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ti " NORNALK GAZETTE.
Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1886.
HenirjyéGeBi-gé‘ is going to lecture in
. 'BSGS‘PWEQRE
' Don’t fail to read the great novelette
sow runningon our outside.
Read the adv. of Mrs. Dr. Armand,
who is now at the Mahackemo Hotel.
The Gander club of SouthNo'rWalk will
dance for'the benefit of the library soon.
Hartford is to have a toboggan slide
,. this winter from 1,000 to 1,800 feet long.
The Housatonic railroad company is
building a new side track at South Nor-_
walk. _
Mrs. J. H. Wade has nearly recovered
from a serious illness of intermittent
fever.
Jesse James, of Main street, went out of
the saloon business last week when the
sheriff went in.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gilbert of George-
town have gone to Crescent City Florida,
for the winter.
St. John’s Lodge, F. & A, M., conferred
the first degree on three candidates last
Thursday night.
Washington Chapter, R. A. M., No. 24,
will elect ofiicers for the, year ensuing
to-morrow night. .
Lawyer Lockwood and his bride have
moved into the Smith house on State
street, opposite the green.
The marriage of Miss Jessie Smith sud
Mr Carmi Betta is announced to take
place on Thursday, the'16th inst.
Miss Kate Field is in Washington and
Mrs. Gen. Logan gave a handsome dinner
in her honor last Monday evening.
The last meeting of the County Com-
missioners for issuing licenses .for Nor-
walk, will be held at South Norwalk to.
‘ inorrow.
George Tester, of Bridgeport, swallowed
a little swallow of rough ’ 011 rats last
Monday to see how it tasted. He joined
the angels Tuesday night. '
Miss Marion 0. Olmstead, daughter of
Mr. Samuel Olmstead, of Norwalk, is
teacher in a private family, at No. 1489
K street, Washington, D. C.
estate ofiice in New York.
All will be glad to learn that the Hon.
Asa Smith is able to be out again.
ites to clear their sidewalks of snow.
Warren Osterbauks is to be married this
evening to Miss Estelle Mead, both of
Norwalk.
The president’s annual message was
promptly delivered to congress at the
Opening yesterday. ,.
Au evangelistic temperance meeting will
be held in the Opera House on Sunday, at
3 p. m. Address by Rev. H. A. Delano.
Pity the poor horse car driver this ter-
rible weather, and pity their poor horses
more and don’t make them halt on the
slipppery rails unnecessarily.
We saw “Doc.” Baldwin stop and let a
“hitch-behind” boy come around and get
into the front of his sleigh. He‘is a good-
hearted man who thus kindly treats the
boys. '
The children of the Sewing-School gave
a “Bubble Party” at the residence of
Mrs. Matthew Bird, West avenue, Friday
eveueuing last. Prizes being given for
the largest and smallest bubble.
Almost every member of the W. G. 0.
club is making desperate efioris to raise a
goatee, and the result in some instances,
is really surprising. . A black-bailed appli-
cant for membership says it’s easy enough
now to interpret those cabalistic initials:
“Weak Goatee Owners.”
The design for soldiers’ headstones fur-
nished by the state has been changed and
improved. During the year 107 stones
were ordered and personally inspected
and approved by the Quartermaster.Gen.
eral before being erected. The f uncral
expenses of 122 indigent soldiers were
approved, amoanting to $4,214.85.
Those thrifty young business men,
Roscoe, Camp & 00., make people, who
pass their fresh and attractive store, see
Stars, and see them too, a good deal more
pleasantly than those usually seen on the
ice and skating rink fioor. Give them a
call.
The members of Company F put on
their new uniforms, last Friday night for
the first time and practised for their ex-
hibition drill to be given to-uight, pre-
B. J. Sturges 85 Son have opened a real
Bailiff Pinneo kindly invites all borough-
NORWALK GAZETTE TUESDAYrDEC
The largest monthly amount of license
money ever collected and distributed by
the present board of county commission-
ers was reported last month. The .Nov-
ember distribution was as follows : West-
port, $997.50; Norwalk, $8,300.15; Fair-
field, $1,830.00; Stamford, $8,999.35;
Danbury, $5,378.90; Stratford, $807.50
Huntington, $702.50; Durien, $190.00
Brookfield, $95.00; Greenwich, $2,997.80;
Bedding, $47.50; New Canaan, $95.00;
Bridgeport, $385.70; County treasurer,
$1,590.80;-Total, $31,812.00.
The first snow storm of the season,
Sunday morning, caught nine-tenths of
our people without rubbers, and sent
many tip-toeing to the shoe stores to see if
perchauce any of our enterprising dealers
had made a Suu‘day opening. But to their
everlasting credit as‘scrupulous observers
of the Sabbath, be it said, not a shoe
dealer showed up. The gratifying con-
sciousness of virtue rewarding itself will
more than counterbalance the vain regret
for the fact that they could have sold a
thousand pairs of rubbers in fifteen min-
utes had they been around Sunday morn-
ing.
Says the Norwalk correspondent of the
Southport Advertiser: —— Mr. Lupertie
Beebe, who died in Bridgeport on Friday
last, was a former resident of this place.
He was for eighteen years a vestryman of
St. Paul‘s Church, eleven of which he was
first vestryman‘. He resided corner of
North avenue and France Street. He was
in the confectionery business, and kept a'
store in the frame row north side of Wall
street, on the site about where Glover do
Olsen‘s now is. The writer remembers the
placo well, as it was there be disposed of
his extra kite string money for small con-
e ctionery. .
The Raymond & Comstock dance given
in Germania Hall last Wednesday even-
ing may be set dowu as a stupendous suc-
cess in every sense of the term. The
crowd was immense, and desirable, and a
spirit of enjoyment permeated the affair
that could leave no doubt of its success
socially. Everybody enjoyed it, from
start to finish, and all agreed that great
credit is due the committee who had the
arrangements in charge, for the admirable
manner in which the programme, in all its
details, was carried out. The music, by
Moeslin’s orchestra, was exquisite; the
Frank Comstock,who resides in Orchard ceding “19 hOP- The ““30"“ are real supper magnificent, and the decorations
street, of the firm of Raymond dc Com-
stock, batters in South Norwalk, left last
last week for San Francisco.
