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, Vol. VII WhOle No. 1585.
THE ONL Y EIGHT-PAGE ONE-CENT DAIL y IN THE WORWALKS.
Norwalk, Conn, Saturday Evening,April 3, 1897.
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Price one (cut.
NAimNitgAPniL. _
Office Seekers Crowd the
White Ilouse and Pre-
sent Their Person-
aI Claims.
The Connecticut Postmasters Appointed.
GAZETTE’S BUREAU, Z-
709 EAST CAPITOL STREET,
WASHINGTON. APRIL 2. )
Although to-day was Cabinet day,
and under the rules the President’s of-
fice was only open to Senators and
Representatives from 10 to 1‘1 o’clock,
more than a hundred persons crowded
in upon the President and insisted upon
presenting their personal claims.
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The fourth assistant postmaster gen-
eral to-day made the first appointments
of fourth class postmasters. His pre-
decessor, Mr. Maxwell, did not appoint
any one for the last month, which left
Mr. Bristow about 2,500 places to fill
caused by deaths and resignations.
Today 38 were appointed and out of
this number four were removed.
Among those appointed were the fol-
lowing for Connecticut: 0. B. Sikes,
jr., Ellington; C. E. Scofield, Noroton;
W. R. Griswold, Rocky Hill.
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The President entertained a “stag”
party tO-night at the White House.
Those present were the Vice-President,
the Speaker of the House, the Attorney-
‘ General, Senators Burrows, Gear and
Mills, former members of the Com-
‘inittee on Ways and Means; Represen—
tatives Dingley, Payne, Dalzell, HOp-
kins, Grosvenor, Russell (Conn), Dol-
liver, Steele, Johnson (N. D.), Evans,
Tawny, Bailey, McMillan, McLauran,
Wheeler (Ala.), Robertson (La.), and
Swanson, present members of the Com-
mitte on Ways and Means; and the
Hon. Mr. Cannon. the Hon. Mr. Hen-
derson, and the Hon. William A. Rus-
sell, of Massachusetts.
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Stephen Gambrill, brother-in-law of
Senator Gorman and Chief of the Divi-
sion of REquisitions and Accounts of
the War Department, was to-day re-
duced to a small ' clerkship in that divi-
sion, and Charles B. Tanner, an Old
soldier, who formerly held the office,
but had been removed several years
ago, was re-appointed.
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Private Secretary Porter admits that
the President will make a short trip on
the despatch boat Dolphin next week
for the purpose of rest and recreation,
but says the arrangements have not yet
been made and that the names of those
who will accompany him have not yet
been decided upon. _
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Gen. Ben Butterworth, who has been
appointed U. S..Pa'tent Commissioner
' to succeed Hon. John S. Seymour, re-
signed, will probably be confirmed by
the Senate on Monday or Tuesday next.
There are some cases now before Com-
. missioner Seymour {lint Gen. Butter-
worth has asked him to complete, but
this is not expected to detain him in
Washington longer than the cOming
week, when he will remove with his
family to his former residence in the
Captain Hubbell mansion, and com-
muting. to and from New York, will
actually engage in the duties of his new
‘patent law firm, located in Pine street,
as announced in the GAZETTE several
weeks ago.
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Public Printer Palmer to-day resum-
ed charge of the government printing
office after an absence of. three years.
He appointed W. H. Collins in his old
place of chief clerk.‘
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Mrs. Benjamin Butterworth, wife of
the new Commissioner of Patentsfienf
tertained a theatre party at the Lafay-
ette last evening, in compliment to Mr.
and Mrs. Robert McKee.
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ELECT ornosns.
The Girls’ Literary Club Holds an Impor-
tant Meeting.
The Girl’s Literary club met with
Miss Edith Hunter, of East avenue, yes-
terday afternoon, and elected the fol-
lowing officers:
President, Miss Grace Adams; Vice-
President, Miss Clara Bette; Secretary,
("Miss Vera Wood; Treasurer, Miss Edith
Cousins. \ _ ,
Fake Eggs.
