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South Norwalk.
Branch'Offlce of—GAZETTE No. 12
North Maln Street.
Minnie Lester at Hoyt’s I‘heatfe all
this week.
There will be an adjourned meeting
of the City Council this evening.
The sloopFlash is still at the draw-
bridge doing a thriving business in live
codfish.
Manuel T. Hatch. Frank Nash, John
Wehle and Leigh Whittaker drove to
Ridgefield this morning.
The Ferris—Allen ducking party to
Long Island on Saturday, in the launch
Eva L., captured eleven ducks.
The Hampton Quartette will render
plantation melodies at the Congrega-
tional church to-morrow night.
The farce “Pickwick Papers,” will be
presented in Music Hall, Thursday,eve-
ning, by members of St. Joseph’s
Lyceum.
The lecture on temperance by Rev.
John T. Winters at Music Hall last
night, was an able presentation and
drew a large audience.
Mrs. Alice E. Underhill widow of
Charles H. Underhill died at her home
:in East NOrwalk, Saturday afternoon.
The funeral was held this afternoon.
Ticket agent George Harris, at the
depot, who has been ill for several
days, was worse this morning and a
.physician had to be called to attend
him.
Mrs. Herietta McVeagh, widow of
the late John W. Buckmaster and moth-
er of George Buckmaster, died at her
home on Madison street, Saturday,
aged 78 years.
John Derbyshire. formerly a deck
hand on the steam barge Hornet, has
been appointed captain of the barge E.
H. McCallugh, to succeed Captain Carl-
son, deceased. '
The most worshipful grand master
and officers of the Grand Lodge of
Connecticut, will dedicate the new
rooms of Old Well Lodge in the Dono-
van block to- night.
—Fine cut glass, novelties in silver
and china, at Plaisted’ s.
The contract for the carpenter work
on St. Joseph's new church has been
given to Leander Baldue, of Danbury,
on his bid of $5, 000. John McCarthy,
of Danbury, furnished" the necessary
bond Of 33,000.
Percy Ferris and Captain George
'VlinAlstyne took the launch Eva L. to
Astoria, L. I. this morning. where she
will be entirely rebuilt and modern ap.
pliances put 1n ready for next season.
The frame of' Mrs. C. T. Raymond’s
new barn in the rear of her handsome
West avenue residence, has been raised
and is being rapidly boarded up. When
finished it will be one of the handsom-
est little barns in town.
The property of Clark & Bond, the
well known Bridgeport oyster firm, was
sold Saturday afternoon at auction by
Receiver Charles J. Ketcham for $41,-
500. It is understood that the property
was purchased by Frank Miller.
Henry Hecker, a moulder employed
in Davenport & Treacy’s foundry,
Stamford, and whose home was in Port
Chester, was found dead in bed Satur-
day morning in Mrs. NeISOn’s boarding-
house on Foundry Street, Stamford.
The hearing in the Railroad Place
appeal was closed Saturday in all cases
except that of the Hat Forming Com-
pany, which will be taken up at the
conclusion of those already heard. The
committee adjourned until Saturday
next, when the arguments will be
heard.
The first of a course of lectures to
young people, was given in ”the Con-
gregational church last evening, by
Rev. Jabez Backus, of Westport. 'His
subject was “Young'I’eople’s Work
for Young people. " Next Sunday even-.
ing Rev. Frank Russell, of Bridgeport,
will lecture on “Young Peoples’ Ser-
vice in the Field.” ,
A joint stock company to be known
as the Excelsior Manufacturing com-
pany, has been formed by S. F. Gardi‘
ner, F. C. Holly and W. S.‘ Sturtevant
for the manufacture of druggists’ and
grocers’ sundries. The capital stock is
$5,000, divided into 200 shares of $251
each. Mr. Gardiner has 101 shares;
Mr. Holly, 99,.and Mr. Sturtevant, 1.
The young man who beats the bass
drum in the Salvation Army band, at-
tempted to cross the street in front of
the Maackemo hotel on Saturday, and
ran into George R. Van Alstyne’s horse,
driven by the delivery boy. The drum-
mer was knocked down and the wheels
of the wagon passed over him but be-
yond a few bruises he escaped serious
injury.
, The announcement is made that the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad will take steps immediateay
to equipits short lines in the neighbor-
hood of. Hartford with the third rail
electric system. A big power house
will be built at Berlin, and it is said
that electric cars will be Inn by Feb
ruary. The electric system will also be
put in on the New England Road, be-
tween New Britain and Hartford, and
cars will be run between New Britain
and Berlin and New Britain and Hart-
ford. ' The distance is about twelve
miles, and a fifteen or twenty-minute
schedule will be possible.
