Because . M It Is‘Best. Why is the demand for W elcome Soap in New Eng- - land greater than for any other family soap? Because housekeepers, after using it for years, and corn- paring it with others, know It is the best and most econom— - ical; its quality never varies. SARATOGA! Genuine Saratoga Water in block-tin lined barrels direct from the celebrated Spring, is for sale on draught at Had- den’s, corner Wall and River Street. THE WATER Is brought direct from Sara- toga, and is dispensed in pre- cisely the same condition in which it flows from the spring at Saratoga, and is sold at 5 Cents per Glass. House-cleaning. Lustrine. , ‘ I Do as till m PmcE- Oil MEAT.“ Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, Pot and Rib Roasts Reduced 20. I Found» All First Quality Meat. . J. W. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER ST.. NORW'ALK NEW CAFE RESTAIIIIAN MIKE .ATC'HFOHD, 44 Wain Street, The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Horace'E. Dann, EXOELSIOL , I‘Ivery and Sales Stable. unwuwuuwum Opposite Danbury and Norwalk Railroad depot Nor-walk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers; Safe horses for women audohildren. . . SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY ‘ MOONLIGHT. L—COUNTRY. Over umbrageous fields and hills. . Where birds were joyous throughout the day, And warbled their melodious trills In their own sweet, melodious way, The moon, the golden summer moon. Turns darkness to an organ noon. A ghostly silence fills the earth, _ A hush of golden strain and song; There is no single sound or mi .11 ' Through all the tenderful night long, And sort winds qulVer through the trees, ~ Salt with the odors of the seas. -. . , . II. --CITY. Down shrouded lines or populous streets And boisterous gas-lit avenues, , Where all life’s bitters and its sweets, Where all that life desires or rues, All that love holds and all it mars, Wakens‘or sleeps beneath the stars— The moon shines down like some far ghost. Pititul in its tender mien, Pitiful to the weary host ; That slumber silently unseen, I A host of eager souls that bear Glad hope and tenebrous despair. . —George Edgar Montgomery, in Harper’s Weekly. . ‘ ACQUITTED BY A-CCIDENT. .pfp. BY HENRY FIELDING. A ' The case to be tried was one of arson ——a capital offense at the period to which this story relates—and the pris- oner at the bar was one of the best- known young men of the town in which he resided, by name Walter Hood. He had a widowed mother dependent upon him for support, to whom he Was devoted, and in most respects his con- duct was irreproachable. .- . The trial commenced and _we twelve men took our seats in the jury box. 0f the eleven men with me there was only one whom I did not like to see there. That was Harvy Dudley, a dark- faced, sinister looking fellow, and to me in many ways objectionable. I knew that young Hood had an incipi- ent failing. He was becoming addicted to drinking, and had been known, while so excited, to visit questionable resorts. It was for the burning of one of these houses that he had been apprehended. I knew further that it 'was this Harry Dudley who had been his most con- stant companion; who had done more than anyone else to lead him astray, and who had accompanied him to these undesirable haunts. I could only ac- count for his being on the jury on the hypothesis that Walter yet regarded him as his friend, but, nevertheless, 1 determined to watch him. The trial commenced and as the evi- dence for the prosecution proceeded I was fairly startled. One witness after another gave testimony, some of them very reluctantly,'but all pointing to the prisoner as the guilty party. Some credible witnesses swore that they had heard him swear he wolild burn the house down; others heard him say re- peatedly that he wished it were burned down. Then came others who had seen him lurking about the premises on the night, of the fire. On the score of mo— tive it was shown, on his OWn admis- sion, that he had been ill-treated in the house and that he had said he would have revenge; furthermore, it was proved that he had been heard to say .that the salvation of his soul depended upon the destruction of the house. Next came testimony stronger still. The fire had originated in a back basement room, where shavings and other stufi for kindling were kept. En- trance had been gained by means of a back window, which had