ESTABLISHED 1800. Volume LXXXVII. ”33"“ 4...? 1,: NORWALK, CONN.,WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, l887. AZETT An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests. TWO DOLLARS _A YEAR. _v g i. Numbereg. R. n. cnaurrunn, INVESTMENT smcomrms, REAL ESTATE Ann issunANcE, :u MAIN STREET, - - sonwa LK. GE 0 . WARD BIBLE-EC“, usansnnaoows BLOCK. WALL srasEr.» FAMILY GROCERIES. ATENTSI , , G. R. BYING'I‘ON, Wash In _n, D. C. m was on u- 2- Eulofio Inventors Milled free. .I. resinous ultrasound? Attnrueu uni“ Counselor at Lou, Room No. 4.0:) Stairs, GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK, CONN. JAMES T. Hosanna, Attnrneu an Counselor at Law ”a Gazette Building, NORWALK, CONN. ALEX. S. GIBSON, Organist of 1st Congregational Church, Waterbury, Teacher of Pianoforte, Organ and Musical Composition, ' Lock Box 39 P. 0., NOR‘VALK. CONN. M. 'L. is'yingttm, . Pension auu Patent Attnrueu, No. (342 TENTH STREET, N. E., wrisuiscros, D. c. the PENSIONS ———:AND:— _ , . Government Claims. 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Prof. LaLande, Widelyknown as the director of the French Depart- ment of the Summer School of Languages at Chntauqua. wi'i. come twice a week to Miss Baird’s Institute to give Lessons in French. A limited numbei Of upils outside of the school will be admitted to t ese classes For circulars and other information apply to ' MISS N. F. BAIRD. Gedney House, Broadway and 40th Street, NEW YORK. ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN . EVERYTHING FIRST-CLASS. - Restaurant in Connection with the Hotel. Rooms at $1.00 Per Day and Upwards. ’ Brag/7, 53' DeK‘ly'n, tfil ‘v PROPRIETORS. r. KoeoUie, _ Merchant Tailor, Has received a full line of Spring :and Summer Imported Suitings and Pantaloonings. Spring and Summer Overcoats. A fine assortment of Spring and Summer Over- coatlngs at reasonable rates. JySd All Work Done by First-Class Workmenl SA TISFACTION GUARANTEED! 13 and. 15 lists Street. Norwalk, Donn. W. H. MEEKER, Plunniui, Stein auu (instilling, SOUTH NORWALK. CONN. 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Valuable Dock Property for Sale or to Rent. ' Over 100 Building Lots in all parts of the town for sale. Those contemplating building will find it to their advantage to see maps of lots at . . ‘ this office. Money to Loan on Real Estate Security. House On Benedict Farm-for Sale; price, $1,400. ' ly11 promptly attended to. Written for the NORWALK GAZETTE. RECOLLECTIONS OF A VOLUNTEER OFFICER IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY. Br CAPTAIN W. _C. STAPLES. omma vn. One Of our vessels got badly used up one night through an accident. It was the U. S. steamer “Daylight." She was challenged by another blockadcr, and her crew did not see the challenge and, Of course, did not answer, and the ship send- ing the challenge thinking the “D.” was a blockade runner fired at her, and the con- cussion of the shell going through her upper works put out all the signal lan- terns on the “D.” Then the “Daylight” could not signal, and before she could make herself known she had received so many shots, and was so badly damaged that she had to go. north to be repaired. One day the “Dakota,” one of our large steam sloops of war, fell in ’with a block- ade runner dead to‘ leeward.’ It was blow- ing heavy from N. E. and the "Dakota" was overhauling him rapidly. As soon as the blockade runner saw that he must be overtaken he hauled down his colors and stood back toward the “D ” The “Dakota" had all her canvass set, and before she could take it in and secure it the blockade runner was close alongside. He was or- dered to stop his engines, but » paid no attention to the order, and ran the whole broadside of the man of war without seri- ous injury, and steaming as hard ashc could to the windward actually ‘escaped, as the man oflwar was no match for him ' going to windward. This blockade run- ner was the vessel commanded by Captain Hobart, Royal Navy, afterwards Hobart Pasha, admiral, Turkish Navy. A little sail-boat, only carrying about three ions, was captured- one day while trying to gctin a little inlet a few miles west of the main bar of the Cape Fear river. She was from Nassau and was loaded with salt. I suppose the intention of the captain was to load cotton or naval stores, the-enormous price of both being a great temptation to break the blockade. A new side wheel steamer of the same kind as the large tugboats of New York, called the “Ella,” was captured only three weeks from New York city. She was sold nominally to a firm in