WHOLE NUMBER 1562.
Popping Corn.
We were popping corn,
Sweet Kitty and I ;
It danccd about
And it danced up high.
rl‘he embers were hot
In their fiery light,
And it went up brown,
And it came down while——
\Vhite and beautiful,
Crimped and curled,
The prettiest fairy dance in the world.
All! many a tilne are the cmlwl's hOI, ,
And the human spirit can MOOk It .not,
Yet a radiant form frpiu the fiery light .
Cometh transformml and enrobed in wlntc.
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nodding Ridge.
Tun Ilan FAMlLY—IIAUN'I‘EI)_I'IOUSES, 8:0.
._ All nouses wherein lncn have lived and (lied
are hinnted houses. Through the open doors,
The harmless phantoms on their errands glide,
With feet that make no sound upon the‘floors.
We meet them at the doorway, on the stair,
Along the passages they come and go,
Improbable impressions on the air,
A sense of something moving to and fro.
“"e 11:1 re no title-deeds to house or lands;
Owners and occupants of earlier dates
From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands,
Anilholzl in inortmain still their old estates.”
On the liigheSt ground of the Ridge stands
the white church, lifting its slender spire
above the tree5, where its gilded cross glcarns
ever against the sky.
Gathered near the church are peaceful
graves, and next this quiet resting-place is an
old rambling, double house; the roof of one
part slopes, at the back, to the ground, where
n willow tree used to lean. This part of the
house is painted red, while the from, facing
the street,is white. Near the south entrance,
which opens upon a sunny garden, a tall,
lonely pine tree, lifts its ancient arms high
above the roof, watching faithfully the slow
decay of the old mansion. The latter must
have been quite stately and grand when the
tree was young and the garden smiled with
sweet, old-fashioned flowers. Under the
crumbling roof are large empty rooms, crook-
ed stairways and queer pats‘agc-ways. Grim
spiders have sewed up the key-holes and fes-
tooncd the yawning fire-places, wrapping the
cranes in sombre mourning. At sunset the
red light glares in the broken panes with a
weird, hungry gleam, and the ragged pine
waves its arms as the wind moans through it.
There is something very pathetic about the
ruin of a house, voices whisper in the silent
rooms; tender associations cling about the
sunken doors and cluster with the moss upon
the roof. The family that lived within those
walls lies mouldcring in the church yard,
their faces are t rgottcn, their name has died
out. A with hospitality always graced their
home in the ( days when their hearts were
glowing like t1..ir cheery hearth fires. .
Squire l-Icr..-n, the builder of the house,
was an Irishman, a gentleman and a scholar.
I am fond of listening to tales of his courte-
sy and refinement. At one time, I hear, that
he taught the academy at Greenfield Hill,
(called even then an aristocratic town and a
place of culture.) long years ago, at or before
Revolutionary times, I should think, though
I have a horror of dates. I dpii’t believe
ghosts care much about them either, or I
might expect: the spirit of the old Squire to
appear to me to-night, warning me not to
tamper with the past. I can almost see his
grave from the window of my room. Well,
a few harmless old ghosts would be much
more to my mind than writing out a lot of
detestable dates. .
To return to my story. At another time
Mr. Heron was a surveyor of the old stage
route from New York to Boston. Finally he
married, like a sensible man, and settled on
this farm in Redding, where he built. the. old
house and raised a large family of handsome
daughters, and two sons, William and Man-
rice, the latter was a graduate of Yale. He
was killed by the explosion of a steamboat,
on which he and another promising young
mail of those day of Redding,‘wcrc travel-
ing to attend a church convention at Hart-
ford, I believe. The daughters were all
handsome, their great beauty was their lovely
complexion, and their checks were tinted like
the blush on a sea-shell. I imagine they had
soft, Irish gray eyes and black hair.
There was Elizabeth, who was the flower
of the family, but; who Became deranged
wllen‘she was very young. She was never
sent away from home, but was always confin-
ed in a certain room of the house, where I
hear it was her delight on. windy days to tear
open the feather bed and shake its contents
out of the window, laughing wildly, poor
crazed creature, as the wind whirled the
feathers here and there- Then there was
Lucy and Elosia and Margaret (dear old-
fashioncd names) and Susan I think the other
was. Susan and Margaret married, but Lucy
and “Losia” always remained at home. They
were a family devoted to the church, and
they always entertained the Bishop and the
clergy.
I can remember going with my mother to
see the two old maiden ladies, when they and
their brother William lived alone in the house
together. I remember even in their old age
their complexions were like rose petals and
their pride in their old-fashioned garden was
a pleasant thing to see. Now they all lie
sleeping beside the church and the old house
in which they lived, once gay with their
voices, is crumbling away. Do you not sup-
pose that their spirits flit about the rooms at
times. That the fair form of the poor, mad
Elizabeth leans again, shadow-like, from the
window? I know some stories of the family,
which have been told me in confidence, as
thrlling as romances, for I know a descend-
~ant of theirs, a lady who has lived a long,
eventful life. She has the beauty of the
Herons, the same Irish gray eyes with black
lashes. The saniccurling dark liuir,androsc-
leaf complexion. She tells,'mc marvelous
jtales of people dead and gone.
Should this humble tribute to the memory
of the Herons by any chance meet her eyes,
I entreat her to be indulgent; for i I will al-
ways? hold in sweet remembrance the old
house-andtthc old family,"who made . it their
carthl y dwelling place. Cxxrnr.
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The Inlnan steamer City of Berlin arrived
at Liverpool last Monday.‘ Her delay was
caused by a. broken shaft and adverse winds.
The Sweeny suits in New York have been
settled, the last payment of $100,000 having
been made. It is thought he has money left.
; Mrs. Elizabeth Gates Allen died at Charles-
town, R. I. , on Thanksgiving day aged
105. years and 5 months. So far as was
known. Shewas the oldest person in New-
England. , ' , .'
Dealers in dairy butter, in New York, are
making a'fight against the dealers in oleo.
mI—rgai'ine,":or-tallow butter. , They‘ say. that '
thiénrricie' is being 591d all over the city, 034
pecmlu'in' aristib'cratic sections, as the best of
table butt... ’
Rev-ED}? lwbé'i-tirur'nliuli, it noted Baptist
leme: 010d "1 traitors, recently, at .the
age 0f sixty-eight. lie was born in Scotland,
and came to America at the age bf twenty-
fiVC- 'HC 1‘“)de in 1J-‘nbury at one time,
and was pastor of a church in Hartford for
twenty-five years. ’ ' 7 '
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An attorney having died' exceedingly poor,
.3 shilling subscription was set afoot to a .
the expense of his funeral. Most of the attorn.
eye and barristers having subscribed, one of
their} applied to Toler, afterwards Lord Chief
Justice Norbury, expressinga hope that he
would also subscribeashilling. “Onlya shilé
ling! said Toler, “only a shilling to. bury an
attorney? Here is a guinea, go and bury,
twenty-.onemitacnn..:. -
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Tlie Launch of the Obelisk.
nv PROFESSOR 155.10 {11. HALL, Li. B , PILD.
