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The Gazette has the largest cir-
culatlon of any paper in Norwalk.
and furnishes the lowest advertising
rates-
Hlstorlcal Address.
Owing to the necessarily hurried pub.
lication of Rev. Mr. C. M. Selleck’s His .
torical address on the day following its
delivery at the Armory, many serious.‘
errors and inacuracies crept into the
then printed editions. Esteeming this
address as by far the most valuable
contribution ever made to Norwaik’s
ancient family biography and town his-
tory, we have had its author take time
for a careful and critical revision, and
we republish it in this week’s WEEKLY
Gaznrrn in ' corrected form, for the.
I chief purpose of securing its perpetu~
ity in the families of our oldest resi-
dents and all other citizens who love
Norwalk and prize its traditions, and
also that it may descend to future gen-
erations in the bound volumes which
perpetuate our local history in the files
of the Nonwanx GAZETTE.
Democratic Losses. ‘
The invariably democratic New York
Herald takes occasion to say in com.
menting upon the result of the Tennes-
see election that has “astonished” the
democrats of that state that it did not
expect a normally large majority, but
were not prepared for such a cutting
down as the returns show.
“Democrats all over the country are
likely to be “astonished” before the
snow flies,” says the Herald, if .they
think that the widespread popular dis-
satisfaction caused by democratic fool-
ing with tarifl' revision and the income
tax imposition in Washington will not
show itself in every election to be held
this year. . . .
That has been the invariable result
in the elections already held, and there
is no indication that the trend of popu-
lar feeling will change in the near fu-
ture.”
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A Good Hotel.
One of the best posmble evidences
that Norwalk has at last, the best and
most sumptuous and comfortable sort
of hotel is found in the fact that all the
“drummers” from far and near, hie
themselves to Landlord Tuttle’s host-
lery for entertainment. They are a
festive clan and knowlbest of all men,
whcre good feed is to be found.
The lWeather.
While the cool, bracing north wind
this morning did credit to the Catskills
and White Mountain breezes, a "hot
wave” is approaching and in a few hours
we shall be sweltering again, if the
weather prophets are to be believed.
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Tariff Bill in the Air.
Again the reformed (‘2) tariff hill is
in the air. The Sun blames it all on
Grover and Democracy asks, “Where
are we at ?”
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Obituary.
Miss Mary Bush died at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Emily F. Kellogg, on
Academy street, Thursday morning,
aged 56 yous. The deceased had for
many years been an employee at the
shirt manufactory and has a large num,
ber of friends who will mourn her death.
Henry 0. Carter died at his home,
corner of West avenue and Butler
street in this city, on Sunday, aged 83
years. His wife and two daughters,
Etta Carter and Mrs. Grace Marvin of
New York, survive him.
George H. Knapp, a veteran of Co.
K, 2d Heavy Artillery, died at his home
near Strawberry Hill, Saturday, aged
50 years. He was a member of Douglass
Fowler Pest, G. A. R
Mrs. Margaret L. McQuhae, wife of
John McQuhae, died at her home on
North . Main street, South Norwalk,
'Wednesday, in the 84th year of her age.
Sophronia Rebinson, widow of the
late Augustus Jennings, died at her
home in Southport, Saturday.
Esther M., widow of Stephen Bishop,
died at her home in Winnipauk, on
Sunday, aged 73 years.
Wilbur Allen died at his home in
- Cranberry Plains, Saturday, aged 27
years.
John Kelly died at his home on the
Spring Hill. road, Sunday night, aged
72 years. ’ .
David S. Taylor died at his home on
Ely avenue, South Norwalk, on Wed,
nesday.
USE DANA'S SABSAPARILLA,IT’S
" inn KIND THAT CURES. " '
Biennium
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WAIt
.JURBESPUNDENT.
BY THE
Editor of the Gazette.
Copyrighted 18.04.
CHAPTER XVl.
