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'TBACHER of the PIANO Fours. OnoAN AND Mm
sICAL (301005111031, Box 379 P. 0': Norwalk,
Conn.
Circulars containing informat on as to terms, &c.
may be obtained at Mr. Selleck’s ookstorc. _
E'Orders for tuning-fit with Mr Gibson will
be executcd byafirst class New York tunenfl
ISRAEL M. BULLOCK,
alluring It Counsellor Italian.
OFFICE: No. {Gazette Building.
LEWIS F. BEERs,
gifting at yaw. .
Orrrcu Over Sword’s Clothing Store,
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.
1:
Dr. William A. Lockwood,
ORMERLY House Surgeon and House Physician
F in Bellevne Hospital, New York City. Office
over 0. J. Gruman‘s Dry Goods Store. Office hours
from 9 to 10 a. m., f'rom3 to 4 and from 7 to 8 p. In.
' Rnrl‘rrsxcss :—Dr. W. H. Draper. Ph siciau to
New York City Hospital; Dr. J. W. S. Gou ey, Prof.
Issac E. Paylor, and Prof; Lewis A. Sage Physi-
cians and Surgeons to Bellevue Hospital, . ’Y. City.
Removal.
DR. MOSMAN '
Has removed his office and residence to the House
formerly occupied by C. J. Gruman, opposite the 2d
If E. Church. Office hours, till 9 o‘clock, a. m., and
truth 1 to 3 o‘clock, p. m. “‘25
A slate can be found at if. H. Baker‘s store, South
2 orwalk.
NATHAN s. ROBERTS, M. D.,
~. PDYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Main Street, next door to Iiyxbee’s Hotel,
«'81 South Norwalk, Ct.
Patent Agency.
w M. VINE,
Agent and Solicitor of Patents,
MECHANICAL DltAUGH'l‘SMAN
7 AND ,
MODEL MAKER,
Winnlpauk, Norwalk, Conn.
1y?
G. 0..KEELER & BROTHER.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Groceries, Flounl‘eed, &c.,_
12’. 14 and 16 Main St, Norwalk, Conn.
RAYMOND do KNA PP,
AGENT
Keyser’s Hot Air Furnaces, Stoves
and Ranges. 1
No 4 James s Building, Norwalk, Conn.
VWELBERT CURTIS,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
CURTIS'S BUILDING Main Street.
Gents and Youfh's Clothing cut and made to or-
der at short notice, of the best materials. in the la-
test styles, by experienced workmen, and at rea-
sonable prIces.
Removal.
6 0 R N W A. I. I. ’ S
FASHIONABLE MERCHANT
Tailoring Establishment.
Has been removed to Raymond’s Building, Main
treet, where ,
READY MADE CLOTHING
AND
FURNI.HING GOODS.
Canbe hadin great variety, and of excellent quality.
G. & G. M. HOLMES,
DEALERS IN
Groceries,
Flour, ‘
Pro‘visions, 810.,
Main Street, Norwalk, Conn.
ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY
Of Hartford.
Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL AND ASSETS, $3,128,320
Insure against loss and damn c by Fire on Terms
adapted to the hazard, an consistent with
the laws of corn ensation.
GEORGE R. COWLE , Sole Agent,
8 For Norwalk and vicinity.
NORWALK
INSURANCE COMPANY.
nonwamr, "CONN. .
CASH CAPITAL. , cadence
PAID up CAPITAL, ciao-.000
WM. 0. STREET. President. ' ‘ ,
GEO. R. COWLES, Secretary.
EBEN. IHLL, Treasurer. '
It will pay you to go to -
BERNHARD BROS.’S -
One Price ‘FancyStore,
To buy your Shawls, Suntags, Nubias,
Hoods, Jackets, &c, at 50 cents each.
SE Susan’s HAIR Rns'rona'rrvn.
Sold by UHLE BROS. Norwalk.
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lust ,necorved.
THE tollowingnew Books :—Good Stories. No.2 ;
The Cameron Pride, by Mrs. 'Ilolmes; Qriecn
Victoria'sMemories of thePrince Consort: The: V
Guardian An cl, by O. W. Holmes ' ( ne'er Little
People, h ‘HErrlet Beecher Storve;"W’t'dorv, Sprig:
gins. by t e author 'of Widow Bedott - Dora Darling
“a Outpost. by J. G. Austin ; Waverly Novels, new
.dtrion. ‘illustrated; Oliver Optic‘s new, works:
Prescott a Historical Works, illustrated; Shira’ by
the author of Omi ; Comoth n as a Flower; Rny-'
mond s Heroine; Silcote of S lcotcs : Circe ;‘ Count
of Moret; Caste. For sale by A.SELLECK.
aZLIFORNIA 1135171211. sacks, at. : __
, . KEELER .e 3120’s.
IDDLEBROOK'S ALMANACS.
1868, for sale by
for
A. SELLEOK.
‘ JULIUS F. PARTRICK. having taken the above Sa‘
um, Dry Go‘ods,
Assets over $28,000,000.
GEO. R. COWLEB,
SAGENT at Norwalk, and issues Policies for the
for the following Insurance Companies.
Home, of‘ N. Y., Assets Jan.1st, ’04, $3,286,270
Etna, of Hartford, “ " “ “ 3 128.820
Phoenix of N. Y. c u u ‘ ’720 219
Home, «if N. 11., ' u u .. -‘ 506’000
Norwich, " “ “ “ 390,501
Lamar, N. Y., e e “ “ 389:315
North American, Ht‘d “ “ “ “ 384,010
City of New Haven. “ “ “ “ 330,419
Merchants, Hartford, “ “ "' “ 301,443
Western Mass.,Pittsfleld, “ " “ 230,424
Ham den, Springfield, “ “ “ ; 200,000
Peop e‘s, Worcester, “ “ “ “ 405.593
and other Companies, Stock and Mutual, in Connecti-
cut. Massachusetts and New York. with assets of
$13,000, . At So. Norwalk. application may be
made to WM. T. CRAW.
Temperance Dining Saloon,
' AT THE OLD SPRING STAND.
loon, recently kept by Mr. Chas. II. Byxbee. is now
reparcd to furnish hot meals. at all reasonable
ours. Oysters Stewed, Roasted. Fried, or on the
shell; Families or Pnrtrcs supplied; also, shipped
In kegs to all arts of the country.
Homemade ’ies and Cake constantlvon hand.
Ale drawn fresh from barrel—no poisonous lcad pipe
used. No Liquors kept.
Saloon open from 6 a. m to 11 o’clock p. In.
Closed on Sundays) Private Dining Room for La-
ies, entrance under J. F. Bennett‘s Store. Gent‘s
entrance under Carrier‘s Shoe Store. 16
Graceries Cheaper than ever
I' O R G A S E 1
THE subscricer would inform the public generally
that he still continues to sell the best of Grocer-
ies, Provisions. etc.. at his old stand, No. 4 Sklddy‘s
Block, as cheap as the cheapest. He ofi‘ers 'grcat in-
.ducements tocash buyers, as he has as large an as-
sortment of groceries of the best qualities as can be
found at any store in the country. We would invite
the special attention of all to his stock of
COFFEES, TEAS AND SUGARS,
which are of the very best quaiity,and will be sold cheap.
The public are invited to call and examine and judge
or themselves. A. MOREHOUSE.
“ HOME AGAIN. ”
coALI con 1! COALI: 1
AT
Steam' ' : boat Dock,
SOUTH NORWALK.
THE subscribe having resumed his old business as
above,is prepared to furnish the public with a
better article of COAL, than has ever before been
ofi‘ered, and at the lowest possible rates. Also,
WOOD,
ofall descriptions. [18] DAVID H. WEBB.
