-. .JhL—“m. Founded in 1800.] VOL. XCV.—-NO. 3. ‘THE ”newness- ______..—-——.__———- llllltlltlllltlll lll all things i lltllllfll lll llillllllll.‘ Should Adjourn. The citv meeting to-night shouldbe adjourned. It would be manifestly ridiculous to go ahead andvote an diture with a vacancy enormous expen r Com- existing in our board of Wate missioners. Before any such action is taken a very thorough consideration should be given to the whole water. question and a carefully prepared state- ment be given our citizens, at a future meeting. Every one seems to concede the propriety of adjourning to-night’s meeting without attempting any appro- priations. Grade Crossings. Judge Elmer’s grade crossing bill is a radical remedy for an evil which threatens to increase in this state unless the legiSlature adepts some such meas- ure. ' ' . It absolutely prohibits the construct- ion of street railroad tracks across the tracks of steam railroads, and on the other hand, the latter are prohibited from building across the tracks of the street railroads. Some such law as this must sooner or later be placed upon the statute books, and the sentiment of the House, as expressed by its almost unanimous vote of Wednesday, is that this is the time. CO. Sherman’s Financial Bill. ' Senator Sherman of Ohio, in the bill which he introduced in the Senate , yesterday, has again shown the finan~ cial and statesmanlike ability for which he is distinguished. The bill meets the exigencies of the situation in the best way in which they can be met. It pro- vides for the issue of short term bonds with which to supply the deficiency in the Treasury and to maintain the re- demption of the legal tenders; and it authorizes the issue by the national banks upon these bonds. and upon all other Government bonds, of circulat- ing notes to their par value. His bill ought to be passed. It would be better to make the bonds for which it provides expressly payable in gold, principal and interest, but this is too much to expect, in the opinion of the democratic N. Y. Sun, from this democratic Con- gress. It is a people’s loan and is to be issued in sums as low as 325, so the common people can purchase them. Everybody knows that the Treasury is in .--.dif’ficulty. But many people do not see that the root of difficulty is the new tariff, which has caused a serious reduction in wages and in consumption throughout the country. Officials of the Treasury Department are dream- ng of a largely inceased revenue this year, but they persistently ignore the fact that the wage-earning millions are not able to expend as much in purchases as they have expended in previous years. The great masses of working people out of employ, have been forced out of the ranks of purchasers and so the country’s income from its imported goods revenues are far below the tariff reformer’s expectations and so the government, like an individual, must borrow, or go to protest. But when the dominant party cripple’s the Na- tion’s revenues and its credit by a reckless tariff policy, a government loan can be floated only at a large in- tercst. President Clark’s Views. Regarding grade crossings President Clark of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company said yesterday: “This company is unalterably opposed to grade crossings under all circum- stances and everywhere. It has re~ sisted their creation by every proper means as a matter of duty. 'And it has opposed and will oppose .the increase of danger at existing crossrngs by horse, and, especially, electric cars. It be- lieves that the public sympathizes with this policy and-that the state by legis- lation will enforce it, as Governor Coffin so strongly recommended in his message. But how soon, and in what precise way, we do know not. We only hope that it may be quickly done, not only in Connecticut, but in all other states.” ._ o .0 Broke His Leg. A serious accident befell Stephen Hoyt, son of Edwin Hoyt of the New Canaan nursery, yesterday afternoon. While sawing some logs for boxes one of the workmen in delivering the boards from the saw accidentally struck the saw, throwing the heavy plank around and striking Stephen just below the thigh, breaking his leg. He was removed to the house and Drs. Dexter and Walter Hi ichcock were summoned and reduced the fracture. Call for a Town Meeting. A petition is before the selectmcn, signed by the largest taxpayers of Norwalk, requesting the call of a special Town Meeting, to appoint'a' committee to examine and report upon the Town accounts and tophange the date of our fiscal year in said accounts. .2172, Entertaining and I nstmotive Home Journal, Especially Devoted to NORWALK, CONN. FRIDAY'JatIUARY 18 4.895. Local News and Interests. 