Norwalk 1. Gazelle : 1800 ESTAB LISH'ED, TERMS OF SUISGRIPTIDI. one Year, - (Strictly in Advance.) - $2.00 When not paid In advance, - - 2.26 Six Months, - - - _ 1.00 Three Months, - - - - .30 . - - - . 0 Single Copies. ADVERTISIIE IIAIES. Furnished on Application at the Gszsrrs omce. Ordinary and transient advs., 1 inch. 1 week, 51. Each subsequent insertion, - -50 All legal and strictly transient says, of what- ever iength, same rate as above. One column (ordinary displayed adv.) one time, $25 Local notices in news columns, per line, .20 Births, Marriages and Deaths inserted free. Advertising or Funeral Notices. $1 00 Liberal terms to yearly and half-yearly advertisers. Changes for advertisements now running in this paper must be handed ill by Saturday noon to insure insertion. New advertisements will be takenu to’l‘ucsda noon. Cash pshould acgompany transient advertise- ments. Regular advertisers to be settled with monthly and quarterly. ‘ Subscribers wishing the address or their GAZETTE changed should give their old as well as new addresses in full. . - All communications for publication must be accompanied by the author’s name as a confiden- tial guarantee of good faith. III! 103 PRIITIIB. The Gaznr'rs Job PrintingDepartmcnt is equip- ped with the best facilities for turning out hirst- Class work of every description. Estimates cheerfully given. Job Work to be paid for on . delivery. IIIIIWALK HIST OFFIEE. Boron It Post Office open from. 6 a. m. to s p. in. Sundaysg,9 to 10 a. in. Sunday mail sent out 6 p. in. Money order hours, 8 a. m. to l’~ p. m. Mails despntched soutli and west, 7.25 and 10 a. m., and 3 and S p. m. ; east,5.45, 8.55 a. m., and 2, 5.30 and 3 p. in. Up Danbury railroad, 9.15 a. m. and 6.15 p. in. East Norwalk, 5.45, 8.55. a. m., and 5.30 p. m. Silvermlne. 6 p. in. Weston, 11.30 a. in. South Norwalk, 1.25 and 10 a. m., and 5.30 and 8 p. m. Extra Copies of the “Gazette”, On sale at this office, also by newsboys and by J. M. Benedict, - - Wall street 8. K. Stanley. - - - Wall street If. C. Mosher, - - - GAZETTE Bl’dg E. N. Sloan, - - - - Wall street IN scorn nonwstx as If. Thiele, H. E. Bodwell, 0. L. Craw our on TOWN nsxnsus: Geo. H. Cole, - - - Bethel L. M. Monroe, - - - New Canaan Wm. Edgar Nash. - Westport r’ LOCAL ITEMS. Mr. A. J. Meeker returned Monday from his trip to Florida. Miss Sadie Miller has returned from her visit in Washington. not—- Charles S. Prowitt of Denver, Col., is visiting friends in town. 0 .___’_ The improvements in the rear of Dunn’s Wall street business block are progressing rapidly. -—O¢o —————— -— If he enlarges upon it, as he is sure to, what a whoppcr the “oldest inhabitant" of the future will have to tell. ——-OOO——'"—4—‘ The mails are coming again with some— thing like their old-time regularity—or irregularity—just as you choose. 0 “Shamus O'Brien” and “Kit, the Ark unsas Traveller,” wcrc forced to cancel. their engagements in the Opera House last week on account of the storm. _ ..-——-——— Governor Lonnsbury, of Connecticut, and his family, were guests of Mr. Barnum Thursday evening, and all visited the - show. The party occupied Mr. Barnum’s private box.——N. Y. Sun. »-~ooo——- A numbcrof our exchanges were forced to come out as half sheets or less last week, on account of their inability to get their regular supply of paper owing to the blizzard. O'————-——-‘ Rev. 001. Anderson went to Boston last Saturday, the 10th, in response to a tele- gram announcing that his mother was dead. He was detained by the big storm from returning until Friday. ————————.Q.‘..___————— J. T. Prowitt announces an immense stock of wall paper in spring designs, comprising blanks, grounds, plain and embossed gilts. micas, duplex micas, crys- talline, ctc., all bran new and at the low- est cash prices. ' ' ‘ 90 Assistant Collector of the Port of New York, “Al.” Relyca, Esq., was over here last week on an ofiicial visit to the Treas- ury Department. Of course he and Treasurer Hyatt met and smiled together. There is no truth in the rutnor that Relyea was over here to get the New York Post office. - ~——4co~—-————— — The blizzard, is athing of the past, and mud and slush the order of the day. “The suowdrifts that, have lain so lone Haunting the hidden nooks, Like guilty ghosts have slipped away Unseen into the brooks.” to We hear of a plucky little lady in town, who was awakenedby. burglars tr ing to get into the house at 3 o’clock last burs— day morning, and who would not let her husband go down stairs, but took a revolver herself and went down and faced two men. They took flight at once and she sent four bullets. after them, Whlc‘lhlf they didn't hit anything, at least burned the vagabonds away—Stamford Advocate. .__'-—OO Tue new Boston dry goods store at the old Comatock stand had its grandopening Monday and the store was literally pack- all day and has been literally crowded ever since. The modern contrivanccs em- ployed in the store win much admiration from the throngs who visit it. QP——‘——_ Austria has the largest number of pub- lic libraries of any European country. They number 577, and contain 5,475,000 volumes, exclusive of maps and mana- scripts. France has 500 public libraries with 4,598,000 volumes. Italy comes next with 493, Germany with 398, and Great Britain with 200 libraries. Manager Hoyt has succeeded in secur- ing a treat for theatre goers in the engage- ment of Thatcher, Primrose and West’s Ministrcls, who will show at Music Hall Saturday evening, March 24. They are considered to be the best organization on the road. Don’t fail to see the grand parade at noon on Saturday. 0 —Thc library room in the Hardcnbrook building is open to subscribers on Tues— day, Thursday and Saturday afternoons from am 5, and on Saturday evenings from 7 to 8 o’clock. Terms: yearly $2, half-yearly, $1, quarterly, 75c. All per- sons interested in library work are in- vited to call during library hours. _____-———09 Neil Burgess, the well known comedian, has been engaged by the Bridgeport lodge of Elks to give a series of benefit perform- ances in the Theatre Belknap in that city. The funny new piece, “Vim,” will be given by Mr. Burgess and company, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and Saturday afternoon matinee. A num- ber of Norwalkers will probably attend. 