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NORWALK GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER '4, 1889.
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A. H . BYllill'ffll. Editor. I. KODBHBYER. ll. Associate
OBITUARY.
Judge John Fitch.
Judge John Fitch, of New York, died
very suddenly Sunday p. m. at his home
68 West 39th street, of dropsy of the heart.
He was 69 years old and a lineal descend-
ant of Connecticut’s famous colonial gov
ernor, Thomas Fitch, who served from
1754 to 1766, and also descended from
Connecticut’s equally reverenced inventor,
John Fitch, who first gave a practical and
successful steamboat to the world. Judge
Fitch was born at Kinderhook, and began
the practice of law at Troy. Later he
came to New York. President Lincoln
appointed him registrar" in bankruptcy,
He held :the office until the act was re-
pealed. He was one of the promoters and
the president of the Long Branch Pier
Company, and the title of Commodore was
bestowed on him by friends on that ac-
count. He had an ample fortune. He
was an active republican politician, and
made a few speeches in the last campaign.
He generally had Something to say at the
meeting of the republican county com-
mittee, in which he sat for the Eleventh
district. He was one of the most active
and influential members of the Society of
the Sons of the Revolution, and also of
the St. Nicholas Society and of the Order
of the Cincinnati. He was a bachelor
and his only living relative was a distant
cousin. He made his home for 20 years
at the Metropolitan Hotel, and for 10 years
at the Fifth Avenue. For the past three
years he had lived at the Sturtevant
House. He was tall and distinguished
looking, had prominent features and
checks, cropped white side whiskers, and
a swallow-tail coat at all times.
A few years since he visited Norwalk
and, seeing the disgraceful condition the
East Norwalk cemetery was in, and the
neglected state of the graves of his re-
nowned ancestors, Governor Fitch and
his son, Colonel Thomas Fitch, who was
present and a participant at the surrender
of Burgoyne at Saratoga, and who lie
buried there, set himself to work and
caused the tablets to be restored and the
grounds to be greatly improved. Al.
though, in a measure, eccentric, he was
a large—hearted, patriotic man and the
world is the better that he lived.
His funeral will be attended from Grace
church at 4 p. m. to-day.
Rev! Dr. Bennett.
The Rev. Lorenzo T. Bennett, aged 84
years, the oldest Episcopal clergyman in
the state, and for fifty years rector of
Christ church, Guilford, dropped dead
from apoplexy at the depot in that town
Monday morning while waiting fora train.
Dr. Bennett graduated from Yale Uni-
versity in 1825, and was ordained to the
ministry nine years later, after serving
five years in the Navy. In 1833 he went
to Guiiford as rector of Christ church, re-
maining as such until Easter, 1835, when
he resigned. From 1835 to 1840 he was
assistant at Trinity church, New Haven,
under the Rev. Dr. Henry Croswell. In
1840 he was again called to Christ church
parish and accepted its rectorship. Dr.
Bennett was a cousin of John F. Bennett,
Mrs. E. W. Stuart, and the Misses Bennett
of East avenue, and was an occasional
visitor here: His long term of service
and sudden death finds a. peculiar parallel
in the case of his late uncle, Eli B. Ben-
nett. for fifty years treasurer of the town
of Norwalk. It is a singular coincidence
that in a recent letter to his Norwalk rel-
atives he suggested that he very probably
would soon pass away in the same man-
ner that Mr. Bennett had done.
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Sons of Toil.
Labor Day seems to have been quite
generally observed throughout the state.
Here in Norwalk picnicking, riding, row-
ing and beer-drinking, seemed the chief
diversions.
" God bless the noble workingmen,
Who rear the cities of the plain;
Who dig the mines and build the ships,
And drive the commerce of the main.
God bless themifor their swarthy hands
. Have wrought the glory of our lands.”
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Mr. James A. Bradley, the founder of
Asbury Park, heretofore a prominent pro—
hibitionist, has come to see the benefit of
high taxes on those who engage in the
liquor businc ss. He lras discovered that
what is everybody’s business is nobody’s,
and that the man who sells liquor on con-
dition that he pay a tax of $500 or $1,000
a year is much more likely to expose a
competitor who is violating the law than
are the easy going good people who arein
favor of restrictive law, but don’t want to
take personal trouble to enforce it. This
is just the point made so often and so
strongly last year by Warner Miller.
