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j NORWALK CONNECTICUT, TUESDhY, NOVEMBER-15.1870. ‘
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ALEx. s. GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church.
FROM THE CITY OI!I NEW YORK,
Teacher of the , ,
Piano-Porto, Organ and Musical Corn-
sltion.
Box 372 P. 0. 'Norwalk, Conn.
In New York, care Peloubet, Pelton d7 00., 841.
Broadway.
FRED. H. NASH,
(Organist Trinity Church, Bridgeporf,)
Teacher of Music,
In Bridgeport on Tuesdays and Fridays. Norwalk
eye.
on Thurs Westport, Mondays and Saturdays.
J. BELDEN IIUBLIIUTT,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
ROOM No. 4, (Up Stairs,) GAZETTE BUILDING
WILLIAM 'A. DALTON,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
IIIILI'S Ill“, Sllll‘l'll IIIIWALI. 81'.
611123 3m'
Also, Practicing in New York Courts.
R. CAKES, II. D. from the R0 al
. Opthalmic Infirmato , ndon Physic an
and Surgeon for the Eye an Eat, and Catarrhal
Diseases olvthe Lun s, Fauces and Nasal passages,
also Nervous maia es of all kinds, partlcularlythose
ad'ectlug Females. All of which he has made his
a coin! study, and successful practice more than
thirty years. Can be consn ted (gratis) at his
office, over the Storeof Kna p & Dickerman, Wash-
lu ton St., South Norwalk, rom0 A. 11., to 9 r. as.
he Dr. will visit patients during the day, when
required. ' 1y45
‘DB. .I. G. HARBOUR,
D E N as Is a: ,
’ NORWALK, CONN.
Office in Gazette Bullding,Room No. 8, over Jack-
sonBro's store. .
Nitrous oxide or Laughing Gas, administered when
desired.
PATENT AGENCY.
WILLIE VINE,
Agent and Solicitor of Patents,
Mechanical Draughtsman and
MODEL manure,
1y? Winnipauk, Conn.
C. s. LOCKWOOD, .
Fashionable Draperk’l‘allor
AND
Gentlemens Furnishing Emporium,
Maln Street, Norwalk, Conn.
\
AGENT FOR THE
Singer Manufacturing Co’s
First Premium Sewing Machine,
The best Machine for general work.
ELBEBT CURTIS,
Merchant Tailor,
Curtis’s Building, Main Street, Norwalk, Ct
Gents' and Youth’s Clothing cut and made to order,
at short notice, of the best materials, in the 1 test
styles, by \experienced workmen. Prices reasona le.
Etna Insurance Co. of Hartford,
Incurporated 1319, Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $5,052,880 19
insures against loss and damage by Fire, on terms
adapted to the hazard, and consistent with
the laws of com ensatiou.
GEORGE R. C WLES, .
Sole Agent for Norwalk and vicinity.
Nor-walk Insurance Company.
. NORWALK, CONN.
Cash Capital, '
Paid up Capital, $100,000
Wu. C. Srnusr, President, Gao. It. Cownss, Scc'y.
' EnEN. HILL, Treasurer.
$500,000
ASSETS OVER $25,000,000.
GEO. R. COWLEs,
AGENT at N orwalk, and issues policies for the fol-
lowing Insurance Companies.
Etna, of Hartford, Assets ’Jan. lot, ’08, 5,052,880
Home, of N Y‘, “ “ “ “ 3,130,931
theuix, of N. Y., " “ " “ 1,555,567
Home, of N. H., “ " ‘I “ 1,533,219
Security, of N. Y.. 5‘ " " “ 1,477,677
International, N. Y., “ “ “ “ 1,128,012
S ringfleld F. ch LL, “ “ “ ” 781,067
oukers .b N. Y., “ “ “ “ 734,380
North American N. Y. “ “ “ “ 702,162
Putnam, 110., “ " ‘- “ 018,198
Lamar, N. Y., “ “ “ “ 509,903
Commerce, Albany N. Y., " “ " 568,873
Western Buffalo, N. Y., “ “ “ 553,257
Merchants Hd., “ “ “ “ 418,309
North America, H’d, “ “ “ ‘ 401,274
Norwich, “ “ “ “ 470,949
People’s. Worcester, “ “ ” “ 400.000
Baltic of N. Y. “ “ “ 279,146
Commonwealth N. Y.,“ “ " “ 280,000
Westchester of New Rochelle N. Y., 200,000
Peoples of Middletown, Conn., 115,000
Enterprise of Cincinnati, 1,000,000
And other Companies, Stock and Mutual, in Connecti-
ent, Massachusetts and New York. At So. Nor-
walk, application may be made to WM. T. CRAW.
SOUTH NORWALK
Planing M111 Co.
Builders and others are informed that this Compaf
ny are now prepared to execute in the best manner,
at short notice, all kinds of
Steam Sawing,
Scroll Sawing,
_ Planing,
and Turning.
They will also furnish on the most reasonable terms
all kinds of
Lumber and Timber,
. and manufacture to order,
Sash,
Bl in da,
Doors, Etc.
BA LUSTEBS, NEWELS. &C.,
for Stairs and Railings, and
Black Walnut, Ash, Cherry,Whlte wood
. M" kept constantly on hand.
Prompt attention given to orders. Works near the
Steamboat Landing, SOUTH NORWALK.
C. F. TOLLES,
D. R. AU slum} R. I. TOLLES, Treasurer.
R. I. TOLLES -
J. U. CARIER
NNOUNCES to the ubllc that h h fitt
room in FRED. BUCKWOODES nHUILUSIIu Gt,
lilopposite the Horse Car Depot, where he
Room No.
is customers as before anything in the
will serve
line of
BOOTS w SHOES
‘ 'llllESAlE All IE‘I‘IIl, ‘
Cheap for Cash.
NOTICE.
Nor-walk. Dye Works.
‘THE subscriber would inform the ublic that he
will still continue to receive orders or Dyeing all
kinds of goods, as heretofore, at his office foot of
Mill Hill. He has made arrangements to have the
work executed at the noted Staten Island Dye Works,
until he can rte-establish his own Works, recently de-
stroyed by lire. A continuance of the public atro.
page is solicited. R. N. PERIIY-
Gas
AND
Steam Fitting.
~M'._ CLOVER, at his works on River Street, is
prepared to fill all orders in the above line.
with promptness and at low rates. He invites spec-
ial attention to “The American Submerged Force
Pum ,"for which hels Agent. It is doubledcting,
non~ eezing, and proves-to be the cheapest, most
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efficient, durable and reliable pump in use.
FLOUR, by the barrel or load. ‘
G. a 8. H. HOLMES. .
R EAL ESTATE.
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Desirable Place for Sale.
E subscriber offers for sale her very desirable
Tnplace, situated on Van Zant Avenue, Down
Town near the new bridge. The place comprises a
Dwelling House, 11 rooms, and a lot 200x70, well
stocked with fruit; water in abundance. Terms easy,
A ply to JAMES MlTCHE Real Estate Agent,“
'b the rem ses.
33min 8mm 9' °n puns. JOSEPHJONES.
‘ For Sale. "
T WILTON—Dwelling, Barn and three acres of
A. Land on Main Street near depot, churches. etc.
AT SOUTH NOBWALK- House, Barn and 3“ acre
of Land on the corner of Chestnut and Henry streets
fronting 150wa on Chestnut and 75 on Henry Street.
Inquire of THOS. C. POST, on premises, at South
Norwalk, or of W. POST, Grnman Hill, Wilton. 0m”
- VERY VALUABLE
'IIUILDING LOTS FOR SALE.
E subscriber has six Building Lots for sale,
«situated on the Isaac S. Beers property, and
fronting south. Two especially desirable, fronting
on West Avenue. Also two lots adjoining the rest-
dence of Oliver Clark. Also two lots on Fair streeta
west of the Catholic Cemetery. All 'will be 501
cheap, and on accommodating terms. Applz to
«ti JAMES FINNEY, Real Esta e gent.