000-— Hcrc is a good suggestion for those who are disposed to find fault with our local Justices. We are not sure that it would not improve matters and lend a dignity-— as it would certainly lend a grace—to our little localjudiciary to elect women J us— tic‘es of the Peace: Hester Morris, of Wyoming territory, was the first woman in the United States ever appointed Justice of the Peace, and she 13 still remembered as a terror to evil— docrs. She was tall, and her profile closely resembled the portrait of Queen Elizabeth. ————-——40 Frank Moran, author of the article in the March Century, entitled “Col. Rose’s Tunnel at Libby Prison,” has applied for the position of Manager of the Libby Pris- on War Museum, to be formed in Chica- go. Moran was a prisoner in Libby dur- ing the war, and was one of those who cs- capcd through the tunnel, but who were afterward recaptured. It is well nigh certain that he will obtain the position he secks.— World. Judge F. W. Perry of Norwalk, a battle-scarred veteran, was one of the luckless prisoners in Libby, implicated in the digging of that historic tunnel, and was deeply intcrcstcd in the article in the Century referred to, all the details it described being~ familiar to him. The fire alarm was rung Monday morn ing from box 15, and the department hastened to the spot from whence the word was scut,which was the Whittcmorc house at the head of Camp street. No damage, was done, however by fire, a chimney having fallen on thc'roof,frighten. ing tltc inmates of the house, who tele— phoned to John Hoyt to ring the alarm. There was a fire in the stove and from] which a pipe led into the chimney, from which the women thought the house might take fire. ——-ocoA . Sunday evening Chief Lockwood dis- covered the in the house on Water street occupied by Mr. Goldrick’s family. He started for the house, but a young fellow coming up saw it at the same time, and broke in the door before the chief got there. and threw out some books and other articles which were blazing on a centre table. It seems that a hanging lamp, suspended over the table, had cx-— plodcd, and the burning oil had run over the books, table and carpet, and but for the quick discovery and prompt action, it would have made a serious fire as there was nobody in the house at‘tlic time the lamp exploded. Some idea of the excellence of Harper’s Magazine for April may be gained by run- ning opc’s eye down the column of names on the right hand side of the table of con- tents, thus: F. A. Bridgman, William Black, Andrew Lang, Elizabeth Stoddard, Richard E. Burton, C. Coqucliu, Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Prescott Spoi- ford, F. Ansley, Lafcadio Heat-n, Charles Dudley Warner, George William Curtis, Charles King, U. S. A., and William Dean Howells; So much for the contributors. Another glance at the titles on the left will show the breadth of the field covered by the articles. The Great West has a liberal portion of space. Dramatic art is discussed by C. Coqu'clin in “Acting and Authors.” The pictorial matter in— cludcs the work of Alfred Parsons, F. A. Bridgman, Frederick Barnard, Du Mauricr, R. F. Zogbanm, Paul Renouard, C. S. Reinhart and E. A. Abbey. The New Milford Gazette thus summar izes the deprivations, hardships and pleasures which the editor, Brother Balles, experienccd during his period of snow seige. Deprivatious : No trains, no stages, no papers, no letters, no telegraph, (wires broken,) but little telephone, practically no news from the out~idcworld, no milk, no variety of table fare, many without coal, shortage of the necessaries in outly- ing households, no opportunity for the women to gossip‘ to each other, no bus— incss at the dry goods stores, and not much at the food stores, no theatre to go to. ' Hardships : Wading through the snow waist-high, shoveling, lugging coal in sacks, carrying water to stock. Pleasures: Drinking whiskey, stuck— ing, chanmping apples, drinking cider and picking walnuts beside the kitchen fire, telling “wonderful reminiscences,” playing cards, betting whether the snow would turn into rain or not, prophesying - when the first train would arrive, specu- lating as to the chances of a second Noah’s flood. reading gill of the old books in the house, ctc., varied by frequentrccoursc to the snow shovel. Oo—-——-—— The venerable Miss Susan Wright, an old member of the Episcopal church and a granddaughter of one of the last centu- ry’s founders of St. Paul’s Parish, died on Sunday morning last in the 80th year of her age. As long ago as the times of Dr. Sherwood Miss Wright walked from West- port to attend service, and ever since cou- tinned in the church of her fathers. Her grandfather owned the handsome West- port tract which sweeps from Church Hill southerly and southwesterly to the river, upon a portion of which tract the new Christ church is built. He became a member of St. Paul’s church during the rector-ship of Dr. Jeremiah Leaming, and was a zealous adherent of the parish. Miss Wright had lived in Norwalk during the latter portion of her life and spent cunsiderahlc time with relatives and friends in East Norwalk. She was visit- ing her neicc, Mrs. Daniel Hanford, at the time she was taken ill, week before last. She was dcvotcdly watched beside dtiring her illness, and her last. hours were ministrations of Mrs. Hanford’s family. Her funeral will be attended from St. Paul’s Church on Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 o’clock. We want a boy to learn the printing trade. He should be willing to learn it as it is taught. What we want is a stupid boy—not a “smart” boy. We have all the “smart” boys we want. We want a boy who is a little slow to learn, and who is so unsophisticated and green that he can’t think of any smart slang to sauce the fore- man with when he is told to do anything. We want a boy who is so dull and thick- hcaded that he can’t learn anything only what he is taught. We don’t want an in- genious or inventive boy full of bright, original ideas, but one who will do his routine work to-morrow just as be was shown how to do it yesterday. No more smart boys need apply. Your real bright, quick-witted, smart boy isa bitter dis- appointment. Hc sweeps coal into the garbage heap; throws type out of the windows; fills his lamps after dark and wastes as much kerosene as he uses; breaks more lamp chimneys than his wages would pay for; smashes out window panes by his carelessness; throws “pi" into the “hell-box;” tells the foreman to build his own fires, and essays to run the whole establishment to suit himself. Your active, sparkling-eyed, bright-faced little man is a humbug. We wanta boy who is intelligent but not “smart ;” one .who, if he doubts that the boss knows more about the business than he does, would be willing to give the boss the benefit of the , doubt. Those are the boys who make good printers, and solid men. ‘ ———-———oo The Plaint of a Edmorist. I do‘not know