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WEEKLY ,- NORWALK - GAZETTE.
NOR ”arm's FAMILY
GEN. WM. 1*. SIIERJI.-l.\".
Local pride is justly taken in the fame '
of the late William T. Sherman, of the
United States Army, and one of our '
analists, in response to our request. has l
contributed the following, among
other facts in his Imsscssion, bearing _
upon the great soldier’s ancestry:
Upon General Sherman’s fathers’
side he, it would appear, descended
from William Sherman, or Scherman,
who according to Talcott, as verified
in Rev. David Sherman’s notes, set-
tled in Massachusetts soon after the
landing of the Pilgrims in 1620. Our
old town has been honored with resi—
dent representatives of the two original
.New England branches of this distin-
guished family. _
Taylor and Roger Minot Sherman were
contemporary Norwalk barristers. The
former was the grandfather of Gen.
YVm. T., and the Hon. John Sherman,
and the latter, accepting good authority
was a nephew of Hon. Roger Sherman,
one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. Taylor Sherman’s son,
Charles Robert, the father of the Gen- 3
eral, wedded one of the daughters of 1
Mary Hoyt, the .
mother of \Vm. T., the General and of :
John the statesman, and the sister of 3
our St. Paul’s parish.
James I. Hoyt, who died many years
since, and of the late Charles Hoyt,
formerly of New York, but who subse-
quently purchased, and .with his es-
teemed family occupied the old Timo- ,
thy Merwin homestead on North ave-
nue, was the fifth child of Isaac and .7
Mary (Raymond) Hoyt, and was born
on the feast of the Holy Innocent’s, at
the close of the lastcentury. She was
of the earliest N orwalk blood, .and the i
tracing of her descent. which in Ameri—
ca first exhibits itself in Gov. Win—
throp’s colony, is interesting. Of the
fourth generation from the maternal
Connecticut founder of her family, she
bore her foremother’s name, Mary,
daughter of the “well beloved” Thomas
Betts, the planter. Her mothers maid—
en name was Mary Raymond, and it
was probably through one of the best
known St. Paul’s Church eighteenth
century 'fathers that Mary Raymond,
and perhaps her sisters, Elizabeth,
Esther and Hannah’s, churchly instincts
were derived. Each of these sisters,
General Sherman’s great aunts, mar-
ried prominent men. The first named
was the wife of Dr. Uriah Rogers, J r.,
and her honored grave is still well pre—
served in one of our cemeteries, albeit,
its marble testimony is becoming ob-
literated. She was the aunt by mar-
riage of the widely known Chancellor
Kent. Esther’s husband was a Con-
gressman, and died in Washington.
She resided, until about the time that
her nephew and neice, General Sher-
man’s father and mother, broke up
their Norwalk home and departed in
their “Prairie Schooner” for Ohio, not
far from the Main street Sherman
house. Hannah, the last named sister,
Hrs TOR Y on
A $1,500 COTTAGE.
5 Plans and Description of a Cheap Little
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[Copyright by American Press Association]
This is an attractive design of a five
room cottage, suitable for a family of
small means. There are two large rooms
on the first floor, one of which serves as a
sitting room and parlor, the other as a
kitchen and general living room, with
j closers for stores, staircase hall and‘a
veranda extending across the entire front.
This veranda is roofed by extending the
second story over it and supporting it
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FRONT ELEVATION. _...
.upoir pests. By this means two large
I chambers and a good sized bedroom are
l obtained in the second story, with closets
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for each, and a stairway leading to the
> attic. The front is prettily broken with
I turned columns, railing and balustradc.
; The open timber roof, with its wide barge
boards, the triplet windows and orna—
l mented stringcourse shingles, picturesque
dome window which lights and gives
headroom to attic stairs, and finally the
odd looking chimney top and handsome
front door complete the rifxect of the
whole.
