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DUN’S WEEKLY REVIEW.
Holidays Seem to Interfere But Lit-
tle with General Business.
New York, Dec. 27.——Dun’s week-
ly reports Show a remarkably large
holiday trade,.at many points the larg-
est for five years. Moreover, at the sea.-
son when wholesale business usually
~shrinks the pressure of demands for
immediate deliveries, which results
from unprecedented distribution to con-
sumers, keeps many establishments at
work that usually begin their yearly
resting spell somewhat earlier. In-
stead of decreasing, the demand for
products shows an unexpected increase
in several important branches. Ecr-
eign trade continues satisfactory, even
in comparison with the remarkable rec-
ord of a year ago, when exports ex-
ceeded $117,000,000 in December. At
Slew York, the :ovement in three
weeks has been not $2,000,000, or 7 per
cent. smaller, while from cotton and
Pacific ports it has been larger this
year. imports at New York, over $1,-
900,000 less than last year, indicate an
excess of exports approaching $60,000,000
for the month. Bank failures at Phil—
adelphia, due to individual operations,
cause no disturbance, and commercial
failures for. the month have been less
than half last year’s to the same date.
The outgoing flood of grain is not
checked by Chicago speculation,
thorgh more corn than wheat has
beer; moving. Wheat exports, flour in-
cluded, have been 3,698,321 bushels for
th<- week, against 3,568,805 the previous
' wr—ek, and 1,546,443 a year ago, and in
fen weeks.15,766,895 bushels, against,
91.439587 last year. Wheat has varied
little, closing three cents higher for
the week, after deliveries of surprising
magnitude at Chicago, and corn closes
nearly a cent higher. Cotton has also
been moving largely, and was risen a
sixteenth.
Cotton goods have further declined
in prices of bleached, which meet act-
ive Southern competition, and the Fall
River spinners insist upon a reduction
of one-ninth in wages, other New Eng
land mills joining. Out of 101 New
England works forty-five have passed
dividends, fourteen at Fall River, with
fifteen others paying 1 per cent. for the
last quarter. The fall in the price of
cotton, when the mills were holding
heavy stocks of goods, placed this in-
dustry in a most embarrassing posi-
tion.
Railway earnings reported for two
weeks of December are 10.5 per cent.
larger than last year, and fall very
slightly below those of 1892, east-
bound tonnage from Chicago being
barely 1 per cent. smaller for three
weeks. Failures for three weeks have
been only $7,227,303, against $14,602,007
last year; manufacturing $1,924,192,
against $5,877,387, and‘trading $5,001,-
537, against $7,988,981 last year. Fail-
ures for the week have been ~292 in the
United States, against 297 last year,
and 22 in .Janada, against 44 last year.
NICARAGUA CANAL.
A \Yestern Engineer Has a New
Idea for the Project.
Chicago, Dec. 27.——Lyman E. Cooley,
a well-known civil engineer, has start-
ed to enlist capital in the building of
the Nicaragua Canal as a business
proposition with what he believes is a
certain income in sight to justify the
expenditure of $60,000,000.
The renewal of constructive work on
the canal with Chicago capital is the
basis of the project. Mr. Cooley was
one of the engineers of the Chicago
drainage canal and is a ship canal
champion. He has been prominent in
connection with ship canal projects to
connect the lakes with the gulf and the
Atlantic Ocean. He has interested E.
F. Cragin, and with several civil en-
gineers and contractors they will sail
from New York for Nicaragua on
Thursday. Mr. Cragin assisted in get-
ting money for the World’s Fair and
the Grant monument in New York.
The trip will be along the route for
the. canal laid out by Warner Miller’s
company. It is hoped to have a 'fair
idea of the cost of construction and of
the obstacles to be overcome on the
gulf side. TVith many of COLLudlow’s
deductions Mr. Cooley does not agree,
and he is confident the objections
which the commission raised and
which President Cleveland made the
ground for opposing government aid to
the canal will be found to be exag-
gerated.
The party will go unhampered by al-
liance with the old company or with
Gongrcssional champions.
TO CARRY GOLDSEEKERS.
Steanber'l’ln'chnsed by Company for
Klondike Puss gers.
New York, Dec. 27.—'—T’he steamer
Brixham, which is being fitted out at
the Ross Iron W'orks, at the foot of
Twenty—sixth street, will leave Brook-
lyn on Jan. 5; one of the most fully
equipped vessels which have yet been
secured for the Alaska transportation
trade. She has been acquired by the
Boston and Alaska Transportation
Company, a company having a capital
of $200,000, of which the chief officials
are as follows: President, Robert Snpd-
grass, of Harrisburg, Pa.; Vice-Presi-
dent and General Manager, D. H. Pin-
gree (a nephew of the Governor of
Michigan); treasurer, A. E. Cronenwett.
Although 265 passengers have already
been booked through to the gold fields
none of these will embark at Brooklyn,
as the Brixham will sail for Seattle
loadedwith freight from here, and all
her passengers will join at Seattle. »
Another Effort to Save Burr-ant.
