’ served three years. 2 3 cts. WEEKLY - NORWALK - GAZETTE. NEWS on THE WEEK. Mrs. Stephen Comstock is visiting friends in New Canaan. The term of Miss Stevens’ Belden avenue school closed Tuesday. A son was born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barrett of Main street. Congressman elect R. E. DeForest sailed for Europe Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. James Frey, of Bridge- port, were visiting friends in East Nor- walk, Tuesday. The Southington Game and Fishing club lost 2,000 trout by the givingaway of a dam, Saturday. Builder S. B. \Vilson has been award- ed the contract for the building of the N orwalk Club house. Mrs. Thomas I. Wood, of Ansonia, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Lock«’ wood, 9 VVestport avenue. Judge Austin has laid a stone curb and gutter and concrete walk along the front of his Belden avenue lot. . \Villiam, the four years old son of William and Ellen Niler of this place, died Monday after a short illness. Postmaster Hubbell with his wife, will visit Vermont before he returns to engage his buckwheat cake crop of maple syrup. Ross B. Broadhead Esq., recently of the U. S. Senate clerical force and now of Wall Street, New York, is a guest at the Norwalk Hotel. Mrs. Vernon and daughter of New Superior, are guests at Mrs. Fred. T. Betts.’ Mrs. V is a daughter of the late Joseph Hubbell St. Mary’s Temperance Society, lieaded by the American fife and drum band, went to Bridgeport on the 8.30 train WeanSdfl‘y morning. Mr. Hanford’s Japanese Sago Pall-11:“) are in a very promising condition. and already constitute a very attractive ad- junct to his stock of living green. The COHSolidated road is negotiating f?! the purchase of property in East Norwalk belonging to John McKay, Walter Hoyt, Miss Studwell and \Vm. Conistock. ______ In the Superior Court at Bridgeport Tuesday, Judge I‘hayer dissolved the injunction against Chief of Police Ry- lands, and the cnief returned to the pc- lice station and resumed charge. A New York and New Haven train ran over and killed a man named Hon- ger in the tunnel at Seventy—second street Monday morning. The acci- dent caused a blockade of trains which lasted for some time. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pickering Tuesday morning. Connor Bros.,the contractors, for whom Harry drives the steam roller, have presented Mrs. Pickering with a twen~ ty dollar gold piece. Rev. Mr. \Vatkins now takes his out- ings on his safety bicycle. which he en- joys very much. He finds the roads of N orwalk quite different however from the concrete paved streets of Washing- ton, the paradise of wheelmen. Mrs. A. R. Richardson, who for sev- eral months past has been a valued flas— sistant in Miss Fitch’s millinery estab- ishment, and who has made many friends at the Norwalk hotel, returned to New York Tuesday afternoon for permanent residence. Miss Susie Sutlifi‘e, for the past six years the efficient and popular forelady in A. Solman’s hat trimming depart- ment, will resign her position, July 1, on account of failing health, and return to her old home in Brooklyn. She will he succeeded in the factory by Miss Mary Hops-on. M. p___ The official investigation of the con- duct of the Soldiers’ Home, Noroton, has been held, and the charges of mal- administration, etc., against the super- intendent, Dr. Munson, were sustain- ed, resulting in the formulation by the court of a recommendation for his dis- inissal. The Van Buren prizes for the Lawn Tennis contests to open July 1st, are now on exhibition at Pinneo’s. They consist of two superb white bristled hair brushes, a pocket testament, (to hold arnica or other liquids), a briar- wood pipe, all heavily decorated with oxidyzed silver. Dr. Ellery C. Clark came to Norwalk Saturday p. m. to see his little son. He received the congratulations of his friends for about two hours and then returned to New York where he left his bride and daughter Grace. Tuesday Dr. and