WHOLE NUMBER I677.
For the Gazette.
.The Blind Princess. ‘
Yolande, the beautiful blind child of the
old King of Provence, kept in seclusion from
court, in ignorance of her great misfortune,
forms the framework for a touching tale 0f
innocence and love. As the legend goes. the
infant princess was rescued from fire, at
great peril of life, by being thrown from a
Window; the shock causing total loss of
light but left no spot or blemish on her ex—
ceeding loveliness of form and feature.
I Yolanda was betrothed shortly after her
birth to a young prince, thereby carrying out
some state purpose, (by no means an unusual
mode of settling affairs in those olden days),
and for this reason the king determined that
the blindness of his daughter should be a
profound secret. It was announced that she
had been placed in a convent in Spain; but
this was an innocent ruse of the old mon—
arch; her home was in the . valley' of Van—
cluse, where the doting, father had prepared
a chosen retreat, where his darling was cared
for by a few trusted servants who were in
the secret.
This beautifully secluded spot was adorned
and made charming by all that art and affec-
tion could lavish upon it; rare plants from
the tropics, choice fruits, and wines from the
royal vintage, tinkling fountains and feath—
ered sopgsters, conduccd to its attractions;
literally -“the winds of heaven blew not too
harshly” on the sightless child of . Provence.
The garden was apprgached by a wrndlng
path leading to a moss-concealed entrance,
the gate opening with a hidden spring,known
only to the king and attendants on the prin-
cess. From the dawn of intellect Yolande
by the command of her royal father, was
kept in ignorance of her calamity, and never
permitted to hear a word spoken relating to
the eye; she did not know there was such a
sense as sight. and therefore could not’ miss
the inestimable happiness it afforded others ;
she was so carefully instructed in all things
else her life knew no blank.
In infancy her horoscope foretold that
sight would be restored at the age of sixteen;
and a certain wise man was to come from the
east to effect the cure. ' .,
’ The child days of Yolonde went joyously
by; girlhood and budding womanhood found
her increasing in beauty and ' intelligence;
sweet simplicty of heart, and tender endear-
ing manners made her the idol of her father,
and her afiectionfor him knew no bounds.
Waiting for his daily visits, 'or amused with
various light tasks the hours glided serenely
and swiftly'by, and the time 'drew near for
the fulfillment of the prophecy.
As had been foretold a magician travelling
from the far Orient, was led by destiny to
the court of the old king, and all things
seemed prepared for the experiment. Some
slight pretext served to satisfy the simple
nature of the princess that it was necessary
that she‘should submit to the seer’s direc-
tions and he at once commenced the process
of restoration. A sleeping potion was ad-
ministered daily at noon, which (unless dis.
turbed) produced an hour of profound slum-
ber. The father, forbidden to approach, was
informed of the progress of events at a dis—
tance. The plan was, that just previous to
full success, the wonderful mystery of sight,
(of which she had hitherto been ignorant)
was to be gradually and very cautiously re-
vealed by the devoted father', but the best
laid schemes of men are often thwarted by
love, and so it fell out in this case.
The last draught had been given at noon-
tide, and at the sunset hour vision was to
more to her wondering gaze. During this
last hour of slumber, her faithful but wearied
nurse left her side to indulge in a siesta
under a branching tree in view of her young
mistress’ window. As fate would have it,
Adolphe, the betrothed of the princess,
wandering through the valley strolled into
the secluded, winding path, found the en-
trance to the garden, accidentally touched
the spring which opened the moss-hidden
gate, entered, went on to the fairy—like pal-
ace, and findi' all deserted, roamed on until
he came upon the bower of the sleeping
beauty. Awe struck he gazed, then drawing
nearer, touched her hand—bolder now, he
kissed her snowy brow; the charm was
broken. He stepped back, she slowly arose
calling the nurse, 'but no answer came. A
slight movement of Adolphe caused her to
turn her head in that direction; he not
knowing of her infirmity, supposing himself
discovered, with knightly courtesy advanced,
with many apologies for the intrusion. The
princess with native ease and sweetness,
received him as a guest of her father. The
young prince’s heart was a willing conquest
to such rare beauty and. charming grace.
They were soon engaged in pleasant conver-
sation, and the proscribed subject of sight
was naturally alluded to, and he was much
perplexed by her replies. Stretching forth
her. hand Yolande plucked some climbing
roses. Chancing to gather both white and red
she presented Adolphe .with a white one, and
he said, “Give me also a red one.”
“What do you mean by red?" said the
princess, and gave him another white rose.
He, struck with the idea that shepbjuld not
see, .placed red and white together} and
holding them before her eyes, asked, “Which.
is red and which is white ?”
She was quite confounded and did not
reels .
“Alas," he thought, “she does not kno
that she is blind ;" and to convincthimself
of the fact persistently went on with 'his -
questions. “Tell me what your words mean,”
she exclaimed,
“Have you never thought of what use,
were your eyes i" said he.
“ y, yes, wheuI would sleep they close,
when sorrowful they weep.” ~ —
“Beautiful unfortunate,” said the prince,
“have you never guessed or dreamed of what»
you are deprived it” ,
“No one has ever told me,” she sighed.
Just then the approaching footsteps of the
king and physician fell on his ear. Tenderly,
raising her hand to his lips he swiftly with-
drew. But Yolanda was in possession of
the secret which her father had come to
impart; _ ,
As the crisis drew near the last test of the
seer’s skill was tried and she wastold that
the priceless boon of sight might very soon
be here.
The eyes were touched with some potent
drug known only to those eastern wise men,
and at the appointed time she was led forth.
Pressing’her fingers firmly upon the lids, the
physician bade her open her eyes very grad-
ually; the light entered and precious sight
was hers. _
As may be supposed the hitherto quiet,
serene condition of the mind of the gentle
princess was now in a confused state; by
slow degrees calmness was restored, and her
1 father, eager to receive her, came forward.
By his voice of tender love she knew.
him, and reposing in his arms, many
objects strange to her new-born sight were
explained and familiarized.
Adolphe, her betrothed, lost no time in
present' ghimself and further wooing was
unnecessary. Their hearts had become one
in the ,hour in which their chance meeting
had revealed to Yolanda the secret of her»
blindness.
This love tale of the fifteenth century
ended, as happy love always closes, in union
of hands as well as hearts.
The beautiful garden in the valley, the
only home her childhood: knew was the
chosen retreat of Yolanda; and when: going
forth to the wars the gallant prince, her
loving husband, left her in that home held
sacred by the memories of her sightless days.
He knew that she was secure from the tar-
moil and contention of court life,from which
her innocent heart always turned with dis-
trust and repugnance. In after years, when
by the cruel chances of war her husband
languished in prison, and her loving old
father, the king, was resting in the grave,the
pure—hearted, forsaken princess turned to
this little paradise in her days of solitude,
and angels comforted her. Pannnr Ross.
Snanmarv’s “DUENNA".—The Duenna had
no political purport: its only aim was to
please, and this it succeeded abundantly. in
doing. Brought out the first time at Covent
Garden on the 21st of November. 1775, it
was performed seventy-five times during the
ensuing season—an entraordinary number
in those days—twelve more this the Beggar’s
Opera had achieved. In order to counter—
act this great success of the rival house, Gar-
rick, then the manager of Drury Lane, as
Moore tells us, "found it necessary to bring
forward all the weight of his Own best char-
acters, and even had recourse to the exped-
ient of playing of the mother against the son,
by reviving Mrs. Francis Sheridan’s comedy
of the discovery, and acting the principal
part in it himself. In allusion to the in-
creased fatigue which this competition with
the Duenna brought upon Garrick, who was
then entering on his sixtieth year, it was
said by an actor of the day that, _ the old
women would be the death of the old man. ”
Its success was not confined to one season;
it lasted nearly fifty years. Yet it must be
acknowledged that, except the trifling farce
of St. Patrick’s day, it is now th e least
known of all Sheridan’s plays. While the ,
plots of the Rivals and School for Scandal
are familiar to all, but little {3 remembered
about the Duenna, and a few lines telling
briefly its ,intriguelmay not here come amiss.