While the Connecticut troops almost
to a man, behaved with conspicuous
gallantry throughout, our army as a
whole, at the turning of our left
flank, broke into disorder and soon be-
came a wild, unmanageable, fleeing
mob of 'soldiery. The slaughter of
men and animals on both Sides was too
horrible to relate, and the admixture of
innumerable and inexpressibly ludi-
crous scenes, born of the panic and
rout, baffle all the powers of language
to adequately describe. '
Our men in vast numbers, insane
with fright, threw away their arms and
fled from the battlefield for Washing-
ton as fast as their weary legs would
carry them. Hundreds of them cut
the horses and mules out of their artil-
lery, ambulance, ammunition and 'bag-
gage wagon harness and jumping upon
their backs, forced the jaded beasts
into a gallop for the rear. It was no
uncommon sight to see two and three
soldiers astride the same terrified beast
and occasionally the hindermost rider
facing his home’s tail. Congressmen
galore, plain civilians by the hundreds,
and an army of colored cooks, waiters,
officers’ servants and ho'étlers,» were
jumbled up in the stamps e and borne
wildly across lots and n the pike
towards Washington, as irresistibly as
if swept by Niagara’s torrent of waters.
Bluff old Senator Ben Wade was
among the numerous members of Con-
gress who attempted to drive out from
Washington on‘ Sunday, after the big
guns from the battle began to be heard
and intensely excite the people at the
capital. He had gotten. just beyond
Centreville when he met the on rushing
mob jamming the pike from fence to
. fence in a solid mass, and bearing down
upon his vehicle in as uncontrollable
force as waters pouring from a broken
reservoir. The old hero, espied a car-
bine lying in the road. Instantly he
jumped from his carriage, seized the
gun and swinging it violently in the
faces of the terrified men in his front,
shouted—"Halt, halt, you d—d cow—
ards! Go back to your regiments.”
He roared this out with stentorian
voice. Before he could fully finish his
patriotic appeal, he was whirled from
his feet, jammed up against his wrecked
carriage by the sheer weight of the vast
body pushing onward. When the-Sen-
ator got out of the vortex, his hat was
gone, his clothes torn and he about as
demoralized a statesman as was seen
that day. Our own Senator Foster had
a somewhat similar experience and was
so jostled and bruised and overexert‘ed
that it was several days before he made
his appearance in his seat in the Senate.
A Wide and painful anxiety spread
\Vashington and extended to Connecti-
cut because of his unexplained absence,
his friends fearing he had been serious-
ly and perhaps fatally injured. No
trace of him could be found after his
retreat from the battlefield, until his
appearance in the Senate some three
days later. Had the present familiar
call for a quorum been raised in either
House of Congress on the Monday fol-
lowing the Bull Run fight, an immedi-
ate adjournment would havc resulted.
The first news from the battlefield to
get to Washington was from a poorly
informed correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press. He reported to Manager
Gobright early that Sunday evening
and stated he had left the field a little
past noon and that the Union troops
were whipping the rebels in all direc-
tions. He had.- ridden his poor horse to
Washington with far more speed than
correct information, although at the
hour of his leaving the indications
pointed to our vanquishing the enemy,
and but for the arrival of the final in-
stallment of Johnston’s army we un-
doubtedly would have won a victory.
Later on this correspondent, as others
did, learned that the result of a battle
could not be safely reported until the
fighting ended. Mr. Lincoln and all
loyal people in Washin ton were wildly
jubilant and although e Government
had taken control of all the telegraph
lines and appointed a fool of a; “Censor
of the Press,” the good news was not
suppressed but sent speeding on light."
ning wires all over the loyal North and
West.
A ”little before midnight other corre-’
spondents and officers and civilians
from the field began to arrive and gave
a most disheartening reversal of the
first information. These were followed
by the advance mob _of our demoralized
soldiery whose'physmal strength stimu-
lated as it seemed to be, by a cowardly
fear, had held out until their fleeing
legs had landed them .safely across
Long Bridge. The arrival of these
hordes of used-up soldiers, proving dis-
aster, spread fear and dismay equal to
the first exhiieration. '
~Whether wisely or not, the Press
Censor let the first and good news go
out to the country, but. suppressed the
final and truthful statements left with
the operators to be put over the wires.
The result was the Monday morning
papers had nothing but jubilation over
the rebel defeat and the glorious Union
victory. The Washington National Re-
publican, however, came out a little
late on Monday morning but with a full
report of the varying fortunes of the
day’s battle and our tidal disastrous de-
ferable heat.
