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N orwalk Gazette.
Tuesday,ApI-il 18, 1882.
Fairfield County Items.
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CITY OF WEST NORWALK.
Our city resident} have been unusually
quiet the past week, with the exception of
farmers and gardeners, who have been very
busy procuring warm covering for seeds in
the ground. -
Mrs. Malvina Silliman (nee Johnson) of
Stamford, is seriously ill at the house of her
father, Legrand Johnson, Esq.
The Episcopal service at Union chapel on
Sunday, was conducted by an assistant of
Rev. C. Mr Selleck, of St. Paul’s church.
' REDDING.
The forenoon of Easter Sunday was misty,
cloudy' and almost rainy, notwithstanding
which a goodly number gathered in' the con-
: gregational church. The ordinary congrega-
tion was increased by a number ‘of the
Methodist people whose church was closed
on account of the absence of their pastor at
the annual. meeting of Conference. ' The ser--
~ vices were commemorative of the resurrec-
tion of our Saviour. The music was of a
high order and the sermon very appropriate
to the occasion. There was a large display
of beautiful plants and flowers.
The summer term of the common schools
in the Umpawaug, Hull and Little Boston
districts. and of the select school at the Cen-
ter, opened on Monday of last week.
On Tuesday evening “ The Musicale" met
at Hon. Lemuel Sanford's.
Rev. J. O. Manson has been reappointed
as pastor of the M. E. church here, and re-
turned from Conference on Thursday. Mrs.
Muson and son are visiting in New Haven.
March returned in special powerlast week,
and many were the shiverers.
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, WEST STRATFORD.
Borough Clerk Hinman folded his tents
and—moved into Bridgeport. We are sorry
to loose “Charley.” A special election will
be required to fill his place.
The display of northern lights was very
brilliant in this vicinity last Sunday night.
The “Great Menagerie,” “Pacific combina-
tion," etc., proved to be In sort of one horse
affair.
Dennis Ryan,a well known traveling sales-
man, died in Bridgeport last Friday. He
was a grocery clerk in the employ of L. B.
Vaill of this place some years ago.
Still further additions' are to be made to
the works of the Rogers 615 Brittin Silver
Company soon,on account of the rapid growth
of their business.
A little more of last week’s weather would
make people think that “early spring" was
yet some distance off. -
We were agreeably surprised by a visit
from an old schoolmate a few days ago, viz,
mail agent H. W. Avery of Darien. W.
STAMFORD.
WESTPORT.
The First National bank's custom ofin-
creasing Teller, ‘H. E. Sherwood’s salary
with each addition (it was a boy,) to that
@ntlcmen’s family,has been followed durin g
the past week. '
PAmsu nanorrons.
On Easter Monday at Christ Church, oili-
cers, were elected as follows : Wardens, E.
II. Nasb,A. C. Nash; Vestrymen, Captain
Alfred Taylor, Geo. S. Adams,G. B. Bouton,
W. H. Marvin, 0. I. Jones,H. E. Sherwood,
E. A. Nash, L. B. Bradley, 0. L. Wilson,
Treasurer, G. S. Adams; Clerk, E. A. Nash;
Delegates to convention, A. C. Nash and 0.
Jones.
Memorial Church: Wardens, W. L. Coley
Geo. Jelliife; Vestrymen, A. S. Hurlbutt,
H. B. Gilbert, E. S. Downes, W. S. Rogers,
W. E. Sturges, Eliphalet :Gray, C. II. Tay-
Gray; Treasurer, E. S. Taylor; Clerk, I. S.
Jones; Organist, Fred D.-Marvin ; Delegates
to the convention, A. S. Hurlbutt and C. H.
Daylor.
The funeral of Mrs. Patrick Campbell
took place Monday from Assumption church
Rev. Fathers Keating of Westport, Russell
of Norwalk, and Rogers of Hartford, offici-
ting. The burial took place-in Catholic
Cemetery on King street. Mrs. Campbell
was in her fiftieth year and was highly re.
spected. ‘ ‘ _
During the week fire laddies as officers of
the various companies have been chosen on
their merits, as follows:
PIONEER n .a L. 1.
Foreman,0. LaCroix, Jr. ; President Chas.
B. Guyer; Secretary, J. F. Marvin; Treas-
urer, F. B. Sturges.
compo 2'.
Foreman, G. T. Thorpe; Assistant Fore-
man, I. W. Gault; Secretary, L. B. Brad-
ley; Treasurer, E. S. Downes; Foreman of
Hose,Joseph Miller; Chaitnanfiobt. Gault;
Librarian, I. W. Perry. ' >
, vroxnarvr.
Foreman, E. Wheeler ; Assistant Foreman,
James Hart; Secretary, James G. Hyatt;
Treasurer, H. E. Sherwood; Chairman, 0'.
I. Jones; Foreman of Bose, H. Petrie.
A special town meeting will be held this
(Tuesday) afternoon, to take some action
looking to the regulation of oyster catching
in our river.by which the public are to un-
derstand a few men will get together,
discuss the subject, as they have done
hundreds of times befgre, .adopt measures
which will be heavy, so far as words can
make them so, with penalties to be imposed
on such {as infringe, and adjourn. Their
actibn will be published, as usual, to warn
transgressors, who, governing themselves
accordingly, will study the weak points of
the local law (P) and finding a way to evade
will, when the time comes, do just as much
oyster stealing as they have heretofore done,
Result? no protection of rights of citizens,
who, if they want oysters, cannot,.as they
once did, and as the town would now have
them, catch a few bivalves for themselves,
when needed, but must go into market and
pay the,high price there demanded.