The scene is laid in Seville, and the char-
actors are all‘ Spaniards. Don Jerome has a
son, Don Ferdinand. and a daughter, Donna
Louisa. The latter is guarded by the
Duenna. Donna Louise is in love with 'Don
Antoin, but her father wishes her to marry
a little Portuguese Jew, Isaac Mendoza.
He asks his daughter whether she will marry
Isaac, and on her refusal, declares that he
will never see or speak to her until she re.-
turns to her duty. The Duenna secretly
sides with Donna Louisa, and artfully con -
trives to get herself discharged by Don
Jerome, who, however, allows her to go to
her room to pack up her belongings, which
gives her an opportunity of changing dresses
with Donna Louisa, and Don Jerome turns
his daughter out of doors, taking her for the
Duenna, and immediately after sends little
Isaac to woo the ‘Duenna, who pretends to
be the daughter of the house. « To these two
love stories, Don Antoine with Donna
Louisa, the Duenna with little Issac, is ad-
deda third—Don Ferdinand’s chase of the
coquetlish Donna Clara, the intimate friend
of his sister, Donna Louisa. It will readily
be seen how, on such a groundw0rk,Sheridan
was enabled to build a light and airy super—
structure of intrigue, admirably adapted for
music.
The plot lends itself in his hands to most
amusing scenes of equivoque _and cross-pur—
pose. In lhe end are three well-married
couples, for little Isaac is not ill matched
with the antique Duenna.
As a whole, the’dialogue of the Duenna is
far inferior to that in Sheridan’s other plays.
It seems hastier work, at once less happy
and less polished. One thing to be remarked
about all of Sheridan’s plays is that the dia-
logue is easy to speak. The son of an elo-
cutionist and lecturer,and himself an orator,
Sheridan worked his words until they fell
trippling from the tongue. And the songs
in the Duenna have a quality not as common
as might be thought; they are all singable.
The words of many songs, and especially of
many modern songs, are so loaded with
harsh consonants and combination of con—
sonants, and with sounds which shut instead
of Opening the mouth, that they are very
difficult to sing. But the songs of the
Duenna, likethe songs of all true song'sters
Moore, for instance, and Lover, and a few
other poets who have sung their verses into
being—ore as easy to sing as they are ap-
propriate to music. And they sang them-
selves at once into popularity. Moore refers
to them,fifty years after they:first were heard
in public,aa though they were then known to
all his readers. Here is one of Don Antonio’s
songs i .
“I ne’er could any lustre see‘
In eyes that would not look on me 5
I ne’er saw nectar on a lip
But where my own did hope to sip.
Has the maid who seeks my heart
Cheeks of rose, untouched by art.
I will own the color true
When yielding blushes aid their hue.
“Is her hand so soft and pure I’
I must press it to be sure;
Nor can I becertain then
Till it, grateful, press again.
Must I with attentive eye
Watch he, heaving bosom sink ?
I will do so when I see
That heaving bosom sigh for me. ”
--J. Brander- Matflwwsjn Harper’s Magazine
for March.
'Their Ages.
It is stated that Blaine touched 50 on the
last of January. Grant:was_;—57' last April.
Shaman was 56 last May. Washburne was
‘63 in September. Conkling ,was 50 in Oc~
tober. Garfield is in' [his 49th year. Bayard
wrs 51 in October. Thurman reached his.
'Bfith'birthday in November. -' Hendricks was
00 in september'. Tilden'wlll be 66 this Feb;
mary, and in the same. month General Han-
cock willbe 55. Seymdurwlll be'70 in May
WeshingtOn was in his 57th year when he
'was first elected,andhad just entered his 66th
I when he left office. John Adams was
when he was elected, Jefferson 59, Madi-
son in his 58th year. Monroe in nus-59:11; and
John Quincy Adarhs in his 58th._ Jackson
was 61 when chosen the first time,and"there-
reached his 70th year when he quitted ofilce.
Van Buren was 54, and Harrison 67,7when
they were elected, while Taylor when he
took ofi‘lce had just passed his 51.: birthday.
Polk was elected on almost precisely his.
49th birthday. Taylor was not quite 28,
when elected, and Fillmore wasin his 51st
year when he succeeded him. Pierce, had
not yet completed his 48th year when he
'was elected, and he was the junior all
who have taken ' the Presidential chair,
except General Grant. Mr. Buchanan was
in his 57th. ~
=2:
The Sunday of our Fathers.
Says Joseph Cook: “Give America the
Parisian Sunday from sea to sea, and in two
hundred years feather—heads and roughs
would be in the ascendancv. Many men
still alive slept in houses with nnbolted
doors in the country side of New England
fifty years ago. If we wish to restore to
public and private life that peace which
filled New England when she :had a Sabbath
worthy of that name, we must imitate the
hallowed Sundays of our fathersr I look
back to the moonlight dropping through the
open door of New England country houses
in the Midnight of fifty or eighty years ago.
I find in that unsuspicious radiance and in
the religious culture, the united citizenship,
the theocratic brotherhood which lay beneath
the pillar of fire that can lead us out of com-
munism, and socialism, and the political dan-
gers of universal suffrage." I
-—-—.—«O.—.—-——-—-
The earliest mention of neck-wear is that
of J ob’a three comforters.
, and enjoy it.
fore was 64‘ when re-elected, while he had .
elected in his 66th year, Mr. Lincoln in his:
52d and 57th, while Mr. Johnson succeeded
. NORWALK, CONNECTICUTgI‘UESDAY, FEBRUARY 24:3880.
NORWALK GAZETTE, _
I'llIlIIIIEI EVEII TUESDAY IIIIIII,
The Second Oldest Pnper In the Stone.
Grant and Sherman.
