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NORWALK GAZETTE.
OrrIcE IN Gaza-rm BUILDINO.
A. H. DYINGTON & 00.,
H. BYINGTON, J. B. ELLS, G. N. ELLS.
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WILSON a. BURLBUT'I‘,
AttOIIleys and Counselors atLaw,
Room No. 4 Gazette Building,
JOSEPH. \V. WILSON,
ALSO, PENSION AND PATENT AGENTS.
Norwalk, Conn.
J. IIILDEN 111131.30".
ALEX. s. GIBSON,
Organist (if the First Congregational Church.
FROM THE CITY OF NEW YORK,
Teacher of the
Plannerorteonmn and launch] Cem-
In New York, our.
Broadway.
..- sltloll.
- Box 819?. 0,. Norwalk, Conn“.
, , orw‘nl. A.Poud a; 00., 896
FREE. H. NASH,
(Organist Trinity Church, Bridgeport.)
Teacher of ”Music,
luBridgeportlon Tuesdays fend Fridays. Norwalk
' n‘ Thursdays:
and
DISe
also
ageclluglemales.
s tidal-study, and, successful
tlty‘ years.
once.
in onSt., south Norwalk,
he Dr. will visit patients during the day,
"mired.
Surgéo‘lffOI the E e aud.Ear, an
Wéstport, Mondays and Saturdays.
from the Re al
ndon Physic an
, d Catarrhal
uses'ol the Lungs, auces and Nasal passages,
Nervous maladies of. all kinds, particularly those
All of Which he has made his
r .ctice more than
Can he consu ted (gratis) at his
over the Store of Kong. A; Dickerman, Wash-
m9 A. 11., t09 r. II.
when
1y45
”Dynamite, as. n.
~.‘ ,Opthall'nic infirmatory, Lo
C.,A. 'IIILLBANK,
Graduotcofthc
Penn. College of , Dental Surgery,
‘98:
current. theold Fairfield County Bank Build-
, , , . 25
Wall Street. ' > .
no.1. o. cannons.
D IAN T1338 '1'! ,
NCRWALK, CONN.
Ofilceinflazette Building, Room No. 8, overJack-
son Bro's store.
Nitrous oxide or Laughing Gas, administered when
desired. '
A Naw Dmox for
cheap.
plate work—light, durable and
PATENT AGENCY.
WILLIE VINE,
Agent and Solicitor of Patents,‘
,-
l
1y
Fa
Mechanical Draughtsman and
mount. MAKEII,
Winnipauk, Conn.
C. s. Locxwoon,
sllionable DrapcrdLTailor
AND
Gentlemens Furnishing Emporium,
Main Street, Norwalk, Conn.
' ELBEB'I‘ CURTIS,
Merchant Tailor,
Curtis's Building, Main‘Street, Nor-walk, Ct
Gents’ and Youth’s Clothing cut and made to order,
a). short notice, of the best materials, in the latest
sty les, bylexperienced workmen. Prices reasonable.
Etna Insurance Co. of Hartford,
Cap
Incorporated 1819,. Charter PerpetuaL
ital and Assets, $5,052,880 19
usures against loss and damage by Fire, on terms
adapted to the hazard, and consistent with
the laws of compensation.
GEORGE R. CUWLES,
Sole Agengfor Norwalk and vicinity.
Nos-walk Insurance Company.
NORWALK, CONN. ‘
Calls Capital, $500,000
Pull up Capital, ‘ $100,000
C. Stalin, President, Gm. R. Gowns, Sec’y.
WI.
Elma. HILL, Treasurer
Fairfield County Insurance Co.,
SOUTH NORWALK, CT.
CASH CAPITAL, ................ 3200.000
SURPLUS (over) ........ . . . . ............ 30.000
E. A. WOODWARD, W. S. HANFORD,
20 President, Secretary.
ASSETS ovEn 325,000,000.
CEO. B. COWLES,
AGENT at Norwalk, and issues policies for the fol
lowing Insurance Companies.
Etna, of Hartford, Assets Jan. lst, ’68, 5,052,880
Home, of N. Y., “ “ “ “ 3,730,98.
Phrrnix, of N. 17., “ “ “ “ 1,665,667
- Home, of N. 11., “ ,, ‘.‘ “ 1,533,211,
Security, of N. Y.. “ “ “ “ 1,417,611
International, N. Y.,v “ “ “ “ 1,1:8,0I~.
S ringtield F. & 11., “ “ “ “ 181,003
adheres; N. Y.‘, . u u “ a 734,331.
North American N. Y. “ “ “ “ 702,162
Putnam, tid., “ “ ‘- " 618,195
Lamar, N. .Y., “ , " ..- “ 503,9“
Commerce, Albany N. Y., “ “ “ 583,815
Western Buffalo, N. Y., “ u “ 553,257
tierchallts lid., “ “ “ “ 418,809
North America, H'd., “ “ “ “ 401,274.
Norwidt, . _ “ “ “ “ 41104.9
People’s. Worcester, “ " “ u 000
Baltic oi N. Y., “ “ “ “ 219,146,
C~ mmonwealthN. Y.,“ " “ “ 80,000
Westehesteref New Rochelle N. Y., 200,000
: copies of Middletown, Conn. 115,000
Euterpriseof Cincinnati, ‘ 1,ooo’ooc
And other Companies, Stock and Mutual, in Connecti-
cut, Maseachusetts and New York. At So. Nor-
walk, application may be made to WM. T. CRAW.
soo'ru NORWALK
Planting; , M111 'Oo.
Builders and others are informed that this Compa
Jyare now repared to execute in the best nian her,
at short not, cc, all kinds of '
Steameawiug,
. Th
Scroll Sawing,
Planing,
and Turning.
ey will also furnish on the most reasonable terms
allkinda of
Lumber and Timber,
sans,
BALUSTEBS, NE
and manufacture to order,
Blinds,
' Doors. Etc.
WELS. &C.',
for Stairs and Railings, and
Black Walnut, Ash, Cherry, White wood
ac, kept constantly on hand.
Prompt attention giv'ento orders. Works near th
Steamboat Landing, ‘ SOUTH NORWALK.
C. r. Tonnes, . , ,
D. R. All Tim} ' _ R. I. TOLLIIS, Treasurer.
R.I.'I‘OLLES : : ~ .
‘rllt no accuse allows.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS USE has demonstratedthat
IV ARBIN’S IMPROVED
relt, Cement and emolnoollng
1‘ "I" be“ roofing In use. It will not corrode, wil
not crack. and will not leak. All who have given it a
fair trial testify that It has no su rior, and the sub
scriber refers to the hundreds film. County who
he" Ind this roofing put on. . Ordersleft at the oalce
of Meeker Brothers, coal dealers, foot of Mill Hill
35
will receive prompt attention.
RUFUS A DAMS.
HINGE-TOP BUSINESS.
The old stand of Waterbury JvDuncan has been re-
opened hyt‘lo subscriber. who will carry on the
Horse Sitting & J all Bladtmithlnl
Having secured the services of the‘
VeteranIIOI'le Shoer, James D. Shea,
. He fhels cdnfident'that he can l as hi d
, the public generally. . p e e s friends an
15
GIVE III: A Tana.
,tsaac causes. an.
' known as the
REAL ESTATE.
TO BENT.
ml ll‘air street, near Catharine. is ofl'ered for
rent. The house contains three rooms. closets and
hall, on first floor, three rooms on the second floor,
and a good cellar and carrot. The lot is three hun-
dred feet deep, running from the street to the river.
ngsesslfln given immediately. Apply at the Gazetgtg
0 cc. - '
Mill Property for Sale.
ONE HALF of the Grist Mill, located in the north-
ern part of N orwalk, and known at Grew)?! 8
Mill, "together with one half of the Machinery in
said Mil , and about four acres of land, s ofiered folr
sale'on accommodating terms. For articular! ca l
at the ofllce of the Norwalk Savings ocletY-
' Per order of the Board of Directors of the Not-
walk Savin s Society, J. W, HUBBELL, Acting:28
Norwaik, uly 6, 1871.
