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Vol. Illa—Whole No. 68 3.-
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lnltltnfltlli u, all mugs; lining] “.1. nailing, '
TheGazette has the largest cir-
culation of any paper in Norwalk,
and furnishes the lowest advertislnz
rates. ’ ' ‘ ‘ . ‘
No Paper Monday.
Monday is Labor-day and a legal holi-
day in this State. NO paper will be
issued from this oflice, therefore, unless
neWs of importance should render'it I
necessary. ».
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Our Coming City Election; 1
The near approach of our first City
election makes a careful consideration
of j suitable candidates of more than
ordinary interest and importance. The
GAZETTE is not a party paper but a news.-
paper. . It has no candidate, or set of
candidates. It is in no “ring," and is
only ambitious to smash all com-
binations organized for the robbery
Of ouf'tax-pa'yere. It wears no man’s
collar, and submits to no “bossism.”
It desires chiefly to earn and deserve
the public confidence and support, by
battling for the people and for honest
and capable municipal administration.
Acting on these lines of non-partisan,
non-sectarian and . non-ring rule, this
paper some time“ since suggested the
plan, Widely commended, of having
our first City Ticket a Citizens’ Ticket.
We still think such a ticket could and
should be 'settled upon between the
two'politiCal parties.- ‘Would not.the
candidates themselves, if thus selected
and voted for without division, feel a
far higher'sense of the honor and res-
ponsibility of their ofi‘icial steward-
shipsl’. Why may not, and why will
notflof'this' o’ne'e‘at‘least, our Demo-
cratic and Republican friends “ get to-
gether ” and select a ticket above re-
proach and beyond suspicion—one that
in all its parts, and in every person,
would give character and credit to the
new City abroad, and perfect trust and
confidence here at home—one that
would be actuated byia high ambition
to faithfully serve the public, and not
themselves, their friends or their “heel-
ers ?" . ,_,
There will be a special dignity and
honor in being our city’s first Mayor.
He should be selected from our high-
est type of citizenship. The GAZETTE
has already suggested several suitable
parties, whose names are in the peo-
ple’s mouths. It spoke of V Maj.-Gen.
Darius N. Couch, at home and abroad,
our most illustrious and renowned citi-
zen. He is among the few remaining
heroes who, were corps commanders
under Grant and Sherman, and the
great leaders of the rebellion. If from
age or disinclination for civil trust, he
should decline such honor, should we
not confer it upon some other capable
and worthy citizen who has proved
. himself a help, a credit and benefactor
to his town.~ In this direction, who
now living, has wrought more substan-
tial benefit to our city than Mr. Henry
I. Hoyt, years ago the founder of that
busy hive of feminine industy, gthe
Norwalk Shirt Factory. If the desire
for that ease and quietiin the decline of
life he has‘so richly earned in his suc-
cessful efforts to promote the personal
and business prosperity of our place,
leads him“ to refuse his name, we have
still others we can summon to this
duty. Mr. Samuel Beatty, Who with his
brothers, was the folinder of the Beatty
Straw Hat Factory, still tarries with us
' in full vigor of health, and love for the
home of his adoption. Next we might
Ire-name Col. F. St. John Lockwood,
who was‘the first among our citizens-
now living, in organizing Our local
Fire Department, and promoting its
efficiency. He, too, was at the front of
. that architectural regeneration of Nor;
Walk Bridge, which set the pace from
our old-time tumble-down, stOryLand-a-
ghal'f woodenistores and structures, up
“ to his magniaqsntiwau street edifice.»
of metropolitan size and beauty, and
who— gave us our first-hallidf them-2’
blag'e',fit for our,families to 'sit” out a
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meeting or play in, now gratuitously
"the home of the Y. M. C. ‘A. Then we
have ex -Warden‘ Keeler, ex- Senator
Hill, ,and‘many others, capable and
worthy, who wOuld grandly serve the
people and win added lustre to their
own high reputations. .
Let us show our good senile and
patriotism, at this first election, and
select some such citizen as the above,
and place his name, with all other city~
oficers to be voted for, on a strictly
non-partisan _ > .
CITIzaN’s TICKET.
A Curlous Party Organ.
