Norwalk Gazette, 1818-1883, 1876-02-08

wiioLE NUMBER 1161;

NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8 1876

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A LESSON.

I iinAnn a pouting little maid,
In childhood‘s dewy morn,
Lamenting that the rose was stemmed

Upon a cruel thorn.

I saw a sweet-faced mother,
In life’s hushed, evening hour,
Smile, grateful that the thorns were
crowned -
With a glorious ﬂower.
——A. 0. Roberts, in N. Y. Tribune.

Yillie Shaker hovers

nv r1111 AUTHOR or “ '1‘1111 GuanN MOUNTAIN
1101's, " “MAY MARTIN, ” 1&0.

[Concluded]

With a look of still unmitigated malice and
ferocity, and with the same menacing attitude,
the ruthless Elder stood waiting for a second
appeaxance of his victim a full moment when
he began to exhibit tokens of surprise and
lowered his weapon a little, still keeping,
however, his eye keenly ﬁxed on the spot.
After waiting in vain nearly another moment
for the drowning man to rise, the Elder be-
came thoroughly alarmed, and, throwing
down his car, hurriedly retreated a rod or
two on the bank. Here he turned and threw
another anxious and troubled look upon and
around the fatal spot. IA few faint bubbles,
rising successively to the surface, alone ans-
wered his inquiring gaze; and, reading in
them conclusive evidence of the horrid truth,
he gave a convulsive start, and fled in terror
toward the buildings as fast as his quaking
limbs could carry him, mumbling and chatter-
ing to himself as he went:

“ Now, who would have thought! If the
youth could have 'swam; and am I to blame
for that he never learned to swim? Of a sure-
ty I am not. And then did he not lift his
hand against a gifted Elder of God’s church ?
And, moreover, have I not saved the family’ s
boat, which he was about to purloin. 9 V erilyV
I have done a good thing, though I think I
will not name the matter to the people, lest
it lead the temptation of evil speaking against
rulers, and, peradventure, 'get to the world’s
magistrates. And then, again, there is the
youth’s property, which he was so froward
and perverse about relinquising to the church.
Nay, I will not let the affair be known, but
go to work right cunningly and secure it all
for God’s heritage. Yea, verily, I have done
a good thing.” -

Thus strangely reasoning, and thus desper-
ately grasping at salvos for his troubled feel-
ings, the terror-stricken Elder reached home,
and, without uttering a syllable Vof what had
happened to any one, immediately betoo
himself to his solitary lodgings, not there to
ﬁnd peace and repose, but to writhe and turn
under the scorpion stings of conscience—that
unescapable hell of the guilty which retribu-
tive Heaven has planted' in the bosom of Man
f01 the certain punishment of his crimes.

Meanwhile the lovely and conscientious
Martha, wholly unapprised of what had be-
falleii her lover, retired to her peaceful pil-
low, and endeavored to reﬂect calmly on the
new and interesting subject which her recent
interview had opened to her mind; but, ﬁnd-
ing herself unable to do this from the thou-
sand crowding thoughts and sensations which
contributed to swell the tumult of her bosom,
she discretely deferred the task for a cooler
moment, 'and, having piously commended
herself to the protection of her Maker, yield-
ed herself to those quiet and peaceful slum-
bers thatconstitutenoLtheJeast among the
rewards of virtue and innocence. On awak-
ening the next morning, her thoughts imme-
diately recurred to the subject that occupied
her last waking moments; and, as she now
ﬁgured in her mind her lover far on his way
from the place, rejoicing in his freedom from
the oppression he had at length escaped, she
again and again recalled the tender professions
he had made, and ran over the arguments he.
had advanced in urging her to leave her pres--
ent situation, and go forth with him into the
world as his companion for weal or for woe.
The more she thought of the proposed step,
at ﬁrst so startling, the less fearful did it ap-
pear. The more she weighed his reasons
with those she found herself able to bring up
in refutation, lighter and lighter grew the ob-
jections which had caused her to hesitate
even in giving him a deﬁnite promise of ac-
ceding to his request when they should again
meet; and as her samples yielded and gave
way, the unchecked pleadings of her own
heart came in and soon decisively turned the
already inclining balance, leaving her now
free to wander unhesitatingly over the new
and bright ﬁeld of destiny which had been
presented to her view.

After indulging in her pleasing Vreveries
as long as inclination prompted, the maiden
arose, dressed and was 011 the point of de-l
scending from her chamber to join in per-
forming the domestie duties of the morning,
when her attention was arrested by an unu-
sual commotion among the family below,
which she soon ascertained, from some words
that reached through the partially opened

. door, to be caused by the discovered absence
of Seth, for whom search had already been
made, but in vain. The consciousness that
within her own bosom she harbored the se-
cret of the missing one's abs’ence, which she
might not reveal, made her, for the ﬁrst time
in her life, feel like a guilty one; and, daring.
not to go down lest’ her app'earanée‘sh'buld be-
tray the agitation she felt, she paused at the
head of the stairs, and stood some time en—
deavoring to compose her feelings and gain a
command of her countenance, which should
save her from showing any excitement that
might not be natural to the occasion; but,
while doing this, the poor girl was little
dreaming of the thousand times more difﬁcult
task in reserve for her—that of controlling
her feelings under the heart-c1ushing blow
which she was destined the next moment th
receive. The appalling announcement now
passed from mouth to mouth among the fam-
ily that Seth was drowned in the pond, the
evidence of which, in addition to his unac-
countable absence,‘was found in the circum-
stance that his hat had been discovered ﬂoat-
ing near the shore, while at a little distance
one of his shoes had been espied sunk“ in the
bottom, ﬁshed up and identiﬁed.

It can be better imagined than described
what were the feelings of Martha on hear-
ing these mournful tidings. No wor'd or sound,
however, escaped her lips on the occasion.
She turned deadly pale, indeed, and for a
moment leaned her head for support against
the door casing; and this was succeeded by a
quick heaving of her bosom, while with
clasped hands and closed eyes her trembling
lips moved rapidly, as if earnestly engaged
in silent devotion. But the next moment, as
she opened her eyes, and with a firm step dc-
scended from her room, a spectator could
have detected nothing more in her placid
though mournful countenance than he might
have seen in the faces of the rest of the sis-

' terhood, among whom she now immediately
mingled.

