Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-19
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JOHN BROWNS FAvORITE. 4 sharp Hide That He PrIzed Highly
 and Used to XIII BuHa1Oes in Kan-
 sas with, Now owned in New
 Haven.
 On the dingy walls of one of the rooms in Burgess & Newton's barytes manufactory hangs an old Sharps rife which was once used by''Old John Brown" in one of the riots that occurred in Kansas at the time of the anti slavery agitation. The rifle was made in Hartford and was carried by the hero of Harper's Ferry for many years. He used it in Kansas for hunting buffalo, sport of which he was exceedingly fond. During the riot John Brown was a conspicuous figure,
 and he carried this rife by his side Some
 how the gun was broken, whether during 8
 clubbing scrape or not is unknown, and
 John Brown gave it to man
 named Louis Bushway, steward in the ho-
 tel of the place, who was his intimate friend
 and companion on many hunting expedl-
 tion Bushway kept the gun, but could
 not get it mended at that place as the fracture
 was bad one, so he sent it to his brother
 in-law, Jacob Mathis, an engineer at Bur
 gess & Newton's MT. Mathis had the gun
 mended at Hartford and now prizes it very
 highly for it's associations.
 t'That rifle will carry ball from here to
 the lighthouse" said MT. Mathis at his en-
 zine room yesterday f'If you should hit a
 duck with it there wouldn't be anything but
 feathers left. Old John Brown used to
 think great deal of that gun, poor fellow. " Personal.
 Mrs. Charles Murphy wishes to state to the public that her character was several weeks ago unjustly defamed by the newspapers and individuals that she claims herself possessed of Q good character, which will be vouched for by kind and esteemed ladies of this city by whom she has had the honor to be em- p1oyed in the last four or five years.
 We are pleased to notice that F. c. Swift, the dentist, who for the past ten years has been located with Dr. A. B. Fuller on the corner of State and Elm streets, has fur nished the suite of rooms over the old Town send Savings bank, corner Chapel and Or ange streets, where he proposes to locate per manently for the practice of his profession.
 Those wishing dentistry will do well to call. Mrs Rufus Couch, of Westport, died on Monday after a long illness, aged seventy. Dr. E. w. Reed, 8 resident of Ansonia ! for year past, has removed to Chicago. Miss Maria Evans, sister of Thomas Evans of Ansonia, arrived home from Europe on the Alaska Sunday.
 Dr. Jewett extricated the bullet on Monday from the hand of the Fox boy of Birming- ham, who accidentally shot himself Sunday. Sigmund Stinzel, for some time with Kohn Brothers, left this city last evening for Greeneville, Ohio.
 The Waterbury Ameriean's Watertown correspondent says: The Rev. MT. Alvord of New Haven, has supplied the desk in the Congregational church the past two Sun days, and we are free to say and we believe we speak the minds of most, if not all, when we say that the house is quite still and the closest attention given to the preacher. Ii was not only pleasure to hear the sermons, but it was worth retaining. We have heard sermons preached that we left right where we heard them, not thinking them worth taking home.
 The Musical Lecture This Evening. This evening at o'clock, at the Church o1 the Redeemer, MT. c. s. Elllot's second mu. sica1 lecture takes place. The subject is EFThe Pianoforte and Piano Composers,' from the invention of the instrument to the pres ent time, and it will be illustrated on the piano by twenty twenty-five selections ! from the principal masters. It is probable ' that the attendance will be still larger than
 at the first lecture, as great interest in the course was aroused on that occasion. Car riages may be ordered for ten o'clock | Tickets at Steinert's and Loomis' Mir. Elliot ! delivered this lecture at New London Monday evening before enthusiastic audience. Or Thursday he proceeds to Boston with hi Chopin lecture and on the following Monda, l closes his New Haven course with a plebis cite or request program. The New London ! Telegram of last evening contained the fol lowing very 1audatory notice:
 Those who attended MT. Elliots lecture o1 | the Pianoforte at Allyn Hall last evening hat l the pleasure of listening to one of the mos 1 enjoyable entertainments ever given in thi | city. Even those who know him best wer not prepared for so interesting lecture on at first thought, so uninteresting subject
 He outlined the growth of the piano | harpsichord and spinet down to tn | present time, illustrating at the same tim l the progress of piano music through the sue ! cessive harmonic, melodic, symphonic stages Il to the present romantic school. That he wa
 accurate without being dull, instructiv
 without being pedantic, and withal interest 1 ing to the generality of his audience, is il | the highest degree commendable; while hi ! playing was surprise even to his friends | Taken altogether it was musical treat whicl ! New London audiences seldom enjoy, anG I which few musicians able to furnish. l is to be hoped that MT. Elliot may be in | duced to give the remainder of his serie l here during the coming winter, which, w | understand, includes lectures Chopin | Beethoven, the composers of the lyric school 1 and modern music and musicians.