WHOLE NUMBER 1596.
For the Gazette.
Undeccived.
_._———-
BY R. E-
I knew that thou wert stro
gifted
Than most men are.
And thus it chanced I came to hold the truer,
Nobler, by far.
age!“ and more
My eyes are opened now. I see thee clearly
, For what thou art,
And so, withjscorr'i and loathing, cast thine
image '
From out my- heart.
With-scorn and loathing? Yes, and yet, be-
lieve me,
Not more for thee
Than for myself, the weak, blind fool who
trusted _
That he could see I
'Tis better so. Better to writhe in anguish
as I do now,
Than to go on believing in the falsehood
Writ on thy brow.
Our friendship's dead. . Let the poor, lifeless
body -
, Be laid away
In some far distant grave, to which our foot-
steps ‘
May never stray.
And write no lying motto like “Resurgam”
Above its head,
Here or hereafter comes no resurrection
To friendship dead.
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THE BOX TUNNEL.
BY CHARLES READE.
The 10,15 train glided from Paddington,
May 7, 1878. In the left compartment of a
first-class carriage were four passengers; of
these, two were worth description. The
lady had a smooth, white, delicate brow,
strongly marked eyebrows, long lashes, eyes
that seemed to change color, and a _ good.
sized, delicious month with teeth as white ’
as milk. , A man could not see her nose for
her eyes. and.mouth:; her. own- sex- could,
and would have told us some nonsense about
'it. She wore an unpretending,_ grayish
dress,buttoned to the throat wiih lozenge-
shspe‘d.‘ button' and a- Scotch shawl that
agreeablyevadedlcolor. She was like a duck,
so tight her-plain feathers fitted her, and
there ~shosat, smoblh snug, and delicious,
with a book'in her hand, and a soupcon of
her wrist just visible as she heldit, Her
opposite neighbor was what 'I call a good
style of man—Abe mere to his gcredit,
since 'he belonged to a corporation that
frequently turns out the worst imaginable
style of the young men. He was a cavalry
officer. aged 25. He had a mustache, but
. not a repulsive one ; not one of those sub;
nasal pigtails on which soup is suspended
like dew ona‘shrub'; it was short, thick,
and black as coal. His teeth had not yet
been turned by tobacco smoke to the color
of juice, his clothes did not stick nor hang
to him; he had an engaging smile; and,
what I liked the dog for, his vanity, which
was inordinate, was in its proper place,
his, heart, not in his face, jostling mineand
other people’s who have none-éin a word, he
was what one oftener hears :of than meets-
ayoung gentleman. He was conversing in
an animated whisper with a companion, a fel-
low ofiicer ;' they were talking abbut what it
is far better not to—women. Our friend
' clearly did not wish to be overheard; for he
cast ever and anon a furtive glance at his
fair visna-vis and lowered’his voice. She
seemed completelyabsorbedfin her book,
and that assured him. At‘last‘ the two 301-,
diers came down to a whisper (the truth
mustbéitolil), the, one who got doWn at
Slough, and was lost to posterity, bet £10
to .68, that he who'was . going down with us
to Bath and immortality would not his
either of the ladies opposite on the road.
“Done, done!" Now Iam’ sorrya man I
have hitherto praised should have lent him-
self even in. a whipser to such a speculation;
“but nobody is wise at all hours,” not even
when the clock is striking five and twenty;
andyou are to consider his profession, his
good looks, and the temptation—ten to three.
After Slough the party was reduced to
three; at. Twilford one lady dropped her
handkerchief; Capt. Dolignan fell on it like
a lamb, two or threewords were inter-‘
changed on this occasion. At Reading the
Marlborough of our tale made one of the safe
investments of that day, he bought a Times
and Punch; the latter full of steel-pen
thrusts and wood-cuts Valor and beauty
deigned to laugh at some inflamed humbug
or other punctured by Punch. Now laugh-
ing together thaws our human ice—at Swin-
don it was a talking match—at Swindon who
so devoted as Capt. Dolignan—he handed
them out —he souped them—he tough-chick-
encd them—he brandied and cochinealed
one, and he brandied and burnt-sugared the
other; on their return to the carriage, one
lady passed into the inner compartments to
inspect a certain gentleman’s seat on that
side of the line. ~
Reader, had 'it been you or I, the beauty
would have been the deserter, the average
one would have staid with us till all was
blue, ourselves included; not more surely
does ourslicc of bread and butter, when it
escapes :fr‘om our blind, revolve it ever so
often, alight face downward on the carpet.
Butthis was a bit of fop, Adonis, dragoon—
so Venus remained in tete-atcte with him.
You have seen a dog'mect an unknown one
of his species, how handsome, how empresse,
how expressive he becomes; such was Dolig.
nan after Swindon, and to do the dog jus-
tice, he got handsome and hansomcr; and
you have seen a ' cat conscious of approach-
ing cream-such was Miss Haythorn; she
became demurer ; presently our captain
locked out of the window and laughed; this
elicited an inquiring look from Miss Hay-
thorn. .
1 “We are only a mile from the Box Tun-
’ fl
”Elihu you always laugh a mile from the
Box Tunnell?" said the lady.
“Invaridbly.”
- “What for ?"
“Why. hem! it a gentleman’s joke."
Capt. Dolignan. than recounted to Miss
Haythorne the following :— .
“A lady and her husband sat together go-
ing through the BoxJI‘nnnell—there was one
gentleman opposite; it was pitch dark; after
the launch was reached the lady said,
lGeorge, how absurd of you to salute me
going through the tunnell.’ ‘I did no such
thing! ‘You didn‘t ?' No! why ?' ‘Because
somehow I thought you did! " _
Here Capt. Delignan laughed and endeav-
bred to lead his companion to laugh, but it
goo-mm done. The train entered the
mllililila‘s'IIaythorn-—Ah I
Dolignan—What is the matter ?
Miss Haythorn—I am frightened.
Dolignan—(moving to her_side)-—Pray do
not be‘alarlned; I am near you.
Miss Haythorn—You are near me—vcry
near me. indeed Capt. Dolignan.
Dolignan—You know my name?
Miss Hsythorn—I heard you mention it. I
wish we were out of this dark place. .
Dolignan—I could be content to spend hours
here, reassuring you, my dear lady.
Miss Haythorn—Nonscnse!
Dolignan—Pweepl (Grave reader, do not
put your lips to the next pretty creature you
meet or you will understand what this
means.)
Miss Haythorn—Ee! Eel
Friend—What is the matter ?
‘know whether or not a life
Miss Haythor'néopen the door!
the door! '
There was a sound of hurried whispers
the door was shut, and the blinds pulled
down with hostile sharpness.
If any critic falls on me for putting inartic-
ulatc sounds in adialogue, as above I answer
with all the insolence I can command at
present: “Hit boys asbig as yourself;” big-
Open
and Aristopliane; they began it, and: I-learn-
ed it of them, sore against my will.
Miss Haythorn's scream lost most of its
effect because the engine whistled 40,000
murders at the same moment; and fittitious
grief makes itself heard when real cannot.