Strips of newspaper dipped in sour
milk are said to be infallible for mak-
ing hens lay. Strips of Norwalk’s yel-
low journal dipped in sour milk would
make hens lay fake eggs.
—A GAZETTE ad. Will pay you.
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|MPORTiI_N_T_ SERVICE.
The Corner-Stone of St. Io?
seph’s Church to be
Laid To-Nlor-
row.
Bishop Tierney to be Present.
The corner~stone of the proposed new
St. Joseph’s church at South Norwalk
will belaid to-morrow, and the cere-
monies at which Bishop Tierney will
preside, will be of an imposing nature.
A mass will be celebrated at 8 O’clock
in Music Hall where the services of the
church are at present conducted, and a
mass at 10 o’clock, after which Bishop
Tierney will administer the sacrament
of confirmationto a Class of one hun-
dred children.
The laying of the corner-stone will
take place in the afternoon. The-sev-
eral Catholic societies of South Nor-
walk will assemble at Music Hall, and
headed by the Philharmonic band, will
march to the Armory, where they will
be met by the local Catholic societies
and the entire fire department Of'this
city, and will then march to the church
grounds.
At 3:00 p. m., sharp, the bishop, as-
sisted by the attending clergy, will lay
the corner-stone on one of the corners
facing the street. After the stone is
placed, a procession of the clergy will
march around the entire foundations,
to especially consecrate the same to the
honor and glory of almighty God.
When the blessing is over, the Rev. Dr.
Maher, of Milford, will deliver a ser-
mon appropriatejto the occasion. The
benediction by the .Rt. Rev. Bishop
will conclude the service. ..
It is expected that a large number of
priests from out of town will be present
as well as hundreds of friends of the so-
ciety and the occasion promises to
a memorable one. ‘
The committee having the matter in
charge is composed of the following
gentlemen: John W. Scully, Dr. J. T-
Kennedy, Attorney George A. Hon-
necker, John. F. Kelley, S. J. O’Brien,
Attorney John Cuneo, Frank Reardon,
Edward Hines, Edward J. Hayes,
Joseph J. Brown,Thomas Ryan,Charles
D. Taylor, M. J, McNerney, William
F. Tammany: M. Reynolds, Pierce
Hayes, P. Mockler, Owen Kindilien,
Paul Schultz, Jr., John F. King, '1‘.
McMahon, Frank Lemongelli, John
Doyle, Owen Reilly, Charles Williams,
John J. Murphy, Frank Shields,
Thomas Creamer, Joseph Steegmuller,
William J. Feeley, Joseph Lengyel,
Thomas Cole and J. J. C,avanagh,chair-
man.
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OBITUARY.
WILLIAM T. CRAW-
WILLIAM THOMAS Cnaw, another
venerable and notable citizen of Nor-
walk,died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. H. H. Smith on Elmwood avenue,
South Norwalk, early this morning, in
the eighty-second year of his age. The
deceased, during his life-time, filled
many local offices of importance and
trust. He had been selectman, town
and citv surveyor, assessor, member of
the state legislature, etc, etc., and
was never found derelict or wanting in
any of the public 'positions which he
held.
He was an ardent and life long Repub-
lican in politics,and had hosts of friends
as his nature was to be agreeable and
friendly with every one. He was the last
survivor,but one, ofa somewhat notable
band of brothers,all natives of our town.
He leaves two sons and a daughter, his
wife having passed to the better land,
many years ago. For several years
past, the deceased has been in poor and
declining health and his end was not al-
tOgether unexpected. Ripe in years
and in civic honors,he is now “gathered
to his fathers,” leaving the record of a
useful life. Peace to his ashes.
EPHEN B. MONROE.
Stephen B. Monroe, familiarly called
“Steve Roe” died at the home of his
neice, Mrs. Bijee, this morning aged
about 75 years. The deceased at one
time conducted a grocery stars on
Main street. Of late years he has acted
in the capacity of a clerk at different
markets, his knowledge of the handling
of sea food fitting him for such a posi.
tion. His was a happy nature and he
gained scores of friends who will learn
of his death with regret.