FOR SALE.
o rt known as the “ NORWALK TOWN
$§§3159..in.lrtlnn of 17 acres of land. one cam.
modious Dwelling House, and two smaller ones.—
Barnand other outbuildings. Said farm is admira-
bly adapted to market gardenin , being Situated
about one mile from Norwalk all South Norwalk
camera, the land being nearly all arable and of good
ualit . . .
q This, pro erty wdl soon he wanted for building
urposes, or which it has great advantages, being
ounded on Opposite sides, y highways. .
For further particulars inquire of the subscriber,
, MARTIN S. CRAW,
Agent for the Town.
lltf
Noryolk. July 3. 1m.
FACTORY BUILDING FOR ‘SllE
A1 NEW CANAAN, CONN,
AIN BUILDING 00x30 FEET,‘ TEN FEET
high, well lighted, and in all respects well
ads ted for a manufacturing business; It stands
wit in a stone’s throw of the railroad depot. It has
a ood Engine audBoilerRoom, smoke stack, the.
he above offers a rare opportunity for profitable
investment, or for the estab ishment of some manu-
facturing business in a most eliglble and desirable
location. -
A ly personally or by letter to WM. E. RAY-
Mo 1). or A. K. OMSTOCK, NewCanaan, or at
the Advocate Ofiice, Stamford, Conn. tlilli
STORE TO LET,
No. 3 JAMES: BLOCK,
(Next door to Henry Glover’s.) Apply to
ms. t. lsuts' stratus.
For Sale or to Ileut.
HE Place lately owned and occupiedb the late
John D. L nusbury, in Winnipauk. . ‘he place
consists of a large Dwelling House. with modern
improvements, and Five Acres of good Land. Pleas-
antly located on the main street, near Depot, POSI
Ofiice and stores. Possession given immediate] .
Inquire of MORGAN T. SMITH. or GEORG H.
HANDLE, near the premises. 14
18tf‘
For Sale Cheap 01‘ to Rent.
A the Ely Neck road, South Norwalk,for sale
cheap, or to rent.
12 E. K. LOCKWOOD.
OR kiln—The residence of Mrs. Louisa A. Smitl.
on Union Avenue; 11 large rooms' a leasant and
convenient place; five minutes? we] . rom the can
and business center; good neighborhood; rent $500
er ear immediate ossession. A pl to
i1 y ’ p In xya. SMITH.
NEW, well-built, pleasantly located HOUSE,'
DWELLING HOUSE, only two years'old, on .
Fol'SaIe,=or in let;."(Fumislled.)
“rfiiihsfifnffiiififiii‘ifnWan...
deli!
hal w
lookin both, an
strucl view of Long
and the adjacent couut- y,
d South Nor-wall; over-
with an unob-
Island Sound
unsurpasse
b
en lllecit .of New York and re deuce,
iifltwgg house is (it stone 'with modern improve-
ments, the grounds exten'sivé, abouuding in large
eve een trees shrubbery. is e frfiit orchards, he.
The Horse Railway, tom the ow Haven Railroad
depot, at south Norwalk, passes near the entrance
to the driveway. ‘
ing divided into very desirable 'buildinisites of sev-
eral acres each, which would meet wil ready sale,
should the purehs-er not desire to retain the whole.
between N orwalk an .
ay d the valley between,
Island and Lou
Norwalk,
fees can be obtained.
Eon SALE.
A FIRST-CLASS HOUSE located on the north
side of State street. Bridgeporu) the east house
in a block of five, English basement. brown stone
front, five stories high, furnished throughout with
gas, hot and cold water, and With 'modern im rove-
ments. Inquire of Ezra Curtis, Norwalk, or you,
Curtis a 00., Bridgeport. ifitf
Festivals, Pic-Niel, Sailing Parties,
AND
SABSAPARILLA
in any desired quantity, by
S. GRUMMAN, Manufacturer,
under Raymond’s new building, 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 ‘
ChOicc Groceries,
Flour, Feed, Grain,
BEER
- which‘they will sell at
WHOLESALE AND'BETAIL
at the lowest marketrates.
Every effort made to please. Patrons s solicited.
SELLEC BBO’S.
, Plumbing and Roofing.
Tun subscriber huvin bought cut the stock and
.fotures of Jarvis . Knapp is prepared to do
all kinds of . . -
PLUMBING.
'I'IN ROOFING, FURNACE WORK.
GUTTERS AND‘LEA‘DERS
made and put up. :
ROOFS REPAIRED AT SHORT NOTICE.
ALIS, IIIIIII II All. IIIII IF TII, SHEET
IRII All IIPPEI'AIE.‘ .
JAMES M. BOYER,
Basement of Raymond’s New Building, corner oi
Vlain and Hoyt Street. 15
W—
“ RESERVE your eyesight by wearing preserva-
_ tive lasses. You can read'or sew all night
without t rln your eyes. Can be bought only at
W eed’s Jewe ry Store.
To nEN'r.
0
BE old and long established Carriage Shop,
formerly occupied by Waterbury 85 Duncan, n
rear of Horse Railway Depot; Possession given’im-
medialely.
Also, Rooms with power to rent.
- Apply to
ISAAC CHURCH, JR.
Otf
Oil SALE—A GOOD BUILDING LOT on West
F Main S reet. Inquire of Theo. Harrison, al
Keeler’s shoe store. 9
Ion SALE.
ILDING, LOTS frOnting on Union Park ;from
11,000 to $1,500 each; location first-class ;termr
CHARLES P. TURNEY. 28h
Desirable Place for Sale.
1119 subscriber offers for sale her very desirabil-
'place, situated on Van ZantCAvenue, Down
Town, near the new bridge. 'ihe plan comprises a
Dwelling House, 11 rooms, and a lot 200x70, wel
stocked with'frlilt; water in abundance. Terms easy.
Apply to JAMES MITCHELL, Real Estate Agent,ol
of the subscriber on the premises.
If ' MRS. JOSEPH JONES.
BUILDING LOTS ron SALE.
THE subscriber ofi'ers-for sale, on very resenable
r
BU
easy.
,1
terms, a number of the choicest, and most ‘des‘l-
able Building Lots in the town .of inorwulk, situates
on high ground. (Prospect Hlll), near and of easy ac
cess from the village, and commands a fine and un-
obstructed view of the town, harbor, Long Island ant '
Sound. A good avenue, 50 feet wide, has been hit
out in front of the property. Is withln live minute
walk of the Horse Railroad Size of lots to suit pur-
chasers ; no fancy prices. For further particulars en-
quire of ESSE BENTON,
28 or JAMES FINNEY Real Estate Agent.
‘ “BUILDING LOTS.”
PEER undersigned offer for Sale some of the mos
desirable building sites inthe village, lying alon-t
the slope northwest of Union Park, convenient to tho
village and easy of access, having an extensive view
of the village and harbor, prices low and termseasy.
Apply to A. H. BYINGTON,
S. E. OLMSTEAD,
E. K. LOCKWOOD.
Norwalk. Sept. 21, 1868.
EDI111 Property
FOR’ SALE.
'1‘H
E subscriber Ofi‘ers for sale his Mil. Property sit-
uurlen Depot, three miles from South Norwaik, ano
ualed in West Norwalk, about two: miles from
' two miles from New Can an, consisting of a manu-
fllctory, two stories big , 86x18 feet, with about 1‘.
.‘eet head and fall of water, with three acres of land,
now used as a Saw Mill but suitable for a manufactu-
.-y of any kind. Terms easy and price low. Euquirr
of JAMES FINNEY, Real Estate Agent, N orwalk,o.
of the subscriber, CHAUNCEY STREET.
West Norwalk, Sept. 25, 1869. $91
Real Estate for Sale.
E land belonging to the estate of George W
Raymond, comprising some of the Cost desira-
is now offered for sale
'1‘“
Ole property in South Norwalk,
at a bargain by the trustee of that estate. Apply t«
LEWIS F. BEERS, 'l‘rustee, GEORGE. W. RAY-
'leND and CHESTER F. TOLLES, South Norwzjk,
Conn. 21.
FOR SALE.
I BE well-known property in the city of South
Norwalk now occupied by James Lucas, and
[films HOTEL, is offered for sale. It:
.zearncss to the depot, and location on Main Strecl,
makes It one of the most desirable business places
.n lhis part of the county. It w11l be sold with Ol
without the furniture on resonable terms. For pal-
ticulars enquire of JAMES MITCHELL Real Estate
Agent, or on the premises, of JAMES LUCAS. 36t,
a
For Sale.
