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Wednesday, J an, 30 1889.
EDITORIAL LETTER.
Wasmxoros, D. 0.. Jan. 28, 1889.
Dean Gaznrre :—The Senate tariff bill
has been duly engrossed and sent to the
House with the special endorsement made
thereon of a request for that body to join
the senate Committee in a conference on
the bill. This is unusual, but not unpre—
cedented. It would be out of the ordinary
course for the House to refuse to accede
to the request of the Senate for a confer—
ence, yet if this request is granted, the
result will be to prevent the ways and
means committee from passing upon the
Senate amendments to the bill. Again, if
the House should refuse [to comply, this
refusal would put it in the position of
declining to second the efforts of the Sen—
ate to secure speedy action upon the bill.
Several members of the ways and means
committee. when spoken to about the
matter, expressed the belief that the re-
quest would not be granted until the bill
has gone through the regular course in the
House and committee, but no one has the
faintest belief that the democrats of the
House will permit so just, wise and prac-
tical a tariff reform measure to pass con—
gress at this session, so all that has been
accomplished by the long and faithful
efforts of the Senate committee is simply to
set before the country their bill in contrast
with the wild, crude and destructive Mills
bill of the House. The honest and intel-
ligent manufacturers and business men of
the country will need no tutor to tell them
which is the preferable bill.
nonunion.
Little in the way of accomplished legis—
lation has taken place in either House the
past week. Many matters of public
interest have been up in both Houses for
consideration and discussion. A sad and
sensational event in the House was the
sudden illness of Representative Burns, of
Missouri, which resulted in his death a
few hours subsequently, be having been
stricken down with paralysis. But the
waves of human ambitions, and the pres-
sure of imperative legislation will soon
dim the painful incident out of the con—
gressional mind, and the dead member
will be no more missed or in general
lamented than would be the loss of a
single blade of grass from a boundless
prairie. What a commentary on human
life, human hopes and human ambitions.
A srsox or was.
Although the state department and the
Senate committee on foreign relations are
especially reticent, yet enough has trans—
pired to lead to the belief that our govern—
ment is seriously concerned about the
rumpus just kicked up by the Germans in
the Samoan Islanns. It is charged on the
one hand that Secretary Bayard has gotten
this country into a very embarrassing
complication with Germany, and on the
other that our premier has referred the
whole matter to the Senate committee on
foreign affairs. These charges are more
easily made than justified by any known
facts. but that there are very serious com-
plications existing betWeen the United
States and Germany there can be ‘no
doubt, though they can hardly be of suf—
ficient magnitude to justify the flippantly
predicted war between the two powerful
nations.
CABINET.
All sorts of confident predictions are
now being put forth as to the personnel of
the next cabinet. It is among the con-
ceded probabilities that the state depart—
mentwill be tendered Mr. Blaine. It is
widely felt that a failure on General
Harrison’s part to make such tender to
Mr. Blaine would be a serious injury to
the party, and an affront to a large ma-
jority of the most earnest and influential
republicans of the country, and that the
Presidenbelect is not likely to make any
such blunder.
The great merchant-prince of Philadel-
phia, it is believed, will also be offered a
place for the reason that his state is of
such magnitude as to render representa-
tion in the cabinet a duty, and because he
is the only candidate presented from
Pennsylvania. He is, moreover, a man of
phenomenal business and executive ability,
and as secretary of the navy, or, better, as
postmaster-general, would add immense
popular strength and credit to the new
administration. It is claimed that his
equal would be hard to find as the head
of any department not requiring the
technical training of an alert lawyer.
For the treasury the best information of
the past few days has crystallized upon
Senator Allison. His departure from the.
Senate, where he has so long and so ably
conducted the leadership of all matters of
spprbpriations, will be such a serious loss
to that body and to the country as his
transfer to the head of the nation’s treas—
ury can hardly atone for, admirably as he
is equipped for that trying position. Had
Iowa’s electoral votes hung in as doubtful
a scale as did Indiana, our President-elect
would, in all probability, have been Wm.
B. Allison instead of Benjamin llarrison;
for at the Chicago convention the Senate’s
great finance committee chief was every-
body’s second choice for the Presidential
nomination, This conspicuous and sig-
nificant fact is sufficient, it is thought, to
make the tender of the treasury portfolio
to Mr. Allison an undoubted conclusion.
Well, he deserves the nation's highest
honors, for he is an exceptionally able,
honest, painstaking, laborious and con-
scientious statesman in the best meaning
of that word. As the late Artemus Ward
recorded of the “father of his country,” it
may as truly be said of Mr. Allison, and
it is a great deal to say of any one so long
in public life: “He is aman who never
slopped over."
POSTAL.
The postmaster—general fights shy of
the South Norwalk post office imbroglio.
The record in that department is still said
to stand with William H. Barnum as an
endorser of Wilcox, and Judge Granger
and Jerry Donovan as sponsors for Snyder.
Congressman Granger,,it is understood,
appealed the case from the postmaster—
general, (when he found him afraid to
make a choice between the two demo-
cratic candidates), to Imperial Caesar at
the White House, but it is said that even
the August “Grover” could not see any
good politics in getting up a split in the
democratic party at South Norwalk by the
appointment of either. Judge Granger is
a great Shakespereau scholar and critic,
and while the President is said to have
remarked in terms or effect that he didn’t
care a blank for either candidate as indi-
viduals and could be happy with either,
be quoted to our congressman’s ears
the familiar lines from the great Vice
Book: “'Tis better to endure the ills we
have than fly to others we know not of.”
This being the case lucky brother Dunning
may be expected to correct the manifold
blunders and send to their proper des-
tinations the myriad letters, papers and
parcels sent astray by the new and green-
to-the-business democratic postal officials
of the country. It is a fact, admitted by
democrats as well as charged by rcpubli.
cans, that the postal service of the country
was never in such a demoralized and dis-
graceful condition as it has been through
this entire democratic administration, and
what is worst of all, instead of growing
better 'it seems to be steadily growing
worse.
The bill to increase the total amount for
which a money order may be issued, from
050 to 35100, has passed both Houses and
only needs the President's signature to
become a law.