To Discontinue Their Plant.
An important meeting of the West-
port Street Railway company will be
held next Monday to consider the ad.-
visability of procuring power from Nor-
walk.
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—Advertise in the GAZETTE.
~ADVERS_E__IiEPORT.
The Petition of Charles Ray-
mond and Others to Rem.
peel the Law Relating
to Taking of Fish in
Norwalk Harbor
Rejected.
Seines, Nets, Pounds orFikes Cannot be
Used.
In 1895 the Naromake club had a bill
passed in the General Assembly as fol-
lows:
No person shall draw, set, or use any
seine, net. pound or fike in any of the
waters of Long Island Sound, or any of
the creeks or tributaries thereto; lying
inside or north of the. following describ-
ed lines: Commencing on the line be-
tween the towns of Norwalk and Darien,
at the mouth of Five Mile River harbor,
from thence south along said town line
to a point due west from the most
southerly point on Sheffield Island,
from thence easterly along the south
side of Sheffield Island and the plains
to the easterly point of the plains, from
thence easterly to the most southerly
point on Copp Island, from thence
easterly to the line between the towns
of Westport and Norwalk at Sprite’s
Island, from thence north along the
line between the towns of Westport and
Norwalk to the mainland at Duck
Pond. .
The passage of the law put an end to
the destruction of fish in the Norwalk
barber, but the pot hunters were not
satisfied and prior to the present session
of the General Assembly a petition for
the repeal of the law was quietly circu-
lated in the hat shops‘at South Norwalk.
It was headed by Charles Raymond
and obtained numerous signatures.
A hearing on the petition was held
by the committee on fisheries and game
on March 23, at which time -Mr. Ray-
mond and Isaac Hamilton appeared in
the interest of the petition. Another
hearing was held on March 30, at which
time the Opposition was heard.
Yesterday the committee made its re-
port, which was unfavorable to the pas-
sage of the bill, and Mr. Raymond was
given leave to withdraw it.
The present law remains and seiner,
nets, pounds or fikes cannot be used in
Norwalkharbor within the lines speci-
fied above.
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SUDDEN ILLNESS.
Captain Joseph P.'Hanford Stricken in
New York.
The friends of Captain Joseph P. Han
ford will regret to learn that he was at-
tacked with a sudden and serious illness
in New York. Thursday afternoon, just
after he had stepped into the ticket
room from the Third Avenue elevated
branch, adjoining the Grand Central
Depot. He was hurrying to catch the
4:02 p. in. express for South Norwalk,
when he fell and became unconscious.
His attack assumed the nature of an
epileptic spasm. Upon reviving he
was accompanied home by a friend and
on arriving there was siezed with an-
other and severe attack, which has
left him in a very prostrated condition.
Want Calf ’s Island.
In the Superior court Judge Wheeler
listened yesterday to the claims of a
number Of wealthy New York gentle-
John P. Schmenger of New York,
against Alexander Lutz of Greenwich,
in action to foreclose a mortgage of
$25,000 held by the plaintiff against
property held by the defendant and
known as Calf’s Island. The property
in dispute is one of the most valuable
strips in the vicinity of Greenwich and
was formerly the resort of “Bose”
Tweed and his political friends. Judge
.Wheeler reserved his decision. '
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Severe But True.
The Hour simply represents the
ferocious malignity, the absolute un-
scrupulosity and the bullying vulgarity
of its editor. His paper is a public
nuisance and hurts our 'town in many
ways. All decent minded mer, all
lovers of justice and morality ought to
realize this and make the existence of
such a paper impossible; and I believe
they will.
A decent person would naturally feel
shame-faced and annoyed to be found
with a copy of this paper in his posses-
sion.—John H. Light, in Sentinel.
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Courant and Cr. Barnard.