ONE LOT on Golden Hill next to new house of Ii.
H. ELWELL, 80 feel frontby 217 feet in depth.
-\pply to LEWIS F. BEERS, Trustee, or GEORGI
\V. RAYMOND. South Norwalk, Conn. tle-
.r
JAMES FINNEY,
Real Estate Agent, Licensed Auction-
eer, Constable, Collector, Are.
{‘1 RATEFULLY returns thanks for the very liberal
J pzltornage heretofore extended him by a gener»
1118 public, and solicits a conttnuance of the same.
He has taken a desk at J. B. Hurburt’s Lap
Jilice, Room No. 4 Gazette Building, where ill-
can hereafter be found, or orders can be eft.» He will
,rivc prompt attention to the buying and sellingo:
".cal Estate, renting of places, Auctionezring of real
the collection of debts, &c.,
:nd personal property,
md will make every reasonable exertion to please all
.vhn may favor him with their patronage.
JAMES MITCHELL,
REAL ESTATE BROKER
AND
AUCTIONEER,
OFFICE MITCHELL’S BLOCK,
WALL-STREET,
NORWALK, CONN. '
CITY RESIDENCES,
Farms and Country Seats,
Bought, Sold, Rented and Exchanged,
REAL ESTATE, S'rocus, _
FURNITURE., &c,
at public and private sale.
AUCTION SALES 0F HOUSES, LOTS, FARMS,
AND PERSONAL PROPERTY. ,
Sales of Furniture, at Owner’s
Residences.
Houses to Rent.
1 . Furnished or Unfurnished:
PLACES FOR SALE VARY[NG IN PRICE,
from 95.000 to sso,ooo '
Al orders left at the UNION MARKET. Mitchell’s
Block, Nnrwalk, Conn. will receivenrompt attention.
muss MITOHELL. .
{gear Main street.
_ Jewelry tore.
CARPENTER asn'BUILnEn.
IVHE subscriber would inme the citizens of Nor-
walk that he is prepared to do
Building, in all of its branches,
by contract, or b day’s work, and solicits a share of
patronage. Wil try to please. Shop Center avenue,
SAMUEL B. FITCH.
rtls. Dill-TEES Alla allots.
DUTY REDUCED.
Further particulars see small hill
At. e. a s. n. HOLMES,
13 and 15 Main Street.
SOAP AND CANDLES.
ALL economical housekeepers and others wishing
. to obtain Gruman’s excellent Soft Soap or Can-
.lres, or if they have any grease or tallow to dis ose
’If, can do so y calling at J. C. Randle’s store, in-
:lipauk Messrs. Wilson .b Case’s store, Norw’alk, or
atrW. W. Comstock’s, grocer, South Norwalk.
GRUMAN’S SOAP AND CANDLE WORKS,
Ridgefield Station, Conn
City Intelligence Office.
tfd
THE subscriber, at his intelligence Office, foot of
Mill Hill. is prepared to furnish
GOOD SERVANTS, FARM HANDS, LABORERS,
etc.,tor to find good places for those out of employ-
men . , .
He is also agent for the sale of Real Estate.
Places on hand, for sale or to let.
JOHN A. HONNECKER, Agent. .
s‘ollow no new DEV
lint send for us in a TB [C E ’
For we have the largest and best stock ever put
up in this town, whic we ofi‘er at reasonable rates.
It. ELLS a SON.
ICE, ICE, ICE. '
if you want what lad; and N
at a reasonable‘PR '
HAIR Jewelry, &c., made by our workmen,‘under
our own direct employ. Parties can be sure
:lfgettin the same hair as left with us, at Weed's
IIARNESSES Don S ALE.
THE subscriber would respectfully inform the
public that he has now on hand a good assort-
ment of HARNESSES, made of the very best mate-
1ials which he will SELL AS LOW as they can
possibly be furnished at any other similar estab-
liSIiIneIlt in the county. New for the orders. Let
ne have them at once. WM. B. SWAN
Fell. 1. 1871. 0
NASH '& IVES,
RAVE
REMOVED
THEIR GOODS TO THE STORE
5| MAIN STREET, (Fitch’s Building)
And have a complete assortment of
BOOTS AND SHOES,
* GROUERIE’S,
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING,
And other articles too numerous to mention,
making a complete
Country Store.
All of which are ofiered at the lowest ossible
lriccs. All-kinds of COUNTRY PRODUC wanted
for Cash or in exchang ‘
ALSO, REAL TATE AGENTS. 14
IR 0N ILFENC'ING;
THE subscriber is now prepared to make and fur-
nlsh several styles of
Wrought and Cast Iron Fencing,
to enclose churches, dwellings and burial plots. '
—AIso—-
Iron Gates, D‘oors, Shutters and
Gratings.
Iron Stairs and Bolts for buildin ' u uses and
many other a’ritcles In the line of g D rp '
BLACKSMITH WORK,
Shop in rear of Solmon’s Hat Sh i _-
South Norwalk. 0P, U11 on streelt,
WM. H. DUNCAn,
FOR SALE.
Building Sand,
AND
700 LOADS OF
Firie Building Stone.
Apply to GEO. A. ST. JOHN. .
EAST AVENUE.
11
SOMETHING NEW!
A FIRST CLASS CI'l‘Y
Draper V8. Tailoring Establishment
At No l, Gazelle Building, (up stairs)
.THE subscriber would lespectfullv Inform the cit.
izens of Norwalk, that he has made arrange-
ments to open a firstrlale-w York City Establish-
ment, as above,where he ple-lacs himself to give sat-
, isfaction to all his customers.
He will give special attention to Boys Garments as
well as those of gentlemen. l'ersonsbrlnging their
own cloth can have the same cut or made up,inan ar-
tistic manner, at reasonable pllucs.
FRANCIS J. MoKEON.
$313335“ if" '1”. “Timid?"
ng ycaln t e n
’J. r. rAgr'mtx," g
_ Proprietor.
WATER! .WA'I'EBI
ELLS REPAIRED and so
Cement Well Pipe, by NK' with Patent
1 - CHAS. T. LEONARD. 9
—A
IAllllho“
wil ll
Saloon.
sttf
W
Norwalk, Feb. If, 1871.
Cleaning and Renewing of Gas
Fixtures 2 ~
WM. CLOVER, at his'works in River street I!
- prepared to Clean, Re-slld and Color use Fix-
tures, and put them in complete order,- ood as
new. Be a so continues the business of TEAM
AND GAS FITTING, in all Its branches, and keeps
on hand for sale a large assortment of Gas-Fixtures.
Also agen Me the celebrated American Submerged-
Forec Pump. the cheapest.and best pump in use. 28
EST Extrasted and Riven Shinglesjust re. 1 -
ed to LEWIS dUBBELL. Doug?
GIVEN. .
htfully situated on an elevated plateau about'
an 'sltua- ‘
The propertyis sus'ccptiblc of her
Application may be made' to HENRY I. HOY'l‘, of '
from whom permission. to view the pm;
Hey, Straw, etc... ,
IIE subscribers would respectfully call theatteni
tion of the public to their
NEW STOCK or Goons,
licots,Sh0cs,‘flaitcrs,
be sold very low for Club, at the old stand,
aunt’s Bat-001:. -
SOUTH NOBWALK, CONN.
All kinds of Gents' and Ladies’ Boots, Shoes, as.
made to Order, in the most workuianlikemannermnd -
at fair prices.
noses CAas RUN nIonT DY TnE noon.
' BROWN Sn STEVENS-
mm s. nsowa. uAnvsv snvus.
nullsncntomns
rnroa'l‘aus or
. GROCKER Y,‘
AND DEALERS IN-
. .In'dallkin'dsof _ ,
Earthen,Wood,Wfot0 and-Iron Hollow Wars,
of every description. Manuf more in
Tim, Sheet Iron, ind Cop r Metals.
Dealers in
with all their appurtenances.
Plumbcra’ Material with Competent Labor. ,
TILE PIPES fordrains,‘ withnecessary BENDS an
mammal) PIPE as D LIGHT
and roses rmlrs, and TIN wash in all ‘
its up intments.. STREET LANT-
ERN and LAMPS. Onlyageutefor
The Hartford Earth Closet Go.