Recently that intensely Democratic
organ, the N. Y. World, in a double-
_ leaded editorial, urged the poor and
unemployed to live on Rice, as a cheap
and nutritious diet. Later, in a lead.
ing editorial, in terms almost piteous,
it implored Benjamin Harrison to come
to the help of Grover Cleveland. Up
to date, it is not believed that the Presi--
dent has, in any way, felt or voiced the
World’s pathetic and anxious desire
for Mr. Harrison’s assistance. Still
later, it has published most alarming
accountsof a Surgical Operation upon
the President’s mouth and oscipital
bone. To-day, it caps the climax ina
cartoon illustrating New York’s new
Tammany Postmaster, as a big dog try.
ing to bite the foxy John I. Davenport.
Nor. is that all this funny 'party organ
gives the public to-day. It quotes at-
torney Choate.as uttering such politi-
cal treason as this : .
Mr. Choate said that Republicans
and Democrats alike wouldwatch Mr.
Cleveland’s health most anxiously. His
loss‘would be a national: calamity. He
added:
“ If we should lose Cleveland the Re-
publicans would have to get _a new
leader. You can see by glancin at
the vote in the House that Cleve and
just now is more a leader of the Re-
publicans than of the Democrats. The
Republicans support hisplans more on-
thusiastically than the Democrats.”
Fair Play for the Negro.
. Fred. Douglass made a telling point
in his speech at Chicago last week
when he protested against the injustice
of measuring the negro in this country
by the standard of the old and splen-
did civilization of the Caucasian. “Bend
down and measure him,” said the old
orator, “measure him by the depths
out of which he has risen. We have
come up out of Dahomey unto this.”
He’made another telling point when
he called upon his white hearers to ac-
cord to the black man who fought for
the country and loves the whole of it,
as good treatment as they accord to the
white man who fought against it and
loves but a part of it. White men of
this description, remarks the Courant,‘
are not at present numerous, in the re-
gion where most of the fighting re-
ferred to occurred, but they are still
to be found. A few of them are edit-
ing newspapers in South Carolina and
elsewhere.
USEDANA’S SARSAPARILLA.IT’S
‘ THE KIND THAT CURES.”
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A Beautiful Old Age.
The venerable Mrs. Jonathan Camp,
now nearing the nineties, and for more
consecutive years than a life-time of
ordinary mortals, a continuous sub-
scriber to the GAZETTE, has recently
returned from a sojourn at Watch Hill.
She also. the present week chaperoned
Mrs. Eliza Newkirk, of Lewis street,
and several other giddy old girls of
half her own age, down to Glen Island
for" a day’s outing. Mrs. Camp is a
painter in oil, on canvass, of remark-
able ability in view of her years, and
she walks to and from church and the
bridge with all the elasticity of the
ordinary woman of middle life.
‘ Reunion of the Seventh.
‘ The veterans at 11:30 Friday mern.
ing left on the steamer Sunshine for
Pot Island for an outing. There were
ninety-threereterans on the boat, and
with their friends madea party of 300.
A vote of‘thanks was given Captain L.
E. Peck for his excellent reception of
out of town veterans. .
On the return home the following offi-
cars of the Seventh regiment were elec-
ted: President, Virgil F. Niel ; vice
president, Stephen Walker of Southing-
ton ; second vice-president, Julius Au-
gur of Meriden ; secretary, T. L. Nor-
ton of Lakeville ; treasurer, Captain
Peck of New Haven.
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. A 1 I‘Tlr'mzzetl by Frigaiuls.
" i‘ViCTéRIA, Mex” Sept. 2.—A band of
brigands attacked the residence of Jose
Sanchez, a wealthy ranchmnn living near
here, their object being robbery. A son of
Sanchez and one of the-bandits were killed.
The house was pillaged.
_ Sayed From the Death Chair.
ALBANY, Sept 2.'—Governor Flower has
commuted to imprisonment for life, the
sentence of 7 Edward Geog-ban, who was to
have, been executed at Sing Sing prison
during the week beginning Sept. 4 for the
- murder of his Wife.
Nancy Hanks" VGreat Trot..
:NEW YORK. Sept- 9-‘Nancy Hanks “or”
jted a mile at FleetWoOd park 1 yesterday in
2:06%. This is the best w‘oi'k ever seen in
the-mt, and poor-judges: of ‘trOtters sayit A
is the best work ever done on a regulation
track. . .
:few: weeks, ._three “of, 'i '
«Equal and Exact Justice. to all Men of was... j State or (Persuasion, Religious. or Political.n__Jefmon
Norwalk, Conn., Saturday Evening, September 2, 1893. I ‘
VTERSE TALES OF THE TIMES.
