whom NUMBER 1781.
Proper English.
0 why shall we say for calched, caught,
As grammarians some say we ought?
Let us see
How things be
When this kind of teaching is taught :
The egg isn’t hatched, it is is haught ;
lly breetches aren’t patched they are paught ;
J ohu and Jane.aru not matched, they are
‘ maught :
My door isn't latched, it is laugbt ;
‘The pic wasn’t snatched, it was snaught ;
The cat never scratched, she but scraught;
The roof wasn’t thatched, it was tbaugbt.
It soon will be hatched—that is, naught.
—Louisot'lle Courier-Journal.
NFroan Good Words.
Young Mrs. Carlyle.
A Life Study.
MARY O. TABER.
There is not a greater want, perhaps, in
the whole range of modern literature that
that of some vivid portraiture of nineteenth-
century womanhood, as finely drawn, and
from as fine a model, as those ,biographies of
Charles Kingsley or of Dr. Arnold, which
are now among the classics of the English
tongue. We look in vain forany like record
of a woman’s life—lofty. simple, and com-
plete; one which may be taken as a guide
and inspiration by the many who would
willingly shape their own into some benig-'
nant noble form, could they see exactly how
to do it, or even what there was for them to
do. The lives themselves are lived among
us, in all their quiet sweet reality. It is the
story of them only which is waiting to be
told. Not that biographies of noteworthy
women are altogether wanting; but admira-
ble as some of them are, Mrs. Gaskell’s life
of Charlotte Bronte, for example, their in-
terest centers rather in points of genius or
circumstances which lie apart from the or—.
dinary life of womanhood, than in that web
of duties, cares, and joys, which may be said
to be womanhood itself. What we need. and
what these biographies fail to give us, is the
every-day ideal, the perfect pattern, traced
by some fine unerriug hand, on just such
another homespun fabric as w'e ourselves, the
vast majority of us at least, must be content
to work on too.
It would be too much to say that Mr.
Carlyle’s Reminiscences of his wife, which
occupy the larger part of one of the volumes
lately edited hy'Mr. Froude, fulfill all the
requirements of such a biography._ They d)
more to show the lines on which it should be
written, and to fill the gap in our literature
which the absence of it causes, than anything
else which we could name; but they are too
brief, too fragmentary, and written from a
point of view too exclusively his own, to be
in their present form more than the mere
. sketch, as it were, of what the finished work
should be. The homespun web is there, and
the perfect pattern, too; but the latter is
seen in the outline only. The filling-in, the
full impression of herself we must wait for
until Mrs. Carlyle, to use Mr. Froude’s ex-
pression, becomes her own biographer, and
through her letters, which in large numbers
are forthcoming, shall complete the task her
husband has begun. .
‘Meanwhile inlthese Reminiscences welhave
received a gift whose value, were its full
significance perceived; it would be hard to
overrate. Defects and flaws, no doubt, there
are, blemishes which disturb and offend us
too. Especially we must regret that, written
as they were when Carlyle’s own life seemed -
wrenched and worthless to him, they should
give us his impressions of some of his
contemporaries diminished to the same
scale which he applied in all sincerity and
humanity to himself. It was when his eyes
are fixed on the home ideal that things ré-
' sume their true proportions, and the wisdom
of his ripest years, with tenderness such as
only the strong can feel, embody themselves
in his picture of the perfect wife. Except
in the Hebrew Scriptures there is nothing,
perhaps, accessible to English readers, so
homely, pathetic, beautiful, and solemn too.
as these records of the twofold life which,
for forty years, Carlyle and his wife lived
side by side together. To read them is like
entering a temple, the“sanctuary of a human
soul, in which we walk with bowed head,
lured by its ssnctities of sorrow and of love.
“I wrote that book out of my very heart,”
said the;author of “Sartor Resartus" once; but
this book is his heart itself. Its closing
words, full of profouudcat pathos, reveal, as
not the most labored praise could do, how
complete in all womanly perfectness must
have been the life which so long had com-
panioned with his own, how tender and en-
tire the relation that had subsisted between
the two. “It has been my sacred shrine,”
he says of the note-book belonging to his
wife, in which these memories of her were
written—“my sacred shrine, and religious
city of refuge from the bitterness of these
sorrows, during all the doleful weeks that
are past since I took it up; a kind of devo-
tional thing (as I once already said) which
softens all grid into tenderness and infinite
pity and repentant love, one’s whole sad life
drowned as .if in tears for one, andlall the
wrath and scorn and other grim elements
silently melted away. And now, am I to
leave it; to take farewell of her a second
time? Right silent and serene is she, my
lost darling yonder, as I often think in my
gloom, no sorrow more for her, nor will there
long be for me.”
It might be worth our while to learn the
secret of such a life; to find, were it possible
to do, so, how it is that, in these latter de-
cades of the nineteenth century, it impresses
us, as we read the record of it here,like some
piece of antique statuary, graceful, majestic
and yet so simply natural that it might stand
as a model for countless others of the same
type outwardly as its own. For we must
bear_in mind, indeed the value of these me-
morials consists largely in the fact that so far
as mere outward circumstances went, Mrs.
Carlyle’s life differed little from that of most
women of her own rank and time. She was
the wife of a distinguished. man, it is true ;
though when she married him he was obscure
enough, and poor for years afterwards! but
for the rest, they lived and kept house to-
getherina simple, homely, and altogether
ordinary fashion. Any claim to distinction
which she herself possessed rested mainly on
that royalty of womanhood which the
merest peasant may emulate, and which the
queens of society too often lack. From the
age of five-and-twenty, when she married
ML Carlyle, her place in the world may be
best defined by those two old-fashioned
words, now fallen almost into desuetude,
I‘housewife” and “helpmeet”—-—the helpmeet
of a husband who more than most men
needed such help as she supplied—me mod-
est queen of a frugal home. This was the
part, which, for forty years, she was content
to play. To perform it perfectly was the
task she set herself, and with all her might
g accomplished. How she achieved it, and
‘lhow successfully; with what fine alchemy
she turned the dross of life into its gold, and
made its sorriest prose take the measure of a
song; and how, in the simple character of
wife at home, she made her life yield for the
world's good a harvest of rich increase, may
be gathered from these brief but graphic re-
cords, which every woman who has a home
to guide,or a life other’ than her own to share
may study to advantage.
Jane Welsh Carlyle was the only child of
a Scotch country physician in large practice.
The atmosphere of the homein thoroughness.
The strongest influence in the shaping of her
character was that of her father, whom she
idolized; a man in whose nature the sense
of honor was deeply rooted, gentle valiant,
and with much capacity and directness or
purpose. He died when his young daughter
was standing just on the threshold of
womanhood—“Her first. and in all her life
her greatest grief.” Three years later
Thomas Carlyle, then making a scanty
living by taking pupils in Edinburgh, was
brought by his friend Irving to the house at
Haddington where the girl and mother still
lived on. Not long afterwards we find the
two apparently engaged, and at twenty-five
she married. From Edinburgh, where they
began housekeeping, the pair presently re-
moved to Craigenputtoch, a small moorland
farm,which formed part of the dowry brought
by Mrs. Carlyle to her husband . Here seven,
frugal, lonely, toilsome years were passed.
