WHOLE NUMBER 1623.
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1'1, 1879.
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Strikes. . ,
Strikes are quite proper, only'strike right;
Strike to some purpose, but not for a fight;
Strike for your manhood, for honor and fame;
Strike right and left, till you Win a good name;
Strike for your freedom and all that is Vile ;
Strike of companions who of the beguile.
Strike with the hammer, the sledge, and the
axe - .
Strike off bad habits with burdensome tax;
Strike out unaided, depend on no other;
Strike without gloves, and your foolishness
smother; .
Strike oil? the fetters of fashion and pride;
Strike where ’tis best, but let Wisdom decide;
Strike a good blow while the iron is hot ;-
Strike, keep striking, till you hit the right
spot. ‘ ' -
11*er 'Lantt’b Magazine.
Carrie Fans.
by MARY N. ransoo'rr. .
“I believe they’re poor as poison,” sai
Mrs. Stare, glancing across to where her op-
posite neighbor, Miss Fans. stood tending
her plants; “it’s a pity that old harridau
wouldn’t give up' the ghost and leave ”em
something handsome. But, you see, she cut
’em off, so to speak, when Mas. Fane mar-
ried. She was Mrs. Fane's half-aunt, and
had brought her up, though I’ve heard say
she had to earn everything she had, and more
too, waiting upon the whims of her aunt,
Miss Parrott; but when it came to marriage,
she took her own advice, and gave up Squire
Snow and his fortune and took poor little
Fane, the artist, who was alwas just going to
surprise the world with some masterpiece,
but who didn’t earn his salt; which sur-
prised nobody. 'But ‘the Whirligig of Time
brings in his revenges,’ I’ve heard; and after
Miss Parrott had given Miss .Fane up to
poverty and hardship, and pampered her
other niecesrand given them her eye-teeth.
what do they up and do, when they find she's
infer the small-pox caught on a journey, but
just leave her and the house to go to destruc-
tion together? Of course, Mrs.. Fane steps
in and takes care of her, and carries the dis-
ease home to Miss Carrie, who loses her
good looks by that means. I say, it's an un-
fortunate family. Miss Parrott never got
fairly over it, they tellme: you see itleft her
sort of broken, and she finally took to her
bed for good, and Mrs. Fans had tobring her
home, for she was neglected and snubbed by
her own servants in her. own house. And
how they live Heaven knows. The old lady’s
got money enough and to spare, but precious
little doesMrs. Fane see of it. Mrs. Parrott
pays her eight dollars a week for board and
attendance and what not—phys it grudgingly
and tells ’em they make money at that, and
they’ll have to answer for taking advantage
of a poor old woman’s necessities. But I’m
hoping she’ll leave ’em something handsome
yet, unless she’s got a heart of stone.”
“She is very feeble,” said Dr. Eustis Gil-
bert, with his eyes on their , neighbor’s win—
dow, “and very irritable. Miss Carrie is a
martyr to the cause." . .
“Yes, and how pale and. half-starved she
looks ! ” returned his landlady. “I don't be-
lieve they have half enough to eat: how can
they? It stands to reason. I’ve seen Miss
Carrie buying bif- apound of steak at. the
butcher’s time and again: how far would that
go, pray? You may rely upon it, it was for
the old lady's dinner: my cook tells me the
rest of ’em lives on mush and milk. Pretty
stuff for Miss Carrie to teach on all day and
watch all night! And just you look at her
gown, Dr. Gilbert, if ever you notice such
things—some men-folks don't; and all the
pleasure she has she gets from that handful
of house-plants there. Does anybody ever
see her at a concert or matinee, I'd like to
know? I’ve noticed that the very clothes on
the line were patched, and I’m not one who
looks after my neighbors’ affairs very sharp-
ly neither.”
“Lost all her good looks, has she P” thought
Dr. Gilbert, his eyes still wandering toward
his young neighbor.——“She certainly is thin
as a shadow and pale.” a spirit,” he confess-
ed aloud. .
“If Miss Carrie had somebody to cosset
and care for her, and lived at her ease, with
no harassments and nagging, she wouldn't be
so all~fired plain to my thinking, or blue and
pinched-looking,” continued Mrs. Stare. “I
sometimes long to ask her in for a good square
meal; but, Lor! they’re proud as Lucifer—
poor folks mostly are, you see—and it would
break their hearts to know that anybody sus-
pected they were needy. I did send in some
pie-plant once, just after I moved in the
neighborhood; it was the first of the season,
.grown in my own garden. They were much
obliged, you know, and all that, in a proper
way, but 1 saw old _Bucket, who takes the
swill in this street, carry it off in his pail a
week later,and I reckoned they couldn’t afford
the sweetning for it."
“From whom was Miss Parrott’s money
inherited?” asked Dr. Gilbert idly. “She
didn’t make it I suspect.” -
“Bless you! from her own father, to be
sure; and there’s the sin of it. Wasn‘t he
Mrs. Fane’s mother’s father, too, I’d like to
ask? and why doesn’t she have ,her share ?
I’ve no patience with folks who keep means
that doesn’t belong to ’em, even if it is left
’em in somebody’s will made out in spite.
You see, old lady Parrott and Mrs. Fane’s
mother were half sisters : she had other sis-
ters on her mother’s side, Miss Parrott had,
and thenieces who left her to the mercy of
the small-pox are their daughters; and ten
to one they’ll have the property, instead of
the Fanes, though it all came by the way of
Mrs. Fane’s own grandfather, Grandfather
Parrott. They say he was a crusty old fel-
low‘and took offence with his daughter’s
husband, Mrs. Fane’s father, and, never 'got
over it, but disowned the whole kit of 'em,
and left all his money to his eldest daughter,
that old Virago over yonder. But when ,her
sister died a poor widow, Miss Parrott took
her only child—that is, Mrs._ Fans—and
brought her up, as, I told you. Wasn’t it
cruel?” _ _
“Cruel enough,” said Dr. Gilbert, “but of
course she will make it all right in her
will.”
“Perhaps so, if her heart isn’t hardened
like Pharaoh’s. If Invere in your place, Dr.
Gilbert, I’d give her a hint.”
“It doesn’t seem to be my business to in.
terfere,”
“It’s everybody’s business to help the wid-
ow and the fatherless. Speaking of angels,
there she is now—Miss Carrie, I mean. They
want you, I guess: the old lady’s got an ill
turn: she’s always breathing her last and
frightening them half to death. Just ‘you
notice her poor little hands :' they are all
chapped, and you can almost see through
fem. n _
Dr,Gilbert did more than notice them when
he met her in the hall: he held One of them
in his own broad palm, where it trembled a
moment. It seemed to him, just then, that
he would like to keep it longer, but she drew
it away gently, and he followed her to the
bedside of Miss Parrott and prescribed a com-
posing drought.
“ Have you ever heard Staccato sing, Miss
Carrie? ” he asked as she let him out.
“Neither Staccato nor any body else, to
speak of,” laughed Carrie.
“The season is remarkably dull, as they
say; everybody, ‘with the exception of Miss
Parrott, is preternaturally healthy just now ;
so I mean to dissapate this evening. Stacca-
to sings here tonight. Could you, will 3'0“,
make the pleasure. greater by listening With
me?” Dr. Gilbert found himself _strangely
embarrassed in speaking to this plain, pover-
ty—stricken girl in the shabby alpaca, with
chapped hands and a certain pinched expres-
sion about the lips. But how the wan, col-
orless face brightened at the request! what
{warm tint suffused the cheek! how her
eyes deepened to violet and glittered almost
as if there were tears in them! while her
smile grew and faded. developing new ex—
pressions and shy dimples! No one, in all
her life, had ever offered her such a pleasure
before; and here was Dr. Gilbert begging
her to accept it as if it were a favor to him!
