Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-03
Danbury strikers get g., ,ooo from New Jer-

Danbury strikers get $2, ,ooo from New Jer- sey friends.
 Hartford's street expenses last year were $64, ,239-about $2, ,OOO more than in 1880.
 Matilda De Pold, a domestic in Noank has disappeared, and is believed to have con- mitted suicide.
 . Complaints are made that Kate Cobb re- celves lndulgences at the State prisonj and is allowed to hide from visitors.
 The oldest school fund loan is $GG2 75 to Iorr1ngton party and dates back to 1901. Interest has reached the principal four times.
 Seymour is excited over the elopement of Harriet Hlekox, age 35, having an income for life from $14 1000, with John Crowthers, to whom her conservator objected on the eve of her proposed marriage.
 Mary Allen, the young woman who bur- glarlously hid under 0 legislators bed at The prosecution introduced their evidence, and the case was continued till Saturday at the request of Samuel F. Jones, attorney for the woman. It appears that she has adopted l many names at different times.
 Henry c. Wilcox, son of Judge Henry B. Wilcox, of Madison, died in Michigan Tues day, aged twenty nine years He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N Y., in 1874, and has since filled positions as a civil
  Madison, Wis.,, and recently in the northern part of Michigan, being engaged in the last 1 named place in surveying for a new railroad. The remains were expected to reach Madison yesterday.
 The Putnam Phalanx, Hartford, Wednesday voted to attend in uniform the Bennington Monument association's concert at Spring field on the 14th of the present month, at ! which they have been formally invited to be present. Among Major Browns staff ap- pointments were announced: H. l.. Weich, chief of staff Alvin Squires, quartermaster :; Charles M. Joslyn, judge advocate; Rev. W. l L.. Gage, chaplain O.. H. Blanchard, pay I master Dr. P. D.~Peltier, surgeon.
 Gas-FittIng Under DIaicuities. From the Cincinnati Enquirerl MT. F. J. Hogan, the gas-ftter for the op- ] era festival, had narrow escape from death l by fright on Friday afternoon, when he came | in contact with 8 real live alligator four feet ! long in place where no one would ever eX- pect to find such ''varmint " About eigh- | teen months ago the Geological Garden loaned to the Exposition young alligator ! two feet long to adorn the cascade in Horti- cultural Hall and give an appearance of wild | ness to the artificial scene by the presence of animal life of repulsive kind. The alliga- tor behaved very well for some time, and sa- l tiated his appetite with bugs, flies and mos l quitoes. But one night he disappeared, and he was mourned for lost stolen al I though the commissioners thought there was no man in Cincinnati mean enough to carry l away an alligator. In a few months the ab l sence of the loathsome creature was forgot. l ten, and it was believed that he wandered of
 and died On Friday Mir. Tom Wise sent fo1 | MT. P. J. Hogan to connect the street gas with the Music Hall building. Ii will be remembered that the Elm street front of Horticultural Hall ii l about three feet above the level o1 the part used for the cascade and exhibit o1 | plants Into this raised portion Mir. Hogan l went boldly with a wrench and lantern, but
 he had scarcely disappeared from view wher
 a most unearthly yell was heard, and the | poor plumber, without lantern, hat or tools ! rushed out to where the astonished Wise anC his assistants stood. Hogan's hair stood uI
 like bristles on the fretful porcupine, and hif eyes rolled with such an expression of terror that the other men shrank from him. H. could hardly ejaculate Be, J-s, I'll not gc l in there again. There's the most inferna lookin' cratur ever saw. It opened it's big jaws and wagged it's baistly tail at me, anc l wanted to ait me up: Be heavens, when i l moved I moved, too. The gas may go to tht divil.n Mir. Wise, thinking the man fright ened without cause, undertook to explore th' cavern and bearded the monster in his den ! Out ne was only dDSeuG d 1o" secOhCi9, t'h1
 made quicker time in reaching daylight thar
 Hogan. He staid there long enough, how
 ever to find out that the reptile was an ali gator, and at rapid glance seemed to meas ure four feet in length. Here then, was thu alligator which was supposed to be lost, ant l Hogan had found him. It had probabl.
 crawled into this retreat and had hibernat 1 ed in the moist marshy ground The food which Mir. Alligator had indulget
 in consisted of rats and small bugs and in
 sects. At any rate, he is still alive and ha
 increased his length during his mysteriou l absence about two feet. But there seems tt
 be disposition to let him severely alone, al
 the gas has not yet been connected. Wis
 and Hogan declare they are satisfied to le
 him stay. The ingenuity of man will prob
 ably capture him at last, and with the hell
 of one hundred men, with clubs and a der rick, it is probable that the festive alligator
 will be soon a gay corpse. Mir Wise vii take up the floor to-day, and with ropes vii
 remove his alligatorship. The reptile should
 be taken back to the home of his younge
 days at the Geological Garden, and preserved
 for having history more romantic than an. of bis species.