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A Spring
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Overcoat as atone“ 18.00
Dial. $54.00
AIADE TO YOUR AIEASURE.
2,000 Styles to. Select From.
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145-147 Bowery. New York.
Samples and self measuring rules
sent for the asking.
DAY WAGON CO.
Josiah F. Day. General Manager.
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BARGAINS! BARGAINS!
OVER STOCKED.
,MUST SELL
CARRIAGES, HARNESS.
FARM WAGONS. ‘
SPRINKLING WAGONS.
Next 30 Days,
600 Vehicles on Hand.
It will pay you. The largest stock in
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36 WARREN STREET.
Near City Hall.
smithlllurrayli
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Successors to W. B. Hall & Co.
BRIDGEPORT.
BAMBOO
PORCH
SCREENS.
A place to find them
These are a useful article in
the . summer time, where the
bright sun strikes your pi-
azza. and you can have a
shade all day!‘
Two siZes to hand, more
coming.
8x8 ft, price $1.39.
8x10 ft, price $1.69.
Compare these prices to
previous years; we did and
were surprised.
What will you be?
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Smith, Murray & Go,
Successors to W. B. Ball .1: Co.
Barnum Building, Copeland Bros. 01d
Stand, Bridgeport.
Express and Mail Charges Paid on”
all Purchases-
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The people have given their verdict Z ‘
Every state, county and most humble
village has had a voice in it.
There is a consensus of testimony
from all America to the fact that Paiue’s
celery compound is making sick, tired-
out, nervous men and women well and
strong again.
There have been published by thous—
ands in every state in the country, this
spring, testimonials from people in
every station of life in those states tell-
ing of the many, many cases where this
greatest of all remedies has made peo-
ple well.
The GAZETTE has published the un-
solicited testimony of well-known and
highly esteemed people in Norwalk,
who have found health and strength in
the remedy that was first prescribed by
Prof. Edward Phelps, M. D., L. L. 1).,
of Dartmouth college.
. Men and women of: national reputa-
tion have written thankful letters on
of
the same subject, which have been pub-
lished the world over, and have called
forth unasked for responsive letters
from equally prominent men and wom-
en in other lands.
Below is a letter that commends it-
self in this spring month of May to
every woman in Norwalk. It was vol-
untarily written to Wells, Richardson 8:
Co. by a lady whose portrait, given
above, is assurance of her high char-
acter and honest disposition. She is a
picture of womanly health. She is Mrs.
Robert M. Moore of Laporte, Ind., and
she writes:
“Please accept my heartfelt thanks
for the great good Paine’s celery com-
pound has done me. I do think that
there cannot be too much said in its
favor. Iwas completely run down a
year ago, and had the advice and at-
tendance of two of the best physicians
in the town, who pronounced my sick-
ness nervous prostration- I was treat-
ed by one for two weeks, and then went
to another and at first he seemed to
ilioreWaSSinkit Paine’s telery Compound
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getting better I went from bad to worse.
At the earnest solicitation of two of
my children and a dear friend who was
very much interested in my case, I
commenced to take Paine’s celery com-
pound and took seven bottles, and am
thankful to say that I am a well woman
to-day. Considering the low state of
health in which I was, my cure has
been pronounced wonderful. You can
use this communication as you see fit.”
For recovory from the effects of too
constant indoor work, worry. over ex-
ertion of the body or mind, and for the
general depressed state of health that is
so apt to result from a sedentary life of
hard work and routine, Paine’s celery
compound is the one strictly accurate
relief. It refreshes and restores the
worn-out tissues, disposes the body to
take on new flesh, and rapidly clears
the system of the used-up elements that
clog its healthy working.
Drudging indoor workers who seldom
get a long breath of fresh air—and there
are many such both men and women—
recover vigor of the nerves and vital
organs through the use of Paines celery
compound.
Safe “forks Burned. '
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 24.-—The plant ‘
of the Damon Safe works, corner of Main
and First streets, this city, was destroyed
by fire today. The works covered 1 % acres
and consisted mostly of wooden buildings.
