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WHOLE NUMBER 1490. N ORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1876. — VOL. LIX,-- ER 3],
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“ CHISPA.”
CHAPTER I.
Tun MYSTERIOUS NOTE.
In 1865 I was working on the south fork of
the north fork of the Yuba, at a point two or
three miles below Sierra City. I was at work
alone in the ravine making down into the river.
Half a dozen other miners had cabins not far
from mine, and were at work in gulches or on
bars in the river. All Of our cabins were on
the south side of the river, and mine was at
least half a mile further south than any of the
others, which carried it well up toward the
main ridge or range of hills walling in the
stream.
One day at noon I went home to get my
dinner, and on opening the door Of my cabin
saw in the'middle of the floor a small scrap
of white paper folded in the form of a note.
I thought this nota little curious, as my door
was secured with a padlock of peculiar con-
struction, and no man could have entered
except through the ‘.‘.c_at hole" at the bottom
of the door.
As I took up the note I saw that there were
two or three drops of blood on it. The note
alone was suflicient to startle me, but when I
saw the blood a chill ran through my veins,
as I said : “Here is some villainy afoot l
Somebody has been murdered, perhaps!”
My next thought was that some of the boys
might be playing a trick on me. Instead of
at ocne opening the note to read it I began
looking into all the corners of the room, even
steeped and peeped under my bed.
No one was to be seen. My cat, old “Chis-
pa," was the only thing in the place. He
came purring about my legs, as was his habit
when I came home ; though often he was
out on his own hook, hunting and prospect.
ing about, for he was not one of your home-
staying, lazy kind of cats.
After speaking a kind word or two to old
“Chispa” I opened the note, and as I read be-
gan to open my eyes. The little note—mere-
ly the folded leaf of an ordinary memoran-
dum book—read as follows :
. . John 9th, 1865. '
This is to inform the person into whose
hands it may-come that I am in the old Mal-
danadq shaft. By the breaking of a ladder I
fell to the bottom of the shaft-about three
days ago. I am almost starved. For God's
sake come to my assistance at once.
JACOB Pul'l‘ouAuD.
When I red this nets—scrawled with a
very dull lead pencil—I hardly knew what
to think. My brain was in a whirl, and I
made no headway in trying to think. As I
turned the paper in my fingers I observed
that the blood came off from it and stained
my hand ; I saw, in fact, that it was quite
fresh.
This astonished me not a little, “for,"
thought I, “if he fell into that shaft three
days ago and hurt himself, how does it hap-
pen that the blood on this note is still fresh
and almost warm ?”
My next thought was this : “If he is in
the bottom of .‘the Maldauado shaft-more
than a hundred feet below the surface, as he
says, how could he leave me this note i" Cer-
tainly the thing was improbable, and I could
make neither head or tail of the business.
Who Jacob Pritchard was I did not know, I
did not remember having ever heard his
name. . .
I sat down on a stool' and tried to think.
“Herc,” thought I, “is a man in the bottom
of a shaft, where he has been for three days,
and where he is now supposed to be starving,
who leaves a note on my cabin floor asking
me to come and get him out. There is blood
—fresh blood—on this note, which makes
things still worse 1" . .- ,.._» —-— A. .- .-
I sat and thought and thought till things
, got so mixed upin my head that _I was no
‘ more capable of forming an opinion in regard
to the business than a born idiot.
I talked to the . cat—to old Chispa-about
it, and the old fellow seemed willing to assist
me’, and he got upon-my knee and suufled at
the note as though he knew that the cause of
my trouble lay in that. He then jumped
down and running to the corner of the room
brought me the remains of a little crippled
squirrel which he had lately caught, as I
could see, just as if he thought I might be'
in trouble on the grubquestion, and as much
as to say, “Here, old pard, eat and be
merry l"
“ Chispa, old fellow, you mean well,” said
I, but your kind of grub is not to my mind.”
. Chispa looked disappointed when he found
that I could see nothing in the “wreck” of
the little squirrel. He seemed to be of the
opinion that this ought to bring all my
troubles and doubts to an end. A
'The more I pondered on the matter‘the
- more it puzzled me. At one time I thought
that a man might have been murdered and'
thrown into the shaft, and that his murderers
might then have left the note at my cabin.
This would not do, however, as if the mur-
derers wished the body of their victim to be
found, there was no need of throwing it into
the shaft alive, and not wishing him to perish
they might have left the note for me to find.
There appeared to be some little sense in this,
yet I had no desire to go to the shaft alone ; it
might be a trickto get me out to murder or
maltreat me. Again there was no reason for
trying to entice me to any particular spot, as
I was living quite alone at my cabin and
might easily be caught there or at my claim
at any time.
Being unable to arrive at any satisfactory
conclusion in regard to the mysterious affair,
IOade up my mind to see some of the boys
on the river and lay the matter before
them. '
Having get four or five of my neighbors
.together, I produced the note, told them
where I found it, and asked what they
thought ofthe “business.”
They all saidntm tlnt thejmtemumgnv
“infernal lie on its face." Said they : “If.
the man is in the shaft how in thunder is he
able to leave a note on your floor telling you
’0 ?" _ ‘
’ _ This was nothing more than I had myself
thought Of in the start. After much talk we
all concluded that there was in it a trick of
some kind, however we would see it out.
We determined to visit the shaft named,
the whereabouts of which was well knOwn to
us all, we having seen it scores of times. It
was decided that each man should be. armed
with a six-shooter and that we should take
with us two or three candles and a long rope;
also a canteen of water and some brandy,
‘ though these last named‘articlcs were mainly
intended for our own comfort and sustenance.
Happen what might, we would thoroughly
examine the shaft. '
About three o’clock in the afternoon all
was in readiness and we set out—set out on
what seemed one of the wildest of wild.goose
chases. ’
The Maldanado shaft is situated (as many
of my readers well know) on the sharp ridge
of a high and steep hill, nearly a mile south
of the north fork of the Yuba'; also it was-—
“which is not so well known—about half a mile
above where my cabin stood. The shaft was
sunk by Gabriel Maldanado,a man well known
to all the early miners of the Comstock lode,‘
but now some years dead. The shaft was
sunk on a‘small but very rich vein of gold- '
bearing quartz. The ore extracted was taken '
down to the river on the backs of pack-mules
over along zig-zag trail, and was there work-
ed in arastras. At one time there was quite
a village of Mexicans on the river at the place
where the ore was worh'd—a small village
in which fandangos, fights and romantic love
affairs were of frequent occurrance.
shaft at the mine was sunk after the old Mex-
ican fashion. It was about eight feet by
fourteen in size, and its ladders of notched
poles were used instead of rope and Windlass
* 1y uttered that all heard it, and hearing it,
The 1
or hoisting apparatus, the miners .walking up
and down the poles and carrying the ore
poised on their heads 'in"'rawhide sacks.
