"with utilities 1543.
SLEEP.
av KATE v. CARPENTER.
The night clouds lower, .
And ’mid the darkness,trembhngl y we cling,
Father, to Thee. Beyoxuball humau aid,
Ourselves to Thee we bring,
And own thine power.
More helpless we _
Than nestling robins, rocking overhead
In the tall tree-top to each swaying blast,
Blindly, like Israel; led,
We cry to Thee.
So, far from harm,
As in the hollow of Thy hand we lie .
Through all the thronging evils of the night,
Beneath our Fathers eye,
Nor feel alarm.
All through the night,’
Encompassed by a host, a shining troop,
\Vho bring us tender dreams from IlCtW'n above
Our weary eye-lids droop,
Nor fear aiIright.
Thus lose we care
As children drop f i-om their relaxing hands,
The cherished pebbles, gathered through the
day
With toll upon the sands,
All unaware. >
And so, when, Death
Bringeth his dreamlcss sleep to wrap the
soul
May we piit gladly earthly treasures by,
Yielding to his control
With tranquil breath. .
Sweet Death! Sweet Sleep!
Divine forgetfiilnessl At thy command,
The Weary, care-worn soul forgets to weep,
Reaching the promised land
In one glad leap.
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TIIE LOVER’S RUSE.
“ What I‘m now going to tell you,
boys, must be kept under the seal of
secrecy," said our first clerk, as he
squeezed a lemon into his tumbler.
We—that is to say, 1, Ned Bolton the
present writer, Herbert Engledue, and
young Harry Chester, all junior clerks in
the bank of Baskerville, Troutman & Co.,
—solemnly promised that the seal that was
to lock up the communication we were
about to receive should never be broken.
“And yet," said Mr. Minton, with the
kettle in his hand, “I hardly think I’ll let
it out to you youngsters; it‘s all against
myself.”
Harry Chester’s eyes looked eager ap-
peals, and Herbert said:
“011, now,- come, I say, Mr. Minton,
you shouldn’t have said so much, you
know, and then to talk about not letting
it out you know it’s so jolly myster-
ious.’
“ Well,” said our cheery chief, “ as Ned
here has treated us so well to-night, I‘ll
make some return by trying to amuse
you boys with the account of an incident
which happrned to me some years ago."
We were tit-lighted—I especially so, be-
ing the host for the night, and anxious,
as surh, that.’ things should go off Well. We
drew up to the fire, glasses were filled,
and the relics of the contents of the
hamper, which the dear people at home
had sent me were removed. The No-
vember wind howled dismally over the
London roofs, and rattled at the window,
as if anxious to join so pleasant a party.
Mr. Minion took an approving sip of his
hot grog, drew his finger through his iron-
gray hair, and began: ~
“-In the year’46, I had been some seven
years a clerk in the bank. Our Mr. Basker—
ville's father was the principal then, and a
very shrewd, cute old fellow he was, I can
tell you. Mr. Troutman was then a clerk,
and junior to me, but every one knew that
he would be a partner seine day, as he had
married Miss Baskerville. Young Basker-
ville, who looks grave enough now, was a
boy at Harrow, and used,§in holiday time,
to run in and out of the bank, and stare at
the files of sovereigns, just as he liked.
E ” had some troubles then, and was
looked upon as a grave, sedate young
man, and, as Mr. Baskerville told my
poor mother, ‘ as steady as the funds.’ In
consequence of this gravity of manner and
character for steadiness, I had |been several
times employed in little matters of a conti-
dtntial nature, and my conduct in these
had been approved of. One afternoon in
the latter part of August, in the year I speak
of, I was sitting at my desk, with not very
much to do. I had been thinking a good
deal about my own affairs, and gone back
over ground rather painful for me to tread,
and was therefore rather sad that sunny
August afternoon. While I was meditating
and idly drawing figures on my blotting-
pad, the bank messenger came to me and
hold that Mr. Basktrrilic wished to speak to
me. I went into his private room and
found him seated at his desk, and, in an
arm-chair beside him, sat a middle-aged,
invalid~looking man, whose handsome face
'worc a pecvish expression, that seemed to
be permanent.
I ” ‘This, my lord,’ said Mr. Baskcrvillc,
'is the gentleman whom I should have the
greatest confidence in employing in the
matter.’ _
. “ ‘ Rather young for such work, is he not,
Baskcrvillc? ’
“ ‘No, my lord, I don't think so. Mr.
Minion 'ls grave and steady beyond his
years, and the firm has very great confi-
dencc in him.’
“ ‘Well, I will trust to you, and I think
you fully understand all that is wanted.
I would rather not give myself the trouble
of entering into explanations with this
young man, if you think you thoroughly
understand what I want.’ -
“ ‘If you will leave it to me, my hull-
I will undertake that Mr. Minton sha
receive full instructions. Just see if Lord
Valdane‘s carriage is at the door, will you,
Mr. Minton?’
“I returned with the requisite informa-
tion, and his lordship, after being carefully
wrapped up, took the arm of one of his
men, and went to his carria e. ‘
“Mr. Baskerville then as ed me to shut
the door, and sit down beside him, and
proceeded to give me full and complete
directions as how to act.
“It appeared that Lord Valdane had
three daughters, beside several sons. The
youngest bf his daughters, when just six-
teen, had caused great trouble and distress
to her family by falling in love with a violin-
ist, who had come constantly to the house
to give one of her brothers lessons on this
instrument. This had been discovcre'
about a year before, and had given rise to
great recriminatlons, and the young lady
had shown an amount of obstinacy anti
temper which had quite alarmed her friends,
so foreign was it, apparently, to her nature.
She had utterly declined to give up her
lover, and had openly declared her in—
tention of holding any communication with
him that circumstances might offer. Under
these circumstances, and in consideration
of her youth, her father determined to send
her to a school kept by an English lady in
a village about fifteen miles from Brussels,
.aud hoped that a year or two of entire
change and absence from home would make
her get over and forget an affection begun
at so early an age. She was accordingly
sent, to It rs. Slater‘s school. but that lady
had ust written to Lord Valdane, at the
and of the first year, to say that she could
no longer undertake the education of Miss
Valdane, as her conduct was of such a
kind as to utterly destroy those relations
which should exist between mistress and
pupil, Lord Valdane had therefore deter-
mined to bring her back to En land, and
he the more readily consente to this
arrangement, as he had had information
that Mr. Arne had left this country for
America. Having no servant to whom he
could trust the duty of escorting his daugh-
ter home. Lord Valdane had come to Mr.
Baskcrville, with whom he banked, to ask
that' some confidential clerk might be sent
to Antwerp to meet Miss Valdano, and
bring her home to her father’sjhousc in
Easton Square. A servant wbuld be sent
with her as far as Antwerp, where she
wOuld be met by the person chosen to
escort her. . _
“ I asked Mr. Baskerville if it was thought
that the young lady would return home
willingly.
“"lhey imagine that she will do so,’
said he? ‘ she has complained in her letters,
which have been veryfew of her “trans-
portation,” as she called it. It is most
Eropable that her youthful passion will
ave died out. This fellow, Arne, is de-
scribed to me as an effeminate-looking,
‘ though elegant man, but wanting in many
of those manly attributes which are to
most women the chief attraction in a man’s
character. '
"Mr. Baskcrville told me to come to
him again for a paper of' instructions
that he 'would give m, as well as a letter
from Lord Valdane to his daughter, di~
iecting her to place herself under my
charge. He also told me that she would
be accompanied by her maid, a youn
girl, and too inexperienced to be truste
with the duty of an escort.