Most of the day was spent by the Shaker
men in dragging the pond in search of the

. body, from which operation Elder VHiggins
kept studiously aloof; though the nervous
restlessness he constantly exhibited through
the day, and the many anxious and inquiring
glances he frequently cast towards those thus
engaged, plainly told that he felt a painful
interest in What was going on. The search
proved a vain one. This, however, did not
lead any one.to doubt that the young man’s
fate was any different from the one ﬁrst sup-
posed, as the body, it was conjectured, had
ﬂoated off and sunk in some of the deepest
parts of the pond. But, although all were

unanimous in the opinion that Seth had met
his death by drowning, yet, with regard to
the manner in which the casualty could have
happened, there were many and various
minds; some supposing that he must have
waded in to secure something which he saw
ﬂoating near the shore; others that he had
risen in his sleep and gone in, while others
considered eithe1 of these highly improbable,
‘since some of the young men now made
known the fact that the deceased was an ex.
pert swimmer. These and many other con-
jectures equally erroneous were formed re-
specting the mysterious event, till, wearicd
with the fruitless ' ussion, it was given up
as a case entirel peless of any further
elucidation, and therefore permitted to rest.
Seth had been a peculiar favorite with the
family generally, and his loss for many days
cast a deep gloom over the minds of the lit-
tle community who were thus unexpectedly
called to mourn his premature deceasc. The
impression, however, like all others of the
kind, wore gradually away from the minds of
all except the bereaved Martha and the con-
scious-smitten Elder, from whose bosoms the
memory of the lost one, for reasons pe-
culiar to each, was not, as may well be sup-
posed, so easily erased. V
Although the circumstances in which Mar-
tha was placed forbade any manifestation of
her peculiar griefs, and wholly precluded her
from communicating them to others and re-
ceiving in return those alleviating sympathies
which it isVVthe privilege of ordinary sorrow
to receive, yet some the less heavy for that
fell this blow of afﬂiction, and none the less
keenly was felt the anguish that now in se-
cret wrung her guileless'and faithful soul.
Young Love was beginning to shed his sweet
and happifying inﬂuences over her pure and
gentle heart, and his twin angel, Hope, had
just showed his snowy pinion to her unaccus-
tomed vision, pointing her to aland of earth.
1y felicity which never before, even in her
brightest dreams, had been pictured to her
mind; but all these grateful feelingshad been
suddenly chilled and frozen in. the current
that was so blissfully wafting her away to the
promised haven of happiness—all these bright
visions had vanished, leaving her future not
only blank and cheerl‘ess, but dark with por—
tents of persecution and won, from which
there was no hope of escaping. These cir-

loss no ordinary bereavement; and most per-
sons of her natural sensibilities would have
sunk under the weight of the afﬂiction. -But

bowed beneath the chastening rod, and turned
for consolation to that life-spring on high
which' is never long a sealed fountain to the
meek and devoted followers of Him who
once himself knew earthly sorrows.

I But, while Martha was thus comforted and
sustained, no such consolation remained for
the despicable wretch who had been the cause
of her troubles ; and the more he tried to
still his startled conscience, the more did its
accusing'spirit rise up to disquiet him, Vnot
only for the part he had in the young man’ Is
death, but for the part he had previously acted
toward him in his general misusage, and
more particularly in an affair to which only a
slight allusion has as yet been made. About
a month previous to the time of which we are
speaking, astranger from the neighborhood
of Seth’s early residence called at the estab-
lishment, bearing for him a letter, which he
expressed a desire to deliver in person; but
the young man being at work in the woods
some distance from home, and the stranger
being anxious to resume his journey, the let-
ter was at length entrusted to Higgins, on his
promise of delivering it to Seth as soon as he
returned. Having repeated his injunctions,
the messenger departed, not, however, till
the inquisitive Elder had ﬁshed from, as can-
tions as he evidently intended to be, some
clue to the contents of the letter. No sooner
was the stranger’s back (fairly turned, than
Higgins retired to a private apartment and
broke open the letter, which proved to be
from a neighbor of Seth’s uncle, whom we
have before mentioned, and which announced
the successive deaths, within a few days of
each other, of that uncle and the nepew liv-
ing with him, by which event, it was stated,
as no will or wills had been made, Seth be-
came the legal heir to all the estate thus left;
consisting of a. good farm and considerable
personal property. The writer closed by ad-
visin'g the young man to leave his present
situation, come home and take possession of
his property. After i'eading'the letter care-
fully over several times, the perﬁdious Elder
committed it to the ﬂames, and spent the re-
mainder of the day in devising and settling
his plans, will in drawing up for Seth’s signa—
ture anacquittance to the family of all the
property he had or of which he might become
the inlicritor. And the next day, after hav-
ing smoothed the way for the attempt, as he
supposed, by an unusual display of affability
and parent-like kindness, V he cautiously
broached the subject to the young man and
tried to induce the young man to sign the
paper, falsely afﬁrming it to be one of' their
regulations to require such an act of the
young members of their society, whether they
had any property or not, when they arrived
at legal age, at which Seth, as it happened,
had a few days before attained. The latter,
however, secretly, meditating upon leaving
the family soon, had no notion of cutting
himself off from any right of prpoerty which
might some day accrue to him, though now
he certainly had no such expectations, and he
therefOre, ﬁrmly refused to comply with the
'Elder’s request, After renewing the attempt
several times, and resorting to every art and
falsehood. which he deemed likely to aid him
in his purpose, Higgins was compelled to re-
linquish his fraudulent design, with no other
result than that of exciting the suspicious of
Seth that there might have,indeed, something
occurred at his uncle’s in his favor, and of
hastehing his determination to leave and go
and see for himself. .

It is no wonder, then, when all these inju-
ries, closed as the dark catalogue was by the
death of the victim, rose in review before
the mind of the guilty Elder, that is con-
science troubled 'him. He had no , it was
true, really intended quite to destroy the
young man’s life; but he could not disguise
from himself that his acts had as mucli pro-.I
duced the fatal result as if his own hand had
dealt the death-blow, and that, too, under
feelings but little less holy than he need to
have possessed to have rendered the deed the
foulest in the list of crimes. In vain did he
try to shut out these disquieting thoughts
from his mind; in vain did he try by quib-
bling and sophistry to still the Who of con-
science, and he soon became the prey of the
most horrible fancies. He remembered the
accidental that made by Seth among the
last‘ things he uttered—“ I will haunt you
when I am dead"—and the fearful words, “ I
will haunt you when I am deml—I will haunt
you. when I_ am dead," rang constantly in his
ears; and so strong were his guilty fears, and
so nervous and excited had he become, that
to him the menace was often literally fulﬁll-
ed» in the dread shapings of his distempered
imagination.- By day he appeared distracted
or restless-now heedless and lost to every-
thing around him——no1v wildly starting at the
rustling of every leaf; and by night roaring
out in his sleep, and disturbing his wondering
people by his strange and almost unearthly
outcries.