Lockwood’s Hall isn’t likely to contain
again this season, so brilliant a gathering
of heeloshakers and spectators as the raili-
tary sociable will attract tonight.
The deepest snow ever known fell
throughout the south Sunday. In South
Carolina it was twenty-six inches deep.
At Montgomery, Ala., eighteen inches.
The trial before referees of Blanchard
vs. The Borough of Norwalk, for injury
done to his water power at Silver Mine,
is still dragging its slow length along.
—Dou’t let this cloudy weather keep
you away if you want Photographs, for
Readmau uses only the instantaneous
plates and charges only $2.50 per doz.
Mr. Eskelson’s purpose of returning to
Faderland, puts in the market one of the
most desirable, moderate priced residences
in town. See his adv. in to-day’s paper.
Sturges 55 Mitchell will sell at auction
at South Norwalk to—morrow (Wednesday)
‘a lot of miscellaneous valuables belonging
to the late J. D. Ruggles. Read their adv.
The election of chief and two assistant
chief engineers of the Norwalk fire de-
partment will be held in the Pioneer Hook
and Ladder rooms next Monday evening.
The venerable sister of the late Chief
Judge Butler, Miss Julia A. Butler, sends
us two dollars in renewal of her fiftieth or
more, annualsubscription to theGszsm.
The Brid gcport police arrested 205
persons during November. Eight new
policeman have been added to the force.
“A gratifying indication of prosperity,"
etc. ‘ )
Rev. S. B. S. Bissell is within three
months of his seventy-fifth birthday, and
is just about the age of his honored father,
the late Judge and Governor Clark Bisseli,
when he died.
The members of Concord Division, Sons
of Temperance, had a sort of jolly jam-
boree, at their rooms in the Guam
building last night, which was evidently
much enjoyed.
There is to be a Grand Army fair in
Danbury soon, that threatens to knock the
kermesses and feasts 'of the new moon
completely out—it’s a characteristic of
Danbury undertakings.
Two human legs were washed ashore
at Watch Hill last Monday. They were
picked up by a fisherman who is waiting
for the owner to come along, prove prop-
erty and take them away. _
Mr. Holly Bell oszaricu, who died last
week at the age of 93 years, had lived un-
der all the presidents, from Washington
down to Cleveland. He was 8 years old
the day Washington died.
It is said that the Republican legislature
at Hartford, will be asked, this winter, by
the Prohibitioniststo submit the subject
of amending the state constitution so as
to prohibit the sale of liquor, to a popular
vote. .
Next Tuesday evening the South Nor-
pretty and so are the brave boys who
wear them.
Capt. D. L. Durant, of Binghamton,
who recently became a father, has been
granted a patent for a safety pin. Mr.
Hyatt, an old Norwalk boy, has also in-
vented thebest safety pin as yet put on
the marketdbut he hasn’tvery recently he-
come a father.
Nothing insures success more than thor-
ough organization in a political cam-
paign, and this fact should be kept freshly
.-
H
be presidential campaign in 1888. In the
'nterim there will only be the town and
orough elections to keep alive the politi-
cal elections.
At the annual meeting of Clinton Com-
mandery, No. 3, K. T., held in their rooms
Friday evening the following ofiicers were
lected: J .Belden Hurlbutt, E. 0.; Frank
Street, G.; Geo. W. Raymond, C. G. ; Ass
Smith, Prelate; Geo. Ward Selleck, S. W. ;
John H. Lee, J. W. ; J. E. Smith, Treas.;
Wallace Dana, Recorder.
To the New London Day’s observation
that “this world has nothing more beauti-
ful than chrysanthemums, beaming in the '
rays of a rich November sun,” Cooley‘s
Weekly rcplies:_ "Oh, yes, it has. School-
mums.” “Right you are, and some of
them are veritable daisies that bloom in
all seasons of the year,” says our bache-
lor editor.
-—The ladies will find at Miss Agnes
Fitch's Main street millinery store, all the
seasonable novelties in hats and head gear
generally, which she prepares attractively
and sells reasonably. “Small profits and
quick sales” seems to be her motto, and it
will certainly repay a visit to her. estab-
lishment for an examination of the latest
styles of ladies‘ winter bonnets and hats.
The Hartford Telegram has the blues,
and is raving frantically over the discov-
ery that a certain democratic State Sena-
tor-elect is pledged to vote for Gen. Haw-
ley’s return to the U, S. Senate. Our
pessimistic contemporary is in very ill hu-
mor ever since election. It was only a few
weeks ago that It intimated plainly its
suspicion that a good many democrats
actually sold their votes for money.
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' William G. Scdgwick, of Litchfield, a
young fellow who is studying medicine in
New York, has just been sued for $20,000
damages by Miss Mary Walter, of Rich-
mond, Virginia, who alleges breach of
promise. Connecticut stock is in big de—
mand in the South, and it takes heaps of
money to make good the‘loss of a bonnie
nutmeg laddie to the heart of a haughty
southrou beauty.
These are the new directors of the
Riverside Cemetery association: James
W. Hyatt, Robert H. Rowan, Lester S.
Cole, Christian Swartz, Enos Kellogg,
John H. Light, Minot 0. Kellogg. And
these are the oficers elected: James W.
Hyatt,president; John H. Light,Secretary_;
Minot C. Kellogg, treasurer; Enos Kel-
logg, superintendent.
“Crimes of a Great City” and “Burr
Oaks” will be presented in the Opera
, note.
profuse and aesthetic.
