. less intelligent class of people. a: WEEKLY NORWALK GAZETTE Judge Gresham’s Position. When it was announced that Judge Gresham was about to take the stump for the People’s national ticket it was received with general distrust, as all who know him believed that he would not appear on the hustings for any party while he occupies the position of United States Judge. Judge Gresham has fullyjustified the general trust in his appreciationvof the dignity of his office, by publicly deny- ingthat he ever intimated to (any one his purpOse to speak in the campaign. The significant part of Judge Gresh- am's statement is his declaration that “he considered it his duty to vote ac- cording to his convictions, and that he owed no slavish obedience to any party. ” Most Important! At the borough meeting yesterday, a most important suggestion was made by ex-Water Commissioner Moody, as to the necessity of taking up and replac- ing the rotten Main street water mains, before any expense is incurred in the way of paving that importantthorough- fare. This idea was further elaborated by Gen. Olmstead, who urged, as the first thing to be done,the putting down of a durable cast iron main. Contrac— tor Sheldon also made a most import- ant suggestion, which was that the bor- ough authorities invite the house- own- ers all along the line to be paved, to at once enter their applications for sewer connections, so that the future tearing up of expensively laid roadbed might be averted. These two matters of mains and sewer connections are of first @portance. It would be worse than foolish, it would be criminal, to impose this heavy outlay on the tax payers of the borough, required for a proper paving of Main street and then to have. as now, the roadbed constantly torn up to repair the broken main and to connect some house with the Sewer. Another thing ought to have been done, but co 1111 not be, under the call for yesterday’s meeting, but that will come later. It is to adopt the system in vogue in most other places,of assess- ing a fair proportion of all highway paving on the adjoining properties. -~---—»——~-<+>—- The Iron Hall Swindle. It must be evident to all who view business operations from a business standpoint, that the Iron Hall enter- prise has dated its dmline and fall. It may linger a while longer,says the Phil- adelphia Press, as it has yet over a mil- lion of cash at its command, with as- sets which are claimed, as assuring over a million more ; but the hour that pricks the bubble of blind confidence in such speculative schemes, practically ends its resources and stamps insolven- cy upon it. There is every reason why those who have been induced to. invest their money in the Iron-Hall organization with the hope of getting it back three or four fold in a little time, should seek to re- inspire confidence in its policy and management. Each hopes that others will repeat their error and thus enable the present investors to get out before the crash comes; but there are two conclusive reasons why the Iron Hall cannot maintain itself. First, the recent developments prove that its di- rection is either utterly incompetent to handle so vast a system with its im- mense revenues, or that it is not hon- est; and, second, the system is found- ed on an unsound financial theory. The fact that the managers entrusted hundreds of thousands of dollars to a purely sppeculative and practically in- solvent banking institution in Philadel- phia, can be explained only by the con- fession of utter incompetency or delib- erate rascality. It was probably a ne- cessity, when the exposure came, for the small regiment of “Supremes ”—for every official is a “ Supreme " of some sort—to make a gift of $170,000 to the insolvent bank to save nearly thrice that amount that had been insanely de- pc. sited there ; but the testimony of “ Supreme Justice ” Somerby, given at the Iron Hall inquiry in Indianapolis, proves that the speculative Philadel- phia banking institution and the Iron "Hall are both sadly lacking in either in- telligent business methods, or in com- mon honesty. and probably it is lacking in both. The Iron Hall is the largest and has been regarded as much the: best of all the many organizations founded to ap- peal to the cupidity or necessities of the It ob- viously suc eeded until it vastly over- taxed the a lity of its managers to di- rect it with even ordinary business sense , and they reveled 1n their high- flying jtitles and in the -millions of money they were entrusted with, until , they lost all reckoning of final account- ability. The insolvent Philadelphia banking institution was only an inci- " dent to hasten the inevitable, and how. ever interested parties may struggle to keep the organization alive until they can escape, or however disputing “ Su- premes” may compromise at the ex. pense of the