Norwal-k-Gasétte.
Tuesday, November 12th, 1878.
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The Parson’s Horse Race.
BY MRS. Irknnra'r BEECHER srown.
(Atlantic for October.)
“Wal !-’ now this ’erc docs beat all! I
wouldn’t ’a thought it 0’ the deacOn.
So spoke Sam Lawson. drooping in a dis-
couraged contemplative attitude'in front of
an equally discouraged looking horse, that
had just been brought to him by the Widow
Simpkins for medical treatment. Among
.‘lazn‘s many accomplishments he was reck-
oned in the neighborhood an oracle in all
matters of this kind, especially by women,
a hose helplessness in meeting such emergen-
cies found unfailing solace under his compas-
sionate willingness to'attcnd to any business
that did not strictly belong to him, and from
which no pecuniary return was to be ex—
pected. '
The Widow Simpkins had bought the horse
of Deacon Atkins, apparently a fairly well
appointed brute, and capable as he was good
looking. A short, easy drive when the dea-
con held the reins had shown off his-points to
advantage, and the widow’s small stock of
ready savings had come forth freely in pay-
ment for what she thought was a bargain.
When, soon after coming into possession, she
discovered that her horse,if driven with any
haste, panted in a fearful manner, and that
he appeared to be growing lame, she waxed
wroth, went to .he deacon in anger, to be
only met with the smooth reminder that the
animal was all right when she took him—that
she had seen him tried herself. The widow
was of a nature somewhat spicy, and express-
ed herself warmly: “It’s a cheat and a shame,
and I’ll take the law on ye."
“ V'hat law will you take i” said the un-
moved deacou. “Wasn’t it a fair bargain ?"
“I’ll take the law of God,” said the widow,
with impotent indignation, and she departed
to pour her cares and trials into the every-
ready ear of Sam. Having assumed the care
of the animal, he now sat contemplating it
in a sort of trance of melancholy reflection.
“Why, boys,” he broke out, “why didn’t
she come to me afore she bought this crittur P”
Why, I knew all about him ,1 Thate’rc crittur
was jest ruined a year ago last summer,
when Tom, the - deacon’s boy there, come
home from college. Tom driv him over to
Sherbnrn and back that ’ere hot. Fourth of
July. ’Member it ’cause I saw the crittur.
when he comehome; I sot up with Tom;tak--
in’ care of him all night ; that "ere Critter had
the thumps all night,and he hain’t never been
good for nothin"siuce. .I telle'd the deacon
he was it gone hoss, then, and wouldn't never
be good for nothin’. The deacon he took off
his shoes and let him run to pastur’ all sum-
mer, and he’s hen a feedin’: and nussin’ on
him up ; and now he’s put him off on the wid-
der. wouldn’t ’a’ thoughtjt o’ the deacon.
Why, this hosS’ll never be no good to her;
that ’ere ’s a used up crittur, any fool may
sccl He’ll mahbe do for about a quarter of
an hour on a smooth road, but Come to drive
him as abody wants to drive, why, he blows
like my bellowsis; and the deacon knew it—
must ’a’ known it 1”
“Why, Sam,” we exclaimed, “ain’t the
deacon a good man?”
“Wal now, there’s where the shoe pinches!
In a gin'ral way the deacon is a good man-—
he’s considerable more than middlin’ good—4
gin‘ally he adorns his perfession. On most
p’ints I don’t hev nothin’ agin the deacon,
and this ’cre ain’t a bit like him—but there ’t
is. Come to bosses, there ’3 where the un-
sanctified natur comes out! Folks will cheat
about hosses when they won’t about ’most
nothin’ else. And Sam leaned back on his
cold forge, now empty of coal, and seemed
to deliver himself to a mournful train of gen-
eral reflection. “Yes, bosses does seem to be
sort 0’ unregenerate critturs,” he broke out,
-“thel’e‘s suthin’ about bosses that deceives the
very elect; the best 0' folks gets tripped up
when they come to deal in hosses.”
“Tain’t the bosses, boys,” said Sam with
solemnity. “Lordy mossy, the bosses is all
right enough—bosses is scriptural animals;
‘Elijah went up to heaven in a chari't with
bosses; and then all them lots 0’ bosses in the
levelatious, black and white and red and all
sorts 0’ colors! That ’ere shows bosses goes
to heaven; but it's mor’n the folks that hev
them is likely to, ef they don’ look out.”
“Ministers now,” continued Sam in a sold-
oquizing vein; “folks ollers thinks it’s 811th-
in’ sort 0’ shaky in a minister to have much
to do with bosses—sure to get ’em into
trouble. There was old Parson Williams, of
Nozth Billriky, got into a dreadful mess about
:1 boss. Lord massy, he warn’t to blame,
neither, but he got into the dreadfullest
scrape you ever heard on—come nigh to un-
settlin’ him."
“Oh, Sam, tell us all about it,” we boys
shouted, delighted with' the prospect of a
story!
“Wal, wait now till I get off this crittur‘s
shoes, and we‘ll take him up to pastnr, and
then we can kind 0’ set by the river and fish.
IIcpscy wanted a mess o’ fish for supper, and
I was a cal’Iatin' to git some for her. You
boys go and be diggln‘ bait and git yer lines ”
And so as we were sitting tranquiliy beside
the Charles river, watching our lines, Sam’s
narrative begun :—
“Ye see, boys, Parson Williams—he's dead
now—but when I was a boy he was one of
the gret men around here. He writ books.
He writ a track agin the Armenians, and put
’em down, and he writ a big book on the
millenium (I’ve got that ’ere book now ;) and
he was a smart preacher; folks said he had
invitations to settle in Boston, and there ain’t
no doubt he might ’a’ bed a Boston parish ef
he’d ’a’ hen mind to take it, but he’d got a
good settlement and a handsome farm in
North Billriky, and didn't care to move;
though, I s’pose, that ’t was better to be num-
ber one in a little place than number two in a
big up; any way, he carried all before him
where he was.
“Parson Williams was a tall, straight, per-
sonable man, come of good family—father
and grand’ther before him all ministers; he
was putty up and dOwn and commandln’ in
his ways, and things had to go putty much
as he said. He was a good deal sot by, Par-
son Wiillams was, and his wife was a Derby.
one 0’ them rich Salem Derby’s, and brought
him a lot 0‘ money, and they lived putty easy
and comfortable so far as this world’s goods
goes. Well now, the parson wan’t reely what
you call worldly-minded,but then he was one
0’ them folks that knows what’s good in tem-
porals as well as sperituals, and ollers liked
to hev the best that there was goin’ ; and he
allers had an eye to a good hoss.
