Norwalk Gazette.
‘a‘ucsday,Decembcr 20 1881.
Fairfield County Itenié.
cirv or WEST NORWALK.
Your city and bOrough residents may be
satisfied with the "Fairfield County Direc-
tory,” but we unsophisticated resident-s do
not find it very correct, and many names of
the oldest residents are not found in it. A
great directory that.
Our newspaper readers have scanned the
appointments and confirmations of postmas-
ters to learn who is to be our new postmaster.
Perhaps those who have ordered fruit trees
from agents of nurseries 1,000 miles away
will learn that it is wisdom to see if better and
cheaper trees cannot be had nearer home.
Many of the fruit trees delivered here from
western New York are a fraud, both in size
and quality. Better goods can be had at
Hoyt’s Nursery at two-thirds the price.
WILTON.-
The Rev. Mr. \Vakcman, a native and
former resident of Wilton, occupied the pul-
pit of the Congregational Church on Suneay
morning. . _
The Village Improvement Society held a
meeting on Friday afternoon last, and after
strengthening the organization adjourned to
the first Friday in January. As this is a
move in the right direction we hope it will
be supported, although the objection has
been raised that the improvements intended
will increase taxation.
The funeral of Mrs. A. M. Reed of Can-
non Station, was attended at St. Stephen’s
Church, Ridgefield, on the 12th. Mrs.
Reed’s cheerful presence and quiet ministra-
tions will be missed by those who know her
best.
St. Matthew’s Church will hold the usual
Christmas Eve exercises. With the Congre-
gational folks, however, it will be an “off
year.”
The Debating Society will wrestle on
Friday evening with the question “are civi«
lized nations justified in seizing upon and
occupying countries inhabited by savages P”
Mr. T. C. Rockwell, the grocer, was mar-
ried on Wednesday evening in New York
city, to a Miss Robinson. The happy pair
have the best wishes of all, who hope that
their anticipations for a happy future may be
more than realized.
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WEST STRATFORD.
This is the beginning‘of a week that will
test the capacity of a great many purses.
Storekeepers are now tormented by child-
ren, who come in begging for cards and
boxes. _
Merchants should now be on’the watch for
kleptomaniacs, in crowded stores.
The custom of sending holiday presents by
mail is rapidly growing, and much business
is taken from the express companies in con-
sequence. »
The scheme to annex this place to Bridge-
pbrt, does not 5.. find much favor among a
great portion of the inhabitants of the bor-
ough.
The borough officers elect, will be . sworn
in, one week from to-morrow night.
In a sermon preached by Rev :M. H.
Pogsou, at the First Baptist Church in
Bridgeport, Sunday night, he spoke of
Guiteau as a representative ,of the place
hunters, and said no amount of sickly or pu-
ling sentimentality should be allowed to cheat
the gallows of its candidate.
Mrs. Salome Taylor, widow of the late
Judge Taylor, of Bethel, died at the residence
of Mr. J.‘ L. Harlemfion South Avenue, in
Bridgeport, Saturday. She was the mother
of Mrs. Harlem, and had resided with her for
the last fifteen years.
The increase in the {membership of the
different Sunday—schools in this vicinity, is
very noticeable just at present.
The mild weather thus far this winter,
proves a great blessing to many a poor fam-
il .
yWest Sfratford has no facilities for use in
case of a fire ; not even a ladder, or bucket.
Our merchants are making a very neat and
attractive display of holiday goods. W.
STAMFORD.
Stamford is to have a new hose company,
to be known as “Pacific.”
Rev. Mr. Grant’s mother was buried last
week.
Thos. Matthews, of New Haven, a brake;
man, was knocked from the top of a car near
Selleck’s cut, W'cdncsday evening, and re-
ceived severe cuts and bruises.
Hubbard’s block was somewhat damaged
by fire, on Sunday week. The firemen were
promptly on hand and soon extinguished the
flames. The stock of Parker d: Ward and I.
Bernhard were damaged several hundred
dollars by water.
The Stamford Band gave a, concert last
j Friday night. .
Daniel Young, who fell from a scaffold at
the Yale Lock Factory, died soon after
reaching home. He leaves a wife whom he
married in Darieu about nine months ago.
Five hogs raised on the Town Farm, re-
cently slaughtered, weighed 2,350 pounds.
A Borough meeting was held last evening
to consider the matter of procuring a new
charter. '
GREENWICH.
The Railroad company Shave introduced
the Collequam water.
Lent’s carriage factory is undergoing ex-
tensive repairs.
The sewerage question is now the all-ab—
sorbing topic, and probably will continue to
be for a long time. Two systems are pro-
posed, the Waring and the W. B. Rider,
both of which call for an outlay “not exceed-
ing $12,000.”
The Mianus Band has bought Mrs. Hop-
kins’ building on Diamond Hill and will fit
it up as a reading room and for rehearals.
DANBURY.
The Broom drill at the G. A. R.-cntertain-
ment was a pleasing success.
A Relief Society has been organized.
The fire alarm bell has arrived. Its weighs
over 3,000 pounds. For the first month after
it is in position, false alarms will give people
no rest.
Fare from Danbury to Newburg, on the
Hudson, $1.47, ,
The Connecticut Telephone Company is
negotiating for the purchase of the Danbury
Telephone Exchange.
Two churches in town are seeking pastors.
The Methodist revival continues with una-
bated interest.
Rev. W. H. Boole lectured in town last
Sunday.
Danbury is to have a new restaurant. The
proprietor is Green—by name.
Saturday afternoon the Bridgeport police
found three children who had been in ‘a tene-
ment for three or four days with neither fire
nor food. The oldest was fourteen years and
the youngest eight. The mother had left the
city without providing for their care during
her absence. To make it still worse their
grandmother went to the house and carried
away the stove and bedding. ‘ The mother
explained her unnatural conduct by saying
that she went to Derby, became ill and could
not return. It is said that she was with a
man and that she wants to rid herself of her
children. -
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Last week Wallace and George Terrell,
aged twelve and ten years, sons of Mrs.
