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FOLLOW THE CRO‘WDS
T0 WEED’S.
The public is not dull. Their faculties are wide
awake to the buying advantages we olfer. No
stock in Norwalk is so complete with little and
big gifts of the kind that are most acceptable.
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And We Save You
Money Everytime.
Largest showing of the following celebrated ,Ex—I
tracts: LAZELL’S, LUNDBORG’S, COLGATE’S,
PALMER’S, WRIGHT’S, ROGERE} GALLET’S.
What is Nicer for
than a handsome ATOMIZER, POCKETBOOK,
FANCY BOTTLE of COLOGNE or TOILET WATER.
E. P. WEED, 38 Wall St., Norwalk.
FOR THAT CHRISTMAS GIFT '?
Extra Efforts this Week to close out a large
number of PIANOS.
A Large Stock to Select From.
GHIGKEHIII
OUR LEADERS I in wrist.
We also have other Good Makes :
“ - Kranich & Bach, Sterling, New England
Kroeger, Huntington, Shelton,Wheelock.
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Organs from $25‘to$5o.
J. W. STUDWELL,
» 89 - North Maih‘Stq South N orwalk.
THE GREAT STRENGTH OF BEARS.
02.0: chn to Carry a Heifer, “’eighing 200
Pounds. three Miles. ‘
An old hunter, spez‘iking about tears.
declares that grizziirs have sir:ngth
almost beyond belief. and cites some
instances to prove it.
“I have read," he says. "about the
powerful muscles in the arms of Afri-
can gorillas. but non-e compare with
those in the arms and shoulders of
big grizzly bears. I have seen a griz-
zly bear with lone forepaw shot into
uselessn-ess pull its own eleven hun-
dred pounds of flesh and bone up
precipices and perform feats of mus-
cle that trained athletes could not do.
I have seen grizzly bears carrying the
carcasses of pigs that must
weighed seventy pounds several miles
across a mountain side to their lair,
and I have heard hunters tell of hav-
ing seen cows knocked down as if by
a thunderbolt with one blow from the
forepaw of a bear.
“Three summers ago I spent the
seasonin the coast mountains. in Mou-
terey county, and one moonlight night
I saw a big grizzly bear in the act of
carrying a dead yearling heifer home
to her cub. I had a position on the
mountain side where I could see on
orv movement of the bear in the
sparsely timbered valley below me.
The animal carried the heifer in her
forepaws for at least three miles.
across jagged, sharp rocks ten feet
high, oVer fallen logs, around the
rocky mountain sides, where even a
donkey could not get a foothold, to
a narrow trail up the steep mountain.
She never stopped to rest a moment,
but went right along. I followed, and
just about half a mile from the beast’s
lair I laid her low. The heifer weigh-
ed at least two hundred pounds, and
the bear some four hundred and fifty
pounds.”
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‘ Green For Night Signal.
The management of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad has
decided to make a change in some of
the signal lights now used for the pur-
pose of preventing accidents that have
been charged to the color of the lights
now used.
In consequence of the accident at
Whittenton Junction on the Old Colony
division a. few months ago, in which
the lantern on a gate was mistaken
for white semaphore light, the road
Will change its semaphore lights so
that the color indication for“a.ll clear”
at night will be green.
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May Ask Warden to Resign.
Some of the members of the state
board of prison directors are arranging
to have Warden Woodbridge step down
and out owing to his son ’s defalcation
and the warden’s conduct in reference
thereto. It is charged that the warden
knew of the embezzlement three months
previpus to informing the directors.
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Judge Woodward His Instructor.
Ethan A. Hitchcock, of Missouri,
who was yesterday appointed Secretary
of the Interior by President McKinley,
at One time attended Gen Russell’s mil~
itary school in New Haven and Judge
Asa B. Woodward of this city was one
of his instructors.
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RHEUMATISM CURED I N A DAY
“ Mystic Cure ” for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days.
Its action upon the system is remarkable
and mysterious. It removes at once
the cause and the disease immediately
disappears. The first dose greatly ben-
efits. 75 cents. Sold by Edward P.
