\\ \ l/ffimn/ ESTABLISHED 1800 VOLUME} LXXXIX. 1. An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests. NORWALK, CONN., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1889. Two DOLLARS A YEAR NUMBER 38. Norwalk Gazelle. TERMS 0 F SUBSGRIPTIDI. as? Two Dollars per year, in advance.‘€§3ll RATES FOR ADVERTISING AND 103 PRINTING nished on a ilication at the Office. glidinary and triihsient advs., l inch,_1 week, $1.90 Each subsequent insertion, up to 4 times, .30 Half inch, half of above rates. . _ One column, ordinary adv., one time, - 1.2.00 One column, reading matter, one time, ' 20.00 LOCALS in reading matter columns, per line, .20 Births, Marriages and Deaths inserted free. Advertising of Funeral Notices, - - 1.00 Liberal terms to yearly and half-yearly advertis~ ers, and ten per cent. discount on all advs. pre- paid for three months or over. THE GAZETTE JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT is equipped with the best facilities for turning out: "first Class Work of every description. ' All orders for frinting. Engraving and Book Binding, execu- ted piomptly, and will be as well and reasonably done :5 anywhere. . LOCAL ITEMS. Editor Ellendorf pursued Judge Knapp wih a long stick last Saturday. Miss Annie Babe, of Orange, N. J ., who was rusticatin'g in town, returned to her home last week. An Oregon girl wrote to Anna .Dickin- son once, asking “How to get a husband?” and Anna replied, “By the hair.” The man who will invent a noiseless rubber tire for the milk wagon will dc- serve to rank with Bell and Edison. Rosie Rowe’s biidget of “Random Ram- blings” is unavoidably crowded out of this issue by an unusual number of lengthy articles. The London strikers refuse to accept the offered terms of the employers’ com- mittee and, therefore. matters remain un- changed. Miss Kittie Nodine, who has been spend- ing two or three weeks in toWn visiting friends, returned to her home' in New York last week. Sarah Althea Terry has expressed a wish to be buried by the side of her late husband. There is no objection to that from this section. Let the interment go our-California Paper. Senator Hawley thinks avpopnlalion of 190,000 to a congressional district about right, which would not increase represen- tation, but leave it where it is. Old Sport Campana, of Bridgeport, will clown it as usual, in the seventy-two hours walking-match to be held in New Haven, beginning next Monday evening. Fred. Taylor, for a long time city editor of the South Norwalk Republican, has taken a position on the Norwalk GAZETTE. We congratulate both parties—Danburg News. Rev. Samuel Dunham of Binghampton, . N. Y., occupied the pulpit of the Fair Haven First Congregational church Sun- day morning. Mr. Dunham is a Yale alumnus. People who are complaining that Amer- ican peaches are high this year, should find consolation in the fact that prime ones ai'e‘now selling in London for sixty- two cents apiece. Mr. Coleman, who was the expert judge on horses at the fair, was a pupil of E. C. Baldwin sixteen years ago in Norwalk, and their meeting was a pleasant one.— Pittsfield Call. Mr. and Mrs. James Sutherland, and A. G. Betts and Fred Betts, of this office, went on the Housatonic railroad excursion to Niagara Falls last Friday, returning Monday morning. , Steve Brodie jumped from the back of a tight-rope walker on a cable into the .ar- tificial lake at Bierle’s park, Cleveland, 0., Sunday, a distance of 100 feet. Five thou- sand spectators were present. Directors who don’t direct, auditors who don’t audit, and trustees who are un- faithful to their trusts are largely respon- sible for the numerous dcfalcations which have already made 1889 notable in crim- inal annals. J/ M. Benedict has turned his grocery l? fisiness at the corner of Main and School streets, over to Mr. Fred. Byxbee, and has opened a music and notion store on the Washington street carriage-bridge, at South Norwalk. ~ That sparkling and excellent newspaper, the Willimantic Journal, of which F. E. Beach, formerly of the GAZETTE, is editor, is now printed in its new office which is described as palatial. It is well deserving of the best quarters it can get. _ John W. Ashley has opened a fashion— able restaurant under the Hawes’ Opera House in Bridgeport. The place is ele-- gantly fitted up and will be sure, under Mr. Ashley’s able management, to fill a long felt want in the Park City. Sporting men in New York wear trout flies for scarf.pins. This is about as near to catching trout as many of them. go.