3 cts. L CTRIC URGLAR—-———— —E———-BELLS, —————_—AI,.ARMSi Annunciators, Automatic Gas Lighting an Electric Wiring inall its branches and saus- factton guaranteed. Doon BELLS, $4.00 Ur Seals senescence sateen“ S’ or . . ‘ .’ or 8A . tf-20 CHARLES RILEY. horwalk. “NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE 3&7 . SUCCESS.” The big spring business here marks a new era in tailorin . As the_knowledge that it is best and c eapest in the end to have your clothes made to measure becomes more widely disseminated the demand increases. A couple of years ago the amount of business I am now doing appeared almost unobtainable and yet as large as It is It has had the effect of whetting my appetite for more. which accounts for the extra etforts'now being made and the pun; valled inducements in price. quality or material, style and workmanship. F. Kocour, CUSTOM TAILOR, li‘North Main Street, 3m96 South Norwalk. 0. L. WERNER, 6 Main Street, Norwelk, Baker and Confectioner. Manufacturer of Ice Bream, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. I93" Picnics and parties supplied on short notice. _ ALL KINDS OF CANDIES FRESH EVERY DAY. orders for Sundays at 0 MAIN '10 Leave your 15' STREET, NORWALK. P. W. BATES, Steam - Stone - Polishing —-—-AND— ALL KINDS OF Mfllllllllfllllfll‘é Blllllllllh; Will, 42 WATER STREET, uoennu. 13‘103 ORDERS PnoanLY EXECUTED. WILL SELL AT COST! FOR TWO WEEKS TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW GOODS. Lot of Parlor Suits, Lounges, Bedroom Suits, Pictures, 8w Also Handsome Lot of Baby Carriages- AT FURNITURE STORE OF Theodore Coleman, 202. AND 201 WASHINGTON ST., EAST END or BRIDGE, SOUTH NORWALK. 311140 CHINA, —GLASS,— STONE, _EARTHEN, WOODEN \VARE, , House Furnishing Goods, I5 Wall Street,,N9_,rwalk. “it‘ll-S Krnoee, FINE Boots and Shoes, Leather and Findings. Everything In the Shoe Line I PRICES THE LOWEST: REPAIRING A SPECIALTY: 3...... 3| Main Street, Norwalk. JOHN ALLEN Carpet Cleaning, Carpet Making, —AND- Carpet Laying. All kinds of Car et Work. Carpets Taken Up and Cleaned an Relaid. NeW" Carpets Made and Laid at Short Notice. Old Carpets Repaired I In the Best Manner. Orders left at F. F.~ BYXBEE’S RESTAURANT, Railroad Place, and J. J. CooNEY’s. 77 Wash- ington street, South Norwalk' and_SUTnEn- LAND’s CIGAR STORE, GAZETTE Building. Nor- walk. will receive prompt attention. amen Special Display of Tunnel Bonnets ml Hats. __—.————— 0 St les are noted for Elevancc in urTasyte, Workmanshi and High Class G00 3. WA LARGE Asson'rnENT T0 SELECT FROM. Untrimmed Rats in Endless LVariety. FLOWERS, TIPS, PLUMES, RIBBONS, LACES, Em. PRICES - ARE - LOW! .QUALITY OF GOODS CONSIDERED. B. M. COLLINS, m. 12 in Street. one hornalt. WEEKLY - NORWALK - GAZETTE. ' THE M n. Norwalk’s Patriotism Aroused! 2,000 People Pack St. Mary’s. Hundreds More Unable to Gain Entrance. Father Slocum’s Patriotic Address and Greeting to the “ Boys in Blue ” Last Night. The following is the address of Rev. Father Slocum, to the two G. A. R. Post’s delivered at St. Mary’s church Sunday evening and stenographically reported for the DAILY GAZETTE: MY DEAR FRIENDs:—I am sorry that we have not a little more seating ca- pacity here, for I suppose that more than twice the number the church can accommodate have come out to-night. I do-not know of any more encourag- ing Sign that'the people have at heart the memories of ’61, than to see on an occasion like this, so many, thirty years after that time, keeping alive in their hearts and memories, the war for the Union, and halting at nothing, coming here in such numbers to do honor to those who fought that the nation might live. I am glad to see you here to- night, you veterans of the civil war; proud to be with you; look into your faces and realize what that war inc-ant. Probably there is no subject that is of greater interest or greater benefit for us to consider, than the subject of the sacrifices that were made by citi- zens of this country in order that this country might live and exist on the principles. laid down by the fathers. I intend not to make a political speech, but in what I have to say to consider how religious sentiment wrought upon the minds of the people ,of this coun- try and upon the soldiers in teaching them that they had duties as well as rights. NO man can be true to his creed without being true to his coun- try, and the man who is true to his country is true tohis God. Isuppose the first memorial service that we read about anywhere inhistory is in the Old Testament in the second book of Maccabees where we read the account of that great soldier and great commander in Israel sent to Jerusalem, after collecting together, twelve thous- and pieces Of silver to bear the expense of a memorial service for those soldiers who “had fought in the war, and as the scripture says, to remember them as well as that God might accept the sac- rifice which they had made in behalf of their country. The custom which we now celebrate or keep sacred in this country on Memorial Day is one which bears a great resemblance to another ancient history. It is founded upon a Catholic custom