Connecticut western news., 1878-04-25

u ue udU uOG been raLner LOO CQOlef1C 10 entertain a sufficient perception of the fun of the crowd. But after & vely few sentences of figurative eloquence, the pink-faced gentleman got from denoun- cling those who interrupted him in the mob, to exchanging defiance with the gentlemen on the hustings whereupon aIose an uproar which reduced him to the necessity of expressing his feelings by serious pantomime, which he did, and then left the stage to his seconder, who delivered a written speech of half an hours length, and wouldn't be stopped because he had sent it all to the Eatans- will "Gazette," and the Eatanswill Gazette had already printed it, every word.
 Then Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, of Fig kin Lodge, near Eatanswill, presented himself for the purpose of addressing the electors, which he no sooner did than the band employed by the Honorable Samuel Slumkey, commenced perform ing with power to which their strength in the morning was trihe and in re- turn for which the Buff crowd belabored the heads and shoulders of the Blue crowd on which the Blue crowd en- deavored to dispossess themselves of their very unpleasant neighbors, the Buff crowd and a scene of struggling and pushing and fighting succeeded, to which we can no more do justice than the mayor could, although he issued i'm perative orders to twelve constables to seize the ringleaders, who might amount in number to two hundred and fifty, or thereabouts At all these encounters Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, of Fizkin Lodge and his friends waxed fierce and furious; until at last Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, of Fizkin Lodge, begged to ask his oppo- nent, the honorable Samuel Slumkey, of Slumkey Hall, whether that band played by his consent which question the honorable Samuel Slumkey declining to answer, Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, of Fig kin Lodge, shook his fist in the counte- nance of the honorable Samuel Slumkey of Slumkey Hall ; upon which the hon. orable Samuel Slumkey, his blood belng up, defied Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, to mortal combat. At this violation of all known rules and precedents of order, the mayor commanded another fantasia on the bell, and declared that he would bring before himself both Horatio Fig kin, Esquire, of Fizkin Lodge, and the honorable Samuel Slumkey of Slumkey Hall, and bind them over to keep the peace. Upon this terrific denunciation, the supporters of the two candidates in- terfered, and after the friends of each party had quarrelled in pairs, for three quarters of an hour, Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, touched his hat to the honor able Samuel Slumkey the honorable Samuel Slumkey touched his to Horatio Fizkin, Esquire the band was stopped; the crowd were partially quieted, and Horatio Fizkin, Esquire was permitted to proceed.
 The speeches of the two candidates, though differing in every other respect, afforded beautiful tribute to the merit and high worth of the electors of Ea- tanswilI. Both expressed their opinion that more independent, a more en- frightened, a more public-spirited, more noble-minded, more disinterested set of men than those who had promised to vote for him never existed on earth :; each darkly hinted' his suspicious that the electors in the opposite interest had certain swinish and besotted infirmities which rendered them unfit for the exer- else of the important duties they were called upon to discharge. Fizkin ex- pressed his readiness to do anything he was wanted; Slumkey, his determina- tion to do nothing that was asked of him. Both said that the trade, the manufactures, the commerce, the pros perity of Eatanswill, would ever be dearer to their hearts than any earthly object and each had 1t in his power to state with the utmost confidence that he was the man who would eventually be returned
 There was show of hands; the mayor decided in favor of the honorable Samuel Slumkey, of Slumkey Hall Horatio Fitzkin, Esquire, of Fitzkin Lodge, demanded poll, and poll was fixed accordingly. Then avote of thanks was moved to the mayor for his able con duct in the chair, and the mayor, de- voutly wishing that he had had chair to display his able conduct in for he had been standing during the whole pro- ceedings), returned thanks. The pro- sessions reformed, the carriages rolled slowly through the crowd, and its members screeched and shouted after them as their feelings or caprice dictated. During the whole time of the polling, the town was ln perpetual fever of ex- citement. Everything was conducted on the most liberal and delightful scale. Exciseable articles were remarkably cheap at all the public-houses and spring vans paraded the streets for the accommodation of voters who were seized
 with any temporary dizziness in the head
 -an epidemic which prevailed among
 the electors, during the contest, to 6
 most alarming extent, and under the In.
 fuence of which they might frequently
 be seen lying on the pavements in {
 state of utter insensibility. A small
 body of electors remained unpolled or
 the very last day. They were calculating
 and rehecting persons, who had not ye
 been convinced by the arguments O.
 either party, although they had had ire
 quent conferences with each. One hou,
 before the close of the poll, MT. Perke