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IIIIIVIALK POST OFFICE.
Borough Post Office open from 6 a. in. to S p. m.
Sundays,9 to 10 a. in. Sunday mail sent out 6
p. in. Money order hours, 8 a. m. to 'i' p. in.
Malls despatched south and west, 7.25 and 10 a. m.,
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.Etna Life Insurance 00., Annual statement
Borough Taxes, Assessors’ Notice
D. M Read Sc (30., Dry Goods
Mutual Life insurance 00., Annual statement
Probate Notice, Estate Sally Ann Partrlc
Cheap Excursions California
LOCAL I TEI’IIS
Gov. Lounsbury has been on a business
trip to Macon, Ga.
Judge Selleck, while able to be about,
is nevertheless uncomfortably ill. >
Frank Beers and James Allen have re-
turned home from atwo weeks’ visit in
Florida. '
Ex. Governor Hyde was in town yester-
day, and went up to Wilton to inspect
Gunning’s farm. '
At Georgetown, on the Danbury rail-
road, the mercury registered 220 below
zero, Sunday morning.
Miss Amy Conveisc,__of Norwich, is
spending the week with Miss Fannie B.
Wilson, on Arch street.
It is reported that the new building
gorng up near the Arnold Foundry is to
be a lager beer brewery.
They do say that Theodore Olsen’s
buckskin colt is accomplishing wonders
on the Pudding Lane race course.
The mercury registered 12 degrees be-
low zero at daylight Sunday morning,
the coldest morning of the season thus
far.
The beautiful frescorng on the ceiling of
the new Masonic hall has been sadly
marred by a leak in the roof of the build-
ing.
Miss Edna Hoyt, one of New Canaan’s
most estimable and popular daughters, is
visiting her friend, Mrs. Dr. Hitchcock,
on West avenue.
The President has detailed Licut. Ray-
mond, of Ct., from the regular army ser-
vice to act as Engineer Commissioner of
the District of Columbia.
Judge Woodward has just had printed
what. is probably the most carefully pre—
pared and elaborate probate record book
to be found anywhere in the state.
The many friends of Mrs. Wm. H.
Earle will regret to learn that her health
still continues quite delicate since the
family’s return to their Norwalk home.
New York had a $1,500,000 fire Mou-
day morning on Broadway, which burned
out twenty-two large business concerns,
and seriously injured a number of fire—
men.
—Scnd for pamphlet descriptive of Dr.
Sheflleld’s system of making artificial
teeth without plate, containing references.
2 6 West 432 street, N. Y., inventor, pro—
j ector, proprietor. 1m3
At the morning service of the Norwalk
BaptistChurch next Sabbath, Rev. Chas
E. Torrey will preach a memorial sermon
in remembrance of the; Church’s dead
during the past year.
St. John’s Lodge, F and A. M., will
givea reception in the Lodge room on
Friday evening of next week, to which
brother Masons will be invited to bring
heir ines and friends.
Mr. David Olmsted, son of the late
Chas. Olmsted, deceased, died at his
home in Chicago, on Monday, Jan. 23rd.
Mr. Olnrstcd was well known in Norwalk,
this being his birth place.
In many places about town there is no
gas service, and lamps and lanterns illum-_
his many of the stores, while at the post—
office patrons receive and stamp their
letters by the fitful glare of a tallow‘ dip.
. The ice is being vigorously harvested
by the Brooklyn Co. from the Umpawaug
pond, and R. L. Ells is shoving the ice
crystals off the Upper Mill pond at Win-
nipauk with tremendous zeal-and’energy.
—Go to Nickerson’s for your best quality
of groceries of every description, at lowest
possible prices. With low rent, small ex-
penses, and cash sales, he can sell at
profits so small that they defy competi-
ti on. -
Don’t fall to critically examine the an-
:nual statement of the New York‘ Mutual
Life Insurance Company in the Gamma
today. It is the 'wonderful exhibit of the
most wonderful Life Insurance Company
in the word.
The ladies of the First Congregational
Church will give a reception festival and
supper at the church parlors Friday even-
ing. Supper will be served “piping hot’:
from 5 pm. to as late an hour as any one
remains hungry. All in aid of the new
chapel fund.
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Holmes have
now concluded to accompany their daugh.
fer, Mrs. JamesCousius, and her child to
Florida, where‘ Mr. Cousins now is and
where he has purchased a promising
orange grove on the St. Johns river, some
twenty miles from Jacksonville.
The case against Policeman Conley, of
South Norwalk, for clubbing an insane
woman while she was confined in a cell,
and inflicting severe cuts on her head,
came before J usticc Selleck yesterday.
Conley’s counsel entered a demurrer which
was overruled, and the prisoner was fined
$7 and cost; appealed.
—-—Conccrt and Bell Ringing at. Y. M. C. A.
to-niglit. Admission 35 and 50 cents.
We are requested to say to the young
men who commit nuisance on Mechanic’s
street, between the bank building and
Hadden’s block, during the early even-
ing, that their actions are highly objec-
tionable to the dwellers in the adjacent
buildings, and if it is not stopped the po-
lice will make cxamples of somebody.