"I returned to my seat and thought
over all that I had heard and all that I
wan to (In. I confess Lhtttnlgtlldvllol like
' of instructions,
NORWALK, CONNECTICUTfiUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 7187.7.
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VOL. LX.--NUMBER 32.
the talk; it was not of a kind that Ihad
burg _ned for on entering a bank, and
seemed to me more the duty of a su erior
servant than of a gentleman. I new,
however, how much depended upon my
making myself useful to the firm, and so
I determined to put my pride into my
pocket.
“Before I left the oillce I got my paper
and returned home to
read them, having first obtained from the
cashier, by Mr. Baskerville‘s orders, a
sum sufficient to defray all possible ex-
penses, those of the young lady and her
maid included. I found that I was to
start for Dover by that night‘s mail, and
go by the first boat to Ostend, and thence
to Antwerp. I was instructed to be very
firm with Miss 'Valdane, and was advised
to avoid any attempts at intimacy on her
part. I was simply to be her escort, and
as far as possible to relieve her of all
trouble. She would expect me, as a let-
ter had been written to Mrs. Slater -de-
airing her to send the young lady to Ant-
werp, under charge of a servant.
“By Jove, though!" said Herber Eng-
ledue, “wouldn't I just like a little thing
of that sort to do!"
Mr. Minion; “no one likes to be icolcd,
and that was what happened to me. .
“I started, according to m instruc-
tions, by the night mail'for vet, and
st 1 o'clock the next day found myself at
the door of the hotel St. Antoine .a't Ant;
werp. I inquired "if Miss Valdane had
arrived, and was asked'to step up to a
drawing-room on the second floor.. ‘No
one was in the room when I entered, but
'in a few minutes a respectable-looking.
middle-aged woman came in, with an ex-
pression of anxiety on her countenance.
“‘Are you the gentleman {rem Lon-
don, sir?’ she said. _ .
“‘I am,’ said I. ‘When will it be
convenient for Miss Valdanc to set out on
her journey? ’ '
“ ‘Oh, sir,’ said she, 'Miss Valdane is
very unwell, and has been obliged to go
to bed. This has upset all the plans that
had been arranged, and I don't know
what to do.’ ,
“‘thn did this illness come on?’ I
asked. ~
“ ‘Why, sir, Miss Valdane seemed very
well when we left, but as we got near
Atwerp she complained of headache, and
to the hotel. The worst of it is,’ said she,
after-a pause, ‘ that I must return by, this
evening's train.’ '
“‘The young lady has her
understand? said I.
“‘Oh, yes,‘ sir, she is with her, cer.
tainly; but she is young and filghty, and
I haven’t much confidence in her.’
“‘Has Miss Valdane seen any medical
man?’ said I.
“‘Oh, no, sir, she wouldn’t hear of
one being sent for.’
“ ‘ Well,’ said I, ‘it cannot be helped:
you must return to your mistress, and I
must wait here until Miss Valdane . is
able to travel.’
“In the course of the afternoon, and
after Mrs. Slater's servant had left, I sent
up my compliments .to Miss Valdane, and
requested to know how she was.
" ‘Miss Valdane’s compliments, she was
so much better that she hoped to be down
stairs in the course of an hour.
“This was good news, and I immedi-
ately set about inquiries as to trains and
boat. I found that by leaving Ostend
at half-past three the next morning, the
young lady could be at her father‘s house
in time for lunch the next day. I ac-
cordingly made the requisite arrangements,
and awaited Miss Valdane’s appearance.
“Her maid shortly afterward came
down with a message to know if it would
be convenient to me to have an interview
with her mistress. I, of course, assent-
cd, and directly afterward a young lady
came into the room. .
“I bowed, and looked at my charge
with some curiosity. Her appearance sur-
prised me. She was dark, and had large,
tender-looking eyes, but in other respects
was by no means goodolooking, and seemed
to want the ease and saeoz'r fairs that I
should have imagined a girl in her rank of
life would have possessed. She was well
and handsomely dressed, but Was decidedly
not elegant, and there was a want of fresh!
ness and youthfulness about her that made
her anything but an attractive-lookin girL
She addressed me in a constrained and
rather unmusical voice.
_“ ‘ You are the per-—the gentleman that
has been sent over to fetch me?’
“‘I am, Miss Valdanc. When will it
be convenient to you to set out on your
journey?’
"‘I don't know,’ she said, pettishly;
‘I wanted .to see the pictures and the
cathedral, but I. suppose I shall have to
do as I‘m told.‘
“ ‘I was instructed,’ said I, ‘to escort
you home without any delay.’
“‘01:, b the way,’ said she, ‘there‘s
a school—fel ow of mine, and a. great friend,
going with us. ‘She wanted to go home.
so we agreed to travel together.’
“‘How strange,’ thou ht I, ‘that the
servant should have ma 9 no mention of
this other pupil; but I suppose she was
so much engrossed with Miss Valdane’s
rtltness that she could think of nothing
e se.
“ ‘I was not aware,' said I, ‘that you
would have a companion; but I shall be
very happy to be of use to her.’
“‘I’ll call her down,’ she said, and
going to the door “she' called, or rather
shouted, ‘Amy, come ,down.’
“She forgets, I thought, that she is in
a crowded hotel, and not at home. I
heard a light tripping step on the stairs,
and after some little giggling outside the
door, Miss Valdane came in with a very
prett , mischievous looking blonde, who
coul not present the semblance of gravi-
ty when she was introduced to me.
- “‘What on earth are you laughing at.
Amy?’ said my charge.
“You mustn’t mind me, Mr. Minten,’
said Miss Mauvers; ‘I’m rather silly, I'm
afraid.’
“ ‘Rather silly i’ said Miss Valdane;
‘he thinks you a little tom-fool, and he's
erfectly right in thinking so,’ and be-
ore I had time to put in 'a disclaimer to
maid, I
what you people are going to do, but
I’m gomg to dine.’ /
“ ‘Shall we dine at once, Miss Val-
dane?”said I, “and then we can leave Ant-
werp at half-past seven, catch the night
mail at Ostend, and be in London by mid-
day to~mortow.’
“ ‘Just as you like,‘ said she.
“I ordered dinner for three, and that
finished, the young ladies went to their
rooms to prepare for the ourney. - '
“I could hear Miss aldane whistling
as she acked, and I must say that the
youn ady’s collection of tunes was very
vane ,_if it was not yery select.
“1 could not help wishing myself back
again at the bank, and my hands clean
washed of my eccentric charge. Miss
Valdane embarrassed me Very much as
we were leaving the hotel by interfering
with the various directions that I gave,
and when We got to the station she had
an altercation with a porter, which ex-
hausted all my rather scanty stock of
French to set right. Miss Manvers re-
monstrated with her friend, but always
as if more amused by her vagaries than
anno 'ed. ,e- - ’
” t is needless for me to detail all the
worrying events of the journey to Ostend
and the voyage to Dover. During thg'
Utter. the sea certainlydld subdue it»
young ludy‘s spiritspandgshe lay .on h
each on deck, with a‘stiflleh glass of
brandy and water beside her, and held
her tongue. Miss Manvcrs was a riddle
to me as well as her friend. ' In_ a great
deal that the said and ,did, and in her
manners and address, she showed the
education and refinement of». lady, and
et she encouraged rather than subdued
er friend's eccentricities by-her evident
amusement. . . '
“ Upon our arrival at Dover, I foun:
that the next train to London did not
leave for a couple of hours, so, after giv-
ing directions or the examination of our
luzguge. Iwent with the two girls to the
Lord Walden and ordered breakfast.—
Here Miss Manvers announéed he? inten-
tion of leaving us. She had friends liv-
ing at Dover with whom she was, going
to stay, and she Would go ‘to them after
we had left, as she wished to see as much
of her dear Constantia as possible. After
we had had breakfast, Constantia asked
me to walk out and see the place, as she
wished to have some private conversa-
tion with her friend. I accordingly
dawdled away a half-hour on the pier,
and then returned and found that we
must start at once ifwe wished to catch
the train. The two girls arted in the
most affectionate manner, iss Manvers
seeming more amused than_ ever at- the
extraordinary expressions of affection in-
dulged in' by. Miss Valdane, whose con-
duct would have brought down the house,
In a melodrama. _
“We went to the station together.
