Norwalk weekly gazette, Friday, January 29, 1892 · page 1

 

 

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VOL. XCii.

 

.4 n Entertaining and I nstmctive Home J oarnal,’ Especially Devoted to Global News and Interests.

N ORWALK, CONN, FRIDAY, JANUARY: .29, 1892.

[$1.00 a Year.
NUMBER C.

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JOB PRINTING.

. Mn. I'IARRY M. GARDNER. JB.. 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
done. ' Special care and attention given to

CHURCH AND SOCIETY PRINTING.

 

 

Pe'ace With Honor.

The demands of the Government of
the United States upon the Govern-
ment of Chili, carefully considered,
plainly stated, and believed to be the
only alternative consistent with the
national honor, were substantially
these:

An apology for the assault on the
United States flag in the persons of the
crew of the Baltimore;

An assurance of suitable indemnity
to all who were injured by that assault;
and

The unqualified withdrawal of the of-
fensive Matta circular.

This demand, in the form of an ulti:

, matum, was forwarded to Santiago on
the 2lst instant, and on Monday, four
days afterwards, President Harrison
sent his message to Congress, submit-
ting the conclusions at which he had
arrived and the record upon which
these conclusions were based.

This was all in the line of executive
duty and in consonance, as there is
every reason to believe, with the sen-
timents of the American people irre-
spective of party politics.

Yesterday the President transmitted
to Congress a communication from the
Chilian government through Minister
Egan, which embodies a satisfactory
response to the demands so vigOrously
pressed in Mr. Harrison’s ultimatum.

Up to a very recent date nearly every
step taken, either by the junta or by
the Montt administration, has had for
its apparent object the confusion of the
issue involved and the accomplishment
of delay ; but wiser counsels have pre-
vailed, and Chili’s latest proposition
contains every concession which the
United States,throughits Chief Execu-
tive, has asked and the end of the un-
pleasantness is at hand.

Chili having complied with the terms
of the ultimatum nothing now remains
but to arrange minor details of the
settlement.

The firm and statesmanlike course
of the administration in this matter is
amply vindicated, and the President of
the United States is entitled to the
patriotic thanks of his countrymen for
the decided attitude he took at the out-
set of the difficulty, and the courage
and consistency with which he has
maintained his position.

With him there was a great and vital
principle at stake, nothingless than the
honor and dignity of the nation. In,
the assertion and defense of this prin-
ciple he has allowed no mercenary con-
siderations to interfere, no pleas of
peace upon any terms to have weight,
no private commercial interests to
sway him from a lofty sense of duty.
The result is a splendid triumph of
American diplomacy, of American
rights, of American justice, of a truly
American policy. It is not always the
greatest victories that are wrought
with shot and shell. I

The Manles’ interview.

It is now told us that Mr. Maples did
not state that the Editor of the GAZETTE
took a dimit from St. John’s Lodge for
the asserted reason that he was not
able to pay his dues, but that it was in-
terpolated as the volunteer and afi'ec-
tionate contribution of the esteemed
Sentinel; born, as it were, of its tender
and delicate inner consciousness. If
this be true, where is the esteemed Sen—
tinel’s bowels of compassion, his human
sympathy, the pity'for such abject pov-
erty that any loving, magnanimous soul
should feel, when it could give to a
cold, unfeeling world the doleful fact
of such deplorable destitution, and at
the same time thrust the up-town branch
of the Sentinel Office into the GAZETTE
Building as a. dead-head tenant—«with,-
out paying any rent! I

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Grace Church Entertainment.

At the Opera House to-morrow even-
ing Grace church will give an enter-
tainment to add to the fund raised by
the Japanese Fete for the parish build-
ing. The promoters of the entertain-
ment have secured for this occasion
Miss Marion Short, the gifted elocu-
tionist, who will delight all who attend,
and Mr.E. P. Ransom, the prestidigi-
' , tor who so deliohted the friends of the
' church at the Jbapanese Fete.

