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Norwalk weekly gazette, Wednesday, March 12, 1890 · page 7

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On the river of life, as I float along,
I see with the spirits sight

That many a nauseous weed of wrong
Has root in a seed of right.

For evil is good that has gone astray,
And sorrOw is only blindness,

And the World is always under the sway
Of a changeless law of kindness.

 

The commonest error a truth can make
Is shouting its sweet voice hoarse,
And sin is only the soul’s mistake
In misdirecting its force.
And love, the fairest of all fair things
That ever to men descended,
Grows rank with nettles and poisonous things
Unless it is watched, and tended.

There could not be anything better than this
Old world in the way it began.

And though some matters have gone amiss
From the great original plan,

And however dark the skies may appear.
And however souls may blunder.

I tell you it will work out clear,
For good lies over and under.

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

LADDY’S LOGGING.

Old Peachblow had told Laddy all about
it, over and over again, and so the fault was
partly his. Now the logging team was just
ready to start for the woods with supplies,
and Laddy’s father, who owned the drive,
had gone up with Laddy’s mother, whoneed—
ed a somewhat unusual outing. And when
Ladd y had seen the prancing black horses
shaking off showers of bell tones, he had
begged hard to go, and harder still when he
heard there was a hatchet and knife in the
sleigh, and saw his father examining his re‘
volver‘s, there being a rumor of wolves on
, the way, although a probeny baseless rumor.

But Laddy’s entreaties had been promptly

silenced, and he had been told that it was out
of the question; he must stay and attend to
his lessons if he wanted to go to Bowdoin
year after next. ‘

W ell, he didn’t want to go to Bowdoin.
He wanted to go to the logging camp. Year
after next was a great way off; the woods,
the life there, the stories, the games, the hunt-
ing for bears, the gathering of gum, the
creaking of logs in the snow, the deer hunt,
the escape from the panther or the gaunt
gray wolf, the coming down with the drive
in the spring, the jam of the logs at the falls,
with the raftsmen skipping round upon them
lightly as Mercury in his mythology, han-
dling them with long hooks and springing
for dear life as one dexterous thrust loosened
the whole mass and Sent them rolling and
plunging and shooting over the cataract—all
that was close at hand. And Laddy, as he
thought of it, was bound to be a lumberman,
and was heard to sing some dreadful and un-
intelligible rhyme to himself about being a
logger boy by the jingoes or die.

“You are one now,” said his sister Anne.
“Father’s a logger. That makes you a log—
ger boy.” ,

“I don’t want to be that kind, and sit in a
counting room. I want to come down on
the drive and shoot the rapids, and bring
home a caribou’s horns and a catamount’s
pelt.” .

He had resolved to run away, just ahead of
the supply team, and oblige the men to take
him on later and go to join the logging camp
after all and in spite of everybody. As he
looked up at the window there stood his aunt
Mabel, with the baby in her arms, patting
the pane with her rosy little palms, and pres—
ently he heard Anne practicing her music at
the piano, the spinning song, with the whir
of~the wheel, the beat of the treadle, the song
of the spinning girl and the rustle of leaves
outside, the hum of bees, and stir of wind,
and twitter of birds in the branches through
it all. And that was the last he heard and
the last he saw of home; for he put on his
reefer hanging in the back entry, pulled his
sealskin cap down over his ears, hung his
skates on his arm, and, with his hands
buried in his pockets, went down the field 'to
take a short cut and get a. start of the team.