why I should always be regarded with suspicion wherever I go. I do not present the appearance of a man who is not‘steeped in crime, and yet when I put my trivial little two gallon valisc on the seat of a depot waiting room a big man with a red mustache comes to me and biases through liis‘clinched teeth: “Take yer baggage off the seat 1” It is so every- where. I apologize for disturbing aticket agent long enough to sell me a ticket, and he tries to jump through a little brass wicket and throttle me. ' Other men come in and say: “Give me a ticket for Bando- line, 0., and be dashed sudden about it. too,” and they get their ticket and go aboard the car and get the best seat, while I am begging for the opportunity to buy a seat, at full rates and then ride in the wood-box. I believe that common couri- csy and decency in America needs pro- tection. Go into an hotel or a hotel, whichever suits the eycther and neytber reader of these lines, and the commercial man who travels for a big sausage-casing house in New York has the bridal cham- ber, while the meek and lowly minister of the gospel gets a wall-pocket room with ax cot, a slippery.clm toWel, a cake of cast iron scan, a disconnected hell, it view of the laundry. 9. tin roof, and $4 a day.— Bill Nye m N. Y. World. o»— The Curse of the Age. The cigarette curse lias'long passed the stage of proof or argument. Concurrent medical testimony and the experience of life everywhere have given it over as one of the deadly habits that weaken the mind and body and rob the efforts of nature to make a man. But there is another thing dcadlier still that goes with this evil—las- civious pictures. Let any father step into any drug store or tobacco store that sells cigarettes and see what his boy is buying. In that little package, which can be had for a nickel, and by its small size be so safely concealed, are not only a dozen of these drugged smoking cylinders, but a laseivious picture. This is what is placed in the hands of boys approaching the age of puberty—a devil’s compound for sap. ping body and soul. This monstrous cvil should be stamped out. If there is no law that will do it, public opinion ought to do it until law can devise a punishment to fit the critnc. It is time the fathers of every city took this matter in hand. It is time public opinion swept this fonlness into the pit—Indianapolis News. soothed and comforted by the faithful ‘ NORWAILK GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 4.888. _“Record”-ed. ’l‘ax collector St. John advertises to sell enough of the property of Frank H. Rose to pay tattcs due. The trial of Joseph Hubbard, colored, and Mrs. John Terrell, white, for adultery, has been adjourned to Saturday 24th inst. The remainder of the Masonic lodge room furniture has been removed from the old St. John’s lodge room in the Gazette building, and thccolorcd Odd Fellows have moved in. The flag staff on the roof of the Gazette building was bent not less than six feet out of plumb while the heavy wind was raging, but being a “stalwart” stick it re- sumcd its living perpendicular as soon as old Boreas let go. ‘ The room in the Olmstcad block on Main street, formerly occupied by the tea dealer, is being handsomely fitted up for occupancy by Michael Rntchford. who will move his liquor store into it by the end of the present month. Col. Lockwood has secured a tenant for the room occupied by J. F. Pcckwcll, the harness mcndcr, in the James block. A caterer is to open a restaurant there. Mr. Peckwcll will take his harness shop to Bridgeport, who gains by Norwalk’s loss. Norwalk is an attractive town, and her people hospitable and generous. This is shown by the fact that a large number of people from abroad who came here last .weck intending to stay over Sunday, have found it impossible to tear themselves away. James J. Tully, who had been for some, titnc Secretary of ~the Hat Mukcrs’ Asso— ciation, died Wednesday morning at the residence of his parents in Winnipank, of consumption. He had been confined to the house since New ~ Year‘s Day. He was in his 32d year, and unmarried. During the siege newspapers \vere at a premium. As late as Wednesday people wefit to the news stores and bought Sun- day‘s papers. Anything in the shape of reading matter less than a week old found a ready sale. ~If any argument was re- quired to convince the community that the newspa er is not less a necessity than a luxury, tie blizzard, supplied that argu- ment Tlie'Frazer Degree, at burlesque on Odd Fellowship, will be presented in Music Hall on Tuesday, April 3d, under the auspices of Butler lodge, I. O. O. F. This is the performance, and by practically the same local company, that so delighted a large audience in the same place a couple of years ago. It should, and undoubtedly will be attended by a crowded house. Jim Wood, of the Sentinel, says the hardest work he has done during the whole blizzard season was to write up that Muncliausen club snow storm lic. Anybody who knows Jim can easily imagine the tremendous strain which he must necessarily undergo in bringing out even a little lie. He is getting so he likes it now, however, and promises that his next lying attempt will deal with frcslicts. It won’t be a chestnut, but“ frcsliet will undoubtedly be. An enterprising news-vcnder from New York arrived here Thursday afternoon with a bundle of New York Worlds of that day, the first New York daily paper seen here since Sunday. He easily disposed of a large number at fifteen cents apiece, andgwhcn any one grumbled about the price he reminded the grumblcr that he should be extremely grateful to get a pa- per at any price; he had sold hundreds of them in Mount Vernon the same day for twenty-five cents. ' The Wiustcd .Press records the arrest and punishment of a couple of young men in that town for stealing money, and the editor delivers himself of the following confession and declaration : “A foolish and reprehensible consideration for the feelings of the mother of one of the young fellows rcstrains us from publishing the name of either of them. They were bound over. Snivcling women who go to news- paper ofhccs to procure the suppression of truth in the supposed interest of their disgraceful relatives, are a nuisance. Our contemporaries will find this a good motto to hang on the walls of their sanctums.” All Cranberry Plains turned out Wed- nesday, with OXCII, snow plows, shovels, ctc., and it took two whole days to work a passage from a spot near the residence of S. P. Tuttlc, to another point only a mile distant. Drifts were encountered from ten to thirty feet high. The force of men