Then to London, the fight with poverty not
ended yet by ten good years or more; and
in the house at Cheyne Row, to which they
went on their nrrrival, husband and wife
remained till death stepped in between them
and the “fair companionship" was broken
up. ,
Such, in brief outline, is the story of her
life. Simpler it could hardly‘be. We have
glimpses of a sunny childhood, and of the
sheltered home in which the girl gre w up.
She was a dark-eyed maiden of twenty-two
when Carlyle first saw her; handsome, high
spirited, much admired and sought after,
and seemingly, not averse to the homage she
received. The lot of womanhood was be-
fore her, and no lack of opportunities for
securing what. in modern phrase, is under-
stood as “a good establishment.” The girl
had views of her own, however, as to what
a good establishment consisted in. The right
womanly nature within her sought out for
what every woman who is worthy of the
name does seek and care for in
the man who is to complete and share
her whole life on earth. It was herself
she had to bestow in marriage, and she
wanted value in return; not the outward
accidents of fortune and position, the mere
shell and husk of a man, but that inward
having of strength and tenderness, that king-
liness based on the will to serve, as well as
on the power to rule, which alone can make
the obedience of a wife honorable and joyful
too It says much for her insight that, in
guise of this poor scholar, dyspeptic, gauche
and humbly born, she saw the greatest man
who hsdjyet addressed her; and not a little
for her wisdom that she chose rather to
share his lot, hard as it was then, than to
give herself into the keeping of some richer
but otherwise more scantily gifted author.
Dr. Welsh, with a somewhat rare confidence
in his daughter's discretion, had left the
whole of his property, as it seems, unreserv-
cdly at her disposal. Half of it was sacredly
set apart by her for her mother’s use ; the
other half, about a hundred a year or so, she
turned to perhaps the best account that a
woman in her position could. She secured
with it the power to marry a poor man; too
poor at the time to support himself and a
wife as well, but the best and wisest man she
knew, the one her heart had chosen, and
whose helpmeet, for highest and for home-
;iest ends, she was ready to become.
A true marriage that! true to the inmost
meaning of that most solemn bond. Fruit-
ful in blessing too, to herself and to the
world. Even according. to the mere verdict
of society, few would say now, whatever
they might do then, that the wife of Thomas
Carlyle had thrown herself away; and who,
reading these Reminiscences, but must feel
that the woman who had been loved from
youth to old age with such fidelity and ten-
derness had had her share of the best joys a
wife can know ? '
What discouragement there may have been
from without we are not here told. From
one passoge, referring to the "triumph” of
the Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, deliv-
ered by Mr. Carlyle just before his wife’s
death, we may conclude, however, that the
opposition of well-meaning friends was not
wanting, and that in makingso poor a match
the brave “Jennie” was guided by her own
courage and insight mainly. “Noble little
heart ! her painful, much enduring, much
endeavoriug little history,now at last crown-
ed with plain victory in sight of her own
people. and of all the world ; every one now
obliged to say Jeannie was not wrong ; she
was right, and has made it good. Surely for
this I should be grateful to hefven—for this
amidst the immeasurable wreck that was
preparing for us. She had from an early
period formed her own little opinion about
me (what an Eldorado to me, ungrateful
being; blind, ungratefut, condemnablc, and.
heavy-laden. and crushed down into blind-
ness by great misery, as I oftenest‘ was I) and
she never flinched from it an instant, I think
or cared, or counted, what the world said
to the contrary; but to havethe world can -
firm her in it was always a sensible pleasure
which she took no pains to hide, especially
hide from me."
More than at first sight appears depended,
perhaps, on what that “opinion” was.
Whatever the world may owe to the writings
of Thomas Carlyle, it probably owes in great
measure to the sagacity and devotion of the
girl who in becoming his wife. and his
“helpmeet” in the fullest sense, made it
possible fclr him to struggle on through the
mud swamps of literature until he had se-
cured firm foothold of his own. If Jeannie
Welsh had been less nobly minded than she
was, if she had not deliberately chosen to
follow that which was highest in her nature.
highest also in her life, she might have been
the wife of some richer map, but ~“Sartor
Resartus" and. “Cromwell" would probably
have remained unwritten.
Still, if it was a courageous, it was not an
imprudent marriage. The young rScotch
gentlewoman, with her house of life to be
builded'up, looked well to its foundations
first. She had sagaeity enough to perceive
that sooner 0; later, the world must listen to
what the poor scholar had to say; but even
if delay were long, they Would have enough
between them, with thrifty management,
with industry on her part and on his, to keep
poverty from the door; enough for content,
and for homely comfort too. There is not
a more beautiful picture of real life, if we
look at it well, in any writing of this cen-
tury, or one which better illustrates some of
the essential elements in noble feminine
'worlr, than that which Mr. Carlyle draws of
their life at Craigenputtoch, the moorland
farm above referred to,whither the two went
soon after their marriage.
“The saving charm of her life there,” he
says, “which to another young lady of her
years might have been so gloomy and vacant,
was that of conquering the innumerable
practical problems which had arisen for her
there; all of which—I think all-she trium-
phantly mastered. . Perfection of
housekeeping was her speedy attainment in
that new scene. ' Strange how she made the
desert blossom for herself and me there!
Whats fairy palace she had made of that
wild moorland home of the poor man! In
my life I have seen no human intelligence
that so genuinely pervaded every fiber of the
human existence it belenged to. From the
baking of a loaf or the darning of a stocking
up to comporting herself in the highest scene
or most intricate emergencies,all was insight,
veracity. graceful success (if you could judge
it), fidelity to insight of the fact given.”
“Perfecuion in housekeeping.” The young
Mrs.|0arlyle had mastered other things before
the tried her hand at that. In those earlier
Oraigenpultoch days the two read together
of evenings “Don Quixote" in the original.
Two in like manner had’jreceded it.‘
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21‘, 1882.
NORWALK GAZETTE,
PUBLISHED EVE" TUESDAY IOIIIIO.
