2 WEEKLY - NOR‘VALK - GAZETTE. 3 ate. NEW S 013‘ THE WEEK. 0. T. Weeks was in town over Sunday. The Yale college loss by fire has been adjusted by appraisers at $10,182. Snow fell over northern Maine on Sunday. It was three inches deep at Kineo. A son was born to Mrnand Mrs. Wal- ter Wilkinson of Plattvflle avenue on Monday. rIhe name of the Connecticut Guards- man has been changed to the National Guardsman. - Miss Millie James of New York, is visiting Mrs. VJilliam Randle Smith, on \Vest avenue. Michael Ratchford is negotiating for the purchase of the Hancock property at Winnipauk. I Mrs. D. Porter Lord of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., is the guest of Mrs. M. P. Stone of Camp street. The faculty of the Yale Theological school has contributed $100 to the fire- men’s benefit fund. Miss Alice Tuttle. of New Canaan, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Lock- wood on Chestnut street. Mr.Lewis Wakeman of Greens Farms is the happy father of a new, bouncing hey baby, born Saturday. Timothy Hartigan, aged twenty-two, of Unionville, was badly hurt Monday ' by the cars at Farmington. A dead porpoise weighing nearly 200 pounds was found on the shore at West Haven, a few mornings ago. The total amount of 4% per cent. bonds redeemed to date is $19,734,800, leaving outstanding $5,769,900. An epidemic of smallpox is feared the coming winter in Montreal. Al- ready forty cases are reported. The National league of Great Britain has issued a manifesto on the cause of Irish independence in Great Britain. Err-Senator Ingalls is to lecture In New England and elsewhere, but will noltl. make any political speeches this fa . Gen. Joseph R. Hawley delivered an .address at the unveiling of the soldiers sand sailors’ monument in Utica, Tues- . ay. Hartford has a peculiar horse epi- sdemic ; the first symptoms are stiffness guild swelling of legs, with cold in the . ea . The yacht Vamoose on Saturday made three miles on Long Island Sound ‘111 the following respective time: 2.50, 2.30, 2.25. John L. Weston, a member of Co. B, 29th Conn. Vols, during the war. has received an order to enter the Soldier’s Home, at Noroton. ' Eleven million pounds of Java sugar were landed at Boston, Sunday. This is said to be the largest cargo of sugar ever landed at that port. ' ‘Villiam Heaney, the engineer charged with having caused the Hawleyville ac- crdent, surrendered himself Monday, and was released on 32,000 bonds. The total number of pensions grant- . ed during the week ending October 3. was 7,190, on which the aggregate first payment amounted to $1,009,014? Herbert DeWitt Brown, 'of Norwalk, and Miss Hattie Josephine Hickok. of \Vilton, are to be married at the Wilton Congregational church. Oct. 28th. J. D. Seymour, :of Sonthington, has a Concord grapevine on one stem of which, eight inches long, he picked five large clusters of perfect grapes. Despondent on account of illness,Dr. E. A. Town, of Waterbury, aged 52 years, put a bullet in his heart Satur- day evening and ended his suffering. An electric car was run into by a Long Island railroad train at Flushing Monday morning, fatally injuring one person and severely bruising two others. Sunday night’s frost destroyed a quarter million dollars worth of grapes in Chautauqua County. Another to- night will do an equal amount of dam- age. Mr. James F. Hall, who has been book-keeper for Charles T. Leonard,for the past thirteen years, left Monday tHoiilccept a similar position with E. J. 1 . ‘ Norwalk’s midget baby died Satur? day evening. When it was born it weighed nine ounces, and on Saturday, the day of its death, it weighed less than a pound. The heavy rain of Tuesday was most welcome. It increased the supply of water In the depleted reservoirs, and danger of water famine is done away with for the present. Always avoid harsh purgative pills. They first _make you sick and then leave you constipated. Carter’s Little Liver Pills re ulate the bowels and make you well. ose, one pill. The biggest lack bass taken in east- -ern Connectlc t this season was caught by C. H. Starry, of Willimantic in Square Pond, Tolland, recently. It weighed seven pounds. George Williams, who was elected mayor of New London at the recent election, has tendered his resignation because of certain appointments made by the common council. George R. Price, colored, died at I New Haven Wednesday, aged 60 years. oDeceased was the eldest brother of James Price of this town. and 't well known in Norwalk. ’ was qul e ,_ The issue_ of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ending October 10, was $899,692. The issue during the corresponding period of last year amounted to $1,381,498. 