Miss Valdane having left her mind to
look after her friend and come on by the
next train, another thing which would
have astonished me, if I had had anycflPflCI‘
ty for that feeling left. Upon my asking
he; abatement: bad she said:
“Wait until you hear are end of my .
'story, and you will think differently,” said
was obliged to go to bed directly we got.
this opinion, she added, ‘I don't-know :
' than provide him with compan
l
'“ ‘ J list aportma'ntea'u.’
“ ‘ Nothin more?’ said I.
“ ‘ Not a t ing.’
“Accordingly I found a not very large
portmantcau, which Miss Valdane said was
ers.
“‘Just see and have it put into our
compartment,’ said she, ‘and, I say, tell
the guard to let us have .the carriage to
ourselves; you’re not afraid of metand
I‘m sure I'm not afraid of you.’ .
”‘I was going to disregard this last
order, as I had no wish whatever for a
‘tele-a fete, but Constantia came up and
gave it herself, together with. half-a-
crown, which had the effect which she
desired. -
“We found the 'portmanteau under
the seat, and taking our places, the tram
started. Not long after she said:
“ ‘ Object to smoking?’
“‘No, thanks, Miss Valdane; it’s very
good of you, but I don‘t smoke.’
“ ‘ Mind it?‘ '
"‘ ‘ Well, no,’ I said; ‘ net mneh.’
“‘I stared 'biankly at her while» she
took a cigar-case out of her pocket, and
Selecting one, lighted it, and settled her-
self comfortably in her seat. ‘ *
“I sat as -far.as I could from her, and
looking out of the window, tried to for-
get her.
“‘You’re a very pleasant companion,
I must say,’ said she, after 'a time.
‘Come, say something, man, and don‘t
leave me languishing here. Here we
might have a .vcry. pretty little bit of
{lining if you would only sayztit‘to, my
“to, . ‘ -. . ; . . .
” ‘Excuse me, Miss Valdane,’ ,I Enid,
‘but it was business, and not pleaSure,
thatvgave me the task of escorting you
home, and I snail make no apology for
sayin that I have had no pleasure what-
ever In the matter. You will, therefore,
permit me to finish my business in; the
way I think best,.which is to hand .you
over'to the care of Lord Valdanc with as
much diggtch and as little talking as
possible.’ . i
“ ‘If you won‘t talk you must work,’
said she. “You surely Won't object to
oblige a lady so far as to take that port-
mantcau from under the seat, and unstrap
it.’ .
“ I complied, to save further words. She
threw her keys at me, and said:
“Unlock, and throw open that fatal
chcst.' ' >
' “I did. so, and saw the usual contents
of a gentleman‘s poxtmanteau. There
were the neatly-folded shirts, the brushes
and shaving-tackle, fitted in 'here and
there, visions of very gentlemanly-looking
garments below, boots guiltless of the femi-
nine foot, and in fact nothing whatever
that ought'to'lielong to a lady’s wardrobe.‘
I was really, rather. pleased than otherwise,
and said: ~ - '
“You’ve-managed to bring some one
clsc‘s portmanteau.’
“No, I haven’t, you clever man; I'm
rather given; toforcign customs, and af-
fect, what you, you mass of , propriety,
would consider eccentricities in my cos-
tume. However, before I make the re-
quisite changes to fit me for meeting dear
papa, let me tell you a little story, as you
seem in want of amusement.
“"Your clever people in London,
backed by the wishes of Lord Valdane,
sent you over to Antwerp to bring home
that nobleman's refractory daughter, who,
it was hoped, had flugotten her disgraceful
engagement. Give me those balmorals, will
you? Thanks. You, accordingly, being a
very clever 'young man, and an admirable
accountant, were of- course eminentlyfitted
for the Work, and were therefore chosen
to do it. Just see if you can find a blue-
striped flannel shirt among those. Thanks.
Hang it over .the arm’ of the seat to air.
Well, ,your noble client wrote to the
schoolmistress what would have been a
most pleasant letter; if it had not been
quite so dictatorial; and he also wrote to
his affectionate, daughter, congratulating
her on having recovered from'her little
attack of ldvé,anjd,sayihg something dis-
paraging of the poor lover, who was in
America; If you will take that coat and
tron—Well, those things under it, and
hang them to the roof, the creases will
come out. You won’t? That's rude,_and
not proper conduct to an unprotectedwo-
man. But, to continue to story, as I see
you are getting restless: y a wonderful
chance this forlorn damsel saw her unfortu-
nate lover shortly after she got papa’s note...
She shouldn’t have done it, but she did.
They put their heads together—they’d done
that before, but they.did it in a different
manner now, and they made up a little plan.
The young lady went down to Antwerp
under‘ charge, and she got so poorly as the
neared the station, and her head was so be ,
and she-had, obi such a pain here, and ab,
such a twitch there, that to bed she must
go as soon as she reached the hotel. The
elegant and polite escort arrived and was
met by a domestic whoSe face showed
longitude, if her instructions did not admit
much latitude. (By the way, where do on
get - boot-laces. Look at this thing, bro "cn
01! in the middle.) . Well, maid told her
story, and the youth listened, and then home
goes the maid, leaving the youth in sole
charge. Shortly afterward, down comes
Miss Valdane, recovered and charming, in-
troduces Miss Manvers—jmore charming. still.
They dine, this delightful trio and away they
go. The advantage of this apparatus is,
that you hang up the glass like this, and
then you can shave at leisure. See what
a good lather this makes.
" ‘Wcll; our three Graces arrive at
Dover, and_ then dear Miss Manvers
makes her how, and the other pair of
turtle-doves go off, together, only-and
now please attend, for I come to the
point of the story—only Miss Valdane,
.or whom‘ Mr. Minton was sent, and eye.
whom he was to exercise the tenderness
of a )arent'with the authority of a guard.
tan, oes not accompany that gentleman
to London.’
d“ ‘Then, who are you?” I almost shriek-
e .
“Felix- Arne; and nowpmy good fol-
low, the farce-is played out, and I'll take
of! this ,trumpery.’ . '
“I fell back in my seat, and watched,
with Idizzy brain, the shedding of the
feminine, and assumption of tho mascu-
line attire,
“ ‘You infernal rascalt’ at last I said.
:“Now, I'm not going .to mind any-
thing yousay, for dare say you are
rather hurt. The thing was well ar-
ranged, and has annexed-icapitally. You
can tell your employer that it’s ’no sort of
use making any further fuss about me.
I was married to 'his daughter some
months ago, and did not intend 5it to be
known yet, only his precipitancy alter-
ed matters. Some (la we'll tell him
how we managed it. e determined to
have some fun but of the gentleman sent
to fetch Mrs. Arne home,‘ and, as he has
' been so good as to pay bothof our fares
back tie-England, we could not do less
. , to town.
