GAZETTE. Founded in 1800.]- .4 n Entertaining a VOL. XCI. N ORWALK, CONN, FRIDAY, nd Instmctive Home J carnal, ESpecially Devoted to Local News and Interests. [$1.50 a. Year. , JULY 24, 1891. NUMBER 30. 2 f The Daily Gazette Is issue every week-day at 3 P. 31., at one CENT PER corr. The Crleapesc Rate: for Advertising, and THE LARGEST cmanA'riox. The Weekly Gazette. [Combined with Fridav’ ailv.l Is issued every Friday at Neon. at runns CENTS PER COPY, on $1.50 PER Yr “3. The Daily and Weekly. Served to Local Subscribers at rsx cnxrs man WEEK. on $5.00 PET. YEAR. A. H. Brme'rox. Proprietor. This paper has the largest oireul’ation of any paper in the Slate "766' ofBridgeport. ;? OUR J 01331 1‘ G DEPARTJIENT. Mu. HARRY M. GARDNER. J n.. 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. THE LIVE NEWS OF TO-DAY. The rain, the rain, the beautiful rain. Frank Blake has severed his connec- tion with Finney 8: Benedict. —Chew Harvey’s Best fine out To- bacco. 1w146 The Connecticut drummers are din- ing at Branford Point to-day. —Harvey’s Best Tobacco only five cents. 1w146 John B. Correll drank a glass of ice water at Putnam, yesterday, and dropped dead. ——Fancy Chewing Tobacco Harvey’s Best. 1w146 John Weyerhauser has severed his connection with Betts & Barrington, the Wall street grocers. -—Extra Fine Chewing Tobacco Har- vey’s Best. 1w146 Miss Lillie Kissam is located at Bethlehem, in the White Mountains, for a prolonged stay. —A BBAINY Box, 15 or 16 years of age, is wanted immediately in the Jobbing Department of the DAILY GAZETTE. Uncalled-for letters for Miss Eflie L. Chapman and G. J. Pierce, remain at the post office. It is said that Mr. Bert. Godfrey’s econd child is now stricken with the carlet fever. Henry Guthrie’s illness has develop- (1 into neuralgia of the chest, and yes- .erday his friends were quite alarmed bout him. Rev. Dr. Noble is to take his vaca- ion the last three weeks of August and is said will spend most of his time in he “Highlands.” Miss Mary E. Sullivan, of Saugatuc k, ho died there Wednesday, aged 23, ‘ as buried this morning from the West- ort Catholic church. Alexander Harrison’s famous painting Le Crepuscule,” owned by the Cor- ran Art Gallery of Washington, has con engraved for the Mid-summer oliday Number of The Century. W. R. Elwood, of Greens Farms, is . ing as a missionary to India. He has on a great student, and recently aduated from the Union Theological minary and is spoken of as an active orker. The “Ministering Circle” of the ing’s Daughters” were entertained, sterday afternoon, most delightfully, Miss Meach at the beautiful resi. nce of Henry I. Hoyt, Esq., (High- ‘ 0d.) l'ev. Mr. Watkins drove to Lyons’. ‘ ains last evening and preached at the iscopal chapel there. He had Dann’s ‘ ee seated road wagon and sorrels and . ~ . and Mrs. Van Buren and a half 1 zen other friends accompanied him. .| -——-——-- i, l s. Augustus Patrick, in driving ‘ ough town last night, had the nut of l carriage wheel come off, the wheel f; in following, and dropping the car- i ge down on the axletree. Fortu- ely she had a gentle horse and no ser- »- s damage was done. enry Buckhout, vice-president of -. New York Third National Bank, ‘ been compelled to resign from the k because of the disclosures show- that he borrOwed$17,000 from the erican Loan and Trust Co. to can- an over-draft by John S. Silver. ittle Tommy Mulligan, of NEW k, seven years of age, of No. 13 Van- - street, who disappeared three ks ago and was mourned as dead, ved on the steamship Teutonic. He smuggled himself on . board the mship and was taken to Liverpool. ' Henry M. Perry of Merwm street has accepted a position with the Hy- drant Iron Foundry at Holyoke, Mass. Mr. Buck Hoyt and wife, Gould Hoyt and his two sisters, Miss Lottie Betts, Miss Curtis and other young Norwalk _ people picnicked at Roton yesterday. Gregory’s great omnibus conveyed a Darien moonlight party to Roton last night. returning in the we’ sma’ hours this morning. ‘ H. D. Cornell will bind a new set of sails Saturday for his recently pur- chased sail boat, which knowing ones say will be a prize-taker. , The committee. counsel and the bor- ough engineer all marched down East avenue, viewed the Daskam landscape o‘er and then marched back, and then - quietude resumed her sway. We have been credibly informed that the visit of our good friend E. J. Hill to the Holy Land is not entirely one of sentiment, but that he has his business eye on the tramway franchise from Jerusalem to Jericho, which, if he secures he will equip with bomb- proof cars for the greater security of the passengers. __ “Two-legged dogs may yet be the rule” is the sapient remark of the Bridgeport Standard. True enough. There are many two legged curs roam- ing over the earth even now.