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WHAT THEY SAY
EVERY EVENING WHEN THE
GAZETTE COMES, THEREJS A
SCRAMBLE FOR IT. WE :01va
IT INTO .FOUR PARTS, AND
EACH OF US TAKE ONE.
VOL. VII. No. 1685.
NORWALK, CONN, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1897.
' WHAT IT INDICATES.
' ' THAT THE GAZETTE IS A HOME
' . PAPER. THAT THE GAZETTE In
, A NEwsY PAPER. THAT THE
Q ' GAZETTE 1s A CLEAN PAPER.
' THAT EVERY PAGE OF THE
GAZETTE IS READ.
PRICE ONE CENT.
BENNEiLeEATEN.
No More-Will Famous Nancy
Hahks be Seen on West
Avenue.
Spicer Defeats His Rival With a Bid of$400,
and There is Sarrow in tne Post Office.
The sad intelligence has been re-
ceived at the Norwalk post office, that.
from and after June 21st next, David
L. Spicer will carry the mails between
this city and the South Norwalk depot.
The news that Bennett had ' been de-
feated by Spicer, who underbid Arthur
with an offer to do the work for $400,
had a most depressing effect among the
employes.
SORROVV IN THE POST OFFICE.
When Postmaster Malone Opened the
Official envelope containing the infor-
mation this morning, he was moved to
tears and it was some time before let-
ter carrier Nickerson could console
him. Without a word the Postmaster
passed the communication to his assist-
ant, Harry Mitchell. The latter read
it and a tear stole down his ruddy
cheek, while he passed it along to
Harry Camp. Harry did not weep, but
ran for home and donned his carpet
vest, upon wichh he fastened a cross of
crepe and will wear it for sixty days.
The officials were not the only ones
oifected by the news, for it extended to
the letter carriers. George Nickerson
was the first to learn the news while
consoling Postmaster Malone, and he
imparted it to his companions. They
were struckfdumb, and Wilbur Hubbell
recovering first proposed that each
wearamourning band upon his hat,
which suggestion was adopted. Henry
Perry was not satisfied with this, how-
ever, and he and Percy Glendenning
mounted their wheels and rode to Dor-
lon Point where they gazed.upon the
‘blue waters and shed scalding tears
over poor Bennett’s misfortune.
NANCY HANKS.
This defeat of Bennett not only
means that he loses his fat job, but it
removes from West avenue the celebra-
ted Nancy Hanks, the pride and won-
der and joy of every resident of that
fashionable thoroughfare. No more
will he be seen measuring off the dis-
tance between this city and the depot
at a lightning pace. NO more will com-
muters who missed their car be picked
up along the avenue and landed at the
depot minutes before train time. No
more will Joe Buckman ring his gong
and salute the happy Arthur in the
early morning hours.2 Nancy Hanks
will be a thing of the past. Gone but
not forgotten.
Fare the well! and if forever,
Still forever fare the well.
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Trout Season’s Close.
The trout fishing season ends to-day.
The law passed by the Legislature just
adjourned follows:
“Every person who shall catch any
brook trout or brown trout except with
ahook and line, or shall sell, expose
for sale, purchase, catch, or have in
his possession any such trout, except
from the first day of April to the 15th
day of June, shall be fined not more
than $50 and costs or imprisoned not
more than thirty days, or both; provid-
ed, however, that any person may take
such trout in waters owned and en-
closed by him for the purpose of stock-
ing other waters, or take and sell any
trout reared by him in such enclosed
waters.”
1, To Wish Thema Bon Voyage.
Alfarewell sociable will be tendered
Rev. T. K. Noble and wife at the par-
sonage, next Monday evening. ,The
reverend gentleman and his wife will
“go west ” on a short vacation trip,
and» returning will domicile in the new
parsonage “willed” to the society by
the late Mrs. George R. Cowles. .
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——Sideboards, dining chairs and ta-
bles, rattan furniture, piazza chairs-
etc., lowest prices in town, at Raymond
& Son’s. . _ -.
OUR EBQIHERS» i
Number IO Entertain Their'
Bridgeport Brothers.
The Visitors Confer the First in a Splendid
Manner. ‘
Seldom if ever was the meeting room
of Our Brothers Lodge, I. O. O. F.
more crowded with right good Odd
Fellows than last night.