Laddy felt himself very ill used. There he
was, kept at his books, with a woman to
teach him, too, with nobody but a girl to
share his sports, and obliged to look forward
to a life of study, when he wanted to be using
his muscles; to be shooting and trapping, fol-
lowingdeer, snaring small game! It was
very short sighted and a great injustice on
his father’s part, he reasoned; audhe Couldn’t
see what his mother could be thinking of, and
he was very indignant indeed with his Aunt
Mabel, who had insisted on those horrid rules
in the subjunctive; and as for Anne, she could
chop all the Latin she wished—he preferred to
chop wood! And so nursing his wrath he went
walking, running and skipping along. When
he reached the highway he got alift of several
miles clinging to the runners of asurveying
party’s cutter; had a bowl of bread and milk
at a shanty by the' wayside, for which he paid
all the pennies in his pocket. He wondered
why the logging team did not come along.
Had he made a mistake, and was it tO—morrow
noon they had been going to start? Old
Peachblow had certainly told him they would
be off within the hour, they were only wait-
ing then for Diana to put up the cold beef
and bottle the coffee 'for them, and to have a
little chafiing, very likely,'with her and Susan.
He expected to hear the bells every moment.
How surprised his father would be when he
saw him come riding into the camp with Old
Peachblow and J o! How angry, too, per—
haps, at first. If ever any one was glad it
was Laddy, when he heard ,a far ‘ofl‘ tinkle
and presently a peal of sledge bells and stood '
still to receive the supply team, with Old
Peachblow and Jo, and to feel his heart well
at their surprised exclamation. “Well, he’s
a chap of speerit, I vum l” cried Old Peach-
blow, when the little fellow stood in the path
and halted the horses. “I d’no’s we got any-

, thin’ ter du but ter take him on, but I guess
we’ll cure him l” “01’ man’ll be mad,” sug-
gested JO—Laddy’s father wearing that ap-
pellation on account of his mastership, not
on account of his forty years, certainly.

"Can’t leave the boy here in this woody
place and night coming on, if he is. Pretty
kettle of fish! Up withye, youngster!” And
tucked under a lot of - horse blankets on top
of the load Ladd y knew but little more til!
late the next day, when he found they were
still jogging on, having a vague, delightful
memory of a. misty scene of swinging lan-
terns aud shouting voices as they changed
horses in the middle of the night at the half-
way house, feeling a little stiff and sore,
stretching himself and getting down to walk
a bit and limber up with Old Peachblow, and
then finding the cold beef and biscuit and
bottled coffee as goodas nectar and ambrosia.

So they plodded on through the day, with
a bite here and a sup there, and they stopped
at dusk in a sheltered spot, where they were
to camp for the night in a rude but left there
for the logging parties.

“Well. This is great,” said Laddy, stand~
ing with his legs far apart in front of the fire
that Old Peachblow had snapping outside
and sending up clouds of sparks, and where
the old fellow was cooking some squirrels he
had shot. And when, after a delicious re-
past, Laddy went to sleep on a pile of heme
lock boughs, covered with another pile, he'
seemed to be on the brink of surprising 021'
periences, and when he waked, in the firsfi
glow of a red sunrise through the chinks, h'd '
felt as if he had been floating ‘on a cloud in‘
the upper sky. '

Laddy lost no time in making himself
familiar with his new surroundings. the lonz.

 

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low house Of loga'vvithtfie bunks inside; the
deacon seat, where so many good stories

little cook busied himself frying a barrel of
doughnuts at a time. “How do you like life
here?" said he to the cook, somewhat patron-
izingly.

“First rate,” was the reply of the mono-
syllabic potentate, dropping his dough into
the fat. ‘

' “Hunting parties?"

“Game every evening,” glancing at vari-
bus discolored packs of cards. »

Laddy did not see the glance. His eyes
sparkled. “Ever see a catamountl” he asked.
breathlessly. .

“Crying round the camp soon’s it’s dark”,

“Really?” with his eyes opening wider.

“Way they hev. Cry like a child ter toll
the men Out.”

“Do they ever go?”

“Who?”

“Why, the men I" wishing this ohe were
more communicative.

“What ’d they go for?
pieces?"

Laddy looked at him a moment, trying to
extract what might be a kernel of truth from
the chaff. “Can I have a doughnut?” he
asked then. _

“All you want." And, helping himself to
that ,very solid reality, he went out to investi-
gate the oxen, the logging roads, the great
frozen lake upon which .the logs Were hauled
to be all afloat and ready with the breaking
up 'of the ice in the spring. And then, in less
than no time, he had his skates on andtwas
out careerin g over that crystal glare of ice,
making “figgery eights,” cutting his name
with his heel, doing the outside roll and
speeding away over the long reaches among
the islands with which the great lake was
sprinkled.