Henry Terrell of" Colebrook,whilo.on their
way to school stopped to try. the skating on
a pond, and both were drowned by the break-
ing of the ice. They had been drowned
an hour and a half when they were found. -
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Governor and Mrs. Blackburn of Kentucky
entertained a thousand guests at an old-fash-
ioned “quilting” last week. The quilt was
actually finished by divers young ladies and
gentlemen, and the evening was ended with
quaint old reels and jigs danced to the music
of darkey liddlers. The young ladies were
attired in costumes of the last century, some
of them wearing the treasured dress of their
great-grandmothers.
Hope——
Truth, one of the brightest of all the Lon
don \vceklies,tells the Whole story of Guiteau
and finds the right name for him in two sen-
tences, as follows: “As for his being mad,
this is nonsense. He is a pernicious fool,and
if he were acquitted on the ground of insani-
ty, the life of no President in America would
be safe against the endeavor-a of pernicious
fools like him, seeking to thrust themselves
into notoriety ."
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Don Cameron had an English architect
plan‘his Washington residence. That’s why
people ask what church is 1t.——Detroz‘t Fm:
Press. , .
WESTPORT.
Ponds were frozen over Saturday and ys.
had a splendid time skating.
The ladies of the Congregational chu ch
are to give a fair during Christmas week.
Mr. Russell Dowd is reported so seriou. y
ill that his recovery is a problem-
Hurlbutt sells the Gaznrrn weekly, an
he also fills orders promptly for MI“ P0“
oysters.
Temple Lodge holds its annual Communi-
cation for the election of officers, Thursday
evening.
Efforts are making to decorate both Epis-
copal churches with fine taste this year.
Young folks are having lively times nightly
tying the greens. \
Will somebody explain how it is that, in
an old paint shop, destitute of most things,
save filth and a coal ‘fire in a sugarloaf stove,
the presence of Christmas evergreens or the
handling of them can draw from young
hearts so much of apparent real joy and
gladness ?
The cost of the Saugatuck carriage bridge,
including expense growing out of litigation
after completion. was about $29,000—ncarly
twice what our village bridge cost, exclusive
of draw. The friends of the contractors took
pains to make it appear at the time that the
town was geitiug'a splendid return for its
money—best investment ever made by the
town, and all that. That that bridge would
stand after other bridges in the vicinity had
fallen to decay. These friends (.9) also took
pains to impress strangers with the beauty
and symmetry of the new bridge as compar-
ed with its neighbors, that the movement to
build the bridge was wise, and the cost not
unreasdnably heavy. In short the builders
took the job as a sort of advertisement of
their business and actually lost money. The
town came down solid in payment of the
original appropriation, $21,000,for the bridge,
and, as is well known, was forced to pay
costs in all the suits at law which followed.
Scrrccly had the “beauteous gem’ ’. been hand-
ed over to the Selectmen when a coat of
white wash to conceal its hideous outlines
and keep out the weather was found neces-
sary. This cost quite a sum. Presently the
planking, being very' sappy and nailed on
lengthwise the bridge, began to decay and
split. Big bill for replanking. A sloop and
then a schooner ran against the bridge—the
string-pieces sagged, having decayed at the
ends, and were of too light timber anyway—-
the draw got askew and had to be kept bols-
tered up by a more or less observing tender,
to whom the town paid a salary—a canaller
ran under the draw as the tide was rising
and stuck, lifting the structure far above the
bearings—men were sent; last summer to
relieve the apparent strain on the bridge by
straining their brains to find what kind of
bolts and screws would best accomplish the
purpose, and when they got through the
lines of the bridge were,to bring in an old fig-
ure, S‘crooked as a ram’s horn." It is only
twelve years or-so since the bridge was open-
ed to the public, and the public in whose in-
terest it was supposed to have been built say
it is dangerous crossing now. This means
more outlay to make it safe, and old citizens
say the Selectmen are likely to be kept busy
Studying on the bridge, for a freshet with
ice next spring, such as has been known.
many times here, would easily carry that
bridge down stream. The point which is a
stickler for the taxpayers is,that there should
be such miserable ending to so grand and
magnificent a beginning.
Rev. Mr. Lewis, at Memorial church, Sun-
day morning, administered a well-merited
rebuke to those who, by their absence, help-
ed swell the number of empty seats in his
own as well as sister churches.
While kerosene oil is almost as cheap as
water—and as plenty, there is no reasonable
excuse for the Selectmen to delay lighting
certain of our streets.
It is whispered there will be an old-fash-
ioned “candy pull” somewhere on Golden
Hill, King street, during Christmas week.
There will be a “sweet” time, and persons
who consider themselves “stuck up” will be
invited.
The town Board of Relief meet Monday,
January 2d, 1882, at the office of the Select-
men. . .
Capt. Alfred Taylor is really improving in
health. The same can be said of Mr. A. C.
Nash. Mr. A. S. Hurlbutt has returned from
Watertown, N. Y., decidedly better.
Pioneer Hook d: Ladder Company is to
give a sociable and dance at Sturgcs’ Hall,
Dec. 28th. White, of Bridgeport, will sup-
ply music.
An old citizen remarking on the present
peculiar winter weather says he never knew
two severe winters to occur in succession.
The same with two open winters. He noti-
ces also that a very hot summer is, as a rule,
succeeded by a late fall and open winter in
the early portion. What we are now having
proves what he says, and indicates what all
hope we may not get—a late spring in 1882.
Excitement, like misfortune, never comes
singly. Following that growing out of the
Lees commutation ticket business current in
the early part of the week, comes another
similar case, the parties suspected being
prominent and highly respectable citizens.
Detectives are busy working up the affair.
Miss Mary Jones, daughter of Mr. John S.
Jones, and Robert Gault, son of Mr. John
Gaulf, will be married by Rev. A. N. Lewis
in Temple Lodge, Wednesday evening, Dec.
215i. After the ceremony, in National Hall,
there will 'be a supper and general merry
making. Many invitations have been issued.
“PAUL."
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Facts are indisputable, and low prices,
good merchandise, polite treatment, and vast
assortment of silks, suits and rich dress goods
coupled with truthful advertising, and hon-
est representations, have made an enviable ‘
reputation for the house of Messrs. W. E.
Hall & Co. of Bridgeport.
