NORWALK GAZETTE.
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Wednesday,June 1 2 1889.
EDITORIAL LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. 0., June 10, ’80.
DEA“ Gaznr'rs :—Tllc Johnstown horror
overshadows giverything else in the pOp‘J-
lar mind and melts to tearful pity all
human hearts. The capital city has
already forwarded some fifty thousand
dollars in money to the sufferers, besides
car-loads of prepared food, bedding and
clothing. Several of those who were
involved in the heart rcnding calamity
have arrived here, and their thrilling nar-
ratives of personal experiences fill the
local papers. The comptroller of the
currency telegraphed last week inquiring
what had become of the National Bank of
Johnstown? The answer came back:
“President. and cashier drowned, but
funds iii safe probably secure.” Yester-
day’s dispatches report the recovery of
the cashier’s body, but that of the presr-
dent is still missing. A writer in the
Post complains bitterly of the inhumanity
of the Pennsylvania railroad officials iir
refusing, for nearly two days, the use of
its wires to its rescued passengers that
they might console home friends by the
assurances of their safety. This company
is said to be the best and most perfect
railroad management on the globe, yet in
this respect it is as unjust and crrrcl asthc
meanest road on earth, Like most others
it will not permit its wires to be used to
give informatiou of accidents along its line.
The above writer also charges that. brrt
for the frantic protests of the passengers
on Lthe Chicago limited, by reason of
which and in violation of orders from the
train despatchrng oflicials of the road, the
conductor and engineer crossed the bridge
With the train the. instant they did, every
sorrl on the train would have been lost.
Their train was closely followed by a
freight, which, with the bridge, went
whirling down the stream just as the last
. passenger car left the shore end of the
bridge and passed out of danger.
Among the private advices received
here were many to the effect that money
was not so much an immediate need as
prepared food and clothing, especially
apparel for women and children. Money
by the millions will be required long ere
the busy hirm of self sustaining industry
lgturns to that beautiful and thrifty
valley. But bedding, wearing apparel
and stoves and implements of cooking are
the pressing needs of the. moment for an
utterly destitute population of nearly
thirty thousand and stretched along a line
of some twenty miles. The good ladies of
Washington, as elsewhere, were quick to
respond to the call for cooked food and
clothing. One Connecticut lady and one
gentlemen, among the many from our
state rendering prompt aid, stripped
themselves of their entire week—day
clothes, and reclothcd themselves in their
Sunday suits, hurried their taken-off gar-
ments to Willard’s Hall, from whence
they were dispatched to the scene of
disaster.
Many notably generous donations have
been made here as there have been else—
where, but probably the most. magnani-
mous gift in the eye of pitying lIeaveu
was made by a little girl in one of the
public schools here on Friday. Scantily
clad herself, and her little face showing
evident traces of not being too well fed,
she timidly stepped rip to her teacher,
while tears dimmed her vision, and, hold-
ing out a “nickel," said: “I What to send
this to the poor children whose parents
were drowned at Johnstowu. It‘s all I’ve
got. or 1 would give you more.” The
parents of this child were American Irish
of the poorer day labor sort, yet the
jewel bcdceked hand of no millionaire
belle ever made a grander heart sacrifice.
A little newsboy sent a dollar from the
pennies he had made and saved in selling
papers. In fact rich and poor alike seemed
moved by one common Godlike impulse
to show how grandly humanity can acquit
itsself. .
Mr. Blaine escorted the British minister
to the White House, Saturday, the latter
charged witha message of sympathy from
England’s Queen. President Harrison
responded in one of those happy and
felicitously expressed impromptu speeches
for which he is so noted.
SUNDAY in run. rosr orricns.
Postmaster~General Wanamaker has
sent the following circular letter to the
postmasters of one hrrndrcd of the largest
post effices in the country :—- '
“With the view of ascertaining the rela—
tive importance of the receipt and dispatch
of mails at post offices, and the delivery
therefrom to the public on Sunday, as
compared with the same on other days of
the week, and in order to reduce the work
on that day if it shall be found to be prac-
ticablel and proper. I will thank you to
collect information on the following points
as applied to Sundays in the coming mouth
of June, and make report thereon in detail
to me, to wit:
The amount of postage stamps, postal
cards, newspaper wrappers, cte., sold at
your ofiicc each Sunday in June.
The number of callers at your office on
each Sunday in J uric.
The number of mails dispatched and
received on each Sunday in J irric, arid the
the approximate extent of such mails.
The number of letter carriers’ collections
and the approximate extent of the mail
matter collected, and the hours at which
the several collections Were made.
The number of employes on duty each
Sunday, and the hours of service of each.
I shall also esteem it. a favor/if you will
submit to me, with these replies, any
suggestions which may occur to you, after
careful thought, as to the means and the
mode of reducing Sunday work in post
offices.
woor. errownns.
Assistant Secretary Ticlicnor is to lay
before the President a petition from the
Wool Growers‘ Association of the United
States. The petition, which is addressed
to President Harrison, asks the latter to
convene the Fifty-first Congress in special
session at an early day to determine the
further economic and financial policy of
the government in connection with rhc
wool growing interests.
run INDIANS.
The Yankton Sioux are preparing to sell
a portion of their reservation to the gov-
erument as their present treaty will soon
expire and they have not enough money
to live: on. It is gratifying to learn
that a number of them are selecting lands
in severalty, which means that they are
going to turir farmers and earn their own
living as the white men do. This is the
only practicable solution of the Indian
question, and an untold amount of cruelty
and suffering on both {sides might have
been averted if it. had been put in opera-
tion half a century ago.
The report presented at the annual
meeting of the Bureau of Catholic Indian
Mission shows the extent and importance
of the work it is doing among the Indians.
This year it had contracts with thr- gov-
ernment for the education of Indian
children amounting to $344,545, and next
year they will amount to $431,390. The
bureau has thirty-eight boarding schools
and sixteen day schools, with 2,787
hoarding pupils and 650 day pupils. It
has $1,000,000 invested in school property
in Arizona, California, New Mexico,
Indian Territory, Indiana, 'Wisconsin.
Minnesota, Dakota and Montana.
rnxsroxs.
Pension Commissioner Tanner’s idea of
offensive partisanship seems to be a pretty
good one. He frankly admits that he has
dismissed a number of pension agents
who went about the country threatening
old soldiers with the less of their pension
claims unless they worked for the demo-
cratic ticket. This is partisanship that is
offensive to good morals as well as the
party in power. It is well-known that
“Mental, Moral and Physical it rock”
Black, while pension commissioner, had a
bevy of pension office clerks at work
during office hours. and while in the pay
of the government, sending out letters in
his aid as a candidate for the vice-presi-
dential nomination with Mr. Cleveland.
It is also charged that he iris been able to
extort a promise from Secretary Noble that
his poor, old, decrepit and incompetent
motlicr-in-huv, whom he was able to get
into a high salaried place in the Interior
department by a crafty jugglcry wrth the
“swivel” service law, shall be retained in
her place under the present administra-
tion. It may be that ex-Commissioncr
Black is entitled to as much credit for this
kindly regard for his inotheiuin-law as he
is for drawing a $1,200 pension procured
by false pretenses.
museums.
Mr. J. W. Hyatt, who has been here
several days, returned early last week to
his home in Nor v. alk.
lion. Stewart L. Woodford addressed
the graduating naval cadets at Annapolis
Friday. Senator Teller, who was one of
the examining board, says it was a rarely
able, eloquent and forcible presentation
of practical facts, and aboundingr in good
suggestions - to the “middies.” General
Woodford also addressed the graduates of
the National University Law School here
Saturday evening, arid again his rare
gifts and graces as an orator received the
enthusiastic eonrrrrendatiorr of all who
heard him.
lion. N. D. Sperry was on Saturday
again commissioned as New I laveii’s post-
master. Ilis record as an efficient and
popular postmaster is not excelled by any
one.