Will you lay a game of bil iards with
me while _ wait for the next train to
Dover? _ Don't say yes, if you’d rather
not. Tickets! That gentleman has mine,
guard. Ta-tai Sorry you’ve no time for
a me; best love to papa-in-law.’ And
taking his portmanteau, e sauntercd down
the station. . ‘
“How I gotmy story told at head~
quarters I. don’t know. Mr. Baskervillc
first frowned, then smiled, and finally
roared. I cntreated him to keep my
failure from the other clerks, and you
three lads are the first who know it."
“Did yourever hear, anything .- more
about them i” said I.
“ Yes; it- was not such arvcr bad af-
fair after all. 'He was a' gent emau of
birth, and some uncle of his, delighted
at having an honorable for a niece, left
them some money, and ‘I believe he set-
tied down as a country gentleman. Lord
Valdane has, however, understand, never
forgiven them; and now boys, ‘IIome,
SWeet home.’ "
.I thanked our good-natured chief for
his StOl'y, and when we' met at a later
hour the same morning, We youngsters
could scarcely believe that the gram: and
gpdate gentleman, who looked as if
money articles" were his only litera-
ture, was the some who had been the
hero of the story of which he himself
was also the rclator. '
As the old coach roads have given
way to railways, co conversation has
given way to the press. Mer- wreak
their thoughts upon expression, not
in talk, but in “copy.”
A young man from the country,
gomg into a shoe shop for a pair of
boots, the -shopman blandly asked,
“ What number do you wear?” " Why
two, of course, you fool!” exclaimed
the indignant countryman.
“He is a man after my own heart, pa,”
said Julia, reverting to Charles Augustus.
“Nonsenseflf replied old practical, “ he is a
man after the money your uncle left you.”
And then all was quiet.
. “ She is a perfect Amazon,” said avpupil of
ins teacher, to a companion. “Yes,” said
the other,‘ who was better versed in geogra-
phy than in history, “ I noticed [he had an
awful mgmouth."
Impressions of England.
[The following beautiful description of
scenes and scenery in “ Auld England,” is
from the ready pen of the Tribune‘s Art Ed-
itor, \Vm. Winter, who is now enjoying his
' first visit abroad—Ens GAZETTE]
Loxnox, J uly,7.——It is not strange that En-
glishmen should be—what certainly they are
—passionate lovers of their country; for it
is, almost beyond a parallel, peaceful, gentle
and beautiful. Even in this vast city, where
practical life asserts itself with such tremen-
dous force,.the‘ stranger is impressed, from
every direction, with, a sentiment of repose
and peace. oThis sentiment seems to proceed
in part from the antiquity of the social system
here established, and in part from the affec-
tionatcnaturc at the English people. Here
are finished towns, rural regions thoroughly
cultivated and exquisitely adorned, ancient
architecture crumbling in slow decay, and a
soil so rich and pure, that even in its idlest
mood it lights itself up with flowers, just as
the face of a sleeping child lights itself up
with smiles. Here also are soft and kindly
manners, settled principles, good laws invari-
ably executed, wise customs rooted in the
universal attributes of humane nature; and,
above all, here is the practice of trying to live
in a happy} condition, instead of trying to
make a noise about it. Here, accordingly,
life is soothed and hallowed with the com-
fortable, genial, loving spirit of home. It
would doubtless be easily possible to come
into contact here with some absurd forms and
pernicious abuses, to observe absurd individ-
uals, and to trace out veins of sordid selfish-
ness and of evil and sorrow. But the things
that first and most deeply impress the fresh
observer of England and English soctcty are
their potential, manifold and abundant sour-
ces of beauty, refinement and peace. There
are, of course, grumblers. 'Mention has been
made of a person who, even in heaven, would
complain that his cloud was damp and that
his halo did not fit. We cannot have perfec-
tion; but the man who could not be happy in
England—in so far, at least, as happiness de-
pends upon external objects and influences—
could not reasonably expect to be happy any-
where. .
Letters fronyhome say that New York is
hot. The statement cannot be doubted by
any one who remembers what July was last
year in that city. If this July resembles its
departed brother, you are all, indeed the prop-
er objects of pity. Here the weather is lit-
erally blissful. It behaved a little shabbily
during the first days of June, but ever since
then it has been in a temper entirely delight-
ful. 'Summer heat is perceptible for an hour
or two each day, but it is trival to the Amer-
ican sense, and it causes no discomfort. Gar-
ments that we in New York should wear in
October are quite suitable for use in London
July, and at night we sleep under blankets
and could not do without them; Fog has re-
frained, though it is understood to be lurking
in the Irish Sea and—the Britisli'Channel, and
waiting for November, when it will drift in-
to town and grime all the new paint on the
London houses. Meantime the sky is softly
blue and full of magnificent bronze clouds ;
the air is 000), and in the environs of the city
is odorous with the scent of new-mown hay ;
and the grass and trees in the parks—those
copious and splendid lungs _ of London—are
green,dewy, sweet and beautiful.
Persons “to the mannor born” were lately
calling the season “backward,”and they went
so far as to grumble at the hawthorn as being
less brilliant than in former seasons. But,in
fact, to the unfamiliar sense this bush of odor-
ous coral has been delicious. You know it,
doubtless, as one of the sweetest beauties of
rural England. It deserves its reputation.
We have nothing comparable with it in North-
ern America, unless, perhaps, it be the elder
of our wild woods; and even that, with‘all its
fragrance, lacks equal charm of color. They
use the hawthorn or some kindred shrub for
hedges in this country, and hence their fields
are seldom disfigured with fences. As you
ride through the land you see miles and miles
of meadow traversed by these green and
blooming hedgerows, and you find that they
give the country a charm which is quite in-
communicable in words. The green of the
foliage—enriched by an uncommonly humid
tilt and burnished by the sun—is just now in
perfection, while the flowers are out in such
abundance that the whole realm is one blaze
of color. I saw the other day, near Oxford,
on the crest of a hill, at least three _ thousand
square yards of scarlet poppies. You can
easily imagine What a. glorious dash of color
that' was, in a green landscape lit by the after-
noon sun! Nobody could help loving a land
that woes him with such beauty.
_ English flowers, it must often have been
noticed, are altogether exceptional for sub.
stance and pomp. OThe rose in particular—
though many of them, it should be said, are
of French breeds—surpass all competition.
It may seem an extravagance to say so, but
it is certainly true” that these rich, firm, bril-
liant flowers affect you like creatures of flesh
and blood. They are in this respect only to
be, described as like nothing in the world so‘
much as the bright lips and blushing checks
of the, handsome English women who walk
among them and vie with them in health and
loveliness. It is easy thus to perceive the
source of those elements of warmth and sum-
ptuousness which are so conspicuous in the
results of English taste, This is a land of
flowers. Even in the busiest parts of London
people decorate their houses with them, and
set the sombre, fog grimed fronts ablaze with
scarlet and gold. These are the prevalent
colors (so radically such that' they have be-
come national), and when placed against the
black tint with which this climate stains the
building‘s, they have the advantage of a vivid
contrast which much augments their splen-
dor. All London wears“ a suit of sables,”
variegated with atracery of white, like lace
upon a pail. In some instances the effect is
splendidly pompous. There cannot be a grand“
er artificial object in the world than the front
of St. Paul’s Cathedral, which is especially
notable for this mysterious blending of light
and shade. It is to be regretted that a climate
which can thus beautify should also destroy ;
but there can be no doubt that the stones of
England are rapidly defaced by the action of
the fogs. Already the delicate carvings on
the House of Parliament are beginning to
crumble. And yet, if one might judge the
climate by this glittering July, England is a
land of sunshine as well as of flowers. Light
comes before 3 o‘clock in the morning, and it
lasts, through a dreamy and lovely “ gleam-
ing,” till nearly 10 o'clock at night. The
morning sky is usually light blue, dappled
with slate-colored clouds. A few large stars
are visible then, lingering to outface the dawn.
