Norvv'alk Gazette.
mesa... November 26th, 1878.
Tho Cooley I nquest.
Bf MAX ADEIE .'.
This rambling narrative would not deserve
to be received as a faithful record of events
that have occurred in our neighborhood if it
should fail to include an account of- thc cx-
tracrdinpry circumstances attending what is
known here as “The Great. Cooley Inquest."
The story of that remarkable business must
he given even if it shall be introduced with
abruptness. .
My neighbor, William Cooley, had a
brother named Thomas, who lived at a place
(‘tlllctl Vandyk‘e, in New Castle county.
Thomas Cooley was in some respects a most
remarkable man. He was gifted with genius,
but it was genius of an impracticable kind.
Ile Wits an inventoc. and during the later
yen-s of his life he devoted all his time to
the work of constructing surprising machines
which would never do anything when they
were constructed.
Down at the Patent Ofllce they got so at
last that when a new model and specifica-
tions would come alongr from Cooley, the
commissioner and clerks would grant him a
patent on the spot, for they knew, from a
rich and generous experience, that when
Cooley invented anything it- was perfectly
certain to be unlike any other contrivance
ever conveivcd by the mind of fallen nlhu;
and they were aware, at any rate, that no-
body who we sane enough to be at large
would ever want to interfere with Cooley’s
exclusive right to pin together such a bewil—
dering and useless lot of cranks and axles
and wheels. I- think Cooley had about two
hundred patents of- various kinds; and be-
:ides the machines and dodges thus protected
by the law, he owned scores of others never
lllard of in Washington or anywhere else
but at Cooley’s home.
Cooley had a kind of a “den" of his own
in the garrct. He used to shut himself up
in this for hours together while he perfected
his inventions or conducted his chemical in—
vestigations. His lasr idea was that he eculd
put together a compound which would rule
gunpowder out of the market, and make the
destruction of armies and navies compara-
tively easy. And so, for a time, Mrs.- Cooley,
while bustling about in the vicinity of the
V den, instead of hearing the buzz and hum of
wheels and the click of the hammer, would
sniff terrific smells, evolved by the irrepres-
sible Cooley from the contents of his labora-
tory. And one day there came a fearful ex- .
plosion. The roof was torn off and reduced
to splinters, and Thomas Cooley had disap-
peared. . ~
Vandyke, as I have said, is in New Castle
county, Delaware, but it is also close to the
boundary line between Delaware and the
counties of Cecil and Kent, in Maryland.
And so it was not surprising when, a few
minutes after the explosion, persons in all
three of the counties perceived fragments of
a demoralized and disintegrated human being
tumbling from the air. The pieces of the
unhappy victim of the disaster—were uneven-
ly distributed between-New Castle, Cecil and
Kent. The first namedgotutwelvc of the
fragments. There werepe'rsoni who thought
Cooley might have shown- even greater par-
tinlity for his own county,~jbut:l do not blame
him; he was ,ina measurecoutrolled by cir-
cumstances. . . 33;. ,; .
I think the blended .the.coroner complain-
ed with bitterness. -Hc, was an enthusiastic
coroner. He had been .knoWn, when one of
Dr. Tobias J ones’s returned fromEgypt with
a mummy embalmed‘ffifteen‘hundred years,
before the Christian. er'a', toseize that ancient
subject of Pharaohand summon-a jury, and
sit upon it, and brood fiver-itaaud' think.
And it is rumored ' that-he-put-ithat .‘juryinp
to bringing in a verdict, .‘-‘T-hé.--dcath of the
desceased ensued’from'cahse or causes un-
known, at the hands .of persons also un-
known.” His enemies at the next election
openly asserted that he had ' charged the
county with the usual fee. with compound
interest from the time of Moses.
So of course when Thomas Cooley went
up he wasn‘t sorry; and the more Cooley
was scattered over New Castle county, the
more serene and affable the coroner felt,
When he had Selected his jury and looked
around him a little in order to command the
situation, he perceived" that Cooley had put
into his hands a tolerably good thing. The
corner spent the next three days holding an
inquest uppon each of the twelve fragments
of the deceased. He cinpaneled a new jury
every time, and then proceeded cautiously
and deliberately in each case.
There was by no means complete unanimi-
ty of opinion. The first jury decided that
“the deceased met his death by being struck
by something sudden." The second one ad-
vanced the theory that “Thomas Cooley was
surreptitiously and insiduously blowed apart"
"he others threw out suggestions respecting.
the probability that the trouble came from
( Ioolcy’s well-known weakness for flying ma-
chines, or from his being lifted out and
cut up by some kind of a hurricane.
Once the jury decided not to bring in a ver
diet, but merely to pass resolutions _of regret.
And the coroner would sit there over the
particular piece of Cooley in question, and
smile and permit these manifestations of gen.
erous feeling to have full play. It didn’t
perplex him that all the verdicts differed.
“Truth,“ he remarked-to. a friend, is well
‘encngh.v’But as- Cooley is certainly dead,
what’s the odds if: wccan’t agree as to what
killed him. Let us collect our- te‘es and yield
with Christian, resignation hodcstiny.’f ‘
It was always interesting 10:5 me to hear
that coroner converseénpon-the subject of
resignation. He would rather have died than
to haveresigned while any of the Cooleys
were in town inventing explosive cempounds.
The Cecil county coroner discovered six
pieces of the deceased within his jurisdic—
tion,but his pride would not let him yield the
supremacy in such a matter to his rival over
the line. The New Castle man had twelvc
inquests, and so would he, with more besides.
And his juries used to go out and consult
and come in after awhile with a majority re-
port, declaring, perhaps, that deceased was
killed by fooling with some sort of a gun,
and a minority report insisting that he had
been murdered and dissected by a medical
student or students unknown. '
And then the coroner would disband the
inquest and drum up a fresh jury, which
would also disagrees, until out of those six
fractions of poor old Cooley the coroner got
thirty-seven deliberations, with the attendant
fees. And every time the doctors would
testify that postmortem examinations reveal-
ed thc fact that the inside of the deceased
was crammed with fragments of the Latin
language; and invariably the jurors would
sit there and try to look as if they under-
stood those terms, although a dim impression
prevailed most of the time that the physi-
cians were indulging recklessly in profanity.
And when a relative testified before t
thirty-seventh jury that “Thomas 0001'
was a man of marked idiosyncrasies, and his
brain was always excited by his irresistible
fondness for chimeras of various kinds,” the
jury looked solemn and immediately brought
in a verdict that “death was caused by idio-
syncrasies forming on his brain in conse—
quence of excessive indulgence in chimeras,
thus supplying an awful warning to the
young to refrain from the use of that and
other intoxicating beverages. "
Only two pieces fell in Kent county, but
the coroner was animated by even greater
enthusiasm than his neighbors across the
border. He spent the entire season over as‘
much of Cooley as he could reach. All his
juries but one disagreed, and he had eighty-
four. The sixth would have been unanimous
but for an obstinate man named Scfridgc.
All the others were for a verdict of mysteri-
ous butchery, but Selfridge insisted upon
attributing the disaster to nitroglycerinc.
