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Mr. and Mrs. Allen Betta are on a trip ' through the west. Expressman Buxton has had another gripe of la grippe. Henry A. Raymond, of Westport has. been granted a pension. Hon. P. T. Barnum is quite comfortably sick at his home in Bridgeport. Read Mr. Edmonds’ concrete and tar walk adv. in to- day’s GAZETTE. The Government’s new war vessel the Maine, was launched yesterday. The engagement of Theodore K. Stone and Miss Lena Peck is announced. Put a stop to Sunday liquor selling, and to every other kind of illegal selling. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Boyer, rejoice in the advent of another little daughter. Ground will probably be broken for the new county home for children this week. Hope House company’s house is draped in mourning in honorof William Walsh. Dillon and O’Brien, the Irish statesmen, lectured in Bridgeport Monday evening. Wm. H. Olmstead has returned from a business trip through the west and south. The first legitimate snow of the season in this region came down on Saturday forenoon. James Wallace went to jail Monday morning to work out a fine of $14 for drunkenness. ' , Mrs. Thomas, of Boston, nee Miss Annie .Hill, was visiting her mother, Miss Eben Hill, last week. Dillon and Harrington,the Irish patriots, had a rousing reception at Bridgeport, Monday night. ‘ The Westport Catholic society are con- sidering the erection of a new church and parochial school. On Thanksgiving night, the Germania Seengerbund’s annual sociable will be held in Germania Hall. Joseph Pulitzer of the World, who has been blind for some time, has recovered the use of one eye. Wm. Sheldon, the stone mason. has the contract for the stonework on the propos- ed new Grace church. Alva Lockwood, of the firm of Lock- wood & Lockwood, is very sick with ca - tarrh of the liver. The Judge and the Major made it pleas- ant for theatre goers at the Opera House Monday evening, in Kit. Freight agent Gould, late of Danbury, has returned to his old position in the freight office in Norwalk. The annual inspection of the Norwalk fire department has been postponed to Wednesday, December 3d, It is a singular coincidence that Homer Merrill is running for U. S. senator in the new state of Wyoming. Bates has placed a beautiful granite monument above the grave of Edith Ambler in Union cemetery. ‘ There was a smaller number of drunken people seen on our street on Sunday than has been the case for some time. '9. A Thomastown man has a four legged _ rooster. He expects to “set” him in’ the " ' ' h i . springaud perpetuate t e spec es St. John’s Lodge, F. and A. M., of Bridgeport, visited Old Well Lodge last evening and worked the third degree. La grippe is now touring through the West Indian Islands and is making itself especially felt in the Island of J amaca. James M.:Creagh is to have a phono- graph put into his saloon this week for the instructive amusement of his patrons. .__..._. Raymond Brothers have given the South Norwalk fire department a check for $50, in recognition of their services at the late 1i re. . Capt. Norton, of Staten Island, stesms away to-day in a 58 foot yawl for Toulon, France. He takes his wife and 6 year old niece. ’ Considerable discussion is caused by the uumerously signed remoustasnccs against thelgranting of licenses to certain saloon§keepers in South Norwalk, espec- ifilly against Jerry Donovan and Hamilton ros. - - , . An Enterprising Republican Journal, especiallydevoted to Local News and. Interests. N ORWALK, CONN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 49,1890. , Hartford’s street commissioners have notified the business men on Asylum street to remove all swinging signs within seven days. . George A. Cline, of Suffield, formerly of Capt. Rose’s Duplex Supply 00., Nor- walk, is now located in East Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. W. G. Sturtevant and her daughter Faith, of San Francisco have been the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Noble, the past two weeks. . The seventh anniversary of Olive Branch Lodge,Knights of Pytliias, was celebrated Monday evening with appropriate cere- monies. “Aunt Currence” Keltogg bad a. slight paralytic stroke last week, and seemingly the lamp of life is fast flickering to the socket. > James Corcoran, of South Norwalk, son of Joseph Corcoran, sailed yesterday for England for a brief visit, via the Steamer City of Berlin. His own town has practically defeated Morris for governor. In 1888 he had over 3,000 majority there. This year he had