o u NORWALK ll GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 5. 1890- MOAN OF A DOUBTFU'L CONSCIENCE: Father of light. if we could only know In surety that the little good we (10 Served in its way to help some other soul, And that our piteous habit here below Of hoping what om‘ aching hearts want true, Would some time bring us to the longed for goal, Then would our way seem hopeful, clear and sweet, . And we should journey on with willing feet. 15 it so much, this guerdon that we ask? Now fear as heavy as new broken wings Hangs on us, lest we do unconscious wrong; But if upon us groping at our tasks Game the clear light that this assurance brings, There would be comfort for us sweet as song, And radiance and the breath of peace be there, Like soft leaf whisperings echoing everywhere. —Francis E. Sheldon. The Creole Character. The French creoles of the lower class are a hand to mouth class of people, purchasing the stick of wood today and the handful of herbs that are tocook and season their pot- age, filling their small market bags with in- numerable pinches of this, that and the other, laying in a few sons of sugar and cof- fee at a time, and going next day, for 365 days in the year, and doing identically the same thing, in saaccular saecculorum. Dis- like to the accumulation of household goods, to well stored cellars and pantries, to gener- ous abundance, to picturesque profusion, to the essentials of a large handed hospitality even within the narrow limits of their neigh- borhood acquaintances, an ant like economy and abstemiousness, a curious juxtaposi- tion of eternal self restraint and, a passion for sensations, colors, sounds, perfumes, fan- tastic sensualities, an instinct for microscopic money getting wedded to an instinct that has filled N cw Orleans with noble institutions for the poor, the blind, the sick, the world weary; a passion for novels and for splendid churches, a fond endurance of the rigors of cold and hunger for the brilliant offlorescence of ca- reme prenant and carnival, a voluntary exile from all laughter and joy that their raptuous feet may twinkle a night or two on the mir- rored floor of the masque balls down in Char- tres and Royal streets—such are the fragments of sweet and bitter herbs that go to make up part of the paradox of creole character, and communicate to it an indefinable piquancy and strangeness by their thick bars of light and shadow—Omaha World-Herald. The Invention of Spectacles. Few inventions have conferred a greater blessing on the human race than that which assists impaired vision. Dr. Johnson rightly expressed his surprise that such a benefactor as the discoverer of spectacles should have been regarded with indifference, and found no worthy biographer to celebrate his inge- nuity. Unfortunately, his name is amatter of much uncertainty; and, hence, a grateful posterity have been prevented from bestow- ing upon his memory that honor which it has so richly merited. But it may be noted that popular opinion has long ago pronounced in favor of a Florentine monk, as the rightful claimant, although some are in favor of Roger Bacon. M. Spoon, in his “Researches Curicueses d’Antiquite,” fixes the date of the invention or discovery of spectacles between the years 1280 and 1311, and says that Alexandre de Spina, having seen a pair made by some other person who was unwilling to communicate the secret of their construction, ordered a pair, discovered the secret and forthwith made it public. Italian antiquarians say that the person to whom Spina was indebted for his information was Salvino, who died in 1318, and quotes from an ancient manuscript his epitaph, which says: “Here lies Salvino Arnota do Armati of. Florence, the inventor of spectacles. May God pardon his sins.”— St. Louis Republic. Long Service Firemen. The Boston Journal reports that the order passed by the councils of that city to provide with badges firemen who have seen twenty- five years or more of continuous service in the department will “apply to about 100 men, and would reach more had not quite a num- ber left the department during the war and rejoined at its conclusion. The oldest mem- ber of the department is Capt. John Colligan, of Engine 18, in Dorchester, who has been on duty forty-three years. ' Next comes Hose- man Edwards, of Chemical 4, at Roslindale, with a record- of forty-two years, and then Call Assistant District Chief Delano, of Charlestown, with forty-one years of experi- ence. There is quite a list of men who have done duty between thirty and forty years, and included in