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DAVID w. RAYMOND
Funeral Director and Emhalllel
39 Washington Street'South Norwalk
Roeidence.Manackemo Hotel
YOU KNOW
“A Good Thing” when you
see it—almost every one does.
The line of Suitings I am of-
fering for
$|6.00
.and upwards are each and
every one a good thing“. Just
:a matter of Choice for the dif-
‘rferent tastes. The assort-
nnen-t includes all kinds, light
:and dark—a fine collection.
s-Pants, $3.50,
FRANK coco.
‘36 Main St., Norwalk.
Cleaning, Repairing and Dyeing.
DORLON HOUSE
GRIEGORY’S .. OINT.
ENOW OPEN FOR THESEASEN 0F1897.
fSllllllE IllllllEIIS,
RHODE ISLAND GLAM BAKE,
BATIIIIIE, BOATING, risnmaf
Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty:
. noted Amos Smith’s collegiate school
rminutes.
'I I E. 3’3] LLIVAN,
Manager.
HALE
BALSAM
25o:
Ask Your Drugglst
M HOME.
Don’t go out of town to
have your Awnings
made when you can get
them right here at
home just as cheap.
If you Want a canopy
for a party or a wed-
ding. I will supply it at
two hours’ notice.
A letter or postal card
will receive prompt at.
tention.
P. E. CALLAHAN,
Awning Maker, '
. 53 Cross 'St., Norwalk.
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: ted for Yale College.
A. HOMER
The President, Tuesday, appointed
Editor A. Homer Byington of THE
GAZETTE consul at Naples, Italy.
Mr. Byington was bornln Herkimer,
N. Y., July 23, 1826, his parents having
moved thither from Net-walk. some two
years previOUSly. His father, Aaron
Byington Was born in South Salem. N.
Y., but came with his parents, to Nor-
walk to reside, when a lad. His mother
was nee Sarah VVatel-bury, daughter of
Ezra Waterbury who resided on Norc-
ton Hill. His paternal grandfather,
John Byington, was a boy fifer in the
detachment of VVashington’s army sta-
tioned in and about White Plains and
the family legend runs, that he accom-
panied the British Spy Andre from
Salem to White Plains and played
the dead march at that gallant
officer’s execution. His great-
grandfather, John Byington Sn,
served throughout the Revolution-
ary War as a soldier in the Connecti-
cut forces. His maternal grand-father,
Ezra Waterbury, was a marine under
Commodore Perry and was killed in
the fierce engagement resulting in
Perry’s victory on Lake Erie. His
maternal great-grandfather, was Cap-
tain Selleck of Five Mile River, who
commanded the shore defence between
Norwalk and Stamford during the
period of the war of the Revolution. Cl
When two years of age Mr. 'Bying-
ton’s parents returned from Herkimer
to Norwalk, where his father, having
received a patent for the first Ameri-
can invention for felting wool, formed
a co-partnership with the late George
G. Bishop. At the end of three years,
this business relation terminated and
his father soon after accepted an offer
to establish his new industry in Roch-
ester, N. Y., where he went and soon
died at the age of thirty-six of an epi-
demic fever. The boy, Homer, then
' nine years old returned as far East as
t Middletown, N. Y., and was provided a
home with kind friends on a farm in
that thriving town.
From Middletown, at the end of three
years, he was sent to New Haven to the
for boys, with the purpose of being fit-
At this school
were as fellow scholars New Haven’s
present Congressman N. D. Sperry.
John Eat-on Smith, the father of Mrs.
I S. H. VVa-tkins, (a phenominally bright
young lad, who subsequently was the
rector of W'estport’s Memorial church,)
Judge Isaac Atwater, now of Minnesota,
the late Editor T. M. N ewson, who
' founded the St. Paul Daily Times, the
. Scovills of Waterbury and many an-
other who rose to subsequent distinc-
tion. It was during the last -year of
his preparatory course at this school,
.that an incident occurred that changed
the whole course of his subsequent life.
Up to that date, he had sustained him‘
self entirely by such work as he ' could
find to do and particularly by the kind-
.ly help of the College Printer Mr.