Aanhville correspondent of the Cincin—
nati Enquirer relates the following ancedote
concerning Generals Grant and Sherman,
for which, he says, the late General Frank
Blair was responsible: “When the Union
army was encamped before Vicksburg, Gen-
eral Grant became convinced that a certain
movement was necessary. He called a
council of War and laid his proposition be—
fore his generals. They all agreed except
Sherman, who opposed the projected move—
ment in a most determined manner. When
at last it was agreed upon, General Shaman
asked permission tolfilé his written protest,
responsibility. The movment was made
and proved ajperfect success. A short time
afterward General Grant handed General
Sherman a piece of paper, quietly remark-
ing, ‘I suppose you will have more use for
this, Sherman, than I will.’ General Sher-
man opened the paper and found it was the
protest he had so ungenerously filed, and
which Grant might have used with great ef—-
fect against him. The above story was told
by General Blair to Major Angler of Atlanta,
Ga., and by that gentleman to me. ”
AN OLD-TIME COLORADOAN’S FARMING Ex-
PERIENCE.-—“I was mining up Central City
way one day, and there came along an old
chap with onions to sell. You bet we was
glad to get vegetables about then. They
were as small and mean onions as you ever
saw,'but I was bound to have a dozen, and
he charged me a dollar anda half. Well,
that farming must be an everlasting sight
better business than mining, and I’d better
go into it myself. So I quit my claim adn
struck a likely kind of a ranch, and hired. a‘
Dutchman at $100 a month to take charge,
and I skipped out cast for seed. It tooka
along time then to go and come, and when
I come back, first thing I' saw was an old
fellow ploughing in my field. Then, when
I come to the house, I saw some one had
jumped that. There was awidow woman
from Georgia had moved in and was living
there, and I sung out that that was all right,
and I hoped’she’d take her time and make
herself quite at home, but that I had a sort
of an idea that that was my house. Well,
I got things all straightened out, and my
vegetables began to come up. And one day
Elwell, a sort of market man, come along
and stopped to dinner, and had a cigar on
the piazza, and I knew he was counting the
cabbages in one of my fields; aad then says
he. ‘Joe, I must have them cabbages,’ and he
offered me $1800 for the lot, and I_took him
up, and he pulledjout a bag of gold dust; but
I didn’t want it in the house, and I told him
to put it inZthe bank,and give me a check when
he liked, and tojsend for those cabbages any
time. And when he'd gone I satsmoking and
with the fumes of tobacco came visions 9f
wealth. Why,at that rate, there was $30,000
good in that crop. and I began to feel tony,
tony, sir, I tell you. And as I kept smoking
out come the sun, and the air was full of
millions of diamond point, just skintillatt’ng,
skintz'llott'ng. sir, I tell you. And what was
it? Grasshoppers’ wings! And they set-
tled down, some inches deep, on my ranch,
and the next day, out of my $30,000 worth
I had—one hatful of lettuce that was under
glass. And when I went down to Denver
some time afterward, the boys asked me to
supper; and they’d put up a job on me, and
got a jeweler to help them, and the chair—
man made a speech, and give me a coat of
arms, and it wasn’t nothing but a grasslmper
rampant—A. A. Hayes, Jr., in Homer’s
Magazine. .
Life in Washington.
coon COMPANY.
There is a nameless fascination in the
Washington air. The average citizen, living
far removed from the Capitol, often wonder
why the office-holder who once comes to
Washington is so 10th to leave it that he will
often stoop to any device to secure a further
lease of power—whether it be four years in
the White House, another term In either
end of the Capitol, or only a longer commis-
sionina petty department clerkship. But
when the citizen comes to Washington him-
self, the mystery is solved. He may not
bezable to define them very clearly, but he
cannot stay long in the city without himself
experiencing in some measure those subtile
influences which render the Capital attrac-
tive :to the permanent resident. Even to
casual visitors there is something very inte-
resting about merely watching the great
Government machine or inspecting its com-
ponent parts. The very atmosphere of the
Capital, instinct with the ofilcial and seals
life that centres about the seat of Gov-
ernment in a greatnation, seem to posses a
singular charm, which disposes one to linger
The stranger no longer won—
ders that the office-holder likes Washington,
. that he constantly schemes for an extension
of hls term,that,if finally deposed from power
he so often prefers the most habitable position
here to a residence elsewhere.
Not the least among Washington charms
are its tropical and climate advantages. No
one can longer doubt that the city is fit to
be the Capital of the great country. The
comprehensive plan on which it was laid out
in early years of the struggling Republic
gives" one a fresh respect for those far
sighted fathers who could even then devise
a scheme which should to-doy, fit the ne-
Cessities of the seat of government for fifty
million 'of people, and be capable of equal
development with the progress of the nation
hereafter. The broad avenues are a constant
source of delight, the parks and squares are
ample for the needs of a large city, and the
great system ' of improvements, carried
through with whatever corruption under
the? Shepherd regime, laid the basis for the
transformation; ofWashington from a stag-
gering'fand' neglected town to a handsome
metrdpdli'slNothing goes farther to justify the
choicebf this locality as the capital than its
climate. ZThOugh it suffers from the summer
heat, its temperature, during by far the lar—
gerpart of the year. is most comfortable, and
‘the,change from the inclement weather
which prevails over the greater portion of
the winter months to the usually balmy air
'of the Capitnl‘i‘s‘ especially grateful. Indeed
as a' winter-residence, Washington posseses
greater charms than any other on the conti—
nent, what with the mild weather, its ex—
ceptional social advantages, and the attrac-
tions which the‘meetin‘g of Congress presents
"to any one interested in studying our system
of government at its fountain head. Every
year't'he Capital is becoming more and more
' ’ the winter headquarters for the people of
leisure, for persons of. literary tastes, for
students of politics, for devotees of fashion,
and a composite society is gradually growing
genial elements.
W .
Love—The greatest [difficultieszwhich so—
ciety has to encounter, spring,fundamentally,
from a deficiency of brotherly love—from
every grade of carelessness, indifference and
coldness,down to niggardness,shabbl_ness,and
the wretched mania of-hcarding jealously
what he who hoards is afraid to use. . How
much more intensely and extensively, than
in any other associatibn, Love has operated
in the Christian churches, from the days of
Dorcas and he sweeping widows, down to
Florence Nightingale and. her Crimean cam-
ign, which need not be told; nine-tenths
of the active benevolence of the day in this
count are Christians in their origin and in
~ their 0 aracter; and even those persons, the
favorite watchwords of whose. social ethics
are borrowed, not from Christ. but from
Epicuru's, will be. found to have added a
strange grace to the philosophy which they
Tprofess, by a light borrowed from the religion
which they disown.
being unwilling to assume any part of the-
sir, I didn’t say nothing, but 1 just allowed ,
‘ observers were surprised,
up in which everybody is sure to find cont
Dangers of Conj uring. f
‘ An incident will be in general recollection
connected with the late Mr. Brunel, the em-
inent engineer, who planned the Thames
tunnel and the Great Western railway. One
{day while diverting a child with tricks of
'sleight-of-hand, by causing a half-soverign to
mysteriously disappear and reappear, a stun-
‘ning disaster cecurred. The trick consisted
Ein adroitly concealing the coin in his mouth.
and pretending to bring it out at his car.
All at once, before he was aware, and to his
dismay, the half-sovereign slipped down into
his gullet. He tried to cough it up without
effect. There it stuck. Every surgical de—
who was tried to get hold of it without aVail,
It became evident that if the coin could not
be dislodged, fatal results would ensue. In
the dire dilemma into which hehad needless-
ly brought himself, Brunel’s presence of
mind did not desert him. He devised a
wooden structure to which he could be strap-
ped head downwards, in the hope that the
half-sovereign would fall out of his throat by
the force of gravity. He was fierto the
machine head downward, keepinhis mouth.
open. To his inexpressible relief, the coin
dropped from its lurking-place and rolled to
the floor.
On .one occasion a sword swallower got
,into a fix even more dreadful than that of
Brunei. He professed to be able to perform
a trick with a bayonet fixed on the end of a
Inusket. _ It was an awfully hazardous
prank, far beyond that of swallowing a
sword. 'IIe held the musket aloft with the
butt -end upper-most, and opening his mouth
allowed the bayonet to go down his throat.
Having got it this le'ngtb,he clinched the part
of the bayonet next the handle with his teeth
.and holding the musket with his hands, to
prevent it from swinging to one side or other
walked about with it in this perilous attitude
on the stage. ,
At a performance one day of the bayonet
and musket‘trick, something ‘was seen to be
wrong. There was aflstagger, a flutter. The
horror-struck.
The swaying of the lip-raised musket had
caused it to snap off at the part of the bayo-
net where it was sustained by the teeth of
the performer, the result being that the shaft
of the bayonet was left sunk out of sight or
reach in his throat. Anything more appalling
than this can hardly be imagined. Perhaps
in the agony of the moment the performer
rccollected the device resorted to by Brunel
in similar circumstances. At all events, he
instantly threw himself on his hands, and,
with the aid of his assistants, stood with his
feet upper-most against the wall. The effort
was successful. By its own weight the bayo-
net descended from its place in the throat,
and at length it was pulled from the mouth.