Between the tunncll and Bath our young
friend had time to ask himself whether his
conduct had been marked by that delicate
reserve which is supposed to distinguish the
perfect gentleman.
With a long face, real or feigned, he held
open the door. His late friends attempted to
escape on the other side—impossible! they
must pass him. She whom 'he had insulted
(Latin for kissed) deposited somewhere at his
feet a look of gentle, blushing reproach; the
other, whom he had not insulted,1darted red-
hot daggers at him from her eyes; and so
they parted.
It was, perhaps, fortunate for Dolignan
IIoskyns of his regiment, a veteran laughed
at by the youngsters, for the major was too
apt to look coldly upon billiard-balls and
cigars; he had seen cannon-ball and line-
stocks. He had also, to tell the truth,
swallowed a good deal of the 'mess room
poker, which made it as impossible for
Major Hoskyns to descend to an ungentle.
manlike work or actions is to brush his own
trowsers beneath the knee.
Capt. Dolignan told this gentleman his
story in gleeful accents; but Major Hoskyns
heard him coldly, and as coldly answered
that he had known a man to lose his life for
the same thing.
“That is nothing,” continued the Major,
“but unfortunately he deserves to lose it.” ,
At_ this, blood mounted to the younger
man’s temples; and his senior added, “I
pinean to say he was 35; you, I presume are
21!"
“Twentyfive.”
“That ihmuch the same thing you will
be advised by me ?" '
“If you will advise rue."
“Speak to no one of this and send White
the £3, that he may think you have lost the
bet."
“That is hard, when I won it.”
“Do it, for all that sir."
Let the disbelievers in human perfecti-
bility know that this dragoon, capable of a
blush, did this virtuous action, albeit with
violent reluctance; and this was his first '
damper. A week after the event he was at
,a ball. He was in that state of factitious
discontent which belongs to us amiable Eng-
glish, He was looking in vain for a lady,
equal in personal attraction to the idea he
had formed of George Dolignan as a man,
when suddenly there glided past him a most
delightful vision! A lady whose beauty and
symmetry took him by the eyes—another
look: It can’t be! Yes, it is!” Miss Hay-
thorn (not that he knew her name) but what
an apotheosisl
The duck had become a pea-hcn—radiant,
dazzling, she looked twice as beautiful and
large as before. He lost sight of her. He
found her again. She was so lovely she
made him ill—and he, alone, must not dance
with her, speak to her. If he had been con-
tent to begin her acquaintance in the usual
way it might have ended in kissing; it must
end in nothing. As she danced sparks of
beauty fell from her on all around but him-—
she did not see him; it was clear she never
would see him—one gentleman was particu-
larly assiduous; she smiled on him assiduity;
he was ugly, but she smiled on him. Dolig-
nan was surprised at this success, his ill taste;
his ugliness, his impertinence. Dolignan at
last found himself injured. "Who was this
man? and what right had he to go on so?
He never kissed her, I suppose,” said Dolle.
Dolignan could not prove it, but he felt that
somehow the rights of property were invad-
ed. He wcnt home and dreamed of Miss
Haythorn, and hated all the ugly successful.
He spent a’ fortnight trying’to find outwho
his beauty was—he never could encounter
her ,again; At last he heard of her in this
way : A lawyer's clerk paid him a little vis-
it and commenced a little action Against him
in the name of Miss Haythorn, for insulting
her in a railway train. , ,
The young gentleman was shocked; en-
deavored to soften the lawyer’s clerk; that
machine did not thoroughly comprehend the
meaning of the term. The lady's name how-
ever, was at last revealed by this untoward
incident; from her name to her address was
but ashort step; and the same day our crest-
fallen hero lay in wait at the-door, and many
a succeeding day without effect. But one
afternoon she issued forth quite naturally,
as if she did it every day, and walked brisk-
ly on the parade. Dolignan did the same ;
met and passed her many times on the pa-
rade and searched for pity in'h'er eyes, but
found neither look or recognition, nor any
other sentiment; for all this she walked and
walked till the other promenaders were
tired and gone. Then her culpit summoned
resolution, and taking off his hat with a
voice for the first time tremulous, besought
permission to address her. She stopped,
blushed, and, neither acknowledged nor dis-
owned his acquaintance. He blushed, stam-
mered out how ashamed he was, how be de-
served to be punished, how he was punished,
how little she knew how unhappy hewas,
and concluded by begging her not to let all
the world know the disgrace of Milan, who
was already mortified enough by the loss of
'her acquaintance. She asked an explanation;
t
he told her of the action that had been com-
menced in her name; she gently shrugged
,her shoulders and said: “How stupid they
are!” Emboldened by this he begged to
istant unpre-
tending devotion would, after a lapse of
years erase the memory of his madness—his
crime! . '
“She did not know 1”
“She must now bid adieu, as she had some
preparations to make for a ball in the Cres-
cent, where everybody was to be.” They
parted. and Dolignan determined to be at the
hall where everybody was to be. He was
there, and after some time he obtained an in-
troduction to Miss Haythorn, and he dance d
with her. Her manner was gracious. With
the wonderful tact of her sex, she seemed to
have commenced the acquaintance that even
ing. Dolignan was inlove. I will spare the
reader all a lover’s arts, by which he suc-
needed in dining where'she dined, in dancing
where she danced, in overtaking her by acci-
dent when she rode. His devotion followed
her to church, where the drago‘on was re-
warded by learning there world is a where
they neither p'olk nor smoke—Rho two capital
abomination of this one.
He made an acquaintance withther uncle,
who liked him, and he saw at last 'with joy
that her eye loved to dwell upon him, when
she thought he did not observe her. It was
three months after the Box Tunnell that Capt.
Dolignan 'callcd one day upon Capt. Hay-
thorn,'R.vN., whom he hAd met twice in
his life, and slightly propitated by violently
listening to a cutting outexpedition; he call-
ed, and in the usual way asked permission
to pay his addresses to lis daughter. The
worthy captain straightway began doing
quarter-deck, when suddenly he was sum-
: moned from the apartment by a mysterious
message. On his return he announced, with
a total change of voice, that “It was all right,
ger,perhaps, such as Sophocles, Euripides.
that he had the grace to be a friend to Maj.
and his visitor might run alongside as soon
as he chose.” My reader has divincd the
truth; this nautical commander, terrible to
the foe, was in complete and happy subju'
gallon to his daughter, our heroine. ‘ .
As he Was taking his leave, Dolignan saw
his divinity glide into the drawing~room. He
follovVed’her, observed a sweet conscious-
ness. deepen into confusion—she tried ‘to
llaugh,‘-a'nd cried instead, and then she smiled
hgain ; when he kissed her hand at the door
it was"‘Gcorgei'. and “Marian” instead of
“Captain” this and “Miss" the other.
A reasonable time after this) for any tale is
merciful-and skips formalities and torturing
delays), these two were very happy; they
were once more upon the railroad, going to
enjoy ‘the honeymoon all by themselves.»
