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I SOUTH. NORWALK.
The South Norwalkl Office of the Gazette Is at the store of New-
man & Pinney, No.’ 12 North Main Street, where Advertisements and
orders for Job Printing, as well as Items of News. can be left with
Homer M. Byington, Manager.
Water at the Knob 71°.
George D. Keeler has recovered. from
his recent attack of sickness.
_ A large party are out, to-day in the
Carrie enjoying a sail on the Sound.
The Consolidated railroad is carrying
large numbers of bicycles at present.
The Marguerite took a party to Long
Island this morning for an all day sail.
Eureka Lodge, Daughters of Re-
bekah, hold their regular meeting this
evening. ~ -
The Misses Orlich, of South Main
street, are spending the day in New
York city. _
Harry Wilson, of West Norwalk, 18
training on the Fair Grounds for the
Labor Day races. V
Casper Olsen, the infant son, of Ole
and Anna died at his home on LoWe
street this morning. ,
Mrs. Tallmadze Baker and son Frank,
'of West street have returned home
from a visit with friends in Woodbury.
The Board of‘Directors of the Public
Library hold their monthly meeting in
the library building ‘this evening at 8
o’clock.
The Board of Directors of the Twin
City Wheelmen will hold a meeting
this evening after the Race Committee
have held theirs.
At the Baptist Prayer Meeting last
night the Rev. B. O. Sherwood was as-
sisted by the Rev. Dr. James, Miss
Weist, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, and Mr.
Gillie.
John Gleason, who was seriously
burned with carbolic acid the other
day, is reported as improving. It is
expected that he will be able to return
to his work on Monday.
The race committee of the Twin City
Wheelmen will hold their meeting in the
. club rooms on Washington street this
evening at 8 o’clock?“ It is hoped that
every member of the Committee will
be present.
Charles Decker and Roy Hensdale
were arrested last night for evading
their fare on a Consolidated train
This morning it was found that there
was not sufficient evidence against
them so the case was nolled.
Captain W. A. :~Wheeler, of the Twin
City Wheelmen,‘has posted a notice on
the bulletin board in the club rooms
saying that there will be a club run to
Ridgefield and return Sunday. The
start will be made from the club rooms
_ at 9 o’clock.
Thé canoe races for the set of- colors
offered by Commodore P. N. Sanford,
of'the Norwalk Yacht clubs will be
sailed a week from to-morrowr over the
club’s triangular course. The contest-
ants will probably be the Gracie and
the Kearsarge the same as before.
There will be another of those popu-
lar subscription dances at the N orwalk
Yacht club’s house at Hickory Bluff
Monday evening. As the weather was
bad at the last two dances the attend-
ance was' poor but if the weather is
good Monday evening there will no
doubt be the usual large attendance.
Among those from this city, who at-
tended the “Flfteen’s” dance at West-
port last night, were the Misses Eno, of.
Simsbury, ”Conn" Lettie Shumway,
Florence Wigham, Eva Ferris, Daisy
Williams, and May Adams. The
Messrs. Thomas Whitted, Frank Sher-
man, Samuel Hoyt, Will Benedict, and
Fred Decker. They all report a fine
time. ‘ '
A
WESTPTJRT.
Frank Warner, the popular clerk in
D. A. Salmon’s store accompanied by
T. iDowns, is spending his vacation in
Hartford.
An extremely sad incident is the
death of one of Mrs, Papy Presser’s
little twin boys who died Wednesday at
5 p‘.’ m. He was about eight months old
and was taken sick Monday. The other
twin has also been very ill but it is
thought the crisis is new passed and
that it will recover. The funeral will
be to-day and interment in Willow
Brook cemetery. .
The well digger belonging to E. N.
Sipperly was being moved, from South-.
port to New Canaan Wednesday by
Gault Bros, came near proving a more
expensive undertaking than they had
anticipated. While going down Tread-
well hill the pole broke throwing one
of the horses down but not hurting him
except inflicting a few bruises. The
wheels were fortunately blocked so
the well digger did not run over the
animal. There was a delay of four
hours.
