WHOLE NUMBER 1655.
A Dinner and a Kiss.
“I have brought your dinner, father,”
The blacksmith‘s daughter said,
As she took from her arms a kettle
And lifted its shining lid ;
“There’s not any pie or pudding,
So I will give you this—’?
And upon his toil-worn forehead
She left a childish kiss.
The blacksmith tore off his apron
And dined in happy mood,
Wondering much at the savor
Hid in his humble food,
While all about him were visions
Full of prophetic bliss;
But he never thought of the magic
In his little daughter’s kiss.
While she with her kettle swinging,
Merrily trudged away,
Stopping at sight of a squirrel,
Catching some wild bird's lay.
And I thought how many a shadow
Of life and fate we should miss,
If always our frugal dinners
Were seasoned with a kiss.
POTTRIDGE’S LUCK.
Mr. Thomas Pottridge, of Smallborough,
has been renowned in his native town for his
constant run of luck, so that at the age of
forty he was reckoned the “warmest” man
there—an Alderman who had been twice
Mayor of his city, a church-warden and a
very popular character among the fair sex by
reason of his being a bachelor. One or two
things more only were wanted to complete
his happiness—namely, a good wife, a nice
little estate in the country, and the honor of
knighthood. Mr. Pottridge wished to become
Sir Thomas Pottridge. Having long cher-
ished this idea, and resolved, indeed, that he
would not propose for the hand of pretty
Miss Lucy Dott, the banker’s daughter, until
he could make her a ladysbip, Mr. Pottridge
ended by thinking that he could best secure
his object by causing himself to be re-ele cted
Mayor, and arranging if possible that H. R.
H. the Prince of Wales should pay a visit to
Smallborough during the term of ofiice.
Intent upon the scheme, Mr. Pottridge came
up to town to call upon Lord Beaconsfield.
Lord Beaconsfield hearkened kindly to the
grocer’s prayer. Smallborough was about to
inaugurate some public baths. the first estab—
lishment of the‘kiud ever seen in the town,
and nothing could be more suitable than that
the heir of Thom should preside over the
ceremonial. “Truly," said the Premier po-
litely, when he had heard the Alderman
speak, “the cleanliness of the people must
always be a matter of interesting concern to
those who are brought into relations with
them. I shall be happy to take her Majesty’s
commands on the—aheml—public-spirited
proposal which you have laid before me.”
“If you manage it, my Lord, I should be
glad if the visit could take place some time
after the 9th of November next, for I shall be
Mayor then and able to see that the reception
given is a proper one.”
. “Ah, quite sol” answered Lord Beacons-
fieid, dropping his eyeglass, for he had
studied Mr. Pottridge through it and knew
the man by heart.
Leaving Whitehall,Mr. Pottridge sauntered
toward Regent street, and as hs walked along
life seemed rosy to him because of Miss Dott.
He began to stare into the shop window ad-
miring pretty things, which he was tempted to
buy for his love. He was turning over this
fancy and fumbling wistfully at the pocket
where ,, his check book lay, when suddenly he
beheld through the window a curious sight.
An elegantly dressed lady was seated at the
counter examining pieces or‘Brussels lace.
The shopman averted his head for an instant,
and she deftly whipped up a yard of the
costly texture and transferred it to her pocket.
The shopman spread over the counter a num-
ber of square, flat boxes containing handker-
chiefs, and once more turned away. Again
the lady‘s deft hand went to work, and a
couple of handkerchiefs found their way un-
der ber cloak. "Now that woman must have
capacious pockets, soliloquized the astonished
Mr. Pottridge. “She is a cunning thief,
anyhow, and I’ll just step in and warn the
firm."
He hesitated a moment, and while he hov-
ered about the doorway the lady came out,
escorted by an obsequious commissionaire
with medals on his breast. A footman, one
of a row basking on a bench like oysters,rose
and signaled to the coachman of ahandsome-
ly appointed brougham, who at once drove
forward. Evidently this lady was not an or-
dinary thief. She was a tall, dark person of
about thirty, superbly dressed and very hand-
some. Perceiving Mr. Pottridge and seeing
his glance fixed on her as she waited for her
carriage, she eyed him with aristocratic su—
perciliousuess, and thereby settled her fate,
for Smallborough’s Alderman, who coald not
brook the disdain of a shopliiter, hurried
into the mercer's and explained what had
happened, speaking in so excited a voice that
a number of customers heard him.
Great commotion was caused by his an—
nouncement,and the shopman who had served
her was quickly fired by the idea that he had
let himself he outwitted. Darling out of the
shop he accosted the thief as she was stepping
into her carriage: “Will you come back, if
you please ? There is some mistake."
“What mistake ?” asked she taming round
, with a flash in her eyes. But she grew ashy
pale.
"Come back, please,” repeated the shop-
man,a pushing young man,whose voice broke
from emotion. .
A small crowd had already collected and
the lady was obliged to retrace her steps; but
as she was about to enter the shop she slap-
ped her band into her pocket and let a piece
of lace fall onto the pavement. ‘_‘No, ma'am,
that won’t do," cried Mr. Pottridge, siezing
the thief’s wrist. “You’re going to pretend
those things fell by accident into the folds of
your dress; we know that trick.” And offl-
ciously acting as searcher, he plunged his
hand into the pocket, despite the lady’s strug.
gles, and drew out a second piece of lace,
three cambric handkerchie‘fs,tw0 pairs of new
gloves, one pair of silk stockings,and a lady’s
silk cravat. _ “Well, I never 1" Exclaimed
the pushing shopman, and there was a mur—
mur among the bystanders, including the
lady‘s own footman, who looked like a pow—
dered figure of consternation.
“How dare you ?" screamed the lady, pur-
ple with rage and mortification as she glared
at Mr. Pottridge; “I’ll prosecute you for as-
sault. I told the shopman here that I meant
to buy these things. Let the bill be sent to
my address: I'm Mrs. Pounceforth Keane.”
“Ah, I dessay,” responded the shopman,
“but I’m just going to give you into custody; ”
and running to the door he beckoned to- a
blue-coated member of the force.
One of the partners of the firm, a gray,
civil spoken man, who had been summoned
from his study, now. came forward . and he
was at first disposed to rebuke the haste of
his shopman but it was too late. The police-
man had already entered, and all the shop-
men and shopgirls, the customers and the
desultory people crowding aroundtbe door,
were instant in chorusing that the thief should
be made an example of. Mrs. Pounoeforth
Keane, seeing public opinion so dead against
her, uttered a howl, and fell swooning to the
floor.
"Never mind that, we’ll soon rouse her,”
said the policeman facetiously, for he did not
yet know that he had to deal with a lady who
kept a brougham. “The magistrate is sitting
now at Marlborough street; we’ll just go there
at once and have her charged.”
This arrangement was acceeded to, and in
a few minutes the lady and policeman (who
got abasbed by this time from finding him—
self seated onvthe silk cushions of a carriage)
were riding- to the police court in Mrs.
Pounceforth Keane’s own vehicle, while Mr.