"No there was Parson Adams and Parson
' Scranton, and most 0’ the other ministers,
they didn’t know and didn’t care what hoss
they hcd; jest jogged round with these ’erc
poundin’, pot-bellied,sleepy critturs that min.
istcrs mostly hes, good enough to crawl round
to funerals and ministers’s meetin’s and asso-
ciations and sich; but Parson Williams, he
ollers would have a boss as was a boss; he
looked out for blood, and when these ’ere
Vermont fellers would come _ down with it
drove, the parson he bed his eyes open and
knew what was what. Couldn't none of ’cm
cheat him On boss flesh; and so one time when
Zach Buel was down with a drove, the doctor
he bought the best boss in the lot. Zach said
he never seen a parson afore that he couldn’t
cheat but he said the doctor reely knew as
much as he did, and got the very~ one he‘d
meant to ’a’ kept for himself. ,
“This ’ere boss was a pceler, I tell you.
They’d called him Tammerlane, from some
heathen feller or other; the boys called him
Tam, for short; Tam was a great character.
All the fellers for miles round knew the doc-
tor’s Tam, and used to come clear over from
the other parishes to see him. ' -
“Wal, this ’ere sot up Cuff’s back high 1
tell you. Cuff was the doctor’s nigger man,
and he was nat’lly a drcfful proud crittur,
The way he would swell and strut and brag
about the doctor and his folks and his things.
The doctor used to give Cuff all his cast-off
clothes, and Cuff would prance round in ’em
and seem to think he was a doctor of divinity
himself and had the charge of all natur’.
“Well, Cuff he really made an idol 0’ that
’crc hoss, a reg’lar graven image, and bowed
down and worshisped him; he didn’t think
nethin’ was too good for him ; be washed and
brushed and curried him, and rubbed him
down, till he shone like a lady’s satin dress;
and he took pride in ridin’ and drivin’ him
’cause it was what the doctor wouldn’t let
nobody else do but himself. You see, Tam
warn’t no lady’s hoss. lilies Williams was
’fraid as death of him, and the parson he had
to git her a sort 0’ low spirited crittur that
she could drive herself, but he liked to drive
Tam; and he liked to go round the country
on his back, and a fine figure of a man he was
on him too. He didn’t let nobody else back
him or handle the reins but Cufl’, and Cuff
was drefful set up about it, and he swelled
up and bragged about that ar hoss all round
the country. Nobody couldn’t put in a word
’bout any other boss without Cuff‘s feathers
would be all up—stiff as a tom‘ turkey’s tail,
—and that’s how Cuff got the doctor into
trouble.
“Ye see, there nalilly was others that
thought they’d got bosses, and didn’t want to
be crowed over. There was Bill Atkins, out
to the West parish, and Ike Sanders, that
kep’ a stable up to Pequot Holler; they was
down a-lookin’ at the parson’s boss and a-
bettin’ on their’n, and a darin’ Gulf to race
with ’cm. ' .
“Wall, Cuff he couldn’t stand it, and when
the‘doctor’s back was turned he’d be off on
the sly, and they’d hev their race ; and Tam
he beat ’em all. Tam, ye see, boys, was a
boss that couldn’t and wouldn't hev a boss
ahead of him—he jest wouldn’t! Ef he
dropped down dead in his tracks the next
minit, he would be ahead, and he allers got
ahead, and so his name got up; and fellers
kep’ comin’ to try their bosses, and Cuff’d
take Tam out to race with fust one and then
another till this ’ere got to he a reg’lar thing,
and got to be talked about.
“Folks sort 0’ wondered if the doctor knew,
but Cuff was sly as a weasel and ollers had a
story ready for every turn; Cuff was one of
them fcllcrs that could take a bird off a bush
——master hand he was to slick things over!
“There was folks as said they believed the
doctor was knowin’ to it, and that he felt a
sort 0‘ carnal pride, scch as a'ministcr ought
n’t fer to hev, and so shet his eyes to what
was a-goin’ on. Aunt Sally Nickerson said
she was sure on ’t; ’t was all talked over
down to old Miss Bumminger’s funeral, and
Aunt Sally she said the church ought to look.
into ’t, But everybody knew Aunt Sally;
she was allers watchin’ for folks’ haltin’s,
and settin’ on herself up to jedge her neigh-
bors. ‘
“Wal, I never believed nothin’ agin Parson
Williams; it was all Cuff’s contrivances; but
the fact was the fellers all got their blood up,
and there was hoss racin’ in all the parishes;
and it got so they’d even race hosses on a
- Sunday.
“Wal, of course they never got the doctor’s
hoss out a Sunday. Cuff would n’t ’a’ durst
to do that, Lordy massy, no! He was allers
there in church scttin’ up in the doctor’s
clothes, rollin’ up his eyes and lookin’ as pious
as ef he never thought 0’ racin’ bosses; he
was an awful solemn-Iookin’ niggerin church
Cuff was.
“But there was a lot 0’ them fellers up to
Pequot Holler—Bill Atkins and Ike Sanders
and Tom Peters and them Hokum boys—used
to go out artet mcetin’ Sunday afternoon,and
race bosses. Yc see, it «was just close to the
state line, and if the selectmen was to come
down on ’em, they could jest whip over the
line and they could n’t take ’em.
“Wal, it got to be a gret scandal; the fel-
lers talked about it up to the tavern, and the
dcacons and the tithingmen they took it up
and went to Parson Williams about it; and
the parson he told ’cm jest to keep still, not
let the fellcrs know that they was bein’
watched, and next Sunday he and the tithing-
man and the constable they‘d ride over and
catch ’em in the very act.
“So next‘ Sunday afternoon Parson Wil-
liams and Deacon Hopkins and Ben Bradley
(he was constable that year) they got onto
their horses and rode over to Pequot Holler.
The doctor’s blood was up and he meant to
come down on ’em strong, for that was his
way of doin’ in his parish ; and they were in
a sort 0’ day 0’ jedgment frame 0’ mind, and
jogged along solemn as a hearse, till come to
rise the hill above the holler they see three or
four fellers with their bosses gettin’ ready to
race'; and the parson says he, ‘let’s come on-
quiet and get behind these bushes, and we’ll
see what they’re up to and we’ll catch ’em in
the act.’
“But the mischief on’t was that Ike San-
ders see ’em comin’, and be knovved Turn in a
minit—Ike knowed Tam of old—and he jest
tipped the wink to the rest. ‘Wait, boys,’
says he, ‘let ’em git close up, and then I‘ll
give the word and the doctor's horse will be
racin’ ahead like thunder.’
“Wal, so the doctor and his folks they
drew up behind the bushes, and stood there
innocent as could be, and saw ’em gittin’
ready to start. Tam he begun to sunflie and
paw, but the doctor never mistrustcd what
he was up to till Ike sum: out, ‘go it, boys 1‘
and the bosses all started, when, sure as you
live, boys, ’I‘am give one fly and was over the
bushes, and in aniong‘cm, goin'n it like chain
lightnin’, ahead of ’em all.
