Norwalk gazette, Friday, May 22, 1896 · page 2

 
 
 
 

 

 

THEY TOOK HIM III.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some three 'weeks’ ago two glib
strangers arrived in town with several
samples, of cloth for .suitings. They
called upon Audubon Dan, manager of
the Western Union Telegraph company
at No. 2 South Main street, South Nor-
walk, and exhibited their goods. They
were smooth talkers and on the quiet
informed Dan that the cloth had been
smuggled, which allowed them to sell it
way below the actual market value. .

They were, so gentlemanly and suave

that Dan was finally induced to pay ..

‘them $10 for a piece of black serge
from which to. have a suit of clothes
made. After receiving their money they
left the cloth and departed ostensibly
to dispose of the balance of their goods.

'They had been gone but a short time
when one of them returned and sug-
gested to Dan that they could make his
suit at their New York store for $12,
which they thought was much cheaper
than a suit could be made for in South

' Norwalk.

Dan evidently thought so too, for he
readily agreed to have them make the
suit, for which he was to pay $12 when
received. The stranger took his meas-
ure and not being satisfied with the first
measurement called again and made
the second, in order, as he expressed it,
that there should be no mistake in the
fit.

After the second measurement the
stranger departed with the cloth, leav-
ing with Dan the address of their New
York house, which was as follows:

R. E. JONES Sr 00.,
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK BL’D’G
401 Broadway, N. Y.
ARTIST TAInons.

Dan was told that on Saturday last
they would return to South Norwalk
and try his suit on, but they failed to
materialize on that day nor have they
been seen in Norwalk since.

Becoming suspicious that everything
was not all right and that he had been
taken in to the tune of ten cold dollars,
Day yesterday sent a dispatch to the
New York address asking, “How about
the suit.” It is needles to remark that
he received no reply and that his beau-
tiful summer suit of smuggled black
serge has no doubt been sold several
times over since the strangers left town.

It is reported that several other South
Norwalkers were taken by in the stran-
gers among whom is said to be a well
known ex-mayor of that city.

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A Blue Boy Missing.

Winfield Slauson. a New Canaan boy
who was being taken to the Reform
school, escaped from Constable W. S.
Raymond at the Meriden depot Tues-
day. The escape was reported to the
police by Raymond, who was badly
rattled. He described the youngster as
“a blue boy with a 15 year old cap.”

OAILT FREIGHT LINE

BETWEEN ‘

NORWALK.
SOD NORWALK

NEW YORK.

Propellers
1111.57 of Norwalk,

Vulcan and Eagle.

Leave N orwalk at.5 p. m.

Leave So. Norwalk at 6 p. 'm.

Leave New' York, Pier 23,
E. R., Beekman St., 5 p m,

 

HERE’S-YOUR} eIIIIIIcE.

A fine building lot on Wilton ave-

nue. If you intend to build, look at

this before purchasing.

Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.

Will be sold at a Bargain.

WM. H. BYINGTON,

“lleal Estate 'and Insurance,

. Room I. Gazette B’I’d.

ODD FELLOWS MEET.

 

 

At the annual session Of Grand
Lodge of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows held at Ncrwich, Wednes-
day, the following Ofiicerslwere elected:

Grand master—Lucius H. Fuller,
Putnam.

Deputy grand master—thn Blair,
Waterbury. '

Grandsecretary—FrederickBotsford,
New Haven.

Grand treasurer—W. H.
Bridgeport.

Grand Warden—Zebulon Robbins,
Norwich.

Grand Master David R. Alling Of
New Haven, submitted his report, in
which he says:

On Dec. 31, 1895, the 79 subordinate
lodges report a total membership of
15,202, a net gain for the year of 345;
invested funds amounting to $407,937.36
a net gain for the year of 7,410. We
have spent for relief during the year
$75,654.56, which is $10,755.47 more
than last year.