Weed, 38 Wall street, W. C. Baur, 55
Wall street, Druggists. Norwalk.
The cat 0’ nine tails must sink into
insignificince before the animals of
hundreds of tails that surely exist.
somewhere, judging by the lavish use
of the caudal appendage as a fashion-
able trimming.
It is said that joy never kills, but. it
comes pretty near it when it. has been
withheld for any length of time.
HOW TO CURE A COLD
Simply take Otto’s Cure. We know
of its astonishing cures and that it will
stop a. cough quicker than any known
remedy. If you have Asthma, Bron-
chitis, Consumption or any disease of
the throat or lungs, a. few doses of this
remedy will surprise you. If you wish
to try, call at. our store, and we will be
pleased to furnish you a sample bottle .
free of cost. Large bdttles 500 and 250.
Edward P. Weed, Norwalk; Mrs. Scott
Williamson, Darien.
Suffered a Stroke.
Mr. Nicholas Sloan suffered a para-
lytic stroke at his home on Cross
street, last night. Mr. Sloan’s wife
died a few days since, and it is thought
that the death of his helpmeet, is, to a.
great extent, the cause of the attack.
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External Impressions Count.
Not only such things as are beautifulto the
eye, but those which appeal favorably to the
taste, are a. large factor in our every day life.
Even with medicines, it is no longer necessary
to take Iii-go amounts of vile-tasting com-
pounds to :et relief. Now we have the most
wonderful example of this in Vinol. the new
form of cod liver oil, in which the active.
curative principles of the cod’s liver is found
in a. highly concentrated state, and the obnox-
ions, vile-smelling grease discarded.
Mr. C. C. Isbell, a chemist of North Adams,
speaks of this feature in Vinol as follows :—
“ Vinol is a luxury to take. Vinol is
modern and up-todate and is an example of
man‘s ingenuity to get the best tobe had from
any article for the greater benefit of hu-
manity. Vinol should be appreciated. I
know that it is, for in it we have the greatest
builder-up ever put on the market.”
Vinol is positively a delicacy in the sick
room. No longer will the poor sufferer with
disease-weakened stomach, struggle to take
.that which may save his life, or rebel entirely
acainst the medicine and prefer death to such
a. terrible remedy. Yours verytruly, "
Smctai‘ Vinol representative.
. PLAI'STED’S drugstore. $0..Noriva.lk.; ,
.He Is to Be
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it Ambassador to
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.1: Britain.
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EMT on GO TO RUSSIA
- Belief That Vacancy in Russia Has Bee :1
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Offered to the Illinois Congressman. He
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Post. Senator Plain; Confirms the Repprt
of Clioate‘s Appointment.
Washington, D. 0., Dec. 23.—The next
ambassador to England will be Joseph
H. Cheate of New York.
The indications are that Robert E.
I-Iitt of Illinois, chairman of the House
committee on foreign affairs, was ask-
ed to accept the ambassador-ship to
Russia yesterday by the president.
Senator Cullom recently recommend-
ed Mr. Hitt for the British post. This
is of mportance as an indication that
Mr. Hitt is willing to leave Congress
to enter the diplomatic service.
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New York, Dec. 23.——Senator Plait
told his friends yesterday that Joseph
H. Choate would be nominated by the
president for ambassador to the court
of St. James, probably soon after Conu
gress meets after the holidays.
This decision, he said, the president
had been aided in making by the fact
that Cornelius N. Bliss's resignation as
secretary of the interior left this state
unrepresented in the cabinet.
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JOSEPH H. CHOATE.
There was. talk among local Repub--
licans yesterday to the effect that
Whitslaw Reid, despairing of beating
out Mr. Choate for the British embas-
sy, had‘ turned his attention now to
obtaining the embassy to Russia. to
be vacated soon by Ethan Allen Hitch-
cock, who has been selected for the
cabinet.
United St'ltP-S and China.
Pekin, Dec. 23.——'rh'e United States
minister here, Edwin H. Conger, has
entered a protest against the proposed
extension of Frencn jurisdiction at
Shanghai.
This, added to the vigorous British
protest on the same subject, will un—
doubtedly stiffen Chinese resistance to
the French demand.
