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More Lies Nailed.
The Danbury Dispatch of Wednes-
day prints 9. long account of the dis-
charging of thirty men by Presrdent
Beard of the Norwalk Lock Company,
in 188-5, because of their being mem-
of the Knights of Labor.
bers
to say that a com-
article then goes on -
mittee waited upon Mr. E. J. Hill, one
of the stockholders, who said : "I up
hold Mr; Beard in his actions in dis-
c‘narging those men, as the Knight’s of
Labor are becoming a common nuis-
ance in this town.”
rIhe Dispatch story is a good one,
but is badly disfigured by the fact that
in 1885. Mr. Beard was not president of
the Nerwalk Lock company, nor was
Mr. E. J. Hill a stockholder. No com-
mittee .called on Mr. Hill, nor did he
uttera word to anybody on the sub-
ject, and the entire statement is totally
false and a lying invention.
Nnx'r. Alpaper purporting to be the
“Catholic Standard,” is being clandes-
tinely circulated accusing Mr. Hill
With being a member of the A. P. A.
This lie is as base and baseless as the
one above. All who know Mr. Hill
know him to be incapable of either re-
ligious, political or personal bigotry.
Come gentlemen, be decent, if you
can’t be fair. Mr. DeForest is not
aided by such v’Je slanders and no one
would reprobate it more indignantly
than he, for Mr. DeForest is a gentle-
man.
That Danbury Row.
The Dnnbury News gives a full his-
tory of the DeForest post ofiice em-
broglio there, from which we extract
the following points :
_ The brief hiatothhe Danbury,
1
is as follows : liam "McPhel-
emy, member of the state central com-
mittee, 18 candidate for postmaster of
Danbury to succeed Mr. Tweedy, whose
term expires in February. . His oppon-
ent is William Doran, who is supported
by William H. Foley. Attorney John
F. Cufi' and it is said over_ 75 per cent.
of the Democratic party in that town.
McPhelemy was requested to withdraw
from the race for state central commit-
tee in place of William H. Foley.
McPhelemy refused to do so and was
again re-elected. The Foley following
a
then requested Congressman DeForest
row,
- to respect the wishes of the party in
Danbury regarding the appointment of
a postmaster by submitting the chaice
to a vote of the party. _
Resolutions in mass meeting to the
above effect were sent Congressman
DeForest, requesting an immediate re-
phi;
satisfied with the reply Will be shown
by the following letter in answer.
Hon. Robert E. DeForest, Dear Sir:—
' Your reply to our letter of the 20m
inst. , incorporating your answer to the
resolutions of the Democratic party of
Danbury, received and contents noted.
Acting for the committee, I desire to
suggest that the question asked has not
been answered. .
What the party ask is that you agree
I torecommend the Danbury Democrat
for the position of postmaster who, in a
fair contest, receives the highest num-
ber of votes, prov1ded of course, that
he is a man of character and ability.
To those portions of your letter which
say “I have not pledged myself to any
candidate. ’ ’
Let this copy of another letter writ—
ten by you to a Danbury Democrat
May 12, 1893, be our answer.
House of Representatives, U. S.
Washington, D. 0., May 12, 1893.
Mv Dear Mr. —— ,
I feel bound to say that the proba-
bility is that in the event of the removal
of Mr. Tweedy, I shall recommend the
appointment of Mr. McPhelemy as his
successor. There seems to be a proba-
bility that the present incumbent can
be removed and the whole matter set-
tled promptly by the appointment of
Mr. McPhelemy. Very truly ours,
Ronsivr E. Dn onnsr.
To the above the Danburians replied:
We regret the necessity of this reply
and that there is occasion fbr it. We
believed that you had. pledged yourself
to a particular candidate, we stated
that fact _ to many people: when your
denial came, our word was doubted
and being thus challenged to our proof,
we herewith «present a portion of it.
Again expressing regret atthe necessity
of the foregomg we remain,
.. . , Very respectfully,
Democratic Town Committee.
By WILLIAM H. Fonnr, Chairman.
The Danbury Democrats then con-
clude by charging that DeForest’s
letter shows that he had already com-
mitted himself by pledge to McPhelemy
and his reply to the mass meeting reso-
lutions, places him in a peculiar light
as to political faith.
