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New Advertisements this week.
Spring clothing, hats, etc., Comstock Brothers
Vitlated blood, etc.. Cuticura Remedies
Diiuking habit cured, Hop Bitters
Piles, &C., cured, Dr. Yarnall
Clothier and merchant tailor. M. Cohen
Clotliler and hatter, Bryant, Hesse & Co
Report Central National Bank
Shoes, hats. &c., Ruscoe, Camp .2 00
House to let, Henry I. Hoyt
New York. and Our Brothers Lodge, No.
and after the work an hour of secial chat
was enjoyed. I
Our South Norwalk contemporary, the
Republican, has been “exposed" to a libel
suit, Mr. Michael Shecdy having employ-
ed Lawyer Gray to exact satisfaction for
damage resulting from an article re-
cently published in the Republican, in-
timating that he had neglected to properly
account for certain church contributions.
The work of erecting the new brick
addition to Hadden’s place, comer Wall
and Mechanics’ streets, goes bravely on,
regaidless of the borough’s orders to the
contrary and the proposed scheme of
taking the land for widening Mechanics’
street, the hearing of which is to be held
in the borough court room next Wednes-
day evening.
The five hundred thousand people of
Dakota are again denied by the Democrats
of the House the privilege of governing
themselves. The reason is that a majori-
ty of them are Rrpublicans. This is only
on a line with Democratic precedents;
five million people in the southern states
are denied any privilege of citizenship for
the same reason.
We, too, have received a copy of that
photograph of Royce, of the Stamford
Comet. Surely that benevolent face is
fair to look upon. and none who look into
those mild, angelic eyes would ever sus-
pect—but the photo justifies the egregious-
ly erroneous impression that has often
caused Royce to be taken for a clergyman
—among those who knew him not.
Mrs. C. M. Roof, of New York, daugh-'
ter of Mr. Henry I. Hoyt, and at whose
home she spends much of her time,landed
in England last week, and In a letter re-
Two Tramps, Opera House
sin—gm... .
I 1.00.41. ITEMS.
Mr. Daniel Mitchell has gone to Mexico
where he will run a hotel.
St. John’s Lodge, F. andA. M. will con-
fer the third degree to-morrow evening.
—-Prof. J. Seybold, will give recitations
in Lockwood’s Hall at 4:30 and 8 p. m.
daily.
William and Buckingham Lockwood
are enjoying the delightful climate of '
Florida.
Albert Relyea, Esq. of the New York
Custom House, was in town Saturday
evening.
The safe and vaults for the new Mason-
ic building are to be put in by Raymond
Brothers.
The old building adjoining John Cahill’s
new saloon ou Mechanic street is being
pulled down.
Dr. Schwab, the oculist, will be at the
Norwalk Hotel, on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, 22d and 23d inst.
Miss Sadie Miller has just returned from
a two Weeks' visit to the family of Rev.
Mr. Everest at Newark.
Arrangements are rapidly progressing
for Cos. F. and D’s fair at the armory
beginning Easter Monday.
Mr. S. L. 0 eed is to start for Birming-
ham, Ala., on Monday next. He expects
to be gone about six weeks.
Mr. M. G. Wheeler and family, of \‘l in-
sted spent the Sabbath with Mr. and Mrs.
O. E. Wilson on Arch street. -
The first rehearsal for the Pioneer en-
tertainment will take place, Friday even-
ing, at Rev. Dr. McGonegal’s.
A tribute of respect by an old neighbor
to the memory of J W. Wilson :-Hc was
by nature gentle and kind, a safe advisor,
valued friend, true neighbor. n. s.
The annual ball of the Twilight Social
club will be given in Lockwood‘s Hall,
on Friday evening, April 15th.
Prof Alex. Johnston of Princeton
College, formerly of Norwalk, is to deliver
an address before the Princeton Alumni
Association at Chicago on Thursday of
this week.
A two weeks' mission by the Dominican
Fathers is being held in St. Mary’s church,
services being held at 5 and 8 o'clock
every morning, excepting Sundays; and
also each evening.
There was an enjoyable donkey party
at Mr. Geo. S. Partrick’s residence on
High street on Wednesday evening, with
first prize, booby prize. and a royal good
time for all in attendance.
The recent attempt to fire the barn on
t he Selleck place, well planned and sys-
tematic as it was, was thwarted by its
prompt discovery and effective work. It
was s dirty trick just the same.
Eli Bartram, of St. Paul, Minn., an old
Norwalk boy, made a flying visit to his
father, D. S. Bartram, on High'street
yesterday. This is the first time he has
been in Norwalk in seven years.
‘Mr. Herman Peiter, late of the tele-
phone service in Norwalk. has accept.
ed a situation in the Philadelphia cen-
tral telephone ofilce. His place here is
filled by a Mr. Smith, of Hartford.
The Guam: is indebted to Dr. George
Bridges for invitation and programme of
the anuua‘ commencement of the Ameri-
can Veterinary college at Chickering Hall,
New York, on Friday evening, 4th inst.
MissC rrie Smith left on Tuesday to
accompany her sister Mrs. VanBuren to
hewburyport Mass.——Mr. Bert Cram
spent Sunday in New York—Miss
Millie Smith is visiting in Brooklyn.—
Mr. Elbert Smith has been confined to the
house during the past Week—Star.
«Our readers should not fail to read
Bryant dz Besse's new advertisement this
Week, which tells of their splendid bar-
gains in new spring clothing, etc. This
is a house that can always be depended
upon.
Mr. C. F Hendec, music dealer, has
leased three rooms in Lockwood’s Hall
building formerly occupied by Lawyers
Perry & Perry, where he will keep a larg-
er line of instruments, music, etc., than
ever before.
