own markets with European manu-
facturers, they expected to compete with
themin the South American states? It
could not be done, he said, by subsidies;
itcould be done by a reduction on raw
materials, so as to enable American man.
rifacturers to produce goods as cheaply as
European manufacturers, and then the
tax on South American products would
have to be removed. Brit the proposition
of ,the pending measures was to pay
millions and millions of dollars to rich
ship—owners and ship-builders.
Mr. Call stated that he would give his
vote for the postal subsidy bill, and that
he would be glad to vote for the tonnage
bill if the vote of subsidy was not excess-
ive. -
One of the provisions of the bill is that
the vessels are to take, as cadets or ap-
prentices, one American born boy under
twenty-one years of age for each 1,000 tons
gross register, and one for each majority
fraction thereof, who shall be educated in
the duties of seamanship, rank as petty
officers, and receive such pay for their
services as may be reasonable.
The steamers may be taken and used by
the United States as transports 0r cruisers
upon payment to the owners of their fair
actual value.
The tariff bill was then taken up and
became the “unfinished business.”
ANOTHER BRIDGE.
The bill to authorize the construction of
a suspension bridge across the Hudson at
New York city, having passed both
Houses was signed by the President on
Saturday. The total length of this great
structure, with its approaches, will be
0,600 feet; the single span between the
towers, 2,850. Mr. Lindcnthal, the chief
engineer, estimates its total cost with right
of way at about $40,000,000.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL.
The House committee on military
affairs has decided to recommend the bill
reviving the grade of lieutenant-general of
the army, and it undoubtedly will pass
both branches of Congress and become a
law. With the revival of this rank the
President will select the officer he believes
to be best entitled to the honor, and this
selection may be made without regard to
relative rank. In this case it is assumed
that Major—General Schofield is the most
likely to be so honored by the President
as a recognition of his distinguished mili-
tary services. Brit why not gallant “Alf.”
Terry, of Connecticut?
TIIE TARIFF BILL.
The members of the Senate finance
committee show no great disposition to
get together for the further discussion of
the tariff question, which is now next in
order for consideration in the Senate this
week, the river and harbor bill having
been given the go-by till after this bill is
out of the way.
The reciprocity question has taken very
vague form as yet, but it is quite among
the possibilities that in some shape it will
be adopted by the Senate. Mr. Hale,
who introduced the amendment embody—
ing Mr. Blaine’s idea, said some time ago
that he did not expect the finance corn—
mittee to act upon it. but that it would be
taken up in the Senate as an independent
amendment and debated.
Li'rnizA l: v.
Mrs. J. L. Childs, wife of Rev. Dr. T,
S. Childs has writtena six column article,
which appeared in the Hartford Times of
July 2d, in which are given many exceed-
ingly interesting incidents of western life
and travel and arehzeological facts and
observations, the fruits of Mrs. Childs’
trip to the Indian reservations in southern
Colorado, New Mexico and Utah with her
husband, who was appointed on the
Indian removal commission by Presrdent
Cleveland. She gives a singular and
apparently well supported tradition of an
Irish Christian priest living and laboring
in Mexico a thousand years before the
landing of Columbus upon the shores of
this western hemisphere.
Frank C. Long, the erstwhile artist,
poet, philosopher and litterateur of Grum-
man’s Hill, South Wilton, and now of the
1'. S. Treasury department, has a poem in
the Washington Post of last week Sunday,
fresh, fragrant and felicitous as the dew
on a rose.
Astudied effort seems to be made in
certain quarters to force on the public
mind an impression that some undefined
jealousy or ill feeling exists between
Secretary Elaine and Speaker Reed, and
one of the Singular charges to that end is
that Mr. Blaine was the author of the
article in the last number of the North
A meriran- Zlevz‘eir, entitled, “Speaker
Reed’s Error.” Any one at all familiar
with Mr. Elaine’s peculiarly forceful,
original and able diction should make no
such mistake, and any one conversant.
with Mr. George C. Gorham’s peculiar
turn ofphrase and sentence need not mis—
calculate as to the true authorship of that
vigorous article.
i-tioirr Horns FOl‘. ros-r orricr: ('Lniti-zs.
Representative Quinn and ex-Reprc-
sentative T. J. Campbell, of New York,
appeared before the Senate committee on
post offices and post roads to—day and
argued in favor of the proposition to ex-
tend the eight hour law to clerks in first
and second class post offices and to grant
fifteen days’ leave of absence to all em-
ployes of the post office department.