St. John’s, N. B., and, being loaded with a valuable cargo of provosions, cleared for St. Johns, went to Bermuda, and took a Wilmington pilot, and was captured while running down the line of surf close to New Inlet. The steamer that fired into her was com- mended by Captain John MacDiarmid, who lost his life in the wreck of the steamer “D. C. Haskins," commanded by Captain Edgar Wakeman, in 1869. Mac- Diarmid fired a shot that struck the gal- lows framc, which supported the walking beam, and brought the whole concern down. ‘ Almost every day we were engaged with some of the batteries on shore, or with a small battery Of Whitworth guns, mounted on large wheels with very wide tires to run over the sand, which guarded the coast between Fort Fisher and Mason- borough Inlet, a distance Of about seven miles. ' They shifted this battery with horses, and they did it. lively. One morn- ing we were signalled to go close in and destroy a blockade runner which had run ashore some five miles above Fort Fisher. When we got there we found the Whit- worth battery was there. We ran close in and fired some twenty shots into her, and exploded several large shells on board of her, but this Whitworth battery was hailing us with solid shot all the time. One of the shots came through at least two feet of solid oak, and stopped in the cap- tain’s store room, where he kept his full dress suit in tin codes. It destroyed at least a dozen bottles of choice sherry, and also his cocked hat and epauletts. Whenever there was a fog the small vessels of the squadron would go close in on the bar to prevent anything from run; ning in or out. Then when the fog lifted you would hear,the big guns from Fort Fisher and the shore batteries open on the poor fellOWs and there would be some quick work getting underway and out of the reach of those shore batteries. Com. sidcring the number Of sliots fired the casualties were few. One day an expedition was fiitted out to destroy the salt works near Masonboro’ Inlet. There Were about seven boats and seventy men under the command of Lieut. Breck, of the steamer “Niphou." They went on shore after dark, were very suc. cessful and returned with i. ii the prison- ers the boats could carry. The seventy men in the expedition captured one hun- dred and sixty prisoners. The surprise was complete. The salt works had a new engine just imported from Glasgow, Scotland. It was polished up beautifully and running full blast. ‘Our men carried with them some 32-pound shells, but with pine plugs driven in the fuse holes instead of fuses, and these, at'a word given by an officer, were thrown into the furnaces. They were about one and a half or two minutes heating the iron so as to explode them, giving our men time to get out of the way. The destruction was thorough, and the boilers and engine were a_ total wreck. There were some seventy horses in sheds close by that belonged to a cavalry company which we had made prisoners, and the sailors were ordered to cut: the hOises’ throats, but not a sailor could be found to disable a horse. There were some hundreds of pigs in pens belonging to the salt works, and there was no need to tell Jack to kill and take a pig. Two of the Ofilcers called at a house in the village of Masonboro, (which, by the way, was a sort of watering place for Wilmington, seven miles distant), where they heard the music Of a piano and sing- ing. They left a guard outside, and in answer to their knock a young lady came to the deor. Seeing their uniforms she started back with the exclamation, “Yankees l" They assured ,her they meant no" harm, but as they heard the music they could not'resist the temptation. to call and ask her to play ‘9’. them. There was another yOung lady in the par._ lor and ayonng man in citizens clothes, who scemedto bevery nervous. One of the young ladies sat down to the piano, and played and . sang several tunes. Of, course . she had to give us the “Bonny Blue Flag,” “Dixie," and “My Maryland.” When the officers got up to go she said: “Call again, gentlemen, and I hope we will be better prepared to receive you.” In the spring of 1864 a formidable iron- clad and rain combined was launched and fitted out at Wilmington. She came out one night when we were on the outer line of blockade, fifteen miles from New Inlet. It so happened that our ship was the only large ship '- on the station, all the others being at‘Be‘aufort cooling. In the morn- ing at daylight one of our small steamers was close to us and the captain came on' board. ‘He gave a terrible account of the destruction caused by the iron-clad, say- lug he'thought