——Ansonia Sentinel. Right you are neighbor. We have some of them in Norwalk, engaged in sending “fake” dispatches to the New York Herald. That terrible 15 feet long snake, seen at Winnipauk, it is now conjectur- ed, is the mongrel anaconda that es- caped from a side-show which followed a circus here some years ago. The enterprising owner of the reptile set a search for it all the way up the Nor- walk river from the Union Mfg. Co’s. pond to the New Canaan bridge, say- ing it would make for the nearest stream at the first possible moment. Named. “Camp Watson.” The adjutant-general yesterday is- sued orders that the grounds at Nian- tic be officially designated “State Mlll- tary Rendezvous.” The next ensuing encampment, Aug. 15, is mamed “Camp Watson,” after Gen. T. L. Watson of Bridgeport, and the full designation will be “Camp Watson, State Military Rendezvous, Niantic, Conn.” No Fight. Ed. Klaus, the referee in the Brady- Walker fight, told a Bridgeport News reporter yesterday that he gave his de- cision according to the rules. He says Walker was not down two seconds when the police stopped the fight. He says there was no fight and Brady is no more champion than Walker. Neither of the men weighed 133 pounds. the light weight schedule. ___._..._._i‘ O >.__ _ __, .. x Beautiful Flowers. Returning from New York late last evening the Senior of the GAZETTE was surprised and delighted by being pre- . sented with one of the largest and most delicately selected and arranged basket of flowers it had ever been his privilege to see, the generous gift of the em- ployees of the GAZETTE office in recog- nition "of its proprietor’s sixty-fifth birthday. It is needless to add that it was the product of the really artistic taste of the proprietor of “Floral Hall" and its exquisite beauty at once re- called the deaf and dumb girl’s defini- tion, when asked at her school gradua- tion to place on the blackboard her idea of flowers she wrote—“Flowers are the smiles of the angels. ” More Snakes. . It is evident that Naugatuck is try- ing to emulate Winnipauk in the snake business, for on Tuesday evening last Mr. Edward Hurd saw his cow jump at something near his barn which proved to be an immense rattlesnake, which had thrown itself into a coil and struck at the cow as she passed. Mr. Hurd plunged the pitchfork through its head, killing it almost instantly. The snake was four feet one inch in length, six and a quarter inches in'girth and had thirteen rattles, but no button. It is said that a rattler must be four years old before getting its first rattle, and as the button, which constitutes the last rattle in the process of forma- tion, was missing, it is safe to say that the serpent must have been nearly twenty years old. Mr. Hurd cut off the snake’s head and buried it three feet deep, so that man or beast might not be injured by the venom. The snake was what' is known as a swamp rattler, this species being much more “chunked” than the mountain or-rock rattler. The snake lies in Mr. Hurd’s barnyard and has been viewed by hundreds of curious people. ' The New Hospital. Another meeting for the ladies inter- ested in the hospital project will be held at the Congregational parsonage on Mondayat 4 o’clock. All who have at heart the welfare of the unfortunate are urged to attend. + East Avenue Again Awakened. The mandamus of the court forcing our Borough authorities to appoint three commissioners to examine and act upon Selectman Daskam’s opposi- tion to the destruction of his trees, re- sulted, as has heretofore been publish- ed in the GAZETTE, in the selection of allowing James Hubbell, Robert Green and Benjamin Fillow,as commissioners. They will view the ground to-day and agreeupon a report. The Fitch’s Home Pictures. The picture gallery collected by the late Benjamin Fitch of Darien and by him donated