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N ORWALK, CONN, .WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER . 26, 1890.
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LOCAL ITEllIS.
Congress meets Monday, December 1st,
Ex—U. S. Treasurer James W. Hyatt has
the “grippe. ”
Mrs. D. N. Couch is visiting her son in
Taunton, Mass.
Bishop Williams and Rev. Mr. Everest
were in town Monday.
Ground was broken for the new county
children’s home Friday. ‘
The O’Shea case is not an illustration of
the virtues of home rule.
Shoe dealer Frank Smith is visiting at
his old home in Boston.
Mrs. Oliver W. Weed. of East Norwalk,
died yesterday, aged 66.
George Rockwell, Esq., of Meriden,
was in town on Monday.
So we are to hear no more of the much
talked of Wall street widening?
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Mr. John Treudwell has returned from
his southern hunting excursion.
Dr. Bridges, ourworthy veterinary sur-
geon. is contemplating a visit south.
The Methodist choir concert will be
given on Tuesday evening, Dec. 2d.
‘ The old Henry Belden mansion now
rests squarely on its new foundations.
Have you ordered that turkey yet, that
you are going to give to the poor family?
'l‘wo barges, of coar' gran- -~ aground-1e
Rings End last week and one of them
sank.
Readman photographed the floral trib-
utes of the William D. Walsh funeral, on
Thursday.
A lot of cranks out in Pittsburg are go-
ing to try and stop the sale of Sunday
newspapers. ,
August Belmont, the great financier,
banker and politician. died Monday of
pneumonia. ,
The suicide club is being revived in
Bridgeport. This fact has no political
significance. ~
George R. Nash, the athlete and lectur—
er on athletics, came home from Scranton,
Pa., last week.
The Pittsfieid Sunday Call has just cele-
brated its second anniversary. It’s a Her-
cules for its age.
Rising Star Division, S. of T. of Roway-
ton, celebrated their fifth anniversary,
Tuesday evening. .
A Thanksgiving reception is to be held
at Colonel Roberts’ military institute this
(Tuesday) evening. -
Attorney F. W. Perry has gone to
Massachusetts to eat Thanksgiving turkey.
with relatives there.
Bishop Williams administered the rite
of confirmation at Trinity church, South
Norwalk, on Sunday. ~
Cram & Whittlesey, the Main street
furniture dealers, are soon to remove their
business to Bridgeport.
Sewer Inspector D. S. Curtis, after a
thorough examination, reports the trunk
sewers in perfect order.
~ James J. Sheehau, of this town, and
Miss Maggie Carroll, of Bridgeport, were
married on Wednesday last.
Miss’“ Annie Apelqvist, of East N orwalk,
will be married to-day to Mr. John S.
Andersen, of the same district.
Frederick W. Trippe, grandson of the
Chas. B. White, is to eat his Thanksgiving
dinner at F. St. John Lockwood’s.
Burgess~elect James H. O’Reiily and
Miss Maggie Sheehan were married at St.
Mary’s parsonage, Sunday evening.
William R. Lockwood, Esq., is in Wash.
ington looking after his rapidly appreci-
ating real estate investments there.
Fifty shares N. Y. and N. H. R. R. stock
sold for $250 per share in Wall streetSat-
urday despite the monetary stringency.
The organ for Grace cbdrch 'has been
ordered made, for the reason that it has to
bee Specially constructed for the building.
The good ladies of the new church are
getting ready for, a supper and festival at
the Athenseum. Tuesday evening, Dec. 9.
Thanksgiving day in Portland Ct., will
be made memorable by the raising of the
stars and stripes over the parochial school.
25.00 .
On Wednesday evening Miss Mary E.
Buckley of Cranberry Plains became Mrs.
Charles A. Rubey.
Ex-Postmaster Golding has very prep-
erly sold his old Marvin safe to Marvin’s
coal yard at East Norwalk.
Danbury, in spite of her big girls’ strike,
devotesfthe usual amount of time and at--
tention to the runaway business.
Bridgeport is to have a wrestling match
between Greek George and George Gra-
him, at the Star Theatre. on Friday .even—
in g. ' ~. ’ .
There is something refreshingly egotist-
ical in the efforts of the ~Hon. Grover,
-' Cleveland to keep himself before the pub-
lic. , g ~
On Saturday evening of next week
Edison’s phonograph wil be exhibited in
Music Hall by Prof. McDonald of Bridge-
port. _ ‘ ; '
H. S'. Davis, the well known artistic and
Chesterfieldian caterer to the public taSte,
is visiting his sister in Burlington, Ver-
mont. ‘
Colonel F. St. John Lockwood is the
fortunate recipient of a dozen barrels of
superb Michigan apples from his father-
inliaw.