N ORWALK, C,ON_N. FRIDAY AUGUST 10, 14.894. .
feat and stampede from the field. This
news the Press Censor permitted to 9:0
over the wires inasmuch as the mails
had carried it to Baltimore and Phila-
delphia in time to appear in the evening
papers of those cities,and so New York
and all eastern and western points were
supplied by telegraph in season for
Monday evening newspaper editions.
It was a sad and doleful Monday night
throughout all the loyal Nation, made
doubly disheartening by reason of the
exhuberant exultation inspired by the
Victorious news of the morning.
During all the latter part of Sunday
night and throughout Monday the
worn-out, foot-sore, hatless, coatless,
and foodless soldiery came pouring
into and spreading all over Washing-
ton. They filled thc corridors and
. basements of the capitol and other pub-
lic buildings, the depots, fire engine
,houses, halls, churches, door steps,
sidewaks and curbstones, where they
were permitted to sleep off their ex-
hausting stampede and paralyzing
fright. General Scott said this Was the
proper thing to do and would- soonest
restore the demoralized men to a sense
of manhood and soldierly obligation,
which proved to be the case. A more
pitiful exhibition of "utter loss of (tour-
age and of military demoralization had
not been witnessed since Napoleon’s
flight from Moscow, and no such rout-
ed rabble ever again disgraced the
Union Arms during all our four years
of bloody, merciless war. ,
One of the drollest features of the
stampede on the part of those who had
kept their organization in any degree
and those who were halted at Centre-
ville in their mad retreat, was the uni-
versal and seeminglyirrepressihle pas-
sion to lug off some ludicrous or other
trophy of the battle. Great numbers
of these panic stricken men of the day
before, ventured back early Monday
morning and traversed the blood-
stained field, covered with dead men
and animals, arms and accoutrements,
in order to find and carry away ,some
memento of the sanguinary struggle.
A rebel musket, sword, pistol, cart-
ridge box and belt, canteen, or even
brass buttons, with the English made
letters C. S. A. emblazoned on them,
were specially prized finds. Other boys
picked up, at houses along the road,
and lagged into Washington days after
the fight, footsore and tired as they
were, heavy articles of furniture, kitch-
en utensils, books, etc., which in most
cases, it is proper to state, were either
given them by the resrdent natives or
purchased from them.
When Capt. “Joe” Hawiey’s command
reached Long Bridge on Tuesday even.
ing, as I now remember; marching in
good orderly line, was one of his men,
without knapsack, coat or accoutre-
merits, but with musket in hand and
perched across his shoulders back of
his neck was a year old, big-cared, fox
hound pup, that could not have wei ' had
less than forty pounds. This sol _ier,
'like many others, cared little for the
loss of his clothing and equipments,
his chief concern was to get to Connec-
ticut with his living trophy of the Bull
Run battle.
If any reader is desirous of refresh-
ing his memory with all the essential
facts and movements of this the first
important contest of the Rebellion,
they can be had in condensed and very
accurately and guardedly stated form,
in Gen. McDowell’s report of the bat-
tle, to be found in almost any house-
hold or public library. My purpose is
to give facts and incidents not hitherto
published, or with which the reader is
likely to be made less easily familiar.
Of all the multitudinous newspaper
reports of the Bull Run fight, that by
Edmund Clarence Stedman, now the
justly renowned “Banker Poet” of
New York and written for the World,_
then as young and lusty a newspaper
as he was reporter, is unquestionably
the best. I recall seeing him on his
jaded horse a moment, before the fight,
and it is reported of him, that as soon
as the battle began to rage With inten-'
sity, his quick eye saw a clump of tall
trees on a commanding knoll, overlook-
ing the entire and extended field of
hostilities. He galloped up to the tall-
est tree, sprang from his saddle, hitched
his horse to the trunk and with the
celerity of a squirrel, climbed to the
highest crotch, where he,for hours sat
and viewed all that was possible to be
seen of the ebb and flow of the battle.
After detailing the opening and pro-
greSs of the fight up to 3 p. m.‘, Stod-
man comes to the critical moment of
our ignominious defeat, as follows:
“From the hill behind, we could see
long columns swimming and at first
thought them Richardson’s men, but
soon discovered their true character.
