Norwalk Gazette, 1818-1883, 1875-12-07

it’llOLE ltttiiBER 1456.

NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, I‘UE soar, ’

VOLUME LvnI.--NUMBER49.

FhIL‘IRE. .
We aremuch bound to them that do succeed;
But in a more pathetic sense. are hound

'l‘o such as fail. They all, our 1053 UK-
pound,
'i‘heycomfortus for wtlri.’ lltli will not

speed,
And life itself a. failure.

Ay, his deed,
Sweetest in story, who the dusk profound
Of Hades ﬂooded with entrancing sound

Music’s own tears, was failure. Dotti it
' read
Therefore the worse? Ab noise niuc‘r to
dare.
fie fronts the regnant Darkness on its
ihrone.— "

So much to do; impetu'ous even there,
”C P9035, ,OUI love's disconsolzrte sweet
lnoaiis— -
l'le wins: but few for that his deed recall :
Its DOWCI‘ is in the look which costs him all.
, -—Jcan .fngelow.

_—_—-u—:—I—-

Trill-3 I.a'rn‘snhi7i‘ciéi’rnnnv.

llli POLITICAL CAREER

l-‘IZOM A ST \I‘l‘CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.

NEW-HAVEN, Nov. Sit—The death of
Senator-Unis S. Ferry, at his home, in
Norwalk, on Sunday, although not by tiny
.neans unexpected, the Condition of his
health havlny.r been such for the past three
or four years, that his death at any
time would have occasioned no surprise,
came, notwithstant‘ting, with sornetbing ot
a shock to the community he had so long
represented in his various ofﬁcial capacities
The death of any one sets people remember-
ing. When even the most inconspicuous of
your neighbors falls out of the ranks, you
involuntarily go back in memory to the
time when you first met. him, and recall the
things, small and important though they
may be, in which he acted and of wlricb be
was in some sense a part. When a man in
public life, wlio had been mixed iii, _and
part of, great affairs in the State or nation,
you insensibly parenthegiz: him in the per-
iod in which he a ted,gaiher up with him
the things he did, the great affairs he touch-
ed and wasa part of, remember at a glance the
high points in his career, and in remember-
ing him and them, clasp and bind up just
so much of history. There’s intich in the
nheaf‘you gather that is part of the time
rather than the man, much that will drop
out in a moment, and perhapsyou will live
to see that nothing of it was worth tho- sav-
ing but a name. But age is garrulous, and
delights to think that the little things it has
a monopoly of remembering are valuable,
because the knowledge of them is conﬁned
to a few who are constantly growing fewer,
just as the Tontine shares increase in value
as the "nominees” die off. The. death of
Senator Ferry recalls the story of the per-
iod of a little over twenty years in Connec-
ticut politics in' which he figured largely ;
and afevv reminiscences of the Stine may
not be amiss. ‘

chosen passed both Houses and .went to the
Secretary of State. Ferry DCI‘EISIC‘HUV 0p-
pnsed each step of the proceedingmnd even
after the resolution had passed, succeeding
in converting enough Senators to his views
insecure the passage in the Senate ofa
resolution recalling the one previously pass-
ed declaring the result of the. ballot. Of
course'the Secretary refused to return it,
but Ferry did not cease his opposition till
Dixon had his certiﬁcate of election in l.is
pocket. 11c had not succeeded in hisboli,
but. he had established a precedent in that
litre which ten years later came near defeat-
ing his 0th election to the United States
Senate, and sixteen years later bring-ht
about his. re-election by a belt of his own
. friends from a regular nomination.

In 1856 he was appointed District-Attor-
any for Fairfield County. He has never
returnedto the Legislature, but in‘ all his
political ‘movelnents, in conventions, and
upon the stump, was active and prominent,
and hisinﬂuencc in the formation, the or-
ganizrtion, and the successful work of the
Republican party in_tbe State was surpass-
ed by none. In 1857116 ran for Congress,
and was defeated by the Hon. Wm. D.
Bishop. In 1859 he was elected to the
XXXVIth Congress, _and was renorninaled
and defeated in 1861, his single term of
service having given him little opporttinily
to distinguish himself iii the debates. In
July,1861, he was commissioned as Colonel
of the 5th Connecticut Volunteers, and
served through the war. it was not his
fatiltthat he saw bttt little active service.
He was early promoted to the Brigadier-
Gcncral through the inﬂuence of Senator
Dixon, whose first Senatorial term was
just about to expire. The promotion could
not. be very well refused,bnt the motive ofit
was soapparcnt that. the recipient of Mr.
Dixon‘s kindness wa-t seriously embarrassed
ilyli- (lea. Furry was not a candidate
against Mr. Dixon for the Senate; but be
was not assigned to duty in the army where
there was any opportunity to distinguish
himself. I remember being in Ferryfs
room at Willard’s about the time of his
promotion, when some one spoke of Dix.
ou‘smagnanimity in forgetting old feud:
and exerting himself in Ferry’s behalf.
Some one else said suggestively, “Mr.
Dixon’s term expires next year,” and Ferry
smiled quaintly without saying a word.

In 1866 Ferry was at home again prac-
ticing law. He was not the impeinous,
dashing leader, of old; he seemed a. little
weary; perhaps there was a tinge of dis
appointment in his manner, a consciousness
of not. having accomplished quite all he set
otit to; perhaps a premonition of the long
and painful disease which was lurking in
his system. There was a Senator to be
elected. Mr. Foster's second term was
about to expire. A local and personal hos-
tility to his re-election had manifested itself
Gov.l3uckingham had been persuaded to
allow the use of his name for the nomina-
tion. Between the adherents of Foster and
of Buckingham thefeeling was very bitter.
The friends of Ferry, led by P. ’l‘. Barnum,
then representative from Bridgeport, offered

supported lrlrri, assurances that he did not"
propose to abandon the party; and. that
being disappointed in the result at Cinem-
nati, be bad no great diﬁlculty in yielding
to their solicitations to write a letter that
would set them right. Before that titne I
do not think he was committed in any way
with regard to his future action. I remem-
ber his telling me on the morning referred
to. that he knew nothing ot' the situation at
home, and was very glad his friends had
not consulted him in the matter. Perhaps
Sperry had learned better than to consult
his principal, since his failure six years be-
fore to induce Foster to stand against Fer-
ry I think Ilawley and Ferry never'spoke
together after that time. The election of
Ferry, on a bolt from a regular Republican
nomination, gave rise in some quarters to an
impression that it was a sort ot’Liberal Re-
publican triumph. There was not a single
Liberal Republican in the Legislature, I
believe, and the election had no other sig.
niﬁcance than that by a combination of
fortuitous circumstances—mm of the fore-
most of which was Mr. N. D. Sperry—one
man was defeated and the other elected. The
causes which led to it were chiefly local
and personal, and perhaps, considering that
about that time there was a bolting epidem-
ic, a trifle atmospheric.

1 have tirade. this letter too long. I can
only hope tb it these so litercd reminiscences
of the politics and politicians of Senator
Ferry ’s State during the twenty years in
which he figured may not be uninteresting.
For the. rest there might, I suppose, to be. a
moral coming out of it. I do not know that
there is any. it seems to mejust a handful
of history in which a considerable huddle
of persons have. jostled each other and at
one time and another got sadly at odds. It
is but ti small board, and to one looking on
who does not understand the game the
knights, bishops, and pawns seem to_ be
bobbed about without plan or meaning...
Only once in a while, when somebody says
"check” and something crowned or. un-
crowned that has no use in the world is
cornered, we. begin to see that t-heremay be
seine design in it. And then the players
begin again.

We give place to the following additional
haters, for which we Il'ltl not room in our

last :—

Letror from Gen. Joesph) R. llnwley.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25, 1875.
ASA B. Woonwann, Esq.