Mrs. Clark went to Bos- ton, returning thence to Washington. F. W. Goodale, of Danbury, is prob- ably the oldest son of a veteran in the state. He is 56 years old, and enlisted in Co. C, 17th Conn. Vols., in 1862, and Friday night he was mustered into the Nelson L. White camp, Sons of Veterans, of that city, as his father was also a soldier in the late war. A new plate glass front has been put into the American house restaurant, Main street,Theodore Brush having had charge of the job. Other improve- ments of this property are in contem- plation by the heirs of the Olmstead state to whom it belongs. Our Government employs thirty ex- aminers to watch the national banks. The Union Pacific interest payments on July 1 will be $3,000.000. The venerable Fairfield County Nat- ional Bank has just declared its 135th semi—annual dividend. Mrs. Ashton is a visitor at Mrs. Tal- cott’s on Union Park, her husband Dr. Ashton, of Clean, N. Y., having sailed on Saturday for Europe. The latest thing in spelling is the fol- lowing to be seen in a confectioner’s window not many miles from here: “La La Ruck” Ice Cream. Mrs. Giles A. Gregory, of Norwalk. and Mrs. C. B. Selleck, of Jersey City, are visiting their grandmother Mrs. J. J. Wilcoxson, at Seymour, Conn. P. Decker of Norwalk has been granted a patent on Insulators for Marine Condensers, and Ebenezer Hill South Norwalk. a patent on Air Com- pressors. Mr. James Scofield has been fortu- nate enoug , to secure an own sister to the beautiful and superb Jersey he lost. The new one although very young, is as pretty as a fawn. The GAZETTE’S proposition to have the Lawn Tennis club erect a pole and unfurl the national flag from its grounds “has took,” with the patriotic public at least. Pass the hat,boys. James Mitchell has sold the T. M. Stewart farm at New Canaan Four Corners to Mrs. Louisa L. Weed, and has sold for Mrs. Weed a farm of 24 acres to Robert Hobbs of New York city. Mr. Lawrence Johnson, brother of Howard Johnson, the wealthy merchant who was supposed to have shot himself Tuesday at Ridgewood, has serious doubts whether it is a case of suicide or murder. Canton Wildly, of Stamford, in gaudy uniform. visited Canton Norwalk Patriarchs Militant. 'Wednesday night, in Odd Fellow’s Lodge room and were afterwards feasted by brother “Fort Jones” of the latter Canton. Builder \Vilson will go at the erec- tion of the new Club House building at once. He is now busily at work sub- letting the stone and brick work, and \Vm. H. Smith of South Norwalk being the lowest bidder, will get that. Dr. Baldwin’s bride elect, Miss Stan- ley, was out Tuesday delivering invi- tation cards to her approaching wed- ding. A host of friends will shower down upon the happy pair the benedic- tion of their sincerest good wishes. Assistant Adjutant General White said Tuesday that undoubtedly the Connecticut National guard would go into camp in August inasmuch as the receipts from the military commutatioh tax were sufficient to meet the ex- penses. ' Mr. and Mrs. John H. Buckley rep- resented Norwalk at Bunker Hill Mon— ument, at Boston’s annual 17th of June celebration of that desperate battle, and where Connecticut’s famous Gen- eral Putnam was in command after the fall of IVarren. Included in the Yale Senior appoint- ments are the following “ Colloquies ” from this section: Lewis Carroll Hall, New Canaan; Edward Franklin Horr, Bridgeport; Arthur Benedict Russell, South Norwalk and Hanford Smith Weed, New Canaan. The beautiful and valuable Jersey cow belonging to Mr. James Scofield of .Scofield 8; Hoyt, died Tuesday. She was probably the best cow in Nor- walk, and Mr. Scofield would rather have lost a small fortune in bad store debts than his barnyard pet. Mrs. George R. Cholwell, Mrs. Charles Dennis, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. C. Cholwell, child and nurse, leave on Tuesday morning next for the White Mountains. They have rooms engaged at the Sunset House, located on