Seventeenth lino
Captain Leach, of New London, will
come to South Norwalk, this week, as
the guest of Senator John H. Ferris.
Accompanied by Captain John L.
Richards and Captain Albert Hoyt they
w1ll inspect the channel from the Wash-
ington street bridge to Keyser’s Island,
for the purpose of ascertaining where
it. is most expedient to expend the $10,-
000 appropriation.
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AMUSEMENTS.
Minnie Lester.
Minnie Lester and her excellent com-
pany open a week’s engagement at
Hoyt’s Theatre to-night in the romantic
drama, Molly Bawn. New singing and
dancing specialties are introduced
throughout the play. Seats are selling
fast and we advise all who Wish to ex-
change their ladies tickets to do so
early. Miss Lester will give a series of
matinees during the week when the
price of admission will be 10 cents to
all parts of the house for everybody.
The Front Axle Broke.
As J. W. Fancher the expressman
was dragging a coach belonging to
“Dan” Driscoll of Westpor’t behind his
express wagon on Wall street this after-
noon, one of the front axles of the
coach collapsed and the expressman
suffered quite a delay. Matters were
quickly righted and the delivery short-
ly after made. Damages nominal.
Fell From a Ladder.
W. W. Sunderland, a carpenter and
builder well known in Norwalk fell
from a. ladder in Danbury on Saturday
and sustained serious injuries.
A “Tip” for Norwalk Lines.
The Railroad Commissioners have or-
dered all trolley lines running into
Hartford to be equipped with safety
fenders. ‘
Bert Sticles, the gentlemanly and
efficient purse'r of the steamer Nutmeg
State, who has been connected with
the Bridgeport Steamboat company for
seventeen years, has tendered his resig-
nation, to take effect to-day.
Miss Sadie Matthews suffered a severe
fall, Saturday, down the cellar stairs at
the home of her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles S. Lockwood, East ave-
nue, but escape serious injury.
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A' Fatal Duel.
PARIS, Dec. 7. ——Sergeant Pradals of the
regiment, who was
wounded in a duel on Friday by Ferdi-
nand de Lesseps, quarterma-ster of the
Thirteenth chasseurs, is dying.
_ Dead In 3 Coal Mine.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va.., Dec. 7.—Jone1
Fowler, a wealthy timber and coal dealer
of Logan county, was found dead in a coal
mine on Big Ugly creek yesterday. It is
believed that he was murdered.
Closed the College.
RHINEBECK, N. Y., Dec. 7.—St. Ste-
phen’ s college at Annandale was cloSed
, yesterday by order of the board of health,
a student named Silman having contract-
ed diphtheria.
Thinks He Is President.
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Charles. German,
aged 18 years, insists that he is president
of the United States and upon complaint
of his mother has been adjudged insane.
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A pain in the chest is nature’s warning
that pneumonia is threatened. Dampen 21
piece of flannel with Chamberlain’s Pain
Balm and bind over the seat of pain and
another on the back between the shoulders.
and prompt relief will follow. Sold by E.
1’. Weed, Druggist.
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“I am surprised, John,” said the old
gentleman When he found the butler
helping himself to some of the finest
old port.
“So am I, sir, I thought you had
gone out!” was the reply.
Fond Papa—I trust, Ethel, that you
are always a good girl, and never
flirt...
Dutiful Daughter—NO, papa, I never
flirt any more than you used to do
when you were a young man—Somer-
ville Journal.
Bills—Say, old man, lend me $5, will
you?
Wills—I just loaned mylast fi1e to
Strykes for the sole purpose of getting
rid of him. I’m awfully sorry. If you
had come fifteen minutes sooner I
Conld have done as much for you—In-
dianapolis JOurnal.
Mother: “Charlie, you said yo11’d
been to Sunday-school?”
Charlie (with a far-away look):
“'Yesvm.” ,
Mother: “How does it happen that
your hands smell fishy?”
Charlie: “I-——I carried home th' Sun-
day-school paper, an’——an’ th’ outside
‘page is all about Jonah an’ th’ whale. ”
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How to 0'1er :1 Set ere Cold.
A few weeks ago the editor was taken
with :1 very severe cold that caused him to
be' in amost miseiable condition. It 11 :15
undoubtedlya bad case of la. grippe and
recognizing it as dangerous he took imme-
diate steps to bring about a. speedy cure.