Pottridge, the shopman, and the mercer fol-
lowed on foot to give evidence. ‘
I» n us it
One would think that in a case where the
offense was flagrant and the testimony so clear
the magistrate might have sentenced the de—
fendant straight off to six months’ imprison-
ment, and, indeed, had the thief been a per—
son of the lower orders. it would probably
have been her fate to have been convicted
summarily. But it turned out that Pounce-
forth Keane was the real name of the elegant
shoplifter, whose husband was a person mov-
ing, as reporters say, “in the best ranks of
society.” Mr. Pouncefortli Keane was sent
for, and arrived breathless in a hansom from
one of the best clubs in Phil Mall. At the
sight of him his wife, who had been locked
up for an hour in a police cell, wept pro—
fusely, and Mr. I’. K. was himself much agi-
tated. He asked for a remand and tender-
ed bail, saying he should produce medical
evidence to the effect that his wife had lately
suffered severely in health. The magistrate
—a timid man, who had grown up daughters
to marry, and was terribly afraid of society
—stammered out something like an apology:
and readily acceded to the application for
bail. So very soon Mrs. Pounccforth Keane
tattered out of court weeping like a victim,
on her husband’s arm; and Mr. Pottridge
walked away with the shopman and the civil
spoken mercer. All three were crestfailen,
as if they had committed a blunder. “This
will be a very bad afiair for me,” grumbled
the mercer. “I would have lost a hundred
yards of lace sooner than appear in court
against a lady like this.”
“Well, but she’s a thief,” cried Mr. Pott—
ridge, rousing himself and speaking with
spirit, “what harm can she or her friends do
you ?111
“Are you quite sure you saw her steal the
things?” asked the mercer, gloomily. “Be-
sides, supposing she did put them in her
pocket, she says that she told my shopman‘to
send her the bill.”
“I’m hanged if she did," rqulllllth the
shopman, indignantly.
“Silence, sir,” answered the mercer, with a
stern frown. “If this bereally a case of
theft, you are self—condemned, for you ought
to have kept your eyes about you. For some
time past I have noticed that you have been
very negligent in business.”
The shopman collapsed; as for Mr. Pott—
ridge, he trudged back to his hotel, feeling
half inclined to go and ask Lord Beaconsfield
what he ought to do. The case had been ad-
journed for a week, so he travelled back to
Smallborough in the evening, and by the
time he reached his native town he had worked
himself up into a state of contempt for the
mercer and the metropolitan stipendiary,who
scemed to draw a distinction between well-
dressed and ill-dressed plunderers. Meeting
Mr. Bungs, the brewer, near the railway sta-
tion, he gave him an account of what had hap-
pened, and was hearkened to with sympathy
until he mentined the name of Pounceforth
Keane; then Mr. Bungs pursed up his lips.
“Why, bless me, that’s the cousin of Lord
Kenysolc, brother—in-law of our Lord Lieu
tenant i"
“What difference does that make ?” stam-
mered Mr. Pottridge, like a man who feels
less sure of his ground.
“Oh, nothing, except that I don’t see why
a lady of that sort should commit robberies,"
responded Mr. Bungs. _
Further down the street Mr. Pottridge,wh
was rubbing his pate in rather violent per-
nlexity. encountered Mr. Dott, the banker,
whose daughter Lucy he loved. “Pounce-
forth Keane l” exclaimed Mr. Dott as soon as
he had heard the grocer’s story. “Why, Lord
Kenyesole, his cousin, banks with us.”
“Well, but come, Dott,” retorted Mr. Pott-
* '1' 1r
-ridge, impatiently, “is that a reason why Mrs.
Pounceforth Keane shouldn’t be a dishonest
jade ?”
“No: but I think the whole thing improb-
able," answercd the banker, “and I confess I
should be sorry if anything unpleasant hap-
pened to Lord Kenysole’s family.”
Mr. Pottridge was not in very good humor
when he went to bed that night. A magistrate
himself, he knew what shifts are often made
to withdraw well connected offenders from
justice, and so far as he was concerned he
would have cared little had an appeal been
made to him, ad mz'sm'cordzhm, to acknowL
edge that he had perhaps been mistaken in
fancying that he saw Mrs. P. K. pocket some
lace and handkerchiefs. But Mr. Pottridge
could not bear to be pooh-poohed at or threat.
9an with unpleasant consequences if he did
his duty. He was an alderman, a grocer
with a blameless conscience, and he feared
no man. Feeling that his character for ve~
racity and common sense was at stake, he
resolved to give his evidence against the wife
of Lord Kenysole's cousin with no more
hesitation than if she were the commonest
jail-bird. O
From that date, however, things began to
go wrong somehow with Mr. Pottridge. It
seemed as though his long luck had forsaken
him. On the morrow of his adventure in
London, Mr. Chuckleworth, the principal
solicitor in the town, who was Lord Keny-
sole’s legal adviser, passed him in the street
without nodding,and later in the day Mrs. C.
sent a stiff note, begging that Mr. Pottridge
would send in his bill, and intimating that
she would thenceforth purchase her groceries
at another house. Now the Chuckleworths
had always been excellent customers of Mr.
Pottridge. .
This was bad enough,but worse was to fol-
low. Next day some inspectors of weights
and measures arrived at the Alderman’s shop
and found a piece of lard sticking under the
scales. They declared they should make a
report of the fact. Scarcely had they gone,
leaving the grocer speechlesswith confusion,
than two welLdressed strangers entered and
bought some tea, brown sugar, cocoa, pepper
and a pot of mustard ; after which they stated
that they were public analysts, who were
going to examine the quality of these goods.
They examined them, in truth, so fast that
two days later Mr. Pottridge received a sum-
mons to answer a charge of putting birch
twiggs in his lea, sand in his sugar, tumeiic
in his mustard, clay in his cocoa, etc.
Mr. Pottridge shrugged his shoulders at first
taking it for granted that the charge would
be dismissed by his brother magistrates
Messrs. Dott, Bungs &. 00., but before the
case came on for hearing it fortuitously trans-
pired that Mr. Pottridge had been up to
London interviewing Lord Beaconsfield for
the purposes We know, and this made the
other aldermen furious. Mr. Bangs. the
brewer, was particularly angry, and declared
that Pottridge was a traitor, inasmuch as the
poor grocer instead of having a friendly
bench to judge him, found a ' very stern one.
“I am sorry for you, Mr. Pottridge,” said
Mr. Dott, who sat as chairman, “butmen in
your position should set an example. You
are fined £20 on each count, with costs. T0-
tal, £120.” .
Ill-starred Pottridge! He left the court
politically and socially done for, for he could
no longer hope to be re—elected Mayor nor to
marry Miss Dott. He should have, moreover,
to resign his aldermanship, and his personal
character as well as that of his tea, sugar and
mustard was ruined.
So mined was Mr. Pottridge that when he
went to London to give evidence against Mrs.
Pounceforth Keane the first question asked
him by the counsel for the defense—a bluster-
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1879.
ing Old Bailey barrister—was, “I believe you
have been convicted of selling adulterated
goods and at false weight P”
“Let me explain,” stammered poor Pott-
ridge. ‘
“No explanation, sir.
swer, yes or no 1"
“Yes, then.”
“Well, then if you are liable to make mis-
takes about your weights, you may crr in
other things.”
“Perhaps,’ replied the grocer, desperately.
"I may have been mistaken in thinking the
lady was a thief. I have had enough bother
about the business.”
“You ought to be ashamed of your fiippaut
conduct, sir,” cried the counsel harshly, and
the wretched grocer hobbled out of the wit-
ness box feeling very mean, indeed. After
this confession of possible error on the part
of the chief witness, the case against Mrs.