The ,total loss is estimated at $125,000. _
with very small insurance. Several firms
near by also sustained considerable loss.
Banker Johnson’s Extradition. '
CITY or MEXICO, May 24.—In the min- ‘
lstry of foreign affairs the question of ex-
tradition of Johnson, the Sedalia (Mo)
banker, is being studied. If the offense is ,
extraditnble, and his gollt appears proved,
there is not the least doubt that he will he
extradited, notwithstanding any fight he
or his lawyers may make.
No Insurrection In St. Thomas.
COPENHAGEN, May 24.-—The governor of
Santa Cruz, the largest of the Virgin is-
lands, West Indies, which forms. with St.
Thomas and St. John, a Danish colony,
cables that all is quiet there, and that
there is no insurrection on the island of»
St. Thomas as reported.
A Step by Thrash.
ST. Pnrnnsauno. May 24.—-It is believed
that Russia will not consent to Japan’s
military occupation of Korea, and that she
will soon request Japan to recall her garri-
sons in that country. .
“'1“ China Resist Japan?
SHANGHAI, May 24.—There is a rumor
here to the client that China repudiates
Japan’s demand for an additional indem-
. the advance requested.
nity for the relinq‘uishmentbf the Lian--
l Tong peninsula.
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Strikers Return to \Vork.
CLEVELAND, May :24.—Nearly all or the
400 employees of the Upsnn Nut and Bolt.
works. wdeent on strike for 0.10 per
cent increase of wages last week, returned
to work today. The men held a meeting
and decided that while there wasa revival .
in trade to some extent it was not sufli- ;
cicnt to warrant the company in granting;
Latter Day Home Racing.
Cmcxxxs'n, Nay 24.-——Mrs. Bessie E.
Taylor filed a suit in Covington, Ky.
against Jake Mnrklcin, a horseman, to re‘
cover $2,518 for jewelry and damages in .
loss of time. The plaintlfi alleges that
Marklcln, who was training a horse for
her, took $1,518 of her jewelry out of pawn
and kept. it. The additional $1,000 of her
claim is for damages. "
Haverhlll Burglar-s Get 8300. _
HavsnmLL.j.1\Iass., May 24.—Burglars ‘
entered the office of .l. N. Evans & 00..
heel manufacturers, this city, today. broke
the combination lock on the safe and se-
cured $300 in cash.
flank Burglar-a at Clinton, Conn.
CLINTON, Conn. May 24.—A during at-
tempt wus made to rob the Clinton Na.
tlonal bank today. A tremendous explo-
sion startled the inhabitants. Town
Watchman Charles Hyde was on duty, and
hearing the report rushed at once toward
the bank. He saw two men running away
and ordered them to halt. They contin-
uedto run, and Hyde drew his revolver
and fired at them. They turned and fired
several shots at Hydo,'but none tobk ef-
fect, and the robbers escaped. ..
Getting a Little Coal Away.
WELSH. W. Va., May 24.—-The Houston
Cool and Coke company at Elkhorn loaded
flve cars. The Crozer company run
four. General Manager Houston ran the
mine locomotive, the engineer refusing to
work. The Pulaski and Upland compa-
nies expect to start up in a few days.
These four 'companies will use electrical
mining machinery and pay the miners the
bid price. If molested, they will call for
troops to defend them.
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The Supreme Court Docket.
WASHINGTON. May 24.—There are 64
cases on the supreme court docket. which
have been argued and havo not been‘de-
clded. It is expected that conclusions will
be reached in a majority of these cases be-
fore the final adjournment on the 3d of
June, but it is already -understood that
some of them will. as usual, go over until
the next term of the court. ~
_ osoar Wilde's Second Trial.
Lennon, May 24.—The trial of Oscar
Wilde was continued today in the Old Bal-
l y court. Lord Douglas of Hawlck and
a father. the. Marquis of Queensberry.
were both present. The testimony of the
first trial was repeated in :detail. no new
points of :importance being made.
Hosmcr Will Recover.