It was light much longer out on the open
ice than in the dim aisles of the woody
places; andydelighted and exhilarated with
the glow of his swift motion, Laddy did not
think anything about time till he saw large
snow flakes dancing all about him, when he
turned and found that the light was only that
of a. gray gloaming, and a. chill, damp wind.
was blowing in his face with a snow storm on
its wings. However, there would be no trouble
about skating back, and he went flying
against the wind, when all at once the screw
of one of his skates snapped and sent him
tumbling headlong, rolling over and over.
When he had picked himself up and adjusted
the skate again he could not tell in what
direction he had been going, up or down,
along or across the lake. The shores all looked
alike. There were no lights of the camp,
whether hidden by the islands or the project-
ing shores, and try as he might to find the
track of his skates he could not, either for
the dim light or the snow that had covered
and was covering it. The gloom was deepen-
ing, too. When he had skated a mile and
still saw no lights of the camp, he was sure
he had been turned about, and he reversed
his motion and went in the other direction.
But still there were no lights—not a twinkle
anywhere, and when he hallooed no answer
came but a far off echo. -

Well, this would never do, he said; some
one of all these logging paths would lead to
camp, of course. And he took ofl? his skates

Ter be torn ter

‘ and climbed the shore and went trudging and

whistling along. But still no lights. Well,
hadn’t the camp been on the edge of the lake?
He would wind along the edge, then, and
sooner or later he must come to it. Alas! it
began to seem as if it would be later, much
later, rather than soon. And now it was
more than dusky among the trees; he had lost
the broad gleam of the lake; he had lost the
main logging path along the shore; he did
not know which one of all the dim openings
was the right one; the snow was bewildering;
it was already dark—and he was lost himself.

He sat down on a fallen log; the snow was
whirling and floating andfalling round him.
Now and again a soft bough swept low and
touched his cheek in a sort of cold caress. He
thought he would lie down under the lee of
the log and stay all night, he was so tired.

He sat down there and leaned against the
tree. Nothing was of any use. In spite of
himself the tears spurted forth. He was lost
in the woods. He was going to freeze and
die here._ He was going to be buried in the
snow. He should never see his darling
mother again. Oh, if he had only taken the
baby up when she reached her hands to him
the other morning! ' ‘

No; he should never see them again. It
was all up with him. He had been a wicked
boy; he must take what came. But how
they all must feel; oh, how badly they would
feel! Annie would cry fit to break her
heart. His father would forgive him, - but
he would declare he never could forgive him-
self, and he would be pursued by the sorrow
of it all his life. And his dear, dear, dear
mother—the image of her pale, sweet face
' was too much for him, and he was crying
himself with all his might. And then,
weal-led outfand wondering if he should go
to heaven, or where, and if it was very hard
,to die—and sending up now a prayer for his
safety, and nowa prayer that they might not
feel too badly at home, all at once, he was
sound asleep, and the great hemlock tree was
bending down its branches heavy with snow
about him, and sheltering in its kind embrace
the poor, lost, lonely little fellow. When at
last, roused by the commotion about him, the
cry of voices, the blast of horns, the flash of
lanterns, Laddy sleepily opened his eyes again,
he might, indeed, have thought it was heaven,
with some great light glowing on an angel’s
face, only he knew he deserved nothing of
that sort. 2 In another moment he saw that
it was his mother, and without asking how
she came there he had thrown himself into
her arms. ' ‘

The facts in the case were that when Laddy
had not returned to the camp, there had been
an alarm given and the whole body of men.
had gone out in search parties after him and
Old Peachblow. It was one of these parties,
paSsing in the distance, that had brought him
back from his instant’s dream of the wild
ladies an hour or so before. And his mother
-driving down from the upper camp, with'a
jingle of ,bells and flashing of sleigh lamps,
just as a group of the men had paused, won-
dering‘at this place not far from the way-
side, where for a circle of some dozen yards
in diamet r the snow was pretty well trodden
down roui d the old pOstoffice tree, the very
circle wh re 'poor Laddy had done , his
tramping hisfather had stopped and come;
to see w: t was the cause of the excite-
ment: or d his mother had presently fol-
lowed mi had seen him in beneath the
great hemlock boughs first of all. Oh, how
sweet and; dear his mother was! How warm
her arms Were—her face like some lovely,
bright, cold flower! Could it be possible—
was he found—was he going to see his dear
home once more, and Anne and the baby?
His heart beat in his throat with joy. He
felt like neeling down in the snow and
thanking the great Power that, had spared
him. d he never noticed the big pea'
jacket th had been spread over him, and
from wh ch Old Peachblow was shaking the‘
—— 11 go. to Bowdoin, father 1" stam-'
“You may punish me—I
ought to be punished. “I’ll—I’ll learn the'
lines of t e Greek ships by heart, too. I’ll—-
I’ll go to l owdoin—only just let me go home,

rst. ’
Inhe’s cured,” muttered Old Peach-
blow to Mr. Earl, handing up the reins.-
Harriet [Prescott Spoflord in New York
World.