High license makes every man who has to
pay it an amateur enforcer of the law on
others, as well as a respecter of the law
himself, for the sake of keeping his own
costly privilege, which he cannot afford to
lose. Low license reduces this incentive
to abide by and aid in the enforcement of
the law.
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The Thames river railroad drawbridge
is completed, except to fasten on the floor
beams on the draw. Saturday, at 10
o’clock, the draw was closed for the first
time to ascertain the level, swing and fit,
and then the rest of the floor beams were
fastened on and the structure completed,
making this the finest and largest draw,
span, and girder steel railroad bridge in
the world.
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RANDOM BAMBLIN’GS.
BY ROSIE ROWE, 'OUR ,RANDOM RAMBLER.
It is a common phrase that it is difficult
to ride two horses at once, but that is a
feat comparatively easy when contrasted
with the impossibility of riding on the
horse and in the wagon at the same time.
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When a man gets awfully drunk he
should take the roadway and not attempt
to walk on the narrow footpath of the
railroad bridge. This morning a man who
stepped recklessly and unsteadily, crowd-
ed everybody off the bridge—Bridgeport
Standard.
In nine cases out often your intoxicated
nuisance, instead of taking the narrow
footpath of a railroad bridge and crowd-
ing people off, will walk in the centre of
the railroad bridge between the rails and
attempt to crowd the trains off—and, per-
haps, after all, this propensity is the more
to be encouraged than the other.
* * *
The New Britain Record says that Mrs.
August Fritzer, of that city, who has just
given birth to twins, has had three child-
ren in nine months.
Mercy on us!
* * *
Sour Krout crowded out of the Record
again. Mr. Betts should enlarge his paper.
The Dutch Contributor’s suggestion that
Mr. Byington give “Rosie Rowe” a dose
of the elixir of life, is unnecessary. When
I haven’t vitality enough left to cepe with
Sour Krout’s profound arguments, the
elixir of life may be called into requisition,
but the blood of a flea will undoubtedly
contain life essence enough to infuse all
the vitality necessary for the requirements
of such a contingency.
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The Dutch contributor has not yet an-
swered the query elicited by his sudden
interest in my age and endurance. Has
he intentions? And, if so, are those
intentions honorable ?
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That was a well-balanced musical com-
bination that “did” the town one day last
week. A blind man who stood in the
middle of the road and fiddled on a
broken-hearted accordion, while his part-
ner, a cripple with only one arm and no
voice, stood beside him and sang “Do Not
Forget Me,” with that ill-concealed stump
picturesquely wiggling aloft like a goat’s
tail to attract attention, excite sympathy
and plead for pence. And a good many
pence they seemed to gather, too, the
poor wretches.
***
I hate fleas. And how much of exquis-
ite torture and diabolical aggravation is
concentrated in one of these frisky little
villainous pests. I am subject to them. if
that term is allowable. I can’t get near a
cat or a dog that has them without catching
them myself. I find them very conta-
gious. But when I find I have one I make
no delay in instituting a thorough pursuit.
I have no patience with the prudc who
suffers the misery of undue familiarity
from a pesky and inquisitive flea rather
than challenge commentby reaching down
and grabbing a handful of skirt and giving
it a cordial and lingering grip. It may
not look pretty but if you have good luck
it discourages the flea.
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Your editorial paragraph in last week’s
GAZETTE about “the sad sight of a young
man of high intellect making a vagabond
of himself by drinking whiskey,” con-
veyed an apt and cogent truth. I pointed
it out to my sister’s husband, with a view
to missionary effect, but he is one of your
nnimpressionablc “moderate” cranks who
“can drink or let it alone,” but whose
purpose it evidentlyis to demonstrate how
thoroughly he can let it alone by post-
poning the experiment in order to increase
the difficulty of the feat. He read the
paragraph and philosophized thus: “That
was written, Rosie,” said he, “by some-
body who doesn’t look on the bright side
of a double faced picture and who refuses
to believe that the top of every cloud,
however black it may appear, is golden.
