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LOCAL BBBVITIES." . « ._
Mrs. W. E Buxton spent Sunday with
Danbury friends.
Miss Julia Rose, daughter of Capt. Rose
11 home for the holidays.
Dr. Bridges has left us for his contem-
plated winter" 5 sojourn at Aiken, S. 0.1
-You can find anything you want for
Xmas. ,at R11ymond’s.No.9 Main street. 1
Three bold fishermen were arrested on
Sunday in Bethel for fishing in the rcser-.
voir.
Capt. “Cha rley" Benedict of East Nor- i
walk soils in a few days to California via
Isthmus.
The pool table in the Oleander Garden
s to be removed into the front room~of.
the saloon.
Any one who steals Santa Claus from a
child ought to be sewed tip in a stocking
and drowned.
Noiwalk’ s favorite third baseman, Gil-
bert, has signed with the Baltimorcs for
next season.
The ChriStmas exercises of the Metho—
d ist church will be held on Friday eyen-
ing at 7 o’clock. .
Georgie Greene, 'agcd- eight, 'wns
drowned at Stafford Hollow, Saturday
evening while skating.
The Standard last Saturday issued 11
large and interesting supplement fiillof'
instructive Christmas reading.
1 he Sunday Herald’s readers breathe
hard and say one to another, "Judge not,
that ye be not Johnny Judged. ”
“ There’ 3 always room at the top," and
the Dam: Gazn'r'rir. is going up there to
rent it for a sanctum sanctorum.
“Johnny." Camp suspects that he has
been “hoodooed” by a certain Greenwich
commu tcr on the New York train.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Merrill of Win— .
sled are visiting with their daughter Mrs.
O. E. Wilson, at 27 West avenue.
Hon. A. H. Hebei', of MeadICentre,
Kansas, member elect of the Kansas legiI-
latui'e, has been visitingO .Wilson,
—Wanted. Several hundred bright,
smart and honest boys, to Sell the DAILY
Gamma. Apply to James Sutherland.
Santa Claus and Gen. Greely seem to 1masis the only holly day in the year.
,1 That’uo.
have organized a' Christmas trade combine
for the benefit of our merchants‘ in every
line of goods. ~
A number Of "0111' _merchauts are re-
ported as having done a very large holia
day trade on Saturday, the business rush
in the evening being particularly large.
New Haveners are getting a goOd deal
excited over consolidation of towns and
city governments and the sentiment in
favor of the plan is apparently over-
whelming. —-J{er z'den Journal.
~Wauted.~—Thc public to call at Bay-
mond’s, No. 9 Main street for Xmas. tur-
keys. ~
Iceman Ells began cutting ice on the
upper .Norwalk mill pond Monday morn-
ing. He is getting an 'txtia clear and flue
article, of an aveinge thickness of eight
inches.
The new Opera House in New Canaan
” will be opened to morrow evening. It' is
auspicious for the house that UllieIAker-
strom will bethe attraction on the open-
ing night.
-—Received direct from Florida, oranges
and all other Florida fruit. Raymond’s.
O. E. Wilson has sold the Platt ax fac—
1 r y to Lewis H. Shipmau, who will Icon-
tinue the business .of making hickory
handles for axes, hammers and other car-
penters’ tools. '
Three hundred 01' more young skaters
were taking advantage . of the splendid
ice on Wood’s pond, Saturday, before the
i co was out, which by the way is from six
12 o eight inches thick. '
George Finch, one of our local expert
fishermen, Went to Cross Lake, Saturday,
and sueCeeded in catching 24 pickerel,
the largest of which weighed two and
tlirec-ouarters pounds.
The annual election of the borough the
department Will be held at the headquan
tors of Pioneer Hook. and'Ladder Com-
pany, this evening. A chief engineer and
two assistants will be elected. '
Sentinel reporter E. J. Thomas, the
borough news “hustler,” celebrated'his
213i. birthday Friday. ‘What a tremen-
dously eager vote he will drop into the
ballot box at the next election.
That Italian florist from New York has
stopped gathering pond lilies at the Four-
teen Acre pond. This item may be 11. little
late, but it' is brought to mind by the fact
that the ice cutters are atwork.
The nights have nowreIched'their max-
imum length, and directly the days will
begin to'leugthen and the cold will begin
to get in its fine work. Now ~ll the time
to subscribe for the DAILY Gazer-1'11.