Latin' we know that she began to teach
herself when a little. girl and had now
a scholarly acquaintance with. Clearly the
c‘higher education" had been carried on in
her case to an extent not altogether common
even in these days of Girton and fNewnham
and women wranglors. She was accom-
plished too—could charm her guests by her
singing of Scotch songs, and had at command
the wit and grace and gayet y which make a
woman fascinating in society. The great
Lord Jeffrey himself—and he was no mean
critic in other fields beside those of literature
—had been her assiduous admirer ever since
his discovery in Edinburgh, of the bonny
bride; and with a touch of mournful com-
placency -Mr—. Carlyle tells us how deftly
when she chose,she could wield the woman’s
scepter in the brilliant coteries there. ’1 hat
bleak moorland homestead, “sixteen miles
from anywhere," offered no facilities for
queening it in society. The young wife
queencd it in another way—conquered her
woman’s kingdom there down to its last inch
of territory. Like the daughter of many an
excellent manager, she had not been trained
by her mother to any practical acquaintance
with the domestic arts. The whole field of
house-wifery wasa terra incognila to her,
and on good house-wifery her husbandis:
comfort and health and power to work'de-
pended. That was motive enough for her;
that dignified the meanest details, and made
her firm a charm in all she did. Just as she
I had set herself when a child to learn Latin,
so she set herself now to learn and to prac-
tise all that belonged to the many-sided min-
istry of a wife, its material as well as its
spiritual part. Cervantes or Tasso might be
a pleasant diversion to the tired thinker who
had all day long been earning his bread in
the sweat of his brain and of his heart; but
for a dyspeptic workman the bread itself
must be of perfect quality, and bakerssnd
servants do not make it so. Good brainwork
—sa curiously is thinking man compounded
——depends so much on good digestion, and
this again on wholesome fare, of which one
prime requisite is honest, well made bread,
such as it is the part of a true housewife to
provide. The young lady who could master
“Don Quixote" in the original was likely, in
default of other sources of supply, to be able
to make good bread herself if she gave her
mind to it, and Mrs. Carlyle did give her
mind to it. There is a world of meaning in
the story told us of the making of her first
brown loaf, of her doubts as to the result,
and how she sat down at the oven door,
“like Cellini with his Perseus," after she had
put it in to bake. The essence of true wo-
manhood—of true ladyhood was there,homsly
as the incident to unpurged eyes may seem.
She had her reward too. The loaf came out
all that a loaf ought to be—crusty. and light,
and sweet; “and from that hour.” says the
chronicler;“ wenever wanted excellent bread.”
One corner of her domain, and that no un-
important one either, was conquered, and she
had earned the right to bear in her household
the good old Saxon title, far gone now from
its original meaning, “Lady;" the leaf-dig,
loaf-giver.
So throughout. She bent her whole fac-
ulty to doing the duty that lay nearest to
her, and to seeing what that duty was. She
put her life into it, and she found her joy in
it, joy such as a rich man’s wife can scarely
know. There is a radiance of glad activity
about the whole Craigenputtoch life, of sim-
plicity and refinement, of graceful hospitali-
ty, and of ~outreaching kindliness as well.
We read, for example, of her walking two
miles at night and morning for ten days or
so to make the bed of “Old Esther,” s poor
cottager who lay a-dying at some little dis.
tancc from their home. She took up the
ends and thrums of a life that might have
been dull and commonplace, and almost
mean in other hands, and wove her perfect
pattern out of them; a pattern which every
woman may copy, and in its spiritual part ev-
ery gentlewoman too.
After seven years at Craigenputtoch, the
Carlyles migrated to London; and here the
same womanly faculty in the wife soon made
“a little Eden round her,” of the small three
story house which they had chosen for their
home, “so neat and graceful in its simplicity
and thrifty poverty ;".a soft entourage for
nerves fretted and :jaded by the strain of
thought, as her husband's mostly were.
She took things just as they were, here as
she had done in their rude moorland home,
.and without more ado cheerfully and skill-
fully made the best of them. One great
secret, that, of a successful life, moreespec-
ially the life of a woman, whose part, as
Xenophon in. his “Economisll’ long ago
pointed out, is to arrange and combine what
material comes to her hand, rather than to
choose what that material shall be. It was
this faculty of making the be'st of things
asthey were, seeing them in the sunshine
and making others see them so as woll,which
gave its charm and radiance to her home life;
just as her steadfast resolve to have nothing
to do with “Shams," or the vulgar toll of
“keeping up appearance,” gave it dignity
and repose. Reality was the basis of her
life, the atmosphere in which she breathed.
Perhaps, if we look into it well, it was this
superiority to fill pretense which, more than
any other quality, marked-the diflerencc be-
tween her less and noteworthy women. Fine
reserves there were, as in all graceful lives
there must be, though these were of her
own disquietudes and suflerings mainly ; but
whatever might be gently veiled away, all
That was seen was precisely what it appeared
to be. courage, simplicity, truth to fact.
From the highest down to the humblest
matters of her life this genuineness pervaded
it, redeeming it from every vsstigo of com-
monplaceness. and giving it a certain nobility
and case which the lives of many women
quite needlessly lack.
We must refer the reader to the Reminis-
cences themselves for any just impression of
what Mrs. Carlyle was in her higher ministry
as wife to a man burdened and sore bestead
from within and from without, as Themes
Carlyle through life for the "must 1')an was.
To understand her in this aspect we must
understand him too, as in this remarkable
piece of duo-biography he reveals himself to
us. “Could I be easy to live with?" he
asks with candid pathos; and we have to
own that “skinless .mortal”-as he was, “so
terribly in earnest” too, and the writing of.
his books such grim and ceaseless tsskaork
to him, hcprobably‘was not.
But this problem too, the hardest perhaps
ofsll, she mastered, as she had done the
others, in the only way that such a‘problem
can be mastered, by seeking he husband’s
good unweariedly, and making it her own.
Mr. Carlyle was not perfect. No man is.
Sound as heart of oak within, he was as
gnarled and rugged on the surface as any
giant of the glade. His wife did not
“worry” over the defects, but softly adapted
herself to ‘them, shone round him with a light
radiance of hope in his moods of perverse
humility, or soothed his fretted and stubborn
pride. "My noble one! I say deliberately,
her part inA'the stern little, and except my-
self none knows how stern, was brighter and
braver than my own." "Oh, her love to me;
her cheering, unaffected, useful practicality
of help! Was I not rich after all? She had
asleady hope in me, while I myself had
habitually none (except of the desperat kind);
nsy, a steady contentment with me, and
with our lot together, let hope he as it
might. ”
One sees shining through this, not the vul-
gar ideal of “happiness,” i. e., the lust of the
flesh; the lust of the eye. and the pride of
life. satisfied to their full extent. but the
“blessedness,” better still, the best a woman
can inspire to or attain, of being to another
what Carlyle says his wife was to him, “a no
bler second self." From the first to las tthe
higher, spirit-serving ministry was hers, as
well as the lowlier one to homely needs;
dignifying the latter, and giving to her-life
a meaning and unity, a far-reaching signifi-
cance, which as that of the mere admirable
house-wife it would have missed. Carlyle’s
own words about the little chair which in his
will he couples with his writing-flble as the
most piecicus in his possessions, will best
show what this higher service had been to
him. “Her little bit of a first chair, its wee
wee arms, etc., visible to me in the closet at
this moment, is still here, and I always was.
I have looked at it a hundred times; from of
.old, with many thoughts. No daughter or
son of hers was to sit there; so it had been
appointed us, my darling. I have no book a
thouandth part so beautiful as thou; but these
were our only ‘childrens’ and, in _a true sense,
these were verily ours; and will perhaps
live some time in the world after we both are
gone. The will of the Supreme shall be ac-
complished. Amen.”
