The Little Dreamer.
A little boy was dreaming,
Upon his nurse’s lap, .
That the pins fell out of all the stars,
And the stars fell into his cap.
30, when his dream was over.
\Vhat should that little boy .do ? ‘
Why, he went and looked insrde Ills cnp
And found it wasn’ttruc. .-
-- The Methodist.
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Two Saints of the Foot-Hills.
BY BRET HARTE.
It never was clearly ascertained how
long they had been there. The first settler
of llough—and—Ready—ouc Low, playfully
known to his familiars as “ he Poor Indian”
——declared that the saints were afore his
time, and occupied a cabin in the brush
when he “blazed” his way- to the North'
Fork. It is certain that the two were pres-
ent when the water was first turned on the
Union Ditch, and then and there received
the designation of Daddy Downey and.
Mammy Downey, which they kept to the
last. As they tottered toward the refresh-
ment tent, they were welcomed with the
greatest enthusiasm by the boys; or, to bor-
row the more refined language of the “Union
Recorder,”—“Their gray hairs and bent. fig-
ures, recalling as they did, the happy pater-
nal eastern homes of the spectators, and the
blessings that fell from venerable lips when
they left those homes to journey in quest of
the' Golden Fleece on Occidental Slopes,
caused many to burst into tears.” The near-
er facts that many of the spectators were
orphans, that a few were unable to establish
any legal parentage whatever, that others had
enjoyed a state’s guardianship and disciphne.
and that amajority had left their paternal
roofs without any embarrassing preliminary
formula, were more passing clouds that did
not dim the golden imagery of the wri-
ter. From that day the Saints were adopted
as historical lay figures, and entered at once
into possession of uninterrupted gratuities
and endowment. .
It was not strange that, in a country large-
ly made up of ambitious and reckless youth”
these two—types of conservative and settled
forms—should be thus celebrated. Apart
from any sentiment or veneration, they were;
admirable foils to the community’s youthful:
progress andenergy. They were put for-E
ward at every social gathering, occupied:
prominent seats on the platform at every
public meeting, walked first in every proces-
sion, were conspicuous at the frequent fune-
ral and ms. r wedding, and were god-father
and god-:11 vther to the first baby born in
Rough an ‘. Ready. At the first poll opened
in thatpr. tinct, Daddy Downey cast the first
vote, and as was his custom on all moment-
ous occasions, became volubly reminiscent.
“The first vote I ever cast," said Daddy,
“was for Andrew Jackson; the father 0’ some
on you peart young chaps wasn’t born then,
he! hel—that was ’way long in ‘33, wasn’t
it? I disremembcr now, but if Mammy was
here, she bein’ a school gal at the time, she
could say. But my memory’s failin’ me.
I’m an old man, boys; yet I likes to see the
young ones go ahead. I recklect that thar
vote from a suckumstance. Squire Adams
was present, and secin’ it was my first vote,
he put a goold piece into my hand, and, sez
he, sez Squire Adams, ‘let that always be a
reminder of the glorious freeman’s privi-
lege!’ He did; he! he! Lord, boys! I feel
so proud of ye, that I wish I had a hundred
votes to cast for ye all.”
It is hardly necessary to say that the me
morial tribute of Squire Adams was increased
ten fold by the judges, inspectors and clerks,
and that the old man tottered back to
Mammy, considerably heavier than he came._
As both of the rival candidates were equally
sure of his vote, and each had called upon
him and offered a conveyance, it is but fair
to presume that they were equally beneficent.
But Daddy insisted upon walking to the
polls—a distance of two miles,—.—as a moral
example, and a text for the California para-
graphers, who hastened to record that such
was the influence of the foothill climate
that “a citizen of Rough and Ready, aged
eighty-four, rose at six o’clock, and, after
milking two cows, walked a distance of
twelve miles to the polls, and returned in
time to chop a cord of wood before dinner.”
Slightly exaggerated as this statement may
have been, the fact that Daddy was always
found by the visitor to be engaged at. his
wood-pile, which seemed neither to increase
nor diminish under his axe,——a fact, doubt-
less, owing to the activity of Mammy, who
was always at the same time making pies.
seemed to give some credence to the story.
Indeed, the wood-pile of Daddy Downey
was a standing reproof to the indolent and
sluggish miner.
“Ole Daddy must use up a powerful sight
0’ wood; every time I‘ve passed by his shau- *
ty he’s been making the chips fly. But what
gets me is, that the pile don’t seem to come
down,” said \Vhisky Dick to his neighbor.
“Well, you derned fool l” growled his
neighbor; “ ’spose some chap happens to
pass by thar, and sees the ole man doin’ a
man’s work at eighty, and slouehes like you
and me lying round drunk, and that chap,
feelin’ kinder humped, goes up some dark
night and heaven a load of cut pine over his
fence, who’s got anything to say about it?
Say f” Certainly not the speaker, who had
done the act suggested, nor the penitent
and remorseful bearer, who repeated it next
day. ‘
The pics and cakes made by the old wo-
man were, I think,remarkable rather for their
inducing the same loyal and generous spirit
than for their intrinsic excellence, and it may
be said appealed more strongly to the nobler
aspirations of humanity than its vulgar
appetite. Howbeit, everybody ate Mammy
Downey’s pies, and thought of his child-
hood. “Take ’em, dear boys,” the old lady
would say; “it does me good to see you eat
’cm; reminds me kinder of my poor Sammy,
that, of he’d lived, would hev been cz strong
and big cz you be, but was taken down with
lung fever, at Sweetwater. I kin see him
yet; that’s forty year ago, dear! Comin’ out
o’ the lot to the bake-house, and smilin’ such
a beautiful smile, like yours, dear boy, as I
handed him a mince or a lemming turnover.
Dear, dear, how I do run on? and those
days is past! but I seems? to live in you
again!” The wife of the hotel-keeper? actu-
ated by a low jealousy, and suggested that
she “seemed to live of them,” but as that
person tried to demonstrate the truth of her
statement by reference to the cost of the
raw material used by the old lady, it was
considered by the camp as too practical and
economical for consideration. “Besides,”
added Cy Perkins, “cf old Mammy wants to
turn an honest penny in her old age, let her
do it. How would you like your old mother
to make pies on grub wages? eh ?" A sugges-
tion that so affected his bearer (who had no
mother) that he bought three on the spot.
The quality of these pics had never been dis;
cussed but once. It is related that a young
lawyer from San Francisco, dining at the
Palmetto restaurant, pushed away one of
Mammy Downey’s pics with every expres-
sion of disgust and dissatisfaction. At this
juncture, Whisky Dick, considerably affect-
ed by his favorite, stimulant, approached the
stranger’s table, and, drawing up a chair, sat
uninvited before him. .
“Mebbce, young man,” he began gravely,
“ye don’t like Mammy Downey’s pies ?"
The stranger replied curtly, and in some
astonishment, that he did not as a rule, “eat
pie."
“Young man,?’ continued Dick, with
drunken gravity, “mebboc you're accustomed
to Charlotte rusks and blue mange; mebbc‘e
you can’t eat unless your grub is got up by
‘one 0’ them French cooks? Yet ice—us boys,
yar in this camp—calls that pic-a good—a .
m
.
eom-pe—tent pic
The stranger again disclaimed anything but
a general dislike of that form of pastry.
