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NORWALK GAZETTE
Tuesday. June 29, L886.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
THE FIRsT Torre or TEE BAIL—“What
yer got for breakfast?”
A MISTAKE Shannan—We do not
believe that Pension Commissioner Black
is color-blind. And yet that may account
for his havingworn the blue.
COPYRIGHTEDr—Nekt week Monday will
be celebrated as the Glorious Fourth. All
rights to this remark are reserved, and in-
fringements will bevigorously prosecuted.
A MAN 01“ GREAT POWEBs.—_We are
thoroughly convinced that for modest
ability and wholesome capacity no one
can compete with Editor EllendOif at a
shore dinner.
A TRIFLING DIFFERENCE—With the ad-
vent of warm weather the democratic
congressmen'seem more anxious to pro-
vide “schooners” for themselves than
- ships for the navy.
SECEssION Tum—News that comes from
Canada is refreshing. Last week at an
election a wealthy old sea captain nailed
the Stars and Stripes to a tree and shout-
ed:—“That is our next question to vote
on, and you will find before long two-
thirds of us in that way of thinking."
The British lion seems to hem process of
dissolution. I
TWEED’s DlsCiPLEs.—Another gigantic
“job" has been discovered inlone of the
New York city departments. Nearly half
a million Was spent in paving Fifth
avenue, and a competent engineer em-
ployed by Mayor Grace new reports the
work to be a miserable and scandalous
“job.” And the strangest part of the
whole matter is that the work was done,
and superintended and accepted by demo-
crats. .
IT‘s TIME ,To HEDGE—Senator Logan
now says the statement that he said “Mr.
Blaine was running the politics Of this
country and also trying to run the politics
of Europe" is absolutely without founda-
tion. We are glad to hear it. Sometime
in the future we hope to vote for Senator
Logan for president, and we do not like
to hear him speak illy of one who will
undoubtedly be his predecessor in that
high ofiice. ' .
KEEP THEM Ira—Don’t kick the crippled
“rascals” out. Be patient for the old fel-
lows have to walk slowly now. Time
was when they walked faster, and they
bore their musket nobly in the long night
marches. But that is past now, and trait-
ors are pensioned and heroes denied.
They move slowly now. But all too
quickly they move towards the final camp
to be mustered out of service by the Great
Commander. They haven't long to stay.
Don’t kick them out. They’re heroes, and
they deserve better treatment.
TURN TiiE RASCALS OUT.—~News comes
from Buffalo that the Point Abino fishing
club, composed of district attorneys. sena
tors, cx-senators, surrogates, sherifis—in
short of all the prominent democrats of
that vicinage, was delayed starting from
Black Rock on a week’s trip last week,
because they could not get a clearage on
account of the absence of the deputy
collector in charge—a republican, by the
way. And it is said the politicians are
talking vehemently about it. Quite right!
The collector should summarily oust the
deputy. To be sure he may have been
absent on public business, but that can be
no adequate excuse for keeping a demo-
cratic angling club from the enjoyment of
its black-bottled bait. We must have re-
form in the civil service, therefore turn
the rascal out.
A MODERN DOMBBY.—Whoevel' has read
Dickens’ masterly tale of “Domhey and
Son” will readily find a- parallel to the
chief character in the egotism of the fol-
lowing, delivered by President Cleveland
in the shape of a message vetoing a num-
ber of bills granting a pension of eight
dollars a month to poor and crippled
Union soldiers. Says the president :—“I
am so thoroughly tired of disapproving
gifts of public money to individuals, who,
in my view, have no right or claim to the
same, 8 * * that I interpose with a
feeling of relief in a case where I find it
unnecessary to determine the merits of
the application.” And the fact that these
bills had passed both the Senate and
House of Representatives, wherein no
doubt are many able statesmen, lends
rather more color to the suspicion that the
president in‘the mightiness of his own
opinion' is somewhat inclined towards
acute Dombeyisln.
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Over River School Meeting.
A meeting of the voters of the Over
River School District was held on Friday
evening to lay a tax on the district. A.
E. Austin was elected clerk and E. O.
Keeler, chairman. The call was read and
Committceman Mead offered a resolution
providing for the laying of a five mills tax
to be made from the town list for 1885 and
to be payable on or before Dec. 1st, 1886.
By a vote of 18 to 10 the motion to adopt
the resolution was lost. A motion to re-
consider was then made and after consid-
erable discussion was carried by a vote of
14 to 12. The question then recurring on '
the adoption of the resolution the tax was
ordered by a vote of 16 to 4. The com-
pensation of the collector was fixed at 2
per cent. of the amount collected with an
additionalprovision of $10 for printing,
postage, etc., but not before one sarcastic
gentleman had moved that the collection.
of the tax be given to the lowest bidder.
The meeting then adjourned. 4
A 5 mill tax on the district will raise
about $5,000, which will be applied to-
wards paying a portion of the .debt. The
debt is now about $13,000 the annual in- '
terest on which is $625.
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Torn to Pieces.
James Powers of South Norwalk was
literally torn to pieces and scattered along
the track for somc‘distauce by the Sunday
morning newspaper train near South Nor-
walk last Sunday morning. When last
seen Saturday night he was considerably
under the influence of intoxicating liquors,
and had probably started to walk home on
the track and lain down and fallen asleep,
probably never knowing what killed him.
His head was picked up in one place, one
arm in another, and the trunk was horribly
mangled and mutilated. Powers was 27
years old, and unmarried.
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-Time Table Chances.
Commencing Monday, June 28th, the
White Mountain express train was put on,
leaving New York at 9:15 a. in. Also the
White Mountain express train coming
west was put on, leaving New Haven at
7:10 p. m. For time at way stations, and
for minor changes, made in time table
J unc 28th, consult new pocket time tables,
which can be procured from company's
ticket ofiice.
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Sullivan-Mitchell.
John L. Sullivan and Charlie Mitchell
will fight at the polo grounds,.New York,
next Monday. The fight will probably be
witnessed by the largest crowd of specta-
tors ever congregated to see a contest of
this inspiring nature.
