Norwalk Chronicler

Norwalk weekly gazette, Friday, January 8, 1892 · page 3

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Plumbing, Steam and Gas Filling

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Sanitary Plumbing and Ventilation and Low
Pressure and Steam Heating, a Specialty.

PLUMBEBS’ SUPPLIES.
Pipe and Fitting tor Steam and (la
GENT forthe FLORIDA LOW PRESSURE BOILER.

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BUILDING LOTS

(ON INSTALLMENT PLAN.)
FOR SALE.

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APPLY TO

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MERCHANT TAILOR,

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WEEKLYv-NORWAL'K-GAZETTE.. 3

saws or THE WEEK. ,

 

To grip, or not to grip, that ,is the
question.

Mrs. Homer Brown of Marshall street
died \Vednesday morning.

Capt. C. Fred Betts of New York,
spent New Year’s in town.

 

Col. Clark, the famous. racing judge,
is dangerously ill in Louisville.

The Aborn Opera Company was dis-
banded at Bridgeport Saturday night.

A City Hotel youngster wants _to
know if a “licking” is good for the grip.

Captain Reuben M. Rose has with-
drawn from Buckingham Post G. A. R.

Mrs. George Andrew \Vhite is ser-
ioufily ill at her residence on Spring
Hi .

'l he National Association of Demo-
cratic Clubs Wlll meet in Washington
Jan. 20.

Mrs. M. C. Knight, of the Boston
Store milinery department, is visiting
at Milford.

Miss Lena Rowland, of Brooklyn, is
vis1ting her aunt, Mrs. D. P. Osborn,
on Arch street.

 

 

 

The stock exchange has cut all of the
Gold & Stock wires on the floor, thus
cutting OR the ticker service.

Captain and Mrs Willis McDonald, of
New York, were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Ira Cole on New Year’s.

Capt. Winslow of Brewer, Maine, has
left his schooner, the “Nellie Doe” at
E. J. Hill’s dock for the winter.

Charles B. Wakeley, postmaster at
Fairfield, died at his home in that town
Thursday night at the age of 7 6 years.

paid 403 claims for bounty on sugar un-
der the McKinley act, aggregating
$12,140.42. ______

Col. TV. H. Stevenson says that he
could not, for business reasons, accept
the colonelcy of the Fourth regiment
if it was tendered to him.

John T. Smith, a well-to-do farmer,
residing in the western part of Milford,
died very suddenly on Monday, while
out teaming, of heart failure.

Mr. William E. Seeley, of Bridge-
port, has been appointed administrator
on the estate of William B. Hall, the
deceased merchant having left no will.

The DAILY GAZETTE was the only
paper in N orwalk that published the
Supreme Court decision in the quo
warranto case of Morris vs Bulkeley
Tuesday:

Benjamin S. \Vright, faniilarly known
to the horsemen of the entire country
as “Uncle Ben Wright," died at Med-
ford, Mass, Tuesday, from a compli-
cation of diseases.

Gen. T. L. Watson has an eye on the
ext republican nomination for Con-
gress from the Fourth district—Bridge-
port News.

He would make a good one.

“Carter L. Harrison, nephew of Presi-
dent Harrison, (lied Tuesday on the
road near Palestine, Tex. He had been
to San Antonio for his health, and his
father was bringing him home.

The remains of Mrs. Mary E. Sar-
gent, who died in Holyoke, Mass.,were
brought to the home of her brother-
in-law, Joseph Sargent, of Winnipauk,
Tuesday. Interment \Vednesday.

. The grip epidemic is making heavy
inroads on the finances of benevolent
organizations, so much so that some of
them have issued an assessment to
meet the demands for sick benefits.

A thirteen club is in process of form-
ation in New Haven, the aim of which
will be to scoff all sorts of superstitious
ideas. They propose to secure a haunt-
ed house and have a cross-eyed janitor
with bow-legs.

Directors of the Consolidated road
deny the newly coined report that a.
deal is impending between that and
the New England road, and say that
the report emanates, as usual, from the
New York stock market.