“Young man,” continued Dick, utterly nu-
heeding the explanation,-—-“young man meb-
bee you onct had an ole—a very ‘ole mother,
Who, tottering dawn the vale 0’ years, made
pies Mebbee, and it’s like your blank epi-
curean soul, ye turned up your nose on the
ole woman, and went back on the pies, and
on her! She that dandled ye when ye woz a
baby,—a little baby! Mebbee ye went back
on her, and shook her, and played off when
and gave her away-dead away! And now,
mebbee, young man—I wouldn’t hurt ye for
the world. but mebbee afore ye leave this
yar table, vn’u. ux'r run rm 1”
The stranger rose to his feet, but the muz-
zle of a dragoon revolver in the unsteady
hands of whisky Dick, caused him to sit
down ngain. lIe ate the pie, and lost his
. casc.likew_isc,bcfore a Rough and Ready jury.
Indeed, far from exhibiting the cynical
doubts and distrustsof age, Daddy Downey
received always with child-like delight the
progress of modern improvement and energy.
“In my day, long back in the twenties,.it
took us nigh a week—a week, boys—to get
up a barn, and all the young ones—I was
one then—for miles ’round at the raisin’;
and yer’s you boys—rascals ye are, too—
runs up this yer shanty for Mammy and me
’twixt sun up and dark. Eh, eh, you're
teachin’ the old folks new tricks, are ye?
Ah, get along, you!” and in playful simula-
tion of anger he would shake his white hair
and his hickory staff at the “rasca »”
The only indication of the conservative ten-
dencies of age was visible in his continual
protest against the extravagance of the boys.
“Why,” he would say, “a family, a hull fam-
ily,—leavin’ alone me and the old woman,—
might be supported on what you young ras-
cals throw away in a single spree. Ah,‘you
young dogs, didn’t I hear about your scatter-
ing half-dollars on the stage when that Eye-
talian Papist was singin’. And that money
goes out of Ameriky—ivry cent !” -
There was little doubt that the old couple
were saving, if not avaricious. But when it .
was known, through the indiscreet volubility
of Mammy Downey, that Peppy Downey
sent the bulk of their savings, gratuities, and
gifts to a dissipated and prodigal son in
the East-whose photograph the old man al-
ways carried with him,—it rather elevated
him in their regard. “When you write to
that gay and festive son 0’ yourn, Daddy,”
said Joe Robinson, “send him this yer speci-
men. Give him my compliments, and tell him
if he kin spend money faster than Ikin, I
call him! Tell him, of he wants a first class
jamboree, to kem out here, and me and the
boys will show him what a square drunk is i”
In vain would the old man continue to pro-
test against the spirit of the gift; the miner
generally returned ' with his pockets that
much the lighter, and it is not improbable a
little less intoxicated than be otherwise might
have been. It may be premised that Daddy
Downey was strictly temperate. The only
way he managed to avoid hurting the feel-
ings of the camp was by accepting the fre-
quent donations of Whisky to be used for
the purposes of liniament. '
“Next to snake-oil, my son,” he would say,
“and dilberry-juice,—and ya don’t seem to
pro—duce ’em hereabouts—whisky is good
for rubbin’ onto old bones to make em lim-
ber. But pure cold water, ‘sparklin’ and
bright in its liquid light,’ and, so to speak,
reflectin' of God’s own linyments on its sur-
fiss, is the best, onless, like poor ole Mummy
and me, ye gits the dum-agur from over-use.”
The fame of the Downey couple was not
confined to the foot-hills. The .Rev. Henry
Gushington, D. D., of Boston, making a
bronchial tour of California, wrote to the
“Christian Pathfinder” an affecting account
of his visit to them,‘ placed Daddy Downey’s
age at 102, and attributed the recent conver-
sions in Rough—and—Ready to their influence.
That gifted literary_Hession,Bill Smith,travel-
ing in the interests of various capitalists, and
the trustworthy correspondent of four “only
independent American journals,” quoted
him as an evidence of the longevity super-
induced by the climate, offered him as'an
example of the security of helpless life and
property in the mountains, used him as
an advertisement of the Union Ditch, and, it
is said, in some vague way cited him as prov-
ing the collateral facts of a timber and ore—
producing region existing in the foot-hills
worthy the attention of Eastern capitalists.
Praised thus by the lips of distinguished
report, fostered by the care and sustained by
the pccuniarv offerings of their fellow-citi-
zens, the Saints led for two years a peaceful
life of gentle absorption. To relieve them
from the embarrassing appearance of elec-
mosynary receipts,—an embarrassment, felt
more by the givers than the recipients,—
the postmastership of Rough-and—Ready
was procured for Daddy, and the duty of
receiving and delivering the United States
mails performed by him, with the advice
and assistance of the boys. If a few letters
went astray at this time, it was easily at-
tributed to this undisciplined aid. and the
boys themselves were always ready to make
up the value of a missing money-letter, and
“keep the old man's accounts square.” To
these functions were presently added the
treasurerships of the Masons’ and Odd Fel-
lows’ charitable funds,——the old man being
for advanced in their respective degrees, —
and even the position of almoner of their
bounties was superadded. Here, unfortu-
nately, Daddy’s habits of economy and ava-
ricious propensity came near making him un-
popular, and very often needy brothers were.
forced to object to the quantity and quality
of the help extended. They always met
with more generous relief from the private
hands of the brothers themselves, and the
remark “that the ole man was trying to set
an examplc,—that he meant well,”—-and
that they would yet be thankful for his zeal-
ous care and economy. A few, I think suf-
fered in noble silence rather than bring the
old man‘s infirmity to the public notice.
And so with this .honor of Daddy and
Mammy, the days of the miners were long
and profitable in the land of the foothills.
The mines yielded their abundance, the win-_
ters were singularly open, and yet there was
no drouth nor lack of water, and peace and
plenty smiled on the Sierrean foot-hills, from
their highest sunny upland to the trailing
jaldri of wild oats and poppies. If a. certain
superstition got abroad among the other
camps, connecting the fortunes of Rough—
and—Ready with Daddy and Mammy, it was
a gentle, harmless fancy, and was not, I
think, altogether rejected by the old people
A certain large, patriarchal, bountiful man-
nor, of late visible in Daddy, and the in.
crease of much white hair and beard, kept;
up the illusion, while Mammy, day by day,
grew more and 'more like somebody’s fairy
godmother. An attempt was made by a ti.
val camp to cmhlate .these paying virtues of
reverence, and an aged mariner was procured
from the sailor’s Snug Harbor in San Fran-
cisco, on trial. But the unfortunate-secman
was more or less. diseased, was not always
presentable, through a weakness for ardent
spirits, and finally, to use a powerful idiom
of one of his disappointed foster-children,
“up and died in a week,without slinging airy
blessin’.” , _ ' . V -
But vicissitude reaches young and old
alike. Youthful Rough-and—Ready and the
Saints had climbed to' their meridian togeth-
er, and it seemed fit that they should togeth-
_-ond aged pair.
pendcnco Hotel had not abated her malevo- -
or decline. The first shadow fell with the
immigration to Rough—and—Ready of a sec-
The landlady of the Inde-
leuce toward the Saints, and had imported at
considerable, expense her grand-aunt and
grand-uncle, who had been enjoying for
some years a sequestered retirementjn the
poor-house of East Machine. They'were in-
deed Very old. By what miracle, evenas an;
atomical specimens, they had been preserved
during their long journey, was a mystery to.
the camp. - In some respects they had supe-
rior memories and reminiscences. The old
man—Abner'Trix—had shouldered a musket
in the war of 1812; his .wife, Abigail, had
seen Lady Washington. She could sing
hymns; he knew every text between the
“leds” of a Bible. There is but little doubt
but that in many respects, to the spcrficial
and giddy crowd of youthful spectators,
they were the more interesting-spectacle.