BEMIS’
Double Pact-Power Pump.
Patentednfug. 9th 1864 Re-tissuedJan. 1, 1865
The best recommendation for labor-saving machines
in this age of inventions is that they prove well.
This machine pumps from 16 to 32 gallons per
minute, they are srmple,durable, work very easy, and
do not freeze. Being made of wood they are not li-
able to cpl-rode, rust. or in any wa impart an un-
pleasant flavor; and can be repaire at a trifling ex-
enge. Samples of this Pump can be seen at the fol-
.owmv places; South Norwalk Planing Mill; near
the otel In. Westport ; at E. Raymond's place,
Cranberry Plarmand at Cyrus Morgan :1 North Vi ilton
Manufactured and sold by
Z. M. COMSTOCK, South Norwalk.
All orders romptl attended to when accompa-
nied by the depth ofythc well, measuring from the
West Wing of the
'REAL'ESTATE.
. F0 1: S a le .
A HOUSE AND LOT N MAIN STREET ,
nquive of B. 0. BANKS.
Real {Estate for Sale or to
nest.
FARM of abbot. 160 acres, including a Dam and
Mill .privllcge, of 1:) feet fall, on the West
Railway Station with good House, with Pump of
train and Well Water, under cover. Large Barn, Gra-
pled by Mr. EeGraud 'Jonrstock. Tneland is so sit-
noted as to be divided into three parcelszif desired.
Dwelling House, seven rooms, good cellar, well, &c.,
with one-or sixteen acres of 11nd.
Also, a Dwelling with six rooms and collar, well
&,c.. and 1-8 acre of land. ,
Also, a Dwelling with four rooms, cellar, well, «to ,
and about 3 4 Of an acre of land,
Also, one of the most pleasantly located Houses
and grounds in the Town of Burton. on tho Norwalk
and Stamford Turnpike, adjoining the brick Congre-
pot; consisting of 3-4 of an acre of ground, House,
Barn. Shed, and well with pump in the kitchen, all
recently put in and in complete order, now occupied
by Geo. uckcr, EMA: .
This propew is o cred at a very low price and on
accommodating terms. If not sold by March 10th,
will be to let. for particulars of title apfily to
ASA B. WOODWA D. Esq.,
Cougsrlallor atl ng. Norwalk.
For rice and terms of a e. a o
8 p JAMES MITCBELL, Norwalk,
1'03 SALE.
T South Norwalk,a NEW HOUSE, having all
the modern improvements. It commands a
magnificent view of Long Island Sound; within 12
minutes walk of the Depot. Vill be sold at a very
reasonable figure. Inquire of J. J. CAPE, or D.
AUSTIN, South Norwalk.
For Sale.
N Center Avenue, a int c, nearly new, Dwelling
formerly owned by 0. . Benedict, the house
and grounds are in erfect order. Price $3,500.
Also. a Dwelligg iguse 011,1 iCirapt‘ihgtreet, now oc-
cu led by the su scr or. r ce .
p Enquire of'ELBER ‘ RAYMOND.
11‘? At his Furniture Store, Main St,
R.
413
For -Sale.
FARM ofoue hundred acres of good land with
two dwelling Houses and two urns, known as
the Talmrd e Farm, withvau excellent orchard of
one hundre and seventy-five trees, and situated one
mile from New Canaan and one ' eighth of a mile
from new railer depot. For particulars apply to
WM. B. FISH, adjoining premises. 31*?
TO Let.
HOUSE at South Norwalk, also, a house in
West Norwalk, also, for sale, a farm of twenty
five acres. with House, Barn and Outhouscs.. Also,
House and Carriave house. three nrinutes from De-
ot. South Norwalk. Enquire of
v.56 D. R. SELLECK.
To Refit.
HE subscriber offers to rent, from the first of
April next, thelower part of her house in Her-
win Street. next door cast of Oliver Clark‘s. Five
rooms. Apply on the premises, or to Frederick F.
Finney, No. 3 James Building.
MRS. ANN MUCKRIDGE.
House and let for Sale
N SOUTH NORWALK.--Thc subscriber offers his
Honseaud Lot. situated within six minutes walk
of the South Norwalk Depot, for sale. Terms easy.
Euqtllzire at Solomon‘s extensive Hat Manufactory.
of t e subscriber, EDWARD HUBBELL. 2m 6
Valuable Property for ale.
THE residence of Mrs. J. G. Quigley. situated on
West Avenue, on the line of Horse Railroad,ten
branch of the Norwalk River, 2x miles northwest.
of Norwalk. and 9.: of amile west from Winnlpank,
nary and Pigwery; Buildings recently rebuilt. occu- ,
Also, adjoining the above, a one and' ahalf story .
gational Church near the New Haven Railroad De- ,
platform down.
A SWORDS’
Circulating library.
ting Library and invites fire patronage of the pub-
lic ; he intends to increase the number of books as
fast as the enter rise will warrant. He has also
constantly on ha a good assortment of Stationery,
Books, Papers, School Iboks, SlatPS. Pencils, Pens,
Pocket Books, &c. The atronuge of the public is
solrcrted. A. Si OItDS, South Norwalk.
SE SINoEn‘s HAIR RESTORATIVE.
Sold by UHLE _B_RO_S, Norwalk.
,Norwalk Machine Shop.
THE subscriber would respectfully inform Manufac-
~ tnrers and others using Machinery, in Norwalk
and yrcrnit-y, that he is fipared to do all things per~
mining to a general mac .‘ c shop. All orders ’or the
making or repairing of every description of Machinery
attended to With romptuess by experienced work—
men. Havrng ad ed 11 Steam Engine (in addition to
water power to lus works, he fiatters himself he is
well prepare to do all kinds of work at very short
notice. . ISAAC CHURCH, JR.
Machine Shop just back of the Post Office and Horse
Railway Building. 11
Waterbury & Duncan,
Rear of Norwalk Horse Railway‘Depot, are
Carriage-making and Blacksmithz'ng,
Carriages made to order, and Painting. Trimming
Repairing, 8.70., done by experienced workmen, with
dispatch.
[E‘Goodr Carriage timber taken in exchange for
work. -
causation MAKING
Horse Shoeing dz Black-smithing.
LYON, AHERN, & 00.,
WOULD announce to the public that they have ta-
ken the old stand of Capt. Henry Lamb. Main
Street, where they are repare to execute in the best
manner and greatest 'spatch anythin in the above
line. _CarrI cs made to order, and orse Shocino,
Painting, TI-ImmintgfiRepairing. &c., done by expe -
enced workmen wi dis ’atch. 1y
Accusrus LYON, War. AHL‘BN, CnascFox-
Notice.
WEE subscriber having purchased the CLOTHING
a. and GENTS FURNISHING EMPORIUM, of A.
Kmprel, wrll continue the Business in all its branches
at the old stand, No. 3Main Street, Norwalk.
The public are respectfhlly invited to call and exam-
ine the large and varied assortment 01‘
ea dy Made Clothing,
FRENCH CLOTHS, CASSIMERES and VESTINGS,
whrch he will make up to order at short‘notice and in
the latest fashionable style. E. GUSOWSKI,
1319 No. 3 Main Street.
15 DINING-SALOON. 5
guinslmuu g
”NEW YORK HOUSE. 5;
M Meals at all hours.
I-f Oystérs
o in every style.
y ‘ The best of
Wines, Liquors & Ales.
Also, a first class
BILLIARD SALOON
attached to the House.
- ISAAC LEE.
No. 28 Main St. Norwalk.
New York
. NEW YORK, March, 4th; 1867.
Thls 18:10 certify that lay hair and whiskers. were
white. and have been com letcly restored to their
natural color by using '81 GER’S HAIR RESTO-
RATIVE” .