Such was the punishment of the miserable
Elder; but, whether this was not ratherI the

making for hisVown beneﬁt, we will not at-
tempt to decide. One thing, however, is
certain; it operated greatly to the relief of
the before persecuted Martha; for, from the
eventful night on which she hadparted with

her lover, she saw for several weeks no indi-

cumstances combined to render the poor girl’s’

Martha was a Christian; and she meekly-

result of his fears than any sincere penitence

- WC

cations of any renewal of her trials. Much,
indeed, did she wonder to what cause she
owed this happy exemption; though she be-
lieved it, without being able to tell exactly

.why, to have some connection with the .fate

of Seth, concerning which a horrid suspicion
occasionally ﬂitted across her mind. She
tried, however, to banish such suspicions
from her thoughts, and charitably strove to
believe that ‘ her persecutor had resolved to
lay aside his designs against her peace and
become a better man. 'But she at length be-
gan to perceive that her hopes were to be dis-
appointed—she again saw that in the demean-
or of Elder towards her which unequivocally
told her that she was still the marked victim

of his unhallowed designs; and from day to_

day she lived in constant dread of being again
summoned to the scene of her former trials.
Nor was such summons long delayed. One
day, as the family were retiring from their
noon meals, the Elder approached the terriﬁ-
ed girl and notiﬁed her to meet him alone
after worship in the room which he had for-
merly desecrated by hisinfamous conduct;
but the hapless maiden was not reserved for
so wretched a fate as that which now so me-
nacingly hung over her. An unexpected' 1Vn-
cident intervened between that and the dread-
ed hour,.which was destined to form the
most1 important eraV in her life, while it
brought defeat and confusion upon her one-

my.
It 11' as a mild and pleasant afternoon in No-

vember, just four we ks after the melanchol-
ly event before described. Martha was sit-
ting in one of the Common working—rooms of
the women, at work with several of the sis-
terhood, some of whom like herself were en-
gagcd 1n sewing, some at the 100111, and some
at the distaff. As she sat plying her needle,
'an air of deep pensivcness, sweetly tempered,
however, by resignation, was resting on her
lovely brow. She had been viewing with
dismayed feelings and gloomy apprehensions
the dismal prospect before her; and, having
schooled her feelings into submission to what-
ever fate Providence might allot her, she
turned to the images of the past and her

mind was now wandering among the dearest

memories of her existence. . She recalled the
almost forgotten circumstance that the com-
ing night was the one proposed by her de-
parted lover for his return to meet her, and a
thousand mournful fancies took possession of
her mind. She imagined how, had' her lover
lived, her heart would now be ﬂuttering at
the thought of the approaching meeting; and
then her excited imagination took 'wing, and
she wondered if it were not true, as she had
sometimes heard,t~hat the dead were permitted
to keep the appointments made by them while
living, and come in spirit to the place to meet
and commune with their friends; and, if so,
whether, she should repair to the trysting
tree at the appointed hour, Seth would not be
there to meet her. Faith and love answered
yes; and; conscious of nothing which should
make her fear such a meeting, at which, per-
haps, heavenly counsel might be imparted to
guide and direct her in her threatened difﬁ-
culties, she had resolved to brave the sum-
mons of the Elder to meet him at the same
hour, and keep the appointment. While she
Iwas'thus indulging in these sad thou’gh pleas-
ing reveries, her attention was arrested by
the sound of a strange voice in the yard, be-
longing to some one who had just arrived,
and was now engaged in conversation with
several of the Shaker men. Thinking there
was something rather peculiar in the careless,
rattling manner of the new comer’s discourse,
she arose and went to the window, when it
was with a mixture of wonder and surprise
that she behold the singular and vagabond ap-
pearance of the man who had attracted her
attention. ' His dress was not only tattered
and patched, but ill-ﬁtting and whimsical,
consisting of small clothes altogether too big,
with a coat as much too little; and these were
surmounted by an old straw hat,entirely rim-
less before and not much better behind. He
was evidently quite a young man, and, but
for a certain kind of foolish, staring cast of
countenance, would have been accounted very
good looking. He seemed quite at home
among his new aquaintances, and was not at
all bashful about making inquiries, many of
which were so very simple and childish as to-
prov'oke a smile upon the sober visages of
even the elders. themselves. After asking a
thousand foolish questions and rattling away
awhile disconnectedly, witlessly enough to
have made a good prototype for Bunyan’s
Talkative, he carelessly observed that, as for
himself, he was now entirely out of work
and out of any home, and he really wished
he could ﬁnd some good place to live where
he could get enough to eat, for he set a great
deal by victuals.

Instantly taking the hint Vfrom this Observa-
tion of the vagabond, and believing him to be
about simple enough to make them a good
subject, the Shaker leaders were not slow to
propose to him to join the family, and at
once take up his residence at their establish-

ment.
To this the fellow replied that he had often

heam say that the Shakers were a mighty
good people, and he sometimes thought he
should like to live with them ; but, as he had
never seen them before, he should like to go
round and look a little at things before he
told them sartin about staying; and if they
would give him something to eat, and then
let him go round Where he was a mind to that
afternoon, he would tell them at night what
he would do.

The man was accordingly soon furnished
with an excellent meal, at which he appeared
highly gratiﬁed. After this, free permission
having been granted him for the purpose, be
commenced his rambles over the farm,
through the barns, yards and out-houses, in-
specting the crops, stock and everything con-
nected with the establishment, with childish
curiosity and'the greatest apparent interest,
often leaving the objects of his examination
and running tthhe Shakers -to ask some ques-
tion, and then racing back in high glee to his
employment. \Vhen he seemed to have sat-
isﬁed himself with viewing every thing out of
doors, he went to the elders and told them he
wanted to see the women works. He did not,
beVsure, he said, think women of much use
generally, but, as they had to get the victu-
als and make the clothes, he should like
mighty well to go in and see how they carri-
edon awhile.

Although this was contrary to their general
custom, yet the leaders, conceiving they had
the making of a proselyteVat stake, and evi-
dently viewing the fellow as a weak-minded,
harmless creature, soon concluded to humor
him in this freak as they had done in every-
thing else; and, therefore, told him to behave
well, but go where he pleased.

Quickly availing himself of the permission,
he began the rounds of the different female
lodges, making, however, but a brief stay in
any one till_he came to the one where Mar-
tha was at work with the small party of her
companions. Here he leisurely walked round,

reviewing with an air of wondering simplici;

ty the work of these demure artisans, mak-
ing his silly comments, and, as usual, asking
a variety of irrelevant questions and among
the rest the names of all the diﬁe ent females
in the apartment.

Although the conversation and conduct
of the stranger went clearly to show him
to be a very great simpleton, yet there was
a certain something about him which soon
led the discerning Martha to doubt .wheth
or he was what be quite pretended, and
what the rest of the family obviously
considered him; and that doubt was 1 greatly
strengthened in a short time, as, looking up,
she caught him ﬁxing a keen, steady, intelli-
gent look upon her face, entirely at variance

‘with the vacant or idiotic expression which
had seemed to characterize his features. And

_ ing.

it was with a sort of undeﬁnable interest that

she the next moment saw him approaching-
'her, as he now did, with the remark that he

wanted to 'see what this woman was making
too. Accordingly he took up part of the
work lying' 111 her lap, when, as he ﬂourished
it about, under pretence of examining it, be
silly dropped a small, closely-sealed billet into
her open hand. As soon as hesaw her hand
close over the paper, he threw down the work
over her hand, and, with the eagerly whis-
pered injunction, “ Read and give me token,"
whipped off to look at something else which
seemed suddenly to have caught his attention.