They came from all points of the com—
pass and there was a delightful deluge
of them from the east, or more strictly
speaking, Bridgeport.
The Pequonnocks of that city came
at least 150 strong and brought with
them a working team.
There were three candidates WhO
were to receive the first degree and
they can to-day pride themselves on the
fact that never before was the work
done in a better manner.
Old members, young members, all
members were unstinted in their praise
of the work done by the visiting team.
Said one “Odd ” to the reporter “ It
was by all odds the best work I ever
saw done in Odd Fellowship work.”
Refreshments were served, stories
told, and at a late hour the visitors left
on special cars for South N orwalk
where they boarded a train for home.
It was a great evening for Our
Brothers, one and all.
Men in the employ of the Street Rail-
way company are engaged in cutting
this morning for the extension of the
tracks up and over the hill to a point
beyond the west bound railroad station
with a terminus not far from Spring
street. This also includes a turnout.
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—Live Merchants keep their names
before the Public. An Advertisement
in THE GAZETTE will be read.
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Surprise Party.
A surprise party was held at the
home of George Syler on Butler street
last evening. The merry-makers en-
joyed themselves in dancing singing
and playing of games. Among those
present were the Misses Etta Donnelly,
Susan Marron, Isabella Crawford,Sarah
Marron, Maggie McSherry, Maggie
Marron, and Elsie Mason, the Messrs.
Harry McSherry, Thomas Donnelly,
George Syler, Eddie Mason,John Syler,
Thomas Lillis, James Fisher, Thomas
Syler, Peter Heel, Dennis Corklin,
Matthew Syler, and John McGowan.
Refreshments were ‘served after
which the guests departed for their
several homes.
Died at Denver.
Mrs. Rebecca Schaschat, wife of E.
Schaschat, who conducts a grocery
store on Harbor avenue, died in Denver,
Colorado, Monday. The deceased was
in poor health and went to Denver a
few weeks since hoping to receive ben-
efit by a change of climate. Her hus-
band and two children survive.
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He Has Gone East.
A report reaches this Office that Rev.
Mr. Arthur of Westport, who was in
some wise mixed up in a sensation at
Weston a few weeks since, has gone
daft, and has eluded those who were
striving to care for him and preventing
such a story reaching the public search-
light of criticism.
Mr. Arthur is well liked by his
parishioners all of whom hope that the
aberration is only of a temporary na-
ture.
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His Twenty-first.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Williams cele-
brated their twenty-first wedding anni-
versary at their home on Cannon street
yesterday by royally entertaining a
number of their friends. |
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Dead in the Woods.
Patrick Cuddy, aged 43,,a Waterbury
ne’er-do-well, was found dead in the
woods in Middlebury Sunday. He had g
been out with John Hanlyand Timothy '
Luddy and there will be an investiga-
tion. '
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And Farmer Elwood Sues Mills
and Gampher for $I,OOO.
A Westport Assault Case Before Judge
Curtis Yesterday.
A’Westport assault case occupied the
attention of Judge Curtis in the Court
of Common Pleas yesterday. It is an
action brought by Samuel E. Elwood, a
farmer of that town, against John B.
Mills, and his son-in-law George Gam-
pher, for damages of $1,000 for assault
and battery.
In February, 1896, the neighbors
were at war. Mr. Elwood, who is 62
'years of age, ordered Mills and Gam-
pher off his property. The men own
adjoining woodland and Mills had to
cross his neighbor’s property in order
tO reach his own. He wanted to cut
wood. Elwood was obdurate in his op-
position, and February 12, when Mills
and Gampher attempted to drive over
the lot, he took their horse by the
bridle. The complainant claims that
Gampher then attacked him and beat
him with his fists, blackening his eye,
disfiguring hisface, and otherwise dam-
aging him. At the time he caused the
arrest of Gampher for assault, and. the
defendant was found guilty and fined.
In the'civil case now on trial, the
plaintiff, Elwood is represented by At—
torneys Hyatt and Gray, and'the de-
fendant by Perry, Perry 8: Hill. On
the witness stand, Elwood told the
story of the assault.
“He knocked two teeth out here,”
he said. indicating the location of the
two lost molars, “and every time 1 eat
I have to put my tongue there to stop
the food getting in there. He blacked
my eye and bruised my face, I didn’t
sleep at all that night on account of
the pain. I have trouble with my head
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ceived. ”
His counsel tried to have him esti-
mate the damage cansed by his neigh-
bor running his truck over his land,
and he said it was as much as a dollar.