Flom the advertisement of Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy and the many good recom-
mendations included therein, we concluded
to make .1 first trial of the medicine. To
say that it was satisfactory in its results, is
putting it very mildly, indeed. It acted
ike magic and the result was a s eedy and
permanent cure. ——TlLe Banner 0}, Libs? ty,
Libertytown, Maryland. The 25 and 50
cent sizes for sale by E. P. Weed, Druggist. I
THE EVENING GAZETTE
"‘ BAD MULBERRY BEND.
One of New York’s Oldest and Worst
Landmarks Transformed.
Several blocks of ramshackle build-
ings bordering the Bend, purchased by
the city authorities of New lYork last
year, have been torn down, and the
ground they occupied turned into a
park, which has just been opened.
Every mowing, from 6 to 10, there
is a market along Mulberry street, the
eastern boundary of the park. There
is not a more picturesque scene to be
found on Manhattan Island. The buy-
ers and sellers both are chiefly Italian
‘women, wearing bright colors and
dealing, so it always seems, in the
most brilliant carrots and cabbages
and tomatoes and peppers that the
vegetable kingdom ever produced.
'After the women have made their
pu1chases they turn their dark eyes to
the broad gieensward across the
str.eet Some of them turn their steps
that 11 11y as well. Basket on one arm
and a baby on the other, they take a
slow and solemn promenade along the
broad asphalt walks. Then they go
away, and that’s the end of the consti-
tutional for the day. Most of them,
however, do not have even that much.
They look curiously at the green
spaces. They blink their big eyes.
There-is such a. lot of sky, and it
seems so bright and big to people who
are accustomed to having the firmn-
ment only in patches. After they have
looked at it a while they turn around
and make their stolid ways back to
their own particular rookeries.
That is what the women do. The
feminine element is in the minority in
Mulberry Bend. They have too much
to do at home. Sitting around on park
benches is a masculine prerogative
among the Italians in this country,
just as lying on a stone wall in the
sunshine is the man’s peculiar right in
Italy. There are 150 benches in the
little park, and they are always pretty
Well filled. On week days therclare
from 300 to 500 persons there all day
long. On Sunday ‘his number is dou—
bled and trebled. Saturday is another
big day. The children own the walks
then. Sometimes they think they own
the whole place, grass and all. The
little brown boards bearing our na~
tional motto, “Keep Off the Grass,”
appeal to the youthful Mulberry mind,
if they appeal at all, as simply ornar
mental. And those big places covered
with funny green stuff are so alluring.
The green stuff impresses the chil-
dren as funny because most of them
have never seen it before. This fact
is one which writers about the tene.
ments districts never tire of recording.
They generally honor it with an excla-
mation point, and even, in some cases,
with italics. People get rather tired of
hearing it, and sometimes skeptical.
But the truth is a perennial one down
there, where the children arrive in
yearly platoons.
dustriously the fresh air charities may
carry the children to the country or
the parksto exhibit to them the won-
ders of the grass and trees and flow-
‘vcrs, there are always advancing hosts
‘ of babies too young to be fresh-aired,
and tree-shaded, and grass-stained. It
' ls hackneyed, yet .it is pitiful.
HOW PERFUMES ARE MADE.
A Simple Process that Even a Child Can
_ Understand.
I wonder if my lady of fashion, as
she puts the drops Of perfume here and
there upon her clothing, ever thinks of
the humble substance that is used to
extract this perfume from the flowers?
Does she know of the great sheets of
coarse white fat that have been torn
from the entrails of animals to draw
for her those precious drops of fra-
grance from the little flowers.
The town of Grasse. in the beauth
ful Riviera of France, a few miles
back of Cannes, is the center of the
richest perfume products in the world.
For miles {ind miles of that soft south-
ern land, fields of flowers surround the
high mountain village to which they
are finally brought, that they may yield
their fragrant lives in the dark per-
fume factorics with which Grasse
abounds.
All is not quiet in the dark, fragrant
rooms of the factories. Men and wo-
men move quiétly about. bearing great
tin cans of steeping flower petals or
huge cylinders of rosy-scented pom-
ndes, and the process of perfume-mak-
ing is so simple that a child can under-
stand it.
In a long underground chamber were
rows of tables entirely covered by
pork.- Into this, women with deft
fingers stick the starry flowers from
the jasmine, or extract those whose
lives have already been absorbed by
the grease. Here and there the fat
is serrated by sharp knives, to aid in
thoroughly immersing the flowers in
their greasy bath.