Three barges sent here by thejRidgewood
Ice 00., of Brooklyn, N. Y., have been load-
Geo. A. Hoyt is the largest individual tax ing with ice bought of Mr. G. S.Adams.
payer in Stamford, ‘his 'town {assessment
being on $191,660. The Stamford Mfg. Co,
. is assessed $203,995. Geo. S., K. B. and
Catharine S. Hunting are assessed an average
of $90,000 each.
Mr. Dickinson, the taxidermist, died in
Florida,and his remains are on the way North.
Julia Corson is to teach the Stamford ladies
' how to cook. . ,
J. D. Warren purchased the Barrow prop:
erty. at auction, for $8,200.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Milne celebrate their
Golden Wedding to-day.
The steamer Meta commenced regular daily
trips yesterday. _ '
Building is booming and carpenters,masons,
painters and plumbers are overrun with
work.
Two new factories are talked of.
The social sensation of the season is the
Brooks-Huntington wedding which is to take
place this evening. Bishop Williams will
perform the ceremony,and the Theo Thomas
orchestra will furnish l music. A thousand
invitations have been issued.
A special borough meeting is to be held
to-morrow evening, to vote upon the accept-
ance of the new charter.
A farmer named Wm. Ayres, recently
died at Long Ridge, while engaged in plow-
ing a field.
J. G. Snelling has resigned as leader of
the singing and superintendent of the Sun-
day school of the Baptist church, on account
of ill health.
GREENWICH.
Rev. Pclcg Weaver, of North Cos Cob,
died last week Monday aged about 75 years.
DANBURY.
Barnum, Jumbo and the baby elephant are
booked for May 29, and VanAmburgh for
April 22. .
A new building is to be erected on the Site
of the old Pahquioque hotel.
A Wildman and wife are home :after a six
months trip to Europe. .
The Republican man knows smaller men in
Danbury than the Liliputians ever dreamed
of being.
Edward Lobdell has been elected foreman
of Kohanza Hose Co.
-'The News says -that from .125 to 150 cars
per day cross the Hudson from the Erie to
the New England railroad daily.
A large double house is to be erected on
William street for Miss Griswold.
Railroad Commissioner Bacon’s little boy
has received a pair of baby alligators fresh
from Florida. ‘ _
The mud has been scraped from Main street
again.
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BRIDGEPORT.
Rev. James Drumm of Sing Sing, N. Y.,
has accepted a call to St. Paul’s Church, East
Bridgeport. .
Fourteen Italians who arrived in Bridge-
port from New York, Friday morning,under
the promise of a New York agent that they
would be paid $1.50 per day for their labor,
returned on the latter train after losing $1
each paid to the a windler, and their expen-
ses. .
Some careless Bridgeport man sent a rifle
ball into the house of Charles Bennett, Wed-
nesday evening, the ball passing through a
blind and window, and after striking the
headboard of a bed, on which was the dead
body of Mrs. Bennett, glanced off to a mir—
ror, which it shattered.
Two men, one armed with a club and the
other with a revolver, were discovered one
evening recently in the house of Lyman
Mead, representative from Cos Cob. The
one with the revolver discharged his weapon
on being discovered. and then both rushed
from the house.
Dr. Wordin’s barn in Fairfield was broken
into and robbed of a set of double harness
Sunday night, 9th. Officer Arnold arrested
the thief at Green’s Farms. Hehad sold the
harness. He had lately worked for Dr.
Wordin. . >
Job Vincent of New Fairfield died recent-
ly. He had long been ill with consumption.
The Danbury Globe says: “Last Friday his
wife, while administering his medicine to
him, made a serious mistake, giving him sul-
phate of zinc for Epsom salts. After he had
taken the poison he called attention to what
was given him,”
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Our Continent, the new Philadelphia liter-
ary and fine art’ journal, last week printed a
picture of the beautiful clock which adorned
the stairway of “Elmenworth” during the
life of the late Le Grand Lockwood, and
which was subsequently sold to Mr. Geo. W.
Childs—the child of fortune—and was taken
by him to his elegant residence in the Quaker
City. The picture gives but a very poor
idea of this exquisitely beautiful work of
art. Mr. Childs, Our Continent says, “would
not take $30,000 for his fifty clocks, and no
wonder, if they are to be judged' by the
standard of his parlor clock. This,it is said,
weighs two tons and stands nine feet high,
onyx and verde antique forming a base two
feet .squarc and four feet high. On this
pedestal poses a life-size figure in silver of a
woman, her raised arm poising a circular
pendulum which operates" the machinery in
the base. The ‘clock has quite ahistory. ' It
won universal admiration as well as the
grand prize at the Paris Exhibition of ‘1867,
when Le Grand Lockwood bought it after a
sharp bidding with therEmperor of Russia,
and placed it in his palatial home in Norwalk,
Conn. Mr. Childs had no little difficulty in
securing this treasure, but to obtain all that
is rarest and choicest in the world of clocks
his wealth proved a trusty second to his
energy and both outbid competititors and the
rival claims at the time of the most deter-
mined buyer of works of art in America.”
