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Tuesday, August 19th, 1879.
A Board of Trade.
We spoke last week, of the absolute no.
cessity of some early' and thorough improve.
ment in our; road system, if this town 15 to
hold its ownfin the race for prosperity with
the other towns arOund it. But, in addition
to even the“ best road system, there is need
of an increase of public spirit, if anxious to
benefit the town first! and: themselves: af-
terwards, on the part of some of our tax-'
payers and property holders; and unless
some early and radical improvement in this 1
respect appears the first victims will be the
taxpayers themselves, for as property value
in a town decreases the smaller taxpayers are
“frozen out ,” leaving the taxes to be paid by
thoscwhose interests are too large to allow
them to escape.
In every lively, interesting, growing West-
tcrutown, the visitor is at first amused by
hearing of the locrl “Board of Trade,” and
is tempted t) think that such a body is only
another effort of mushroom prairie towns
to ape the customs of Atlantic Cities. But,
if he stays long enough, he will find that
the Board of Trade in one of the most Im—
portant institutions of the place. Composed
of smart, :activc, business men, it is always
on the watch for opportunities of benefit-
ting the town, of bringing new -_manufac—
tures into it, and of helping old ones to tide
over temporary difficulties, knowing that
every increase of the town in wealth, means
a permanent addition to the value of their
own property. If there is any prospect of
gaining a manufacturer from a rival town,
a committee is instantly sent by the “Board
of Trade," to early on the negotiations, to
obtain a proper site for the factory, and to
make it easy for the new enterprise to get
away. If ncccessay, ways are found to
lighten the taxes for the first few years, and
in many Western towns an in-coming mau-
ufacturcr is not expected to pay any taxes
at all for the first five years after his arrival.
If any one endeavors to obtain a selfish ad-
vantage in selling ground for a location he
soon finds that the “Board of Trade,” back-
ed by a keen5wittcd public opinion, can
make his selfishness exceedingly unpleasant
for him. In such ways, and by such assoc-
iations of business men, many little Western
towns have grown into centers of great man-
ufacturing interests.
Our neighboring city of Bridgeport, seems
to have taken a leaf from Western exper-
ience. Its “Board of Trade” is as active
as if its city were but five years old. Every
few weeks we hear of another manufactur-
er who has been induced by the silver-
tongue! eloquence and solid arguments of
the “Board of Trade" to locate in Bridge-
port Among the' last victims to their hon-
eyed words are the Frary Cutlery Company.
who carried to Bridgeport alarge business
from New Britain and has just brought from
England 300 operators, the best skilled
workmen to be had in Shefiield and Birming-
ham, with their families, thus increasing
the wealth and population of that any ma—
terially, and thus. benefitting directly house
owners and store keepers as greatly as their
employers, and well delighting the “Broad of
Trade."
How different it is in Norwalk, our road-
ers well know. The announcement that a
manufacturer thinks of locating here is often
the signal to close up ranks and grind as
much as possible {out of him as a price for
ground. And if any business man, or in-
terest of the town, falls into temporary
straits, our citizens are too prone to look on
with quiet unconcern or with a sort of envious
delight, until an auction rouscs them by a
chance to bid for the relics.
Here is a text for consideration by the
people of Norwalk. H. H. Elwcll, Esq,
of South Forwalk, who did most in building
up the Lock Company of that place, fell
into temporary difiiculties by endorsments
and other unselfish efforts to help his town
and friends. Promptly came an offer from
thegBI-idgeport “Board of Trade," placing at
his disposal ground and a wharf and build-
ings in that city for a manufactory. He
hesitated to accept the offer on account of
want of ready cash capital. He was at once
asked to name the amount he neeeded, and
was informed that he would find it placed
to his credit§at the Pequonnock Bank, newt
morning. The result is another flourishing
factory at Bridgeport, employing already a
large force of hands, and every dollar of
whose profits is just so much taken from the
wealth of the little city of South Norwalk
and our whole town, and added to that of
Bridgeport, to thcjjgreat satisfaction of her
“Board of Trade.”
Business men in Norwalk should remember
that a large number is unnecessary in form-
ing an association of this character. A half
dozen persons who are alive to their own in-
terests may easily form a “Board of Trade,”
Taxpayers Association, Citizens Association,
or whatever name they choose to give it,
and they will find a field waiting for them
which is ripe for the harvest. Let it but
once he started and it will find abundance
of work which is absolutely essential to the
prosperity of the town, and to the life of
their own merehantile, mechanical, real es-
tate and bank accounts. But if Norwalk
goes on in its hitherto happy-go-lucxy style
it will find itself beaten at every turn; out—
bid by other towns, in trying to gain popu-
lation and increase of business and gradually
bled of its already existing manufactures,
and reduced to a precarious dependence
upon a once a year, disgusting Fat Men’s
Clam Bake, and decaying County Fair, for
trade. Where are the six men who will in—
augurate a movement for a Norwalk “Board
of Trade 2’” Who speaks first?
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Borough Burgess G. R. Cowles, reswad-
died his “game" foot, dried the lachrymal,
[not laeteal, as the types made us say last
week] ducts, and hopping about with a pain-
fully strained agility, fled for Saratoga, bid.
the Housatonic, on Thursday last. This was
sensible and he had just cause for supposing,
that arrived at that famous watering Mecca,
where nothing would be known about the
“mysterious disease” epidemic about our
church Green, he could there palm ofii that
specious story about a “horse stepping on his
foot,” etc. Judge then of his surprise and
disgust on hobbling from his Pullman. at
Saratoga last Thursday night, by reason of a
vagabond newsboy,rushing up to his side and
viewing his muflied pedal, with mischivous
interest, and then yelping out—“I say, Mis~
ter, didn’t yer come from around that church
Green, down there ter Norarlc, in old Con-
necticut ? ” Friend Cowles, we rejoice to
hear, is improving and enjoying his visit at
the springs, but all his leisure is spent in try-
ing to find out who “set that gag up on him,”
and posted that youthful and irreverent ven-
der of news, as to the’ prevailing foot disease
about Norwalk Green.
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Wc continue to receive many more com~
plaints about the bad roads, but we think all
has been said on the subject that is necessary
or profitable. In many districts, the stones
are being raked out and the gullies filled,
which meets the pressing situation. We
hope this action will become general.
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More Plate Glass up Main Street.
Mr. C. S. Lockwood is now engaged in
making alterations in his fine store, which
have been contemplated for some months.
He proposses to give up the store to the
Misses St. John whose constantly increasing
business necessitates enlarged quart . Mr.
Lockwood will remove to the sma store
which is abundantly large enough for the
merchant tailoring business. The change
will involve the putting in of' a plate glass
front and the widening of the larger store.
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Major J. W. Barlow, U. S. A., headquar-
terl at New London, calls for proposals for
dredging New Haven, Bridgeport, Norwalk
and Port Jefferson, L. L, harbors, and fur—
nishing rip rap for Stonington and New.
Hans harbors-
A Lady of Sound Judgment.
We chanced recently to overhear a lady
discussing the question as to where was the
best place to purchase some dry goods, of
which she was in search. She was stating that
she had called at one or two of our stores,
but had not found the precise articles she de-
sired, when her friend namcd another store as
likely to have it. The lady’s quick response
was, “No indeed, I about go there, for he
never advertises,”and then proceeded to make
wasnot only a lose and sound observer of
men and thingébut a person of very rare
judgment. Says she—“Do you know I have
always found it true and never known it to
fail in a single instance, that I can always get
my goods the cheapest and make the best
bargains with those who advertise. Some-
how they arc more liberal with customers.
Aren’t so tight and mean as the ones who
never advertise their stores. At all events, I
have always found it so,and have always been
careful to notice it."