So earnest was he that he fought over the
subject with a fellow-j uryman named Smith ;
and he held Smith down and remonstratc
with him, and showed him the matter in
different lights, and bit his nose to convince
Smith that tile nitro—glyccrinc hypothesis
was correct. And when the jury was dis-
missed, Sclfridgc, true to his solemn convic-
tions, carried the war into the papers, and
published an obituary poem entitled “A
Monody on the Death of Thomas Cooley,”
in which he presented his views ill this
fashion:
“When Cooley got his glycol-inc all properly
adjusted,
lle knocked it unexpectedly, and suddenly
busted;
And when it reached old Thomas C., be got
up quick and dusted,
And loftllis mic and family disheartened
and dlsgusted.
It was discovered that one of the bones of
the deceased had fallen directly across the
boundary line between Cecil and Kent. As
soon as the fact was reported, the corner of
Kent rallicdajury upon his end; and just
as the proceedings were about to begin, the
Cecil conner arrived with a jury for the pur-
pose of attending to liis share of the work.
While the authorities of Kent mused at one
end of the bone, the jurymcn of Cecil rc-
flectcd at the other end, and the result was
that each brought in an entirely different
verdict. But they were unanimous on the
question of the collection of fees.
In all there were thirteen or fourtccu con-
flicting verdicts rendered, and so some un-
certainty prcvuilcd as to the precise cause of
Coolcy's death. Men’s minds were unsettled
and their conclusions were dcmoralized, in
the presence of so much official authority of
an indecisive killd. But nobody mourned
over these differences. They were a blessing
for the people of the counties. Almost every
man in the neighborhood had had a turn at
Cooley's remains, and some of them had
served on the juries six or seven times. The
farmers all bought new mowing machines
that spring with their fees. The doctors
collected more money for post-mortal); exami.
nations than they would have done in a time
at an epidemic of small-pox and sudden
death. People fixed up their houses and
paid off mortgages and laid in their pork and
started grocery stores and gave hops out of
the profits of Cooley’s explosion. And there
were men who cherished a wished that Coo-
lcy could be put together again and exploded
once a inonth for the next decade. But that
of course was impossible.
One day, when the tide of’ prosperity was
at its height, the widow Cooley perceived a
wagon driving up to her door. The man
within the vehicle dismounted, and unloaded
four pieces of iron pipe sixty feet lone.
Presently another wagon arrived, and this
driver also unloaded the same quantity of
pipe. Then a third driver arrived and did
the same thing. Then a fourth came, and
Mrs. Cooley saw a man in it with a queer
looking object by him. It proved to be
Thomas Cooley himself. Thomas had been
up to the city at a machine shop getting
up a working model of a new kind of a
patent duplex elliptic artesian pump; and
now he was home again. The remains scat-
tered over the counties were—so Cooley said
—merely a lot of beef with which he had
been trying to make a new kind of patent
portable soup and an improved imperishablc
army sausage; and the explosion, he thought,
must have been caused by spontaneous com-
bustion.
Thomas Cooley would have been very.
happy, after all, but for one thing—every-
body outsidc of his own family refused to
recognize him as a living man. If he was
willing to move about in the community in
the character of an unburied corpse, the
people would agree not to inerfere and not
to insist upon his burial‘ but that was as far
as they could go conscientiously. Their
duty to society, their obligations to the law,
compelled them to reject the idea that he
was anything more than inanimate remains.
He was officially dead. The fact had been
declared under oath by hundreds of jurymen,
and it was registered in the records of two
States and three counties. The testimony
was overwhelmingly against him. To admit
that he was still alive would be dangerous, it
would be revolutionary. The foundations of
society would be shaken, the majesty of the
law would suffer insult, the fabric of repub-
lican government would be undermined. If
a being who was legally only a mere cadaver
was to be permitted to strut out into day-
light, and to urge incendiary tlleories'about
the condition of his vital spark, nothing
would be safe; there would be no guarantee
that the cemeteries would not unload. and
that all of the departed would not be crowd-
ing out and wanting to vote. Besides, if it
was admitted that Cooley was yet alive, all
the money that had been earned by the jury-
men, all the fees that had been charged by
the coroners would have to be returned to
the county treasurics. The people were
aghast at the thought. The coroners entered
into a solemn compact to persist in ignoring
Cooley or to regard him merely as an absurd
and very indelicate goblin who had behaved
in a manner wholly unworthy of a ghost with
gentlemanly instincts. They declared pub-
licly that they could not admit. that Cooley
was alive unless there should be a general
resurrection in the States of Delaware and
Maryland, and until that time arrived they
considered that the best thing that Cooley
could do would be to select a 'sepulchre
somewhere and creep into it and behave.
Reading Aloud.
It is strange that in a country whose lan-
guage is stored full of the choicest works of
the human mind, and whose population as a
whole, is so well educated, reading aloud as
asource of amusement and means of enjoy-
ment is so little resorted to, There are
many families—even in book-loving New
England, there are scores of families, we
dare say—where a book or a chapter of a
book, is never read to the family circle
from one end of the year to the other. The
individual members of the family read, but"
all reading done intbe family is shut reading.
Father has his paper. mother her tract, Mary
her novel, Johnny his story of wild adven-
ture. Reading there is, enough of it; but
each one reads for himself. There is no
reading for the whole, and no grouping of
the family into an audience for an evening's
enjoyment, such as comes to people who hear
a good thing well read. ,
Only those who have visited in families
where the gift of reading was cultivated in
a source of family enjoyment, and the cus-
tom of reading aloud to the family prac-
ticed, can imagine what a help and blessing
to the family such a habit is. Music is well
enough in its way, but its range of expression
is far narrower than that of reading, and for
that matter for less practical in its adaptation
to the family, Then, too,-singing requires
an instrumental accompaniment, and a piano
costs money and requires too much practice
on the part of the performer to be available
for the many. The art of reading well is
easily acquired and cheaply taught, and the
expressions of literature are abundant and
varied. If sorrow has fallen on the family,
the needed antidote can be found in both
prose and poetry. If fun is called for, then
fun can be had for the asking; for the lan-
guage is so full of humor,_so quaint and
subtle that the bare recital of the authors’
words brings the point out and “sets the table
in a roar.” History, tragedy, comedy, wit,
pathos, sublimity, every spring at which the
human lniud loves to drink can be be opened
and the sweet waters be freely given to every
one.
How cosy those home rcadin gs may be made.
Warmth, light, companionship, culture, hap-
piness are, all included in them. How much
.you are missing if reading is not cultivated
as one of the means of happiness and pleas-
ure in your family circle; for in such an ex-
ercise there is quickcning for the imagination,
appeal to judgment, elevation of feeling, op-
portunity for criticism, which shall teach, the
children more of literature in three hours
than they can learn at school in three weeks.
Next to the impulse of love as a means of
drawing families together, is the influence of
intellectual companionship. Cultivate this,
and see how satisfactory will be the result.—
The Golden Rule.
The Inspection of Steamboats.
Wasnluerox, Nov. 18.——Supervisiug In-
spector-General James A. Dumont reports
that on October 31 the Steamboat Inspection
Service consisted of 109 officers, clerks and
messengers; that 4,137 stcamboats, having a
tonnage of 1,017,432, were inspected during
the year; and that 11,489 0910015 were
licensed. Compared with the previous year,
this is an increase of 2,519 in the tonnage of
vessels, 76 in the number of vessels, and 196
in the number of licensed ofliccrs.
The receipts from inspections of vessels
and the licensing of ofiicers were $272,703,
and the expenditures were $216,249.