The case took up the entire day and
decision was reserved.
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Born (Til the Bridge.
The New York Telegram of last night
prints the following story of local in-
terest in Norwalk: “ A rather good
looking woman, twenty-six years old,
gave birth to a child in the waiting
room at the N. Y. end of the Brooklyn
bridge at a little before three o’clock
this morning. She was taken to the
Hudson street hospital, where both
mother and child are said to be doing
well. She said she was Lulu Hobbs,
and that she lived at No. 762 Fifth ave-
nue, Brooklyn. When she became ill
she was on her way to the Sloan Mater-
nity hospital in this city. When asked
who her friends were she gave the name
She
declined to say anything about her hus-
band. '
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Judge Hill.
Congressman E. J. Hill sent word
from Washington yesterday that he
would accept the position as one of the
judges on the occasion of the second
annual Post and Telegram Bicycle pa-
rade in Bridgeport on July 5.
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Consolidated Road Dividend. -
The regular quarterly dividend of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad has been declared. The divi-
dend is 2 per cent., payable July 1 to
stockholders of record June 19.
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—With Malaria Cure.
You should always have Riggs’ Ma-
laria Cure at hand. Taken at the first
symptoms the cure is easier. Don’t
bother as to the how. If malaria poison
is in the system, Riggs’ Cure will search
it outpand kill it out—if you give the
Cure a chance. .J. 10 tf
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Called on Bishop Williams.
Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster of Brook-
lyn, the newly-elected bishop coadju-
tor, arrived in Middletown last night,
the guest of Bishop Williams.
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Chief Bradley With Officer
Morehouse Call Upon
Thomas Layden. T
Winnipauk the Scene of a Search for Hard
Goods.
Complaint having been made to
Prosecuting Liquor Agent E. M. Lock-
wood, and reports being numerous,that
Thomas Layden of Winnipauk was
selling whiskey under a beer license,
Mr. Lockwood yesterday afternoon
sent Chief Bradley and Officer More-
house to make a search. '
When the officers arrived they found
Layden outside the building clearing
up the dooryard. He was apparantly
not—surprised at the visit of the officers,
and they were allowed to search the
premises from cellar to garret.
They were unrewarded, however, for
not a drop of liquor outside of beer,
which he is licensed to sell,’ waswfound
upOn the permises.
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THE GAZETTE WOULD LIKE TO SEE
The grass 0n Town House hill cut or
more cattle turned lose to eat it up.
The man who believes in the refor-
mation of Barabbas.
The road roller on East avenue be-
fore Thursday.
The hustler who can out hustle hust-,
ling George Allen.
gCharley Smith invite the GAZETTE’S
force to a chowder when it is Captain
Smith of Pioneer. ‘
:Afternoon thunderstorms visit some
other town.
Captain Chinery master that Phoenix
bicycle.
Mail carrier Bennett defeat Spicer
next time.
The post office employes recover from
their sadness.
The fish that Conductors Parkinson
and Grace caught yesterday.
A newsboy who can sell the two cent
yellow journal. .
Funeral of Jedediah Wilcox.
The funeralof the late J edediah Wil-
cox of New Haven, who died suddenly
in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday last,
will be held in New Haven to-morrow
afternoon at 3 o’clock.
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FEMININE CHAT.
Iced tea is now the favored table bev-
erage.
If you ask a person’s advice follow it.
If you don’t mean to do so do not bother
them with silly questions.
To ride tandem is very much easier
than to drive tandem, as many a wo-
man has learned since they took up the
bicycle craze. '
One always coughs at the specially
interesting moment in play or sermon
where absolute silence is required.
The girl who is anxious to develop
her muscles does not order eclairs and
ice cream for her luncheon.
When one seems driven quite into a
corner is often the time when the turn-
ing point has arrived.
Plate glass doors imply hospitality
and contain the suggestion that the
people dwelling within the house have
nothing to hide in their lives.
Women are as fussy about their col-
lars and neckties nowadays as their
brothers and husbands possibly can be.
A woman is not apt to idealize a
man whom she sees riding a bicycle
with his coat-tails flying out behind.