Between Prof. Thos. W. Miller’s barber
shop on one side of, Stateistreet, and Faber’s,
late of Norwalk, on the other, there are
bristling, shaving, cutting times at present,‘
the strife being to see which can do the most
work. At last accounts the contestants were
neck and neck. _
Mr. George Taylor, formerly of this place,
and father of Mrs. George Tuttle.died Thurs-
day in Bridgeport, aged 77 years. ' .
Rev. W. C. Wilson has been assigned by
the M. E. Conference pastor for another year
of the M. E. Church. . , -
Mr. Robert Martin of this place, a gentle-
man of observation and experience, declares
it to be his opinion aftera thorough test,that
horses with feet as nature made are surcr
footed, will do better work, and be in better
condition at the end of a given time than
they will if treated as is now the rule, at
the stated periods, by the farrier. All the
horses owned by him go unshod.
The ladies of Christ Church engaged last
week in a pleasant work—that of presenting
the Easter flowers which had adorned the
a1tar;of their church, to such members as had
been prevented by sickness from attending
service on the great anniversary.
The coming of the foundries and their
corps of workmen makes demand forhouses
lively. Already several desirable ones have
been rented.
There have arrived at this port during the .
past month between three and four hundred
bales of cotton, worth $15,000, for the Lees’
Manufacturing Company, which indicates
the lively_ business that concern‘ is now
carrying on. The president of the company
says these invoices will last them only four
months. Mr. Thomas R. Lees does the
buying for the mill, which setlles it that that
part of the work will be well done.
Messrs. Aaron Bennett, E. W. Taylor,e
J. W. Perry and Rev. A. N.~ Lewis may be
called “Good Samaritans," for they pour oil
'into lamps erected by them on Wright street ,
that they may not have to pour oil into the .
wounds of citizens stumbling on. that
thoroughfare by reason of darkness.
“Is that great hickory tree—the one
which has been so long used by fishermen as
a long range for George’s‘Rock off Westport
harbor, still standing,” asked a gentleman of
Mr. Ward Nichols, of Weston, the other
day, “Yes,” was the reply, “and likely to
remain there a long‘ time. The body of that
tree is as large around _as a hogshead, and
there is no danger anybody will undertake
to hew it down. “How old should you
think the tree is, Mr. Nichols.” “Well," I
should say not far from 200 years. It is no
larger to-day than when I first came here 69
years ago, and it was the oldest tree in the
neighborhood then.” Then Mr. Nichols
volunteered to say he had a pear tree back
of his house 150 years old. It stood there
when he first came to Weston in 1812, and
the man who had occupied the place previou
to his coming was 90 years old when he died
and that man undoubtedly set out the tree
when a boy. Mr. Nichols who is now in his
90th year, says there is ' scarcely a person
now living in Weston who was there when
he first set out in life. .
The funeral of the late John G‘oodsell who
died April 13th, in his seventy-second year,
took place from the M. E. Church, Sunday,
Rev. Mr. Wilson, the pastor,assisted by Rev.
Z. Davenport "and Hart, officiating. The
attendance was so large that many were
unable to get inside the church. Mr. Good-
sell as a merchant for many years in our
village, as a man among us and as an exem-
plary Christian, was respected and esteemed:
by all. His presence in this community
will be missed. In his remarks at the church
Rev. Mr. Wilson spoke of the character for
uprightness borne by deceased, his worth
to the church, the firmness of his religious
belief, and the hope of reward hereafter,
rather than that which the world affords,
which hhd ever inspired him. The remains
were buried in Willow. Brook Cemetery.
The remains of the late Morris Ketchum
were last week brought from New York and
deposited in the family plot in Willow Brook
Cemetery by the side of the members of his
family. PAUL.
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A bill for creating a park of 600,000 acres
in the Adirondack region has been introduced
in the New York legislature. '
”Eccently a Methodist church _in Nevada
expelled one of its members. He thought It
the result of the pastor’s spite against him,
and, not to be outdone in his devotions, he
conducts them at present in rather an origi-
nal way. He owns a saw mill near the church
and on Sundays attaches to his engine an im-
mense steam Calliope, with which he makes
his instrumental music,and with “Sweet Bye
and Bye” drowns the voice of the neighbor‘-
iug person .
The doctors will have to take new bear-
ings. The commonly accepted theory that
Bright's disease of the kidneys is due to gen-
erous diet and free indulgence in stimulating
beverages, is quite upset by the case of Mr.
Joseph Sabin, the \well-known New York.
biblopolist, who_dicd recently. Mr. Sabin
led a perfectly regular and abstemious life,
drinking neither spirituous liquors, light
wines, beer, tea, nor coffee, and never using
,‘tobacco in any form, and yet he fell a victim
‘ to that painful and fatal malady. ‘
Bos'rox, April lib—At the weekly confer-
ence of the Baptist ministers of Boston and
. vicinity to-day, a memorial to the Governor
was ad (1 reciting that First Day is no 101;.
ger kept as a time of penitence, but is made
an occasion of rest and amusement. They
urge that days of fasting should only be pro-
claimed in seasons of great and general so-
\know it.’,
The Old a... Club Exhibition.
