NORWALK GAZETTE.
A. H. BYINGTON, Editor. I. RODEIIEYER. IL, Associate.
Wednesday, Feb. 2,%87.
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EDITORIAL LETTER.
‘WasmNOToN, January 31, 1887.
DEAR GAZETTE :——The passage of the
‘ ‘Disabled Soldiers and Dependent Parents
Pension bill” by tiic Senate is the most
important and generally interesting and
beneficient measure yet enacted by this
Congress. The Senate had sent to the
House a wisely framed and generously
provisioned bill calculated to work justly
and humanely and to cover a large class
Of deserving cases not included in our
general pension law. But it was torn and
amended all out of original shape by the
House, and came back to the Senate a
wreck of what the Senate had tried justly
to enact. Senator Platt designated in
happy phrase as an attempt by the Senate
to give bread to the destitute and disabled
veterans of the country, but the House
had instead given them a stone. Defect-
ive and unequally operative as the law
will be found to be in active Operation,
its friends in the Senate were afraid to
send it back to the House with 'much
needed amendments lest the whole
measure should be lost,and so passed it as
iticame from the House, and now it only
needs the president’s signature to make it
a law. In brief it gives a pension of from
$4 to $12 a month to such soldiers-of any
war as may now be helpless or destitute
without forcing themzto prove their pres-
ent disability had its origin in their army
service. The fact that they are now dc-
crepit or destitute entitles them to the
pension without regard to causes, so that
their condition be not the result of vicious
or criminal conduct. It covers all those
who may have fought for the “Old flag” in
in any war, and the point was made that
under this bill disabled and destitute
veterans, who had served in the Mexican
war, the war of 1812, or any Of the Indian
wars would be entitled, even though they
had since fought in tile ranks of the
traitor-ous rebellion. Senator Teller made
the admission that this was true, birt add-
ed when the leaders of these armies of the
rebellion against the Union and those
who had legislated in the councils of trea-
mn were permitted seats in Congress and
were now as actively enacting laws for
the rc—uuited country,he thought it strain-
ing the point of consistency to deny a
pension to some poor private soldier who
had very likely been forced into the rebel
'ranks. But incongruous and inconsistent
and defective as the bill is, it will make
the last days of many a destitute veteran
more tolerable because Of the bounty
thus provided to solace his old age by his
grateful country.
TELEPHONE.
The great telephone contest now before
the U. S. supreme court attracts daily
more persons than can possibly jam into
the court room, the old senate chamber.
NO case of equal importance, value and
universal interest has never been before
this our highest court. Thus far in its
progress it would seem that Professor Bell
had the best of the argument, and critical
lawyers who have kept a close run of the
arguments express the belief that his in-
strument and its priority over all other
devises Of electrical inventors, will come
out of this hard fought battle unscathed
and triumphant. Connecticut has inci-
deutly a special interest in the contest.
The House or Bridgeport patent, while it
is made a special and distinct answer to
Bell’s claim of priority in the govern-
ment’s Poston suit against Bell, and soon
to be tried in the. interests of the pan~elec-
trio, is in ithe present case but incident-
ally introduced. However fuli answer is'
made by Bell’s attorneys to the House
claim, which shows it to be utterly ground-
less and fallacious, House, of Bridgeport,
was a man much like Edison,»ar fruitful"
and marvellous inventor in the realms of
clectricforccs and uses. At the time the
original Morse telegraph patent expired
that great inventor had a supplementary
being made necessary by the] misconduc
of the office, or of those who have deal
with the evidence on file there, the office graphing,
confessing its error by reviewing and al-
lowing the claim which had already been
rejected, is tlren lacking in ordinary
courtesy of giving official information to
Congress of the allowance of the claim.
Thus these bills proceed to the executive,
who in several instances has vetoed the
bills, alleging the subsequent allowance
by the
glorying in the fact that a large amount of
mone is saved by the action of the Pen
sron
and these claimants get that which they
would fail to receive should the special
acts become laws.
because it is a common practice.
man Matthews the president imported
here from Albany and gave the best office
in the District to pay a political debt.
work, have proceeded to allow the claims
after bills have been pending in the two
Houses.
two Houses, or by one Of the Houses, the
bills being pending, the Pension OEce
having corrected its work and allowed
these claims, has failed to give notice of
And then after action by the
ts subsequent action.
The action of Congress in the first place
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t
ension Office, and somewhat
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thee and the Executive department,
I call attention to this
MB. MATHEWS.‘
The Senate has again and by no means
by a partisan vote rejected the colored
He was rejected for the same reason that,
at the same executive session, a white
citizen of Iowa was rejected for surveyor-
gencral of Idaho. The Washington Star
says:
The people of the District without re-
gard to party affiliations, ask for the ap-
pointment to the oflice in question of one
of their own number,‘—the consideration
of color or politics not being involved in
any way in the request. Paying no at-
tention to this respectful and reasonable
prayer, and in violation of one of the planks
in the national democratic platform upon
which he was elected,the president brings
here and ate in the office a citizen of the
state of ew York, who has never in any
way been identified either in interest_ or
or by acquaintanceship with the District,
and the Senate refuses to confirm.hrs ap-
pointment. That’s all there is of it.
A democratic senator said to a Star
reporter today:
“We rejected Matthews because he was
a non-resident imported here to hold
Office. Why, on the very same day we
rejected a citizen of Iowa, nominated for
surveyor-general of Idaho, for the very
same reason, and there was nothing said
about the latter rejection. We did not
think that a citizen Of Iowa should be
given Office ili Idaho, nor did we think it
right to import a citizen of New York
into the District here to administer affairs
of local interest. We rejected both nom-
inations for the same reasons."
DEATH OF manure.
Mrs. Mary E. Blairfl widow of Hon.
Montgomery Blair, who was post-
master-general in Lincoln’s first cabinet,
died Thursday night ‘at' her residence
here. She was a daughter of the Hon.
Levi Woodbury, of New Hampshire, of
whom it has been said that he held every
honorable office within the gift of his
native state, and nearly every office under
the federal government. He was govern-
or of his state, a United States senator, a
representative in Congress, a member of
the cabinet, an associate justice of the
United States supreme court, which ofiice
he held at the time of his death. Her
remains were scpulcheed in the beautiful
Rock Creek Cemetery.
TENDERED ro MRS. LOGAN. '
The vestry of Rock Creek parish have
tendered to Mrs. General Logan, a choice
lot as a place of burial for the remains of
her husband, now in a beautiful private
vault in Rock Creek Cemetery.
DIED AT THE AGE OF 109 YEARS.
Martin Willians, a white man, who
resided at 325 Twenty-third street, (lied
here Thursday, at the advanced age of
109 years. He was a native of Virginia,
but had been aresident of this city for a
number of years, and his great age seems
to be conceded as correct.
WOMAN surname.