PERSONALS.
Mrs. William Belts, of Norwalk, is
greatly enjoyingabrief visit here at an
uncle's and sun ’s. Last week she was
present at one of Mrs. Secretary Whitney’s
5 the Senate, where her husband’s uncle,
. ciatiou.
. Dr. N. is one of the most eloquent clergy-
.from Norwalk, wherein is detailed a ro-
Jnecting the family of a reputed “broker
d
“swell” receptions. On Friday she visited
the late 0. S. Ferry, so long served, and
sat in the chair of her native Ohio senator,
Mr. Thurman, and from thence passed
to the prescnt U. S. Supreme Court room.
where, near a half century ago, her hus-
band’s grandfather sat as aI.Y S. senator
from Connecticut, and during which ser-
vice he died here in Washington. She
expects to leave for Norwalk in another
week.
Ex Senator and Mrs. Eaton are passing
a quiet and pleasant season here.
Mrs. Ferry and her daughter Mary are
enjoying to the full the many delights of
this winter Sarntoga of the nation. Miss
Mary,was,rlast Week, elected secretary of
the Litdies' Washington Newsboys' Asso-
Mr. and Mrs. David F. lIolIister, of
Bridgeport, have been enjoying a several
days’ visit here.
Treasurer Hyatt has returned from his
last week’s trip to Norwalk and Hartford.
General Wm. B. Franklin, of liartford,
president of the board of managers of the
National Soldiers’ Home, was here at a
meeting of his association last week. The
annual dinner was given Friday evening,
at which General Franklin and Captain
J. W. Birmingham, of Hartford, were
present. The board continued its sessions
Saturday.
The President has pardoned Cyril P.
Benedict, of Bridgeport, who was for
many years the Treasury agent of Adams
Express company, and who was convicted
March 13 last of embezzlement, and sen-
tenced to three and one-half years in the
Albany Penitentiary. The President’s
indorscment on the pardon is as follows:
“This convict, allowing for deduction
earned by good conduct, has served a
sentence of about one year. His offense,
though not to be excused, still lacks the
aggravating elements of deliberation and
the original intent to steal. His conduct,
subsequent to the discovery of his crime,
has been such as to indicate that a severe
sentence was not necessary to his reform-
ation, and in my opinion, all other pur-
poses of punishment have been fully
accomplished.” Of the pardon the Wash-
ington Star editorially says: “The pardon
of Cyril P. Benedict after eleven months’
imprisonment will to most minds seem an
act of good policy as Well as mercy.
Lifelong integrity, the absence of purely
criminal intent and prompt confession
and desire for punishment are consider—
ations that surround this pardon with
every justification.” Mr. B.’s offense was
permitting his bankers to use about $7,000
of the Express company’s funds under a
promise of its return next day, but which
his bankers did not do owing to their own
failure. Mr. B. made restitution to the
company, but it is their rule to inexorably
punish any agent of theirs who “goes
wrong" in their service, and though they
prosecuted Mr. B. to conviction, the com—
panyjoined most actively in the efforts
for his pardon. Mr' B. is a high-minded
and most honorable man, and millions
upon millions of dollars of the country’s
money has passed through his hands as
U. S. treasury agent of the Adams Express
company and without the loss of a far-
thing, and but for this one act of mistaken
judgment, and without fraudulent intent,
his life‘s record would have been llll-
sullied.
J. E. Sayre, Mr. T. Cousins’ commercial
traveler, of Norwalk, was here last week.
U. S. Treasurer Jas. W.Hyatt, wife and
daughter, occupied Senator William E.
Chandler’s pew iii All Souls’ church, Sun -
day, and listened to good and grand old
Robert Colyer, of New York.
“4 l.” Rely'ea and John Hyatt have just
returned from Cincinnati, where they
superintendcd the counting of the public
monies in the sub-treasury there.
“Jack” Fitzmaurice was at the Treasury
last week, interviewing Johu Hyatt.
Harry Elwood, of South Norwalk, was
here last week.
Complaint is made by democrats that
Senator Ingalls should have returned the
electoral vote of Texas. He did so be-
cause the law imperatively required it.
and with the advice and consent of both
senators from Texas.
Rev. Colonel and Mrs. Anderson are
expected here next Monday evening.
They will be the guests of Rev. Mr. and
Mrs. Noble while at the capital. Rev.
men at the capital, and will be remem-
bered by many of our readers as having
recently occupied Rev. Colonel Anderson’s.
Norwalk pulpit. _
Norwalk is fast becoming famous by
reason of her multitudinous newspaper
correspondents, who seem to get up a
deal of mental activity and imaginative
power in their struggles to meld facts
and make themselves and their town
renowned by their fantastic flights of
fiction. The latest is a “special dispatch”
1201.116 Washington Press of this morning
mantic love affair and elopement, con-
on Elmwood avenue by the name of
Masterson," the story being that a false
lover, engaged to the daughter, had eloped
with their French maid. V
As ever, ll.
SO U TI-I—N 0R lVALIi".
It has been intimated that the missionary
temperance work should be so arranged as
to have a series of short lectures for the
express benefit of the men and boys who
lounge around the Post Office, Depots and
saloons about dusk every night.
The burglary at the residence of l). R.
Selleck on Thursday night of last week.
was intended for, and would have been a
clean sweep, except for the arrival at
home of Mr. and Mrs. McDonald. Every
article of silverware, both large audnsmall,
and the overcoats of the inmates of the
house were packed ready to remove.
Stormy days and nights usually diminish
the numbers in attendance at all meetings,
whether social or religious. The meeting
of. the Gospel Temperance Reform Asso-
ciation on Sunday, was a notable excep-
tion. About 100 Were present, including
ladies, and all listened attentively to the
earnest common sense talk and statements
made by reformed men present, and ear:
nest appeals from the members. The
pledge was signed by a goodly number at
the close of the meeting.
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IVIL TOJV.
South Wilton people think they ought
to have the Norwalk horse cars up as far
as that burg.
The Fowler's that moved in the spring
tra-la ——~ that is several springs ago,
have not thus far accepted the invitation
of our town fathers to emigrate.
