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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
' Mrs. D. E. Culver, of New York, is
in town.
Miss Fannie Belle Curtis is home for
New Years.
The Theatre Royal, Glasgow, was
burned Sunday.
Mrs. Dr. Many is quite sick at her
home on North avenue.
Mrs. Robert Dix, of Brooklyn, is vis-
iting friends In town.
The national banks in town are send-
ing out their dividend checks-
The halls of the Norwalk Hotel are
being newly papered and painted.
Fully 20,000 of the residents of Ham-
ilton, Ont., are affected with the grip.
.Mrs. James Walsh is sick with the
rip at her daughter’s reSIdence on
Iain street.
Walt. Whitman is improving, and
the doctors say that he 1S growing
stronger daily.
Miss Georgia A. Hutchinson, of
Winnipauk. is home from the State
Normal school, for the hol1days.
The town of Stratford is afflicted
with a ghost, whose principal business
is wandering about the cemetery In a
night shirt. .
Miss Minnigan, principal of the State
Kindergarten at New Britain, is _lymg
ill at the residence of D. S. Curt1s on
East avenue.
Lowell police inspectors Sunday, in‘
the South Acton woods, found a skele-
ton with little clothing left on 1t, and
no means of identification.
The veteran race horse trainer, J. B.
Pryor, died at his home in Holmdel,
N. J ., Sunday. Mr. Pryor was 80 years
old, and leaves awidow and five children.
Owing to the illness of a juryman,
the Daley murder trial at W111imant1c
has been abandoned. A new jury
probably will be impaneled January 12.
There is a new link between man
and his Darwinian ancestors, another
bond of sympathy and of kinship. The
monkeys have the grip.—New Haven
Register.
E. H. King, a postal clerk on the
Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Rail-
road, committed suicide by shooting
himself Sunday. He had been discov-
ered in a pettytheft.
United States Consul William T.
Rice, the oldest consul in the service,
died on Saturday at his post at Leg-
horn from acute pulmonitis, aftera
illness of two days. ~
Mr. John J. Nathans, who died in
New York last Saturday, was Manager
Bunnell’s first partner in the show busi-
ness in 1861 with the “Maybee and
Nathans Shows” in the west and after-
wards in Cuba and Canada.
Glen Island, owned by John H. Star-
in, which is included in the corporate
limits of New Rochelle, has been as.
sessed at 875,000. Mr. Starin asks the
trustees to reduce the amount $35,000.
Last year he paid on $70,000.
The country home of Henry Thomp-
kins at Ardsley, Westchester County,
New York, was totally destroyed by
fire Monday. The flames spread With
such rapidity that the family barely es-
caped with their night clothing.
The bright, new silver coins, with
the national coat of arms on one side
and the classic head of the goddess _of
liberty on the other, will begin to err-
culate among the people early next
year. The mints will begin soon after
January 1 to turn them out.
The Rev. George H. Buck, rector of
‘ St. James’ Church, Birmingham, is
mentioned as a possible successor to
the late Rev. Dr. Beardsley as rector
of St. Thomas’ Church, New Haven.
Mr. Buck is regarded as one of the
most talented clergymen in the diocese.
The Tilden will case was up before
Surrogate Cofiin in White Plains, Mon-
day, and again adjourned until next
Monday. The executors will new con-
test in the Supreme Court the validity
of the bequest of $50,000 to Yonkers
. and $100,000 to New Lebanon, N. Y.,
for the Tilden free library.
At a. meeting of Concord Division S.
of T. Monday evening, the following
officers were elected : W. P., Jonas D.
Warden; W. A., William A. Ambler;
R. S.. Lewis Hubbell ; A. R. S,, Mabel
Rogers; F. 8., William A. Kellogg;
Treas,, William A. Pryor; Con., d-
ward Drew ; A. Con., Mrs. Hotehkiss;
I. 8., William Smith; 0. S., E. S.
Osterbanks.
One of the local insurance agents in
Willimantic has been notified by one
of hiscompanies to cancel all policies
covering property located in the town
of Mansfield. The reasons given are
that If the people of the town have not
had push enough to discover the incen-
diarles and put a stop to the fires in
five years they (the company) do not
fare to do business with them any
onger.