less than 2,000. . Mrs. F. G. Northrop of Danbury, me ' Miss Mattie Godfrey, of N orwalk, is spend- ing a few days with Miss Minnie Austin, on North avenue. E. H. Burr, of Pittsfield, Mass., suc— ceeds agent Gould in charge of the local freight department of the Housatonic road. Mr. Gould will return to Norwalk. —Danbury News. The board of|education, of Bridgeport, have called Professor Howard of Ansonia, to that city as a teacher of music in the public schools. ——Ladies, don't forget that the:19c. sale now going on at the Norwalk Boston Store is their last special sale for 1890. Don’t miss it. With all counties heard from nearly 9,- 700 Connecticut republicans did not vote at the last election, while only 4,400 Dem»- ocrats did likewise. The Whitneys have a superbly strong and accurate picture of the late Dr. Asa Hill in the show window of the newly fitted Bishop building. A girl of four years, daughter of John Hank. of Bridgeport, scalded herself to death Thursday night by upsetting abasin of water over herself. There is no portion of the, South Nor- walk Sentinel more interesting and in- structive than its daily budget of fresh ’ local advertisements. The Reform School is the safest and best place to consign the Rowe boy who exploited so recklessly on money stolen from his worthy father. Mrs. Sturdevant and daughter, of San Francisco, have been visiting Dr. and Mrs. Noble the past fortnight, but left for New York on Monday. A Torrington man sneezed his false teeth over the bridge, last week. He was next discovered in rubber boots fishing in the river with a clam rake. The intimations that South ,Norwalk Congregationalists are trying to flirt with New Canaan’s popular parson, Hopkins, don’t seem to be well founded. New York parties are negotiating for the old Cromwell Quarry company. If the sale is successful this property will be operated after two years of idleness. Geo. E. Becker, of Bethel, and Miss Josie Avery, of South Norwalk, were married at the home of the bride, Thurs- day evening, by Rev, C. J. North, Jeweler Spencer put in an immense safe to replace his old one at his Main street store, Thursday evening. An immense crowd witnessed the removal ceremonies. Mrs. Edwin Clark, of Elm street, left Thursday for a month’s visit at Louis- ville, Ky. She took her bright little son, Master Edwin Parker, _with her as escort. Our borough coal dealers put up the price of coal 25 cents a ton last week. Meantimetthe warm weather cuts down their sales and evens it up with the con- sumer. \ , An abstract of the reports of Connecti- cut National banks to the comptroller of the currency shows that the resources and liabilities of these institutions balance at O7I,589,388,99. There is one significant fact in connec- tion with the present Wall street flurry, and that is that the course of events there in no way reflects the current cenditions of geneial business. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Bclden gave a beautiful and bountiful “tea,” last Friday evening, to Dr. and Mrs. Noble and their California guests, Mrs. Sturdevant and her daughter Faith. ' The incorrect manner in which the re. turns of the Second Voting District were made out will possibly necessitate the re-‘ counting the vote of the recent election in this place—Sentinel. . Well, what crookedness have you been up to down there now? , The postmaster at Sanford’s Station 13 dead and now Bro. Wanamaker is hunt- ing around with a search warrant to find a republican successor. Editor Tom Wood of the Bridgeport Post, is justly proud [of the advent of a new girl baby at his house on Monday, who weighed 14 pounds without a cloak on. A Democratic representative in Gris- wold was declared elected though the bal- lots for him bore that same word “for,” the excuse for throwing out so'many pro- hibition votes. _ So long as people continue to act as if railway tracks were built to walk on, so long will they find that the average train goes faster than they do and is likely to overtake them. Another of the newly elected court of burgesses is said to be on the verge of matrimony. There seems to be something about the dignity of public office that is fatal to celibacy. Nelson E. Raymond, of South Norwalk, and Miss Estelle Littell, were married in Trinity church, Montclair, N. J ., Wednes- day evening, by the re'ctor, Rev'. Mr. Hay- ward. A number of Norwalk people wit- nessed the ceremony. . - "Wife for Wife” will be presented by a first—class company under the manage— ment of Joel Marks, in Music Hall this (Wednesday) evening. This