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NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, _DEOEMBERSL 1872. ‘.
NORWALK GAZETTE.
the Second Oldest Paper in the State
Osrzca IN Gazn'rrn BUILDING.
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[all Go! inn, one year, _.
otlces 25 per cent advance on the above.
”Mn! 25 cents
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per line.
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seaplated at the time of contract,but are permitted
0 make monthly changes of their advertisements.
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timeouts. _ '
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ekaed to promote private interests. $15 per halfand
3” per full column. All unusual cuts and devices
25 per cent. extra.
WM. B. RIDER,
Engineer a; Surveyor,
NORWALK. CONN.
Orders left with Sherman Stevens. at the Giza-ire
Onion, or by mail, promptly attended to. Also.
”at for J AS. LE FEL'S DOUBLE TURBINE
ATBB WHEEL, the best in use. Power pledged
equal to any over-shot. 36
audit. 5. GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church.
FIIIII'TIIE CI" 0! III Tillll.
Teacher of the
PlAllI-fllllTE,0flAI a. IIIISIIIAI. EBMPISITIIII.
» Box 379 P. 0. Norwalk, Conn. _
In New York, care of William A. Pond d5 00., 896
Broadway.
0. A. MILLBANK,
Graduate of the
Penn. College of Dental Surgery,
At the allies of the old Fairiield County Bank
llaiidleg, Wall Street. 25
CHAS. w. MANY,
DENTIST,
, NORWALK.
OEes on lain Street. opposite Connecticut Hotel.
Teeth Iliad and extracted. . 30,
V AITITIJIAI. TEITII JISEIITEII AT l0" RATES.
WILLIAM MI'ré I-I ELL
‘ At the ever popular
UNION MARKET,
has always the best of
BEEF, VEAL, MUTTON, d: PORK,
at fair living prices. Union (formerly Model) Mar-
ket. a the Bridge. _ ' 18 '
Fairfleld County
FIRE
Iiifliafliillll 00MPANY,
South Norwalk, Conn.
000 00000, $200,000
lusts, lint. 10,1872, $285,000
w. s. nANFOBD,Pre-Ident,
II. B. TURNER, Secretary. 4'
J OHN ROBERTS,
Dealer in
BEEF, SUTTON, PURK'AND HAMS,
PaisithEs,'ilAIlIEll‘l-‘lllllfs, 1.0.,
No. 3 James, nLocx,
7 WATER STREET. NORWALK, CONN.
CHARLES P. ~UIILIi, M. 13.,
ruinous a suncros.
Omen over Prowitt’sl) rag Store.
OFFICE HOURS :-—liornings, 8 to 10 o’clock:
veaiugs l’ to 9 o'clock. 0rd: rs left at H. L. Uhlc's
rug Store, will receive prompt attention. ll-tf
C. . . Locnwoon,
Fashionable Draper It Tailor
AND
Gentleman’s Furnishing Emporium,
llsin Street, Norwalk, Conn.
ELBERT CURTIS,
Merchant Tailor,
Curtis’s Building, Main Street, Norwalk, Ct.
Gents’ and Youths’ Clothing cut and made to order
t short notice, of the best materials. in the latest
'les,,by experienced workmen. Prices reasonable.
w. R. cans, M. 1).,
Ig‘LIYSICIAN .k SURGEON, Olllce over Alfred
4
‘flnapp’s store, Washington St., South Norwalk,
an, consultation gratis from 9 a. in. to 9 p.m. tl‘19
Norwalk, Insurance Company.
NORWALK, coNN.
Cash Capital,
Paid up Capital, $100,000
Wu. C. S-rueur, President, Gm. R. Gowns, Sec’y
Ears. HILL. Treasurer.
$500,000
J. SPENCER,
WATCHMAKER,
UNDER NORWALK OPERA HOUSE,
‘ A well selected stock of
WATCHES, CL 0 CKS,
GOLD JEWELRY,
SPECTACLES,
EYE GLAssrs
always on hand.
000010001000 Wattlesa Specialty.
Etna Insurance Co. of Hartford,
incorporated 1319, Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $5,052,880 19
[source against loss and damage by Fire. on terms
adapted to the hazard. and consistent with
the laws of compensation.
GEORGE R. COWLES,
Sole Agent for Norwalk and aicinity_
DB.J.G.BARBOUR, h—.
D E N 1- I s '1- .
NORWALK, CONN.
Room No. 8, over Jack'
__..
Office in Gazette Building,
eoa Brothers’store.
Nitrous oxide or Laughing Gas, administered when
desired.
A New Device for
plate work—light, durable and
heap. ~. ‘
RANGES.
60.90 NO. 7 RANGE,
Cell and see them before buying elsewhere.
GEORGE F BELDEN.
EDWARD P. ween.
Dru-ggist
Wall Street, opp. Norwalk Hall
Alarge and weliselectedstock o f
Drugs and Medicines
PERFUMERY. PATENT MEDICINES a”
monument. WATERS, TOILET in...
KEDICATED soars. FLAVORING and
HANDKERCHIEF Exruacrs, rum
BRUSHES, corms, SPONGES, 03.131015
SKINS,STATIONERY, CIGARS.&C . .00..
Cone , _tlyaddingtohisstockallthe newand pop
star in cluesomis day. .
812.00
14.00
. W. H. 'SWORDS.
Merchant Tailor
ORNER WASHINGTON AND MAIN STS.,
SOUTH NOBWALK, CONN.,
Scotch Chevoits, Meltons, Grape and
English Coatings,
MADE UP IN STYLE, AND AT LO\VEST PRICES
A good fit warranted and made as the custome r may
wantit. Cutting done for others to make ashcreto
fore.
a LARGE ASSORTMENT 0F
Gents’ Furnishing Goods.
Also 3 LARGE ASSORTMENT oi ilA'i‘SsndCAPS
REAL ESTATE.
. sronu AND DWELLING
To LET-
handsome Store, with back rooms, situated on
Main St., South Norwalk opposite Geo. W.
Smith's Grocery ls ofi‘ered to let. The store has
been newly fitted up, and is in a and location for
A FIRST-CLASS
Home Security.
The Danhury & Norwalk R. H. 00.,
FFER forsale. at ‘par and inter_est,tiielr7 per
cent. Coupon Hon 5, in sums oi Five Hundred
and One Thousand Dollars each, free from State,
County, Town, City, Borough, and School Taxes, in-
terest payable on the first days of January and July
in each year. The Bonds are first mortgage on the
Branch Read new building from Bethe! to Huwley.
ville, and a subsequent mortgage on the entire road,
branches, docks. equipments, and real estatebclong-
ing to this Company, and are offered to the public as
a safe and reliable investment. Bonds may be ro-
cured of EDWIN LOCKWOOD. President, IL-
LIAM C. STREET. and GEORGE E. MILLER, at
the Savings Bank, in Norwalk. or the subscriber In
Danbnry. H. WILLIAMS, Treasurer of the
D. &N. R. R.
Danbury, Dec. 26th, 1871. 52
WANTED .
AFEW shares of the Capital Stock of the Fair-
tield County National Bank and at The N atlon-
aLBank of Norwalk. , -
GEO. E. MILLER,
2st! at the Norwalk Savings Society
MISSES nnocx wAuis
Dr Goods or any other useful bus ness. Rent cheep.
Induire of “52' JOHN McMAHON,
FOR SALE. .
THE "pleasnntly located premises of the subscriber,
on Union Park, comprising Dwelling House,
Barn, and Vegetable Garden. The house is compar-
atively new, containing 15 rooms, with closets and
pantries: the garden is large and well supplied with
Apples, Pears. Gra s and Berries, In good .bearlng
condition. Size oi 0t 90 feet fiontxlso feel. in depth
is very convenient to the Horse Railroad, and from
. its location is free. from the dust and noise-of a
thoroughiare. If not sold within a few weeks will
be leased for a term of years. For sale.also.a
Carriage, Sleigh and Harness. For particulars in-
quire of 0. W. GATES.
