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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-08
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the planet on which we live Is ALWAYS
2 subject OF Interest. and tho time Is stil
distant when geographers will announce
thIt their task Of many centuries is
complete. Among the explorers whose
names came prominently TO the front
III lS'G Is Dr. Nansen, with his UNI
elualed northern record OF Sc degrees
IA minutes ana his discovery OF an Arc
tic sea- $4,000 to $4,000 feet deep. Dr.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-08

when had previously 1sfied tho noun
taiheer. There Is much work OF csnln.
ration yet TO be done in nearly every
continent, and the hardy spirit of ad-
venture is as strong as In any former
era. It may be suggested to England
that British America is promising ,er-
rltory Tor geographical work. If it be-
longed to the United States far more
would be known concerning its physical
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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-08

r. e. G. Co.'S Corsets, black, white and
gray, sizes IS to 50c.. Soc
r. & G. corsets. black and white. 7ac.
Il. a. G. Corscts, black ans; white, 500.
*. d. G. Corscts. extra sizes, sl.Oo
r. &; G. Corsets, special long waist, 81. 90.
J. & z. Corsets, black and white, 400.
j. c. Corsets. extra long, white and
grey. Bic.
j. & c. Misses Corscts, SOC
kid Gloves. Veilings. Collars, Cuffs ana
Belts in large variety.
clark's Spool Cotton, 41c. dozen; two
spools for &c.
Kings Cotton, lJc. a dozen
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-08
OWN On SUFFOLK

\ Cnpt. w. J. Petit. Of Norfolk. came
To-day to visit his family Il, Suffolk.
superintendent q. II. Coleman. Of the
Fn"t & SUFFOLK Water company.
was here to-day.
MIS- a. il. Myrirl1, Of Nowsoms S. is
visiting her father, Capt, l5. L. Eritt.
Next Monday IS NanSc,nund County
Court day. 1t VIII DC short this tern,
TO make time for Circuit Court.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-08

III the year 1896 The number OF horses
killed for food III Paris was %, 1856. Tile
PRICE ranges from 1 cents to 90 cents
pound. according to cut and quality.
The butchers QaG iii nuinber) who deal
In horse meat arc. not allowed TO sell
any other kind Of meat.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-08
DoMEsTICs.

unbleached Cotton. yard wide. &c. a
yard, worth &C.
10000 yards unbieached Cotton al .,ac.
yard.
Extra heavy Unbleached Cotton yard
wide, at 4lac. yard.
Androscoggin Bleached Cotton at aa.c. q
yard.
Fruit of the Loom Bleached Cotton at
Giac. yard.
lo-4 Bleached Sheeting, good quality al
l0c. q yard
lo-4 unbleached Shooting at 121ac. a yard.
Shirtlng Calico. Sc. q yard--lengths 9 TO
yards.
Standard Shifting Calico age q yard
Fifty pieces yard wide Percale. Glac. a
yard.
Cotton Eirdeye, 20 inches wide. SIC. a
piece; "a inches wide, 42c. piece.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-08
SHIRT WAISTS AND SKIRTS,

shirt Waists and Skirts. Fine Numbered
shirt waists. choice colors, at SIC.
Fine line Of Laundered Shirt Waists. de-
tachable collars, 49c.
Ladies' Skirts. all the new spring checks,
full four yards wide. sl.25.
Ladies' skirts. black figured Brill.antine,
full D yards wide. Special. $3.50
Ladies' Skirts. all wool Fancy Checks, 6
yards wide. $3.50.
Ladies skirts, black and colored. figured
$3.50
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-08
at astonishingly low
purchased here will be
CHARGE by an expert
DRESS GOODS.

" Double width Shepherds Pla!ds, in
black and white at Sc.
Fancy Checks, double width. all colors
and black and white. l0c. and l2i.c. a yard
Just receivcd-"o3o yards Rust. Cam
brio, black and colors-remnan I'd
wide, &c. yard
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-05-08
Curtains /!
Curtains !!