But, unless the Chinese are sustain—
ed, they will eventually be compelled
to yield. ‘ ' '
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May Mules for Manila.“ “3% '
San Francisco, Dec. {Al—The
Tacoma sailed yesterday for Honolulu
with one hundred and eleven army
mules on board, "7““ .
At Honolulu the animals will be
turned out for a few weeks’ exercise,
and will be reshipped with two hun-
dred mules and horses in Honolulu for
Manila, for the use of the 7 United
States troops.
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Spa isiu. Commissioners Home. .
Madrid, Dec. 23.—The Spanish peace
commissioners have all returned from
Paris.
'Senor Ojefza. secretary of the com-
mission, had an interview yesterday
with Premier Sagasta and the minis-
ter of foreign affairs on the subject of
the Philippines. g
Postal Treaty.
Washington, D. 0., Dec. 23.——-Ambas.
sador Draper informs the department
of state that the Italian Chamber of-
Deputiqs has ratified the postal treaty.
The Senate may ratify it. to—ch.
It may go into effect on January 1
next, so far as Italy is concerned.
BITS OF NEWS. ,,
The anti-Anarchist congress at Rome
has closed its sittings.
Patrick Haggerty of Potsdam, N: Y.,
has just died at the age of 109 years.
Six women were arrested in one New
York city store Wednesday for shop
lifting. .
A coliseum is to be built in Chicago
capable of seating twenty-five thous—
and people. - ,
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higgiru
son celebrated his seventy-fifth birth-
day yesterday.
The contributions to the New York
World's Christmas tree fund have pas-
sed the $2,000 mark. -
There were 2,200 bags of letters on
the Teutonic, ocean' liner, which arriv-
ed in New York from Eurbpe yester-
day. - ,
the Chicago Art Institute a gift of
thirty-five thousand dollars for a. new
library building.
It is expected that the gold output
of the Transvaal next year.- will exceed
that of the combined m-ines‘of Colo-
rado, Dakota, California, Montana. and
Alaska. 7
This is an “off” year for apples. :mr
up to December 1 there were exported
from Boston 172,900 barrels, as com-
pared with 22.982 barrels for the same
time last .year. . .
' Miss Helen Gould. and Miss Long,
daughter of the secretary of the navy,
have just been elected honorary mem-
bers of «the Brooklyn War Veterans
and Their Sons' Association. _ ~
Edward M. Hayward. a. lamp trim-
mer, was instantly killed Worces—
ter. Mass" yesterday ”mo:- in; While
renewing carbons .111 the foundry‘of
the Holybke Machine Companyl '9‘"?
{new cases and t
. its victims are recovering.
Frank G. Logan of Chicago has made ‘
STAM PS FRAUDULENTLY USED.
Icheme to Bob the Government Disoov
cred.
New York, Dec. 23.—Colon:el Wil-
liams, chief of the internal revenue
inspectors’ office. set on foot yester-
day'an investigation to get at the bot-
tom 03 a. fraudulent practice by which
the government has been robbed of
revenue receipts.
Colonel Williams is satisfied that by
the washing of cancellation marks and
by other fraudulent methods docu-
mentary stamps, such as are used by
brokers, brewers and distillers, have
been sold for several weeks on Wall
street and in other parts of the down
town business district at a. large dis-
coun't.
He believes, from certain facts that
his deputies have learned this week,
that there is collusion in the fraud.
The existence of the fraud was first
suspected by Deputy Thompson tvl'rb
months ago. He noticed that the met-
senger boys who came to the bucket
shops and brokers' offices iii and abopt
‘Wall street seemed well supplied with
money.
The same circumstance was also
commented on by many of the brok-I
ers. " ' ” "2
_A falling off iii afi'a't'ienue receipts
which was noticeable about this tinie
made Thompson suspicious", and he
connected the two facts.
The case worked itself out by de-
grees, and W'ednesday one of the mes-
Ienger boys was taken ipto custody
by Colonel Williams‘s order.
