Norwalk weekly gazette, Wednesday, October 29, 1890 · page 1

 

 

VOLUME XC.

"2i ..

 

 

- An,;Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests.

N ORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29,1890. ,

TWO DOLLARS A YEAR

NUMBER 44..

 

 

Norwalk Gazehja

TERMS II [SUBSIIIPIIOL .'
K? Two Dollars per year. in advancerfifll 2

RATE: Ftllt ADVERTISIII “31:10! Pllll’ifl

Furnished on a pllcation at the es.

Ordinary and trguslent advs., 1 inch, 1 Week, $1.00
Each subsequent insertion, up to 4 times, .50
Half inch, half of above rates.

One column, ordinary adv., one time. - 15.00
One column, reading matter, one time, 25.00
Locus in reading matter columns, perllne. .20

Births.:Marriages and Deaths inserted free.
Advertising of FuneratNotices, ' - - 1.00

Liberal terms to yearly and half=yearly advertis-
ers. and ten per cent. discount on all advs. pre-
paid for, three months or over.

THE GAZETTE J on PRINTING DEPARTMENT is
equipped with the best facilities for turning out
First Class Work of every description. All orders
for Printing. Engraving and Book Binding. execu-
ted promptly,-and will be as well and reasonably
done as anywhere;

______‘_._——-————___—_-————___._—————————-—

LOCAL ITEM'S.

NOTICE.
We shall not issue the next number of
the GAZETTE until Wednesday noon, Nov.
4th, in order to give our readers the latest

 

election returns.

, , , .

James E. Ells starts for Florida this
week. .

Miss Mamie Wheater is visiting friends
in Stratford. '

John Hadden is studying law at Attor-
ney Grey’s office.

‘ Four applications for license have" been
filed from New Canaan.

Vote the republican ticket from top to
bottom. It is the best in the field.

 

 

 

Miss Ella Betts won a premium at the
Danbury fair for a fancy picture frame.

Dr. J. C. Newkirk and his bride arrived
home from their bridal tour on Thursday.

A pension of $12 a month liasbeen
granted to Richmond Nesbitt, of Norwalk.

Wm. J. Casey and Miss Minerva McBride
of South Norwalk, were married on Thurs-
day. \

After waiting eighty-two years Lorenzo
Olmstead was on Wednesday made a
voter.

Company F have passed suitable resolu-
tions on the death of Private Frank E.
Robertson.

One Wilton farmer has already picked
eighty barrels of good winter apples from
his orchard.

It is proposed to have the Consolidated
road|four tracked as far as South Norwalk
before spring.

The democrats are expecting a speech
from Gov. Hill, of New York, at Mus.c
Hall, Friday evening.

As we go to press, a rousing republican
meeting is in progress at Music Hall to
listen to Hon. 0. H. Platt. '

There was , an unusually high tide Fri-
day, the docks in several places being al—;
most entirely submerged.

Editor Ellendorf, of the Mechanics,

 

Journal. is the German and 'Latin pro-

fessor at Miss Baird’s school.

The Charles F. Comstock lodge of H. R.
R. Trainmcn will give a grand ball in
Music Hall on Thanksgiving night.

Mrs. E. Snyder, of Philadelphia, return-
ed home yesterday, after a pleasant three
weeks’ visit with friends onNorth avenue.

 

The Iron Moulders Union are active in
their preparations for their annual ball
which will take place on Thanksgiving
eve. ‘ ”—— ,-

Mrs. R. G. Mitchell returned Tuesday
evening, after a very pleasant week’s visit
with Mrs. Chas. H. Dunham, .Plainfield,
N. J. - .
Dr. George Baxter, who recently return-
ed from Europe, is'in town, whereat his
many friends here rejoice and are exceed.
ing glad.

Why wouldn’t W. B. Bartramzmake an
exceptiOnally good candidate for the
republicans of :Redding: to send to the
legislature ? ‘i

A republican rally will be held in Ran-
dall’s hall, East Norwalk, Friday evening,
to be addressed by Rufus S. Pickett, of
New Haven. ' »

Mrs. J. C. Newkirk,.one of our noted
‘ 'sweet singers of Israel,” has accepted an
engagement to sing 'in the First M. E.
church choir. ' . -
=The annual inspection and parade of
the Norwalk fire department will take
place some time in; the early part of
November. 4 -. ‘ .. '

The democrats have nominated as their
candidates for representatives, Mr. Charles
E. Squire of .the borough» and Dr. G. W.
Benedict of South Norwalk: .