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Captains Roberts] and Wright, two old
coasters while dredging for oysters last Fri-
day, caught an Angler or See. Devil. It is 3
feet long, twenty inches wide, has a mouth
eleven inches long, with two rows of teeth
and weighs about fifty pounds. 0n the
under side of the body he has two hands, and
in appearance they are simular to the human
hand,-—having five fingers. It is claimed
these are used for burrowing in the sand.
Capt. Roberts had the curiosity on exhibition
for three or four days and it is estimated
that over two hundred people availed them-
selves of the opportunity to see the monster.
— Sentinel. ,
Mr. H. B. Rogers has purchased the old
Ayrcs property opposite the bank, and it is
rumored that a building to accommodate his
clothing business will be erected thereon,but
as this is only a. rumor we simply state it as
such. It is a fact that he has bought the
property, and we sincerely hope that the
building rumor may prove to be a fact.—New
Canaan Messenger. .
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'William Lee died in Ridgefield, Monday
night, aged eighty-one years. He was for
twelve years a. deputy sheriff, had represent—
ed the town in thelegislature, and for many
years was a justice of the peace.
”—WQM
gglt’oman‘s rights—husbands.
“ Julius, scizerl” said Sambo,as Julius was
——Ncwton Republican.
Who says it's unhealthy to sleep in feath-
ers? Look at the spring chicken and see how
rough he its—Boston Courier.
He missed a minister who had preached
there for many years,an on asking for him
one of the deacons said: "Oh you mean Mr.
‘hancel ; yes, we sent him his resignation
last fall—Philadelphia Ledger.
George W. Thompson, cashier in the bank-
ing house of Hatch do Powers on Pine street.
confesses that he has lost $30,000 of the firm’s
money playing faro. The gamblers who W0
the money are under arrest. '
“The wreath of the queen of England,”
says cx-Judgc Lochrane of Georgia, “placed
on the remains of General Garfield will be
fragrant in the history' of the future, and
makes sweeter the courtesiss between the two
greatest nations on the earth.”
' The London Times says that “it will take
six months to remove the timber blown down
by the late hurricane on the estates of the
Duke of Northumberland. ” It is very evident
that the Times’ liar is heading for the first
prize this season—Chicago Tribune.
Rather neatly does the Boston Herald say:
“ The new hyphenated daily in New Orleans
is called the Times-Democrat, another in-
stance of a Democrat being behind the
times.” .
contemplating a fat pullet in the moonlight.
Apostrophe to 1881.
Thou hast grown old,yes very old, my friend,
And soon thy number’d days will have an
end! ’
And I would chat with thee, are they shall
say
That Eighty-one is dead, has passed away.
Thou had’st a cold reception at thy birth,
If I remember rightly—then the earth
Was frozen to its very core; and snow
Made teeth to chatter,—It was so, I trow;
' It was thy prcdecessor‘s fault, not thine;
He should have manag’d that the day was
fine;
here’s no use scolding now, by word or-
letter,
,Tis told that you may try and do much bet-
; ter ;
’hat when the chimes for Eighty-two are
i striking,
He may find things much more unto his lik-
mg.
Tlins far thou art entitl’d to all praise;
Shipmer and Autumn have been bless’d by
‘ rays
Which millions cheei’d; producing ample
‘, yield
Of richest fruits in orchard and in field.
But thou hast witnessed—we blame thee not--
Full many crimes which cannot be forgot;
One, by a murderer’s band, who foully slew
The man of men, belov’d by all, and true.
The infidelic jest thou oft hast heard,
And wonder’d that heaven’s judgment was
deferred ; '
Surpris’d that in a Christian land so bless’d,
So many were thus fiendishly. possess’d.
The Sabbath day, so kindly giv’n by Heav’n,
And deem’d by it the sacred one of sev’n,
Thou hast seen desecrated, and despoil’d
Of all its sanction ; man and beast have
toil’d
Deaf to the Decalogue : wholly intent
On sensuality, to its full bent!
And thou wert griev’d, for thou adroi’st
pow’r
That formed thy term, its cv’ry day and hour”
the
Some, cheering scenes have pass’d before thy
gaze ;
Th’ assembled. few, who met to pray, and
prayed
Him who created thee, and crown’d the year
With goodness, loving kindness and good
cheer.
Then good bye Eighty-one; I, in advance,
WOuld say farewell! Yet still I may, per-
chance,—
If life be spar’d—thy eulogy repeat;
Thou hast my record, and I do entreat
That when ’tis called, when time shall have
an end,
Thoul’t mitigate my faults and prove my
friend. Tmmos.
New Publications.
Ladies who have been in the habit of read-
ing Harper’s Bazar, will be sure to continue
their subscriptions for 1882. Those who are
not familiar with it should become so at once,
Read the prospectus in another column‘
Will club it with the GAZETTE for one year,
for $5.25.
Tun JANUARY CENTURY will ‘be'delayed
this month until the 23d, One of its novel
features is to be a frontispice printed
in tint—a portrait of ex-President ,Thiers,
accompanying an article by the Hon. Elihu
B. Washburne,our former Ministér to France.
Afull-pngey‘portrait of Queen Margaret of
Italy is given in connection with an article
on the making of Burano lace, for which the
Prince Louise of England has made a sketch.
The number also has another portrait of
President Garfield (from an arts-type by
Edward Bierstadt, N. Y.), :which will ac-
company an anecdotal paper by Colonel A.
F. Rockwell, entitled “From Mentor to El-
heron.”
Ps'rnnspx’s MAGAZiNn for Janury is a
superb number. There are two steel- engrav-
ings, “Happy as a Queen,” and “Playing at
Doctor,” the latter most amusing. Besides
these, there is a double size, steel. Paris
fashion plate, elegantly colored, and also a
beautiful colored pattern for working in
crewel; a “Sun Flower" design. The price
is astonishing low, :viz: $2.00 a copy for
one year, postage paid. To clubs, it is lower
still, four copies for $6.50. Specimens of
the magazine sent gratis to persons wishing
to get up clubs. Address Chas. J. Peterson,
306 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
Hie WIDE AWAKE for December is a bril-
liant closing of the year; its serials all end
satisfactorily and it has a full quota of short
storieo, sketches, poems, etc.,all handsomely
illustrated. It has been much enlarged the
last year and now' ranks number one among
children’s publications. Now. is the time to
make your subscriptions for another year.