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

were told; the huge fire, where the sturdy

coming up the stairs.

 

The Freaks Spoiled nu Appetite.

He was a tall old man, with sparsely set-
tled whiskers that afforded ample playground
for the wind, and he glided into a Fourteenth
street restaurant as though he had come
straight from the Grand Central station and
was still a little dazed by the crowd and the
noise. He selected a seat, ordered an oyster
stew, and as he quietly awaited its coming
the door opened and a man of enormous
height strolled in. The old man looked at
the newcomer, in complete amazement. He
took in the copious proportions from sole to
crown, and, leaning over, whispered:

“Waiter.”

(fsahgfl

“I calc’late that man is seven foot high.”

“Eight, sah.” -

“Gosh. 71 -

“Eight foot one, sah. Here‘s yer stew.”

The old man had scarcely begun work upon
his luncheon when a little creature not three
feet high, but wearing a heavy mustache and
plenty of jewelry, walked down the room,
climbed into a chair and ordered chops. The
stew was neglected. With mouth open and
eyes fairly bobbing out with wonder the old
man studied his new neighbor. Afilength the
demands of the inner man were too clamorous
to withstand, and the owner of the stew be
gan the work of stowing it away. He had
scarcely devoured two oysters, however, when
there was another arrival. A middle sized
man . came in. . He. had a countenance com-
pletely devoid-Of expression, hair and mus-
tache as white as snow, and pink eyes. A
look of horror came over the old man’s face,
and his spoon fell into the stew with a splash.

“Geewhittaker!” he exclaimed. “If the
people of this New York is monstrosities like
these, I calc’late I can’t get back to Sodus
Point quick enough,” and before cashier or
waiters could stir the old man shot out of the
door into Fourteenth street, leaving one mit-

ten aud the oyster stew mute evidences of his '

hasty departure.

“Jerry,” said the cashier, with much an-
noyance, to a waiter, “go in and tell that
museum feller next door that this business is
getting all broke up, and we can’t serve no
more lunches to them freaks."———New York
Tribune.

Fear of llIice.

There is something peculiar about this
dread human beings have for rats and mice.
Professor Johnson, who occupies the ch air of
natural history in the university of Wash-
ington, will eat snakes, eels, snails, grasshop—
pers, and has frequently tasted devil fish,
owls, and other mysterious bugs and animals.
He is an expert taxidermist and has pre-
pared specimens of all kinds for a number of
the best collections in this country, but he al-
ways draws the line at rats and mice. He
can’t stand their presence, dead or alive, and
a cold, creepy feeling goes over him when-
ever he sees one on the street.

On the other hand, Mrs. Johnson cannot
bear the presence of some of the professor’s
snakes and snails, but she is not at all afraid
of mice. One night the professor woke up
and detected a series of little noises, just as if
a mouse was jumping, jumping, from one
step to another and gradually getting near
the top of the stairs.

“Mary,” said he, “Mary, there’s a. mouse
Hear- him!”

And so Mrs. Johnson got up, and while the
professor held the lamp at the head of the
stairs she went down and killed the fright:
ened little mouse. ,.

On another occasion the professor had re-
turned from a long, fatiguing hunt after
specimens, and was sleeping at the rate of
about sixty miles an hour, when Mrs. J ohn-
son nudged him in the ribs and said:

“O. B., wake up! Wake up, 0. B., but
don’t you holler.”

“Well, what’s the matter now? Do you
think a burglar will carry off our cook
stove?”

“No, dear, no, it isn’t a burglar. Just
wake up, but-don’t holler. There’sa mouse
on the bed.” ' ’

“A mouse! _ Wow!” ,

And with that the bed clothes went one
way and the professor 'went the other. It
took about five minutes to annihilate that
mouse and get the professor quieted down

, again—Seattle Press.