Nonvnlk, Dec. 2Ist, 1872. 8t52
FOR SALE.
flE Subscriber, being about to leave town. ofi‘ers
T for sale. at a very low price his place leasantly
located on Fair street, in the borough ol‘ orwalk.
The house is new, containing eight rooms, with
cellar, attic, pautries. Are. _There is also a conven-
ient barn on the premises. Will also sell part of
his furniture, comprising parlor and chamber set.
and Cottage Organ, together With one Horse one
Cow, three wagons. 87c. FREDERICK BEE :
Smu'
IIoUsn TO RENT.
LL be rented to a res ectahle family, a neat]y
built cottage, with a t modernconveniences,
Enquire at the
GAZETTE OFFICE.
,WI
and a low price.
39“
ll SALE MI 11) [EL—House on Butlerstreet. Pos-
sessionimmediaiely. Enquire of
BURR SMITH.
' rat 1 I. 1’ Ion SALL—ADouble lot.82x10
ciadjolisili‘ug fete one of LeGrand Lockwood. En
quire of G. D.JENNINGS, or R. L. ELLS. Com. .
For Sale or Exchange.
SPLENDID FARM containing Seventy Acres.
with good buildings, fruit and water, situated
three miles north of Stamford, on the main road to
Long Ridge. Will be sold cheap, or exchanged for
any good property. For full particulars enquire of
JAMES MITCHELL, Real Estate
tioneer. Norwalk, Conn.
AT WESTPOBT STATION.
GOOD CONVENIENT HOUSE. with Gbrden.
Barn, and other Outhouses attached, and a well
of never-failing water, an abundance of good fruit.
the. Also, can be had with the some, if desired,
from one to eight acres of .land. Is within three
minutes walk of the Railroad Depot, and situated
directly upon Westport harbor. Only a email por-
tion of the purchase money required down; the rest
can remain on bond or mortgage. For further par.
ticulars enquire of MA N GRACE.
Norwalk, April 29th, 1872. mi
For Sale Cheap or to Rent.
DWELLING HOUSE, only two years old,on
the lily Neck road, South Nor‘walk, for sale
heap, or to rent.
2 E. K. LOCKWOOD.
For Sale or to Rent.
HE Place lately owned and occupiedby the late
John D. Louusbury, in Winnipauk. The place
consists of a large Dwelling House. withmodern
improvements,and Five Acres of good Land. Pleas-
antly located on the main street, near Depot, Post
office and stores. Possession given immediately.
Inquire of MORGAN T. SMITH, or GEORGE H
RAN DLE, near the premises. 1.
“BUILDING LOTS.” .
B‘ undersignedofi'erior Salesome of the most
Agent and Auc-.
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T
he slope northwest of Union Park, convenientto the
fthe village and harbor, prices low and terms easy.
A. H. BYING’I‘ON,
S.
n. K. Locxwoon.
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Applyto
Norwalk Sept. 21, 1808.
*M111 Property " '
FOR SALE;
HE subscriber ofi'ers for sale his MILI’ropertysit'
uated in West N orwalk, about two miles from
Darien Depot, three miles from South Norwalk, and
two miles from New Canaan, consisting .of a manu-
factory, two stories high, 86x18 feet, With about 12
feet head and fall of water, with three acres of land,
now used as’a Saw Mill but suitable for a manufactu-
of any kind. Terms easy and price low. Enquire
i‘ JAMES FINNEY, Real Estate Agent, Norwalk.or
f the subscriber, CHAUNCEY STREET.
West Norwalk, Sept. 25, 1869. 39tf
Real Estate for Sale.
HE land belonging to the estate of George‘Wr
T Raymond,compl-ising some of the most deemi-
hle propertyin South Norwaik, isnow ofi'credforsale
at a bargain by the trustee of that estate. Apply to
LEWIS F. BEERS, Trustee, GEORGE W. RAY-
MOND and CHESTER F.TOLLES, South Norwnlk,
Conn. ' tf26
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JAMES FIN NE Y,
Real Estate Agent, Licensed. Auc tlon
eer, Constable, Collector-gate. l
RATEFULLY returns thanks for the very libera
G 'patornage heretofore extended him by a gener'
ons public. and solicits a continuance of the same-
He has taken a desk at J. B. Hurbnrt’s Law‘
Ofiiice, Room No. 4. Gazette Building, where he
can hereafter be found, or orders can be eft. H_ewill
give prompt attention to‘ the buying and. sellingoi
Real Estate, renting of places. Auctioneering of real
and personal property, the collection of debts, &c.,
and will make every reasonable exertion to pleaseali
who may favor him with theirpatronage.
Said property is near the business center of the town.
desirable building sites in the village, lying along ~
iilage and easy of access, having an extensive view .
SELECT S'CIIOPL
"II "III" “I!“ All! KISSES.
RegularEnglish Course, four years. Thorough in-
struetlunln
, Music, Languages, Drawing,
and Painting. ' '
A limited number of pupils received into the family.
FALL TERM COMMEN CES MON DAY, SEPT. 16
For circulars, address MISSES DROCKWAY, -
. Box 443, Norwalk, Conn.
DARIEN
SEMINAR! FDR lilllllii llllllES.
THIS Institution is pleasantly situated on Semi-
nary Ilill,ubout one mile from Darieu Depot.
For beauty oflocation and scenery, and healthful-
ness qt climate. no more desirable place can be
found.‘ The building is new and built. with direct
reference to theconvenience and comfort of pupils.
The rooms are large with high ceilings, well venti-
iated, and newly furnished throughout. The school
year begins the fourth Wednesday in September,
aiidcloses the third Tuesday in June. There will
be but one vacation ofabout a week during the win.
terholidays. » , ' '
For terms, etc., address
. EMILY A. RICE,Principai,
13 '
Darien Depot. Conn.
Boots and Shoes.
WE. the undersigned, having formed a co-part-
nership and purchased the Boots and Shoe
Store of G. 0. Keeler, would most respectfullyinvlte
his old customers, also, our old friends and patrons
and the publicin general, to give us-a call and we
willconvince them that by
Honorable Dealing] do Small Profits
t at we are bound to give
which makes quick sales,
satisfaction and defy competition. Our motto is
"THE NIMBLE SIXPENCE IS BETTER THAN.
THE SLOW SHILLING " . '
801E Alli "PPEII liATIIEll, FIIDIIGS, 8.6.,
Wholesale and Retail. Particular attention paid to
CUSTOM WORK,
in all its branches, also REPAIRING done with neat-
nes's and dis atch. SMITH d: HANFORD.
Chances stun. J ossrn P. Huuroan.
CONFEC'TIONERY,
Ice .Ore'gm, (be.
.c. H'. DOUGLAss '
Keeps constantly on hand a large assortmenioi
Fresh Confectionery
of the first quality.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Also, Ice Cream made to order at shortnotice
Partiessupplied.
_' .0. II. novonass,
MAIN STREET, NORWALK, CONN
CARPENTER AND BUILDER.
HE subscriber would informthe citizens of Nor-
walk that he is prepared to do
Building, in all of its branches,
by contract, or_by day’s work, and Solicits a share or
patronage. Will tryt-oplease. Shop Centeravenue.
near Main street.
2 SAMUEL B. FITCH.
W. C. QUINTARB a. (30.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealersln
Harduare, Paints, Oils, Glass,
House Furnishing Goods,
Also all kinds of
Mechanics" Tools,
AND '
AGRIBIIITIIRAL IMPLEMENTS.
LOCKS, KNOBS. NAILS. AND BUILDERS’
HARDWARE, POCKET AND" TABLE CUTLERY
of the best kind. Remember the place,
No. 3 Opera House Block,
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.
w. o. coin-rare, nuanxn‘arr.
IR 0N FEN OING.