the highest point at the mountains. Rev. Dr. McGonegal is working hard to get up a temperance mass meeting to be held in Music hall, Sunday after- noon following the 4th of July. The idea is a good one, providing the cele- bratersfiof the day before, can be pre- vailed upon to take their heads to the hall. Evelyn C. Woodford, the eldest daughter of Gen. StewartL. Woodford, diedSaturday at her father’s residence in Brooklyn, in the 30th year of her age. She had been ill but a few weeks. The funeral took place from the house at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, and the burial will be in Stamford. The report of the Commissioners to assess the damages of the land taken by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad for the improvements at Mount Vernon was confirmed Satur- day by Judge Dykman. The assessment will give property owners about $600 per lot for the land obtained. ‘ The closing session of the Douglas Fowler W. R. 0. fair Saturday night drew an audience of about one hund- red persons, and a very pleasant even- ing was enjoyed by all. Owing to the bad weather on that and the two pre- ceding nights the fair was only moder— ately successful financially, the net receipts being between $30 and $40. Charles Payne an aged carpenter, While at work shingling J no. Watkins’ newhouse, Taylor ave.. Monday, ac- cidentally fell from the second scaffold to the ground, a distance of over twen- ty feet. His descent was partly check- ed by his coming in contact with the lower scaffold, otherwise it ~is believed he would have been killed. As it was, he sustained a bruised arm and internal injuries. It is not a long time since that Mr. Payne fell from a building at Bell Island, receiving injuries that laid him up for several months. Charles T. Payne of the borough is his son. Mr. Thomas Village lives on Day street where he has a workshop and barn on or adjoining his house. At 11 :30 Saturday night some of the female members of the family glanced out of the window and saw two men acting in a suspicious manner near the barn. Mr. Village was informed of the fact and securing his pistol he went to the win- dow and hailed them, at which the men made some reply and ran way. followed by four shots from Mr. Village’s re- volver. It is believed that they were fire-bugs. and had they succeeded in firing the barn there is room for the belief that there would have been a conflagration as well as a barn burning, as there are several large buildings in that vicinity. If they were fire-bugs it is to be regretted that Mr. Village did not “wing” them, if nothing more with his shots. Let it be remembered to the credit of “Old Saddlebags” that he never was reconciled in his heart to the “institu- tion” of human slavery; that he pro- tested against the folly and wickedness of secession; that he stood out stoutly, too, against the greenback craze, when such men as Morton and Hendricks succumbed to it: and that, when told by members of the Indiana legislature that only his hard-money views stood between him and their votes for the senatorship, he replied that he would not alter one word of his record “to be elected senator for life.” At a time when so many public men are turning their backs upon their records and pocketing their convictions, it is pleas- ant to recall that exhibition of sturdy, self-respecting honesty on the part of Joseph E. McDonald. He was a dent- ocrat of a type that is fast disappear- ing from our politics. Late Saturday night Chief Vollmer overheard a conversation that led him to believe that a fight was about to take place in South Norwalk and he was not long in verifying the fact. He bided his time and then proceeded to a piece of woods near the Lawrence McClure place before reaching which he heard loud offers of bets, etc, on the result. Getting nearer he saw a party of about twenty, who at about the same time saw him and all ran in different direc- tions, with the exception of one of