Marian Dolignan was dressed just as before
-duck-like and delicious; all bright except
her clothes; but George sat beside her this
time instead of opposite; and she drank him
in gently from her eyelashes. -
“Marian,” said George, “married people
should tell each other all. Will you ever
forgive me; if I own to you ; now—”
“Yes; yes!” ,
“Well, then, you remember the Box Tun-
nel.” (This was the first allusion he had
ventured to it.) . “I am ashamed to say that
Ihad £3 to £10;with White, I would kiss
one of you two ladies,” and George pathetic
externally, chuckled within.
“I know that George; I overheard you,"
was the de re reply.
“0! youl¥verheard me! impossible.”
“And did you not hear me whisper to my
companion ? I made abet‘with her.”
“You made a bet! how singular!
was it ?”
“Only a pair of gloves, George !”
“Yes, I know; but what about it!”
“That if you did— you should be my bus-
band, dearest.”
“Oh, but stay; then you could not have
been so veryangry with me, love. Why
dearest, then you brought that action against
me ?” .
Mrs. Dolignan looked down.
“I was afraid you was forgetting me!
George, you will never forgive me ?”
“Sweet angel ! why, here is the Box Tun-
nel.”
Now, reader—fie! no such thing! you
can’t expect to be indulged in this way every
time we come to a dark place. Besides, it
is not the thing. Consider, two sensible mar-
ried people. No such phenomenon. I as-
sure you, took place. No scream in hopeless
rivalry of the engin e—this time!
Who t
A Note of Warning from the
Litclifield Enquirer.
sssaromar. rnosrncrs.
Mr. Wm. H. Barnum is preparing for the
campaign of November next, with, we regret
to say, an excellent chance of success. His
preparations are of that quiet, adroit kind
which show little on the surface. Neverthe-
less there arc many indications which prove to
one at all used to watching Mr. Barnum’s
strategy that he is on the alert and quietly
setting that machinery in motion through
which he has heretofore won his successes.
As we remarked, last fall, the Republican
success of '77 helps rather than hinders Mr.
Barnum’s game. He is very glad to have
Republicans believe that'they are almost sure
to win; and democrats that they are almost
sure to lose in the coming election. Such a
notion not only slackens the efforts of his
Republican opponents; it kills all effective
democratic oppositiOn, by placing him in a
position where he can say to his own party,
“I-can carry the next House and no one else
can.”
Moreover a senatorial contest in a State like
Connecticut, where a few voters, in a few
towns, decide the contest, is pcculiarl y adapt-
ed to the Barnum style of attack. A change
of ten votes, each, in twenty towns, will give
him a majority on joint ballot in the coming
legislature. If our recollection serves us, he
put a little more than $20,000 into the hands
of the Democratic State Committee in the
spring of ’70, besides what he spent through
his own special agents. A similar sum,
shrewdly expended, next fall, will ensure
him a Democratic House, unless the people
become thoroughly aroused to the shameful-
ness of this kind of dealing with our most
important public offices. The percentage of
purchasable voters varies greatly in different
localities ; but how many towns which ordi-
narily give less than twenty-five majority
- to either party could withstand the pressure
of $500, per town, of Mr. Barnum‘s money?
A legislature is not carried by scattering
money broadcast, but by special efforts in
special towns.
But, says the over-confident Republican,we
are almost certain of a majorityin the Senate;
we carried the State on the popular vote, last
fall; Mr. Barnum has lost much of his local
strength,and is heartily disliked and distrusted
by the better men of his own party. To all
this the answer is obvious. Under the joint
ballot law, it is the complexion of the House,
not of the Senate, that determines the choice
of an United States Senator. Were the peo-
ple to vote directly for or against Mr. Bar‘-
num, he could be beaten, in spite of the
length of his purse; but they do not vote for
or against Mr. Barnum. They vote for the
nominees of the caucuses which a few leaders
manipulate in the interest of Mr. Barnum.
Those nominees say nothing about him.
They run on their individual merits. It is
only after they reach Hartford, next winter,
they will develop into out-spoken Barnum
men.
Then, too, it is said both Houses are now
RepubliCan. True, the Republicans have a
majority‘of three in the Senate and twenty-
six in the House. They may hold their Sen-
ate majority, but how is it with the House ?
The Republicans now have 21 Representa-
tives in Litchfield county to 20 democratic.
In the spring of K76, when the legislature
,which chose Mr. Barnum—was elected, there
were 13 Republicans and 28 democrats sent
to the'IIousc. ’ If Mr. Barnum can maneuver
as successfully in '78 as he did in ’76, he will
.wipe out half of the hostile majority of 20,
in his own county. We give below the list
of townsin this county which have changed
on representative vote since April ’76, with
their respective majorities in the presidential
election of that year, and on the sheriff and
senatorial vote of last fall:
Representatives: Majorilies.
‘ 5‘: ‘5. - i:
A .a o t: c
we r- ca --r~ an
, as is So as as;
<71 but gut 5"" a a
72 5 °°
Litchfield, ,2 d I r l d 59 d 15 d 1 d
Barknamstod, 2 d 2 r - 30 d 24 (1 so d
Cornwall. 1r1d 2d ' 87d 32d 1h-
Goshcn, 2d 1 r l d l d 9 r 11 d
Harwinton, 2 r 1 r 1 d 60 r 38 r 52 r
Kent, 1 d l r 57 d 19 d 06 r
Moms! 1 d l r 37 d 19 d 15 d
Sharon. 2d lrld 152d 82d sod
Torringt ' on 2 (l 2 r 45 r 51 r 233 r
Willihlngton. 2 d ‘ ‘ *2 r , 39 d 15 r no vote
Winchester. 1 d I r 2 d 48 r' 150 d 163 d
_ '98 Greenback votes cost.
It will be observed that Mr. Barnum carried
Tehrington, Washington and Goshen in ’78,
losing only two men by splits (one each in
Cornwall and Winchester). Last fall, how.
ever, eight Republican representatives went
from towns usuhlly democratic,lthe Republi-
cans losing one in Harwinton. The chances
are that quite a_ large proportion of these
representatives Will be recovered by the de-
mocrac , next fall, without any assistance
from r. Barnum. We do not believe he can
/carry Torriugton; but if he goes into Hart.
ford, next January, with a majorit of less
than twelve representatives from itchfield
county" we shall'be agreeably disappointed.
Losing Just half their majority in the present
House in this county alone. how are the Re-
publicanslike to prosper elsewhere in their
fight against Mr. Barnum‘s money? Others
are no'don'bt better informed than ourselves
regarding the political prospect in the state
at large; but, to us, it is anything but reas-
suring.
j Fertile Gazette.
Unappreciated Sufferers.
BY R. E.
In all the ages .of the World there have
been sufferers, great and noble sufferers,whose
anguish has been passed by without a word
of sympathy from even the most sympathetic
soul on this, our hard-hearted planet. I say
hard-hcarted advisedly. No one 'need' tell
.me that the heart of earth is ,a fiery, glowing
massof something soft. Were it so there
w‘ouldbc some sympathy in it for our bitter
sufferings, a wild outburst of volcanic rage
when Anderson began to testify, and an out-
pouring of hot water, at least, when that man
who never, it is evident, knew what an awful
thing hearing could he, invented the micro-
phone. Ah! didn’t he regret his invention
on the Fourth of July. -
But I am digressing from my subject. The
unapprcciatcd sufferers of the world are
mostly women, though there have been, I
rejoice to say, some rare and feminine souls
among my sex who have worn this crown.
