FRENCH CANADIANS.
A Xervnus Aflectlon of Which Practical.
Jokers Take Advantage.
“Did you ever see a jumping French-
man? asked Horace Nelson; the, Water-
ville horse breeder. "
A stockily built, bronzed faced man
in the garb of a woodman entered and
began looking over the register. The
newcomer had suggested the questionzl
“Watch me,” said Nelson in a low
tone, “and you’ll see some fun.”
‘With this parting caution he stepped
up behind the man, gave him a sharp
slap on the shoulder, and shouted:
“Strikei”
Instantly the Frenchman drove his
right fist against the clerk’s writing
desk, splitting the board that formed
one end of it wide open. The blow bark-
ed every knuckle on his hand, but. he
had hardly turned round to face his
Svengali when Nelson again shouted:
“Jump!”
The eflect was marvelous. Big as he
was, the woodsman went up in the air
as high as the counter. He, seemed
thoroughly mesmerized, and when Nel-
son ceased his commands he looked as
sheepish as a bashful schoolgirl.
.“They are the greatest curiosities I
ever saw,” said Nelson. “Take them
unawares and they will do anything you
tell them to. Just before the gangs
went into the woods last fall we had a
man here that was a corker. He stag-
gered in with a skate on one afternoon,
looked around. and, seeing no one in the
billiard room. sneaked in there. The
clerk was watching him. The moment
he got inside he pulled a long necker
from his pocket and was just- tipping it
up for a drink when the clerk rushed in
and yelled;
... -' ‘Throw it!”’
"He banged it to the floor as if the
contents had scorched him. The bottle
vas smashed. and he glared at the clerk
{Lie 2!. wild beast. As a usual thing
2‘ ey don‘t get mad. but when they‘re
""11" “1:: it's: just as well to let them get
. before yelling, ‘throw’ 01' ‘drop
JUMP HG
Tn. .111: Kcnnebec drive last year the
“'sgi‘:er:_t+-11" had a jumper among them
." ...~, unsold go overboard every time any
r-i-Znel "jump," but. as he was a
r. the joke was rare, for the want
_. 1:11:11 to give the word.
P TH: WAY HE WOULD FIRE IT.
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- ["113 in Pistols Given to a. Man From
Boston by a Ranclxman.
inspired by the example of some men
whowerc firing from the car windows,
the Bostonian took from his traveling
51:13; a pistol that must have been a gift
of a doting female relative.
The ranchman beside him looked with
surprise and then with grim amusement
at the Boston man’s shooting, and, for
the first time, seems l to take an interest
in what his seatmate was doing. -
“Let me look at that thing, stranger,”
he said. ' .
The Bostonian passed the pistol to
him-with an expression of satisfaction
on his face, as much as to say, “This is
rather a neat thing, don’t you know, and
I’m in the shooting as well as the others.”
The ranchman handled the wee weapon
with an afiectation of admiring awe and
examined it with grave curiosity.
“It‘s a great firearm and no mistake,”
' he pronounced. “If ’twas mine would
you like to know how I’d fire it?”
The Bostonian looked pleased and
nodded. The ranchman drew his own
pistol. an immense long barreled affair
which looked as if it ought to be mount-
cl on a gun carriage. Calmly he stuck
+213 barrel of the small pistol into its
. " 1" ‘1‘. 1111131113. and thrusting/the big
_ .1 l 11-:- ugh the open window took
"" ' ' 9 shot at the telegraph pole.
mil barrel of the little pistol
a1 it struck the telegraph
pole in L: .. -:c:. while the big bullet
behind Fet‘t >1li‘.1"crs flying as it plowed
through th.. _. l-.....,':'.
~'U1_)c:1 thi, one than contemptuous
:71“ atnu—nt of ; p1: )perty the Bostonian
‘1 mkei with consternation and at first
was indignant. 131:: he had some tact
and a sense of humor despite his nativ-
iry. and there being nothing better to do,
he soon joined in with the others iii the
:1...» . 5'...
flew .
laugh that was raised. His big neighbor 1
passed him a peace offering in the shape
of a flask approaching an army canteen
in size. the Bostonian pulled manfully at
it. and for. the rest of the trip the two
were most friendly companions.
llIidsAprll Days in Gotham.