From every southward point the cue-
mies’ reinforcements began to pour in
by thousands. A person who ascended
a lofty tree could see the continual ar-
rival of cars at the nearest point on the
Manassas railroad with hosts of sol-
diers, who formed in solid squares and
moved swiftly forward to join .in the
contest. It was hard for our noble fol-
lows to withstand these incessant rein.
for-cements, yet some of our regiments
whipped several corps in-quick succes-
sion and whenever our forces fresh or
tired, met the enemy in open field they
made short work of his opposition. * *
* Down the hill and into the valley on
the left, the Connecticut, New York and
Rhode 1sland regiments drove the con.
tinually enlarging, but always retreat-
ing columns of the enemy. It was
only to meet more batteries, earthwork
succeeding earthwork,ambuscade upon
ambuscade. Our fellows were hot and
weary, most had drunk no Water dur-
ing hours of dust and smoke and insuf-
No one knows what
c oking the battle atmosphere pro-
cess until he has experienced it. It
was in the middle of a blazing after-
noon. ur regiments held the posi-
tions they had .won, but the enemy kept
receiving additions and continued a
flank movement, a dangerous move-
k.
merit for us, which those in the rear
perceived and vainl endeavored to in-
duce some genera officer to guard
against. . Here was the grand blunder,
or misfortune of the battle. Amisfor-
tune,that we had no troops in reserve.
But McDowell tried to vanquish the
Sohth in a single struggle, and’the sad.
.An Entertaining and I nsfrwctivc Home J oumal, ? Especially Devoted to Lac
result is before us. We heard of the
dash and decimation, sustained by the
Rhode Islanders, theConnecticut Third,
then of the intrepidity of Burnside
and Sprague, and the spiking of guns
they could not haul away. The Ohio
and Minnesota Regiments were quickly
posted in position. All were complete-
ly exhausted and partly dissevered; no
general of division except Tyler, could
be found. Where were our officers?
Where was the foe? . Who knew
whether we had won or lost? The
question was quickly decided for us.
A sudden swoop and .a body of cavalry
rushed down upon our columns and in-
fantry poured out behind them. . Tyler
and his stafi‘ and the reserve were. cut
off by the quick maneuver. I gained
the. pesition I had just left. Ambu-
lances and wagons advanced to this
spot and instant confusion and dismay
resulted. Our infantry broke ranks
and plunged into the Woods, without
leaders. Officers with leaves and'ea-
glee on their shoulder straps, majors
and colonels who had deserted their
commands passed me galloping as if
for ‘dear life. No enemy pursued just
then. Only one field officer seemed to
have remembered his duty, Lieut. Col.
Speidel, a foreigner attached to 3. Com
necticut Regiment, who strove against
the stampede for a league. Congress-
men Kellogg and Washburn of Illinors,
made similar unavailing effort to arrest
the stampede. Thousands of the sol-
diers had already got far on the road
to Washington. Poor fellows, who
could blame them 1 I rode past groups
of fugitives as fast as my weary horse.
would carry me, to Long Bridge, but
the van of the runaway soldiers were
there ahead of me. * * Today we hear
or the safe retreat of our main army
only feebly followed by the rebels, and
that McDowell, a stunned and van-
quished general, is overlooking the
wreck of his columns from his old
quarters in the Custis Mansion at Ar-
lington.”
Murphy the Counterfelter.
James W. Murphy. alias James Davis,
alias Humphrey Otis, the shifty engrav-
er who managed for some time to keep
one hand in the counterfeiters’ pockets
and the other in Uncle Sam’s, has been
identified as Charles W. Hill, an old-
timer. He was formerly connected with
the Driggs gang, and it is thought like-
ly that he has had on hand for years
some of the plates recently seized. For
one man to produce by hand the three
sets of counterfeit plates would require
a good deal more time than the Connec-
ticutfgang is supposed to have had.
A.%L. Drummond, formerly chief of
the United States Secret Service, when
told yesterday of Murphy’s identifica-
tion, said : .
“I have suspected since last Saturday
that,ithe man was Charles W. Hill, and
suggested to the Secret Service Bureau
that such might be the case. The only
thing that made it seem doubtful was
the way in which he has “broken into
jail.”. It seems remarkable that such
an old~time operator should make the
blunder of going to the Secret Service
Bureau. He was always a “peacher,”
but this time he has got himself into
trouble. He must have Lech either
hard up or at odds with the rest of the
gang.
