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WEEKLY - NORWALK - GAZETTE.‘
3 ”as.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
It is reported that a corset factory is
to be started in Bethel.
Rumor says that the Saugatuck Iron
Works may locate in Bridgeport.
Louis Lucien Bonaparte, a nephew
of the first Napoleon, is dead, aged 78
"years.
Mr. Eli L. Quintard of Waterbury, is
a. guest at Mr. Fred. T. Betts, on the
Church Green.
Silver Flint, the great catcher of the
Chicago Club, is dying of consumption,
at his home in Chicago.
Rusie, the mainstay of the New York
club the past season, has signed with
the Chicago Association team.
It is estimated that the double track-
ing of the Danbury and Norwalk divi-
sion of the Housatonic road will cost
$150,000. ,
For the second time in six weeks the
Southingtonfpost ofiice was robbedWed-
nesday, and the second safe ruined in
the same time.
Mrs. Dr. Noble attended church on
Sunday morning for the first time since
her recent illness, to the great delight
of her many friends.
A new tarifi‘ association has been
formed by the fire insurance companies
and has adopted fixed rates for risks in
New York and vicinity. '
It is feared that Mrs. Charles Stewart
Parnell may not survive the shock
caused by her husband's death. She
is growmg rapidly weaker.
In Waterbury, Tuesday, Mrs. Essie
Sabsovmk, charged with fortune tell-
1ng, was sentenced to sixty days in jail,
it being her second offense.
The late Monson Hawley of Bridge-
port left an estate estimated at a quar-
ter of a million dollars. It is left chief-
ly to the Wife and children.
Joseph Turcotte, aged 28, was killed
by a freight train at Moosup, Monday.
lie was somewhat deaf, and did not
hear the train until too late.
Tony Hart, of Harrigan & Hart’s
company, died Wednesday at the Wor-
.cester Insane asylum, where he has
been an inmate for some time.
The engineers on the Housatonic rail-
road complain that their trains are de-
layed by the quantity of leaves that
have come down upon the tracks.
The Matthew; family left their sum-
mer home in the .LJUUkWOOd. mansion,
on West avenue, Tuesday, for their
regular Winter residence in New York.
Mr. Charles P. Coe, of Bridgeport,
and Miss Hattie, daughter of A. S. J ar-
vis, of Weston, were married at the Ho-
tel Stanley, Saugatuck, on Wednesday
evening.
The New Haven Palladium says that
Governor Bulkeley has expended from
{us pug???) gesouicilces up to date, be-
ween , 00 an 200,000 i ' 0'
bills for the state. $ n paying
Orders have been issued by General
\Vatsonhasmgning November 13th for
Companies D and F to meet at the Ar-
mory for muster and inspection of
books and records.
‘ Work has been commenced on the
building next to E. K. Lockwood’s
store. The roof will be raised and ex-
tended so as to be on a line with the
Wadhams building.
George S. Langdon, one of the new
proprietors of the Litchfield Enquirer,
has retired and the paper is now under
the sole management and control of
Cornelius R. Duffie, Jr.
About fifteen keepers of boarding
houses were arrested in Waterbury yes-
terday, for .violation of the oleomar-
garine law in serving oleomargarine at
tables unknown to the boarders.
Mrs. Mary A. Baird, sister of the late
Franms Fellowes, of Hartford, and
widow of the Rev. Spencer F. Baird,
died at A'ndover, Mass, on Sunday.
She was eighty-three years old.
' The American Cyclist says that the
time made by Seeley from South Nor-
walk to Port Chester, twenty-onemiles,
was the fastest ever made for the dis-
tance in this country on the road.
While silver cut some figure in the
Ohio contest the main issue was on pro-
tective tariff. On Major McKinley’s
part it was a clean, fair .fight for pro-
tection to American industry andAmeri-
can industries.
Governor Page of Vermont, Tues-
day issued a proclamation formally an-
nouncing the appointment of the Hon.
Redfield Proctor as United States Sena-
tor, to succeed the Hon George F. Ed-
munds, resigned.
Brig. Gen. T. L. Watson has been
elected a member of the Military Ser-
vice Institution, the headquarters of
which are at Governor’s Island, and
also a member of the. Connecticut So-
ciety, Sons of the American Revolution.