D. Lothrop &. 00., Boston, publishers, We
will send it with the Gamma for one year
for $4.50.
WQ—Silk‘ Umbrellas, at Coars'rooK Bnos‘.
.
WHoney, Rock Candy Drips or Syrup
f or Buckwheat Cakes, at Finney & Benedict’s
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rsoniidren’s Clothing 3. specialty at COM-
srocn Bn ornnns‘. .
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Mrs. Langtry has a $5,000 dress. That
settles it. She is a great actress—Elmira
Free Press.
A member of the First regiment has been
dishonorably disrharged because of drunken-
ness on the Yorktown trip.
The Emperor William’s recent illness was
caused by an over indulgence in lobster;
even the king upon his throne is not so mighty
as a lobeter.——Boston Post.
Jay Gould, lim Keene and Vanderbilt are
forming a Christmas present syndicate. They
have paternally resolved that a certain Chica-
go belle shall have her stocking filled for
once, anyhow. v—Philadelphia News.
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The best judicial opinion formally express
ed from the bench upon alleged insanity as
an excuse for crime, was rendered by Judge
Davis in the Mrs. Coleman trial in New
York last week. He said :
“Whatever the views of scientists or theor—
late on the subject of insanity may be, and
however great a variety of classification they
may adopt, the law in a criminal case brings
the whole to the single test—did the person
doing the act at that time have sufficient
sense to know what he was doing, and that it
was wrong to do it? If that be his condition
it is of no consequence that he acts under an
irresistible influence or an imaginary inspira-
tion in committing the wrong. Emotional
insanity, impulsive insanity inspirational tn-
sanity,insanity of the will or the. moral sense
all vanish into thin air whenever it appears
that the accused knew the difference between
right and wrong at the time and in respect of
his act.
No imaginary inspiration to do a personal
and private wrong under a delusion or belief
that some great public benefit will flow
from it, when the nature of the not done and
the probable consequences, and that it is in
itself wrong, are known to the actor can
amount to that insanity which in law disarms
the'act of criminality.
Under such notionsof legal insanity, life,
property and rights, both publifl and private,
would he altogether insecure; and every man
who, by brooding over his wrongs, real or
imaginary, shall work himself up to an irre-
pressible impulse to avenge himself , or his
friend, or his party,can with impunity become
a self elected judge, jury and executioner in
his own case for the redress of his own in-
juries ‘or of the imaginary wrongs of his
friends, his party, or his country. But, hap-
pily, ntle'fnen of the jury, that is not the
law ;fnd whenever such ideas of insanity
ofte they have been), crime escapes punish-
men »not through the emotional insanity of
the accused, but through the emotional in-
sanity of courts and juries.”
O
“ entle Annie.”—-Yes, it will be proper to
wfik‘a monogram in the liver pad which the
y ung ladies are getting up for the pastor of
r church—Ultimo Tribum.
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are a plied to a given case as the law (as too ‘
City Items.
A new National Bank is talked of in the
city.
Poor spellers take kindly to the “spelling
reform.”
Old Well Lodge, F. d; A. M., ehct officers
this evening.
Douglass Fowler Post will hold a. camp fire
on the evening of Jan. 30th.
It is said that an addition to the Lock Com.
pany foundry is in contemplation.
Mr. Borden and sister from Brooklyn, are
boarding at the “Mahackemo” for the win-
ter.
Old Well Hook & Ladder Co. propose
holding a series of sociables this winter, in
their rooms.
Mr. Frank Burrilt,for'whom the Estelle
was built, has contracted for a new sloop
yacht, to be built at City Island.
"Woodmen” did not spare that old cherry
tree in the yard of Mr. Hoyt, corner of
High street. It has been cut down, and into
fire wood. .
George Sélleck was buried from his late
residence on Chestnut street, on Friday p.
m. Appropriate services were held, Rev.
Mr. Dunning officiating. Members of
the Congregational Church choir, and volun-
teers singing appropriate hymns.
Kerosene was King and Tallow Prime
Minister in the City last Wednesday evening.
A break occurred in the gas mains and con-
sumers were cut off from their usual supply
of gas for the night. The supper at Music
Hall had to be postponed until the next
evening. .
The following are the newly elected offi-
cers of Butler Chapter, R. A. M.: Thad-
deus Guyer, M. E. H. P.; G. W. Smith, E.
K.; H. D. FOX, E. 18.; John E. Smith,
Treas. ; J. M! Wilcox, Sec’y; Theo. Wilcox,
C. of H. ; J. :‘M, Warden, P. S. ; W. B. Reed,
R. A. C.; P. Decker, M. 8d. V. ; Geo. Nor-
vell, M. 2d V.; L. E. Dennis, M. lst V. ; M,
Goodwin, Sentinel.
There is en outrageous nuisance which
ought td be abated. We refer to the unne-
cessary loud and bmg continued whistle of the
locomotives of the late trains, while switch-
ing. If there is any delay on the part of the
switchinan, the engineers manifest their
displeasures by whistling long and loud
greatly to the annoyance. of residents, espec-
ially the sick.
Mrsu Wm. Wood of Bridgeport, was
visiting friends in this city a few day since.
An'interesting service was held in the
Congleagational Church, Sunday evening.
The slibject under consideration being the
“Ca 8 of Temperance." Rev. ,Mr. Hill
preaghed, but before announcing his text,
allu ed very touchingly to the presence to
Rev(. Mr. Taylor, who was with them at the.
un‘bn service for the last time. The church
w, full of earnest listeners.
On Christmas evening, a concert will be
giben in the church, by the Congregational
Srindny-sehool.
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Letters from the People.
1 At the First Baptist Church, Sunday morn-
. . s' D . 18 .h services were conducted b
for it is a woman’s, paper par excellence. ling, so i ’ y
Rev. James Smith, who gave an excellent
discourse from John 3 : 3, “ Except a man
be born again, doc.” By our first or physi-
cal birth we are born into the natural world ;
we are born to die. By the second birth:
born into the spiritual world; born to live.
