WHOLE NUMBER 1763.
A GEM.
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Crmnras Kmosmr.
The world goes up and the world goes down
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday’s sneer, and yesterday’s frown
‘ Can never come back again,
Sweet wife,
N 0, never come back again.
For women is warm, though man be cold,
And the night will haliow the day;
Till the heart that even was weary and old,
Can use in the morning gay, sweet wife,
To its work in the morning gay.
Why Cornwallis was at
Yorktown,
North American Review.
- When Lord George Germaine waited upon
Lord North with the news of the surrender
'of Cornwallis at Yorktown, on the 19th of
October, 1781, the minister received it,
Germaine says, as he would have taken a
ball in his breast, and exclaimed : “O God!
it is ,all over?” It was not merely that a
battle, or a town, or an army had been lost;
it was the loss of a cause. The final military
movement, which had been devised and de-
pended upon for the subjugation of the
American Colonies, had failed, and the Brit.
. ish Empire was now hopelessly divided
No wonder that such intelligence came to
Lord North like the blow of a bullet. The
misfortunes of his country, even when they
were not the result of his own stupidity and
obstinacy, he could bear with the most
good-natured equanimity; but this announc-
ement of a disintegration of empire was the
announcement also of the defeat of party.
Who could stop to think of the welfare .of
the people when a cabinet was in jeopardy ?
Had Lord North ever heard of that habitual
prayer, through all those trying years of the
Revolution, of a county clergyman in Mas-
sachusetts—“Deliver us, 0 Lord, from Lord,
North, the Flesh, and the Devil l”—he
would have felt almost ready to acknowledge
that the most earnest purpose of the petition
had been listened to and that Providence had
gone over to the side of the rebels.
Great things had been expected of the op.
erations at the South, which Sir Henry
Clinton had left in the hands of Lord Corn-
wallis at the fall of Charleston the year be-
fore. And if the colonies were to be saved,
it was obvious enough to almost everybody
that a great thing must be done somewhere.
Hitherto, exhaustive as .the struggle had
been, the promise of success was on the
rebel side. Except from the Canadian bor-
der in northern New York, the war had
never been carried inland more than half a
day’s march from tide-water. The defeat of
Burgoyne was of the last importance, not
merely because it was a campaign won on one
side and an army lost;on the other, but be-
cause the intcrior was saved from the danger
of the proposed junction of the armies under
Burgoyne and Clinton. It was plain that
the rebels had no cause for despair or de-
spondency if their own spirit and their own
resources held out; so long as they could
thus keep the enemy at bay. It was equally
plain, on the other side, that five years of
want of success forshadowed ultimate dc!
feat.
The one chance left was the South. There
the Tory element was larger and more ac-
tive. The distance from the North and the
difficulty of communication so great, that the
rebellious people could place little reliance
upon any efileient aid from that quarter,
either in men or the munitions of war.‘
The Southern colonies, therefore, it was
hoped, could be saved to the Crown. and
then, perhaps, the rest be recovered. For,
that they were already as good as lost was a
conviction making its way in every intelli-
gent mind in England, except the King’s——
if his may be called intelligent,—though as
yet it was not much talked about.
Accordingly-afiairs seemed to put on an-
other aspect, at least to the English mind in
England, with the successive reports of the
progress of Cornwallis in the Carolinas.
That the real character of his campaign was
misunderstood, only made the reverse at
Yorktown, the next autumn, the harder to
bear. It was believed that from the northern
boundary of Georgia to the southern bound-
ary of Virginia, he had not merely overrun
but had conquered the whole country; that
he had aroused a loyal people zealous enough
to hold it in firm allegiance to the Crown;
that over every rebel stood a guard, and the
guard was his neighbor, or even several of
his neighbors. Rebellion was dead south of
Virginia; from North Carolina to New York
it was hemmed in between two fires. So it
looked in England; to Sir Henry Clinton it
seemed that all this, though not yet quite
true, might be made so if there were no abat-
ment of effort in that region of country.
Cornwallis knew better.
He had tried the experiment of subduing
the southernmost colonies by invasion from
the South, and it was a failure. He believed
it would continue to be a failure so long as
communication between them and the North
was left open. True, as he moved north-
ward from Charleston with an army of vet-
eran troops, commanded by some of the best
officers who had seen service in America, his
progress was irresistible. Rebellion was
trampled down before him. He established
and he held such posts as he pleased. He
scattered, usually without ,much difficulty,
though sometimes at heavy cost, such armed
resistance as the country militia could offer.
He could rally about him the loyal Tories
wherever he went, and could generally rely
upon them for destroying their neighbor's
property and cutting their neighbors’ throats
with an alacrity and zeal worthy of the
warmest praise. But he also knew that the
rebellion trampled down in the van of his
troops Iwas not trampled out, but was as
lively as ever the moment he was out of
sight; that the ports he garrisoued held the
ccgntry in subjection precisely. within the
range of a musket or the swing of a saber;
that the militia scattered by a charge of his
veteran cavalry would be found, very likely.
in ambush at the next turn of the road, or
would be heard from, when the troops were
half-way across the next ford, from behind
the trees and rocks on the opposite bank;
that the stealing of cattle and horses and
crops, the burning of barns and houses, and
the hanging and shooting of their owners,
would be continued with unremitting dili-
gcnce—hnly that as soon as his back was
turned actors _and sufferers would change
places.
Warfare of his character was fruitless and
discouraging to the invader It was even the
more discouraging that it was varied occa-
sionally by real battles, which taught the
English commanders that these rough pab‘
tisans of the woods and swamps could be
turned into formidable soldiery when they
thought it worth while to submit to military
discipline. Ferguson, if he aspired to a
soldier’s death on a well-fought field, could
not have found a more honorable one than
when he fell at King’s Mountain. The
campaign may not have seemed to Tarleton as
exciting as a fox-chase till he met Morgan at
Cowpens. When“ he heard. the cry of
“Tarleton’s quarter l” in reply to the prayers
of his men for.mercy,—prayers which, it
should In said, were nevertheless not un-
needed,—hc may have reflected that his con-
tempt and his cruelty had been equally un-
wise. When the news of the battle at Guil-
ford Court-house Was received in England,
Fox said, in the House of Commons, “An-
other such victory would ruin the British
army.” When Cornwallis thought of fthe1
wrote to Clinton :
showed by leaving Greene behind him un-
molcgred, on Troublesome Creek, and by
marching, within two days, straight for
Wilmington. Publicly, he said: “I thought
it was time to look for some place for rest
and redtment." Privately, :he wrote to his
friend General Phillips that he was “tired
Such partisan and desultary warfare did not
in the least commend itself to his military
judgment. The aim of war is not adventures.
The subjugation of the Ca rolinas no nearar
in the spring of 1781, when he arrived at
. Wilmington, then in the spring of 1780, when
j be left Charleston.