Cut No. 1, above Is a correct likeness of me before
using, and Cat No. 3, lea correct likeness of me after
using the Restorative I had also been very much
annoyed with-Dandruff, .whichbas been entirely crud
looted by using“SINGER’S HAIR RESTORATIV' ’
. Rev. THOMAS DAVIS,
City Missionary, New York.
“SINGER’S HAIR RESTORATIVE" (is not a dye)
eradicates dandruff, prevents the falling out of the
hair, ,wouderfuliy increases its growth, restores both
the hair and its color. and is decidedly the best hair
dressing in the world. '
lSold by Druggists and Fancy-goods dealers every—
w Ierc. .
DEPOT 79 NASSAU ST., N. Y.,
EG‘Soldin Norwalk, by UHLE BRO‘S.
40
Jut Received,
A splendid assortment of-all colors
brawn-r- narrows,
; . , At the
.- New York Pancv Store,
BERNHARD BRO’S.
USE SINCEE’S HAIR Rns'rona'rrvn.
: Sold by UHLE BROS. Norwalk.
nITE WASH BRUSHES. Scrubbin b h
and brooms. o. a E. K. LOCKWOOI) £33.?"
fact all the modern conveniences.
splendid condition.
feet front. 400 feet deep.
minutes walk to N. Y, 8.: N. H. Depot. The proper-
ty is 80 feet front by over 400 feet deep. Fruit in
profusion. . House containing Gas. Furnace. and in
Out-buildings in
Also the place known as the Rogers place near the
' .idence of Chas. Sherr Es . or full articulate
T the News Depot, South Norwalk. The sub- ’9‘ . n" .
scriber has made larae additions to his Circula- mph to JAMES M“ CHE L' Union Nglfir‘rfzstl‘k
Desirable Dwellings for Sale.
ADESlRABLE Dwelling House with lot 138 feet
front and 180 feet deep, situated on Main Street
within seven minutes walk of the bridge. An abun-
dance of fruit trees on the premises.
Price $6.000
Also.a modern built house. pleasantly located
within fiveminntes walk of the Bridge. Lot 102
A good barn and choice
fruit on the premises. Price 10.000.
:15 Apply at the GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale.
FEW desirable Building Lots near the Noroton
Depot. with views of the Sound from each lot.
all within five minutes. walk of the Depot. Size of
lots 50x200 feet. prices and terms exceedingly favor-
able to parties desirous of building within the year.
For particulars enquire on the premises or address
by mail,
(has Dr. C. W. BALLARD, Durieu, Conn.
Farm for Sale.
N WILTON, Conn.. consisting oi about Twenty
acres, formerly owned by Maj. Samuel Beldcn.slt-
natcd opfiosite tho Episcopal Church, and extending
_.. -, now11ml)!"ed tpexccutem the‘bcst man- to the uilroud Depot; near the Schools and
nor am With the greatest dispatch, everything In the Churches. Finest Building Locations in the town.
line of For particulars enquire of F. BELDI-iN.
3m52 . Norwalk, Ct.
A. House for Sale at South
Norwalk. ,
ITUATED on Washington St., within three min-
utes walk of the Depot. For particulars enquire
of ALFRED KNAPP. 51
West Avenue Building Lots,
For Sale.
A LAST CHANCE.
TWO Lo}; 74x228 opposite the residence of F. Di-
mou. sq. . .
Also, two in the reargf the above 80x186 fronting
on Elm Street. Terms asy. Apply to
611147 0. T. WEEKS.
Houses, Lots and Farms '
FOR SALE AND TO RENT. .
qOME twenty FARMS. from 15 to 140 acres, for
L sale. or to exchan for roperty iu Norwalk. A 4
good variety of HO SES n and out of town, for
sale on liberal terms. Thirteen firsbclass houses, for
sale; two first-clrss houses to let ;. one; furnished
House to let. A number of small tenements forsaie.
to suit persons of small means—terms liberal.
tfhi S. T. WOOD.
N. B.—-—Good servants, furnlslred at short notice.
/
.1'. 131333.13.
REA ESTATE AGENT.
50 Estates
0R SALE in Norwalk and vicinity, from 1-4 to
450 to 100,000. A15 TO ET. furnished and un-
furnishesd houses. A‘d‘drlss J. FERRIS. at. Tolles a;
Ely’s Drug Store, South Norwalk. Notice for sur-
veying may be left at the Gazette Office.
For 'Sale Cheap.
One of the most
COMPLETE, CONVENIENT
AND
Defsirable “Homes”
in the village. But three minutes walk of the Bridge
and Horse Cars, Terms accommodatrn and pos-
session given when desired. Apply to ditors of
GAZETTE. tf41
BUILDING LOTS !
BUILDING 101's !
For Sale Cheap.
And upon the most
accommonavmc .‘rznms
as to time payments. These lots are located on
“Spring Hill” overlooking the water and surround
ing country, and are unequaled in beauty, by any lo-
' cation in Norwalk. Lots for $30, $500, $750. $1,000
to $3,000. Apply at GAZETTE Car-Ice. tf41
For Sale.
The place formerly owned and occupied by Isaac S.
Beers, deceased. For further particulars apfilf to
ti?) MORGAN T. 5 TH
To Whom It May Concern!
ROM and after January 1st, 1868. I._M.Bur.r.ocx
Esq., will have entire charge of the lettrn an
'collectlou of Rents for all apartments apperta mug
templated engagement of the Proprietor in New
Yor '. 8152
OFFICES TO LET !
ROM and after Jan. 1st, TWO FRONT OFFICES
In the GAZETTE Burr EING. Rent, 812,50 and
$15 per month. Applyto I. M. BULLOCK. 52tf
BUILDING Lou's, ,
F O R 8 All; E.
EVERAL very ell ble building lots for Sale, in
S the immediate v cinity of the Brid e, others
more remote. Three acres ofunimprove land pleas
antlylocated, for sale at a-barga n .A house and
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five acres of land, ditto. ’Anply t A. B. DYINGTON
200acres, with bulldin s thereon, price from ,
to the GAZETTE Burhnrucdn consequence of the con- -
Gazette Building.
For Salc.’
A Comfortable Country House,
Pleasantly situated at ROWAYTON, (between Dari-
en and Norwullflonn.) two hours from New York,
and ten minute alk from the new Depot. the Fam-
ily residence ofG. P. Putnam. Publisher, New York.
The house is old. but substantial, and has been en-
tirely refitted with new wing, rbc. It contains a
pleasant Si tting‘room. Dining-room. Six Bed-rooms,
excellent Kitchen, Cellar, 85c. There is also a new
BATHING HOUSE,
with Sitting or Bedroom attached. A new STABLE
fitted for three horses, dtc. A nice
Flower-Gardenfilroquct Ground
&c.. occupying in all about an acre, with water front
1: Is on the Bank of the river, in view of the sound,
and excellent SALT WATER BATHING is thus pro-
vided on the premises. Trains stop at Rowayton
Station four times daily; but at. Durien or N orwalk.
a half hour‘s ride from Rowayton, the trains stop al-
most hourly. - The nei hborhood is proverbrally
healthy. 'Price of the pIace $8,500, on terms to suit
It is onl offered because the occupant proposes to
build a arger house in the vicinity. Apply to
G. P. PUTNAM, Publisher, 601 Broadway, N. Y.
7 or to Tnonas (B lune. flowayton.
, Notice.
“\HE subscriber has in his hands, for sale. Stores
, and Lots, dwellin s and Lots, and vacant Lots,
suitable hair for bus ness and dwelling purposes.