Republicans throughout New Hamp-
shire support Governor Goodell’s action in
regard to a special session of the legisla—
ture. -
A Hartford grocer takes a whole column
of solid type in the Post to tell of the many
good things he has in Stock for Thanks—
giving.
GeorgeiLow is able, (wichthe help of a
couple of black walnut crutches,) to get
out again, after his siege of unromantic
rheumatics.
John K. Hyatt is home from the south,
and, we regret to learn, ill with the chills.
But “Johnny” is a lad who will soon
shake ’em off.
Superintendent Bonnell, of the electric
light station, after a slight tussle with
incipient pneumonia, is attending to his
duties again.
The census shows the total debt of South
Norwalk in 1890 to bc'$171,796. Total
available_rmurccngllinw1380,, 732,232 ; in v
1890, $4,394. '
The borough authorities have antherized
the steam roller man to roll the old chariot
along over Maple and Arch streets and
Franklin avenue.
Mrs. F. G. Northrop of Danbury, nee
Miss Mattie Godfrey, of Norwalk, is spend-
ing a few days with Miss Minnie Austin.
on. North avenue.
The fair given by Douglass Fowler Post,
G, A. R. in South Norwalk, seems to have
proven a flattering success, both finan-
cially and other-wise.
Baggage Master John Dougherty, of
Conductor Dyas’ Danbury & Norwalk
train. has been promoted to conductor of
the New Haven & Derby freight.
The contracts for the new electric light
building are as follows: Stone work to
C.C.Stevens; brick work to W. H. Smith,
and carpenter work to S. B. Wilson.
Birmingham is agitated again over the
confusion caused by the vibrations of her
big dam. It isn’t the first case of confu-
sion or agitationfcaused by that word.
Builder S. B. Wilson has appealed from
Justice Morrcil’s decision in the Rivitz vs.
Wilson ease. The appeal will be heard at
the next term of the superior court.
The first grand ball, to be given in
Music Hall on Thanksgiving night by
Comstock Lodge of the Order of Railroad
Trainmen, promises to be a grand success.
“ Steeple Charlie” still continues to me—
nopolize a good share of the public atten-
tion, as he pursues his perilous calling at
the top of the spire on St. Mary’s church.
Ex—Governor Beers of Georgetown has
purchased the old Cannons Station wire
factory, and will convert it into a menu.
factory of curled hair for mattresses, cush-
ions, etc. .
A meeting of citizens of Mamaroneck
and Rye Neck was held on Saturday night
fer the purpose of considering the expedi.
ency of consolidating the two hamlets as
an incorporated village. -
The new bell, so munificiently given by
Miss J u'lia Lockwood to the First Congre-
gationai church, continues to impro've on
acquaintance. ~Its tones grow richer and
mellower the longer it is rung.
There were 994 deaths reported in this
state last month, of which number 17 are
credited to Norwalk. , Dr. Gregory reports
ed 12 cases of typhoid fever originating
from drinking of polluted water.
On Thanksgiving day no freight will be
received at the freight houses of the Con-
solidated road. All freight trains will be
taken off and only perishable goods will
be forwarded to their destination.
. Johnnie Judge, the good looking young
hustler of the Bridgeport Sundayflerald,‘
a special 'edition of the Waterbury Herald,
is in tOWn surveying the ground fo'ri-va'
Norwalk edition of the same Swift journal.
The strike of the hat trimmers in Dan-
bury continues and is unchanged in any of
its phases. The merchants of the town
are blue "in view of the depressing effects
the situation will have upon the holiday
trade.
Daubury-isenjoying a fire department
scandal,and Chief Engineer Meyers is be-
ing “ investigated ” for dereliction of duty
at the late fire ”which destroyed Foster;
Brothers’ big carpenter and wood working"
’ ' Some thoughtful voter wrote on his ticket
shops.
Tbe~Bridgeport police raided another
batch of. wicked houses in that city on
Saturday night, capturing a very sorry lot
of sorry victims, There were no Norwaik- .-
‘ersin the coach.
The christening of the bran new son of
landlord J. E. Power, of the Dorlon House,
which took place on Friday evening, was
witnessed by quite a coterie of distinguish-
ed‘ New Yorkers, friends and intimates of
the genial landlord.
