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SOME TIME.

I Last night, my darling, as you dept,
' I thought I heard you sigh,
And to your little crib I crept
And watched a space thereby;
Then. bending down, I kissed your brow-
For, oh! I love you so—
You are too young to know it now
But some time you shall know.

Some time, when in a darkened place
Where others come to weep,

Your eyes shall see a weary face
Calm 1n eternal sleep.

The speechless lips, the wrinkled b1 ow.
The patient smile may show-—

You are too young to know it now,
But some time you shall know.

Look backward, then, into the years,
And see me here tonight——
See, 0 my darliugl how my tears
Are falling as I write;
And feel once more upon your brow
The kiss of long ago—
You are too young to know it now,
But some time you shall know.
—Eugene Field.

 

THE WAITOMO CAVES.

Description of a Visit to Wonderful New
Zealand Caverns.

In a report to the surveyor general of New
Zealand Mr. Thomas Humphries gives an in-
teresting description of a visit which he and
asmall party made in June last to the VVai-
tome caves, King Country. in the North Island
of New Zealand. The Waitomo river, a.
tributary of the W aipa, which passes through
these caves, lies about eighty-five miles south

, Of Auckland in a direct line, though it is

about twenty miles further by rail and road.

.The caves are about ten miles from Otoro-

hanga railway station. The country around
is undulating. A quarter of a mile before
the caves are reached the Waitomo, of about
twenty feet in width, is seen emerging from
the side of a hill, under which it has mean-
dered through limestone caverns of various
sizes for about twenty chains. A light canoe

can be taken along the river through the

caves to within a few chains of its egress,
where further progress is barred by the roof
coming down to the water.

At the entrance to the cavern the stream is
8 feet deep. The natives have never had the
courage to enter. The entrance to the cave,
30 feet wide and 20 feet high, is in the face of
a clifi’. It is beautifully arched, with numer-
ous moss and lichen covered stalactites. In a
canoe the visitor is taken‘ in, 90 feet frOm the
entrance, and landed on a silt covered beach.
By the aid of candles—for all is new dark—
he finds himself among ponderous stalactites,
3 to 6 feet thick, reaching from the roof, 20
feet high, to within 1 foot of the ground.
Everywhere, all over the extensive and intri-
cate caverns, are seen stalactites and stalag-
mites of immense size, in vast numbers, with
marvelous beauty of form and color. At
one place the dark vault was studded with
thousands of glowworms, giving the vault
the appearance of a starlit sky.

Passing down the left bank of the stream
for 140 feet, over a large deposit left by the
floods, the party crossed it by means of a
foot bridge. From the entrance to the bridge
the cavern averages 50 feet broad and from
‘20 to 30 feet high. After crossing the bridge
a sharp turn to the right is made up a. steep
incline for a distance of 70 feet to the foot of
a 10 foot ladder, which leads to a narrow
passage 4 feet wide and 15 feet high, the en-
trance to the “grand cavern.” Here is the
bottom of the “well,” a narrow shaft running
up to another series of caves over the lower
ones, where it is again met with in the gal-
lery above. The well is 4 feet across, per-
fectly true, as if made by human hands, and
its sides beautifully marked with horizontal
streaks, formed of laminated limestone. In
the grand cavern is an immense mound of
material evidently fallen from the roof.

Beyond the grand cavern the roof rises
and forms two domes, one 50 feet high. High
up, 40 feet, is the entrance to another cavern.
Beyond the dome is a sudden fall, the roof
lowering so much that the visitor has to stoop.
The length of the grand cavern, at the end
of which the stream is again met with, is 250
feet. It varies in width from 15 to 40 feet,
and from 20 to 50 feet in height. Up to this
point the color is a‘dull brown and a light
yellow; but in the upper galleries, 30 feet
above, there are alabaster and Pariah-marble—
like scenes of unsurpassed loveliness.

