‘I n
WHOLE N UMBER 1820.
The great interest awakened hereabouts
by the contest over the will of the late Jesse
Hoyt, and the local interest felt in this
branch of a once influential Norwalk fam-
ily, justifies us in surrendering a large por-
tion of the space .usually devoted to mis-
cellany, in giving the following full report
of the recent trial before the New York Sur-
rogate: [Ens Gaz.
The Will of Jesse Hoyt.
PETITION 0]? ms WIFE AND DAUGHTER.
I Arguments on‘ the Motion to Advance $25,.
000 to each of them—Afidam'ts and Letters
—Lettera bettoeen Mrs. Hoyt and Alisa
Hoyt and the Eweeutors.
The argument on the motion for an order
directing the executors of the will of the late
Jesse iloyt to advance to Helen Marla Hoyt
the widow, and Mary Irene Hoyt, the
daughter of :the testetor, the sum of $25,000
each for the purpose of their immediate
maintenance and support and to enable them
to take the necessary steps to have the
probate of the will revoked, was heard last
week before Surrogate Rollins. Roscoe"
Conkling appeared for Mrs. and Miss Hoyt
and Elihu Root for the executors.
Mr. Hoyt by his will bequeathed to Mrs,
Hoyt a life interest in the sum of $1,250,-
000, with the power to dispose by will of
$750,000, and to Miss Hoyt a life interest
simply in $1,250,000. Upon the death of
Mrs. Hoyt without disposing by will of the
sum‘ of $750,000, the principal sum of
$1,250,000 is to o to the children of Mr.
Hoyt's brothers. ' he principal of the be-
quest to lilies Hoyt is also to go upon her
death to the children of Mr. Hoyt’s brothers.
Mr. Hoyt also made the following bequests
in money: $100,000 to his sister, Mary
Hoyt; $200,000 to his brother, Samuel N.
Hoyt; $100,000 to his brother, Alfred M.
Hoyt; $100,000 to the wife of Alfred M.
Hoyt; $100,000 to his brother,Reuben Hoyt;
$100,000 to the wife of Reuben Hoyt;
$25,000 to the widow of James H. Hoyt;
$25,000 to Mray N. Hoyt; 8600.000 to
Alfred M. Hoyt in trust for six children in
equal shares, and $400,000 to Reuben Hoyt
in trust for his four children. To each of
the testator’s nephews, Jesse and F. R.
Hoyt,was given none-fourth part of his share
in the partnership existing between him and
J. M. Hazeitine and Edwin Annan. After
some bequests to charity in Michigan, Mr.
Hoyt gave all the residue of his estate to his
executors in trust for Mary, Samuel N..
Alfred M. and Reuben Hoyt, and the
daughter of James Hoyt, deceased, in equal
shares.
In the petition for the order directing
the executors to advance $26,000 .each to
Mrs. and Miss Hoyt, it is alledged that the
executors have refused to furnish the pe-
titioners with any money with whlch to
meet certain claims against them, and the
expenses of living, and that they have no
other resources. It is also said that the
petitioners believe that Mr. Hoyt at the time
of the execution of his will was of unsound
mind, and was under the undue influence of
his brothers. The petitioners therefore in-
tend to take legal steps to have the probate
of the will revoked. .
AEGUMENTS on MR. noor mm are. .ooxxtrxe.
.Elihu Root for the executors, moved to
dismiss the petition, upon the grounds that
the petition did‘ not show that any allowance
was necessary for the support of the
petitioners, and that it did not show that
petitioners were legatees under the will of
the late Jesse Hoyt within the meaning of
the statue. In regard to the first objection,
Mr. Root said that it must appear in the
petition that the allowance was necessary
for the education and support of the peti -
.ionerr. The long and short of this petition-
was that the petitioners wanted an allowance
to enable them, not to educate and support
themselves, but to enable them to carry on
a long litigation to contest the validity of
Mr. Hoyt’s will. Mr. Root then called at-
tention to the provisions of Mr. Hoyt’s will
to show that Mrs. and Miss Hoyt were not
legatees within the meaning of the statute.
The provision in the‘will in favor of Mrs.
Hoyt was to the effect that property and
securities to the amount of $1,250,000.
should be set aside by the executors, and
the income arising from the fund should be
collected by them and paid over to Mrs.
Hoyt during her life. The provision in
favor of Miss Hoyt was similar to that in
favor of Mrs. Hoyt except that it did not
give the former the right of dispfing of any
sum by her last will, and that it directed
that the trustees should hold the sum of
$1.250,000‘, to provide for her out of the
income in the most bounteous and plentiful
manner. There was not a dollar of the
corpus of the bequests in favor of either
Mrs. or Miss Hoyt to which either of them
would ever be entitled. The provisions in
the will were simply testamentary trusts
and bequests. 1f the executors made any
advance to Mrs. or Miss Hoyt it must be
out of the income of the fund mentioned in
the will and not out of the principal. Until
the‘ income had accrued the executors would
be personally liable for all advances to Mrs.
or liliss Hoyt which they should make.
Mr. Root said in conclusion that the
executors were now and always had been
ready to supply Mrs. and Miss Hoyt with
all the money which they needed or desired
for their maintenance and support, but that
they did not feel that it was consistent wrth
their duty to pay large sums to theirattorney
for services, yet to be rendered.
Mr. Conkling, in re ly to Mr. Root. said
he would receive thegienevolent intention
on the part of the executors to dispense
aims to Mrs. and Miss Hoyt with becoming
gratitude. In a future proceeding he would
recall the attention of the Surrogate to the
declarations which had just been made in
behalf of the executors. In reply to Mr.
Root‘s argument that the petition did not
show that Mrs. and Miss Hoyt needed an
allowance for their support, Mr. Conkling
referred to the allegation in the petition that
- an allowance for:the.“necessary expenses of
maintenance and household affairs” was,
asked. The petition showed that Mr. Hoyt
had left an estate valued at more than $8,-
000,000. In this vast estate Mr. Root had
asserted that Mr. Hoyt's widow and only
daughter took no interest which was of a
sufficiently tangible nature to be called a be-
quest. The petition showed that the exe-
cutors had refused to advance a cent to Mrs.
and Miss Hoyt, although Mr. Hoyt had been
dead several months. Repeated requests
have been made to the executors, and their
requests had always been refused or ignored.
The executors could not be allowed to starve
the petitioners into submission and to terrify
them into giving up their intentions to
institute proceedings to test the validity of
Mr. Hoyt’s will. In regard to the objection
to the application for an advance that Mrs.
and Miss Hoyt were not legatees under the
will, Mr. Conkling said that it was incon-
ceivable that the objections should be val-
id. .
Mr. Root here admitted that perhaps Mrs.
and Miss Hoyt’s interest under the will was
such as to entitle them to an allowance,but he
insisted that the petition did not show that
there was any income as yet from which the
allowance could be made,
Mr. Conkling declared that it was not.
necessary to do this. The statute was a
general one—one to enable the Surrogate to
do kindness and to dispense justness against
hardships and oppression. ,He characterized
as monstrous the provision in the will by
which Miss Hoyt took no interest which, if
she married and had children, she - could
transmit to her children. ‘
The Surrogate here asked if the executors
insisted that Miss Hoyt had no absolute right
to the whole income of the fund mentoned in
the will, but only to so much as the execu-
tors should think it proper to give her.