Who “paid thg freight” on Blakeslee’s
dogs ? -
Expressman Charles J. Ferriss is on
the sick list. - .
Miss Flora Hazelton isvisiti‘ng friends
in Stamford. ‘ -
To-morrow will be Charity Sunday
at St. Mary’s church. ‘ ,
Rev. A. H. Wyatt will resume his du- 4
ties at the Methodist church,on Sunday.
Rev. G. H. Baird will preach in the
West Norwalk chapel tomorrow. after-
noon. “_
.William H. Jones, the shoemaker, is
very sick at his home on Wilton ave-
nue. , . ,
Charles Riley, a GAZETTE newsboy,
is very sick at his home on Kellogg
street.
The public schools will resume busi-
ness next Tuesday after it shut down of
. several weeks. -
Th. funeral of the late Miss Nellie
St. John will be attended Sunday after-
noon at 2 o’clocflz;
The initiatory degree will be con-
ferred by Our Brothers’ Lodge I. O. O.
F. nextMonday evening.
TWO children of Bridget Hynes, of
Stamford, were brought to theChil-
dren’s home on Friday l’ast.
Herman Brundage has been appoint-
ed watchman at the Norwalk Savmgs
bank, vice John McCormack, deceased.
"’ Rev. Dr. Noble will ofiiciate at the
funeral of Leon,the infant child of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Hoyt, this afternoon.
The Bridgeport authorities on Fri-
ay decided to have the streets repaired
in order to give work to unemployed
men in that city. ‘
,Hodshon & Co. who some months
since opened a plumbing store on Main
street, have decided to give up business
and return to Danbury.
The City of Albany will make an ex-
cursion to Long Island, to-morrow.
The boat leaves the wharf at Sbuth Nor-
walk, at 2 o’clock afternoon.
Don’t be afraid, ladiest Step right
up to the Town Clerk’s office, and get
re istered. The affable bachelor clerk
Wifi do it in a tries, and not charge you
a cent.
Veterinary surgeon Bates, reports
that Charles H. Giles’ horse which was
so severely wounded by becoming en-
tangled in a barbed wire fence, as get-
ting along nicely.
Mr. Fred. A. Lockwood leaves town
next week for a‘visit to the World’s
Fair. He will visit his sister and grand-
parents in Michigan, returning at the
011% of September to finish his course
at a e.
A bright little Center avenue young-
ster hearing his mother remark that
another c clone was coming, convulsed
the table y the remark—“well, I dess
the publicans are tryin’ to blow Mr.
Cleveland out of dis country.”
"Sam” Ruscoe, who is making fair
progress in learning) how to, ride a bi-
cycle, ran into a uilding_ on Main
street, the other night, and narrowly
escaped serious injuries. He. proposes
conquering the pesky wheel if he dies
in the attempt..
The summary of the Weekly Record
for the current week credits .Norwalk
with sixteen real estate sales, and mort-
gages to the amount of $25,575. The
sales for the corresponding week last
year numbered ten and the amount of
mortgages was $4,185. ~
There will be a grand excursion to
Rockaway Beach next Monday, by the
steamer Cit of Albany. The fare Will
be $1.00. ' he boat will leave South
Nor walk at 9 o’clock and returning Will
leave the beach at 4:20 ,p. m. and East
31st street at 4:40 p. m. '
The elastic web factory of Buckley &
Son was closed last night but Will re-
open next Wednesday mormng. The
firm employs about fifty men and had
until the present panic put a damper on.
the prOJOOt, intended increasing the
number to one hundred. '
Editor Rodemeyer, of the Winsted
Herald, is reported as hav1ng caught
two fishes one day this week, one of
which was larger than the other, and
both of which were outweighed byIa
three cent piece. He caught them in
an exchange with a pair of shears.
For the first time infiover thirty years
William Mitchell attempted to split
some wood. one day this week, With
the result that he clipped off *a section
of one of his thumbs. He has sworn
ofi' splitting wood for another thirty
yearsl; and we are sorry for his Wife.
Baron and Lady Von Heimuth are
now cruising in our waters, the guests
of Commodore Morgan of the New
York Yacht Club. The brother of
Baroness Von Heimuth was, years ago,
a Selleck School boy, whose decease
just as he .was about to enter upon a
life freighted with rare prospects, was
a sore bereavement to his doting and
only sister.
'—-The New Business College and
School of Shorthand, Studio Building
122 Fairfield avenue, Bridgeport, opens
for the Fall term Tuesday, September 5.