Comm‘odes' on exhibition; circulars for freec
tion. Agentsforthe . , _
Novelty Clogge- Wringer‘,
Bailey Wasnlgag machine, '
Inger-son’s Water Elevator;
MISS M. M. SMITH, ,
Teacher “Singing and the Piano Forte
INGING taught according to ,Bassini’s most ap-
_ proved method. Particular attention given to
the Development's dCultlvstmu oi the voice. .The ,
conrseof instructi ml. ouspeclsllyadapted mohair
si’ fugif desired. Address Box 81 P. 0., South Nor-
wa k, or call at the Old Well Hotel. f8
_ W.. H. sweeps,
Merchant Taller
- CORNER WASHINGTON AND MAIN STS.,
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.,
Scotch ChevOits, Meltons, Grape and
English Coatings,
MADE UP IN STYLE, AND AT LOWEST PRICES
A good fit noted and made as the customer may
want it. ing done for others to make as hereto
fore.
Also, a LARGE ASSORTMENT or HATS and CAPS
NEW and RARE PLANTS.
Rules, GflfilileOI, Varietal,
Beddi Out Plants, Shrubs,
Fr t Trees of all kinds,
Raspberry, Blackberry tit Strawberry
Plants, kc.
EARLY ROSE POTATOES. TOMATOE,
EGG, PEPPER & CELERY PLANTS, site.
Also FLOWER-AND VEGETABLE SEEDS.‘ BO-
QUETS, WREATHS, BASKETS, CROSSES, and oth
er Floral Decorations arranged in the best style of art
to order. Send for descriptive catalogue.
MALLORY do DOWNS,
- South Norwalk, Ct.
Ltwls- stunt, Dealer,
Timber, Lumber, '
Shingles, Lath,
Builders’ Hardware, 01c,
AT WHIIESME All RETAIL
OFFICES AND YARDS:
Water Street, Norwaik, -
ashington Street, So. Norwallr
c. M. GRUMMANW
Practical Watchmakel and Jeweler,
And Dealer in .
AMERICAN, ENGLISH dz SWISS
' WATCHES. ,
JEWELRY of every description, Silver and Plated
Ware, Clocks, Spectacles, Eye Glasses, Violins
and Bows, and Strlngs, and Trimmings, of all kinds,
together with algeneral assortment of goods in my
line. I am recc ving frsell goods from Importers and
Manufacturers every few days, so that purchasers
will have the advantage of all the new styles as soon
as they are out. Please call, and examine my stock
and vices and be convinced. ~
. .—-Particular attention as usual aid to Repair
in g fine Watches,French Clocks,Jewe ry andjob ing
in my line. ' C. M. GRUMMAN,
Ely’s Block, opposite Lucas Hotel, So. Norwalk.
Raymond Bros.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
' I
‘ -HAI,"GBAIN, FEED, Flllllll, 8.0.,
ANTHnACITE AND BITUMINOUS
COAL.
BY THE TON, CAR LOAD on CARGO, 4
WOOD,
ALL KINDS, OUT AND SPLIT TO ORDER.
Masons’ Building' Materials,
BL UE STONE,
ALL SIZES AND LENGTHS,
CUT To onnslt.
Agents for the celebrated
Franklin Coal or Lykens valley. ,
Foot of Washington st., South Norwalk, Ct.
NEW DRUG STORE}. "
HE undersl ed wbuld respectfully announceto
T the citiseilllll in this vicinity, that he hasjusf
fitted upa New Drug Store,
CORNER or WASHINGTONAND DEPOT are.
where will 1.. found .,
rURE DRUGS
CHOICE WINES and LIoUons,
FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES,
FANCY AND .TOILET‘ARTIOLES,
. PATENT MEDICINES, do.
1" Ph ' clans Prescriptions carefully compounded
day and niyght. Can be found nights, insamebuiidfng,
eutranceon Washington St. 0 .
iyss S. F. PECK, South Norwalk. Conn.
sOUTI—L NORWALK
Hardware Emporium,
Chlchester’s Block,
- WASHINGTON STREET,
Just across from the Old Well Hotel.
Having bought, since the decline of gold, a full as-
sortment of ,
HARDWARE, BUILDERS’ AND CARPENTERS’
TOOLS PAINTS OILS WINDOW GLASS,-
coins“, to. We offer itto’the
Public at lowprlces.
W. C. QUINTARD a CC.
WALTER Du QUINJ‘ABD. In. “APP.
THE MODEL IIAIIKE'I'."
WILLIAM MITCHELL,
AVING‘hecome proprietor of this old eatablldl-
H ed and ever popular market, is prepared to fur-
nish Hotels. Saloons, Familiee,&c.,._wlth Meats ofall
kinds, ofthe best qualit ,In an desired quantity and
at the lowest market one. he continued patron-
nu on elicited. .
‘5" ”a °' WILLIAM MITCHELL -
- RANGES.
; » cogs N5." 7 RANGE, '
$12.00 '
“.00
SO. 1"- BE EN.
“Call and see them before buyén-a els-owhere
Dears ‘ a serene.
dc" both for Gentlemen and Ladies’ wear, which will ‘ '
Heaters, Ranges, Stoves & Furnaces .
» . l eraloatronage. '
WOR- WALK'HOTEL
, It's: 12:53.53: cm '.‘Li‘i°i9£f;‘fa.§ii:i
,becn at In fine elder. Parties wisbiu to on a‘ e
' toomrwfilplease address B.‘H. BAICI‘LRTT? g
mo N'otwa’fk Hotel.Norwa'lk,Conn.
or Tun ans'r QUALITY.
III III BMIIAIII
Franlmlm Coal,
treasure coll 'lllllll.
Lou: Wautodzand New Supplied.
throughout, and the grounds around this Hotel have .
MOTIIBIILESS.
DY "A ALICE.
lI-y walk led me by a lone cottage,
I pauses—for lol -weeping I hes! d;
’Twas the moaning of four little children, -
That so deeply my bosom had stirr’d.
Heal: lost, my dear friend, a loved mother 1
East thou draukrfrom this chalice of woe ?
If so, then canst feel for the stricken—
ror the mother-less children below.
In that cottage so humble enul y,
There, gathered around the la bed,
Was the father and four little lone ones,
Bewailing the loss oftheir dead.
A spirit from earth has departed,
A fond mother, alael was no more;
Thus I found them, the poor broken-hearted,
As sof ly I entered their door.
Though a stranger-my tears‘ I commingled—
I wept with the heart-stricken there,
And prayed to the High and th sly-—
To give them His fostering .
N this County,: at WEED’S JEWELRY STORE.
. All New Music will be added as soon as issuéd. ,
A LARGE AND pleural. DISCOUNT T0
- TEACHERS. is
.. VlOlllIr IIIIIIIIOTIOII. '
Tun subse’ iber “awoken Econ chiin Lock-
' wood’s Buildingieyreparedto lve instruction
on the Violin._Lesson’;given when cell-ed. , _ ‘
IIIII III lull é‘ MINES fllllllill.
Q '~ “ JOSEPH r. aucxNAls.
Nor-walk, April it, 1871. _ - Cull?
A FULL‘LINE 'or ,
Men of: Dog’s-Wear.
.1139.
. GENTLEMEII’SFU’RNISHIHOGOODS
' '0. us. edrnwan.
second alumnus:- nor-unit: nan.
.GROCERIEs,
ProviSions,‘ Filler, Feed, dc.
DemMOn—db—Newcomb
HAVING REMOVED TO THEIR NEW STORE.
in Raymond’s New Building, 53 Main Street
are now prepared so furnish the public with a full
and complete assortment ofall ar'tic es usually kept in
A First-Class Grocery Store,
of the best quality; and at the ‘
- Lowest market llates.
They have also added a Crockery Departmen in
which can be found a stock of cane-colored an va-
riegatedehalneled ueensware, which will befound
better and cheaper or ordinary use than any other
were in market. . Call and examine. ,
S. R. Bantin andCo.’s Pies, Cakes, Bread, the"
always on has . , .
FANCY '1) YEING.
L I MOEGLING, of Danbury, has located his
. Norwalk Oflice at the store of.
E. H. PARKE R,
Main Street, where all orders for Dyeing Ladies’ and
Gents’ Wearlng Apparel to, will receive prompt at-
tention. All colors use every week. so there can ltc
no delay in giving any shade or hue deslled. Gel.-
llcmen's clothes cleaned and dyed without ripping.
