Founded in 1800.] _
VOL- XCII.
.A n Entertaining and I nstmctive Home Journal, Especially Devoted to Local News and I nterests.
NORWALK, CONN., FRIDAY, JANUARY .22, 1892..
[$1.00aYear.
NUMBER 4.
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a nu paper in the State west of Bridgeport.
JOB PRINTING.
MR. HARRY M. GARDNER. Jn.. formerly of
New York City, is the superintendent of our
Printing Departments. He is an experienced
Book, Job and Newspaper Printer, and all
work entrusted to him will be satisfactorily
clone. Special care and attention given to '
CHE'RCH AND SOCIETY PRINTING.
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Gubernatorial.
The Hartford correspondent of the
Springfield Republican says that Hon.
James W. Hyatt, of N orwalk, stands
the best chance of being nominated for
Governor on the democratic ticket of
this state, next fall, for the reason that
Judge Morris has lost cast with his
party, because of the half-hearted way
he has conducted his campaign against
Gov. Bulkeley.
The air is quite thick with sugges-
tions of the name of Hon. E. J. Hill as
the republican nominee for Governor.
With the above two candidates pitted
against each other, we should have the
liveliest election next fall witnessed in
these parts during the century.
But if Norwalk is to be so heavily
drafted from, (and where could two
stronger candidates be found) why not
go the whole figure and let us furnish
the completed assortment ?
For instance, where could a stronger,
more earnest or more eligible guber-
natorial candidate for the prohibition-
ists be found than in Wm. F. Fillow ?
And as for a genuine, typical mug-
wamp candidate. why of course every
eye turns instinctively to A. H. Camp.
While Norwalk would, with modest
reluctance of course, consent to this
wholesale sacrifice of her sons, the po-
tent fact .remains that no candidates
can be found elsewhere commanding a
stronger personal support.
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The Independent Newspaper.
It needs but a cursory . glance at the
party newspapers of the day to see that
with few exceptions they indulge in
much greater freedom of expression on
political subjects and _venture with
greater boldness upon criticism of pub-
lic men and public measures within
their own party lines than was former-
ly the case. The hide-bound organ is
not a thing of the past by any means.
There are still too many newspapers
answering this description, newspapers
that recognize nothing but 'evil in the
opposition ; that believe a Democrat or
Republican Congress, as the case may
be, incapable of honest legislation ;
that bind themselves to party platforms
as the infallible gospel of salvation,and
gauge all their ideas by an iron-clad
‘partisan standard. But their number
is diminishing rather than increasing,
and their influence in determining po-
litical action is on the wane.
This result is due more to the whole-
some efi'ect of independent journalism
than to any other single cause. The in-
dependent newspaper has become a po-
tent factor in human affairs for the rea-
son that without independence in poli-
tics there can be little real honesty.
Independence, however, is not to be
confounded with neutrality. Independ-
ence means a great deal, while neutral-
ty is meaningless. Independence sig-
iifies tho largest liberty of act, opin-
ion, and criticism; the courageous as-
.ult of wrong in high places, irrespect-
' e of the political responsibility in-
leved ; the support of policies that
concern the best interests of the peo-
ple as against undue favoritism in the
interest of classes; the defense of the
right as against wrong ; the upholding
the true as against shams; the en-
.)uragement of efficiency in the public
rvice and the unsparing rebuke of
inefficiency.
The newspaper which takes these
iroad and disinterested views qf the
)nditions by which it is surrounded,
lvocating that in which it honestly
oelieves and bravely repudiating that
in which it has no faith or for which it
can entertain no respect, refusing to be
rbound in its expressions by the dictates
of boss or caucus, consulting at all times
the welfare of the people whom it serves
rather than the promotion of partisan
schemes and selfish ambitions which it
cannot serve,is sure to reachthe hearts
of the great intelligent public, and ex-
act both their confidence and apprecia-
tion.
Such a paper as above described is
the aim of the GAZETTE to be—fearless
and independent, and not the subordi-
nate mouth-piece of any political com-
bination.
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For the GAZETTE.
To Miss Julia Lockwood.”
(On her 83rd birth-day.)
Oh, brightly may your birth-day dawn,
With friendly flowers to greet this time, .