These poles were placed in the shaft in such
a position that they formed a zig—zag line,
like a worm fence, from top to bottom, there
being a little platform on which rested the
foot of one ladder and the top of the next
below. Thus, in descending the shaft, one
passed from platform to platform, and from
side; to side of the opening until the bottom
was reached When the news of the dis.
covery of silver in WashOe reached Maldan-
ado he abandoned this mine—which was
hardly paying expenses at the time—and
crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains came
to the Comstock lode, and bought that
segregated portion of the Ophir mine which
was thereafter known as the “Mexican" and
which proved so immensely rich. All of his
Mexican followers left Sierra county, Cai-
ifornia, and the gold mine there was com-
pletely deserted, the buildings at and above
the shaft were crushed in by the heavy falls
of snow which occurred in that elevated re-
gion, and soon all about the place went to
ruin. .
Such was the old Maldonado shaft at the
time at which I found the note upon my, cabin
floor—nothing was left at the place but afew
shakes about the old blacksmith’s forge and
a section of a shake roof which had fallen
across and covered about half of the mouth
of the shaft. It was a lonesome, dreary old
place.
The nearer qur little party came to the old
shaft the more certain we all felt we were on
a fool’s errand; for how was a man in the
bottom of that shaft to send a note stating
the fact to a place full half a mile, away 1’ It
was nonsense to think of such a thing ; yet
there we were toiling up the ole face of
the mountain for the purpose of finding the
man—the man calling himself Jacob Pritch-
ard. Several times we halted and laughed at
the ridiculousness of our mission.
CHAPTER II.
AT m sum.
Arriving at the tap of the hill and at the
mouth of the shaft, one of the men said :
“Well, here we are! Now to make known
our presence to the man in the shaft—to Ja-
cob Pritchard i" ,
“ Well, call down to him," said another,
laughing ; for, now that we stood at the
mouth of the shaft,» We felt quite silly, and
' half expected to see some one peep out from
behinda tree or rock and “raise the laugh”
on us.
' The man whohad first spoken stooped over
the shaft and shouted : “J acob, are you down
there ?”
Almost instantly there came up from the
shaft a faint cry that was half moan, half
shout. We all heard it, and were thrilled and
startled. -
Most of the faces about the shaft suddenly
grew pale. We all stood silent for some see-
onds, when some one said : “Sure as fate
there is a man down there i" '
“ Who are you 1’ Who is down there ?
again called out our spokesman, stooping
close down to the dark mouth of the shaft.
. “ Jacob Pritchardl” was the answer that
came up the shaft. The name was so distinct-
turnod a shade paler than before.
“ It beats the devil," said one of the men,
breaking a somewhat protracted silence.
“That was the name signed to the note, and
here is the fellow still in the shaft 1”
“Ask him about the note,” said one of our
party. . r '
4—“ “fld‘you “write a note—dud send it our
—asking for help i” cried our spokesman,
stooping over the shaft and sending the mes-
sage down in sections, much as the sailors on
rivers call to each other from vessel to
vessel.
“ I did," was the prompt response from the
bottom of the shaft, and again we all‘ gazed
at each other in amazement. -
“ It is either the devil himself or the big-
gest liar in the mountains i" said Bill Wal-
lace.
“ How—could you—send out—a letter T"
asked Bill.
.“ Get me out. I' can’t tell now i” came
from the dark in a vexed and gasping
veice. .
“ He is right,” said Bill ; “we ought tobe
ashamed to stand here questioning the poor
devil when there are enough of us to eat
him up without either salt or pepper l Light
a couple of candles and get the rope ready.
Two of us will go down and see how he can
be got out. Some of the bottom ladders
must be broken, or he could come out him-
self—that is, if his legs are both sound.
Mike Murphy, you are stout and active, come
with me and we'll go and see that fellow.”
“ B—but h—how could he bring up the
letter?” stammered Mike, shaking his head
and looking anything but ready to descend
the shaft. V '
“ Blow the letter i" said Bill, “he’ll tell us
all about it when we get. him out. Are we
to keep the poor devil there all day while we
stand here parleyiug like a pack of cow-
ards ?" . ' ‘
“ I—I’m not afraid to go- down there, av
course,” said Mike, “but we all know that
this here is a quare kind of business, from
first to last4that is, as far as we’ve got in
it."
“ Well, then, Mike, you and I go,” said
Bill. “Just drop the end of the rope into the
shaft and we’ll work it along tothe bottom as
we coon it down the ladders. Take your
candle, Mike. "’
Mike took the candle into rather an un-
steady hand, and then waiting until Bill was
down a few feet, got upon the top of the
notched pole and began descending back-
wards.» as a codfish travels. As his head was
descending below the level of nonhuman
halted and cast a lingering look on all the
bright world he was leaving. He looked like
a man whose hours on earth were numbered.
His pride carried him where his legs did not
want to g0. , v '
Slowly and steadily the two men descend-
ed the shaft, slipping from notch to notch in
the long slender poles. As we stood at the
edge of the‘wide opening and eagerly gazed
down into it, we could distinctly see our two
companions and mark their slow descent by
the flickering light of their candles. Now
they were passing over the west side of the
shaft ; soon they turned and were seen com-
ing back to the east side, on which we stood;
anon they took another ladder, and again
moved to the west. Each time when they
thus crossed the shaft they came to a little
platform on which rested the foot of one lad-
der and from, which started the top of the
next below ; and sothey toilsomely zigzagged
their way down, the light of their candles
growing smaller and smaller till all we saw
resembled two little stars.
Finally the two twinkling stars went over
to the west side of the shaft and stopped side
by side. A murmuring, as of voices of per-
sons iu conversation, then came up the shaft:
“ Pay out more rope l" shouted Bill from
somewhere far down in the bowels of the
earth. ‘
The rope was slowly run out.
“ All right l That's enough !" cried
Bill. -
Again a hum of voices was head, then
came the order from Bill: “Haul up ; haul
slowly and carefully! Slowly—~slowly—slow.
ly l Hold l Hold on ‘now ; that will
do!” -
There was more buzzing of voices, then
_Bill cried out : “Hello, up there I”
“ Hello l” cried we.
“I on going to—bring him up——the-lad-
ectious, so that it would not become tangled
on the way. “I shall leave—the rope around
him. Keep the slack hauled up—but don’t
pull hard. Do you understand. -
“ All right i” cried I. “We know how it
is."
They then started up the ladders They
halted to rest at each platform. As they
crossed the shaft in their slow ascent we
could see, after a time, that Bill was ahead,
keeping the rope properly taut ; that Mike
was “boosting" in the rear, whilca dark lump
was moving upward between the two. Grad-
ually they worked their way up, resting an
climbing. ~
All this time we at the top of the shaft
were on the tip toe of expection, and were
puzzling our brains in regard to what manner
of man we should shortly see brought up
out of the “depths. "
Finally, as they approached ' the top we
were able to catch occasional glimpses (over
Bill’s shoulders) of a pale face and a black,
bushy beard. Then, when they reached the
last ladder, sloping up towards us, there was
added to the picture a pair of black and‘eager'
looking eyes—hungry-looking is probably the
better expression.