MY DEAR Sm :—I am very sorry to be un-
able to join my fellow citizens in paying our
respects to the memory of the late able, pat-
riotic and distinguished Senator Ferry. The
duties of my position here have claimed every
moment of my time for several months, and
an additional pressure is brought upon us
now by the necessity of preparing our annual
reports to the President of the United States
within the next ten days.

There are special reasons for regret in this
instance. For many years Senator Ferry and

shooting.
command the best legal talent.
maiming or killing a fellow being, he liked
being on trial for the oﬁ‘ense, on account of
the notoriety it gave him.
always composed of picked lnen, born and
brought
had carried arms habitually from early boy-
hood, and whose estimation of- any man in-
creased in direct ratio to the number of his
victims.

JACK MYERS,

A RECOLIJECRION 0F S\VETT’S BAR AND ITS
CHAMPION DESPERADO.

Jack Myers and his crowd owned a claim
in the bed af the river, which they turned
and worked every summer; and this claim
covered the ground occupied by our copper
l‘rde. They had been working all winter in
Garroie Flat, about eighteen miles distint,
and coming down in the spring took the
copper fever severely, and ﬁnding we were
on a part of their ground, laid claim to sucli‘
portion of our possessions I argued that
the two claims had nothing to do with each
other. Possession of any portion of the
river bed implied possession only of the
gravel in it, and the discoverer of any lode
of ore in the underlying rock, whether
above or below water, was as much entitled
to it as though it were ten miles away.

Jack Myers was not an arguing-man. His
ﬁrst and last, resort lay in his pistol. Ile
had always carried his points iii that way,
and he had always found such "process
quicker and cheaper than resort to the com-
plicated and costly machinery of court, law
and lawyers. He. could not live comforta-
bly without a ﬁght every few months, and
when he failed to pick a. quarrel with any
outsider, he would work off his combative-
ness on one or other of his three associates,
who were completely under his control and
inﬂuence, and who seemed to like him all
the better for an occasional beating.

Myers was a thoroughly bad man. There
Seemed no soft spot, no relieving quality in
his nature. Ilis speech to others alternated
between a sneer and a growl. lle.‘ went
about always more or less under the influ-
ence of liquor-.—;lelighting in the drtad his
presence inspired, for be was as dangerous
as a tiger turned loose. Respectable men
slipped quietly out. of the saloons when he
entered. People talked in low and subdued
tones while he was by, for be frequently
criticised chance remarks, whether coming
from a stranger or an acquaintance, and
made them the pretence fora quarrel. He
shot Will Lettingwell while eating his din-
ner in a restaurant, having Gonstrued a fuw
words of Will’s, spoken that morning and
reported to him' by one of his oﬁlcious toad-
ies, into a threat against himself. He put a
ball through Sam Boynton’s knee and lamed
him for life, because Sam refused to drink
with him. He had knifed a man to death

in Aurora, no one could tell why or where-
fore at the trlal. These were bill a moiety

of his exploits; yet the law, 0:- what was

called by ,that name, always cleared him.

He was as lucky at mining as he was at
He always could and always did
Next to

His juries were

up in the southwest, who

Old Sam McCullough, of Missis-

‘here. Is there any other chief? Is't _era'rlny’

to life and knuckled.to a bully. Ito-n

was all over. Now, when I lookh‘ﬂﬁt,
picture of the {interview between the:

if I had crimmitted some .sinfulmoffense.

other form'of selﬁshness. The in men! a
man rises to that candition wheré‘ be may
renounce what is very dear to birth-lie be-
comes brlive. '
The Swett’s Bar store was the
resort at night for almost ever "b'bd'y 'in
camp. It was a place I visited as little as
possible, for its greasy deck of cards, its
wrangling, noisy game of “seven-up}: its
comulingled odor of'wbiskey, tobac , pork,
eodfish, and its rough loungers peroélied' on
boxes and barrels, ditnly seen at rnight in
the dark corners by the uncertain light of. a
smoky lamp, all these” had no attractions
for me. I preferred to wander amid the
lonely bills. I heard loud talking and
laughing within the store as I neared it
that evening. I knew white-that meant.
Myers and his followers were there holding
a jubilee over their supposed victory.
“Got any more fancy mining superinten-
dents to come up from ’Frisco and jump
Jack Myer-’s claim? I hope they’ll send ’em,
for 1 can chaw ’em up as fast as they come
along."
These words were uttered by the hero of
the hour as I entered» The: storerwo’gifull.
The usual camp loungcrs, niygown 'én'lﬁii
Myers‘s gang werefratern'zin‘ "on t, ehiisis
of whiskey brorlrerlrfeod.‘ v yers got-defect
drinks for the house every ﬁfteen minutes;-
and it was cbligato
was, however, a--_ cross; the
fortitude and; resignation; - .
My entrancecaused-instidtfeh silent-E's: T
gradual cessation of noisywéonversationiat
last attract-ed. his 'attention, as be standing-
the bar. He turned,and,cn\.eeing me, re-b
marked: :,;. y, . 1
”Hitllo! .Iusf‘ih'jtinie..‘justr‘hadgtlfinksia ,
round. Commiﬁnt. another nail in"‘yo'_ur:-
COIIll] 1" , r'j >-"Z; .1. ,..' :1; "it 2-. u,‘
This was spoken directly fume. His, next
obser vations, as be walked up 97nd do'vin'tl’ie.
store, were aimed at me and for the geneflil
beneﬁt. V . 1‘ ..
“I am Jack Myers—free,.wliite‘,and twena’
ty-one. I can run alone, I can.- -§g._cbief"

ndqred -w

other chief in the house? Is there i'mybb'dy
here who 'won’t drink with Jack Myers?
Cummings, your whisky-‘3 waiting, for you
—-drink.” -
“I do not wish to drink,” was my reply.

1t was a dramatic silence then“ which
reigned in that greasy, grimmy store. For
a moment the roar of the Tuolumme as. it
rushed and formed along on its way to the
sea, and the cry of the coyote on the hill.
above were the only sounds heard. - " '3'"- *
“Well, now, you shall drink, or .‘I’Ikﬁet.
youon my knee like a baby and apourl"
down your throat,” was his s’nee‘rjng; mark
“Jack Myers," said I, “I know‘ we, ’t‘y‘to‘u
want. You want to force a quarrel ,o’ume,
so that yott may shoot me down liken-doe.
You want me to turn and tarkejs.t_é’r.tind
run back’likc a scared wolf to Saquta' '

- tr“
see how far I had bemeaned myself-tin, his
t~ 'o'

. . , and
Myers,I felt a sensation akin to refuting!“

Sometimes I think cowardice to be _‘lynne‘r’

common

try Lon all ,to drink: .1;

_, . e.
v

,1! “gndeﬁp'e‘atedﬁb- various- directions.

"Mamie. ‘ tabout mfg-laughter from the

01' in ﬂr'tygfdjhe voice again cried
H7 3 .1 r‘-

"Domain, boys; don’t run. I’m no
ghost. of 1 Don’t you know me '3 I’m Clamp
(if ick-Slamp—just back from Shank-
11th., ktgnsee the boys."