Avery pleasant social gathering took
place at the house of S. L. Grumman,
Esq., on Grumman's Hill, on Wednesday,
evening last. The attendance was large,
the entertainment excellent, and all de-
parted happy as big sun flowers.
The Rev. Dr. Swan has withdrawn from
his pastorate here owing to his dis satis—
faction with the vote of the Congregational
Society at its annual meeting. It is hoped
that what is clearly a misunderstanding
will be cleared up and that the doctor will
resume his duties here as his ministrations
have been very acceptable.
In the absence of Town Clerk Chichcs-
ter who is at Hartford making good laws
for ‘.\ ilton in particular and the State in
general, Mr. Gcerge W. Ogden is Town
Clerk (to interim. George is well equip-
ed for this task, and can record a deed in
five different languages, grant a subpoena
dimes teeum feel-an, and issue a writ pro
quinbue dollar-£0119.
A-Sehool of Wide Renown. .
Professor Loveridge, of the Yale Busi-
ness College has recently placed more
than a score of his graduates in desirable
ositions, his enterprise reaching even the
Gulf States. ' _ ' .
If you are contemplating a busuiess ed—
ucation, do not fail to send for the new
atalo ue ust published by the Yale Bus-
icness Collejge of New Haven, Conn. It is l
NORWALK GAEETTEQWEDNESD‘” v, JA
'FURNITURE
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons liable to :
Editorial Notes.
It is the old familiar story that the latest
defnlcnticn brings to the surface once
more. A man fully trusted ; unfortunate
investments; attempts to retrieve his ill
fortune; things going fromv‘bad to worse ;_._
speculating Ill Wall street as a last resort;
the inevitable crash. This, in brief is the
experience of Jaseph A. Moore,
Indianapolis agent of the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance company, whose
embezzlclnents, according to the latest
accounts, may reach a million dollars.
The story carries its own moral. Unfor-
tunately. this is not likely to be lulu-n to
heart by those who need it most.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrisonyher daughter
and son-in-law, .Mr. and Mrs.-: McKee,
breakfasted in their rooms in the Gilsey
House, New York, Friday. Mr. McKee
held an informal reception for the report-
ers. He said: “Mr. Wanamaker was in
the same car with us and made the jour—
ney very pleasant by his conversation.
The ladies will remain here about a week,
which will give them ample time to do
their shopping and pay a few social calls.
The ladies will visit the Mortons.”
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Matters along the Panama canal are
becoming very much involved. Thousands
of discharged workmen hang about the
works ready for any adventure; Con-
tractors are continually cutting down
wages, and when the rose-colored dis-
patches from Paris begin to lose their
virtue, and the true condition of the com—
pany is fully realized, there will be trouble.
The startling- information comes from
Indianapolis that“General Harrison in.
variably spends half an hour or more with
little Benjamin just before dinner." Visit-
iug statesmen might find it to their advan-
tage to pump “Little Benny" now and
then as to what he knows of the new
cabinet.
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Miss Anderson first said she didn’t and
then said she did write the article about
actresses in the North American Review to
which Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Langtry took
such sharp exceptions. "Our Mary” must
quit fibbing. It isn't proper. We might
also suggest that she quit writing. She is
a better actress than critic.
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Having robbed the Connecticut Mutual
of halfamillion dollars, Mr. Moore, of
Indianapolis, has turned his attention to
another undertaking no less gigantic, to
wit: “Explaining how a man can involve
himself to the extent named and still
preserve his integrity." '
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The New York Assembly has passed a
bill appropriating $4,500 for a state mete-
orological bureau. The weather service of
the general government is deficient in
popular quality. It won’t be long before
every state in the Union will be furnish-
ing its own weather.
vooo-v~--——~——.— ~
The one man in thebusiness whom the
sugar trust can neither bulldoze nor bury-
is Claus Spreckels. He has just given
orders to double the capacity of his Cali-
fornia sugar refineries, and will get ready
to tiirli out 10,000 barrels a day.
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The finest railway station in the world
is said to be the Peninsular terminal at
Bombay, which cost $19,000,000, and is
named in honor of the Empress of India,
II. R. 11. Victoria. But II. R. H. V.
didn’t fool the bills. '
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For the next 111 years, we shall have
the figure 9 in our years, and the oculists,
who put much stress on numbers, predict
that the condition of mankind will be
greatly improved over all times during
this period.
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There is no protection needed against
the cabinet makers of the old countries.
The American editor can manufacture
cabinets quicker, cheaper and in greater
variety than any foreign competitor.
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IfJohn C. Klein, the Samoan corres—
pondent, looks like his picture as printed
in the San Francisco Examiner and New
York ll’orld, he is capable of committing
every crime in the category.
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The impression in Tennessee is that
Captain Carter B. Harrison, brother of the
President-elect, is booked for the position
of United States marshal for the middle
district of Tennessee.
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Last Wednesday’s Evening Sun reports
that $50,000 in “boodle” is lying around
loose about the Albany legislature. Is
not this a "coincidence?”
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The Pennsylvania legislature is about
to pass a bill providing that the American
flag shall be floated over every school
house in the state.
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Sergeant Bailey’s Obnoxious Man.
When the Seventeenth Connecticut
regiment were on Folly Island, S. C., in
the fall of 1803, Sergeant James M.Bailey,
of Company C, who has smec been popu-
larly known as the “Danbury News Man,”
wrote a number of articles for the
Danbury Times, entitled: “Life in the
Seventeenth."
Bailey was quite a humorist, and his
letters were eagerly sought for as they
appeared in the weekly issues of the
limes, several numbers being sent to the
regiment, and no one enjoyed them better
than did our Colonel W. H. Noble. But
there appeared one article that the colonel
did not like so well. It “riled” him. It
was entitled “The Obnoxious Man." I
may here be pardoned the fault of pin—
ginrism if I quote the story in Bailey’s
own words as near as I can recollect. It
seems that the colonel had become un-
popular with Company C, (the Danbury
company), by an alleged falsehood in
these Words: "That little lie on the
colonel, that sent Danbury from the right
to the centre.” Adjutant Uhatfield having
read the paper, called the coloucl’s atten-
tion to it; - When he read it he was mad.
