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The O. U. A. M. meets to-night.
The Union Veteran Union will meet
at the rooms of George S. North to-
night.
Balph Simone Was unable to pay his
fine yesterday and Constable Ireland
took him to Bridgeport jail. _
“Professor” Walters, a Derby palm-
ist is threatened with a “new suit of
clothes made of hen feathers with a
background of tar.”
The principal address at the New
YorkEast Conference to be held in
Stamford next month will be made by
Rev. A. S. Kavanagh.
A very small party attended the dance
at Rowayton last night, but those pres-
ent spent a pleasant evening. Purdy
&' Freeman furnished their usual fine
music. 7
A number of the ladies in this city
have the bicycle craze and can be seen
every evening trying to master the
silent steed at the Fox bicycle school
on Elizabeth street. ,
During the month of March, 1890,
384 tramps were provided with lodging
at the station house. During the same
month in i894 the total was 943. So far
this month it looks as if the figures
would reach ova,l,000.
Ladies nignt at the Royal Arcanum,
last evening, drew a large party of the
(friends of this popular organization.
A delegation from Stamford was pres-
ent and the evening was spent in music
and speaking. A most enjoyable time
was had.
Thatcher S; Johnston’s minstrels
gave another fine performance last
evenlng, to a small audience at Hoyt’s
Opera House. The old favorites were
more pleasing than ever and Frank
White kept the house in a continuous
roar during the time he was occupying
the stage.
The case of Joseph Walz, charged
'with keeping his bar in the Mahackemo
’hotel open after hours, came up before
Justice Smith, this morning. Attorney
Joseph Taylor defended and Prosecut-
ing Liquor Agent Honnecker appear-
ed(?)for the state. Taylor spoke of the
good reputation of the accused and ex-
cused his havmg kept open on account
of an entertainment having been held
that evening. Theprosecuting agent
said hedid not care to be hard with
Mr. Walz and left it to the discretion
of the court with the result that the
case was nolled on payment of costs.
THE FIJI HURRICANE.
A Terrific Storm \Vhich Almost Devastated
the Group of Islands.
VICTORIA, B. 0., March 15.—Particu-
Jars have arrived by the Australian mail
of a terrible hurricane which swept over
the Fiji islands a few weeks ago, the first
efi'ects of which were still a. topic of inter-
esting discussion when the steamer Mio-
wera touched at Suva. ' was in this
storm that several large vessels came to
grief, with lamentable loss of life and
buildings, in Suva. The capital of Fiji
suffered severely. The town is compara-
tively in debris, having been the center of
the hurricane. Most of the damage ap-
pears to have been done about 2 o’clock in
the morning of Feb. 7, when the force of
the wind was terrific. The hurricane was
accompanied by a fearful driving rain,
penetrating everything. The storm con-
tinued until 5 o’clock Monday afternoon
and then gradually calmed down.
During the lull some ventured out to see
the extent of the damage done. The town
was stripped of foliage, and on every hand
Were houses and verandas blown down,
roofs half off, here walls standing or dam-
age of some other form apparent. ’ The
most serious reports of damage came from
plantations in the group, which have suf-
fered terribly. The cocoanut plantations
will take fully five years to recover, and
banana plantations have been totally ruin-
ed. The past year had been such a thor—
oughly successful one that business prle
.were looking forward to a. few years of
prosperity, cocoanut plantations having
only recently recovered from past blows.
This is reported to be the most serious
hurricane the group has had for years. .
The island of Taveunion, where most of
the European planters are settled, has
been swept from top to bettom. The Un-
ion Steamship company’s steamer Osau
had a miraculous escape. She was ship-
ping sugar at Vulna point. where there is
absolutely no shelter. When the hurri-
cane had blown over, she had drifted
many miles and got among the most dan-
gerous patch of reefs in the group, known
as the Ringgold reefs, where the smallest
interinsular steamer would not go in the
broadest daylight. yet she escaped un-
harmed. ,_ ‘
Another Refinery In New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, March 15. -——AU a meeting
of sugar planters it has been determined
to erect a sugar ‘refinery in New Orleans.