Deering Farrar, of Turner, Me., one
of the oldest members of the Masonic
Order in New England, is dead at the
age of 90. He was one of the charter
members and first treasurer of Nezin-
scot Lodge, of Turner.

 

Connecticut pensions :——Original—Ed-
ward H. Carrington, James Smith,
Frederick A. Durant. Increase—Geo.
S. Bipley. Be-issue—Lewis H. Demott.
Original Widows, etc—Sarah E. Con-
verse, Mary A. Camp (mother.)

The GAZETTE has just received a new
sample book containing all the latest
designs in ball, society and club tickets,
menu’s, orders of dance, wedding in-
v1tations, etc., which we are prepared
to print- in the most artistic manner.

 

The receipts at the Bridgeport cus-
tom house for the six months ending
Dec. 31, 1891, were $114,000, showing a
great increase of business. .For the
preceding fiscal year, ending July 1,
1891, the receipts were about $100,000.

0. B. Manly, of Danbury, manager
of the Phoenix Beef 00., died Tuesday.
night of the grip. He was an active
sportsman an well known as one of
the best wing shots in the state, having
won several state records. He leaves a.
Widow.

It is said that sentence will be passed
upon the three Chilians found guilty
of assaultingthe Baltimore’s seamen in
Valparaiso at the conclusion of the fes-
tiv1ties to celebrate the anniversary of
the commencement of the revolt against
Balmaceda.

Always avoid harsh purgative pills.
They first make you sick and then
leave you constipated. Carter’s Little
Liver Pills regulate the bowels and
make you well. Dose, one pill.

Err-President Porter of Yale is pros-
rated with the grip.

is usual Belva Lockwood isin the
Presidential field this year.

The Washington express from Bos-
ton will be established, commencing
J annary 18. ,

Andrew Carnegie has donated $30,-
000 for the erection of a. public library
at Fairfield, Iowa.

Nearly 3,000 employees of the Elgin
Watch Company are about to strike be-
cause of a reduction in wages.

The cruiser Yorktown has arrived at
Valparaiso. She made the distance of
8,917 knots in thirty-seven running
days. W“_____

The Consolidated road has begun to
use its four tracks at Sonthport, much
to the delight of the residents of that
place.

Col. John H. Bario of Meriden, ex~
postoffice inspector, died very sudden-
ly at his home in that city Saturday of
apoplexy.

The Sun has withdrawn from mem-
bership in the Associated Press of New
York and will hereafter receive its news
through the United Press Association.

 

Mrs. P. T. Barnum, Miss May Bead,
daughter of Senator D. M. Read, Miss
Seeley and C. Barnum Seeley, of
Bridgeport, sailed for Europe Saturday.

ig'l‘he internal revenue receipts during
the past five months show a large in-
crease over the corresponding period
of last year. It is a first-class business
straw.

 

The hearing on the admission to pro-
bate of the will of the late Mrs. Henry
H. Perry of ‘Southport, was on Satur-
day adjourned for one week by Judge
Glover at Fairfield.

E. McCall Cushman, for many years
agent of the Hartford Soldiers’ Aid
Association at Washington, died in
Willimantic, Conn., on Saturday night.
He was 7 2 years old.

 

The cable for the East Norwalk elec—
tric lights arrived on the propeller this
morning, and the Electric Light Com-
pany will at once proceed to have it
laid across the harbor.

The Young Men’s T. A. and B. socie-
ty attached to St. Patrick’s church of
New Haven, will lay the corner stone
of their new building on next Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock.

F. E. \Vorthington, stock broker of
Danbury, has left town mysteriously,
and is supposed to be at Richmond, Va.
It is said that he carried away any-
where from $5,000 to $10,000.

Gen. M. C. Meigs, the noted engineer
and Quartermaster-General of the
United States military forces during
the late war, died. at his residence in
\Vashington Saturday morning.

 

The many N orwalk friends of W. G.
Lineburgh of Bridgeport, will be
pleased to learn that he is recovering
from an attack of the grip, which has
confined him to the house for some
days.