23 [$1.00 a Year PRICE Two CENTS fa: BECOLLECTIONS , ............. '\ ‘OFA WAR WUUBRESPUNDENT. BY THE Editor of the Gazette. Copyrighted 1894. CHAPTER X1311}; Lee, not knowing that Sedgwick had recrossed the Rappahannock, ordered McLaws and Anderson back to himself again, late Monday night, leaving Early and Barksdale to hold Sedgwmk in check, while he, Lee, should fall upon and crush Hooker. Providentially, a furious rain storn came on, and so Lee’s intended battle and hoped-for signal victory, miscarried. With the concurrence of all his Generalst Hook- er, protected by a line of hastily con. structcd earth-works swinging arena to the river banks on either flank, ordered General Couch to get. our army across, and on May 6th, it was back again and safely encamped on its old grounds at Falmouth, opposrte Fredericksburg. - _ While this Chancellorsville campaign of Hooker’s was in its inception, Long- street, with his corps, made a hurried march out to Suffolk, where our Gen- eral O. S. Ferry was in command of his brigade and where I made several visits, but as soon as Hooker’s move was developed, Lee recalled Longstreet to rejoin the main army of Northern Virginia, to help crush Hooker. One serious light occurred near Suffolk in which the Eighth Connecticut took a conspicuous part and in which several N orwalk boys distinguished themselves by their bravery. The morning following our retreat from Chancellorsville, one of our pon- toon bridges was left remaining across the river, under flag of truce, for the purpose of burying our dead and re- moving our wounded. The remnant of our gallant Seventeenth boys were ex- ceedingly anxious to have the body of Lt. Col. Walters recovered and brought overrto the Falmouth side for burial. I secured an ambulance with a driver and detail of two men, to aid, and under flag of truce, crossed the Rappa- hannock and drove out toward the old Chancellor house, when we met a squad of Confederates in charge of a very courteous and intelligent Captain, who kindly informed me that his men had just interred the Lt.Colonel’s body, and being a very fleshy man, decomposition had progressed so far that it would be impractical to exhume it. He said they had laid him beneath the apple tree under which he had been shot. Later on, several efforts have been made for its recovery, originating with Colonel Henry Base of the Seventeenth, but all such attempts have thus far proved unsuccessful. This fruitless expedition for the re- covery of poor Walters’ remains, was a mournful one. Scores and hundreds of ambulances were upon all parts of the widely scattered field, gathering the wounded, while squads, numbering in all probably a full thousand men, with spades and shovels, were hastily covering their dead comrades into on. known graves. My eldest son, Wil- liam Homer, then a lad of nine years, had become so intensely desirous of going to the front to see the army and a battle, thatI had permitted him to accompany me. Before gomg down from Washington, he had purchased and had shipped a box of oranges which he was expecting to give out to the sick boys in our hospitals. These had been consigned to the care of Dr. Robert Hubbard’s hospital ambulance and re- markable to relate they had been safely kept. On the morning of our flag of trace expedition, the little fellow took his haversack and filled it With the juicy fruit, to hand one to any wounded soldiers he might encounter. He had taken perhaps fifty to sixty in all, and as soon as the long lines of ambulances began to converge toward the pontoon, the lad leaped from our vehicle and trudged on foot, listening for every groaning wounded soldier who passed us, when he would climb-the ambu- lances’ rear steps, and give out his oranges to the more than/surprised and grateful sufferers. The boy’s oranges lasted not more than twenty minutes and all the remainder of the day he was most unhappy because he did not have an army wagon load of them to assuage the maddening thirst of the fever stricken sufferers. It was after nightfall when we returned to the Sev- enteenth Connecticut’s headquarters, where the lad slept most soundly on a bed of fresh cut pine twigs prov1ded by his uncle, the late Colonel, but