The ' Connecticut legislature having
declined to appropriate $4,000 for the
Hon. Henry Barnard, the veteran edu-
cator, the Hartford Courant has opened
a general subscription headed by J us-
tice Simeon E. Baldwin of the supreme
court, Who gives $100. The Courant
gives an equal amount. Subscriptions
I may be sent to the' Contact.
men who are interested in the suit of
DRUNKMIDAIR.
An Intoxicated Steeple Climb-
er Sits Upon the weath-
ervane of a New Hav-
en Steeple.
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Mocks Down at the Police, Unfurls a Flag,
Slides Down and is Locked Up.
A man rushed into the New Haven
central police office about 5 p. m. yes-
terday and panted to Sergeant Cook:
"Drunken fellow upon steeple of Court
street temple, siting upon the very
weathervane and carrying on to beat the
band. Arrest him or you may have a
death on your hands.”
The sergeant rushed Policeman‘John
H. Moore to the temple. The drunken
fellow was still on high and astride of
the arrow vane.
Moore made a trumpet of his hands,
shouted “Come down,” and beckoned
with his club.
“What ’tis?” asked the fellow on high
and inclining an ear. The policeman
had to go through it all again.
“Oh, go on, you’re only foolin,” said
the, fellow upon the weathervane. “You
dassent arrest a man so high in life as
I am at present. I scorn you; you are
beneath me.” ‘
Five hundred persons saw the sensa-
tional sight and when they heard the
words they let fly a shout of laughter.
The fellow evidently shouted with all
his might but he was up so high that
his word came down so thin ,that the
crowd had to crane their necks to hear.
Policeman Moore shouted until he
was hoarse and then the fellow up in
midair shouted down: “Why don’t you
do your duty ? Go join the fire depart-
ment and learn how to shin up. I’ll
wait.”
The policeman leaned against the
fence and decided that, in the absence
of an expert climber, he would have
to lay stance—stay where he was until
the fellow would cdmewoff" the” perch.
Patrolman Connor and several other
officers came to the temple; but they
can’t climb, and the man on high re-
mained uncaptured. They simply stood
around and beckoned at intervals for
him to come down. ,
After 20 minutes he got off the weath-
ervane, slid down the conical spire to
the break in one side, vanished through
the opening, and soon reappeared with
something under his jacket. He
climbed up the spire again, got astride
of the weathervane, brought a toy flag
from under his jacket and waving it
shouted:
“Fellow citizens, the show is almost
over and I propose three cheers for the
flag; one, two. three, hip, hip!” and he
did all the cheering himself. He fas-
tened the flag .to the upright rod of the
weathervane, and bending over so as to
make his words heard, shouted, using
both hands for a trumpet: “I have done
my duty. I have held the fort and
planted the flag, and I must now bid
you, fellow citizens, good evening for
the police are waiting to brevet me.”
He slid down the spire, and let him-
self tO the ground by a rope that the
workmen used for that purpose.
Policeman Connor received him with
open arms and made him the guest of
the city—in the lockup. -
The fellow was charged with drunken
ness. He gave as his‘name “Rudolph
Koopke, of Whitneyville.” The con-
tractor that is' doing the work upon
the spire says that the fellow is a New
Yorker and that his name isn’tKoopke.
The contractor told that the stranger
had hired out to do work upon the spire
but got drunk Thursday and had to be
discharged, that he is a very clever
steeple climber and a good steeple
worker when he is sober. The contrac-
tor would prefer no charge against him
except drunkenness and, as the prisoner
never was arrested in New Haven be-
fore, he was set free last night after he
had become sober.
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TWO DIVORCE CASES.
Judge \Ceorge Wheeler centinues Them
For Outside Testimony.
There were two petitions for divorce
in the Superior court yesterday, but
neither was granted. The first was the
application of Mrs. Agusta Marsh
against Jacob Marsh, for intolerable
cruelty. ‘ _ .
The second divorce case was that of
Mrs Phoebe M. Curlew, of Danbury,
from her husband John, a batter. The
allegations were desertion and intem-
perance. The intemperance was not
sufficiently proven,‘but the desertion
was. The court advised that some out-
side testimony be produced, to prove
desertion for three years prior to the
application for the divorce.
at present.