The summary of the Weekly Record
for last week shows 3 real estate sales
and $1950 real estate mortgages for Nor-
walk against 8 real estate sales and
$2810 for the corresponding week last
year.

The annual dinner of the Yale Alum-
ni association of New York will take
place on January 15. at 6:30 p. m., at
Delmonico’s, to which all graduates
from and resident students at the uni-
versity are invited.

C. F. Dickerman, the Whitneyville
postmaster, who was recently arrested
on a charge of paying personal debts
with postage stamps, has been re-ar-
rested on the more serious charge of
ofi'ering a fraudulent contract to L. M.
Brooks, the postmaster at Cheshire.

By the terms of the will of Mary
Macrae Stuart upward of $4,000,000 of
her estate is left to various colleges and
charities of the Presbyterian Church.
The Lenox Library receives her mag-
nificent library and collection of art
works in addition to $300,000.

 

The big shipping firm of H. Trow-
bridge & Sons of New Haven and New
York has gone out of business on ac-
count of the competition between steam
and sailing vessels. They have a fleet
of fifteen vessels and did a thriving
business with the West Indies.

The Board of \Vater Commissioners
organized Tuesday evening for the
coming year. Frederick Mead was
elected chairman, and A. H. Camp sec-
retary, Charles Grupe superintendent
of the New Canaan reservoir and Thad-
deus Scott superintendent of the Lew1s-
boro reservoir.

Mr. Ryan, the United States army
pensioner who was arrested at Queens-
town in the scare which followed the
explosion at Dublin Castle for having a
revolver and amunition on his person.
was Tuesday adjudged guilty of car-
rying concealed weapons and sentenced
to pay a fine of £2 and the costs.

The fifth match between E. D. Ful-
ford, formerly of Bridgeport, and Cap-
tain John Brewer, was shot at Harris-
burg Frida , and again resulted 'in a
victory for ulford. The score at the
close was Fulford 96. Brewer 94, out of
a possible 100. Fulford scored 81
straight, while Brewer’s highest score
was 56 straight.

Mrs. William Carroll, of Birming-
ham, was found dead in her bed late
Saturday evening by her fifteen-year-
old daughter. Mrs. Carroll is a. WldOW,
ferty-seven years old, is well-known
and highly respected. Her husband
was drowned a few years ago at the
mouth of the Housatonic river by.his
boat being caught and overturned in a
squall.

Ex-Sherifi' Westell Russell, of Hart-
ford, who died of the grip Friday night
was eighty years of age. _
deputy sheriff, sheriff, acting deputy
United States marshal and county com-
missioner, and when a young man was
for eighteen yearscapt-ain of the Hart-
ford watch. His funeral was held on

 

Tuesday afternoon.

He had been ‘

Frank Smiley of Franklin, Ind., is
minus his beard and the hair of his
head as the result of thl :1 'p.

The late;Senator Plumb advanced
the claims of more than six thousand
Kansans in the Pension Office.

 

There is a new boom in New York I &
New England stock in \Vall street. In
lhi‘past week it has shot up from 393i

0 .

Mr: John Holmes, a resident of J ew-
ett City ”for the past 51 years, died at
his late residence Monday afternoon,
Jan. 4th, aged 93 years.

The psi ochial school attached to St.
John’s Catholic Church at Middletown
has been ordered closed, owing to the
prevalence of diphtheria among the
scholars.

Col. Roswell B. Mason, who died at
his home in Chicago, Friday night, as-
sisted in the construction of the Hon-
satonic and New York St New Haven
railroads.

The democratic members of the \Vays
and Means Committee of the House of
Representatives are practically agreed
to bring ,in a bill repealing the duties
on raw wool.

John Moore. aveteran _of the Third
Connecticut Volunteers, died at the
Danbury Hospital Friday, from con-
cussion of the brain, which resulted
from a fall Christmas night.

Julia \V. Lewis, widow of ex-Mayor
Lewis of New Haven. died at her resi-
dence, Saturday, at five o’clock, surviv-
ing her husband, who died on Christ-
mas day, but little over one week.

