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.7. REPUBLICAEEIQKET-
FOR PRESIDENT.
Ulysses *SJ‘Gr‘ant,
01' Illinois.
. non VICE-PREsmENT.
Henry Wilson,
Of Massachusetts. ,
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OUR CELEBRATION.
I The unprecedented heat of all the first
‘ days ofJuly kept many people aivay, and
yet our town was well filled on the 4th, and
our own citizens and our visiting friends all
seemed to enjo themselves most heartily.
The procession was large and unusually im-
' posing. The exercises on the Green,were
of} high order. The music, the reading,
Celebratioufiotcs.
The one most marked and . remarked ,fea-.
ture of our celebration was the universal
sobriety, quiet and good order pgcvailing all
about town. We never saw soi'few intoxi-
cated or disorderly persons anywhere, on
any public occasion, and it is 'a most gratify-
ing fact, and speaks well, not only for our
own citizens, but for those who, in such
large numbers, visited us on that occasion.
The procession was much larger and finer
than couldreasonably have been expected,
considering the intense heat. Our firemen
won the palm for the largest turn out and
most imposing display. The Burnside
Guards turned out a full company and made
a very creditable and soldierly march. We
were glad to note Capt. Crowe’s good sense
in dismissing his boys on their arrival atthe
Green,that they might seek shelter and re-
freshment as best they could. The civic
societies turned opt largely, and it surprised
most of our people that so many were en-
rolled as members of these various benevo-
lent associations.) The South Norwalk Tem-
the oration, in most excellent. The colla-gple of Honor mgde a specially large and fine
tion was abundant, and of good quality, and
the only, fault that could be found was a lack
of well drilled waiters. The trial of the
water through the hydrants, by the Hose
companies, was every way satisfactory, and
all in all the 4th of July, 1872, and our celeo
bra'tion of it, and the introduction of water
info Norwalk, will'long be rememberedby'
all who participated.
E‘The Democratic N atio‘nal Convention
convenes at Baltimore to-day. The dele-
gates are nearly all on hand, talking up the
nominations, and wire-pulling for their favo-
ites. " Greeley‘s friends are on the anxious
sent, and Charles FrancisAdams, it is an-
nounced, “is willin,” while no old-time, out-
andlout, died in the wool, jersey blue loco‘
foco has the shadow of a. chance for even a
complimentary vote unless something turns
up to create a sudden revolution of senti-
ment.
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[95‘ Was there ever more beautithl hay
weather for the farmers, or a more growing
time for their crops?
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WA very great nuisance has to be borne
by the residents on Riverside avenue in
consequence of the thoughtelessness of men
. and boys bathing in the Pond. It is to be
hoped that these fresh-water bathers, who
no doubt need the washings, will transfer
themselves to tide Water, where no one need
be annoyed by their unrobed presence. But
if their own sense 'of decency will not thus
actuate them, the law must be invoked.
W We owe a special debt of gratitude to
_ Supt. Dufi‘ett and Engineer John Cotter for
the proud distinction of being permitted to
set ofl‘ the first Door Yard Fountain in Nor-
walk. Our aqueous spirits on "the 4th, at-
tracted as big a crowd as the Patent Peanut
roaster did at the Bridge. Well, the water,
is a “big thing,” and a. good thing, and all
praise to any and all who have in any wise
aided in blessing Norwalk with so rare and
desperately needed a boon.
Silk‘ overskirt found—apply to Chief
Bartram.
The steamer Americus brought up six
hundred passengers last Wednesday from
New York.
The Chicago Opera House Company met
with very poor success at the Opera House,
on the Fourth.
Maj, J. I. Davenport, Gen. Butler‘s Secre-
tary during the War, is this summer board-
' ing in N orwalk with his family.
The annual meeting of the Corporators
of the Norwalk Savings Bank Society for
the election of Directors, is to be held on
the 17th inst.
Robinson’s show, last Monday, was well
attended in the evening, and was very
. generally conceded take one of the best
ever exhibited in this vicinity. ‘
Among the distinguished strangers in
.town on the. 4th were Lieut.-Gov. Yale. of
Minnesota; Maj;-Gcn. Wm. T. Clark, post-
master of Galveston, Texas,and Oldhysonte
of Yeddo, Japan.
Quite an excitement was raised on Main
Street, Saturday evening, by a man falling
down stairs, while in a drunken fit. Chief
Bartram procured a wagon and caused him
to be taken to his home; .
The Beatty Brothers have had laid in
front of and about the yards of their Home-
steads, concrete walks of the improved kinds.
Mr. Vanderhof is also engaged in the same
’ "creditable enterprise in front of his residence.
The Collector of Taxes on List of 1871
', wishes us to say that for the convenience of
» South Norwalk tax payers he has made ar-
V rangements so that their Taxes can be paid
to Mr. Joseph. S. Dunning, Post Master,City
of-South Norwalk. .
The 4th ofJuly excursion of the steamer
Americas was agrand success, the vessel‘
taking off six hundred passengers, chiefly
fronithc Danbury Railroad. The steamer
. arrived at the dock, on the return, at about
10 o’clock, p. m. ‘
Very general regret is expressed that our
friend J. W. Pinkney does not qualify and
prepare himself and act as trial justice.
There is a very important case likely to
come up, affecting the honor of our water
, commissioners, that no man is so well adapt-
ed to try as Mr. Pinkney.
Mr. Oliver S. Clark sailor, for Liverpool,
in the steam-ship Baltic, on Saturday lust.
He goes out in the interest of aONew York
firm, and expects to stay some two months,
traveling through Great Britain, France, &c.
Among his fellow-passengers are U. S. Grant,
Jr., and Philip Phillips.
The locomotive and seven cars of the ex-
cursion train on the Danbury Road which
left South Norwalk with the Steamboat pas-
sengers on the night of the Fourth, ran off
the track near the Freight Depot. No one
hurt. Another train was finally made ready,
and the . tired, exhausted passengers were
started off again about 3 o‘clock next morn-
ing. I 5
We are requested to state that the steamer
Americus will not stop at the Glen Cove
Camp Meeting as announced last week.
While the officers of the line desire to ac-
commodate the public as much as possible,
the attendance from this vicinity is not
sufficiently large to warrant them in deviat-
ing from their regular practice of running
direct to New York, on, time.
At the recent Fair of St. Marys Society
at the Opera House, a solid Silver Pitcher,
was put up as a prize to be awarded to the
society which received the most votes; each
voter pa‘ying 25cts. per vote. St. Joseph’s
= Benevolent Association had the pitcher
awarded to them at the close'of the fair;
there being 157 votes cast for St. Joseph’s to
181 for St. Mary’s Total Abstinence J ociety.
A party of eight or ten of our nice young
men leave to-day for an excursion to Fire
Island, off the south coast of Long Island,
where they propose trying their luck at
catching whales—or “crabs.” On their re-
turn we shall expect their champion“Wheel-‘
er” to roll up a load of live Cole~s from Fire
Island, and horse-mackerel enough to sup-
ply the town at least a week. Of course the
Mead of praise will be Frankly awarded to
the man who, catches the biggest catch and
.when the list is reported we shall not be
surprised to see “Ed. Adam’s name lead all
, the rest.”
‘ The steamer Americas is to make a Moon:-
lig‘bt; excursion to New Haven, on the even-
. ing of the 18111 inst, under the auspices of
93d
weiinodgé.F- 5nd A-M' The Vessel-
'1 ‘, l :’ .vcs South Norwalk at 8 o’clock p.'m_, re- .
tar-air: between 2 and 3 a. m., giving pas.-
,' . :"nger's ahfhpur or more in New Haven.
engaged for thé’occasion,“and the managers
‘t‘h‘e CityBrass ahdiGotillion Band has been
promise to do all in ,their powur to make
theexcnrsion delightful to all who favor
them with their patronage. .
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turnout.
About~ the Bridge there were as many
square yards of bunting‘as were ever thrown
to the breeze "in any town of- our size, we
are quite mire. The Engine and Hookdr
Ladder companies had arches of evergreens
and special, decorations, bidding. all a hearty
“welcome”; - .
Our Firemen acquitted themselves nobly
in all that pertained to their part of the
celebration. Phoenix Engine 00., and Pio-
neer Hook &. Ladder 00., located alongside
of one another,'joined in erecting a hand-
some evergreen arch across Main street,
in front-of their houses. Phoenix Engine
Co. also received and entertained through
the day Citizen’s Fire 00., No. 2, of Water-
bury, who camc down 50 strong with their
Engine and Hose Carriage. They were
met at the Freight Depot of the D. & N.
Railroad, by the Phcenix boys, who took
charge of their apparatus, and escorted
them to the Engine house on Main street,
where an excellent breakfast had been pro-
vided for them by Mrs. J. F. Partrick at the
expense of thuix Co. After breakfast
four horses, also thoughtfully provided by
Phoenix, appeared to draw the 2’s apparatus
over the line of March.
thnix Hose 00., received and hand-
1, of Danbury, 25 men, and Atlantic Hose
00.. of Stamford, 25 men. V
Pioneer Hook & Ladder also had a com-
pany engaged as their guests from Danbury,
but for some reason they failed to put in an
appearance.