Mr. Root said that he had not considered
that matter. The executors had intended to
, allow Miss Hoyt the whole of the income
of the fund, unless they should find that
she had become the prey of designing per-
sons. .
Mr. Conking—Then as yet you have not
withheld the income because she has become
a prey of designing .persons ? ~
Mr. Root—The executors have not with-
held the income at all.
AFFIDAVITS OF THE EXECUTORS.
Mr. Root then readzthelaffidavits of Samuel
M. Hoyt, Alfred M. Hoyt and James W.
Jackson, the executors of Mr. Hoyt’s will.
These, affidavits in substance admit that the
executors have not set aside the $2,580,000
trust for the benefit of Mrs. Hoyt and Miss
Hoyt. but declare that this could not
properly be done, because the executors
are liable to be called upon for the payment
of large sums pursuant to contracts made
by Mr. Hoyt during his lifetime. Under
the contract of the firm of Jesse Hoyt & Co.
with the New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad Company and the Long Dock
Improvement Company the executors are.
liable to be called upon to pay about $1,-
400,000 for building and rebuilding expenses
connected with the Erie grain elevator.
Under the will the executors are directed to
pay $785,006 for railroad stock subscriptions
in addition to about $62,000 already paid
by them. The executors also are liable for
o
$146,000 for investments on stocks which
formed part of the estate. Moreover, it Is
averred that the expenditure for the con-e
struction of certain mills at East Saginaw ,'
Mich., will call for $75,000 more. The
total expenditure for which the estate is
liable is alleged to be $2,400,000, while one
third of the estate is in the bands of William
L. Webber, the Michigan executor. The
executors also aver that while the estate is
ample to meet all claims and provide for all
legacies under the will. it would not be safe
to take. $2,500,000 ,of the most available
securities out of the estate until the general
administration had proceeded far enough to
produce an available fund. aside from the
$2,500,000 securities, from which calls for
money could be met. In the meantime, and
before such a point was reached, the
executors say they were given notice of an
intention to file allegations fer the revocation
of the probate and the consequent interfer-
ence with the progress of the administration.
They assert that during the time before the
trust could be set aside it wasltheir inton-
tion to advance all sums necessary for the
support of Mrs: Hoyt and Miss Hoyt up to
the limit of income which would have been
realized had the trust been set aside. They
say that they explained their intentions to
both beneficiaries under the will, and
furnished them with blank drafts 6n the
estate for the purpose of drawing what
money they needed. As a matter of fact
the beneficiaries drew and were paid $3,000
and the last payment was made after the ex-
ecutors had been cited to appear in the pres-
ent proceedings. -
The executors say that they never refused
to pay any draft except the one for $16,500
in favor of Aaron Kahn. They declined to
pay that, and also the demand subsequently
made by Mrs. Hoyt for $10,000. because
they were aware that Mr. Kuhn was trying
to find ground 0 n which to set aside the
will. and that he held no other relation to
the :family. The executors, aver that
the $16,500 draft was “solely by way of
anladvance to Mr. Kahn upon account of
prpspective litigation. It appeared to these
executors, moreover, to be an unconscion-
able and unwarrantablc advance, to which
only the great inexperience of Mrs. Hoyt
in business affairs would have led her to
assent. Both the amount of said draft and
of the said demand exceeded the sum which
would have been realized as income had the
investment directe'd been made immediately
upon Mr. Hoyt’s death, and the said demand
exceeded the entire amount which was in
fact received by the executors by way of
income from the entire estate from .the date
of the death of Jesse Hoyt down to the 80th
of October, 1882, when this proceeding was
commenced. Payment of the said draft
could only have been made by the said ex-
ecutors out of their own pockets, or out of
the principal of the estate, and at their own
risk.” In conclusion, the executors say
that the beneficiaries have not been and are
not “in need of money for their support, or
to meet any obligation whatever, excepting
only such demands as may have been made
upon them :by {their attorney for advances
against future services." "
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Attached to the papers in the case is the
correspondence between the litigants. The
first letter is from Miss Mary I. Hoyt to A.
M. Hoyt, dated September 22, 1882, in reply
to one from Mr. Hoyt, asking for an ap-
pointment with her for purposes of consul-
tation with regard to her interest under the
will. In this she says :
“I refuse any communication with you and
Samuel Hoyt; it is too late. You both kept
me from a father’s death-bed and deserted
me in an Insane asylum when'I was never
insane, but tried to keep me from the fu-
neral. Do you think I would meet such char'
actors to fight about a daughter’s rightsff
will trust to strangers.”
The next letter is from Aaron Kshn to
James W. Jackson, one of the executors,
dated October 5, asking him for a private
consultation with reference to Miss Hoyt’s
interest in her father's estate. 0n the same
day Mr. Jackson wrote to Miss Hoyt as
follows: .
“I received .a note of this date from a
gentleman signing himself Aaron Kahn in
which he represents himself to be the attor-
ney for Mary Irene Hoyt and another, and
requests an interview with me alone apper-
taining to matters of the Hoyt estate. I de-
cline any such interview. I have heard that
the man has beeninterviewing servants and
doctors in fishing for something to show in-
firmity in your father. This is all nonsense.
Every-one who knew your father knows that
he was a man of settled views and not easily
infiuenced.' I know that he was boss down
town.. If you want any information from
me in regard to the situation of the estate or
your interest under the will, you have only
to state it and it will be cheerfully furnish-
ed. I do not intend in any mrnner to ex-
pose or commit myself or you to any mis-
construction, as I assure you that I and the
other executors have only the interest of the
estate and your welfare and best interests at
heart.
When the demand for $10,000 was refus-
ed by the executors, Mrs. Hoyt wrote ask-
ing for an explanation. To her letter Mr.
Jackson replied, on October 13th, as follows:
"Your letter of this date addressed to me.
if intended as an application for money for
your account from the estate, should be ad.
dressed to the executors, of whom I am only
one. This is an extraordinary letter from
you to me from the manner of It. No de-
mand on me alone for money is in order. No
funds have yet been appropriated and set
apart for your use as to income under the
provisions of Mr. Hoyt’s will. There has not
been time to do it, nor can it be done until
further progress in the administration of the
estate. It will be necessary, first to make
provisions for large engagements of the late
Mr. Hoyt. The executors are willing to ad-
vance any money required for your support
on a charge against incomes, to which you-
will be entitled when it shall come in. As
soon as appropriations can be placed for your
use as to income, as required by the will, we
shall be ready to pay you from income what
you shall be entitled to, as it shall be
collected.”
On October 20 all the executors wrote to
Miss Hoyt as follows:
“We desire to confirm the statements to
you of Mr. Jackson in his letter to you of
the 16th ,inst. We do not fully understand
whether or to what extent you maybe en-
couraging Mary of your free will in athreat-
ened attempt to disturb the foundations laid
with evident care by Mr. Jesse Hoyt in his
will. We are informed that Kuhn who re-
presents himself as Mary’s lawyer. has been
offering to mortgage your house. You should
know how to repel intruders. . . No one
can regret more than we do that Mary is
not better advised and her hallucination that
her father or mother or uncles have ever
had a dispositlon to do her wrong and that
her relatives on both sides of the house who
oppose her views are her enemies."