 

 

TERSE TALES OF THE TIMES.

The cruel war is over.

E. H. Parker still continues in a very
precarious condition.

Ex-Governor Phineas C. Lounsbury
and Wlfe are in town to-day.

Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are visiting
friends and will remain till Monday.

Mrs. Hobbs has returned from her
protracted viSit in New York.

Secretary Frederick E. Brady, of the
Norwalk Horse Railroad Company, is
sick.

 

—One Lot Ladies’ and Misses’ Reefer
Jackets at 990, at the .1 orwalk Boston
store.

Mrs. Adell Leonard, of Kent, is visit-
ing Mrs. Henry Cornell 011 Water
street.

If there'is anything else Uncle Sam
wants, Chili evidently expects him to
ask for it.

A freight train on_ the Housatonic
road parted while gOing through the
tunnel this afternoon.

Mr. \Villiam K. Lewis visited his old
native town of Ridgefield, yesterday,
on a business mission.

The first woman to pass the Alabama
State medical examination was Mrs. H.
T. Dillon, a negress. -

William J. Nash, the iceman. froze
the tips of two of his fingers while har—
vesting ice Wednesday.

Rev. J. W. Richardson, of Stamford,
has accepted a call to the Centennial
Baptist church, Brooklyn.

BishOp Williams is to administer the
rite of confirmation at Trinity church,
Southport, Sunday evening.

 

Buckingham and William B. E. Lock-
wood, Jr., sail for Europe next \Veol-
nesday on the steamer Majestic.

. .-.

George Ward Selleck has some enor-
mously large lemons fr0m the Florida
plantation of James Cousins, J r., Esq.

Mr. George B. St. John has sent in
to the Court of Burgesses, his resigna-
tion as one of the. Borough Assessors.

Frank H. Merrill, the iceman, cut
ice fourteen inches in thicknes at
Davis’ pond at Broad River, yesterday.

It is daily becoming more apparent
that the rivets in the so stoutly prom-
ised State Railroad Bill were not prop-
erly clinched.

——Have you seen those handsome
cloaks, manufacturer’s samples, which
the Norwalk Boston store are offering
at greatly reduced prices ?

 

Now that Dick Croker has become
one of “ them d——n literary fellers,”
will he be able to hold his own with
Tammany '3

The summary of the Weekly Record
for the current week shows 2 real es-
tate sales and $10,000 real estate mort-
gages for Norwalk.

Deputy Sheriff James Toner and
Judge A. E. Austin are in Litchfield to-
day witnessing the execution of Bor-
jesson, the murderer.

 

If the Democratic convention turns
its back on the Pattison boom, Penn-
sylvania may cast its electoral vote for
the Republican nominee.

——Ladies’ fur trimmed jackets. ele-
gant styles, reduced to $6.98, at the
N orwalk Boston store. It is worth
your while to see them. -

The or der which a little girl brought
into a Lewiston drug store : “ Mister
Druggist, please send ipecac enough to
throw up a four-year-old girl.”

 

The Democratic convention will be
held on the longest day of the year.
Some of the candidates will possibly
discover that it is also the coldest day
in the year.

If Senator Hill succeeds in winning
the Star-eyed Goddess of Reform he
will be forced to resort to an elopemellt.
The parents of the prospective bride are
evidently not stuck on the match.

S. V. White has made application to
be re-instated on the New York Stock
Exchange, and expects to begin busi-
ness next week at the old stand.

The Committee of Ways and Means
has decided that wines, spirituous and
malt liquors may be sold with meals
only in the main restaurant at the
World’s Fair.

The barn of J. L. Morehouse in Fair-
field was burned to the ground last
night with several hedd of cattle. This
is the fifth incendiary fire in two weeks.

 

While marching with the firemen at
Westport last eVening J. Ben. Austin
was struck in the face by a ball from a.
sky rocket which was being set off by
an enthusiastic Westporter. ,

The annual ball of the Eaton Cole
and Burnham Fire Department. of
Bridgeport will be held at Madison
Hall this evening. Delegations from
the Norwalk department will attend.