Pounceforth Keane was, of coursc,dismissed,
and Mr. Pottridge slunk out of court with a
magistcrial reprimand ringing in his ears. To
conclude this little story one has only to add
that when H. R. 11,, the Prince of Wales,
graciously went to open the baths at Small—
borough, it was Mr. Bungs who was Mayor
and eventually got knighted, while Mr. Pott-
ridge was not even invited to the din'ner at
the town hall, whereof he paid his share like
the other rate payers.
He is no longer regarded as a lucky man.—
Lonrlon Truth.
Give nie a plain an-
Vaults and Cesspools.
A PAPER BY DR. LINDSLEY DEFENDIXG THE
ACTION OF THE NEW HAVEN BOARD OF
HEALTH IN REQUIRING THE VAULTS 0F CESS-
POOLS AND PRIVIES TO BE MADE WATER
TIGHT.
The following paper was read before the
board of health, by Health Ofiicer Linda:-
icy:—
Whenevcr the exercise of municipal au-
thority takes a new direction and makes re-
quirements of citizens which are novel and
in any sense an innovation upon old habits
and long usage, it is eminently proper that
the said citizens should be informed of the
need of such action that they may know that
their rights are not assaulted, and that what
is proposed to be done is done upon the great
principle of doing the greatest good to
the greatest number. The by-law recently
enacted by the board of health requiring
that newly made vaults for privies or cess-
pools shall be water tight, is so great a de-
parture from the previous practice of mak-
ing them, and the important considerations
which influenced you in enacting the law
are so little understood except by those who
have made sanitary subjects a study, that it
has seemed to me the people may justly
claim some explanation of the necessity of a
law which concerns immediately so many.
persons in their domestic arrangements, and
which without such explanation they may
regard as unnecessarily arbitrary. I propose
therefore, to state plainly as‘possible some of
the reasons for it.
The practical question involved are these :
Are privy vaults and cesspools, as hereto-
fore constructed, dangerous to health? if
dangerous, in what way are they so? how
can the danger be avoided? I shall try to
show that they are dangerous to health; that
they are so through their agency in poison-
ing the air we breathe and the water we
drink, and that exemption from danger de-
pends upon preventing their contents from
being absorbed in the ground and their ex-
halations fiom being inhaled with our
breath, while entire freedom from danger is
only consistent with their entire extinctions.
and the daily and complete removal from our
hemcs of the matters put in them. The re-
lation of the soil to the public health is one
of the most important subjects which can
engage the attention of communities, and
especially in cities where population is
crowded. The late Dr. George Derby said :
“The well are made sick and the sick are
made worse for the simple lack of God's
pure air and pure water.” The chief sources
of impurity of these two essentials to life
and health are in an impure soil. There is
no novelty whatever in these statements.
The cardinal formula for health was an—
nounced by Hippocrates more than four
centuries before the Christain era, in these
words: “Pure air, pure water and apure
soil" and today we cannot improve it.
Aye, even 3,000 years ago the sanitary laws
of Moses, which were enforced in the camps
of Israel in the journey through the wilder¥
nest, forbade such abominations as our mod-
ern privy vaults and cesspools. Deut. xxiii,
12 13 It shall be my task to show, in
what follows, that the impurities of the air
and Water are mostly due to the impurities
we ourseIVes put into the soil. The popu-
lar mind is wont to regard the poetic allu-
sions to the absolute rest and silence of the
grave as equally descriptive of everything
beneath the sod. A little reflection and the
application of our common knowledge of
facts, will show us that a series of active
processes are going on in the subsoil, which
if we have not before observed them, will
excite our astonishment. Instead of passive
inaction we find that Dame Nature is no less
busy in her activities beneath the surface of
the ground than she is above it. If you will
fill a pail with soil from the dryest part
of your garden, you will find that when
full of earth you can still pour into it a
considerable quantity of water without
causing it to overflow. In this case the
water occupies the interstices between the
particles of earth. You cannot pack the
earth so closely but what such {spaces will
exist, and when they are not filed with .wa—
ter then the air will fill them. In proof, it
is well known that some animals buried alive
in the ground continue to live for days,
breathing only the air they can inhale from
the ground itself. Even stone and rocks
contain air, and whetbe: it be air or water
in the ground, they are never stagnant but
always moving in currents up and down or
to and fro, working their splendid chem-
istry in God’s great laboratory. They are
always active with whatever they may meet.
making new combinations and dissolving
old ones; oxidizing the products ,of decay
and rcnderiing them harmless and forming
vast volumes of carbonic acid for new vege-
table life. So accurate, too, are the adj ust—
ments to their purposes and'results that both
animal and vegetable existence is preserved
andmaintained. Although each day all the
people of the world might be poisoned by
the carbonic acid made in the soil or by
the noxious gases of decay, yet we
are preserved from either calamity,
on the one hand by the appropriation of the
carbonic acid to the production of vegetaion
and on the other by the oxidizing action of
the all penetrating atmosphere. If, now,we
expose the pail of earth and water for a few
days to the rays of the sun, we shall find
that the water has disappeared and the air
has again entered to fill the space it occu-
pied. In this fact we have an illustration of
another powerful element intimately con-
cerned in the activities going on under
ground, namely, heat. Air, water, and heat
are the chief factors of motion in the never
ceasing unrest of the soil beneath our feet.
Their influences upon each other are inces-
sant and perpetual. The penetrating rays
of the sun evaporate the water and gives
place to air to a depth greater or less. ac-
cording to the degree of heat and its contin-
uance. Thus, ever, changing relations of
temperature, moisture and ventilation are
produced in the soil, due chiefly to the alter-.
nations of day ,and night, the reasons and
the porosity of the soil. There are, there—
fore, constant currents of radiant heat pass-
ing and repassing to a great depth in the
ground. As a motive power heat is un.
rivalled; even slight changes of tempera-
ture produce action. It is ever working;
the elements obey its bidding in new com-
binations and decompositions and ferment.
A scarcely less potent factor of action is
found in the always varying presence of
water near the surface. This, too, is in mo-
tion, not rapid, but yet always moving.
The source of supply is the rain fall. From
the clouds it descends upon the earth.
The lesser portion—storm water—flows
upon the surface into streams andthence
onward to the ocean. A large part is re-
ceived into the ground. It is this we are
interested to watch. It sinks down through
the porous layers of loam, sand and gravel
until it reaches a stratum or rock or clay
which is impervious. But as the surface
of this waterproof stratum is not level, but
is as diversified and undulating as the
ground that covers it, reason and fact agree
in finding the accumulated ,water saturating
the ground and slowly moving onward
though the porous bed of earth to some
lower outlet. It does not stagnate. It is
ever in motion, seeking its level, running in
slow currents under ground in obedience to
the same laws that control its less resisted
progress on the surface. That which we
call dry! ground has much moisture in it
varying in quantity with a varying amount
of air in all degrees between the line of
saturation. Below this line the groundis
filled with water. Professor Dana says:
“It is widely spread beneath the plain and
is not collected in local channels; which
accords with the sandy nature and horizont—
ality of the deposits that afford it. If a pit
is sunk below this line, the water fills the
cavity and constitutes the familiar well in
common use. The well proves also the fact
already mentioned, that the ground water
is in motion; for no one believes that good
well water is stagnant water. It is also
within the experience of all men that the
water in wells rises-and falls with the chang-
ing seasons. And many surface springs
flow full or fall under like conditions.