After all, however, as we said above, there
was nothing extrordinary or out of reach in
the career of character of Mrs. Carlyle.
The simple everyday life of a wife at home
was that, on which she entered at her mar-
riage, and its quiet course she kept until the
end. If on other grounds these Reminis-
oences are full of profound pathetic interest,
not their least value lies in their being the
record of one of those simple, noble, and
truly feminine lives, which seem to say to
all who witness them,to every woman at least
“Go they and do likewise.”
m
Snake Stories.
About fifty years ago, Reuben Lockwood,
of Weston, grandfather to Mr. A. B. Lock-
wood, of Cannon’s Station, told me of a
frolic be had with a rattlesnake in the old
barn that stood about half a mile north of the
Northfieid Congregational church. He had
takena largo “mow " of rye to thresh on
shares, quite late in the fall. He went to re-
sume his work one chilly morning, and while
raking the straw from the “ caving" (or pile
of rye threshed on the former day), he un-
covered a large rattlesnake, who seemed so
chilled by the cold that it was quite stupid,
so U‘ncle‘Reuben thought he would experi-
ment a little, which soon stirred him up;
and now for a recital of his antics. For.a
while being teased with the rake the snake
could jump only about one-half his length,
but soon his whole length, then twice his
length, and finally so far that Uncle Reuben
thought it no longer safe to remain on the
floor with his antagonist, so be mounted the
little girt or plate and continued to stir up
the snake until he would jump to within two
feet of the girt, and at each spring he started
from the same point on the floor that he oc-
cupied when the sport began. Those who
knew Uncle Reuben would believe him with-
out an oath. ‘ OLD Hosanna.
=5
Connecticut Railroads.
AN ansrnaor or THE ANNUAL neron’r or run
corrmssronnas.
Below is an abstract of the twenty-ninth
annual report of the railroad commissioners
which fills a pamphlet of over 300 pages.
Referring to the amendment of the gener-
al railroad law, the report says : At the time
that law was passed (1881) all special services
rendered by the commissioners were paid for
by the company requesting the services, but
by the present law their salaries and ofilce
expenses are apportioned among the several
railroad companies in proportion to the
length of the main track or tracks of their
respective railroads in this state, so that ex-
isting companies have to pay for the services
of the commissioners in the location and
construction of what may be intended as
competing lines. The law should require
that all new railroad corporations, on filing
with the commissioners their petition for
the approval of their location, should lodge
with the state treasuver a sum equal to $15
for each mile of their proposed road in this
state, and that such company should be in
cluded in the next assessment by the comp-
troller. ‘ ~ ‘
The total length of all the roads in the
state is 959.94 milee; the double track is
110.28, and the sidings 200 06, a total of
1,268.82 miles of single track
The number of passengers ‘carrried
amounted to 13,205,826, an increase of
1,382,193, or nearly 13 per cent. ; the mile-.
age shows an increase from 246,160,877 last
year to 283,276,195 this year. The freight
carried amounted to.5.839,358 tons,aa sgainist
5,095,963 last year, an increase of 14.3
per cent. Eighty employee were injured last
year. of whom 30 were either killed or fatally
injured. Of those injured 30 were hurt in
coupling and 20 fell from the cars. A total
of 162 persons is reported as injured during
the year, 75 fatally. Of tbse 70 were tres-
passers, of whom 28 were fatally injured;
10 were injured at highway crossing, 5 fa-
tally.
In reference to color blindness the report
says. “Not only have the more careful of
our railroad managers in many instances
seen fit to place in positions where their de-
fects of vision would not expose;either them-
selves or others to danger those found delic-
cient under thegexaminations required by the
law, but have also required for that men that
they should stand the tests. Were such a
practice universal of course no law would
ever be required. We expect to see such a
practice made universal, by requirement of
public sentiment, if not by statute.”
The report concludes with the following
concerning automatic couplers on freighl
cars . “We would therefore recommend the
enactment of a law requiring that all freight
cars hereafter bought or built by the corpor-
ations operating railroads in this state shall
be equipped with automatic couplers, the
draw-bars of which shall be at the uniform-r
height which has been recommended by ”39
master car builders and with dead-blocks
‘Sufilciently thick to give not less than one
foot clear space between the cars when the
blocks come together, and that similar draw-
bars and couplers should be made use of in
all renewals. If it is objected that this isa
half-way measure, we answor, that is just
what it is intended to be. To require our
compnnies to substitute, at once, automatic
conpelers for those now in use on their man
than eight thousand freight cars would, in
our judgment, be imposing an unreasonablt
burden of ‘pensefl
Learning a Trade.
The Jews had a saying that “he who does
not teach his son a trade is much the same
so if he taught him to be a thief, ” and every
male child was required' at five years of age
to learn a trade by which he could support
himself. In Germany the crown prince is a
turner, and could easily earn a living if his
inheritance was lost. His eldest son, Princi-
Wilhelm, is an excellent artisan, and another
son who died was a book-binder. The pres-
ent Emperor keeps samples of his grand-
children’s work in his cabinet. If Guiteau
had been trained to useful labor it might have
saved him from the dreadful crime for which
he is on blah-Selected.
m
The Rev. Charles H. Eaton, Dr. Chopin’s
successor, preached a calm and temperate
sermon on theaters and theatre-going. He
advised his hearers to go to the theaters in
moderation, but to draw the distinction be-
tween good plays and, immoral ones. He
gave s-good rule on the subject for the benefiv
of young men; namely, that no young man
ought to go to any place or to witness any
spectlcle where he would be unwulhng to
run; his mother 0: sister.
III did so (and I may_if it becomes necessary)
Scarcely Excusnble Blundering.
The recent annual report of the president
of the New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad to the stockholders takes out $300,-
000 of the year's earnings and, "appropri-
ating" the sum for futwre improvement of
the road and its equipment, charges it to the
“expenses" of the year past! It is a some-
what incomprehensiblc sort of book-keeping,
but, as the stockholders voted overwhelm-
ingly to accept the report, it no doubt satis-
fied them.
.Thc relations between the road and its
stockholders and the road and the state,
however, are not‘ the same. When the presi-
dent and treasurer of the New York, New
Haven dud Hartford road came to make
their statement, as required by law, under
oath to the railroad commissioners of the
state they also then includgd this $800,000
under actual expenses and swore that it had
been so spent. The commissioners accepted
those figures and proceeded to make up their
report on the assumption of lhe accuracy of
the returns. Whether they questioned their
truth, and whether any correspondence be-
forehand was had with the company, is yet
to be made clear. It is reported that there
was some correspondence before thafigures
were accepted. 'Huwever they were taken
and made the basis of th general estimates
and conclusions of the report of the board
This report, with its general results, its totals
of figures, its averages, etc., etc., was pub-
lished at the assembling of the legislature
and has already been presented to that body.
It lacked then the detailed tables of each
company’s business, though they ha’been
received and used and were being printed at
the time. .