All the companies did their level best to
entertain their visitors. The Citizen’s, No.
2, of Waterbury, said everything here seem-
ed to be “No. l”—Engine, Hose, Hook d7
Ladder Companies, all wearing the figure 1;
the Phoenix boys new claim that the Citi-
zen‘s were all “ No.1—gilt-edged bricks.”
West Avenue was very generally -and
gorgeously decorated on the 4th. The resi-
dences of E. V. A. Chichester, E. W. Stuart,
N. S. W. Vanderhocf, the Beatty Brothers,
and especially that of Water Commissioner
Morison, were elaborately dressed out with
flags and other patriotic insignia. Mr. Mor-
ison’sfiue residence was all aglow with the
stars and stripes. Our friend Stuart startled
all his old political associates—he is always
doing some stunning thing—by swinging
outa Chinese lantern in plain view of all
the passers by, with “Seymour and Blair”
emblazoned thereon! Dismay seized upon
Greeleyites. The boys from South Norwalk
said it was an accession to the mayor’s
party of one. There was much perplexity
about the simple event, until it was ascer-
taiued that some wicked democratic sup-
porter of Greeley, nearly dying to do “any-
thing to beat Grant,” had surreptitiously put
. this mischievous insignia onto our friend.
We give all these details thus minutely that
our friend’s political status may not be any
further compromised by so cruel an imposi-
tion upon his unsuspecting nature.
Frank Smith covered himself all over
with glory as eannoneer on the 4th. Gov.
Jewell loaned us a beautiful twelve pounder
from the State Arsenal, which Smith planted
on Reservoir Hill, and those two pound
cartridges made the very earth shake, and
tremble. Down on East Avenue the first
gun made the natives think that our friend
“Asa” had rolled out of bed. ‘
The heartiest “fun” of the day}- wc are
told, was enjoyed at the Amphitheatre after
the exercises on the Green were closed. A
vast concourse assembled under the shady
oaks and enjoyed the day, and the occasion
in all sorts of innocent, amusing and side-
splitting recreations.
The glorious and cooling rain that came
like a benediction open the parched people,
animals and earth, deferred the fireworks
display till the evening of the 5th, They
were then sent 011’ in the presence of a great
crowd of admiring spectators. The com-
mittee had selected the pieces with unusual
discrimination and good taste, and every-
body, we believe, was delighted ’with this
closing part of our 4th July and cold water
celebration. The closing piece, the figure
of a yacht in full sail, on a line of water,
with the words “Norwalk Water Works,"
was received with enthusiastic applause.
Our Horse Railway folks tried hard to ac-
commodate the public but the crowds on
much for them, and many people were
forced to walk between our two villages.
A double track is needed for such occasions.
During the day a “ Humming Bird” Tur-
bine Wheel, attached to a hydrant on Mott
Avenue run a circular saw and attracted
much attention, demonstrating the value of
poses. The little wheel was equal to 12
horscvpowcr, and made things “hum.”
Willis Read is patentee, and~,Fanton Bros.
manufacturers, at Danbury.
Maj. Frank Smith, who had charge of the
Artillery, on the 4th, always stands ready
for “startling affix-sis.” He out-did the B054
ton Jubilee, on that day, by firing the even-
ing salute with the accompaniment of thun-
der and lightning. He would get that big
gun ready, then watch for a flash of light:-
ning, and discharge the gun just in time to
have the report followed by the reverbera-
tion of thunder, and the effect was often
very fine. Great follow that Smith.
The display of Fireworks on the evening
of the 5th, was undoubtedly the finest ever
seen in this vicinity, and the crowd of peo-
ple in attendance was marvellous. The
management throughout was thoroughly
good, and there was not a single “ hitch” or
“ fizzle” during the entire evening. The
pieces were arranged on the east side of
the Green.exteuding from one end to the
other, aud'tbe ‘entire Green, street and yards
on the west side were thronged with specta-
tors—probably noless than five thousand
persons being present. The programme
embraced fourteen set pieces, as published
in outlast, besides colored lights, rockets,-
“hombs bursting in air” and scattering
brilliant colored lights, colored batteries,etc.
l-Iull Edmonds, a resident of this place,
formerly in the employ of Messrs. Edge,
had charge of the display and proved him-
self a thoroughly competent pyrotechnist
The Danbury Railroad narrowly escaped
a frightful collision on the morning cf the
Fourth. The excursion train from Lilch-
field came down behind time, and owing to
amisinterprctation of printed instructions
the 10:30 a. in., left our depot for Danbury,
the two trains meeting-this side of' Winni-
pank. Fortunately the engineers succeeded
in stopping the trains before actually col-
liding.
.W Martin Grace did a gracedous thing
ofhis own accord .on the 3d. He took all
his force off their regular work and went to
work on the streets, clearing them of stones
and». smoothing rut-s, &c., on the line of
march laid out for the procession.
somely entertained Humane Hose 00., No. .
the Grant men and joy and jubilation the
the 4th and evening of the 5th were too.
our Water Works for Manufacturing pur- .
, THE PROCESSION.
Mr. Samuel *Daskam havirg beencallcd
out of town' suddenly, his place as Chief-
Marshal was filled by Mr. J. Thornton
~Prowitt, who appointed Messrs. E. B. Price,
0. E. Crabbe and ”C. E. Doty as Assistant
Marshals. The line was promptly formed
on West avenue, opposite Elnicnworth, at
the appointed time, in the following order :
Tompkin’s Band, of Waterbury, Warren
Blakcslec, leader; 20 pieces; grey
uniforms.
Burnside Light Guards, of South Norwalk,
Capt. J. C. Corwc; 1st Lieut. Jas.
A. Brown ; 2d Licut. F. A.
Tolles; 45 mnskets.
Co. 0, 41h Reg’t., C. N. G., of Stamford;
Capt. Theodore Miller; Ist Lieut.
Ede. Studwell ;' 2d Li’eut.
'W.W. Studwell; 25
muskcts.
Selectmen of N orwalk.
Members of the Press.
Norwalk.
Mayor and Common Council of the City of
South Norwalk.
Norwalk.
Orator of the day. '
Selectmen of the Town of New Canaan.
Vice-Presidents of the day.
Wildman Band, of Danbury, 14 pieces,
blue uniforms.
Phoenix Steam Fire Engine Co.,No. 1, of
Norwalk; J. B. Ells, Foreman; E. 0.
Kceler,lst Assistant; Abram Clark, 2d
Assistant ; steam engine decorated with
flowers, evergreens, flags,&c., and drawn
"by four horses; 25 men; uniform—red
, shirts, fire hats, &c.
Citizens’ Engine Co., No. 2, of Waterbury,
Foreman, William Goldsmith; lst Assis-
tant, Charles Peck; 2d Assistant, G. W.
Titus; 50 men ; second-class Jefi‘crs’
Piano-box Engine, handsomely decorated,
drawn by four horses; ,hosc carriage
drawn by company; uniform—red shirts,
fatigue caps, etc.
thnix Hose 00., No. 1, of Norwalk; Chas.
F. Marvin, Foreman; A. Ellis, lst Assis-
, taut; Geo. Bucknam, 2d Assistant; 25
men ; hose carriage . decorated with
flowers, plumes, &c. ; two children riding
in front ; uniform—red shirts, &c.
Humane Hose 00., of Danbury; Foreman,
,Thomas Lounsbury; Asuistant, Larry
' Smith; 25 men; uniform—red shirts, caps,
&c. ; hose carriage handsomely decorated
with flags, flowers, etc.
Atlantic Hose 00., of Stamford ; Foreman,
Charles Boyd ; Assistant, Charles Seely ;
25 men ; uniform—red shirts, dtc.
Pioneer Hook and Ladder 00., No. 1, of
Norwalk; Foreman, Geo. S. Allen; lst
Asst, L. C. Hanford; 2d Asst. Edward
Street; 32 men. Truck elaborately
decorated with evergreens, flowers, etc.,
and drawn by four horses covered with
white blankets bound with red, and let-
tered “Pioneer” ; uniform—blue jackets.
City Band, South Norwalk, 12 pieces; blue
uniforms.
OurBrother’s Lodge,No. 10,1. 0. O. F.,35
, members.
Temple of Honor, South Norwalk, 52 mem-
bers.
Wesport Band—13 pieces.
St Joseph’s Benevolent Association, of Nor-
walk; 38 members; flag, banner,
regalias.
St. Mary’s TotalAbstinence Benevolent As
sociation, of Norwalk; 60 mem-
bers ; flag, banner, regalias.
St. Mary’s Cadets—68.
Children of Fitch’s _Home.
- AT m GREEN.
Judge Butler being'unwell, Mayor Wood-
ward acted as President of the Day. The
exercises commenced with prayer by Rev.
Augustus 13. Collins, of Norwalk, followed
by music by Tompkins’ Band. The Declar-
ation of Independence was impressively
read by Rev. J. Pegg, Jr.. after which Rev.
