:.~- _. 1 .4- Founded in 1800.] If .4 n Entertaining and Instmctive Home. Journal, Espect'dtly Devoted to Local News and Interests. . A [$1.00 a Yea # l‘. VOL. Xcvr-No' 80. THE FAVORITE HOME PAPEll. lllllBDlllllltlll lll all things: llllllllill lll llllllllllfl. Some Good Advice. The Bridgeport Standard mildly yet effectively rebukes those who have been engaged in making the genial and Honorable Samuel Fessenden, United ' States Senator, long before the legisla- ture which will have the say about the matter, is elected. It says: “It is too hot weather to be booming politics in any direction, and the next legislature of this state is still a far away call; too far in fact, to be counted upon much as yet. Therefore we submit that the labored efforts of Republican papers in and out of the state, to settle the ques- tion of the next senatorship now, are a little too previous. The gentlemen still in office have a considerable time to serve yet, whether they are returned or not, and there is no question in any reasonable mind that they are just as valuable and satisfactory and credita- ble to the state as their warmest ad- mirers claim. All the same, it is proper to say, with respect to the undue and untimely interest of some outside jour- nals in our affairs, that the matter will be settled by the representatives and senators of the state in convention as- sembled, when the time comes, and not to-day or to-morrow in any newspaper office in New York or elsewhere. And — this fact does not abate one jet or tittle from the merits of our honorable and respected senators, aforesaid. Dealing With Drunks. The New York Tribune yesterday contained the following editorial upon the manner that the police treat those who are believed to be intoxicated- whom they find upon the streets: “The return of dog-day weather with the increased danger of prostrations from various causes, calls renewed at- tention to what has hitherto been a serious evil in the police service of this and other cities. This is the offhand treating as “drunks” of all persons found on the street in a state of partial or entire insensibility, especially if their breaths betray the odor of alcohol. There are on record, in New York city itself many cases of such false diag- nosis, some of which have had tragic results. A man is found in the street uncon- scious. The policeman snifis at his breath and detects the flavor of alco- hol; raps his feet with a club to reuse him, but fails; calls a patrol wagon or ambulance, and carts the man to the station house. There the man is record- ed as drunk, and is rudely tumbled in- to a cell to sleep himself sober. A few hours later he is found dead. Examin- ation then shows he was not drunk, but suffering from sun stroke, tumor on the brain, or some one of a dozen ailments. There have been such , cases in New York. Or perhaps a man is found unconscious, incoherent. The policeman lays hands on him. He feebly resists. The policeman ~quiets him with a few raps of the club, and takes him to the station house, as be fore. He too, is presently found dead in his cell. Then it is discovered that he was not drunk, either. but suffering from some disease; and that he had died from a fracture of the skull caused by the policeman’s club. Such cases, too, are on record. It is not to be expected, of course, that every pcliceman shall be able ac- curately to diagnose every case of coma he may meet with. That is not his business. Neither is it his business to treat every such one as a “drunk.” The proper plan, already adoptedi 11 some cities, is to place every person thus found in an ambulance, and convey him to a hospital, and there to examine him thoroughly and ascertain the real nature of the trouble. Some drunken loafers might thus get treated better than they deserve to be. But even that would be better than to ill-treat and perhaps kill some entirely respectable but unfortunate person.” On the Wing. DEAR Gszn'rcrn :—-Our sail up the North Channel and Firth of Clyde, a distance of some 130 miles, was one of constant delight and surprises. It became day- light in this high latitude‘at 2 o’clock a. m. and as our first landing was to be at Morville, I was on deck as early as any and a more refreshing sight never greeted my eyes. On our right were the richly cultivated and unmountain- ous shores of Scotland and on our left “green Ireland,” and so green and so exquisitely tinted was all the herbage, with the richness of tint of the emerald. Passing the Giant’s Causeway, and mountain clifi' after cliff, jutting out into the sea, we suddenly came upon “Paddy’s Mile Stone,” an oval rock some 300 feet high, bare of verdure, jutting up out of the sea and in the ex; act track of steamers. Tide bells and light houses galore make this once dan- gerous coast now compar atively safe to the navigator. The English govern- ment is in nothing more profuse than in its distribution of first—class light houses all along th; 00..»53 of Great Britain. , As the tide was low we dropped anchor opposite Glennock and