>- The hionkey with a llIirror.

Visitors to the zoological garden have taken
special notice of a pretty little African mon-
key with atremendously long tail, and an
interesting little, shriveled up pink face.

Some one presented him' with a piece of
mirror. It was the apple of his eye and the
prize of his collection. His little storehouse
contained a couple of chestnuts, some spare

peanuts, two or three bright pebbles and the .

mirror. This little strip, hardly two inches
square, he would hold and admire by the
hour. He never tired of trying to solve the
mystery of that other monkey which he saw
in the glass. Not being quarrelsome, he
never tried to fight the strange monkey, but
'Was always trying to coax him out to play.
It wouldn’t work.

One day the ‘sun shone down through the
glass skylight and struck the mirror. It cast
a bright, burning beam right into the mon-
key’s eye and nearly blinded him. Here was
another immense problem to wrestle with.
After a few minutes he found that by turning
the looking glass in adifi'ercnt direction he
could make the bright ray dance over the
walls and into the other cages. Ha! that was
funny. A cockatoo was across the aisle, and
one of the rays struck him in the eye. He
blinked and ruffled his feathers. Th3 monkey

saw it, and said to himself as plainly as possi- ‘

ble: ..

“W'onder if old cockey doesn’t like it?”

He got the focus- again, and the cockatoo
ducked and'squawked.

Again he focused the bird, and the bird
jumped. Up, down, sideways and across, he
pursued the bird with that blinding ray,

_while the latter screamed and beat his wings

and rattled the cage in a whirlwind of rage.
But it was useless. The ray and monkey
were inexorable, and not until a convenient
cloud obscured the sun did the monkey cease
its persecutions—Washington qut.

i The Enterprising Parisians.

There are many queer trades in Paris.
One of the oddest is that of “painter of tur-
keys’ legs.” This artistis known only to the
poultry dealing fraternity, and is a highly
useful member of the community. By his
artistic skill he enables the trader to palm olf

a bird of patriarchal age, with a certain .

vague romance as to the date of its decease,
upon a misguided housewife, or even upon an
experienced buyer, who has learned to judge
aturkey after the manner of cookery book
writers. Turkeys, when freshly killed, have
shiny black legs and claws, but as the day of
their death becomes more or less a matter of
ancient history their lower extremities as-
sume a slaty, dingy gray color. Old turkeys,
too, have long claws and horny looking
beaks, which the ingenious artist pares and
varnishes. The artist goes round to his cus-
tomers three 'or four times a week, paints the
feet of the birds with his solution (which was
sold as a trade secret to the present owner
for £40), carefully pares the nails and beak,
and there you have a turkey that will fetch
half as- much again. It is only during'the
desperate struggle with the ancient beast
that ensues at dinner time that you realize
how fraudulent are its pretensions to juven-
ility.-—Philadelphia Times.

 

 

AN $8,000 HOUSE.

Plan and View of a Handsome Two Story
' Brick House.
This is from Artistic Houses, published by
the National Building Plan association, Dec
troit, Mich.:

 

Brick or stone foundation, cut stone trim-
mings, slate roof; principal apartments fin-
ished with hard wood, oil finish, inside blinds,
etc. Height of stories—first, 10 feet 6 inches;
second, 10 feet. Cellar, firfeet 6 inches. First
story contains vestibule, 4x7; reception hall

,, .

Sittin
Room.

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Veranda.

Reception
,Rarlor. Halt. ‘
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Room.

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GROUND FLOOR.
(with fireplace), 11.6x14; parlor (with fire-
place), 14x15; sitting room, 14x14.6; dining
room (with fireplace), 15x16.6; kitchen, 13x14;
pantry, 4x12; china closet, 4x4; front and
back stairs. Toilet roOm under front stairs.
Second story contains hall, 13x15; chamber

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Chamber.

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SECOND STORY. ,
(with fireplace), 14x15; chamber, 14x14;
chamber, 10x14; chamber, 13x15; closet off
each chamber; bathroom, 71:11.6.
Estimated cost of building, $8,000.

A COLONIAL COTTAGE.