Benham, in whose office the late John
,D. Candee Editor of the Bridgeport
Standard and then a freshman at Yale,
was working his way through college
as a compositor at the printer’s case.
As the time drew near for a special
tutoring in order to enter college at
its coming commencement the more
far-seeing mother, became sorely dis-
tressed over the prospect of her boy’s
greatly increased expenses in pursuing
a four year’s college course and with
no one to supply pecuniary aid in case
of illness or any desperate need. In
this troubled state of mind she consult-
.elthe late Rev. Laveletta S. Perrin,
whose tragic death caused by the
crushing in of the Hartfc rd hote
where he was a guest, all will recall.
He was then a Divinity student at Yale,
and had shown his kindness by aiding
the youth in his classics. and his advice
was most positively against the under-
taking. . ’
The‘decision though
certainly wise
BYINGTON.
’ was as a blow in the face to the fondest
hopes and ambitions of the lad. At
this trying juncture the Weekly copy of
the NORWALK GAZETTE arrived with
an advertisement for an apprentice to
learn the printing business. This
seemed a most kind and opportune
Providence as the boy was more than
fond of the printer's art, and always
delighted to get to Norwalk. The first
mail carried a letter to James Reed, the
then proprietor, asking for the place
which was as promptly given, and a
few days later the lad was standing on
two raisen boxes “sticking type” in
this venerable office, as Lawyers, Doc-
tors of Medicine and Divinity galore
had erst done before.
During his apprenticeship he did in
addition to the mechanicala good share
of the editorial work, and after three
year’s service purchased his uneXpired
term of apprenticeship and returned to
Professor Smith’s school.- where six
months more were spent in reviewing
old studies and taking special courses
in grammar, rhetoric, English litera-
ture and such studies as would best fit
him for his new purpose in life of be.
coming a journalist. At the end of this
school term he was employed by Messrs—
Babcock and Wildman to report the
Legislative proceedings for the New
ture adjourned apermanent place was
given him' as repurter. proof-reader,
compositor and general utility man.
“Journal” with Thomas G. Woodward,
(Connecticut’s Horace Greeley) as edi-
His need was a practical, all
tor.
around business man, and the subject
of our brief biography was sought, the
; capital for his interest advanced, and
' the paper started on a career of pros-
] perity which continues to this day in
‘ the New Haven Journal and Courier;
the Courier having been subsequently
purchased and united with the growing
Journal.
His connection with the Journal con—
tinu 3d some year and a half when a let-
ter from James Reed expressed his'de-
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. sire to sell him the GAZETTE, as he was
tendered the office of Deputy Sheriff
and could not attend to both. The old,
over-mastering love for NOrwalk, again
induced him to give up a far more sure
promise of a reasonable fortune in New
Haven, and he sold his half of the
Journal to John B. Hotchkiss and be-
came a purchaser of the GAZETTE.
The first number of this paper under
its new proprietorship was issued J anu-
ary 5, 1848, and despite brief absences
and divers other business interests, he
has practically been its guiding and
controlling spirit up to da‘te.
In 1858 and ’59 Mr. Byington repre-
sented Norwalk in the lower house of
the Connecticut Legislature, and in
1861 and ’62 he represented the old
twelfth district in the Senate.
From the time the Tribune was
founded by Mr. Greeley the GAZETTE
was depended upon to furnish it all im-
portant news transpiring within the
sphere of its circulation as were the
Standard at Bridgeport, the Palladium
at New Haven, Courant at Hartford,
and old time Advocate at New London.
Those weredays when there were no
telegraphs and only two railroads in
Connecticut, the New Haven, Hartford
&. Springfield and the Housatonic.
This news connection between the
Tribune and GAZETTE cemented a
strong personal affection between Mr.
Greeley and the subject of this narra-
tive and led to Mr. Byington becoming
a winter Congressional correspondent
of the Tribune, some fifty and more
years ago. During the late war, he
was placed in charge of the Tribune’s-
W’ashington Bureau and made chief (f
that paper’s corps of Army corresp on
dents at the front. Nevertheless in
peace and in war he always gave at
least one night of every week to fur-
nishing copy for the GAZETTE.