W. H. Thomas, of South Norwalk, delivered
the following ' ‘
onA'rmN.
FELLow Cr'rrznus:
We celebrate to-day a local triumph—a
triumph of man over nature—one of those
achievements that mark progress in materi-
al thrift and comfort.
In the olden fable there was a Genii of
terrible power imprisoned in a jar of stone,
sealed with a mystic seal, which he was
powerless to break, and cast into the sea,
there to remain until some power should
come to release him. For a thousand years
he swore that who so should liberate him
should be terribly cursed; then the next
thousand years he swore that who so should
set him free should be rewarded with pros-
perity.
So by the Almighty were gigantic powers
hidden in the, earth waiting release by the
hand of man—forces that wrongly liberated
by man were his scourge. Fire that burned
him, lightnings that terrified or slaughtered
him, waters that overwhelmed him, myste-
rious but mighty laws, afiinities, susceptibil-
ity, that lurked hidden‘in every corner of
nature. The man who ignorantly stumbled
against them was scourged. But to him who
stole their secrets or liberated their forces
ter,harnesscd in steel, obediently drew his
carriage or his dray. The lightnings tamed
became his messenger; the light his painter.
The winds became the coursers thatdrcw
his chariot on the seas. He put his mill
wheel to the ebb and flow of the tides, and
the stars that swing the moving waters grind
his corn. The stone becomes plastic in his
hands; he flings it up as a fountain of waters
in shapes of grace and beauty, and bids it
become adamant and stand fast: as his pil-
lared temple forever. The clay, baptized in
fire, hardcns into stone at his touch, and
walls him from the wintry blasts. The for-
est trees he nails together for a ship, and
putting an imprisoned and obedient Genii
in the hold, he rides forth to the ends of the
earth. Out of the heart of. the great hills he
quarries the imprisoned sunshine of past,
ages, and on the 'home hearth evokes its
light and warmth for his comfort. The val-
leys are exalted ,to become his highway, the
mountains stand aside to let him pass,and‘
on “ wheels of‘ thunder with banners cf-
flame,” he flies over the valleys, through or
over the mountains, across vast prairies,an-
nihilating time and distance, bringing the
ends of the 'éarth together. So that there is
not a force in nature that has not yielded a
triumph to the hand with five fingers that
think. .
But in working these triumphs over nature
man has builded better than he knew, and
out of that contest and its victories has come
a nobler triumph.’ A grander manhood was
‘wrought in him. Watchfulness, foresight,
"contrivance, industry, prudence, power were
made strong in him. It is as in the ancient
faith—the power of the vanquished has
passed into the victor, and he became by so
much the greater; and to the hard contest
with a sterile soil and a forbidding cumm-
in New England this nation is indebted for
its best men. ' ,
One such triumph it is yours to celebrate
to-day. You have built an highway for the
waters. The Stream that wandered down
the hillside, that sauntered through the val-
]cys singing its idle song, you have now
brought to your doors, to fling up its foun—
tain of flashing diamonds from the emerald
green of your lawns and parks, to hold the
fire fiend in contra, and to serve sanitary
and economic purp, es in every household.
But we celebrate more than a local
achievement to-day. Allover this land and
in all lands where than love liberty, this day
is honored as marking the dawn of a bright-
er day for humanity.
Eternali y honored be those men who lifted
this day out of the common days; who,
with unparalleled daring gave to the world
that declaration of independence and hu-’
man rights which was at the same time a”
'declaratiOn'ofwar. Who went to war with-
out a .natiOnality or‘ a flag, without a dollar
or a treasury, without a soldier in the field,
or a ship on the seag'not a bayonet homered
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Warden and Burgessess of the Borough cf
Water Commissioners of the Borough of -
aright they became servants. Fire and wa--
loads of gold were poured into
out, not a musket in their possession, not a’
fort erected on the long line of sea coast:
-th wc'nLto w 11‘ with a mighty nation,”
whose invincible flects covered the seas,
whose armies Were the. best in Europe; »_the
richest, proudest, strongest nation in the
Old ‘World. Old in arts and arms, dud en—
riched wiih the spoils of a thousand victo-
ries. _ '
And Who carried on that war through un-
heard of difficulties, th. ough years of defeat-
Their way lighted with burning homes,
marked with-bloody foot-prints on the froz-
cn snow. Past prison hulks where their
comrades rotted, over graves that yawncd,
through storms of shot and shell, that struck
them down maimed and crippled. Forward
still, marched those battalions of tattered
uniforms and brave hearts, and paused not
nor rested from their work until the last in—
vader was driven from the soil and the new
flag hadwon its place among the nations of
the earth.
All honor to those heroesfof’76. Notalone
to those bright names that shine as stars in
our history—Washingtdn, Hancock, Frank-
lin, Jefferson—but to every unknown man
who gave all he had to give that this conti-
nent might be saved to liberty. That heart
is hard indeed, that refuses them honor.
In later times this day won a proud place
in our history. In that last trial that came
to our nation—when we flew to arms to pre-
serve the Union our fathers built and ce-
mented with ‘their blood—when, after a tide
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of reverses that all our lavish pouring out of
treasure and blood cOuld not stem, came the
4th of July, and with it the victories of Get-
tysburg, of Vicksburg, of Port Hudson, the
triumphs that were the heginhing of the end
-’—this day became again exalted.
And while the war is fresh in our memo-
ry—its graves not yet trodden smooth by
the relentless foot of time—while many of
its heroes yet live‘among us, we would be
recreant to-our manhood did we not honor
those men'who gave themselves for the pres-
ervation of the Union. 7 _.
To Grant, to: Sherman, to Thomas, .to‘
Sheridan, to the hosts that with them won
victory. ‘
Fellow citizené. The nation finds occa~
sion for congratulation and rejoicicing, not
only as we look back, not only as we open
the sepulchers of the past and call out its
shadows does the nation find occasion for
congratulation and rejoicing. The door to
the future swings open, disclosing a vastness,
a future greatness, upon which the nation
enters with strong, hopeful step.
It was Plato who sublimely said “ God
geoiuctrizes.” This is more than a senti-
ment, it is a fact. With certain factors He,
with geometrical precision works out inevit-
able results. With the three factors,Naturc,
Man, Principle, He works out the problem
of the world. Ascertain the factors of this
nation, and we can foretell results, for the
conclusions of a nation, like the conclusions
of a syllogism, are always contained in its
premises. The hereafter is only the image
flying by the now.‘ Interrogating the futuflt
in relation to masses of men is now one of
the exact sciences, one of the higher philos-
phies. Exalted statesmanship can foretell
the movements of masses of men, as you
can predict the course of the tides when
you cannot foresee the future of any one of
its drops. As men, with mathematical ex-
actness, table the time of death among
thousands while they could not do the same
thing of any one individual. What, then,
are the factors of a nation ?_ They are at
once the indications, the promises, the sure-
ties of the future. ..
Lowest because lying at the base, are ma-
terial resources. So long as men are rooted
in the material 'as trees are rooted in the
earth, so long will material resources indi-
cate the future of a nation. These are ours:
A territory as large as all Europe, and sixty '
times as large as England, all except-Alaska
lying in the zone of civilization, the north
temperate; a climate embracing all shades
of heat and cold; scenery, for beauty and
grandeur unsurpassed in the world; a soil
rich with the. gathered riches of centuries;
mineral resources unparalleled; two million
square miles where petroleum is to be found.
As to commerce, fronting two great oceans,
with more accessible harbors than all Eu-
rope—~twenty-two of them capable of float-
ing the Great Eastern,—with 27,000 miles of
navigation in the heart of the country, by
means of the Mississippi and its tributaries,
employing now a tonnage greater than all
the internal tonnage of the world combined;
that if out as canals, would costf$10,000,000,-
000; with more miles of railroad and tele;
graph than all the world besides.
So vast our' territory, so ample our re-
sources, that if settled wrth a population as
densely as England, would comprise 12,000,-
000,000; if populated as densely as Massa-
chusetts would contain 500,000,000. '
. These are some of. the resources, bewilder-
ing in their greatness, given by that oracle
of duty, the U. S. Census. And these re-
sources are thc‘basis of the future; they are
the future’s possibilities. (Takemfrom cen-
sus of 1860, as I had not the later one at
hand.) , ' .- .
But these reéources derive their value from
the national momentum. That is, the ratio
of speedand power with which these pos-
sibilities are made probabilities, and these
probabilities become accomplished facts. If
the momentum be wanting, these possibili-
ties remain only’possibilities; if the momen-
tum is oanard but slow, then the probabili-
ties of future greatness are removed to the
vasty distance ';-‘if rapid, then the nation
rolls on to a- near future of greatness. The
greatest natural'resources are valueless with-
out this momentum. Thc momentum of ad-
vance in population is best stated in the.
words of Lincoln, who was far from being
visionary, who said, “ There are already
among us those who, if the United States be
preserved, will live to see it contain 250,000,
000,” and facts of increase since, more than
keep pace with his statement.