Hon. E. J. Hill represented the GAZETTE
at the great Yale and Harvard game on
Saturday, but neither his, wild enthusiasm '
or forty-horse lung, power was able to
save the blue from defeat.
A large delegation of Masons from St.
John’s Lodge, of {-Bridgeport, visited Old
Well Lodge, South, Norwalk, on Tuesday
evening, on which occasion the officers of
the visiting lodge conferred the third de-,.
gree in a very artistic manner.
The butchering period is upon us, and
brings with itithe seasonabie fish story
about the weight of the hog that fell short
of the expectations of the fellow who
knew it wouldn’t weigh as much as he
thought it would.
Advertisements'inscrted in the GAZETTE
go to the homes of the people and are read
by the families. This cannot be said of
those papers sold only by bootbiacks and
other children on the streets, and having
no list of regular subscribers.
Mr. James Inness, one of theMerrill
College students, sailed last week for
Atlanta, Ga.,|where he has been accepted
to fill a fine position in the ofice of a large
Mr. Ioness has the best _'
corporation.
wishes of his college and other friends.
”The‘“Wiltnn'-b‘oarding school, under the
management of Mr. Charles W. Whitlock,
enjbys a prosperity and popularity no less
marked than that which attended the in-
stitution when the well remembered and
highly respected father of thepresent prin-
cipal was at the helm. ' ’
Chester F. Tolies, Jr,, for many years
salesman at Comstock Brother's’ South
Norwalk store, has embarked in business
for himself, having purchased the Globe
Clothing House in Ansonia. “ Chet” will
surely win many friends in his new field
and will succeed, as he deserves to do.
At a recent meeting of the Fairfield
County Historical Society, the curator
acknowledged the receipt from Theodore
B. Nash, South Norwalk, of a cannon ball
fired by the British when they landed at
Norwalk during the Revolutionary war,
dug up on his father’s place 30 years ago.
Thomas Farrington died at his home on
Mott avenue, Thursday morning, aged 63
years. He was engaged in the grocery
business on Wall street with his son-in-iaw,
James Betts, under the firm name of Betts
& Farrington. The funeral was attended
from his late home, Saturday afternoon,
at 2 o’clock.
The fair of St. Mary’s church, now in
session in the Opera House, promises to be
a most glorious success, both socially and
financially. Large numbers of patrons are
in attendance on each evening, and the
management make it pleasant for all who
come in. We will have more to say about
his fair later.
The Waterbury American recently said
the family of Johnson, the convicted rape
fiend, did not bear a good reputation.
The parties referred to Sued the paperfor
$10,000 for libel and compelled it to prove
its assertions. The paper went into court
—and did it. Some people don’t know
enough to let bad enough alone.
The Methodist, Baptist and Congrega-
tional churches will unite in a Thanks-
giving service in the First Coagregational
church at 11 a. m. on Thursday. Thanks-
giving music by the choir, introductory
services by Dr. Van Alstyne, and sermon
byl'Dr. Noble. The public cordially in-
vited. __
A prominent Norwalk lawyer under-
took to.astonish himself and friends by
going to church Sunday. on his way
thither he had two bleedings from the
nose andfwas then honored with a snow
squall. He said he thought the incident
of his going to churchyunusual as it was,
received a good deal more attention than
necessary. ’
The Housatonic railroad company have
issued a new time table for the winter.
The pocket schedule comes in a radioally
changed form, double its former size, with
all the connections, branches, etc., com-
prehensively given, and is accompanied
with two large maps of the road and its
various divisions.
Dr. Noble very gently tou lied up his
hearers Sunday for not turning out more
generously to church service on Thanksgiv-
ing day. The good person possibly over-
looked thefact that it is the busiest day
in the whole year to wives and mothers in
cooking good things enough to make the
lords of creation thankful for anything.
i By an oversight at the borough election
in Wallingford recently none of the tickets
printed had any candidate on for auditor.
the name of H. L. Hall for auditor, and as
there was no one else voted for, Mr. Hall
'vvas elected by a unanimous vote and will
continue in the ofiice for another year.
"0. E. Wilson, our indefatigable real"
estate dealer, says it requires a deal of
grace in the heart to sit through a church
service with a pair of tight:ncw boots on,
as he did last Sunday. It does, and with
the added misery of having voted the
democratic ticket at the late election, we
don’t wonder his eyes grow weak and he
gets bald~headed.