of “ All Souls,” cele- brating once a year the feast Of “ All Souls’ Day.” That day being the sec- ond of November when Catholics throughout the world gather together - in demonstration and offer up prayers for the souls of the ones who have gone before. You may say, “how has that anything to do with Memorial Day as kept in this country?” Memorial Day as kept in this country came first from the confederacy. Their day found ori- gin in the city of New Orleans. New Orleans having been settled principally by Catholics alwa 'S keeps alive, the same as in the European countries, the custom of on the second of November going to the cemeteries and leaving there a wreath upon a grave. This cus- tom is now Observed in New Orleans, and has been ever Since its founding by the Spaniards and early French set- tlers. , During the war the pride and man- hood Of the city went out to fight for the COIletlt:‘.-"..r:j.'. and as a great South- ern writer fish's us, it was a sad day when the gaming llizllllli,)0(l of that city were sepai‘atul from their families and enlisted in Girlie-cut regiments and marched "L‘l up the Mississippi to meet the army of General Grant. They went up the river and got as far as Shi- th where Sidney Johnston and his fol- lowers laid down their lives before the victorious armies of Generals Grant and Buell. These gallant soldiers were the first to march to the war, and when the last day of the battle was over, Sid- ney Johnston and thousands of young men whose dear ones were at home, and whose thoughts were of them on the eve of the great battle, lay dead to- gether, and they brought their bodies back to the city and through the streets, and carried them out and laid them Side by side in itscemetery. On the second of November those whose hearts were still bleeding for their brave ones went out with their wreaths and their flowers and laid them on (those graves. It was a beautiful custom, but owing to the scarcity of flowers at that season of the year, they changed the day to the 30th of April. bands and sons fought for the Union took up the custom, and the colder North adopted the 30th of May. That day has become a national holiday and is one Of the most sacred that this country celebrates. There is no day that means more to those who know what made it, in a sense that it brings back the recollec- brave comrade who fell, appears in the mind’s eye and they live over again the scenes Of the war. There is patri- otism in celebrating this day, and as the years go on other generations will sping up to maintain and take the places of these veterans ? But the gen- eration to come, can never fully see and realize what has been done by those who lived and died that this country might live. What a glorious thing It is for you veterans to recollect and re. tain in your hearts the fact that you live and have fought with such honor to yourselves. Passing away so rapidly, your ranks are being thinned, but I trust that it will be many a! year before the last face that I see before me will pass away to join the comrades on the ., ‘silent camping ground. ” As I look back over the scenes of tln war and consider its real Significance, I think it means a great deal more than most people appreciate. There never has been in the history of the nation, either in this time or in the past, more to remind men of their country and of their duties as citizens and as soldiers than in the trials which they endured during the war of the re- bellion. ‘ "When any EurOpean country goes to war the government has another and stronger right arm which it reaches out, and every man whether he will or not, has to shoulder his musket and be- come a soldier. Thus they are forced. Those whose fathers, hus-J tions of those who fought in the war ; they live it all. over again on that day, and _ visions of the battlefield and of some Every man must go,‘ but in this coun- try my dear friends, we see perhaps for the first time, at least in this century! an army springing voluntarily from the people. This nation was looked upon as a nation of Peace by all' the world. We had no standing army and our force of 22,000 men was viewed with de- rision by foreign powers as too small a force to enter into a war. But what Was the grand'result? An army Of men sprang up as if by magic. They were ready and willing to die for their country that this Union might live. They were not discouraged by defeats and long marches and by the many other trials that beset their paths. mg discouraged by defeat it woke 11p their ire and made them all the strong- er. There never was in any army, in any bodyof soldiers, a more patriotic, manly feeling than in our entire army during the civil war. They fought against the Confederacy and when the war was over they were willing to meet their foes as brothers. I was told an incident by the Bishop of Connecticut, who was present, that when Stonewall Jackson was killed and the Confederate bands struck up a dirge, all the Union bands on the other bank of the Rappahannock,at once responded and the funeral music Of the bands of both armies floated together over Stone- wall