’l‘hc perilous passage of the “Clc0patra,’
the iron vessel that encases the mate to Cleo-
patra’s Needle, on its way toward England,
so far as accomplished, has been duly related
in all"thc papers; and doubtless all join in
lhchopc that neither the admirality courts
'nor the perils of the seas will long prevent its
happy arrival and erection in its dsetined place _
The writer had the good fortune, during a
five day‘s enforced stay at Alexandria, to wit-
ness the launch of that vessel, and would be
glad to be able to picture the exciting scene
as it. appeared to Tim.
As the steamer from Port Said approaches
Alexandria, and passes the extreme outlying
fortress, the most. prominent object that meets
his eye is the tall pharos, or lighthouse,
standing, as nearly as can be ascertained, on
the site of the ancient Pharos; and, in its tall
and massive proportions, with its splendid
Fresnel lantern, no mean successor. Shortly
appears a confused mass of buildings, palm-
trecs, ships’ masts, with the thin and lofty
line of Pompey’s Pillar on an eminence far
to the rear, forming the most prominent
landmark next to tllc modern pharos, and,
as it runs along behind the town with the
motion of your ship, appearing to rush to’
meet you with its retinue of ancient memories.
Passing nearer, you are off the northern or
western harbor, frequently now called the
old harbor, though it is really the new, hav-
ing been seen abandoned for the truly an-
cient one. On the high bank of the shore,
deep within this harbor, your eye picks out
the standing Cleopatra’s Needle, just over-
topping the surrounding buildings, and ly-
ing indistinctly against them as abackground
of its own color. Here you see a black crowd,
and two busy steam-tugs, but you are too far
away to see well: that must wait till you
land. Rounding the end of the long break-
water, which is mostly of artificial stone, you
are in smooth water; before you are count-
less windmills and some palatial structure of
the thdive’s, and you turn up slowly into
the old‘ yet modern harbor, amid the shipping
of all nations. On one side of you are the
menof-war of nearly every prominent power
—except just now the Russian—the large
English ironclad lying in friendly nearness
to the Khedivc’s special armed yacht;while
on the other side are the merchant ships,
with a far greater variety of flags, and you
hear a babel of more than twenty languages.
Pompey’s Pillar now moves with you a little
in the opposite direction, has grown, and as
you come to anchor, not far from the Chris-
tian catacombs and the fresh water canal
from the Nile, you see its capital sharply de-
fined and seeming to crown a grove of palm-
trees near by, though it; is still a mile away.
The furious boarding of your ship by the
boatmen, their torrents of English, French,
Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish,
Greek, RtiSsian, and so on, and your quiet se-
lection when the fight is over; the landing at
that strictest of custom-houses, where pass-
ports are to eagerly inquired for and inspect.
ed, and where so much trouble is encounter-
ed by so many nervous travelers, but where
a few quiet and polite words in French, Ital-
ian. or Arabic, informing the officers that you
are an American, not accustomed to travel
with a passport, and wish to see the famous
city, are the best and quickest passport you
can have—all thesc‘are familiar things, and
we can pass them by. So also the attack by
the donkey-boys in the street, who actually
lifted a (all friend and set him astridc of two
donkeys at once; and the crash of discordant
Axnbic that. never failing to frighten a. fresh
Occidental with the bclief that he has landed
in the time of insurrection. We pass them
all, and make our way up one side of the in-
teresting but. crowded bazaar to the main
street lead.ng toward the square, going along
the middle of the causeway once built out to
the island of Pharos, but which has grown so
that-not only is Pharos an island no longer,
put the chief portion of the heavy business
of the city is transacted on that made land.
We pass into the square, athoroughly modern-
ized place, except for the language and cos-
tumes, the details of work rather modeled
after those seen in Paris, and make our way
across the neck of land, which is here cover-
ed with fine streets and fine buildings, with a
boursc that would not do discredit to a Euro—
pean capital.
It is a gala time: we had heard salutes from
the forts and the ships of war, and seen the
ships decorated with bunting; but here we
see the Khedivc driving rapidly in his plain
but handsome coupe, with a couple of run-
ners some rods in advance, much as Elijah
ran before the chariot of Ahab. He is of
rather lessfithan the ordinary statue, dressed
in European style, looks like a sensible busi-
ness gentleman—but he drives rapidly out of
sight. Soon followsa carriage, and another,
each with a load of his ladies: all neatly
dressed and looking well, but mostly in Euro-
pean dress; few yashmaks. For five days
there are to be celebrations, and to night you
will see the minarets and all the shipping il.
luminated, with fireworks all over the harbor.
But we go toward the northern shore.
As we come to the sea, we begin to realize
that the Alexandria of the past, like Jerusa-
'lem, and indeed all ancient cities, is mainly
underground. Doubtless the magnificent
buildings of antiquity towered high above
the present ground level, as is shown by the
Needle and the Pillar; but we look through
yonder newly cut street leaking towardthe
palm-gardens, and see how fifteen feet below
the stumps of palms, are exhumed old pave-
ment and pieces of wall; and those palms
were centuries old before they were cut
down.
But on to the: Needle. There stands the
erect Cleopatra’s Needle, sixty-seven feet
high, and eight feet square at the base; see
how plain and sharp are the hieroglyphics,
and what immense royal cartouches. All is
as fresh as new, except on the corner where
the wind driven sands of thousands of years
have slowly cut it away; and see the natives
asleep in its shadow moving into it again as it
moves'aWay and leaves them in the sun.
The earth canceals its base; but the people
saythat it rests not on a stone foundation, but
on bronze eagle’s claws, at each corner, of
which one is missiugf; and it seems to me, as
indeed some residents confirm, that it is be-
ginning to lean a little within the last two
years? I . '
' Look toward the sea ,which is some twenty
feet’below us; a few rods to our left is the
place where some months since we saw lying
the needlc’s mate, which is now cased up in
tliat'immcnsc iron cylinder lying below, near
the water. Both were once entrance pillars
at the grand gateway of an immense struc-
ture about which-there are' learned disputes
—-into which we need not enter. As it lay it
had sank into the ground, or the earth had
accumulated-above it, till its upper side
was more than a foot below the surf-
ace : but now trenches had been dug
around, and the top uncovered, so that
we could see three sides of it; indeed, you
might walk in the trench, with‘ydur feet'not
quite as low as the other side and youruliead
not quite as high as the upper side. We go
and clambcr down. Now that it is removed,
we can see just where it lay, The ground
has been dug away below, and .out quiet to
the sea, everything made smooth below for
the launch. The soil is all a mass of {fibril}.
It is full of pottery-fragments of dinerent
ages,'fragmcnts of marble once polished, cut
stones, and bones, quite down to the sea
level;and the same ; debn‘s had accumulated
abovc'the bed-of the prostrate obelisk. See
how many delicate pieces of ornamental
tremblehave.beeliyflllrfiflilfigfllffiflggflfllli
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idelphia never saw a stranger mixture,
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1877.
of pillars, five times as large as a man; and
here is one with a Roman inscription—but
all you can read is ANT in one line and LIB
in the next, just as left by the fracture. See,
too, this pavement unearthed, nearly at the
level of the sea, but forty feet away from it;
and see these ancient stairways, leading in
different directions into the now solid ground.