the principals, a young man named-Reno, who had his shoes and coat ofl’ prepara- tory to the fistic meeting. The Chief waited for Reno to dress again and then proceeded with him toward the station-house. Reno was thoroughly frightened and on being informed that he was to be locked up asked if he gave security for his appearance at court the next morning he would be released. On being told yes, he stated that he lived with a brother on South Main street who would go his bonds. When near his brother’s house, however, he eluded the ofiicer and ran away, a very foolish thing for him to do, as there was no convicting evidence against him. He had previously confessed as to some who were present, and stated that the affair was the culmination of a row started in a saloon on Railroad place by a big burly fellow slapping him in the face, and whom he said had not the spunk to fight after arriving in the woods, and that the noise was caused principally by the big fellow’s friends trying to get him up to the fighting humor. This is probably not the end of the affair. Cashier Grant Fitch: of Milwaukee, was so highly gratified withhis first vis- it to his ancestors’ homes, that he hopes at no distant day to repeat the trip. He considered it something of an event in his life to be taken over our historic soil. He was shown the rooms in one of which on Feb. 2, 1790, lay the body of his honored forefather, who had for years been King’s Commissioner for this section of George III’s territory, and whose remains were detained from bur- ial because of the fearful snow storm which was at that time raging in this portion of Connecticut. Mr. F. has a summer house on one of the Wisconsin lakes, and he here saw old family rel- ics which might in a not improper sense he coveted for the adornment of the same. In Mr. Selleck’s stray notes in further connection with his late guest’s family, occurs the following : Daniel Fitch, bornAug. 16 1665, and nephew of Thomas Fitch, the Norwalk settler, married in March, 1698, Mary, daughter of William Sherwood of Fair- field. Their daughter Mary, born Sep., 1707; married in 1726 Rev. James Hill- house from whom descended Hon. James Hillhouse of New Haven, whose daughter Rebecea married the late Na~ thaniel Hewitt, D.D. , of Bridgeport, the mother of the present Rev. Augustus F. Hewitt, one. of the Paulist Fathers of New York city. Mr. Fitch has gone to Yale Com- mencement and hopes to visit Norwalk again prior to his return to the West. If sick headache is misery, what are Carter’s Little Liver Pills if they Will positively cure it? People who have used them speak frankly of their worth. They are small and easy to take. ran: new DRY” GOODS sroar. u 2 GAZETTE BUILDING. WE ARE SHOWING A FULL‘ LINE OF BLACK SILK GRENADINES IN PLAIN, STRIPE AND BROCADES. Black Drapery Nets. Demi Lace Flouncing, all widths. Immense Variety of Dressy Kid and Fabric Gloves. Trimmings. Ready Made Suits in Flannel, Sateen, Gingham, Cheviot and Cambric. BLAZERS AND SHIRT WAISTS. WE \VID‘L CONTINUE OUR SPECIAL SALE OF CORSETS, And have added a line of THOMSON'S GLOVEFITTING CORSETS. which will be sold a9 much less than the regular price. best makes of corsets AT PRICES NEVER BEFORE KNOWN. TRISTRAM & HYATT, No. 2 Gazette Building, Norwalk. Ruchings, Laces and Ribbons. LARGE LINE OF Ladies will find this an opportunity to buy two of the Go-(Ioimeratioc Building Bank. ORGANIZED UNDERVTHE LAWS 01? THE STATE or NEW YORK. Authorized Capital, $100,000,000 The Most Successful llalional Building and Loan Association. The one that has the Wealthiest and Most Influential Board ofDirectors. Desires to Employ allow Good Men TO ASSIST IN Establishing Branches in the Eastern States. For particulars address. stating experience. The Bo-Upeialive Building Bank, World. Building, New York. HON. JAMES W. HYATT. - Presiden. Late Treasurer of the United States. TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF. Vice-President. MINOT C. KELLOGG. 