— Harfford Post. ‘ A fish-hook would be more appropriate as indicating their propensity for catching suckers. F. Gordon Mead, son of Frederick i ead, who is filling an engagement with Gardiner-’3 dramatic company now play- ing in the south, is already gaining dis- inction as an actor. On Thursday evening f last week the company presented “Only -: Farmer’s Daughter,” in Frederick, Md., ., nd the local papers paid a flattering com- pliment to young Mead’s ability. The Adjutant—General, Sons of Veterans, reports the accessions during the past year to have been 13,600 men; the Surgeon—- General reported 50,000 members able to bear arms; there are over 300 members past 45 years of age; the oldest son of a veteran is 65. A constitutional amendment rally will be held at Parlor Rock Grove on Tuesday next, September 17, under the auspices of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. The meeting will be addressed by Mrs. McLaughlin. Mrs. Forbes and other prominent speakers will be present. The reunion of the old Seventh Connec— ticut Volunteers takes place at Bloomfield to—day. General P'awley will be present, and Judge Chamberlain, of New Britain, has received a letter from Chaplain Wes— lyan announcing his intention of being present for the first time in ten years. “How to be Good though Homely” is the title of a recent book. It is suspected tha the author is a resident of Middle- town.—-Ansom'a Sentinel. The same author has now in prepara- tion, another book on “How o be Hon- est, though a member of the legislature.” The Colyer family, who have passed so delightful a summer at the Walter Fitch place, return today to their home in New York. “Uncle” Walter is almost incon- solable over the loss of “that boy,” as he has no one left to go ‘fcowing” with him now. His sense of bereavement is pitiful to behold. Among the passengers on board the White Star steamer Britannic, which ha such a narrow escape from destruction b a fierce fire which broke out in the cotton in her hold while at sea, Was little Harry Geode, grandson of Mr. Henry I. Hoyt, of Norwalk, who, with his father, Mr. Brent Goode, was en route to England for an extensive tour. Stamford Record: Norwalk men have just had completed at Bath, Me., the larg- est coasting vessel owued in this vicinity. The vessel is a three masted schooner, 167 feet long on her keel; 35 feet 8 inches beam ; 16 feet 8 inches deep. She is 1,500 tons burden and has been named the Jen- nie May. Capt. Oscar St. John of Nor‘ walk, will command he I have found by experience, says the editor of one of our'exchangcs, that little red ants cannot travel over wool or rag carpet. Icovered my floor with coarse baize, set my sofa on that, and have not been troubled since. Cover a shelf in your closet or pantry with flannel, set whatever you wish to keep from the ants on it, and they will at once disappear. I have tried it. A sad case has recently come to light in the suburbs of Middletown. Magic Stew- art returned to her home to give birth to an illegitimate child. Grief at his daugh- ter’s disgrace caused her father to cut his throat and nearly succeed in killing him- self. Grief at her own disgrace caused insanity and Maggie was removed to the insane asylum at Middletown a few days since. The schooner “Era,” owned by J. A. Williams & Co., of New London, which makes a trip annually with provisioas to the Whalers in the Arctic regions, arrived in port on Friday morning. Her captain, John O. Spicer, kept right on his way de- Spite the gale and was the first man to enter port in the gale. The “Era” left port last June. The latest fad of the upper ten in Lake- ville, as reported in the Canaan News, is the “rag-tag” party. “The invitations, to the number of seventy, were written on common brown paper, in' doggerel verse, requesting each hidden guest to come in clothes that were tattered and torn from head to foot, and that a prize would be given to the wearer of the worst looking suit.” ' The second trial of Rudolph Stoeffel for the murder of Andrew J. Peck, a wealthy farmer of Newtown, is on the Superior court docket for trial in October. The gun with which the killing was done is said to have been found buried in the dooryard of Stoefiel’s house. This, how- ever, is denied by Sheriif Glover, who characterizes the report as a “fake.” ' Rev. T. DeWitt ’l‘almage says :—My opinion is that three-fourths of the suc- cessful men of the dav owe much of their prosperity to the wife’s help. The load of life is so heavy it takes a team of two to draw it. The ship wants