Nothing can be more pertinent or true
than the remark of the Cleveland Leader
that “of allCongressional absurdities none
is greater than undertaking totrunsact the
bulk of a session’s business in the last six
days of session ”
The New York Sun knows of no reason
why, if Mr. Jefferson Davis should visit
Washington, he should not call upon the
President and be courteously received by
him. Certainly so. Why not receive Mr.
Davis as well as so many of Mr. Davis'
trusted lieutenants?
Nosahogan Lodge, No. 21, I. O. O. F.,
of Waterbury, 150 strong, visited Our
Brothers’ Lodge, in this town, and exem-
plified work in the first and second de-
grees Monday evening. ,There were also
present large delegations of brethren from
New Canaan and South Norwalk.
Tuesday the county commissioners di—
vided the license money for February
among the towns, as follows: Danbury,
$1,298.65 ; Greenwich, $147.24; Norwalk.
$347.60; Newton, $190.00; Bedding,
$95.00; Stamford, $617.50 ; county treas-
ury, $141.00. Total $2,888.
At a meeting of the Norwalk Wheel
club, held at their rooms over Jackson’s
jewelry store, on Tuesday evening, the
following officers were elected :—V\ illiam
T. Olmstead, president; Charles Miller,
vice-president; Edward M. Jackson, sec-
retary; Oliver B. Jackson, treasurer.
A Danbury doctor and a doctor of an
adjoining town visited a patient through
a sickness of nearly three weeks. Neither
knew of the other’s vists. The patient
took some of the medicine prescribed by
each. She is now perfectly convalescent.
The cuestiou arises, which doctor cured
her? . Perhaps one acted as an antidote to
the omen—Danbury News.
Butler Lodge, I. O. 0 F. was crowded
with members of the 0rd. r on Wednesday
night, Brothers being pissent from S. J.
celved by her father, «she writes Of a
number of huge icebergs encountered on
the voyage by the steamer on which she
was a passenger, one of which was 400
feet in length and towered 100 feet high.
Prof. J. Seybold opened a series of
German lectures in the Athenleum yester.
day afternoon. The Professor is a lady,
who claims to teach the German language
in five weeks, and she has formed a class
here. Her method of teaching is by talk-
ing of present objects, illustrating as she
goes, and the pupils present seemed sur-
prised to see how much could be learned
in this way in half an hour.
Says the Evan—"Hope Hose Co. has
now on its active roll seventeen married
and seventeen single men, and there is
greahrivalry to see which side will secure
a majority. When one side secures the
admission of a member the others do not
rest satisfied until they have chest that
vote by adding another member to their
side. At last accounts the single mem-
bers were much excited over a rumor.
that the secretary intends to get married.
They declare it a clear case of fraud.”
Said a gentleman yesterday pfter the
Wild-goose. chase after a fire: “There
are some who say the new electric fire
alarm is no good ; but I notice that when
It strikes they all turn out." Said an.
other: “The alarm works all right, only
folks don’t understand it; when thbre's a
fire it doesn’t strike, and when it strikes
there isn’t any fire." You pays your
money and you takes your choice.
What an exhibition the great party of
Reform is making in the natioilal house!
The appropriation bills necessary for the
conduct of the government ofthe nation
are held back until the last hours of the
session and then rushed through under
supension of the rules without considera-
tion. And this course has been deliberate-
ly taken in order to defeat the important
bills for providing some defense for the
rich cities of the seaboard. And this in
the face of legislation which may very
easily lead to wan—Hartford Oourant.
Albert Relyea, the young Norwalk law-
yer, who has been appointed to {$2,500
position in the New York custom house,
has many qualities which tend to make
him popular. he is a tall, sedate look-
ing man of 32, and is slightly bent. He
is the son of a country minister up in
Connecticut, and a warm friend of Ex-
Assemblymau A. M. Talma e and Core.
ner Holt of Bridgeport. r. Relyea is
a dry joker, and has the reputation of
being a good lawyer and an able exponent
of the principles of his party.—New York
corres. Sunday Register.
Mr. Morris Cohen has leased the store
formerly occupied by Mr. E. R. Sher-
wood, 41 Main street where, about April
lst, he will open witha large and well
selected stock of clothing. Mr. Shor-
wood will continue at the same place as
agent for the steam laundry. Mr. Cohen
has been for some yearsa large and suc-
cessful clothier in Danbury. where he is
well and favorably known as a popular
and reliable business man, and we be-
speak for him a liberal share of the public
patronage in Norwalk.
At the annual meeting of the Fire Po-
lice held on Wednesday evening, ofiicers
for the ensuing year were elected as fol-
lows: Captain; Joseph H. Klinefelter
lst sergeant, William M. Raymond; 20
sergeant, iienry Jennings; treasurer,
James C. Crowe.—- —Frauk Peterson and
Thomas Shea, lodgers at the station house
on Wednesday night, got into a row and
during a fight which en°ued knives were
drawn which made things rather lively in
that place for a short time. Yesterday
morning both were arrested and pleaded
guilty to the charges brought against them.
They both are spending a few week at
Bridgeport jails—Sentinel.
The New York Mail and Express says
that Mr. Cleveland “did not appoint Mat-
thews and Trotter because he desired to
do justice to the colored men. As Sena-
tor Ingalls pointed out, if that had been
his desire he would have retained Mr.
Douglass." That's sound logic. The
President could have retained Mr. Doug.
lass to please the colored men with quite
as much propriety as be retained Mr.
Pearson of the New York Postofiice to
please the Mquumps. - a ashington
Critic. .