Feigning some errand out, Martha soon
rose and disappeared on her way to her pri-
vate chamber. In a few minutes the stranger
returned to ﬁnish his inspection of Martha’s
work, during which, as busy and talkative as
ever he mighthaVe been seen' to throw many
a keen and anxious glance towards the door
through which the fair absentee was expected
to return. At length she made her appear-
ance. AV close observer would have at once
noticed that during her absence she had been
agitated by powerful emotions, and had wept
profusely; and yet through the subsidiVng
sho1ve1 the ﬁrst smile that had lit up her
face for a month was stealing over her lovely
features, while anything but displeasure
marked the general expression of her glowing
countenance. .

On entering the room she went immediate-
ly to an eldreSs, and, with the air of one
slightly annoyed, asked if she had not better
hint to the man the propriety of his now re-
tiring; and, having received permission to do
so, she approached him, and, with a look
which he seemed readily to understand, ob-
served:

“Thy visit has been very acceptable, and
thy communications shall be heeded; but we
think that now, perhaps, thee would ﬁnd
more to divert thee among the men in the
ﬁeld. ”

With some careless remarks in good keep-

ing with the character he had been acting,
the man inmiediately left‘ the apartment and
proceeded to the ﬁeld where the men were at
work, and where, in chatting with them, try-I
ing his hand occasionally at their work and
rambling over the premises, he spent the re-
mainder of the afternoon, apparentlv highly
delighted with the situation.

When the family assembled for supper,
however, the fellow was unaccountably mis-
sing; but the Shakers, having seen so much
of his erratic movements, and supposing
him still to be somewhere about the farm 0r
buildings,-did not seem to pay much atten-
tionto the circumstance, or thinkitworth
their while to institute any search for him";
and their evening meal, through all the differ-
ent departments of the family, passed off
with customary quietness.

After ﬁnishing their repast, as usual the
whole family, just as the stars were beginning
to twinkle in the clear blue of . theVVNovember
sky, took their way to the house of worship,
which was an unenclosed’building opening

to the main road, a branch of which turned I

up and ran directly by the doors. The core-
monies of worship, also, were attended with
no unusual occurrence, and, beingconcluded,
the assembly broke up to return to their re-
spective lodges. But on opening the doors and
coming cut upon the steps, the foremost of
the company, to their surprise, beheld ahorso
and chaise drawn up within a few yards of
thr door allotcd to the use of the females,
the d001' fdr the males being some thirty feet
toward the other end of the house. By the
side of the horse a man, young and fashiona-
bly dressed, as far as his appearance could be
judged of in the starlight, stood holding the
reins and whip, with his face turned toward
the door, and in the seeming attitude of wait-
The women came hesitating down the
steps, and, theie coming to a stand, began
timidly and silently to stretch for ward their
heads and peer at the mysterious stranger.
The men, also, Coming out and seeing the un-
expected visitant and his equipage stationed

across the path of the women, began, with
low whispered inquiries of one another, to
gather towards the spot. In this stage of the
affair, Elder Higgins, who had qui'posed to
remain in the house till all had retired that he
might pass unobserved to the room where he
was expecting the next moment to meet the
victim of his designs. got impatient at the
tardy mavement of the people, and came
bustling tl arouah the throng with a light in
his hand to ascertain the cause of the delay,
when the stranger turned suddenly wand and
confronted him.V The instant 'the light struck
upon the face of the latter,the recoiling Elder
uttered a convulsive shriek, and with wildly
glaring eyes and chattering teeth, sank down

upon the ground in horror and afright at the
apparition which he believed he had beheld
A commotion was now observed among the
huddling and startled females, and the 'next
moment a light ﬁgure made her way to the
front of the crowd.

“It is!” she exclaimed, in low, eager ac-
cents. “ It is! Oh! it is he 1” she repeated,
and, springing forward, threw herself into
the arms of the stranger, who, lightly swing-
ing her into the seat of his vehicle, turned
again towards the crowd.

,‘Viper l’.’ he exclaimed, advancing with
brandished ﬁst close to the appalled and near-
ly prostrate Elder: “ viper, thou art baffled."

With this he turned quickly about, leaped
nimbly into his seat by the side of his fair
companion he' had just placed there, applied
the whip to his horse, and dashed forward
for the main road, leaving the whole assem-
bled family of Shakers standing aghast and
bewildered with astonishment and perplexity
at what had so suddenly and inexplicably
passed before them.

As greatly frightened as the guilt-smitten
Elder had been, he was yet the ﬁrst tocom-

‘prehend the situation and rally for the rescue.

“ The ﬁend l" he ﬁercely cried, leaping up
and pointing with frantic gestures" after the
carriage, .
reprobate, the godless reprobate, is carrying
011 Martha !' pursue him! stop him! catch
him! save her from ‘the villain! Run! run
for your lives, 01 they will escape us !”

Roused by theIcommands and the eager and
furious manner of their leader, the men, fol-
lowed by the women, rushed promis'cuously
down the road in' pursuit of the fugitives;
but scarcely had they passed the line of the
buildiiigs in this disorderly rout and gained
the main road where it~becan1e enclosed by
fences, when 'a top suddenly sprang from
the dust across the path against the legs or
uplifted feet of the foremost rank of the pur-
suers; and the next instant a platoon of Sha-
kers were rolling and sprawling upon the
ground, while those in the rear, unable to
check their speed in time to save themselves,
rank after rank came successively tumbling
and ﬂoundering down upon the backs of their
fallen commnions, till nearly the whole bevy
were prostrate and scrambling on all fours in
the road.

At this juncture the wild, rattling laugh of
the vagabond was heard behind the stone
fence against one end of the mischief-making
spring-rope- , and the next instant a gaily-
dressed young man leaped nimbly over the
fence into the road, and made a brief pause a
few paces ahead of the fallen and confused
forces of the pursuing enemy.

“ May be, friends,” he said in a half-jovial,

half-commiserating tone, as he glanced at the'

disorderly plight of his recent entertainers,
“ May be you don’t know me with my Sun-
day clothes on? Well, well, good people,
perhaps it is rather a provoking case; but
here is about twenty yards of good new rope
I will leave you, by way of reparation for
your hospitality this afternoon and your tum-
ble this evening. It' is the best that I can do

by you now, I behave, though if you should-

ever cage such another rare bird as the 0110

-V“ Oh the ﬁend l—Vthe apostste—thc -V

just ﬂown y0nder,-and should be in- wrist of'
more rope-but I can’t stay to chat any 115113: '

or at this time. So good bye, thee and thou. ”

So saying, and leaving ‘» 1the' .discomﬁt'ted
Shakers to gather themselves 11p in the best
way they could, be. bounded forward a few
rods, leaped upon a horse which stood tied to

a nook in the fence, and galloped- off after"

the receding carriageznow rattling away in
the distance. ' _ - 1 .