It appears to be part of woman’s
nature to feel ashamed if the article
she admires in a shop happens to be
.cheap.
Old-fashioned beauty books advise
the use of strawberry juice to make
red cheeks. This is a reasonable hint
for those averse to rouge of the regular
sort.
What a mania American girls have
for chocolate I Confectioners say that
they sell more soda and candy of that
flavor than all the others put together.
The reason absence makes the heart
grow fonder ”is, presumably, because
the parties concerned do not have a
chance to get tired of each other.
_ Committed to County Home.
Justice N Obbs Of Bridgeport, yester-
day committed tO the County Home in
Norwalk, May Frey, a little 15-year-old
hunchback and Willie Smith, an or-
phan, both of Bridgeport.
'-—'All the Successful Merchants or
this City Advertise in THE GAZETTE.
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srnucu BY LIGHTNING.
AThunder Bolt Rips the Siding from a
House on Fairfield Avenue.
There was a lively thunder storm yes-
.terday afternoon, accompanied by a
high wind, which sent people on the
street “skittering” for shelter.
The rain came down in torrents and
thoroughly washed the I streets and
pavements, but it was of comparatively
short duration. '
During the progress of the storm
there was one especially brilliant flash
of lightning accompanied by a sound of
thunder that made the timid shiver
with fear.
“I’ll bet that struck somewhere,”
said a young man who had just fallen
from his bicycle in his haste to get in
out of the wet. And he was correct in
his remark. \
It did strike. And the place that it
hit was a chimney on the house owned
by E. S. Laflin and located on Fairfield
avenue, South Norwalk.
The fluid demolished the chimney,
tore off a large section of the siding on
an L of the house, broke a window sash
and glass and then shot off into the
ground where it buried itself out of
sight.
The house is occupied by the two fam-
ilies of Mr. Maher and Mr. Fitzgerald,
none of whom suffered injury.
The damage will probably not be in
excess of $100 which is covered by in-
surance with Taylor & Golden’s agency.
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LOCAL AND OTHER NEWS.
The Over River school will give an
entertainment this evening.
Thomas Goodwin is seriously ill at
his home on Belden avenue.
The new whistle at the Electric
Light station is a good whistler.
The Over River school will give an
entertainment to—morrow afternoon.
Isaac Lee has introduced the J apa'n-
ese style of screens at his Main street
store.
A meeting of the Sunday school
board of the Methodist church was
held last evening.
M. Fahan’s saloon on Main street is
again Open for business, much to the
surprise of many.
Mary McCullough, despite her wishes
but for her best interests, is now an in-
mate of the Town Farm.
The foundation of the proposed new
school house in East Norwalk is now in
readiness for the cap stone.
Arthur Chittam entertained a num-
ber of his friends at whist last evening,
at his home on Centre avenue.
Dr. Hughes .the Optical expert has
opened an office at No. 65 Wall street.
Read his adv. and give him a call.
During yesterday’s storm a large
limb of a tree in Butcher Fred Smith’s
dooryard was torn from the tree.
Yesterday was the 34th anniversary of
the storming of Port Hudson, of which
William Mitchell says he has a ,very
lively remembrance.
The Ratcthrd restaurant is well pa-
tronized by lovers of good cooking as
Well as by those who like a good meal
and know where to get it.
The Always Ready circle and their
friends are taking a trolley ride this af-
ernoon on the Tramway line. They
will visit Stamford and Westport.
The postal telegraph office under the
management of John H. Hoyt promises
to be a success. It is located in the
post Office lobby and is convenient as
well as reliable.
E. C. Searles is breaking up house-
keeping, and while he will for the
present reside in Wilton, "it 15 not al-
together improbable that housekeeping
will be resumed in the fall.
A pretty sure sign that the Wheeler
straw hat manufactory is soon ‘to be
closed for the season is the statement
of Joseph Canfield that he leaves for a
season of making hay in Wilton, On"
Monday next. '
M. J. Nolan’s left hand came in con-
tact with a wire nail yesterday, and to.-
day the collector of the Broad River
school district is not.doing a thing but
nursing the wounded member.
Ernest Cornell and Ira Lockwood
will next week be in a position to clean
and repair bicycles, and will after that
date be glad to accept your orders, and»
will guarantee satisfaction as to work
and price.
EAST NOBWALK.