No increase in District police force, no
draw in the Aqueduct bridge, no_ city
railroad reform, no completed tunnel for
increased water supply, no new depart.
ment of agriculture and labor, noordnance
foundry at the Navy Yard, no govern-
ment medals for National Drill, no memor-
'iai bridge to Arlington, no completed Po-
tomac fiats improvement, no change in
inauguration day,-—so said the Forty,
ninth Congress. We have, however,
Trotter.-— Washington Star.
The believe that Were a law tobe passed
requiring the abolition of every existing
grade crossing in the state, within five
years, wherever it is not aphysicalim-
possibility to effect such a change, and a
just and equitable apportionment of the
expense made upon all to be immediately
benefitted thereby, before the expiration
of that period the roads and the towns
would unite in a vote of thanks for the
result—Standard.
And now the curious and five-lingered
star-fish, which has so long been looked
upon as a harmless curiosity, proves to be
an oyster-eater, and a commission with
$10,000 to defray expenses,has been creat-
ed for the purpose of discovering the best
plan for destroying him and his tribe.
The enemies men have to seek out and
destroy that their edibles may be preserv.
ed increase with the years. In a Western
State a premium of a penny a head for all
sparrows has been ofiered.
On Friday evening the 25th, a party of
three young men from Stamford, visited a
place in Darien, known as Nora’s. During
their visit one of them claimed that one of
the girls stole $65 from him. In the alter-
cation which ensued, he beat her in a most
savage manner, and ended up by destroy-
ing pictures and breaking the furniture.
On Saturday he preferred a complaint
against the house, and a writ was given
to Constable Alonzo Weed, when the in-
mates of the house appeared before the
authorities and gave bonds for their ap-
pearance when wanted. On Monday, the
girl who was beaten got out a warrant for
one of the parties, for assault and battery
with intent to kill, which was served by
Deputy Sherifi' Dunn, of Norwalk, and the
prisoner was held in $500 bonds for trial
on Thursday, Mqrcb 10, at Dal-ion. The
affair has created considerable excitement
in that usually quiet town.~00m¢t.
Harris LOdge, Stamford; Pacific Lodge, i
10. The initiatmy degree was conferred, >
chance to find lurking there.
The following hint from the Danbury
f News should be heeded as well here in
Norwalk as in Danbury:
When the firemen reached box 13,
whence the alarm wasstrlick last night,
there was no one about to give them any
imformation of the locality of the suppos-
ed firc. There Was no fire in sight. Two
boys got the key from a neighboring
house and disappeared. The firemen go
directly to the box whence the alarm is
sounded, if there is no other imformation
of the localityof the fire. Therefore he
who rings the alarm should stay by the
box till the firemen appear. He won't
have to stand there long, unless we
should be so unfortunate as to get a total-
ly difierent body of firemen from what
we have got now.
Mr. Joseph W. Hubbell died suddenly
at his home, the residence of Mrs. L. E.
Quintard, last Wednesday night, of heart
trouble. He had been about the streets
that day, but complained of feeling un-
well, and it was against the advice of’the
inmates of the house that he went out.
His sudden, taking 03 was a painful
shock to'the community and to a wide
circle of friends who knew him as a ge-
nial, companionable, warm hearted man
and a gentleman. -He had been for
several terms grand juror of the town,
and was held in high esteem. Tbs funer-~
sl took place from St. Paul's church
Saturday afternoon.
The attraction at the Opera House on
Friday evening will be. “Two Tramps,”
under the direction of Chapman & Sellers.
This is a musical, farcical comedy, replete
with original music and gems from the
popular operas, Erminie, Little Duke,
Claude Duval, Evangeline, Mizpah, etc.
The company is said to be a strong one,
with a talented cast embracing artists
from the leading Metropolitan theatres.
The names of Chapman d1 Sellers as direc.
tors are a sufficient guaranty of the excel-
lence of the company and performance. .
The company is something after the order
of the “Kindergardon” and is intensely
:funny. The agent. requests us to warn
our theatre goers to have their buttons
securely sewed on, as they are liable to
laugh them into a thousand pieces.
Nobody has ever noticed that Chief
of» Police John Lockwood ' has acted
“quecrly” of late, nor has it even been
suspected that the genial Chief was in
any degree of his mental balance. How-
ever, last Friday morning Justice Sellcsk
found it necessary to send him to the
hospital for insane at Middletown. He
didn't stay long, however, and even re-
ported for his usual patrol duties the
same night. It was noticed, however,
that IIICIL‘IIOW' whom he took with him.
Orrin E. Mills, a harmless but sadly
deluded lunatic, didn’t accompany him
home. Mills has been confined before
for lunacy, and has been an inmate of the
Soldiers‘ home at Noroton.
Superintendent Stacey B.>Opdyke, of
the Northampton road, who was recently
convicted in the New Haven city court,-
with Assisstant Superintendent William
H. Wallace, of the Consolidated road, for
conspiracy in black listing Thomas F.
Meaney, has resigned his position and
sent-a formal notice to this eflect to Presi-
dent Youman’s. He is very reticent
about the causes which led to .this step,
and it is rumored that he is going with
William H. Stevenson. President Watrous
of the Consolidated, who is one of the
directors in the- Northampton, says that
Mr. Opdyke was asked for his resignation
on the sole ground of economy, and that
President Youmans proposes to unite the
ofice of the presidency and superintend-
cut and fill both positions himself.