the quarter century roll are Chief lVebster, District Chiefs Regan and Gaylord and Superintendent Flanders, of the fire alarm department.” How the Arabs Make Tea. The mistress of the tent, placing a large kettle on the fire, wiped it carefully with a horse’s tail, filled it with water, and then threw in some coarse tea and a little salt. When this was near the point of boiling she tamed the tea about with a brass ladle until the liquor became very brown, and then it was poured off into another vessel. Cleans- ing the kettle as before, the woman set it on the fire in order to fry apaste of meal and fresh butter. Upon this the tea and some thick cream was then poured and the ladle put in requisition again, and after a time the whole taken off the fire and set aside to cool. Half pint wooden mugs were handed around and the tea ladled into them, this tea form- ing meat and drink and satisfying both hunger and thirst. However made, tea is a. blessed invention for the weary traveler.— Exchange. French Industrial Associations. There are in France 877 associations of em- ployers, 891 of workingmen, and 597 of farm- ers. The workingmen’s associations, which were formerly political organizations, have become for the most part purely mutual benefit societies of late years. The agricul- tural societies do not agitate politically like our grangers. They are to a large extent oo-operative and technical. The Farmers’ association near Fontainebleau, for instance, owns a slaughter house at which every mem- ber has his cattle killed at very low prices. This and other similar co—operative devices of the French farmers’ associations show that the French peasant is not so stupid and help- lms as he is generally supposed to be.— Tradesman. What a Penny Did. The Pestalozzi society in Elberfield, some time ago, found a surplus of one penny (one- quarter of a cent) in its treasury. No one claimed it. The president of the society hand- edit to the treasurer and asked him to Open an account for a club house, to be erected when that ground capital of one penny had increased sufficiently. Strange to say the idea was hailed with delight, and the increase of that capital is phenomenal. The teachers of that city went wild over the idea, and strained every point to raise money for a home of their own, a club house for teachers. —Journal of Education. ' A Mightier Than Ho. The Defective Flue (sadly)—Step right into my place. Here is the champion’s belt. As a fire kindler I am no longer supreme. The Defective, Wire (proudly)—Thank heaven! Justice has been done, and I have come into mine own. --Pittsburg Bulletin. u . TERRIBLE RABBIT PEST. AUSTRALASIA LITERALLY OVERRUN WITH THE CREATURES. Forty Millions Spent in a Vain Effort of Extermination—Heavy Damage to Crops and Sheep—Ferrets, Weasels and Stunts Introduced. ' “The rabbit post is the greatest evil that has afflicted the Australasian colonists,” said Mr. J. W. Baker, who has spent several years in that country, “and, perhaps, no greater evil has ever come upon any country. To eradicate it from New Zealand has been the constant aim of the government and people, and the ways and means devised and put in operation to this end have been numerous and ingenious. A rabbit department has been established in the government, with a superintendent in charge, local boards have been created and private enterprises have been set on foot, all having one common object in view—the extermination of the rabbits. “The sheep farmers of New Zealand were principally from England, and were fond of the ways of the old country, and it is said that rabbits were introduced for the chase-— a popular amusement of the Old World. But it is of little consequence now as to why or how the rabbits were introduced; it is certain that they came. They were brought from England and Scotland and from Tas- mania, and were turned loose upon the coun- try. There are several kinds—the silver gray, the silver brown, and now and then would be found the black and white furred, but all belonging to the great rabbit family and destined to be seen and felt in New Zea- land. When it is considered that rabbits breed from six to twelve times ayear, the enormous increase that came from the rab- bits first introduced is not surprising. It is certain that nothing has so overrun a coun- try since the locusts invaded Egypt. GREAT DAMAGE. “It is difficult to estimate the great damage done to that young colony by rabbits. The pests have eaten out the ranges so that the capacity for raising sheep has been greatly lessened. The sheep have fallen