Chamber’s Journal.
WINTER IN NEW YORK, 17809Mr. Eugene
Lawrence, in a recent pleasant paper, touch-
ed the New York of a century ago. It was
the cold winter. Both rivers were.frozen,
and the bay was solidly closed, so that men
and teams and even cannon passed over the
ice from the city to Staten Island, and the
British were in constant fear that the daring
Yankees would steal over from Paulus
Book (now Jersey City) and attempt the
capture of the city. Lord Sterling, the
American general, with two thousand men,
did cross the Kills, or strait between New
Jersey and Staten Island, but the island
Tories were on the alert, and the Americans
were bafiled. Judge Jones, in his Tory his—
tory of New York, says that “no man living
ever before saw this bay frozen up," and
adds that two hundred sleighs laden with
provisions, with two horses to each, escorted
by two hundred light-horse, passed upon the
ice from New York to Staten Island. Riv-
ington’s Gazette,of}29th,of J anuary,1780,says
that “this day several persons came over on
the ice from Staten Islad,” and on February
lot a four-horse sleigh crossed over. Snow
upon the 10th of November, and lay almost
continuously until the middle of the next
March. In the woods it was four feet upon
a level. '
New York was then a city of thirty thou-
sand inhabitant, and the “hard winter,” as
it was afterward called, was not only one
of intense cold, but of famine and of fire.
But the city, of which Hanover Square was
the literary centre, in whose bookshop as.
Mr. Lawrence narrates, Miss Barney’s Ev-
elina'and Dr. Johnson’s Tour to the Hebrides
and the works of “the great Dr. Goldsmith,”
were advertised, was a compact community
with a distinctive character and spirit. ‘ It
was, in fact, an English colonial town, with
acertain popular independence which was
still evident, however suppressed in expres-
sion. Many of the inhabitants took the oath
of allegiance, but their hearts were with the
blue and buff while the scarlet made merry
around them. For the town in which Sir
Henry Clinton held his mimic court was gay
with the careless revelry of a military so-
ciety. Amid the cold and starvation and
immense suffering of the city, the officers
cry was, “On with dance! let joy be uncon-
fined." The soldier must not think. and the
festivity at] headquarters would, perhaps,
strike the patriot as arefiectionfrom the brill-
Iancy of the British prospects.
But the route and the revelry were no
more agreeable to loyalist! growlers like
Judge Jones than to the patriots. He spent
that winter in New York, and complains
thatfor wood which cost. nothing to the bar—
rack-masters, or 'which could be bought by
them for sixteen shillings a cord for oak,
and twenty-eight shillings for hickory, he
was asked to pay £4 and £5 10s.; and the
indignant old Tory exclaims that it was well
known that the misses and favorite Dulcineas
of Clinton, Robertson, and Birch were all
supplied with large qualities of wood by their
orders out of wood yards in New York, and
were regaling {themselves in routs, dinners,
little concerts, and small parties ovcr good,
warm, comfortable fires, and enjoying all the
case and luxury in life, while the poor sold—
iers, for whom the wood was provided. were ‘
with their wives and children perishing in
the barracks in the severity of the Winter."
When the fasnionable promenade was “the
Mall” in front of Trinity Church, and when
John Street waszup town, when the journey
to Philadelphia and Boston was counted by
days, and when Europe was weeks away
upon the ocean, New York was shut up
within itself, and had a “local flavor" which
is long since gone. Every gentleman in
"town then knew of the “fine Roman purl”
that could be drunk at the King's Head
tavern and London Chop-house on Brown-
john’s Wharf and the story of the little town,
now grown into a vast and various metrop—'
oils, in which civic pride and ambition are,
judging from the City Hall, extinct is'fis
quaint and entertaining as that of “Our
Village,” or of Cranford.—Editors easy chair
in Harper‘afor March.
#
Faithful to the Family Custom.
Lady (to new girl)—I pay $40 per year.
Girl—That is not enough!
Lady—But, besides you will get presents
that they do not give everywhere—$1,0- at
Easter, 9. new dress at Christmas and $2 at
every time there is a baptism in the family.
Girl-But I cannotidepend on getting the
last item every year.for a certainty.
Lady—When I say a thing I mean it. It
has been the custom in our family,andas long
asl live it will not be abolished»: ‘
' b ~Fre1wh Letter.
wants people to look
A cross-eyed friend .
- No, thank you arr;
at things as he does.
we’d rather not. .
When eggs drops from thirty cents to elgh-
teen cants per dozen in two days, the Detroit
Free Press think sits a pretty sure sign
thhre’s a hen on.
The Cheapness of Newspapers.
The New York Journal of Commerce, al—
luding to the action of the Chicago Time in
raising its subscription price,predicls that “if
the market val no of raw material continues to
advance every American newspaper which has
reduced its subscription price will sooner or
later be obliged to raise it. The alternative
will be a loss to the publisher on every copy
printed.” The fact is there is nothing sold
which is so cheap as the newspaper of to-day.
It is barely possible that the very low price
at which it is bought tends to lessen the pub-
lic estimate of its value. Year by year the
expense of newspaper publishing has in-
creased. Taken paper of to-day and com—
pare it with one of ten years ago and the
change is wonderful. ' With one of twenty—
five years ago there is practically no compari-
son possible, as there is no common ground to
put them on. The labor on the present daily
paper involved in type setting, printing, re-
porting, editing, correspondence and the
thousands of incldentals, is greater than any-
body outside an office can imagine. The tele-
graph bills of today would have made a man-
ager faint a few years ago. There has been a
steady and amazing improvement in newspa-
pers during the past decade with no increase
:sibles that when the general rise of material
begins to be'seriouslyw felt by publishers, as it '
soon must, a rise in price may have to follow;
It would not be making peeplc pay mine for
their paper than they used to. It would be
merely making them pay for mole—which
they get in their ' poplin—Hartford Coal-ant.
AN INDIAN Tunxrsu Bum—If cleanliness
is next to Godliness, the fOulness of the In-_
dian is his greatest sin. A peculiar and dis-
agreeable odor prevails everything' that be—
longs to them, although much of it is due to
other causes than personal filth. The tanning,
drying of beef or buffalo, cooking, etc., si_—
multaneously in progress in and about the
lodge, produce a variety of unpleasant odors
which permeate their clothing and impreg—
_nate the atmosphere. The unfreqnent change
of the former is also a fruitful source of
physical impurity. The Tame-Russian bath
is, however, of a very common application
among them. It is their panacea.
, The manner of its preparation is necessa-
rily primitive. Willow wandsare sharpened
and-thrust, into the ground, and their mailer
ends are interlaced so as to form a bower lit-
tle more than a yard in height, and eight or
ten feet in circumference. Over this is
stretched and secured a piece of canvas or
skin, under which, after large stones have
been brought to a red. heat and rolled to its
centre, a dozen or more Arrapahoes crowd
and crouch. Water is slowly poured upon
the stones, from which arise hot air and
vapor. After profuse perspiration, the in-
mates leap into an adjoining stream, or wal-
low naked in the snow. This bathing estab-
lishment is called a “wicky-up,” and they
dot the banks of water-courses in all Indian
countries—Liam. H. R. Lanny, U. S. A.,:in
Harper’s Magazine for March.