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The “Book of Berkshire," compiled by
Clark W. Bryan and published by the
Berkshire Courier is by far the handsome-
st summer guide book that has yet come
to our desk. It is a complete aadexhaus-
tive cyclopedia of Berkshire county’s many
and beautiful resorts, with numerous fine.
engravings, and is gotten up in that super-
ior style throughout, that characterizes all
of Clark W. Bryan’s undertakings.
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The printers ink on the trees should be
renewed every year. Ten pound cans at
the GAZETTE ofilce, price $1.00.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, June 28, 1886.
DEAR GAZETTE :—-0ne week’s exhibition
of the revival of rebel sympathies and ten-
dencies in Congress was recently given
you. It embraced among other things a
fierce and brutal asaault upon the dead
patriot Edwin M. Stanton; :1. patient and
interested listening to a two hours’ argu-
ment before a House commitee in favor of
paying the Confederate debt; the attempt
to defeat by craft and indirection a wise
and humane pension bill, and the with-
drawal of a report made to the Senate by
cit-Confederate Joseph Brown, of Georgia,
on the rebuke of “gallant Joe Hawley,”
because in it Senator Brown called the
Union forces an “invading army.” The
past week has been equally potent in
proving that the return of the Democratic
party to power in the lower House of
Congress and in the nationhas had the effect
of arousing and encouraging the lingering
disloyal sentiments of the southern people
to an alarming extent, by reason of the
aid and comfort given them by their
northern partisan allies.
And, sad as the fact is, the President
by his reckless and indiscriminate vetoes
of bills granting pensions to disabled
Union soldiers, their widows and orphans,
and his cruel and flippaut phrasing of his
objections in many instances, becomes the
chief offender in this respect. Up to Mr.
Cleveland’s inauguration there had been
100 veto messages sent in by the Presidents
as follows: By Washington 2, “by Monroe
and Lincoln 1 each, by Buchanan and
Arthur 4 each, by Tyler and Pierce 9 each,
by Madison 6, by Jackson 12, by Polk 3,
by Johnson 17, by Grant 29, andby Hayes
12. None were vetoed by- either of the
Adamses, or Jefferson, or Van Buren, or
Harrison, or Fillmore, or Garfield. But
President Cleveland has beaten the record
of all his predecessors, and his vetoes, to
his shame and dishonor be it said, are
bills giving a few months’ or, at most, a few
year’s relief to those who stood up before
the iron and leaden hail of armed traitors
for the saving of the life of that nation
that now pays him fifty thousand dollars a
year. And “more vetoes of pensions” are
promised so soon as he shall return from
his junketing frolic down the 'Potomac.
No wonder Representative Bayne uttered
the following patriotic protest :—
I am astonished at the vetoes of the Presi-
dent. I think the whole history of this Itepnb-
lic resents no parallel to them. The _austere
Andrew Jackson, desirous of asserting his
power and anxious to make his individuality
conspicuous. never monopolized power as the
President of the United States has done with
reference to these men. _
Why, air, this man has even had the temeritv
to sneer at a report of a committee of this
House granting a pleasion to an invalid soldier
of the Republic. c has had the temerity to
put the seal of his sarcasm upon reports unani-
mously made by this House granting pensions
to widoWa of men slain in the service of tins
country. _ '
This man, himself no soldier, himself walk-
ing in the paths of peace, when those others
went out and im erilled their lives to defend
this Union, an enable him to occupy the
position of a President of this country, now
comes here and puts his veto u on a unani-
mono report of a committee and t o unanimous
vote of the House of Representatives and the
Senate of the United States.
On what grounds does he assert these pro-
rogatives? What constitutional authority has
he for goin to this length? Who invested
this man wit such power that he may assert
himself under these circumstances and say to
the people of this country, "I am larger than
on all, and know more about what should
Become law than the three hundred and
twenty-five members of the House of Repre-
sentatives and the seventy-six members of the
United States Senate ?”
All, Mr- Chairman, it is a fault of men en-
dowed with brief authority to arrogate to
themselves power and knowledge that they do
not really possess. He is no better than any of
us. He is no better than any American Citi-
zen, and is not the equal of any man who
went out and imperiled his life to save the
Union. .
Recall you of the North- you of the North
recall what you said to these men when they
entered the service. Recall the encourage-
ment you gave them, what you said to them.
Why, they went with the blessings. of the
country upon them. They went with the en-
couragement and good cheer of mothers, wives
and sweethearts into the service. There was
not one of them who went into the service who
was not promised for himself, if he became
disabled, or his widow, or his children if they
became or bans, that they should be taken
care of by is government.
Why, the man who would have dared to
have risen in the communities of the North
and said that that man’s, widow or his children
should not be cared for would have been
strung up to a limp-post, so earnest, so honest,
so patriotic were the people of this country.
And now, twenty years after the War has closed,
in come a poor lot of fellows, a poor lot of
widows, and a cor lot of orphans, knocking at
the doors of i e poor-houses. in the alma-
houses, unable to earn their bread, asking this
rich government to has its faith; asking
simply for a pitiful sum 0 money in order that
they may live out their unhappy lives, and it
is proposed by dilatory motions here. and by
vetoes by the Chief Executive to an that these
men who rendered this service, ort eir widows
and children shall not have the support which
was so lavishly promised to them, and which
they above all men in God’s great world ‘de-
serve.
But it makes my heart bleed, it takes away
from me every idea that man can be grateful,
and can remember with gratitude the great
service rendered their country. What does it
mean? Does it mean the few dollars involved?
Who pays these dollars? The people that
vote for pensions pay these dollars. Those
obstructionists pay none of these dollars. or
mighty little of them. It is the great rich
North that pays this tribute to the government
and fills its cofi'ers every year with money, and
it is the great rich North that wants to pension
these people and provide for them in their
hour of trouble and in their hour of need.
Who are these people that would come and
say: “Save this trifling sum to this man, to
that man, and another man?” What interest
have they in saving this smali sum of money
to which they contribute mighty little? No,
gentlemen must not forget that the men who
went into the service of this Government to
preserve the integrity of this Union. who fought
for three or four years for that purpose, who
came home disabled, or who left widows, being
slain in battle, or dying from ldisease contract-
ed in the service, who left dependent fathers
and mothers unable to provide for theirown
and because their sons who would have natur-
ally been their support had gone into selvice
of the country—we must not forget that to all
these men this Government not only owes an
everlasting debt of gratitude. but owes to them
preservation, subsistence, and a decent living
while they remain in this world.