Capt. Rose went to New York inst week
to try on his new military suit. Those
who saw him in them assure us that no
soldier ever did look so killing as ho. . The
Capt. is a man who becomeI good clatheI. ,
.11-Wanted. Several hundredilght,
smart and honest boyI, to wit- the DAILI
fissure. Apply to Janice Sutherland
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Miss Ada Dyes, the we'll known actress,
is at Miss Peaslee's. I _ ,
Miss Sadie Lewis has just finiiihed I
study of yOung dogs, for a Christmas piece.
It is specially fine and artistic.- I '
The interment of Mrs. Erank Mitchell,
daughter of Robert Bérwlck, who died in
New York took place in N oi'wslk to-day.
. Miss Lillie Kellem of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
is spending the holidays with her cousin,
Miss Fau'n'etta Rose, at her lionie on Camp
”.stieet . .
Mr. James E. Elle is aiming his cypress
saw mill to another part of the state of-
Florida, haviiig exhausted all the timber
in the Vicinity of its first location.
Little Miss Marjm'ie Bishop was taken
to Plamfleld. N. J., this morning, for I
prolonged visit till her mother, M111. W.
F. Bishop, is better of her s'eri1'1us illness.
Bradstreet’a trade reports indicates a
Considerable improvement in the activity
of distribution. The feeling of stringency
and apprehension has been largely-remov-
ed, and the tendency is toward »-improve-
merit. -
saloon of Ike Williams, formerly of South
Norwalk, was burglarized and a number}
of cigars, several gallons of whiskey and
$8 in cash stolen. The burglars have not
yet been apprehended. .
It having been recently reported that
George WashingtopGilbert, the eccentric
hermit who lives near Ridgefield, was
missing, that individual promptly come.
forward and personally gives it as his
well founded opinion that he is not miss-
ing. ,
Re v. Mr Hiatt’s discourse at the First
Congregational church yesterday was in
behalf of the colored race at the South,
and was an unusually able and forcible
argument. Dr. Noble preached an im—
pressive sermon in the evening on the
“Unwritten Life."-
‘ The miserable wr‘etohwh'ogstole Father
Slocum's overcoat, was as despicably
mean as the tbiefwlio stole the orthodox
person's sermon that he was to preach the
following day, 01' the more utterly detesta-
ble scamp who stole the editor‘s only pair
of shoes, while the truly good man slept.
Srnitb &. Gray's Monthly/says that Chi 111t-
And Fast day." is the only 1301 ,
low day,a and Fourth ‘0' ‘July the only hol-
ler day. —Danb11ry News.
Every day is 11 Indian day—It least so
say our accomplished young lady telc~
phone operators.
-Prof. ll. W. Riker of New Haven
opens a dancing academy in the Athenmum
hall this evening. A cordial invitation is
extended to all. It. “i
Nickerson & BettI showed us Saturday,
a pair of the finest dressed Christmas tur-
keys we eyer saw in Norwalk. If our
good country friends wouldtnke more
pains in dressing their poultry, it would
bring better prices.
Those same pious souls who a short
time since on the completion of the stone
underpinning of the unique little Grace
church, were fearing it was going to be a
too Higbgchurch, now that the peak raft-
ers are up, think it will'be a too low
church,
A biography of the late Timothy Tav-
lor- Merwin is being prepared by the Rev.
C. C. Carpenter of Phillips’ Academy,
Andover, for the Biographical t_latalere
of the College. Mr. Mcrwin was in 1838-
89 editor and propiietor of the GAZETTE,
and has relatives now living in Wilton.
With one branch of the Legislature held
by the democrats, and the other by repub-
licans, the cone ment of such a new law,
or such urnendments of the present statue,
as would be fair to both parties Ind p10.
motive of pure elections, should to possi-
ble,':1ut it is a matter which demands
careful and well-considered Ietion.
Bridgeport Farmer.
-—Headquarters for Xmas. trees,
wreaths, etc. Raymond’s, No. 9 Main
street.
In the event of a legal content over the,
governorship, Hon. Henry B. Harrison of
New Haven and Hon. Willium C. Case of
this city will probably be the republican
adv1sors and Hon. Charles R. Ingersoll of
New Haven, Hon. Thomas M. Waller and
Hon.Tilton E. Doolittle of New Haven
will serve in the- same capacity for the
democrats. --Hartford Post.