As soon as Mr. Henry L. Goodwin of East
Hartford got hold of this feature of the pres-
ident’s report to the stockholders of the New
Haven road, he set to work to see if the
same eccentricity of bookkeeping prevailed
in the sworn .return to the commissioners.
He discovered that-it did; and they these-
upon sent that company's returns back for
correction. The corrections have been made
and the complete railroad report now ap-
pears. Its firet part, however, as at first,
contains all the mistakes due to the misrep-
resentation of $300,000, already alluded to,
and so it is introducedle a fly leaf of “erra-
ta" pasted in. This-remarkable leaf says:
“In the annual return of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad company,
as at first made to us, there was included in
j‘opergtiug expenses” $300,000, which in
fact had not been expended but only approi
printed for future expenses. There was noth-
ing to indicate this and it was not known to
us till after the time fixed by law for present-
ing ourteport to the general assembly. It is
necessary therefore to make many corrections
in the various summaries."
After which follows a list of twenty-five
mistakes of figures or of statement. Thus:
“for ‘less than half’ read ‘a little more
than ;’ ” "for ‘100’ read ‘50‘ ” and so on. It
is seldom that we receive an official'report.
which leads off with so imposing an array of
its own defects. If the document can be re-
printed correctly for any reasonable sum, as
we understand it can be it would be for the
credit of the State and of the commissioners
to have it done.
But it should be correct. As it now ap.
pears the “corrected" report sanctioned by
the board has its peculiarities. Among the
“liabilities” of the company it admits new
equipment and lands and bridges to the
amount of $300,000, and only increases the
profit and loss account $54,250. .
The fact is perfectly plain that the road
really added $354,250 to its profits. It was
perhaps an exceptional year. T's money
thus earned can be well expended on the road,
but it was earned, and there was a lack of
tact, if nothing else, in the apparent attempt
to “bookkeep” the fact out of sight. The
sworn returns before and after correction
were :—
7
BEFORE AFTER
For repair of road...$417.963.34 817,963 34
" bridges.. ......... .. 123,892.64 23.89264
“ locomotives ....... 175,998.34 125,998 95
“ cars................. 385,703 80 335,703.80
The net earnings before correction were
$1,972,857,04; after correction they were
$2,272,857.04. Of course there is no value
in returns and no use in reports unless they
are correct. It is not creditable that so gross
an error should have permeated the report
this year, and it is curious to see how one en-
ergetic party has hunted it out. Mr. Good-
win is a great trial to some people, but very
likely he will not live forever.—Hartford
C’aumnt.
The Hon. W. H. English has relieved him-
self of a=pcrsonal statement which fills about
three columns of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
He says the principal cause of the Democrat-
ic defeat in Indiana in. October, 1880, was
the decision of the Democratic Supreme
Court overthrowing the constitutional amend-
ments which changed the election from Oc
tober to November. ’ This, it will be remem
bered, was chiefly due to the influence of
Mr. Hendricks. As for funds, Mr English
says: “More money was used by the Deme-
crats in the Indiana campaign of 1880 than
was ever used in any previous canvass. More
was used by the National Committee; more
by the State Committee; more by the Demo-
cratic candidate for Vice-President; more
by the Democratic candidate for Governor,
and more by the party generally. The ex-
pense of the whole canvas up to the time of
its close, prior to the October election, was
paid out of money raised within the State;
the money used on the day of election and a
few days before came from abroad, almost
entirely through the National Committee. 1
could make an approximately correct state
ment of the amount disbursed by the Demo-
crats in the canvass. how.“ "“3 u'smbuied,
um i...» whose hands it primarily went. If
It would astonish a great many people." In
concluding his statement Mr. English says:
“1 am actually glad that I was not elected.
I was a big fool ever to think of such athin-r,
and I find it difficult to understand why I
ever consented to run for the ofiiice at all.”
M
Winter Clothing.
When there is a lack of warm clothing
there is always a drain upon the vital ener-
gies which tend to break down the health,
and this sometimes takes place when the
victim has such a good constitution and such
excellent health as to be 'ble to bear with
impunity almost any neglect and exporure.
I know of women who wear thin cotton
stockings all winter, and who say they do
not need anything warmer indoors. but these
are not healthy women, and Iidoubt if their
supposed “feelings” correctly indicate the
body’s needs. Those who dislike the feeling
of wool in contact with'lhe skin (and I think
this is much according to habit or use) can
wear a thin pair of cotton stockings under
woolen ones, which is better for warmtlflhan
two pairs of cotton stockings—American
Agriculturz’st.
mm..-
The M. E. church of Litchfield has collec-
ted $1,270 to build a new parsonage.
_——-—-o-ao-¢—-—--
No housekeeper should be without Heck ers'
Perfect Baking Powder. 'It is pure,wholesome
and always gives satisfaction. .
w
Hon. D. M. Sabine, whose activity has
placed him at the very head of public enter-
prise in our city is the moving power in a
score of importautenterprises, and the story
if his struggles and triumphs well exempli-
fiesthc possibilities open in our city to good
management, courage and iv telligence. To
perk in den“ of al; his uni: rtnk~ngs would
be out to repeat many of the figures already
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.1. H. BALDWIN, M. D.,
Humuuualllu Pluululuu 8. Suuueuu
Olllce corner of Main and Wall Streets, over 11.
S. Betts’ DrugStore.
Office Hours from 8 to 9:30 a. m.,l to 3 and
7 list)l 8‘0. 11:. I ’
is es at Ianlord a O born’s East Vorwalk
and at. D. Beers, Jr,So h Nor’walk. tCalls by
Telephone at Betts’ Drug Store promptly attend-
ed to. ly23
J. G. GREGORY & CO.
DRUGGISTS,
Successors so EDWARD P. WEED,
No. 38 Wall Street, Nor-walk, Ct,
invite the attention of the public to theircomplete
stock of
Pure Medicines and Drugs,
and a full line of
TOILET & FANCY ARTICLE.
Also dealers lll
Pure Wines& Liquors for
Medicinal Purposes.
Careful attention paid to the dispensing olyhy.
sicians’ prescriptions. 23
ENTISTBY.—Dr. C. H. Kendall can and
will Extract Teeth better and M'alcc Teeth
cheaper than any Dentist in Norwalk. lyl
FRANK T. nm'rrf”
I Dfififi 81“..
ALL brancliesof Dentistry performed at rea-
sonable prices, and the best of materials
used. All work warranted, Extractingflfic.
Olllce and Residence. West Avenue,ndjomlng
Methodist Parsonage, Norwalk.
Open Evenings.
GOODELL & PAIGE,
couussLons AT LAW,
EDWIN B. GOODELL, (3711) ALLAN W. Parole.
Notice.
DB. .HITGHCUGK HA8 REMOVED
TO the corner of West Avenue and Berkeley
Place, third house below the Methodist
Church.
