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A.H.BYlliGi‘Oll. Editor. I. RODEMEYBR. ll. .ASSGGlaiG
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Death of Professor Johnston.
l’liorEsson ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, LL.D.,
died at his home in Princeton, N. J.,
' Saturday night, in the forty-first year of
his age. He had been in poor health for
the past two or three years. In fact he
could not have been considered a well man
when he removed from Norwalk to assume
his new and labOiious duties as professor
of jurisprudence and political economy in
Princeton College. During the past two
years he had been obliged to give up most
assroom duties and active partiCI-
ration in the literary work in which he
has for so many years been engaged. He
will long be remembered by the people of
Norwalk. To many of them he had en-
deared himself as a teacher of their sons,
of greatly more than ordinary capacity,
ellieieney and success. lie first came
among us as a classical teacher at Dr. J.
C. Fitch’s Hillside Institute for boys.
Here he soon became a special favorite
with his students and all others with
whom he became acquainted. Subse-
quently he withdrew from Dr. Fitch’s
Institute and opened a day school for boys,
making a specialty of their preparation
for college, in which enterprise he had
marked success. While a citizen of Nor-
walk he wrote much for the papérs, for
magazines, and also issued sundry books
of more or less note. The columns of the
GAZETTE were frequently enriched by
contributions from his able and analytical
pen. One prominent incident in this con-
nection comes to our mind as we write.
Major Bundy, of the New York Express,
had just issued and sent us the campaign
life Of General Garfield. Not having time
,to write such a review as its merits clearly
deserved we handed the book to Professor
Johnson late the same evening it was
received. Early next morning he brought
us an elaborate review saying he had read
the book through and written his review
before going to bed. And thus he did
everything, uninindful of the terrible and
exhausting drain his active brain was
making on his feeble bodily powers. A
copy of the GAzET'rE containing this re-
view was mailed to General Garfield, then
a candidate for the Presidency. After his
election he took the occasion at his first
meeting with the writer to say that “of all
the campaign biographies of himself that
he had geen he considered Major Bundy’s
the best, and of all the reviews of the
book, that from the pen of Professor
Johnston, as published in the Norwalk
GAZETTE, was pro-eminently the best.”
While a citizen of Norwalk he married
Mary, the third daughter of the late J. M.
r‘n-JA“ 133F- Thin “rift! ‘I’If‘il anv ITnllan
children survive him. They will have in
unstinted measure the sincerest sympathy
of all who knew the rarely gifted and
universally esteemed husband and father,
whose labors and trials and sufferings are
at an end Of him most truly might it be
said in the words of earth’s greatest poet:
“His life was gentle and the elements

So mixed in him that nature might stand up
And say to all the world, ‘This was a MAN.’ ”

Other pens and other tongues will do
him ampler justice than can we in our
restricted time and Space. But no one will
with a deeper sense of personal 1055 he-
moan his death nor lay a chaplet on his
grave with sincerer sorrow, reverence and
regret. The Tribune justly says of him:

“Professor Johnston was a great favor—
ite with the students and members of the
faculty. and his early death will be a
great loss to Princeton, whose depart-
ments of political economy and jurispru-
dence have been brought to a high stand-
ard by his efficiency and learning.

“Professor Alexander Johnston, whose
career is thus cut off in its prime, was one
of the leading writers on the constitutional
and political history of the United States
in this country. He was a native of
Brooklyn, having been born there April
29, 1849. He received his collegiate edu—
cation at Rutger’s College, where he
graduated in 1870. After studying law at
New Brunswick, N. J., he was admitted
to the Bar in 1876. Instead, however, of
going actively into the practice of his pro-
fession he became a teacher in the Rutgers
College Grammar School, which place he
held until 1879. when he gave it up to
become principal of the Latin School at
Norwalk, Conn. All this time he con-
tinued the study of law. political economy
and the history of the United States, and
in 1879 published his ‘Historv of American
Politics,’ which has become a standard
work on the subject, and is used as a text
book in many of the colleges and univer-
sities of the country.