Sergeant Bailey was on duty that day as
sergeant of the guard at regimental head-
quarters The colouel sent for him, and
when he made his appearance he handed
him the paper and asked if he wrote that
article. Bailey replied that he did.
"What did you do it for? Did you not.
know that it was a damuable lie ?"
"No, sir, I do not know any such a
thing.”
"Well, sir," says the colonel, “you may
go to {your quarters and take off your
stripes, and consider yourself as reduced
to the ranks and under arrest.”
Bailey obeyed, and the colonel’s anger
was appeased. Bailey was in a few
months detailed for duty in the quarter-
mastcr’s department at Hilton Head,
where he remained till after the war, in
settling up the affairs of the department.
The “little lie" was this: "When the col-
onel received his commission to organize
the Seventeenth regiment, he was anxious
to complete its organization as soon as
posnible, and learning that the company
was already organized in Danbury, and
about ready to depart for Hartford to join
the Fourteenth regiment, he went to South
Norwalk to intercept them, and induce
them if possible to come to Bridgeport
and make the nucleus of the Seventeenth
regiment. It was alleged that he prom—
ised that if they did so they should have
the position of right flank company, when
the regiment was fully organized. The
company accepted the proposition and
stopped at Bridgeport, the first company
on the field. The boys felt a natural
pride in the prospect of holding the first
position in the line, and a number of them
procured the letter ‘A’ and affixed it to
the crown piece of their caps, and on their
short furlough home and back had worn
the letter ‘A,’ and it came to be generally
understood that Danbury was to rank
Company A, Seventeenth Connecticut
Volunteers. But when the organization
was completed, and the different com-
paniés assigned their respective positions
in line, Company Awns given to Captain
Douglas Fowler’s company of South Nor-
walk. There was surprise as well as in-
dignation. The Danbury boys were a
unit for secession. Their captain, James
E. Moore, who~was a gentlemen and' a
veteran of the Mexican war, advised them
_to stay where they were and make a
record for themselves that would be an
honor to then, and to Danbury.
“They took'his advice, and they were
assigned to the centre, or color com any
and designated as Company C. They
never wholly got over their disappoint-
ment, but did not entertain any ill feeling
toward the South Norwalk company for
the change, and they did make an honor-
able record, and at the battle ,of Gettys-
burg they lost their captain, color sergeant
and three other sergeants, besides seven
other members of the company killed,
eight wounded and fourteen prisoners.”—
one Ofth-e fines: and most complete pub— | G, A. R. Record.
Iieations of the kind ever issued.
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The Railroad Hearing.
The hearing on the petition of the Housa-
tonic road for the increase of its stock
took place before the railroad committee
Wednesday afternoon. Simeon E. Bald-
win of New Ilaven and L. M. Hubbard
of Witllingford appeared for the company
and the application was opposed by Lynda
Harrison and Henry C. Robinson on the
part of the Consolidated road.
Mr. Harrison objected to the increase
because the proposed petition had not
been advertised, accompanied by a state—
ment of some competent engineer, as pro—-
vided by the statutes.
Professor Baldwin showed that the
petition had been advertised according to
law. - He said there . was a law passed
some years ago allowing railroad compan-
ies to build branches without limitation of
distance. A provison in the Housatonic
charter, however, says that the road can.
not build a branch more than ten miles in
length. It was a serious question if the
general law would cover the special pro-
vision in the Housatonic charter. In
relation to Mr. Harrison’s statement about
the report of an , engineer, Mr. Baldwin
said that this necessity applied only to a
petition to incorporate a road and not to
an amendment of a charter.
Henry C. Robinson argued this point at
some length. He said that power asked
for by the Housatonic to build long branch
ches was equivalent to the incorporating
of a new road, inasmuch as it was intend-
ed to extend the road through. a virgin
country not yet occupied by a railroad.
Professor Baldwin contented that Mr.
Robinson’s objection to the reception of.
the petition was entirely visionary. He
said that alltiie road wanted was power
to build branches not exceeding thirty
miles in length, While other companies
had power to build without limitation of
distance. In the present case he said Mr. .
Robinson’s argument was absurd. He
insisted that the petition was not for in-
corporation, but for amendment to the
charter.
Mr. Robinson suggested that if the com-
mittee had any doubt as to the meaning of
the statute they could consultthe judiciary
or any other disinterested committee.
Mr. Baldwin said it was evident the op-
position wanted some delay and Mr. Rob-
inson said he didlnot intend to allow the
Housatonic to build a parallel road on a
five minutes’ hearing.
The committee stated that they would
inquire into the point later and went on
with the hearing. ~
President Starbuck testified that it was
absolutely necessary for the road to build
branches longer than-ten miles. He said
the gentlemen he represented hadinvested
almost three millions in the Housatonic,
Danbury and Norwalk and New Haven
and Derby roads, and they felt that the
business could not be developed properly
without the power asked for. They did
not wish to fight the Consolidated road, .1
but wanted the right to protect them—
selves. He Said they wanted the privi—
lege because the Consolidated would not
co—operate with them. It refused to draw
cars from the Danbury &. Norwalk road to
New York on its expresses, but‘ insisted
'on taking them from Bridgeport, thus
adding 14 miles and 25 cents to the haul.
The Housatonic, he said, was not fighting
the Consolidated but protecting itself. He
said $8,000,000 had been expended, $4,~
000,000 of it in Connecticut, and that the
company wanted a connection through to
do a business that the Consolidated will
not allow it to do now. Mr. Starbuck
said; "I’ve got the money and propose to
bilild :i parallel from New Haven to New
York. This is a part of it. There is no
doubt about it. We’ve got the money to
do it and (turning to Mr. Robinson) we
are going to do it.
Mr. Baldwin: “You don’t own the
earth. You own a large part of it—Con-
necticut, New York, Rhodc Island and
Massachusetts.” He said he didn’t see
what business of the Consolidated road
this was. Mr. Robinson answered that it
would come out later that this business
concerned the whole people of the state.