“I would give the World to go! "said Car-
-rie. “How kind you are! But poor mamma
has a. headache, and there is nobody but me
to look after Aunt'Parrott. Oh dear ! Well
I‘thank you very much: 1 am very glad you
asked me.” .
“I sha’n’t enjoy it half as miich without
out you,” he said.
Carrie had gone out marketing when Dr.
Gilbert made his next professional call on
Miss Parrott. . .
“Dear! dear l”. cried that lady, “you were
here only. Wednesday: do you think I‘m
worse? Feel my pulse, look at _my tongue:
I’m hot a grain weaker; my appetite’s grow-
ing; I’m good for some time yet. Yea dOn’t
feel anxious about me ? I’m an old 'woman,to
be sure, but creaking gates, you know, hang
long on their hinges.” .
“Yes," said Dr. Gilbert, “so they say; but
our breath is. in our; nostrils. If I had any-
thing I particularly Wished to do, any wrong
to write, any cherished plan to fulfil, I should
want to make sure of it before the breath left
them.” . '
‘ You'mean you‘d pay all your debts and
make your will if you‘were in my situation.
That's exactly what I’ve done. Now,wouldu’t
youlike to know how I've. disposed, of my
too often if I told you. Carrie's no, beauty,
butIhave knoWn money to gild a pliiiner
face.” ' ‘ ' V . '
more frequently than was‘necessary,‘ and had
the old lynx found it out? . . .- , -
“Your affairs are nothing'to me; Miss Par;
rott,”he saidgravely: “they are between
your own conscience and yourself. At the
same time, I must confess that‘I have no re-
spect for those who devise their estates to
Borriobo'ola Gha, and leave their relatives
as a legacy to the town. By the way, I
heard of a curious case the othe. day; a man
having come into a fortune thrbugh the
estate of his wife’s father, died, leaving her
a paltry portion of her own money, and the
bulk of it to his own sister and brothers.
There’s justice for you l”
“Blood’s thicker than water,” said Miss
Parrott peevishly. “Can’t you give me a
sleeping-potion, doctor ?”
And then he went down and met Miss
Carrie on the staircase, and asked if she
could spare the time and had the inclination
to drive into the country, where he had a
patient. “It’s a half-holiday at your school,
I believe: I am going to-dayiustead of to~
morrow, for that very reason.” ‘
What a charming drive it was through
the autumn woods, away from a sick bed,
from a ragged school, leaving all the dusty
and sorid cares of every day behind her!
What if Fortunevwere niggardly toward her
was not Nature rich in bounty? Leave
sorrow and trouble for to-morrow, but for
the present moment _it was happiness enough
to listen to Dr. Gilbert, to meet his kindly
glance, to know that he had thought of her
pleasure and-planned for it. ‘ That he cared
for her, that he was growing interested in
her, in any but a friendly fashion, that
he might fall in love with her, did not once
occur to her mind: she was simply alittle
pauper whom he pitied. She had only known
him since Aunt Parrott, having quarrelled
with her old pysician, had installed him in
the other’s place, and she had heard that
he was going to be married; and now, as
she drove byhis side and he favored her with
the familiar courtesy one accords to one’s
best friend, she found it hard to suppress
a half-formed wish that that fortunate and
probably beautiful woman did not exist.
As Carrie was preparing Miss Parrott for
the night, the latter said, “Now, you’d like
something interesting to read, I'll be bound.
Just take the key, the skeleton key— What
a hateful word! it suggests all sorts of
horrors. However, it unlocks my desk.
You’ll find my Will there: read it while
I drop off to sleep: it’s as good as a novel."
“I don’t want to read it,” said Carrie.
“Nonsense! you’re dying to get it this
minute. Read it aloud: perhaps it’ll lull me
to sleep." .
Without more ado Carrie produced the
document, and began: “I, Rebecca Parrrott,
being of sound mind, this sixth day of J one,
1860, do hereby-” ’ .
“Stop! What a mess you make of it!
1860? Haven’t I made a will since that?
My mind's growing cloudy: I must have
been dreaming, You found it in the desk ?”
“ch.” -
“Well, what are you waiting for ? Read.”
And Carrie read to the bitter end: then
the will slipped from her hands upon the
floor, and she before the slight blaze which
the autumn weather demanded in a sick
room—sat and gazed at, it with an air of
depression and hopelessness quite foreign to
ing the best of things.
“Only a string of gold beads,” she sobbed,
“and all my great-grandfather's fortune left
to strangers! Only a string of miserable gold
beads !” ~ .
“Hey? what did you. say?” asked Miss
Parrott, waking suddenly. “What have you
there, Caroline Fane ?"
“Your last will and testament,‘ answered
Carrie, picking it up. ,
“My last will and testament? Where did
you get that, you hussy? Have you been
ransacking my things before the breath is
out of my body ? Put it away safely.” '
“I mean to: I’m going to put it in the
n
rfiAnd take the bread out of your own
mouth? Don’t be an idiot, girl: lock it up
and put the key under my'pillow. I’ll see
Lawyer Equity in the morning.» There-l
bonfire it would make! House and ‘what
not all swept away in a single night by the
devouring element! It’s 'safe with old
Equity, if‘he is a slow coach. There! I
shall go to sleep now.” ,
While she dozed off again Carrie held
the will in the reviving blaze till it dropped
into shreds and ashes upon the hearth. And
crouching beside it till the brands were
cold and the gray dawning looked in at
thecasemcnt, trying to follow the tangled
clew of right and wrong, to justify error,
to make sure that her motives were unsel—
fish—that she needed the money not so
much for her own comfort as for “poor
firms,” who had struggled bravely through
‘ years of poverty, and merited justice-
wondering how it ,w0uld seem to have
enough to keep the wolf from [the door,
since, after all, this would only entitle her
mother to share her. grandfather’s estate
wondering if the one whom Dr. Gilbert was
going to marry would have resisted such a
temptation, or if he would have loved her all
the same—tin her brain seemed reeling,
for retribution had fairly overtaken her,
“The king shall have his own again!” she
cried, rising at length, benumbed and shiv.
‘ering. Had any one spoken, or was it the
echo of her [own voice through the silent
chamber? She turned quickly toward the
bed: Miss Parrott was sleep of the just, shall
We say ? .
“Yen had been watching all night ?” asked
Dr. Gilbert 'when he came softly into the
room sfter a hasty summons, regarding her
aggsrd sir; her languid movements; the
filthy lucre ? Ha! ha! you’d be coming here"
Had he been coming to see Miss Parrott ,
her, as if she had got over the habit of mak- -
good-night. Burn it, to be sure! What a.
alike with the other heirs of Miss Parrott-F»
dulness of her eyes, the'pallor'of her face,
white to her lips. -
“I had been up,” she answered, “not
watching. ,I was— -I was busy: that was
all.” ‘
“Had she seemed worse after I left? Did
you see any reason to expects change ?”
“No: she was somewhat confused atone
time-when she waked suddenly, but that
often happened.” The ashes and scorched
fragments of the will were still scattered
upon the hearthstone: when he had passed
down stairs she gathered them up hastily and
hid them away. ‘ '
“I wouldn’t have thought Carrie set so
much by old lady Parrot,” said Mrs. Stare
to Dr. Gilbert after having been over to
condolein neighborly fashion. “ThoughI
felt a sight more like offering congratula-
tians," she confessed. “She sat there with
a sort of absent look in her eyes, and when
you spoke to her it was as _if her mind had
been playing truant a thousand miles away.