“In recognition of his broad and pro-
found knowledge of the history of this
country, and in the political history
of this country, and the clear insight into
the principles of the constitution displayed
in this work, Professor Johnston, in 1883,
was called to the chair of jurisprudence
and political economy of Princeton Col-
lege, which place be occupied to the time
of his death. In addition to his work at
Princeton Professor Johnston wrote a.
number of books and articles on United
States history. The rapidity with which
his publications followed each other, their
thoroughness of research and clearness
and conciseness of style, stamped him as
an indefatigable and thorough worker.
In 1884 was printed his article on ‘The
Genesis of a New England.’ Connecticut,
in the John Hopkins University Series,
and in the following year appeared his
‘Representative American Orations, with
an Outline of American Political History.’
Another year had hardly elapsed before
he had published his ‘History of the Uni—
ted States,’ for schools, and, in 1887, he
contributed a ‘History of Connecticut’ for
the American Commonwealth Series. Be-
sides these books, Professor Johnston
wrote many articles for various encyclo—
pedias, including those on the United
States in a supplement to the ‘Encyclope—
dia Britannica,’ and all those on the
United States in Lalor’s ‘Cyclopedia of
Political Science, Political Economy and
United States History.’ He wasa member
of the Fellowcraft Club of this city and

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NORWALK GAZETTE. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1889.

belonged to various learned and literary
societies.

Professor Johnston was exceedingly
popular at Princeton, where his unassum-
ing manners and ready interest in all that
pertained to the best deveIOpment of the
student life of the college won for him the
sympathy and admiration of the students,
and the cordial regard of the faculty. He
was an ardent admirer of college athletics,
and was conspicuous in all efforts to raise
them to the dignity of manly sport.”

ED. GAZETTE :—In the Saturday issue of
the Record there appeared the following
item :—-“Anent the Fairfield Co. National
Bank and the Fairfield County Savings
Bank’s trouble now claimed to be adjusted,
comes a new rumor that an apparent deficit
of some $40,000 has beerrL'discovered in the
sewer accounts Of last year.”

The undersigned had the management of
the sewer expenditures of last year, the
supervision of the work, and the inspection
of the accounts and vouchers, and it is our
business to know and, in our respective
spheres, we do know what work was done
on sewers, who did it and who was paid for
it. we severally accept full responsibility
for our respective acts and doings in the
matter. We never before heard of any
rumor such as referred to, or one of such
import. \Ve do not believe that any re-
spectable citizen believes such rumor if it
exists. We do know that no deficit of $49,-
000, or of any amount, exists or ever cxrsted
in the sewer account or any other account,
or that there is or ever was any appearance
of such deficit or of any deficit.

The files of the GAZETTE show that last
November the minutest details of every
expenditure for sewers up to November 22,
the date of the report, were published with
he name of the party receiving each
amount, and what it was for. \Ve assert
that vouchers are on file for every dollar Of
this money, showing even more fully who
received it and for what and when ; that all
these vouchers, together with the vouchers
for every expenditure from the date of that
report up to January 1, 1889, when the
present court assumed office, and the
records showing when each item was passed
upon by the court, were placed in the
hands of ‘William A. Curtis and William E.
Montgomery, the official auditors of the
borough accounts for the year 1888, and that
after the Old court of burgesses went out of
office January 1, these auditors passed on
all expenditures, vouchers, receipts and
monetary doings of the court for that year
and found them correct.

This being so we are at a loss to know
why the Record should by innuendo traduce
any member of the former court of burgesses
or any person connected with it by publish-
ing an alleged rumor, without the slightest
attempt to verify the facts, particularly
when those facts are open to investigation;
both from official records and by the knowl-
edge of tne men who received the money
for all sewer expenditures. All of these
parties are residents of this town, except
Bogart a Son and Brady rothers and they
are accessible. '

We say that you should hasten to publish
in the GAZETTE and in the Record, the full-
est possible retraction of the calumny contain-
ed in the item in question, with the explicit
statement that there is no possible meaning
to be attached to it that is not false in every
particular, that you know of no possible
foundation fornsuch a rumor, and that you
published it recklessly. -

Dated at Noi‘walk, the 22d day of July,
1989. J. G. GREGORY, Ex-Warden.

ALFRED A. CHINERY,

J onx D. KIMMEY,
JOHN 1:1. 'riULuLIJIY,

T. S. STOUT,
P. W. BATES,
Ex-Members of the Court of Burgesses.
J orrx S. SEYMOUR, Ex-Clerk.

The Record, is of course, able to take care
of itself and make such reply as it choses.
As for the GAZETTE, it fully agrees in opin-
ion with all the above, save the statements
contained in the last paragraph. In this.
the exuberent indignation of the tax-borough
Clerk gets the better of his cooler judgment
and of the exact facts. We do know the
‘foundation’ of the ‘rnmor’ to be truthful.
It had its origin in the irregular action of
the late cashier of the Fairfield County
Bauhwho was also chairman of the' Bor—
ough Finance Committee. No imputation
upon last year’s Board can fairly be drawn
from the Recorcl’s item. .As it is clearly es-
tablished that the borough has not lost a
cent, is not all the above a little in the na-
ture of, “much ado about nothing.”—[ED.
GAZETTE]