The woman suffragests headed by good
old Susan B. Antbany and Mrs. Hooker of
Hartford have had an unusually enjoyable
session here, although defeated in the
Senate by about two vdtes to one. but
both Miss Anthony and Mrs. Isabel Beech-
cr Hooker said that they were much grat-
ified with the debate. in the Senate, be-.
cause it placed the enemies Of the move-
ment on record and showed the weakness
patent for reinforcing- the electric current
along his line from local or way to bat-
teries. This patent had some seven years
to run. In order that the general prin-
ciples of tclegrapliy might become corn-
nron property, the foundation patent hav-
ing expired, Mr. House and many Others
set to work to get around the reinforcing
or “relay" device of Morse. House hit
upon a sort of audiphone, a most delicate
instrument which so conveyed the waves
of sound that the faintest click or tick of
the Morse recording needle could easily
be heard by the practiced operator, thus
dispensing with the necessity of the re-
inforcing currents to make the loudly
audible clicks of the Morse recording in-
strumcnts. Yet this invention of Morse
was no more a speaking telephone of the
scope and nature of Bell’s, than was
Morsc’s original telegraphic instrument.
Counsel E. N. Dickerson explained that
the Morse instrument could be so adjusted
as to become a distinct vehicle of sounds, '
but not a transmitterof the distinct words
and distinct tones of voice of the speaker
as in the Bell device. Nor will, as the
counsel proceeded to show, any of the .
devices set up as answers to the Bell in-
vention as perfectly perform these func-
lions. They say, also, that the House
device, instead is not a new and im-
portant discovery Of an old patent, as
many Connecticut papers seem to sup-
pose. On the contrary Mr. House
fried long and earnestly to sell it to Prof.
Bell, and since the death of Mr. House
other parties have attempted to impress
the professor ofits value in his contests,
but that the professor and his counsel
knew it to be utterly worthless in connec-
tion with his speaking telephone device.
Professor Bell has seemingly the strongest
side of the present issue legally, but he
has to encounter the strongest kind of
popular disfavor, whether justly or un-
justly cannot be fully known. So grasp-
ing has been the telephone monopoly, and
apparently excessive the rates demanded
for its use, that the hope and prayer is
everywhere and continually expressed
that some fact or flaw may be discovered
by reason of which his wonderful inven-
tion may be thrown open to the free use
of the public. This must, in a degree,
he disheartening to an inventor Of so
marvellousa device with which he has
been enabled to bless the world.
vsrons.
The usual veto of a soldier's pension
came to the Senate Friday, the president
assigning as a reason, as he frequently
does, that the Pension Office had already
grantedapension to the claimant. Sen-
ator Blair, indignant at these acts of (in.
plicity and demagogism on the part of
“Mental, Moral and Physical Wreck”
Black, put on record the following ex:
posure of the Pension office’s neat little
plan to get ahead of Congress. Rising in
his place in the Senate Mr. Blair said:
It will be observed that the ground of
the veto of this Pension bill is that some
time in the month of July last, the bill
tit-ing pending in Congress, the Pension
Office allowed the claim, and that conse-
quently as the claim has been allowed by
the Pension i-llicc there is no occasion for
the passage of this bill, which has very
recently been passed and has reached the _
executive. This is the ground upon
which several special acts that have been
passed by Congress have been vetoed.
1 desire to say that these cases thus allowed
by the Pension Ofilcc are cases which once
have been disallowed by the Pension
Office. and which having been dis—
allowed by the Pension Office, the
claimant was obliged to come to
Congress for relief. Whercupon the
committees 01‘ Congress called upon the
Pension Office for the papers and for the
ground of the rejection; and it has been
found that the attention of the Pension
Ollice thus being called to the cases—
whicir in many instances have been nrost
grossly and absurdly rejected upon. the
evidence in tire possession Of the Pclrsion
Olficc—tlrcir attention having been called
to these cases, and the fact that the legis-
ialive power was overhauling their past
of their argument.
The army Of good women with them
have taken up the Temperance and moral
reform question and spoken and worked
for there issues as heartily as for the ballot.
canvass. BALL.
The Chinese Minister‘and suite gave 3
Reception and Ball to their fellow diplo-
mats and some fifteen hundred others. It
is said hundreds of persons crowded in,
uninvited and the scenes in the supper
room, where there was an immense pro-
fusion of everything to tempt the appetite,
were simply disgraceful to American civ-
ilization. Alocal paper said next morn-
ing that though the American hog may
have :been headed OR in Germany, he
is pushing his way elsewhere. He had
full possession of the supper room at the
Chinese reception. Gen. Hawley and
Rev. Dr. Childs and his daughters were
present. The General got on without
serious difficulty, but it is said the good
Rev. Dr. was considerably astonished to
observe the quantities of wines many of
the decolctte ladies could greedily swal-
low.
PERSONALS.
Hon. Wm. D. Bishop, gave a dinner
Saturday evcning, to such members of the
Senate and House as were with him in the
35th Congress a quarter of a century ago.
The entire number we believe, was but
nine. Mr. Bishop on being interviewed
on the subject Of the N. Y. & New Eng-
land getting control of the Housatonic
said without apparent concealment or re-
serve, that the new owners of the New
England had become purchasers of a con-
siderable quantity of Housatonic common
stocks, but he had no idea that this fact
had any other significance than the pur-
pose tO ensure and maintain reciprocal
and friendly relations in the conduct of
the two properties, where business inter—
ests were so nearly allied. Heidid not
believe in the existence of any schemes, '
for getting the management of the House-
tonic into the hands of the New England
company, nor did he think any unfriendly
competition with it or the Consolidated
railroad was contemplated by the New
England managers. They lad a great
property, and wanted to do whatever
they legitimately could to make it pay.
If is now stated pro and con with about
equal confidence that the president will
and won’t sign the Inter-State Commerce
bill. He has placed it before Attorney-
Gcncral Garland for his views as to the
wisdom and constitutionality Of the act.
Hon. Cliauucy Dcpcw and other railroad
magnatcs are expected here this week 'to
submit arguments against it.
Representative and Mr. Buck have, as
their guests at the Arlington, a bevy of
enthusiastic and vivacious Hartford young
ladies, who are enjoying Washington so-
ciety about as earnestly as their charming
presence here seems to give enjoyment to
all those they meet in social intercourse.
They are Misses Mamie Buckley, Mary D.
Shipman, (daughter ofJudgc 8.), Florence
K. Buck, (daughter of Hon. John R.),
Besse Bunnel and Mary Braincrd.
Dr. and Mrs. Whittemore, with Master
E. Reed and Mr. and Mrs. John Hennesscy,
Jr., of New Haven, were here last week.
Hon. George C. Woodruff, of Litcbfleld,
visited Representative Seymour last week.
Ex-Senator Rarnum has had Mr. J. H.
Hurlbutt, of Lime Rock, formerly of
N orwalk and Wilton, appointed a special
agent of the internal revenue bureau, with
a salary of $7 per day.
Miss Foote, sister of the late Mrs.