“Steeple Charley,”despite the miserable
fake sent abroad all over the land, that ho“
had fallen from St. Mary's spire, hnsgotten
the beautiful seven foot cross all nicely
so , in place of the one splintered by'I the
lightning, and very appropriately, I all
just in time for the Christmas festival,
based on that sublime emblem of the re—
~ligious faith of the world. . .x A
The Monumental Bronze Company have
been awarded the cantract f1'r In eight-
foot statue to be erected on the new St.
J osepli’s Parochial School building, New.
oit, B. I. The statue will represent St.
Joseph with the child Jesus on his left
arm. It will be modeled by Artist 'McKel.
1111. Rev. Father Coyle and Bishop Has-
kins are to inspect and approve the clay
model.
bronze. The building is of stone. Ind will
lie one of/the finest Ichool'buildings in,
New England.-I—Bta11dard._
.': ——Wa'n_ted.fI Several hundred bright,
111111111111 honest boys, to all the DnnI-
(1am Apply to James Sutherland
1n Bridgeport on Thursday night the
wand ominous demeanor it is conjectured.
'WashingtOu T-ca PARTS M which four
. Aims House running over full.
. ourselves.
The work will be cast in white.
_1111 the Consolidated yesterdayfi ,. ,_
$11,111.11 in one pictures at Whitney 1&1 Co.
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Mrs. L. W.‘. Hoyt, 'of_ South Norwnlk,
with her son and daughter, left the city
'thiI morning- for 11' two Weeks"v1s1t With
her mother and sister in Nomieh '
R. K. Fitch, of Weston, the prolific
Saturday, buying diamonds, silk muffieis
Ind twisted candy for Chimistmas.
- If you like the D111 .IGumn, men and
and distinctly. if you don’t like it, just
make believe you do. and keep right on
buying it. You’ll soon learn to love it. -
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Some enthusiastic Bridgeporter who is
evidently tired of the funny business 0‘1
the Police CommiSsioInei's of that city,
suggests the appointment of Col. Warm
Heart Stevenson for the vacant commis-
sionership. The splendid executive abil-
ity of Col. Stevenson would undoubtedly
bring the police forCe 11p to 11 111.111 stand;
ard, but what in- the name of Hippocrates
has he done that. this thing shouldhe done
to him f—Anaom‘o Seminal.
Captain Rose’s new uniform is all ready
for occupancy, and the Captain is now 111--
gotiating for the sword 11f Bunker Hill.
Since the shooting of Sitting: Bull, the
much his: Injuns of the Bowery have not
had a ghost. dance. They have held nu-
merous 'pow' wows in their Water street
wigwam, lioWevcr. and from their Isullen
that some Iort of an uprising is contem-
pluted._ Captain Rose has a vigilanteye
on them,_and is in hopes he can persuadi-
his tailor to give him that new uniform in
time' to take the field against them if any-I
thing should turn, up. '
Mrs. May-Goodfollow McLean, of South
Norwslk has instituted proceedings for an
absolute ' divorce from her husband,
Charles J. McLean, to whom slicwiis
married some four or five years ogo, but
with, whom she has had nothing to do
since hisincarcerution in a reformatoiy 1n-
Ititution in Elmira. for uttering forged
checks in New York.
The closing exercises of the Center
school, previous to the Xmas vacation,
were held on Friday afternoon. A11 inter-
esting programm- was rendered, cuisist-
ing of songs and dialogues, and a “Moth 1
young Misses took part, was also given.
They were most becomingly and pr: ttily
attired in the colonial style of dress, which
made these little 'women closely rcsembh~
the ladies of ye olden time.
About twelve o’clock Friday night the
residents of LeMs street were awakened
by a mostdisgi‘aceful drunken row which
continued for such a length of time that
I po§iceman was summoned by telephone
from I near by house, but unfortunately
he did not arrive in lime to arrest the
disturbers of the peace. The night was
made hideous by their sound: and wore».
than all was the tei'i'ib'lc profanity which
filled the air, making all who heard it
apalled.
. Susan (3., wife of the‘late Isaac English,
died at her home, No. 14, Plymouth ave
nue,early this morning, aged 50 years.
The deceased was the mother of Dunn
Bissell.
Two boys named James Barrett and
.Michacl Rooney, while skating on the
Bishop pond this morning, broke through
the ice. Mr. John GreenWooil, at the risk
of his own life, went to their rescue, and
soon broke in ‘also. Postmaster Smith.»
of Vista, was driving past and soon got :1
pole out to the struggling trio, and all
were reIcued from their perilous situation,
and but for Mr. Smith's time y as‘sistance,’
Ill three would probably have been"
drowned.