We at the top became so much excited that
we came near “yanking" the man up to the
top of the shlift at a single haul—would have
done so, perhaps, but for the warning cries
of Bill, whom we were in danger of dislodg-
iug from the notched polo on which he had a
precarious footing. _
The man was at last safely landed at the
top of the shaft. He wasastrauger‘to us all.
A tall young ‘fcllow, apparently about 26
years of age—stood before us. He wore a
black felt hat and ordinarflminer's garb. The
man was weak, and tattered as he opened the
noose at the end of the rope, dropped it to
his feet, and stepped out of it. '
Suddenly he sank upou his knees. We
were about to go to, his assistance, thinking
.he had fainted, when he raised his hands,
and we saw, by the motion of his 'lips, that
he was doing a thing we did not often see
done in the mines.
We took off our hats and stood by in s1;
lence. .
- When the young man attempted to rise
from his knees he fell Over on his side, and
came near rolling into the shaft again, for he
had fainted. Some water from the canteen
revived him, and a spoonful of brandy soon
gave him strength to stand, and even to walk
slowly, supported on either side by one Of
our men. .
We were all dying of curiosity, and as we
moved down the side of the mountain toward
my' cabin we could not refrain from asking a
few questions, weak and sick as the young
man looked.
“ Your name is Jacob Pritchard ?" asked
one of the men. '
“ It is,” said the stranger.
“ Did you write this note i" said I, exhib-
iting the scrap of writing I had found.
“ I did,” said the man; “but there is blood
on it 1 How came that ? I am not hurt l"
“ It was as I found it on my cabin floor,
where you left it," said I.
“ Where I left it 1 How could I 7" said the
young man giving me a reproachful look.
“‘ Well,” said I, “that is what I want to
know—and you all the time in the shaft 1"
“ Was it really brought to your cabin P"
“ Of course; how else would I_ have got
it i” said'I. >
“ It‘ is a miracle l" criedthe young man.
“ But how could you send the note up out
of the shaft i" asked one of the men.
“The story is too long to be told now;
besides, what you most‘want to know is so
simple—I might say so silly—that you will
be inclined to laugh at me. when I». tell you
all.”
This was, gasped out a little at a time, and
so feebly that we all saw that the young man
was in no condition to tell a long story, such
as this promised to be. Bill, who felt proud
of his part in the business of the rescue,
swore that the man should not say a word
until he had swallowed something in the
shape of food and till he felt himself able to
talk. , .
As the two men assisted the stranger down
the steep face of the mountain—much of the
time almost carrying him—acme of '-us fell
behind-to discus the words he had let fall.
But we could make nothing out of anything
he had said.
After we had reached'my cabin, and after
the stranger had partaken of such food as we
thought suitable for him in his weak state,
we asked him to tell us his story. '
“ I ought to ask you to tell me your story,”
said he, “as there are things that puzzle me
not a little, and which you ought to be able
to explain.. I» think you have said you found
my note here on the floor of you cabin f”
“ I have said so,” I replied, “and I cannot
understand how it was left there.”
“ The circumstance cannot astonish you
more than it does me," said the young man.
“The hand of God is in it 1 When you have
heard my story, you will probably be able to
tell me'how the note was brought to you ;
indeed, that is a mystery which it will remain
with you to explain-it is what I do not un-
derstand." ,
“ Then it will never be explained," said I.
“ We donlt know that," said the young
man.
‘f But I will tell you all I know about this
business." - .
“ Coed ! Let us have it.” said all hands.
CHAPTER n1.
Tux srgaxenn’s sTonr.
“ Well, said the young man, “to begin : I
have been mining about v Downieville—up the
river ”along Sailor Ravine and of! that way—-:
. for some months, making ,little more than
.mub.‘ _Ihadoftenheardofthdshaft. alien-.3.
doned by Maldonado at the time ’of the
Washoe silver excitement, and thought that
where so much gold' had been found, somd
.must have been left. I managed to get a
description of the thaft from a man virho had not}
the slightest idea of the use I intended mak 3
Three days ago I stole out of Downlevill and;
came up here, determined to descend the:
vein and examine the shaft myself. .'
. “ I was provided with a candle andE
matches, and when I found the shaft, after a1
long search, I unhesitatingly entered it and:
began to descend by means .of the notched?
poles. I never thought it possible that any?
accident could happen to me;-
“ All .went well till I was on the last lad-i
der from the bottom. I was about the mid-_:
die of the pole or ladder when, it broke in
the center and I fell a distance of about ten?
feet, to the bottom of the shaft. I was not
at all hurt. The upper- part- of the ladder;
fellacross my thighs but did not hurt me.
I felt at once that I'was completely trapped.
The pole had become quite rotten, besides
the middle notch had by accident been cut a
little too deep. ‘ *
In falling my candle was extinguished, but
I had a good supply of matches and soon
lighted it again. Holding the candle aloft I
found to my dismay that to the first platform
and to the foot of the nearest ladder the dis-
tance was nearly twenty feet. To this height
on all sides I was shut in by a smooth and
solid wall of rock. .
“I next looked about the bottom of the
shaft. The space was about eight feet in
wrdth by fourteen in length—it having been
excavated in this shape in order to give room
for planting the ladder at’ a propper angle.
Only half the bottom was dry ground. The
chat side of the shaft, into which the vein
‘ dipped, had been sunk about three feet'lower
than the west side, and contained Over two
'Iders," said Bill, sending his message up in
feet of water.
ing of the information he was giving. me: '
When I had made these observations I
again looked aloft and carefully examined
the walls on all sides. They afforded not a
cliuk by means of which I could hope to
climb to the platform above. I planted the
two pieces of the broken ladder agsinst the
wall, climbed to the top, and again looked for
clinks in the rock in which I might gain -a
hold for my fingers and toes. All was solid
and smooth.
“ I then placed one piece of the ladder
against the wall, and carrying the other,
climbed up and tried to plant it 'upon the
first section, I could not make it stand, and
to have attempted to climb it, even though it
stood, would have been folly, as it was quite
vertical. I tried planting its base in some of
the notches in my first section, but they were
not deep enough, and I could not make it
stand. When I stood my first section against
the shaft at a smaller angle I could plan.
my second in the notches, but then it would
not reach higher than within six or eight feet-
of the platform I wished to gain.
“ All this time my candle was stuck into a
bit of clay at the bottom of the shaft. It was
therefore Iblew it out and set down in the
dark. My feelings may, perhaps, be imag-
ined, but I cannot describe them. I wanted
to think—to do some good strong thinking—-
but my thoughts and my brain seemed to
spin around in a circle, and all I did was to
repeat over and over the one word, ‘Lost i
lost _l lost !’ Lost was all I could say—all I
could get my brain to ”comprehend.
