SOUTH NORWALK. The South Norwalk Office of the Gazette Is at the store of New- man & Pinney. No. 12 North Main Street, where Advertisements and orders for Job Printing, as well as Homer M. Byinzton, Manager. Items of News. can be left with Water at the Knob 71°. Julie, the infant daught of John and Julia Waysscl died this morning. Mrs. Jennie Littell Nash is spending ”the summer sojourning at Block Island. The Norwalk Yacht club will give another “Smoker” on Wednesd ay ever- ing. It is reported that a fisherman‘named Stevens is setting nets in the hartpr contrary to law. The Board of Governors of 'the W0' ,mans Exchange met this morning and transacted routine business. , , Mrs. Jennie Littell Nash and Mr_ Oscar Banks are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jennings at Block Island. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Flynn, of Havi- land street, spent Sunday With Mr. and Mrs. C. Swartz at their summer home on Myrtle Hill, Ridgefield. There will be a special race for canoe yawls over the Norwalk Yacht club course on Saturday next, for a set of colors presented by Commodore San- ford. The members of the cross-walk club will go to Oyster Bay to-morrow after- noon on the J. Howard Loundes. The usual good time is expected. Electric Light Commissioner, A. E. Winchester, burned his hand and arm quite severely while setting cfl‘ the fire- works at the Knobs Saturday evening. He was longing for an aerial journey and therefore held on to a sky-rocket. The Epworth League, of theMetho- dist church, will hold a lawn party this evening. If it rains the party will be held in the vestry room. A very inter-‘ esting program has been prepared and a large attendance is expected. The Governing Committee, of the Norwalk Yacht club, held a meeting at the club house on Hickory Blufi‘ Satur- diy afternoon at 4 o’clock. No import- ant business was transacted and after a short meeting they votedto adjourn. Victor W. Ferris and “Doc” Denton had a collision at Boton Point yester- da'y' afternoon. Both wheels were broken but fortunately neither of the riders were seriously injured. “Vic” bruised his leg and arm. Denton was on the wrong side of the road. A valuable dog owned by Newton G. Graves, of Marshall street, went mad this morning. Dr. Bates was sum- moned but was unable to cure Bismark, a) Chief Vollmer shot him. The dog caused a great deal of trouble when they were trying to shoot him by jump- ing about and dodging. In the Yale & Towne races at Stam- ford, Saturday, the South Norwalk boys were decidedly out of it. Keogh and Geer of East Norwalk, who were entered in the running events, were defeated, as was also Wherle in all of the bicycle races for which he was en- tered. Bert Ripley, of New Jersey, carried away the honors. The Board of Councilmen will meet as usual in the Council Chamber on Haviland street this evening at eight o’clock. Among other matters the election of a policeman to take the place of cflicer Decker, resigned, will take place. At the last meeting the councilmen were unable" to determine .between Messrs. Reardon and Hall. The large lumber ladened schooner from Dorchester,‘ New Brunswick, which ran aground on Grassy Hammock Friday, was floated at high water Sat- urday afternoon. Part 'Of her cargo had to be jettisoned before she was able to float and this was made into a huge raft and with the schooner towed to East Norwalk. The dance at the Knob Saturday eve- ning was a most decided success the lawn and club house being crowded with the members of this popular club ani their friends. In the early part Of the evening the remainder of the fire- ‘works, which were left over from the 4th, were sent off. Later in the club house Weidenhammer, of Bridgeport, furnished music for dancing, which was kept up until the last Tramway car left. Mrs. Louis Melleck, ‘ of Boutr 11 street, appeared before Judge Hubde is the Town Court this morning charged with assault on Honora Downey, also of Bouton street. A warrant is out for Mr. Melleck but as yet the police have not been able t) find him. It seems that a quarrel arose over‘some chickens, which strayed into Mrs. Downey’s yard and were killed by her dog. The Judge continued the case until la‘er in the week. On Saturday the oyster fleet closed I business until fall, as to-day the closed season begins and will continue until Sept. 10. In the interval the oystermen WlII overhaul their boats and working tools in preparation for the next season. At present a. fleet of schooners is in' the Housatonic river at Stratford, loading with shells, which are taken and spread on oyster grounds at various places. It is estimated that 250,000 bushels of- the shells will be taken from Stratford. .4... Assaulted the Towerman. LOCKPORT. N Y., night train from Rochester was held here for an hour yesterday morning waiting for signals from the western signal tower. 