Also a large number of building Lots situated within
one half mile of' South Norwalk. cheap, and on easy
terms. One dwelling with two acres of land, and
another with one and a half acres of land and one
with half an acre; all within one fourth of a mile of
the village, for sale cheap '
Persons wishiu to purchase or sell are invited to
call at the South orwalk Real E‘stateT Age ,over
It
the Drug Store. . . ,
Real Estate Agent.
South Norwalk, Feb. 10,1868. \ lyti 31m-
NASII ft IVES,
No. 1 WATER STREET.
PROPERTY Bouflrt, old, Exchanged or Lot. on
reasonable terms. We have a good variety of
desirable Houses and Farms in and out of town for
sale on accommodating terms.
‘ War. R. NAsn.
Fruit Trees! Fruit Trees!
AT THE
NEW CAN AAN NURSERY.
The subscribers take pleasure in announcing to the
public that their stock of .
Fruit dz Ornamental Trees, Vines, d9.
Is. unusually large and of unsurpassed excellence.
.e feel confident in saying that we believe that our
stock of APPLE TREES particularly, to be the Lar-
gest and Best in this Country. We tire also positive
that we can furnish Trees in better quality. better
order, and for LESS HONEY than they can be obtained
fr mdistaut Nurseries. ._
hose wishing to purchase Trees aninnes will do
well to send their orders early—or still better, visit
our Nursery and make theirown selections.
STEPHEN HOYT do SONS.
P. S. We take pleasure in showing persons through
our Nurseries. whether desirous of purchasing trues
or.not; and wouldcordially invite all interested to
visit the Nursery.
N 01:166.
, HE subscriber can furnish the Ladies of Norwalk
‘~ 'with all styles and varieties for the season of
; Bonnets and Jockeys,
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times. Ailkinds of ‘
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Ladies g ve me a call at. the old stand foot of Mar-
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GILES HAULENBEEK.
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' SE smoEu’s Ham. RESTORATIvE.
Sold by UHLE BROS. Norwalk.
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5 Notice.
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: tention of the ladies of Norwalk and vicinity to
her. selection of
Hall and Winter Millincry Goods,
which she is constantly receiving, éonsistingpf Vel-
vetf, Ribbons, Feathers. Flowers, &c.. which she
wil sell aslow as can be obtained elsewhere, Bonnets
and Jockeys made to order. She has also a good vari-
ety ofFancy Goods, Corsets. Hosiery, &c., and will
do all kinds of Machine Stitching to order at short
Give her a call.
, MISS S. A. BEERS, Norwalk, Conn.
NATHAN Ivns.
notice.
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at
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of gOods. A.JACKSON a BRO.
.l New Jewelry Store.
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3,; ‘ lattentlon given to
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‘ Pianos, Organs, Melodeons
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, , ESTABLISHED 1829.
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posite, with a full stock of goods. ,
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' EN’S Women’s, Boys andGlfls Boots and Shoes
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convince every one of the an Ierior advantages we
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P. S.-Sold Wholesale and Retail.
Look here Horsemen.
, Persons wishiugto try the
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can do so by calling at fire shop of the undersigned.
where they can get them or our own make. just as
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town 0 Norwalk; and every shoe warrant to fiiva
satisfaction. ’ JOHN McQUIIA .
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BOots and Shoes.
THE Subscribers would respectfully call the atten-
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NEW STOCK OF GOODS,
. consisting of a general assortment of
. Boats, Shoes, Gaiters, dtc.,
both for Gentlemen and Ladies wear, which will be
sold very low .
. For Cash.
AT THE OLD STAND ELY‘S BLOCK,
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All kinds of Gent’s and Ladies Boots, Shoes. &c.,
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4
They are not Lost.
on, wherefore do we weep and can them is...
The good who early die ;
Surely onr Heavenly Father loved them most.
And so he bade them lay their burdens by,
And pass into the sky.
Here on this border Ofthe unseen land,
This dim and shadowy shore,
lec shipwrecked mariners ’wc waiting stand,
While at our feet the sullen waters roar,
Which we must needs pass o‘er.
For just beyond a better country lies,
Whose wondrous glory beams
Upon as sometimes through the sunset skies,
But very far beyond our happiest dreams.
The golden city seems.
Yet those we mourn as lost have gained that shore,
And walk those streets of gold 3
And there, with glory crowned forevermore,
They see what mortal eyes can ne'er behold.
Nor mortal tongue unfold.
O, faithless hearts, which call the blessed ones lost.
Because we miss them here-
Wanderers. and tempted, we ourselves are lost,
And well may mourn our fate with many a tear-—
But they have done-with fears.
Nothing that‘s good is lodf,or e‘er can be—
Our hopes are all faecast,
Our joys are gathered in eternity,
And we, though weary, burdened hasten fast
Again to meet the past.
Let us be patient—death has made no breach,
With those who‘ve gone before,
And though no outward alga our senses reach,
We feel that from the far ethereal shore,
They watch as evermore. ‘
é—Jforning Sun.
. <.> .
From the Galaxy for March. _
Some Celebrated Star-own;
In treating of Celebrated Shrews, there'is.
manifestly, small need of calling in the aid
of Legend, Fiction or Fancy. Even Po‘try
must give place to her more sedate sist —
History; else we might meander among the
early plays of mediceval day s, which, scrip-
tural in subject, are far from solemn in tone,
chain which even Mrs. Noah is held up to
ridicule and contempt as the veriest type of
shrew—a horrible heresy which Chaucer
seems to put‘failh in, as witness that ungai-
lant speech of Nicholas, iu the “Canterbury
Tales :" ,
“Hast thou not he ,” quad Nicholas, “also
The sorwe of Noe, with feluwshlp,
Or that he mighte get his‘wif to ship ?
Him had be lever, I dare we] on dertake, '
Atthllke time, than all his wethers bloke,
That she had ha‘da ship, hirselt alone."
But the domestic discords (Noah-Wests”, so
to speak) Of the patriarch do not come with-
in the perview of our present inquiry._ Let
as rather, with muck-rake and drag-net,
make prize of more modern material, which
may le found lying loose around and within .
comparatively easy reach.
,In passing, however, from the distant past
into regions this side of the first great navi—
gator, we must not slight the claim which,
despite the labored endeavors of friendly ex-
positors in her behalf, Job’s wife presents
to be lifted into bad eminence as, perhaps,
the earliest of shrews, Her provoking
speeches and scant sympathy, while School-
ing.’ her poor partner’s patience, reflect small
credit upon herself, except in so far as she
was honored in being made a [means of grace.
The perfect work of patience had not else
been wronght'out in Job, if. losing all beside,
the; ‘sparing of hisvgifc were not anadded
bitter In his cup 1 Sons aird daughters, cattle
and sheep, lands and houses—all were taken;
but: a wife was left, a “miser able comforter,"
who could urge the model man to “curse
God and die.” Thus, briefly, our version
writes her biography and gibbets her temper.
But the Septuagint'translation expands her
speech into the following shrewdish oration:
reading it one thinks Douglas Jerrold a pla-
girist, and Mrs. Candle :1 Bible heroine :
After much time had passed, his wife said
untb him, “How long wilt thou persist. say-
ing,- Behold I wait :1 little longer in expecta-
tion of my deliverance? Behold thy memo-
riali is blotted out of the earth ; even the sons
and daughters, the pains and toils of my
womb, 11- irom I have brought forth in vain.
Even thou thyself sittest among loathsome
worms. abiding all night in the open air;
while I, a drugs and a wanderer from house
to house and from place to place, long for the
setting of the sun that I may rest from the
toils and the sorrows I now endure. Utter
some word against the Lord, and die."
So much for Mrs. Job!