“ I lay down and rocked myself to and fro
on the ground, not remaining still for a mo-
ment, save when I occasionly paused to gaze
up at the little square light that marked the
top of the shaft. Once in thus tossing about
I‘ struck my head against the wall of the shaft.
This gave me an idea that I stopped for a
moment to consider .;' it was that I might at
when there seemed to be nothing else to do.
>“ This did me some good, and I began to
think again. It appeared to me that I had
seen something floating in the water in the
other part of the shaft during the time my
candle was burning. I tried _to remember,
what it was. There were several objects;
There were not bits of weed or bark, but
something else—just what I could not recol-
lect. This bothered me so much that I de.
termiuedto light my candle and see what
was in the water. I found two dead rabbits
-—all bloated and green—three or four small
squirrel of a burrowing kind, ~ and half a
dozen mice.
“ All these were more or less decayed, but
I considered that it might yet become neces-
sary for me to eat them ; therefore I fished
them out and placed them in a corner of the
dry part of the shaft, where’Icould find them
if my candle was all gone when the time
came that I must eat them. This done I
blew out my candle and again lay down to
roll and toss, to gaze at the speck of day fa'r
above me, and groan. .
“ Some one might pass that way and héar
me. The moment this thought came into
and looking upward, I began. shouting.
Hour after hour I did nothing but " shout. I
shouted till hoarse and till 1. could hardly
stand. Finally, completely exhausted, I fell
asleep. ' '
“ When I awoke it was all dark above,
and I said it was now dark—no use 'of
shouting. When daylight came again I re;
sumed my shouting, and kept it up until I
become very hoarse and weak, then I gave
it up as worse than useless. »
“ I studied all manner of combinations to
be made with my two pieces of ladder, and
two or three times lighted my candle to look
at them, but soon blew it out again, as I saw
thaf'jhey could not be made any longer than
they actually were. The bit Of daylight
above did not reachme, and did me no good
except to let me know when it was day and
when night. -
“ It is useless to prolong this part of my
story. I soon suffered the pangs of hunger
and thirst. It was not hard to bring myself
to crawl to the water and drink of it, foul as
it was, but it was hard to undertake to eat of
the dead animals. Several times I attempted
it, but gave it up, feeling that the time had
not yet arrived. _ ' _
“ I found myself taking naps at all times
of the day and night. On awaking from one of
these short naps I thought I heard something
on the bottom of the shaft—there was alight
rattling of the little quartz pebbles of broken
fragments of rock. I listened for some time
and finally became satisfied that there was
something moving about in the shaft. I
struck a match, and lighted my bit of candle,
when I’saw near me a striped squirrel. .I
was delighted to find that I had some live
thing in the shaft with me. I advanced and
picked up the little animal, 'which hardly.
made an attempt to escape. . As I ,held. it in
my hands I could feel its heart beating so
rapidly that the pulsations could-not be
counted. ‘Here," thought I, ‘are a few
mouthfuls of food that may be eaten without
loathing.’ As I held the squirrel in my hand
thinking whether to kill‘and eat it then, or
to awaita still more dire extremity, I hap.
pened to cast my eyes upward toward the
ladders, when, ‘Now,’ thought I, ‘if this were-
a carrier pigeon, a sparrow, or a bird of any
kind, it might be the means of saving me."
Then it Occurred to me that I might. make a
better use of the squirrel than to eat it.
‘ _" Taking out my memorandum book I
wrote the note youfouud _on your cabin floor
and wrapped it about the body of the squirrel,
tying it there with a bit of thread drawn from
my handkerchief and wound it many times
around the little animal. I then tossed it up
_to theplatform which I longed so much~ to
reach. Tiawirunu—orme ”platform; fifd'
then saw it make its way upvthe first ladder
above, after which I saw nothing more of it.
I prayed most earnestly that something might
come of this silly-looking experiment, then
fell asleep, and awoke and prayed again.
{All seemed of no use, however, and I was
on the point of trying ones more to eat one
of the disgusting dead squirrels'in the shaft,
when a voice—it seemed'from heaven—said:
‘Jacob, are you there ?’::.and you came and
found, me." ' ' _ f . . - '
“ Allis now clear as day,” said I. “The
=squirrel'with your note tied upon his body
wandered down the side of the mountain,
, was seen by my old eat ‘Chispa’——the greatest
hunter in the state—who pounced upon him
and brought him home to showhim to me ;
tooled with him, about the cabin ’aud finally
killed him and began eating him, - when the
note was dislodged and fell upon the floor
where itwas found by me. Yes, and old
‘Chispa’ evenhad the‘sense to bring me the
remains ofthe squirrel when he found me
wonderiugabout the note—as much as to. any,
“I found it stuck upon this fellow.” ' ' '
“ Why, that’s the simplest thing in the
world, after 'ull,"f said Jacob .Pritchard, and
all hands said, “Itis no mystery, after all.”
-—Don De Quill: in Virgimu City Inter-
prise.
The temperature of the Eocene tunnel is
about the same all the year, round, the ther.
mometer standing generally at sixty degrees.
The air is pure except when there are a great
many trains going throu h," filling the tunnel
with smoke; yet, notwit . . ding that, there
is now no doubt about the tunnel's being gble
to thoroughly ventilate itself. "When the
men were at work, there was so much smoke
from the lamps of the miners, the fires of the
bl'acksmiths and the trains that were constant-
ly at work, that the tunnelcr’s eyes and lungs
were often seriously. affected . . . ,
. his. 1...... 1‘ “leniy' altaloug’theNew
England coast season.
fast being consumed, which I could not afiord, ‘
lastdashout my braille against the rock ,
striped squirrels, one tolerable large gray ‘
my head Iarose, and leaning against the wall .
. majority.
GREELEY ON TILDEN.
ms anal-name ramp on shnorros ramps.
It is notorious that in the election of 1868
great frauds were perpetrated upon the ballot
box in New York. The actual republican
majority in the state was overcome by a
fraudulent majority in New York city. How
it was prepared and managed is shown by
the following copy of Mr. Tilden’s famous
circular : I
[Private and strictly Confidential]
Roous or DanoouATlo STAT: Coma-run, 1
October, 27, 1868. t
M! Dun Sin—Please at once to commu-
nicate with some reliableperson, in three or
four principal towns and in each city of your
county and request him (expenses duly ar-
ranged for this end) to telegraph to William
M. Tweed, Tammany hall, at the minute of.
closing the polls, not waiting for the counts,
person‘s estimate of the vote. ,
Let the telegraph be as follows:
“ This town will, show . a democratic gain
one if sufficiently certain : This town will
give a republican (or democratic majority. of
n
There is, of course, an important object to
be attained by a simultaneous transmission at
the hour of closing the ' poll's, but no longer
waiting. Opportunity can be taken of the
usual half-hour lull in. the - telegraphic com
munications over lines before actual results
begin to be declared, and heforethe Associat-
ed Press absorb the telegraph with returns
and interfere with. individual messages, and
give orders, to watch carefully the cOuut.