Yesterday afternoon Chief Hazen
gave out the following statement :
“The Secret Service Division has
learned that Murphy. alias Davis, is
none other than Charles W. Hill, of
Brooklyn. He isa married man and
has one son; he has not been living
with his wife for years, and it is known
now that Hill made for the Driggs
gang of Dayton, 0.. the dVebster head
United States note, denomination of
810, series of 1875, check letter C plate
(considered a good counterfeit). A
raid was made on the Dtiggs gang, and
$26,000 worth of counterfeit notes cap-
tured and one plate used to imitate the
fibre on the back of notes. Nelson
Briggs and Gertie Driggs, his young
wife, were arrested and tried in
Cincinnati before the United States
court. The jury disagreed. It is also
known now that Charles W. Hill and
Russell R. Hoyt in 1890 were together
perfecting the “Driggs” Webster-head
plate in Brooklyn, but the arrest of
Briggs and the capture of the counter-
feit money stopped the proceedings,
and for the first time we are able to
prove who made the Driggs gang Web~
stir-head U. S. 310 note plate.”
‘F‘lfth Connecticut Volunteers.
The 28th reunion of the Fifth Con-
necticut Volunteers was held at Nor-
wich yesterday. There were about
seventy-five present, most of them from
the western part of the state.
The following officers were elected:
President, C. F. Hallock, South Nor-
walk; vice president, D. N. Carpenter,
Norwich; secretary and treasurer, E.
N. Marvin, of Hartford; chaplain, V.
Bigelow, of Willimantic. It was voted
to hold the next meeting in August,
1895, at South Norwalk.
Remarkable Trlp.
Mary Hanley, 90 years old, who
claims to hail from Bridgeport, put up
at police station in Worcester Wednes-
day night. She said that she had walk-
ed from that city and was on her way to
Boston where she had relatives who
would take care of her. She had with
beta little wagon in which she carries
her clothing and food. She will not
beg and earns! what money she needs
by sewing.
Sculll'mr Championship. _
The three mile sculling race between
Geor e Hosmer of Boston and James
Ten yck of Worcester, took place
Thursda at Putnam, on Alexander
lake an was witnessed by over 3,000
persons. The race was for the cham-
pionship of New England, which was
held. by Hosmer. The honors were
carried off by Ten Eyck‘ who covered
the distance in 19:23 and winning by a
length and a half. '
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Judge Stuart a Daley.
The man-is a daisy that can exclaim
these days that“there are no files on.
mel”—Canaan News.
ll SUSPIGIOUS .FIND. ‘
A Mold for Making CoUnterfeit
Coin Discovered Neartne Rall-
1'_ road Crossing.
Chief of the Secret Service
' Notified.
This morning, Cornelius Beers, the
gate tender at the Water street railroad
crossing in this citv, found a copper
mould which had apparently been used
in the manufacture of counterfeit
twenty-five cent pieces.
It was wrapped in a copy of theDan—
bury N e’ws, which was worn as if it had
been carried in some one’s pocket. On
the margin of‘ the paper was the name
of “Mrs. 'L. ,Hoyt, danbury,” in ink
and poorly written, and an uncanceled
two cent postage stamp.
The mould is in three pieces about
four inches long by two inches wide.
On each corner of one of the plates is a
rivet which fits in holes to match on the
other plates. The two outside plates
are about one-quarter of an inch thick.
The inner or third plate is very thin
and the edge is made so as to give a
milled appearance to the edge of the
com. The date on the die for the coin
is 1877. There are two holes on the
edge of the mould for the pouring in of
the metal used. The mould has good
one and was evidently made by no
amateur.
Mr. Beers was puzzled at first as to
to what to do with the package but
finally turned it over to Hon. E. J.
Hill, who in turn gave it to Chief of
police Bradley.
The package was found close to the
fence at the lumber yard and near the
railroad. tracks. at the crossing. By
some it is believed that it was thrown
from a passing train. If that theory
be correct it must have found its way
there since Tuesday as the date of the
paper in which it was wrapped was
August 7th, or last Tuesday. "
Chief Bradley took the mould to
South Norwalk, where he showed it to
Chief Vollmer who. has been interested
1n_the capture of the Bethel counter-
feiters. He also advised Chief Hazen
of the Secret Service Bureau of his find.
USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLA,IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES. ”
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New United States Marshal.
Richard C. Morris of New London,
the new United States marshal of Con-
necticut, was confirmed by the Senate
yesterday; The commissioners of Uni.
ted States Marshal Emory F. Strong of
Bridgepoat and his deputies expired
August 2,‘ and since then there has
been no federal officer in the state .to
serve possessors of the courts.
Av‘
USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLA, IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES.”
~ Off for Newport.
Commodore Hubert E. Bishop left
Norwalk, this morning, with a stiff
northerly wind, direct for New London
and Newport. His yacht Mabel car-
ries as supercargo John K. Hyatt, Clar-
ence Osborn and Samuel Lynes.
fiAv¥
USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLA, IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES.”
Killed by a Fall. '
Richard Matthews, jr., aged 25, an
electric road lineman, while putting
up trolley wires in Meriden, on Thurs-
day, fcll from a step ladder, striking
upon the track and breaking his spine.
He died Thursday afternoon.
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No Race.
The Vigilant did not start in to-day,s
race at ~Cowes, and the Britannia sailed
over the course’alone.
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A V- V'i' able Land of Gold
Moses, :1, Aug. 14l.——A most sur-
prising striksx of free mining gold ore has
been made in the Aiqiio lode, 15 miles
east of here, by the Fullemvider brothers.
Assays have been made, with the' aston-
ishing result of $42,000 per ton.‘ The gold
is found in a honeycomb quartz easily
wor’ked, almost crushing in the hand.
Much of it is visible to‘the naked‘eye.
\Vaies’ Turn Now.
Gowns, Isle of Wight, Aug. 10.—Vigi-
lant and_Britannla started this morning
in the race for the town prize of £100,
presented by the inhabitants of the town
of wa'os. Britannia got slightly the best
of the start and was ahead when rounding
the flrst mark and kept her l’éad to the
finish, winning by 2 minutes and {2 sec-
onds without her time allowance.
A 00:“ch Anarchist Is Penitent.
’ BARCELONA, Aug. 10.—Anarchlst Sal.
vador Fran under sentence of death for
causing the e losion in the Mesa theater
in November last, when more than 30 per-
sons wore killed, has written the bishop
requgsting that he visit him. He says that
he desires to make a confession. He is de-
spond’ent and penitent and suffers contln- .
ually from a self inflicted wound.
Good News For; Wheatgrowors.
Sir. PAUL, Aug. 10.—-Tlie president of the
Eastern Minnesota road has created a stir
among the elevator men of this section of
the northwest by the announcement that
rates on .wheot in the elevators of the
G t Northern road at Duluth and West
Superior wo id be practically cut in two,
much to the nefit of the farmers. The
new rates‘go into efiect at once.
An Aura! Night In Amino. .
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug". 10.—A special to
The Journal from Anoka, Minn, says:
Last~hight was a night of terror. Three
incendiary" fires were set, and the city turn-
ed out’ on guard. A vacant lio'use was
burned, and a $15,000 fire in Page's‘ium-
ber'lyard was put out after alsvuggle from
midnight to daylight. Aid was called
from Minneapolis. .
at Wows and Interests.
[I [$1.00 ether 1
PRICE Two CENTS.
Recent Deaths.
Attorney Arthur H. Averill of Dan-
bur , died at the hospital in that city
on hursday, aged 53 years, after an
illness of aboutrone week. He was the
son of the late Lieut-Gov. Roger and
Maria W.Averill, and was born at Salis-
bury, Conn,, July 6th, 1841. He was
graduated at Yale college, class of 1869.
He commenced the practice of law in
Danhury with his father, in the old of-
fice once occupied by Governor Booth.
He was one .of the best known members
of the Fairfield county bar. The fun
eral will be held to-morrow afternoon.
Mrs. Mary L. Bassett of Wilton, died
at the Retreat for the Insane, where
she had been for about a year, yester—
day. Mrs. Bassett was 62 years old and
a widow. She leaves a son, Samuel
Bassett of New Haven, and a married
daughter in Ohio.
Mrs. Lydia Smith Bulkeley mother of
GovernorBulkeloy died at her home in
Hartford, Thursday, aged 88 years.
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_ Caught a Shark.