then Capt. Henry Allen, of Co. E, Early next morning the boy was to go the rounds of the field hOSpitals with Dr. Hubbard, where the remainder of his supply of oranges was quickly distrib- uted to the wounded sufferers under hastily erected tents. Here :he wit. nessed the surgeons dress the wounds and saw scores of amputations of hands, feet, arms and legg_ This proved too much for the fOrt-itude of the lad. About noon. yhile I was at his uncle’s tent, I Sit-W 111.111 returning alone and as white in the face as a ghogt‘ My own anxieties were arousedms I conjectured that he must have been taken suddenly and 86110115137 _111,' he was so deathly pale- 0n seems his father be ex- claimed, “0 papa, it made me so sick, I couldn’t stay with Doctor Hubbard. ‘I had to come back, I’m so sick.“ Sure Enough, the new and trying experience had proved a severe mental emetic and the lad had distributed his hearty break- fast eaten that morning, from the sur- geons’ amputating table, along the entire line of his weakened and dispir- ited retreat. Until the following day the child was a fit subject for the hospi- tal himself. On his coming out next morning, -Dr. Hubbard, who had been especially kind and attentive to-the boy, said a brisk ride on horseback would brace him up and he had just the pony “Will” would like to ride. Of course the lad'was all enthusiasm and our horses were brought out for a dash of three or four miles over to the nearest railroad station on the Falmouth and Acquia Creek line. The steed the good doctor had provrded for the boy was a two-year old, thoroughbred rebel colt. It was of a faded out sorrel color, with a! long snaky neck and angle-worm body, a few thin whitish hairs on its mane and fewer on its elongated, rat tail.“ It was a unique and comical ap- pearing beast, but young as it was, seemed well broken to hit and saddle. The lad had learned to ride and manage a pony at home, and was eager to start. Allnvent well over to the station and until about half way back to Seven- teenth headquarters, when the fiery and nervous rebel quadruped scented its out-door stable or oats, took the bits in its teeth and dashed ahead of us on a terrifying run. The boy held his place in the saddle admirably, despite the animal’s leaping of mud-holes, stumps and logs. Finally a thicket of low-branched trees was discerned ahead and about a half mile from our headquarters. Dr. Hubbard’s quick eyes saw the danger and plunging spurs into his horse’s flanks sped after the runaway, fertunately overtaking and arresting his mad career. The colt,.had dashed under some three or four trees, but its boy rider had clung closely to its neck and kept his own head on a line_below that of his steed, Indian fashion. The facetious doctor there~ upon christened his captured rebel colt the “Pet Lamb,” but did not there- after recommend it as a safe animal for children to ride, especially through the woods. These incidents, so largely personal, are introduced here, because so entire- ly out of the ordinary and as showing an uncustomed phase of army life and adventure. Indeed, except for the confidence Secretary Stanton always seemed to place in my discretion, and his unvarying kindness to me, I never could have obtained permission to take so young a child to the front with me at the period of an impending battle. Nor indeed, as I fully learned, was it a wise thing to have done, yet the grim War Secretary gave me the requisite ’pass for the lad without hesitation. I had been first introduced to him by our own honored and now revered Truman Smith who had become an intimate friend of Mr. Stanton, while the former Was our U. S. Senator. Later on, “private” Elias Howe of the 17th Ct. Vols. had with his wonted jocularity presented me to Mr. Stanton, as his. very particular Connecticut friend. Mr. Stanton had for several years prior to becoming Secretary of War, been the leading attorney for the Howe Sewing Machine company in their patent litigations. There was also as close a personal and social intimacy between these two noted men, as there was of mutual business interest. As is well known, Mr. Howe enlisted as a private soldier in the Seventeenth 00111 necticut, as did ex-Gov. Lounsbury and many others of note. While this regiment was encamped over on the Virginia side of the Potomac, there was great trouble in'getting a regular mail Service out from Washington. Mr. Howe purchased horses and mail ambu-- lances and furnished our boys