The 40 Rebekah lodges report a mem-
bership of 1,915 brothers, 2,648 sisters;
total 4,563, a gain of 212 brothers, 415
sisters, total gain for the year‘, 1327.
Available assets of $26,542.18. 9. net
gain for the year of $1,214.65.

. The report of Fred Botsford, grand
secretary, shows that during the year
527 members were added. The total
receipt of subordinate lodges during
the year were $144,734.21, of which
$75,654 was paid out for relief and $61,-
669.65 for expenses. The total fund of
the order, Jan. 1, was $407,937.36, an in-
crease Of $7,410 during the year. The
receipts of the Rebekah lodges during
the year were $9,378.56, and the total
fund, $26,542,18. The grand lodge re-
ceipts were $3,223. a little over $500
less than last year.

THE WIDE TIRE LAW.

Marigold,

 

 

End of Narrow Rims for Wheels for Heavy
Wagons Coming.

 

The law passed by the Connecticut
General Assembly in relation to wide
tires is given below in full. People who
wish tO continue cutting up the roads
with narrow wheels for heavy use, will
have to lay in a stock of wagons before
next July:

“On or before the first day of July
1896 all vehicles used upon the high-

. ways of this state within the transpor-

tation of merchandise, except such ve-
hicles as were already in use in this
state prior to said date shall be equipped
with tires of widths as follows: '

“All vehicles having an iron axle two
inches square or an axle of equivalent
capacity shall be equipped with tires
not less than four inches in width.

“All vehicles having an iron axle one
inch and three quarters square or an
axle of equivalent capacity shall be
equipped with tires not less than three
inches 1n width. -

“All vehicles having an iron axle one
inch and a half or an axle of equivalent
capacity shall be equipped with tires
not less than two and one half inches in
width.

“Any person who shall violate any of
the provisions of this act shall be fined
not more than $100.”

COLONEL NOBLE’S PISTOL.

 

Now in Possession of a Lawyer in Arling-
ton Georgia.

 

Governor Coffin recently received a
letter from J. H. Uook, Jr., a lawyer of
Arlington Ga., stating that he had an
old army pistol upon which was en-
graved “W. H. Noble, colonel, Seven-
teenth Regiment, Connecticut Volun-
teers, 1862,” and was anxious to return
it to its owner. Mr. Cook said that he
had written several letters to Connecti-
cut but had not been able to find 001-
onel Noble.

Colonel Noble of the Seventeenth, af-
terwards a brigadier-general by brevet,
died in Bridgeport about three years
ago. His widow is living there. Gov-
ernor Coffin has written his Georgia
correspondent giving him her address
and expressing the opinion that she will
be glad to receive the pistol. Mr.
Cook will doubtless forWard the pistol
to Mrs. Noble.

Again Aground.

The steamer Hawthorne which is
going overland to Lake Kenosia, Dan-
bury, has suffered another standstill,
this time about half a mile from the
residence of William Comstock at Wil-
ton. Two of» the wheels upon which
the craft was riding sank nearly to the
hubs in the soft sandy soil. A resident
of Wilton predicts further delays on
the Sugar Hollow turnpike if extra-
ordinary care is not exercised in keep-
ing the boat directly over the well
beaten road, as the variation Of a foot
would cause the wheels to sink nearly
if not quite up to the hubs.

Denman Thompson’s play “The Old
Homestead” comes back to Hoyt’s
Teeatre next Wednesday night and will
be as welcome as ever to its many ad-
mirers in this city. The cast of charac-
ters remains about the same, but new
scenes and surroundings will be used.
The musical features will be found es-
pecially pleasing, as many new arrange-
ments of old-fashioned songs will be

 

BLOOKEO TRAFFIO.

For about five minutes Wednesday
morning traffic was blocked on the
streets intersecting Broadway, near St.
Paul’s, New York.- The cause was the
sight of a workman who stood boldly
erect on a small platform that was bev
ing hoisted to the top of the new build-
ing at Ann.street and Broadway. The
platform was hung from the der-
rick rope, on another slim rope turned
round its middle, and the workman ap-
parently balanced himself on this with-
out apparently having held on any-
thing.