The rapid increase of population, which
re the dread and embarrassment of England,
is the hope of America. The only fear which
might arise of a conflict of races is removed
by that intensity of our nationality, which,
by the fourth generation absorbs all nation-
alities. Then, too, these figures do not con-
vey the whole truth, for~Yankee ingenuity.
has made one man count three. "‘ The mas;
chinery introduced since 1810 to-1880 equals
the labor of 500,000,000 of men.”—Partridgc.
With a momentum of power that nothing
can stay is this nation marching on with a
trend that awakens the earth to its near fu-
ture of greatness No wonder John Adams
should prophesy the transfer of the great
seat of the world’s empire to America. No
wonder that Hegel should say “America is
the land of the future, where in the ages
that lie before us the burden of the world's
history shall reveal itself.” No wonder that
De Tocqueville should say, “One event at
least is sure, at a period which .may be said
to be near. The Anglo-Americans will
alone cover the immense space between the
polar regions and the tropics, from the At-
lantic to the Pacific.” No‘ wonder that
that sagacious politician, Napoleon 111,
should say that “on the Isthmus of Pana-
ma will be the future center of the world’s
commerce, for Providence has confided to
the United States of America the care of
peopling and gaining over tocivilization all
that territory which extends from the At-
lantic to the South Sea, from the north pole
to the equator I” And Pitt cried in Eng-
land “ You must take Panama. I repeat it,
you must take Panama.”
Such is the near greatness which the
aeutest statesmangforesce of American The
star of empire wending its westward way,
halts over the cradle where lies the young
”child America, and the wise men of the
East follow it and do homage to the future’
greatness of this people. '
But, fellow citizens, the causes ofnational
permanence and growth are not exclusively
material. No natural resources, no. im:
ported wealth can alone make a'peoplé
l
is
India, pebbles Worth 'a kingdom;Galleou
maneuce to 9.2.33.
past.
' more 1'00“] for a grave.
Spain; Rome world.
never was more gorgeously apparallcd nor
We must turn to national ideas and
a moral essence,” said Burke. There is
some idea that constitutes the essence of
and die. If these ideas are great a few rocks
covered with sand are a base suflicicnt to
The character and power of the national
idea is the measure of that nation’s great.
ness and duration. When that idea shall
have spent its fire and force the nation will
die. 3
' Rome, with conquest for its national idea,
spread its dominions to the far corners of
the earth,but when that idea had spent its
force, when that nation ceased to conquer,
it commenced to die.
There was the idea offate, one of the most
potent ideas that has moulded history. The
idea that over man presides a power decree-
ing his fate and fulfilling'it pitiless as death. ,
The effect of that idea has been to degrade
men into helpless atoms, to be driven by
resistless whirlwinds of infinite power, or
built into decreed conditions by an irresisti-
ble fiat, thus making man part of a noble
building, not abuilder ; a stone in the temple
not a creative soul.
Tiltl-l. was the national idea and mistake
of Egypt.' Her soil was rich. She was pop-
ulous. Her wisdom was famous. Herworks-
stand after 3,000 years. of decay still the
wonder of the’ world. But Egypt-believed
in a fate as immovable as the pyramids, as
'resistless as the Nile,and they were as grains
of sand in the sweep ’ot its'power. With’that
. beliefin the national heart whatjcould Egypt ,
do but 'to die.[, . _ .
'By thisidea of fate that wonderful man
Mohammed gathered the scattered tribes of
Arabs, fused them into unit, a and flung them
with overwhelming force against the
citadels of the east. For a time be con-
quered, but the fate idea that kindled the
assent sis” ' hastened its waning, for it
wrought stolid acquiescence when defeat
rolled them back.
A brilliant fatalist in France crushed out
all opposition, and gathered a sheaf of seep-
tres, but at the last the idea spent its force
and he v'perished miserably, and entailed a
waning kingdom to his successors.
' Fatalism, whether clothed in the religious
garb of the east or the scientific garb of in-
variable success as taught by Conipte,
Buckle, Mill, Spencer, Darwin and Draper
is not the stuff out of which national great-
ness is made. ' For to be irresistibly im-
pelled from without is to be a slave—possi-
bilities must be offered men. Necessity is
death, freedom‘is a quickening spirit. That
was the mighty word that spoken in the
forest wilds of this continent went over the
world'like fire. .
Freedom, that is our national idea. That
all men are created free and equal, or, as
De Tocqueville states it, “That Providence
has given to every man the powers neces-
sary to direct him in the affairs which in--
terest him exclusively, is the grand maxim
on which civil and political society rests in
the United States.”
Freedom and equality before the law—
this is our national idea. It is the increasing
purpose that runs through the ages past.
It has become the world’s aspiration. It is
the direction in which the wave of. the age
surges, and on the crest of that wave rides
America. ‘
This is the grand promise 'of our future
greatness, for as Sherman wrote to Grant,
“though we have done much, and much re-
mains to bci’done yet, time and time's in-
fluences are with us. We could 'almost
afford to sit still and'let these influences
wor .” . .
The tide of the world rolls on to the fulfil-
ment » of our national idea. There is no
human power can stay that tide. It is the
moral power of the world. What can stay
that i .
I have detained you so long that I will
but mention and pass ‘another important
factor of a nation’s future.
3. The structure of its government in re-
lation to its national idea, and notice but
briefly the more important factor.
4. The institutions which fit men for
worthy citizenship. If we are a nation of
kings; it the nation sits on the throne and
governs itself, then the intelligence and
moral standing of the people determine the
future.
In education, the United States govern-
ment has appropriatethnore money for edu-
cation since 1700 till 1860 than all the other
governments of the world combined, during
the same period. In 74 years the general
government'has appropriated three hundred
millions for school purposes. The state
governments have appropriated amounts
nearly as large in the aggregate.
In moral culture, though we have no state
church, yet no land is better supplied with
religious teaching than ours.
With the population at thirty-millions,the
capacity of the church was nineteen mil-
lions, deducting the children, the aged, those
who cannot attend. and there is room for all
who can attend the churches at any one
time.
And to make this still stronger, and show
that we are not retrograding in morals. as‘
shown by the imperfect but best standard
we have, are these facts :
In 1775, one church member to every-16 of
population. ‘ , '
In 1792, one church member to every 18 of
populations.
' In 1825, one church member to every 14 of
population.
In 1855, one church member to every 6%
of population.
In 1860, one church member to every 5%
of population. ‘
The last censusI have ‘not at hand.
These are the principal indications of our
future. With marvellous material resoures,
.withnn. increasing, population whose active
footsteps '-makes the echoes. ,of the future
with a national ides backedébjr ~ ’the’ moral
flower of the world; with the instrument-
ality that educates men to manhood; with
all these, our future is big with promise.
From abrilliant history, through a vast
present, we are marching to a vaster future.
The facts of to~day project their shadows
forward and these shadows enlarge to gi-
gantic proportions. Vast possibilities, mighi
ty certainty rear their majestic shapes and
crowd the future. 0n the great bell ofdesti-
ny the hour strikes for us. The bolts are
drawn back, the gates of the ibture swing
open; the dmm beats for the march; we
have only to keep right on, and we shall be
the nation of the future.
To you Fathers of the Republic? whose
far-seeing wisdom, dauntless heroism, dog
ged ’resolution and unflinching bravery
wrung this continent from the thrones of
Europe,who gave to the world this fair
and righteous government, your names are"
first on the roll of those the nation honors
to-day._
To you, worthy children of worthy sires,
who counted not your lives dear unto your-
selves; who were obedient unto the call of
.
.—
your country even unto death; whose graves
furrow the land from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande; you who have so nobly proved
that . .
‘3Whether on the tented field
0: in the battle van.
The grandest place for man to die
II where he dies for man."
Now .
" On Rome's eternal camping ground,
Yonr‘shadowy tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
The blvouac of the dead.” . , ‘
While the republic endures your spirit
an applauding nation, and an admiring
,g.
\_.. N. .-
agaiu—to them we give honor. totday.‘ To
No mere materiel advantages can make 9. those War-worn veterans whose crippled and this poor deluded d0rg,.suppnsin’ it was. .
nation great. Every matcriaiadvantagc we bodies speak the ficrccness of the contest, to a'trick'to keep thehfleas from jumpin’ 0675
can conceive has blessed and cursed the all who by word or deed have helpedon the dorgs pack, and that it wasa city regula.
nations whose blackened wrecks slrew the cause of humanity, whose deeds have cover-V shun 'and all purps had to wear one—went
ed the land with a network-of glorv,to them
feelings for causes of greatness. “Nation is the nation rears 1191‘ celebration todayas an o’ suicide in the first degree,with malice pre-
arch of honor.
And now to us is given a high and holy
To us is given
hands shall put on the cap stone and plant
on the summit of the lofty dome our glori-
ous banner, not a star missing, but with ad-
ded stars that shall rival the old in‘ brillian-
cy, its glorious beauty unstained by the
tears and blood of slavery and oppression,
then the world shall unite to do honor to
the heroes who wrought so grandly.
“ America" was then sung by the audi-
ence under the lead of Mr. S. B. Spinning,
of Bridgeport.