From those who’ve love you Since life’s
morn :
And may I sendmy simple rh e ?
M wish, dear Friend, that the ow Year
Bringgoy by day. and rest by night ;
And Faith, with eyes so starry clear. .
Guide your glad soul through paths of light.
’Tis often I recall the home
Wherein you dwell, the dear old place,
Whose memories ever thronging come
To you of each beloved face '
0f Mother, With her pure fair row :
.The precious Mother fading fast.
What heayenl health she knoweth now
With sainte friends,her pain all past!
And the good Father, he whose word
Was love and law to each dear child ;
Sweeter than any song e’er heard,
Return in dreams his accents mild.
Thoughnow. alone, the Brothers come
With livmg V0106 this Natal day.
Yet sacred scenes each ancient room
Through which walks Angel Memory.
And still the walls seem echoing sweet
The song, the 1est, the 1aughter’s fio w ;
0h ! gay were 1; eunweariod feet
Which tripped so lightly long ago !
And by your Window toward the sea
O’er-looking street. and distant shore.
I seem to see the Sisters three,
Who sat. where two can sit no more.
The old elms sway across the way.
Fanned by the North Wind’s ic breath,
But oh ! your heart is warm to» ay
For your lost love, Elizabeth.
And good it is, when thoughts have crost
Beyond this round of dark and bright,
To picture those, our loved and lost
Within their Home of cloudless light,
And feel that though here we are tempest-
tossed
Faith shall be changed to sight.
And as the years have hurried hence,
How light has been Time’s touch in truth:
As though some gentle influence
From the glad past would keep your youth,
So may the years God sends you here,
Be love-enfolded. while you take
Fresh courage, till you findtlie dear
Ones, when at last with Him you wake.
Hartford, Jan. 18th, 1892. S. E. L. C.
TERSE TALES OF THE TOWNf/
Several cases of diphtheria are re-
ported about town.
_ Oflicer Charles Adams of “the finest”
is laid up with the grip.
—L ook at the Bargain Window, H
H. Williams,.15 Wall street. 274 4t.
Mrs. H. S. Barnum, of the American
Mission in Turkey, arrived in town last
evening.
James_Osborn, aged 74 years, died at
the reSidence of his son in Darien.
thismorning. .
The Catholics in Fairfield propose to
erect a handsome new stone church in
place of the frame one destroyed.
A list of the so-called abandoned
farms in Connecticut is to be published
hy order of the state board of agricul-
are.
Mr. and Mrs. Finkenstein yesterday
transferred their interest in Roton
Pornt to the Roton Point Improvement
Company.
Thirty—nine horses were destroyed
by a fire in George Darby’s livery sta-
ble on Broadway, New York, last night.
Total loss $30,000.
—If you want any goods at about
cost price look at the Bargain Window,
H. H. Williams. 15 Wall St. 274 4t
Mrs. Parsons arrived here yesterday
from New Havon to care for her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Talcott, who are
helpless from grip.
Capt. Henry H. Pierce has received
an appomtment from Gov. Bulkeley
which will make him a Notary Public
until January 18th, .1894.
John Welch, aged forty-five, a black-
smith of Williamstown, was killed in
the Hoosae Tunnel yesterday afternoon.
His head was cut from his body.
The appalling news is given to the
world to-day that Chicago is entirely
out of water! Her lake source of sup-
ply being a solid mass of ice.
Deputy Sheriff Toner yesterday at-
tached the saloon of Michael Fahan on
Main street,to satisfy a claim of Fuerry
& Co. liquor dealers, of New York.
The Misses Sally and Charlotte
Bette and May Curtis will resolve them-
selves into a theatre part this evoning
and attend the opera in ow York.
Charles L. Werner has secured an
extension of time from his creditors,
and Will re-op_en his confoctionery
store, No. 6 Main street, to-morrow.
Mr. Burr Smith is canvassing to
learn the ownerships of the salt mead-
ow between Jennings’ and South Nor-
walk, on the west shore of the harbor.
Many anxious inquiries are being
made as to what has become of Sena-
tor Seymour’s State railroad bill which
het promised to introduce in the legis-
a ure.