Thus we have incessant motion in the soil
water, following literally the incline of wa-
ter-tight layer of clay or rock upon which
it lies, rising and falling with the supply
from the rain clouds. and always ascending
through the ground towards the surface by
the forces of capillary attraction to supply
the wants of vegetation. Above the level
of the soil-water the atmosphere enters and
plays its part in the unseen and noiseless ac—
tivities of the underground. This, too, is in
motion, and constant currents of air perme-
ate the soil, passing through it in various
directions, going in and out of :it, and thus
by frequent interchanging with the upper
air contributes the powerful influence of di-
rect ventilation to sweeten and purify the
surface soil. The causes which produce
motion [in the ground air are differences in
temperature at different depths, the force of
the wind, barometic pressure, displacement
by rainfall and movement of ground water,
and finally the law of diffusion which gov-
erns the action of all gases. The force of
the wind is apt to be underestimated, a brisk
wind equals a pressure of over a pound to
the square foot of surface, and a hurricane
fifty pounds. How much then do we mis-
take the true character of the ground we
live upou,when we regard it only as an in—
ert mass of loam, ground and stone. Fire,
water and air are always inseparable ele—
ments in its constitution. The conditions
under which their ceaseless circulation goes
on in the sub-soil are not one whit less po—
tent for good or evil to man than lare~
the influences that effect his health above
ground. It is quite as rational to advise an
invalid to seek a change of ground as a
change of air. It is of vital interest to us to
know what relations the air and water in
the soil may have to the air we breathe and
the water which we drink. Ordinary na—
tural soil will not impair the healthful prop-
erties of these elements; but what of the
soil on which the men live? When a man
provides a home for himself and his family
there are four things which he immediately
does to soil as necessary, he thinks, to the
appointments of his home. First he digs a
cellar, over which he builds his house ; next
he digs a well for water. Then he digs
another excavation not so deep, into which
he pours all the liquid filth of housekeeping;
and finally he digs still another hole and
into this is daily dropped for storage the
excrement discharges of all his family.
These excavations are for convenience plac-
ed in close proximity to each other. Com-
monolya few feet; say fifteen to fifty will
measure their separation. Indeed, instances
are not wanting, even in this city, where
one or more of these are included within
another. I have known a house occupied
by two families with these arrangements, so
nary convenient, that two cesspools and the
well were all in the cellar while two privy
vaults were only just outside the cellar,
and they wereall serving their special pur-
poses daily for both families. This instance
is not selected from the habitations of the
ignorant and poverty—stricken,but, as indi—
cative of the intelligence and social position
of the occupants of the house, the annual
rent paid was $1,000, and used as a dwell-
ing only, which price it readily commanded
because of its couveniences ('1’) and its re-
spectable location. It is natural to ask:
How do the underground currents of air
and water influence the water in the wells
and the air in cellars and houses under such
conditians? What pleasant virtues does the
well derive from the mingled fluids of the
cesspools and privy vaults between which it
is so conveniently located? What invigor-
ating and health-giving properties are im-
parted to the atmosphere of the house by
the fragrant exhaltations which the warmth
of the cellar extracts from its saturated bot-
tom ? Surely these questions require a formal
answer.
The soil in New Haven, geologically
speaking, is composed in its natural state
chiefly of loam, sand and gravel. It is very
porous, offering little obstruction to the free
circulation of air and water through it. This
is its character to d depth greater than our
deepest wells. The purity of our wells from
the filth dissolved in the rain water as it
passes through the ground to the wells must
depend therefore wholly upon the filtering
and purifying process of the soil itself.
Fresh earth is an unrivaled filter. But
this function depends upon the freedom
with which air circulates within it, the
purification being in n arly all casesa pro-
case Of oxidation. few feet of fresh
earth will remove all the color and odor
from the foulest slops in the kitchen yard.
And if time enough is allowed and space
enough through earth provided, it will ef-
fectually “transform the foulcst and most
noisome sewage water into the crystal
springs which poets celebrate in verse and
which even religion takes as the type of its
best gifts to man.” But there are limits to
its purifying powers." It is possible, too, to
destroy its qualities as a filter. What |fil~
tering power, think you, will the ground
preserve in the back yards about our wells
if we keep it saturated year after year With
the sewage from our kitchens and the errors:
ment from our persons? Filted with‘this
nastiest of nun, it is impossible that it
should make the water that passes through
it pure. It may indeed render it, free from
color and smell, but do not forget that clear
water is not necessarily pure water. A
city well may give no warning to any
sense: its waters are refreshingly cool. they,
are clear and-sparkling, free from alltsolid
particles, without odor, and yet they may
. of honor,
be laden with the germs of the deadliest
pestilence. Such cases have happened a
thousand times. In the "cholera epidemic in
London in 1860 one gain of sewage defile-
ment to the gallon of Water supply was
found to be directly connected with over 70
per cent. of the whole mortality. Practical
men know that land drainage is efiected by
cutting a ditch a few feet deep across the
field to be drained, and :that- even in very
compact soils a cut five deep will take the
water from the adjacent ground to a dis—-
tance of twenty-five feet on either side.
So, too, withapit dug in the ground; the
water from the surrounding ground woiild
gravitate from as great a distance by the
same law, although the operations of nature
are not changed by the name we give to
such a pit. Therefore, it We call it a well
it still performs the functions of a drain all
the same as if it was called a drain and dug
for a drain. The fact, therefore, cannot be
disputed that every well is a practical drain,
in good working order, and takes the water
of the surrounding ground from an indefi-
nite distance in proportion to its depth and
the porosity of the soil. With this fact in
mind'it is not pleasant to think of the ces:.-
pools and privy vaults within drainage dis-
tance of the well that gives our drinking
water. .
You, gentlemen of the board of health,
fully alive to the dangers which threaten
our citizans from this kind of poisoning,
have wisely made a law forbidding any more
leaking filth-pits, and requiring them in fu—
ture to be made water-tight. And now,
incredible as it may seem, there are many
persons in this enlightened community who
are still so ignorant or reckless of the dangers
of these soil pollutions that they oppose the
law because water-tight vaults will require
to be emptied often and will cost something.
The very objection itself is evidence of the
evils of loose walled vaults and so of the ne-
cessity of such a law '
ll Ill C “I II it
There is but little doubt in the minds of
those who best understand the subject that
if it were practicable of effect the prompt
and complete removal of all excremental
matters, and all other organic wastes, to
such distance that we should have no further
contact with them, then would simultane-
ously disappear from our midst certain of
our most grave and fatal diseases, especially
those of the intestines. We might also rea—
sonably expect relief from malarial diseases,
which are, with remarkable unanimity, at-
tributed to emanations from the ground.
If the above views of the dangers attend—
ant upnn open walled filth vaults are well
founded (and they accord with the opinions
of the best sanitarians,) then there can be no
doubt of the wisdom of ydur action in re-
quiring that degree of protection which will
be gained by making them water-tight. It
is quite apparent, however, that such pro-
tection is only partial, and that complete im-
munity from the dangers of the near pres-
ence of filth is not with our present knowl-
edge attainable. In short, that safety is
only secured by its prompt and entire re—
moval befOre the processes of putrefaction
have begun.
The Young Corporal-1’s Vow.
There was a young Corporal in the garri-
son of Nantes, in the year 1795. He was a
spirited young fellow, barely twenty, but
young, though he was, he had already learn-
ed to drink to excess, according to the too
frequent custom of the day. Brave and ex-
citable, in a moment of intoxication, he was
tempted to strike an officer who was giving
him order. Death was the, punishment of
damned. . .