The total number of lives lost from various
causes during the fiscal year ended J one 30,
1878, were, from explosions 83, from fire 22,
from collisions 31, from snags, wrecks and
sinking, 104, from accidental drowning 18,
from miscellaneouscasualties 4; total, 212.
The whole number of accidents resulting in
the loss of life was 47. The report says:
“Although the service is yet susceptible of
improvement in that respect. I am proud to
say that so thoroughly have its laws been
administered that in upward of 200,000,000
persons carried on American steamers during
the last year, only one person and one tenth
were lost in each million. I do not hesitate
to assert that travel by steamer under the ex-
isting laws of the United States is safer than
in any other country.” General Dumont
then refers to the various accidents which
have happened during the year, and namcsof
persons killed, etc, and devotes a considera-
ble portion of his report in regard to testing
boiler~iron. He continues:
“It is believed that the efforts now being
made by this office, and supported actively
by manufacturers generally, will introduce
into the market, iron of Americatfimanufac-
ture for marine boiler use, equal if not
superior to that made in any part of the
world. But whatever the qualities of the
iron, the eccentric manner of its wear under
steam is not yet explained. Sonic plates
oxidize as soon as used. Others of identical
texture and position wear for years without
material deterioration, and'others again, after
wearing for several years without apparent
damage, suddenly oxidize and are destroyed
in a few weeks. This last condition was
forcibly illustrated by the steamer Magenta,
which exploded the outer shell of her steam
chimney on March 23, near Sing Sing on the
Hudson. ‘ * * Such disasters can be
averted by frequent and a careful inspection.
There are places, however, in all boilers,
where personal inspection is impossible, and
where the hydrostatic test must be relied
upon. I recommend to all steamboat own-
ers the importance of demanding such tests
frequently, eSpecially when work is resumed
after aperiod of inactivity, for experience
proves tllatboilers deteriorate more rapidly
while idle than while continuously used.
Of the total number of vessels inspected,
260 belong to the Pacific coast, with a ton-
nage of 108,532; 1,820 belong to‘ the Atlantic
coast, with a tonnage 466,757 ; 889 to West-
ern rivers, with a tonnage of 186,932; 857
to the Northern lakes, with a tonnage of 186,-
378; and 311 to the Gulf coast, with a ton-
nage of 68,831.
—-—__-_. “my“. _
Buying Buttons.
now THE PHILADELPHIA YOUNG LADY nonsx‘r
DO IT. '
An extensive dealer in notions, particularly
buttons, on Chestnut street, declared yester-
day that the counter over which the little
articles are sold is the best place in the world
to study some of the inexplicable ways of
the gentler sex. “Though buttons," he said,
“go but a short way toward rendering the
life of a man agreeable, yet to the opposite
sex they seem to be necessary to absolute fe-
licity. If you would learn how they pur-
chase these little articles, step this way.”
Behind a counter were four attendants doing
their utmost to answer a thousand ques.
tions, and wait upon at least a dozen custo-
mers at the same time.
The customers all wanted buttons, all were
in a hurry; not one of them had decided
upon any particular style or pattern or price,
and each and every one expressed a desire to
see the whole stock at once, and wondered
how in the name of goodness they could not
get a dozen buttons without waiting all day:
The way it was done was this :
A lady rushed breathlessly up to the coun-
ter, and, while waiting for the saleswoman,
began to claw over every box within reach,
just to get an idea of the styles. Presently
a young lady snatched an opportunity from a
fat, fussy customer, to ask what she wanted.
“Thank goodness, you have come at last,"
said the purchaser; “I have been standing
here an hour. I am in a very great lulrry.
Please show me some buttons " -
“What style ?” Inquired the attendant.
“Let me see what you have.”
“Oh! this is your whole stock, is it?”
“Goodness gracious! seventy-five styles.”
“No. Those are too large."
“It‘s really too had; those are too small.,’
“Yes; something like that; only more
showy.”
“I_ can’t understand
pleased, too.”
“That’s too high.
a dozen.”
“Why, rcnll y.
before.”
“Well, I never.
small? So I did."
“Yes, but- I want something real showy.”
“You really confuse me with so many
patterns.”
About this time the fat, fussy customer
glared at the salcswomzln, who glided over to
where she.was digging down to the bottom
of a large box. The young lady protested
on her sacred word, for the fourth time, that
she did not know how many buttons were
necessary for the front of a princesse wrap-
per for a young lady of eighteen, very large
for her years.
Customer No. two discovers the absence of
the saleswoman, and ejaculates, “Well, I
never! I wonder when I am to he waited on?
I declare,‘ I will go right out.”
The attendant rushes back,excuscs herself,
and waits for the volley of questions.
“Show me something for a gros grain street
dress."
“0h, goodness, how horrid I”
“They are entirely too common.”
“Haven’t you got something rather sort
0r_ll
"There is something I like in that box.”
“To be sure. The same as I saw. IIow
ugly.” '
“Wh y, in the name of goodness. don’t you
got new styles ?”
“What a poor selection.”
“Rubber buttons, girl? you are mad."
“Oh, I did see these."
. "How much for this style ?"
“Ah, yes. I remember you did say $1 a
dozen."
“I want thcnl for a gros grain street
dress.”
"That is something like it.
large, though.”
"Ail, did I? So I did."
The saleslady again steals over to the fat,
fussy customer, who says she thinks she will
wait until she can find out whether she will
require a dozen or eighteen.
Customer No. 2, with a tinge of aspcrity
in her voice, remarks to the saleswoman,who
has returned:
“Show me thcsc in that upper box.”
"Is that really the style I detestcd ‘r"
“So it is.”
“Oh, my 1”
“How much better they look in the box.”
“Don't they 'r”
“Hum.”
Once more‘rc clawed over the entire
stock, remarking that New York was the
only place to buy buttons, and said it was no
matter, as she only wanted six, and flounccd
out.—-Pht‘hulelphla Record.
it. I'm so easily
The idea! 0110 dollar
S.) you did show me those
Did I say they \VI‘I'C too
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The mining of the iron ore beds at Desert-
ed Villagc in the Adirondacks is to be re-
vived. The ore will be drawn out by teams
to North Creek and then shipped by rail to
Albany. It is said to yield 80 per cent.
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Rails and Tan mlngs,
‘ BRACKETS of all descriptions, and WIN DOW
h RAMES made to order at short notice. INSIDE
TRIMMINGS got out ready to put up, from plans
and specifications. WALNUT and AS“ WAIN-
SCOTING and FLOORING. TURNING of all
descriptlons.
Kindh‘ng Wood Split and ready for are, put
. up in. Barrels.
BURR KNAPP,
33 Foot of Marshal Street, South Norwnlk, Ct
CHILDREN’SSHOES
wear twice as long with either the
’ SILVER
on “A. S. T. CO.”
BLACK TIP,
6.537 UPON THEM.
Wm. 1:. SMITH,
Succcsoor 10:
Will. C. STREET & CO,
Nos, 16 and 18 Water Street,
Offers for sale,
AT BOTTOM PRICES.
citllcr Wholesale or l:etail,a full assortment of
goods embraced under the following denomina-
tions, sllltcd to this market:
HARDWARE,
Carriage Parts, Iron, Agriculé
tural Implements, Doors,
Sash, Blinds, Cut-
, lery,
Mechanics’ Tools, Guns & Pis-
tols, Fertilizers, Painters’
- and Artists’ Colors,
J cwett’s and ‘
0th e r
brands
Whitc- Lead,
Paints, and Lubri-
cating Oils, Valentine’s
Parl'ott’s and other Varnishes.