with an expeditious daily mail during the en- tire stay of the regiment there and all at his own expense. Next, there was trouble on the part of the government in paying this regiment. Mr. Howe went to Washington and secured from its banks bills enough to pay the men for two month’s service. The green- backs filled quite a large satchel. This he took up to the War Department, sent in his card to Mr. Stanton and sat down and waited to be summoned to his presence. He sat there some two hours and observed Senators and Gen- erals come and go in and out of the- Secretary’s office and knew something was wrong. Divining the cause, he followed up the messenger to whom he had given his card and demanded to know if he had put it before Mr. Stan- ton. The messenger admitted he had not, for the reason the Secretary could not be interrupted by a private soldier. "But you take my card to Mr. Stanton instantly,” demanded the .irate Howe. “It is for him, not you to determine who he will see. I am an American citizen and have as much right as any man to see an officer of my government and you sir, will save yourself trouble, by at once placing that card under the eyes of Secretary Stanton.” Thus bull- dozed the poor messenger had some crazy soldier to deal with, did as he was bid by Howe and was startled by Mr. Stanton’s instant com- mand to "show private Howe in at once.” The lackey came out and in the most humble and obsequious manner announced to Howe that the Secretary would see him. “So me, of course he will, and would have done so, .two hours ago, had you done your duty, sir.” Upon entering Mr. . Stanton’s office, Howe commenced to pile up his bundles of greenback bills on the Sec- retary’s table, until he had some hun— dred and fifty thousand dollars out- of his bag. “Here,” said he to Stanton, “I’ve been all over Washington this morning and offered this money for a drink ofwhiskey, but because I am a private soldier, no one dares sell me a drop of liquor. Then when I try to get in to see you, your flunkey _ at the door, keeps me outside cooling my heels two hours, and refuses to take my card to you, just because I am a private soldier, and blank it Stanton, it isn’t right.” The sturdy old War Secretary relished the joke, and the implied un- fairness of army. rules and customs as well, and replied—S-“Well, Howe, war is aha’rd business anyway; there is no way to smoorh all its rugged-ways; the rule prohibiting the sale of intoxrcants to private ‘soldiers under severe penal- ties, seemed a militarynecesmty; the thinking he ' officers, , we can deal with better; they are under some restraint, but a dissipated private is lawless and ungov- ernable. but what can I do for you Howe ?” “Nothing,” replied Howe, “I’m going to take this money out to Falls Church and pay off my regiment the 17th Connecticut, which the govern- ment has failed to do and the boys are suffering for their money and then I’ll see if any of them will be blanked fools enough to refuse their pay because it is given them by a private soldier; good- day, Mr. Secretary.” This story was told by Stanton and to this day is one of the current reminiscences of the war, about :Washington. It seems hard to realize that it was thirty-two years ago this coming May that this battle of Chancellorsville was fought and that the their little nine year old lad is now in his-,jorties, grey, and the father of a. family. So time flies, and how few of the actors in that fearful drama of war are now alive. The-GAZETTE is indebted to Major Gene’rral D. N. Couch, our distinguished fellowt-z- townsman, for the following valuable contribution concerning his participation in the Chancellorsville en- gagement and final retreat under the express orders of his commander, Gen. Hooker, subsequent to Hooker’s injury. General Couch wri‘es as follows: “DEAR MB. BYINGTON :——Beferring to your comments upon Hacker’s disabil- ity at Chancellorsville, in your ‘War Recollections’ please let me state that in the height of the battle that Sunday morning, word came to me that Hooker was severely wounded. Hurriedly riding to his headquarters at the Chan- cellor - mansion, 1' saw no one, but finally found Hooker in the rear of the house, ’mounted, and his stuff around him; - a back was covered with dust, where he had fallen, but otherwise he looked Just as I had frequently seen him that morning. Congratulating him upOn his escape, I remounted and rode back to my own corps. This was the last I saw