The Colonel of his regiment, remembering
the intelligence and bravery of— the young
criminal, spared no pains to obtain a re-
mission of the sentence; at first with no
success, but finally hampered with a certain
condition,—that the prisoner should never
again in his life be found intoxicated. The
Colonel at once proceeded to the military
prison and summoned Cambronne. “You
are in trouble, Corporal,” he said. “True,
Colonel, and I forfeit my life for my folly,”
returned the Corporal. “It may be so,”
quoth the Colonel, shortly. “May be?”
demanded Cambronne; “are you aware of
the strickness of the martial law, Colonel? I
expect no pardon ; I have only to die.”
“But suppose I bring you a pardon, on one
condition.” ‘ ‘
The lad’s eyes sparkled. »“A condition?
Let me hear it, Colonel; I would do much
to save life and honor." You must never
again got drunk.” “Colonel, that is impos-
sible l” “Impossible, boyl with death as an
alternate? You will be shot to-morrow,
otherwise; think of that l” “I do think of
it. But never to get drunk again i I must
never let one drop of wise touch my lipsl
See you, Colonel Cambronne Iand the bottle
love one another so well that when once they
get together it is all up with sobriety. No,nol
I dare not promise never to get drunk.”“ But
unhappy boyl could you not promise never
to touch wine ?"
“Not a drop, Colonel ?" “Not a drop,”
“Ahl that is a weighty matter, Colonel. Let
me reflect. Never to touch winel—not a
single drop in all my life i” The y0ung sol-
dier paused; then looked up. “but Colonel,
if I promise, what guarantee will you have
that I shall keep my promise l" “Your
word of honor 1” said the ofiicer. “1 know
you, you will not fail me." A light came
into the young fellow's eyes. “Then I
promise l” he said, solemnly “God hears
me. I, Cambronne, swear that never to
my dying day shall a drop of wine touch
these lips?”
The next day Corp. Cambronne resumed
his place in his regiment. Twenty-five years
after he was Gen. Cambronne,a man of note
respected and beloved. Dining one day in
Paris with his old Colonel, many brothers
in-arms being present, he~was offered a glass
of rare old wine by his former commanding
officer. Cambronne drew back “My word
Colonel: have you forgotten
that i‘" he asked excitedly. “And Nantes-—
the prison—my vow!” he continued.strik—
ing the table. “Never, air, from that day
to this, has a drop of wine passed my lips;
Iswore it, and I have kept my word; and
I shall keep it, God helping me, to the end.”
_.__
A Startling Record.
The lager beer sold and removed by brew-
ers in the city of New York for the year
ending May 1st, 1878, was 1,213,512 barrels;
the amount for the year ending May 1st,
1879, was 1,341,817 barrels—an increase for
the latter year over the former of 128,306
barrels. These figures are from the sworn
return made by thirty-two firms at the In-
ternal Revenue Department for this district.
What these enormous aggregates really mean
can be better understood by comparison than
by a mere reading of the figures. For ex-
ample, 1,341,818 barrels—the product for
last year, multiplied by forty, the number
of gallons in a banelegivcs a total number
of 53,227,720 gallons. This quauity of
lager beer would twice,fill the distributing
réservoir at Forty-second street, whose ca—
pacity is 24,000,000 gallons; or it is equal
to. about one gallon a week for a year to
every man, woman and child in the city of
New York. Placed in one ireceptable it:
would easily float several big ships,‘ with a
few excursion .steainboats thrOWn in for good.
measure—Graphic.
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Glass sleepers for railroads are the latest
thin in that line in England. The. glass
tong ened by a process discovered by Fred-
erick Siemens of .Dresden, the cost per ton
being about the same as that of cast iron, but
there are three times as many sleepers in a
ton.
such an olfense,and to deatlithe lad was con-. .
f .
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M TO RENT.
o RENT .-Frorn Oetobei‘lst. lower part of
a. house on West Main street.
, RUFUS E. RAYMOND, 2n.
To LET. _
One-hall ol‘a Dwelling House. An ly to
20 CHAS. E. 813301111.
0 RENT.-—A Barn on West Avenue.
ply at the GAZETTE OFFICE.
To Rent.
THE large Hall in the new brick block on Wall
. Street, adjoinin the Connecticut Hotel.
suitable for a Society } nil.or for Public Meetings.
Also one handsome ofilcc room on second floor.
Apply to HARDENBROOK,
N orwaik, March 30th, 1879. me
A -
12p
CHARLES W. MANY
Surgeon Dentist,
nonwanx, cons.
Oilicecornerot Mainland Wall streets. Nitrous-
Oxichasadministcrcd
. PURE MILK.
Delivered in Norwalk and South Norwnlk, at
your door, every morning
AT 6 CENTS PER QUART,
By RELISON BROS. 51tf
Dr. C. 11. Kendall & Son,
DENTISTS. '
Arc now prepar-
ed to r e c e i v e
their patrons at
either Norwaik
Bridge or South
N orwalk. The
_ partner
has taxcu rooms
0 v c r Selleck’s
- Bookstore Nor-
walk. while the
junio r retains
the old ofiice, Lauder’s Block, South Norwalk.
Tecthextractcd without pain. and alldcntal ope-
rationsperformcdateitheroifice.
C. H. KENDALL, M .D.
G. S. KENDALL, D.D. S.
_P. S. Dr. C. H.Kenda11wdldevote Mondays to
Ridgefield.
ALEX. S. GIBSON,
_ Organist of the First Congregational Church.
Teacher of
Plano-Forte, Organ and Musical
Composition. ,
Box 379 P. 0., NORWA LK, CONN.
Hurlhult, Belyea & Seymour,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
Boom No.4, [up stair-,1
GAZETTE BUILDING.
G. W. BENNETT,
D E NIT I S 'I',
Successor to C. B. COOLIDGE,
3 m23 Wall Street, Norwalk, Conn}
DWARD P c WEEDa
D R U G- G- I s '1'
Wall Btrcetppposue Namath Opera Home.
Alarge and well selected stock 0.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Perfume ,l’atent Medicines, all kinds Mineral
Waters, orietnnd Medicated Soaps. Flavoring
andHandkerchiei‘Extracss,HairBrushes,Comhs,
Spouges,0hamOisSkiiis, Stationery, Cigars, Sc"
and is constant] addingto his stock all theuew
andpopularmc icincs ol'the day.
w. actuarial),
General Furilsllii Undertaker,
OPPOSITE HORSE R. D.DEPOT
Q'Ordersattended to day or night . Besidenc
Mainstreams doorsi‘rom Union Avenue.
The Nurwalk Fire Insurance 00.,
Has now completed its
18th Successful Business Year,
And has not outstanding a Dollar of unpaid losses
or of claims for losses.
M 800“ “MFA" IISIIBES Al [film BAT
Wis. C.Srnnnr, Pres., S. E. OLMSTEAD, Tress.
GEO. it. CowLEs,Sec’y.
'I‘NA INSURANCE Co’ofHARTFORD
incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual
Capital and Assets, $6,716,893.77
lnsurcsagainstlossand damageby Fire,onterms
sdoptedto thehazardandeonsistontwiththelaws
oicompeusation. COWLES & MERRILL,
Sole Agentsior Norwaik and vicinity
B. S. BLASCER,
Athis store in
MAI-LORY’B BLOCK,
hasconstantly on hand,a general assortmenio
Groceries, Crockery, Glass,
'Iln and Wooden Ware, Etc.