A MONUMENT TO GEN. rerxmr.
Mr. Hoar introduced a bill to--day ap-
propriating $50,000 for the erection cf a
statue or monument in Washington to the
memory of Major-General Israel Putnam,
of Connecticut.
LIGIIrs.
Among the amendments reported by
the committee on appropriations and
agreed to by the Senate to-day were the
following: Inserting items for light
houses, beacons and fog signals as follows:
At Lubec Narrows, Maine, $15,500; at
Cornfield Point light vessel, Connecticut,
$70,000; at Old Orchard shoal,New York,
$60,000.
PERSONALS.
Carmi G. Hubbell was confirmed as
postmaster for Norwalk by the Senate
last Wednesday.
The President has sent to the Senate
B. Bowser, [Phoebusl what a name,] of
Hartford, as U. S. consul to Sierra Leone,
West Africa. Mr. Bowser is a locally
noted lawyer and barber of the African
persuasion. It is let out from the
usually hermetrically sealed state depart-
ment that competition for this consulate
was limited to Bowser alone.
Martin Luther Penfield, a veteran soldier
of New Britain, was on Saturday promot—
ed from afourteen to a sixteen hundred
dollar clerkship in the war department.
J. R. Smith, of Waterbury; Hon. John
R. Buck, of Hartford, and Mr. and Mrs.
James L. Lockwood, of Stamford, were
here last- week.
The Stamford Emory claim has finally
passed, giving the claimant $75,000 in-
stead of the $200,000 be deemed himself
justly entitled to.
Miss Grace Finley, of Washington, has
gone to Waterbury to spend the summer
with friends.
Douglass L. Allison, of Connecticut,
has been appointed to a clerkship in the
dead letter office.
It has transpired that the President
personally importuned Hon. John R.
Buck to accept one of the new revenue
comrnissioncrships at $7,500 per year, but
Buck had the fortitude to decline the
honor. .
B. Bowser, of Hartford, just appointed
consul to Africa through the efforts of
Congressman Simonds, is a lawyer of
education and ability who has already
resided fifteen years at Sierra Leone and
is not only acclimated but knows full well
what he, in accepting, is going to.
The tariff bill covered every senator’s
desk with literature to—day, but its con-
sideration was shoved aside by the sundry
civil bill.
The President directs that flags be dis
- played at half mast in honor of General
Fremont.
Mr. W. A. Crofl‘ut has returned here,
having accompanied Mrs. Crofl‘ut to Dan-
bury, where she will remain with relatives
for a short time before going to New
Foundland for the summer.
As ever, 13.
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Norwalk is All Right.
What is the matter with Norwalk, any-
way? What wrth our almost twenty
thousand of thrifty, go-ahead population ;
our close proximity by water and rail, to
the great commercial metropolis of the
Western hemisphere, and only fourteen
miles to Bridgeport; our public water
works, sewers, streetcars, gas and elec—
tric lights; our churches, schools, opera
houses, factories, foundries, stores, pretty
residences, with the turrets and gables of
the New Hotel already clear to our vision,
and the old Town House; our model city
and borough governments ; our patriotic,
picturesque and energetic tax collectors,
assessors, boards of relief, grand jurors,
town clerk, judges, lawyers, police, con —
stables and justices of the peace; and
last, but not least, our patriotic board of
selectmcri, with Daskam, the greatest and
weightiest man in town at its head ; and
then with such invincible timber for
public service as the following ticket
presents, Nor-walk surely is all right and
can get on without a steam roller :—
For Governor,
llox. JAMES W. IlYA'r'r.
For Congress,
EnENEzne J. H".l..
For State Senator,
Gsx. CizAnIizs Orvsrsnn.
For Representative,
Drintnif Kili'rir,
With 11. M. Ross 8. good second, and
probably as “willin’ ” as ever the immortal
Barkis dared to be. So that come what
may, NORWIJK is all right and the country
is safe.
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Death of John Charles Fremont.