been partly pried open with a stout knife, and on the floor had been found the blade of a knife which had been broken off in the efforts to raise the sash. That blade was recognized as belonging to a knife the prisoner had owned. A maker of cutlery had made that knife for him and positively identified it. And this was not all. The floor of the basement .w‘as damp, and some of the outer shavings to which the light had been applied had not b. ‘ _.ed, and just at the edge, where. the fir e‘commenced, lay a piece of paper, rolled up and half burned. From the position in which it lay and its appear- ance it was evident that this piece. of paper had been ignited by match and then applied to the shavings. The shav- ings had blazed up at once, but the piece of paper lying on'the damp floor had not wholly burned up. This piece of paper was found to be a part of a let- ter addressed to the prisoner and re— ceived by him only a week before. The case looked very dark. Many witnesses were willing to testify to the prisoner’s good qualities, but no one could swear that he was not dissipated and degraded. That house had been to him indeed an infernal region. Final- ly the prisoner was allowed to speak for himself. He said that he had threatened to burn the house down; that he had said all that he had been sworn to and that he was around the house on the night of the fire-indeed he was not ten rods off when the flames burst forth and he was one of the first to give the alarm. He had uttered one cry of “fire ” when he noticed where the fire was and the thought came to him that if he was found he might be sus- pected of having started it, so he ran away. _ He also said that three nights before the fire he had been in the house and robbed of everything his pockets contained, including forty dollars in money and some valuable papers. He had gone there onethe night of the fire in the hope of getting something back, but seeing some one enter whom he did not wish to encounter he hung about awaiting that person’s departure. That was an hour before the fire broke out, but of setting the place on fire he was innocent; he knew nothing of it, and clasping his hands, with his tearless eyes raised to Heaven, he called on God to witness that he was innocent. I knew Walter; I knew him so well that from that moment I believed him innocent. I knew his very soul, and I knew there was no falsehood in the story he told. ' “My boy is innocent! nocentl” I" heard the cry and saw his poor old mother, almost broken-hearted, sink back fainting into the arms other com- My boy is in- .-,,. .. - panion. All this, however, had little effect on the spectators. The prisoner’s course of dissipation; his many threats against the house,and the very fact that he had been robbed there were heavy against him. The attorneys delivered their pleas and the judge gave his charge. He told us, of course, that if there was a lingering doubtin our minds we must give the prisoner the benefit of it; but I could plainly see that there was not the least. shadow of doubt in his mind. The jury were conducted to our room and locked up. A silence of some minutes occurred, which Harvy was the first to break.- “Well,” ‘said he‘, “I s’pose there ain’t any need of our being here a great while. Of course, we all know the prisoner must have set fire to the place.” There was something in his manner as he said this which excited my curi- osity. I will not say it was suspicion then, but my curiosity. . ‘He spoke with a forced effort at calmness, and the more I looked at him the more I became. nervous and uneasy. I wondered why he should be so anxious to get rid of the case and have Walter convicted. I knew he had also frequented the house and that he had also done much towards tempting Walter into dissipation, and I knew, from what Walter had told me, that he was in that house when the rob- bery had taken place. Presently the foreman suggested that we should each take a piece of paper and write down our opinion and then compare notes. I went to my over- coat, which was hanging on a rack with the rest, and took out a sheet of paper. I had got half way back to-the table when I found that I had got half a let- ter from another man’s coat. I was about to turn back when the name of the writer caught my eye. It was signed Samuel Lasalle, and immedia tc- ly above the signature I read these words: ' “And now, dear Walter, if