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J Hay.

The reform(?) Tariff bill reduces the
duty on hay imported into the United
States by about one-half; and this re-
calls the attention of some of its oppo-
nents to the fact that Canada is now
our strong competitor in the hay mark-
et, and that the centres of trade lying
along the Canadian border will suffer
most by the reduction of this duty. The
cost of production in Canada is said to
be 45 per cent. lower than in the United
States. In 1870 the hay yield of the
United States was 24,525,000 tons ; 1880
the yield was 31,022,233 tons; in 1803 it
was 65,766,158, worth $570,882,872, or
more than double the value of the cot.
ton crop, more than'twice the value Of
the wheat crop, nearly fifteen times
greater than that of the tobacco crop,
and within a fraction of that of the corn
crop of 1803, which was $590,000,000.

New York stands at the head of the
hay-producing states, the hay crop of
that state being of the average value
annually of more than $50,000,000.
New York, from its proximity to the
Canada border line, will probably suf-
fer most from the importation of hay,
under this lowered tariff rate, but that
consideration should not be permitted
to stand in the way of a fair trial of the
new bill for readjusting and redistrib-
uting the atrocities of the McKinley
tariff, under the workings of which in
1892 and 1808, a considerable foreign
trade in hay was beginning to be es
tablished. .

The Vermont farmers who are badly
hit, seem to have attempted a little pc-
litical haymaking on their own account,
and it will not be surprising if the pace
set in the Green Mountain state,should
be taken up next week by the farmers
of Maine, in resentment for the change
in the tariff on their hay.

Butcher’s Association Meets.

The Retail Butchers’ Protective As-
sociation of Connecticut met in Bliss’s
Hall,Hartford,yesterday,some fifty rep-
resentative butchers from different sec-
tions of the state being present as de-
legates from local associations. The
reports of the local officers showed the
association to be in a satisfactory con-
dition. E. S. Adams of Norwalk the
president, gave an address, in which he
recounted the efforts of the Connecticut
association to remodel the national ar-
sociation upon ideas which are peculiar
to the Connecticut association.

In June lasta delegation from this
state met with the national association
at \Vheeling, W. Va. At that time the
national association voted itself out of
existence and the delegates present
formed a new association on the plan
of that of Connecticut, which includes
an obligation from the members and
meetings conducted secretly as in any
trade union.

The officers elected were: President,
George F. Kellogg of Hartford; first
vice-president, F. G.,Wal1ace, Meriden;
second vice president, C. Richards of
New Haven; recording secretary, D.
Burns of Hartford; financial secretary,
J. Wexson of Norwalk; treasurer, C. J
Wissert of New Haven.

After the business session the asso-
ciation boarded cars for the Elm Tree
Inn at Farmington, where dinner was
served and speeches made.

4."

Health Officers Meet.

Fairfield County Health Officers, to
the number of fifteen, met at the Greg-
ory’s Point hotel, Thursday afternoon.
Interesting papers were read and dis-
cussed. Attorney George E. Hill, of
Bridgeport, was elected president and
Dr. Day, of Westport, secretary. Dr.
W. J. Tracy and Dr. L. P. Jones were
appointed a committee to formulate
rules and regulations concerning quar-
antine. It was voted to meet every
three months. After the business meet-

 

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dinners was served.

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Recent Deaths.
Oliver’Burr, one of the best-known
residents of Greenfield hill, died Thurs-
day at the age of 70. Mr. Burr was
born in Bridgeport, but for many years
had lived at Greenfield hill.

General Henry E. Davies, late Ma-
jor-General of United States Volun-
teers, died suddenly to-day, aged fifty-
nine. His home was in Fishkill.

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Junior Foot Ball Team.

Ata meeting of the Y. M. C. A.
Junior foot ball team last night._the
following officers were elected: John
Burchard, captain; Charles McPherson,
manager; Ward Gregory. treasurer:

Ward Gregory, C. McPherson and
J onn Burchard, committee on grounds.

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”Old Maids” and “Authors.”

The commissioner of internal revenue
has decided that “Old Maid” and “Au-
thors” cards are not subject to tax, as
are what are generally known as play-
ing cards. If a pack of playing cards
contains more than fifty-four cards a
tax lgf four cents will be required or. the
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Editor 0f the Gazette.