employed in breaking that patch of road was fifty-seven by actual count, with eight yoke of oxen. No serious damage is reported from that locality, but more or less snficring from lack of household necessities, coal, etc. Franklin Gregory, principal of the North Center School on the Ncwtown turnpike, and John B. Gregory had narrow escapes from exhaust. ion while returning from Norwalk to their homes Monday night, but were soon brought out as good as now. Some merchants and others who had far to go to reach home very sensibly rc- maincd at their places of busincss all Monday night rather than risk their safety in the storm. Long before six o’clock Tuesday morning the early rising lodgers in the Gazelle building went to the front wtndows and with warm breath and hand- kerchief cleared alittle round spot through the frost that obscured the window pane and peered out, and behold, in another little round clear spot in the frosted win- dows across the street in Betts & Earring- ton’s store appeared the benevolent coun- tenance and venerable whiskers of Mer- chant Farrington, who with an anxious expression, was also peeping out into the dismal world to see what the morning had brought forth, while a big, smooth snow drift in the entrance showed that the door had not bccn opened since the night he- cm. The attention of our “oldest inhabitants" who remember worse storms than the one just passed, is respectfully called to the fact that the venerable Mrs. Capt. Stephen Hoyt, of New Canaan. who was born. brought up, and alwayslivcd in that town, distinctly remembers the two most. severe storms that have visited this section in eighty years, and she also remembers that neither one was as stormy a storm as this. The first was known as the great Christ- mas storm of 1808, when, as Mrs. Hoyt remembers, the wind was perhaps as strong, but not as much snow fell; the other was the storm of March 28, 1820, which was very similar to our storm, but was accompanied with less wind. Her son, Mr. James Hoyt, cannot recall, in all his experience of fifty-one years in New Canaan, any storm before the last one, which wholly obstructed travel for more than one day. Unqncstionably our bliz- zard is entitled to the championship. The first team to arrive in Norwalk from New Canaan after the blizzard was that of Stephen Hoyt’s Sons. Mr. James Hoyt came into the Rnoonn office Thurs- day afternoon and reported that he, with his foreman, Mr. Edgar Buttery, and a force of twenty.fivc men, had started out from New Canaan at seven o’clock that morning to break the roads to Norwalk, and that they had encountered sotne worse drifts than any we have here. They had worked (their way to Broad River, which brought them considerably within the town limits, and were not particularly over whclmcd with admiration for the manner in which our authorities had broken the roads here. At Broad River they sent their workmen and road breakers back home while Mr. Hoyt and Mr. Buttery came on into town to look us over and ap- prise tbc RECORD of their arrival. They report that the travel between Norwalk and New Canaan is now easy and safe, ' and to them belongs the credit. __.___ m.,, _ Fashion,’ And society, impose many privations up- on the female scx, in the way of dress. First it is one freak, and then another, and from the fact, that many of them are unhealthy in the extreme, it is’small won- der that many women succumb, and that “female weaknesses” are the too . frequent result. Dr. Picrce’s Favorite Prescription is the only positive cure for these com- plaints in existence, and thousands of women can bear witness to its efficacy. “Favorite Prescription” is a legitmatc medicmc, carefully compounded by an experienced and skillful physician, and adapted to woman’s delicate organization. It is the only medicine for women, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee, from the manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction in every case, or money rc- fundcd. This guarantee has been printed on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully car- ried outfor many years. Dr. Piercc’s Pellets, or Anti-bilious Granules, Laxative or Catliartic according to size of dose. Purely vegetable. 7777—4-»— ——————— — Advice to Mothers. ——Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, for children teething, is the prcscription of one of the best female nurses and phy- sicians in the United States. and has been used for forty years with never-failing success by millions of mothers for their children. During the process of teething its value is incalculnble. It relieves the child from pain, cures dysentery and diarhoca, griping in the bowels and wind- colic. By giving health to the child it mail; the mother. Price 25 cents a bottle. 1y52 ‘ acheele Sentenced. Jacob Scbeelc, who was found guilty of murder in the first degree for taking the life of constable Louis Druckcr, of New Canaan, was brought into courtin Bridge- port yesterday afternoon and Judge Tor- runce pronounced sentence. The prison- er in response to a question by the court as to whether he had anything to say for himself, arose and stated that inasmuch as certain witnesses had testified different- ly in New Canaan from what they had stated at the trial, he pleaded for a new trial. The court then sentenced him iii the following language :— Thc duty of pronouncing sentence in' any case is a disagreeable duty, but it is especially painful in a case involving the life of a criminal. In the performance of that solcmu and painful duty, the court is about ’to de- clare to you in this pubiic manner the penalty which the law attac hcs to the ter— rible crime of which you have been found guilty. At the present term of this court an in- dictmcnt was found against you by a grand jury of tins county, charging you with the crime of murder in the first de- grcc. For llnit crime you were put upon trial before an intelligent and impartial jury. Ablc_connscl was assrgncd for your dc— fence, witnesses were summoned for you at the expense of the State, and‘ every-t thing that industrious, zealous and skill- ful counsel could do for you has been done. Aftcra full and fair trial that jury has found that on the 25th day of January, last passed, you then being of sound mind, willfully, deliberately and of your malice aforcthought, took the life of Louis Drucker. . The punishment of that crime is death That persons situated as you at}: may have an opportunity to invoke legislative clemency, the law has provided that this punishment shall be inflicted not less than thlvc nor more titan eighteen months after