At the close of the War, he con-
Haven Palladium. When the Legisla—
Before the end of the year a syndicate
was fermed in New Haven to start the
ceived the idea of starting a two-cent
Republican paper in New York and for
more than a year the “poet banker ”—
“N ed” Stedman sought unavailingly to
secure the requisite capital. Upon Mr.
Charles A. Dana withdrawing from the
Chicago Inter-Ocean, he was asked to
join the proposed enterprise and re-
turning to New York soon had a suffi-
cient guarantee of capital and the new
newspaper organization was promptly
effected. An unforseen difliculty in
getting the then Associated Press
news, led to a. subsequent purchase of
the Sun, which was in that syndicate.
The Sun’s name Was also adopted.
Mr. Dana . was made editor-in-chief
and Mr. Byington its business manager.»
It’s success was phenominal. A bitter
personal feud arising between Presi-
dent Grant and Mr. Dana, caused a
complete change from the brightest and
most influential of republican journals
to a. most relentlessly bitter and caustic
champion of democracy. This led to
Mr. Byington’s disposal of his inter-
est in the Sun, and the loss to him of
an independent fortune.
Some three years subsequent to his
retiring from the Sun, influential
Republican friends in different parts
of Connecticut urged Mr. Byington to
take Ownership interest in the New
Haven Palladium, with the view ofres-
cuing it from threatened destruction.
It had gotten into the hands of the late
0. S. Bushnell, whose purpose seemed.
to be to use it to “boom” certain pei“
sonal and pecuniary interests of his own,
a certain death to the best of. newspaper
propel-ties. A triumverate, composed
of Mr. Byington, A. L. Train, and W.
A. Croifut rescued it from the hands of
the spoiler. Crofiut soon withdrew
and went to WashingtOn, Train there-
after purchased the Byington interest,
upon its financial success becoming as-
sured and failing in health, soon sold
it to a New Haven banker for double
its original cost. Thus in brief have
we outlined the salient points in the
ever busy life of our senior. VVhat-
ever the future may have in store for
him, or whatever foreign lands he may
traverse, we know that he will always
love and revere old N orwalk, the home
of his own and ancestors nativity; and
nowhere and under no possible circum-
stances will he ever be any less intense-
ly an American than he always has
been.
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LOCAL NEWS.
Mrs. William R. Nash suffered pain-
ful injuries at her home on the New
Canaan road, yesterday, from a. fall
_ that result-ed in the dislocation of one
of her arms;
The special yacht race, scheduled to
of the Stamford Yacht“ club, has been
postponed indefinitely. because of the
gale and high seas.
Martin Duffy fell from a chair at his
home yesterday afternoon, and sulfered
a fracture of his collar bone. Dr. W.
J. Tracey treated the injury and the
patient is doing nicely.
The Butchers Big Barbecue at the
Fair Grounds has been postponed until
next Wednesday, before which time it
is to be hoped that Jupiter Pluvius will
conclude that it is policy to have his
leaky clouds put in repair.
Mrs. L. Parsons of No. 10 South
Union avenue held the lucky number
at the Boston store, N orwalk, Sat-
urday night. The ticket was dated
7—24, Book No. 18, Cap 130, Sale N o. 48
Decided and needed improvements
are being made at the Center school in
the way of better accomodations for
the pupils, the more important one be-
ing the placing of a partition with
sliding doors in the main school-rOOm.
The steamer Belle Horton will make
an excursion to Coney Island next
Sunday, leaving her Wharf at South
Norwalk at 9:30 a. m. Returning she
will leave Coney Island at 4:20 p. m.
landing at East Blst street at 5:30
o’clock. Fare for the round trip 60
cents.
The following are the newly elected
officers of the Norwalk Fire Insurance
company: A. G. McIlvaine, J r., W. H.
Slocum, E. E. Pearce, J. S. Belden,
F. E. Shaw, George B. St. John, M.
DeF. Lockwood, F. St. John Lock-
wood, Homer Merrill. President, A.
G. McIlvaine, ~~ Jr.; vice president,
George B. St. John; secretary, F. E.
Shaw.