True, whiskey does a great deal of harm
ifa person doesn’t know how to use it,
and if ayonng man of high intellect, who
can’t swim, d)esn’t know better than to
jump into a deep pond just because the
water feels good when he dips his hands
in, his intellect isn’t high enough to be of
any value to society and he should be left
to flounder and sink. Now whiskey,
rightly used, works countless blessings
for which credit is denied it by such well
meaning writers as the author of this para-
graph. Why, just refleet upon the infi-
nite variety of its applications and effects.
We take it to cheer the drooping spirits
when grief and trouble weigh down the
heart; we take it to evince our gladness
when joy and prosperity ‘make all the
world look rosy; we take it in the sum-
mer’s sultry heat in frozen punch to keep
us cool, and when the winter’s howling
blast makes frosty vapor of our breath,
we take it and our pulses thrill with grate-
ful warmth; with it we moisten the lips
of the dying, and the soul comes back for
a last fond recognition and farewell; we
take it to pledge fidelity to our friends, and
in it we vow eternal vengeance upon our
enemies; ’tis found where we welcome
the coming guest, and where we bid the
parting Godspeed —” and so forth and
so on. So far from this specious philoso-
phy and wretched reasoning being at all
impressive, it only prompted me to remark
to my sister’shusband that he acted as if
he were well along toward an advanced
stage of the delirium tremens, and the
brute laughed and went down town to get
what he calls a cocktail.
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That story of Lawyer Joseph A. Gray
being decoyed to New York and buncoed
out of some $300 insuch a transparent
confidence game seems hardly credible.
My sister’s husband said : “I can hardly
believe Mr. Gray or any other man who
lays claim to possessing an ordinary quota
of common sense, could be quite so idiotic
as to allow himself to be so easily hood-
winked. Improbable as the story of the
confidence game seems in itself, a further
doubt is east upon itby the statement that
before going to New York Gray borrowed
the $300 or $400 out of,whicli lie was
fleeced. Now if he is quietly and effect-
ively ‘pulling the legs’ of the liquor dealers
in his capacity as prosecuting attorney, as
intimated, he certainly would not be re;
duced to the extremity of borrowing
money for speculating purposes. Now
look at the simplenesis of the scheme : A
stranger comes into Gray’s law oflice and
says, ‘Come, get on your coat, put $300
or $400 in your pocket and come with
me to New York to redeem $2,000 worth
of diamonds that a friend of mine has
pawned and we’ll make a few hundred
dollars.’ Gray, in the simplicity of his
confiding nature as a lawyer, stops not to
ask any questions, but, smelling the ‘few
hundred dollars’ to be scooped in so easi-
ly, goes out and borrows(i) $400 and
goes with this total stranger to New York,
like a lamb to the slaughter. Arrived in
the city the stranger tells him they mustn’t
go to the pawn broker’s until after dark.
By this time and after these dark precau-
tions, any man of sense would have be-
come suspicious, and any man of principle
would have waxed righteously indignant.
But over the peaceful and unsophisticated
breast of LawyerGray there rolled neither
a wave of suspicion nor a quiver of con-v
scientious revolt. He went, after dark,
with his unknown client, through back
alleys and side streets and dark passage
ways, to the pawn shop, handed out his
$300 or $400 and demanded the pawned
diamonds. The pawn broker took the
cash, passed over the ‘diamonds,’ and then
Gray all at once thought they had better
swap back. The usual dispute followed
and Gray found himself hustled out and
left in some unfrcqucuted by-way in the
usual dazed condition, unable, as usual, to
tell just where to find the pawn shOp
again, unable to describe either his client
or the broker, and to cap the climax of
the horrible situation he was minus both
his money and the diamonds. There’s the
whole story as reported. Now isn’t it a
likely one? And how many people will
believe Gray foolish enough to have been
made the victim of such a thin scheme?”
Of course I had to admit that it didn’t
look plausible, but there are so many
others who seem to think that there was
something in it, a conclusion which they
attempt to justify by the reported admis.
sion of Mr. Gray himself, that “while he
had recently had a not altogether happy
experience in New York, he refused to
give the details, remarking that the matter
was of a purely personal character and
did not concern anyone but himself.”