she must have sunk several of our vessels. We steamed in toward the bar, and in about half an hour sighted the iron-clad standing in for Fort Fisher, and exchanging shots at long range with some of our small vessels, and she had succeeded in putting two or three shots through the Smoke stack of one of them, but had done no other damage. She ran in under the guns of Fort Fisher and we supposed she was at anchor as we could see her plainly from our deck. But it seems in going back over the bar she struck heavily three or four times and started a bad leak, and so they were com- pelled to ran her on shore to keep her from sinking as soon as they got into smooth water. She never floated again, but for a long time we did not know but that she was all right, and we wore ex- pecting a visit from her every night, but one night a boat came off loaded with contrabrands, and they told us the iron- clad was disabled. One of the ofii core in our squadron at that time was young Lieut. Vt iliiam B. Cusliing, then commanding the “Mount Vernon.” He was one of those reckless, daring spirits always on the move, and who seem always to be lucky. One day he came on board the “Tuscarora” and asked Captain Parker, who was at that time flag officer, for permission to go in with two boats and blow up the rebel iron- clad lying ncar Fort Fisher. Captain Parker asked him his plans. Cashing said “the reb. will be lying with his fires banked. I will board him with two'boats, one on each side, and will take ladders long enough to reach the top of the smoke stack, and throw down it loaded shells with the fuse holes plugged.” Captain P. told him his theory was all right, but then it was a well-known fact that all iron-clads had gratings across the top of their smoke stacks, and also that Rear Admiral Lee had forbidden any boat expeditious from the blockading squadron without his con- sent, becausc so many of them had been captured and so many lives lost in them. Cashing was very much dissatisfied, and, as he went over the side, he said to me: “You will hear from me in less than twenty-four hours." The next morning he came around from the main bar in his ship, lowered a boat, and came on board accompanied by a gentlemen in the con- federate uniform with the rank Of colonel. Cushing introduced him as Col. . late commanding Fort Caswcll. It seems Cushing had learned through some contra- brands that the colonel slept every night at Smithvillc, about a mile from the fort, and, settled by Captain Parker’s refusal to allow him to try and blow up the iron- clad, he determincd to capture the colonel. It was a rainy, dark night, and he went ashore with two boats and twenty- fivc men. They hauled their boats under a wooden pier where there was a con- federate sentry stationed on its outer end, and then leaving the boats in care of the boat keepers started up into the village. Fortunately for 0. they encountered and captured a darkey, and compelled him to show them the colonel’s quarters. To break in a window and jump into the room was the work of a moment, and the colonel was ordered to dress in a hurry by the light of a dark lantern carried by one of the men. On the way to the hosts the colonel coughed when near the pier where the sentry was stationed. Cushing quietly told him that if the cough was repeated it would be fatal. They got on to the “Mount Vernon” before daylight, and as soon as it was light enough to see plainly, Cashing sent on shore a boat. with a flag of truce for the colonel’s wardrobe, and that was the first intimation the con- federates had that the colonel was a prisoner. ' . On one occasion he went on shore in the night with about seventy men, and men, and captured it without resistance. He spiked all the guns, and carried off and destroyed all he could. This was all done in the winter and spring of ’63 and ’64, before he blew up the “Abermarle.” Much space could be occupied by record: ing the exploits of this gallant young ofiicer that have never been oflcially told. In the summer of ’63 he was in Philadel- phia on' a. short leave of absence. He sauntered into the Continental Hotel, one afternoon in uniform, and in the main entrance met some navy Ofiicers whom he knew. He was at this time a lieutenant, and nineteen years old. A Jew cotton speculator, whom it afterwards transpired had been driven from the front near , Vicksburg by General Grant’s orders, was standing in the vestibule talking to some friends. As Cushing passed him the Jew pointed to him and said: “There goes one of the d—-————d,rascals now.” Cush- iug asked him who he meant. The