Such a day suggests a procession of
silent, pure eyed nuns in gray or a flock
of pearly doves circling on noiseless
wings, or the filmy pillar of cloud that
caps a thousand steam vents in the still
heavens overhanging a great city at sun-
set of a windless evening, or the low,
monotonous, softly billowy music that
comes from organ, pipes when the keys
are deftly touched bya. master in amood
of reverie—N. Y. Sun.
The Coming Woman.
-. 4 he. . ....-.:..--
—New York World.
Soon and Kerosene.
Hardly a week passes but what we are.
constantly surrounded by perils seen and '
kerosene—Texas Siftings.
The Good Peeple of Jamaica, L. I., Are
Wrestling With a Mystery.
110MB HINT AT A LYNGHING.
An Unknown Man's Body Found Hanging
to a Dogwood Tree—His Pockets
Turned Inside Out—The Coroner
.Says It Is a. Case of Suicide.
JAMAICA, N. Y., May 24.—-Deep in the
tract of dense woods northwest of the vil-
lage that adjoins Maple Grove cemetery
and forms the unimproved portion of its
large property, the dead body of a. man was
found that. bore marks-of undoubted vio-
lence. and. all the neighborhood is excited
by tales of. murder.
Crowds of farinhands and small dele—
gations from the hamlet of Hayestown and
the village of Richmond Hill, a mile away
over the ridge, came and went, excitedly
discussing the supposed crime. Coroner
Nutt, who had driven up from Woodhaven,
examined the body and changed the ver-
dlct of the crowd. He saw only evidence
of suicide.
An old negro foraging for firewood had
come across the body. It was lying on its
back under the overhanging limb of a
blossoming dogwood tree face upward and
bonds out-stretched as if clutching for some
invisible support. Around the neck of the
dead man, who might have been 35 or 40
years old. was a twisted noose of a piece
of blue and white striped cotton cloth that
had apparently been torn lengthwise from
a long apron. There was a slip knot in it.
The man had been strangled without a
doubt.
The negro, instantly conjuriu" up mur-
der. ran and gave the alarm. Superintend-
ent Goodwin went over from the cemetery
ofiice with some 'of,his men, and the farm-
ers from round about flocked into the
woods. None of them had ever seen the
man before. He was dressed like a. mo-
chanic, but his hands were soft, as if he
had been long out of work. The crowd
dwelt, with many gloomy remarks, on the
fact that his pockets were turned partly
inside out, and that they were empty.
Murder Theory Believed.
The murder theory thrilled all the sur-
rounding country. Saloon Keeper Jake
Gunther and his son-in-law, Hartman,
pointed out that the position in which the
supposed murdered man lay was evidence
that he had hanged himself on the dog-
wood limb, and the dead weight of the
corpse had caused the improvised rope to
slip from its fastening perhaps when the
body became soaked with the rain. It was
apparent that the man had been out in the
storm, though probably not more than 48
hours had passed since his death.
The bark was shown to be scratched
from the dogwood where he clung in
climbing up, and some of it yet adhered to
his trousers. When he dropped. with his
neck in the slipnooso. his logs must have
nearly touched the ground. They were, in
fact, drawn up, as if he bud thus made
sure of death.
Ho'lookod half starved. His face and
"neck were almost skin and bone. His face
suggested a man of the Latin race, and it-
wo‘s suggested that he might be a French-
man from the tinware factory at Woodha-
ven, where the workingmen wear just such
long aprons as the one he twisted into a
rope. The man was quite bald.
The neighborhood was not so easily con-
vinced of suicide. It was still discussing
the murder with the eagerness of a farm-
ing locality that has a sensation only at
rare intervals, when Coroner Nutt drove
away, promising to send the dead wagon.
He left a watch of half a dozen farm hands
at the body to guide the driver to the spot
when he came.
~. Despite the coroner’s suicide theory, the
neighbors are of the opinion that the man
was murdered. and some even go to the
length of asserting that it is a case of
lynching, and that the motive for the crime
will develop before long.
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Dyspepsm Cu red
“My wife has been a great sufferer with dys-
pepsia. for over four years. Three bottles 0!