not only a captain, but a first mate. Solomon says a good wife is from the Lord, but took it for granted that we might easily guess where the other kind comes from. Major Frank M. Welch of Bridgeport, commandant of the Fifth battalion (col- ored), who was detected stealing cigars in Bridgeport a few days ago will probably be forced to retire from the militia on that account. Assistant Adjutant General White said Sunday night that he had received no official information of Major Welch’s mis- conduct, but if the reports were true the major would probably be given an oppor- tunity to resign. Colonel White added that previously Major Welch had had ‘a very good reputation as an officer, but if he failed to resign he might be court- martialcd. Enoch Scribner, aged 70, died at his home in Eldorado, Wis., last month. He was a native of Norwalk, and a cousin of Marketman Dickerman. Deceased, with his brother, Hon. J. K. Scribner, left Nor- walk in 1850 for the West, At the funeral, says the Fon du Lac Commonwealth, “Germans, Irish, Americans, Protestants and Catholics all were present, thus testi- fying the universal esteem in which Mr. Scribner was held.” The base ball game on the Baxter Grounds on Monday afternoon between the doctors and the druggists, for the ben- efit of the hospital fund, was not as largely attended as the game deserved. There were any number of brilliant plays on both Sides, but perhaps the most brilliant thing about the whole battle was the daz- zling uniforms of the doctors. The game rgsulted in a victory for the doctors, 18 to 1 . Biglow, of the Portland Record, “had ’em again” last week, and the result is, a black snake that swallowed a woodchuck and the trap in which the chuck was caught, dragged the 24-foot trap-chain, andaIOO-pound stone to which it was anchored, a distance of half a mile through the woods. The owner of the trap fol- lowed the trail and came upon the “sar- pint” sitting on his tail trying to shake the stone loose from the chain. Neighbor Bigelow, how do you mix your drinks ? Mr. John Collins is becoming very pop- nlar as “mine host” since he resumed charge of the American House. The cake and cane walk at the Odd Fel- lows Hall in the Gazette building, on Thursdayevening was a pleasant adult.— Norwalk Con. Journal. Barring a couple of trivial inaccuracies, these two items are correct. Mr. John Collins has not resumed charge of the American House, and the cake walk was postponed till tomorrow night. Attorney John S. Seymour celebrated the tenth anniversary of his marriage, by giving a family ride to Belle Island and the shore, Tuesday, in Dann’s wagonett, and ending up with a supper at Dorlon’s. The party came near enacting the role of “Pharoah and his hosts attempting to cross the Red Sea,” on their return home. as the water over the road this side of Dorlon’s was up to the carriage hubs and the howling winds blew such a gale that Mr. Seymour’s newest hat was blown far out to sea and he had to make his way home with his head covered only by the darkness of the ni ht. Nevertheless, it was a most enjoyab e afiair.—Record. Mr. Edward Purcuple of Norwalk drove his horse to the Atlantic Square tank, Wed- nesday afternoon, and then took the bridle off so the horse could drink. The animal immediately ran away. dashing the beach wagon against Fitzgerald’s express wagon, overturning the vehicle and throwing C. D. Taylor of Norwalk, who was in the wagon, out under the vehicle. A crowd of men lifted it from the prostrate man. and Officer Hickey picked him up and carried him into J. K. Lawrence’s drug store. He soon re- gained consciousness, and besides a scalp wound and injury to his knee-cap was not much hurt. Mr. Purcuple paid Fitzgerald $3. for damages to his express wagon.— iStamford Record Harper’s Weekly, in an article on “The Railroad in Politics,” says : Afavorite cry of would-be reformers, who derive serious enjoyment by yelping at fancied as well as actual, social, and econom’c wrongs, incapable of distin- guishing one from the other, and utterly unconscious of facts, is that the railroad companies are constantly seeking to cor- rupt our Legislatures. The Sun remarks that the above is “an accurate description of the Rev. Washing- ton Gladden.” It might have added that it is also a partial description of some other cranks gone daft on the same sub- ject. Ens. NORWALK GAZETTE :—I accept your challenge to utter a prophecy and send it to the GAZETTE and here it is: That who- ever lives five years will see mighty changes in the sentiment