73» 2 WEEKLY - ‘NORWALK - GAZETTE. 3 ate. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Miss Helen Lockwood is visiting in New York. Miss Fannie Hoyt is visiting friends in Norwich. Mr. and Mrs. GeorgeR. Cowles have returned from their vis1t to Hartford. At the pound sale in_St. Paul’s parish rooms, on Tuesday night. $40.10 was realized. Lieut. Hard and family, of San An— tonio. Texas, are stopping at the Nor- walk Hotel. A son was ‘0 Thomas McIlhoney, street, Tuesday. cm to Mr. and Mrs. of No. 23 Cross The 150th anniversary of the found- ing of Plymouth church is to be cele- brated in December. Denver, « . . K ler of Mrs. George O 96 Warden Col., is visiting her brother, E. O. Keeler and family. Phillips Brooks preached his first ser- mon as bishop at Grace church, Salem, Mass, Sunday morning. The Italian government will abolish the decree against the importation of American pork into Italy; A beautiful waterspout in _the Sound was seen by many people in Clinton and Westbrook Saturday. Comptroller Staub has refused to pay the quarterly appropriation of $1,200 due the Bridgeport hospital. Miss Alice Stillson of Hartford, sails for Africa October 24 to en age in mis- » sionary work among the Zn us. Miss Minnie F. Barrett, of Wilton. is visiting her uncle, Selectman Oscar W. Raymond, at East Norwalk. \Vork was commenced on the build- ing of the fence around the amphithea- tre grounds Monday morning. Subscriber : “Why is my paper so damp every issue '3" Editor: " Be- cause there is so much due on it. Frank C. Sherwood. an aged retired building contractor. of Sangatuck, fell dead at noon Tuesday, of apoplexy. Ex-Governor Waller is on another trip out West after another street rail- xva.y"tliiit the syndicate has its eyes on. The new half mile track on the am- phitheatre grounds was surveyed and staked out by Surveyor Wood on Mon day. The Hon. W. L. Jackson, now the financial secretary of the treasury, Will be promoted to chief secretary for Ire- land. __ Adams Express stock sold yesterday at 143 and 1425, and Consohdated Road at 231 and 230% at the board in New York. Mrs. Prindle, of South Norwalk, was admitted to the Bridgeport hospital Tuesday. She is dangerously 111 With scrofula. Miss Alice Bowen. of Darien, who has been a guest of Mrs. Martin Kel- logg. of Merwin street, has returned to her home. The sixteenth annual reunion of the members of the legislature of 1875 Will be held at Hartford,Thursday, Novem- ber 12th. It is reported that the Pope intends to purchase the famous Borghese gal- lery, which is in danger of being dis- persed.. Health Officer Fitzgibbon, of Bridge- port. has found ten scholarsin one room of the Newfield school afflicted with scrofula. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Field, of Milwaukee, are the guests, this week, of their neice, Mrs. G. Ward Selleck, on Camp street. In the match race for $3,000 at Cum- berland Park, Tennessee, Wednesday, Direct beat Hal Pointer in three straight heats, 2.10, 2.09%, 2.11. Land in Meriden was bought yester- day by an agent for Armour & Co. of Chicago, who will erect a building for the lard and pork business. Mrs. Deborah Birchard, widow of the late Uriah Birchard, died. Wednes- day morning, at her residence at East Norwalk, aged 80 years. Postmasters Knowlton of Bridge- port. and Tweedy of Danbury, have fin- ished their visits of inspection to the postoffices of Fairfield county. The one hundred and fiftieth anni- versary of the founding of the First Congregational church of West Tor- rington was celebrated Wednesday. Victor Temple, formerly of the Hart- ford Sunday Globe, has recently fallen heir to a legacy of $10,000,0wing to the death of a relative in Pennsylvania. The many friends 'of the venerable Mrs. Chas. Mallory will be glad to hear that she. is doing as well as can be ex- pected Since her severe fall on Friday as . . Diphtheria has broken out among the children of the family residing in the Charles Isaacs homestead. The eldest was a scholar at Over River School. ' The pupils of Miss Baird’s school are preparing