to the state and which it would appear from the investigation and report made by G. A. R. men. has been despoiled, was an object of special interest to the late LeGrand Lockwood, Sr. We had Mr. Fitch’s own state- ment of the fact that he met Mr. Lock- wood in Paris and told him of the rare chance he had to secure a valuable col- lection of paintings at a large lump price, but far below their intrinsic value, and that with Mr. Lockwood’s usual munificent generos1ty, he promptly gave him $10,000 towards the purchase. Other wealthy Americans abroad at the time, also contributed liberally for the works of art. ____ «»____ OBITUARY. JOHN OSBORN. There passed away at his home with his son, on West avenue. early this morning,another of Norwalk’s old and most highly esteemed citizens, Mr. John Osborn. He was a native of Red- diiig, but forty years or so ago he re- moved to Norwalk, purchasing what is now known as the “John Osborn farm” at East Norwalk, where he ”conducted for years a large boarding school for boys. He was a man of fine scholastic training and an educator of exceptional ability and success. was a man whom everybody respected andfiwhom all who knew him at all in- timately, esteemed, revered and loved. He has been quite a sufferer for several years pa st from rheumatic affections, but at last he has found rest. The Fitch’s Home Scandal. Last night’s Bridgeport Farmer prints the following brief defense of Dr. Munson’s management of the No- roton Home: There is evidently another side to the case.. Dr. Munson was not dismissed. but resigned because, he says, of cer- tain changes in methods of manage- ment, contemplated by his superiors. He was also, it is said. urged to remain in charge, but refused. In due time his side of the case will be made public, and it is rumored that a legal rod may be in pickle for persons who have cir‘ culated charges against him. Dr. Mun- son is well known in Bridgeport, and no one who knows him, can easily cred- it the above story of dishonesty and brutality.——[Eds. Farmer. The above only makes it all the more imperative that a full and open legal investigation should be at once made of the serious charges that the G. A. R. men have formulated, re ported, and assure us they stand ready to prove. [ED. GAZETTE. Comedy of Errors. Nichols’ Opera House was well filled last evening with the cream of New Canaan’s four hundred, to witness the production of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors by the New Canaan Dramatic Association, for the benefit of the Town Clock fund. The play was handsomely staged and the costumes, which were from New York, were very rich and elegant. The company was a good one and well selected, and showed the ef- fects of careful study and training. Mrs. W T. P. Hollingsworth as “Adri- ana,” Mr. R. C. Woodcock as “Antiph- olus, of Ephesus” and the two Dromio’s, Messrs. Hollingsworth and Frye, de- serve particular mention. The receipts of the house were $202, and the expen- ses about $100 which left over $100 clear profit, and this added to 375 received from a previous performance, make about half of what is needed for the purchase and erection of the clock. During the performance a paper was passed among the audience and the necessary amount was nearly, if not all, raised in a few moments. The same company play in the~ Opera House, here, to-night, 'for the benefit of our Library, and although the weather may be disagreab‘le, we bespeak for them a crowded house and 'an appreciative audience, as they abundantly deserve both. As a citizen, he . ;. the sensibility of his. The Attempt to Kill Mr. Blaine. [From the New York Sun.i Charles J. Guiteau' went to work with no more murderous purpose than ani- mates the men who seek a victim in the Secretary of State. For fifteen years Mr. Blaine’s remark- able mind has been subjected not mere- ly to the strain of continuous work of an exacting though not necessarily ex- hausting character, but also to the wear and tear of such an alternation of high emotions, of passionate hopes, terrible disappointments, feverish resentments, and tantalizing half-realizations as can perhaps be paralleled by the experience of no other man now on earth. For the past two or three years, as every gen- erous reader will remember with sin- cere Sympathy and