Indeed, there is yet much that might be
learned by the excavations in Alexandria.
See the pebbles in the sea, too, as well as the
larger stones; all are the fragments of some
fine building; and see what a beautiful
slab is here wedged in, so protected as to
keep its ornaments even yet.
Now that we are down, look up fifteen feet,
where the monster lay. It was raised by
hydraulic presses, and cased and lowered,
while the ground was dug away: a space
large enough for the cellar for a whole block
of buildings. Square frames of wrought iron
were put around, fitted and wedged to the
stone at proper distances, from which radia-
ted innumerable arms and braces, about
which was built the cylinder of heavy boiler
iron, which you see: about. eighteen feet in
diameter, and perhaps twelve feet longer
at each end then the stone, sharpened to a
straight bow and stern. See at the how the
numbers painted, to show how many feet of
water the thing will draw. The stone is a
little out of center, so that the right side will
always be up. There is the place for the
cabin, and up on the street-level, near the
contractor’s forges, lie the rail.ngto go around
the cabin, the rudder, and other gear. The
cylinder is yet some rods from the water.
Those broad wooden hoops at each end are
planksafoot thick, and are placed length-
wise side by side around the cylinder, and
bound on with heavy, bolted hoops of
flat bar-iron so that those two broad wooden
hoops are more than ten feet wide: it is a
pity the whole cylinder were not cased with
them ,instead of being suffered to rest on
those two comparatively narrow rolling sur-
faces. Still the ground is as smooth, and the
stones cleared away; and no hole can be
punched-into the cylinder. When it. gets
into the water as far as those flag-poles set
out there, it will float. Those ropes wound
around it extend out to the two steam-tugs,
which pull as the laborers on this side work
the jack-screws, which last are continually
bending and being carried back to the forge
to be put in order. They have moved it
about five degrees of a revolution in this hour
that we have been standing here, but now
they are stopping work.
Look at the beautiful scene: up on the
bank to the right is the splendid, calm old
needle, which has seen strange vicissitudes,
but hardly one like this. To the left is the
motley crowd of spectators, along the top of
the bank, as well as in every perch that can be
found, especially if in the shadow of a large
stone; but most are under umbrellas. And
listen to the tongue! English, and all the
European language, including the mongrel
Maltese? A rabic and the neighboring Asiatic
tongues, while now and then we hear the
Africans from far-off Nubia and Abyssina.
Those two read their Bible in the bilingual
of the British Society, Ethiopic and Amharic.
And see the dresses :.thc Exposition at Phila-
And
the beautiful sweep of the land-locked harbor ;
how beautifully the gentle blue waves come
in; and how harmless frowns, or tries to
frown the fortress on the left. The pharos
is not in Sight, nor is it here needed. The
harbor is an idea ofthc French, who saw its
superficial beauty—for beautiful indeed it is;
but they built all their works before sounding,
and then found, to their chagrin, that sunken
~rooka made the harbor worthless ; and in the
new life of Alexandria, commerce, has kept
to the ancient harbor, though its beauty is
incomparably less. '
Here a Romish priest speaks in Arabic,
and offers us a pillar beside him. We take
it, and find that he speaks English—is English,
in fact. He has watched the progress of the
work from the beginning, and has been at
his post: from five o’clock this morning till
now, five in the terribly hot afternoon, ex-
pecting that to day would be the last. But
it has moved only at the pace we have seen.
He has measured the stone, and says that its
only sixty-three feet long: a little shorter
than the other. We criticise the job, and
the cylinder than a respectably sized ship,
as the stone cannot weigh much more than
two hundred tons, and the casing possibly
one hundred and twenty more. Also that
we should have built ways, eased the whole
cylinder in wood, instead of binding it with
two wooden hoops, and applied more power ;
and at least continue to use the hydraulic
presses rather than trust to the bending jack-
screws. Also that anchors properly secured
out in the harbor, with man-power, even,
would furnish a far better means of applying
power than the paddles of two steam-tugs.
But he defends it on the score of cheapness,
while admitting that it is not the best way:
says that the tugs are furnished by the like-
dive, and native labor is cheap, and perhaps
that too furnished by the Khedive. Well,
we reply that if the job must be bungled, we
only hope it may not prove tobe the dearest in
the end, as there is really no difficulty in the
engineering problem before the contractor.
But, satisfied that no more progress will be
made to day, wefollow the example of the
crowd, and take a round-about walk back.
to go to the ship. The charming palm-gar-
dens, the mosques and convents of Alexandria,
the beautiful residences near the canal, the
modern improvements, the great post-office,
with the square near by, full of almost tropi-
cal vegetation covercd with a summer‘s dust
all these are worthy of description; but we
saunter down through the bazaar, taking a
slow look at the strange commodities 0f
Egypt, and go out to spend the hot night on
the steamer away from the mosquitoes,
Next day we are again upon the ground ;
this time joining the large and motley gather-
ing of spectators on the high bank. The
contractor and his friends are very busy; now
off inabOat to the two tugs, now walking
about on the shore, giving orders. Hundreds
of natives, in all degrees of dress and undress,
are at work directly at the side of the cylin-
der, simply pushing with their hands; others
see-sawing up and down on an elastic lever
formed by bolting together tall tree-trunks
or mast-poles, on which a crowd of from
sixty to a hundred could sit, and thus try to
pry it off. The steam-tugs are pulling their
best, the jack-screws'at work, and the cylin-
der plainly revolves, at about the speed of
the long hand of a clock. '
At length the uppermost, the point (of un-
stable equilibrium is passed, aud the revolu-
tion becomes more rapid, and soon percepti-
ble to an exciting degree. A sensation pass-
es through the gazing crowd, which almost
rouses itself to a cheer; soon a lever slips, as
the cylinder passes out of reach. and down
comes its weight of living beings with its long
arm : the jack-screws cease to bend, and have
to be rapidly changed in position ; the human
lever weights begin to sing; the contractor
moves his umbrella up and down in rather
too excited a manner for orderly signaling;
the men at the screws move their bars around
with four distinct impulses, chanting in
6,9. line with a catatcctic syllable, varied a
little in words, but always ending with
“Allah" than
u my (Lord my ( God!
a ad soon ‘.he movement is so rapid that the
jacks-crews are useless. Then the levers are
abandoned, the whole native crowd push and
sing in grand chorus; the cylinder rolls
heavily but steadily down into the water.