If you are in need Of Curtains can you money
them have Curtains in endless variety Good Lace Cur
tans % yards long, 37ac per pair worth 65 better grade
yards long, wider and finer 75 worth $25 81 yards long,
either white or ecru &c. worth Sl65 imported grades
of Curtains 81 25 $500 per pair Chenille Curtains and
Table Covers all colos large Table Cover good Chenille
for only &C., worth ST co. larger size yards square, for
$l75 sold everywhere for $780, Chenille Stand Covers &c.,
worth so Coored and figured Scrms from to l5c little
dots stripes and figures colors make pretty Curtains and
won't fade.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-05-08
Bed Spreads !!
Bed Spreads /!

100 Bed Spreads maseies patterns only 49c elegant
large closely only 75c worth Sl25 Turkey Red
latest sleeves and collars 25c up 100 dozen Ladies Ribbed
Vests and 10c; so pieces Of Table Oil Cloth for l2ac.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-05-08
Shoes and Slippers.

Don't think of buying Shoes before taking
a look at mine Shoes for men, ladies' and chill
dren Slippers of all kinds and descriptions
more than we have room for. Want torun them
off as soon as can, SO must cut the price very
low in order to make them go quickly.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-05-08
Silks.
Dress Goods.

Our Dress Goods Department cannot be surpassed We
have all the latest and coorng Henrettas Cash
neres Novelty Goods and every kind Of latest fine Dress
Goods prices all lower than
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-05-08
My Price Suits the People, Be-
cause i'd Benefits Them.

Percas in all the beautiful colorngs make lovely
shirt waists and dresses going to sell 1850 goods for
Sc these Percas SO inch wide fast coors You cannot
get them elsewhere for the money Fast Color Prints
tell them from Perca prettest designs ever offered to
the trade for A and 8 cents
Everyone knows all about my Ginghams, that can sell
cheaper than anyone else in town large new line just
received.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-05-08
COrsets! COrsets! COrsets!

Corsets that $l00 all over the world my price cut
&c., best makes of Corsets my price Soc worth 75 fair
Corses my price 25c, worth 90
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-05-08
Spring Roller Window Blinds.

Good Blinds, spring roller, sold everywhere
for 15c and 18c, my price to everyone, two for
25c; all Linen Blinds sold for 81 Lie, my price
Csc; best Blind made, SOC value for 35c, Cur
Brass Trimmings complete.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-05-08
Mattings.

These hot days cause one to want some
thing nice and cool and clean instead Of dusty,
carpets. Just there is where Mattings come in,
and am prepared to fit you out in a manner
that will make you open your eyes. / have the
cheap grades and f1ne selected Mattings woven
wear carpet, in the latest figures and colorings,
which will be sold now as I will not carry any
over if cut prices will make them go.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-05-08
To Pass us by Would be an In
Justice to Your POcketbOOk.

Colored Buntng blue pink yellow, green and cream,
my price 81 cents sold everywhere for cents All coors
Percanes and Cambrcs for Innings oft thin dresses canary
pink lavender and green.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-05-08

Come and See What Cannot be
Seen Elsewhere.
Largest line of white goods have ever handled, all
kinds India Linens Lawns stripes and checks Novelty
white goods for chdren dresses and aprons from to &C.
Big line of Ribbons purpes avenders green's change
able effects in taea and watered give any color Reg
ular l5c quality 2 inch Satin Ribbon to s and Toe.
Hamburg Laces Embroderes beautiful patterns good
values for little money
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
DIR. CORNELIUS OLCOTT.