The large bay horse owned by Fred-
erick T. IBeats died yesterday. The
animal was in the stable eating its din-
ner when Mr. Betts came down town
and when he returned, on going to the
stable he found him dead.

 

The grass in 'Pine Island Cemetery is
on fire and burning rapidly.

Mr. Cleveland is not the first person
to hunt Mississippi votes with a shot-
gun.

. The Allen Betts pond is being skinned
of its ice,_which is now harvested at
seven to eight inches in thickness.

 

Tammany’s split on the Presidential
question is. not intended as a guarantee
3f good faith. but merely for publica-

ion.

The resignation of First Lieutenant
William H. Newton, paymaster of the
Second Regiment, C. N. G., has been
accepted.

Miss Mary Connors, Mrs. Susan
Higley and Mrs. Mary McFarey are
wanted by postmaster Hubbell. He
has letters for them.

The Hon._Chauncey M. Depew has
accepted an invitation to preside at the
Yale-Harvard debate to. be held in New
Haven on March 25 next.

The Jerome Paper Company were in
receipt of a car load of paper this
morning and returned the compliment
this afternoon by shipping a car load
out of town.

Henry S. Grumman has received a
large picture of himself and a group of
other N orwalk gentlemen, handsomely
framed, taken on a recent trip to Ni-
agara Falls.

Anton Stommell received two large
panes of glass this morning, one being
for_the store of E. R. Sherwood on
Main street, and the other the oriel
window for the new club building.

Commissioner of Pensions Baum ap-
peared before the House Appropriation
Committee yesterday and recommended
that $146,956,000 be appropriated for
pensmns for the fiscal year of 1893.

 

Marketman Wadhams got strayed or
stolen _to-day and the telephone was
called into violent requisition for his
recovery. It turned out that he was
hidden away drawing plans for another
new ‘ ‘awning. ”

 

“Big gun” Johnson, or Horace J ohn-
son, of Middle Hagdam, weather
prophet, says the cold wave will be
followedby a snow fall and a blizzard
and a Similar one was promised for
March 12th, 1888.

There is a very general complaint that
the apples last fall were so full of water
that they wouldn’t make good cider,
and the farmers are in a quandary as-to
how they are to sustain life next sum-
mer in the hay field.

Joseph F. Donoghue, the champion
skater, yesterday skated a half mile
straight away, in one minute, five and
two-fifths seconds, beating the best
prev10us record of one minute, twenty-
four and four-fifths seconds.

While Thomas Cornell of Bridgeport,
a brakeman in the employ of the Con-
solidated road, was bending down to
uncouple an air brake yesterday morn-
ing struck his side against a switch.
He sustain ed a severe strain.

The entertainment given by Pilgrim
Council, 0. U. A. M. last evening was
asuccess and greatly enjoyed by all
present. A good sized audience was
present and a larger one would have
been there had not a counter attrac-
tion held the boards at the Opera House.

 

The County Commissioners will go
to Southport to-morrow to hear the
parties in interest in the remonstrance
to the granting of a‘ liquor license to
Daniel O’Dell. One of the grounds
for the remonstrance is that the pro-
posed location is too near the school
house.

 

Jared Risley, who walked from Con-
necticut to the shore of Lake Erie in
1817 and settled in Fredonia, Chautau-
qua county, died in that place on Tues-
day, aged 95 years. His father was Cap-
tain of an American privateer during
the Revolutionary War. A sister of his
father was the mother of Russell Sage.

 

Robert Flinn was a little late in open-
ing his cobbling shop on Water street,
this morning and some practical joker
tacked a card on the door announcing
that the place was closed on account of
the grip. When “Bob” saw the sign
he was wild and immediately connected
“Billy” Olmstead’s name with the
Bridgeport Jail.