Twenty feet above the grand gallery is the
“organ gallery,” so called from the appear-
ance Of the great stalagmitic mass 150 feet
from its entrance, rising tier upon tier, like
the front of an organ with marble pipes. From
the grand gallery the main gallery above is
reached bya :25 foot ladder, and 60 feet along
it the “well ’ is 1 eached. Her c it is 12 fee t in
diametei , with smooth sides of hard lime-
stone, and the sound of moving wate1 below.
This is 4 1 ft. et above whel a it was first seen.
Fifty feet along from the uppe1 well is a
“fairy grotto,” and through an archway 30
feet in length the “banquet chamber” is
reached, where the surveyor and his friends
found a hot dinner had been provided by
the natives who own the‘ caves. At the end
of this chamber is the W'hite terrace, a stalag-
mitic mass rising in a series of terraces. From
this the upper entrance to the caves is
reached, high in a wooded cliff, 60 feet above
and directly over the lower entrance. Mr.
Humphries describes in glowing terms other
galleries and caves, but this may suffice to

show that, nothwithstandlng the destruction ,

of the Rotomahana terraces, New Zealand
has still plenty of wonders—Science.

 

The St. Gothard in \Vinter.

The man who knows the St. Gothard in its
summér aspect only knows but a third of its
graces. This may, of course, be said of
Switzerland as a whole with still greater
force. In the summer, and much more in
the autumn, when the summer sun has been
blazing upon the snows and ice of the uplands
for three active months, it is only among the
heights that one may look for those traces of
a wintry temperature which are so dear to
us in. the holiday season. One must climb for
hours to get to the snow line, and even then,
at an altitude of several thousand feet, the
rock comes through the snow, and the thaw
is constant, while the daylight lingers. In
winter, 011 the other hand, the harmony is
complete. There is then snow everywhere.

The air is deliciously keen and invigoratingt

alike in the valleys and on the hilltops, and
brisk movement is at the same timea pleasure
and a necessity.

At four or five thousand feet above the
sea, the more sensational scenes of the St.
Gothard are abundant. Streams toss out of
funnels of ice upon one side, and hurl them-
selves into the valleys upon the open side of
the line. The icicles are of a size to make one

’ say, “Prodigious! Prodigiousl” like Dominic

Sampson. They are of a man’s proportions,
and pendent in rows, like a regiment sud-
denly glacified during drill. There is talk of
avalanches. Some one sees a snow spray
upon a slope, and a few snowballs rolling
down towards us. But though there is no
present peril of this kind, the high piles of
the snow by the metals tell of the possibili—
ties that wait even upon railway traveling
in the Alps during winter time. There is an
iciness in the air that keeps one chill, in spite
of shut windows and a hot water tin to each
traveler. It is natural enough, of course.
One cannot be some 6,000 feet above the sea
in winter time, in Switzerland, without feel-
ing it. —London Globe.

 

NORWALK

MIKE FINK, THE BOATMAN.

A PRODUCT OF THE PIONEER DAYS
WHO WAS NOT A HERO.

He Was One Who Would Do Anything to
Gratify His Low Instincts-Bough Life
of the Western Bargemen Full of Dan-

gerous Adventure.

The exaggerated stories told of the early
boatman, as stated m aprevious article in
The Courier-Journal, have invested him with
peculia1 interest, and doubtless have made
him the “hero of fields his valor never won,”
but enough has been authenticated to give
these tales a foundation in fact. Of all the
river heroes of the “olden time,” none forms
a more striking figure than Mike Fink, whose
cunning trickery concerning the sheep with
the “black murrain” was detailed in a recent
article. Mike did not confine himself to
harmless jokes and innocent pastimes, but
often resorted to mean tricks, and even to
crimes, to gratify his low and depraved in-
Itincts. The following will illustrate this
trait: As his boat floated down the river, a
negro came down to the river bank to look at
it as it passed.