Very truly yours,
SAMUEL J. Truman,
Charman.
am. eunnhnr’s crimes or TILDEN.
To Samuel J. Tilden, C’qu'mn Democratic
State Committee .-
Sm—You and I are growing old. We
came here youngfrom the country, and have
lived and struggled side by side for nearly
forty years. We have participated ardently
in many political struggles, always on differ-
ent sides. " ‘ ' On one very inlportant
point, however, your bitterness as a partisan
has impelled you to ignore and come short of
your duties as a citizen and a professed up-
holder of government by the people, and for
this derelictiou I here arraign you. I allude
to the preservation ofthe purity of the ballot-
box.
I can imagine how a man may shut his
eyes to many things which he deems it con-
venient not to know; but I must speak of
what you must know, however you may
wish or seek to be ignorant of it. The mat-
ter to which I call your attention is vital to
the very existence Of free popular govern-
ment. Whenever it shallbe generally-under-'
stood that the results, of elections are not
determined by the ballots of legal voters,
but by frauds in voting or frauds in counting,
then the event of -avaed,unequivocal des-
potism must be hear at hand. Between the
rule of an emperor and the rule of a clique of
ballot-box staffers, every, intelligent man
must prefer the former as less 'rapacious and
more responsible. When honest citizens
shall avoid the polls, asking, “What is the,
use of voting ? the result is already fixed,"
the days of the republic will be numbered.
Between a ruler who prohibits voting alto-
gether and the gang who make it a sham by
filling the ballot-boxes with illegal votes, or
miscountiug those actually cast, the sway of
the former is every way preferable.
You hold a most responsible and infiueu.
tial position'in the counsels of a great party.
You could make that party content itself
with polling legal votes if you only would.
In our late constitutional convention I tried
to erect some fresh barriers against election
frauds. Did you ?7 The very little that I
was enabled to effect in this direction I shall
try tohave ratified by the people at our ensu-
ing election. Will you ?
cannot escape responsibility by saying, with
the guilty Macbeth : _ ‘
“ Thou csnst not say I did it; nevr shake
Those gory looks at me," .
for you were at least a passive accomplice in
the giant frauds of last November.
, Your name was used without public protest
on your part, in circulars sowed broadcast
over the state, whereof the manifest intent
was to “make assurance doubly sure” that
the frauds here perpetrated should not be
overborne by the honest vote of the rural dis-
tricts. And you, not merely by silence, but
by positive assumption, have covered those
frauds with the mantle of your responsibil-
ity. ’ ’
On the principle that “the receiver is as
hm as the this ," you are as deeply implica-
ted in them to-dsy as though your name was
Tweed, O’Brien, or Oakey Hall. .
_ Mr. Tilden, you and I were ardent partici-
pants iu the struggle of 1840, wherein Mara
tin Van Burch was ousted frOm the presiden-'
cy by General Harrison. You know how
thoroughly our city was absorbed by that
contest, wherein every man, woman and
child took a deep and lively interest. 'Our
elections were then held throughout three
days. There was a registration freshly en-
circunivent, the right of suffrage was widely
diffused as it now is, and no one ever com-
plained that a single legal voter was unable to
poll his vote. And, though our city has since
incréased its population," the lower wards
were quite as populous then as they are to-
day—several, of them more so. They ware
full of- boarding houses crowded with clerks
and mechanics ; many of these covered 'sites
sinus given upto great ware-houses and man-
ufactories ; their denizens have since moved
of the railroMs that lead into the open coun-
try. . Practically the lower wards are being
ven
i; night the multitudes who througed their
streets by day. , . .
Now lookatthe vote of four. of these
wards in 1840 and 1868. tively:
President, 1840. vernor, 1868.
Harrison, Van Buren. Griswold. Hofiluan.
IV ...... 1,138 1,177 _ . 3,830.
VI ...... 805 1, 309 5,082
VII....1,707 1,728 1,265 6,895
XIV... 1,142 1,393 ' 726. 4,526
4,793 . 5,521 2.840 20,183
_ Van Baron‘s majority, 726.
Huffman’s majority, 17,443. -
Mr. Tilden, you know what this contrast
attests. Right well do you comprehend the
means whereby the vote- of 1868 was thus
swelled out of all pro rtions. There. are
i not~12,0001e¥l voters iving in these wards
.tO-day. thong they five Hoffman 17,443
- - ad the . y been of average
length it would doubtless have been swelled
to at least 20,000. 'There was nothing but
time needed to make it l00,000, if so many
hadbcehwantedaud dfor. , ,le
Now, Mr. Tilden, call upon you to put a
stop to this business. You have at to walk
'into the sheriff's, mayor’s and the supervis-
ors' offices in the City Hall park, and say
that'theretmustbe no more of lt—say it so
that there shall be no doubt that you mean it
-,-aud we shall haven tolerably fair election
some-of themipretending not toknow that
theyare‘no more citizens of the Umted
- States than the .king Of Dahomey is—but
' tedly unless paid fOr
it, and weshall not cheated more than
10,000 if you simply tell the boss workmen
there'must be no more illegal voting instiga.
ted and paid for. .. ;
Will you do it?‘ Your reputation is at
stake: The cowardly craft which wOuld not
play false, and yet would wrongly win, will
not avail. :If we'Republic'aus are swindled
‘ as we were swindledlast fall, on and
such as you willbe responsible to and
man for the outrage.= ’ - .
Prosecutors, magistrates, 'muuicipal- au-
thorities are all in the pool; we have no
he fromthe ministers of justice,‘and- the
vi ' have no {cars of the terrors of the
law. .111le to you, and anxiously await
the dish Your», Honor it.
very few will vote re
'(or loss) over last year of_ (number) ; or this.
Mr. Tilden you, '
acted which blacklegs had not yet learned to '
up-tOwn, overto Brooklyn, or out on some -
up to commerce, and no longer- Bnelter '
once more. " Probably a good part of the 50,- .
000 supplied last fall wrth he s naturalization ,
certificates will offer to regls er and to vote-.—
NORWALK- GAZETTE,
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ALEX. s. GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church.
, Teacher of the . ,
Plano-Forte, Organ and Musical
Composition.
no: 379 r. 0.. NORWALK. dorm.
GEO. w. 03AM.
Contractor cf: Builder
0t Railroads. Water Works, Sewers, Grading and
Bock Work of all kinds 3 Stone and Eric: Mn-
sonry. Wlll furnish men and teams by the day.
Tools to let. Office in Hubbell’s Block.
14 Address Norwalk P. 0., "Box 452."
Illl. cflAltlES F. MOBIAN, .
Physician (it Surgeon,
Office over 0. J. Grumau’s,
Norwalk, Conn.
Ofilce Hearst—7 A. an, 1 P. M.. 7 P. M.