We are pleased to see that in the Le is-
lature last week, the House passe a
resolution appropriating $1,000 to the old
17th, (Fairfield County), re imcnt, to-
wards marking with memoria stones the
positions held by that oaganization at the
battle of Gett sburg. he regiment al-
read have a ne monument on Barlow’s
knol , to designate the first encounter in
that terrible fight, and where fell the gal-
lant Colonel Fowler and Captain Moore of
the Danbury company, also the following
«Westport boys of Compan E: James
Gordon. Francis C. Foote, ames Flynn,
Francis Nash, George H. Guernsey and
John Welsh. But the scene of the posi-
tion of the regiment on the second day,
that of Cemetery Hill, has not as yet been
marked, but should be, as here was one
of the most determined haud-to-hand en-
counters, where, from behind that low
stone wall, the regiment withstood the
repeated charges of the Louisana Tigers
of Longstreet’s corps. It was at this
place that Captain Burr, of the Westport
company, seized the rebel standard bearer
and dragged him over the wall, making
him a prisoner and capturing the flag.
The view from this point is magnificent
and a monument upon the spot would
command a view of the whole of Gettys-
burg.— Weatporter.
Last Tuesday a couple of Norwalk
youngsters,aged each about 12 years,start-
ed off unbeknown to their parents for a
war of extermination against the noble
'reb men of the bowling west. They took
what little cash they could lay their hands
on, from their little tin banks and the
' mantel shelves, armed themselves to the
teeth with an air pop-gun and show and ar-
row,and took a train for New York,where
they decided,before starting for the hunt-
ing grounds of the savages,to take a'scout
through the thickets of Central Park and
kill ofi' such red devils as they might
Despite
their stealthy, cat-like trend and eagle-
eyeu vigilance they failed to capture a
single scalp, or reddcn the soil with the
.“ruddy-gore" of a single warrior. As
darkness drew nigh they beganto repent
of their cruel designs against the untutor—
ed red man, and as the shades of night
deepened they became possessed of a silent
but powerful hankering for their respect-
ive mammas and their respective cribs.
and by a common impulse they headed
for the Grand Central'Depot, where they
were found by the big brother of one of
the boys, who had gone in pursuit of them
and who brought them home, much to
their own satisfaction and the relief of
their parents. It is quite probable that
the bloodthirsty. redskins of the tangled
forests will never fully realize what they
have escaped.
On Wednesday morning at about fiw
o‘clock, fire wasdiscovered in Mr. Darby's
shoe shop directly over Quintard’s grocery
store opposite the horse railway depot.
Mr. C. F. Hendee, music dealer and piano
tuner, whose warerooms adjoin the shoe
shop, and who sleeps there, was awaken-
ed by smoke pouring through the door;
ail'd he hastily got up, pushed a couple oi
pianos from their exposed position near
the partition into another room and gave
the alarm. Chief Lockwood pulled . the
box on' Plaisted’s corner, but the bell
didn't strike, and the alarm had to be
given by hand. The response was prompt
and the firemen soon had the flames sub-
dued without much damage so far as the
fire itself was concerned, but Quintard’s
grocery store was considerably damaged
by water coming through the ceiling and
soaking the floor, groceries, etc. The
damage to Mr. Hendee’s musical instru—
ments was adjusted the same day through
the insurance agency of Mr. O. E. Wilson,
the amount paid being $175. Mr. Quin-
tard’s insurance award for water damage
was 335. Mr. Darby was uninsured.
Plumber Burritt was awarded 80 insur-
ance. The failure of the fire alarm to re.
spond to the pulling of the box lever was
explained after an investigation by Man-
ager John H. Hoyt, as being due to a
slight deflection of the ratchet wheel which
prevented its revolving effectively. Mr.
Hoyt says the batteries, striker, etc., were
in proper condition and have always been
in working order, all reports to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
IThe 42d anniversary of the institution
of Concord Division, Sons of Temperance
was celebrated Monday evening with ap-
propriate exercises in Sons of Temper:
ance Hall, Guambuilding. A number
of the ofilcers of the Grand Division were
in gttendance, and the hall was well filled
'with local and visiting members of the
order, the audience numbering nearly 200.
.andthe heads of the operatives
The programme, as carried out, was as
follows: Song by the choir; prayer,llev.
Dr Clarke; address of Welcome, by F.
W. Perry, Worthy Patriarch; song; rc-
marks by C. A. Bhldwin,‘G. W. P. of
New Haven; W. Walton, G. S., New
Canaan; recitation, Miss Minnie Kellogg,
G. C , Norwalk; remarks, Rev. Dr.
Clarke, P. W. G, Norwallt; G. R. Bill,
P. W. (3., New Haven ; R. L. Ells‘. P. W.
G. Norwalk; duett, Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Hawley, New Canaan; remarks, Wm.
Elsbach, New Canaan; C. Clute, “est-
port; Bro. Sci-field, Darien; Chas.
Guider, Rowayton; D. P. Morrell, South
Norwalk; Hiram Davis, New Canaan;
corn'ct solo, Joseph B. King, Westport.
After the speech making and musical ex-
ercises a bountiful collation was pal-taken
of, a generous portion of which was
brought down stairs to the GAZETTE sauc-
tum by Brother Wm. A Kellogg, to stay
the midnight hunger that was gnawing - at
the vitals of the scribe. It was at a late
hour when the assemblage dispersed, and
the festive aflair was unaminously pro-
nounced the most successful anniversary
celebration ever held by Concord Division.