Norwalk, Sept. 10th, 1878.
A11 010 Established Business
FOR SALE.
THE subscriber wishing to change his business
. \vlll sell-Ills Stock in 'Irade. Tools.Good Will,
and cvcrythlngpcrtaining to the business, which
has been established ‘25 years. Also the property
corner Wall and Mechanic Srccts.
Norwalk, h‘cb. 25111, 18715.
GEO. 1". BELDEN.
GAZETTE CALENDAR FOR 1373. '
CONVEYANCES
-_. w u t; u .1 u v 1.2 v v x. \1 ~..- 7..
FREIGHT LINE
1011111 100117 1011
x; w .1 ~./ \. war 1/1
. .
Whete’s Propellers
Will continue to make regular trips between Nor-
walk Bridge and New York,(lccpermltting,]stop-
ping at So. Norwalk to receive amt leave freight.
Freight received from amt dellvered at the freight
dcpotof the llanbury and Nor-walk Railroad.
l’roducc sold as heretofore. Freight at usual
rates.
33“ All persons are forbid trusting any of the
employees of'tllc boats of this line on account of
the owners thereof.
DANBURY A: NOR‘VALR IL]!
FA L I. A R R_A N C EM E N‘T.
Commencing Oct., 7th,1873.
DAILY TRAINS
Leachm-walk Bridge for Danbm‘y.
At!) 30, :1. 1n. 4 30 p.m., (3 zip. m.
The 9 30 3.111., and 4 30 p. m., connecting with
the Sllcpaug R. R. for thclilicld, Also on Sat-
urday the t; 21 p.111. .
LeaveNorwalerridgc forSouthNorwalk.
At 7 33,11. 111., 2 08 p. 111., 5 51 11.n1.,9 (10, p.111.
Making close connection wltll trains East and
Weston N. Y.,'N. 11.. .17 11.,R.R.
Lcat‘cDan-Tlry/orNorwalk.
635, a.m., 1 00p. m.; 4 57,p.m.
Froight’l‘rain 111610 p. m.
L . V.SANDIFORTII, Supt,
JANUARY. FEBRUARY. MARCH.
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2723293031.”.-. 24252627 232930 293031 “...;ng
I N K i
- A Bottle of tlle
Best Black or Violet Ink,
non 5 CENTS. .
Also. the trade supplied Reasonablcllatcs, t
11.11.12 0.3. I’rowitt’s Drug Store.
OLIAILIIESS‘IS IEXT TII EIIDLIHESS."
G. A. FRANKE’
81111111 and Hair 01101118010011!
' FOR .1
Pleasant. Shave,
Artlstlc Hair Cut, or
Thorough Shampoo
CALL all
Mr. Franke’s Hair Cutting Saloon,
No. l GAZETTE BUILDING. .
H‘Partionlarattention given toLadics and Child-
ren’s Ilair Cutting and Shampoonlngfu
AT HOME T0 EVERYBODY.
Hot and ColdWater Baths
Till villi
11111111
FOR’SALE ALSO,
Patent Alarm M01111 Drawers,
Coffee Mi ls, Spice Mills, and Store
Fixtures Generally,
The IlllproVed Type Writer.
Oscillating Pump Co’s Pumps
SEND FOHEBCIILAHS.
FAIRBANKS (Q3 00.,
31 1 Broadway, New York.
For Sale by leading Hardware Dealers
HONEY 0P HOREHUUND AND Till
FOR THE CURE OF
Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Hoarseness, Difficult
Breathing, and all Afl‘ections of the Throat,
Bronchial Tubes, and Lungs, leading
to Consumption.
This infallible remedy is composed of the
HONEY of the plant Horehonnd, in chemical
union with TAR-BALM, extracted from 'the
LIFE PRINCIPLE of the forest tree ABEIS
BALSAMEA, or Balm of Gilead.
The Honey of Horehound SOOTHES AND
scarrens all irritations and inflammations, and '
the Tar-balm CLEANSES AND nears the throat
and air passages leading to the lungs. FIVE
additional ingredients keep the organs cool,
moist, and in healthful action. Let no pre-
judice kee you from trying this great medi-
cine of' a anions "doctor who has saved thou-
sands of lives by it in his large private practice.
NfiB.—The Tar-Balm has no BAD TASTE or
sme .
PRICES so CENTS AND $1 PER BOTTLE.
Great saving to buy large size.
“ Pike‘s Toothache Drops ” Cure
in 1 Minute.
Sold by all Druggists.
6.11. 01117113171011, Prop,
Wagons for Sale.
I New Lumber Box Wa on.
I good second-hand Buslncss Wagon.
2 second-hand Business Wagons.
Apply to MULLINGS BROTHERS,
South Norwalk,€onn.
GET THE BEST.
Webster’s Unabridged.
3000 Engrnvlngs; 1 840 Pages Quarto.
FOUR PAGES COLORED PLATES.
Published by G. s; C. Mon-lam, Springfield,
Mass.
Warmly indorsed by
Bancroft, Prescott.
Motley, George I’. Marsh,
John G. Whittier,
Jolln G. Saxc,
Daniel Webster,
Fitz-Greene lIullcolr,
N. 1’. Willie.
Elihu Iturritt,
Rufus Choatc, II. Coleridge,
Smart, Horace Mann,
More than fifty College Presidents,
And the best American and European Scholars.
ebster “is the Dictionary used in the Govern-
ment I'rintinrv Office.” August 1877.
Every School and I‘amily should have it for con
stant use and reference.
est FAMILY help in training children to become
intelllgent men and women. '
evcral years later, and has one-fifth more mat-
ter. tllun_any other Dictionary.
hc_authorlzed authority In Courts of Justice.
for the meaning of words. -
EtymOIOglcs and definitions far in advance of
any other Dictionary.
Recommended by U. :5. Chief Justice Waite, as
“the lllghcst authority for dc llnitions.”
THE 13123113
ForSchema—recommended by State Supt’s of
3 a; dinercntStates and by 50 College Prcs’ts.
bout 32,000 have been placed in Public
Schools by law or by School Ofllecrs.
ontalna 3000 Illustrations, nearly three times
as many as an y other Dictionary. .
Three pictures of a ship, on page 1751,1llustratc
the meaning of more than 100 words.
Sale of Webster is 20 tinles as great as that of‘
any other series of Dictionaries
ALSO
Webster’s N at’l Pictorial Dictionary
1040 Pages Octavo. 600 Engravlngs.
is it notriglltly claimed that WEBSTER is
THE NATIONAL STANDARD.
JOHN E. SMITH,
F L O R I S T ,
EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET, SOUTH
OF RAILROAD,
City 01‘ South Norwalk, Conn.
Plants and Flowers at all seasons.
Flowers for Funerals furnished and
tastefully arranged to order at short
notice.
8011111111 and Merchandise Tats,
Printed ror Plain
By the Dozen or Thousand, at Manufacturers
Prices, at the
GAZETTE OFFICE.
WATCHES.
A. C. BENEDICT & 00.,
No. 28 Bowery, N. Y.