Mrs. Malinda Weed, the venerable
relict of the late John Weed, now in
the 95th year of her age, is considered
to be fatally ill and not expected to
live through the day.
Mrs. Helen S. Fauntleroy is recover-
ing from a very severe attack of the
grip. Possibly the fact that her chil-
rod, Maud and Louis. have recently
pfiiircltiased bicycles, has had a salutary
e co .
The remains of Mr. S. R. P. Camp,
who died at the Norwalk Hotel, this
morning, have been;removed to the re-
sidence of his sister on France street,
andthe funeral will take place from
thatplace.
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Patrick N ewcombe, aged 60, an in-
mate of the alms-house was chockedOto
death yesterday noon while eating din-
ner. A piece of meat lodged in his
wind pipe.
-—Watch for the prices in
Window, 15 Wall St. ~
0. L. Bassett and Isaac. Both shot a
pigeon match of 25 live birds for $100 a
side at Jersey City, Wednesday. The
score at the end of the match was Bas-
sett 19, Both 17. ‘
Trainer William H. Lockwood, Wm.
E. Dann and P. W. Bates attended the
Steel-Willets sale. of; trgtters at the
American Institute Building, New York
yesterday. ‘ ' ‘x'f
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There is another break, in the paste-
lioard water main, in-icfroiitpf the resi-
dence of L. C. Hanford, and the picks
and shovels are making merry music
to-day in excavating the frozen ground.
The Democratic National Committee
yesterday selected Chicago as the place
and June 21 next as the time for hold-
ing the Convention to nominate candi-
dates for President and Vice President.
—Owing to the low prices on the
goods in the Bargain Window each ar-
ticle will only be displayed for a short
time. H. H. Williams, 15 Wallzetlrift.
Dr. H. E. Bates has purchased of the
widow of the late Dr. Bridges her in-
terest in the firm of Bridges & Bates,
veterinarians,and willicontinue the busi-
ness himself. Read his “ad”in to-day’s
GAZETTE.
Orders were yesterday issued from
the adjutant-general’s ofiice directing
First Lieutenant Charles H. Oakes to.
hold a meeting of Company D. to elect
a successor to Captain Frost, who has
been appointed Colonel.
Senator Gallinger yesterday intro-
duced a bill making an appropriation
of $800,000 to be expended under direc-
Anon of the secretary of the navy in the
construction of a wooden dry dock at
the navy yard, Kittery, Me.
Miss Jennie K.Nash will render Alec.
Guilmant’s “Canteline Pastorale ” on
the organ at the First Congregational
church next Tuesday evening, as a pre-
lude to Will Carleton’s lecture, ‘ ‘The
Drama of Human Nature.”
All requests for the recital of special
poems by Will Carleton, in connection
with his lecture next Tuesday evening
must be left at Pinneo’s or the Congre-
gational parsonage not later than Sat-
urday evening, the 23rd, inst.
-Mr. C. H. Taylor and Miss Edith
Hegeman were married last evening at
the residence of the bride’s grand-
parents on Main street, by Rev. S. T.
Graham. After the ceremony was per-
formed a wedding supper was served,
after which the happy couple took the
traig for Georgetown, where they will
resr e.
S. B. Cocks, a native of New Haven,
which cit he represented in the Con-
necticut egislature several years ago,
but for the past ten years a resident of
Orange county, died suddenly in Cud-
debockville. near Port Jervis, on Tues-
day, aged 60 years. He was for many
years an Indian trader in the West. and
made a large fortune, which he leaves
to his wife.
George S. Grumman and Harry Leo-
bold, 17310 were members of the Niagara
Falls excursion party, are expected
home to-day. A telegram was received
from George last evening. stating that
his patent money-making machine,
which he took along with him to grind
out enough money to pay the expenses
of the trip, had broken down from ex-
cessive use and had they not purchased
round-trip tickets before they started
they would have had to walk home.
Dwyer’s Band will hold a meeting
this evening to make arrangements for
their coming concert at the Opera
House. It was intended to hold the
meeting last evening after practice was
over, but the band has an instructor
who believes in giving them their
money’s worth when they practice, and
last evening put them through two
hours and a half of the hardest kind of
work, so that when they finished they
geé'e in no condition for anything but
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Obituary.