HE subscriber is now
prepared to make un'dfnr-
‘nish several styles of ~
T
Wrought and (last Iron Fencing,
JAMES . MITCH ELL,
0001. 000000 000000
AUCTIONEER,
OFFICE MIrcnntnas annex,
WALL STREET,
NORWALK, CONN.
CITY RESIDENCES,
Farms and Country Scars,
Bought, Sold, Reutedand Exchanged,
REAL ESTATE, STOCKS,
at public and privatesale.
AUCTION SALES 0F HOUSES, LOTS, FARMS
AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.
Sales of Furniture, at Owner’s
Residences;
Houses to Rent
' Furnished or Unfurnished.
PLACES FOR SALE VARYING IN PRICE,
_ from 35.000 to 850,000 I
Al ordersleftat the UNION MARKET. Mitchell’s
Block.Norwalk.Conn. will receivepromptattentiou.
JAMES MITCHELL.
.SIMPIIGITY! ECONOMY!
The Norcvallc Engine.
THE MOST SIMPLE, PERFECT
AND CHEAPEST ENGINE
IN THE MARKET.
Twenty per cent. added to the efi‘ectlvc power 0!
the common Slide Valve Engine by using the NOR-
WALK IRON WORKS’ BALANCED PISTON
VALVES. Six, eight. ten, twelve and fourteen inch
Engines always on ha d. Inquiries solicited and ref-
erenccs given in all p. its of the country.
nlntcl' All"!!! a BAlAlltEWHEEl. STEAM PUMPS
Address monwanx neon worerrs,
231y SOUTH NORWALK, or.
HARNESSES FOR SALE.
THE subscriber would respectfully inform the
public that ie has new on hand a good assort-
ment ofiiARN LsSES. made of the very best’mate-
rials, winch he will SELL AS LO‘V as theYCsn
possibiybe furnished at any other similar estab-
Ilselllllrzllevfg‘lgletllc Eonnty. Now for the orders. Let
m In 8. once. . .
Feb. 1.1571. M n SWAN'
9
NOW FOR YOUR WATER PIPES.
Wm. GIOVer & ,Son, ‘
Are ready to put in your WATER, STEAM or GAS
PIPE, at very short notice and at as low a rate as
anyone. WROUGH'I‘ d: CAST IRON. TIN-LINED.
LEAD PIPES, &c., of every size and description.
PLUMBING in all its Branches.
WILLIAM CLOVER & SON,
River Street. Norwslk.
28
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FURNITURE., are _
to ,' churches, dwellings and burial plots.
—Also—-
Iron Gates, Doors, Shutters and
Gratings.
O
Iron Stairs, and Bolts for building purposes. and
many other'aritcles in the line of
BLACKSMITH WQRK,
Shop in rear of Solmonjs Hat Shop, Union street,
South Norwalk. 5
. WM.'H. DUNCAN.
ForISulc‘ at a Bargain.
NE 30 inch Tubular Boiler, one 8x16 Engine. 15
horse-aower, one No. 2 Steam Pump, of Nor-
walk Iron ’orks manufacture, one Water Heater,
all in good working order, have been used'bnt a short
time. For full information call on or address
H. H. ELWELL. at ofilceof the Norwalk Lock Co
FOR SAIL-E
ANTED to sell Stock of the FAIRFIELD
COUNTY FIRE INSUANCE 00., in lots_of
FIFTY. IIIEIIIIIDIIII. IIII FIVE IIIIIIIIIED SHARES.
W. S. Hanford. qu., President will furnish in-
formation relative to the value of the above Stock.
4t82 Apply to T. H. MORISON. Norwalk, Ct.
NEW GROCERY.
' HE subscriber would inform the ublic thathe
has taken a store in isaacs'Bnil tug. Wall St.,
and has now on hand a full assortment of '
CHDIBE FAMILY‘GBUBERIES.’
selected with greatcare for this market, and which
willbe sold atthe lowest rates. lie invites his old
friends and the public generally to give him a call
and examine his stock, feeling fully confident. from
his long experience in the business, of his ability to
please. lotf GOULD D. JENNINGS.
W Goods delivered within areusonabledistailce
DOMESTIC AND FAHGI BAKERY.
s. 1. SMITH, 3
Successor to S. R. Bunting at Co.,
AS taken the store at the entrance of the GA-
ZETTE BUILDING, where he will keep con-
stantly on hand a choice assortment of .
PIES
’ OAKE’ BREAD
,
IN GREAT VARIETY,
which he willserve fresh daily. He will also serve
his customers from the wagon. as usual.aud Will.
also. maintain his agencies at DEMMON & NEW-
COMB’S, Main Street. Norwalk, and "at J. SSLLI-
VAN’S, South Norwalk.
ASSETS AFTER DEDUCTING
CHICAGO LOSSES.
COWLES & MERRILL,
Agentsat Norwalk. Conn., issue Policies for the
following InsuranccCompanles :
Alto a,of Hartford, Ct., 84,047,37807
Hartford, “ 1,537,51900
thnix “ 1.081.189 84
l’eople’s,of lllidtlletown,0t., 243,874 80
2,723,206 52
Home, of New York,
1,545,557 10
Phoenix, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Continentalof New York, 1,427,496 21
International ‘ 829,476 00
Westchester, of New Rochelle, N . Y. , . 453,930 82
Springfield, of Springfield, Mass, 579,780 00
People’s, Worcester, Mass, 600,000 00
Franklin, Phila., Pa.. 3,263,918 39
Commerce, Albany, N. Y. tic-1.42400
Narragahsett, ot‘l’rovidence,R. 1., 754,947 00
Andes,Cincinnati, 0. 1,250,000 00
Home, of Columbus, 0.. 438.447 34
Alemania, Cleveland. 0. 295,000 00
f
i er cal and London, ondGlube,sepa-
L v li-atc'ore assets. 5.060,105 00
North British and Mercantile, do do 2,104,598 00
Queen of Liverpool & London, do do 1,355.860 00
Imperial. of London, do do 5.313.665 00
And other Companies, Stock and Mutual, in Con-
nu Is Lauri
She watches at the porch,
The sun is nearly down;
What keeps her truant lord 7'
He should be back from town.
One short, sweet year ago
He never made her wait,—
As much too early then,
As now he is too late!
Had Heaven bestowed on me
That little lady there,
Whom love has made so_sad,
And sadness made so fair,—
Her hand, her cheek, her mouth
Should not for kisses wait:
Were that sweet armful mine.
I never could be late!
From the Maine!” January.
THE CUCKOO-
Forth I wandered, years ago,
When the summer sun was low,
And the forest all aglow
With his light;
”fires a day of clondless skies;
When the trout declines to rise,
And in vain the angler sighs
For a bite.
And the cuckoo piped away —
How I love his simple lay.
O’er the cowslip-fields of May
. As it floats? '
Airy was over, and of course .
He wasjnst a little hoarse, .
And appeared to me to force
Certain notes.
Since mid-April, men averted,”
People’s pulses, inly stirred
By the music of the bird,
Had upleapt;
It was now the close of J one;
I reflected that he’d seen
Sing entirely out of'tnne.
And I wept.
Looking up. I marked a maid
Float balloon-like o’er the glade,
Casting evermore a staid
_ ‘ Glance around; -
And I thrilled with sweet surprise
When she dropt, all virgin- wise,
, Firsts courtesy. then her eyes
To the ground.
_ Others’ eyes-have p’raps to you
- Seemed ethereally blue,
But you see you never knew
Kate Adair. .
What a mien she had! Her hat
With what dignity it set
0n the mystery, or met,
01' her hair!
We were neighbors. I had dofi’d
Cap and hat to her so oft
That the latter had grown soft
In the brim;
I had gone out of my way
To bid e’en her sire good-day,”
Though I wasn’t. I may say,
Fond of him ;—
And _we’d met, in streets and shops
But by rill or may copse,
Where your speech abruptly stops
And you get
Incoherent ere you know it—
Where, though nothing of a poet,
You intuitively go it—
Never yet.