contributors, the now cer- tain forfeiture of public confidence, means the certain failure of the Iron Hall system, sooner or later, and soon _ at the latest. There was no “branch” established 1n Norwalk, but we hear that many of our inconsiderate citizens have been vic. timized by joining the ones at Dan- , ' , bury. Stamford and Bridgeport. Is It Falr? _ , , The proceedings taken Friday against Miss Lizzie Borden at Fall River,Mass._, as reported in the press dispatches Sat- urday were extraordinary if not un- precedented. This young woman, bearing up to this time, so far as any evidence yet dis- closed shows, an unblemished charac- ter, has been abruptly arrested on the awful charge of ’willfully murdering her own father, compelled to plead person- ally to the charge, and summarily com- mitted to jail, even while the coroner’s inquest is still unfinished. That may be all lawful and proper enough, assuming that the Fall River authorities have some strong and weighty evidences of Miss Borden’s guilt which they have not yet deemed it advisable to give to the public. It may be that, even without any such evidences. the Fall River police are act- ing within the law. If, however they have presumed to prefer this terrible charge against her with no stronger proofs of her guilt than those they have so far disclosed, they have taken amost audacious step, and their action will be narrowly and sharply watched by the whole American people. It is, or it ought to be, no light and trifling thing to charge an American citizen, man or woman, with the capi- tal crime of murder,simply upon a the- ory of police construction-—a mere hy- pothetical case, based upon ,supposi- tions, inferences and conjectures, aris- ing, it may be, in large part out of lo- cal suspicions and surmises. and not improbably colored by neighborhood or personal prejudice. Mr. Rufus H. Hilliard’s complaint 15 most assuredly an astounding docu- ment. City Marshal Hilliard, on oath, complains that Miss Borden did assault and kill her father, Andrew J. Borden, with a hatchet, and “willfully and of malice aforethought did kill and mur- der.” Now, this may be in due form of law, but is it fair? Is it warranted by any facts which the police have so far shown themselves able to prove ? We do not believe that any fair-minded person who has followed the daily de- velopments 1n this remarkable case w1ll say “yes” to either question. Is it not the usual and much more de- cent procedure, in cases where positive proofs are absent or as yet undisclosed, for a complaining officer to make oath and say that he believes that the ac- cused person did the deed of which he or she is suspected ‘3 We have certain- ly so understood the theory and prac- tice of American criminal law. Since when did the maxim that “the citizen must be presumed, to be innocent till he is proven to be guilty" cease to be a fundamental one in every American court ? Yet Marshal Hilliard brushes this maxim entirely aside and swears posi- tively, without qualification of any sort, that Miss Borden has committed murder. This goes too far, much too far. It savors of an over-zealous at- tempt to set up a police theory, take every thing for granted and proceed to arbitra1ily fit the facts to the theory. This is not American justice on fair-play lines. And it will not go down in this country. Miss Borden may be guilty as charged but she is entitled to be decently, calm- ly and deliberately tried before she is branded as a murderess. We do not hesitate to say that City Marshal Hil- liard’s complalnt, and the proceedings taken thereon, were in outrageous de- fiance of the American doctrine that every person must be assumed to be in- nocent of crime until he or she is shown to be guilty. ,__ Eternal Fitness. The Philadelphia Times facetiously says that it is hard to understand the reasons why so many things in nature are so badly or so incongruously ar- ranged, when a very little change Would make it better for everybody all round. This is not so much with refer- ence to social relations and the general details of civilization, as of some of the works of nature. If the mosquito, for instance, must sing, it could hardly live with less satis- faction to itself if it was endowed to sing like a nightingale, and there is a bare possibility the party bitten would then accept its harmony as striking a balance against the virus of its bite. The inference, of course, is that the mosquito’s present vocal equipment is considerably will? of place. And this fatality of l..