' e‘ on. , ; "Mrs. ET. ‘ Betta is visiting friends in ‘ New York. __ f Mrs. Wm. B. ‘Lothrop, of New York 'was‘in tO'Wn yesteday. Mrs. Kneeland Curtis of New Haven is visiting her sister, Mrs. D. C. Nash. - The dry goods firm of James L. Am- bler 8; Co. made an assignment to-day. . —The finest Domestic and Imported cigars in Norwalk, at SUTHEBLAND’S. Dr. Noble has been electeda member of “The Aldine,” a literary ,club of New York. - Miss Cora Wright of New York, is visiting Mrs. H. C. Carter on West avenue. . Mr. Frederick Belden. of East ave- nue is preparing to start on his New Orleans trip. m” ...__- Geo. S. Gregory has a new. fancy matched pair of sorrels Which are safe and stylish drivers. “Bob" Adams started for New Or- leans yesterday to witnessthe Dempsey- Fitzsimmons fight. George R. Nash has recovered from a short illness which threatened to de- velop into pneumonia. ——’Save one-third living expenses by buying your meats and vegetables at Lyon’s market, No. 6, 'Water street. The ladies of Grace church guild meet at Mrs. Levi Warner’s, next “Wednesday afternoon when they will have a cake sale. Builder Wilson has secured the. con- tract for building Dr. Baxter’s cottage on East avenue and St. John Place. The work is to be superintended by ex- Builder Platt Price. Mrs. Rev. Dr. Childs has been called from her home in Washington to Bos- ton to attend at'the bedside of her very seriously ill sister. Mrs. Child’s mot-h- .er died there but a short time since. W. H. Lockwood, the horseman, has sold the valuable trotting horse, “Bar- rett,” to a Danbury man named Coley, for a good price. The horse has a rec’- ord of 2.27, and was shipped yesterday. The'funeral of Miss Margaret Camp was attended at her late ' residence on France street yesterday afternoon. Rev. C. M. Selleck. officiated. The in- terment was in. the family tomb in St. Paul’s churchyard. Pioneer Hook and Ladder company held their regular monthly meeting last evening, but deferred action for one month on the matter of changing the titles of foreman, etc., to “Captain, and first and second Lieutenants." Gen. Olmstead was appointed on the House Committee to wait on the Gov- ernor and inform him that “the House was Organized and ready for: busin- ess.”It isreported that Governor Bulk- icy replied that he too, was ready for _ business. o—A fine line of cheap andchoice note and letter paper—rthe cheapest for the quality in town at SUTHEBLAND’S. Papers received from Newburyport, Mass, report that the Rev. W. C. Richardson rector of St. Paul’s Episco- pal church in that place, formerly assistant at St. Paul’s Norwalk, had Christmas exercises and a Christmas congregation, “such as old‘ St. Paul’s has not seen in years.” ' , William Norman, employed at Betts' saw mill was considerably bruised yesterday by a heavy plank falling on him. The plank was being hoisted by a derrick, on which the chain broke, allowing the plank to fall a distance of .severaljfeet. - Young Norman was not seriously injured, and no bones were broken,'-but he was dreadfully bruised, and will be laid up for several days. He was taken home in Mr. Betts’ car- riage and isnow quite comfortable. He is almost the sole support of his wid- owed mother, and is a brother of War; ren Norman, the crippled newsboy. '——Fresh pork 10 cents a pound, and other meats at proportionally low rates, at Lyon’s market, N0. 6, Water street. A milkman, while attempting to cross the railroad track near Cross street, where there is no public cross- ing, narrowly escaped‘ being smashed up" this morning, by the first train down. He was almost upon the track when the train was on the very spot he had selected, and if the horse had not instantly stopped and turned its head around against its side, it Would have been knocked on the head by the cars. There is no regular, crossing and the railroad people have set up posts at short intervals, to prevent teams from crossing, but it is a custom with many to drive to the end of the row of posts and cross over to a vacant lot, as a short cut to School street. Ex-Congressman Vance of the New ’ Britain Herald is the happy father of the cutest boy baby that ever came to gladden the home of a democratic ed- itor. On its pretty little head there is. asoft, velvety fuzz, givingjust thefaint- est suggestion of that crushed straw- berry blush that flushes‘the proud fath- er’s expansive dome of thought. That the baby with such a father will grow to be 9. Milton, 9. Bacon or 8. Shake- speare, with phenomenal talent and ex- alted piety, we havn’t a doubt. g But most seriously and sincerely, the GA- 2mm extends to happy parents, the baby and all, the expression of its “dis- tinguished consideration and may they live long and prOSper.” WEEKLY ‘YNORW’ALK - GAZETTE. W. E. Ashton, formerly ticket agent, at Norwalk‘ depot,"h‘as