The third annualmasquerade ball of the
Arion Singing Society will be held in
Music Hall next Monday evening. This
is sure to be one of the finest and most eu-
. joyable affairs of the whole season, the
management sparing no pains nor expense
to make it such, and those who attend
will be sure of a rare evening of festivity.
$2.00 '
It is reported that Miss N. F. Baird !
contemplates sending her niece and the _
young daughter of conductor Gould Hoyt
to the Oswego Normal School, to be
1 educated fora teacher. Miss Hoyt is re—
puted to be a remarkably bright and ac—
complished scholar, for one of her years.
The trial in this city of Peter Coffee for
the murder of Charles I. Way at Stony
Creek last summer, calls attention once
more to the influence of (lrink on crime.
Is there no way of controlling tins deadly
ting? Must people submit to be murder-
ed, plundered, outragtd, because some
people demand the right to make and "sell
—aud others to drink—intoxicants ? What
is the truth here ?—Relz'gz‘ous Herald.
Mrs. Dr. Mary Edna Grayhill Dowc, re-
cently elected president of the street our
line at Dover, N. H., has tirade herself
popular by reducing the fare from six to
five cents. She is a thorough business
woman, and has become wealthy by pur-
chasing property along the line of tire
road, of which she holds a majority of
stock. ‘
More and more paper is taking the
place of woodwork. Paper doors are now
largely substituted for wooden doors.
The paper doors are better, for the reason
that they are lighter; they do not shrink
or swell with changes of weather; they
are made from single sheets of paper
moulded into any desired pattern, and
they are not dearer than wooden doors.
But this is a personal and not a party
matter. To President Cleveland belongs
the responsibility of making an appoint-
meat in so many ways unfit, and to the
demand of the solid south. The disgrace
of having put a man who has violated his
oath of fidelity to the constitution upon
the bench as one of its interpreters rnust
rest-where it belongs. It canndt be laid
at the feet of the republican parly.-—1—Iart.
ford Post.
If any chariiahly disposed person 'has
anything in the wa’y of clothing or bed—
ding they arc disposed to give to a crip-
pled and destitute soldier of the late war,
and will leave them at George H. Ray—
mond's undertaking establishment, he
will see that they are bestowed upon this
worthy comradc’s family. The soldier
has a wife and five children from one to
ten years of age, and the father is unable
to work.
—The best place to obtain your market
mg is at Lockwood & Andrews, Main
street. Fish, oysters, vegetables and
meals of all kinds. Best qualities, full
weights and measures, and the lowest
prices. Give us a call.
The case of the Bridgeport Pcoples’
Savings Bank as. the Borough of Norwalk
was tried at Bridgeport yesterday. The
Bank sues for interest and claims it never
saw the advertised notice for a call of the
borough bonds, and that it was never noti-
fied by any of our borough officials that
said bonds had been so called and interest
stopped from and after July lst, 1886, up
on which the borough stopped payment
of interestr - ‘
On Saturday afternoon of last week
Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia,aecom-
panicd by the American delegation visit-
ing Rome in attendance upon the jubilee
festivities, waited upon the Pope at the
Vatican, and, being received in the throne-
room, presented the gift of President
Cleveland, with an address indicating the
kindly feeling entertained toward his
Holiness by Mr. Cleveland.
Byington in his letter to the Norwalk
GAZETTE says: “Poor Connecticut, as is
too usual, gets kicked down to the foot of
the house committees whenever a southern
man is elected speaker, yet our demo-
cratic members, both in this and the last
cougress,votcd solid for Carlisle.” This
just exactly hits the ease. Northern demo-
crats will “knuckle under” every time,
and feel very much pleased when they
can come in on the tail end of a committee
with an Arkansas or Texas “statesman,
sah.”——Ha7'tford Post.
ACatholic priest in Pennsylvania has
declared opcu war on bustles. He brands
them as unsightly, a production of vanity,
and as immoral. He further says that
unless the women of his congregation,
old and young, abandon the, use of this
offensive article of wearing apparel. he
will forbid them the communion. The
good priest means all right, and lrls stric-
turcs upon the abominable monstrosity are
perfectly correct, but until the thing goes
out. of fashion the women will wear it even
if they forfeit communion.
Of the concert to be given at the Y. M.
C. A. to-night the Boston Daily Adoerte'ser
says:
The Hotchhin Family Concert Company,
consisting of five young ladies, the
youngest 14, and the others, with one ex.
ception, under 20, gave a concert before a
full house in the Asshciation Hall on Sat-
urday evening. _ The programme was the
most novel ever presented before the asso-
ciation. All of the young ladies appeared
to be creditable performers on a half a
dozen or so of different instruments.
At amcetiug of the directors of the
Fair-field County Agricultural Society held
yesterday afternoon, the resignation of
Treasurer L. S. Cole 'was accepted, and
the old treasurer W. A. Curtis was ap-
pointed in his stead. George 0. Keeler
was elected a director, vicc L. S. Cole,
and John H. Jennings, of Greens Farms,
was elected to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of T. B. Wakcman. The work
of revising the premium list was begun,
and continued to an adjourned meeting
two weeks later. The next fair will he
held Sept. 18, 19, 20 and 21.
Henry Norman, while in Vancouver, B.