Mike’s keen observ ation caught sight of the
negro 5 heel, which was peculiar in its exces-
sive length (the negro was barefooted), and
quick as thought he raised his rifle and fired,
the bullet tearing away a portion of the ex-
posed heel. For this piece of deviltry he was
arraigned by the law officers at St. Louis, but
there is no record showing that he was pun-
ished for the “practical joke.” The power of
the law was defied by these audacious river
characters, and notwithstanding they were
charged with the whole catalogue of infamous
crimes from mu1der down, it was found im-
possible tO bring them to punishment. A
writer in The Western Souvenir for July,
1829, asserted that he himself had seen the
mom ds of the case of Mike shooting off the
negr’os heel, in the courts of St. Louis, and
that Mike s only defense was that “the fellow
couldn’t wear a genteel boot, and he wanted
to fix it so that he could.” The same writer
gave the following instance of Mike's skill as
an Indian fighter:

ARREST AT LOUISVILLE.

Mike‘s boat was lying-to, along the Indi-
ana shore, when this now magnificent state was
an Indian te1r1t01y, and he had gone ashore
in pursuit of game. As he was creeping
along, with the stealthy tread of a cat, his
eye caught sight of a fine buck quietly brows-
ing at no great distance. Repriming his gun
and picking his flint, Mike assayed to steal
upon his game. Just when he reached the
spot from which he intended to take aim, he
discove1 ed a powerful Indian bent upon the
same errand as himself. lVith the quickness
of thought, Mike shrank behind a tree before
the Indian discovered him, and, keeping his
eye fixed upon the savage, awaited develop-
ments. In a few moments the Indian halted
within fifty paces of the deer and leveled his
gun. Instantly Mike presented his own rifle
at the Indian, and as the smoke issued from
the latter’s gun he pulled trigger, when the
Indian, with a yell, fell dead at the same in-
stant with the deer. Mike reloaded his rifle
and waited under cover until satisfied the
Indian was alone, when he went to the spot,
found the Indian dead, helped himself to such
portions of the deer as he wanted, and re—
turned to the boat. The incident he charac-
terized as “killing two birds with one stone.”

Mike’s long and open defiance Of the law
finally excited such a feeling of indignation
against him that a reward was offered for
his capture. For a time he eluded the clutches
of the officers, but the pitcher weift once
too often to the fountain. One day, when his
boat was moo red at the landing at Louisville,
an old friend of Mike’s who had attained to
the dignity of constable, came to him, pleaded
the necessities‘of his family, begged Mike to

_, let him take him a prisoner, as in all proba-
' bility he (Mike) would escape conviction,

while he (the constable) would receive the
much needed reward. The rest of the story
is thus told by an early writer:

“Mike felt at home nowhere but in his boat
and among his 'men; if the constable would
take him and his men in the yawl they would
go. It was the only chance, and the c011—
stable consented. A long, coupled wagon,
drawn by oxen, was procured and went down
the hill at Third street for Mike’s yawl. The
road, for it was not then a street, was very
steep and very muddy. The boat, however,
was set upon the wagon, and Mike and his
men, with their long poles, were put aboard,
Mike in the stern, as if for an aquatic excur

sion. The ascent was laborious, and when,
perhaps, half way up the hill, Mike, in
stentorian tones, shouted to his nien:

‘Set poles!’ and, with the percision of well
drilled soldiers on dress parade, the end of
every pole was set in the thick mud. ‘Back
herl’ roared Mike, and down the hill went
wagon, oxen, yawl and men. Mike had re-
considered the matter and determined not to
go to court. When they reached the bottom

2, of the hill another parley was held, and

Mike was again overpowered by the elo-
quence of his friend, the constable, and the
ascent again commenced. This time they
had nearly reached the top, when the same
orders were given by Mike, with the same
result. A third attempt was successful, and
Mike was landed at the court house, where,
as the constable predicted, he was acquitted
for lack of sufficient evidence, and he and
his men returned in triumph to the boat.”
“LAST OF THE MOIIICANS.”