We give the “talk” in as nearly the exact
words as possible, and although the thoughts
were thus expressed in a rambling conversa-
tion, we candidly believe there is a great deal
more in this lady’s experience, than at first
appears. That merchant, who at the present
age and day, is too illiberal to let the public
know in some way, what goods he has to sell
and what inducements to offer them to pur-
chase, must be too lacking in public spirit
and enterprise, to succeed, and the sooner he
puts up his shutters the better for himself and
his creditors. It does not neceessarilly follow
that he advertise his goods in this paper or that
but advertise in some way, and after some
mode or manner, he must, if he would hope
to succeed. A New England farmer 'might
just as reasonably hope to gather a large crop
from his fields without the use of mauures,
as the Yankee merchant to succeed without
advertising.
The funeral of Mrs. Wm. Rice was at-
tended last Thursday afternoon from her late
residence. Her remains were followed to
the grave by a large procession of mourning
friends, and the many beautiful flowers
evinced the esteem in which she was held
She was well known throughout the town
as one of the Mitchell twins, and possessed
the lively, checrfnll disposition so charact-
istic of this family, and which won her hosts
of friends.
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The Adjutant General has appointed Gen.
R. B. Craufurd, Major Thomas MeManus
and Major William H. Stowe a board for the
examinationof the C. N. G., and they are to
meet at the encampment of the Second and
Fourth regiments at Niantic, on Wednesday,
Aug. 27th, at-9 a. m.
The Excursion.
Our Methodist friends always strike on
their feet. If they get up an excursion they
consult the right almanac, and are smiled
upon all the way through. On Tuesday
last they had an exceedingly pleasant day,
and their excursion passed ed in a very
agreeable manner. The steamer left South
Norwalk as near the advertised time as de—
sirable, with a party of over one thousand
persons, reaching Bridgeport about 9!; a. m.,
after a pleasant sail on the smoothest of
water. A provoking delay of an hour
occurred waiting for a passenger train to get
off, but the run to Parlor Rock occupied but
a few minutes. The cxcursionists were de-
lighted with the charming surroundings, and
the happy hours passed swiftly away, until
at 4 o‘clock the train started on its return.
The sail from Bridgeport was fully enjoyed,
and the Laura reached the wharfa little after
6 o’clock when the passengers were soon
scattering to all points of the compass.
But few unpleasant incidents occurred.
A young woman sprained her knee in
crossing a brook, and boy and girl were
knocked down by swings—which need to be
better guarded,—and a New York cashier
had an involuntary foot bath. _
At the funeral of 'Mr. L. H. Moore, last
Tuesday, the services were conducted by
Rev. Mr. Waterbury, of Concord, N. H.,
assisted by Rev. . Dr. Spencer of Trinity.
Mr. Waterbury wasa nephew of the deceased
and touchingly referred to his having taken
him, when a destitute orphan boy and giving
him a home, rearing him and educating him
for the ministry. This noble generOsity he
referred to as one among the many acts of
christian charity, with which Mr. Moore's
whole life was filled. How grander than
the costly mauslocm now erecting for the
remains of a great merchant prince, was this
simple, and heartfelt tribute to the virtues
and large human heartedncss of our deceased
friend.
A tall and beautiful shaft of buds, rising
from a broad base, whereon was inscribed the
words :—“0ur dear father rests" was placed
at the head of the casket by the loving hands
of his bereaved children. It was the ex—
quisite workmanship of Florist John H.
Smith, and was faithfully emblematic of the
sweet fragrance of the memory of the many
good deeds done by the departed.
Good Roads.
If any of the tax-payers of Norwalk, who
have been recently and deeply indignant over
the bad condition of our roads. will take a
trip to the Gunning Place and see some Mc—
Adamizcd roads the Carpenter Bros, of
Greenwich, have there constructed, and then
learn at what small cost these good and en—
during road-beds have been constructed,
they will not long hesitate as to the wisdom
and economy of at once inaugurating 'such a
system, for at least our chief highways. Sev -
eral hundred dollars, each and every year,
would be saved by our tax-payers, were such
a road-bed laid from the bridge to the So.
Norwalk depot, with the additional and im—
portant consideration of also having a con—
stantly good read.
The many friends of Rev. 0. W. Gates,
for twelve years pastor of the First Baptist
Church, will be glad to welcome him back
from his distant home in California, and we
doubt not will embrace the opportunity of
hearing him preach. He is to preach the
sermon at the Ordination of Mr. C. A ich-
ols, this (Tuesday) evening, at the First Bap-
tist Church, and we understand is to occupy
the same pulpit next Sabbath. He is the
guest of Mr. C. P. Turney while in town.
S'rnawnnnnms.—-—Any one having ten feet
square of ground may secure a crop of the
above delicious berries next year, sufficient
for any ordinary Lfamily supply, if they will
make the bed and put out the plants this
month. Fertilize to any extent, with cow
or compost mauures, but never use drop-
pings from the horse stables. The highest
cultivation will of course give best results.
yet the strawberry, like the neglected but
patient currant, will grow and bear where
any weed will thrive, and'there is no ex-
cuse for any one, with a patch of ground to
spare, not treating the wife and children to
this delicious and health-giving fruit. We
have on frequent occasions, recommended
our readers to send to Mr. E. W. Durand,
for their plants, not because we have any
special interest in Mr. D. but because he is
aman who has spent over thirty years in
the improvement and propagation of ,ncw
varieties of this delicious berry, and having
made it a specialty, has naturally met with
the best success of any grower we know.
He informs us that all sorts of scoundrels
and trickstcrs are stealing his reputation to
trade upon and filling the country with
spurious plants, purporting to be the choice
varieties he advertises. This being so, it
becomes deeply important that all orders he
sent to him direct, to Irvington, N. J ., as he
employs no agents to sell plants for him.
has opened a branch law office in Boston at
40 Water street. This he has done at the
solicitation of friends who wish to avail
themselves of his eminent legal abilities. He
will make patent law and patent cases a
special part of his professional practice.
the remark which convinced us that this lady.
Ex—Scnator Wadlcigh, of New Hampshire.
Another Scandal.
Scandal, like death, loves a shining mark,
and thc‘recent drunken attack of Ex-Govcr-
nor and Ex-Senator Sprague at the Narragan—
set Pier, has filled the papers and the public
mind, with another scandalous sensation.
Ruined in fortune, influence and personal
character, it is not surprising that Sprague
should attempt to connect himself with one
as distinguished as his own legal adviser,
Senator Conkling. Before he left the Senate,
we have seen him oursglvcs, insulting its
dignity by sitting there in drunken imbecility,
and now, utterly bankrupt in everything, his
wife and the mother of his children, daugh-
ter of President Lincoln’s most eminent
Finance Minister and Chief Justice, is
forced before the public in a dignified yet
painful and unspeakably pathetic statement
of some of the domestic indignities and
agonics she has endured at the hands of a
drunken vagabond. The Palladium most
justly remarks that “Whatever cause of
complaint he may have had—and there seems
no reason for believing he had any other
than the reckless love of scandal en the part
of curs who are never so much at home as
when raking the gutters of society for filthy
gossip—he had long since forfeited the right
to play the part of indignant husband. The
unhappy wife’s letter carries conviction of
its truth and of her unsullicd honor In every
line, and would shame the scandal-mongers
were it not that they have already shown
themselves incapable of experiencing any
decent emotion. The wretched cowards
know that they are safe in striking through
a woman at a man, because in such a-case no
man with the feelings of a gentleman could
appeal to the courts."
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It is two years since Judge Chisholm, his
daughter and little son were murdered, and
as yet no one has been tried for the crime
though the murderers are well known and
some of them have been elected to office by
their admiring fellow citizens. A session of
the court is to be held next month and Mrs.
Chisholm and her.surviving son are going
to Mississippi as witnesses for the prosecu-
tion. A subscription is being raised for the
defense of the accused, and it would not; be
a bad idea to send down some prominent
northern lawyer to assist in the prosecution.