Miss Gertrude Lyon 9. member of the
party camping out at Sherwood’s Point
caught the largest fish of her life Thurs-
day afternoon. She was out fishing in
a boat With her father, James Lyon,
the .hatter, when she felt an unusually
strong tug at the line, and being unable
to pull whatever was at the end of the '
line toward the boat, called on her fa-
ther for assistance. Slowly and care-
fully they played with the fish until at
last the mouth of a shark yawned un-
comfortably close to the boat. Miss
Lyon was at first frightened, but her
father had seen sharks before, and
grasping a clamrake he dealt the shark
a blow that killed it. He then fastened
the fish to the boat and rowed'to the
camp-ground, where the shark was
found to measure seven feet in length.
It_ Will be photographed and “Jim”
thinks seriously of using the picture as
a trademark for his hats.
. Home and Abroad.
It is the duty of everyone whether at
home or traveling for pleasure or busi-
ness, to equip himself with the remedy
which Will keep up strength and pre-
vent illness, and cure such ills as are
liable to come upon all in everyday life.
For instance, Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a
general tonic’_and to keep the blood
pure and lessliable to absorb the germs
of disease, will be well nigh invaluable.
Change of drinking water often causes
serious trouble, especially if one has
been used to spring water in the country
froma few drops to a teaspoonful of
Hood’s _Sarsaparilla in a tumbler of '
water Will prevent the water having any
injurious efl‘ect. Hood’s Vegetable
Pills, as acathartic, cause no discom-
fort, no disturbance, no loss of sleep,
,but assist the digestive organs, so
that satisfactory results are effected in
a natural and regular manner.
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Will Prosecute.
A meeting of the Liquor Dealers’
association was held last evening at
which business of considerablefljmpor-
tance was transacted. About twenty
members were present besides delega-
tions from Stamford, Danbur , Bridge-
port and Greenwich. A reso ution was
passed which provides for the prosecu-
tion of all persons who are selling in-
toxicants without a license. as well as
those who are licensed and are in the
habit of selling on Sundav. The Bridge-
port association has offered financial
aid, if needed, in making the prosecu-
tions thorough. A list of licensed deal-
ers will be prepared at once. Four
new members were added to the asso-
ciation.
Timely Poetry.
The following lines were addressed
to the man who asks, “Is it hot enough
for you?”
“Sing hey! for a cauldron of of boiling oil,
And a basin of molten lead. _
Where this obdurate sinner may SlZZle and
)1
And tropically soak his head. .
May liefsmge and toast, and Simmer and
roas -,
And char and kindlesnd. burn. , .
And scorch and smge till his soul Will cringe,
And his body to Cinders turn. _
Who says to his brother in sweltering stew.
With a gurgle of f'erVid glee.
Is it hot enough to-day for you?
I t’s exactly right for me.” .
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Tim’s Donkey.
As “I‘im” Howard was driving his
donkey cart on Cross street, Thursday
afternoon. the donkey ran away, and
threatened to demolish the wagon if
not break “Tim’s” neck. Tim, how-
ever, was equal to the occasion, and
jumping out of the wagon, swung the
reins around a telegraph pole and
brought the animal up in a confused
heap beside the pole, before any great
amount of damage had been done.
Gigarmakers Win.-
The striking cigar makers who were
called out of Cunningham & Co.’s fac-
tory July 16 last because that firm re-
fused to pay the scale have won their
point. A committee of the Cigar Mak-
ers’ ,uoion were informed that the
union scale would he adopted and that
the entire old force might come back.
Work was resumed Thursday.
Quarterly Convention.
The 99th quarterly convention of the
Independent Order of Good Temple!
was held in Bridgeport, in Temperance
hall, on Thursday. Routine business
was transacted. Mrs. Charles Ruby of
this city was elected chaplain. \
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Thursday’s Ball Games.
New York, 7; Washington,_3.,
‘ Brooklyn, 11 ; Baltimore, 7.
Boston, 11; Philadelphia, 2.
Louisville, 5; Pittsburgh, 4.
Chicago, 10; Cincinnati,6.
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A MlddletowL Scoundrel. ’
e in o a ‘ddletown man' died
the other day and the town purchased
a casket for its burn]. The thrifty
father put the remains into a pine box
, and attempted to sell the casket. -
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