"Deacon Hopkins and Ben Bradley just
stood and held their breath to see ’cm all
goin’ it so like thunder; and the doctor he
was took so sudden it ‘s all he could do to
jest hold on anyway, so away he went, and
trees and bushes and fences streaked by him
like ribbins; his hat flew off behind him,and
his wig arter, and got catchcd in a barbcrry
bush ; but Lordy massy, he Couldn’t stop to
think 0’ them. He jest leaned down and
caught Tam round the neck and. held on for
dear life, till they come to the stopping place~
“Wal, Tam was ahead of them all, sure
enough, and was snorting and snufiing as if
he’d got the very old boy in him, and was up
to racing some more on the spot.
“That ’erc Ike Sanders was the impudent-
es‘t feller that ever you see, and he roared
and hawhawed at the'doctor. ‘Good for you,
parson,’ says be. ‘You beat _us all holler,’
says he; ‘takcs a parson for that, don’t it,
boys?’ he said. And then he and Ike and
Tom and the two Hokum boys they jest roar-
ed, and danced round like wild critturs. Will,
only think on’t boys, what a situation that
'ere was for a minister,-—a man that had
come outwith the best of motives to put a
stop to Sabbath breakiu’! There he was all
rumpled up and dusty, and his wig hangin’
in the bushes, and these ’ere ungodly fellers
gettin’ the laugh on him, and all acausc o’
that ’ere hoss. There’s times, boys, when
ministers must be tempted to swear, if there
ain’t preventin’ grace, and this was one of
them times to Parson Williams. They say he
got red in the face and looked as if he should
bust b at he didn’t say nothin’; he scorned to
answer,—the sons of Zeruiah was too hard
for him, and he let ’em have their say. But
when they’d got through, and Ben had
brought him his hat and wig, and brushed
and settled him ag’in, the parson he says,
‘Well, boys, you have had your say and your
laugh, but I warn you now I won’t have this
thing going on any more,’ says he, ‘so mind
yourselves.’
“Wal, the boys see that the doctor’s blood
was up, and they rode of]? pretty quiet, and I
believe they never raced no more in that
spot.
“But there ain’t no tellin’ the talk this ’ere
thing made. Folks will talk, you know, and
there wasn’t a house in all Billriky, nor inthe
South parish nor Center, where it warn’t had
over and discussed. There was the deacon,
and Ben Bradley was there to witness and
show jest how the thing was, and that the
doctor was jest in the way of his duty; but
folks said it made a great scandal, that a
minister hadn’t no business to have that kind
0' hoss,and that he’d give the enemy occasion
to speak rcproachfully. It reely did seem as
if Tam’s sins was imputed to the doctor; and
folks said he ought to sell Tam right away and
get a sober minister’s hoss. .
“But Others said it was Cuff that had got
Tam into bad ways,and they do say that Cuff
had to catch it pretty lively when the doctor
come to settle with him. Cuff thought his
time had come sure enough, and was so scart
that he turned blacker‘n ever; he got enough
to cure him 0' boss racin’ for one while. But
Cuff got over it arter a while, and so did the
doctor. Lordy mossy. there ain't nothin'
lasts for ever. Wait long enough and most
everything blows over. So it turned out
about the doctor; there was a rumpus and a
fuss, and folks talked and talked and advised ;
everybody had their say, but the doctor kep’
right straight on, and kep’ his boss all the
same.
“The ministers, they took it up in the asso-
ciation, but come to tell the story it sot ’em
all to laughin’ so they couldn’t be very hard
on the doctor.
“The doctor felt, sort 0' streaked at fast
when they told the story on him; he didn‘t
jest like; but he got—used to it, and finally
when he was twittcd on’t he'd sort 0’ smile
and say, ‘Any way, Tam beat ’cm, that's one
comfort.’ ”
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Letter from Brookl yn.
The indications of a revival of business are
increasing every day. New York has already
begun to feel the effects of the elevated rail—
roads, and more buildings are in process of
construction than there has been known for
many years. This apparently is the case also
with really all parts of the country. The
school book publishing business has shown
unusual activity this autumn. D. Appleton if:
Co. recently had an order to supply 37,000
volumes—one of the largest single orders
ever received by a publisher. The express
and freighting companies were as eager to get
the job of transportation as politicians are to
get a nomination for sherifi. This firm have
put forth a series of model copy books, with
sliding copies, which by sliding down the
page keep aperfect copy always before the
eyes of the young penman. There has been
a great rush for them. Although they have
been for weeks making 200 dozen a day,
they are 4,000 dozen behind in supply of or-
ders. The Appleton's have also issued a se-
ries of readers, edited by three gentlemen, of
whom one is Prof. Mark Bailey, of Yale.
They are very attractive books; the selection
being from the very best writers, and every
real improvement in such works having a
place. The influence of these choice pieces
of prose and poetry, thoroughly studied ac-
cording to the methods inculcated by Mr.
Bailey and his co-editors, can hardly be over-
estimated in giving to young scholars an
insight into life and a relish for the best
literature in the language. The demand fer
them is very great. The publishers have
been for the last six weeks binding 3,000 of
themaday,without being able to get ahead
of their orders. Some schools in the west
are substituting newspapers for readers; but
I am satisfied that such a series as this will
secure a better culture than the most careful-
ly chosen of our public journals.
American periodical literature has so great-
ly improved Within recent years as to begin
to rival similar publications across the water.
The North American Review, which was a
pioneer in American literature, still leads in
the department of solid and dignified scholar-
ship. Mr. Gladstone's recent article in it,
entitled “Kin beyond Sea,” has attracted
wide attention. He is frank to saythat the
United States will soon fill the place Eng-
land has so long filled of the leading com-
mercial power in the world. A paper upon
the French genius and poet, Alfred de
Mussel, appeared about the same time. It
gave some choice bit of poetry from his
works, which show that he was one of the
few who have proved that the French lan-
guage is susceptible of rythm, flow and
subtle spirit of poetic fancy, which give
English poets their peculiar charm. Most
French poetry is prosaic and flat. The
North American never was as bright, fresh
and timely as it is now.
Science has claims for all who wish to
keep up with the thought of the age. The
popular science monthly and popular science
monthly supplement, separate magazines,
have done more than any other to dissem-
inate intelligence upon scientific subjects.
These magazines are of great value, very
ably edited, full of readable articles, in.
teresting and important to every body. Of
course some of the. writers :advance‘ views
which it is impossible to accept without
more argument than they condescend to
give. The crcdulity of scientific people is
sometimes incredible. In an article bearing
the dame‘“0rigin of Fruits,” Prof. Grant
Allen undertakes to show us how I‘rints
have been developed according to the fash-
ionable theory of evolution. According to
him plants do a good deal of thinking and
planning. No proof is offered, we have
the mere assumptions of the writer. The
plant does something to “gain a point” in
the struggle for existence, it adopts some
contrivance “to head off a rival,” again it
is full of forethought for its posterity—a
orthy example, by the way to many a
head of human family,—and it is forever
devising the most cunning expedients either
to escape notice or excite attention, It
is hard to understand how an otherwise
sensible man finds this easier to believe
than that God plans and provides for this
non—sentient creation and lives on the
thoughtful parent of a dependent universe.
