Founded in 1800.] .4 n Entertaining and Inst motive Home Journal, Especially Devoted to Local News and Interests. [$1.50 aYear. VQL. XCI. The Daily Gazette Is issued every week-day at 3 P. lit. at ONE CENT PER COPY. The Cheapest Rates for Advertising, and THE LARGEST CIRCULATION. The Weekly Gazette, [Combinedwith Fridav’s Daile Is issued every Friday at Noon. at 1111111111 CENTS PER corr. on $1.50 PER rEAn. The Daily and Weekly. Served to Local Subscribers at TEN orx'rs PER WEEK. or. $5.00 PER YEAR. A. H. Brmorox. Proprietor. in: This paper has the largest circulation of any paper in the State west of Bridgeport. OUR J OBBIL‘ G DEBARTMENT. Mn. HARRY M. GARDNER, Jr... of New York, has charge of the GAZETTE’s Engraving, Book and Jobbing Department. He is an expert and experienced Job Printer, and no work en- trusted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done. f THE LIVE NEWS OF TO-DAY. ——-See advertisement dog lost. 28-3t Mr. George C. Bryant was in town yesterday. Miss Ida Mosher 1s at the Danbury telephone ofi'ice. ' The Bridgeport Wheel club is prepar- ing for a 100 mile road race. The Hartford Wheel club cleared $1,100 at its Fourth of July meet. S. B. Wilson had secured the con- tract for repairing the Boston store. The reunion of the Ninth C. V. will be held at Savin Rock Tuesday, August 1 1th. Miss Lou Bouton, of Berkley street, goes to Weedsport. N. Y. to-day for‘ a visit. ‘ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Lester Adams of Gran- berry Plains, are the proud parents of a baby girl. g , Ex-Alderman Jones is having a tar- red concrete driveway laid from the street to his barn. The Geo. N. Ells house on West ave- nue is being treated to a new roof cov- ering of shingles. The catch basin in front of A. C. Golding’s new house on East avenue, has been lowered two feet. Joseph Bray of Wilton avenue, and his little son, have gone to Laconia, N. H., to visit Mr. Bray’s parents. Mrs. H. M. Arnold of Franklin street, city, and her sister, Miss Mattie Slow- . en, are visiting friends in New Jersey. The Bell Telephone Company has ab- sorbed the Federal TelephOne zCompa- ny and enjoys a monopoly in Canada. A fine saddle horse belonging to Cap- tain Daniels of Stamford dropped dead on the Field Point race track, Green- wich, on the 4th. No oflicial information of the report— ed resignation of Captain W. F. Daniel, Company C, Fonrth Regiment, has as yet been received. Private J. D'. Goulden, of Co. 0,1.has . been tendered an appointment on Col. Skinner’s stafl, as inspector of rifle practice, with the rank of captain. In the great letter carriers’ parade in New York July 4th, the Stamford ofice was the only office in the state. repre- ‘ sented by the full force employed. Ex-Secretary of the Treasury George S. Boutwell celebrated his golden wed- ding at his home in Groton, Mass, Wednesday. The Rev. H. S. Kidd. of the Baptist church, New Canaan, has resigned to accept a call from the church at [Quin- ton, N. J. He will leave New Canaan about July 15th. “Seotty,” with Gregory’s monster omnibus and a fine “four-in-hand,” drove a pic-nic party, gotten ,up by Messrs. Fred. Buckley, Henry Glover and others, to Roton Point yesterday. A number-of pensioners in town have received notice within the past few days that as soon as the necessary arrange. ments can be made pensions will be paid every month, instead of quarterly as heretofore. The annual meeting of the corpora- tors of the Norwalk savings society will be held at the Banking House on Wed- nesday, the 22d day of July, 1891, at 10 1 o’clock a. m. Polls will be open from 10 a. m. to 11 a. m. —Mr. Albert Studwell, of Riverbank, graduate of the Merrill Business col- lege, Stamford, has been placed' 1n po- sition as buokkeeper in the ofi‘ice of Dr. D. J. McKay of. Stamford. Mrs. E. T. Stewart is visiting Mrs. -, George Van Tassell on Main street. Henry Hoyt, Dr. Many, and Dutch ——Huyle1:’ s celebrated candies in sealed packages just received at .C. DeKlyn & Son’ s. 28 2t It is now thought that three men were buried under the coal which slid into the water from the Housatonic railroad shed Tuesday. -——Huyler’ s celebrated