-..1g out of place attends the whole Cluoo of objects alluded to. Astriking instance of this inability of nature to rise to the apparent de- mands of the situation, is noted in the published announcement that in Puget Sound there are oysters which measure two feet across. Swallowing the story without regard to the size of the bi- valve, such oysters look like a waste of raw material open to condemnation on both economic and moral grounds. Beside the sparsely-settled condition of the country, churches are rather rare in the Puget Sound section, and the church fair may “be said to be entirely unknown. Hence the contradiction between the facts of the case and the best probable use that'might be made of these monster oysters. ~ A standing cause of complaint in other parts of the land where the church fair is a regular institution is that the oyster soup sold at them 'at fabulous priCes is made on the basis of one oyster to the whole supply. 'Ac- cepting this as an unalterable law, and that more than- one oyster in the soup would imperil the church, how much better it would appear—at first sight, at least—if the one. oyster used could be of the Puget Sound two-foot variety instead of ‘the diminutive local article important role- Thentoo, what a large, liberal and appetising sight it would be to have one of these monster molusks roasted and set in the center of the regulation round table, at the tony shore resort, in place of the usual small pan of three oysters and five clams for fifty cents! The attentive waiter, most intently waiting for his tip, could "cut into slices the steaming and flabby flesh across its two feet of juicy abdomen, same as the indulgent mother cuts the family pie to equal the number of bairns. The price of such an oyster could also be advanced in some pro- portion to its size and thus aid the shore dinner proprietor in his philan- thropic work of getting your last dol- lar in the shortest space of time. But more seriously ; what a vast field for business enterprise opens up here . to our~hardy and thrifty oyster cultur- ists and propagators! By all means let them send at once and get some of this new breed to renew the far famed Nor- walk oyster stock with. Why might they not be chained to those New Lon- don. cedar trees set out in the bay and on which the oyster spat so strongly adheres, and producing the finest fla- vored oysters in the world. Only think of our Connecticut oysters, of‘ the le- gendary size of the “dollar of the dads,” grown to two feet across I The very idea is enough to daze and para- lize the brain. When the great mister of English romance, Dickens,. first visited this country he was most astonished by the eager facility and greediness with which the American swallowed raw oys- ters and his astonishment grew to amazement, (which he recorded in con- temporaneous literature,) as he con- templated the courage of the first man to swallow a raw oyster! But conjec- ture, if you can, Dickens’consterna- tion could he have pictured to himself, a man trying to put himself outside of a raw oyster two feet across, eight feet around and ten to fifteen inches in cen- tral depth ! Nevertheless, let us have the newly discovered mammoth oyster. Put Down a 12- in. Pipe. Engineer Wood says the boroughwill make a great mistake, if when they come to dig up the old ten- inch sheet iron and cement pipe on Main street and replace it with a cast iron pipe, if a twelve-inch main be not put down. This main has to supply all of East N or- walk as well as the east side of the Bridge. For Over Three )[o'nths my son suffered night! and day with rheumatism; so much so that he was unable to feed himself. Your Sulphur Bitters cu1ed him, and I am truly thankful to say they are an honest med- icine. —Mrs. W. Carleton, wife of Deacon Carleton,H First Baptist Church Winchester, Mass. - mum Judge Hall of the Superior Court, has appointed Hiram K. Scott, of Ridgefield, LeviS. Weed, of New Ca- naan, and J. C. Klinefelter, of Darien, as commissioneis to assess benefits and damages on the new layout of the Ship- pan road, Stamford. The Postmaster, Winchester, Mass, says : I am person- ally acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Carleton, and was astonished at the re- markable effects of your Sulphur Bit- ters in curing their son, and its large sale is undoubtedly due to the fact that it is an honest medicine. I know of many others who have been cured by its use, and I do not think too much can be said In its praise. Yours truly er. P. Brown, P. M. There 1s a very muchly bruised up man in Weston. For some time a resi- dent of that place has been missing 'corn and potatoes which were stolen under the darkness of night. The oth- er night he hid behind a fence with a revolver 1n his pocket, and laid' 1n wait for the thief. .The fellow put in an ap- pearance soon after and commenced helping himself to corn. The owner recognized in the thief a neighbor, and did not use the revolver, but he did jump on him and give him an unmerci- ful beating, so bad a one that the fel- low has since been confined to his bed. Both parties are well known here. Building Lots- For Sale. BYLTHE ROION POINT IMPROVEMENI COMPANY, ROTON POINT. -‘-‘For 0particulars apply on the premises or to any the followmg directors: James .W. Wyatt. Joh nD. Kimmey, Norwalk; E. _A. odward. C. Swartz. South Norwalk. NOTICE. LL persons are hereby forbidden to trust A any one on account of t e Roton Point :31? rovement Company without an order sign- y J. FinkensteJinfieneral manager. 