' Di Clamp had been a resident ofstveti’s
Bar since 1852, be had also been dritnk since
1852.1K » Concerning old Dick, men never
thought of remarking, “he’s drinking him-
583‘ to death.” Whisny seemed his natural
sustenance. He had the “horrors” occasion-
ally, but they-”agreed with bitri. He talked
of .birds, beasts and creeping things around
him,but went on shaking his rocker as usu-
al, and seemed entertained by them. He
would see a string of monkeys a half mile
in length following him, and regarded them
as curiously as if they had not been urinat-
ural creatures of a whisky-steeped brain.
Crows and ravens fluttered into his cabin,
pcrching:on,tbe bed and table, and he swore
at them. 'I‘Ien also followed him about,
shaking .theii'ﬁsts at him, threatening him
with drgwhyyreepons} gibbening. whispering
in his eanat night, talking without his cabin
in low tones, plotting ,tojjkill him. “They
worried me some at first," said Dick. “l’m
used to ’em now. Snakes, that’s all ; got tip
one night and followed a crowd on ’ein way
from here to Marsh‘s Flat. They were go-
ing to bur-n down the Bar. When I got to

~01“:

d gthe Flat, they scouted over the tree-tops all

in‘a body on to Pine Blanco' Hill. Then I
cussed, for I knew it was nothing but
snakes. Can’t fool me'n’o‘w.”

, About two. years previous, Dick, with the
"usual good, luck of adrunken miner, which
in California used to be proverbial, had

"‘- strnck a. “pot-hole" 0n the river b ink, over-

_looked by the earlier miners, from which he
Ehad‘taken several hundred dollars. Return.
7iti‘g‘after dark in company with Myers from
Subtle—a small Omining camp, which be
‘l‘radﬂvisiletl for the purpose of exchanging
is dust‘for coiri—the latter, in one of his

- brutal ﬁts of rage, had set upon old Dick

~irifd;pummeled him until he became insen-
siltlje. Dick was left lying upon the trail
near Rocky Point, a steep declivity border-
ing-0n the river. Dick’s cabin was vacant
next morning and many other mornings.
,None troubled themselves about him; none
save Myers knew that he had ever been
nehﬁlhe Bar again since leaving it to ex-
change his dust. Myers naturally conclu-
ded that he had fallen into the river, which
was then swollen from the tneliing snow-
banks on the upper Sierras. Dick passed
into the history of the Bar. Nelle ever ex-
pected to see bitn again.

“But Dick, blind and stupid from the
combined effects of rum and the beating
‘given him, had indeed slippedinto the river,
,wascarried in a very few minutes a couple
of miles down stream, eventually struggled
"Out: on the bank,and, still dazed and bewil-

..dcred, traveled all night wherever his legs

carried him. At daybreak he found himself
on the Stockton stage road. His belt full of
coin was about his body; the stage was
passing him on its way to the city, he liail-.

- ed, and got on board, concluding it to be a

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$000 per year. Enquire at this oﬂice.

stoic SALE OR. TO RENT.

NEW HOUSE, well ﬁnished; 4 rooms and

large and convenient pantry unp two closets,
sinks, t\".e., on first, floor, three rooms and two clos-
ets on second floor; dining room wainscoted with
black walnut. and cedar, kitchen wainscoted with
pine; gas pipes throughout the house; water
pipes. .ve.; situated on Fair Street, about half a
latte front the Bridge, in it very healthy location.
If sol-l. a large part can remain on mortgage. If
not. sold soon it will be rented on reasonable
lei‘rlis. S J. E. ELLS.

recoil Property
li’OiiR SALE.
f tlll-anbsur-i‘mr offers forSale his Mill Property
situated in West. Norwalk, about two miles
from liarien Depot,thrce miles from South Nor.
walk,arrd two miles from New Canaan,cousisting
of e. rnairufaetory, two stories high ,86x19 feet, with
about 12 feet head and fall ofwater, with threeacrea
of'larrt‘l ; now used as 9. Saw Mill but. suitable for a
manurhetoryofanykind. Termseiisyandpricclow.
Enquire ot‘JAMlSS FINNEY, Real Estate Agent
Norwalkmr oftbcsubscriher,
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in Fair‘lield County—ten years out of col- hi? name “9, 3- .compfomisei but he. “2118 myself were warm, personal and political . . . . , _ ’ . , . , .
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Probate; had taken some interest in the nrticanr. Thexrontest' W85 DFOIODSCd and an unreserved exchange of views. Cir-cum; character; in appearance a realization of "Oh 1’“ ﬁght, 3'0“ “0‘“ TM“? 5.03: 10 from-Swan’s 1}“ and the ”remmble mm" . - q; .. 1" extra 010th: 7W 1‘0!” - - - . $3.00 éml’eYE-Y"%“§i‘f.‘i31d3§;‘,lClehfiggg'mrkc“,
State militia, and become a Lieutenant- bitter, full of oﬁensrvc personuhms and stances broucrlrt about atemporary separation. John Randolph ol'Roanoke,tall and straight. three men; give map fair, SEQWQLG%B efnce of its whisky Short) to see the world. Ofﬁce corner‘péithéagtlisi:gniltiggtlaéclets. Nitrous- £71. §}()i,mju,,,licéim‘l?o' ”dew," I 1;,33 “0313389101! .1 11.- “a ct 01 - _
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iliibtriously drunk during his whole stay

re. His observations of the Pacific me-
i—‘opolis were conﬁned for a few days to the
:.fo_ur walls ofa low drinking den; he awoke

where there’s no treesmnddhg‘fmuﬁd
lcivekpud ['11 ﬁght you, untlrweuie , _ ,
cue. “

Colonel, but'was not active no: conspicu-
cous in politics, for which he had shown so
far neither taste nor aptitude. In 1954 the

o . .

plexion, a‘glittering black eye, a shrill,
squeaky voiCe; who had never thoroughly

read a page of Coke or,,,Blaekstnne in his

INSURANCE.

hands, and now I am doubly glad that we
did so.

Barnum held Ferry’l supporters ﬁrm, and
they kept the balance of power. Finally,
when Foster’s friends had become confident,

DENTIST.

Successor to

R. tf ll rs, , , _ . -,
“Pee u yyou the crowd. -“Yo mgn,y9n

State was revolutionized politically under , , . , , _ _

the stress or the Prohibition crusmel just lh'thwhom Buckrpghavaote. ludmbled over J, R. Hawmgv, life, who was not lequall tolttie task of draw- I :{trned 10 W'll d b , "t ,1 ll . 1 b _ 1 . l .
then becominw popular, and the effect of wt tout a stragg er, to erry an nominated , _ , _ _ _ int! up the gimp est can document and are merrcans. i you stay yang, see 9,5,1 consctousness am so rte y in 1 to Dr Asa. 1.1111 9* , _ - ~73 , . Lancasinrc, of England, Capital$10,000,000.

the Kansas-Nabraska [m], and public senti- bun. Everybody, was surprised—except . Nil" Iona, NOV 20, 1875- Wﬁoge chief weapon ofhrgument lay in ap- fair play ? I amz..alone heretéaibgﬁg ' Igrggastle ofa. clipper-ship bound to China ; WALL STREET NORINALK H. L. '30 13‘ BRA—ll“ 11KB, $323,513?“gl‘kl‘flicgfg';H.239.“r.‘§“,13‘,"5§l°’°°°r°°"‘

M“ DEM" W (”INA“) ' dealing to that coarse and bloody sentiment SUDDOSG friendlcss. “linselj‘VJll 39m . " "r “d himself m the grasp 0f 3' brawny ' Office 02.0,. ’ GENERAL AGENT” FOR SEW FNGL-‘Wpr iiéfibatlr’iltaﬁ iiiareoiags Insiiriiiic’c_éirin1)any,

.- . FILIDDLETO VIE: , ('9.\'N . of New York, Capital $100,000: 50

Barnum, whom nothing surprises—and no

one more so than Ferry himself. He and ____ who was dragging him up the

second ?” .

ment on both questions was embalmed in . .
Let me thank yourself and the family of - . riﬂe to con . ‘
which he man a d centrate in his . ,c. J. Gruman’s Dry Goods store.