As a general thing, however, men insist ‘upon
being sympathized with and having their
sufferings understood. Only women sufier
in silence. ' '
First on the list, of course, comes that
grand though nameless figure in history
whom, after the example of college youths,
I shall have to designate as Mrs. Noah. Did
you ever attempt to realize her trials? Think
of .her doomed to the society of . her husband
and three sons through that long. wet spell,
0 ye women who can scarcely endure 'the
presence of your good men in the house
through the whole of one rainy day, and
confess that you never pitied her enough.
And there wasn’t the possibility of a sew-
ing society for the heathen, at which the
poor woman might have relieved her mind,
for there weren’t any heathen. They had
all been drowned. And if there had been
any heathen there weren’t any neighbors to
form the sewing society, nor any one to tall-:3
about.
' There wasn’t anything but Noah and Shem
and Ham and Japheth and their wives over
and over and over again. -
I mistake. There were the animals. But
what consolation will animals afford to a wo-
man sufiferiug with ennui? None whatever.
Her life was utterly and inconceivably stale
and flat.
Her sons’ wives had an easier time, for
they were young and thoughtless and could
look out of the window at the lovely, big
waves, and wonder what the curious things
were that knocked against the side of the
Ark, ever and mnon, while their husbands
sang in concert, “Wait till the moonlight
falls on the water.”
Besides they hadn’t been married long
enough for it to grow tedious to them, but
she—why, Noah was six hundred years old
at thistime, and at the very least calculation
she must have been married to him- over
two hundred years. I dare not dwell
upon the thought, but the vista of suf-
fering opened to our gaze is something awful.
Next to Noah’s wife come the women of
India and China throughout all ages. Not
because they don’t have women’s colleges,and
Princess dresses, and lovely hats and un-
dressed kids. Oh, no, but,eWell, I’ll tell
you how I came to understand their unspeak-
able sufferings.
The women of the house all went off the
other day, and I, left to myself, cooked my
own dinner.
some and made my dinner on rice and milk.
It was so good, just salt enough, (women
always forget the salt in rice,) and I felt so
good—natured after dinner that I resolved to
surprise the family by washing the dishes.
The bowl and spoon were soon disposed of,
but the kettle?
Did you ever wash a nice kettle? If you
never did, and want an experience totally
unlike any you ever had before in your life,
just get your wife to let you wash hers, some
time.
I came to the conclusion almost immedi-
ately that rice is very expensive food. Such
an amount wasted in coating the sides and
bottom of the kettle, you see. And that
coating sticks, oh, how it sticks!
I took off my coat, turned up my cuffs
and attacked the kettle with a will.
The stuff wouldn’t wash off, so I took out
my jack-knife and began to scrape. In about
a minute my knife had three broken blades.
I was vexed, but there was no help for it, so
I put up the thing and tried my finger-nails.
Soon had all of them in the same condition
of my knife-blades. .
Then I sat down to think, and then I tried
again. Took a silver spoon this time, and
scraped and scraped. .
I had commenced at one o'clock. At half
past four I gave it up and retired in disgust,
leaving the thing just half cleaned, and a
semi-circular spoon over which I was destin-
ed to direful lamentations the next day,
After I had washed my hands,turned down
my cats, put on my coat and gone out to
the hammock, lit my cigar and began to med-
itate. Naturally my mind dwelt upon my
recennifferings for awhile, and then my
thoughts wandered off to India, the land of
rice. I remembered that in that country all
the inhabitants eat rice, and eat it three times
a day, and as I thought of the poor women
there, three times a day washing and scrap-
ing their accursed rice-kettles, millions of
women and millions of kettles, I forgot that
I was an American and a Christian, in the
feeling that I was a human being, and burst
into tears. ' - '
Next to these millions of women comes
the man who hates the New York Sun. I
don’t mean to say anything against that pa.
per. Not at all; but there is one man who
does not like it, strange as it may seem. I
chanced to meet him the other day, in the
horse cars. A little boy rushed through with
a pile of papers under his arm, and standing
directly in front of my neighbor, (an intelli-
gent, but care-worn looking man,) screamed :
"Sun, sir ? Have a Sun, sir ?"
“No," responded he: calmly, but with an
unmistakable expression of pain on his coun-
tenance, “I will not have a Sun.” '
The boy ran out but was back in a minute.
“Sun, sir? Buy a Sun, sir ?”
The man sighed, shook his head and the
boy again disappeared.
The next moment the car stopped and a
ragged urchin thrust a paper through the win-
dow right into the face of my stranger, with
the cry, "Sun, sir ?" He turned round and
put down the Window with a slam, but his
momentary fiercepess passed away as he
sighed, “ ’Tis destinyl”
I rejoice in soothing others' sorrows when
I can, so turning to him I said, “Allow me to
offer you the assurance of my sympathy, sir.
What is your grief?” '
He looked up at me. “Sympathy l” he
exclaimed, almost pettishly. “You can’t
sympathize with me. sir, it is impossible. Do
newsboys thrust Suns in your face wherever
you go? Do all your packages come home
done up in the Sun ? Does everybody you
meet quote the New York Sun to you? In
short, sir, is your life rendered miserable by
the New York Sun? If it isn‘t you can no'
more sympathize with me than a dove could
with Ben Butler. My waking and sleeping
hours are alike haunted by that omn‘i-prcsent
paper. When my boots are mended they
come home done up in.the Sun; when I buy
a neck-tic it is passed over the counter neatly
enclosed in a fragment of the Sun, and
when I fall asleep it is only to dream that I
have had a sun-stroke, and the physician in
attendance has ordered bandages of the Sun
to be applied to my head, and plasters of the
Sun to be applied to the soles of my feet.
I'm partial to rice so I boiled ,
But nobody can understand my agonies and
nobody pities them. I am an unappreciated
sufferer, sir. Good morning I”
As he left the car Igazed after him and
beheld two newsboys stop him with, “Ave a
Sun, sir i” ‘ Only two cents, sir 1” Poor man.
’I will mention but one more of the unap-
preciated sufferers of this sublunary sphere—
the tramp. I know that he is popularly rc-
garded as an annoying evil and an intolerable
burden upon society, but before we acquiesce
in the general verdict let us consider his sufé
ferings. Think of him doomed forever to
see the kitchen door, literal and metaphorical
of existence; ever trusting to the innate no-
bility of human nature,and trusting, alas! too
often in vain; finding continually that an-
feeling_men require him to work for his food,
or that equally unfeeling women feed him
with cold cod-fish balls, when the cravings
of his nature are for hot beef-steak and cof-
fee. Is it strange that, gonded to madness
he sometimes draws a, pistol on his hard-
hearted entertainers, or sets fr: to their barns
and houses ? ' ..
A Short Cruise out of New York
Harbor.
