WE ER L Y *Nxo-IR WALK GALE lTE 7 HEllllH mom. Dr. Tracey says the Jail is a Dis- grace to the Town. Recommends Good Water. The following is in substance the re- port of Health oflicer W. J. Tracey. 111 conformity with the public acts of 1893. Mr. Tracy was appointed health officer the fifteenth of October 1893. During the second week in December he caused the health rules and regulations to be published in the local papers. Since that time he reports the num- ber of contagious deseases as follows: diphtheria, 9; scarlet fever, 16; mea- sles, 9; typhOid fever, 4. Within twenty-four hours after the. report of each of the above cases was received the house was visited. In cases ' of typhoid. fever the portion of the house occupied by the patient was quarantined. During the sickness in such cases every precaution was taken to limit the spread of the disease by the isolation of the patient and the use of proper disen- fectants. After convalescence or death ‘of the patient from contagious diseases the house,clothing etc,were thoroughly disinfected by fumigation, bailing of clothing, washing of furniture, walls, etc. ' When patients have died from such sickness the body has been buried with- in thirty-six hours. The funeral has been strictly private, no one but the immediate family being allowed. _ In reference to sanitary inspect-ion fifteen complaints were received div1- ded as follows: water closets 7; cess. pools, 4; garbage, etc., 3 stagnant water, 1 . In thirteen of the cases or- ders for the abotement of the same» were issued, from which no appeals. were taken. The following is a report verbatim of the paper in refernce to the public buildings. I paid a visit to the jail for the pur- pose of sanitary inspection. The cells were found to be in a cleanly condition, haying been recently whitewashed and painted. The building itself is very defective and lacks the necessaryfacit— ities for the protection and comfort to which a prisoner is entitled. The rooms are not properly ventilated. One apart- ment containing three cells and a water- closet is furnished with one small Will- dow; this one is high from the floor and so well protected by grating and bars as to almost shut out God’s sun- hght. The prisoners occupying these cells are not only deprived of a suffi- cient amount of fresh air and sunlight, but that which they receive is contam- mated by the foul odors arising from the closet. This structure is a disgrace to the town. It should be either. torn down and a new one erected or such alterations made as to provide for for a bathroom and closet. . _ As to public schools he says: Child- ren afflicted with diseaseszof a';conta- gious nature and those occupying the same house are not allowed to. attend - school until danger from, contagion has passed. As to water and ice he reports: Dur- ing the summer the water in our reserc voir has been very low. We have had more-sickness and a higher death rate in proportion to our population than any other town in the state. Whether the low condition of our reservou and the prevalence of intestinal diseases at- tended with such a high mortality was a mere coincidence, or bears. the rela- tion of cause and effect, I Will not at- tempt to answer. Complaint has been received that ice dealers were using water taken from the watering tanks for cleaning their ice. On investiga- tion the report was found to be true and orders were issued that the prac- tice must cease. :l‘he number of resident physicians is reported as 22; alopathic, 15; homeo- pathic, 4; electric, 3 (one graduate) ; midwives,3. Of a public hospital he says "‘We have no building controlled by the town for the cure of contagious dis- eases." The following appears in the report in reference to public health: “The most important thing for the promo- tion and preservation of health in a community is a bountiful supply of pure water. During the past summer we have had almost a water famine. We have had also, ’I believe, the most unhealthy summer the town has ever experienced. It is absolutely necessary that provision should be made at once for an abundant water supply,unneces- sary delay in this matter is criminal for by it the health and lives of the community may be exposed.” No Marriages solemnized. After Sunday, December 2d,'there will be no more marriages solemnized at St. Mary’s church till after the feast of the Epiphany which occurs on Jan- uary 6th. The solemnizing of marriages in the Catholic church is prohibited during the season of advent which commences one week from yesterday, and con tinues till Christmas and then on to the feast of the Epiphany, or Little Christmas. All Fridays of Advent are fasting days of obligation in the Catholic church and will be so observed at St. Mary ’s church. Captured the Mother. A good story is told of a woman who refused to allow her daughter to go to a foot ball game with a student who in- vited her, because, she said it was a brutal game. The young man invited her to come herself and see that it was not as she claimed. He overcame her objections and she attended. Before the game was half through this woman of 50 years, was standing in her seat frantically waving her shawl and shout- ing to her favorites to “kill ’em kill em! ’ ' lheNewlur Wee lylrihune AND W EKLY GAZ ll One Year, BeME 0 QLLJR . Addressall orders to the GAZETTE in the Winner When you go to the races. thing here at home' ers have the Do the same Long headed buy- habit of backing Olsen Bro- thers against the field of competition. They invariably win, for money saved is money gained. 