0n investigation the towerman, Charles Degnon,w cred with blood and with an ugly gash in the head. He claimed he was mpulted by an Indian with a ”piece of gaspipe j “‘from the grass roots,” July 20,—:Tlic mid- ' was found lying on the cor cov- .- PROFITS IN CYCLES A BANG- UP HIGH GRADE WHEEL COSTS ONLY $30.3I TO MAKE. This Cost Includes the Best Materials that . are Put Into the $100 Wheels. The Barons are Pushing Trade, but a. Break in I‘rlccs Is Discemablc. The New York Herald gives 'a. list of every bicycle and the actual first cost. The various sums, ranging from three cents for washers to 82.00 for tires, ag- gregate just $30.31, which, the Herald avers, is just the amount that it costs a manufacturer to build the best wheel in the market. So it is, that if you buy a wheel for one hundred dollars, you pay seventy dollars profit. You may purchase a. more costly wheel and pay more prof- it, in fact, and in proportion, or you may get a. much cheaper wheel and pay relatively the same profit which will be about two hundred and fifty per cent. Then you don’t wonder when you see new cycle signs on the street every day. and bicycle shops at every available site and all sorts of shops going into the business by mixing wheels with other merchandise. Here is a. new foundation in which to erect a fortune of mushroom growth. Family wealth has often been founded on war contracts, patrimony has been worked out of and piled upon “rich strikes” in the “diggin’s, ” and millions have been multiplied from spouting oil wells. The manufacturers and dealers in bicycles are making . hay while the sun shines, or, rather, coining money while the craze lasts. The shrewdest appear to think that there is a craze, and that the craze will settle down to an oven volume, which will vary at times. but not go at the speed which now carrie- it, and which has induced an immens: expansion of the business. That the wheel has come to stay is the general opinion, but those who hara— planned to have the present impetu continue will find themselves mistaken It is felt that there has been an over. production, and that a. crash in prices will come. Then wheels will be sold at the ruling rate of profit, in similar lines, and the business will continue the same as that in baby carriages, sewing machines and lawn mowers. There are already indications of the approach of this conditiou in the busi— ness, and it is being brought about by the sharp competition, which no agree ment will be able to held within the lines of present high profits, The fac- tories overstocked want to unload, and their agents understand it. ZMAKING A MINE. In Some Instances It Costs Nothing-411 Others the Cost Is Millions. There are no hard and fast rules in. regard to-making a. mine from the time it passes into the prospector’s hands un- til it becomes a dividend payer. Many mines are such, as the miners say, and turn out large quantities of ore from the begin- 11ing.- J. B. Haggin, the millionaire mine owner, took 83, 000, 000 from the Custer mine, in Lembi county, Idaho, before it became necessary to use a candle. This mine was known as the Mineral Moun- tain. A man came along one day. and looking at it, remarked, “Why, the hanging wall is gone.’ This was true. Na nre had assisted the miner in the case; the mountain side had been erod- ed, leaving the mineral standing there. Mr. Haggin also Spent about $3,000,000 in developing the Anaconda mine‘_before it was on a paying basis. Mines have been discovered contain- ing fabulous wealth, although a pros- pector would starve to death in trying to work them. This was true in regard to the Homestake mine, in the Black Hills. The prospectors who made the discovery could do nothing with it, and so it passed into the hands of Senator Hearst and other California capitalists. They concluded that, unless it was worked on a. large scale, it could not be made profitable. An eighty-stamp mill was ordered and shipped