. From the Republicanz—A Norwalk
philosopher says that he can invariably
tell a newly married man when traveling
.by watching him give his wife a drink of
water on the train. If, after she lakes
her little sip he swallows what remains in
the glass with great relish, then he’s a
recent captive. If he has been long mar-
rlcd he will pour out the water and get a
fresh supply for himself.——Expressmau
Thomas Cavanagh purchased a fine team
of horses, one day this week. On Thurs-
day they were placed before the heavy
truck, but evidently did not appreciate
the honor shown them, and their actions
soon convincedlthe driver that they in-
tended to make things lively for him, so
he headed them toward the barn, which
was reached in safety. Mr. "l avauagh
says he thinks he will have to exchange
them, but does not' wish to, for they are
good ones, and work splendidly when
driven singieaé—Miss Jessie Taylor, Miss
Lena White, Miss Wliclplcy and Mrs.
Effie Hoyt, employees at J. C. Wilson’s
hat manufactory, on lower Main street,
Were contestants in a' foot rues which oc-
curred yesterday noon. Distance—around
the block in which the factory is located.
The Misses Taylor and M bite came in
-ahead, the time being 2%. The defeated
party had to “set ’em up" to cream puffs
and coolly—There seems to been grow-
ing religious interest in the minds of the
young people connected with our several
churches, and numbers of them have been
converted—P. T. Barnum gains know-
ledge Wltb years. He has placed his
horde of elephants under the control of a
woman. Their subjection is sold to be
complete. ..
Comstock Brothers, those enterprising
Clothiers, are making radical imprOve-
ments in their stores both in the borough
and down-town. Their South Norwalk
store has been thoroughly overhauled and
refurbished, newly ceiled, fitted with large
new business desk, railings, etc., and with
itslarge and elegant stock of spring goods,
is one of the best appointed and hand-
somest equipped stores in this section,
and of which its head clerk and right
bower, Mr. A m. Benedict is justly proud.
Their Main street store is undergoing a
notable change throghout. The office
and desk room is removed from the front
windows to the centre of the store where
a handsome partition has been erected.
This removal allows more room in the
front for the display of goods and a large
amount of additional shelf~room has been
utilized. New shelves have also been
put up in other parts of the store, ad-
ditional tables and counters put in, all of
which are piled mountain high with new
goods for the spring trade. The store
has been renovated, all the woodwork
thoroughly oiled, and it shines throughout
like a new dollar. Bert Kemp, its right
hand man, is even more sprightly and
omnipresent than ever, if that were
possible, and the popular proprietors are
to be cengratulated on the excellence of
their equipments, and the large patronage
they enjoy.
At about one o’clock yesterday after-
noon the fire alarm sounded number 32,
and immediately the streets were lively
with firemen running to their respective
fire houses for their apparatus.
The alarm box number 32 is down West
avenue, and its key is kept at Warren
Fitch’s store. ' As this is in the neigbor-
hood of the shirt factory the word was
quickly passed around that the shirt fac-
tory was burning. The promptness with
which the firemen responded to the alarm;
the alacrity with which they got out their
machinery. and the irresistible stubborn-
ness with which they plunged forward
over the muddy, slushy roads reflected
credit upon the zeal and efiicieucy of the
department. Their enthusiasm, however,
was worthy of a more serious alarm. Ou
arriving at the locality of the supposed
fire, bcholdl no fire was t) be found, and
the windows of the shirt factory flew up
Were
thrust out in' wonderment at what the fuss
was all about The Phoenix hose crab
was first at the scene, the heavy Pioneer
hook and ladder close behind, and Hope
hose boys, who had been obliged to
change their course owing to the bad
road, immediately following. Nobody in
the neighborhood had any intimation that
the box had been pulled, and the theory
among the chiefs and firemen is that
somebody, in monkeying with the wires,
either accidentally or on mischief bent,
had caused the alarm to strike Of
course the fire laddies had (nothing to do
but turn around and go back home, but
the fact that inside of three-quarters of
an hour from the time the alarm first
struck, they had their machinery housed.
after having assembled at their houses,
dragged their machines up hill half a
mile through the mud, hunted for a fire,
and returned home, speaks Well for the
high standard of cificieucy of the depart-
ment, and many words of praise were
heard from men whose opinions arc worth
having. .
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. Whose Is It 1’
The Bridgeport Post of Monday con-
tained a 'despatch from Norwslk, as'fol
'lows:
About two weeks ago late one night a
carriage stopped at the residence of Mrs.
arah Betts in the Benedict Farm district
and from it slighted a well dressed man.
He had a bundle in his arms and when he
ulightcd from the carriage he looked care.
fully around to see if he was observed
As no one was in sight he knocked at Mrs.
Betts' door and the call was ansWered by
that lady. She is a professional nurse and
the man must have kuownlt. To Mrs.
Betta he said he was a physican and had
just come from where he had been attend-
.ng a professional call. He then gave Mrs.
Betta the bundle which she opened and
found that it contained'an infant just
born. The “physicau” explained by say-
ing that the infant’s mother had died in
giving birth to it and if Mrs. Betta
would take charge of the child for just a
few hours he would look after someone
who could take care of it permanently.
Mrs. Bette took the infant and since then
has not seen the "physican," neither can
the least clue to his identity be discovered.
The mother of the child is also undiscov-
ered and there is a deep mystery sl-out
the aflair. Mrs. Betts will keepthe child
until she can find someone who will
relieve her of it’s care.
———-—<-O-D—-——
A New Railroad Commissioner.
Gov. Lounsbury has appointed his
fellow townsman William 0. Seymour as
railroad commissioner in place of John
w. Bacon whose term expires July lst;
and the appointment has been confirmed
by the Senate. On its merits the choice
is a good one, as Mr. Seymour is an
engineer of acknowledged ability, and is
now, and has been for many years en-
gaged in practical railway construction.