were taken ashore in lighters. Here the crudest sort of custom house inspection of baggage, set the ladies and many men of our large party nearly wild. The slow conservatism of the govern- ment of Great Britain. if not its stupidi- ty, has led its railroads to defer adopt- ing our simple American system of checking baggage. The result is that all trunks, valises, etc., are hustled out their cars and piled in a jumbled mass on the platforms and an undescribable struggle then ensues in selecting your property. The railroad officials look unconcernedly on and seem to enjoy the fret and scramble of their patrons. If apiece be mislaid or lost, there is no method of tracing it and nothing but diligent search and only good luck en- sures its recovery, the railroad afford- ing no assistance. Arriving in Glasgow, after a most vexatious delay caused by the slow customs examination of baggage, and a most exasperating search for one’s belongings after having been passed by the examiners, so that they may reach the same hotel to which you are assigned, one exclaims in . agony of spirit, “why can’t Europeans copy our simple and effective system of checking baggage ?’-' Glasgow is a typical Scot- tish city, the manufacturing and com- mercial metropolis of Scotland. It is full of objects of interest to the tourist. It does an enormous trade with our country and has doubled its population four times in sixty years. Its parks, botanical gardens, cathedral and uni- versity, and constant reminders of Scott and Burns, give it a special charm. Its great cathedral is the one so frequently mentioned in Rob Boy. I asked our guide how itswas that Scott‘s chieftain chanced to be skulking and hiding be- hind a pillar in the basement of the Cathedral. as he had pointed out to us. His ready reply was, “Oh, Rob was on a booze at the time.” From Glasgow it is an hour’s ride out to Ayr, the birth-place and early home of Burns. This was the most soul-satisfying I had made. His hearty and heart touching and heart melting poems were the joy of my boyhood and as I viewed the spot of his birth, the chair he sat in, the table he ate and wrote upon, the little garden wherein he wrought, and the many original manuscripts, still well preserved, I felt myself in the visible presence of a dear friend now in the better world. Across the street from his humble cottage, is the old cemetery bounded on two sides by the confluent‘of Bonny Doone and the River Ayr, where a fine monument has been erected to his memory. His parents and a sister lie near the monu- ment, he being buried at Dumfries- Inside the base of his monument are the efiigies of Tam O’Shanter and Sonter Johnny in one of their convrv- ial moods. The bridge over which Tam took his witches ride is also .in view. But sweeter and most impressive of all is the Bible he gave his sweet- heart tfiglnand Mary and its tender dedication in his own hand, still. well preserved and to be seen by all Visitors. Who can conjecture the noble life, the exalted achievements he might have attained to, had this pure, Christian milk-maid lived to have become his wife. It was hard to repress the falling tears on reading this tender bible dedi- cation as penned by its author. "But what to us the sculptor-’3 arts.. His funeral columns. wreaths and urns? Wear we not graven on our hearts The name of Robert Burns.” Returning to Glasgow at seven p. m. our thoughts full of the beauties and tender memories that cluster about the immortal bard’s birth-place, a new beauty and significance is given his own lines:— , “Auld Ayr, whom ne’er a town surpasses For honest men and bonnie lassies.” At eight next morning we leave Glas- gow and its near a million residents, and go via the wild and romantic Tras- sacks, made immortal in song and story, by the world’s grandest romancer, _Sir Walter Scott, to historic and beautiful Edinborough. B. Gnascow, July 8, ’95. One on the Bloomer Girl. The following story is told at the ex- pense of one of the bloomer-attired lady cyclists who was bound for Wareham. Meeting afarmer, she inquired if that was the way to Wareham, cutting the words short, so that it sounded like “wear em.” Much to her surprise he replied: “Gosh’ I dunno; never were that kind.” Fall Out and Drowned. Edwin Vedder, the ten year old son of Captain Edwin Vedder, was drown- ed ofi' Point Crescent yesterday after- noon. The boy was sculling a_ skiff from one dock to another when he lost his footing and. fell over. His body _ was recovered. NORWALK, CONN., FRIDAY, JULY 26. 