Between Chatham Square and Canal Street Sta-
‘ ticns‘ N. Y.:Elevntcd Railroad.
ESTABLISHED SIXTY YEARS.
Offer a large assortment of” Foumox &._ AMERICAN
. .
Watches in Gold and Sliver Cases,
6010 611111;, 1111111111, erratum sum 'Alul
SILVER PLATLII WARE, EIG.,'
At extremely low prices. All goods marked in
plain figures, and warranted as represented.
Watches carefully repaired by the best workmen.
We have no connection with any other house
bearing the name 01' Benedict.
A. C. BENEDICT: WM. S. Tannerm,
ROB’T 8.1611110 usox. Uni-25
Bank and Job
Printing
CHEAPER THAN EVER,
AT Tuna)
GAZETTE OFFICE.
A] )VEN’I‘ OF THE
Sewing Machine
W0 N D E R
DON’T FAIL TO SEE THIS
Monarch Mariel of Perfection!
THE NEW
Vertical Feed Sewing Machine,
Manufactured at Water-town, N . 1'. Ever 'body
especially ladies, are cordiallyinvitcd to call and
inspect the New Machine, and see samples of work.
More beautiful anddesirublc than ever before ac-
complished, and utterly impossible for any other
Machlne to duplicate. The Vertical Feed is the
hinge upon which swings this unparalleled suc:
cess, combining entirely new features, which make
the machine the most snnply constructed; the
most easdy operated; the most durable; and most
reliable, doing away with all fits, spoils and bust.
ing. Though the new machine.
POSITIVELY LEADS THE WORLD,
and no living person would purchase any other
after seeing it, yet It will be soldut the recent
popularly .
Reduced Scale of Prices.
All come and inspect its merits.
R. I. TOLLES, Agent.
Principal oflice at 11. S. Rood’s Jewelry Store
South Norwalk. Machines and sample to be seen
at Harlem’s Clothing Store, Norwalk.
Spectacleslo suitallkinlls'ulfves
. AGENT son
LAZARUS Gt MORRIS’S
CELEBBATED PEBFECTED
SPECTACL‘ES & EYE GLASSES.
Also, a large assormcntofGENUINE PARA-
BOLD or I’ERBLE SI’ECTACLES the only kind
ever y'et produced that do not tlrcthc eye.that
gives a clear and distinct vision, and makes weak
eyes strong. Warranted for five years without
of‘lense. Special attention given to tittingncar
sightcdpeoplc . A largcassortmento f
OPERA and FIELD GLASSES
AT
Wood’s Jewelry Store
UNDER THE OPERA HOUSE .
. 52175111112311,“
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11131221100 .
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PREPARED FOR IMMEDIATE use.
207 PEARL ST., NEW YORK.
From the thousands of purchasers of our PRE-
PARED PAINTS, we have yet to hear the first
Complulnt. The reason is apparent. Our points
have stood the test of years, wll re all other
pamts havefazletlin durability. Tlgleir covering
capaclty, being greater than any other paint. pre—
sents a practical item ofeconomy. Our paints are
guaranteed in every particular.— the consumer
assuming no risk whatever, as we will rel—paint
any building on which our paints do not prove
satlstactory; allowinga choice of English B. B.
White Lead, or any other paint in use. For sale
by W.C. STREET & 00.. Norwnlk. L’Itf
Bfllheads
allsizesandstylesc'anbenada tthe
Gazette Job Print in: c Oflicc.
MACHINISTS .333“ it?“
GAZETTE OFFICE.
IEVII ORLIEW HAVEH ltlIAIlTFIIRD RAILROAD
'I‘rainslcavc South Norwalk for .Ncw_ York at
125,(\l':l.shin;:tonExp.,via. IIarlcm Rive-11.347.
(mm, 4 32, (I‘pr.) 6 00.7 6 343 7 34, 7 45*, (Exp.)
9 26,‘= 1036, (Exp.) A. M., 123*, 256,* (11‘pr 41 30,
(Exp.)5 03,6 24,.Exp.)6 55.905,(Exp.)1’.l\l,lv'or New
IIaven, l 93, (Exp) 6 49, 9 01, 9 28,(Exp.)10 48, A.
51., 1211,(Exp.)1 45, 213,(l~;xp.)404, 413,00pr
6,11, 616, 10 36, (Exp.)& 1125,(Exp.)1’.M. Ivor
Shringficltlfi 49 9 ~28,(Exp.) A. 111., I2 Il,(Exp.)
l 45, 4 18, (Exp) ti 46 10 36. (Exp) 1’. M. Express
for Boston, via. Springfield, 9 28, A. M., l‘.’ 11, 4 18,
and 10 36, I’. M.,via. New London : 2 18 and 11 25,
P. 11.. via. AirLinc R.R.,1 33, A.l\I., audit 18,2.M.
l ‘Conlncctuthw Rochelle with Harlem Itlver
lranc l.
Norwalkflnlse HailwayTinleTallle.
COMMENCING NOVEMBER IS'l‘ll, 1878.
LEAVE Nonwxur. So. N onwann'
615 a.m.N.Y.&N.II.Accom. 535A'M.
6 35 .. 656 “
705 “ New York Accommo’n 7 '25 “
725 “ N.Y.Exprcss. 745 "
8 03 “ 8 21) ‘ ‘
8 40 ‘ ‘ New Haven Actiom'n 9 02 “
902 “ N.Y.Ac.&N.u.Ex. 923 “
923 “ 9 50 “
950 " 1010
10 10 ‘ ‘ New York Express 1038 ‘ '
1028 M New Ilavcn Acccm. 10 48 H
10 as H 1120 n
1120 " 140 fi
11 50 ‘ I New HavehExprcss 1210 p .n.
123011.111” _ 255
1255 H New York Accommc’n I 25 I '
125 “ New Haven Accom’n l 45
1 55 “ N . ll. Express. 2 20
230 “ New YorkExprcss 256 '
256 n 3 20 u
320 “ - 340 “
3 40 “ New Haven Accom. 4 10 H
4 00 “ New Haven Express 4 ‘20 u
4 10 “ New York Express 4 30 ‘ '
440 “ N.Y.Accommodatim. 503 «I
5 03 e 5 22 c,
522 “ 54o ,
5 50 “ N. II.Accom’n 610 . ‘
b 00 “ New York Express 6 ‘28 I‘
1.28 " N. 11.2 N.l1.Accom 648 "
63s “ 656 .6
7‘06 “ 725: s
7 25 “ 7 45 I l
7 55 “ 3 15 u
825 ‘fi 845 u
845 “ New York Expres 9 05 u
9 0;") “ 9 25 u
9 35 “ 9 {,5 u
9 55 “ Smut-day nights only, 10 1:, u
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
- Meeker’s '
NORWALK PACKET.
For the accommodation of the public, the sloop
LADI JACKSON, Capt.Joseph S.Ilyxbee, will
hereafter make regular weekly trips between Nor-
walk and New York. leaving Meeker B hers’
Wharf, Norwalk, every Saturday nig Ro-
turnlnglcavc Pier 41 E.R..cvcry Wednesday morn-
lng. Freight token 011 board in New York on
Tuesdays and Wednesdays. .