candies in sealed packages just received at C. DeKlyn & Son’s. 28 2t David B. Decker of South Norwalk, has leased two pieces of oyster grounds below the Bridgeport light house. One consists of over 68 acres and the other 44. John R. Judd, while testing a revol- ver in his store, No. 1,364 Broadway, New York, accidentally shot hls wife. _ Another didn’t know it was loaded idiot. A chestnut horse with a white stripe on its forehead and weighing 1,100 pounds was stolen from the premises of E. F. Hawley, Newtown, at an early hour this morning. A lively party of young ladies and gentlemen went down the bay this morning on a sailing excursion. The Lawn Tennis Club was largely repre- sented. Another of Mr. Fred Mead’s daugh- ters is down with the diptheria, the other having just recovered and it is feared this morning that Mr. Mead himself is threatened with it. In an interview with Hon. James W. Hyatt this morning as to the next pres- idential nomination, he stated to the reporter that in his opinion it lay be- tween Grover Cleveland and John D. Kimmey,with Kimmey a little ahead. “Ammonia, ” says Prof Edgar F. Smith, “is an ingredient 1n many bak- ing powders, and one which I regard as highly objectional, since it seriously impairs d1gest1011 _” _ These is no am- monia, no 'adiilteration whatever in Cleveland’s Baking Powder. A gentleman passing the fruit stand adjoining Taft Bros. store, this morn- ing, was struck in the eye by the cor- ner of the awning frame, which pro- jects some two feet at an altitude of about five and a’ half feet. The police should reef that awning. Before cold weather sets in the Con- solidated road will have four tracks in use from South Norwalk to a point be- yond Greens Farms. At various points further east gangs of men are engaged. and the prospect is there will soon be four tracks through to Bridgeport. item yesterday suggesting what the m- do' 1n the way of burdening the records of the census taker, we had no idea that Cranberry Plains’ more stimulating air would be able to score such a sur- prising beat. But so it 13, and wonders will never cease. Vide a population item among to-day’ s locals. ’ Engineer Frank Beers says the rea- Inspector wasn’t that he couldn't stand so much borough cold water, but that he couldn’t stand so much “bolslng ” ‘He says with Engineer Wood Chief Prowitt, Fred. Mead and Frank Street after him all the time was enough to kill any ordinary man, but then to have “Campy” added to the list Of bosses, just drove him distrach and mixed his‘ =m1nd all up. “Within the past day or two Connecti- cut farmers have notified the internal revenue commission that they intendto manufacture maple sugar for the boun-' ty next spring. All such notifications come too late for the next crop. Under the law applications must be filed be- fore July 1 preceding the time the sugar is manufactured, and in consequence farmers who failed to notify collectors of internal revenue or the commission. er of their intention before the end of last month, cannot participate in the bounty act upon their products of 1892.” This evening Deputy. Grand Com- mander, J. W. Booth of Bridgeport, man Commandery, No. 470, U. O.G.C., as follows: N. 0., Wm. F. Bryant; V. N. 0., Mrs. S. J. Benedict; W. P., J. F. Alger; K. of R., Geo. C Comstock; F. K. of R., Howard W. Doty; trea_s., Wm. N. Simone; W. H., Chas.D.Buck- ley; W. I. G., Miss SusanE. Rosecrans; W. O. G., W. F. Fillow. There' 1s a growing interest manifested for this popular order whose motto is “Quality rather than quantity ” in making addi- l tions to its members p. _ George are down the harbor to-day, ! fishing. l vigorating atmosphere up there could. son he resigned his position as Water will install the officers elect of Sher-- NORWALK, CONN., FRIDAY, JULY 10,1891 Good Luck. Percy Glendening, our always polite assistant P. M., went over to Compo yesterday and caught a fine mess of Soft s-he‘ll clams, sixty pugnacious crabs and a most beautiful sun- -burn. Yet he ’ - says Compo isn’t a flea-bite to Roches- ter as a place for fishing. Burglary Instead of Murder. Cunningham and Blake, the two Dan- bury men, supposed to have