regret, he has en- countered a succession of domestic af- flictions almost stunning to a nature of There has been no lack of manhood in Mr. Blaine’s at- titude under these repeated strokes of misfortune, heavy enough and frequent enough to have broken an ordinary con- stitution to pieces. But is there any wonder that a time comes when the dan— ger signals begin to appear in certain physical symptoms? Or is it strange that Mr. Blaine and those solicitous for the usefulness of the next fifteen years of his life should reach the conclusion that the Secretary needs rest, freedom from worry. careful attention, and a fair chance to recuperate. . This is precisely the time chosen for the incredibly malignant and brutal conspiracy to drive James G. Blaine in- to a premature grave by exhibiting him; to himself as a man doomed to death. We say conspiracy, because there is ev- ery_ indication of concerted action on‘ the part of the inventors of the bogus interviews, the fabricators of the lying medicalreports from Bar Harbor, Bos- ton, and Washington, the artists whose pencils are set to the task of represent- ing the Secretary of State in the last‘ stages of emaciation and impending dis- solution, the editors who have already ordered his coflin and are shedding crocodile tears over it. One day it is acute néévous prostration, another day it is paresis, another day it is Bright’s disease, another day it is paralysis—any malady known to the pathologists is a good enough malady for the use "of the assassins, providing it is swift and hope- less. ‘ The history of Americanpolitics—we are constrained to add, the history of American journalism—records nothing comparable to the bounding of the fore- most statesmen of the Republicanparty by Democrats and Republicans in con- cert. What influence is behind it we do not know. Certainly not Benjamin Harrison, as is here and there intimat- ed. The President may have as much- reason to fear Mr. Blaine for the future as he has to be grateful to him for the past, but Gen. Harrison is not the man to carry on directly or by proxy, apre- liminary campaign for the Presidential nomination by methods fit only for Charles Jules Guiteau or the New York World. _ Attention, Comrades l —Lcok at this as a matter of busi- ness. Comrade Fred A. Farley late of Co. E, 37th Mass. Vols., is sub-attorney for James Tanner, the soldiers’ friend, late Commissioner of Pensions, Wash- ington, D. 0., and will properly fill out free of charge, all applications for pen- removal of charge of desertion, etc sions or increase, back pay or bountyy Comrades, you saved the life of thi ' government, now ask for what is yours, and you can get it by asking for it. Never get a shoemaker to make you a harness. This is our specialty. tell you how you can be most bene- fitted. Advice free. At Norwalk Hotel until July 27. Ishall visit every town in Fairfield county, and will call at residences or places of business upoh notice by letter or card. Charges Against the Management of the Soldiers’ Home. In the Norwalk GAZETTE of vester- day charges of gross brutahty and the most flagrant dishonesty were made against Dr. Munson, the recent super- intendent of the soldiers’ home at No- roton, and indirect insinuations against the board of administration which 1n- cludes Gov. Bulkeley, Gen. 'Embler, Surgeon-Gen. Hungerford of Stamford, Gen. A. Dickinson of Hartford, Judge A. B. Beers of Bridgeport and '00]. George M. White of this clty. The last named gentleman was called upon last evenin and having read the arti- cle said: “ rom beginning to end it is the most unblushing tissue of falsehoods that was ever concocted and put in print. There is no need'of sayingany- thing further. ”—Palladium. There is no use in making vehement and wholesale denials like the above, when reputable Grand Army men stand ready and anxious to testify in any court of justice or before any commis- sion the Governor may. createthll and more, as they assure us, than they referred to, in their statement publish- ed in yesterday’s GAZETTE. Ican‘ SOUTH NORWALK. I'he G. [ZE’l'I‘E is on sale at the news ofilees of Fred Coleman, J.H.Flynn, ll’.L.Ather- ton, and H. E. Bodwell. Orders for all kinds of JOB PRINTING received at our branch oflice on Railroad Square. A new organ will be‘placed in the West