Norwalk Gazette, 1818-1883, 1870-12-13

semitones;

Tuesday.Docembor 13 1870

oil! are 3303.
Not only does our town in all its topog-

E V VIraphyII attract the 9y yggf, eyeg- lover of the

:‘totw'ir conceded
to be the niost picturesque and charming of
guy updtl etthienslde of Long IsI‘lond Sound”
from New York to Point Judith. Its charm-
ing islands rising out of the sparkling wa-
ters of the bay, on every side, like emerald
settings' in some m'onster jewel, give it a pe
culiar charm,~not possessed by any other
And. all this is 'exceedingly enjoyable and
gratifying to the ﬁner, nsthetic fbelings, but
of little consequence to the cold. calculating
cye of the head of theﬁrmily, or man of bus-
iness, who are absorbed in the prices of
coal, flour,- feed and lumber To them,a
good, broad and deep channel, is s more mo~
mentuoua question than all the beetitudes
concerning its anr‘spturing glories.

Up to Keyser’s Islend our harbor is prob-
ably, the deepest and best between New
York and New London.‘ But 1111111 that
point it needs clearing to the bridge. Nor
need this be- a vcy costly work. Fifty
thousand dollars judiciously expended,
would work wonders _in this regard, and
so- dredge the channel that -venels of

1 the largest class could run in and out-
Ifor years to come.

But how shall this
money be raw? Eesi~ly enough. Let the
ﬁrst halfof 625, 6Mbesubecribed forums”
and it will require but little eﬁ'ort end less
expense, to secure an equal amount from the
government But charity should, and' Im
this case, must begin at home. Every day
and every hour that it is. postponed, are we
losing by it. Not here at the bridge any
more than in every pert of our whole town.
Every man who uses coal, lumber. family;
supplies, or is interested in the growth of
the place or the appreciation of properly
in ﬁne, every men,— women end child who'
lives' 1n Norwalk, has a direct end personal
-'interest 1n the measure. ‘ ‘A'

it requires no prophetic vision to see, that
within the next decade, if we wisely improve
our well recognized end everywhere con-
ceeded advantages, every foot of water line

‘ from the bridge to Reade’e Island willbe

covered and occupied by permanent docks,
and be the theatre of active conmercial use.

It' 1s a question conﬁned by no narrow local
jealousies or childish seiﬁahnese.‘ I! rises
above every other local interest in its mag-
nitude, and is of grevcr import to the pres-
ent prosperity and future growth ofNorwalk
than any and all other questions occupying
the public mind.‘ Richly could the whole
town afford to pay 1'! all. ifneed be, out of its
treasury rather than that it should not be
done. There is nothing our people can so
illy eﬁ‘ord not to do, as to clear out our har-

£222.23 ‘

‘1' The ﬁrst rein atom experienced here
for many weeks, set in on Sundaynight and
continued throughoutMonday.

m‘ '
I Sunday School Convention.

TheACounty Sunday- School Convention
is to be held today, at the Congregational

. Church, South-Norwalk.
held at 10 o’clock,.a.A m., 1:80 p. m., and 7 p.
m. Prominent pastors and laymen are ex-
pected. to make addresses, which are design-
ed to be- brief and to the point. At noon

' the delegates ﬁ'om other pieces will be pro-

vided with a collation at Ely’s Hall. provid-
eb by the ladies. We trust that people
throughout the County, will manifest their
interest in the cause by their attendance.
2:25:25.-

Tun Nnx'r Lauren-elk. Van Lennep
delivers his lecture On “The Turks," this
week Wednesday evening. He has splen.
did material for an interesting lecture.‘ Pos-
sibly, if he is a faithful delincetor, he may
somewhat weaken our romantic faith in or-
iental magniﬁcence and luxurious delights,
but then, after all, ﬁrst will only make us
better satisﬁed with things that are and cus-

toms that prevail in occidental lands. Bring-

out the children and give them a chance to
see how ﬁerce a 11111 live native Turk looks
after associating with Christians.

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lemi-annual examination ofI the
District school, Mr. Wigham,
.i'rixr takes place on Thumday and Fri-
day 01 1.1.11 week. An invitation is extend-
ed-to all interested to attend. The term
closes on Friday afternoon, and the children
will have atwo‘ week’s vacation, covering
the Holidays .

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kill

0Y1?

E'Mr. Joseph Shepherd contemplates
the erection of a large three story Factory

ouhie lot in the rear of Church’s machine .

shop; and proposer to lease rooms and to
furnish powei- ter any kind of manufactur-
ing purposes desired. He has already grad-
ed oﬁitthis land, and improved the appear-I
ance 0““ vicinity very much.
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rg- The work of grading High street hill -

is now progressing.
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Mom: Emanuele-The residence of Jae.
Mitchell, Esq., was entered through a win-
dow by burglars on Thursday night, Dec.
8th, and goods taken to the amount of 8150.
The thieves must have decamped through
the front door, as it was fbund open the
next morning. No clue has as yet been ob-
tained.

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[3‘ AI monthly union meeting under the
auspices of the Y. M. O. A., was held at the
2d Methodist church on sunday evening
last. Rev. Mr. Simmons delivered an excel-
lent sermon, and Revs. Gates and Dunham
assisted in the services._ The attendance
was largo.‘ 1

‘ . . .

[ﬁ‘We are glad to learn that Rev. Homer
N. Dunning will give a Lecture next Sun-
day Evening Dec. 18th in the Congregation-
al Church'of South Norwalk, on “The Edu-
cational Wants of the Towu of Norwalk.”

[1‘ Delegations from the Sons of Tempe-
rance Divisions of Bridgeport and East
Bridgeport visited good old Concord Divis-
ion, in this place, on Friday evening last.
The party comprised over twenty ladies and
gentlemen. After adjournment all hands
partook of a collaion at Frank Head’s.
«Que——

The Reception at Rev. Mr. Dunhsrn’s, on
Friday evening last, was largely attended,

' and passed 011' very pleasantly.

[3' The Phoenix Steam Fire Engine boys 1

have just completed the ﬁnishing of their

. new meeting’ room in the. Engine House,
. Main street. Anew carpet of a handsome

pattern has been put down, and the room is
furnished with ibur sofas, chairs, a ﬁne
hiackweinut table for the presiding ofﬁcers,
clocks, pictures, etc. Phoenix Rose comps.

ny will occupy the Waterﬁtreet House here- I

alter. 1 I
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[g- The publishers of that truly excellent
illustrated jounel “ Herpers‘ Weekly," an-

. nounce that 'fbr the present they will issue

.each week an eight page illustrated supple-
meut, 1111111111ng34 pages altogether. The
last number he's A1111" excellent war map of
France, covering four: pages, issued as Is sup
plement. Read the prospectus. '
M’s-._—
I'Mr. Bradley 0. 111111111 has gone to
Minnesota on a visit to his sensinglew, Lieut.
Go..'.‘.'vW1nRYale " “ . I I ..
W
[3' The ocean tElegrapir retethIeveV been
advanced again, owing to injury to the ca-
bles and the desire to limit business to the
capabilities ofone cable. There is some fear
that communications will cease entirely
during the winter.-

w
Q’Au Irishnennemed Samuel Hewitt,

was arrested at the wake of his wife, in a
shanty on theDerby Railroad, one night
last week. charged with beeﬁng her to
destb.

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Sessions will b;

ueously by thﬂiSecro'tery of the- Senate and
Clerk of the House. The document hasnow

:Ibeene week: beforethe country,” and tele-
graphed .to Europe, and commented upon by

the-great" English “thunderer,” the London
Times. The document, as a whole, is a
plain, matter-of-ﬁct State paper, and in
some respects, isdecidedly unique. and with
the great mass of the American people, we
4ioubt not'it will be well received. ._The
“curious eye” of the bland, but ingenious
Ben Butler, is thought to be plainly dis-
cerned “squintiug” through that portion

,having reference to our ﬁshery diﬁlcultles
_ with the "blue noses" of the colonial depen-
' dencies. It' there be any portion of the mes-
isage obnoxious to the charge demagoguism,

it must be charged to this. The tone and
temper with which the irritating diaculties
environing our hardy ﬁshermen are treated,
-1re not as mild and persuasive as the rheto-
Iric brought to bear upon the St. Domingo
question. It is seriously questionable, in
the light of that human nature common to
all mankind, whether a kinder and less pug-
nacious treatment would not have proved
wisest and best in results. Our Canadian

neighbors will be most likely to retort upon

us, that those terrible “Fenians” have organ-
iIzed upon our soil and made their “raids”
from our shores, and that while we have
done something to discourage these incur-
alone, we at least haven’t sltogEtherI present:
s‘d them. The world will be quite likely to
judge of us, also that these hostile invasions
of citizens of the United States, although-
more bugabooish 1111111 bloody, are neverthe-
less more grave than the seizure or condem-