of the people in favor of state and national prohibition and so pro- nounced that old party newspapers will be constrained to cry out in the language of the Godlike Daniel (Webster) after he had surrendered his convictions and manhood “in the interest of \peace” to the slave power, “and where shall I go?” S. M. MAIN. New York, September 12, 1889. Colonel. W. H. Stevenson acted the part of guest instead of host this time. The Housatonic railroad officials tendered him a complimentary banquet at Lewis’ East End Resort on Friday evening, which was an elaborate and felicitous affair, as sur— prising as it was gratifying to the genial colonel, who is no less interesting as guest than as entertainer. Julian H. Sterling, the draughtsman of the road, presided at the table, and toasts were de— livered by Colonel Stevenson, Superin- intendent Lyon, of the Housatonic; Su— perintendent Payne, of the Danbury 85 Norwalk; Superintendent Hopson, of the New Haven & Derby; A. W. Perrin, general passenger agent; Harry Rider, master mechanic, and other officials. “ ‘The summer of ’89,” says the Norfolk Tower, “will be remembered as one of the most prosperous that Norfolk has yet had.” City people by the drove have visited that beautiful and elevated town to watch the festive grasshopper, to chase the elusive butterfly, to gather the gold-eyed daisy, to bathe their heads in the clouds and to buy neighbor Spaulding’s Tower. The rapid growth of London is an old story, yet it may interest some people to learn that since 1848 the great city has re- ceived half a million new houses and nearly two thousand miles of new streets. Between 1878 and 1888 the average increase in street mileage was more than fifty miles a year. This may astonish some persons in this ountry who any have an idea that only rapid enlargement of cities is to be found on this continent. The influx of emigration to England from foreign countries is simply enormous, and must, from necessity, soon be checked or Serious consequences will ensue. The numbers of Littel’s Lining Age for September 7th and 14th contain The Papacy; a Revelation and a Prophecy, Mr. Wallace on D ai-winism, by George J. Romanes, F. R. S., and the Civil Lists and Grants to the Royal Family, Contemporary Review; The French in Germany, Nineteenth Century; Giordana Bruno, Fortnightly; Some Few Thackerayena, National; In Macedonia, Wiiliam Cowper, Hippolytus Veiled, and Orlando Bridgman Hyman, Macmillan’s; Seen and Lost, Longman’s; In Praise of the Carnots, Murray’s; The Papacy, Spectator; wrth installments of “Sir Charles Danvers,” “A Modern Novelist,” and “Patience,” and poetry. For 52 numbers of 64 large pages each the subscription price ($8) is low, while for $10.50 the publishers offer to send any one of the American $4 monthlies or week- lies with the Living Age for a year, both postpaid. Littell &Co, of Boston, are the publishers. ED. GAZETTE :—Durin g Sherman’s march to the sea some men whom the under- signed personally knew, while foraging for victuals, captured three wagons with three. fee and one bank teller, but not till 11?; desperate melee. Generals Sherm n and Slocum were present and settled the dispute as to what should be done'with the prize money. Every man’s name was written down who took part in the fracas, and the money contained in the three safes, amounting to $325,000 in , gold and silver was to be equally divided among the captors as prize money. A special guard was detailed to take the money to Washington, and since that time none of the captors have heard of nor seen any of the money. REUBEN M. Ross. On Saturday evening a valuable English setter dog belonging :to a wealthy New York broker was sent to 0. L. Bassett to train. Sunday morning Mr. Bassett took the’dog out into the lot for a run. Sud- denly the dog started on a swift run around the lot in a wide circle gradually coming toward the center where its trainer stood. On approaching Mr. Bassett the dog made a jump for his throat, and it was discovered that it was frothing at the month. Bassett fought the maddened animal off at every leap, at the same time backing away toward the fence. On reaching the fence he vaulted over it and climbed a tree. The dog attempted to follow him, and snapped at the tree and fence so viciously as to break off two of its tushes. At last it started to run around the lot again, which it continued to do until it dropped exhausted. Bassett then went to it and found it in Spasms. The animal died in a few minutes. It was worth $500. Hon. Henry