Guiseppi Fuda, the convicted mur-
derer of his young wife, Marie Car-
mella Fuda, is paying the penalty of
his crime every day he lives. His con-
finement at the state prison awaiting
death has had a telling effect upon him
,and he is in bad shape. Warden
VVoodbridge, in discussing Fuda’s con-
dition said that the condemned mar.
refused to be cheered up by any hope
held out to him by friends. He real-
izes that he has been condemned to
die,- and expects that every day will be
his last. He has- been told that Wardv
en I’Voodbri-dge is the man who will
set the final machinery in motion and
every time the good natured prison of-
ficial puts in an appearance, Fuda’s
heart sinks. The warden, in the per-
formance of- his duties, visits the conr
demned men every day, and when he
appears Fuda gets himself ready for
be held yesterday under the auspiCes‘
that drew the pocket-book and 810‘
the gallows. He watches every move- ,
ment of the official, expecting each
will be his summons.
Imapassino who is also condemned
to die, is of a different frame of mind.
He is in constant communication with
the Italian consul in New York, and
that official holds out some hope. Ima-
passino thinks he will not be executed.
He is cheerful and enjoys good health.
The first case to be prosecutedin the
state under the provisions of the new
Sunday law, which was heard before
Judge Hungerford in Naugatuck yes-
terday, resulted in the acquittal of the
defendant. The complainant was Dea-
con E. S. Williams, who had Patrick
Connors before the court on the charge
of selling a pound of crackers. Wil-
liams swore that he purchased the
crackers on his way home from church,
and admitted that he made the pur-
chase to obtain evidence. The defense
took the ground that Williams was
prompted by malice, as he testified to
passing several other places where
business was being done. The trial
lasted for upwards of six hours and
was attended by nearly all of the mer-
chants in the borough, who looked up-
on it as a test.
Chief Vollmer was asked this morn-
ing to apprehend a young man namgd
L. M. Beach, or at least such was the
name under which he was kngwu V ll)§
this City.
l no was at one: time engaged in 50116-
mug orders for a photogragh firm, but
of late has been canvassing for adver-
tising scheme in which the Roton
Point Improvement Company was made
to appear as having an interest.
The complaint to the chief was in of
or more blank checks from the check
book of Wallace McQuhae, and as is
known in two instances filled them out
and realized in cash the difference in
his small purchase and the amount
called for by the check.
One of the victims was Mr. Jere Don—
ovan and the other Francis :35 Co.
less and an attempt is being made to
find Beach who is said to have left
town.
An adjourned meeting of the City
Council of South N orwalk, was held
last evening. The Crescent Terrace
wall was the subject of much discus-
sion. After some argument it was
voted that Messrs. A. J. Hutchinson
and Lucius Bouton be ordered to relay
their sidewalks which were damaged
by the falling of the retaining wall
known as Crescent Terrace, the woi-k
to be completed on or before August
15th. This is in the line of the pro-
visions of the amended city charter.
It was also the voice of the Council
that each owner of land fronting on the
- terrace be assessed $50 towards the ra-
construction of the wall.
The outcome of the whole would
seem to anticipate litigation, and the
city’s liability to be determined in a
court of law. It will probably lead up
to a call for a city meeting to take ac
tion in the matter, and then the some-
what vexed question may be settled.
It is not believed that the property
owners will kindly submit to an assess-
ment of benefits on property which
they believe belongs to the city.
One of the most important statutory
provisions in relation to the sale of in-
toxicating liquors has evidently been
repealed by the last general assembly.
It has wiped out all provisions in re-
gard to the license fee for druggists,
and has absolutely forbidden the li-
censing of druggists to use for com-
pounding prescriptions and sell on a
physician’s prescription in no-license
towns.
Senator Tuttle of East Haven, who
was chairman of the Committee on
Temperance of the recent General As-
sembly, says that the new liquor law
with such sweeping provisions, which
was discovered Tuesday among the
acts of the state legislature, was
changed by some unknown person after
it left the committee room. Under the
feet that Beach had stolen a half dozen.
Both checks were found to be worth-l
be licensed in ho-license towns, and
the. provision for collecting forfeited
bonds of liquor dealers is repealed, and
also that ,of the general license fee.