Notwithstanding the “hard-times”,10
studlents from thés schooghhavfh taker:
goo payingposi ions WI in . e . .I
hese" In 8%;
,Norwalk.‘ .
. Wall street. ’ »
of last year showed
rib'éstzpreventative is to, live and keep
Write for circular.‘
Hon. John S. Seymour is expected
home to-nlght. ,.
—~Lamb chops._‘,15c, People’s Market.
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The Court of'ijBurgesses will meet
next Monday evening. .-
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' There Will has dance at the Lawn
Tennis Casino, tognight'. - '
. A son was bonito Mr. and Mrs. John
Nooney. Thursday‘night.
Clifford Tincliiler‘Tf Newark, N. J.‘
is visiting friends in town. ~ '
—Go to'J. F Bennett’s sale at 29
. ’ . 681-4t
Mrs. John Rowh returned home from
a trip to the White city early thisvmorn-
ing. .
Os course you Will attend the Hump.
ty Dumpty show at Music Hall, next
Monday night. - s - “ _
John Flaherty, cigar dealer; Suther-
land’s clerk, is confined to his heme
with an attack Of-grheumatism.
Mrs; Lewis B. Johnson’s large night
blooming Cereus burst out a dozen
gergeous flowers last night.
Miss Ida F. Taylor returned, Friday
evening from a two week’s visit With
relatives in Newark, N. J .v .
The Misses Sarah and Rose Kilboy, of
Plymouth avenue. are taking a three
weeks’ vacation in Ridgefield.
——Ha1e’s Cordial 250., cures all bowel
troubles. _ 33tf
Read the adv. for proposals for exca-
vatlon and removal of about 3,400 cubic
yards of earth,signed bythe selectmen.
Mr. Charles Curtis, and a party of
friends propose taking a sail on Captain
Clark’s yacht “Three Brothers,” next
Monday. ~ - .
If the day is fine to-morrow, it will
pay you to take a drive to Gregory’s
Pomt, and snufi' the delightful breezes
to be found there. " '
Andrew Cominskey was fined $1 and
costs, $10.21 this morning, for an as-
sault on a domestic in the employ of
Col. Roberts. He paid up and was dis-
charged.
Carpenter and Sailor S. B. Wilson
has had the engines in his yacht com-
pounded or‘ ‘confounded”or something,
and has also an engineer’s and pilot’s li-'
cease to sail his steamer-
—-I have removed my stock to 29 Wall
street where I will close it out at prices
that must sell it. Please call and see
Inc. J. F. Bennett.
681-4t
Mrs. Eliza Walker, a widow woman
living on Harbor avenue, is danger-
ously ill. Her two small children are
being cared for by a sympathetic
neighbor. It is reported that the wom-
an has the diphtheria.
The Rev. Alexander Hamilton, chair-
man of committee on credentials Sons
of Revolution in Connecticut, has
issued a card'notifying members that a
meeting will be held'in Westportfll‘ues.
day, September 5, at 3 p. in. As this
meeting is also for nomination of offi-
cers, it is imperative all notified should
attend.
It is the custom of the police shortly
before 12 o’clock every night to sound
their clubs on the sidewalk as a warn-
ing to saloon-keepers to close their
places of business. The keynote is
usually sounded by Capt. Martin. Last
night the saloon-keepers were some-
what surprised to hear the “alarm”.
sounded a few minutes before 11
O’clock. As no one seemed to heed the
warning, by closmg up, the officers
looked at their watches and found that
they had been a full hour previous in
sounding the alarm. . The police think
the joke is on Martin, but the public
are inclined to think that it is on the
whole force.
Ansonia Women Paint.
_ The Norwalk Gazette. publishes an
item about a woman painter in that
city as if it were something unusual.
Women take naturally to painting it we
may believe all the stories we hear told
by the drug. store clerks.—Ansonia
Sentinel. - ~
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Nearing His End.
The venerable Captain Isaac Selleck.
of East N orwalk and father of Selleck
Brothers, isreported to 'be apparently
nearing the end of life. ~He has no par-
ticular disease but having reached the
great age of 92 it is not at all. singular
that life’s candle should now flicker in
its socket.
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: Charter Oak Races.