SOUTH NORWALK 1N CHIEF.
Alas that it should be so, but so it is ; we
tire to lose the young chick exhibition so re«
cently promised by the “ 01d Hen Club,”
owing to the cold wave that has prevailed in
this region during the past thirty days.wbich
has brought to an untimely end the lives of"
numerous young chicks, and their promised
exhibition by their foster-mothers, the club.
Whether this unseasonable weather has been
brought about by some mistake of the
weather bureau‘at Washington, or is caused
by an accute attack of rheumatism, under
which “Vennor " has been suffering, is not
yet determined, but the sad result is, that we
are to have no peeping and crowing exhibi—
tion in Music Hall, and great is the grief ex-
pressed in consequence thereof by the entire
com mmunity, who, with the club, will have
reason to remember the a dagc, “Never coun
your chickens until they are hatched,” and
there might with propriety be added, or till
they have escaped the numerous ills that in-
fantile chicks are heir to. ‘
so many of their young, has had so depress-
ing an effect on them, that instead of crow—
ing continually, (some old and young hens
crow) that they have actually taken in their
grief to speech-making. and if that ,is not
evidence enough that their minds have become
who listened to their speeches to confirm the
feet. If instead of speech-making the old
hens had put aside their sorrows, repressed ‘
their garrulous habits, donned a new crop
of Easter feathers, and appeared in the role
of last year’s chickens, they might have
passed the coming heated term in visiting
the various places of summer resort without
much fear of detection as very numerous
chickens of a good many more years growth
do; at any rate they certainly would have
compared favorably in point of age with
the chickens served in numerously cooked
varieties, as shown by the summer hotel
literature known as “hills of fare ”; but
the fates did not so decree, and the result is
to be deplored.
Thus one by one our citizens have been
deprived of their accustomed and expectant
music.thc musical frog having been Rydered'
away,thcir musical notes to be no more heard,
and the expectant peeping and crowingkof
the club's family having been estoppcd by
untimely frosts, there remains naught but
the Italians, (who, too, will soon depart),and
those charming musical instruments known
as steam whistles. to render musical sounds
to this music-loving community. It must,
however, be admitted that the operators on
this last-named instrument do their very best
during all hours 'of the day and night, to
compensate the citizens for their other mu-
sical losses, by prolonging and intensifying
the dulcet notes of their steam whistles,
doubtless remembering that “Music hath
charms to soothe the savage breast."
Another warning against the careless use
of firearms comes from West Woodstock.
Dr. Carey Bradford, had been out hunting
for ducks and had ret mod and left his gun
standing against a chat . His mother was in
the room, and a domestic passing by the
chair tripped against it and threw the gun
down. The hammer struck against the chair,
exploding the charge, which struck Mrs.
Bradford just over the right hip, causing a
dangerous, if not fatal wound. Mrs: Brad-‘
ford’s age is against her, she being nearly 70
years old. The gun was loaded with a heavy
charge of duck shot. ,
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A strange story comes from Boston. The
venerable statesman Charles Francis Adams
was enticed into 9. hence den, by a gentle-
manly and courteous gambler, and “induc-
ed” to sign checksI for over $20,000. His
clerk discovered the affair upon finding his
account overdrawn at the Bank, put detec-
tives upon the track of the scoundrcll y thieves
and captured the leader. About $17,500
was refunded. Mr. Adams was old and in
feeble health, and does not seem to realize
what he has done. His mind is evidently ,
impaired.
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The Housatonic Railroad Co. now sell
mileage tickets at the following reduced
rates: Tickets for 500 miles, good on any
part of the road, at 2:; cents per mile.
Tickets for 1000 miles, good on any part of
the road, at 2 cents per mile. 25 and 50
passage tickets, good only between any two
stations, at 2.}: cents per mile. -
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A striking portrait of James Russell
Lowell will be the frontispiece of the Cen-
tury Magazine for May, which will also con-
tain a masterly study, by Edmund Clarence
Stedman, of the life and writings of the
author of “The Biglow Papers." The same
number of the magazine will offer alsoa
written , poem by Mr. Lowell, entitled
“Estrangement.”
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A very old lady on her death-bed, in the
pcnitentiai mood, said: ‘.‘I have been a great
sinner for more than eighty years and didn’t
An old colored woman, who had
lived with her a long” time, exclaimed :
“ Laws, I kuowed it all do time.”—[New
York Telegram.
There is nothing in the wide world that
makes a young man crazier than, after arriv-
ing at a party with a young lady,whom he has
got there at considerable expense, to have
some old bald-headed individual get her up
into a corner and talk to her all the evening
(1);] tlcle peculiarities of the gulf stream.—
uc ..
Mr. Ragbag was only twenty-three when
his eldest son was born. We remember the
day well.‘ We congratulated him. But he
didn’t seem very jolly. Not but what it was
a fine boy, and Ragbeg was wealthy, so a
family was no burden to him. But he said:
“Good Lord, old friend. just think of it!
Here at the early age of twenty-three I've
got to begin setting a good example! "—
Boston Post. .