murdered “Bridgeport Dick” a month ago, were arrested the other day. They were wanted also for burglary in Litchfield county. The evidence against them for the murder of “Dick” was so in- complete that Coroner Doten decided yesterday to allow them to be taken to uitchfield to be tried for burglary. N orwalk Factories. The experts at the Union Mfg. Co. mills have had to work nights as well as days to get out the fall and winter samples of their exquisite cloths. The Lounsbury, Bissell »& Co.’s felt mill expects to start up in a few days, working on orders. The upper mill has been driven all the season and business is still increas- ing. The prospect for a heavy and pros- perous fall business for all our cloth mills, is exceedingly encouraging. A Merltorlous Exhibition. Venango Spectator, Franklin, Pa. ., says: -—The two performances given by Walter L. Main’s circus and Menagerie in Franklin, last Saturday, received, as they merited, the full patronage of the public. The show is excellent in all its parts, with nothing about it to offend the most fastidious taste. There were no gamblersor pick-pockets fol- lowing it. The business manager.Wal- ter L. Main' 1s a competent and cour- teous gentleman who understands his business thoroughly. There is no bet- ter show on the road than Main’ 3 cir- cus. This show will exhibit at South Nor- walk, Wednesday July. 15. Amelie Rives’ Sllence. The literary event of the summer in the United States will be the publica- tion in the Cosmopolitan Magazine of a short novel: by'Amelie' Rives, which she calls “According to St. John.” It is said to be the strongest work from the pen that produced “A Brother to Dragoons” ,and “The Quick or the Dead.” Its publication in the Cosmo- politan is a' guarantee that it will con- tain nothing of the kind that exc1ted criticism in Miss Rives’ earlier pro- ductions. During her two years’ abroad; Mrs. Chanler-..has written nothing else for the public, and this product of her matured mind may be expected to register with something like exactness, this author’ s position in the world of . ____.__ . letters. Comstock Hill is humiliated. In an . v: Westward Ho 1 ' This afternoon, at'4130, Editor Map- les, Cashier Lewis Green and Dr. A. H. Baldwin leave for Minnessota, all as 'odistinguished representatives of the _‘:press and as Connecticut delegates to f'the National Editorial Convention at St. Paul. Dr. Baldwin takes his sister with him and ’expectsto meet his brother and bride at St.,Paul., From = this point the quartette go down to the old Illinois home of the doctors’ par- ents, and after a brief visit there will return to Norwalk. After the close of the press convention EditOrs Green and Maples sieze their grip sacks and start on a trip of discovery to the Pacific coast. which 13 to cover aboutsixweeks. It is to be hoped they will escape arrest ‘ as crooks, scalping by the Indians and land slides, and have aright down good , time, singing as they go A special Washington dispatch says‘ Let every bum traveler 11 up his glass , And every real editor have a free pass, 'Vive la companion . Good Boys. The brothers, James and Charles T. Lycett, have purchased the north half of the old Asa-Smith Pottery property and will put in new machinery and pre- pare to vigorously push the business- which for many years was one of Nor- walk’s most important and profitable manufacturing industries. Boards of Trade in several places in New Jersey made strenuous efi'orts to induce the Lycetts to establish pottery 'works in that state. One town going so far as to offer them a site for their works free if they would locate there. But to all such temptations they have turned, a deaf ear, lo'yally sticking to One of the prettiest, Godfbless'ed towns in Amerié ’ ca, and here they will . abide and -'may ~ they win as they deserve unlimited suc- 5 ce'ss and their example be emulated by others of our business men and capital- ists of Norwalk. A few more of this quality of citizens would seen drive out the cry of “dull times,” so often heard among our merchants, mechanics and “ ‘ less, but perhaps the most remarkable laboring men. llBlllZE IN DHRIEN. Hotel and Grocery Store Burned to fthe Ground. The Entire Village Near the Depot "lg 1n Peril. . 