play, written by John A. Stevens, has become famous, and is a great success. The Iron Moulders’ Union’s annual ball, which is to be held on Wednesday even- ing of next week, Thanksgiving eve, should not be forgotten by our dancing population, for there is sure to be a good time there. There always is. Dr. Baxter made an unavailing effort to secure the Hubbell residence on West avenue and adjoining Cashier Price, be- fore purchasing the Bissall lot adjoining Engineer Wood on East avenue. Mrs. Corcoran, mother of David Cor- coran, at one time a celebrated ball player who has been an umpire in one of the western leagues the past season, died at her home in Winnipauk, Sunday. M. Rivitz, a Jewish peddler obtained judgment of $50 and costs against Build- er S. B. Wilson, whose son frightened with a bicycle, plaintiff’s horse, causing him to run away, breaking the wagon and considerably injuring the horse. At last our prohibition friends have won, though by accident. In Colchester the republican and democratic justices’ tickets were not printed in legal type. The prohibition ticket was. Consequently the former had to be thrown out and. the latter will take office. Thomas Morrison, George Lockwood and Messrs. Rollo and Hatch of Norwalk were in town last Saturday. They were on their way home from Woodvill where they had been hunting since the previous Tuesday. The large string of partridges, quail and woodcock which they carried testified to their ability as hunters—New Milford Gazette. The champion blackfish of the season was caught near New: London, with a hook and line last week, by Dr. William Appleton. It weighed fifteen pounds and it is said there is no record of a largerj'one ever having been caught in Long Island Sound. At the regular meeting of Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company, Thursday evening, F.L.Merritt resigned the foremanship and First Assistant Wm. Merritt was elected foreman ; Second Assistant A. G. Martin, first assistant, and A. J. Wheater Second assistant. The distinction was drawn very fine down in Stamford last week when the authorities confiscated the entire edition of the Stamford Herald because a notice of a church fair rafile which it contained rendered it inadmissible for transmission in the mails. . The father of Jae. McKigney, a moulder employed in the Simonds’ foundry and well known here in Norwalk, was killed by strain on the Pennsylvania railroad, in Jersey City, on Saturday. Deceased had been a fiagman on that road for a number of years. John H. Laue an old Norwalk boy, but now proprietor of one of the largest and most profitable stone yards in Washington, has" been in town for several days past. He is now executing an order for an im~ mense marble basin forlthe new front of the national capitol. George H. Brown, who is called by some vulgar people “Mud Ben,” was ar- rested lsst Saturday evening for assault and drunkenness and was fined $7 and costs on each count, about 022 in all, or enough to keep poor Brown in jail until after the holidays. There are three men who are not wor- rying over the disputed count for gover- hor. One is the labor candidate who :is sure he was defeated. Another is the prohibition leader who is equally certain “he isn’t in it.” The third is Gov. Bulke- ley who will remain governor for two yearsmore in case the other fellows don’t $th it between melamine—Bridgeport m. . 'up iron, It is suggested that the distinguished party of South Norwalk capitalists, includ- ing the editor of the Sentinel who went south several days ago ostensibly to buy copper and gold mines and corner lots in unborn cities and villages, were in point of fact seeking to find the head waters of Salt river. Mrs. Laura Hubhell, an estimable lady over 80 years of age and mother of post- master J. E. Hubbell, of Saugatuck, died Sunday at her home on Riverside avenue Saugatucigafter a short illness. She was ' also mother of» William Hubbell, for many years a tinsmith employed by F. W, J aqni of Norwalk, and more recently with E. K. Lockwood _________ Mr. Frank Bowe, of Rosendale, Wiscon- sin, brother of Alderman Bowe of Nor— walk, dcmonstrates the fact that this is good Bowe weather, by being elected to the general assembly of his state. He gathered in a part of the spoils in the late cyclone and was elected by 135 democrat- ic majority in a district heretofore strong- ly republican. Speculators bought up a large number of'the tickets for Stanley’s lecture in New Haven Tuesday evening, ran the price up to $4 and 85, and, as might have been ex- pected and