New York, May 4.-Dr. Cornelius OIL
colt died of pneumonia on Sunday night
at his home. No. 572 Bedford avenue,
Brooklyn, E. D. He was sixty-elght
years old. He was born in Jersey City
of English parents, and was a descen-
dant of Thomas Scott one of the first
settlers of Hartford, Conn. He began
the study of medicine in the University
OF the City of New York in 1S43 and
was graduated six years later, when he
moved to Williamsburg, where he con-
tfnued in practice until his death. Dur
ing the war he was a surgeon under
General Mcclellan at Fort Monroe, and
later under General Grant at Freder-
icksburg. At the time of his death he
belonged to the Kings County Medical
society.
DR.. Olcott leaves widow and one
son. DIR. Charles A. Olcott. His second
child. Lillian Olcott, died ten or twelve
years ago. She had previously obtain
ed some reputation on the stage,
maintaining her own company and talk
ing the star part in several of Sardou's
melo-dramas. She had studied with
Sardou and Bernhard, and had achiev-
ed a considerable success at the time
of her sudden death.
DR.. Olcott divided his time, during
recent wears, between his home and
large practice in East Brooklyn and his
country place at Greenwood Lake. N.
j. His reputation in medical circles
was very high.
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dashes into view, moving along near
the bottom, evidently in search of food.
4 school Of squids, nearly a foot in
length, ghostly creatures with flowing
tentacles, dart by, chased in shore by a
large fish, the gamy yellowtail, a type
of power and ability. In the weed near
the bottom a small and curious shark
moves with a singular motion-an in
teresting creature from the fact that
1t has spines in front of the two dorsal
fins and is a type Of very ancient
shark of early geological times.
Drifting away from the rocks into
deep blue water, it is seen to be filled
with animal life. SWarms of delicate
shrimps dart this way and that; minute
jelly-like objects, small fishes, chains of
jelly, tiny shells-all forming a horde
that seem to occupy every drop of wa
ter in the ocean.
Looking down through the same win
dow at night the scene changes. A
brilliant array of lights appears.
There are meteors and comets of mimic
consultations moving about in the sea,
standing out in lines of light. Every
drop of water, apparently, when dis
turbed, emits CLEAN. Suddenly, deep
In the water, there appears a vivid
light, 1t expands until it is as large as
a dinner plate, then disappears. We
are again in shoal water and find the
bottom everywhere dotted with these
pale silvery disappearing moons. One
OreSently rises emitting IFS wonderful
light. 1t comes up beneath the Win
dow, then moves to one side and at
tains the surface, where it resembles a
| sulphur match smouldering. Catching
| it, it proves to be a simple sea worm,
yet one of the most remarkable lumi-
| nous animals of the ocean.
The destructive elements of the water
are appreciated through this window
| The old piles of the wharf are ablaze
with the light of various animals
They are seen to be pierced and honey
combed in every direction by the shell
| teredo, which so far has defied all at
tefpts to hold it in allegiance The an
imal bores into the wood, lining the
| cavity with a delicate wall of lime and
working so skilfully that soon the en-
tire woody portion is eaten away OF
dissolved and substituted by the tun-
nels and rendered so fragile that the
first gale brings it down, mass of ru.
ms. And so the panorama of the sea
moves on, as seen through the glass
windows in the bottom of a boat
Philadelphia Times.
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ANTHONY oARR0EB's PETITION.
He Frees His Mind on Various Subjects OF
Public Importance.


The following petitions by Anthony
f.srroll were before the board of alder
men Monday evening, but there was SO
tnuch other business on hand that they
received scant attention:
To the Honorable Court Of Common
Council of the City Of New Haven:
Your petitioner represents that con-
tract to sprinkle the streets of the city
of New Haven was in June, 1896, given
to the American Car Street Sprinkling
company of Worcester, Mass; that in
the bid for said contract it was stipu-
lated that said company had no con-
nection with any other person or per-
sons bidding for said work; that their
bid was free from collision and fraud,
and that no person acting in any offiA
ciaI capacity for the board of public
works was directly or indirectly con-
cerned or interested in the profits to be
made out of said contract.
Also, your petitioner represents that
certain street railway companies of this
city are said to have granted exclusive
privileges to certain persons, or to a
particular corporation, to use the cars
and tracks of said street railway COM
panies, or private cars on the tracks of
said companies, to sprinkle the streets
OF this city.
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LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ITEMS or INTEREST FROM BOTH
SIDES THE RIVER.