Mr. Jacob L. Doty, consul at the Soci-
cty Islands, who is soon to marry the
Princess Polona, was a page in the United
States Senate from the age of thirteen
until he was sixteen. lie was a great
favorite with Senator Bayard. When the
latter became secretary of state he made
Mr. Doty consul at Tahiti. The Princess
is worth several millions, in reported high-
1 y educated and fairly good looking. The
Earl of Dudley, recently arrested in Lon-
don duringaraid on a gambling house,
was one of her unsuccessful suitors. The
American eagle is again on top.
As ever,
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WESTPORZZ
The funeral of Ebenezer B. Adams,
only son of the late well-known school
teacher of that name, whose death at the
age of 40 years occurred Tuesday, June
4th, at his home in Green‘s Farms, took
place Friday, and the burial in the com-
etory near the church at the Farms. He
was a Deacon in the church, a man of
education and stood high in the commu-
nity.
In order to assist in alleviating suffer-
ing among the people of Johnstowir, an
entertainment under the auspices of the
Board of Trade, will be given Friday
evening in National Hall, the entire pro-
ceeds to be contributed to the relief fund.
Miss Agnes Hyde of Cambridge. Mass.,
has kindly consented to read, and will do
so gratuitously, in order to swell the
amount. The Board and Miss Hyde do
well in this matter iii giving the people
an opportunity to aid this charitable
work, and there should be a response
which will reflect credit upon the town.
The chart may he found at Cairrion’s
drug store. Places may be secured there
without charge above the price of ad-
1111851011.
Mr. Frank Sturges has raised the frame
for his new dwelling near Memorial
church.
Twenty to nothing is the score by
which the Norwalks pummeled the
Westports at base ball on the hitters
grounds Thursday, and went home hap-
B.
yThe postponed regatta of the Cedar
Point Yacht Club was sailed Tuesday.
twasa fair day opening at the start
with a stiff breeze and ovary sail reefcd.
The reefs were shaken out though before
the close. Owing to uncertainity about
date the usual large company to witness
the race did not assemble on the Point.
There wore ten starters and all sailed to
a finish. The race is spoken of as one of
great interest, only one criticism being
made, that the Westport yactmen failed
to provide the facilities such as naturally
fall to them, one being a judges boat.
The winning yachts and their time wore,
class E, Carrie, 2:13:13 ; class F, Ania-
terrr, 1:117:31: ; clrissll, Romans, 2:03:00,
class K, Rival, fill-$928; class L, Kit,
2:31:17. Theyauhts (lo Softly, Conipo
and W awe. of this place were oonspieimis
in their classes. The prizes were pori-
narrts. Had the o:igir.al day, May 30,
been fair there would have been 20 or
more contestants. The club’s next. eon-
test will be July 4th off Seaside Park,
Bridgeport. .
This evening the M. E. church in the
village give their annual strawberry
festival in the church lecture room.
It. is announced that the pleasure of
listening once more to the gifted oiocu-
tionist and reader, Miss J ustinc Iirger'soli
of New Haven,will be afforded June 215t,
at National ilall, in connection with the
Neptune Glee and Banjo clubs of the
Elm city. While Miss Ingcrsolf could
ofhcrsell, fill the. programme acceptably,
Mr. E. 0. Bennett the noted bass singer
of St. Paul’s church New Haven will aid
in enhancing it. '
The ladies of Christ church netted
about $25 from their Pink festival bo~
sides having a royal good time.
The Board of Trade last Thursday
evening voted to buy 25 additional
lamps, received Messrs. Charles [luck
and O. W. Hotckiss as membrl‘r; by their
payment ,of the usual $22.00 fee, and
appointed Charles H. Kemper, Jr., and
Dr. G. J. Underwood a committee to
wait. on the management of the horse
railroad and urge that a car to Sari-.m-
tuek be run nightly to the 8:57 train,
cast.
At a meeting held June 3d, Harry
McDonrioirgh Post, No. 63 G. A. "it,
adopted a set of handsome resolutions,
thanking the fire department, unrlo
qrrartette,tlio clifldren of the subunits,
clergyman, citizens for money contribrr
tioris, ladies for givinrr and arranging
flowers, Mr. D. Driseoll for the use of
his rooms, and the Terpsichoreaa club
for the gratuitous use of their elegant
draperies in National Hail.
Jurors chosen to serve for one your
from Sept. lst, are J. R. Palmer, W. H,
Couch, W. J. Finch, J. W. Harlbutt.
Eli Bradley, Eliphalet Gray, John Mc-
Cann, John Goodsell, T. B. Ilill, L. B.
Fillow, H. B. Bradley, 11. B. Coley, I).
B. Bradley, J r., N. W. Bradley, H. ll.
Sherwood, W. H. Marvin, Moses Sher-
wood, B. D. Cable, ll. G. Birge, J. 11.
Jennings, P. Campbell, C. F. Bulklcy,
Abram Bulkley, W. 11. Bradley, G. B.
Bradley, 0. H. Jones, W. C. Staples.
Mr. J ohu Q. Adams, of Brooklyii,who
lately bought the Binkerliofi' farm has
contracted to have the dwelling and
other buildings painted and to build a.
new barn. The house, occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Millard Adams and family is
being elegantly furnished and will form
an attraction in that neighborhood. The
road contractor has begun to put the
highway leading to the place in first rate
order. Mr. Adams will spend much of
his time this summer on'jwhat he calls,
with much truth, can of the finest in
town. ’
An increasing congregation has coni-
pelled the Catholic people to contract
for an addition to their church, work
will begin at once. Other improvo-
merits embrace a new and taller spire, a
bell, and a fine largo organ. Rev. Father
Carroll is a. worker.
The worshippers iii the Congregaii: .nal
church Sunday walked to their pews
upon a new and elegant carpet pur-
chased by the ladies, and listened to an
eloquent sermon by Rev. Mr. Backus.
President Horace Staples last week
took a. vast quanity of cobble stones
gathered from his land near the Filley
foundry, and at his own expense placed
them in the street gutters on the west
side of the way, covering the whole with
soil, than at that point widening the
roadway frilly 6 foot. Be a good plan if
the same kind of work could be done
along the whole line both sides.
“PAUL.”
W—
Advice to Mothers. .
Are you disturbed at night and broken 0
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 Teotliing. Its value in
calculable. It will relieve the poor little suf-
ferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers”
there is no mistake about it. It cures dysen-,
tory and diarrbma. regulates ‘.ho stomach and
bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gage
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 ol'tlic oldest and be: t female nurses in
and pliynicaus in the United States, and is for
sale by all dl‘llfigish‘i throughout the world.
Pricc25ccntsa ottle. , lye?
NORWALK GAZETTEQWEDNESDAY. JUNE 12 1889.
SOME CONSPICUOUS FACTS IN OUR
NATIONAL LIFE AND HISTORY.
An Address Delivered before Bucking-
ham Post, G. A. B... May 27th.
BY Gironoe VAN ALSTYNE, D. D.
[av irnqtinsr.)
A good territory, ample in siz ', abundant
in resources and conveniently located, is a
prime condition of national gaeatuess and
prestige. No nation has, in these particu—
lars been so conspicuously favored as the
United States. Mr. Gladstone has well
said we have “a national base for the
greatest continuous empire ever established
by man.”
There have been great nations on small
areas as Greece, Holland or Switzerland,
but their greatness was intellectual rather
than political. But in every instance these
small states have fallen behind the greater
ones in the competition for political su—
premacy. Our very largencss is a silent
prophecy of success. But:
II. A most wonderful Providence has
been continually manifest in the settlement
of our magnificent domain, and in the
development of our national life.
The history of efl‘orts at colonization in
America seem to indicate that this conti-
nent, liid array in the bosom of the seas, was
not to be settled except in such a way as
God directed. It was to become the theatre
of a new and ever memorable experiment in
religion aird government. No human eflbrt
must be allowed to interfere with this divine
purpose. . .