It is not so big a matter. All these men Will
pass away in a few years; they will all go to
their graves in a few years. In the life of this
Be ublic the time that we will have to rovide
su sistence for these men is but as a ay. In
a few years all these pensioners will disap car
from the pension ro . While we have t em
With us, while they are dependent upon us for
support, let us have the 'courage, the manli-
nose, the generosity, the magnanimity, to vote
for them the amounts provided for them in
these various bills, that they may at least eke
out an existence without the necessity of goin
to the poor-houses of the land to be maintaineg
at the public expense.
Representative Price thus explains the
reason why so many pension claimants are
forced to come to congress and ask for
special legislation in order to secure jus-
tice :—
_It may be well, Mr. Chairman. that our
friends who year after year have thrown ob-
stacles in the way of this pension legislation
should understand some of the causes that
have led the order under which these pension
sessions are held and to this character of legis-
lation. I desire to call attention to the report
of the Commissioner of Pensions, and as eci-
ally to age 14, where he declares that the en-
sion 0 Co "has exhausted human inuenui in
attempts to furnish tests and barriersagainst
claims.” .
These two lines in that report furnish the
keynote to the whole plan of operations of the
Pension Bureau under the present administra-
tion, and when gentlemen ask us why we come
here with these special pension bills, I answer
that it is because we have a ension law that is
defective in the extreme, an because that law
is administered by a man who states that "hu-
man ingenuity has been exhausted” in devising
barriers by which spphcants for pension may
be shut out.
Nor is this all. I want to show you that you
have a man executin the pension laws [Black]
who is unworthy of t a trust re sad in him ;
that the whole administration 0 that office is a
fraud upon lustlce, a fraud upon common
sense, a fraud upon the soldier and that every-
thing has been thrown around _it that human
ingenuity can devise for revealing the admis-
sion and consideration 0 claims. That‘ia the
very reason, then, that these cases are here.
Mr. Price went on to say that in all six
hundred and four pension bills had passed
the present Congress involving a tOtal cost
of only sixty-five thousand dollars. Only
$15,000 more than Mr. Cleveland's salary,
and concluding said :-- ‘ .
Why, in Iowa alone there are one hundred
and for -three soldiers in the poor-houses, so
I was to d the other day. Great God, think of
it! We sitting here, the representatives of a
great nation with an overflowing Treasury,
with more liberties and more privileges than
any other people under the sun. and the men
who made it possible for us to enjoy all these
blessings compelled to take refuge in poor-’
houses, one hundred and forty-three such cases
in a single State—men who are reduced to this
condition as a result of their sacrifices in the
cause of civil liberty, sacrifices by which the
South has benefitted far more than we.
It is an everlasting disgrace to us that any of
these men should be forced to take refuge in
the poor-houses of the land, and it is still more
withering and blasting disgrace that the admin-
istration of our Pension Office should be placed .
in the hands of General John C. Black, who is
permitted to twist and curve and wiggle 1nd
throw. up barriers and obstacles even in the
Way of the execution ot‘tlie pension law as it
stsnds. ..
rsz JOHN PORTER.
The bill placing Fitz John Porter on the
wants. because old age had come upon .them, ‘
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NORWALK GAZETTE, TUESDAY-JUNE 29 1886
army retired list, which had passed the
democratic House, of course, was dis-
cussed and passed by the Senate Friday.
Senator Logan uttered his usual protest
against the crowning with honor a soldier
who in the face of the enemy had proved
treacherous to the Union cause. He show-
ed that the bugaboo of 25,000 men of
Longstrect’s corps having been in his front
at the time was false and that in reality
there were but 6,000 confederate troops .to
oppose his march to the aid of Pope and
that he could easily have turned that dis-
aster into a Union victory had be obeyed
his express orders. Senator Plumb fol-
lowed Logan in a speech of much severity.
He said here wasa bill to honor and reward
treachery, and what did we see? Every
exéconfederate on the other side of the
chamber, whose cause had profited by
Porter’s perfidy, was now solidly sup-
porting this bill and by reason Of this solid
confederate vote and a very few republi-
can votes, Portcr was to be reinstated.
“He should think,”é:hc said, “that every
dollar he [Porter] took from the treasury
under a bill so passed, would blister his
hands, though he had no idea it would
burn his conscience.” Senator Butler in
white heat flew to his feet and intimated
in true ancient southern style that he
would do dreadful things should‘Plunib
repeat elsewhere what he was saying in
the Senate. Plumb coolly replied that in-
asmuch as the South Carolinian had not
restrained himself any in his speech, he
trusted he would not elsewhere or in any
other manner.
As an incident and significant coinci-
dence, it was mentioned that while this
bill was being passed by the Senate, the
President had sent to the House a message
vetoing a pension of $50 a month to the
invalid and destitute widow of Major-
General David Hunter, who was President
of the court-martial that adjudged Porter
guilty. Said Senator Blair during this
part of the debate :—
I will say in the case of Mrs. Hunter, the
widow of the oflicer who was resident of
the court marshal that adjudge Fitz John
Porter guilty, that no such case has failed to
ass Congress when presented to Congress for
its consideration, and certainly no such case
was ever vetoed by a President. In fact, so far
as I know but one pension bill has ever been
vetoed by s. President of the United States un-
til thc present session. We have at the pres-
ent session passed a bill givung to the widow of
Major-general Hancock a pension of $2,000 a
car; and but for the fact that from Democrat-
ic sources that bill reached as at so small a
sum, the Republican members of the commit~
tee, and I doubt not the Republican members
of the Senate, would have passed an act giving
her $5,000 a year.
The widows of our Presidents, regardless of
the amount of roperty which they may
ossess, some of t em being very wealthy to-
ay, have received in recent years pensions at
the rate of which I have mentioned, $5,000
apiece. Every major-general whose widow
has come Asking a pension has received it with—
out grudging or hesitation, at least in these la-
ter years, at the rate of $50 per month; and it
has come to be the unwritten law of the land
until there is no opposition from any party,
but on application they receive it.