. Steam, Water and Gas Pipe Fitting.
OHN COTTER. MACHINIST, PRACTICAL EN-
i hGINIlili'R, ac" at his Variety Machine Shop
11 t e - . .
Basement of the Norwalk Steam Plan-
lnz sun,
on Water street, is prepared to put in Steam, Water
or Gas pipes in the best and most workmanlike
manner. 44 tf
BRICK! BRICK !
300 000 Hard and “‘3 n’m‘v fmm 85.00
’ .
to $8.008” thousand, for sale by
‘HAS.
Norwalk, Feb. 27, 1871.
T, LEONARD. 9
25 Bulldlng lots 501 ISO.
GIVEN AWAY to any industrious parties who
will within one dyear erect thereona dwe.ling.
These lots are dry an level . and situated near-the
Norwalk Woolen Mills and the Winnlpank Felt
Cloth Manufactory afi'ording facilities to obtain
work seldom offered. Inquire at the Lumber Yard of
18 W. K. JAMES’ NEPHEVLS.
NEW STORE.
n. s. BLASCER,
OULD inform the ubllc that he has taken a
store in Phtsnix lock, and will keep on hand
ageneral assortment of
GROCERIES, CROCKERY, GLASS, TIN AND
WOODEN WARE, etc. '
B devoting his canstant'personal attention to the
bus ness he hopes to merit public patronage. 47-1
‘ REMOVED
to Middle Store, Mitchell’s Block.
GOOD-1 OUGH & BATES,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Fish, ; Oysters, Clams,
ESUOLL OPS, LOBSTERS, (act/med)
FR UITS,,PROD U 0E, HERE E1 '- , .
I CALL Y SEALED GOODS,
0A T8 UPS, SA UOEB, (to.
Faust] less Supplied.
Goods delivered free of. charge.
Colt for Sale.»
N extra line, three years old darkflla colt r
sale. Enquire of ISAAC CHURCHJ 14
MILK, at 0 Cents per quart.
PERSONS wishing to en age their milk ofthe
“AYRESHIRE DAIR FARM,” can doso by
leavingtheir orders at Frank Mead do Co’s. The
milk will be served punctually everymorning. slt
BENTISTBI' IN' SOIIIH NflflWllll.
0R FOUR DAYS OF EACH WEEK, ONLY, Dr.
Kendall will condone the Dental business as
formerly at his old stand, Sword’s Building. ce
will he closed Monda s and Saturdays, Dr. Kendall
bcln in RI efield. e extract teeth with or with-
out e use 0 LAUGHING CA S.
Wednesdays we devote entirely to extract ng Teeth
WITHOUT Am.
The principal Operator-in Colton's Dental Asso-
ciation has repeatedly declared that South N orwalk
is the best place within his" knowledge (out of Coop-
er Union) to have teeth extracted.
We particularly invite those who may desire
ARTIFICIAL TEE“; * .
to examine our manner of work and rides before-
procurin them elsewhere. Teeth fille inthe most
approv manner. Those partially brosen away by
decay restored to their former sire and shape;
alvr‘nslnt‘ rollslllll. -~
THE subscribers having completed their new
Foundry Works on Hoyt street,,and fitted a
the same in the best manner, with most up rove
machinery, are now prepared'to execute all or eye for
rum turtles and to do us well
of every description. Babbitt metal, of every qual-
ity, furnished. Orders solicited.
Cash paid for cast scrap iron.
" A. C. ARNOLD
OTTO o. llllullcurLDT.19
l
r
' Norwalk, May 8. 18
nousanEra-as, TAKE NOTIcE:
usuuou & uswceus,
MAINSTREE‘I‘,‘ says THE assr
Jar Male for Preserving Full.
' Call and examine them, and satisfy yourselves that.
they are really what is claimed. Also, Just received,
a new invoice of -
Which will be sold cheap. Call and try our new lot
of TEA. 3mm
ROTON POINT,
The most eligible Summer Resort on
Long Island ”and, ‘ .
18 now open to the public, under 'the management
of the subscriber. The in.“ I!“ been thorough-
ly cleaned and out in excel ent order for th accom-
modation of artics and is more attrec ve than
,ever before. c Nlc 'Parties can obtain tables in the
grove, and every convenience, at small expense.
REFRESHM'ENTS,‘ Oi“ ALL KINDS, '
includin 0 sters Clam Bakes,lce Cream, Lemon-
ade, So a, ake, Pies do. furnished on the ground
BOATS SUPPLIED withvcompeteut managers,
for Flshfugor Sailin Parties. '
The Danbury .ll orwalk Railroad will issue ex-
cursion tickets toparties at very low rates—lower
than ever before. ,
L. Scofield will a. Sta s from the South Nor-
of the trains from Dan-
walk depot, daily, 0 Irri
bury. at 8 a. m. and s p. m.‘ -
T e subscriber will devote his entire at ntion to
e entertainment of guests and will neck 0 merit a .
WALTER SEARLES.
The'Lar-ge'st Stack of-Sheet Music 4
0h, dark! dark, indeed, was theshedow
That now hung o’er that poor father’s brow,
All alone-with four little daughters-—
With no mother to care for them now.
Ah,,indeed ’twas a plcture of sorrow,
How my bosom in sympathv yearned,
As they kissed the cold lips of their mother—
And no kiss greeted their’s in return.
As sadly I gazed on the circle,
Father, children-all stricken with woe:
I thought, why is the mother now taken—
When' the most she seems needed below i
I
But He, who watelleth every creature,
Even each little sparrow so small, ‘
la wisdom hath taken'the parent,
And we bow to the God over all.
Obi we know notwhat here doth await us,
What't'hia llfe through the years yet may he;
Give us grace. Lord, tobear each affliction-—
That draws ns'stili nearer to Thee!
Who will care for earth's poor little lone ones, '
When father and mother are dead 7 ‘
Who willclothe little destitute orphans—-
And furnish the hungry with bread?
The friendless he leaves to our care,
Those who comfort and cheer the enlisted—
In our Father’s blest mansion shall share!
*
“ OUR SHIPS.” .
[The following graceful lines appear in the Toledo
Blade, from the‘ pen of a local poem "
In those bright summer mornings when 1 row
‘Up from the Bay upon the broad Haumee,
Amid the stately boats that come and go,
I meet the toy ships going‘out to sea—
Each ship a board propelled bv paper sails, ~
And given with shouts to billows and to gales.
All. happy boyg, that launch your ships away,
Playing the merchant long before-your time.
We men are like you to our dying day,
Still sending ships to every clime;
And some men's ships come back to their own shore,
And some men’s ships come back to them no more.
In youth, our ships to fetch as Love we sent, .
(Lon’g since they went in those glad days of old),
Some went for Fame and some for Power went.
And then we sent whole fleets to bring us Gold,
And of all the ships we sent across the main,
Not one in thousands came to us again.
But I believe our ships are gone before- I
Gone to some Better Land, to which we so;
There one by one they gather on the shore,
Blown safely in b ' all the winds that blow,
And we shall find themon some Happy Day,
floored fast, and waiting at the Golden Quay.
e O
EACII-Los: STUDIES.
0. D. Warner, in Scribners’ Magazine for July.
,I. ‘
The fire on the hearth has almost gone
out in New England; the hearth has gone
out; the family has lost its cen for: age ceases
to be respected; sex is only distinguished
by the difference between millinery bills and
tailors’ bills; there is no more toast and ci-
‘der; the young are not allowed to eat mince
pies at ten o’clock at night : balfa cheese is
no longer set to roast before the fire; you
scarcely ever see in front of the coals a row
of roasting apples, which a bright little girl,
with many a dive and start, shielding her
sunny face from the fire with one hand, turns
from time to time; scarce are the gray hair-
.ed sires who strep their razors on the family
Bible, and doze in the chimney corner.
"good many things have gone out with the
fire on the hearth.
A
I do not mean to say that public and pri-
vate morality have vanished with the hearth.