Cool winds whisper, and presently they rouse
the great sleepy old elms; and then the rocks—-
which are the low comedians of the air in
this region—begin to grumble; and then the
sun leaps abbve the horizon, and we sweep
into a day of golden, breezy cheerfulness and
comfort, the like of which is never known in
New-York between late June and early Oc-
tober. Sometimes the whole twenty-four
hours have drifted past, as if in a dream of
light and fragrance and music. In a- recent
moonlight time there was scarce any darkness
at all; and more than once or twice, I have
lain awake all night—within three miles of
Charing Cross—listening to the twitter of
small birds and the song of the nightingale,
which is like a lapse and fall of silver water.
It used to be difllcult to understand why the
London season should begin in May and run
on through the Summer ; it is not at all dif-
dealt to understand the matter now.
The season is, of course, at its height.
Parliament is in session. Both‘ of the Houses
areopen. Rotten Boat is alive wuh riders
and drivers. Theatres are alert and compel
titive. The clubs are thronged. The Briton
is giving his serious attention to dinner.
The excursionist 'is more industrious than
even the Colorado beetle; Something happens
every day to interest and amuse everybody.
Apart from the gay incidents of the' season
however, thereis so much else to be seen in
London that the pilgrim scarcely knows
where to choose, and certainly is ccnfused by
what Dr. Johnson calledf‘the multiplicity of
agreeable consciousness.” One spot, to
which I have many times been drawn, and
which the mention of Dr. Johnson calls to
mind, is the wondrously impressive corner in
Westminster Abbey where that great man’s
ashes were buried. Poet’s Corner is a hack-
neyed subject, and the present writer has no
intention to prose upon it. But a passing
mention of this wonderful group of storied
graves will not be dull. Side by side under
the Abbey floor, within a few feet of earth,
sleep Johnson, .and. Garrick, Sheridan and
Henderson, Dickens and Cumberland and
Handel. Garrick’s wife is buried in the same
grave with her husband. Close by, some
brass letters on a little slab in the pavement
disclose the last resting-place of Thomas
Campbell." Not far off is the body of Macau-
lay; while many a poem; though the main
aisle treads upon'the grave of that astonish-
ing old man; Parr, who lived in the reigns of
nine princes, and reached the great 'age of
152.‘ All parts of 4Westminster Abbey, will,
of course, impress;the reverential mind. It
. is an experience very strange and full of awe
for instance, suddenly to find your steps upon
the scpulchres of illustrious men as Pitt, Fox
and Grattan ; and you come, with a thrill of
mere than surprise,- upon Such still fresh an-
tiquity as the grave of the hapless Anne Ne-
ville, who was the Queen of Richard III.
But no single spot in the great Minster can so
enthrall the imagination as that strip of stor-
ied stone beneath which Garrick and John-
son, Sheridan and Dickens, Macauley and
Handel sleep side by side. This writer,
when last he visited the Abbey, founda chair
upon the grave of Dr. Johnson, and sat down
there to rest and muse. The letters on the
stone are fast wearing away; but the memory
of this sturdy champion of literature ' can
never perish,'so long as the-votaries of litera-
‘ure their art and honor the valiant genius
which battled—through hunger, and toil, and .
contumely—for its dignity and renown. It
was a tender and a right feeling which
prompted the burial of Garrick close beside
Johnson. They set out together to' seekthéir
fortunes in the great city. They went through
privation and trial hand in hand. Each found
glory in adiiferent way; and, although part.
ed afterward by the currents of fame and
wealth, they were never really parted in af-
fection. It was fit they should at last find
their rest together, under. the most glorious
roof that greets the skies of England.
Fortune gave me a good day at the Tower
of London. The sky lowered. The air was
very cold. The wind blew with angry gusts.
The rain fell now and then in a chill drizzle.
The river was dark and sullen. If the spir-
its of the dead come back to haunt: any place
they surely come back to haunt this one, and
this was a day for their presence. 'One dark
ghost, in particular, seemed present at every
step—the baleful shade of the grim Duke of
Gloster. The little room in which the Princes
are said to have been murdered by his order
is shown, and the oratory where King Henry
VI. is supposed to have met his bloody death,
and the Council Chamber into which Richard
rushed, from an ambush behind the arras, to
denounce the wretched Hastings. This lat-
ter place is now used as an. armory; hilt the
same roof covers it which mug with the bitter
inveetive of Gloster, the rude clamor of his
soldiers, and the cries of his frightened vic-
tim, who was plucked forth from under the
table where lie had taken refuge, dragged
down stairs, and beheaded on a stick of wood
in the courtyard. This tower is a place for
such deeds, and you almost wonder that they
do not happen still in its gloomy chambers.
The room in which the Princes were killed is
the most murderous in aspect that could be
imagined. It is an inner room, small and
dark. A barred window in one of its walls
fronts a window on the other side by which
you approach it. This window is but a few
feet from the floor, and doubtless the mur-
derers pauscdto look through it as they went
,to their. hellish work upon the poor children
ofKing Edward. The room is empty now.
The entrance was pointed out to a secret pas-
sage by which this chamber could be—and
doubtless was—approached from the foot of
the Tower. The oratory in which King Hen-
ry VI. was slaughtered—if, indeed, the story
he true—is where the crown jewels are exhib-
ited in a large glass case. There is a crown
here of velvet and gold, which was made for
poor little Anne Boleyn. You may pass across
the courtyard and pause on the spot where
this unhappy lady was beheaded, and you
may walk hence, over the very ground that
her last trembling footsteps traversed, to the
roundtower in which she lived. Her grave
is in the chancel of a little antique churéh
close by. I saw the cell of Raleigh, and that
direful» chamber which is scrawled all over
with the names and emblems of prisoners who
therein suffered confinement and lingering
agony, nearly always ending in death; but I
saw no sadder place than Anne Boleyn’s few-
er. It seemed in the strongest way eloquent
of mute suffering. It seemed to exhale grief
and to plead for love and pity. W. W.
Watkins Glen.
lVe are often asked to name some near-by
and inexpensive Summer Resort, where one
may go for rest and enjoyment, and take
the family, without being subjected to the
thousand and one annoyances and impositions
sure to be encountered at all great Watering
or Mountain Resorts. At the cutsct, we say
frankly, and after much experience, that
there is no spot within a day’s ride of New
York so charming in scenery, more healthful
and invigorating in atmosphere, than Watkins
'Glen. You take the Erie to Elmira, or the
Midland to Binghampton with change to the’
Northern Central, when an hour’s ride brings
you to this miniature Yosemite, now famed
through the world. Its deep and cavernous
gorges, its beautiful cascades and water pools,
its rainbow mists, and enchanting vistas, give
a perpetual delight and unending succession
of new discovered beauties, nowhere else to
be found on the inhabitable globe, so far as
known to civilized man.
But the unparalleled scenery is not all there
is to attract one to the Glen. The Glen Moun- '
tain House, a new and attractive hostelry,
built and conducted by John J. Lytlc 6:. 00.,
owners of the Glen, is one of the best Sum-
mer Houses in the land. N o liquors are sold
or obtainable, (otherwise than as medicines),
nor is there anything to offend good morals
0: good taste, in any part of the large estab-
lishment. The proprietors are honored and
consistent members of the Society of Friends
and the proverbial Quaker cleanliness, neat—
ness, good taste and good-nature, are every.
where apparent about the establishment.