AA

The big butchers’ barbecue is an assured
fact, and will be given on the Eair ground
on Wednesday, Aug. 7th. There is some
jiggering about the grounds, President
Lockwood charging $100 for their use
which the butchers consider too high.
However, a meeting of the butchers’
committe is being held as we go to press,
at which the figures will probably be defi-
nitely decided. The aflz‘air will be a big
one. The butchers expect to feed from 4,
000 to 5,000 people and the roast will be
composed of twelve or fifteen cattle and
fifteen to twenty lambs, with all the neo-
cessary trimmings, etc. The parade will
be a novel feature, the butchers being
mounted on horseback. Several hundred
butchers from Bridgeport will participate
besides large numbers from Stamford,
Westport, Westou, Danbury and other
neighboring towns. It will be a great day
for the butchers.

Those living in a locality in which mos-
quitoes are troublesome should make a trial
of the following recipe for expelling these
pests from the house: Take a piece of
gum camphor,'in size about the third of a
hen’s egg, and evaporate it by holding it
in a shovel or tin vessel over a lamp, tak-
ing care that it does not ignite. The
smoke will soon fill the room and expel
the mosquitoes, and it is said they will
not return, even though the windows
should be left open all night. If this does
not do, a “sure cure” is to take some of
the common insect powder, place it on a
fire-shovel or an old dish, and. set fire to it.
The smoke is inoffensive to human beings,
but the mosquitoes will “steer clear” of
that room.

Col. Graves, in the Connecticut Herald
undoubtedly ’hits the situation, in con—
cluding that the practical issue inConnect-
icut'is not prohibition. The defeat of the
constitutional amendment is a foregone
conclusion. The real issue is high license
and limitation on the population basis.

 

RA NDOM .BAMBLINGS.
BY ROSIE ROWE, OUR RANDOM RAMBLER.

The late Josh Billings was the author
of an immortal sentiment that marked
him as the philosopher that he was. That
sentiment is, “Darn it flil” The fly is the
very personification of aggravation and
should be abolished. He is especially
nimble and affectionate in the early morn-
ing when sleep seems sweetest, and all ef-
forts to make a “mash” on him only re-
sult in the masher punishing himself. He
is most easily caught in a restaurant at
the dinner hour when one cannot raise a
spoonful of soup without catching a fly
on the wing in it.

It * *

My sister’s husband says he’d rather be
adoor-keeper in the house of the Lord
than listen to a conversation betweena
woman who has just had a dress made

and one who is about to havea new frock.

* * *

The Record’s Dutch sour krout man
seems anxious about this column, and to
allay his anxiety it may be stated that I
did not “ramble” last week because the
dress maker was at our house. I was not
“muzzled by my sister’s husband,” who
assures me that he likes me to ramble . be.
cause when I’m writing I’m not talking.
My sister’s husband has a far-fetched idea
that he is very brilliant, and I suggested
that he would make a good man to get up
a Record sour krout column.

* * 1k

The Open horse car question is not orig-
inal with me. It is an echo of a public
demand that, sooner or later. must be

heeded.

* * It

When girls wear boys’ hats and tennis
caps and jackets, it’s difficult to tell the
boy from the girl when they are seated in
a buggy with their backs toward you.

as * a:

They are getting into the notion of late,
of running an occasional horse car with-
out bells. This is liable to bother some
busy people who depend entirely upon
the bells to notify them when to go out to

board the cars.

* * It

Afriend or mine went to the African
M. E. church on a recent Sunday even-
ing and said he was entertained and sur-
prised at the ability, logic and eloquence
shown by the dapper little colored preach-
er, Rev. Mr. Shepard. “You can’t some-
times most always tell.”

II * *

I must confess that a real fat woman

does not appear at her best in a loose

Mother Hubbard,

Burgesses’ Meeting.