So my love had ne’er been told!
Till the day when forth I strolled
And the lollycuckoo trolled .
on. his song,
Naught had passed betwixt us two
Save a bashful “How d’ye do,"
And a blushing "How do you
Get along 7"
But that eve—how swiftlt passed 1—
Words-that burnedfiew from me fast
For the first time and the last
In my life;
Low andlower drooped her chin,
- As I murmured how I'd skin
Or behead myself to win
Such a wife. ..
There we stood. The squirrellespcd
Overhead; the throstle pceped I
Through the leaves, all sunshine steeped,
0f the lime.
There we stood alone; a third
Would have made the thing absurd;
And she scarcely spoke a word
All the time.
We’ve a little Kate. a dear!
She’s attained her thirteenth year,
And declares she feels a queer
Sort of shock—
Not unpleasant though at all-
When she hears a cuckoo call;
80 I’ve purchased her a small
Cuckoo-clock.
From Scribner-ls Hagazi'ne/or January.
*
_ New' York’s New Reservoir-
New York, rendered uneasy'in view of.
contingencies, is taking active steps, since
the Boston fire, to secure an ampler supply
of water. In a great fire, now, in almost
any part of New York below Union Square,
but especially below Canal street, the ex-
isting arrangements for throwing on water
would be found to be wofully inefficient-
Half the buildings on.Broadway and other
business streets are too lofty to be reached,
in their highest stories, by the Croton water,
even when thrown from the pipes of steam~
ers. There is but too much reason for the
prevalent apprehension of a great fire in
New York; but it is perhaps as reasonable
to hope for exemption for the next year, as
it was to have indulged such a hope at the '
close of-any preceding year since ’35, or the
summer of ’46. 'One new expedient, now to
be tried in order to guard against long
droughts as well as fires, is the making of, a
' new and immense reservoir at' Boyd’s
Corner, in the country around Lake Maho-
pac, perhaps forty 0r fifty miles from New
York. A well already built will enclose
the reservoir, and its masonry and the _thick
embankment will be at the base, 800 feet
thick. The reservoir will cover 400i acres l
—-and it will store up 4,000,050,000 (four
thousand millions) of gallons of water.
Surely-with this added supply, New York
will always have water enough for all
emergencies. How to get it upon the roofs
of five or six story buildings is another
matter.
The exposure by {Clarence King of the
Arizona diamond swindle is one that gives
him and his assistants :1 character for hon-
esty and integrity that is altogether too rare
nowadays. There is little doubt that he
could have “made a pile,” by collusionwilh
the managers of the scheme,before {making
his report. He might easily and truthfully
have said that the gems did exist in the
locality and that he found them, withhold-
ing his statement and reasons therefor that
they must have been placed there by human
agency. The managers would have paid
him much more than he is likely to receive
from those whose money he saved from the
grasp ofa set of swindlers. The effect of
such a collusion as appears to have been
feasible and tempting. may be conjectured
when it is considered that a confirmatory
statement of the value of the lands would
have robbed the people of not less than a
hundred millions of dollars, and possibly
have caused the death of hundreds from ex-
posure and want. The place of the finding
is covered with snow from November to
May, and “the ring” would have had five
months in which to “realize” before the
fraud could have been exposed. All the
misfortunes that would have followed a
taverable report have been averted by Mr.
King'and the scientific men‘ associated with
him,who deservemublic thanks for their
honorable spirit.
0
Hope for the best; prepare for the worst;
and be content with what God may send.
The Rev. J. W. Hamilton, one of the
popular young lecturers of New England,
will lecture during the winter for thcbenefit
of his church, which finds itself embarrassed
by the consequences of the fire, in a new
enterprise it had undertaken. Besides the
lectures which he has before announced. he
has prepared a new one, “Out of the Fire,
or the Better Boston,” with photographic
and other illustrationswhich he will deliver
nectlcnt and New York. ~
GEORGE R. COWLES. HOMER MERRILL
during the winter. .
' . said John. “But, by George, boys,‘ it does
’ lingering cadence. From lb. pine woods
naps MISTAKE.
There were three ofus, only, frouflilliop,
a little quaint, irregular village, nestled
high among the mountains—Hal Brainard,
John Hazard, and I, Harrison Grey, at ydur
service.- We "messed together, and that
morning as we drank our black coffee We
talked matters over with no sense of res-
traint. The regiment, which had been in
camp for a month, was to march the next
day.
“I shall be glad‘enough to get out‘of this,"
seem a little tough on a fellow to have to
go off without seeing‘ the‘folks again. It
can't be more_than ten miles to Hilltop, as
the crow fiies"——and the speaker, he was
hardly more than a boy, looked, yearningly
oil into the blue distance. '
“It’s no use‘, my lad," answered Hal, while
his resolute face clouded "over. “No’ fur-
loughs will lac-granted, I nnders‘tanc .”,
Butjust then our good Captain Talbot
appeared at the door of the tent. He had
been teacher of the High School in the town
adjoining ours, and we had all been pupils
of his. As we gave him the military salute,
he smiled faintly. '
“It is almost schooltime, boys,” he said.
"But, first, I want to send one of you over.
to Hilltop, to do ai‘crrand for me. Who-
ever goes. can stay all night, but must report
himself by eight o’clock to-morrow morn-
ing.” , ‘ ‘ .
We looked frOm one to the other, in a
sort of eager dismay. At last John—Jack
we called him—spoke out.
“Conld’nt we all go, Captain ?”
"‘Not exactly,” be answered. laughing.
“Orders are too stringent. But settle it
among yourselves; and. let one of you come.
to my tent in an hour." , ~
The boys in the next tent were singing
“Rally Round the Flag,” at the top-of their
voices. Some one on theiother side was
whistling “Home, Sweet Home" in long and
on our left, the morning breezes brought us
walls of balsamic fragrance, with now and
then an odorous breath from the -trailing
llfiiy-fiowers. How well I Jemembcrcd it
a .
I found my voice at length.
“Let Jack go. He is the youngest." .
But then I bethonght me that Hal had
which is too much for my philosophy. She
—whei~her it comes by intuition or other-
wise, that women gain carlier than men."
“I have reason to believe that she made a
mistake in engaging herself to me. If I
should happen to be picked off by one of
these infernal bullets," he added, grimly, “it
would be a fortunate circumstance. It
would set her free, you see, without any
fuss."
There was a stern compression of his lips,
a metallic hardness it! his voice. Yet Hul
Brainard’s nature was bihvc, tender, and
waniunly. I probed hiiu with questions as
a surgeon probes a wound.
“And you,",I asked, ”have you made a
mistake too ?"
‘“ ‘If she be'not fair to me,
. What care I how fair she be,’ "
be quoted lightly. Then, as if some wave
of feeling swept over him, tearing his' pride
from its moorings, be seized my hand in a
vice-like grasp. .
“I love her l” he cried, “whether.I have
made a mistake or not. I have loved her
all my life long. I did not even knowwhen.
I began to love her. That’s the worst of it,
Hanison Grey.”
~ We were silent for a while. The sun
dropped lower and lower, and the soft
twilight wrapped us in its tender folds. I
patience to- wait for it ; :but Hal Brainui'd
was not oncto be hurried. . '
“I do not know that Iblame her,” he said,
knew I should hear the whole story,'if‘ Ihnd '
wondrously tender.
She was not inclined to talk much of Hal,
and I had a sort of uncomfortable conscious-
ness, growing out of the recollection of my
last conversation with the poor follow, that
kept me silent also.
Fayette Blackmann, as I soon learned,
had opened a law office in an adjoining
town, was buildings. fine house, and was
making himself prominent in political eir
cles. He was'evidenily no mere ‘diletante,
.but the rising man of the country; and I
could but acknowledge to myself that if he
chose to enter the lists he would indeed be
a formidable rival. Whether he had done
so or not, every week brought him to Hill-
top. ,
One evening I saw them ride by on horse-
back—he and Thyrza. Perhaps it was only
the exercise and excitement, but there was
a glow upon her check, a light and radiance
about her, that I had not seen since my re-
turn, and Blackmnnn’s eyes dwelt upon her
in undisguised admiration. My heart hard-
ened against them both.