1895. iNOIHMRECK. Passengercar‘ Leaves the Tracks Near the Fair GPOUilClS. . The'Occupants Escape Injury. There was another accident near the Fair grounds on the Danbury and Nor- walk branch of the Consolidated read, last evening, but only a small amount of damage was done. The North bound passenger train due in this city at 6:03 met the south bound passenger due here about five minutes later, at the Fair grounds where there is a side track. The down train was in waiting on the main track. The up train took the switch all right, but before the last car had run on in the siding, the switch partially opened and the hind trucks of the car were thrown on to the main tracks, and the momentum of the train hurled the car up against the locomotive of the down train. The side of the car was torn open in two places, and the rear trucks dam- aged. The locomotive of the down train was also injured by the tearing out of a cylinder head, etc. The car laid across the tracks in such a manner that the down train was blocked from going ahead. There was but a few passengers in the wrecked car and they all escaped injury. - The up train was uncoupled from the damaged car and soon after proceeded on its way to Danbury. The wrecker was soon at the scene of the accident, and at 9.30 o’clock the main track was again open for traffic. In the meantime the Pittsfield express arrived, but was forced to wait nearly two hours beforeit could proceed. The up train was in charge of D. Vaughan and Conductor Comstock; the down train was in charge of Engi- neer Adams and ' Conductor C. Vaughan. A large number of people visited the wreck and they were not a little sur-l prised to find that not a window was broken in the car that collided with the locomotive and that no one was in- jured. Thrall Objects. Complaint was made to Humane agent Thrall of the manner in which a two-year-old child was being treated by Mrs. Oscar Wells. Mr. Thrall in turn wrote to the local agent Mr. More- house, who advised with the selectmen and they have promised to place the child in other hands. The little one be_ longs to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Prince who agreed to disagree and not to live together. Mr. Prince claims that he is physically incapaciated for work and lives with his mother at West Norwalk: His wife is employed as a domestic in a family at Chestnut hill, and asserts that she could not retain her position if forced to have the child with her. If she took the child she would become a charge upon the town, and as the child’s father will not provide for the child the selectmen “farmed” it out to Mrs. Wells. A woman named Lyle in- terested herself in the case with the re- sult that the child is to be placed under different care. It is understood that an effort will be made to force the parents to care for it, failing in which the selectmen will make an effort to have it.adopted by someone. Swamp Must be Filled. For twenty-five years William Strong, trying to have filleda swamp on the premises of Mrs. Sarah E. Hudson, ad- joining his ' handsome summer resi- dence in Stratford. He offered to pay all the expense of abating the nuisance but its wealthy owner would not per- mit thelpremises to be disturbed. The health board and other means have been attempted, but the nuisance wasa natural one and nothing could be done. In the recent assembly, Representative Judson, of Stratford, had a special bill passed for the abatement of natural nuisances and despite a great fight which Mrs. Hudson is now making, County Health Oficer Hill says the swamp must be filled. Not Known in Wilton. . A man~ found drowned in Prospect Park lake, Brooklyn, Wednesday, had the name G. 0. Kelly, tattooed on his right arm. A letter addressed to Kelly and signed T. H. Halstead, written from Wilton, Conn., July 9, was among some of the effects found in his cloth- ing. Inquiry in Wilton elicited the re- also unknown there. a retired New York merchant, has been - spouse that no one named Halstead. was known there and that Kelly was Able to Defend Herself. A little episode which afl'orded plenty of amusement for the passengers oc- curred on one of the trains from New York to Stamford the other evening. The train stopped at Port Chester, where two dudishly dressed fly young men got on board. The seat in front of them was oqsupied by a young wo- man, who was also stylishly dressed. The young men attempted to start a flirtation, and were very assiduous in their efforts to be funny. The young woman Was not inclined to receive their attentions, but ignored her tormentors until they went too far and became in- sulting. The passengers became in- terested and wondered if the young woman would leave the car or appeal to the conductor. She did neither, however, but, after patience had ceased to be a virtue, she rose up in -her wrath, and rolling up her sleeves, pitched into the would-be mashers in true pugilistic style. straight from the shoulder and landed with telling effect upon the physiogno- my of either of the men, until they were compelled to beat an ignominious retreat from the can—Stamford Advo- cate. —I9. A Clever Thief. A clever thief worked 9. Bridgeport boarding house on George street. yes- terday afternoon. He went there and said that he was an engineer on the Consolidated road and that he had been sent there by Mrs. Burns who keeps a boarding house near by. He was shown a room which he engaged and taking a paper from his pocket said that he would sit down and read till meal time. A little later he came down and asked. where there was