Mr. Starbuck’s examination awoke a
great deal of interest, but the absence of
some figures which it was desired to see
as to the present condition of the Housa-
tonic road led to a postponement until
‘ 'l‘uesday;of this week.
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BEDDING.
Last Sunday witnessed another easterly
rain storm.
Sleighs were in use last week Tuesday
and Wednesday, but the mild temperature
soon spoiled the sleighing.
Capt. Henry Beers has bought the Steb-
bins Sanford farmzfor about $2,000 and his
family have moved on the premises.
The two oldest men in town are the two
brothers, Messrs. Stephen and Lemuel
Adams. The former was ninety-eight on
January 22d, and‘thc latter was ninety-six
December 18th.
Mrs. Sarah A. Wilson died last Satur-
day, aged about eightythrcc years. She
has been sick several years, yet retained
in a remarkable manner her faculties and
interests in all matters. She was a mem-
ber of the' Congregational church, and
died with an assured hope of a blessed
immortality.
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List of Patents.
List of Patents issued from the United States
Patent Office, for the week ending Jan. 22,
’89, for the State of Connecticut, furnished as
from the office of JOHN E. Eannu, Solicitor of
Patents New Haven ' Conn;
M. P. Bray, Ansonia. assignor 1-2 to J. Ken-
drick, garment stay.
M. W. Henins, Bridgeport, corset stay.
J. Keller, nssignor to Keller Piano 00.,
Bridgeport, muting device for pianos.
L. Ketchum, Sangatuck,gas stove ; apatents.
—-- -—-ooo-4————
Advice to Mothers.
Are you disturbed at night and broken of
your rest. by a sick child suffering and crying
with pain of cutting teeth ?. If so send at once
and gets. bottle of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing
Syrup for Children Teething. Its value is
calculable. It will relieve the poor little suf-
ferer immediately. Depend u on it, mothers,
there is no mistake about it. t cures dysen-
tery and diarrhoea. regulates the stomach and
bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums,
reduces inflammation, and gives tone and
energy to the whole system. Mrs. Winslow’s
Soothing Syrup for Children Teething is
pleasant to the taste, and is the prescription of
one of the oldest and best female nurses and
and physicans in the United States,and is for
sale by all druogists throughout the world
Price 25 cents a bottle. 1y52
DIED.
Putnam—At Norwalk, January 230, 1859, J eau-
nette Lindsley. wife of Dr. Timothy S . Pinneo.
soonn nous,
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
ROOM 4, GAZETTE BUILDING. 31n53
WANTED FUR SECRET SERVICES.
shrewd Men as Detectives in every city and town
in the United States and Canada. Address at once
UNITED sures AND INTERNATIONAL Sneanr Snn~
Vice, (Incorporated). Bureau, 940. 20 ‘West Four-
teenth Street, new York City.
FOR SALE.
[IE Whitney Art Store, at South Norwalk.
This Is one of the best and most complete
small art store plants in the state, doing a good
business. Light rent, good location and good work
rooms. No competition. Doing a aying business
if run at light expense. Will be so 11 on favorable
terms, owner has too much other business to give
it time and attention. Mr. W. 1’. Whitney, mana-
ager, Will give one month’s work and Instruction
free to purchaser. Apply at the store. .
Ito E. C. WHITNEI.
NOTICE.
Concerning Materials and Supplies Fur-
nished to the Borough.
a
T1113 [following Resolution was junanimously
adopt ed :by the Court of Burgesses of the
Borough of Norwalk at a meeting held on the 218t
day of January, 1850. .
RESOLVED, That notice be given to all persons
from whom any materials or supplzes are liable to
be ordered upon the credit of the Borough,;tlmt
no bill for any such materials or supplies wlll be
ordered paid by this court unless approved by It
and fouud to have been ordered by the Warden,
the chairman of its Approprlatc committee, or the
Clerk, within their respective authority, in person
or by their written order therefor presented with
said bill.
It WINTHROP ll. PERRY, Clerk.
IS’I‘RICT 0F NORWALK, ss. Probate Court
January that, A. 1)., 1389. . v
Estate of HENRY KELLOGG, late of Norwalk
in said district, deceased.
The Court of Probate for the District of Norwalk
hath limited and allowed six months from the (late
hereafter the Ciedltors of said Estate to exhibit
theirclalms for settlement. Those who neglect to
present their accounts, properly attested, within
said time, will be debarred a recovery. All per-
sons indebted to said Estate are requested to make
Immediate a cutie
314 this?! A. KELLOGG, Administrator.
. BOROUGH TAXES.
assassens’ NOTICE, 1889.
. pay taxes in or to the Borough of Norwalk,
in the County of Fairneld and State of Connecti—
cut, that the said Borough, in legal meeting as-
sembled, on the 230 day or January, 1889, laid a
tax of ten mills on the dollar, on the ramble es-
tate In said Borough llable to taxation therein;
and that they are to give to the subscribers, As-
sessors In and for said Borough, or to be of them.
within thirty days from the date hereo , lists, ver—
Itled by their oaths, of all taxable property be-
longing to them on said 23rd day of January, 1889,
with the particulars of all their property liable to
be assessed on valued in said Borough. .
One of the assessors will be in attendance for
the purpose of receivln saidllsts In the union of
It. .8. Cranium, Room 0. 2,1n thoMasonic Build-
ing in said Borough, every day exceptlng Sundays
from the 15th to the 250. day of February, Issuan-
elusive, from 10 a. m. to I p. m., and from 2:30 to
5 p. m., and also from 7 to 8 p. m., on the lath,
201b, 23d and 25th days of said month.
Monday. February 26th. is the Last. Day
for Handful: in Lists.
And further, that on the 26th day of February
1889, the Board of Assessors will meet at said
place, at 10 o’clock a, m., and make out a list, ac-
cording to their best Information and belief, of all
the taxable pro erty of every person who has full-
ed to give in a 1 at as directed. and will add to each
or said lists a penalty of ten per cent. for said per.
son’s neglect or refusal to make out each list.
Dated at said Borough. the 26th day of January,
. D., 13:9.