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Your amusing suggestions, Mr. Editor,
in last week’s issue, relative to Dr. Bald-
win’s proposed experiments with the
leixir of life, so interested my sister’s hus-
band that he has written the following,
which he asks rue to forward to you. I
have eliminated considerable of the orig.
inal matter, principally a verbose disquisi-
tion on the transfusion of blood and its
effects in consanguineal descent upon after
generations, prefaced with a somewhat
labored and decidedly incoherent effort
to establish an analogy between it and the
old heathen notion of the transmigration
of souls. Stripped of all this absurd stuff
and speculation, the production is as
follows:
“It remains yet to be demonstrated
whether the possibility exists of com-
pounding an ‘elixir’ from the blood of any
animal, the application of which would
impart to the patients the characteristics
of the animal from which it was extracted.
If this result could be worked out by
scientists, what a fund of instruction and
amusement; of startling and ridiculous
effects would ensue. And what a field
for imaginary experiment the bare thought
of such a possibility presents. What
droll and fantastic. transformations it sug-
gests. For instance, following out the
line of experiments suggested by the
GAZETTE, ,inoculate the Hon. Josiah
Dodge with the ‘clixir’ of watch dog, and
imagine the persistence and ferocity with
which he would :guard the castle of his
adoption, or of a neighbor, from the intru-
sion of the unbiddeu and unexpected in-
terloper. Inject into Alonzo Kelley the
elixir of humming bird and smile over the
image picture of Mr.Kelley feathering out
and attempting to fly to the ridge of a
foliage covered bower; Give Colonel
Daskam a dose of elixir extracted from
the grasshopper, and no flight of fancy
could conjure up a sight more ridiculous
than the stalwart Colonel skittering through
the air from twig to twag and clinging to
the bustle of the belle of a picnic. Give
Judge Selleck a hypodermic injection of
elixir of the American eagle and picture
to yourself the grandiloquent soaring and
Spread-eagle eloquence with which the
national bird would scream his moral lec-
ture at the terrorized prisoner made still
more miserable by the fine of seven dollars
and costs. Squirt a syringeful of lion’s
elixir into John Wade’s good right arm
and even Eli Perkins, the prince of pre-
varicators, would turn green with envy at
the tremendous amount of roaring lyin’
in his den. The inoculation of Auction-
eer James Mitchell with elixir from the
bull would show that sterling old demo-
crat fallen from grace and hooking every-
thing within his reach —”
And so on. Sister’s husband had written
down a score or more of these nonsensical
examples, but I have cut them out, as
some were too personal. Among them he
had Sheriff Toner hugging the whole com-
munity after being inoculated with elixir
of bear; Postmaster Golding running like
mad with a man on his back around the
Gentlemen’s Driving Association’s track
with horse elixir in his system; Billy
Buxton chasing rats and spitting at dogs,
from the effect of cat elixir—and a lot of
other just such idiotic propositions which
would convey the impression that the
writer had thoroughly inoculated himself
with elixir of John Barleycorn.
Coolidge.
The Commissioner of Pensions has the
appointment of nine United States Exam-
ining Surgeons, in New York city, for
which nine positions there were over fif-
teen hundred applicants.
AA
Little sympathy need be wasted, appar-
ently, on Robert Ray Hamilton, so unhap-
pily involved in the Atlantic City sensa-
tion. A man who will knowingly marry
an abandoned woman, must expect any-
thing.
Mr. W. L. Lineburg, the GAZETTE’s efll-
eient Bridgeport correspondent, and an
old-time resident of Norwalk, went to
Norfolk, up in Litchfield county, a couple
of weeks ago for a period of rest and
recreation, but shortly after his arrival
there he was taken so seriously ill that he
had to be removed immediately to his
home in Bridgeport, where he is now eon-
fined to his bed and is under the constant
treatment of his physician. His many
friends hope for his speedy and complete
reeovery.——Record.
According to some carefully prepared
and accurate figures prepared by the
Paper World, the paper mills in the
United States, of which there are 1,123,
have an aggregate producing capacity of
over twelve million pounds of finished
paper per day. Just think of it! Forty-
three hundred millions of pounds per
year and all consumed in the United
States! This immense industry, it might
be added, owes its existence and develop-
ment to the policy of Protection.
Herbert N ieholls, city editor of the Lynn
Bee, played ball once too often last week.