The season of dancing lessons at'jliss
Baird’s Institute will open this (Wednes-
day) evening. The dancing class will be
under the tuetion of Prof. Rutledge. '

 

 

On Friday the tide rose to a remarkable
height and most of the docks on, the east
side were under water, which, at high tide,
went away above the price of peaches.

The Kickapoo Indians who sold medi.‘ ‘
cine and danced war- jigs on the, Captain_
Lamb lot recently, are holding forth in 1‘

ichols’ Opera House in Bethe] this week,

 

 

A new election of captain of Company?
Fhas been ordered by the regimental
oflicers on the ground that the electiOn‘Of
Captain Rose was technically'illegal.

Of the totals of new‘ voters made, the
first district foots 217; second district 169
and third district, 67. Three more are to
be added election dayof those arriving of
age.

Unprecedentedly high tides have. pre-
vailed all along shore for a week. Yester-
day nearly fifty miles of MassachuSetts
shore between Hampton and Boston was
under water. '

Augustus Heinz died at his home on

River street Tuesday. His funeral was
held Thursday afternoon. Deceased was

’ about 70 years of age and leaves a son and

four daughters to mourn his loss.

——-Miss May Sullivan, of Rowayton, Ct.,
graduate of the Merrill Business Cellege',
has been placed ina lucrative position as
stenographer and typewritist for the Stan-
ley 65 Bradley'Bub. Co., New York.

~The President of the Merrill Business
College, Stamford, has received a lively
call for a number of ladies and gentlemen
to fill positions as stenographei's and type-
writists, but cannot supply the demand.

 

Mr. John Benedict, for 78 years a resi-
dent of New Canaan, fifty years of which
he has been a subscriber to the GAZETTE,
removed to Norwalk last week where he
will hereafter reside with his daughter,
Mrs. Norman Austin, on River street.

Mr. Gunning, of New Haven, is organ-
izing a council of the Royal Arcanum, in
Norwalk. and is meeting with good suc-
cess. Dr. Tracey is the local medical
examiner and would—be members can find
a charter list at Jackson’s jewelry store.

Mrs. Jane Lee, of Bethel, who for the
past few months had been confined to the
asylum for the insane at Middletown, died
in that institution on Sunday. She was

. to have been brought home this week, as

cured, but was suddenly taken physically
ill a few days ago.

It is gratifying to learn that Johnny

Hyatt was received with open arms by.

Tallapoosa society and that he is destined
to be a bright and shining light in the
Four Hundred of that’sunshiny southern
town. Johnny isa bright boy and will
.sholdliis qwngfwljijehu_ yr ‘4

Dr. William Weed, .of South Norwalk,
and Miss Ida Keeler, were married on
Thursday afternoon by Rev. George Van
Alstyne, at the bride’s home on West
Main street. A short wedding trip fol-
lowed. Mr. and Mrs. Weed are “at home"
Wednesdays in November.

Mr. E. J. Hill’s reception Monday even-
ing, tendered Messrs. Mcrwin, Henry and
Rodgers was abrilliant success and largely
attended by our most earnest working rc-
publicans. . The three prominent candi-
dates certainly left a most favorable im-
pression on all who met them.

 

 

Nicholas Martin, having ,been removed
from his route as letter carrier byPostmaster
Hubbell, has been appointed by the court
of burgesscs to oversee the construction
of~ the new macadam road now being built
on West avenue. Extra carrier Nickerson
has been made a regular carrier.

German Lutheran services will be con—
ducted next Sunday morning at the pas-
tor’s residence, cor. Summit and Golden
streets, South Norwalk, to commence at
10:30 a. in. All thoseintending to remain
faithful to the church of their fathers’
are cordially invited to attend. F. B.
Cunz, pastor.