Barnard, of Hartford, for fifty years so well known in Connecticut and elsewhere by his works in the cause of education writes to a friend in Norwalk: “I wish to learn something of a Mr. Ar- nold who had a collection of birds in Norwalk as early as 1774, and which was sold to an English gentleman, and after- ward became part of the British museum. John Adams speaks of visiting it in Nor- walk in 1773-4, in his works, Volume fourth, and also in London. If there is anything in print about Mr. Arnold and his collection Iwould be glad if you would refer me to it, or any manin Norwalk to whom I can write. The man who made the earliest or one of the earliest collec— . tions in natural history deserves to be commemorated.” Any one who possesses any information on this subject will confer a favor by communicating it to the GAZETTE, to Hon. Henry Barnard, or to Rev. S. B. S. Bis- sell, Norwalk, Conn. Messrs. Raymond & Whitcomb announced their annual series of winter excursions to California, November 14 and December 12 being the opening dates. There are to be ten trips in all, extending through the winter months, and every party will travel in vestibuled Pullman palace cars of the larest and most elegant style. One or more dining-cars will form a part of every train. The November and December parties will go westward via Chicago and Kansas City traveling over the popular Rock Islan route between those points, and the Santa Fe west of the Missouri River. The scope of the excursions has been greatly enlarged this year, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, San J Ose, Mount Hamilton, and San Rafael being included in the list of laces to be visited. There are four return- ing routes with fifteen east-bound parties under special escort, and the tickets are equally good for use independently on any train. In fact, the ticket-holder can exercise his own preference in everything, selecting his own places of sojourn, and moving about as he pleases, the return tickets being good for use until July. At the same time he can procure hotel coupons good at any of the leading resorts at reduced rates, for a. day. or for months. In February there will be an excursion under the firm’s management, from San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands. The November party will reach California in time to participate in the opening festivi- ties at The Raymond. In addition to the California excursions, four tours throu h Mexico are announced for J anus. 13t , February 10th, and March 3d an 10th, Descriptive circulars may be obtained of W. Raymond, 296 Washington street, Boston. The audience room of the Methodist church which has been greatly enriched and beautified duringthe last several weeks, will be opened for service next Sunday. Rev. S. F. Upham, D. D. of Drew Theological seminary, will preach at 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. in. On Wed— nesday evening, the 25th inst. a reopening concert of vocal and instrumental music will be given. An attractive programme for this entertainment is being prepared under the direction of Mr. Henry P. Price. An enjoyable time is promised, and all are cordially invited. The basement chapel of the Danbnry Roman Catholic church was consecrated Sunday morning and a chime of bells in the afternoon. The bells were given by the ladies of the parish, and this is said to be the only instance in this country where the ladies have borne the whole cost of such a gift. It is the only chime of bells in a Catholic church in this dio- cesc. The morning sermon was by Father Doonan of New York, and that in the afternoon by Father O’Connor of the same city. BishOp McMahon and sixteen priests were present at the services. The parish has raised $70,000 in the last two years. “New Canaan Kate,” who oscillates with the regularity of a pendulum, be- tween her country residence at the Nor- walk alms house and her city home in the Bridgeport jail, got drunk again on Fri- day, and arming herself with a big butch- er knifc, ran amuck through the alms house cvincing a desire for gore and» human tripe. Chief Lockwood was sum- moned, and, on arriving at the scene, Kate, in a paroxysm of affection, fell on his neck and wept. .The chief put her in the lockup where she remained until Sat- urday morning, when Judge Selleck gave hera homily from the text, “Virtue is its own reward,” which was made all the more impressive with the accompanying penalty of sixty days in limbo. Some genius of a Rider Haggard turn- of mind, who is on the Norwalk GAZETTE, tells a story to the effect that a man’s horse stopped short in a road near Nor- walk, Saturday night, frightened at what appeared to be a log lying across the road. The driver went up to the log and kicked it, when to his horror he perceived that it was a gigantic snake. He fled and the huge reptile slowly crawled into the woods, tearing down underbrush and tearing bark off of trees in its course. The details of the story make it one of the finest pieces of lying known to Con necticut journalism for many years.