as they richly deserved, they got badly left. There is undoubtedly a popular desire to see the great explorer, but the “vulgar herd” don’t want to see him five dollars worth. The famous jubilee singers, (colored) from _the Fisk University, will give one of their delightful concerts in the First Con- gregational church next Friday evening at 8 o’clock. Admission free and everybody invited. At the close of the concert a col- lection will be taken up for the benefit of the divinity school connected with the university. A neat and attractive pamphlet has just been issued by the Westport Publishing Company, containing the proceedings of the seventh annual convention of the Connecticut State Firemen’s Association, held at Waterbury, on the 5th and 6th of last August. . The book contains the reports of the different ofllcers and the speeches of the guests at the convention. Why should “Jack" bear all the blame for mysterious crimes? Having had ”Jack the Ripparlfiiand “Jack the Ink Slinger,” we now hear of “Jack the Kisser,”'who is " offending women in Danbury by accosting‘ them at night and caressing them against their MIL—Tribune. Danbury had its “Jack” long before London or New York, we would have you know. . Henry Cole died at his late residence, 379 Decatur street, Brooklyn, on Tuesday afternoon, in the 43d year of his age. De- ceased was a native of Norwalk, and a son of the late Sherman Cole,‘ who for a num- ber of years carried: on business at the store now owned by Warren Fitch. Mr. Cole leaves a wife and threecliildren and hundreds of friends to mourn his death. Although the batters of Danbury reject- ed the benefits of the McKinley bill at the late election they will soon see their mis- take. The largest hat factory in that town noted for large hat factories is soon to be built for Nichols, Hine & Moul. This could never have been done if English hats were admitted to this country ata nominal duty. This large factory means more men and more work. The December Century will contain four complete stories by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Joel Chandler Harris, Richard Harding Davis and Maurice Thompson. Three of them are illustrated. Besides these there will be the first chapters of a novelette by James Lane Allen, “Sister Dolorosa,” the scene of which is laid in a Kentucky convent; and the second in- stallment of “Colonel Carter of Carters- ville,” by F. Bopkinson Smith, introduc- ing the author’s celebrated “One—legged Goose Story.” The Paris Figaro refers to Mr. Theodore Child as “l’infatigable voyageur du Har- per’s Magazine,” and recently devoted a column and a half to the article on “Agri- cultural Chili,” which appeared in the October number of the magazine. This is one indication among many others of the very general attention which Mr. Childs’ series of South-American papers is attract- ing not only in this country, but abroad. Jabez Wheater, one of Norwalk’s most expert carpenters, has been the past fort.- night changing the front stair entrance to the Gamma BUILDING and up to date he reports four thousand nine hund rd and seventy three public spirited citizens who have stopped to tell him how it ought to be done. We had no idea there were so many idle men in Norwalk, but suppose it is all owing to the M’Kiuley bill. The Madison Square Garden Horse show was a great success, financially and otherwise. The sorriest feature was that nearly all of the finest steeds exhibited had been put through the barbarous tor- ture of having the bones of the tail cut to within four or five inches of the stump. Every brute guilty of this idiocy, as well as legal crime. ought to be made to serve a term in the penitentiary. But then to the insane dude “ it is ’Hinglish doneher know,” to have a horse’s tail cut down to the size of a barber’s shaving brush. , As the days grow shorter and the cold weather grows sharper, the tramp house finds more tenants. About a dozen took up a temporary abode in that ill-smelling den on Sunday night. As high as forty have been known to find shelter there in one night, and they laid piled up upon one another like sardines in a box. The carpenter shops and lumber yards of Foster Bros., together with the hat wire manufactory of F. D. Frye & Co., and a large tenement house owned by Henry Be-nd, all located on Delay street Dan— bury, were burned early Sunday morn- ing. The fire was of incendiary origin. The flames started at the rear of the lum— ber shed, raged for two hours and destroy- ed $25,000 worth of property. The in- surance is very light. Those