Appleton’s Journal is coming to fill a very
important place. Nowhere do we find better
stories, nowhere else so good sketches of
travel, or such beautful illustrations. Oc-
casionally it furnishes us a chapter of his-
torical reminiscences about life, manners
and scenes in some imperfectly known
section of our country, which for its poetic
suggestion of antiquarian spicincss is worthy
of preservation.
The Atlantic since it rolled its waves over
and swallowed 11p a whole Galaxy of liter-
ary brilliancy, has certainly not shown
signs of suffering because of its ample re-
past. There are re works of indigestion.
It has always exhaled the rare flavor of that
peculiar genius which emanates from Boston.
Full of the choice offerings of Boston wits,
it has not been national and not seriously
tinctured with any ism. W. D. Howell
has begun a new story—The Lady of the
Aroostook—which of course, coming from
him, will be read and talked about the
country over. “Certain Dangerous Ten-
dencies in American Life” excited so much
interest that the edition was exhausted and
a new issue hf the Atlantic for October
had to be ordered. The writer whose
name is not given. knows how to talk
straight to the point, but rather overdraws
the pictures and tries to alarm by an array
of evils which do not exist. He describes
the masses as almost heathenish in their
notions, ready to plot plunder and destroy.
For the state of the lower istratum of our
people, he blames the Churchgthe political
parties, the rich, the scholars, everybody
in fact but the Ingersoll tribe who_ really
have something to answer for in respect
to the unhelief and restless dissatisfaction
of certain classes. I do not believe that we
are, quite yet where the French nation was
when their revolution of bloody memory
broke out. More than all Godreigns. His
plans include the care of His Church and
Christian civilization. If we give up faith
in Him, we may as well give up the whole
course of humanity at once. These the-
crisis of today are worthy successors of
the delta of the last century—they aretry-
ing to save humanity by human means
without God or Christ. The same writer
sits forth in the November» Atlantic the
"Origin and Aims of the Nationals” and
evidently alarmed at the progress of the
Greenback Labor Party, a party which I
am inclined to think is providentially des
tined merely to keep the Democrats out of
power-and to melt away as soon as the
business of the country revives, which will
be? probably before the next Presidential
election. '
A want has been felt for a paper in which
articles upon the Church and upon ques-
tions connected with religious and social
development can be published. The Church
Journal, weekly supplement to the Church-
man, supplies this want. It is a repository
of valuable papers, whose authors are em-
inent here and in Europe. To the clergy
this publication is of especial value. It is
issued from the office of the Churchman,
New York.
Periodical literature for the young has
increased in quantity and improved in qual-
ity to a remarkable degree. For the very
little ones Mr. Shorey’s Nursery is the very
best. It’s pictures aregems, its stories cap-
ital, and the whole make up is in the pur-
est taste.
are little ones should have this widely cir-
culated Boston magazine, if the aim is to
have good well behaved children, with in-
telligent minds.
‘1 have mentioned only a very small part
of our periodical Iitegature, but it is clear
that 1f autumn days with their stimulating
air, and _lengthing evenings are again upon
us, the intellectual material to feed and
furnish pur craving minds is not likely to
be wanting. The class of people who love
ty food, more than fashion and dress, more
than idleness even, which last is the sweet-
cst luxury to most persons, is a large and
growing class, but a little money spent in
books can make them happy. -
R. B. Ssowpnu.
Brooklyn, N. Y. Nov. 1, 1878
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Taylor, Loursvilchiy. Geo. W. Hayden, Essex,
Middlesex 00., Conn, Sole Agents for the Eastern
States.
7 A DAY to Agents canvasslngt‘or the Fire-
$ side Visitor. Terms and Outfit Free. Ad-
dress P. O. VICKERY, Augusta, Maine. .
Infiltrgnanvjjysm, In sraur: at. In.
F A I R F I'E L D
FIRE:
INSURANIIII COMPANY,
South Norwalk "can.
Cashtalital, $200,000.00
AllBIS,Jlll.l, 1878, $313,000.00
Agences in all the Principal Cities and Towns.
w .S. nANFORD,Prelld on I .
11.1! (TURNER, See’y and Trees.
GEORGE WARD SELLEOK,
has constantly in stock at his new store,
No. 9 Main Street,
a choice and fine assortmentof
Groceries,
Provisions,
Flour, ,
Fruit, &c.,
0 which he would invite the attentionol‘all who
Wish to purchase first-class goods at
Reasonable Prices.
DRIED BEEF, SLIC'ED, A NPECIALIY.
BEST of HAllIgfllg'IlgigR WHOLE 0R
Drop in and see him at his new store
No. 9 MAIN STREET.
STEAM
SAWING & PLANING
Ban1l&Scm|l Sawing&Tuming,
MAN UFACTTREB 0 F
Doors, Sashes. Blinds, Mouldings,
Boxes. Packing Cases, \Vin-
dow Frames, &c.
. I have on hand tools for 150 patterns of Mould-
ings, and Will. when desired, make tools for new
styles. Constantly in stock
Pickers, planed and pointed, Fence
Rails and Trimmings,
BRACKETS of all descriptions, and WINDOW
FRAMES made to order at short notice. lNSI DE
TBIMMINGS got out ready to put up, from plans
and specifications. WALNUT and ASH WAIN-
SCOTING and FLOORING. TURNING of all
descriptions. ,
Kindlt'ng Wood Split and ready for use, put
up in Barrels.
BURR KNAPP,
Foot of" Marshall Street, South Norwalk, Ct
VI 1 T a r v 1 ‘
11111191. IIIE FIRE!
Everything: Fresh and Sweet 2
' AVING completely rellttcri andrcnovatcdthe
old and well-known PEOPLE’S MARKET,
lately damaged by fire, I am prepared to serve the
public with the Host the Market all’ords in choice
cuts or roasts of
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Lamb, Pork, the.
Also Fresh FRUITS and VEGETABLES in their
season. Every effort Will be made to pease and
satisfy patrons JAM ES 19. \VIXSON,
l'cople’s Market. 19 Main Street.
3|!
- CHILDREN’S stints
wear twice as long with either the
SILVER
0B “A. S. T. CO.”
BLACK TIP,
65.37 UPON THEM.
ARLOR STOVE FOR SALE.
Enquire of O. E. WILSON, No. 6 Gazette
Building.
Wm. Tr. SMITH,
Successor lo;- ’
WM. 0. STREET a 00;,
Nos, 16 and 18 Water Street,
Offers for sale,
AT BOTTOM PRICES.
either Wholesale or Retail, a lull assortment of
goods cmbracednnder the following denomina-
tions, suited to this market:
H A R D‘W A R E,
Carriage. Parts,;Iron, Agricul-
tmal Implements, Doors,
Sash, Blinds, Cut-
lery,
Mechanics’ Tools, Guns-8r Pis-
tols, Fertilizers, Painters’
and Artists’ Colors,
J ewett’s and
other
brands
White Lead,
Paints, and Lubri- ,
eating Oils, Valentine’s
Parrott’s and other Varnishes.
Norwallr, Sept. 10th, 1878.