The cellar extends under thecnti re build-
ing in the usual way. The cellar bottom
is leveled, packed and rammed hard and
left without concrete. The fbundation
bed, and carefully laid to a line both sides
in lime and cement mortar. The chimney
is of hard brick, with pressed brick fac-
ings for fireplace and selected hard brick
back for kitchen range. The top of the
chimney is of selected hard brick laid in
cement mortar stained red.
Small”?
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became the wife of Capt. Lemuel
Brooks, and lived about one mile south 1
of her father’s home in "Old Well.” 5
She was the aunt of the-venerated Miss '
Mary Ann Miller of New Haven, who 1
used to take great comfort in her :
visits to this town. General Sherman’s i
grandparents occupied pew No.‘ 80 in
the post revolutionary church. Herc, j
with Hezekiah Jarvis, and Hezekiah
and Samuel Belden as neighbors, and
'with -her uncle Brooks close by, the ;
General’s mother listened to the. teach- ‘
ings of such men of God as were Henry .
Whitlock and Dr. Bethel Judd. In 3
childhood she came with her parents
from a distance to church, but later on ;
she lived nearer by. Like many of the
Fitch and Cannon, and other yOung‘
people of the day, she married quite .
early, not a long time, presumably,
after leaving the school of which she
was a member, a school of considerable
reputation at that time, and which for “
years had been located in Harlem but
was removed to Poughkeepsie. Fol-
lowing her marriage she left her native
place to take up with her husband and
first born their new home in the then
far off west. Her family story and that
of others of the dead Generals’ ances-
tors will repay perusal. Our ancient
town is an historical hive, and some of
its fast crumbling records deserve to
be rescued from ,the oblivion with
which they seem threatened.
The foregoing is published in the
hope that additional facts pertaining to
the New England pedigree of one of 1
the grandest military geniuses of mod-
ern times may be brought to the sur-
face and find a' place in our archives.
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An I llustralcd Lecture. .
—On Wednesday evening, March 4th, .
in the Methodist Church Norwalk, 'Dr'
VanAlstyne will deliver a lecture en?
titled: “From Dublin to Pompeii, or"
Visions and Fun in Europe. ” The slec- '.
ture will include view-s'of several Eng-
lish, French, German and Italian Ca-
thedrals, with ' comments upon their
size, architecture and antiquity-aes-
pecially St. Peter’s at Rome, the Queen,
of Basilicas. Numerous views will be.
thrown upon the screen, in large size,
taken from cities in England, Holland,
Germany and Italy, and-also some rep-;
resenting domestic customs. Some lit-_
tle time will be spent'upon views ffrom
Rome. A number of colored slides
will be used, thus giving a’most rich
and beautiful appearanbe to the illus-
tration. Tickets at Selleck Brother’s
store and at Mr. Hale’s drug store.
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In this climate use J ohnson’s AnodyneiLini;
FIRST STORY. .
The side walls and ceilings of the first
and second stories are plastered in two
{ coats. the first coat being of bronze mortar
and the second of finishing lime, putty and
plaster of Paris, with neat centerpieces in
the hall and sitting rooms.
The hearths in the kitchen and living
J room are of rubbed slate and the sitting
room hearth of glazed tile. The fireplace
is provided with an open grate for burning
coal, with sheet iron “blower,” brass fen-
der, etc, complete. The mantel is of ash;
the sashes in the front windows of the sec-
ond story have border lights of tinted
glass, and the upper part of the front door
is glazed with colored hammered cath-
edral glass. All other windows are glazed
; with double thick glass. The veranda and
first story floors are of yellow pi me, the
, second story floor of merchantable white
pine, the attic floor of spruce.
The inside Woodwork of the hall and
sitting room in the first story is of ash;
that of the living room and kitchen yellow
pine. The second story is finished in white
pine, except the stairs, which have ash
newels, rails and balusters, with yellow
pine treads, the same as the stairs in the
first story.
‘ . [sneer-’1) sway.
The-doors areiallof Whitapine, 1% inches
lthick in first 'story,‘filled ‘and ”varnished
two coats on inside, Work-to show natural
color of “wood. 'In the first story-the door
is grained to imitatelight oak. The‘kitch-
en- door-is paintedwn-the' outside.