There wore cculiar circumstances in the
case of the wi ow of Major-General Hunter
which are not stated in this report; but there
were circumstances connected with her health,
her peculiar nervous condition, which made it
almost like a stab of death to refuse to this wo-
man her pension. I‘hey could not have been
unknown to anyone who was sufiiciently famil-
iar with the facts in this case to justify a veto;
and if there is any motive which can be con-
ceived by any man who knows anything of the
circumstances surrounding this and other
cases, the private pension cases generally,
which have led to the veto of this particular
bill, save the one intimated by the Senator from
Kansas, I am unable to divine that motive. It
is a ainst the practice of the Government.
I ave examined more than one-half of the
cases where he has sent vetoes to the Senate,
and I aver upon my honor that there is no sin-
gle instance where he has made a veto that I
do not believe he has made it wrongfully. He
gets his facts from the Pension Ofiice an ofti co
which we have overruch by our decisions.
They send him reports in self-defence, and lie
vetoes upon the assumption that those allega-
tions are true. Sir, the Executive ought to
know that in addition to all the evidence which
before the Pension office, in most cases the
Senate and House of ltepresemnlives are in
possession of additional evidence of an impor-
tant character often, and of decisive character,
and which it may be had it originally been in
possession of the Pension Office and in due
form might have resu.ted in the granting of
the pension there. No tribunal reviewing the
action of Congress is justified in finding the
fact contrary to the facts as they are found by
Congress, unless in possession of the evrdenco
upon which Congress have formed their con-
elusions.
Major-General Hunter had been in service
longer than almost any other in ajor-geueral
whose widow we have ever pensioned at all,
and he had rendered pre-eminentsei'vice ; and
there were, as I stated before, very s ecial
reasons why this woman's case skoul not
have been vetoed.
ILLNESS.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont, is quite
seriously ill at his home ili this city. Sena-
tor Sabin, Of Minnesota,a Windham coun-
ty boy, is also quite ill in New York', but
convalescing. The death of cx-judge and
ex-acting Vice-President David Davis is
felt as a personal bereavement to a great
number of his ardent friends here.
PERsONALs.
Miss Brady of Belden’s Hill, who has
been here some weeks past, returned to
Norwalk last Thursday.
Eugene Hall, Esq , an old Neptune
frieiid, was in the city last week.
Mr. George W. Beatty of Columbus,
Ohio, is spending a few days here.
"Gov.”C.B.Bowers honored the capitol
with his presence last week. The “Gov,”
did not look entirely cast down or extin-
guished even if he was the victim of some
very shabby treatment in the distribution
of the loaves and fishes at New Haven.
The proper thing for Mr. Bowers to do to
“get even” with Representative Mitchell,
is for him to run for Congress in the 2d
District this fall and thus show his un-
grateful Representative not only that
time makes all things even, but that
“there is a God in Israel.”
As ever, B.
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Real Estate Chances.
The following transactions in real estate
have occurred since our last report :—
James W. H att to John McGovern,
building lot on erris avenue, so called.
_ James W. Hyatt to John Mulvey, build-
ing lot on Stewart avenue.
Benjamin J. Sturges to Mary Kelly,
building lot on Ludlow street; consider-
ation $100.
James W. Hyatt to Patrick McMahon,
land on Cedar street.
Patrick and Mary Kelly to Josiah Ray-
mond, of Westport, house and lot on Cliff
street.
Joel G. Foster. of Danbury, to Timothy
H Foster, land at Bell Island.
Charles T. Leonard to Michael Fitz-
maurice, lot No. 13 Fair street. "
W. S Moody, executor on estate of
Charles Bouton, deceased, to Arthur C.
Wheeler, land on Arch street.
W. S. Moody, executor,-to Edward
Street, land on Arch street.
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List of letters remaining in the Post
Office, at Norwalk, Conn., June 26, 1886.
A. _or 0. Hyatt, W. H. Nelson Bridget
o’nelny, Maria Phelan, M. G. Russell Hon. :8.
A. Smith, James Stevenson, Nora Washburn.
Attest, CIIAs. OLMSTEAD, P. M.
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Mr. D. Platt has the contract for build-
ing H. P. Price’s new house.
South Norwalk advertises for bids for
.laying 12,000 feet of sewers in that city.
As the glorious approaches the air begins
to smell of burned powder and scorched"
fingers.
Our old friend “Prof.” Johnston has
recently received the degree of LL. D.
from a New Jersey College;
The corset shop girls are making merry
at Roton Point to-day, and lots of the
boys around town have gone down with
their good clothes on.
The colored Zion church has been
placed on its foundation on Knight street,
and the work of getting it into proper
shape for worship is going on.
Some of the Sons of Temperance are go-
ing Friday evening to Five Mile River to
participate with the cold water brethren
and sistren from that place, in a lawn
party.
This evening the Opera House will be
crowded to 'welcome— home Mr. George
Clarke, and, to make the occasion of mark-
ed and pleasurable importance to our play-
going people, the charming Society-Come—
dy, “New Year’s Eve” will be presented
with the strongest cast ever seen here.
Mr. Smith, of South Norwalk, has under.
taken the pleasing task of decorating the
stage with plants, flowers, &c., and the
bes‘ citizens of Norwalk and South Nor-
walk will occupy the seats. Altogether
the occasion will be the social gathering
of the year.
A FATAL DELUSION.
THE FANCIED SECURITY AND APPALLING
PERILS OI" PEOPLE REVEALED.
The eminent scientist and author, Dr..
Joseph F.’ Edwards, of Philadelphia, re-
lates the following wonderful experiences :
“During my term as resident h sician
in themedical wards of the Ph' 8 elphia
Hospital. it was a common occurence for
an ambulance call to be received from one
of the down town station houses. Upon
reaching the place designated, we would
be shown a man or woman who has been
found unconscious on the street and sup-
posed to be intoxicated. He would be
removed to the hospital where he would
linger unconscious for 24 or 36 hours and
then die. In the mrjority of these cases
a post mortcm examination would reveal
a most horrible state of affairs which I
will explain hereafter." ,
“A lady in apparently good health, who
rarely complained, and then only occa-
sionnlly, of some slight and transient ill
feeling, as nearly every one does at some
time or other, took along walk with her
husband, and upon returning home (feel-
iug particularly well) went to her room to
remove her bonnet and, while standing in
front of the mirror, fell to the floor in a
convulsion, followed by twenty-four hours
of unconsciousness, anddeath without a
return to consciousness. A post mortcm
examination revealed the true cause in a
most horrible form.”