The men instantly strip and follow it in; all
seems to be going well-,but on the second
suggest that it is a less diflicult job to launch'
Arabic, in strong monotone, a spondaic (lim-.
turn the water is too deep for pushlng; yet
in the excitement they swim out, and still at-
tempt to push. But as the depth of about
eight feet of water is reached, the heavy side
lacking but a few inches of reaching the top‘
the cylinder within half a turn of floating,
the steam tugs can do no more, and the revo-
lution of the great mass ceases. The cabin side
and the man-holes arc underneath, their
water-tight capacity tested with the pressure
of an eight-feet column of water. Strange
as it may seem, this natural cxigencey, the
failure of the land force by means of the
depth of water, seemed to have been
wholly unforseen. The launch is accom-
plished, and the problem has solved itself
into that of getting off a stranded ship, with
an existing possibility of a leak; a problem
that requires entirely new provision and pre-
paration for its solution. For the rest of the
day, efforts are made to give the steam-tugs
a little more leverage, by putting high blocks
under the ropes at the upper side of the cyl-
inder; but the day ends with no fui'thcr
movement.
The next day it is suspected or discovered
that the man-holes arc leaking; and the cold-
chisel is brought into requisition to cut a hole
in the uppermost side, through which to pass
the suction pipe of a huge double—cylinder
pump. Next day the pump is in full play;
but one day is not enough to pump it out——
and we must leave the cylinder and sail from
Alexandria. But the launch is over, and
the remaining work belongs only to the bum-
drum of life. Fine weather—as nearly al.
ways at that season—favored for many days
later, and no new complications could have
been added. Had heavy seas come in (a thing
not very likely), with the appliances at hand,
the cylinder must have remained where it
stopped at; the end of the launch. But it
was at last gotten off, though I was not there
to see, and safely towed around by a steam-
tug, or pair of tugs, to the dock in the bar-
bor. Its experience ina heavy sea on the
ocean we all know. May its remaining ad-
ventures bc accompanied with more skill
and better fortune, till it is safely raised to
an enduring position on the banks of the
Thames !———Tlle Sunday School Times.
Wanted—a Lighthouse.
The announcement in last week’s POSTAL
of a petition for the erection of a lighthouse,
or beacon, at the entrance of our harbor, sug-
gests a few words as to the characteristics of
the harbor and the amount of commerce
which enters it.
Stamford has been sport of entry for many
years, and some of our oldest citizens, when
the petition was mentioned, shook their heads
and observed that “the Government would
never do anything for this place," because
some time in the beginning of the century
some mm was smuggled ashore at Whitestone
and the blame laid on Stamford because of its
fraudulent entry here. It is to be hoped,how-
ever, that our recent vote on the license ques-
tion will reassure the authorities as to our
good behavior in the future as regards that
article, and that the black mark which, as the
oldest inhabitants aver, is opposite the name
of Stamford on the books of the nation, will
be erased.
As the space in these columns will not
allow all the details of the trade to be
given, it may be generally stated that the im-
ports and exports by way of the Sound will
amount to about one hundred thousand tons
per annum, exclusive of the large business of
the Stamford Mfg. Co. at; the Cove, All the
heavy articles of merchandise for the towns
of Stamford and New Canaan run the gaunt-
let of far—reaching reefs thatline the entrance
to the harbor, as are also compelled to the
nrst class schooner yachts Estella and Clytie.
and the large fleet of oyster sloops owned in
the place.
The rocks which now make the name of
Stamford a terror to the coaster, commence
at the “Cow” rocks, on which is placed the
only buoy which the Government has provid-
cd for the harbor, lying a mile or more south
of Shippan Point, between which and the
buoy are scattered numerous rocks and ledges.
Extending from the end of the Point, which
is a long sand beach, westerly nearly to the
channel, lies the Forked Rock roof; on the
opposite side of the channel is the dangerous
“Harbor Ledge," and from the end of Green-
wich Point, on the western side of the bar-
bor, extends a long reef terminating at the
eastern end in “Woolseys‘s Rock.” These
reefs are of large extent and are completely
covered at high water. They consist princi-
pally of huge jagged boulders. The shores
adjoining are low and their deceptive character
can be inferred from the fact that the
schooner Thomas Jefferson—whose captain
was familiar with the place for ye ars—was run
on the Forked Rock reef and sank, on a clear
moonlight night.
The only guide during the night has been
the soft bottom of the channel, which the ex-
perienced navigator might follow up with the
sounding lead, and in the day time certain
ranges known of course by few strangers.
Since the excavation of the “Canal," at new
channel dug by a private company at a cost,
it has been stated, of $30,000,these soundings
have been much confused by the presence of
large masses of gravel dumped by the scows
during that work.
After the erection of the beacons proposed
by the lighthouse board, vessels can pass in
midway between them and anchor in two fa-
thoms of water in a comparatively safe harbor.
Vessels bound here and arriving in the night
are compelled to seek shelter in some of the
harbors on the Long Island shore, and others
bound to the eastward have to run into those
harbors when stopped by heavy head winds.
As after these easterly gales during the fall
and winter months, the weather generally
clears with northerly winds, it would be a great
convenience for them to be able to proceed
from a windward instead of a leeward harbor.
—Stamford Postal Gard.
#
Fences for Farms.
The following concerning the use of hedges
for fences, we receive from a farmer of ex-
perience and extensive reading: Sooner or
later the farmers of the United States must
adopt hedges for fences, as the cost of all
the fences. in this country is estimated by
good authorities to be about $1,800,000.000,
or $45 a head for each inhabitant, old or
young, and it costs $100,000,000 annually to
keep them in repair. Recently, Major Bris-
bane, of the United States army, compiled
statistics in regard to the annual destruction
of timber in the nation, from which it ap-
pears that the consumption requires about
5,000,000 acres every year. He puts the re-
quirements for fencing purposes at about one
half of this vast amount, which we think is
too high; but it is nevertheless immensc,und,
notwithstanding the gradual increase of tree
planting for future use, it is certain that a
radical change in our fence system is abso-
lutely necessary, or two generations hence
the country will be practically without fences.
The kind of hedges most grown are the buck-
thorn and bar-berry for the North, the Osage
orange for the South. In regard to the bar-
berry, the Wallingford Circular says: “We
have a barbcrry hedge on our grounds twen-
ty-five rods long and nine years old, from
the seed. Two rows of plants were set, the
rows'one foot apart, and the plants one foot
apart in the rOWs, and set alternately to break
joints. This hedge has been clipped a little,
two or three times, to keep it even, and is
now six or seven feet high, with a firm, com-
pact base, pcrfectly impervious to smaller an-
imals, and stout enough to turn ordinary
farm stock, except for a short distance at one
end where the soil is quite thin.” A pound
of barberry or buckthorn seed, costing $1,
will produce plants enough for 100 rods of
fence. ' ‘ ’ ' ‘ '
The Fall of Plevna.