Any lady or child could make this a summer
home without being once exposed to any of
the evil influences of our usual and fashion-
able resorts. Moreover, the prices are so rea-
sonable for the comforts furnished, that the
gigst at the Glen Mountain, has no cause of
unhappiness from overcharges or unrequited
raids on his exchecquer. _ By all means, visit
Watkins Glen, this summer, if you have not,
and if you have, it will'rcquire no persuasions
of ours to induce you to go again.
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Kate Field says Gc'n. G'rant doesn’t know
one tune from another. That is a libel on a
great man. He can tell a pontoon from Old
Hundred—Boston Poet.
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Office corner of Main and Wall Streets. Nitrous-
Oxidc Gas administered.
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DENTIST.
Successor to
Dr. Asa. Hill,
WALL STREET, NORWALK,
Office over
C. J. Gruman’s Dry Good: Store.
3‘ Gas administered for extracting teeth with-
out pain.
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At S. GBUMMAN’S
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No. 53 MAIN swarm-'1', (Up Stairs.)
' E. NELSON,
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15> Broken Carriages or Wagons neatly and
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SENECA FALLS, Nov.'9,'187o.
MILK. It. STEVENS :- . ~
Dear Sin—As you are an entire stranger to me.
I want on to know what VEomeE has done for
me. On 7 those who have been raised from death's
door can know the value of such a good medi-
eine. I amos years of age. Three years ago I
was taken sick with what the doctors called Lum-
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had three different physicians, Without any help.
I received no relief; I was a great sufferer; final y
I became entirely helpless. The lac; doctor told
me there Was no help 5 he said he might possibly
save my life by injecting morphine in my arms
The encouragement for saying my life
this done was so small a chance I could
About this time my
and legs.
by havmg
not consent to run the risk. .
son read your advertisement in our paper, antes-
tlmony of a person who had been very sick With
about the same complaint, and was cured. My
son went right awa to the apo ecary store and
bought a bottle of EGETINE. efore Iliad used
the first bottle, I found. great relief; I could move
myself in bed. After ta ing three bottles I was
move about my room. 1 con-
tinued taking the VEGETINE. and I was in a few
weeks restored to my former health. Tne VEGE-
hysicians said there
Ea! no doctor Bruce.
and I
able to set up and
TINE saved my life after the
was no help for me. I have
If I feel unwell I take a dose of VEGETINE,
recommend it to my friends. .
Your VEGETINE ought to be in every family.
My doctor was surprised to see me Ill good health.
He says “VEGE'I‘INE is a good .medicine.”~ I tell
him it cured mei 1:9 says, ‘Eitrisutruefl I cannot
feel too thankfn . cry ra e u 'ours.
Mus. CATHEIYLINE COONS,
Seneca Falls, Seneca County, N. Y.
VEGETIN E.
ALL DISEASES OF THE 1312091). If VEGETINE
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diseases restoring the patient to perfect health
after trying different physicians, many remedies.
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medicine performing such great cures? It works
in the blood, in the circulating fluid. It can be
truly called the Great Blood Purifier. The great
source of disease originates in the blood; and no
medicine thatdoes notactdirectlynpon it,to purity
and renovate, has any just claim upon public at-
tention.
VBGETINE '
Will Cure Canker Humor.
Rocueon'r, Mass.,March 31, 1870.
II. It. Srnvnxs :—
Sir:-—Last fall my husband got me two bottles
of your VEGETINE to take for tho‘Oankcr llnmor,
which I have had in my stomach for several years.
1 took it. and the result was very satisfactory. I
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TINB. There is no doubt in my mind that every;
one suffering with Can ker Humor can be cured by
taking VEGETINE. It gave me a good appetite,
and I felt better in every respect.
Yours, with respect. , ‘
- MRS. ELlZA AN .\' POOLE.
/
VEGETINE.
N othing‘Equal to It.
Sou'rn SALEM, Mass“ Nov. 14,1576,
Mu. 11.11. STEVENS:— ‘
Dear Sir :—I have been troubled wrth Scrofnla.
Canker and Liver Complant for three years; noth
ing ever did me any good until I commenced using
the VEGErrm-J. I am now getting alon first-rate,
and still using the VEGETINE. 1 const _er there is
nothing equal to it for such complaints. Can
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Yours trul '.
MRS.)L[ZZIE M. PACKARD,
No. 10 Lagrange Street, South Salem, Mass.
VEon'rtxn thoroughly eratlicates every kind of
humor. and restores the entire system to ahealtby
condition.
V E G- E 'I' I N E
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0 [ET on SILL—The St. John House on High
Street, Enquire of JAMES FINNEY. t 20
n/x
OUSES AND ROOMS ',I'O LET. by
11. FITCH, 51 Main Street. 7
For Sale or Exchange
FOR REAL ESTATE NEAR NOB-
_ WALK. A Farm in Amherst.Mass.,on
main road, largo House,0nt-buildings, and new
Barn, Orchards, Woodland. &c., Fine locality,
near churches, schools, colleges. and railroad.
Enquire oi DB.MOSMAN, or E. J. HILL, Nor—
walk. ~ 23“
For Sale or Exchange.
THE Large, Elegant and Pleasantly Located
Dwelling of the subscriber, on East Avenue;
House has 15 rooms, with all modern improve-
ments ; about two acres ground attached. Will
be sold at reasonable price or exchan ed for New
York City ropcrty. A l to or ad rose
2 G ‘O. “RURAL? llox 452,Norwalk, Ct;
Also one of the handsomest Building Sites on
East Avenue, cosistin of four acres, being the
north portion of the o (1 Van Zandt Homestead;
has a fine Orchard of choice Fruit-and line Shade
Trees.
To Rent.
0
THE elegant residence known as the “Dimon
. Piece," pleasantly-located on West Avenue
one of the most desirable places in the Borough of
Norwalk, is offered to rent on moderate. terms.
Also. a large Carpenter Shop, located on- Arch
Street, on the Benton property. . Will be rented
very low. .For full articulars enqure of ?
0t! . JAMES NNEY,Boa1_h:state Agent.
For‘S‘ale Cheap,
0r Exchanger'for other property,
One of tlie ‘nea'test, ahd easiest ‘littlc Cottages in
the Borough. Will sell to‘ a good tenant for little
$51 3% money' down. Enquire at GAZETTE OF-
-House for Sale.
HE subscriber, b'eing about to leave town,
otters tor.sale his residence on lilghfltreet.
It is a two story frame dwelling, containing ten
rooms, with pantry. closets, water._gas, &c., lot
about 80x200.feet, wrtn choice variety of fruit.
1‘ ’ given immediatelyu For terms and
further particulars enquire of
D. s. BARTRAM.
Norwalk, April 2a, 1377. 4:14
For Sale.
A House and Lot. in a health location on
Fair Street, above Catharine. _' 0 House is
nearly now, Well built, conveniently arrang-
ed. and will make a comfortable and leasant
home for a family of average srze. The at runs
back to the river. There is a well ot'excellent
water on the place. and_Borough.water in the
Street. Price low, and part of the money can re-
main on mortga e. A fine chance to securea
home. Apply at AZETTE OFFICE. 3ft
Desirable Property for sale.
Verydesirable place on East Avenue.
Also, a few choice Building Lots situated on
Osborn Avenue, for—sale cheap.
Also, a nicely located House and Lot on Mer-
win Street near West Avenue, for sale at a bar-
gain. Enquire of .
S. E. OSBORN. East Avenue,
tfll or to D. W. FITCH, West Avenue.
A BARGAIN.
FOR SALE—A first-rate built House,ton East
Avenue.) containing nine rooms; Will be let.
if notsol'l. Also BUILDING LOTS for sale.