Upon the introduction of steamboats on the
western rivers Mike, like Othello, found his
occupation gone. But he could not consent
to quit his wild life and quietly settle down
to an honest livelihood. Accordingly, in 1822,
with two of his stanchest friends, named Tal~
bott and Carpenter, joined Henry and Ash-
ley’s company of Missouri trappers, and the
same year proceeded up to the mouth of the
Yellow Stone river. A fort was built at this
point, f1 om whence parties of hunters were
sent out in all directions. It was while on
one of these trapping and hunting excursions
that Mike and Carpenter hadafierce quarrel,
although previously they had been the warm-
est of friends. Carpenter was quite as good
a shot with the rifle as Mike, and it had been
a pastimeof theirs to place a tin cup of
whisky 011 the head of one and the other, at
the distance of seventy yards, to shoot it off.

After making up their quarrel, they talked
it over one day at the fort, and exchanged
vows of amity, which were to be ratified by
the usual trial of shooting at the cup. They
tossed a copper for the first shot, and Mike
won it. Carpenter, who knew Mike well,
declared he was going to be killed, but
scorned to refuse the test. But so impressed
was he that Mike intended to kill him that
he bequeathed his few belongings, including
a pair of pistols to Talbott, in case he should
be killed. The trial took place, and, sure
enough, Mike shot him through the head,
and he died without a groan. Mike swore it
was an accident, and being beyond the reach
of law, be, for some time, escaped punish-
ment. But some months later, Mike one day
boasted that he killed Carpenter purposely,
and was gladzof it. Talbott instantly drew
one of the pistols Carpenter had willed him,
and shot Mike' through the heart. Shortly
after this Talbott was drowned in trying to
swim the Titan rive1, and with him perished
“the last of the (boatmen) Mohicans. ”—Will-
iam Henry Pe1 rin in Louisville Courier-

Journal.

 

 

 

GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12. 1890.

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Answered.

Elder John Stephens held a pastoratein
the Free Baptist church at Gardiner, Ma,
forty odd years ago, says the Lewiston
Journal. Remarkable alike for sincere piety
and genuine humor, the good man so tem-
pered his teachings as to make them accepta-
ble to saint o1 sinner. Riding one day
along the road to West Gardiner, be over-
tookb an ox team, stuck in the mud. The dis-
couraged cattle 1 efused to pull, and the driver
was swearing at them and applying the whip
with g1 eat vigor.

The parson stopped his horse and said, “Try
prayer, my friend, try prayer.”

“Try it yourself,” retorted the vexed team-
ster.

“I will, ” the elder answered quietly, and
without furthei ceremony he dropped on his
knees in the bottom of the wagon. He
prayed well and he prayed long, and as soon
as he had ended, the impatient driver pre-
pared to start his team.

“Stop!” commanded Elder Stephens. “As
I have done the praying, I feel that I ought
to do the driving. You hold my horse and
give me the goad stick.”

The man consented to the arrangement,
and with a grin waited to see the parson
worsted. At that moment another ox team
was seen approaching from the opposite di—
rection.

“Hallo, neighbor!” the practical parson
shouted to the new comer. “Lend me your
cattle for a moment!”

“Hold on!” cried the owner of the mired
cart, “that’s not fair. If you can handle
this team better by praying than I can by
swearing, I want to see you do it; but no
doubling up, mind you, no doubling up.”

“My friend,” said the elder, calmly, “the
Master I serve is abundantly able to move
this load with a single yoke of oxen—or with-
out any oxen at all. But when, in direct
answer to prayer, he sends me an extra pair
of cattle, I’m going to hook ’em on.”

No further objection was made, and with
the aid of re-enforcements the loaded cart
was easily drawn out of the mud.

Deteriorated Words:

If P1 ofessor Max Muller had been in Cm-
lisle police court last F1 iday he would have
heard a witness let fall a single small word.
which, in its meaning and connection, would
have filled him with the pleasure which a
naturalist feels on discovering some rare or
exceptionally fine specimen. In his new work
on “The Science of Language” he has a chap-
ter on the degradation or deterioration of
words. Thus the word “idiot” originally
meant only a private person, or one who was
not engaged in public business; then it came
to be applied to an outsider, one who was ill
informed on and indifferent to state affairs;
and lastly to the most hopeless of all the men-
tally afillcted. “Villain,” again, simply meant
a villager; “knave,” in its origin, signified a
young man, and on the German court cards
the knave is merely the page or knight at-
tending the king or queen. Then “pagan”
and “heathen” come from words which sig-
11if y countryman, because it was in the rural
districts, outside towns, that the worship of
the ancient deities was allowed to continue
longest.