1 ”S. .. Photographer Lewis, of Main street, is photographing the three beautiful al- tars in St. Mary’s church. Mr. E. T. Whitney is assisting him. Engineer Wood was laying out a line for a high board fence around the am- phitheatre Saturday, for its new pur- chaser, Mr. George Clarke. Conrad Miller fell from an apple tree at Silver Mine, Sunday, and re- ceived a severe wound on the top of 1118 head. It was dressed by Dr. S Huntington. ' Town Clerk Chichester, of Wilton, informs us that there were thirty-two deaths in that town during the year of 1890 and that there have been thirty- seven deaths there so far this year. One of the largest hop growers on the Pacific Coast got a growth of 5,592 pounds of hops on an acre of 816 hills. A yield of 1,000 pounds to an acre in the average yard is considered fair. Thousands of persons, who were un- able Sunday to pay their last respects to the dead chieftain, besieged the city hall yesterday and crowded around Mr. Parnell's tomb at the Glasnevin ceme- tery. The receipts from customs at New York during the first ten days of Octo- ber were $2,884,550, a decrease of $4,588,386 as compared with the re- ceipts during the corresponding period of last year. Rather than have the delirium tremens, which he was on the verge of from excessive drinking, C. J. Maher, an electric light lineman of Meriden, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat on Monday. Baby Ruth Cleveland is to be pre- sented with 9. 0*01d spoon by the Clover Club of New York. The handle will be a four-leafed clover made of solid beat- en gold and along the stem will be ele- gant filagree work. . Mr. and Mrs. George W. Selleck, of Merwin street, have returned from their visit to Canaan. We are pleased to an nounce that Mr. Selleck’s health has greatly improved. The keeper of a bar-room in San- Francisco, while among his casks in the cellar, was killed by the explosion of an empty cask, one of the staves crushing his skull. His light ignited the accumulated fuznes in the cask. The Governor has appointed a com- mittee, consisting of the Adjutant Gen- eral and commandant of the National Guard, to visit Chicago and make plans for the encampment of the entire State militia at the World’s Fair. Miss Lily Burleigh, of New York, has secured a verdict of $5,000 against the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford railroad for causing the death of her husband, William J. Reid, who was killed while getting off a car. It has been discovered since the death of Town Clerk Maloney, of Fairfield, that many of the land records are of no value, seals and names being frequent- ly omitted. Banks holding the re- cords will take action to rectify mat- ters. - The wrecking of theU.S. ship Despatch is accounted for by the fact that the lightship at Winter Quarter Shoals was absent for repairs, and the steersman mistook the Assateague Light for it. The men lost all their clothing and bag— gage. The ninety-eighth dinner of the Thirteen Club was given at the Colon— nade Hotel, New York, Tuesday night. Among the guests who sat before burn- ing candles and surrounded by skulls and crossbones were doctors, lawyers and journalists. By leaving his safe unlocked, it hav- ing been forced by burglars twice in the past three years, the postmaster at Glastonbury had his loss from a third burglary, which occurred Sunday night, limited to $1, there being no necessity of repairing the safe. Fifteen indictments for manslaugh~ ter in the first degree have been found at Auburn against Conductor Tobin of the West Shore freight train which was wrecked