As Conductor Varson’s day freight train
coming south was approaehlng'Redding
last Saturday afternoon the train couplings
broke in two places on the summit of the
grade, and the middle portion, five
cars, with not a brakeman on any of
them, crashed into the forward portion,
which‘had c‘ome toa stop at the depot,
throwing several cars from the track,
smashing several bumpers and strewing
the track with wreckage. It required
press train going north was delayed about
an hour by ‘the accident. . The freight
train itself was nearly three hours late at
Norwalk. Fortunately nobody was in-
jured.
At the annual meeting of Buckingham
Post, G. A. R., held on Wednesday even-
ing, the following officers were elected
for the year ensuing :—Commauder, Win.
A. Ambler; senior vice-commander, Chas.
F. Loomis; junior vice-commander, Sid-
ney Williams; quartermaster, James E.
Wixon; surgeon, Dr. Ellery C. Clarke;
chaplain, George S. Partrick; officer of
the guard, A. A. Hauschild; ofiicer of the
ay, George A. White; adjutant, George
Buxtou; quartermaster-sergeant, G.
W. Raymond; sergeant-major, William A.
Kellogg; trustees of relief fund, James L.
Ambler, A. A. Chiuery, James E. Wixon;
delegates to state encampment, G. W.
aymond and George I. Buxton.
I afilrm, said Judge Waldo Brown in
the BostonTraveller,that the system of en-
dorsing notes is all wrong, and should be
utterly abolished. I believe that it has
been the financial ruin of more men per-
haps than all other causes. I think that
our young men especially should study
the matter carefully in all its bearings,
udv adopt some settled policy to govern
their conduct, so as to be ready to ans-
er the man who asks them to sign his
What responsibility. does one as-
ume when one endorses a note 1’ Simply
his: He is held for the payment of the
mount in full, principal and interest, if
he maker of the note, through misfor-
uue, mismanagement or rascality, fails to
payit. Notice, the indorser assumes all
this responsibility with no voice in the
management of the business and no share
of the profits of the transaction if it proves
profitable; but, with acertainty of loss if,
for any of the above rcasons‘stated, the
principal fails to pay.
.A Modern Luxury.
There is nothing pleasauter in the con-
duct ofa newspaper than to sit land write
close by your telephone bell, and just as
your fancy gets into‘fa fine phrenzy rolling”
have the ‘ ‘tiugle-tingle-tiuglc” of your bell-
call, rouse you from your reverie with the
sepulchral voice of some distant caller with
the modest request to hunt up “Ben.8tur-
gee, and'ask him to come to the telephone,”or.
“will you go and see if O.E.Wilson is in the
ofiice and tell himI want to speak to him
on real estate or fire insurance,” or, “Will
you please go and find John_Hurlbutt and
tell him to come to the telephone immedi-
ately 1’" At least every five minutes in the
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walk Amateur Dramatic association will House this week, as per announcement in d h
gotoWestport and give the Weatporter another column. The first named is 3:33;, atbttiggjzxf$3235.20?
.man “The Last Loaf" and then “Turn deseribcdasathrillingand exciting drama
Him Out." ‘Brother Jones shouldn’t fail which is well received wherever present-
we have recorded until life with our tele-
phone is becoming a burden. Then to
Wouldn’t Work After Supper-
An impecnnious and awful hungry. but
sagacious tramp, applied to “truthful
about 10 o’clock in the forenoon. Jim
concluded to set him at work in a field
cordingly gave him his breakfast, after
which Mr. Tramp coolly suggested that
as it was so near dinner time he’d better
eat his dinner before going to the lot.
Jim appreciates a‘joke and admires nerve
as much as anybody, and he was so im-
pressed with the tramp’s ingenious gall
and voracious appetite that he sprendn
sumptuous dinner before him, which. like
the breakfast, quickly disappeared. Then
to carry the joke along,'Jim remarked
that the candidate might as Well make
one job of it, and cat-his‘supper. too. be-
fore going to work. The still hungry
tranip. readily acquiesced and the third
meal was despatehed, all within an hour
and all before 11 o’clock. When the third
set of dishes was cleared away the ' tramp
pulled out a black clay pipe, loaded it
with “hod carrier’s revenge,” fired it up,
tilted his chair back against the wall,
and crossed his legs for a comfortable
kitchen smoke. Jim watched him in as-
tonishment for a few minutes and, finally
becoming impatient, ejaculated :
._“W'eil, hadn’t you better be getting to
work? Here it’s almost noon."
The tramp took his pipe out of his
mouth, blew a cloud of smoke in Jim’s
face, cocked his weather eye and replied
with pompous dignity:
“I beg your pardon, boss, but it’s ag’in
my principles to work after supper.”
Jim fainted dead away.
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. Good Cotes. _
Those who were so fortunate as to
strike that exquisite coffee gratuitously
dispensed at the Danbury fair will rejoice
to know that there' is a prospect of its
being sold here in Norwalk. The cofiee
is a rare and delicious quality, specially
imported by Allyn, Blanchard & 00., of
Hartford, and Grocer Quintard has already
sent for it, and all other grocers will,_no
doubt, soon follow suit when they find it
is the best cofiee in the market.
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Silver Wedding.
.Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Osterbanks will
celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of
their wedding Friday evening, December
17th, at their residence on Belden avenue.
Mr. O. is our Main street carriage maker,
occupying the Captain Lamb shop.
__._“._—_
WESTPOBT.
Professor Cross spent Sunday with Dr.
L. T. Day.
The stores are beginning to put on .a
- holiday appearance.
Messrs. F. N. Taylor and James Hart
are both seriously ill.
Dr. and Mrs. George B. Bouton have
mind by republicans flom now until some time to clear the track, and the ex- gone to New York for the winter.
Westport 'is to receive 0997.50 of the
license money collected during November.
The Willow Brook Cemetery association
has just declared another dividend of six
per cent.
The Catholic fair in National Hall was
continued until Wednesday evening of
last week. The amount netted was over
$500.
Skating was indulged in by the boys on
Saturday although the ice was rather thin,
but the snow of Sunday put a veto upon
that sport.