The death of Major General John C. Fre-
mont closes a long and notable life—one
of the most remarkable careers in Ameri-
can history. In the annals of early West-
ern exploration, with which for a series of
years he was so eventfully identified, his
name will always occupy a central and
conspicuous place. He won the title of
the “Pathfinder” at a period when the
tracking of routes over the plains and
through the nountains to the coast of the
Pacific was a matter of infinite peril, that
called for the highest exemplifications of
heroic courage and intellectual as well as
physical resource. Although he was
unsuccessful in his political aspirations,
and unable to greatly distinguish himself,
during the late war be reflected honor
upon the country and illustrated the
highest patriotism. It was a source of
gratification to him to find that as he
neared the intirmitics of age and found
himself beset at times with reverses of
fortune, he retained the grateful remem-
brance of his fellow citizens, and could
feel that his eminent services rendered his
fame secure. Especially gratifying was
the recognition but recently extended by
Congress in placing him upon the retired
list of the Army with a major general’s
rank. There will be universal regret that
he could not have lived longer to enjoy
an honor which but served to smooth his
pathway to the grave. .
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On the Rampage Again.
Those New York journals that are carry-
ing on a vigorous crusade against the great
American hog, would find fat harvesting in
Norwalk. Our ferocious wild boar has
broken loose again and is rooting and rant~
ing about in the full and frantic enjoyment
of unbridled liberty, scampering between-
the legs of the burgesses, scraping his bris-
tles against the shins 0f the warden, rooting
up the water commissioners’ gardens, and
having a high old time all by himself. And
his antics are all the more grotesque in view
of his being hampered by the stupendous
weight of empire that he carries on his
pOrkly back, and the prospective additional
responsibility which lie solemnly purposes
to assume in relieving the court of burgessc-s
of a portion of their onerous official duties
during the remainder of their term. Unfor-
tunately for the porcine performer, lie is
unable to perceive that his frantic and
frothy gesticulations have long since ceased
to terrify, or even amuse, and are viewed
only with disgust and contempt. If he is
actuated, as he professes to be, by a desire
for the purification of the community, he
can adopt no more effectual means towards
that end, than by following the example set
forth in the scriptural narrative of the two
thousand of his kin, who, promptly on find-
ing themselves afflicted as he is afflicted,
“ran down a steep place into the sea and
were choked.”
gee Qamuibns.
Some of our citizens are disposed to
criticise the action of the court of bur—
gesses in voting not to lay out $4,500 for
a steam roller for macadamizing the
borough streets, as authorized by a recent
borough meeting. The burgesses, how—
ever, consider the expenditure greater
than the benefits to be derived from it
would warrant. They aver that they are
moved only by considerations of economy.
and that their intentions are all right.
Hereis an association of terms and ideas
that suggests a solution of the difficulty.
Why not utilize these good intentionsf?
Hell is reported, on good authority, to be
macadamized with good intentions, but
no one has ever heard of their having laid
out $4,500 for a steam roller down there-—
and there is popularly supposed to be a
heavy travel that way, too.
* * *
Good old Dr. Eddy, of Canaan. ex—
Department Chaplain of the G. A. R., is
conducting a series of religious meetings
in Clayton, in which, says the News, con—
siderable interest is manifested. At a
recent meeting the Doctor took for the
srrbject of his discourse, “What about the
Devil?” It is safe to presume that the
Doctor kicked his Satanic majesty all
around the stump and handled him with—
out gloves. Brfl, what about the Devil?
True, he has a somewhat shady repute--
tion, and is not tolerated in good society
with his horns on. As the “father of
liars"he is the head of a tolerably large
and active family, and has an efficient
”staff of servants, some of Whom, we
are told, are enabled to render him
most valuable service by wearing the
“livery of heaven.” He is undoubtedly a
crook. But black as he is painted, and
crooked as he undoubtedly is, we should
not forget that he will have the last crack
at our enemies, and he’s just the buckle—
berry who will make it hot for those sons
of guns who revile us and persecute us
and throw mud on us.
* * *
New York has a new wrinklezcalled the
“rizzle.” Fashionable people, when they
get tired, rizzle for ten or twenty minutes
and feel refreshed.
from the razzlc and is described as simply
shutting your eyes, thinking of nothing,
and trying to stop all action of the brain.
This is a very easy task for most of the
fashionable New Yorkers, who were born
with a rizzle.
* * >i=
Mr. Edison has invented an instrument
by which one may sign a check for any
amount at a distance of hundreds of miles.
—Ea:':7¢ange.
That is a great invention, truly. But
Mr. Edison could fill a longer felt want by
inventing an instrument by which any-
body could sign a check at home that he
could get cashed wit-bin a hundred miles.
* * *
Some statistical crank has figured out
the distance a pen must travel to write a
stated number of words. He says :
“A rapid penman can write thirty
words in a minute. To do this he must
draw his pen through the space of a rod—
sixleen and a half feet. In forty minutes
his pen travels a furlong, and in five
hours a third of a mile.”