Ofilce Hours from 7 to 9 a, m., 2 lo 3, and 7 to 8
D. m.
huulasiuu lueul and Messenger,
HE subscribers will act as Purchasing Agents
and Messengers between Norwalk and New
York, daily: Orders and packages received at
I‘heodorc hnapp’s, South Nor-walk, and Bene-
dict’s News Room, Post Oilice, Norwalk.
EDWIN K. SELLECK, with James McCrcery &
00., takes 6 o’clock train.
D. R. SELLECK, takes 7:45 a.m. train.
L. N. PHINNEY, M. D.,
Residence andOfiice, No. 62 Wall Street.
Olllce Hours—6 to 9 a. m., 12 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Slates at I. A, Meeker a Co’s,Norwalk, and Still-.
son’s and Plalstcd’s Drug Stores, So. Nugvalk.
CHARLES W. MANY,
Surgeon Dentist.
NORWALK, CONN.
Olllce 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 Musical
Componltlon,‘
Lock Box 39. P. 0., NORWALK. CONN.
The N orwalk Dye Works
ARE now in successful operation. Ladies’ and
. Gents’_Gnrments Dyed, Cleaned or Scourcd
in best possible planner, without injury to cloth.
any shade of color produced which may be de-
sired. Work well done and prices reasonable.
Goods can be left at the Mi linery and Fancy
Store of the MISSES ST. JOHN. 33 Main St., Nor-
walk, or at MR3. H. KREIGER’S Mlllinery‘. 39tl
BERNARD COHN,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WEEK’S BUILDING, want. sun,
a FULL mun or
Imported and Domestic'Cloths
of the latest styles, constantly on hand. N ovel-
ties In Scotch Suitings. Satisfaction guaranteed
46
in every particular.
w. .s. eullurlnp,
General Fuuuusluuu Undertaker,
OPPOSITE HORSE R. R. DEPOT.
sa'Orders attended to day or night. Residence
Main Street, 3 doors from Union Avenue,
People’s Market,
No. 19 MAIN STREET,
THE very best of BEEF, delivered daily to
Lamb. Mutton, Pork. kc.,at the lowest.
our customers. Also, in their season, Veal.
Market Rates. Vegetables and Fruits a full
tresh and varied supply daily received. Market
wagon sent about town every morning.
JAMES E. WIXSON.
Ihe Norwalk Fire Insurance 00.,
Has now completed its
18th Successful Business Year.
And has not. outstandinga Dollar of unpaidlosscs
or of claims for losses.
as still" GDMPAIY IISIIIIESAT LOWER In“.
Wx.0.srnnnr, Pres., S. E. Onusuan, Trees.
930.12. cownnsSee’y.
'l‘NA l NSUBANCE Co.orIIARTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $8,902,272.64
insures against loss and damage by Fire, on terms
adopted to the hazard and consistent with the
laws of compensation. COWLES It MERRILL.
Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity.
HABLES S. LOCKWOOD ,
Fashionable Draper and Iailnri
AND
GENTS’ FURNISHING EMPORIUM
Main Street ,Norwalk'. Conn.
THE 'MODEL
flair Dressinglt Bath Rooms
Wall Street, Up Stairs.
cleanliness. Comfort, Artistic Workmnnship and
zejntlemanly Attendance are leading features of
this estabhshmen t.
E. APELL, Proprietor.
Geo. Ward Selleck,
Has in his New Store,
IIAIIIIEIIIIIIIIK'S IIEW BLIIBK, WALL STREET,
A complete assortmentoi the best clam M
GIIOIIEIIIES, mallsulms, FRUITS.
Ic..for family use,at Popular Prices. His stock
is at all times fresh and goodmnd will stand com-
uarlaon With those of any Grocerin town. Call
in and leave your orders. can
GREAT GERM DESTROYER l '
DARBY’S
Prophylactic Fluid.
‘Pml‘ng of Small .Pox
prevented.
SMALL POX Ulcers purified c healed
Gungrtlmc prevented &
r1 curet .
DRADIGATEU. Wounds healed rapidlv.
Niamey cured in short
line
Contagion destroyed. Teller'dricd n .
Sick Rooms purified and Itis perfectly garniless.
made pleasant. For‘Sorc Throat it is a
Fevered and Suck Pcr- sure cure.
sons relieved and re , .
l‘reshlcd 1’by llualldling
Wit 1 rep y actic
Fluid added to the DIPTHERIA
water.
Soft White Complcziuns
'gecllircd byits use in PREVENTED'
at ing.
[mpurcxlirmndcharm-
less and purified by
Draby’s
Cholera dissipated.
s rinkllng ship Fever prevented
Inid about. by its use.
1'0 Purify Elle‘Bl'ealh, Removcsn'lunpleasant
Cleanse the Teeth, it odors.
in cases of death in the
house.“ should always
be used about the
corpse—it will prevent
any unpleasant smell
An Antidote for Animal
or Vegetable Poisons.
Stings. Ste.
Dangerous eflluvins of
Sick Rooms and Hos-
pitals removed by its
use.
Yellow Féver
Eradicated.
can’t be surpassed.
Catarrh relieved and
cured.|
Erysipclas cured.
Burnslrelicved instantly
Scars prevented.
saunter
raven cum.
In fact, it is the great
DISINFECTANT 1N0 PURIFIEB,
Prepared by
J. H. ZEIL [N & 00..
Manufacturing Chemists, Sole Proprietors.
TEA CLUBS Send your address for our Cata-
lougc and"Dircctions for form-
ing Ten Clubs.” French China Tea Sets, Moss
ltoee '1“ n Sets,Stonc China Dinner-Sets, Watches.
&c., given away. Eiétra inducements offered un-
til April lst. ELESTIAL TEA 00..
“tell. W
.- fir:-
l3m2 237 Westminster St., Providence.
.PURE MILK.
Delivered in Norwalk and South Norwalk, at
your door, every morning
AT 7 CENTS PER QUART,
By nEMSON BROS.
DR. S. W. FISKE,
Clnlrvoyuns Physlclan and. Magnetic
Healer, Business and Test Medium.
Office No. 270 Chapel Street, New Haven. Conn.
where he can be consulted regularlyevcry month
from the 10th until the 22d at 9 p.m. Ollice hours
lrom9n.m.to9p.m. -
The Doctor has visited New Haven regularly
every month for over six years, and is highly rec-
ommended by the pee le and the press, as the
great healer and phys cian. If on are sick or
need hisvaluablc advice do notf'ai to consult him.
Doctor Llske has had 31 years experience in the'
practgceot medicme, and thousands of the most
astonishing cures of all chronic and long standing
diseases of whatever name or nature.
The doctor also gives valuable advice on busi-
ness matters and all the affairs of life. both social
and financial. He Will tell you if success or ad-
versity awaits you. Also of journeys. law suits,
gains,.losscs,abscntlrlcnds, and great success in
selecting. lucky numbers. All should consult
him: He is always reliable. Sittings ior business
affairs or examination of the sick, 81.00. Commu-
nications bylcttcr upon business or health must
contain 52, age. ', a lock of hair, and stamp.
Address Lock B0. 1253, N orwich,Conn . For fur-
ther particulars send a stamp and gel.‘ a circular.