“.‘l’l'"’“’°-°".'f.:" £5§53"-‘f.’l‘£‘3”'i"o’ii$€t -. .~ -- -
in N?v$?3l-£%om$l§ge in 011’s tars; 3&ng vol-. . JANUAR-Y. “ , . I ; Flag-BINARY. MARCH-_
Ilme.7001mges,001ul fingeengravmgs on steclandr . . , -. .i . ' ,. . . -. .
wood,co cred maps. xpencnced ngents,teaehers. .S M ‘1‘. W] TI .1: 5., s M .T W T F S s M 1‘ W '1' F 5
young men from the country and retired clergy- . . . . ., . _ ‘ . ; .
men will ”“hthiglihiilig tittlét‘l‘"i~tt°.'l§tti..t . ,.., {.1 . 3 4 “l5 .-... ._.,. 1 2 1 2 .
Kinetiigl‘siiggy (I’llply immediately t'o the pnbli'sher', ‘ 6 7 ' 8 9 10 11 t2 7 3 4 5 6 7 8 9i 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
tiENttl BILL, Norwich, Conn. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 ll 12 13 14 15 16 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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TRAVELERS' APRIL. MA . I JUNE.
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Secohd hand Instruments of first-clues mak- l4 15 16 17 18 19 20 I2 13 14 15 lb;l7,l8l 9'10 11 12 15 14 15
are, fully warragted, andlat prices tthplt D1151! 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 19.20 21 22 23:24:35 16il7 18 $9 20 21 22
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ufacturers and Dealers, 40 East 14th St.. N.
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SWEET - OCTOBER. .., NOVEMBER. I DECEMBER.
Eggedhmm pffis at Centennial Expotpflmih for S M Tl V; T F i i M T w T F S" S I; 15'} W T :3 s7
audaciousalacslrra. swans. - , 3 4 5 --;, 1 ~ 1 4 5
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tr‘sttjld‘f‘ssawtt and: terns... 1. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1o 11 12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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~~\ his (I n wol- g ,_ g ,1, ,f ‘
in all cases from
Carriages l
INGREAT
My own Patent Spring in connection
I Still hold my Porme
I BOILO THE BEST WAGON FOR
SAMUEL N.
, Carriages!
VARIETY
All the Leading Styles, ,2 and 4 Passenger.
ROAD WAGONS 0N BREWSTER GROSS SPRINGS.-
with J. C. Gould’s is acknowledged
to be the Best Low Down Spring invented.
r Assertion Good, that
THE MONEY IN CONNECTICUT.
ALL‘ WORK WA RRANTED.
BEECHER,
Corner Fairfield Avenue and Water Street, Bridgeport, Conn. 20tf
.HIIDDER’S PATENT
Go to the Gazette Office for your
lime Heals. Lfllifll Healsllll HBAIS,EIB. Ell},
PRINTED AND PUT UP WITH
BLUTTER TABLET.
JOHN E. SMITH,
F L O R I S T ,
EAST SIDE or MAIN STREET,SOUTI1
OF RAILROAD,
City of South Nor-walk, Conn.
Plants and Flowers at allsehsnns.
Flowers for Funerals furnished and
tastefully arranged to order at short
notice.
OIEANIINESS IS NEXT IO OOOIINESS."
G. A. FRANKE’S
Shaving and Hill 0101111 Salnlll
FOR A
Pleasant Shave,
A rustle Hair Cut, or
I Thorough Shampoo
CALI. AT
Mr. Franke’s Hair Cutting Saloon,
No. l GAZETTE BUILDING-
H‘Particularattention given toLadies and Child-
rca’s liair Cutting and Shampooning.fl
AT HOME TO EVERYBODY.
Hot and ColdWater Baths
Till WIIIiIIIS’ ITINIIIIIII
. .
FOR SALE ALSO,
Patent Alarm Mlltl Drawers,
Coffee Mi ls, Spice Mills, and Store
Fixtures Generally,
The Improved Type Writer.
Oscillating Pump Co’s Pumps
SEND FOR CIRCULARS.
FAIRBANKS .e 00.,
311 Broadway, New York.
For Sale by leading Hardware Dealers
HALE s~
1101111 or HDREHUUND 11m TAB
FOR THE CURE OF
Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Hoar-sane", Difficult
Breathing, and all Afl'ections of‘ths Throat,
Bronchial Tubes, and Lungs, leading
to Consumption.
This infallible remedy is composed of the
HONEY of the plant Horehound, in chemical ’
union with TAR-BALM, extracted from the
LIFE PRINCIPLE of the forest tree Acnls
BALSAMEA, or Balm of Gilead.
The Hone of Horehound sooruns AND
SCAT’I‘ERS all irritations and inflammations, and
the Tar-balm craansss [inn nears the throat
and air passages leading to the lungs. FIVE
additional ingredients keep the organs cool,
moist, and in healthful action. Let no pre-
judice kee you from trying this great medi-
cine of a amons doctor who has saved thou-
sands of lives by it in his large private practice.
N.B.—-—The Tar-Balm has no BAD TASTE or
smell. ,
PRICES 50 CENTS ‘AND $1 PER BOTTLE.
Great saving to buy large size.
“Pike's Toothache Drops ” Cure
in 1 Minute.
Sold by all Druggists.
O. N. CRITTENTON, Prop,
SMOKEBZESIARPDRDBPAB
Wagons for Sale.
1 New Lumber Box Wagon.
1 good second-hand Business Wagon-
2 second-hand Business Wagons.
Apply to MULLIN GS BROTHERS.
South Norwalhoonn.
ADVENT OF THE
Sewing Machine
' W0 N D E R
DON’T FAIL TO SEE THIS
Monarch Maul] of Perfection!
THE NEW
Vertical Feed Sewing Machine,
Manufactured at Watcrtown.N.Y. Eve body
especially ladies, are cordially invrted to ca 1 and
inspect the New Machine, and see samplesof work.
More beautiful and desirable than ever before ac-
complished, and utterly impossible for any other
Mac ine to duplicate. The Vertical Feed is the
hinge upon which swings this unparalleled suc-
cess, combining entirely newfeaturcs, winch make
the machine the most simply constructed; the
most easily operated; the most durable; and most
reliable, doing away with all tits, spells and bust-
ing. Though the new machine.
POSITIVELY LEADS THE WORLD.
and no living person would purchase any other
after seeing it, yet it will be sold at the recent
popularly _
Reduced Scale of Prices.
All come andinspcct its merits.
R. I. TOLLES, Agent.
Principal oflice at If. S. Rood’s Jewelry Store
South Norwalk. Machines and sample to be seen
at Iiarlcm’s Clothing Store, Nor-walk.
Spectaclespmsflllljj [all lllinlls olives
LAZARUS & MORRIS’S
onnnnnxrnn PERFECTED
SPECTACLES 81 EYE GLASSES.