The probabilities are that in a semi—savage
State like Mississippi no jury can be found
to convict the men that have done nothing
more than to kill republicans, yet the pres—
ence of a prominent northern lawyer would
not be without its efiect. General Stewart
L. Woodford had a very pleasant recept-
ion in Mississippi some time ago when he
went there to address the students of the
State university. We should like to see him
pleading for justice for the murdered Chis—
holm girl—Palladium.
We second the Palltult‘um’s apt suggestion
Gen. W. made a decidedly favorable im-
pression on the Southern mind, and this
Chisholm case, is well adapted to call forth
the highest flights of his impassioned elo—
quence. By all means let the Attorney Gen.
send Gen. Woodford to aid in trying this
case.
P. S. Since the above was in type, news
comes that Gen. Woodford has offered Mrs.
C. the escort of himself and his daughter, to
Mississippi, and his 'aid as counsel in prose-
cuting her case. This is...just what might
have been expected of the plucky and patri—
otic General. ‘
Finn—At about 9 o'clock last Monday
night an alarm of fire was sounded in both
Borough and City. It proved to be a barn
belonging to the estate of the late Judge But-
ler. It contained about three and .one-half
tons of hay, a wagonLanda few other articles.
The flames had gained great headway before
the alarm was sounded in the Borough. The
firemen in Borough and City promptly re—
sponded to the alarm, and the city Hose
company was the first to arrive. The fire
being in Borough limits both Borough com-
panies connected with the nearest hydrants,
but as they had difficulty in reaching the
flames the city Hose company helped them out
with several lengths of hose. Pioneer pushed
the burning frame over, and the fire was soon
at an end. The fire was undoubtedly the
work of an incendiary who is possibly the
same fellow who fired other barne in the
immediate vicinity. Insured for $600 through
Cowles do Merrill. Mr. Cbichester offers a
liberal reward for the detection and convic-
tion" of the criminal. ' '
A Council, composed of delegates from the
Baptist churches of this county, and a few
others, is called to meet at the First Baptist
Church, today (Tuesday) at 10:30 a. m., to
hear the Christian Experience, call to the
Ministry and views of Doctrine of Mr. Chas.
A. Nichols, with a view to his ordination.
Mr. Nichols was, a few years ago, a pupil at
Hillside Seminary, and from there entered
the Academical Department of Madison Uni-
versity,and after passing successfully through
the whole course of study, has just gradua
ted from the Theological Department, of the
same. institution. He has chosen the Foreign
Mission work as his future sphere of labor,
and the Board of the American Baptist Mis-
sionary Union have accepted him, and as-
signed him to one of their Missions in Bur-
mah. Public Ordination Services will be
held in the evening. It is expected that Rev.
0. W. Gates, of San Diego, 0211., will preach
the ordination sermon.
Night Blooming Cereus.
Mr. Matheis’ handsome plant is expected
to bud for the eighth time this season. on
Wednesday or Thursday evening; this time
it will have only two blossoms. Besides
these it has twelziyfina more buds forming!
This is the most prolific of any plant we have
heard of hereaboutr. It seems to be in fact
a’ perpetual bloomer.
H. M. S. Pinafore.
- ‘After repeated disappointments Manager
Weed has at last succeeded in securing the
very best company on the road to give this_
favorite Opera here in Norwalk. An engage
ment has been made With Manager Hender—
son of the Standard :Theatre, New York, to
bring his entire company, with all the
scenery and properties as used at the
Standard Theatre in New York so as to
insure a complete performance. There has
been no Opera produced in this country that
has attained the popularity of Pinaforc.
It has been sung by church choirs, as well as
by professional companies, so free is it from
anything that is demoralizing or depraved.
It will undoubtedly call out the largest
audience of the season,. especially as the
evenings will be cool enough by that time to
make indoor life comfortable. The date has
been set for a night during the first week in
September, due notice of which will be given.
A special train will be run on the D. 6: N.
B. Read to accommodate out—of—town parties
who may desire to attend.
Prosecuting agent Joseph W. Wilson, of
Norwalk, has been advised by the County
Commissioners to give consideration to vio~
lations of the liquor laws in Stamford, Dar-
ien and New Canaan. Complaints from those
towns may be addressed to him or to Pros-
ecuting agent Frederick A. Hubbard, of
Greenwich. No other appointments will be
made in this part of the County.
Ex—Gov. Jewell sailed for Europe last
Thursday. ,
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The street sprinklers are enjoying a vaca-
tion just now.
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Tremont Temple, Boston, was destroyed
by fire, Thursday night.
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Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, is ;not dead,
as wasreported in last week’s papers. .
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Builder Pricc is hurrying the Scofield man-
sion, on Belden Avenue, to completion.
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Oh, what dreary, doleful weather for sea
side and mountain ramblers from home.
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’ Mr. Cotter is going to put in a Risdon
Wheel for Fanshaw’s shoe heel factory in
Darien.
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While running to the fire last Monday
night, Charles Ferris fell and was run over
by the Old Well truck. He was quite badly
bruised, but was very fortunate in not re—
ceiving fatal injuries. '
PERSONALS.
Miss Julia Lockwood is at Saratoga.
Mr. John Camp is traveling for Comatock
Brothers. ~
Mr. and Mrs. Kissam and son have gone
to Lebanon Springs.
Miss Holt, of Norwich, is in towu visiting
her sister, Mrs. J. C. Peckham.
Mr. and'Mrs. Casb,of’Nantucket, have just
celebrated their silver wedding.
Nelson Dicker-man and artist North spent
a night at Concy Island, last week.
Mrs. C. T. Leonard and daughter,and Mrs.
Mott and daughter are at Bethel, Maine.
' Mrs. Sercno Bulkley, of Dunmore, Pa, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Betts, at Greenfield
Hill. '
Miss Docia Ward, of Brooklyn, and Annie
Foley, of New York, are visiting friends in
town.
Mrs. Leroy, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. T.
Brady.
Acting Warden Samuel Bcatty and wife,
were registered at the George Hotel, Black
Rock, last week.
Miss Georgie Moffatt, of Dunmore, Pa.,
has been visiting Miss Georgie Nash. She
returns this week.
Miss Minnie Bauer, of New York, who
has been spending a few days among her
friends has returned home.
Supt. Sandiforth of the D. & N. R. R.,
is off with his wife and daughter Blanche, on
a trip, “way down east" to Maine.
Misses Carrie and Eva Flynn started on
Wednesday last for Cornwall, Conn_., where
they propose remaining several weeks.
Rev. 0. W. Gates. of SanDiego, Cal., for-
merly pastor of the First Baptist Church, is
on a trip East, and will soon visit Norwalk.
Dr. Pmneo, of Greenwich, has been board-
ing up Main street for a week or two. His
wife and daughter are on a trip to Mount
Desert.
At last advices the Morison party were at
Lucerne. Switzerland. They sail for home
on the White Star Steamer, Oceanic, on the
28th inst.
Mr. Harry Hungerford being about to
commence his studies in New York, Fred.
Flynn succeeds him as clerk at Prowitt's
corner Drug Store.
Dr. Hitchcock has been enjoying a short
vacation. Dr. N. A. Mosman, of New York,
is here attending to patients during Dr.
Hitchcock's absence.
J. Ray Marvin, Esq, and daughter, go to
Saratoga the‘present week. They, like all
sensible excursionists, go via. the wild and
romantic Housatonic.
Miss Carrie, and Messrs. Horace and Obe-
diah Benedict, of Valesgate, N. Y., have been
spending a few weeks in town, the guests of
Miss Carrie A. Meeker. 9
Mrs. Perley H. Glines and Mrs. William
Glines left yesterday for Ohio, where they
will visit their relations and friends. They
accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Shaw who have
been making'them a visit here.
Miss Katc Camp, eldest daughter of A. H.
Camp, left Watcrtown last week and made
a flying visit home preparatory to a trip to
the Catskill Mountains, Saratoga and Niaga-
ra Falls. She is traveling with a party of
friends. ‘
The genial face of Carmi IIubbell will be
missed from the Post Office for a week or so.