At the monthly meeting of.the borough
board, held Monday evening, after an in-
terminable list of bills were ordered paid,
the questions of chicken 000ps,side walks,
borough law Suite, water, noworg. licenses,
etc. engaged the attention of our august
rulers. The chicken question seemed to
put the board in high feather, but after a
good deal of cackling it was voted to take
no action on the complaint, which came
from residents on Elm street, and was
directed against Mr. Acton’s poultry yard.
Attorney Hurlbutt asked a settlement of
damages for his clients, C. T. Leonard &
Son for keeping their coal yard torn up
nearly a year in crossing it. with a sewer
outlet. It was, on motion of Burgess
Osborn, voted not to settle, and Mr. Hurl-
butt gave notice that a suit would be
instituted. A petition came from Spring
Hill for fire plugs and more water. It was
referred to the Water commissioners with
a request that prompt attention he paid
the very reasonable request. Contractor
Cram appeared, and with tears in his eyes
plead for a side walk .on East avenue,
above and below his place. An order was
made to investigate and correct water
closet nuisances in rear of theline of Main
street stores, and also an offensive manure
pile at the George Ells barn on West
avenue. Clerk Perry announced that he
had nolled the case against the city truck-
man who had carted beer to the Grum-
man store and by agreement with the city
attorney had concluded a treaty of peace
and amity between the borough and city
in reference to this vexatious matter, and
under which a city truckman may freely
transport goods and chattels into the
borough and a borough truckman may
transport from the borough into the city,
and all without taking out a license. But
neither shall go into the other’s domain
and take up or put down freights within
the same municipal limits, unless licensed.
In other words a borough truckman must
not go to the city and take up freight and
put it down in the city, nor must a city
truckman come to the borough and take
up and put down freight within the bor-
ough limits.

 

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“By general acclaim, two sermons were
preached in Norwalk, Sunday, of unna-
sual interest and power. One was at St.
Paul’s by Rev. Mr. Richardson, on the
subject of the Trinity, and the other was
at the Congregational church, by Rev. Dr.
Noble, from the text “Consider the lilies.”
An interesting incident connected with
Dr. Noble’s beautiful discourse, was the
fact that negro Abe Wright, who so faith-
fully “considers the lilies,” at 14-acre-
pond, gave a lady a bunch of his flowers
late Saturday evening and the good lady
entirely ignorant of the intended sermon
sent them to the church Sunday morning
and had them placed on the pulpit. The
eloquent Doctor at once turned the happy

incident to good account by making them
an object lesson for more forcibly impress-
ing his sermon upon the hearts and minds
of his hearers.

Mrs. Ellen Roongyv died yesterday at her

home in the Bull Run district, aged 70-

years.

 

. “O Waccabuo."

The recent pleasure drive to, and brief
sojourn at Lake Waccabuc, indulged in by
a select party of Norwalkers was, as has
been stated, an exhilarating and most
enjoyable success. The party was com-
posed of Messrs. T. S. Morison, Warden
Coolidge, Fred Hoyt, John A. Camp, Geo.
C. Lockwood, Samuel Lynes and James
K. Crofut, with their ladies, who were
driven to Lake Waccabucin Mr. Morison’s
big drag behind four sleek and powerful
horses. The drive through the pictur-
esque country was a romantic and most
enjoyable one, and our tourists arrived in
the best of spirits at a seasonable hour in
the afternoon. A detailed account of the
various sports and pastimes and strolls
and explorations indulged in w'ould fill
the GAZETTE from its first page to its last.
The effect of the exhilarating surroundings
in inspiring the party to poetry, however,
deserves mention, if it is reported correct-
ly to the writer. .

Comfortably bivouacked on a delightful
and commanding eminence overlooking
the beauteous panorama of nature, a
picture in which the lake is the central
object, charmingly set in a variegated
frame-work of foliage, rocks and mossy
banks; breathing the pure, invigorating
air fragrant with the odor of the wild
rose and the honey-suckle, what wonder
that the susceptible natures of our appre-
ciative friends bade dull care and mel-
ancholy begone and wooed the gentle
muses! Warden Coolidge was the first
to feel the thrill of sentiment that soon
enthralled them all. The far-off look that
ever characterizes him, grew more and
more far-off, so to speak, till his compan-
ions seemed to feel the spell that bound
him as his soul looked through his eyes.
At last, with an impressive gesture, he
bared his head, looked aloft, stretched
forth his hand, and the thoughts that the
scene had inspired within his breast burst
forth:

"0 Waccabuc, O Waccabuc; thou Paradise on
earth;

Whence comes my power, that in an hour thou
changest grief to mirth ?

What mighty spell doth in thee dwell, that ne’er
haunts sea nor 13th ?

O Waccabuc!