Emil Petersen, a member of the New
Haven City Guard, is lyin at death’s
door at his home in New aven, due to
a ducking he received in the company
tub at Niantic, which resulted in a cold,
from which pneumonia has developed.
Palo Alto lowered his record half a
second at Stockton, Cal., Tuesday,
trotting a mile in 2. 09%, coming within
a quarter of a second of the world’s
stallion record, held b Allerton. He
made two breaks, or e would have
broken the record.
Edward M. Geer, of Hartford, con-
victed for violation of the game eXport
law, and whose case,has recently been
passed upon lby the Connecticut su-
preme court," has appealed his case to
the United States supreme court. He
sets up the claim of the unconstitution-
ality of the law and thus seeks express-
ion on this point from the highest au-
thority in the land.
‘ the Norwalk and
The Gotham Wheelmen open their
new Club House at New York, Satur-
day evening, November 7th. Clinton
Seeley is a member of this Club, and
will put on his swallow-tail coat and
attend the opening.
William Cree, a former employee of
South N orwalk Elec—
tric Light 00., left town Wednesday
evening for S'avannah,where he Will ac-
cept a position with the Savannah and
Macon Telephone Company.
Mr. Frank P. Kellogg, that fine
looking young man who has been With
Jeweler Spencer for the pastfive years,
has accepted a position with Tifl‘a‘n y &
Co., the New York jewelers.
At the treasury department Monday
bids were opened for the construction
of a public building at Wilmin ton,
Del., the lowest being that of the on-
necticut Brownstone Company, of
Portland, Conn., at $126,000.
At the annual meeting of the New
En land Terminal company, held at
WiIson Point on Thursday, the follow-
ing officers were re-elected : C. 13. Ted-
castle, president; Sidney Starbuck,
vice-president and general manager ;
J. Porter, secretary.
The trial of Dr. Briggs for heresy
began and came to an unexpected end
in the dismissal of all the charges Wed-
nesday, the Presbytery deciding that
in view of the explanations offered by
Dr. Briggs the accusation of heresy
could not be sustained.
' St. Mary’s fair will open at the Op-
era House, Friday. evening. November
20th, and continue nine evenings.‘ The
N undinze, the paper which John T.
Hayes has for two years issued so suc-
cessfully in the interests. of the fair,
will be published again this year.
Engineer Ford of the Danbury and
N orwalk road has been placed in charge
of the Long Island milk train. En-
gineer Morgan, of Wilson P_omt, takes
1i ord‘s place on the sw1tcher in the Dean
bury 'ard,.and Fireman Beyers is pro.
motec to engineer of the Wilson Pomt
switcher.
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Connecticut pension: Original—Al—
bert A. Clark, Robert T. Harris, Wm.
Hallihan, Samuel S. Ladd, Dexter M.
Latham. Additional-Cyrus M. Ben-
jamin. Increase—Stephen Roper, Goez
Bachert. Widows—Mary Walter, Rose
Kennedy. Ellen Maria Gallemore, Box-
anna Wood.
John R. Brown, a veteran of the late
war, and a member of the 17th Regtv
C.V. ,died Tuesday morning at his resi-
dence on the Sticky Plains road. The
deceased had been a long sufferer With
rheumatism, and about three week ago,
fell down a flight of stairs, from -t e
efi'ects of which he never recovered.
Fanny M., eldest daughter of Mrs.
John Keenna. died at her residence on
Leonard street, early Sunday morning,
aged 27 years. The deceased had been
sick but a little over a week, the direct
cause of her death being meningitis.
Her funerhl was held from St. Mary’s
church, Tuesday morning, and largely
attended.
Henry J. Titus, who has been an in-
mate of the almshouse for_ high unto
two years, has become so Violently in-
sane that he will be removed tothe
Middletown asylum on Monday. Titus
occupies a cell built expressly for him
over the wash-house of the institution,
as he was so noisy while in the main
building that the other inmates could
not sleep. Titus rigidly obJects to
wearing any sort of clothing, andwhen-
ever new clothes are given him, imme-
diately tears them into threads. . He
was examined by Drs. Walter Hitch—
~ cock and Baker, on Wednesday, and
pronounced insane.