What and could be
gained by marching and countermraching for
. another year through the country in search
, of Sumter and Marion and Davie and the
other partisan chiefs ? He could never find
them if they did not choose to_be found; but
they were never at a loss to know where they
dispersed, but they could never be disofiga—
him, in the depths of swamps, within sound
of the neighing of his own horse; yet their
communication with each other, wherever
they might be, was certain, and rapid. The
men who to-day were holding the plow or
wielding the sickle, would be ready to-mor-
row to shoulder their rifles at the call of their
leaders, ready to hang on the flanks or his
rear, to cut off his detachments, or run of!
his supply-trains into the woods. It was like
fighting shadows, the substance of which,
however, was felt, though not seen.
From a purely military point of view, this
ftate of things was altogether irregular, and
to the purely :military man exceedingly ex-
asperating. There were no rules laid down
in the books for its management, and it was
absolutely {subversive of all military disci-
pline. Some captains were hopelessly in.
capable at the head of companies. where ev-
ery trigger had a brain behind it as well as
a forefinger in front. But there was also
trained soldiers who were too wise to under-
value‘this kind of fighting material. Com-
wallis spoke of this irregular soldiery as the
“warlike militia,” and with quiet sarcasm he
“The list of lat-inflam-
cers and soldiers killed and wounded by
'them since last June 'proves too fatally that
they are not wholly contemptible.” Morgan
understood them perfectly. He wrote to
General Greene, not long before the battle of
Guilford: “I expect Lord Cornwallis will
push you until you are obliged to fight him.
. . You’ll have, from what I see, a great
number of militia. If they fight, you’ll beat
Cornwallis; if not, he’ll beat you.” What
Morgan himself could do with them he had
shown at Cowpens.
The problem of a Southern campaign was,
how to conduct it to asuccessful issue under
such conditions. It was obvious that not
much more than the skeleton of a regular
army could be sent from the North. Solong
however, as even this could be done, and the
South be assured of some support from the
Congress, and that the good cause was not
hopeless, just so long would the fighting
men ofythe Carolinas hold together and rally
around such an army, if it were only a
general and his staff. But they would hold
together after their own methods, and would
clothe, also in their own way, the regulation
frame-work with the blood and sinew and
muscle that would fit it for effective work.
Washington knew that he could do little
to help the South, except to help the South
to help herself. The policy of her fighting
men was to avoid as long as possible any
general battle, which, from the circumstances
of the case, they could rarely hope to win.
What they aimed to do, and what they did,
was to harass the enemy at every point; to
cut him off and cut him up in detachments:
to make the country everywhere too hot to
hold him; to render the contest, as Corn-
wallis afterward declared it had proved to be,
“impracticable against the rebellious inhabi-
tants, supported by a continental army.”
It was Gates’s ,mistake that he failed to
recognize the fact that the defense of the
country depended upon the people, and that
their aid must be accepted in the way they
chose to give it. A _late historian of “The
Battles of the Revolution” says of that gen-
eral, that “there is not a redeeming fact
during his connection with the Southern
army to show his fitness to command troop.”
The truth seems to be rather that he did not
understand there was any Southern army
to command outside of his regular troops.
At the battle of Camden he did not know.
and, apparently, did not care, what force of
militia was present. From his disposition
of them , he seemed to think they might be
of some use in being killed; it clearly did
not occur to him that on this point they might
have definite opinions of their own,and would
pay small regard to his wishes. >
“I think I am giving your a general,”
Washington said, when Greene was appoint-
ed to supersede Gates; “but what can a
general do without men, without arms,'with-
out clothing, without stores, without pro-
visions ?" What couldbe done it was for
the military genius of this Quaker to show.
Neither men nor means were wanting if they
were looked for in the right place and used
in the right way. They would have hardly
understood [him if he had talked about a
Fabian policy, for “Plutarch’s Lives" had
not yet become the oade mum of Southern
culture. But they understood his method,
and saw how carefully it was adaptedto that
of Marion and Sumter, and the other-leaders
of the irregulars of that :co'untry. Their
confidence in him was unbounded, because
they knew he understood what. they could
and what they cppld not do, andacted ae-
cordingly. His reliancezupon them‘was un-
swerving, because he knew that performance
would _ keep step with iPl'OlIIIBBI where
nothing beyond was asked or expected.
After the battle of Guilford he retreated in
good order from a well-feught field, consid-
ering that only about a third of'his small
army were;regulars‘, and were outnumbered
by the veterans on the other side. He lost
a battle, but he gained a campaign. His
communicatioas were, unbroken; his little
army on Troublesome Creek, thcugh ragged,
and barefooted, and hungry, had lost'nothin'g
of its courage and will; his larger army of
partisans and militimlhidden away in for.
ests,snd swamps,or scattered among theplan-
tations, from the Dan to the Santee, was as
indomitable as ever.
Cornwallis knew what a contest was with
these people when without a general ; it was
easy to see what it probably would be with
such a general as Greene. Had Cornwallis
remained in the Carolinas he would not have
lost Yorktown. A similar result would have
come, perhaps, in some other way. But that
particular result would not have happened
had he not relinquished the attempt to sud-
due the Carolinaslas hopeless so long as
Virginia was in possession of the rebels, and
undertaken, without orders 'and without
consultation with his chief, to carry on the
war in another way. When he turned his
back upon Guilford Court-house, and his
face to the sea, he took the first step on the
high,road that led straight to ,an inevitable
catastrophe.
The move to Wilmingtong‘alarmcd Clinton
lest disaster should follow in the Southern
provinces. He chose ato ssume, however,
that Cornwallis was ready to march south-
ward again should such disaster seem immi-
nent. But when he learned positively that
Cornwallis was about to push forward into
Virginia, he avows his disapprobation in a
remarkable protest. “Had it been possible,”
he wrote in May, “for your Lordship, in
your letterto me of the 10th ult.,,to have
intimated the probability of your intention
to form a inaction with General Phillips [in
C
of marching about in search {of adventures".
could find him. They might disperse or be ‘
nized. They might lie hidden, unknown to ,
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1881.
NORWALK GAZETTE,
PIIILISIIED EVERY TUESDAY Ifllllll.
Virginia], I should certainly have endeavor-
ed to have stopped you, 1181 did then,as well
as now, consider such a move as likely to be
dangerous to our interests in the Southern
colonies." .
Perhaps it was the strain of official court-
esy that led to this discomflture of logic and
of grammer. How was it possible that
Cornwallis should, on the 10th of April,
"intimate the probability of an intention" to
join Phillips in Virginia, when he did not
know till the 22d of April that Phillips had
been ordered to that province ? And how, if
no such intimation was given because it was
impossible, did it happen that Clinton “did
then . . . consider such a move as dan-
gerous” ? But the truth is Cornwallis had
given a very positive intimation of his incli-
nation in his letter of April 10th, and
Clinton is anxious to cover up his own stu-
pidity in not understanding it, by complain-
ing that an intention subsequently formed in
accordance with that inclination ; was not
conveyed to him. Cornwallis said in that
letter : “I cannot help expressing my wishes
that the Chesapeake may become the seat
of the war, (even if necessary) at the ex-
pense of abandoning New York. Until
Virginia is in a manner subdued, our hold of
the Carolinas must be difficult, if not precar-
ious." Fortunately’:this hint seems to have
fallen upon dull ears, and was only made to
do service as an after-thought, when intent-
ion had become an accomplished fact.