“A young married man for years suffer- ,
cd from dyspepsia,for which be consulted
manyphvsicians. After suffering in this
way, and having-no 'other symptoms of
disease, he awoke one morning to find a
ver slight swelling, scarcely more than a
pa ness under one eye. In less than a
month he was dead.” ,,
Now, the real and terrible cause of all
these deaths was Bright’s disease of the
kidneys, and, they might all have_ been
avoided, had the unfortunate Victims
known what a horrible, malady was fas-
tened upon them. But Bright’s ’(llSCllSO
has no symptoms’ of its own. It steals
into the system like a thief, and decelvcs
its victim by showing the symptoms of
nearly every other disease.
But what can be done?
Take it in time. _
If you feel unaccountably tired; if you
have peculiar passing pains; if your appe-
tite is uncertain; if your head aches_occa-
sionally; if your sleep is irregular; if the
fluids passed are profuse or scanty, do not
delay, but use the best known means for
escaping agony and death before it is too
late. For the purpose there is a remedy,
and the only one that has ever proven ab-
solutely certain. Hunt’s Remedy has
never been equalled, and it is the only ab-
solute one known to the medical profes-
sion. There are thousands ‘of men and
women to-day who enjoy perfect health
who would be in their graves had it not
been for this Wonderful remedy, and there
are thousands of others who require it
without an hour’s delay. This is no idle
statement, but truth drawn from cases
which are beyond question.
': ——-———-00
List of Patents
Issued from the U. S. Patent office for the week
ending J Bus 22, 1886. for the State of Connecti-
cut,fu}'nished us from the office of John E.
Earle, Solicitor of Patents. New Haven, Conn,
W. Bayrer, assignor to Peck, Stowe, & Wil-
cox, Southington, tinsmiths’ shoal-in device.
H. M. Chittendcn. Danbury, mac inc for
felting hat bodies.
J. W. Johnson and F. Thatcher, Bridgeport,
assignor to Aetna Stopper Co., bottle stopper.
F. MeGar, Bridgeport. inkstaud.
F. W. Mix, New Britain, has 1 look.
C. Stahlberg, assignor to aterbury Clock
00., Waterbury, twenty-four hour striking
clock.
E. C. Terry, Hartford, piston water meter.
A. M. Craig, assignor 1-2 to C. P. Hobart,
Southington, lamp burner.
——-—-—00
The warm weather often has a depressing
and debilitating efiect. Hood’s Sarsaparilla
overcomes all languor and lassitude.
————-CO ‘
Cs rter’s Little Liver Pills are from all crude
and irritating matter. Concentrated medicine
only: very small ; verv easy to take ; no pain ;
no griping; no purging.
OO——-—-‘
Smart Weed and Belladonna combined with
the other ingredients used in the best porous
Blasters make Carter’s S. W. A: B. 'Backache
lasters the best in the market. Price 25 cts.
WAN'rEn.-—Mcn, women and children to use
the best external remedy in the world for
aches and pains. We refer to the Compound
Quinine Plasters. which are sold by druggists
#
Rare Chance to purchase a good paying busi-
ness. Only reason for selling is on account
of sickness. Restaurant and bar No. 16 and 18
Main Street, Norwalk, Conn. Will positive! be
sold on very reasonable terms. Address ock
Box No. 28, Norwalk, Conn. “23
OR SALE—The furniture in three nicely fur-
nlslied rooms, centrally located on Main
street. The furnliurc and location is suitable for
either a dentist’s or a doctor’s office, or any light
business. Will be sold at a reasonable price just
as'it stands. Address Lock Box 1680, Bridgeport
post office. 2t26p
Wanted.
HIST-CLASS SHIRT IRONERS, steady work,
and highest prices guaranteed. We pay 5c.
for old shirts ; 6e., 7a., axe. and 9c for new shirts.
Our girls earn from $9 to $11 per week. Address,
NIAGARA CUSTOM LAUNDRY, State and Court
Streets, New Haven, Conn. 1t
For Sale.
IFTEEN Acres of Standing Grass. Apply to
F. ST. JOHN LOCKWOOI).
For Sale.
Al’lece of Land of four (4) acres belonging to
the Charles Brown estate at Darlen ; bounded
on the north and west by land of Robert Ireland,
on east by the highway, and on the south by
land of Michael Gurney. Submit all offers to
‘24 BENJAillN J. STDRoEs, Agent,
1
, N orwalk. Conn.
Norwalk Savings Society,
NORWALK, CONN.. June 17th, 1586.
NTEBES'I‘ at the rate of four (4) per cent. per
anuum, for the current six months, will be
credited to depositors July lst., 1886, and paid to
on and after July 10th. Per order
2t26 GEORGE E. MILLE’R, Treasurer.
Fsirfisld County National Bank
, Noawanx 00107., J une 28th, 1836.
IVIDEND NOTICE.-—'l‘he directors of . this
bank have this day declared a dividend of
four (4) per cent. from the earnings of the past six
months, payable to stockholders on and after July
lst. - L. S. COLE, Cashier.
Central National Bank,
NORWALK, Comm, J uue 26th, 1886.
THE Board of Directors have this day declared
a dividend of four per cent. payable on and
after July 1st, 1885.
It WM. A. CURTIS, Cashier.
Dividend Notice.
NATIONAL BANK or NORWALK,
NORWALX, CONN., June 22d. 1886.
flinE Directors of this bank have this day de-
clared a dividend of 3}; per cent. from the
earnings of the past six months. Payable on and
after July lst. 2t25
II. P. PRICE, Cashier.
QUININE - PIASTER
.. ., , -. 1.