A good degree of purity and considerable hep!
piness are possible with grates and blowers;
itisa day of trial, when all are passing
through a fiery furnace, and ‘very likely we
shall'be purified.“ we are dried up and
wasted away. Of course the family is
gone, as an institution. though there still are
attempts to bring up a family round a “reg-
ister." But you might just as wellfry to
bring it up by hand, as without the rallying
point of a hearth-stone. Are there any home-
steads now-a-days? Do people hesitate to
change houses any more than they do to
change their clothes? People hire houses as
they Would a masquerade costume, liking,
sometimes, to appear ofor a year in It little
fictitious stone-front splendor above their
means. Thus it happens that so many peo-
ple live in houses that do not fit them. I
should almost as soon think wearing an-
other persou’s clothes as his use, unless I
could let it out and' fake it in until it fitted,
and somehow expressed my own character
and taste. .But we have fallen into the day
of conformity. It is no wonder that people
constantly go into theirneigllbors' by mis-
take, just as, in spite of the Maine law, they
wear away each other’s hats fi'om an eve-
ning party. It has almost come to this, that
you might as well be anybody else as your:
self. .
' Am I mistaken in supposing that this is
'owing to the discontinuance of big chim-
neys, with Wide fireplaces in them i How
can a person be attached to a house that has
no center of attraction, no soul in it, in the
visible form of a glowing fire, and a warm
chimney, like the heart in the body l. When
you think of theold homestead, if you ever
do, your thoughts go straight in the wide
chimney and its burning logs. No wonder
that you are ready to-move from one fire-
placeless house to anOther. But you have
something just as good you say. Yes I have
heard of it. This age, which imitates every-
thing, even to the virtues of our ancestors,
has invented ti fireplace and painted it, in
which gas is burned, ‘so that it has the ap-
pearance ofa wood fire. This seems to me
blasphemy. Do you think a cat would lie
down before it? If you can’t poke it, it is a
fl' d. To poke a wood fire isnmrc solid
enjoyment than almost anything rise in the
world. The crowning human virtue in a man,
is to let his wife poke the fire. I 'do not
know how: any virtue whatever is possible
over an imitation gas log. What a sense of
insincerify the'family must have, if they in-
dulge in the hypocrisy of gathering about if.
Wflh this center of untruthfulness what must
file lifein the family be? Perhaps the father
will be living a? the rate of ten thousand a
year on a salary of four thousand a year:
perhaps the mother, more beautiful and
yOunger than her beautified daughters, will
roug,: perhaps the young ladies will make
wax work. A cynic might suggest as the
motto of a modern life this simple legend-
“Just as geod' as the real." But I am not a
cynic, and .I hope for the- rekindling ofwoo'd
fires, and a return of the beautiful home from
them- ‘3 wood fire is a luxury, if is cheap-
er than any we indulge without thought,
' and cheaper than the visits ofa doctor, made
necessary by the want of ventilation of the
house. ' Not that I have anything against
doctors; I only wish, afier they have been
to see us in a way that seems so friendly,
they had nothing against us.
,Myffireplace, which is deep. and nearly
three fee't'wide, has a broad. hearth-stone in
Ill“ "museums... . .0
front, of it, where the live cOals tumble down
and a pair of gigantic brass alldirons. The
q
' build a fire ’under' abnlky horse; but Ill
brasses are burnished. and shine cheerfitlly
in the firefight, and on eilher side stand tall
' shovel and tongs, like sentries, mounted in
brass. The tongs, like the two handed sword
of Bruce, cannOt be wielded by puny people.
We burn in it hickory wood, cut long. We
like the smell of this aromatic forest timber,
and its clear flame. The bitch is also sweet
'wood for the hearth, with .ll. sort, of spiritual
flame and an even temper-no snappishness.
Some prefer the elm, which holds the fire so
well; and l have a neighbor who uses noth-
ing but apple-tree wood—u solid family sort
of wood, fi‘agrant also, and full of delightful
suggestions. But few people can afford to
burn up their fruit trees, I should 'as soon
think of lighting the fire with sweet oil that
comes in those graceful wicker-bound flasks
from Naples, or with manuscript sermons,
which, howr’v’er, do not burn well, be they
ever so dry,-—not half so ,well as printed
editorials.
Few people know how to make a wood fire,
but everybody thinks he or she does. You
want, first, atlarge back log, which does not
rest on the andirons. This will keep your
fire forward, radiate beat all day, and late in
the evening fall into a min ofglowing coals
like the last days ‘of a good man, whose life
is the richest and-most beneficenf at the close
youth are burned out, and there only remain
the solid bright elements ofcharaeter. Then
you want a fore-stick on the andil'ons; and,
upon these build the fire of lighter stuff. In?
and the fire gradually cuts into the solid mass,
sinking down with increased fervor; coals.
drop below, and delicate tongues of flame
sport along the beautiful grain of the fore--
stick. There are people who kindle a fire.
underneath. ut these are conceited people,
who are wedded to their own way. I sup.
pose an accomplished incendiary always
starts a fire in .the attic, if he can. I am 1101
when they set fire to the martyrs, touched ofi _
ceed ftot‘n the most enlightened doivn to ihl
most ignorant strata. If you want bettel
common schools, raise the standard ,of fill
colleges, and so on. Build your fire on top.
Let your lightshin'e. Ihave seen peopll
wouldn’t go—he’d bell horse maItyr first.
A fire kindled under One never did him an 3
good. ‘ Of course you can make a fire on tho
hearth by kindling it underneath, but than
does not make it right. I want my hearth-
fire to be an emblem of the best things.
II. '
It must he confessed that a wood fire needs
as muCh fending as a pair of twins. To say
nothing of fiery projecliles sent into the men:
even by the best wood, from the explosion of
gases confined in its cells, the brands are
being scattered over the hearth. However
much a careful housewife, who thinks mor.
of neatness than enjoyment, may dislike this.
it is one of the chief delights of a wood fire.
I would as soon have an Englishman with-
out side~whiskers as fire without a big buck
log; and I would rather have no fire than
one that required no tending—one'of dead
wood that could not sing again the impris-
oned songs of the forest, or give out in brill-
iant scinlillalions' the sunshine it absOrbed
in its growth. Flame is an ethereal sprite.
and the spice of danger in it gives zest lo
the care of the hearth-fire. Nothing is so
beautiful as springing, changing flame— it
was the last {leak of the Gothic al'chitecfurl
flees of stone as, on,
flamboyant devices. -
a private laboratcry, , , .
the most brilliant chemical experiments,
minor conflagrations only wanting thl
grandeur of cities on fire. It is a vulgar no-
tion that fire is only for heat. A chiefvalut ,-
of it is, however, to look at. It is a picture.
framed between the jambs. You have noth-
ing on your walls, by the best master (lhl
poor mash-rs are not, however, represented)
that is‘ really so facinatiug, so spiritual
Speaking like an upholste‘rcr, it furnishes
the room. And it is.never twice the same.
In this respect it is like the landscape view
through a window, always seen in a new
light, color, or condition. The fireplace is a
window into the most charming world I ev-
er had a glimpse of.
Yet direCt heat is an agreeable sensation.
I amhnot scientific enough to despise it, and
have no Lists for a winter residence on Mount
Washington, where the thermometer cannot
be kept Comfortable even by boiling. They
say that in Boston there is a satisfaction in
being well dressed which religion canno
give. There is certainly a satisfaction in thl
direct radience of a hickory fire which is not
to be found in the fieriesl blasts of a furnace.
The hot air of a furnace is a Sirocco! lht
heat of a wood fire is only intense sunshine.
like that bottled in Ilacrimar' Christi. Be-'
sides this. the eye is delighted, the sense of
smell is regaled by the frequent decomposi-
tion and the ear is pleased with the hissing,
crackling singing-a liberation of so many
out-door noises. Some people like the sound
of bubbling in a boiling pot, or the fizzing 0‘
a‘frying spider. But there is nothing gross-
in the animated crackling of sticks of wood
blazing on the hearth; not ever if chestnuts
are roasting in the ashes. All the senses arc
'nistered to, and the imag'nation is felt as
c as the leaping tongues of flame.
The attention which a wood fire demands
is one of its best recommendations; We val-
ue lithe that which costs us no trouble to
maintain. If we had-to keep the sun kindled
up and going by private corporate action.
or act of congress, and to be taxed for the
support of custom oflicers of solar heat, w¢
should prize it more than we do. Not that I
should like to look upon the sun as a job
.and have the proper regulation of its fem»
perature get into politics, where we have al-
ready so much combustible stufi' ; but wr
take it (“lite loo much as a matter of course.
and, having it use, do not reckon it among
the reasons for gratitude. Many people shut
it out of their houses as If it were an enemy,
watch its descent upon‘ the carpet as if it
were. only a thief of color, and plant trees tl-
shut it away from their monldering house.