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CHAPTER XX.

The regular session of the 37th Con-
gress opened its session on the firlt
Monday of December 1861, under all
the dispiriting gloom' of the Bull Run
rout and the Ball Bluff defeat, resulting
as heretofore stated, in the death of
Oregon’s, patriotic and phenomenally
eloquent senator, E. D. Baker._ But
once grand old Gen. Scott, who in his
prime had been a peerless soldier and
commander, but who in_his seventy-
fifth year had become so inert and on-
feebled in mental and physmal force, as
to have been responsible for McDow.
ell’s lack of reinforcements at Bull Run
and largely for Patterson‘s unpardon-
able delinquency in allowuig General
Johnston’s army to elude him at Win-
chester and flee to the support of Beau-
regard at M’anassas. had been graceful-
ly retired and replaced by the tyoung
and vigorous soldier, McClellan. This
act greatly tended to restore courage
and confidence throughout the Worth
which without cessation was raismg
and hurrying to the front, regiment
after regiment, until the frosts of De-
cember and the snows of the winter of
1861-2, fell upon our grand army of two
hundred thousand men. They were
well clothed and fed, well drilled and
early equipped, and like the brave men
they were, stood ready, aye eager to
fall upon the enemies of the Union any
month of that long, weary, waiting
winter, but they were not permitted.
And our history to this day, may be
searched in vain for any reasonable, in-
telligible or satisfactory explanation or
excuse for this non-action,iother than
the secret workings of some subtle in-
fluences that saw and hoped for in this
protracted delay achance for the patch-
ing up of some sort of settlement _or
compromises of the differences div1di_ng
the two sections of the Republic,
whereby the heathenish institution
of Slavery might be sustained and per-
petuated. Ui‘andly, sweetly and pro-
phetically did the
Haverhill sing:
“What gives the wheat fields blades of steel?

What points the rebel cannon?
What sets the roaring rabble‘s heel
,On th’ old star-Spangled peiinon?
What breaks the oath
Of th’ men 0’ th’ South?
What whet-s the knife
For the Union’s life?—
Hark, to the answer :——Sl-.ivery !"

“Then waste to blows on lesser foes,
In strife unworthy freemtn:
God lifts tO-day the veil, and shows
The features of the demon!
0. North and South,
It’s victims both,
Can ye not cry,
‘Let Slavery die 1’
And Union find in Freedom?"

The eagerly expect-ed Message of
President Lincoln to Congress was con-
spicuous for its perfect frankness, full-
ness and candor in stating the Nation’s
situation. He told of the profound so-
licitu‘de felt. as to the possible response
foreign nations might make to rebel
overtures, who, as he tersely and with
his characteristic felicity of expression
phrased it, "had proffered the ruin of
their own country in exchange for the
aid and comfort they had invoked
abroad.” He congratulated Congress
on the favorable stand most of the bor~
der slave states had taken and especial-
ly Delaware, and expressed the confia
dent belief that the cause of the Union
was making sure and steady progress
southward. _

Congress on coming together at once
grappled with the Slavery question as
the life and cause of the Rebellion.
This was inevitable in a body where
such men as Thaddeus Stevens,Galusha
A. Grow, Sumner, Wade and Chandler
were members. This of necessity was
a great embarrassment to Mr. Lincoln
who was striving to hold on to slave-
holding Union men at the South..

Next came a welcome change in the
head of the War Department. Secre-
tary Simon Cameron was what might
be termed in the usual acceptation of
the words an unusually alert and saga-
cious man. He was already past the
mental and physical prime of man-
hood’s best development, although he
served in the councils of the Nation for
a quarter of a century afterward. He
was patriotic to a degree, but unable to
endure the enormous strain the great
preparations for a gigantic war im-
posed, robbing as it did the head of that
department of the necessary hours for
sleep and food. Moreover he had the
amiable v akness of actively seek-
mg to place all possible government
contracts for supplies for our army in
the hands of his own Pennsylvania fel-
low citizens. This worked delays and
caused bitter complaints from influen-
tial men of other sections, who desired
to see the good thin s in the way of
busmess, so bountifu ly bestowed by
the War Secretary upon his own per—
sonal or state friends, more generally
distributed among the loyal people of
the entire country. .These contentions
about business and financial matters
were a source of the greatest annoy-
ance and embarrassment to the Presi-
dent and so when the change occurred,
no as well as a majority of “the adminis-

 

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immortal bard of.

tration‘s most earnest supporters,.were I
gratefully glad that itwas accomplish- _ or dress-parade Commander, but his-r
tenacity, evenlstubbornness, in fighting

from any patriotic quarter or interest.