Judge Glover yesterday rendered a
decision in the Fairfield Probate Court,
rejecti g the $50,000 codicil of the will
of the ate Henrietta Perry, of South-
port. The original will stands as exe-
cuted. The rejected codicil was exe-
cuted on the 1st of last December, ten
days before the death of the testatrix.
It was contested by Edward Sturges, a
grand nephew of the deceased.

Campy intends to call himself to.
gather some evening; now the GAZETTE
has put him on the track for Mu wamp.
Governor, and hold a caucus wit him-
self to devise ways and means to force
the boom, just as all the other candi-
dates are doing. There’s a deal of
solid, quiet comfort belonging to a
party like Campy’s, for you can always
have every thing carried unanimously.

The Naromake Club which was formed
a short time ago under very favorable
circumstances, is no more. The mem-
bers of the new club were mostly all
members of the Norwalk Club and as
the former was likely to injure the
growth and prosperity of the latter,
powerful influences were brought to
bear on the originators of the new club
and the scheme has been. abandoned.

 

 

snag UP.

Emma Anderson’s Murderer Ex.
piates His Grime on the Gallows.

The Trap Sprung at 10:38.

Borjesson the murderer, was hanged
at the Litchfield jail this morning. He
arose early and ate a hearty breakfast
with evident relish. ,At 10.15 o’clock
the death warrant was read by Sheriff
Allen, after which the march to the
gallows commenced. The procession
was headed by Sherifi‘ Allen who was
followed by the condemned man and
the Rev. Mr. Erickson, his spiritual
adviser. The sheriffs and their depu-
ties, of the different counties, and the
spectators, brought up the rear. Bor-
jesson mounted the scaffold with a firm
tread, repeating the Lord’s prayer in
Swedish. Tho noose was then adjusted
around the murderer’s neck and at
10.38 the signal was given, the trap
sprung, and Emma Anderson’s mur-
derer was launched into eternity.

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Specimen 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 away, and he was
terribly reduced in flesh and strength.
Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured

1m.

Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, 111.,
beds. running sore on his leg of eight
years’ standing. Used three bottles of
Electric 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
entirely. Sold at H. R. Hale’s drug
store. ‘

 

44o>
Bell Boyd’s Lecture.

The lecture given last night at the
Opera House, under the auspices of
Buckingham Post, G. A. R., was an
unexpected success both as regards the
thrilling interest of the lecture itself
and the large audience in attendance.
This lady, was in the war time some-
thing more than the typical southern
women in her devotion to the Confed-
erate cause. In reality, she was, what
she has so frequently been called, the
Joan of Arc of the Confederacy.
Her thorough acceptance of the final
issues of the ’r and renewed devotion
to the one grand Republic and its one
flag, with the fact that on battle-field,
hospital and prison pens, she minis-
tered as tenderly to the boys in blue as
to her own boys in gray, should divest
the intelligent and patriotic mind of all
prejudice, for the injury she tried to
inflict on the Union cause in the days
of the rebellion. Indeed, one can
scarcely listen to her soul-stirring nar-
ratives of personal adventure, without
a deep-down feeling of admiration for
the misguided zeal, fortitude and hero-
ism, that as a mere girl, she evinced in
a terribly wrong cause. It was plain
to see by the changing expressions on
the faces and the gleam in the eyes of
many of the old veterans present last
evening, that her eloquent descriptions
of camp and battle scenes carried them
back to the days that tried men’s souls.

She stated that she had been three
times married and a wag at our Slde
remarkec —“and the book ’s not closed.”
She was twice widowed. and that her
second and present husbands had been
Union officers. On the stage she looks
scarce ten years older than when the
GAZETTE editor last saw her in the old
Capitol Prison at Washington, incar—
cerated and under death sentence as a
.rebel spy, and peered at by viSitor with
the same curiosity that people gazed at
a wild animal. ,

Her address was also especially in~
teresting to the younger portion of her
audience. -

Sons of Temperance.

There were about 150 delegates pres-
ent yesterday at the annual convention
of the Sons of Temperance in Rockville.
The morning session was devoted to
business and at noon the delegates took
a dinner at the Rockville house.