That accounts for the far-fetchedness of
many of the brilliant things we read in the
papers nowadays.
* * at:
A plucky Ansonia woman, a few days
ago, killed an adder four feet long by
pouring it dipperful of borling water on it.
Hot water is death to snakes. If Mother
Eve had only known that, and put the
kettle on as soon as that lousy snake came
monkeying around the Garden, what a
heap of sin and misery she might have
averted. Brit she didn’t. She let the
serpent bamboozle her, and instead of
scalding him she got her whole family
into hot water.
* * *
A generous man resembles Niagara in
the fact that he always comes down.—
Berkahz’re Curtias.
Yes, and in too many instances he finds
himself resembling a rocket—gone up.
a: * at
There is a grand row among the grand
Elks, and the result is the establishment
of two opposition Grand Lodges, each dc-
manding allegiance of all the subordinate
lodges, and each voting to expel the other,
head, neck and heels from the Order, but
neither getting out. Agrand lodge in any
benevolent order is a grand thing—not
too grand, but just grand enough. The
opposing grand officers should unlock
their grand horns and draw cuts.
* * *
001. Stevenson doesn’t know anything
about the reported deal between the Con-
solidated road and the New England. He
told a Farmer reporter so the other day.
And it would be absurd to think he
should, in view of the confessed and
lamentable ignorance of all the other
magnates, on the subject. How can any-
body be expected to know anything about
anything that anybody don’t know any-
thing about, any way?
‘ 3k * It!
As the fellow said the other day, “Tnis
dab hay fever is cobig od agaid.”
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——Carriages, carts and wagons of all dc-
scriptions and at reduced prices at W. E.
Dunn’s, 50 Wall street. th7
DIED.
HURLnunr.—-At Bridgeport, the 13th inst., Ed-
ward N. Hurlburt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., aged
43 years.
NOTIGE.
HE Annual Stockholders’ Meeting of the
T Norwalk Fire Insurance Company will
be held at the office of the Com any at 10
o’clock, a. m., on the 24th day of uly, A. D..
1890, for the election of Directors and for the
transaction of any other business that may
Ioperl come before said meeting. By order
of the ‘
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lrectors. ~
GEORGE R. COWLES, Secretary,
Tire rizzle is different.
New York,
July 14th, 1890.
We make the outfit for va-
cation wear very inexpensive
by supplying the essentials at
nominal prices. 'A London-
made Coat of fancy plaid,
striped 0r checked Flannel for
for $3.50. Blazers same price.
White Flannel Trousers $4
and $5. 50. Fancy Flannel
Shirts, $1 to $3. Silk, $4 to
$10. Sashes, 50C. to $3. Rus-
set Shoes, $3 and $3.50. straw
Hats, 500. to 3$. Flannel
Caps, 50c. Silk Caps, 750.
Free deliveries to all points within one iiun
drcd miles of New York city.
ROGERS, PEET & CO.
THREE Prince,
BROADWAY A \Varren,
STORES. 32d St.
ARCHITECTS
RE invited to present plans until July 22a
1890, at. 12 o’clock noon, for the new Coun-
ty Home building to be erected at N orwalk,
‘ 1111.
Building to be of brick, to accommodate
seventy-five children, matron and assistants.
Steam heating, plumbing and ventilating
appliances complete.
Cost not to exceed $12,000. Usual fee will be
paid for accepted plans.
JOSEPH W JOHNSON,
Secretary Board of Management.
July Sth, 1890. It
ISTRICT 0F NORWALK, ss. Probate Court,
July 14. A. D. 1890.
Estate of WILLIAM R. NASH, late of Norwalk,
in said District, deceased.
ORDERED, that the Administrator exhibit his
administration account. to this Court for adjust-
ment,at the Probate office in Norwalk. on the 26th
day of July, 1890, at 9 o’clock forenoon; and
that all persons interested in said estate may be
notified thereof, the administrator will cause this
order to be published in a newspaper having a
circulation in said District, and post a copy there-
of on the sign-post in said Norwalk, nearest the
place where the deceased last dwelt, at least ten
days before said 26th day of J uiy, 1890.
it ASA B. WOODWARD, Judge.
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Commencing Manda: May 26th,
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Will make daily trips to New York, leaving South Norwalk at 7.45 A. M. Returning, leave New York
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Freight received from 7 A. M. to 5 P. M. Fare, Single, 40 cents; Excursion, 60' cents.
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