Bosrox. May 24.-—George Hosmer, the
well known oarsman. who is at the City
hospital sufl'erlng from a slight hemor-
rhage as the result of accidentally swal‘
lowing .a' small place of glass, is greatly
improved, and it is expected that he will.
be out'ln a fowdays.
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Speech of the Secretary of the Treas-
' ury Against Free Silver.
THE ARGUMEN TS ADVANCED.
A Declaration That Under Conditions Do-
slred Purchasing Power of Money
Would Decrease, While Its Vol-
ume Would Not Increase.
MEMPHIS, May 24. -The ”sound money"
convention was a much bigger affair in
point of attendance than the most san-
guine of its projectors had anticipated.
There are thousands of visitors in the city.
and the auditorium, with its seating ca-
pacity of 8,000, was overtaxed to.accom-
modate the crowd seeking admission.
The number of delegates'is between 800
and 1,000. They are still coming in, and
the enrolling secretary can as yet form no
accurate estimate of the number. Every
seatwas occupied as Well as every inch of
standing room , when; Secretary of the
Treasury Carlisle began his address, which
in substance was as follows:
Mr. Carlisle, in the beginning, said that
the proposition to revolutionize our mone-
tary system, and thus destroy the credit of
the government and people at home and
abroad, violate all obligations, all con-
tracts. unsettle all exchangeable values.
reduce wages of labor, expel capital from
of our people among themselves and with
the peoples of other countries, is one which
challenges the intelligence, patriotism and
commercial honor of every man to whom
it is addressed. No matter what may be
' the real purpose and motives of those who
make the proposition to legalize free coin-
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, these
are the consequences involved .in their
scheme, and in his opinion cannot be avoid-
ed if it should be adopted. In no part of
the country will the consequences of such a
policy prove more injurious to" the materi-
al interests of the people than in the unde-
veloped and progressive south. He did not
charge that his fellow citizens who pro-
pose to revolutionize our monetary system
really desire to see the business of the
country ruined or ev0n injured, but in his
judgment the results would be most dis-
estrous.
The secretary reviewed at some length
the history of the use of gold and silver as
moneys, and went on to say that the per-
SECIIETARY CARLISLE.
centage of coin actively employed in con-
ducting business in this country is so
small that it is almost inappreciablc. So
small, in fact, that its disuse in our trans-
actions would not be felt if we had a sub-
stitute for or paper representative of the
subsidiary pieces. Although we have gold
standard in this country, our actual stock
of gold bullion and coin amounts to only
about one-third of our actual currency, a
condition of affairs which would have been
inconceivable a few centuries ago. This
is the financial condition which the advo-
cates of free coinage propose to revolution-
ize by a change in the standard of value,
so that the whole mass of circulation for
the use of the people would be reduced to
about one—half the purchasing power it
has now. It is contended by many advo-
cates of free coinage that the effect of their
policy is not to- abolish, the present stand-
ard of value and substitute the single
standard in its place, but that it would es-
tablish What they call bimetalllsm and a
double standard. I confess my inability
to understand what is meant by double
standard because I cannot conceive how it
is possible to have two different legal
measures of the same thing at the same
time—as, for instance, a pound weighing
16 ounces and another weighing eight
ounces. '
The Free Coinage Plan.
After quoting various authorities on the
subject of bimetalllsm, Secretary Carlisle
said it is proposed that the United States
without the co-operation of any other gov-
ernment shall provide by law that all sil-
ver bullion or foreign silver coins that
may be presented at the mints by individ-
uals or corporations, foreign or domestic,
shall be coined, at the public expense, into
silver dollars at the ratio of 16 to 1 with
gold, and that the coins so made shall be
delivered to those presenting the bullion.
and to all the people of the United States.
But nobody also shall be compelled by law
to receive them as dollars of full value.
All who are indebted to ‘us therefore have
the privilege of paying in silver while all
to whom we become indebted are to have
the privilege of requiring us to pay in gold.