7"_-—"—'—' At a quarterto one o’clock this morn- ing, Liveryman George G. Bailey saw a slight blazegon the south-east corner of Mather’sr grocery store. It was fast creepinglup the side of the store in a blaze of only about two feet in width, He ran for water, but before he could dashapail on the flame it had reached‘the second story, when it flashed and spread out like an explo- sion of-gunpowder and the entire rear of the building\ was enveloped. He gave an alarm and soon neighborscame running with their pails to draw water out of the adjacent wells and fight the flames. Mr. LerOy Monroe, clerk in the Mather store; his family being absent in Norwalk, was awakened, but only was able to get out with his life and clothing. his furniture being all burn- ed up; He 18 a we rthy and popular young man and the citizens propose to raise adsubscription for his relief. The Mather grocery store carried the largest stock 1n the place and every thing was entirely consumed. Mel- ville Mead had an insurance of $4,500 on stock and fixtures and Mr. Mather claims he will lose about $2, 000 above the insurance. It was soon seen to be useless to struggle with the Mather store and all efi'orts were then directed to Mat Lam- bert’s hotel and saloon. It was quickly covered with wetted carpets and a “bucket brigade” kept them soaked, while other willing hands were getting 'out the furniture and boarders’ effects. Fortunately every- thing movable' of value, was gotten out, but the hotel building could not be saved. )That soon burst out all ablaze and roared and blazed like a forest fire, and 1n less than an hourwas a ruin of ashes and a heap of charred timbers. The hotel belonged to the estate of JamesH. Reideback of New York. It was said to be well insured. ~ Mr. Lambert was not insured and though he has saved most of his efl'ects his business is destroyed. ' The boarders at the hotel saved about all their clothing and effects, with the exception of Liveryman Bailey who is about to-day, mourning the loss of a pair of new $10 alligator skin shoes he had just brought home and forgot to carry out in his hasty flight from the building. Mrs. Lambert heard a crackling noise a little before 1 o’clock and got up and went to the window where she saw the flames running up the side of the Math- ' er store in the manner described. She roused the inmates and helped to give the alarm, and to her fortunate awaken- ing is due the getting out of her board; ers and their and her own efl‘ects. The Mather store building was owned by Moses -Mather, and Was in- sured for $4,000. The loss on the ‘ building will not be more than from $500 to 8800, ‘ over- insurance. The next struggle was to save the stoma: the east side of the driveway to the Bailey stable. Wet carpets and pails of water, and garden engines inserted' 1n tubs, were uvigorously plied On the south or ex- posed side of the edifice and but for almost superhuman exertions it could not have been saved. It is badly , scorChed, the cornice's charred and a hole burned through the siding into ' the upper story, but a hundred or two . dollars will fix it all right. This build- . ing is insured. Moses Mather 1s also its owner. ' Fortunately not a breath of wind_was blowing else the entire line of frame buildings with St. John’s ‘floral hall, and extending from the turnpike on the southand running up to and oppo- site the Darien depot, would have un- do ubtedly been laid in ashes, if, indeed, ' it had not crossed the tracks and level- ed the Tooker Houseand all the series of stores and dwellings on the west side of the turnpike. This narrow and' almost miraculous escape frém a total destruction of their entire village,~will, it is hoped, awaken the citizens of Darien to immediate efiorts to secure a' water supply for" use in case of fire, and a hook and ladder, company should be at once formed. ,The origin of the fire is a mystery, but the universal belief is that the Mather. store was deliberately set on fire by some one of the more than one ' “fire bugs” believed to live m or near Darien. The