off in num- ber, and the loss has been immense, running up into the millions. It is much easier to give an estimate of the money expended in destroying the pests than the amount deo stroyed by them. At the Australasian stock conference held in Sydney in October, 1886, it was shown that the rabbit nuisance was more serious than was usually believed. The carrying capacity of the land had been re- duced a third, and the fleeces had decreased from 1 pound to 1% pounds per fleece in the weight. The lambing percentage had de- creased from 30 to 40 per cent., while the death rate had increased from 3, 4 and 5 to 6, 10, 11, 12 and 13 per cent. “In 1882 what is know as the ‘rabbit act’ became a law. Since then the government has expended annually 835,000 on crown lands (government land) alone. One of the dele- gates to the Australasian stock conference, mentioned above, estimated that $1,256,000 was expended annually by private individ- uals. During the last eight years there has been expended the sum of $12,000,000, and a very much larger sum from the beginning of the warfare, but how much it is difficult to state. “At the Australasian conference Mr. J. D. Lance, a. member of the parliament of New Zealand and a delegate, brought up the rab- bit pest, and in the course of hi address said ‘that a committee of both houses of the New Zealand parliament considered the question for two months, and legislation followed the action of the committees. A bill was passed which, while he could not say that it was per- fect, was, nevertheless, a step in the right di- rection. He said that fencing was one of the great elements of success, but in New Zealand fencing was difficult on account of the moun- tainous backbone running through the in- fested island, parts of which were so precipi- tous and rocky that they could not get a pack- horse into avery large area, and poisoned grain could not be carried there. Thereupon, they could not see that on these mountainous regions it was possible to carry out fencing to any extent. There were spots, however, where it could be done. In the northern por- tion fencing could be erected, and there it was proposed that it Should be done, but in the southern portion fencing would be more difficult, but they hoped to find a fairly good country over which to carry fencing, and he thought if they did so they would save that country from being overrun. If a fence were erected and the great wave of rabbits should come against it without any opposition, it would never keep the rabbits back. FERRETS INTRODUCED. “Therefore they proposed to build huts at certain intervals along the fence at distances varrying according to the nature of the coun- try, and to have two men in each but to breed ferrets as largely as they could and turn them out on the country to make away with the muchly despised rabbit. The gov. ernment does not allow the natural enemies of the rabbit to be destroyed by dogs or other- wise. Ferrets would not live without plenty of water, and in one part of , the country, owingtoa lack of water, they had become nearly 'exterminated in a few months’ time. “The committee examined a number of witnesses and all were in favor of the in- troduction of stoats and weasels as the most effective remedy for the evil, and the com- mittee recommended that these animals be largely imported. Upon examination into the matter, Mr. Lance found that the wit- nesses favoring stoats and weasels were largely sheep raisers, or in some way con- nected with pastoral industry. The agri- cultural farmers almost to a. man were op- posed to the introduction of stoats and weasels, as they thought they would be des- tructive to poultry. Cats are most useful in destroying rabbits, and with ferrets, fencing and poisoning sufficient power in allproba- bility will be brought to bear to keep down the pests. Poisoning is valuable in keeping down the number of rabbits and is much re- sorted to by the natives. The most effica- cious means of using poison was in phosphor- ized oats. There is danger of fire from the use of it during the summer months when the grass is dry. There has not been a stone . left unturned to find out better means for the destruction of the rabbits. “1 have here given the substance of the re- marks of Mr. Lance so as to cOnvey an idea of the trouble, the expense and annoyance of the rabbit pest. Large numbers of men have been hired from time to time to make war upon the rabbits. These men are called ‘rabbiters,’ and it is said these ‘rabbiters’ encouraged rabbits in every way, so as to be able to hold