He started for Ridgcfield, yesterday, in the
storm for a week’s vacation. He deserves a
good time and we hope will secure it to his.‘
full satisfaction, Will Betts accompanied List.
Our worthy Town Clerk, Henry K. Sel—
leck, contemplates a somewhat extended
summer “tower." He is to be accompanied by
Alfred Jackson, Esq. They take the Adel-
phi to New York and then the sea-going
steamer from New York to Portland, thence
to Mt. Desert. Returning via.,White Moun-
tains, Lake George, Saratoga and home. This
is a trip worth making.
Stiles Curtis, Esq, as we intimated last
week, took wise consel of his fears and hur-
ried of to Maine. He will visit Bath, where
his son, Rev. Wm. Curtis, is settled over the
Congregaticnal church there. Then he visits
Mt. Desert, Eastport and possibly St. Au-
drews and St. Johns, in the British Provin—
ces. If he can manage to thus keep his feet
as sound as his head, he will be able to safe-
ly return home, after one or two frosts.
The Annual gathering known as the Fat
Man’s Clam Bake was held at Gregory’s
Point, on Thursday last. The day was pleas-
ant, and the attendance fair though not equal
to former occasions, A steamer from Stam—
ford and another from New York brought
passengers from those places. .Of fat men
the show was not great, there being a baker’s
dozen weighing 250 lbs—Herman D. Busch,
of New Jersey, and Willard Perkins, of Wu-
terbury, being the most conspicuous, the first
weighing 408, and the second 397. The lat-
ter was elected President. The bake was
somewhat delayed, and an attempt by the
management to reserve seats was frustrated“
by a democratic rush by the masses.
The Masonic Excursion takes place next
week Wednesday.
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Mr. Johnston will locate his school on
High street, a short distance from the Horse
car depot. -
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Mr. Geo. W. Day, city, is the possessor
of a Night Blooming Cereus-plant, which re-
cently blossomed.
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Geo. Truel, a New York merchant, was
found drowned in New Haven harbor last
Friday morning.
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Premium Lists for the County Fair are
ready for distribution. Copies can be had at
the Gaznr'rn Office.
o
Revivalist Moody seems to thrive just as
well as ministers who live on a large salary.
He is said to weigh 250.
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One of the handsomest delivery wagons
ever seen in Norwalkbears the name of E.
K. Lockwood on its side panels. 4
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The Locust Grove Hotel and Pavilion, at
Gravescnd Bay, L. I., were destroyed by fire
last Friday night. Four lives were lost.
Co‘—
Ex—Bnrgces Keena has I about finished his
new store, corner of Main and School streets.
The store has a plate glass front, and looks
well.
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Mcssrs. I. A. Meeker & 00. take pride in
keeping up the fine appearance of their new’
drug store, and they keep a good stock of
goods.
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Gen. J. R. Hawley is to deliver the address
at the unveiling and dedication of the Sol-
diers Monument at Wolcottville, on the 10th
of September. ,
O a—.
The Burnside Guards leave town next
Monday for their week’s encampment at Ni—
antic. They will go decked out in their
brand-new uniforms.
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There is more than one sea serpent in th
Sound, or else that one is decidedly active.
Three New London men saw the creature re-
cently near Fisher's Island.
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Miss Sarah E. Cryer, recently connected
with the South Norwalk Schools, died at her
home in Yantic, Conn., on ‘the 7th lust, of
consumption. She was a successful teacher,
and much esteemed.
The Housa ic Road is carrying party
after party from Danbury to Parlor Rock.
With proper inducements all these parties
might be brought down the Danbury R
to resorts on the Scund.
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The peach crop, this season, is fully up to
the average. For the first two weeks in
August, 378,000 baskets were received in
New York,:and during the same period 61,—
500 were sent into New England.
A Popular Lecture” Revived
The announcement that Mr. Colfax would
again introduce to the lecture-going public
the history of his famous trip across the
continent in company with Editors Bross,
Richardson and Bowler, embodied in his
lecture “Across the Continent," has been re-
ceived with the utmost favor in all parts of
the country.
reproduce it by the . frequent invitations he
received to deliver it, and since the an—
nouncement has been made, invitations are
constantly pouring in upon him, and we
greatly wish some one of our societies might
divide with the public the pleasure and ben-
efit of its delivery here. In this connection
the Baltimore Amm‘can, of the 8th inst.,
says :—
Hon. Schuyler Colfax is announced to take
the lectureplatform this season again with
bus fascinating lecture, “Afiss the Conti—
nent.” Those who have heard this lecture
know how much of the beautiful interesting
and instructive Mr. Colfax has succeeded in
crowding Into it. It is desoriptive of a three
thousand mile ride made'by a lecturer in
1865, before the Pacific railroad was built,
from the Missouri river to Denver, Salt
Lake, Nevada, California Oregon and Wash-
Ington Territory, to the Straits of Fuca, and
Vancouver‘s Island. The lecture treats of
the plains, the mountains and the mines. the
Yosemrtengeysers and big trees, and ives
an interesting review of Mormonism an our
duty towards it. '
A Good Hotel.
It takes a man of' genius too keep any
kind of a hotel, successfully, but when a
man is found, who like ‘landlord Banks
Morehouse, can keep a really good hostlery,
in spite of deficiences in “modern improve—
ments,” and modern et caterer, which at—_
tach to all recently built hotels, and who has
only convenience and beauty of an old time
site, as his foundation, claims to attract the
traveling public, such‘h ‘man, must “know
how tokecp a hate ” When he Wins business
success and the popular favor. ,Our friend
Morehonse the past week has concluded a
contract for a three years lease of the old
“Norwalk” and now with clear sailing, we
may expect his Hotel to be amorc favorite
resort than ever.
Vlrglnla Farm Lands.
Parties thinking of bettering their condi—
tion byemigrating are referred to the adv. of
500 Farms near Norfolk, Va. We are
assured that the parties arejperfcctly reliable,
being well known prominent gentlemen in
that vicinity. Mr. Ludlow himself being
mayor of Norfolk.
The Schulte Murder.
State's Attorney Olmstead- recently received
the following letter, which explains itself. If
Mr. Olmstead has made an examination of the
spot designated, and we presume he has, he
keeps his own counsel. He alone can judge
whether the letter is entitled to credit, was.
made up in the interest of Bucholtz, or in-
tended as a smart joke :—
- Friscoe, Aug. ’79
I am now out of the reach of justice and
will not suffer that an inoccnt man is belt for
the murter of Schulte and will now stade
were the clothes and bocketbooks were trown.
U may find more by searcen the ground about
two hundred yards west from where Schulte
was killed. There is a stone fence running
west were these fences join there is a tree
cut down and U find between the stones and
in the ground something that will surprise U.
I hope this will save the life of an inoccnt
man. NAMELESS.
The letter came in a plain yellow envelope
post-marked “San Francisco, Aug.‘3,” and
addressed to “The State Atorney, Fairfield
County, Conn.”
The New Haven Courier says :—Mr. Boll-
man, of this city, one of Buchholz's counsel,
has visited the place indicated in the letter
and ascertained that there had been fresh
earth thrown up there, indicating recent dig-
ging. The space dug over was very small,
which would seem to indicate that the parties
who threw up the earth had found what they
were looking for, or the excavation, under
the circumstances, would have been more ex-
tensive. Mr. Bollman, who, with General
Smith of Norwalk, is counsel for the accus-
ed feels confident that evidence will be
brought to light that will entirely free his
client (Buchbolz) from all participation in
themurder. ~ -. . » .
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Mr. Selleck sends us Scribner's Magazine
and St. Nicholas, for September. Both, are
exceedingly entertaining numbers and sure
to find favor with all who appreciate rich
pictures and good literature.
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Mr. Prowitt at the Corner Drug Store,
still maintains the reputation of the estab—
ment for making unrivalled Soda Water.
His Root Beer and other cooling and healing
beverages are always equal to the best to be
found in the leading cities of the country.