‘nation of a ﬁshing smack. Having been on

the ground and taken especial pains to ac-
quaint ourselves with the growing faith Ion-
tertained by the peoj. of these British de-
pendencies in our government and their do
sires for annexation, we deeply regret that
our President should have been led into a
train of argumentso menacing in its tone,
and to our mind, so utterly unnecessary. —
We know that it will prove a painful dis

couragemEnt to our best and most steadfast
friends resident in the Provinces, and ear-
nestly desiring an ultimate union of. the sec-
tions. 1

0n the St. Domingo annexation question,
we think the President's earnest advocacy,
coupled with the subsequent movements of
its supporters'in Congress, will weaken, rath-
er thsn imprOe its chances of success un-
der present auspices: But we shall greatly
mistake if it does not awaken a more wide-
spread desire foreits possession on the. part
of the American people. Hitherto, there
seems to have been very little public inter-
est or wish for its acquisition. The Presi-

1 dent's plea, to little too much in the patent

medicine advertisement vein, perhaps) will
kindle curiosity, lead toe better information
concerning that earthly Eden, and among
the adventurers of the land and those who
delight in the greatést possible spread of our
national bird, ﬁnally create such a force of
public sentiment in its favor, as tobring that
tropical paradise under the folds of our own
Union. Said one Senator in our 111111;;
“We took 1n the cold of Alaska, now‘ let us
balance it by absorbing the heat of San Dc-
mingo. " The graver members object that,

if taken {as at present designed, we shall
purchase a civil war requiring millions to
suppress; that we are to acquire a thousand
miles more seacoast to garrison and protect
in the event of a foreign war; that we are
to have a discontented Colonial Dependency.
or else a State in the Union with its Sena-

well as for themselves. And- these grave
possibilities they deem not to be compensat-
ed by the cheaper sugsr,coﬁee,logwood and
mahogany of the island, nor even the possi-
ble yields of gold, silver and salt known to
exist there. But the same itching for spread
of domain which actuated the farmer, who
wanted but the one acre and all that adjoined
it, is very apt to sieze great nations, and thus
far, it must be admitted, the annexatiouists
among our people have had their way. and.
in the main, the r1 suits have proved beneﬁ-
cial. We predict, therefore, the ultimateab-
sorptiou of Sanmngo.

0n the subje'c e Tariff, we were about
to swing our hat over the President’s crisp
and sententious treatment of our favorite
theme, when we were cautioned to Is more
critical analysis of his words,I and ﬁnd a lit-
tle more art inItbe construction of his sen-
tences than at ﬁrst we had dotected. Yet
on the abstract question of protection to
American Industry, President Grant’s head
and heart are both right, and his words will
command the approval of the general ﬁ'ieuds-
of a genuine revenue reform. But the no-1
blest utterances of all the mes'sage are the
following few terse, but ell~signiﬁcant
words:

“In conclusion I would sum 11 the policy
of tho' Administration to be a t orough en-
forcement of every law, a faithihl collection
of taxes as provided for; economy in dis-
bursement of same- , a prompt payment of
every debt of the nation; a reduction of
taxes as rspidl gmasI the requirements of the
country will a reductions of taxation
and tarid‘ be so arranged as to aﬁ'ord the
greatest relief to the greatest number; hon-
est and fair dealings with all other pen is
to the end that war, with all its blight 11g
consequences, may be avoided, but without
surrendering eny right or obligation due to.
us; a reform“ 1n the treatnmnt ot the Indians
and imthe whole civil service 'of the coun-

ry.and ﬁnall in eecuringo pure untram-
meled ballot w ere every man entitled to
cast a vote may do so just once at each elec-
tion without fear of molestation or prescrip-
tion on account of his political faith, nativ-
ity or color."

Following the message was the attempt
in the Senate to reorganize the Committees,
witha view specially of giving the St. Do-
mingo scheme a majority of friends in the
Foreign- Re-lstions Commitme. This engen-
dered considerable Aﬂhfeeling, and would
have ended in an open row, _had not the
movers in the echemewithdrewn their prop.
oIsition. This settled, the old Committees
were reported substantially as they existed
at the list session. Mr.‘-Patterson. the gen.
ial and genuine Senator from the “Old Gran-
ite State,” becomes chairman of the District
of Columbia Committee, in consequence of
Senator Hamlin’s desire to be excused from
its laborious duties. Senator Windom, who
succeeds Norton, ﬁ'ornthrVncsote, takes the
deceased Senator's place upon the Patent
Committee. He is an upright. and clear-
hesded man, and is at last in the ‘IA‘right
place,’ and we trust the State Legislature of.
Minnesota will have the good sense and
good fortune to continue him where he is,
as we doubt not it will. .

The letter of poor Admiral Porter, written
after Fort Fisher. and which surreptitiously
got into the New York Sun, has been both
the misery and delight ofI all Washington
society for the last week. It is an ugly thing
«to some to the surface, in view _of his ~conﬁ~
:deutiai and exceedingly cordial relations
with the President. Had the Admiral had
the discretion to have replied, frankly own-

pardon; or better still, Ito have taken no
public notice of it at all, it would have. left
all concerned in a less ludicrous and pliable
plight. But forthwith he ﬁles into print.—
Firet, he publishes memorenda from his die--
ry to prove that he never wrote the letter,
which is ‘oﬁicialiy‘ on record in the Navy De-
pert-rent. In this he wantoniy injects a son-
tence to the effect that our own fhithﬁrl and
brave “Alf Terry" came down to FortFish
or so, miserably poor. that. he didn’t own a
horse,:and he (the Admiral) had to lend him
one. _ As tee chanced tobe thar,;we can cer-
tify that this unworthy slur upon a most
worthy gentleman nnd true soldier, is asbig
e“whopper”- as his denial of having written
the letter pitching into Grant. As often, and
indeed generally occured in the war, when
expeditionsswere sent oﬁ‘ on ship-board, the
oﬂcers were in on vesselaud their horses
in another. Many of our readers were vis-
itors at Gen. Terry’s heed quertcrsat .Ber-'

11111111- 31111de Just previoustohis going to

tors and Congressmen to legislate for us as 1

ing its origin, admitting his fault, and asking A

.tory efforts to keep his placo‘iiuthe 11111111.
nor the worse perfbrmance of trying to hold
the tunnel fast by the; neck “after too had
rolled over on the ground. But the General
did have three ﬁne soddlo horses at Fort
Fisher, as we well rentedrber‘, fend we now
take this, our ﬁrst public opportunity of
thanking him for the free use we made of
one of them. All this balderdash' is follow--
Ed by a crazy I,denial confession, denial and
admission again and this bit of personal
gossip and scandal goes to show what little
folliei our greatest heroes will sometimes get
down to. It was thought that this unfortu-
nate letter would be the cause of provoking
the President into a defeat of the Admiral’s
justiﬁable ambition to become the superior
in rank of the illustrious Farragut. But we
are glad to know that Gen. Grant had the
magnanimityI to request Porter‘s conﬁrms:
(ion.

The Committees will not get fully into the
harness until after New Year’s, and conse-
quently, many members are leaving. Sena-
111i Ferry, who has been here the past week,
in decidedly improved health,441eft yesterday
for home, where he contemplates remolning
until altar the holidays.

We must not close without indulging' m a
little local congratulation over the fact that
the Senate Chamber is now furnished with
its atmosphere for breathing by an engine
built and put up by the Nor-101111: Iron Works.
And Ifurther,’ the chief engineer, a man of
discrimination and experience, who is at the
head of the Heating and Ventilating Dopart-
Itnent of the Capitol, 111111111111 to as that our
engines wore in point of simplicity, power,
beauty of working, and workmanship, de-
.cidedly superior to any he had ever seen.—
Thls' 1s a compliinent worth making much
of. The Boston Journal, whose Webbing--
ton editor had seen the engineI last week,
gives expression to the same Iaentimcnts.‘
The talk now is for another engine to be?
placed in the‘HouIsewain'g. 111111111 two- of-
the Earle Pumps. Woe is Norwalkl IB.

a‘Secretary Northrup, Prof. Thstcbgr
and Hon. H. Lynde Harrison addressed a
meeting of citizens, on Educational matters,
at Lockwood’e Hall, on Wednesday evening
last. The question of consolidating our
School Districts was specially considered.
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a- We have just published a new and
beautifully designed Diploma for the Fair-3
ﬁeld 00., Agricultural Society, exocuted on
stone by Ferd Mayer S 00., of New York,
and which will be ready to' deliver this week

at the late Fair.
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Anornn Sunbelt Damn—Mr. D'. D,
Lockwood was found prostrate on West ev-
enue early Sunday morning, in an uncon-
sclous condition; He was taken to his horns
and lived until evening, but without rotun-
ing consciousness. ' Dr. Lynesexpressed the
opinion that his- death was caused by con-
gestion of the lungs. He had been troubled
with a bad cold, but nevertheless left for
Bridgeport to hold an auction sale on Satur-
day evening. Returning in-the" owl train he
wasiobliged to walk up town, but gave out
on the way, and was not found till morn-
ing. He'leaves a wifeand eight” children.
It will be remembered that his brother
George died‘suddenly, at Albany, last month.