Weare indebted to Hon. C. B. Lapham
for a neatly prepared "In Memoriem ” of
his illustrious father, who died Jan. 8th,
‘ 1890, soon after the completion of his term
as U. S. Senator from the state of New
York. Senator Lapbam was a big hearted
and great natured man, and the honors
cenferrcd upon him in life and in death,
were worthily bestowed.
The GAzm'Ta’s presentation of the name
'of General Olmsted for Speaker has been
received with unexpected favor, up to date,
but two possible objections have been sug-
' gested—one that our county had the speak-
ership last session and the other that the
General might not be the favorite of the
Consolidated railroad, which is accused of
owning and running our legislature.
David Spicer has resigned his govern.
ment ofilce as‘carrier of the mails between
the borough and South Norwalk. That
settles it. The price for the work must be
raised or else the office must be abolished,
for if Spicer couldn’t make both ends meet
on the salary, it is certain that nobody can,
The government is now seeking for bids
for Spicer’s successor.
1; 'Our citizens, and especially our business
‘n‘itn, who find it necessary to remain in
New ,York over night and .want to be
“down town,” will find a very desirable
place to stop for either a “square meal"
or lodgings at the United States Hotel,
corner of Fulton and Water streets; You
can live there sumptuously and reason-
ably, either on the American or European
plan. I See adv. in another column. .
At about 12 o’clockjSaturday night the
night watchman discovered an incipient
fire in a shed adjoining the Arnold foun—
dry. The alarm was sounded, but as it
was somewhat out of kilter it was not
heard by the firemen generally. How—
ever, some of the thnix boys, who hap-
pened to be close at hand, repaired to the
spot:and quickly extinguished the flames
before any material damagezwas done.
We are in receipt of a copy of the Nor-
walk Directory for 1891. It was compiled
by H. O. Bowers, and is published by
Wilbur F. Hanks, of Meriden. Mr.
Hanks wasjthe publisher of the most com-
plete and correct directory that Norwalk
ever. had, and the present volume will
in no wise injure his reputation as a first
class, reliable directory publisher. It is
handsomely: printed and a handy book to
have about.
Two big oil tanks located near the works
of the Danbury lime kiln, two miles from
the city exploded at midnight Friday,
making a terrifiic noise, shaking the build-
ings and awakening half the inhabitants
of the city. James Cunningham, aged 21,
night watchman, was killed. The tanks
were 'used to feed the fires under the
kilns, and the explosion was caused by gas
catching fire from a lantern, which Cun—
ningham carried.
Says the South Norwalk reporter of the
Sunday World : Mrs. Lester Cole, of
Brooklyn, spent severaldays among her
Norwalk friends the past week. Among
other guests in town are Miss Amy Sey-
mour, of New York ;vMiss Lulu Benedict,
of West Haven; Mr. James Alexander, of
Newark, N. J .;'Mr. Remson Schenck, of
Carnarsie, L. I.; Miss Luella Darius, of
Boston: Mr. George N. Eils, of Water-
bury; Mr. Clarence, Wilson, of Pittsfield;
Mr. Eugene L. Taylor, of Jersey City;
Mrs. Lettie Holmes, of Brooklyn; Mrs.
W. G. Sturtevant and Miss Faith Stutte-
vant, of San Francisco.
The Thanksgiving number of Good
Housekeeping comes to hand with the usual
rich table of contents. All of the poetry
has reference to the National Day, and so
has much of the other matter, including
an admirable Thanksgiving story. There
is an interesting paper on “The Color of 9.
Leaf,” which gives 'an insight to the rich
hues of our autumnal forests, with timely
articles on “Amateur Entertainments,"
.the preparation of pork as an article of
‘food, and Christmas gifts.
. _ ood House—
keeping. ,b the way, would, itself, make a
useful an acce table gift for any house-
wife, as the twe ve numbers of a yearly
subscription would be so many reminders
of the giver and the gift. Clark W. Bryan
& 00., Springfield, Mass. "
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The Derby Transcript [says that the
Consolidated road has purchased consid-
erable land near the station in Seymour,
contemplating cutting down the bank in
order to make room for several sidings,
and intends to erect a new passenger depot
on a recently acquired piece of land. The
present passenger depot will be converted
into a. freight depot. The proposed im-
provements will cost about $100,000.