not for your own yet for your dear mother’s sake, let me hope you will do better.” ' I started as if I had been shot. I had in my hands the other half of the sheet which had been used in the burned house. I went back to the rack and found I had taken the paper from Harv vy Dudley’s coat. I looked to see if I had beenobserved; I had not. I put the piece of paper back and took an- other piece from my own coat, which was hanging near. Then I returned to the table and sat down. Harvy occu- pied a place beside me. He had already written his opinion and had taken out a knife to sharpen his pencil. “Let me take your knife for a mo- ' ment, please,” I said to him. Without hesitation he handed it to me. It was Walter Hood’s knife—the large blade was gone! I had all I could do to restrain myself, but having sharp- ened my pencil I returnedthe knife to him with a mere thank you. I learn-3d afterwards that the accident of his hav- ing that knife in his possession was at- tributable to the fact that he had not worn that pair of trousers since the night of the fire, and now used the knife without remembering the loss it had sustained doing a very peculiar piece of work, to the execution of which it had been made subservient. After deliberating some ten minutes or so it was ascertained that eleven of the jury were bent upon returning a verdict of guilty, though most were fa- vorable to recommending the prisoner to mercy. But Harvy was inexorable. He would extend no mercy. Presently I started up and pretended to be faint and asked to be excused for a few minutes. I kicked at the door and the sheriff came. He let me out, and when we had gained-a safe distance I told him what I had discovered. He went away and brought back the dis- trict attorney and Walter’s counsel. I told them what I had seen and ex- plained Harvy’s conduct in the jury room, his former connection with the prison er and his known character. The lawyers retired for a little while and came back attended by a constable and a freshly-drawn paper. They desired me to point out the coat immediately on entering the room, and together we went in. I pointed out the coat, the sheriff tak- ing it and demanding to know to whom it belonged. . Harvy jumped up and would have seized it, but he was held back. Word was sent to the judge that the jury could not agree. We were summoned and discharged, and then Harvy was searched, the knife being found in his possession, and his be- havior at once exposed his guilt. A new jury was impaneled and “’altcr was acquitted. Shortly afterwards Harvy was tried and it was plainly proved that he had set fire to the house; that the woman who kept it was to have beenburned in it, as he had looked her in one of the rooms before setting fire to the place, because she had incurred his displeas- ure in some way, and'this was his rc- venge. Not only she, but two of the girls living with her had suspected him from the first, but they dared not com- plain lest he should not be found guilty, ' and then would be sure to murder them. The hardened villain confessed his- guilt after he had been condemned, and then it was that he told how he hap- pened to get the paper and the knife. It was he who had robbed Walter, and when he took the old letter, which he had found in Walter’s pocketbook, to use as a torch in setting fire to the place, he did not notice what it was", and even when the burnt half was produced in court he had entirely forgotten that he had put the other half in his pocket, as he must have done. ' As to the knife, he had also taken that from Walter's pocket and put it in his own, using it on the night of the fire to pry open the window, and then, broken as it was, re- turned it to his pocket without think- ing anything more about it. Thus was Walter saved by an acci- dent and Harvy sent to his due punish- ment; and the moral of the story is that, while a youth, can make all the-good resolutions thought can" suggest, yet if he continues on with evil compan- ionship he is not safe—Banner of Gold. I ~TuauvnerflieazurT-E .SOME RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS. IN each of the high-grade locomotives _. the Pennsylvania is building there are 6,003 pieces. IT is calculated that the revenue de- rived by the Pennsylvania from the transportation of theatrical companies amounts annually to over $500,000. ' MIss FLORENCE PULLMAN, daughter of George