The report of the Grand Scribe shows
54 divisions ; state membership, 3,312;
decrease last quarter. 150; receipts,
1,328; expenses, $1,044; paid benefits,
charity, $869 ; cash on hand, $869 ; cash
invested, $4,492. Thirteen divisions out
of forty reporting, show an increase of
membership, 23 a decrease.

Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For Sale by
H. R. Hale.

A Denial.

The members of the old original Com-
pany F Minstrels, who played at the
Opera House last week, desire us to
state that they have no connection
whatever with the coming ball of Com-

pany F, and no members of the troupe.

will appear on that occasion.
. _..--,_n_____
In South Norwalk.
—Prof. J. H. Caruss, the oculist-op-
tician with all his appliances for diag-

nosing diflicult cases, can be consulted
at A. S. Ferris’s Jewelry store Friday

and Saturday. He solicits difficult

cases. . a-» 2t5
Officer Howard found a man named
Kelly. helplessly ,drunk and 1lying
alongside of the road near the J one-
than Camp place this morning. The
,man was placed in a wagon and ~carted
to the:lock-up and will be tried this af-
ter noon. '

 

SOUTH NORWALK.

‘ The GAZETTE is on sale at the news office
of Fred Coleman, J.H.Flynn, W.L.Ather-
ton, and H. E. Bodwell. Advertisements
‘ and Orders for all kinds of J OB PRIN 1":
lNG received at our bran eh ofl'lce on Rail-
road Square.

 

There are thirty boss carpenters in
town.
‘ “Ad.” Durand is sick with an attack
of the grip.
_ The harbor was filled with floating
me this morning.

Miss Ella Hubbell is very sick at her
home on Day street.

A new fence is being placed around a
portion of Wedge Park.

A. Solmans was in receipt of a car
load of horses this morning.

—Best prints 4%0. Special Sale of the
South N orwalk Boston Store. 1t

The infant son of Victor Cole, of
Elmwood avenue, died last evening.

Reporter Mitchell attended the fire
department ball in Stamford last night.

George Everett, section boss on the
Consolidated road, is better of a severe
illness.

The funeral of Mrs. Mary Hayes is
to be held to-morrow afternoon at 2
o’clock.

Mrs. Geo. Phillips died at her home .

on Maple avenue last night, aged about
56 years.

1 Mr. Peter Miller, of the grocery
firm of Miller dz Semple, is prostrated
With the grip.

Charles Raymond and Charles Bo:
gardus are to play a match game of
bzlliards at the Warwick hotel.

A number of our firemen went to
Westport last night and had a fine time
at the Pioneer fair in that place.

The executive committee of the Coun-
ty Teachers’ Association are to meet at
the Union School, to-morrow.

Fred. Quittman is perfecting a so af-
fold hanger from which as soon as pat-
ented he expects to realize millions.

The Wheel Club reception takes
place to-night. It is expected that the
occasion will be a memorable and hap-
py one.

The State prison is liable to have an-
other Starr in its firmament. And to
Chief Vollmer belongs the credit of the
setting. -

Captain Pressey, of the Housatonic
road has rented the Fred Boerum place
on Riverside avenue, and will occupy
the same next week.

Said a bright little South Norwalk
girl yesterday, on for the first time
seeing a colored child, “Mamma, did-
Dod get out of white stuff before He
made her?”

The two families and one store firm,
tenants of the Knapp building, No. 23
North Main street, are distressed for
water, owing to the freezing and burst-
ing of the pipes in the building.

James O. Jennings has transformed
Theile’s cigar store into a bower of
beauty for lovers of the weed nicotina.
Mr. Theile starts out in the business
with the most flattering prospects.

The sloop Katie Leaking went ashOre
on the Centerport bar yesterday, and
was towed to this city by the steamer
Addie V. She lost both anchors and
her jib.