Whether it was jealousy, distrust or tim-
idity that overcame the Saints, was never
known, but they studious‘ly declined to meet '
the strangers. When directly approached
upon the subject, Daddy Downey pleaded
illness, kept himself in close seclusion, and
the Sunday that the Trixes attended church
in the schoolshouse on the hill, the triumph
,of the Trix party was‘mitigated by the fact;
that the Downeys were not in their accustom-f
ed pew. ‘ You bet that Daddy and Mammy.
is lyiu" low jest to ketch them old mummies
yet," explained a Downeyite. For by this
time schism anddivision had crept into the '
camp ; the younger and later members of the
settlement adhering to the Trikes, while the
older pioneers stood not only loyal to. their
own favorites, but even, in the true spirit of '
partisanship, began to seek for a principle
underlying their personal feelings. “I tell
ye what, beys," observed .chetwater Joe,
“if this yet camp is goin’ to be run by. green-
horns, and old pioneers like Daddy and the
rest .of us must take back seats, its time we
emigrated and shoved out, and tuk Daddy
with us. Why, they’re talkin’ of rotation in
the ofilss and of puttin’ that skeleton that
Ma’am , Decker sets up at the table to take
her boarders’ appetites away—into the .post
allies in place 0’ Daddy. ” And, indeed, there
were some fears of such a conclusion; the
newer men of Rough—and—Rcady were in
the majority, and wielded a more than equal
influence of wealth and outside enterprise.
“Frisco,” as a Downeyite bitterly remarked,
“already owned half the town.” The old
friends that-rallied around Daddy and Mam-
my wcre,like most loyal friends in adversity,
in bad case themselves, and were beginning
to look and act, it was observed, not unlike
their old favorites. ~
At this juncture Mammy died.
This sudden blow for a .few days seemed
to re-unite dissevered Rough—and—Ready.
Both factions hastened to the bereaved Dam
dy, with coudolements, and ofiers of aid and
assistance. But the Old man received them
sternly. A change had come over the weak
and yielding octogenarian. Those who ex-
pected to find him maudlin, helpless, discon-
solate, shrank from the cold, hard eyes and
truculent voice that bnde them “begone” and
“leave him with his dead.” Even his own
friends failed to make him respond to their
sympathy, and were fain to content them-
selves with his cold intimation that both the
wishes of his dead wife and his own instincts
were against any display, or the reception of
any favor from the camp that might tend
to keep up the divisions they had innocently
created. The refusal of Daddy to accept any
service offered was so unlike him as to have
but one dreadful meaning ! The sudden shock
had turned his brain! Yet so impressed were
they with his resolution that they permitted
him to perform the last sad offices himself,
and only a select few of his neighbors assist-
ed him iu carrying the plain deal ’cofiln
from his lonely cabin in the woods to the
still lonelier cemetery on the hill-top. When
the shallow grave was filled, he dismissed
even these curtly, shut himself up in his
cabin, and for days remained unseen. It
was evident that he was no longer in his
right mind. .
His harmless aberration was accepted an
treated with a degree of intelligent delicacy
hardly to be believed of so rough a commu-
nity. During his wife’s sudden and severe
illness, the safe containing the funds intrust-
ed to his care by the various benevolent asso-
ciations, was broken into and robbed, and al-
though the act was clearly attributable to his
carelessness and preoccuption, all allusion to
the fact was withheld fromhim in his severe
afliiction. When he appeared again before
the camp, and the circumstances were con-
siderately explained to him with the remark
that “the boys had made it all right,” the
vacant. hopeless, unintelligent eye that he
turned upon the speaker showed that he had
forgotten all about it. “Don’t trouble the
old man,” said Whisky Dick, with a burst
,of honest poetry. “Don’t ye 'see his memo-
oy‘s dead and lying there in the cofiiu with
Mammy." Perhaps the speaker was nearer
right than be imagined.
Falling in religious consolation, they toqk
various means of diverting his mind with
worldly amusements, and one was a visit to
a traveling variety troupe, then performing
in the town. The result of the visit was
briefly told by Whisky Dick. ' “Well, sir,
we went in, and I not the old man down in
a front seat, and kinder propped him up with
some other of the fellers round him, an’ there
he sot ez silent an’ awful ez the grave.
then that fancy dancer, Miss Grace Somerset,
comes in, and dern my skin, of the old man
didn’t get to trembling and fidgeting all over,
as‘she cut them pidgin wings. I tell ye what,
boys, men is men, way down totheir boots,
—hether they’re crazy or not! Well, he took
on so,—_-that I’m blamed if at last that gal
"herself didn’t notice him !-—and she ups sud-
denly, and blows him a kiss—so! with her
fingers!" .
Whether this narration were exaggerated
or not, it is certain that old man Downey
every succeeding night of the performance
was a spectator. That he may have aspired
to be more than that was suggested a day or
two later in the following incident. A num-
ber of. the boys were sitting around the stove
in the Magnolia saloon, listening to the onset
of a winter storm against the windows, when
Whisky Dick, tremulous, excited .and brist-
ling with rain drops and information, broke
in upon them. _
“Well, boys, I’ve got just the biggest thing
out. Ef I hadn’t seed it myself, I wouldn’t
hev believed it t" . .
“Itain't that ghost sg’in ?” growled Rob-
inson from the depths of his arm chair;
“thct ghost’s about played." _
“.Wot ghost ?” asked a new-comer.
“,Why, ole Mammy’s ghost, that every fel-
ler about yer sees when he’s half full and out
late 0’ nights.”
“Where ?”
“Where ? Why. where should a ghost be] ?
Mennderiu’ round her graveton the hill, yan-
der, in course.” ' . .
“It’ssuthin’ bigger nor thet, pard,” said
Dick confidently; “no ghost kin rake down‘
the pot ag‘in the keerds I’ve got here. This
aint no blufi I,” , ' '
“Well, go on !” said a dozen excited
vorces.
. Dick paused a moment, difildently, with
the hesitation of an artistic raconteur. » -
“Well,” he said, with affected deliberation,
‘let’s see! It’s high onto an hour ago ez I
was down that at the variety show. When
the curtain was down betwixt the ax, I looks
round for Daddy. No Daddy thar! I goes
out and asks some 0’ the boys. ‘Daddy was
there a minnit ago,’ they say; ‘mus’t hev gone
home.’ Bein’ kinder responsible for the old
man, I kinder hangs around, and goes out in
And '
scenes. Now the queer thing about this,
boys, ez that suthin’in my bones tells me
the old man is than . I pushes in, and, sure
as a gun, I hears his voice. Kinder pathetic,
kinder pleadin’, kinder " ' ‘
“Love-makin’ i” broke in the impatient
Robinson.
“You've hit it, pard,—-you’vc rung the bell
every time! But she, says, ‘I wants that
money down, or I’ll —’ and here I couldn't
get to hear the rest. And then he kinder
coaxes, and she says, sorter sassy, but listen-
in’ all the tim’e,—wom'en like,'y'e ,know, Eve
and the sarpint l—and she says, ‘I’ll see to-
morrow;’ And he says, ‘You wont blow on
me?’ and I gets excited and peeps in, and
may Ibo teetolly durned ef I didn’t see—”
“What ?” yelled the crowd. ‘
“Why, Daddy on his knees to that there
fancy dancer, Grace Somerset! Now if Mam-
my’s ghost is meanderin, round, why, et's
about time she left the cemetery and put in
an appearance at 'J ackson’s Hall._ Thct’sall !”