Hon. N. L. White, of Danbury,‘ followed
in a brief address, abounding in happy hits,
good nature and sound sense, which we re-
gret we have not room to publish in full.
After the. singing of the Doxology, Rev.
S. B. S. Bissell pronounced a. Benediction,
and the audience dispersed for' Dinner,
which was served under the large Tent
erected near' the Stand.
The'parade of the Fantasticals, in the afa
ternoon, was a failure in point of numbers,
but the twentyfive or so that turned out‘
succeeded in amusing the crowd. A den of
performing animals was a leading feature,
andDolly Varden had numerous admirers-
The trial 'of the Water, Werks gave ‘ex-
cellent satisfaction, and- general surprise
w‘as manifested at the distance the water
was thrown direct from the hydrants.
During the trial the vane capping the flag
stuff 'over Lockwoods Hall was turned -by
the stream from a hydrant at the corner of
the Horse Railway Depot. The triumph of
the works has been complete. So far not a
pipe has broken, and the leaks have been
fewer than could have been reasonably ex-
pected. ‘
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SOUTH NORWALK ITEMS.
Reported for the GEE-T—TE, by y
our Special
Artist, on the spot. .
Well, there 1 You bet we hain’t had things.
lively this week. , Not that my hoped for
duel came off. The Weather was too hot for
that, and besides, somebody told ’em their
bodies wouldn‘tkeep at such a time, so they
wouldn’t fight. Dib said “blamed if he
wanted to die in summer time, and leave
Rich to sass anyhow.” And Rich, he said
if he should get hit the enemy might get the
better on him in his search for dirt. Did
you ever hear of a city aforc as wanted more.
dirt? Well, that’s what’s the matter here,
and the cause of all our woes. The Doctor,
he’s mad, ’cause they wanted to cart ofi‘ all
his dirt, just to improve his place, when his
neighbors gets a thousand dollars and has
their places improved too. So it goes. I
tell you, it’s been red hot down here, for a
week. Such ructionsl As the poor fellow
said who came in with his nose bit clean off,
“ We’ve had such fun with the boys 1”,
Them fellers as does the heavy sittin’
around on Peck’s stoop, waitin’ for some one
to come in and treat 10 the beer—price only
five cents—they was awful mad at the dig I
gin ’em, but I don’t care. I’m bound to earn
my two dollars a’week, Messrs. Editors, giv~
in’ on you,“ fucts”—though to tell the whole
truth, I didn’t expect it would be quite so
lively for me, when I contracted with you
for a weekly report of the doin’s down here.
If some of these old beats catches the
.thete’ll be doctor’s bills and funeral expenses
to be paid by my creditors. I know, for I’ve
been round and hem ’em threaten“Twaddle.”
Said one profane cuss, right in my hearin’,
“Who the d—l is ‘ Twaddlo’ ? I’ll put a
head. on him, if I catch him,”—“ and a dor-
mer window over his eye,” said another vic-
ious feller I e to, (he was a bilder
h roof on his nozzle,”
lubber who I guess
was an overg rentice' boy to the car-’
pinter aforesaid. But I don’t care,—they’re
awful mad, all on ’em. What a nice thing it'
is to write “ facts” for the newspapers, and
the thermometer one hundred and one at
Pcck’s corner!
Well, I told yer about the muss our city
fathers got into about excepting the invita-
tion to jine in your Fourth of July percession,
They sent out and got our great expounder
of the Constitution, and he laid down the
law and the profiits to ’em. He said, bein’
elected rulers of.our great city, as each they
severally were, aforesaid, it was legal for
’em ,to wear any time and every time they
wanted to,—then they vowed they’d all
swear then and there, and rich swearin’ as
them city fathers went thro’ that hot nite
you never heard in a back yard with forty-
nine Thomas cats therin, imitatin’ the Boston
jubilam. They swore like the army bum-
mcrs in Flanders, that they’d support, their
constitutions and the laws of South Nor-
walk and defend the city to the last drop of-
their wives’ cousins’ blood, againSt Judge
Butler’s injunctions and all sich; 8113‘ the
Mayor, he kinder forgot himself, and he
swore he’d support Greeley or any other
man to beat Grant, and some swore like
Beecher, that it was d—d hot, anyhow,
and so you could smell the sulpher and per;
spiration around that council chamber build-1
in’ for three hours after our Great Constitu-
~tional Lawyer had swore ’em all to do or
not to do all sorts of impossible things;
But they swore the day afore, and so the
calm and majestic-brow of our Mayor, and
the placid c'ountenances of ‘our Aldermen,
City Clerk, at atom, was :aeen beautif yin’
you. percession and a givin’ grace, and bean-
ty, and character to your platform dec-
orations on the green, on that most august
and auspicious occasion. They did the
carriage and platform parts with distin.
guished ability, and so far as I could see, no
word, or look, or gesture, on the part of the
Mayor, or Dib, or Rich, or any of the royal
family, was uttered or did, to mar the bar-
mony of their picturesque display. Yet we
are not happy. Your committee didn’t pay
for ’em carriages as what our city govern~
ment rid in, and some on our tax-payers is
mad, ’cause fearin’ they’ll have to pay for
that imposin' ride. Such sordid avarice as
can’t see any use in maintainin’ the dignity
of our city, ’specially on the Fourth of July,
is so fearfully and wonderfhlly mad as is
past findin’ out. Had the Mayor dreamed
there’d be a murmur o’ discontent, he’d a
tackled up any one‘ 0‘ his five, prancin‘
steeds. Only think of that, a Mayor with
jive horses I Yes, our Mayor has got a weak-
ness for bosses, but he says-he likes old bob~
tail better’n any of the daucin’ curvctin’
critters, arter all. Its keepin’ up the digni
ty of ofils as makes it necessary to have so
many changes of bosses. Well, as I sed,
them as was r'c-electcd and them as wasn’t,
all participated in your display, rode and
looked as wise, and eat the cold vittals under
the tent as prodigious as any on ’em, and
the country is safe. Let us have peace.
The Beards is layin’ low for Richards, but
it’s hoped this Punic war may cease to’
wage till cooler weather, .when the city’s
outraged dignity can be vigorously defended.
I told you about the dorgs and cats, you
know. It only goes to show how extensive-
ly. you paper is red, and ’specially the South
Norwalk correspondence. You know _I scd
there was a surfit of mangy dorgs, but not
so many cats, as all well regulated cities
should maintain. -Well, that letter hadn’t
been printed four days, when a respectid
citizen come down on the Shore Line ears,
With“ four gray cats in a box, which he’d
brought all the wayfrom Noo Hampshire l
Thinkof‘that and weep, all ya-who pretend
" rrea‘t. 'Far'Africa'has had-her- golden shnds; ranks will march in perpetual-review before Ito ’s‘teem. "Sh“! the .power 0? the press! stoc
One of them dorgs asItold you about a
comin’ up on the, boat, lg dead! He see'd
.‘To those wives and mothers’who,without‘= Billy swords little‘fiurp'with a blanket on; ,
sump‘thously‘ied than'when dying, yet amurmur have listened to the tramp of to'him with red letters onto it,'“ajurgin’ all:
national greatness came not to all nor per; gnanly feet that went forth but returned not thirsty souls to 1,39, f0 ,Stillson’s and, takes" fier their thanks to Mr Geo O Kceler and
' drink of ice cold root beer, price five 'centfi !, hi ' ' ' ' ’
and made way with himself—a dreadful case
peusc and aforethought and aforesaid. Ev-‘
ery dorg must have his day, but this wasn’t-
nationality. In these ideas a people live dill)" we are ’0 P115"h forward to comple- Day’s dorg. Stillson,hc’sakn0win’ coon.
tion the work of the fathers.
to rear high and strong the pillars of the
stand on and conquer a continent. If those republic, ‘0 spring its wide arches 0‘79” the
ideas are 10w the ,widest empire is only whole continent. And when W981"? gather-
ed to sleep with our fathers, and other
He knowcd that dorg of Billy’s had a great-
cr circulation than any other advertisin’ me-
gium down here, so he contracted with the
purp to do his root beer advertisin,’ and nev-
er was old dorg«Traygmoreéfaithful. Even
grief, nor patent medicines‘could'Idrive him
or his master away fl'om Still’s beer foun-
tain l It’s a big joke—,tlic bargain Still"
made with that dorg. He agreed to give him
all the soda and root beer—ice-cold, price 5
cents—he could drink, if he’d carry that sign
board blanket on his back; and it would do
your souls good to see the wicked and per
verse generation a seckiu’ for that dorg and
sign,—and that beer, too. It’s said Billy
goes back on that dorg sometimes, and pre-
sents himself afore the fountain whence
comes the cooling beverage, and says as how
he is that dorgs natural guardian and that
he is entitled to the drinks instead of the
dorg. He smouched three drinks from the
purp that way on the Fourth, but then it was
hot, and the beer in good, and Billy; not be-
in’ one of the city government, couldn’t get
any free drinks. So “we pass.” Still has
got the champion beer drinker patronizin’
his works. He’s a hey,too. He stood right
up and swallowed sic glasses of that beer that
cools but not inebriates, one right arter the
other! Beat that up in, your slow old Bor-
ough if you can i - That’s what tests the fine
quality of your beer, too. Why, some beer:
I’ve had poured out to me I couldn’t drink
half a glass on, and I’m twice as big’s that
boy. But then it wan’t Stillson’s beer, and
he never lets old Mortality lurk about his
beverage by getting an “i” in his beer, either.