Whatever may have been Cornwallis’s in-
' tention before the 22d of April, he decided
what to do the moment he heard that Phil-
lips was in Virginia. He knew that the ob-
ject of that expedition was to aid his own
campaign in North Carolina; he seized upon
it as the pretext of abandoning that campaign
altogether. He wrote the next day to Lord
George Germaine that he apprehended he
could not join Lord Rawdon in South Car.
olina without great hazard, as, should he
attempt it, General Greene might hem him
'in, cut ofi his subsistence, and render his
arms useless; he resolved, therefore,to march
immediately and attempt a junction with
General Phillips.
;discussed the condition of afiairs more at
length in a letter to the minister. The Tor-
Four days before, he had
,ies of the Southern colonies, whose aid had
been so largely counted on, were not, he
said, nearly so numerous as was supposed,
and their loyalty was of no practical value;
the character of the Southern country made
it impossible for a hostile army to hold it,
and very difllcult to reduce it to obedience
by a direct attack. “If, therefore,” be con-
cluded, “it should appear to be in the in-
terest of Great Britain to maintain what she
already possesses and to push the war in the
Southern provinces, I take the liberty of
giving it as my opinion that a serious attempt
upon Virginia would be the most solid plan,
because successful operations might not only
be attended with important consequebces
there, but would tend to the security of South
Carolina, and ultimimly to; the submission
of North Carolina."
. In announcing to General Phillips, the
next day, his intention to march immediate-
ly to Virginia, he says: “My situation here
is very distressing, Greene took the advan-
tage of my being obliged to come to this
place, and has marched to South Carolina.” '
It is remarkable that it had not occurred to
him earlier that Greene was that kind of a
man who "takes advantage" of the blunders
of an enemy. Colonel Tarleton, in his his-
tory of these campaigns, says that "the move
toward the shipping in Cape Fear River,”
after the battle of Guilford, “had prompted
General Greene to point his course toward
South Carolina.” He adds that “the wisdom
and vigor" of these movements “deranged.
all the designs of Earl Cornwallis at Wil-
mington.” If Cornwiilis had really had any
intention of taking the field again in the
Carolinas, he may now have become
convinced that he had lost the chance
of doing so with any hope of success
by his blunder in leaving Greene behind him
at Troublesome Creek ; that the only way
to atone for that blunder and extricate
himself from the situation which was so
“distressing,” was to make the presence of
Phillips in Virginia an excuse for joining him '
to change the seat of war to that province,
and strike there a telling blow.
As it was fortunate that Clinton did not
accept the dispatch of April 10th as “an
intimation of the probability of an intention,”
so now, fortunately, when the intention was
positively announced in dispatches of the
23d, it was too late for either expostulation
or counter orders. Before the letters reach-
ed New York, Cornwallis was in Virginia.
He relied upon favor at court to sustain him,
and referred Clinton, for his determination
and the reasons by which be justified it,,to
copies of his letters to Germaine. No won-
der the commander-inchief was indignant.
“As your lordship is now so near,” he soon
wrote to Cornwallis in Virginia, “it will be
unnecessary for you to send your dispatches
immediately to the minister; you will,
therefore. be so good as to send them to me
in future.” The‘dudied courtcsey of official
correspondnce between the two generals was
henceforth tempered by an acrimony bitter
enough to show that each was quite willing
to see the other come to grief. “They were
so ill together," says Horace Walpole, “that
Sir Henry had owned to Conway that he
was determined to challenge Lord Cornwallis
after the campaign.” When the end came,
however, the consequences of their differ-
ences had proved too momentous to admit
of their consideration as a more personal
quarrel,
Cornwallis arrived at Petersburg on the
20th of May. Almost from that moment,
theiwant of harmony between the two gen—
eralsled to the confusion which ended in
disaster in the movements, in Virginia.
“Lord Cornwallis,"‘ says Clinton, “had
ferried himself upon me in that province":
“Lord Cornwallis thought proper to decline
engaging in the plan of operations which I
had'proposed to him in case he had none of
his own." Of course Cornwallis was not
without a plan; else why was he in Virginia
at all it He had, on his sole responsibility,
abandoned North Carolina to Greene; he
had left Rnwdon in peril in South’Carolina,
and jeoparded the loss of the whole of that
province, as he acknowledged, except the
district immediately around Charleston ; and
this, complete change in the conduct of the
war he had taken upon himself to make be-
cause he believed that those provinces could
only be subdued by first reducing Virginia.
He would make the war aggressive there,
because it had necessarily ceased to be so
farther will, and had become defensive
merely. And he said: “If our plan is de-
fensive, let us quit the Carolinas (which
'cannot be held defensively while Virginia can
be so easily armed against us.) and stick to
our salt pork at New York, sending now and
then a detachment to steal tobacco, etc.”
What else could Clinton expect but that
Cornwallis should reject all plans except
those of his own devising, which he came to
Virginia for the sole purpose of carrying
out?’ He had appealed to Germaine for
support. To falter now would be a tacit
acknowledgment that this was a proper case
for the consideration of a court-martial.
Clinton, on the other hand, behaved in the,
old plan—the conquest of the Southern prov-
inces by direct attack, and as preparatory of
the more northern colonies, Virginia and the
rest. He had sent Phillips and Arnold to
Virginia first to intercept all aid'to Greene;
and when all should be done that could be
done in this way on behalf of Cornwallis in
North Carolina, than Phillips and Arnold
were to make a diversion in favor of New
York, so perpetually. menaced by Washing-
“1.
ton, by a move to the Upper Chespeake,
which should threaten both Baltimore and
Philadelphia. But when Cornwallis came
into possession of Phillips’s papers,—that
general having died of fever a few days be-
fore Cornwallis reached Petcrsburg,—he as-
sumed, because Phillips's opinion had been
asked, that it was proper to give his own.
He disapproved, he said, of the plan of the
commander-in-chief. Asa mere preliminary
to his own larger plan of dividing the colo-
nies by driving in a wedge of separation in
Virginia, he proposed to brush Lgfayettc out
of the way,—“thc boy,” he said, “cannot
escape me,”—and then hm would return to
Williamsbnrg to await further communica-
tion from the commander-in-chicf. No
doubt he expected Clinton would submit as
before, and that he would have his own
way.
Here was the crucial point in the relatiou
of the two generals. Clinton was riot dis-
posed to give up his own plan for the con-
duct of the war, that another, which as did
not in the least approve of, might be carried
out by Cornwallis. He theragcrc directed
Cornwallis, as he declined to move tmvard
the Upper Chesapeake, to take a defensive
and healthful position where a barber oonld ,
be'secured for line-of-battie ships, and return
so much of his force as was needed for den 1
found of the post, to New York. The posi-
tive orders of a military superior must be
obeyed; but they can be so obeyed as to hin-
der, and not help.