Also, a large asset-mentor GENUINE PARA—
]!OLD or PEBBLE SPECTACLES the only kind
ever yet produced that do not t1rethceye.that
givcsaelear and distinctvision,and makes weak
eyes strong. War-ranted torhve years without
Oflense. Special attention given to fittingnear
sighted people . A lurgeassortmenlo f
OPERA and FIELD GLASSES
. AT
Wood’s Jewelry Store
UNDER THE OPERAHOUSB .
ELITE £51..
PREPARED FOR IMMEDIATE USE.
207 PEARL ST., NEW YORK.
From the thousands of purchasers of our PRE-
PARED PAINTS, we have yet to hear the first
Complaint. The reason is apparent. Our paints
have stood the test of cars, where all other
points; have failed in dnra ility. Their covering
capacrty, being eater than any other palpt, pre-
sents a practica item of economy. Ourpalnts are
guaranteed in every particular.— the consumer
assuming no risk. whatever, as we will re-paint
any building on which our paints do not prove
satisfactory; allowinguchoice of English B. B.
White Lead, or any other paint in use. For sale
by W. C. STREET & 00.,Norwalk. 21tf
To Business Men I
We have secured the exclusive right for
The Town- of Norwalk,
to manufacture and sell the HODDER
Pat. Blotter Tablet.
It is the most useful andeconomical device evel
gotten up for your use, having these
Great Advantages.
NO MORE “VINO BlOTIENSu
You can always have them just where you are
Writing;
The BIOIIGI’E‘WEGOVBIS the Sheet
and you’ll not blur what you have written by
proving the blotter;
It keeps your Stationery as if in a
Case,
saving sorled sheets, and the sheets are always
straight and right side up.and none will getlost.
ALWAYS A PAD FOR YOU TO WRITE
ON,
and the whole in one compact piece;
The Calendar always under your
Eye,
NO extra steps or twist of the neck to culeuate the
date and days.
. Applied, if desired, on any or all
NOTE HEADS, LETTER HEADS,
BILL HEADS, RECEIPTS,
NOTES, names,
And anythingintended to be written on,printcd
at this-oilice. Call and see samples.
Gazette Steam Printing Uffite
NORWALK.
POPE LEO 13th.
ONE HUNDRED CABINET SIZED
sale. Price 22 cents each, at
2|tl’ E. 1'. WIIITNEY’S, Gazette Building _‘
PHOTOGRA PBS, just received, and for
CQNVEKANCES
oamnuny av. NORWALK R. 3
FALL ,ABR,ANGEMEN T.
Commencing Oct” 311.1878.
nanny, 'rnanvs
LeaveNor-walk Bridge for Danbury
At 9 30, a. m. 480 p.m., 6 24p. m.
The 9 30 a. m., and 4 30 . m., connecting with
the She lug B. R. for Litehlleld, Also on Sat-
urday 1. le 6 24 p. m.
Lean cNorwalk Bridge forSouth Normal). .
At 7 33,3. m., 2 08 p,m., 6 54 p.m.,9 CO, '1. in.
Making closg connection wtth trains East and
West on N. L, N. 11.. do 115115.12"
Leat‘eDJn bury/o r N orwall: .
635, a.m., 100p. rn.; 4 57.p.m.
Freight’l‘raln at610 p. m.
L .W.SANDIFORTH, Supt.
IEVH O EILIIEW HAVEN llIAIITFOIIO RAILROAD
Trulnsleave South Nor-walk for New York at
125, (Washington Exp..via. llarlcm ltivor).347.
(Exp.), 4 32, (Exp.) 6 01)."l 6 34,‘ 7 34, 7 45*, (Exp.)
926,‘1030, (Exp) A. 01.,123", 255,!k (13pr 4 30,
(Exp.)5 03,6 24,1Exp.) a 55,905,( Exp.) l‘.M,For New
Haven, 1 33. (Exp.) 6 4'), 9 01, 928,(Exp.)10 48, A.
111., 12_11. (Exp.) 1 45. 2 18,(Exp.) 404, 4 18,(Exp.)
611, t. 46, 10 36, (Exp.) .2: 11 25, (Exp.) 1'. M. 107'
Springfield, 6 49 9 '28,(Exp.) A. AL, 1‘2 11, (Exp.)
1 45, 4 18, (Exp.) 6 46 10 36, (Exp) 1'. M. Express
for Boston, v1a.Springileld, 9 ‘28, A. M.. 12 ll, 4 18.
and 10 36, 1’. 111., via. New London; 2 18 and 11 25,
P. M., via. All-Line R.R..l 33, A.M., an11218,P.M.
B‘Oonlpectat New Rochelle with Harlem River
ranc .
01111110110111 Falls.
For New York
And Brooklyn.
Pdrc Only 35 Cents.
Excursion Tickets 50 Cents.
To NEW 1’0le and RETURN.
The Swift and Splendid Steamer
, “5.33;“.
. iiwgc - .15 La; .5" _
A M E R | C U S ,
Will make Daily Trips to and from New York and
Brooklyn Direct. Leaving South Norwalk at 7150
a. m., on arrival of Dunbury and New Haven Rall-
rpad trains. Returning will leave J cwell’s Dock,
h ulton_h‘erry, Brooklyn. at 2:30 p. m., from Pier 37
East ltlver, New York.at 2:45 p. m.,and foot of33d
St, at 3:00 p. m., as usual, connecting surely with
the Danbnry and New Haven trains. Passengers
and Baggag‘e conveyed to and from the Depot at
80. Norwai , FREE of charge.
The Refreshment and Steward’s Departments
will be under the personal management of A. R.
Eckert, of New York City.
WHITE’S PROPELLERS
Willcontinue to make regulartrips between Nor-
walk Bridge and New York, stopping at South
Norwalk to receive and leave freight. Freight
received from and delivered at the freight depot
of the Danbury At Norwalk Railroad. Produce
sold as heretofore. Freight at usual rates.
NurwalkHorse Bailwaylimeiahle.
COMMENCING JANUARY 31), 1878.
LEAVE NORWALK. S o. Nonwnnx
5 40 a. m. New York Accommo'n Q55 A-M.|
615 ,, N. Y. a N.H.Accom. 535 “
635 u 656 ..O
705 “ NewYork Accommo’n 725 "
725 “ N. Y.Ex. & Steamboat 7 45 “
745 " 803 "
8 03 “ 820 "
820 “ - 8&0 “
8 40 ‘ ' New llavenAccom’n 9 02 H
902 “ N.Y.Ac.dtN.li.Ex. 9‘28 “
92S “ 950 “
950 ‘I to 1‘0 I.
10 10 ‘ ‘ New York Express 10 38 H
1028 H New Haven Accom. 10 43 H
1048 H 1110 l'
1110 . 1130 n
1130 “ ll 50 “
1150 H New HaveLExpress 1210p .m
1230p.m.. 1255 .
1255 " New York Accommo’n 125 U
125 “ New Haven Accom’n 1 45 ..
145 “ 205 I‘
I 55 “ N.lI. Express. 2 20 .