As the platform swung upward the
man silhouetted against the horizon,
and resembled a flying sprite in a
spectacular show. There was a shout
from some onlookers, and immediately
acrowd, such as can only gather in
New York city, stood still and gazed
and admired the man’s nerve, while
cable carsland trucks became blockaded.
When the man had been swung back
.into the building there were sighs of
relief all over the crowd, and the throng
broke up as fast as it gathered, some
stopping to take a look at the now fa-
miliarfigure of “Steeple Charlie” gild-
ing the spire of old St. Paul’s.

WILLIAM HAnronn DEAD.

 

 

 

His Death Recalls the Terrible Railroad
Bridge Accident of l853.

 

William Harford died at his home on
Burbank street, So. Norwalk, Tuesday
night in the 75th year of his age. He
was born in Queens county, Ireland.
The deceased for a long term of years
was bridge-tender at the Consolidated
railroad draw in that city, and was in
charge of the draw at the time of the
memorable accident, May 6, 1853, when
a train ran Off the bridge into the har-
bor, resulting in the loss of fifty lives.
Harford had his signal set all right,
to show the draw to be open, but a thick
mist prevailed and the engineer of the
fated train failed to see it and dashed
into the open draw. He has been con-
tinued in the service of the railroad
ever since as an evidence of its con-
fidence in him.

 

S. Allen Grumman Dead.

The terrible injuries sustained by
Stephen Alleu Grumman, at the works
of the Aero Distilled Water company,
at Bridgeport, by the bursting of a
soda fountain which he was charging a
week ago lastMonday, resulted in his
death at the General Hospital in that
city Tuesday night. The deceased was a
son of Mrs. Betsy Grumman of Camp
street, and abrother of the Grumman
Brothers, the well- known bottlers, and
was well known here. His wife was a
daughter of Norman Knapp of Broad
River.

The immediate cause of death was
blood poisoning, which set in soon after
the injuries were received, and which
baffled the efforts of the physicians.
The right leg was so badly mangled
that amputation was necessary above

left very little of the leg, and it was
impossible to intercept the dreaded
complication by further amputations-
The deceased leaves a wife and little
daughter. He was 43 years of age, and
was a native of Wilton. He was a sober,
industrious man and was well liked by
his employers and acquaintances.

The funeral will be attended in
Bridgeport, to-morrow afternoon at
2:30 o’clock. The remains will be
brought to this city and placed in the
receiving vault at Riverside cemetery.

 

Pneumatic churn, produces the but-
ter by rapidly forcing pure air jets
through the cream.

Pocket stamp holder, a compact, con-
venient holder for 50 stamps, without
sticking together.

Head rest, to be attached to backs of
seats in railroad coaches. Can be car-
ried 1n the pocket.

Pan lifter, takes pans Of meat or
bread from the oven without burning
fingers or using cloths.

New lathe chuck, takes automatical-
ly round or tapering rods or tools
shanks without manipulation.

SNAKES, BIRDS AND BEASTS.

In the mountains of Italy there is a
superstition that young vipers eat up
their mothers.

A porcupine was caught in Ware,
Mass, a. few days ago. The animal is
exceedingly rare in Massachusetts now-
adays.

A queer pig story is told by the Lon-
don Telegraph. A sow that has lost her
tail by an accident had a litter of ten

tails, placed them in a. row and bit off
the tails one by one.

In the stomach of an ostrich that r6-
cently died, in Central park, were found
the bottoms of two beer bottles, a
clothes-pin, a mouth-harmonica, . a
skate-key, and umbrella—ferrule, a.
comb, a brass key and two lumps of
coal].

An improved snake story comes from
Calcutta. Two taupe pythons were
kept together, when one swallowed the
other. The inside snake, feeling un-

comfortable in the other’s midst, pro- ,

cceded to eat its way out at the other
end.