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Ex-Senator Oonkling then resumed his ar-
gument for the petitioners. He exerted to
life utmost his power of sarcasm and accom-
panied his words with aliberal and facile
manipulation of his features. He {ridiculed
the size of the sum—$3,000—that had been
paid by the executors to the . widow and
daughter of a man who had died possessed of
$6,0000,000 or $8,000,000. The sum Mrs-
Hoyt had been refused was less than the in-
terest on the legacy left her and yet the es.
late was in such a condition that this trifle
had to be retained. Mr. Conklin also criti-
cised the invitation which had been sent by
one of the executors asking her to meet him
and consult with him in reference to her in-
terest in the estate and intimated that the
purposes and actions of the executors should
be carefully considered in the case. He
ridiculed the assertion of the executors that
the money asked for was to be used to “vic-
tual the fortress of an enemy."
After the conclusion of Mr. Conkling’s ar-
gument Surrogate Rollins took the papers
and reserved his decision.
SEEKING TO CONTEST THE WILL.
Aaron Kuhn, as a'ttorncy for Mary I. Hoyt,
yesterday filed a petition for a decree vacat-
ing and setting aside the letters testamentary
issued to the executors-named in Mr. Hoyt’s
will, and that all persons interested under
the will be cited to show cause why the pe-
titioner should not be given an opportunity
to contest the will, and why the probate of
the will should not be revoked. The peti-
tioner sets forth that a certain paper purport-
ing to be the will of the late Jesse Hoyt, was
admitted to probate on August 20. 1882, and
that letters testamentary were issued on it.
It is also alleged that the petitioner on June
6, 1882, was removed to an asylum for the
insane at Frankfort, near Philadelphia. known
as the Friends? Insane Asylum, and that the
removal was instigated by Alfred M. Hoyt
and Samuel N. Hoyt, the latter of whom
went with her and forcibly com elled her to
go. After the death of Mr. oyt the peti-
tioner ‘was brought1back to the city by Alfred
M. and Samuel N. Hoyt, “ostensibly to at-
tend the funeral of her father." She was ac-
companied by the superintendnet of the
asylum and was taken to the Windsor Hotel
and not to her own father’s house. When
she arrived at the hotel Samuel N. and Al-
fred M. Hoyt came to her and in harsh and
violent language told her that she would not
be allowed to attend her father's funeral,
that shezcould not go,to thechurch where the
than they made.
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NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TLIESD AY. NOVEMBER 21. 1882.
services were to be held and that she could
not see her father’s remains. She did how-
cver,_attend her :father's funeral, notwith-
standing the attempts to prevent her from
doing so. On her way back from the fu-
neral Alfred M, Hoyt told her that she must
return to the asylum, but that she need not
stay there more than three weeks. on the
next day after ,the funeral Samuel Hoyt
came to her at the Windsor Hotel, and while
he was with her she was served with a
citation to attend the probate of her father's
will. The superintendent of the asylum was
also present. Samuel Hoyt stated that s
was not insane, and, as she believes. induced
one of herrelatives to persuade her to return
the asylvm at once and not see any lawyer. »
On the same day Samuel Hoyt caused her to
be taken back to the asylum in the custody
of the superintendent, towhom she had been
obliged to give a promise to return as a con.
dition of her being allowed to come to New
York to attend ‘her father’s funeral. She was
kept incarcerated in the asylum until Sep-
tember 6, 1882, or eight days after her
father’s will was admitted to probate. Dur-
ing all this time she was not allowed to com-
municate with her friends or With anyone
outside the asylum. She wrote many letters
and sought to have them mailed, but they
were intercepted and destroyed. She was
denied all possibility of being present in
person or by counsel at the probate of her
father’s will. She repeatedly begged the
superintendent to be allowed to goto New
York for the purpose of answering the cita-
tion which had been served upon her.
The petitioner further shows that Alfred M.
and Samuel N. Hoyt are large legateees
under the will of Jesse Hoyt, who at the
time of the execution of the will, was great-
ly under their influence, and was greatly en-
feebled by disease and suffering and was of
unsound mind. The will, it is further said,
was procured by fraud and circumvention
and undue influence practised by Alfred M.
and Samuel N. Hoyt and others. It is fi-
nally alleged that the petitioner had no op-
portunity to require that sll the witnesses
should be produced and examined and that
Alfred M. and Samuel N. Hoyt had used
every means to prevent her from contesting.
her father's will. She asked. therefore, to
have an opportunity to contest the probate
of her father’s will.
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For the Gazette.
The Lees' Manufacturing Com-
pany of Westport.
In one sense the Lees" Manufacturing
Company is -a Fairfield institution, for the
reason that their buildings not only succeed,
but stand on the site of one owned by a com-
pany which came into existence more than
twenty‘ years before Westport was incorpo-
rated, and when the territory of which it is
composed was a part of Fairfleld. ‘The
originators of the Saugatuck manufacturing
establishment, familiarly known later as the
chhmondville Factory, so called in honor of
Doctor David Richmond, one of the largest
stock subscribers, were Norwalk men, though
some hailed from other places. Thai their
enterprise was a bold one may be inferred
when the fact is considered that Sea Island
cotton, which was mostly used in manufac-
lure then, cost 65 cents per pound, and
further, that capital was not as plenty as
now, machinery and knewledge thereof was
crude, and those who set themselves up as
doubters of the feasibility of enterprises of
that kind were less easily convinced of their
error then than now. So, when in the year
1814 the plan of building a factory and estab-
lishing a business which was not much
understood even by some of its warmest
advocates was broached, it met opposition.-
Argument, however, dispelled it, and a com-
pany was organized with a capital of $100,-
000 (afterwards increased to $200,000,) for
the manufacture of cotton. Some of the
names subscribed to the stock are familiar.
For instance: John Q. Wilson, Jasper Ward,
Moses Judah, Samuel Kellogg, Joseph Cor-
nell, Lewis Raymond, Ebenezer J esup, David
Richmond, M. D., Zalmon Burr, Jarvis St.
John, Daniel Banks, Mary Clift, Samuel
Perry, Levi and Charles Sanford. The con-
tract for the original building, which cost
$10,000, is a curiosity. Among other things
it was stipulated that in raising the frame,
the building committee. composed of Eli
Thorpe, Jr., Lewis Raymond and Eben
Jesup, should supply one gallon of West
India rum and three gallons of elder brandy.
This was probably insisted on by way of
encouraging the workmen. The material
used was native stone, and 2,000 loads, at
$11 load, were consumed. The structure
was finished in due time, and was considered
One of the best. Machinery costing $8,040
was put in, about 15 hands were set at work,
and 432 spindles. People came for miles to
see what was believed to be the wonder of
the age, 3'. e., so vast a number of wheels
operated at one and the same time for the
making of strands, which the visitors, most
of them, had only heard of being made by
hand on ordinary house spinning wheels.
Note the contrast? The concern to-day
employs 75 hands and 8,000 spindles, the
total cost of machinery exceeding $40,000.