The wide scope. of the bill was
brought to the attention of the senator
two weeks ago by Mr. Samuel Eddy,
who was clerk of the Senate. Mr.
Eddy, said he discovered that part of
the bill, which was typewritten, had
been erased with a. pen and a. few
words inserted. In reference to this-
statement, Senator Tuttle says: “As
I remember the bill it went to the clerk
of bills without any such marks. It was
typewritten, and I don’t understand
who could have changed it. It was
not the intention of the committee to
make any such change. The only ex-
planation I can offer is that Mr. Car-
penter, who was clerk of bills might
possibly have attempted ti) straighten
out a sentence, and incidentally
changed the reading of the bill. But
as to that fact I am not positive. ‘
“The bill originated in Bridgeport,
and was presented to the committee by,
the County Commissioners, J udgeCari
roll came to Hartford two different"
days to advocate the measure. ”He is a: .
careful man, in whom we had the lit-L
great confidence”. 4 ” ‘ I
' nge embal'l’asgment is likely to re:
salt from the discovery is eighty no li-
cense towns in the state are effegted by,
the blunder. and; as the 13W 319‘? it“???
:1; frucelsts is these tears? eases? is:
ceive druggist licenses.
Dime". 4
her son, G. P. Eager.
Bradford Ballard, who has been ser-
iously ill, is convalescing.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Morehouse, jr.,
are spending a week in Maine.
Leeds Neff of Louisville, Ky., is visit-
ing friends in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hayes of New
York spent Sunday with Mrs. Hayes’s
parents, Mr' and Mrs. O. C. Bowen.
Miss Leek of N orwalk, who has been
spending a. couple of weeks with Misses
Carrie M. Hoyt and Ada L. Lapham
has returned heme.
Contractor Bates, who is repairing
the hill leading out of Noroton on the
east for the Tramway company, is hav-
ing considerable trouble with two or
three families living on the hill, who
are trying to prevent his doing the
work. They have objected strenuous-
ly to having the bank in front. of their
houses torn down and thbir driveways
changed.
A special town meeting has been
' called for Saturday, at 2 p. m., to re-
consider, if deemed advisable, the vote
tlken at the Special meeting, July 17,
recommending that the section of mac-
adam road to be laid with State aid
be put down on the post road commenc-
ing at the Curzon place and running
westerly. It is understood that the
change the vote so that the road shall
be laid from the Noroton River bridge
easterly.- .
Selectman Mackey has sent another
communicatiOIl to the Norwalk Tram-
way company, requesting it to repair
certain damage done in laying tracks
through Darien center last year. The
surface water on the flat in front of.
Mr. Mackey’s house and the mill to the
Westward were formerly drained by a
ditch that carried all the water into
the swamp on the northwest side of the
road. The Tramway people, it is al-
leged, filled this drain when laying
their track. The, water, or a large
proportion of it, collects in the road,
and the spot is rarely free from mud or
hubs. Mr. Mackey intends that the
company shall do something or explain
why.
The stewards in the Methodist church
at Albertsville, Ala., finding . their
church revenues insufficient have lev-
ied an annual tax of $10 on each tobac-
co chewing member of the congrega-
tion. The plan it is said works admir-
provisions of the law, druggists cannot
ably.
50c. a. s1. Alleggists.
:3 TARRANT 8: C0.. Chemists, flew York.
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(Headache
derangement of the
stomach, torpid liver,
or constipation can be
readily cured by a
pleasant draught of
Tarrant’s Seltzel'Aperi-
ent taken before break-
fast and on retiring at
night.
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lights the way and stays ligh
' nickel-plated—no tin; outside oil-fillet; cotton
packed oil taunt; double convex gmnd‘photo-
lens; burns kerosene,throWsalight90 {Land
weighs but 12 ounces.
Three years a" leader, and three ,yars'
improvements now added. Absolutely the
handsomost and best bicydolamp ever. made:
all. leading dealers.
PLACE. & TERRY MFG. co.
mums-unwmhmfi f j -
new,
Mrs. Thomas Eager is entertaining
meeting is called in order to try and’
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