Senator Hawley, slipped and fell in her
room last week and broke her arm.
unfortunate lady is quite comfortable
despite her serious accident.
Mrs. Rev. Dr. Childs has been called to
Boston by the serious illness of her sister.
Florida.
NORWALK GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1887.
Mrs. chenator Ferry and her daughter
Mary will be guests at the Misses Rossi-
ters, No. 1412 K street, N. W., from and
after Friday, February 4th. -
As ever, B-
M... A.-."
LEGISLA TI ['5' NOTES.
The melancholy bills introduced by Mr.
t Raymond of Daricn, relating to photo-
cataloguiug, identifying and
burying unknown dead folks at the state’s
expense, were rejected on being adversely
reported by the judiciary committee.
A bill was introduced and referred
Friday in the house, providing that all
ramps convicted shall be lodged in jails
or county workhouses, and only confined
'n state prison when they commit person-
al assaults or iravc fire-arms in their pos-
session.
A pauper bill now before the proper
committee, stipulates that all persons sup-
ported by any town having a population
of over 2,500 inhabitants shall be sup-
ported iu an almsiiousc or other place
provided by the town.
A bill was referred creating the Office
of State Agent for oyster grounds, at a
salary of $1,800, and taking away the
present powers and duties of the fish.
commissioners concerning shell fisheries.
Bills were introduced, that thc‘ state
shall pay only $2 aweck for the board of
prisoners in jail.
$8,000 for school fund deficiencies.
Also‘ to appropriate
Mr. Hyde of Hartford introduced, by
request, a bill forbidding the sale of liquors
to be drunk on the premises except in
hotels and restaurants, when served with
meals; referred.
A resolution passed the house directing
that a portrait of Gov. Lounsbury be pro-
cured.
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, The Lecture.
Professor Johnston’s admirable lecture
on “Modern Warfare,” on Tuesday night,
January 25th, in the beautiful new chapel liquors to excess. And. a so plainly, since
Of the Congregational society, was most
instructive
worthy a much larger audience; but
Professor Proctor-’5 lecture on the Sun,
and Ralph Wells’ address before the Sun-
day school convention, botlr at South Nor-
and interesting and well
walk, and large wliist parties ill the bor-
ough, and the state of the walks caused
serious diversions. It is hoped that the
second lecture' in Mrs. Bissell’s course on
Friday cvcning,February 11, by Professor
Anderson, on “Physical Culture,” will
have better success.
A letter from Rev. Dr. Clapp, in the
Congregationalist, says :—
Prof. Alexander Johnston. of Princeton
College, delivered a lecture before one of
the largest meetings of the New York
Congregational club on “One Hundred
Years Of the Republic.” Professor John-
ston took hrs hearers back to the roots of
things in the brains of the early settlers of
New England, with their keen intelli-
gence, hardy enterprise and energy, and
dwelt upon the still living influence on
our institutions of Thomas Hooker, the
first to deliberately attempt the establish
ment of a representative democracy on
this continent. Of the influences the past
century produced, and which We are
handing down for the good or ill, he
named: the rapid growth of urban towns,
as distinct from agricultural villages.
That 13,000,000 of our people are living in
such towns of more than 4,000 inhabitants
he regarded as a fact of bad tendency, an
abnornal development, bringing with it
some of our most difficult problems, such
as the tariff, the labor troubles, vicious
election methods, farcicial pretenses of
trial by jury (where it might often be
better for the litigants to let the counsel
toss upa penny for the verdict, and so
rob the "juryJixer" of his occupation),
the organizing of industry into great irrc-
sponsible corporations too powerful for
law, and the divorcing of religion from
education. On each of these specifications
the professor dwelt with great force. On
the last item he said, “I have heard that
Satan is purely an intellectual force, with-
out any moral restraints. Is it a good
thing that the state, so far as its power
extends, is training up a generation of
Satans? Our fathers never did so."
Norwalk is proud of her share of Prof.
Johnston. X.
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Brother Byington’n hunter.
» From the Hartford Post we clip the fol-
lowing, illustrative of the characteristic
courage Of our .honored chief, whose ab-
sence gives us the opportunity to repub-
lish it in the GAZETTE:
It is pleasant to know that the courage-
ous newspapercorrcspondeut described in
Frank Wilkeson’s entertaining “Recollec-
tions of a Private Soldier,” was no less a
man and soldier than Hon. A. H. Bying-
ton, proprietor of The Norwalk GAznrrlr.
Mr. Byington has shown so much valor
in the newspaper field that he can be ac-
counted, first and last, one of the most
representative of its workers. Mr. Wilke-
son is a son of Hon. Samuel Wilkerson,
one of Mr. Byington’s associates on The
York Tribune during the war and there-
fore comes by divine right to his inimita-
ble powers of narration and criticism.
While with his light battery on the North
Anna river on the advanced line against
Lee, the enemy's sharpshooters—"mur-
derers all”—were pepper-ing the position
savagely. During this fire up rode,
strangely enough, very cool and self-
possessed, a civilian—but we must let. Mr.
Wilkeson tell the story himself:
One day, as we lay in our earthworks under
a sharpshooters’ fire,I saw a civilian clad in a
long linen duster ride toward our battery. I
thought he had a queer idea. of a pleasure trip.
To my great amazement he rode into the
battery‘ and asked if I were present. I was,
and promptly said so. “Well if you are the
man and I guess you are, here is a. package of
tobacco your father has sent to you,” he said,
handiuflr me a couple of pounds of plug tobac-
co. T is, under a brisk picket and sharp-
shooters’ fire. He dismounted f'rom his horse
and stood by his side and talked to me for a
moment or two and I heartily wished he would
go away. He told me that he was a New York
Tribune correspondent. He smiled, pointed
to a son is of dead men, aud'said, as he raised
his eye rows inquiringly: “Rather warm
here. eh? Sharpshooters got the range, but,”
looking toward the woods where these mur-
derous men lurked. "it is a long shot." Thur
be bade me good-by, and coolly mount?! and
deliberatel v rode off. '
umi- in the current number of his Gums.
into which be copies The Post’s notice of
it as “a very apt and faithful delineation of
one of the raciest, saucicst and most de-
licious and entertaining books of the war."
Mr. Byington says that the author’s “facts
are startling, his deductions unanswerable
and both go to prove that a private who
participated in the battle had as correct
notions Of the fight as our author enerals
who were usually miles away.” ' 1'. Bi“
ington’s testimony is no mean testimony-.—
as true, indeed. and courageous as his
linen-duster attitude under fire (in the
North Anna.
,
Through Parlor Car Between New York
and Atlantic City.
The Passenger Department of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company an-
nounces that, commencing on Saturday,
January 29th, a through parlor our line
will be established between New York
and Atlantic City. The car will leave
New York on train No. 33 at 1.00 P. M.,
and arrive at Atlantic City at 5.57 P. M.,
via the West Jersey Railroad. Tire east-
bound car will leave Atlantic City on train
No. 42, West Jersey Railroad, at 7.15 A.