SAMUEL R. P. CAMP.
This native born citizen of Norwalk
expired at the Norwalk hotel, a little
before ten this morning. He was
brought down frOm Winnipauk yester-
day to the hotel, with the expectation
of having him transferred to the home
of his {sister on France street, as soon
as proper arrangements could [be made
for his comfort. He rapidly failed af-
ter this arrival at the Hotel and Dr.
McLean, his physician, gave: it as his
opinion, on being) called to him last
evening, that his end was very near.
He was in the 71st year of his age, a
son of the late Richard Camp, and was
marriedto a Miss Keeler, a niece of
Norwalk’s old hotel keeper, David
Stephenson, by whom he had three
children. It is a singular coincidence
that he died in the same room first and
lon afterwards occupied by himself
an wife at the Norwalk Hotel. In
early life he was a clerk in different
stores in town and notably so in the
hardware store of Jarvis Street. Later,
he was in company with James Mitch-
ell in the meat business at the old mar—
ket on the Bridge. He conducted the
same business several years in New
York. He was a. phenomenal account-
rant and prepared a chart of multiph-
- cations from one up to one thousand,
for bankers, schools, etc. He was al-
ways of an active business tempera-
ment and had many diversified inter-
his home w1
osts. Latterly he has been in failing ,
health and has made
a family in Winnipauk.
the Bargain .
274 4t
A Correction.
We were in error esterday in stat-
ing that there were ve saloons on the
east side-of Main street; we should have
said six. ~
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Death of Mrs. Gray.
Mrs. Louisa S. Gray, widow of David
8. Gray, who formerly keptfit, ,e Weat-
port Hotel, died yesterday. :rning. at
the tresidence of her daughtér-in Bridge;
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Justice Bradley.
J usticezBradley of the United States
Supremez'Court, who has been ill for
some time: past, is sinking rapidly and
his physicians say that he may not live
twenty-four hours.
The Cross Has Arrived-..
The .90 pound copper cross which
“Steeple .Charlie” removed from St.
Mary’s spire and sent to Hartford for
repairs, arrived at South Norwalk yes-
terday, and was delivered 'at the par-
sonage thismorn‘ing. Charlie was busi-
ly enga «id at the church yesterday
and pro ley ascended the steeplo to
see that eyerything was ready for the
cross, ,butffas Charlie has so many dif-
ferent stories to tell and is so very mys-
terious, that for ways that are dark he
takes the le. He will probably put
the cross up some night when every one
is sleeping.
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'iDairymen Elect.
. In Hartfbrd Wednesday the Connec-
ticutDairymen’s Association re. elected :
President, George Austin Bowen of
Woodstock ; vice-president, A. M. Ban-
croft of Meirose; secretary and treas-
urer,.W.‘C. Bartholomew of Putnam.
In his opening address, President
Bowen declared dairyin to be the best
part of New Englan farming and
thought the New England dairyman
who turnsout a ood article has the
best of chances. apers were read by
Miss C. J. Coolidge of Willimantic on
“Milk and cheese and food;” C. M.
Winslow of Vermont on “The Ayrshire
as a dairy. cow,” and Theodore A.
Stanley on “The production of milk
for the retail market. ”
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78peclmen Cases-
S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis , was
troubled With Neuralgia and Rheuma
tism, his Stomach was disordered, his
Liver was affected to an alarming de—
gree, appetite fell awa , and he was
terribly reduced in fies ..and strength.
Three ota‘es of Electric Bitters cured
1m.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, 111.,
had a running sore on his leg of eight
fiears’ standing. Used three bottles of
lectric Bitters and seven boxes of
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, and his leg is
sound and well. John Speaker, Cataw-
ba, 0., had five large Fever sores on
his leg, doctors said he was incurable.
One bottle of Electric Bitters and one
box Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured him
ehtirely. Sold at H. R. Hale’s drug
s ore.