Active work began in the Richmondvilie‘
Mill in 1819, but investors’bad to wait till
the following year for a dividend, as most of
the profits were absorbed in perfecting the
appointments of the building. An apathy
seemed to clothe everything after the war of
1812, and the concern, while it did much
business. somehow failed to fulfill its mission
as a paying one. Its existence was a struggle
till 1884, when Messrs. Joseph Wood and
Robert Raymond, two men of excellent judg-
ment, hired the mill and operated it four
years. With all their skill they retired at
the end of that time, having lost more money
From 1838 to 1843, silence
reigned where activity had been the rule.
In the latter year Mr. John Lees, a man of
skill and enterprise, stepped upon the scene,
and by his presence infused new life into the
place. He spent much money and labor in
improvements, kept the mill running all the
time, and made it pay. Age warned him,-
after 15 years of faithful endeavor, to think
of retiring, and in 1858 his son, Mr. Thomas
R. Lees, bought 812 shares of the original
stock, took the mill off his father's hands
and conducted It 20 years successfully, as the
vast amounts of money paid out by him in
wages amply show. Mr. Lees had practically
run the mill for years before he became”
owner, and, at the time of the fire in 1878, by
which the mill was totally destroyed, he had
been over 35 years a manufacturer.
The “ Lees’ Minufacturing Company” was
formed January 1st, 1881, with a capital of
, $25,000, afterwards increased to $40,000, and
the work of rebuilding on the old site began.
The new mill, of stone and brick, in every
way larger and‘more .comniodious than the
old one, was completed in 00 days. Machine-
ry from Lowell, Hopedale and Whitinsville,
Mass, all of late approved patents, was in-
troduced. Success was assured from the
start. At the expiration of‘ few months
the company was reorganized with 'Mr.
Thomas R. Lees, President, and his two
sons, Messrs. Robert T. Lees and James E.
Lees, as Secretary and'Treasurer respectively.
Through them it is learned that more than
$10,000 worth of raw cotton per month are
consumed, that not far from one ten per day
of manufactured goods during the active
season are marketed; that sets of hands
work by night and‘ by day. and that orders
are received faster than the mill, with its
varied and improved facilities, is able to fill
them. The work turned out consists. of
twine. carpet warps, and candle wick—the
latter used principally for railroad employes’ ~
lamps, and by men in the coal mines of
Pennsylvania. An idea of the nature of the
work can best be gained by following cotton
from the moment it enters the mill till it
leaves for market. After the unbaling and
drying processes, what is called an “Opener"
receives, tears-and cleanses it of sand, leaves
and dirt; a “Lapper” forms it into a roll,
no light that one's breath will almost blow it
away; a “ Carder ” manipulates this roll,
and another “ Carder " with so-called “ Rail-
way Read: " deposits it in the cans; a
“ Drawing Frame " draws the little fibres
straight; it “Slubber " puts the fibres on to
the bobbins for the first time; a “ Speeder ”
transfers them to the fine bobbins to be spun;
the "Spinning Frames," which make 5,000
revolutions a minute, form it into the single
yarn, in which state it may be employed for
twine. warp, or rope ; the “ Spoolers" trans-
fer it to the large spools, and the " Twisters"
make into two, three, or any number of ply.
When the reeling, balling, counting, weigh-
ing and packing processes are gone through
with, the work is ended, and the clerk in
charge makes an entry on the books, “To
the,Lees' Manufacturing Company,” so many
bales of goods, so much; and a bank-check
for the amount, just what the factory has
been running‘this cotton for, is in due time
received. And so the work goes on, steadily
day by day, like the sun. The company
have one of the prettiest offices in the State,
an apartment in which it is possible to trans-
act business with some show of comfort and
from the Saugatuck River, which has its rise
in Danbury, which river is fed from the
Aspetnck branch rising in Easton and enter-
ing the Saugaruck north 0" Kelly’s Mill.
Nature seems to have anticipated the needs
of the projectors in providing a layout on
which to begin, for nowhere in New England
can be found a water power more reliable
during most seasons of the year, or better
adapted to the uses to which it is put. The
dam, thrown across the river above the mill,
has been raised and improved by the present
company during the past year. It formsa
waterfall which has charms for llle eye equal
to anything of the sort in. the State. A
stretch of water 200 feet wide cascades upon
the rocks 12 feet below. ,It is the overplus
of a mighty, power' extending over a mile
above the dam, and which rarely fails to
meet the wants of those who made it captive-
When dry weather comes, and it put in an
appearance last Summer, an auxiliary force
in the shape of a thirty-horse power engine
is brought into requisition, and thus there is
no break in the activity which gives the
place character. Noble forest trees, standing
here and there upon the hundred or more
acres controlled by the company, shade the
rivulet formed by the cascade, and which
finds its way through the Ssugetuck River
to the Sound. Flocks and herds roam among
them, and shades which are deeper and
cooler the brighter the sun shines, contribute
to the features of a scene towards which
poets might well turn their thoughts and
pens. Two great turbine water-wheels,
rigged to not either in conjunction or sepa-
rately, turn the machinery most of the'year,
and the water raceway leading from the dam
has gates by which, at short notice, the
power can be diverted. In the conduct of
tho affairs ’of the concern, every means by
which economy can aid those employed has
been studied, and by scenoniyls meant those
things which tend to save labor. In the mill
itself, so complete are the movements of the
machines, that persons in attendance have to
expend little of their muscle; the greatest
infliction, if it can be so called, being the
hours, whichthe system (if the mill requires
them to devote in exchange for wages stipu-
lated. In every business more or less of
inconvenience to the person transacting it
shows itself, and “ The Lees' Manufactur
Company" ask no unreasonable thing of
those with whom they deal. They pay for
what they get, and it is philosophical and
not out of the bounds of reason to concede
they are entitled to get a fair proportion of
what they pay for. Mills of this kind are
not run for the simple fun of it, but for the
profit likely to accrue. In the conduct of
the affairs of this company an old and well-
known principle is ' demonstrated, that if
employers make money, those employed by
them can continue to earn it, and visa versa.
The situation of the mill is admirably calcu-
lated to impress a visitor with its importance.
It is secluded, and yet easy of access. Close
to tide-water and a great railroad, raw mate-
rials can be had cheaply and at short notice,
and when the manufactured article is ready
it can be sent on the way to a customer with
little exertion and at slight expense. Fig-
uring on the pay-roll of the-concern the
amount of wages weekly disbursed is sufll-
cient to show that if merchants and-traders
in villages other than our own received It,
the sum total of our merchants' weekly sales
would be perceptibly lessened. It is of
consequence, therefore, to Westport, that
the “Lecs’ Manufacturing Company" con-
tinue the work they have begun. Time and
capital build up a village. Time secures
capital by enabling men to earn it. Capital
builds houses, and men who labor pay for
and occupy them. By keeping men at work
this company aids in that advance which all
of us so much desire to see realized. The
town is enriched, and its grand list matc-
rially augmented. We can aflord to speak
kind words of an institution which has so
much ofselquustaining powers within it, for
by‘every dollar it 'expends the rate of taxa-
tion stands a chance of being proportionately
made less. .
Their Wedding Journo .