PnoroonArIIs IN NArunAI. Corona—Cap-
tain Abney, the well-known English photo ~
grapher, has succeed in obtaining pictures of
the solar spectrum in its natural colors, both
on silver plates and on compounds‘of silver
held in place by collodion. The photographs
are produced by oxidation of silver com—
pounds which' are placed in the spectrum,
the coloring matter being due apparently to
a mixture of two difient sizes of molecules
of the same chemical composition, one Of
which absorbs at the blue end and the other
at the red and of the opectrum; and the sizes’
of the molecules are unalterable while
exposed to the same wavelengths as those
by which they were produced. Capt. Abney
believes that the colors may be preserved
unchanged when exposed to ordinary day-
light. He has thus :succeded in explaining
the action by which Becqnerel some years
ago obtained photographs in colors, as pro-
duced by oxidation and not due to interfer-
ence. Becquerel’s photographs were fugitive;
Captain Abney appears to have. succeded in
“fixing” his. An exposure of two ,minutes
with a wide slit was sufficient to produce the
pictures of the spectrum.
Signs and Pol-tents.
When the crescent of the new moon sets
supinely, its horns in the air, it is a sign of
dry weather, because in this poaitiOn it holds
all the water, thus preventing its fall to the
earth. This is also the sign of wet weather
the explanation in this case being that a
waterful-moon is emblematic of a water-soak-
ed earth. Don’t forget this sign of the new
moon. It is rarely you will find one so im-
partiflly accommodating. -
Whoever finds a four-leaved clover is gen—
erallya liar. It is so ,much easier to detach
one leaf from a five-leaf stalk than to hunt for
one with four that the temptation to men-
dacity is too much for average delay._ '
When a mouse gnaws a hole ina gown
some misfortune may be apprehended. The
misfortune has already happened to the gown,
and may be apprehended to happen to the
mouse. »
An old sign is'that a child grows proud
if sufiered to look into a mirror while less
than twelve months old. But what the
average infant can see in a mirror to make it'
proud is dimcult for any but its parents to
understand.
A red sky in the west at evening indicates
that the next day will be pleasant, barring
accidents of rain, snow and hail.
‘If you take dOwn your shingle,preparatory
to putting it up in a new location, it is a. sign
you are moving. '
« If a hen runs across the street directly in
front of you, it is a sign that a hen will soon
be on the other side. If she‘ crosses over just
behind you—pshaw I who ever knew a hen
that wouldn’t die in her tracks rather than
cross one's pathway in his rear '1’
When you see a cat running around f ur—
iously, it is a sign that the crockery or glass.
were is in danger.
When you drop a knife and it sticks in the
floor. it is a sign that some one is coming. If
yOu are a small boy, that some one may be
your mother, and her coming be to remon-
strate with you with her slipper.
To dream of a wedding is a sign of luau-'-
ition. _
To dream of a funeral betokens too much
pork and cabbage.
To dream of finding money betokens that
it is easier to dream of finding money than to
work for it. ' _
,To dream that it is Sunday morning is
heaven. . ‘
Tobe suddenly awakened from your sweet-
est sleep to find that it is not Sunday is—-that
is to say, very disagreeable; It is a sign that
you will be unhappy.
A great many more equally infallible signs
may be given, but the reader has probably
had enough for one day. The man who be-
lieves in signs is sufficiently credulOus to be-
lieve that our knowledge in that line, as well
as in every other line, is inexhaustible—Boa-
ton Tramcn'pt.
S m
The supreme court of the United States
has just decided that slaves sent to free
states returning home voluntarily did NOT
re-enter slavery. The subject was alive
twenty years ago, and has even now a sort of
social interest. 0
The First National bank and the Bank of
the Republic of New York city have pur-
chased conjointly the lot between the two
buildings now occupied by them on Broad-
way, and the lot in the rear of the latter
bank, in Wall street. The two banks pro—
pose to build a seven .or eight story building
upon the property which shall be absolutely
fire-proof. .
whatever of price, Ina-R43 among the p05—“
OFFICE IN GAZETTE B UILDING.
A. II. BYINGTON & CO.
A.'H. Brmorols, J. B. Ears, G. N. Etna.
Subscription $2.00 per year, in advance.
SingleCopies 5 Cents. .-
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Entered at the Post Ofice at Norwallc, Conn,
as Second-Class matter.
Advertising Rates :
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One Square. one insertion. - - - - - - I 00
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one null column, can: nine. »
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Full column, one time.’ - - - - - - - 20 00
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One Ineli constitutes a square.
the above.
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Cents per line.
Yearly Advertisers restricted to the business
contemplated at the time ofeontract, but are
permitted to make monthly changes of their
advertisements. ‘
Marriages and Deaths Inserted gratuitously.
Obituary or Funeral Notices 15 cents per line.
. All unusual cuts and devices 25 per cent.
extra.
W. C. BURKE, Jr., M. 1).,
PHYSICIAN: 8t SURGEON,
Omen over 1-: Notional Bank, South
Nos-walk.
OFFICE Houns:—8 to9 . ' . . :
‘081‘339'31; n , a m., 1 to 2 p m , 630
_ a on row ts Dru Store. Nor d
Stillson’s Drug Store.So. orwall'. walk, an
3m51
Calls forwarded by telephone.
ELLERY C. CLARKE, M. 1).,
PHYSICIAN MID SURGEON,
Ofllce, lsnaca’ Block, Wall Street, over
Stanley’s News Olllce.
Hours 3 to 10 a. m.,2 to 3 and 7 to 8p. m. Slates
at Prowrtt’s Drug Store, N orwalk, and Stllson’s
Drug Store, South N orwalk. Residence, West
Avenue, corner of Elm Street. ' 3m2p
Dr. Wm. J. Wakeman.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
' Late resident Ph sicisn and S -
“figigu’fis‘atl‘; Hospital. ] argeon of Connec
IC :- ooms former ' .
Hill. Dentist. y occupied by Dr Asa
Orrrca Hones :-7)< to 9x a. m., 1 to 3 p. m., 6
to 8 p. m. .
CHARLES W; 'MANY
Surgeon Dentist,
NOBWALK, CONN.
Ollcceornerot Malnand Wall Street's. Nitrous-
Oxidc Gasadmiuistered '
ALEX, S o GIBSON, '
Organist of the First Congregational Church.
Teacher of
Plano-Porto, Organ and musical
Composition.
Box 379 P. 0., NORWALK, CONN.
HurIIlull, ‘IIereat Seymour,
Attorneys IlIlIl Counsellors altar,
Boom No.4, [up stalrs,l
GAZETTE BUILDING.
NORWALK & BRIDGEPORT
Messenger and Package Express.
The undersigned, running a wagon to Bridge-
port cvery Monday and Friday propose to take
messages and small packages Inr a reasonable
compensation, to be left or called for anywhere
between Norwalk and Bridgeport, or in the city
of Bridgeport, Wagon leaves Market. 55 Main
street, at 6 o‘clock a. m., returnlng in the after-
noon. . Ordersleft there at any time will receive
attention. Ofilce in Bridgeport at Charles E.
Shelton’s, corner of Main street and Fairlield
Avenue. FOLWELL a. MUNGER.
Norwalk, Nov. lo, 1879.
All the Latest Styles in .
FILLAND WINTER
MILLINERY
NOW READY AT
Mrs. WilmotFawcett’s
- 2 and 3 James’ Block, Water I
7 Street.
w. s. QUINTARD,
General Furnishing Undertaker,
OPPOSITE HORSE B. ILDEPOT
FOrdcrsattended to day or night . Residenc
MalnStreet,3 doorsl‘rom Union Avenue.
The Norwalk Fire Insurance 00.,
Has now completed its
18th Successful Business Year, ,
And has not outstanding a Dollar of unpaldlosses
or of drums for losses.
It! Sflllll COMMIT IISIIIES Al" lIlWEI I"
Was. C.Sras:1s'r, Pres" S. E. Ours-run), Tress.
GEO. B. CowLEs,Sec'y.