M., and arrive in New York on No. 16 at
11.40 A. M. This arrangement wrll con-
tribute largely to the comfort of travelers
between the east and the most popular
winter resort of the Atlantic coast.
0
Another Hat Trimmer’c Brilliance.
In 1862. when tirc Civilrwar was raging,
a young lady employed by the Tweedy
manufacturing company as trimmer,
placed her name and address under a hat
sweat. A few months later the hat. fell
into the possession of a Kentucky soldier,
the name was discovered, a correspondence
followed, pictures were cxehangcd ctc.,.
etc. A friendly correspondence has con.
tinned from that date to this, but. never
have the two parties met until, within the
last two weeks‘ the gentleman visited Dan-
bury and his correspondent.
correspondence began each have married
in their own locality and have families,
and as event after event has happened
these individuals have kept each other in-
formed, and one of the most pleasant
friendships has resulted—News
Since their
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Acknowledgment Par Excellence.
Our little friend the Norwalk Star, thus
gracefully and gallantiy expresses itself
in recognition of eourtcsies received :
The Star thanks Mrs. H. L. Allison,
Tire one of the bonniest brides of the scason,
for the Bridal favor.
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The Latest Railroad Rumor
It is rumored on the street that the She-
pang railway has leased both the New
Wm. R- Lockwood, Esq 7 0‘ NOI'Wulk, England and Housatonic roads, and that
was here last week, and 18“ Friday for Litchficld is now to be made asuburb Of
New York city—New Haven New.
‘\
Mr. Byington alludes to the little‘VQlL,
City Attorney Platt’o Outlines o: a Bill
to Suppress Intompexnnce, to, to.
,[From the Meriu’en Republican]
Editor of Mel-idea Republican. ,
MY DEAR Sm :—'.l‘he performance of my
duties as public prosecutor in the police court
Of this city, .has afforded me exceptional
facilities for studying the effects of liquor
drinking upon society, and furnishes me With
the only possible excuserfor presuming that
my viewenpon the subject may have some
interest and contain some intrinsic value. . 5
Permit me, therefore, to formulate a tow
concise propositions, which as my experience.
has taught me, are founded on the bed rock of
truth, and which, if conceded to be true, go
very far toward sha ing the course, which our
legislfture should 3 Opt in its. efforts to des-
troy an evil which every intelligent man recog-
nizv a lull deplores.
My Propositions are these .-
1.——lt is certainly within thebounds to say
thaitliree-fourths of the criminal cases and
three-fourths of the pauperism of the country
are either the direct or the indirect result of
liquor drinkinu. . _ .7 -
2.—Ncarly all of this crime and pauperrsm
is due to the excessive drinking of strong
iquors—rum, gin, whiskey and brandy. Al-
l
most none of it is due to the drinking of malt '
li uors.
.--’l‘he very common practice of adulteraf-
ing liquors by thointroduction of highly por-
onous substances is a chief cause of the mad-
dening, degrading effects which follow in the
train of excessive drinking.
4.—Excessive drinking of'adulteratod liquors
is largeiv confined to the low groggeries and
dives which disgrace every city and large town
in our commonwealth.
5.—A small minority of our citizens drink to
excess; 3 large majority drink. but. drink in
moderation.
If there be those who cannot or will not
accept these five propositions as true. they are
advised to halt in their reading, and go ’no
further. Ifthere be those who are willing to
be convinced, but are not, they are advised [to
study the police records, as detailed in the city
reports for any one of the last ten years. A
slight study of the facts contained in those
records,» and a brief talk with the chief of
police, or any of the court ofiicials must satisfy
any mind that these propositions are really
nothing but axiomatic truths, which could
easily be demonstrated, were-my space un-
limited.
By thosewho accept the premises, the lee-
sons which follow therefrom can be easily
apprehended. Whenever the state is asked to
enacts. law, the op licant is confronted with
twu inquiries: l— Vhat is the evil? 2—What
is the remedy ?
Plaiuly,fhe evil about the liquor traffic is
the crime, pauperism and degradation. which
result from the resent method of conducting
it. Also, plain y, these evil results are ill-
fiictod upon us, because certain members of
the community drink Birch and ,adulterated
O
that kind of drinking is largely confined to the
dives and groggsries; those are the places
which the strong band of the law should wipe
out as with a sponge. _
This idea is recognized in the present law
where his provided that.only "suitable per-
sons” shall be licensed, but in practice that
provision is a total failure for a variety of rea-
sons. It has become evident that it is not safe
to leave the matter to the discretion of com-
missioners,becauee the commissioners either
will not or cannot exercise a just discretion.
There is no positively sure way to obliterate
the unsuitable persons and places.'except to
tax ever man who carries on the liquor busi-
ness, so urge a cum that the proprietors of the
dives cannot afford to pay the lev , and will
consequently be driven out of the old.
If the sale of strong drink could be stopped
in late. that would, beyond all cavil, be the
one and on] thing to do, but no sane man, be
be political rohibitiouist or otherwise. believes
that any such result can be accomplished.
Among others. there are two obvious and con-
clusive reasons why it cannot.
1.—There are many purposes for which
liquor must of necessity be made and sold.
80 evident is this that in prohibition states and
fro-license towns, agents are appointed to sell
on behalf of the very community which has
voted to prohibit; but nothing short of" om-
nicient power can control such sales, so that a.
medicinal purchase shall not be vitiated by a
tippliug use.
2.—-So very large a. proportion of the people
wish to drink liquor to some extent, that it is a
mathematical absurdity for the roportioually
small remainder to govern the esires of their
uumerousncighbors by legislation.
But, to return for a moment to my fifth
proposition. It is equally true that almost the
entire population are abstainerl to the point
that they do not become vicious citizens, either
in public or private life. All such people will
join hands with hearty good will, to enforce a
law which aimed squarely at the viciousuess
and brutality Of‘ the few. without at the same
time endeavor-ing to curtail the supposed
rights of' the many. If the poll could be taken
there would be no doubt that the vote would be
practically unanimous in favor of‘ a law which
all could be satisfied would lead towards a
reduction to a minimum of the evils I have
specified.
After a careful survey. of the field, there
seems to be but one law that contains all the
necessary requirements. Inn. word the sen-
sible remedy is a high-license restrictive tax
of; say, $1,000 upon the sale of alcoholic
drinks, and a low tax of say 850 upon the sale
of malt liquors. The details of such alaw re-
uire careful thought—much more careful
all“: in the press Of my private business, I am
able to give to the martenbut I will specify,
in a crude way, a. few of the ideas which I con-
sider it necessary to introduce into such a. law,
in order that it may have vigor and success.
1.——The license for the sale of all liquors,
except ale, lager beer and choice wines, eupuld
be $1,000.
2.—The license fee for the sale of ale, lager
beer and Rhine wine should be $50.