First Selectman Daskam reports the
If Mana-
gers Stanley and Hoyt could only jam
their Opera HouSes as fiill as our select-
men can the Poor House, their fortunes
w0uld be made. Well, it is a God-send
that‘so comfortable I place for the town’s
poor can be provided, for while most of
the inmates are there because of their own
intomperance or improvidence, there are
many worthy poor there also, and no one
knows what the future has in store for
e-Go to Raymond’s, No. '9 Main street
for your x1111... dinner and save money '
The Canaan News is waging 'war against
peddlersand business men’s excursions.
Editor Beckley iI in deadly earnest in this
matter", and is willing to fight anybody
who dares to defend the peddlers. I He"
throws down the gauntlet within dull,
sickening thud, and announces. that he is-
“ ready to "argue" the question with any-
11.1 I new tune table, there were changes :: .1
—+0nly two more days' for those special
newspaper Correspondent, was in town on f
Wbiethrel, don’t hesitate to my so boldly '1,
_und runaways, War, file and- 'flood,
.liu‘“
impercii" pygmy Iri id', uotronstf
ionahty in her idea of advertising
' ESaturday the announced
_.bonnet was “lost I.in the severe
. ' ednesday night and shrhas not
beefimblc to find it. Anyone that—finds it
ca éit.". I»,.""'I"- 1:»
West known and most influential citi-
1; :died at his residence in Belhel on
”y‘- morning. . His death was tii
books, the last occuiing about three
'Selieck. It was written by Rev.
11191111 and Was a touching end
'ibu—te to the noble Christian
of that good man. 2-
__ pm a “Jokers‘ club " com.
iin'j'ny people who meet once a
perpetrate p11ns,cnnundriiins and
iés, 1111 of which are recorded in a
big ook composed of chestnut leaves
bmrrrdtogethei with a cover made of the
hide of rats. Edit'oi Jonesbeloncs to the
6.11111] ,nd'is one of the brightest of its
_b11g'ht and shining lights, - ' ,.
. --nuch a chance for Xmas. presents and
home decorations will not occur in Nor-
wal' ' Whitney & 00., opposite
11131313111111 furniture store.
Mei ry Christmas to all says the DAILY
Gnostic and a Happy New Year in ad-
' innil may many returns await all
of usIfAyet, of ,wliatevm age, creed 1.1 cou-
ditior‘i. And just here the DAILY begs
leave? to remark without booming or ex-
aggerh ion, that it's here to- remain, to sue-
_Ceed 311111111. work, “all through this and
the ,ui‘xt geneiatmn to strive to deserve
'1econiitio1i and praise. by faithfully do
ing it‘dfluty, recording the happ‘nings of
nightie and of days—its maxim “I‘i'utli
rather 'tlia booty ” 'Twill give you the
news from at home rind- abioad, all prop-
oily seasoned and up cy , tell of weddings
bliz'
Izudssnowy oi rainy or icy. ’Twill strive
to be ill that a home paper should, no ,
mimii'ui of threat, plea or bribe; it will
Wan Ito: speak,‘ or keep st'm 'i'Isaw
—Auy thing you wish to buy in ourline
you cansave money by going to Ray
mono’s grocery. '
“Nigger” James’ assablt on Emma Mik h-
ell last Tuesday, gave the waalk uiiI-
representatives of the associated and state
pressa preteXt for a dazzling pyrotechnicsl
display of that lurid imuginativenees that
has long since stumped as “fake” and “un-
trustworthy” any news item in outside
p1pers, emanating from lVorwalk. Tho
0.1tszde public are given in tragic detail, the
particulars of a' brutal outrage by Nigger
~l11.2iies,on ‘h‘the little ten years old girl,"
who when she escaped, “ran screaming into
the house,” etc., and hysterically told what
the scoundrel had done, which so effected
her mother that she “immediately took to
her bed and is now very low from nerv 111s
prostration.” The simple facts of the case
would have been bad enough to spread be-
fore the w_orld,va1'.d would have shown that
James enticed V1 iss Mitchell, a leeble
minded woman, 43 years , old.‘ into Mr.