Deéign for a Handsome but Inexpensive
' Six Room House.
. The houSc here illustrated, it will be seen,

contains six good sized rooms, besides awood-

shed, two alcoves and plenty of closet room.
It is of tasteful appearance, and it is stated

 

 
 
 
 

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VIEW.

in Artistic Homes, published by the National
Building Plan association, Detroit, Mich.,

from which the plans are taken by permission,
that it can be built for $1,500. Here is the
description, the house being frame, of course,
or stone foundations: Height of

with brick

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LIVING
Room,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GROUNDFLOOR.
stories in tlie:clear—first, 9 feet 6 inches;
second, 8 feet. Cellar, 6 feet 6 inches. Pine
finish. First story contains parlor (with fire-
place), 14x14; Halllfi-Tfeet 6 inches square;
living room, ' Hill}; kitchen, 10x12; pantry,
3. 6x6; woodshed, 7x18. Second story, cham-

 

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, "-Ismconn STORY.
ber,‘ 14x14, with alcove of! 7x9; chamber,
9x10: chamber, 10:11.0, with alcove 4x9.
Closet 03 each chamber.

 

Professor Salcher, of London, has been ex-

perimenting in photographing currents of ‘I

air. He finds that in letting a stream of - air
escape from a pressure of nineteen atmos-
pheres, across a small openingon which the
camera i8.focused,-some very curious figures
are formed, varying with the swiftness of the
current. .

SOUTH NORWALK . .

 

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NORWALK GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY MARCH 12. 1890

R . B. ORA'UFURD,
Investment, Real Estate and Insurance,
ROOM 2, MASONIC BUILDING.

Wm. Loch/wood,

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

Office—Cor. MAIN & \VALL STS.. NORWALK
1y 13

DENTISTRY!

Everything in Dentistry, and Everything
' Fully Werrmted;

w. n. BALDWIN, D. D. a,
68 Wall St., Norwalk, Ct.

J. BELDEN HURI.BUTT. _
Attorney and Counselor at Law,

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

ALEX. S. GIBSON,

Organist of l “Congregational Church , Waterbury, '
Teacher of

Pianoforte, Organ and Musical

Composition,
Lock Box 39 P 0..NORWALK.CONN.

MR. c. F. DANIELS,

I V STRUCTOR UPON THE

PIANO-FORTE All]! ORGAN.

Especial attention given to Harmony and Rhyth-
mical Studies. ‘
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Lock Box 114, Norwalk, Conn.

 

‘TNA INSUICA
1 .4 Incorporated 1812.

cum“. AND ASSETS, $8,902,272.64.

Insures against loss and damage by Fire, on

terms adopted .to the. hazard and consistent with

he laws of compensation. COWLES a MERRILL,
Sole A gems for N orwalk and Vicinity.

' . NC D.
Charter Perpetu

 

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

ings. .
Artistic designs for stairways, mantcls, side-

' boards, etc.

Framing or working plans for all kinds of build-
ings accurately made.

Office. (for Main and Wall sts., Norwalk. Open
Wednesday and SaturdayI evenings.

Residence, Riverside ave., East No‘rwalk. 1y1

Building materials, so. I

UILnING S'I‘ON It, all qualities of sand, cel
lars dug. gardens and grounds renovated
horses and carts for hire. I have some thoroughly
rotted and very line manure for flower beds.
, -‘ J. W. EDMUNDS,
No.6 South Union Avenue.
P. 0. Box 654, N'orwallk

r i 4 i ‘i 1
PLYMOU! ll ll O( ,K II .E.
I HAVE a large quantity of lee on hand. It was

_frozen on pure water. It is clear,.clean and
solid 108.. All orders promptly attended to.
Thanking my customers for past favors,l solicit
tgcpntin uance of their patronage.
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R. L. ELLS.
THE

Norwalk Fire Inscrance C0.

Has now completed its.
18th SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR

And Has not outstandinga dollar of unpaid losses

orclaims for losses. No sound company insures

for less. ,

W. C. STREET, Pres, GEO. B. ST. JOHN, Trees,
GEO. R. Cowms- Secretary. ..

Expreés.

Patronize the old reliable

ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY.

Low RATES AND PROMPT DELIVERY.

Branch omce, Norwalk. at S. K. Stanley’s
Mam Olllce at Depot, South Norwalk. tf12
L. 'llUNT, Agent.

G. A. FRANKIE,
THE HAIR CUTTER,

N0. 1 Gazette Building.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.