—.‘,u
-On Tuesday afternoon I made one of a
small party of gentlemen who set sail from
Fort, Hamilton in the; yacht Admiral, for a
ittle trip. Fort Hamilton is closely contigu-
ous to Brooklyn, situated at the terminous of
Third Avenue, upon which cars convey you
in twenty minutes'from 24th street. The
party consisted of Mr. Francis Hopkins,
Shore Commissioner ofKings County, Dr.
Feller. a New York physician, Mr. Deane of
the staff of the Superintendent of Police, N.
Y., Mr. Fender, a nephew of Mr. Hopkins,
and myself. The captain and crew added a
half dozen more to the company. A light
breeze carried us slowly out of the Narrows
into the broad bay, and over that beautiful
expanse to our anchorage within the “horse
shoe” off Sandy Hook. It was interesting
to notice the light-house system of New
York harbor, by which the channels are laid
out for the navigator with nearly as much
cleamess as the streets of a city. Coming to
anchor we laid up for the night, your cor-
respondent 'retiring to the jib, which, made
comfortable with pillows and blankets, he al-
ways prefers to any other berth; especially
as he is then at convenient distance from that
inevitable foe to slumber, the man who
snores. . No dozen sleepers were ever brought
together without this trumpeter appearing
among them. On this'occasion, as I lay in
the jib, only a faint echo reached me of the
music echoed by two snorers, who made
things lively for the less fortunate ones dur-
ing the otherwise stilly night.
At half-past three we were up and off
under a stiff breeze, the old moon still hang-
ing in the sky and the first streaks of dawn
beginning to break into the darkness of night.
Rounding Sandy Hook we sailed down the
New Jersey coast past Seabright, Monmouth
Beach and Long Branch. These resorts are
now thickly built with handsome cottages
and hotels, of which several new and elegant
ones have been erected within a year. Sea-
bright is especially favored, having the
Shrewsbury river west of it, affording-facili-
ties for quiet sailing and rowing at all times.
It being only eight oclock when we went by
Long Branch, the signs of life at the great
hotels were not numerous. It is generally.
understood that the tideof fashion has not
set so strong in that direction since General
Grant went abroad and the popular Manhat-
tan Beach was opened.
We were trolling for blue fish through all
these hours, and.if our succefi was limited
it was owing to the fact of the fish having
been “on a strike" for several days, as all the
boats we met reported, than to our want of
skill, for none of us were inexperienced in
the art. However, that we had an excellent
fish chowder that noon to which our hungry
appetites did ample justice, I can at least
truthfully afiirm, without saying anything
about the number we caught, or where the
particular fish came from out of which the
chowder was made. ‘
But who cares whether fish bite or not,
especially if they won’t bite when you are
sailing on a commodious craft, over a fine
sea, with a good breeze, able to lie out at
your sweet will and read, say, the Atlantic
Monthly. By the way, have your readers
discovered that the Atlantic, for August, is a
very superior number, even for that excep-
tionally good magazine? The Contributor’s
Club is as rich and racy as the best wits of
the day, doing their best, can make it. Mr.
Richard Grant White, who always writes as
a cultivated genteman would talk if said
gentleman had also a good stock of humor
and a substratum of genius, gives us prob-
ably the best portrait of John Bull ever
drawn. His England on rails, a month or
two ago, in the same periodical, was ade-
. lightful sketch of English manner, but there
are some touches very nicely done in this
When we add to these clever essays, The
Stage in Germany, The Europeans, New
England Women, Growth of Conscience in
the Decorative Arts, Reelfoot Lake, several
capital stories and poems bright as a summer
sky, we have a magazine number which for
freshness and flavor is as palatable as the best
of our summer fruits.
So at least it seemed to me, sitting as I
read, in the shade of the sail and looking of!
over the lower bay of ' New York. 'We
passed the light ship and steered away for
Rockaway inlet. Anchoring. near the land-
ing of the Scaview House, we mingled with
the crowds from the steamboats and proceed.
ed to the beach. The throngs of people were
surprising, the walks were nearly impassable,
thousands were in the surf, and every spot
swarmed with men, women and children.
Most appeared to be of the middle class, all
enjoying themselves to the utmost, the chil-
dren and babies especially getting a new
lease of life from this sniff of sea air rind dip
into the brine of the old ocean. '
Later in our cruise we sailed close in along
Manhattan and Brighton beaches, and saw at
these new a§d popular resorts the same im-
mense crow . but of a higher class. These
hotels are as well appointed as any on our
coast, and are attracting many of the best
citizens of New York and Brooklyn. Fur-
ther on towards home we passed the hotels,
restaurants, observatories and other establish-
ments which make up what is known as
Concy Island proper, which takes on the
proportions of a city by the sea. With the
gay flags and streamers, and bands of music,
and moving crowds,‘ the westerning sun
throwing brilliance over all, the scene seemed
to lift from fairyland, insubstantial asapa-
geant yet beautiful as the gleaming sea whose
silver surf broke on the sands. Soon we on-
tered the Narrows again and debarked at
Fort Hamilton, where our party dispersed.
R. B. Sacwnax.
Brooklyn, N. Y., July 26, 1878.
‘ Minnie Warren’s Funeral.
The burial casket of Mrs. Nowell, ms
Minnie Warren, was of the size used for
children of ten years, and was of black
walnut, covered with blue silk velvet, and
lined with white satin. The mother held in
.her arms the little infant whose birth had
cost her her life, Six young ladies, old
friends of Mrs. Nowell, acted as pail-bearers,
and four young men bore the casket from
the house to the church. A great throng of
people attended the funeral, and the offerings
of flowers were utiful and numerous.
Among those'prc ' t with the husband was
Tom_Thumb,’his wife, and parents, brothers
and sisters, thcfilatter all large men and
women.
NORWALK,CCNNECTICUT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1878. .
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Hurlbull, Helyea & Seymour
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
Boom Nold, [up "31",]
GAZETTE BUILDING.
ALEX, s . GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church .
Teacher of
Plano-Forte, Organ and Musical
Composition.
Box 379 P. 0., NORWALK, CONN.
EDWARD T. PRITCHARD,
(Late with A. 1:. Bell a eoi, New York,)
Fashionable Tailor & Draper.
Dress Suits,- $25 to $35. Business
Suits $18 to $25.
Corner Wall and Water Sts., Nor-walk, Conn. 24
G. S. OOMSTOGK, M. D.
Homoeopathic Physician.
Office and Residence, Cor. MAIN STREET and
Ufa ION AVENUE. Office hours 7 to 9 a. m.. 12
to l, and 5 to 7. Slate at Glover’s Grocery Store
All orders will bepromptly attended. llm20
CHARLES W. MANY,
Surgeon Dentist,
worrwaur, coNN.
Ofiice corner oflMain and Wall Streets. Nitrous-
Oxide Gas administered .
G. B. COOL, DGE,
DENT SEE--
Successor to
Dr. Asa. Hm,
l? Goa administered for extracting teeth with-
out pain .
DENTISTRY
A 2' 11.4121) TIMES PRICES,
For Cash - No Credit 2
All work excutcd in the Best Manner, at my oilice
Corner of Main and Washington Streets,
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.