‘ A few minutes after the noon bells rang,
Tuesday, a gray horse, to a collar and bar-
.ness. and a stout wagon, drove to the ‘en-
trance of onset the Lewiston hotels. The
buffalo robe was comfortably lucked around
cruddy and downy young man and a plump
young woman garnished with a bridal
bonnet. He helped her out of the wagon
and escorted into the parlor with her a
round green box1 After he had driven off
and put up the team at the stable of a rival
hotel, he rejoined his mate and expressul a
desire for a confidential interview with the
landlord. The latter presented himself, and
the young man said: “Me and Harriet was
married this morning. We have started on
a liitle excursion. Before we left home.
marm put us up a little dinner and we
broughta coffee pot along. New we'd like
to heat the coffee and have a table to eat the
dinner on—and perhaps a little sugar ’n'
milk." The landlord led-the innocent pair in-
to the dining hall and seated them at a table
with other guests.and they took the cover off
their little green box with celerity. They
had a glorious time, eating their doughnuts,
carrawa'y-seed cookies, squash pie. and
broad slices of cheese. If their wedding
tour had taken them to Niagara, and they
were dining at a fashionable hotel, with the
prospect of paying $2.50 per plate, they
could not have catch or laughed so heartily.
The gray horse carried home two hearts that
rapturouely beat as one. and as the landlord
saw them ride 01!, he felt almost as well in
the radiance of their happiness as if they
had paid him 75 cents apiece for dinner
and 50 cents for stabling.—Lmi'aton (Ella)
Journal.
as
GENERAL NEWS.
A fire at Grand street and the Bowery, Saté
urday, delayed many elevated trains and
street cars and caused much annoyance to
passengers.
ner, defeated L. E. Meyers, theAmerican
champion, in a mile race.
Reports of numerous burglaries in that
neighborhood come from Port Jervis. N. Y.
At Canton, N. Y., Elmer Palmer, aged six-
teen, was yesterday convicted of the murder
of his grandfather.
Commissioner Raum, who was reported to
urday. .
President Arthur left New York forsWash-
ington late Saturday afternoon.
The election has at least caused no shrink-
age in the value of bonds issued by the late
Confederacy. 'In San Francisco Thursday
Confederate ,State bonds sold at $1.50 :per
$1,000. .
accuracy. Their supply of water is taken.
W. G. George, the English champion run?
be dying in Ohio, arrived in Washington Sat- -
Washington Letter.
[From our Regular; Correspondent]
WA summon, D.::C., Nov. 18, 1882.
Allis quiet along the Potomac. The polit-
icsl flood has rolled by and it is useless to
deny that it. was a good deal ofa shower.
The common salutation among politicians is
in the language of Bardwell Slote, “ Let us
take suthin’." But the feeling among the
Republicans in Washington, after admitting
the party has met with ‘a great disaster—a
regular Bull Run, as it were—is that, after
all. things might be a‘ great deal worse.
Without stopping to explain away that which
has happened, or to discuss the whys and
wherefores, the business in hand is to repair
damages and look to the future. The cam-
paign of 1884 is two years away, and there
is ample time In which to close up the ranks,
pick our filnts and march to the attack.
There is little cxultation among the Demo-
crats here because they know it is nota
Democratic victory pure and simple; and
the wisest of them realize the difiiculties of
their position. What will they do with their
suddenly acquired power? .is.the question
in every month; but nobody expects theuf
to us it wisely. Some of the shrewdest
Democrats regret that their party obtained
a majority of the next House, carrying with
it obligations and responsibilities which may,
if not properly met, destrpy whatever chani
ces they might otherwise have had fo‘rsuc-
cess in 1884. Even men of strong Demo-
cratic sympathies have no confidence in any.
other result. In this view of the matter
there is plenty of consolation and encourages
meet for the Republicans- There are things
remaining for the present Congress to‘ do of
which it will be time enough to speak here-
after. President Arthur has returned to
Washington wearing a thoughtful air, but
cheerful and evidently not crushed. Secre-
tary Folger is daily at his desk in the Treas-
ury Department attending to his duties as
though nothing had happened. He will not
serve his term out. - . ,,
’It' seems 'to be settled that the notorious
TOm Ochiltree is elected 'to congress from
Texas. Tom has been one of the eccentric
characters about Washington more or less
the last ten years. He Is a stout, genial,
sportive sort of a customer; a consort of the
judges and majors of the hotel lobbies, hav-
ing no special qualifications for the office of
Congressman, though perhaps as well fitted
for the place as many others who get there.
His faculty of inventing good-natured yarns
is a distinguishing trait and in the House he
will tower head and, shoulders, like a Nor.
way pine, above Congressional pigmies who
try to make a little notoriety by taking liber-
ties with the truth. There may be compet-
itors in the field who have achieved a certain
local celebrity for tampering with the truth,
but for ornamental work, with deep flounces
and a_ double row of fiuting up the back, there
are experts who regard Tom Ochiltree, in a
national sense, as the most scientific produ.
cer of romantic fiction of theage. He is not
malicious, ugly and ;dangerous, but genial,
versatile and amusing—as much of an'Amer-
ican feature as the cotton gin. While he is
in Congress the standard for Munchausens
in that body will be raised. Another incident
of the Congressional campaign is the petti-
coat issue said to be involved in young Will-
ism English's candidacy in the seventh dis-
trict of Indiana. Mr. English’s wife was
formerly an actress, who, because of her
antecedents, had been denied recognition in
aristocratic society in Indianapolis. This
has aroused her wrath and made her ambitions
of going to Washington with the social pres-
tige accorded to the wives of Representatives
in Congress. To accomplish this she appeal-
ed, report says, to William B. English, who
placed his bar’l at his son’s disposal. But
there must be some mistake about the size of
the bar’l, or else it is not a potent factor in
the virtuous city of Indianapolis.
For the past six weeks or more—ever since
October’s mellow air began to tint the leaves
—Washington has been completely snowed
under with bridal couples. There was never
anything like it. To all appearances every
married couple in the whole country comes
to see the Capital and then sail down to
Mount Vernon to shed a few tears over the
tomb of Washington. It is a good omen,
they say, to make a.edding trip to Mount
Vernon. One day not long ago there were
seventeen couples on the regular trip of the
boat. During that week there were more
than fifty couples in the city, and in one
hotel were sheltered eighteen brides and bus-
bands. Thsy~ scatter while here and one
meets them everywhere: at the Tressurg, in
the Capitol, 'and even on top of the Wash-
ington Monument. J UNIUS.
Political Notes.
Simon Cameron's boy has out another
wisdom tooth—New York Sun.
There are 18 lawyers elected to the Con-
necticut House of Representatives, eight
being Republicans and five Democrats.
The New York Etching Post says that
the man whom the Democrats have elected
County Clerk of New York city “cannot
legibly write his name.”
The most deeply scared men in the coun-
try are shrewd democrats who know their
party has got a nice long rope tohang itself
with before 1884—8prinyflek1 Republican.
The rival candidates in the democratic
national convention in 1884 are likely to be
Governor Cleveland, Governor Pattison and
Governor Butler.—— Waterbury American.
To Governor-elect, Major-General Benja-
min P. Butler, of Massachusetts: You will
recollect that we have always maintained
that the widow’s cruise that goes often to
the fountain gets filled “lash—New York
Tribune. - ,
‘ The Hartford Democrats celebrated their
victory Thursday evening with torch-light
parades and serenades. Hooker Clapp, an
old resident and formerly a hackman, was
stricken dead with apoplexy while in the
procession in a back.