Russia wins a great victory. The last grand
act in the operations against Plevna closes
with the surrender of Osman Pasha. Last
June, no one deemed it probable that the
great conflict would hinge upon the posses-
sion of a little town near the Vid, unknown
in military annals, and almost without a gar-
rison. But the Russians by sending an inad-
equate force against it, committed two blun>
ders at once; they made a feeble attack
where the assault should have been decisive,
and they revealed to the enemy their plan of
operations. Henceforth, in the eye of the
Ottoman, Plevna became a place of vital im-
portance, to be held at any risk against the
hated Muscovite. Osman Pasha at once dis-
cerned its capacity for defence. While the
old generals relied on stone walls, be acted
on the conviction that earthworks, defended
by the breech-loader and rifled gun, are prac-
tically impregnable. The Russian assaults in
July and September proved the accuracy of
his provision. These unfortunate experiments
cost the Russians probably 30,000 men, and
certainly thwarted their plan of campaign,
which contemplated the capture of Adrian-
ople, as a sequel to the capture of the Shipka
Pass. Learning from experience, the Rue-
sians, fortunately for themselves,had recourse
to regular siege operations. Reinforced by
tbg gallant Roumanians, they established. a
line of intrenchments in face of the Ottoman
defences, Then crossing the Vid, they car.-
ricd the Turkish positions on the Sophia, and
soon encircled Plevna in an iron grasp, as
strong as that which compelled the surrender
of Metz and Paris. This done, the fall of
Plevna was only a question of time.
It is too soon to determine how far the 01'.-
toman Commander, has fallen short of his
duty. Although the Russians praise his valor
it is on record that he has acted throughout
on the defensive, if one feeble attack directed
against Palishnt be excepted. It is a military
axiom that a commander who defends where
he might attack, capitulates where he might
conquer. He might have expected aid from
Western Bulgaria, but when he allowed the
Russians to occupy the roads to Sophia and
Widdin, be rendered it impracticable for an
army to fight its way to his relief, and at the
same time made his owu escape impossible.
This was not Toddleben’s way at Sebastopol.
whe prolonged a. defence, which otherwise
must have been very brief.
The political and military results of the V
great victory are immeasurable. It will rees-
tablish throughout Europe the respect for the
Russian arms, of which her blunders in Bul-
garia and Armenia had weanigh deprived
her. It will give a renewed impulse to, the
demands of the Russian people for the ex-
tinction of the Ottoman power, and awaken
the slumbering hopes of every Christian race
under Turkish rule. It will cement still fur-
ther the Imperial alliance, and cause the
deepest anxiety among the governing classes
in Great Britain. Regarded from a military
point of view, the Turkish disaster is almost
irreparable. It deprives her of her main
army at a moment when the Russians hold
advanced posts at Shipka Pass and near So-
phia, whence they may swarm into Ronnie-
lia and complete the work began nearly.tWo
centuries ago, when Sobeiski rolled back' the
tide of Turkish invasion—Tribune.
Board of Education.
At a meeting of the Board of Education.
Monday evening, Dec. 3d, 1877, there were
present Joseph W. Wilson, J. J, Millard,
Rev. E. D. Bentley, 0. W. LeCount, L. J.
Blake and Benjamin J. Sturges. Benjamin J.
Sturges was elected secretary pro tem ; an
auditing committee consisting of Joseph W.
Wilson, C. W. LeOount. and B. J. Sturges
was appointed to audit the bills presented to
this Board. Mr. Wilson reported having vis-
ited two schools where the progress was not
very satisfactory. Some discussion was had
in reference to the condition of the Over
River School and a committee of Sturges,
Millard and Bentley was appointed to visit
this school and report at the next meeting of
the Board. Mr. Millard reported having visit-
ed the South Norwalk and the East Norwalk
schools; he reports the East Norwalk school
as being in excellent condition, was highly
pleased with the gymnastics, marching and
music, also with some Latin translations of
the South Norwalk school, and he thought he
could challenge any school in the State on
readintr. Average attendance 95 per cent.
Mr. ilson inquired as to the advancement
in arithmetic in that school, of scholars be-
tween the ages of 10 and 12 years. Mr. Mil-
lard replied “as far as cube root.” The
study of geography was then considered and
criticisms were made upon the same, also
upon the method of instruction in the study.
The high prices of the text books was the
subject of some comment
The Protestant Episcopal Church of the
diocese of Connecticut will hold a conference
in New Haven, January 8th, Bishop Williams
presiding. The meeting will be held at the
Athenenm, the appointed papers and addres-
' ses will each be limited to twenty-five minu-
tes, after which the subjects will be open
for general discussion, each speaker to be
confined to ten minutes. None of the topics
will be voted upon. Sessions will be held in
the morning, afternoon and evening. The
following is the programme :
9 a. m.—Celebration of the holy commun-
ion in the Trinity church. 10 a. m.—
Opening address in the Atheneum by the
Rt. Rev. J. Williams, D. D., LL. D. The
duty of Christians in the Manor of [Reliev-
ing the Poor. Essay by Mr. William Ham-
mersley, Hartford; address by the Rev. Wm.
Tatlock. Stamford. 3p. m.—The Relation
of the Sunday School to the Parish. Essay
by the Rev. J. F. Bingham, D. D. , Water-
bu ;
Hagen. Sunday school literature. Essay
by M. B. Copeland, Middletown; address by
Rev. W. A. Johnson, Salisbury. 7,30 pE. m.
—The Church Work of the Laity. ssa
by Professor D. C. Eaton, New Haven ; a -
dress by the Rev. 8. D. McConnell, Mid-
dletown. How is the Growing Popular
Neglect of Public Worship to be Remedied?
Essay by the Rev. Samuel H. Giersy, D. D. ,
Norwich; address by the Rev. E. Harwood,
D. D. , New Haven.
The Tribune says in its new prospectus,
that the day of danger to the Negro has
passed, and that of danger to the Tax-Payer
has come. It points out the combination of
the Solid South and Tammany Hall, and the
overwhelming tendency of the South to ex-
travagant appropriations for themselves that
may make up for the waste of the war, and
to repudiation. So it insists that the duty of
the hour is to hold together, harmonize, and
in every way strengthen the old party of the
churches and the school houses. The Tribune
is making remarkable inducements for next
year. The Weekly and Semi-Weekly editions
have been enlarged to sixteen pages, and the
form is handier and type better.
A new arrangement has gone into effect on
the N. Y. d: N. H. R. R., designed to aid in
the work' of forcing conductors to be honest.
The conductor is supplied with a little book of
printed blanks, each leaf of which has in du-
plicate the names of all stations as on ordi-
nary checks, when he takes up a cash fare
he takes out his book and pencil and punch
and punches with care the name of the sta-
tion where the passenger got in and the sta-
tion to which he pays fare-this he tears out
and hands to the passenger as a check and
takes it up at the end of the journey and re-
turns it to the company. The stub he also
punches in like manner and writes in the
amount paid. The blanks are all numbered
and if he spoils one he must account for it.
What is to prevent a dishonest conductor—if
there are such—from putting the money in
his pocket and occasionally forgetting to
mark and punch his book, we do not see un-
less it is "an army of spotters—and are spot-
ters more honest than conductors?
_
Young men, steel your hearts against the
ineldious young woman who will soon make
her appearance at the church fair and smile
on you and try to induce you to pay two
dollars for a ten cent pen-wiper.
address by the Rev. E. S. Lines, West.
NORWALK GAZETTE,
PIIlISIIED .EVEIY 1’0 ESSAY ISIIIII.
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ALEX, S. GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church .
Teacher of
Plano-Forte, Organ and Musical
Composition.
Box 879 P. 0., NORWALK. CONN.