By devotinghis constautpersonul attentionto the
business he hopesto merit public patronage
HARLES S. LOOKWOOD ,
Fashionable Draper and Tailor
AND
GENIS' FURNISHING LMPORIUM.
Main Street ,Norwalk, Conn.
new FOR YOUR WATER PIPES.
Wm. Glover 85 Son,
Arcready toputinyourWATER,STEAMor GAS
PIPE, at very short notice and at aslow a rate as
anonne. WROUGH'I‘ AND CAST IRON, TIN-
Li . ED, LEADPIPES, Sc" of every size and de-
scription. PLUMBIN Gin allitsbranches.
BERNARD COHN. .
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WEEK’S numnmc, want. sun
A FULL LINE or
Imported and Domestic Cloths,
of the latest styles, constantly on hand. Novel-
ties in Scotch Suitings. Satisfaction guaranteed
in every particular. 46
WILLIAM B. RIDER.
ENGINEER AND SUBVEYDR.
Personal attention given to all kinds of
I! dranllc Works, Engineering, Mili-
rlghting, Dock Work are. Agent
for all kinds oanc loci-y. ’
Orderslet't at the zesrru Ollicc, or by mail
WI“ receive prompt attention. 53
Vii. W. CLARK ,
$188,311!“ Ornamental Painter
l I l
Plain (it Decorative Paper Hanging,
No. 4: WATER STREET.
Under Mrs. Iawcett’s old stand. Orders can
be left at Spencer’s Jewelry Store.
Do youhavea Pain in
“ ' your Back, Loins or
. Side ? If so,y:iur Kid!-
ncys a uscase .
. I Do not .Mn . but try
at once I! N '1" S
,, REMEDY. : h e
._ , . grenIKldneynnd
I Ilntiycr Mgdlgnxe
. i s m a e -
PRESSLY lor Diseases of the Kidneys.Blad-
der,Liver and Uruiury Organs, Dropsy, Gravel.
Diabetes, Bright’sDisease oi the Kidneys, Incon-
tintencc or Retention of Urine.and Female Weak-
ness. lllJNT’s BEMEDYhnc never-been
known to run.
Sumner-ism, Eillngham 00., Geo., May 17. ’79.
War. E CLARKE, Dear Sir .- — I prescribed
HUNT’S REMEDY in a complicated case of Drop-
sy which 1 had been treating for eight years. and
find HUN T’S REMEDY is the best remedy for
Dropsy and the kidneys I have ever used.
WM. H. WILSON, M. D.
Hunt’s Remedy
has cured hundreds ’
who have been given
up by Physicians. It
c causes. purifies and
strengthenstho whole '
system. All who use
it enjoy good health.
One trial will
convince you.
Send for pamphlet to W M. E. CLARKE,
Paovinuucn, R. I.
SOLD-BY ALI. DBUGGISTS.
BRUSH S, =FEA’I‘IIEII
.K.LUOKWOOD’S.
BBoollls,
.DUSTEBS, ocean
Shipping and Merchandise Tali
Printed or Plain
By the Dozen or Thousand, atlv Manufacture
Prices, at the
GAZETTE OFFICE.
J .i M. POTTER,
DEALER IN
Pianos, Organs,
Melodeons, Sheet Music, &c.,
WALL STREET NORWALK, 00“.
NEXT BOOB Co 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.
SOLE AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED
menu’s, STANLEY & sou s, GROV-
ESTEEN a FULLER’S, names
' BROTHER’S, vase & sores,
PIANOS,
and will furnish at short notice. Call and
' see them.
OLD INSTRUMENTS
Taken in Exchange for New-
Tbm'ing &: Repairing
, Done at short notice.
The Weber Plano.
A few extracts from the great number rs.
eeived by the most eminent musicians in-the
United States may not be inappropriate:
I have never seen a Piano which equals the
Weber Pianoforte. Geo. F. Bristcw
The Weber Piano occupies justly the first
rank amongst the Best Pianos. .7. N. Pattieon
The Weber Pianos cannot possibly be sur-
passed. 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 be wished for in a Piano. 0. W. Morgan.
The Weber Piano ranks foremost amongsi
the best manufactured. William Mason
The Weber Pianos stand first amongstjlie
splendid Pianos produced in this Country.
01am N. Brinkerhof
A ten years’ experience satisfies me that
the Weber Pianos are unapproachable.
John Zundal,
I would call especial attention to
THE ESTY COTTAGE ORGAN
Beautifuny finished in black walnut and rose
wood, combining more perfections than an)
other in the world. Has taken more than 0N}
HUNDRED AND FIFTY GOLD MEDALS am
sms'r PREMIUMS, at Fairs and Exhibition.
throughout the United States. They are en
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 anyinstrument.—Geo.B.
Seymour, Musical Critic, N. Y. Times.
They are the best reed instruments we have
rluret with—(7. & J. H. Odell, Organ Builders
It is the ne plus ultra of reed instruments.
—Prof. E. L. Baker.
It contains sweetness and power in an un-
usual degree.—Reo. Bishop Simpson, M. E.
Church.
Language fails in adequacy to convey a
fair idea of the perfect enchanting power 01
this instrument—Independent.
Vastly superior to anything of the kind 1
have ever played upon.— Wm. A. King.
The Esty 0r s are without a superior.-
Geo. Jardim, gum Buihier, N. Y.
No tremulo has yet been invented that will
in any wa compare with this for beauty of
.eifect.— m. 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.—Rer. H. Riggs,
President of Northem New York Mamba]
Association.
J. M. POTTER, Norwalk.
New Firm at the 01d Stand
lVIessrs MULLIN GS BROTHERS
Would inspectinllyinlorm the public, that they
have taken the business .lately conducted
by IFLINGS 8L 'l‘lLLY, and with the old ex-
peri d Workuleu. hitherto employed by the
late rm. are prepared to manufacture allklnds oi
Ciaailess & WAGONS
TO ORDER
Repairing in all its Branches.
MACHINE FORGING. DISCOUNT
ALLO‘VED FOR CASH.
C. A. MULLINGS, J. S. MULLINGS
South Norwnlk, April 15,1878.
AT
Quintard’s Furniture Rooms
wni bet ounu a ccmpleteassortm c: 1 cl
FURNITURE, &C.,
nciudingeverythlngusuallytound in a first-class
establishment, at Prices to suit the Times . Also,
alargoassortmentof ' '
CHROMOS, PICTURE FRAMES,
nooxmo unassns, are.
Gias sPlatcscuttoany size. Repairing donein the
best manner,at short notice . Also. old Hali- Mat-
tram smadeover asgood asnsw.
E. OlllllTAIlll’s Still.
Warm Baths
Cold. Baths—t!
Shower Baths ! l 1
Every day at
E. APELL’S Model Barber Shop,
Second DoG’r from Post Office.
O
BUNIONBAigll-Ili.