For several days this simple process,
called "cnfleurage,” is gone through
with, after which the fat, now thor-
oughly inpregnated with the breath of
thousands of sweet flowers, is chopped
line, like suet, and placed into spirits
of alcohol, where it is left to infuse
for about 11 month. The alcohol, ex-
tracting all the Odor from the fat, be
comes itself “perfume,” and the grease
once- morc odorless, can be used again
to suck the life from more flowers.—
l‘.11dies’ World.
A Barofaced Lie.
“What is you1 business, si1 ‘2” pro—
cceded the’ squire in the course of the
examination.
“I am an actor!” pioudly replied
themembcr of a mammoth double
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company,
thrusting his good right hand into the
bosom of his Prince Albert coat.
“Perjury! perjury? shouted every
man in the room who had witnessed
the performance upon the “previous
night.
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Advertise in the Gaznrra‘.
No matter how in- ,
layers of fresh fut taken from beef or '
“ 4 Re- opened'
The Old. Popular Shoe StOre.
New Stock, New Styles, New Prices,
@GETHY PRIOES BEFORE PUROHISIIO ELSEWHERE.-
11 mu m 110114.929
H. , HARVEY.
BOOT AND SI—IOE DEALER,
70 NORTH MAIN STREET,
SOUTH NORWALK.
GIVEN AWAY
FREE-1E !
Fine Hanging Lamp. ‘
DECEMBER 31813., 1896.
Every Cash Purchase to the
:amount of 25 cents, in
either store, entitles you
to one chance on a Beau-
tiful Lamp, at
N. GOLDSGHMIDT"S,
I6 81 It! Water Street, Norwalk.
THIS.
SPAOE
IS
OOITBIOTEO FOR
BY
OIBOIHER 81 MITOIIELL.
Telephone Service.
The Southern
New Eneland
Telephone Oo-
TELEPHO N E SERVICE
Circuit, and Long Dis-
tance Transmitter at ' and upwards.
according to the amount and character
of the service. For details, address the
Local Oflice of the Company,
Sentinel B’Id’g., Washington St,
SOUTH NORWALK.
OFFE BS
in this City with an
equipment of Metallic
IOOO Boxes of Paper and Envelopes
59. per Box, worth 10c.
5f0 pounds of LINEN PAPER, ruled or plain
201:. per lb. worth 3011.
Must be sold to make room for
HOLIDAY GOODS
JOHN T. HATES.
5 Main. Street. Norwalk.
PLYMOUTH ROCK lCE.
Stores and Families Supplied.
Lowest Rates.
Feather Boas Renwatel.
Feather Boas. Recurled to
Look as Good as When New,
at Moderate Cost.
NO. 26 BELDEN AVENUE.
RING BELL TWICE.
THE
STRONG . AND RESPONSIBLE
STOCK M 1NAGEMENT
OF THE
ETNA LIF
Of Hartford. Conn,
INSURANCE
COMPANY,
Has produced results to Policy Holders which are unexcelled
1119011- or 1101191 no. 133.1111.
Issus d in 1881, at age 35, for $1,000. 15 Year Endowment
Annual F‘remium, - - - $63.28.
Amount of the Policy, 9 - 311000-00
FIFTEEN ANNUALy ’PBEMIUMS, (f 963 28 each, $949. 20
FIF'I‘ as v ANNUAL DIVIDENDS, 199 07
NET COST to maturity, .. Q ’ _. .—, - 750.13
NET GAIN. - , . - - - . _ _
$219.87
This Policy matpred in 1896. and showed a gain of
$249. 87.
And 15 years’ insurance for $1,000.00.
- MORGAN c. BUILKAE’LEY, President.
E. E. HALLOCK, General Agent, 5 Hubinger Bldg., New Haven.
A FREE BICYCLE!
The WHITE SHOE STORE will give away
absolutely free, on Saturday evening, Janu-
ary 2, 1897,
111111111 High Grade 119111.
Your Choice of Either Ladies’ or Gent’s.
A Coupon with each 500 Cash Purchase.
Don’t forget the date and place. At
OLSEN BROTHERS’
WHITE SHOE STORE,
3 GAZETTE BUILDING,INORWALK,CONN.
11111111 Bi - ',
ANDHORSE GOODS
At Your Own Price.
REPAIRING A SPEClALTY.
LUTHER 111. WRIGHT.
. FACTORY AND REPOSITORY,
FRANKLIN 81 MADISON Streets, South Norwalk.
J OHN I. HUTCHINSON, General Accident: Agent, Hartford
Norwalk Chronicler