The Selectmen yesterdayreceived
a petition signed by 21 residents of
Five Mile River, twelve of whom are
families, asking that Mrs. Amelia Beers
be removed from that locality, .as “by
reason of insanity she is a public nui-
sance, and a disturber of the peace,
and that her language is profuse and
exceedingly profane, and that her
threats against the lives of children
and others. may at any tune be ful-
filled.” Mrs. Beers is religiously in-
sane and has a notion that. she must
offer up the lives of little children as a
sacrifice for her sins. A commission
de lunacy will probablybe appomted
to examine into her conditmn.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Lane of
Leonard street, have been terribly
afilicted in the death of two children
within the space of a week. Their little
boy Louie, aged three, died of croup
last Wednesday and was buried on
Thursday. The evening after the funer-
al their little girl, Lottie F., aged five,
was taken with the same fatal disease
and died at 5 o’clock Monday evening.
Wednesday her angel form- was laid
away in the grave beside the little
cherub brother. Mr. and Mrs. Lane
have the deepest sympathies of the en-
tire neighborhood, but only “He who
tempereth the winds to the shorn lamb”
can comfort and sustain them in such
an ”hour of desolation and anguish.
Mr. Edward Fowler, of this town,
brother of the late Col. Douglas Fow-
ler, whose life was sacrificed at the bat-
tle of Gettysburg, was Monday evening
mustered in Douglas Fowler Post, G.
A. R., as a member of that patriotic or-
anization. Comrade and Postmaster
. E. Doty of South Norwalk, who was
also in that battle, was present at the
muster, and delivered some very inter-
esting remarks, comprising reminis-
ences of Col. Fowler, with whom he
was closely associated during the war.
He also stated that he had recently met
a former member of his old regiment
for the first time since the war closed,
who was one of the two soldiers who
tried to bear Col. Fowler’s body from
the bloody field, but were obliged to
abandon the attempt in order to save
their own lives, This old comrade is a
native of 'Westport, but has for several
vears past resided at St. Augustine,
Florida.
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Evangelistic Services.
The meeting at the Methodist Church
Was largely attended. The address of
Dr. Simons upon “Consecration unto
God and Service unto Men,” wasboth
practical and strong. The altar service
very helpful. Many renewed their con-
secration unto God. Last evening Dr.
Clark spoke, subject ; “The Secret of
Spiritual Power—the Holy Spirit Re-
ceived." The singing of the chorus is
every night full of inspiration. No one
can attend these meetings and not be
' greatly benefitted by them.
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FISHING FOR: PEARLS.
How-u IS NOW CARRIED ON IN
THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA.
Several Hundred Men Employed—How
the Divers are Equipped—How They
Work—ExaminIng. the Pearls—Where
They Go—About Their Value.
“Whatever of romance has hitherto
enshrouded the naked fisher for pearls
in the sea, he is now practically a sub-
marine laborer, who is equipped with
all the modern paraphernalia for div-
ing.’
So writes an agent of the United
Si..;es Fish Commission of the pearl
fisherman in the Gulf of California in
a report upon the industry about to be
published. .
According to his account, the pearl
and pearl shell fisheries of the gulf,
which are among the most important
in the world, are fhrmed out by the
Mexican Government to a concern in
San Francisco called the Pearl Shell
Company of Lower California. The
latter employs from 400 to 500 men.~
Fishing begins early in May and is
carried on until December, working
along the east coast of the peninsula
and up the Pacific side as far as Mar-
garita Island.
Instead of plunging, after the old
fashion, for a brief sixty or ninety
seconds at a time into the sunlit green
water that covers the oyster banks,
the diver puts on a. rubber suit with
glass-fronted helmet, suitably weight-
ed with lead, and descends to the bot-
tom, where he gathers the treasure-
bearing bivalves at his leisure. He is
supplied with air for breathing pur-
poses through a rubber tube by com-
panions in a boat above,and it is their
task also to pull up the loaded wire
basket as fast as he fills it. During
the first year or two after the introduc-
tion of this apparatus the company
lost its divers at the rate of one a
month by drowning, owing in nearly
every instanceito a break in the air
tubing; but such accidents no longer
occur, partly because defective En-
glish tubing has been discarded in
favor of a superior quality manufac-
tured in New York city. An accessory
to the diving suit has also been added
in the shape of a small, sheet-iron res-
ervoir of compressed air, which can
instantly be made to supply the man
with five minutes’ breathing material
in case of abreakdown of the machine.