The word “brat” is now a word of con-
tempt, but it was not always so, as we may
see by the expression in ancient sacred poe-
try, “Oh, Abraham’s brats, Oh, broode of
blessed seede!” “This,” remarks Professor
Max Muller, “is said to be a \Velsh word, and
to signify a rag.” It is a very common word
in Cumberland, signifying an apron, but es-
pecially a dirty, torn, unvalued apron. “The
prisoner,” as the Carlisle witness deposed last
Friday, “took three of my dresses, :1 brat, a
jacket and a pair of boots.” How a word
which at first was applied to children in a
good sense got fixed upon the tawdriest ar-
ticle Of apparel is a matter for speculation.
NO doubt the change will be explained by the
same circumstance or current of thought
which led to the conversion of the w Old into
a term of disparagement as regards ch1ld1en
—Carlisle Patriot.

Moved in Vain.

Senator Voorhees is an eloquent lawyer,
and is justly noted for his influence over a
jury. Sometimes, however, he moves their
sympathies and that of the court to no pur-
pose, as one or two stories told in The New

. York Tribune show.

He was once engagedin a suit before a jus-
tice of the peace, to defend a young lady in
an action against a bank. The case was a
weak one, but Mr. Voorhees endeavored to
work on the feelings of the court. He de-
picted the sufferings of his client until the
sympathy of the “squire” was so aroused
that tears trickled down the Old gentleman’s
cheeks. But the decision was a disappoint-
ment.

“The plaintiff,” said the squire, “is 3. WO-
man, and her counsel has, for the last hour,
touched the sympathy Of the court in her be-
half. I am glad of it, but I think, under the
law, that justice is on the side of the bank. I
therefore will find in favor of the bank, and
let the 1 com (I show that Mrs. ——¥ has the full
sympathy of the com t.”

M1. V 001 hees tells another stOi y of emotion-
al eloquence which came to an ignominious
end. He had succeeded in delivering an ap-
peal which had brought tears to the eyes of
several jurymen.
attorney, a gruff old man, with piping voice
and nasal twang.

“Gentlemen,” said he, deliberately helping
himself to a pinch of snufi‘, 'you might as
well under stand f1 0111 the beginning that I
11.11 not boring f01 w atei. ”

This p1oved so effectual a wet blanket to
the emotions excited by Mr. Voorhees that he
realized the futility of his own “boring."

Laeken.

The destruction of Laeken is an irreparable
loss to the royal family of Belgium, for it was
practically the only residence of the king and
queen, who greatly dislike the palace at
Brussels, where they live very little, and the
king’s chateau in the Ardennes is a'mere
shooting lodge. The palace of Laeken was
built about a hundred years ago by the Arch-
duke Albrecht Of Saxe—Tcschen, who was for
several years the Austrian stadtholder of the
Netherlands, and Napoleon often resided in it.

The loss of the building 'is not to be re-
gretted, for it was an edifice remarkable only
for its size, but it was literally crammed with
priceless tapestry, china and statuary, and
the library contained a rare and splendid
collection of books, prints and manuscripts.
The pictures were of great value, and in-
cluded a large number of very interesting
family portraits, among which were full
lengths of the queen, the prince consort, the
Duchess of Kent, and the Princess Charlotte.
There was also a very fine collection of
miniatures, and the family archives and the
whole of the late king’s correspondence have
alsobeen destroyed. The Gobelin tapestries
were unique, having been sent by Marie
Antoinette to her sister, the Archduchess
Marie Christian, and they had remained at
Laeken ever since—London World.

Artificial Gems.

Artificial gems at the Paris exposition are
said to have surpassed anything ever before
shown, some of the specimens puzzling even
dealers and experts. The artificial pearls
were especially successful, no means being
found to distinguish the genuine from the
In tificial, except 1,the use of a file. —-New York
Telegram.