-Ani.\pimal which resembles a wild
cat 1s raising havoc among the farmers
of White Hills, about three mills from
Shelton. It steals chickens and even
has gone so far as to kill a half-grown
lamb and drag it away. Charles
Wheeler, 9. milkman, says he saw the
animal Saturday while driving cattle
from pasture, and says it was nearly as
lar e as a common bird dog, and of a
striped gray color.
Great preparations are being made
by the Y. ,M. C. A. for open house on
New .Year day. No less than five hund-
red 1nvitations will be issued. This
Will be one of the greatest events of
the year. An elaborate programme has
been arranged, extending through af-
ternoon and evening. 1Refreshments
will be served by the “Ladies’ Auxili-
ar ,” and the rooms of the association
WI 1 be beautifully decorated. Thisre-
ception will be given to all young men
whtether members of the association or
no .
Father Coleman, pastor of the Catho-
lic church in Fairfield. is laid up with
the grip.
The Boston board of health reports
nine deaths from the grip in that city
the past week. -
Lieut. Gov. Samuel E. Merwin, of
New Haven, is confined to his house
with the grip.
William R. Knapp, of East Norwalk,
died at the Noroton Soldiers’ Home
Tuesday morning.
The annual meeting of the State Agri-
cultural society will be held in Mission
Hall, Meriden, Jan. 13, at 11 a. 111.
General D. N. Couch and Gen. Wat-
son and staff attended the funeral of
001. White in New Haven Saturday.
The engagement is announced of
Colonel Henry S. Redfield, of Gover-
nOr Bulkeley’s staff, to Miss Muller of
Brooklyn, N. Y
Miss Agnes Carr, of Norwalk, was
married to William Warren, of Meri-
den, Monday by Rev. S. T. Graham
of St. Paul’s Church.
Phoenix Engine Company will keep
open house on New Year’s day, from 1
to 4 p. 111. All citizens are invited to
call and partake of the hospitality of
the company.
Rev. A. H. Hall, pastor of theCentre
Congregational Church, of Meriden,
and one of the most popular clergy-
men in the state, died on Saturday
night from pneumonia.
General \Vatson authorizes the state-
ment that Colonel Skinner‘s resigna-
tion is on business grounds and not on
account of any personal difference with
him, as has been suggested.
United States soldiers at Fort Maguire
have been doing a lucrative business
smuggling Chinese over the river from
the Canadian side. A boatload was in-
tercepted and a private arrested.
In a six-days’ go-as-you-please race,
which ended-at St. Louis Monday night,
“Old Sport” Campana, of Bridgeport,
made a record of 365 miles, but was not
among the first four who divided $2,000.
Dana C. Bissell, of the firm ofNF. J.
Smith 8: Co. of Bridgeport, scavengers,
has sold out his interest in the firm.
Commencing Jan. 4th, Mr. Bissell will
englage in the same business in Nor-
wa '.
Ex-Postmaster-General Cresswell was
buried Monday at Elkton, Md. The
Post-office Department was closed at
noon, and was represented at the func-
ral by the Third Assistant Postmaster-
General.
H. R. Parrott, of Bridgeport, and
George S. Forebush, of Boston, were
in town, on Tuesday, and held a con-
ference with C. B. Coolidge in the in-
terest of the proposed OTmstead Par-
allel railroad.
Edward W.|Kinsley, of Boston, one
of the railroad commissioners of Mass-
achusetts, died Saturday afternoon.
He was a merchant and for a while was
state director of the New York & New
England road. .
Charles McGowan, mate on the New
Haven steamer Nertham, was probably
fatally hurt in New York Saturday af-
ternoon, aheavy casting which fell on
him breaking one of his hips and injur-
ing him internally.
Judge Lacombe in the United States
Circuit Court on Monday signed the
mandate to Warden Brown, of Sing
Sing Prison, commanding him to pro-
ceed with the execution of murderers
Charles McElvaine and Nicolle Trezza.