The thoughts that thrill my bosom fill_me with an
unknown peace

Ne’er felt before, although of yore I’ve been from
Alps to Greece;

Thou, thou alone, I frankly own, supplyest care’s

surcease,
O Waccabuc l”

Hearty was the applause that followed
the warden’s outburst, and when it ended
one of the ladies with a twinkle in her eye
requested the poet to tell the party of the
things he saw when he was “from Alps to
Greece,” and the rest chimed in, “Oh,
yes, do.” “Doc.” was at this point taken
with a fit of coughing which impelled all
the ladies at once to rush to the rescue,
and, while a half dozen bottles of smelling
salts were bunched in a glittering, crystal
bouquet under his nose, Crofut said some-
thing about- “poetic license” that arrayed
the ladies’ curiosity about Greece and
stopped the patient’s coughing fit. About
this time George Lockwood had a thrill
of inspiration and was invited to let it
out. It came so:

“0 Waccabuc, 0 Waccabuc,

Whose waters teem with fish and duck,
I’d come up here again next year

If I was sure that you’d be here.”

This took immensely, and while the
ladies were inquiring With a show of great
concern if George had any grave appre-
hension that the lake would not be doing
business at the old stand next year, John
Camp became visibly affected and showed
every symptom of being about to have a.
poem or something. Hoyt slapped him
vigorously on the back and encouraged
him to gush and have it over with. The
others also urged him persistently, and
thus importuned John gushed thus:

“0 Waccabuc, 0 Waccabuc —”

“Hold on l” interrupted Coolidge,“that’s
plagiarism. This ‘0 Waccabuc’ business
is all right so far as it goes, but so far it
bears the trade-mark of Coolidge & Lock-
wood, copyright applied for. You mustn’t
slop over on ‘0 Waccabnc.’ Why don’t
you come Hiawatha on it ?”

John inspired some more, struck an
attitude and Hiawathafized thus :—

“To Lake Waccabuc, enchanted—-
Waccabuc. the lake of beauty,
Waccabuc, the place of pleasure-
Come we with our wives and baskets,
With our bait and fishing tackle,

Not for noisy Jamboracket,

But to have a. little picnic.

We’re the stuff—don’t you forget it.
We can kick the yellow cover

Ofl‘ a. ham without half trying;

We shall catch some plck’rel here that
Will weigh more than eighteen pounds and—”

Here Sam Lynes, observing that John
was drifting from the sublime to the
terrible, stepped up and shut off the flow
of Hiawatha by dramatically introducing
Burgess Morison, who took his inning
with the following result :

“Thy rocky sides, oh mountains high,
Inspire us with an awe sublime;

They teach- that firmness may defy
The malice and assaults of time.

Thy waters splash, O Waccabuc -—”

A warning ejaculation from the warden
at this point was unheeded by the poet,
and unmindful of the possible conse-
quences of his infringement of the copy-
right he proceeded to proceed :

“Thy waters splash. O Waccabuc,
But in thy roughest surges is
More comfort than has been our luck
To have as court of burgesses.” .

The ladies applauded and the warden
with tears in his eyes, sprang forward,
grasped the hand of the burgess, pressed
it warmly, and hysterically asked, “What
name, lease?” At this juncture Messrs.
Hoyt, ynes and Crofut simultaneously
showed symptoms of succumbing to the
poetry epidemic. but the sudden appear-
ance of an ominous storm-cloud above the
horizon providentially put the inspiration
germs to flight, and the party hastened to
a place of shelter, where the ladies gave
fervent thanks for both the shelter that
protectedIthem from the storm, and for the
stOrm itself that averted a further infliction

of spontaneous poetry. CUBAOOAW.
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Mr. John H. Eyre, of South Norwalk,
died at his home on Seymour Place, on
Monday morning, of heart failure. De-
ceased has for several years past been in
the employ of .the Norwalk Lock com-
pany, as principal tool maker. Previous
to his residence in South Norwalk Mr.
Eyre lived in Bridgeport, and was prom-
inent in a number of socities there, prin-
cipal among. them being St. George’s
Society. He was at one time its president
and afterwards its treasurer, which office
he held at the time of his death. He
was was born in England in 1829, and is
consequently 60 years of age. His funeral
will take place at his late residence on
Thursday at 1:30 p. m., Mr. H. O. Pente-
cost, editor of the Twentieth Coating,
ofliciating.