resigned and is ' - W. F. Hyatt, of Brooklyn, is in town conferring with O. E. Wilson, of the: ' board Of trade, relative to the estab- lishment of his safety pin factory in Norwalk. Mr. Hyatt is an old Nor- . walker. A chicken rode from 'New York to. Bridgeport, two or three nights ago, on the cow-catcher of the locomotive, and was all right, with the exception of being considerably frightened. It will be raised by flagman Eagan- Mary Brown, colored, who lives in a hut near Ridgefield, is summoned by the court in Danbury to tell what she knows about the robbery of $150 from John Waterman, a Beantown sport, who, in company with a couple of other sports, visited her place on Sunday. Mrs. Helen Hannas, of Montana, whose husband is proprietor of a hotel at the head of the Yellow Stone, accom- panied by her sister, Mrs. James Fields, of Rye, N. Y., visited at Mrs; George S. Partric’s on High street yesterday. Both ladies lived in Norwalk some years ago, their maiden names being Newcomb. Miss Maggie Livingstone and Miss Susie Stone, of Bethel, while sleigh riding yesterday, were thrown out of the cutter by the horse becoming un- manageable, kicking the cutter to frag- ments, and running away. The girls were not seriously hurt, but were duly impressed with the indisputable fact that it is neither so pleasant nor safe for young ladies to go sleighing all by themselves, as otherwise. The sad intelligence has reached us of the untimely death of Mrs. W'illis A. Briscoe, who died yesterday at her home in Norwich, leaving a babe but a few days old. Mrs. Briscoe was for- merly Miss Leila Smith, youngest daughter of Mr. Henry Smith, of Ridge- field, and her death will be mourned by the many who knew and loved her here in Norwalk, as elsewhere. John Hoyl, who had his trunk smashed just after the holidays on a trip from New York to Norwalk, on the Consolidated, yesterday received from the Co.’s agent, Mr. C. T. Hem- stead a very civil letter to the effect that his claim for the damage should be promptly investigated and the result forwarded him in a few days. Mean- time Mr. H. is shivering without his overcoat. __ ________ _ Daniel J. ,Drew, a prominent hat manufacturer, of Hawleyville, left that place fora business trip to New York two or three weeks ago, and has not returned nor been heard from by his friends since. It has been rumored that he is in the west, but the report is not credited by those who know him best, and the opinion prevails thatrhe had no intention of returning as he promised when he left. Several huge hickory logs from 60 to 70 feet long, have been hauled through town on route to Guthrie’s sawmill the past few days. One shagbark of 60 odd feet in length, was over two and a half feet through at the butt and over a foot at the top end. It seems an insult to the memory of “Old Hickory” Jackson to cut down such grand old walnut trees. They were cut from the wood- land of Mrs. James Mallory between Westport and Norwalk. The new officers of Pilgrim Council, .0. U. A. M., wereinstalledlast evening by District Deputy George W. Rowe, of Bethel: Councilor, Walter H. Staf- ford; Vice-Councilor, S. H. Richmond; Inductor, D. P. Marshall; Examiner, A. M. Snifi'en; Rocording Secretary, L. D. Keeler; Asst. Rec. Sec’y., C. J. Betts; Treas., E. Osterbanks; Trustee, J. N. Whitney; Inside Protector, C. A. Owens; outside Protector, Judson Cable. Eleven candidates took the sec- ond degree, and a lunch was served. Rev. Dr. Noble in his reminiscent discourse last evening, forthe pastyear, stated that six members had removed from Norwalk and 12 had died as against three last year. Forty eight new members had been received into the church. The most surprising statement of all is that, in the Sunday school, with a membership ranging from 250 to 315, not a single death has occurred among the scholars for the past three years. Fifty-five hundred dollars are in hand and pledged toward liquidating the church debt of $9,000. The church receipts the past year were over 31,000 more than the year 1889, and within 38 of enough to liquidate all the current expenses of the church for the past year just closed. A shrewd looking fakir was in town yesterday exhibiting a rare animal which he carried in a box. It was an uncanny looking beast, and by picking him up by the scrufi‘ of his neck and then stretching his skin, he became so transparent that one could look right through him as through a piece of stained glass. The beast was half dog, half cat, half rabbit, half jiboose, half baked, and the rest mugwump. Its master professed to be a phrenologist and fortune teller, and got a good joke on a local clerk who started to have some fun with him. The clerk con- sented to have his “‘past, present and future” told. The fakir told him to take off both shoes. This was done. Then the fakir quietly remarked: ‘ ‘You took off your shoes—that was in the past; you have your shoes off—this is the present; you are going to put them on again—in the future.