2d Vice-President. HON. JOHN H. LEE. 3d Vice-President. CHARLES L. HEINS. - -' Treasurer. HENRY CAREY. - ' - - - Secretary. FRANK W. FARNHAM. Asst. Secretary TRACY, McFAiiLAim. IYINS, BOARDMAN & PLATT, Attorneys and Counsellors. DEPOSITORY LIERCHANTS’ EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK. NEW YORK. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. HON. JAMES W. HYATT. Norwalk. Conn., President Fairfield County National Bank, late Treas. of the United States. . . HON. JOHN H. LEE», err-Mayor of Norwalk, Conn. COL. HENRY CAREY, Civil Engineer. N. Y. JOHN D. KIMMEY. Director of rIjhe Farm- ers‘ Feed 00., New York City, Chairman F1- nance Comittee ALBERT B. BOARDMAN, of Tracy. McFar- land. Ivins. Boardman & Platt, Attorneys, . Y. HON. E. P. DOYLE. Secretary of the Fish Conimissmn, N.,Y. _ - . WM. T. DENISE, of Wm. DeNyse d: Sons, President Excelsmr Steam Power 00.. N. . J MES S. CLAYTON. of Thurber. Whyland d: 00.. Credit Dept. Wholesale Grocers, . MINOT C. KE LOGG. of_ Patterson Bros. Hardware. 27 Park Row. . '. CHARLES L. HEINS, Secretary and Treas- urer of Excelsror Steam Power_Co.. . ’. _ LUCIUS _H. BIGLOW. of Biglow db Main, Music Publishers.-N. Y. . GEORGE I. BUXTON, of Buxton, Heins &. Co.. Oils &c., New Yor '. _ TIMOTHY L. woonnUFF. Premdent of the Malt-me Manufacturm 00., New York. HON. P. C. LOUNSBUR ,Ex—Gov. of Conn.. President Merchants’ Exchange National Bank New York. . WILLIS MCDONALD. of Wlllls McDonald &. 00.. Printers 39-43 Gold Street, New York. LEONARD Moonv. Real Estate, Brooklyn. N. Y., Director Kings County Trust 00.. Direc- tor Brooklvn Real Estate Exchange. GEORGE _S. BRUSH. Brooklyn Contractor. H. PYLE, Bridgeport, Conn., Wholesale Grocer. . WM. P. RUDD, Albany N. Y., of Harris 8r. Rudd. Attorneys at Law. and Director Allbzgny I County Savmgs Bank I -._....__ Hill Will Offer this week a Choice Line of Ladies’ Batiste and Gambric Waists. Also something new in SUITS at prices that will move them rapidly. Call and see them. To meet the competition on eonsmns We will offer the best bargains yet, consisting of a job lot. in black, ecru and white at 59 cents. New Line of Wrappers Just Opened. Just received a new line of BLACK LACE FLOUNCINGS ‘ way under the market These goods will be offered by S'OOFIELD & HOYT At both Norwalk and South Norwalk. W.B.Ha||&Co., BRIDGEPORT. SPECIAL BARGAINS non JUNE. Lace Flouncings, 60 patterns;Russian and Chantilla Laces, Point-de-Gene Velasques and Oriental Laces. 100 DISTINCT STYLES 0F PARASOLS. Elegant Parasols; Pongee and India Silk Pavasols; Changeable Silk Parasols ; Childrenls Parasols. 250., 500., 75c. and $1. Misses’ Parasols, $1.25, $1.35 and $1.75. KID GLOVES DEPARTMENT. Only reliable kid 'gloves sold. New shades in Trefouse Kids. All shades of J ouvin’s Kids. Two last makes :of Gloves are probably the best in the world. Full assortment of 75c. and $1 Gloves. Genuine Foster Kids sold by us. Our Dress Trimming, Lace, Cotton Underwear and Gents’ Furnishing Sections have again been enlarged. DRESS GOODS ROOM. New shades in Henriettas, new shades. in Cashmeres. Cashmeres in white and cream, Henriettas in cream and white Fine Wool Cheviots, Wool Goods in evening shades. Wool Challies .and Grenadines, High rades of French Goods. pecial Summer-Lots.—36-inch All-Wool Summer eights now selling at 25c. ' All-Wool Striped Albatross 25c. 40-inch Navy Blue Serges, 3725c” for bat g suits and bicycle dresses Fine Satin Faced Serges, 62%c. Ask to see ur.50c. Serge. Handsome goods for children. Prices low on Combination uits. New Black Goods New styles of Wool Grenadines. Rich Black renadines, 75c._ and 3 . Handsome Plaid Grenadines, $1 and $1.25. .New Black and White Dress Goods. High grade Black Serges. Special Ba..oain Black Serge, 39c Few more 54-inch Brilliantines, 500. 40-inch Brae]: _Brilliantines, 290 46-inch All-Wool Henriettas, 590. 40-inch Seas1de; Suitings, 50c. . W. 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