“Look yar, boys,” said Robinson, rising,
“I don’t know cz it‘s the square thing to spile
Daddy’s fun. I don’t object to it, provided
dead away. But ez we’re his guardeens. I
propose' that we go down thar and see the
lady, and find out of her intentions is honor-
able. If she means marry, and the old man
persists, why,I reckon we. kin give the young
couple a send-off thet wont disgrace this yer
camp! Hey, boys ?"
It is unnecessary to say that the proposition
was received'with acclamation, and that the
crowd at once departed on their discreet
mission. But the result was never known,
for the next morning brought a shock to
Rough—and—Ready. before which all other
interests paled to nothingness. .
The grave of Mammy Downey was found
violated and despoiled; the coffin opened,
and half-filled with the papers and accounts
of the robbed benevolent associations; but
the body of Mammy was gone !_ Nor, on ex-
amination, did it appear that the sacred and
ancient form of that female had ever reposed
in its recesses! I ,
Daddy Downey was not to be found, nor
is it necessary to say that the ingenuous
Grace Somerset was also missing.
For three days the reason of Rough—and-
Ready trembled in the balance. No work
was doneju the ditches, in the flame, nor
in the 'mills. Groups of men stood by the
grave of the lamented relief of Daddy Dow-
ney, as open-mouthed and vacant as that sep-
ulcher. Never since the great earthquake of
’52 had Rough—and—Ready been so stirred to
its deepest foundations. -
0n the third day‘thc sheriff of Calaveras,
-—-a quiet, gentle, thoughtful man—arrived
in town, and passed from one to the other of
the excited groups, dropping here and there
detached but concise and practical informa-
tion.
“Yes, gentlemen, you are right, Mrs. Dow-
ney isn’t dead, because there wasnlt any Mrs
Downey! Her part was played by George
F. Fenwick of Sydney—a ‘ticket-of-leave
man,” who was, they say, a good actor.
Downey? Oh yes ! . Downey was Jim Flani-
gau, who, in ’52, used to run the variety
troupe in Australia, where Miss Somerset
made her debut. Stand backa little, boys.
Steady! ‘The money?’ Oh, yes, they’ve got
away with that, sure! How are ye Joe?
Why, you’re looking well and hearty! I
rather expected ye, court week. How’s
things your way ?”
“Then they were only play-actors, Joe
Hall ?” broke in a dozen voices.
“I reckon !” returned the sheriff, coolly.
“And for a matter of five blank years,”
said Whisky Dick, sadly, “they played this
camp l”—Scribner, for April.
Common-Sense Suggestions.
There is, however, a way in which Con-
gress can directly aid the labor of the country
by giving it partial employment, without loss
to the‘ country and without resorting to any
class legislation. In nearly all the great cities
of the United States a Democratic Congress
has stopped work upon all the public build-
ings and the great public works, like docks,
break-waters, forts, &e., on the ground of
economy. At Chicago a magnificent custom-
house, which could provide labor for if thou-
sand men, stands half completed—a monu-
ment of desolation.
In Cleveland a breakwater is sorely needed,
of immense value to our commerce, and de-
manded as a harbor of refuge by every vessel
upon the lake, lies neglected because no pro-
vision has been made to carry on the work by
a Democratic Congress. All over the country
we see works begun by the United States,that
must ultimately be completed, going to ruin
and decay because Congress will not at this
time furnish the necessary means to finish the
undertakings. There is no true economy in
such a course; it is saving money only in
name and losing it largely in fact. It is a
policy unworthy a great nation, and ought to
be abandoned. These works are all to be
time. What time can be better than now?
Thousands are out of work. Labor will
never need employment more than at‘prcsent.
The sooner these great public works are com-
pleted the better for the conveniences of the
public, and the cheapest time is now. Let
the workingmcn petition to Congress to make
appropriations for the final completion of all
the works now in progress. Every dollar
prudently expended for such a purpose buys
a dollar’s worth of valuable property, worth
in its uses to the people far more than its
cost.
By speedy completion of the public build-
ings now in progress of erection, by liberal
appropriations for river and harbor improve-
ments already begun, a great ,deal of labor
would find immediale employment and much
of the present want and discomfort would
vanish—Okeelond Herold.
Pnnrn'rnar. Marlon Aooonrmsrmn.—A
magnetic clock, invented by‘ Daniel Draw-
baugb, of Milltown, Cumberland County,Pa.,
is sufilcientlyremarkable to be worth descrip-
tion. The magnetism of the earth, an inex-
haustible source of power,is made to oscillate
the pendulum; and the simplicity of all the
works gives an assurance of the least possi—
ble friction. At a certain point the move-
ments of the pendulum itself shut off mag-
netic connections with the earth, and at .an-'
other point restore the connection, thus se-
curing the conditions necessary to produce its
oscillations. The works are so ingenious and
simple that it is no wild assertion to make
that, were it not for the unavoidable wearing
out caused by even the smallest of friction,
the clock would run as longas the solid earth
endures. This clock is hung, against _ a
board partition, with all the works exposed-
subjectto the jarrings of machinery and ob-
structions from dust settling upon it, yet,
continuously and uniformly. with only slight
reported variations, as tested by transit obser-
vations at noon—Hawt'sburg Telegraph.
#
Rough on Congressmen.
Mary Clemmer says in one 'of her Wash-
ble thing, as we may be sure nine out of ten
common sense Women would do, proceed to
get. a comfortable dinner at a reasonable hour,
through all the hours they, (Congressmen) fill
their ,unfortuuate stomachs with odds and
ends of tobacco, hard apples, &c., washed
down by brandy, whisky. and wine, tillihey
find themselves in a sufllciently unhappy and
perverted condition of body' and soul to ena-
ble them to draw up a code of laws fit for
the lower pandemonium."
the hall and sees a passage leadin’ behind_the '
she aint takin’ in_ the old man and givin’ him.
completed. The good faith of the Govern-l
meat is pledged, and it is only a question of
since March 1, 1877, it has been running.
ington letters: "Instead of doing the sensi-'
- ix, .'
What our boys are reading , _
Professor Sumner "of Yale has been examin-
ing the flash story papers so widely read by
boys, and in Summer: for March gives some
earnest words of warning to p.tl'CIll.S. accom-
panicd by specimens of the types described
in the stories: Here is one: '
Another type of hero very common in
these stories is the city'youth, son of a rich
father, who does not give his son as much
pocket money as the~latter considers suit-
able. This constitutes stmginess on the fa-
ther’s part, although it might be considered
pardonable, seeing that these young men
drink champagne every day, treat the crowd
generally when they drink, and play billiards
for $100 a game. The father in this class, of
stories, is represented as secretly vicious and
hypocritically pious. In the specimen of
this class beforelus the young man is “dis-
covered” in ;the Police Court as a prisoner,
whence he is remanded to the Tombs. ' He
has been ‘ arrested for collating a big =police-
man, to prevent him from over-taking a girl
chargedwith pocket-picking. He interfered
because he judged _from.the girl's face that
she was innocent, and it is suggested for
future developement in the story, that she
was running away from insult, and that the
cry of “stop thief” was to get help from the
police and others to seize her. The hero,
who is the son‘ of a man worth five- millions,
who is in prison under an assumed name, now
sends for his father's clerk and ‘dcmands
$1,000, saying that otherwise he will declare
his real name and disgrace his family. He
gets the money. He then sends for a notor-
ious Tombs lawyer, to whom he gives $500.
with this sum his release is easily procured.