WILTON.
A‘bigger crop of potatoes than last
year is confronting our farmers.
The statement made that Mr. John
Comstock had undergone an amputa-
tion of his foot was erroneous. The
matter was carefully considered by the
physicians, but deemed inexpedient.
He has the sympathy of all in his sufi‘er-
ings.
—Advertise in the Guerra.
STATE NICKNAM ES.
Pennsylvania is called the Keystone
State.
Kentucky is known as the Corncrack-
er State, from a game bird enjoying the
same name which was formerly found
in most parts of the State. It is also
called the Blue Grass State. .
Delaware has been called the Blue
Hen State.
Ohio was early called the Buckeye
State.
New York was long ago denominated
the Empire State.
Iowa. almost from the day of its ad-
mission has been called the Hawkeye
State. Hawkeye was the name of a
noted Indian chief.
Michigan is known as the Wolverine
State.
Tennesseeans are Butternuts, from
the color of the clothing worn by the
Tennessee volunteers during the civil
war.
Wisconsin was early dubbed the Bad-
ger State.
Texas is called the Lone Star State
from the single star in the arms of the
commonwealth.
Indiana is called the Hoosier State.
Maine is called the Pine Tree State.
Nevada has two nicknames—the Sil-
ver State and the Sage Brush State.
Georgians are Buzzards, from a. State
law protecting these birds.
North Carolinians are called Tarheels,
from a leading industry.
Marylanders are Craw-Thumpers, a
slang name for the lobster.
South Carolina is the Palmetto State.
Delaware people are called Musk-
rats.
The people of Oregon are Webfeet.
West Virginians are Panhandleites.
New Yorkers are Knickerbockers.
Texans are Beef heads.
Nevadans are Sage Hens.
Kansans are J ayhawkers.
THE EFFECT OF GOOD PIE.
an Appetite, a Tramp Tell: a
., Thrilling Story.
“Awful experiences? Yes.” said the
tramp, as he sat at 8. Holland street
kitchen table on Thursday forenoon and
:ut into the second piece of custard
1e.
9 “I was sleeping soundly in a box car
out in Iowa one night last summer, and
the wind was blowing like thunder
across the plains! Suddenly that car
got loose—the brakes broke or suthin’—
and it began to crawl along out of the
siding and onto the main track. It was
nuts for me. I thought the wind
wouldn’t blow me far, and so I kept on.
I stood in the door and saw the houses
and fences go by faster and faster, till
all of a sudden I realized that I was go-
ing too fast to get off, and no way of
stopping it. Half an hour after we—
the car and I—dashed through a little
station, and I had just time to see the
telegraph operator run out and look
after us and then run back to telegraph
down the line 'to clear the track. We
were going more than a mile a mlnute,
and my hair was standing on end.
Forty miles down the road we went
through another station, and on a. sid-
ing I caught sight of an engine with
steam up, and a. man with a rope on the
cowcatcher. That engine chased us
twenty miles down the track. The man
with the rope threw it around the brake
wheel on top of onr car, and gradually
stopped it, while all the time the wind
was blowing a gale.
“We had just got headed back toward
the depot when an express train showed
up where we should have met it ker-
chunk—that’s good pie,” and he took
another piece.—Lewiston Journal.
BLOOERMS ARE UN POPULAR.
Few “’omen are Seen Now in Bifurcated
Garments.
It is rather remarkable how the
bloomer craze has affected certain
cities, and disaffected others. It was
prophesied by most 'of the critics last
year that when this riding season open-
ed drop-framed wheels would be no
longer popular among the ladies, but
Inspired by
. that all of them clad in their bloomers
would scorch astride the light-weight
diamond frame wheel, mounting and
dismounting much in the same manner
as their companions of the opposite sex.
The prediction has not become true,
and the bloomer girl is fast disappear-
ing, a. fact which is proved by the in-
creased orders for the drop-framed
wheels. A year’s experience has con-
vinced the average American girl who
rides a wheel that the so-called rational
costume for bicycle riding is not ration-
al. but is an ill-fitting garment which
affords less comfort than the short skirt
for riding,
The Retort Courteous.