A marvel of science: The latest marvel of
science is instantaneous photography. By
the aid of this process it is possible to obtain
a picture of yourself and girl in the act of
being thrown overs stone wall by a runaway
horse. This picture can be placed on the
mantel piece, in a maroon velvet frame, as a
warning to young men never to let go the
reins with both hands, even if the hugging
is of superlative quality—New Haccn Regis-
tor.
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“Poetry is prophecy,” and an old rhymster
discoursing on this bonnet question years
and years ago, said:
“To-day, right jauntily a hat she wears,
That scarce affords a shelter to her ears;
To-morrow, haply searching long in vain, _
You-spy her features down a Leghorn lane.”
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A QUICK Passsou.—The sloop Addie R.,
Capt. J. M. Osborne, of South Norwalk, left
Port Jefferson, L. L. at 5 o’clock Thursday
'morning,»making New London just after
noon, and lying there two hours. She then
set sail for Norwich in the face ‘of a head
wind and tide, and arrived in this city at 6
o’clock. She was about eleven hours under
sail with a fresh breeze and made ninety nau-
tical miles—Norwich Bulletin.
Many a man who, under the overpowering
glammor of. a first love, which he feels sure
must either end in marriage or suicide, offers
himself, his poverty, his debts and his ill-
temper to the lady of his choice, wakes up,
after paying the person’s fee, to the solid
fact that the cherished one whom he took to
be the other half of himself is really both
halves. The chief business of man is to
convert himself into a golden image, and the
chief business of a woman is to break him
all to pieces and spend him for point lace and
diamonds.
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New Haven has a female dentist,and she’s
young—Danbury News.
Dear old Connecticut! She is without a
parallel.——Danburz/ News. ,
A locomotive lasts thirty years, if nothing
happens to it. That’s the reason it doesn‘t
last over ten.
Education is marching right on. The col-
leges have started the base ball business for
the season.
The man who does not know his own mind
should be introduced as soon as it is big
enough—JV. Y. Mail. '
“What do you think of my new bonnet? "
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shilling,” said Seth ; but be will change his
mind when the bill comes in.
“ If I have ever used any unkind words,
Hanna ,” said Mr. Smiley, reflectivcly, “I
take them all~baek.” “ Yes,._I suppose you
want to use them. over again," was the not.
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very soothing rcper-FPWUW’ Star.
The disaster when uas nereft the club of l.run out and tell everybody, “lid thereupon
'Rather a bold way to put it ; but it is impos-
unseltled, we have but to call upon those ‘
said Mm spice,“ ,..TOO much poke {mas- Willard Perkins, president of the, Fat
Congratulations.
Can any one tell me who invented the
system of congratulating everybody for cv-
erything? Whoever he was (I say “be” ad—
visedly, because I cannot imagine such an-
absurd custon emanating from a woman’s
brain), he deserves to be—congratulated.
Pcopledeal‘ in congratulations wholesale,
sowing them broadcast, without troubling
themselves to think whether they may be
agreeable to the recipient or the reverse. On
the other hand, there are a few souls remain-
ing in this world to whom it is a pain rather
than pleasure to have their most private and
sacred :feclings made the subject of pub-
lic comment and of what are conventionally
termed congratulations. But when one of
the “over-sensitive” makes up her mind to
accept an offer of marriage, and declining“ to
stand upon the house-top to announce it to
the curious public, prefers to keep the in-
formation for the few with Whom she holds
intimate relationship, she is considered an‘
oddity, an abnormal creature. According to
the popular doctrine, on accepting the young
man of her choice she should immediately
should follow a round of congratulations.
For what i For having, as nearly as one can
make out, landed the fish for which she has
been unsuccessfully angling for some time.
sible to see it in any othe light.
Good wishes are one th ng,congratulations
are another. We have a friend starting on a
new enterprisejin a new country.We wishlhim
well, but-do we congratulate him upon being
about to break off his old associates, to leave
behind him all his landmarks? For what
have we to congratulate him while his path
is still untried? We can only congratulate
for a success achieved. Is it, then, an
proposal of marriage ?
In regard to congratulating parents upon
the engagement or marriage of a child, the
whole ground seems to be covered by one
lady, who, having been the subject of some
such congratulations, replied with a calm-
cyed surprise, “Congratulate me ? Upon
What? That I shall soon lose :my daugh-
ter? I do not consider it a subject for con-
gratulation.”
Pleased as a parent may be, and must be
t?) see-a child happy, .the :parting must nee.
essarily be accompanied by much that is
bitter. Is it pleasant to see the child for
whom one has toiled and striven from baby-
hood up desert the parent nest and start out
in life with an alien just as soon as he or she
has sufliciently matured to be really compan-
ionable ? ‘ -
It seems as if such a system would strong-
lyjtend to do away with all the sacredness
which or.“ to pertain to a marriage engage-
ment, but, alas! does not. The soiemnity
of such a contract is certainly much lessened
where it is made a subject of fete-ing and
festivity—and congratulation. n. C. II.
—-Lz'ppiucoll. '
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Many worm remedies are so disagreeable
that children refuse to take them. The Peer-
less Worm Specific, on the contrary, is just
what children like, and they make no objec-
tions whatever. H. S. Betts, agent.
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Speaking of. the new comet the Albany
Argus says: “The comet is now about 135
000,000 from the earth. It will continue to
approach until May 20, when its distance
will still be about 80,000,000 miles from us.