Nay Festival Unconventional of
Francis Rourke-Death of f. II. Meachen
Proposed Extension of Manufacturers
Railway-other News Items.
In the parlors of st. James church
HE Daughters of the King will give
May festival tomorrow evening. Fan
~ articles, homemade candy, cake and
cream will be sold by the ladies.
Under the auspices of Hiram Camp
division, Sons of Temperance, a basket
sociable and entertainment will be
given this evening. Baskets containing
refreshments will be sold at auction,
and the gentlemen purcasing are eX-
pected to invite the lady whose card
will be found in the basket to lunch
with him.
II. S. Tyler and e. S. Wade are at
tending thermeeting of the Grand con-
rlave of the Heptasophs at Louisville,
Ky.
Frank Fl. Meachem died at his home,
s95 Forbes avenue, Monday, at the age
Of forty-four years, as is recorded in
another column.
The funeral of Francis Rourke will
be held from st. Francis church, to-
morrow morning at 9 o'clock.
Mrs. Bridget Daily, wife of James
Daily Of SO East Ferry street, died Mon
day and the funeral will be held this
morning from st. Francis church.
The resolution allowing the Manutac-
tuners Street Railway to extend It's
fine, passed the house of representatives
yesterday in concurrence. This Dill al
lows the company to extend It's line
up South Front street to Grand avenue,
and the name is changed to the Manu-
facturers' Railway. The line now ter
inmates near the corner of East Chapel
and Front streets, and the extension
will be about one-quarter of a mile.
Ultimately it Is expected the road Will
be built along North Front street, when
the water front will be utilized in con-
nection with the new Grand avenue
hrawbridge.
N. T. Bradley will take the first de-
gree at the meeting or Folar Slaf loaSe,
I. o. o. F., this evening.
A. D. PElmmer continues very i'll at
Grace hospital and is not yet out OF
danger. He is suffering from pneu-
monia and bronchitis, complicated with
heart trouble.
The schooner Edgar c. Ross OF
Bethel, Del, completed discharging hel
cargo of lumber for Austin Mansfield &
Son, yesterday, and was towed down
the harbor. The Ross is the fin
est three-masted schooner seen in Mil
river in a. long time.
At the shops of the Fair Haven and
Westville Railroad company the four
teen cars of the Centerville road are
being repaired, redecorated and put in
first class condition. The box cars are
equipped with single motors and double
motors are to be substituted. 1t is ex-
pected the company will purchase sew
eral additional open cars for the sum-
mer business.
DR.. Irwin Granniss of F'oxon has gone
to Springfield, Mass, to fill the position
of house physician in the City hotel.
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ANTHONY CARROLL.
New Haven, May 8, 1897.
To the Honorable Court of Common
Council of the City of New Haven:

To the Honorable Court of Common
Council of the City of New Haven:
Your petitioner respectfully requests
your honorable body to order and in
struct the corporation counsel of the
city Of New Haven to notify the general
assembly of the state of Connecticut,
now in session at the Capitol building
in the city of Hartford, state Of Con-
necticut, and also to notify the commit
tee Of cities and boroughs of said gen.
eral assembly before whom the pro-
posed charter Of the city of New Haven
and the proposed consolidation act of
the city and town of New Haven are
now pending not to proceed any further
in the consideration Of said acts until
said general assembly and said COM
from said court of common council, for
the following reasons:
First-The misrepresentation of GER
tain funds of the city of New Haven,
by certain officials of the city of New
Haven, all of which said officials are ad-
vocates of said acts now pending before
said general assembly ought to be thor
oughly investigated before any further
steps should be taken to enact into
laws said proposed measures advocated
by officials accused of wrong-doing.
Second-The corporation counsel of
the city of New Haven, in reply to a
suggestion made by Alderman Rourke
to the committee on cities and boroughs
that it was not the will, wish or desire
of the people that the proposed charter
and consolidation act should pass and
that copies of the charter be printed
and a copy sent to the residence of ev-
cry voter of the city and town of New
Haven at least thirty days before the
same should be voted upon by the gen.
eral assembly, stated to the committee
that he opposed said printing and dis
tributing on the ground that it would
be a waste of the public money.
Third-Tbe corporation counsel made
the following statement to the COM
nlittee on cities and boroughs; that the
court of common council who were the
representatives of the people numbered
sixty members and out of that body
fifty-eight favored the charter and two
opposed it. The true facts of the vote
of the court of common council arc
that in the council when the vote was
taken there were but twenty members
present out Of a membership of thirty
six, and the vote stood eighteen in
favor of and two against said charter
which said vote was not even a ma
| iority vote of the membership of that
| body. In the board of aldermen, COM
posed OF twenty-four members present
all Of whom voted in favor of the char
| ter, the remaining nine members being
absent and not voting.
Dated at New Haven this Sd day OF
May A. D. 1897.
ANTHONY CARROLL,
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Also, your petitioner represents that
certain water manholes are said to
have been erected and constructed I'M
der and between the tracks of the said
street railways by the city of New Ha-
ven at an expense Of several thousands
Of dollars to aid in the sprinkling of the
streets by cars constructed for that
purpose, and that no publication of the
cost of said work has yet been made,
Also, your petitioner represents that
he believes that the street railway COM
panies in the city are not now paying
as much to the city for sprlnkling the
parts of the streets between and ada
cent to their tracks as the law requires.
Also, that certain members of the city
government are Interested, either di-
rectly or indirectly, in the profits grow
ing out of said street sprinkling con-
tract, and especially in the advertising
connected herewith.
Your petitioner is informed, and be-
lieves, that the bid for said contract
first mentioned In this petition was not
founded wholly on truthful statements;
that the street railway companies of
this city have no right to farm out to
faVorites the privileges attached to
their franchises, and for which said
companies pay nothing; that the city
has been wronged by the expenditure
of money for water manholes, or at
least that what it has paid for such
purposes should be made known.
Wherefore, he respectfully petitions
that the foregoing matters, and any
other matters relating to the sprinkling
contract, may be diligently inquired
into, to the end that such remedies
may be resorted to as the facts may
warrant.
Wherefore, your petitioner respectful
ly requests that a committee of five dis
interested citizens, not members of the
city government and not in any way,
either directly or indirectly, interested
in the street sprinkling contract, or any
| matters growing out of said contract,
be appointed by the court of common
council to thoroughly investigate said
matters relating to said street sprink-
| ling contract, giving said committee as
full power to subpoena witnesses, call
| for the production of papers ETC., as a
court of competent jurisdiction has in
the trial of civil causes, and report the
| result of their Investigations to your
| honorable body.
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To the Honorable Court of Common