‘ Hood's Sarsoparllla
have perfectly cured
her. At times the
lightest food would
distress her terri-
bly. She conldnol
sleep well n i g h t s
and she said no one
_ could tell how badly
she felt. She was
also troubled with
sick headaches. She
had tried dllferent
kinds of medicine,
Bursa-
but none did her any
good. At last Hood’s
recommended and
one bottle dld her no
line is perfectly well. She ls not now troubled
H cod ’5
W
nor bad feelin-xe. ..:m oat.
eartlly and . ~"‘ep Ivcll.
gerloufi all tl; . credit! ,
» m mama": . Ad llsuu, Maine.
Hood '0 P111. «to headache and Indiana“
, Lessons on the Violin, Guitar,
' Mandolin and Piano. Terms
for Balls and Entertainments
with from two to ten men.
Leader Hoyt’s Theatre Orchestra ,
9 Hanford Pl., So. Norwalk.
I \ Sarsaparlllawas
so much good that she took two more and now
«lulanyslck headaches I Ires
To Hood's haliillh-l'lufl W
MUSI"
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Moderate. » Musoc furnished
C. A. _FREEMAN.
C. F. Hendee's. Norwalk.-
0 the Commissioners of Fairfield‘County.
The undersigned hereby applies for a,
license to sellspirituous and mtoxrcatinlz lig-
uors. pursuant to the laws of .the State now-1n
force relating to the sale of mtoxrcatmg: he‘-
uors. at the building. No._ 44 Main street in
t e town of Norwalk in said County.
Signed. B. S. LEUBOI.D.
9gated at Nor-walk the 24th day of May,
8 .~ .
Endorsed by the, following five
and tax payers of said town. none ;of whom
are licensed dealers in intoncatmg hauors. -
electors
Frederick Mead. J. M. Benedict. has. A.
Burr, J ams Kellogg G. A. Fronke.
County of Fan-field Town of Norwalk. this
24th day of May. 1895. . .
~ I. Town Clerk of said .town. hereby certify
pursuant to the statute in such case proytded
that this application endorsed as aforesaidhas
been submittedto me. and i further : certify
that each of said endorsers‘ 18. an» elector ' or
taxpayer in and town. and that}: copy. of the
feregoing application. including the above
written endorsement has been filed Wit me.
Attest. HERBERT B. SMITH.
Clerk of and Tow
£-
»
WEEKLYrNORE
, Chamberlain‘s ' .
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea. .Bemedy.
This is the best medicine in the world for
bowel complaints. II; acts quickly and can
always be depended upon. When reduced
with water it is pleasant to take. Try it,
and like many others you will recommend 1?
to your friends. 25 and 50 cent: per bottle
Fr“- sale by Gregory L. '30.
FOR SALE.
OR SALE—A Keatibz Bicycle. Weight
. ‘44 pounds. Cost $150 last year. Never
ridden 150 miles. Price $60. cash. Apply at 9
Hanford Place, South Norwalk. m24 3tf
1'0 RENT.
o RENT—The second floor of house No.
_ 5 Issues Place. Has all the modern con-
veniences. Apply to Mus. S. A. WEED. 65 Wall
St: eet. m18 tf
r u RENT—Three pleasant rooms in the
_ ‘ Hadden block, corner ofWall and River
streets. Inquire on the premises. 2.13 tf
0 RENT—Rooms on second floor at No. 8
Prospect avenue. Borough water.- Rent
reasonable to a. small family. Apply on the
premises to GOULD Horr, or at No. 80 Franklin
avenue. .077 tf
T0 BENT—Two furnished and very pleas-
ant rooms to let. Call at. No. 130 Msiin
959 t '
street.
._——
WANTED.
ANTEDt—A woman to do genera. house-,'
work for two. One 1hor0ughlv com-
petent, can hear of a good place and good
wages, on inquiring at the office of the DAILY
GAZETTE. m20 tf '
o. H. HARVEY.
Ladies desir‘na first~clo ss help can obtain
the same at the above agency, also those wish~
ing positions. either male or female, can se-
cure employment.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, positions for
two Cashiers, four Bookkeepers, two Salesmen
one Chef. two cocks, four waltresses, three
women to go out by the day washing or iron-
ing or house cleaning. ten farm-hands and two
handy men around gentleman's place. _
C. H. HARVEY .
naavwv’s SHOE srons,
70 North Main street. South Norwslk.
Cleaning.