He then starts with his cousin to initiate the
latter into life in New York. They go to a
thieves college, where they see a young fellow
graduated. His 'parts consists in taking
things from the pocketsof a hanging figure,
to the garments of which bells are attached,
without causing the bells to ring. Of this a
full-page illustration is given. The two
by his vulgar familiarity with the girl waiters.
Next they hear a row in aside street. They
find a crowd collected watching a woman
who hangs from a third-story window, while
her drunken husband beats and cuts her
hands ,to make her fall. The hero solves
this situation by drawing his revolver and
shooting the man. As he and his companion
withdraws unobserved, the former wards off
the compliments of the latter by saying mod.
estly that he could not bear to stand there
and see such a crowd looking on. and not
knowing what to do, so he just did the prop-
er thing. Next day the hero, meeting the
thieves’ college graduate in the corridor of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, agrees to receive any
booty he may seize 1n the bar-room; which
he does. At night he and his friend go to a'
disreptuable masked ball, where the hero
recognizes his father in disguise among the
dancers. Securing a place in the same set,
during apause in the dance he snatches the
mask from his own face and his father‘s at
the same moment. This edifying incident is
enforced by a full-page illustration. A
friend suggests the question, What demon of
truthfulness makes the artist put such brutal
and vulgar faces on the men? In this class
of stories, fathers and sons are represented as
natural enemies, and’true position for the
son is that of suspicion and armed peace.
How Matches are made.
A match is a small thing. We seldom
pause to think, after it has performed its
mission, and we have carelessly thrown it
away, that it has a history of its own, and
that, like some more pretentious things, its
journey from the forest to the match-sale is
full of changes.
The match of to-day has a story for more
interesting than that of the old fashioned
match. As we have said, much of the tim-
ber used in the manufacture comes from the
immense tracts of forests in the Hudson Bay
Territory. It is fioated down the water-
courses to the lakes,through which it is towed
in great log-rafts. These rails are divided;
some parts are pulled through the canals, and
some by other means are taken to market.
When well through the seasoning process,
which occupies from one to two years,thc pine
is cut up into block twice as long as a match,
and about eight inches wide by two inches
thick. These blocks are passed through a
machine which cuts them up into “splints"
round or square, or just the thickness of a
match, but twice its length. This machine is
capable, as we are told, of making about
2,000,000 splints in a day. This number
seems immense when compared wlth the
most that could be made in the old way—by
hand. The splints are then taken to the
“setting" machine, and this rolls them into
bundles about eighteen inches in diameter,
every splint separated from the its neighbors
by little spaces, so ;that‘ there may be no
sticking together after the “dippings.” In
the operation of “setting,” a ribbon of coarse
stuff about an inch and a half wide, and an‘
eight of an inch thick,is rolled up, the splints
being laid across the ribbon between each
two courses, leaving about a quarter of an
inch between the adjoining splints. From
the “setting” machine the bundles go to the
“dipping” room
After the ends of the splints have been
pounded down to make them even, the ban-
dles are dipped ——'both ends—into the molten
sulphur and theulinto the phosphorus solution
which is spread over a large iron plate.
Next they- are hung‘in a frame to dry. When
dried they are placed in a 'machine which as
it unrolls the ribbon,‘ cuts the sticks in two
acress the middle, thus making two complete
matches of each splint.
The match is made. The towering pine
which listened to the whisper of the south
wind and swayed in the cold northern blast,
has been so divided that we can take it hit
by bit and lightly twirl it between two fin-_
gers. But what it has lost‘ in size it has
gained in use. The little flame it carries,
and which looks harmless, flashing into brief
existence, has a latent power more terrible
than the whirlwind which perhapssent the
tall pine-tree crashing to the ground.
But the story is not yet closed. From the
machine which completed the matches they
are taken to the “boxers”——mostly girl’s and
women—who place them in little boxes.
The speed with which it is done is surpri-
sing.‘ With one hand they pick up an empty
case and remove the cover, while with the
other they seize just a sufficient number of
matches, and by a peculiar shuffling motion
arrange them evenly, then—’t is done! '
The little packages of sleeping fire are
taken to another room, where on each one is
placed a stamp certifying the payment to the
government or one cent' revenue tax. Equip-
pcd with these passes the, boxes are placed
cases, which afe to be shipped'to all parts , of
the country, and over seas. "
i All this trouble over such'a little things as
matches? Yet on these fire-tipped bits of
wood, millions of people depend for warmth,
cooked food and light. They have become a
' necessity, and the day of flint, steel and tin-
dcr seems almost as far away in the past as
are the bow‘and the fire-stick of the Indian.
How' apt to our subjects is that almost
worn-out Latin phrase, “multum in 1mm,»
—much in little? MuCh labor, much skill
and usefulness, all’in a little piece of wood
scarcely one-eight of an'inCh through and
two inches longl—St. Niclwlcs.’
The Sultan of Morocco is dead.
“Knot for Joseph” is the picturesque
Ila. Page’s hanging.
young men then go up the Bowery to abcer‘ -
saloon where the hero sustains his character
in larger ones, and these again in wooden,
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT. TUESDAYAPRIL 2. 1878. ,
-- NORWALK: GAZETTE,
vulture Ivmruzsnu vellum.
ThoSccond OldeltPapor in tho Stole.
OFFICE-IN GAZETTE B UILDING .
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Subscription $2.00 per year, in advance.
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Special Notlceo 25 per cent. advance outhc
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Conn per line.
,Yearly advertisers restricted to the business
contemplated at the timo'ol contract, butarc per-
mitted to make monthly ch sages of‘ their adver-
tisemcnts.
Marriages and deaths inserted gratuitously.
Obituary or Funeral Notices 15 etc. per linen
All unusual cuts and devices 26 per cent; extra.
ALEX, s . GIBION,
Organist of the First Congregational Church .
. Teacher of
Plano-Forte, organ and musical
' Composition.
Box 379 P. 0., NORWALK, CONN.
J. Belden Hurlbutt,
Militant Counsellor at Law,
Room No. 4, [up stair-,1
GAZETTE BUILDING.
CIIARLES W MANY,
Surgeon Dentist,
NORWALK, CONN.
once corner of Main and Wall Streets. Nitrous-
Oxide Gas administered .
C. B. COOLIDGE,
DENTIST.
Successor to
Dr. Asa. Hill,
WALL STREET, NORWALK,
Office over
0. J. Grumnn’o Dry Goods store.
‘1' Gas administered for extracting teeth with-
out pain.
‘REAL ESTATE.
' To Rent. .,
OUSE on cross roafl from above Benedict’s
Hat Shop to turnpike, to rent low’tda good
tenant. Apply to E. J. HILL. 2t12
\I\/‘\./
. lWEBY STABLE AT 8!]. NUHWMK
“£03 SALE 01! 1'0 RENT. Inquire.“
D. R. AUSTIN.
To Let.
THE residence of the late Capt. Abijah Betta,
with or without home lot. It is situated on
the Kent road. Wllwn, and in a desirable local-
ity. Possession given April lst. Termsmoderate
Enquire upon the premises of Mrs. C, M. Gregory
or of DB. J. G. GREGORY, Norwalk,Conn. 2t
Stores to Rent.
HE old and well-known business stand for-
merly occn red as a Drug and Book store by
the late John \ . Taylor, Westport, Conn. Loca-
tion eligible, good cellar. with two rooms on sec-
ond fioor connecting wrth store. which contains
first class fixturesand largo,hnndsome show win-
dows, protected by permanent awning. Suitable
for any respectable business. Rent only 8200 per
annum. Twofronfrooms on second floor ofsame
building suitable for offices, to remfor 540 per an-
nnm. .Also the small store adjoining; formerly
occupied by the Town offices, With good fixtures
audlargc show Window. Rent 8100 or annual.