conviction. Lct no undue confidence on your part, that such clemency will be extended to you, prevent you from making due prep- aration for the fate awaiting you under the sentence of the court. Remember as you leave this place, that: you are under sentence of dcatlt; that the day of your execution will have been fixed, and in view of this solemn and awful fact, may itbe given you to devote so much of life as remains in humbly repenting of the great crime you have committed, and in seeking God’s mercy and forgiveness. The sentence of the law, and the judg- ment of the court, is, that you, Jacob Schcelc, be taken from this place to the place whence you came, to be kept in close confinement until the time of exe- cution, and that on the 23d day of May, 1889, at the place specified by law, to wit, within the jail at Bridgeport, or an en- closed yard, betwecn the hours of ten o’clock, forcnoon, and two o’clock, after- noon, of that day, you be banged by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy on your soul. The Militia. and the my. The Mall and Express says: There is a bill before Congress providing for an annual appropriation of $1,000,000 in aid of lhc State militia. The authority for such an appropriation, so far as we are aware, has never been doubted. Such an expenditure has been made since the for- mation of the Government. It is warrant ed by the command of the State troops which the Constitution gives to the Presi- dentin time of war. If the militia is part of the military force of the country, it fol- lows that the national government may do all in its power to make it effective. In view of the state of the army, it would be Well if Congress should go further in its care of the militia than the mere appropriation of money. The army is not efficient because its officers cannot be thoroughly trained. Promotion is so slow that the line officers are too old for their present duties. They ought to be field officers, not Only because they are of the proper age and have the requisite ex- perience, but because, in - case of the out- break o'f hostilities, they would have to command regiments and even brigades, and the Govcenment owes it to itself to give them such an_cdncation as can be obtained only by the performance of actual duty. Therefore, both for the sake of the ofiicers of the army and the militia, the two should be brought into close relations with each other. Our army is intended to be the nucleus of any force that may be raised for war. Why not make the whole military establishment of the country a unit? We are evidently not to have an increase of the army, Why not,then, make the instruction of the militia part of the duties of the army? Our small force not required for actual garrison and frontier work might be so distributed among the militia as to form part: of the latter. A company of regular infantry quartered in each of the armories of the city would be of great benefit to the militia, and the soldicrly duties they would do would be better for the regulars than their present- cmploymcnt of laborers. The militia ought also to have the opportunity of choosing line ofilccrs of the regular , army as field officers. In this way we ' should have a respectable army to put into the field at a-moment’s notice. If the Government is to expend $1,000,000 an- uually for the militia, the money should bc expended under the direction of its own ofilcers, and it should be devoted, 3 not only to the State troops, but to the ' maintenance of a regular militia establish- ment, which, in an emergency. would be several times larger than the insignificant force authorized by Congress, a force ' which is almost useless, not only by reason of its inadequate numbers, but because its officers cannot have practical training. ——-—<—o—r—————- See What It Shows Us. It is probable that such a storm as this, had it come a hundred years ago, would not have caused a fiftieth part of the in— , convenience that has now come upon us. It is the boasting and progressive Nine— teenth Century that is paralyzed, while the slow-going Eighteenth Would have taken such ‘an experience without a raffle. .The difference is not: so much in the people as in the way they live now. It is our “advantages" that have gone back on _ us. We all live from hand to mouth in these days, and why not? You can get your dressed beef by rail from Chicago in two days’ time or so; it is cheaper to buy of a milkman than to keep a cow; stores deliver gdods so often, free of extra charge, that a day’s supply is a household provisioning; horse cars run so regularly thata residence three miles from one’s place of work is really the same as close by; steam cars run so often and so cheap: ly that many people can live in one town and work in another; and traveling is merely the consumption of a little time, but attended with case and even luxury. The telegraph will flash it thought a thousand miles for us. These are the characteristics of our modern living, and, 10! there comes a storm that puts a veto on every novel con- venience. ' There is no railroad any longer, no telegraph, no horse-car, no milk, no delivery of food at the door. We starve in the midst of plenty; We are cut off from home and friends, just when we want to be with them; and the telephone, sole snrviver in the wreck of our superior “advantages,” plays the amusing part of mockery, and enables people to tell each other that they can’t- meet, and store— kccpers to assure housekeepers that they cannot give them what they need. This is a questionable triumph of latter day in- vention. ' It warns us to be discreet and temperate in our boasting, and to some people it suggests the folly of always expecting that things will go right and of never ap- prehending -a failure of the customary. As things are to-day we are floored by one demonstration of nature, which, too, is not at all out of the ordinary except in its abundance. It isn’tlike an earthquake. It is only a snow storm, but it has downed us—worstcd' us, as they say in polite society, and “bested: us as they say in the P. R.—Oourant. .i his house in Monday's storm, and now his . friends say that: he could safely endure the ‘ pire, and escape unscathed. , drifts. ’ good cider placed a few roads ahead of ‘ boundary between the two towns. It was : SO UTII-NOR WALK i The lessons of the . storm has been the , subject of malty a sermon, other than , those delivered in a pulpit. . 