ROBERT It. CRAUFURD, Assessors of
WILLIAM E. MO N'I'GOMERY} the Borough
(‘H ARLES ()LMSTEAD, of Nol‘walk.
39th ANNUAL STATEMENT
OI" THE
E '1‘ N A
nu msunuci'cunrur,
0F HARTFORD, CONN.
JANUARY 1813, 1889.
Premium Receipts in 1888, $ 3,404,964 16
Interest Receipts in 1888. 1,730,120 97
Total Receipts during the year, 6,135,085 18
Disbursements to Policy-hol-
ders, and for expenses, taxes
etc., 4,045,408 26
Assets January 1, 1889, 33,819,034 97
Total Liabilities, 28,252,979 73
Surplus by Ct , Mass" and N.
Y. standard, . 5,566,055 24
Surplus by many States, 7,325,000 00
Policies in force J nnuarv 1,
1889,'67,749, insuring, ' 102,904,303 44
Policies issued in 1888, 8,083,
insuring, 16,094,587 00
MORGAN G. BULKELEY, President.
J. C. WEBSTER, Vice-President.
J. L. ENGLISH, Secretary.
H. W. 81'. JOHN, Actuary.
GURDON W. RUSSELL,M.D.,ConsnItIng Pys’n.
[1’ Agents Wanted. A! '
EIGHTEENTI—I
Quarterly Dividend of 2 1-2 Per Coat. of the
E Q. U I T A BL E
MORTGAGE cumin.
Will be psld January 15, 188'.
‘ STATEMENT :
Capital Subscribed......... ”$2,000,000.00
Capltsl Paid In (Cash) ............ 1,000,000.00
Surplus and Undivlded Profits. . . . 115,444.82
Assets ............................. WJMOJII
SIX PER CENT DEBENTURES.
Secured by first Mortgages held in trust by the
American Loan and Trust Company of New York
and further secured by the capital and assets of
the Equitable Mortgage Company. '
6 PER CENT. GUARANTEED FARM MORT-
GAGES.
5 and 6 per cent. Savings Bonds Running Three '
Months to Two Years,
J \ NUARY INVESTMENTS.
$42,000 Toledo Belt Railway, First Mortgage.
$35,000 Cortland (N, Y.) Water Works Company,
First Mortgage.
$30,0couPbtoenIx (N. Y.) Water Company, First
or gage.
$46,000 City of Leavenworth, Kansas. .
$100,000 Grand hapids and Indiana liaierad, Con-
solidated Mortgage.
560,0;0 School Bonds of various districts in the
State of Kansas.
$229,000 City of Fort Wayne, Ind., Funding Bonds
For further information apply to
R. B. CRAUFURD,
Office, No. 2 Masonic Building,
312 Norwalk, Conn.
Reribner’s Magazine
FOR 1889.”
The publishers of SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE
aim to wane it the most popular and ,rprlstng
of periodicals, while at all times preserv ng its high
literary character. 25,000 new readers have been
drawn to It during the past six months by. the In-
creased excellence 01’ Its contents (notably the
Railway articles),and It closes its second year with
a new impetus and an assured success. The il-
lustrations will show some new effects, and noth-
lng ,,to make SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE: attrac-
r-iveuuu interesting vvlll be neglected.
The Railroad Articles will be continued by sev-
eral very striking papers; one especially Interest-
ing by Ex—Postmaster-General Thomas L. James
on “The Railway Postal Service." Illustrated.
Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson’s serial novel “The
Master of Ballantrae,” will run through the great-
er part of the year. Begun In November,
A Correspondence and collection of mannscri pt
memoirs relating to J. F. Millet and s‘ famous
group of modern French Painters will furnish the
substance of several articles. Illustrated.
The brief end papers written last year by Rober
Louis Stevenson, will be replaced by equally In-
teresting contributions by different famous authors
Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrleh will write the first of
them for the January number.
Many valuable Literary Articles will appear ; a
paper on Walter Scott’s Methods of Work, Illus-
trated from original MSS., a second “Shelf of Old
Books,” by Mrs. James '1‘. Fields, and many other
articles equally noteworthy. Illustrated.
Articles on Art subjects will be a feature. Pa-
pers are arranged to appear by Clarence Cook, E.
H. Blashtield, Austin Dobson, and many others.
Illustrated. 7.; .-
Fisbiug Articles describing sportin the besttlsh-
ing grounds wrll appear. salmon, Winnish, Bass,
and Tarpon are the subjects now arranged. The
authors are well-known sportsmen. Illustrated.
Illustrated Articles of great variety, touching
upon all manner of subjects, travel, biography,
description, etc., wul appear, but not of the con-
ventional commonplace sort. Illustrated.
, Among the most interesting In the list of selen-
tilic papers for the year will be a remarkable ar-
ticle by Professor John Trowbridge, upon the
most recent developments and uses of Photo-
graphy. Illustrated.
A class of articles which has proved of special
Interest WllI be continued by a group of papers
upon Electricity in its most recent applications,
by eminent authorities; a remarkable pa 1' on
Deep Mtning,and other interesting papers. nique
illustrations.
A Special Offer to cover last year’s numbers.
which Include all the RAILWAY ARTICLES, as
follows:
A year’s subscription (1889) and the numbers
or 1888, ~ - - - - $4 50
A year’s subscription (1889) and the numbers
for 1858, bound In clote, - - -
$3 a year ;' 25 cents a number.
Charles Scribner’s Sons.
743-745 Broadway, N. Y.
HEATING
STOVES
New and Second-Hall
———-A '1‘—
REBOUND PRIUES
— FOR THE—
BALANCE [IF THE SEASON.
———ALs'o—-~
Shim
‘ ———A T~~-—
F.J.Gurtls&00.’s
23 MAIN ST.
NITKBYIso 1
..__ ....-. W..__
1N MAKING rook SELECTION‘OF
Holiday Goods,
It will pay you to call on
DOWNERIEDWIRDS
BRIDGEPORT.