A tour of the two Dakotas made recent-
ly by a newspaper correspondent revealed
some extraordinary facts which are shown
in the statistics he has compiled. He
found there 250,000 horses, 250,000 milch
cows, 800,000 cattle, 230,000 sheep, 600,—
000 hogs. They are worth $50,000,000,
and to this grand fortune a 10 per cent.
accretion must be added every year.
At this moment a harvest is growing there,
with every promise of happy realization,
of 35,000,000 bushels of corn, 70,000,000
bushels of wheat, 5,000,000 of flax, 10,000.
000 of barley, 50,000,000 of cats and 5,—
000,000 of potatoes. And in the imperial
domain, stretching from a central point
200 miles north, east, south and west, of
the 96,000,000 acres that constitute these
states, barely 7,000,000—less than one—
thirteenth—have felt the harrow’s tooth.

DIED. ‘
Erma—At his residence No. 9 Seymour Place.
South N orwalk, John . Eyre, aged 60 years, 1

month and 6 days.

J onnsrox.—On Saturday, July 20m, 1889, in the
flat year of his age, at his residence, Princetou.
N. J ., Alexander Johnston, Professor of Politi-
cal Economy in the College of New Jersey.

.5. CARD.

RUMORS having been circulated that the pres-

ent Warden and Board of Borough Burgess-
es had discovered a discrepancy of $40,000 in the
accounts of the last year’s Board in the matter of
the Sewer Bonds, or Sewer Expenditures, etc.,
this ls to certify that no such sum,or any sum,
on any account whatsoever, has been discovered
by the present Board to be deficient, nor. is it be-
lieved by them that any defalcatlon or deficiency

 

has ever existed, or now exists. Signed,
1t ' C. B. COOLIDGE, Warden.
FOR SALE.

LL the interest of Arthur M. Rivers and
Frank Rivers, in the real estate in said Nor-
walk, late of Chas. Kellogg, deceased, being ,the
undivided 3:," of 2.7 acres of land on the old Silver
Mine Road. Apply to
A. E. AUSTIN.

2tp
NOTICE.

TH E Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
Norwalk .G as Company, will be holjen at
the ofilce of said oomph ny, in Norwalk, on Tues-
day, the 30th day of J uly, 1889, at 3 o’clock in the
afternoon. for the purpose of electing a Board of
Directors for the ensuing year, polls to remain
open for one half hour. Also to vote on the pro-
priety of increasing, and to increase if they deem
advisable, the capital stock of said Company, to a
sum not to exceed $90,000. Also to authorize the
Board of Directors, to take such means as shall be
in their judgement, advisable to raise the funds
necessary to pay the expenses of the construction
and incidental expenses of the new electric plant,
that has been constructed and is in the course of
construction, also to pass allvotes and resolutions
that shall be necessary to effect either and all of
the foregoing objects and to transact any other
proper business to come before said meeting.
Dated at N orwalk, this 220 day of July, A. D..
1889.
1t GEO. B. ST. JOHN, Sec.

Probate Sale of Real Estate.

PURSUANT to an order of the Court of Pro-

bate for the District of Norwalk, the sub-
scriber, administrator or the estate of Wu. R.
NASH, late of Norwalk, in said District. deceased
offers for sale all the interest which said deceas-
ed had in the following real estate, viz.:

The homestead situated at the head of Main
street, consisting of dwelling house,aud out bulld-
lngs in good repair, with about. two acres of land
attached, also, the premises adjoining, on the
Wilton mad, with good dwelling-house nicely ar-
ranged for two familles. Both of these places
contain borough water and are located on line of
horse railway. Also about ten acres of deslrable
land situate in the town of Ridgefield, a short dis-
tance from the railroad depot, suitable for farm
or building purposes.

For further particulars apply to.

CHAS. OLMSTEAD. Administrator.

Norwalk, Conn., July 23a, 1889. 30

 

 

AT A COURT OF PROBATE, holdeu at Nor-
walk. Within and for the District of Nor-
walk, on 20th day of Jul , A. D., 1889.

Estate of GEORGE I". umTAuD As COMPANY, a
co- artnership composed 0! Gear e F. Quintard
an Arthur F. Quintard. both of 1 orwalk, in said
District, an insolvent debtor. ‘

ORDERED. That Commissioners to receive ex-
amine and decide upon the claims of the creditors
of said Estate be appointed at the Probate Office
in Norwalk,on the 6th day of August,at 10 o’clock,
forenoon; of which all persons in interest will take
notice and appear, if they see cause, and be heard
thereon. And the trustee will give public notice
thereof by posting a copy of this order on the pub-
lic sign-post nearest to the place where said co-
partuership had its principal place of busrness and
within the same town, and by publishing the same
in a newspaper havrng a circulation in said Dis-
trict, at least ten days before said 6th day of Au-

gust, 1889.
t ASA B. WOODWARD, Judge.