1 Mr. and Mrs; John W. Scott returned 5 to their homes on Saturday, after their enforced stay during the storm. The temperance meetings were fairly well attended on Sunday. many going to the Prohibition rooms who do not usually go, as they expected Mr. Bailey would be there. Those who were at tlic'l‘cmplc of Honor Hall were well repaid for their presence. The W. C. T. W. will hold a meeting in the. Congregational church on Wednesday night. Our sympathies go out to Editor Lyon on the loss of one of his beautiful shade trees, but congratulate hint upon furnish- ing on a half sheet last week the best paper he has ever issued. During the storm it- was not expected that the mails betwcanorwalk and South Norwalk, would be very r0201”. hilt there is an enquiry why one of the two letters mailed on Monday morning before To’clock should he received in Norwalk and answered the saute day, while the other, the one of the mOst importance to the receiver, should not be delivered until Thursday afternoon. Of all the adventures during the storm, we have licard of none more daring than that of a South Norwalk commuter, who, having been detained near Mount Vernon for two days, tiring of the monotony and restraint, resolved to rcach the city of New York or perish in the attempt. He started on foot alone, taking the railroad track, passing Wood Lawn, William’s Bridge, Fordham, Tremont, and Mott Haven, the walk consuming about six hours. and that with only a cup of coffee (all he could obtain on his way) to refresh» himself. He returned to South Norwalk on Friday apparently unharmed. .___‘. _ »—~—- -- A WESTPORT. Mr. Andrew C. Nash is quite ill. Mrs. Dr. Bouton is visiting at her father’s. The public schools had a holiday, or rather five, last week. Mr. Lloyd Nash and infant son are quite ill with scarlet fever. , Mr. J. Fred Gorham has sufficiently re- covered to resume his duties in the West- porter ofiicc. . The usual evening service at the Con- gregational church was omitted-last Sun- day evening. The Ladics'Bencficcnt Society of the Congregational church will meet on Thurs- day afternoon with Mrs. Dibble. The storm of last week has been so thoroughly writtcnup, and is so famil- iar to our readers that we will not at- tempt it. Well! That delegation frotn Temple Lodge, No. 05 F. and A. M, didn’t visit Trumbull Lodge, No. 22, of New Havci last Tuesday night. - Mr. Daniel Kirk died on Sunday night of pneumonia. The deceased was sick butafcw days. He leaves a wife and large family of sr’nlill children. The funeral of Mrs. John W. Taylor who died on Sunday night of last week, was attended on Saturday last. The re- tnains were placed temporarily in the vault. ~ The State st,, bridge presents a dilapi- dated appcarancc with the railing and foot bridge gone, and it seems to us groés negligence in not providing greater protec- tion against accidents. There is nothing to prevent one from walking off at the west end. fife": should certainly be If this be placed at each end. Our business men do not show much enterprise in the matter of removing the snow from the streets and sidewalks, in fact the most public spirit that we have seen displayed about town ,was .by the residents in Woodsidc ave. orStony brook road where every man turned out and shovclcd the street out wide enough ‘for‘ a’ team through some drifts eight feet high. lVILTON. Our local physicians visit their patients on foot. It snowed in Wilton last Monday and Tuesday as well as elsewhere. _ The new bank in front of Mr. H. G. Thomson’s will be opened for business in a few days. Mr. P. B. Gunning has been obliged to “cut across lots” in his travels to and from Stonehedge. g There was no service in the Congre- gational church on Sunday, greatly to the relief of the sexton. _ Messrs. Fred Bedient and Frank Evans put on their snow shoes Thursday morn- ing and walked to Bald Hill.‘ The opening of the highway from Taylor's cabinet shop to the depot is due largely to the efforts of the Messrs. More- house and Ogden. A pessimistic Wilton man predicts a copius rainfall accompanied by a freslict of extraordinary dimensions which will carry away bridges, etc. ‘ The gentle tale comcs floating over from Hurlbutt street that. over that way there were snow drifts which, when in full bloom, hid the telegraph poles. Messrs. Henry Thompson and Geo. H. Davenport joined. the snow shoveling brigade last week, and did much to make the road from the Congregational church to the stores passable. David Jcnks walked from Norwalk to trials and tribulations of a base ball um- Several people who left Wilton on Mon- day of last week for New York, were obliged to waste their substance in riotous living at the Mahackcmo Hotel until the railroad blockade was raised. It has been reserved to Wilton genius to discuss a way to walk through snow It is said that a ten quart pail of a, party of snow shovellers will so" accelerate their labors that we would think a loco- motive had struck the drift, the snow flies 80. ———————<-o BEDDING. Michael Flood at the Center has prepar- Med for shoeing oxen, and solicits, custom. The Selectmen of Bedding and Ridge- field have rc—snrvcycd and rc-run the a considerable work, as it had not been run since 1828. There has been anothcrdeath from pneu- monia, that of Mrs. Gilc a lady over 70 years of age, who lived cast of the Ridge. She was connected with the Episcopal, church. There have been at least five deaths in town from pneumonia since the opening of the new year. Mrs. Harry Upperton was left by her husband Monday morning in the house, and on his return Tuesday she :was miss- ing. It is supposed that she left home for a neighbor’s, and was overcome. by the fury of the storm and perished. Wednes- day a large company made an unsuccess- ful search for her body. The storm of last week Monday and Tuesday was fearfully severe. The fall of snow was great. There are immense drifts. One on the east side of the Metho- dist church filling the road, is nearly per- rcudicnlar on its east end and about forty feet in height. The roads were completely blockadcd and are still mostly impassable except to footmcn, who can walk over the drifts. For three days there was no mail at all, and for the rest of the week, only a small one brought from the station by a footman. Mary Coley’s two ,cows are missing and have not been found, and her fowls, as some belonging to others in' difficrcnt places were destroyed. NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS. HELPING FOLKS TO'SEE THEMSELVES AS OTHERS'SEE THEM. now the Scissors and Paste Man Preys Upon Human Frailty—Cnrlous Evidence of tho Weakness of Mankind—Gather- ing; Press Notices. ~ ‘ The business of reading newspapers for other people, which was started in this city in a small way not very long ago, is