Valuable PTopérty for Sale.
Ill ma IIIll, IUIWALI.
ITUATED near the residences of Messrs. John
S H. Knapp and David Low, consisting of two
good Dwelling Houses two Barns excellent Garden
and an abundance of Water. Will be sold in whole.
or in part, to suit purchasers; very cheap if applied
for soon. Also, one other tract of six acres, elegant-
! situated near the residence of Gen. Taylor, on
lax Hill. Terms For particulars enquire of
JAMES MITCHELL eal Estate Agent, or on the
premises, of JOHN BU . 1m
FOR SALE.
“masonic um
'most of them on high groun'd, an heaut’ifulgy sha-
ded. For terms, .bc. agplyfio JAMES F
Norwalk, or of Mrs. Tin al 114 West 88th Street,
New York. Also wood and stone for sale. 3m'35
CHANCE FOR'POOR MEN TO
SECURE -A HOME. “I!
film}: 'Etl'lliilé'.‘llll‘l§2.ii flit“ -
each, for sale ror'ssoo. 810 to 825 down, and 85 to
810 per month payments. Apply at Game Omen.
Farm For Sale. _ .
THE subscriber ofi‘ers for sale his Farm, situated on
Comstock’s Hill, two miles from Norwalk Bridge.
The farm consists of thirty acres of good Meadow,
Wood and Pasture land; There is a large “
and Barn latel built. For further particulars en-
quire of JAS. M TCHELL, Real Estate Agent, or of
the. subscriber on the premises.
LEGRAND COMSTOCK.
For Sale or to Let.
HAT neat and very commodious Cottage on
Union Avenue, recently occupied by the subscri-
ber Hot and Cold Water, Gas, Furnace, Baths,
Water Closet, . Will be sold less than its cost, or
rented to a goo tenant on reasonable terms.
A. H. BYINGTON.
For Sale.
HREE very desirable BUILDING LOTS within
T five minutes walk of the Bridge, situated on
Plymouth Avenue ; also, two good ones at North Nor-
walk. For particulars enquire of R. L. ELLS.
BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE.
HE subscriber 06ers for sale, on very resenable
terms, a number of the choices}, and most desi-
rable Building Lots in the town of Norwaik, situated
on high ground, (Prospect Hill), near and of easy ac-
cess from the villa e, and commands a fine and un-
obstructed view of t e town, harbor. Long Island and
Sound. A good avenue, 50 feet wide, has been laid
out in front of the pro erty. Is within five minutes’
walk of the Horse Rai road Size of lots to suit pur-
chasers; no fancy prices. For further articulars en-
quire of . JESSE D NTON,
28 or JAMES FINNEY, Real Estate Agent.
“BUILDING LOTS.”
THE undersigned ofi‘cr for Sale some of the most
desirable building sites in the village, lying along
the slope northwest of Union Park, convenient to the
village and easy of access, having an extensive view
of the village mid harbor, prices low and terms easy.
Apply to A. H. BYINGTON,
S. E. OLMSTEAD. _
E. K. LOCKWOOD.
Norwalk. Sept. 21, 1868.
For Sale or to Lease.
THE residence of the undersigned, at Five Mile
River Landing, fronting on tide water. Pos—
session given atonce if desired, The main house
contains a hall and five rooms. besides attic and cel-
lar ; the extension, nine rooms besides basement
and cellar.
The lot is 150x175—two wells of good water, gar-
den, frult, &C. Price 85,000—or will lease fora or
5 years at 8500 per annum.
For Sale-Choice bulldln g plots contiguous to
the above, unequaled in location. Apply to Mr. A.
Dibble or to the subscriber, E. R. PENNOYER.
Box 50, Orange, N. J. ti‘0
- For Sale.
ONE LOT on Golden Hill next to new house of H.
H. ELWELL, 80 feet front by 217 feet in depth.
Apply to LEWIS F. BEERS, Trustee, or GEORGE
W. RAYMOND, South Norwalk. Conn. tf26
Mill Property
FOR SALE.
HE subscriber offers for sale his Mil. Properfy sit-
uated in West Norwalk, about two miles from
Darien Depot, three miles from South Norwalk, and
two miles from New Canaan, consisting of a manu-
factory, two stories high, 86x18 feet, with about 12
feet head and fall of water, with three acres of land,
now used as a Saw Mill but suitable for a manufactu-
ry of any kind. Termsrasy and price low. Enquire
of JAMES FINNEY, Real Estate Agent, Norwalk,or
of the subscriber, CHAUNCEY STREET.
West Nor-walk, Sept. 25, 1869. 3%;
Real Estate for Sale.
THE land belonging to 'the.estate of George W.
Raymond, compr singsome of the most desira-
ble property in South Norwalk, is now ofi'ered for sale
at a bargain by the trustee of that estate. Apply to
LEWIS F. BEERS, Trustee, GEORGE W. RAY-
gIOND and CHESTER F. TOLLES, South Norwatig,
anti. 6
For Sale or to Rent.
THE Place owned by the subscriber near the San-
gatuck Depot of the N. Y. &N. H. R. R. in the
Town of West art. The place consists of a hand-
some Cottage ouse, with Barn and other out-build-
ngs; has a fine garden with an abundance of good
fruit. If desire , can also be had in connection with
his place, a quantity of farm and pasture land.
Possession given immediately and terms easy.
For further particulars enquire of
‘ MARTIN GRACE.
it15 Norwalk, Conn.
_ _ NAsII a; IVES,
Real Estate Agents,
No. 12 MAIN STREET,
PROPERTY bought, sold, exchanged or let, on rea-
sonable terms. We have a good variety of desira-
ble Houses and Fame in and out of town for sale on
accommodating terms. th2
War. R. Nasn. NA'ruAN Ivns.
JAMES FINNE Y,
Real Estate Agent, Licensed Auction-
eer, Constable, Collector, Ace.
RATEFULLY returns thanks for the very liberal
patornage heretofore extended him by a gener-
ous public, and solicits a continuance of the same.
He has taken a desk at J. B. Hurburt’s Law
Office, Room No. 4 Gazette Building, where he
can hereafter be found, or orders can be eft. He will
lve rompt attention to the buying and selling of
cal state, renting of places, Auctioneering of real
» and personal property, the collection of debts, &c.,
and will make every reasonable exertion to please all
who may favor him with their patronage.
JAMES MITCHELL,
REAL ESTATE BROKER
AND
AUCTIONEER,
OFFICE MITCHEL L’s BLOCK,
WALL STREET,
NORWALIK , CONN.
CITY RESIDENCES,
Farms and Country Seats,
. Bought, Sold, Rented and Exchanged, ’
REAL ESTATE, STOCKS,
FURNITURE., are,
at public and private sale.
AUCTION SAL ES 0F HOUSES, LOTS, FARMS,
AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.
Sales of Furniture, at Owner’s
‘ Residences.
Houses to Rent
Furnished or Unfurnished.
PLACES FOR SALE VARYLNG IN PRICE,
from 35.000 to 850,000
Al orders left at the UNION MARKET. Mitchel’s
Block, Nor-walk, Conn. will receive prompt attention.
. J A MES, MITCHELL.
IF you want a good STOVE or a RANGE or an _.
thing else in the HOUSEKEEPING LINE go {a
- BELDEN’S.
For Sale-
THE old Homestead formerly owned by Ilenr
Fitch, near the residence of Mr Stoglhen Raymou
is oflered for sale. The place Is beaut llyilocated on
East Avenue, containiu about eight acres good land
with a never fallin we I of water and fruit In abun-
dance. Will be so (1 at a bargain if applied for soon.
Terms easy. In uire of DANIEL ‘CH, Down
Town, or D. W. ITClI, West Avenue corner Mer-
wln Street. , 3
FOR SALE.