Specimen pages of the Asrnnrcart CYCLOI'J-JIH. ,

the‘lcgislation which followed; the temper-
ance sentiment in the prohiboitory“ law
passed that year, and tire “anti-Nebraska,”
or more properly anti-slavery,fecliirg in the
passage Of the ﬁrst “Personal Liberty bill,”
enacted in the North in nulliﬁcation of the
odious features of the Futigivje Slave law,
the latter being the work oftlre Hon. Henry
8. Harrison, then a Senator. 'Thc Whigs,
Free Soilers,‘ and Maine-Law men elected
Gov. Dalton and had a majority iii the
KLegisiaiurc. Truman Smith, with a few
" months left of his Senatorial term. had re-
signed,leaving a vacancy to be ﬁlled, and
his successor for a full term was to be
chosen. James Dixon was in the State
Senate and La. Fayette S Foster, Speaker
. or“ the House, both candidates for the full
term, and Dixon very conﬁdent of success.
AmongFoster’s most energetic friends was
gugustus Brandegec of_New London. To
him,pcrhaps,rnore than to any other sin-
gle_»p’t‘:rson Foster owed his success,
. "welve years afterward Brandegee was a
member of Congress and Fostera candidate
for his second re-eleciion. Brandegee was
again on hand ; he came from Washington

tris friends took the result calmly, but the
Foster men were not ready to yield.
Among Foster‘s supporters at that time
was F, N. Sperry, the New Haven Post-
master, wbo' had been Secretary of State
ten years before when Ferry demanded the
return of the resolution declaring Dixon’s
election,and who was destined six years
later to lead the bolting movement which
resulted in Ferry’s re-election. Sperry re-
solved at-tbis time to give Ferry a taste of
his own medicine. So he quietly organized
a Foster movement in the Senate, securing
enough Republican Senators to give with
the emocrall the vote of that body to
Foster. Mr. Fosteravas consulted by tele-
graph. There was a lively spurt oftelegraph-
ic correspondence between the Senator and
his fricnds,and it ended in the Senator’s
accepting the action of the caucus. and 1c
fusing to proﬁt by the proposed bolt. And
so Gen. Ferry was elected and took his seat
so Mr. Foster‘s successor.

Ill health shortly came upon him, and in
consequence of his breaking down under
the disease with which be wrestled so long,
he failed to fulﬁll entirely the expectations

to assist in the election, and this time Fos-
ter owed to him more than any other sin-
gle person his defeat. Among Dixon’s most
zealous opponents was Henry Hammond
of Killingly, an old time Abolitionist, ,who
represented the Free Sellers in the Senator-
ship negotiations. His shrewdness and tact
in this aﬂ‘air so impressed Dixon that he
“.66 friends with him ,at vtbe'earlistloppor-
trinity, and had his support whenever after-
wardhe was a candidate. I have heard
a. great deal of hard talk about “Old
Hammond” on account of it too. There
are strange shifts in this business of politics,
if one only remembers -ihem. The.were
enough Free Seller's in the Legislature—
prominent among whom was Foster’s col-
league, Moses Pierce of Norwrch—to de-
mand the short term for their own man,
gnd the result was the election of Francis
Gillette for the short and La Fayette S.
Foster for the-long term. Dixon was sore-
».lydisappointetltbut went: home and got
ready to take Isaac Touccy’s place two
years later. Tire next year was the culmin-
sticn .of what had become within a few

. months the-'absorbingsmystery of politics—
. theKnow-Nothing movement. In the early
jaSpring of that year 1855).,some of the lead-
: ers ofdhe Knotv- timings: in the XIIth
" Senatorial District casting‘nboujlor a can-
didate for the State Senate ﬁxe‘d'upon O. S.
'Fgarry'. He was a young man who had not
be’enin pplitics enougbto be open to the
objection that; was then fatal to the old and
experienced. politicians, of being a _“wire-
puller?” e$2116 bad exhibited no political
7’mbiiion, although he was recognized as a
‘iiian of brilliant talents which he was. al-

~ lowing to run towvaste. ‘ . ' ,
When the Know-Nothing leaders waited—r
iupon Ferry and informed him in the mys-
t i " . “nor with which they made their
.v 's that theywantcd to nomi-
p for' lite Senator, be was taken by
surprise; ‘-.W ‘atlmel” he said. “Ben me
for Senatorl ou can’t be ill earnest, gen-
tlemen.” Conv‘iﬁ'ced of their seriousness, at
length he decided to accept the nomination.
and with that decision he formed a resolu-
tion regarding his future, which, though
unannounced, he never afterwardforgot or
falter‘edinmndfrom. which no temptation‘
ever swarved him. Tire Know Nothings
carried the State by an overwhelming ina-
joritv. The Legislature, strange to say,
contained some of the brightest minds in
the State,antl among them Ferry became
speedilyta recognized leader, dividing with
Edmund 'Pérki’ns, member of the house

of his l'ricnds,vvho hoped to see him Jake

the position in the Senate of the _iet‘i
which he had gained in the narrow ﬁeld"

on which he began his political;-
Still they retained their confidenc'om;his
integrity,and hoped against hope that he
would recover his old strength and exhibit.
again his brilliant qualities and his intellec-
tual force in debate. His colleagues came
to know him, and to recognize him as at
least the peer of the best of them. He was
no more bound by the party than ‘be had
been in the earlier days; he did his own
thinking,_took hiI own course, and was
independent. He earned in a quiet way,
and retained to the last, the lrespect and
confidence of his-associates. ,When the
diﬁerenees began between'the President
and some of the most; t‘rdstc’tl leaders of the
party, he sympathized" with Sumner,
Schulz, and Trumbull, and was counted
with them whenever the line was dravvn
between them and theSenators vvbofollow:
ed the Administration with unquestioning
allegiance. He watched the Cincinnati
movement in 1872 with anxious interest,
and was in the conﬁdence of Senators Sunr-
ner, Schurz, and Trumbull in all that rela-
ted tort up to the time of Mr. Greeley’s
nomination. Meantime there had been
changes in the relations of political leaders
at home. Dixon’s second term expired in
1870. Gen. Havvley, who had been one of
Ferry’s earliest and warmest political
friends,«had returned from faithful service
in the war,had been elected Governor-
the year Ferry was elected to the Senate—
and aspired to a seat in the Senate himself.
He was disappointed in 1870, Gov. Buck-
ingham received the nomination over his
dread. Ferry’s health was such that it was
not supposed he would be a candidate for
re-election. During 1871 Ilavvley wrote to
an intimate friend of Ferry’s inquiring if
he desired 9. re-election and expressing a
willingness to withdraw his own name if
Ferrv‘was a candidate. The letter was
handed to Ferry and he answered it, thank-
ing Hewley for his kindness and intimating
very clearly that he accepted his offer. The
friends of Hawlcy, however, insisted upon
pushing his claims, and: the Legislature
of 1872 came together with-.9. Republican
majority in both branche§”“and Hztwley’s
friends having a majogityjover Ferry’s
This was so manifestbﬁforgg'fgqinginto caucus
that the Ferry men, _wlfp ‘
Fairﬁeld County, deli
whcthe}: or'not they ‘

from Norwich, the boners of leadership of
Abe Legishtlnreandyhe party, These two,
aided by Elihu Spencen'cf Middletown, a
, young lawyer offiuefabiliiies and a conserv-
ative. temper, whether] the following year,
held the rampant majority in, check, and
gompelled the doing of some very wise and
sensible things,“ while“, they .' prevented a
greatdea-l of reckless doing and. undoing
wfor which the bot-headed new men din-“poli-
ties were cage}. In'thatjscssion Ferry .cx-
hibited thesanie independence of judgment
and stubbornness of conviction which were
no characteristic of his subsequent career.
"' He was alwavs impetuousand earnest: at
times be secured headstrong and self willed ;
but he never lacked a well’tlctined purpose,
and. was never timid In avowingimrever
sow or hesitating in the pursuit of it. In
1 She was returned to the Senate,lwith
his position already recognized, and not
waitiugto be‘made: There had been? swift
"changes in the political situation and in the
olitiealstatu: of men. The Know Nothi

‘ ‘mg .movement that had crystallized with
Inch raplﬁjtyhad began to experience dis-
integration." ls mummeries had ceased to
be effective even upoif'tb‘e masses, and its
_,r‘¢1me‘-‘igent'leaders had, been quick to dis-
’r.cern.t‘nat the exiention_ of slavery was the
Walls-She 151 politics and not the inﬂuence
0}” lhﬁf‘orergn-born citizen or the deep de-
”2118 Oi "'5. Pope.