The disgraceful row Saturday night at
Frank Merton’s - groggery on Belden
avenue and whichterrified all the decent
residents of that neighborhood was “set-
tled” by Judge Austin fining Hefieran $7
and costs and Mellhoney $5 and costs.
An effort Will be made before the county
commissioners to have this vile den
abolished.

The editor sought for a topic new,

His reader’s attention bribe ;

Horguzzled a while with this object in view,

on wrote “now is the time to subscribe. ’
. ' -—Benkshire 0mm.

The “new topic” here has a different ring,
Though it has less of justification.

It’s “Don t advertise in our exchanges, please,
Because we’ve got the most circulation.”

The members of the Epworth League,
connected with the Methodist church, wil
give a pie sociable in the lecture room of
the church this evening. The sociable will
be preceded by a fine musical and literary
entertainment. All are welcome and a
good time is promised to all. Doors open
at 7:30, exercises commence at 8 O’clock.

 

c. E. Olds, agent, at WilsOn Point, has
been missing for some days and there are
ominous speculations among his friends
as to his whereabouts. It is said that a
considerable amount of money depends
upon him for a satisfactory accounting
for, the sum being placed by acme as high
as $5,000. His sudden disappearance has
a queer look.

Ministers, Lawyers and Teachers, and
others whose occupation gives but little
exercise. should use Carter’s Little Liver
«Pillsfor. tor id liver and biliousness. One
is a dose. I‘ry them. ’ ' , -'

t

 

Mr. John Humiliated Wade authorizes
the publication of the statement that the.
man who says game is plentiful is an un-
principled liar and the truth is not in him.
He trumped all over the wilderness in and
about Bedding all of last week, “with his
trusty rifle on his shoulders and his faith-
ful bound at his heels, and all‘ he caught
was a bad cold in the head.”

Phillip Wright, Esq., of the great Eng—
lish elastic web manufacturing company
of M. Wright & Sons, at Quorn, [near
Leicester] has been visiting his old friends
the Mcssrs."Buckley,&. Son, our thrifty
Nerwalk manufacturers of the same line
of goods. Mr. Wright expects to visit
most of‘t‘he principal places in thiscountry
before sailing for home next month.

If that man is a public benefactor who
causes two' blades of grass to grow where
only one grew before, what may we say
of lpublishers, who, like Ginn & Co., of
Boston, Spend their lives and their special
genius and aptitude in issuing the best
sChool books fer the youth of our country.
We are glad to know that-their series of
school text books are in use in the public
schools of Norwalk.

Work is now progressing on the mac-
adamizing of West avenue, and from the
appearance of things at present it looks as
if firstoclass work was being done. 'lhe
road is being dug down to the depth of
eight inches, large sized stones are laid in
by hand and the top dressing is composed
of smaller stones and dirt filling, which is
rolled by the steam roller. The macadam
is being laid to at least twice the depth of
that laid down by South Norwalk, last
year, and of ecurse will not cut so easily
and will be much more durable.

At an adjourned meeting of the court
of burgesscs, Tuesday evening a com-
mittee reported thatin the matter of widen-
ing Main street the benefits amounted to
$85 and the. damages $550. The matter
of increasing the number of firemen was
deferred to a future meeting of the court.
The purchase of twenty-five fire diplomas
was ordered. Nicholas Martin was ap-
pointed superintendent of [repairs on West
avenue. After voting to pay one half the
expense of monuments on the city and
borough dividing lines the court adjourned.

Fire broke out in a business block
owned by. H. H. Baird andtGeorge H.

, Hickok;-iaaaemeiiw’sniwr'hmzrw3

terday morning, in the third story occu-
pied by the local council of the American
Mechanics, and but for its prompt dis—
covery by an early rising milk peddler
the entire building might "have been
destroyed. As it was considerable dam-
age was done to the walls and roof, 'not—
withstanding the prompt appearance of
the fire department.

On Friday, Nelson, the famous Maine
stallion trotted the fastest half mile, bar-—
ring neither stallion, mare nor gelding.
The first quarter was made in 32;} seconds
and the second in 30% seconds, making
the half in 1:03.