HE well-known propert in the city of South
Norwalk now occu le by James Lucas, and
known as the [IRAS III E , is offered for sale. Its
nearness to the do of, and coatiou on Main Street,
makes it one of t s most desirable business laces
in this part of the county. It will be sold w th or
without the furniture on resonable fei ms. For par-
ticulars enquire of JAMES MITCHELL, Real Estate
Agent, or on the premises, of JAMES LUCAS. am
For Sale or to Rent.
HE RESIDENCE ofihe subscriber, situa-
T fed on Camp Street, Norwalk, Conn. House
contains ten rooms besides closets, attic and cellar.
Furnace and gas pipes throughout. Lot 120x200ft.
with good garden and abundance ofFruit. Loca-
tion every way desirable. and place In good repair'
For farther particulars enquire of
Hon. WM. C. STREET, or on the premises.
f4 MRS. A. H. WILCOXSON.
_A Rare Chance to Purchase a
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY RESIDENCE.
HE well known“Lounsbury Place,”beautlfull 10-
T cated at Winnlpank, one and one-half miles rom
Norwalk Drid e, is offered for sale. The place com-
prises a fine welllng extensive Barn, Ont-houses,
do” and five acres of rg‘ood land; the Danbury I;
Norwalk, Railroad runs rectly past the rear of the
lace, and there are four trains daily to New York.
e place is too well known to require further de-
scription. , To be sold with or without furniture as
ma be desired. Price low; terms easa. Enquire of
JAMES FINN EY Real Estate Agent, azette Build-
ing or JAMES MITCHELL, Real Estate Agent, at
Union Market. ~ . _ 83H
- FOR SALE.
lNG LOTS frontln on Union Park - from
BUISEUOO to $1,500 each; logation first-elassfter‘pé:
easy, CHARLES P. TURNEY.
House and Lot at South Norwalk
FOR SALE.
HE homestead now occupied by George It. Bal-
lcy, containing one acre or more of land. beau-
tifully located, having an extensive view of the bar-
bor and village; abuiqdanoe fiffwafer, frailt‘,e $11223,“
be sold at a bar ain app ic or soon. ' .
Enquire of DA ID H. GEDNEY,S. E. OLMSTEAD
or GEORGE 0. KEELER. ,
Norwalk, Jan. 17, 1870.
Also, one other Hons-eh—IIILot, on Ely Neck Road,
well located, will be sold at a bargain. New; Just
complgted.
HOMES FOR THE MILLION 2
One Hundred Building Lots.
HE SUBSCRIBER has for sale One Hundred Build-
T ing Lots within eight minutes walk of South
Norwalk depot, at LOCKWOODVILLE. Parties
wishing to purchase may have a lot with a house built
thereon by paying a small amount.1n cash, balance on
mortgage, or may purchase a lot Without anyimprove-
ment, for a small percentage of the purchase money
in cash,balance on mortgage. Price of Lots from One
Hundred to il‘hree HundredDollozfiz I twill helpleased
show the ots to an rson w in 0 pure use.
m . y pa w1LLIA1i T. CRAW,
Real Estate Agency, over F. B. Purdy’s Drug Store.
Norwalk, Aug. 24th, 1808. 35
For Sale.-
ONE of the most desirable places on Long Island
Sound, situated in the town of Westporl, In
Green‘s Farms district, known as the “De Peyster
Place," containing ten acres, With a first class coun-
. try residence, good barns, carriage houses. ice house,
etc. is ofi'ered for sale, together with all the House-
hold Furniture, carriages horse, cow and poultry.
The place is stocked with a great abundance of all
kinds of fruit, including apples pears, rapes,
peaches, strawberries, raspberries, blackberr es, cur-
rants, gooseberries, etc. The land is dmded into
six acres of meadow, one acre of onions, one acre of
potatoes, two acres of lawn and. homestead. Pos-
session given immediately lf desired. Price 815,000.
For further particulars enquire of
JAMES I ITCHELL, Real Estate Agent and Auc-
tioneer, Norwalk, Conn., or of the proprietor on the
premises. ROBERT G. L. DE PEYSTER, ,
VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE,
‘ IN WILTON. CONN.
Known as the BELDEN FARM.
ITUA'I‘ED one-half mile from the Railroad Depot,
containing about 150 acres of land under good
cultivation, with Dwelling House, out-buildings, etc.,
is ofi'ered for sale.
Also, the Stock and Farming Utensils,
Apply to JAMES MITCHELL,
Real Estate Agent, Union Market, Norwalk.
SPLEN D ID
3111161118 Sites
For Sale, of one-third:acre and upwards near the pew
“ RIVERSIDE DEPOT,”
At the east end of Cos-Cob Bridge. The property is
beautifully situated, has a fine water front on the bar-
bor, and is only two minutes’ walk from all trains to
New York, EXPRESS INCLUDED. Apply to 'or
address J. W. ATWATER, Cos-Cob Bridge, Conn.
A Good and Cheap Farm for Sale.
THE farm of the late Daniel Leavenworth, Esq,,
Pleasantly situated in a good neighborhood in
the Town of Monroe, on the d rect road from Brid e-
port to Danbury, and conveniently located to schoo s,
churches, depot, and market. Said farm contains
148 acres, a good dwelling of eleven rooms, a good
barn, one old cider mill (now used for barn). The
soil is loam bottom and well watered. There is an
abundance of wood, some of which is very nice.
There was on the farm last year from 125 to 140 bush-
els apples. Tiny one wishing a pleasant home and a
good productive form will do well to look at this
place. Possession given immediately. -Price 84,200,
a part of which can remain on bond and mort a e, if
desired. For further particulars enquire of 11' ER
13. PARMLEE, Terrilville, Conn. '1‘. K. HUBBELL,
Wilton, Conn. orJA ES MITCHELL, Real Estate
Agent, Norwalk, Conn. -
Q A. JACKSON a: 1:30.,
No. 1 Gazette Building.
OULD invite the attention of their old customer
and the public generally to their varied and ex
tensivc stock of
WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER WARE, FANCY
Goons, SILVER PLATED WARE, &C.,
which was selected with great care and is not to be
surpassed in Fairfield County. in quality or price.
Constant additions are made of all the latest styles of
goods. A. JACKSON & BRO,
' CARRIAGE MAKING.
HE subscribers would inform their friends and the
people in eneral that they are still to be found
at their new s op 'on Hoyt Street, where they have
increased facilities for the Manufacture and Repair-
ing of Carriages and Wagons of all descriptions.
Good Carriage Timber taken in exchange for work.
Auous'rfis LYON
lyll
WILLIAM YOULE:
Plumbing and Roofing.
THE subscriber havingbought out' the stock and
Fixtures of Jarvis H. Knapp is prepared to do
all kinds of
PLUBMING,
TIN ROOFING, FURNACE WORK.
GUTTERS AND LEADERS
made and put up.
IROOFS REPAIRED AT SHORT NOTICE.
ALSO, IUIIIII II All KINDS II! III, SHEET
IIIUI Alli COPPEI'WAIIE.
JAMES M. BOYER,
Basement of Raymond’s New Building, corner of
Main and Hoyt Street. 15
Festivals, Pic-N101, Sailing Parties,
&c., furnished with
BEER,
SODA WATER
‘ AND
SARSAPARILLA,
in any desired quantity, by ‘
S. GRUMMAN, Manufacturer,
, under Raymond’s new )uiiding. Main St., Norwalk.
NEW STORE
. THE subscribers have taken the store in Quintard’s
Block, recently occupied by the Post Office, and
are now prepared to serve the public with a general
assortment of .
Choice Groceries,
Flour, Feed, Grain,
which they will sell at
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
at the lowest market rates.
Every effort made to please. . Patrons solicited.
SELLEC BRO’S.
GEO. WARD SELLECK, ~
AS REMOVED HIS
Family Grocery
To Prowltt’s New Building, Main Street. where he
will be happy to serve out Choice Groceries, Flour,
Provisions, c., in large or small quantities. Drop
in and see us in our new store.
Foote’s at Store
NOW EADY,
Young Men's Fall 8. Wintei Styles
$11K Hats.
' Always on hand, .