Though the Spaniards were successful in
colonizing Mexico and South America, yet
nething lint failure attended all their efforts
east of the Mississippi. A Roman Catholic
settlement of Spanish origin was begun at
St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. It was
re—euforced in 1578, and again in 1592, but
when Spain ceded Florida to England in
1763 the English found little to possess but
the country. The Spanish inhabitants almost
wholly migrated to Cuba. Speaking of the
S aniards, Bryant in his history of the
U‘iiited States says: “Fortunately for the
progress of the human race, and the future
history of North America all their efforts to
gain a permanent. foothold north ol'tlie Gulf
of :Mcxico were in tlicuiairi unsuccessful.”
Another significant and conspicuous fact
.in the settlement of territory cceupied by
the Thirteen Colonies is this: ”That no
settlement undertaken simply front “consid—
eration of maritime enterprise and commer—
cial advantage,” withstood the hardship
incident to the new enterprise for any great
length of time. All such efforts resulted in
failure.
Religious motives were a controlling force
in the first colonial settlements of America,
however nirrcli commercial considerations
may. at a later period, have inocli fled their
influence.
The new world was to become the moral
lighthouse of the nations of the earth and
the permanent borne of republican govern—
ment and institutions. For securing these
ends the Spaniards were by nature and
religion unfit, and all commercial motives
too weak and pliant. Hence Providence
excluded the first, and to the second gave
only asubordinatc place.
A brief examination of the earlier colonial
history willdisclosc some interesting facts.
Four ecclesiastical streams flowed into the
corriitry: Congregationalist, Episcopalian.
Presbyterians and members of the National
Dutch church of Holland. The Congrega—
tionalists were dominant in New England,
the Presbyterians in N ew Jersey, Pennsyl—
vaniania and iortions of New York, the
Episcopalians in Virginia; Maryland and
the two Carolinas. After 1700 the Dutch
and Episcopal churches were rivals for
supremacy in sorrtheru New York. Speak—
ing in general terms, therefore, it may be
said the cast was Congregational, the middle
Presbyterian, and the south Episcopalian.
When Charles II ascended the throne of
England his ecclesiastical policy drove from
the realm thousands of Scotch Presbyterians,
not a few of whom came to America. When
the Edict of Nantes was revoked, in 1685, ‘
lurid, bloody scenes of persecution soon
followed. Not less than half a iriillion‘
Protestants left France. They were Pres-
byterian in sentiment and industrious in
habit. All the American colonies gladly
welcomed them. Not a few settled in
Maseacbusetts; many came to New York,
but South Carolina became their chief
resort. “Seine of the most. eminent persons,
diviues, educators, financiers and statesmen
that. ever adorned the United States were
llrrgeiiots." Germany contributed Moravi—
ans, Lutheranszand Mennonites, who helped
to form the religious character of the col—
onies. This early German immigration
was “almost wholly Protestant, with a high
standard of morality and distinguished for
Christian virtues.” Such, in brief, were
the nrore conspicrrous religious elements
which very largely gave direction and
character to the early colonists.
They were mostly men in whom “religious
motives predominated.” Their minds had
been agitated by the great religious ques—
tions which had shaken the continent with
the tunrult of war, and England with the
throes of civil revolution. Not a few had
fled from persecution for conscience sake.
Though they sometimes erred in their
treatment of others because of religious
difference, yet here they offered the best
asylum for liberty the world had ever
known. To extend the Kingdom of God
was the prominent object. of' their labors.
,VVllll the exception of the colony of Lord
Baltimore, they were Protestants; "men of
stem and lofty virtue, invincible energy and
iron wills, the fitting substratum on which
to brrild great. states.”
They were by no means, ignorant men.
All of them possessed , fare intelligence,
while many among them were men of uni—
versity training and culture. As a whole
they were siuewy men, vigorous iii intellect,
distinguished for virtue and never wanting
in coura e. A great experiment was to be
made in 0th religion and government, and
to insure it against failure it most. im en—
trusted to noble characters. God found
parts of all He wanted in England, Scot-
land, Germauy, France and Holland, and
their, by the workings of His Providence,
brought theiir to America that he might
make them and their successors the builders
of the nation.
A second fact. connected with these
beginnings of our colonial history is this :—
T/tat no Protestant settlemeni was ever
bro/ran up by Irastilejbrces. The Plymouth
colony was often hard pressed by lack of
provisions, by sickness, by exposure or by
the treacherous Indians. The same was
true, though perhaps in less degree, of other
settlcii'icuts, as those of Providence, New
Haven, llartford and Virginia. Yet none
of them succumbed to their hardships.
Long before the middle of the Ei rliteenth
century the French had cstablishet a chain
of military posts from the mouth of the St.
Lawrence} to that of the Mississippi, to the
west of the colonies, in the valleys of the
two rivers. These French settlements were
hostile to the colonies in both religion and
government. Hence they often greatly
disturbed them, and sometimes by means of
their Indian allies inflicted sore injuries
upon the English settlers. So great did the
danger from this source become that finally
the colonists had to “consider measures for
mutual rrnion and protection.” Yet under
all this pressure no Protestant settlement
was ever abandoned. W 0 not say that
_lod stood special guart ian over these
settlements, yet. it seems that way. An
important event which seems to favor such
a conviction is this: The French long
desired to get exclusive control, not of Cali-
ada only, but of the whole. territory cast of
the Mississippi also. To this end. they once
inaugurated a scheme which, had it carried,
would have resulted in cruel disaster to all
the English colonialrsettlements along the
Atlantic coast. But it failed through the
inconstancy of the Iroquois Indians. When,
at a later date, the French element in
Canada. became more potent, and the kings
of France indulged in more ambitious
designs respecting the possession of America,
their encroaclrments on the settlements of
New England and New York became so
serious that in 1754 “a union of all the
colonies was deemed absolutely necessary
for their preservation." Dr. Franklin sub-
mitted a plan for such a union, but it was
never adopted. “The fulness of time" had
not. yet come. But all this aggression was
suddenly stopped by the victory of General
Wolfe at Quebec, in consequence of which
all Canada was ceded to England in 1763.
“A happier calamity,” says Parkman, “nev—
er bcfcl a people than the conquest of
Canada by the British arms.” First the
Spaniards and now the French were provi-
dentially excluded from political power on
the North American continent. God had
now placed its development and Civilization
in the bands of men of the English race.
They were to work out its destiny religious-
ly, civilly and politically. The undertaking
was one of the most stupeuduous recorded
in the annals of mankind. The result was
to affect society, religion and government
throughout the world for ages. Tire
experiment was too pregnant with sublime
results to permit the introduction of adverse
elements in its incipiency. Hence God
eliminated them, and thereby gave to men
of English birth and character, schooled in
the ripest political and religious ideas of
England, a most magnificent theatre on‘
which to work out problems of transcendent
interest to all future generations.
Though the Colonies were all securely
established and more or loss prosperous,
though tliei' peace and safety were to be no
more dist Erlied by the aggressions ol‘Fi-encli
or Spanish corrrts, yet a number of questions
are still to be solved, questions wholly new
in character and of supreme moment. Some
of them are the following :—
lIow can thirteen separate, selfish, rival
Colonies, all strongly attached to their own
local government and as strong-l averse to
fienlratization of political power, .ie welded
in to one compact harmonious Nation, with-
out loss of vitality or patriotic enthusiasm ?
That was momentous qrrestion for thetime
and history afforded no clue to its solution.
But he Who built up the Hebrew nation
from a herd of Egyption slaves, did itin less
than half , a century, will himself solve the
problem. The forces for so doing were ex-
ceedingly unlike in character and of un-
equal influence. th they all helped. They
were these :-
1. The danger to which each .in turn
was more or less exposed made the union of
all essential to the safety each.
A common peril unites unlike factions in
order that they may avert a common dis-
aster. .
2. The desire for commerce among the
Colonies as they became more opulent and
had more commodities for exchange.
3. Tire obstinaey on the part of the
English tory party and their determination
to uphold the royal prerogative of King
George, III. .
