SO UTII—NOR WALK.
Merchants and pedestrians who are com-
pelled to use East Washington street
are justly complaining at the long delay in
completing the cellars for the buildings to
be erected there. The nuisance should
have been abated a year since.
Cutting the limbs from the trees in West
Washington street has made a great im-
provement in the beauty of that thorough-
fare, letting in the sun and light to the
pleasant homes and revealing to view the
golden battlements being erected at its
western terminus in all their pristine love-
liness and beauty.
Many, especially editors and reporters,
are husbanding their appetites for the
great butchers’ “barbecue,” which is to be
held August 7th.
The Methodist and Congregational
churches being closed Sunday night, very
many of the congregations availed them-
selves of the opportunity to attend the
services at Trinity chapel and listen to the
stirring words of the rector, Rev. Olin
Hallock.’
The wisdom of selecting a speaker tO
present the benefits of the proposed con—
stitutional amendment to the peOple,
other than known third—party orators, who
are paid for their expressed opinions, was
demonstrated on Sunday by the increased
attendance at Music Hall to listen to the
calm and manly address by Rev. C. E.
Torrey.
The new room, under G. A. R. Hall,
was occupied by the Union Gospel Tem—
perance Reform Association on Sunday
afternoon for their first public service. A
very large number were present and
seemed pleased with their new home: A
number Of plain, earnest talks were given
by the brothers and sisters, which were
heartily approved, and all were much
gratified at the announcement that s1ncc
the room had been open (three days)
eleven persons had there signed the
pledge. Mr. Grant will conduct the ser-
vices next Sunday afternoon at 3:30.
The new houses belonging to the Misses
Doty which were recently destroyed by
fire are being rebuilt.
Ground is being broken for the four new
cottages of W. B. Rider that will be erect-
ed on the street that is to be opened
through his property from West avenue
to the turnpike.
Miss Mary Par-dee is entertaining her
friend Miss Breed, of Washington D. C.
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NE IV- CANAAJV.
On Tuesday evening there were ten
starters in the bicycle contest. It was a
handicap race, with allowances of time of
from two minutes for Stem Pardee, to eight
minutes for Billy Patterson. Ted Brownson
only starting at scratch. The course was
from the Village cornor of Port road avenue
and the Darien road to the top of the hill
near Darien. First prize a gold medal,
second a bicycle lantern and third a bicycle
bell.
The new orgar} in St. Mark’s church was
opened Sunday evening by the organist of
St. Andrew’s church, Stamford. The Rev.
D. P. Morgan of New York made an address.
Hats off. Salute I Will “7. Kirk,
second lieutenant Sons Of Veterans.
A man employed at the nursery forsook
the path of virtue one day last week and
took the path to Stepheanoyt’s Sons" safe,
from which he abstracted eighty-five dollars.
But justice was swift, and it swooped down
upon him Saturday. He plead guilty and
disgorged.
Prof. Silliman of Lafayette college and his
family, are enjoying a vacation with his
brother’s family.
St. Mark’s church have voted to expend
twelve hundred dollars in enlarging their
igging a new well and in other
rectory, in (1
changes and improvements.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Rogers, Miss Fannie
Hovt and Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth, re—
tnrhed last week from a delightful sojourn
at Lake George and the Adirondacks.
Do not forget the lawn party of the Con-
gregational church, August 8th, afternoon
and evening.
NO one need miss finding Johnson & Ray-
mond’s place of business for the lack of yel-
low and white lettering on the side of their
building, announcing that within is a corps
Of as good wagon makers and carriage build-
and men who attend to blacksmrthrng
in all its branches, as is to be found in this
or any other state. The lettering referred
to is immense. SO is the firm.
Mr. L. M. Monroe, Sr. lit up, by_ the
smile Of his genial countenance the erty of
New Britain, last Sunday, the occasron be-
" g a visit to his daughter and son-rn—law,
Mr. and Mrs. Humason.