“ It is the old story of the one ewe lamb,”
I muttered, as the graceful riders disappear-
ed over the brow of the hill. “ Verily, veri-
ly, history repeats itself.” ’
V There was another great battle, and again
the heart .01 the nation was stirred to its
at last. “The truth is, Grey, Thyrza and I
are too unlike. I am no mate for her. She
is gay, bright and airy, full of sudden spar-
kles and flashes, that dazzle and bewitch
me out of my senses.‘ But I cannot follow
her. Icannot keep pace with her flights.
I cannot half comprehend her. There is
something in her lifc'wliich my life cannot
grasp. And then she looks at me with a
vague, reproachiul wonder in her eyes,
is a skylark, and a clod.”
“But admitting year comparison for a
manent,” .I said, "‘skylarks build their
nests upon the solid ground. ,Did it never
occur to you that your hardy, rugged
strength might be more to Thyrza Harring-
tou than all the brilliant parts, all the
merely aesthetic cultivation, in the world ?
Besrdes, there is a certain sort of knowledge
Hal shook his head.
“All very well in the abstract,” he remark-
rington for nearly a year“.
something in Hilltop that we others had
not. He had been engaged to Thyrza Bar
.and go to sleep..
nGlaneing at him from beneath my cup, I
saw‘ a look upon his face that was half
defiant, half tender; Then he caught up
his gun, with a :pretence of examining the
lock. -
“ No,” Jack answered quietly. “If but
one of us can go, it must be Hal.” ' .
Hal looked uplsuddenly, his face glowing
with something that was not exactly joy.‘
“Jack is right,” ,I said. -“It must be Hal.”
He dropped his gun, and caught our
hands impulsively.
“God bless you, boys,” he cried. “You
make me feel like a selfish brute. But it
seems to me this morning that I would peril
~my soul’s salvation for the chance of going
to Hilltop.” A
“Hurry up, then,” we both answered.
“You have noiime to spare.”
We stood in the doorway of our tent. and
watched the tall, stalwart figure as it droop-
ed out of sight behind the hill. Then Jae-k
turned to me with a gay smile that was
somewhat belied by his drooping eyelids.
“Hal looks like a prince of the blood. in
his new uniform," he said, “and carries
himself like one, too. What a magnificent
fellow he is! _ But what is the matter with
him Grey? I scent trouble in the air. He
is not himself, lately.”
Just my own impression, also. But I did
not’ care to discuss the matter. The day
was a busy one; and when night came, we
were glad to wrap ourselves in “blankets
Hal returned the next morning.
, “Hallo, old fell'ow,‘liow’s Hilltop ?” cried
Jack, dancing around him in a fever of im-
patience. “Who did you see? How areJall
his band fell heavily upon my knee.
low, intense voice. “What is one to do
when he believes, even if he does not know
—-in her world, too—who could be to the
woman he loves all that he has failed to be?
must say more,” I answered. “What do
you mean by these strange words ?"
he came back from ~Heidclbnrg i”
for months before we inlisted. Hewas in
Hilltop half the time.
fellow before he went abroad,” I said; “I
hope they have not spoiled him over there.
But it is not he you are talking about?"
darkening. “But I tell you what it is, Grey,
I will not do the man injustice. He is just
the one to charm the fancy of a girl like
Thyrza. He is “1131““ I am I’M—“11 that just heard the whistle ot' the evening train.
she wishes I was.
ed, “but, you see, it does not touch this case.
What is a man to do when he sees that the
Woman who has promised to marry him
feels deficiences in him, and, when he
I was silent, trying toiliinkwhut I should
say—what it was best Zto say. Presently,
“Tell me one thing more," he added, in' a
of a surety, that there is a man in the world
What should he do in such a case ‘1’”
“Hal l"
“I believe just that Grey. Ihave believed
“Now that ycu have said that much, you
“Have you seen Fayette Blackmann since
“N ever. Haven’t had a glimpse of him."
“That is because you were away so much
“Housed to be a good-enough sort of a
_“It is; though, he answered, his face
He is interested in all the
the folks ?”
turned to me.
get out of this 10-day ?”
I answered affirmatively.
He soon received a quietus in the shape
of sundry packets and parcels. Then Hall
“There‘s no change at headquarters, I
suppose Who said, interrogaiively.
“We
Iace flushed. But after a moment he answer-
“Thc Lord be prlised! lie exclaimed. "‘I
could not stand this inaction much longer,
Grey ;" and he fell vigorously: to work,
packing his knapsack.
He had not quite the air of a happy
Romeo, whose lips were still warm with
the kisses of his Juliet. But I had no time
to puzzle over it, and by sundown we were
off.
This is no war story; and it is needless
to tell of our marchings and counter-march-
ings, our perils, our victories and our
defeats. Itis enough to say that we were
in Virginia, that vast mausoleum of two
armies, and that we three Hilltop boys had
no reason to be ashamed of our record.
But through it all, and hnderlying all,
there was something about Hal Brninard
that I could not understand. 'He was brave
even to rashness. But itseemed to me more
like the recklessness of the man who holds
his life oflittle worth, than the bravery of
him who takes it 0:11me in his hand, ready,
if it is required of him, to offer it up (in all
its full, sweet completeness. One evening—-
it was on the eve of an engagement—l
ventured to remonstrate with him.
“You are too reckless, Hal,” I said. “A
mau:has no right to throw his life away
needlessly, even in battle. Think what :it
would be ioThyrza, if you were lobe left
in some nameless grave down here.” ,
: He started as if the ballet had already
found him. Whether you believe it or nor,
we three had messed together ever since we
left Vermont; we had trumped side by side
through Virginia mud‘ and we had shared
each other's rations and blankets in many a
stress of danger and fatigue ; but "the name
of Tliyrza Harrington had never passed our
lips since that day in camp at Bratileboro.”
Hal was always. reticent. He was the sort
of‘a man who held you at arm’s length, if
be pleased; and any subject he chose to
ignore was a; sealed book. "He had not
chosen to talkofher, and so Jack-and I had
been silent. But that night the spirit
moved me strongly—and I spoke. -
He started. as I have said, and his bronzed
ed quietly :
“I do not expect to be killed, Grey; for I
have learned, since I came down here, that
it takes a deal of ammunition to kill one
man. But if] should fall, I _ihink Thyrza.
would manage to endure it,".hc added in a.
low tone, as be tossed a pebble into theioad
with the toe of his boot. ~
“ll'lanage to endure it i” I cried. “What
do you mean, Hull Is she not your prom:
ised wife ‘2” -
“I—supposc—so,” he answered slowly,
“according to the letter of the law. But
what is the letter good for when the spirit
is gone? What is the body worth without
the soul ‘2” ,,
'l‘lie flush had faded, and lie was pale ps 9.
ghost.
7 “I am sure you are beside yourself, Hal,”
I said, laying my hand upon his arm ; “but
it will do you good to break the silence in
which you have wrapped ydurself. Make a
clean breast of it, man, for your soul’s sake
What is the trouble with you and Thyrza i”
But it does not follow that you have any
occasion for jealousy." '
from the log on which lie wos'sitting.