John H. Bodwell
EXPRESS MESSENGER
AND
PURCHASING AGENT.
II. M. d: C. S. PROWITT‘S, Norwalk.
H. E. BODlVE LL’S, So. Norwalk. 48H
FURS ! FURS ! FUBS !
Made Over, Relined 85 Repaired.
Offices-
ALSO
Buffalo and Fancy Robes
Relined and Repaired by MRS. C. J. TAYLOR,
51 Main Street, Norwalk. 47
J. Betden Hurlbutt,
Attorney at Counsellor at Law,
Boom No. 4, [up stair-,1
GAZETTE BUILDING.
EMILY V.D.PAIEDEE,M.D.,
(Graduate of N.Y. Medical College for Women,
Cor. MAIN r2 MARSHALL STREETS,
SOUTH NOBWALK, CONN.
Office Hours, outfit) a. m., andtrom3 p.m. At-
tention to all classes of diseaseslncidcnt to a gen-
eral practice of medicine arid surgery. Fam-
iliessnpplied with Homoeopathic remedies.
References by permission :—S.Lilenthal, M. D.,
Prof. of Theoryand Practice, N. Y . city ; Clemenee
Lozier, M. D. Dean of College, N. Y.: Alfred K.
Bills, M. D.,Prol‘. Materia Medica. 3m23
CHARLES w. MANY,
Surgeon Dentist,
NORWA LK, CONN.
onlce corner of Main and Wall Streets. Nitrous-
Oxide Gas administered .
C. B. COOLIDGE,
DENTIST.
Successor to
Dr. Asa. H111,
WALL STREET, NORWALK,
Olllcc over
C. J. Grumnn’s Dry Goods Store.
F Gas administered for extracting teeth with-
out pain.
DENTISTRY
A T 11.4 RD TIMES PRICES,
For Cash— No Credit 3
All work excutcd in the Best Manner, at my office
Corner of Main and Washington Streets,
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.
T. E. SWIFT, D. D. s.
S t! W. MITCHELL,
C
At the ever popular
UNION MARKE'I
has always the best of
Beef, Veal, Mutton, and Pork,
at fairlivingprices. Union (formerly Model) Mar-
ket, on the Bridge. 18
HAHLES S. LOCKWOOD,
Fashionable Draper and Tailulll
AND
GEN T S’ FURNISHING EMPORIUM.
Main Street,Norwalk, Conn.
”WARD P. WEED,
D R 'U' G- G- I S '1'
Wall Street, opposite Norwalk Opera House,
A large and well selected stock of
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Perfumery, Patent Medicines, all kinds Mineral
Waters, oilct and Medicated Soaps, Flavoring
and Handkerchief Extracss, Hair Brushes,Combs,
Sponges, Chamois Skins, Stationery, Cigars, die”
and is constant] adding to his stock all the new
and popular me icines ofthc day.
| ORWA [all INSURANCE CO.,
NOR IVALK, CONN.
Charter-Capital - - - $500,000
Paldanapltal - - - 100,000
WI.C.Simr.nr.Pi-es., Geo B.Cowr.ns,8ec’y.
TNA INSURANCE Co. “HARTFORD.
Incorporated 1312. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $5,052,880.19
Insure: against loss and damage by Fire. on terms
adopted to the hazard andconsistcnt with the laws
of compensation. COWLES a MERRILL,
Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity.
C. 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 (it Canned Fish
of all the choice varities,and Fruits and Vegeta-
bles ol‘all kinds, in their season. The furnishing
of POULTRY, either alive or dressed, a specialty:
Also EGGS.
Norwalk. Conn.,- February 20th, 1871.
GEORGE ll. RAYMOND,
Furnishing Undertaker,
No. 53 NI-AIN STREET, (Up Stairs.)
IWfll‘Il‘.
E. K. LOCKWOOD’S.
WM; B. SWAN,
Manufacturer of
FINE AND ()0NlllION
HARNES&
And Dealer in
Horse & Stable Equipments.
Particular attention paid to
REPAIRING.
Thankful for the liberal patronage of the past,
the subscriber hopes to incrlt a Continued share 01
the busrness favors of his friends and the public.
WM. B. SWAN.
REAL ESTATE.
For Sale.
BRICK HOUSE, 12 rooms, with all modern
improvements, flea and clear, on West 33d
Street, New York. In part payment I will accept
or well inclined proper: in Norwalk. For partic-
ulars onqiurc o J. L. ABLEM. 48
u\/\JVWW
To Rent.
THE whole or part of a House on Main Street,
right in the village, suitable for 1 or‘ztamilles:
7 rooms. Possession immediately. Apply at this
olllcc.
To Rent.
THE elegant residence known as the “Dimori
Place," pleasantly located on West Avenue
one ofthe_most desirable places in the Borough of
Norwalk, is offered to rent on moderate terms.
Also,alarge Carpenter Shop, located on Arch
Street, on the Benton property. Will be rented
very low. For full particulars cnqurc of
611' JAMESF NNEY,Real Estate Agent.
To Rent. . '
THREE rooms in Cottage opposite residence of
Charles Sherry, Earp, Main Street; 3‘3 per
month. Possession immediately.
For Sale or Exchange.
IIIHE Large, Elegant and Pleasantly Located
Dwelling 01 the subscriber, on East Avenue;
House has 15 rooms, with all modern improve-
ments; about two acres ground attached. Will
tire soldat reasonable price or exchanged for New
lork City prolicrty. Apply to or address
2 GEO. W.CRAM. Box 452, Norwalk, Ct.
Also one of the handsomest Building Sites on
East Avenue, cosisting of four acres, being the
north portion of the old Van Zanut Homestead;
gas a line Orchard of choice Fruit and fine Shade
‘recs.
For Sale Cheap,
Or Exchange for other property,
One of the neatest,and cosiest little Cottages in
the Borough. Will sell to a good tenant for little
g‘i'lgtlgmoney down. Enquire at GAZETTE OF-
For Sale.
,—- A House and Lot, in a. healthy location on
W Fair Street, above Catharine. The House is
. nearly new, well built, conveniently arrang-
ed, and Will make a comfortable and leasam
home for a family of average size. The of. runs
back to the river. There was well of excellent
water on the place, and Borough water in the
Street. Price low, and part of the money can re-
main on mortgage. A llne chance to secures
home. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE. 3t!
Desirable Prepcrty for sale.
A. Verydeslrahle 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-
wm Street near West Avenue, for sale at a bar-
gain. Enquire of
S, E. OSBORN. East Avenue,
thI or to D. W.FI'1‘CH, West Avenue.
FOR SALE.
Il‘WO verydesirableBuildingLotson WestMaln
Street. Apply at. the GAZETTE OFFICE.
FAIRFIELD
FIRE
lNSURANGE COMPANY,
South Norwalk Conn.
tall Capital, $200,100.11.
AiiBlS,Jflll.1,1875, $336,112.78
w .s. nanromnmrenaem,
n.B.TURNEB, See9y and Tress.
G. N. NICHOLS.
LL kinds of Ladies and Gents’ nuts AID
snoiunade to order. REPAIRING neatly
done, and according to promise.