He Won’t Vote.
President Cleveland did. not register
in New York and so cannot vote on
Tuesday next. This, many hitherto
prominent democrats assert, is precise-
ly the state of mind in which large
numbers of their party will be found
on electron day.
The '
hat the Democrats are not at all-
REQQLLEQTIONS
OFA
WAR
WUURRESPUNDENT.
- BY THE .
Editor of the Gazette.
Copyrightei 1894.
CHAPTER XXVIIL.
The name of James A. Garfield awak-
ens very tender memories among many
of the elder residents of Norwalk and
this section of the state. His brilliant
career as student, soldier, congressman,
orator, statesman and President, is
known and read of all men, and the
pinching poverty and hardships of his
fatherless boyhood, are familiar tales
to all reading American youths. My
own intimate personal acquaintance with
him came about in this wise. My old
and honored newspaporial preceptor
and predecessor in the ownership of the
GAZETTE, James Reed, upm leaving
Norwalk for Ohio, had purchased the
Ashtabula Telegraph. This was the
principal Republican journal in the
Nineteenth Congressional district in
which resided young Garfield. His
home was at Mentor, some eight miles
from Ashtabula the county seat. Upon
his retirement from the army the Re-
publicans of his district at once put
him in nomination and elected him to
Congress. Reed had much to do in se-
curing his nomination and his paper
the Telegraph, was a potent factor in
his election. This brought the two
men into frequent conferences and very
confidential relations. A strong afi'ec.
tion also grew up between their wives,
Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Reed and these
close relations were severed only by
death. It was a habit to pay a visit to
my Ashtabula friends every year and
one of these annual trips happened to
occur during the Garfield Congression-
al campaign.
On his coming to Washington to take
his seat in the House, our friendly re.
lations were at once renewed and ever
after continued. The Washington
office of the New York Tribune, while
in my charge, was one of Gen. Gar-
fiel'd’s favorite evening and loitering
resorts, as it was of most of the promi-
nent Republican members of both Sen-
ate and House. Indeed, during and
for several years following the war
period, the Tribune rooms on Fifteenth
street were the headquarters or ex-
change, where distinguished Republi-
cans from all sections of theUnion,
used to congregate. So great would
be such crowds at times, that the three
large connecting rooms on the ground
floor became so packed that the over-
flow would invade the similar suite on
the second floor, occupied by Judge
Charles Sherman, eldest brother of
Gen. William T., and Senator John
Sherman, while the news industry,
which could not be neglected, would be
forced into my private apartments. It
was under circumstances and condi-
tions such as described, that one of the
warmest and closest friendships of my
somewhat eventful life, sprang up and
grew and endured until the hand of the
brutal assassin Guiteau, immortalized
Garfield. in martyrdom and abruptly
broke in upon a mutual regard and e:-
teem, which faith bids me hope is to be
renewed in fairer and unending realms.
Garfield’s first experience in political
and official life was in 1859—when he
was elected to the Ohio state Senate.
His majority, exceptionally large for
the district attested his popularity. Al-
though new to legislation and thrown
in contact with able and experienced
members, he soon gained pre-eminence
as one of the ablest and readiest- de-
baters'in that body. His military re-
cord covered only a little more than
two years, but it was so full of bril-
liant achievements as to fill an impor-
tant chapter in our national records of
the war of the rebellion. His first se-
vere engagement was that already nar.
rated, with Gen..Humphry Marshall,
who was terribly whipped after five
hours of desperate fighting, although
he had double Garfield’s force and Was
thoroughly entrenched. As a brigadier
he took conspicuous part in the fierce
battle of Shiloh. Later he was ordered
to Washington to sit on the Fitz John
Porter court martial. Later he Was
sent back to Rosecrans, who at once
made him his chief of staff. It was
grand old “Rosey’s” opinion publicly
expressed, that Garfield needed only
time and opportunity to have made him
the peer of any commander in our
armies.
At Chicamauga, he saved Rosecran’s
forces from disaster, and received the
well-earned plaudits of Major-Gen.
George H. Thomas, under whose great
leadership that battle was fought.