No chapter of our national history ex-
hibits more lofty courage, possesses more
thrilling interest, discovers men of greater
prudence and more lofty purpose, than that
which narrates the events lying between
1750 and 1775. The doings of the English
Parliament were cxasperating in the ex-
treme. Law after law was passed which
was contrary to the Magna Char-ta, that
great bulwark of English rights and liberties
which were claimed by the colonists since
they were British subjects. These laws
were of such nature as to invade the
political rights of the colonist and also
subvert their local governments. Hence
their resistance.
4. The bitter struggle for independence,
protracted through years of heroic exposure,
severe suffering, and not a little weary
marching and hard fighting.
There have been many larger armies,
better equipped armies, armies better dis-
ciplined and vastly more showy than that
of the revolution,but no army for hardy
endurance, for unselfish patriotism and
heroic courage was ever its superior.
Saratoga and Yorktown are turning points
in modern history. Had the British arms
been successful at the former the colonies
would have been liopelessl divrded, the
south cut ofi‘ from New ngland, and a
totally new aspect have been given to the
conflict in progress. Had Cornwallis and
not Washington been victor at. the latter
the progress of Protestantism-in religion
and of republicanism in government would
have been arrested, perhaps permanently,
and all the subsequent histor of America
been of a wholly different c aracter from
that it. is. But. God had not. so ordered.
What had been secured by the- Reformation
in Germany and the Revolution of 1688 in
England was not to find burial in
the virgin soil of the new world. But
rather, quickcncd into newness of life and
endowed with larger power by the princely
blood of American patriots, it was destined
to make civil liberty and religious freedom
the corner stone of a republic whose glory
should fill the whole world. The cost was
much but the boon was riceless. The
heroes of ’76 put liberty fore life, and
therefore shrank from no peril in the
defence of their institutions. “Whenever
my country calls upon me,” said Washing.
Don, “I am ready to take my musket on my
shoulder." And he was as good as his word.
5. The awful drift of the colonies toward
social and political anarchy during the
supremacy of the Articles of Confederation,
or from 1781 to 1788.
As the period drew toward its close, the
difficulties and disorder increasing rather
than declining, every noblest and most.
thoughtful man in the colonies was full of
anxiety and deep concern respecting the
the future of the nation. All the benefits
secured by the revolution seemed about to
be lost by reason of the discoutentment and
disorder which prevailed almost every-
where. “Our diseontents,”said Fisher Ames,
“were fermenting into civil war.”
Brit. here again, as so many times before,
Providence is found to be shaping events
toward the consummation of all the former
hopes and prophecies; toward the creation
ofaform of government which shall eon--
serve all the blessings of civil and religious
liberty, which shall guard the autonomy of
the several states, and at the same time
centralize sufficient powor in the general
government to make it authoritative at
home and respected abroad.
To evolve this idea, to reduce it to prac-
tical form and make it the working principle
in the evolution of a great nation was the
one paramount mission , of the colonies.
That they might not misearry in the sublime
undertaking God schooled and disciplined
them long and well in physical hardship to
make them rugged; in moral encounters to
give them character; in many dangers to
imbue them with genuine courage; in
defending thetr rights to give them mental
acumen and political sagacity, arid in the
military defence of their possession to make
them patriots and soldiers.
And when that convention, 55 in number,
met in Philadelphia May 25, 1788, With
Washington. for chairman, 'witlr Franklin
for its senior member. with- Madison from
Virginia, and Hamilton from New. York,
with Wilson and Morris from Pennsylvania,
with King and Strong from‘ Massachusetts,
and Ellsworth from Connecticut, for its
constructive thinkers, students of political
history ,and masters in political discussion, it
was the greatest body of statesmen ever-con-
vened, and gave the world what; in the
language of Mr. Gladstone, “is the-most
wonderful work over struck off at a given
time by the brain and purpose of mm”;—
the AnrnanArv CONSTITUTION.
The independence of the colonies, won by
the sword and eonceeded by treaty; the
separate colonies transformed into sovereign
states ; the impotent articles of confederation“
superseded by a constitution, elastic but. not,
weak, strong but not oppressive, centralized
in power but generous toward local self-
government, expansive enough to admit all
Canada, but so closely joined that even
“Little Rhoda.” can’t get out, accepted
finally by all the colonies and Washington
elected and inaugurated President, there
yet: remain two other most. important points
to be secured :—
1. The development in the mind of the
people of a vigorous sentiment of nationality
and an ardent love for the Union.
The citizen mrrst come to feel that it was
an honor to be an American, that there was
something in the very name and its associa-
tions which would make his soul glow with
patriotic fervor; ‘he must feel that the
republican form of government, secured and
guarded by the Federal Constitution, was
and is paramount to every other type of
civil government, and that the Union which
grew out of it was air abject and supreme
political love and admiration, while each
additional star that rose in its “field of blue”
but enhanced its beauty and augmented its
pow er.
Such was not the case at first, nor for a
number of years after the constitution be-
came the organic law of the land. Murmurs
of discontent have been heard in New
England as well train the south, but with
this difference, that New England would
not cherish the evil genius of revolt, but
stifled it, while the south nursed it into
rebellion and with external force had to be
subdued.
The four men who most nurtured and
stimulated this sentiment of nationality and
love of Union were Washington Hamilton,
J ridge Marshall and Webster. ‘ach did so
in his own way.
Washington by administering the govern-
meirt for eight years in such a way as to
convince the people that its powers
were not. to oppress them, but to
defend their national honor and protect
them in the enjoyment of their rights and
liberties. He thus inspired them with con-
fidence in its provision, and thereby drew
the seplarate states into closer union and
sympat ywith each other. Hamilton by
founding the financial system of the nation,
by convertin the barren clauses of the
constitution into a living organism, by
devising and helping execute the foreign
policy of the government, and by voicing
through every agency at his command the
the grand idea of American nationality,‘for
the realization of which he gave all he had
of will and intellect, deepened the sentiment
of union among the people, and increased
the respect for the government abroad.
When once a government. has am 19 funds
for discharging its obligations and for en-
forcing its claims, the citizen will esteem it
and the foreigner will not long slight it.
Hamilton ut the government in the way cf
getting al the money it needed. It has
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never st the art.
Judge Marshall, as chief justice of the
supreme court, by the strong and whole-
some rules which he established for the
interpretation of the constitution when, as
yet its apowers were not. understood and the
judici needs of the government only
partiall comprehended, raised his court to
the big est point of respect in the minds of
the people, showed that the constitution
conferred ripon Congress ample powers _ for
doing whatever was necessary for maintain—
ing the respect and authority of the govern—
ment among the people, with the states and
among the nations of Europe. The docu—
ment, which went from the Philadelphia
convention only afew years before on its
ierilous voyage among the colonies, he
hedged about with a bulwark of legal
decisions, which revealed its wisdom and
confirmed its prerogatives. _All this but.
gave the constitution another lift upward
in the love and esteem of the nation and
simultaneously intensified the sentiment of
nationality. It was a fortunate Providence
—shall we say a divine foreordination—
which thus placed the government. during
its earliest years almost exclusively in the
hands of its friends. They gave it such a
iiionierrtuiu that no subsequent. shock, how—
ever rude, has been able to arrest: its pro—
gress. England tried in 1812 and the south
iii 1861, but neither with success.
Webster by his popular addresses, his
splendid orations, his great debates in Con~
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gresq, his luminous, and strong judicial
arguments, and his private intereo with
the leading minds of the nation id more
than any other man between 1820 and 1860
to disseminate and enforce “the gospel-of
nationality throrr bout the length and
breadth of the lam .” “The Union one and
inseperabie, now and forever,” was the
great. sentiment which pervaded his whole
life, ran like a thread of gold through all
his ublic utterances and transformed his
patriotism into a glowing passion. His
great massive intellect fairly revolled in the
igness of the Union, delighted in the
number and greatness of its were, and
dwelt with rapture upon the su lime possi—
bilities which still lay before it in the
future. He thus ' made his words and
thoughts the property of the people. They
sank into their hearts and unconsciously
became a part. of their daily life and medi—
tation. And when the rebellion broke upon
the nation it was the love for the Union
and the sentiment of nationality which had
been strengthened and vivified by the life
and words of Daniel Webster, which nervod
the arms of the north, sustained her cour—
age, and bore her trium hantl through
the awful conflict. is iogra her
has well said: "His career, his late lect
and his achievements are inseparably con-
nected with the maintenance of a great
empire and the fortunes of a great people.”