Jew answered: “I mean all such as you who wear that uniform.” The words were no sooner out of his mouth than Cushing, who had no other weapon than a light whalebone cane, struck him across the face and followed it up by a severe beat- ing until the Jew yelled for mercy. Cushiug then very indiscrctly said: “There ismy card. You can have any satisfaction you want.” The next morn- ing he received a challenge which be ac- cepted. The Jew sent all the correspond. ence to the navy department, and it re- quired all the influence ofCushing’s friends to save him from a dishonorable dis- charge. On one occasion, as his ship was , near the beach some six miles north of Fort Fisher, he saw a company of Coast Guards marching up the narrow strip of and towards Masonboro’ Inlet. The beach is only about 200 yards wide in this place, as there is a sound inside of it, and he imme- diately took steps for their capture. There was no place on the beach for the next two miles where they would not be under the guns of a vessel close in, and and then he gave orders to lower the boats and took command of the expedi- tion, giving his executive ofilcer orders to go close in after he passed-them, (the confederates), and give them grape and canister if he could get close enough. The “Mount Vernon}! after passing. the confederate column, run, close in. and gave them grape and ,canister according to orders, and before: the confederates could get help from Fort Fisher, Cashing had gobbled them up together with a Whitworth gun they had with them. In giving this little sketch of the exploits of Cashing I have endeavored to give only those that have never been publish- "ed, and of which I was either an eye witness, or which was related to me by himself. ‘ _ , In the winter of ’64 and "65 I was ex- ecutive officer of the frigate“Savannah,” then a school ship for officers under. in- struction, and stationed at the Brooklyn navy yard. One- morning I was going down the walk from the main entrance to the Lyceum and I noticed a young man ahead of me, who seemed to be walking with much difiicuity, as if suffering from rheumatism. He was dressed very seedy, had onasort of a round about jacket, and his clothes were not very clean I had read only a day or two before of Cashing blowing up the “Albermarle,”,and as I passed this man he called me by name. ‘ It was Cushing. He was suffer- ing from exposure and rheumatism, and had been lauded by a navy transport the evening before, and was then on his way toreport to Admiral Paulding. I went with him to thdotfice of the admiral, and, I as soon as it was known who he was, he was instantly surrounded by a crowd of ofiicers of all ranks from the admiral down He had lain some seventy-two hours, after blowing up the ”Albcrmarle,” in the marshes in winter or early spring and he never fully recovered. He had worn the suit in which he blew up the Vase“ chargeda battery manned by nearly 200 ’ “Albermarle” to report to Admiral PtilIId— lug more as a matter of pride than neces- sity. The Union League club, Of New York. tendered him a reception for the next night and he begged me to go with him, but as I was not attached to his ship, nor connected with his exploit in the destruction of the “Albermarle,” I de- clined. ———-l§>—‘———— A RAT’S IREASONING POWERS. A} Most Remarkable Incldcnt—A Mother Rat‘s Experience. . As throwing light upon the question of the intelligence of the'nnimul creation, in the ex- hibition of memory and reasoning power, be~ yond the mere pale of recognized instinct, i wish to give a brief account of an interesting incident of which I was a witness. On a very warm day in early summer I happened to be standing near a chicken coop in a back yard when I noticed the bend of a very gray and grizzled rat thrust from a neighboring rut hole, and concluded to watch the movements of the veteran. After a careful survey of the surroundings, our old odeut secured to besatisfied that all we “ cautious exit from t retreat. A fresh pan of water had \ntly placed before the chicken coop e of Mothei “Chick” and her iiiteresti These all seemed to have satisfied th rat, and thé water looked a friendly ifi‘yitation to the thirsty old rat, which toward it. half grown young ones rushed ahead and tried to be first at the water. The old rat thereupon immediately made a leap like a kangaroo, and. was at the edge of the dish in advance of the foremost of her litter. Then ensued a. most remarkable occurrence. The mother rat raised hemlf on her haunches and bit and scratched her offspring so severely, whenevér they attempted to reach