Cameron was sent as our Minister to
Russia and the second week in January
’62 was succeeded in the War Depart—
ment by that grand patriot and man of
iron, Edwin M. Stantion, the Cromwell
of our War. This gave new inspirations
of vigor and determined purpose to our
army and the country. He it is sup-
posed, induced the President to issue
his somewhat singular but important
order for a general movement of all
the United States forces against the
rebels on the coming "Washington’s
birthday. What was the cause or
special purpose of this Presidential
command, never seriously attempted
to be executed, was never known to the
public, but it served the purpose of
greatly elating loyal courage and hopes.

The little, Illinois colonel, who had
seized Paducah in Kentuck§ and later
won a splendid victory at elmont in
Missouri, over the rebel general Pil-
low’s greatly superior forces, after
1 hours. of most desperate and sanguinary
fighting, had now begun largely to call
public attention away from McClellan’s
grand Armyof the Potomac, to the
western or Mississippi Department.
This battle was made memorable both
as being the bloodiest, for the numbers
of our troops engaged, and for the trite
replv made by their commander, now
become Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant,
to his quartermaster, who when he in-
formed him that if we should be rout-
ed, he had not flotilla enough to ferry
our troops back to safety, across theriv
er, said: “If we are defeated, your two
boats will hold all there is left of us.”
So sudden and phenominal was the rise
to fame, as a desperate and successful
fighter, of this young officer, that all
eyes and minds were upon him and late
in the fall of ’61 and just prior to the
convening of the regular session
of the Thirty-seventh Congress, Mr.
Greeley called me from my duties
at \Vashington, and despatched me to
Cairo, the headquarters of the newly
commissioned Gen. Grant._ Arriving
at his quarters and presenting my cre-
dentials, I was as quietly and unosten—
tatiously received as if the young Gen-
eral had been a Connecticut farmer. His‘
dress, or rather his undress. especially
attracted my attention and interest.
He wore an old, blue flannel blouse,
with an unusually small shoulder-strap
and star, no vest and quite sciled flan-
nel shirt, with collar and no neck-tie.
In his mouth he had the unlit stub
of a more than half smoked cigar,
which as he talked, he wabbled about
in his lips, as if specially solicitous not
to let it drop. As soon as at leisure, he
kindly inquired in what way he could
serve me, gave me a pass and card for
transportation across the rivers and to
all points within the Union lines. The
only words of dictation or caution he
gave me, were expressed in the simple
hope that I would exercise caution in
any reference to his troops I might
make, not to allude to their numbers,
should ;I in any way ascertain the
strength of our forces there. He was
very reticent to every one about him,
talking to me as much as to any one
else, when not engaged. He remarked
that. he had never seen Mr. Greeley,
but thought well of his paper, and
hoped that some day he might meet its
editor, about whom he had heard so
many curious and funny anecdotes.
He remarked on one occasion that he
‘ ‘had been a good deal annoyed at times
by the unintentional indiscretions of
army correspondents, who, in their
eagerness to send off news for their
papers, would publish- information
greatly injurious to our Cause, and
furnishing aid and comfort to our ene-
mies, who usually get such publications
before we do.” “You would be sur-
prised,” said he, “to know how quick
all such statements reach them and how
slow in getting to us.” I replied that
'my brief experience in and about the
Army of the Potomac, had given me a
thorough knowledge of What'he stated,
and I was quite sure he would have no
occasion to complain of me in that di-
rection at least, during the few days I
was to be a visitor within his lines.
Casually speaking of my long acquaint-
ance with his Galena Congressman,
Elihu B. Washburn, it seemed to win
for me an unexpected share of his at-
tention and confidence. It was ar-
ranged that I should mess at his table.
and he told me the hour he usually took
his breakfast, the only meal, he said,
at which he was liable to be at all regu.
lar, while the army was in camp. He
was .dain expecting to be vigorously
attacked on Kentucky soil, with a view
to driving the Union forces from the
State, and speaking of this one day, he
let slip (I think it was a slip) theremark
that the enemy greatly outnumbered
him, but had no better fighters than he
had. With him and in support of his
little armyat Cairo, Grant fortunately
had our own Connecticut Admiral
Foote, with his small equipment of
hastily improvised gun-boats, and in
him had an eager, brave and always
alert and ready coadjutor in any move-
ments or engagements on or along the
banks of the great Father of Waters.