Here he won a Major General’s stars
and the lasting friendship of “Old Pop
Thomas, the Rock of Chicamauga.”
After this great battle he was again
sent to Washington on a personal mis-
sion to President Lincoln and Secre-
tary of War Stanton. Following this,
he reluctantly resigned his commission
in the army to take his seat in Congress
to which he had been elected some fif-
teen months previously, urged thereto
by Mr. Lincoln and Stanton.The honor
of representing and without any conni-
yance or effort of his own, a Congress-
ional district that had elected and re-
elected Joshua R. Giddings, for a
quarter of a century, was an honor
that the highest and noblest born in
the land might honorably have'craved.
To Garfield, then in his thirty-first
year it was a particularly distinguished
and gratifying recognition of his superb
character and abilities. His was pre-
eminently a“Western Reserve” district
and he was selected and electecd by
men of general intelligence, of high
morality, intense patriotism and earnest
political watchfulness and activity.
With such a constituency behind him.
born and bred of the sturdiest, most ‘
enterprising and manliest sons of New
England sires, the “picked men of peo-
ples” as were their ancestors here,
‘ from§whom they sprang, Garfield be-
gan what proved a long, able, useful
and conspicuously distinguished career
in Congress at its opening Session in
December 1863. Let us recall a few of
the more prominent of the young
Major General’s associates in that Con- .
gress; Connecticut .had Lafayette S.
Foster and James Dixon in the Senate;
Rhode Island, Henry B. Anthony ;
Massachusetts, Henry Wilson and
Charles Sumner; New Hampshire,
John P. Hale; Vermont, Solomon
Foote and Jacob Collamer; Maine,
by William Pitt Fessenden and Lott
M. Morrill; New York by E. D. Mor-
gan‘: Maryland by Reverdy Johnson ;
Ohio by Ben. Wade and John Sher-
man ; Chandler of Michigan; Howe of
Wisconsin ; Trumbull of Illinois, Ram-
sey of Minnesota and Grimes of Iowa.
Colfax was the popular Speaker of the
House and James G. Blaine, Roscoe
Conkling, Henry Winter Davis, Thad.
Stevens, Elihu B. Washburn, Boutelle,
Dawes. Bingham, Wilson, Windom,
Kasson, Vcorhces, Pendleton, Holman
and Fernando Wood, were Garfield’s
fellow-members in that session of nota-
ble legislators. Here as elsewhere, on
all occasions, when his extraordinary
powers were brought to the country’s
service, he displayed marvelous indus-
try, versatility and ability. He at once
rose to prominence and leadership,
which he grandly maintained through-
out his entire Congressional career.
It was while thus serving. that he
came to be in constant demand to speak
in our own and in other states in State
and National election campaigns.
Whenever he was able to yield to such
solicitations and was brought near
to New York, he was more than wil-
ling to be assigned for a speech either
at or near Norwalk, so that he might
visit the benefactress of his college
day adversity, at New Canaan. Thus
he would usually become my own guest
to be conveyed before or after his Nor-
walk address, to the home of his always
gratefully remembered friend, either
by myself or by her nephew, Mr. S. Y.
St.John, of that town.
If memory serves me aright, Gen.
Garfield vielded to my solicitations and
addressed the citizens of Norwalk on
three occasions, and spoke at Stamford
Bridgeport and Danbury, once only.
These are the only times I can recall
of his having appeared on the stump in
Connecticut. His first speech here was
delivered in Lockwood’s Hall, and he
was introduced by our Gen. 0. S.
Ferry, with that eloquent and felicir-ous
grace for, which he was 'sqiustly famous.
From, this evening’s’ aéquaintance,
there grew up between these two nota-
blo men, a most cordial personal re-
gard, which upon Ferry’s becoming an
United States Senator and they being
thrown into more frequent association,
grew and ripened into the closest
friendship. Thus, all unknown to our-
selves, are the threads of our lives
knitted together and oftimes woven
into permanent history. Garfield’s af-
fectionate regard for Ferry, was to
culminate at the latter’s death in a
most touching incident and tribute con-
nected with the public eulogies deliver-
ed in the National House of Represen-
tatives, the details of which will be
more fully narrated in another chap-
ter.