for a fair, which is to be held about Christmas time at the school, the proceeds of which will go to swell the hospital fund. ' A farmer’s wife whipped her boy at a church concert at Great Hill, near An- sonia, Sunday night, and led him into her pew by one ear. He was laughing in the gallery. A run on the Yonkers Saving Bank caused great excitement in Yonkers Tuesday. A rumor that the bank was finanCially involved caused 2,000 de- posrtors to rush for their money. The bank kept open long after the usual closing time and paid out about $200,000,. , ’ i The burning of Joseph Graveline’s barn in Wallingford Tuesday night was caused by his cow kicking over the lantern while he was milking her. Mrs. Harvey Peet is a guest at the residence of Dr. A. H. Baldwin. Mrs. Peet will remain during the visit of Mrs. Baldwin and children to friends in New Jersey. Mr. Cito Hatch has rented the Van Zandt place on East avenue, now owned by Mr. Geo. Hunter, who, with his family, expect to spend the winter in New York. ~ W. H. Kelley is under arrest at Bir- mingham charged with raising a 33 money order to $30. It was made out in Bridgeport and sent through the U. S. Express Co. ‘ A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. White, of Danbury, Thursday. Mr. White is an old Nor- walk boy, well and favorably known among hatters. Rev. Dr. Kincaid, of New York, will occupy the pulpit of the First Con- gregational church next Sunday, both morning and evening. He is a very eloquent speaker. The Governox ’5 Foot Guard,of Hart- ford, under Major Hyde, their new commander, celebrated their 120th an- niversary, Tuesday, with a drill,parade and target practice. The failure of W. H. Allen &. Co. of London, the well known book publish- ers, for $180,000, is announced. The house is a century old, and is repre- sented in New York. ‘ ' .Hon. J. C. Randle, mayor of Winni- pauk, has been visiting out of town friends for a week or so past. A part of his time was spent with Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Doty, of Newark. At the Washington and Lee univer- sity, Lexington. Va., there are two students whose Christian names are bert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. They room together. Judge Nichols, of Hartford, reported yesterda that he had found the Illinois Central ailroad perfectly sound. He has been making investigations on be- half of Eastern stockholders. James Richards, of Keelersville, Mich., is in town visiting friends. Mr. Richards is a son of the late Dr. Rich- ards of New Canaan, who will be re- membered by our older citizens. A portion of the old Harlem freight house at Forty-sixth street and Fourth avenue, adjoining the yard of the Grand Central Station, has been torn gowin anda new turn table is being ui t. Mrs. Henr Frohman, mother of Daniel, Chariiis and Gustav Frohman, the well known theatrical managers, died suddenly of old age at her resi- dence in New York Tuesdaynight at 7 o’clock. Mr. Sherman P. Fitch, of Wilton, is confined to his house by quite a severe illness. Pneumonia was at first threat- ened, but these symptoms have now dis- appeared and he is believed to be con- valescing. Comstock’s cider mill, on the New Canaan road, has commenced opera- tions. Tuesday was the first time this season that it has been operated, the scarcity of water preventing the run- ning of the engine. A disinfectant which combines cheap- ness with general worth is foundin per- manganate of potash. One ounce will make a bucketful of disinfectant. It is a crystal, and can be kept in this state until ready for use. The eighteenth annual convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Connecticut will be held in the Methodist Episcopal church at Danbury, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Parish of Jersey City is about to erect a magnifi- cent club house on Jersey avenue for the use of the young men of the parish. The house will be 100x50 feet and will be four stories in height. Orders have been issued for weekly drills in the national guard, beginning N ov. lst and continuing