If she’d poisoned the old lady she couldn’t
have looked more wretched. I've heard say
that money’s mighty unsettling. Maybe they
have told you that there aint any will. to be
means with all those hassles, who haven‘t a
right to a red cent."
“They have told me nothing,” said the
doctor, who was puzzled himself by Carrie's
mood.
“You were very fond of Miss Parrott ?"
he ventured to say when they met again.
“N o," answered Carrie honestly and_briefiy
as if the subject were dismissed.
- “Was it the near neighborhood of death,”
he asked himself, “which lent her that dis-
traught air, that frozen, impassive gaze, as if
the objects of today passed before the reti—
na without impressing themselves upon it,
or had the prospecl of sudden possessio
wrought the spell ?" .
Whatever the cause, she grew daily more
reserved and absorbed; one needed to‘ad-
. dress her twice before claiming her attention.
A deep unnatural color burned upou her
cheeks or left them as white as snow; her
eyes grew hollow and glittering, and a mouth
from the date of Miss Parrott’s death Dr.
Gilbert found her in a high fever.
“The king shall have his own again!" she
muttered, looking into his face with no au-
swering recognition. “It Was all our own,
yen know—no harm done, Oh, those ugly
beads! How big they’ve grown! as big, as
big as cannon balls! They will crush me‘to
death; don’t let them! Pick them up—one,
two, three—slippery things! pick them up.
How it blazed, tool a pretty bonfire, by my
life! Mamma’s grandfather’s. . There they
come again, those beads, yellow as gold.
Take them away; they're like a mills’tone
about my neck. I don’t want them; I want
_nothing—only sleep.” °
“Poor child 1” thought the doctor; “good
fortune has worked her ill. —Miss Carrie,
will you drink this-bfor me ?"
“For you ? acup of cold poison? 011‘, Dr.
Gilbert 1" with a gleam of intelligence,
quickly fading away. “Would the woman
he loves have done so if, it had been -her
great grandfather‘s ? Would he have loved
her just the same? Just a bit of paper to
make all this cell! If I tell Aunt Parrott
when she wakes she will see her mistake and
do better. How cold she is !—Aunt Parrott,
speak! speak! speak! Oh,‘ the beads! If I
tell him he will hate me, despise me !"
And so day after day, with occasional
gleams of consciousness, with confusedmut-
terings and references to some harassing
care, at which Dr. Gilbert could only guess,
the fever raged, till one morning she lay
upon her pillow weak as an ipfant, but sane.
“Where is my mother ?" she asked the
nurse feebly. . >
“Your mn‘ is takings nap; we won‘t wake
her yet. Can you taste a little wine,think ?”
“Am I very ill?” '
“I’m afeared you be, miss,” returned her
indiscreet attendant. “Your ma hasn't had
her clothes 0 .”
“I am better?” .
“Not that I know of ; I ain’t one of them
asthinks it best to hide the truth from the
patient. Who knowsbut a body may have
something to do or say before the great
change? And then, “betwixt the saddle and
the ground, if mercy’s asked mercy’s found ;’
andiwe all needs it.” '
“Am I going to die ?” gasped Carrie, mak-
ing a wild effort, as if she would move away
from _the Destroyer's grasp. - .
“Hush, child ! not to-day, not today;
Drink the wine, and you'll feel better. You
won’t go to-day, I reckon.”
“Not to—day ? Shall I die soon—to-mor-
row ?” .
“Who knows ? Your symptoms may mend
all at once. Don’t fret; you’ll not leave us
today; the doctor himself said as much.”
Carrie lay so still upon the pillow, like a
marble image of Silence, that Mrs. Wilful
thought that she had been .asleep, when she
spoke again: “If I am going—todie—soon,
I must see Dr. Gilbert. Make haste, please.”
Was it the mist of death or illness through
which Carrie saw Dr. Gilbert that gave his
countenance that ghastly hue, his eyes that
melting tenderness, as if suffused by unshed
tears ? She put out her hand as he approach-
ed, and smiled faintly, as. if the effert were
tee great for repetition. g,“Y0u would have
saved me—tf you could,” she said. “I thank
you ; you have always been so kind—nobody
was ever so kind to me.”
. “Who could help being kind to you ?” I
have been only kind to myself. I am afraid
I did not so much think. of you in my kind—
ness as myself.” . '
“But when the secrets of all hearts are
opened,” she pursued—“when the secret! of
all hearts are opened, you might feel sorry to
find I was not so good as you thought—not,
worth your kindness; and I could not bear
that you should have hard thoughts of me."
“Hardthdughts of you. Carrie?” repeated
Dr. Gilbert. with a quiver in his tone and a
great sob in his throat. “I shall never have
any but the sweetest, tenderest thoughts of
'you,’of whom I am not worthy 'to think at
al .” -
“You fancy so now; wait till you hear my
story. I must make it short, I am so tired !
But that dreadful money is not ours at all.
How much wrong-doing it has caused! You
must tell mamma. Aunt Parrott had left this
only a string of gold beads—-so-—I———burned
the will! She gave it me to read; I meant to
have told her, but in the morning- she was
gone. And then her nieces seemed so hard I
couldn’t-tell them, and the secret grew so big
I could‘s'carcely drag about with it.”
“You mighthave allowed me to help you."
“I was afraid. It was all so different
from what she would have done.”
(SWh'o ?"
“The woman—you—you love, you know.
But you will explain to every body,will you
not ? and set it all right, and let them have
the miserable money,and give my gold beads
to mamma ?” .
“You could not remember the date of the'
will, Carrie ? Don’t try if it does, not come
readily,” be asked. ‘
“1860. I can’t get rid of it; it’s burned
are in my japan box. . I remember the cor.
net with the date was barely scorched. "
“1860'? Could you bear a little good news?
_At least we must try the effect. They have
found allater will 'while' you wore uncon-
scious. Old Lawyer Equity, who was away
out West on a visit, happened to hear of
Miss Parrott’s death, hastened home and
brought forward a, will, , she had entrusted to
him dated 1865. -I don’t think we need ex-
plain to any one, Carrie. The will you
burned was already null and void.”
“Butit was just as wicked an..."
found ? So Mrs. Fane shares her grandfather's ,
into my brain. I swept up the scraps they
“I suppose so, but you have done penance
enough.” ‘
“Thanks. I am so tired! Perhaps I shall
sleep now.”
And Dr. Gilbert held his finger on her
pulse while she slept, and when he“ crept
down stairs in the gray of the.,morning he
said to Mrs. Fane, as he passed out: “Her
heartbeats stronger. She is going to live,
thank Heaven l” . ..
It was not‘till Carrie had been able to sit
up and take short walks across her chamber
floor on Dr. Gilbert’s arm that he‘ ventured
to say: "You have never asked about Miss
Parrott’s final will?" _
“I don’t care about it,” she replied; “I
can still keep school. I used to long so for
money, but I’ve outlived all that.” ,
“And there is another affair you have no
curiosity about. You once spoke of. ‘the
woman I love ;’ why don’t you ask me about
her?”
“Yes, I will. She is beautiful, of course ?”
“She has the sweetest eyes that were ever
seen. Why do you drop my arm ?”
“I must learn to do without it sooner or
later. - She is young and rosy, I know;”
“Just now she resembles a charming
ghost.” '
“She is very good, I suppose ?"
“I shall believe it when she agrees to love
me.” . .
“Oh, is sheso, hard to please ?"' '
"I shall think not if I please her. There!