“And what then?” I asked, perceiving.

that the narrator had come Vto a stand with
the air of one who had arrived at the end of
his story. “What next happened i". V

_ “ Why, nothing very unnatural, II bVelieve,”
replied my host with a humeroqs smile, “un-
less you make it out from the Ifact 11.111.11.11 old
Justice of the I’Veace,,livng some eight or ten
miles from the scene ofV action, was called up
that night to do alitVtVlé business in the marry-
ing line. ”

“ And the bride 011V the common," I asked
somewhat puzzled to bomprehend the devel-
opment, “ the bride was our her01ne,,Martha,
of coui';se but the bridearoom fix—No; Seth,

surely, for 11c was drowned, you know."

“ Perhaps, friend, ” answered my host with
waggish gravity, “perhaps he was not drown-
ed as much as some, after all; but, rising to
the surface after lnstlunrre, and seeing the
wicked attitude of VthVoEIIder, suddenly chang-
eId his plan, and, so sinking under again with
some little sham of, drowning, came up again
silently under a neighboring clump of bushes
—crept away with the loss of his, shoe and
broad- brim—went to a young 1111;111:1151 his
acquaintance—exchanVVgVed his wet Qiiakcr gear .
for a decent-suitof-clﬁther'and'set of for. the
residence of his late ﬁnale, 1 When; he arrived?
the next day, and to his agreeable surprise

found himself in possession of one of. the:3

best little farms on the Morrimac, andwhere

in due time he, in conjunction with a young

friend, concocted the plan which, you have
seen executed. ” .,,

“ A romantic coming. 9111.11.11... nIiVy sdul V!”
I exclaimed with delight; 1 ,“ and you knew
the parties-are they; still alivez and do they
reside in this. vicinity? I would 30 almost any
distance to Isee theirs", .1- . I1: 1;

“ You would have no very serious journey
to perform for that purpose, I imagine, " he
replied signiﬁcantly..- . ,

“ Why ?—H0w ?" I Vasked still in doubt Ire-t
specting the full development.

“Why, verily, my friend, ” said my host,V .
. or purer.I
' to make a ‘sister’ of you.I What right has he

casting an arch look at my perplexed counte-
nance, and speaking hi the Quaker dialect
“ verily, thee art not so shrewd a gues’sér as
I had supposed thee, ’elsVe theeh'ad smelt a rat
long ago. " V..:

“ Stupid!” I cried- '1: stupid indeed! But
I see it all now—the hero, Seth, is now be-
fore me, and the herome,,the goodMartha—”

“Run away,” he interru IteVdI, iaugbmgly,
“run away, as you mightilildve notyced per.
haps, at the beginni of the description by
which she was mtroduced VIVliutV the hero, bg-VI
ing more modestly descmbefIl VViViiIadeV out to
stand the racket without running. ” V

“One more question only,” saidI; “the
young friend, who, in the character of. the.
vagabond, took your 11311121115 Martha and so
ﬁnely managed the 1.1111114" V.V I

“Was also from this neighborhood, " he re-V
plied. You noticed, perhaps as you came
along, a mile or' two back, a two-story white
house, with an ofﬁce in the yard P”

“I did, thinking it a very neat establish-
ment, " I answered.

-“ Wells ” he rejoined, “ that' 1s the—though
perhaps Esquire Wentworth would not thank
me for telling of his pranks when he ﬁrst
started life as a lawyer. It' was the making

of the man, however; people seeing how .

cleverly he had managed a love case, conclu-
ded he would be no slouch at alaw case, if he
had one. He rose rapidly after that. But
enough of this. Seth and Martha, my chil-
dren,” he continued, calling to his eldest boy
and girl, still up, and reading in the kitchen;
“one of you take a mug, the other a candle,
and go down and draw us I a mug ,of the best
cider you can ﬁnd in the cellar. This Shaker
story has made my mouth as dry as a tin
trumpet.”V

SALE or Sr. J umnN.—-Decidedly the meet
interegting event of the past few days, in
trotting circles, is the sale of 'the young
trotting horse St. Julien, who passed, last-
weel I; from the possession of Mr. ﬁmes Gal-
way, of Goshen, N. Y , who has owned him
since 1873, to that of Mr. Orrin A. Hickok,
the celebrated driver,Vnow of San Francisco.
Other parties than Mr. H. are interested in
the 0Wnership of St.» Julien, but Mr. Hickok
is his ostensible proprietor. The price paid'
was the round sum of $530,000.in cash. The
horse in question is a bay gelding, seven years
old, sired by Volunteer, dam by Sayrc’s Hen~
ry Clay, and he has already shown himself
worthy of this princely breeding. He was
purchased, in 1873, by Mr. Galway, at a very
low ﬁgure. Mr. G. met Major Edsall jogging
thIe colt on the half-mile track at Goshen, he
being then owned by a c.0untryman Liking
his looks, he inquired as to his breeding, and
then as to his price. His owner wanted
$1,000, but, after some Vbargainingmgreed to
sell him for $600, and for that small sum Mr.
Galway became his possessor. He was turned
out, and given no work until the fall of 1874,
when he was taken up and trained by Wil-
liam Sargeant, but was ﬁrst speeded to a
sleigh in the following winter. In June,
1874, he trotted a mile at a trial in 2:42, and
repeated in 2:38. A little later he trotted in
2:38, and repeated in 2:36, and a week before
the entries for the Grand Circuit closed, he
showed a mile on the Goshen half-mile track
in 2:27. He knew nothing but trot, and we
doubt if any horse ever came to his speed
more quickly. He was entered at Pough-'
keepsie, Springﬁeld, and Hartford last sea.
son, in two races at each, place, and he won
all of the six contests.

=2:
The Curse ofthe Age.

The London Quarterly has a strongarticlo
on “Drink, the Vice. and Ithe Disease,” of
which the following is:a:portion :I .,

The vice of drunkardnesVs—rightly deﬁn-
ed by the ancient Swedcs as “the disgrace of
man and the mother of misery”—has spread
over the length and breadth of our land, per-
vading country as well as town, agricultural
as well as commercial districts, army as well
as navy; sparing the youth as little as the

old, the woman scarcely less than the man; V

the destroyer of all health and virtue, .the
breeder of all sickness and sin; ﬁlling every
haunt of vice, every prison for crime, every
hospital for sickness and accident, every
asylum for madness. N0 foul epidemic ever
raged more, periodically, than this perma-

nently , no malignant plant ever seeded and'

propagated itself With more fatal rapidity
and Vabundaneo. , Billions of gallons and
millions of pounds fail, from their very

. enormity, to convey deﬁnite ideas. The

true statistics are those of Crime—the Ire-
cords of the Calendar, rather than those of 1
the Exchequer or the Excise. The common
police courts of, London for one week’suﬁlce
to prove that' the last forty years and up-
wards have brought upon our country. The
very reformation of the higher classes has
helped to blind them to the magnitude of the
evil. We live, as respects'the vice of drunk.
enness, in an age of the driest iniquity. V

The other evening when a Detroiter and his
wife felt lonesome, cVthe‘y decided to go over
and call on an acquintance and ass an hour
away. “Ah! I’m glad to see you! V’ exclaimed
the acquaintance, as he opened the door.
“Come right in and take of your thinas.
I’ve got one hundred and sixty verses o a
p0em written, and I want to read them to you
and see what you think of my talent 1” They
didn’t 0 out anywhere next evening. -—De.
trait res Press.