of him on that part of the field. In the course of half an hour perhaps, when all on our right and center had gone to pieces, a message came to me from the General that he WlBhe_d to see me in the rest. I found him. in a tent lying down, but partially arising. on my entering, he said : ‘Couch, I turn over the army to you, and you will withdraw it and establish it on this line of defences, pointing it out ona field map, which he held in his hand, After receiving his com- mands-‘I' rode back towards the front and while the last of our men were being retired, with Generals Meade and Sickles near, Hooker rode up and calm—t} bbs’é‘iVed/my dispositions with- out so much as sayinga word. After the tr00ps had all been gotten in be- hind our line of defence and I had fully executed my orders from General Hooker, I went back to my own, the 2d Corps. You will see that I had not much to do with commanding the army on that eventful day. Much has also been said as to Gen. Hooker being in- toxicated during the last day of the battle. His headquarters were within the lines of my own, the 2d corps, dur- ing which time I was continually in close communication with him. At no period did I see any liquor around him or suspect that he was in any manner under its influence, and I know thathe was not intOXicated. Had he been, it would have been my duty to have as: sumed command of the army.” D. N. COUCH. It has ever been a mystery that Gen. Couch, now Norwalk’s most illustrious citizen, was not summoned before the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, as others in command at the Chancellorsville battle were. Had he been, he would have made some important additions to our historical records of the war. More- over, he would have told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The National Guard. The Hartford Post has been inter- Viewmg members of the General As- sembly on the N ational Guard ques- tion. They are in the mean for reform and retrenchment. We cullthe follow- ing from a list of 150 Interviews: Mr. Keeler of Norwalk—“I have many friends in the National Guard. These things ought to be rectified, .I can safely say that although I am not a military expert. It is a question of morality not of military.” - Mr. Wakeman of Westport—“When men get drunk in camri they should be put in the guard house. . f the officers do not do this their commissmns should be taken away from them and new men put in. But I am not posted and do not want to give a definite opin- ion yet.” Mr. Ogden of! Wilton—“From what I have read something should be done. If half what is said is true there ought to be an investiga- 10n,‘ Mr. Tucker of Ansonia—“Most 0.~ the mili- tary companies are either a lot of young sport; or a lot of bums. There IS certainly need of something being done.” Judge Elmer of Mi ddletown—‘flthink there may be some need of chloride of lime.” Mr. .Gunn of Milford—“If the officers stop drinking, the men Will.” The Robert Emmett Club Sociable. The second annual sociable of the Robert. Emmett club, (clan-na-gael)_ took place in the Athenaeum, last night. Prof. Low furnished music. The socia— ble was a flattering success. The grand march was led by Michael Pow- ers and Miss Maggie Larrigan. The committee of arrangements, Messrs. John Moore, Patrick Burns, John'G. Gormley, Patrick Slattery and Patrick J. Riley are to be congratulatedon the scccessful manner in which their plans of pleasure were carried out. There were delegations present from the Wolfe Tone club of New Haven and vaon Roe club of New York city. 67—7 Taft Bros. to Retire. —We will shortly open a large cloth- ing establishment in Brooklyn, N. Y., and have decided to close our Norwalk store. We must sell our stock in 30 days. Now is the opportunity to pur- chase. Men’s and Boy’s overcoats, suits, hats_furnighing goods, etc., at prices less than cost, as the stock must be sold. During the sale we will keep our store open evenings"till 9 o’clock. Taft Bros. Wall Street Bridge. Health Officers Meet. Twenty health officers of Fairfield county met at the Atlantic hotel Bridge- port. yesterday, for the adoption of uniform rules regarding infectious diseases and quarantine methods. Among those present, were County Health Officer G. E. Hill, City Health Officer Fitz.Gibbons, of Bridgeport, Dr. Shelton, chairman of the Legisla- ture commitee on Public Health, Dr's. Randall of Huntington, Donaldson of Fairfield, Day of Westport, Tracy of Norwalk, French of