“He was catching behind the bat,” say the
Worcester Spy. “A foul tip struck him
with terrible force in the neck, and just
missing the thyroid cartilage. He was
knocked to the ground, but got up again
and played out the game, the accident
having occurred in the ninth inning. Sub-
sequently he grew weak, and was unable
to speak. He was taken to his home, and
Dr. Judkins found indications of a frac-
ture of the windpipe. Mr. Nichols
breathes with great difficulty, expectorates
blood and mucus, and is unable to talk.”
Acase similar to the notorious Flack
case has turned up at New Haven. About
two years ago Mrs. Samuel E. Harper, of
Tarrytown,N. 1., went to New Haven
and had her husband arrested for non-
support, the court ordering him to pay $3
aweek. About a year afterward these
payments ceased. Mrs. Harper visited
New Haven with Brooklyn friends last
week to have Harper arrested again. In-
vestigation, however, shOWed that Harper
had secured a divorce from her October
17, on the ground of adultery, and that on
November 30, 1888, he had married Miss
Alice Carney. Mrs. Harper now states
that she will have the divorce annulled if
possible.
Breeder-s of fancy Jersey stock will be
interested in the notice issuen by the Hon.
William R. Hurd of Forestville, secretary
of the Connecticut Cattle Breeders’ asso-
ciation. It reads as follows :—“At a
meeting of the American Jersy Cattle club
held last week in New York. it was de-
cided to allot $200 to each of the five
state fairs exhibiting the largest number
of Jerseys at their 889 fairs, two allot-
ments to be made to the states east of
Alleghanies and three west of them. The
sums allotted will be competed for at the
1890 fairs as follows: $150 to the best bull
and his progeny; $50 to the best cow.
Thus it is of importance to the Jersey
interests of Connecticut that a large ex-
hibit be made at Meriden next month.
The court of burgesses was called to-
gether yesterday morning by Warden
At a borough meeting some
time since a vote was passed instructing
the water commissioner to connect the
borough and South Norwalk water mains
on West avenue with a gate, so that in
case of need, in either place, a supply
could be had, and the price for the water
was to be $100 a day. It seems this they
have never done, and the court passed a
vote that they be called on to do it imme-
diately, not that there is any present need
of it, but there is some trouble with the
water works. It seems that on Monday
it was discovered that there was only a
small flow of water from the upper reser-
voir. At night there is an increase of
water at the distributing reservoir, hilt
not enough to make up for the quantity
used in the day time, so there is a gradual
decrease each day. There is a number of
theories as to the cause, but as yet none
authentic are known.—-Record.
Probably most people have read at one
time and another in the New York papers
cuts at country journalism and ridicule. of
some items the country papers print.
“John Smith has painted his fence,” some-
one else has shingled his barn or someone
else has gone visiting, are the items gen-
erally chosen as texts by the would be wits
who think clams are caught with a hook
and line and that pumpkins are wild ani-
mals that are hunted with dog and gun.
But has any country paper ever printed
an item more sloppy and silly than the
following which appeared in the Stamford
correspondence of one of the great dailies
one day last week: “Dora Ineza Sprague,
wife of ex-Governor Sprague, appeared in
this town last Sunday, at the funeral of her
grandfather, Nelson D. Scofield, wearing
a black dress and bonnet, white gloves and
No. 13 white kid boots on her tiny feet.
This attracted much attention, as Mrs.
Sprague is over five feet in height.”—
Bridgeport Post.
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James Rogers, the clever young all-
around player of the Norwalk,team, met
with a sad accident in Thursday’s game
between Norwalk and New Haven at the
latter place. Rogers was playing center
field, and in the first inning while running
for a fly ball he collided with Chadwick,
the second baseman, and both men fell
heavrly. Rogers was helped from the
field, and it was found that the bone of
his right leg had been fractured below
the knee. Catcher Moolic accompanied
him to his home in East Bridgeport, and
Dr. Hubbard set the broken limb. Rogers
will not be able to play again this season.
What makes the case worse is the fact
that Rogers is a clever polo player, and
was to have been given a trial by one of
the. teams of this league at the opening of
the coming season. Now, of course,
this project will have to be abandoned.—
Farmer.
LEAVENING POWER
0f the various Baking Powders illus-
’ tutor! from actual tutu.