- Fifty cents, please.” succeeded by a young man named Hoyt, formerly in the employ of the New England road. -. Negotiations for the purchase of the borough’s property on Water. street, on the Housatonic railroad people are not yet concluded. The railroad com- pany are still considering the offer made them by the borough, but no informa- tion can be obtained as to their prob- able conclusion. The total revenue for Fairfield coun- ty for liquor licenses during the month of December, 1890, was $9,013. The amounts paid to the towns by the county commissioners were as follows : New Fairfield, $95; Fairfield, $486.40; Stamford, $1,144.75: Norwalk, $1,108.- 65; Westport, $725.80; Danbury,‘ $1,- 829.70. _________ Danbury ice dealérs are cutting and shipping on an average. thirty-five car- loads of ice a day at Sympaug lake, between Bethel and Bedding, and Umpawaug, lake athanford’s Station. The ice is from ten to twelve inches in thickness and of excellent quality, es- pecially the Umpawaug product, from which the D. 8.: N. railroad company are filling their own ice houses. On Tuesday evening a party of four~ teen people all members of the Broad River chapel, paid a visitto Mrs. Susan Mills, who is at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. P. W. Mead, in New Canaan, at which time amost profitable and inspiring season of prayer was had, and an evening of pleasant and whole- some social intercourse was enjoyed. Mrs. Mills is an invalid, the sands of whose life are running low, and the spirit of kindly christian remembrance shown in this visit, brought cheer and comfort to her patient heart, and gives her strength anew to bear the burden of her afilictions. It will be long and pleasantly remembered by all whose privilege it was to be present. ' Wednesday afternoon George Allen, bartender at Grummans’ saloon on Main-street, had a narrow escape from being shot. It seems that Henry Grumman, one of the proprietors, stepped back of the bar and took from a drawer an empty revolver. He snap- ped it several times over the empty chambers, then went to a box of blank cartridges, took one out and put it in the revolver and snapped it, the weapon at the time being pointed al- most in a line with George Allen’s head. As the trigger was pulled, there was a loud report, a shattering of glassware on the back bar beside George’s head, and George heard a' spiteful “ping” and felt the wind whizz past his ear. An investigation showed that somebody had put a loaded cart- ridge into the box where only blanks were supposed to be kept, and Henry had unluckily picked out the mis- chievous cartridge. The ball .was found flattened out against the back bar, having gone through a box of cigars and shattered an expensive de- canter of wine. Both men were badly frightened. It was simply another illustration of the old and often demon- strated truth that the most dangerous gun is the gun that isn’t loaded. ——Never accept an electric bell with only one cell of battery ; it’s like send- ing a boy to do a man’s work. See adv. About fifty ice cutters came dOWn on Conductor Dyas’ early morning train from Danbury Wednesday to har- vest ice on Lake Sympaug, which is about a mile and a half this side of Bethel. As the conductorhad received no orders to stop and let them ofi‘at the lake they concluded to get off at Bethel and walk down the track to their work. On arriving at Bethel, however, the conductor received tele- graphic orders to stOp at the lake. By the time he had read the order, the workmen were alighting from the rear end of the smoking car, Onto the depot platform, coming out in single file and heading toward the engine, when Con- ductor Dyas intercepted the leaders and told them to get aboard again, as he would stop for them._ AccOrdingly, as they were just then" at g the, forward end of their car, they stepped on at that end, and as the first one entered,- the last man of the gang was just get- ting out of his seat to follow the line out. Observing the crowd still getting off, theleaders, thinking the ordershad been misunderstood or reversed, fol- lowed close on the heels of the last man, and passed through the car to the for- ward end, and out onto the depot plat- form again with the entire line closely following, thus forming an endless cir- cle of men in single file, walking ’round and ’round, in at one end of the car and out at the other, till Dyas, who stood at the forward end hurrying them aboard, ejaculated in amazement “For heaven’s sake! how many men are there in this gang?” then glancing toward the other end, he saw in the never-ending line a countenance trimmed with red Donegal whiskers and a short clay pipe stuck upside down into wondering grin, which he identified as the same chromo that had impressed him a minute beford, going into the car. He instantly saw the ridiculous condition of things and put a stop to it by stationing himself at the exit end and breaking the parade col- ready on the car and hustling the others on board. It was a grand walk- around and afforded much amusement to the other passengers, . umn at the car step, halting those 0.1-. SD (HEY-NOR WALK The lady employees of Wilson’s hat. factory will give their regular annual sociable in Music Hall on Friday even- ing. Jan. 16. » ; _ 52' 92-. -.