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A Minnesota correspondent says :—With
(40,000,000) forty million bushels of wheat
I guess we shall make out to worry through
the year, but the Yellowstone Valley is the
coming field for both wheat and cattle—it
will be heard from in the next year or two.
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Mr. Gunning, in riding from Norwalk to
his home, one evening last week,was thrown
violently out and his buggy badly broken up
in consequence of a gullied washout in the
road bed. But for having had a gentle
horse, his injuries might have been very
serious. .
The St. James Society held their annual
Pic-nic at Morgan's Grove, on Friday last.
The St. Mary’s Society joined them in a
parade through our streets, the St. Augustine
Band, of Bridgeport, furnishing music.
Guests were present- from ’ Danbury and
Bridgeport. The weather was favorable and
the attendance fair.
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H. H. Elwell, Esq, has permanently lo-
cated himself at East Bridgeport and is al-
ready at the head of quite a large and very
lively foundry and implement shop. We
greatly regret to have a man of Mr. Elwell’s
high personal character and conceded me—
chanical abilities leave Norwalk, but he has
undoubtedly consulted his own pecuniary
interests in going to Bridgeport to locate his
new business enterprise. If industry, ca-
pacity, integrity and a large manufacturing
experience can ensure success, Mr. Elwell
is sure to win it. We regret his departure
from among us, but rejoice at his bright pros-
pects for a successful business future.
0
Several articles intended for this week are
crowded out.
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After this long rain we may look for a very
light‘line storm.
‘ O
Messrs. Scofield & Hoyt have something
to say this week which will prove of special
interest to the ladies. '
O
A Concert and Festival is'tobe given at
Music Hall, this evening, under the auspices
of Old Well Lodge, F. and A. M. The
Wlleler & Wilson full Band will furnish
music. * -
O,
During the stormbf Thursday last,grcat
damage was done to crops in Wilton, West
port, Greenfield Hill, &c., by hail. Such a
storm has not been known before in years,
while fields of tobacco and corn were com—
pletely ruin‘ed.
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Harper‘s Magazine, for Sebtember, has il
lustrated articles on “Fifty Years of Ameri—
can Art,” Newport Society in the last Cen—
tury, Gold Mining in Georgia, Engraved
Gems, Navesink Highlands, 85c. W. Black's
novel "White Wings," Mrs. Craig’s “Young
Mrs. Jardine,” Blackmore's “Mary Anerley”
are continued. For sale by Selleck.
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The A. 'T. Stewart body-snatching horror
is again revived by the city ' papers, but big
remains are not yet recovered. A New
York lawyer, as attorney for the robbers,
has shown Judge Hilton the coffin—plate one
of the handles and other trimmings as evi—
dence that the body can be had for $250,000.
The Judge refuses to pay a cent except for
the arrest 9f the robbers it is said, and this
part of the ghastly story we hope, may prove
strictly true. To pay these grave ghouls a
premium for their revolting crime would
only increase this species of crime.
Mr. Colfax was induced to
I GOBLIN S.
There is an element of superstition per-
vading all human nature, however cultivated
or wise the person may be. Bob Ingersall
maintains, that " all' mankind believe in
ghosts," and possibly be is right. Certain it
is, the more dense the ignorance of- the in-
dividual, the more firm and absolute is his
belief in signs, good and evil omens, and
spooks. Not unfrequently and strangely too,
this quality of human intellect takes on and
seemingly leads into, and flows out of an in-
tense rcligious fervor. This is most conspic—
uously illustrated in the more ignorant of the
late slave population at the South. The more
pious and religiously devoted they became,
the more superstitious they grew. Undoubt-
ed belief in present day miracles and Divine
decrees and providences, are firmly held by
the Mormons, and with equal honesty and
undoubted faith by many other religious dc-
nominations of the present day. Akin to this
element of superstition prevading the human
mind, is that awe and dread that gave cur-
rency to the old proverb, that “all men are
cowards in the dark." Shakespeare, Burns
and other noted poets, have siezcd upon this
element in our natures as inspirations for
their very highest flights of genius. What is
there for instance, in all literature, so wierd
and fascinating and entertaining as the ghost
scene in Macbeth, or Burns‘ Tam-o-Shantcr.
or even Poe’s ghostly Raven. We thus mor-
alize simply to show that because a man may
chance to get frightened in a densely dark
night at some strange and apparently super—
natural apparition, or object, that he is not
therefore to be written down as utterly igno-
rant or vicious. No utterance of the poet
was ever more true than that “Conscience
doth make cowards of us all.” And we do
believe the more sinful and felonious the
midnight mission, the more likely is this de-
moralizing and panicy fear to sieze upon and
overwhelm the victim. In short, we believe
a boy is more likely to be “frightened out of
his boots" on a‘ dark night, while stealing
watermelons than while on his way to prayer
meeting, even though his piety be restricted
to .the one desire of “going home with his
girl.” So too, a man, robbing a neighbors
hen-roost, or stealing fuel, however badly
needed, from his neighbors’ fence or field, is
more surely to become a moral, or rather,im-
moral coward, than he who observes all the
commandments and remains within with his
family during the witching hours of night.
We have been led to thus moralizc, by a
recent event which is reported to us to have
occurred at or near that classic locality west
of Spring Hill road, where many a most
worthy as well as worthless exile of Erin has
domiciled himself and family. Perhaps the
meandering reputation of this American Dub-
lin, is not quite so bad as that attaching to
“Cobble Hill,” although it is due to Mayor
Rhoddy McGinnis to say, that since he has
been recognized as its highest municipal rul-
er, his bailwick has notably improved.
Nevertheless, for the mysterious disappear-
ance of fence" rails, posts and boards, with an
occasional sapling, West Dublin enjoys a pre-
eminence that it will be hard for any other
locality to equal, much less eclipse. It is in
some measure due to this well recognized
peculiarity we have no doubt, that an unusual
dread and mystery, deepening into a name-
less fear, envelopes the place. Indeed many
of the most palatial of its houses are firmly
believed to be haunted. Human beings in
white have been seen to pass and repass
deserted spots, and some assert, emit a smell
of sulphur. This might be accounted for
from the fact that the locality overlooks two
grave yards, and Holmes do Keeler, and Sel-
leek Bros.’ Powder Houses! But then, these
ghostly apparitions are not limited to beings
in human form. Animals not less than sev-
enteen feet high, with white spots, horned
heads and forked tails, have been asfrequent-
ly seen at the dead hour of the night.. At
other times the windows and loose clapboards
rattle asif smitten with the prevailing ma-
larial chills. It is no wonder the awe strick—
en inhabitants are enveloped in fear and
dread of the gnu-5H] forms that stalk about
under- the cover of every night that ‘comes
with deep darkness shrouded; The matter
is getting to be so serious that the value of
real estate is likely to be affected, unless
some vigorous means is resorted to, to dis-
pel these superstitious fears that we surmise
'come mainly of evil conduct and guilty eon-
sciences. We have spoken to Mayor Eskel-
son and Alderman Monahon, and find they
very sensibly, concur fully in our view of the
existing terror and its can se. And fortunate-
ly, we havea case confirming our position,
thus related to us. Although it was a case
of blood-curdling horror to the terror-strick—
en victims,its subsequent development proves
our interpretation only too true. It was
one of those humid, half-foggy, but densely
dark nights in July that a stalwart resident
of this ghost-haunted locality put aside his
beselting fears and according to custom,took
up his ax, crossed Spring Hill Road, and en-
tered the wooded and pasture field of what
was known, aforetime as Kellogg’s Farm.
This he had done many a dark night before.
And many and many were the poles and sap-
lings he had cut and borne in triumph from
the self-same field, in all the triumph of non-
detection. Nothing more than the boot of
an owl or the swash of Monahon’s spotted
cow, brushing flies from her lacteal udder,
had ever before startled him enough to raise
erect the shoulders weighted down with sto—
len wood. But this was one of those hot, and
“still and awful” nights when seemingly, he
could cut the darkness with his ax. It is
more than probable that he grew more and
more superstitious, every step he advanced.