I’roducc. sold and returns n1 ado in old packet
style. Frelgllt at old Ifackct rates. Farmers in
adjoming towns are 1nv11cd to semi their produce
by this Boat. A. J.MEEKER & BRO
Norwalk, May 61h, 1878. 19
PENNSYLVANIA
RAIL—ROAD.
GREAT THROUGH LINE
AND
UNITED STATES IVIAIL ROUTE
The attention of the traveling public is respect-
fully invitcd to some of the nlcrlts of this great
highway, in the confitlcntusscrtion and belief that
no other line can ofl’crcqual inducements as a
route of travel. In -
.o .
Construction and Equipment
TIIE
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
ways. The track IS double the entire length ofthe
line,of’stccl rails laid on heavy oak tics,wh1ch are
embedded in a. foundation of rockballast eighteen
inches in depth. All bridges are of iron or stone,
and bullt upon the most approved plans. Its pas-
senger cars, while eminently safe and substantial.
are at the same time models of comfort anti cic-
gancc.
The Safety Appliances
in use on this line well illustratp the fabsceing
and liberal policy of its management, in accord-
ance with which the utility only of an improve-
ment and not its cost. has been the Question of con-
sideration, Among many may be noticed
TH E BL 00K ‘8 YS TEJI 0F SIGIVALS,
JANNE Y 00 UPL F’R, B UFFER AND
PLA TFORIII,
TIIE' IVHAR TON PA TENT S WI TC'H ,
AND
THE WESTINGHO USE AIR-BRAKE,
forming in conjunction with a perfect double
track and road-bed :1. combination of safeguards
against accidents which have rendered them
practically impossible.
Pullman Palace Cars
Are run on all Express Trains
From New York, Philadelphia, Balti-
Inore and ‘Vushlngton,
To Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville,1n-
dlanupolls, and St. Louis,
Without Change,
and to all prlncipal points in the for West and
South with but one change of cars. Connections
are made in Union Depots, and are assured to all
important points.
THE SCENERY
Of the Pennsylvania Route
is admitted to be unsurpassed in the world for
grandeur._hcauty and variety. Superior refresh-
ment facilities are provided. Employees are
courteous and attentive. and it is an inevitable
result that a trip by the Pennsylvania Railroad
must form
A PLEASIIG Allll MEMORABLE EXPERIEHGE.
Tickets for sale at the-lowest rates at the Ticket
Olliccs of the Company in all the principal Cities
. and Towns.
FRANK THOMSON, L. P. FARMER,
Generalitlanagei‘, Gen. Passenger Agl.
C. S. IIALDEMAN, New England Agent,
103 and 205 Washington St., Boston, Mass.
FARMS—0MB!
Over 1,000,000 Acres for Sale by the.
IVINONA & ST. PETER R.R. CO.
At from $2 to $6 per Acre, and on liberal terms.
These lands lie in the great Wheat belt of the
North-west, and are equally well adapted to the
growth of other grain, vegetables, etc. The
climate is unsurpassed for healthfulncss.
THEY ARE FREE FROM INCUMBRANCE.
Purchasers of‘ 160 acres will be al-
loWed. the FULL amount of their fare
over the C. 6:. N. W. and W. A: St. 1’.
Railways.
Circulars, Maps. etc.. containing FULL IN-
FORMATION sent FREE.
1!. M. Burclmrd, Chas. E. Simmons.
Land Agent. Land Commissioner,
111111511113“ Gen‘l Oflices C. .b N.-W.
erx. R‘y Co., CHICAGO, ILLs.
,_ Free Reading Room.
F 111151sacomfortublc room fitted up for the
benefit ol’tllepubllc generally, situated on
east side of South Main Street. over Rood’s Jew-
elry Store, Clark and Lane’s Block. nearly oppo-
site Railroad Depot, South Norwalk, Ct. 11 is
open from 9 a. 111., to 991511.111. The room is well
lighted, warm and comfortable. It is supplied
with four dailies, two \vecklics. and Several
monthly papers and journals. beside a number
of instructive and interesting books.
COFFEE ROOM.
There is a Coffee Room on the same floor and a
lady in attendance from 9 a. 111., to 9:45 p. 111., to
serve ROME MADE articles mentioned below,
at the followmg prices:
1 Cup ot‘Coll‘ec, with crackers, -
1 Cup of Tea, with crackers. -
gown,P - I - B - -
rown meat and off - -
Sandwich. - - or, - -
Cake, - - - - -
Doughnuts, - - - -
Piece ofl‘ic, - - - -
Crullcrs, - - - - 5
Hum, - - - ‘1"
Pork and Beans, wrth bread and butter. 10
Stewed Oysters, - ~ ' 15
Old Pictures to Copy.
HE Agent is a success. The copicsarc coming
in fast. The greatest cure taken of originals
and returned with the pleturcs. Give him your
old Daguerrotypcs, Tintypes,or Card Pictures, and
get something to hang on the wall.
E. T._WIIITNEY.
5 cents
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Notice.
11E BOARD OF REGISTRATION 01' the
_ Borough of Norwalk, will hold a. while ses-
sion on W cdncstlay next. preceding 1 c Annual
Election of the Borough, on the first Monday of
December, next, to \VII. i—On the 27th day of No-
vember, between the hours of' 2 and 6 p.m., at the
Savmgs Bank Building, Room No. 1; and stfid
Board Wlll contlnuc such session from day to day
111111] a reasonable opportunity has been afforded
lor the correction 01' the Voting List of said Bor-
Olll-ill. by adding thereto or erasing therefrom the
names of all persons whose applications have
been filed with the Borough Clerk, up to 3 o’clock
p, moot the Monday next preceding said Annual
blcctlon. GEORGE N. ELLS, ‘ Board
J‘ACOB TURN,
‘ILZRA II.1’ARI§EB,
Norwalk, Nov. lltll, lSi‘tl.
Notice.
I 111E following vote was passed by the Court of
liurgcsscsu of the Borough of Norwalk, on
the lst day of November, inst., dcsignatin‘r the
place of votlug at the annual election of lofough
Ofliizers to be held on the first Monday of Decem-
I)” 1,1892“, to \vlt., on the 211 day of December, A.
., 1 .
VOTED.—Tllat the Town Hall, (IImlsc,) be and
the same is hereby designated by this Court as
the place of votlng at the annual election of of—
ficers of the Borough, to be held on the first Mon-
day of Dcccmbcr, lb‘78,_and the Clerk of this Court
is hereby directed to glvc notice thereof accord-
ing to law.
Attest: JOSEPH F. FOOTE.
Clerk of Court of‘Burgcsses.
Borough ol'Norwalk, Nov, 11th, 1878. tit-16
Bankrupt Notice.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT of the United
States for the District of Connecticut:
In the matter 01' CHARLES S. DANN, of New
Canaan. in said District.
ruptcy, bcforc lion. L. N. Mrnbmmnoox, chis-
tcr in Bankruptcy.
To whom it may concern:—Tllc undersigned
hereby gives notice of" his appointment as Assig-
uec of the Estate of Charles S. Dunn, of New
Canaan, in the County of Fairficld and State 1
Connecticut, within said District, who has 11031
udjudfrcd a Bankrupt uponlllsown petition, by
tho Ulstrict Court of said Illstrlct.
Dated at Norwalk, in said Distrlct.tl1c Iellldfly
of November, A. 1)., 1878. .
ALFRED E. AUSTIN, Assilgucc.