Messrs. Foote and Olmstead, painters,
have gone to Bridgeport to work forP. T.
Barnum at puttin g the cages in order for
the summer campaign. '
A handsome monument has been erect-
ed in the Catholic cemetery during the
past week by Norwalk parties to the
memory of Kate Flynn.
The draw has made very rapid progress
since the work of :putting up the lion
commenced, and from present indications
will be completed within a short time.
The Sons of Temperance will give an
entertainment consisting of tableaux,
charades, dialogues and music, both vocal
and instrumental, at their hall in Hurl-
buit’s block.
Mrs. Laura Hubbell celebrated her 80th
birthday or. Wednesday of last week, on
which occasion all of her family consist-
ing of her five sons and one daughter with
their families, besides a number of rela-
tives and intimate friends, were present.
Mrs. George B. Gerham died very sud
denly on Thursday of last wegk of neural-
gia. The deceased had been in her usual
health, and, although complaining some-
what for a few days, there was nothing in
her condition to cause alarm, and when
her death came it seemed hardly credible.
Mrs. Gorham was a comparatively young
woman, being in her forty-fourth year.
She was an active member of the Congre-
gational church, which, as well as her
family and immediate relatives, has sus-
tained a severe loss. The funeral was
attended from the church on Sunday af-
ternoon.
We see that Darieu is to have a supper,
the proceeds of which are to be applied to
the erection of street lamps and the lay-
ing of sidewalks. Would it not be a good
idea for Westport to try something of the
kind for the same purpose ? We surely
need to do something in that direction,
and now that we are to be brought nearer
New York, practically, by the reduction
of fares on the railroad, let us make a
move to make Westport more attractive
to strangers, and in what way can that be
better done than by providing good walks
Jeems” Mitchell for work the other day at '
quite a distance from the house. and ac-'
POLITICAL PLEDGES.
CONGRESS TO REDEEM THEM.
He Asks That All Tax on Wool be Bo-
moved and Time "‘Untax the Clothing
of Sixty Million People"—-The Public
Debt Statement.
Wasumomn, Dec. 7.—The annual report
of Mr. Daniel Manning, secretary of the
treasury. makes a pamphlet of shout seventy
pages. Following are some of the most in-
teresting paragraphs:
. The financial situation, scanned at large as
a whole, plainly indicates our best policy.
life should reduce taxation immediately at
an annual revenue sufficient to pay our
annual expenditure, including the sinking
fund and excluding the silver purchase; pay
our unfunded debt of $346,681,016 with the
present surplus, and the surplus which will
accrue before the whole reduction of taxa-
tion can be made or take eflect, and while no
more funded debt can be paid except at a
premium during the five years from now
until 1891.
The public debt consists of four principal
:tems, which are, in round numbers, as fol-
ows: .
l.‘ The unfunded debt:
United States legal tender notes ...... $316,000,000
2. The funded debt:
Loan of 1881. 8 per cents ..............
Loan of 1591.45 per cents ............ glg'w
Loan of 1907.14 per cents .............. 788.0003!”
During the last seven years the receipts of
the federal treasury have been over $2,500,-
000,000; the net ordinary expenditures have
been upon an average of $257,000,000 a year;
the excem of ’the ordinary revenue has been,
upon an average, over $100,000,000 a year.
Including the $2,000,000 a mouth expended
for silver, the total annual surplus revenue
hasbeen nearly $125,000,000 a year for the
last seven years. With this surplus we have
been paying 01! funded debt atanaverage
rate of $100,000,000 a year, and havebeen
spending the residue mostly on silver dollars,
of which, in January next, 250,000,0me
have been coined;
A needless depletion of the people’s earn-
ings at therafe of $125,000,000 ayear the
present congress can completely cure.
To stop, the purchase and coinage of silver
is the first and but stop. To increase our
stock is to increase the difficulties of the
treasury, illegitimate and abnormal difficul-
ties, which ought never to be imposed upon
the treasury of any democratic government,
and which ought not to be increased. Its
mission is to coin the two metals into money
for the public—as much as everybody asks.
It hasno fitness for coining for itself and
keeping thelcoiuage. Atreasury surplus is
standing proof of bad finance—of bad laws,
if such have made it n .
For the preunt fiscal year the receipts of
the government (actual and estimated) will
amount to $356,000,000; the total expenses,
$301,213,517.2l, and the estimated surplus,
854,786,48279.
The secretary. of the treasury makes the
following recommendations:
1. Repeal the clause in the act of Feb. 28,
1878, making compulsory treasury purchases
of silver in order to reduce surplus and un-
neoemary taxation 824,000 a year.
2. Further reduction of surplus taxation,
beginningina manner which will be sug-
gested below, close down to the necessities of
the government economically administered.
3. Repeal the act of May 31, 1878, making
compulsory post redemption issues and re-
issues of United States legal tender notes,
'thus facilitating:
4. Gradual purchase and payment of 8346;-
681,016 outstanding promissory notes of the
United States with the present and accruing
treasury surplus, issuing silver certificates in
their room and gold certificates if need lie,
without contraction of the present circulat-
ing volume of the currency, these notes
(called greenbacks) being new the only debt
due and payable before 1891 except the 8 per-
cent. bonds, which are probably all to be
called and paid early' in the ensuing fiscal
year.
Mr. Manning reminds the Democratic
party of its pledge—made prior to the last
presidential election—to reduce taxes, and
says: “Public life will ceaseto be the am-
bition of honorable and worthy men, if the
deliberate pledges and professed principles of
political parties are not a law for their
eaders." .
Attention is called to the fact that the
highest wages in the world are paid to labor-
ers in this country, and the secretary re-
marks: “The advantage we possess in the
most efficient and highly paid labor-in the
world is, however, nullified by the self-im-
disadvantage of tariff taxed raw
material, with which our labor is inwrought.