,seemed to. be in his arms!

. those who prefer fraudulent methods.

I adulterations. _
’ by tenement households, or blocks, or neigh-V

" Enii‘onVs GAzirm; " ' '

V Will you please copy Vin the Non-
WALK GAIza'r'rn, the enclosed, 1.111111131115111 a.’
recent paper, in hopes that it my be' a on'rd
in season to the girls, from AN 01.1) FAsVn-
10Nnn WOMAN. Feb. 2d, 1876.

OLVD UNcmr \Nier’ 11 TALVx re 1113 NIECES. —
There are some things which IV do not like to
see.
.I were jogging along the road, the otlier
night, we met Mable and Harry cuming home
from an afternoonV drive, and, instead of sit-
ting up properly in the carriage, Mable
The graceless
scamps did not mind as any more than a
couple of chickens, for they did not change

to be looked ’at.

‘ I never!’ said I, as soon as we got by.
‘VSh‘e ought to be ashamed of herself, ' said
my 'Iwife Susan. Mable 11nd Harry are mere
boy and girl. If she does not know any bet-I

'bettér keep 1.11111 home washing dishes aVn'd
mending her stbbkings. ‘ '

'VTth other day, when I was waiting at my
1111110111“ 11061, a merry laVSsie from the next
house was chatting 1n the parlor with an old,
young man, who' is quite a bean for Vail the
ladies; till 11 once he pulled her down in his
lap and kissed her, {1an she did not seem
111151711811. I suppose I Van ‘old-fashionedI’ V
in 11111111111151.1111; did not look well. If VI
was going to many that girl, I should not
like to think VVtVlVIia'I such fellows h'a'd kissed her
when they 1111111111 tVelVIl you, girls sIuch
doings are in 13111111111113th are countriﬁed

and ill-bred if they" are not' improper .Su'szI
'tVlIieV Vmah is respectable and means noth-V
i'an VbVad. SuchI famiharities are like brushing
1511 the delicate dew from the grape, by
careless handling. Keep your sweetness for
the real lover, and let Tom, Dick and VHan-y
understand ‘hands 011.111.111.811». gracious
11th Winninv Ia‘rid Vflinely, and yet repel per-I
113111111 hberhes VVSoVnVVie gentlemen can never 1
111'. tiny thing for you, never 11111.1: 11 ,, courtesy
nor show any attraction Without touching
your hand, taking you by the shoulder, or
getting hold of Iyou by some way. They are
not men of genuine delicacy and reverence
for women. They are fond of ladies’ society,
but they” do not make women better, nobler
Look out for a man who wants

to use all 11 IIlover’ s freedom and intimacy of

.1ntercourse, and give you- only a thousandth

part 'on his heart 1’ Such Ia man has usually

‘a great many'II sisters. ,VY our caresses and
affectionate familiarity are worth a great deal '

more than he gave y0u_ in return. -.Frank
and friendly Vand hopeful you maybe, and
yet keep a maidenly reserve of your favors.

And beware of aman who talks love to
you, 11.111110 claims a right to caresses and,
familiar freedom, yet never asks you to mar
ry him.’ Alover, who never means to be a
husband,' is a mean mun. He pretends not to
believe' I111. engagements and so. does not bind
111.11.11.11“ Vin any way, but expects from you all
a lover’ s privileges“ You give hilh every-
thing, and he gives you—.what he has often
given, and what he is now giving others,
who believe” in him as foolishly as you do.

You nIeed not IbIe.pr11dish, that is an af-‘
fection of modesty and delicacy; be modest,
reﬁned, pure and delicate. .. Make rudeness,
coarseness, and personal liberties impossible
in your presence, make men better by being
better yourselves. —- Woman .9 Journal.

VA young ministerhad gone to aV prosper-

ous church" in a certain town to preach his

gentleman who was entertaining him suggest-I
ed to him not to preach against the Universa-
lists. I ‘I‘There are,” said he, “severalIUniver-
salist families who have pews in our church,
and we don’t want them offended." The
young minister promised. At the church
vestibule one of the deacons drew himaside,
rind said, “Do you see those gentlemen jut

passing in? They are spiritualists, but come

here to church occasionally. I wish ' you
would be a little careful not to say anything
that might hurt their feelings." The minis-
ter promised. As he was ascending the
pulpit stepsgone of the elders button-holed
him for a moment to whisper an additional

come into church, and he gives us a lift

sometimes. I wish you would be particular
not to alludeIto theIwhiskey business or the

temperance question.” The young minister,

getting fairly frightened to see the moral

ground thus steadily narrowing before him,

inquired: “Pray who or what shall I preach
against, then." The elder’ s reply came with
an air of triumph—“Preach against the Jews,

they haven’t got a friend' in town. ”

ADDULrnaA'i'mN or Sous—We are well
advised,Vsays the Evening Mall, of the fact.
that all the low grade soaps aressom adultera-
ted as to yield an enormous proﬁt. They
are compounded of astrong preparation of
soda and various substances, such as barytes,
talc, and other minerals, to give weight and
body. ‘This the manufacturerssay they are
compelled to do in order to compete with
The
soda used in these soaps is destructive alike
to the clothing and the hands of those who
use it. It takes out the dirt, but it also de~
stroys the fabric. We want the old English
law reviVed which deals with those who
adulterate articles of food'for household use
ascriminall. No wonder the poor are so
very poor when they' pay to “the corner gro-
cer four or ﬁve proﬁts 'on' the article' they
buy, in inferior quality, adulteration, scant
weight, and cash advances. Exactly how to
get at the evil is diﬁicult to determine, but
one method is to enforce a law againt all
Another' is to club together

borhoods, and buy at wholesale, and do away
with the grocery man until he is brought to
his senses—Dry Goods Reporter.

“ This,” said Ofﬁcer O’Rourke, as he led up
a portly, well—dressed man of forty-ﬁve or
ﬁfty, “is John Percival. He were very
drunk and came from Philadelphia. ” ' The
Court—“A Centennial appropriation of $5
will be in‘ order, Mr. Perciva .” The pris.
oner’advanced to the clei'k Vwith a' stately
stride, and taking a huddred dollar green-
back from 'his pocket-book, threw it upon
the desk with a ﬁo1irish,remarking, “Small-

est I’ve got. ’V’ The clerk emptied his cash
drawer and found $16 therein. Then he
dived into his pocketsand got $7. 50 mere.