The great strengthening remedy for weak mus-
cles. ulckly cures pain in the back, chest, side
and this s. Try them. At drugglsts or by mail,
25 cents ; 5 for $1. QUININE PEAS-TEE Co., Bantams
Springs, N. Y. 1!
F. D. Utter,
The Sewing Machinist,
Still offers himself to the public, and desires to
say that he repairs sewing machines as formerly.
Orders left at the Post Office Newsstand, where a
full supply of parts, needles, to., can be had.
Orders by postal'card wlll receive prompt atten-
tloh. '
TO the Commissioners of Fairfield County.—
The undersigned hereby applies for a li-
cense to;sell— _
Spirituous and Intoxicatmg Liquors —Ale,
Lager Beer and Cider, to be drunk on the
premises, and Rhine Wine only—
Pursuant to the laws of this state now in
force relatin to the sale of intoxicating liquors
at the hull ing, No. 26 Chapel street, an
about 160 feet from the Over River School dis-
trict premises iii the town of Norwalk, in said
County. iwned, JAMEs J. SHEA.
Dated at Norwalk, Conn., the 22d day of
April, 1880. :
I hereby certify that the above application is
endorsed by five electors and taxpayers as de-
fined b law, of the town of Norwalk.
Date Norwalk, June 22d, 1886.
2t25 HENRY K. SELLECX, Town Clerk.
ISTRICT OF NORWALK, s‘s., Probate Court,
June slat, A. D., 1886.
Estate of I. Mos-mum BOYT, of Norwalk, in
said district,- assigned in insolvency.
Wasnsas, The said I. Mortimer Hoyt has made
appllcation to this court for the allowance out of
said estate of a suitable sum for the support of his
family during the settlement of said estate, and
for such other benefits as are rovided in
Section 125, Chapter 110, of the ublic Acts
passed by the General Assembly of this State in
1885, therefore
ORDERED, That said application be heard and
determined at the Probate Office in Norwalk, on
the 6th day of July 1886, at 2 o’clock afternoon,
and that public no ce thereof be given by publish-
ing this order twice successively in a newspaper
havin a circulation in said district befogrpgasald
day 0 hearing. 1)
. ASA B. WOODWARD, Judge.
Rooms to Rent
N Warren Street. within one minute’s walk of
of the Catherine street station, to a small
family. Terms moderate o
.8171 THE runs?
A Band of Canvass. soaked in
Printer’s Ink and Oil, will keep
011' the destructive Worms that
strip off leaves and finally kill the
tree. This lnk. specially pre-_
0
Opera. nous é.
EEO-NIGHT! '
WELCOME HOME!
To-Mour TO
MIL . GEORGE CLARKE.
' AND HIS FELLOW ARTISTS!
' I‘O~NIGHT! '
MR. FREDERIC CORBE’I‘T.
. ‘ ITO-NIGHT l
MR. JOHN MATTHEWS.
TO-NIGHT!
MR. TILFORD ARTHUR.
TO-NIGHT!
MR. T. J. HERNDON.
CPO-NIGHT!
MR. WALTER EYTYNGE.
TO-NIGH’I‘!
MR. CHARLES CLARKE.
TO-NIGHTI
MISS NELLIE GALE NELSON.
I‘D-NIGHT!
MISS JOSEPHINE BAILEY.
TO-NIGHTI
MISS MAY ROBERTS
TO-NIGHT! -
MISS ADA GILMAN.
, TO-NIGHT!
THE ONLYPERFORMANCE!
TO-NIGHT!
N EW YEAR’S EVE!
GENERAL AniussmN, 50 CENTs.
RESERVED SEATs, ONE DOLLAR.
- THE ONLY PERFORMANCE!
AUCTION SALE
_op_._
STANDING GRASS!
About el ht acres, on the premises of Mrs. Isaac
ll. \ oodhury, Prospect lllll, Norwalk, on
FRIDAY, JULY .21], 1886,
At 2 o’clock . in. Terms cash on day of sale.
STUR ES & MITCHELL, Auctioneers.
FROM SOUTH 'NORWALK
ROTON POINT!
-. In 25 uiinutes, via D. .t N. R. R. and Steamer
ISLAND ,B ELL E.
Boat connects with the following trains at
Wilson Point :— ,
Trains leave Norwalk at 7:34, 8:17 10:20 a. m.
12:51, 3:00, 4:39, 7.08 p.m.; South Norwalk, 7:47,
8:28, 10:30 a. m., 1:05, 3:07, 4:56, 7 :27 p. m.
Boat leaves Roton Point, connecting with trains
at Wilson Point, 11:30, a. m., 2:10, 3:55, 5:15, 7:45,
p. in. Bell Island, 6:10, 7:40, 8:20,11:40 a. m., 8:20,
4:05, 5:25 p. m.
Fare round trlp. Norwalk 35 cents, South
Norw , 25 cents.
Having arranged for a number of Free Excur-
stone. the boat wul not run to South Norwalk at
present.
The boat can be chartered for evening excur-
sions by applying to
3mm CHARLES F. MILLS. Manager.
Roton Point,
The Brighton of the East,
NOW OPEN
For the Reception and Entertainment of Guests.
PROPOSALS
—I-'0 R—'
ARMORY.
SEALED PROPOSALS for the building of an
ARMORY AT NORWALK, CONN., will be re-
ceived on or before the 30TH DAY OF JUNE,
1886.
SEPARATE PROPOSALS will be received as
follows: For the work included in mason’s
specifications; ditto, carpenter and joiner work,
painting, etc. :dltto. steam heatlng and plumbing;
or one estimate including all.
Bonds for the performance of contract will be
required.
The State Amory Commission reserve the right
to reject bidsgif, in their opinion, the interests of
the state require it. Plans and specifications of
the buildlng can be obtained of ROBERT W.
HILL, ARCHITECT, WATERBURY, CONN,
him. Per order of the 2t25
:STATE ARMORY COMMISSION.
For "Sale!
N0. 44 MAIN STREE'I‘.
Tue ThnuStuuy Buick Buildiuu,
.At No. 44 Main Street.
20 feet 4 inches on Main street, and 90
feet in depth. TERMS EASY.