ROYAL (Pure
GRAI'I‘S" (Alum). . . .—
RUII’ORD'S' (fresh). . .—
uArIronn's (when run.) —
CHARM * (Alum Powder)..—
DAVIS’ * and 0. K.‘ (Alum)—
CLEVELAID’S................-—
Proms (San Francisco). ...—
czAn ...................... .....—
na.riucr’s ....... .............._
snow rtAKi-z (Grofl‘s) ...... ......—
corlcruass .............. .......—
HECKER’S .......... . ......... ......—
Glut-IT'S ............................ —
HANFORD'S (None Such), when not fresh. .—
PEARL (Andrews & Co.) .......... . ..... —
RUMFORD’S * (Phosphate), when not fresh. ..—
Reports of Government Chemists.
“ The Royal Baking Powder is composed of
pure and wholesome ingredients. It does not
contain either alum or phosphates, or other in-
jurious substances—EDWARD G. LOVE, Ph.D."
“ The Royal Baking Powder-is undoubtedly
the purest and most reliable baking powder
offered to the public.
" HENRY A. MOTT, M. D., Ph. D."
“ The Royal Baking Powder is purest in qual-
ity and highest in strength of any baking pow-
der of which I have knowledge.
" WM. MCMURTRIE, Ph. D."
* All Alum baking powders, no matter how
high their strength, are to be avoided as dan-
gerous. Phosphate powders liberate their gas
too freely. or under climatic changes suffer de-
terroration.
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Why don’t you try Carter’s Little Liver
Pills? They are a positive cure for sick
headache, and all the ills produced by dis-
ordered liver. Only one pill a dose.
DIED.
STREET.—-In Norwallr, August 26th, Wm. Jarvis
Street, aged 19 years.
Dr. FOREST—In Wilton, August 20th, Charles De-
Forest, in the 93d year of his age.
DIARBIED
SMITH—BEERs.—-At Bedding, Sept. 1. by Rev. W.
J. Jennings. Mr. Francis Smith and Miss Lydia
A. Beers, both of Westport.
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Family Horse For Sale.
AN Extra Large and Fine Family Horse for
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0 ' nova—-
RS. GEORGE W. BRADLEY. (daughter of
the late Wm. R. Nash ) desrres
p u p l L s
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For Sale Cheap.
SECOND-HAND Cast Iron Fence, with gate
all in perfect order and as d as new,
adont 120 feet in length. Will be so a at a sacri-
flcelf applied for soon. Enquire at
soft. GAZETTE OFFICE
Agents Wanted.
To SELL MOTHER’S SAL'VE. A good
percentage allowed. Address,
MOTHER’S SALVE 00.,
Norwalk, Conn.
1‘0 BEN '1'.
MALL Cottage with seven well appointed
rooms, within five minutes walk of the bridge.
Rent reasonable and possession given immediate-
ly. Enquire at the GAZETTE Office,or.of
CHARLES OLMSTEAD.
For Sale.
rl‘WO seated wagon with leather half top, newly
dune up in fine leather. A bargain at half
price. Address
HENRY TILLY, South Norwallr, Conn., or
MRS. V. COLYER. Rowayton, Conn. 413
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A RAG BABY
Under the Management of
CHAPMAN & SELLERS.
Reserved Seat Chart now open at Plaisted’s, So.
glgr‘walk; Hale’s, Nor-walk; J. C. Randall’s, Winni-
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MISS BAIRD’S INSTITUTE.
Bnaliiitliayiclnul
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Young Ladies and Children,
An efficient Teacher has been engaged for the
Primary Department.
The Languages. Music and Art will be taught by
Teachers of ability and experience.
Pupils are prepared for Wellesey, Mount 1101-
yoke, or the Normal Schools.
Applications for the entrance of pupils should
be made previous to September 19th.
For Circulars and any other information in re-
gard to the school, please call upon or address,
lm36 MISS N. F. BAIRD.
Sewing Machines.
F every kind and make. repaired. cleaned
and guaranteed. All orders left at
Spencer’s Jewelry Store,
Will receive prompt attention. ,
4tp36 C. J. GRUMAN.