in from Chey- enne atoa. cost of $135,000 as an experi- ment. The mine has paid in dividends $37500 a month for seventeen years. , It requires a. large amount of money, o usually, to put a mine on a. dividend. paying basis, and, as a rule, this the prospector cannot do, although prospectors have made fortunes with their properties. A Record in Unsistertnness. Robert Louis Stevenson in his “Edin- burgh” has this story of two maiden sisters: “The pair inhabited a. single room; from the fact, it must have been double bedded; but when all is said, it was a single room. Here our two spinsters fell out—on some point of controversial divinity, belike; but fell out so bitterly that there never was a word spoken be- tween them, black or White, from that day forward. “You would have thought they would separate; but no, whether from lack of means, or the Scottish fear of scandal, they continued to keep house together where they were. A chalk line drawn upon the floor separated their two do mains; it bisected the doorway and the "fireplace, so that each could go in and out, and do her cooking without violat ing the territory of the other. “So, for years, they coexisted in a hateful silence; their meals, their ab. lutions, their friendly visitors, exposed to an unfriendly scrutiny; and at night, " in the dark watches, each could hear the breathing of her enemy. Never did four walls look down upon an ugliei » spectacle than these sisters rivalling in unsisteilmess. . x .-l s.. ,,‘ fut. HT "had taken the Canadian rflhE EVE N 1 ; .‘LDUTH’S TRIBUTE To LINCOLN. "do Fonglrt'wiiji the LanceofaKniglit in a Fair and Open Field. A correspondent of the Atlanta- Ga., Constitution thus addresses the editor of that paper: ‘ Your generous and kindly words an- ent Abraham Lincoln will be generally approved by broad minded Southern people. Some there may be who will resent the just praise you bestow, but these you will find belong either to that class of narrow minds who love to hate, or else were conspicuous by absence when fighters were in demand. Much of misapprehension on the part of the South regarding the character and career of this great man has been removed by the facts of dispassionate. history. Lincoln has been shown to be a genuinely great man, with a lofty soul and an honest heart. Gentle and tender as a. woman, he had also the rugged virtues of a Roman tribune. N c act of cruelty stains his fair name. With opportunity to be a. tyrant, he stood for liberty. and fought with the lance of a knight in the fair and open field. ' M . . 73'. " I.':,( t I l” ‘\\ - ‘ “wt. ' ~. —\ . \ \' \\ \ . .\ eminent LINCOLN. It will serve no good purpose at this late day to indulge in passionate abuse. The prejudices of sectional strife must pass away as unworthy of enlightened men. England counts Cromwell as one of her heroes, and royalists and repub- ' licans alike pay tribute to the genius of the great Napoleon. The eloquent Grady voiced the best sentiment of the South when he stood in America’s metropolis, and in splendid eloquence exalted Abraham Lincoln to the highest place among American pa- triots and statesmen. His speech, with its matchless panegyric of Lincoln’s worth and virtues, has passed into his- tory and become a classic in the litera- ture of this country. Why should we of the South berudge to him this mead of his fair name? When Northern men can build a monument to Lee, and their custom praise his go- nius and character with unstinted eulo- g‘y, it is time for these bitter and nar- row minded partisans to be relegated to the rear. The brave and true recognize worth and sublimity of character every- where, and are willing to crown the hero with his merited honors, even though his sword‘was drawn in the bat- tle against them. DANA’S PICTURE OF LINCOLN. He was a. Man of Genius and utterly With- out Illusions. Hon. Charles A. Dana, who was As ' sistant Secretary of War during the Rebellion, gave this description of Pres- ident Lincoln, in the course of a highly interesting lecture at New Haven: Mr. Lincoln was not what you w ould call an educated man. The college that he . had attended was that which a man at- ; tends who gets up at daylight to hoe the corn, and sits up at night to read the best book he can find by the side of aburning pine knot. What education he had he picked up in that way. He had read a great many books; and all the books that he-read, he knew. He