their positions, for without the rabbit their occupation 'would be gone. They have been known to kill the stoats and for- rets so as to give the rabbits an opportunity to increase their numbers. The bonus system was found to be objectionable and expensive and was consequently abolished. One of the delegates at the conference stated that the public expense was nothing compared with that incurred by private individuals. He calculated that a quarter of a. million pounds sterling had been annually expended, with- out reckoning the loss of grass and the fall- ing of! in the condition of sheep. ”—St. Louis Republic. LONDON BANK TELLERS.” Experts in Handling Money—Features o! the English System. A London bank teller always experiences a feeling of relief when he finds his money cor- rect at the close of Friday’s work, and this feeling is, usually shared by the rest of the staff, who cannot leave the bank until be either discovers his \error or satisfies himself as to the actual shortage. The great bulk of the shortages made across bank counters in England are believed to occur on that day. Next in order of bad days for the teller, or cashier, as he is designated in London, comes Saturday, but there the bad luck is intel- ligible. Saturday is wages day, and no sooner has the teller filled his till and loaded up his shelves with silver in £5 and £10 bags than the day’s work sets in like a flood. Until 12 o’clock he is paying away with both hands; after that hour, if he is a receiving clerk as well, he begins to receive heavily, for Satur- day is also the last day of the week, and every one elects that the bank should receive his deposits rather than that he should keep them in his own less secure custody over Sunday. In beginning work on Saturday the Lon- don teller faces an open mahogany counter, of which the portion controlled by his desk is probably 6 feet long by 3 feet wide. He likes to have a good square view of his customer, and it is one of the canons of British banking that the eyes of the staff shall command the counter. With such an open counter the chief clerk is able to keep the whole field un- der his eye at one time, and to relieve the overstrain at any particuIQr desk. The effect of the exposed condition is beneficial, too, on the staff, the members of which preserve a steadier demeanor and attend more closely to business while thus under the eyes of the pub- lie. The London teller is a quick manipulator of coin. This is largely owing to the fact that the smallest note issued in London is of . the value of £5, or $25. When asked for gold j ; put its owner to shame by its unmistakable in a greater amount than his eye can count at a glance, the teller, after counting it quick- ly with a pianoforte action, throws it with his copper scoop into his faithful scales, and so checks his count. The weights of these scales are arranged in suitable numbers. The teller also checks the gold which he receives by weight, and here his knowledge of his business will be tested. One hundred new sovereigns are of full weight, rather more, in fact, but the same number taken at haphazard will be found to be nearly half a sovereign (or % per cent.) short in weight, while £100 in ordinary half sovereigns are sometimes twenty shillings (or 1 per cent.) short in value. The teller can quickly satisfy himself as to whether the deficiency is caused by shortage in the weight or the count, by dividing the amount and weighing one moiety against the other. If they balance evenly the count is correct and the difference is due to under- weight. If the latter exceeds the average stated the coin will need to be specially ex- amined; there is probably something wrong. The edge of the English bank counter is provided with a lip to prevent the coin from rolling over and to aid the teller in scooping up the money. The teller usually counts with the first two fingers of both hands, simultane- ously; sometimes he uses six fingers, and a teller has been known to count 450 sovereigns in one minute, working against time. An ex- pert teller will count £100 value of silver in seven minutes. When it is remembered that the coins are always mixed and consist of six- pences, shillings, florins, half crowns and crowns, with never a decimal convenience among them, this will reasonably be consid- ered as a remarkable feat. The annual loss from wear and tear of gold coin in England by reason of the absence of small notesis almost incredible. In Scotland the issue of £1 notes displaces gold to a great extent. The Scotch teller excels in counting paper