‘ A E N OTICE.—The Doctor Will be at the
Smith's Hotel,Waterbury. Conn., four days com-
mencing Feb. 27th. ‘
Use Dr. S. W. FISK E’s VALUABLE LINI-
MEN'I‘, in all cases of Rheumatism, Sprains. and
all pains and aches. For sale by all druggists. '
0. '1‘. Leonard it Son,
COAL, WOOD,
Masons’ Materials,
0 E M E N '1' P I P E
For Drains, Sewers, Wells, &c. ,
At Lowest Cash Prices.
Drains and Wells Dag and Piped
AlsoSoleAgentfor
Patent Tinder Wood,
The Cheapest and Best Kindling out .- Tryit
6' Branch Ofiice atB’. S. Betts' DrugStore
J. Belden Hurlbutt,
illuluuu all Cuuuuelluu at Law,
Room No. 4, Up Stalrs,
GAZETTE BUILDING: NOB‘VALK.
PENSIONS.
Pensions and Bounties got for
all Soldiers of my own and other
Regiments, &c.
. W. H. NOBLE,
BRIDGEPOBT, CON N .
Slaufuuull Numb Tuluuluuu Cu”
LIST OESIIISGRIIERS 0F IOIIWALK. II SPEAK-
IIB GSMMIIIIIIA'I’IIII I'll DATE.
Adams Bros. - - - Market
Adams Express,so. Norwnll: -' Ofllcc
Adams, Leroy - - - Market
flank, h‘alrlield Co.Nat - Ollice
Board, is - - - Residence
ileatty. J. P. .8: Bros. : - ‘cc
Betts, H. S. - - - Druggist
Burke, W.C., M‘.D Uilicc
nymgton, a. ll. .k'Co. - Gazette Office
Clarke, E. C , M. D. - - Residence
Comstock Bros. - - Norwalk
Comstock Bros. - South Norwalk
Crot‘ut 8t Knapp, - '5 Upper Otllce
Crofut s. Knapp, E Lower Oilicc
n. at N. R. a. - - Freight Cilicc
D. & N.R. R. - 5 - Coal Dock
Dann, HornccE. - - - Stable
Donovan Jerry - - - Store
Agarle, w. H. - - Residence
Icrris, J. ii. - - - Resudcncc
Ferris, J. H. Coal, Upper ulllce
Ferris,J. ll, - - Coal, Lower Ollice
Ferry, Mrs. O. S. - « Residence
Fitch, Henry R - - Lumber Yard
Gibson. A. S. - - - Residence
Gregory Bros. - - - Stable
Gregory, J. G., M. D. - Residence
Gregory,J. G. 85 00. ~ - Druggists
Hatch. Bailey & Co. - Planing Mill
Hal. Fur-ring Co. - - Olllce
Higgins, ll. L., M. D. - Residence
Hill. 1‘}. J. - - Lumber Yard
Hitchcock. D., M. D. - Residence
Holmes .k lieclcr, ~ - Grocers
Hoyt, I. M. rat OFELCE - Druggist
Hyatt. J. W. - - - — .Omce
Hyatt, J. w. - . - Residence
Kceler, E. O. - - - Residence
chiIuII,J. C., M, D.' - - Reeldence
Leonard,C. T. a. Son. - Coal,East side
Leonard, C.’I‘. a: Son. - Coal, \\ est side
Lockwood. \V; A.. M.D - Residence
Lockwood. I“. St. John - Residence
Lounsbury & Bisscll Co. - Olllcc
Mallackcmo Hotel. - - _Ollicc
Many, C. W. - - Residence
Meeker, f. A. It Go. - Drugglsts
Miller, George E. - - Residence
Meat Market
Mitchell, W. Jr. D.
-‘ Residence
Nolan, R.G., M. D. -
North. G. S. - - - Gallery
Norwalk Gazette - ()illce
Norfal k Hour - - - Oflicc
Norwalk iron Works -- - Ofiicc
Norwalk Lock Co. - - Ollice
Norwalk Mills - .' - Olhcc
Norwalk Savings Society - - Bank
Palmer, E. M. J's Co. - - .Olhcc
Pardee. I9. V.. M° D. - Resulcnce
Phiuney, L. N., M. D. - Residence
I’laisted, G. B. - - Drugglst
Post Olllce. PAY 0FFICE,. - Noroton,
Propeller Dock - ‘ - Norwnlk
Prowitt,J. 'I‘. - Hardware
Bundle, J. 0., PAY OFFICE, - Store
Raymond .1‘: Nickerson - -. Store
Raymond, G. W . . - Residence
Raymond Brothers - Upper Ollice
Raymond Brothers - Loweruthce
:lundilortb,.L. W. - - Residence
Scllcck Brothers, - - - Grocers
Sherman. S. J. - - Resilience
Sherman, S. J. - - , - Stable
Smith. W. 1!. lb Co. - Hardware
Solmans, A. . - - . lllcc
Starr. O. S. — . - Residence
Starr. Brothers. - : Store
Steamboat Dock . South Nor-walk
Stillson. G. C. - - Drnggist
St.John, C. E. - - Residence
'I‘rowbridgemhas. S. - - Olllcc
Western Union 'I‘elegrn h - Norwalk
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Western U nio'n Telegraphfidnth N orwalk
Wilson,S. B. o ' . Residence
Wood, Chas. N. - Market
WESTPORT. .
Jones, Oscar 1.,PAY omen - TlnIShop
Mcssngus to and from Pay Offices, will be
charged lave-unis each. no matter_ by whom the
may be sent orrcceived. Exception, store of .
b. In“ to subscribers
LC. Ramps, and I. M. Hoyt, where no charge will
Sword’s Building, SOUTH NOR‘VALK, CONN, ,
VOL. LXV.--NU
REAL ESTATE.
. — -_. 21\ rs; \ .‘V\.’\/\."_/'\ AM/\ r»/\ .v. .'\
FOR SALE OR TO LET.-—Thc residence
of the late Judge Stephen Smith on New-
town Tunpike, with or Without the land on east
side of highway. Terms reasonable. Apply to
A. B. SMI H. 5
LARGE HOUSE, with a few acres of ground
if desired, with burn privilege; near resu-
dencc of subscriber.
JOSI All K ELLOGG .
Norwnlk, Feb. 11th, 1882. 3!.7
To Rent.
All'l‘ olra house consisting of” lonr rooms.
fli right in center of village. Apply at this
0 cc.
.‘
For Sale. -
THE COTTAGE No.15 Berkley St.,latcly occu-
7
pied by Mr. E.'I‘. Crolut.
CHAS. 1’. TURN ISY, Executor.
Farm for Sale.
THE Homestead oi’ the late Seth Hickok. com—
prising about 75 acres of tiliablc ground. sit-
uated in New Cunnanmgnr the Reservoir of" the
Norwalk Water Works. It has a good Dwelling
House, Bdrm-and other out-buildings thereon. II.
is well watered, and has an abundance of good
fruit trees. Also twenty acres of cultivated land
adjoining the Homestead. Price reasonable.