Some ople harbour a mistaken idea that
the legis ature chosen in this state this year,
will elect 'a United States senator. Senator
Platt’s term expires in 1885 and Senator
Hawley’s in 1887. The legislature to be
chosen in 1884 will elect a successor to Sen-
ator Platt.
The democracy will only 'be able to repeat
this victory by maintaining thelrpresent har-
mony and proving to the public that the
change means reform and good government.
The result in 1884 will depend almost entire-
ly upon the conduct of the two parties dur-
ing the intervening period.— Grover Cleveland.
The opportunities before Mr. Waller to
make a creditable administration are so clear
that he will have noserious difficulty in mak-
ing all his promises good. It is not the busi-
ness of a republican journal to advise or in-
struct him, but the Post, as one of the repre-
sentatives of the people, feels at liberty to
remind him of his opportunities, to speak
kindly of nls intentions, and to assure him
that it will encourage and approve every act
which he may perform in the interest of the
people and reform—Hartford Post. 4
Several vessels which reached this port
yesterday confirmed the news of extraordi-
narily rough weather on the Atlantic. Oc-
tober seems to have been one of the stormi-
est months at sea that has been known in
several years, and November, thus far has
not been less boisterous. Manila, which
suffered so severely from a hurricane last
month, has experienced another hurricane,
fortunately less severe than the first. The
German Ocean has been swept by fierce
storms, and along our. own coast there has
been heavy weather, although has yet no
great disaster has occured. The life savers,
however should keep a sharp lookout, for in
a stormy season the Jersey sands seldom fail
to get their share of wrecks.
——-———.—0.
”——
Ayoung gentlemanwho was pledged to
takeayoun lady to a party remarked to
her on the afternoon previous to the event,
that he was going home to take a sleep. in
order to be fresh. “That's right," she re-
plied : “but do not sleep toolong." “Wh ?”
he asked. “Because.’ she answered, “ do
not want on to be too Ruhr—Philadelphia
Sunday m. ‘
resign at present-and is more than likely to '
.Geieral furnishing
.NORWALK GAZETTE,
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0 a. H. BALDWIN, M. 1)..
[Its Removed his olllcc to his New Residence
No. '11 Wu“ Street, Dr. Hill’s pla‘co.
Hours this a. m., 1 to sand 7 to s p. m.
, 4-“
ALEX. s; "GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church
Teacher of
Plano-Force. Organ and Musical
Composition, V
Look Box 39. P.O., NORWALK. CONN.
' ENfl'lSTRY.-Dr.0.ll. Kendall can and
will Extract Teeth better and Make Teeth
cheaper than any Dentist in Norwalk. lyl'
The N orwalk Dye Works
ARE now In successful operation. Ladies' and
» Gents’ Garments Dyed, Cleaned or Secured
in best possible manner, without injury to cloth.
Any shade of color produced which may be de-
sired. Work well done and prices reasonable.
Goods can be left as the Mi liner and Fancy
Store of the MISSES ST. JOHN . 38 ain St.,Nor-
walk, or at MRS. Ht KREIGER’S Millinery. 39tf
BERNARD COHN.
MERCHANT ' TAILOR,
wnnms no lLDING, WALL 81.,
A FULL LINE or
Imported and Domestic Cloths
of the latest styles, constantly on hand. N ovcl-
ties in Scotch Suitings. Satisfaction guaranteed
in every‘particular. 48
w. s. QUINTABD;
Undertaker,
OPPOSITE HORSE R.DEPO’I'.
women attended to pay or night. Residence
Main street, 3 doors from Union avenue.
Telephone communication with the house.
Dr. T. E. SWIFT,
D E N T I S '17.,
once and Residence No. 9 West Ave.
H‘Bighf. Hand Bell.
Has now completed its
18th successful Business Year.
And has not outstanding a Dollar of unpaidlosses
or of claims for losses.
I0 SDIIID “IPA" IESIIIIESA‘I' “I'll RATES.
Wis. 0 .S'rnisfs'r. Pres., S. E. Onnsrun, Trees.
GEO. R. cowutsSec’y.
TNA l NSURANCE Co.ol'HARTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, 88.902.272.64
Insures against loss and damage by Fire, on terms
adopted to the hazard and consistent with the
laws of compensation. COWLES a MERRILL,
Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity.
Notice.
HE undersigned having sold out all his inter-
est in the Hardware. and House and_Sign
Painting Business heretofore conducted by him
J r.,would return his thanks to this community
for the patronage accorded him and respectfully
ask for a continuance of the same to his succes-
sor. Persons having unsettled accounts with the
subscriber are requested to call and settle the
same immediately. -
WILLIAM HINDLEY.
Norwalk. Jan. 16th. 1882.
HABLES S. LOCKWOOD ,
Fashionable Draper and Tailor?
AND
GENT 8’ FURNISHING EMPORIUH ’
’ Mainstreetmorwalkfloiin.
.' Geo. Ward Selleck,
Has in his New Store-,i
IIAIIIIIIIIIIIII'S III Illlll, 'All. STREET,
A completcassorfment of the best class of
GIIIICEIIIES, PROVISIONS, FIIIIITS,
&c., for family use,“ Popular Prices. His stock
is at all times fresh and good.and will stand com-
parison with those of any Grocer in town. Cal
n and leave your orders. 28
'0
ug—
:EI. M O V .A. I. I
To the Basement of 58 Wall street,
Next door below J ackson‘Brotliers’.
:Es. BEACH,
House and Sign Painting,
Paper Hanging and Kalsominmg,
Residence-Lewis Street.
NORWALK, - - - - CONN.
All work entrusted to me shall be promptly
reasonably and well done. A share of the public
patronage solicited. 83tf
”Notice.
UNDER instructions and bypower of attorney
I shall prosecute all persons trespassing
upon the grounds or premises of A. H. or . .
Bqugton. BENJAMIN J. s'rditGEs.
orivalk. May 15th. 1882.
~ Peter L. Guigue,
*‘FIIIIIS'I‘II IIISIIIIYIIIII
Union Ave, North of N orwalk
Cemetery, Norwalk, Conn.
Dealer in Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and
Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Vines. Cut
Flowers always on hand and all sorts of De '
signs in Flowers arranged to order.
Grading and Re-fitting Cemetery Plots
promptly nded to. . 3m21
Mullings Bros,
Carriages ti Wagons
MADE TO ORDER.
Repairing in all its Branches.
0.A- MULLINGS J.8.MULLINGS
IRON FENCES.
THE SUBSCRIBER having returned to Nor-
walk, and located as as Leonard street. is
prepared to furnish Wrought Iron Fenc-
n of all styles, of the best material and best
we: airship. at reasonable prices. Having had
many years of experience in the. making thereof
he feels confident that he can satiety all demands.
Estimates and plans cheeriuinly furnished.
EPHRAI
M. MERRITT,
Norwalk, Aug. 1882. P. O. Box 657.
1 aweek. an a day at home easily made,
§ 200st! outfit free. Address Tani: c200.
urinate. sine. Ayn
The Norwalk Fire Insurance to. '
at No.30 Main St.,to his son. William Hindley, .