The GAZETTE also was a welcome
visitor to the Garfield family, princi-
pally growing out of the special inter-
est in the paper felt by their friends
the Reeds, at Ashtabula. Both it and
the Tribune, were indebted for many
important items of news connected with
Congressional legislation and concern-
ing public affairs. It was a sad disap-
pointment to him that he was unable
to come to Norwalk and attend the
funeral of his warm friend Ferry, with
Congressman Windom and others, who
represented the House of Representa-
tives on that mournful occasion.
Not Even a ThanK You.
“ It is not alwavs that honesty is re—
warded” remarked a young man~ to a
GAZETTE reporter, “and I will prove
it,” he added. “Yesterday afternoon,
Charley Brotherton came up from New
York on the train, and as he was about
to leave the car at South N orwalk,‘ he
saw a pocketbook lying on a seat just
vacated by a women. He picked it up
and as she was about to leave the car
he tapped her lightly on the shoulder
and said: ‘Madam have you lost your
purse? ’ and receiving an answer in the
affirmative, he gave her the pocketbook
which she recognized as belonging to
her, and received in return for his
honesty not even a thank you. And
Charlie says that he saw her in the de~
pot later counting over the contents,
evidently; suspicions that he had re—
warded imself from the pocketbook.”
Was Never Under Fire.
In his speech at Fairfield Wednesday
night 001. Leslie Smith stated that he
had served in the U.~S. Arm forty
vears, and that his opponent, enator
erris, had served his country by stay-
ing at home. This is cruel in face of
the fact that it is said that during the
brave Calenel’s forty. years of service
he never saw or participated in a battle.
K. of l...
At a meeting of the Central Labor
Union held last night the following
officers were elected: Nicholas Martin,
president; Harry Chittam, vice presi-
dent; Chauncey L. Platt, financial sec-
retary; William A. Kellogg, treasurer:
Joseph O’Brien, John W. Theis and
James Weidhaus, trustees; Thomas
Hunt, sergeant—afrarns.
American House Sold.
The American House, on Main street
for many years conducted by "Uncle”
John Collins, and later by the Adams
Bros. has been sold to Ferdinand. C.
Garrison, of Far Rockawsy. Mr. Gar-
rison took possession this morning.
e22 lbs. granulated sugar, $1; at N.
Y. Store.
wrcxns' sum) FOR DIVORCE.
Wife of Pullman’s General Manager Says
Her Husband Has Beaten Her.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2.—-Mrs. Thomas H.
Wickes, wife of the second vice president
and general manager of the PullmanPal-
ace Car company, filed a bill for divorce
today. alleging cruelty. Mrs. Wickes’ bill
says that she was married to the defendant
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in St. Louis in 1871, and during their
married life Mr. Wickes has repeatedly
beaten, struck and kicked her, at the
same time using abusive language. She
tells the court that she has not lived with
her husband since July, 1893, and says
that Mr. Wickes has a large amount of
personal property. No answer to the bill
has been filed by the defendant.
Japanese Ships Near Wel-Hni-Wel.
SHANGHAI, ‘Nov. 2,—Two Japanese
warships were sighted off Wel-Hal-Wel,
and the Chinese fleet Went out in pursuit.
Not finding the enemy, the Chinese fleet
returned and left Wei-Hel-Wel agnin on
Wednesday lost, its destination being un-
known. The only forolgners with the
fleet are two engineers and two gunners.
London Saturday Review Sold.
LONDON, Nov. 2.-—The Saturday Ro-
vlew was purchased today by Mr. Reuben
Sassoon. It is rumored that Mr.Frank
Harris will be appointed editor of The
Saturday Review, and that he will intro-
duce into it society paragraphs, pictures,
etc.
Discretionary Pools Declare Dividends.
PITTSBURG, Nov. 2.—-Divldends were
declared. by some of the discretionary
momma today. The American syndicate
paid 5 per cent, the United 'States syndi-
cate 11 per cent and the Pittsburg syndi-
cate 9% per cent“
A Large Stable Burned. '
NEWTON, Mass, Nov. 2.-—A probably
incendiary fire destroyed a stable owned"
by the Gardner Colby estate, together
with horses, carriages. etc., owned by A.