T. E. SWIFT, D. D. S.
The Norwalk Fire Insurance 00.,
Has now completed its
18th Successful Business Year,
And has not outstanding a Dollar of unpaid losses
or of claims for losses. ‘
NO SO ONO OOMPANY llSllllES AT [OWEN RATES.
WM. 0. STREET. Pres., SAM’L Li'xi-Is, Treas.,
GEO. R. COWLES,Scc’y.
[TABLES S. LOCKBVOOD,
Fashionable Draper and Tailor
AND
GENTS’ FURNISHIN G EMPORIUM.
Main Street,Norwalk. Conn.
DWARD P. WEED,
D R 'U G- G- I S '1'
Wall Street,oppositc Normal]: Opera Home,
A large and well selected stock of
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Pcrfnmer ,Patcnt Medicines, all kinds Mineral
Waters, orlet and Medicated Soaps. Flavoring
and HandkerchiefExtracss, Hair Brushes.Combs,
Sponges,ChainoisSkins. Stationery, Cigars. &c,,
and rs constantly adding to his stock all the new
and popularmedicines ofthe day.
'I‘NA INSURANCE Co. ofHARTFORD.
Incorporated 1312. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $6,716,893.77
Insuresagainst loss and damage by Fire.on terms
adopted to the hazard andconsrstcnt with the laws
of compensation. COWLES &. MERRILL,
Sole Agentsfor N orwalk and vicinity.
IEORGE N. RAYMOND,
Furnishing Undertaker,
No. 53 MAIN STREET, (Up Stairs.)
B. S. BLASCER,
Athis storcin
M ALI-03.305 BLOCK,
hasconstantly on hand,a general assortment o
Groceries, Crockery, Glass,
'Iln and Wooden Ware, Etc.
By devoting his constantperson a1 attentionto the
business he hopcsto merit public patronage
Dr. C. H. Kendall & Son,
DENTIBTS.
Are nowprepar-
ed to r e c e i v c
their patrons at
either Norwalk
Bridge or South
Norwalk. The
senior . partner
, 5- has taken rooms
_ g ' " o v e r Selleek's
Bookstore Nor-
_ walk. while the
- junior retains
the old office, Lender’s Block, South Norwalk.
Teeth extracted Without vain, and all dental ope-
rations performed at either office.
C. H. KENDALL, M.D.,
G. S. KSNDALL, D. D. S.
P. S. Dr. C. ILKcndnll wrlldevotc Mondays to
Ridgeileld.
John A. H oimeelcer,
B A KE R ,
FOOT 0F MILL HILL.
Broad,Rolls. Pies, Cakesflrnllers, &c.;balrcd
fresh everyday. Everything made out of good
materralsmnd bycarefu land compctcn fworkmcn
Try our Baking.
w. s. OU'lN-TARD,
General FIII'IlllllllILl Undertaker,
"OPPOSITE HORSE R. R.DEPOT
FOrdersattended to dnyor night. Residenc
Main Street,3 doors from Union Avenue.
NOW FOR YOUR WATER PIPES.
Wm. Glover Ar. Son,
Arc ready to putin your \VATER,ST EAM or GAS
PIPE, at very short notice and at as low" a. rate as
anyone. WROUGIIT AND CAST IRON, TIN-
LINED, LEAD PIPES, Sc" 01‘ every size and ile-
scription. PLUMBING in all its branches.
' LA WN MOWERS.
LOT OF SECOND-HAND LAWN
MOWEBS, taken in exchange for the
“King 01’ the Lawn,”can be bought at low figures
if applied for soon. They have all been put in
good order, and are about as good as new.
JOHN COITER, Norwalk Machine Works:
REAL ESTATE.
\/\l\l\/W erv
For Sale Cheap.
A VALUABLE manufacturing property. Foun-
. dry and Machine shop, for Marine and Sta-
tionary En inc work or general Machinery. Sit-
uated on W arf. Has also Rail Road connections.
Tormsreasonable. la. HILL. Trustee.
27 , South Norwalk. Conn.
For Rent very Low.
NEAT-LY and Newly Furnished Ill-Boom Cot-
tage, with all modern improvements cllgibly
situated in the Borough of' N orwalk. would be
ren'od for balance of season, for 850 per month.
Trees, ample grounds, and well of best water. So.
Inquire at office or NORWALK GAZETTE. 3t28
To Rent.
The First Floor of‘ a Dwelling House. with
kitchen, basement, etc. Apply to
R. L. ELLS.
For Sale.
A cosy comfortable Cottage on one of thcpleas-
antest streets in town, within five minutes
walk ol'thc Bridge or Churches. will be sold at
cost price. A portion or the purchase money can
remain on hood and mortgage. Price 815.000. En-
quire at this Office.
Farm For Sale In Danbury-
EIGHTY ACRES, two miles from village, on
main road, (near Lake lfcnosia). Splendidshade;
nice place for city boarders. Three acres in nei-
ries, nice young orchard; meadow, pasture, plow
and woodland, never falling springs. llolise as
good as new, barn and all necessary outbuildings
in good order. Will sell buildings with part or all
the land to suit: would exchange for city or vrl-
loge )roperty on sea shore between Stamford and
New aven, lt29 L. K. M., Danbury, Conn.
To Rent.
ART of a Ilonse, three rooms right in the vil-
lage. Enquire at this 011101}.
Wanted.
BREE SMALL FARMS IN THE ViCINITY
OF NORWALK.
Three Residences for-sale cheap.
For particulars enquire of
16 J. S. RANDALL, 1’, O. Box 68,
A Desirable Homestead for Sale.
HE valuable residence .of the subscriber,
pleasantly located on high .
Ave., in the Borough of Norwal . is offered for
sale. The situation is lcasant and healthy, com-
mandingjlue views of orig Island Sound pad the
surrounding country. Distance one mile from
Norwalk Brid e, and the same from South Nor-
walk depot. ouse 54x50; two stories and attic,
filled in with brick, and substantially built.
Rooms 18, with all modern imfirovcments, bath
room, laundry, stationary tubs, eebee’s cooking
range, hot and cold water, gas throughout the
house. The census dry, havmg stationary fur-n
ace, which heats the whole house. The attic is
spacious, and roof tinned. The house is in excel-
lent order bcing comfortable for both a summer or
winter residence. Suitable for any gentleman do-
ing business in New York and returning the same
day. Land about three-quarters of an acre, laid
out in lawn, fruit trees, and garden spot. A ply
to JAMES MITCHELL, Real Estate Agent,
walk, or to the subscriber,
A. S. HAMERSLEY,
26tf 255 Fourth Avenue, N. Y.
For Sale.
A Rare Chance.
A House, Barn, good Mill-rite and fifty acres
of‘land well proportioned in Meadow, Pasture
and Woodland: also.twenty-two acres of wood-
land all situatcd at the head 01‘ the Borough
Reservoir in the town of N ew Canaan, for sale
at a bargain. Inquire of Dimon Finch. George-
town. Ct., J amcs Mitchell or J. Beldcn Hurlbutt,
Norwalk. Ct. 2511
,Norwalk, loth day of J one 1678.
To Rent.