It now seems certain that the comet will be
visible about the first of May. It will not
be conspicuous, hmvever, until about the
middle of May, and by the end of the month
and during June will, without doubt, furnish
a splendid display. It will probably be seen
in its greatest glory about June 4 and 5, far
down in the northeast just before the first
glimmer of dawn.” ' '
D
To worry about any Liver, Kidney or
Urinary trouble, especially Bright’s Disease
or Diabetes, as Hop Bitters never fails of a
clillre where a cure is possible. We know
Is.
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Anecdote related by Mr. Barnum in illus-
tration of the axiom that drinking is a habit
that grows: “Last winter two of my ele-
phants began shaking with chills one morn-
ing. The keepers ran down ’_to the village
and got six gallons of .whisky. Hastily re-
turning, the three gallons were given to each
elephant. ‘Fortunately it cured them. They
like the artificial warmth it superinduced.
Next morning when the keeper came to
them he found both elephants shaking with
might and main. ‘No, you don’t,’ be shout-
ed, ‘you are well enough to day,’ and they
stopped shaking.”
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To Pnoarorn A Vrconous GROWTH of the
hair, use Parker’s Hair Balsam, , It restores
the.youthfu1 color to gray hair, re‘movcs dan-
druff, and cures itching of the scalp. 4t15
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Mayor Harrison of Chicago, is a, thought-
ful and considerate civic magistrate. He
wrote as follows on the commitment of a
woman to the city prison: “ The City Physi-
cian reports that the woman is about to be-
come a mother. It may be a boy. The boy
might be President of the United States.
Must be be born in the Bridewcll? Her
name is Harrison—May Harrison. The boy
might be Mayor. He must not be born in
the Bridewell. Never! Neverll Neverlil"
The womanwas released. The child is a girl.
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Two ladies who had been to see Minnie
“ How do you like ‘ Carmeni’" “ I think
‘ Carmen’ perfectly lovely! ” replied the
other. And the conductor and driver. the
great silly creatures, swelled out like a pair
of inflated frogs, and they have since taken:
to hair oil, dyed moustaches, patchouly-‘
scented pocket handkerchicfs and all sorts of
egregious vanities. In the language of Fran-
cis Bacon, as interpreted by'William Shaks-
pearc, “ What fools we mortals be.”—-Boston
Transcript. ‘ . - '
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Little boy has been swearing, and mamma,
to punish him, washed throughly the inside
of his mouth with soapsuds, “ to," as she
explains to him, “clean away the naughty
words." A few days later,while passing the
bathroom, she sees the youngster with his '
face one mass of suds and his mouth so full
that she barely understands his spluttering
exclamations: “Getting them all out, mam-
mal swore five times yesterday i ”
I
The Nation’s Characteristics.
Shrcwdness and incredulity are the pre-
dominant characteristics of the American
people. They will take no stock in anlarti-
cle unless it is meritorious. When Dr.
Swayne launched his Ointment for the Piles,
that itch so intensely at night,on a sea of hu-
man sufiering, the physicians laughed,'but
the people tried it all the same and manifest-
ed their approbation in a National endorse-
ment. Now the allopaths and homeopaths
are laughing the other way. The world is
full of reverses. , 4t15
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A~Denver paper says: The Sheriff of Dal-
las County, Iowa, wears shabby clothes, and
is insignificant in appearance. He had occa-
sion to take a portly, well-dressed prisoner
to the. penitentiary. The convict, when
they came into the Wardcn’s ofiice, coolly”
remarked, “Here’s a man for you,” and
handed over the Sheriff to be‘ locked up.
The trick was not successful; yet the Sheriff
had to submit to detention until his identity
could be established. ,
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Ely’s Cream Balm Co., Owe o, N. Y.—
Pleasc send us at once tvio gross ly’s Cream
Balm. We take pleasure in congratulating
you on the success you are havin with the
“Cream Balm ” Catarrh and Hay- ever cure.
its sale issteadily increasing with wonderful
rapidity hi; you can see by our frequent or-
ders. It is cyidently an article of great merit.
Very truly, J onus'ron, HOLLOWAY «is 00.,
Druggists. 602 Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa.
March 19, 1881.
Messrs. Ely Bros., Druggisls, Owcgo.
N. Y.—I have had Catarrh for a number of
years in its worst form. Before I had used
onefiottlc of your Cream Balm, droppings
into my throat had entirely ceased pain and
soreness in my head was entirely "removed,
as well as deafness. I. have. used a‘ great
many remedies but nothing that equals yours.
It also gives immediate relief for cold in the
head. Mrs. J. T. HAGADORN, Union N. Y.,
Dec. 7. 1878.
- Price 50 cents,
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“ So moatit be," said the old knight lem-
plar, as he pushed his enemy into the castle
ditch.—-Boaton 0mm Bulletin.
Irraddltion to owning a farm twenty miles
long and ten miles wide. Mr. Carhart, of
Texas, has a nephew in Newtown.
Men's Association, has started a cigar store
in fiIVatcrbury. , Mr. Perkins knows how to i’
pu ’. '
A man, gathering mushrooms was told that
they were poisonous. ‘ “Tilank you,” be re-
pliod, “I am not going to eat them myself ; I
achievement when a young lady recei’vesa '
Hank were seated in the horse car. Said one, -
v.