Mitchell’s barn, and there assaulted her.
l‘he woman afterward told
James Mitchell, who at once p'0388dtd,
first to give the white Inseal a sound thrash—
iiig, and secondly to have him arrested for
criminal assault. "'Nigger” James,who got
hisdark soubriquet because of having mar-
Austin who bound him over in $1,000 to
the superior court. James will undoubted-
ly get a long term in the state prison which
he richly merits. He is 11. “bad man” to
us at large, and is perfectly at home. in jail.
from- which he has graduated, pout gr 1du
ated and post mort'sm graduated time and
time again.
Clio-day’s News Briefs. ,
Foreign-P41- uell 1n1de several speeches
yesterday. —-Ooe hundred lives are l"1’p()lt‘
ed to be lost by the (Word M of a canal at
Cordova, Argentine R1 public.
Domestic—Fears are entertained for the
safety of the British steamer Thanemol‘e,
' from Baltimore to London. -'-Une effect of
the McKinley bill will be the establish
ment of a mammoth beet- sugar plant in
California —-A destructive file occuiied in
Athol, Muss. ,_ ~I ,
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‘ _ SWee'tnesI.
There is not a more attractive or more appo-
fining exhibit _of helid'uy wares in town than-
“T. B Starr’s, the oonfe'ctionermn Wall street.-
Tiio stern is handsomely decorated and the
' large show windows and cases present an irre--
one who wishes to enter the arena ” We
buys no ambition to “ enter the arena" in
defense of the peddler against our war-
teamed neighbor Beckiey But we I111
moved to observe that 1111' present feeling
of antagonism to the l'peddler must have
" mild and 21.111111 11111115" that (fittinguf
Id him Ind mIdI him powder with
patrons when hIpIddlId 111111111111.- ,
like and sanguinsry but nevertheless es- .
1 IiIItible appearance with their tasty: arrange-
most of sweet things comprising now and at-
tractivo (lesigus in candy working._
M—‘Ob—a;
- The Newsboys. ' '
”We have arranged with Mr. James.
Sutherland to supply newsboys with the .'
D4111): Gallium. _7 They 'wil _
eitaimt. Harrington young lady a": . '1 -,
Chester 13111 has been appointed mailing"
.[le leaves 0.: wife Ind five '
her father;
_riedIa-negress, was brought before Justice
' "-1 1391.11. Nor-walk
clerk-' -1n the South Nnrwalir post oflce. _. '.
cations! church, read his resignation 61.11111
ing.,- a, I .-
The merchants of South Norwalk'é re
making fine window displays of their goods.
caused by the death of eorge :zBogart
guest of John H. Light, Sunday. _ ,.
Wayto- 'IA; Raymond who, has been quite
ill, is out, again: I,
No arrests were made yesterday.
Five Mile River. was tried before Judge
Knapp this morning.
W. E. Stubbs, of San Francisco, was It
the Mahackemo yesterday.
Landlord _W nix spent Sunday 'with friends
11 New York.
E. W. TebbiIn, of Springfield, Mass. ., is
visiting Miss Gafl'n'ey, the pustal telegraph
operator. '
Somethinc to be Proud Of.
Certainly the people of Bridgeport have
reason to be proud of the fact. that their
goodI Ind edrpet store in western Connecti-
cut. TliiI honor belongs to the D. M.
from the railroad station and is head
quarters for choice goods in all lines con-
nected with the dry goods business. 1110
arrangemenhof their store affords the 1.111
possible display of the variety of the things
in the mammoth stock. Holiday shoppers
can find 'gifts of which they can ever after
and artistic designs. From customers who
have visited this monster store of the~D. M.
Read company, in Bridgeport, we can
vouch for the statement, that its' duplicate
cannot be f mud in the state. The display
of dress goods and silks they make. is“ one
that would .be a credit to the largest metro-
there but that ”this firm show.
they are showing some handsome gown
patterns. for holiday gifts. Another 5110}
may with them is their chat; 111111115311
there everybody find: just. what they de-
garments are advertised at a remarkably
low price.
size of Bridgeport to keep so large and well
ali'ot'ted stock of cleaks and garments as the
U.M. Read company show.
on seal skin garments in jackets, re1fers
and sacques is large and the uality the
mist reliable of Alaska London 1ye.Tl1ei-
Iiore is 11. Work of perfection just at this
ho iday season and as above stated, every-
body can be suited and a visit to their store
will repay anyone.
That Riley Cale.