230 “ New YorkExpress 256 ‘
256 at 3 20 N
3.20 n 340 u
3 40 “ New Haven Accom. 4 IO “
400 “ New Haven Express 420 “
410 “ New York Express 430 H
440 " N.Y.Accommodati.>n. 503 "
503 a 52-2 c,
522 n 5 4o ,
540 “ 600 I‘
5 50 “ N. ILAceom’n 6 10 ‘ ‘
600 “ New YorkExpress 628 H
628 “ N.Y.&N.ll.Accom 648 "
63S “ 656 U
706 “ ' . 725. t
725 “ 745 H
745 e 805 ..
805 “ 8 25 u
825 “ 845 “
845 “ New York Expres 9 05 I‘
905 “ 925 “
925 u 945 u
945 “ 1005 u
10 05 “ Saturday nights only, 10 25 ‘4
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
.. Meeker’s
NORWALK PACKET.
For the accommodation of the public, the Sloop
LADY JACKSON, Capt. Joseph S.Byxbee, will
hereafter make regular weekly trips between Nor-
walk and New York. leaving Meeker Brothers’
Wharf, Norwalk, every Saturday ni ht. Ro-
tnrnlngleave Pier 41 E.R..cvery Wednes a mom.
mg. Freight taken on board in New ork on
Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Produce sold and returns made in old packet
style. ‘Frcight at old Packet rates. Farmers in
aujomm g towns are mvxted to send their produce
by this Boat. A. J.MEEKER & BRO
Not-walk, May 6th, 1878. ‘ 19
PENNSYLVANIA
_RAII=ROAD.
GREAT THROUGH LINE
AND
UNITED STATES MAIL ROUTE
5
The attention of the traveling public is respect-
fully invited to some of the merits of this great
highway. in the confident assertion and beliel that
no other line can offer equal inducements as a
route of travel. In
Construction and Equipment
THE
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
stands confesscdly at the head of American rail-
ways. The track 15 double the entire length of the
line,ol‘ steel rails laid on heavy oak ties.wh1ch are
embedded in a. foundation of rockbullast eighteen
inches in depth. Ail bridges are of iron or stone,
and built upon the most approved plans. Its pas-
senger cars, while emlnently safe and substantlal,
are at the same time models of comfort and cle-
gancc.
The Safety Appliances
, ,in use on this line well illustrate the far-seeing
and liberal policy of its management,in accord-
' once with which the utility only 01‘ an improve-
ment and not its cost has been the question ol’con-
snicration, Among many may be noticed
THE BLOCK SYSTEM OF SIGNALS,
JANNEY 00 UPLFR, B UFFER AND
PLATFORM,
THE WIIAR TON PATENT S WITCH,
AND
THE WESTIZVGHO USE AIR-BRAKE,
forming in conjunction with a perfect double
track and road-bed a. combination of safeguards
against accidents which have. rendered them
practically impossible.
Pullman Palace Cars
Are run on all Express Trains
From New York, Philadelphia, Balu-
more and Washington,
To Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, 1n-
dlauupolls, and St. Louis,
Without Change,
and to all principal points in the far West and
South with but one change of cars. Connections
are made in Union Depots, and are assured to all
important points.
THE SCENERY
Of the Pennsylvania Route
is admitted to be unsurpassed in the world for
grandeur, beauty and variety. Superior refresh-
ment facilities are provided. Employees are
courteous and attentive. and it is air inevrtable
result that a trip by the Pennsylvania Railroad
must form
A PLEASIIB All) *MIMORABIE EXPERIENCE.
Tickets for sale at the lowest rates at the Ticket
Offices of the Company in all the principal Cities
and Towns.
FRANK THOMSON, L. P. FARMER,
GeneraUtlanager, Gen. Passenger Agl.
C. S. HALDEMAN, New England Agent,
10:} and 205 Washington St., Boston, Mass.
Free Reading Room.
HISlsacomlortable room fitted up for the
benefit of the public generally, situated on
east side of'South Main Street. over Rood’s Jew-
elry Store, Clark and Lane’s Block, nearly Oppo-
site Railroad Dopot, South Nor-walk. Ct.. It is
open from 9 a. m., to 9:45 p. m. The room 15 well
lighted, warm and comiortablea It IS suppllcd
with four dailies. two weekllcs. and several
monthly papers and journals. beside a. number
ot‘instructivc and interesting books.
COFFEE ROOM. ‘
There is a Coffee Room on the same floor and a.
lady in attendance from 0:1. m., to 9:45 p. m., to
serve HOME MADE articles mentioned below,
at the following prices :
1 Cup of Coffee, with crackers, ' - 5 cents
1 Cup of Tea, wrth crackers, - 5 ..
Cocoa, - - - - . 5 H
Brown Bread and Butter, . . 5 u
Sandwich. - - - . 5 u
Cake, - - - — - 5 u
Doughnuts, - - - - 5 a.
Piece ot‘l’ie, - - . _ 5 ..
Crnllers, - - - _ 5 u
Ham, - - - - _ 10 u
Pork and Beans, With bread and butter, 10 “
Stewed Oysters, - - - 15 n
Shipping 110 Merciallise Tats,
Printed or Plain
By the Dozen or Thousand, at Manufacturers
Prices, at the
GAZETTE OFFICE.
. , and glitter.
DISTRICT OF N ORWALKms. Probate Cour 1
November 2nd 1878.
Estate of SAMUEL erns, late of Noni-511.,
in said district deceased. .
'The Court of Probate for the Districtoi Norwalx
hath limited and allowed six months from the date
hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit
their claims for settlement. Those who neglect
to present their accounts, properly attested, wait-
in said ti me will be debarred arceovery. All per»
sons indebted to said estate are requested to make
lmnlcdlum payment to .
CHAS. II. STREET Administrator
3H5 with the will annexed.
A WATCHES.
A. (3. BENEDICT & 00.,
N 0. 28 Bowery, N. Y.
Between Chatham Square and Canal Street Sta-
tlons‘ N. Y.;Elcvatctt Railroad.
ESTA BLISIIED SIXTY YEA RS-
Ull'cra large assortment of" Foumcx lit Aauzmcax
. 1 .
Watches in bold and Silver Cases,
Glllll BHAIIIS, JEWELRY, STERLING SILVER'AID
SILVER PlAI’lD WARE, E'I'fl.,'
At extremely low prices. All goods marked in
plain ll 'urcs, and warranted as represented.
Wutc les carefully repaired by the best workmen.
We have no connection with uify other house
bearing the name of Benedict.
A. C. annmcr: WM. 8. TARBELL,
lton’r S.Fl-:i:GllSON. 3m25
C. 'i‘. leopard At San,
COAL, WOOD,
Masons’ lilatcrials,
C E M E N T P I P E
For Drains, Sewers, Wells, &c.,
V\l\
AN \va
At Lowest Cash Prices.
Drains and Wells Dug and Piped.
Also Sole Agent for
Patent Tinder Wood,
The Cheapest and Best Kindling out. Try it.
@‘Brancb Office at Spencer’s Jewelry Store.