C. Wolworth. Total loss, $7,000; fully
insured.
President Cleveland's Chum Dead.
BUFFALO, Nov. 2.—Goorge Rupp, pro-
prietor of Gruensr’s hotel. a relative of
Police Comlmssioner Charles Rupp and
formerly a chum of President Cleveland,
fell dead today.
Bank Robbery at W‘cst Winfield.
UTICA, N. Y.. Nov. 2.—Burglars en-
tered tho haul: at West VViufield, Herki-
mor county. and blew the door of the
vault off with dynamite. They secured
about $1,000.
Gresham lilacs at the Japanese Legatlon.
Wasrirscron, Nov. 2.—Minlstcr Kurt-
no entertained Secretary Gresham at din-
ner at the J npaneso legatlon.
The )lalne Accepted.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—The secretary of
the navy preliminarily accepted the ma-
chinery of the Maine.
TERSE TALES or Till-i TIMES.
Styles Curtis is revising the voting
list for use on Tuesday next.
——Pictures Framed by J. ’I‘. Hayes.
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St. Joseph’s R. C. fair opened in
Stamford, Wednesday night.
—Writing pads 1 and 5c. A box of
fiood paper and envelopes for 10c, H.
. Williams, 15 Wpll street. 977 3t
Clinton Commander-y, No. 3, K. ’1‘.,
will hold a regular conclave, to-night.
Rev. T. P, Powell, of California will
preach in the Methodist church, next
Sunday,
—Dripping pans 10c, nickel plated
hand bells, 5c, solid brass hand bells,
100. H. H. Williams’, 15 Wall stgggtét
It is understood that Joseph Matheis
Jr., will re—o'pcu the Oleander Garden
on Main street.
—-Goo.l padlocks, 10 and 15c. A good
shoe brush for 15c. worth 250. H. H.
Williams,’ 15 Wall street. 977 3t
.The 3, 1, 4 and 10 cent stamps of the
new design have been received at the
Norwalk post office.
—-All copper, nickel plated tea and
coffee pots at H. H. Williams,’ 15 Wall
street. 977 3t
The trial of George H. Waterbury is
set down for a hearing before Justice
R. M. Rose to-morrow.
_ —Tin-types taken at Lewis’, 975 tf
Rev. Mr. Wyatt, ’pastOr of the Nor-
walk Methodist church, is still confined
to his home by sickness.
L—Men’s seamless working shoes,
$1,213, at Sheehan‘s, Main street. 977-2t
fln Entertaining, and I nstMotive Home Journal, Especially Devoted to Local News and Interests.
NORWALK, CONN. FRIDAY-NOVEMBER 2 1894..
The continued reading of “That joy-
ful feeling” tends to give many people
“That Tired Feeling.”
. Dogs killed a valuable sheep belong—
ing to Noah Wood, one day this week.
The animal was horribly mangled.
—Purc candies, all kinds. made on
the premises. DeKlyn, . Main 9strfiat.
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Commodore Smith of Stamford, is
giving an exhibition of his chrysan—
themums, of which he has 200 varieties.
—Ladies, clean your kid gloves with
Josephine glove cleaner, for sale only
by J. A. Riggs, Pharmacist. 11 Main
street. Norwalk. 10-1vr
Postal clerk James Wood, who has
been on the sick list for a few days, is
again at work canceling postage stamps.
The New Britain law and order league
has been disbanded, by reason of the
defeat of the no license people at the
last election.
Connecticut pensions: Original wid-
ows, Catharine Hoar, Middletown;
Betsey Brown, Moosupf Kate Tracy,
Bridgeport.
There is probably no town in the
state with the names of as many mil—
lionaires on the registry list as the
town of Greenwich.
—Extrnl We have a few more left
of those men’s black cheviot suits at
$6 ; also men’s heavy all wool cassimere
suits at $6. Taft Bros. .
A very enjoyable party was given at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. George
Whitlock on Henry street, last night.
Dancing was the leading feature.
Town clerk Smith is in receipt of
15,000 official envelopes to be used on
election day. They are different in
color from those used at the last elec~
tion.