I n u {C

. . . “Amer“ , g p '-
c8113,” “Amok/an ReplliillllCiIl‘: ”’ UDIOEIJIllllelli
«Old-Line W “'té'l‘F‘V-T‘ind what” ' l ’
, [mar Reprint-rend, 4...???” but he
r“.'varf’apidly workmg,‘ 11"},(1 the "[111 sunple
*l‘oresaw that all otherlissues must 1;? who
aside and a'ﬁnaland trememi‘cv6 mac?
made against slavery, were sifting at; L‘
while they leavened it, and workingpfml’
with an energy born of” conviction 9...]
belief. . .

To this Legislature came James Dixon as
candidate _fbrijoqceyfsseat in the Senate.
He was eminently a- politician, not in any
goose alleader. Ferry distrusted him. He

opposed him vigorously in the canvhss

I'mf Mr. Dixon had been at work two years
ahead Of’ll‘lm, and could not be defeated.
Ferry boitcd'._.the caucus. In his second

In the Legislature of

caucus atall; Mr. N. D.“‘Snerry, who has
ﬁgured before in this narrative. had come
to a better understanding with Senator
Ferry, and the two ,- were fast friends

Sperry andﬁawleyjyerealways at. odds,
and the quarrel betweenthem had by this
time passedidt I stage of compromise.
$99")? Was no idle; he' had not: been any
time these '18 "years. Ha'wley had against
him, Ferry 5 friemls, who charged him with
POI 111117108 kept his faith; a local prejudice
1“ New Haven, growing onrof the Capital
controversy; the Opposition of Sperry 11nd
his friends; and the whole sly-entrth of the
Democrats in the Legislature wliaose 1,031,“-
ity be bad intesiﬁed by his ,viworons war
fare upon them through his nape? and on the
slump Sperry, with consummale tact and
shrewdness played upon the feeliurr just
then risrng, ot‘oppositi'op to caucus :d’icta

tion, and induced some of the pimp“..-
citizens ovaew Haven, including seven?
college professors, to issue a sort of pmmm.
ciarpento upon the slhject, advisinga revolt
against caucus-rule“ *It-lxlid the business,
Ferry’s friends'rc‘solved to support their
candidate in spite...“ the caucus. The.
DemocratsLbeliCVing Ferry to be an anti
Grant mairghnd at any rate less, objectiona-
ble than Hawley, iii secrpt caucus nomina-
ted Ferry. The result isﬂknown. Ferry
was re-elected by the votes of the Denm-
crats and a very few Republicans, and the
man who as Secretary of State 16 years
before had refused to assist him in defeating
Dixon, and six years before had come
rsétlrin an ace of defeating his ﬁrst election,
hlid done the work. How strangely this
'man stood related to the divine right of

Ii‘emember sittingwith Mr. Ferry and
Carl Schurz in the Capitol at Washington
on the day the Legislature was voting for
Senator. He had talked very freely about
6.“- Cincinnati Convention,’_t‘rom which I

"all?“ returning after a short trip South.

_ Jhghad hoped for the nomination
sore] ._,‘._ms or Mr. Trumbulland was
seemchligll’llgmted at the ,‘resulti But he

Ala] - v -
v in sympatny With the

opposition to ill in . . .. .
a little later, his “m‘itkmnrstration that when,
for was published, I unmet madness let-

our deceased friend, Senator Ferry, for the
thoughtful kindness of your letter. I much
wished to be with you tomorrow, but my
partner, Mr. Ritclt, desires to go and matters
are such just now that we cannot both be ab-
sent. Mr. Ritch knew our (lead friend more
intimately than I was permitted to know him,
but few honored him more than I. In the
spring of 1857 I made his acquaintance. It
was during his ﬁrst canvass for the House of
Representatives. Then, also in 1859, and.
again in 1861, we traveled and spoke together
in his several congressional campaigns. Dru--

cussions and. in all the earnest rivalry of
do an act that, now he is dead, I could wish
uncalled or undone.
but: little.
misfortune that we met seldom. But when I
heard of his death I felt that one had passed

in shaping my views in my early manhood.

on
Home the faithful advice with which he
servm'and greatly aided me years ago.

' jgyery truly yours, '

‘ ' STEWART L, Woonronn, . ~
Gunnxrrnnp, Nov. 26, 1875.
DEAR Bvrxorox : - ,2 -

Thanks for your letter informing me of the
time of Ferry’s funeral. :"I 'made my plans to
be present and was to have taken the train»-
that passes here at 5 o’clock in the morning—
it being the only train that would get me to
your place in season for the funeral, but; I
was a few moment‘s too late and hence missed
the train. Yo cannot tell how disappointed _
I am for I wanted to take a. last look at the
face of him who was nearer and dearer to me _
than any of the great ones who have just
fallen. I did not know that he was failing
till I saw the notice of his death, I supposed, ,.
he was as well as usual. I wish there Wan
some way that I could reach Norwalk in sea-
son for the ceremonies, but it is impossible,
hence I shall fail of what would have given
me so much gratiﬁcation. I shall write Mrs.
Ferry, till then believe me ever, ~
Yours faithfully,

W. B. Wanunnnx.

GBEENFIELD, Nov. ‘28, 1875.‘
DEM: Mus. FERRY :

I have thought of you much during the
last week and know how sadly you and your
daughter must be. You are not alone in your

, sorrow or loss. , The country feels most deep,-

ly its loss for it had no truerlfrie‘ud than you!
husband. I mourn his death as one who has
met with a great personal loss. Circumstan-
ces drew it: closely together during our senior
years in college, and we then formed an at-
tachment that has never been broken. I have
watched every step he has taken in life since
then, as one who was deeply interested in his
success, and I rejoice that he was enabled to:
accomplish so much and to become such a;-
power for good in the world. If he must die
how grateful you must be that he was in his
own home surrounded by his best: and nearest:
friends. There is so much formality and '
empty form about our funerals at Washington
that I rejoice he escaped it all, for I know full
well how distasteful all such things were to
him. I intended to have been present at "the
funeral but missed the train endpoints". it was
impossible for me to avail my”1f}'_b£;.': '
privilege. I know what a. gap has been} in
in your family. Many great and good
have just fallen, but none of themso 319:: and.
dear to me as your husband. ,I‘Ie . _
much here, but he has gone whercithgto Ml
be no more pain. He never ill-comengain.
to us but we will go to IIiVm' ' '

——_-===___ .
“’omen Who N“ _ ,
A Spizza correspondent of the
Standard writes: Those of your readers
whobave traveled in Spai‘n,hnve certainly .
remarked the dirty stripes on the necks of
the lovely senoras; no devout Spanish viro-~
m'lll dares to bathe without the permissron
of her confessor. This aversion to cleanli-
ness has come forward from the time of
the anchori'es Sabinus, Pachominus, Bess-,7
rion, and other saints of the dos bundle-.-
deed whole sects of that epoch, _,,_deninnd '
all ablutlons as heathenisll a ['93 we'llbi'luhde .
because they were their clothesso long:
that they rotted to pieces and fell off them,
or because their skins became as “pumice-
stone” from the crust of dirt on it. .
superstition that cleansing the body sorls

bolting in. the course of his political career:

the soul exists this day among the women
of those christian nations who have long
carried on conﬂicts with the Mohammedan:
on whom the Koran enjoys frequent ab-
lutions. .