a dentist’s office, as he had a severe toothache and wanted his tooth extracted. The boarding mis- tress directed him to a dentist on Main street, and he left. When George Koneman, one of the boarders, welf‘t to his room after supper he found that his gold watch worth $75 was missing as well as 83 in money. None of the other boarders suffered. Special TOWn Meeting. A special town meeting will be held on Saturday, August 3d, at 3 o’clock, to authorize the selectmen to cause to be constructed under. provision ofa law passed at the last session of the Gener- al Assembly, a macadamized. or tel- ford or other stone road on the high- way known as the Connecticut turn- pike, from the line between this town and the townof Darieu, easterly, for a distance of about one mile, or on such other public highway in Norwalk as said meeting shall designate. Ladies’ Home Journal. The August number of the Ladies’ Home Journal is brimful of mid-sum- mer reading. It opens with Part I of a story by Frank Stockton, entitled “Love Before Breakfast,” and con- tains a galaxy of bright, short stories and the usual entertaining and in- structive department pages. The il- lustrations are, as usual, numerous and in keeping with the high standard of this most excellent ladies’ journal. Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the Norwalk Savings society was held this morning. Besides the transaction of routine busi- ness the following officers were elected: G. M. Holmes, President; W. A. Curtis, Vice-President; George. E. Miller, Secretary and Treasurer; William E. Montgomery, Teller; Victor Selleck, clerk; L. C. Green and LeGrand Ray- mond, auditors. Counterfeit Quarters. A large number of counterfeit silver twenty-five cent pieces, bearing date 1894, are being circulated. The coun- terfeit is one of the best ever seen. The color is perfect, the weight excel- lent, and it can only be detected by its ring, which is dull. . Sons of Hermann. The Sons of Hermann began their state convention in Norwich yesterday. Seventy-five delegates from out of town were in attendance. There was a torch light procession with a brass band and an entertainment in Lucas Hall last night. The convention will con- tinue to-day. ' The Boston Store. The Norwalk Boston Store’s mid- summer sale begins to-morrow. The bargains offered in their advertisement to-day are worth going miles to obtain. Purchasers who fail to read the list of published prices will miss an opportu- nity that does not often occur. ls Probably Dead. The whereabouts of Frank J ulian. an Italian barber of West Winsted are unknown. He was chased into the woods byenragod Italians with revolv- ers, they accusing-himof felonious as- sault on a 12 year, Italian girl, Every blow came -' ’l‘erse Tales of the Times. —Pictures framed by Hayes,Main St There will be a band concert on the Green to-night. —Very best creamery butter 23c lb, N. Y. Store. 1t Miss Birdie Hyatt has gone to Wilton for a few days visit. Miss Florence Hoyt of Stamford is visiting friends in town. —-Round steak, 12c at Buttery Bro- thers. 2t ‘ John J. Curnow is making extensive improvements at his hot houses. James Brundage has returned home from New Haven where he has been at work. The water supplies of both Bridge- port and Waterbury have been found to be seriously contaminated. —Steamed corn at H. Leopold’s cafe, 44 Main street, Saturday night. It The Hutchinson, Cole & Co. Shirt Mauufactory on Merwin street will start up again on Monday next. The Bridgeport Butchers will give a barbecue in Avon park the second week in August. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hoyt of New Canaan, are at Pine Bluff. N. C. for a two week’s visit. I A man was fined $550 in Danbury, yesterday, for striking another man in the eye with his fist. New Canaan has applied for a part of the state appropriation for improve- ment of highways. The Glastonbury Knitting Co. will restoreaten per cent. cut in wages made in March, 1894. ——New potatoes, 23c peck, N. Y. Stgie. Marshall J ewett, the. Nbrwich post- oflice clerk charged with, robbing the mails, is out on $1,000bonds. The Eastern Tinware Co. strikers at Portland were given an increase. of $1 a week yesterday and returned to Work, A Danbury man is cultivating milk white cucumbers. At no time during their growth are they of a green color. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Emerish yesterday afternoon and that is why the bakers at DeKlyn’s are smoking cigars to-day. . —For Bowel troubles, Hale’s Corbdial 2 A painter at work on Miss C. F. Baird’s house on West avenue, fell and sustained severe injuries, yesterday. He was able to go home on a trolley. The new armature to replace the one burned out by lightning. at the Nor- walk & South Norwalk Electric Light company’s station, arrived this morn- ing. _ —Three pounds of shounder steak, 25c. at Buttery Brothers. 2t The way they gauge the hatting in- dustry in Danbury: When trade is poor the city court room is filled with idle men and the reverse is the case when trade is good. The indications are at present that hatting is good, —Maud S. flour reduced to 84.75 per barrel; 600 per bag. N. Y. Store. 