REAL ESTATE. _
NmexNWMMA/mn AA.—.A n. A A
500 Farms for Sale
In‘Tide Water Virginia.
REAP AND RICE LANDS. Healthy
and mild climate. Fish and Oysters in great
abundance.
E. C. LINDSLEY 6: 00..
3m38 Norfolk, Va.
To Let.
THE large, commodious front room in Gazelle
Building just vacated by Francis Helicon.
Full particulars of
’B.J. STUiints.
For Sale or to Rent.
THE well-known Farm at Winnipauk, formerly
owned by Morgan T. Smith, is ofiercd for
sale or to rent. The Farm contains some 40 acres
of improved land, in good condition, a. commodi-
ous and convenient. residence, barns, Ste. l’os-
session iven immediatciy. Price low and terms
easy. or further articulurs enquire at the
FAIRFIELD COUN ‘1' NATIONAL BANK. 11
To Let.
THE Large Hall, recently occupied by the Odd
Fellows, at the low yearly rental of Slat).
Full particulars _of _tho agent, .8. J. STURGES,
No. 4 Gazette Building.
For Sale orto' Rent.
A House and One Acre of Land, on Prospect
Hill.
May be had on reasonable terms. Applly to
. W.ST
ART.
Norwalk, March 16th, 1881. 12“
Farm for Sale.
_ llE subscriber will sell the wel known David
St. John Farm with all the Stock, Tools and
Growrng Crisps. Most of the price can remain on
mortgage. or full particulars address
22“ . GEO. F. BELDEN, Winnipauk,,Conn.
Farm for Sale.
Hid-subscriber offers his Farm forsalc. situa-
ted in the Town of Greenfield, in Surutoga
00., in the state of New York, nine miles from
Saratoga Springs. It is pleasontly situated on
a rise of ground. 95 acres of land. which is favor-
ably diVided into pasture, plow, meadow and
woodland; With a. large .use; the size of the
barn 30 by 40. wagon house and stabling, hay loft
over the same, 23 by 43, and grainerym by 18.
Will be sold cheap; part of the purchase money
can remrin on mortgage if desired, or will ex-
change forvillage property. Forfurther rinrticu—
lars inquire of S LAS P. TU'I'I‘ E,
tf51 , Norwalk. Conn,
Desirable Property for sale.
A Very desirrble place on East Avenue.
Also. a few choice Building Lots situated on
Osborn Avenue. for sale cheap.
Also. a nicely located House and Lot on Her-
wrn Street near West Avenue, for sale at a. bar-
gain. Enquire of ‘
S. E. OSBORN.East Avenue,
tin or to D. W, Fitch, W est Avenue.
J. Belden Hurlbutt,
Attorney ail Counsellor-it Law,
Room No. 4, Up Stairs,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALKo
. 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 bestowee upon him by the public. the
subscriber would request a. continuance of the
same to his successor, feeling confident that he
will merit anddcs erve the confidence of the pub-
lic generally. :
WILLIAM E . DANN.
Norwalk, Oct. 4th, 1881. ~
PRANGSI
Birthday Cards, _
FOR SALE AT THE]
GAZETTE OFFICE.
MON SON HOYT.’
Dru gg‘ ist,
21 Main St.,Nos-walk, Comm,
YOU WILL FIND;
Strictly Pure
Drugs and Mind/icicles,
At Reasonable Price's. '
Prescriptions carefully compounded.
ENGRAVED
Visiting and Wedding Cards,
In Latest styles,
AT THE
GAZETTE OFFICE.
P. W.‘ BATES.
AT IIIS
llarhlitliiailleiail,
On Water Street.
HAS NEW DESIGNS IN .
Head Stones. Monuments and
al kinds of Memorial pWork.
can. awn EE THEM.
HoWard S. Betts,
_ Pharmacist,
P u r e D r u g s .-
Preseriptions a. Specialty.
Toilet and Fancy Articles,
——AT—-
GOBNIIB DRUG STBIIII,
JOHN. H. SMITH,
F L O R I S T ,
ms'r sum or MAIN STREET score
or RAILROAD,
City of South Norwalk, Conn.
Plants and Flowers at all seasons
Flowers or Funerals furnished and
tastefully arr-urged so order as also"
notice
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Greensboro, Ala.
Totter dried up.
Cholera prevented.
Ulcers purified and
healed.
In cases ochath it
should be used about
room. —WM. F Saun- 1}“: corpse—it will
scan, Eyric, Ala. prevent any unpleas-
nnt smell.
lithe ailment £23;
5 an . MAR
Scarlet Fever sms,’iis. 1)., New
York, sn : “I am
cured. convinced rofiDarbys
Pruph lactic Fluid is a.
valuab e disinfectant."
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
I test: to the most excellent qualities of Prof.
Dnrbys rophylactir. Fluid. As a disinfectant and
detergent it IS both theoretically and practically
superior to any preparation with which I am an-
quaintcd.—-N. T. LUI’I'ON, Prof. Chemistry.
Dar-bye Fluid ls Recommended b
.ch. Annamaria H. S-rnriiniis, of Georgiz;
Rev. CHAS. l". Deans, D.D., Church of the
s - .:
. .LxCom Columbia Prof. Un' ' ,S.C.
Item A. J. BAel'rLB, Prof, Mei-Ecs- {firearm
Rev. Geo. we, Bishop M. E. Church.
INDISPEN 1‘0 EVERY HOME.
P ciltcrnallyeis'5 MUSed iHess y or
, or an or f.
The Fluid has been there lily tested, and we
have abundant evidence that it as done everything
claimed. For fuller information get of your
Draggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors,
J. H. ZEIIJN & 00., .
Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA;
lick Honda; che and relieve all the troubles inci<
dent to a. bilious state of the system, such as Diz-
Nausen,’ Drowsiness. Distress after eating,
linens, ‘
Pain in the Side, 65¢. “While their most remark-
able has been shown in caring -
SICK.
Headache, yctCertcr‘n Little Liver-PEP ::-.rc.-qu::lly
valuable in Constipation, curing :;:;.l preventing
this annoying complaint, while they also correct
alldisordcrs of the stomach, stimulate the liver
and regulate the bowels. Even if they only cured
Ache they would be almost priceless to those who
suffer from this distressing complaint; but fortu-
nately their goodness does notcnd here, and those
who once try them will find these little ills valu-
able in so many ways that they will not )0. willing
to do without them. But after all sick heed
-AcHs
Is thebnne of so many lives that here is where we
make our great boast. Our pills cure it while
others do not.
Carter's Little Liver Pills are very small and
very easy to take. One or two pills make 9. dos-e.
They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or
purge, but ny their gentle action please all who
use hem. n vials at 25 cents; five for $1. held
by drumlsts everywhere, or sent by mail.
CARTER MEDICINE 00.,
New York City.
J. G. GREGORY & (30., Agents for Norwalk.
J.-G. GREGORY & co.
Successors to EDWARD P. WEED,
No. 38 Wall Street, Norwalk, ca,
invite the attention of the piiblicto theireomplete
stock of
Pure Medicines and Drugs,
and a full line of ‘
TOILET a FANCY ARTICLES.
Also dealers in
Pure Wines& Liquors for
Medicinal Purposes.