Mr. Seymour is now in the employ of the
Wisconsin Central with headquarters at
Chicago. .
o - +>———-———
Henry Ward Beecher Dssd.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the famous
pastor of Plymouth church, Brooklyn,
was seized with apoplexy and paralysis,
Sunday and lingered till yesterday fore-
uoon,when he died. His career as a preach-
er, author, politician, lecturer, etc., is too
well-known to need recital from us. He
was in his seventy-fourth year.
SO UTENOR WALK.
Miss Lena Crowe, who has been in
New Haven for the last montlircturncd
Saturday.
Herbert Sterling who has been ailing
for some months, and has tried the effect
of a change of the climate, has returned
to his home with little hopes'of recover-
ing.
Mrs. Davis Hatch was found on Sunday
morning to no in an unconscious stute,the
effect of a paralytic stroke and, at this
writing (Monday) is in a very precarious
condition.
Mr. and Mrs George Jennings who
have been in Washington, D. C. for some
Congress, have returned to their home,
on West street.
Mr. Charles Jennings, who has so long
West street, has purchased a residence in
Brooklyn N. Y., and will remove there
with his family, in the spring. South
Norwnlk can illy loose such men from
their midst.
It is only a few years since some of the
lawyers and prominent residents of the
city, were anxious to get rid of the
“City Court,” and did so by a legislative
act to abolish the ofiice. Now there is a
decided opposition to the "Town Court"
which is being discussed in the general
assembly, and a “City Court" is proposed.
It is reported by a Steamboat man from
Bridgeport, that the agents of the House-
touic and Danbury & Norwalk R. R. are
searching for a good substantial‘and fast
steamboat, to place on the New York
route, from Wilson's Point April fat. and
that 'be same company Will have built, if
they cannot 'buy, two propellers, for
freight, on the same route.
-
WILTON.
Mr. W. S. Cole is confined Lodthc house
by illness. ' ' ‘
Mrs. M. J. Foote is now the owner of
the White place near tlle depot.
Mr. Wm. Olmstead, Cannons,.has re:
turned safe and sound from his Canadian
trip.
Dr. Huntington has leased the George
Lockwood place opposite Sherman More-
houses’.
The social meeting of the Mission Band
will be held at the home of’Mrs. G. H.
Comstock on Friday everjing.
Mr. Chas. B. Scribner died very sud-
denly on Thursday, presumably from heart
disease, as but a fear hours before his
death he was about the house apparently
in fair health. Tlic funeral was attended
at the Zion’s Hill chuich on Sunday after.
noon.
Mrs. Polley Gorham the reneruble
mother of Selectman Gorham died on
Tuesday list of pneumonia Mrs. Gui-ham
'nntil attached by. disease has enjoyed
excellent health and bid fair to become a
ccntcnarian. The funeral was attended
at her late residence on Saturday.
—4->————-———
The Murderer Returns.
Jacob Brown, the negro who shot and
killed’his wife in Bridgeport last week,
and who evaded a hot pursuit by officers
from Bridgeport and other cities, re-
turned to the city Sunday morning and
voluntarily gave himself up to thief
Marsh at the police station. He came up
from Nchork Sunday morning on the
milk train. jumped off the moving train
on the State street crossing, tumbling
into asnowbank beside the track, picked
himself up and started on a dead run for
the police station, handed the keeper his
revolver and other chests, and said his
conscience troubled him so he could not
remain any longer a fugitive from justice.
His story is thus related by the Bridge-
port Post of Monday;
“Brown says on the night of the mur-
der he went home in good humor and
that there was no thought of evil in his
mind. He had been drinking a little,
but not enough to affect him in the least
-—this part of the story is confirmed by
a gentleman who saw him going home.
nis wife detected the fumes of liquor
from his breath and immediately up-
braided him for breaking his pledge and
angrily asked him why he could not keep
his word. High words and a quarrel
followed and then a scufiie. Browu
solemnly declares that he did not have the
pistol with him at this time, but when his
wife threw a teukettle at him he ran to his
trunk, took out the Weapon and began
shooting. His wifcran out in'the hall and
fell, and then believing he had killed her
he hastily gathered together a few small
effects which he needed and fled. First
he went to Church's drug store on Wall
street, where he tried to purchase some
cartridges, but could not obtain them
there; then he Went to Longdeu’s on
Fairiield avenue and procured the cart—
ridges of Charles Killingbeck, as has been
printed. He denies, howover, that he
told Killingbcck that. he was going away
on the 10:16 train as has been reported
but the rest of the story, he says, is accu-
line.
“Brown says he boarded the 10:16 train
and paid his fare to New l-IaVcn, but in
this lie is contradicted by the conductor’s
story and by a coupon found among the
eflects which lie surrendcicd. The latter
shows that it was given on the night of
the murder and was for a fare paid from
Bridgeport to Strutford Brown also
denies that he rode on the roof of a car
and says that he rode on the platform and
when he reached New Haven he got oil!
the train Went down to the dock and
there inthe dark took a razor from his
pocket and shaved off his side whiskers.
Then he went back to the depot, boarded
another train, paid his fare .0 Springfield
and from that city to Boston where he
arrived early in the morning after the
murder. He remained in Boaton for
about an hour, and then purchaseda ticket
for Chicago via. the Boston and Albany
railroad and the Lake Shore road. On the
journey he saw but one man that he knew
and he was Postal Clerk Osborne, who
runs on the Housatonic road. It was
while passing through Pitlsfield that he
recognIch Osborne. He stopped but .a
Very short time in Chicago and then his
resolution to come back to Bridgeport
and give himself up prevailed. He came
back through Canada by way of the
Grand Trunk road. Whe . he left
Bridgeport he had $60 with him, but had
no money when he arrived ilcre yesterday
morning. He says he could not eat or
sleep while away lor the thought of his
crime was continually in his mind and he
led a miserable existence.