More than 40,000 sparrows have been
destroyed inGraItiot county, Mich., dur-
ing the past 12 months, as shown by
the bounties paid, but the birds appear
to be practically as numerous as ever.

sparrow hunter, collecting an average

 

 

[offered by the famous double quartette.

 

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of $60 a month in bounties.

the knee and close up to the hip. This.

little pigs, but seeing that they all had -,

One man makes a. good income as a.

ART AND THE STAGE.

Johann Janko, one of the best known
Hungarian caricaturists, has just died-
at the. age of 63. His drawings number
more than 80,000.

_A medical play .by a. doctor called
“Hypnotic Suggestion; or, a Woman’s
Vengeance,” was recently performed
at an Odessa theater, the actors and
the orchestra being all doctors, and the
audience convalescent paients let out
of the hospitals for the occasion.

Herr Schonlank’s collection of paint-
ings, which includes ’ V1111 Dyck’s
Charles I., from the Hamilton collec-
tion, Rembrand-t’s large landscape
with Judah and Tamar, Paul Vero-
nese’s Catterina Cornaro, and genuine
Titians and Lucas Cranachs will soon
be sold at Cologne.

Julius Von Payer, the arctic explorer,
has painted four large pictures of the
Franklin expedition, which are about
to be exhibited in London. They are
called “Last Moments of Sir John
Franklin,” “The Abandoning of the

 

 

Ship,” “Divine Service,” and “Starva-
tion Cove.”
FOREIGN CHAT. rd.
Coolgardie, after three yem’

drought, has had a. five-inch fall. of rain,
which has filled all the reservoirs and
provided the district with water enough
for a year.

“The faithful men of Jever,” a. place
near the North Sea. coast of Germany,
according to their custom every spring,
sent this year. to Prince Bismarck 101
plovers" eggs for his birthday. This is-
the 25th. successive year they have made
the present.

Ten thousand people visited the South."
Kensington and Bethnal Green muse-
ums in: London on the first Sunday on
which they were thrown open. Only
ten. attendants and 34‘ policemen had to:
work on Sunday.

So successful has the telephone seIrv- -
we been between London and Paris that
a. second cable is to be laid across the-
chIaInn‘el, when direct communication
WiIIi be established between Paris and?
Liverpool and Manchester as well. i ,1",

 
 

g, FOOD AND DRINK“.

A dainty dish, much admired by
Mexicans, is a. combination Of fried
shrimps and grasshoppers. '
Thousands of laborers in China. live
on rice alone, the cost of supporting
each person being less than a. cent a.
day.
For invalids and dyspe-ptics' barley
soup is commended as a. light diet. It
requires only one. hour and a. half to
digest.
A French chemist has discovered a
process of solidifying intoxicants, such
as brandy, whisky, etc., so that they: can
be carried in. the vest-pocket in. the
form of tablets. Each tablet is a
dram.

 

Sardou’s first play was a. failure, but
all the subsequent ones have been suc-
cesses. He has earned over $1,000,000
by his plays. .. "“~'

 

 
 
 
 

 
 

This is what Salvavcea is doing.

WM. TAYLOR, Bishop of the Metho. '
dist Episcopal Church in Africa,
writes.

“ New YORK, Nov. 2, 1895.
“I know SALVA-CEA to be an ex-
cellent remedy. I have proved its
healing virtues, both for bruises and
flesh wounds, and also to kill the
virus of mosquitoes and chegois.”

 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

E. A. GARLINGTON, Major and Insp’r

General, U. S. A., writes :

“ WASHINGTON, D. (2.,
Apr. 21, 1895.

” I have used SALVA-CEA for sore-
ncss or rheumatic pains in the muscles
of my arm, which is disabled from a
V gun-shot wound involving the elbow
joint; relief was quick and complete.”

 
 
 
 
 

E. G. Is'AAcxs, Pay Office, Navy ~.

Yard, writes : ‘.