833‘ order of WHYATTden E ’A WOOD 'VARD Seer-star? CHSH' . Good Flour, - - 7 5c per bag Good Coffee, - - - - 250 lb Some fine Mackerel, . . . . Some Nice Creamery Butter, Toilet Soaps, . . . . . . . . Challenge Starch. . . . . . At 0. P. Keeler’s, 29 Wall St. Norwalk. which generally discharges this most; ,4 E. s.-l—E. s.-,rll-E. S.—ll-—E. s.—n—E. s.’—.l-.-E. s.—n-E.’ s.4n;n..s EDWARD Qmmnmmi’s GB. AND Clearing Dry Good; Fancy Goods,” Hosiery, 1910. 'Sale ! Prices lower than ever before known. N o regard has been paid tcthe cast of I» goods, THEY MUST GO! ' ' Edward. Street- 5 Gazette Building. SOOFIEL I .7110 41' wards. 10—ft for S7. 50. Boufets S11. 50. 17.39 and 24.98. hams, 6, Sand 10c yard. N orwalk and Norwalk store open Mondays until 8:30 p. m.; Saturdays 10 p. m., and other evenings until 6p Agents for Buttrick’s patterns. The Largest Dry Goods, Carpet and FurnitUre Emporium 1n Norwalk. SPECIAL REDUCTION! For the month of August Furniture Department. In this department, to make room for our New Stock of Fall Goods which a1e airiving daily, we shall make the following ofi'els: Hard W ood Folding Beds, with Mattress combined, for S15. 49; price $20. 00. Also Solid haid wood Bed Room Sets f01 817. 98 and up- Bed Lounges from S5. 50 and upwards. A 6 ft Hard Wood dining loom Table for S4. 50; Hard wood dining room Chairs, 43c, 48, 79, 98, 1.49, 1.98 and 2.50. Fancy Chairs at greatly reduced prices. Bed Springs and Matresses at wholesale prices. Children’s Cribs and Iron Bed steads'at special prices. Silk Plush Parlor Suits of 6 pieces, just arrived. which we shall sell at $25.00, 31. 00, 49. 00, 55. 00, 69. 00 and upwards. Carpet Department. In this department we are receiving our new stock of Fall Carpets in Glenhams, Hartfords and Lowells, also a new weave of Ingrain woven on aBrussels frame, fo1 which we are sole agents stock will be sold at reduced prices, to make room for these goods. DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT. In this department we shall offer special bargains 1n Spring and Summer Dress Goods that must close them out. lies and Lawns, 40 yard, Wool Challies, 16c yard; 60 yard; Swiss Zephyrs, 30 inches wide, for Ye yard, N. B. —The above goods you will find as advertised. Scofieltl 8' 11th. former an 8-ft for $6.00 and These are CASH Prices. The balance of Spring The balance of our Cotton Chal Chantilly Muslins, Plaid Dress Ging~ So. Norwalk... So. N orwalk Store open every even- ing until 8 p. m. Saturdays 10 p. m., Fridays will close 6 p. m. "E. GUSOWSKI, Merchant ~ Tailor. I have just received the Finest and and Largest Selection of . , SPRING AND SUMMER SUITINGS, TBOUSERINGS AND VESTINGS. Ever shown in Norwalk. which I will make up in style and price to suit everybody. s. eusowszr, Corner Wall and Water Sic, Norwalk Frank H. Baxter. PHARMACIST; tr 8 Main Street. So-ub N1rwalk MEAT. MEAT » FISH! FISH !! FISH!!! Fruit! Fruit! And Vegetables. EVERYTHING FRESH, AND AT Borron PRICES! Follow the crowds 'who are now going to Keeler’s Market, No.6 Water Street. S. , B. Wilson, ' CARPENTERS " BUILDER s 011088 STREET. Jobbing promptly attended to. Plans 11.11 S ecifications Yurinshe. Mant 1 W (1 Egames, Bush and Blinds. furnishgd to 13rd); at lowest prices. . Just Arrived ! TWO CAR LOADS OF NEW CARRIAGES, WHICH WILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICES IAT H. E. DAN'N’S. Still to the Front! ' MEATS. .W. SMIIW At 55 Main; Street, With 111 kinds‘of Fan s a a N ‘D :s a LT FISH, CLAMS. 61c. AT THE Lowest Possible Prices- Sufi-faction Guaranteed. - WNO change in .prices on account of the Combination. PATRONIZE THE OLD RELIABLE ADAMS ExBRESS COMPANY! Low Rates. Prompt Delivery Branch Office, N orwalk, at Morris Benedict’s Main Ofiice at Depot. South Norwalk. L. HUNT. Agent ' T0 CAMPERS. -- care and attention given co = ' songrnm'rm’5 c4”! 113.11.11.21 M. Gunman. J11... superintend - ent of our PrintingDepartments,is unexcelle as a Book, Job and Newspaper Printer. an all work entrusted to him will be promptly reasonably and satisfactorily done. Specil CHURCH AND SOCIETY PRINTING. The Latest Styles of 1" l l l Menu»: 4 Cards, '1 Dance Orders ! * l Ball Tickets! ! l l l RECEPTION CARDS, WINE - LISTS. .Shon Hangers, \Nedyding _ Invitations. Business Cards, Visiting cards ——AT THE— [lail Gazelle llf-Fcc. Church and ‘ Society Work 1 Portable House and Tents to rent b ‘the or week. 1‘. KWO Dig€7 Street. A SPECALTY
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