Jackson’s bier. There was no animosity or hatred,but they were recognized as American sol- diers and brothers. You may take those thousands on both sides who went Into the war men, but became such grand soldiers,—men who emerged from the factory and field—men who left their homes for the trenches, and yet who became soldiers par excellence and when the war was over, they as promptly returned to theirformer vo- cations. Connecticut furmshed 54,000 men, who will look back upon that fact with pride. I remember the time, (I was only a small boy,) when Connecticut’s first regiment, fully equipped, went to the war. They were one of the first regiments to arrive in \Vashington, and the first to fire a shot at Bull Run, as well as the first to plant their banner on the walls of Fort Sumter, and there were no battles of the war but what a Connecticut regiment was present, and while first in the field they were the last troops to leave it. - I remember when Gen. Sedgwick went away and when his body was brought home. I remember and honor the name of the hero whose name one of your posts bears, Connecticut’s great war governor. I also revere the name of him which the other post bears and whose body to-day lies among the un- known dead on the field of Gettysburg. I am sorry that there are living tO-‘ day .any who think that a Catholic as a soldier, cannot be trusted by American Citizens. When there was fear that France and to recognize the Confederacy, who did that man, raised up by God to conduct our war and direct its armies, Abraham Lincoln, despatch to thwart such pur- poses but Archbishop Hughes of New York, the man who, when the draft riots were terrorizing New York city, had himself borne from his death-bed to the window and adjured them to de- s1st, denouncing their conduct as worse than that of the enemies in our front. If Phil Sheriden,'— Grant’s very thunderbolt in the war, that noble and brave soldier—had come to Norwalk after the war, and been nomi- nated for constable, there are those, I fear, who would feel obliged to vote against him on account of pledges made behind closed doors because he wor- shipped at this Altar. 1 hope that I have not tired you and trust that sometime I may have the pleasure of seeing you again and I ex- tend a hearty welcome to you all. ' In conclusionletme assure you that there is no danger to this Union as long as a Catholic can raise his strong right arm to wield a sword. The services ended with Singing by the powerful choir and audience of grand Old ‘ limerica.” .0. G. A. R. Notes. The turn-out Of Buckingham Post, Sunday evening to attend St. Mary’s church was the largest in numbers which has ever occurred on any public occasion, there having been fully one hundred present. In the Douglas Fowler Post procession were about fif- ty comrades. .It is estimated that there were packed, seated and standing, from eighteen hundred to two thousand persons and that nearly as many more were com- pelled to go away unable to gain en- trance. Father Slocum’s address was an earnest and fervent expression of his defense against any charge of want of loyalty on the part of men of Catholic faith, either past or present. Father Slocum had a brother who served through the war and he himself enlisted in a Litchfield County Regi- ment but was denied admittance to the army because of his extreme youth. A most enjoyable feature of last night’s service, was the creditable per- formance of St. Mary’s choir under the directorship of Edward E. Brennan, who ably preSIded at the organ. Mr. Brennan went out to the war as a mem- ber of our gallant Seventeenth Con- necticut Vols. _ Mr. John Weil of South Norwalk, sang a bass solo, while the ,Misses Lizzie Murphy and Mary Bracken sang soprano solos and . Miss Kate Sange- lin an alto solo, which with B. Tully as tenor and a chorus. of some twenty voices, made the muSIcal feature of the evening one of rare merit and enjoy- ment. , A liberal collection was taken at the close for the benefit of the needy sol: diers and their families under the care of Buckingham Post. .One of my children had a very bad discharge from her nose. Two physi- cians prescribed, but without benefit. We tried Ely’s Cream Balm, and, much to our surprise, there was a marked impi ovement. We continued using the Balm and in a short time the disease $818 cured—O. A. Cary, Corning, Have you read the “Improved M. D.” advertisement in another Column ? Read it now ! . Used up ball players and athletes find J ohnson’s 1D Gilead. ‘ Instead of be» other European countries were about ‘ OWn patriotic feeling and a conclusive. EMULSION mm“ —_ cows Many have gained one pound remedy. It contains the stimulat- iver Oil, the potency of both PALATABLE AS MILK. B R O N C III ITIS ' m Wasting Diseases per day by its use. ing properties of the Hypophos- being largely increased. It is used Sold by all Druggists. scones CONSUMPTION COU CH8 Wonderful Flesh Producer. Scott’s Emulsion is not. a secret phites and pure Norwegian Cod by Physicians all over the world. SCOTT 6t. BOWNE, Chemists. 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