0., Jan. 22, held a conversation with
Editor Stead, of the Pall Mall Gazette, in
London, over the Canadian Pacific postal
lines and the Mackay-Bennett cable. Van-
couver and New York being in' direct
communication with each other, although
3,400 miles apart, Messages were ex-
changed and answers were received in
four or five minutes. Afterwards San
Francisco was attached to the circuit and
exchanged greetings with London. the
total distance between the two cities being
8,100 miles by land lines and cable. The
object of the experiment was to demon-
strate the feasibility of the route first
mentioned in connection with the pro-
posed cable from British Columbia to
Australia.
The press-room of the Bridgeport News
office was badly damaged by fire Sunday
night and considerable of the machinery
rendered useless. However, a little thing
like that couldn’t prevent our sprightly
neighbor from coming out “just the
same,” and the News on the next morning
bobbed up as serenely as ever, and its
most lugubrious plaint was its touching
tribute to its office cat which was suffocat-
ed. We understand Editor Priudle will
substitute the departed feline with a hip—
popotamus. ,
Saturday afternoon a large number were
coasting on High street. Double rippers
and single sleds were on the hill and no—
thing happened to mar the pleasure until
an accident occurred to a party coming
down the hill on Percy Ferris' large double
ripper. They started from opposite the
residence of F. S. Lyon, and when they
reached the Episcopal church they were
going so fast that it was impossible for
them to get around the curve. The party
held on firmly, and the double ripper
dashed into E. Beard’s large fence and
tore a clear passage through it. Percy
Ferris was steering the sled and he re-
ceived a severe cut over his eye. Clar-
ence Webster was injured very badly and
at first it was thought that his leg was
broken. He was carried home and Dr.
Bohannan was summoned. The boy’s in—
juries were found to consist of a badly
sprained leg and severe bruises. The leg
is swollen very much, and it will be some
time before he will be able to be about.—
Sentinel. -
A merry party of young people enjoyed
aslciglr ride inc big carryall Saturday
night, driving to Fairficld, whence they
returned at about 2 o’clock Sunday morn-
ing nearly frozen to death. The driver was
so benumbcd that he did not notice as he
was delivering the chattering and shiver.
iirg merry-makers at their respective
homes about the borough, that young
Ferris, who sat beside him on the box,
had become unconscious and fallen into
the snow in Water street, until he turned
around when Ferris was found lying be-
side the road. He. was brought to the
stables where he came to, when he insist-
ed that’hc hadn’t bten out of the sleigh at
all, having no recollection of his exper—
ience nor of his narrow escape from freez-
ing to death.
I
NORWALKEAZETTE.
Concord Division, Sons of Temperance,
will give an oyster supper in their Divis—
ion room on Thursday evening.
l United States Commissioner William A.
i Wright has hound John F. Snmmis,
I postmaster of Cooper in the town of
i Ridgcficld, charged with embezzling funds
belonging to the government, over to the
United States district court. A bond for
$500 was furnished by L. H. Bailey, of
Ridgefield, and Sammis was released. It
is claimed that Sammis embezzled $81.75.
are said to he sulfcring for food and cloth-
ing.
One of the best places to get a hasty
lunch or “square meal" in the United
States is at Col. Hess' restaurant in the
Grand Central Depot. The entrance is
down the stairs from the ladies’ end of
the depot, and everything there is of the
best quality, well cooked and served, and
last, though by no means least, to the
average traveller, all his vinnds arc inr-
nislied at a very reasonable price. Ladies
and gents cannot do bettcrlhau to give
Comrade [less a call. ‘
~—Hotchkiu Family Y. M. C. A. lit—night.
I Clinton Marsh, a brukeman (in :l freight
train Oil the Housatonic railroad meta
horrible death near Slate Litre, Mass.,
Tuesday morning. The wind was blow~
lug fiercely and Marsh while attending to
his duties, was blown from his place on
the cars. He was either walking along
the roof or about to’dcsceuil the ladder at
one end of the car when a gust of wind
struck him and he lost his hold, falling
between the cars. The wheels passed
over his head Cl'lhllllig it to ashapclcss
mass and killing him instantly. Marsh
was 24 years old and belonged in New
Milford, Conn.
For the first time since 1874 it is now
possible to walk on the ice from New
Rochelle to Glen Island. Tire schooner
Ella, bound for Bridgeport is locked in
the ice near Throgg’s Neck. The steam-
boat City of Norwalk, of Ngrwalk, was
nipped in the ice off City Island and had
her stern cut through. She was towed to
her dock in New York, and Will lie up for
repairs. , The ice embargo in Loni,r Island
Sound continues. From City Island to
Saud’s Point, :1 distance of six miles, the
ice ispackcd solid, and only large steamers
are able to get through the Sound.
A pre s dispatch, dated the 29111’ says:
Jolly Captain Jones, keeper of the light-
house at Faulkner’s Island, is taking an
involuntary vacation at shore. One day
last week he came ashore in his beautiful
little launch, and having attended to his
business, got ready to go home, when, lo!
he found that Jack Frost. had played a
trick on him, having frozen the water in
the harbor so effectually that Mr. Jones
was compelled to remain on shore, where
ire is n6w spinning yarns to his many
friends. Captain Jones intends, if the ice
don’t break very soon, to go to New Lon-
don and hire a steam trig to take him to
the bosom of his family, Faulkner’s Island.