Before this point of the centroversy was
reached,—when Cornwallis was expecting
to have his own way in a campaign for the
reduction of Virginia, even, if necessary,
“at the expense of abandoning New York,"
—he had written to Clinton that he was "in- .
ciined to think well of York as a proper
harbour and place of arms”—t’hat is, as a
base for his own operations ; that Portsmouth
was objectionable because it could not “be
made strong without an army to protect it” ;
that it was “remarkably unhealthy,” and that
it could “give no protection to a ship of the
line.” York, icother words, was the best
place for his own purposes, and Portsmouth .
was the worst on Chesapeake Bay. But
when his plan was rejected, and the com.
mandarin-chief ordered him to take such a
position as Cornwallis himself had’ suggested
York was and Portsmouth was not,he imme-
diately put his army in motion‘and marched,
not to York, but to Portsmouth.
As in the case of the advance into Virgin-
ia from Wilmington, Clinton, was not ad-
vised of his move to Portsmouth till it was
too .late to countermand it. “I, flattered
myself,”he wrote to Cornwallis, “that you
would at least have waited for a line from
me before you finally determined upon so
serious and mortifying a move"; and he
reminded him that he would find in these
instructions to Phillips—by which Cornwall-
is professed to be guided when seeking to
justify himself for rejecting the proposition
to move against Baltimore and Philadelphia
—that he, the commander-in-chicf, had there
said, ,‘God forbid I should think of burying .
the elite of my army in Nansem'ond and
Princess Anne !" Perhaps both he and Corn-
wallis wished, three months later, that he had
been buried there.
The repeated orders for the return of
troops to New York were baffled by this
movement to Portsmouth, and before the
position at Yorktown was taken, the season
was so advanced they could not be spared
from the work of intrenchment. It was near
the end of July before it was decided that
Old Point Comfort was not a tenable posi-
tion; it was nearly the middle of August
before all the troops were landed at York
and Gloucester. The watchful eyes of
Washington—“Mr." Washington, as Clin-
ton was always careful to call him—were on
all these delays and blunders of the summer.
The intrenching tools of Cornwallis‘s men
had broken ground. at Yorktown before the
American and French armies had crossed the ,
Hudson, though Clinton did not discover for '
a week that they had marched southward,
Before the end of September, Cornwallis was
surrounded in the trap of hisiown oontriving.
Before the end of October, the stillness of
the midnight in the streets of Philadelphia '
was broken by the cry of a Scotch watchman
—“Past twal o'clock, a cloudy mornin,”.an‘
Cornwallis be tak'n l"
SYDNEY HOWARD Gar
a
Large Fire in New York.
LOSS nsrmunn a'r $2,000,000.
Naw Yenx, October 10,—Ons of the larg-
est conflagrations that has occurred in this
city for some time broke out a few minutes
before seven this evening on the southeast
corner of Thirty-second street and Lexing-
ton avenue, which was occupied as a carpen-
ter shop. The building in which the fire
originated adjoins the Fourth avenue rail-
road stables, which occupies almost the en-
tire block from Thirty-second to Thirty-
third street and from Fourth avenue to Lex-
ington Avenue. In less than five minutes
after the flames were first discovered the fire
had extened to the stable and in less than
fifteen minutes the entire building was ablaze,
Second and third alarms were sent, but ow-
ing to a lack of water, and assisted byasharp
breeze blowing from the northeast, the flames
continued to spread in every direction, and
all the reserve of the fire department. Wore
summoned to the scene. While the firemen
were directing their efforts to the stables the
flames leaped across the street to Morrell’s
storage warehouse, a large five story building
occupying about half a block on Thirty-so:
cond street and Fourth avenue, in which was
stored a vast amount of valuables, consistigg
of pictures, furniture, china plate and jewel-
ry. The firemen made desperate effort to
check the progress of the flames, but to little
purpose and in a short time nearly the whole
of the storage warehouse and contents were
destroyed. At the time of the outbreak
nearly a thousand horses were in the stable s,
and nearly all, it was stated, were got out:
but it is feared a large number perished.
Foratime the greatest alarm prevailed in
the Park Avenue hotel, which is situated di-
rectly opposite the stables, but beyond a few
cracked and broken windows the hotel sus-
tained no damage. Judge Hilton, who was
in the hotel at the time, quieted the guests
by assuring them that there was not the
slightest danger. The loss on the stables and
contents, including many thousand bushels
of cats and corn and thousands of bales of
hay and straw, is estimated at $750,000.
The loss on Morrell’s building and contents
is estimated at over one million dollars, which
is partly covered by insurance in the city and
out of town companies. At least thirty
houses surrounding the scene were more or
less damaged by water. .Two firemen were
severely injured by falling walls, but fortu-
nately no fatal accidents occurred. At a late
hour the fire was still burning but under con-
trol.
It is stated that between fifty and one hun-
dred horses perished in the flames, but ow-
ing to the confusion the exact number could
not be ascertained. The stables are owned
by William H. Vanderbilt, and the estimated
loss on them is about $200,000. The loss
on;Morrell‘s stora warehouse is now rough-
ly estimated at $ , .000. It is said that
some of the finest furniture in the city was
stored here and that the greater portion and
that of the most valuable was owned by the
proprietors of the Fifth Avenue hotel. A
costly picture, which was valued at $50,000,
belonging to W. K. Vanderbilt, was among
the articles which perished in the flames.
The best families in the city, when traveling,
or out of town, deposited their valuables at
Morrell's and took their own risks, insuring
or not as they saw fit; hence much of the
material stored was uninsured through the
no lect of the owners. ‘A woman who lived
ingl‘hirty-second street died from fright, and
another woman was carried from the house
in an unconscious condition to the hospital.
"One-half column, one time ..... ... . . .
I
The Second Olden Paper In the State.
OFFICE IN GAZETTE BUILDING.
A? H. BYINGTON & CO.
'A. H. Brmcrox, J. B. Eons, G. N. Erma
Subécription $2.001»: ear, in advance.
Single Copies Cents.
Entered at the Post Ofiec at Norwalk, 007%,
as Second-Class Matter. .
Advertising Rates :
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“Speck! Notlcel 25 per cent. advance on the
eve.
Locnl Notlccl in Reading Columns, 25
Cents per line. ’ '
Yearly advertisers restricted to the business
contemplated at the time of contract, but are
permitted to make monthly changes of their ad-
vertisements. .
Marriages and Deaths inserted gratuitously.
Obituary or Funeral Notices 15 cents per line.
«All unusual cuts and devices 25 per cent.extra
J. G. GREGORY & CO.
DRUG-GISTS,
Successors to EDWARD P. WEED, -
No. 38 Wall Street. Norwalk, Cit,
invite the attention of the public to their complete
stock of
Pure Medicines and Drugs,
and a full line of
TOILET & FANCY. ARTICLE.
Also dealers in
Pure Wines& Liquors for
Medicinal Purposes.
.Carcf'ul attention paid to the dispensing of phy.
sicians’ prescriptions. 23
0. ll. Kendall, ill. I).
DENTIST,
NORWALK, CONN.
Office second
door west from
Danbury R. R.