SOFT HATS.BLACK it LIGHT COLORS,all shapes
S'i‘IFF FELT HATS. latest st les,
CLOTH HATS AND CAPS. a lgrades.
SILKTHATS MADE TO'OBDER
To suit individual style. .
Purchasers ofSllk Hats can have their hats lroue
at any time Free of Charge. Si of BIG- HAT, at
gnfilpp’: Block,‘ opposite Cong’l C arch, So. Norwalk.
a an - ' -
N. 11.03301: Hats remodelled into present shapes.
6t! .
‘ inm line. C. M.
Hay, Straw, ete.,
DENTISTRY IN SOUTH NURWALK.
FOR FOUR DAYS OF EACH WEEK,ONLY, Dr
Kendall will continue the Dental business as,for-
mcrly. at his oldstand, Sword’s Bulldin . Office will
be closed Mondays and Saturdays. Dr. eudall being
in Ridgeficld. We extract teethwith or without the
use of LAUGHING GAS. '
Wednesdays we devote entirely to extracting Teeth
WITHOUT PAIN.
The principal Operator in Colton’s Dental Association
has repeatedly declared that South Norwulk is the best
place within his knowledge, (out of Cooper Unlon) to
have teeth extracted.
r-We particular-y invite those who may desire
ARTIFICIAL TEETH,
to examine our manner of work and ideas before
procurln them elsewhere. Teeth fille in the most
approve manner. Those partially broken away by
decay. restored to their former size and shape.
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HE subscriber would respectfully inform the clt-
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isfaction to all his customers.
He will give special attention to Boys Garments us
well as those of gentlemen. Persons bringing their
own cloth can have the same cut or made up, in an ar-
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Angry Words.
Angry words are lightly spoken,
In a rash and thoughtless hour;
Brightest links in life are broken
By their deep, insidious power;
Hearts inspired by warmest feeling "
Ne'er before by anger stirred,
0ft are rent past human healing
By a single angry word.
Poison drops of care and sorrow,
Bitter poison drops are they, _
Weaving for the coming marrow
Saddest memories of to-dsy.
Angry wards, 0, let them never
From the tongue unbridled slip;
May the heart's best impulse ever
Check them ere they sell the lips.
— fiend-e,» “Iran's-«Max
L.-..s.. A.-.” . ..
Love is much too pure and holy,
Friendship is too sacred far, ‘ 4‘
For a moment's reckless folly ».
Thus to desolate and mar. ,
Angry words are lightly spoken, . ' 1‘
Bitterest thoughts are rushly stirred,
Brightest links in life are broken
By a single angry-word.
' 5522::
So Much of Life Behind llle Lies.
written by Rev. Wm. G’Richards:
So much of life behind me lies, -
My heart grows folntjwlth sorrow;
That each fo-day the swifter files, :9
And sooner comes to-morrow. ,_ is
I
I marvel much that once I deemed V
Time’s azu're wings were leaden; :
And on life's boundless ether seemed
Youth’s ecstacies to deaden. '
While now my precious days glide on,
Than all fieet symbols faster;
With fortune gay, scarce quicker gone,
Than gloomlng with disaster. . ’
It is not that my life has brought-
Of its young life fruition;
Its warp, alasl is thick iuwrought I
With crossings of ambition.
Not that my days have all beeu‘good-
I mourn them few and fleeting;
Meagre, I own, their gains than would '
Be worth their pooz' repeating.
And this a double worth bestows
On hours as yet uusquande'red;
Priceless to him the sunset grows,
Who the long day has wandered.
A wanderer and a ioiferer I,
For whom life's shadows lengthen;
Above me shine the summits high,
Around me fetters strengthen.
I cannot reach their goloeu crests,
The while I strive receding;
My soul impatient while it rests,
Weep, o’cr each moment speeding.
So much to do, so far to climb,
So little learned at fifty! _
Ah! youth is prodigal of time,
Age, only. makes us thrifty.
The silver gleams that In our locks ~
Art suusot's pale forerglances,
Teach us that deeds, not beating clocks, ‘
Mark iltly Time’s advances.
What’s then to do since time will run,
And graves and earth’s ambitions 7
‘ This first, this only, is well done-—
To live for heaven’s fruitless,
m
‘A KORAK WEDDING.
On the following morning at daybreak
we continued our journey, and rode unfil
four hours after dark, over a boundles level
steppe, without a single guiding landmark
to point the way. I wassur rise to see how
accurately our drivers coal determine the
points of the compass and shape their course
by simply looking at the snow. . The heavy
northeast winds which prevailed in this lo-
cality throughout the winter sweep the
snow into long wave-like ridges, called
“ sastrngee," which are always perpendicu-
lar to the course of the wind, and-which al-
most invariably run in a northwest and
southeast direction. They areisomefimes
hidden for a few days by freshly-fallen
snow; but an experienced Koqu can al-
ways tell by removing the upper in or which
way is north, and he travels, .fo destina-
line.
We reached the third encampment about
six o’clock, and upon entering the largest
fenf we were surprised to find it crowded
with natives, as if in expectation of some
ceremony or entertain cut. . Inquiry
through our interpreter e icifed, the inter-
esting fact that the ceremony of marriage
was about 'to be performed for, or rather by,
two members of the band; and instead of
faking up our quarters, as we at first in-
tended, in another less crowded tent, we
determined to remain and see in what man:
ner this rite would be solemnized by a
wholly unciviliged and barbarous people.
The marriage ceremony of Koraks is es.-
pecially remarkable for its entire originality
and for the indifference which it manifests
to the sensibilities of thebridegroom. In no
other country does there exist such a curious
mixture of sense and absurdity as that
which is dignified in the social life of the
Koraks with the name of marriage; and
among no other people, let us charitably
hope, is the unfortunate bridegroom :sub-
ject to such humiliating indignities . The
contemplation of marriage is, or ought to
be, a ver serious thing to every young man;
but to a orak of average sensibility it must
be absolutely appaling. No other proof of
bravery need ever be’ exhibited than a cer-
tificate of marriage, (if the Koraks have
such documents,) and the bravery rises into
positive heroism when a man marries two or
three times. I once knew a Korak in Kamt-
chatka who had four wives, and I felt as
much respect for his heroic bravery as if he
113m charged with the Six Hundred at Bala-
3V8.
The ceremony, I believe, has never been
described; and inadequate as a description
be to convey an idea of the reality, it will
perhaps enable American lovers to realize
what a calamity they escape when they were
born in America and not in Kamtchafka.—
The young Korak’s troubles begin when he
first falls in love; this, like Achilles’ wrath,
is “the direful spring of woes unnumber-
ed.” If is intentions are serious he calls
upon the damsel's father and niakes formal
proposals for her hand, aecertaius the
amount of her dower in reindeer, and learns
hcr estimated value. He is probably told
that he must work for his wife two or three
years—a rather severe trial of any young
man’s affection. He then seeks an inter-
view with thc young lady herself, and per-
forms the agreeable or disagreeable duty
which corresponds in Korak to the civilized
custom of “ popping the question}? We
had hoped to get some valuable hints from
the Koruks as to the best method which
their experience suggested for fhe success-
ful accomplishment of this delicate task;
but we could learn nothing which would be
applicable to the more artificial relations of
civilized society. If the young man’s senti-
ments are reciprocated, and he obtains a
positive promise of marriage, he oes
cheerfully to work like Ferdinand in “ e
Tempest ” for Miranda’s father, and spends
two or three years in cutting and chewing
wood, watching reindeer, making sledges
and contributing generally to the interests
of his prospective father-in-law. At the
end of this probationary period comes the
ad “ experimenfum crucis,” which is to
decide his fate and prove the success or- the
uselcssness of his long labor. .