The attempt to coin the two metals with-
out the limit as to the amount into full
legal tender money and keep both in cir-
culation at the same time has been made
by nearly every civilized nation and has
failed in every one of them. Our country
ls not without experience upon this sub
ject, and the results here were just the
same as everywhere else. ,All who have
been or may be induced to give their sup-
port to this revolutionary policy upon the
‘assurance that it will give the country
more money for use in the transaction of
business will be greatly disappointed. for
they will find. when it is too late, that in-
stead of having more money they will have
less, and that it will be depreciated in
value besides. The introduction into the
currency of the country of any kind of
money about which there is the least doubt
will always operate to drive out the same
amount. or about the same amount of bet-
ter money, and thus leave the people with
about the same volume of currency they
had at the beginning. Free coinage would
absolutely give us a depreciated and fluc-
tua‘ting currency. and" the question is
whether the" producers of exportable arti-
cles will be benefited by such a :result.
The‘chnraoter or value of .tbaourrency in
use in the producing country does-not af-
-: feet the price of the article abroad | to any
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our country and seriously obstruct trade '
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extant whatever. But if our monetary
system were so changed that it would re-
quire 89 to purchase here what .Slwlll
purchase now the exchange with foreign
countries would be double, making us pay
twice as much in our money as now, while
the foreigner would pay only half as much
in his money for the same number of dol-
lars as he pays now. ,Furthermore, the ex-
change would bo constantly in a state of
fluctuation, just as it has been between
Great Britain and India on account of the
changes in the prices of silver from day to
day, and the American producer would be
compelled to pay for the risk taken on ac-
count of the fluctuations by receiving a
less price for his products.
Prices and Wages.
The secretary then at great length re-
viewed the researches of the senate com-
mitteesin 1891, 1892 and 1893 on the course
of prices and wages of labor for as long a
period as authentic records would embrace.
The investigation covered a period of 52
years and embraced all the occupations in
which our people were engaged, and the
fact unanimously found was that, although
18 years had elapsed since the so called
silver legislation, the wages of labor were
higher than in 1872 or 1873. Wages were
nearly 61 per cent higher that. in 1860,
which Was 13 years before the silver legis-
lation and more than per cent higher
than in 1873. when that legislation was
adopted. The argument that the reduction
of prices is due to the appreciation of gold.
and that the legislation in regard to silver
has produced a scarcity of redemption or
metallic money in the world, are both as-
sumptions not justified by the facts. Ex-
haustive inquiries to ascertain the actual
amount of gold and silver used as money
in the world show that there is now more
gold and silver in the aggregate and more
of each one of them in use [as full legal
tender money than at any other time in
the history of the world. The gold in use
amounts to 83.965.900.000, the full legal
tender silver to $3, 435, 800, 000 and the lim-
ited legal tender silver to $619, 900,000.
The policy of maintaining, or rather at-
tempting to maintain, the so called dou-
ble standard never succeeded in keeping so
large an amount of full legal tender silver .
in circulation in the world as there is at
this time. I attach very little importance
to the per capita argument, but it may be
worth while to state that the production
of gold alone in 1890—and it is much lar-
ger now—was nearly 2% times greater
than the average production annually of
gold and silver both during the decade
which closed with the year 1800. Further-
more-official statistics show that in the
gold standard countries the stocks of mon-
ey are much larger per capita than in the
silver standard countries.-
Covlngton Speech Reviewed.
The secretary then reviewed at length
the arguments of his recent Covington
speech on the question of national dishon-
esty in attempting to place a depreciated
currency. etc, and in conclusion said, so
far as the more volume of our currency is
concerned, we have an ample supply for
all necessary purposes, but under the exist-
ing system it is not properly distributed
and is not sufficiently elastic to meet all
the changing requirements of business at
diflerent periods of the your. The United
States should go entirely out of the bank-
ing business by the withdraWal of its ar-
bitrary and compulsory issues of notes and
aflord the people an opportunity to sup-
ply their own currency based upon their
means and credit, thus enabling every
community to utilize its resources when
necessary and adjust the circulation from
time to time to the actual demands of le-
gitimate commerce. In what way this
shall be accomplished is a question which
has already seriously engaged the attention
of the people and authorities and will no
doubt continue to be discussed until a plan
is formulated, which, if [not'perfect, will
at least have the merit of being a great
improvement upon ,the existing system.