To the Honorable Court OF Common
Council of the City Of New Haven:
Your petitioner is informed, and be-
lives, that the city of New Haven has
at various times been delayed in the
use of the stone crusher works in many
ways, and all for the benefit of the
stone crusher works operated by the
firm of C. w. Blakeslee & Sons.
Wherefore, your petitioner respectful
" requests that a committee Of five dis
interested citizens, not members of the
city government, and not in any way
either directly or indirectly, interested
in the stone crusher works, be appoint
ed by the court of common council to
thoroughly investigate said matters re-
lating to said stone crusher works, Civ
ing said committee as full power to
subpoena witnesses, call for the produc-
ton of papers, etc, as a court of COM
petent jurisdiction has in the trial of
civil causes, and report the result of
their investigation to your honora BILE
body.
ANTHONY CARROLL.
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FIRE IN CRAWFORD.

Branford, May A barn in Bran
ford belonging to the railroad company
and valued at from $1,000 to $1,500, was
totally destroyed by fire last evening,
together with couple of carriages.
The railroad company bought the prop
erty together with house and the barn
several years ago, intending to build
O. new freight depot on it, but as yet
had not begun the work, so the proper
ty has laid idle.
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Mary had a dreadful experience on
her trip TO gainesville" How was that?"
why, she got something in her eye
and it hurt her so that she asked a nice
looking young man to look for it,and he
was so dreadfully near-sighted that he
got so close that his big mustache
tickled her nose so that in trying not to
sneeze right in his face she burst four
bottoms off her new spring jacket"
Dear me!'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
ANTHONY CARROLL.

"Why does your father insist upon
coming down to the office every day?
Surely he must know that things
would run along just as well during his
absence as when he is here. Hes earn
ed rest. Why don't he take it?"
We'll, you see, the old gentleman
couldn't very well have the typewriter
go to the house. cleveland Leader,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
ANTHONY CARROLL.

To the Honorable Court of Common
Council of the City of New Haven:
Your petitioner respectfully requests
that the committee of citizens to be
raised be instructed to investigate the
payment of any and all money paid I'M
lawfully out of the city treasury.
ANTHONY CARROLL.
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Perfect

garments, that, the longer you
wear them the more satisfac-
tory they prove. We're not
content with selling you a gar
ment one season-but wanna
you every season.
Tan Kersey and Covert Coastal
silk lined. $1,000 value.
$3.50.
Tan Kersey Coats-irnported cloth, an
silk lined. $1,000 value.
$1,000.
Silk capes, $4.9S to $1a.5o
Suits, $6.4o to $aa.5o
Skirts, $r.9S to $500
Shirt That are right up to
Waists the top notch Of
style, and at smallest cost, too.
49c. to $500 each.
This is a strictly one-prics
store, conducted upon modern
business methods.