.We give place to the Hartlor d Pbst’a ac-
count of the terrible conditi in of the Ri-
ley family at Winnipauk. Unexplained,
1t dues not look well for . the people 1 r
ribleand ungovernnble appetite for rum
that their and their children’s "wr tclied—
ness cannot. be exaggerated. The sell-ct-
men have furnished the'family with need-
ed groceries for years, and paid frequent
visits t1thei1' squalid quarters. Constable
Moiehouse, on order from the Conn. Hu
mane Society, took the three children,
aged 3. 6 and 8 years, to the Strutford
Children’s Home. A babe of 12 months
is still with the mother, and Morehouse
tells us it is dying for want of proper food
and 'cure. '
case and one that demands special home-
missionary effort. .
, ' Rapid. Transit.
Don’t failto buy shares. You will be bone-I
Opera House to-morrow night. Arrivals b1
pneumatic tube via. Rapid Transit. The mys-
terious package from New Orleans, the comic
no. the Spanish dancers from apple, and a
thousand other laughable features- 1111113111
Stanley claims this to be the most original on-
tertainment ever produced' in \orwalk. '
At Music 311.11
Manager Hoyt has secured a. Christmas treat
for his patrons in the shape of an evening of
refined minétrelsy and variety by the famous
Lester d'. Allen‘s company in Music Hall on
Wednesd 1y evening. From the attractions set
forth on the bills it will be werth seeing. Bro -
Hoyt has also secured an engagement with
strum for the first three nights of next week.
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The Childzon' I Home.
leave ”any old clothes or cast-_ofl/ toys or
Co. Bank Building, or at the Home. ‘
avg-
~ ‘ 'Stfiary'l.
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_Rev. J. A. Biddle, pastor of the 00331-5?
charge to his congregation, yesterday. morn-"
doing crushing holiday business Ind 1110'
Thele' seems to be a difference of opimon:
11's 16 the necessity of Ispecial election to- V
fill the vacancy in the new city. council
Judge Hike, of New Canaan, on the.
. .Itlllbllme spectacle.
'1. rectors 1.1: this" library '
" <1" ' "property has],
The case of State" vs. Sarah Raymond .11:
city 1.1111111. finest and men complete dry
READ company, whose store is just a block . .Beebe’I b“ factory -
feel a. pride on account of their usefulness, 7
politzln houses for not a shade or fabric is '
..Just now, _‘
sire. just now I1me otheir handsomest.
It is not; 'usual fora town the“
Their display,
town authorities of Norwalk. But the ten '
“has so besotted both slum and mother, '
it is indeed a heart-melting ,
fited a million per cent in 2 1-2 hours, of the
singers from Lendon, the Chinamenlfrom Chi-I and town taxes, tool
that favorite 1 ttle' vet—stile actress, Ullie 11191- . '
Will not the good people of 1101111111"
other Christmas cheer, for the poor littleI
waits of the Norwull? Ch: ldren’s Home,’
at the selectmens’ 3 office, in the Funnelo 1“ ,
TUESDAY DEC.
The parishio' eri‘iif St. Mary’s .propom I.
'1‘11'0 mi. 3118111 131111an
Da'ubury’s 1111 bug is carrying on his
reign or tel-161' with unabated vigor Ind
audacity. On Saturday night 11.191.111.11 new
Ilaurejlsto his wreath of fame asa'n unoon~ -~ " "
jsciouabi'e villain by starting two tires with
disastrous results in 911511 case. I
At 10
o'clock the firemen we're summoned by' .‘54
general alarm to White street neIrgjc; I"
and it was evident first I considerable quInc
Itity of oil' had been used 101.111.11.111. —
luu'ibci',Is 1119111111115 leaped “9118th en'-
'.tire length of the shed with lightning
rapidity 111.11 1151111131131. 111 the IIir, 1111111113.
' I fire fighters could not prevent the'destruc. ‘1
i'tion' of 11 1111111011111 cars loaded 111111111111. :1
her that stood on the H: B. B., side _t'i'Iek. ,
The IHoiisatonic freight depot wI'I Ilse ,
considerably damaged: and Osborne 131.1111. M
ers’ business ofice was totally consumed
The scene was visited by_ thousands of peo-
ple while the fire was in progress. The
loss to Osborne Brothers is great, nearly
their whole stock being destroyed or ten.
dered worthless. They no insured for
$28, 000. ' -
Hardly had the firemen reached their '
1.111111111111111 after battling with the lum- -
tar yard firo, before-' they were again
called out to subdue another incendiary fire
that was raging on Maple street in Green 15‘. .