by the St. Louis- express. near Montezuma, on August 15. when fifteen Italians were killed. No shrewd business man will deny that advertising pays. Neither will he deny that it is time to begin advertis- ing for the fall and winter trade, and that the DAILY GAZETTE not only has the largest circulation, but is the best advertising medium in N orwalk. Two prizes of $1 each have been offered the children in room seven of the Centre School. One is to go to the best specimen of penmanship, at the end of the term, and the other to the scholar having made the best record in scholarship for the same period. John Horver, an old and somewhat noted resident of Wilton, is dead, aged between seventy and eighty years. He was born on the banks of the Rhine, and came to this country from Ger- many when a youth. He had lived in Wiltonsome forty years. A widow sur- v1ves him. William H. Lockwood and H. E. Dann returned from Red Bank, N. J ., Tuesday evening. Mr. Lockwood while there purchased the stallion, St. Leno, by Sweepstakes, dam, Kate Clark, and he was shipped to Norwalk yesterday. The horse W-Jll be quite. an addition to Mr. Lockwood’s already large string. On a. farm two miles from North Lyme Is an old well which is full of eels. The well was dug about a cen- tury ago and for fifteen years past it has been unused. When the farm was sold to Almon Korowsky, a Russian Jew,”a few weeks ago and he cleaned cleaned out the well he found 162 eels. The county commissioners of Fair- field county have ver properly re-ap- pomted Attorney ames A. Wilson game warden. He has earned this be- cause of his active and effective crusade against illegal sportsmen, and espec- rally the Sunday hunter. The example set by President Collins, of Hartford, is bearing fruit and we may expect in a year or two to see pot hunters thor- oughly suppressed—Ansonia Sentinel. John W. Carpenter, proprietor of the Carpenter House, Lake Mahopac, N Y., died at his residence Tuesday even- ing, in the 75th year of his age. The trial of several New Haven poli~ cy dealers was to have come ofi' Satur- day. The evidence against them had been procured by Benjamin F. English a reporter, and a son of ex-Postmaster English. When the casewas called he was not in court, and has left town at his father’s request. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Quintard celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage, Saturday, at their residence on Arch street. They were in receipt of a large number of valu- able and handsome presents, to chron- icle all of which would require a sup- plement to the DAILY GAZETTE. While: Mrs. Clara Louise Kellog Strakosch was petting a Newfoundland dog, Sunday, at New Hartford, the ani- mal seized and swallowed a. diamond ring valued at $350, which she was holding in her hand at the time. Mrs. Strakosch purchased the dog for fifty cents, and now keeps him at her home. The boat Little Elsa. found aban- cloned in Stratford Harbor, has been found to be the property of E. H. Kis- sam of No. 47 Broadway, New York. On a recent yachting trip to Stratford with Mrs. Kissam he was taken ill with typhoid pneumonia and has since been. too ill to pay any attention to his boat. . Goldie May Hurlburt, aged 16, was assaulted by two masked men at Mid- dletown, while on her way to dancing school Saturday night. The assault oc— curred on a lonely road. and her purse was torn away. Thomas Foley has been arrested, but as the highwaymen were masked the identification is very doubtful. It has been settled by the officials of the Consolidated road at Bridgeport that the route will be substantially the same as at present on a viaduct from Barnum’s winter crossings to Central avenue. The depot will be on the har- bor edge. The viaduct and new depot will cost in, the neighborhood of $1,500,000. Mrs. Ida Parrott, of New Haven, had a fearful struggle with a brute Satur- day. William Hill entered her house while she was alone and attempted to assault her. For half an hour the wo- man struggled with the fiend, all the time screaming for help. She was ter- ribly exhausted and about to give up in despair when a special