Depot. Dental
operations in all
branches as for-
GA S a. specialty
N.B.—Dr. Kendall spends Mondays in Ridge-
fleld. Prices for artificial teeth reduced. 42
DEN TIS'I'RY
‘ FRANK T. HYATT, .
NOT belonging to any combination, can and
will make A_rtific1al Teeth cheaper than
any other Dentist in Norwalk and warrant them
to e,of‘ the very best material. 1 have also pro-
cured the services of J. C. NEWKIRK, and am
now prepared to do filling at the Lowest Cash
Price. Extracting 2 5 c. Nocharge for extract-
inglif‘ artificial teeth are to be inserted. Office
an Residence adjoining Methodist Parsonage,
Norwalk. Open evenings. 25
o _ - -
naturism..-
35 cents. A Mothers’
remedy for sleepless and irritable
Children. The Recipe of Old D-.
Pitcher, Free from Morphine, and
not Narcotic. Forumla published
with each bottle. For Flatulency,
assimilating the food, Sour Stomach,
Feverishness, Worms, and Disor-
dered Bowels, Castoria. has the largc
estsale of any article dispensed by
Druggists. - . ,.
SI De M YET
WEI DE M’s QATAR“
Cure. a Constitutional Antidote for
this terrible 111.311“!ny Absorption.
SPORTS of disgusting Mucous,
Sunnis-p Grooming Pains in tho
Headel‘ofldhflroaflr, neutrons, nub:
any stun- omplnln
exterminator! . Wot Do Mayor’s
Catarrlr Cure. most important t
Discovery since Vaccination. Other
remodlotuuy relieve Cntmlr, this
cures at any atng‘ 0 before Consump-
tion Iota ill."
Onto~ package (smelly suffices.
Delivered by or by D. B.
a 00., 182 Fulton 811., N.Y..
81.00 complete. Trotstlaouud ro-,
markablo statements by the cured
mulod' boo. ‘
rNTAun
.fip'ment.
The most Powerful,
Penetrating and Pain-relieving
remedy ever devised by man. It
soothes Pain, it allays inflammation,
it heals Wounds, and it cures
RHEUMATISM,
Sciatica, Lumbago, Scolds,
Burns, Stiff Joints, Cuts, Swell-
ings, Frost bites, Quinsey, Salt
Rheum, Itch, Sprains, Gulls, and
Lameness from any cause. Suf-
f store from _ .
PAIN IN THE BACK,
. Fever Sores, Eruptions, Broken
Breasts, contracted Cords, Neu-
raigia, Palsy or dislocated limbs;
and owners of horses, planters, me-
chanics, merchants and professional
men everywhere, unite in saying, that
CENTAUR LINIMENT
brings relief when all other Lini-
ments, Oils, Extracts and Embrocs-
dons have failed. .
M
.1. H. BALDWIN, 111.13..
Homeopathic PIlYiltllill ll Surgeon
Office corner of Main and Wall Streets, over H.
S. Betts’ Drug Store.
Office Hours from 10 p. m. to 9 s. m.,l to 3 and
7 to 8 p. m.
Slates at Hanford & Osborn’s, East Norwalk,
and at D. Beers. Jr , South Norwalk. Calls b
Telephone at Betts’ Drug Store promptly attcn -
ed to. ly23
L. N. PHINNEY, M. 0.,
Residence andOflice, No. 62 Wall Street.
Office Hours—6 to 9 a. me, 12 to 3 and 7 to 8 p.m.
Slates at I. A, Meeker do Oo’s.Norwalk, and Still-
son’s and Plarsted’s Drug Stores, So. Norwalk. ,
CHARLES W. MANY,
Surgeon Dentist.
nouwanx, cowiv.
Office corner of Main and Wall Streets. Nitrous-
Oxide Gas administered.
ALEX. S. GIBSON ,
Organist of the First Congregationalist Church
Teacher of
Plano-Forte. Organ and Mullen]
Componltlon,: .
'Lock Box 39. r. 0., nonwatx. cons.
Hurlbutt & Relyea,
Attorneys llllll Counsellors at Law,
Room NO. ‘3 UP 838'",
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK.
Charles F. Chew,
PIANO TUNER, &c.
Orders received at I. A. MEEKER'S DRUG
STORE. 21 Main Street. lys
REMOVAL!
B. S. BLASCER,
Has removed to Lockwood’s Building, Wall Street
foot of Main. which has been refitted and furn-
ished with a choice stock of
Groceries, Crockery, Glass, to:
He gives his . rsonal attention to his business
and invites pub 1c patronage.
L?Yourselvcs by making money whena
golden chance is offered, thereby aim
ways kcc ing poverty from your door.
Those w 0 always take advantage of
thleofiood chances for making mone that are of-
. enerauy becomewealthym ilethosewho
do not improve such chances remain in poverty.
We want many. men, women, boys and girls to
work for us right in their own localities. The
business will pay more than ten times ordina
wages. We furnish an expensive outfit and a I
make money very rapidly. .You can devote your
whole time to the work, or Only your spare mo-
ments. Fullinformntion and all that is needed
tentfrec. Addresss-rrn'sors a Co..Portland,Mc.
For SaIeCheap. '
A Stlvers’ Jump—Seat Buggy.
NEARLY NEW, and in perfect order, will be
sold ata bargain. To any one desiring a
neat. light carriage, which can quickly be
changed to carry four. will and this a. rare oppor-
WI“?- APDI! It GAZETTBIOFI‘IOI
. . . .... ....- .- AMA“ . ....-.-- ->
that you need. free. No one who engages'falls to.
DENTISTRY
A Triple Combination of Experi-
ence. Artistic Taste and Skill.
’ With the above combination, DR. 0. fl.
KENDALL offers from J unc 7th, 1881, Artifi-
cial Teeth of superior quality at so lowa price
that all desiring them will do well to call on him
before purchasing elsewhere.
'0. '1‘. Leonard b Son,
COAL, WOOD,
Masons’ Materials,
0 E M E N '.I'.' P I PE
For Drains, Sewers, Wells, &c.,
At Lowest Cash Prices.
Drains and Wells Dag and Piped
AlsoSoleAgcntfor '
Patent Tinder Wood,
The Cheapest and Best Kindling out. Try it
CBranch Oflicc at H. S. Betts’ Drug Store
PURE MILK.
Delivered in Norwalk and South Norwalk, at
your door, every morning
AT 7 CENTS PER QUART,
By REMSON BROS.
THE MODEL
Hair Dressinglt Bath Rooms
Wall Street, Up stairs._
cleanliness. Comfort, Artistic Workmanship and
gentlemanly Attendance are leading features of
this establishment. ’ ‘
E. APELL, Proprietor.
Slamllrllt N01:1_va_ll_1 Telephone Co
LIST llF SIIISIBIIIBERS 0F IIIBWALK, II SPEAK-
III ESMMIIIIEATIIII 'I'II DATE.
Adams Bros. .... .... . . . .. . . .. .Market
Adams & Stevens... . . . . . . . .Market
Bank, Central Nat......................Ofiice
“ Fairfield Co. Nat....... “
“ Nat. of Norwalk......