The taxes to be first remitted are them which
prevent or hinder the sale of our surplus
products in foreign markets. Their removal
will set capital in motion by the promise of
better returns, enlarge the steady employ-
ment and increase the annual income of
many thousand wage earners, whose pros-
perity will difluse prosperity. These taxes
are the duties on raw materials, and the most
widely injurious of them is the tax upon raw
wool.
Under the caption of “Untax the clothin
of 60,000,000 people,” the secretary says: “
respectfully recommend to congress that they
confer upon the wage earners of the United
States the boon of .untaxed clothing, and in
order thereto, the immediate passage of an
act simply and solely placing raw wool upon
the free list." '
A Railroad Deal.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7.-—The Record says:
It is practically admitted that the negotia-
tions pending between the East Tennessee,
Virginia and GeorgiaL and the Norfolk and
Western Railroad companies had been about
completed. The terms have not been made
known, but it is declared by some to be a
guarantee of 7 per cent. upon the preferred
stock of the East, Tennessee bv the Norfolk
and Western company. The East Tennessee
is earning all of its fixed ‘charges. which are
81,072,000, covering all the bonds issued, and
the company has $1,500,000 of 5 per cent.
comols uninsured in its treasury. The lease
will make the Norfolk and Western a trunk
line, and will secure to it the through busi-
ness which might otherwise be diverted to
the Richmond and Dauville and the Western
North Carolina systems. The lease will also
connect the Norfolk and Western with the
Texas Pacific, and also ~with the city of
Chicago.
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The French Cabinet.
PARIS, Dec. 7.-M. Floquet has signified to
President Gravy his willingness to form a
cabinet in order to avoid the enmity of Bus-
sia. The probable composition of the minis-
try, according to the best authorities, is fore-
cast as follows: M. Floquet, minister of into-
rior with the presidency of the council; M.
Laboulaye, minister of foreign affairs; M.
Rouvier, minister of finance: M. Goblet, min-
ister of public instruction; Gen. Boulauger,
minister of war; and M. Lockroy, minister of
commerce. _
Waited for the Papers.
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valuable lnygonstlpation, curin sulfurgventii'g
1:11: annoying complaint, while t ey area correct
ml disorders of the stomach, stimulate the liver
if
nndrczuhtethebowcla Even ibeyonlycm-ca
Ache they would be almost rleeless
suffer from this distressing Eomplaing‘; tili‘d‘tafoo‘i-thi‘i‘2
nntely their goodness does not end here, and those
ESE:8.‘£.’J“°$.““E“€T“€E““€ ”mm”
s a e n
to do without y Dutaftci! all stein head 5
AC H E
Is the bane of so many lives that here is ' .
make our great boost. Our pills curfitcvrfhig
“billed‘t'fiilu 1.: sum
r o ver Pills are re ll
very easy to take. Ono or two pills guise u (13::
They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or
ggergefinlrgitbnt‘hiei'r gggglo nitztion please all who
. . u s n . teen 5' ' “
by drugglsts everywhere, or scr'itfll‘); m1. Sold.
cannula MEDICINE 00.,
New York Clare.
The D. M. Read 00.,
Bridgeport.
DRESS GOODS.
6-4 Wool Serge, 450.
40 inch Wool Foule, 25c.
40 inch Diagonal Serge, 25c.
50 inch Tricott, all wool, 50c.
50. pieces Wcol Dress Goods of different
fabrics, worth from 75c. to $1,’at 58c.
Black Rhadame, all silk, 75c.
Lot Black Brocade Velvet at $1.25.
Important Ofieriug of ,
LADIES’ AND MISSES’
CLOAKS,
JACKETS
9“ WRAPS.
Although we are not yet in our new
cloak rooms we are showmg a larger line
than ever. We had them bought, they
arrived, and now we are aching them at
just the prices we were to put on them at
the opening of the new store.
Large Line of
MUFFS. BOAS AND STOLES
" Manufactured of all Stylish Furs.
TRIMMINGS,
In French Couey, Hare, Nutria, Opossum,
Lynx, Otter and Raccoon.
,Pwrticular attention is
called to these goods as
they are all manufactured
for this season’s trade.
The D. 11,—lam 05.,
Bridgeport,
Prepay all Express and Postage Charges
on Goods ordered by Mail.
For Sale.
EMBE_R 7 1886
WMbnfihilg-qégiéiw ,1“ ‘
6 all 7 1181' 0011. Farm 1101111091
‘-—-OF THE-—
Equitable lei-tugs 00., Kansas City.
Incorporated—Capital, $000,000. '
Principal and Interest Guaranteed.
Security from three to six times the amount or
loan. Coupon Bonds. Interest payable in New
York. Also, ly34
Middle-ox Blanking Comp-may, of
Middleton, Conn.
Organized under the banking laws of the State
of Connecticut. Coupons payable in New York.
R. B. CRAUFURD,
Agent, 31 Main Street, Norwalk.
MlSSESxST.+JOHN,
33 Main Street,
We are making a special display of
T111110 all UltiilllleliiBonlets
and Hats,
Fancy Feathers é‘ Ostrich
Tips.
Mourning and Fancy Goals of all kinds.
HAIR 000981 SPECIALTY.
A Full Line of
EMBROIDERY MATERlALS
Constantly on hand.
Stamping Neatly Executed.
Misses St. John,
33 .Main Street,
Glover 81 Olsen,
0.420181011111111,
Leaders of the Shoe Trade
Wish to cal. your attention to a few of the many
styles of shoes carried in stock by them.
OUR LADIES’
Pl’tllci Kill, Halli-Malt Waulennlasl,
A Marve of Comfortond Ease.
0111 $5 Hall-Male, French K111 W911
For ladies wear are erfect in every re ct and
aagoodas oeasanyaold one?”
For $5.50,
Our Ladles’ Hand-Made French Kld Turn Shoes
made b Benedict Jr 00., of New Canaan, are the
some 0 style and beauty, and positively cannot be
excelled at any price.