‘
TO THE
Ladies of Norwalk ltVioinity
Come and see our Stock 01‘
SPRING all SUMMER STYLES
0F
Milli ll ll ,.
0 Hats.
Bonnets,
Ribbons,
- ' Feathers,
Fancy Goods, &c.
Misses St. "John,
No. 83 Main St“
Norwalk, Conn.
Opening Ill Sprint: ail Summer
Millinery
Mrs. W. Fawcett,
B James’ Block,
Water Street, Norwalk,
Will open on
WEDNESDAY all THURSDAY,
APRIL 1th AND 20m. '
, A Choice Assortment of
Trimmed Bonnets and Hats,
In all the Leading Styles. Also
Flowers, Feathers, Ribbons, Silks,
Satins, Laces, and all Novelties
pertaining to a First—Class
Millinory.
For Sale.
lei-[TEEN or TWEN TY tons of nice Hay for
sol . A )l to
0 ~ pl 'yh‘.S‘l‘.JOHNLOCKWOOD.
For Sale.
JUM P-SEAT BUGGYtlor snip; AI neat :(Ilarrmgc
' roneor wo sea 3 n o 0 er
With 6 the R. B. CRAU‘FURD
Price low.
at National Bank of Norwalk.
POUR BS oflMPOR'l‘ED WHITE
400niouficedéor sale atu low price in quan-
tities to suit. . d5 11. 0. CLARK. _
ltp l5 Cranberry Plain.
For Sale.
AT NORTH NOBWALK, directly in front of
Mr. Norman Knapp’s lace 6 building lots 50
south of and adjoining said Knapp’s, fors5o; Also
several othercheap lots lrom 315 to $20 each. Un-
less sold by the 1st at May they ma Nred
sellthem at the hotel."
l lemnity.
'bc rcn
with other landLCau on 0; 135011.50 .
Com
HAVE OPENED roe THE
I.
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.J
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M
Q
', I STRING TRADE OF , 1
THEIR. ENTIRE LINE 0F 1
WHICH FOR
llllllllNllHllllllTY, _ ,
- IIIIIIII ' llllllllMlNSllll’.
Surpasses all-province efforts. _ A careful inspection of our Goods- solicited, and
With any City- Establishment, desired.
KID
COMS
0C
A large?- assortment of
7 ll COMPARISON Is REGARDS' QUALITY AND PRICES,
l g]; 0 S
. manufacturerg, Wholesalers and, 'Retailers.
'45 Main Street, ‘Norwalk.
Insurance Budding, So. Norwalk.
1?
Gall -
on
C a. up
. Before
at
you
4
0‘s 0
l. IIiIIIIIlNE Ills,
39 Washington St, So. Norwalk.
EDWIN R. SHERWOOD,
l't. front by about 200 deep onlillo: also 3 others.
. Clfl
' Wholesaler and Retailer.
39 and 419mm Street, Norwalk, Conn.
Successor to J. Sherwood & Son, and Sherwood & 00.,
IMPOBTING TAILOR. 7
Best. Work and Finest Goods 'at a Moderate Price.
HENRY SMITH, late of London, Cutter.
Men’s, Youths’, Boys" and Children’s
‘\
In Great Variety, Better 0 Made, Better Cut, and at Lchr
. ' ‘ Price. than ever before.
Hats, - Caps, and Gents’ ' Furnishing Goods,
In New and DesirableStyles. Don’t forget to look at my
Spring' Overcoats,
Made as fine as Custom. Work. Trunks and Traveling Bags
‘ in great variety. on second floor. '
$111; Hats made to .Order.
EDWIN R. SHERWOOD, '
New York Clothing House.
0
MA PES,
, BOWKER,
LISTER‘BR 0.9.,
AND,
R USSELL COE’S
FERTIIIZESE.
A... ‘ ouffifii’bxdfribn trifling
lllllll "F All. llllllll.‘ ”new "
SOLD BY
W. H. SMITH a 00.,
15 and 1'7 Water Street.
ll sonwm- arr.
”Aymara f,
IIEAneUAItTEas lPe’sple’s' Market.
Removed to No. 51 MAIN St,
”E vcrybcst of BEEF, delivered daily to
our customers. Also, in their season, Veal.
Lamb. Mutton, Pork. km, at the lowest
,Markot Rutcs._ Veze table. and Fruits a full _
fresh and, varied supply daily received. Market
wagon sent about town every morning.
JAMES E. \VIXSON.
Wanted, Salewen
‘0 CANVASS for the sale of Nursery Stock.
_ Unequallcd facilities. N o ‘ experience re-
quired. Salary and expenses paid. 600 acres of
Fruitund Ornamental-Trees. Shrubs, Roses. etc.
titp W. a: '1‘. SM I'lfll. Geneva, N. Y.
~.
For Sale.
AT a bargain. 1 line CAT BOAT in Complete
order. 13 feet 10mg, tour years old. Enquire
or F. \t’.JAQU1,Jlt.,Al Wullst..Norwalk. All
GOOD PEBBLER’S WAGON
For Sale Cheap, for want or use.
L. J.CURTIS. l
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l
0
1’7.“ “9?? .-,.,
Special Sale
‘0F
' Carpets
mm as~
This Week, at
ScolleldlIHOyt’s.