Mr. E. T. Whitney wrote to the Comte
de Paris offering his only entire set of war
views from Antietan to Bull 'Run, saying
that moneywould not buy them, but if
they would aid him in his history of the
war he would willing part with them.
The Comte, in reply, thanked him for his
generous offer, but said that, under the
circumstances, he did not feel justified in
accepting them, from the fact. of having
purchased copies of this set before leaving
Our service at the close of the war for his
home in France. ‘

 

Now every poet points his pen to make
ladder verse, - .
And sings in steps his phantasy of bliss,
But I beg that you’ll excuse me if I askin
accents terse. _ .
What’s _ this!
like

the
plan

In“?
for ‘ a '
with ~Herald.
There’s nought the matter with the plan so far
as we can see.- ’ é. , .
These crooked stanzas always haveto do.
But you’ve simply twisted up the line to make
a single V. 5
'When well W.
you as have a»
might made

 

Mr. E. T. Whitney has “laid on our
table” .a cepy. of the, Australasian, pub-
lished in Melbourne, which he says is the
largest paper in the world. It certainly
is a mammoth journal, of 80 pages and
contains a tremendous amount of news
and miscellany, besides substantial evi-
dence of' the Melbournians’ belief in the
efl‘lciency of advertising. Accompanying
the paper was a copy of the daily Standard
published, in the same city, containing a
description of the largest photOgraph in
the world, which was made by a Mel-4
bournc photographer. Its dimensions
are 7 feet 1 inch in length, and three feet
wide, thus giving a surface of 21 square
feet. It is a group portrait of the Journal’s
entire staff of employees and contains 74
different figures, .“brought out in boudoir
size, each individual photograph being
:éexecutednsper'fectly as though the bitter
were receiving the ihdlvidnal attention r of.
the artist.”

In every town where Sevens is introduced the

 

 

sale is longer thanallotherwashingcompounds.-

 

- At St. Paul’s parish meeting, held Mon-
day evening, a vote was taken on Rev.
Mr. Selleck’s resignation, which resulted-
15’. for and 38 against. On learning the
fact Mr. S. entered and earnestlybesought
his parishioners to grant his wishes, be-
llowing it to be the best for the church and
for himself. In response to this appeal
his resignation was unanimously accepted.
A vote‘ was also passed authorizing the
vcstrymen to commence at once the erec.
tion of their new chapel on the Selleck
lot on West avenue.

Pastor F. B. Cunz has returned again,
after spending a few months at the sea
shore. He‘ is endeavoring to interest
Germans in forming a Lutheran church,
andvis prepared at any time to officiate at
baptisms, weddings and funerals, both in
German and English. He may be found
at his residence, cor. Summit and Golden
streets, or may be addressed, Rev. Mr.
Cunz, box 557, South Norwalk, Conn. He
will also gladly take private pupils desirous
of learning either German, French or
Latin. or coach them for college.

Election is almost upon us. The con-
ventions are all over, the candidates are
in full armor, and their acceptances, plat-
forms and records are before the people,
and another week will decide their fate.
We have read for the last time in this
campaign: “Gentlemen, I thank you for
the honor you have conferred upon me,
andtif I our elected it shall be my constant
endeavor,” etc, etc. And this suggests
the idea that none of the candidates has
shown-the originality to dictate aspeech
or litter of acceptance that would vary
in Eits prelude from the old stereo-
typgd affair sufficiently to attract special
attention. Something like this, for in-
stanfCe, forastartei', would undoubtedly
bring the candidate into conspicuous
notice, even if it wouldn’t help his can-
vass: “Gentlemen—In selecting me as
your candidate for this office, you have
done yourselves honor, and I congratulate
you. I suppose you appreciate the sacri-
.fice.I make in accepting this nomination
andrunningthe risk of being elected. It
is a bothersome nuisance and there’s noth-
ing in it. lwant to stay home. I have
no views on any question affecting the
interests of this section or any other
section. Ifany measure comes up which
3.99995?!“ to be put through, I shall vote
‘a’gai'nst i't’. Yoii'bhaveput'me in nomina-
tion and it’s your own funeral if I’m
elected. I haven’t asked you for the
office, but to oblige you I’ll run,” etc.