money. In fingering a bundle of notes he is king of men. Placing the packets up- right against his left palm, and seizing the top corner between the finger and thumb of his right hand, he will turn over the notes so quickly that an ordinary observer will be as entirely deceived as by the three card trick, and will probably count only sixteen or seven- teen to the teller’s twenty. Then, to check his count, he will either alternatehis hands, or, placing the notes horizontally on his count- er, he will count them toward himself with the same paralyzing speed. The Scotch counter is twice as wide as the London one; it is elevated in the center and is minus the rim which facilitates the Eug- lish teller’s dexterity with the coin. The Scotch teller in Edinburgh is railed in. His domain is a little island by itself, he takes no responsibility, he carries no balances in his head, and will not look at a check until the ledger clerk, far off in the corner, has countersigned it. An advantage which the English teller possesses over the American and the Scotch teller lies in the fact that he issues clean notes only; The Bank of England has the exclusive privilege of note issues in London and within a radius of sixty miles, a right conferred for a certain valuable considera- tion granted to the government in years gone by. All the notes received-by the Lon- don teller are sent into the Bank of England, and they are not reimued. The average life of a £5 bank note is two or three weeks, that of a £100 bank note three days—that is, the interval between its issue and return to the bank and final death—Boston Commercial Bulletin. ' Legal Technicality. Legal technicality has never been exceeded by that in the case of Holt against Holmes, one of the oldest recorded cases. It seems that one Holmes had been telling his neigh- bors tales on Sir Thomas Holt and making public one of the latter’s little peccadillos. Sir Thomas commenced an action for slander, alleging in his written declaration that Holmes had publicly stated that he [Sir Thomas] had “taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder.” Now, it was a rule of law in cases of this character that it was no slander unless the words falsely spoken imputed to another the commission of a crime, and the learned judge, in applying this rule to the case before him, dismissed the action because, as he stated in his opinion, the words alleged to have been spoken by Holmes did not constitute a slander on Sir Thomas, as it was not stated in the pleading that the cook died from the stroke-thus leaving it to be inferred that a man had a legal right to split open his cook’s head so that each half thereof resteduponashoulder, provided that he did not kill the owner of the divided headl—San Francisco Argonaut. Bogus Coffee. Look out for a new kind of coffee that is not coffee. Some clever Frenchmen at the Island of Reunion have discovered that the fruit of the wild orange that grows there has the aroma of the coffee berry. As it costs less to raise the wild orange than regular coffee, naturally the planters are substituting the former for the latter, and the govern- ment even has ordered that a great part'of the highlands on the islands be reserved for the cultivation of the new bogus coflee. One bright gleam on the coffee horizon is in the fact that the new berry will be so cheap that it will, if its culture succeeds, drive out chic~ ory, and as an adulterant it issaid to bemuch lees vile than that staple coflee (slimmer.— New York Sun. ABOUT .OUR TABLES. Some Interesting Suggestions from the Pen .of Helen Anderson. The New York Decorator and Furnisher, in an excellent article by Helen Anderson, has the following to say “About Our Ta- bles:” Once upon a time we were well content with one stiff and shiny table in the center of our best room, a table that made not the slightest pretense to drapery, not even a scarf. But today such a table in our modern houses would look like a desolate island in the sea, for almost every house abounds in little tables scattered in every possible nook and corner. Many of these are very dainty and artistic, a great many copied from old tables, and still a great many more purely American in make and design; and there are any amount of them made _so heavily gor- geous, so overloaded with ornamentation that one feels under great obligations to the maker for giving entirely too much for the money. Before furniture was turned out of factories by thousands and tens of thousands, the work being made by hand was, of course, more ex- pensive, much