The Danbury News speaks of our
popular insurance agent, as “Rev. St.
John Merrill, of Norwalk.” Our Mr.
Merrill is not that kind of an insurance
agent.
Danbury has a new social club called
the Pancaughnaughsingue club. They
use the name for lassooing delinquent
members when it is not in use for a
clothesline.
—Choice creamery butter, 27c lb.
N. Y. Store.
W. A. Curtis is just entering upon
his fifteenth year as treasurer of the
town of Norwalk. and the event ought
to be celebrated by a raise in the treas-
urer’s salary.
The man who burglarized the News
ofiice the other night, is supposed to
have been looking for E. J. Hill pastors
with av1ew towards destroying them.
~Bridgeport Standard.
——Golden Vale flour, warranted as
good as any flour in market, $4 per b1 ;
500. per bag. 22 lbs. granulated sugar
for $1 ; Hams, 120. per lb. ; shoulders,
10c. per 1b. W. R. Bates’ Cash Gro-
cery, 47 Main street.
Miss Bessie Sims arrived home this
morning from Washington, D. C..
which city she visited after the close of
the convention of the Daughters of the
King, at Baltimore. She was a do? -
gate from St. Paul’s church branch of
the order.
—-Do you want a hat? We can give
you abargain. South Norwalk Union
made for stifi‘ hats, latest styles, $1.
Taft Bros. Wall street bridge.
——Choice mixed Tea, 5 lbs for $1. N.
Y. Store.
The insurance underwriters have
awarded Charles Whitlock $6,000 on the
Wilton. Mr. Whitlock estimates his
loss on furniture at $3,000 on which
there was an insurance of $1,000. He
will rebuild at once.
“Ray” the big St, Bernard dog he-
longing to Grumman Bros. had a nar-
row escape from being killed by a
trolley car. on Main street. this mor-
ning. The motorman. “Hen” Math-
er’s, stopped the car just in the nick
of time to save the dog’s life.
The villian who has been insulting
women on the streets of this city after
dark, was on West avenue, last night,
and insulted three women near the
Methodist church. They ran into Den-
tist Hyatt’s yard and the fiend walked
away. He is also reported as being 0
the church Green last night. -
—Sewing machine No. 3 will be given
away at the Boston store, N orwalk,
next Monday evening. The clerks have
been kept unusually busy during this
sale, and the best of it all is that pur-
chasers are securing dry goods at lower
prices than ever before heard of.
0n the Bridgeport town farm there
was raised this year, in the way of
14,000 cabbages, 300 bushels of onions,
50 tons of carrots, 300 bushels of tur-
nips, and there are 350 pigs of different
ages rooting about the premises. A
large crop of hay, rye and cats were
produced.
—-New buckwheat, 120 per package.
N. Y. Store.
Charlotte, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James K. Crofut, was nine years old,
yesterday, andvthc anniversay was cel—
ebrated by the gathering together, at
her homeon Arch street; of twenty of
her young‘friends, who had the happi—
est kind of a happy time from 4 to 7
o’clock. ~ Refreshments in abundance
were served. _ « ~ ‘ . '
loss by fire of his schociI‘ buildings at-
vegetables, 1,500 bushels of potatoes, "
[$1.00 a. Year
PRICE Two CENTS.
The choir of St. James’ church has
presented Rev. C. M. Selleck, of Nor-
walk. who has occupied the pulpit at
St. James many times of late, with a
handsomely bound copy of the revised
edition of the Standard prayer book.—
Danbury News.
A letter received from Patent Com»
misssoner John S. Seymour, states that
Edward Williams of this city, who is
sick with the small—pox, in the hospital
at Washington, is getting along nicely
and is receiving every care and atten—
tion possible to be given him. As the
physician in attendance says "he is do—
ing excellently welL” '
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A Fairfleld Jumper,
Daniel Killian a Fairfield butcher,
was caught at 11 o’clock last night as he
was about jumping off the Brooklyn
Bridge because of the unreciprocated
love he has for a girl in Fairfield. He
was seen in the south roadway by
bridge Policeman Davis. He had
thrown off his hat and was taking off
his coat when Davis started for him.