General morality of character is not a proof
of the new birth. To be able ’to say “ We
have Abraham to our father,” not suflflcicnt
or conclusive. It is a change of heart; is
the renewal of the image of God a bringing
out of darkness into light? The new birth
instantaneous. Night at. once disappeared,
light came. No questioning or misgivings
in regard to its reality; are either alive or
dead. This book recognizes no uncertainty.
It is beyond the power of humanity to effect,
it is a divine change. It is essential to future
happiness and enjoyment, a glorious change.
Without this change we cannot be acceptable
to God. Notice the necessity of the change ;
the statement of Scripture “ Ye must be
born again.” All the promises in this book
are given to the children of God. The evi-
dence of the new birth, first love. 1f there
is’love in our hearts it is of God. Second
evidence, Faith. Third evidence, non-con-
formity to the world; prayer to God another
evidence. He cited the event of Pa .il’s con-
version; attachment to God’s people an evi-
dence; a love for God's house an evidence ;
obedience to the commands of God the highest
evidence that can be given. “Ye are my
disciples, if ye do whatsoever I command
you.” A complete conformity of the will
and the conduct to that of God.
Evening Service—Scriptural reading from
Psalm 85; text from Luke 15:17—“He
came to himself." How touching and graphic
the description of the state of total wretch-
edness, almost insanity. Notice the condi-
tion of the condition of the sinner; asimi-
lar state of madness, stupidity and folly;
acts by impulse, calculates not the conse-
quences. Madness, often connected with
strange delusions, often profanes the name
of God, often leads to self destruction, often
Spiritual madness, inexcusable, dangerous to
others, tends to the death of the soul. Only
one efficient remedy, one specific time for its
cure. “Now is the accepted time, the day
of salvation.”
.p—.——'—‘
fi—B‘Pine Apple, Quince, Plum and Raspber-
ry preserves and mince meat, by the pound,
at Finney 65 Benedict’s.
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@Buy your Fine Neckwear of Common
BROTHERS. '
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W New Dates at Finney & Benedict’s.
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@Silk Suspenders, at Conrsrocx Bnos’.
*4.p—-.————-
Bridgeport, Conn, with 30,000 inhabitants
has 200 licensed places where liquor is sold:
Mr. P. T. Barnumf in a letter to the com-
missioners for revising the license laws of
Connecticut, urges the manifold advantages
of limiting the number and increasing the
price of licenses. He believes that each
liquor saloon in Bridgeport depreciates the
value of adjacent property by an average of
$5,000, and that if the number of licenses
was reduced to one for each thousand inhab-
itants an enormous financial benefit would
result, to say nothing of public and private
decency and order.
.._.—————
He disturbed the meeting by continually
coughing. He was not to blame for the
cough, but was for not curing it, when Peer-
less Cough Syrup could be bought on his way
to church. Only 50 cents and $1 per bottle.
H. S. Belts, agent.
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A Hartford man calls a neighbors roosters
crocuss.
When is nigh] like a music book? When
she is full of airs.
A congregation is often sold by the choir.—
Toledo American. ,
Weaving is not the only business
up.—Lowell Courier.
The thunder is about the most reliable
weather report.
:Mapleson’s new prima doana.Marie Vachot
is not to be sneezed at.—Ncw Orleans Picay-
um.
The Sun is informed that Secretary Blaine
contemplates apermancnt residence in New
York city.
One is abeer mug and the other a mere
bug. The conundrum is of no importance.—
C’ambridge Tribune.
Philadelphia papers are crying for five-cent
fares in the streetcars. That is fare enough.
—Lowell Citizen. -
A Latin bible printed in 1462 sold for
£1,600 at the Sunderland library salein Lon-
don last week.
"I prefer lighter literauire.” as the gouty
man said when Worcestcr’s Unabridged fell
on his toes—Elenaterl Railway Jozu'nal._
A bird that lives on the finuy tribe is a
fish—hawk; and the man who sells the finuy
tribe is a tish-hawker.—Lowcll Gourz'er.
Men who have never had any advantages
sometimes make it up by taking advantage of
every body they have dealings with—Oil
City Derrick.
Eight divorce eases followed the establish-
ment of a female barber shop in Kansas City.
Wives, lather your own husbands. -])ctroz.'l
Free Press. .
ESaid the New Hampshire man to his cred-
itors: “I can’t. pay that $7 to-day, but elec-
tion comes next week, and the outlook is it
will be close in this town. The day after I’ll
pay you the money.”—Bostor_z Post.
———-—-——. o.
that lodms
/“ fl‘ Hm--jww
Warner’s SafecKldncy and Liver
a
'prepared to kill if necessary for his own safe-
Lcading citizens in different parts of the
State, have awakened to the necessity of en-
acting sevcrcr laws for the repression of bur-
glary. There is no reason why our State
may not be shunned by this villainous gentry
as easily as it has caused the tramps to pass
us by on the other side. Little Delaware is
almost exempt from burglarous raids while
the thieves from New York and Philadelphia
raid with apparent impunity close to her
State line, but safely on the Pennsylvania
side. The reason of this is, Delaware inflicts
In severe castigation upon the bare back- of
the arrested burglar, before incarcerating
him in prison. A law should be enacted by
our next Legislature making the penalty for
a burglarous entry into an occupied dwelling
at night, imprisonment for not less than ten
years, and whenever any deadly weapon is
found upon any such detected burglar, the
penalty should be imprisonment for life, the
same as in any conviction for murder in the
second degree. We would be rejoiced to see
the severest penalties enacted to repress this
growing cvrl. The Hartford Courant forci-
bly says : .
“John Thomas, the negro burglar, gets a
sentence of twenty years in state prison, and
everybody will hail this announcement .with
satisfaction. Public opinion is decidedly
alive just now on the subject of burglary,
and people are at last beginning to realize
that the crime is one of the most; infamous
and dangerous that society knows. Thomas
gets his long sentenée from'a multiplicity of
counts, but he is just as much entitled to it
had he only one offence proved against him.