J Belden Hurlbutt,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Room No. 4, [up stalrs,]
V GAZETTE BUILDING."
9
CHARLES w. MANY,
Surgetm Dentist,
uouwanu. CONN._ 4'
Ofilce corner of Main and Wall Streets. Nitrous-
- ' Oxide Gas administered.
0. B. coonrnes,
D_EDSTTEST.
Dr. Ana. Hill,
WALL- STREET, NORWALK,
‘e: Office over
0. J. Grumuu’s Dry Goods store. .
I?’ Gas administered for extracting teeth with-
out pain.
GONNEGTIGUT HOTEL,
- Corner Main and Wall Sts., NORWALK, CT.
HE subscriber having taken the above well-
kuowu centrally located Hotel, is prepared to
entertain permanent and transient guests. Good
rooms; good table; reasonable rices. A _first-
clsss Livery connected with the otel. Carriages
to all trains. Every effort made to lease.
aBtf D. B. MOREIIOUS , Proprietor.
S a w. MITCHELL,
0
At the ever popular.
’ UNION MARKET
has always the host of
Beef, Veal, Mutton, and Pork,
stinlr living prices. Union (formerly Model) Mar-
ket, on the Bridge. 18
NOBWA LK INSURANCE 00.,
NOR WALK, CONN.
onus-tor Capital $500,000
Paid up, Caplsal - - 100,000
WM. 0.5mnET.Pres.. GEO It. Cowr.ns,Sec'y.
iiiflu iii.
THE BEST BED
FOR THE MONEY l
We can recommend It as an
EXCELLENTSPRING BED
. ATA
Moderate Price. ‘
_BuCkingham & 00f,
Furniture Dealui d-lllleililus;
MAIN I'STREET,
mitted to make monthly ch urges of their adver- pa
‘ in all its branches.
' - REAL ESTATE.
RESIDENCE on West Avenue is offered
musculatmrtitle's“”it"‘rsm"
Norw'slkGaznTTE. ppy y e rto A. " care
Desiuable Property for sale.
v
\
A V ry desirable place on East Avenue.
Also, a tow choice Building Lots situated on
Osborn Avenue, for sale cheap.
Also, a mccly located House and Lot on Mer-
wiu Street near West Avenue, for sale at a bar-
gain. Enquire of
E. OSBORN. East Avenue,
5.
“‘11 or to D. W. FITCH, West Avenue.
To Rent. ,
PART of a House, (four rooms) right in the vil-
. Inge. Rent 812 per month. Possession given
immediately. Enquire at this office.
FOR SALE OR TO RENT.
'THE House and Mill Property occupied by Eb-
enezer l’attcnden in Silver Mine. Enquire of
RAYMOND 8t PABDEE.
New Canaan, Feb. 10th, 1876. (7)
A BARGAIN.
Oil SALE-A first-rate built House, (on East
Avenue.) containing nine rooms; will be let
Also BUILDING LOTS for sale.
, Apply to D. H. FITCH.
Nor-walk, Nov. 27th, 1875. 18“
FOR SALE.
WO v'ery desirable BuililiugLots on Westhlain
Street. Apply at the GA ETTE OFFICE.
if notsol'l.
T
FOR SALE CHEAP.
A (3 OOD FARM of about 40 acres ofhigh land,
situate it three miles north of New Canaan.
Apply to A. B. BENEDICT, Smith’s Ridge. 4
FOR SALE.
A NEATBESIDENCE on one of the best,pleas-
antest and most accessible streets in town.
Has eight rooms. with gas in each, and heater ca-
ble of heating the whole house. Large barn
with stabling for several horses. A ple, Pear and
CherryTrees, _Just commencingto our fruit. Is
within five minutes’ walk of the Post Office. «to.
Pricc97,500. Or will rent it to a good tenant for
8600 per year. Enquire at this ofiice.
ABN T0 RENT—A new Barn with good Sta-
bling’ for several horses, near the bridge.
Price 88 per month. Enquire at this Ofiice.
_ . FRANCIS J. Maison.
Draper and Tailor.
A choice selection of new and fashionablegoods
constantly on hand
acorn No. 1, Gazette Building.
animus s. Locuwoou,
Fashionable Draper and Tailor,
AND
GEN T S' FURNISHING EMPORIUM.
Main Street, Norwulk, Conn.
1 Toni INSURANCE Co. ofHARTFORD.
Incorporated-1812. Charter Perpetual.
Ctpltll and Assets, $5,052,880.19
Insures against loss and damage by Fire, on terms
adopted to the hazard andconsistent with the laws
of compensation. COWLES d: MERRILL,
_ Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity.
nwnnu P. WEED,
, :D at: G- G- : s '1'
Wall Street, opposite Norwalk Opera House,
A large and well selected'stock of
DRUGS AN D MEDICINES,
Pcrfumcr , Patent Medicines, all kinds Mineral
Waters. oilct and Medicated Soaps. Flavoring
and Handkerchief Extracss, Hair Brushes,Combs,
Spon cs, Chamois Skins, Stationery, Ci are, ac"
and s constantl adding to his stock al the new
and popular me iclncs of the day.
FOR A GDOD'GDOK STOVE
GO TO BELDEN’S
"CLEANLIN ESS IS NEXT T0 GODLINESS.”
G. A. ,FRAN KE’S
Stalin and Hair Cuttings
“ nou'A
aluu!
Pleasant ‘shnvo,
Artistlc Hair Cut.
on Thorough Shampoo,
CALL AT
Mr. Franko’s' Hair Cutting Room,
No. l GAZETT'I‘E BUILDING.
3!" Particular attention given to Ladies and
Children’s Hair Cutting and Shampooing..a
AT HOME TO EVERYBODY.
Hot and Cold Water Baths
B. S. BLASCER,
At h lss torel n MALLORY’S BLOCK,hasconstsnt
ly on hands general assortmento f
GROCERIES,
cuocxuux, amass,
TLV AND WOODEN WARE, 310., M0
B y devotinghis constant personal attentionto tbs
businesshe hopes tomerlt publicpatronsge. 9
GO TO BELDEN’S
' , and soothe new
Hot Closet Range.
- nuanc‘ls'mcnuon, In,
Practical Plumber.
PLUMBING in all its BRANCHES.
Green Houses Fitted up. '
Orders left at Shop on Scho'ol Street, or on slate
at Belden’s Tin Shop. Jobbing promptly attelgig
Edward Banks,
Civil Engineer &Buiough Surveyor,
Norwalk, Conan.
Particular attention paid to the mapping and
measurement of farms, and to the division of es-
tates. Also to drainage and sewerage matters.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
- C.W.Burritt ‘
v ‘Has‘ Removed
To No. 4 Phoenix Block, Wall St.,
Foot of Mill Hill, where with increased facilities
he is prepared to do
P 1'.- U M B I N G- ,
Also special attention fiven
to Tin Roofing, Tin and Sheet Iron Work an J ob-
hing. Gas Fixtures of all kinds kept on hand.