I knew yov were too young to go alone.
The wilfulness of women! Since you disdain
my arm, it may seem presumptuous in me to
offer my hand—to the only woman I love,
have loved or shall love—even with my heart
in it i Will you take it ?”
“I like presumption—in some people,”
said Carrie; and Dr. Gilbert held her in his
arms and “kissed her cheek and chin."
And when Miss Parrott’s will was proved
Mrs. Fane had come to her own again.
From the New York Times.
Seth Green?s First Hunt.
m This oaxana wrnns roaTv YEARS AGO-
amuse A BEAR—THE ooxvnmaxca or
HAVING A Tana HANDY—A max or wonvns
—-vanv SENSATIONAL nxrnBraNon’s.
I have got a creek that has no fish in it.
It is a crick in my back. As I am confined
to my house, for want of something better
to do, I will try and give you an account of
my first hunt for large game. During the
summer of 1837 I was fishing for salmon
trout off Port HOpe, Canada, In September
two friends of mine, Marsh and Hews, pro-
posed that I shonld go back with them some
twenty _ miles from the clearing to their
shanty. The trail was mostly a blind one,
marked here and there by blazed trees: After
a long tramp we reached the shanty, and
went to sleep by a roaring fire. Next morn-
ing we had a good breakfast of rabbits and
partridges we had killed on the trip. Break-
fast over, we made our plans for the hunt,
and it was agreed that we should try and
drive the game toward one another. We
started then, traveling due west, with an
interval of some twenty rods between us. 1
had not gone far before I lost sight of my
companions. It Was a fine morning, the sun
was bright, and I followed shadows of
the trees, and supposed I going due
west. I did not know I was on the wrong
track until I had gone many miles to the
north of my comrades. If I had not met
with some game, following the shadows, per-
haps, as I had been doing, I might have come
back in the neighborhood of where I started
from. There was some game,however. At
about 11 o‘clock I saw a large black bear
looking right at me. I threw my eyes
up a small tree that steed near, and thought
if I missed the .bear, and he came for me, I
would make tracks up that little tree. I had
been taught to believe that a bear could not
climb a tree, but I was never more misin-
formed in my life,for they can claw up a tree
that isn’t more than three inches through. I
ran my eye along that tree and the rifle-bar-
rel, and pulled the trigger. The bear fell.
I loaded up again right quick, took another
look up that tree, and then went, cautious
like, toward thebear. Now between me and
the beast there were quite a number of small
trees, but Ikept.my eyes on them all the
time. Presently I got near the bear, and
dead for sure he was. He had fallen between
two small logs, andI had a hard time to pull
him out, as be weighed fully three hundred.
pounds. When I went to look at him, I
found my bullet had gone square between
his eyes, and that I must have killed him
stone dead. The arrangement ’with my com-
panions was,that if any of us killed any large
game, we were to fire, as a signal, three
shots as quickly as we could load. I blazed
away, but no answer came. The reason
was that was many miles to the north of
them. My position,” I made it out just
then, was pretty much as follows: Here was
aboy of 19 years old, 30 miles from any
house, with 300 pounds of bear on his hands
and only a jack-knife to skin him with. I
did skin him though,.took the hide and one
of the hams, and started for the blaze-line we
had gone out by. My load was dreadfully
heavy, so I had to rest most every 30 rods.
I kept on, though, until I thought I had gone
far enough to notice the blaze. But there
was nosign of a blaze. “May be,” I thought,
“I have gone past it." So I turned back to
look for it, but with no better luck. Then I
just made up my mind that I would go
straight by the compass, and I did. I walked
until it was most night,when I looked around
for a camping ground. I came across a big
log which would make a first—class back for
a fire, and 1 found a pine tree, full of dry
knots which stuck out so that I could use
them like rounds on a ladder and shin up the
tree in case wolves were prowling around,
for wolves were plenty in those parts. I
built a rousing fire and broiled some bear’s
meat, and had a prime supper. I lay me
down and was soon fast asleep, How long
I slept I don't know, but it must have been
some time, as my fire was almost out when
I awoke. I was kind of chilled with cold,
and set about raking in' theashes‘ to, get a
brand to start a fire again, but before'l had a
blaze I heard some kind of an animal nigh
me. This made me so uneasy that I guess I
must have built up that fire with one hand‘
and 'kept the other 'hand on the limb
of the tree. Just then the . animals “be?
gun to snort and stamp their feet, and I knew
thut they were deer, and that I need not be
afraid of them. Before I had my fire going
Well I heard a pack of wolves coming along
and the deer made tracks, but‘ the wolves did
not follow the deer, for they stopped 'short
near me, and commenced circling and cir-
cling around me at the distance of some
fifteen rods.
As my fire grew brighter the wolves
lounged off somewhat further.’ There they
kept going round in ’a ring, a-yelping and
howling only in that'dreadful way as nat-
urally belongs to a pack of furnished wolves.
I kept throwing chunks into the fire until I
got myself warm. Then I began to grow
sleepy. To keep me awake, I cooked bear
meat and eat it, until I couldn’t swallow a
morsel more. I found 'it Was almost impos-
sible for me to keep awake. Maybe it was
the cold that was benumbing me. I rubbed
tobacco in my eyes to keep them open. But
it was no use. Do what I could I went to
sleep, and when I’awok'e my fire was nearly
out and the pack cf wol'es» not more than
three rods from me, their tongues a-lolling
out and their green eyes blinked at me. I
saw my danger and seized my wooden poker
in one hand and a limb of the tree in the
other, expecting to draw myself up the tree
if the wolves tried to lay hold of me. My
a... luckily began burning, an! no sooner-
was it in a blaze than away scurried the
wolves, making a krrible-snarfing and bowl-
ing. The chances would lili‘c been dead
against me if I had been asleep five minutes
longer. Then, perhaps Somebody else in
hatChing. You may bet I didn’t go to ' sleep
any more that night, for it was nigh on to
morning before these wolves cleared out.
I started again for the clearing, which I
expected to reach by that night, but I was
of water since the morning of the day
before, save the little I had licked off the
leaves of the trees, when ,. a' slight rain had
fallen. My tongue just stuck in my mouth,
and was as dryas my hand. I traveled along
until three o'clock, when I struck'a little
stream of pure cold wator. 1 never- was
more tickled in my life. I was very much
~ pleased when I saw my first shad wriggle in
the eggs and batch out at- Holyoke, on the
Connecticut river,but it wits of small account
when compared with the sight of that pretty
stream. I thought when I lay down to drink
I would fill my mouth with water and just
spit it out, but I could not, it went-doWn too
quick, so I took a dozen great gulps before I
.was through. Then I made the woods ring
with my laughter. Then I tried V the water
again, and must have kept ,up drinking for
about an hour. f" ' "' ' '
After that I started- on, and had not gone
far before I killed a yearling buck. I cut off
as large a piece as I thought would last me to
eat while I was in the woods. It was a big
chunck of venison-you may be sure of that.
Seen it was dark-again. » I built me another
fire, turned in, bad a good sleep,with nothing
to disturb me. Next day I traveled until 8
o’clock, when I heard the sound of an axe. I
followed up that sound and found a man cut-
ting wood to burn and make ashes. The man
told me I was nine miles from the road. He
started me right, and I found it at last. It
was night then, and raining. I rolled myself
in my bear skin, and went-to sleep. About 3
' o’clock in the morning I thought I heard a
wagon coming along, and so it turned out. I
did not see anybody in the wagon guiding the
horse, so I stopped the team, and, as it was
going my way, I got in. To my surprise, in
the bottom of the: wagon lay a big man,
sound asleep. The large man was full of
some kind of liquor, and, as he was liable to
sleep some time, I took the lines and kept the
horse going. I had. as muchas sixteen miles
to go yet. Now, thought I, if I can get to
my jOurncy’s end before the drunken man
wakes, may be he will tell me .he isn’t going
so far as I want to go, and will put me out.