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WSchool Visitor E.VA. Woodward, has
generously oﬁered two prizes of twenty-ﬁve
dollars each to be given to the boy and girl
evincing the most creditable attainment in
scholarship at the next ExemiuatiouI oftheir
Union School. 1 I
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wThe ennusl complimentary Sociable
of the Pioneer H. S ‘L. 00., comes ed” at
Lockwood’s Hall, on Friday evening next,
and gives promise of being an enjoyable af-
fair. '

_'_..__....
WThe New York Musical Gazette, for
December, published by our enterprising
fellow-citizens, Biglow S Main, contains
ﬁve pieces of Christmas music. A .
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Mns. Pannnn’s Lucretia—Our citizens
will be glad ‘to know that. arrangements
have been made by which Mrs. Pardee will
deliver two lectureinu town next week-on
Monday evening at Lockwood’s Hall,and
on Tuesday evening at the Congregational
church, South Nor-walk.

Rev. J. T. Pettec speaks as follows of her
Merlden lecture: 4

“I have seldOm listened to a temperance
lecture that leased the bettér than one de-
livered by Pardee. It was a strong,
chaste, well-written production, full ofargu-
ment and eloquent appeals, and entirely
free from everything that could give offense
even to the most fastrdious. The lecturer
was calm, but terribly in earnest, evidently
relying not upon action, but upon thought
and feeling, to carry conviction to the
mind of her hearers. I esteem the lecture
well calculated to do good, and admirably
adapted to Sabbath evening.‘

m ‘
13-11111 5:40 a. m., Horse Carwill be dis-
continued entirely until further notice.

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E'V The citizens of Norwalk have reason
to be grateful to our Railroad magnates for
at last giving our depot its proper name,
South Norwalk. In addition to causing
mistakes to passengers it has also had the
eﬁ‘ect of giving strangers a very inadCQuate
idea of the Extent and magnitude of the.
town. 0

W
E‘Mr. Henry L .Gedney, of Springwood,
is called upon to mourn the sudded death of
his wife, which-event occurred on the'7th
.inst. Her funeral was attended on Friday
by the Temperance Societies, of which the
was it member.

a- 11.. SEIléck Bros, those grocers
over in the old Post Ofﬁce building, foot of
Mill Hill’,‘ captured last week a cargo.- of
Long Island Ruin Baga Turnips. They are A
ﬁne large ones, and just what are required
for sauce to go with your poultry now-a-
days.

I A,
m‘lke" Bromley of the Hartford Post is
not wit-less, but he will never make a pun-

Nens. . ._ I
wIMrs Lyman closedher lectures in
Norwalk last week; endienow1 imparting
physical information to the ladies of Stem-
ford. 1 . .

[3‘ Our Merchants are busily engaged
preparing for thwoliday trade. Get your
stamps ready. '

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Q'Tbe Misses Hancock, daughters of
Wm. Hancock, Esq. Superintendent of the
NorwIalk Mills, were honored with a large
surprise party on Friday evening last,“
iWinnipauk. It requirrd two large covered
“carryalh” to carry eliI of the Bridge partic-
ipents. I

I . . . .

Paorrdrnb. -—'The many- friends of Chas.
M. Marvin, son of‘ cm Marvin,Esq., of
Wilton, will be glad to learn that he has
been elected Cashier of the newly organized;
Union Bank in Jersey City. The Evening
Journal of that city sa'ys'g-a- A
_ “Mr. M. has been for six years teller-i114
the Second National Bank 'of. this city, "1111
is thorou hly competent for hrs new and
responsib e position." I
' It will be remembered that “Mat."com-
menced his business career as a clerk in the
VFsirtlcld County Bank. .-; - -
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Q‘D'r. Chas. PI. IUhle, of this place, con-I
ducts the “ Family Physician ” department
in the Western World, a literary journal.
publishedhrBoston. HeVA also contributes
short stories and 11111111111111 the same pa-
per, and to Gody' s Lady’s .Book, and other
publications.

rg‘ Hing‘William of Prussia has gra-
ciously consented to accept the title of “Em-

peroro‘fGermnny"

a.“ .

'to those to whom diploma were awarded

1111 equal to "Moms” Bailey of the mubnrf

I _—cost W3950.
pounds of coal for ten- hours work, end‘tbe

tistsmp ”Blind 011‘ item often. I.

vens and Mrs. Francis Skiddy This one it:
to cover about four acres, is to be circular in
form and 225 _ft. in diameter at Itho bottom,

with 11 capacity ofeight million of 1111101111. rm."

The Receiving Resorvoirisl ted on the
SiIVer Mine stream near Charles Grupe’s
place, New Ca'n'aIau. It covers about twen-.

‘ty acres, 1111a holds 60, 000, 000 gallons. The

Supply Reservoir is to be located on lands
of Walter Gurusey and Mary A. St. John.

Two very careful 'and critical analyses of
the water have" been made, endare given be-
low. The ﬁrst is by Prof. St. John, who
makes it the purest of Ieny known to be ﬁrm-
lshed to any city; rue next by the Sheﬁield
Scientiﬁc School, (of water taken 1111111 be-
low the Reservoir, near a pest swemp,)I as
will be seen is but a little less so. ' '

' "ii" 2 I evaporated the specimen

brought me by Mr. Daniels, and also speci-

mens subsequently obtained from same lo-
cality. The ﬁrst contained sensibly more
organic matter than the others; this was to
be expected'from the fact that the. ﬁrst was
obtained when leaves and other vegetable
matter were‘ihiling into the water more rap
idly than usual. The‘quantity of the ﬁrst,-
however is not large. ' ' * This Nor-
walk water becomes sensibly contaminated“
by long expomre to lead, still, the amount
is slight, and from more passage through
(not standing in reservoirs lined with lead)
would be inappreciable- * * * The wa-

ter is oer-y soft an pureI river water, con-.

tIaimng about 25‘ grains to the gallon, of
whicha little less than one grain is of organ-

.icmettcr.

Examination of water receivEd ﬁ‘omI Dr. '
S. Lyrics:

“ The water when received waseleer, but
had a very perceptible tinge of brown color.
011 evaporation this tinge became more and
more marked, without however, depositing
.any sediment until the water was carried

nearly to dryness. Two litres (about Mr

gallon) evaporated to dryness over a oyster,
both gave 128%Imiliigrsmmes of solid resi-
due, et‘mal, when reduced, tograinsend gal-
ions to the amount or 4 45-100 groins to a
gallon. When this residue was exposed to
a continued red-heat until the organic mat-
ter was entirely burned off, the ﬁnal ﬁxed

' inorganic residue was 67 milligremmes, or

2 40-100 grains to the gallon. This loss of
2 5-100 grains, 011' ignitiOn, is doubtless
largelyIduc to organic matter, but probably
a portion of it is due to water which existed
in the ﬁrst residue as a deﬁnite solid hydrate.

O l I

A qualitative analysis of the ﬁxed inor-

genie residue gave
Silica, -A‘\ Chlorine,
Carbonic Acid, Magnesia,
Sui huric “ '4 Chlorine,
S , .1 Lime.

Of these lime was in ~ excess of all the rest,
and sulphuric acid was also in considerhble
quantity. TheVresidueconsiIstiug, probably,
for the most partof sulphate of lime. V ,.

‘ These results show the water to be of fair
purity. A recent work gives the amount of
solid matter in several waters used for the
supply of cities, as follows:

Grains in l on.
Lake Cochituate, Boston, 8.11
Schuylkill River, Phiia., 8.50
Ridgewood, Brooklyn, 8. 92
Croton Rive'r, 4.78.
Lake Michi 11, Chicago, 1 6. 62
Albany, N. 10. 78
Thames, London, ', ' 16. 88

all used for city supply of drinking water.
The amount oforgani.metter in the Nor-'
walk water is larger than usual, although
the character of the organic matter is, most
probably, 'comparatively harmless, as from
the brownish tinge, ti would be natural to
suppose, that it was _largély due to peaty

matters." ,
m

Amer. Measures—Fairﬁeld Co. Nation- 1

al Bank, Jan 10th.

Fairﬁeld County Agriculturni Society,
Wednesday, Deﬁlst. . .

B‘The annual Town Meeting occurs
next Monday.

O
[S'Profi Gunning closed his lecture

course on Wednesday evening last.

0
W'l'he members of Concord Division,S.

ofT., are talking up a Christmastree festi-

val for the Holidays.
W

13;!- A good time coming—the Methodist

Supper on the 21st inst.
—-—-'-.—e.

mA small shed near the residence of
Mr. Truman B. Dickerson was discovered to
be on ﬁre, abouts o ’,clock Saturday evening,
The alarm brought the ﬁre departmont out

flying, but the several companies ran in the

wrong direction, and by the time they dis-
covered their mistake the ﬁre was announc-
ed to be out and they returned to their
houses
W

[3‘ The Quintards have a choice collect.
ion of American and Foreign cbromos to
which they invite attention. -

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It" Charley Smith, one of our best paint-
er artists, -1s polishing down the new and
beautiful woodwork decorartions of the
Fairﬁeld (20., Bank, preparatory to a cost
of polish on the same.‘ , .