Killian hurried, and was climbing up
on the guard rail of the roadway when
Davis reached him. The butcher was
stout and determined, and he fought
when Davis tried to arrest him. They
had a scuffle and Davis got the better
of Killian. At the bridge station Kil-
lian said he had been engaged to a girl
in Fairfield and that she had jilted him.
A few days ago he left Fairfield and
went to New York. He stopped at 419
East Fifty—second itreet. He started
to drink to drown his trouble, and last
night, tired of it all, he went to the
bridge determined to try to killhimself
by a jump to the water. After telling
his storyhe was locked up in the Fulton
street police station. He persisted that
he did not Wish to live, and said he
would kill himself the first chance he
got.
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, Unkind.
Colonel Leslie Smith, whom the dem-
ocrats have placed in nomination as the
opponent of Senator Ferris, has only
injured his chances, if he had any, by
speaking in the towns of the district,
as he is an exceedingly poor speaker
and thoroughly frightened and unself-
possessed when addressing an audience.
He is far from what would be termed a
fluent speaker. His laboring to inter-
est a small audience of democrats at
Fairfield Wednesday night was painful
to see. The democratic committee
should have better sense than to allow
such a man to Stump his district as he
only loses votes by so doing. Let him
stand as the candidate representing the
principles, and not do
any talking.
—Brid
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Amusements.
Horr's OPERA nousn.
Jolly Nellie McHenry is the mos
popular soubrette on the American
stage. She can sing better than most
women Who dance. She is a better
dancer than most women Who sing.
She is an acknowledged actress, and her
versatility is admitted by all critics.
She possesses that indescribable magne-
tism, which makes her audiencevzfeel as
if she were akin to them, and they are
proud of her. She has surrounded her-
self with one of the strongest companies
of singers and comedians ever seen in
one compiiny, and she gives them all a
chance to show what they can do. and
in her circo-comedy, “A Night at the
Circus,” she gives her audience full
value for their money by giving them
the funniest, cleverest, brightest and
greatest show on earth. She will ap-
pear at Hoyt’s Opera House, Tuesday
evening, Nov. 6. '
NORWALK OPERA HOUSE .
Home life as it actually exists around
this very neighborhood, is what Mr.
Home has painted for the public in his
ideal play “Shore Acres,” which is un-
derlined for the Norwalk Opera_House,
Wednesday November 7th With the
original company, under the direction
of H. C. Minor, Proprietor and Man-
ager of the Fifth Avenuejl‘heatre. The
scenes are located at “Lemmas, a small
country village that faces Frenchman’s
Bay on one side, and Jordan River on
the other. The characters have their
living prototypes, and Mr Hernc
knows nearly all of them personally.
“Shore Acres” may be credited with
having made the greatest success of any
New England play yet written. It has
been praised by everybody, and col-
umns have been written upon its great
moral influence. One of the best things
in “Shore Acres” is the character of
Nathan’ I. Berry. It is an ideal. char--
actcr. That it will always live in the
annals of the stage is beyond question, -
many able critics even now ranking it
with the Rip Van Winkle of Joseph
.ilgefi'eison and the Hamlet of Edwm
oot .
--Amusoments.
MISS camp’s Ixsrirurn.
This evening, beginning at eight
o’clock, there will. be ‘a"Musical and
Literary entertainment to which the
friends of the school are invited. Miss
Dresser, a graduate of the Boston
school of Oratory will appear _m Pan-
tomime, Dclsarte drill and Recitation.
Miss Gallagher, an accomplished Harp.-
ist, will render some choice selections
upon the harp. Miss Baird would be
glad to receive a few outside pupils for
elocution and harp instruction, an
takes this means of introducing her
teachers to the public. If desired, in-
struction will be given either in class or
privately, to alimite'd number of young
ladies or gentlemen. All who are in-
terested are cordially invited to be
present this evening, November 2d.
Exercises take place in school hall,
(middle house.)
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Democratic Rally.
There will be a Democratic rally in
the Opera House, next Monday even-
ing. ' ‘he speakers will_be Hon. R. E.
DeForest and Col. Leslie Smith, U. S.
*A.. candidates for national and state
honors on Tuesday next.
Norwalk Chronicler