$01 kept pretty quiet, you mayzbelicve that,
pushing the horse all the time. It was day—
light after, awhile, and I arrived at Port Ha-
ven before my sleeping friend awoke. I was
getting out of the wagon as prudently as I
could when the man awoke, and, as he said
he wanted to go to Port Haven.‘it turned out
all right after' all. My two companions I
found at Port Haven. They were mighty
uneasy about me, and said they were prepar-
ing to go back and have a look for me. They
didn’t go. ' SETH Gauss.
. Rochester, Jan. 11, 1879.
Widow De Peyster’s Pastuao.
THE srra or a. s. JAFFRAY & oo’s.‘ s'rona sow
IN 1775 AND 1774 FOR £100.
Last Wednesday were put on record for
the first time at the Register’s ofiice two old
deeds of a piece of real estate in this city
one dated 1775 and the other .1784. The
first is “from John Charlton, physician, and
his wife, Mary, to Elizabetli‘Clurkson, widow
of Matthew Clarkson,” and under date of
February 14, 1775, conveys “for considera—
tioh of £100 lawful money of [the State of
New York” “all that certain pmccl and
piece of ground being part of the pasture
of Margaret De Peyster, widow, situated
near fresh Water, at a place formerly called
Calek cook. Said ground is designated as
a pasture of the estate of Margaret De Pey-
ster on a certain map of Manhatten Island
made by Gerardus Bancher, a surveyor, and
also as ‘Lott No. 3.’ It is bounded north-
westerly by _the Broadway; southerly by a
street 40 feet wide, to the south by the
‘N resh Water’ and northeasterly by Lott No.
4. It has in width, front and rear, about 38
feet and a length of about 350 feet”
The second deed is executed by John L.
Johnson, gentleman, and his wife Catharine,
to David M. Clarkson, merchant, and the
consideration is again £100; so that appar-
not risein price over hastily in those days.
It is possible that .the reader may not re-
cognize the widow De Peyster’s pasture as
up-town real estate. But such it was, being
all that tract or parcel of land now covered
by the wholesale dry goods store of E. S.
Jafiray &. Co., on the northeast corner of
Broadway and Leonard street, and very far
uptown indeed. When the first transfer
was. made, in 1775, it was the site of the
Charlton Tavern. " Later transfers of the
same property appear on records. In 1811
Rufus King conveyed it to Stephen Price
and Thomas Cooper, the former the manager
of the-old Park Theatre and the latter an
actor there. The consideration this time
was $18,000, which speaks well for the
twenty-seven years’ since 1784. The new
owners built tenament houses upon the
property, which, so long as they stood, were
known as “Cooper's houses." When they
were torn down the property was given up
to business purposes. _ It was last transferred
by Mr. W. E._ Lane to Jaffray & 00‘. Upon
examining the records a clear title up to
1811 was shown and it was to complete this
title that the deeds of 1775 and 1785 was
recorded.
. =52
MnxrcAN Bananas—All the social up-
heavals in Mexico for the past sixty years
have failed to mingle the blood of the In-
dians with the blue blood of a certain ele-
ment of their conqueors and descendants
of the conquerors. This is the guard element
which has had its own inviolate amidst the
surging passions surrounding it, amidst
temptations which nothing but the haughty
pride of race would or could have resisted.
There are two types-of gueras. The first
has some very distinct characteristics. ' The
face is spirituells, and has that subdued
expression which invariably results from
relgious meditation, and in color is white as
alabaster. The flesh is faultlessly white
tinged with a refined but healthy pallidness.
The eyes are usually dark, large and lustrous
raven’s wing. The teeth are perfect, and
white as snowflakes, The “rubias,” the
second type, are superb specimens cf woman-
N‘ood, and are so called because they have
auburn or golden hair, which in some in-
stances runs into a flaming rich red color.
The eyes are often deep blue, and soft and
entreating in their expression. The flesh
has a sunset tinge to ~it which indicate? a-
more warm and seasons nature than=that
of the pale-hued Women.‘ Near the town
of Agna Caliente, state of Sinaloa, there is
a village of rubias, the young women of
which are matchlessfiin their style of beauty.
Tall' and gracefull with richly. rounded busts
and symmetrical forms, and a step as lithe
and elastic as a fawn's, they move about,
the very symbols of the poetry of motion;
They have something in their manner and
style similar to' the higher classes of Russian
,women, and whom they greatly resemble.
The rubias', like the gueras, live mostly in
the interior, where the climate is more mild
and genial, while the dark races inhabit the
hot regions along the coast—Sm Francisco
chronicle. '- ' ‘ ' ‘
another country would have done the fish-.
mistaken. Now, I hadn’t had a single drop
ently uptown real‘> estate in New York did -
and the hair abundant, and as black as the'
NORWALK GAZETTE,
PIIILISHED EV!“ TUESDAY ”Gilli",
The Second Oldest tapes- in the State.
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AL'EX. s . GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church .
Teacher of
Plano-Forte, Organ and Musical
Composition.
Box 379 P. 0., NORWALK, CONN .'
0.3. Goons-en,
DENTIST.
Successor to
Dr. Asa. 11111;
H” Gas administered for extracting tooth with-
out pain .
(i. S. 00MSTO0K, M. ll.
Homoeopathic Physician.
Ofilce and Residence, Cor. MAIN STREET and
UNION AVENUE. Office hours 7 to 9 a. m., 12
to l, and 5 to 7. Slate at Glover’s Grocery Store
All orders will be promptlyattended. llm20
Hurlhutl, Relyea & Seymour,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
Boom No.4, [up stair-,1
onznrrn BUILDING.
EDWARD 1". WEED,
D _R U G G- I S '.I'.'
Fall Streetpppame Now-wall: Opera House,
Alarge and well selected stock of
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Pcrfumer .l’atent Medicines, all kinds Mineral
Waters. otlet_aud Medicated Soaps. Flavoring
and HandkerchiefExtracss, HairBrushes,Combs,
Sponges,ChamorsSkms, Stationery. Cigars, do"
and is constantl addingto his stock all thonew
andpopnlarmei icines ol'the day.
w. s. Q'UIINTARD,
General Furmslunu Undertaker,
OPPOSITE HORSE R. R.DEPOT
Ia'Ordersattended to dayor night. Resident:
Main Street,3 doors from Union Avenue.
The "small Fire insurance 60.,
Has now completed its
18th Successful Business Year,
' And has not outstanding a Dollar of unpaid losses
or ofclaims for losses. .
Ill sill!" “MFA" IISIIRES A'l’ MINER IAT
Wis. manner. Pres., S. E. Outs-rear), T'reas.
GEO. R. CowmasSeo’y.
ETNA INSURANCE Co. “HARTFORD
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual
Capltui and Assets, $6,716,893.77
Insuresagaiusthssand damage by Fire,on terms
ndoptcdto thehazard andconsistent with the laws
ofcompeusation. COWL‘ES & MERRILL,
- Sole Agentstor Norwalk and vicinity
B. s. BLASCER.
‘ At his store in
MALLORY’I BLOCK,
hasconstautly on hand,a general assortmento
Groceries, Crockery, Glass,
'11]: and Wooden Ware, .Etc.