—-——-—-.-s‘e—‘————
llIonIId IYoIIs' Wuyo—lllgh'oyo.
'r‘n‘e 6611111111— ’ '"
' . ban— on ’cnusnnb IsroNnI.

So frequently' 1s our attention arrested by
statistical reports of the great beneﬁt and
economy from the sole use of brokén trap
rock or veryAhard granite, for the construc.
tion and repairs of 1 streets and highways,
we feel its duty _long delIayed inrnot having
earlier given'factogeletive to the: gratifying
IexperiencegIof. other communities. AThe.~fol--
lowing is in reply to‘inquiriee made’ of a
member of the Council and Superintendent
of Streets of a progressive town in an ad-
joining State:— 1 I. ,

“Our stone crusher is from the manufactu-
ry of Messrs. Blake S Bros, New Haven,
Conn, cost $1,260. The engine of ten horse
power, and warranted By the makers,—
Messrs, J. C. Hoadly S Co. ,Lewrence,Mass.
It requires four hundred

labor of” four men, via: Ihginoer. two men
to feed sndbreak the stone, andone men to
keep the mouth of the crusher free. Stone
weighing ﬁfty pounds or less, do not require
to be broken before plecing-i-them in the
crusher. per granite is very hard. at the
ledge, and in ten hours weerush any war ,
softer rock would crush more rapidly. A
letter fror'ne qurveyer in an odjecent city,
says the rock there is a brittle granite, and
Iihe. crusher _yleldq one hundred tons. in ten.
1111111117111 entire cost of operating the
crusher, v1Iz: fuel, labor, wear and teer,Sc.,

will not exceed twenty cents perton. The
carting, distribution. and grading will de'
pend upon the distance of transportation. 1-1
Ours costs, for a distance of over a mile trav-

I.el_, from the ledge to the piece of distribu-
1,101,111.11, ﬁﬁyI tIc rixty. centspcr ton, includ-
.ing spreading IendI grading-w -..-We .testetla
}' small piece of stone read last winter, on
Thames street, (a otreetof naturellyfbad

foundation. 11111111111, used for heavily lav

den teams), endthere wssse' dot-fie it.-I- .

This method of, making roade is rather cost~
ly in the commencement, but my Opinion is
thatit is medeny town csnput

I. , dowhﬁ’

This writer’ I experience is only the echo
of the experience of; very many committees.
We trust our worthy Court of Burg'esees
wIillI speedily; investigate this matter, and
promptly give our streets and roads a thor-
ongh course of treatment, and flee us ﬁom
their present nauseating and pestilentisl
state, as welise their break-neckde break-
carriage condition:

.r—O—

3131511 tides yesterday-SIP over the

. \-

.. wortubteﬁden.

' 111-1,1111: the Bible was her authority.

the same race and same general character .

for the recalled St. Domingo insurrection,
.Isrnand so of the‘wbltes ‘eboﬁti eeVenty

.That', however, was conﬁned ex-
clusivEly to the French or Haytien part of
the island; occupying only about onethird
of the territory. but containing three times
es many inhabitants “Dominica. V .

Haiti, I(high lend, the Indian name of the
gland.) was settled by the French. A small
portion of the population are a mixture of
French and African, and the others pure
African. The Dominican’e ere Spanish, In-
dian and African,- IIwith a small portion of
1111111111 pure, and some whites. With
them the Indian character and habits pre-
dominate emong the rural population, be-
ing exceedingly gentle, affable end hospita-
his, as we learn ﬁ-om history were the peeub
leIrI traits of the Abor'ignees of this island.

The 1111-11 has two high ranges of moun-
talus running nearly parallel_ East and -Wost
through its whole IleIIngtIh. ThsIee cause the
see and laudbreesce to alternate with greater
regularity and force than in any other of the
West India Islands; and this modiﬁes the
heat, puriﬁes the atmosphere, and makes
the air particularly agreeable. Of all the
countries I have visited on either side of the
Atlantic, North or South of the Equator,
there is none 11111111111111“ so many of the
natural requisites for the comfort and hap-
piness of men; and if under our govern.-
ment 1 should prefer a residence ibe're to
any State. 1111 mid country. The city of St.
Domingo has had the reputation in former
years of being sickly, and the city has often
been confounded with the island bearing the 1

~ 1111111 111111111. name given to it by Col-.

nutbus because he discovered. it on Sunday,
(Domingo), and this has, no doubt, given
rise to the reporbofii‘being 1111 means:
country. During the Spanish occupation
there _Iwei indeed, a nightful mortality
among theIIﬁ-eeh unseclimsted troops: «sent

exclusivelyito their berrsck's.‘ There has
notbeenhalfe'd 1 casesof. yellowfsver
there during 111 t.ﬁve"Ay'eere, and the

country it has ever visited. .And if is re-
markable that, although ithes several times
raged with frightful mortality in the neigh-
boringisland ithee‘only reached there once,
11 1868. .

IA few observgtlons on the city of St. Do-II

_____

and was a large, rich. and beautiful city,
teeming with 11111 commerce 11111. Old
World long before the poor Indian had been
disturbed in his happy haunts where the
city 3N" York now Quads. And why
this once populous 111111 Iﬁourishing city now
almost deserted and in nine;
standing it is so ihvored in its geographical
position, and so advantageously located on
the richest, the fairest and the most salubri-

Why, chiefly because, like all other Spanish-
American States, it has been blighted by the
pernicious and demoralizing inﬂuences of
PoIpory- , and such has been the case every.
where that it has had fulIl sway. Abirds-eyo
view of the city will show some twenty or

monasteries all 111' ruins.
Where one'e rcveild in luxurious esee,I

Ilspens'e host of llceneioueP‘edr-e's,

The apostles of the Devil. not Christ's- ,
,Whet wicked hypocrite. those Spanish Priests,

They made rellgion e aIcandeIl and shame, I
‘A'IIId destroyod their country's indent is...

And this tells the whole story. The San
Franciscan monastery war the most exten-
sivo and costly establistneut of the kind' 1n
tho world. Nothing but the bare massive
wells .of its two churches arid extensive other
buildings remain , though in the heart of
the city, on the most eligible site, and occu-
pies four or ﬁve acres of ground. The pop-
ulation, now estima‘Ited at seven. or eight

- thousand, is probably not mere than one-

tenth what it once contained. But it' will be

' always memorable. and reverenced by megs; 1
mirers _Vof—Ithe great and A' good Celur'nbue, for:

being the scenes of hle‘glory and of his tri-
als and p 'ecutions; and'whether it be a
judgement on the Spanish race for their 1n-
gratitudc to‘ one who had served them so
faithfully andso well, and made Spain for
e timeIthe ﬁrst nation of the earth; the bor-
bsrous and inhuman cruelties to -'the poor
Irgliaus when they found they could not en-
slave them; the introduction of African
slavery into the New world there, with all
its heroes; or the abominations of the
priesthood there during its early history;
certain it-ie, no country in the world has
‘ever been so severely marked with God's
di'splessuIreI and vengeance. I .
. 4 I Davrs mac's.
._—__—___.-=._-—.-__-

Q‘We always thought Stamford ought
to have been named “Scoﬁeid town " A cu-
rious gentleman, says the Adequate, recently
found tv‘vo thousand ﬁve hundred individu-

' alsof that name mentioned _in the Town

Records. He says there are ﬁve hundred
personeof that name now_ living in Stem ~
fordaud vicinity. How many people are
there in Greenwich whose last name com-
IImeuceIs with “Mead l”

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9' Mrs. Van Cott, the female Methodist
preacher, is creating a "great religions inter

o
, w Matilda. Fletcherrj the young. Iowa-
pohtess’, is coming East an e lecturing tour.
————.—4.o-.-—

w The Domocretic party is “the pnrty
of retrenchment and reform," as we are. con-
Istantly reminded. In the House, Thursday,
all the Connecticut Republican member's
votedfor the abolition of the ﬂanking priv-
ilege. Mr. Barnum voted 11‘».- ' '

‘—‘——.-1.

._J___
at The Monitor Base Ball Club, of W11-
terbury, the last “champions” of the State,
has been perpetuated in the "Monitor Hose
(39., No. 8, " ma will hold its ﬁrst 1111111111
Promenade Concert, in that city, on the 28d
hill. .

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[S’TheI Black Crook hes commenced
another run at Niblo‘s theatre, N. Y.