Pullman, is saidto receive an . annual salary of $10,000 for selecting names for new Pullman cars. THE New York Equipment company has just .sent to Jamaica, West Indies, the first cargo of 20,000 creosoted cross— ' ties for the Jamaica railway. EXPRESS trains on the Northwestern railway make the run between London and Aberdeen, 3. distance of 504 miles, in eleven hours, a speed of nearly forty- six miles, an hour. ON the Congo the railroad had been built as far, as the one hundred and twentieth kilometer by the middle of August, and was expected to reachrthe River Kwilu, 1,150 kilometers, by the end of the year. THE enlargement of the Grand Cen- tral station in'New York is again being talked of, but delay in acquiring the necessary land prevents any definite steps being taken as yet. A considera- ble portion of the land has already been purchased. _ IT is stated that Peter Styers, an en- gineer on the Lehigh Valley railroad, who died recently at Bethlehem, Pa., aged seventy-three years, has traveled during his forty-six years of serx ice as engineer at least 1,000,000 miles. Dur- ing this time he has never had an acci- dent. , - _ BRIEF NOTES OF MUSICIANS. THE saying is attributed to Von Bu- low that a tenor is not a man; he is an illness. “MATAsWINTHA,” a new opera by the Polish pianist, Scharwenka,‘ is soon to be brought out at the Weimar Grand Ducal theater. SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, it is reported, is to receive ten thousand dollars down for the new ballet music which he has composed for the London Alhambra. IBSEN’S works are to furnish opera librettos. A beginning has been made with the “Banquet at Solhang,” writ- ten forty years ago for Ole Bull’s thea- ter at Bergen, which has been set to music by a German composer and will be brought out this fall at Mainz. Ar Delphi a fourth Greek hymn has been discovered by the French. It is in honor of Dionysius, belongs to the fourth century before Christ, being thus earlier than the other hymns, and has no musical notation. It contains much historical information. VERDI’S first composition obtained for him a thrashing. He struck a chord. It pleased him. He attempted to strike it again and failed. There- upon he lost his temper and began thumping upon the piano. Verdi’s fa- ther promptly punished him with a whipping. ’ FOU ND ACROSSTH E ATLANTIC. SIR CHARLES DILKE and Mr. R. Mc- Kenna have challenged any two union- ist members of the house of commons to row a pair-oar race on the Thames. A LAW in Basic, Switzerland, prohib- its the occupation of a house until four weeks after it has been completed. This is to prevent disease from damp 'walls. ‘ A SISTER or CHARIrr is the first wom- an to receive a decoration in Holland. She was made a knight of the Order of Nassau-Orange by the two queens of Holland during their recent visit to Overyssel. ‘ - A CASE of genuine lettre de cachet has been discovered in Switzerland, where a prisoner has just been released from a prison to which he had been sent more than a year ago for the of- fense of speaking disrespectfully to a judge. . FRENCH mutuals in France pay a tax to the state, and consequently a record of the bettiugs is kept. Last year Paris bet $37,800,000 in this form alone on horse races. There is no account of how much passed through the hands of the bookmakers and private agencies. IN QUEEN VICTORIA’S LANDS. “THE passion of the Irish people for self-government,” said Lord Spencer, ”'ix‘izi-J‘: _ “is as great now as at any time during the century.” DIVORCE business is increasing so much in the English courts that a third judge must .be added to the probate and divorce division. - AT Wembley the first sectiOn of one hundred and fifty feet of the great tower that is to rise higher than the Eiffel tower has been completed and the flooring put in. The platform is an acre in extent. , BRITISH corporations are squeamish. At Bradford 3 man chose to drown him- self in the city water reservoir recently, and after the body had been taken out all the water, 30,000,000 gallons, was drained OE and allowed to runto waste. 