—We have distributed bills to-day of
the greatest special sale ever given in
South Norwalk. Compare our prices
with any other bills you may find from
would-be competing firms. South Nor-
walk Boston Store. 1t

The “ shift-er” engine jumped the
.track at Wilson Point last night. The
wrecker came down and in a shorttime
had the “shifter” back on the tracks.
Damage done was nominal, and the
trains in no wise delayed.

Edwin Burt is dead at his home in
Ridgefield, aged 86 years. He leaves
four children, Francis Burt and Mrs.
Andrew Bell of Danbury, Mrs. Wm.
Humphrey's of Ridgefield and Mrs.
Wm. Boutou of this city. The funeral
will be held tomorrow at 2 o’clock.

A meeting of the boss carpenters was
held at J. R. Raymond’s oflice last
night. A committee consisting of J.
R. Raymond, Minor Randall and
George Fuller was appointed to draft
a constitution and by-laws and report
at a meeting to be held at the same
place on Friday evening next week.

Chief Vollmer went to Stamford yes~
tel-day to secure requiSition papers for
the holding of George Starr now under
arrest in New York. Starr is wanted
here under the charge of forgery and
theft. His misdoings in this section
are well known to readers of the GA-
ZETTE. This time he will probably land
in states prison.

The Putnam Hose Co. ball at Music
Hall, last night, was a flattering success.
Music was furnished by Greenfield’s
orchestra. Every number on the pro-
gramme brought out on the floor a full
complement of the lovers of the .art
terpsichore. The committee havmg
the matter in charge are to be congrat-
ulated, as Music Hall never before had
within its environments a more thor-
oughly pleased coterie of people.

One night this week as Cyrus Avery
sat stropping his razor at his home on
Lowndes avenue there was a ringing of
the door bell. He laid the razor down
and went to the door, when with a
“good evening, Mr. Avery,” in flocked
thirty or more young people. It was
afterward explained to be a. surprise
gathering of the young friends of .1118
daughter Jessie Avery. The happiest
kind of a time was had. P. S.—-Mr.
Avery put his razor back in the case
and postponed his shave.

A pretty wedding was that at the
residence of Mr. Joseph Vroom, on
Woodward avenue, last evening. The
bride‘ was Mr. Vroom’s daughter _Mag-
gie. and the groom Mr. J ames Wilcox,
of Brooklyn. The wedding knot was
tied by Rev. E. E. Burnes a la. Metho-
dist style and was a handsome eone.
The bride was elegantly attired III-a.
costume of ottoman silk, and had. in
her hand a pretty bouquet of bridal
roses and lillies of the valley. The

 

weddino feast, by Mead, was a grand
one. _. and Mrs. Wilcox left on the
10.23_train accompanied by a shower
of slippers and rice, and thirty-five'of
their friends. The GAZETTE extends
the usual congratulations with the hope
that all their troubles will be little ones.

- The change made by the Consoli-
dated railroad “in transfer-ing the
through passenger cars of the Danbury
and Norwalk railroad, that go to and
from New York to this place. from the
crossover easterly of the depot, to the
crossover near Monroe street, has been
a deculed relief to the Main and Wash.
ington street crossing, and the late
usual waiting crowd of people and
teams has almost entirely ceased. The
blockades of which occurred every
morning and evening by the old modes
of transfer, was especially annoying in
the morning, when hundreds of people :
were on their way to the various fac-
tories where they were employed.
They had often to wait so long that
they could not reach their places‘o‘f
employment on time.

The Cross in Place.

“Steeple Charlie” rigged 11p a jury
mast on St. Mary’s spire last night
shortly after 5 o’clock. and early this
morning put the cross on the steeple.

-.._...,-._....E_ cooer A_.. .-

Methodist Church.

The new testimonies for the Master
in the meeting last evening and the
brighter glow in the old ones were con-
vincing evidence that the evangelistic
services have been a blessing to many.
Rev. Dr. Clark, of Bridgeport, is. ex-
pected to preach this evening at 7.45.