Norwalk, April, 1876. ‘
John A. Honneeker, '
B A KJE: R,
FOOT OF MILL HILL.
, Bread,'Bolls, Pies, Cakes, Crullers, &e., baked
fresh every ds . Everything made out of good
materials. and yeareful and competent workmen.
Try our Baking.
A
Quintard’s Furniture Rooms
will bo'found a complete assortment of
' Opposite R. R. Depot.
south Norwalk
1v. BTW? sell' at Reduced Prices;
‘ and strictly for Cash.
Plymouth . Rock
- I o E: . * ' - 3
HANK-PUT. toour, customers 'for 'astjavo‘rs.
we would request a continuance o ‘ their cus-
tom the
:prompta tention given.
N. B.—Price to families, so long as
ply lasts, 50 cts. per hundred weight.
FRU T '1 JARS
-, AND
resent season. Prices reasonable and
B. ELIAS k SON. j
present sup-i
FURNITURE, &C., ~ .
in'cludingcverythiu. usually found in a first-class
establishment. at Pr con to suit the Times. Also.
a large assortment of .
ousouos, PICTURE FRAMES,
LOOKING GLASSES, are.
I . Plates cutto any size. Repairing done in the
gsfiimanner, at short notice. Also, old Hair Mat-
tresses mudeover as good as new]
. 1 ‘ s. summonses. #
”m A coon Milton-STOVE:
'60 TO nunnuiws. '
‘H'a'nd Press for Sale.
N ll Washin ton Hand Press,sizc_2fix30,ls
AK. :lllerell tor mile cheap. Apply at GAZETI‘E
clarion. . . 4 . »_
w.-M. Lo-CKwooo,
(enema: to also. mnsrhrouo a co.) '
Furniture Dealer,
I No.36 lun'n sci-eel, Norwnlk'.
- UNDERTAKING.
allkm s of
JELLY . TUMBLERS '
E. K. LOCKINOOD’S.
. COFFINS, CA SKETs,
‘ .. . r' thointermontoith‘e
lmvearuaisiiuimw .
Office Main St., near Center. Ave., .-
' At m store will be found arlarge assortment of
Are you going to Paint?
USE
AVEEILL’B
CHEMICAL PAINT!
THE BESTIH THE MARKET.
. Itls more beautilul,moredurable. lowerln price.
is all ready for use, docs notwashb rain. best
wood rescrvcr, is water and fire proo , and is the
best or. eneral uses, either for wood, iron or
brick bui dihgs. Many of the finest residenccsin
town are painted with .
AVERILL’S CHEMICAL PAINT
Put up ready for use in pails of 1. 2 or it lions
kegs of 5, 10 or 15 gallons, half barrels or rrels.
All orders Promptly filled and any information
given byanpp ylng to -
D. H. WEBB, Sole Ag’t for Norwalk
Ofiice west end of Bridge, SOUTH NORWALK
ulNFoiiu Wilcox
DEALER IN
00“. & W000
WHOLESALE ANDBETAIL. '
Yard at the .Wcst end of the-Bridge,
SOUTH NORWALK,
Families and Factories supplied with the best at
lowest market prices. Delivered within any rea-
sonable distance. Prompt attention given to all
orders, large or small.
I). I]. “1183, Agent.
Call and see us and leave your orders.
CARRIAGE MAKERS. _
MULLINGS &T|LLY,‘
Successors to S. P. TUTTLE.
MARSHAL STREET, SOUTH NOR. WALK,
29
inform the citizens of Nor-
Would respectfullg
t at they are prepared to.
walk and vxcrulty
Build Carriages and Wagons
OF E VERY DESCRIPTION.
Particular attention paid to REPAIRING in all
branches of the trade. '
One SECOND-HAND ROCKAWAY, and one
172
N 0 TOP BUGGY, for sale.
REAL ESTATE.
nought, Sold or Exchanges],
Ofiice 4 Gazette Building, B. J. STUBGES.
N orwa , o . Broker.
Nsii‘RANCE;
Capital Represented. $23.000,000.00.
B. J. STURGES, Agent.
N orwalk Fish Market.
The subscriber respectfully announces that at
the Old Bridge Fish Market a constant supply of
FRESH FISH, "‘ - , '
ovs'rnus, curls, &c.,
and all varieties of choice
FIIITS All! VEIETAILES Ill THEIR SEASIII.
CHARLES W. LOCKWOOD.
”Spring Chickens Dressed to order.
Notice. -
In accordance with a petition very largely si u-
ed, and presented. to us by the Citizens of or-
walk, forthe suppressing of the selling of intoxi-
cating drinks on Sunday. we do hereby give notice
that all pcrsons'haviug a license for the sale of the
same, found guilty of selling, in violation of the
Sunday Law, will be by us reported to the County
Comm ssiouers, with a request that their license
be revok d.
, The law requires that Grand Jurors shall dilig
gently inquire after, and make complaint of all
crimes and misdemeanors that shall come to their
knowledge, to the court having cognizance of the
offense. or to some Justice of the Peace in the
town where the offense is committed. J Belden
Hunbutt is the prosecuting officer appointed by
the County Commissioners.
JOSEPH P. HANFORD
CHARLES W. SMITH,_
PLAT'I‘ PRICE.
N orwalk, May 26th, 1876.
I
Undertaking!
TO THE‘PUBLIC ! Anyone wishing my services
in ' the;Undertaklug business WI 1 ml me at
the late residence of m father. 56 Main Street, or
& Newcom ’s Store. ~ .
GEORGE H. RAYMOND, Agent
NOTICE.
} Selectmen.
at Demmon
A Copartnership
has been formed
between C. II.
Randall and
his son G. s.
Kendnl’l who
has recentiy re-
turned from the
New York Col-
lege of Dentistry
In order to ac-
co m modate a ll
our patrons. we shall hereafter keep our DEN-
TAL OFFICE in South Norwalk, open every day
in the week. Thankful for past patronage, we
hope, by strict attention to business, and chreful-
ly and faithfully performing every operation,to
merit a continuance of public favor.
Otfice in Lauder’s Block, south corner of Wash-
inss-mnamid Mia“: sin?" ithG s i lt
xracin ee iw asa peca y.
g C. BI..KENDALL kSON.
N. B.—The office in Ridgefield will be open (on
Mondays and Saturdays, as heretofore, _ '
CHAS T. LEONARD a son
0 O A if.- ,,
WOOD AND BRICK,
N’th River Blue Stgglsltime, Cement
GEIEI'I’ ms EffiEE'm’ out: An
IEVS,
WHOLESALE AN D RETAIL.
Water St, Norwalk, Conn '
I - '0. H. I‘DWGLASS,
Manufacturing "Cnnletlioner,
Keeps constantly on hand allarge variety of
Pure Confectionery
Always Fresh and of the Best Quality, at
_ \Vholesale and Retail.