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A SOUTHERN _ HOUSE.

9931511 and Plans of a Home for Winter
Usedn Florida.

While this plan was designed for awiuter
home in Florida, it is in mind that conditions
might exist that it would be occupied during
warm weather. I have often thought in con-
nection w ith the planning of southern houses
that the problem was not so different frOm
that which belongs 'to a northern house as is
generally supposed.

The conditions of comfort and convenience
apply alike under any circumstances, and a
house that will be comfortable in the south
during warm weather will also be comforta-
ble in the north under the same conditions.
It is true that the temperature is quite often
as high in some of our northern cities as it is
in the south, though the continuance of the
heated period is not usually so great. It is
also true that a house planned with reference
to being cool in summer will be warm in win-
ter—that is, the walls should be sheathed, pa-
pered and weather boarded in the case of a
frame house for a southern home the same as
for one in the north.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ELEVATION.

This house may have a~cellar and is pro-
vided with two full stories and an attic. The
plan combines the features of two houses
which have been recently built in the north.

The key to this plan is the reception hall. It
is the feature Of the house. It is open from
front to rear. There is the front door and
the window to the right of it. At one side is
another window. Then at the Opposite end
of this hall over the stair landing, which is a

little over eight feet from the floor, is a large ‘

window divided by mullions, which is nearly
the full width of the hall. Thus during the
heated period this hall can'be open from
front to rear at proper times, and thus a draft
of air secured.

During the periods of ordinary tempera-
ture this feature would addto the comfort
of living in this building. It makes a very
attractive feature architecturally. A ball
which is Open from end to end, and which at
the same time affords the conditions of util-
ity which belong to a house of moderate
cost, cannot but be delightful. At one end
near the stairway is a corner fireplace. Dur-
ing a chilly day in the winter the prospect
from the vestibule as one enters the hall
would be pleasing indeed. The vestibule,
which would afford a. place in which wraps
could be hung, and the fireplace at the
other end of the room, would change this
hall from a mere passage space to one which
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GROUND FLOOR.

Up over the fireplace, and extending the
full width of the hall, isa gallery from which
one may look dow 11 into this 1 oom. Under it
is a china room, lighted by a widow at one

side. Next to this china room is a lavatory,
in which may be placed a washstand and
water closet. It may be entered either from
the sitting room or reception hall. The water
closet would be placed in the space directly
under the steps. This room would be well
lighted and ventilated by means Of the win-
dow shown. The china room forms a passage
from the kitchen to the dining room. There
are double swing doors connecting this room,
and in this way the kitchen is sufficiently
isolated.

The kitchen is arranged with due regard
for convenience and ease in the movement of
housekeeping. There is the sink and arrange-
ment of tables on each side of it. Convenient
he1cto is the kitchen range. Ne car by is a
pantry, in which may be placed all p1 cper
fittings. The passageway to the cellax is
near thereto, and between it and the stairway
leading to the second floor is the kitchen
closet. The parlor, dining room and sitting
room are shown in their proper relations one
to the other. The door which connects the
dining room and parlor is not a sliding door,
but is hung on hinges so as to make the sep-
aration from these rooms complete at proper
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SECOND STORY.

A desirable 111 rangement of porch is
shown.

On the second floor there are four, bed-
rooms, a dressing room and bath.

The most economical way of heating
rooms not provided with a fine is with a fur-
nace. Nothing can be better, even in a
warm climate, than a furnace which will do
good service during chilly days. There- is no
more trouble-in keeping a fire in a furnace
than in one stove. It may be regulated so
that the air of the entire house is tempered
at once. Then the first cost and the cost of
maintenance IS not so great as with stoves.

The passageway to the attic is shown in
the front hall.

By examining the bedrooms it may be no-
ticed that there-is proper wall space for all
furniture. LOUIS H. Gmsox.

 

R. 11. ORAUFURD,
Investments, Real Estate and Insurance,

ROOM 2, MASONIC BUILDING.