Beard, E.... .... .. .Residence
Beatty, J.- P. & Bros... . . . . . .Ofiice
Betts, H. S... .... ............Druggist
Brush, F. V.,M. D .... .........0fiice
Byington, A. H. & Co. . .Gazette Oflice
Clarke, E. C., M. D. . . ... .. ..Residence
Comstock Bros.... . . .Norwalk
Comstock Bros .... . . . . .South Norwalk
Crofut &. Knapp . . . . . .Upper Ofiice
Crofut Cu Knapp .... . . . . . .Lower Office
D. &N. R.R.... . . . . .. ..Freight Office
Dann, William E. . . .. ...... . . . .Stable
Donovan, Jerry.... .. . . . .Store
Earle, W. H............ ....Residencc
- Ferris, J. H . . . . .... .... . . ..Residenee
Ferris, J. H .. .. . . . . Coal, Upper Office
Ferris, J. H .... .... Coal, Lower Oflice
Ferry, Mrs. 0. S..................Residenee
Gibson, A. S. . . .. . . .. .. . ....Residence
Gregory Bros. . . .. . . . .... ....Stable
Gregory, J. G., M. 1).... . . . Residence
Gregory, J. G. & Co. . . . .... .Druggists
Hat Forming Co.... .... ....Oflice .
Higgins, R. L., M. D .... . . . .Residence
Hill, E. J.... .... .. .... .Lumber Yard
Hilsdon, W. . .. . . . Market
Hitchcock, D., M. D. .... ....Residenee
Holmes do Keeler.. ... . ....Grocers
Hoyt, I. Mortimer.. ...Druggist
Hyatt, J. W.... .... .... .... ....Oflice
Keeler, E. 0.... .... .... .Residence
Kendall, J. 0., M. D. .... . . . .Residence
Knapp, Burn... .... . . . . ....Oflice
Leonard, C. T. & Son.. .Coal, East Side
Leonard, C. T, & Son. . .Conl, West Side
Lockwood, W. A., M. D. ....Residence
Lockwood, F. St. John .... . . .Residence
Lou'nsbury & Bissell 00.. .... .... Ofliee
Many, C. W. ... .... .. . . ....Residence
Mahaekerno Hotel.... . . . . .... .. .Ofiice
Mead, Frederick. . . . . . . . .Store
Meeker, I.‘ A. & 00.... . . . . . .Druggists
Miller, George E. . . . . .... .. .. Residence
' Mitchell, W. & D. . . . .... .Meat Market
Nolan, R. G., M. D. .... .... .Residence
North, G. S . . . .Gallery
Norwalk Gazette.
Norwalk Hour....... .
Norwalk Iron Works. . . .. . . .. . . . .Ofliee
Norwalk Look 00. . . .. .. .... . . . .Office
NorwalkMillsua 0 can. oooo s I I a ....Ofiice
Palmer, E. M. & Co. . . . .... .... .Oflice
Pardee, E. V., M. D. .... ....Residence
Phinne , L. N., M. D. .. . . . . Residence
Plain , G B...............Druggist
Propeller Dock.... .... .... .. .Norwalk
Pr'owitt. J. T. .. .... . . . .. . . .Hardware
Randle, J. C. .... .... . . . .Store
Raymond &. Nickerson .. .. . . .Store
Raymond, G. W.... . . . .. . . . .Residence .
Raymond Brothers.... ....Upper Ofiiee
Raymond Brothers.... ....Lower Ofiice
Rowan, R. H. . .... .. . .... .. .Oflice
Sandiforth, L. W. . . . .... . . . .Residence
Sherman, S. J.'... , . . . .... . . .Residence
Sherman, S...........J... ..... Stable
Smith, W. H. 85 Co.. . . Hardware
Solmans,A......... ... ....Oflice
Starr, O. S. .. . . . .... .... . . . .Residence
Starr Brothers........ ....Store
Steamboat Dock. . . . . . . . South Norwalk
Stillson, G. 0.... . . . ....Drnggist
8"- JOhn! C. E. .... .... .... . .Residence
'Wcstern Union Telegraph. . . . .Norwalk
Western Union Telegraph, So. Norwalk
Rental of Telephone, per quarter.with use of
line, 86.25; Rental of Telephone and Transmitter
with use of line,s9.oo. No charge Will be made
tor putting in instruments.
Outfit sent 1 rec to those who wish to engage
in the most pleasant and profitable business
known. Everything new. Capital not rec
qurrcu. We wll furnish you everything. 513
=a day and upwards is easily made without stayine
away from home over night. No risk whatever.
Man new workers wanted at once. _ Many are
mak ug fortunes at the business. Ladresmake as
much as men. and young he s and girls make
great pay. No one who is wil ing to work fails to
make more money every do than can be made in
a week at any ordinary emp oyment. Those who
endgage at ones will find a short road to fortune.
A dress E. HALLE'I'T .11; Co., Portland. Maine.
Gco. ward Selleck,
[Has in his New Store,
llllllllllllllll'I IN ILIIII, WALL STREET,
A complete assortment of the best class of
GflflflEIilES, PHOIISIIIIIS, FRUITS.
Sc“ for family use, at Popular Prices. His stock
is at all times fresh and good, and Will stand com-
K‘nrlson with those of any Grocer in town. Call
and leave Your order:- 3 ;;; 8
REAL ESTATE.
'V\.’\M An W /\r\ -~
MA-xxx
Apartments to Let.
N the Brick Houses on Leonard street. In-
quire at LEONARD’S COAL OFFICE.
To Let.
HE Storc recently occupied by Mrs. Hoyt mil-
lincr,at the entrance of the Gazette Building.
Also, Four rooms_suitable for offices on the 2nd
floor of Gazette Building at a very low figure.
For full particulars enquire or
BENJ. J. STURGES, Agt.
No. 4 Gazette Building.
Norwalk. Ct., Sept. 5, 1381. 38
Store to Rent.
THE capricious and handsome Store lately cc,
eupicd by Messrs. Earle do Smith, on Wall St.-
ncar the old Norwalk Hotel, it comprises two
floors, 24x95,w1th requisite counters and shelves.
suitable for any first class business. Everything
isin complete order. Possession given immedi-
atcl . Apply to JACOB WEEKS, or of BENJ.
J.S URGES.
For Sale.
AT South Norwalk, half a mile from the depot,
the late residence of A. 11.Snowden, known
as “Cliffwood.” Largo Villa Ilonsc, substantial-
ly built, in good order, clcvcn rooms, cellar and
attic, largcparlor with bay windows beautiful
tower, carria 0 house, barn and stable. attractive
grounds, finey shaded wrth fruit and forest trees.
erms to_ suit. Apply to A. C. SNOWDEN, on
the premises, or to EV. R. B. SN OWDEN 81
St. Mark’s Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. Slit
Farm for Sale.
HE subscriber will sell the well known David
St. John Farm with all the Stock, Tools and
Growing Crops. Most of the price can remain on
mortgage. For full particulars address
22“ GEO. F. BELDEN, Winnipank, Conn.
FOR SALE.