11‘ looks, says a. London correspond- ent, as if the minuet is destined, for 'a time, at all events, to "resume its grace- ful sway in the ballrooms of Europe. One or two attempted revivals have been fairly successful during the Lon- don season. OF THE NOBILITY OF EUROPE. LORD N APIEB and Ettrick, who just before the war was British minister at Washington, and later was ambassador at St. Petersburg and at Berlin, has just celebrated his golden wedding. LORD CHARLES Baaasronn got‘ a ducking recently; he was testing a new kind of punt in the Chatham dockyard when it capsized, and he had to swim ashore. The sailor who was with him was completely exhausted by the swim. THE duke of Atholl, of British nobil- . ity, may claim to have the greatest Besides his dukem number of titles. dom he holds two marquisates, five earldoms, three viscountcies, ‘eight baronies, and is also a knight of the thistle—twenty distinct titles in all. He is, moreover, co-heir of five other .baronies. WHAT IT unit’s. Norwalk ls Learning It—L‘earnlmr It Fast—Proof Not Lacking“. ' Everybody has it. That Tired Feeling. Don’t know what it means. Keeps you awake at night. Destroys daily comfort. Wearies the body.. ~Worries the mind. . You would shake 11: off. You would be healthful. and So you can. If you go at it right. First learn what it means. Some say it’s bad blood. strong. . .Others say it’s a lazy liver. . They’re all wrong. Tired feeling means tired Kidneys. Just as lame back means Lame Kid-l, eye. And backache means kidney ache. How do we know it? Because Dean’s Kidney Pills cure it. And they are for kidneys only. How can we prove it ? ‘ Because Norwalk people say so. Here Is aicase in point. Mrs. White‘wife of A. C. White the hatter, address N o. 47 River street. Mr. White says, “My wife took Doan’s Kidney Pills.” “Took them for backache.” “Found them just as represented.” “Is much Improved.” “Doan’s Kidney Pills did the work. ” “Get them at Hale’s drug store.” Doan’s Kidney Pills are for sale by all dealers; price 50 cents, or mailed by Foster-Mllburn 00., Buffalo, N. Y.. sole agents for the United States. For Itching Piles, irritation of the genitals, or Itching in any part of the body, Dean’s Ointment is worth its weight In gold. No matter how long- standing the trouble, Doan’s Ointment W111 not fail to give instant relief. AN INNOVATION Commencing: Monday, June 15, and for one week there- after, I will manufacture to order my $35.00 Single Har- ness for $22.48. This offer is made in order to reduce my stdck of leather purchased during the recent drop in the market—hence the price. Orders will be received dur— ing the specified time, but har- ness will not be ready for de- livery in two weeks. For specifications and sam- ples, write or call P. H. DWYER, MANUFACTURER OF HARNESS, Cor. Knight and Wall Sts., NORWALK. CONN. Trans Cass. r I i DORLON HOUSE GREGORY’S POIN I". _ NIJW OPEN FOR THE SEASON UP 1896., Shore Dinners, Ilhode Island (Glam Bake. Bathing, Boating, Fishing. Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty minutes. - JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN, ' Manager, MEEKER COAL CO. con, roan, BRIGK, LIME, CEMENT, TILE PIPE. OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLEGK WALL srannr. nonwr LK. Piano Lessons. BS. GEORGE W. BRADLEI. (daughter of the lateWm. R. Nash.) gives eflicent and satisfactory Instructions on the. Piano at her home No. 193 Mam street. =Iazon Soap Powder, For Kitchen Use axons ALL OTHERS. Ask Your Grocer For It. The followrng Grocers have it on sale: E. J .' F Inncgan, Main street; P. J, O’Brien. Che. el stret; M. Abraham. Plattsvflle avenue; rs. Harriet A. Northrop, Unionville- A St 11 East Norwalk; D. Rosen, South l‘lorvialk;u J .’ L. June. Winnipauk: N. Driscoll. Westport. Fairliald County National Bank. 44 Wall Street, Norwalk, 0mm. NCORPOBATED, 1824- Capital, $200,000 EDWIN 0. Emma President. DAVID E. ILLEB. Vice-President. , 7 . C. GREEN, Cashier DIRECTORS . EDWIN O. KEELEB‘ Moses H. GLOVEB DAVID B. MILLER, A. J. MEEKEB, F. ST. JOHN Locxwoon, THEODORE E. SMITH Ina COLE. CHAS F. TnIs'Ianr. Accounts of Manufacturers‘ M Individuals solicited. erchants and Safe Deposit Boxes free to Depositors. ROTON POINT --—-—\ \ \ SOU TH NORWALK, CONN. A Charming Summer Resort on Long Island Sound. FIIIE HOTEL! FIIIE BATIIIIIII HOUSES! GEIIEIIAL ATTIIMITIOIISI Every facility for providing for large excursions. . Roton Point Improvement 00-, 0‘VNERS AND PROPRIETORS, J. FINKENSTEIN, Manager. TOWIe Vault Light Company, MANUFACTURERS. VAULT LIGHTS. SKYLIGHIS : AND PATENT LIGHT DESIGNS. , ” Factory: 4!" BRIGGS :AVEIIIIEE ‘ / Bantam Office: I61 ELI STREET; V new mg.
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