The investigators Whose 'names ap-
peardn the newspapers in connection
with the Roentgen ray experiments are
a good deal bothered by applications
from people who imagine they have
bullets or other unpleasant foreign sub-
stances in various parts of their anat-
omy.
The story goes that not long ago a
certain local scientist received the fol-
lowing letter: '
“Dear Sir: I have had a. bullet in my
thorax for seven years. I am too busy
to come to Cleveland, but hope you will
be able to come down here and locate
the bullet, as I am sure the case is
worth your while. If you can’t come
yourself, send your apparatus, and I
will get one of the doctors here to use
it‘. Yours truly, ” ..
Here is the local man’s reply:
“Dear Sir: Very sorry I cannot find
time to visit you. Nor will I be able to
send my apparatus. If you can’t come
to Cleveland yourself, . send me your
thorax by express, and I will do the best
I can with it. Yours truly, ”
And there the correspondence closed.
—Cleveland Post. _ _ .
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I Trotting at Waterbury. .
The tracklrecord at the Waterbury.
Driving park was broken yesterday by
Glo'ster H., the horse that'took second
money in the 2:20 class. The record
was lowered a quarter of a second. All
three events were trotted in fast time
for their respective classes and added a
third day’s success to perhaps the best
meet in the state this year. The 2:20
race was the most exciting of the day
and took six heats to decide the winner.
The2:27 class required five heats.
The management is so elated over its
success that they have decided to hold
another meet the first four days of Sep-
tember. The result follows:
2:50 Class, Purse $200.
1, McKinley, b. g. Rundle & White,
Danbury. . -
2, Roselite, owned by P. J. Foley,
Springfield, Mass.
3. Able, ch. g., D, Flynn, New Haven.
Time, 232%.
2:20 Class, Purse $300.
1, Canonicus, b. g., G. G. Elwell,
Providence, R. I.
2, Gloster H., br. h., M. J. Daley,
Manchester.
3, San Sebastian, gr. g., E. M. Gillies.
Worcester, Mass.
Time, 2:19;,l.
2:37 Class, Purse $200.
1, Quito, b. g., Bundle & White, Dan-
bury.
‘2, Marvel, sor. m., M. J. Curry, New
Britain.
8, Midget, b. m., Seaside stables,
Bridgeport.
Time, 2:30;. .'
No Native Peaches.
An extensive peach grower in speak-
ing of the year’s peach crop, says that
the peaches now in market are Geiorgia
peaches, and the supply is near y ex-
hausted. As compared with last year
this crap is about one week in advance.
The Delaware peaches began to arrive
this week. Of the local crop, there are
no prospects this year.
The native crop last year was unueu'
ally large and of fine quality. The crop
in this vicinity runs good every other
year. The Delaware crop this year is
numerous. They will begin to be mar—
keted in two or three days and the
price will rule lower this year fifteen or
twenty per cent. The Delaware peaches
will be of excellent quality, no doubt
the finest in years. Last year one or-
chard produced five and one-half mil-
lions and will this year produce nine
and one-half millions, almost double.
The Jersey crop this year is not at all
promising. If the Jersey crop was up
to the standard it would be difficult to
sell them at twenty-five cents per bushel.
The Delaware crop will be in its
height the first week in August.
Banked on the Banker.
A little lad named David Van Tassel,
of Mt. Kisco, is visiting at the home ”of
William Banker on Main street. A
bright little fellow, he has succeeded
.during his short stay here in making
numbers of friends, and last night they
called upon him, knowing that his
“Banker” was away and brought with
them light hearts, lively tongues and
luncheon for fifty. David braced him-
self up for the occasion with a cordial
welcome to all, and in a short time the
joyous shouts of happiness could be
heard for fully four blocks. It was al-
most the hour when ghosts are sup-
posed to walk when the youngsters
started for their several homes. If
there was any household game that
they didn’t play it wasn’t in.David’s
book of good memory. Speaking of
memory, the little fellow will hour for-
get his visit to his “Uncle Billy.”