3.—There should be appointed a sufficient
and capable corps Of state inspectors, who
should act with the police officers, sheriffs and
constables, and whose duty it should be, in co-
operation with sueh Officers, to visit every
licensed place at least once a week and search
out and report all violators of the law.
4.-—’l here ,should be most stringent and
definite provisions in relation to the Sunday
law ; the sale of adulterated liquors; the sale
to drnukards. minors and those whose wives
and families have notified the authorities that
they are abused or not properly supported by
reason of the drinking habits of husband and
father-
5.—If an inspector or other regular ofiicer
demands a sample of liquors from a licensed
person, and it is refused, such refusal should
0 made imperatively the basis for a. revokal
of the license.
6.-—In cases where a licensed person has
been once bound over by an inferior court, and
is discovered violating the law a second time,
he .should be brought. before some. appointed
tribunal, and if such tribunal find that. the law
has been violated, such person’s license should
at once be revoked, and be forever be in-
capacitated from selling liquor in this state.
And further the place in which he has been
selling should be condemned, and never be
used for the sale of liquor thereafter.
Nora—The latter provisions in this section
seem to be the most importmt in the whole
law, and could be incorporated as conditions
precedent in the license agreement, which
should be made between the state, the liquor
seller and the owner of the property where the
liquor is to be sold. .
7.-—All liquor found in an unlicensed place
where selling is going on, should be confis-
cated." '
8.—Satisfactory bonds should be given by
the licensed persons, large enough to cover all
possible damage, which he might do by any
infraction of-the law, and in case the license
should be revoked, the bond should be for-
feitted, and the amount thereof paid to the
sta o. .
These suggestions are far from complete,
but would furnish a guide from which a law,
‘eontaining the central idea which I advocate,
could be devised. Such a law must be direct
and forcible, and the state should furnish,
without any question of expense, sufficient
power to enforce it.
My claims for such a law briefly are :
1.—Thnt it would meet with general approv-
al, and the best sense of every community
would ask for its strict enforcement.
. 2.-—It would largely reduce the number of
liquor's'eiler-s ; public and Official gaze could be
concentrated upon the reduced number, and
it would be far easier to restrict them to their
legitimate business.
3.—It would put a heavy sanction upon
those who should pay so large a tax to con-
duct their business properly. The fear Of
losing the money invested would tend to
restrain them within lawful bounds.
A—The drinking of malt liquors would be
stimulated at the expense of the stronger
- liquors, and in so far the former took the place
of the latter, there would be a substitution of a.
comparatively harmless for a. dangerous bev-
erage.
5.—It would make it necessary for those
who pay the high tax to assist, for their own.
protection, in the Weeding out of those who
try to evade the law.
.6.—It would remove from our midst the
dives and groggeries, and would force out of
the liquor traffic those eople whose character
lire such as to render t em entirely uufftto be
invested with so great a. responsibility. ‘
7,—By the removal of the dives and grog-
geries it would in a short time reduce to 5
ye? small figure our criminal and pauper
is s. .
There in very little that is now or striking in
this screed of mine. If I have brought to-
gether and clearly presented some ideas
which are beginning to take root among the
thinklug peo is of the country, I have ac-
complished a. i that I hoped for when I began.
Yours truly,
' ms P. PLATT.
Meriden, January 14, 1887.
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Lnt of Patent-
Iasued from the U. 8. Patent Office for the
week ending January 25, 1887, for the State of
Connecticut, furnished as from the office of
John E. Earle, Solicitor of Patents, New
Haven, Conn
A. Bannatyne, assiguor to Waterbury Clock
00., Waterbur , bearings.
T. Cousins, orwalk, child’s tray.
13‘. Eggs, assignor to Smith Jr Eggs, Bridge
port, attachment holder for sewing machines.-
W. Gilfillan, assiguor to Sargent Jr 00., New
Haven, door spring. -
G. Gross, Waterbury, necktie holder.
D. G. Mathews, Wethcrsfield, using refuse
sand paper.
G. S. Parker, Deep River, burial casket.
N. W. Twiss, New Haven, valve mechanism.
Dusross.
H. Berry, assiguor to Derby Silver Co ,
Birmingham, card receiver.
L. C. Hitler, “signer to Meriden Silver Plate
Co., Meriden, banjo clock case.
«-——-—————-oco—-—~
Catarrh is a constitutional disease. Hood’s
Sarsaparillu. is a constitutional remedy. It
cures catarrli. Give it a trial.
—..O————
A Waterbury mother weighed her new.
born babe each week after birth and was
much gratified to note a regular increase
of a pound and a-lialf each week. This
week, however, no gain was perceptible
and the mother took alarm, and with it
the conceit that the child was pale and
thin. Her husband let in a flood of light
upon her disturbed mind when he pointed
out that the baby had passed the limit Of
the scales and could not show further in-
crease.
“ Royal,” only, found fre
brands that could be found for as
to examination and analysis by
known United States Governmen
The official report shows tira
examined were found to contain
merce used in their manufacture.
which were long since discarded
extent.
The only baking powder ye
be entirely free from lime and
of tartar specially refined and
The cost of this chemically pure
“ Roya .”
Prof. LOVE, who made the
the New York State Board
I purchased in the open market,
and wholesome ingredients. It
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Our Little Men and Women, February.
In this number begins a three part story.
“The Discontented Children," by Sara E.
Farman. The other stories are “How
Pepito Cooked a Pig,” “My Sweetheart
Mamma”-a Valentine story—“Soft-foot
learns aLcsson Of content,” and the 'se-
cond instalment of Miss Butt’s serial,
"Little Wanderers in Bmpeep’s world.
“A Famous Rocking-Horse” is a story of
a royal horse, with a quaint illustration.
The history paper is concerning “The
Man for whom America was Named.”
Mrs. Deane tells many curious firings
about the “Ants that build Mounds," and
we are introduced to ”Twolittle Indians ”
The poetry “The Blue Jay” and “My
Rider and I,” is by Clara Doty Bates and
Sarah E. Howard. Profuseiy illustrated.
(D. Lotlrrcpda 00., Publishers. $1.00 per
year.)
January Pansy is a royal number. The
leading stories. “Montcaglc,” by Mrs. G.
R. Alden (Pansy). “The Little Red Shop,”
by Margaret Sidney, “A Sevenfold
of it, are strong, helpful, and graphic-
The number contains also short stories,
pocms, and sketches. Noticeable among
these is Our Alphabet of Great Men, which:
gives an excellent biography of Daniel
Webster, with portrait. There
sketch of Faye Huntington, written by
Rev. J. W. Sanborn, in which he recounts
a pleasant visit to the home of thiswell-
known woman, another on Marie Antoin-
ette, and a pleasant story told by Mary E
Metheny, missionary in Tarsus, Asia Minor.
Illustrated. D. Lothrop &Co.,Boston.
$1.00 a year.
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STATE ITEMS
John F. Cougblan of New Britain,a
deaf and dumb lad of 19, was killedby
the care while walking on the track at
Hartford last week.