The annual statement of the ARM Life
Insurance Company, which appears in
another column, is a strong financial ex-
hibit and gives the best possible evidence
of successful management. In every de—
partment of its business the Etna makes
a gain. During the year 1887, its gain in
membership was 2,192; in interest income
$22,541.10; in market values, $26,157.66; -
in surplus, $77,753.04; in premium re-
ceipts, $171,152.43; in income $193 693.-
53; in assets, $1,074,746,99; in new busi-
ness, $1,352,456.00; and in insurance in
force, $5,109,365.00. The Etna’s new
business annually exceeds that of any
other life insurance company located in
the New England states.
There lately entered the Grand Central
depot. the other day a locomotive with a
tragic history. It was the locomotive
which drew a train to the first frightful
railroad accident that ever occurred. Up
to 1848, while there had been some catas-
trophes on the railroads, IIICI‘CIIlfld been
rronc accompanied by any great slaughter,
but this engine drew a part of a train on
the New Haven road into an open draw
at Norwalk and caused a great loss of life.
The accident was the sensation' of the
year. The engine was fished out and re-
paired, andhas been running on the road
ever since. A singular circumstance con-
nected with this accident is that it indi-
rectly proved the fortune of the man whose
incorrect signal caused it. He fled and
settled in western Pennsylvania, and was
the victim for many years of remorscful
reflections on his carelessness. But it was
this man who first dug an oil well in what
is now the oil region and developed this
colossal industry.--Sun.
———————-<+
“Record"-ed.
Miss Lilias Selleck went to New York
Monday for a three weeks’ visit. .
Mr. Frank H. Ruscoc has been engaged
as teacher of book-keeping in a business
college in Bridgeport. _
Ex-Presidcnt Hurlbutt, of the Central
National Bank, expects to go south next
week for a brief sojourn.
Mr. Evert Quiniard celebrated his 90th
birthday on Tuesday, He is halo and
hearty and in the best of spirits -
Frederick Bclden, Esq., of East avcmrc,
having become disgusted with this frost
bitten climate, has gone to New Orleans
for a protracted stay.
Tire last meeting of the ladies’ literary
cltib was held at the residence of Chas. ’1‘.
Leonard. Miss Leonard read a bright
paper on the “Prose writers of England.”
The Stamford News’ Washington letter
says: “Congressman Granger’s two charm-
ing daughters are stopping for a short
season in this city and are frequently seen
at the Capitol building.”
W. E. Duncan of this office, John H.
Wade of the Hour, and Second Assistant
Chief Engineer ll. W. Kemp, attended
the 29th annual reception of Harry How-
ard hook and ladder company in Port
Chester Thursday evening and report a
royal time. '
A gentleman who drove into,town yes-
terday called at the RECORD office to say:
“You can always tell where the meanest
men in town live by simply noticing that
in front of their premises there is always
a heap of ashes scattered in the middle of
the street when there is good sleighing."
At the regular meeting of the Fairfield
County National Bank held Friday
forenoon, LcGraud C. Belts was unattr-
mously elected Cashier; James H. Barley,
Teller, and ,L. C. Green, Accountant.
These are deserved promotions on which
the friends of the new officers heartily cou-
gratulatc them.
The continued ill health of Mr. L‘ester
S. Cole, who is, and has for some time
been suffering with a malarlous afiection,
necessitates his giving up all business for
the present and seeking a change of cli-
mate. He has accordingly withdrawn
from active service in the banks, and will
start shortly with his family for Florida, in
the hope that the salubrious climate of
that sunny land will effect a speedy and
complete restoration to health—a hope
which his many friends in Norwalk and
elsewhere unqualifiedly share.
At. the annual meeting of the corpora-
tors of the Fairfield County Savings Bank
on the 25th inst. the following board of
directors was elected, viz: Winfield S.
Moody, Martin S. Crnw. Asa B. Wood-
ward, Alfrcd H. Camp, Edward Merrill,
Henry F. Guthrie, Elbert Curtis, J. Thorn-
ton Prowiit and Joseph C. Randle. At a
subsequent meeting of the board W. S.
Moody was olected President and Martin
S. Craw Vice President. The resignation
'of Lester S. Cole as Secretary and Treas-
urer, on account at sickness, was sent to
the board and accepted; and Jess. H. Bai-
ley was appointed Secretary and Treasur-
er in his place.
Tire farewell meetings held in the First
Congregational Church with Rev. Fred
Curtis and his bride, appointed mission-
aries to Japan, have been memorable. On
Sunday morning Mr. Curtis preached an
excellent sermon on foreign missions. In
the evening he delivered a similar address
to the Sunday school in which he was
reared. Tire exercises on'Thursday night
were most interesting. Mr. Curtis again
spoke impressively of the work to which
ire and his wife are called, as (lid also Rev.
Mr. Ross, of South Norwalk. The Rev.