This was done in direct opposition to the
trust, which controls the two refineries in
this city. The planters complain that the
trust had proved hostile- to them, had op-
posed them in every possible way and had
robbed and despoiled them.
smallpox Spreading In Arkansas.
HELENA. Ark . March 15 —'l‘brcc cases
of smallpox have lacen diseovcred at
Brinkley. The board of health of this city
has recommended compulsory vaccination.
Physicians. 3' companied by police officers,
will vaccinate every child in the city.
There is no smallpox in Helena, but every
eflort is being made to keep it out.
That Free Zone Hubbub.
WASHINGTON, March 15.—Collectors of
customs have been advised that-- sections
442 to 463 of the customs regulations have
been revoked in accordance with the joint
resolution of the last congress relative to
the transportation and exportation of
goods without examination to the free
zone in Mexico.
No Flatt-Hill Combine.
New YORK, March 15.—Mr. Thomas (1,
Platt said today that the story in a paper
to the effect that he had formed apolitical
alliance with Senator David R. Hill was
too absurd to answer "They don‘t be-
lieve it themselves. and -I am surc'no one
else does. ” said Mr. Platt.
.- pure rubbish.” I
‘_‘ The yarn is
- -. . ‘
THE FATHER OF THE DIME NQyEL.
Erastus F. Beadle Published Boosting:
\Vere Cheap and Exciting, but .‘Moral.
A mandied almost unnoticed the other
day in New York- who was, in his prime,
a revolutionistin-the literaryfield. I re-
fer to the publisher, Erastus F.'B'_eadle,
the father of the cheap novel. Those of
us whose memory reaches back to the
times before the civil war,,will recall the
fact that the 25 and 50 cent novel, was the
rule in‘those days, and the cost of paper
and printer’s ink, which went ,uplwith
everything else, soon accustomed the
novel reader to the idea of paying even a
dollar or more for his .trent.
But through all the “Beadle~ Dime
Novel” held its own. It was a little
salmon covered duodccimo, rarely_illus-
' trated inside, butloften with a startling
picture underneath the title. In an in-
formal chnt with a visitor about ten
years ago, Mr. Beadle told most enter-
tainingly the story of his venture in pub-
lishing. The idea. of the dime novel oc-
curred to him, he said, in 1859, and he be-
gan to act upon it in 1860.
“The state of the book market then,”
he went on, “was peculiar. ' Everyone was
publishing books with thick paper and
wide margins—trying to see how little
they could give their readers fora dollar
or a. dollar and a half. Publishers ex-
changed books and took back such as
were not sold. \Vell,‘ I' took the other
tack, and thought I- would see how much
I could give for 10 cents—cash sales, no
credit. Everyone said theproject would
fail, but it didn’t. ' ‘1
“\Ve first published dime song books,
cook books, etiquette books, etc, which
we bound in a salmon colored cover. No
‘yellow covered dim‘es’ were ever sent out
by me; the color was salmon. The yellow
covered ones were imitations, and were a
bad lot. \Vell, after a. while I started
the dime novel. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens
was the author of the first one—‘Madeskn’
~—a prize story, pubiishe l forty years ago
in the Ladies’ Companion. I paid her
$250 for the right. to reprint the story.
We sold 10,000 copies right off, and then
20,000.”
Mr. Beodle had an editor in his employ
named Victor, who used to pass upon
manuscripts, order special work and the
like, just as the editor of a llterary week-
ly or monthly would do ,it. He was as
interested as his chief in recalling their
joint undertaking. .
“The authors who wrote for us,” said
he, “were notable persons in their way.
We had, for instance, one book by a. man
who was once a member of the Ohio
legislature. another by an err-governor
of the same State. He never wrote us a
bad line. Edward S. Ellis—you know
him?——wrote us our most popular novel.