FDUNDTIiE MONEY.
South tiorwalk Rurgiars Take
$60 From its Hiding
Place in.- a Book. ,
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A Darien Shoe Store Also Visited.
Burglars at South Norwalk are get-
ting in their work at a rapid rate just
Hardly a night passes but
what some house is visited and the
rooms searched.
The latest burglary occurred last
night, and the fact that the burglars
found $60 in money which had been
secreted between the leaves of a book,
would indicate that some one was well
acquainted with the premises or else
the burglar was looking in the window
and saw the money secreted.
The house visited was No. 1 Wash-
ington street, occupied by Mrs. R. A.
Baldwin§as a boarding house. Entrance
was made by pushing the key from the
back door and turning the lock with a
skeleton key and then forcing a bolt
that held the door.
One of the boarders heard a noise at
1:30 o’clock. but supposed it was some
one awake in the house.
The burglars after abstracting the $60
from the book, where it had been
placed, took the money from the milk
jar outside the door and made their es.-
cape.
Bunomns VISIT DABIEN.
The shoe store of Charles Fhander
next door to the Darien post office was
entered through the cellar, last night
and about forty pairs Of shoes stolen.
The thieves after gaining access to the
cellar passed up into the store through
a trap door. They removed the shoes
from the boxes in which they were
kept and left the latter lying about the
floor.
It is supposed that the robber? oc-
curred about 2:30 o’clock this morning,
but it was not discovered until the store
"was opened by Mr. F'hander. The
burglars left no clue behind.
Failures in Connecticut.
The failures in Connecticut during
the first quarter of the year were as
follows:
January—N umber, 34;asnets, $36,100;
liabilities, $127,450.
' Fet ruary—Number 32; assets, 868,800;
liabilities, 3148.900. ‘ ,
March—Number, 25; assets 393,250;
liabilities $198,700.
The failures, with the assets and lia-
bilities, during the corresponding pe-
riod of last year, were as follows:
J anuary—Number, 7;assets, $40,550;
liabilities, $98,200.
February—Number, 15, assets, $144,-
925; liabilities, $213,300.
March—N umber, 21; assets, $56,350;
liabilities, $124,500.
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An Old Bridgeport Resident Gone.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Shepard Wilson, aged:
85 years, widow of Isaac Wilson and
one of the oldest residents of Bridge-
port dird yesterday afternoon: Mrs.
Wilson was a descendant of Rev.
Thomas Shepard, a noted divine of the
seventeenth century who was the first
pastor of what is. now known as the
Shepard Memorial church of Cambridge
Mass, She was a granddaughter of
Capt. Joseph Shepard, a sea captain
whoiwas lost in the Gulf Stream while
on a voyage to the West Indies-
Embezzlement Compromised.
The charges of embezzlement against
the Rev. Father Charles Burns, the
Milford priest, were compromised yes-
terday by the payment of $1,300, the
amount the priest was short in his ac-
counts as administrator of the estate of
the Rev. James Larkins, of Milford.
The bondsmen of Father Burns paid
the money, the civil case against him
in the Superior court has been with--
drawn, and the criminal casewill prob-
ably not be tried. '
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Broke His Arm:
An Easton farmer named Northrop
was thrown from his wagon in Bridge-
port yesterday, and sustained a frac-
tured arm.
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Unclaimed Letters.
DON’T Miss min.
The Latest Ads. Received Be- ‘
fore Going to Press;
By the People and For the People.
1'0 BEN 1'.
0 ‘RENT:—A house of st ht rooms.
Center Ave. Suitable forgeither one 02:
two families. Two minutes’ walk from trolley
line. Inquire at NO. 6 Orchard street. A1 ti
0 RENT—Store now occupied b -
T Wilmot Fawcett. in James’ Biolekfug:
Water street, on and after April let. it Also
gealrttsmgpltibin the game bulirldiiig. Also apart-
ross 5 rest. . . -
WOOD, Trustee. ST JOE‘S Inge}:
FOR SAL E.