At length he jostled against a fine hickory
sapling due west of Holmes do Keeler’s pow-
der house. (His democracy may haveinstinct-
ively led him on to the bickery.) It was but
the work of a moment to chop and level it to
the ground. It’s fall made a deep echo in
the midnight stillness, but no neighbor's house
was near and so he essayed to lift and bear
it off, as “Eneas did the old Anchises bear.”
He had mistaken both his own strength and
the size of his sapling. It was the work of a
moment only, to cut it in twain at a point
near its first branches. While thus chopping,
his ear caught a rustling sound in front, and
quaking with fear, his eyes beheld a sight no
mortal ever beheld before ! There,almost
upon him, was some horrid monster, not less
than twenty-eight feet high, as he positively
affirmed. It was white as the shrouds of the
dead. It’s nostrils gleamed and glowed with
fiery red-breath. Its eyes glowered and glared
like the head-light of a locomotive. It’s tail
stood erect high up in air and far above its
awful head, and ever and anon beating its
own sides with a vigor equal to Mrs. Mc-
Glyne’s broom-stick! It is needless to say,
no more wood was cut. With a screech of
terror and agony, our hero dropped his ax,
bounded back into the woods, leaped the
stone wall and all spent and out of breath,
he reached the old Spring Hill road again,
expecting every moment to be devoured alive
by this vast and ghostly mastodon! He
reached his own domicile and bounded like
a wild deer to the bedside of sleeping wife
and nine innocent cffsprings. All of
whom awoke and joined in terror-strickén
howls of “Murdher,” “murdlter,” and “AR-
sox,"—till our poor victim getting still more
frightened did not know whether he was real-
ly in the flesh or in pandemonium. The
neighbors were soon awakened and in alarm,
each, with pick, a spade, a shovel, fork or
bar came running to the cabin from whence
proceeded the ear-splitting screeching! A
full half hour elapsed before any clue could
be obtained of the cause of the poor family’s
terrible fright. Finally when the story was
related,,of what had been seen in Kellogg’s
woods,the party all agreed to “shoulder arms”
and go hunt the varmint. There was much
diMculty in determining who should'go first.
Finally one sagely remarked that “Bill Mon—-
shon" was the man, “for he neither feared
the Lord, man or the‘devil,” and so our friend
Monahon was commissioned to lead the way.
There was a good deal of lagging behind al—
though one ofthe party was provided with a
rusty old musket and another with an ancient
flint-lock horse pistol. Suddenly a sound
was heard in. front, when our scared hero,
trembling from head to foot, ,chattered out
— ~a-t-s- it! And sure encugh, in another
instant, the terrificbcast approached in full
view! It was Eskelson’s old white mare-
whisking files, “Only this and nothing more. "
But no undue levity was manifest as the
invading army dismally returned from the
field. So imbedded, was this superstitious
fear, into their very natures, that all retired
with a half-belief that there was after all,
something ghostly and supernatural about
our victim‘s vision. Be this as it may. It
has had one good result. No more trees have
since been cut, and we have to thank neigh—
bor Eskelson “for the loan of his old mare.”
And to be a little serious about this affair, let
no express the conscientious belief that if the
residents of the locality named,(and all others
for that matter) will only observe the golden
rule of doing unto others as they would wish
others to do by them, would stop trespassing,
and stop their grown up and half grown boys
from pitching quoits and pennies in the street
on Sunday and using profane and other vile
language in the hearing of others, their lives
will be more prosperous and happy, their lit—
tle homes more valuable, and the spooks,gob-
lins and ghosts will forever flee away and
there will be no more haunted houses or
haunted imaginations, in all their rural neigh-
borhood.
Saturday night a well dressed woman,wcar-
ing diamonds, committed suicide by jump-
ing overboard from a Fall River heat about
sixteen miles from New York. She was sup.
posed to belong in Philadelphia.
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WHoyt’s Fauna and AGUE Toxro rc—
commcnded by all.
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E“ Home made Bros (1 and Cakes of Farm
Mann’s, Gazette B uilding.
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IE'Hox'l‘b Fever and Ague.Tonz'c never
fails to cure.
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Housatonic Railroad.
New Line for Saratoga. Round
Trip Tickets from Bridgeport, to
Saratoga and Return for $9.40.
Valid during season of 1879. Leave South
Norwalk 9:28 a. m., connecting with the 10:10
a. m. train from Bridgeport (with car running
THROUGH to Albany wrrnour CHANGE,) arriv-
ing at SARATOGA 6:45 p. m. Returning train
leaves Saratoga 8:45 a. m., arriving at Bridge-
port at 5:45 p. m., via. Pittsfield, So. Norwalk
6:24 p. m. Tickets sold and Baggage check-
cd direct to and from Saratoga and Bridge-
port. L. B. STILLSON, Acting Supt.
H. D. AvnRILL, Gen’l Ticket Agent.
Bridgeport, Aug. 6th, 1879. 32tf
A. CARD.
THE undersigned. desires to express his sin-
cere thanks to all the members of the Fire
Departments of Norwalk and So. Norwalk.to the
Fire Police, and to all the citizens who so kindly
assisted us during the burning of the barn on the
premises of the late Mrs. Thomas 8. Butler.
ltp , EDWIN V. A. UHIUHESTER.
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Wl‘ry Hoyt’o Fever and Ague Tonic.
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IQ“ Go to Faun, MEAD's for your choice
Ice Cream, during this warm weather.
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@Frank Street has a branch coal office at
the drug store of C. S. Prowitt; leave your
orders and they will be promptly filled.
...__.————'
ES‘Frank Street is now ready to take your
orders for Coal and Wood, at his yard, on
Shore Road,lately occupied by Tollcs & Dake.
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Rev. Joseph G. Smith, of Hartford,
Conn., makes the following statement :- _
This is to certify. that I have been acquainted
with Dr. David Kennedy’s medlelne (happily
named FAVORITE REMEDY) from the time of
its first introduction (1870) In N cw York State, es-
pecially in cities along the Hudson River.
Having been a great sufi‘ererfrom a severe case
of LIVER Complaint and Dyspepsia, combined. I
was induced to give the medicine a trial,and item
the fact that it proved anactive and. sure relief,
I am free to recommend it to the public. as the
most valuable medicine of the age, for the cure of
all dcrangements of the Liver. and digestive
organs. REV. Jossrn G. SMITH, No. 17 Ann St.,
Hartford, Conn. . .
FAVORITE REMEDY IS a combination of veg-
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yo ' , or A u , vol - minm‘WA
membering the name, FAVORITE REMEDY,
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THE SECRET KEY TO HE.\Lrn.—The Science of
Life, orSelt-Prcscrvation,300 pages. Price,only 51.
Contains fifty valuable prescriptions, either one
of which is worth more than ten times the price
of the book. Illustrated sample sent on receipt of
(icents for postage. Address, Dr. W. 11. Parker, 4
Bullfincb Street, Boston. Mass. 3m29
Chcmacxsox’sBEsr SWEET Navx Tonacco
MARRIED.
.rvwv
In Norwalk.August 13th. at the house of the
bride’s parents. by the Rev. John» A. Hamilton.
Mr. Aden Minard. of Bl‘ldftéporl. and Miss Fran~
ces Gertrude Nash, sccon augbter of Mr. Wil-
liam Nash.
In New York. August 24th, Henry Burr. of New
York, to Lizzie A..-daughtcr of the late Henry N.
Squires, of Stamford.
DIED. .
\IVW\I\J\I\I\
In Norwalk, August 14th, Walter W., son of
Theodore Harrison, aged 3 months and 23 days.
It Norwalk, August 14th, Maria. FitzMaurice,
ed 20 years and 6 months.