He was a Methodist, and he went to his
minister to know whether he could write
a dime novel. He was a school teacher in
Trenton and was not 21 when he wrote
his first ‘dime’ for which he got 385. That
was ‘Seth Jones.’ ”
“Yes, Iremember,” broke in Mr. Beadle,
unable to restrain his enthusiasm, “we
plastered the country with ‘\Vho is Seth
Jones?’ and when the. excitement ran
high we answered the question withthat
picture you see on that cover—Tm Seth
Jones.’ We sold 60,000 copies of tlintstory
right off.” . .
“These novels,” Ali-[Victor continued,
“introduced either historical or local
characters. They followed right after
‘Cooper‘s Tales,’ which suggested them.
Mrs. A. M. Dennison wrote historic fic-
tion; Judge Jared Hall, of Ohio, wrote
‘The Slave Sculptor,’ a. story of Mexico
in Montezuma’s time—good names. Then
there was Clara. Augusta; she was a
Maine lady, and a. clever writer. Ellis
wrote exclusively for us, and we have
paid him as high as $250 fora novel of
40,000 words.
“\Vhy, we paid better, in proportion'to
the quantity of matter we accepted, than
the Atlantic Monthly. Our stories Were
very popular, and our yellow covered
riVaIS—bnd books—began to spring up.
What did we do then? Oh, We had to
kill a. few more Indians than we used to,
but we held our own against them.”—
Kate Field’s \Vashington.
Truth Not Always the Best.
“I always used to be told,” said Foot-
init, “that frankness and truthfulness
endeared a man to his friends, but the
Whole thing is a delusion. It is lying
that makes a fellow popular.
“Now, take my experiences of to-day.
My wife made some wheat cakes for me
with her own little hands. They were
the worst slabs of putty I ever tried to
eat. When she asked my opinion of
them, being a. truthful man, I told her
that I had never put anything so un-
palatable in my mouth, and that a ten
year-old girl could have done better.
Then she began to cry. - »
'“After that I went down town to my
store. A woman came in to get some
dress goods. She picked out a. material
entirely unsuited 2:; her years. Having
been taught that truthfulness commends
itself to a customer in the long run, I
said to her: ‘You’re much too old for that
sort of n dress. 5 is not suited to a.
woman over fifty." I thought she would
be obliged to me for my‘tactl’ul interest
in her appearance, but instead of that
she flouuced out of the store in a rage,
and i. think she’ll never come back;
“I don’t. believe frankness is the best
policy at all, and I’m going to make the
acquaintance of some first class liar and
get him to give me a. few lessons.”
Accounted For.
The child contemplated tlle‘storm.
"\Vhy?” he asked, “is the snow
white?”
The mother sighed, and yet it was not
right to keep that budding mind in ig-
norance. _
“Because. my son,’ she solemnly rc-
plied, “we have not us yet been noneXed
to Chicago.”—Detroit Tribune. ,
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Not the Girl to Enydure a Slight.
“’We need no ring to plight our trot-h,”
he suggested, as lickissed her, impetu-
ously. .
“Yes, we do,” retorted the maiden.
“None of youi'slight of hand tricks with
mc.”——Detroit Tribne. ' .
“Squeaky shoes,” said? l'i‘lrjtlau-bnr,
"i don’t like, but I‘ rather admire a
squeaky rocking chair, if it is old" and
comfortable. I shouldn’t like to have a
new chair squeak, but with an old chair
it is, different; that has earned a right to
squea'k. Of course Islioulilii’t like to
have it squeak too mubh,”f\oifithat. wduld‘
imply that it was ixisecufe,'an¢l without
security there can be no cdmfort; but I
like to have it squeal gently, ' With one
arm or one leg just a little loose; ' It
doesn’t squeakat all unless" you hock
back just so far, and then it squeaks
with precisely the same sound alvmys, a
universally admitted.
rhvthmic squeak that “it???“ andcom- '
fag-t in every note.” - ' ‘ “ 7 "
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Torturing- llisfi’gu'ring
Skin Diseases
Instantly
Relieved
. by
GUTIGURA
the
CUTICURA, the great skin cure, instantly alleys
the most intense itching burning, and inflam-
mation, permits rest and sleep, eals raw and
irritated surfaces, cleanses the scalp of crusts
and scales, and restores the hair. . CUTICURA
SOAP, the only medicated toilet soap,;is indis-
pensable in cleansing diseased surfaces. Curr.