said to be in :1 fair way to swamp itself by too rapid growrh. TWo concerns are now devoted to the business, and each claims to have all it can : ‘_ to to keep pace with its own growl" The original clipper, Henry Ro- meikc, :lzo experimented with the idea. in Paris, 1,211 then went into the business in London on a larger scale, has made a stock company of his establishment there, and come to this country to carry out his system here. The promise, he says, is of something gigantic in the line of scissors and paste pot. manipulation. Seven thousand papers were read and 9,000 notices clipped from them inst; week for several hundred clients on his ists. 01.1:sz AND THEIR WANTS. A glance at his books givesacurious in- sight into the weaknesses of men and women whose names are familiar in widely different. circles of life. The name of each client heads a page, and under it is a. brief note of what particular news or information that person wants from the papers. Fully half of the names have after them but the one word, “Personal.” lVbatever is said about them- selves tbey want. It would be great satis- faction to scores of snubbed reporters about town to see in these books the evidence of the ' anxiety of great lawyers who have nothing to say to reporters, city officials who have no time to bother with newspaper men, and society women who wouldn’t have their names in the paper for anything to see whatever isprinted about them. “Everything about the Sharp case” was an order that drew much money from the pockets of one lawyer last: year. “Everything about her reception” is under the name of a leading society woman. “Everything bearing on fraud at elections” is the curious order of a city official Artists and literary men are the worst. They all want to see everything that is printed about their latest picture or their newest book. About; the time the picture is exhibited, or the book printed, they send in an order for all the paragraphs referring to the work, and then probably quit work for aweck, in order to revel in the evidence of the tide of popular- ity that they expect will roll over them. Of- ten there is not asolicitary clipping charged to their account. Many times there are one or two only. If the picture is a daub or the book had, the paragraphs may run up into the hundreds; but statistics on this point are incomplete, as the order is always canceled .after a week of this. Political men, and especially congressmen, seem to bathe steadiest patrons of the insti- tution, but they generally mean business and not vanity. Through it they collect masses of statistics as to some particular interest for which they stand sponsor, or get evidence of the tendency of public sentiment: by which they can trim their sails. They all add “Per- sona ” to their order, however. “Himself and the Pacific Railroads” is one order. A senator wants “Himself and the Chinese question.” “Himself and Peru” is the order of a well known air-mayor, Mayor Francis of St. Louis gets lots of complimentary notices now on the subject of the convention and St. Louis, and he wants them all. A common order limits the clippings to “paragraphs at- tacking him only.” Lord Randalph Char. chill once gave an order of that sort to the London institution, and his bill the first month was for a 1,000 clippings. “ Great Heavens t I can’t; stand this,” he said. Send me the favorable once after this for a a change,” and his bill fell to nominal figures. ‘ MEN WHO HAVE HOBBIES. Mén with hobbies are steady patrons. All that is printed about Volapuk goes to one college profesor in this city. Paragraphs on the Nicaraguan canal go to another man, and a French ofilcial here gets all the De Lesseps items. One engineers wants every reference to the Quaker bridge dam, another paragraphs of the Harlem bridge, and sev- eral are getting all there is printed about Hudson river tunnel and bridge schemes. Several leading firms of architects and engi- neers want the earliest mentions of the pro- posed erection of large buildings, bridges, dams, or other structures. These are clipped from local papers all over the country, and whenever the firm sees a. prospect of a. job it. sends in an application, for the work of de- signing or constructing. Usually they are thus the first applicants, and have propor- tionately better chance for the work. Two firework manufacturing companies keep themselves posted in the same way as to the coming celebrations all over the country, the nature of the exercises, amount to be ex- pended, and similar matters Contractors and others with an eye out for new lines of railroad to be constructed, are also patrons of the paper readers. Important events in business are apt to bring patrons around. “Himself and his failure,” is a common en- try. As a general thing the patronsare only those who think they are likely to get 'com- plimentry press notices; People whose no- torietyis of an unpleasant nature, do not care to see what the papers say about them. No- body involved in a scandal, a divorce suit or a. similar affair, has yet asked for clippings. The growth of the business has necessitated the introduction into it of a. complicated sys-' hem and has developed it in several novel di- rections. The leading topics of newspaper comment, 'snch as art, literate, the drama, politics and similar subjects, are made sepa- rate divisions of the business, and everything pertaining to each is clipped by the first; read- ers. These clippingsare then gone over by the men in charge of ' each department, and these which may fit the orders of any patron are sorted out at the close of each day’s work and mailed to him at. once. He has paid in advance $5 for 100 “clips,” or at de- creasing rates up to $40 for 1,000, and when he has received the number paid for the service stops until a. new payment is made. A man’s account may run along for months without his getting over forty or fifty of the 1,000 paragraphs he has paid for, and then be' may kill his mother-in—law, or do some other famous thing and get the balance of his “clips” in less than a week. Clippings are also made on speculation. If a well-know man dies, all his obituaries are collected and afterward offered' to some sor- rowing relative for a. certain amount of cash. Notices of. weddings and other events are collected and peddled in the same way, and it is said that the instances arecomparatively rare in which a sale is not effected—New York Sun. Japanese Seedlcss Oranges. The Japanese seedless orange is now being introduced into California, and is attracting attention because this dwarf variety is more hardy than ordinary kinds. The fruit, al- though small, is remarkably sweet. Should it thrive on this coast it will extend the range of citrus fruits, for it is claimed that it is hardy enough to resist considerable frost.