. Also'a superior article of
I CE ORE AM.
SODA WATER, with fruit sy'rups, and OTTAWA
gignfirawn from Matthews Patent Steel Foun-
'. , .
Fruits, Nuts, fine Imported and
Domestic Cigars.
No. 21 Main Street.
An Elegant Ice Cream Saloon and Restaurnn
for Ladies and Gentlemen .
0. H. DCIUGLASS, Proprietor.
usonou WARD season, i '
nasconstsntly in stock at hisnew stand ,
No. 9 Main Street,
Achoiceandfineassortmeutof
Groceries,
Provisions,
Flour,
, Fruit, (90.,
To which he wouldinvite the attentionofal 1 who
wishtopurchasefirst-classgoods.at
Reasonable Prices.
DRIED BEEF. SLICED A SPECIALTY. BEST
OF RAMS, EITHER WHOLE OR SLICED .
Dropin and see usin our new store,
W0. 9 RIAIN STREET.
ALL KINDS OF
PRINTING_
BLACK,
--AND- . ,
- ~ COLORED INKS,
' -on;
BRONZES,
_ On any kind of Stock in genoralusc. at the
Gazette Steam Printing (lilies .1
NORWALK.
'MABGY BROWN.
MarsyBrownx Margy Brown l
06059. I pray, our wonderous smiling ;‘
There is some ' so beguiling
In your smile that Ian whilin
All my precious time away ;
And Imust not, cannot stay,
For the sun is slowly setting,
And the sky is darker getting,
While my soul is fretting, fretting,
And it seemeth to declare-—
Beware of Margy Brown l Beware l
Margy Brown l Margy Brown!
Do not touch me with your finger ;
Do not let it gently linger ,
In my hand, and do not hinder
Thus my going i let me go.
Mischief i can I leave you go 9
See the daylight now is dying,
And the shadows thick are lying,
Underneath the elm tree, vieing~
With the shade of your dark hair—o
Beware, Oh, Margy Brown 1 Bewarel
)
Margy Brown _l Margy Brown l
See you not the darkness crawling 2
Hear you not a soft voice falling 2
Hark 1 It is my mother calling,
Calling for her laggard son 5
Send me from you, pretty one:
Turn away that brown eye shining
That is in my soul eutwining '
Undefined and undefining
Love thoughts that I must not share—
Beware, sweet Margy Brown l Beware l
Margy Brown 1 Margy Brown!
Who is he who lingers yonder ?
On what mission does he ponder 3
When I part from you I wonder.
Margy, will he come to you 7
Does he love you, Margy, too a
Sweetheart i it was only jesting,
That my haste from you was pressing.
I will stay, my love confessing, - ,
While my heart, it says, "Beware!
Some one sees that she is fair-
Take care of Margy Brown 3 Take are l
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A Midsummer Song.
0h, father’s gone to market town; he was
up before the day, .
And Jamie's after robius, and the man is
making hay, ‘ '
And whistling down the hollow goestho boy
that minds the mill, .
While mother from the kitchen'door is call-
ing with a will-
“Polly i—Pollyl—The cows are in the coral
‘ Oh, where’s Poll 7"
From all the misty morning sir there comes.
a summer sound,‘ ,
A murmur as of waters from skies, and trees;
and ground.
The birds they sing upon the wing, the pig-
eons bill and coo, _
And over hill and hollow rings again theloud
halloo—-
“Pollyl—Polly l—The cows-re in the con t
Oh, where’s Polly '1‘"
Above the trees the honeybees swarm by
with buzz and boom, _
Within the farmer’s meadow s browneyed
daisy blows, '
And down at the edge of the hollow a red
and thorny rose.
But Polly l—Polly l—Tlio cows are in the.
‘ cornl
Oh, where’s Polly!
How strange at such a time of day the mill
should stop its clatter l
The farmer's wife is listening now, and won.
ders what's the matter.
Oh, the wild birds are singing in "the w
. and. on the hill, - .. '
While whistling up the hollow goes the boy
that minds the mill. -
But Polly l-Polly l—The cows are in the.
corn l
- Oh, where's Polly?
m
A SEA NYMPH.
have seen the little lady whom I meant to
wed one day . ,
In a number of extremely pretty dresses.
But her bathing suit is certainly her hand.
I
somest array,
As my heart, while going pit-apat coufcs.
.599. » .
It is made of scarlet flannel, and it me her to
a T,
And it’s for belowed and frfiled in a man-
' ner charming ;
And it has a jaunty skirt that only reaches to
her knees. .
Though you mustn't think the fact . at all
1 . g. , .
For among all little ladies who have ever
’ learned to swim
‘She’s conspicuous in modest airs and
. graces. _
And with dainty little trousers either dainty
' little limb -
It is useless to remark that she em
And these dainty little trousers, that ‘l- pen
fcctly adore, _
, Atthe ankle have a dainty little rams:
And my dainty little lady dances lightly
' down the shore.
At a dainty, little, kind of doubleshufile.
And the foam upon the breaker, when along _
the sand it steals,
Is not whiter than her bare feet (goodness
knoWs) are, ’
While the sea-shells are not pinker than her
rosy little heels, .
Or her rosy little, (my little toes are.
It’s enough to turn the. senses of the. most
cold-blooded chap
When her'course towards the wean-wove
she launches, ‘
With her lovely suburb tram h a yellow
_ oil-skin cap, - l .-
And her dainty little hands upon her
haunches. - _
But the moment that her graceful shape
within the water melts, ‘ , __
And she swims about with ease and_,exu1~
tation. '
Then youvthink of sirens, mermaids, and of
heaven knows what else , p
That is noted for its deadly fascinationt
#
To Get Out of Debt,
To a young man in debt, Benjamin'Frankx
lin gave the following advice :- .‘Mak'e lin-full
estimate of all you owe, and of all. that is
owing to you. ‘Reduce the same tonoteu. As
- fast as you can collect, pay over to thoseyou
owe. If you cauliot, renew your note gevery
2 year, and getthe best.sedurity.y,0u- can.» ~ Go
to business diligently, and heii'ndu‘striom;
waste no idle moments; : bc3very economics!
in all-things; discardnll pride ;--be faithful
in your duty toGod, by ' regular and hearty
praycr‘morning and night ; attend ' church
and meeting. regularly every Sundays; and
do. unto all men as you would that they
should do unto you. If yourare tootsedy in
circumstances to give to the peer. do. what-
ever-else is in your power: to do cheerfully.
but if yen esn,h_elp the wound unfortunate.
Pursue this e'ourse' fdiligently and sincerely
for seven years,» and if ' your are not happy,
comfortable and-independent in your circum-
staunch-come. to‘ me and I will pay year
.debt's.—-6'hn3mhn. Intelligence}. -. -- ~
“ She makes all the conquests she desirest”
said one. “True,” said another, also a wo-
man, “but she would give all her slave! for
0116 m."
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