One is not incllned to waste much sympa-
thy On Socrates, when it is remembered that
he followed no blind Cupid in wedding Xan-
tipp‘c, but that with malice prepense, and
confessedly for self discipline. the philosoi
pher courted, marrid and endured the tem-
pestftempered woman, whose name has pass-
ed into a proverb. Moreover, the old Greek
had a naughty,way of expending all his at-
tractions and fascinations upon the sidewalk
committee at Athens, whom he called his
scholars; while, for the home market, he
never had anything to spare besides his ugly
lace,with its fiat nose, its goggle eyes, its
thick lip's, not. to speakof the bare poll un-
der which he used to send, or the squat. fig-
ure, the clumsy, awkward gait, the congen-
ial rugs and nusandaled feet, that made up
those externals,1whlch alone Xanirppe was
permitted to study as the exponents of the
Aristocratic Philosophy. Who wonders‘that
she preferred to be known in history rather
as Ximtippe than as Mrs. Socrates? or that.
woman as she was, her tongue could be hung
otherwise than in the middle while such do-
mestic aggravations formed the bulk of her
experience 1’ Considering the duplicity he
practiced in making his choice of a wife,
Xantippe’s curtain lectures found in Socra-
tes an audience fit, though few.
'Scriliger seems to have caught a Tartar.
too; for what except matrimonial miseries
could haveextorted from him so savage a sea-
fence: as “deris, hectica user, of non nm‘ mom
aoelle'nda.” A Wife is a hectic fever, and not
cured but by' death. Salmasius had a terma-
gant wife, whose tongueserved to illustrate
the patience of her learned lor‘d, and whose
loud mouthed conceit was a, standing adver-
tisement of her own stupidity and her hus-
-band's genius.»
Burton, the author of that quaint medley
the “Anatomy of Melanchol v,” was not
brave, enough to run the risk of marrying;
but he kept his eyes and ears open, and re-
murked, oracnlariy, “I never tried, but, as I
hear ' some of them say, More, hand more,
can more acerrfmum, an Irish sea is not so
turbulent and raging as a' litigious wife."—
Aiter which specimen of free translation he
logs in the well-wired Stoic, Seneca, as de-
claring, “Scylla and Charybdis are less dan-
gerous; there is no heart that is so noxious."
Sir Thomas More was none the happier for
hlsmatrimonial experience, for‘ we are told
that his wife‘s temper was as harsh as her
manners were sordid, and that her disposi-
tion was so ' morose as to-suggesther hus
band's advising her to play on musical in-
struments, if so be she might soften it.
Pasquior, whose eloquence and learning
placed him at the head of French advocates
in his day, and whose pleadings against the
Jesuits made him a formidable opponent of
the order, had a wife so noisy as to be a uni-
sance. To His his household ho was oblig-
ed to drown her vocifcrations with thunder
tones of his own. “Unfortunate wretcb that
Iam,“be cries out, “I who am a lover of
universal peace! But to have peace I am
obliged ever to beat War l" Poor Pasquier‘s
assertion reminds us of the very married
man who acknowledged that he enlisted asa
soldier in our Mexican war for the sake of
having peace!
named), living apart from his wife. was made
the recipient of a letter from too Bishop of
Litclrfield and Coventry,in which occurs this
passage: “But some will snyc, in your lord-
ship‘s hehnlfe, that. the Countesse is a sharpe
and bitter shrewc, and. therefore, licke
enough to shorten your life, if shee should
i kepe yow. Indeede. my good Lord, I have
heard some say so; but if ahrewdnesse, or
sharpenesse may be a just cause of separa-
tion between a man and wife, I thinck fewc
men in Euglande would keepe their wives
longs: for it is a common jeste, yet lrewe in
some sense, that there is but one shrewe in
all the worlds, and everec mun hath her:
and so everee man must be ridd of his who,
that would he ridd of a slrrewe.” Connubi-
al felicity must have been a rarity in England,
then-a-days, if the worthy Bishop is to be
believed. Perhaps, however, the prelate
was thus neatly confessing that he “had her."
Albert Durer. the celebrated painter of
Germany, upon whose tomb is found the in-
scription :—“Light of tire Arts—Sun of AI-
tists—Painter, Engraver, Sculptor, without
example," was the unfortunate victim of a
sh rewdish mate, whose conduct at times com-
pelled the Light of the Arts and Sun of Ar-
tists to hide himself under a bushel by run-
ding away from home. It is even stated
that this woman's furious disposition and vi-
olent temper literally worried Dover to death.
At least so says Pirkheimer. Burgbeu, too,
the eminent Dutch landscape painter, endur-
ed a similar purgatory; for his Xuniippe was
wont to stir him up and prevent his sleeping,
by thumpiug'witlr a stick against the ceiling
of the room directly beneath that in which
the artist was expected to be always at work.
Mrs. Bergheu compelled her hcnpecked hus-
band to prove the fact of his being awake
by stamping his foot on the floor. ‘ Could do-
mestic despotism further go ? And apropos
of artist married life, we onght not to omit
mention of Fuseli‘s Original and characteris.
tic method of disarming his wife when her
anger had got control of discretion. She
was, as we are told. a spirited woman, and
one day, when she had wrought herself into
a towering passion, Fuseli launched tlus sar-
castic shot at her: “Sophia, my love. why
don’t you swear? You don’t know how
much it would ease your mind 1"
Was Shakespeare henpecked ? This mo-
mentons question, if the great dramatist‘s
last will and testament be made the respon-
dent, would seem lo be answerable afilma-
lively, for, while bequests were therein made
to his daughters, Judith and Susanna, to‘his
sister, Joan Hart, and his three nephews,
William, Thomas and Michael Hart, as also
to many of his Siratford friends and com-
panions, no mention compliment: or enriches
Anne Hathaway, save that single line inter-
lopated after the will had been completed,
and which'simply says: “I give unto my wife
my second best bed, with the furniture.”—
By inference we are placed in the double di-
lema of imagining either that the wife had
been forgotten by her husband, while So
.many others had been remembered, or had
been purposely punished thus for shrewish
practices which lingered in her'liege lord's
memory. Men do not so easily forget their
wives as to leave them only aniuterlined
mention in their wills, and of the two by-
pothcses ’that which writes down Mrs.
Shakespeare as a shrew has a resemblance of
foundation. ~
A clear case of boarding the lion in his den
was made out when the second wife of Sir
E .iward Coke. the British lawyer, undertook:
and most successfully, the systematic hen-
peckiug of her since illustrious husband.—
Lady Hutton, the woman in this case, proved
herself more than a match for Coke’s none-
too-lamb-like temper, and worried everything
but his life out of him during a long-drawn-
Ont term of nearly forty years. In fact, his
persistency in not dying was, itself, an aggra-
vating feature; as is proved by her return
with every mark of disappointment, from a
journey undertakensuddenly, one day, when
the report of his death had stimulated her
hopes of capturing his mansion and other ef-
fects. When eighty years old this resplen-
deat victim of the matrimonial confidence
game “felt himself alone on the earth, sus-
pected by his King, deserted by his friends,
and defeated by his wife.” What a melan-
choly and humiliating confession from the
lips of one who had been Lord Chief Justice
of England—and all because oihis marrying
a shrew! . ‘ 5
Dr. Andrew Bell, who endowed with £120,-
000 an institution -ior the education of the~
youth in the city of St. Andrews, receives
the following “first-rate, notice" of his do-
mestic life and connubihl' infelicitics from
the pen of Thomas de Qunicy, the opium-
eater: "Most men have their enemies and
calumniutors. Dr. Bell had his, who hap-
pened, rather indccorously, to be his wife,
from whom he was legally separated—di-
vorced a memo ct thoro. This legal separa-
tion did not prevent the lady from persecut-
ing the unhappy doctor with spite. Some-
,times she endorsed outside her epistles
thus: ‘To that supreme of rogues, who looks
the hang-dog that he is, Doctor (such a doc-
torl) Andrew Bell.’ Or, again: ‘To the ape
of apes and the knave of knavcs, who is" re-
corded to have once paid a debt—but a small
one, you may be sure it was, that was 4 1-2d.