— Pacific States Weekly. - ——<-o->—————— Democracy’s British Backers. (Arranged by the Clemont Courier.) FACT IS, President Cleveland has proven the policy of protection to be a motion] and theoretical absurdity. he stone now set rolling will not stop until the idol of protection is broken in pieces—London Daily News. EMARKABLE that Mr. Cleveland has the courage to confront the serried phalanx of protectionists on the eve of a‘ contest for the presidency. When trade is free every nation discovers its fittest work.‘—Lo'ndon Times. \XCHANGE didn’t open as buoyant as was expected. The explanation is that people doubt whether Congress will act on the recommendation. If the house does agree, the republican senate may still , disagree—London St. James Gazette. XERCISE, it must, an absolutely par— amount infinence on the presidential election. Party names and party ties are thrown into a hotch-potcb. The govrning issue will be protec- tion or free trade.—London Daily Globe. HE MESSAGE will produce a profound ' sensation in Europe as Well as in America, and will strengthen the free traders’ cause throughout. the world.—London Morning Post. REVOLUTIONARY starting pomt in fiscal controversies of the United States! 'thther it will bring- about immediately a new depar— ture in their fiscal policy depends upon its reception by Congress.— London Standard. AN important suggestive message' has been sent to Congress. If the pol- icy of President Cleveland is adopted, its effect: on the trade of the world cannot fail to, be im— mcnse.—-London Chronicle. DOES not seem to perceive the.cficct of his own argument, or even the meaning of his own words. His statement that the question of free is irrelevant is astounding and pre- posterous—London Daily-News. ESTABLISH free trade,President Cleve- land’s policy may not, in the strict- est sense of the word, but it will, to a great extent, make free trade. ——London Daily Times. . ____4+..__ . Prompt relief in sick headache, dizzi- ness, nausea, constipation, pain in the side, guaranteed to those using Carter’s Little Liver Plus. One a dose. Try them. Small price. Small dose. Small pill. 1t12 «- CARERS mu: IVER PILLS. Sick Headache and relieve all the troubles inci- dent to abilious state of the system.snch an Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Distress after eating. Pain in the Side, ho. While their most remarkable success has been shown in caring ' SICK . Headache. yet Carter's Little Liver Pills are equally valuable in Constipation, curing and pre- venting this annoyingcomplaintwhile they also correct all disorders of the stomach,stimulatc the liver and regulate the bowels. Even if they only Ache they would be almost pricelessto those who suffer from this distressing complaint: but fortu- nately their goodness docs notend here,and those who oncotry them will find these little pillsvnlu- 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 purgn. but by their gentle action please all who use them. In vialsat 25 cents: five for $1. Sold by drugglsts everywhere, or sent by mail. CARTER MEDICINE C0., New York. Stalin Stalinist hairline. FOR SALE SECURE .A HOME CHEAP! A nearly new, comfortable, well built House. twostorics, on upper end of Fair street, in Bor- ough of Norwalk. will he sold verycheap. Pleas- antly situated, good neighborhood, and very deep lot. House has 6 good rooms. pantry, dry cellar, high garret, closets. etc. The owner having re- moved from town wliiseli very cheap. For fur- ther information apply to MRS. WM. NASH,next door to place, or to JOSEPH B. ELLS, Furniture dealer, opposite Horse Railway Depot. Norwalk. January 28,1888. TO RENT. This Stores ii Main Street, Possession April lst. Also Desirable Apartments for Small Families IN ALL PARTS OF THE BOROUGH. Insurance Placed in the Best Companies. Call on or address CUULIDGE i LUGKWUUD. SARSAPARILLA COMPOUND, COUCH MIXTURE, Hair Tonic, —F|NE STATIONERY— In the Latest Society Styles. Easter Gian-d5, ——AT-——- J. G. GREGORY’S, 38 Wall Street- ach. Bile? (11.00 MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN lUMBBR, TIMBER, Shingles, Kath, Dow's, Sash, Elimls, Moulding, Window I’l'ames, l’iclcets, do. Ventilated-Haul Wand Wolf. ‘ Hard Wood Ceiling and Hauling. South Norwalk, Conn. To Inventors 6E0. ll. 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Prelimin- ary examination of the Patent Office Records. prior to an application for a patent, will .be made foravcry small charge.aud advice or informa- tion in regard to patents will be given in full detail inacircular which will be mailed free of charge to every applicant. He has special facilities also for Picturing Patenis in Foreign countries. He refers to any officer of the Patent Office, and totne many Connecticut Inventors for whom he has done business and taken out Lmsss PATENT Notice to Builders. IRST-QUALITY BUILDING STONE for 2 cheap. Apply to “'2 J AMES SELLECK. l’. 0. Box ‘23. , B. A. ATKINSON & 00., Liberal House Furnishers, Offer special inducements to intending purchasers of Household Goods. We show the largest line of canpnms Ever offered in New England and at prices that will ensure quick and iar e sales. It will it ever housekeeper in want of a carpet this spring to call and look through the llIie. 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We are making the largest display of early Spring and Summer Novelties in Silk, Wool and Cotton Dress .‘ brics that we have ever shown, and call particular attention to the line of India and Pongee Silks in plain , and figured goods. Something over seventy patterns and colorings can be seen, which cmbracehthe entire produc- Wool goods in plain and fancy fab- We have V' tion of this season. rics, combinations, and suits innew shades. bought- several pieces more of Black Rbadamas to be sold at same price as those of last week and can reccommend them as the cheapest Rhadames sold over our counters for some time. French Sateens, Domestic Sateens, Cbambrays, Scotch and French Ginghams, Prints and Lawns of selected and private patterns, are now open. Carpetings in new designs of all grades of Ax- minsters, Body Brussels, Tapestries, ingrains, and Cotton .. Chains, together with a superb line of Portieres, Lace Curtains, Rugs, Draperies by the yard, Poles and Trim- mings are now ready in our Carpet Department. H11]. M. Hill] EU.
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