. To enter another man’s house and plunder
it is a sufficiently aggravating act to entitle
the offender to heavy punishment, but when
as burglars all do, the criminal goes in armed,
ty from arrest, then the aggravating becomes
intense. The possibility of waking up any
time to a struggle with an armed outlaw de-
stroys for many persons the enjoyment of
home. Indeed, the terrorism that his blood-
thirstinessinspires. is one of the burglar’s
especial reliances. It goes before him to
make the way clear. Few men care to grap-
ple with him, and of those that do every one
is liable to death or permanent disability. In
sentiment it is a heroic act, and each time
that a householder captures a burglar he does
a brave deed, and does a benefit to society.
Whether it is as wise as it is brave is open to
argument. The sanctity of home, of course
is worth all and every defense, but it is not
every man that is willing to be killed in his
own home for the sake of preventing further
inroads upon the homes of other people, es-
pecially‘whcn there is a large yearly outlay
of public money for the express purpose of
protecting our households. .
What we want is to make it more danger-
one to be a burglar in Connecticut, so that the
“profession” shall prefer some other State.
And the way to (If) this is to make the pun-
ishment for the 0 cnse greater and the ap-
plication of it suipr. All that we have to
say might be poin ed by the significant death
of the Rev. Dr. G“ «e of this city, had the
man Gillespie bee able to turn his hands
little further, so as to use the loaded pistol
that he carried. ll need a penalty that shall
not belittle the cri e by making it seem of
so slight importanc For the first offense it
should be imprison at for not less than ten
years and up to t nty years; and for a
lsefcond offense impr nment for the rest of
l e.
Burglarstit is said, re statistically proved
to be nearly always it deemable. They love
their “profession.” "5‘ ey stand in close and
easy relations with t , police of the country
are are the support an the allies of the aver-
age brand of detectiv‘ so called. We do
not want them abdut, d certainly the law
should not weaken a 1: towards them. Let
Connecticut law been ' a by-word for hard
treatment of such offei era and the offense
will cease. An orgarirdd movement is now
under way to bringithifi subject before the
next Legislature. Alliover the state the
matter is receiving seiiuhs thought, and the
best minds agree thatiit is time for the law
to catch up with the 'r'acts and for us to be
governed according t the light of to-day and
not by laws that zereégrot up long ago when
civilized life was s u like what it is now as
an oldfashioned o~c rt is unlike a locomo-
tive engine. Let Connecticut be known as a
state where burgl izing is risky and costs
too much and its lines will every one have
an added charm,
‘ “—
Thc New Yor ‘Flower Mission
anticipate a short s ply of evergreens with
which to trim the ew York hospitals for
the approaching Ch lmas season. There
are 200 wards in the unity hospitals alone.
Last year, to the gr tdiaappointment of
patients, several of th wards could not be
decorated as former] for lack of green.
Cannot young people i town and country
help ensure “a merr ehristmas" to those
sufferers by giving a d to the woods, and
an evening to tying W_.‘.I.IIS of evergreen,
laurel, clc. Gifts of staid crosses, and met
toes will also be accepla‘le.
Fasten the greens in (2leng of one dozen.
each, with tag addressed Nu) York Flower
Mission, 239 Fourth Acem" New York.
The Express companiesmannot receive
boxes and barrels of evergr‘gn, but kindly
consent to forward free of chi-g.) 9.11 Flower
Mission packages under 20 pg weight on
December 20 and 21st. Thdooms of the
Mission will then be open forjftg of groc-
cries, fruit, jellies, toys, Christin; cards, etc.
for the sick in tenement houses;
Contributions whether of everéen or sup-
plies will be thankfully received‘.x
“Forthc dear Christ dwells n ‘ far,
The king ofsome rcmoter star. _
But here amidst the door and b ' ,
The bound and suffering of our k 1,‘
1n works we do, in prayers we 1) V,
Life of our life he lives to-day.”
.——o«o~+——
An Interesting- fact. \
In France, all patent medicines m'-, be
endorsed by an official board of phy 'ans
before they can be sold. In lieu of 5d, a
law in America, the people have read“;
themselves into a National committee Why.
has endorsed Swayne’s Ointment for alla ,1);
the itching accompanying the piles as d
Senator-Punishment for Burglars —. I
'Allllilniuae .
REMEDY. sum as DISEASES
TMRJTCH. SORES. PIMPLES.
lira/Ne MEI
Symptoms are moisture, slinging, itching, worse at
night; socmsna if pin-worms were crawling about
the rectum; the private parts are often affected. As a,
pleasant, economical and positive euro, Swarxn‘s
OINTMENT is superior to any article in the market.
Sold by druggists, or send50 ate. in 3-ct. Stamps. 3
Boxes.81.25. Address, DE. Swamn 5r Sox,1’hila., Ila.-
LEVER,
RAW HIDE, ‘
COPPER STRIP,
AND
Baldwin Cutters,
AT
Manufhcturers’ Prices.
W. E. SMITH (St 00.,
15 and 17 Water Street, _
NORWALK. CT.
Ha , l a
Successors to BURR KNAPP,
Lumber Yard
AND '
PLANING MILL,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Doors,
Sashes,
Blinds,
Mouldings,
Window Frames,
_ Packing Boxes, &c.
Mill St Office foot of Marshall St.
So. Norwalk, Coun.
Heat Yeiir Ilanses!
. 3n74 Macaw”. ~'
.. {113'
only reliable remedy in the market. It is ,i’:
poor rule that wont work both ways. 4t5i’n
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Prayers on a. Railway Train.
A petition is now being circulated and has
received the signatures of some of those ac-
customed to travel on the New York and
New Haven railroad, requesting the directors
of that road to set apart the rear car on each
of the morning trains to this city for the use
of those who desire to hold religious services
on the'train. The services are to be held be-
tween Mount Vernon and this city, and will
consist of Scripture reading, singing and
prayer. One hundred signatures to the pc-
tition are required by the superintendent be-
fore granting the rcquest.—New‘ York 7 TM.“
buns.
-————.—.¢
‘ Important notice—To assist in the digest-
ion of the large quantities of Crow now being
eaten by prominent politicians, Cobb has ar-
ranged to furnish his LiltlefPodohyllin Pills
to campaign clubs at half price. Vouchers
required. Only 25 cents per bottle. H. S.
Belts, agent. .