When a earload of iron was opened at
Danbury, the other day, a big black dog
was found almost dead. He had been in
the car ten days without food, water, or
any protection from the zero weather.
He has been cared for, and will live.
The evening papers stated that P. T.
Barnum had bought some building lots for
about $2,000 in the western part of the
town on the Fairfield road. This is not
so. A small plot. of land was bought out
that way for the purpose of getting out
some ravel. Tire price was $700.——Bridgeo
port ewe.
The brown hematite mined in Salisbury,
in this State, and in the neighboring parts
of Massachusetts, is in great demand for
mixing with other iron, being very tough,
only one English mine yielding a stronger
metal. 'Picces of pig iron made at Lime
Rock have been often planed into bars an
inch square, and these have sustained 30,-
000 pounds’ tension without breaking.
Tire Salisbury ore is largely taken by the
United States Government. for ordnance.
Of the eight furnaces in Salisbury region,
three are at Canaan and one each at Lime
Rock, Sharon Valley, Hunt’s, Cornwall
Bridge and Millerton. ' Southern iron is
beginning to come into keen competition
with this iron.
The Norwich Bulletin thus tells Of a
peculiar accident at a rolling mill: “Al
the Thamcsviilc rolling mills Saturday.
Michael Kelley, a workman about 19
years of age, was severely burned by a
bar of red-hot iron. As the red-hot bar
came through the rollers, it split in two
and darted like a thing of life toward him.
Although skilled in the art of catching a
single red of iron he did not feel equal to
the task of taking care of two diverging.-
ends. In his attempt to flee from one end
Kelley ran his face against the other and
his cheek and eye were severely burned
It is probable that the eye will be saved.’
The Commercial National bank of Prov.
idence, R. I., on Tuesday in the Hart
ford Probate court filed an appeal to the
March term of the Superior court from
the orders and decrees in the insolvency
case of George N. Bartholomew, passed
Analyzing . it Baking Powders. "
phosphatic acid, and absolutely pure.
ployed in baking powders to clreapen their cost.
of lime is attributed to the impure cream of tartar of com-
m
Trouble," told by seven people who knew .
is too a'.‘
i
e from lime, alum, and
Under the direction of the New York State Board of Health,
eighty-four different kinds of baking powders, embracing all the
le in the State, were submitted
Prof. C. F. CHANDLER, a mem-
ber.I‘Of the State Board and President of the New York City
Board of Health, assisted by Prof.- EDWARD G. Love, the well-
t chemist.
t a large number of the powders
alum or lime; many of them to
such an extent as to render thorn seriously objectionable for use
in the preparation of human food.
Alum was found in twenty-nine samples. This drug is enr-
The presence
Such cream of tartar was also
analyzed and found to contain lime and other impurities, in some
samples to the extent of 93 per cent of their entire weight.
All the baking powders of the market, with the single excep-
tion of “Royal” (not including the alum and phosphate powders,
as unsafe or inefficient by pru-
.dent housekeepers), are made from the impure cream of tartar of
commerce, and consequently contain lime to a corresponding
t found by chemical analysis to
absolutely pure is the “Royal.”
This perfect purity results from the exclusive use of cream
prepared by patent processes,
which totally remove the tartrate of 'lime and other impurities.
cream of tartar is much greater
than any other, and it is used in no baking powder but the
analyses of baking powders for
of Health, as well as for the
Government, says of the purity and wholesomeness of “ Roya ”i
“ I have tested a package of ‘Royal Baking Powder? which
and find it composed of pure
is a. cream of tartar powder of
a high degree 4 of merit, and does not contain either alum or
phosphates or any injurious substances.
“ E. G. LOVE, PILD."
Real Estate Chances.
Susan Hill, et al, to Michael Fitzmaurice
building lot easterly side of Fair street.
D. W. Fitch to Jennie B. Sammis of
Rillgcfield, land at East Norwalk.
Samuel W. Osborn, et al, to Mrs. Wm.
O. Smith, of Norwalk, Ohio, land on Os—
born avenuc. Consideration $1,200.
, Harris B, Hobby to Joseph Liuchiicr
{ and wife, land on Railroad Place.
Albert Johnson, California, to Edwin
f Johnson, land at West Norwalk.
Solonron E. Osborn to Mrs. William O.
; Smith, Of Norwalk, Ohio, the interest of
i minor daughter, Edith, in property on
i Osborn evenuc, East Norwalk. Consider-
ation $150.
M‘P—m-r
Always avoid harsh purgativo pills. They
first make you siclr and their leave you consti-
‘patcil. . Carter’s Little Liver Pills regulate the
barrels and make you well. Dose, one pill.
-——~‘-“..
There is no one article in the line of medi-
cines that gives so large a return for the
:money as a good Drone strengthening plaster,
much as Carter’s. mart Weed and Belladonna
LBackachc Plaster-s.
$100 Reward. $100.
Tire readers Of the GAZETTE will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science can cure in
all its stages and that is Catarrh, Hall’s
Catarrh Care is the only positive cure now
known in the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease requires a
constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucus surfaces of the.
system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease and giving the patient
strength, by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work.‘
The proprietors have so much faitl; in its
curative powers that they oficr one hun-
dred dollars, for any case it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address,
F. J. Curran! d5 00.,
Toledo, 0.
@Sold by druggists, 75 cents. \
Fowl: for Sale.
Young Wyandotte Fowls for Sale.
dress Lock Box 122, Norwalk - f
i
Ad-
f5]
3
For Sale Cheap.
ALargo Sized Hot Air Furnace. used but little,
‘ will be sold at less than half Its cost If ap
plied for at once. Enquire at GAzx'rrn orvrul.
I warn rvrnvnuar
—‘-—-To come In and look over my stock of“—
Imonumlents-
“AND—-
HEADSTONES
Before they buy anything of the kind. A selection
can be made from them much better than from I.
photograph or pencil sketch. Respectfully,
P. W. 130. tea.
1 f5
Dividend.
’l‘HE Semi-Annual Dividend of the Danbury .1:
Norwalk kallroad Company of One Dollar
and Twenty-live cents for each share of stock will
.re paid at the Tresurer’s office of the Housatonlc
itsqgrqggpompany in Bridgeport, Conn., February
- , I.
The transfer books wil be closed on the 5th of
February, 1887, and re-opeued the 17th.
to C. K. AVERILL, Treasurer.
Bridgeport, Conn., January 29th, 1887.
Fairfield County Savings Bank.
' NOBWALK, CONN.. January 26th, 1887.
AT the Annual Meeting of the Corporators of
this Bank, held this day. the old Board of'
Directors were re-elected as follows :—Wlnfleld S.
.loody, Martin s. Craw, Edward Merrill, Alfred
ll. Camp, Henry F. Guthrie. Charles E. St. John,
Elbert Curtis, Asa B. Woodward, J. Thornton
Prowltt. At a subsequent meeting of the direct-
ors W. S. Moody was elected president; Martin S.