66' Hanan & Sons winter russet at $5. enamel leather with cork soles, $5.50. POI-poise leather, non- magnetic and water proof at $3. Cork-sole shoes from $1.50 to $5.00, and 'Jlgv‘a'w’u ,. —.)‘-.,=u;,‘,.n« ,‘Jil’fi'v'.’ '., .14) HIV“ . ., ', ii.‘ SEN“; i 'I:3;:9' :2 . Gazette Building. llGl‘lllb‘g‘TQ (i -— for the ladies, misses; and children, the this least‘i’noney ever shown. .-"-‘)= -; . . .H,"-.-.f'. ' .,:.ll,. ~ _.,. :a . ' .n llt..'1:-:“."O'iibiil3 time [lrlztimion . 1. r. . , i r ,1, . .-, it proper ventilation and an addition built - , Oscar, Ostrum.. 45 '3Warren': Ave.,, Wiggins . . A Danbury Woman Looking TOP Her Daughter. - Says Norwalk’s Colored Politician Wrote That He Had Married Her White Daughter and Had A Swell Wedding. Saturday last a woman who said that she was from Danbury called on Town Clerk Smith and with much trepidation and an anxious look on her face asked if he had at any time within three weeks granted a marriage license to a colored man named Oswald B. Smith. She explained that Smith had made the acquaintance of her daughter some weeks since while he was “campaign- ing” in that city, and _that she had come to Norwalk with him. She fur- ther said that she was in receipt of a letter from Smith stating that. he had married her daughter in this city, and “the wedding was a very SWell afiair.” It is learned that she later ferreted out the whereabouts ot her daughter and the two returned to Danbury on an evening train—the latter a sadder if not a wiser girl. _ _ . A GAZETTE reporter received an inti- mation that the girl had been stopping at Charles P. Addison’s house . on Kel- log'street and called there this morn- ing. Mrs. Addison admitted that the girl had been boarding there. Sne said that she came there about two weeks ago and was :introduced by Os- wald Smith who stated that he Wished to secure board for her until such time as she could secure a situation. She was very favorably impressed with the girl, who gave her name as Emma Wil- liams. (This was not. her name.) She remained there until last Saturday, at which time her mother took her away. During the girl’s stay Smith called to see her but once. She understood that Smith proposed marrying her and the girl seemed agreeable to such a cere- mony being carried out. “She went home willingly with her mother.” said Mrs. Addison, “and her mother’s only objection to her daughter marrying Smith was her youth.” It may be well to state that the girl is white and that Smith is of African descent, and has a wife and several small children. He has not lived with his wife for some months, and the latter are provided for at the home of their grand-mother. on Spring Hill. . Charles Addisonwas sure that Smith intended only acting in the capacity of an agent in securing the girl a place as a domestic. Smith is in New Home or _Hartford, and will no doubt be surprised when he finds that the girl .has returned home. He may, however, be called upon to explain the “swell wedding” part of the affair. ———--————-—<+ stole His Watch. Matthew Corbett of the Old Well Cigar‘ company lost a valuable gold watch last week. The time-piece was abstracted from a bureau drawer where it had beenkept for some time. Sus- picion pointed toagirl from this city who had been employed in the house, and on Saturday Mrs. Corbett’s moth- er, Mrs. Powell, came up town and accused the girl- of purloining the watch. While the two were conversing a sister of the suspected girl slipped cut of the house and in a short time re- turned with the watch and handed it over. After receivin the time-piece Mrs. Powell returne to South Nor-l walk and calling at Podmore’s store‘~ she inquired of the proprietor if he had ever seen a similar watch. After _a 'short examination Mr. Podmore said that the watch had been redeemed from him by a girl only a short time before Mrs. Powell’s arrival. A des- cription of the girl satisfied Mrs. Pow- ell that her suspicions had been well founded. ..__.._.___._.__. o o o -~__.— ._..._.._- -_.. ice Ponds Condemned. County health officer Hill was in town one day last week and in company with health officer W. J. 