A good sized crowd witnessed the
races Friday, at Fleet’woOd. _ Manager
won the free for_all with Flying Jib
second- time 2:11. In the three year
class, Hartford stake $10,000, Margr'ave
won with Double Cross second; time
2:17.}. Gray Dawn won in the four
year old class, With King Benton
secondgtime 2:33. In the,2:24 class,
Charles Green won with Kingwood
second ; time 2:19. '
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Cholera is Here.
Scientific investigation shows that
the deaths which recently occurred ,in
Jersey City were from genuine cholera.
Its appearance carries with . it ‘no
threat of an epidemic. Every precaua
tion has been taken to prevent the peer
sibility of contagion. The experience
. conclusively; that
such precautions are easily made;ejfl'ec-,
etive. ,Cholera is a filth disease, audithe‘ '
pleas court.
.and ushers in attendance.
'—.Thnrsday evening,
night prayer meeting, Friday, Union-.
clean. .-
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New Firm.
. Messrs. James W. O’Brien and Les-
lie Sherwood, have purchased Mr.
Thomas Ward’s hat .store, on Ninth
avenue, N.‘Y., and Will take possesion
to-day. Both are young men, and de-
serv1ng of success. Mr. Ward is on the
road asa drummer for a South Nor-
walk hat manufacturer.
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USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLA,IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES. "
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_ Humpty Dumpty.
Everybody in town should see on
Monday morning next, at 10:30 o’clock,
the most novel parade ever given in
Norwalk, and presented by Bates Bros.
Clown band. This parade has made a
decided hit everywhere and no doubt
Will do the same in orwalk. Mr.
Adams, the. manager, says that the
show at Music Hall next Monday even-
ing Will be the best yet given by the
company and novelties never before
Witnessed Will be presented. The sale
of. seats so. far goes to show that there
Will be a big house.
9.
Court Cases Assigned.
There was a bar meeting at the court
house Friday, to assign cases for the
September term of the civil co‘mmon
_ For Tuesday these cases
were assigned : John Driscoll vs James
Mooney ; William Frazer, admr., vs
Boardman Burchard 5 Thomas B.
Rooney vs. Max Lewis; Me or Alpert-
vs. Aaron H. Byington- eorge A.
Fowler vs. William J. axley et a1.
Wednesday; F.W.~Jmith Jr.. vs. John
H. _Hurlburt; Arthur Mill vs. H.
Louise Vincent; Geor e E. Winton et
a1 exrs. xs. Frederick . Silliman.
Gen. Phil Kearny’s Pistols.
Ex-Sherifi’ George W. Lewis of Dan-
ury, is now the owner of the pair of
pistols Gen, Phil Kearny carried in the
Mexican and civil wars. Gen. Kearny
saw them in London in 1839, took a
fancy to them and bought'them for
£10. They are beautiful weapons of
large calibre.
Gen. Keerny was killediin the battle
of Chantilly and his negro body ser-
vant took the pistols. After the war
the negro went to Westport, Conn., and
hired to William Allen. One day he
and Allen quarrelled and the negro
shot Allen with one of the pistols. At
the trial Gen. Kearny’s widow'indenti-
fled the pistols and presented them to
Mr. Lewis. ‘ ,_._
USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLAJT’S
‘THE KIND THAT CURES.” _
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information Wanted.
EDITOR GAZETTE 2—The “clipping”
below was taken from the Sentinel of
Monday the 28th.
Deputy Sheriff James Toner arrested Hub-
bard Blakeslec, last Saturday for harboring
and keeping 81x unregistered dogs. The case
was adjourned until 2 o’clock this afternoon.
Mr. Blakeslee’s defense is that he has an
a reement With the selectmen of the town
W ereby he receives all of his taxes free by
working the roads and keeping them in repair.
This morning the case was settled by the se-
1ieoc§hien paying the costs and registering the
' Will some one inform the public where
Messrs: Raymond, Baker and Daskam
get their authority for suspending the
~ operation of a state law for the benefit
of .Mr. Blakeslee. The men living in
Winnipauk who were arrested and tried
for keeping dogs contrary to law,wou1d
like to know where Blakeslee’s pull
comes in. According to the report of
the selectmen for 1891 Mr. Blakeslee
recanted from the town for work on the
highway $1,248.75 and for 1892, $774 and
had taxes abated to the amount of $8.19.
Considering the small portion Of the
highway worked by him, he seems to
be well paid. Will somebody explain
why this is thus ?
. A VICTIM or THE DOG LAW.
USE DAN A’S SARSAPARILLA,IT’S
“THE KINDTHAT CURES.”
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CHURCH~ SERVICES.