SEVERAL very desirable Building Sites for
Business purposes, situated on Water Street.
Enquire 011‘. W. MITCHELL, Real Estate Agent
FOR SALE.
TWO very, desirable Building Lots on West
Main street. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale.
THE well known progeny of WILLIAM C.
STREET, situated on . igh Street. in the Bor-
ough of Norwalk.contain1ng one acre of ground
fronting on High and Minn Streets, wrth commo-
dious Dwelling House, With all the modern im-
provements, large Barn, and out buildings, and
one-half of small house on Main Street. For fur
ther particulars enquire of BURR SMITH, Agent.
N orwalk, April 11th, 1881. 15tf
For Sale.
A House and about one acre
of Land on Prospect Hill,
May be had on reasonable terms. Apply to
. W. S ART
Norwalk, March 16th, 1881. Hit
A FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS willbuy
. . a small place on the hill east of‘Winnipauk
facmg the onnsbury Jr. Bissell Factory. A
chance for a poor man tosecurc ahomc of his
own. Apply at the GAZETTE OFFICE. 6tf
A Splendid Residence
FOR SALE.
THE well known place formerly belonging to
_ SETH ELY, deceased, situated within three
minutes walk of Post Ofilce, Churches. Schools,
and Railroad Depot. Said lace is situated on
Water Street near Chapel, an contains about one
half acre of land, fruit of all kinds in abundance.
House contains fourteen rooms, with all conven-
iences, gas, water. and bath. in fact all modern
improvements. Also large barn, carriage house,
sta. ling. coal room, wood house. and henery.
This place commands a fine view of Nor-wink
Harbor. and is suitable for any gentleman domg
business in New York returning the same day,as
it is Within one hour and twenty minutes of
Grand Central Depot and two minutes of horse
cars in N orwaik. For further particulars enquire
of HORACE S. EL ~
22 Pine St.'N. Y.
or JAMES MITCHELL, Real Estate Broker.
7mm Norwalk, Conn.
Farm for Sale.
IIE subscriber ofi'ers his Farm for sale. situa-
ted in the Town of Greenfield, in Saratoga
Co., in the state of New York, nine miles from
Saratoga Springs. It is pleasontly situated on
a rise of ground, 95 acres of land, which is favor-
ably dtvrded into pasture, plow, meadow and
wood land; With a large house; the size of the
barn 30 by 40, wagon house and stabling, hay loft
over the same, 23 by 43, and grnrncry 16 by 18.
Will be sold cheap; part of the purchase money
can remrin on mortgage if desired, or will ex-
change torvillage property. Forfurther articu-
lars inquire of s LAS P. TU E,
» Norwalk. Conn,
Desirable Property for sale.
A Very desirable place on East Avenue.
Also, a few choice Building Lots situated on
Osborn Avenue. for sale cheap.
Also. a nicely located House and Lot on Mer-
vrin Street near West Avenue, for sale at a bar-
gain, Enquire of
S. E. OSBORN,East Avenue,
tfll or to D. W, Fitch. W est Avenue.
Small Place for Sale.
SMALL, two-story House,wi_th one acre of
Land, near BroadRiver Bridge,is offered
for sale at a low price, to close an estate. En.
quire at the GAZETTE OFFICE. ctf
For Sale.
Accsy, comfortable Cottage on one of the pleas-
antcst streets in town, within five minutes
. walk of the Bridge or Churches, will be sold at
low price. A portion of the purchase money can
remain on bond and mortgage. Price 87,000. En-
quire at this Office.
For Sale Cheap.
Better than low interest Bonds.
A House on Fair Street.
Apply to B. J. Sturges.
D W ELLINGS
AND
Building Lots.
SEVERAL dwellin 8, various, prices in differ—
ent portions of orough, either to let or for
sale at reasonable prices, Also. several places.
eutside of Borough limits—one in Wmnlpank,
Also several Building lots in and outpf Borough
till) Enquire at this Oflice.
.1 111. POTTER
§_HAS REMOVED HIS
mum srest
To Opera. House Block, in
Store with A. W. Austin,
Jeweler. .
NEW MARKET!
No. 6 Main Street, N orwal, Ct.
THE BEST or
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Lamb, Pork,
RAMS, POULTRY, &c., always on hand at very
lowest market prices. GAME of all kinds in its
season. Try me: I Will try to suit.
limit) W. 1". LOCKWOOD, late wrth Adams Bros.
Free Reading Room.
THIS is a. comfortable room fitted up for the
benefit of the public generally. situated on
east side of South Main Street, over Rood’s J ew-
elry Store, Clark and Lane’s Block nearly 0 p9-
site Railroad Depot, South Norwalk, Ct._ t is
open from 9 a. m., to 9:45 p. m. The room is well
lighted, warm and comfortable, It is supplied
with four dailies, two Weeklies. and several
monthly papers and journals, beside a number of
instructive and interesting books.
COFFEE ROOM.
There is a Coffee Room on the same floor and a
lady in attendance from 9 a. m., to 9:45 p. m.,to
serve HOME MADE articles mentioned below,
at the following prices :
1 Cup of Oofieeuvrth crackes, - -
1 Cup ot'Tca, wrth Crackers, - -
Cocoa - - - -
Brown Bread and Butter, - . -
Sandwich, - -. . -
Cake. - - "
Doughnuts, - ‘ - -
Piece of‘t’ic, . _ -
Crullcrs, - - - ~
Ham, - - - —
Pork and Beans, wrth bread and butter
Stewed Oysters, - - - l “
Outfit furnished free, with full instructions
for conducting the most profitable business
any one can cage 0 in. The business is so
easy to learn, ant our instructions are so
am no and plain, that any one can make. great
pro ts from the very start. No one cart fail who
rs Willing to work. Women are as successful as
men. Boys and girls can earn large sum s. Man
have made at the business over onehundred do -
lars in a singlcwcck. Nothinghke it ever known
belore, _ All who engage are surprised at the ease
amt rapidity With which they are able to make
money. You can engage in this business during
your spare time at great profit. You do not have
to inwst capital in it. We take all the risk.
Those who need ready money should write to us
at once. All furnishedfrec. Address,Tnun 6400.,
till communities. -___
VOL. LXIV.--NUMBER 42
Daily Messenger.
W. B. Newcom‘b.
WOULD announce that making daily trips to
New York, he is prepared to act as Messen-
ger to trans: ct ifhy errands or business in the city,
and to purchase and bring 11 small articlcsfor
those who may wrsh. Carefu personal attention
given to all orders. Orders can be left at store of
J. LESTER GREGORY. 53 Main St., or with Mr.
J. Mortars BENEDICT. Post 0111ch cws Dealer.
Read man Bros.,
Photographers,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NDRWALK.
Views of Residences taken at short notice.
GOODELL & PAIQE,
COUNSELORS AT LAW,
Sword’s Building, SOUTH NORWALK, CONN,
EDWIN B. GOODELL, (37m ALLAN W. Paras.
Notice.