BUNIUNS, CORNS, and other ailments of
_ the feet, cause much suffering among all na-
tions‘by whom shoes are worn. There is more
than Sl00,_000 worth_of boots and shoes dcstroyrzl
annually in the United Sta tea (in the rest of the
world more than 1,000,000) by cutting while new,
or nearly so.to makcroom for painful Bunions,
Corns, Ingrowmg Nails, Sore Insteps, etc. Ile-
sides this rent sacrifice, there is paid in New
York, to C lropodists, about $25,000 annually ; in
New England, about 825,000: in the Western and
Southern about $50,000; and in the rest of the
world about $100,000; besides this. there is 8500,-
000 spent nnnuallyfor caustics and other WORTH-
Liiss compounds for the cure of Bunions. Corns,
Sore Instcps, Tender Feet, etc. To avoid these
out losses and expenditures, use Dr. Josiah
. ri g’s Bunion Balsam and Sure Corn Curc,which
is t s only preparation known that gives imme-
diate relief" and radica'ly cures hard, soft and ul-
cerntcd Bunions; hard, soft and festercd Corns '
Vascular Excrescnces, Callositesdarge and smal
Sore Insteps,Blistcred Heels,Tendor i‘eet,ingrow-
ing Nails, etc., without causing or leaving any
pain or soreness. Warranted safe and sure. Sold
by Drufigists throughout the world. Adi-does Dr.
JOSIA BRIGGS. Newark,N. J. Sold by I. A.-
MEEKER & 00., Norwalk, Conn.
$l,000 REWARD
ATAltRH is the most universal and distress-
ing disease of the present day, and the scores
of wonderful remedies offered for the cure of this
dsgusting disease which are worse than worthless
bus discouraged the millions who suffer and have
tried in vain for relief and cure until their cour-
a c is gone, and the Victim still suffers in doubt,
etc we are With Dr.Josiah Briggs’ Cntarrh Spe—
cifics Nos. 1 and 2. and how shall we proceed to
convmce these deluded sufferers that we have
the best and cheapest remedies known. lat—We
will furnish them to rcspoiisible parties on con-
dition—“N0 CURE N0 PAY.” 2d—Will pay $100
for a. case they willnot cure. lid—Will pa $100
for their equal as a cure. “ii—Will pay see if
anythin cisouous or deleterious is found in their
composition. bib—Will pay $1,000 if in any par-
ticular Dr. J osiah Bri gs Catari-h Specifics are
found different from t eir representation. War-
rantcd to instantly relieve and radically cure
Acute, Chronic, Ulceratlve or Dry Catnrrh, Cold
in the Head, and all affections of the cavities of
the head and throat. Two bottles in one box.
Greatest success oi the age. Sold by Druggists.
Address DR. Josiarr hmccs. Newark, New Jer-
sey. Sold by l. A. MEEKER & 00., Norwalk, Ct.
PILE REMEDY.
FILES—What unccasing tortures arise from In-
ternal Bleeding. External and Itching Piles.
The vain endeavors to obtain even partial relief
has discouraged the millions who suffer, and they
have borne t on agony in silence. thinking there
was no hope or even prospects of a cure. Not-
withstanding the total failure of the many reme-
dies heretolore oilcrcd for the cure of piles, and
tl~e picture of agony_resting on the face of those
who have ti ed the various'remedics but in vain.
yet eagerly uglit for, anx )usly tried anything
that promise; the least relief until their courage
has long since given p‘acc to dcspondency, let
them cheer up, allow the smile of happiness to il-
luminate the haggard countenance, and the du-
ties of life Will be performed with adegree of hap-
piness and pleasure unknown for weeks. months
or years. Briggs’ Pile Remedies are the result of
unceasing study and er. )erimenting, the no plus
ultra of medical science. and in every respect
safe, scientific and reliable for the cure of piles in
eyery form. Briggs’ Remedies are sold by Drug-
ists everywhere. Address, DR.Josran dniccs
ewark, N. J. Sold by l. A. MEEKEB 35 00.,
Norwalk, Conn.
Vaporized Oxygen.
Never in the history of medical discoveries has
anything been brought out that prod uecs the mag-
icai' result and positive. effect which Vaporized
Oxygen has for the millions whose brains are
racked wrth pain. We Will pay $100 for a case of
nervous headache or neuralgia that will not yield
to Briggs Vaporizcd Oxygen, and Brigg’s Alvan-
tor the greatest specific for headache, neuralgia,
and nervous disease ever discovered. Sold by I.
A. MEEKER'85 00., Norwalk. Conn.
REAL ESTATE.
For Sale.
HE Homestead ol the late Peter McLaughlin,
deceased. It is very eligibly located in the
Borough of N orwalk, is two stories and basement,
contains 14 nice rooms, well adapted for a large
iamily or a boarding house; lot 60x2001eet, has
Borough Water. Fruit, etc. Situated on Franklin
Avenue, Within three minutes’ walk of Post Office,
Depot. etc, Willbc sold on accommodating terms.
For further particulars curli‘uirc of
24 JAMES MITCHE L, Real Estate Agent.
FOR SALE.
IrWO verydesirableBuildingLotsonWestMain
Street . Applynt theGAZETTE OFFICE .
For Sale.
HE subscriber offers for sale his HOUSE and
LOT, situated on West Main Street, in the
Borough ofNorwalk. The place is pleasantly lo-
cated,in a good neighborhood, only a, short walk
from thc business part _ot the town, School,
Churches, etc. The House is nearly new;conven-
lently arranged, and in good condition. For fur-
ther particulars apply to the subscriber at Can-
non’s Station, or to G. St S. H. Holmes, Norwalk.
3y JOHN W . RENOUD.
For Sale.
THE pleasantlylocated and well builtresidcnce
corner Was ington and Spring streets, 80.
Norwalk is offered for sale on accommodating
terms. For particulars, enquire of
. tf REV.D.R.AUSTIN,South Norwalk.
DWELLING-9
AND
Building Lots.
qEVERAL dwellings, various prices in differ-
i cut portions oi'Borough, either to let or for
salent reasonable irices. Also several places
outsrde of Boroug limits—one in Winnipauk.
also several Buildinglots in and out-of Borough.
tilt) Enquire at this Office.
For Sale or Exchange.
FOR property in Norwalk or vicinity, 2 houses
in Brooklyn, E. D., within 5 minutes walk of
l ferries. Good location. For particulars apply
to ‘ '
45
Box 63, Norwalk.
Farm for Sale.
BOUT 12 to 13 acres within 1% miles oi center
. of Norwalk. Good situation. good house.
lullt of best material and by days work. About
#0 choice Apple trees with other fruit. good gar-
den, good well of water, and line shade trees. Just
the place for a. man wishing to raise Strawberries,
etc. Price $7,000. Enquire at this Office.
For Sale Cheap.
A VALUABLE manufacturing property. Foun-
. dry and Machine shop, for Marine and Sta-
.ionary En ine work or general Machinery. Sit-
iated on W art. Has also Rail Road connections.
E. HILL, Trustee.
South N orwalk. Conn.
For Sale.
A cosy comfortable Cottage on one of thcpleas-
. antest stijects in town, within five minutes
walk of the Bridge or Churches. will be sold at
:ost price. A portion of the purchase money can
nemain on bond and mortgage. Price 86.000. En-
;uire at this Office. ‘
Desirable Property for sale.
A. Ver ydesirable place on EastAvenue.
Also, a few choice BuildingLotssituatedon
Osborn Avenue,forsale cheap.
Also, a nicely located House and Lot on Mer-
Win Street near WestAvcnue, for sale at a bar-
germs reasonable.
)
.
‘ gain. Enquireol
S. E. OSBORN. EastAvenne,
or to D.W.FITOH,WestAvenue.
For Sale.