Oh! Oh! for $3, ‘
Those Nobby Little French Kid, Hand~Made
Oxfords with patent leather tips are admired by
all that have seen and worn them. You must cal
For $2.50,
A Perfect Misses’ Waukenpliast for school or a
walking shoe cannot be equalled.
WIn a word our line of shoes is complete in
every respect.
We have the best line of
CHILDREN’S SCHOOL SHOES
Ever shown in town and at prices from the
cheapest to the best.
Glover 8: Olsen,
42 Wall Street,
noawsaz. ’
For Sale Cheap.
ILLbe sold at a Bargain, if applied for soo
Six per cent. Debentures Bondr. of the ,
0111' Triumph is Ileardiron Fair 5110....
Bryant, Besse & 00.,
The Reliable Clothiers, Hatters and Gents’ Furnishers,
HAVE THE. INSIDE TRACK.
Our uncouquerable, honest, impressive low rices ‘ ' ' '51,];
few, not one or two here and there, but 'everywhtsre alfdeggrythldil or M ' '. Not a
children,bankers, bakers, butchers, builders, merchants, mechanic? mag”? women,
mzngtgghgiru‘igrs, doctors, laborers, lawygs and all classes, we b'elieve‘~l 2335:;
van ages we ossess as UYERS BEL ’
ENGLAND CLOTHING “CO BINATION OF. TwENTg-SIEIEEN ’S‘TO’IRIIJL'i‘l NEW
cash buying, our cash selling of reliable, honest, substantial, stylish and aatisf Ont
goodsvat impressively honest, low prices, combined with our experience actory
etermination and ability has given us a reputation and an immense sail 221.5% ’
growing business that is a wonder and env to others b t "
edge we stand pre—emineutly the relleble biII'gain clotliieit's vzilthne forced. to ‘ acknow '
Prices that Defy 6011011011, and 019 H1101, Low P110 11 Ill!
MEN’S WINTER SUITS, $6.50, 8.50, 10, 11, 12’ 15’ 16, 18, 20, 22’ and 24.50,
Overcoats, Roofers and Waters.
MEN’S WINTER OVERCOATS,
and 25.
ELEGANT LINE OF BOYS’ AND, enmonnm
3, 3.50, 4, 4.50, 5, 5.50,6and upwards. s OVERCOATS. 31-50. 250.
Latest Styles in Hats, Cloth and For Caps, Driving Gloves,
Dress Gloves, Working Gloves and Mittens,
Underwear and Cardigan Jackets.
Immense Line. of Gents’ Furnishing Goods.
TRUNKS AND BAGS, LAP ROBES, HALTERS, AND WOLF ROBESI
BLANKETS FROM 000. UP.
$5, 7.50, 8.50, 10 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24
Bryant, Besse ck: 00.,
THE RELIABLE COMBINATION ,CLO'I‘HIERS,
' 29 Main Street, Norwalk.
WStore open every evening.
A. H. HOYT & SON, ‘
BOOTS AND SHOES
- FEEL CONFIDENT
That they are selling Boots and Shoes CHEAPER than any
other‘house in N orwalk, We call atten-
tionto some of our goods below.
LADIES’ FRENCH KID, LADIES’ GLOVE KID
HaudsewedWeltsand Turns, very flue,$ Top Shoes, $1.25 and 02. Good Value.
LADIES’ DONGOLA Km, Misses’ 01110111le 80111101 Sluts.
New York toes, also box toes, $3.50 $1’ $1'25' $1'50’ 82'
LADIES, AMERICAN KID? We excellliglygflgggfisltfi $1.75
New York and box toes, fine, $3.00 and 82. You will find these shoes can’t
be best. Our
LADIES’ AMERICAN KID Old Reliable Plough Shoes,
Good Style and a Nice Shoe. $2.50 Still reliable, $1.50. We still keep the
LADIES’ CURACOA KID, OLD REL—IATSLE BOOT,
Can’t be beat for price, 3290 At the low price of $2.25. Look at our
7 .
_ _ The eas1est shoe in the market. Eve
Fine and N109: $2.00 thing as represented. ’ ‘7
A. H. HOTT & SUNS,
a small, neat Cottage, of sin coma, in good
A Chestnut Standing Desk. Apply at 0
ms sures.
neighborhood and three minutes’ walk of the‘
ridge. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE
increasing
Wall 515, Narw, an;
CIMSTOCK BROTHERS
Have 1118060 in stock fully one third more goods for the
TALL AND WINTER TRADE,
Than ever before in order toimeet the demandsgof their rapidly
business.
MEN’S HEAVY BUSINESS SUITS, $6,38.50,9,10,12,14,15,18,a.nd 20
MEN’S DRESS SUITS, $14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30..
BOYS’ SUITS, $2.50, 3.50, 4, 5,6,7, 8, 9, 10.50, 11, 12, 13 and 14.
CHILDREN’S SUITS, $1.50, 1.75, 2, 2.50, 3, 3.50, 4, 5, 6,7,8 9 and 10.
They] would call special attention. to their $8.50 Suits for Men’s Wear, which they claim
are marvellously cheap and are rctuiled by the clothing trade generally at $10.
to attend. ed, and is presumably just such a play as vary one’s experience, some man 0,, fool. WASHINGTON Dec. 7 —The characteristic
, .
MW Willi“ E James i5 'h°"i“3 1‘" will captivate :1 Norwalk audience on the boyor girl will ask:“Can’t you step over to
public spirit by putting down a cross walk
in front of her gate out to the horse rail-
way traek. to meet the one similarly ex.
tended out by Mrs. E. P. Weed from the
south side.
start. “Burr Oaks” was presented here
last season, and is known to be good.
Seats are on sale at Plaisted's drug stores.
the grocery or meat market and ask them
to send up something right away for diu-
uer i’" then show their gratitude by yell-
and lighting our streets? Who will move
in the matter '1’ .