Dr. Arthur T. Pier-sou, of , Philadelphia,
father of Mrs. Curtis, delivered a most
eloquent and enthusiastic address. It is
needless to say that the parts of the pastor
were well performed, as also that of the
organist, Miss Nash. The singing by the
well trained choir was admirable and the
fl ‘WCI‘S were lovely. The benediction
was most touching. Tire haudshaking
was general and most cordial, and the
serv.ces will long be remembered. There
was a large representation from South
Norwalk.
He is very poor and his wife and children
6'0 U TII-N OR IVALR'.
City sidewalks are now chiefly used by
I the small boy and his sled, while pedes-
‘ lriuus asn matter of safety, take to the
streets.
The. Mechanics Journal pays Ilon. D-
P. Ely an elaborate and merited compli-
ment on his retiring from the presidency
of the bank, and makes a valuable sug-
gestion, which undoubtedly will be heeled.
The third meeting of the series, was
held by the Gospel Temperance Associa-
tion on Sunday afternoon, in the Temple
of Hohor I-I-rll. It was a glad remiirdcr
of the palmy days of Washingtonian tern-
peraucc. Every seat was filled, and the
time fully taken up by addresses and sing-
ing. None can doubt that much good
will thus be accomplished by such earliest
workers, without logging in the subject of
politics. ‘
The political discordant music had
nearly ceased, and now discussion is rife
again in regard to the reduction of the
city attorney, the appointment of city
clerk, and the mayor’s selection of com-
mittees. In regard to the first. some re-
publicans claim he was entitled to it, hav-
ing helped the democracy to select their
candidates, for the past two years. In
regard to City Clerk, democrats ask,
“what has he ever done for" the party to
entitle him to the position ?”
‘ WESTPORT.
. Mr. Fred A dams, of Yale. spent Sunday
at ironic.
John D. Wood‘s satchel factory is run-
ning to its utmost capacity.
Prof. Crop spent a few days in town
last week on a visit to friends.
Miss Nellie Downcs is visiting her SISIl r
Mrs. A. T. Burr, at N yuck, N. Y.
If the sleighing continues, Driscoll takes
a four horse load to Bridgeport io-uight.
Town Clerk Capt. II. P. Burr has up.
pointed (.‘hurlcs IIi Jones as his assistant.
Mr. R. M. Farrand has severed his cou—
nectiou with D. A. Salman as clerk, and
accepted a similar position in a New York.
house. '
DruggistJ. L G. Cannon has bien mak-
ing extensive alterations in the interior
management of his store.
A number of Westport trottershav‘e parti-
cipated in the trotting on East avenue in
Norwalk during. the past week.
The steam drill which has been at. work
on “Church Books" is now at work in
Saugatuck on the street north of the re—
sidence of Mr. James E. Hubbell.
Prof. and Mrs. Stockbridge,-of Amherst,
the parents of Mrs. J. E. Tuttle spent
Tuesday night at the parsonage en route
for Florida, where they will spend the re-
mainder of the winter.
During. a part of last week the Horse
Railroad Co. ran the large sleigh. the
track being so full of ice that it was not
until Friday evening that it was cleared
sufficiently to permit the ears to run.
It will be twenty-three years to-day,
Wednesday, since the death of Dr. David
S. Burr. It has been proposed to remove
his remains to Willow Brook cemetery,
where his grave would be properly cared
for, and we think the project could be
carried out if his friends understood that
it was proposed.
Frank Ferris, who prepares the very.
creme de la 0mm of toothsomc hams and
boneless bacon, says: _“always buy small
hams to boil whole and large ones to slice
and broil or fry " It is a little strange
that not a single merchant in all Norwalk
can see it for his interest to keep on sale
the unrivaled smoked meats of Frank
Ferris & Co.
Hon. Horace Staples, Westport‘s patriot,
sage, philosopher, friend and philantropist ,
celebrated" his eighty—seventh birthday
yesterday, and was honored by a public
reception at the High School building, his
munificent gift and legacy to the children
of the town of his nativity. May the good
and grand old man live to receive the
birthday congratulations of his grateful
fellow townspeople, till his long and active
and useful life rounds out a full hundred
years.
Tire number of children in the various
districts between the ages of 4 and 16
years, as returned by the district com-
mittees to the secretary of the Board of
School Visitors, is as follows:
West Saugatuck, 131
East . “ 122
Compo 109
South Saugatuck 101
Greens Farms 92
Cross Highway 88
West Long Lots 51
East “ “ 32
Poplar Plains 32
North District 16
Total 774
Of this number 649 have been in school
during the past year, leaving 125 who
have not attended. '
The funeral of Mrs. Eliza Blackman,
who died at her home on Thursday of last
week was attended on Sunday afternoon
from the Congregational church. In the
death of Mrs. Blackman another of the
links which binds Westport of today with.
the past is broken. She was one of the
two surviving of the first members of the
Congregational Church in this place, and
there are those who can remember when
she was one of the leaders in society, but
nearly, or quite all of her associates have
being removed by death, and the last few
years of her life have been passed in
seclusion.
One of the pleasantest social affairs
which has taken place in this town for
some time, was the reception given Rev.
H. S. Still in the lecture room of the
church on Tuesday evening of last week.