had a tenacious memory, just as he had the ability to see the essential thing, He never took an unimportant point and went Off upon that: but he always laid hold of the real thing, of the real question, and attended to that without attending to the others any more than was indispensably necessary. Thus, while we say that Mr. Lincoln was an uneducated man, uneducated in the sense that we recognize herein New Haven, or at any other great college town, he yet had a singularly perfect education in regard to everything that concerns the practical affairs of life. His judgment was excellent, and his in- “Sit down here,” said he, “I want ou." , y Then he began and dictated orders one after another, which I wrote out and sent swiftly to the telegraph. All those orders were required to keep the business of the Government, in full mo- tion till the crisis should be over. It was perhaps 2 o’clock in the morning before he said: “That‘s enough; now you can go home.” The next morning just about daylight Iwas awakened by a rapping on a lower window. It was Col. Pelouze of the Adjutant General’s office, said: “Mr. Dana, the President is dead, and Mr. Stanton directs you to arrest Jacob Thompson.” The order was sent to Portland, but Thompson couldn’t be found there. He road for Halifax. And so Lincoln finished his marvel- qus career and passed to the other world, leaving other men to deal with the arduous and perilous questions of Reconstruction. He had, indeed, done enough, and it may be he was even for- tunate in the tragedy of his death. Who knows? But as we bid them farewell tonight, we can declare that while he was great in genius, in, character, and in opportu- nities, he was even greater in sanity of heart and elevation of spirit. While he nus entirely human, there was no mean fibre in his composition; no base, petty, selfish impulse in his SOUL—Hon. Charles A. Dana. “Then you don t intend asking M4113 to be your bridesmaid?" Nc—Jack used to be engaged to and the deer boylis so absent mine- .. ’ -— Ln1ca~o Record. a _.__....._.__.-o .— . . ’ ' —Advertise in the'GL'iiii'ljil; \J , ”.- I , . who ' 'I “'eyler Is Real Angry. '- HAVANA, July 20.—The discovery of arms and ammunition in a house in San Rafael street on Thursday has greatly an- vgered Captain General Weyler, as the premises wer- occupied by people of ex- cellent social standing. All such cases in - the future will be dealt with most severely. Price List of Chamberlain’s Medicines. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar- rhoea. Remedy. The most succeszul medi- cine in the weild for bowel complaints, 25 and 50 cents per bottle. t‘liamberlains Cough “Remedy. Famous for its cures of coughs, colds, eroup and whooping cough, 25 and 50 cents per bottle. Chamberlain' 5 Pain Balm. For rheuma- tism, lame back, sprains, binises, cuts, burns, scalds, frost bites and cliilblains, 25 and 50 cents per bottle. For sale by E. P. Weed, druggist. "‘ IIEIIE’S 101mm... A fine building lot on Wilton ave- nue. If you intend to build, look at this before purchasing. Water, gas and sewer on the avenue. Will be sold at a Bargain.I w. H. BYINGTON, Real Estate and Insurance, Room I. Gazette B’I’d. Vacatiox’i Days. THE LADIES going on their vacation like a. varied as , sortment of light reading matter. We keep the largest and best line in town at lowest prices EXGHAIGE 300K DEPARTMENT. AIIII GEIITLEMEII we have all kinds of books and papers. Just what you want and at prices that will astonish you. The best cigars and gtobacco’s in any quantity. JOHN T. HAYES N0. 5 MAIN STREET. NORWALK. MISS BAIRD’S' INSTITUTE. Narwal, Conn. 25TH YEAR. 15th Year in Norwalk. BIIAIIIIIIIG MID DAYSGIIOOL Primary, intermediate. academiciand college preparatory classes. Specialists employed for physical culture, elocution. music, art and the languages. Careful attention to morals and manners. A limited number of day pupils and special students admitted. Send for cir- cular. Early application desirable. ‘ [Miss Baird is at home to visitors 011 Thurs- day and Friday Of each week until 5 p. m. E ’ ' TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE; NOTICE is hereby given to all per- sons liable to pay, taxes to the town of Norwalk, in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, on the Assess- ment List of 1895, that I will meet them to receive said taxes, at the following times and places, to wit. At the store of