At this interesting crisis we had surprised
our Korak friends in their encampmenf.—
The tent which we had entered was an un-
usually large onc, containing twenty-six
“pologs,” arranged in a continuous circle
around its inner circumference. The open
space in the centre around the fire was
crowded with the dusk faces and half-
shaven heads of the orak spectators,
whose attention seemed about equally di-
vided «between sundry kettles and troughs
of “manyalla,” boiled venison, marrow, fro-
zen iailow, and similar delicacies, and the
discussion of some contravened. point of
marriage etiquette. Owing to my ignorance
of the language, I was not able to enter
thoroughly info the merits of the disputed
question; but it seemed to be ably argued
on both sides. Our sudden entrance seemed
to create a temporary diversion from the
legitimate business ofth evening, The tai-
tooed women and Sharon-headed men stared
in opeurmoiifhed astonishment at the pale-
faccd guests who had come unbidden lo the
marriage-feast, having on no woddmggar-
meals. Our faces were undeniably dirty,
our blue hunting-shirts and buck-skin pants
bore the marks of two iuonfhs' rough travel,
in numerous rips, tears, and falters, which
were only partially masked by a thick cov-
ering of reindeer hair from our for “kookh.
lankas.” Our general appearancenin fact,
suggested a more intimate acquaintance
with dirty “youths,” mountain thickets. and
Siberian storms, than with the civilizing in-
fluences ofsoap, wafer, razors, and needles.
We bore the curious scrutiny of the assem-
blage, however, with the indifference of men
who were used to it, and sipped our hot tea
while waiting for the ceremony to begin. I
The following lines, from Appleton’s Jamal, were
’ emerged from one of the pologs near the
- trial; but, to my surprise, he still struggled
tion by night :O'rvday.,iu a. near straight-
looked curiousl
distinguish the appy candidates for matri-
monial honors; but these were evidently
concealed in one of the closed pologs. The
eating and drinking seemed by this time to
be about finished, and an air of expectation
and suspense pervaded the entire crowd.
Sudden] we weresfartled by the loud and
regular eating of a native “baraban” or
bass drum, which fairly filled the tent with
a volume of sound. At the some instant the
tent opened to ermit the passage of a tall,
SlCI'll-IOOinlg orak, with an armful of wil-
low sprouts und alder branches, which he
the tent. “ What do you suppose that’s for i”
asked Dodd in an under-tone. “ I don t
know, was the reply; “keep quiet and you’ll
see.” The regular throbs of the drum con-
tinued throughout the distribution of the
willow sticks, and at' its close the drummer
began to sing a low, musical recitative,
which increased gradually in volume and
energy until it swelled into a wild, barbar-
ous chant, timed by the regular beats of the
heavy drum. A slight commotion followed,
the front curtains of all the pologs were
thrown up, the women stationed themselves
in detachments of two or three at the en-
trance of each polog, and took up the wil-
low -branches that had been provided. In a
moment a venerable native, whom we pre-
sumed to be the father of one of the parties,
door, leading a good-lookin young Korak
and the dark-faced bride. pon their ap-
pearance the excitement increased to the
pitch of frenzy, the music redoubled ifs ra-
pidity, the-men in the centre of the tent
joined in the uncouth chant. and' uttered at
short intervals peculiar shrill cries of wild
excitement. At a given signal from the na-
tive who had led out the couple, the bride
darted suddenly into the first polog, and be-
gan a rapid flight around the tent, raising
the curtainsbefween the pologs successively
and passing under. The bridegroom in-
stantly followed in hot pursuit; but the
women who were stationed in each com-
partment threw every possible impediment
in his way, tripping up his unwary feet,
holding down the curtains to prevent his
passage, and app] ing the Willow and alder
switches unmerci ally to a very susceptible
part of his body as he stooped to raise them.
The air was filled with drum-beats, shouts
of encouragement and derision, and the
sound of the heavy ,blows which were ad-
ministered fo the unlucky bridegroom by
each successive detachment of women as he
ran the gantlet. It becomes evident at once
that despite his most violent efforts he would
fail to overtake the flying Atalanta before
she completed the circuit of the tent. Even
the golden apples of Hesperides wouldhave
availed him little against such disheartening
odds; but with undismayed perseverance
be pressed on, stumbling headlong over the
outstretched feet of his female persecutors;
and getting constantly cnfaugled in the am-
ple folds of the reindeer-skin curtains, which
were thrown with the skill of a matador
over his head and eyes. In a moment the
bride had entered the last closed polog near
the door. while the unfortunate bridegroom
was still struggling with his accumulating
misfbrtunes about halfway around the tent.
I expected to see him relax his efforts and
give up the contest when the bride disap-
eared, and was preparing to protest strong-
y in his behalf against the uufhirness of the
,7-
on, and with a final plunge burst through
the curtains of the last polog and rejoined
his bride. The music suddenly ceased, and
the thrpng began to stream out of the tent.
The ceremony was evidently over. Tum-
ing to Meronefl‘, who with a delighted grin
had watched its progress. we inquired what
it all meant. “ Were they married i“—“Da’s,”
was the affirmative reply. “ Buf,” we ob-
jected, “ he didn’t catch her.”—“ She waited
for him, your honor, in the last polog, and
if he caught her there if was enough.”—
“Suppose he had not caught her there, then
what ?”— “ Then," answered fhe Cossack,
with an expressive shrug of commiseration,
“the ‘Caidnak‘ (poor fellow) would have
had to work two more years.” This was
pleasanta-for the bridegroom 1 To work
two years for a wife, undergo a severe
course of willow sprouts at the close of his
apprenticeship, and then have no security
against a possible breach of promise on the
part of the bride. His faith in her constancy
must be unlimited. The intention of the
whole ceremony was evidently to give the
woman an opportunity to marry fhe man
9.111101. as she chose, since it was obviously
impossible for him to catch her under such
circumstances, unless she voluntarily wait-
ed for him in one of the pologs. The plan
showed a mono .ehivalrous regard and defer-
encefor the wishes and preferences of the
gentler sex than is common in an uncou-
struCted stale of society; but it seemed to
me, as an unprejudiced observer, that the
same result might have been obtained with-
out so much abuse of the unfortunate bride-
groom! Some regard ought to have been
paid to his feelings, if he was a man. I
could not ascertain the significance of the
chastisemeuf which was inflicted by the
women upon the bridegroom with the wil~
low switches. Dodd suggested that it might
be emblematical of married life—a sort of
foreshadowing of future‘ domestic experi-
ence; but in view of the masculine Korak
character, this hardly seemed to me proba-
ble. No woman in her senses would try the
experiment a second time upon One of the
stern, resolute men who witnessed that cer-
emony, and who seemed to regard it than as
perfectly proper. Circumstances would up-
doubledly alter cases.
Mr. A. S. Bickmore, in the American Jour-
nal of Science for May, 1868, notices this
curious custom of the Koraks, and says that
the chastisement is intended to test the
young man’s “ability to bear up against the
ills of life ;” but I would respectfully submit
that the the ills of life do, not generally come
in that shape, and that switching it man
over the back with willow sprouts is a very
singular way of preparing him for future
gisfortunes of any kind.‘—_Te71t Life in Si-
rm.
Acéording—f; the United States census,
there is a servant girl in Evysville, Indiana,
sixteen years old, who 0 ns real estate
worth $50,000. ,
The New York Herald calls the statement
of the reduction of public debt {President
Gran l’s last electioneer-ing document}!
The Bessemer steel process is very profita-
ble to the producer. But a much more profi-
table stcal process is the one by which the
democracy of New York rob the treasury of
that city. ’
N c rthampton, in town meeting assembled,
has voted to build water works, and will
issue bonds to carry out the project.
The latest fashion in Cincinnati, is to ecle-
brate weddings at midnight, Why cannot
folks wait until morning?
A “smart girl” in Missouri a few days ago
popped the question to her bashful lover,
asked his parenfs’ consent. got a marriage
license, spoke to the parson, and had the
knot tied. The young man had been trying
for seven years to do what the brave girl
accomplished in one day.
It was reported in -Willlamsporf, Pa.,
among the elite, that one of fhe upper fen
was in the habit of beating his wife, and a
committee of old ladies was deputed to wait
upon her, and learn the facts from her own
lips. They did so, and to their horror learn-
ed that he was in the habit of beating her,
“but,” remarked the lady, “ it is at euchrel ”
The committee mizzled.