By devotinghis constantpersonal attentiontothc
business he hopesto merit public patronage
HARLES S. LOCKWOOD,
Fashionable Draper and Tailor
AND
GENTS’ FURNISHING EMPORI UM.
Main Street ,Norwalk. Conn. .
W. & D. MITCHELL,
r:
a g :0
Plus 2.;
233*; 5.92
sfifig “.3.
-03.: Ange
s g 1‘«3 gr
s5;_n§,'§s-:
Stag-g ’32::
o g 6.52,:
‘rflz—>=’; a
“as: a—p.
2H0 " hi
23‘s 33%
D s is
..
new l-‘Illl vuun WATER PIPES.
Wm. Glover &. Son,
Arercady to fitln yourWATERSTEAMor GAS
PIPE, at vor hort notice and at as low a. rate as
an one. WROUGHT AND CAST IRON, TIN-
Ll E_D, LEAD PIPES,&c., of every size and de-
scriptron . PLUMBING in allitsbranches.
.1879.
DOWN TO HARD: PAN.
GROGERIES, _ “
* VEGETABLES,
- rEEss FISH,
rams, at,
AT THE
Very Lowest Market Rates.
A full assortment constantly on hand, freshlyre-
plenished every day, with
Ohoicast Fruits,‘Best ”Vegotablss,
' and Sea Pood.‘
Goods delivered in any part of town. Leave your
orders freely with
Dcmmon cf: Newcomb‘,
53 Main Street, Norwalk.
AT . .
will betounua completeassortmentof
PURNITURE:,fi&c.,
neludlugeverythingusnallyfound in a fll’stqflagg
establishment, at Prices to suit the Times . Also,
alarge assortmen tof ,_ . '
1.00er0. GLassns,‘&c.
Classmates cutto auyslze. Repairin‘gdonel tithe
best manner, at short netice. Also.old HairMat~
(raise smadoover as good as new.
E. oumrsnu's sou. .
. passed.
Quintard’s Furniture Rodmsv
GHR’OMOS, PICTURE Ensues,
M. POTTER,
DEALER IN
Pianos, Organs,
J.
Melodeons, Sheet Music, so,
mm mm nonwux, cons.
NEXT DOOR to SAVINGS BANK.
‘ I keep a large stock of instruments on hand,
and sell them on Monthly Instalments. Every-
body can have a Piano or Organ.
sour. AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED
WEBER’S, STANLEY Jr SON S, GROV-
ESTEEN & FULLER’S. HAINES
BROTHERS, VASE Jr SON’S,
P IATVOS,
and will furnish at short notice. Calland
see them.
_ 'oLp INSTRUMENTS
Taksn in Exchange for N ew-
Tuning ch Repairing
Done at short notice.
The Weber Piano.
A few extracts from the great number re.
ceived bg the most eminent musicians in the
United tates may not be inappropriate:
. I have'nevor seen a Piano which equals the
Weber Pianoforte. Geo. F. Bristow
' The Weber Piano occupies justly the first
rank amongst the Best Pianos. .7. N. Pattfion
The Weber Pianos cannot possibly be sur-
S. B. Mills.
I used the Weber Grand Piano because I
consider it the best in the world.
' Harry Sanderson.
The Weber Piano possesses everything that
can he wished. fox-in aPiano. G. W. Morgan.
The Weber Piano ranks foremost amongst
the best manufactured. William Mason.
The Weber Pianos stand first amongst the
splendid Pianos produced in this Country.
Clara N. Bfinkerlzof.
A ten years’ experience satisfies me that
the Weber Pianos are unapproachable.
John Zundel.
I would call especial attention to
THE ESTY UUTTAGE ORGAN
Beautifuuy finished in black walnut and rose
wood, combining more perfections than any
other in the world. Has taken more than ONE
HUNDRED AND 'FIFTY GOLD MEDALS AND
FIRST PREMIUMS, at Fairs and Exhibitions
throughout the United States. They are on-
dorsed by the highest musical authorities.
Certainly the best I ever heard. :"
; Geo. W. Morgan.
It is vocal, which is the highest praise that
can be bestowed on auyinstrument.-Geo. B.
Seymour, Musical Critic, N. Y. Times.
They are the best reed. instruments we have
xetlwitE—G'. d: J. H. Odell, Organ Builders
It is the ne plus ultra
—Prof1 E. L. Baker. ’
It contains sweetness and power in an un-
usual degree—Rec. Bishop bimpson, M. E.
Church. ‘
Language fails in adequacy to convey a
fair idea of the perfect enchanting power of
this instrument._—Independent.
Vastly'superior fro-anything of the kind I
have ever played upon'.— Wm. A. King.
The Esty Organs are without a superior.—
Geo. Jardine, Organ Bufkler, N. Y.
. No tremulo has yet been invented that will
in any way compare with this for beauty of
effect.— Wm. A. Johnson, Organ Builder.
It is not merely the best, but it is the only
mechanical reproduction of the human voice
which has ever satisfied me.—1t’ec. H. Riggs,
President of Northern New Y oflc Musical
Association.
of reed instruments.
J. M. POTTER, Norwalk. ,
Dr. C. 11. Kendall & Son,
DENTISTS.
Are now prepar-
ed to r e c e r v e
their patrons at
either Norwalk
Bridge or South
Norwalk. The
- ' . partner
has taken rooms
0 v e r Selleck’s
Bookstore Nor-
walk, while the
j unio r retains
the old ofliee, Lander’s Block, South Nor-walk.
Teeth extracted Without pain, and alldental ope-
rationsperformcd at either oflice.
. 0.11. KENDALL, M.D.
P s D C H KG.dS.l{iEllNIDlALL,D.D.S‘.
. . . r. . . en a W! (cvote Manda I to
Ridgefield. y
Superior Shoeing!
Sore-Footed, Interferng, and Il-
Condt oned Horses ’
Perfectly Shoat
T is notorious that more than half of tho ruined
. and desirable horses are rendered so by the
1 norance or carelessness of smiths in, shoeing.
he subscriber makes a. specialty of
HORSE SHOEING
and Will guarantee to give satisfaction to all who
may entrust him .wuh their work, whether the
animals’ heels are in a sound or unsound condi-
tion. Shop near Horse Railway Depot, Norwalk
28“ CHARLES E. MILLER.
Notice
. IS hereby given to the people of
. Norwalkgand vicinity that "one
‘ shoeing will be done in first class
style by WM.McCORMACK. None
but hand made Shoes used: Work done on most
reasonable terms, and particular attention paidto
lnterlcrin and Over-reaching Horses at the old
stand of M. AHEBN,Main Street. Norwalk.
Look and See
‘AZHERE you can get your work done. Any
thing in the line of
BLACKSMITH-ING
at short notice and as reasonable as_ any where in
town. Horse and 0x Shoeing a specialty. Wheel
erfillting and Painting done by an experienced
wor 'man. At the old stand of Geo. Lloyd.
16 . . GEO. W. ILNAPP.
Rezngval :
o. w. BURRITT
Has removed to,
Allen & Price’s Building, foot of
, Mill Hill,
opposite his old standiwhere he is fully prepared
0 o
PLUMBING II All ITS BBAIGHE‘S.
Special attention given 0
Tin Roofing, T517. and Sheet Iron W rib and
Jobbing. Gas li'mtures of all kinds kept
on hand. -
Norwalk.June,ls78. \-
Furs! Fursll Furs!!!
SEAL Skin Sacqucs made to order, lengthened
made over, refined and repaired, also all
other Furs for sale and repaired by MRS. C. J.
TAYLOR. Norwnlk. Conn.