W ilc the union stands his name will live
as one who contributed vastly to its perpet—
uity and its power.
But another point must yet. be made
glcar, must. be established, before the wisdom
of the constitution and the ample power of
the government could be known or realized:
2. :That the Union contemplated by the
constitution was not. a. simple confoderacy of
states from which one or ruore might secede
at their convenience, but a government “of
the eoplc. for the people , and by the
poop c,” coextensioewitk the limits of flu:
nation.j ‘
fill this principle should be definitely
settled there yet. remained ldangerous sus—
picions irespecting the competency of the
government and the inherent strength of
the coniititutionto maintain an undivided
auprom ’y over the whole vast territory
)7 the Union.
Wired the time came for removing every
such sulpicion, and. the circumstances de—
manded the settlement of this great question
once for,‘all, it-were better to put it forever
at rest, no, matter wliatit cost or how tran—
cenderit the sacrifice, than that the govern—
ment. should fail, the Unionbe dismembered
and, in place of one pacific poo in stretch—
ing from ocean to ocean, there eoome two
with frontier fortresses, standing armies,
and “all the barbaric“ apparatus of evil and
and mutual suspicion." Conspicuous in the
settlement were several tremendous forces:
1. Abraham Lincoln.
2. His great war cabinet. -
8. The great war governors. .
4. The great Union army.
“5. The Lord of Hosts, greatest of them
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Was over such an army of forces mar-
Pballed in defence of a single cause before ?
Look at. them :
Mr. Lincoln was practically a Federalist.
To him the constitution was not a compact
between the states, but an instrument ex-
pressive of the organic law to which the
people voluntarily subscribed and which
they voluntarily ado ted.’ It did 'not. deal
with the state ut. t. e citizen.- “We, the
people of the United States, do ordain and
establish this constitution for the United
States.” Thepoople, not the states were
the high contracting parties. They, too,
were the original source of power. The
Union was the child of their adoption, and
the eonstitrrtion their Magna Cbarta, which
conferred upon them the supreme wer of
defending it against overthrow. ossessed
of such convictions it. is not difficult. to
anticipate what must be Mr. Lincoln’s
bearing toward an armed rebellion which
meant to disrupt the Union.
The Great War Cabinet-Seward, Chase
Cameron, Welles and, later, Staunton and
others of almost equal renown. They were
all men of intellect, of character, of experi-
ence, of executive ability, of critical and
strong judgment, of ardent love for the
Union ; great leaders under a greater gener-
al. They pla ed an important and memor-
able part in t. e great drama.
The Great War Governors were like so
many mighty sentinels stationed at the
capitals of the several states never allowing
their patriotism to flay or the calls of the
President to go unheedcd. They were his
arm of ower by means of which he touched
each an rdinate commonwealth and swung
them all into harmony with his great plans
for the preservation of the Union. Of
them all no one made a grander record,
or more powerfully and willingly sup-
ported the Union causc, even in the dark-
est hour of the conflict, than our own
clear-headed, patriotic, magnaaimous
Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut.
It is but a just tribute to his worth that
his portrait should adorn the walls of our
Capitol, that his name should be hon-
ored in the commonwealth, and by the
soldiers whom he loved‘ and honored.
Mountingupward in our survey of forces
We come to—
The Grand Union Army; great in its
numbers, in its courage, in its command-
ers, in its achievements, in its fame and
in its glory. It was the marching,
fighting legions of this army, vic-
torious at Shiloh,| Lookout Mountain,
at :Antietam, at tChatanooga, at Vicks-
burg, at Fair Oaks, at. Spotsylvania.
at Gettysburg, in the ‘Wilderncss, at
Petersbur h, and on scores of other battle
fields har fy less notable, which, breasting
storms of lead and iron, making forced
marches, enduring severest sufferings,
wasting away in camp, in hospital and in
, the awful prison pens of the confederacy,
thi'at‘saved the nation. Despite all their sac-
rifices and hardship, they would not let a
star be torn from the national banner
which headed their columns while march-
ing and cheered them when in battle.
Noble, bravo, heroic men ; while the Union
stands let them be honored. It was by
the arbitramen of the sword which they
wielded that all the world was given to
understand that the constitution confers
upon the national government authority
to coerce any state which, refusing to
honor 5the laws of the land, vaults into
rebelliOn. And what was of equal im-
portance, the inherent power of the
government was found to be commensur-
ate to its autlionty.
It has now been demonstrated once for
all that the maintenance of the Federal
Union is of such inestimable worth, and
that the Union is so ardently loved by the
American people, that sooner than permit.
its dismem berment the people will sacrifice
lives by the hecatoirib and treasures by the
million. Hereafter whatever question may
arise between the states, or between any
state and the general government, however
grave that question may be, it must be
settled in accordance with legal methods
provided by the constitution. “No state
can be allowed to break the peace.” It
was debate on that question, which the
Union army settled, and 'so settled it that
no one will have the temerity to reopen it.
"The Boys in Blue" cleared the channel
of its dangerous reefs so that we need no"
longer sin with bated breath :
Sui on, 0 ship of state i
Sail on, 0 Union strong and great!
Humanity, with alt-its fears,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
The Grand Army antiquated the poetry.
It. was fitting in 1861, but is not in 1889. :
We are not “hanging breathless” any
longer. No political storm originating in
the Gulf States, and gathering momentum
as it. moves up the. coast, will cause the
“Ship of. State," now moored at Washing-
ton, to drag anchor and be broken in
pieces by falling heavy on some disunlon.-
rock. That day is passed ; praise to the
Union army. ., ‘ »
But we must not forget God in our
reckoning. That would be , poor arith-
matic.
always foots the largest. To Him belong-
eth the victor . That would be an inter.
est study: he Manifest Providence of
God in the Rebellion. -
We can now give only a single illustra-
tive incident, a sample of numerous others
of like nature. We refer to the coming
of the Monitor into Hampton Roads on
the evening of March 81h, 1862, so that ,
when the Merrimac steamed out from
Norfolk to make a finish of the blockading
fleet on the morning of the 9th. there lay
“thodittle iron giant." What was it?”
“A cheese box on a raft.” So men called
it. But it did the work, and before sun-
down of that memorable day seiit the
Merrimac back to her moorings, saved the
blockade, and inaugurated a system of
marine warfare which has revolutionized
the navies'of the world. Two lines of
events culminate and‘cross in the contest
between these two vessels. The one box
gins with the _Merrimac; the command to
raise her, repair her machinery, arm her
in a coatof iron, and, when ready. raise
the blockade, covering nearly ten months..
The other begins in 1843 with tho inven-
tion of the “monitor system" by Mr.
'l‘imby, which is improved and made
practical by Mr. Ericsson in 1861. Then
follows the order to build the monitor;
her completion in one hundred days; her »
sailing down the coast, and her reaching
the Roads just at the moment of need;
the whole covering a period of nineteen
years and two months. Had the monitor
been delayed eight and forty hours in
reaching her destination, it is more than
probable that the whole after history of
the war wouldh have been mortified, and
the outcome for the Union vastly different
from what it was. Brit it was not to be
so. _ God never miscalculates. God was
behind the monitor. Hence she was "on
time.”
But enough. It was 245 years between
the beginning at Plymouth Rock and the
settlement of the last. great principle in
order to the supremacy of the constitu-
tion and the final permanance oftho Unionj
The column that has God in it '
And now upon this theatre, grander than
that of any other nation on the globe—this
land “out of whose hills thou maycst dig
brass,” and also silver and gold in abund—
ance-45 builded the world’s greatest
Temple of Liberty. Its roof is broad, its
columns strong, its foundations solid, its
walls enduring. God built it. and He
always builds well. Be ours the high and
sacred duty to see that it suffers no injury,
that itgocs from our hands improved, en-
riclied, beautified.