Thursday afternoon, about 5 p. m., a
man who gave his name as John Davis
Our first real “in?“ snowstorm set in ing back at you, “Say 1 can’t you talk any went along King street leading his horse,
“d" 5““‘133' “mums “'1 “Red mm“ plainer?" 0r.“don.t stand so close to the which walked with difficulty, and when
Rev. E M- 1M”. Norwalk’s 001011311 13’ allday, making church going more di" transmitter. Please don’t holler so loud, oppogito the residence of Mr. Ephraim
preacher, was regaled with a feast by the
la dies of the Bethel A. M. E. church in
Danbury, last Thursday evening at the
close of his lecture up there for the bane.
fit of the Béthel church.
Roscoe Conkling, describing a witness
on the other side of the case : “Gentle-
men, I can see the witness now—his
mouth stretching across the wide desola.
tiou of his face, a fountain of falsehood
and a sepulchre of rum.” _
‘ The Farmer says that collector Goddard
has been in correspondence with several
oyster growers to ascertain if they would
favor asking assistance of the United
States government in attempting to rid
the oyster beds of star-fishes.
Congress met yesterday. About
the first measure to be taken up in the
Senate after the President’s Message, and
announcement of the death of Senator
Pike of N. H. will be Senator Platt’s reso-
lution abolishing secret sessions.
The young colt picked up estray by ofii-
cer DeForest last week, belonged to Mr.
Eber Foote, but De Forest has his eye on
several other‘young colts, with not quite
so many legs, which he intends to “gather
fa” if found estray much more.
Twenty dollars was the measure of
Cleveland's sympathy for the earthquake
sufferers of SOuth Carolina but he could
contribute five hundred dollars as evi-
dence of his zeal ialfavor of the corrupt
elections in the‘city of New York.
Mr. Joseph Pieseu, of Chicago, and
Miss Paula Heicke, of Cassel, Germany,-
were married at the residence Mr. E.
Apell, on Wall street, Tuesday. The cere-
mony was performed in German by Rev.
’Dr. W. G. Spencer, formerly rector of
Trinity church.
The sub-bass, double diapason vox pop-
ulilubo in Ben Sturges' breech loading
pipe organ, is frozen solid, plum up to
the key-board. Pending the suspension
of organ operations for repairs, the most
attractive thing in Ben’s office is clerk
"Billy” Bishop's gostee. ‘
agreeable than ever. No horse cars were
and the horses the croup, and the snow
as were compelled to pass between the
two ends of the town had either to walk
or procure carriages. Yet no one could
justly find fault for not attempting to run
the cars on such a stormy Sunday.
Mr. Walter Fitch, whose bouuteous
generosity has often made our office force
to leap for joy, says : “I don’t want you
to give me any complimentary notices as
long as I live.” But when this good man
puts on immortality and can no‘ longer
kick, we’ll send him off in something like
this beautiful style :—
He always kept our poetry basket
Filled with apples sound and big,
Nor allowed our older jug
E’er to lack a luscious swig—-
But our Santa Claus has gone,
And no sum of earthly riches
Could induce us to come back
If once we get where Walter Fitch is.
The funeral of Earn“, the wife of Mr.
Aonnuus J. Manna,:who died Thursday
evening last, took place yesterday from
their Main Street residence. Rev. Mr.
Anderson, conducted the services. The
services was a most estimable wife, moth-
er audwomau, and dearly beloved by all
who knew her. She had long been an in-
valid from an incurable malady and‘ ‘made
perfect through suffering,” death came to
her as a happy release from pain, while
the dear ones left behind mourn her. de-
parture.
A double team owned by a green pickle
peddler from York State, ran away last
Thursday, knocked Miss Peaslee’s car-
riage wheels OE and frightened other hors-
es and fetched up at the foot of Mill Hill by
one of the horses running its head against
'a telegraph pole knocking itself down
and bringing its mate to a standstill.
There wasn’t much damage done, but
lots of pickles were spilled, and if Peter
Piper had followed the trail of the run-
aways, he could easily have picked a peek
of peppered pickles.
and speak slow and be more quiet about
an apology to some onefor being called up
in the way of “modern improvements,”
when you are conscientious y striving to
keep your mind, and the few ideas you
have therein stored away, for newspaper
use. Well, after all, we ought to really
enjoy our telephone, as without it, we
never should have known how many cou-
siderate friends we have, willing to let us
serve them.
He Got Stuck.
Wm. B. Warner, the silverware dealer
has learned a lesson in the tactics of sharp
weapons, which, while it may not be as
useful to him as his accomplishments as
. corporal of 00. F, in the manual of arms,
' yet he will certainly hold it none the less
valuable by virtue of the painful expe-
rience through which it was learned.
He had been using an engraver's tool last
Wednesday, a sort of brad-awl with a
long, slim, steel shank, and very careless-
ly stuck it into his hip pocket. Shortly
afterward he sat down on a chair—but he,
immediately arose with more haste than
grace, and ran his hand around under his
coat-tails and into his hip pocket; his eyes
bulged out like balls on a billiard table,
his under jaw dropped down onto his
necktie, and an expression of wonderment
mingled with agony o’erspread his frank
and whiskered countenance, the wonder-
meut diminishing and the agony intensify-
ing as his hand grasped the handle of the
owl and he attempted to pull it from it's
moorings. He wiggled and twisted the
instrument, suiting every wiggle and ev-
ery twist with a grimace of torture and a
su pressed grunt of pain. At last, with a
a esperate pull, be extracted the awI and
it was found to be twisted up like a figure
8. It seems that when Warner sat down,
it was in such a position in his hip pocket
that the pressure of his weight drove the
int into his flesh right where his bustle
would have'_beeu if he had been a lady.