Then he borrowed all that the justice had,
$26. 80. (The Justice had $27, but retained
5 cents for car fare and 15 cents “to give to
the poor. ”) Then he levied upon the clerks.
Then he passed the hat round among the re-
porters, all of whom said they had nothing
smaller than one hundred dollar bills them-
selves, except the young man with the ulster
overcoat, a headlight diamond, and a geran-
ium at his button hole, who contributed 13
cents. Then the sergeants had to stand and
deliver, and ﬁnally Mr. Percivﬁl got his 95
and departed. The onrtl'iy clerk now asked
the Contributors to the fund to let him know
What he owed them, and they presented
claims to the amount in the aggregate of
$106. 40. Finally matters were adjusted and
business was resumed, the clerk remarking,
as he mopped his brow, that he wouldn’t be
Secretary of the Treasury if they paid him.

Three hundred and twenty-two boys are
now conﬁned in the Reform school at Meri-
den.

IIIFoIr instance, when my wife Susan and '

their position Mr seem scared nor ashaVrVned

. calculated by-

.vIinItIh the 111.191; Ciréina es in readiness at all times.

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Office at residence of B. 0. Banks, Main Street.

caution—‘ ‘The leading liquor-dealer has just -

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For Sale 01' to Let.

GOOD FARM Vaith Dwelling,Ba1-n and

Ont-House,ne estN orwa! Post Ofﬁce.
Enquire or D. R. s LLECK, South Norwolk.

South Norw k, Jan. Blot, 1876. “5

Houscsa‘nd Rooms .to Rent.

HE subscriber has now in charge several

' Dun-lung non-ennui! Sel- ornooml .
Bent. The houses and rooms are all within the
ough, and 1nclnde medium and ﬁrst-class rents
A portion can bah ad‘for immediate occupancy.
Also several desirable residences which will be
sold at a bar ain. AMES FINNEY.
Norwalk. an 28111, 1876. '

A BARGAIN.

Volt SALE. —A first-rate bn1lt House. (on East
Avenue,) containin nine rooms; will be let
V'lt Vnotsol'l. Also BUlL AING LOTS for sale.
Apply toD. ll. FITCH.
‘.Norwalk Nev.27thV,1875I. 4811

lWV\f\WM/\N'\I\ I ‘

TO LET.

THE First Vor Second Story of a house on East
Avenue. Enquire of J. l’. HAN 108D. “‘48

VEIRST-lliAVSSV HOUSE Fill! SALE.

. NEW, FIRST-CLASS HOUSE located on
West Main Street,’ is offered for sale. Said
110m contains ﬁfteen rooms besides closets and

.wardroIbIes; cellar under the whole house with

room for a large basement kitchen, and umb—
waiter, and has a lire-place built 101- a range;

119- to be convenignt for two families if desired,
hiu' mg a' kitchen I1pad pantry up stairs. and sepa-
rate 'stairways. be water is carried up to the

Isocond ﬂoor, 111111 the waste water carries out the
The house is balls of the - 1 .,

water to the ceIsI- 0011 .
best mhi‘erixils" an in the best manner. It 1's now
being ﬁnished and will be ready to occupy Janua-
ry 1111, 1876. To one wishing to purchase a new

I'ﬂrstLoIAss place at 'a moderate price, in one of the

most desirable locations in town, this presents a
'good opportunity If not sold within two months

contemplated at the time of contract, but are pcIrr .will rent it to a responsible parity“ at a moderate

rent. Enquiroo of
lNo‘rwalk; December 1st, 1875.

mg ,_ FOR SALE.»

Vl‘WO very desirable BuildingLots on West Main
Street. Apply at the GA ETTE OFFICE. ,

BEN EATON.”

Norwelk Hotel.

CORNER of Rive!t 41111 was Streets, Nor-walk.
Conn; oppoIslto this Da'nbury & Norwalk rain-

lVmi‘i if” 9°" 111W???) nine (1' 1a 1111‘ Mai”:
we nown am at an a s men
pas-111151148???“ acommo-
dation 01‘ permanent and cats. The
forms are comm odious. tho :1. to 6011, th'e prices
reasonable“ A ﬁrst-class liIVvory/ sta leis connected

Y TAYLOR, Proprietor.
VVNVorwalkV, Conn. April 16, 1875. , . .

Corner Main and Wall StIs., NORWALVK, 01‘. ,V.

THE subscriber having taken the above well-V

known centrally located Hotel, isprepared to
entertain permanent. andtnnoiont guests. Good
rooms; good table; reasonable r1ces.A ﬁrst-
class Livery connectcdwith the oiel. Carriages
effort made to lease.

to '11! trains IEvIeil'yV
ssnIMOBEHOUS,Prop1-Iiotor.

VAIVBIV'VIX. VS’V. GIBSON

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Surgeon VDe'Ithe'j'st,

'WBWALK, CONN;-

Dulce corner of Main 11.111 W all Streets. Nitrous-V
0x1 1111 bias sdn'iinisteredI. . a

G. B. COOLIDGE
DENTIST-

Successor toI ' II
' Dr; Ash. Hill, .
WALL STREET NORWALK,
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Nor-walk, Conn.

S 3 W. MITCHELL,

AtV the ever popular V
UNION MARKET
has always the best of
Beef, Veal, Mutton, and Pol-IR,

at fair “VIVIEPIVVVWSV‘V Union (formerly Model) Mar-
ket, on the ridge; 18

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A R 1; H1 T E c T,
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Residence, STAMFORD, CONN'.

Special attention paid to country residences. ly2

Kansas 8. nootwooo,
Fashionable Draper and Tailor.
' AND

VGENTS’ FURNISIIING EMPORIUM.
Mam- Street, Norwalk. 001111.

1 . . V . . - ‘
N orwalk Posh Market.
The subscriber respectfully announces that at
the Old Bridge Fish Market a constant supply of

[1311511 FISH;
OYS' I‘ERS. CLAMS, &c.,
11.111111111111111“ of choice

Hill" AI! VEIE‘I‘AILES ll Tllilll SEAS".

CHARLES W. LOCKWOOD.
9' Spring Chickens Dressed to order.

D‘WABD P. WEED,

, :D n ‘U' G G- :I: s '1- . .
Wall Sheet, opposite Norwalk Opera House.
A large and well selected stock of

DRUGS AND MEDICINES,

Perfumer, Patent Medicines. all kinds Mineral
Waters, chat and Medicated Soaps. Flavoring

Cmbs
Sponges, Chamois Skins, Stationery. Cigar; Sc;
and is constant] adding to his stock all the new
and popular me icines of the day.

DRUGS & MEDICINES;

THE undersigned would announce to the citi-
zens in this vlcinity, that at his Drug Store

VCOR. OF WASHINGTON 1k DEPOT STS.,
can always be found

P U R L D R U G S ,
Choice Wines & Liquors,V

FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, . 1
ram 1. 1111151 mucus, PATIIVTV ninlelm.

- l’nysicians’ Piescriptions Icarelully compounded
day and night. Can be found nights in same
building; entrance on Washington Street.

1319 s. F. DECK, South Nor-walk.