PENSIONS

And GOVERNMENT CLAIMS mv sole busi-
ness. Rejected and increase claims a speciality.
Don’t delay. Address or visit

GEN. wu. u. NOBLE,

N0. 91 STRATFORD Ava, BRIDGEPORT CT.
)

HENRY HUSS,

 

 

 

 

Restaurant, Cafe and Smoking, Room,

Grand Central Station,
42!) STREET AND 4TH AVENUE, NEW YORK

Entrance from waiting room, New York,'New
Haven and Hartford railroad. “32

,O. E. WILSON,

General Insurance to lloalestato‘ Agent

Money to Loan.

Stocks, Bonds &c., Bought and Sold,
and Loans Negotiated at Lowest

Rates of Interest.
ROOM N0. 3 GAZETTE BUILDING

W. H. MEEKER.
Plumbiuo,Sloa1u and Gas Filling,

SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.

 

Sanitary Plumbing, and Ventilation, and
Low Pressure Steam Heating, a Specialty

PLUMBERS’ SUPPLIES.
Plpe’ and Fitting for Steam and Gus.
Agent forthe Florida Low Pressure Boiler.

Facilities for Cutting and Threading all Sizes 0!
Pipe. 50tt

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 olfer.
We also keep constantly on hand at our Carriage
Reposotory a complete line or CARRIAGES from
the best makers, which are manulaetured for us
to special order; every carriage warranted.
WAGUNS and (lAll'l‘S of every description.
HARNESSES, WHIPS, RUBES, BLANKETS

DAN N’S LIVERY STABLE,

OFFICE 48 WALL ST., NORWALK
OPP. l). d N. II. R. DEPOT 35

FURNIIURE !
Geo. H. Raymond,

FURNITURE DEALER,

Has removed to the new and commodious store
four doors above his old stand and stocked it
With \l EW GOODS of the LATEST
STYLE and FINEST FINISH.

GEO. H. RAYMOND, Agent.

 

 

 

Furnishing Undertaker and Embalmer.

I give 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-

PARLBB AND BEDROOMSETS

a specialty.

DAVID STOW,

Main Street opp. Depot
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN

GENERAL MARKET

Meat, Fish, Vegetables, &c.

LOCKWOOD 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—

 

 

‘curedat any market in Norwalk. We intend t

prove to our customers that we deserve their
patronage by fair and generous dealing.
1v40 LOCKWOOD «is LOCKWOOD.

J. 0. NE WKIRK,

... DENTIST.

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

omce at residence. Lewis Street near Con-
gregational church. Norwalk ly37p

PORTRAITS
-—1N— ‘

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, Ner-
walk, Conn. 36

 

 
 
 

 

 

FOR KEEPING

CIDER SWEET
ANTIFEFIJISIENTINE.

ONLY 30 CENTS A PACKAGE. .
, AT IIALE’S DRUG STORE.

 

SeWing Machines.

OF every kind and make. repaired, cleaned
and guaranteed. All orders left at

Spencer’s Jewelry Store,

W111 receive prompt attention.
4op$6 C. J. GRUMAN.

HENRY TILLY
CARRIAGE MAKER,

CONN

 

Manufacturer of
Familytarriagos, Violor1as,Buuoios to.
All Kinds—(Faepairing.

ATENTS i

G" n, BYING'I'ON!
Wham“! ,D' - C' ,
w vans m u- 8- tulle lo Inventors Mailed Free.

 

PATENT OFFICE.

 

 

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ouoouoo Bolououloulou
Carriage aol Wooou Bulllloo and
Repairing, Paiuuoo, Trimming,

&C., &C., 860.

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-
riage, Sleigh, &c., building, repairing,
painting, trimming, &c., _

in addition to his established

HORSE SHOEING
business at. the old stand.

lapGoon WORK, FAIR PRICES, PROMPT-
mass AND FAIR DEALING GUARANTEED and
a share of the public patronage respectfully

solicited .
3m44. CHARLES E. MILLER.

Norwalk ~:~ Gazette
JoB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT.

 

Wedding Cards, Posters, .
Visiting Cards, Handbills,
Business Cards, Programmes,
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 Tickets.

Printed in the Neatest Styles aid at the Lowest-
Pr ces.

 

 

 

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