Lockwood Brothers will run an omnibus
to the Fair grounds in Norwalk to accomo—
date those who want to see how butchers
prepare and consume their own provender.
Not a single prolribrtronrst, tlrrrd party
man or woman from this place, attended the
meeting at Crescent. Beach last Thursday.
There yare over thirty professed third party
men in this town and they all hope to die
if they don’t vote against the democratrc and
republican parties every time, but they all
str'd at home last Thursday. Even Lincoln,
who is editor of the Home and Voice, failed
to send a reporter, and Cheves, and Mrs.
Bailey, and “Tent” Bailey lurnself, .nailed to
appear for the rally.
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BEDDING.
Rev. W. J. Jennings, having been absent
for a. week, returned Thursday afternoon
and occupied his pulpit last Sunday. On
the preceding Sunday the Congregational
church was not opened.
Last Thursday Mr. C. J. Jennings left
for Long Island by way of Hartford.
Raspberries have been very plentiful ;
blackberries are abundant.
Last week was mostly favorable for-
harvesting, except Saturday, when there
was another easterly rain storm.
Mr. Thomas F. Sanford is at home.
The joint board of school Visitors and
selectmen have made the followrng appro-
priations for the coming year for_ the
schools: $240 each to the Center, Ridge,
Couch Hill, Diamond Hill, Lonetown,
Umpawaug and Fouudr)’; $250 to Boston,
and none to Hull and Pickett’s Ridge.
NORWALK GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1889.
WESTPORI!
Charles Bogart, employed as a mOulder
at the Filley foundry, went in a boat
blackfishing one day last week. He was
alone and not returning that night his
friends feared something serious had hap-
pened. Next day search was made, and
he was found on Seymour’s rock at the
mouth of the harbor gently reposing.
His boat had drifted away, but was found.
Herman Fitch, aged 22 years, a son of
Benjamin Fitch, of Poplar Plains, died
Sunday morning of typhoid fever. He
had been ill but a short time. Other
members of the family are suffering from
the same complaint. The funeral occurr-
ed yesterday, the burial being in Christ
Church cemetery.
Rev. B. J. Relyea officiated again at the
Congregational church Sunday morning.
and preached a terse, practical sermon
full of wholesome truths and apt illustra-
tions.
Mr. James Hart is at Saratoga.
The third regatta of the summer series
of the Cedar Point Yacht Club over their
regular tr1angular course here, will be a
pleasant affair, should the weather favor.
On two previous occasions rain spoiled
the arrangements.
Citizens are talking about the new se-
cret ballot law, which is in effect, and will
be obeyed in the October election. How
to divide the town so as to give a voting
place for each 150 voters is their problem.
The poll list has about 1,000 names requir-
ing evidently seven distinct booths and
boxes, but as never to exceed 800 voters
were ever brought out in an election, six,
apparently, will do. The general notion
is that there should be a polling place at
the village, at Saugatuck, Compo, Poplar
Plains, Greens Farms and Coleytown, and
perhaps Cross Highway, but it is dispelled
by those who claim to know, having con-
sulted the framer of the law, that, instead
of wandering into six or seven different
precincts to vote, the voters can legally
assemble, as they have hitherto done, in
one place, with the various boxes labelled
according to districts. Whether this view
may be born out by the law’s letter and
spirit remains to'be seen. The people are
inclined to give the measure a good send-
ofi? and test, and both parties agree that
the law willjserve one good purpose if no
other, i. e , prevent a lot of fellows who
can neither read or write, coming to the
front as they have for years been doing,
and casting and having counted votes to
which they are not legally entitled.
Mr. Rufus Wakeman, at Saugatuck, has
built up from a small beginning a thriving
business in the manufacture of mattresses.
Mrs. Frederick Peutz of Rhinecliff-On-
Hudson, and a near neighbor of Vice-
President and Mrs. L. P. Morton, has been
visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. 11. Nash.