I never, either then or afterward,
heard from Gen. Grant’s lips. a coarse,
rude or profane word, but he came the
nearest to it, one morning at breakfast,
in chatting about McCl’ellan’s army
around Washington. He seemed fired
with admiration over what he had read
and heard of the strength, drill, discip-
line and perfect equipment of the grand
Army of the Potomac. With great
enthusiasm, for him, he said,-—-“ With
such an army as McClellan has got, he
ought to be able to fight his way
through h——-—l.” He was rarely seen
to read a newspaper, while I was with
him at this time, but was the best listen-
er to army news, when told or read by
others, I ever saw. I doubt if he craved
praise, as most generals did, but it was
certain that when he or his men de-
served it, it was both pleasing to him
and agreeable to his sense of justice.
to have the newspapers accord it. He
held, I think, above all else, a domina—
ting sense of honesty-and justice. He
had a vein of quaint humor, that on
occasion would slip from him in the
keenest' and brightest and most origi-
nal witticisms. He could hardly be
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his'men and assaulting his enemy, with
charge upon charge, even after all his
subordinate officers felt that they were
whipped, Were unparalleled in the an
nals of modern warfare.

Grant’s terse but ringing congratu-
lations to his troops upon the surrender
of Fort Donelson, in which he said :—
“The victory is not only great. in the
effect it will have in breaking down the
rebellion, but has secured for‘uls the
greatest number of prisoners of war
ever taken in a single battle on this
continent,” rang like a trumpet blast
all over the loyal Nation, and his name
and praise were on all lips. “ Uncon-
ditional Surrender Grant,” and “I
propose to ‘move immediately on your
works Grant,” were the instant and
catching war-cries of the press, the
peOple and the urchins on the streets,
throughout the land.

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Amusements.

 

Horr’s OPERA HOUSE.

“Louis XI” has been selected by the
management of Hoyt’s Opera House as
being most desirable play for the en-
gagement of Mr. Thomas Keene to-mor-
row evening. In the character of Louis
XI the eminent tragedian is said to
have struck the keynote of success.
Mr. Keene certainly possesses the his-
toric leaven necessary to raise this heavy
F: ench role to a standard of perfection,
where it can be easily assimlated by the
average theatregoer.

“Louis XI” deserves to have a large
audience, as it is one of the most inter-
esting historic plays on the boards ; and
the occasion of Mr. Keene’s visit is an
uncommon one and should not be
missed.

MUSIC HALL.

The Baltimore American has the fol-
lowing to say of Adams’ “Crazy Lot”
company which will appear at Music
Hall next Wednesday evening: Notice
of the “Crazy Lot" company which
appeared at Holiday St. last evening
was inadvertently ommitted from these
columns yesterday. The performance
was really one of more than ordinary
merit. Mr. Adams as the clown is al-
ready too favorably known to need
much notice. He added many new
friends to his Norwalk list, however,
and the work of Mullen and Bixby, the
clever specialty artists, was above the
common and they won .much merited
praise.

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The Tenth C. V.

About seventy members of the Tenth
Connecticut Regimental association
attended the twenty-seventh annual
reunion of the regiment at the Win-
throp hotel, Meriden, Thursday. The
business session lasted. a little more
than an hour, commencing about 12
o’clock, E. W. Coffee of Moodus being
in the chair and D. L. Durand of
Birmingham acting as secretary. It
was voted to hold the next reunion in
Meriden and officers were elected as
follows for the ensuing year:

President—~'I‘liomas.l. Gill. Hartford.

Vice President—J. H. Linsley, North-
ford, and Silas E. Mead, Greenwich.

Secretary and Treasurer—W. E.
Whittlesey, New Haven.