the water, that they all finally scudded away, evidently very much astonished and frightened at the strange and unaccountable behavior of their mother. I wasosmuch astonished as they, and waited with renewed interest the out- come of this remarkable performance. When the little ones were at a safe distance, the reason for her extraordinary behavior began to be revealed at once in the intélligeut action of the old mother rat. She tirstwet her whiskers in the water, looked suspiciously about her, then very cautiously and carefully took a dainty little sip of the liquid. She tasted it as teiitstively and critically as a. professional tea taster, and when she was satisfied that it contained no poisonous or other deleterious matter, she gave a couple of squeaks, which quickly brought her young and thirsty brood to her side, and all fearlessly drank to their flll. Now, this old mother ratwas experienced, had evidently learned her lemon in that school thoroughly, and so she would not allow her young and untaught litter to taste water -which might have contained rat poison, or what not, until she had satisfied herself that the liquid was harmles. As I witnessed this little scene in lowly animal life the thought would keep. coming, does not this look very like reason’t—F. Croll Baum in American Naturalist. The Old Man Tells His Yam. “I want to tell you a little story about my boy out in Newbraskey,” said an Old farmer in the smoking car to the party of drummers who had been telling him some pretty tall yarns. “My boy is a good deal of a geniusjn his way. lemme tell you, and none of ’em gets ahead of him. T’other day he rigged up a kite. It was the biggest kite I’d ever set eyes on. It was about six feet wide, an’ twice as long, an’ on the top of it my boy placed a few green branches which he’d cut from a cotton- wood tree. ‘What’s them for? I inquired. ‘Never you mind, dad,’ says he; ‘I know what I’m about.’ And, by gosh, he did. He flew that kite up in the air an’ stood watchiu’ of it for a long time, when I Says to him: ‘You’d better pull that thing down now an’ get to your work.’ ‘Lsmme alone, dad,’ he replied, ‘I’ll git thar yet.’ And, by gosh, he did. The next time I took a look at him he was a- hauling in on the kite line, with a smile on his face as broad as a furrer. When the kite came down near the ground I saw what he was a-smilin’ at, and it was enough to make a body smile, too. Any you fellers want to guess what was on that kite?” None of the drummers wanted to guess, and the old man continued his story: “Wall, sir, a sittiu’ on the top 0' that kite was eleven 0’ the purtiest wild geese ye ever saw. Yes, sir, eleven on ’em. You see, the geese was flyin’ north party thick, an' my boy had got up this scheme to catch ’em. There ain’t many trees out our way, an’ after a fat goose has 'beenfiyin’purtysteady all day he gits kind 0’ tired like an’ looks around fora placoto sit down an’ rest. That’s just what my boy was countiu' on when he built that kite. By offerin’ the geese a place to stop an’ rest, an’ by smeariu’ the top 0’ the kits with tar so their feet would stick so fast they couldn't get away, he did the businem. By gosh! but it was fun to pull them geese in. Just asfsst aswecouldsendthekite up andpullherdowuagainwegot from ten to a dozen geese, an’ in four days we captured six car loads. au’I’m taldn”emtoChicago now to sell. None 0' you short, story tellin’ tellers don’t happen to know what wild geese is wuth now in the Chicago market, do ye?” -Chicago, Herald. Solomon’s Judgment in Chinese. Two women came before a mandarin in China, each of them protesting that she was the mother of a little child they had brought with them. They were so eager and so posi- tive that the mandarin was sorely puzzled. He retired to consult with his wife, who was ' a wise and clever woman, whose opinion was held in great repute in the neighborhood. She requested five minutes in which to de- liberate. At the end of that time she spoke: “Let the servants catch me a large fish in the river, and . lot It be brought me here alive.” ' “Bring me 'now the infant,” she said, “but leave the women In the outer chamber." This was done, too. Then the mandarin’s wife caused the baby to be undressed and its clothes put on the fish. “Carry the creature outside now, and throw it into the river in the sight of the two women.” The servant obeyed her orders, flinging the fish into the water, where it rolled about and struggled, disgusted, no doubt. by the wrap- p inwhich it was swsddled. ithout a moment's pause one of the mothers threw herself into the