The funeral of Miss Emily Carpenter
was held from her home in Darien yes-
terday afternoon. Rev. A. J. Smith
officiated.
E. E. Gerham of Katonah is visiting
his parents on. Cove street.
Miss Nellie Partrick of Maple ave-
nue, will leave to-morrow for the Cats-
kills. Miss Partrick has been with the
Minnie Lester Comedy company for the
past season.
A convention of the Advent Sunday
schools will be held in Danbury on Fri-
day "next.
The Epworth League held a prayer
meeting in the East avenue church last
evening led by Fred Raymond.
An entertainment and strawbérry fes-
tival will be given under the auspices
of St. Paul’s mission next Friday even-
ing in the mission room.
William Harbottle made a bicycle
run of 162 miles on Sunday. From
N orwalk to Coney Island to Bridgeport
to Norwalk, finishing the last 30 miles
in 2 hours and ten minutes.
Miss Fannie Rice of Brooklyn, is vis-
iting Mrs. Charles L. Ainsworth of
Cottage avenue.
Mrs. Herbert V. Carr and friends
who are visiting her from N orthport,
L. I., spent yesterday at Roton Point. I
Miss Clara Ainsworth is ill at her
home on Cottage avenue.
Quite a number of our East Side
young people are attending the Epworth
League convention in Bridgeport to-
day.
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Death of Mrs. C. A. Tucker.
Mrs. Mary Catherine Quintard, wife
of Professor Charles A. Tucker, died
at her home on Main street last even-
ing, aged about 50 years. The deceased
was a daughter of Mrs. Lydia E. Quin-
tard and a woman whom to know was
to love. Her demise will be sincerely .
mourned by all who enjoyed the pleas-
ure of her acquaintance. The husband .
loses a cheerful helpmeet, the mother
a loving child and the community a
rarely good woman. -
lumped Over a Brewery Wagon.
A New Haven horse. ran away yes-
terday and jumped over a horse at- ‘
tached to a brewer’s wagon. The run- .
away belonged to PJesident George L.
Burton of the board of councilmen.
Two boys were in the carrlage, but
were not hurt.
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PERSONAL NOTES.
Lot Hamlin of Maine, is the guest of
Homer M. Byington on Belden avenue.
Miss Ella Cahill and Miss Hannah
Clune are watching the trapeze acts in
Stamford this afternoon.
Mrs. Abram L. Folk and son of Mid-
dle Village, L. I. are the guestslof Mrs.
Mary Folk on Isaacs’ Place. And Wil-
liam Mitchell says, “I am glad to see
you; stay until it snows and make me
happyfi’
“Captain Joe” Lockwood is out in a
boat to-day taking care of the lady
bathers at the Knob.
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On several South African farms ex-
periments have been tried with Bur-
chiell’s zebra. The zebras become as
tame .53. ponles, and are readily brok-
en in r draught work. The object of.
their mers has been to breed a mule
which, like the zebras, is proof against
the tsetse—fly. The zebras themselves
run well enough in a mule team,
though they cannot stand overdriving.
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Tiniest Shvea'n's Ever Mgde.
A clever workman in a cutlery fac-
tory in Sheffield, England, has recent-
ly made a dozen- pairs of shears each
so minute that they all together weigh
less than half a grain. That is about
the weight of a postage stamp. Each
pair was perfect, and would cut if suf-
ficiently delicate material, could be
found. Lying on a piece of white pa-
per, they seemed no larger than fleas.
DEATHS.
COX.——In Hawleyville, June 12, -Ann
*Cox, aged 76.years.
' FINCH.—At Stamford, June 13,
Emeline M., wife of James P. Finch.
MALLETT.—In Bridgeport, June 13th,
Mary Elizabeth, wife of Frank C. Mal-
lett, aged 25 years.
MURRAY.~—'—In Danbury, June 14, Mrs.
James Murray.
SUNDERLANn.—In Danbury, June 12,
infant son of Dr. Paul U. and Julia
Kerrigan Sunderland.
WELLS—In Bridgeport, June 12,
Homer 0., infant son of Wm. H., and
the late Minnie J. Wells,aged 8 months.
WINTON.—In N ewtown, Mrs. Eliza
Winton, aged 71 years.
SCHASCHAT.—In Denver, Col. June
14, Rebecca Schaschat, wife of E.
Schaschat of Norwalk.
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