constable ar-V rived. The funeral of ex-Adj’t Gen. Camp took place at Middletown Monday after- noon. As a mark of respect to his memory, officers and ex-officers of the Connecticut National Guard were re— quested to attend his funeral,in civilian dress, assembling at the MeDonough House at 1:15 o’clock p. m. Mansfield Guard and Mansfield Post, G. A. R.. acted as escort at the funeral. Dr. Noble read an appeal, Sunday, from the Rev. William Curtis, former- ly of Norwalk, but now of Dallas, Ore- gon, whose church was destroyed dur- ing the destructive fire which recently visited that City. Those wishing to aid him can do so by sending their contri- butions to Mrs. Noble, Mrs. S. B. S ,Bissell or by taking their donations to 'the ladies’ meeting, at the Congrega- tional Chapel. The service pipe running into Wil- liam A. Scofield’s machine shop on Knight street, has been clogged for nearly two weeks and yesterday it was determined to open it and see what the trouble was. An excavation was made at the corner of Knight and Wall streets, and yesterday a three foot eel, weighing over four pounds was taken from the pipe. About eighty of the friends of Han- ford Smith helped him to celebrate his 39th birthday, and the tenth anniver- sary of his wedding Wednesday, at his residence on Knight street.Some excel- lent music was rendered,’ both vocal and instrumental and an excellent sup- per was also served. -The party did not break up until the wee’ sma’ hours. Mr. and Mrs Smith were the recipients of_ several handsome presents. Ex-Judge Harrison counsel for the Consolidated Railroad, in the Superior Court, in New Haven, Conn., before Judge Thayer, Wednesday, asked that the Guilford drawbridge case be erased from the docket. ' The proposed build- 1ng of a bridge by the road over West River, in Guilford, thereby clos- ing it to navigation, has caused great indignation. Judge Harrison argued that it was a case for the Federal courts only. Decision was reserved. A special train on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad took a party of leading Connecticut Journal- ists from New Haven to the races at Morris Park Saturday. The train was drawn by a new locomotive built by the master mechanic of the road from a plan of his own. The run from Port. Chester to New Rochelle was made at the rate of 72 ,miles an hour, and was the fastest time ever made over that road. The distance of ten miles and a half was covered in eight minutes and three-quarters. The P. 0. boys had a bi time at Col. Huss’ “love feast” at Mt. ernon, Sat- urday ni ht. There were nine Postal officials rom Norwalk and South Nor- walk present, the Mt. Vernon valiant Col. and P. M., havmg arranged to have the midnight train halt at Nor- walk to let the b0 8 off. Speeches were'made by Gen oble, Major Doty and lots of other patriots. The “colla- tion” was in Col. Huss’ best, Grand Central Restaurant style. Our boys came home full of enthusiasm and salads. In view of the fact that the Louisiana Lottery Company has established an agency at Toronto, 'Ont.., and IS flood- ing this country With its clrculars in sealed envelopes, the Postmaster Gen- eral has ’asked the Postmaster General of Canada if it would be proper to in- struct the Postmaster at Toronto to stamp the letters mailed there by C. J. McCullou h, box 2,533, With the words “Suppose liable to customs duty.” They could then be opened at the American office of destination. If that course is pursued the postmasters at United States exchange oflices, he says, will make a similar indorsement on be- half of this country. THE MERRIEST OF GIRLS. Jolly Japanese Maidens Prettlor than They Are Pictured. In physiognomic mobility, and va- riety and definitness of expression, Japanese women are doubtless, as a. rule, inferior to our Women; but by way of atonement they have a fixed facial expression of amiability and girlish Sweetness that is extremely. fascinating. This charming expres- sion, which is a. result of the habit of obedience, kindly disposition and de- sire to please, inbred, and cultivated from their childhood, is common to all classes from the humblest to the