Darion, Rogers of Stamford, Jones of Greenwich, Keeler of New Canaan, Murray of Danbury, Woodrufl' of Sherman, Smith of Brook- field, Barber of Bethel, and others. County Officer Hill read'a paper re- garding the legal duties of the town officers on quarantine and disinfectant in comtagious diseases. A resolution was afterward passed incorporating Mr. Hill’s idea and defining the general policy in certain specified diseases rela- tive to quarantine. , The afternoon session was mostly taken up with a discussion of the rules of quarantine and when they should be enforced. After that the question of fees was brought up and an arrange- ment was made whereby azuniform rate Will be charged the towns by all officers for similar services. ‘ The next meeting will be held in this city in September. An important Decision. Judge J. S. Pratt, of Meriden, handed down an important decision yesterday, in the case of the state vs. Emor A. Smith, formerly of Norwalk, who is new local manager of the South- ern New England Telephone company in the former city, and Foreman But- ler, charged with assault upon W. G. Warnock, and with unlawfully erecting a telephone pole upon the sidewalk in front of property owned by Warnock and John H. and George A. Parker. The pole erected in front of the prop. erty was put up against the protest of the owners. Mr. Warnock interfered with the work and was thrust aside by Manager Smith. Arrest for assault followed, and final- ly Mayor Ives, on the ground that the poles, so long as city wires were to be strung an them, could be considered city poles. interfered and used the power of the city to help the telephone company. Messrs. Warnock and Par- ker then applied to the city attorney for warrants for Manager Smith and Foreman'Butler on the charges above mentioned, and the caseswere tried last Tuesday. Judge Platt reserved be suspended judgment on the assault case andfined Smith and Butler 3100 and costs each for unlawfully placing the pole. An appeal was taken to the superior court. " «0-.— Brooks has Skipped. For' some weeks a colored man named Brooks has been peddling coal out by the small quantity in this city. He procured the coal at Meeker Bros, and paid for the same, the firm pro- viding him with a horse and wagon. Two weeks ago he purchased, (or claimed he did) of Herbert Wheeler a horse and wagon. It was learned on Wednesday that he had offered to sell the turnout for fifteen dollars. Hear. ing of this Mr. Wheeler immediately regained possession of his property. On Wednesday, Brooks it is alleged, met Patrick Hanlon and asked if he had $5 about him. “Yes, and $25,” said Hanlon. Qouth Brooks, “and will you let me have 35 for a few minutes to make change for a woman who has bought coal of me and given me a $10 bill.” Mr. Hanlon accommodated him and unless all signs fail is out just that amount. It is learned that he collected money in sums varying from 500 to $1.50 from customers, agreeing to deliver the coal, but failed to do so. His creditors are in the main poor people and can illy afford to lose the money entrusted to him. He left Wednesday night taking his trunk with him, the same being deliv- ered to the depot by a local express- man. That $55 bill purchased a“ ticket with change in return. _ .6 Broke Through the ice. The Misses Hattie and Mabel You ngs of Cranberry Plains were skating on the fourteen—acre pond last night in company with George Montgomery. They skated on to thin ice and all three have been drowned had it not have been for Edward Brewer and John L. Bouton who came to the rescue and pulled them out: of the freezing cold water. -r ‘ New Bond Issue. Notice is given by the Norwalk Street Railway company that there has been an authorized issue of $10,000 in bonds in addition to the $100,000 issued in July last. The new issue isto be sold at the company’s office on Jan. 25th, to the highest stockholder bidder, above 110 per cent. with accrued interest, the bonds to be delivered Feb, 1st 1895. -o His injuries Fatal. Géorge Bennett who was struck by a freight train' at the railroad crossmg in South Norwalk, yesterday noon died at the hospital this morning. mains were taken to the Messsrs. Ray. mond’s morgue this noon, and will be transferred to the home of his daughter Mrs. Ester Wheeler on Henry street, East Norwalk, " ~ Paris Green in a Well. An attempt was made to poison George Bixby’s entire family at Chester Tuesday night, by putting Paris Green in a well. The family became Slck_ after drinking coffee at breakfast, and inves- tigation showed that fully a pound of poison had been used. —Come and see what you can get for $1.50 on Saturday at New York Store. 