At a Great Age-
At Grand Rapids, Mich, January 6,
Mrs. Eunice Hull Booth died at the
cat age of ninety-three years. Mrs.
ooth had resided in Grand Rapids for
nearly forty years, and was one of the
oldest and most highly esteemed resi-
dents of the city. She was remarkably
well preserved and her intelligent
mind was clearand active till ‘the last
days of her life. It is only a few weeks
sinco she walked to church and wrote
to her friends at the east giving inter-
esting reminiscences of her early life
in Cheshire, Conn., where she was
born November 12, 1798, at the home-
stead of her father, Samuel Hull, three
miles north of the village of Cheshire.
Mrs. Linda . Hull Brooks, the wife of
the _late David Brooks of Cheshire, was
a Sister of Mrs. Brooks, as was also
Mrs. Charlotte Hull Olmsted, the
mother of Frederick Law Olmsted.
Of the nine children of Samuel Hull,
only one still lives, Julius Hull of Cin-
cinnati, 0., now eighty-five years old.
Someone Fooled Him.
Edward Drew, a clerk at Kellogg &
Horton’s grocery store at the head of
Belden avenue received a letter pur-
porting to come from his brother, a.
short time ago, informing him that an
uncle had died sudden] and had left
them $5,000 apiece. rew informed
several of his intimate friends of the
»- letter and expressed his intention of re-
signing his position at the grocery
store and loavrnfi. for his late uncle’s
home to collect. is share of the legacy.
Hasty preparations were made for his
departure and a. letter was mailed to
his brother informing him that he
should leave for home in a few days.
The day that Mr. Drew had set on
which to leave, rolled around, as days
generally do, and with it came a letter
from his brother informing him that
he had never. written him that his un-
cle was dead and expressing doubts as
to his, (Drew’s) sanity etc. Ed. soon
saw that some cruel, heartless wretch
had played agoke on him, so ho made
the best of it, removed his “Sunday
clothes,” re-engaged his old room at
his boarding house, and can now be
found at the old stand.
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Thrown by a Colt.
Patrick Lyons, aged 15, was thrown
from the back of a colt in Derby Wed-
nesday and struck on his head and
shoulders. . He lived until yesterday,
when he died of internal hemorrhage.
Bucklen’s Arnlca Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheumy
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to 've
erfect satisfaction, or money refun ed.
anlg 25Hcc‘ents per 'box. For Sale by
8-9.
‘ est show in its line on earth.
Opera House-
Billy Lester’s big vaudeville show.
embracing the greatest artists of Eu-
rope and America, the whole _forming
the largest constellation of specialty
artists ever presented to the American
public, will appear at the Opera House
to-morrow evening of this week.
Lovers of first class vaudeville per-
formances of which Lester’s stand at
the top, should avail themselves of this
only opportunity to witness the gr'orsfii-
e
name of Lester is too well-known to
need commendation. Seats at Riggs’
and Plaisted’s.
Now Try This.
It will cost you nothing and will sure-
1 do you good, if you ve a Cough,
‘ old, ' or any trouble with Throat,
Chest or Lungs. Dr. King’s New Dis-
covery for Consumption. Coughs and
Colds is'guaranteed to give relief, or
money will be paid back. Sufferers
from La Grippe found it just the thing
and under its use had a speedy andfiper-
feet recovery. Try a sample bottle at
our- .expense and'learn for yourself just
how good a thing it is. Trial bottles
free at H. R. Hale’s drug store. Large
size50c. and $1.00.
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Methodist Church-
A great meeting was that last even-
ing. Five were at the altar, either
seeking to be restored to divine favor,
or to be saved from their sins. In some
instances the power of conviction was
very great—the penitent coming alone
to the altar and “pleading with strong
cries and tears ” for pardon. We ex-
pect a great service to night. Mr. Couch
‘will speak. The house-to-house work
still goes on. The singing by the
chorus is always stirring and helpful.
.To-night is the last meeting for the
week. “ Come with us and we will do
thee good.”
South Norwalk Water.
There is some curious and inexplica-
ble condition at the storage reservoir
of the South Norwalk water Works,
which is bothering the city Water Com-
missioners a good deal. Despite all
the heavy rains of the fall and early
winter, the water in the reservoir is
said notto have raised an inch. This
would indicate some concealed and
heavy loak or unknown wastage,
which prevents the vast amount of
water which has poured into their great
reservoir from accumulating. It is
certainly a curious circumstance and
not unmixed with a well . warranted.
solicitude. . '
‘An Authority.