highest. In courteousness, aesthetic tastes, good manners and personal cleanli- ness, the lowly and ignorant women of Japan are far superior to the cor- responding grade in America. or Eu- rope, and, indeed, to many who make pretenses to a higher sphere. Besides the expression of amiability, there is another one of contentment and absence of worry that attracts one in these women. This is found even in the servant-maids, who are always at beck and call; even in the muddy, malodorous rice fields, under a. hot sun; even in the poor women and girls who, for one cent an hour, spend ten hours a clay stirring tea with their bare hands in a hot kettle. As regards sparkling, laughing eyes, it would be difficult to find anything to match the dark orbs of the J apan- ese maidens when you chaff them in English, which sounds so funny to them, or in (your) Japanese, which sounds more funny still. They are the merriest girls in the world, always ready to laugh on the slightest provo- cation, and their laugh is as musical as their language. They are naturally fond of reading. and there is a. large literature especi- ally written for them by authors, male and female. As regards the . latter, Mr. AstOn remarks: “I believe no parallel is to be found in the history of European letters to the remarkable fact that a very large proportion of the best writings of the best age of Japanese literature was the work of women.” - Were I asked, “Are Japanese women beautiful?” I should say that Japa- nese women are rarely beautiful, be- cause they age too soon ; but Japanese girls are often extremely pretty, and as a rule delight-fully sweet, fascina- ting and girlish. Japanese men, per— haps, seem to as somewhat feminine in physical appearance, but in Japan itself this does not strike the eye, be- cause the women are so much more so. , They are, indeed, the most wom- anly women in the world—Henry T. Frick in the Cosmopolitan. Ghostly ‘Vnrn'mgs. Two giant owls perch upon the bat- tlements of Wardour Castle when the last hour of an Arundel of Wardour has come. If a Devonshire Oxenham is about to die a white-breasted bird flutters over the doomed one’s head. TheMiddletons of Yorkshire, as be- comes an ancient Roman Catholic house, have a benedictine nun to warn them of an approaching death. A weeping, mourning spirit warns the Stanleys of a reduction in their num- ber. A hairy armed girl, called May Mullach, brings the like sad news to the Grants of Grant. The Bodach am-dun of Ghost of the Hill performs the office for the Grants of Rothie- marcus. ‘ The death of an Earl of Arlie is fore- told by the beating of an invisible drum. So respectable a man as.Dr. Norman McLeod, editor of Good Words, lent the weight of his testi- mony to it. In 1849 Lord Airlie died in London, and the household at Cort- achy Castle, his seat in Forfarshire, were thus prepared for the news, and when his son died in Colorado the ghostly drummer boy was heard just before his death. Lady Airlie heard it in her room and was greatly pros- tr‘ated, but one of the servants first heard it in a corridor. The approach- ing death of a. Bruce is announced by the specter of a. woman in white, who appears to the doomed scion of that ancient and once royal house—Ameri- can Notes and Queries. What Things Cost in 1845- The Bloomfield (Mo) Republican, in looking over a merchant’s daybook of the date of 1845, found the following prices, which will be of interest in comparison with the‘ prices of the present time: Two pounds of nails, 16 cents; 1 pound of tea, $1.25; 7 yards of calico at 22 cents per yard and 19% yards at 33 cents per yard ; 83 pounds of beef at 2 cents per pound; butter as low as 4 and 5 cents per pounds; black muslin, 19 cents per yard; com 12} to 15 cents per bushel; fresh pork, 3 cents per pound; 2 hogs, weighing 340 pounds each, 2} cents per pound; brown sugar 12} cents per pound; eggs, 2 cents per dozen; whisky, 37;} cents per gallon. Obesity Cures. Dr. Schwenninger, of Munich, has made a fortune out of his anti-fat sanitarium, where overweight patients are cured by means of constant ex- ercise and dietetic restrictions. The Turks obtain the same result by sweat cures, and 'Lord Byron doctored him- self with vinegar salads and protracted tests. A much less disagreeable method is that proposed by the corre- spondent of a French journal, who recommends his fellow sufferers to eat only one article of food at a meal. . In that way, he says, the sense of se- tiety will be induced much more quickly, and the temptation to over- eating correspondingly lessened. . Married Above Her Station. “And so you’re married, Bridget?” - “Yes, mum.” “What does your husband do?