Norwalk chapel this week. W. R. Coburn, of Boston, was here this morning. The Resolutes and a nine from the Bridgeport High school will play ball at the Baxter grounds, to-morrow. Messrs. Hoyt & Beers have been awarded the contract for the mason Work on W. B. Hubbell’s new hat fac- tory. _ The Fire police have received an in- vitation to attend the Seamstress Eu- gine Co.’s picnic at Bridgeport, on Sat- urday. The types made us say Col. J. ,Vick- ers of the 17th Michigan Volunteers. It should have read 17th New York Volunteers. William H. Hoyt, of the Duncan Iron Works, has the contract for putting in iron window bars in the new West-port sanitarium. Mr. C. L. Dixon was here in the in- terest of the Richardson & Morgan Co., manufacturers of furnaces and ranges, this morning. Among other freight on the City of Albany last night were 800 watermelons, and there were but fifty less than that the night before. Builder J. R. Raymond is home from the Thousand islands. While there he refused a good offer for a fine lot he has on one of the islands. Builder moving Pal-trickzhas the old East Norwalk church on rollers. It is to be moved to the lot adjoining Le- Count’s shop for occupancy by Volun- teer Hose Co. The funeral of Mrs. Ann Etta Rem- ington Ruggles, wife of Mr. Charles Ruggles, of Bridgeport, will be held from the Methodist church, this city, to-morrow at 1 o’clock. his son George, dated at Southampton, England, to-day. He is on the U. S. School ship,which sailed for Cherbourg, France, the day after George wrote. Ahive of bees was among the U. S. Express freight to Ridgefield. They were of fancy breed, but Messenger Carroll says that they wear fully as long bustles as those of more plebian blood. Leroy Wheeler and Minot Partrick were after crabs yesterday. They caught a nice mess—for a person who would not care to eat more than four. Minot says they are awfully crabbed this season about biting. George Olmstead of this place, and a salesman at W. B. Hall &. Co’s, Bridge— port, has been ill for the past week with quinsy sore throat, and in that time has lost over fourteen pounds in weight. He will test the curative properties of Ridgefield air. AGerman lad, whose name we do not learn. fell overboard, near the steamboat wharf yesterday, and would have drowned but for the opportune presence of two men who fished him out from under a float where he could not extricate himself. Danbury Jack was around this morn- ing trying to have his wife arrested, claiming that she. was drunk. Those who saw the pair were of the opinion that while she was evidently under the influence, she would have to drink con- siderable more to be as full as was her liege lord. ' Trying Justice Leslie Smith tried his first case this morning and filled the Judicial chair with dignity. The case was State vs. John Riley who was charged with being a vagrant. It was shown in testimony that he is a hatter. Justice Smith sentenced him to ten days in jail, and costs of court. He, however, on being told that Riley in- tended going to work at one of the hat- remit the days on satisfactory evidence that Riley would go to work. Yesterday what looks like an attempt to fire the buildings about the place of business of Builder Raymond on Water street, was discovered in an old build- ing close to the edge of the wharf where ladders are kept. A paper had been placed on a pile of ladders near the corner of the building and set on fire. The wood being hard it did not apparently blaze much, although sev- eral of the ladder rungs were consider- ably charred as was also the corner of the building. ' Frank Smith and Casper Zoelinger were mad last night. Yesterday after- noon they secured half a bushel of clams and roasted them in the yard‘ back of Casper’s delicatessen store, and just as they were about to sit down to the feast, Fred Quittman, who has a gas stgve factory next door, came out Capt. Roberts received a letter from- shops in town, this morning, agreed to, and invited Frank and Casper in to eat an orange. \Vhen they returned they found that some one had stolen the bi- valves. Frank says he does not care so much for the loss of the clams if he could only find out who ate them. Not so Casper, who is as mad as a hor- net and threatens to get even. Fred looks innocent and says nothing. This