The census takers in some portions of the
west have as funny experiende as those in
the large cities in this section. One has dis-
covered a lady in Indians who is happy and
contented in the name of Jane Juliette Isa-
lina Araminta Musadora Peeks; and in Ohio
a family has been found where the first son
is named Imprimis, the second Finis, and the
three others Appendix, Addendum and
Erratum.
In Indianapolis a democratic saloonakeeper
deposited, in the ballot-box, by mistake, the
following document;
“INDIANAPOLIS, Sept: 80, 1870.
Mr. : I hereby forbid you selling my
husband any intoxicating liquor, either by
the drink or the bottle. If you do not comply
with this, I will prosecute you to the fullest
extent of the law. _ Mrs.— "
A pig that has wallow-ed in the mire seeks
a clean person to rub against.
One of the democratic congressmen in
Indiana was electedby a majority of four in
a vote of 25,118.
French’s Orien to] Circus caravan was sold
at auction, Thursday, at Trenton, N. J.
Thirteen double humped camels brought $5; .
200. ' 1
Horace Selleck,alaborc1 on the Ridgeficld
mill-bad, was killed Friday afiernoon at
Greenwich, by the premature explosion ofa
blast. The captain of the gang of laborers
was also fatally injured.
B. F. Bushnell, in the traveling merchant
line, left his wagon of yankee notions at De-
rien,Weduesday week, and went to New
Haven on business. Returning to Darieu he
found that the wagon had been robbed of
$16,000 worth of goods. '
around to see if Icould
proceeded to distribute in all the pologs of
The elephant Empress brought $5,000 ‘
'I'II'osE JEROME quLs.
A ms'rEnv SOLVE‘D. '
Those Jerome girls had a piano, and what
Aunt Prissy calls a “bristles carpet" on
their parlor floor. They had lately intro-
duced into their front? yard a game which
the good old lady persisted in designating
as “crocket,” with a dim notion that it was
an invention made by David Croekef, and
therefore disreputable.
There was a little, 'odd, cornering wm-
dow, where Aunt Prissy sat at work; and
from there she could look over into the
Jerome place, which had been» fixed up and
improved until it was quite a tasteful and
pretty residence. The old squat farm-house,
with its blinking windows and overhang
ing eaves, faced by that admiration of the
ancients, a red-barn, had been altered info
a tasteful cottage, with a piazza embowered
in honeysuckle and rose vines. The barn
had been removed out of view, opening a
prospect to the river, with its fringy willows.
A neat, ornamental fence had been built,
and frees and shrubs planted, and flower-
beds laid out. '
Aunt Prissy shook her head ruefully over
what she called those “ doin's,” every time
she looked out of the littlecornering win-
dow; and she did look out many times a
day, somewhat to the detriment of her
reeling and knoffing on a liffle wheel, a
reminiscence of her girth she had never
given up. For Aunt Prissy sighed heavily
over the degeneracy of modern stocking
yarn; and, if anything to her mind was an
outward and visible sign of the approaching
end of the world, it was them “flimsy
bought things through which a body can
poke her fingers.” ’
“ I don’t believe Uncle Abner ever would
have thought of making such changes in the
01d place,” Aunt Prissy remarked to her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Babbett, who was fond
of good old way-s foo,and loved fhe store
of ‘nice old fasthned things in the Babbof
farm-house, and yet had-thought more and
lived more in her time than Aunt Prissy
had, “ if it hadn’t been for the hectOring of
them girls.” And the old lady held upa
long cotton sock she was. knitting for her
favorite nephew. Asa, (she always knit
Asa’s socks three inches longer in the leg
than she did the others,) and looked at if
critically through her glasses.
“ It does folks good to get stirred up now
and then,” remarked Mrs. Babbett, who was
stopping about in her neat huskins, to brush
up the tidy room, with great patches of
sunshine lying on the rag carpet and the
braided mats, and lighting up a grain of
dust, if there had been one; “ and Uncle
Abner has appeared younger and smarter,”
she added. “ ever since the girls got back—
from school. The improvements have given
him something to think about besides his
rheumatiz'.” ' ‘ _
“ There they are, crocketing again,” cried
Aunt Prissy, puffing her wrinkled old face
out between the dimity curtains, with smells
of southron wood and sweet clover coming
through the window. “ I can’t, for the life
of me, see what sense there is in knocking
those balls around. They’d a sight better
be doing something useful. I’ll be bound
Uncle Ab don’t get his socks mended once a
month. Do hear ’em laugh and holler like
loous. I must say, Mirandy, that sounds
brazen.”- ' .
“ It’s only a bit of fun,” replied Mrs. Bab-
beft, who was sticking her side combs now
before the glass. “ And for myparf I like
to see the young folks enjoy themselves.
It carries me back again to my own young
days.” .
‘I There never was such goings on when
we were gals,” remarked Aunt Prissy, push-
ing her cap frill more out between the win
dow curtains, and letting her knitting-work
rest in her lap, “ It makes me ache, most,
when I think how parlickeler Miss Jerome
was about the house; and now look there at
the doors all stretched open, as if it were
general frainin’, and the muslin curtains a
blowin’ out of the front room winders, and
the sun sfreamin‘ right in on that bristles
carpet, and every thing getting speckled
with flies.” ,
“ Sophy says she won’t have anything in
the house too good to use every day,” poi
in Mrs. Babbeft, sitting down in her favorite
rocker, in one of the patches of sunlight,
and gently oscillating to and fro, with big
yellow pussycat at her feet, and a basket
of the week‘s mending close by her elbow.
“She wants to keep the roomslight and
open, because they look pleasant, and her
notion is fo make life cheerful.”
“Wal,” sighed Aunt Prissy, “I should
think poor Miss Jerome would almost groan
in her grave. They know how to make the
money fly; and a man would need a party
long puss that should marry one of them
girls. To my thinking, they’ll stay single
many a long day. Sensible young men,
like our Asa, ain’t a going to be kif‘ched by
such highly-fighty creatures, with rag bags
stuck on the back of their heads. I say
them Jerome‘s girls is highly-lighty with
their new notions; and for my part, I pity
Uncle Abner, for I don’t believe he has any
peace of his life.”
“ You needn’t pity him,” quietly remark-
ed Mrs. .Babbeft. “ Bless your heart, he
likes it. You never saw a good~uafured old
man yet who wasn’t pleased to have his
girls pussyiug around him. It will keep
him smart for ten years yet.” .
“Wei,” remarked Aunt Prissy, taking
up her knitting needles again and beginning
lo clank them vigorously, “I guess he’ll
have a chance to keep them by him‘yet
awhile. They ain't going to marry off so
easy, let me fell you. Our Asa and Henry
Fisher love to run there, and they’ll fool
round as mueh as you please; 'but when it
comes to marrying, that will be another
story”. . '
“Uncle Abner won’t want his girls to
marry any more than other folks, andI
shouldn’t be a bit surprised if they was old
maids after all.”
A number of days passed, and Aunt Pris-
sy got the notion into her that there was
a mystery going on in the house—some-
thing, fo be hushed and kept out of sight.
She had heard her brother Ben and his wife
talking late at night ;_ and Asa, her favorite
seemed hardly himself. He hurried info
have lost his relish for fun and joke, al-
though he was unusually particular about
his clothes. Nathan, the younger brother
kept, nudging and poking Asa; and twice
he made him downright vexed, so that
Uncle Ben was obliged to speak although
therewas a queer dry smile curling round
his lips at the time. Aunt Prissy pricked
up her ears and opened her eyes, and won-
dered what was to pay, but she was too
proud to ask. ,
“I should just like to know what Asa
brought home from Milton in that big paper
bundle,” said she, trotting out after her sister-
in-law info the sweet milk room.
“Why, did he bring home a bundle ?” in-
quired Mrs. Babhctf, taking off a skimmer
of thick, yellow cream, and looking half
guilty at her pretence of ignorance.