individual cases of heroism and extraordihary exertion narrated to the Dmr GAzErrE scribe, were number- —Huyler’s celeb rated candies Jwas that of Jesse Millspaugh, who untiringly worked the pump between the two burning buildings with the strength of an athlete, with a wet car- pet over his head and enveloping his body and which required that every“ second pail he pumped should be pour- ed over him to prevent his being roast- ed alive under his covering. The half dozen little garden hand en- gines or as the boys called them “squirt guns” used at the fire, were at a large premium this morning and more will be ordered from New York before night. From all accounts the little things did wonderfully effective service by being placed in wash tubs into which water was constantly poured from the pails. As an evidence of Leroy Monroe’s pluck and of Darien enterprise, he was out this morning at the usual hour tak- ing his customers’ orders for groceries, which his more fortunate fellow mer- chants were filling for him. SOUTH NORWALK. The G. IZETTE is on sale at the news ofilces of Fred Coleman, II. Thelle, W. L. Ather- ton, and II. E. Bodwell. Orders for all kinds of JOB PRINTING received at our branch omce on Railroad Square. It 18 the bicycler who now anticipates the early worm. There will be a meeting of the Labor day committee to-night. Councilman Craw is acting as mayor in the absence of Mayor Reed. Members of the South N orwalk club are enjoying themselves at Betts’ is- land to-day. The City of Albany brought up another installment of fresh air chil- dren last night. It is stated that ‘ ‘Ed” Morehouse sits up all night in order to mount his new bicycle at daylight. Mrs. Baldwin, of Bristol, R. I., is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Charles Rogers, of East avenue. Mr. Thos...Wat.erbury, for some time ‘libatio'n artist at the Dorlon House, has gone to Mount Vernon. Builder Sherwood has commenced roofing Wm. Hillsdon's new brick building on Elizabeth street. A handsome yawl rigged naptha run- ning boat from Bridgeport, is anchored off the Washington street bridge. The yacht Marguerite, Capt. Merrill’s, is out to-day with Dr. Parker’s family. They will be at the yacht race ofi‘ Cos Cob. Policeman James Dunn, of the 8th N. Y. Precinct, with his family is visit- ing Mr. David O’Conner on Wood street. Mr. Nelson Bearse, bookkeeper at the Consolidated railroad freight depot, has gone to Chatham, Mass. ., for a week’s vacation. Glover’ s American band 13 open for engagements. The band 1s improving rapidly and will be heard from ere the season closes. ' LaWyer Bright, of New York, will occupy his house on Calf Pasture island for a few weeks. His summer residence is in New' Canaan. At 6 o ’clock this morning the post- ofl‘lce thermometer registered 94 de- grees. Annanias must have owned it at some time or other. It' 1s proposed to organize a non-se-‘ cret endowment society in this city, on Monday next. The supreme assembly convenes 'at Worcester, Mass. ‘ ' Leon Lewis, night clerk at the Adams Express office, 'is finishing up a week’s vacation. Next week Henry Jennings, delivery clerk for the same company, will take a week’s vacation. ’ Capt. George Byxbee made 'a mis- step on the yacht Julia yesterday, and ' landed his length in the mud, but had presence of mind enough to keep his mouth shut and swallow none of it City clerk R. M. Wilcox hold the number that drew a fine silver mic, yesterday. The number was packed in a brand of‘ tobacco that he is wont to smoke. He exhibits the prize with pride. Philip N. Smith, bookkeeper at Lounsbury, Mathewson & Co. left this morning for Ridgefield for a two weeks vacation. His family accompanied him. He took his rod and reel “for incident- al use, ” he said. Chas. F. Hallock received a letter yesterday announcing the safe arrival in England of ' his daughter, and her grandmother, Mrs. ‘ Smedley. Miss Hallock experienced all the woe there is in seasickness. Butler Lodge, 1.0.0. F.,contem- plates visiting her sister lodge at Hunt- ington, L. 1., some evening the last of this month. when the' moon shines. It is now thought that the trip will be made on the steamer Medea.