In conducting the fishery the divers
are located in camps at favorable
places along the shore. Each, camp
is supplied with a diving suit and an
air machine, which is mounted in a
heavy barge—like boat. This boat is
daily rowed from camp to the place of
operation. Arrived there, one man is
diver, one tends his signal rope, one
hoists and empties his basket of
shells, two turn the cranks of the air
pump, and two are at the oars to keep
the boat well over him and carefully
follow his wandering course upon the
bottom in search of shells. Thus it
requires several persons to operate
each diving outfit, young boys being
frequently employed as attendants.
The diving suits are mostly imported
from London. About thirty of them
are kept in constant use during the
season. They cost $35 each. A fleet
of five schooners, ranging from twenty
to 150 tons, is employed in distribut-
ing the diving squads over the area
being worked, supplying them with
provisions and transporting their
ever-accumulating heaps of shells to
the store-houses at La Paz.
Sometimes a day’s work will not
yield a single pearl of size, while
again a score of shells may contain
$20,000 worth. The oysters, having
been taken ashore, are opened under
official inspection, the final process
with each one being to squeeze the
meat in the fist, lest, perchanoe, it
hold a gem in its tissue.
The pearls secured are stored in a
safe at La Paz, preliminary to ship-
ping them to San Francisco. They
are separated into grades, according
to size and brilliancy, the great ma-
jority being little, imperfect, and of
not much value. One the size of a
bluebird’s egg is a. great prize, and if
without flaw is worth $1,000 perhaps.
The black ones are all sent to. Europe,
because over there they fetch larger
prices than the white ones, although
in the United States they are not
equally marketable. It may be men-
tioned incidentally that the biggest
pearl known is two inches in length
and weighs three ounces.
The principal revenue of the com- I
pany, however, is not derived from
pearls,‘but from the shells of the pearl
oysters, the bulk of which are shipped
to Europe, where they are sold for
from 10 to 20 cents a pound, and are
made into ornaments, knife handles,
buttons, and all those articles for
which a. fine grade of mother-of-pearl
is employed. .
The pearl-producing beds of the
Gulf of California were probably the
richest in the world at the time of
their discovery by Hernando Cortez.
A great many of the gems obtained
from them he sent to Spain, and a
'huge one that was among the number
is now included in the regalia of the
Spanish crown. About the middle of
the last century the fishery was taken
up with such un sparing assiduity that
the market was flooded with pearls,
their value decreased very much, and
the beds were all but depleted. At
present they are but a. remnant of
what they once were, and from time
to time the Mexican Government is
obliged to forbid the working of them
for a year" or two, lest they be de-
stroyed altogether.—N. Y. Sun.
Family Potplexities,
A young man being asked by a
judge whether he had a father or a
mother, said he wasn’t uite sure,
whether he had or not. - irst, his
father died, and and then his mother
married again; and then his mother
died’ and his father married again;
and now he didn’t exactly know
whether they were his father and
mother or not-London Tid Bits.
[VERS '& POND PIANO
attachment, can eseen by calling on or a -
dressmg
Organist of the Norwalk M. E. Church and
I‘mcnnn or THE PIANO, ORGAN AND HARMONY.
Residence—30 West avenue. Norwalk. Conn.:
P. O. Box 131.
and Fridays from 9 a. in. to 12 m.
AGOOD CHANCE FOR SOME ONE—I
Guns. Pistols.Ammunitien and Sporting Goods
now in the store, No. 14 Water street.
ground and the building standing thereon.
good run 0
this kind in the borough. The whole will be
soggul‘ow for cash. Apply at once to
“JARVIS KELLUGB,
Everything In the Shoe Line!
PRICES THE LOWEST 1
3m... 3| Main! Street, Norwalk.
THE CELEBRATED
With all their atents including soft sto
N. K. FERRIS.
At home Mondays, Thursdays
3m110v
For Sale.
have for sale the stock of Fishing Tackle.
Also two Billiard Tables. the lease of the
This is a good light busmess. the store has a
trade, and it is the only stock of
0. E. WILSON.
WOODEN WARE,
House Furnishing Goods,
[5 Wall Street. Norwalk.
E. GUSOWSKI,
Merchant ~ Tailor.
I'l‘have just received the Finest and
and Largest Selection of
FALL AND WINTER SUITINGS,
TBOUSERINGS AND VESTINGS,
shown-fin Norwalk. which I will ‘make
up in style and price to suit everybody.
n. ousowszi,
Garner Wall and Water Sis, Norwalk.