The weather was all that could have been
desired, although a little cold, and the
'Iccture room was filled with his friends,
not only of his own, but from all denomi-
nations. After suppcr and some time
spent in conversation, the company was
invited to repair to‘ the audience room
above, when Rev. Mr. Hyde, rector of
a very appropriate speech in which he
complimented Rev. Mr. Still for his energy
in raising the church debt. When Mr.
Hyde had concluded Mr. Hezekiah Lyon-
stepped forward, and presented a purse
to Mr. Still on behalf of his congregation
and fricirds, after which Mr. Wm. E.
Albiu in a few appropriate remarks on be-
half of the ladies, presented to Mrs. Stil
a handsome set of china.
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BEDDING.
A United States post-office detective
visited the post-offices in town last Fri—
day. ,
Mcssrs.Grcgory and Randlc are expect-
ed to continue the grocery business at the
Center another year.
Tire Congregational hell did not ring
last Sunday. Tire Congregationalists wor-
shiped with the Methodists.
Rev. W. J. Jennings, though consider.
ably improved in health, did not go to
church last Sunday. He hOpcs to be able
to preach next Sunday. . ,
“The oldest inhabitant" has been rackiu
his brains to remember whether he had
ever known such a severely cold term as
that of the last two weeks. Zero weather,
snow and sleighiug abound.
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A Mvori MARRIED WOMAN.—
Mrs. Fowler, of this city, was married
last January to her sixth husband, and
strange as it may seem, five of them died
cxactlytwo years from their marriage day.
Her present husband has been sick for the
last four months with chronic jaundice,
and was given up by four of our best
physicians; as a last resort he began using
Sulphur Bitters, autl yesterday told our
reporter that they had saved his life. smil-
ingly saying that he guessed Mrs. Fowler
would be unable to take a seventh better
half for some time to come. 2t5
‘ A O
Storms on the Gulf have becasioned scr-
ious lass to the rice planters.
Christ Church was introduced and made :
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY '1, 1888.,
NE IV- CANA AN:
that the right of suffrage should be given
to wonreu.
! Sleighing is elegant. and parties are
l humorous, but leap year has not yet begun
to tell its story.
The Episcopalians arc lifting a beckon-
ing finger, it is rumored, to a rising rector
from the West. He has preached twice.
in St. Mark’s, and given good satisfaction.
This week the Messenger will come out
prim as a dude, all buttoned up wiih
“nonparcil,” and jewelled with “cups"
and corseted with stays of brass, for Kirk
has been in luck.
The recent examinations of Center
School show excellent work to have been
done by all the teachers, and Miss Baldwin
is generally commended for her efficient
work as principal.
Many aNow York rtporicr who had
never before heard of New Canaan had a
chance of enlarging his powers, and
broadening his mind by reason of Wednes-
day’s tragedy. Some let the map fool
them and went way up the Housntonic
road, and got stuck in snow banks of
Litclifield county : and some took steamer
for the Holy Land.
The Hotchkin family of hell ringers
gave an acceptable entertainment. under
the auspices of the Methodist church
Thursday evening. The hall was well
filled, but was neither comfortable for the
audience or players. who hurried their
programme to get through. The solos
of the violinist and the pretty pucker of
the whistler were worth a quarter.
The murderer of Louis Dirucker will in
all probability recover. Friday night Ire
drank coffee, ate eggs and slept wall.
Officer Brant took him to Bridgeport
on Monday. With his departure goes
also a sense of dread, and annoyance from
this community, and as patiently as pos-
sible will await the execution of the sen-
tencc of the law which in so clear a case
of guilt as this ought not to be slow.
The fire company responded quickly
notwithstanding the extremely cold
weather of last Monday night, and the fact
that all of our brave boys were tucked in
their little beds, as virtuous boys ought
to be at one am. But our genial npothc-
caryhad conquorcd the emergencies of
the occasion with a dishpan, and the
handsornest hand engine in Fairfield
county was not called into requisition.
'cARTEKS
PILLS.
Sick Headache and rélieve all the troubles inci-
dent to a billous state of the system, such as
Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Distress after
eating. Pain in the Side, he. While their most;
remarkable success has been shown in caring
Headache. yet Carter's Little Liver Pills are
equally valuable in Constipation, curing and pre-
venting this annoying complaintmhfle theyalso
correct all disorders oftho s tomach.stimulate the
liver and regulate the bowels. Even if they only
M HEAD
Ache they would be slmostpricelessto those who
suffer from this distressing complaint;.bnt fortu-
nately their goodness does notend here,and those
who once try them will find these little pills valu-
able in so many ways that they will not be wil-
ling to do without them. But after all sick head
AGHE
Is the bane of so many lives that here is where
we make our great boast. Our pills cure it while
others do not.
Carter's Little Liver Pills are very small and
very easy to take. One or two pills make a dose.
They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or
purge, but. by their gentle action please all who
use thorn. In vinlsat 25 cents ; five for $1. Sold
by druggists everywhere. or sent by mail.
CARTER MEDICINE 00., New York.
fulfill. ladies. imalll’rite.