ETNA INSURANCE Co . ofHAB'I‘FORD
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual
Capital and Assets, $6,716,893.71
Insuresagainstlossand dumageby Flre.ontcrms
adopted to the hazard audconsistont with the laws
olcompeasation . COWLES & MERRILL,
- Sole A gentsf or Norwalk and vicinity
B. S. BLASCER,
At his store in
“ALLORY’B 131.com,
hasconstantly on hand, a general assortmen lo
, Groceries, Crockery, Glass,
'Iln and Wooden Ware, Etc.
By dcvotlughis constantpersonal attentionto the
business he hopesto merit public patronage
“AISLES I. LOCKWOOD ,
Fashionable Drauel and Tailor
AND
GENI's' FURNISHING summon.
Main Street .Norwslk. Conn.
' BERNARD COHN.
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WEEK’S BUILDING, WAIIII ST.
A FULL LINE OF
Imported and Domestic Cloths,
of the latest styles,constantly on hand. Novel-
ties in Scotch Sultings. Satisfaction guaranteed
in every particular. . 46
$6
Quintard’s Furniture Rooms
will befounca completes. ssortmentof
FURNITURE , &O.,
a week in our own town. Terms and 85out
lit frec.Ad resslI.IIullett a: Co.Portland,Me.
establishment, at Prices to suit the Times .
alargoasaortmon toll
OHBOMOS, PICTURE
LOOKING GLASSES. kc .
Also
trasse smadeover asgood asuew.
E. OIIIIITARII'S SUN.
moo.
- - - - - 8000'
Special Notices 25 per cent. advance on '
ueludlngev'erythlngusuallyl ound in a first-class
FRAMES,
GlaesPlatesCCttoanysize. Bepairlngdoneinthe
best manner, at short notice . Also.old Halrlfat-
a week. 812 a as at home easily made. Coat-
[ $121y outllt froe. CNiress TruedsCo.Auzastnfe
All the Latest Styles in
FALL AND W INTER.
MILLINE RY,
NOW READY AT
Mrs. Wilmot Fawcett’s
2 and 3 James’ Block, Water:
- Street.
PURE MILK.
Delivered in Norwalk and South Norwalk, at
your dOor, every morning
AT 6 CENTS PER QUART,
By REMSON BROS. 51tf _
I). II. Neudall,1ll. ll.
DENTIST,
NOrWalk; Conn.
'.0llice "second
door west from
estuary no;
operations in all
branches as for-
-: mcrly. Painless
?extractionof
‘ teeth by aid of
- I. AUOHIN G
GAS a specialty
7 N. B.—Dr. Kendall
field.
THE
Nurualk IIIIIl Works
00’s SHOPS are running every day (except Sun-
days) all day long and are prepared to execute
' ' any kind of
MAIIHINIIIIY wool:
that may be offered.
STEIN ENGINES IND PUMPS
kept in stock.
Cflllllfli of all Kills lu glII‘flBI'.
.ManufaCturers troubled with the present sear-
crt of watercan buy. or hire pumps on. reason-
ab e terms.
. SPECIAL NOTICE
T0 THE moms of NORWALK.
The undersigned has opened a
Retail Depalrlment
\ in the
Factory on Hoyt 813., near Main,
Where LADIES’. KISSES! and Gill].-
DBEN’S SHOES” of our own make,
can be'obtamed atasllght advance from whole-
sale prices.
Measures taken and Shoes made to
order.
T. COUSINS.
. J. M. . POTTER,
DEALER IN.
Cabinet Org ns, Vio-
lins, Banjos, Fifes,
Drums (It Sheet
Music.
Pianos and Organs to Rent.
PIAN OS, ORG KN S AND MELODEONS TUN-
ED AND.REPAIRED.
Instruments sold on monthly Instalements.
Old Instruments taken in Exchange
- for New.
wan Street, Norw alk onn.
Solicitor _01: Claims.
GENERAL BUSINESS.
OFFICIAL INFORMATION.
L. A. GOBRIGHT,
Ofllcc 1,427 F Street. Northwest, near
15th, WASHINGTON, I). 0.
MY former connection with Journalism for a
long period, has given me an extensrve ac-
quaintance in all the departments of the Govern-
ment and all exce tional facilities. Prompt at-
tention given to al orders rcqulrlng personal ser-
vice at the National Capitol,whlch may be for-
warded through the office of the NORWALK GA-
znr'rE. 41
NOW -I-'0Il IIIIIR WATER PIPES.
Wm. Glover 8:: Son,
ArereadytoputinyourWATEB,STEAMorGAS
PIPE, at very short notice and at as low a rate as
anyone. WROUGIIT AND CAST IRON, TIN-
LINED, LEAD PIPES, 8c. of every sizeand de-
cription. PLUMBINGin allitsbranches.
BLEAILIIESS IS IEXT III IIIIDIIIESSm
G. A. FRANKE’S
Sharing and Hair Gulliuu Saloon!
FOR A
Pleasant Shave,
Artistic Hair Cut, or,‘
Thorough Shampoo!
CALI. AT
Mr. Franke’s Hair Cutting Saloon,
NO. 1 GAZETTE BUILDING.
la‘Particularattention given to Ladies andChild-
rca’s Hair Cuttlng and Shampoonmg.“
AT HOME T0 EVERYBODY.
Hot and ColdWat'e'r Ba’ths
New Firm at the Old Stand
Messrs MULLIN GS BROTHERS
ould respectfully inform the public,that they
have taken the business lately conducted
by MULLINGS &TILLY, and With the old ex-
perienced Worklnen, hitherto employed by the
late firm,are prepared to manufacture allkInds of
CARBIAGES - & WAGONS
TO ORDER ' .
_ Repairing in all its Branches.
MACHINE FOBGING. . DISCOUNT
AblaO‘VED FOR CASE.
0. A. MULLINGS, J. S. MULLINGS
South Norwalk. April 15,1878.
Warm. Baths
Cold. Baths 2 2
Shower Baths ! i 2
Every day at
E. APELL’S Model Barber Shop,
Second Door from Post Olllce.
PENSIONS.
Pensions and Bounties got for
all Soldiers ofmy own and other
Regiments, &c. .
’ W. H. NOBLE,
BIEIDGEPORT. CONN.
People’s Market,
'No. 19 lIIAIN STREET,
THE very‘ best of BEEF, delivered daily to
our customers. Also, in their season, Veal.
Lamb, Mutton, Pork, km, at the lowest
Market ltntes. V egetnbles and .Frllilfi a In”,
fresh and varied supply daily received.
_ Market
t about town ever morning.
wagon sen JA’hIES E. WIXSON.
To LOAN on ltealEstateSccurily.
Money En uirc of O.
Gazette Building, orwalk, Ct.
» r
‘ clfilt
. . RFEGTED
w.
Thousands of Dnlrymen say IT IS PERI“ BUT.
it costs. who useslt.,whcr.c to get it. WE
'IF'U or #ONLY}THIS'
AA
. WILSON, No. 6
3m
3‘ .. _ ,
It Gives Butter the gut-edged color the year round.
nuts axons-Tum o
, VOL. Emile-NUMBER 8.
:1
REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE.—-Threc Building Lots on the
St. J ohu Farm, at a bargain, For partic-
ulars call on or address, BENJ. J. STUltGES,
Real Estate Broker, No. 4 Gazette Building, N or-
walk, Conn. 4M
FOB SA EFL—A Gristmill, Saw Mill audClder
_Mill, will be sold on‘ reasonable terms.- For
particulars address W. S. WALKER, Weston Ct.
or I“. W. MlTClIELL,‘Renl Estate Broker, or-
wnlk, Conn. 3tp5
0 RENT.—Fronl April 1, a desirable house
on Main Street, containin ten rooms. With
barn and garden. ,Apply atQ INTARD’S FUR-
NITURE ROOMS. 5tf
To Let.