ET NA INSURANCE Co. of II iRTFORD.
[near our 1111.111 15512., g. . Charter Perpetual.

Capital andI Assets, $5,052,880.19

Insures against 10: and damage by Fire, on terms

adopted to the hazdrd and conmstent with the laws

of compensation. COW LES 12 MERRILL,
Sole Agents for Nor“. 111k and vicinity.

onWA LK issuVuAVVNcn 00.,

No 1: WA L K, c ONN.
Charter capital - - - $500,000
Paid up Capllnl - - - - 100,000

“'11. C. SEREET. Pres,

3.8;. Ber'SCE ll

Athlsstorein MALLORY’S BLOCK,hasconstan1V
. ly on hand a general andrtmem of

G- SB. 0 C 13 a. IV E VS,
cacVCK'E'nY, 1.1.1111.
r111 AND woooim wane, 1110.. are

By devotinghls constanlee'rV'sonal attent. 01.- to the
businesshe hopes to merit publicpatronage.

I (1110' R. 00111.58, Scc’y.

FRANCIS McKnoN, Jr.,
Practical Plumber.
PLUMBING in all its BRANCHES.

Green Houses Fitted up.

Orders left at Shop on School Street, or on slate
at Bclden’s Tin Shop. Jobbing promptly attcnldeld
to.

GO TO BELDlliis

and hsce to new

Hot Closet Range.

11116 within ﬁve minutes’ walk of

organ.» 111 the First Gangrogationai’Lhurch .VV .

- habitants OI

I'V‘VOVRVV SALE CHEAP.

A; 81.1115 11111111 1.1.1.1.... V40 1111»... 011.151.111.111,
situated three miles north of New Canaan.
Apply to A. B. BEN LDICT, Smith’s Ridge.

VFORVV SALE.

A NEATBESIDENCE on one of the bc'st,pioa's-
:antest and most accessible streets in town.
Has elght rooms. with gas in each, and heater ca-
pa'blo‘ of- hoating. the whole house. Largo be
with stabling for several horses. Apple, Pear and
CherryT recs, 'jnst commencin' to car fruit.

0 Post Ofﬁce,- to.
Price 81,500.01- will rent it to a good tenant for
9800 per year. Enquire at this office.

VBVARN TOV BENT—A new. 111111 with “good Sta-
bhng for several horses; near the bridge.
131100.88, per month, Enquire at this Ofﬁce.

VIVVIVIVVVWV FVIIVR YVOIIR VVl-AVTEVll PIPES-1

Wm. Glover & Son,

Are reﬁdy to Vputin yourI WATER, STEAM or GAS
PIPE, at very short notice and at as low a rate Iii
anyone. WROU GHT AND CAST, IRON,- TIN!
LINED,- LEAD PIPES; _&c., of every size and de-
Vscription. PLUMBING” in all its branches-

VBV. JV STURG V188,

REAL ESTATE 81111811811188

BROKVlV-BR,

Ofﬁce No. 41 Suzette Building,
NORWALIK, CONN. .. .
At oilice Tuesdays. Thursldays and Saturdays,
and every evening after 5 0’ cl oc

Property bought. sold and exchan Igor]
Connecticut ‘arms wanted for ew York city

Nutaryfor City and County of New York.

INSURANCE

La'ncashire, of England, Capita1810,000,000.
. Scottish Commercial, Scotland, capi’l 8l0.000,M.V
In? agara, of New York, assets, $1,500,000.
ctrouplitan Plate Glass lnsuranCc Companzo
ork, Cap1tal $100 000.

pro

Iof New

10 PER GENT. INTEREST-

‘ First Mortgage onfprmI-lands. .. ,
5 Per centSemi-annnaliy,‘
NOV BETTER SECURITY.

Havin made arrangements with HENRY
CLEW s 00., well known bankers, to safely in-
vest money at the above rate, we earnestly beg' in-
vestors to call and examine at the ofﬁce 0

Wilson 81 Hurlbutt,
GAZETTE BUILDING-

VJ. BELDBN HUBLBVUVTT.

FRANCIS J. Morton.
Draper and Tailor.
A choice selection of new and fashionable goods

constantly on hand
Room No. l, Gazette Bundling.

LANGLEY’SV

' PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,

No. 13 Main St., Nor-walk,

(over G. s S. H. Holmes’ store.)

I. F. Lsn icy would respectfully inform the in-
Norwalk and vicinity that he has en-
larged and remodeled the above Gallery. and is
now prepared to make all kinds of pictures as

as the best, at the lowest prices. Copying one
and enlargements made from small pictures, and
colored' in india Ink, Oil and Water Colors. Views
taken of residences on reasonable terms. Stereo-
scopic Views, Groups and Interiors made. Stereo.
scopic Views of N orwalk at 25 cents each. Please

vo me a call. Satisfaction guarantee ed.
$14 I. F. LANthY, Photographer. -
NOTICE.

11111111111 01. 1111111 1111

WILL COMMENCE BUSINESS 0N

Thursday neither lst, I814,

In the Banking Rooms of the VFair
' ﬁeld 00. National Bank.

III’EIES'I’ Will. I! AllllWED II All. BASES "III
III! on: 05 DEPOSIT.

Business hourst’rom 9, A. 111., to 12. 111.; and from 1
o’clock, P. 111., to 3; and on Saturday evenings
from 6 to 8 o'clock.

Wm. K. JAMES. President.

1138 V V 011.15.11. STREET, Treasurer.

Are you goisng. to Paint?
45173111111123

CHEMICAL PAINT!

THE BEST IN THE MARKET.

ltis morebeautilul. moredurable, lowerin price.
is all ready for use, does not wash by rain. best
wood reservcr, is water and fire proof, and 19111 a
best or general uses, either for wood. iron or
brick buildings. Many of the ﬁnest residences in
town are painted with

VBRI LL’S CHEMICAL PA! N'l‘
Put up ready for use in pails of ‘l. 2 or 3 gallons
kegs 01 5 10 or 15 gallons. halt barrels or barrels,
All orders promptly 111101! and any information

gi1 on by applying to

D. H. WEBB, Solo Ag’t for 1111.11.11:

Office west end of Bridge, SOUTH NOPWALK

Barnssm WAN-:11.

1119 public are warned that Dr. A. Iiawlcy

Agent for this water. lie has no genuine Bethes-
da Water since April, 1875. and Is selling a spuri-
ous water for Bethesda. F or further p: 1r1iculursV.
address RICIIA RD DUN RA If,
Manager Bethesda Springs.
Waukcsha, Wis. , Nov. 20111, 18.511159

FOR A 0000 000K VSTOVE
010 To neurosis.

New Barber Shop
Mr. 11111511119" nAPPLn

liavin taken the Shop formerly occn ieu b Mr.
Ed. Apgpcll, 1n ISAACS'BLOL'K, WALL V1]: 111‘ ,
is now prepared to serve the public in 1111: [1 st
manner as regards any thing in the Tonsorial Art,
and intends making it the