A female Bulgarian is permitted to wash
only once in her life—on. the’day before
her wedding; and in most South Sclavonian
families the girls are rarely allowed to
bathc,the woman never. I recall with a
shudder the interior of the Montenegrin
nuts, When a woman offered me. wine she
always dipped her fingers into it, the same
ﬁngers which had just been engaged in the
chase on her children’s treads, or which
had been gently scratching the pig, the pet
of the family, which'i‘s always" addressed
by endearing names. The. adults squat or
liedown, the children tumble about in the
liquid manure which covers the ﬂoor of the
tint, and many are blear-eyed in conse-
quence of the creosote caused by the smoke,-
wbich can only sscape through the door.
l‘he Princess Milena, {131 have said, forms
an exception. j ' "
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To extinguish kerosene flames, ﬂing a

J . .
mark, in his shrill vorce, to the clerk of the

court ;

mg all the excitements of those political 0115- do on our juries.”

,off our ground by to-Inorrow night

Soon Manse, my foreman, met me.

The _.-no hesrtation.

jury—a sentiment misnamed ‘cbivalr 7, but
in reality behind the buck murder. This old

entleman would, on looking over the list of
urors just prevrous to a. murder trial,re-

"William, where is this rnan,McClosky

from ‘2”

“Mississippi, I believe.”

“Good! he’ll do for me. And Stni'buck,

where does he hail from ?"

“Massachusetts "

“I must scratch him off; Yankees won’t

Myers and his gang came and took pos-

13°litical “mum“, I never heard h‘m SPY an session of their cabin in May. It was but a
unmanly or ungenerous word or knew him to few hundred yards from my r quarters.
. . Their rescncc brought pandenronium to
Aﬁ?’ 1301 I “iv mm. Swett’spBar, hitherto so quiet and_'lovely in
0‘" Wlmm new? ”with“ the. California spt‘i'fig’?“'1‘bere ‘isanrutls sea-
“3 “Seth“ and. m WRShmgtm “7 was my son of the year, before the grass and ﬂowers
become withered and dried by the intense
. summer heat, a balminess and freshness
away who was very near my heart. H" which predisposes the mind to a soft
counsels and brave purposes had much to do waking dream; and at night, with the full
. . , moon over you, pouring down such a ﬂood‘
NOW that he 15 gone! 1“ seems F1?“ ,fm' ”‘9 of silver light: that any ordinary print may
‘0 93PM” thmugi‘ WWW“ t° 1“” famﬂy’POt be clearly read, and in the distance the sil-
1 any regard 10" hlm but my deep Obhga‘ ve'r mountains seen quite as distinctly as in
the day time, yet entirely changed in shade
and color—it. seems not to belong to this
earth, but to some ideal enchanted region.
But Myers and his three disciples poisoned
all this beauty.
every night, their cabin was the scene of
carousing,oaihs, yells, ﬁghting and drunken
_revelry.

On the second day of their arrival the
desperado called on me. He was a small
man with an eye which had more of the
weasel in it'than any other animal.
was no time wasted by him in compliments
.or common place remarks.

Until late in the night, and

There

“l‘l'nlf-lhé‘ground you claim,” said he,

“belongs 'to me; you must leave it. I give
youtv‘v’enty-four hours to get your cabin,

traps and tools off it!” _-
Myers claim extended over the discovery-

Ole- . I
"But,” said 1. “you sold this '[ﬁtion of
the bank to the Clrinamen. We have~ come
into possession of their claim.tlow can you,
then, in justice ask-this from us ?”

“Sold the gravel only.” was his reply;
“didn’t sell heat the ledge. That’s ortrs. You
can buy it of us if you want to.”

“What is your price?”

“One hundred thousand dollars i”

We sat silent, facing each other, for a few
moments. I didn‘t know what to do. To
“talk up" to the man was to invite instant
combat; To cringe before him was equally
bad. He was watching my every motion,
ready to draw if he saw a suspicious one on
my part—ready at any show of verbal deﬁ-
ance to apply to me some vile‘term which
no man could hear, according to the senti-
ment of these times, without resenting. To
ain time, I said: ’

“Myers take a drink, and let’s talk bus
ness after-wart .”. . ..; _

“‘.Certainly,.”.,said 116;.“1’11 drinkwith you.”
AndJ-‘vvheirr-he. had" poured ,d " '
bl‘ei’ofmfv best.'brandy,which
i maximum than the vilq will

bi
smiled hy’th'c'gnllon, he remay ‘e
“\Ve,li,jwhdtar‘e you goin to?
oritravel ?"-‘ ' I ' .' " ‘7.

“I dbn’t fepl'lik'e traveling, Mr. 31
said this mildly and quietly. _
" Well, I (lo,".:'-was the reply.

gqffTrade

yers." I

.“You get
put yeti off, that’s all;" ‘ ..
ewalked out . of the door. Shortly I,
stipend, going outside, saw Myers as. the

. of“ clpinr tea ' down our
' p ".p his, ‘ scrawls in.
T er‘wiis not 'man’ in my

I. D
'ploy on whom I could-depend to aid nlile.
- e
hitched a little embarrased and cowed.
“The gang has k'nbcked 'off work,” said
he; “-Jack Myers and his crowd have been
testing around, and, undvr the circumstan-
c'e'ii, if he says quit, we’ve got to quit or
ﬁght.” 3;? , 3'" .
at! you wonll’ﬂgbl?” I remarked. ,
Vell,” replied-,Munse, digging his [heel
into'thpgro‘und “"t’srnm exactly our light
dronrfnne’i‘al. ' "tnkitfs an outrage, and“
I'dtin’t'ffike to k ckle down to Myers, but:
. ’ oulre all afraid ofl'him?" Imaid,
fﬁ’éisenience. _ '

afraid of him,”

up you say we’re all
said, III B, With the slightest possible tinge
ofi's‘lircltsm in his voice.

5 I returned to the house. In an instant my
course became clear to me. There must be
It was a matter of life and
death between me and Jack Myers. Every
circumstance was crowding me on to a per-
sonal conﬂict with him. The law cotild give
melno protection. Its machinery was potent
enough, but the despicable public sentiment
of tbe'tilnc, which worshipped and toadied
to' a- red-handed. murderer,"would parlyze
every efl‘o'r‘t it might make in my behalf. I
felt no longer depressed. I became cheer-
fully desperaie Before, I had clung to life.
No‘w,‘the indignation I felt at being thus
crOWded to the wall by such a brute, and
the'shame I had experienced during the
crowding process, made life a matter of lit-
tle moment. Another thought also came in-
to the scale. which made existence the lesser

eight. That was the hope of, and, to be
frank, the fame also which would be mine
in that community by taking Myersoﬂ‘. In
secret and for years it had been hoped that
a champion might arise who would heard
the million; and everybody knew,though
nobody spoke il,-that, no matter what might
be the complexion of the difficulty, the law
would make but little trouble for the man
who kill'ed'Jack Myers.

It was night, my supperiwas over, and I
was alone in my cabin. But I could not re-
main alone. I felt that a crisis was near. I

stimulate him to still greater fury. _ —: “v - -~ ..

through any‘tr'ying ordeal.
utility from trivialities—little . MISS!!!“

,myself caused me to loathe myself,
'at certain times and in certain hop

, or we’ll. “i

‘fort to induce bifﬁc‘tims‘tnrtbe commission

“Yes,” promptly replied Munse.