Do you look at it in that way? Jealous!”
here Hal. Do you think that because a we-
man is engaged—or married, even—she
'must become at once blind and deaf? I can
understand how a cultivated woman may
enjoy the society of is cultivated man, and
yet not have the slightest idea of falling in
love with him."
liked Thyrza Harrington.
a certain quiet dignity. “ I am casting no -
aspersions upon Thyrza. It is not easy for
a. man to say what I have said tonight; and
you may have misunderstood the words
wrung from me by pride and passion. I do
not think she is even aware how this man
has come between her and me. But I see
it; and what am I to do about it! Am I to
sit still, like a craven, and let lier drift help-
lessly into my arms, when I believe she
would be happier in the arms of another?
claimed, drawing him out into the road,
where the few remaining rays of daylight
fell upon his face. “ I do believe you are
mistaken, Hal. .For God’s sake, and for
your own soul’s sake, do nothing rash l”
do what seems to be right,” he said, putting
fur-off thunder, or a bugle-note shot up
Jack! we left his sunny, boyish curls be-
things that interest her—in poetry, music.
and every thing that I am such a dolt about.
He can lead her where I only follow her
afar off ; and 'with all his careless grace of
manner, his easy flow of talk, I feel like a
great clumsy idiot beside him.”
"Fayette Blackman may be Adonis and
Apollo and Mercury all in one, for aughi I
know,” l-replied: f‘ I will not dispute you.
My words stung him, and he sprang up
“ Jealousy l" he cried. “AmI jealous?
“But what elseqis it?” I asked. “ Look
I spoke with some heat. for I had always
He turned white as a sheet.
“ You do not comprehend,” he said with
What am I to do about it,-Grey i’” 0 .
“ For God’s sake, do nothing rash i” I ex-
-“ I will not not hastily; and I will try‘ to
his arm over my shoulder. “ But-life plays
cross purposes with us, from first to last.”
He stood for a moment looking off into
the west, where the camp-fires of the Grand
Army stretched away for miles and miles,
twinkling like stars in the distance. Occa-
sionally a roll of the drums sounded like
through the stillness, Hal turned toward
me, smiling sadly.
“ It is just as I said, Grey. If some stray
bullet would clear up this muddle it would
be a lucky thing; but the little devils never
find out those who would welcome them,
and Hal Brainurd'is the safest man in this
regiment.”
There was a battle the next day. Poor
hind us on the bloody field. I had a ball
through my right shoulder; but as for Hal,
he walked through the fiery furnace with-
out so much as the smell of fire upon his
garments.
It would be weeks—months, perhaps—
bcfore I could use my arm; ansl in the 110i,
sweltering hospital Ilongcd, with an un-
speokablc longing, for the fresh breezes
blowing cool from Oill: mountain peaks; so
they sent me home.
The fatigue of the journey brought on a
low, nervous fever. 'i‘hyrza came often to
seeme. She was very quiet and subdued
in manner, with ll. deeper womanliness About
her that séemcd to have been gained at the
expense of somewhat of the old glow and-
sparkle ; but I thought her lovelier than ever,
look about ,ihc mouth that had grown so
I stole softly away and left them.
There is not a doubt that my old comrade
was dreadfully to blame. some how. But
Thyi‘za forgave him—and so do I.
From the Aldi'ne for January.
“ Whiter than Snow}!
“ Oh! sir," said a wild, reckless, fallen one
whom a Christian laborer sought one win-
try night to rescue from her life of shame:
“ Oh! sir, what’s the use of my going with
you? You cannot make me what I once
was i” '
p “ Don’t you come from.
missionary..-
“ Yes, sir."
“ Then don’t you remember the old castle
and the green? I was there only a week
ago.” — .
“Oh ! yes, yes, sir! I remember them but
too well ; but my going with you will never
make me the pure little girl who used to run
with the children round the old castle and
the green. Oh! thank God! thank God!
they do not know where I am.”
And then came the tears. The hard heart
was broken, and waters gushed as from the
smitten rock. The poor wanderer whose ri-
bald mirth had but a few minutes before
frightened the virtuous as they plodded to
their homes through snow and darkness.
wept at the memories of her Childhood’s in;
'2” said the
center. 'l‘wo‘nighis afterwards. as Isat up-
on the. piazza, with Thyrza Harrington on
a low scat beside me, the daily Tribune was
placed in my hands.
I opened it. There were the three fearful
lists that had become so terribly familiar:
“ Killed," “ Wounded," “ Missing.” As I
ran my eye hurriedly down the long col-
umns, in the very first Iread the name of
Hal Brainard.
My face must have told the tale, for I did
not speak one word; but Thyrza sprang up
with clasped hands, struggled for a moment
in a vain effort at utterance, and then sank
at my feet in a. huddla, pitiful, white heap.
My arm was still powerless, and I was,
besides, worn with fever. I called to my
mother, I screamed, I shouted; but there
was not a soul within hearing, and I could
only put back the hair from her white fore-
head. and fan her with that fatal newspaper.
After a few moments, that seemed ages, she
sat up and looked about her with an air of
bewilderment.
“ The paper,” she said at length; “ I want
the paper.” 7 - . '
I gave it to her silently—what was there
to shy ?—and she looked at the name for a
knows that his failure to meet the wants of moment with a fixed, tearless gaze. 'i'lien
.her nature, and to give full sympathetic
recognition to what she regards as best and
highest in herself, is! a constant trouble to unsteadily down to the gate and disappear-
her? Tell me that.” ‘
she slowly gathered herself up, and, with
the paper still, clasped in her hand. walked
ed..- -
Months passed. I had been discharged
from the service, for it seemed impossible
that Ishould ever be strong enough to re-
turn to the field again. Thyrza, a saddcni
ed, patient woman now, rather than the
sparkling, brilliant girl who had so bewiich-
ed poor Hal Brainard—this ’l‘hyrza and I
weremuch together. We did not often talk
of Hal, but his memory was a bond between
us, and I knew at last how well she had
loved him. It had all been a mistake, a
misapprehension on Hal’s part, growing
it for six months. Pleasant slate of things, chiefly out of his own modesty, and the
isn’t it ?” ' ,-
slight valuation that he placed on his own
attractionsfi Fayette Blackmunn was an
old friend, and was betrothed to one other
cousins-4‘ only that, and nothing more.”
‘The young couple were married that autumn
and the beautiful mansion received its.des-
lined occupant.
I never told Thyrza what passed between
Hal and me that night in Virginia. If she
had ever noticed any change in the tone of
his letters, she had evidently attributed it to
the basic in which they were won written
on the march, or on battle-fields. Why
should I disturb her?
'I was alone in the cottage one night. My
mother had gone to watch with a sick neigh-
bor, and I sat by the blazing fire lost in a
waking dream. It was early—for I bad
though, in those short December days, it
had been dark for hours. A step on the
piazza startled me, and I felt, rather than
saw. that somebody was looking through
the blinds. In another moment, Hal Brain-
ard, bronzed, bearded, no disembodfid spirit,
but a living, breathing specimen of magni.
ficcnt humanity stood- before me, holding
me with his earnest eyes. . .
I pass over the next few minutes. '
" But now, Hal, tell inc how it happened,” ;
I said, when our first emotions had expend-
ed themselves, and I had him safe in my
easy chair. -
He sat loooking into the fire for a full
minute before he answered. His mouth-
grew. stern and hard. ‘ ,-
“ Do you remember the last talk we
had ‘2" he asked. “ You must keep that in
mind if you would understand what I have
to tell you. The bullets did not find me,
Grey. I have never had so much as a
scratch. The man next me in the ranks
was blown to pieces, but I. was taken pris-
oner, and when, many months ailerwards, I
escaped and made my way to the Union
lines, I found I had been reported killed. I
saw my name in an old Tribune, in the
dead list. I said nothing, but I thought the
matter over. Our old regiment was all
broken up. The path seemed plain before
me. Hal Brainard was dead, and well out
of the way. Let him rest. He had neither
kith nor kin to ‘mournfor him. The new
soldier who had arisen from his ashes
would fight as well under another name,
and Thyrza would be free, after-n few salt
tears and a period of decent waiting, to
marry a. man who {Quid be more .to her
than he could ever ha e qeen.” . 0
“ But,” he went on, after a moment's;-
pause, during which his face was convulsed“
with strong emotion;“ but Grey, my dear;
old friend, I did not think .they would have;
married so soon,” and his voice fullered.