In the meantime our highest duty is to
preserve the present standard of value and
keep all the money in] circulation among
the people'equal in the purchasing powor.
Burned Out by Forest Fires.
SUPERIOR, Wis, May 24.—Forest fires
have broken out in the neighborhoodof
Topside. The loss of one settler’s home
and a valuable tract of pine is reported.
The fires have been fanned bya stiff south-
east breeze and are raging throughout a
dense wooded belt. The telegraph operator
at Inc was forced by the close proximity
of fires to abandon his office, and the set-
tlements surrounding are in great danger
of destruction.
Tho “'eather.
Fair; warmer; southerly winds.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Closing Quotations of the New York Stock
Exchange.
NEW YORK. May 2'J.—Money on call easy at 1
@136 percent. Prime mercantile paper 2%@4
per cent. Sterling exchange dull and easier.
with actual business in bankers’ bills at $4.88
@4.88% for demand and at [email protected]% for 60
days. Posted rates. $4.87lé@4.88 and $£E$5§©
4.89. Commercial bills. [email protected]%. Silver cer-
tificates, 67%@67%: no sales. Bar silver. 67.
Mexican dollars. 53. Government bonds firm.
State bonds quiet. Railroad bonds weak.
Closing prices:
Atchison .......... A New England. . . .4. 42%
Bur.& Quincy.... 79 N. J. Ce iral ...... 101
0.. 0., C. & St. L.. 43% North .~‘ 2: ....~:..,m__ 5%
Chesapeake & 0.. 22% Nor-then. lac-inc" 5%
Chicago ‘Gas ...... 74% Do. pref ........... 19
Cordage ..... .. .. . . 4% N. Y. Central ..... 102
Cotton Oil ......... 28% Omaha ............ 38%
Del. & Hudson.. . .1391 Ontario & West. . 18%
Distillers‘ Trust.. :30 Pacific Mail. ...... 26%
Erie ................ 3% Reading........... 1994/
General Electric.. 33% Rock Island....... 68%
Hocking Valley.. . — Silver Bullion ..... 67%
Lackawanna ...... -— St. Paul ........... 66%
Lake Shore ........ 146 Sugar Refining...11’l’l~é
Le .............. 95 Texas Pacific...... 12%
14%
19%
92%
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Louisville & Nash 59%
Missouri Pacific. 28%
Northwestern .. .. 99%
Union Pacific. . . .
W’abash pref... . ..
Western Union. . .
General Markets.
New Yonx. May 23.——FLOUR—State and
western held higher, but buyers are slow to ac-
cept the advance: city mills patents. camera;
winter patents. s3.&)@4.25; city mills, clears.
[email protected]: winter straights. [email protected].
\VHEAT—No. 2 red wildly excited at the
opening. advancing sharply on outside orders,
sold off. but was rushed up again at noon; May,
We: July. 82%@84%c. .
CORN—No. 2 opened strong. sold 03 under
realizing. but advanced with wheat at noon;
July. Mitotic; September. 60-}é@6l}4c.
OATS—No. 2 ruled strong and active on ad-
verse crop news: July. 34W349éc; track,
white. state. 3’l'@42c.
PORK—Quiet: new mess. [email protected]; fam-
ily. automate. ,
MED—Nominal: prime western steam. 86.90.
nominal. . ,. .
BUTTER—Firmer: state dairy, 105mm“
state creamery. 180. . ' ‘
4@CgfiElElBil—Irregular; large, We; small.
C.
EGGS—Easier: state and Pennsylvania. 1m
1%.: western._ ldlfifilic.‘ .
SUGAR—Raw firm; fair refining. 80.: cen-
trifugal. 96 test. 396e,: refined quiet; crushed.
51-16@5%c.: powdered, ”(@4 15-16c.
TURPENTIN-E—Quiet at W.
MOLASSES—éteady: New Oxleans. We
RICE—Quiet: domestic. moose: Jaw?“
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