.Qarefui attention paid to the dispensingof phy
sicians’ prescriptions. 2
Dr. D. Hitchcock,
Cor. of West Avenue and
Berkeley Place,
Third house below the Methodist Church.
Office Hours from 7 to 9 a. m.. 2 to 3, and 7 to 8
p. m.
Purchasing Agent ail Messenger,
THE subscribers will act as Purchasing Agents
and Messengers between Norwalk and N ow
York, daily; Orders and packages received at
Theodore ’napp’s, South N orwalk, and Bene-
dict’s News Room, Post Office, Norwalk.
EDWIN K. SELLECK, with James McCreery a
00.. takes 6 o’clock train. -
D. R. SELLECK, takes 7:45 a.m. train.
P E— N S l 0 N S
Pensions and Bounties got for
all Soldiers of my own and other
Regiments, &c. '
W. H. NOBLE.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN..
0. '1‘. Leonard N San,
COAL, WOOD,
“ Masons’ Materials,
0 E M E N T P I P E
For Drains, Sewers, Wells, &c. ,
At Lowest Cash Prices.
Drains and Wells Dug and Piped
AlsoSoleAg‘entfor -
Patent Tinder Wood,
The Cheapest and Best Kindling out . Tryii
‘3‘ Branch Office at. H. S. Betts’ DrugStort
Carriage Making ‘
REPAIRING.
a'r‘
H. TILLY’S
Main Street, South Norwalk, Ct.
\ MACHINIST§ gitrtrgggg"
DRUGGISTS, ‘, 0
1d.» ’ ' r'
' Seeds, the Engineer.
Br 3. H. mm.
-Seeds was the man on the Penn. Railroad.
Seeds was the engineer;
Six hundred souls behind him rode,
When the flames shot out to the rear. ,
The flames flashed out from the engine's
breath,
And fired the leaden air;
To stay at his post was worse than death.
To fly was the hope of despair.
With a (lash be cleared the deadly lust
And stood on the foremost ear,
While his engine flew o'er the iron street
Like a devil let loose for war.
Six hundred panic-stricken hearts .
In breathless horror wait, , 4.
As the train, with‘thundrous rumblings, darts
And bounds along to its fate.
Seeds was the one, the only man
To check the demon race;
He stood like a statue in the van
With the glare of the flame in his face.
Not a muscle moved; clock of disdain,
A shudder—but not for fear—
r'i‘ben a plunge in. the hell of fire again
To his post as engineer.
The hash of the shadow of death was there,
Hope hung by a single thread;
A minute seemed longer'thau a year—-
That minute of terrible dread. .
A grating sound, a slackened speed.
A swaying to and fro, _
And a here had saved. by a hero’s deed.
Who knows, of nameless woe!
A seared form, baked, and speechless. and
faint, '
Crept out of the’fiery mass;
’Twas Seeds. Ah, noble as ever a saint.
He who braved that terrible pass!
Let his memory haunt the hearts of men
In scorn of their selfish greed;
And the world shall echo its great Amen!
For the crowning of his deed.
—07tri'cti'an Union.
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80 Tired.
“Must the road wind up hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end." . '
So tired—I fain would rest,
But, Lord, Thou knowest best.
I wait on The. ' .
I will tell on from day to day,
Bearing my cross and only pray,
To follow Thee.
So tired—my friends are gone,
And I am left alone—
My days are sad.
Lord Jesus, thou wilt hear my load
Along this steep and weary read,
And make me glad.
So tired—my heart-is low;
Shadows of coming woe
Around me fall,
And memories cf sins long wept—
And hopes denied that long have slept,
Arise and call.
Se tired—yet I would work for Thee,
For The. ! Lord hast Thou work
Even for me P "
Small things—which others hurrying on
In my best service, swift and strong, "
Might never see.
So tired, yet it weresweet
Some faltering, tender feet
To help and guide.
Thy little ones whose steps are slow,
I should not weary them, I know,
Nor roughly chide.
» So tired—Lord wilt Then come
To take me to Thy home
So long desired ?
Only Thy grace and mercy send
That 1 may serve Thee to the end,
Though I am tired.
’ —Ohurohman.
An Every Day Nuisance.
The methods and conduct of certain peo-
ple, who want to make themselves or their
wares known. oftengo beyond all limits of
respect for the rights of others and call for
summary rebuke, if not actual punishment.
Theoretically a man's house belongs to
him. Practically it generally stands in his
wife's name and is mortgaged to the savings
bank beside, but he "is the “ man” of it and
proposes to run it, and it is he who gets up
the necessary indignation at outside raids
upon it. The first raid of the sort alluded
to [above is that of the manwho rings the
door bell, and, leaving a circular, goes on
before the bell is answered. He makes
trouble and he creates disappointment.
Next after him is the fellow who is hired to
distribute hand bills, and who does it by
throwing them into the front yard by tho
handful, where the wind scatters them all
over the lawn. - ' .
This is an aggravating sort of insult, for
it is entirely wasted effort as an advertise-
ment and is. entirely a nuisance as to the
householder. A more quiet but still annoy-
ing process is to twist a quack medicine
almanac of testimonial dbout the frontldoor
knob and leave it there, or to drop a sample
copy of a flesh illustrated weekly on the
doorstep and make the house look asif‘its
inmates were regular subscribers. Some-
times this is varied by leaving sample pack-
ages of medicine, of soup, of polishing pow-
der and so on, lying on the steps, to be used
until the agent shall call in two or three
days. ‘
These seem only slight things in the
mention of them, but they are real nuisances.
A man never knows what he may find onhls
doorstep or his lawn at any moment.
When he imagines his house to belooklng
its best it may be Iltlel‘efl up with these
abominations and look entirely neglected.
When, a friend is expected. or when seine
one happens to be sick, the ringing of the
door bell, generally with tremendous vigor,
simply for the purpose of calling attention
to an abandoned circular, is a cause for very
natural aggravation. It is an invasion . of
private rights, and, if it is a nuisance at one
house, what is the aggregate nuisance in-
flicted upon a community when a boy is
hired to (levote a day or a week simply to
ringing door belts?
or the same sort, though not confined to
houses and homes, is this street-corner dis-
tribution. Men and boys with cards orsheets
pluntthcmselves in some crowded place and
shove them into the hands‘or pockets of the
passer by. Long ago it ceased to pay to
hand the things courteously. Nobody wants
them. So LOW the custom is to thrust them
upon people and make them take them.
This, too, is |a nuisance, though we did th: ,
other day etc a woman, unaccustomed to
city life, politely hand one back to the giver
with the explanation that it was not for her,
“ there must be some mistakel' The custo-
mary thing now is to throw them in the gut-
ter. . -
But the grist question is, if everybody
rebels against advutising of this sort, why
is it done ? If people .would let the adver-
tisers know that they hated it, it would stop.
It is done simply as a business measure.
The papers . of one sort of another are “ dis--
tribuled,” and there is a theory that if so
many of them get into circulation a certain
per cent. of them will do good. It is a bet- .
ter philosophy to taken that a much larger,
per cent. will give ( dense, and that therefore
the whole business is amistake. ’l‘liat lathe
fact about it.-—Uoma7it.
m.- -
Now then. democrats. you want to‘ make
sure of the beLChIn'.--Sp7[ngfield Rambli-
can.
Norwalk Chronicler