'l‘racey visited the different ponds in this vicinity from which ice is cut and sold for domestic use. The result of such investigation was the condemnation of the pond known as the Fourteen acre pond and a pond near Whistleville known as the Bach pond. The owners of other ponds were ordered to do away with closets on the edges of the same, and to take proper sanitary precautions against the water in such ponds becom- ing impregnated with refuse, filth, etc. Sold Him aTurkey. E. J. Wadhams, who now conducts the market at 478 Main street. former- ly Schneider’s old stand, was visited to- day by a member of the board of health, on the request of some other butcher, to condemn a lot of turkeys. The reason for the officer’s visit was that Wadhams was selling his turkeys cheaper than the other butchers could buy them, and they therefore thought that they were not good. Mr. Wad- hams not only convinced the officer to ' the contrary, but sold him one of the turkeys he had come there to condemn. ——-Bridgeport Standard. How’s This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Be- ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F' J. CHENEY & 00., Props, Toledo, 0. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be- lieve him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially ' able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. Wns'r & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. 0. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole- sale Druggists. Toledo, 0. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken intern- ally, acting directly upon the biood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per'bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. AA- YIELD NOT TO MISFO RTUNE. I was afflicted with catarrh last autumn. bear but, little. Ely’s Cream Balm pundits—Marcus Geo. Shautz, Rah- W8 5,...- ., . L“"‘1;"’”sufl§eted fromcatarrfih of the worst it"; hive. \é TWifli excellent ‘results.:“:"‘ _ During the month of October , , ' iIibould‘ne'i-ther taste or smell and. could 8’11- We? “short. snd'ssrl'z‘ ions» Egg; its. army? aéfinslhtsngsi’ 1-1 I STILL illElelENGY. The Union Manufacturing Com- pany Stockholders must ’ Raise $38,000. The Organization of a New Com- pany Proposed. The Trustee of the Union Manufact- uring company has sold thestock of goods and material on hand, and there is still a deficiency to be made up from a sale of _the mill and machinery, of about thirty-eight thousand dollars, to pay the debts of the Company and ex- penses. It now remains with the stockholders to _say what they will do toward saving this valuable plant and franchise, as well'asto protect their own interests. The banks who are the heaviest credi- tors outside of president W. F. Bishop, are annous for a settlement, and the trilistee has advertised the property for sa e. A number of the stockholders desire to form a new company with a capital of from forty to one hundred thousand dollars and buy in the property. As there are some sixty stockholders of the Company, the directors have caused a statement of the facts to be sent to them inviting them to join in the organization of a new company. They are requested by the circular to consider the matter and make a reply before December 10th; to Charles A. Quintard, secretary of the company, and they will then be notified of a meeting to be held for the consumma- tion of thelabove purposes. The letter sent out was authorized by a meeting of the directors held on Nov- ember 22, and it remains to be seen what action the stockholders will take in the matter. _ There are three creditors who have claims amounting to some 350,000 against the company and of this money must be raised. If the stockholders agree to organize a new company these claims will be paid and work will be resumed at the factory. If, however, the stockholders decline to enter into the organization of a new company the valuable plant and franchises will be sold to the creditors unless an outside party comes forward and makes a higher offer than the creditors are will- ing to do. As this is not likely to occur, it would look as though the small stockholdersflunless willing to join with the larger ones, will be left out in the cold, when the trustee completes the sale of the property. Professor James Main. ' Professor James Main die"l in. Wash- ington, D. C., Friday.aged eighty-four. He was the father of Lieut. Main of the navy, husband of the sister of Mrs. T. K. N oble’_s and a member of the family where Miss Jennie Fitch of this city resides. He'wasat one time professor of mathematics in Edinburgh Univer- sity and later was sent by the British Government to Cape Town, Africa, to conduct important astronomical obser- vations. lie came to the United States many years ago and has been employed in the Coast and Geodetic Survey for years. Two sons survive him. Two Boys Drowned. Johnnie Mead of Greenwich. 