“ Yes, of course he did; and you know it
well enough, Mirandy. ,Theré’s some con-
juring going on in this house, that your’e
all trying to. hide from me; but thank the
Lord, my curiosity won’t kill me I" and she
flouuced back info the siftingrioom before
Mrs, Bahbeft could devise an answer.
"In spite of her offended dignity, the old
lady kept thinking of that handle; and at
A young lady . eye the French fair at
San ranClsco a 2,500 set of diamonds,
but declined to give her name. . .
last she opened the chamber door, and crept
‘looked fiusfered and rosy, with the obno-
his meals, and was off again, appearing to ‘
up the stairs, and slipped into Asa’s room,
softly pulling out the bureau drawer, for
fear Miraudy should hear a squeak and
guess what she was about.
“ I vum I" she exclaimed, almost aloud,
“if here ain’t a bran new suit of clothes;
finest kind of broadcloth, as smoOih and
shiny as satin, every bit good enough to be
married in, and better than his father ever
had since the day he was born. The ex-
travagant dog! I wonder what-he'wanfs
of a’whife vest ?”
When Mrs. Babbett came into fhe sitting-
room ready to slick up a bit after her morn-
ing's work, there Aunt Prissy sat in the
cornering window, with the dimify curtains
fluttering in the fresh breeze, and breaking
the shadows of the morning-glory vines
and balsums opening white and red in the
little slrip of brown beneath. The Jerome
place looked just as open and inviting as
usual, with dew clinging to thepink roses
around 'the porch, and a pair of tripping
bands playing a tripping tune on the piano.
Aunt Prissy had forgotten her fifi‘, and
thought best to conceal her discovery con-
cerning the clothes. ~
“ Land 0’ Goshen,” said she, all ofa sud-
den, “if there ain’t our Asa going info the
Jeromes’ front gate. What arrant can he
have at this time of day? And Henry
Fisher has just hitched his horse to the post.
I think-them‘girls ought to be ashamed of
themselves. Uncle Abner is' jdst coming
out now, and Matilda has run afler him,
With that rag-bag stuck on the back of her
head, all frizzled and frowzled. I don’t see
how anybody can call that girl purty. She’s
a fussin’ round the old man, brushing his
coat and quirkiug up his hair, and he looks
as pleased as Gufi‘y. I do believe Uncle
Ab‘, is getting childish. Mercy‘on us, Miran—
dy, Elder. Halleck has just arriv’ in his
shay; and they have brought some chairs
out on the sfoop,aud Uncle Abner has gone
round the house with him. I have as good
a mind as ever I had to eat to happen over
and see what it's all about. Couldn’t you
trump up some excuse for me, Mirandy?
You know I don’t want to have it appear I
mistreated anything.” '
“You might borrow a nutmeg,” replied
Mrs. ~Babbcfl, demurely. looking down at
her work. “ I thought I should make some
cake, and we are just out."
“ That’s the folk,” said Aunt Prissy.
So she put on her shaker and trolled across
the road. The moment she'was'ouf of the
house Mrs. Babbeft burst into a hearty
laugh, and Uncle Ben, who appeared to
have been concealed in the wood-shed, came
in, and sitting down, went ofl’ info a regular
gufi'aw. " -
“ The cat’s out of the bag by this time,
Mirandy," said be, when he could manage
to speak, “ And Won’t the old l°dy steam .’
I should like to see her.” -
“ Iain afraid we have carried the thing
too far,” returned Mrs-Babbeft. “ She won’t
get over it easy.” _
Meanwhile, Aunt Prissy ‘hael traversed
the pleasant, shadydoor-yai'd-of the Jerome
place, and mounted the from steps.. The
front door was standing wide open. She
walked in with neighborly freedom, and
tapped at the parlor door, which was slight-
ly ajar. Alow, murmurous, humming, buz-
zing, cooing sound appeared to issue from
the apartment; but still no voice said
“ walk in.” The old lady’s impafience grew
apace; and at 1an she gave the door a push, ,
and entered the room uubidden. Good _
sotHarry Andrews “snuggled,” as she af-~
terwards expressed it, close up to Til'y 1
Jerome, with his arms tucked cosil'y around 1
her waist, while the young lady herself i
xious rag‘bag somewhat discomposed.
“ Ain‘t you ashamed of yourselfii Matildy
Jerome,” cried Aunt Prissy, pointing her
long finger, Willi righteous indignation
expressed on every feature, “' to be spark-
ing with a young man right in open day-
light ‘2" '
"‘ And why shouldn’t we be sparking ?”
cried Harry Andrews, as bold as brass, hold-
ing Tilly a little fighter, “when we mean to
be married fo-morrow ?”
Aunt Prissy was sfunned and dazed. She
felt as if she had been taken suddenly with
the blind staggers. Without another word
she walked out of the room as straight as a
candle. Her ideas were so completely ob-
fusfigatccl that, instead of going out the
front door, she proceeded down a little pas-
sage way and on to a back, porch that led
into a vegetable garden. Behind a screen
of lilac and snowball bushes, voices were
issuing and penis of merry laughter.
Those were 'fhe tones of Asa Bassetf, her
favorite nephew. Aunt Prissy’s heart stood
still, and then it gave a great jump.
“ The old lady don’t suspect a thing,” said
be. There never was such a sell. Won’t
she be astonished when I introduce you as
her niece l" ' a
“I’m almost sorry we played such a
prank, for I want her to learn to like me.”
It was SOphy Jerome’s voice fhaf uttered
these words. . ‘
Aunt Prissy waifed to hear no more. In
a lowering rage she flew down the steps and
presented herselfbefore the astonished pair,
who naturally changed their position in
haste, and turned a variety of bright
colors. ~
“You ain’t fooled the old woman quite so
bad as-you thought to I" she cried, with her
eyes flashing, and the specs just ready to
tumble off the tip of her nose. .
Asa saw he must face the music; so he
tried to laugh it off. “DOn’f make too serious
3 thing of it, Aunt,” said he, in a coaxing
tone. “ Sophy ain’t a bit to blame. I
did it all for a joke, and meant to con-
fess and beg pardon before I went to bed to-
night.”
“ I didn’t think you’d do such a fhiug,Aaa
Basseft," and a series of wry twitches began
to convulse the old lady’s mouth and chin.
“ I could stand most any kind of hectoring,
and never minded you puffing a bee in my
cap when you was a shaver, and making me
an apple-pie bed; but to think of you get-
ting promised to one of those Jerome girls,
and making a fool of your aunt into the
bargain l” And Aunt Prissy broke down
info a series of hysterical sobs.
Nothing that Asa or Sophy could do or
say sufficed to pacify her. ~ She crept back
over home' much cresffallen, and opened the
sifting-room door where Mrs. Babbetf was
at work. '
The next morning, which was bright and
breezy, a great bustle arose in the house;
and she knew that all hands were getting
ready to go to A=a’s wedding. She could
hear Asa himself framping about overhead
and pulling on those new clothes; and a1-
fhough he was immr nsely happy and busy,
he did find time to come and execute one
last series of thumps on the old lady’s
door.
‘ “ Come,Aunfie,don’t hold a grudge against
afollow," he coaxed. “Do come over' to
the wedding. You always said you would
dance at my wedding, and now you’re going
to gIve me the cold shoulder. It’s too con-
founded bad.”
Not a word did she answer, although her
heart thumped hard and fast. By-and-by,
Mrs. Babbcff was dressed in her black silk,
and a tastefbl cap trimmed with piukbows;
and Uncle Ben had slmvedand donned a
clean dickcy, and packed his hair up very
high in front; and then they all went off, and
led the house solitary and alone. Aunt
Prissy began to feel very forlorn, and more
aggrieved than ever. She got up, pushed
. b l h' ' '
gracious ! 'what a sight met her eyes. There 'a so ufelv not ing lacking m
ting-room in her doubleégownand list slices,
and pecped forth from the little cornering
window. There was music playing, and the
neighbors’ girls were dofflng the greena
door-yard with their light dresses. She
thought with, a kind of dumb swelling.“
the bear: that her boy was being married
over there, and she, 'his old, doting, fond
aunt, was sfaying'away mum of the strike.