San Francisco, Dec. 27.—The last d'es-
perate move to save Theodore .lDur-
rant’s neck from the noose on Jan. 7
has been made. An affidavit, of the
murderer’s father has been filed, and
upon it Horace Smythe, one of the jur-
ors who convicted Dm'rant, was cited
to appear for contempt of court. The
affidavit says that Smy'the has admit-
ted to a. number of persons that he did
not vote to convict Durrant upon the
evidence brought out at the trial, 'but
upon information furnished him from
outside sources. ,
Grain Rates Advance.
Milwaukee, Dec. 27.—Members of the
Milwaukee Freight 'Bureau have re-
ceived notice that, commencing With
Jan. 1, the rate" on grain, flour and
millstuffs car-loads from Minneapolis
to the Atlanticiseabo'ard points would
advance to a basis of 10 cents on 100
pounds above the Chicago rate. The
Chicago rate is 20 cents all rail, and the
rate from Minneapolisfivmuld therefore
be '30 cents all rail. ‘ _’
-‘ something awful.
during the
of his visit to the Pope.
1} - ATHE'EVEnino'-¥GA-,ZET'1"
‘ , 'JIIEY WILL‘BOLT.
The People of Norwalk Are
Vitally interested.
One Case and There are Others.
There is a large body of
Norwalk and vicinity.
The movement 'has been gaining
force for some time and has become so
powerfulthat those interested are anx-
ious to declare themselves. They are
bolters in‘
bolting ancient and useless methods of '
"treating catarrh and hay fever-.and they
have come out in full force for Califor-
nia Catarrh Cure, because they have
tried it. and know its worth. Here are
words from a Norwalk man who has
tried many medicines and treatments
before he got; what he wanted in Cali-
fornia. Catarrh Cure, the greatest and
only known cure for catarrh.
Mr. Alfred Platt, 9 Maple street, Nor-
walk, says: “I have been a great. suf-
ferer from catarrh for over thirty
years, having contracted the disease,
war. My whole head
seemedfull of scabs, and the discharge
from the nose and into the threat was
My head ached al-
most continually, and I never got a
good night’s sleep. 'I procured a. bottle
of California Catarrh Cure at Plaisted’s
drug store, . South Norwalk. It has
given me more relief than I have had
for years; my head is very much im-
proved and I can now sleep all night.
It is certainly a great reliever, and I
am glad to recommend it. Nothing
among all the things I tried before
helped me one quarter as much in
months, as C. (3. C. has inafewweeks.”
California Catarrh Cure Will do for
all cases what it did for Mr. Plath; it
breaks up the worst colds, prevents
more colds and cures the worst forms
of chronic catarrh. '
Sold by all dealers. A bottle for 500.
Three times as much for $1.
HOUR SPENT ON BYRON'S COFFIN
TVeird Experience of Two llIcn thr
They Visited His Tomb.
The son of an innkeeper at Hucknall
named Wid‘owson, had Seen a. great
deal of Byron from his boyhood, and
was always pleased and proud to ren-
der the great poet any service. On thl
day of Byron’s funeral this young Wid-
owson had enough to do in attending
to the horses and carriages connected
with the immense procession whicl
had followed the hearse from Notting-
ham to Hucknall, but after nightfall Ill
arranged with the parish clerk that, a:
they had both been so occupied as no:
workmen were ordered to brick up thl
vault at daybreak, they should go dpwr
into it together and copy the inscrip-
tion. Young Widowson took with
him pen, ink and paper, and two can-'
dies, one of which was lit and carriec
in a lantern. In 1824 there was ac
handler way of striking a light knowr
to country people than by steel, flin:
and tinder box, and the pair went with-
out these encumbrances.
On descending into the vault, the}
found the coffin still on trestles, and
the space was so limited that Widow-
sou, in order to COpy the inscription
had to lie full length upon the coffin
with his candle on the lid. The nigh'
was a wild and gusty one, and the
clerk, on hearing a. swing—window
clashing backward and forward in the
church, declared he must go and close
it, to prevent a smaish. Widowson was
left alone, and, in raising his hand tc
take a dip of ink, being, perhaps, a lit-
tle nervous, he knocked down his can-
dle, which was extinguished by the
fall. The clerk then shouted from
above that his light, too, had gone out.
The nearest dwelling to the church
Was then a half mile off, and this dis-
tance the clerk accordingly trudged
to procure another light, while the inn-
keeper’s son remained outstretched on
Byron’s coffin in the darkness of the
vault and with other dead-and—gone
Byrons for company. The parish
clerk, on returning, did not find him a
corpse or a maniac, but a sane and
sound young man still, somewhat so-
bered, it is true, by his weird experi-
ence—New York Mail and Express .
to have seen Byron’s coffin, and as thl§
‘THE NEW YORK PROVIDE-NT BANK.