H: A House and Lot. in a healthylocation on
E FairStreot,above Catharine. The Houscis
nearly now,we“ built,conveniently arrang-
ed. and will make a comfortable and icasant
some l‘orafamiiy of average size. The ot runs
suck to the river. There is a welloi‘ excellent
.vater on the place, and Borough water in the
street. Price low, and part of the money can re-
main on mortgage. A fine chance to secures
home. Apply atGAZETTE OFFICE. 3tl
inesirabla Homestead for Sale.
THE valuable residence _of the subscriber.
pleasantly located on high ground on hast
Ave., in the Borough of Norwalk, is offered for
sale. The situation is leasaut and healthy. com-
manding fine views of ong Island Sound and the
surrounding country. Distance one mile from
Norwalk Bridge, and the same from South Nur-
walk depot. Mouse 54x50; two stories and attic,
tilled in with brick, and substantially built.
Rooms 18, with all modern im rovemcnts. bath
room, laundry, stationary tribe, cebec’s cooking
range, hot and cold water, gas throughout the
house. The cellaris dry, having stationary i' urn
ace. which heats the whole house. The attic is
spacious, and root’ tinned. The house is in excel-
lent ordcr beingcomfortable for both a summer or
winter residence. Suitable for any gentleman do-
ing business in New York and returning the same
day. Land about three-quarters of an acre. laid
out in lawn. fruit trees, and garden spot. Apply
to JAMES MITCHELL, Real Estate Agent, hor-
walk. or to the subscriber,
A. S. HAMERSLEY,
26tf 255 Fourth Avenue, N. Y
WATCHES!
11.0. Benedict it So,
28 BOWERY, NEW YOR-IC.
File Watches, Diamond, Jewelry,
Sterling Silver and Plated Ware
PRICES GREATLY REDUCED.
Watches Carefully chnircrl by superior
Workmcn.
NO CONNECTION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE
Established in 1818.
tfll
\
BURNS, nanny FANS, BUTTER
BOWLS. LADLES etc., at
E. k. LOCliWOOD’S.
MOWING MACHIN ES
_ AND
Agricultural Implements
oi all kinds, repaired and put in complete
order. Lawn Mowers for sale at rates 1111' be-
low the market.
General rc ail-in of all kinds.
24 p g JOHN CUTTER.
MACH I NISTS Manuel‘s“
GAZETTE OFFICI-
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VOL. LXIL--N UMBER 38
ULTIMA VERITAS.
av nav. lylsnmcron GLADSEN.
In the bitter waves of woe, I
Beaten and tossed about
By the sullen winds that blow
From the desolate shores of doubt—
When the anchors that faith has cast
Are dragging in the gale,
I am quietly holding fast
To the things that cannot fail:
I know that right is right ;
That it is not good to lie;
That love is better than spite,
And a neighbor than a spy;
I know that passion needs
The leash of a sober mind;
I knowthat generous deeds
Some sure reward will find;
That the rulers must obey :
That the givers shall increase ;
That Duty lights the way
2;, For the beautiful feet of Peace ;—
In the darkest night of the year,
When the stars have all gone out,
That courage is better than fear,
That faith is truer than doubt;
And fierce though the fiends may fight,
Andiong though the angels hide,
I know‘that Truth and Right
Have the universe on their side;
‘1 And that somewhere,.beyond the stars,
Is a Love that is better than fate;
When the night unlocks’her bars
I shall see him', and I will wait.
—Sunday Afternoon. ‘
—.—'
A N OOTURNE.
Maiden! while thy fairy fingers
Free those prisoned harmonies,
While thy left hand gravely lingers,
And thy right skims o’er the keys
Darling as hnssars manoeuvre,
Skirmishing in mazy drill,
Swift to scatter and recover
Order, at their leaders’ will;
Dreamily'I hear two voices:
One in fervent tones of prayer.
One that sparkles and rejoices
As a skylark in the air,
With so wild a jubilation
That its card seems a taunt,
Till a sterner modulation
Drops itfito the dominant.
Then a dialogue more tender,
’Twlxt the wooer and the wooed,
Where the latter vows to mend her
‘ _Wayward petulance of mood;
And the manly voice, responding,
Breaths a rapture of content,
As through chords with joy resounding
Both in unison are blent.
Through the moonlit fir-trecs, playing
Murmurously, the roving breeze
Kisses the white fingers swaying
Pensively the ivory keys ; -
Cools my brow and sooths the beating
Of this scarred and crippled heart.
Still, despite experience, cheating
Me with fond delusion’s art.
Me it cheats with phantoms thronging
'Dimly up from days of yore,
Shape 'of loveliness and longing,
Dead and gone forever more ;
And as wizards, from the ashes
0f the rose, evoke its grace,
I recall the spectral flashes
Of a once all-radiant face!
a
The Difference.
Two babes were born in the self-same town
On the very same bright day;
They laughed and cried in their mother's
arms
In the very self-same way.
And both were as pure and as innocent
As falling flakes of snow,
But one of them livedin the terraced house
Anal one in the street below.
Two children played in the self-same town,
And the children both were fair,
Bit one had her curls brushed smooth and
round,
The other had tangled hair.
Both of the children grew space,
As all our children grew apace,
But one of them lived in the terraced house,
Ard one in the strei t below.
Two maidens wrought in the self-same town,
And one was wedded and loved,
The other saw through the curtain’s part
The world where her sister moved.
And one was smiling, a happy bride,
The other knew care and woe,
For one of them lived in the terraced house,
And one in the street below.
Two women lay dead in the self-same town,
And one had tender care, .
The other was left to die alone
On her pallet so thin and bare.
One had many to mourn her loss,
For the other few tears would flow,
For one had lived in the terraced house,
And one in the street below.
If J esus, who died for rich and poor,
In wonderful, holy love,
Took both of the slaters in His'arms,‘
And carried them up above; ‘ ‘
Then all the difference vanished at last,
For in Heaven none would know
Which of them lived in the terraced house.
And which in the street below.
_ —Selécted.
“
Summer Clouds.
BY HENRY HOWE.
The gorgeous Alps of summer skies,
In softest tints oft mass in view, ,
Where seraph forms in faucics' dreams
Recline beneath the tender blue.
And floating on their beds of fleece,
Those spirits of the azure dceps
Move far above our earthly fields,
Where Time his generous harvests reaps.
While We in Fate’s remorselcss chains
May hapless seem in vales of woe—
Slill onward float the beautcous clouds,
Still cheer as with their genial glow.
Our hearts arelike the summer clouds,
Which take their beauty from on high ;
The light, which gives the charms to life;
The love,whicb soothes us when we die.
From the dark window near the couch
Some angel hand the curtain lifts,
As parting day’s celestial tints
Enchanting spread beyond the rifts.
Then grandly glows the mighty dome,
While silence rests on earth below;
Save it here the distant tides of life
In dying murmurs faintly flow.
An'l soft and sweet, bright isles of bliss,
Seem floating in an ocean sky;
A spirit realm of light and love,
The happy immortality.
In maniling night, the vision melts,
When worlds afar their glories spread;
And thus alike through mists and stars I
The soul of man is upward led.
The rolling orb, great source of light,
On other lands glad morning brings;
Day never ceases with his work,
While Hope, bright, cheery, ever springs.
m
Gas’in New York is down to $1 or $1.50 a
thousand feet now, owing to the bitter fight
and Manhatten stock formerl a . '
now down to $1.30. ’ Y W2 50’“
Norwalk Chronicler