That’s why I, and us fellers as has brains,
gets our drinks-at Stillson’s.
But all the aforesaid is as nothin’_to the-
way we treat burglars in our city. Well,
this is how it was with our last case; There’s
. been a good deal 0’ suspicious lurkin’ ’bout
nights lately, by some of our city fathers,
and nice young men, too, with their penny
cigars and little eyebrows under their noses,
and our people ain’t all of ’em been at rest
in their minds, besides there’s about a dozen
as gots the chills so they shook the widders
all over. the city, and this skeers people in-
the “ded hour,” et cetera. But this ishow
this was. One of our real, live, fightin’ par-
sons” might have been seen”--tor in fact he,
was seen—frantically marching “to and
fro in the carth”—no-,iri'hisyardJniean—
brandishing an’ old anddiabolical lookin’
pepper box, and threatenin’ to shoot 21 bur-
glar ! His§excited actions soon roused his
neighbors. That son of Mars,-Captain Bus-
-sel, rushed in on\ the double quick. Mr.
Crofut’s hired man darted from the barn and
came in with a “darlin’ ould stick.” Brother
Benedict flew on the wings of the wind—no
it was his nether garment that flew—and
young Hill, he came up, on the home
stretch with two huge donnicks in his hand,
and~implored the excited crowd to tell the
worst. “Is it arson or murder," cried he ?
“N o,” quoth the parson, gasping for breath.
“In the still watches there stole—” “No
matter who stole the watches, what lathe
matter,” fairly yelled the whole crowd ?
The afl‘righted preacher plainly saw his
excited neighbors had got the notion into
their uoddles that the escaped wild beasts
and heastesses of Robinson’s smashed up
menagerie had either got into the parsonage
or into the person’s head. “No," cried he.
“Men and brethren, I am a man of ' like
passions with you. Much learning hath not
made me mad, and there's no ans-condor or
bore-constructer in the house, but a terrible
burglar! A midnight assassin 1 His gar:
ments is a layin’ ’round‘loose, and‘I plainly
heard his velvet steps as he, with Tarquin
strides, glided to the spare chamber 1 There
he is now riotin’ in boot-y and Spilcs, and my
next sermon 1 But, brethren, I’m a man of
peace; I thirst for no man’s blood; let’s
capture the daring miscreant and visit upon
him the condign punishment of our majestic
city’s violated laws.” Into the house and
up the stairs sped the enraged crowd, led by
the heroic Russell, who, forgetting himself
in the excitement of the moment, really
thought he was again chargin’ arebel bat-
tery or sutler’s tent 0’ supplies; Away flew
Hill and Benedict, and the ostler. When
in front of the door, the pariton, a prudent
man, who’s smelt powder afore, says he,
sez be, “this villian is no doubt armed to
the teeth. You all rush in on my openin’
the door, and seize the audacious robber
who has thus dared invade the precincts of
my domestic bower. You rush in and seize
him and I’ll cover you .with my trusty
revolver.” No sooner said than ' done.
Open flew the door, and never was charge
of horse,foot or dragoon more beautifully
made. . The terrible object was secreted
under the coverlit, but that proved no pro-
tection to our now thoroughly aroused min-
isters of vengeance. Russell, seeing the
shrinking form beneath, the bed-clothing,
leaped in advance of his support, and was
first to seize the robber with the grip of a
ten-horse, power vice l l A kick, a squirm
and a horrible squeal, upheaved the delusive
covering, and there, in terrible afi‘ri‘ght, lay
the Parson’s own mm, more terrified; if pos-
sible, than the attacking party i :The Parson
fainted and fell flat on the floor! Hill
dropped his stones, and covered-his precip-
itate retreat with his hands over his eyes i
Benedict darted aside tothrust his protrud-
ing linen under caver.‘ 'The ostler vow’d
he’d never been caught in such a disgrace-
ful motion in all his 1ife.’N‘o, even the
shindy at Barney O'Shinnesey’s wake
couldn’t compare wid it. Russell tried to
clear the field by hearing off the prostrate
form of the Person, muttering that it
wouldn’t have made a dif-a-bitterencc to
him of it had been a burglar as big as the
mayor was after a eatin’ his 4th of July
dinner ! Said. Cap’n “I’m blowed of I
wouldn’t have rather been half killed by a
real burglar, than to a. been fooled this way.
The enemy I can face,” continued be, “but
for all of us to be forever the laughing
stock of the whole city of South Norwalk,
and, then to have that infernal “Twaddle”
write'it all up just as it occurred for the
GAZETTE,iS more than I canbear,” or words
to that effect. The half conscious parson
had nothing to say. He told his thoroughly
demoralized friends, now about to depart,
that he would set it all right at his next
week-day lectur, while the innocent cause
of all the hullabaloo, who had come in on
the Owl train, and finding the front door
unlocked, essay-ed quietly to go to her room,
and retire without disturbing the family;
vowed she never saw such a city in all her
born days. Such wide-awake and "attire
people i No, never; and as for her experi-
ment of getting into a minister’s house as
still as a mouse, why, she should always
look back upon it, to her dien’ day, as the
most lamentable failure'of her whole life.
How can you remain up in that stupid
Borough when we have such fun down here?
I don’t see how even an Ephriam can do it,
I don’t, Yours, till death, ‘
Twannnn.
w
W Twentyfivc dozen heavy white cot.-
ton hose at 10 cents a pair, at Klein 5;;
Emanuel’s.
a» '
W500 chests of To direct from China
and Japan, for sale at Keeler, Holmes & Co’s.
-.-—4.r- ‘
W Gent’s Summer under wear at Com-
stock Bros’.
.—————.—.¢.
W Try the Sea Foam Flour.
.>-._-— .
H'Children Jr Boy’s Linen suits, at Com-
k Bros), b "
WWhitc Duck Vests, at Comedic}; Bros;
' l
' a
now ! Did you hear tell ’bout it? Noi-Wel‘l" "
_ NOW!“
A CARD. .
. Nonwanx, July 8th,1872.
The citizens of Norwalk respectfully ten-
s aosociates, for the very able and credita-
blc manner in which he superintended the .
display of fireworks as witnessed upon the
Green on Friia evening. '
T. H. Mormon,
A. H. BYINGTON,
GEO. O. KEELER,
Ass SMITH, Executive
0mg, P. UnLn, - Committee.
J os. W. WILSON,,
CRAB. Omsrm,
O
A can». .
Nonwxnx, July 3’11; 1872.
;The ofiicers and members (if Phoenix En-
gine Co. would respectfully return thanks to
11-5. Henry Kellogg, Mrs. Jasper. Pryor,
Mrs. Wm, A._l§ellogg and other kind friends
for the generouszcontributions of boquets,
wreaths and'flowjersgon the 4th inst. Also
to President Lockwood and Conductor
Lockwood, of the D. & N. R. R., for favors.
' . Per order, ' ' I. ~_;
J. B. ELLE, Foreman.
———.—4.
.A canny." - _ ‘
Nonwsnx‘, J uly ‘fith, 1872.
The members of Phcenix'Hose 00., No.1,
wish to tender their thanksgtofihe ladies
who so- kindly assisted in decorating their
carriage, and the carrying out 6f"their ar-
rangements for the 4th‘of July celebration,
and to all those who contributed flowers so
liberally for the occasion.
P. B. Canton,
0 . ‘
”Give the Sea Foam Flour one trial
and satisfy yourself that it is the best.
. o
I!" Comstock Bros’. have the celebrated
Hoyt manufacturing Co'e.v'Jean Drawers.
————.—¢.
Spring Weather is ver debilitating. The beat
ton c
Secretary.
is Williams Extract amalca Ginger.
—-——.-4.
Cantorla— a substitute for Castor Oil—a family
physio which lspleasant to take and does not fill-
tress or gri 9, but is sure to operate when all other
remedies ave failed. It is a . urel vegetable
prevention, containing neither non a, Morphine
nor Alcohol, the result of fifteen years experiment-
ing by Doctor Samuel Pitcher-.1 It is firfectl harm-
less and far ’more effective than lls, arcottc
Syrups or Castor Oil. ~ By sootbln the system it
produces natural sleep, and is particularlyz’odapted
to crying or teething children..- 1 skills .Worms
cures Stomach Ache, Constl Ition,i-h tulehcy anti
Deran ement of the Liver , 0 family can aflord to
be wit out this article. It costs but 85 centQ—lsk
your druggtsts to get it for you, and he will always
keeplt.
MAWRHIEID. '
In Danburanne 30 by. Rev. WiF. Hatfield, Mr.
Theodore Loses; of‘Southealt,‘ to jMiss" Mary A.
Hoyt, ofBetbcl," ~_ * ' " " ' .
A rxxpvwrv
eet, aged 9 mos.