“Thank you. Now, Mr. Myer
ready. You are a ﬁghting man‘, n ..
refuse such a fair invitation. .Before We-
leave the house we’ll take another drink at
my expense. Mr. Myers, l’ll drink with
you now.” And I swallowed the liquor.
which had been prepared for me. I" ‘_' ' f
This was a turn in affairs which Myers ev-._
dently had not expected. ,Ithad been fbil
intention, as was ever his custom in‘lsuch“
cases, to abuse, taunt,revile;. ssib‘ly to dash
tlle liquor in my face, and thrust-fine: irofii‘the
door. Blindly, as it were. he underé'totid
that the-magnetism of fear, ifI '
press myself, would- not only‘ ‘p‘rgy
interference on the part of othtfrﬂ‘,
l

ike a succession of intox.icating?‘drgtigbts;-

But-my unexpected stand h'nd developed»
an opposing inﬂuence. It came- from the

men around me. It was something mysten.
ious,'silent, subtle, the working ofone mind,
on another, the creeping forth as it were in,- --
to the air of a spirit opposedtobrutish tyre
army, the invisible sympathy and. reS‘_ec
for a-ma‘n who dared to standﬁup: _' in
self: all this concentrated and ﬁrllﬂikefi

vincible Myers. .

drink with merwill'you not? I'ni‘hqtitﬁe
chief-yet. -: Ingth—ﬁpingdo try and-immer-
yon to drink- agalngpyour‘ wishes. But yen
must be’. quick, for we. have business to‘ tit-I
tendito.”"‘ ' ,' i ’
They crowded 'nbout’the bar, but iii-‘I‘ir
lence, broken only by 'the clink‘fof the
glasses. .lincrs, whose surprise and inward.
wavering had been but momentary, and
who perceived that even his own‘ men ref:
garded him curiously, now suddenly found
his defence in the sneaking, cunning spiri-
of cowardice, and said;
“Come tip,hcre,jump my claim. and then
wnot me to fight for it, do you? You can’t
plav' that on me.” '
“You are a coward and dare not ﬁght
fair l" were my words.
This I knew would bring the climax. His
hands "and those of his gang went for their
pistols; ; But the spirit of‘ manhood was
now uppermost in the rest of the crowd.
Mun-e and ahalf dozen others sprang to
my side. “No—no—no!” was the excited
cry. “That won’t do, Jack Myers. You
tight tbiSIman fair.” '
“Is your grave dug
on his only real courage—bravado. “Well,
we’ll adjourn to the barley ﬁeld.” _ , ‘ -
1 must disclaim bere‘any endeavoi‘ to ‘e ‘
tablish a reputation for‘ bravery; "1' an:
brave only in streaks, and they _are few and.
far between. It required- enerally afro
pressure to bring out what 'ttle‘ Was indie...

l
I have passed days in mental‘distressbé tire".
I could summon stiﬂicienfgcougnge:

' ve sneak

,.
r

path—until my despicable_ estimagf

mind, every trace of pusilanimity disiip'p
ed, and I could look any possibility inﬂtlie
face without fear. '

Myers was in‘a trap, This was to be his
ﬁrst fair stand-tip ﬁght.- ,Hitherto there had
been considerable method _in his despera-
tion. ' nil f l ‘ “on the

lithe motion; at
, them] was drawing
~3He relied on n

11nt fsleight oﬁ‘kﬁiﬁwﬁﬁd used ieveryef-

ski

digive him justiﬁ-
potion.

, iﬂeld. On a low
. . . --. ‘ (if the ground cho-
sen for the Encounte, ' the camp grave-
yard, 3 small square e closure. Out of the
tall, rank grass rose" a- few white head-
boards, and in the light of the full moon
they stood out in even more prominent
ghastly relief than in the day time. The
choice of this spot was accidental. But the
tallest headboard of all ivas that of Will
.Letllngwell, Myers’s last victim.

The preliminaries were very simple. We
stood twelve paces apart, and were to ﬁre
as the master of ceremonies counted three.
I had asked Manse to stand as my second
at the store, merely to test his temper and
that of the crowd. On the ground we dis-
pensed with such fashionable formality.

It was but a moment given me for reflec-
tion, as we stood thus facing each other,but
in that momengdbe silence and splendor of
the night, thefglreat rugged castellated peaks
—-apparently tuft. a mile distant, in reality
twenty—looking sternly down upon us, the
monotonous babbling of the Tttolumme as it
struggled and fretted over and through a
broken dam near by, the chirping of the
crickets in the grass, the huddle of men si‘
lently regarding its, the white grave-stones
keeping their faithful watch and ward over
the dead. the rutﬁan confronting me—with
his slouched bat, gray shirt, and dirty-white
canvas pants, on his face an expression of
annoyance and vexation—tll this in that
moment was photographed on my brain
never to be eruse’d.‘ ‘

We never tired. I was not to be the aven-
ger of blood. The fates with their superior
wisdom bad decreed a more fitting punish-
ment for Jack Myers. As the word “One"
was spoken, something between a rustle and
a groan was heard among the graves; the
next, a tall form, clad in black, slowly
arose. It clung to the pickets_and'su'rvny-
ed theparty below.‘ The moon shone full
upon the fhce, which seemed as white as
the surrounding grave-stones..
tion was such that the eyes of every one
necessarily fell upon the apparition which
suddenly found a voice and shrieked:

of some not whiob‘pliotrl
cation for putting its nip

.3?»

sort'nf‘ blight, adamper on the hithertosini ‘

"Well.gentlemen,” Icontinued,‘7‘-,i{,' Tiivilt 5 '_ ,
jChit‘fﬁon the 4th, were 365 boxes billed as

1The‘hi _

i" said be, falling back“.

r .

The situa-

Va‘n'ion stairs, and with a kick sent him
ﬁrst maritime ditty. Dick had been
baled.” He drifted about the China
~ for awhile, ﬁnally fottnd his way back
tb‘San Francisco, and immediately started
on ___foot for his old home at Swett‘s—the
densest spot to him on the whole earth since
’Ihiii‘c was liberty, a living,and comparative-
lyflight work. Arriving at Saloda, seven
miles distant, he had expended his sole re-
maining capital in the purchase of a bottle
of whisky to celebrate the return borne of
lbeiﬁrbdigal son ; this he drank on the road.
Stumbling on the grave-yard, in a drunken
freak he had clanrbered over the palings,
stretched himself between two graves, and
courtiﬁgslumber for a few hours, had awak-
:ebi§i_fit6‘reapp’ear just as Myers and myself
wémbout shooting each other. Myers was
overcome at seeing one supposed victim ri-
sing'frOm the carth,and probably feared that
Leﬂingwell might follow. He was never
,8éeggbontthe locality again. His prestige
vvas g'one. Old Dick was afterward known
as 1"Myersi's Ghost, and I am still John Cum.
brings—“Prentice Meifard in the Oriel-land
. bnthly. e2; ' ‘ -

W‘ ‘ T'K‘DEAD CHINAMAN Is WORTH.—

. 16%; thefcargo of‘the ship Criterion,
" h-,cleared from San Francisco, Cal, for

preserved meats and valued at $15,200.
. vice of this class of goods indi-
cated' by nae-ﬁgures caused some curiosi~
ly'tlmong the. custom house ofﬁcials, who,
being‘anxious to know wherein the extra
value-of the commodity lay, instituted in-
vestigation. ' The result was found that the
boxes were found to contain the bones of
dead Chinamen whom one Fook Hing Tong
desired to transplant to the ﬂowery king'-
dom. Out of the discovery grew it conun-
drum: “If 365 boxes are worth $15,200
what is one dead Chinaman worth?” No
answer could be obtained because it was
impossible to-ﬁnd outjust how many were
in each box. An enterprising individual
however, interviewed the superintendent of
the morgue and learned that the value of a
Chinaman’s bones is a little over $10.40.
This information obtained, a. calculation
was next resorted to in order to find the
number of defunct Celestials contained in
that very queer consignment, the result
being the ﬁgures 1,460. '