Clarence L. Osborne, a Wilton milkman
was shot in' the face with a' charge of
buckshot,by a lad sixteen years old named
William Lobdcll, near Cannons Station on
Saturday forcnocn. The wounded man
lies in a precarious condition, and if he
recovers he will be totally blind. The
story of the shooting is briefly as follows:
Osborne, who is a young man about 21
years of age, was driving along the'Wilton
road through the woods, driving toward
Wilton. A short distance below George-

.town he overtook the Lobdell boy, who

carried a gun on his shoulder, and who
was headed for the woods on a hunting
expedition. On reaching a spot opposite
Lobdell, Osborne accosted him familiarly
and received a surly reply, whereupon he
in a bantering way jumped from his wag-
on as if to chastise the boy, who deliber-

ately raised his gun, took aim and fired.

directly in the face of Osborne, who fell,
groaning to the ground with the blood
streaming from his face. A little boy
named Willie Hall, who had been riding

with Osborne, drove the team hastily to a

doctor’s for assistance. In the meantime
Lobdell shouldered his gun and walked
unconcernedly into the woods and pro-
ceeded to search for squirrels as coolly as
if nothing had happened. Assistance
soon arrived and the injured man was
taken to a neighboring house where every-
thing possible' was done for his relief.
News of the tragedy spread rapidly and
soon. the entire neighborhood was aroused
and searching parties were scouring the
woods in pursuit of the would-be murder-
er, who was captured in the afternoon
and brought to Norwalk by Sherifi Toner
who placed him in the lock-up where he

told an equivocal story designed to con-

ceal his real identity. It was very soon
ascertained, however, that he belonged

originally in Danbury, where his parents.

now live, and from where he had absent-
ed some months ago. He was~ taken to
Wilton Monday morning for a hearing and
was bound over‘by Justice Chichester in
$5,000 for trial at the February term of
the Superior court. The boy is a feeble
minded young 'wretch and is incapable of
realizing fully the enormity of his crime
or the possible consequences to himself.
Osborne is kept under the influence of
opiates in order to alleviate hissufferings.

The factithat the gunzwas loaded with a

light charge of powder is the only reason
he was not killed instantly. One of his
eyes has run out and the other eyeball has

three shot in it. .His face is completely'

riddled with shot, and, although he is at

this writing as comfortable as medical
.skill:'and,applian'ces can make him, it is
by no means certain that he will recover.

 

l

The colored Odd Fellows gave a dram-
atic entertainment and ball in the Opera
House,'on Thursday evening, which was
well attended and greatly enjoyed. John
Diefenbach’s orchestra, of Bridgeport,
furnished music. What particularly in—
terested some of our sporting bloods was
the fact that on the same day the figures
4-11-44 appeared on the policy slip,
exactly as they did on the occasron of the
last year’s colored Odd Fellows’ ball.

Gen. Merwm, at a republican rally at
New Haven last week, thus expressed
himself in‘a way that must command the
regard and respect of every truly Ameri—
can man :—

“I understand that I have been criticised
for attending a ward meeting last week.
Well, I am not above attending a ward
meeting and I do not think that the dig—
nity of a candidate for governor is lowered
one particle by mingling with the people.
I want you to understand if I am elected
governor, and I expect to be, [Great ap-
plause], the most humble man in the state
can see Governor Mcrwin at the state capi-
tol and receive the same welcome there
that will be extended to him if he calls on
S. E. Mcrwin, the busines man in State
street. [Great applause,] I am a man of
the people, and I am not in the least in—
clined to the belief that a candidate for
high political position should entertain the
idea that he cannot mingle with the whole
people.” [Applause] ,

The death of young ‘fBertie” Cram and
the bereavement which his parents have
experienced, is of a character which only
those who have known a similar sorrow,
can fuliycomprehend. Of large, generous
nature, and, despite his severe sufferings,
of sunny disposition, the parents saw so
much in him to love, his illness making
even more lavish the wealth of their affec-
tion. He was their “first-born” and had
grown ‘up and continued by the parental
hearth-stone, more as an elder brother
upon whom they leaned and trusted and
in whose future they fondly set unstinted
and hopeful store. In the presence of
such a grief the words of human consola-
tion are as unavailiug as are the tears of
friendly sympathy that unbidden flow.
Yet every human heart that has been
touched by bereavement,—and “who has
not lost a friend ? ”—will beatwith tender-
est emotions of sympathy for these stricken
parents. .