0R SALE—At a. bargain, or to re T
residence corner of Camp strgg't ailid
Adams avenue. house contains 13 rooms. large
attic, gas. sewer connection, water. bath
room and stationary tubs in laundry. Barn.
carriage house, With considerable fruit. on the
premises: It sold, terms will be easy—for fur-
ther particulars, inquire of the undersigned
inlegr the premises or aaNo. 5. Masonic Build-z
. _ ‘rms. OLM.
Aprils-1. 1897. STE’X'stl’i’t'
0R SALE—Two Minorca.’ Roosters
F . Pekin Duck Eggs. Stock from . BEE:
RYIDS yardjast year; 75c per setting. Mns. E.
LOLAN, Wilton, Conn. - m1? tf
0R SALE—The elegant reside ce of the lat
F General Darius N. Couch,situ' ted at NO. 3:
Maple street, on high ground, ove- looking the
twrn cities of Norwalk and South Norwalk.
Nprwalk Islands and Loni.r Island Sound. fora
distance of some twenty miles. The dwelling
1spearlynew;_has10 large, commoriious rooms,
with modern improvements; about two acres
of land,front1ng on said Maple West, which
could be sold to good advantage for building
lotg: abAun(istnficeoolf‘3 f‘r‘pit; exlgellent well of
wear, pp v 0 . . ILSON, 001113
Building, Norwalk, Conn. ’gigetifte'
DIVIDENO Mei-75 .
FAIRFIELO COUNTY SAVINGS BATIK.
Nonwamr, CONN . March 18, 1897.
The Board of Directors of th '5 Bank have
this day declared a dividend at the rate of
four per cent. per annum, from‘ the earnings
of the current six months. to be credited to
depositors April 1st, and payable on and after
April 10th. VICTOR S. SELLECK. Sec’y.
NOT CE. I
NORWALK FIRE DEPATMENT.»
OFFICE CHIEF .ENOI'NEER;
NORWALK FIRE DEPARTMENT.
GENTLEMENz—You are hereby notified.
to report to your Captain at Company
quarters, Sunday afternoon 4th inst. at 1
o’clock; in full uniform WITH OVER-
COATS. J. T. PROWITT,
Chief Engineer.
Captains Of Companies are hereby no-
tified to report, with men,,at Chief's.
headquarters on Main street, at 1:30,
ready to take position in line at 1:35.
Order to march will given at 1:45 sharp
Line will be formed right, resting oppo-
site Hoyt street, as follows:
Fire Police, Phoenix, Hope, Pioneer.
Men, While marching, may rest over-
coat on left Arm. J T. PROWITT,
Chief Engineer.
Norwalk, Conn , April 3, 1897.
Hoyt’s Theatre.
SOUTH NORWALK.
One Week, Commencing .
MONDAY MARCH 29,1891.
Engagement Extraordinary, _
THE SAGES
X La Motte Sage, A. M. Ph. D., LL
D., Ogla Helene Sage, assisted by A. B.
McDole, M. A., and others in a marvel-
ous production of
LeGrand _ _
_ Hypnotisme
seen in theatres.
Prices—t 5, 25, 35 and 50 cents
Seats on sale at Pleisted’s and Pinneo’s.
Royt’s Theatre.
FRIDAY, APRIL 9.
The Standard Organization of
the Country. ‘
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- DENIM" THOH‘PSOH’S
Homestead.
The following letters remain unclaim- THE ORIGINAL.“
ed at the Norwalk ' ostofiice, A" ril
3, .897. p " SUPPORTING concur,
Miss Pinky Clough, H. J. Chopin, - AND
William H. Wilson, D. D., Rear Adm. THE ORIGINAL DOUBLE
Wm. S. Wells. QUARTETTE_
W. H, MALONE, P,‘ M, _ Seats on sale at Plaisted's and Pinneo’s.
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