I!“ The small-pox Iisprenqlent in. Brook.-
lyn. . _ .
o

.anannbnnN's Wm: Seven Sroams
FOB Sm Derek 111mm W. ARIA!-

111111111. Smell 4to WBN'mmmuur-am
'tyE'I. ABM.

Price, extra cloth, $1 85; cloth; full gilt,
62. J. B. Ford SI Co., Publishers, New
York. Al “juvenile Iif any
grown "foﬁo 11?, are allklng for cleverness
and spice, will but take the treble to read
one 'or two Icahe stories, it will not be time
wasted or unenjoycd. The‘: book is: bright
enough to please any people of culture, and
yet so simple that children will welcome it
with glee. I Dr. Raymond’s tales have won
greet popularity by: their .wit, delicate fancy,
11111111111111 admirable good sense. The
illustrations are particularly apt and pleas-
ing, showingforth both the comical element
oi" the hook and its pure and beautiful senti-
ment. On the whole, this is a capital book
ﬁrrthe holidays,—.or' any other days. when

readers- wentmcrry reading.'
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I" The Democratic State Convention is
.t‘obeheld at Allyn Hall, Hui-thrill, 1111 the
:17th of January.

. 1
[8' Hate Field must be in a hurry to. get

rich, for she lectures on Sunday evenings the

same ‘as any other evening.I I . I

none-11111111 ofMissouvi put wilttle oil of
vitriol on the animal's beef .to make him
.Iabow of his uncontrollable spirit. '

A Milwaukee widow on being cautioned
by her minister about ﬁlrtiug,seid she knew
that it was wrong for unmarried ladies t1:

said “widow’s mite." She was ﬁirting ew-

.ful at last _seconnts, her or
Ilsa IthIst “wfdow's are?”

1 . ......

end-gree}. meleezhsmxisndisgsinst str 1.

out ﬁom $11,111 11.41111- conﬁned almost-V

cholera ’wee l'ess ~ibtel there than many-

notwith- A

one Ispot IitIlI Americe,Itakeu as e 111111111.

more costly churches,.and six convents and I

rare, .I .-.I.

“0.1.1, with J .Wilkes Booth, which led, to his
being suspected of complicity in the assas-
sinIaItion plot” and his arrest and long con-
ﬁnIcmelnt.’ mongoose, '61 railrer‘boastg,
thﬁt 1111 was, ug the wet,- up to the time
of the assassination, engaged as a rebel spy
and carrier of dispatches. He was in and
out of Washington frequently, assisted in
keeping up a regular line of communications
with Richmond. He tells how he used to.
carry letters Icouwaled about his person or
carriage, and laughs at the detectives who
did not know how to search and ﬁnd these
precious documents, when they had them

within reach.- He met Booth in 1864. and
relates the progress of their acquaintance.

Booth was anxious to ﬁnd out all about the
rebel mail services, the Irqutes, tIrIud means
taken for communicating with Richmond,

etc., but Surratt was shy and refused to en-

' lighten 111111 1111 he revealed his object 111 11111-

.king the inquiries. Finally, Booth, after
seeking to pledge him-‘ to: new. ’ informed
Surratt that his object was to'abduct Presi-.
dent Lincoln and carry him to Richmond,
to be held as a hostage for the exchange of
Prisoners: - Boothexplainod hothe thought-
a party. of bold men could necomplish‘ithis
by suddenly seizing the President when he
was unprepared, and. hurrying him across
the Potomac before pursuit could be urgean
Ized. Surratt hesitated, but ﬁnally fell in
with the plot, and relates" what afterwards
took place in attempting to carry ‘out the
.plan. A

Surratt says he was in Washington on
IIMIondey, April 811,1865, having left Rich-
round on Saturday morning before the
cvacuation, and met- one of the conspirators,
who inquired for Booth, but he (8.) was un-
able to give any lnibrnra‘tlon, and advised
his Mend to go home and go to work. Next
morning he left Washington for Canada,
and avers that 116 was not again in that city
until he was brought beck from Egypt.
He carried dispatches from Richmond [to
'Geu‘eIral‘Edward G. Lee on this trip, and de
livered them 111 Montreal. About 1a week
after, he was sent to. Elmira, to obtain- in-
formation with a view to releasing the Con-
federate prhouers held in- camp there. At
Elmira he heard of the essassinhtion, but at
ﬁrst thought it a cause-.1. Before ' he heard
the name of Booth connected with ‘the affair,
he went to the telegraph ofﬁce and wrote a
dispatch to.BpotlI1,A directing it to IJ. .W. B:,
.at his’residen’ce in New York. While he
“was waiting for the operator to send it off,-
he heard the name of the Booth brothers
mentioned excitedly,aud the truth ﬁashed
on his mind that Booth was the assassin.
He _would have destroyed the telegram ut
the operatar objected and hi left,‘ intendbtg.
to go to Baltimore to learn ythe paitlculdrs
of the .jfair. Instead he went to Canandaio
gua,whe1I'e, ouMondIay, he read in the paper
a paragraph charging himsélf. with being
the assailant of Secretary Seward. He then
concluded togo to Canada, and did go by
way of Albany and St; Albans. At the let-A
ter place he was scanned by detectives, but
wearing English style of clothes and talking
loudly of the assassination he escaped attcn-
tion. He then details his plan for keeping
out of sight and for receiving information of
what was in progress. He indignantly
denies that ire kept out of the way, knowing
that his mother was in danger. His friends
concealed than him the true state of the
case, and a special me'ssenger sent by him
returned with a reassuring message from a’
trusted. friend. He says he wrote a full
statement to be published in the World, but
his friends withheld it. He declares that his
mother was innocent, but does not say she
was not privy to the.abdnct_ion__plot. ‘

[3‘ “Uncle Ed. Lockwood,” over at the
Horse Railway depot, in some of his wag.
gish moods, is perfectliy irresstabie if not a
full match for President Lincoln. He once
owned a team, whereof- the nigh horse was
Is perfectly magniﬁcent ’animal,‘ and "the
other about 'as mean a whelp as he bird ever
been stuck with in a horse trade. ”ButIhe
was continually boasting about the wonder-
.1111 capabilities and ﬁne qualities of his oﬁ‘
horse, when a neighbor, who-had listened
to his enthusestic praises for the fortieth
time, broke forth:—— “IWhypUncle Ed, that
off horse you brag so much about, is a Eis-
erable, wretched brute, while you never
boast at all about the near one, which really
is a splendid animal. ” “Well, ” says Uncle
Ed. very quictlv, “He don’t need 11,110» he I
The other one does need it, dreadfully, so I
pile it all on 111111.”. Therewas- an end of 1111-
ther argument, but. like the stories of Lin-
coln, the moral and applicatiouI have a very
wide range.

0‘.»

{3‘ Insert your-W when it pays bastby

“ calling atN. H. Camp’s. For reason, see

large advertisement.
-_—-.—e.
[3? We call the attenti of persons visit-
ing New York for Sh pin. Lectures,

Theatres, Se to the card of
fectiouery, Broadwe,
It' rs the most centre,

lark’sA Con-

convenient and sails:

ﬁtctaeygtace 1111:171me York to get arsrrI or
lunch pecialty for Ladies. . _I
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61" Dress Goods at Gnu'r BARGAINS, at
ScoﬁIeld SI Barnum’ s. I
o

ﬁ' A young lady of Norwalk has got a
_lover that is a little “cracked” and wants to
know if cocoa cream wouldn’t be good for
111111.? We don’t» know but -it would. It 1s
excellent ibr “cracked hands’. Sc, So.
.—why wouldn’t it be dest the thing for
“cracked heads 1” '

—————.—¢. I (a I .

ENE. Complies; splends'dassortment

of Holiday presents very cheap. See large

advertisement. 4» -.
1 ..I , I . ‘ < ‘ V

ﬁeldS,Bhrnums.. ,I} . . .: .. I
—-I_———-—.—¢.s—.-———-—- '

5‘ ly ”nor in a Garden. ’9
This little book of pleasant and quaint
concoits; has just been issued 119111 the press
of Fields S Osgood, Boston. The chapters
originally appeared in the 111111.11 Gourde:
under the caption “ What I Know about
GardEning,” and were widely read and uni-
versally conceded to be the ﬁnest contribu-
tion to the humerous literature of the day.
The book appears withIa volunteered intro-I
duction by Henry Ward Beecher, and any
body'who has the slighteat'veiu of 11111 lurk-
ing about his system, should purchase this
little gem of wholesome jollity uud mirth.
The fin keeps bubbling out at In“ points like‘
waters from.s fountain. and the sly humor

tirieal moraliziog, which as irresistably
plunges one into“ uproarlous laughtEr’a
anything? in:- 111e acrocomicalitie‘s ofPlck
wick. All in all, it 1a in exceedinglymre
book, the like ofwhiIch we do not expect to
look open again. We congratulate our
ﬁ‘lEud Werner on his successful debut, for
in our judgement this little volume puts him
at the head of American-humming
1'1'Mr. Charles D. Smith is now ennui.
sing the town for R. Shelton Mackensie’s'
1' Life of 01111-1111 Dickens,” published 11,1 '2
IB. Peterson and Brothers, Philadelphia

would now refer all desirous of .givrng its .
personai’ex‘aminatiou, fo SHE StIIni’tlrI.I

New Mar. 41111111 Hatch S Foote,hank-:

gra, N. Y, have issued a new map of Con-.0

nccticut, which has the appearance ofbeing

Ivaluable and reliable for reference. It is

gree eciaIlly designed to show the strong posi-
on

Wiiiimantic Railroad for the sale of. bonds
ofwhlIch they are agents

Opo~——V——V—‘ '
AB'V Samuel Feaseude'n, 11:111., 11 young!
lawyer of great promise, has been admitted
into the law ﬁrm IoIfII Ferris S Child, Stem-Ir I.