1029 21‘. his decisiOn until this morning, when - broke through, and would probably- The re-. TERSE TALES or THE TIMES. The Board of Belief will meet morrow afternoon. A city meeting will be held in the Town House, to-night. 'T. J. Byrnes has three children sick With the whooping cough. » Officer John Kenney is doin dut ' V the absence of Chief Bradley, trig-day? m —Pictures framed at Hayes’ Main st. 1013 tf. The Cross street Cribb 6 cl b at the home of Mr. Peggr Cdllalixdioit' last evening. ’ Nearly every lawyer in this city is out of town today. And it is a beauti- ful Winter’s day. ' —Hale’s Rose Cream:for:chaps. Several Nprwalk sports have signified their intention of witnessing the Ryan- . Dempsey “go” to-night. ' Messrs. LeGrand and David Ray- -' mend are attending a furniture exposi- tion in New York, to-day. Samuel Lynes has been appointed registrar to fill the vacancy caused by the death of C. B. Coolidge. The GAZETTE extends its heartiest greeting to Miss Julia A. Lockwood on this her eighty sixth birthday. —We are selling off Winter Clothing regardless of cost or value. Men’s fur stifl' hats, union made, 750. Taft Bros. Butcher F. W. Smith has harvested a crop of 150 tons of ice 12 inches thick and as clear as a reporter’s conscience. ———Box stationery, So at Hayes.’ 1025tf Dwyer’s City of Norwalk band has been_engaged to play at a sociable to 16% given by the Knights of the Mystic ain. Hon. and Mrs. E. J. Hill leave to- day for Washington, and a trip through the south. Mr. Hill hopes to be bene- fitted in health by the trip. ._., —Saturday Jan. 19, bargain day in horse goods and robes at Wright’s, Franklin st., South Norwalk. 1028 3t The remains of the late‘Mrs. Lucy Mackin were not taken to Bridgeport for interment. They were interred in St. Mary’s cemetery, this city. Representative Keeler of Norwalk‘ concisely puts the leading issue of the present legislature as “steam, electrici- ty and rum.”-—Daubnry News. Louis Potter of the Monte Cristo billiard parlors has disposed of the lease of his Stamford billiard rooms to Lockwood & Peck who will open a dry goods store there April let. a Manager John H. Hoyt is in receipt of several handsome glass signs adver- tismg the location of the Western . Union Telegraph oflice. John has placed them in conspicuous positions. -Money saved by buying drugs and chemicals at Hale’s. 1019tf The Germans of this town are to organize a club for “the benefit of themselves.” A committe has been ap- pornted to look up rooms for meetings. which it is intended to hold every night in the week. —-Great sacrifice sale of groceries on Saturday at New York Store. 1029 2t The remains of David Cole who died in New York city will be taken to Weston for interment to-morrow. The deceased was at one time in the employ of the Norwalk Steamboat company and lived on Belden avenue. The Adams Avenue Euchre club held a meeting last night. Eleven games were played'with “Vet” Taylor and Harry Bailwrtz against “Dan” Evans and George Bailwitz. The score re- lutlizted 10 games to 1 in favor of the a er. Flood & Co. of Bridgeport, arc decor- ating the Fairfield County Savings Bank rooms, and when they are com- pleted they will decorate the Bank of N orwalk’s apartments. The work is the beautiful has relief work in Colon- ial style. William Murphy, who was arrested for intoxication, was found guilty last night and fined $1 and costs. He had sufficient money to settle, but preferred going to jail to which institution he was escorted, this morning, by Chief Bradley. E. A. Bohme, of Main street, who has been carrying on the brokerage business, has dissolved his connection with Killdufi' & 00., of New York, and will hereafter represent a firm located at 55 Brcadway. The former firm has leased an office in the Jackson building and will place an agent there on Mon- ay. The Thursday Evening Whist club. met at the home of Charles E. Miller on High street, last night. There were five tables of players. The first ladies’ prize was won by Mirs Agnes Gibbs and the second by Mrs. Robert Wilson. The first gentleman’s prize was awarded to Robert Russell and the second to Arthur Russell. There was a full at- tendance of the club. Light refresh- ments were served.
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