. LATTER DAY SAINTS—The reorgan-
ized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints will hold services in Tem-
perance Hall, 22 South Main street,
South Norwalk, on Sundays, at 10:30 a.
in. and 7:30 p. m.- All are cordially in-
vited; seats free. .
GRACE Osmium—Rev. S. H. Watkins
Rector. The 14th Sunday after Trinity,
Sept. 3d 1893. 9:30 a. m. Morning Pray-
er. 10:30 a. m. Litany Sermon and
Holy Communion. 12:15 p. m. Sunday
school. 7:30 p. m. Evening Prayer and
sermon. The rotor will ofi‘iciate. _All
are welcome.
FIRST GONGBEGATIONAL CHURCH.—
Rev. Thomas K. Noble, pastor. Ser-
vices at 10:30 a. m.,an’d 7:30 p. m. In '
the morning, holy communion and re-
ception of members. Subject for the
evening: “The Theology of Nature ”—
“What Nature nifty Teach us of God.”
At the missionary concert, on Thurs-
day evening, Miss Hume, of New Or-
leans, Will tell the story of her work.
Sunday school at 12:30 p. m. ; Y. P. S.
'C. E. at 6:30 p. m. ' ‘
FIRST Barren—F. E. Robbins pas-
tor. Services—10.00 a. m. , early prayer '
meeting, 10.30 a. m., preaching and
Lord’s Supper, 6.30 ‘p. m., Young Peo-
ple’s Society, 7.30 p. m., preaching. In
the morning Pastor Robbins will preach
upon “The Fiery Trial Among Us.” In
.the evening his subject Will be “The
Significance of Labor_Day.” A hearty
invitation is extended to all. Seats free
Next week
regular week
ville \ prayer meeting , at Addison
Brown's - . .
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UNOLAIJIIED LETTERS.
Letters remaining uncalled for at the Nora
{gal} post office for the week ending Aug. 26,
.A: S. Bushman. " , 7;. 4 ‘
, ‘gharles Gray, ' - -.-;
-A-Middleton.' I,.
"‘ To obtainiany'of-ithe’abOve‘ le‘tt‘drs the; ap-
plicantmust call for advertised letters. _
. .- ‘ OARMI G. HUBBELL. RM;
"had- been ill for. months.
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State Shots... ,
The Misses Margaret and Fanny
Sheedy and Maria Keena are enjoying
a month’s vacation in Litchfield county.
The Scottish clans of Connecticut will
meet-at Hall grove, Middletown, on
Labor day, and the time will be spent
in Scotch games.
The Farrel Foundr and Machine
company of Ansonia, as cut wages 10
per cent. on skilled men and 10 per
cent. on helpers.
James J segues Wants to match Harry
Jammon against Morris Lane of New
Haven for six or ten rounds or to a
finish for any amount. ‘
Mrs. Adeline Stiles of Birmingham,
who has been emplo ed as nurse in a
family'in Milford, fe in the yard Wed-
nesday and broke her hip. .
Captain William Ferrett,a prominent
Bridgeport ship carpenter,had his skull
fractured Friday owing to a fall of twen-
ty_feet,_while superintending work on a
bridge in that city.
Jacob Wiedemann, the seventy-four-
year-old collector for the Bridgeport
Gaseompany was while crossing a street
Friday run into by a team and terrihly
injured,but it is thought he'will recov-
er. . .
The county commissioners have ap-
pomted J. D. Toomey, Jr., of Bridge-
port, prosecuting liquor agent. E. C.
Dempsy of Danbury, has been appoint-
bed to succeed Attorney Averill, re-
signed. He has declined.
Anto Beto, an. Italian, tried to skip
Bridgeport, on Friday. with $800 worth
of goods and $150 in borrowed money
belonging to Angelo Cortez. Officer
Farrell arrested him. Sheriff Stone
later 'secured the property, Cortez
bringing suit to recover.
Owing to the increase in the number
of persons seeking aid from the city of
Bridgeport, the board of charities will
ask the council for an appropriation of
$1,000 for the month of September.
This is an increase of nearly $200 over
the appropriation for August.
The Birlin Bridge company has erect-
ed a substantial iron bridge over the
Saugatuck river near Buckley’s corner.
This new structure is warranted for 50
years—so mote it be—as during the
past 60 years three new wooden bridges
have been erected on the same spot.
The last fell of its own accord recently.