 

Executor-’3 Sale.

The Following. Desirable Prop-
erty is for Sale.

 

ONE tract of land belonging to the estate of

George A. Raymond, deceased, containing
5 acres. situated east of the homestead on the road
leading to Westport, 3150 an undivided interest or
share in a certain tract of land situated near Half
Mile Island containing about nine acres, more or

less.
JABEZ F. RAYMOND,
JOSIAH R. MARVIN,

2t29 Executors.

 

Wanted.

FIRST-CLASS Life Insurance Canyassers for
this vicinity. To the right men liberal com-

missions will be aid address, -
MUT A1. BENEFIT LIFE 00..
HARTFORD, Coming:9
t

Giving experience if any.

Bank Book Lost.

A' SAVINGS BANK BOOK of the Norwallr
Savings Society. No. 1'88. has been mislaid
or lost. The finder will be suitably rewarded by
leaving the same at the Savings Bank.
Norwalk, July lst,1889. am

For Sale Cheap.

A SECOND-HAND Cast Iron Fence, with gate
all in perfect order and as good as new,
adout 120 feet in length. Will be sold at a sacri-

ficelf applied for soon. Enquire at
. GAZETTE OFFICE

EQUITABLE MORTGAGE 00.,
on runs as CITY. CAPITAL $2,000,000

6 and 7' er cent. Debenture Bonds and Mango
Loans at arand Accrued Interest.

1! B. CRAUFUBD Agent
Loam 2 Masonic Building

niture if the prices are right.

 

EPORT of the condition or the Fairfield Con
R National Bank, at Norwalk, in the Statengf
Connecticut, at the close of business, July 12th,

1889.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts .................. ‘
Overarm............................Z'.°248’432-g
U. S. Bonds to secure circulation ........ 50 000 00
Capital impaired. .......... - ............ 59’969 rs
Other stocks, bonds. and mortga es ..... 57,805 00
Due from approved reserve ageu s ...... 28.627 11
Due from other National Banks ........ 14,811 94
Real estate, mrnlture, and fixtures ...... 27'000 00
Current expenses and taxes paid ....... '39-: 73
Premiums aid. ......................... 14 ooo'oo
Checks and other cash items ............ 1,067 45
Bills of other Banks. .................... 1.673 00
Fractional paper currency, nlckels, and '
swlgenta .............................. 36 25
restaurantzztz:::::::::::::::::: li’ifil’t’g
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer ’
is per cent. of circulation .......... ‘ 2,250 00
Tom. ............................. $529369 05
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock aid in ...... '~
Englwdfg prgfits.... . '.'.'. """""" ”Willi 2‘.’
a one unit notes out """"""
Plgidppdslianpald. . .. . . . shagging """" 45’s??? 33
n v t ua eposlts subject to check I . i ‘
Demand certificates of ' U" 160’604 09
gerldded (Checks, ...... (i Ii)??? ........ 2’22 38
as i or 8 Decks ontstandin """""" 1
Due to other N atlonal Banks.g.'.'...': ...... " fig; 60
Due to State Banks and bankers. . .I IIII i’éss (2;:
.. ,
'1 our ............................. 352954794}

State of Connecticut, County of lv'az‘rfield ss '
b I,kL.d . GREEN, Cashier of the above-named
an , o solemnly swear that the above state-
ment ls true to the best of my knowledve and
O

belief.

V L. U. GREEN ‘ '
Subscribed and sworn to before in ‘ ‘ lashier.
0r J uly, 1889. JAMES neiiiilitzdiil day

0

Correct, Attest, Notary Pul’llc-

W. S. MOODY,
Iiu COLE,

Dir
F. ST. JOHN Locxwoopj ector5.