Stone posts and flag ed sidewalksin rent of' both
stores, Inquire 'of' essrs. Taylor Jr Richards.
opposite, or of M rs. John W. Taylor, atresidcnce
on hill near the store. 10
To Rent...
The second fioor ofa house on the east side of
West Avenue, near the 2d M. E. Church, to asmall
family. Borough water. Apply at the GAZETTE
Orrrcu.
A GOOD PLACE
FOR LITTLE MONEY.
CHEAP BEN '1'.
House contains eight rooms.
Small Barn.
Good Garden.
Fine Orchard.
Borough Water.
Plenty of Green Grass.
Abundance of Yard in front of House.
On the main road between Norwalk and Winni-
pauk,a few feet from head oflilain Street, thence
good walks to the Brid 0.
Will be rented ver ow to a good tenant who
{gill take good care of the place. Alnply to
. . L
. ELLS.
To Let.
Two Nicely Furnished Houses.
NE a Cottage, neatly furnished. with Hot and
_ ColdWatcr, Bath, «to. The other richly fur-
nished, Will be rented to parties without children
onl . Both centrally located, and will be rented
to csirable parties at a low rent. Enquire at the
. GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale or to Let.
.A. FARM
F it; Acres of Good Land, with new House,
built in latest at le, containing nine rooms;
together wrth new. um and Corn Crib, with a.
good stock of Forum: Tools. Situated one mile
rom Darren Depot. nquire of .
WILLIAM HINDLEY.
30 Main Street, Norwalk, Conn.
3t12
FARMS FOR SALE
Endulre‘ghAs. COMSTOUI§9
New Canaan, Conn.
ll
DE NTISTRY
A T HARD TIMES names,
For Cash — No Credit:
All work excuted in the Best Manner, at my office
Corner of Main and Washington Streets,
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.
'1‘. E. SWIFT, D. D. s.
S & W.MITOHELL,
I
At the ever popular
UNION MARKET
has always the best of
Beer, Veal, Mutton, and Pork,
at fairlivingprices. Union (formerly Model) Mar—
ket, on the Bridge. 18
HAKLES S. LOCKWOOD,
Fashionable Draper am! Tailorl
GENTS’ FURNwHiNo EMPORIUM.
Main Street, Norwalk. Conn.
EDIVARD P . \VEED,
D R U G G- I S '1'
Wall Streetmpposite Norwalk Opera House,
Alarge and well selected stock of
DRUGS AN D MEDICINES,
Pcrfumery,l’atent Medicines, all kinds Mineral
Waters. Twist and Medicated Soaps. Flavoring
and Handkerchief Extracss, HairBrushcs,Combs,
Sponges,Chamors Skins, Stationery, Cigars, ac"
and IS constantly adding to his stock all the new
and popular medicines ofthe day.
Nouwxnx INSURANCE 00.,
NOR WA LK, CONN.
$500,000
- 1 00,000
Gso R. CowI.Es,Sec’y.
Charter Capital
Paid up Capital -
Wu. C. SEBEE'I‘, Pres.,
’I‘NA INSURANCE Co. oflIABTFORD.
» Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $6,716,893.71
lnsuresagainst loss and damage by Fire.on terms
adopted to thehazard andconsistcnt with the laws
of compensation. COWLES a MERRILL,
- Sole Agentsfor Norwalk and vicinity.
WM. 0. BITTER
Having taken the Stable formerly occupied by
D.A. N EWCOMB,on HoytStrect,would announce
to the citizens of N orwalk that he has stocked it
with good Horses, best of Coaches. Carriages.&c.,
which he will lot: with or without drivers on rea-
sonable terms. -
lA specialty ofCoachcs for Weddings and Funer-
a s. '
Carriages run to all trains on N. Y.,N. H. R. R
Orders can be left at Connecticut Hotel or at the
Stables on Hoyt Street. 3m49
crane: H. nAvuonn,
Furnishing Undertaker,
No. 53 RIAIN STREET, (Up Stairb.)
B. S. BLASCE'R.
Athis store in
MALLORY’B BLOCK,
has constantly on hand, a general assortment o
Groceries, crockery, Glass,
' [In and,Wooden Ware, Etc.
By devoting his constantpcrsonalattentionto the
business he hopes to merit public patronage
or. c. H. Kendall &' Son,
DENTISTS.
Are nowpre ar-
cd to r e c e v e
their patrons at
either Nor-walk
Bridge or South
Nor-walk. The
o v e r Selleck's
Bookstore' Nor-
walk. while the
ju uio r retains
the old ofilce, Lander's Block, South Norwalk.
Tooth extracted Without vain. and all dental ope-
rations performed at either office.
C. H. KENDALL, M.D.,
. G. S. KENDALL, D. D. S.
1’. 8. Dr. C. H.Keudallwrll devote Mondays to
Bldgefleld. _ _
C. W. Burritt .'
Has Removed.
To No. 4 Phoenix Block, Wall St.,
Foot of Mill Hill,wherc with‘increased facilities
he is prepared to do '
P 1'.- U‘ M B I N G ,
in allits branches. Also special attention given
to Tin Roofing, Tin and SheetIron Work and Job-
bing. Gas Fixtures of all kinds kept on hand.
Norwalk, April,1876. ~
Shipping at Merchandise T...
By the Dozen or Thousand, at Manufacturer;
' 'I’riccs, at the ' '
GAZETTE OFFICE.
MACH-'NISTS’Msmaggm
‘ G ETTE" a;
AZ
' END25c. to GEO. r. ROWELL a Co.,New
_ York. for Pamphlet of 100 pa on, containing
lists of 3000 newspapers. and en ates showing
head-line the Chicago Times put on Joseph.
cost “advent-ml!
.Printed. or Plain .
ll “IL—A nice Second Floor, consisting offive
_ looms; good well; other water-in the house;
privilege of garden. A ply to GEO. ILBICE,
Spring Hill, or A. H. 110 'T & 00‘s.. Shoe Store.
To Rent.
HE Jarvis place, the whole house or by
apartments, as desired. Apply to
10 J. W. McLEAN,M. D.
For Rent or Sale.
HE pleasant and convenient house. now, and
for seyeral years past occupied by Mr. Ferd.
B. Smith, situated on Union Ave. For particulars
enqllll‘e of Mr, Monson Hoyt, Norwalk or address
Mrs. L. A. Smith,” Willard St, Hartford, Conn.
To Rent.-
HOUSES on Beldcn Avenue;
1 House on Center Avenue ;
1 House on York Street; '
I House on Newtown Avenue.
_ Enquire of O. E. WILSON, No. 4 Gazette Build-
ing, Norwalk. . 9
-To Rent.
ESIRABLE Suites of Rooms for Offices or
Families. Also, the large Brick Building on
Water Street,w1th Engine and Boiler, suitable
for Manufacturing Pur oses. ,
F.ST. JOHN L0 ‘KWOOD, Executor
6 for Estate of Wm. K. James, deceased.
Barn to Let.
POSSESSION immediately. on uire of
‘ GEO. . KEELER.
, To Let.
The Property in the rear of the Fair-
field County National Bank,
formerly occupied by. Price & Bates. suitable for
manufacturing purposes. Also Barn on ll lgh St.
50tf E. B..PRICE.
iLong Island Real Estate
For Sale.
I
HAVE a number of very desirable FARMS on
Long Island, which I will dispose of very cheap
and on reasonable terms.