150 Pairs of Ladies’ ,
WAUKENPHAST
$3.00 SHOES
TO BE SOLD FOR
ease.
. B. C and D.
A. H. HOYT & SON,
37 WALL STREET.
FINE
Boots andSllOtS,
Leather and Findings.
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY l
IT WILL PAY YOU TO EXAMINE
OUR STOCK ‘OF
MEN’S - AND - BOYS’
Win erEln ing.
Men’s Pea Jackets with Vests from
$4.50 up.
Men’s Fine Overcoats from $5 up.
Boys’ Cape Overcoats, $1.25, 150, $2.
Our Boys’ Suits at $1.90 can’t be
equalled. .
TAFT BROS,.
23 WALL STREET. NOBWALK.
LATEST
IMPORTANT] N S
—’O:F———
Fall and Winter
I have just received my stock of Fall and
Winter Suitings, which comprise the most
fashionable patterns of form n importation
and domestic manufacture. T ese goods Iam
prepared to make up in _
The Latest Styles
and in the mos thorough manner, guarantee-
ing satisfactio . It is always best to ma 8
early selections-before stock is reduced. and
those who call early; Will have the best chOice
Special attention is called to our Trouser-
ings of which we have the largest variety 3%
have ever before offered. The patterns are.of
the very latest and most approved styles.
WM. iH. .SWBRDS,
90 wisnmoiominui,
‘any size. ‘
waist it becomes a model of yourself.
and put away like an umbrella.
is afforded you by our
FALL AND
one with a large rolling collar.
ber of your dresses.
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COLLAR FOUNDATIONS. -
When not in use it can be folded
SOLD BY
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TH BUSlUN STUR
Cor. Main and Wall Sts.. Norwalkigg
Masonic Building,
NORWALK.
or coffee.
SOUTH NORWALK.
omstock Bros.
’: BEAR IN MIND that wgfiiever
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The most popular, and to most women the most becoming garment, is ~7~
Those who have undertaken the task of
making such a collar can best appreciate the need of a foundation or lining
pressed securely into the correct shape. The Bazar Collar Foundations supply " \-
this want. These foundations are made of strong buckram. held in shape“ .
by wire around the edges. With them any nosicecan make the collars fit -
about the neck without a crease or wrinkle.
to produce without them. The illustrations show the permanent appear- '
ance of collars when made on these Foundations. .. .
I THE COMING STYLES
Favor high collars, Louis XV sleeves, and pannier bodices, all calculated to
bewil'der those who do their own dressmaking. How to cut, fit and shape
such a difficult garment involves too much work to ask any friend or long
suffering member of the family to pose for you, and unless you have a
Bazar: Form the amount of your dressmaking bill is apt to reduce the num-
This Form enables you to accomplish in your own
home what has‘been attained in leading dressmaking establishments and
reduces the cost of your gowns one-half. It is adjustable and can be .made
When arranged to your own proportions and covered With a
Smooth efi'eCts are impossible “ ‘
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t .
Norwalk’s heading "Dry _ Goods House,
before sold on teams as”
tempting as we are now making'DWith-
purchasers. It’s a chance for‘a dis—
tinct and positive saving offconsid—
erable money. The more carefully
you compare our terms witliruling
prices elsewhere. the bettergsatisfied
you’ll be that we are not talking for
talking’s sake. We are not in, the
habit of saying what we cannot
prove. The buyer is justf “as much
entitled to a profit as the-seller, and
you won’t often have a chance of making a more profitable purrhasel than
WINTER SlIITS.
Gomstook Brides”
‘14 So. Main Street
so. No‘sWALK.
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New T Store.
The Great Atlantic 81 Pacific it Company]
-———HAVE THE—-
Finest Teas and Selected Geffoes
At Prices that are Truly Marvellous.
We have been instrumental in breaking up the high prices of these
articles of necessity, Teas and Coffees, and putting them within the reach
of rich and poor. We are determined to carry on the good- cause ’till every
hamlet and village in the United States are supplied with pure goods, and
sold at prices that even the very poorest can enjoy a cup of pure tea
The Great Atlantic in Pacific Tea 00.,
41 MAIN STREET'V‘NORWALK
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