The sceondfioor of a house on the east side of
or-
Wcst Avenue, near the 2d M. E. Church, to a small
family. Borough water. Apply at the GAZETTE
OFFICE.
FARMS FOR SALE.
Enquire of
CHAS. COMSTGCK,
New Canaan, Conn.
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 High St.
f E. B. PRICE.
ll
Farm for Sale.
DWELLING HOUSE situated in the Borough
of Norwalk, with or without twenty-eight
acres of land; said land is suitably divided into
pasture. wood, plow and meadow land. For fur-
ther information apply at this Ofilcc. orofthe sub-
scriber. HARVEY FITCH.
Norwalk, January 14th, 1878. 3
. To Let.
Two Nicely Furnished Houses.
NE a Cottage, neatly furnished. with Hot and
Cold Water, Bath, etc. The other richly fur-
nished. will be rented to parties without children
on] . Both centrally located, and will be rented
to csirable parties at a low rent. Enquire at the
, GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale Cheap,
0r Exchange for other property,
One of the neatest,and cosiest little Cottages in
the Borough. Will sellto a good tenant for little
gfigrémoney down. 'Enquirc at GAZETTE OF-
Dcsirable Property for sale.
A Ver ydesirable place on East Avenue.
Also, a few choice BuildingLots situatedon
Osborn Avenue, forsale cheap.
Also, a nicely located House and Lot on Mer-
wxn Street near West Avenue, for sale at a bar-
gain. Euquire of '
. S. E. OSBORN, EastAvcnue,
tfll or to D. W.FITCH, West Avenue.
For Sale.
.F‘airStrect, above Catharine. The Houscis
' , . nearly new,wellburlt.convenientlyarrang-
ed. and will make a. comfortable and leasant
home f'oraf‘amily of average size. The ot 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 secures.
home. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE} 3U
FOR SALE.
TWO verydesirablcBuildingLotson WestMalu
Street. Apply at the GAZETTE OFFICE .
IEORRE WARD SELLEOK,
has constantly in stock at his new store,
No. 9 Main Street,
a choice and fine. assortment of
Groceries,
Provisions,
Flour,
Frau, &c.,
To which is c_ would invite the attention ofall who
Wish to purchase first-class goods at
Reasonable Prices.
DRIED BEEF. SLICED, A SPECIALIY.
BEST of HAMgfgg'HER WHOLE OR
1).
Drop in and see him at his new store
' No. 9 MAIN STREET.
Paris Green,
WHITE H'ELLEBORE.
KEARNEY PEST POISON, ANO
Kearney Cabbage Worm Destroyer,
FOR SALE BY
11. M. 8:. C. S. PROWITT, DRUGGISTS.
CHILDREN’S
.lillllllllilli.
Selling for
50 .GENTS
E. K. Lockwood’s
MACHINISTS can obtain TYPE
M ETAL at the
GAZETTE OFFICE.
round on East .
A House and Lot, in a healthy location on ,
OBSERVE 2
THAT
Bill IIIII
WILL BE
Sold for 75 ICcnts.
Our Dollar quality for 9°C,
A GOOD INGRAIN FOR 25 Cts.
ALL WOOL INGRAIN FOR'OO 018.
And all other qualities at a similarlowmte for the
NEXT 30 DAYS.
AN AUCTION LOT OF
Ottomans for 250.
. Some Special Bargains ln
HOSIERY
For ladies, Gems and Children.
A Good Assortment of
Ladies’ Suits.
Sui Umbrellas from 10 on In $3
A Large Line of FANS.
4-4 BROWN SHEETINGS AT 5 0T8.
Other grades at the very Lowest Prices, at
I. Dickarmai 8. 8011’s.
Washington Street,
South Norwalk, Conn.
THE SILENT TEACHER-
Annexed are a few testimonials from some of
our prominent educators. Read them :—
have examined with interest the Silent Teach-
er and can confidentially commend it to pa-
rents as designed to furnish a scource of instruc—
tion and amusement to children.
H. M. HARRINGTON,
Supt. of Schools, Bridgeport, Conn.
I know no method of instruction more natural.
simple and interesting, than that furnished by the
Silent Teacher. It might be used in our schools
101th admirable affect and is equally adapted as a
means of information and amusement in ”testam-
ILTO .
sly. . .
Pastor lstCong’l C irch. also Member ofiBoard of
Education, N o alk, Conn.
Ifully concur with Mr. Hamilton.
_REV. C. M.SELLECK,
Prln. Selleck’s Boarding School, N orwalk. Conn.
I am much pleased with the Silent Teacher. It
cannot fail to become a most efilcr‘ent educator, as
well as a. constant source of amusement.
. , . Dr. J. c. FITCH,
Prin. Hillside Seminary, Norwalk, Conn.
Th e finest thing in thcmarkel. No family where
there are children should be without it.
W. H. BOOLE,
Pastor lst M. E. Church.'South N orwalk. Conn.
A capital combination of amusemeni and in-
struction for young and old.
HOMER N. DUNNING,
Pastor Cong’l Church, South Norwalk, Conn.
The Silent Teacher, or method of teaching Ge-
ography by blocks,I heartily recommend as the
best in the World. It combines pleasure with
S B. UTTON,
profit. .
Prin. High School, South Norwalk, Conn.
I have examined The Silent Teacher and full
endorse its method of teaching. L. J. BLAKE.
I heartily approve of this commonsense meth‘
0d of teaching Geography. 8. T. DUTTON.
Priu. Eaton School, New Haven, Conn.
I heartily concur in the above endorsements of
the Silent Teacher. U. S. WILLIAMS,
Pastor 2d M. E. Church, N orwalk, Conn.
The Silent Teacher costs but 81.00 each and is
sold only by agents. The agent for this place
will begin the canvas here about the 25th inst.
One good agent wanted in every count . For
terms, kc.,address W. R. Price & Co., anufac-
turers. Mount Kisco, Westchester Co..N. Y., or
. W. R. PRICE, South Norwalk, Conn., for
six weeks only.
Free Reading Room.
HIS is a comfortable room fitted up for the
benefit of the pnhiic generally. situated on
east side of South Main Street. over Road’s J ew-
clry Store, Clark and Lane’s Block, nearly 0 pc-
site Railroad Depot, South Norwulk, 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 weeklics. and several
monthly papers 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 followmg prices :
1 Cup of Coffee, with crackers, -
1 Cup of Tea, With crackers, - -
Cocoa, - - - - ’
Brown Bread and Butter, - -
Sandwich. - - - -
Cake, - - - - -
Doughnuts, - - - -
Piece of Pie, - - - -
Crullers, - - - -
Ham, - - - - -
Pork and Beans, wrth bread and butter, 10 “
Stewed Oysters, - - - 15 '
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EVERYTHING
DOWN TO HARD PAN.
GROOFRIFS, ,'
VEGETABLES,
FRESH FISH,
FRUITS, 860.,
AT THE
Very Lowest Market Rates.
A full assortment constantly on hand, freshly re-
plenished every day, with '
Choicest Fruits, Best Vegetables,
and Sea Food.