‘ avr“ in sealed packages just received at C. .DeKlyn &_ Son’s. 282i; PRESS TELEGRAMS. Specially Wired to the Norwalk Daily‘ Gazette. Died Suddenly. NEW HAVEN, July 10. ——At an early hour this morning Mr. Charles M. Murphy, the well known shoe maker, whose place of business is at No. 2 Cen- ter street, was found dead in his bed at his room in Katsch’s block on George street. Medical Examiner White and Coroner Mix were notified. and at the hour of going to press are holding an examination into the cause of his death. He retired as usual last evening and was found as stated above. He leaves a wife to whom he was recently married. + Struck by a Train. New HAVEN, July 10.——Wi11iam Hols land, aresident of Guilford, aged about thirty-seven years, and who is a bridge carpenter on the Consolidated road, was struck by the paymaster’s train be- tween Clinton and Madison yesterday morning. He was brought to the hos- pital here. His injuries consist of a broken leg, two severe scalp wounds and a possible fracture of the skull. Late last evening he was in an uncon- scious condition, but it was thought he might recover. -——-<+ Lawn Tennis. At 5 p. m. to-day, Knapp and Look- wood will play the game which was an- nounced for yesterday, but which could not be played on account of the wet condition of the grounds. The games to-morrow will be, sin- gles—2 p. m., Burchard vs the winne r of to-davs game; 3 p. m., Taylor vs Acton; 4 p. m., Watkins vs L. Ray- mond. Doubles—5 p. m., Burchard and Lockwood vs Knapp and Russell. --———~——-< o A Happy Man, As the DAILY GAZETTE reporter was on his way up town this morning he . s'aw Charley Ferris, he of the Electric Light company,~ standing 119 in his wa- gon dancing a kind of “Mobile Buck” " shuffle and warbling “Comrades,” or some other pathetic song, interspers- ing his singing with a loud hurrah now and then. The cause of all this hilari- ty turns out to be the arrival .of an 8 pound little Miss at his house early this morning. * A Narrow Escape. On Wednesday the nurse who has in charge the little girl baby just arrived to bless the home of Wm. M. Betts, lighteda coal oil stove to take of the chill in the nursery, when the baby’s little tot of a sister dashed pastin eager- ness to see the baby, upsetting the oil stove and setting carpet and her cloth- ing on fire. The nurse screamed for help and with fortunate presence of mind, laid down the infant and smoth- ered out the fire which was burning the little girl’s clothing, also that on the carpet, which threatened a conflagra- tion of the ouse. The nurse’s hands were slight y scorched and with that exception all escaped what probably would have been a dire disaster had it been less wisely and coolly managed. New Canaan’s Fair. —The ladies of the Congregational church of New Canaan, will give their annual fair and social gathering on Thursday, July 16th, in Nichols’ Opera House. Being a moonlight night, the , young men can enjoy adelightful drive from New Canaan to Norwalk after having enjoyed a tasteful dinner ar- ranged by the ladies, to be served at 6 p. m. Tkere 1s no question but that the ladies will eclipse all other previous efi’orts. , 28 7t. FIRE BARGAINS! At The Boston Store. —1 Lot Ladies’ Winter Newmarkets, slightly wet, at half price. Men’s all-wool Undershirts worth $1.50 at 500. ~ Men’s Summer Underwear, a trifle soiled, were 75c. and 81, are now 25c. and 390. Men’s Percale Laundried Shirts, a little damp, were 98c., are now 49c. Men’s Neglige Shirts, elegant styles, worth $1.25, at 790. Ladies’ Vests, slightly. soiled, were 390., at only 250. ' 1 Lot Men’s Neckwear, all styles, worth 390. at 19c. Ladies’ White Lawn Pleated Shirt Waists worth 81. 25, at 98c. 1Lot Fancy Plush, a little wet, 1c. per yard. . Children’s Flannel Suits, a little soiled, at half the regular price. ' Fancy Ribbon, for millinery pur- poses, 3 in. wide, slightly soiled, worth 39c. at 13c. Bargains in remnants of Wool Dress Goods, and short lengths in Table Dafiiask, will sell very low, to close. . Bosrox SronE. . Corner Main & Wall streets, Norwalk.
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