_._.,___
A Vienna physician has put the electric
light to a very wonderful purpose. He uses
it to illuminate the inside of a man. W see
it stated that the instrument he uses in the
purpose is a sort of stomach pump w an
illuminating attachment. It is thrust own
the patient’s throat into his stomac and
then lighted, the light being furnished .y no
incandescent platina coil connected ith a
conductor. Every part of the ston ch is
brought into plain View by the inten. light
which shines through the walls of th Ody.
To prevent the examination being di urbed
by coughing, the patient is placed [it er the
influence of morphine for a few mi es re-
quired in an examination.
SILVER Cnnnx N. Y., Feb. C
GENTS,—I have been very low,
tried everything, to no" advantage. heard
your Hop Bitters recommended by many 1
determined to give them a trial. did, find
how am around and constantly (uprovmg
ud am nearl ' as stron as ever.
a I gw. 1-1, LLER.
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To CURE SMALL Pox—One . the editors
of the Liverpool lIIerozu-y is “”11 to “5k
his reputation as a public man I the worst
case of small pox can be cure '1 three days
simply by the use of cream of I?" QISSOIVctI
in one pint of hot Water, dru at intervals
when cold. He says it has ured many of
his friends and acquaintanel never leaves a
mark, never causes bliudn- and prevents
tedious lingering. How u ICI'CtIXu of tar-
tar it requires is not state
To wait till you are in l‘ VII“ a disease You
may not get over for in 1’3! when you can
be cured during the on symptoms by Par-
ker’s Ginger Tonic. [e have known the
sickliest families mallhe healthiest by 8-
timely usc of this pi." medicine.—.0bswc.
4.49
A negro of Sylvia“ c: nty, Ga. I was bit-
ten by a rattlcsml “ days 330- The
ncg'_ recovered. This
snake died but I! ,
’ rung l snakes—Boston
is a terrible I
Post.
paid. LEULARKE d; Mucunnonn, Boson, Mass,
$2plilcts ti cc. G.EI.GAI:DNIHI,L‘5 Willem st... N.Y
Wrmulllrniiuiiate
\the most Complete, Efficient, and Economical
mace in use. Hundreds are in use and give
live‘rsul satisfaction. Come and see them at
0‘. factory. Both Portable and Brick Set.
SE Olmstead '& Co.
VW's also manufacture and sell the
artisan i'llitllllll,
It Best flail Iron Furnace
i KNOWN TO BE MADE.
BOTHion'rABLE and BRICK SET,
s. SOLRISTEAD & co.
RAli GES,
..
Somcpattenw our own designs. First-Class.
‘ At our
t
USUABLO W PLKICESS.
s. E. deferrals a co.
”hTYZT—‘— ’
Parhr Stoves.
THE Sinusitis, ,
THE Kl'iivanfigg,
A Lyssa,
lcoxrvmcn‘rcvu‘,
5, Farragut-nan,
LAT
6t4‘5 S. 13- ehllllleflid & COSS.
life's a l
CIIEAPLY AND I’RCIE’TLY PROCURED.
WNO chargcurnless limit is granted. Send
model or rough drawingm‘nmid‘m A. G. LYNE,
Patent Att’y, 312 Indiana Ab, , “arguing-ion , D,C.
W‘Fm‘fib‘
. .- v
The mOst expel icnccd, hau.wm-iriiig-. reliable
salesman, boo 's, llutcr seivfinziiiaclriiiel 'wriu‘wr.
fruit true, picture. or other on ‘vasscrs ur lll'clttl. lll
each township or \ViII‘lI,I0 take 910 ace (If Hill“)
for the best Selling and prollt— ' n mu" Ma-
chine Attachmcr. t ever putente o to $7 pgr day
Bellingit. Address (enclosings “l and numcsof
three or fou r parties for i'clcrcm‘s oi ability and
character otzipplicunt ( 1' no unisex-.5
J. b‘. SLATER, Box S, (liiimbus, Ohio.
m
M on To sell lv'rru'lqaIEITBQDBIL[lllufl'l‘c—‘cs,
W t d (.1i'(l[lf‘3,b'hl'lLbS,JfOSC-S',‘lr,', i\'o nxreul-
an 9 user: REQUIRED. Salaryand expenses
In Shaun in stock or grain puy‘ng big; I am
gnADY’Ea’I'ISER‘Sl—LOWCSI I'Mcs ll Liulvcrusiug
‘ ‘, goo iicws'iupersscuti' (3. Address
mm. 1’. now ELI. .e' um 10 sun-{5e a-.. Q. Y.
nannies;
Birthday Cards,
FOR SALE ATJTHE ‘ .‘
GAZETTE OFFICE.
i .
l
cl cc 6‘
is u If
66' it u
If 66 ‘6
Prinpe Albert float and
We evill this day ofi'er Men’s; Diagonal Wor-
sted-‘3 ml the following Prices .'
Walking Co‘at and Vest, at
“ 5 50
j: 6 60
Vest, .
ct All. WOOL
VERY- FINE.
Five Gases MEWS STIFF HATS, at
25 Centseach. '
Four Cases GIIILDREIN’S HATS 10 Cents
9&0 .
Men’s Extra Size GARDIGAN JACKETS,
at 50 Cents each.
Comstoek Brothers
45 Main Street, Norwalk,
Insurance Block, So. Norwalk.
J. l“. Bennett’s
Hosiery & Unilever
For Ladies, Gents, .‘L’fChildren. _
Fine Line of
Dolmans, Clocks and Ulsters,
N ubias, Ladies’ Knit
Jackets, Leggins,
and all Wool-
en Goods.
Full line Kid Gloves : New Colors.
Foster’s Patent; New Shades.
Ladies’ and Gents’ lined Kid Gloves,
fine assortment. ‘
Fringes and Gimps.
N cw stock Cretons and Fringes.
Silk Handkerchiefs, elegant line.
White Quilts. White Quilts.
’ Shawls and Cloakings.
Special Bargains in \
vases eases
Fine Line, Low Prices.
Best 50 cent Corset ever in town.
Domestic Paper Fashions.
Call and see me.