more careful in form and exe- cution, and it was utterly impossible to in- dulge in the cheap and gaudy style of decora- tion which is the mistake of the modern makers. Many people fail to realize or are indiffer- ent to the fact that a table costing thirty dollars cannot be duplicalnd for three. Al- though ambitious dealers in cheap furniture will make and advertise the attempt, the re- sult is seldom satisfactory. In fact, after all the dainty form and finish has been lost, poor materials substituted, the imitation is so poor that it hardly justifies the term imitation at all. It is so hard for the'majority to realize that one can more than get their money’s worth, and as the demand is for this style of work, it becomes quite a diificult matter to find a simple and good article that will not air of trying to be fine. Of course there is no trouble in finding good articles in first class concerns, but unhappily it is just the plain A LOUIS xv TABLE. style of work that is beyond the means of many who would appreciate it. So that although one may be able to find charming, pictur- esque little tea tables for thirty, twenty-five or even sixteen dollars, it is quite another matter when one starts out to find one for five or six dollars. A beautiful little tea table in the style of Louis XV, of which the sketch on this page gives a very good idea, has the top in onyx and the rest of the table in gilt. This would necessarily be very expensive, and only ap— preciated for a certain style of room, but the same design might be used in mahogany or cherry, or any other kind of wood that might be preferred. The use of such little tables, when the style is really good, is in- valuable in helping out the decoration of a room; they break the monotony of an other- wise stiff looking room and form centers around which people naturally group them- selves. A pretty leaf or bit of drapery is of course an improvement to almost every table. Some very handsome tables or stands are made by the Japanese of teakwood with marble tops. In design they are straight and square, the legs beautifully carved; the only objection is they are very heavy looking and so distinctly Japanese that they would be out of place in a room that did not in some way suggest the Japanese style in decoration. Some of these tables sell as low as $6, and, considering their workmanship, seem very cheap. A very inexpensive little table might be made for a library or sitting reom of almost any wood one might fancy, and it might al- most serve for a bookcase, as it has a‘mple room for books or papers. In construction it is some- thing like a very high office stool, except that the top and shelves are square and it has four legs instead of three. At about a foot from the topa second shelf is placed, and this is followed by three or four shelves the same shape as the top; of course the natural spread of the legs would make the bottom shelf con- siderably larger than the first, and these AN INEXPENSIVE TABLE. shelves are not only very odd and pretty, but are also very useful, with a few bits of pretty china on the top and the rest of the shelves used for books and papers; this makes a nice little tea table for a library or general sitting room, and almost any carpenter could make one. Many fanciful ideas are carried out in the way of tables now—some heart shaped, some called kidney shaped and others where both the heart and kidney shapes are combined, the one for the upper, the other for the lower shelf. They could hardly be called tea tables, but, as they are small, they make a. nice rest- ing place for bric-a-brac and are very appro- priate for small rooms. In the dining room of a prominent New York artist is a dining table that might be used With good effect in many houses, and the expense of making such a table could, if one were handy, be said to be literally noth- ing, and the result, if only half as good as the original, would still be a very unique and artistic thing in the way of tables. In the first place a pair of ordinary wooden horses had been taken, painted white, then rubbed down to a fine enameled surface; upon these horses was placed a large piece of square wood, very much like an enlarged drawing board, which had been previously treated in the same manner as the horses. This board was then fastened to the horses by means of large brass headed nails. Of course the only part of this table which would be at all difficultjo make would be the enameh'ng, as it generally takes from five to six coats of paint before it isrubbed down with pumicestone and