DR. HITGHGOGK HA8 REMOVED
TO the corner of West Avenue and Berkeley
Place, third house below the Methodist
Church. .
p Office Hours from 7 to 9 a. m., 2 to 3, and 7 to 8
. m.
hicseri‘rsv.
Dyspepsia,
Heart Disease and
Rheumatism,
Arc easily cured by this system of medicine.
J. W. MAC LEAN, M. 1).,
NORTH AVENUE.
Purchasing Agent and Messenger,
HE subscribers will act as Purchasing Agents
and Messengers between Norwalk and N ew
York, daily. Orders and packages received at
Theodore Knapp’s, South Norwalk, and Bene-
dict’s News Room, Post Office, Norwalk.
EDWIN K. SELLECK, With James McCreery &
00., takes 6 o’clock train.
D. R. SELLECK, takes 7:45 a. m. train.
The Norwalk Fire Insurance 60.,
Has now completed its
18th Successful Business Year.
Andhas not outstanding a Dollar of unpaid losses
or of claims for losses.
I0 SIIIIII SMIPAIY IISIIIIESA‘I' LOWER IA'IES.
WI.O.STREET, Pres., S. E. OLMSTEAD, Tress.
6110.1}. CownnsScc'y.
24¢!
r
TNA l NSURANOE Co.of HARTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $6,716,893.77
Insures against loss and damage by Fire, or: terms
adopted to the hazard and consistent With the
laws of compensation. UOWLES b MEHEEL,
Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity.
EARLES s. nocnwoon ,
Fashionable Draper and Tailor
AND
GENTS' FURNISHING EMPOEIUN
Mainstreet ,Norwalk, Conn.
BERNARD COHN.
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WEEK’S BUILDING, WALL ST.,
A FULL LINE OF
Imported and Domestic Clot
of the latest styles, constantly on hand. Novel-
ties in Scotch Snitings. Satisfaction guaranteed
in every particular. 46
w. s. columns,—
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The Farmer’s Corn.
WALTER BUCHANAN.
At early dawn, when o’er the leaves
The hear-frost creeps and steals their
bloom, '
When trees stand still in gloom
Beneath the sunless morn,
Old Farmer John salutes his sheaves
Of ripened corn.
Bright jewels ’mong the stubble gleam,
And sparkle from his careless tread,
And gossamer, out spread,
Enrobes the naked thorn;
But Farmer John, to all a-dream,
Moves through his corn.
The startled harc before him springs,
And down the furrow speeds like wind,
While crisp leaves spirt behind;
The yellow mists. up borne,
Skim o'er the vale on noiseless wings
Above the corn.
But Farmer John, with anxious eyes,
The struggling streaks of dawn surveys
And, through the spreading haze
That veils the face of morn,
A b’ood-red rim he sees arise -
To greet his corn.
And fear creeps through his trembling veins
As the rising sun dilates in red,
And, as each mountain’s head
His crimson hues adorn,
John quakes to think the coming rains
May swamp his corn.
Slithigh o’erhead the waning moon
Reveals a patch of clearing blue,
And hope comes peering through
With Luna’s welcome horn,
That yet a favoring sky at noon
Will bless the corn.
The changeful sun, erst steeped in fire,
Behold, pours forth rich amber streams
That quench with bright joy-gleams
The frowns his face had worn,
For heaven and he may now conspire
_ To save the corn.
See, o’er the east a golden mantle’s fiungi
Fast move the mists from out the north,
And, as the winds come forth,
To little shreds are torn
The great cloud masses that o'er hung
The golden corn.
And lo! the wakened crows soar high; A
How arrow-straight they upward fly
O'cr bits of dappled sky,
And leave the earth forlorn;
While clouds of lazy rocks float by
The tempting corn.
What smiles sleep in the farmer's eyes!
Tc-day he’ll “in” that precious grain,
For he knows the dreaded rain,
Such bodings dare not scorn.
So, whistling thanks to sun and skies,
He leaves the corn.
===
Be as Thorough as you Can.
Whats’er you find to do,
Do it boys, with all your might!
Never be a little true,
Or a little in the right,
’ Trifles even
Lead to heaven,
Trifles makgth‘e life of man ;
So 111 all things,
Great or small things,
Be as thorough as you can.
Let no speck that surface him—-
Spotless truth and honor bright!
I’d not give a fig for him
Who says any lie is white!
He who falters,
Twists, or alters
Little atoms when we speak,
May deceive me;
But believe me,
To himself he is a sneak!
Help the weak if you are strong,
Love the old if you are young,
Own a fault if you are wrong,
If you’re angry hold your tongue.
In each dutv
Lies a beauty,
If your eyes you do not thus,
Just as surely
And securely
As a kernel in a 11:“
' Love with all your heart and soul,
Love with eye and ear and touch ;
That’s the moral of the whole,
You can never love too much!
’is the glory
0f the story
In our babyhood begun : .
Our hearts without it—
Never doubt it—
Are the words without a sun.
If you thinka word will pleasa,
Say it, if it is but true;
Words may give delight withcase,
When no not is asked from you.
Words may often ‘
Soothe and soften,
Gild a joy or heal a pain;
They are treasures
Yielding pleasures
It is wicked to retain.
Whatsoe'or you find to do,
Do it then with all your might;
Let your prayer be strong and true-
Prayers, my lads, will‘keep you right, ,
Prayer in all things, .
Great and small ithings.
Like‘ “Christian gentleman ;
And forever,
Now or never,
Be as thorough as you can.
-1V. 1'. Esangeli'st.
Never to! a girl you love her
Till you think her pa is willin’;
Never tell a man he’s honest
When you think he is a villain;
Never think you are so funny
That your wit will'last forever;
Never use that old expression,
Weak and weary, “Hardly ever."
3
A Vegetable Shoe-Black.
The “shoe-black plant” is , the name popu-
larly given to a species of hibiscus growing
in New South Wales and remarkable for the
showy appearance of its scarlet flowers.
Growing freely in almost any kind of soil,
the plants is frequently cultivated for the
flowers, which, when dry, are used as a
substitute for “Day and Martin.” The flow-
ers contain a large proportion of mucilagi—
nous juice, which, when evenly applied,
gives a glossy varnish-like appearance, which
perfectly replaces ordinary blacking, with
the advantage that itis perfectly cleanly in
use, and can be applied in a few moments.
Four or five flowers, with the anthers and
pollen removed are required for each boot,
and u polishing brush may be applied after-
wnrtl if desired. A few plants of the [tibia-
cus rosa sinensis growing in the garden would
runova one of the minor disadvantages of a
day in the country during such llllCi‘l tuin
weather as We usually L .\p erience in this
country—Ea}. . -
I
The Chinese plgtnii is; u lung tall' itlllI is al.
ways continued in their necks— Whitehall
Times. .
Guileau objects to the employment of
Cu‘oucl Ingersoll in the ones, “because
the whole Christan World Would be preju-
diced."
The popularity of Dr. Ilullund’s books
is attested by their pubiishers’ figures. Of '
the “Titcomb Letters" 61,000 copies have
been sold; of “Bitter :chet", 00,000; of
Kathrina” 100,000.
Norwalk Chronicler