“ BROOKLYN, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1895. .,

"‘ Having been a sufferer from
troublesome Piles, and not only ob-
tained immense relief, but, I can .
safely say, cured, I cheerfully recom-
mcn'd SALVArCEA to those Suffering
likewise, and? hope it will afi'ord them-
the same relief that it has‘me.

""P‘. S. I suffered with Piles for:
more' than a: year and tried many
remedies before I. was recommended
to try SALVA-GEA.-”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

is advertised to do.

Two sizes, 25 and so cents per box.
At druzgists, or by mail.
For deep-Seated jam and rheumatism of
the joint: use Saliva-tea, ‘Extra Strong”
Sold :7: tin: at 75cent: tack.

. Tun; BRANDRETH» Co. ., 274 Canal St. ., N. Y.

 
 
 
 

 

'J. D. Jennings.

UNDERTAKER

- 1 Knight street. opposite
Street Railway Depot

BE DE A} OFFICE.

 

LULIKWUIID’S PIGEEGEPAEEETJVETIJY} ‘

Cheap rates. Will also take orders for mes
nouger service in New Y.0rk Goods called
or and delivered toE all arts of the town,
Ordersreceived atE eed’ 5 Drug Store.
IWall Street, with telephone connection un-

” '3“ In. E. LOOKWOOD.

 

CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK,

.. m; 'WALL .911, NOR WALK."

ORPORATED SEPT. 1. 1876.
APITAL. :- - - - . .
nun M. HOLMES. President.
. 11. BOYEa. Vice-President.
WILMAM A. Comes. Cashier

DIRECTORS :

0331:: M. HOLMES. H. E. DANN,
1... CUNNINGHAM, J. T..Pnow1TT
n. L. Boxnn. S. H. Honmn

J. Couers..‘Jn.

Illscouni Day, Saturday.

SALvA-CEA does. just what it I

5100.006 '

the Market oral-J.
WADHAMS, I have
restocked the same
with Meats, Fish

WIDIIIIS
IIIS

SOLD
OUT-

Yegetables and Can;
ned goods, and so.

licit a share of yarn-

 

patronage.

*IOIIAIILES E. SOIIEIIBEIIJ»

2 1' Wall Street.

WILLIAM S. KEMP,

Carpenter -:-- and -:- Builder,
34- West Main St.. Norwalk.

Mr. Kemp has been a carpenter and builder
in Norwalk for the past 25- years, and refers to
owners of buildings erected under his super-
vision as to workmanship.

Chilton- Paint,

Every gallon of paint. made by the
Chilton Mfg. Company is mixed and
ground in pure Linseed Oil. All shades
are mixed and ground by machinery
seven times, making them uniform and
even. Compare the size of cans and
weight with the cheaper makes. You
get an honest gallon. Give it a trial and
you will be convinced.

H. H. WILLIAMS

1? Main St.

 

 

 

SPECIAL SALE

__OF__

MILLINERY

SATURDAY IIIIn IIIoIIsar, MAI!” 9-II.

 

A Reduction of 25 per cent on all
.Trimmed Hats and Bonnets. Ladies
desiring a nice Trimmed Hat for-little
money, will do well to attend this sale.

 

FAWCETT’S

3 WATERsr REET,‘ N01: WALK

 

 

 

 

In case

 

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Is your plate glass or safe insured?

ance Company.

of F ire

Room 1,

Glass Will break and burglars use dynamite.

 

If not, call on me and

I will write you a policy in the Mutual Plate Glass and Safe Insur.

I

You should be insured. A policy in the Reliance 01 Philadelphia
Phoenix of Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; New Hampshire O
Manchester; Rochester German of Rochester; United States and Pacific
Of New York; Security of New Hampshire or Granite State of Ports-

mouth Will protect you against the fire fiend.

We H. EYINGTQNT
Real Estate and General Insurance,
GAZETTE BUILDING.

LOANsIINEOOTIATED AND INVESTMENTS. MADE.

_—-—CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

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