If Trinity Sunday School accepts the in-
vitation of Christ Church Sunday School
to visit Parlor Rock in August for a picnic,
there will be one of the largest and merri-
est parties which ever went to a grove
from this town.
Mr. Lloyd Nash contemplates discard-
ing entirely the old fashioned methods so
long in practice at his cider mill, and to
introduce everything new. This will in-
clude, of course, presses operated by
power, and do away with the familiar,
yanking, squeaking. consumption-induc-
ing wooden lever and screws, but will not
encroach upon the boys’ perogativc at all
mills where apples are ground, of sucking
cider through a new rye straw.
At the request of a parishoner, a village
clergyman recently preached a scrnrou on
the subject, “Is there any taste in the
white of an egg?” from the Book of Job.
His hearers were uruelr edified by the
treatment, argument and conclusion, but
they retired from the sanctuary with
minds befogged and very opaque as to the
main question.
Dr. L. T. Day, secretary of the Board
Of School Visitors, announces that on
Wednesday, August 7th, at the Select:
men’s office, there will be an examination
of persons intending to teach in the dis-
trict schools for the ensuing year.
Ex-Representative Moses Sherwood of
the Farms has a large field set entirely to
onions for Seed for New York dealers in
that commodity.
Returning from a fishrng bout at Black
Rock, Messrs. A. S. Hurlbntt and P. G.
Sanford have narrated the great luck
catching flounder-s there experienced by
them, and on the basis Of their facts (?) a
fish story is going the rounds to the effect
that they caught 335 pounds in one hour
and forty—five minutes. If they had said
365 pounds in one hour and sixty-five mirr-
utes, the strain on public gullibility would
have been less.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mohler, of Balti-
more, Md., are visiting at Mr'. and Mrs.
A. S. Hurlbutt’s.
The funeral of John Cotl’ec who died
Saturday, aged 70 years, took place Tues-
day morning from his late residence at
Saugatuck. The burial was in the Cath-
olic cemetery, on King street.
The steam yacht “Mystery.” of New
York, with owner and party aboard, was
in the harbor over Sunday.
Mrs. Phoebe Moore and daughters are
at Mrs. W. S. Jones, for the summer.
Mrs. Ophelia Taylor has returned from
a visit to New Haven . “PAUL.”
Epoch.
The transition from long, lingering and
painful sickness to robust health marks an
epoch in the life Of the individual. Such
a remarkable event is treasured in the
memory and the agency whereby the good
health has been attained is gratefully
blessed. Hence it is that so much is heard
in praise of Electric Bitters. So many
feel they owe their restoration to health,
to the use of the Great Alterative and
Tonic. If you are troubled with any di-
sease of Kidneys, Liver or Stomach, of
long or short standing, you will surely
find relief by use of Electric Bitters. Sold
at 500. and $1. per bottle at H. R. Hale’s
drugstore.
Our Bridgeport Letter.
Rev. John Warren, a well-known retired
Baptist clergyman, died at his residence
on Howard avenue of paralysis. He was
74 years of age, and was one of the best
known Baptist ministers in this section of
the state. He was formerly pastor of the
Baptist church at Easton, Conn., where
he served for twenty-five years. After
leaving there he preached in the Stratfield
Baptist church until a year or two ago.
He wasa man of ability and universally
beloved by his people and by Christians
Of all denominations. His funeral was
attended on Sunday from the church in
Easton, where he had spent so many of
his early days in the ministry, and the
services were very solemn and impressive.
Miss Gertrude Peck, of East avenue,
Norwalk, has been visiting Miss Jennie
Ktssam, Of State street, and has delighted
all who have met her with her social
qualities and beautiful singing.