—————-<+>—
Mr. Benjamin Taft, father of George
Taft, the clothier, died suddenly on Mon-
day evening just after eating his supper
and while apparently in the best of
health. He was 86 years of age.
——The D. M. Read 00., Bridgeport
havc made their final reduction in prices
of light weight jackets and wraps. What
there are left of this season’s goods can
be bad at very low figures as their cloak
rooms are gradually being filled up with
white and colored suits of light summer
fabrics. Their new adv. calls attention
to summer blankets. yachting flannols,
hammocks and table damasks, all these
are being offered at reduced prices.
Commissioner Tanner has instructed all
pension agents to forward to him the
names and addrcsstis of all pensioners who
are drawing a pension of less than four
dollars per month. A notice will then be
sent to each of such pensioners directing
him to go before the proper medical board
for reexamination and re-rating. This
action is taken by the Commissioner with
a view to raising to $4 per month all rat-
ings below that amount.
The Hartford Uourant every year calls
attention to the fact that J uno 14th is the
anniversary of the adoption of the stars
and stripes as the flag of the nation, and
suggests that the day be observed by a
general display of the national ensign.
Hartford people very generally respond.
Tire Oourant mentions the fact thus early
this year hoping that its esteemed contem-
poraries of every party and creed will
unite with it in rcqrresting the general
observance of the day by swinging “old
glory" to the breeze from every flag staff.
And it would further suggest that the
history of the adoption of the flag be told
in the schools of the land next Friday,
while the flag is displayed, and the mean—
ing explained of its stripes and stars.
What better way to begin the second
century of the great republic than by
making this an annual observance.
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BEDDING.
Clover Farm creamery is making cheese
again.
Mr. J. H. Meeker is repainting his
building, and front fence.
There was union service at the Metho-
dist ehurcli, Sunday evening. Rev. Mr.
Taylor preached the sermon.
A considerable nrrmbcr of Bedding
relatives were present at the funeral of
Deacon E. B. Adams in Greens Farms last
Friday.
Children’s day, was observed at the
Congregational church, Sunday. Tire
church was beautifully adorned with
flowers, and an excellent concert exercise
took the place of the usual morning
servrce.
Last week Monday a German, who was
brought here from New York by a farmer
for a farm hand, had a trial before Justice
Duncomb for breaking into the house of
Mr. Aaron Mallett, several days before,
was found guilty, bound over for trial,
and taken to Danbury jail.‘
The Methodists are preparing to cele-
the centennial of the introduction of
Methodism into the town, on Monday,
the 29th inst. Dr. Sanford is expected to
deliver an historical discourse on the pro-—
ceding Sunday forenoon, and Rev. W.
T. Hill will preach in the evening. There
will be platform speeches on Monday, and
a collation.
Always avoid harsh purgativc pills.
They first make you sick and then leave
you constipated. Carter’s Little Liver
ills regulate the bowels and make you
well. Dose, one pill.
List of Patents.
List of Patents issued from the United States
Patent Office, for the week ending J uno 4th,
’89, for the State of Connecticut, furnished as
from the office of J om: E. EABLE, Solicitor of
Patents, New Haven, Conn.
E. F. Barnes, New Haven, convertible ma-
chine fo'r grooving and sawing wood.
'1‘. W. Capen, asaignor to Yale & Towuo M’f’g
company, Stamford, friction clutch and brake.
E. Ellondorf, assignor 1«2 to S. A. Gardner Jr
0. Prentis, New London. wator closet.
R. G. Henry, Watorburv, 41; 1!. L. Henry,
Hamden, buckle.
J. L. Joyce, Now Have, rubber boot or shoe.
J. Lines, assignor to Scovill M’f’g company
Waterbury, curtain ring, 2 atents.
B. Mchskcr, assignor 1- to G. J. Brown,
Bridgeport, hat wire machine.
P. Nobbrl, assignor to American Bing
company, Waterbury, drawer-pull.
S. J. Noisoux, Somorvillc, shuttle binder for
looms. -
F. W. Ostrom, Bridgeport, & J. W. Boynton,
Stratford, assignor to W roofer .1: Wilson M’f’g
company, Bridgeport, cutting mechanism for
button sewing machines.
0. E. Palmer, New Haven, veterinary mouth
speculum.
B.tL. Toquent, Westport, hair curling implo-
mon .
W. S. Whiting, assignor to C- F, 'l'rott, Wat-
orbur , smokor’u set.
W. . Wright, assignor 1-2 to Sigouruo Bros.,
{lristok combined pot and protector for seed-
rage.
nasroxs
R. W. E. Christoson, assignor to Russell &
Erwin, New Britain, latch case.
Cottage at“ 3911- Island
0 LET. Seven rooms furnished. Fine Beach
on premises. $300 for season.
G. s. BENEDICT,
' Stamford, Conn.
or, T, 1]. Foster, Bell Island. It
" cows FOR SALE.
EVERAL Flue Much Cows for Sale; ranging
in {age from 4 to 6 cars. Call upon or
address .10th (lit ENWOUD,
ms 56 Belden Avenue.
' IN THE SHEFFIELD
Skill} SilllfllflfSlllllS SCIENTIFIC scaoor.
.Ttie vacantb‘iare Seliolarshll‘is in the Sheffield
Scientific Schmrl will be dried at the Annual
Meeting of the Appointing Board, June 25th, 1889.
All applications should be made prevroris to that»
time. Blank forms for application will be seat.
when requested, by Priorassou GEO. J. liuusu,
Secretary of the Appointing Board.
New Haven. May lath, 1389. 3t23
TAKEN
Y VI lt'I‘UE of an execution, to me directed,
1 White Horse, 3'1 Barrels of Lime and 61
Barrels of Cemciit,whtclr I will sell at Auction, at
the public alga-post. in the town of Wilton, on
the 14th day of Junghfisgéat 2 o’clock, p. In.
To RI
3tp22 Deputy Sheriff of Fairfield County.
'Pmiiiali for Brain Siren.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
the Office of the Clerk of the Borough of
Norwalk,Connectleut, until 8 p. m., June 17th.
1889. for the construction of about 350 lineal feet
of 1.2 inch stoneware vitrified pipe sewer in Lyrics
Place, in said borough, and about 360 lineal feet
of 12 inch stoneware vitrified pipe sewer in
Warren street in said borough.
Plans and specifications can be seen and full
information obtained on application at tho omce
of the engineer, C. N. Wood.
The Committee on Sewer-s of the Court of
Ballgame reserve the right to reject any or al
Borough of Norwalk, Coma. June 3d, 1889.
FRANK I. JONES,
Chairman of Committee on Sewers.
BOROUGH TAXES l
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2128
COLLECTOR’S NOTICE.
a“.
NOTICE is hereby given to all orsons liable to
pay taxes to the Borough 0 Norwalk, in the
County of Fatrfield and state of Connecticut, that
the undersigned, Collector of Taxes for said Bor-
ough, has received a warrant from the Warden
for the collection of the tax laid b it on 'nm 23:!
day of January, 1889, on the ratab e estate liable
to taxation therein, that said tax will be due and
payable on the lat day or J uric, 1889, and that he
wi [be present at the Borough Room, in the Fair-
field Corinty National Bank aiming. in said Bor-
ough,:frorn 8 to 12 a. m., and a to 6 p. m., or each
week day, and from 7 to 9 p. m. each Saturday
evening during said month or June, to receive the
same; ‘
Also, that upon all of said tax remaining unpaid
for one month after it. becomes due and payable as
aforesaid, interest at the rate of ninoper eent.wm
he charged from the time when the said tax be-
came payable until the same is paid.
Norwallr. Conn., May 11th. 1889.
,. BURR SMITH,
Collector of Taxes for said Borough.
Wm. P. Murray,
00 NT spores.
Tar Walks,
Flagging, Curbing & Mason Work
Done by experienced workmen and satisfaction *
guaranteed.
Twenty years experience.