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Will Carry Connecticut.
Hor. Samuel Fessenden attended the
first meeting of the Republican Nation-
al committee in New York, Wednesday.
In speaking of the situation in this
state Mr. Fessenden said that the pros-
pects were verybright for Republican
success here this fall.
There are hundreds of Democrats in
this state who will vote for McKinley.
Contrary to the usual belief he thinks
that a Democratic gold ticket will en-
hance the cause of McKinley in Con-
necticut. While there are many
Democrats in this state who will vote
the Republican ticket, there are hun-
dreds of others who would not do so,-
even if they have to support the silver
platform. If given the alternative of
voting for the gold standard Democrat
rather than Bryan, they would support
the former.
At Court.
The Town Court was in session this
morning, Judge Hubbell in the chair
from which justice is meted, according
to the law and evidence.
The case of Boernisch vs. Fawcett
was before the court on another of the
numerous motions, presented by the
attorneys'for the contestants.
Another case was that of Dr. S. H.
Huntington vs. Charles Whitlock. The
latter case is liable to occupy the at-
tention of the Judge during the rest of
the day. .
Indian Harbor Yacht Club.
The eighth annual regatta of the Indian
Harbor Yacht Club will be sailed to-
morrow over the club’s courses on the
Sound off Greenwich. The entries are
numerous, and as Mr. George E. Gart-
land is chairman of the Regatta Com-
mittee, there will be promptness and
despatch in sending the classes away.
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
His Singular Experience with a nettle
in a Western Clty.
“I once had a very singular experi-
ence in .a fine house in a small city in
the West," said a retired burglar.
“They had theirsilver locked up, but 1
found on a table in the parlor a. lot of
bric-a-brac, mostly silver that were well
worth carrying OE.
“There was a. curious looking ther-
mometer that caught my eye in partic-
ular, and contrary to my usual habit I
stopped to take a. look at it before put-
ting it into my bag, and then it occurred
to me that I’d like to see how warm it
was—it was very close in the room with
the windows all shut—and I took a look
at the mercury, holding it down in the
light of my lamp on the table, standing
up myself, but I couldn’t see it very
plain standing up, so I sat down in a
chair that was right there by the table
to get a closer look.a
“The minute I sat down the chair be-
gan to play a tune. It had a music box
arrangement attached to it, just like
many other articles of furniture are
made. Some of them when you pull
out a drawer a music box begins to
play, and all that sort of thing, and this
was a musical chair. I got right up b it
the chair kept right on playing. Tl es.-
things are apt to have a key, you kno w,
or a stopper of some sort about them
somewhere that you press to stop them.
I felt for that key but couldn't find it,
and I got my lamp and looked for it,
the music keeping right on playing all
the time, but I couldn’t find it and the
first thing I knew it broke {out louder
than ever; it had come to some sort of
a bell attachment that it had and was
making twice as much noise, as it did at
first, and the only thing I got in my bag
was the thermometer, which I’d wished
I’d never seen at all, and which I’d
dropped in the bag when the first sur-
prise struck me.
“I took another quick look over. the
chair with the lamp, but I couldn’t find
the key and of course there wasn’t any-
thing for me to do but go away, which
I did. The last I heard of the chair, as
I went through the cellar window, it
had busted out in some new direction
2ndd was booming away like a brass
an . '
A STORY OF SPAIN.
A Lover who Curries 011' His Inamorata’s
Mother by Mistake. a
Joe Maria. Marsinez, is a young Span-
ish speasant, whose tiny farm is near
Sabas, Galicia. He loved Carmen, the
daughter of a widow who owned the
largest shop in Sabas. Carmen was
willing, but the widow thought such a
handsome girl ought to marry money,
so she withheld her consent, to break
off the match.