AssistantSecretary—Linus B.Brown,
New Haven. '

Executive committee—V. E. Hitch-
cock, Meriden;Henry C. Smith, New
Haven; General 1:. D. S.Goodyear,
New Haven.

Monument committee—E. S. Greeley,
E. D. S. Goodyear, L. B. Brown, Dr.
M. T. Newton of Suffield; Benjamin
Wright Greenwich.

 

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Off for Washington.

Clinton Commandery, No. 3, K. T.,
of this city leave to-morrow, with
Heine’s band, for Washington, Litch-
field County, Connecticut, where the
Knights will take partin the centennial
anniversary of the formation of Rising
Sun Lodge. No. 27, F. St A. M., of that
place. The following progamme has
been prepared: general greeting and
formation of parade, 11'o’clock; address
of welcome by F. J. Kilbourn, W. M,
historical address by Guy 0. Ford; col-
lation 12 m.; 1 p. m., ode, poem lay-Rev.
A. N. Lewis, music, toasts and address-
es. Ofiicers of the Grand Lodge and
other distinguished masons are expect-
ed to be present. Lodges from Bethe],
Litchfield, Woodbury, New Milford
and other towns in the State will be
represented by delegations.

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Hoyt’s Opera House.

Manager Hoyt has secured one of the
best attractions on the road this seas on
in M. B. Leavitt’s beautiful spectacle,
“Spider and Fl ,” which will be pre.
sented at his pera House, Tuesday
evening, September 11th. Beautiful
scenery, brilliant costumes, fine music
and unlimited fun, give ample Op-
portunity to a large company of clever
people to please the most exacting
audience. Another" feature of the
“Spider and Fly” this year will be a
series of Living Pictures such as have
won so much popularity in New York
City. The objects of the various
groupings are taken from the famous
paintings of Europe and America, and
will be presented here under the super-
vision of a noted artist.

Sent to the Reform School.

Antonio Paradesa, the Italian boot-
black, known as “Tony,” who was ar-
rested on suspicion, of having robbed
the till at the Wall street fruit store,
was taken before Justice Austin Thurs-
day afternoon. He was sentenced to
the Reform School until 21 years of
age. The charge against him was, “Be-
ing brought up to lead an idle and vic-
ious life.” He seemed to feel very
badly over the sentence. Officer Ken-
ney accompanied him to the Reform
School today, after he had taken an
affectionate parting with his parents
and sister. His father claims that he
was unable to keep him under control
and was apparently pleased that the
authorities had taken him in charge.

 

 

 

“We will give away. free Friday and

Saturday, with one pound of tea a-glass

A. P. Tea
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Found Dead.

The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of William C. Judson of
Bridgeport, was cleared up' yesterday
by the finding of his dead body in
Stratford. The body was found in a
thick growth of bushes. A two-ounce
bottle labelled “laudanum” which lav
on the ground within reach of Judson’s
extended right arm told the story of
his death. The bottle was quite empty.
showing that Judson had taken the last
drop to escape further suffering from
she malady which made his life a bur-

en.

A further evidence of his determina-
tion was a red mark around his neck
made by his suspenders with which he
had tightly squeezed his throat in an

~ attempt to strangle himself. This means

«if death had evidently failed him for
the suspenders lay a few feet from him.

Judson was almost 55 years old and a
bachelor. He had been a sufi‘erer from
kidney troubles.

 

And He Came Back.

Some weeks_'since, Constable Lock-
wood arrested George “Mud Hen”
Brown, and paroled him in charge of
Justice Austin, while he went out to
subpoena witnesses. After the officer
left, Brown begged so piteously to go
out on an errand of necessity, that the
judge let him go after securing his
“word of honor” that he would return.
His “word of honor” was a spurious
article, for he skipped out of town.
Yesterday he came back and the con-
stable again made his close acquantance
and locked him up. He was again ta-
ken before the Justice to‘whom he had
lied, and today was sentenced to 120
days in jail for being a common drunk-
ard and fined $7 and costs for assault.
And he went back—to jail. '

Colored Odd Fellows’ Parade.
The parade of the Grand United Or-
der of Odd Fellows, at Ansonia, this
afternoon, will be the largest ever held.
There will be large delegations not
only from lodges in this state but from
New York and Massachusetts. All mem-
bers in the parade will wear silk hats
and handsome regalia. The parade
will be received by the mayors and
common council of Ansonia and Derby
as they pass through the two cities.
This evening there will be a grand con-
cert and entertainment in Germania
hall, and the hall will be kept Open all
night to accommodate visitors.
About seventy members of the Order
and the Daughters of Ruth, from this
City, will take part in the festivities.