BUFFALO and FANCY ROBES
For sale, rc-liucd and repaired by _
46 C. J. TAYLOR, Main Street.
An Old Established Business
FOR SALE.
HE subscriberwishin .to change his business
T will sell his Stock in rude, Tools_,Good Will,
and everything pertaining to the business, which
has been established 25 years. Also the property
corner “$11 1?“: gfghpsr’llgc Sreets. .
a e . .
no” , ’ ’ GEO. minimum .
J ohm. A. Honnocker,
B .A. K EfR.
room or MILL HILL.
Bread,Rolls .Ptes, Cakes,0rullers, Sioubuked
fresh-everyday; Everything made outol good
materialsmnd hyc nrefu land competea [wot k men.
moor Baking. ,
For Sale.
THE best Alolerncy Cow in Fairjleld County. is
' atheronghbred and gives_.nul-k all_ winter.
Will be sold for $200.00 if applied for wnhm the
next two weeks. Enquire at the GAZETTE 0r-
s‘mE. em
.\1’ righting Dock
ii In
3E
home. ApplyatGAZliTTEOB‘FICE. ~ .
CHARLES W. .MANY
Surgeon Dentist,
nonwann, eons.
Ofleecorueror Mainsnd 'Wall streets. Nitrous-
Oxide Gas administered -
To the Ladies!
II E undersigned having had considerable ex-
eriepce ln shopping in N ew York IS. pre-
pare to give her personal attention to making
purchases for ladies at. the usual messeu errates.
. ‘or that pur one she will go to the ci y every
luesday, an oftener if necessary. Buying for
Milltncrs and Dress Makers a specialty. Orders
caubc left at any time at Thorpe’sConfectlonery,
Mam Street, where she will be in personulatteu-
dance on Monday afternoons. from 2 to 7.
3:52 MBS._E. L. ELY.
WILLIAM B.'RIDER.' f
ENGINEER AND. SUBVEYUB.
Personal attention given to all kinds of
Hydraulic Works, Engineering, Mili-
orlr, Sec. Agent
for a min otMuchlneI-y.
Ordersleft at the GAZETTE Office, or by mail
wrll receive prompt attention. 53
REAL ESTATE. ,
To Let.
Furnished or Unfurnished,
For one year, my House on East Avenue.
- CHARLES S. PROWITT.
For Sale. ‘
The place owned _by Rev. 0. ,W. Gates,
. @ fronting the north side of Union Park.
. . , ’Inqulre of JAMES MlTCHELL. .
Norwalk,Feb.3d, 1879. . 6
. To Rent.
ROOMS new vacant in the dwelling on the
south side of Lewrs Street. Chen ,—loca-
tion excellent. Inquire of C. P.TUBNE .~
Norwalk, Feb. 3d, 1879.
For Sale or to Rent.
HE subscriber offers for sale his HOUSE and
LOT, situated on West Main Street, in the
Borough of N orwalk. The place is pleasantly lo-
cated, In a good neighborhood, only a short walk
from the business part of the town, School,
Churches, etc. The House is near] new; conven-
lently arranged, and in good. can 'tion. If not
sold will be rented from April lot. For further
articulars apply to the subscriber at Cannon’s
. tation. or to G. a S. H. Holmes, Norwalk.
JOHN W. BENOUD.
. ‘
For Sale.
A HOUSE, Barn and other Buildings, with
about one acre of ground on corner of Union
and Eclipse Avenues. For further particulars en-
quire of Harvey Fitch on the premises, or of
3mp4 HENRY F. GUTHRIE, Norwalk. Conn.
.A. FARM
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN.
FIFTY ACRE FARM, smooth land. good
buildings, fine location. Or might trade for
improved Minnesota property; Address,
. “ ‘,”P.O,Box 49,
4th New Canaan. Conn
For Sale.
THE pleasant] located and wellbnlltresidence
corner Was ington and Spring streets, 80.
Norwalk lS offered for sale on accommodating
terms. For particulars,en uire of '
tf REV. D. R.AUST N,South Norwalk.
. DW’ELLINGS
AND
Building Lots.
SEVERAL dwellin s. various prices in differ-
ent portions of orough, either to let or for
salcst reasonable rices. Also several places
outside of Boroug limits—one in Wmnlpank.
Also several Building lots in and out of Borough;
ttt9 , Enquire at this Office.
To Rent. .
THE late residence of the subscriber. on 'Elm
Street. It has hot and cold water through-
out, standing wash tubs, complete bath room,
furnace, do. Also a barn for two horses.
EBENEZER HILL, .
- tfis South Norwalk.
‘To Let.7 .
A HOUSE containing 7 rooms ad a kitchen.
situated near the Post Office, Vest N orwalk.
dent 4 dollars per month. Enquire of J. M. LAY-
TON, South N orwalk, or of 11138 F.A:SELLECK.
West Norwalk. - . 45
For Sale or Exchange.
FOR property in Nerwalk or vicinity, 2 houses
in Brooklyn, E. D., within 5minutcs walk of
Herr-lee. Goodlocation. For articulars apply
to . . N ALL,
45 Box 63. Not-walk.
A Farm for Sale.
FARM of 76 acres, divided into five separate
. tracts,is offered for sale, either asa whole
or in separate parcels; it consists as‘fbllows:-
The Homestead of about 25 acres, with Dwelling
House, Barn and outbuildings thereon; A second
tract of 30 acres: another of 3 acres; one of 45‘
acres, and one of 1354 acres of woodland. The
whole isthe estate of the late LEVI SCRIBNEB,
situated on the Belden’s Hill Road, town of WI]
ton. Apply to B. GILBERT,
. Executor.
Wilton, Oct. 21st, 1878. 3m’43
Farm for Sale._
BOUT 12 to 13 acres within 1}; miles of center
. of Norwalk. Good situation. good house,
built of best material and by days work. About
80 chorce Apple trees with other fruit, good gar-
den, good well of water. and fine shade trees. Just
the place for a man wishing toraise Strawberries,
etc. Price 87,010. Enquire at this Office.
For Sale Cheap.
VALUABLE manufacturing property. Foun-
_ dry and Machine shop, for Marine and Sta-
tionary En me work or general Machinery. Sit-
uated on W arf. line also Rail Road connections.
Terms reasonable. E. HILL. Trustee.
27 . South Norwalk, Conn.
' 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 the pleas-
antcst streets in town, within five minutes
walk of the Bridge or Churches. will be sold at
cost price. A portion or the purchase money can
remain on bond and mortgage. Price 86.000. :12!!-
quire at this Ollice. -
A Desirable Homestead for Sale.
HE valuable residence of the subscriber,
pleasantly located on high round on East
Ave, in the Borongh‘of Norwa‘ , is ofi‘erfid for
sale. The situation repleasant and healthy, com-
munding_llue views of orig Island Sound and the
surrounding. country. In
Norwalk Bud-re. and the same from South-Nor-
walk depot.._ flouse 54x50; two stories and attic,
filled in With brick, and pubstantiully built.
Rooms 18, With all. modern 1m rovements. bath
room, laundry, stationary tubs, cebee’s cooking
range, hot and cold water, gas throughout the
house. The cellaris dry, having stationary fur-n.
ace. which heats the whole house. The attic IS
spacious. and roof tinned. The house islu excel-
lent order bemg comfortable for both a summer or
winter residence. Suitable for any gentleman do-
ing busmcss in New York and returning the same
day. Land about three-quarters of an acre, laid
out in la\_vn.1'ruit trees, and garden spot. Apply
to JAM as MITCHELL, Real Estate Agent, ’or-
walk. or to the subscriber,
A. S. IIAMERSLEY,
26tf 255 Fourth Avenue, N. Y
A For Sale.