“The story that Brown was at a colored
ball in Boston; also the story that he had
been seen in Providence are both untrue.
Parties may have' thought the-luau they
saw was him, but there'is no doubt that
they were mistaken as many other people
have been in such cases. ‘
"When Brown saw Chief Marsh Mou-
day morning he burst on crying and
could ,only tell his story brokenly. The
enormity of his crime is now fully realized
by him and he says he is williugtotakeliis
punishment even if the verdict should be
death by hanging. He says he was never
jealous of his wife, but she was at all
times jealous of him and was continually
accusing him of improper conduct with
other women. This denial is not credited,
as he has on a number of occasions told
friends that he was sorry he ever got
married, and has also told friends that his
wife was criminally intimate with other
men.”
Brown was brought before the city
court Monday and pleaded “not guilty”
to thecharge of murderiu the first degree.
He was then committed without bail for
trial before the May term of the superior
court in Danbury. The time occupied
was very short and then Brown was
taken down stairs to his cell and later to
ail.
j H. A. Bishop has interested himself in
Brown's case, and will aid him in secur-
ing capable counsel. Hon. Sam. Jones,
the great criminal lawyer, of Hartford, is
spoken as Brown’s probable lawyer.
.——-—~—_ —v-o->—————-—-
In May, 1872, John Robinson contract.
ed with the railroad company to trans-
port his menagerie from Bridgeport to
New Haven. In West Haven, when the
train reached the First avenue bridge,
which was much lower then than now,
the loads of several cars were swept ofi.
Chariots and cages were broken and
several monkeys escaped. 'Robinson
sued the company for $20,000,. and the
case will be tried during the coming week
in the Supreme Court of New York The
defense is that the cars Were not properly
loaded.
time, and“tookin" the closing hours of i
occupied the house of Henry C. Ely on .
NORW-ALK GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY. MARC_I—_l_ 9,1887,
I ,6 and l per cent. Farm Mortgages
$332k Ifcadpcho and relieve all the troubles inci-
Clint to a inhous state of the system, such as Dlzo
:zncss, Nausea, DrowsinessfiDistrcsn after catin ,
l’:!:1 in the Side, fie. Wh o their mostmsr -
.. is success has beenshown in curing
SICK
Headache, yet Carter’s Little Livchillsareeqnully
valuable in Constipation, curin and ‘rcvcnthrz
this annoying complaint, while i cy a so correct
all disorders of the stomach, stimulate the livcr
and regulate the bowels. Even if ihey only cured
' HEAD
Ache they would be almost priceless to those who
suffer from this distressing complaint ; but fortu-
nately their goodncss_c oes notendhcre, and those
who once try them \vil find these ltttlo ills vain.
able in so man ways but they will not a willing
- to do without em. But nfternil sick head
In the bane of so many lives that here is whey-um
make our great boost. Our pills cure it wile:
others do not.
Carter’s Little Liver Pills are very small 2:21
very easy to fake. One or two pills make a dose.
They are strictly vegetable and do not gripocr
purgfipbutb their gentle action please all who
use in. n vials at ‘25 cents ' five for 5‘. Sold.
by druggists everywhere, or said by mail:
CARTER m ICINE 00..
New York Cit-w, '
Fowis for Sale.
Young Wyandottc Fowls for Sale.
dress Lock Box 122, Norwalk
30
Ad-
ti’51
STATEMENT
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THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO, OF NEW YORK.
RICHARD A. McCUBDY, President,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 3191,1886.
. ——-OF THE——
Equitable Mortgage 00., Kansas City.
Incorporated-Capital, $000,000.
Principal and Interest Guaranteed.
Security from three to six times the amount of
loan. Coupon Bonds. interest payable in New
: York. Also, not
I Six per cent. Debenture Bonds of tho
I Mlddlesex Banking Company, of
‘I Mlddletown, Conn.
l
0r anlzed under the banking laws of the State
' of Cognncctlcut. Coupons payable in New York.
R. B. CRAU FUBD,
Agent, 31 Main Street, Norwaik.
l
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I
St. Denis HOtel,
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t—‘AND—
TAYLOR’S RESTAURANT
I Cor. Broadway and 11th St.,
i
: NEW YORK.
I EUROPEAN, PLAN.
I ROOMS, $1.00 PER DAY AND UPWARDS.
' CENTRALLY LOCATED.
Best Restaurant in the City Prices Moderate.
3m4 WILLIAM TAYLOR, Propietor.
SPECIAL BARGAINS
. —-—IN—-
! Choice Building Lots
Situated on Spring Hill, Wilton Avenue,
Fair Street, and Riverside AVenue. En-
auire at Gazarrr. OFFICE, or of
‘ ms B. J. STURGES.
E
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15,634,720 66
“ Premiums ...................... 5 502 450 01
j 3
“ Interest and Rents ...... , ........
/
ASSETS, ...................................................................... . .8114,181,908.24.
INSURANCE AND ANNUITY ACCOUNT.
No. Amount. No. I Amount.
Policies and Annuities Policies and Annuities
in force, Jan 1, 1885. . i20,952 $308,981,441 36 in force, Jan. 1, 1887. . 129,927 $393,809,202 88
Risks Assumed ........ 18,073 56,832,118 92 Risks Terminated ...... 9,698 32,004,957 40
139,025 $425,814,160 23 139,625 $425,814,160 at
Dr. REVENUE ACCOUNT. C:-
To Balance from last account ...... $99,865,044 11 . By Paid to Policy Holders:
' Endowmentsdz Pur-
I chased insurances, $4,908,129 01
Dividends J: Annui-
ties ................ 2,727,454 13
Deceased Lives ...... 5,492,920 00
—-—---$13,129,103 74
“ Other Disbursements:
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Commissions and
I Commutations I ““3216” 83.
l Taxes ............. 271,169 85
, Expenses ........... 1,091.613 91
. 3,101,410 59
| " Premiums on Stocks and Bonds
1 Purchased ........................ 52.566 14
l " Balance to new account .......... 104,719,134 3
$121,002,320 79! $121,002,820 78
l
m. BALANCE SHEET. Cr.