“I thought they would have waited at least
one little year. I deserved as much consid-
eration as that from Thyrza Harrington—
snrely I did.” ‘ '
I was silent for a minute from sheer be-
wilderment. Then I broke out:
“Married! Wn'y, Hal—” , _
“ You see I know all about it,” he said,
interrupting me; “ else I should notbe here.
I saw the names on the register at Willard’s,
Grey—‘ Fayette Blackmunn and wifc'—and
by the date of the entry it was not three
months after my supposed death. It stun-
ned nie, Harrison, and it hardened me.
Now I have run up here to take just one
look at you, and then I go back to my work
again. You will keep my secret, I know,
and let her think me dead. It is better so."
“Excuse me,” Isaid, “I will be back
shortly.”
I darted up the street, and was at
Thyrza’s door in less than a minute.
She was looking overa package of old
letters, with a faint. trembling color in her
cheek. ~ .
“ Come with me,” I cried ;“ we want you
over at our house. Never mind your hair!
that’s all right.”
But while she was putting on her hood, I
looked at her. A slight, graceful figure
robcd in black; soft, wavy brown hair,.tliat
escaped from its confinement and floated
over her shoulders; gray eyes, with a world
of pathos in them; a sweet, trcmulous
mouth. and a. forehead scaled‘. with Heaven’s
own look of patience. Th at was what I
saw.
And it was what Hal Brainzard saw,when
' two minutes afterwards, he: turned as I
' “Trouble enough,” he answered, doggedly.
with her soft, grey eyes, and an appealing
opened the door.
nocenbe ; wept to think that those early days
of happiness were gone, no more to return;
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curious mystery hangs over this part cf the
financial history of the concern. I-‘riiuabfgr
not $20,000 000 ever has been, or ever will
be, derived from this source. The root is
very clear. There was the govecnmen’: sub-
sidy of $30,000 a mile of mortgage indebt-
edness; there was a land grant ,0? 13,230
acres a mile, and, whe. there were stile";
there were bonds, with interest guarantsed
by the state, and gifts of real estate from
cities, where cities existed; and there were
even millions of net earnings applied to :32:-
strnciion. The means to build the food
were not grudgingly bestowed. Meanwhile
of the real cost of construction but little i:
correctly known ; absolutely nothing, indeed
of the western division, or Central 1' fie.
Managed by a small clique in Cslii‘ortt, the
eel
wept amid the falling. snow, till the mission-
ary said: ‘
. “ Do you know “anything whiter than
snow, my girl ?" '
“ Nothing.”
“ Then,” said the missionary, “ ‘ Though
your sins‘be as scarlet, they shall be as white
as suow‘—-and when you were that little girl,
you were not purer than that. Come with
or rather come to Jesus, and you will yet
visit the old castle, and see your little broth-
ers and sisters playing on the green, as pure
in Christ’s sight as the angels in Heaven 1”
German Prej udlee Against Potutoee.
In Germany there exists a decided pre-
judice against potatoes, because they are
composed of three-fourths water, with but
ten to fifteen per cent, starch contained in
indigestible cells. The French, who make
a perfect science of the whole business of
nourishment and’cook‘ery, rarely eat poia‘
toes except occasionally fried for the second
breakfast. They consume beans more than
any other vegetables and with reason, for
dried beans contain twenty-two per cent
albumen and fifty of starch, and the com-
mon lentils twenty-six per cent, of albumen
and fifty-six of starch. In the monasteries
of France and Italy great quantities of beans
are used, especially during the Lenten sea-
son. . .
German naturalists are now searching
all over the world for a substitute for pota-
toes, and this is belived to have been found
in China in the di'oscorea japam'camhich en-
dures the gratest cold and is more nourish-
ing and better flayered than the potato. In
the Museum of Natural- History at Paris a
specimen three feet long and weighing three
pounds was exhibited. Several German
writers upon races predict that nations, far
from improving, wil deteriorate both in
physical and mental characteristics. if pota-
toes become a principal article of diet.
The celebrated Curl Vogut says “that the
unnourishing potato does not restore the
wasted tissues, but makes our proletariats
physically and mentally wee. ." The Hot-
land physiologist Mulder gives the same
judgment, when he declares “that the ex-
cessive use of potatoes among the poorer
classes, and coffee and tea‘ by the higher
ranks, is the cause d‘ the indolence of na-‘
lions.” Leidenfrost maintains that the revo-
lution of the last three centuries have beefs
caused by the changed nourishment. In
formerdays, the lowest workman ate more
flesh than now, when the cheap potato
forms his principal substance, but gives to ‘
him no muscular or nervous strength.
Galaxy.
One of the most melancholy instances of
wifely devotion it has ever been our duty
or our pleasure to record has just occurred
in Paris. Madame E., whose husband had
gone to China in search of his fortune, re-
ceived a letter from China in the following
and terms: “Madame—I have to announce
a mournful event. Your husband‘ taken-
prisoner by Malay privates has been burned
alive, and his bones calcined to powder. I
have only been able to rochre a few
pinches of this powder , w lab I enclose.
Yours, etc'., 0. D" It at once occurred to
the pious widow that it would be a consola-
tion. besides looking well, to inhale the re-
mains of her husband thus providenlially
in her possession, and she accordingly sund-
ed up the powder. The first pinch how-
ever made her ill; violent bleeding set in,
and in spite of physicians, or because of
them, the devoted Indy died, a victim to her
romantic tenderness. To make the matter
more provoking, the evening of the day she
died there arrived a letter from China prov-
ing that her husband was alive and well.
Thisiaone "of the‘charming narratives of
the Paris Figaro, and able-bodied per-_
sons, not otherwise engaged. are wanted to’
believe it, in whole or in part.
0
rat as also Railway Station.
‘fTiket to Ne Yar ," said Pat, the other
day. at the Providencerailrond station,
“By the Shore Line 1?" inquired the ticket
clerk, who always wants to be certain With
his class of customers. ' .
1: “Share line! Faix I do" and mighty
shure too. for I want to see me .brother
Dennis in Woreestlier,shure .on the way.”
“That’s not the Shore Line. You want
to o to the station on Albany street.” . .
'fifivil a bit do I want to go‘ to any station. 0
Faix,'_I was in a station all night for givin :
an omadahn a black eye that was black-V
uardin me est,
g “You%0u’ljundemtaw. The Shore Line
don’t go to ‘Worcceterf . .
“Angh l bother that! MS brother .iowld ,
me the train was always shore _to go to.
Worcesther, un’ I want the shore train”.
“No, no i" said the clerk. laughing. .
“This train does not run to Worcester; this .
is the Shore—S-h-o-r-e—Line—ou shore. '
You understand what coming on shore is,
don t on ‘2" . .
“Co’ining ashore, is it? Ar.’ is it laughin’,
ye are bekase ye think I’m just ashore, an’ I
a vet” ’ more than a dozen times wrd the
byes ’ the owld Sixth since I set me fut in
Ameriky ?" _ _ _ '
“I tell you this item does not run to
orcester."
W“Don’t it ? Bedad, perhaps it walks there,
thin, _er I’ve heard of thingsbein’ slow and
share"..—
“It‘you want to go to New York ’by way
of Wore":-
“I don’t want ,to
it’s tbelshure avay’
Worcesther."
“This road don’tstop It Worcester, I tell
you ; it oes to New Y or 2'”
An’ oreesther is betwane poston an’
Ne Yark l" .
“Yes, but not on this road.” . 0
“Anghl go way wid ye‘l Give me a rich:
ct, and let me go. Fair I’ll stop if the road1
don’t." . .
There’s a ticket for New York,” said the .
clerk, "but you can’ stop at Worcester With
it,.mindlliat."
“Shui'e I do," said Pat, passing over his
currency. “Faix, I’ve no desire to slitop at
Worcesther wid it. Show I'll leave it wrd
some gentleman in the car till I return,”
The case, was hopeless, and the ticket
seller was obliged to let Pat go but could
not but smile at the task the conductor had
in prospect.—Boston Commercial Bulletin.