. .
’ ' ' -.1.A ”1.1-! I". .1:
. any -~'r~'~;.---.~¢- Lu; . Jmuit' . 1 1

corner of 18th Street. 1.

ﬂ' Mink furs at .very low prices, at Sea 5871

We have already notified the work, and ‘

.1.

of the New Haven manom- 111111

E1111 Tueﬁd’ay evening'o‘f'riéx’t seemnéciso.
From the general interest felt' 1n this lady,
and the univerIinl Ich'siiV'e to hear her lecture,

crowded house on that occasion. The fol-
lowing are a few of the ﬂattering notices
Mrs. PardEe’ s ﬁrst lecture has elicited. —

Says the Waterbury 'I'Mec:

“Emile ”Purdue’s ’Slave's of the Wine Cu ’ is a
most ﬁnished and c lsesicsl paper. It is ful of elo-
quenee snd~pe‘thoe, emits tapervadod throughout with
a beautiful religious sentiment. The lady speaks an

hour by the watch, but ten minutes by the sensation
of her eudlence.” _

Says the New York Sun .-

“Ihe charming delivo1y or Mrs. Parties enchalns
all hearers at once. Wit inﬁnite grace and a deal
ofwit, humor and occasional touches of pathos, she
entertains her audience's. Her presence is graceful,
her action easy, yo't ex receive and her intonation
so good that not a sin e point is lost."

Says the Waterbury American:

' lire. Peruse has evinced a sensativo woman’s
nature a bri ht mind, a lively fancy, and a deﬁnite-
ness oflutel actual purpose which, in an e of slip-
ehod work is both uncommon and admire to. She
is bright, clear and- genial, end. the something she
has to tell is very strongly commanded to

' Says the New Haven Regular:

" It is no ex'e‘wgeratiori to say, that! Emile Pardee’s
“Slaves of the Wine Cu ” was the most impressive
temperance lecture we vc listened to for month»
liar address abounds with shrewd wisdom, bold and
original though a antic and pleasant humor." A

§ys the New HavEn News:

“ Mrs. Pardoe's lecture embraces a series ofela bor-
sted, disjointed, entertain-conceived and beast rui-
ly-nerrated incidents and recitals, all of which have
a point. a moral. and a direct bearing upon her sub-
Ject. And she displays a rare test in making these
murals prominent. Ber style is smooth and ﬁnished
her‘ sentences are el ti y turned and abound in
ﬁowery' phrases, she is th witt and caustic—anti
her lecture is an example of brll y seldom equal-
oil.” WI. B. Ben nhaln, acting School lsitor of Meri-
'dea, says. t‘For more than an hour, Emile Pet-doe

engaged. the closest attention of the very in audi-

once. The composition -den arrangement

edged ability. It was comprehensive. in , bold,
statistical, pathetic, eloquent and forci 1e. Her
goints were well made, 'and her language scholastic.
ry was earnest and aﬁective. As a whole.
her ole t was, oawofthe bust; and. could Wail
producing rennin."
m
I!" Mr.'C. P. Turnéy, builder, was run
away with on WeduEsday last, and thrown
110111 his wagon. 1 He was quite severely
but not seriously hurt, and will probably be
‘I‘himself 15.31111"- m a few days. .
2 w...“

the West, contemplates the erection ofa
blacksmith shop at the Five Corners on the
New Canaan road, user the Broad River

be 22m met, and 'thm stories high. -Other

ings in the immediate vicinity.
0‘.-.

”631' The batuaytoobtufoa Oil-ribosomes.
out Iis to invest Three Dalia/rs at N. H.
Cdmp’s. See large'advertisement. '

4 ——-—-——4—#Os-,.———-

[3'- Don' t fail to look at Scoﬁeld S Bar-I
num’ a stock of Velveteens before purchas-
ing elsewhere.’ ' -I

Baown’s Bsoacnnr. Teoonns are widely known as
an sdmireblc remedy for Bronchitis, Roarseuess,
Coughs, and other troubles of the throat and lungs.
They are of great value for the purposes for which
they are designed, and it should be known that
while they are pleasantly efﬁcacious, they contain
no hurtful ingredients, but may at all times
be used with perfect safety. We speak item per-
sonal experioneewhen we commend them to per-
sons aﬁlicted with irritated threats, as thousands
are, particularly at this season of the year.

As there' are many imitations, ask for and obtain
only “BROWN’S BRONCRIAL TROCHBS, " which
by long experience have proved their value, having
received the sanction of physicians generally, and
testimonials from eminent men throughout the
country. —‘WuItIem We: ldI.I ..

MARRBED.

didéf‘iﬁ‘iﬁ“ 1°; " .35" ”'w 1 ﬁ?'°h“"
so an e or o so one
”Fin“ “Tilt; h b h p 1:. N. ’
n stow , 7t ev. Dunnin
Lemuelc. HaletoAunichmatuck. , g.
In Norwaik, Dec. 7th, at .the residence of Ezra
Ho t, Esq... by Rev. Samuel Dnnham, Mr. Seth Smith
ng Green, Baltrmore 00.,K hid., to Miss Catha-
rine A. ,daughter of Hiram H. Hoyt, of Norwalk.
In 11111111111, Oct. 8. bv Rev. C.Hnbbsrd, Mr.
lames Ballard. of Eas‘ Fiehk kill, AN. Y. toMiss Flo-
rietta Little, of Danbury.

In Daub Nov. 21b Rev. A. C. Hubbard, Mr.
genres”. Hlu’Carley, to, rs.. Kate E. Miller, all of

In Lewisboro, Westchcster county, Nov. 90
Cyrus M. Ferris, Esq Mr. HonryH Ll,oyd to Miss
N. I. Hodges, both Iol"Norwtsl

In GreaLHlll, Dec. 4,A by Rev. S. Kristeller, Mr.
Smith Selleck, of Fund ,Ridge and Miss Libble
Smith, of Stamford.

lu Astoria, L. 1., Dec. 11, by Rev. Dr. Stead, Henry
8. Sterling, “Bridgeport. to Julie E, daughter of
C. H. Burr, of the former place.‘

in Greenville, Dec. 7, bv Rev. R. P. Stanton. Mr.

Bridgeport.

~'\~-\".~."~'\.r\\', \n rx\/\_"‘I\r\

wood, in the 58th year of his age.

Friends of the family are invited to attend the
funeral, from his late residence, on. Thursday, the
15th Iiust., st ax o’clock.

In Norwalk, Dec.’ ’8, Betsey Kimmer, aged 10

years 7 11111111111. 16d
nJeckeonvrlle, Florida, Afaiinda, wife of John
Wesson, former] of Norwalk, sued“

111.8 prlnIgwoo South Norwalk,Dec. 7, suddenly,
HerrietA., wife ofH ..L DecIt'iedney. agedssye are.

In South Norwelk 0, of membrane crou.
Hattie, daughter of Edwin and Harriet Fox, age 6
yes 5 meat s and 11 days.

In tamford, Nov. 28, Jemima Palmer, aged 87
JO“.-

’le Stamford,-Doc. 6, Mary Ann Webb, aged 73

Fannie. daughter of Thus.
teerflucreoso Allen,Bsq1,
thistown, are. Her remains were
bro' htto Norwalk for element.
In ortchester, Oct. ”-18, Phebe Ann., wife of Wil-
liam Williams, aged”.

Wmmm gvvidow’ wishes to obtain employ-
ment in town. ESomo light situation, with good
wane orpreferred. _Will do housework in a email
family. Address P. 0. Box 734, so. Norwalk, Ct. 1t."

V'J'lfdi’lidl'

’111 Brid 11. Dec. 11
_s. Allen,a Wynne 4111311 '
ofthis aged 17

«I.,—Tbs subscriber will pay the sum
are for the return of the goods taken

no qe’estions asked.

51 menu-mm...

ward will be
once or Ito

lent-lei afternoon, Oct.

The above re-
id for the return ofthe same to this
tn Ely, Water street.

NOTICE.

HE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FAIRFIELDV
COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIE TY will be
bold in Lockwood’s "mlmszuk ,NorwalIk, WHDN NES-

IDAY, Dec. 21, 1870, at loo'ock
S.E. APILITMBV, Soc’y'. .
XBridgeporIt, Dec. 5, 1870. 1 1

Putt-ﬁeld County 111111911111 Bank.

HS 11111111111111. of the stockholders of this

Bank, for the else on of Directors, will be held
at the Banking Hous'c, on TUBSDA Jan“. 101b,

Polls open from 11 o'clock A. M.

I CAR 8.H .STREET, Cashier.

< 11111131111191 Solo.
WILL be sold 'at the oi post in Norwaik, in
front of the Contact: cut. Hots NES-
DAY. Deceniber 14, it 11 o'clock
Work Horses, in good condition; one!-
her We
Lot of ey and Manure Forks, Sc.