ESTIMATES OHEEBFULLY GIVEN.
RESIDENCE :— 3m] 6
22 Franklin Ave... Norwalk.
Opera. House, — Norwalk
Thursday, Friday & Saturday,
June. 13, 14 and. 15
Special Engagement of
PLUNKETT’S DRAMATIC fill.
in a round of succesaful plays.
THURSDA Y-—-'l~he Ileautit'nl Sensational Comeyd
Drama, entitled '
“ ’l‘llE GYPSIE QUEEN.”
To be follower] by 9 Hide Spillling Fur-re.
FRIDAY-The Stirring Drama,
“ EUCHRE ’7
Depicting Scenes from (tumbling life,
SA'l‘UluMY—Jl‘he Charming Domestic Comedy
Drama, eiitltlcd
.. MIRIAM’S ennui.”
To be followed by a laughable farce.
M A'I‘IN Eli—Saturday at 2:110.
Admission I0 and 20 Cents
Reserved Seats 30 Cents
Doors open at. 7:30. Commence at 8:15. Reserv-
ed seats for sale at Quintard’s and Baxter’s.
Proposed lay-out and designation of
Curb Lines upon either side 01’ East
Avenue, from the Green, southerly, to
the Borough Line.
11) all owners and pin-lies iirlm'cslml in. the
prppm‘ty (brimming East Avenue, so cullmlfln
thuBorough. from the Green smllhm‘ly to the
Borough .I/inmmd to all others illlcl‘CS/Ct‘ in said
proposed action. and its greets:
You are hereby notified that. it. is proper:
by said Court to establish Curb Liner-z
either side of said East Avenue, between rid
olnts substantially, according to the follow-
ng description, to wit:
commencing on westerly side,a‘. *' . “ "
of“ Hubbell’s Lane and Len fen‘ ens .
prqyrerty ot‘ Est. oi'J. W. Illir hell, i .
an , on easterly side, opposite progw: u‘y
between Frederick T. liens and if r:
aria. Bailey, and about. twelve {rut we .zc
therefrom; thence continuing wi i ll be: it
upon curves to a. point in front of the r
deuce of Mrs. James Hoyt, seid lines bezrig
about forty feet apart at mid poEnL; ‘ ..
southerly, forty cet apart, upon a. s
lino to a. pointiiear Moody’s Lane; than.
neurve to the west. and grade Hy wid Ling;
toflfty fect,toa. point iicririlrc . =‘ztli .iio oi‘
the: roperty of Charles F. 051): me; thence
Rout icriy upoua. straight. line and cont-inu-
ing fifty feet in width, to a. point. rippnffim the
residence of T. S. erdcrhoef'; thence upon a.
curve to the west,atill fifty feet. in width.ahorrt
one hundred and fifty feet; thence southerly
upon a. straight lliio,of saiiic widtli,:rliout one
hundred and fifty feet; thence on a. curve to
the east ofsame width, to a. point near the
southerly line of property of H. Barnes ;
thence southerly upon a. stmiglit line, of same
Width, to a. point near Ever‘sley avenue;
thence upon a curve to the cast,ot‘i~'aine width
to a point near the northerly line of properly
of Burr Hendricks; thence southerly, on a.
straight. line, of same width. to a. point. near
Hendricks Street; thence :southorly on
a. curve to the east, and gradual'y nar-
rowing to a. width of forty feet, a. distance
of about: one hundred and twenty-five feet;
thence on a. straight. line, forty feet in width,
to northerly line of property of A. C. Holding;
thence on a. curve to the west, ofsrrnio widt h,
to a. point. near Raymond Streetwnd , thence
southerly on a. straight. line, of same width, to
the Borough line, all within the present prop-
erty lines upon said East Avenue, and all as
shown upon the map of said proposed lay-out.
on file in the office of the Clerk of this Jim'-
oug i.
And you are further notified that a. meeting
of said Court will he held at its court room on
Monday, the 21th day of .1uuc,163!1, at 7:31) p.
m., at which place and time you and all per-
sons interestcd in said proposed action, or
who will be affected thereby, are requested
and notified to appear and be heard in role. -
tion thereto.
Borough of Norwal k, Conn., June 10th, 1881‘.
l‘-y direction of the Court of lirir‘gesscs.
WIN’J'HROP H. I‘EltltY,
Clerk of said Court.
WILTON TAXES.
coaancroa’s norms.
21.24
OTICE is ircrehy given to all persons liable to
pay taxes in the Town of Wilton, County of
Falrfield, and State of Connecticut, that the tax
laid by said town on the assessment list of 1838,
will be due and payable on the first day of June.
11. D., 1889, and the undersigned. collector of tax-
es, will be at his residence on Saturday, the first
day of said June, and at the Selectmen’s omee,
Town House,on Monday, the 3d day of said June,
from 2 to 4 o clock, p. m., to receive said tax.
He will also be present at the following places
during the month of J fine, to wit :—At the store of
II. C. Olmstcad. Georgetown. from 10 to 12 o’clock
than, and at the store of Wm. F. Iicnoud,(.'annoiis
station, from 2 to 4 o‘clock, p, m., on Tuesday the
18th day of said June. At. the store of R. W.
Keeler, North Wilton, from 10 to 12 o’eloek, a. m.,
and at the store of \Villlam E. Olmstcad, 13am
11111. from 2 to 4 p. m., on the 20111 day of said
June. At the store of J. 11. IiCtllClllC. liurlbutt
Street, from 10 to 12 o’clock. a. m., on the 22d day
of said June. At the store of Frank Jeililf, Bel-
den Hill from 10 to 1‘). o’clock, a. m., and at the
store or J. 11. Hanford, South Wilton, from 2 m 4
o‘clock, p. m., on the 25th day of said June, for
the purpose of receiving said taxes.
Also, that upon all of said tax remaining unpaid
on the 30m day of J une, 1889, interest at. the rate
of nine per cent. will be charged froui the 1st day
of J rrne, until the same shall be paid.
Wilton, Conn., May 20th, 1839.
JOHN C. DUDLEY,
Collector of Taxes.
21
To Rent.
IIE SHOE FACTORY PROPERTY, lately
occupied by F. H. Ituscoe, belonging to
the Estate of Wm. K. James, deceased, can
now be rented on reasonable terms, and is
available for a. variety of purposes. Possession
immediately. F. ST. J OllN LOCK'BVOQCD,
‘rns e
NOTICE.
TO NEW YORK
IN LESS THAN
‘i'Wfl HOURS AND ONE-HALF.
Tire New and l‘alatlal Iron Steamer
GAPE CHARLES
0.1 ['TAIN l-‘. h. BYXBEE.
Will commence making Daily Trips
Monday, April 29th,1889.
SPEED.
corir Foam, SA FETY A ND
POPULAR PRICES.
SOUTH NOR'WALK TO NEW YORK.
Single Tickers ..................... 400.
Excursion Tickets ................ 70c.
streamer will leave Wilson’s Point. on arrival of
lllllllldllJlllt'. lI':lIll leaving South Noi'walk at 7:51; ii.
iii.
'l") N l‘lW YORK.
Irv. Dniiliiiry, i). if: N. Iliv
ilc-flint. “
lit‘fltllllg‘, “
Fa ii ford, “
llrmiclivillo, “
liirlizoliolrl, “
Georgetown, “
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- 6 35 :1. m.