“ “An’ share, mum, he is a railrowd doirector.” ' “A railroad director! That’s a. very important place. Are you quite .sure 'it is that?” “An’ faith an’ doesn’t he sthand all day at the railrowd directing people to the cars?”——Boston Courier. E. s.—u—E. S.-—l|——E. 8. ll E. s. u, E. S. ll E. S.—l|-—E. s.—-u;;E. s. Ell-WI). IS SHOWING A FIND LINE on V’FALL’ -:- DRESS '-:- GOODS ———IN—— Plain Serges, Storm Serges, Cashmeres, Henriettas, Plaids and Novelties EXAMINE THEM. YOU WILL FIND CHOICE GOODS AT VERY LOW PRICES. ' SPECIAL BARGAINS IN WHITE BLANKETS. 1 case LADIES’ RIBBED VESTs AND PANTS at 25 cents a piece; worth 37?; cents. Come soon as they won’t last long. Our ILadies’ Ribbed Vests and Pants at 48 cents, are a bargain at 62% cents HOSIERY STOCK never had so many good bargains as it has this fall. , We have a Gents’ Cashmere Half-Hose, assorted colors, at 25 cents a pair; cheap‘at 372} cents. Edward Streezb, . No. 5 Gazette Building. Norwalk', STREET Comstock Bros- 5 DMNWOLETL-E‘! - EguRES. anti I" ‘h .. v THE; THREE Rt hem to the square inch than any other square foot. The Fall Style of Derby, IN TRUNKS AND TRAVELING BAGS. J Gomstock Bros, Masonic Building, NORWALK. IF you keep your eye on our Fall '4 Styles you will find them marvels of quality and price. Cold weather wear has come in with a rush and with a rush it is ready to go out. All that skill and brains could do to make it captivating:to the eye and irresistable to the pocketbook has been done. You ' can depend upon getting a maximum of value for a minimum of cost. Dexter- ous fingers have finished our _ FALL - OVERGGATS i to such perfection thatLthey provoke * the admiration of all who see them. as You can get more satisfaction from material ever before have voufito the *****’**************=l=* ** o . D N‘ ' ‘ THBYBEEPBECKSGNOWoReadY- I4 So. Main Street .1 so. NORWALK. l I / a I 2 I 2 J TH D. M. HEM] CUMPAN) BirIdgepor-c. ———IN E ARE SHOWINGfm‘L THE DESIGNS EOE FALLQ Main Street entrance No. 448, or from the Dry. Goods Departmen directly in front of the Fairfield avenue entrance. T HIE—— THE D. M. READ COMPANY. W.B.Hall&Co., LARGEST DEALERS IN Dress Goods, 'Gloaks, Curtains, Furs, Hosiery, Gloves, Notions and Art Goods, Located Corner Main and Cannon Streets, Bridgeport. Strictly One Price. Goods Marked in Plain Figures. Seal Jackets Made and Repaired. New Building and New Stock. -—-: SPECIAL BARGAINS ARE Now GOING ON IN :—~__ Fall Dress Goods, Fall cloaks, Fur capes, Fur Trimmings. ———CHAPEL ANNEX.;—- Shoppers will find almost an entire new assortment of French, English and German Dress Goods. Our great building sale during our alterations gave us the opportunity to close out all goods on hand, consequently OUR DRESS Goons ABE NEW. Our Mrs. Connor, whose taste in selecting Dress Fabrics is un- uestioned, bought in the Paris market, which is famous for handsome Dress . oods, several hundred choice Dress Patterns, no two of Wthh are alike, and ladies can purchase of us a dress with the assurance that no duplicate will be seen in America. Our assortment of Broadcloths, Fine Cashmeres. Scotch Plaids, Serges, Velvets, Plushes, Pretty Goods for the children is undoubtedly the largest in Connecticut. 22 shades of Colored Cashmeres, best 62$c. quality, only 50c. , 100 pieces Double Fold 25c. Dress Goods at only 19c. Excellent style at 12§c. 2,000 yards Handsome Ginghams. 5,000 yards New Prints. . @The collection of Dress Trimmings, Laces, Gloves, Seal Cloaks, Hosiery and Underwear Is by far the largest In Connecticut. w. 1.3- HALL a: co.
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