Apply to tf23
Alfred 11. Austin or to lfiss lfary Hands.
FARMERS
IN WANT or
Fertilizers,
Mowing or Reaping Machines,
HORSE RAKES.
PLOWS 0R FIELD ROLLERS,
WILL DO WELL TO CALL AT
Allen Betts’ Mill. Norwalk.
3mm
The O. M. Beau O0,
BRIDGEPORT,
Our. Main 31,6111 Minn 1118.
» a
We would call attention to the Valuable
STANDARD SILKS
Mentioned below, especially our own exclusive
brands of '
Our Monopoly, 930:;81, $1.10. and $1.15.
Cachmlre Abyslnian, 75c., 98., $1.26 and
$1.50. '
-—-A1so Gulnet, Bonnet and Bellou—
Ameriean suns.
Satin Rhadames, 755:, 850., 93c. and 51.25.
Satin Snrahs, 75c., $1, $1.12. and $1.25.
Satin Duchesse, 75c., 31, $1.15 and $1.50.
Colored Silks {and Satins.
Summer Silks.
In an endless variety of Checks and Stripes at 37c,
47c., 60c., 60c. and 75c.
Colored Dress Goods. ~
Sprinngoveity Combinations,
rench Boncle Suitings,
Bayadere Cable Sultlngs.
Canvas Cloths,
Nun's Velllnzs and Albatros.
Black Dress Goods.
This is a specilu feature with us, and in our stock
will be found the largest and finest line of
BlackCashmel'es, Black ‘Ottoman Reps
" Heuriettas, and Velours,
“ Drap’d’Alma, “ Nun’s Velllngs, -
“ Camel's Hair, _“ Albatros.
OARPETS! OARPETS I
OPHOLSTERY GOODS!
We offer our customers an excellent assortment
of the leading makes of
'l
WILTONS, AxniNsrims, MOQUETTES,
Bnussais AND INGRAiNs.
Our Stock is the Largest!
Our Prices the Lowest I
We wlll convince you It" we are favored with
al
pared, is sold in Ten Pound Cans
for only $1.00 at the GAZETTE
OFFICE. ‘
A Chestnut Standing Desk. Appflyma: 0
The D. M. head 60.
For Sale.
"10!.
and proposals directed to the Commission left with ‘
GRAND '-
lth 'of July
EXCURSION
.—.TO.-——
Nil BOOB
Monday, July 5.
The Steamer City of Albany. in connection with
the Danliury 5 Norwalk Railroad, and Manhattan
Beach Railroad will make a grand Excursion to
Manhattan Beach, leaving South Norwalk at 7:47
and Wilson Point at 8:00 o'clock a. m., connecting
With the Manhattan Beach Railroad at Long Island
City at 11:30 making regular landings at foot of 83d
Street and Pier 23. RETU RN INC—will leave Pier
23 E. R. at 5:30, Twenty-third Street, E. 12., at 5:50
and Long Island City at 6:00 p. m., connecting
with the 5:25 train from Manhattan Beach, arriving
at Wilson Point 8:11:00 p) m.
A special train for anhury and intermediate
stations will leave Wilson Point on the arrival of
boat from Mahattan Beach.
90 cts.
FROM NORWALK AND
Fare, *
W. B. HALL 81 (60.,
BRIDGEPORT.
We have bought the entire stock of Sample
Muuuus all 1118!! Jackets
Of the well-known cloak manufacturer,
Joseph Thomas, of New York, and
offer all the $8. 810 and $12 ,
oucle and Berlin Wraps,
AT ONLY $3.00 EACH.
All $5.00 and $6.00 Garments.
AT ONLY $3.00 EACH.
Colored Dress Goods
——DEPARTMENT.——
New Canvas Cloths, double width. ‘at only
37 c. ; usually sold at 50c.
ouble Fold Camel’s Hair Cloths at 25c.
Summer Shades in Cashmeres at 25c.
All wool Colored Cashmeres at 33c.
Boucle Striped Canvass, a choice and popular
style of Summer Goods at 62?“.
Albatros Cloths in all qual ties.
Nun's Velllngs and Clarette Cloths.
Wash Dress Goods.
100 styles French Satcens.
All shades plain Sateens.
Zephyr Cloths and Scotch Cingliams.
Anderson’s best Mourning Clnghams.
50 styles Batiste Cloths.
2 cases Lowns.
100 pieces Handsome Cambrlcs.
Seersuckers and Cheviots.
5 cases Prlnts.
200 pieces Sateens at 12xc.
'Black Dress Goods
———DEPARTMENT.-———
All the new weaves in Black Goods.
Another lot of the beautiful Convent Cloth, an
entirely new fabric.
Princctta, Gypsy and Melrose Cloths.
Henrietta Cloths.
Special Bargains at 75c., 85c. and 31.00.
PARASOLS.
Fresh arrivals dnlly. Special Bargains in Sun
Um re as.
e
SPECIAL SALE
{DRE ss SILKS
SOOFI
Striped Satins at 38 cents,
BLACK AND COLORED
——-AT—
1 units.
We have taken the agency for the
ROYAL BLACK SILKS,
A line 01
‘ SUMMER SILKS,
At 83 cents, very cheap.
ranted.
A Big Bargain. A Line of
Rhadamas at 50 cents.
Five Button Kid Gloves,‘
New shades at :1 per pair. Every pair warranted.
One case more
BODY BRUSSELS CARPETS at $1.
ever oflered.
TAPES'I‘RY BRUSSELS from 50c. upwards.
Bargains in INCRAIN CARPETS, all grades
and prices.
RUGS. in all the Newest styles, at half the price
asked for them by peddlers.
The best
Call Early and Secure Bargains,
Soofleld. 8: Hoyt,
. No. 3 Gazette Balding,
NORWALX, CONN.
people.
PRINTS flI3 CEJVTS. ..
ably low prices to all.
of Competition! .
MEN'S GOOD SERVICEABLE SUITS,
.50, $6 and $7.
, MEN’S ALL WOOL SUITS, and the
best goods for the money ever offered,
$8.50, $10, $12, $14 and $15.
MEN'S BLACK WORSTED DRESS
sm’rs, $10, $12, $15, $17, $30 and $24.50.