Wm. Lockwood,

Real Estate, Insurance and Investment
Securities.
MONEY To LOAN.
Insurance Placed in First-Class Companies

Office—Cor. MAIN a \VALL STS., NORWALK
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Fully Warranted.j 9%:

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68 Wall St., Norwalk, Ct.

J. .BELDEN ll URLBU'I‘T.
Attorney and Counselor at Law,

Room No. 4, Up Stairs,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK, CONN.

ALEX. S. GIBSON,

Ol'ganlst of let Congregational Church, Waterbury,
Teacher of

Pianoforte, Organ and Musical

Composition,
Lock Box 39 P O..NORWALK.CONN.

MR. C. F. DANIELS,

I NSTRUCTOR UPON THE

PIANO-FORTE AND URBAN.

Especial attention given to Harmony and Rhyth-
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incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetu

CAPITAL AND ASSETS, $8,902,272.64.

lnsures against loss and damage by Fire, on
terms adopted to the hazard and consistent with
he laws of compensation. COWLES a MERRILL,
Sole Agents for N orwalk anu v1cinlty.

 

MINER D. RANDALL, Architect and Super
intendent.
Plans and Specifications for all kinds of Build-

ngs.
Artistic designs for Stairways, mantels, side-
boards,‘ etc.
Framing or working plans for all kinds of build-
ings accurately made.

Office. (for Main and Wall sts.,Norwalk. Open
Wednes- lay and Saturday evenings.
Residence, Riverside ave., East Norwalk.

Building Materials, 8%.

UILDING STONE, all qualities of sand, cel
lars dug. gardens and grounds renovated
horses and carts for hire. 1 have some thoroughly
rotted and very fine manure for flower beds.
J. W. EDMUNDS,
No.680uth Union Avenue.
P. O. Box 654, Norwaltk

PLYMOUTH BOOK ion.

I HAVE a large quantity of Ice on hand. It was
frozen on pure water. It is clear, clean and

solid ice. All orders promptly attended to.
Thanking my customers for past favors,l solic1t

a continuance of their patronage.

l9tt R. L. ELLS.

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TH E

Norwalk Fire Insu1anoe Co.

Has now completed its
18th SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR

And has not outstandinga dollar of unpaid losses

orclaims for losses. No sound company insures

foo'less.

W. C. STREET,l’res.. GEO. B. ST. JOHN, Treas. .,
GEO. R. Cowms Secretary.

Express.

Patronize the old reliable

ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY.

low RATES AND PROMPT DELIVERY.

Branch Office, Norwalk. at S. K. Stanley’s
Main Olllce at Depot, Soulll Norwalk. tfl2
L. HUNT, Agent.

G.A.FRANKE,
THE HAIR CUTTER,

N0. 1 Gazette Building.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.

' ’ENSIO V 8‘
l. _ 1 l I
And GOVERNMENT CLAIIIIS my sole busi-

ness. Rejected and increase claimsaspeciahty.
Don’t delay. Address or visit

GEN. WM. H. NOBLE,

No. 91 STRATFORD AVE, BRIDGEronT, CT.

HENRY H-Uss,
Roslaooaot, Cafe and Smoking Room,

Grand Central Station, ‘
42D STREET AND 4111 AVEJUE, NEW YORK

Entrance from waiting room, New York, New
llaven and Hartford railroad. - 1f32

 

 

 

 

 

O. E. WILSON,

General Insurance A Real Estate-Agent

Money to Loan.

Stocks, Bonds doc" Bought and Sold,
and Loans Negotiated at Lowest

Rates of Interest.
ROO'II N0. 3 GAZETTE BUILDING

W. H. MEEKER.
Plumbing, Steam and Gas Filling,

SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.

 

Sanitary Plumbing, and Ventilation, and
Low Pressme Steam Heating, :1 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. sot!