In God’s good time the sufferer is at rest,

And He who willed it knoweth best.

Buckingham Post, G. A. R., forty strong
and headed by the xAmericas drum corps,
attended the unveiling of a soldiers’ mon-
ument in Greenwich, on Wednesday. The
little town was in holiday attire and the
stores and factories were closed in honor
of the occasion. All the Grand Army
Posts of the county and many civic organ-
izations were present, and participated in
the street parade, which was held prior to
the dedicatory exercises. E. H. Johnson,
president of the Edison Electric Light
works of New York city, ,was grand mas.
ter of the day and was assisted by a bum.
her of New York business men. Col. H.
W. R. Hoyt has entire charge of the cele-

bration. Gov. Bulkeley, Lieut.-Gov. Mer.'

win, Congressman Miles and the judges of
the supreme court, together with many
other prominent officials were among the
visitors. Col. H. W. R. Hoyt presented
the monument to the local Grand Army
post for the town, and after its acceptance,
Gen. Hawley, of Hartford. delivered an
oration. The monument cost in the
neighborhood of $10,000, $0,000 of which
was donated by the town.

The melancholy days have come, the
snuflly days of fall, when? summer’s heat
and winter’s chill make all your senses
crawl. You shiver now, and now you
sweat, and now you snort and sneeze; anon

-thc asthma takes a “grippe;” anon you

cough and wheeze. You’re hoarse and
cross and all banged up, and everything
goes wrong; your appetite goes back on
you, and life ain’t worth a song. You
give up work to take a rest and loll about
the house, and be a nuisance to your
friends, who must your cause espouse.
The remedies are now prescribed by neigh-
bors, fiiends and cousins—there’s pills
and squills and syrups, and decoctibns by
the dozens. You drink a quart of catnip
tea, you soak your feet and head; you
gulp a quinine powder down and then
you go to bed. You grease your chest
With vaseline, apply a mustard plaster,
then take a‘good stifl whiskey sling to
make you sweat the faster; you take
gooseogrease and castor cil, hive syrup,
mutton tallow. St. J acob’s oil and mucilage
and ointment white and yellow; you take
a gargle, swallow suds, tie salt pork on
your neck, eat arrow rdot and camphor
gum and cough drops by the peck; snuff
ashes, and inhale the smoke of cubeb ciga-
rettes; put flax seed poultice on your
shins; more whiskey slings and sweats.
You take whatever comes along, ofevery
school and system—if allopath or homeo-
path, take all and don’t resist ’em; take
sedatives, cathartics, and zymotics and
hypnotics; gymnastics, hydrostatics, anti.
septics, idiotics. Before you’ve been two
days laid up, you’ll be so sick 'of sickness,
you’ll gladly put“ your breeches on, and
hustle out with quickness. For while the
workers nearly all say working .is a curse,
there are some circumstances which make

‘shirking vastly worse.

.structed and decorated.

 

Mr. John P. Treadwell, of the National
Bank of Norwalk, contemplates going
south the present week on his regular
annual hunting excursion. Sensible man
that he is, he purposes taking Mrs. Tread-
well with him. Our experience has been
that the ladies always found more game
to hunt in the average Southern hotel,
than their husbands were ever able to
scare up in the woods.

Manager Hoyt has secured for this week
at Music Hall, three most excellent attrac-
tions : this evening Muggs’ Landing, a suc-
cessful and most attractive melo-drama
that will undoubtedly draw largely;
Thursday evening the great and only Ed-
ward Harrigan, in Squatter Sovereignty,
with 42 people including the popular fav
orite Annie Yeamans and Dave Braham
with his famous orchistra of 12ij
This cannot fail of drawing a crowded
house, and it would not'be surprising-if
Brother Hoyt found it necessary to hang

- out the “S. R. 0.” sign on that occasxon.
'Then on Saturday evening comes Peck’s

Bad Boy, with Johnnie Prindlc in the
cast, well and favorably known as Reuben
Glue. Johnnie is always good, and will
poll it big vote Saturday evening.