ROOM NO. 5,
Gazette Building.
'18-7'7.
BUYYOUR
Provisions,
Groceries,
Poultry,
URUCKERY AND GLASS WARE
Fruits, Nuts, etc.
I." I S H ,
(Fresh, Salted and Canned.
OYSTERS,
(Opened or in the Shell.)
CLAMS,¢230.
ALSO
Vegetables of all Kinds,
(Fresh and Canned.)
Canned. Fruits,
BREAD, PIES, CAKES, 890., 81.0.
AT
DEMMON & NEWCCMB’S,
53 & 55 hIain St., N orwalk.
till I‘ ~ er
Lumber,
Timber,
Shingles,
Lath,&c.
DOWN T0 HARD PIN PRICES.
SHIN—GLE s,
BOTH
Planed, Sawed and Rived,
Superior to any ofered in this Market.
Office and Yard opp. the Store of William C
Street & 00.,
Water Street, Norwalk.
Horace L. Hubbell.
COWLES 8t MERRILL,
Agents atNorwalk,Conn., issue Policies for th
followingInsurance Ccm armies
Etna, off-Iartford,0t., 84,047.37807
Hartford, “ 1,537,51900
thnix, “ 1,081,189?“
People’s, of Middle .own ,Ct., 248,874 86
Home of New York , 2,723,296 52
thnix,Brooklyii, N. Y., 1,545,597 10
Continental of New York, 1,427,49621
International, 829,476 00
Westchester, of New Rochelle, N. Y . , 453.930 32
iprin ilcld, ol‘SpringflcId, Mass., 579.780 00
Poop e’s, Worcester, Mass. . 600,000 00
Franklin,Phila., Pa., 3,268,81539
Commerce, Albany, N . Y.. ' , 24 00
Narragansett. of lfrovidenco ,R. L, 754,94700
Andes, Cincinnati, 0., 1 {250,000 00
Home, ofColumbus, 0.. 438,447.34
Alemauia,Clcvcland, 0., 295,000 00
Liverpool, and London,und Globegcpa-
rate fire assets, ‘ 5,055,105 00
North British and Mercantile. do do 2,104,508 00
Queen of Liverpool & London, do do 1355,1560 3‘0
Imperial, of London, do do 5,313,665 00
And other-Companies ,Stock and Mutual ,tn Con-
necticut and New York .
GEORGE E. COWLES, HOMER MERRILL
BARGAINS IN
CHINA, URDCKERY & GLASS
AT
E. K. LOGKWOOD’S.
Shop in rear of Residence, Main Street, Norwalk
Centaur
Liniments.
.__.___.
They relieve pain.
They subdue swellings.
They cure burns, without a scar.
The White Centaur Linimentis now the stan -
ard remedy for Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica.
Lumbago. Frost Bites, Cakcd Breasts, Itch, Cuta-
neous eruptlons, etc. These Liniments hav
stood the test of time. They have performed
more wonderful cures of obstinate bed-ridden
cripples, and have alleviated more pains in a
shorter space of time, than have all other Lini
ments, Embrocations, Extracts, Ointments. and
Salvesin existence. 'I‘hcir sale is increasing rap-
idly and regularly. Their best endorsers are phy-
sicians, surgeons and vctcrnarics. There is liter-
ally no ease of flesh, bone, or muscle ailment upon
man or beast which the Centaur Liniments will
not alleviate and generally cure. But it must be
understood that there are two kinds of Liniment;
the White is for family use and the Yellow for
horses and animals. For horses and mules habit
to Spavin, Ring-bone, Sweeney, Galls, Strains
String-halt,etc.,thc Yelloxv Centaur Llnl-
men! is worth its weight in gold. We havu
thousands of certificates relating how valnabh
horses have been speedily restored by a dollar
bottle of this wonderful all-healin g remedy. Thl
sameis constantly told of the effects upon the
human frame. Persons hobbling upon crutcher
for years from Still' Joints, Tumors and Old Sores,
have, by the use of a few bottles of the “’hllc
Ccnlaur Llnlment, bcen restored to the “S!
of all their limbs. The effects are next to mar-
vels. We will give the Liniments to any person
who ever heard of a failure. Such a case but
never been reported to us. These Linimcnts are
now sold throughout the habitable globe.
J. B. ROSE a. 00., 46 Dirt Sn, New Yomt. 3m43
Honey
To the taste but death to Gripes and Stomach
Complaints. Pucker-’9 Cnslorla is a complex:
substitute for Castor Oil, and is as pleasant to
take as Honey. It is particularly adapted to
Teething and irritable children. It destroy
worms, assimilates the food, regulates the Stom-
ach, and cures Wind Colic. No remedy is as elli-
cacious for Feverishness, Croup, Worms am-
Whoopiag Cough. Castorla is a purely vege-
table preparation. more effective than Castor Oil.
and neither gags nor gripes.
COLUMBIA, Conn, May 3, 1876.
Messrs. J. B. R05}: & 00., N . Y. :
I have a family of eight children, and have use“
your CASTOBIA. I have never found anything
equal toit. My children have been save: from
severe sickness by the use of CASTORIA. I recom-
mend iti preference to any medicine I know. I
feel it a p ensure to give this certificate on aecounl
of the benefits I have derived by the use of your
admirable preparation. . Very truly yours,
Jm43 NORMAN 1’. LITTLE.
Furniture -Furm§ture
If you wish
Parlor, library, Dining and Sitting
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
W M. LOCKWOOD’S,
N o. 36 Main Street, NORWALK, CONN.
Also,
General Furnishing Undertaker.
Orders attended to promptly day or night. Rcsi’g
deuce with Mr. C. T. Cornwall, France St.
C. W. Burritt
Has Removed
To No. 4 Phoenix Block, Wall St.,
Foot of Mill Hill,wherc with increased facilities
he is preparer! to do
P L 'U' M B I N G- ,
in all its branches. Also special attention given
to Tin Roofing, Tin and Shectlron Work and Job-
bing. Gas Fixtures of all kinds kept on hand.
Norwalk, April, 1876.
Good Chance to Buy
0 H E .A. P r
The subscriber will offer his entire stock of
Groceries.
Hardware,
&c., for the next:
15 DAYS AT COST.
GEO. c. SCOFIELD,
Main Street, South Norwalk.
Dr. C. 11. Kendall & Son,
DENTISTS.
Are now prepar.
ed to r e c e l v 9
their patrons at
either N orwalk
Bridge or South
N orwalk. The
' senior partner
has taken rooms
0 v e r Selleck’s
Bookstore, Nor-
walk, while the
j u ale 1- retains
the old otlicc, Laudcr’s Block. South Norwalk.
Teeth extracted without Dam. and all dental ope-
rations performed at either office.
C. H. KENDALL, M.D..
G. S. KENDALL, D. D. s.
P. 8. Dr. C. 11. Kendall will devote Mondays to
Ridgcfielzl.
P. w. BATES,
Successor to PRICE 5-. BATES.