river with a shriek. She must save her drowning child. “Without doubt, she is the true mother," she declared, and' the mandariu’s wife com- manded that she should be rescued and the child given to her. “Without a doubt, she is the true mother,” she declared. And the mandarin nodded his head, and thought his wife the wisest woman in the flowery kingdom. Meantime the false mother crept away. She was found out in her ' ' ,‘an'd the mandarin’s wifesfor- got all about her in the occupation of don- ning the little baby in the best silk she could find in her wardrobe—London Academy. _ The "Duke of Southwark." George Handy Smith, president pro tern. of the Pennsylvania senate, is the best dressed man in the Keystoneltatc. Hoiscalled the “Duke of Bouthwsrk." It is said that he frequently wears five different suits a week. His trousers are a content source of envy and admiration to his brother senators. There is a talk of introducing the micro- phone telephono into private parlors, and the news creates consternation in flirting circles. The horrid thing tells tales out of. school. Fact—but, as the newspapers say: “no. body Will believe it," Fontaine's cure for Consum tiou is guaranteed to cure dis- of the iun .‘ For sale by I. A. Meeker, 11 Main treet, Norwalk. Why is a successful poultry man like a carriage builder? Because he makes a coop-pay . S rib is u n us. and the‘system needs rendvatisng. hose in feeble health should take a few bottles of the old reliable Quak- er Bitters. Those whose nervous system is prostrated, whose vital force is im ired, should b all means use usker liters. They w ll produce new life and energy, restore the appetite. and regulate diges— tion. You cannot afford to be Without guaker Bitters. Use Little Quaker Pills. he beat pill made. . ~ If your hands cannot be usefully em- ployed. attend to the cultivation of your mind .—Mail and Express. ~ , If you are tired of taking the large old- fashioned gripping ills, and are satisfied that purging yoursc till you are weak and. sick is not ood common sense, then try Carter’s Litt e Liver Pills and learn how easy it is to be free from Bili0usuess, Head- ache, Constipatiou, and all-Liver troubles. These little pills are smaller, easier to .take and vs ulcker relief than any pill in use no pi i a dose. Price 25 cents. A crank is usually a man whose head is turned. - The yearly drive of Texas cattle into In- dian Territory, aggregate 45,556 head. immediately started _ The rat had not reached thépan before five , E Mrs up“ paws? Giro: RINE is a poorly white. semi-transparent fluid having a re- markable affinity or the skin. - The only article yet knowntochemistry that will penetrate thoskin WITHOUT » - INJURY. Debra-sing. . ' Beautiiies the Complexxon, fir-dimes I 8gb. Freokl Tan Moth Patches, Blfck onus, Imp tlcs u’id Dis- coloration. of every kind, either within or upon the skin. it waders the skin pure. clear, has th- l 10]] VII II I- I‘ll gTfl‘mt' gamma}; .axt once I. no a “I'll fl!" be. t . Itisawon- doing WHEASLM gr 'rough skin on in! I'll." cams (AI-est Instantly) Ink-rs. mung-c, Clap- ped. Bough or (listed Skin; In fact its results mall diseases oftho skinsre wonderful. . it Never Falls; am 750. pawn. Use Ana PEARL’S ' ' 5 1);" After Fol-g. Hill's III"! DIIDEIIII C0" "cream! “HIM. JOSEPH 9 Hum A GOOD Pom you PHARAOH when hecorneredE itan - wheat, but. Fouldsgsyclbred a better one with WT om HEAL. Now, ladies, the weather is growing hot, and if you . willuselessmeataud more . Germ Meal, you’ll save mone , time and temper; , ' your usbands will relish t, your children will thrive on it and 5 minutes cooks it. An grocers sell it; 2 lb packages, 15c. If you nev- ~ er try anything new, don’t try this, no matter if it is better than oatmeal. Butler, Breed & (10., Acnsrs.sosron. The Best in the World. Sperry on Barnes’ Hams, Shoulders, Breakfast Bacon, ——AND— Sausage ARE GUARANTEED THE BEST in THE MARKET Our KETTLE LABD is Strictly Pure and Free from all Adulteration. Look Carefully for the Brand. oods bearing our brand at ew Haven. eras We manufacture all our packing house in Snorer 8i Barnes, New Haven, Conn. Hutch, Built Auto MANUFACTURERS AND DEAILERS IN Lumen, runner, Shingles, La th, Doors, Sash, Blinds, .Moulding, Window Frames, Piclcets, do. Veneered Hard Wood Work. Haul Wood Ceilinganil Flooring. South Norwalk, Conn. Geo. S. Gregory. Livery. Boarding, Sale, Feed and Exchange - * v No. 14311131“: so (inrcar of Horse Car Depot), NORWAL'C, CONN. Carriages furnished 311 hours. ttention and gentlemanly drivers. Geo. H. Osterbank, Special attention given to all ktndstof P A I N T I N e. , . Paner Hanging out Becoming. Contract Work a Specialty. ALL WORK WARRANTED. 