Had it been on the other side of 6d , he must
have died before he could have achieved so
dreadful a sacrifice.’ Many others, most in-
geniously varied in the style of abuse. I
have‘heard rehearsed by Coleridge, Southey,
Lloyd, etc, and one, in particular, addressed
to the doctor, when spending a Summer at
the cottage of Robert Newton, an old soldier
;n Grasmere, presented on the back two sep-
arate adjurations, one specially addressed to
Robert himself pathetically urging him to
look sharply after the rent of his lodgings;
and the other more generally addressed to
the unfortunate person as yet undisclosed to
the British public (and in this case turning
out to be myself,) who mightbe incautious
enough to pay the postage at Ambleside:
‘Don‘t grant him an hour‘s credit,’ she urged,
upon the person unknown. ‘11 I had any , re-
gard to my family.‘ ‘Uask down! !’ she wrote
twice over. Why the doctor submitted to
these annoyances, nobody knew. Some said
if was mere indoleuce; but others held it to
be a cunning compromise with her inexora-
ble malice. The letters certainly were open
to the ‘public' eye; but, meantime, the ‘pub-
lic' was a very narrow one; the clerks in the
post oflice had little time for digesting such
amenities of conjugal affection; and the
chance bearer of the letters to the doctor
would naturally solve the mystery by sup-
posing an extra portion of madness in the
writer, rather than an extra portion of kuuve-
ry in the reverend receiver.”
Whitefield, of blessed memory, married a
widow of not far from forty, but neither fat
nor fan, who had graduated from gayety in-
to pseudo godly frame of mind. The union
was a “long paih"of peace and pleasaniness;
for, after an unhappy matrimonial cirperience
on both sides, we are comforted by the state-
ment that “her death in 1768 set his mind
much at real."
That other famous Methody,‘Jolrn Wesley,
at forty-eight, married misery in the person
of a Mrs. Vcazic, a widow with four.Clrildrcn
and a fair fortune. Settling her money up-
on her, he made the stipulation that he
should not airtime the number of“ sermons
In 1590, the Earl of Slrrewsbury (how well
preached, nor the n umber of miles travelled,
without reflecting how surely be was sad-
dling himself with a perpetual incumbrance
by thus entering the marriage state. We are
told that “as first she conformed to his asce-
tic habits, ar.d travelled with him, but soon
grew tired of his rigid and restless life, and
of the society of the humble Methodists to
whom she was introduced. She began to
grumble, but Wesley was far too busy to at-
tend to her wails; then she, grew jealous.
opened his letters, followed him from town to
town as aspy, and plagued him in every way,
openly and secretly, that her malice éould
contrive." Southey waxes warm over her
henpecking proclivities, and says: "By her
outrageous jealousy and abominable temper
she deserves to be classed in a triad with Xan-
tippe and the wife of Job, as one of the three
had wives.” Wesley, however, was made of
sterner stuff than to endure, with Job's pa-
tience, this visitation of Satan, and so he
writes to her: ‘Know me and know your-
self ; suspect me no more, asperse me no
more, provoke me no more. 'Do not any
longer contend for mastery, for power, mon-
ey, or praise; be content to be a private, in-
significant persou, known and loved by God
and me. 'Of what'immrtance is your char-
acter to mankind ? If you were buried
just now, or if you had never lived, what
loss would it be to the capse of God 1” At-
ter putting Wesley through the purgatory of
a twenty years' experience of her shrewish-
ness, this graceless creature turned her back
on his house, taking with her hispapcrs and
journals, which latter she never returned.—
A refreshingly simple entry in Wesley‘s diary
tells the story of her flight, expresses his ig-
norance of its cause, and thus concludes :—
“Mm cam rehqm', non dimini, non, "vocabu—
I did not forsake her, I did not dismiss her,I
will not recall her,” Ten years afterward
Mrs. Wesley died at Camberwell, and now
continues to decay beneath a stone, whose in-
scription says she was “A woman of exem-
plary viriuc,a tender parent, and a sincere
friend,"—the same being a lie, with circum-
stance, in its wppmn‘o om‘ respecting her
true character as an unwomauly wife. - For-
tunate indeed was the great Methodist in
possessing a pious placidity of temper, which
enabled him to declare, “I feel and grieve,
but by the grace of God 1 fret at nothing.”
At a recent sale of autographs in London,
the catalogue began. with a collection of
Wesley’s letters to his renegade wife. Their
character and worth, in the opinions of col-
lectors, were as follows: “A very painfully
written letter, of eight pages, on the . (1 tier-
ences between him and his wife, brought £6
17s. 6d,; another, relating to Mrs. Wesley’s
keeping his papers, in which he says, “Will
not even men of the world say, what a wretch
is this, first to rob, and then to expose her
own husband 2' £2 23.; another, presenting
along and pitiful chapter of complaints and
dislikes, £2 105.; another, of grave accusa-
tion against Mrs. Wesley for having taken
some of his private letters from his bureau,
£2 7%.; another, relating to his choosing his
own company, which had been a bone of
contention between him and his wife for
more than seven years, £2 2s. ;" and so on.
These “Epistles of J ohu," evidently, were
not modelled alter their Scriptural name-
sakesl .
How much of a shrew she was, in general,
we do not know; but the wife of the author
of Ainsworth’s Latin Dictionary merits such
an appellation for having cOmmitted to the
fiamesjiu a fit of ill temper, the entire manu-
script from the letter A to the letter S of that
monumental work of patient erudition. Her
pretext was that its Compilation occupied
too engrossiugly her husband's time; and
this crowuiug act of literary murder ended
the series of those constant complainings,
whereof, we may imagine, the dictionary
furnished a pivot for her tongue to revolve
upon perpetually. What dismay, akin to
despair, must have seized upon poor Ains-
worlh as he saw the work of years turned to.
ashes in a tricel No wonder that it cost him
' twenty years of life to complete his colossal
undertaking, with such incumbrance upon
his nssrduity !
Upon the strength of a very brief acquaint-
ance, the poet Whycherley married the
Countess of Drogheda, a gushing widow.
who had both money and good looks. Would
that we could say she had an amiable dispo-
sition as Well. But this we cannot say. Lo-
sing Court favor, the poetilost. therewith the
sunshine of his domestic life; for, instead of
supplying the mishap by a genial temper and
the sensible expenditure of her abundant
means, the cf devant Countess rendered Wyc-
hcrley’s misery superlative by her conduct
and conversation. Macaulay thus admirably
sums up the case: ' “Lady Drogheda Was ill.
tempered, imperious, and extravagantly jealv
one. She had herself been a maid of honor
at Whitehall. She well knew in what esti-
mation conjugal fidelity was held among
the fine gentlemen there, and watched her
town husband as assiduously as Mr. Pinch-
wile watched his country wife. The unfor-
tunate wit was, indeed, allowed to meet his,
friends at a tavern opposite to his own house
But on such occasions the windows were_al-
Ways open, in order that her ladyship, who
was posted on thd other side of tile street
might be satisfied that no woman was of the
party. The death of Lady Drogheda releas-
ed the poet‘ from this distress; but a series of
disasters, in rapid succession, broke down his
health. his spirits, and his fortune. His wife
meant to leave him a good property, and left
him only a lawsuit." Many years afterward
at seventy-five, Wycherley, to spite his neph-
ew, married a young girl; but his honey-
moon was s short one, and, before ten days
had elapsed, the old bridegroom was sum-
-moned to the place where they neither mar-
ry nor are given in marriage, and where
shrgws are do trap.