The awl penetrated to the bone and was
bent by contact ,with, the bone. For a
few days Warner walked with conspicu-
ous tenderness, and sat down standiu
up. He's all right now though, but shu .
ders when he recalls what he went
through. And so does the aw]. ,
Osborne the animal fell and was unable to
run, the drivers all having the epizootic it" That makes youfeel “9 if you owed rise. Several passers stopped to render
assistance, but all attempts to get the ani-
shovelers couldn’t cleanthe tracks for fear and broken upin your editorial work. Oh, up failed. When Mr. Osborne arrived
of getting the pneumonia, 5° such persons the telephone is a nice thing to live with, home, a gnarl; time after, be procured a
team and stone-boat, and drew the animal
into his barn, and did all that it was pos-
sible to do, but about 10 p. m. the animal
died. Davis stated that his home was in
West Stratford, and that he had traded
horses that morning about two miles west
of Norwalk, and was on his way home.
His story looked rather contradictory in
that respect ‘as he was going toward Nor-
walk. The horse was a dark bay and in
excellent condition. The buggy was an
old side spring of very little value.
WILTON.
Mr.‘ Fred. D. Benedict and wife, leave
this week for Florida.
James T. Hubbell, Esq.,Wilton’s bright
attorney, expresses the belief that the
Knights of labor in the legislature will
elect the Hon. Wm. H. Barnum, N. D.
Sperry, or some other friend .of labor to
the U. S. Senate in place of Gen. Ha wley.
The aged Mrs. Clarissa Raymond is
quite chirk in spirits yet, though she does
not attempt to leave her bed. Her appe-
tite and nutrition are good and she raises
and moves herself about her bed without
assistance. Her mind is still clear, al-
though she is now over one hundred and
four and a half years of age.
BEDDING. '
Mr. and Mrs. L. W.;Randle have com-
meuccd housekeeping.
There was a fierce snow storm on Sun-
day which greatly hindered attendance at
church.
C. D. Leavenworth was arraigned for
selling intoxicating liquors, before Justice
Duncomb last week, and appealed with-
out trial. .
Thursday Rev. W. J. Jennings ofilcia-
ted at the marriage of his son James Henry
and Miss Alice A. Kingsbury at North
Coventry. '
indifference of the members of both houses
on the reading of the preddent’s message was,
perhaps, more noticeable than ever. Many
of the representatives said they could not
hear the reader and waited until they could
get the papers
Charles Francis Adama’ Will.
Dunstan, Mass, Dec. 7.—The will of the
late Charles Francis Adams makes one public
bequest of 810,000170 the Adams academy,
Quincy, of which the grandfather of the de-
ceased was the founder. The rest of the
estate is equally divided among members of
the family.
mas Winnie Davis.
New Yonir, Dec. 7.—Miss Winnie Davis,
who has arrived in this city from Syracuse,
will remain in this city until after the boil-
days, when she returns to Mississippi.
Walther Indications.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Suow, followed by
fair weather, northerly winds, slightly
- W'Catarrh
Is a constitutional disease, caused oy‘scrora}
lone taint In the blood. Hood's Sarsapsrllla.
being a constitutional remedy, purines the
blood, builds up the whole system, and per-
manently cures catarrh. Thousandsofpeoplo
who suffered severely. with this disagreeable
disease, testify with pleasure that estsrrls
’5“:~Can» be ‘5
cured by taking Hood's Sarsaparllla. Iss3
Alfred , Fallon Avenue, Provi-
dence. B. 1., says: “I have suffered with
estarrh In my head for years, and paid out
hundreds of dollars for medicines, but have
heretofore received only temporary relief. I
began to take Hood's Sarsaparllla, and now
my catarrh is nearly cured, the weakness of
mybodyls all gone, my appetite is good—in
fact, I feel like another person. Hood's Sar-
saparllla is the best medicine 1 have ever
taken, and the only one which did me perma-
nent good. I cordially recommend It.” A
condemn in Worcester. Mass, who was
Cured w
01 eatsrrh by Hood's Sarsaparilla, says: '1‘
would not take any moneyed consideration
for the good one bottle did me." If you are
a sufferer, do not put of! taking a simple
attested, and consumption has gained a hold
uponyou. Bewlseiutimel That fiowfrom
themeningtnguolseln the ears,paininthe
heed, inflammation of the throat.cough,aud
nervousprostrationwlllbe enredif youtako
’ Hood's Sareaparilla -
loldbyalldrauists. [1;stxforls. Prepared
by 0. l. 8001) 8 00.. Apothecarles. Lowell.“
" loo Doses One Dollar ...‘
remsdytillyoar bronchial‘ tubes or lungsaro _
16, 17, 18,20, 22,
5 6,818, 9,10,11,
prices.
NORWALK.
These goods with the exception of our
manufacturers’ agents by the case only, and are retailed at 20 per
The Largest and, Most Varied Assortment of OVERCOATS Ever
2 Shown In Norwalk.
MEN’S OVERGOATS at $2, 2.50, {3, 4, 5, 5.50, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,, 1
24 and 25.
BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S OVERGOAT
12, 13 and 14.
THE BEST TWO-STRAP NEW HAMPSHIRE BLANKET AT 60 CENTS,
2, 14, 15,
K‘ I
now
s at 1.75, 2, 2.25 2.50, '3, 8.2
The Largest and Best Stock of GEHThEMEH’S UNDERWEAR-in the 0ounty.
A full line of Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery Co’s. Full Fashioned, Double Thread Underwear, constan t
on hand. These goods are the best manufactured in this country, and equal to theéfinest goods imported.
In connection with their Retail Trade of HATS they have a Wholesale Department,
which enables them to buy of first hands by the case exclusively, at saving to
the consumer of atgleast 10 per cent. below the closest prices.
I-‘ISII, illARK & PLAGG’S GLOVES. ,
THE: STAR SHIRT WAIST.
TCOM'PLETE LINE OF CARDIGAN JACKETS.
.ZElegant Smoking Jackets and Morning Gamma:
Headquarters for Horse Blankets.
very fine blankets are bought direct from the 5
KEY 85 LO0KWO0D’S NEGKWBAB.
cent. under the regular
{THE STAR SHIRT V'JAZS
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COMSTOCK BROTHERS. *
45 MAIN STREET.
4
“ INSURANCE BUILDING.
SOUTH NORWALK.
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