Tun POLAR Bean’s CUNNIxG.—~Accordin g

Tie the Esquimaux, the seal constructs its

Lébode near the surface of the ice in such

fway that it can enter it frorn the water

'eiow;beretbe young seal passes its in-

.,n_ncy, and when the returning beat of sum-

:mer has destroyed its igloo or dwelling, the

young seal is old enough to take care of

.T'tself; but this mode of lodging its young

encath the ice is. well known to the bear

“who with his-nice scent, detects the where

1 s of the seal‘s nursery, and in order to

_ n entrance makes a spring and comes

vim heavily on the top of the igloo,

_ltrshes it in, and immediately seizes the
young seal with its paw. Here it might be

supposed the hungry hear at once devours
its prey; but no; it is far too wary to do so;

it knows full well that where a baby is,
there must of necessity be a mother,and

that she will be in search of her darling;

therefore the bear scrapes the snow away

from the seal hole, and holding the young
seal by the ﬂippers, allows it to flounder
about, and, when the mother approaches,
the bear, slyly draws the young seal toward
it until the old one is within reach, when
he seizes her with the other paw, and thus
captures both.

Loon. HISTORY IN Coxxncrrcnr.—Rev.
Charles Hammond, of Morison, is writing a
series of papers on Stafford Springs in the
'l‘olland County Press. His ﬁrst paper
draws largely from the diary of John
Adams, who visited the springs in June,
1771, and who has left on record much itr

teresting matter concerning this region in
those times. Before going home~Adams
traveled south as far as Middletown, dining-
on the way at Widow Griswold’s tavern in
Wetbersﬁeld. “She says the deputy-
governor calls here and has some comical
story to tell her. He asked her, the other
day, to come down and see his wife make
cheese. He has twenty-two cows, and his
women make cheese in the forenoon and
then dress up and go out or receive compa-
ny at Ironic." This deputy governor. was
Matthew Griswold, and Mr. Hammond
points out the interesting fact that. his
cheese making wife had governors of Con-
necticut: for her father, brother, husband
son and nepllCW—uliley being respectfully,
Huger Wolcott, Oliver \Volcotf,1st, Mat-
thew Griswold, ltoger Griswold,and Oliver
\Volcott, 2d. And we don’t doubt that
Mrs. Griswold would have made as good
a governor as hcrltinsmen. By the way,
Mr.llammnnd does well to begin to edit
the vast resources of local historical lore of
which ho is master, and we wish he might.
be encouraged to, enlarge the scope of his
Purpose:- '

One dark night, not long ago, a burglar
entered a. private residence on Broadway.
0n ascending one flight. of‘ stairs he ob-
served a light. in a chamber, and while
deliberating what to do, a large woman
suddenly dceended upon hire, sciied him
by the throat pushed him down through
behall,'ariti forced him into the street he-
ore he hurt time to think. “Heroic
Bepulse of a Burglar by a woman" was
the way the story was told the next day.
But when friends called and congratula-
ted lrer upon her courage, she exclaimed;
Good gracious! I didn’t know it was a
burglar! If I had, I should have been
frightened to death. i thought it was my

[23' Gas administered for extracting teeth with-
out pain.

EDWARD BANKS,
CIVIL ENGINEER,

AND BORING?! ﬁSiJBVE‘lDR,

Office at residence of 1:. 0. Banks, Main Street.

Nor-“111k, Con n.

Gaoiﬁrxsmn,
'A atcssi'irnc'rr,
70 BROADWAY, Jr ”W relate

Residence, Stamford, Ct...
Special attention paid to country residences 2-1y

S 1% W. MITCHELL,
'.' {At the ever popular
UNiozv MARKET
- has always the best of
Beef, Veal,“ Mutton, and ﬁork,

at fair living prices. Union (formerly Model) Mar-
ketmn the Bridge. ‘ 18

Curtains s. LOCKWUOD,
Fashionable. Bruiser 5.: Tailor
AND a
GENTS" FURNISH LYG EJIPORIUJI,

Main Street, Norwalk, (nun.

N o r team Fish Market.

’1‘ If E subscriberhavingboughtout the old Bridge
Fish Market, of Rufus Adams, lnteudskeeping
eonstantlyon handall kinds of

FIRES}! FISH, OYSTERS,CLAI§IS,&C.,

and allvarietics ofchoice FRUITS &. VEGETABLES
in their-season. CHARLES W. LOCKWOOD,

:3" Spring Chickens Dressed to order.

En‘lvann P. WEED,
in R in G o. it s 'r ,

5711 Street, opposite Norwallc Opera House
A large and wcllselcctedstockof

DRUGS AND NEEDECINES
Perfumery, Patent. M dicines, all kinds, Mineral
Watcrs.’l‘oiletand Me icateda‘oaps, Flavoringauo
Handkerchief Extracts, flair Brushes, Climbs,
ponges, Chamois Skins, Stationery,Cigars, the,
ad is constantlyadding to bisstock all the new and
opular incuicincsof the day.

:90.

915154;..‘3 A395) REEBECINES.

‘. 11 E under good would respctfnlly announce to

. the Citizens in this vicinity, that at. his

Drug Store,

CORNER OF WASIHNGTON AND DEPCTSTS.
can always be found _

3-? DRE DRUGS,

CliiiiCE iViNES and LEQEIORS
FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES, '_ . '.

[{4ch AND TOILET ARI/TU SA,

PA TENT MEDICINES,;<£;¢.~¥ '
RI?" t’iiysiclttns’l’rescriptioriscarefnllchmpoune
ed day and night. Can be found nights,insam-

onilding,entrancc on Washingtfm St.
tyw S. F. l’ECl{,Sonth Norwalk Conn

' a. Simmons,

A t h isStorein MALLORY‘S liLOCK,hasconstant
ly on hand a general assortmentof

C's-Ea." OCEA—tlﬁﬁ ,
CIECCKERY, «mass,
'l’l.\' ave troop/ix warm, 1910., are

l3}: devoting his constant personal attention to the
busincsshe hopes to merit publicpatrniragc. 9

.2 INA leUltaSCE (30., OF HARTFORD,
.’ tncorporatefl'lsw. Chartcrl’erpettral.
Capitulautlltssets, $5,052,880.19
lusaresagainstlosszriddamage by Fire, outer-ms
adopted to the hazard ,~irrd consistcu t with thelaws
ofcampensatlon. COWLES it: MERRILL,
SoleAgentsl‘orxorwalk alidvicinity.

\yonwa “(INSURANCE 00.3le r
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Charter- Capitul - - - ‘- $500,000
Paldup Capital, - $100,000
Wit. O.Sritnnt,President, Geo. R.Cowr.r-:s,8cc’y.
Eur—2N I-irt.r.. Treasurer.

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Fllii "A @3300 {Willi STEVE
no mo augments.

FEESMCES MthEQN, Jr.,
Practical ththcr.
PLUMBING in all its BRANCHES.

Green Houses Fitted up.

Orders left at Shop on School Street, or on sla‘tc
at 'Reltlcn‘s 'l‘in Shop. bobbing promptly mmnfkiil
t0. _\' .

New Barbér Shop
Mr. AGUSTUS liAPE’Li-l

Having taken the Shop formerly occupied b ' Mr.
Ed.Appetl,in ISAACS’ BLOCK,WAI.L 5T1: ET,
is now prepared to serve the public in the best
manner as regards anything in the Tonsorial Art,
and intends making it the