If there is anything under the sun
that Reporter Thomas is an authority
on, it is docs and dog fights. He
knows ('1’) a rindle from a white, a
short-tail from a lon -tail dog and pos-
sibly can tell you w at breed of dogs
make the best sausage. But on dog
fights he is a daisy, and what his imagi-
nation cannot present-is not worth pre-
sentation. His graphic description yes-
terday of the hair-flying, blood-spat-
tering, “most brutal dog fight that ever
took place,” and which in fact did not
take place, was one of his best efforts,
but we are sorry to relate that the ef-
fort was so great that he is now on the
sick list.
The article would have been a good
dog fight fake if the author had not
foolish y published the names of those
present, especially that of Manager
Adams, who was put down as being the
refereo, when in fact he was attending
strictly to business and knew nothing
of the report until his attention was
called to the publication.
Ir is said that when “Billy” Ander-
son read the account of his dog being
completely “chawed up” he sat right
down and cried. How Thomas will ex-
plain his fake to the dog owners and
Manager Adams is questionable, but it
is more than probable it will be the
old chestnut, “Tolles wrote it.”
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Rights of Oyster Planters.
Oystermen in these parts will be
much interested in a decision by the
New York Court of Appeals yesterday
in a case of the town of Huntington, L.
1., against Theodore and Stanley Lown-
des, two well known oyster fishermen.
It is of importance to all interested in
the planting of oysters in New York
waters, and settles some questions as to
the rights of planterswhich have been
in dispute for years. Twenty-five years
ago the Lowndes Brothers began
planting oysters in Huntington Bay.
They increased the area of cultivation
year by year until thoy occupied sev-
eral hundred acres. - About ten years
ago the right to these lands under
water was disputed in the courts and it
was decided that the colonial patents
granted to the Long Island towns in-
cluded the lands under the waters of
man of the large bays, such as Great
Sout Bay, Shinnecock Bay and Hunt-
ington Bay. Because of this deemion
the town of Huntington gave notice to
the Lowndes Brothers, who were then
residents of Connecticut, to quit plant-
in oysters in Huntington Bay. They
re used to obey, and Stanley. Lowndes
was arrested under a law which makes
it a misdemeanor for a non-resident to
plant oysters on lands under State
waters without the consent of the own.
er of the lands. Martin J. Keogh, rep-
resenting the prisoner, demurred to
the indictment but the demurror was
overruled and Lowndes was tried and
convicted in the Suffolk county Court
of Sessions. The General Term of .the
Supreme Court affirmed the decision,
and the Lou Island oystermen re-
joiced, and to d other Connecticut oys-
termen that they had them on the run.
Now, the Court of Appeals knocks
the joy out of the Long Island .men by
reversin the conviction and-discharg-
ing the efendant. The decision says
that rights acquired, as were those of
the Lowndes Brothers, must be re-
spected, even by the owners of the fee.
It is quite probable that trouble may
result between": the oystermen of Long
Island. and Connecticut through this
decision. '
SOUTH NORWALK.
The GAZETTE to on sale at the news ofiice-
of Fred Coleman, JJLFIynn, W.L.Ather-
ton, and H. E. Bodwell. Advertisements:
and Orders for all kinds of JOB PRINT~
IN G received at our branch oflloc on Rail-
road Square.
The depot restaurant is being reha-
bilitated.
Architect. W. S. Knapp is wrestling
With the grip.
. Miss Mollie Morton is visiting friends
in New York city.
There was a man around in his bear
skin this morning.
. Robert Birch, of Southport, is visit--
ing friends in this city.
Robert Eismann is expected here
from Germany to-day.
The Commodore of the Mosquito
'fleet is on the sick list.
Mrs. Frank Petty is convalescent of
a severe attack of the pleurisy.
The new cross for St. Mary’s Church
arrived here by express this morning.
A number of the Arion singing class
met last night and had a jolly good
time.
Mr. .J ohn Ponder is dead at his late
home in Darien, aged 97 years and 0
months. .