; of
Registration.
.3th
Tlll-l FAIRFIIZLD F1111: INSURANCE Conn-.11. r,
rs.
J011NII.I(1D_NI:1‘ AND OTHERS.
Superior Court Fairfield County,
‘ ‘ ‘ - Scutcmbcr Term, 1878.
In'l 1'1 101‘. returnable to the Superior Court, at
stands confessedlyat thchead of American rail-'
' lts tcrln'begun at Danbury In and for the
bounty of Italrh‘eld, on the third Tuesday of Sol)-
tcmbc‘r, A. D., 113.70, to wit :—'l‘o said Court on the
first Iucsday of December, 1878, praying for it
foreclosure of mortgage on certain premises situ-
ated in the town of Norwalk, in said Fairficld
County. bounded northerly by land of Francis
Loylston, easterly by land of L. 11. Moore, south-
crlyby land of Ilczckiah Raymond, and westerly
by highway called Low Street.
01tDEIlI§D,Th11hIllc retitioncrs give notice of
the pending of said petition to the representatives
and creditors of Nancy J. liidncy.dcccascd, ate
of sold Norwalk. by causing a true and attested
copy_ot‘ this order to bcpublishcd in the Non-
wau (:Azn'r'l‘n, a weekly newspaper printed in
said N orwalk, at least twice before the ll‘lth day of
NovcnlbchSTS. By the Court,
. 11'. T. BLAIiE,Clcrk.
The above and foregomg is a true copy of the
orlglnul ordcrol notice. Attcst
2t17 CHARLES ADAMS, Deputy Sllcrlfl.
TIIR NORWALK SAVINGS SOCIETY,}
rs.
ROBERT Snll'sox AND OTHERS,
Il‘ulrlieltlsCountji'JSu’pi‘erior Court,
‘eptem cr crm. 1878.
PETITION returnable to the Suporior Court,
1n and for the County of Fairfield, at its Sep-
tember lc_rm, A. Dr, 1878. To wit: z—on the-first
'I‘ues«.ay cl December, 1878. praying for a fore-
closure of two certain mortgages on that certain
tract of land, Wlth the buildings thereon. situated
1n the town ot‘Norwalk, and County of Falrfieltl,
and bounded northerly by highway, easterly by
highway known as‘ Riverside Avenue, southerly
by land of A. I. Bylngton and Wife. and westerlv
by lllghwayknown as Spring Hill Road. '
Upon thclorcgomg described petition it is or-
dered that the petitioners give notice of the pen-
dcncy thereof to the widow. heirs, credito ,and
representatives 01' Marvin N. Rogers, deceased,
late .of the City, County and State of New York,
by causing this order to be published twiccbefore
the 21111 May of Novernber,lS’iS,in the Nomvami
GAZla'r'l‘i-z, a weekly newspaper printed in said
Town al'Norwalk. , By the Court,
11. T. BLAKE, Clerk.
The above and foregoing is a true copy of the
original Order ofNoticc.
Attcst, CIIAR LES ADAMS,
2t” Deputy Sheriff.
ISTRIC’I‘ OF NORWALK,ss.,I’robutc Court,
‘ November 16th, 1875.
Estate of MARGARET MURRAY, late of Nor-
walk, in said district, deceased.
The Court of‘ Probate for the DistrictofNor-
walk,hath limited and allowed six monthst‘rom
the date- hereof, for the creditors of said estate,
to exhlbltthclrclaimsf'orscttlcmcnt. Thoscwho
neglecttopresentthcirnccountspropcrly attested
wrthln sald_tlme,wlll bc dcbarrcd a recovery.
All persons indebted to said cstatcarcrcquestcd
to make immediate payment to
3th DAVID WORKMAN, Executor.
DISTRICT OF BEDDING, ss., Probate Court
November 5th, A. I).,1878.
. Estate. of ELLEN WAKEMANdatc of'Redding,
in said dlstrict, deceased. .
The court of Probate for the District of Reading
hath llmllzcd anti allowed six months from the
date hex-cot for the Creditors of said Estate to ex-
hlblt thelr claims for settlement. Those who neg-
lect to present'thClr accounts. properly attested,
w1thln Salli. time, will be dobarrcd a recovery.
All persons indebted to said Estate are requested
to make Immediate payment to
3tp}6 DAVID E. SMITH, Executor,
Agents Wanted for
LargeTypeJIIustra’d ABBHTT’S
. NEW TESTAMENT,
With Explanation Notes. Containing, also, Bio-
graphy, Analysis. History, Harmony, and Tables.
tamcut made. Sells grandly. Price 52. Big terms
to agents. Address 11. S. GOODSI’EED & 00.,
New York or Cincinnati. ‘ 6m37
Carriage Painting!
111‘: subscriber, a practical and experienced
workman, has taken rooms over NELSON’S
JARRIAIZEE SIIOI’. near foot of Mill Ilill, where
he is prepared to
Pant Coaches, Carrages or Wagons
at short noticc,in the best manner, and at Rea-
sonable I’riccs. English or Valentine’s Varnish
used, according to dcsn‘c of parties having work
done. Special attention paid to
Rte-hinting Children’s Carriages,
and to Plain and Fancy Letterlllg. Asllareo
public patronage solicited.
R. F. VJHITCOIIIB.
N orwall:, April 15111, 1578. 16
A T
Quintard’s Furniture Rooms
\vill befounda. complctcassortmentof
FURNITURE, 3.0.,
establishment, at Prices to suit the Tlmcs . Also,
alargeassortmcntof -
CHROMOS, PICTURE FRAMES,
mooning. GLASSES, kc.
Glassl’latcs cuttoanysize. Repairingdcnein the
best mannenat short notice. Also. old IlairMat-
trassesmadeovcr as good as new.
E. OUINTARD’S SON.
Pmmiture -Fm~nit7n'c
Parlor, library, Billing and Sitting
Room Sets,
Walnut or Cottage Cllmnber Sets,
or anything in the Furniture I.ine,ofthc Latest
Stylc,licst Finish and Make andfor the
Least Money, go to
WM. LOCKWOOD’S,
No. 35313111 Street, NORWHTLK, CONN.
Also,
General Furnishm g Undertaker.
Orders attended to promptly day or night. Rcsi
deuce with Mr. C. T. Cornwall, France St.
0. T. 110311311101 Sell,
COAL, WOOD,
Illasmts’ Jlfatci'lials,
o E 111E N T P I]? E
For Drains, Sewers, \1‘ oils, 850.,
At Lowest Cash Prices.
Drains and Wells Dug and Piped.
Also Sole Agent for
Patent Tinder Wood,
The Cheapest and Best Kiiidling out. Try it.
:21- Branch Ollicc at Spencer‘s Jewelry Store-
J 07373 A . Ifomwcleer,
B A KE R,
room our 3111.]. IHLL.
Bread,Rolls .Ples, Cal:cs,Crullcrs, Sic-halted
fresh everyday. Everythlng made out of good
matcrialsmnd L-yc nrefu land competcntwork men
Try our Baklzr.
V] M. B. SWAN.
Manufacturer of
FINE AND ()OMIVION
HARNESS,
And Dealer in ‘
Horse & Stable Equipments.
Particular attention paid to
REPAIEIING.