geological excavators, "the sunny sons of sunny Italy,” who are widening the East N orwalk cut for the Consoli- dated’s four tracks, have already unearthed at least forty-nine different stratas of earth and seventy-nine specimens of prim- itive ignis and aqueous rock formations. There must have been a high seething and howling old time of it at East Norwalk, when this globe of ours was cooling off at creation’s dawn. Mr. O. E. Wilson, on the advice of his physician, is favoring his eyes by abstain- ing from all newspaper or other unneces- sary reading. Too close application to busi- ness has strained his eyes to an extent that makes at least a partial discontinu- ance of their steady use, an imperative necessity. In obedience to this decree “Grover” relaxes his erstwhile rigid scru- tiny of the election returns and his micro— scopic inspection of the numerously circu- lated fac similes of marked ballots. William Walsh, brother of Lawyer John J. Walsh, died at the home of his sister, on Chapel street, Sanday evening, of consumption. The wife of deceased died from the same disease a little over a year ago, and his brother also was a victim to it a few years since. Deceased was a batter by trade and an active member of Hope Hose Company. The funeral ser- vices will be held at St. Mary’s church at 9 o’clock this morning, Hope Hose and delegations from the other companies attending. the Inasmuch Circle, Miss Lena Cole presi- dent, will givc, under the direction of Mrs. John S. Seymour, a grand “Dolls’ Fete,” about the middle of next month, in the chapel of the First Congregational church. There will be dolls of every variety, so that the wants of the children of Norwalk can be met at the glad Christmas-tide. The proceeds of the sale will be applied to the debt on the chapel. The case against D. R. Welton, charged with setting fire to the comb factory in Shelton, which has been on trial for the last three weeks, was concluded Friday, when probable cause was found and Wel- ton was bound over to the superior court. The trial has been a notable one both on account of its length and efforts made on each side. The factory was burned sever- al months ago, and with it a grocery store and another building. The fire also re- sulted in ,the death of a woman by suffo- cation. The county commissioners were in session at South Norwalk, Friday: Licenses were granted to Thomas Mc- Carthy, R. Goldschmidt, James Hadden, John O’Sullivan, Lather & Quitner, Jas. H. Hoyt, Jacob Linxweiler, James H. Magner, John Madden, Mrs. Robert Allen, Daniel Riordan, Michael Ratchford, John John Hines. Remonstrances were made against granting licenses Hamilton Bros., William C. Jesse, Jerry S. O’Brien, Ed- ward Quinter, Herman Quinter, Casper Zoellinger, Donovan & 00., Frank C. Becker, Mary Cresgh. The East avenue tramway, of which mention was made in these columns last week, has assumed in the past few days quite enlarged and magnificent propor- tions. The proposition now is to start it at the borough center of New Canaan, run it via East avenue toGregory’s Point and the South Norwalk depot and thence to Wilson’s Point and Bell Island. Estimates have been carefully made and bids for its construction placed in the hands of our local promoters, which gave every assur- ance of its proving a financial success. Electricity, by overhead wires, is the mot- ive power preposed. ' Our readers will recall the recent fire that destroyedzTruckmau Edmond’s barn and all his winter's hay and feed for his horses, on South Union Avenue. He did not sit quietly down while sympathiziug friends circulated a subscription paper for him as so many of his whiter brethren have done under similar conditions, but went resolutely to work to repair his ruin. ed fortunes. He is one our , best village tar and gravel walk makers and repairers, and our people can show their sympathy for a worthy and competent worker in the way most acceptable to him, by giving him their orders for carting or tar walk laying and repairing. See his adv. The Doorkeepers Circle of King Daugh-K ters, Miss Charlotte Betts president, and. Two DOLLARS A YEAR NUMBER 47. The great London house of Barring Bros. was saved from financial wreck by the Bank of England, representing a syn- dicate, advancing it fifty—five millions of dollars. It thus averted a terrible mouee tary panic on both sides of the ocean. Cornelius W. Brown, a dude book agent who has been hoarding atztlie City Hotel for a couple of weeks, is now in ”jail in default of $500 bonds for trial before the next term of the superior court