A first-class shrew, essentially, was Sarah,
Duchess of Marlborough ;.ulthough, mayhap
her soldierly lord Wts less the victim of her
temper than were thosewho endured its full-
er force after the Duke's death had left her
no husband to \Vul‘l'y. Handsome, h'gh-
strung, ambitious, and talented, she was none
the less arrogant, irasciblc. and over-bearing;
so much so, indeed, that Alison found it pro-
blematical whether the aided her husband’s
fortunes in after life most, by her influence at
Court, or marred them by the snpcrcilious
demeanor which involved herin continual
quarrels, and, at length entirely alienated the
affections of his sovereign. Taking ofl'ence
one day at the Duke, she determined to pun-
ish him, and, knowing how proud he was of
her beautiful tresses, she sheared them all off
in her fury, and placed them where he could
not fail to notice them,iu the hope of vexing
him. But. haie’s labor was lost ; for the great
man, who always loved her for better than
she deserved, made no ado over the matter;
and, after years had passed, and he; with
them, the spiteful creature discovered the
long-lost locks treasured up by him in his
cabinet among the things he had prized most
highly. When she had done her share to-
ward worrying ont his life, and his will come
to be read. it was found that the Duke had
left her ten thousand pounds, with which to
spoil Blenheim in her own Way. and an ad-
ditional twelve thousand a year “to keep
herself clean withund go to law.” Blenhqim
was a well-p cked bone of contention, cost-
ing three hundred thousand pounds. and
Poustautly keeping the Doctors. and Van,-
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burgh, its architect, in a turmoil of bad tem-
per. Shc would never allow him to enter
the house when finished, and he always call-
ed her “that wicked woman of Marlborough."
When the Duke was lying palsied, beyond
the reach of recovery. the Duchess one day
followed Dr. Garth down stairs, swearing at
him like the ‘veriest trooper, until be effected
'his retreat. We may well believe that al-
though never unnerved by a battle, the great
Captain succumbed and wilted when the
tongue-artillery of this ill-tempered woman
made him its target. She was sharp enough
to detect her own portrait when Pope’s
“Queen Sarah” was read to her (as though
it were intended for the Duchess of Bucking-
ham). “You can’t impose upon me," she said
and hastened to buy its suppression bysend-
log the Twickenham poet a thousand pounds.
Pope pocketed the money. and ungratefully
gave her immortal infamy as Atossa,”s'.e.,
the Insatiable, in his “Characteraof Women,”
One of her grand-daughters, who had dis-
pleased her, was pilloried by having her por-
trait hung in the old bug’s reception-room,
blackened and labelled “She’s blacker far
within." In compiling her Memoirs and
fighting Vanburgh's lawyers she passed her
declining years, and though she gave Nat.
Hooke four thousand pounds for his literary
labor on that production, her liberaliiy was
diluted by the squabbles she all the time kept
up with him about religion. At. last she met
her match. Death summoned her; bntjn-
stead of coming down gracefully, which, of
course, was not to be looked for, she fought
fiercely to the end and then died game.
When the physicians said “she must. be blis-
tered or she will die,” her high mightiness
retorted “I won't be blistered, and I won’t
die." Notwithstanding this, the grim mori-
ster- wore her out. until, finally, with affected
imauct'ance, she muttered that she “cared not
how soon the stroke of .death came.” Life
left her, at length snarling and growling;
and sinking into compulsory silence at eigh-_
ty-fcur, she lets fly this Parthian arrow and
goes down with all sail set: “I think one
can't leave the world at a better time than
now, when there is no such thing as real
friendship, truth, justice, honor, or, indeed,
anything that is agreeable in life.”
A poor husband persecuted by the vixebish
“cussedness” of a compnni n, such as has
been above described, might well wish that a
certain English custom oi'selling wives could
beintroduccd again as a remedial measure.
On an occasion of this kind, as late even as
April 7,1832, at Carliéle, one Mrs. Thomson
was eloquently shuffled off, at public aucticn
by her husband, in. words following to wit:
“Gentlemen. I have to offer to your notice
my wife, Mary Ann Thomson, otherwik
Williams, whom I mean to sell to the high-
est and fairest bidder. Gentlemen, it is her
wish as well as mine to part forever. She:
has been to me only a born serpent. I took
her for my comfort, and the good of my
home; but she became my tormenter. a do-
mestic curse, a night invasion, and a daily
devil. Gentlemen, I speak truth from my
heart, when I say may God deliver us from
troublesome wives and frolicsome women!
Avoid them as you would a mad dog, a roar-
ing lion, a loaded pistol, cholera mcrbus,
Mount Etna, or any other pestilential thing
in nature. Now, I have shown youths. dark
side of my wife, and told you her faults and
failings, I will introduce the bright and sunny
side of her, and explain her qualifications
and goodness. She can read novels and milk
cows; she can laugh and weep with the
some ease that you could take a glass of ale
when thirsty. Indeed, gentlemen, she re-
minds me of what the poet says of women in
general: 1
Heaven granted to woman the peculiar grace
To laugh, to weep, to cheat the human race.
She can make butter and scold the maid;
she can sing Moore’s Melodies, and plait her
frills and caps; she cannot make rum, gin or
whiskey, but she is a good judge of the qual-
ity from long experience in tastlng them. I
therefore offer her with all her' imperfections
and for the sum of fiflyshllliugs." It is proper
to add that the account of this curiOus per_
formance concludeswith the statement that
after waiting about an hour,Thomson knock-
ed down the lot to one Henry Meats, for
twenty shillings and a Newfoundland dog;
they then parted in perfect good temper—
Mears and the woman going one way, Thom-
son and the dog another. Such an arrange-
ment seems to throw into the shadQus re-
gards swiftuess and certainty, even the far-
famed facilities of the Indiana law of divorce.
Another English invention for the cooling
Off of shrews a‘nd-scolds, was the docking
stool, respecting which Chambers, in his ad-
mirable “Book of Days," has presented many
curious particulars. The London Evening
Post of. April 27, 1745, gives a record of one
or the latest inflictions of this peculiar pun-
ishment. “Last week,” says the Post, “a wo
man that keeps the Queen's HeadAle-House
at Kingston, in Surrey, was ordered by the
court to be ducked for scolding, and was, ac-
cordingly placed in the chair, and ducked in
the river Thames, under Kingston bridge, in
the presence of 2,000‘or 3,000 people." The
details of the performance are thus do cribtd
by M. Missou, a peripatetic Frenchman, who
visited England about the year 1700, and
whose range of observation happened to in-
clude an occasion of the kind referred to:
_ “This method of punishing scolding wo-
men is funny enough. They fasten an arm
chair to the end of two strong beams, twelve
or fifteen feet long, and parallel to each other.
The chair hangs upon a sort of axle, on
which it plays freely, so as alway to rcmaiu
in the horizontal position. Tire scold being
well fastened in her chair, the two beams are
theaplaced, as near to the centre as pos‘sible
across a post on the water side, and being
lifted up behind. the chair, of course, drops
into the cold element. The ducking is re-
peated according to the degree of shrewish.
ncss possessed by the patient, and generally
has the effect of cooling her immoderate heat
at least for a time.”