Apply to D. 11. FITCH.
Norwalk,Nov. 27th,1875. 48“
FOR SALE.
7 W0 very desirable BuildingLots on WestMain
Street. Apply at the GAZETTE OFFICE .
o. W. LOCKWOOD’S sons
Have taken the Store, No. 4 Skiddy’s Block, Main
Street, where they will open a first-class
Fish, ~ .
Fruit, ‘
Vegetable
and Poultry Market.
They intend to keep it well stocked with
Fresh. Salt, Smoked dz Canned Fish
of all the choice varitiel, and Fruits and Vegeta-
bles of all kinds, in their season. The tumisnm g
of POULTRY, either alive or dressed, a specialty.
Also EGGS.
Nor-walk, Conn., February 20th, 1877.
DWARD P. WEED,
D R U G- G- I S '1‘
Wall Street, opposite Nor-walk Opera House,
Alarge and well selected stock of
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Pcrfumery,Patont Medicines, all kinds Mineral
Waters, 10ilet and Mcdicated_50aps. Flavoring
and Handkerchief Extracss, Hair Brushes,Combs,
Sponges, Chamois Skins. Stationery, Ci are, &c,,
and is constantl adding to his stock al the new
and popular me icincs of the day.
S Jr. W. MITCHELL,
. At the ever popular
UNION M'ARKE'I '
has always the best of
Beef, Veal, Mutton, and Poi-k,
attairlivingprices. Union (formerly Model) Mar;-
ket, on the Bridge. 1
HAHLES S. LOCKWOOD,
Fashionable Draper and Tailor
AND
02:st FURNISHING EMPORIUM.
Main Street, Norwalk, Conn.
ORWALK INSURANCE 00.,
NOR IYALK, CONN.
Charter-Capltal - - - $500,000
PaldupCapltal - - - 100,000
WM.C.SEREET,PreS., GEO R.Cowr.Es,Sec’y.
NA INSURANCE Co. ofIIARTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $5,052,880.19
Insuresagainst loss and damage by Fir-emu terms
adopted to the hazard andconsistont With the laws
of compensation. COWLES a. MEREILL,_
Sole Agents for N orwalk and Vicinity.
w. E. naturist),
General Furnishing Undertaker,
OPPOSITE uonsE n. macros?
“Orders attended to day or night. Residence
Main Street,3 doors from Union Avenue.
CHAS T. LEONARD & SON
. DEALERIN.
C O A ' L ,
WOOD AND BRICK,
N’th River Blue ngpefime, Cement
GEIEI‘I' PIPE EDI SEVERE, WELLS AID
clllllllls, -
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Water St., Norwalk, Conn.
C. W. Burritt
Has Removed
To No. 4 Phoenix Block, Wall St.,
Foot of Mill Hill,whcre with increased facilities
be is prepared to do .
P I. U M B I N G- ,
in all its branches. Also special attention given
to Tin Roofing, Tin and Shectlron Work and J ob-
bing. Gas Fixtures of all kinds kept on hand.
Nor walk, April, 1876.
Furniture -Furnr£turc
If you wish
Room Sets,
Walnut or Cottage Chamber Sets,
or anything in the Furniture Line, of the Latest
Style, Best Finish and Make and for the
Least Money, go to
WM. LOCKWOOD’S,
No. 36 Main Street, NORWALK, CONN.
Also,
General Furnishing Undertaker.
Orders attended to promptly day or night. Resi
dence with Mr. C. T. Cornwall, France St.
E. ‘APELL’S
llIODEL
Hair Dressing Rooms,
Over Finney £7 Benedict’s, Wall Street,
Only First-class Work Executed
in all Branches of the Business.
Ladies and Children’s Hair Cut and Shampooed
in the most approved manner.
Closed on the Sabbathffia 25tf
Bllllleatls
all sizes andstyles canbehadattbc
‘ crosses, and other flora
Rd that they can give perfect satisfaction to all
1 8 '7 '7 .
Provisionjét‘,J
Groceries,
Poultry,
CRUCKERY All! GLASS WARE
Fruits, Nuts, etc.
F I S H , ‘
(Fi'esh, Salted and Canned.)
OYSTERS.
(Opened or in the Shell.)
, OLAMS,¢£!O.
ALSO
Vegetables of all Kinds,
(Fresh and Canned.)
Canned. Fruits,
BREAD, PIES, CAKES, 81.0., 8.6.
AT
DEMMON a NEWCOMB’S,
53 & 55 Main St., Norwalk.
6. II. .DOUGLASS,
Manufacturing Confectioner,
Keeps constantly on hand a large, variety of
Pure Confectionery
Always Fresh and of the Best Quality, at
\Vholesalo and Retail.
Also a. superior article of
ICE CREAM.
SODA W ACCER, with fruit syrups, and OTTAWA
tains. .
Fruits, Nuts, fine Imported and
Domestic Cigars.
No. 21 Main Street. '
for-Ladies andGentlcmen.
C. H. DOUGLASS,Proprietor.
Closing Out Sale !
To Consumers of Groceries!
The subscriber will sell for the next
15 DAYS,
His entire stock of
GROCERIES at COST
FOR. CASH :
As he is closing a his Grocery Business, having
engaged in the ea c of
HARDWARE, AGRICULTURAL IM-
PLEME TS, PAITS, OILS, 4:0.
which he offers at lowest Cash Prices. at the old
stand on Main Street, next door to C. B. D’Artors,
South Norwalk.
GEO. C. SCOFIELD.
l.SPENOEB,
Watchmaker .
and Jeweler,
Has Removed to his Newly Fitted-up Store
' on Main Street,
Next to Prowitt’s Drug Store,
and has enlarged his stock of
JEWELRY,
Silverware,
. Watches and Clocks,
with a good selection of all the newest styles in
. his line and is prepared to do all kinds of
REPAIBING
in the best manner at LowestPrices.
Re ‘ring Pine Watches andPrench
Clocks a. Specialty.
John A. Homoecker,
B A KE R,
FOOT 0F IIIILL IIILL.
Bread, Rolls. Pies, Cakes, Crullers, &c.,baked
fresh every day. Everything made out of good
materials,and bycareful and competentworkmen.
Try our Baking. _
CEMENT PIPE Hill CHIMNEIS
Square and Round Cement Pipe, with plain and
ornamental tops, for chimneyszhave amore er-
fect draught, and are cheaper and better t on
brick;also
. D II A I N P I P E, .
The best in the Market. War-ranted to givesatis-
faction, and from 25 to 30 per cent. cheapcrthan
' ther. Manufactured and forsale by
any 0 . CHAS. T. LEON-ADDS SON.
1877.
taint mitts, tars.
Nurserymefi—End ' Florists.
Nursery Stock. Grape Vines, Shrubs, New Plants
Roses.‘Ge.'aninmJ. Carnations and numerous va-
rieties of Bedding Plants. We would especially
call attention to our unusually fine collection of
Geraniums, Coleus and Callas,
which we willscll cheap. We constantly keep
on hand a large assortment of miscellaneous bulbs
also, fresh and reliable
Flower and Vegetable Seeds.
Lettuce and other salads. Tomato, egg. pepper,
cabbage,caulitlower, celery, asparagus. and sweet
potatoe plants. Boa nets, wreaths, baskets,
decorations arranged to
order. Baskets and y. es titled. Agents for the
sale of the Manhattan iood Guano.
Mallory & Downs, Agents.
SO. NORWALK, CONN. .
Nursery and office near the depot.
Are you going to Paint?
' USE ‘
AVEBILL’S
CHEMICAL PAINT!
THE BEST IN THE MARKET.