The boy at first strongly denied all
wrongdoing but finally broke down and
confessed. . i _ fr
He told the oflicers of the revenue
department that he and other boys
had kept the stamps given them. by
brokers for sales tickets, and had sub-
stituted for them cancelled stai’nps-
which had been used on other sales
tickets.
The dav of the month is not neces-
sarily included in the cancellation
marks, and by regummlng the old
stamps they could be easily used.
They were sold at discounts of from
twenty-five to fifty per cent.
Massachusetts Struck Sunken Barge;
Brooklyn, Dec. 23.—At ten O'CIQDIC
yesterday morning the big 'tlmbei' dry
dock No. 3, in the navy yard, had I) w;
pumped dry, and the battleship M a»
chusetts lay. high and dry in: the cradle
yvhich had been built under." he by the
divers, thus exposing wound racew—
ed along her keel in the accident 0
Governor’s island on December 10‘.
As soon as the wage; was out of the
dock a. gang of men from the construe?
tion department went down and put: it:
a double row of sharing: under her
bilges, and a secdnc song at once
commenced wor vol: the! repairs.
The examinat on of the damages re—
vealed that the vessel did not strike-
on Diamond Reef and that she proba‘
bly went over at an unusually low
tide a. barge loaded with pig" i'ilon that:
was sunk at the spot several years ago
and which never had been raised, be-
cause of the depth of water at that
point, overwhich heavy draught veg“-
sels- rarely passed except at h
tide. Fusing)
It had been admitted in testimo ,1
before. the. court of inquiry that“ ., J
Massachusetts did not strike on ‘Di'a'gf
mond Reef. and from. ‘he wounds: ‘nt
her bottom a. number "‘ng piec’és“
of splintered wood" were ta..en. r .
ThisOwo-ulcl indicate the presence of
the barge in a. very dangerous position
in the channel, ”°‘ ” ’ 2: . °
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New York ‘Wants New Ship Channel.
W’asi’iington, D. C., Dec.,23.—A large
delegation representing New York bug-
ines'si interests appeared before the
House committee on Rivers and Ha’r-
p.
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here yesterday to urge the immediate;
deepening and widening of the east
channel as the best approach for ocean
liners across the~ lower bay to the
Narrows of New yrk harm, _ _
Mr. Ambrose asked that three mil—
lions be expended in New York har-
bor under the continuous contract
system, and that two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars of this be ex-
pended at once.
The committee seemed disposed to
compromise on a. channel 1,500 feet
wide and 35 feet in depth.
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Nineteen Days on Arctic Island, 2"";-
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. Zia—Jack.
Schmidt, the Skagway hermit, hunter
and philosopher, has had a Robinson?
Cruso experience which seldom occurs.-
in real life.
For nineteen days he managed to
exist on rocky Chilkat island, where-
he had been washed up by the storm
that so nearly destroyed the steamer
Utopia and sent the Detroit to the.
bottom. . ‘
A few birds d a land otter were
his only provls ons.
He was rescued when half dead .by«
the little steamer City of Olympia, an?!
on his recovery became the mate of
the boat that saved him.
Grip Lets Up in New York.
New York, Dec. 23.—-—The' grip epi-
demic, which has held New York-a:~
in
has
well as all the Atlantlcseaboard,
its grasp for the past ten days,
been checked.
The prompt measure, .t ken by the
Health Department. re dent Mur-
phy says, have given the people war-
ning of the danger. pd now that the
character of the ma‘. dy is better un-
derstood. people are taking better care
of themselvgs.
The resin! is t “at there are fewer
'se who have been
Hanan Found Guilty.
New York, Dec. 23.—James D. Huh
len, the lawyer whose trial for {orgery
has attracted so much attention, main-
ly because the prisoner acted as his
own counsel. was found guilty by the
jury last night. They were out two
hours.
Citizens by Marriage.
Springfield, 111., Dec. 23.—In the con-
tested election case of O. H. Brigham
against P. C. Stanford, the court lays
down the rule that alien born women
become naturalized when they marry
citizens of the state.
Pr-‘mler Susi-eta “’orse.
Madrid, Dec. 23.—Premier TSagasta.