— New Haven Palladium. - We have since lcarned'that the story was not strictly true. Later develop- ments prove that the supposed “snake” was nothing more nor less than a West- port bar-room philosopher in a comatose condition superinduced by a too copious ndnlgence in that which biteth like a serpent and stingcth like an adder, which condition, all the same is pi'overbially fa- vorable to the conjuring up of visions of big devils and little devils, scorpions and snakes of all shapes. lengths, styles and varieties. It has come to light that this wearied individual, on partially regaining his obfuscated senses, long after midnight, wandered aimlessly off the road, and on arriving at Walter Fitch’s farm was sud- denly awakened to a realizing sense of the fact that he had lost his hat, and after revolving the matter in his befuddled mind he hit upon a plan and proceeded to put it into execution. Wiggling his un- certain way to Mr. Fitch’s front piazza he pounded on the door with a vigor that threatened to break it down and would have aroused a whole neighborhood if the nearest neighbor had lived less than a mile away. Presently a second-story win- dow opened and Mr. Fitch’s sleepy voice drawled out: “Who’s there?” “Ish me, 01’ (hie) feller,” responded Gambrinus cheerily as he clung to the door-knob for support. “Well, what’s wanted?” came from the regions above. “Come down (hie) an’ I’ll tell you ; you don’t ’spo-(hic)— pose I’m a long-distance tele-(hic)-phone, do you ?” Walter growled to himself, went down in his night-shirt, opened the door, and his visitor staggered in and seated himself in a parlor chair and in- stantly dropped asleep. Walter stood still for some moments, lost in profound admiration for the fellow’s sublime check, then took his caller by the collar, yanked him to his feet and demanded to know the object of his visit. After considera- ble maudlin palaver Walter was enabled to grasp the situation. The object of the visitor was to enlist the aid of Mr. Fitch and a lanternlin a search for the lost hat. The scheme was nipped in the bud, how- ever, by the shrill voice of Mrs. Fitch at the head of the stairs, imperatively com- manding Walter to “turn that man right out, lock up the house and come right back to bed; you don’t know but he is a burglar and we’ll all be murdered and robbed.” Agreeable to this_ injunction ,Walter gave his visitor the gritnd bounce, loaded a gun and put it under his pillow, and retired to sleep with one eye open for emergencies. His caller, however, made no further demonstration, but staggered of! down the road sniging, “OH! Where (hie) did you GET that hat,whcre DID you you GET that (hie) but i” Leverett Brainard, of the publishing house of Case, Lockwood d: Brainard, Hartford, has been chosen director of the Consolidated road, to succeed the late Geo. H. lVatrous. On Monday the stuck- holders met in New York, when it was voted to approve of the amendment to the charter granted by the last legislature, al- lowing an increase of capital s‘ock. The secretary read an address stating the do- ings of the directors at their meeting held in New York Saturday. The most. “inter- esting portion of this was the statement that of the increase of $35,000,000 in the capital stock of the company allowed by the legislative amendment to the charter, $3,100,000 would be the first issue. The certificates of the new stock will be issued on the first day of October, and as the stock will then begin to participate in the January dividend, the purchasers must pay interest from October lst. on delayed payments at the rate of ten per cent. The address also stated that for five shares of stock now held, the stockholders could have one new share at par. The stock- holders will be allowed the whole of October in which to decide whether to take up the allotments of stock which will fall to them. —In consequence oi the annexation of the building recently used by the Y. M. C.