W. S. Hanford, East Norwalk, (Down Town) on Tuesday September 15*, 1896, from 10 o ’clock forenoon, until 12: 30 afternoon. At the stOre of J. C. Randle, at Win- nipauk, on the afternoon of Tuesday, September lst.1896, from 3 o’clock until 4 .30 o ’clock. At the store of Alphonzo Dibble, at South Five Mile River,o on the evening of Tuesday, September 1st,1896, from 7:00 o’clock until 8: 30 o’clock. At the office of the Collector, Room No. 1 Masonic building, in the City of Norwalk. in said town of Norwalk, on Wednesday, September 2d,1896, from noon, and from 7 to 8 o’clock in the evening. Mr. Stephen Comstock, of Comstock Bros, Norwalk, andM r J. M. Layton, at his office, Railroad Place, South Nor- walk, are authorized to receive taxes for me. On all taxes which shall remain un- paid after the lst day of October, 1896, interest at the rate of NINE PER CEN'I‘ will be charged from the 3lst day of August 1896, until the same shall be par GEORGE B. ST. JOHN, Collector, In and for said Town of Norwalk, on the List of 1895. Dated at Norwalk. Ct., July 8, 1896. ‘ NOTICE. curring NOTICE is hereby given to all per- sonsliable to pay taxes to the City of Norwalk, in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, that the undersigned, Collector of Taxes for said City, on assessment list of 1895, has received a warrant from the Mayor for the collection of the tax laid by said City, Mach 2, 1896, on the ratable es- Tate liable to taxation therein; that Said Tax is Payable July Isl, And that he will be present at the Council Room 1n the Fairfleld County National Bank Building, every week day from9a. m. to 12m., and from 2 to5p. m. from July], 1896 until Sep~ tember 1,1896. Saturday evenings from 7 to 9 o ’.clock Also, that upon all of said taxes re- maining unpaid after the 1st day of August, 1896, interest at the rate of nine (9) per cent. per annum will be charged from the 1st day of July, 1896, until: the same is paid. ADDISON A. Burrs, Collector of City Taxes, List of 1896. WAR PAINT ONGM . M111 I PRINT“ 1 SOLD UNDER GUARANTEE. Actual cost less than $1.25 per 281' Is What the Redskin uses when he is looking for fight, butfor mak- ing the home look bright and cheer- ful the American Knight of the Brush uses 11 on ‘ but L-ongman Martinez’ Paint. which is unexcelled. For Sale by the South Norwalk HardWarb Co,“ 24 SOUTH MAIN STREET,‘;I SOUTH NORWALK,‘ICONN Importan t -=- Notice 2 A Great Sale of 'WALL PAPERS. $3,000 Worth of Wall Paper Will be Sold AT COST Nev/man I2 NOrth Main Street, During the next Thirty Days. 6’; Pinney, Scuth Norwalk.| 1 9 o’clock forenoon. until 3 o clock after-.- BRIDGEPORT. ”The . . ID. M. [Reed Company. DON’T WAIT TOO LONG Before giving us your order for a free skirt—Dress Skirt. We can I only continue the offer for the rest of Jiily, and even then the making will lap over into next month; all be- " cause of the number'who like the " idea and are taking advantage of it.2 It doesn’tseem as though a fairer or» more liberal Offer was ever made—if so we haven’t heard of it. Buy all the stuff here and we'll cut, fit and tailormake the skirt free. Choose the fabric from our wool dress; goods that cost anywhere from 390.219 . yard up and the remainder is plain‘ sailing; not a care, not a worry, not. I agrumble about misfits and impehm fect skirt effects. ' Laundry Ironing Polish—helps the iron to run smoothly—imparts a fine: polish. A simple and inexpensive: way of Iustreing fine laundry works and it does it. 10 cents a pacxage, » 3 for 25 cents. Notion department. .. Talk about not having big men‘s Shirts big enough for ’em! Guess you haven’t seen those we’re selling; colored shirts with two separate col—_ lars and one pair cuffs—regular neg- ligee style, no bosom, for $1.00. Sizes 1'61, 17, 17.1,. and 18. Since the above was written it has been decided to make a SPECIAL SALE of them at 59 cents each}, just to introduce big sizes. A fine lot of silk Campaign Hand— kerchiefs, 25 cents each. SPECIAL. Men’s lisle-thread Half-Hose, . blacks and tans, worth BBC. 2. Pair, and we are selling them for 25 cents ; sizes 9.1, to 11. Calais; Cloth, fer. boys; knock- about suiting; a cloth that will per- form service, for 12;,c. a yard." For Hammock Pillows—fine French sateen in Persian and Dres- den effects—marked down from. 35 to 15c. 21 yard. The correct thing for veranda cushions and pillows.
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