In Norwalk, June 20, Edith tr
and 10 days. __ . . , .
In Norwalk, June 29, WillteJoneLaged muontbl.
' In Norwalk, June 7th; Edna J. Rider, aged 4 years
andeodays. ' ‘ ' " ‘. ‘
In Norwnlk,July 4, August Gigles aged 3 months.
In Norwaik, June 2811:, Adelaide liter, aged 3
years and 4months.- ,
In Dunbar-y, June 99, Kate 'A.‘ Ratchford. aged 4
cars. .
In Brookfield, June 5, Mary, wife of John O’Haro
ro, aged 37 years. '
.'\/~
A.
I for a Protestant rl, to d
I"hci I“. Enquire,” .GAZ TA! 0
OHSCWOILE Egg?! .
» 95.00 .BEWARD.
, with an “Amethyst. stone. - The‘ findetywili re-
ceive the above reward with the thanks of the owner,
by leaving it at this office or with
, ROBERT M. WILCOX,
‘ Steamboat Office
South Norwaik.
Strayed or Stolen.
28.
FROM the premises of Aaron L.. Miller, New Ca-
naan, Conn., Saturday night, June 30th, a black
mare, medium size, with‘ white spot on her back.
Any person finding saldi‘a'nimal, and givin informap
tion to the owner, or’to.A.'I.’.‘ fligerfixgl reason-
ably rewarded. _ .. .
1t23' . ,3 , . Sonthport, Conn.
To LET.
W0 neat. little Cottage Houses, near the Bridge
to let, furnished or unfurnished. En nire at
3&8 GAZE
TTE 0 FICE.
- ' Isaacs’ Block. En uire of
ROOMS 1'0 “1’ In 11 A! BILL
}
The Norwnlk Savingl Society,
Nonwxax, July 8th, 1812.
T . this Society, for the election of‘nine Directors,
and for the transaction of other buéiness; will be
held at the Banking Home on Wednesday. July17th,
1872. Polls open from 10 o’clock to 11 o’clock, I. m.
- , -- ‘Per Order.
28 GEO. ll. BILLIE, Soc’y.
.'WAN’I'ED. .
A. field County N attonnl Ink and'ofi'l'hc‘ Nation-
at Bank of Norwalk.
CEO. I. MILLER,
list! at the Norwnlk Savings Society.
NOTICE.
HE semi-annual mectin
the Norwalk Mills, wi I 'be held on Monday,
July lad. 1872 at 2 o’clock, p. m‘., at the office of the
Company, at inmpank. ‘ .
' E. C. BISSELL, Secretary.
Norwalk, July 8th, 1812.
OPERA HOUSE-
—..
i NOR WALK, menu 1*, JULY 12:».
’ For one night only: the World-renowned
H001EY’S‘ MINSTRELS
. i
From Hooley’s Open Bonn. Brooklyn. ' ,
The Stars of the Profession :
'7 COM EDIA Ns 7
Billy Rico, . John Mulligan. Archy Hughes,
Luke Schoolcraft, George W. Charles,
Cool White, J. W. Clark,
no star Artists will appear in their great original
Sensational Burlesques, the
BLACK WORK AND -Dl-VDRCED,
Pronounced by the (press and public the best‘Bur-
lesque ever produce . See Small Bills. Reserved
Seats can be procured at L. Weed’s.
Moonlight Excursion
OF THE SEASON,
Under the auspices of OLD WELL LODGE, NO 109,
F. and A. M. .
.TO NEW HAVEN AND RETURN.
‘-\», uh:
- "AMERIQUS,
; . Will leave South Nor-walk,
THURSDAY nva,,.,ru1y 18th,
At 8 o’clock, on 21 Moonlight Excursion to New Hav-
en, arriving there at 10:30. Leave New Haven at
11:45, for South Norwalk, arriving home, between 9
and 3 o’clock. a. m. The CITY RASS'AND CO-
TILLION BAND having been cogs ed, will accom.
may the party on the entire excurs on.
WPOSITWBLY N0 LIQUOR SOLD ON THE
BOAT. and the Committee will see that this order is
strict! enforced. The Refreshment de artment will
be an or the control of Mr. Robert Pal er, the well-
knowu caterer.
TICKETS, admitttn
EXTRA LADY. ‘ . .
NOTICE—Tickets not transferable. Should the
weather prove stormy the Excursion will be post,
poned until next {an- evening. R23
gGentleman and Lady - “'3
STATEMENT
F the condition of THE NORWALK SAVINGS
1 "8001113an the morning of the lat day ofJuly,
e : -
Personiijsecjirlt'y 100,982 69
“ “ Stockr't. Bonds. .. 98,520 00
“ in United SuitesBonds. ._ ..... ‘. 147 .000 00
“ in Bank Stocka.i.~....‘$....... 80.45700
“ in Town and Borough Bonds
and 0rders,...'............ 13136155
" in Railroad Bonds“ . . .000 00
“ in Real Estate .......... . 22.633 32
5‘ in Furniture andiFixlnr . 4,151 83
“ in Revenue Stamps. . . .. . . .. 860
Cash on hand and in Bank..,,.'., _l_ p 75,391 68
. inseam 31
Fairfield County. as,
Norwalk. July 8, 1812.
Personally appeared fore me, GEORGE 1 MIL-
LER, Treasurer of the above named Society, and
acknowledged the above statement to be correct.
W. E. MONTGOMERY, Notary Public.
CHOICE FRUITS
—AND-—
Garden Vegetables,
of all kinds, can always be found at
DEMMON & NEWCOMB’S .
28 Main Street!
NOW F03 Willi WATER PIPES.
Wm. Glover 85 Song,
Are rcady to put in your .WATER, STEAM orOAs «
PIPE, at very short notice and at as low avntc as
an yone. WROUGBT c CAST IRONwTIN-LINEOI
LEAD PIPES, the.) of every sizcandfieocrlption.
PLUMBING In an a; man“...
WILLIAM (item a son.
- ‘ 'Blver Street.Norwalk.
‘ TAKEN 131’
ND l“llmtm'tled in the Borough Pound, of Non-
W ' no a ‘J sth abrown more. with
Ila-'yeatlkdlgl‘lbaygolltz' Tnhlg cw’ner is requested to
. ‘ h s and take them,
53’3“" ”WT ’“wrm' ° ‘Tx’cmmun.
Jonathan. . , - - '9
H‘
our, on Friday Mammy last, a calcining:
HF. ANNUAL MEETING of tthorporators of
new shares of the Ca imismk out. Fair-.3
oftthe stockholders of.
THE CHAMPIONS OFHINSTRELSY
, the votes an
.s an ATOG A.
' mutton seam warm,
The G entice .zr. draught from pure Block Tin Faun
11‘ ns and Coolers, at
Urns an . sun
Italian.litigant Seltzer,
Ice Gold at ali‘times‘and on draught.
EMPIRE Spline tounntss’.
Saratoga 1., hidiietnwn Water
Gettysburg was:
& Pavilion Water,
BY THE BOTTLE.
BOOT BEER Cooler and Better than
ever,
AT UHLE’S.
ntnnrsfhmsniunn '
a .
“It worksl‘ike a charm.”
llflllVlAlK MACHINE WDRKS.
B. H. WHEELER, Proprietor.
Has:2t:hermeneutics:are:
purpose of carrying,_on the ..
. General'iMachine
AND JOBBING BUSINESS,
wnnxnnr {or conflict.
He hopes, b a strietattention to buclnee.‘ and low
prices. to mer t a share of the public patronage. All
orders will receive Iparompt nttention. Machine spans
east of the Horse Sway-Depot. ,.
T0 FRANCIS SKIDDY, SARAH L. SKIDDY,
and Francis Skiddy..trustee of andfor Such L.
Sklddy, his wife. Christopher 1). Wallace, and II.
Marie Wallace. Mrs. Ann Louisa Lockwood, and
heirs of Lear-and Lockwood wherever theymay to-
side. (landor land and build-
0'wner‘ ’or‘ owners'o .
tugs fronting, on.Knight. Street, on the west side
thereof, .thezentlre len tlL 01-min! street, in tho.
Borough of Norwsik,-—' eating:— -
The following votes and order of the Court .of
Burgesses of the Borough of Norwalk, were passed
June 85th, 1872, of which you~ are hereby notified
and re aired to act in accordancetherewith: .
7m , That the pro owners on the west side
pe
. of Knight Street be rquired, and they are here
ordered at their own expense, to grade and on
their sidewalks and pave the gutter! two and one-
balf feet in width, using gutter-stone therefor in
front of their respective premises: also to pave their
said sidewalks with fiaggipvg, five feet in width or
with concrete of the same dth; all said adin ,
curbing, and paving to be done and comp eted .
the first day of August next, to the acceptance ofthd
Com. on Highways, said time being deemed reason-
able by this Court. for the execution of this order; Ind
in case any pro rt owner shall neglect to have the
work herein or or finished by the time designated,
the same shall thenho’donc by the Borough,“ the’ex'd
penle of the party or‘partles so neglecting; all ofnid
work to be done in accordance with the grade and
curb lines established and ado ted by I. is-Conrt,
June 25th 1812, on file in the o cc of this Court. -
. Voted, hat proper notices to the several property
holders be prepared and served by the Clerk of tho
0 t 1' Bar eases.