‘ A. to the original establishment of Messrs. W. R. Hall & Co. ail of the departments are made larger. The colored dress goods stock which was the largest in the state has been placed in the original cloak room near the elevator, and has three times the former room. The black goods stock has twice the former space as also the velvets and Silks. Gents’ furnishings are at the right near the door. A new iibbon section has been opened at the left. The ladies’ merino underwear and corset sec- tions are on the Cannon street side and have twice the original space. The Yankee notion and small ware department are twice the former size. Cloaks are on the third floor and the fur-repairing rooms and the dress-making and cloak-making to order rooms are on the third floor. A large new and handsome elevator continu- ally runs to all of these departments. In the old house are the Butterick patterns, corsets, corset waistes and ladies under- wear which are reached by stairway in the center of the store. ,_ The Bridgeport Standard of the 10th inst. thus speaks of the enlargements and alterations :— The opening of the several new depart- ments and the additional space forthe dis- , play of regular goods has been a decided success at the big establishment of W. B. Hall & Co. Every lady who visits the store has something to say about the great improvements that have been made. There is now plenty of room for crowds of people to do their shopping without an- noyance. The ribbon department has been removed and enlarged and a gents’ furnishing department is added. Both these counters are near the main entrance. The fast black hosiery department is very large of itself and the stock is bewildering in extent. The dress goods department occupies the space of the old cloak room. It has been enlarged three times. There is a flood of light here from all sides. The new elevator works perfectly and takes customers from one floor to another in a jiffy. On the second floor of the ad- ditional brick building is the cloak room, which is handsomely furnished and well ventilated and lighted. There are three rooms for fitting ladies cloaks. On the next floor above is the custom cloak de- partment in charge of Mrs. Hartshorne. Here it is that cloaks and new furs are made to order. The dress making rooms are delightfully pleasant and the scores or more of dress- makers under direction of Mrs. M. R. Connor have everything except wealth to make them comfortable and happy. Mrs. Mable has charge of the fur repairing de- partment, and the cloak fitting rooms are in care of Mrs. Benjamin. There are spa- cious toilet rooms on each floor and the apartments throughout are finished in splendid style. Altogether Mr. Hall has directed and accomplished a change which will be appreciated by the shopping public in general. ‘ _._. In The Mineral World. In the northern center of Alabama,on the main line of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, thirty miles south of Anniston and thirty miles east. of Birming- ham, lies Nottingham, the next coming city of that wonderful iron-producing State. Its present railroad facilities and others now building, its forests of yellow pine, its im- mense hematite iron ore and limestone de- posits, its proximity to coal and its agricul- tural resources, make it the most promising location in that State, and destined in the near future to rival its phenomenal neigh- bors, Birmingham and Anniston. Many en- terprises are already located there and nego- tiations are in pro ress for two Blast F ur— naces, 9. Cotton an Silk Mill, Water and electric Light Plant and many other indus- tries. The enterprises now existing there to- gether with those now under negotiation, and the influx of population consequent there- upon, coupled with the willingness of the Nottingham Iron and Land Company to assist any new enterprises desirous of there locating, must and will add largely to the value of Nottingham real estate if we may judge from the example of Birmingham, whose p0pulation increased from 3,000 in 1883 to 40,000 in January, 1889, and of An- niston,which in the last three years has in- creased from 2,300 to 14,000. The Birming- ham Land Co. has paid 500 per cent. per annum for the past six years. The Notting- ham Iron and Land Company, at its office, No. 47 Broadway, New York City, is now prepared to sell lots in Nottingham. Further articulars can be obtained of HENRY C. ARDEE, 838 Chapel St., New Haven, Conn.,who has been appointed General Agent for Connecticut. , . 4t37 GEORGE WYKES, J r., Secretary.
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