 

A car containing ten non—union oper-
ators, whom the Western Union Tele-
graph Company was sending South to
take the place of strikers, was broken
into at Texarkana, :Ark., Saturday
night and three of the men were killed.

William E. Danii will remove his
harness store from its present head—
quarters about May lst. Mr. Dunn is
as yet undecided as to the future loca-
tion of his business, andif a suitable
location cannot be found in town will
remove either to Stamford or Bridge-
port.

The Courant’s \Vashington corres-
pendent telegraphs that it is under
stood that Colonel John N. Wilsey,
chief clerk for years past of the stamped
envelope agency at Hartford, will be
appointed special agent there in place
of Major Blakeslee, whose incapacity is
regarded as permanent.

Trainer William H. Lockwood has
purchased of H. H. Longstreet, of
Trenton, N. J ., the two-year-old black
colt Lucan, by Rumor, by Gen. Wash-
ington. The colt is now quartered at
the Fair Ground stables, and those
that have seen him say that he will
make some of the local horses “bite
the dust ” next season.

James F. Mayor died Tuesday morn.
ing in Lynn, Mass, aged 58 years. He
served in the English navy in the Cri-
mean war and in the United States navy
in the Mexican and Civil wars. He also
accompanied Elisha Kent Kane to the
Arctic Ocean. His total service in the
United States navy was more than
twenty-eight years.

Mrs. Amelia. Underwood died Silh-
day at the residence of her daughter
on Academy street, of the grip, aged
63 years. Mrs. Underwood came from
her home in Patchogue, L. I., a few
days since to visit her daughter, and
shortly after arriving was taken down
with the grip. Her remains were taken
to Patchogue for burial.

The Norwalk and South Norwalk
Electric Light Company are up to their
ears in work. So busy are they that
men have had to be sent for from New
York to wire the houses of those who
wish lights. The company are now en-
gaged in wiring the South Norwalk Bap-
tist Church, and when this job is com-
pleted, 125 incandescent lights will be
put in Miss Baird’s houses on Orchard
street.

A Pinkerton detective employed by
the Consolidated railroad, has ascer-
tained that the recent attempt at train-
wrecking near Fairfield, Conn., was
the work of Italian laborers employed
by the road. The only explanation
given for the attempt is the way in
which the Italians are treated by their
bosses. An investigation is now being
made by the Connecticut Humane So-
ciety.

Mrs. Palmyra Cotton, of Waterbury,
whose completion of a hundred years
of life was celebrated by the ringing of
St. John’s chimes and a reception,
comes of long-lived stock. A cousin
lived to 103 and a sister lived until past
90. Two other sisters attained the age
of 92. She was unmarried until 67, and
in a short. time was a widow. Some
years ago she gave her homestead to a
nephew in consideration of care and
support until her death. She also gave
to St. John’s Episcopal church $4,000
on condition that she should be paid 6
per cent. a year until her death.

The Bridgeport News publishes the
following telegram :
HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 5, 1892.
To SNI’ENIi'TOR DAVID B. HILL, Albany,

For further particulars in reference
to whether I am or am not, I refer you
to one certain unanimous opinion ren-
dered by the Supreme Court this day.
David, you don’t know half as much
about governors as you think you do.
Yours respectfully,

MORGAN G. BULKELEY,
Governor of Connecticut
And don’t you forget it.

Samuel Guthrie, who sometimes lives
at the Soldiers’ Home in Dayton, Ohio,
and sometimes doesn’t, wore a . blue
coat with brass buttons when arraigned
in the Tombs Police Court Saturday
on a charge of drunkenness. "I fit
through the war as a Yankee sailor,
yer Honor,” said he: “I climbed the
flagstafi' at Fort Fisher while the rebel
bullets whizzed about me and I tore
down half of the rebel flag. A sharp-
shooter sent a bullet through my wrist
and I dropped. I gave the torn bit of
flag to Admiral Porter himself and he
praisedlme for my deed. Now, J udge.
let me go.” “Five dollars or five days.”
said theCourt, and the veteran sadly

 

“went below.