‘was WOl‘Se yesterday. He is. very fe-
verish andhls condition caused Spun-
ish interior, securities to fail frorn. 56.25
. to“ 55030.“ .' .7 _ . '
- weekly. A waluaéleftatart oft/u BAZAR i: it:
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. willseadyau Me patter/I. [fyau are not familiar
on if“
Positively cured by these
Little Pills.
They also relieve Distress 50m DySPepsia,
Indigestion and T00 Hearty Eating. A per. ,
feet remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsi-
ness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue
Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They
Regulate the Bowels. Purely. Vegetable.(
Small Pill. Small Dose.
Small Price.
P. W. BATES”.
42 mm STREET,
You can find as fine an assortment of
llnniiiiital & cemetery Will
As can be found in anv Yard in the
State. Look it over and get.
prices before going elsewhere
W. FERNALD,
Practical
Bo_o_l_<binder
Books called for and Deliv-
cred
Postal Orders Promptly at-
tended to.
32 FRANKLIN STREET.
SOUTH NORWALK
~ Orders for Bookbinding can be left
at the GAZETTE OFFICE.
O. E. Wilson,
‘5‘“ GENERAL -2- INSURINGE
Real Estate and Invest-
. . ment Agent, . .
Room 3 GAZETTE BUILDING.
NORVVALK, - - - CONN
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STBIGTLY PURE!
Stores and families supplied. Lowest
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ELLs 8: 60., I I North Ave.
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NEWYORK.NEW HAVEN dz HARTFORD
RAILROAD.
-NEW YORK Divrsmx .
DECEMBER 4, 1898.
Trains leave South Norwalk as follows.
FOR NEW YORK — Accommodation
trains at. 9.36, 11:40 a. m., 1.11, 3.04, 4.07,
5.33,6.41, 8.11,10. 20 p. 111. Express trains
at. 4.55, 5.45, 6.15, (local), 6.55, (local)
7.13, (local), 7.54, (local), 8.16, 9.03 (local)
9.58, 10.35, 11.35. (local) 3.. m. 12.47
‘2. 25, 5.10 5.55, 7.55 p. m. For Washing
ton via. Harlem River 12.53 a. in. (daily)
SUNDAYS—Accommodation 9.05 a. m.
5.35, (local), 7.20, (loca1)10.10 p. m. Ex
press 4.55, 5.45 a. 111.
FOR NEW HAVEN AND THE EAST—-
Accommodation trains at 6.28, 7.42,
8.46 and 11.42 a. m., 1.12, 2.42, (to Bp’t,)
4.18. 5.27, 6.27, 7.28 (to B’p‘t), 9.15
and 11.15 p. m. Express trains at 1.11
1.20 9.11, 10.05,11.08 a. m., 12.02, 3.05
5.04 (Naugatuck Express) 7.05, 9:05,
. in . ,
p SUNDAYS—Accommodation 7.42, 9.12
a. m. and 7.15 p. in. Express 1.11 and
1.20 a. m.
C _T. HEMPSTEAD. Gen. Pass. Agent.
Amish...
I meet; the rquz'rtmut: q/every dres:-mker,)ro-
fess-zonal or avmleur. It: experts are constantly
. at work procuring tkefaslz'om which it puélishe:
cur PAPER PATTERNS .
Ear/z (Ira-u: cantai'us, (twang it: rid: variety 2"
faslirms, two gawns,far “which cut {infer fatten”
I've furnished, and z'fyou 7013.5 to wear stylish
UTILITY SKIRTS
TAILOR=MADE GOWNS Q
. or gfyon' are Jerking new and pretty designs,y0u
will Jim! what you want in the page: o the
Cut paper patterns are funds d at
25.. PER PATTERN
H \VAIST, SLEEVE, or SKIRT
COMPLETE GOWN 75¢.
and tfyau will um! 14: (It: mnnézr of [Ira pattern
you with, stating whether sleet/e, mull-t, or skirt,
and enclosing the amount 05 Verified (wave, a!
with HA RPER’S 3.4244 R, so: will send you a
TRIAL sun. 25c.’l'-5JR WEEKS
a: a «W Ljfar, upon new)! a)“: money;
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