The President has denied the applica-
tion for pardon in the case of Harper,
who was convicted on a charge of em-
bezzlement of funds of the Fidelity
Savings Bank of Cincinnati, 0., and
sentenced in 1887 to ten years’ Impris-
onment.
The family of Jennie W. Smith,
seventeen years of age and a Roman
Catholic, who eloped from Hartford
last week with Ernest F. \Vashburn,
eighteen years of age and a protestant,
who married her in New York, has dis-
owned her.
The ‘action of Henry Sanford, as
President of the Adams Express Com-
pany, against John Hoey was discon-
tinued on Monday by order of Justice
Andrews of the Supreme Court, and
the attachment granted on Oct. 16 has
been vacated.
Henry A. Kifmire of Meriden, who
swallowed a chicken bone on Thanks-
giving day, died Saturday from hemor-
rhages resulting therefrom. The bone
lodged at the entrance to the stomach.
Mr. Kifmire was forty-five years old.
He leaves a wife and one son.
Conductor Andrew Jones, formerly
of the Consolidated road and for some
cars past conductor on a. railroad in
entucky, was killed in a railroad ac-
cident in that state recently. Mr.
Jones was soon, it is said, to accept an
ofi'eg to return to the employ of that
roa .
It is now proposed to erect a statue
to the memory of ex-Mayor. Henry G.
Lewis, of New Haven, who died Friday.
He was foremost in advocatlng the con-
strnetiou of the New Haven and Hart-
ford, the New York and New Haven,
the Shore Line, the Northampton and
Air Line and the Derby railroads, and
worked earnestly for the termlnation
of the Naugatuck road. at New Haven.
John J. Nathans, one of P: T. Bar-
num’s first partners in the circus busr-
ness, died at his home in New York, of
pneumonia, on Saturday evening. He
was seventy-seven years old and was
born in Philadelphia. He left Bar-
num’s in 1878 and did practlcally no
business after that, althoughzhe traded
a little in animals with George W. Bai-
liay. He leaves a. widow and two ch11-
ren.
Harr Bailwitz was standing in front
of the ost Ofiice Christmas evening,
waiting for a car to come along, to go
to South Norwalk. When the car
came he started to catch 1t,and his legs
ave away and he fell to the ground.
9 was picked up and taken to_ his
home on Mott avenue, where he had In
a stupor until Monday a. m., when he
was reported as sli htly better. The
doctor pronounces t e case grip.
Mass will be held in. St. Mary’s
Church on New Year’s day at 5.30 and 8
a. m'.
The I. O. G. T. of Cranberry Plains
will celebrate their twentieth anniver-
sary on Saturday, Jan. 2.
Mrnand Mrs. A. R. Malkin received
a Christmas gift in the form of a baby
boy, born Sunday morning.
General George H. Sheridan, the
celebrated orator, dined with Mr. Geo.
Clarke, at Clarke’s Folly,” Sunday.
Kate Callahan, unmarried, sixty-five
years of age, was found drowned in a
canal. at Mt. Carmel early Saturday
morning.
The summary of the Weekly Record
for last week shows 8 real estate sales
for Norwalk, and $6,175 real estate
mortgages.
Builder S. B. Wilson has the con-
tract for another house for George H.
Raymond on Elm street, next to the
one Just started.
Charles E. Strong (lied Friday night
at his home in Woodbury at the age of
{18 years. He was a member of theleg-
islature in 1886-7._
Benjamin Birch, who was struck by
a tram in South Norwalk Friday night
and removed to the Bridgeport Hospi-
tal, (lied at that institution Saturday.
The Consolidated road has com-
menced laying ties and rails for a small
freight yard on the Alvord property
near the rectory crossing in Southport
Representative Holman, chairman of
the appropriations Committee, predicts
that the estimates, as sent in by the
Treasury Department, will be cut down
$100,000,000.
Silas E. Cheney, 9. brother-in-law of
the late Horace Greeley and a former
resident of Litchfield, is missing from
Asbury Park, N. J ., where he has been
living for the last few years.
Ex~Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin,
and C. M. Wmslow, of Vermont, are to
address the dairymen of Connecticut at
their annual meeting in Hartford Jan.