‘(-. -The county commisswners resumed their investigation of the license cases at 9.15 this morning. ferth hurry up and expedite matters. Meantime. those whose cases have not been decided, are impaled upon the ragged edge of ‘Lhopefeferred? 'W'm. “Tehle will rtemove his hatting business next Monday, from its pres- ent location, corner of Main and Pine streets, to the factory of “'. B. Hub- bell. The city was rather quiet yesterday. The renowned John Smith did not go to Gotham to enjoy pot-luck with his bosom friend, Jones, and Miss Glo- riana Higginbottom, of Ox Ridge, did not come hither and visit her thirteenth cousin. ; .. The boys are enjoyiiig good skating as the creek Opposite LeGrand Jen- nings’ residence. 9': :1: 6(- Prof. Newell’s dancing class will be- gin its next guarter on the 23d inst. at Music Hall. ' An elegant crayon of retiring Capt. Daniels of Co. C, Stamford, is exhibit- ed in Baxter’s drug store. It is the work of John Semogs,*Bridgeport. ’Tis said “When the wine is in, the wit is out ; ” but this bit of antiquated wisdom was recently somewhat contra- dicted in this municipality in the case of a wine-bibber who, when accused by his exasperated spouse of coming home “tight,” wagered the price of a new hat with her against a bang-up polonaise, that he could properly walk a chalk. line. He then drew a line across the" bare kitchen floor which correctly rep- resented the squirming trail of an eel on the mud flats, and then walked it with an ease and celerity that would have excited the envy of a Blondin. She lost the polonaise.* A Brooklyn young lady who makes periodical visits with relatives in this city, is said to pnssess what is termed ‘ ‘second-sight” in a remarkable degree. One of her exploits here, as related to the reporter,is as follows: An insurance policy upon the life of the deceased wife of a citizen could not be found af- ter her death. Finally a friend of the family, who knew the seeress, advised that she be consulted. This, accord- ingly was done. She was called upon at the house of her friends, and after hearing a statement of the case, con- sented to try and find the missing door ument. She then seated herself in a darkened room, and in a short time was in the “Land of Nod,” or some other mysterious region unknown to ordin- ary mortals. Presently she began to speak, and gave a correct description of the interior of the house in which her visitors lived, and at last told them that the paper was in a small, dark room which was not used. but nailed up. Up- on returning home, the parties, after cogitating for some time, at last re- membered that a certain unused closet under the back stairway had been fast- 'ened up with nails, and after effecting an entrance, the policy was discovered therein where it is supposed the insured - woman had, secreted it previous to her death. The young lady from Brook- lyn was an entire stranger to the par- ties and had never been on the street where they resided. Here is a chance for the smart Alecks to try their skill at unraveling puzzles. It’s a corker, and we guv it up. A LULL IN THE STORM. Both Parties Awaiting a Legal Decision at Hartford. HARTFORD, Jan. 10.—All was quiet about the capitol yesterday. The politicians are, waiting for the supreme court’s decision regarding the “for” ballots. Judge Hall, of the supreme court, has already declared them illegal. If the supreme court sus- tains the decision, the Democratic can- didates will be seated. If, on the other hand, it is reversed, the election of a. gov- ernor will be left to the general assembly. The senate is Democratic and the lower house Republican, which renders it ex- tremely improbable that they can agree on a governor. In the event of the matter being referred to the legislature it looks if Morgan G. Bulkeley, the present incum- bent, who is a Republican, would hold ver two years more. This would be much more gratifying to the Republicans of the state than the elec- tion .of Judge Morris, the present Demo- cratic candidate. Governor Bulkeley is still in the gubernatorial chair exercising the prerogatives of the office. It is known that a number of . 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