Prosecuting Attorney Chanrberlaiu did
not have a very pleasant trip to Naugatuck
last week. He was acting as attorney for
the Naugatuck Water company, and the
defendants, happening to be Italians and
not understanding the laws of this coun-
try, took upon themselves to take ven_
gcance upon the plaintiffs’ attorney, but
the treatment Mr. Chamberlain received
was not quite so bad as reported, yet he
was glad to be rid of their presence and
get back to Bridgeport alive and without
serious injury, but after this experience
he will probably go better prepared to
meet the enemy.
A short time since a building commission
was appointed here consisting of G. W.
Longstaff, of Longstafi ('0 Hard; John
Barr and Aurelius Steward, with Isaac
W. Day as the building inspector. They
have commenced their operations in a
parctical manner by condemning the
block of brick buildings just east Of our
post office on State street from NO. 6 to 24
inclusive. The buildings have been erect—
ed a number of years, but the supposition
is that they were built on made ground,
which has caused them to settle and ren-
dered them dangerous. They are four-
story buildings, and are occupied on first
floor as stores, above as dwellings. In
case the building should fall it would be a
terrible calamity, which would cause great
loss of life. This action shows the im-
portance of such a commission, and every
town, whether large or small, should have
abuilding commission and a competent
building inspector. One or two other
large buildings have been examined by
the commissioners and Inspector Day, and
a report Of same will be made in a few
days.
A good scheme to blllld a parallel rail-
road appeared lately in the Morning News.
The plan, if I understand it correctly, is
to have a mutual one, i. e.’, to have prop-
erty owners along the line of the road take
the stock, varying in amounts from $1,000
and upwards. This plan would make the
parties mutually interested, and would,
of course, secure their influence and busi-
ness. This certainly is a practical way of
building a railroad, and if enough money
could be raised in this way it would no
doubt be a success.
On \Vednesday next Hon. P. T. Barnum,
attended by his sister and eldest daughter,
will make a visit to their native town
Bethe], Conn. He wishes to visit his
birthplace once more before leaving for
Europe in October, where he goes with
“the greatest show on earth.”
Proctor’s Grand Opera House will Open
for the season on August 12th. The house
is being redecorated and a new exit has
been built into Court street,'which will
now make this horrsc safer than ever.
Under the management of Chas. Belknap
this house has gained a strong hold on the
people. Norwalk people should remember
that matinees are held at this house Wed-
nesday and Saturday.
There was great excitement about 12
o’clock last night, on account of the fire
alarm ringing out three alarms within
half an hour from as many different boxes.
It was such an unusual thing for three
different alarms to sound within so short
a time that, notwithstanding the rain came
down in torrents, the streets were soon
full of people, with anxious faces, won-
dering what was coming next. The fire
department promptly responded to all
three alarms, but their services were not
needed as all alarms were false. It- is a
mystery how these alarms could be sound-
ed withont the boxes being opened, as it
is impossible to take a key from a box after
it has been opened until the superintendent
of the fire alarm arrives and releases the
key. Chief Gerdenier thinks it was the
work of some persons who have some
method of pulling the boxes. [Electricity
sometimes plays those pranks over here.—
Er). GAZETTEJ
David W. Thompson and wife, son-in-
law and daughter of P. T. Barnum, have
been visiting him at his new residence,
“Marina,” at Seaside Park.
Ex-GovernorLounsbury was in town on
Thursday looking hearty and well. The
care of one of the largest banks in New
York city, of which he is president, the
Merchants Exchange, does not seem to
weigh heavily upon his shoulders.
The corporation of Yale University has
appointed Rev. Charles Ray Palmer, pas-
tor Of the North Congregational church,
of this erty, a delegate to represent it at
the ceremonies to take place at Oxford,
England, in connection with the opening
of Mansfield College, October 14 and 16,
and he has been invited to preach. in the
chapel of the new college on one of the
opening days. He expects to sail on the
Britannic October 2d to be absent one
month. Mr. Palmer is a leading member
of Yale Universrty. '
Gov. Hill, of New York, and Gov.