A
In Danbury, August 6th. Angeline Morris .3 ged
70 years. August llth, J cremiah Wilson. aged 87
years. -
In Bethel, August 9th, Whipple Williams, aged
81 years.
In Danbury, August 9th, Hattie E. Lobdcll.
aged 26 years. -
In North Stamford Au ust 13th Bctsc B
Lockwood, aged 88 yetirs. g ' y
In West Stratt‘ord, Aug. 13, Laura Belle, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. B. Cuzner. aged 5
months.
In North Stamford. August 13. Betsey 1:. Lock-
woo d, aged 88 years.
At Sufiield. Conn. Au ust 15 Dr. Ed ‘ D. n
of Hon. E.D. Morgiin. B ’ wrn ,So
In Easton, August 14, Mrs. Ellen Stillson, aged
74 years.
Whiting, formerly of Bridgeport, aged 84 years.
ye11;}Stratl‘ord. August lith,Jewett I’eck, aged 38
So
In Bridgeport, August 12th, Elizabeth. wife of
John McManns, aged 33 years.
In Black Rock. August lath. William B. Thomp-
son, agcd 53 years. ,
$100.00 REWARD.
OFFERED for any information which may
lead to the detection of person or persons
who set fire to the burn on the premises of the
late Mrs. T. B. Butler. Ang.llth, 1879.
ltp EDWIN V. A. CHICHES’I‘ER.
Horse Wanted.
a NYONE having a good, gentle FAMILY
HORSE. a fair roadster. and not in use,can
hear of a responsible customer for the name, who
will give the best of care and keeping for a very
relight atrlrld carefulnlllselpf thelanlmal tf‘or the next
wo or me mon s. app yin n the office of
NORWALK GAZETTE. g 3t33
Notice.
WILL sell at Public Auction. at the Norwalk
Hotel, In Norwalk, on the 26th day ofAugust,
1879. at 9 o’clock in the morning. certain House-
hold Furniture. mortgaged va. Stanley Hood and
Wife to John Voorhls. and b the Superior Court
upon the petition of said oorhis ordered and
decreed to be sold by me.
N orwalk, 14th August. 1679.
AJggg f2; RitahYMOND.tConstall’ilc of N orwalk.
s u o e proper may e seen at Hurl-
butt, Relyea do Seymour’s oyfiice. R33
OAIIDEIIS WANTED. —A few persons
can obtain good board and pleasant rooms
for fall and winter. in a dcsiable location on West
Avenue, by applying at GAZETTE OFFICE. ltp
JAMES MITCHELL, Auctloncer.
For Sale at Public Auction.
THE Beautiful place formerly belonging to
Nathan J ones. dcccnscd,‘ situated in the
tgwn of New Canaan. will be sold at Public Auc-
tion on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20tb.1879. at 3
o’clock p. m. Said place contains about 40 acres,
equally divided into l’low.‘Pasture, and Meadow.
It is one of the moat beautifully located places in
New Canaan,commandmg a. fair view of Long Is-
land Sonnd. and surroundingcountry for 40 miles.
Buildings first-rate. House contains 11 rooms,
verandan on south and east, large and good Barn
with Carriage House and Shed. good room for
coachman. good basement to the barn. House
and barn well painted. Place contains good fruit
and water. Excellent well, with living streenm
running through the farm. A very handsome
chestnut grove on the farmsuitable for pic-nice or
parties. In in one of the best neighborhoods in
the county; on the mam road from New Canaan
to Stamford and pne-half mile from New Canaan
depot. Four trains to and from New York daily,
and only one hour and a half from Grand Central
Depot: is in easy access of Norwalk where par-
ties can takc steamer for New York daily. Fare
for round trip from New Canaan and return only
One Dollar. This place is suitable for anygcntle-
man (icing business in New York and returning
same da . Sale will be positiveas owner Is living
west an has no further use for It. Terms easy as
one-half or two-thirds can remain. on mortgage.
For further articulars enquire 01
JAMES ITCHELL. Real Estate Broker and
Auctioneer, N orwalk, Conn. . .
P. S.-4-Placc can be visited any time prcvxoue to
sale by applying to Mr. Burns, on the property.
Notice.
LL personeare hereby forbid trusting my wife
Eliza J ano Morehouac on my account.
Norwalk, this 18th day of Aug., 1879. '
3:33 DAVID B. MOBEIIOUSE.
In Wilhraham,l\lass.. August 11th. Mr. Seymour ,
’ ‘ '5
ea c = 0y
(6
Will open August 20th the best
line of
llDIES AND DENTS’ UNDERWEAR
ever shown in N orwalk.
Our '
50 DENT UNDERVESTS
will compare favorably with anyL in
town at 75 Cents. -
e
_ Great Bargains in
Misses and Children’s Underwear
just received, from 220. upwards.
l .
We have Remnants in
Bleached and Unbleached Table
lmen
selling at half-price.
A job in
RED TIDK
at 8 and 70. that will do you good.
All kinds of
M-U-SrI-I-N-S
at old prices, no advance.
HUDII. IIND DAMASK TDWEIS
at 124;, and 20 cents; a big drive.
40 doz. more of those
25 CENT IADIES’ HDSE,
selling at 15 cents.
AJob Lot of
D-D-R-S-E-T-S
selling at 50 cents, just half-price.
Our
50 CENT DIADK DASHMERE
‘ .
we have reduced to 450,, best value
ever offered.
Specialty in
RIADK SIIKS.
at $1.00, $1.30, and $1.50.
BEST PRINTS
5 cents, 6 cents, and 7 cents.
Another lot of
tablets, Fruit Jars. and Preserve
Dishes.
New Goods. this Week on the 5 and
- 10 Cent Tables.
Seofleld—da Hoyt,
29 MIAIN ST., NORWALK.
T0 Loan 0.; Real Estate Security. '
Money Enquire of 0. E. WILSON, No.6
Gazette Building, Norwalk, Ct. am!
500 EASTERN VIRGINIA
Truek. Grass & Grain Farms
For Sale !
NEAR NORFOLK, 170., Very Low.
Also City Property. _Send 3 cent stamp and
we will send maps of the cltgland circulars.
J. R.L DLOW & CO.
“33 207 Main St., Norfolk, Va.
SEC 0ND
Annual llI Ill
CONEYISLAND.
LANDING AT THE
New Iron Pier,
UNDER THE AUSPICES 0F
STJDIIN’S LDDDE,ND.6
A 21“, St A.M. OF NORWALK.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27th,
By the New Steamer
MINNIE CORNELL,
Capt. P. K. Kennedy. built expressly for excur-
sions by the Troy Steamboat 00., and licensed by
the Government to carry Eight Hundred Excur-
sionists. The Committee of Arrangements have
decided to limit the number of tickets to 650 In
order that the patrons of the Excu rsron may en-
joy the day, and they are positively assured that
,that number Will be issued and no more.
Tickets - - £1.00.
Including admission to the pier. Ma be obtain-
cd of Bro. G. Ward Selleck, George \ .Raymond.
and John Spencer. at Norwalk, and at South
Norwalk, of Bro. James A. Brown.
The Committee ask for-patronage of tho frater-
nity and the public generally, and assure their
patrons of their utmost endeavors to make the
excursion a day of pleasure and enjoyment. The
N cw Iron Pier offers great attractions to the ex-
cursionists. cxtendin 1000 feet Into the ocean.
It a grand promena e. Grand Concerts. every
afternoon on the Picnat Cables, West Brighton.
Brighton and Manhattan Beach—Arbuck e and
Levy, Solo Cornetists at West Brighton and Man-
hattan. to. . _
Music on the boat for those who wish to par tic-
ipate in the pleasures of the dance.
Refreshments Will be furnished on board by the
po ular caterer. Frederick Mead.
he boat will leave LANGDON’S WHARF, ad-
joining the Carriage Bridge, South Norwalk, at 8
o’clock, sharp.
DISTRICT OF NORWALK, 55., Probate Court,
August 16th, A. D. 18 9.