Gomls‘dclivcred in any part oftown. Leave your
orders freely with
Dcmmon & Newcdmb,
53 Main Street, Norwalk.
AT
Quintard’s Furniture Rooms
will befound a complete assortment of
FURNITURE, &C.,
ucludingoverythingusuallyfound in a first-class
establishment, at Prices to suit the Times . Also.
a lawassortment of
CHROMOS, PICTURE FRAMES,
LooKING GLASSES, are. -
GlassPlates cltto anysizc. Repairingdonein the
best manner.at short notice. Also. old Hair Mat-
.trasscsmadeover as good as new.
E. OUINTARD'S SON.
TRY OUR
Orange Flavored Soda. Water.
M. s. c. s. PROWITT.
Rexxggval 3
C. W. BURRITT
Has removed to
Allen 8.: Price’s Building, foot of
Mill Hill,
opposite his old stand, where he is fully prepared
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PLUMBING: IN All. It: INANONES.
Special attention given to
Tin Roofing, Tin and Sheet Iron WWII: and
Jobbing. Gas If'z'ztures of all kinds III-pt
. on hand.
Nor-walk. J use, 1878.
RUBBER HOSE
E K. Lockwood’s.
vOL. LXI-NUMBER 3'2 '
Fronteur Dumb Animals,
Our Pets.
We. dying, fondly hope the life immortal
To win at last
Yet all that live, must through death’s dreary
portal,
A'- length have passed.
And from the hope .which'shines so bright
above us,
My spirit turns, .
And for the lowlier ones, that serves and
love us,
Half sadly yearns.
Never a bird is glad way safely winging
Through those blest skies?
Never, through pauses in the joyful singing,
Its note to rise? '
No: one of those who toil's severest burdens
So meekly bear,
TJ find at last of faithful labor's guerdons,
An humble share?
Ah, well! I need mt question; gladly
rather, ‘
I’ll trust in all—
Assured that not without our Heavenly
“Father” . I
The sparrows fall.
And if He. foldeth in a sleep eternal
Their wings to rest;
0: waketli them to fly the skies supernal—
He knoweth best? ‘
Manx SHEPPARD.
“ WA NTED.”
The world wants max—large-heartcd, manly
men,
Men who shall join its chorus and prolong
The psalm of labor and the song of love.
The time wants SCHOLARS—scholars who shall
shape
The doubtful destinies of dubious years,
And land the ark that bears our country's
good .
Safe on some peaceful Ararat at last.
The time wants ruinous—heroes who shall
dare
To struggle in the solid ranks of truth ;
To clutch the monster error by the throat;
To hear opinion to a loftier seat;
To blot the era of oppression out,
And lead a universal freedom in
And Heaven wants. scone—fresh and caps-
cious souls, ~
To taste its raptures and expand like flowers
Beneath the glory of its central sun,
It wants fresh souls—not lean and shrivelcd
ones;
It wants fresh souls, my brother—civil rr
rum.
If thou, indeed, wilt act as men should set;
If thou, indeed, wilt be what scholars should;
If thou wilt be a hero, and wilt strive
To help thy fellow and exalt thysdf,
Thy feet, at last, shall seem a thousand
hearts,
Each single heart with pyramid rsptures
filled—
While thou shalt sit with princes and with
kings,
Rich in the jewel of a ransomed soul.
New London’s Verdict on Co].
Walt.
In the course of a review of Connecticut’s
representation in Congress, the New London
Telegram says : The representative from this
district, :00]. John T. Wait, furnishes the
only redeeming feature in the present Con-
necticnt delegation in. the house. Being
the only republican representative from the
state, his duties have necessarily been very
arduous, for he has been called upon to
render services tomany outside of his im-
mediate constituency. He alone of allthe
members from Connecticut was qualified
by previous legislative experiefie for the
successful discharge of the duties of a con-
gressman. He has discharged those duties
creditably on the floor of the house, in the
committee rooms, and at the departments
attending to the private interests of his con-
stituents. He has not takena particularly
prominent part in the debate, but on prop-
er occasions he has spoken to the point
notably in the Colorado contested election
cases, in which his speech was the most ef-
fective that was made against the outrage
of seating Patterson. Certainly, judging
from the present delegation in the house.
Connecticut would command more influence
and respect at the national capital if demo-
crats were replaced by republicans.
Many improvements have just been made
in the basement of the Danbury Methodist
church owing to the efforts of the Rev. S. H.
Bray, pastor, and last Sunday he told his
people that a debt of $1,800 had been in-
curred. Over $1,900 were subscribed at orce.‘
The pastor gave a {sketch of the society’s
history from which we take the followirg:
“In the month of June, 1789, the Rev. Jrsse '
.Lee, known as a pioneer of Methodistism in
New England, visited Danbury. He staid
but one day, preaching two sermons in the
house. Only a few were willing to listen to
him, and the most of those attended through
curiosity. He was, probably, the first Meth-
odist to set foot in Danbury. Subsequenlly
other Methodist itinerants visited the village,
usually preaching a sermon; in- the court
. house, and then pushing on to other places.
It was not an easy matter for them tofind
food or shelter in Danbury. Dr. Jabezr
Starr is supposed to have been the "first to
allow a Methodist preacher to sit at bistable
or sleep in his house. Some of :the 'neigh.
boring villages were more willing to entertain
the men of ‘strange doctrine,’ and "thither
they would resort. In 1808 a small society
was formed in 'the center of this town.
Hitherto there has been a class in that part
of the town, now known as Starr’s Plain.
The society was organized under the pas-
torial charge of Rev. Noble W. Thomas.
In the following year the little society suc-
seeded in building a small plain house of
worship. .The members new number 690."
_
_ A bad marriage is like an electric machine
it makes you dance, but you can't let go.
In~ the opinion of the Fulton Times, a
patch on the seat of a boy’s trousers is
something new under the son.
‘ _A man having fallen down in~ a fit ina
tailor’s shop, an cn'vious rival said, “That's
the tonly fit ever seen in that establish-
men .
Our so-ealled ancestors, the monkeys,
‘ couldn't have been so ignorant, after all.
They were well educated
branches.
The catch of blucfish and bass during the
past week on the south side of Long Island
has been very heavy. ' The bluefish in the
New York market realizes but half a cent a
pound to the fishermen. '
The oldest inhabitant is generally a little
confused in comparing the state of the
weather, but meet him on the corner, and he
remembers that he was never so thirsty-as at
the present time—New Orleans Picayune.
It was a funny sight ‘to see the faculty
in the higher
and alumni of staid Trinity together, Twin;
bishops from three States in the rocession
Thursday forcnoon going up a‘in street
endeavoring to keep step to “Whoa Emma"
by the band—Hartford Post.
The female alligator has to look out sharp-
ly for her male when she is trying to raise a
hrood of young ones, for he will devour his
Infant offspring as soon as they are hatched,
if he can catch them on their way to the wa-
ter when they have cast of! their shells, and
in the water also, unless they are too quick
and their mother too keen for them. some
builds her nest near the edge of the water,
lines it with moss, covers it with sand and
leaves to hide it from the male alligator, de.
posits her eggs and then makes her own bur-
row or hole under the nest where she can
keep watch of it. '
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Norwalk Chronicler