Danny Russell has taken the contract
to stop both Billy Forsythe and Charles
Matthews of Danbury in six rounds
the same night. During fair week a
big boxing match is to be held in the
Hat City and then Danny will try the
feat. He is to fight at his own weight
and Tom Ryan of Chicago will train
him.
Still River, at Danbury is to be puri-
fied by the Prof. Wolfe system as be-
ing cheaper than to pay damages to
property owners along the line of the
river. The system is a mixture of salt
and water, is treated with electricity
and allowed to mix with the water to
be purified” The effect is said to be re«
markable. .
Forty-seven merchants in Middle-
town ordered their electric lights shut
off because the company would not
make a 30 per cent. discount in the
bills. ~ The merchants do not keep open
three nights in the week and they ask
for the named reduction. The com-
pany named 20 per cent. as their
ultimatum.
According to the filed list of F. A.
Hull’s liabilities and assets in the court
of probate at Danbury, on.Friday, it
appears that his total liabilities amount
to $193,000. His local debts are over
$83,000. His assets are not totaled, as
many of the values in the South are
not definitely known. His land inter-
ests in the South are very large.
The worst fire in the history of_Tol-
land occurred in that town Friday,
causing a total loss of $20,000 upon
which there was but- $5,000 insurance.
The Johnson block, with two tone-
ments, the poistofiice, county 'house.
and the hotel, G. F. Kibbe, proprietor,
were entirely destroyed, and the T01—
land county jail, a stone building, was
partly destroyed.
Joseph Dufi'y, a 17-year-old boy, was
struck by the Shore Line express Fri-
day noon near the ,Water street cros-
sing, New Haven. He was knocked to
one side senseless and the ambulance
was summoned. It was found that he
had an ugly gash on his left temple,
but is not thought that there is any frac-
ture. The shock,.however,- was great,
and he is in a rather dangerous condi-
tion. -
The faculty of Yale has notified the
New Haven selectmen that according
to a recent act passed by the General
Assembly all bodies of persons dying
within the town’sjurisdiction and un-
claimed by friends for twenty-four
hours, must be turned over to that m-
stitution. The College has notified
other charitable institutions in ‘the
State to the same effect. The _town
officials do not relish the law, owmg to
. the comment it will excite.
The recent storm and ale made a
wonderful change on the each at the
sandspit opposite Old SaybrOok. Hun.
dreds of bushels" of monster long clams
were washed out of the sand by there]-
ling-surf and castup on the beach into
shallow wa‘ter.- They lay thick as peas
and in regular windrows.- This curious
freak of the storm was discovered Wed-
nesday and one boat belonging in Lyme
scooped up ten bushels in a very short-
tune. . _
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. Another Steamer Missing.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—The steamshipAAlvo,
which sailed Aug. 16 for \Vest Indian ports
with a dozen passengers and a general car-r
go, has not been heard from. f ' ‘
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CLEVELAND AT WORK. '3
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The President Disposes of a. Lot of Accu- /
mulated Public Business and At,-
tends a Cabinet Meeting. ,
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\VASHINGTON, Sept. 2..-—'—President Cleve- . ,
land, accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland, their C "
daughter Ruth, nurse and mold, arrived in '
Washington this morning at 4:10—on sched- "
tile time—from Buzzard’s Buy, Mass, over ' '7 ‘
the Pennsylvania road in a s eclal car at-
inched to train 23, which left , ew York at
9 o’clock last night. . -
The party remained on the train until 7"
o’clock, when they \vere met by Private
Secretary Thurber with carriages and
driven to the White House ina drenching -
rain. The president and Mrs.. Cleveland
did not go out to W’oOdley, their suburban._ '.
residence, today. . .
Mr. Thurber was afterward asked as to
the general health of the party, and he re-
plied that everybody was feeling first rate
and the sojournj-at Gray Gables had been
benefiCial to all. Mr. Cleveland in partic-
ular was in excellent spirits, his eye. was
bright and complexion clear, and he looked
vigorous and strong. .
After breakfast the president ‘ent to his
office, and from half past 9 until half past
11 o’clock he and Private Secretary Thurber
disposed of a very large amount of accu-
mulated public business.
, At 11:30 the cabinet meeting began and
lasted until 1 o’clOck. All the cabinet of-'
flcers were present except Secretary Smith.
The silver question was discussed with ref-
erence to the chances for repeal, by the sen-
ate, and the president expressed himself as
satisfied that his recommendations Would
be carried out. '
Another most important question con-
sidered was the condition of the treasury,
but no definite plan of relief was discussed
with any view to immediate action.