CUBA RESOLVENT, the new blood and skinpuri—
tier and reatest of humor remedies, cleanses
the bloc of all impurities, and thus removes
the cause. Hence the CUTIOURA REMEDIES cure
every humor of the skin, scalp, and blood, with
loss of hair, from pimples to scrofula, from
infancy to age. .
Sold throughout the world. Price, Cartoons,
50c.; Soar,25c.; RESOLVHNT, $1. POTTER DRUG
AND CHEM. Coma, Sole Proprietors, Boston.
W" How to Cure Skin Diseases,” mailed free.
The notices in reference to the regis
tering of canines have been sent out by
the state authorities.
000
Ex-Depnty U. S. Marshall Strong is
being boomed for the mayoralty of
Bridgeport. The election takes place
two years hence.
——4 O‘b—fl—
——From 5 to (l p. m., Saturday, two
spools O. N. T. crochet cotton for 5c.
at the Boston store, Norwalk.
._—___.——-—~co.
Don’t Put it Off.
The necessitv of a spring medicine is
This is the best
time of the year in which to purify the
blood, to restore the lost appetite, and
tobuild up the entire system, as the
body is now peculiarly susceptible to
benefit from medicine. The great pop-
ularity att fired by Hood’s sarsaparilla,
owing to its real merit and it; remark-
able succesr, has established it as the
very best medicene’ to take in the
spring. It cures scrofula, salt rheum,
and all humors, biliousness, dyspepsia,
headache, kidney and liver complaints,
catlrrh, and all affections caused or
promoted by low state of the system or
impure. blood. Don’t put .it 013‘", but
take Hood’s sarsaparilla now. It will
do you good. __
no-
A Chance to Save Money.
There is not the slightest reason why
you should not feel well and strong.
That great offer of Dr. Greene’s is ‘
proving the best remedy that weak and
delicate people ever had. A letter sent
to him at his office, 35 West 14th St.,
New York City, telling the symptoms
you are suffering from, will be imme-
diam-1y answered by the Doctor, de-
scribing your complaint minutely; and
making you understand perfectly just
what role you And all this costs you
nothing. You don’t have to leave your
home and you don’t have to pay any
doctor’s'fee to learn exactly what your
complaint is, and how to get well and
strong, from Dr. Greene, the greatest
living specialist, in curing nervous and
chronic diseases. The Doctor makes a
specialty of curing patients through
his great system of letter correspond-
ence. and is having wonderful success.
'l‘housands of weak, delicate men and
women are writing him about their
complaints, and are being permanently
cmed. It was he who discovered that
world-renowned curative, Dr. Greene’s
Nervura blood and nerve remedy,
Write the Doctor at once and see what
he says about your complaint. It will
probably be the means of your get'ing
back your health I
The
THE BOSTON STORE,
Easiest Live‘sr Store
. °°'"e' Cor. Main and Wall Streets, . i"
“1 Norwalk- CONN. Norwalk.
, NORWALK,
SATURDAY, MARCH 16. 1895.
We Shall Make a Special
OPENING DISPLAY
_OF
ac stapes. Tailor-Made: Sui s. Skirts
and Sil Wais 3.
You Are Cordially Invited to Examine This
Beutiful Line.
E BOSTON” STORE.
GORNER MAlN AND WALL STREETS, NORWALK.
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. DIED. _ .
HILTON—Suddenly,'at his resulence in 119- .
wayton, March 13th. John Hilton, aged 81 .
I
years _ _ _
Prayers were held at his late res1dence m Ro-
wayton at 2 o’clock this afternoon. To-mor-
row morning the remains W111 be taken to the
residence of his son. _John A- Hilton,"~To. 79
Ulsfton Place. J erse Clty, where at 3 o clock,
funeral services wxl be held in charge of Hugh
De Payene Commandery, No. 1, of Jersey City.
FOR SALE.
OF- SALE or to rent, house and barn No. '
24High street. Enqmre of George P
El‘ls or James M1tchell. References regoglrtetd.