Claw, vice-presrdeut; Lester S. Cole, secretary
and treasurer. 1
last September. The first‘decree ordered
that a trustee be appointed to take charge
of Bartholomew’s estate for the benefit of
his creditors, and the second appointed
Charles M. J0slyn trustee. Tire appeal
was made through the bank’s lawyers,
Chamberlain, White & Mills, and in case
the Probate court proceedings are set.
aside, their clients will be paid in full,
the other creditors getting little or noth-
ing. The Charter Oak Insurance com-
pany have a claim Of $102,000 against
Bartholomew for money due them, and
funds which Batholomcw as president
withdrew from New York banks and
applied .to his own use. Bartholomew,
inorder to secure this, turned over to
Secretary Willard $135,000 in bonds and
stocks of southern coal and iron mines,
and these were afterward turned'over to
the Charter Oak receivers. The appeal
of the Providence bank will affect the
company’s right to retain these bonds and
stocks.
and make out a list according to their best infor-
l list of 1887.
Borough Taxes.
, SSESSORS’ NOTICE—Notice is hereby given
-' to all persons liable to pay taxes in the
borough of Norwalk, in the county Of‘ Falrf‘leld, to
give to the subscribers, assessors in and for said
borough, or to one of them, within thirty days
from the date hereof, lists of all property liable to
be taxed in the said borough, and belonging to
such persons respectively. on the 24th day of
January, 1887, being the time when said borough
in legal meeting assembled laid a tax of‘ ten mute
on the dolar on the rumble estate within the
limits of said borough, with the particulars of all
law LEGTURE GUIIRSE,
instructive lectures, to be not vereil 'beforc the
scholars of Mrs. Blsseli’s school will be open to the T
public as follows :~— .
7 Tuesday Evenir
‘ nose and asked:
I
Ar THE
Concertina Church Challti f
The following series of high] interesting and
l
FIRST LECTURE,
lg. January 25th,
PROF. ALEX. JOHNSTON, of Princeton,
Sulijec-tz—“MODERN WARFARE.’
SECOND LECTURE,
Friday Evening, February lltii, ?
Dr. W. G. ANDERSON. of Brooklyn,
Subject :-“ PHYSICAL CULTURE."
THIRD LECTURE.
Friday Evening. February 25th,
PROP. W. B. SCOTT, cf Princeton,
Suhjcct:—”COLORING OF ANIMALS." =
(Illustrated)
FOURTH LECTURE, ;
Friday Evening. March 11th,
Dr. G. H. SHELTON, of Mt. Clair,
Subject :——u The THORACIC Vlscaun."
(illustrated)
FIFTH LECTURE, .
Friday Evening, March 25th.
DEV. EDWARD ANDERSON, of Norwalk,
Suject :-“ENGLISH LITERATURE." ‘
These lectures will be given at the new and
beautiful Congregational Church Chapel on Lewis
street, and as all the sittings are desirable, there
i
l
mencc promptly at 8 o’clock.
Course Tickets, $1.50 '
Lecture Tickets, - 40 etc.
For Sale at Platstcll’s Drug Stores, and by the
scholars of the school.
LIBRARY COURSE
—-or——
ENTERTAINMENTS,
—AT Tilli—
amr Norwalk Congregational Ulllll’til.
FEBRUARY 21,
GEORGE RIDDLE,
ELOCUTIONIST.
MARCH 2131:,
C. E. BOLTON.
ILLUSTRATED LECTU RE.
Counsn Ticxn'rs .............................. $1.00
srxonu Trcxurs ............................ 35 015
RIVERSIDE
UEMETERY ASSUUIATIUN.
The grouudsof this Association are
situated in the Borough of Norwalk, just
north of the Union Mills, between Spring
Hill Road and Riverside Avenue, and
may be reached by good and well-kept
roads from all directions. The cemetery
is divided into twenty-two sections. with
Broad Avenues
and suitable streets, and the contour of
the land is such that every taste may be
gratified in the selection of plots. flTlic
avenues are so arranged as to afford
an almost
Continuous Drive
to all the different sections, and are
crossed in every direction by the streets,
so that carriages may reach every plot in
the entire cemetery. Au Elegant
Receiving Vault
of large capacity, and fitted with all
modern improvements, is near the
entrance gate.
Capacity.
The entire space is not plotted, but.
52 Vault Lots, reservations for 517 single
interments, and 2,102 Burial Plots are
now oficrcd for sale at prices very favor—
able to purchasers.
MAPS.
Maps of the Cemetery may be seen at
the office of Mn. Exos Knrroco, the
Superintendent, on the premises; at the
Office of HON. JAiuus W. HYATT, at the
'~.Horsc Railroad Depot; and at the office
‘of MR. JOHN H. hour, at South Nor-
walk. tf5
V
This represents an honest and industrious class
of citizens, “The Old-Fashioned Shoemaker.” It
isa fact that some of our nicest and best shoes“
are the old-fashioned hand-made, but how differ-
ent in style and finish from those made thirty and
forty years ago. Occasionally elderly people say:
“Why don’t you have shoes such as they used to
make? A pair would then last a year. Shoes
ain’t. good for nothin’ nowadays. Ain’t much
better than paper. Don’t last none. Nothing is
as good as it, used to be,” etc. But these people
would hesitate: before being set back, were it
possible.lo the “ ood old days of our dads,” and
especially so wit the young. These are good
days, and they make good shoes in these days,
and we have them, no doubt.
An Old farmer came in a few days slnce. Want-
ed a regular old-fashioned shoe for his two girls;
bright, wide awake misses of 14 to 16. Something
that will wear. We brought them forward. Stout
cowhide upper, low fiat heel, broad heavy sole
sewed on to stay, low cut and laced up in front.
Just suited the old man. But, “land sakes,” the
girls wouldn’t even look at them the second time.
Said if you want them, buy, but we won’t wear
them. We sold thema goat, button, and each a
pair of rubbers, a luxury the old people knew
nothing about. Young people want the same
styles of shoes and wearing apparel as other
young people wear. And this is right.
run ANCIENT METHOD.
“1 wish you’d make me an old fashioned cup of
coffee," he said as he sat down in a Detroit res-
taurant.
In a few minutes a cup was placed before him
and be surveyed it. sniffed at it, and turned up his
“What do you call that '2"
“Au oldéfashloned cup of coffee, sir. I got some
Rio, burned it on the shovel. pouuled It in a rag,
and it is sweetened with molasses and dosed with
sklmmed milk. Those good old times are gone,
sir but the old-fashioned coffee can yet be made."
— ctroif Free Press.
No doubt some grandfather who reads the above
and remembers when he roasted the “peel,” and
ground in a rag with the hammer and sweetener]
with molasses in the pot will say, “Well it was
good, and I wish I had some now.” But his
grandchildren would rather have the new fash-
ioned coffee, even If it is not as healthy.
Good place to buy shoes at
RUSCOE, CAMP A: 00’s.