_, 9‘“ ° ’ s JOSEPH F. morn,
Clerk of Court of Bur-genes.
Office of Borough Clerk, Borough of N orwnlk, June
21’ 1 .
Ibereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy
of the votes and order of the Court of Barges-es.
passed June 25th, 1872,11: relation to the matters
therein contained.
-' Attest. » JOSEPH F. FOOT], .
1 ates Clerk of Court of Burgoues.
O C. FREDERIC BETTS, WILLIAM T. CLARK.
J obn P. Trenuwell and Mary B. Trendwell his
wife, Laurie Hyde, Andrew 0. Nu A. R. 'Van
Ness, George V. N. Baldwin, agent 0 A. R. Van
N ass, Mrs. Ann Louisa Lockwood, and heirs of- Le-
Grand Lockwood,—where_vert_ reside—o, , vm~
er or owners ol'tland orland and l InglJronting
on either side of North Avenue, and other street.
13:31 in this vote. in the Borough of Non-1k,—
r ng: ,
The following votes and. order of the Court of
Burgeuee of the Borough of Norwalk, were pulsed
June 18th, 1872, of which on are hereby notified
and mud to net in aecor ee therewith: .
V , That the propertyowners on the north side
of North Avenue from the intersection of said Ave-
nue with Main street, to the large gate on the rem-
lses owned by Mary E. Treadwclt, wife of Jo 1’.
Treadwell, and occupied by Richard 1-“. Hart, ontho
east side of Main street from the south line of pram.
ises owned by C. Frederick Bette, t 0 North Avenue,
and ‘on the south side of North Avenue to the em
. corner of homestead of William S. Lockwood, and
on the west side of Park street from its intersection
with North Avenue at or near Bark Mill Brook, 20'
called, to Lewis street, and on the east side of Park
street from Bank Mill Brook to street in front of
Episcopal Church, and on the North side of said
street to State street, and on the west side or State
street to second entrance of Episcopal Chu ti.
be required and they are hereby ordered, at their
own expense, to grade and curb their IIld side walk.
and pave their gutters two and one-half feet in width,
E using gutter stones therefor, in front of their respec-
tive premises ;.‘ also, to pave their said side walks,
with flagging five feet in width or with concrete six ~
feet in width - and that the property owners on the
north side of North Avenue‘from t e la gate on
premises owned b Mrs. Mary E. Teadwe l. to see-
ond smallgue in root of homestead ofWillism B.
E. Lockwood and from tho northwest corner of
homestead of Zalmon Lyon to the intersection of
North Avenue with Park street, he required and no
hereby ordered, at their own expense, to rude their
said side walks and pave the same wrth ggin five
feet in width, or with concrete six feet in wi th in
front of their respective premises; all said gradinc.
curbing, paving and flag ing to be done and com.
pleted by the n at day of ufinst next. to thenccep.
tance of Committee on Big ways, said than being
- e -' - “ by this Court for the execution
of this order ; and in case any property owner shall
neglect to have the work herein ordered finished by
the time designated, the same shall then be done by
the Borough, at the expense of the party‘ or parties
so neglectin ; all ofsnid work to be done in accord-
ance with t .5 ads and curb line established and
adopted by this curt June 1811), 1870, on file 19 the
office of this Court.
- Voted, That proper notices to the several pro _y
holders be prepared and served by the Clerk of Court
of Bur eases. ' ‘
J 08 II F. FOOTE
,lbi‘e‘rk‘of Court of Burgesses.
171.9% gs oréngh Clark. Borough of N orwaik, J uno
;. .1“ ,._.__. >>‘. '.
. I here certif aha-fore clog is atrne copy of tho
vo teé’agd‘brdei? of the Cgoun of Burgesses, used
J one 15th.lsfl. in relation to the matter there a con. -
mined. ' Attejt, JOSEPH-‘1‘, FOOTE’
sus , . Clerk of Court “Surgeons.
0 JAMES TULLY and MARY. TELLY, his wife.
T and children of said James and Mary Tutti:
Crowell, Badden, Samuel R. P: Camp, Georg.
Norris and Saran M. Norris, Maw 9, Gear 1‘. ,
Smith, John E. Smith, heirs of Ban,» ks Smith, run
Dense ,‘Chnrlcs Bessey and Henry~Beseey,—whcr.
evert eymay reside.—and to the-Dunbury & Nor-
' walk Railroad Company—owner or owners of land
or land and buildings, frontiu on either side of
Water street, south of the Dan uryk Norwalk Rail. '
road track, to the intersection of Memin street
therewith,»and on either side of Chapel street the
gutter; length thereof. in thoBorough of Norwnik,- ,
r n .- 'v - ; . , .’
I The allowing votes fund 'ordeno! the Court of
Barges-es of the Baron b 9! Norwalk, were passed
June 15th, 1872, of'wht'c you anhenby notified and _,
aired to act in accordance'thoruwlth ' ,, . '
"Toad, That the property owners on both sides of:
Water-stre- south 'of- the Dunlap-{‘05 Norwalk .
Railroad tra'c to the intersection o erwin street-
thorewith, and on both sides of Chapel stree tho
entirelongththereohbe requiredgand the on ere-
ordcredv at their own expense. to grade curb their
‘sidewalks, and pave their gutter- two and one-half
feet 'inmidth, using gutter ston'g,there.'or,in front
orthcir rezpeetive premises; also 'to pave their
said sidew In with ma fiye immigrant, or
with concrete‘six feet in' wi th' all paid curbin ,
aiding and “tag to be done aid completed by- t __9
first day. of ugus‘ 1'. next. to ; the Com, on mcghwlys
said time bola deemed reasonable by this can of .
unnmns. . . tbe'executlgplp 3:]. order and tip. case in: 8:13.113;-
D ode oat ' trowel-‘8 .en cc 0 .10 .vor -
Bgleaiice o Iniggst account .. . . .m’m‘ggi'i I'dered done‘and com leted by the time herein desig-
Surplus ........ ..... . . .. . .. .: . . 39.332 13‘ mated. the same I!" be done by, the Bat-quell at the
. ' :-———__. 'ex use of the party or parties so neglecting: all of
81 v 60431 jaizlemork to be done in accordance with rude and
asszrs "” ' ' . curb. has established and adopted byt a Court.
’5: t. 3 June 85th 1312, and onfiieinthe ofllce thereof. _
Invosted in logos on Real Raffle .'.. . . .' $1,001,010 56 . raged, That proper notices to the several ro arty
owners he prepared SEC-59ml} by the Cler o 59”"
c‘ibi'nru r. scorn, can: of Court of Bargain...
Office of Borough Clerk, Borough of Nor-nut,
18'! .
Julnhgg'eby Certify that the foregoing is a true copy
of votes and order of the Court of Burgesus, used
June am, 1332, in relation to. the gutters, ereln
. .Atteet. . . . _
again“ . Clerk of Court of Bur-genie. .
0 JOHN MASON, of New York citvflndothexk
T owner or owners‘ofdand or lurid apq buildings
floating on the east side‘ot‘: road lendin . o Will-db
from the head of laintstreemo the- rth line 0
rcmises oinned by George- N. Elia “an. Lorenzo
fine, In the naming 'of Norwalk,—Gru¢ing:
The following votes’aufi order of the Court of Bur.
cases were usedJune sum-1m, of which you are
areby not ed and required to act in accordance
therewith: . - ‘
. er! on the east side .-
...*f:. catamarans ...........
str t to the on]: line of remisewwued by 699“"
Iteilli “ andn R.‘ Lorenzo pElls. be required “a they
‘aro‘ nemby'ordered. at Infiaggnofffgfififpffisg
' ' ‘ 8 II
“a curb their ”iii'iiikgunm two and one-half I'eet
utter stones therefor; said curbing,
radio" and p" ng, to bedone and completed, the
rat d§y of A not next, to the acceptance 0, the
committee on nHighways. said time being deemed
tomb“, by min Court. for the execution»! this or.
5‘3. . “a in case any ropeny owner-shall neglect to ,
fiat—é the work here u orderedfiutshed byt c that
designated, th‘é same shall then: be, done by {baton-
ouan at the ease of'th'e party or parties”. neg; ‘
legging. . n was“! work to he done. in near neg
with Erin e and curb'line established and adopted by
this Court and sin file in the ofiice-thereot :21
Voted. That props: noticesbeuwpmcdandsmgg: .
by the Clerk of this Con“; - ~' ‘; .1...
JOSEPH F. FOOTE, Clerkoi Court of But-gasses.
Ofilce of Clerk of Court ofsnurgosses, Borough of
Norwalk, June Tub. lotir -_ .3 4,. 3 - . .. . _
I hereby certify that the hugging: a true copy of _
d orderof “19,0an 0‘, , urgessggm .1 __-
JUN, tn.- tnja'tiott faiths matters '
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