15 years, and Johnnie Brandson, of Brooklyn, 17 years, were drowned yesterday, while out in a boat on “Ten Acres” pond at Greenwich. The bodies were found standing erect in a. ditch and clinching each other. The rudder rope was entangled about the body of Mead, and they were. only about fifty feet from the shore. The water was less than four feet deep on either side of the ditch. Barn Broken into. A barn used by Expressman Charles T. Ferries on Harriett street, was bro. ken into Saturday night. The thieves evidently did not find what they were lookingtafter, as nothing was taken away. ' Allen Benoud, one of the GAZETTE’S oldest subscribers and one of the three oldest business men in Westport, is quite sick. Mr. Renoud commenced business in that town as a cabinet maker soon after 181.0. Fred Ellen,a German living in Cran- berry Plains, was found lying in the middle of the street at a late hour Sat- urday night, near the Jonathan Camn place. His horse and wagon stood a short distance away. He was finally aroused from his bed of mud with a small puddle for a pillow, and placed in his wagon and started for home. He had been pulled out of the wagon by a heavy jag, a portion of which he had slept off when found. It is said that he has been there before, many a time. infinitely less , -. - than those name can attic .. . ' V 1 Brand .Qoff‘ec }_ Iii;_UnIVersally accepted as the ' " k gLeading—Fine Coffee ofthe World. . . l 11-: i ‘The‘énly' coffee served at the r9 2 Chi- ¥ ‘ ‘iiago,'Ill.“ Cream Balm is agreement: fl ' l "WORLD'S FAIR: 3"? "A SMALL, swear WAY." “There‘s never a rose in all the world, ~ But makes some green spray sweeter; There‘s never a wind in all the sky But makes some bird wing fleeter; 5 There's never a. star but brings to Heaven Some silver radiance tender: V And 'never a rosy cloud but helps To crown the sunset splendor; . No robin-but may thrill some heart ‘: His dawniight giadness voicing. God gives us all some small, sweet way To set the world rejoicing.” , —Presbyterian J ournalu FOUR FAMOUS QUEENS. Two Found the Executioner; One Was Exiled, One is a. Happy Ruler. ° “More than half a century ago.” 8 French lady said the other day, “two simple children at a garden fete at Ver- sailles took a fancy to me, and would have me talk to them, play with them and prepare their fruit. Their own very fine ladies bribed and coaxed to no avail; the children returned to me and sat upon my knees. Destiny Tias strange surprises in her lottery! Those children are now Queen Victoria and the ex-Empress Eu- genie. At that time who could have fore- told their future greatness, for they were both many moves from holding the scep- ter? So you see that on my lap were seated at one moment the future sovereigns of two mighty kingdoms.” It is told of Marie Antoinette that she was a “true lady,” and Mary Queen of Scots, whose life was only equal to Marie Antoinette’s in tragic trouble, seems to have been much the same kind of- 3. mar- tyr, yvho in no strait forget her dignity. Two little incidents conuec ted with them, showing what true gentlewomen they were are little known and worth notice. On that wretched morning at Fatherin- gay Castle when the executioner offered to tie the handkerchief over Mary’s eyes, she politely thanked him, and said: "By your leave, sir, I will do it myself.” As stately Marie Antoinette ascended the in- cline of the guillotine and reached the summit, she inadvertently stepped on the executioner Sampson’s foot; turning to him with a slight curtesy. this daughter of haughty Marie Teresa, and lawful Queen of France, said: “Monsieur, I beg your pardon. MONTANA’S PAINT MINE. Four Colors in Which the Indiana Used to Dress Themselves for \Var. It is not generally know that we have in this locality, very near the “ geyser” a paint mine. We might say it was a quar- ry, there is so much of it. One of our en- terprising citizens, Mr. Joseph Blessing, recently took a. wagon and shovel and loaded up with two colors (there were three or four colors to brought it home, pounded it with a ham- mer, mixed it up with linseed oil, and put it on his picket fence. He now has one of the handsomest fences in the Statk— the upper part a rich old gold and the lower a. beautiful maroon. The mine seems to be simply inexhaust- ible. This mine and the “Geyser” which is near it, were discovered, or rather, lo- cated, about 18 years ago by that veteran old-timer, and prince of good fellows, Naylor Thompson, who everybody knows and likes. It was shown to him in the first place by a friendly Indian chief who took a liking to Naylor and assured him (N aylor) that this was the source of sup— ply for all the Indians west of the Missi- sippi River and has been for centuries. Those were the days when Naylor could draw his chair up to a. table and sit down without knocking thetable over—he was very active, \Vell, the Indians came thousands of miles for this paint and used it to decorate their persons when on the war path; trails led from the mine in all