_ Estate 9: LYDIA GRUMMAN,Iate of Wilton.
In said District, deceased.
Gaussian—That the Executor exhibit his Ad-
ministration account to this Court for adjustment
at the Probate Olllcc In Norwalk, on the 30th do
of August,1879,at9 o’clock, forenoon; and that a l
persons Interested In said Estate may be notified
thereof. the Executor wrll cause this order to be
published In a newspaper printed in Fairfield
County, and est a copy thereof on the sign
post in lipid t Jltopt, riteiarcit 4,:th place where.tbe
I' ~- as we .a one use ‘
30th day of August, 1879. y before “I‘d
163 ASA B. WOODWABD. J udgc.
DISTRICT OF N ORWALK, ss. Probate Court,
‘ August 15th, 1819.
Estate. of :TOIIN RAYMOND. late of New
Canaanun said District, deceased.
Ihe Court .of Ponbate for the District of N or-
walk, hath limited and allowed six months from
the datehereot‘ for the Creditors or said Estate
to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who
neglect to present their ncconnts,properly attest-
ed, Within said time, will be debarred a recovery.
All pencils inducibtted to saidllthtate are requested
to make more a 'e a men a
3 “ oscmpwy: RAYMOND, Executor.
Disrnrcr or NORWALK,sn.,Probate Court
August 15th. 1379-
Estate of JAMES MALLORY, late or N oxwalk,
in said district. deceased- , ,
The Court of Probate for the DistrictofNor-
walk,bath limited and allowed six monthst‘rom
the date hereof,tor the creditors of said estate,
to exhiblttbeirclaims forscttlement. Thosewho
neglectto prosentthciracconnts proper! y attested
wrthln so d, time, Will he‘dcbarred a recovery
All personsmdebtcd to said estatearcrequcsted
to make Immediate paymentto
J. FITCH MALLOBY
3tp33 F. J. MALLORY,
I Executors.
DISTRICT OF NORWALK. as. Probate Court,
‘ August 14th 1879.
Estate or JOHN' J. cnannuann late or Wil-
ton, in said District deaceased.
The Court of Probate for the District of Nor-
walk hath limited and and allowed six months
from the date hereof for the Creditors of said Es-
tate to exhibit their claims l'or settlement. Those
who neflccfi to present their accounts ,properly
atteste , Within stud two. will be debarred a re-
covcry. All persons lndebted to said Estate are
requested to make Immediate pa men: to
LUCIA M. cannadaxn.
8&33 Attics Executrix.
3-. new ~vrarr"::-": t‘! War-$.‘T7‘G'J . "on. .. .-.
Silesia
Misses Brockw’ay’s
Select School
FfllAlllllll Latin and Children,
l'ch St, Norwalk, Conn,
E".:""."‘t" "- -
. . egn a! onrse our Ye _
tion to Preparatorz and rriix‘i'iry‘fl'ffi “leg“
Instruction In_ the languages, Music muffle” Sd
Crayon Drawrng. and _ amting in Water cman
l.“f§"h§l‘°.3.‘itdttit° is" wuss:
- - . ommenc
cises June 23, 1880’ emem Excr-
lm33 III. A. BROCKWAY. Principal.
DH.- FITCJE’S
Family and Day School
FOR BOYS.
BE FALL TERM will common
T SEPT. 8th. Pupils received at any air:
over six. Young Ladresare also admitted to the
Day Department,both in the Primary and Ad-
vanced Course. Sessions arranged to accommo-
date pupils wishing to commute on the cars.
Penmanship and Bookkeeping, a. specialty.
taught by teachers of large experience. Young
Ladies and Gentlemen fitted for College.
.Rctcrencc: any former patron. Call or send for
circular. Appl cations may be made to
3m30 Dn. J. C. FITCHkPrincipal,
orwalk, Conn.
MISS STEVEN 8’
ENDIISH AND DllSSIDAl
FAMILY and DAY SCHOOL.
Young Ladies fitted for llollege. children
well Drilled in Rudimentary Branches.
For pupils who do not desire a full College
. curriculum, 9. very thorough course is ar-
ranged, including Latin, French, or Greek, if
required, at the close of which a Testimonial
is presented. Winter Session commences
September 9th, 1879.
Your Ladies and Dillard’s
I N S T I T U T E .
BELDEN AVENUE, NORWALK,
ILL rc-open on -WEDNESDAY. SEPT.ioth.
EU Thprougliness In each Department is the
aim” of this Institution. Special attention will be
given to younger pupils b the Principal. Full
College Course for Young dies. An 0 portqu-
ty wt 1 be given _to those not connectedp with the
school to receive Instruction in German on reason-
able terms by an experienced instructor. For
further Information address
188 E. M. CARTER.
Box 83, Norwalk 1’. 0.
NORWALK LATIN SCHOOL
A Classical and Engllsh School
for Boys.
FIRST SESSION Sept. 81b, 1 879. It
Wlll give a thorough English Education, and
preparation for College, Scientific School or Busi-
ness. German Will be made a special feature.
Circulars may be obtained at Andrew Selleck’e, at
the Drug Stores of Norwalk and South Norwalk,
or by addressing ALEXANDER JOHNSTON,
A. M...Box 470. Norwalk. Conn.
L? Special Arrangements wrll be made, if de-
sired, for a class in German to _be composed of'
adults or others not connected With the School.
The School Building 13 located on High Street,
removed from the business streets, but near the
Horse Car Depot. Scholars Will not be gnawed to
Leave the vicinity of the building during school
ours.
LOOUST HILL SEMINARY,
Jamar, com. ,
Prepares girls for Smitb,Vassar, Hol eke, Welles-
ey, or Graduates. Board 3200. ' v
Scnoor. OPENS SEPTEMBER 1713,1879,
Circulars at Seminary.
M SS E. D. WARD. Principal.
nnrmcnxcrzs:
Rev. A. W. Cowles, D. D.. Prest. of Elmira Fe-
male College, Elmira. N. Y.; Rev. E. B. Chapin,
Ph. D.. Principal of Collegiate School, 2 and 4
East 60th street, N._Y. : Prof. H.A.Ward, Protest
nor of Natural Science, Rochester University.
Rochester, N. Y. mas
Tax Collector’s Notice.“
Norton is hereby given to all persons llable to
pay taxes in the Over River School District.
m the town of Norwalk. on the assessment list of
1878, that 1 am readfi to receive said taxes at the
store of Andrew Se eck. Esq. Onepex cent. per
month wrll be added to all flutes nmauung unpaid
after the 2d day of October. 1879. .
JACOB TURK, Collector.
Norwalk. Conn., August 11, 1879. 3I32
AT WEB'I'POR'I'. _
Everything fiuildallonSe, _
AT THE OLD STAND.
Schooner Josie now landing extra
TIMBER and LATE,
from Calais. Call and see. As good andcheap as
can be found in the State.
,3. Staples.
5 4
Cases New Roads
Just Come in.
Prices are
I Advancing.
Thick and Calf Boots from
15 to 50 cts. higher
in Price.
We are Selling at old fig-
ures, now.
RUBBER BOOTS
Of the best makes, new
cost $2.44 not, by
the case,
We are selling, at present,
at $2.50. . ., '
5 Cases
“Old ' Reliable”
Thick Boots, Double Sole
and Tap, at $2.00.
You never saw
a. better .
boot for the money.
I. H. HllY'l'l a. .
A. H. HOYT. J. F. 1117500.
READ THIS.
Those who passed my house, on West-
port road, during, July, perhaps noticed
large Double Hollyhocks, three colors,
5’61 pm brigh pink, and varigated; very
choree ; handsomer than roses. The
came from the west. I have no
seed to sell, but will give a small pack—
age to any one who wish. I have left
them attA. H. Hoyt & Co’s. All you
have, to do is to ask for them. Sow them
this month. You will have flowers next
year.
J. F. RUSCO.
W
Norwalk Chronicler