six months. Special attention will be paid to guard duty. The annual muster will be made betlween November 5th and November 20t . The new County Home on Westport avenue is rapidly approaching comple- tion. The letters “Children’s Home” in large raised granite capitals have been placed on the front of the building over the door. so that he who runs (or walks) may read. Rev. F. E. Robbins, Mrs. Abbie Silli- man, Miss Ida Crowther, Howard Doty and Charles Woodbury werex the Nor- walk delegates from the First Baptist church to the ninth annual convention of the Connecticut Baptists at New Haven on Monday. Mrs. F. Sales, who was buried at the Oneco cemetery at Voluntown recently, was probably the heaviest woman in the state. She weighed four hundred pounds at the time of her death and it took eight men to carry and lower the coffin into the grave. William B. Newcomb, who was thrown from a« load of apples, some days ago, on the Westport road, and seriously injure , was out for the first time on Sunda . He is rapidly improv: ing and will commence his messenger duties again in a few days. So far this fall, the freight traffic on the Housatonic road has been very heavy, and the company has fallen short of cars. Arrangements have been made with the New England road for the -loan of cars and ,the back freight will be promptly forwarded. Nathaniel Stratton, of New York the man who was put off of a train at Fair.- field, on 'the evening of Oct. 11th, by the conductor, has, through his attor- ney, John R. Abney, of 80 Broadway, instituted proceedingsagainst the Con- solidated road in a suit for $25,000. He purchased a ticket for New York, but thron h a mistake of the ticket seller he go? one for New Haven. An English inventor believes that he can run clocks by natural electricity from the earth. The earth’s currents vary considerably, but by an autom- atic arrangement fixed by the pendu- him he can keep time,'he asserts, to Within one minute in a year. Black diphtheria is spreading at an alarming rate in the Norwegian settle- ment in Soldier Valley, Harrison coun- ty_, Iowa. Fourteen persohs recently died of the disease. One family of ten 10st six members. The place has been quait'antined. A terrible state of affairs ex1s . Considerable indignation is expressed at Wilton against Mr.Charles Whitlock, keeper of the Wilton Boarding school, in reference to his treatment of the re- mains of young Gutierrz, who was kill- ed Tuesday, particularly for his refus- ing to allow the body to begbrought to his house. Err-representative John F. Hibbard, who was recently shot in the house of W. E. Ives. at North Woodstock, was triedMonday charged with breaking and entering, and assault. The accuse was found guilty of assault, but not guilty of burglary, and fined $7 and cost. He appealed. . Judge Thayer, Tuesday, rendered judgment in favor of Patrick Galla- her, of Waterbury against the New ork & New England railroad for $2,964.76 as recompense for injuries re- ceived because of the railroad’s negli- gence. Gallagher was a brakeman em- ployed by the road. Manson Hawley president of the Bridgeport National Bank, lies at his home in a serious condition, the result of bilious troubles. He is not expected to surv1ve. . He has been ill only four days. but_his advanced age has so en- feebled his system that there is scarcely a chance for his recovery. The railroad commissioners having made their fall inspection of the Con- solidated system, have little but words of praise for the condition in which they find the main road and its varioirs branches. The important improve- ments now in progress between Nor- walk and Bridgeport are especially com- mended. The respect felt for the memory of young Thomas J. Sheady, was dis- tinctly shown by the long cortege that followed his remains to St. Mary’s church. on Monday, and thence to the cemetery. At the church Father Slo- cum was the celebrant, Father O Brien, deacon, andFatherDugan, sub-deacon, of the solemn requiem high mass. A foot race between William J. Nash, aged 79 years, and Eli Burchard, aged 