directions, showing that it had been a natural centre of meeting for the red men just the same as the well-know pipe-stone quarry of southwestern Minnesota. N aye lor never made any use of the paint; he was in the habit of reaching a high state of exhilaration at times, when he would mount his bronco and let out a. few yells and get out for some fun-and then woe to the tenderfoot or any one else who got in his way. At such times he was in for fun and nothing else, and a Gatling gun would not make him change his mind when his neck was bowed. He would then paint the town in lurid colors, but he did not use any paint from the mine—that was all long ago. He still retains his interest in the mine, and claims he can furnish paint in four colors, by the train load, sufficient to paint all creation. If any one doubts this N aylor would like to see him. It is a big mine—Townsend Messenger. Not Sad, but Serious. N 0 one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for another.— Dickens. Dull duties a little way off become God’s rainbows to men—H. W. Beecher. The devil would rather start a church fuss any time than to sell a. barrel of whiskey.-—Ram’s Horn. The air, with God’s sweetest and ten- derest sunshine in it, was meet for man- kind to breathe into their hearts and send forth again as the utterance of prayer.— Hawthorne. The smallness of a sin is an aggravation rather than an excuse. The more pity we should stand out against God for a trifle. -—The Evangel. Obedience is nobler than freedomi What’s free? The vex’d straw in the wind, the froth’d spume in the seal The great ocean itself, as it rolls and it swells, In the bonds of a boundless obedience dwells. ~Lytton. We need to bring our religion down from the clouds, where men don’t live, to the earth, where they do.——Ferrer Martyn. The Sacrifice. “George,” said she, in a j“would'you make a sacrifice for my imp. phase?” “Certainly,” he replied. “Wouldyou give up smoking for my sake?” . ' “Give up smoking ‘for your sake?” he repeated. Then, after a silence, be .ex- claimed, hoarsely: “I can refuse you ,‘nothing. I will do so. Hereafterwhen .I smoke it will be for my own sake.— .Kansas City Gossip. ' A Matrimonial Compromise. “You andfyour. wife always seem ,toget .on' admirably, together, ‘ How do you ,manage it?” _' “We came to an understanding earlyin our married life and have kept things up on the basis we established then.’ ’ “Tell me all about it.” . “Well, when we first went to house- keeping my wife wanted linen sheets and I wantedcotton ones,jand———-” “Well ?” , , “Well. we compromised by having linen sheets—NY. Herald. Advertiséint—h—e'GA‘zn'rrr.I - , . ictiASE scanners." session; Mass J I did not see.” i be had) and - V low voice, A FLESH, FORMING soon. (masons Digested.) To pale, thin, and emaciated peo- ple: This food will make you fat ro- bust and strong. People who take it gain five and even ten pounds in a month. It stops the wasting in con- sumptive cases and causes them to become fleshy. Paskola is fai- bet- ter that cod liver oil, in this respect, without its repulsive taste. You can buy it at any drug store. Send your name to thePre-Digest- ed Food Co, 30 Reade street, New York and get their interesting pam- phlet. ~> G. A. Gregory & 00., 38 Wall St Norwalk Conn. - HENRY HusS, flislaurani. tale and Similiinor Room. GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT,| 42d street and 4th Avenue, New York Entrance from waiting .room ew Haven &. Hartford Railroador New 31%;]: BUILDING ' LOTS (ON INSTALLMENT PLAN.” FOR SALE, 0n -:- Wilton -:-; Avenue APPLY TU Charles Olmstead. cAVEAl8,lRlDEMlRKs m I. COPYRIGHTS. . .eZ-t’tifetofeWmSw’t’s emerimintl'u’a (3:33an In?” rmmw" sweaaenirwvfi mnammvfimfim Patents taken til n contains in colors. and n W with 32:1" enabiiggnguiiders £21:me 00.. New roux. 361 Diagram HENRY TILLY, CARRIAGE MAKER, SO UTE NOR WALK, CONN. —Manufacturer of— Fallllly Carriages. Vlflllll‘lfls,BlllllllflS 311 ALL KINDS or REPAIRING. ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY Low Rates. ' Prompt Delivery Bracnh Ofiice, Norwalk, at Morris Benedict LMam Office, depot. South Norwalk. L. HUNT, Agent. Wm. Lockwood, Real Estate, Insurance and Investmen Securities. ——MONEY 'ro LOAN.— nsurance Placed in First-Class cempanies. Office—Corner Main A: Wall Sts.. Norwalk a. A. FRANKE,‘ THE HAIR CUTTER No. l Gazette Building, Norwalk. 301' AND com) BATES lilllES ll Wily llrini Poor Teas? , ‘ . , _Whena;orufi%nngei1nth:nnxsr at ”4-. 1.,1 :l 'l C remiums GIVE to AGENTS. GOOD moons made by getting orders for our eels. brated ode. For full particu- ad u mii'd'aEA'ieAanicm rise 00., 31 and 33 Veley St, N. Y. Earle & Seymour, SULIGITURS 0F PATENTS. CHAPEL ST., , New Haven:, : : Conn , C. F. Daniels, PROFESSQE OF MUSIC Locx 'Box, 132, " '3] riORwALK, . - . .coizriECfrIcu'f. ‘ ”more” and Emery-‘5 . i. A
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