1t Three car loads of merry picnickers from the Grrce church Sunday school, went to Baton Point this morning. They were armed with fish horns, flags and an abundance of refreshments, and expect to have a happy day’s outing. Kathleen Mulvey, the 9 months’ old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Mulvey, died at her home on Academy street, this morning. The burial will take place on Sunday. The deceased was a granddaughter of William Wal- lace of Merwin street. —Bargains in Tooth Brushes, Hale’s J20 f. The selectmen have received notice from the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane, that the price of board for pa- tients has been raised to $26 per three months. This is in accordance with an not passed by the General Assembly. The former price was $18.20. Mrs. Joseph Reisterer, who suddenly left towns few days since, and took her little girl with, her, returned to Norwalk yesterday afternoon, but she was alone, There .is a possibility of her again ,living with her husband. She says that he was at fault for her caving town, PRICE Two CENTS. L Onions which escaped the cut worm in June promise to be a magnificent crop. White onions in particular will be fine. ‘ -—Porterhouse steak, 18c at Buttery Brothers. 2t Great excitement was created in Put- nam yesterday by the finding of a box containing human bones. Anew pest, in size and shape rev sembling atlas, is destroying potatoes - near Danbury. Paris green has no effect on it. The contract for the employment of 140 convicts in making shirts has been signed by the state prison officials and the New York Shirt 00. B. P. Cheney, of Boston, who died Monday left on estate of $200,000,000: One of his sons married. Miss Mary Lyons, of New Britain. The members of the Fourth regi- ment expect to be supplied with their new campaign hats in time for encamp- ment week at Niantic. —Loin steaks, 150 at Buttery Bros. Id Timothy,F. McCarthy of Chapel street has accepted a situation in Port Chester where he will have charge of laying asphalt walks. —-For Cramps, Hale’s Cordial. J 20tf. Secretary Bamont has detailed Major J. B. Babcock, assistant adjutiint gen- eral, to attend the Connecticut N ation- al Guard encampment at Niantic. Louis Minkewitz, 51, a well known Meriden German, put a bullet into his right temple yesterday morning and died instantly. Cause, family troubles. It is now thought that Charley Ken- ney who suffered an injury to one of his fingers the other day, will be oblig- ed to have the wounded member ampu- tated. After August 1st Deputy‘ Collector Sloan will add an additional tax of fifty per cent. upon all liquor dealers who do not pay their special liquor tax be fore then. —Shoulder steak, 3lbs. for 25c at But- tery Brothers. 2t The family of Dr. Griswold of Hart- ford, now in jail awaiting another trial for arson is destitute and without means for support. Relief will sbon be ob. tained for them. ' Sylvester Ciphor of Danbury, fell yesterday under the wheels of a freight train. He was taken to the hospital where both legs were amputated. His recovery is doubtful. City Attorney Toomey of Bridge- port, says the alleged crooked work of the Traction company grows worse the more it is probed into and he will de- mand a formal investigation. —For Colic, Hale‘s Cordial. , J20 tf Jeweler Fred L. Wilson of Danbury, a former resident of this city was thrown from his bicycle against a stone wall one day this week, and was se— verely injured about his head‘ and shoulders. In accordance with the law passed by the last Legislature a new road and gateway is to be constructed to the Spiritualists’ camp ground, which is sit- uated back of the State military camp at Niantic. A fishing party composed of Frank Merrill, William F. DeKlyn, Charles N. Wood, “Hi” Davis, and George Smith of West Norwalk, went to Lake Waccabuc, a day or two ago, and re- turned yesterday, having succeeded in catching about two barrels of fish which they distributed among their friends. —Oil Sweet Lavender for flies, at Hale’s. J20 tf A letter from Antonio Slattery of Cr. egon to the Litchfield County Leader, clears up a mysterious murder of 25 years ago. The letter explains that two skeletons, recently found near Canaan, were the bodies of toughs murdered by the gang that built the Connecticut Western Railroad. The writer, al- though he knew of the crime, was not connected with it. The quarantine which has for the last month been in existence'at the home of. Francis E, Anderson has been raised. Dr. Baldwin has had a hard battle sav- ing the life of Mr. Anderson’s little boy, who was first severely burned and later taken sick with the scarlet fever and then the measles. Remarkably enough, no other members of the fami- contracted the diseases. Mr. Ander- son is very grateful to' those who were . ' so kindvto his family during the time they were in trouble.
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