morning baggage master Cashaw who is also a special policeman, was called upon to arrest two Hungarians who were fighting on the station plata form. It seems that one of them, Fer» thenant by name. was on his way to the old country with his daughter and son— in-law, and when on the platform about to take a train for New York, the other Hungarian, Guiton. struck him with a coupling pin and there was a fight. Cashaw arrested both men and placed them in the lockup. Guiton claims that Ferthenant owed him $70 borrow- ed money and was about to leave the country without paying him. The case was heard before Justice Smith this a. m. Fer-thenant’s steazner will sail to- morrow, but it now 10- die as though he and his family would not go abroad. All of the party have been residents here for the past three years. Nearly 200 Odd Fellows went on the excursion given by Butler Lodge of this city. The objective point was Huntington. L. I. Arriving at which point they were met by Ellsworth Lodge, and headed by Heine’s band a grand parade was had 'through the principal streets, fireworks adding to the splendor of the occasion. After the parade Heine’s band gave a concert in the lodge room. Then came a dinner at one of the leading hotels, in which gustatory exercises all entered with the spirit that governed the whole affair. Canons and pistols were fired both on the arrival anddeparture of the guests, who arrived home at 3:30 this morning, and it seems as if they would never tire in telling of the hospitable and broth— erly manner in which they were enter- tained. All Odds say that it was by all odds the best affair of the kind they ever participated in. They went by the steamer Medeaand speak in praise of Capt. Rowland and his crew. If ever the visit is returned, and the Butler’s hope that it will be at an early date, nothing will be left undone to make the return a pleasant one. _ ————————<+>—-—-— At the Opera House To—Night The rendition of the great dramatist’s play of “Comedy of Errors” is to be given at the Norwalk Opera House to- night, by the superb amateur dramatic company of New Canaan “for sweet charity’s sake,” the entire net proceeds to be given for the replenishment of the Norwalk Library. This play was given at the Opera House at New Ca- naan last night for a local charity and was received with enthusiastic demon- strations of delight. We bespeak a full house for them here to-night. ~—»~-————<—o— Sued for $20,000. The papers in the suit of James C. Warner, of Danbury, against t e Hou- Iatonic railroad company, were served on the officers of the road yesterday. The suit is to recover damages for in- juries received in a collision at the South Norwalk depot last winter. Mr. Warner wasa commuter between Dan- bury and South Norwalk. At the time of the collision he was in the smoking car. Almost every passenger in the smoker was more or less injured, but Mr. Warner’s hurts proved to be the most serious. He has suffered intense- ly and almost incessantly since ‘the ac- cident and. his condition grows slowly and steadily worse. Comedy of Errors Again. A valued correspondent sends us the followingz—“Word reached us from New Canaan this morning that the play given last night, “The Comedy of Er- rors” was a pronounced success in every way, and the New Canaan people are proud of their fellow townsmen and their friends. The acting was excellent in every particular, and the enthusiasm was so great that at the close of the performance a prominent gentleman ’rose andproposed that then and there the remainder of the sum which the clock was to cost should be raised on the ,spot. This was no sooner proposed than heartily seconded, and the amount pledged in a very few minutes. This speaks well for the performance, for enthusiasm which brings money out of pockets must be well deserved. We hope, for theficredit of our town,that our friends will have a full house and an appreciative audience to-night.” A Strike in a Jail. MAueu CHUNK, Pa., July 24.—-The 'pris oners in the Carbon county jail went on strike and refused to clean the jail a longer. They were all locked up ‘in s‘ - tary confinement and kept on bread and water for thirty-six hours. They then‘sur- rendered. The jail will be cleanedhere after as usual. ’
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