At the Lyceum last week it. was decided ,
l
THE ABOVE elves A BIRD's-EYE VIEW OF THE
MAMMOTH fiIABLISHMENT
B. A. Atkinson & 00.,
LIBERAL H
cuss suaursnsus,
Who have Just Finished and Stocked with a
II UOMPLETE Ll
The LARGEST ESTABLISHMENT in the
Devotedtothelrllne ofbuslness. 'l‘h lir ith
moss: LIBERAL warms Aivy “e um??? on 0“
IIE OF HOUSE FURNISHINGS,
They continue their LIBERAL INDUGEMENTS Which are as follows:
Customs Ilvln In the
States of Mass" R. I. or Connaovy'ho buy
$50 worth 0 good , are allowed fare to Boston for one no
Cu tomato
goo I, are al owed fares bot
ho live In the q‘bove States" who buy $100 worth of
ways for o a person
‘ THEIR PRICES
Are for- NEW GOODS hon ht this season. and N01! for old tool: d a temp
Ill do well to avail themselves of table :51?»ngth Who m m“ bu,
OHAMBEII? FURNITURE.
OUR LOG CABIN CHAMBER
SET, at the price, cannot bethought $ 1 n '00 '
in: anything in their line w
~PAIILO|I FUIIIIITU
In this line we carry a most. COMPLETE STOCK.
Below we quote. price for two
of our lenders :
A 7-PIECE HAIR CLOTH PARLOR SUITE,
rims quality goods, first-class work. including a
. This rug alone sells
6 Smyrna rug
We will sell the parlor
suite and rug together for only . I
A CRUSHED PLUSH PABLO]! SUITE. 7 pieces
complete, in one color era combination of colors,
walnut frames, stitched edges, and a suite thatis
utifbl l
for 86.00.
3111
made to stand hard wear. We can
suite, at the price. one of the
special bargains in our “No.35" 00
Only I I
' an nanossnn rmsn mama
feces complete either in one
goior or a combination of colon. $40.00-
tbr only
DINING-ROOM FURNITURE.
of all kinds. Kitchen and Hall Furniture Desks, Sideboards Mirrors
nets Easels. Bookcases an Bucks. etc. a so a large line of‘ 801-"
- comkon moxoasmna all kinds of upholstered goods
M T til-Is
0:323 :13 S DUES AIIII IIAII .
Inst-sin Carpets . . 25c. 1056c. A SINGLE OVEN RANGE, all wars and pipe
All—\‘a’ooi Curve-1;: . . (We. to til [.00 complete, only -
Tapestry (tarot-ts .‘500. to 85.25 s I 4.00.
:,2’}}§f,§’;,‘;9f , ' _ ' 5,153,? :3:;;gg A DOUBLn‘oVEx RANGE,ali ware and pipe
Body Ui‘liSSCIS 033'}: “1‘ him. to $1.75 “mph”? ”my .
STII.\‘.\’ thT'I'IN‘I. \"~'\'l.u‘.m~r cost. 1 ) chagrin,
A i ‘
Also, HUGS, 31 Yrs, Ait’f‘
" ' \.\I‘Iiill VI '
’tc for Samples
) \UI
t'l‘l'l' SAVE... .'.
and Prices.
or three
of by other dealers. Only
sure and see it. Price only
pletc.
“a“ this set, and the price for all only
SUITE, 7 comprising all kinds and styles otpine, ash, c
are fhr below w
offered for elsewhere.
1
3“
Bl
A' BEDS. ED
at prices that DEFY COMPETI’ITIO. .
$20.00.
I
s
tyles.
or no sale.
‘VIEITE FOR. CATALOGUE AND PRICES.
GROCKERY
English Decorated Tea Sets ----------- $3.50 up. Decorated Base Stand Lamps ------ g . .. 1.00 up-
English Decorated Dinner Sets ------- . 9.50 up. Solid Brass Stand Lamps -------------- 1.00 up.
bglish Decorated Toilet Sets -------- 2.00 up. Hanging Lamps, from ---------------- 1.00 up.
AND LAMPS.
Largest and Best Assortment in, the City.
CAI-ll".- .AND B: CONVINCED.
E- A... Atkinson dado...
827 WASHINGTON ST.. COR. 001111011 ST., BOSTON, 11133.
UNITED STATES
BEE an. ‘ufil’gfif‘W‘ °N 5“
city ortown when there is a railrolrd freight station in M11, N, 11., MASS. n. I. 03 061.5? M “‘9'“ any
OUR SOLID ABE CHAMBER SET ll something
which we claim to hold the lead on ‘ “
anything ofthe kind in this city. Be 3 I 5 '00 I
01m SOLID BLACK WALNUT CHAMBER BET,
marble tops, with landscape 31313.10 pieces corn-
With this set for ‘the present we
shall also include an English toilet $3 5.0 o I
THE ABOVE ARE OUR LEADERS. IN ADDI-
TION WE CARRY - THE LARGEST LINE' 0!‘
CHAMBER FURNITURE IN NEW ENGL'AND.
walnut, mahogan etc: at prices which WE KNO
55! life um grades of goods are
och Cab].
Nredness,
Parlor Stoves atsAll' Prices and in All.
The Ranges :zhove quoted we will guarantee bakers
lo addition we carry most of the popu-
lar makes, and can give satisfaction every time.
DEGRAAF & TAYLOR,
FUR
A PAYING It INVESTMENT.