Also a large tract of TIMBER LAND, to sell or
exchange for N orwalk property.
Forfurther particulars apply to
ly7 n J. S. RANDALL.
Desirable Property For Sale.
THE Homestead formerly owned and now 0:-
cupied by John Roberts. For Enrticulars en-
CHAS. H. STR ‘E’I‘.
quire of"
Fairfield Co. National Bank.
- Farm for Sale.
A DWELLING HOUSE situated in the Borough
of Norwalknvrth or without twenty~eight
acres ofland; said land is suitably divided into
pastnrc, wood, plow and meadow land. For fur-
ther information apply at this Ofilce. or ofthe sub-
scriber. HARVEY FITCH.
Norwalk, January 14th, 1878. 3
For Sale” Cheap,
0:- Exchange for other property,
One of the neatestmnd cosiest little Cottages in
the Borough. Will sell to a good tenant for little
or nomone down. Eu uircat GAZETTE F-
'FICE. y q , 0
Desirable Property for sale.
Ver ydesirable place on East Avenue.
Also, a few choice BuildingLotssituated 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. Enqurreol
S, E. OSBORN. East Avenue,
tfll or to D. W. FITCH, West Avenue.
For Sale.
.. A House and Lot. in a healthy location on
in FairStreet,abovo Catharine. The House is
nearly new, well built. couvenientlyarrang-
ed. and will make a. comfortable and pleasant
home for a family of average size. The lot runs-
back to the river. There. is a 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 line chance to secure a
home. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE. , 3t:
.FOB SALE .
TWO vcrydesirablelluildin Lotson Westltlsln
Street. Apply‘at the GA ETTE OFFICE.
» GEORGE WARD SEllEcK,
has constantly in stock at his new store,
No. 9 Main Street.
a choice and firm assortment of
GrOcories, .
Provisions,
Flour,
‘ Fruit, &c.,
To which he would invite theattcntion of'all who
wish to purchase first-class goods at
Reasonable Prices.
‘ DRIED BEEF. HLIC'ED. A. SPECIALIY.
BESTof HAMgffggltTR WHOLE OR
Drop in and see him at his new store
To. 9 MAIN STREET.
Bi like all s
V.
all sicenndstylescnb ohada‘ttho
7 Centaur
Linimeats. '
The wonder of medical science—~11 al Ihorce and
hulfbeast—the fabled Contours left their impress
upon the history of the world. '
The Contour Llnlmcnto, for man and
beast, are remarkable in their way. They have
been before the public only six years, but in that
time they have performed more wonderful work
have alleviated more panic and cured more bed-
brocations, Extracts, Salves and Ointmentsiuex-
istcnce. Their immense and rapidly-increasing
sale lsindisputable evidence of the estimation in
which they are held. They are already used in
many of the hospitals of this country and Europe,
and are prescribed by the best physicians and vet-
erinary surgeons. Why should they not be ?
.They have never failed to ameliorate suffering
when cure from loss of bone or muscle arelmpos-
siblc. They contain Carbolic, Witch Hazel,Rocx
Oil, Arnica and ingredients which must stimulate
the fluids, soften the sinucs and penetrate to the
bone. We have never yet heard of the first fail-
are to benefit, even in stubborn casés otheumu-
tism, Sciatica, and Neuralgia, while, for Flesh
Wounds, Bites, Frosted Limbs,Bnrns, Cutaneous
Eruptions, etc., they are unfailing. What the
White Centaur Llnlmon! is for the hu-
man f‘rame, the Yellow Convolu- Llnlmont
is for horses and animals. We will guarantee that
one dollar expended for Contour Llnlmonl
will perform. more and spedier results than can be
obtained for five or twenty dollars from any phy-
sician. We have made the treatment of fiesh,bone
and muscle ailments a specialty. We know that
we have preparations which do what they are
recommended to do. They are notcuro—alls-they
will not mend a broken leg. but they will allevi-
ate pain and care where any human agency can
cure. Be sure and inquire for the Contour
llnlmenu and give them afair trial.
J. B. ROSE & 00., 40 DRY S‘l‘.. NEW YORK.
There is a harmless and certain remedy for
your children. CASTORIA is the result of twenty
years’ experiments by the celebrated Samuel
Pitcher, M. D. '
If is a vegetable preparation, as effective “Cu-
tor Oil, but perfectly pleasant to the taste. It
can be taken by the youngest infant, and neither
gags nor gripes. Dr. A. J. Green, of' noyston
Indiana, says of it:
Sms :—I.have tried the CA sronrx. and can speak
high! of its merits. It will do away with Canto:
0) . t is pleasant and harmless. and is wonder-
fully efficacious as an apericnt and laxative. If
is the very thing.
The Cks'romx destroys worms, regulates the
Stomach, cures Wind Colic. and permits of nat-
ural healthy sleep. It is very efilcacious in Group
and for-Teething Children. Honey is not pleu-
enter to the taste, and Castor Oil is not so certain
in its effects. It costs but35 cents, in large bottles.
3m4 J. B. ROSE d; 00., NewYork.
Free Reading Room.
THIS lsa comfortable room fitted up for the
benefit of‘ the public generally, situated on-
east sxde of South Main Street. over Rood’l J ew-
elry Store, Clark and Lane’s Block, nearly 0 po-
slte Railroad Depot, South Norwalk, Ct. t is.
open from 9 a. m., to 9:45 p. m. The room is well
lighted, warm .and comfortable. It is supplied
With four dailies. two weeklies, and several
monthly pnpers and journals. beside a’ number'
of instructive and interesting books.
COFFEE ROOM.
There is a Coffee Room on the same floor and a
lady in attendance from 9a. m., to 9:45 p. m., to
serve HOME MADE articles mentioned below,
at the followrng prices :
1 Cup of Coffee, with crackers,
1 Cup of Tea, wrih crackers, - -
Cocoa, - - - -
Brown Bread and Butter, - -
Sandwich. -
(Take, - - - - -
Doughnuts, - , - - -
Piece of Pie, - - - -
Crullers , - - - -
Ham, - - - 10
Pork andBeans,.wrth bread and butter, 10
Stewed Oysters, - - - 15
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1878.
EVERYTHING
DOWN TO HARD PAN.
FBUUFRIFS,‘
VEGETABLES,
FRESH FISH,
FRUITS, 860.,
5 AT THE
Very Lowest Market Rates.
A full assortment constantly on hand, freshly re-
plenished every day, with
Ghoicest Fruits, Best Vegetables,
and Sea Food. .
Goods delivered in a" part of town. Leave your
ordi- may with
Demmon (f: Newcomb,
53 Main Street, Norwalk.
was... Hindley,
SUCCESSOR T0
THEODORE E. SMITH,
DEALER IN
H ardwaro, Cutlery,
AND
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
WALL PAPER, WINDOW SHADES. Palm's,
OILS, chss, sxsu, BLINDS a DOORS.
Main Sit, Norwalk, Conn.
SIGN PAINTING, PAPER HANGING, .c-o,
Pianos for Sale.
One New Weber and One New
Cluckerrng Pianos,
AKEN in exchange for other property,willbo
sold at a great sacrifice. For particulars
address immediately or en uire of‘
11 (iEC. R. CHOL ELL,HighStreet.
Notice.
ALL persons applied 30 by tramps for meals
, will )lease not furnish, but direct them to the
TltAMP _
the lock-up.wherc they Will be supplied with both
soup and work. The public are cautioned against
believing any of the stories that the tramps may
put forth in regard to theirnot beingproperly fed,
as the authorities having the matter in charge
propose to feed this class of people according to
the ex‘genc‘fidhgifiisgrusox
. . ,
CHARLES w. SHITH,} Seemmen' -
Norwalk, Feb. 25th,1878. .