Where you will find a large variety of
PANUY FURNITURE
Ladies’ Desks, Book Cases,
Chelfonikrs, Shaving Cases,
Blaeking Cases, Work BaSo
kets, Hampers, Foot Rests,
Fancy Rattan Chairs, Nov-
elties in Plush Chairs, Rugs,
Hassocks, Lace 1 Curtains,
Cornice Poles, &e.
DOWNER &. EDWARDS
449 Ct 45l Marin 31..
B R I D.GEPOHT.
Open Evenings,
COAL,
COAL,
GOAL.
0 Br;
South Norwalk.
Have a large stock of the
best Lehigh Coal, which
they are selling at low-
er price than has
been offered this
Summer.
THIS Sll CK MUST BE SOLD.
Beef, Fish, Fruit
and Vegetables.
You can get any and all or the above mentioned
articles at ‘
F. W. Sill'l‘ll'i NIPNET.
55 MAIN STREET.
EN ERYTHING
NEW, FRESH. CLEAN.
Try us, we can please you. ryss
THE now FAMOUS
NEW CANAAN
Glllllllllll NINEFIGTURY.
d. r. JOHNSON. c. 'r. RAYMOND.
JOHNSON 8. RAYMOND.
New Canaan. Conn.
Mutacmfltamlln
Estimates and Drawings Furnished of any
Style of Carriage, Wagon or Truck.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN 'I‘O
REPAIRING.
First-Class Livery Attached.
CARRIAGBS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED,
FOR REPAIR AND PAINTING. 46
WANTED.
APPLES, Forum‘s osioss, monument:
011111.511 200 TON 01‘ PoUL'l‘BI AN
WILD can iron uonrnars. wnipay cash or
sell on Commission. Our daily Market Reports
forwarder] every day.
E. M. BALLARD 8. CO..
General Produce Commission
Merchants,
743 Myrtle he, Brooklyn, N. Y.
JESSE HOPSON
Carriage Maker.
Carriage Repairing and Painting
A'I‘ REASONABLE PRICES. 4U
SALESMEN to sell nur-
sery Stock All goods war-
ranted FIRST-CLASS.
Permanent, pleasant,me-
itable positions for the right men. Good salaries
and expenses paid weekly. Liberal inducemehts
and expenses paid weekly. Liberal inducements
to beginners. No previous experience necessary.
Outfit free. Write for terms giving a e.
CIIAS. If. CHASE, Nurseryman, I cc ester,N.Y.
41112 Mention this Paper.
ISS MEAD’S ROME SCHOOL FOR GIRLS AND
‘ I rouse LADIES. REOPENS OCTOBER “b,
B l 10 -
Darien Seminary-Darin, Conn.
College Preparatory and special courses In Mu-
sic Art and Languages. Pupils admitted to Web
Iesley wlthout turtherexaminatlons on certificate.
To Let.
IN the Gamma BUILDING, Hall formerly occu-
pied by our Brothers’ Lo e, 1. 0. of 0. 1'.
Possession given Immediately. pply at the Gs~
zum omce. ' '
. CHAS. H. VALDEN,
it
w . v
889.?
Increase in Assets, . . . .
Surplus at four per cent,
Increase in Surplus,
Policies in force, ' . . . .
Increase during the year,
Policies Written, . . . .
Increase during year,
Risks assumed, . . . .
Increase during year, . . . .
Risks. in force, . . . .
Increase during year, . . . .
Receipts from all sources,
Increase during year, . . . .
Paid Policy Holders,
...:
Bonds and Mortgages, . . . .
United States and other Securities,
Real Estate and Loans on Collateral,
NEW Yonx, January 23d, 1589.
Alexander H Rice,
F Ratchford Starr,
Fanoanic Cnonwnnn, Treasurer,
...—...
NEW DEPARTURE!
GEO. F. QUINTARD,
Ilavlng purchased ,the
DRUG STORE
. —-AND—
Fancy Article Business,
.013-
CHAS. LAPHAM,
is now in readiness to serve the public and olfers
his goods of the purest qualities on as reason-
able terms u any similar establishment
in the County.
A Graduate of the N. Y. Col-
lege of Pharmacy
will attend to
CUNPUUNDING PRESCRIPTION, BTU.
Come and see us at our newly Renovated store,
No. 11 Main Street.
Iyfl'
CHAS. H. 'VALDEN
——osrlr.r.n Ix—
GROCERIES,
FRESH’AND NEW.
FUll llfIE OE All. 00098
usually found in a
Fill-Glall-z-llltull-:-Slull,
which i will sell at prices
DENYING some! “MITION
to beat. A share of the bile patronage is solicit-
ed and every effort w ll be made to faithfully
serve our customers. Give us a call and
let us assure you of our ability to
give satisfaction.
5 Wall St, W Norwalk, Ct.
NIRKERSUN ll Bill'l'i,
For the time being at
N o. 7 East Side of Water St.,
FOUR DOORS FRO! WALL STREET,
NORWALK, - - -
STAPLE AND CHOICE
G R O C E R I E S .
Family Supplies,
he freshest and best quality that the New
York market affords in groceries, also
VEGETABLES ‘& FRUITS;
In their seasons at
MODERATE PRICES.
The patronage of my friends and former cus-
tomers is respectfully solicited. 1181
J. P. NICKERSON.
Telephone Call.
HENRY o. CORNELL,
House, Sign, Outside and Inside
PainterandDecorator.
Would announce to his friends and the publle,
that he has a force of Superior :Workrnen, and is
prepared to execute all orders of -
Painting, Papering 0r Glazing,
in the best styl of the art, and at the shortest no-
tice. As he works with his men himself and thus
personally oversees all the details of their labor,
e can pledge the very best execution, and an as-
surance that none buttne best of honest material
will ever be used hy'him.;
He Is ready to mnirsetjor any and all work In
his line and guardntee satisfaction. Or be will
work b the day or hour, and at prices that defy
compet tion. »
Orders received by mail or at his residence,ovel
Mrs _Fachtt’s Mllltnery Store. 34
CONN .
WANTED—An agent. In Norwalk to sell our
Western Guaranteed First Mortgages.hear-
tag 7 per cent. Pay liberal commissions. run par-
ticulars m Enabler! it A'IBMOAN Monroaon Co.