James M. Creagh enjoys the distinction
of having introduced thefirst perfected
phonograph ever brought into Norwalk,
and many are the people who go into his
place to see and hear it. It reproduces
with the utmost distinctucss, songs, reci-,
tations, band selections, every variety .of
instrumental solos, lectures, auction sales,
etc., and it proves a most drawing card
for Mr. Creagh.
Another installment of the “ first-snow
of the season ” came down upon us with
unmistakable density on Sunday morning.
And with it came a chilly wave that im-
parted to the thermometer a sinking sen-
sation that sent its spirits down to twenty
degrees below zero, and established a sea-
sonable era of good feeling between the
iceman and the plumber, who have been,
ever since congratulating each other that
last season and this are two entirely differ-
ent seasons.
Deputy Sheriff Leonard was on a lively
chase ll) Stratford, yesterday, for Judge
Andrew Selieck, formerly. of Norwalk, a
delinquent witness who had been sum-
moned to appear before the court in the
case of Tax Collector B. J. Sturgcs vs. the
Town of Norwalk. After considerable
difficulty the deputy succeeded in finding
Selieck, but that individual at first refused
to accompany him to this city. When
Sheriff Leonard, however, threatened to
make him come, he yielded—Bridgeport
Farmer. '
For better enlightenment on this topic
read 'our Bridgeport correspondence.
The Palladium says that the Yale foot
ball eleven found at Springfield 8 much
stronger team to Oppose them than was
expected. Harvard won by virtue of a
superior rush line, and a truer handling of
the ballin beginning play; yet so closely
and honorably was the game fought, that
the little defeat for Yale brought no de-
pression. Not for fifteen years has Har-
vard beaten Yale on the foot ball field
and the new supremacy for the red" will
act as a stimulus on- the- great American
game. Certainly interest in the Thanks-
givmg game will be heightened by the
success of Harvard Saturday.
Georgetown-Norwalk personals via Dan-
bury News: Arthur Beers, of Norwalk,
was in town on Sunday and was enter-
tained in the famiiypf George Mills.—
Mrs. John Demarest, of Norwalk, was in
town and entertained by Mrs. C. F.
Thomas, last Saturday and Sunday.—
Miss Bessie Bates returned to Norwalk on
Monday after a very pleasant stay in town
with her sister, Miss Louis Miller.——Mrs.
Gould, who has sojourned in this place for
the past fortnight, was a guest of her sister,
Mrs. Marsh, returns this week to Norwalk.
-—The Misses Dora Lee and Ella Mills took
a trip to N orwalk last Saturday.
Donald G. Mitchell, the well known
writer under the name of “lit Marvel,’
was seriously injured last week by being
thrown from his carriage while driving.
His daughter had just stepped from the
carriage and the horse started with Mr.
Mitchell within and he was unable to hold
him. He was thrown on his head and
side and Was picked up unconscious. Aid
was summoned and an ugly gash was dis -
covered in the back of the neck. Mr.
Mitchell had not fully recovered from the
accident of a few months ago. He is 68
years old but will probably soon regain his
health, the doctors say.
Clarence Selieck, son of Mr. George W.
Selieck, and who has been making a
pedestrian tour of Europe, writes from
Rome under date of Nov. 3d that be ex-
pecetd to leave for Naples the next day,
that he has visited St. Peter’s, the Colis-
eum, Seven Hills, etc.; seen the Pope
and so many other; crocodile batted pre-
lates that he is glad to gaze at the Neapoli-
tan beauties who throng there with their
grotesque and brilliant head gear. Clar-
ence is an artist as well as traveler and
gives pen pictures and sketches of all the
strange. and unique things he sees, and one
of his ietters_beats an illustrated news-
paper. Hc expects to reach - home by
Christmas. .
La grippe, with all its attendant disa-
greeable uncomfortabieness, is again with
us. And according to the evidence of
those who are now in its clutches, and the
testimony and opinions of physicians and
other medical authority, the pesky plague
is to be more intensely unpleasant this sea- .
son than last. This office has its full
share of the pestilentiai pestilence, which
has succeeded in getting some of us laid
up, while others of us continue to drag
around in a f‘ half dead and alive ”- sort of
way. However, the bid GAZETTE has nev-
er yet been prevented from making its
regular weekly appearance, by any pestl—
lence that wasteth- at noonday nor any
famine that promenadeth by moonshine—
for all of which it joins its thousands of
readers, on this eve of another glad
Thanksgiving, in being truly grateful. ‘
Mr. Willis Burr, brother of ex-Selectman
Charles A. Burr, of Norwalk, died at his
residence in Bethe], on Thursday after-
noon of last week, after a long and pain-
ful illness. His funeral occurred on Mon-
day afternoon in Bethei, and was largely
attended, the Masons and hat finishers’
association turning out in a large body to
do honor to one, who had for many years
been an honored member of both organi~
zations. Deceased leaves three daughters
and one son. '
In less than a year twelve of the lady
employees at the Wheeler 'straw factory
on Butler street have taken unto themsel-
ves husbands. And, strangely enough, in
nearly every instance they have returned
to their work after a brief honeymoon.