Agents “’anted for
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An Extinct Race-.“The Soldiers
in the War ofth Rebellion”
At the decoration of the graves of the
Union soldiers in the National Cemetery
at Gettysburg. General B. 1". Butler deliv-
ered an address on “The private soldier
in the war of the rebellion.” It was a touch-
ing theme. There is always a wonderful
pathos in a speech or play of story founded
on a life that had ceased to exist. This is
the charm of “Uncle Tom's Cabin," this is
the power in Joaquin Miller’s “‘Danites,"
this must have lent tenderness and pathos to
General Butler’s address.
The “private soldier in the war of the
rebellion." He is dead. 0r lost. Stmyed
'or stolen, possibly. “’0 do not know where
he is, but he is not here. lie has gone
away to some place. Perhaps he has ceas-
ed to be necessary. Perhaps, if he were
here, he would be in the way. At any rate
be is not around. He does not. go to the
Legislature. We do not find him in Con;
gress. He is not eagerly sought asaean-
didate for anything. Nobody appears l0
know anything about him. Occasionally
he aWears on the pension _list, with one
leg, 9. wife and seven children, and eight
dollars a month. If flour takes much of
a rise, he will not last much longer at this
rate, and we will soon be deprived even of
the occasional glimpse we have of him.
It is asserted, and quite generally be-
lieved, that at one time he was quite numer-
ous, and was even considered rather con.
venient, if not, indeed, quite indispensihlc.
It was found that upward one hundred of
them were necessary in order to secure
more line commisisons for three eminent
and deserving men. When field commis-
sions for three even more eminent and great
men, upward of a thousand private soldiers
were necessary. One thousand! It seems
an enormous number now, when by con;
suiting the Congressional directory we find
there are none in all this proud Republic.
But twelve or fifteen years ago even that,
increditable as it may appear to us to day,
was considered a small number. There
were private soldiers and private soldiers.
There were even hundreds of thousands of
them. .
And they were useful. They dug trench-
es; they constructed long lines of breast-
works, and then, when an enemy came
within sight, they climbed over them and
went outside of them to fight. They work-
ed and 'watched and fought. (Io-operat-
ing with great and eminent men who have
since passed to their rewards in one office
and another, these private soldiers some.
times rendered very useful service in
winning great battles. Oh. they were use-
ful. Some historians have even gone so
far as to maintain that,without them the war
could hardly have been carried to a success-
ful termination. They were really quite
useful.
And now they are all gone. It seems sad,
looking back at the war, that none but the
generals and colonels and majors and line
officers should have survived its dreadful
ravages. Providence. ever mindful of the
wants of a great and growing nation, un-
doubtedly took special care of these great
men, and in its great anxiety that the coun-
try should not suffer from a lack of emi-
nent men kind of forgot the private soldiers
and let them wander. And so they are all
gone. Some of them got married and moved
out of the world, to settle upon tracts of
Government land, where the Indians could
get at them more easily. Some of 'them
went into business. Some of them are teach-
ing school. Some of them went away and
didn’t leave their present address. But all
the same, they are all gone, and it seems
dreadfully lonesome without them. There
used to he so many of them—Burlington
Halckeye.
American Mechanical Genius.
The London Times prefaces a long account
of the American mechanical display at Paris
with the following remarks:
"It may almost certainly be predictcd~of
any modern mechanical congress that -the
Amerieans will carry off' the palm for novel
and ingenious application of force to practi-
cal purposes, the substitution of mechanism
for hand labor in new and curious contrivan-
ces, which, to the amateur in such matters,
surprise as much by the new ways which old
problems are attacked as by the fine way in
which the work is done. The mass of inven-
tion and practical result from it produced by
the Americans within the century, and es-
pecialy the last twenty or thirty years, is so
important in results that it presents
an important problem in political economy—
onc especially interesting to Englishmen, as
American mechanism is an offshot from Eng-
lish, but an oflshot sopeculiar in its character
that mere heredity will not quite explain it.
A traveler in the new world-once said that
the most interesting thing in America was
its Americanism, and so we may say that the
most curious feature of American mechanics
is its distinctively American feature. As
mechanical science progressel,the greater and
more important inventions become elaborated
by, and the property of, the nation who push
that science furthest in its experimental
studies. The result is foreseen, studied, and
developed with method and certainty, and
great industrial revolutions are effected with
a certain and almost calculable progress. in
this process England has long led, and still
leads, the world, owing to favorable cOndi-
tions of capital and labor. Fulton built the
first successful steamer on American waters;
but all the latest and most important advances
in steamship building are English, and the
great mass of the steamers afloat are English.
The‘ first monitor was American; but the
puny craft of that construction across the
Atlantic would all go down before one of
the last English build; and though Rodman
and Dahlgren instituted the experiments to
which we owe most of the present knowledge
of the power of artillery and gunpowder,
English artillery has left the practical transat
lantic results out of the chance of competi--
tion.
“Yet in spite of this the activity and insight
of the American inventive genius develops
more that is new and practical in mechanism
than all Europe combined. The New Eng-
lander invents normally ; his brain has a bias
that way. He mechanicizes as an old Greek
sculptured, as the Venetians painted, or the
modern Italian sang. A school has grown up
whose dominant quality, curiously intense,
widespread and daring, is mechanical imag-
ination. It is not the professed mechanic or
ironmaster who invents, any more than the
schoolmaster or the farmer. As Tintoretto
left his dyeing to become a great painter, the
American, be he bank clerk, pedagogue,
backwoodsman or plowman,turns in his busy
brain some problem of his own, suggested
by his experience of ill or too slowly done
work, and like Archimedes in his bath he
suddenly finds it and rushes away with his
‘Eureka’ to some place where he can make
his model or get it made—more frequently
the former for want of funds to get it
made. There was a want the man had felt,
an idea to he worked out, and in his medita-
tion suddenly the thing flashed on him, and
is complete in all its parts from that moment.
The number of inventions, useful and use-
less, thrown off in this way in the course
Of a year, of which only a small proportion
attain the realization of the patent office, can
only be imagined by those who have lived
among New Englanders at home."
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ROMANCE AT .4 Boar RACE.—Tll0 marriage
of Miss Alice Evans, of Ithica, to Captain
Charles Summer Francis, of Troy, is a fitting
sequel to a romance in real life. In 1876 Mr.
Framers was a student at Cornell, and puller'
wrth the college crew. At one of thr:
regattas Miss Evans was one of the throw --
spectators, and became so enthusiastic
she forgot her closg proximity to the
lost her footing and fell in. The
Charles saw it, leaped from the
girder! her. He dwas lgtruck
ut , grace. an inte igence a
diateg fell in—love. Miss E.-
l
wedding trousseau is said tr - '
GAZETTE OFFICE.
$2,000. Mr. Francis is a- .:-'l\,' - ,j the
Hon. J. M. Francis, of the - : r " His
filither has gigs: him fa b81411!) * ' ence,
ee ty N up 0rte.-.~_
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