oil. It might be made on the same plan, stained black and then fin- ished with the brass headed nails. This would be very much easier to construct, and would not require even the aid of a carpenter. Few cities in the world have such perfect postal arrangements as Berlin, and it was the fame of the “Stephan system” which recent- ly induced the -Itfilian government to send some men to Berlin to study it, with a view to its introductionin Italy. ll . B. (JIRAUFUHD, IIIIBSIIIIBIIIS, R331 ESIIIIII IIIIII IIISIII'IIIIDII, ROOM 2, MASONIC BUILDING. Wm. Lockwood, Real Estate, Insurance and. Investment Securities. MONEY To LOAN. Insurance Placed in First-Class Companies Office—Cor. MAIN &'\VALL STS., NORWALK 1y 13 DENTISTRY! Everything in Dentistry, and Everything Fully Warrant“; W W. u. 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N GAZETTE Building. second floor front' formerly editorial rooms of the GAZETTE Enquire of ~ - CHASJOLMSTEAD, Norwalk. ATENTS I G. n. small-ox, wumnluleilocu Milled Ira 10 YEARS "1 U. 5. PATENT OFFICE. I o. E. WILSON, General Insurance Ii Real Estate Agent Money to Loan. Stocks, Bonds &c., Bought and Sold, and Loans Negotiated at Lowest Rates of Interest. ROO'III NO. 3 GAZETTE BUILDING w. H. MEE‘KER. Plumbing, Steam and Gas Filling, ‘ SOUTH NORWALK, CONN. Sanitary Plumbing, and Ventilation, and Low Pressure Steam Heating, 21 Specialty, PLUMBERS’ SUPPLIES. Pipe and Fitting for steam and Gas. Agent forthe Florida Low Pressure Boiler. . Facilities for Cutting and Threading all Sizes of Pipe. 501:! T0 HORSE OWNERS ! We keep constantly on hand a good assortment of Kentucky and Ohio Horses, selected with great care in the western markets. We have horses suitable for all purposes and no one who wants a thoroughly reliable animal should purchase before seeing what we have to offer. We also keep constantly on hand at our Carriage Reposnory a complete line of CARRIAGES from the best makers, which are manufactured for us to special order ; every . carriage warranted. WAGONS and CARTS or every description. HARNESSES, WiIlPS, ROBES, BLANKETS DANN’S LIVERY STABLE, OFFICE 48 WALL ST., NORWALK OPP. D. & N. ll. R. DEPOT 35 FURNITURE ! Geo H. Raymond, FURNITURE DEALER. Has removed to the new and commodious store four doors above his old stand and stocked it with \I EW GOODS of the LATEST STYLE and FINEST FINISH. GEO. H. RAYMOND. Agent. Furnishing Undertaker and Embalmer. Igive my personal attention to laying out and furnishing everything necessary for the interment of the dead. Residence—No 3 Berkeley Place, Norwalk. Telephone Communication with Residence FURNITURE A Full Stock of Furniture of all kinds- PARLIJR AND BEDRUURSETS a specialty. DAVID STOW, Maio Street opp. Depot SOUTH NORWALK,CON1N GENERAL MARKET Meat, Fish, Vegetables. 81¢. LOCKWOOD It LOCKWOOD. “MAIN STREET. Allkinds of the best qualities of Meats, Fish, Clams, Vegetables, etc., are kept constantly on hand, and will be solo by us as low as can be pro- cured at any market in Norwalk. We intend t prove to our customers that we deserve their patronage by fair and generous dealing. 1v40 LOCKWOOD a LOCKWOOD. J. 0. NE WKIRK, DENTIST Dentistry performed in all branches. Gold and Porcelain Crowns inserted. Gas administered for the painless extracting of teeth. once at residence, Lewis Street near Con- gregational church, Norwalk 1:31p P O R '1' R A. I '1' S —-lN— OIL. PASTEL OR 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- walk, Conn. 36 GENERAL 'onuosuuoouoo. Carriage and Waouu Boiluiuo and Repairing, Paiolinu, Trimming, LC... &C., 520. . THE subscriber having purchased the entire establishment known as Rockwell’s Shop, in the rear of George S. Gregory’s Livery Stable. will continue the business there of . General Blacksmith Work, Wagon, Car. riagc, Sleigh, &c., building, repairing, painting, trimming, &c., .- in addition to his established ' HORSE SHOEING business at the old stand. @Goon Wonx, FAIR Pawns, PROMPT- ans AND FAix DEALING GUARANTEED, and . a share of the public patronage respectful- ly solicted. - 3m44. CHARLES E. MILLER. ~. Rorwalk ~:~ Gazette" Joo PRINTING osouooosououu. Wedding Cards, Posters, Visiting Cards, Handbllls, Business Cards, Programmes, Fancy Show Cards, Dodgers, Ball Cards. Billheads, Statements, Circulars, Tag Cards, Receipts, Town and Probate Records, Letter Headings Books and Pamphlets, Note Headings, Hotel Registers. Milk Ticket Printed In the Neatest Styles and a: the Lowest Pricel. Call and get eotlntes. Engraved Weddgng ( ord- 3 Specialty.
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