First Na tonal Bank Building, Kansas City, Kan.
TOTAL ASSETS,
THE ASSETS ARE INVESTED AS FOLLOWS :
Cash in Banks and Trust Companies at interest,
Interest accrued, Premiums deferred and in transit, etc., . . . .
I have carefully examined the foregoing statement and find the same to be correct.
Samuel ES ronlls, . Lewis May
Lucius Roblfnson, ’ Oliver HaEEiman,
Samuel D Babcock, i Henry W Smith,
Gsorge S 000, i Robert Olyphant,
Richard A McCurdy, 2 George F Baker,
James C Holden, , Joseph Thompson,
Hermann C van Post, ; Dudley Olcott.
Frederic Cromwell
J ulien T Davies,
ROBERT a. GRANNISS, - _
ISAAC F. LLOYD, — _ _
WILLIAM J. EASTON, _ - 1
FREDERIC sonaoonn,
WILLIAM H. c. BARTLETT, LL.D., Actuary.
nuasrns c. BENEDICT, Assistant Actuary:
WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller,
Gnsravus S. Wiusrox, M. D.,
R. J. Mansu, M. D., Medical Directors.
W. G. DAVIES, Solicitor.
S Q, BARNUM & (30,,
silk Plush, $4.50
it
1
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STAGE-EMENT
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THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE 00., OF NEW YORK,
RICHARD A. McCURDY, President.
For the Year Ending December 31st, 1888.
S l 26,082, I 53 56
.. . . .. $7,275,301 68
-. 7,940,063 63
1,645,622 11
158,369
17,426
32,606
10,301
$103,214,261 32
33,756,792 95
482,125,184 36
54,496,251 85
26,215,932 52
3.096,010 06
14,727,550 22
$49,617,874 02
48,616,704 14
21,786,125 34
2,813,277 60
3,248,172 46
$ . 26,082,153 56
A. N. WATERHOUSE, Auditor.
From the Stu-plus above stated a dividend will be apportioned as usual]
Year 0 Risk:
. utatan ing. Surplus.
1884..... .............sa4,681420...... .............. ....9351739585 43
1885... .. 40,507139 ....... ..... . 36H,9Sl;441 ...... I.II.'IIIZIIII$E’012,’0;1
gssg ........... . ..... 50,832,719..." .............. 393,809203 ...... ...... . ..... 5’643668
1:3. ...... ........ 09,357,468 ....... . ......... 427,628 933 ..... . ............. 61291442
8 103,.14261 ....................... 482,125,184 .......... .. ............ 7,9401063
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Robert Seweil, . Henr H Re are
S Van Rousselaer Cruger, Johan Ancfiinc'loss
Charles B_Henderson, ; Theodore Mortar-d, ’
George Bliss, 9 William Babcock,
Rufus W Pockham, I Preston B Plumb,
J Hobart Herrick, , William D Washburn,
gggégnAPGDl-izcgsih I Stuyvesant Fish.
. a . is fun D ' ' '
Nicholas 0 Miller, I Chg-11:8 n Milliléiimd'
-Viee~President.
2d Vice-President.
Secretary. .
Assistant Secretary.
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P. Saxon, Cashier.
Wan-run R. GILLETTE, 11.1),
A. H. CAMP, Agent for Norwalk and Vicinity.
JOHN W. NICHOLS, General Agent for Connecticut.
CHATHAM sQUARE.
NEW YORK.
A CARD.
I desire to thank my Friends in general, and Nor-
walk friends in particular, for their generous patronage,
also invite attention to our new specialties.
Casters, Kerseys, For and Chinchilla Beavers, lined
with a Good Heavy Satin, $15.00. A great variety of
Cheap Grades, as well as Higher Prices. ' .
Overcoats,
Business Suits, good styles as low as $10.00.
A good assortment of Fine Cassimeres, Scotch, En-P
glish and American Suits, $12.00 to $20.00.
An attempt to enumerate Styles and Qualities 0
Everything in the Clothing Line, is as superflous as it is:
impossible. '
To my many friends. I tender thanks—many thank a
B. ‘BARRACLOUGH.
s. 6. BARN-UM a 60.,
UHNTHAM SQUARE, " NEW YORK.
DeGRAAF- & TAYLOR,
A Well Made, luxurious Arm-chair makes a most acceptable gift to any man
AN easy, low-seated Rocker is always appreciated by
' . ,. ' a lady.
WE keep an extensive assortment of both.
OUR Furniture is especially well adapted to the
requirments of the
HOLIDAY SEASON.
It is exactly what is needed.
We keep all grades of goods and sell at the
‘ veer Lowas'r Barons.
Dec-MAI“ a TAYLOR,
47 & 49 WEST 14th STREET, N. Y,
TRADE-MARK.
Rubber Ecots and ShOes..
There is no line of Goods manufactured of which the
. consumer knows so little regarding quality.
. You ask for a pair of GOOD RUBBERS, and take what
ever the retailer ofi'ers you. If you will insist on having the
AMERICAN RUBBER COMPANY’S-
Goods and be sure they bear this Company's name or trade mark, you will
be assured of a good article.
Rubber, and are sold by all First-Class retailers. Insist on having
them and take no other. ‘
They are made of the finest Pure Para
26t35
F. W. JAQ
i
F. w. JAQUI, JR.,
——AGENT FOR THE—
llelehrated Perfect Ranges.
The accompanying cut represen
the NEW PATENT Buoruxo ARRANGE
11er on all the Double Oven Rich
ardson d: Boynton Co.'s Ranges. 1
is economical and quick operating
and has the perfect revolving grates.
over four thousand in daily use in
New York City and vicinity. Taste-
fully nickled. It has more 3'. od
points than all the Ranges on}; he
market combined. we gnarniitce
every Range to be Pnurnor in eyeiy
way, and to furnish any piece of re.
pairs that may be required at ar y
time. Can furnish repairs to ar y
Range or Furnace ever made by this
company since 1849. Call and see
it before purchasing any other, and
_ see the many good points it contains
__;53wu.1 STREET
NORWALK, CONN.
U1, JR.
Norwalk Chronicler