Losoooo‘o.
‘\
At. all Grocers.
Enough said. ..
CITY EMPLOYMENT AGENCY.“
' A”. 1. 1:" 4-...1 z E 1‘ Fr 5111 .7
1 "'N°I_'° E \
TO STORES Bill DOOOSIIOIT.
Agreeable to the provisions of the new law,
the banking hours of the Savings Banks of the
,town' of Norwalk, on and after J une lst. 1895
on SATURDAYS, will be from 9 to 12 o’clock a. m .
and instead of being open on Saturday even-
ings as heretofore, will be open on MONDAY
eveningsof each week from 7 to 8 o’clock.
THE Noam LK SAvmcs Socmrr,
By Geo. E. Miller, Tress.
- THE FAIRFIELD COUNTY SAercs BANK.
By James E. Bailey, Tress.
THE SOUTH NORWALK SAVINGS BANK.
m18 tf' ' By John H. Knapp, Treas.
NIT-Eon.
Registration of Dogs.
All (legs must be registered on or before the
first day of June.an.l all persons owning or
harboring unlicensed d‘ogs after that date will
be prosecuted‘accarding to law.
For the accommodation of residents of
South Norwalk the Town Clerk will be at the
South Norwalk office of the Selectmen on the
afternoon of Saturday, May 18th, from 3 to 6
o’clock, and on the evening of Saturday, May
25th, from 7 to 8 o’clock. for the purpose of
registering dogs.
By order of the Selectmen.
HERBERT ll. SMITH.
Town Clerk.
Norwalk. May 10th, 1895.
Norton. _.
Notice is hereby given that The Nor-walk
Street Railway Company has presented to the
Mayor and Council of the City of Norwalk, its
petition for the approval of its plans there-
with submitted, for the extension of its Ward
street “.urnout” southerly on Main street to
a point between Harriet street and Gregory
Place, and that 8. PUBLIC Hmmxe will be had
upon said petition and plans, in the Council
Boom, in said City of Norwalk, on Friday
evening, May 24th, 1895, at S o’clock. at which
time and place all persons interested are here-
by notified to appear and be heard.
Dated at the City of Norwalk, May 215t, 1895
By order of the Council of said City.
Attest:
mil 4t
E. III. LOCKWOOD. City Clerk.
Piano Lessons,
BS..GEORGE W. BRAD LEY.
Ad Sapifsftfcetégeigm. R£_Nash.) civegggiilijdgr
_' ru ‘ ' '
her home No. 193 Mainfdggggnume Piano, at
BELL ISLAND.
on hand by tbe'week or sea- L
son, commencing. July. 15’s.. 5
three room cottages, 2 four room,
2five room, 6 six room, 2 eight
room, 2 ten room, and . 1 sixteen .
. room, cottages. Prices from
37 TO $30 PER. WEEK.
Also 1 ten room cottage With barn
attached, and completely fur-
rushed, located at East Nor-walk
right on the shore, and three
minutes walk from the trolley
road, price $500 for the season.
-,LIVERY and BOARDING
Stable at the Island. All bag
gage delivered to and from South
Norwalk at railroad and Steam-
boat depots at reasonable rates,
and trolley to and from the Is-
every twenty minuus.
GOODBOARDING
on the European plan, and good
Bathing. Boating and Fishing
as extras. Cottages and Cottage
lots for sale. For information
call or address,
FOSTER BROS.
2?. Delay Street, or
T. H. FOSTER, 146 Main Street,
DAN BURY, CON N.
DAY WAGON co.
36 WARREN STREET.
‘ Near City Hall, N. Y. ‘
To cash or responsible short time
buyers—we w ill sell
FARM \VAGONS,
BUGGIES, TRAPS, &c.,
For the next 30 days,
At cut rate Prices.
Call and see or send for descriptive
cuts. All inquiries answered promptly.
Josiah. F. Day. General Manager.
Personally Conducted Tours
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VIA.
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Leave New York 11.C0 A. 11.. May 2d and 23d.
and arrive New York. on return trip,
evening of May 4th and 25th.
EXPERIEIGED TBIIBIST AGENT AID BHAPERBN
will accompany the party throughout.