.>
The New York Herald calls Thegdore
Tiltcn “the soothing syrup ofsyntax.
A warning to literary men against over-
work is afforded in the remarkable state-
ment of Mr. Greeley to_ Rev. Mr. _'1 dining;
ten days before his nomination at Cipcmnati.
“that he had not hada sound sleep in fifteen
years.“ ' t rate exhibition
'lie has us seen a
of 1133:1233? in llleJl‘ellll'il of a M r. J amcsHpn-
tor who_ failed in 1857, paying but 101,
ceiits on tfildollar, who now deposrts a con-
siderable onnt in the national bank for
his creditors.
This is the way Charles Evans, of Mine-
rul Point, Wisconsin, desires to be let alone:
“Having by a long course of dissipation am.
debauchery so weakened my wrll as_to be
ulterlv powerless to resist the ilpptsillt: for
alcoholic liquors, and not being particumrlj
anxrous to die and be d—d as yet, I licrqlliy
solemnly swear that I will prosecute to h
Ulti'maaTlmlc of the law_ a
druggist or other person wn
sell me any spirituous or run
lkind whatever.”
0 any by-away avic;
f told ye, and slap at
0 shall give 01
It liquors of any
; Madame J
ny Salonll-kCl'pCI‘, I
internal arrangements of this company
were involved in absolute secrcej . "he
eastbrn division Was built, however, 2}“ an
organization known as the Credit 1301352533
which received for so doing all the untamed
stock, the proceeds of the bonds sold, the
government bonds, and the earninge of the
road—in fact all its available semi-s. It
profits were reported to have been enormous.
nd they made the fortunes of many, and
perhaps of most of those connected with it.
Who then constituted the Credit mobilizes?
It was but another name for the Pacific rail-
road ring. The members of it were in cox:-
gress; they were trustees for bondholders,
they were directors, they were stockholden,
they were contractors; in Washington tho]
votedflhe subsidies in NewYork they receiv-
ed them, upon the plains they expended
them, and in the Credit Mobilier they divid-
ed them. Ever shifting characters, they were
nbiquitous,-now engineering a bill, and now
a bridge, they received money into one
hand as a corporation, and paid it into the
other as a contractor. As stockholders they
owned the road, as mortgagees they had a
lien upon it, as directors they contracted for
its construction, and as members of the
Credit Mobilier teey built it. What is the
community to pay for it?
At the close of 1870, with $103,000,000 of
their capital yet unsubscribed, and thus re-
served for issue, should the earnings of the
roads at any future period make watering
practicable; with this amount of stock in
reserve, the two companies operated 3,063
miles of road, represented by stocks and
debt to the amount of $240,000,0W. Thu:
the last results of .Vandcrbilt’s- genius has
been surpassed at the very outset of this
enterprize. The line from Chicago to New
York (watered by Vanderbilt) represents
now but $60,000 to the mile, as the result of
many years of inflation, while the line be-
tween Omaha and Sacramento begins life
with the cost of $115,000 per mile. It would
be safe to say that the road cost in money
considembly less than one half this sum.
The difference is the price paid for every
vicious element of railroad construction
and management-costly construction, en-
tailing future taxation on trade; tens of
millions of fictitious capital, 3 road built on
the sale of its bonds, and with the aid ofsub-
sidies; every element of real outlay reckless-
ly exaggerated, and the whole, at some fu-
ture day, is to make itself felt as a burden
on the trade which it is to create.”
A Happy Workman.
Amn narrating a case of much interest,
'where his faithful labor was blessed to the
almost immediate conversion of a_ soul to
Chrisi,a missionary of the American Sunday-
school Union reports thus.- »“ To 18,000 per-
sons of all ages has the missionar told dur-
ing the year ‘the old, old story 0 Jesus and
his love,’ in sanctuary, the pleasant school-
room, the log school-house, 1he rail-car, in
the buggy, by the way-side, everywhere :
and while endeavoring to make the religion
of Jesus appear pleasant and desirable to
the young, my own heart has been filled to
over-flowing with joy and peace in Christ. ”
With \only a few weeks of help,he or-
anised _33 new Sunday-schools, with 189
teachers and 1108 scholars ; aided 99 schools
having, 939 teachers and 8507 scholars;vis~
iied 472 families. and made 129 addresses.
Two churches have been organized from
the Sunday-school, and 60 conversions rc—
portcd, besides many not enumerated.
Christina at Work.
.r—-.——-——-
. Prejudice is born from a death of knowl-
edge and a pleiher of conceit] ,
Mrs. Collins, of Council Bluff, has a $15,-
000 verdict; imperfect sidewalks.
'lllinois pariridgcs, nicely cooked, are
tome enough to eatfro'm the hand.
“Young ladies 'pass the plate in some
churches. and masculine generosity is in-
creased. , ' ‘
A fastidious Connecticut g'entleman pre-
ferred to pay $6,000 on a beach of promise
rather than their .a. young lady who did
not spell correct y.’ “ '
The ,oficcrs of the government hold that
insurance companies have no claim to any
part of the Geneva award, since they receiv-
4 ed the usual rates for the risks they took.
Argon young man remarks that the
.only’adyice he gets from capitalists IS to
"liye within his income, ” whereas the
difficulty he experience is to liye ' without
an income. ‘
“Marathon," said a modern Benedict
the other day, ',“produces remarkable revol
lniions, here am I, for instance, in about. ten
short months, changed from a sighing lover
.to a lovingsire."
A Syracuse deacon cast a gloom over his
wife's month by pulling a button-hook from
his pocket marked “Lizzie.” His wife’s name
is Mary, and she never owned a buttouhook,
but has had to rely upon a hair-pin for such
work heretofore.
A Catskill man was so'dissppointed atfihis
prospective bride’s delay that he went teller
dress-maker; tucked the unfinished bridal
dress under his arm, and taking it to his in-
tendcd, told here it was “now or never,”
She did not say “never.”
The celebrated Jumel property, valued
among the millions is again tossed upon the
waves of legal contention in New York
' 3 umel was of low birth and belt-
e - life was. cut amid circums snces no
glib-latest localltivate, but she became the
wife of Aaron Burr, When he was at the
. height ofhis prosperity .and 'as his Wife she
shone in the highest society at Wasbin ion.
The plaintiff in this case is a son ofMa‘ ame
.Jumel. His reputed farther was. , Col.
Bnllou ofRevolutionaijy note, The case is
a very interesting one, '
When Colfax was reporting for the In-
dianapolis Journal, edited by Douglass,--'he
wanted his pay raised from two dollars to
three dollars a (lay. Douglass demurred.
saying, “You don’t seem to consider the ad—
vantages you enjoy ;. you are in a way to
make Valuable acquaintances. See what
Albert S. Pike has come to. He was once
er of Con-
Yon may be a nicm’b “
grcss some (lily. Who knows ?“ I frank-
lv confess,” said Mr; Colfax, that I said
1b him in reply, I would give all my chances
of being a member of Congress for the other
dollar a day."
If we do not remember these works prim-
lical as they are. righ' 3‘ “l1! (1001'3, crOesxng
our path every (1:1)". in! us not forget those ,
who, pioneers in mu in rain of education and '
civilization :il'L‘. on our ~frontiers working
among the children, in family and in the
a reporter.
‘ sclmol-housc; aiming the farmers or lumber-
‘ munnvilh their co-inliorersmnd among the _ -
inoiltL‘i'S wherever they may be found.
Tot-king surely, steadily, amid.- disadvanta-
grs and discotltfigimenis, amid trials and .
creulfuttgeo oi" Imil)’ tor Christs cause.
Our Subbuebschmi iniSsiounrics and fron-
l-i-rsnrc wot-they of our remem-
‘ tier pleat:
(1 our been i y support and compass
binncc an
lion.
Norwalk Chronicler