19, 20 and 21.
A stove in the new Norwalk club
house building set fire to a wooden
horse which was near it, and burned a
small hole in the floor before it was dis-
covered, Sunday afternoon.
The Housatonic road has received
their four large new locomotives from
the Baldwin works. They are of the
latest pattern and will be used on the
Danbury & Norwalk division.
Miss Caroline Lounsbury Steele,
grand-daughter of the late George H.
Randle of Norwalk, has been elected
president of the Senior class of Smith
College, Northampton, Mass.
Speaker Crisp is still confined to his
bed, weak and exhausted from an at-
tack of the grip. He is better than he
was and no serious apprehension is felt
for his safety and speedy recovery.
Articles of incorporation have been
drawn for a new company for the man-
ufacture of terra cotta, the. factory to
be located at Berlin, New Britain capi-
talists to have the controlling interest.
On Friday evening, January 8, the
Y. M. C. A. will present at the Opera
House Mr. Leland T. Powers in The
Shaughraun, which is without doubt
the finest Irish play in the English lan-
guage.
Mrs. Abigail Mary Bradley, widow
of Commodore Timothy A. Hunt, U.
S. N., died at her home in New Haven
on Monday of grip, followed by pneu-
monia. Commodore Hunt died seven
or eight years ago.
Mrs. Christian Di'ebold, wife of Mich-
ael_ Diebold, a brass moulder of New
Britain, committed suicide Saturday,
while temporarily insane, by hanging
herself. She had been sick with the
grip, but appeared better in the morn-
ing.
Juror Warren of Killingly, who is on
the Daly murder case at Willimantic.
was never on a railroad train until he
was summoned as a juror on the Daly
case last Tuesday. He is apparently
about 35 years of age and fairly intelli-
gent.
The Berkshire Hills limited express
trains that leave the Grand Central de-
pot at. 3.30 p. m. and Pittsfield at 4 p.
m., W111 be discontinued for the winter
on Saturday, January 2, 1892. The ex-
12m???) otrams wrll be put in service May
, Id.
_ Rev. A. C. Dill, Yale ’80, whose pun-
Ishment some time ago at the hands of
White Caps created considerable sen-
sation, is to be tried before the Pres-
bytery on the charge of immoral con-
versation and perjury, at his home in
Sterling, N. J.
The bond given to the United States
Government by Jefferson Davis to ans-
wer to the Circuit Court in Richmond,
Va., for treason is missing from the
court records. This paper bears the
Signatures of Horace Greeley, John
Minor Botts, Gerrit Smith and other
prominent persons.
James A. Davison, a former resident
of Massachusetts, and a Union. soldier
from that state, was found Sunday ly-
lng near the tracks of the Valley rail-
road at Hartford with his throat cut
from ear to ear. A razor lay beside
him. It is supposed to be a case of su-
icide. Davison wasa laborer.
The mails of the '_ steamer Bothnia
whlch sailed from Queenstown for New
York, Sunday, include those of the
steamer Germanic and amount to 1,757
sacks, the largest quantity of mail mat-
ter that has ever crossed the Atlantic
In one steamer.
The scenery and properties of the
“Fair Rebel” company were destroyed
Sunday mormn by the bu ning of
the Erie Railroa car which chntained
them, atrGreycourt, N. Y. Baby, 9.
horse whlch figured in the play and
which was the pet of the company, was
burned to death.
_Why don’t you try Carter’s Little
Liver P1118 ? They are a. positive cure
for slck headache, and all the ills pro-
duced by disordered liver. Only one
pill a dose.
GREAT CLEARING 'Oll'l‘" “SALE
COMMENCING SATURDAY, DEC. 19.
I will offer to the public my Entire Stock of
Holiday Goods, Dry and Fancy
Goods, Furs,
OIL CLOTHS AND NOTIONS
AT PRICES THAT WILL SELL THEM.
BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS.
Everything to be sold. A grand opportunity is now offered that wil
meet the favor of the public as I have a
EGOOD STOCK OF NEW GOODS!
J. F. BENNETT,
19 MAIN STREET, NORWALK.
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