’i‘o Reserve for policies in force and
for risks terminated . $108,460,120 25
“ Premiums received in :idvance.. 78,274 54
t‘ Surplus at four per cent ......... 5,043,568 15
/
/
/
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$114,181,963 24
l By Bonds Secured by Mortgages on
. iteai Estate ................... :50 118,949 66
; “ United States and other Bonds 42,071,641 00
-‘ Loans on Coilaierals ......... . . 6,l72,917 25
“ lteai Estate ...................... 10,59i,2S6 32
“ Cash in Banks and Trust Com-
panies at interest .............. 2,306,203 08
“ Interest accrued .................. 1,166,870 65
“ l’remiumsdelerred and in transit, 1,565,117 28
“ Sundries .......................... 185,918 00
$114,131,953 24
New Yonx, January 26th, 1887.
BOARD OF
Alexander H. Rice,
F. liatchford Starr,
Frederick H. Cossitt,
Lewis May,
Oliver Iiurrimun,
Henry W. Smith,
John H. Sherwood,
Robert Olyphaut,
George F. Baker,
A. n. CAMP, Age
Samuel E. Sprouls,
Lucius Robinson, I
Samuel D. Babcock,
George S. (Joe,
John E. Dcvelin.
Seymour L. llusted,
Richard A. hicCurdy,
James C. Holden,
Hermann C. Von Post,
I have carefully examined the foregoing statement and find the same to be correct.
From the Surplus above stated a dividend will be apportioned as usual.
JOHN W. NICHOLS, General Agent, New Haven, Conn.
A. N. WATERHOUSE, Auditor.
TRUSTEES.
Jos. Thompson,
Dudley Olcott,
Frederic Cromwell,
Juiien '1‘. Davies,
Robert Sewell,
S. VanRensselaer Cruger,
Charles R. Henderson,
George Bliss,
l Rufus W. Peckham,
of, Norwalk.
J. Hobart. Herrick,
Wu. P. Dixon,
Robert A. Granniss,
Nicholas C. Miller,
Henry [1. Rogers,
Jno. W. Auchincloss,
B. W. Van Voorhis,
Theodore Morford,
William Babcock,
NEW STYLES roa 1887.
BRYANT, BBBSE a 00.,
Will be prepared to show an Elegant Stock of New
Goods, New Styles, and New Patterns of_ Fine
SPRINI} fllflTIIINI}.
About March 15th.
Large Stock of N ew——-——
SPRING STYLE HATS.
In all the Latest and Approved Shapes, at $1.50,
$2.00 and $2.50.
BRYANT. BESSE & 00.,
29 Main Street, Norwalk.
' A. H. HOYT & SON,
DEALERS IN
FEEL CONFIDENT
That they are selling Boots and Shoes CHEAPER than any
other house in Norwalk. We call atten-
tionto some of our goods below.
LADIES" FRENCH KID, LADIES’ GLOVE KID
Hand-sewedWeltsand Turns, very fine,$ Top Shoes, $1.25 and $2. Good Value.
LADIE.’ porno]... Km, Misses’ 31110th School has.
$1, $1.25, $1.50, $2.
, , , Bo YSTS—HOES.
LADIES AMERICAN KID We excell: $1, $1.25, 1.35, $1.65, $1.75,
New York and box toes, fine, $3.00 and $2. You will find these shoes can’t
. be beat. Our
LIDIES‘ AMERICAN KID old Reliable Plough Shoes,
Still reliable, $1.50. We still keep the
Good Style and a Nice Sboe, $2.50
LADIES’ CURACOA KID, OLD RELIABLE BOOT,
Can’t be beat for price, $2.00 At the low price of $2.25. Look at our
LADIES’ PEBBIE GAO'l‘ SEWE" BROGANS.
1 s
. , The easwst shoe in the market. Eve
Fine and N108, $2.00 thing as represented. ry
A. H. HOYT & sous,
New York toes, also box toes, $3.50
Wall Street, Norwalls.
average sold in thi
humus
PRING LDTHING.
Are now prepared to offer inducements seldom equalled.
They can show a. larger assortment fr0m which to make a. selection than
can be found elsewhere.
They can show Gleaner Made and Better Trimmed Garments than the
s vicinity.
NORWALK.
TIMSTOCK BROTHERS '
Having placed in stock their entire line of
YQUTHS’
AND BGYS”
Their facility for producing Clothing at the Lowest Possible Cost,
compatible with Good Workmanship, is not Surpassed in the State. ..
Hence, it will be greatly to the advantage of those about making Spring
purchases to inspect their stock before buying elsewhere.
OUR STOCK OF
SPRING OVERCOATS
I Is unusually large this season, and far in advance of anything
.wu m~..~_._-mwan
heretofore attempted by us.
The Balance of our WINTER GOODS will. be Sold at a Great Sacrifice.
HORSE BLANKETS AND BOBES AT. COST! 1
ALL THE NEW STYLES IN HATS!
TRUNKS AND BAGS.
OMSTOOK BROTHERS,
45 MAIN STREET,
INSURANCE BUILDING.
SOUTH N ORWALK.
Norwalk Chronicler