Still another device for pivot-tongued fem-
ininity—and English, too, at that—was the
molds bridle, or brank, which is mentioned
by Dr. Plat, in his History of Staffordshire,
in these terms: “They have an artifice at
Newcastle-under-Lyne and Walsall for cor-
recting of scolds, which it does 86 effectually
that I look upon it as much to be preferred
to the ducking-stool, which not only endan-
gers the health of the party. but also gives the
tongue liberty 'twixt every dip, to neither of
which this is at all liable—it being such a
bridle for the tongue as not only quite de-
prives them of speech, but brihgs shame for
the transgression, and humility thereupon
before it is taken off; which being put upon
the offender, by order of the magistrate. and
fastened with a padlock behind, she is led
around the town by an officer, to her shame,
nor is it. taken 03‘ till after the party begins
to show all external signs‘ imaginable of hu-
miliation and amendment.” This bridle, or
break, we are told by Chambers, had a. quite
formidable look, and consisted of hoops of
metal passed around the neck and head,
Opening by means of hinges at; the sides; and
closed by a staple with a padlock at the back;
a plate within the hoop, projecting inward,
pressed upon the tongue, and formed an of
it-ctuul gag. ,
We have spoken of a few individuals pauci
ea: mum's, whom history has held up on high
as monsters among men's wives. Others
might easily be added. to the list; butwu re-
frain. And yet,with what serene satisfaction
will the reader, whether married or single
recall to mind the fact that even the most
limited circle of acquaintance does not ex-
clude examples of shrewishnesa in private
life; and how rejoicingly some of us may lay
the flattering auction to our souls that amer‘
ciful Providence has spared us this infliction.
Immunity in such a case is highest happiness.
Ignorance hereis bliss, indeed; for be who
in respect of shrews, increaseth knowledge
increaseth sorrow, and. if in the enjoyment
of peace and quietness at home, we may be-
lieve and boast, with Prior:
From ignorance our comfort flows ;
The only wretched are the wise.
-FRANK W. BALLARD.
Noroton, Conn.
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I KNEW HE WOULD coma—A few years
ago, in New Orleans, when the yellow fever
was prevailing there, a gentleman saw a lit-
tle boy lying in the sun in the grass, on the
outskirts of the city. He said: “Dear boy,
what are you doing there i” The boy,
opening his eyes and smiling sweetly, said,
“I am just waiting till God comes and takes
ms.” “Why, what do you mean ?" “My
father was very sick,” he replied, "and God
’toolr him away. Then He came and took
mother. Nobody was left in the house but
sister Funny, and we were so lonely. Then
God took Fanny, too, and I was allalone, so
I came out here to \wait till God comes to
take me too, for I know He will come. Moth-
er told me I must be patient, that God would
soon take me; and my mother never told me
a lie, so I know He will come i” The gen-
tleman said, “God has. sent me to take you,
so come with Inc.” The boy joyfully rose
and took his hand, saying, “I knew He would
come, my motlur said He would, but I though
He was a long time coming 1”
.‘Q-.
THE HumoN RIVER Summon BRIDGE.
—The following is the statement of the en-
gineer who is to superintend the construction
of the suspension bridge across the Hudson.
at St. Anthony’s Nose: . .
Clear span, 1,600 feet; length of bridge be-
tween the towers, 1,665; total length of bridge
including approaches, 2,499; height of bridge
above high water, 155; working safe load for
the railroad lines, 2,400 tons; working life
load for the highways, 2,880 total safe load
for the bridge, 5,280; load that wbuld break
the bridge, 25,161. The bridge will early at
one time 82 passenger cars ; the bridge would
carry safely 38,569 people, and a train of 60
locomotives, it they could all be on it at once;
53 locomotives and 18,000 would fill it.
There are to be 20 cables in 4 systems; each
cable will be about 14 inches diameter; the
cables contain 371,105,750 feet or steel wire,
or about 70,802 miles of steel wire; total
weight ot'iron and steel in the bridge, 17,005 '
tons; total amount of masonry, 58,084 cubic
yards; total suspended weight, 9,651 tons;
height of towers above water, 280 feet. The
bridge will leave the water way of the river
untouched.
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THE AMERICAN GIRL—It is the belief of
certain well-meaning men .who were not born
inConstantinople, that if the American girl
were called on to meet a proportion of her
expenses by her own labor, she would be
publicly at greater blessing, and personally
healthier, wiser, and happier. It Is even be-
lieved that her outlay, instead of increasing,
would diminish. Practiced in the mystery
of keeping accounts, aware by experience of
the difficulty of earning money, she would
become clever enough to save it. With some
thing to do, she would put less mind, time,
and purse into the pursuit of pleasgre. Ma-
ted at last with a poor man, (so many are in-
corrigibly vicious that way 1) she would share
his burden rather than crush him with it. If
all women now were thus, we should have
no cause to cry, as we are sometimes tempt-
ed to do: Oh! for the slow but cheap girl of
thirty years since! Whether democracy is
capable of some such self-saving miracle as
we have indicated remains to be seen.
Nation.
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A WARNING T0 Panama—Parents and
guardians of children should bear in mind
that the little ones are born with very differ-
ent constitutions and temperaments. While
there are some children who bear considera-
ble flogging with no sense of humiliation, and
but little physical pain, others of a. delicate
nervous organization shrink from a cruel
word as from a blow, and each stripe from
a parent’s hand cuts to the soul, and inflicts
wounds which may never heal. So with
other methods of punishment. Some chil-
dren being shut up in a dark closet will cool-
ly improve the opportunity to have a treat
from the preserve or pickle jars, or enjoy a
good rap; while (there may die horn
fright, or are thrown into spasms. The latest
case of injudicious punishment is that which
occurred in Hudson City, New Jersey, when
a son of Andrew Jackson was charged by
his mother with stealing twenty-five cents,
and'the father on chastising him had only
struck the second blow when the boy sank
down and almost immediately expired. The
boy was but- nine years old. The grief of
the father is, of course, intense at the fatal-
result of what he intended for the boy’s ref-
ormaiion, as he was a very indulgent parent.
The trouble is that so few people, with
strong constitutions and phlegmatic temper-
merits, can realize and make proper allow. ’
ances for that shrinking self—consciousness
and“ nervous susceptibility; which aflicts
many adults and children and is punishment
enough of itself without being aggravated
by the unthinking harshness of coarser,
rougher, and in some cases, more. brutal air.
fares. ‘
0d.»-
Q‘ While Noah was planting his vine-
yard the devil camoto him and said, “What
are you doing here 1” Noah replied, “Plant- '
ing a vineyard." “What is the use of a
vineyard ‘2" inquiredfire devil. Said Noah,
“Its fruit, whether fresh or dry; (grapes or
raisins) is sweet and good,and Its winaglad-
dens the heart.” “Let us work it on shares,"
says the devil. “Agreed,” says Noah. Now
what does the devil do? He brings a lion,
a lamb, a hog, and a monkey, sacrifices them,
and thingies the blood with the soil. There-
fore,“ a' man cats only of the fruit of the
vincyard, he is as innocent and nice as a
lamb; if he drinks 'wine, he thinks himself a
iron When he is not, and fallsinto mischief;
if he drinks habitually, he becomes unselfish
and unmannerly as a hog; if he gets drunk
he jarbbers and jumps about, and is silly and
nasty like a monkey.
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—-Thr finishing strokes in breakingup the
old sloop-05W” John Adams are taking
place on the marine railway in Fairhaven,
M ass; She was purchassed from the govern-
ment; for $10,000, and it has cosruooom
tear her to pieces, but her present owners
will get enough old copper and iron from
her, with many good pieces of live o‘ak lim-
he), to give them a profit. Her keel isaa
good, today as when she was built, flfiyyeal’s
ago or more. Some of the copper bolts pas-
sing through her stern dead wood were over
tell feet long.
-—Of fourteen furoboxes captured by the
St Louis police, the other day, eleven were.
mum) to be more swrndling machincl, Cun-
raining more than thaprbper number of
cards with curiously ioutrivsd W “a
l ballad b’y do hair.
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