MAD noes AT LARGE!
Citizens Beware.
NOTICE l
‘AIHEREAS, several mad dogs have been run-
ning at large in several of" the towns of Fair-
ficld County, and have attacked and bitteusevernl
ersons. as well as many other dogs, and the cit-
Izens being greatly alarmed on account of such
do s at large, and
Vnnnuxn, the undersigned, Justices of‘ the
Peace residlnlg in the town of Norwalk.holleve
that the persons and lives of the inhabitants, of
the town are insecure, therefore
Notice is hereby given that from this date, all
persons who his be now or hereafter the owners
or custodians 0 an y dogpr dogs, shall forthwith
secure them against their liability to do public
harm,either by confining or muzzlmg them until
the first day of May next. and any dog found mad
or running at large land unmuzzled may be killed
at sight. when not in the care of any person, or
found off the premises of its owner, and any per-
son, who.'havmg a. dog, shall fall forthwith to
comply With the above notice, will be subjected to
forfeit of 87.00 and costs of prosecution.
Notice hereefshall be given by posting a copy
hereof on each public~ signpost in the town of‘
Norwalk, and by publishing the same in the Non-
wxnx (bizarre and . South Nor-walk Sentinel,
newspapers ubllshed in said town.
Dated at orwalk, thlsSth day of February,A.
D. , 1878, .
F. W. PERRY. Justices of
UUSE. situated at Norwalk. adjoining
VOL. ’LXIésNUlIB’ER 14
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Morn, Noon, Night. '
See how bright at early morn
Dewdrops shine on fragrant thorn;
Blithesome birds their mafia lay
Chant to greet the orientdly 3
_ Heaven and earth-ell thingscombine.
Praise, 0 Lord, to render thine. ‘
Now the glow of arid noon
Stills the-forest warbler's tune ;
Punting stray the truant kine
Whither tempting waters shine ;
Beast and bird, and tree and flower,
All attest'Thy wondrous power.
Soon the sun shall sink to rest
Curtained in the glowing west;
Day shall fade, yet, throughthe night,
Thou, O Lord, shall give Ill light—
Light to know and worship Thee
Father of Eternity.
. —J. P. CURRAN.
THE, enemies.
[2 Sam. 23:17.1
——-——
BY THE REV. EDWIN JOHNSON" .
Wild was the scene. Gray crags‘upliffed
Their giant forms against the sky; ‘
While at their feet loose rocks lay drifted,
As in a torrent's bed now dry. ‘
There, like a socket sightless, hollowed,
. Adullam’s dismal cave was set;
Whereiu the men who David followed,
A metlev multitude, were met.
And thence, a narrow shelf o’er-leaping, ’
A gorge rushed toward the valley tilled,
Which now not: peaceful peasants reaping,
But fierce Philistine "warriors filled.
Weary with flight, with fever burning,
The outlawed chieftoin left the cave;
And; toward his native city turning,
To one deep wish on utteranceguve:
. “ Oh, that some, hand a draught might ' bring
me ,
From Bethlehem’s well hard. by the gate!
‘ With strength and courage would it wingmo
Or lend contentment here to wait.”
Three mighty men, that‘wish o’erhearing,
, At once to danger bade defiance;
Nor stony steep, nor foemcn fearing,
Their stalwarfh limbs a euro reliance.
They crossed the vale, they climbed the
mountain, ~ .
They drew the water, elect and sweet,
Forth from its cold and hidden fountain,
And bore it stift to David’s feet.
Then gratitude with honor blended
' Within the chicftain’s throbbing breast,
A moment o'er the prize he bended,
And to his heart his hand be pressed.
God save that I should drink the potion!
It is the blood of men 1" he cried.
And, looking up with wrap: devotion,
He turned it suddenly acids.
The ground became an altar lowly,
Whereon a sacrifice was poured,
Richer than when in temple holy
J udea's multitudes adored. '
But, as we read the ancient story,
Well may it call his love to mind,
Who, from the far-off heavenly glory,
Come down our sin-lost souls to find ;
Assailed and conquered hostile legions ;
His crop of heavy sorrow bore;
And entered death’s own [dismal regions,
That we might live forevermore.
0h, shall we take the costly treasure,
The lives redeemed by blood divine,
And bid them serve-our selfish pleasure,
0r say, Dear Lord, these lines are Wm !
- —S._ 8. Timed.
Water.
BY CLAUDIUS.
Ascending, in vapor, distilling in rain,
Dissolving the mountain, enriching the plain ;
Mid meadows meandering in' bright little
rills,
Forever ogumenting, the valley it fills.
And now a great river, sublime in its sweep,
A highway for commerce, it forms to the
deep: .
Now careering through space on the wings
of the breeze -
Now dashing and roaring in tempectetossed
seas. ‘
Now flocking the heavens with gold tinted
clouds, ,
Or weaving o’er woodlands its fairy like
shrouds;
Congenled into crystals it falls to the ground,
For earth makes a mantle, when winter rolls
round. _ —Intere'or.
Miss Edith Helps Things Along.
“My sister-’11 be-down in a minute, and lays
yon’er-to wait, if you please.
And says I might stay till she come, if I’d
promise her never to tease.
Nor monk till you spoke to me first. But that’s
nonsense, for how would you know
What she told me to say if Ididn’t? Don't
you really and truly think so?
E‘And then you’d-feel strange here alone! And
. you wouldn’t know just where to sit;
For that chair isn’t strong (in its legs, and we
never use it a bit.
We keep it tomatch with the sofa. But Jack
says it would be like you
To fi'op yourself right down upon it and knock
out the very last screw.
“S'pose you try! I won’t tell. You’re afraid
to! Oh! you’re afraid they would say
it was mean! '
Well, then, there’s the album—that’s pretty,
if you’re sure that your fingers are
clean.
. For sister says sometimes I daub it, but she
only says that when she’s cross.
There’s her picture. You know it ? It’s hko
her, but she. ain’t so good looking of
course !
“This is me. It’s the best of ’em all. Now,
tell me, you’d never have thought
That once I was little as that! It's the only
. one that could be bought—
For that was the message to pa from the pho
tograph man where I sat—
l‘hat he wouldn’t print off any more till he
first got his money for that.
“What? Maybe you’re tired of waiting.
. Why, often she’s longer than this.
There’s all her back hair to do up,-and all of
her front curls to friz.
But it’s nice to be sitting here talking like
grown péople,l_just you and me.
Do you think you'll be coming here often ?
Oh, do! But don’t come like Tom Lee.
“Tom Lee ? Her lastbeau. Why, my good-
ness! He used~ to be here day end
night, ' ’ '
Till the folks thought that, he'd be her hus-
band, and Jack says that gave him;
fright. ' ' ' '
You won’t run away, then, as he did? for
you‘re not arich man, theysay.
Pa says you are poor as achurch mouse.
Now, are you? And ,how poor are
they? ‘ w ' , ‘1 4
“Ain't you glad that you met me ? Well, .1
am; for I know now your hair ain’t red,
But what there is left of it’s money, and not
what that naughty Jack said. V H H
But there! . I must go. Sister’s coming. But
I wish Icould wait, just to see V i
If she ran up to you and kissed you in the
way that she used to kiss Lee.” I
Gazette Job Printlugc Ollie.
E.W. STUART, the Peace.
Brat Hart in the Independent,
Norwalk Chronicler