Manufacturer of
Monumental, Building & cemetery
Work.
of every description from all the diflerent kinds of
GRANITE, IIIA RBLE, BROWN,
OHIO, or NOVA SCOTIA STONE.
Orders solicited. Prices to suit the times.
I HAVE been connected in business with Mr.
Bates lora number of years. and cheerfully
recommend him to in old'friends and patrons as
a man well worthy of theifimtronunc.
. B. PRICE.
KAPRAL BROTHERS,
Having bought
out Samuel Pakul-
ski, will continue
the business as
heretofore at the
old stand, Ely’s
Block ,‘Mnin Street.
So. Norwalk.man-
ufacturcr of all
kindsot
HUMAN HAIR
WORK.
Having had sev-
eral years’ experi-
ence and under.
startling it thoroughly in all its details,iii that
line, can guarantee to satisfy and please all who
favor them with their patronage. They wil also
keep on hand, a large assortment of
SWITCHES,
OURLS,
PUFFS.
anzzms. we. .
Which they will sell at the lowest prim-s. Pal tic
nla'r attention paid to LA DIE-3’ OW N (,‘OM BIN (. .5
PHEATER$§
A villainous, y
RRAN GE S, g
L COOKING
smovms,
0 &c., &c , &o.,
'I‘
B E. x. Lodxwoon’s. S
___A GOOD, 7 Octave PIANO, to
wanted- buy or rent. Address with ma-
ker’s name and terms. M. J. DAVIS,
Fitch’s Home. Noroton, Conn.
WATER STREET, rear of Opera House, .
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VOL. LIL-NUMBER 51.
Incorrigible.
a—-——
BY J. D. CLARE.
I suppose I might write you a sonnet,
And would, did I so incline—
That would flatter, and make you conceited
Were it placed here before you in rhyme;
But you see. I am forced to be honest,
And in that case, most truthful must be,
And point out a fault or an erior,
E'cn though I offend—do you see.
The task would indeed be a hard one,
Were you seated just here at my side,
And I fear that the point of my lecture
Would be lost,-—if with eyes open wide
You should look at, and wonder, and twit me
In that sarcastic way that you know——
When I hear it just makes my blood tingle
To return you a kiss for a blow.
What's the use of my trying to scold you,
You will never admit I am right;
And the moral may seek to convince you,
All the more do you try to make light
Of what I am saying, and saucily
Turning your head to one side,
You tip-tilt your nose in a manner
That e’en gainst myself I decide.
But I’m not going to stand it much longer,
And I wish you to bear it in mind,
That I think you a little too saucy,
And sometimes the least bit unkind.
But perhaps you don’t mean it, however,
So I’ll just let it go for today,
And accept the apology offered,
As it comes in so humble a way.
Norwalk, Dec. 3d, 1877.
Lines to a Tea-Cup.
Dear little tea-cup,
Oh! my rare wee cup,
Work of Celestials! you must be divine;
Tea no one drank in
Porcelain of Nankin
80 fit to rank in
Richer ceramic collections than mine.
Those curious blue marks,
Not sham, but true marks,
Prove you are nearly five centuries old;
In your young beauty
erhaps you did brew tea
For the King Clinty,
Robed, like the sun, in a mantle of gold.
* 1k II: It I! O '0'
Where is the charmer ?
Who would dare harm her,
She who ruled over the ruler of men?
But in the places
Which knew her graces
She left no traces,
They have forgotten their fair dcnizen.
She was'not brittle,
Frail perhaps a little,
Why is she missing, and you here today
Say by what token
You are unbroken ?
Patent to no ken
Is the distinction, for both are of clay.
Resurrection of Abdullah.
FROM THE ARABIC.
He who died at Azine sends
This to comfort all his friends.
Faithful friends! It lies, I know,
Pale and white and cold as snow,
And ye say, “Abdulluh’s dead !"
Weeping at the feet and head,
I can see your falling tears;
I can hear your sighs and prayers;
Yet I smile and whisper this,
“I am not the thing you kiss,
Cease your tears, and let it lie, '
It was mine, it is not I.
Sweet friends! what the women lave
For the last sleep of the grave,
Is a but which I am quitting,
Is a garment no more fitting,
Is a cage, from which, at last,
Like a bird, my soul hath passed,
Love the inmate, not the room;
The wearer, not the garb; the plume
Of the eagle, not the bars
That kept him from those splendid stars.
Loving friends! be wise and dry
Straightway every weeping eye.
W hat ye left upon the bier
Is not worth a single tear.
’Tis an empty sea-shell, one
Out of which the pearl is gone;
The shell is broken, it lies there,
The pearl, the all, the soul, is here.
’Tis an earthen jar, whose lid
Allah sealed, the while it hid
That treasure of His treasury,
A mind that loved Him; let it lie,
Let the shards be earth once more,
Since the gold is in IIis store.
Allah glorious! Allah good!
Now Thy word is understood;
Now the long, long wonder ends;
Yet ye weep, my foolish friends,
While the man whom ye call dead,
In unspoken bliss instead.
Lives and loves you; lost, ’tis true,
For the light that shines for you ;
But in the light ye cannot see
0f undisturbed felicity—
In a perfect paradise,
And a life that never dies.
Farewell, friends! but not farewell;
Where I am, ye too shall dwell.
I am gone before your face,
A moment’s worth, a little space,
When ye come where I have stepped,
Ye will wonder why ye wept;
Ye will know, by true love taught,
That here is all, and there is naught.
Weep awhile if ye are fain ;
Sunshine still must follow rain;
Only not at Death, for Death,
Now we know is that first breath
Which our souls draw when we enter
Life, which is of .all life centre.
Be ye certain, all seems love
Viewed from Allah’s throne above.
De ye stout of heart, and come
Bravely onward to your home.
Sa-il Allah—Allah-la,
0 love divine, 0 love alway.
He who died at Azine gave
This to those who made his grave.
The Canadian Girls.
The Philadelphia Times' Toronto corre.
spondent says: Toronto girls are very pretty.
There are two distinct types—the petite in
figure, with American feet and complexions,
and the tall, stalwart, fresh looking girls, that
remind me of the Kentucky women. Some
of them have the most beautiful red hair—
Titianesquc is, I believe, the polite thing to
call it—and it is really very soft, glossy, and
luxuriant. The Toronto girls dress more like
Americans than any other Canadian women,
and though once in a while I hear a jibe or
two at our expense, they unconsciously, in
speaking of something in dress matters or
energy, often say “American styles” and
American ge-nhead-ativencss. At the rink the
other day, I saw a pretty, elegantly dressed
girl, who seemed to be on the most amicable
terms with her attire, as if she and it: under.
stood each other without saying a word
about it, and I had hardly become aware that
l was mentally questioning myself whether
she were not American, when I heard a bit 5
of a saucy dialogue behind me, sotto voce:
“That’s the young lady visiting, the .
Is she an American 1’”
“Wouldn't you know by her dress that she
was a Yankee P" returned the other in a tone
of such strong conviction that my doubts
were set at rest. Satisfied, too, for if they
choose to say pretty things of my country.
women, i’ faith was it for me to complain 2
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