for steal— ing clothing, jewelry, etc. belonging to Edward W. Beard, who left the articles in his room. The thief was captured at the depot while waiting for a train, and the stolen property was found on him. IOn Saturday night, a peddler named Olmstead, who was driving home on the Step Rock road, was stopped by two men one of whom struck at him with a sand- bag while the other caught hold of the horse’s bridle. The blow, aimed at Mr. Olmstead’s head, fortunately missed its mark and landed on his shoulder. Mr. Omstead whipped up his horse and suc— seeded in getting away from the men, at whom he threw some stones that he hap- pened to have in the bottom of his wagon. He is unable to give a description of his assailants. “Steeple Charlie” has attracted consid- erable attention for a few days past, as he sawed and hammered and worked away up at the very top of the spire of St. Mary’s church removing the large cross which was recently damaged by lightning and which is to be replaced with a bronze one. Steeple Charlie is a professional climber and is said to have a secret way of stringing his scaffolding to the top of a tower, which'no doubt is the secret of 'the attention he attracts from those who would hardly notice a local climber if he should crawl up the spire and stand his head on the apex. The Fisk Jubilee Singers, announced to appear at the First Congegational church this week are a band of seven very super— ior vocalists, three men, "four women, and the first to come north since 1878, when the original jubilee singers disband- ed. At Hartford and other easttrn cities their audiencies have filled the churches to overflowing, the entire seating and standing room capacity of some (1 the churches being occupied. They are trav- eling under the direction of the Rev. 0. W. Shelton, one of the secretaries of the American Missionary Association. Their object is to obtain money suflicient to found a theological seminary for the in— struction of colored ministers in. the South. The new Lodge room of Pilgrim Council 0. U. A. M., was dedicated on Wednes- day evening, at the Opera House. Ad- dresses were made by Hon. John S. Sey- mour, Rev. Garrett Haulenbeck, Gen. D. N. Couch. and Attorney Bobannan. The fishing delegations were met at South Norwalk by the local lodge headed by the Americus drum corps and escorted to the hall. After the dedicatory exercises danc- ing was indulged in until an early hour. About 100 visitors were present from out of town, they being served with a collation at the Athenaaum. The ball supper was under the management of James Gordon. The whole affair was an entirely satisfac- tory. The new hall of the lodge is con- veniently situated or Water street, is commodious, neat, and “just the thing” in every particular. The lodge is compara- tively young and its success so far is almost phenomena]. The atmosphere of Spring Hill seems to contain certain properties, conditions and elements that are most efficacious in superinducing a spirit of adventure and recklessness in the boys of that region. This has been demonstrated several times recently, the latest'case being that of the two boys, Willie Rowe, aged about 11 years, and Willie Siege] aged 16, who on Friday evening, ran away with something over $400 in money which the Rowe boy abstracted from his father’s desk. They procured before starting, a couple of re, volvers at Pratt’s place on Water street- srrayed themselves picturesquely, and, left on a late train for New York, armed, accoutred and to all intents and purposes resolved on the inevitable crusade against the red devils of the Western plains. They got as far as Brooklyn without encoun- tering any Indians, and after scouting about that city for a day or so, and run- ning through ' a goodly portion of the stolen moaey,they concluded that the red- sklns had taken the alarm and fled. Then '.they came back to Norwalk, on Sunday, and after playing hide and seek with the police for an hour or so, were corralled at South N orwalk and placed'in the jug without the shedding of a drop of blood. On Monday Judge Morrell had two meek and sorry little cowboys before him on the charge of having committed some ter- rible crime. The parents of the boys: however, came forward and saved the boys from hanging by apologizing, settling up costs, and promising that the two little boys would be real good-forever after, and would never, never, never- do so anymore. About 8175 had been spent-hy-the boys in their brief but. brilliant «crusade.
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