Why should she bite ofi' her nose to spite her
face? They probably wouldn’t miss her'af
- all; but she had haifa mind to dress upand
walk over there, just for all the world as if
nothing had happened.‘ .
Accordingly the old lady slipped on her
satinef gown, and donned her‘gold bead!
and an amazing headdress belonging to the
last century; and just as’Elder Halleck was
performing the ceremony of the double
wedding, with the brides looking as sweet
as twin rosebuds, who should walk in but
Aunt Prissy, for all the world, and as
Uncle Ben expressed it, “ as stiff as back-
rum.”
They had a good, old-fashioned, merry
time; and Auani-issy actually danced un-
der the waving apple boughs with Uncle
Abner: and Asa put up the old gentleman
to give her a hearty smack, which caused
her to blush and bridle a good deal, though.
I rather think she liked it.
“Will Aunt Prissy ever get reconciled to;
the match I?" whispered Deacon Dent’s wife
to Mrs. Babbeft. ’
“ Law, yes. Now Sophy has ceased to be
one of those Jerome girls, and has become
Asa’s wife, the old lady will think her per-
feclion."
From the Toledo Blade of October 20, 1870.
THE NEW ROUTE T0 ST. LOUIS.
THE SHORT LINE ‘V’IA DECATUR.
The Toledo, Wabash and Western is one
of the great railroad corporations of the
country. Ifs eastern terminus is Toledo,
but it has four terminal poinfs in the west,
viz : _ Keokuk, Iowa; Quincy, Illinois;
Hannibal, Mo.; Sf. Louis, Mo. At Keokuk
it connects with the Des Moines valley
Road, and through it with the Chico 0 fund
Northwestern to Omaha, passing rou h
the heart of Iowa. At Quincy it strikes e
Hannibal and St. Joe Road,audmakes all
pom s in Kansas. and with the St. Joe and
Council Bluffs Road, a direct connection
with the Union Pacific and the entire State
of Missouri. Leaving the Quinc line at
Bluff City a branch goes direct to annibal,
Mo., thence over the new Hannibal and
Moberly Road to Kansas City and Leaven-
worth, making by this route an almost, air
line from Toiado fo Kansas City. These
three terminal points control a large portion
of the Wash '
This company has now completed its new
road from Decatur, Illinois, to East St.
Louis, making a direct continuous line fi'om
the head of Lake Erie to St. Louis, without
break or change of cars. .
The completion of this connection is an
event in the history of Railroads in this
country. St. Louis is the chief cif of the
Mississippi, and is the point of eparfure
for the vast territory’in the West. Aline
of road stretching fi'o'm Lake Erie to the
Mississippi, passing through two of the
greatest of the States, cannot but be consi-
dered as one of the great enterprises of the
country, as by its new connection it trans-
ports passengers item the great Lakes to the
great river without change or deia . ' '
B this line the, distance from Toledo to
St. onis is only four hundred and thirty
miles. . - . _,
' The Company’s officers have made ample
arrangements to properly accommodate the
immense tide of travel that will naturally
seek this avenue. They have placed upon
the road new and elegant passenger coaches,
fitted up regardless of expense, the- '
ideas being comfort and safeg. There is
eir cars.
The Wabash has; a bridge spanning the
Mississippi at Quincy, and is building two
more, one at Keokuk and one at Hannibal.
The Quincy bridge is a magnificent struc-
ture, and the others are to be not inferior
to if. . ' . ~ .
The sleeping cars now on the road are
uliman’s best.
' The passion er from New York to any
point in the est, may shortly get in ins
seat at the Hudscn River Depot, and never
leave it until he reachbs St. Louis. ‘
The company make it a special point to
have none but gentlemen in their employ.—
The ofllcers of each train are intelligent,
obliging gentlemen who feel that their duty
is not done with the collection of tickets.
The road is smooth over ifs entire length,
and so well built as to make the highest rate
of speed safe. '
The new depots at St. Louis are the most
commodious in that city. The company
have constructed a new passenger depot at
the ferry, and the Transit Company have
built a new, and complete equipment of
Omnibusses and Baggage Wagons especially
for this road, which run to every part of the
city—to private houses and hotels, as well
as to depots of other railroads. '
At St. Louis direct and close connections
are made with the North Missouri, Missouri
Pacific, Southern Pacific, Iron Mountain,
and other lines to the West and Southwest,
also with first class steamers for Memphis
and New Orleans and the intermediate points
on the Mississippi. .
We believe that the greatest part of the.
travel to the great West will pass over this
route—indeed we do' not see how it can be
otherwise. The trains from the East make
close connection in the Union depgt at T0.
ledo, and from Toledo to the ississippi
there is no change whatever. The traveler
whOse destination is Kansas save several
hours of time by faking this route, and he
goes in such comfort, and with such perfect
assurance of safely, aé to make it preferable,
even though he save nothingtin time thereby.
The majority of men whose unremitting;
efforts have carried forward this great en.
wrprise, are citizens of Toledo. '
The traveling public in the East will do
well to remember the Wabash route, when
arranging for a trip to the West. There. is
no better routein the country, and the day
is not far distant when it will be so so-
knowledged by traveling men.
The schooner T. C. Lyman, fl'om Hobo-
k’cn‘, for New Haven with coal, sunk in
Hell Gate Wednesda afternoon. Efferfa
will be made to raise er.
Miss Ida Lewis, the “ Heroine of Lime ~
Rock Light,” Newport harbor, was married
on Sunda evening, October 23d, to Mr.
Wiliiam . Wilson, of Black Rock, in this
State. .
John Stanton, one of the editors of the.
BrOoklyn Eagle died Wednesday morning:
of consumption. He was widely known as
a humorous writer, under the “nom de
plume ” of “ Cory O’Lanus.” ,
The question of the day is whether it is
more difficult for the girl of the period to get
her clothes in her trunk or her trunk in her
clothes. _
Another Yankee notion is about fo.be~in-
froduced in Europe. Pullman will start
some of his palace ears there-shortly.
The Newport News says a woman in that
city, who had a husband put in the watch-
house for brutality towards herself, carried
him his pipe and tobacco, saying she want-
.ed him to take as much comfort as possible
during his confinement. ,
New Orleans molasses is new seat north-
ward fo market by rail, and the first of the,
new crop was received a few days ago in
New York. The lot, consisting of sixteen
barrels, is reported * to be a very fine gush
ity. and remarkably early in coming to
market. . _
Mrs. H _, a oun mother. was ex-
hibiting with consi erab e pride to a num-
ber of admiring friends her first baby. Fin-
ally approaching‘ little ~ Dan, a boy of five
years, the happyparenf said: “ Dan, isn’t
this a dear little baby i" Dan hesitated a-
momeuf, turned up his eyes, and answered :
“ Yes, but it’s bald-headed." * ,
“Lenny,” said his maiden aunt, “ you
should eat the barley that is in your soup,
or you‘ll never get a man.” Lenny, lodking
up innocently, inquired: “ Is that what you
eat it for, minty?” .
The ~ London. Economm calculates. how
much property the defenders of Paris ex.
pose to danger in waiting'a Prussian-hom—
bardmenf, as follows: Value of buiIdings,
one hundred and fiffyéfour million three
hundrednnd fifty thousand pounds sterling;
value of furniture and other conf‘enfsof‘
dwellings, seventy-seven million 'one imp.
dred and seventy-five thousand-pounds
sterling“; value o'f'stock‘in trade, seventy-
seven million; One hundred and sev’en‘tyifive
thousand pounds—making a total «of; three
hundred and eleven million, seven hundred
thousand pounds sterling, or about fifteen
the bureau away,_snd stole out into the "sit?
hundred and flay-eight minionmehum
fthouonddomrn- 3 _‘ . » , .
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