Itis morebéautiiul,morednrabiedowerin price.
is all ready for use, does not wash by rain. best
wood preservcr, is water and tire proof, and IS the
best for general uses, either for wood. iron or
brick buildings. any of the fin est residenccsm
town are painted with
AVERILL’S CHEMICAL PAINT
Put up ready for use in pails of 1. 2 or 3 gallons
kegs of 5.10 or 15 gallons, half barrels or barrels
All orders promptly filled and any information
given by app ying to
D. H. WEBB, Sole Ag’t for Norwalk
Office at Store ofllaxnoxn Bno‘s, foot of
Washington Street, SOUTH NORWALK.
CARRIAGES! CARRIAGES!
REPAIRING. &C., &C.,
NEW FIRM
AT THE OLD STAND
Messrs. Mullings. Sc Tilly,
Having taken the businesslately conducted by Si-
las P. Tattle, are prepared to murufacture all
kinds of
Carriages and Wagons to order.
Repairing In all Branches
done in a most workmanlikemtmner. Both being
practical mechanics, and thoroughly acquamtet
with all branches of the business, they feel assur-
21ft
who may entrust work to their care.
PAINTING. VARNISUING. Ul’IIOlSTERlSG-at
DOING OVER CARRIAGES a. Specialty.
blaclnne Forging.
CHAS. MULLINGS, 22tt‘
Shining and Merchandise Tan,
Printed or Plain,
By the Dozen ,or Thousand, at Manufacturers
Prices, at the
II. TILLY
BEER,drawn from Matthews Patent Steel Foun-
An Elegant Ice Cream Saloon and Restauran .
anuovaat
' The Fountain.
BY JAMES nussELL [DWELL-
Into the sunshine,
Full of the light,
Leaping and flashing,
From morn till night!
Into the moonlight,
Whiter than snow,
Waving so flower-like
When the winds blow!
Into the fiarlight,
Rushing in spray,
Happy at midnight,
'IIappy by day;
Glad of all weathers,
Still seeming best,
Upward or downward,
Motion thy rest ;
Glorious fountain!
Let my heart be
Fresh, changeful, constant,
Upward, like thee!
MADRIGAL
BY EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.
. .—..
(Dorus to Lycoris, who rcproved' him for in
staney.)
Why should I constant be ?
The bird in yonder tree,
This leafy summer,
Hath not its last year‘s mate,
Nor dreads to venture fate
With a newcomer.
Why should I fear to sip
The sweets of each red lip?
In every bower
The roving bee may taste
(Lest ought should run to waste)
Each fresh-blown flower.
The tickling rain doth fall
Upon us one and all ;
The south wind kisses
The saucy milk-maid’s check,
The nun’s, demure and meek,
Nor any misses.
Then ask no more of me
That I should constant be,
Nor eke desire it.
Take not such idle pains.
To hold our love in chains,
Nor coax nor hire it.
Rather, like some bright elf,
Be all things in thyself, .
Forever changing, ‘
So that thy latest mood
May ever bring new food
ToFancy ranging.
Forget what thou wast first,
And, as I loved thee erst
In soul and feature,
I’ll love thee out of mind
When each new mom shall find
'Ihee a new creature.
—‘ ‘M’idsummer Holiday Number” ofScrfbne7-.
The. Congregational Church.
The Case, Lockwood dz Brainard company
have just published the minutes of the ninth
annual meeting of the Connecticut Congre-
gational general conference held last fall,
and also the minutes of the 168th annual
meeting of the general association of Connec-
ticut held at Plainville in J une,making a pam-
phlet of 150 pages. The work contains a
large amount of valuable information of inter-
est not only to the clerfial profession but also
to the churches. The fourteen district asso-
ciations according to the report on January 1,
1877, had 385 members, of whom 61 were re-
siding out of the state. The average minis-
terial age was 22 years; in Litchfield South
it was 17: in New Haven West it was 29
years.
There were 97 acting pastors, 105 having
no charge, and 144 pastors. The large num-
ber having no charge included some in secu-
lar pursuits, invalids, candidates for ministe-
rial work, and aged persons, and the average
ministerial age of the whole was 33 years.
In 1876, 39 were licensed and 641icentiates
were responsible to the district associations,
January 1, 1877.
- The churches reported,January 1, 1877, 53,
308 members—18,180 males and 35,128 fe-
males. 5,947 of these were absentees. In
*1876 the additions were 3.331 by profession
and 1,212 by letter, in all 4,543; the remov-
als—887 by death, 1,096 by filter, 105 by dis-
cipline—in all, 2,088. The addition by pro-
fession exceeded the removals by death by
2,444. The total additions exceed the total
removals 2,455. This would make the total
membership on the basis of January 1, 1876,
54,430, but instead of this, it is, as reperted,
53,308; and thus there is a difference of 122
members not accounted for in _ the statistical
tables, to be charged to the revision of rolls,
and other causes. .
'The rate of mortality was seventeen for a
thousand members. 66 churches with 7,109
members, added none by profession, and lost
125 by death. 103 churches received addi-
tions by profession in numbers from 10 to 157
the latter being the New Britain South. The
South Norwalk church received 112 members.
During the year 1,456 adults were baptized,
and 838 infants. The ratio‘ was 16 children
for 1,000 members. One hundred and one
churches with 11,257 members baptized no
child.
The charities were $240,532.82, or an aver.
age of $812.61 for each church, and $4251
for each member. As reported, 6 churches
gave nothing, 66 others gave less than $100
each; 166 gave $100 or more, but less than
$1,000 each; 58 gave $1,000 or more, of
which six gave each over $5,000, one giving
$15,557.09 and one $18,494.75. Of the
Whole amount, $135,273.57 was reported as
given to the-six Congregational charitable so-
cieties or to the' objects which they promote,
and $10,259.23 to other objects.
The' charities have not been so small since
1869, nor the legacies so large since 1871.
The Sunday school enrollment was never so
large, but is 976 less than the chugch enroll-
meat, which is 2,286 larger than ever before.
The mortality has not been so small since
1869, the additions by profession have not
been so large since 1858.
5
Governor Stone is not, perlfis, to be se-
verely blamed for doing nothing to punish
the chivalrous gentlemen who murdered a
girl and a boy. Some of the democratic
journal even in Mississippi are urging him to
vindicate the law, but it is evideqt that the
local sentiment of the murderous community
is on the side of the murderers. The Meri-
den Mercury, a journal published within a
few miles of the scene of the massacre, says,
April 29, in DeKalb, never ought to be in-
vestigated, and if wisdom and statesmanship
prevail, never will be. ‘ On that day the high-
er law, which antedatcs common lawand all
other law, ousted them and all their ministers
of jurisdiction. and for a brief period of
time, sufficient to its purposes, held sway.
Its judgments were final. No court is com-
petent to disturb them. Every attempt to
review them will be both futile and mischiev-
ous. Special instructionsto Grand Jurors are
likely to go unneeded, and to save an exhibi-
tion of their impotency, had best not be
given- _:
The En lish steamer John Bramhall is
again at' ew Haven, loading with ammuni-
tion and hrmsfor Turkey.
The Norrietown Herald man says :—“Con-
sidering the large amount of ‘ itch’ in their
names, the Russians are slow in ‘ coming up
to the scratch.” _
The total loss of property and trade by the
great railroad strike and riots is estimated at
$05,000,000. The country is by so much the
poorer for the strike, and no one, rich or
poor, benefitted at all thereby. The moral
would seem to be plain enough—Comma
o
Gazette Job Prlntlng Olllec. ;
'GAZETTE OFFICE. l
Norwalk Chronicler