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Why This Distinction.

Wedgesday night, three young men
were arrested and placed in the station-
house. Thursday afternoon they were
taken before Justice Austin, the charges
against them being drunkenness. breach
of the peace and soliciting money.
They gave their names as John Con-
ners, Patrick Ryan and Albert Ellis.
They were all found guilty, and Con-
ners and Ryan were sentenced to thirty
days in jail each and Ellis was fined $7
and costs. A person who was present
at the trial asks the very pertinent ques-
tion,-“Why this distinction in the sen-
tences ?” '

 

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1,000,000.000 Rounds.

The Winchester RepeatingArms com-
pany of New Haven has just completed
and shipped to the Chinese government
1,000,000 rounds of ammunition. The
cartridges were of 45-70 calibre and
were sent by rail to the Pacific coast.

It is said that this order is a trial one
and that the Chinese government has
asked American manufacturers to sub.
mit bids to their agents giving their
price for'1,000.000,000 rounds of cart-

ridges.

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Couldn’t Raise Her.

Wreckers have been at work attempt-
ing to raise the sunken coal barge Belle
McWilliams which broke adrift Monday
night and sank Off Penfield Reef. The
wreckers had much difficulty in at-
tempting to raise the barge on account
of the heavy sea which was running in
the Sound. They finally gave up work.
Another effort will be made to raise the
barge to-day.

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Fatal Injuries.

Johnnie Bender, 9 years old, of
Bridgeport, died last evening at the
General Hospital of injuries sustained
by being kicked by a horse last Sun-
day. The kick caused a rupture of the
intestines. The operation of laparoto-
my was performed Tuesday, but the in-
jury was of so serious 9. nature that
surgical skill could do nothing to re-
lieve it.

-—Fire Sale.

In order to make room for a large
stock of fall and winter clothing,which
we soon will receive, We are holding a
Fire sale, and will fire out our present
stock at a sacrifice. Try us for bar-
gains, we have marked down the prices
so low that you will be surprised at our
offers. Taft Bros., Wall street bridge.

' Short Married Happiness.

Mrs. Alice Robbins of New Haven,
has sued her husband, Mark O.Robbins,
for a divorce, on the ground of infidel-
ity. The couple have been married
about two years. Robbins is employed
on one of the oyster steamers, in that
city.

 

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Fell Two Stories.

John Herman. an electrician while
working on the high school building at
New Haven, Thursday, fell two stories
to the ground. His right leg was brok-
en at the ankle and it is ‘feared he is
injured internally.

Drowned.
The remains which were found float-

 

 

.ing off Pleasure Beach, Bridgeport,

were yesterday identified as those of
W. A. Penfield of Meriden. He fell
from a wharf in Bridgeport.

 

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G. A. R. Clam Bake.

A valiant company of Buckingham
Post vets, aided and abetted by sundry
Douglass Fowler boys, entertained a
large and influential delegation of com-
rades from the Nelson L. White Post,
of Danbury, at a monster clam bake at
Betts’ Island yesterday. Comrade and
Capt. Richard J. Cutbill furnished the
fragrant and toothsome bivalves, in
munificent abundance. Quartermaster
Henry Hoyt and his chief of staff,
George W. Raymond supplied the sweet
corn, sweet and Irish potatoes, etc., for
the bake, the coffee, peaches, melons,
hard~tack, butter and delicious rye-
bread for the groaning table. About
every comrade in turn supplied the
table talk. Toastmaster Raymond called
off Captains C. Quein, and his brother
Henry Quein, both past commanders,
whogave account of the rise and pro-
gress of the latest and ‘t'hrit'tiest Post
in the state. It was organized Decem-
ber 25 of last year and already numbers
one hundred and twenty-one members.
E. L. Barnum, E. P. Crofut and other!
made short and pithy addresses. Conn
mander Wood responded for Douglass
Post and Judge Perry for Buckingham
Post. Commodore Coley took down a
load on his naptha launch, while Capt.
Cutbill with his sloop and tows con—
veyed the rest of the fighting forces
and the groceries. The oysters and
clams were superb and the roast pro-
nounced by all a perfect success. The
Danbury guests were transferred back
on the launch in time for their six
o’clock train, seemingly as happy as
the clams they had swallowed with such
heroic fortitude and profusion. T0~
morrow Captain C. Quein leaves as
delegate for the National G. A. R. en-
campment at Pittsburg.