For Sale,
IN'SOUTH NORWALK, A LARGE
Double HouSe,
Each 'contalning Tea Rooms, Water, Sewer,
Connections and Closets.
Paying 12 per cent. on the money
to be raised.
Mortgage can remain on the place. if
so desired.
For further information enquire of
H . G. HYATT, NORWALK,
0r,
address IL, Box 229, Norwalk Post
Oflice. ma
James Means
James Means 63 Shoe is ab-
solutely the only shoe of its
price which has ever been
placed extensively on the
the market in which
durability is consid-
ered before mere
outward ap-
. 1.,
Call at our Store and try on a pair of these shoes.
A. E. EOY’I' It SON, 37 Wall Street.
311144
no YOU KNOW THAT YOU
CAN FIND
AS FINE AN ASSORTMENT OF
MEATS‘.
—AT.—.
F. W. SMITH’S MARKET,
55Main Street,
As can he found in any market in this town
of Norwalk?
@Everything'isselected by Competen
Judges of our line of goods. ,
Country Dressed Mutton,
Lamb and Veal.
CALL AND EXA MINE.
1y48 FRED. w. spin".
The “Record.”
The , Norwalk Record
Is an established fact. Although barely four
months old its circulation already averages
1,000 COPIES PER WEEK,
a fact which attests its rapid rise and firm hold on
the public favor. It aims to be clean and whole-
some, and presents all the legitimate news in
readable, spicy and terse shape. . Its subscription
rice is sumcieutly low to enable anybody to have
t without discarding any other of their favorite
journals, and it prospers without encroaching
upon the prosperity of any of its excellent and
esteemed local contemporaries, as is shown by
the fact that it enjoys andappreciates the hearty
good will of all—the Gaza'i'rs, Hour, Sentinel,
Journal and Remwllcan.
small sum of
76 tantra Year; Single Copies, 2 rent.
Now is the Time to Subscribe
SPECIAL ITO—FARMERS.
The Record
PUBLISHES EVERY SATURDAY THE
The New York Market Reports
CORRECTED UP TO DATE. 1137
For Sale.
DOUBLE BARRELLED RIFLE madeb John
A. Blissett, London. Will be sold one p to,
ash. Enquire atthis oince.
THE RECORD is nent_ to any address {cram .
NITUCEIE,
Upholstery and DeeOtatipns,
47 and 49 W. 14th St., and 48 W..15th St.,
Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York.
LARGE ASSORTMENT OF GOODS NOW ON HAND
FOR
HOLIDAY * rsssrurs.
ALSO AGENTS FOR TilE
WIN DSOR' FOLDING BED.
REA‘TREDUCTION
THE D. i M. READ (:0,
Bridgeport. ’Gonn.
was. GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Will continue the sale of Silks Rhadamas at the same
reduction as previously advertised, vi .: 250. per yard
from regular prices. ' . ‘
Everything, in Dress Goods at a great reduction.
Remnants of Dress Goods atlralf price.
" Most everything in Cloaks at less than half price.
<ome PlushSacqucs, Wraps and Jackets left' Look at
them and see prices. Newmarkets and Children’s Cloaks
all going at less than half price. '
an” the Mormon
All going at February price.
Corsets going at February prices.
Blankets going at February prices.
(‘omfortables going at February prices.
Kid Cloves going at February prices.
All makes of Bleached Cottons in yard wide, pillow
case and sheeting widths. *
All makes of Unbleached (lotions in yard wide, pillow.
case and sheeting widtes.
The same in half bleached.
Table Linens in bleached and half bleached.
l‘oilet Quilts, all the qualities. 7
Towels, all grades, January clearing prices.
SPRING CARPETINGS.
'Our Carpet Department is as large as the combined stocks of 'all other
Bridgeport dealers. We have from twice to three times as many goods as
in former years. They were bought in specially large quantities, even for
us, and we are selling them
BELOW COMPETITION.
We want you to believe these last words, so ask you to visit our carpet.
rooms, get prices and see whether ourslare not below the reach of any pos-
sible competition.
WE MEAN BUSINESS.
We are showing to-day Moquettes at $1.15 in new patterns.
no better goods made than these. ~
You can see over 100 patterns of Body Brussels in the best makrg, stairs
and borders to match. We do not take the back seat from any den er in
the country on v ,
INGRA’IN GARPETS.
0f superior quality or private and exquisite patterns. Everybody knows
our position in this market and we shall maintain it. Art Squares, Burrs
from the smallest to the largest sizes manufactured. Lace Curtains, Shadrés
and Draperies. Our spring importation of New China M attings .have now
been received. They contain all grades of jointless and fancies, superior in
' design and colorings to those of previous seasons.
THE D. M. READ 60..
Dry Goods and Carpets.
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There are
IN MEN’S, BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S
EOVERCOATS 1:
GREAT 3
FOR THE NEXT 60 DAYS.
illlll‘lllll IN lllllllll lllllNllllTll
ROBES AT 75 CENTS.
‘ WORTH $1.50.
COMSTOCK BROTHERS,
Masonic BUILDING, :
NORWALK.
INSURANCE BUILDING,
‘ SOUTH NORWALK.
Norwalk Chronicler