PORTRAITS
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OIL. PASTEL 0R CRAYON
Elegant work, at lowest Prices, by
E. T. WHITNEY,
Formerly of Norwalk. Leave orders at Art De-
partment of BOSTON STORE, 2d Floor, Nor-
walx, Conn. 36
To: Oolllector’s Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons liable to
pay taxes to the town of Norwalk, in the
County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut. on
the Assessment List of 1883, that I will meet them
to receive said taxes at the following times
and places, to wit :— .
At the store of Hanford .1; Osborn, East Nor-
walk, (Dowu Town), on Friday, September 13th,
1889, from 10 o’clock, forenoon, until 12:30, after-
neon.
At the store of J. C. Randlt, Winnlpank, Fri-
day, September 13, 1889, from 3 o’clock until 4:30
o’clock, afternoon.
At the store of Alphonso Dibble, at South Five
Mile River, on Friday, September 13th, 1889, from
5:30 o’clock, afternoon, until 8:16 o’clock. evening.
At the office of the Selectmen,in the Savings
Bank Building, 13 the Borough of Norwalk, in
said Towu of Norwalla, on Saturday, September
14th. from 9 o’clock, forenoon, until 3 o’clock,
afternoon, and from“! o’cldck until 8 o’clock in
the evening. .
For the present, Mr. Charles H. Wheeler, at the
Selectmen’s Office, Norwalk, and John w. Date,
at the store of Walter C. Quintard, South Nor-
walk. are authorized to receive taxes for me and
sign receipts.
On all taxes which shall remain unpaid after
the 14th day of October, 1889, interest at the rate
of NINE PER CENT. will be charged from the 14th
day of September, 1889, until the same shall be
paid
GEORGE B. ST. JOHN, Collector.
In and for said Town of Norwalk on the List
1 1888. 3U?
Dated at Norwalk. Conn., August 226, 1889.
FOR SALE.
[EST-CLASS RESIDENCE, containing thir-
teen rooms, including Bath Room, together
wlth‘sCarrrage House. Barn and Stables combined,
not and cold water-{gram with excellent furnace, all
in complete order. Owner eXpects to leave this part
of the country and will dispose of the same for
much less than its worth. One- half of purchase
price can remain on mortgage at 6 per cent. inter-
est. For further particulars inquire of
CHARLES OLMSTEAD,
Lock Box 35, Norwalk, Conn.
August 16th, 1889. , “34
Probate Sale of Real Eslal.
URSUANT to an order of the Court of Pro-
bate for the District of Norwalk, the sub-
scriber, administrator of the estate of WM. R.
NASH, late of N orwalk, 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, censlstlng of dwelling house,and out bulld-
rngs in good repair, with about two acres of land
attached, also, the premises adjoining, on the
Wilton road, wrth good dwelling house nicely ar-
ranged for two families. Both of these places,
contain borough water and are located on line of
horse railway. Also about ten acres of desirable
land situate in the town of Ridgefleld, a short dis-
tance from the railroad depot, suitable for farm
or building purposes.
For further particulars apply to
CHAS. OLMSTEAD. Administrator.
Norwalk, Conn., J ul y, 230, 1889. 2",
J ump-Seat Carriage
For Sale at a Bargain.
J amp-Seat Carriage, one of Stlvers’ best city-
make, made to order. Strong enough for
four and light enough for two. A neat and very
handy vehicle.
0081' $500
WILLBESOLD
FOR. $150
if applied for soon, as owner has no use for it.
Apply at
3t28p DAN N’S LIVERY STABLE
For Sale at a. Sacrifice.
A SMALL GOTTAIE
within three minutes walk of the
Bridge, and possession given imme-
diately. It is in good. repair; Cost
$3,000 and will be sold for $2,000,
one half of which can remain on
Bond and Mortgage at 5 per cent. if
purchaser so desires.
For further particulars Enquire of
GEN. CHARLES OLMSTEAD or
O. E. WILSON. tf32
large Ollie-e Room to Rent.
N GAZETTE Building, second floor front,
formerly editorial rooms of the GAZETTE.
Enquire of . ,
CHAS. OLMS'I‘EAD, Norwalk.
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For Sale.
A. COMBINATION Billiard and Pool Table, in
first-class condition. Everything complete.
For sale at a sacrifice. Apply at this office. 281i
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Norwalk Chronicler