21 Chapel Street, Norwalk, Conn, Courteou , . 1! Dull II E it If V ‘II II 8 8 , Restaurant, Cafe and Smoking-Boon, Grand Central Station, 421) Srnssr AND 4TH Avsmm, New Your: Entrance from waiting room, New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad. tins _ W anted. Any person suffering from Piles, Fistula, or Fissuro of the Rectum, to address the undersigned and learn of a perfect more. No Cons, No PA in DR. YARNALL, - Before they buy anything of the kind. A selection GENERAL MARKET. M'oat, Fish, Vegetables, lie. LOCKWOOD do ANDREWS. IAIN STREET. All kinds of the best qualities of Meats, Fish, Clams, Vegetables, etc., are kept constantly on hand. and will be sold by us as low as can be pro- cured at any market in Norwalk. We intend to prove to our customers that we deserve their patronage by fair and generous dealing. 1y40 LOCKWOOD Jr ANDREWS. I WANT EVERYBODY —To come ln-and look over my stock of— Monuments —--AND—— HEADSTONES can be made from them much better than from a photograph or pencil sketch. Respectfully, P. W. Bates. “5 RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSIIGIATIIIN. The grounds of 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 welLkept roads from all directions. The cemetery is divided into twenty-two sections, with Broad Avenues ' and suitable streets, and the cont-our of the land is such that every taste mdy be gratified in the selection of plots. The 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. An 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 Offered for sale at prices very favor. able to purchasers. ' MAPS. Maps of the Cemetery may be seen at the Ofiice of MR. Enos KELLOGG, the Superintendent, on the premises; at the office of Hon. JAMES W. HYAT‘I‘, at the Horse Railroad~ Depot; and at the office of MR. JOHN H. LIGHT, at South Nor- walk. ti5 p avenues are so arranged as to afford_ an almost I Glover 81 Olsen, ‘ No.42 Wall St, ulna, Wish to eat. your attention to a few of styles of shoes carried in stock by them. out: LADIES’ nenci no, Haul-little Tanlennliast, A Marve of Comfort and Ease. Our $6 Hand-Mane, Frauen Kit Welt For ladies wear are ect in eve respect and as good a are?“ any marlin. For $5.50, the'msny made by Benedict a 00.. of N ow Canaan, are the some 0 style and beauty, and positively cannot be excelled at any price. Oh! Oh I for $3, Those Nobby Little French Kid, Hand-Made Oxfords with patent leather tips are admired b all that have seen and worn them. You must caI and see them. .. For $2.50, A Perfect Misses'Waukenphas‘t for school or a walking shoe cannot be equalled. H‘In a word outline of shoesls complete in every respect. We M70 "1C best IIIB OI , CHILDREN’S SCHOOL SHOE Ever shown in town and at prices from the cheapest to the best. Glover 86 Olsen, 42 Wall Street, I NORWALZ. George F. Quintard —Hss opened a— Finer-cuss GROCERY. —AT—— No. 5 Wall Sheet, Opposite to J. B. Ells' Furniture Rooms. Everything new and fresh, and will be sold at cheap as can be bought in town. Won't fail to give as a call. uterus Huron iuu Burns, Nos. 37, 39 and 41 West 26th Street, New York City, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, near Madison Park. A Quiet, Healthy location. convenient by Stages, Horse Cars, and the Elevated Rosdsto all parts of the city. In the centre of retail trade, places of amuse- ment, and the principal hotels and churches. PERMANENT or. TaAnsnsr Guxs'iS. Rates :—$s.50 to 85 per day ; $10 to $35 per week, according to size and location of rooms. Special rates for families by the year. The neatest and most perfect TURKISH, ELECTRIC AND ROMAN BATES In the city, connected with the hotel at Rggliigqed Rates to Guests. DR. E. P. MILLER, Proprietor. BLASCER. S TIME HONORED “OLD BRIDGE STORE.” these, piping times of severe sell me. I do. depended upon—— use 150 E. 88th Street, New York City, Nearly half a. century ago my store was christened as above, and has since been known and honored among the old. residents of N orwalk by that appropriate name. But that is a matter of little consequence to the public in BUSINESS COMPETITION. The one important questiOn to purchasers is where can we get the Best Goods for the Least Money! 