All efforts of the lovers to meet proved
vain. Jose heard that a. young grocery-
man from the next town was trying to
marry Carmen. His friends told him
he must get her then or not at all. So
he resolved upon a. bold Galician
scheme to seize her and make her his at
once.
The evening of April 13 was the time
and the bed chamber of Carmen was
the place for the execution of the plot.
He climbed up to the bed chamber win-
dow after everybody in the house was
asleep and unlatched the door leading
down to the street. He grasped the
white clad figure that he found on the
bed tight in his arms and hurried from
the house across the fields.
“I am going to the priest,” he repeat-
ed several times, to rouse her from the
silence which fright had laid on her
tongue.
There was two or three sobs that
made J ose’s heart stand still, and then
an outcry that caused him to drop the
white clad figure hastily. He lit a. match
and saw before him not Carmen, but
Carmen’s mother. He started away on
a run, but Carmen’s mother had recog-
nized him, and she began to‘scream for
his arrest.
The night watchman of Sebas came;
Jose was'arrested. On April 18 he was
sent to the penitentiary by the criminal
court. of the district and on April 19,
which was Sunday, Carmen’s betrothal
to his rival was announced in the Sebas
church. The Madrid papers published
the storv on April 22.
A Prominent Citizen Killed.
HADpoxriELn, N. J., July 31.—-Ephraim
Glover, a prominent citizen of this place,
was instantly killed today by being struck
by the Atlantic City express on the Cam-
den and Atlantic road. He stepped out of
the way of the south bound train directly
in front hi the north bound. He was 85
years of age.
Yreeiand' Against Hooker.
JAMESTOWX, N. Y., July 31.——Hon..War-
ren B. Hooker will probably be renomi-
nated for congress by the Republicans of
the Thirty-fourth congressional district,
as he has the delegations from Chautauqua
and Allegheny counties. Cattaraugus
county will present the name of E. B.
Vreeland.
Fate of Gold Seekers.
LIMA, Peru, July 31.—A man named
Cooper, an American citizen, has been
lost in the fortress of Carabaya. Two Ger-
mans who were members of his party es-
caped and have arrived at the San Do-
mingo mine. The remaining four, said to
be gold seekers, have been killed by In-
dlans.
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Important: -=- Notice 6‘.
A Great Sale of
' W ALL PAPERS- ’
$3,000-Worth of Wall Paper will be Sold AT COST
During the next Thirty Days.
oNewman & Pinney,
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‘ NOTICE
NOTICE is hereby given to all per
sons liable to pay taxes to the town of
N orwalk, in the County of Fairfield and
State of Connecticut, on the Assess-
ment List of_1895, that I will meet them
to receive said taxes, at the following
times and places, to wit:
At the store of W. S. Haniord, East
Norwalk, (Down Town) on Tuesday
September lst, 1896, from 10 o’clock
forenoon, until 12:30 afternoon.
At the store of J. C. Randle, at Win-
nipauk, on the afternoon of Tuesdav.
September lot, 1896, from 8 o’clock
until 4:30 o’clock. '
At the store of Alphonso Dibble, at
South Five Mile River, on the evening
of Tuesday, September 1st, 1896, from
7:00 o’clock until 8:30 o’clock.
At the office of the Collector, Room
No. 1 Masonic building, in the City of
Norwalk. in said town of Norwalk, on
Wednesday, September 2d, 1896, from
.9 o’clock forenoon, until 3 o’clock after-
noon, and from 7 to 8 o’clock in the
evening.
Mr. Stephen Comstock, of Comstock
Bros, Norwalk, and Mr. J.’ M. Layton,
at his office, Railroad Place, South Nor-
walk, are authorized toreceive taxes
for me.
On all taxes which shall remain un-
paid after the let dafiof October, 1896
interest at the rate of INE PER CENT
will be charged from the 3m dav of
Auglust 1896, until the same shall be
pal .
Gnonon B. ST. JOHN,
Collector,
In and for said Town of Norwalk, on
the List of 1895. .
Dated at Norwalk. Ct., July 8, 1896.