A Rare Chance. . '
House, Barn, good Mill-site and fifty acres
oi'land well proportioned in Meadow, Pasture
and Woodland: also.t\venty-two acres of wood-
land all situated at the head of the Borough
tcservoir in the town of New Canaan, for sale
at a bargain. Inquire of Dimon Finch. George-
town, Ct., James Mitchell or J. Bclden Hurlbutt,
Norwalk. Ct. 25“
Norwalk, 10th day of J one 1878. _
FARMS FOR SALE
Enquire of ‘ .
CHAS. COMSTOCK,
New Canaan, Conn.
Distance one mile .fro
ll
Desirable Property for sale.
Verydesirable place on EastAvenuc.
Also. a few choice BuildmgLotssitnated on
Osborn Avenue, forsale cheap.
Also,a nicely located House and Lot on Mer-
win Street near West Avenue. for sale at a bar-
gain. Enquireof ‘
S. E. OSBORN . EastAvcuue,
tfll or to D.W.FITCH,Wcst Avenue.
For Sale. ' ,
A Houscand Lot.in a. health) location on
FairStreet, above Catharine. The .Houscis
nearly now. well built. conveniently arrange
ed, and will make a comfort-able" and pleasant
home for afamlly of average size. Theloteruns
_back to the river. There is a wellot'o‘xcollent
water on the-place, and . Borough water in the
Street. Price low.aml part of the money can re-
mum on mortgage.
8t!
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For: SALE.
r 1W0verydcsirableBuildincLotsouWéstMain
Street . Apply at theGAZETTE OFFICE .
A line chance tosecurea‘
~ ' For The Gazette.
A sTRAY LAMB.
fl
at T. memsos'.’ ‘
Try to forget her, or speak of her kindly,
thful and sinful although she may be;
On to destruction’s brink hurrying blindly,
Still is she dearest of dear ones to me.
0, for an eye that could watch o'er her ever.
, O, for a hand that could-lead her nright,
Alas! woe is me! I may meet her perhaps
never,
But her mem’ry dwells with me by day
and by night. ' .
' Sad, sad, it seems for the bud to be blighted,
Just as its leaves are displaying its charms;
Beauties now worshiped, how soon to be
slighted, , ‘
Blossoms of hope, bearing fruits of alarm.
Could she but know the sad fate she is seek-
ing! '
, Could she but know half the anguish I feel,
Could she but see the fond heartshe in break-
ing. . ' '
She could not be deaf to a mother‘s appeal.
Try to forget her or lovingly name her,
Wound not a heart that is bursting with
woe '; . '
Though she forsake me, yet will I not blame
heli, '
My sufferings nonebut smother can know.
Mine was the voice that oft lulled her to
. "slumber, ' '
. j Mine werethe arms thatencrsdled honest,
Mine were the eyes that watched hours with-
‘ out number,
As she drew forth her life from the font of
my breast. - -
'l‘ry to forget her, or try to forgive her, 7
I God in his mercy may yet call her back.
Fate’s poisoned arrows may yet rest in their
. quiver, . > .
And her feet once more tread in avirtuous
, . track. .
All, all have sinned, temptations beset us.
Blame not the hapless young maiden that
falls; ‘
One is on high who does not forget us,
,But listens with joy when the penitent
calls,
WmNrrsux, On, Jan. 23, 1879.
The Song of the Camp.
.er. Taylor’s later poetical work has been
iu'a grave and high strain, and readers who
are familiar with it may not readily recall
_the lyric fervor of his earlier writings. - At
f the public banquet given to' Mr. Taylor at
Delmonico’s shortly before his departure,
E'x-Minister Pierrepont embodied in his
speech a felicitous reference to his first sc-
qusintance with Mr. Taylor’s poetry. He
had found a stray newspaper copy of 'Mr.
Tfsylor’s “Sting of the Camp," which he
asked Mr. Bryant to reproduce. This poem
is as follows :] >
“Give us a song !" the soldiers cried,
The outer trenchest guar'ding,
~ When the heated guns of the camps allied
Grew weary of bombarding.
The dark Redan, in silence scoff,
Lay, grlm and- threatening, under; '
And the tawny mound of the Malakof!
No longer belched its thunder.
There was spouse. A guardsmsn said:
“We storm the forts to-morrow;
Sing while we may, for another day
Will bring enough of sorrow.”
They lay along the battery’s side,
. Below the smoking cannon:
Brave hearts, from Severn and from Clyde,
And from the meter Shannon.
They sang of love, and not of fame,
Forgot. was Britain’s glory :
Each heart recalled a different halite,
But all sang “Annie Lawrie.”
Voice after voice caught up the song,
Until its tender passion
Rose like an anthem, rich and strong,
Their battle-eve confession.
Dear girl her name he dared not speak
‘ But, as the song grew louder,
Something upon the soldier’s cheek
Washed of the stains of pewder.
Beyond the darkening ocean burned
The bloody. sunset’s embers,
While the Crimean valleys learned
How English love remembers. '
And once again a fire of hell
Rained on the Russian quarters,
With scream of shot, and burst of shell,
And bellowing of the mortars!
And Irish N era’s eyes are dim
For a singer, dumb and gory:
And English Mary mourns for him '
Who sang of “Annie Lawrie."
Sleep, soldiers! still. in honored rest
Your truth and valor wearing:
The bravest are the tender-est,—
The loving are the daring.
The Day that the Baby learned t .
Creep. - 5 '
BY MARY amen D'vsns.
There were four of us—Ned-aud I,‘
And careless Kitty, and Baby May; ,
At early noon when the grass was dry,
We went to the clover field to play.
Ned was a giant, stern and gruff,
And Kitty and I were. ladies fair,
But dear little May didn't know enough
To do anything else but sit and stare. _
So we spread a shawl on the meadow grass,
And gave her an apple in either hand,
'And when we heard the giant pass, .»- -
We ran to hide in a cave we’dplanncd.
- '- Q
And what with hiding, and being caught,
An hour passed by us before we thought . ..
Of the baby under the apple-tree. .
There was the tumbled outspread shawl,
And near it the ripe red apples lay ;
The can, the basket, and—that was all ;
0 baby darling !. 0 baby May !
Pale were the faces I looked upon
Mine was paler than death; they said;
Oh, where had our precious lost one gone,
_ Or was she stolen or was she dead ? -
God was good to as three that day, , .
For under a hedge row, fast asleep,
We found our sweet little baby May,
The plague, which is devastating portions
of Russia, is traced to one shaw’l carried
hr me by a Cossack to his lady-love. She
wore it two days and then died, and from
lack of sanitary precautions the terrible dis-
ease was allowed to spread until half the
inhabitants of'the village were dead. The
epidemic spread from place to place with
deadly virulence, weeks of valuable time
being lost before the government exhibited
any energy in restricting it.- The plan adept-
ed is that of complete quarantine, prohibiting
all egress from the infected districts, ~the
unfortunate inhabitants Of which ~ are appar.
ently abandoned to their fate. A panic is
reported asspreading throughout the nation
among all classes. The German authorities
have prohibited Russian cars from entering
Germany, and are adopting other restrictive
measures to prevent the introduction of the
disease. The Ifoumanian government is
considering the question of prohibiting the
transit of Russian supplies to the Balkan
army.
Did any one receive any presence of mind
during the holida ift season—M66?
News. y E W
And that was the day she learned to creep! ~
And locked in dungeons, and getting-free, .
Norwalk Chronicler