Here the fire gained ‘
gioat headway before the firemen arrived,
11111111. factory was destroyed, 11s were also
a tenement house corned by George W.
Iruum and Reid’s machine shop. Other
houses in the vicinity were badiy scorched,
but saved from utter destruction by the
ho 'oic work of the firemen. The damage
11 this case is not definilely stated.‘
A G. 11111;, I. jeweler and member of
Kohansa hose cempany had his jaw orokon
and 11 log dislwated' by the falling of I pile
of lumber which completely buried him, It
the Osborne fire.
1
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BAIMO D—_-In South Norwnlk, 0n the 181.11
11131., Joseph H. Raymondraged 53. years.
WALKER— 11 Norwalk. Dec. '1.9th Captain and
' gram-1111,10: Thomas Walker, linltoIdt St ates
rmy '
WAN TS .
One cent 11_ 1116111 for all .412th191an under
tkis head. ' ,,
ANTED-A 11111111111111 neat and clean sleep
—i'ng room, with 11. genteel private family,
living near the Brld e. A l at Office of rho
UAiLI anu'rfi'n. g pp y t-fl
N American Woman as working house'
' keeper. To one competent to do the
Work for three adults a. good situation will be
given. Address Box A, Norwalk, t‘onn.
EMPLOYMENT of almost any kindb
steady Colored Man of middle age.
to Gazer 1 n.
FOR SALE.
Advertisements under this head 25 cents for fine
lines or less 111) cents for three times, 81 for week.
Apnly
A PRE'I TY Cottage of seven rooms, near the
Bridge. Pri ice, $2 500. Holy 8500 down.
Apply to 0. E. WILSON, RealEstatc Agent, -
Gazette Building.
To 31:11.
W0 ELIGIBLE SUITES of ROOMS, second
floor of the. lumen Block, on Water street.
Possession 1igiven immed'ately. Enquire of
. 312.10le LUCKWUUD, Trustee.”
NOTICE.
HE Board 0! Relief of the Town 011101111111 ‘
on the Assessment List of [890, will meet
at the office of the Selectmen. Monday, Jan'. ,
3th, 1391, an o‘clock P. M., saturday, Jamlo ~
at 2 0 'clock, MP. M., Wednesday Jan.14th. at‘f.
o clock , Saturday Ian 11th, at uo'ciock
P. M. Wednesday. Jan 51st, at? o clock, P. M. »
and saturday,Jan 94111, at? o’clock. P. M" for
the purpose of hearing and determining any
an- I all appeals made to them from the doings
of the Assesso
The Board of Belief will meet with the As-
sessors as a Joint Board,8aturday. Jan. 94th.
at 9 o ‘clock P. M. for the purpose of abatlnz
the polls of 3111:; and flanged persons. A
Board
HENRY ssvuo CR, or.
' PLAI‘T P1111 E,
Norwalk. Conn. Dec. 20111.1390
NOTICE:
nElnhabitants or the Town of Norwalli
are hereby notified and Warned that a.
.town meeting will be hermit the Town- House.
in said Norwal
k, on Friday. December 96111.
11.1). ., 1890, at two o’clock,1memoon, for the:
following 31“ rposes, to Wit:
To hear 11 annual 1115012; to lay the 111111
the support of
schools and to.- amako the annual appropria'le
tions for repair of highways 101' the current ’ '
year; also to authori'ze tho scloetmeu to abate
the taxes of those persons who failed 108ng
to the Board of Relief for such exempt! ’n as
they would have been-entitl ed to had success.-
pllcations been made, alsolo decidé u u too
claim of George W Parklhg'tonfiormer mp1!»
vote to 00.15.12“: Regiment, Conn. 01941.0
the town bounty, and to take 111111011 upon the
written petition of twenty-six 0f thecltizen’s
and taxpayers of said town. concerning the
paym 111. or $301balancemof bounty claimed to
be due to each. of. the rorcnllst'ed veterans
whose ro-enlistments went? toward filling up
, the quota. of Norwallt. under the call o'IfI'rProb
idem. Lincoln 1111,5881.
Dated at NOrWalR, this leth- day of Dec l#99.
SAMUEL DAHK Selectmen or
snug-on .1. 011A w,’ the Town
R'W. RAYMOND of Nomi]:
HERBERT 11 sui'rH, ToWnit. 131111-11. --
OPERA. HOUSE
ONE NIGHT ONLY. -_ I! ' '
2311.
. The Laughing Boom .
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