All the animfils know better than this, as
well as the more simple races of men; the
old women of the southern Italian coasts all
all day in the sun and ply the distafi‘, as
grateful is the sociable hens On the south
side of a New England burn; the slow for-
toise lik- s to takethe sun upon the sloping
back, soaking in color that shall make him
immortal when the imperishable part cfhiul
is cut tlp into shell ornaments. The capac.
ity ofa cat to absorb sunshine is only equaled
by that of an Arab or an Ethiopian. The}
are not afraid of injuring their complexion.
White must be the color of civilization: it
has so many natural disadvantages. But
this is politics. I was about to say that, how-
ever it may be with sunshine, one is always
.gratefill for his wood fire, because he does
not maintain it without some cost.
Yes I cannot but confess to a difference br- I
tween sunlight and the light ofa wood fire.
The sunshine is entirely untamed. Where it
rages most freery it tends to evoke the bril~
liancy rather than the harmonious satisfilc .
lion of naure. The monstrous growths and
the flaming colors of the tropics contrast with
our more subdued loveliness of,foliage and
bloom. The birds of the middle rt'gir n daz:
zle with their contrasts ofplumage. and- their
'I presume the new experiments in sound
when the flames ofpassion and the sap of .
_ luilt a house that coat a
sum, who does not know anything more
' lislory, than he cares for the rights of those
uvho have not so much money as he has. I
veices are for screaming rather than singing , ‘
tangible and iilharmouiOus line of light. I
suspect that the fiercest runligbt puts people
as Well as animals, and vegetables, on ex-
tremes in all ways. A wood fire on the
hearth' is a kindler of the domeStic virtues.
ter, and, besides, it is artistic. I should like
to know if an artist could ever represent on
canvas 9. happy family gathered rounds
hole in the floor called a register. Giving a
fireplace, and a tolerable artist ’could almost
create a pleasant family round it. But who
could he conjure out of a register ?. If there
was any virtue among our ancestors— and
they labored under a great many disadvan-
tages, and had few of the aide which we have
to excellence of life—I am convinced they
d cw if moslly from the fireside. If it was
difficult to read the ten commandments
by the light of a pine knot, it was not diffi
cult to get the sweet spirit of them from the
countenance of the serene mother knitting in
the chimney corner.
.111.
When the fire is made, you want to Sit in
front of it and grow genial in its efi’ulgence.
I have never been on a fhrone,—except 'n
moments of a traveler’s curiosity, about al-
long as a South American dictator remain":-
on one,—but I have no idea that it compares;
for pleasahtness, with a seat before a wool.
fire. A whole leisure day before you,a goal.
novel in hand, and the back-log only just be-
ginning fo kindle, with nucouufed hours or
comfort in it-has life anylhing more deli-
fhis way' you have at once a cheerful blaze, ”‘0‘“? For '“Novel” you can 8013mm" in
"Calvin’s Institutes,” if you wish to be vir-
tuous as Well as happy. Even Calvin would
melt before a wood fire. A great snow storm
visible on three sides of your wide-window-
ed room loading the evergreens, blown in
fine powder from the great chesmut tops
piled up in ever-accumulating masses, 'cov~
eriug the paths, the'shrubbery, the hedges
lrifting and clinging in fantastic deposns
The Saviour saith, “ the poor ye have withyou," an incendiary, but Ihafe bigotry. Idon’t calla deepening your sense of security, and fak-
elecessily, this is an excellent background to
the fagofs at the bettom, so as to make them ‘ 3'9“” day by the fire.
. burn slow. Besides, knowledge works down .
edsier fhan'it does up. Education must pro- ‘0 read a novel, ‘9 “Joy yourself, is this ”0' ' cellar. What supports the cellar I never
To deliberately sit down in thermoming;
III New England, (I am told they don’t real
much in other parts of the country) the Sil.
of sins? Have you any right to read, especiv
.tlly novels, until you hllve exhausted thr-
oest part of the day in some employmeul
hat is called practical? Have you any
right to enjoy yourself? I am aware the.
his is the practice, if not the theory, of our
.ocietymfo postpone the delights of social
ntercourse unlit after dark, rather late :1:
night, when body and mind are both weary
with the exertions of business, and when M
can give to What is the most delightful anl
profitable thing in me, social and intellectu-
ll society, only the weariness of dull brain:
Ind over-fired muscles. No wonder we tak.
)ur amusements sadly and that so many peo-
ple find dinners heavy and parties stupid.
Our economy leaves no place for amuse-
nents; We Inere’ly add them to the burden
)f a life already full. The world is sfill ll
little off the track as to what is really
lséful. - , ‘
'I confess that the morning is a very good
time to read a novel, or anything else which
a good and requires a fresh mind; and I
take it that nothing is worth reading than
loes not require an alert mind. I supposr
if is necessary that business should be trans-
lcfed; though the amount of business lhaz.
loes not contribute to anybody’s comfort ol
.mprovemcnt suggests the query whether il
3 not overdone. I know that unremitting
-ltteufion to business is the the price of suc-
:ess, but I don’t know what success is.
i‘here isaman, who, we all know,whr.‘
ler ofa million
If dolla-s, and furnished for another Iikt
lbout architecture, or painting, or books, 0)
word him once, in a foreign gallery, say it
his wife, as they stood in front of a famou:
{ liclure by Rubens :—“That is the Rape of
E:hc Sardines i” What a cheerful world i
l.vould
shat man .
the fire, fairing an active part in ilnporlan'
' everybody was as successful as
hile Iain reading my book b}
ransacfions that may be a great deal better
than real, let me be thankful that a good
nuny men are profitably employed in offices
Ind bureaus and country stores in‘keepiug
-.lp the gossip and endless exchange of opin-
ions among mankind, so much of which is
-uade.fo appear to the women at home as
“business.” I find that there is a sort of busy
idleness among men in this world that is
not held in dispute, When the time comes
hat I have‘to prove my right to vote, witL
.vomen,I trust that it will be remembered
in my favor that I made this admission. If
51 is true, as a witty conservative once said
’0 me, that we never’ shall have peace in this
:ountry until we elect a7 colored woman
)residenl,I desire to be room: in earth early.
. The fireplace, as we ‘s'aid, is a window
through which we look upon other scenes.
We like to read of the small. bare room.
with cobwebbcd' ceiling and narrowwin-
:low, in which the poor child of genius sits
with his magical poem, the master of a realm .
of beauty and enchantmeuf. I think the
open fire does not kindle the imagination so
rnuch as it awakens the memory: one sees
the past in its crumbling embers and ashy
grayneSs, rather than the future. People
become reminiscent and even sentimental in
front of it. They used to become something.
else, in those good old days when it was
thought best to heat the poker red hot be-
fore plunging it into the mugs of flip. This
heating of the poker has been disapproved
)f, of late years, but I do not know on what
grounds : if one is to drink bitters and gins
lnd the like, such as I understand as good
'18 clergyman and women take in private,
ml by advice, I do not know why one
should not make them. palatable and beat
them with his own poker. Cold whisky
out ofa bottle, taken as a prescription six
times a day on, the sly, isn’t my idea of vir-
lne any more than the social ancestral glass,
sizziug wickedly with the hot iron, Names.
we so confilsiug in this world ; but things ‘
ll-e apt to remain pretty much the same.
whatever we call them.