Ralo, 81131111 in Expenses, $14.50.
For itineraries or further information, ap-
ply to Ticket Agents. or to Tourist Agent at
1196 Broadway, New. York,
J. R. WOUD. GEO. W. BOYD,
Gen’l Pass Age nt. Asst. Gen’l Pass A g
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This is a snap.
SHIRT WAISTS.
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FOR MEN.
HAMMOGKS. . *
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GAPES AND JACKETS.
These cool Spring days have proven our assertion that you will wear a light weight‘ cape or
jacket more times than you will a heavy garment.
Some of them were ten dollars, others were twelve ; you can have the choice of the lot at
$5.00. The reason of this great reduction is that we have 500 dozen waists and want the
room, besides it is our policy to never carry over a garment from one season to another.
Just step in and look at them.
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T 11o # BOSTON .1031),
001111111 MAIN 1ND WALL STREETS, NORWALK.
We have a. few capes and jackets lelt.
Five hundred dozen laundered and unlandered shirt waists, in plain linen, fancy stripes and
figured chambray, pen-cale and lawn. with high or low collar, long or short cuff. Price 250,
39c, 50c, 690 750, 980 $1 25, $1.49. $1.98 and $2 25.
Men's white merino shirts and drawers, medium weight 25c each. Men’s outing shirts,
made of best quality flannel, full lengths and sizes, 29c each. Men’s black hose, Herdeorf
dye, extra fine quality. seamless ; value. 19 cents; Saturday. two pairs for 25c.
WASH GOODS. r _.
We are showing some very pretty patterns in- summer wash goods. One case fast color
challies. good quality, at 50 a yard. One case lawns, exact patterns of the linen lawns, at 5c
a yard.- One case Granda Bastiste, 18c quailty:
, . . 7 in order to introduce them' we make the
price this week 100 a yard. -- . . _ - '
For the coming hot-days. we have 25 different styles in Mexican and woven hammocks.
Price 98c to $5.00. ,
@Secure Furniture 0011p0ns I
Do not forget to secure one of our furniture coupons; No trouble and no extra
' f when they'ZIbBSTg;ou £32332.“ furniture, worth'from $3 to $5, are certainly worth having
> THE -BOS'I'OJ~_\T STORE,
Corner, Mamand Wa"l'st?°et5v I ‘ . ’I " " N0rwa|k..Conn.
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BRIDGEPORT.
THE '
D.IV\. Read
. COMPANY.
COLD WAVES,
TORRID HEAT,
BEAUTIFUL SUNSHINE,‘
WELCOME RAINS.
Each unfold a wealth of
seasonable offerings whose
proportions increase, rather
than diminish, with each suc—
ceeding change. They con—
form to the temperature
rather than the almanac.
With priCes to correspond
with the times. ‘ ' .
It is a happy condition of
things Which enables you to
provide yourself with a beau-
tiful Cape or Jacket to—day, a
becoming Suit to—morrow, ,or
a comfortable Waist and Sep-
arate Skirt the next day—at
out-of-season prices, so to
speak; all the extravagance
taken from them.
The same with children’s
Wear—from handsome little
Roofers one day to charming
Lawn Dresses the next day,
or vice versa.
Infants’ complete outfits.
Every department is (3011-
ducted on a generous scale,
'Men’s Furnishings as well as.
the others—shirts and draw?
ers, hose,night shirts, outing-
Shirts, ties, suspenders, um-
b r e l l a s—everythino. Of
course,’suspenders are not as
conspicuous as ties, but we’ve
the handsomest and most
genteel c o l o r s—somethin g
new—that were ever worn;
you only pay for quality, 50
cents, we throw in the style.
The Notion department
receives less advertising talk
than any other, and it’s one
of the best—-—most complete.
Few stores pay so much atten:
tion to their notions—lining
requisites, soaps, perfumes,
toilet ' waters, powders, : arid
hundreds of little knick—
knacks that are not only use-
ful but are ornamental neces—
sities—as we give to this, and
yet we almost always, over— '
look it. Why is it ?' -
Down stairs. with. the Sil-
verware crowd are a small lot '
of solid craig silver. napkin
rings, 2 for 5 cents. ‘As we
purchased the entire produc-
tion no more can be had
when these are gone—it don’t
pay.
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