 

'VI:

AT THEIR GREAT DRY GOODS AND DARPET EMPDRIUMS

SDDFIELDE’ HDYT

Are now showing all the

New Spring Styles in Carpets

At the Lowest Cash prices and also on installments. We are also offering
a large line of LINOLEUMS, OIL CLOTHS, M ATTINGS,
BUGS, and everything in the line of House Furnishing
Goods at Lower Prices than any house in town.

We shall continue to keep the Largest Assortment of

Dry Goods, Notions, Hosiery, Cloaks,
Jackets, Underwear,

And in fact everything that is to be found in a firstclass Dry Goods and
Carpet Store. ‘

In our South Norwalk store we shall keepa larger stock of Carpets.
Mattings and Oil Cloths than heretofore, and will give our customers the.
same benefit in terms and prices as at our Norwalk store.

We have lately added

FURNITURE

To our stock. and it is selling lively at the prices we have marked it.

- SCOFIELD & HOYT, Norwalk and So. Norwalek.

flur - Uvercoas — an — Bee on

—~———; A N D .———

Men’s and Boys’ Suits

Can’t be Beat as to Style, Fit and Price.

 

 

»—:GIVE US A CALL:—

HENRY BIELEFELD,

South Norwalk.

12 North Main Street,

 

 
 

 
 

is specially commended to sufferers from Indigestion,

or Weak Stomach. Delicate and N utrtious. 155. .:

 

 

W.B.Hal|&Co.,

BRIDGEIPORT.

GRAND JANUARY SALE OF
DRY GOODS.

Everything in the way of seasonable goods at bargain prices. We are
making extra efforts to give you some bargains this month. We shall
make special prices in every department through the entire month to
reduce stock. Bargains all over the house. We are making extra induce—
ments in our Dress Goods Departments. Note the following remnants:—
500 black goods remnants half-price and will only last a short time. 500
'short length coldred goods also half-price. Best $1 black serges, 89c; best
850 black henriettas, 75c; best 75c black lienriettas, 62%c; best $1.50 silk
warp henriettas, $1.25 ; best $1 stripe camel hair, 500 ; best 50c black
serge, 39c; camel hair suitings, $1, formerly $1.50; all-wool suitings, 390,
were 500; a lot of all-wool cloakings half price while they last. If you
need anything we have the goods at very attractive prices and shall con-
tinue the sale throughout the month.

’ W. B. HALL & CO.

TH [1. MR Al COMPANY.

B r 1 a g e p o r t .
One Event for January is Our Sale of

JACKETS AND N EWMARKETS.

All this season’s designs, of the most fashionable materials.

 

 

 

Seal Jackets, worth $250, at $185.

Seal Jackets, worth $275, at $200.

Muflion Trimmed Jackets, worth $22.50, at $12.

French Seal Trimmed Jackets, worth $18, at $10.

Fine CheViot Cloth Reefers, trimmed with full shawl set of fine Astrachan
fur, worth $18 at $10.

Opossum Trimmed Jackets, worth $14, at $8.50.

Opossum Trimmed Jackets. worth $18, at $12. ,

Mink Trimmed Jackets, in black or tan cloths, half lined and trimmed with
full shawl sets, worth $20; $27 and $33.50, at $12 50, $17.50 and $20.

t $lvgisgcs’ Chevmt Jackets, in tan, trimmed with full shawl collar, worth $18,

a .5 . .

Misses’ Mink Trimmed Jackets, worth $17, at $10.

Misses’ Cheviot Jackets, trimmed with Astrachan Cloth, $5.

Misses’ Newmarkets, $3, $4 and $8.

One lot Jackets at $1.25. ' . 1..

FUR CAPES—$5. worth $8; $8, Worth $12; $10. .worth $15 ;$18 worth $27

PLUSH SACQUES—$18, worth $25; $25, worth $40; $30 worth $45. '

THE D. M. 171mm commumz.

 
 

 

 

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