The exu-rior is ’painted two'coats, -m
pleasing shades of brown, black sash and
roof ‘of slate color, which ’giveST‘a 'quict
cozy appearance. ' ' _ ‘ "
Thevcost' of‘ erecting this cottage in the
vicinity of :New York would 'be from
$1,400 to$1-,600. ‘In some localities-it might
be builtifo'r-less. '-D.‘W.1KING.
ment-for coughs, colds, bronchitis. catarrh. .. z
walls are of stone found in the immediate. I
neighborhood, hammer dressed to a good i
, with some kind of doors.
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1 LiVE ”S"'f(‘)"0‘i{“(illitiw .
WHICH PAY BEST, SHEEP 0R CAT'-
TLE? THAT IS THE QUESTION.
Which Is More Profitablerfiecf and Milk,
or Mutton and “Mow—How Eluch Cow
and Sliecp Take from the Soil and
How Bloch Each Gives to 31am.
Can mutton be more cheaply produced
than beef? As bearing- upon this subject
Stewart calls attention to the fact that
the sheep is a source of double income——
meat and wool. He refers, too, to the
experiments of Sir J. B. Lawes, in refer-
ence to the percentage of food utilized
or stored up by diflerent animals, and
these experiments presented the sheep in
a very favorable light. Of the dry food
consumed he found that the sheep stored
up increased weight 12 per cent, while
cattle only laid up in increased weight 8
per cent; that is, 8.} pounds of dry food
increased the live weight of cattle.
So that, relying upon these experi-
ments, sheep nust be considered as ex-
cellent- utilizers of food, as producing as
many pounds of mutton,‘ besides the
wool, from a given quantity of food, as
as can h::~ produced of beef; and, as the
best mutton brings as high a price as
I‘m beef, it would appear on this basis
' the sheep would give the fleece as extra
pr‘oiit over cattle. If this is not too
favorable a View, the sheep on suitable
lands must be considered among the
most profitable of farm stock. It is true
the dairy cow brings her profitable flow
of milk to offset that of wool, but the
dairy cow does not lay on flesh While
producing milk as does the sheep while
producing wool.
A fleece of five pounds of wool grown
in a year requires only a daily growth
of one-fifth of an ounce, which can take
but a small portion of feel to produce.
The mineral matter taken from the soil
by the fleece is only 1.6 ounces per year,
and if six half mutton sheep represent a
cow the whole mineral constituents
taken by the six fleeces would only be
9.6 ounces and about 1.0 pounds of nitro-
gen, while the ordinary cow yielding
4,000 pounds of milk would take 26
pounds of mineral matter or ash and 25
of nitrogen, or 43 times as much mineral
matter and 13 times as much nitrogen as
the 'fleeces of the sheep—Montana Live
Stock J ournal.
A \Vinter Henhouse.
A correspondent of The Rural New
Yorker gives the following illustration
and description of a cheap winter hen
house with which he has had excellent
success:
Almost any kind of a house will do
for hens in warm weather, if they run
at large, and the house is kept clean and
side «1'33"»
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GROUND PLAN.
freefrom lice; but in the winter at the
north hens must have awn-rm heuse to
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yield eggs, especially the Leghorns and '
similar breeds. Many farmers who
have no comfortable places for fowls in
winter can have something like that
shown in the picture, and by a trifling
outlay secure eggs during the winter. The
sides, where there is no hay, are lined
up with boards, and the space is filled
with sawdust. One advantage of such a
house or room is that on warm days
hens can be allowed to run and scratch
on the feed floor.
I often see directions for building a
shed attached to a hen house under
which the hens may go in mild weather,
but’ in the north the snow Would blow
into such a shed unless it was closed
Hens delight
to scratch in the chaff and hayseeds
which collect on the barn floor. They
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eat many seeds which might otherwise
get into the manure :and make trouble
for the farmer. One'great advantage in
keeping hens is thati-if rightly managed .
there will seldom rhea time when a flock
will not be making - some addition to the
farmer’s income. Last year I sold from '
Oct. 1, 1888, toiGc‘t. ‘1, 1889, ninety-three
dollars’ worth~df<eggs and chickens from
fifty-six hensfbbsides using all we needed
in the family and having over 100 fowls
on hand «on Oct. E1, £1889.