75 years, more or less, took place on Main street, Monday afternoon. Bur- chard was the fleetest of the pair, and distanced his competitor before the corner of Wall street was reached. Hatfulls of money changed hands over the result. Mrs. Clark B. Turner and daughter Bertie, of Pontiac, Mich., were guests at George Washington Merritt’s resi- dence, on Leonard street, Monday, Mr. Turner is the editor of the Pontiac— Gazette, and Mrs. Turner was formerly of Waterbury. Tuesday they visit- ed Mr. and Mrs. Theodore: Brush, on Maple street. Acomplimentary dinner was given to Congressman Charles A. and Mrs. Rus- sell by Dr. E. H. Davis and others at the. Plainfield Hotel last Saturday, which proved a delightful social event. The occasion had no political signifi- cance, but was of a purely social char- acter. Among the guests was the Rev. Edward Anderson of Danielsonville. _Fairfield is to have a police force con- s1sting of two officers, and a lockup, as ordered by a recent town meeting, will be put in the town hall and there the prisoners Will be kept until they can be taken before the police court, the judge of which shall be a justice of the peace of the town. Repeated com- plaints and depredations committed, make this move on the part of the resi- dents of the town necessary. Doubtless the most ingenious of re- cent ciiurch confessions is that of an erring Vermont brother, related by the Congregationalist. The ood man arose and solemnly announce : “Brethren, my conscience compels “me to confess that when boiling down my sap this spring I put into the kettle twolbuckets of water and sold the sugar at the same price as that made from pure sap l” . At the criminal session of the super- ior court in Bridgeport on Wednesday Thomas Green, charged with robbing “Mike” Ratchford, entered a plea of not guilty, and Peter Lee pleaded guilty to relieving Mrs. Finkle, of Stamford, of her poc 'et-book at the South Nor- walk depot on the arrival of the train from the Dafibury fair, and was sen- tenced for one year at Wethersfield. The many New England people who have burned their fingers in Western land booms will envy Miss Nellie Hay- den, of Denver, her phenomenal luck. Eleven years ago she was a sales girl in a Boston dry goods store. She was persuaded to invest all her savings, amounting to $400, in Denver real estate, an , by reinvesting her profits therefrom in suburban property, sh I has accumulated a fortune. , A little four- ear-old son of George 'l‘ibbals, of inchester, followed his father out to see him fix up a fence which the cattle had broken down Sun- day. On the wa back the father stopped to cut a ead limb from an apple tree. While chopping, the blade of the axe flew off the handle, striking the boy on top of his head and cutting agash from which the brains oozed. The boy last night was still alive, but unconscious, and will probably die. Alarge number of friends of Past Commander John Bray, formerly of Norwalk, assembled at his residence in Providence on Wednesday evening last, the occasion being the presentation -by Providence Conclave, No. 28, Knights of Sherwood Forest, to him, their first commander, of a handsomely framed set of resolutions testimonial to the good service he had performed, and thg popularity attained by him in the or er. More cases of sick headache, bilious- ness, constipation, can be cured in less time, with less medicine, and for' less money by using Carter’s Little Liver Pills, than by any other means. . 000 LEADING DRY 00000 00000; TR Till/10 W— 2 GAZETTE BUILDING. In our Cloak Department we are showing a full line of LADIES', MISSES’ AND CHILDREN'S OUTSIDE GARMENTS of the very best make and styles. Our garments are all new, we, have no old stock to work ofl', that has been’ carried over, but Everything is New and of the Very Latest Style. =-——--—-—-—FUR - CAPES.