DISTRICT OF NORWAI K, ss. Probate Court,
January 29th, A. D.,1887.
Estate of DAvID L. DuFonirsr, late of New
Canaan. In said district, deceased. .
The Court of Probate for the District of Norwalk
hath limited and allowed six months from the date
hereof for the Creditors of said Estate to exhibit
their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to
present their accounts, properly attested, within
it time, will be debarred a recovery. Allper-
sons indebted to said Estate are requested to make
mmedlate payment to art;
JOSEPH 0. DIKEMAN,
Administrator,
their property liable to be asseesscll or valued in
he borough. .
One of the assessors will be in attendance in the
selectlnen’s omce, in the Savings Bank building,
in said borough, from the 12th of February to the
25th of February
a. m., until 12 o’clock noon. and from half-past 1
o’clock until 5 O’clock p. m., for the purpose of
receiving said lists.
0n the 26th day of of February, 1887. the assess-
ora will meet at said place at 10 o’clock forenoOn,
matiou and belief of all the taxable property of
every person who has failed to give in a list as
aforesald. and will add to each of said lists a
penalty of ten per cent. for the owner's neglect or
1887, inclusive, from 9 o’clock h
ISTRICT 0F NORWALK, ss., Probate Court,
January 31st, A. D. 1887.
Estate of MAav A. Wroxns, late of Norwalk, in
said district, deceased.
The Court of Probate for the District of' Norwalk
ath limited and allowed six months from the date
hereof for the Creditors of said Estate to exhibit
their claimsfor settlement.
present their accounts, properly attested, wlthlu
Those who neglect to
and time. will he debarrcd a recovery. All persons
lutlebted to said Estate are requested to make im-
edlate payment to
’ LUCY A. WICKES,
to Administratrlx.
CU
refusal to give in such lists.
gated in said borough this 24th day of January,
MARTIN s. CRAW,
MATTHEW BIRD,
WILLIAM E. MONTGOMERY,
Assessors forthc borough of Norwalk for the
lit
‘ ll
\
bind“. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE
For Sale Cheap.
lLLbe sold at a Bargain, if applied for 300 -
a small, neat Cottage, of slxr coma, in good
slgnborhood, and three inlnntes’ walk of the
will be no ‘reserved seats.” Lectures to com- .
Extension Cullen before Congress a Specialty
‘ crrvrrlnn’s
- SUPERIOR
BAKING
POWDER
Contains only purest grape cream of tartar,
bicarbonate of soda, and a little wheat flour,
the latter to preserve
the strength of- the
powder—nothing else whatever.
What other manufacturers impart to the
public a knowledge of ALL the ingredients
that enter into their baking powder?
Consumers have a
right to know what
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The D M. Read 00.,
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JANUARY SALES!
As has been our custom, we continue this year
and have our usual January sales in
CLOAKS
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W R A P S.
DRESS GOODS,
Ballasts, Napkins, Towels
UNDERWEAR.
$10 garments now $6.
$12 and $15 garments now $8.
$15 and $18 garments row $10.
$20 and $22 garments now $15.
$25 and $30 garments now $25.
These are January Prices.
gocase [lingo Clothfit 43 cents.
icces n ish 'erse at . '1 : was
$1.50.p g y ‘fi
1 box nil-wool Cashmere, 85 cents.
1 case Foulc Serge at 23 cents.
1 case Melange Cloths at 121} cents.
Balance Colored Velvets, 73 cents.
50 pieces 56-inch W coiLadies’ Cloth at
50 cents; worth 75 cents.
Genuine Scotch Caps, just tiic thing for
cold weather. 25 cents. ‘
The D. M. Read Go.
LESSONS IN FRENCH,
MISS BlIRIl’S INSTITUTE.
Prof. LaLande.
Widely known as the directoroi' the French De art-
meut of the. Summer School of Languaggsat
Chatauqna. wrll come twice a week to Miss Baird’s
Institute to give Lessons in French. A limited
number of pupils outside of the school will be
admitted to these classes.
For circular: and other information apply to
Miss N. F. BAIRD.
Seven Years Experience ll U. s. Patent Office.
Geo. R. Byington,
SOLICITOR OF
PATENTS.
Fire‘menfls Insurance Building,
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Shares, or 1 000 blistiels of Gr
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the firm is such, that parties
receiving their profits the in
no matter what the amount
Evening Telegram.
w. B. HILL 8.- 00.,
. BBIDOEPORT.
GREAT RED Ti “1' SALE
NOW IN PROGRESS.
We have bought goods during the past
year at 50 per cent. loss to the manufac'
turer, and we shall present in this most
wonderful offering
Silks, Velvets, Silk Tapestries,
for Curtains, Rich Laces,
and Lace Curtains,
At prices which have been the ruin Of
some deserving importers of fine goods.
We have watched our opportunities and
have bought when unfortunate importers
have had to sell. As has been our custom
during the eight previous sales we reserve
nothing. Everything belonging to this
season must go. Our reputation has been
earned byl making the: most rediculous
sacrifices, none being too great to clean up
each season’s business, and thus enable us
to present on the new season a fresh, new
and attractive stock. We invite all to ex-
amine our prices and compare with flam-
ing advertisers of larger cities, and re-
spectfully request Oirr friends to come in the
morning as much as possible to avoid the
crowd which these sales necessarily draw
in the afternoon, and assure them that
there never was an opportunity when
they could lay out their money as advan-
tageously as now. We shall place
Seal Cioaks, Seal Wraps & Jackets.
‘ Furs and Fur Trimmings
In the same low scale of prices as other
cloaks. Beautiful Seal Wraps that were
$150 and $175, will be sold in the Red
Ticket Sale at $115 and $125. Those that
were $120 and $125, trimmed with Persian
Lamb, Black Martin, Alaska Sable or
Natural Beaver will be found marked $75,
$85 and $100. We have now in stock
some of the finest, best and most fashion-
able Fur Garments ever brought into this
city, and from $25 to $50 each can be
saved as we will not carry one garment
over the year. ‘
SEAL PLU SH SACQUES.
Our own great Prize Medal Plush
Sacque, andlall the grades from $17.50 to
$85 wrll go in the great Red Ticket List
at a price which will be the lowest ever
known for same qualities.
W. B. Hall (£3 00.
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in Small or Large Lots on 1
Per Cent. Cash Margins.
Ten Dollars will, for example, cover ten $100
Explanatory
QUOTATIONS WIRED.
Orders and Margins Received by Telegram or Mail.
LAURIE & co.,
STOCK BROKERS,
ALSO DEALERS IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE,
S58 Broadway, New York.
The Members of the ...... firm are gentlemen of
experience and high staudln in t
Stock Commission business....g.. he Grain and
references are a number Of the
—.\ew I ark Commmel'cl'al News.
and among their
lending Banks.
They have a stainless business record, and their
ble....'l‘lre reputation of
can rest assured of .
oment they are made, .
may be.—.\‘ew York
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