“’here Tenement; House Children Deposil
Their Pennies. _
The strangest bank in all the world,
perhaps, is on the East Side of New
York, where the Provident Society has
established a depository for the sons
and daughters of the tenements. Prob-
ably no bank in the world has such a
strange lot of patrons, and it is likely
that there isn’t a financial institution
in existence that receives such a varied
collection of coins as the Provident
Bank. Nor is it likely that there is a
bank in New York that has a greater
number of depositors. -
Thousands of children who never
thought of saving any stray coin that
happened to come into their possession
now carry it. at the first opportunity to
the bank. The institution has also
been a boon to working boys and girls,
who leave with it each week a. portion
of their earnings. The average age oi
depositors is from five to fifteen years.
On certain days the line of depositors
reaches several blocks away, the chil-
dren often being compelled to wait for
hours before they can hand in their
money. . .
Business is carried on exactly as, in a
bank. Every depositor even if his ac-
count is but five cents, is suppliedwith
a. book, and every cent that he deposits
is carefully .set down.—New York
Journal.
The Pope in Gdod Health.
New York, Dec. 21.—Bishop Emard.
of Valley-Field, Province of Quebec,
was a passenger on the French liner,
La. Normandie, which arrived yester-
day. The bishop spoke enthusiastically
“The Pope is
enjoying wonderful health," he said.
“He shows the vitality of a younglman,
and think, he is 87 years old! I had an
audience of an hour and ten minutes
with the Pope, and his vivacity was as
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.~. CH ECKER-BOARD' BUSINESS ' DIRECTORY.
nORwALK” ° ,
Fire Insuranca Co.
In Successful Oper-
ation Since 1860,
No Outstandinn Claims.
Sales ”For llenl-
VALOADLES STORED
IN a
Safe Deposit Vault
OF THE
NATIONAL BANK
or NOBWALK.
GAZETTE ADS.
BRING ._ 4
GOOD RESULTS
li. Ward Sellock,
BEST Goons, '
nus ... adrrzns
18 WALL ST.
' nu BllOS’.
Real German Lager,
On draught
—AT—
and in Bottles,
IATOIIFOIIO’S,
4-4 Main Street
MAKER OF
AND DEALER IN
HARNESS AND
nonsn Goons.
Repairm of all kinds
. done at s ort notice.
Harness_made tc or.
- der 3. specmlg.
31 MAI 51.
NORWALK, - . CONN.
FRED A. WALTER
Geo. W. Raymond,
DEALER IN '
Stop 10 and Fancy
Groceries
AND
Provisions
No.9Maln St.
‘ Frank T. Hyatt '
DENTIST,
8 West Avenue.
Edgar Buttery,
N u rsery man ,
NouwzlLK. CONN.
Trees. Shrubs and
Plants. strawberry
Plants 3 Specialty.
Brandy Wine, Bio and
Marshal. 30 other
Varieties.
0mce, 6 Water St.
Nurs’ys, Broad River.
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ENTERPRISE
Bollllng Works,
7 WallStreet.
FIIE AlES AID lADEI
EXPRESSLY Fon FAM-
III!“ & ZELOFF,
h, Clams,
Oysters. Fruits '
and Vegetables.
69 Washington St. .
SOUTH NOBWALK.
A' yLOBSTERS CAUGHT OFF
NORWALK ISLANDS.
Leave your orders and
have th em delivered
every Saturdays. in.
fully ziven.
Contracts take
any part. of the.
try. Steam 1
yard. 8 Cross St.
fice. 92 Wall St...
S. B. WILSON
Practical Conn-ac- 9
tor and Builder.
Estimates 0 h e e r- .—
Large
buildings a. Specialty.
M 11 and
Norwnlk. Conn.
Ohas. T.Loonard
Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in ' ‘
OOAL, WOOD.
IllIE STOIE AID
HASOIS’ IllllD-
IIO MATERIALS a.
Office-and Yard.
33 to 43 Water Street.
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coun-
Of-
A. II. IALKII
WEEO’S
SODA WATER
38 Wan St.
WIH. allusion
INSURANCE.
Raoul. lazelle Illlllng .,
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PaintinmPa, er
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Oarponlor ii‘iifi'i‘ingi‘rmw :
and Bulldoru 36 ll Pu".
, 52 i ton Avenue
SAWIIO AID PLAIIIO I Nor-walk. Con’n.
76 Franklin Ave. , Send for book con-
NOBWALK. CONN. taining samples.
,, PARLOR
BAIOEII-:-SIIOP,
E. S. LEOBOLD.
4-7 Maln Street.
TRY I
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CHILLS a” FEVER, GllPPE.
BILIOUSNESS,\SECKOEEEZT”.
CONSUPMEON an
GEEERIL DEBILIIY.
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PRICE .50 cs."
AT ALL.
DRUGGTSTS.
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Dyspepsin. Small
Bunion Put
A POSITIVE case F03
' 49 and 51
Marion St, N. Y.
SAVER LIVER PILLS 25 cum-s.
Purely Vegetable. Will cure Biliousness, Consdpntion, Piles. Sick-Headache, and
MES THE
Easy taken.
IIDEEI, {WEB
Will Keep your
Stomach in Healthy
Condition.
None genuine except "Trade
liar “ blown in'evexy bottle.
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Restores
& S'PTIEEH.
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because, it keeps them in touch .Withf
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