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THE D. M. READ co.
0 RENT—House No. 9 Grand street, con-
mu1.3th‘tfidfitfiafi?intents?" “Se-at" A complete line of House;
, furnishings. ' Rather th '
. let them remain here We’ 1“
sell them at these prices:
Porcelain lined Iron Ket-
tles—2 qt, 100; 3 qt, 150';
4. qt. 190.
No. S cepper bottom Washi
Beilers - - 59c:
Wlllow Clothes Bask-‘ets 59c
Folding W o o d W a. sh
Benches - - 49c-
'I 0 RENT.
To RENT—Cottage of seven rooms. on South
Union avenue. Possessxon immediately.
Apply to Gen. Charles OlmStead, or GAZETTE
Office. 1068 tf
O RENT—Cottage containing seven rooms
at No. 25 West Main street. . Possessmn
immediately. Would prefer a f .mily of adults
or those With very small Cli-l\ll‘en. Apply _to
CHARLES H. Hawxnunsr. 1067 ti
0 RENT—From May 1st., house contain-
ing seven rooms. Apply No. 10 Chestnut
street. 1063 tf.
0 RENT—Five rooms with pantry and
closets. on second floor. at No. 9Chestnut
street. Water and sewer connections. Applv
toE. H. FILLoW. No. 5 Chestnut street. 1048 tf
MONEY
THAT
0 RENE—Two furnished and very pleas.
ant rooms to let. Call at 130 Magngsttreet.
5 I.
Sit TH, MURRAY R 00'.
SUCCESSORS TO W. ‘B. HALL & CO.
BARNUM BUILDING,
GREAT PURCHASE OF
LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS. ,_
We purchased these goods in the Winter
making large contracts with the best Waist Manufacturers in this country.
orders that we were able to place for our two large stores made an impressmn, and
box after box of Shirt Waists have been coming to our store these last two days.
See the window display. We dare say the
shown here for a. time. The feature of these Waists will be the good fitting and {m 1-
Our manufacturers’ have allowed no skimping or slighting—no
ness in making.
haphazard styles.
The prices are extremely reasonable, more so when you think of the extra mater-
ials required fer the big sleeves.
At 50 cents. Laundried Shirt Waist, ‘
made of the best Shirting.Prints,-»yoke'
back, large sleeves. perfect shaped col-
lar, fit equal to the best. About 12 co!-
orings and designs.
At 69 cents. Laundried Waist, made
of Figured Mousselinc, beautiful color
ings. .
At 75 cents. Four styles of Launders
ied Waisrs, made of figured Cotton Goods
newest coloriugs, yoke back, high band
collar. ~
At $1.00. Eight styles of Percale and
Lawn Waists, Lanndried Collar and
Cufls. Handsome designs.
SMITH. MURRAY & co. ’
SUCCESSORS TO W. B. HALL &>CO. , _ . .
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Largest sizes wire Shade
Frames - - 19c
Wire Soap Shakers - 56
Water dipperS—2 qt. tin 5c
Gravy Strainers—large 3c
Wire Tea. Strainers - 1c
Wood Mixing Spoons —
large . - — .10
Dinner Ware—100 pieces
for $6.98; Silk Lamp Shades;
$1.25. . Toilet Sets, Beauti-‘g
ful 1m1tation Cut Glass, andj
a. thousand-and-one useful:
articles too numerous to
mention and too necessary,
to overlook. '
ISN’T
WASTED.
BRIDGEPORT, CUNN-
mouths of November and December,
The
t so many Shirt Waists have never been
Bridgeport, Conn.
At $1.25. Laundried Waisis, made of
the best Percales and Scotch Zephrys,
high band collar. new shape yoke.
At. 31.75. Fine Laundried \Vaist of
the Best Figured Lawns, imported goods
high band collar, double stud in band,
new style cuff, extra finish—no better
made.
Remember Dame Fashion says that
Laundried, Waists meat the top notch
of style.
See these goods we have on sale to-day
——and the styles and prices will; dis e1
any idea you might have had of buying
goods and having them made.
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