. . s. nI onns'rrran, Trustee.

WILLzoV—t be sold at Publluie Auction, oIdorrk'i‘lJBSDiiY,

er mbe r, at! PM one
Building, eighteen feet square ’two stories high,
built of: the best material, can moved with per-

two Dingo
horse Lum-

feet safe :als'o a lot of standing Wood: a very few
ﬁne Bull in Tots, 11111 sq nantily ofvery ﬁne Build-
‘1 ing Sto1e.le to take p ace at the head of Pud-

ding Lane, on the property of Mrs. Tlndnll. For
full8 particulars inquire of JAMES MITCHELL, Real'
Fetate Broker. and Auctioneer. Terms made known
at time of solo. Sa‘e positive. stso

01111011105 '

FOR THE H0 4731/.

is invariably garnished with' aI specie of an.- .WEGE‘QJ:ﬁg‘j’;§°%{g°‘i§é§ﬁfﬁﬁtg

can sell lower than, the same a are sold any-
where else in the country. all and see them at

.errraunzs FURNITURE _ROIOMS.
111.111.111.11». 1d. 1810.

3 '. Horrors.

HE inhabitants of the town of Norwslk are here

by notiﬁed and warned that a Town Meeting
:2th mad eat ta; Toma. House in said 1118?;-
on on sy 4 1 .. “mt, ,
at 1 o’clock 111%s 1h purposes, .to
wit: To hear the several Annual sports. and such
sears required by law; to lay the State, Town, (in.
cludln the support of Schools. and highway taxes;
to-con der the petition {in S Crew. and oth-
ore, for.an approprltlo from‘ the Town Treasury
ofa rum ofrnoney not exceedieg ten dollars, in ta-

to do ertthe e se in-
Imurr'ttdo'bv “ Mgiehmrmﬁgng’e 11th we x

lace
to 'his real case also to consider the pet tton
B. Smith, Authors. for 111-tho town- to ao-’
born aVe'n said ‘.St John avenue; so call-

11111111, to 1.3"?“ public highways, said
"in avenue obe any

to be!!! ﬁfty feet deftltd. and. said St.
ohn avenue
id avenues. or hiﬁw‘1
“hash the property owneret ereoIf' alsoto author-
she Salesman to pay from the own Tressu my
any bills presented by the Board of School Visitors
this town‘- for -school purposes, which' they ma
germ as just and reasonable: also to consider an
6 1‘1 tho
consoll‘l’date the 1 this town; also to I
make an appropriation from the Town Trea'sury for
Ithe support of common schooou for the current year.
WILLIAM 9.3

. seesaw, sumscx,’ Selectmen.I
.1011 p.11 m,
DebedNorwa'k,Doo.19, 1310.1 1

IGIRAfNI, FLOUR AND FIRED, by the bag, ber-
rel, or car load, at
RAYMOND IBROS.

wyutlio celebrated
01 for .5-

'1. actual.

.;.A i

,'.s. .I .- ..1.x

he Freed ﬁ'onr 1101111151,. ”' in their church,

it is safe to assume that there will boa.“

by her unusually brilliant manner of telling it!“ _ -,

er lee-A
taro would have done credit to a men of s‘cknowl~.

failoL

Mr. Loyd, who has recently. returned from

District School ‘hOus'e. » ., The building is to .

parties are talking of electing oiher build- ..

Wm.T.1_iowcs, to Miss Ida F. Hinckiey, both of

WM
in this town. suddenly, D'ec.11, Daniel D. Lock- "

to his residence on the night of'u the 8th lust. and '
JA BIS-II mm,

11; two sets Double Harness, Itwo Piowsg' ‘

haw: tot‘g -

- tion «it 11 school 75111111 to ‘
"23:10] districts 0

'snnsncr-

"The Turks and the East."

aA native obenstautiuo is will be introduced in
native costume, and wil illustrate by dress. lan-
the e,gosticulation and singing, many cnstornsof

Admission 50 cents. Course ticket holders can
obtain Reserve Seats, without char e, at Seileck'e

bookstore and at Bar 's dru store outh Norwaik
on Monday 11111111111113“. 18th ' 4‘

EMILE PARDEE,

THE NEWEST AND BRIGHTEST STAB
1 IN THE LECTURE FIRHAIMENT,

Will deliver her New Lecture on

TEMPERANCE 1

AT LOCKWOOD’S me,

110111111 mine, are. '19,
‘ ADMISSION 50 CENTS.

Lecture to commence at ct ht o’clock.

Reserved Seats can beﬁualned without extra
charge at Prowitt’e and Purdy's drug srores.

Tickets at Peck’s, Purdy’s and Seileck’e.

ANNUAL SUPPER

-- -OF III-—

SECOND M. E. CHURCH,

a'r Nunwamt nan,

Wednea'drsy' Evening, Dec. 91,

.. mmnnurrrorrunaoorerv.

The ladies of the Church will a are no sins to
Ed. the ﬁnest entertainment of thepseason. p

Supper Tickets. ............................ 50 Cents.
No postponement on account of the weather.

‘f NIo-W ~15 THE TIME ”
To our rounirroo'unns me sort
Holiday Presents

Don't put it or es the weather may be unfe-
yerable.

ONLY cos'rs mm bonuses.

Taken at reaeoueb1e prices at the

So; Hamill Photographic Gallery.

SOMETHING FOR EV'ERBBOIDY l

. A Splendid Assortment of

son 1111.11: nr.
[1,”. & C. S. IPROWI"
a'r run conunn DRUG arose.

Work Boxes, Glue Boxes, Writing Desks,
Hair Brushes and Combs, Perfumeries,
Perfumery and Toilet Articles, Toilet
Sets, Inttial Paper, Wallets, Dolls,
of all ages, China and Leather Doll
Heads, Dressed Dolls, Macm-
rcar. Toss, Walkin Dolls,
IVclocipedes. .Steam ire En-
gines, ZOCTYPBS,

II c Lanterns,

eloci edes on
strings, elocipedes
on sticks, Wooden Toys,
Tin Toys, Paper Toys,
China and Pewter Tea
S e is , Chamelion,
Bloudin, Spring
and Blow To s, Dissect-
ed Pictures, uildin-
Blocks, GAIES, Bac-
gammon, Tivoli, Siege and Solo
taire Boards, Card Games, Check-
ers, Chess and Dominoes, Toy
Books, and Paper Dolls, 11 full assort-
ment, Children’s W one and Wheel.

and Candle Holders for Gimmes

CHRISTMAS!
FUNII F011 A‘THUUSANB !

GIFT TREE,

0111 1111111311111 1113111131

TO BE

Given Aways
V »V 7 V. 1000310107138: V
V' 110 PARTIALITY snows.
ANY ONE BUYING
Three 11111111 Worth-1i Goals!
V new“ V
AIV :5 :Ea. :1'rs 111111 N '1-
: Ivanrruu rs venue non . '
Ton 111111111. to Twenty-ﬁve Ct!
V _ so one lofth'em-worth lose 1111111 semis.
V 111.1111 ntvIrIrnb Iro

CALL AIllll EXAMIIE 'I'IIE TREE,

Which will be on exhibition from WEDNESDAY
next until the night of presentation.

our mrsrnasnvn.
ant. 11111 rum ‘11
.35 and 37 Main Street

A VERY CHOICE SELECTION OF

[CHRIISTNIAS GIFTS;

. As walifae aﬁril liceof '

- Staple and lastly lily Bands.

at the lowest market prices.

" NI ”3;; CAMP.

‘35 111111 '87.]an 51., Nos-walk.

SRSONS visiting the Theatre or shopping in
New York, will ﬁnd Clerks and Weller’e a can-
A ﬁne assortment

venientnplaoe to lunch or dine. a,“

of InBun one, Fancy Cakes and Pastry:

835 Broadway, cor. l3t|1 Street,

INBW YORK.

cc of Admissi ion ......................... 15 Cents.

A Large Photograph and Frame,

SLIM" “I.“ 6M5“! All IIIIP P167".

SOLELY PRESENTS l 1

barrows,Candles, Re ectors Glass Balls I

pressure“. mm. Isa arm I!