A large house containing 10 rooms with Bor-
ough and Well Water; suitable for one or
two families.
,
Enquire of
JACOB WEEKS,
Cor. Main Street and Union Ave.
on SALE OR. BENT.—Ilousc-on East
Avenue. CHAS. S. I’ROWITT.
To Rent.
HREE ROOMS near center of village.
Apply at this Office.
For Sale.
A GENTL’EMAN’S magnificent residence situ-
_ filed on East Avenue, Norwnlk, Conn.. with-
In one-hall mIle of business portion of city. and
commands fine View-of Norwalk Harbor. House
contains 10 rooms With all modernimprovcments,
water, gas and bath. Splendid barn, carriage
bouéo and room for coachmnn. Place contains
about three acres ol land, running back to river,
whiola malice ll. vcay CO'IlVelllena son Isantizlsa
Will be'sold very cheap and on easy terms. For
further Inlormatlon enquire of
JAMES or F. W. MITCHELL,
Real Estate Brokers, Mitchell’s Block,
' Norwalk. Conn .
Farm for Sale.
‘ HE subscribcrofi'ers for snlchis Farm. situated
In the Town-of Greenfield, in Snratogu 00.,
6d"
. New York State. ten mIlcs from the town of Sara-
toga, pleasantly situated on a rise of ground, 95
acres of land,wrth one Dwelling House, two large
Barns, Grainery and other out buildings, will be.
sold cheap. Half the purchase money can remain
on mortgage, If desired. or will exchange for vil-
lage properti. For further particulars inquire of
3m49 51 AS I’. TUTTLE, N orwalk, Conn
Farm for Sale. '
HEsubscriber oll‘ers {or sale the well known
larm belonging to the estate of Sylvanus Sce-
ly, deceased. Said farmus situated in the town of
New Canaan. on the mam road leading from New
Canaan to Stamford, WIthln fifteen minutes walk
to the vIlluge churches, schools and railroad
depot. . There is about 56 acres of land, one large
convcnxent Dwelling House, With Barns, Grainer-
ms and other out-buildings. Half the purchase
money can remain on bond and mortgage, if de-
sired. For further particulars inquire of
3m49 SlLAS P. TURTLE, Norwalk, Conn.
FOR SA LE—The very desirable residence on
Lewrs St., now occupied by. Rev. Mr. Bent-
ley. Ap ly on the premises,or to J OHN PABET.
374 Broa way, New York. _42
o RENT.—-—A Barn on West Avenne.
ply at the GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale.
THE Homestead of the late Peter McLaughlin,
deceased. It Is_very eligibly located mthe
Borough of Norwalk, 15 two stories and basement,
contains 14 nice rooms. well adapted for a large
family or a, boardlng house; lot,60x20 eet.‘ has
Borough Water, Fruit, Ike. Situated on ranklin
Avenue.withln three minutes’ walk of Post Office,
Depot. Arc, Will be sold on accommodating terms.
For further articulars enquire of
24 JA ES MITCHELL, Real Estate Agent.
FOR SALE.
TWOverydesirableBuildingLotsonWestMaln
- Street .Apply at theGAZETTE ormon.
' For Sale.
HE subscriber offers’for sale his HOUSE and
. LOT, situated on West Main Street, in the
Borough ofNorwalk. The place is pleasantly 10-
'A _
12p
‘ 'cated,ln a good neighborhood, only a short walk
from the business part of the town, School,
Churches, etc. The House Is nearly new;conven-
lently arran ed, and in good condition. For fur-
ther partner: are apply to the subscriber at Can-
non’s Station, or to G. 85 S. H. Holmes, N orwalk»
3y JOHN W. BENOUD.
DWEgPING-S
Building Lots.
SEVERAL dwellinfisnariouslprices in dill'er-
ent portions of . orough, either to let or for
sale at reasonable noes. Also several places
outside of Boron limits—one in Winnlpauk.
Also several Buildinglots In and out of Borough.
tfl9 ’ Enquire at this Office.
For Sale or Exchange.
FOB property in Norwalk or vicinity, 2 houses
In Brooklyn, E. D., withIn 5 minutes walk of
4 ferries. Good location. For particulars apply
to J. S. RANDALL,
45 Box 63. Norwalk.
Farm for Sale.
' BOD T 12 to 13 acres within 1}; miles of center
of N orwnlk. . Good situation, good house,
built of best material and by days work. About
80 choice Ap le trees with other fruit, good gar-
den, ood we 1 of water, and fine shade trees. Just
the p ace for a. man Wishing to raise Strawberries,
etc. Price $7,000. Enquire at this Office.
For Sale.
A cosy comfortable Cottage on one of thepleas-
. antest streets in town, within five minutes
walk of the Bridge-or Churches. will be sold at
cost price. A portion 01 the purchase money can
remain on bond and mortgage. Price $6.000. En-
quire at this Office.
Desirable Property for sale.
Ver ydesirable place on Ens tAvenue. -
Also, a few chorcc BuildingLotssituatedon
Osborn Avenue , forsale cheap.
Also,a nicely located House and Lot on Mer-
win Street near WestAvenue, for sale at a bar-
gain . Enqmreol
S. E. OSBORN . EastAvenue,
tfll or toD.W.FITCH,WestAvenue.
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l Desirable Homestead for Sale.
HE valuable residence .of the subscriber,
pleasantly located on hIgh round on East
Ave., in the Borough of Norwal . Is offered for
sale. The situation Is pleasant and healthy, com-
manding fine views of Long Island Sound and the
surrounding country. Distance one mile from
Norwalk Bridge, and the same from South Nor-
walk depot. House 54x50; two stories and lame,
filled in with brick, and bubstautially built.
Rooms 18, with all. modern 1m rovements. bath
room,lnundry,statlonary tubs, eebcc’s cooking
rangc,hot and cold water, gas throughout the
house. The cellaris dry, having stationary l'nrnr
ace. which heats the whole house. The attic Is
spacious, and roof tinned. The house IS in excel-
lent ordcr beingcomfortable forboth a summer or
winter residence. Suitable for any gentleman do-
ing business in New York and returning the same
day. Land about three-quarters of an acre, laid
out in lawn. fruit trees, and garden spot. A ply
to .{fhllrs MthCIéELlé, Real Estate Agent. or-
wa or to t can scri er,
’ A. s. HAMERSLEY,
26“ 255 Fourth Avenue. N . Y
For Sale.
- A House and Lot, in a healthylocation on
' TN FairStreet,above Catharine. .The Houseis
‘ - nearly new,wellbuilt,convenlentlyarrang-
ed. and will make a. comfortable and leasant
home forafamliy of average size. The ot runs
back to the river. There Is a. wellofexcellent
Street. Price lo\v,nnd part of the money can re-
main on mortgage. A fine chance to secure a
home. Apply atGAZETTE OFFICE. 3tl
Huuuul when Hours are flue.
EVERYONE knows that the non.P.T.Bar-
1alsum, has agents out all over the world to
find t c
I
Best of everythmg regardless ofcost
It is not my disposition to boast of my work. for
talk is cheap. will only say that l. have done
work for Mr. Barnum for over eight years and If
Iwas a fraud or a chest I think he would have
found it out in that time. The followmg speaks
for itself. and is only one out of hundreds I can
produce. JAMES In FERRIS.
Quintard’s Building, N orwalk, Conn.
WALDMERE, BRIDGEPORT, CONN.,Dcc. I3. 1877.