19 Main Street, Noni alk, Conn.
MACHINISTS
can obtain TYPE
nazIeTTlc OFFI’7'
METAL attire
_ ‘ Stuarts. W
Dr. FITOE’S
Family llllll Battalion]
For Boys.
HE Fifteenth Year will commence Sep-
tember 5th, 1 881 . Pupils received at
any age over six. Young Ladies arealso admitted
to the Day Department. both in the Primary and
Advanced Course. Sessions arranged to accom-
modate pupils Wishing to commute on the cars.
Penmanship and Bookkeeping, a specialty,
taught by teachers of large experimen. Free
Hand Drawing and Painting also taught. Young
Ladies and Gentlemen fitted for College.
Circulars and references will belurnishcd on
application to the Principal.
Du. J. U.FII‘CH Norwalk, Conn.
IlllllWlLK LATIN SCHUUL,
Bclden Ave. near West Avenue.
MALE DEPARTMENT at 8:30 a. m., (limited to
_ ‘25 pupils.) Terms 340 per year; extra stud-
ies—Latin, Grcek, German, and Higher Mathe-
matics, $7.50 each per year. -
FEMALE DEPARTMENT at 9:00 a. 111. Terms
340 per year without extras.
boarders and young children on application,
Third Yea r, Second Quarter, Novem-
ber £5 , l S 8 l.
ALEXANDE R JO 8 NSTON, A. BL, Principal.
E. BEACH,
House and Sign Painting,
Paper Hanging and Kalsomining,
Shop—Corner Wall and Water streets.
Residence—Lewis Street,
NORWALK,
CONN.
All work entrusted to me shall be promptly.
reasonably and well done. A share of the public
patronage solicited. 33st
FURSI
If you wish your Furs, of any description,
l
lfilade Over, Cleaned, or Colored,
into the latest styles in the neatest manner, call
MRS. C. J. TAYLOR.
43tf‘ 51 Main Street, Norwalk, Conn.
Address
611136
Banking Dep’t of Yale Business College,
New I—Ias Ten, Conn.
2.“.
Youpg Men by a. Thorough and Practical Course of Commercial
Tran lung are prepared for all Bpsiness Pursuits and EVERY DEPARTMENT OF MER—
CANTILE LIFE. An able corps of Teachers and Assistants in the various departments.
SPACIOUS AND ELEGANT HALLS AND COUNTING ROOMS
For Instruction in Banking, Insurance, Railroading, Steamboating, Manufacturing, General
Merchandising, Brokerage, Exchange, &c. Call or send for Catalogue giving full particulars.
R. C. LOVERIDGE,,NeW Haven,'Conn.
i
$2 50
4 50
9 50,
2 50
“ all W0016 00
850
Special terms for '
Fall and Winteii
LI. NERY.
Mrs. J'. 3. Burns,
49—Main Street, Norivallr,
Has always on hand a lar and '
assortmentgof well selected
Millinery Goods
IN ALL THE NEW DESIGNS
AND STYLES.
llliilineryNovellies
Of all Descriptions. Also
Brltericl’s Paper Patterns and
Periodicals.
Agency for the
Staten Island Dye Works.
Goods received and forwarded to the abo
. ve es-
tablislimcnt‘at the some prices as charged at the
principal ofhcc in the city. A new assortment of
Scrap. Pictures,
Birthday and
Holiday Cards
0! all kinds and prices.
The Standard Sewing Machine and
Hand Needles for sale at
Mrs. J. B. Betts,
49 Main Street.
HEAT YIIUB HOUSES
Thoroughly
Economically l
And to do so buy your
Parlor Stoves
HEAES'ERS
J A. Q UI.
’ Largest Assortment“
Lowest Prices.
Crown Jewel, The King of Base
Burners, Good Luck, Royal,
Elegant, Windsor, Elite.
Como, Boom, Argus,
Triumph,Laurel,
Broadway,
THE
Pallnrllulileflealers
Radient Light, Elegant and Anti-
Clinker.
And if in want of a Perfect and Durable
BANG-E.
Crawford, Archer, and the New Hub
with patent Reflex Grate, a beauti-
ful worker, the Bunker Hill with
patent Reflex Grate, Sure Worker,
also the King Bird with Wrought
Iron Oven that does not crack, and
Waverly with same, Boom, Marvel,
Nugget, Glendon, Windsor, Serene,
Sam, Thames.
Best. assortment of
STOVES
such as
Electra. Cook,
Chief Cook,
Parole Cook,
Dover Cook.
ZHE WOOD 8T0 VES
Oakland and Plow Boy.
ALSO
Cylinder Stoves, Sugar Loaf Stoves,
&c., and the
BENDWNEB all RELIABLE
Time Tried
Boyntan Furnace ,le. -‘ '
No Experiments. Satisfaction guardnteed. or
no sale. All kinds of» REPAIRS furnished
for the same, at Manufacturers' New York
prices, and at short notice. Also
CROCKE R Y
purchased of first hands; the prices will
demonstrate this. No middle-men’s profits to
pay. See our Stock of
I: = A = M = P = S ,
Nickle Student, Nickle Leader, Library,
Parlor, and Hand Lamps—Cheapest at
‘ J ACUI’S, Norwalk.
Notice.
HE subscriber would announce that he has
disposed of his well-known Livery Stable
and equipments to his son Horace L. Darin, who
wril hereafter run the establishment himself.
Grateful and thankful for the long continued
patronage bestowec upon him by the public. the
subscriber would request a. continuance of the
same to his successor. feeling confident that he
Will merit and deserve the confidence of the pub-
lic generally.
WILLIAM E. DANN.
Norwalk, Oct. 4th, 1381.
ll I
that the Illllllllllll !.
A very large line of the latest and
best designs in
ABVERTISIIIG CARDS
can be found at the
(lunatic Office.
The choicest designs of the Pliil~
adclphia. Boston and New York pub-
Iisliers furnished at very low. rates.
The assortment embraces good do.
signs in black and colorth inks, at
low prices, as well as th’e‘ifidre cost-
ly and brilliantly illuminated Chro-
mo Cards. » Something for every-
body. ' Priscs according to quality.
Don’t give orders to drummers and
have your cards spoiled in printing
but “support your own,” and thus
#7
encourgc home industry.
Norwalk Chronicler