Thankful for the liberal patronage of th
the subscriber hopes to merit a continued sfiaggsdi
the balelncssla‘.'ors ol‘llls friends and the public,
. WM. _B. SWAN.
Shop In rear of liesnlenee. Main Street, Norwalk I
Traps.
Next to piracy and fighting the Indiars
there is nothing so dear to the juvenile heart
as traps. From the mouse-trap up to the
elephant pit there is no form of trap of which
the small boy does not read with interest
and with a desire to practically test its effi-
CICDCY- Especially is he fond of those traps
which catch their game alive, and which are '
not limited, as are mouse-traps or rat-traps,
to the capture of one particular class of
animals. The large “figure 4 trap," which.
when properly made, catches so many dif-
ferent kinds of beasts, is immensely popular
in juvenile circles, and there is scarcelya
by living outside of crowded cities who has
11'”; made traps of this particular pattarr,
and set them with more or less success.
One of the leading boys of our country in
this line of industry is Master Samuel
Sloane, of Clinton, Ill. Ile has made traps
withoutnumbergand has caught specimens
of every kind of small game to be found in
the neighborhood of Clinton, including three
babies under two years of age, anti small
pigs and dogs without number. So great is
Bankrupt—in Bank—~
The most convenient, complete and valuable Tes-
ncludingcvcrythingusuallyfound in a. first—class-
his fondness for traps that he neglects his
studies and fails to carry in the wood and
t) go for the cows with anything like regu-
larity.
It was with the view of leading his mind
away from the cxcursive contemplation of
traps that Master Sloanc’s father recently
gave him a book of travels in Central Africa,
and directed him to read it carefully. The
boy did so, but unfortunately the book treat-
ed quite extensively of the Central African
methods of trapping game. Master Sloane
thus learned that when a native King wishes
to capture a young lion 01’ a good-sized ante-
lope he construets a slip-noose of thongs and
attaches it to the top of a stout sapling,
which is bent down and temporarily fastened
to the ground. When theantelope, or other
animal to that effect, tangles his foot in the
noose the sapling is released, sand springing
back to its original position jerks the game
into the air, and keeps it hanging there until
the native King comes along, chops down
the sapling, and knocks the game on the
head. This description was read by Master
Sloane with great admiration. In fact it
was the only part of the book which he did
read. When he told his father that the book
was “just bully” the pleased but deceived
parent fancied that his son's dormant taste
for reading was at last awakened, and con-
gratulated him thereupon. A few weeks
later he had reason'to wish that he had never
heard of Central Africa and that the native
Kings with their diabolical inventions, had
never been born.
Of course, Master Sloane determined to
try the Central Africa trap without delay.
There was a beautiful, shady road near the
village, which was bordered with any quan-
tity of stout saplings. It was just the place
for a Central Africa trap, and Master Sloane
had high hopes that he would succeed in
catching, a cow or a horse, although, of
course, he could not expect anything so com-
pletely satisfactory as a lion, tiger or ante-
lope. Late one afternoon be borrowed a
hoisting tackle from the nearest grocer,
under the pretext that, his father needed it
for some intricateand unintelligible purpose,
and succeeded with its aid in bending down
a sapling of great strength and elasticity.
It was a very simple matter to arrange the
noose and set the trap, after which the in-
genious boy went home to dream of finding
a pair of horses anda carriage swinging in
the air on the following morning. '
Master Sloane had a sister, a young lady
of great worth and of very decided character.
Other girls, who were envious of her beauty.
said she was an ill-tempered, red-haired
thing, but this was probably more calomny.
At all events, so thought the young minister,
who was settled over the Seventeenth Con-
gregational church, and who was generally
believed to be Miss Sloane’s accepted lover.
That he went to see Miss Sloane on the very
evening when the reckless boy set his Cen-
tral Africa trap was not strange, for he usu-
ally spent thrce or four evenings every week
at the Sloane mansion, but it was a coinci-
dence that on that precise evening llcpro-
posed a walk, and led Miss Sloane toward
the identical lane where the trap was waiting
for victims.
How it happened that neither the young
minister nor Miss Sloane noticed the bent
sapling or the rope, no one can understand,
unless they were so deeply engaged in the
discussion of theological questions that they
were oblivious to all earthly things. Still
more difficult in it to comprehend how they
both could have stepped within the noose,
which was spread out in the form of a circle
not more than a foot in diameter. It is pos-
sible, however, that the lady was reading a
hymn book anti that her companion had
approached extremely close to her in order
to sge if the hymn was correctly printed.
However this may be, the fact remains that
Miss Sloanc’s left foot and the minister's
right foot were just within the noose when
the trap sprung, and the elastic sapling sud-
denlyliftcd them twenty feet in'lo the-air,
where they remained hanging like two cher-
ries in a rough storm, and expressing in
lively tones their suspicion that something
unusual had happened.
Half an hour later the Clinton and Holmes-
ville stage passed that way, and the driver
and his passengers were astonished beyond
measure. For some, time it was supposed
that some new and curiously-complicated
animal, Consisting chiefly of zebra and black
panther, was swinging from the top of the
sapling; but just as one of the passengers
was about to fire at it the driver recognized
the minister, though he was not able to
recognize his fellow-prisoner. The lattcr’s
voice was somewhat mufllcd, but she was
distinctly heard to revile the minister, and
to assert that she never would forgive him,
no matter how he might try to excuse him-
self. Six strong men finally bent down the
sapling, released the victims, and with rare
,delicacy assigned the duty of recognizing
Miss Sloane to the two ladies who were in
the stage. Fortunately, neither of Master
Sloane‘s victims were seriously injured, and
they both were able to walk home on oppo~
site sides of the street.
The results of this affair were numerous.
Miss Sloane left town the next day on a
visit to the East, and has not since returned.
The minister was tried for indiscreetly hang-
ing from the tops of trees with young ladies,
and thereby bringing reproach upon his
profession, but was acquitted by a close
vote. As for Master Sloane, it is believed
and hoped that his father has killed him. At
any rate, he has not been seen, and the
rumor that he had been sent to the House of
Refuge in Chicago is not gcnerally believed.
—N. Y. Times.
Breathing Easicr.
In a small settlement on F—Creek, in
Texas, “four small church organizations, of
dilIel-ent names, were worshiping by turns in
the same house, and there was much preju—
dice between them. After a Union Sunday
schdol was formed the people seemed to breathe
male/a” So writes a missionary of the Amer-
ican Sunday School Union. Surely there is
much need of united Christian effort in that
region, of which he says, “The Couch/"jail
holds ten 7717177131273 I” It is encouraging to
know that the new Sunday school enterprise
is rousing much enthusiasm here, where
much lawlessness existed.”
But in that frontier district he pursues his
work under many difficulties and disagree-
ables, such as “bitten by a dog,"—‘ sleeping
in the woods,"——“entertained on buil'alo meat
and corn bread in log cabins without floors,
and organizing Sunday schools in similar
buildings, in one of which an old man had
been killed at a dance recently, and another
wounded,but where now the praises of Jesus
are heard, instead of sounds of revclry and
oaths.”——0hurch Union.
Mr. Springer says that in order to elect
next president the democrats must nominate
a man who can carry Ohio, Indiana and Illi-
nors; and theChicago Times remarks: “As
the democrat isn’t living who can do that,the
thought of electing a democrat president may
‘32 well be abandoned:
Norwalk Chronicler