—‘—Hai_nburg Edgings, 10 per yard for
a Special on Saturday, at the South
N orwalk Boston Store. 1t
Henry Froeb is at Dr. Smith’s sani-
tarium to-day, shaving the “ crazy”
guests at that place.
' Eleven carloads of oranges, en route
to Boston, passed through here at 10
o’clock this morning.
A. G. Judson and James Smith are in
New York to-day after legacies, or
something akin to them.
Mrs. D. Dunlap goes to New York
to-day for afew da s visit at the home
of her SlSl er, Mrs. an Brunt Wyckofi'
Bennett.
Plumber Flynn has just completed
an excellent piece of work in his line at
Mr. Salter’s pharmacy on Railroad
Square. .
To-day is the first anniversary of the '
Hamilton Bros. proprietorship of the
Warwrck House. They are both as
well-liked and popular as ever.
Mike Colgan, the «ex-Consolidated
railroad watchman, is no better. He
is slowly failing and it is feared that he
can. livebut a short time longer.
——,Do not miss the Special Sale of
Cotton Underwear at the South Nor-
walk Boston Store on Saturday. It
James Hamilton. Charles Savage,
John Bo ardus and others, will attend
the Sha er-Slosson billiard match in
New York to-night.
J. W. Studwell was in receipt yes-
terdayvof a piano of the vintage of
1852._ It came from Oyster Bay, L. I.,
and is decidedlya freak in the piano
family. '
_ In answer to an adv. that appeared
in the GAZETTE of yesterday, Mr. J. R
Raymond received four replies before
7 o’clock this morning. “A word to
the wise,” etc.
_Capt. Olsen’s sloop “Katie Leaking”
discharged a cargo of 100 bushels of long
clams yesterday. Mate Oakes says
that she will return with a like cargo
next Monday.
While skating on the pond at East
Norwalk last night George Smith was
run into by a lady skater and thrown
to the ice with such force that he was
made insensible.
Builder C. H. Schofield has been
awarded the contract for Franz Ko-
cour’s new house on Myrtle avenue,
East Norwalk. His bid was $700 below
the highest one.
There was a merry crowd of skaters
on the pond at the east end of the
Washington street bridge last night. It
is estimated that there was over 250
people on the pond.
The funeral of James Whitson will
be held from his late home on Wash-
ington street, this afternoon at five
o’clock. Interment in the family plot
at Greenwood cemetery.
Superintendent O. M. Shepard and
Roadmaster Daggett, of the Consoli-
dated road were in town this morning,
as was also Superintendent Payne, of
the Consolidated road.
Michael McInerney (Angel Gabriel),
and his wife Bridget McInerney. were
sent to jail this morning for drunken-
ness and breach of the peace. They
have both been there before.
An ash barrel was foundto be on fire
between the post office and U. S. Ex-
press building yesterday, and the .fire
throatened communicating with the
postoflice building which is of wood. The
fire was extinguished before any ma-
terial damage was done.
Frank Kiss, one of the Huns who
was struck by a locomotive a few days
since, returned from the hospital at
Bridgeport, last night. When taken
there it was not thought that he would
survive his injuries. His companion is
still under teatment at the hospital.
Mr. Stanley Lowndes, of Rowayton,
is happy over the decision rendered in
the New York court of appeals yester-
ter, as to his rights in certain oyster
grounds at Huntington, L. I. The .
case has been in the courts for a long
time. Mr. Lowndes has a similar case
before the U. S. Supreme Court. and
feels confident that the decision will be
rendered in his favor. ‘
Mr. J. Donovan is fitting up a new
business office. It is in the building
adjoining his store and communicates
with the same throrélgh an arched door-
way. A banking o co style of counter
has been placed on the east side of the
room. The office has been made as at-
tractive as possible With fine patterns
of paper and the useofpant. On one
side of the room there ‘18 a grate fire.
While not as yet completed, the office
has an air of cheerfulness, and its utilio
ty is plainly apparent. Mr. 'Donovan
is no otiating with a young lady from
‘Hin ostan, as a bookkeeper, and on
her arrival the office will be formally
thrown open for the use of the firm’s
customers. . .
Norwalk Chronicler