Perhaps as you look into the fireplace it
widens and grows deep and cavernous. The
back and the jams are built of the great
=tones, not always smoothly laid, with jut-
.ing ledges upon which ashes are apt to
lie. - The hearth-stone is an enormous block
of trap rock, with a surface not perfectly
even, but a capital place to crook buffer-
lufs on. Over the fire swings an iron crane,
with a row of pot-hooks of all lengths hung-
lug fi'om it. » It swings out when the bones-
wife wants to hang on the lea-kettle, and if
strong enough to support a row of pots, or a
mammoth caidrdn kettle on occasion. What
a jelly sig: t is this fireplace when the
pots and kettles in a row are all boiling and
bubbling Over the flame, and a feasting-spit
is turning in front! It makesa person as'
hungry as one of Scott’s novels. But the
brilliant sight is in the frosty morning, about
daylight, when the fire is made. The coals
are raked open, the splits are piled up in
open work cries-crossing, as high as the
crane ; and when the flame catches hold and
more up through the interstices. it is like an
rut-of-door bonfire. Wood enough is con-
sumed in that morning sacrifice. to cook the
feed of a Parisian family for a'year. How it:
.l'oérs up the wide chimney, sending info the
III the signal smoke and sparks which au-
nou‘uce to the farming neighbors another dliy'
cheerfully begun! The sleepiest boy in the
would project a macaw’s voice in every
world would get up in his led flannel Whi-
It brings in cheerf'ulness, and a family con-A
gains to see such a fire lighted, even if he
dropped to sleep again in, his chair before
the ruddy blaze. Then it is that the house,
which has shrunk and created all night in
the pinching cold? of winter, begins to glow
-:lga‘inl:lncll colme to life. The thick frost melts
in e y it! e on the small window e
and it isso'eh that thegray dawn is mm:
over the leagues of pallid snow. It is fine
to blow out the candle, which has lost all its
cheerfulness in the light of day. The morn-
lng jomance is over; the family is asiir ; and
member after member appears with the
morning yawn, to stand before the crackling
fierce confiagrafion. The daily round begins.
l‘he most hateful employment ever invented
for mortal men presents itself; the “Chores"
lie to be done. The boy who expects every
morning to open into a new world,finds that
:o-day is like yesterday, but he believes to-
.norrow will be different. And yet enough
for him, for the day, is the wading in the
snow-drifts. or the sliding on the diamond-
sparkling crust. Happy, 'foo,'is he, when the
dorm rages and the snow is piled high '
lgalnst the windows, if he can sit in the ’
.varm chimney-corner and read about But-
goyne, and Gen. Frazer, and Miss McCrea,
hid-winter marches through the willie-mess,
e lrprises of wigwams, and the stirring ballad
say of the Battle of the Kegs: I .
“Come.gallallts, attend and list a friend
Thrill forth harmonious ditty :
While I shall tell what late befel
At Philadelphia city."
I should like to know what heroism aboy
an old New England farm house—rough
lursed by nature, and fed on the tradition
if the old wars—(lid not aspire lb “John,"
«'ays the mother, “you’ll burn your head to
t crisp in that heat." But John does not
war; he is storming 'the Plains of Abraham
lust now. “Johnny, dear, bring in a stick of
wood.” How can Johnny bring in wood
when he is in that defile with Braddock, and
the Indians‘are popping at him from behind
every tree ? There is something about a boy
those incendiaries very good christians who “1g away the 5i“ of idleness by making it ‘ ' that I like, after all. ‘
The fire rests upon the broad hearth ; the
hearth rests upon a great substruction of
stone, and the substruction rests upon the
:new, but the cellar supports the family.
[‘hfi ccllaris the foundation of domestic com—
.‘ort. Info its dark, cavernous recesses the
ahild’s imagillavion fearfully goes. Bogies
guard the bins of choicest apples. 1 know
not what comical sprites sitastride the elder-
barrels ranged along the walls. The feeble
flicker of the fallow-candle 'does not at all
dispel, but creates illusions, and magnifies
.ll the rich possibilities of this underground
measure-house. ' When the cellar door is
opened and the boy begins to descend into
the-thick darkness, itis always with a heart-
aeat as of one started upon some adventure.
Who can forget the smell that cemcs through
the open door ;——a mingling of fresh earth,
.‘ruit exhaling delicious aroma, kitchen veg-
stables, the mouldy odor of barrels, a sort of
Incesfral air,—as.if a door had been opened
into an old romance. Do you like it? Not
much. But then I would not exchange the
remembrance of it for a good many odors
. .lnd perfumes that I do like. -
It is time to punch the book-log and put
on a new fore slick.
THE“GIA1I?I?I’TG—i-YSEI. ' ,
Our search for new wonders leading us ,
le'I'OSS the Fire Hole River, we ascended a
gentle, incrusted slope, and came suddenly
,npou a large oval aperture with scalloped
; edges, the diameter of which were eighteen
=,.lud twenty-five feet. the sides corrugated
lnd covered with a grayish-white ailicious
deposit, which was distinctly visible at the
depth of one hundred feet below the suffice.
No water could be discovered, but we
.could distinctly here it gurgling and boiling
:ll. a great distance below. Suddenly it be-
gun to rise, boiling and splutfering, and
«reading out huge masses of steam, causing
'l. general stampede of our company, driving
ls some distance from our point of observe.
Lion. When within about forty feet of the
surface it became stationary, and we return-
..-d. to look down upon it. It was foaming
Ind surging at a terrible rate, occasionally '
emitting small jets of hot water nearly -to
the mouth of the orifice. All at once it seem-
ed seized with a fearful spasm, and rose'wiih
incredible rapidity, hardly afl’ording us time
20 flee to a safe distance, when it burst from
the orifice with terrific momenlum, risingin
'1 column the 11111 size of this immense aper-
ture to the height of sixty feet; and through
led out of the apex of this vast, aquaous
muss, five or six lesser jets or round columns
of water, varying in size from six to fifteen
inches in diameter, were projected to” the
marvellous height of two hundred and fifiy
feet. These lesser jets, so much higher than
the main column, and shooting through it,
doubtless proceed from auxiliary pipes lead-
ing into the principal orifice near the bot.
tom, where the explosive force is greater. If
the theory that water by constant boiling
becomes explosive when freed from air be
true, this theory rationally accounts for all . ‘
irregulariles in tbs-eruptions of the geysers.
This grand eruption continued for twenty
minutes, and was the most magnificent sight
we ever witnessed. We were standing on
the side of the geyser neon-st the sun, the
gleams of which filled the sparkling column
of water and spray with myriuds of rain-
bows, whosc arches were gonsIanfly chang-
ing,—dipping and fluttering hither and
thither, and disappearing only to be succeed.
ed by others, again and again, amid the
aqueous column, while the minute globules
into which the spent jets were diffused when
falling sparkled like a shower of diamonds,
and around every shadow which the denser
clouds of vapor, interrupting the suns rays,
cast upon the column, could be seen a lumi-
nouscircle radiant with all the colors ofthe
.prism, and resembling the halo oglpry rcp-
resented in paintings as encircling the head
of Divinity. All that we had previously
witnessed seemed tame in comparison with
the perfect grandeur and beauty of this dis.
play. Two of these wonderful eruptions oc-
curred during the twenty-two hours we re-
mained in the valley. This geyser we named
“The Gisntess.”— “ Wonders ofthe Yol-
iowstom ;” Scribner for June. , '
THE GIRLS SPEAK FOR Tmmvns,7_-
Recently, in one of the factories of Home",
there was a reduction of wages. The girls
determined not to submit and 331-”de
leave, not striking, however, but giving their
notice ofa month and departing according ‘
to the rules and regulations. At the same‘ '
time they'issued _a manifesto advising the
world of their position, and signifying that
at the proper time their services could be
had for a variety of purposes, enumerated
as follows :—- - ~
“ We are now working out-our notice-
can turn our hands to most anything—don’t
like to be idle—but determined not to work
for nothing where folks can afford to pay.-.
Who wants help? we can make hornets. -
dresses, puddings, pies, knit. roast, stew and: .
by; make butter and cheese; milk cows j.
and feed chickens, and hoe corn, sweep out
the kitchen, put the parlor to rights, make.
beds, split wood, kindle fires, wash and»
iron, besides being remarkably fond of bar,
bies; in fact, can do Anything mpg-ion
' ' usewife is ca ableo d n , _
:gfinggdiiigi Illicit; scolding onpllioud'aya ‘arfii
Saturdays; for specimens of gpll‘li will-re-
fer you to. our overseer. peak nick.
Black eyes, fail- fill-cheads, clusterlng ocks,
beahliml as Hebe; can sin like a sersph
and smile most bewilchiug y; any elderly
gentleman in want of ligand housekeeper,
or a nice young man ln.waut ofa-wife—
willing to sustain either chal'neler; In fact,
we are in the market. Who bids? ,
going, gone! Who’s the lucky‘man!"
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