'Let this last be the largest and best

meeting of all.

 

-..,_
The East Thompson Wreck.

A. G. Bill, coroner of Windham
county has filed his finding in the iii-
quest upon the death of Harry Tabor
and Henry Fitzgerald of Boston, killed
in the New York and New England
railroad disaster at East Thompson;
December 4, 1891. He holds'Henry
VVildes and William H. Dorman, engin-
eer and conductor, respectively, of
freight train 212, directly‘responsible
for their death, in neglecting or refus-
ing to obey the orders of the proper
authorities relative to the running of
the train. .

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money will be paid back. Sufferers
from La Grippe found it just the thing
and under its use had a speedy and per-
fect 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
size 50c. and $1.00.

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Connecticut Foresters.

George W. Randall, secretary of the
grand court of Connecticut Ancient
Order of Foresters, will to-day issue
his report for 1891, showing a total
membership in the state of 6,681, a gain
of 997 members. Expenditures—Death
benefits, $6,665 ; sick benefits, $18,636;
for benevolent purposes, 352,508; other
expenses, $26,799; cash on hand, $52,-
528. There are sixty-four courts in
the state, a gain of seven. The grand
court meeting will be held in Middle-
town, May 11.

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The Westport Bazaar.

A large number of firemen attended
the opening of the bazaar last evening,
given by Pioneer Hook and Ladder
Company at Westport. The boys went
over in carryalls and on arriving were en-
tertained at the truck house,after which
a line was formed headed by Dwyer’s
Band and the VVestport company and a
short parade of the principal streets
was made. The firemen then marched
to National Hall and the bazaar was
formally opened. Dancing was in-
dulged in and during the evening
Dwyer’s Band rendered a concert in
their usual fine manner, and "Ham”
and “Stokes,” the champion minstrels,
entertained the company for a short
time. After the bazaar closed the Nor-
walk firemen were again entertained
by the Pioneers, who are adopts in
that line.

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Post—Masters’ Losses.

The postmaster-general has notified
Congress that he has taken the follow-
ing action on claims of post-masters in
Connecticut for losses by fire, or other
casulty: -

W. F. Renourd, Cannon, loss by fire,
$2,680, amount allowed $1,372 ; George
A. Rouse, Central Village, money lost
in transits, $20, disallowed, as loss re-
sulted from post-master’s negligence;
John Tweedy, Danbury, burolary, $85,
allowed ; Rose Parsons, Dur am Cen-
ter, burglary, $94.72, allowed; \V. E.
Goodwin, Elmwood, burglary, $50.06,
allowed; E. H. Deming, Farmington,
burglary, $52.25, allowed, $40.88; F.
Gildersleeve, Gildersleeve, burglary,
$652, disallowed; W. E. Gates, Glas-
tonbury, burglary, $26.80, the amount
allowed. 36; C. E. Guild, Hampton, fire
amount allowed, $34.42; C. B. Davis,
Higganum, burglary, $168.22, allowed;
George ’R. Bull, Kent, furnace, fire,
18.88, allowed; M. E. White, Manches-
ter, burglary, $45.28, allowed; H. Dry-
hurst, Meriden, burglary, $19.90, dis-
allowed. because the stamps stolen were
the personal property of a stamp agent;
J. B. Merrow, Merrow, burglary, $49.-
99, allowed ; E. Bullwinkle, Mianus,
$97.71 allowed; ,A Bartlett, Oakdale,
burglary, $19.68, disallowed, as loss re-
sulted from negligence of post-master;

- W. Griffiths, Sanford, burglary, $16.-
13, allowed ; W. F. Palmer, . Scotland,
fire, $72.95, amount allowed, $71.83;
M. R. Maynard, Stony Creek,,burglary
$105.45, disallowed, as loss resulted, . ’
from post-master’s negligence; E. G.
Bugbee, Wauregan, burglary, $9.26.
allowed ; Abiel Fox, West Woodstock,
fire, $28.71, amount allowed, $23.31.

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