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Wilton, “
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Norwalk, “ "
Ar. So. Norwallr, “ “
LY. Sn. Nm'wulk, “ . . . .-" ' “
lf‘u'li'licltl, N. \’.,N. 1 Lift] . .. 7.02 “
Hoiillipoi'l, ‘t . . .. 7.06 -‘
“FUCHS li‘nriiis, “ 7.10 “
Westpm‘t, “ . . . . 7.1!) “
Ar. \V’ilsoii ,l‘oinl ...................... 8.03 “
LY. Wilson I'oi nt, (Steamer). . . . . . . . . $.10 “
At". New York, 313:1. St., E. R. . .. . . 10.20 “
New York, Pier 1!), [4). It ......... 10.15 “
FROM NEW YORK.
l.v. N. Y.. i‘icr 3.1, foot Ringer‘s Slip 3.15 p.
boot that Sift-Pb, East. Rivera... . . 3.30 “
Ar. Wilson .l'OllIi ................. .. . (5.10 “
Lv. Wilson l'oirit, Ilorrs. It. It ........ 6.20 “
Ar. South Norwalk. 1). Av. N .......... 0.25 “
\Vcstporl. N. Y., N. 11.. it: if. it. it.Ar 0.31 “
Green‘s li‘uriirs, “ “ 6.10 -‘
Soutlipor't, “ " 6.15 “
Fair-field. “ “ 6.49 ‘
Lv. South Norwzrlk, D. d: N. it. 1L... 6.35 “
Ar. NOI‘Wftlk, " 6.45 “
.‘Vltillli‘ftllk, “ 6.48 “
\Vilton. “ 7.00 “
Cannons “ . . . . 7.01 “
Georgetown, “ 7.11 "
ltidgcfit-Id, “ 7.2m “
lli‘a.iiciivilh-, “ 7.15 “
Sanford, - “ 7‘22 “
Itcdrlinjr, .. 732s “
nether, .. .. 7235 “
hairliiiry, “ . 7'41 “
Through finial-ts can be purchased at all
fif-‘Ll-lt.)ll‘i on the ii. A': N. Div. llous. It. it.
‘0?" Always fake the Ilousatouio Linc._gg
ii or furl her iiiformai ion apply to
Till“. NEW 1171141.!th TERMINAL CO.
SIDNEY STARBUOK,
Vbicc-lrgs. and Gen. Man.
‘26r 'outi . Y ' 3' .
U. H. 01.118. Agent, , t, New or}. ("y
Wilson’s f‘oint. l'ftf
VOLD AND RELIABLE DIRECT '
FREIGHT LINE T0
Si}. liilllilllif 8i NORWALK
Commencing MA Y 2011i, 1889, until further notice
THE PROPELLERS,
‘r- , ,
bity of her-walk and Eagle,
Will leave Pier 23 East. River, (Ueckman Street,)
New York,
For South Norwalk, Daily at 12.00 Noon
Dire at South Norwalk at 5 p. m. Extra Boat
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5 p.m.
lior Noriralk, Monday, Wed. it: Fri., at 5.00 P. M.
Saturdays at 12 o'clock, noon.
FREIGHT RECEIVED FROM 7 A. M. T0 5 1?. ill.
Returning, boats leave South Norwalk, Daily at '
Sp. in. Norwalk, Tuesday, Thursday and Sat-
urday at G p. m.
Upoirappiication to A gents. boats will {go after
and deliver freight at intermediate points.
fNER D. _RANDA LL, Architect and Super
interment.
. Plans and Specifications for all kinds of 1:ufld-'
rugs.
Artistic designs for stairways, mantols, side-
boar-Isaac.
. Framing or working plans for all kinds of build-
in gs accurately made.
Office, Cor. Main and Wall sts.. Norwalk. Open
Wednesday and Sat urday evenings.
Residence, Riverside ave., East Norwalk.
FOR SALE.
1111 \VOODBURY PLACE on Prospect
mil. 12 acres, Stone House, Barn, etc.
Orchard and Shade 'J‘rees. Superb view. Also
7acrcs of Building lots in rear. Address. JAMES
ULAYTN. 52 Connecticut Turnpike, Norwalk. (near
the place,) or,(). E. \VILSON. Gazette Building,
Norwall¢,or, Janus Nansen. New Brunswick,
13tf
Beef, Fish, Fruit
ryr
and if egetables.
You can get any andall or the above mentione
articles at
F. W. SMITH’S MARKET,
55 MAIN STREET.
EVERYTHING
NEW, FRESH, CLEAN.
Try as. we can please you. 1 '43
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B. S. BLASGEB,
—-—OFFERS-——~
RIDGEWAY ROYAL SEMI PORCELAIN
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- v'~:.uv>‘\i>-4
New Novelties in Fine Cut Glassware.
Also Refrigerators and Baby Carriages.
.
. may x‘m‘A‘d-fe‘él‘ivir. (A),
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New Toilet Sets sold very cheap
Varieties in Tinware,
Woodenware and Agateware. Come One! Come All i
B. s. BLASCER.
23 Wall . St...
Norwalk, Ct.
F. W. JAQUI, JR.,
_AGENT FOR THE——
Celebrated Perfect Bang 3
The accompanying cut rcpreseu
the N nw PATENT Buor LING Amnrrvon
MENT 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.
points than all the Ranges on he
market combined. we guarantee
every Range to be Pnimnorin every
way, and to furnish any piece of rc~
pairs that may be required at any
time. Can furnish repairs to any
Range or Furnace ever made by this
company since 1849. Call and see
it before purchasing any other, and
.see the runny good points it contains
53 With!) STREET
MouwaLK. coma.
F. W JAQUI, JR.
It has more gzod,
SUMMER ANNUUNUEMEN '1‘
Summer styles or large
Riiirl Hats, Torres and Bums
inspection of which is invited.
CHILDREN’S HATS
a speclaity. We are shoqing a large assortment
o
IMPORTED FLOWERS
embraclng all styles and colorlngs In natural
effects. In
LAOE'S
we keep everything pew afnd desirable. A full
1 c o
MOURNING—
constantly on liapd. Old Crepe made equal to
new by the Schrivcr Patent l'rocess.for which we
have the agency. Everything in the line 0"
HAIR GOODS.
V The Empress Bang,rs Just what Ladies need
for Summer wear. flats bleached,rlyed and press-
ed in all the latest shapes.
MISSES ST. JOHN.
33 Main Street. Norwalk, Conn.
MISS AGNES FITCH.
49 MAIN STREET.
Is now preparer] to supply the Ladies of Norwalk
and Vicinity. With the most corn-cl. styles In
HATS all BUNNETS,
Trimmed and Untiimmeil.
(is well as a very large variety of high , i-luss
N ( )V ELT] ES
_._1 N—-
TRIMMING EFFECTS.
Centemeri Kid Gloves.
3min
CHAS. H. VALDEN
-—-DEALER IN—
GROCERIES,
FRESH AND NEW.
1 shall keep constantly on hand a
Hill. lINE 0F All 00008
usually found in a
Filli-Gilli-i-[ilflflfll‘l'I'Sllllll
which I will sell at prices
DEFYING HONEST COMPETITION
to heat. A share of the public patronage is solicit-
ed and every effort will be made to faithfully
serve our customers. Give us a call and
let us assure you of our ability to
give satisfaction.
CHAS. H. VALDEN,
5 Wall St, Norwalk, er.
NI it Still &' BETTS,
For the time being at
No. 7 East Side 01’ Water St.,
FOUR DOORS FROM WALL STREET,
_I;
NORWALK, - - - CONN .
STAPLE AND 01101011
G R O G E R I E S .
Family Supplies,
he freshest and best quality that the New
York market affords 'n groceries, also
VEGETABLES & FRUITS
In their seasons at
MODERATE PRICES.
1'l‘hepatronage of my friends and former cus.
tumors is respectfully solicited. tfsr
J. r. NIGKERsoN.
Telephone Call.
THE now FAMOUS
NEW CANAAN
GARRIAGE lllll L FACTORY
0. l". JOHNSON. C. T. RAYMOND
JOHNSON & RAYMOND.
New Canaan, Bonn.
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Estimates and Drawings Furnished of any
Style of Carriage, Wagon or Truck.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
REPAIRING.
First-Class Livery Attached.
CARRIAGES CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED
FOB REPAIR AND PAINTING. ' 46
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MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS 1N
LUMBER, rrrrririi,
Shingles, Lath,
Doors, Sash.
[flint/.3, .Moulding‘,
l l’indom fir-run m
l’lc/cets, We.
learned Hard Wood lWoili.
Hard Wood Ceiling and Floorinn
South Norwalk, Conn.
Norwalk Chronicler