Abbott, of New Jersey, were here on Fri-
day stopping at the George Hotel, in
Black Rock. w. e. L
Bridgeport, Conn., July 29, 1889.
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Leading Dry Goods House,
Cor. Main and Gannon Sta, Bridgeport
Are enlarging their store for the fourth time in ten
years. This time they will annex the entire three story
Building recently used by the “Young Men’s Christian
Association,” and will put in an elevator running from
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the back part of their present store.
All Ready Made Suits, Wraps, Jackets and Fine Dress Goods must be
sold prevrous to August 1st, and the entire stock is marked down.
Dollar Silks, are 590. Dollar China. Silks, are 59.
All Dollar Gro Grain and Duchess Silks reduced to 590.
125 Rhadames and Surahs are 890. ' .
A11 Swiss Flouncings, Chantella Laces, Dress Trimmings are reduced.
. Remember the goods are all new and fresh and we only make the rid-
1culous prices to clear out every article before '
AUGUST 1513.
All our best hammered Brass Trays, that were cheap 01: 220. will go at 10c.
500 pieces Mosquito Netting. 2,000 Rugs —-ALL must go.
Carpet and Art Squares. $10.00 a pair can be saved on Curtains.
LA CE CURTAINS A ND P'ORTIERRES
Nottingham Lace Curtains at 750., 900., 980., $1.00, 1.19, 1.29, 1.50
1.75. 2,00, 2.25, 250, 2.75, 3.00, 3.35, 3.50, 3.75, 4.00, 4.25, 4.50, 4.75, 5.00
5.50, 6.00. 7.00 and 7 50per pair in Brussels.
Irish Point and Cluny Lace effects.
Chenille and Turcoman Portierres in all the new. shades of Old Blue
Old Rose Old Gold, Olive and Reds at $7.50 and 9.00.
One choice line Of Heavy Chenille in solid color, with fringe at $7.69
worth 10.00 per pair.
One lot of extra quality of Vienna Chenille Portierres at $7.00, 8.00
9.00, 10.00, were $10.00 and 15.00 per pair.
All Wool Ingrain Carpet Squares, Best Quality.
2.}x3 yards, were $7.75, now 5.63; 3x3 yards, were $8.25, now 6.75; 3x33,
yards, were $9.50, now 7.88.
RUG-S.
590., 650., 890., $1.00 and 1.20.
24 inch double faced Smyrna Rugs, $1.69. 26 inch double faced Smyr-
na Rugs, $1.49, 1.69, 2.00. 30 inch double faced Smyrna Rugs, $2.29,
2.29, 2.39, 3.50. 36x72 double faced Smyrna Rugs, $3.00, 3.49, 3.98, 4.75
5.50. 4x7 feet double faced Smyrna Rugs, $6.39, 6.98, 7.50. 6x9 feet dou-
ble faced Smyrna Rugs, $13.50, 14.50. 36x63 Daghestan Rugs, $7.50
8.00. 2‘21x3 yards Linen Crumb Cloths at $1.00. Hemp Rugs at 15c.
Straw Matting at $4.50, piece of 40 yards, worth $5.00.
Straw Matting at 6.00, piece of 40 yards, worth 7 .50.
One line of Silk Scarfs at 890. were $1.25.
Four lines Of Scarfs at 150., 210., 39c. and 500.
Silk Plushes for Upholstery and Fancy Work, 24 inches wide, at $1.38
1.65 and 2.00 per yard.
Window Shades, one yard wide. two yards long with spring roller, 200
Window Shades, one yard wide, two yards long with fringe, spring
- roller, 350.
Cornice Poles, all complete, at 17c, 25c, 35c, 39c, and 50c. Hammocks
at 980, $128,150, 2.00, with pillows and Spreaders attached. Curtain
Screens 60. 7c, 80, 9c,SOlid Brass Trays at 100, worth 500. Window
Screns at 230, 25c, 43c, and 490.
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Norwalk Chronicler