The Renault ding Echo of Triumph is Heard-
from all Sections !
BRYANT, Bill-SI! ill Ell, ‘
"rue Reliable
Clothiers. Hatters & Gents’ Furnishers.
We strive to fulfill the desires and demands of th
The people rejoice and our business inereas
with wonderful rapidity. It is not luck that gives us .
advantages Over our competitors; it is not chance
that gives us the enormous trade; but it is our com-
bination ()f'27 stores; our ready cash capital; our
experience, ability, untiring, increasing desire to give
satisfaction, quality, honest treatment, and unquestion-
CS
Our Prices Guaranteed beyond thereaeh
CHILDBEN’S SUITS, $1.25, $2.50, $3,
$3.50, $4, $4.50, $5, . 5.50 and $6.
CHILDREN’S SHORT PANTS, 50c.,
75c., $1 and $1.25.
MEN'S ODD PANTS "55., 51. 1.25,
$1.50, s2 and 02.50. ’ ' $
Complete Line of Gents’ Furnishings!
Hats, Caps, Straw Hats, 50. upwards, Trunks, Bugs,
Horse Blankets, Lap Robes, Whips, Rubber Goods .
@Operators of 27 Stores and Leaders in Low Prices!
G'Goods Marked in Plain Figures!
BRYANT, BESSE & 00.,
The Reliable Clothiers, 29 Main St.
One Low Cash Price to All!
Special Attention
Is called to my
French Kid Welts and Turns
Baud-Made ; also the Soft
Kangaroo, Dongola and Curasoa
Kid at $3.00.
NICELY FITTING AND GOOD STYLE!
THEY WILL PLEAsEl Tar Turn!
For sale by
GLOVER 5 Oasis, Norwalk.
» B 8. BROWN, South Norwalk. '
1
MR. JEiuuN, Stamford.
Frank H. Ruscoe.
Franklin Buuuu’ Blunt Purifier.
BET IEDIOINE FOR CLEANSING THESISTII.
Well-known in Norwalk for the wonderful
cures it has done. Now is the time for Malaria
and an “all gone" feeling," try this Blood Purifier
and Tonic.
.4 Great Spring Medicine.
A FEW REFERENCES ’: '
Mrs. Henry Seymour, 3. K. Stanley David Platt,
Mia's Celia Starr, A. A. Betta, D. . . Bennett,
and many others.
WStrlctiy Boots and Herbs, a PURE and
HONEST REMEDY. Put up only in full quarts,
and lasts six weeks.
For sale at the office of Frank H. Ruscoe. and
store of Clovera: Son, and H. S. Brown, South
Norwalk. 3mm
For Sale Cheap.
THREE Good Building Lots. within a few
minutes walk ofPost omce, healthy location,
public water on street. Two new houses going 11
on same street. Price low and very little coal:
required. Address, “wa Yonx," in care of
u. 8. Hi}... & (lo.
Norwalk GAZETTE. or
tionto some of. our goods below.
‘A. H. HOYT & 80M
DEALERS IN
FEEL CONFIDENT
That they are selling Boots and Shoes CHEAPER than any
other house in N orwalk. i We call atten-
LADIES’ FRENCH KID,
Hand-sewed Welts and Turns, very fine,$5
LADIES’ DONGOLA KID,
New York toes, also box toes, $3.50
LADIES’ AMERICAN KID,
New York and box toes, fine, $3.00
O
LADIES’ AMERICAN KID
Good Style and a Nice Shoe, $2.50
LADIES’ CURACOA KID,
Can’t be beat for price, $2.00
LADIES’ PEBBLE COAT,
Fine and Nice, $2.00
a l in rson at the
G 111111: Office. pp y pe "8
87 Wall 811.,
LADIES’ GLOVE KID
Top Shoes, $1.25 and $2. Good Value.
Misses’ uuu 0111M: School Sinus,
$1, $1.25, $1.50, $2.
BOYSISHOES.
We excell: $1, $1.25, 1.35, $1.65, $1.75,
and $2. You will find these shoes can’t
be beat. Our
Old Reliable Plough Shoes,
Still reliable, $1.50. We still keep the
OLD BELiXBLB BOOT,
At the low price of $2.25. Look at our
SEWED BROG A NS,
The easiest shoe in the market. Every-
thing as represented.
A. H. HOIT & SON’S,
Nor W 85111.
Boys’ Suits!
Children’s Suits!
SPRING OVERCOATS, >
A: 32.50, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,9, 10, 12. 14,15, 16, 18, 20 and 22.
THE DUNLAP snare 11.: SPRING 55:15:51-
Our Assortment ‘oi Spring Neckwear is Unsurpassed! Special Attention is
[3 and 14.
9.50, 10, 10.50,
called to our 25 cent Scari‘s.
H
The Oldest and Largest Clothing House in Norwalk !
amuse. BBOI.
811311168 SUMMER CLOTHING,
when making, trimmings and style are taken in consideration, are lower
than any Similar establishment in western Connecticut. '
Men’s Business Suits.
BBS
$3.75, 4.75, 5.75, 6, 6.75, 7, 8.50, 9,
11.50. 12, 12.50, 13,14
15, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 22.
‘DreSS Suits! $12.00, 1400,1500, 18.00, 20.00, 22.00, 24.00, 25.00, and 26.00.
Long pants, age 13 to 17; $2.50, 3, 4.50, 5, 6, 7,8, 10, 12, 12.50
Short pants, age 4 to 14; $1.25, 1.75, 2, 2.25, 2.50, 3
3.50, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.
Hosiery, and Spring and Summer Underwear in every grade and. price
' ' THE STAR SHIRT WAISTS. ‘ ' '
Unlaundried Shirts all linen bosom 25' eta; ditto Wamsutta. muslin 5O cts.
Fish, Clark & Flagg’s Walking and Kid Gloves.
_ ‘ KEY _& Locswoon’s NEGKWEAR.
HATS, CAPS, TRUNKS AND TRAVELING BAGS.
COB/[STOCK BROTHERS,
'45. Main. Street, Norwalk. ‘ _ Insurance Building, . So. Norwalk.
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