One of the young ladies is credited with
having presented as an excuse for return-
that it was “too lonesome staying at home
with nothing to do.” As a general thing
household cares :increase with time, and
her excuse will not be a lasting one.
The movement which originated in We-
terbury to put a restrainer upon the itinerm
ant vendor for the protection of the local
merchant, by an .act of the legislature is
spreading, and the several boards of trade
m'the state have been asked to take hold
of the matter. Hartford has responded
favorably and it is probable that other
cities having these boards of trade will do’
likewise. The idea is a good one and it
~will do away with tbtse “fiy.by-night’
concerns who go about the country swind-
ling the people and taking trade from -
honest merchants. Let the bill pass.—
Ansonw Sentinel. .
The Consolidated railroad has made one
concession to the convenience of Norwalk
commuters and business men, that should
be gratefully remembered as “ greatly to
its credit.” They have changed the early
Norwalk special to 6.20, so that the many
workmen who go down to the Yale and
other Stamford factories can leave here af-
ter a comfortable breakfast and arrive
there in good time to go at once to their
work at 7 o’clock without having to loiter
'about as formerly nearly an hour before
they could get into their shops. A horse
car now leaves np town at six, and many
commuters who require to be in the city
at an early hour, now take the 6.20 special
to New York. Now if the management
would arrange to give Norvlmlk a 5 o’clock
express out of New York, it would make
a large number of its patrons especially
happy. We have such an express at 4.02,
—but that accommodates but a few of our
business men, compared to what one
would an hour later.
The visit to St. Paul’s church on Sunday
night last of Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter,
Bishop of New York, will long be remem-
bered by that evening’s fortunate congre-
gation. The presence of the distinguished
prelate in the old historic chancel was an
event, and his masterly words upon the
gospel for the day, with his beautiful and
pathetic application of its record of the
lad with the barley loaves and fishes, were
an inspiration. The Bishop had, in the
early morning, been driven from the
residence of his daughter at Mount Kensi-
co to the ancient Judge John Jay church,
in Bedford, where he officiated. After
the morning service he rode across the
Westchester Hills to St. Paul’s chapel, in
Lewisboro, where he was greeted by a
large congregation from two New York
and Connecticut counties. Here be ad—
ministered the apostolic rite of confirma—
tion. This service just at the shut of day
was an impressive one, and the Bishop’s
allusion, in his address to the candidates,
to the closmg hours of the liturgical year
was very solemn and appropriate. At
the conclusion of this service, and escorted
by the rector of St. Paul’s, he proceeded
to Norwalk, where he was most cordially
welcomed, the only regret, which was on
all sides expressed, being that notice of
the eminent ecclesiastic’s visit could not
have been more extensively circulated.
About two weeks ago Will Brainard
brought here a museum company of freaks
and actors and located them in the Wood
block, 37 Main street. All went well until
last Saturday night when the actors and
actresses came forth and complained that
Manager Brainard had failed in his agree
ment to do so and so. Brainard came
forth and challenged a denial from his
company, and while the dispute which en-
sued, was still going on, Mr. Brainard
jumped out of a back window and left the
wrangling horde behind. He afterward
said that he'left them only as a‘ matter of
expediency and to get. rid of them, but
that he expected to settle all bills be had
incurred, which might possibly amount,
as far as salaries were concerned to eight
dollars. ,Ws establisheed, later, that
Manage} ”Ward’s indebtedness was ten
times flnti’fiiefsaid it was. There seems
to be a’hifil‘ephncy between Brainard’s
story and tgpfitgry of his ‘gptors and we
”may yet hear more aboupgt. The com-
pany are “left here pennilessand are giving
an entertainment all the week, ,to raise
money enough to get out of town honor-
iably. They ofier an attractive list of. fea-
tures, and will undoubtedly secure the
amount and quality of patro’nagethey de-
serve. '
Norwalk Chronicler