 

 

TO HORSE OWNERS I

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 fill all purposes and no
one wnowants a thoroughly reliable animal should
purchase before seeing what we have to offer.
We also keep constantly on hand at our rlage
Reposnory a complete line of CARRIAG from
the best makers, which are manufactured for us
to special order , every carriage warranted.
WAGONS and UARTS of evei y de- -.orlptlon
HARNESSES, WHIPS, ROBES, BLANKETS

DANN’S LIVERY STABLE,

OFFICE 48 WALL ST., NORWALK
OPP. D. & N. ll. 1!. DEPOT 35

FURNITURE l
Goa H. Raymond,

FURNITURE DEALER,

Has removed to the new and cemmodious store
four doors above 1113 old stand and stocked it
with \1 EW GOODS of the LATEST
STYLE and FINEST FINISH.

GEO. II. RAYMOND, Agent.

 

Furnishing Undertaker and Embalm'er.

Igive my personal attention to laying out and
furnishing everything necessary for the
interment of the dead.

Residence—No 3 Berkeley Place, Norwalk.
Telephone Communlcatiou with Residence

FURNITURE

A Full Stock of Furniture of all kinds-

PARLIIR AND BEDRUUNSETS

a specialty.

DAVID STOW,
, Mam Sheet opp. Depot
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN

GENERAL MARKET

Meat, Fish, Vegetables. 81¢.

LOCKWOOI) It LOCKWOOD.

MAIN STREET.

’All kinds 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.

lv40 LOCKWOOD (N3 LOCKWOOD.

J. 0. NE WKIRK,

DENTST

Dentistry performed in all branches. Gold and
Porcelain Crowns inserted. Gas administered
for the painless extl acting of teeth.

Oflice at 1esidence, Lewis Street nearICon-

 

 

 

 

 

gregatiouaichmch, Noxwalk 379
P O R '1' R A I '1‘ S
——lN—-—

OIL. PASTEL 0R CRAYON

Elegant work, at lowest Prices, by

E. T. WHITNEY,

Formerly of Norwalk. Leave 01 111315 at Art De-
partment of BOSTON SPORE, 2d Floor, Nor-
walk, Conn. 36

 

FOR KEEPING

CIDER SWEET

USE
ANTIFER‘MENTINE.

ONLY 30 CENTS A PACKAGE.

AT IIALE’S DRUG STORE.

 

Sewing Machines.

0F every kind and make, repaired,
and guaranteed. All orders left at

Spencer’s Jewelry Store,
Will receive prompt attention.
4tp36 ‘

cleaned

C. J. GRUMAN.

HENRY TI'LLY
CARRIAGE MAKER,

CONN

 

SOUTH NOR WALK -

Manufacturer of

PfllllIIY CEII‘I‘IEIEBS, VIBIUI‘IIIS, BNEIIIIIS 818.
All Kinds of Repairing.
ATENTS I

G. n. Ema-row,
Washingto

w vma m u- 8- Guide to Inveolors Mailed loot

PATENT OFFICE.

 

 

 

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Prof.
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GENERAL BLACKSMITHING,
Carriage all Wagon Building and
Repairing, Polollno, Trimming,

&C., 110., ac.

HE subscriber having purchased the entire

establishment known as Roukwell’s Shop, in
the real of George S. Gregory’s Livery Stable,
will conunue the business there of

General Blacksmith Work, Wagon, Car-
riage, Sleigh, &c., building, repairing,
painting, trimming, &c.,

in addition to his established

HORSE SHOEING

business at the old stand.

@GOOD WORK, FAIR PRICES, PROMPT-
NESS AND FAIR DEALING GUARANTEED, and
a share of the public patronage respectful—

ly solicted.
3m44. CHARLES E. MILLER.

Norwalk ~:~ Gazette
JUB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT.

 

Wedding Cards, Posters,
Visiting Cards, Handbllls,
Business Cards, l'rogramm es,
Fancy Show Cards, Dodgers, »
Ball Cards . Billheads,
Statements, Circulars,
T88 Cards, Receipts,

Town and Probate Records, Letter Headings
* Books and Pamphlets, Note Headings,
Hotel Registers. Milk Ticket

Printed in the Neatest Styles and at the Lowest
Prices.

Call and get emirates.

Engraved Weddgng I Iran a rteci . alty