7 NOTICE.
currixssl
NOTICE is herebygiven to all per-
sons liable to pay taxes to the City of '
Norwalk, in the County of Fairfield
and State of Connecticut, that the
undersigned, Collector of Taxes for.
said City, on assessment list of 1895, has
received a warrant from the Mayor for
the collection of the tax laid by said
City, March 2, 1896, on the ratable es-
tate liable to taxation therein; that
Said Tax is Payable July Isl,
And that he will be present at the
Council Room in the Fairfield County
National Bank Building, every week
day from 9 a. m. to 12 m., and from 2
to 5 p. m. from July 1, 1896 until Sep-
tember 1, 1896. Saturday evenings
from 7 to 9 o’clock. '
Also, that upon all of said taxes re-
maining unpaid after the 1st day of
August, 1896, interest at the rate of
nine (9) per cent. per annum will be
charged from the let day of July, 1896,
until the same‘is paid. 1 ‘
ADDISON A. Burrs,
Collector of City Taxes, List of 1896.
MISS BAIRD’S
INSTITUTE.
Norwalk, Conn.
25TH YEAR.
15th Year in NorwalkJ
BOARDING AIID DAY SDIIODL
Primary, intermediate, academicland college
preparatory classes. Specialists employed for
physical culture, elocution, music, art and the
languages. Careful attention to morals and
manners. A limited number of day pupils
and special students admitted. Send for cir-
cular. Early application desirable.
Miss Baird is at home to visitors on Thurs-
day and Friday of each week until 5 p. m.
IIAVE ARRIVED.
My new line of _8pring and
Summer Suitings, which
will be made up in the latest
styles and at the lowest possible
price consistent wilh good work.
Call in and inspect them.
F. KOCOUR.
MERCHANT TAILOR,
I? North Main St. South Norvalk.
Raymond Q Son.
Successorsto George_H.Baymcnd.
Furniture Dealers and General Funeral
Directors. ,
l3 and 48 Main Street Norwalk Ct;
Residence, Berkeley Place.
Telephone No. 7 7-4
South Noeralk l
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BRITDGEPORT.
Th@ 0 o o o
D. Nil. Reed -.
Company.
“ FERRIS”
Goon SENSE
WAISTS,
7 Styles for children, misses and
young ladies. 5 Styles for ladies.
Bicycle waist. Ferris shoulder brace.
Take our corsets and waists and
you’ll find enough, and varieties
enough, to make a corset store and
nothing else.
Then there's the double Ve, for
infants and children; and equipoise
waists. ,
Also Hand W., awaist for either
boys or girls—open in front with sus-
pender back for boys. Made of sin-
gle fabric, light-weight but durable;
also in ventilating. ,
And all sorts of supplies: Corset
Steels, white, drab and black, for 5
and 10 cents. Watch-spring un-
covered Steel, l3c. Kid covered
Steel, 16c. Celluloid steel Protector,
25c. French bust Forms, 500. Em-
pire Bustles, 25c. .
Security hose Supporter, for babies,
children, young ladies and ladies,
cotton and silk. all colors. Velvet
grip button hose Supporter, either
black or white, all sizes.
Now the orders for Dress Skirts
are doubling, those that we are mak-
ing free. We don't pretend to
promise to a certainty at what hour
lwe can deliver them, but we'll» do it
as quickly as we can. More hands
are at work making them, nimble
fingers and minds are as busy as busy
can be—you may not have-to wait a
minute over time. ‘
Boys' linen Blouses—closing out"
everything at one price, 75 cents
each; sizes 2%,, 3, 4 and 5 years.
Also great values in colored Blouses;
sizes 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 years—one
price, 25 cents.
Lots of new attractions in Fancy
Ribbons for stocks, your kind, your
idea of beauty. Popular prices of
course.
Odds and ends in Dress Trim-
mings—BARGAINS. .
The Lace Remnant sale is proving
very attractive to appreciative buyers.
The continual demand for lace leaves
a great many short lengths which are
being placed on our remnant table at
nominal prices, very low prices
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Norwalk Chronicler