DON’T sacrum THE PLACE. "M

. in trust for the

arose-onus. amen ....... . son-mafia“514.111.111.111;“114111111111 c‘VWaser w°m II J Huygens? soreness-ow. h m wot-merit IEECIFB-Ibﬁﬂ" VJ"; ‘ Y. DC. O. A.- H OLIDA Y V AHATS I I I
. +1119- 1111111 ‘penchent or Generals-411111 or " ’ ' 0 “m 1 0° 01’0““ m8 5 4' ""35- “'1‘ ' -_ '
. Dm‘ ,G Wasnzmx, Desist?“ i12.621100n h" ”M1 horses. A’1IWe now mu . “gar dgnggzngxlbsve tie: :urveyed ton Vi'eounection withdhe assassination of Presi- Wehevo 11111111111111; ofannounqing, that MT. A10. YanLennep FOOTE THE BATTER
M d 121311.113)“ ti h i r-Inostludic'rous elort madcby yourBotough I". mister: ecﬁsery gent Lincoln, delivered a lecture in Rock- son the Congregatitmel church ’ '
..:':.:{.:;...::.;:a-..:“ﬂ...:::.:1::iwm 1...... .. 1.1.1111. ::.:.:."s:.z*£:rz‘..t'::z..§h° a. m.,... ........,.,....,.1.......e..1. °‘ “1““""“““‘°“ 1...... ,f’ °°'",, ”‘W'",“f‘,“‘i“““ ”mm’miioiiﬁ'ﬂgii'ﬁsor
- H einhebitan the “'0 u n ,IiIIsenno torepeet in Yorke” The Pa to eliver her ' ture ent “tied ‘
measure ms read ohm manﬁcﬁpt 11111111111 e "i“ 11011111311111 ”mm-“‘1 “mm” Wm! if“ °‘ {99"“5 31“ “W" 111111111 are my scum“! "rem 0'1 “iddress atrdrsnaoco onus“ connec- “Slaves of the Wine Cup ﬁgow t'hey lnay 11m, 35%,“; "‘9'1’“ 1‘ H a. t a o r O a :p a ,

SILK, FELT. CLOTH OR WOOL

A “III mll‘l'lil‘l' If lid" All 6A",
"In“ III“, Illlllud, be.

A Specialty made of Silk ﬂute. -

H you want a good and stylish Read Covering,
can at Foote’e Hat Store. Has . opposrio
Connegatloeal Church, South orwelk. .

N.B .—Oid Silk Hate remodelled into present shapes
ammo 0;“; Received.

NG ISLAND BUTA BAGA
TURNIPS, at SHLLRCK BROS .
on r. 0. Building.

LL the latest at ice of the ﬁn it
A silver and pi laied were, addgbgﬂyegc'koas d

rodnced by the manufacturer, at Wood's

soon as
Jewelry tore.

ST—OnWedncsds Nov. 30 at SonthN
['19: t, or 111 the H’o'ree Cam'ei’oc ocxrr hbwo'rltl:
eon

ing about seas—m property or a r wo-
man. Tbeﬁndcr will be rewarded by 1133?"; the
Iet the Gazette oﬁlco. .
ix gentlemen can be accommodated with
domestic board, with pleasant rooms and
associations, in alfrivetofamily. A
thing store ofT. Borden, Wailt. st.

ly at the clo-
orwalk. .sus

SKATES .r -.
SKATES! I
SKATES I I .r

1111111 81 111111

muslin 1111111111 11111

SKATE Si

run near assonmur or snares
' no be room) IN nonwamt. an

KELLOGG BROS.

rum 1111-111.

SEWING MGHINE' '
I s I
IS THE BEST.

IT WILL RUN OVER SEAMS ALL RIGHT.

IT WILL TAKE FIFTY STITCHES TO THE
INCH, which is ﬁner than any other machine will
sew.

IT WILL SEW HEAVIER AND THICHER
GOODS than any other machine.

11‘ USES ANYAND EVERY KIND OF THREAD.
IT SEWS THE MOST DELICATB, THIN, SOFT
FABRIC without drawing.

OTT SRWSA 'Ag BIAS SIAM As WELL AS ANY

IT HAS NO SUPERIOR.

It has a straight needle perpendicular action,
makes he Lock or Shuttle Stitchwlll neither rip nor
revel, and is alike on both sides, perfume perfect
sewing on every description of material, with cotton.
license? silk thread, from the coarsest to the ﬁnest
sum

IPEGIAI. Aﬂlll’lll l8 cause” 16 111! I66-
s AND SMACHIN

The have been thorongly tested on every de-

scripti’on of work, runningh steam power at the

rate of 1200 stitches per ute, producing more

than double the work of any other shuttle maddno

now" in use.

For Tailoring or Leather Work.

We claim that they are not only .but much ,

superior, to any other machine that as ever ever

been oﬁered to the F0ﬁublic
MACHINES SALE ON 1NSTALLIMENTS,

and warranted for three years.

COTTON, SLHI THREAD, and OIL, of a superior

q neilty. for sale.
1!. JONE§.0 51 Main St.
ORWALH. CONN.

1 1" l 1!
”Tag” Agglﬂ‘glgﬂ WAIT. 01' cm on

DRESS- MAKING,

‘ In allita branches.

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN T0 CHILDREN’S
CLOTHING

Norwalk, Nov, 29, 1870.

_ reams a Housr's
lion-Explosive Kerosene lamps!

trustedovr Sir Humphrey Dow's Han.
B most eminent orient.ﬁe men pronounce it
1. Absolutely safe under all circumstances, both
from breaking and explosion: 6. It veetwioeas
much light from same size wick; 8. use as per
cent. less oil, 4. It is ornamental and durable. lasts
a lifetime,- 5. it gives no odor in burning, tuned
«cream,- 6. The steadiness of the flame is‘espo-
cialiy nonderM 7. It is a successful rival of gas at a

triﬂing expense.
A. B. BENEDICT

has taken the agent? for the above lamp for the
town of Norwalk, will canvass the town for its
sale. Chimneys can be found at the stores ofGeo.
F. Belden, Norwalk, and W. R. Tories. South Nor-
walk. The lamp can be examined at the Depot So-
loon, South Norwalk.3n149

To Winona It May Concern.
By request I have examined “Pelklnl S House’s
Non-Explosive Lamp,” and feel quite free to corn-
mend it to the pubic as sale, which is saying ranch
in its ibvor. It gives a beautiful and steady ii ht,
and emits no smoke or oﬁ‘onsivc odor. Its abso are
safety, while burning the Kerosene, or Petroleum
Oils of Commerce; s to me, notwithstanding its
other merits, by for the most important. I should
be glad if it ml yht. replace all the nutmeg loss lamps
now in use,on and thus give tothe public an ”immunity
from danger of the ntmostlmportauce.1t is said by
its proprietors to be safe for burning even benzino.
However this maybe, I can only commend for use
the standard oils. A. BILL.
Norwalk, Conn... Dec. 3. 1870.

431:! I

of Bob-Sleds.
om Main street.

- “pang—.1 LARGE rwonoass WAGON, for

e cheap. AlIso onodrair

ter'gi—mm two hundred Quart Mineral We-
t.'," ties, suitable for bottling elder. hm”, to
A. BECKWITR, at Whimsy S Beckwith

tograph Gallery.

111 the Robots courtjbr the District «IN
1111 application of ANDREW J. CROSSMAN.
T of the town of Norwalk, in said udistrict, re t-
full showoth.x That he is iswﬁiG “in.
armalo,M aryFranece Pamela, and Clarence
Ed Parmele. minors, belonging to said district,
that said minors are the owners ofthe following
rehl estate, via :—one tract or piece of land lying in
said town of Norwalka in quantity one read more or
loss. with thereon standing and
bounded northerly Iby soih'mo called Van knot
avenue, caster O. Heeésrksonth-
by land 0 the wife of rsl Georgeo eel er,
:25 westerly b land of the wife of Cornelius Voor-
hle- said see are the late homestead of Alfred

e e,de eased.

B 31'; “he further says, that the estate is at pm:
unproductive; that the avails thereof are wanted 1,,
the support, maintenance and education of said Mt-
non and: list it will be for the advantage of gum mi-
nors to sell the same and invest the avails m.,-eon”,
ding to law' . 'wheroforeh sayethat there is Just and
reasonable cause for sailing“ the name. He 111-"ton
the Court to order said Heel Rotate to be sold

an manpower him orsomo othermoet ntorell

the same pursue: its the Statute, in an

"“mswr.lcaos_s11m, Guardian.
n-ma 11.111111111111111 o.

Distrrct NW3.“ WMM Dee.10,1670
Orange—That the foregoing application be heard
anddetermined at the Probate Oﬂeo inN Norwalk.
on the ﬁlth do of Februa ry. ry1871, at nine o’clock
ibrcnoon: andy that notice thereof be published in
sonic public “wagers" neer the place where such
reeleetste lies, t a weeks successively, at least

ro said times
six weeks ebero GEORGE A.

Pho-
M48

DANENPOBT. J edge.

Norms “M. 1.11.011»: Dre.16,1670.

THOMAS TOBILL, an insolvent

sadism. has 223*" We
e o

The Trustee of said estate preys the appointment

of Commissioners thereo
_. hat Commissioners toceceive, exam-
1.1.1.1?53'11113111101 the claims of the creditors of
sold estate be appointed at the Probate one. in
Nomglk,on nthe 81st day of December 1070. at nine
o'clock in the forenoon: ofwhich all persons in in-
terest will take notice and ap prawn,“ if they see
“use, and be heard thereon,” Trustee will
give public notice therech ostin a copy of this
order on the public sign post 11 cal Nalorw alk near-
«ms... is: same-assess

u o
1.13:1!“ eld countgyl,’ at least twelve days before said

50%.,” “DEWEI Is. navasron'r. 111m

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