Probably no more beautiful and suc-
cessful churcheharity was ever worked
in Norwalk th- the caEendar kirmess
given by the ladies of the First Cdngre-
gational church at the Opera House, on
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. The
good ladies entered into the work with a
zeal, industry and enthusiasm that could
not fail to command success. Their four

. large booths representing the four seasons

were most elaborately and artistically con-
In "winter"
articles for sale were hung on a Christmas
tree. The conceit of a snow scene was
given by covering the exposed surfaces of
the booth with cotton batting. An old
fashioned fire place, adorned with squash,
dried apples, red peppers, etc., gave added
interest to the decorations. f‘Autumn”
had a straw thatched roof, .and was gor-
geously decorated with Autumn flowers,
grains, fruits, nuts, etc., and with the
juice of one innocent little sweet apple
expressed into a gallon of water to give a
hint of the old time sweet cider that used
to gurgle out through the straw at grand-
father’s mill. In "spring” and “summer”
similar and suitable decorations were
made to carry out the conceit of the sea-
seasons. A delightful musical treat was
given Tuesday evening, and on Wednes-
day evening the pantomime of “The
Mistletoe Bough” was rendered to the
delight of the packed and jammed audi-
ence. The dances, and especially the
children’s Maypole drill, gave unmeasured
delight. Even our democratic friend, John
S. Seymour, seemed to forget that he was
a candidate for senator, and entered into I
the solemn and silent fun of the “House
that Jack Built” with all the zest of a
plebeian schoolboy. The ladies, the child-
ren, the public, one and all, acquitted
themselves with credit, and have the satis-
faction of knowing that $650 is the not
result of their hard labor and anxious toil
for “sweet charity’s sake.” The only
complaints we have heard from any source
that are not absolutely ridiculous, are tha
the ladies gave a dollar entertainment on
both. evenings for twenty-five cents. The
wish is widely expressed that the second
night’s performance might be repeated.

Ex-P. If. God. Clarkson recently gave
utterance to these important truths meat
the new tarifi law and the democratic ef-
fort to misrepresent it, and its effects upon
business and the cost of living :—

Thc democrats realize that their con-
spiracy to create an artificial rise in the
prices has miserably failed and that the
western Steeple be in to appreciate the
new tari bill. hey see that it will
operate quickly and immensely to their
:interest. f‘Why, just see what it does.”
Mr. Clarkson exclaimed, warmly. “It re.
duces direct taxatiOn to the amount of
$75,000,000, and the people who are thus
relieved are the poor people, and most of
all the western farmers. Indeed, it does
more than that. If experience is a good
teacher, the net effect of the McKinley
bill will be this: By its lower duties on
goods not largely produced in this country,
and by its additions to the free list, it will
remit to the people about $115,000,000
which last year were paid into the public
treasury.

These remitted taxes were direct taxes;
that is, they were duties on articles where-
in there was practically no domesticcom-
petition, and therefore the duty was added
to the foreign exporters’ prices and’fina'ily
collected from the American consumers.
The duties on sugar, molasses, needles,
matting, seeds, sisal grass and hemp are
fair samples of this taxation, and it fell
heavily on the poor people. All that the
McKinle bill has swept away. "It has
increase the duties on wheat, fine linens,
fine plushes, velvets, fine ,pottery and a
variety of expensive articles, the .grea
majority of which have never yet been
manufactured ‘ in this=country. It is now
proposed to give our people a chance to
make these things, and the duty is-protec-
tive. These are {goods that only the wealthy
‘use and there are in so far afprote'ctive
tariff taxes the consumer only, the wealthy
will bear this new burden. Even if every
penny of the new dut Were paid by the
consumer, it would a d only about$40,-
000,000 to the general revenues, and that
is far more that‘ ofl'set by the 3 $60,000,000
which are taken from the revenue, by the
repeal of the sugar duties.”f . '

“The people are getting ‘-llO]d cf"these
facts.” . , "