'From time to time the report comes to me that some of my near neighbors have boasted that they could under- N 0 one who has ever tested the truth of such a. claim by coming and examining my carefully selected and UNEXCELLED STOCK OF GOODS and the extremely low prices at which I offer the same has ever left “ The Old. Bridge Store,” With any other feeling than that no one in the trade can or does offer greater inducements to cash customers than I have the choicest exhibits of AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN GROGKERY ' & GLASSWARES. Also about every conceivable device for Table , Furnishing, Mantel Decoration, with, House Cleaning and Cooking Implements of every description. Call and examine and be convinced that my statements are strict- lv true as to. my carefully selected stock of the Tluioest [luullllos nu Varieties of _ tools In my line are Sold at the Lowest Possible Prices. We strive to strictly attend to our own business. We never run down or misrepresent other dealers, and we ask simply a chance to show our customers our stock and let them satisfy themselves; but one thing may be NO OTHER CONCERN SHALL UNDERSELL ME I The times, the times, the age, the age— p , The “Old Bridge Store” is all the rage; Tell of the town or city; where they keep Such goods at once so rich and yet so cheap! For of on cheap stores beneath the sun, B. S. BLAscsn’s is the cheapest one! B. S. BLASCER. ‘ N orwalk, April 4th, 1887. *t‘ Leaders of the Shoe Trade 3 Our Ladies’ Rand-lads French Kid Turn Shoes . Bidgepbrt Bargain Alfonse, x JERSEY Wursrs. Special Ofiering. We ofi'er 150 Best:Fitting and Best Quality dome in Blocks and Color th t to so] at $2.50 and 83. Pric: on‘ly‘fifgolmugm 75 CENTS. Another lot I, t 'l . « . . and $1.50. raid...“ “2"” "M $1.25 and Jersey Jackets. '- . ‘ One lot best French Cord, Genuine Tailor My]? Ele ant Bound, Best Fittin . Pr' $113113. the acket New York storedg are kfili‘ilg Suits. An elegant varie in Cloth Imported Cash: mere. Check and P aids iron; 88. Best 3 ice Tailor Made Suits. 50 “warm Tailor nits made to order. Wraps. Cloth, 88 and upward. . _Satin, 811 and upward, Jet Trimmed Grena- dines in Brocade and Jets, 89 and upward. “if“ 11;?th? “pf elggannt “Imported, Fabrics. e an ' that defy emanatition. _ e” m 1°“ “ ”rm" ' Glo'ves. .Ladies’ and Misses’ 8 tin and Summer Silk, Tafeta and Lisle Thigmdg'Gloves. These Gloves were made expressly for our trade, and for fit and durability cannot be excelled. We have the largest assortment ever shown in this city, and we shall offer them at prices which we know cannot be approached. . F' . l t Kld Gloves. we; Specie .10 s under Parasols. AT AN ENORMOUS REDUCTION. An opportunity for the ladies of New Eng- land to secure genuine values at prices within the reach of the most economical purchaser. NOTE l—The extreme cold and backward season had a do rescing efi’ect upon manufac- turers, especiallflyl in this particnle' r branch, many of whom _ d enormous accumulations on hand and With our great outlet we have been enabled to secure large quanties of really first-class goods stair-ices ositively ruinous to :2; makers. kItllll or ctr to isposc of these large , we mar ema riceslthat will dispos' of the same at once. p e W. 3. Hall (t 00., Cor; Iain and Cannon Sta, Bridgeport. Misses St. John, FINE MILLINERY Fahcy , Goods. —We.have an elegant 8880111118!“ 0f—-: SPRING AND SUMMER MHAIIIERY, . Which we are ofleriug at Very low Prices. A full line of MOURNING,both made and un- made, constantly on hand. - FANCY GOODS OF ALL KINDS. HAIR GOODS, a Specialty. Frizzes and Bangs in all the latest styles. OLD GRAPE HIDE EQUAL TO NEW By the Schrlver Patent Process, for which we have the agency. We also have the agency for the MADAME GRISWOLD CORSET. A Perfect Fit Guaranteed. MISSES ST. JOHN, on runs BTBEET. MISS Agnes Fitch, 49 Main Street, —Oifers all the latest -uovelties-in——-' ’» - ‘ iiuunm nouns, —conslsting of— Rihluons, Flowers ant Trimmings Of all kinds ; Hats and Bonnets In the most desirable shapes and colors. Centeoneri Gloves ——A'l'— [3mm Centemeri Prices. Fawcett’s Easter Opening. ———On and after TUESDAY, APRIL 5th, All are cordially invited to call and inspect our styles. We feel confident thlawill an s - any opening display in this town th season. A visit will fully reward an attendance. ———0ur Display of TRIMMED HA TS Will be very fine and in every Shape and Color. > It has been our careful endeavor to send cards to all. If any emissions have occurred they have been unintentional, and we take this occasion to say to all “COME.” H'We shall each Tuesday during the season exhibit Novaunss IN MrLLmsav. FAWDE'I'T’S, 3 WATER ST., 73 MAIN ST., Norwalk. So. Norwalk. Pent Milli stain nuuno. ' FARM WAGON S, ' Fertilizers, Air Slackecl Lime, Land Plaster -AND—:* Drain Pipe, —AT— ' rain or 1
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