Once more i‘p‘ermit us to remark;
Keep clean, dry sheds for your hogs to
retire to when the! rain and snow trans-
ferm ftheir stamping grounds into
swamps that threaten to, choke them
with . smud',~an'd when the icy blasts
whistle around corners and penetrate
even a ho'g‘s- thick hide. Hogs that'have
comfortable ’ quarters
-‘much"feed. ' . . . , .
."The lz-year-old thoroughbred Bolero,
recently bought? by Philip Dwyer ,for
$35,000, brought the second highest price
lever? paid for a racing horse at auction in
America. The horse King Thomas was
mold for $38,000.
do not require so ~
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Edward Street
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KID GLOVES AT 25 CENTS AND 50 CENTS, f
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Actual Value 50 and ‘75 cents.
2,000 Yards of Best Standard PRINTS at- 3.: Cents Per Yam?
In Dress Lengths. 2,000 Yards of I
BEST OUTING FLANNELS
Choice Styles at 10 Cents per yard. 20 Dozen
Huck and Damask Towels at 25 Cents a piece, ,,
Actual Value 39 cents. '
Look at the CROCHET QUILTS at 79 and 98 Cts.,
Value $1.00 and $1.25. Choicest Line of
Flannelettes and Vllflll‘fllll Splints at 12; Cents. Per Yard
Ever Shown in this Town.
Edward. Street,
No. 5 Cazette Building, Norwalk.
Just to Make It Amusing ;
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WILL SELL FOR THE NEXT TEN DAYS
A GOOD 5OC. CORSET FOR 350.
s“ mnglhcniug,
Atlantic Co. Sheeting at 7c Merrimac Prints at. Sci
The Best Kid Cambric at 5 cents.
Six Pairs of Fast Black' Hose for 25 cents.
A Good' Broom. 90.
A BIG DRIVE IN CARPET S.
INGRAINS at 23 cts. WE MEAN BUSINESS,
SCOFIELD & HOYT.
Agents for Butterick’s Fashions and Hall’s Bazar Forms.
The‘ Daily Gazette’s Gift.
A superb, Gold Watch to he Presented In
the Most Popular Working IlirlI '
in Norwalk. - ,,
The DAILY GAZETTE proposes to present to the most popular .
Working Girl in the town 'of Norwalk a handsome Gold
Watch, her popularity in be determined by a vote of lhe
readers of the DAILY GAZETTE, the voting to close 011 Friday
May 1, the result to be announced on Saturday, May 2d.
In order 10 facilitate the voting, and for the conVenience of
the voters, the appended official ballot will be printed daily
in these columns. _
' This ballot is to be cut out, and the blank lines filled in by
the voter, with the name of the candidate and her place of
employment and sent to the following address :
Gold Watch Editor, Daily Gazette,
Norwalk, Conn.
3 BALLOTS. _
Daily Gazette’s Gold Watch. '
.Forlhe Most Popular Working Girl in Mink. "
Name . r__ i
Employed
Ballots Sent addressed in any other manner than, as above
are liable to be cast'aside and not counted.
~- Any Working Girl working within the boundaries of the
town of Norwalk is eligible as a candidate, whether employed
in the factory, store, office, or in the household. The'progress
cf the voting and the scores of the candidates will be an.-
nouncedlfrom day to day, that voters may keep themselves
informed as to the standing of their respective favorite.
glfl‘he watch will be placed on eXhibition ' in the window of
one of the prominent stores of the Borough, and will also be
#exhibi-tedin South‘NOrWalk and East Norwalk. '
And now the ball is ‘opened. Let all join in.‘ Cutout the
ballot, fill in and send to this offiée addressed plainly as
directed above.
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