~=—~=— Our stock of Fur Capes were bought before the advance in furs and we are selling them at Imver prices than they can be bought in any market to-day. HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR. Gents’ Underwear in White, Natural Wool, Camel's Hair and English Merino, in all sizes from 30 to 50 inches. Full Line of Ladies’ and Children's Underwear in all qualities We have fitted up our basement and are showing a large assortmer\1t of 01L OLOTHS, Window Shades, Blankets and Comfortablcs. c TRISTRAM & HYATT, No. 2 Gazette Building. Norwalk. SPECIAL FOR THE HOLIDAYS. 1,000 Picture Frames Given Away! ! TIL JANUARY 1, 11392, I will give with each dozen Cabinet Photographs a Fine 8x10 ' Frame, 1% inch Moulding. Englis Matt, Glass and Picture. at my regular price. 83 00 . ER. DOZEN. No CHARGE FOR FRAME AND sx'rnA PICTURE. All work strictly first-class. No inferior work permitted to leave the gallery. Petite Pavel Photographs, $1.00 Per Dozen. E. LEWIS, 11 Main Street, - - Norwalk, Conn WE THANK THE PUBLIC For the Liberal Patronage bestowed on us on Saturday last. WE ARE H. BIELEFELD, HERE FINE CLOTHING, For Men, Boys and Youths, 'I'O Boots. Shoes, Rubber Goods. &c., &c., STAY. l AT LOW PRICES, ' 12 Main Street, south Norwalk. Gents’ Furnishings, DO YOU WANT AN ABUNDANCE OF PURE WARM AIR IN YOUR HOMES? If you do buy the Most Powerful Heater known in proportion to the Fuel Consumed. Richardson’s Cyclone Furnace, _ Enormous Heatingtapaoiiies. Wonderful Eoonolliv in Fuel. Simnlioily of domination combined with Great Durabilitv. Duplex Puritan, Century and Other Ranges.“ 4 ” Stein 0101 Hut 000? Boilers. Air-Warming Grates, Fire-Place Heaters, &c. Ié'Thousands in use in all parts of the world. SUCCESSFUL EVERYWHERE. ELEGANT DESIGNS. MANUFACTURED BY Richardson & Morgan 00., 92 Beekman Street, New York. /Fonndn—106 to 116 Wahr St., 80. Norwalk. Send for Descriptive Circulars. tor Brooklyn Real Estate Exchange. GEOBG Co-diddtive Building Bunk. Oncaxizsn UNDER THE Laws orj'rnE S'rx'rx or N aw Yoax. 00000200 00000, 0100000000 The Most Successful Notional ' Building and Loan Association. The one that has the Wealthiost and Most Influential Board of Directors. Desires 10 E10010 aFew G000 M00 TO ASSIST IN Establishing Branches in the Eastern States. For particulars address . stating experience. The [lo-Operative Building Bank, .World. Building, New York. HON. JAMES W. HYATT, — President. Late Treasurer of the United States; ' TIMOTHY L. WOODBUFF, Vice-President. MINOT C. KELLOGG, 2d Vice-President. HON. JOHN H. LEE. 3d Vice-President CHARLES L. HEINS, - ~ Treasurer HENRY CAREY. '- - - - Secretary. FRANK W. FABNHAM, Asst. Secretary TRACY. MCFAELAND. Ivms. BOABDMAN Jr. PLATT. Attorneys and Counsellors. DEPOSITOBY MERCHANTS’ EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK. NEW YORK. ,. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. HON. JAMES W. HYATT. Norwalk. Conn., President Fairfield County National Bank, late Tress. of the United States. HON. JOHN H. LEE, ex-Mayor of Norwalk, (it . Lilia. HENRY CAREY. Civil Engineer. N. r. JOHN D. KIMMEY, Director of The Farm- _ ers' Feéd Cftt‘ New York City, Chairman F1- 0 ea MAILBEHI’II‘IB. BOABDMAN, of Tracy. McFar- ‘land. Ivins, Boardman do Platt, Attorneys, . Y. .- . HON. E. P. DOYLE. Secretary of thehsu Commission. N. Y. WM. T. DENYSE, of Wm. DeNyse do Sons, President Excelsior Steam Power Cowlfi. Y. JA S S. CLAYTON, 9f Thurber. yland & 00.. Credit De t., Who esalc Grocers. N. Y. MINOT C. KEELOGG . of Patterson Bros. Hardware. 2? Park Row. . Y. ,CHARLES L. HEINS. Secretary and Treas- f E‘ 1 ‘ St am Power 00., . . me” U'iciiiliiieiiow. of Biglow a Main. Music Pul l' h N Y. O,FG;ESI.;B%1§ITON. of Buxton, Heins a: .. ., or '. . . C(TIMDH‘HY LBFWOODBUFF, President of the Maltine Mannfacturin 00., New York. HON. P. C. LOUNSBUR .Ex—Gov. of 09am. £1??de YMeichants" Exchange National . . r . 1WILLESVMbDONALD, of Willis McDonald &. 00.. Printers 39-43 Gold Street, New York. L omen if it Real Estate, Brooklyn, N. Y.. Director Kings County Trust Co.,Direc- E S. BRUSH. Brooklyn Contractor H. PYLE . Bridgeport. Conn. Wholesale Grocer. _ . P. RUDD. Albany N. Y._. of Harri! & 3ndd.Attorneysfiit Law. and Director Allan County Saunas
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