Mr. James L. Ferris has made 'scveral sets of
harness for me which gave me great satisfaction.
lie is a. capital harness maker domg hls bnsmess
upon honor. P. T. BARN UM
GEO. WARD SELLECK "
O
flardcnbrook’s New Block, Wall St.,
Has in his New Store.
A complete assortment of the best class of
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, FRUITS,
due. for family use. at Popular Prices. liIs stock
is ai all times fresh and good, and wrll stand com-
parison with those ol‘any Grocer In town. Cal‘l In
and leave your orders. still
Large Reduction in Prices!
GRET
CASH SALE‘
FOR THIRTY DAYS,
AT
Luckuuul’s FuuuiluuuWaue Rooms,
36 Main St., Norwalk, Conn.
my large stock of Goods for Spring Trade.
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The largest Butt-er Buyersrccommend its use. .
Used by nIItlic best Creamer-ins. Awarded the Inter-
' - P . . ‘ ‘. mcrchautforitmr write tons}: wllutlt is.what
nationalDIploma at N. Y. Dairy 1 air. Ask Iggflhplgziacpfins“x & 00.,
Proprietors. Burlington, t.
we Exa'asw
water on the place, and Borough water in the.
This stock must be closed out to make-room for
. Honoriu.
Write this ‘in slmbea’m’s on Honoria’s tomb,
And be her dust forever censecrate:
“Daughter of Helpfulness, she ever strove,
By countless acts of secret charity
And words of cheerful import, to incline
All: suffering souls to lean on heavenly things.
Her gifts were lowly, but her heart outran
Her gifts-.I- She had no vaunt of self,no pride
In deeds conspicuous, no ambitious flights
To achieve in place, or wealth, or praise.
She lived I
That others might be happy, and deserve
The happiness they gained. Benevolence
With her went hand in hand with Wisdom,
Never Want turned hopeless from her door,
But inwardly resolved henceforth to struggle
Into higher aims.”
, Hark how the blithe birds
Chant about her-gravel No requiem fitter
To express in the song the harmonious beauty
Of a gentle life sacredto Helpfulness
And Human Love. ‘
——JAMas T. FIELDS, in Harper's Magazine
for March. ' ‘ '
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' IN PRAISE 0F SLEEP.
BY PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON.
There is a lane where nightly I repair,
At whose dim gate I lay my cross aside,
Stretch out my arms toward» Rest, as toward
a bride
And am withal assuaged. Ah! even there
Beyond false hope,beyond the stress of prayer,
Beyond the hurt and smart of wounded
pride, ' . »
With no more hunger for sweet things de.
nied, .
My heart has rest and respite from despair.
0 Land of mystic shapes and languid.
pleasure! '
Waste fields of poppies, without track, it
seems; ‘
As scentless lilies by the voiceless streams
Where come my ghosts and dance a silent
» measure, . .
“Hold my lost joy now only in dear dreams ;
GIve back to me, sometimes my buried treas-
ure. ’
II.
I have no heart in me for Leve’s delight.
How sweet the summer was. Iknow its
spell,
Who car; not now what stars may have tO
te . '
For me the day is void and void the night.
Upon her dim and inaccessible height
Fame stands above me, robed and crowned
Ah, well I
Let those who love her find her pleasure able
She hath nor grace nor merit in my sight.
I only am in love with tender Sleep:—
Dew on my sad, unfruitful flewér of life,
Of which no man the memory may keep
0 most divine forgetfulness of strife.
My sky is not too gray, my path too steep,
While thou art mine, for friend,.forlove,
for wife! —Independent.
——
A Mother’s Words.
A mother on the green hills of Vermont,
was holding by the right hand a son, sixteen
years old, mad. with love of the sea; and as
she stood by the garden gate one morning,
she said: , .
“Edward, they tell me—for I never saw
the ocean—the great.temptation of a sea-
man‘s life is drink. Promise me, before you
quit your‘mother’s hand, that you will never
drink.” , .
“And," said be, for he toldrthe story, “I
gave the promise, and I went the globe over
—Calcutta and the Mediterranean, San Fran-
cisco and the Cape of Good Hope, the North
Pole and the South. I saw them all in fogty
years. and I never saw a glass filled with
sparkling liquor that my. mother’s form by
the gate did not rise up before me, and to—
dayIam innocent of the taste of liquor.”
Was not that sweet evidence of the power
of a single word ? Yet that is not half.
“For," said he, “yesterday there came
into my counting room a man of forty
years. -. -
“Do you know me i”
£5N0.”
"Well,”_ said he, “I was once brought
drunk into your presence on shipboard.
You were a passenger. They kicked me
aside; you took me to your berth and kept
me there until I had slept off the intoxica—
tion. -You then asked me if I had a mother.
I said I had never known a word from her
lips. You told me of yours at the garden
gate, and today I am master of one of the
packets in NewfiYork, and came to‘ask you
to come and see me I”
How far that little candle throws its
beams! That mother’s words in the green
of Vermont! on, 'God be thanked for the
mighty power of a single word.
*
' A lady in Salt Lake City, who has en- ‘
joyed the: privilege of attending a family
dinner party at which the host introduced
his second wife to the .first wife and to his
other acquaintances, has confided her im-
pressions to the Sacramento Unim. After
dinner, which dragged terribly, the bride-
groom looking very sheepish indeed, prepar-
ations were made for the opera. He placed
his'arm gently around the slender waist of
his new bridejfolded her cloak close to her
form. and drew her toward him in the sight
of the first wife and .all the guests. She rc-~
sponded to his caress with a tender glance,
and the lady who describes thejscene noticed
in the first wife’s pallid face a look of age-
nized endurance mingled with devilish ma-
lignity. When the visitor expressed her
sympathy after the departure of the bride
and bridegroom, the first wife replied: “I
am not jealous, but happy in this new love
of my husband. Our faith teaches us to love
these sisters in marriage as our own flesh.
This marriage is not an estrangemcnt of my
husband’s;love, as it would be in an unsanc-
tified Gentile, but a marriage to myself. In
this marriage I live over again my own
espousal, my own bridal, and renew again
the first sweets of married love. ” When
the other guests, had gone. however, the
truth came out unreservedly. "12am most
wretched. Between me and any celestial
lights, or any glory or peace or consolation
in this life or in the world to come, there
stands‘,that woman. Between me and all
the light of my religion stands that woman.”
This girl’s ‘face is hateful to me; that my
husband should love one of her mere beauty
alone! My imagination cannot be held
back from all the soul-torturing ithings which
follow in the train of this marriage.”
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CONNECTICUT SUGAR—Ill the representa—
tives hall at the new capitol this Tuesday
evening, Professor Colliers will give the re—
sulteoof two years of experiments at sorg-
hum raising, here in the north. These
results are highly satisfactory and encourag—
ing. Profissor Colliers believes that in
sugar making from sorghum. New Eng.
laml has an Important field Opening—um!
llmt Illc Inn-int so can he made more profits.-
ble than tolm‘t-CO—growing when prices lul‘
tobacco \Vil‘t‘ double what they are now.
Who isllac (lemocratic statesman in Wash-
ington who lately issued the following (ml—
‘ul‘IiL-hd) order: “Pleas send me 2 barbell
Cl‘cklulls'r" ’l‘he “’ashington dispatches
my that he holds an (-flitc higher than that
of census supervisor. He's just the man for
commissioner of education under the first
delnocratic administration—if then: ever is
one—Tribune. -
"The Cincinnati Camuuzercz’al l'tpul'lS that
young Uij sees S. Grant (“Buck,” 38 he is
enrrally called) has had'arich streak of luck.
c has been invlsling in stocks in New
York, and is cruliled with having cleared
$100,000. ‘Prohnbly we shall next hear of the
young‘s man’s having been carried away on
the Flood-tide of prosperity. '
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