We will offer 5,000 yin-dc of the
Glcnham Mills, A. T. Stewart a
00’s Extra Super-Ingram at 80c.
Also a job in Tapestry Brussels
at 65 ctsi,‘ 'worth 90c.
Canton Mattings at :Wholesale
Prices; White 12:}c., Red Check
18c., Figured 25c.
It will pay you to look at these
Goods.
Just received another lot of ,
Lilles’ Saunas all. Iluluals,
For this week, at
SI: ll ill ll.
N0. 3 GAZETTE BUILDING,
W'all S tr eet.
.~ a. . . T‘lfi‘wfim‘.
«l
Hll .Flll’lll
‘ ' IIIIIT ?
Stoves,
Ranges,
Etc", Etta.
Children’s Carriages
E. K. LIIKWIIIII.
The Thoroughbred and
Registered
Jersey Bull, '
“Springwood Boy,”
mED by“Idol of Yoc ,” outiot the the -
S brcd J erscy Cow owfii‘h by Ed. Beardfolllgih"
will be ‘kept on the farm of C. C.Betts. the en-
suing season. This. besides being a. Registered,
as a. very superior and b‘eautltul’animal. '
lott‘ WM. M. BE'I'I'S.
‘P. W. BATES,
AT. HIS
llarhlelllrullelul,
On Water Street.
' Has Now DESIGNS m
Head Stones. Monuments and
all kinds of Memorial Work.
CALI. AND SEE THEM;
G. HAULENBEEK & 00.,
13 Water Street, N orwalk,
Make a Specialty of
10“
SCROLL AND CIRCULAB‘ samNC,
TURNING, PICTURE FRAMING,
REPAIRING orFU ran ITUBR,&
FANCY JOBBING In woon. '
A line of Manufactured Articles may
usunlly be found on ha’nd and'for sale
as the ManmactoI-y.
In WATER STREET.
. Cornices Made to. Order.
Siberia-
, ' I .
Mrs. Perry and MISS Mills
Will continue their Primary School and Kinder-l
gnrten at No. 15 Berkeley Place. Spring term
commencrng April _17th, Terms from 86 to 510,
Drama: and Painting included. Special atten-
tion given to Designing and free-hand Drawing.
Parents are cordially invited to visit the School.
Echoes from Press and Platform.
Aschool is to b_e' tested, not by ihcreasc of its
numbers, but by Jucreasc of wisdom ; not. by its
roll, bnt by its rccxtations.— ’lm’stian Union.
131:. FITCE’S
Family and Day SIlIIIl
For . Boys.
THE Spring Term will commence lilon-
day, Apr-ll 3d,! 882 .. Pupils received at
any age over six. Young Ladies arealso admitted
to the Da Department, both in the Primary and
' Advance Course. .Sessions arranged to accom-
modate pupils wishing to commute on the cars.
Penmanship and Bookkeeping, _a specialty,
taught by teachers of large experience. Free
Hand Druwrng and Paintin also taught. Young
Ladies and' Gentlemen fittc for College..
Circulars and references wrll‘ be turnth on
. application to the Principal.
DR. J .C.F11‘CH Nor-walk, Conn. 3
TIBWILK LATIN scrum.
Bolder: Ave. near West Avenue.
MALE DEPARTMENT at 8:30 a. m., (limited to
25 pupils.) Te 5 810 per car; extra stud-
ies—Latin, Greek, Higher Mathe-
ea
matics. 81.50 each per r.
FEMALE DEPAB EM at 9:00 a. In. Terms
840 per year without extras. Special thmI for
boarders and young children on application.
Third Year. Second. Quarter, Noven-
bcr 15, l 881. ’
Am ANDER JOHN STON, A. LL. Principal.~
L. .1. minus.
Main. Street,
In where you can get the
BEST STOVE
erman, an
I
Hansen
' Least ‘Money,
Eons, rm, IIIII cuss Eur;
CHINA & CROCKERY,‘
HAN GIN G‘ LAMPS,
Tails all Pllllllll Gallery, '
Silver, Plated Ware.
Agent for the ~. , ‘-
M'onitoe’ on Stoves..
Tin Robfing and Repairing
done at short notice. 4
in“ \4305 consecut- (.1.- i
rue: con Liens
OIL. AN . LIME.
. Wflb or’sf Cnm‘pnrrnd' of' {Euro cod-
Liver 0i land Lime. The novzmtaafe of this com-
pound 0\ 'er the plain Oil .is,‘ :that she nauseating
taste or t. he Oil is-entirely removed, andthowhoie
rendered palatable. The offensive. taste of the
Oil has lo ng noted‘ns~u~grcnthpbjectmn~so its use ;
but In this‘. norm tht trouble In. entirely . obviated.
A hostel: :ertilicqus might be given here to tel;-
tily to the ’c’xcel‘lcnco ,V.alld,,sncccsz or "Withers
Compound! of CodLln'nc'r Oil and Lsme ;’f but the
'l'act that it :is prescribed xbvthc medical laanltyjs
sufficient. Sold by A.
ton, and all .druggists.
. ' Lno Chemist,Bos—fi
B “l B, 3w“ ‘
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Norwalk Chronicler