EPORT of the condition of tn *‘m

‘ Y e CENT!
of Coriii‘éclticoiif‘dtLtIIféigK at Norwalk, in the Said
9' , one of busmess, July 12th,

 

 
 

188
RESOURCES
Loans and discoun . ‘
8vgri§aftds ........ €3.11: """""""""""" a3liltiii
. . on s to secure circulatldiil'. ..... ’
gther stocks, bonds and mortgages: .' .' 25,g88 38
Due from approved reserve agents ..... 6 021 30
ue from other National Banks ....... 15.505 99
Real estate, furniture and fixtures ..... 9,892 01
Current expenses an taxes paid. . . .' .. ’265 13
Checks and other cash items ..... ' ' 2 961
Bills of other Banks .................... ’36 23
Fracttcgillfigpaper currency, nickels and. ' 5 0
Specie. . .. .- .. .................................. 37 75
Legaltender no..........::::::::: """" diff-83
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer. -, '
.5 per cent of clrculatlon. . . .. . .. 1,125 00
TOTAL ............................ $404,572 so
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock old In. ‘
Surplus fundf. ............. “Ig’ggg 30
gnglvrdfga profits. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. """"" 19’700 iii
a one ank notes outst """" ’
Plgdgidsl gnpald ......... fiéing' ' ' . 222592 ((1)3
11 v ua eposfts subject to check . H
Demand certificates of deposit ....... ' .' H 14:3183 is):
Dueto other National Banks. . .. . . . . .. :' 46,581 57
Due to State. Banks and Bankers. . .. . . .l. 30,000 00
Notes and bills rte-discounted... . . . .. . 15:668 97
’l O'I‘AL ............................ $404,572 85

State of Connecticut County of Fair
old 88:

I, WILLIAM A. dURTIS, Cashier oji the above-
named bank, do solemnly swear that the above
gggtizginent is true WI $323? of my knowledge and

, . A. CURTIS Cashier

Subscribed and s " '
of July 1389. worn to before me tliis_19th day

HERBERT T. SHEFFIELD

Correct, Attest: I‘Otal'y i’ublic.

GEORGE M. Homes,
EUGENE L. Borax,
J. '1‘. Brown,

FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS.
Stamford Gas Light 00., at Stamford, Gt.

EALED PROPOSALS for the purchase of th
S whole or any part of an issue of its bondse
not to exceed in amount $150,000 will be received
to be opened at the office of said Gas Co.,in Stam-
ford, Conn., at 12 o’clock, noon, August 5th 1839.

Said bonds wrllbe dated on August lst,’ 1889.
Each for $1,000 payable in United States Gold
(/0111 forty years after date, redeemable. h0Wever
at the Company’s option at any time after Augusi
-st. 1909. at 110 and accrued interest, and have in-
terest coupons attached at the rate of five per
cent. per annum, payable Feb. int and Ana 1st
in each year. And will be secured by aa’firsf
mortgage on all the Company’s francises, real es-
tateand other property made for that purpose to
A. R. Turkington and aim B. Reed, Jr., both of
:éiigi‘ralfgggyggpgteeEEeCloples of the bond and mort-

s cc at th ‘ ’

5311'? Stpmford. p e Company e ofllce ln
out s will be issued only to such amount not
exceeding $150,000) as may be necessary to chm-
plete the contemplated improvements now in pro-
gress of the Company’s works and plant; and the
Company reserves the right to reject any and all
bids, and to allot a less number of bonds than the
amountnamed in the bids. All bids must be ac-
companied With a check for ten per cent. of the
amount of bonds bid for; the balance to be paid
within ten days after acceptance by the Company
gaggle blldlwith "1811,63; from August 1st, 1889, up-
eteiveryo e onds ath ’ -

flee in said Stamford. ' t e Company 5 0f

Proposals should be endorsed " Proposals for
purchase of Bonds of the Stamford Gas Light
00.,” and be addressed to GEO. E. SCOFIELD,
Freasurer, etc,, Stamford, Conn.

Dated Stamford, Conn., July 18th, 1859.

A CARD.

To the People of'Norwalk .-
We have become acquainted with

} Directors.

 

 

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many of you, although we have done
no advertising in your city, we now
feel called upon to do so, as old cus-
tomers have repeatedly sent us new
ones which shows that you Nor-
walkers appreciate good work and
will come to Bridgeport to buy Fur-
Now
we claim to lead them all here in the
Furniture Business, in style, quali-
ity and variety, therefore we take
this opportunity to invite all who
have not been through our Ware
Rooms to call at " .
425 MAIN STREET,

where you will receive polite atten~
tion whether you purchase or not.

Very Respectfully Yours,

GEO. E. NDTHNAGLEG SUN.

423, 425, 427 MAIN ST.,
E RI DGE PORT.
For Sale.

A. COMBINATION Billiardand Pool Table, in
first-class condition, Everything complete.
For sale at a sacrifice. Apply at this office. 28“

' Wanted.

TOOK of the Falrfleld County National Bank.
Address, Lock Box 132, stating quantity and
price. ‘ 4t28