Common Pleas Court.

Lizzie McCarthy of Norwalk pleaded
guilty to an assault upon James Ellis.
She was fined 810 and costs.

John Smith, also of Norwalk, charged
Wllh delivering policy slips was fined
$4 and costs.

J. H. Waterhouse was tried on the
charge of selling beer at wholesale,
Without the necessary license. He was
found guilty.

Ed ward \Viggins of Danbury was sent
to jail for five days for an assault upon
H. L. Conley.

Carl A. Holm, formerly of South
Norwalk, charged with intimidating
workmen, entered a plea of guilty and
was fined 87 and costs. The difficulty,
it may be remembered, occurred at the
strike of the laborers employed by the
contractors working for the Traction
Co., Bridgeport, Some months ago.

Peter O’Rourke for assaulting' a
Chinaman, was fined $5 and costs.
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Asa B. \Voodward President.

A meeting of the board of directors
of the Fairfield County Savings Bank
was held Thursday afternoon, at which
Judge Asa B. Woodward was elected
president to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Winfield S Moody. Dr.
J. G. Gregory was elected vice presi-
dent, and Thomas S. Stout a member
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A Hermit Sandbagged.

At Colbrook about 8 o’clock Wednes- _

day evening, William Woodrufi', an
old hermit, residing in a shanty sur-
rounded by woods, was lattacked by
two unknown men who sandbagged
him till he was insensible and stole a
watch and what money he had, and
escaped. He is in a critical condition.

Fell and Broke His Thigh.

John Burke, a batter employed at
Michael Delohery’s factory in Danbury,
met with a serious accident.yes-terday.
He climbed' upon a sizing kettle to
draw a plug, and slipped when he
jumped to the floor. His thigh was
fractured.

 

—See the Automatic Anti-Rattler and
Shaft Supporter, exhibited at the Nor-
walk Hotel.

 

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Short Strike. 3,2.

Sixty girls of the Taylor dressistay
factory Bridgeport, struck Thursday‘s
because E. P. Hazel. their foreman,
was removed. After being out for two
hours the girls returned to work.

 

Preparing For Atlanta's Exposition.

ATLANTA, Sept. 7.—Plans for five
buildings submitted by a New York or-
chitect have been accepted by the Inter-
national Exposition company. Another
man’s plan fen, an administration build-
ing was also accepted. The general style
of the buildings is Romanesque. The ad-
ministration building vvill be Corinthian
in style. .

Irrigators to lieet at Albuquerque.

DENVER Sept. 7. —At the session of the
irrigation congress the following cities
were put in nomination as the place for
holding the next session: El Reno, O. '13.;
San Antonio, Tex.; Chicago,Albuquerque,
N. M.; Spokane Falls, Wash, and At-
lanta. Albuquerque was made the unani-
mous choice of the congress.

The Steamer Son-onto Ashore.

NEW YORK, Sept. 7.-—-The German
steamer Sorrento, Captain J orgensen,
from Hamburg for New York, went ashore
today at Bellport, N. Y., and remains
aground. The passengers and crew are
still on board the steamer.

Later—The Sorrento was floated safely
and proceeded to New York.

Rhllroad Attorney to Be a Judge.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 7 —General Attorney
Sam Priest of the Missouri Pacific system
has tendered his resignation'to Vice Pres-
ident Warner. He will qualify tomorrow
as judge of the United States district court
for the eastern district of Missouri, to
which office he was recently appointed.

No Fusion In North Dakota.
FARGO, N. D., Sept. 7.—-A quietus has

finally been given the hope of fusion of ‘

the I) "mocrntic and Populist tickets. A
conference held in the city during the last
few days finally broke up with all factions
or sea. 'vnd no further effort to get togeth-

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