Mayor Case Threatened.
Ricma‘, Wis, Sept. 2.-—-For the last few
days anarchistic posters hove been found
tacked on the dead .walls- about the city.
Nearly 3,000 men are out of employment, -
and several labor meetings have been ad
dressed by Robert Schilling of Milwaukee.
The posters were headed, “Words From .
God" and told “starving working people"
to “dump the millionaire mhyor, Jackson
I. Case, into the lake with the rest of the
millionaires” and “take their mone and
buy bread.” Mayor Case has receiv sev-
eral in his mail. -
h Negro Jack the Ripper.
IsIEMPHIS, Sept. Sex—Etta Ivy, a respect-
able colored girl, was attacked and mur-
dered \Vednesday by Andrew Wilkerson, a
notorious negro desperado and ex-convict.
After killing the girl, Wilkerson mutilated
the body in a manner similar to the atroc-
ities practiced by Jack the Ripper of Lon-
don. Wfilkerson then fled, but he is being
pursued, bymore than 1,000 negroes, who
declare they will burn the brute at the
stake. -
Florukcc Blythe's Allotvance.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2.—-The supreme
court has reversed Judge Cofi‘ey’s order ._
granting Florence Blythe an allowance of
$500 per month out of the estate of Thomas
H. Blythe, on‘the ground that the judg-
ment, being but nine days’ old on the day
of the hearingof the application for the al-
lowance, was not satisfied, such judgment
not being final, inasmuch as the time for
an appeal was ‘still pending.
' hiataafa Exiled.
Arm, Samoa, via SAN FnANCisco,~Sept.
2,—The German warship Sperber left Apia
on July 26, with ex—King Mataafa and his
daughter and 10 of. his immediate follow-
ers of rank, bound for ,Kakaofa island, in
the Union group, there to land Mataafa
and his followers as exiles from Samoa.
Mrs. McLean Dead. ’ I
SPILLMAN, W. Va, Sept. 2.—Mrs. V
ginia. Beverly McLean, widow of the late _
Major Wilmer McLean, in whose house
Generals Grant and Lee signed the articles
of surrender at Appomattox, died yester-
day at. the home of her son—in-law, H. E.
Spillman. _____.__.__
To Start on Halfj'l‘lme.
WAX/mam, Mass, Sept. 2.-The Boston
Manufacturing. company, which employs-
2,600 hands and which has been shut down
for amonth, will resume “work Tuesday,
and the mills will run alternate weeks'until
the business prospects improve.
PIANO LESSONS- .
BS. GEORGE W. BRADLEY (daughter
1, of the late Mr. Wm.B. Nash.) gives efli-
cient and satisfactory instructions on the-
Piano other home. No. 193 Main Street. ft4
LOST.
CST.—A small White dog with brownspots'
answers to name of ‘Don." Reward if
returned to Scormm A: Herr. _ 682 tf
T0...REN’1.
Halt men or less. 25 etc a clamor $1.00 per week.
' 0 RENE—Three rooms at' 27 Kerwin Sit, .
T as. so , .
at $4.75 per. month.
0 RENE-:Furnished Booms. Inquire at
No. .51 Mainstreet. 683 ti
0 RENT.—A small house of“? rooms on' '
Butler street. Inquire of Joan Fsmr. -
35 1w
0 RENT.—4 small rooms on first floor to.
' Inqmre at store of S. 0.. ‘
a small famIIY.
Horton. 60 Belden avenue. 532 tf:
0 RENT.—'-Second floor; five rooms with: h
water at No. 11 High street. ' Rent $8.00.
Inquire of whites.) Clothiers. Walésstit'eflet.
o RENT.—Gheap, house and barn on the"? 7
shore road. Inquire of Harmon Bnos. 34tf‘
0 RENT.—Lower floor No. 1‘ Cross street. '
Apply to F. ST. JOHN Lo‘oxwoon, Trusgggt‘. .
o It E N T.—Pleasant~ suite or roams on:
second fioor.‘at No. 5 Camp street. Arsipltyt
to G. ’1‘. CORNWALL. .
03.1% ENE:— Four rooms in the 'Hadden“ ' I
building. corner of Wall and River strfiogtgél- '
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ent, s7. 1 Inquire on the premises.
Toflmm—First floor of No. 4 Elm street -
so barn. ~ Applyto 0. E. Wmsox.
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