Enquire of MRS. ANNA M. HICKOK, or of
IRA HALL, New Canaan. 71.1
For Sale or to Rent.
A House and One Acre of Land, on Prospect
Hill. -
May be bad on reasonable terms. AppBr to
E. W.ST ART.
Norwalk, March 16th, 1881. 12m
For Sale or to Let.
‘1 EVERAL IIOUSES.desirable prices.in the vil-
lage and South Nor-walk, {or sale cheap.
~filso' 30 acres of good land, well fenced, near
v1 age.
A.lso,3desirable tenements in Olmstcad’s Block
Main street.
Also, the lower part of House, School Street, 6
Rooms, Garden. etc.
Also.Flfty first-class and cheap Building Lots
near Norwalk Bridge and City of So. Norwalk.
Also, One or two Stores, Shops and Burns.
Also, Two-Horse Lumber Wagon .
Apply toS. E. OLMSTEAD.
N orwalk, Jan. 28. 1882. fun
For Sale.
NEW and well-built house of 12 rooms.
water, Gas, scwcr connections, &c.. situated
on Elm Street,Borough of Norwalk ; ‘thin one-
hall‘a minute’s walk of horse cars. \ I be sold
very reasonably if applied for soon; one half of
purchase money can remain on place. For fur-
ther information apply to
MARTIN MORRIS,
Over G. a. S. H. Holmes’ Store, Main Street,
Norwalk, Jan. 30,1882. lm5
For Sale.
VERY desirable Dwelling House on Spring
Hill. Will be sold very low if applied for
soon. For particulars call on or address
WILLIAM R. NASH,Agcnt.
Norwalk, Jan. 30, 1882. 4t
Apartments to Let.
N the Brick Houses on Leonard street. In-
quire at LEONARD’S COAL OFFICE.
For Sale.
T South Norwalk, half a mile from the depot,
the late residence of A. H.Snowden, known
as “Clifi‘wood.” Large Villa House, substantial-
13 built, in good order, eleven rooms, cellar and
attic, large _parlor with bay windows beautiful
tower, carriage house, barn and stablc.attractivc
grounds, finely shaded \Vlth fruit and forest trees.
Terms to suit. Apply to A. O. SNOWDEN, on
the premises, or to REV. R. B. SNOWDLN ‘81
St. Mark’s Place, Brooklyn, N. Y5 34".
Farm for Sale.
HE subscriber will sell the wel 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
22st GEO. F. BELDEN, Winnipauk, Conn.
FOR SALE.
TWO very desirable Building Lots on West
Main street. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale.
THE well known proficrty of WILLIAM C.
STREET, situated on . igh Street. in the Bor-
ongh of Norwalkmontaimng one acre of ground
fronting High and Main Streets, with commo-
dious lling House, with all the modern im-
provements, large Barn, and out buildings, and
one-half of small house oulllain Street. For fur
ther particulars enquire of BC RR SMITH, Agent
Norwalk. April 11th, 1881. l5tf
FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS willbuy
a. small place on the hill east of Winnlpaus
facing the ounsbury & Bisscll F actory'. A
chance for a poor man tosecurc allome olhis
own. Aflly at the GAZETTE OFFICE. litf
Farm for Sale.
l-IE subscriber offers his Farm for sale, situa-
.tcd in the Town of Greenfield, in Saratogu
00., in the state of New York, nine miles from
Saratoga Springs. It is pleasontly suidnted on
a. rise of ground, 95 acres of land. which is favor-
ably divided into pasture, plow, meadow and
wood land; With a large house; the size of the
barn 30 by 40, wagon house and stabllng, hay loft
over the same, 23 by 43, and graincry 16 by 18.
Will be sold cheap; part of the purchase money
can rcmrin on mortgage if desired, or will ex-
change for village property. For further particu-
lars inquire of S LAS P. ,
tifil Nor-walk. Conn,
Desirable Property for sale.
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-
wun 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, with one acre of
Land, near BrnndRivcr Bridge, is offered
for sale at slow price, to close an estate. En.
quire at the GAZETTE OFFICE. (it;
For Sale.
cosy, comfortable Cottage on one of the pleas-
antcet 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.
g‘A House on Fair Street.
Apply to B. J. Sturges.
DWELLINGE
AND
Building Lots.
SEVERAL dwellin a, various prices in differ—
ent portions of orough, either to let or for
sale at reasonable prices. Also several place:
eutside ot Borough limits—one in Winnipa i=1
Also several Building lots in and out of Borough
till) ‘ Enquire at this Ofiice.
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She stood in the spelling class,
A maiden sweet and fair, . I ' »
With a tender light in her eyes, and a bright
Soft gleam on her yellow hair.
“Caress,” the perceptor called,
And as no one answered, she
Inquircd with a smile, though she blushed
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A Farewell.
Good-by! God speed thee on thy way
Across the waste of waters wide!
Fair winds and sens the ship betide,
With starry highland cloudless day!
Good-by I from sight, but not from heart.
Though half the world may intervene,
In love, and hope, and trust serene,
We ncvermore can be apart.
God keep thee in His tender care I
On the firm land or rolling deep
He giveth His beloved sleep,
For His strong love is everywhere.
—8. S. Conan, in Harper’s Magazine for'
March.
The Mother’s Last Sleep.
White are the flowers that rest
In the hands that are resting forever;
Whither the soul of the blest,
That has crossed o'er the dark rolling river.
Sweet are the odors that' sleep
In the lilies that tremble above her;
Sweeter the woman we weep;
For only to know, was to love her.
Serene is the face of our dead ;
The spirit it shrined was serener.
Loving each word that she said;
More loving her gentle demeanor.
Soft all her accents We hard;
Softer the heart of the woman.
Wise was each counselling word;
The heavenly ruling the human.
Pure life’s design that she wrought;
Purer the motives that swayed her.
Willing the service she brought
’1 o the merciful Being who made her.
Doing the things that were best;
Smilingly patient and real:
In blessing, our mother was blest ;
In deeds she attained our ideal.
Passing away to her rest,
Over the dark-rolling river,
She has gone to the realms of the blast,
To be with her Saviour forever!
m
The Proposed New Railroad.
[New York Journal ofCommei-cc ]
Unless all signs fail, the lunch basket will
soon music be the indispensable companion
of the trip between New York and Boston.
The journey now consuming seven hours
will be done with ease in four. For this no
thanks will be due to the New York, New
Haven and Hartford and connecting lines.
Owning the only route between the two
cities, its sole aim is the extraction of the
largest amount of money for the least service
from persons unfortunately compelled to pet
ronize it. At a time when all enterpris-
ing railroad companies are quickening their
speed, this monopoly jogs along at the old
gait of thirty to thirty-four miles an hour——
the latter being its “lightning” pace. The
Pennsylvania tgansports New Yorkers to
Philadelphia in two hours or less—st the
rate of forty-five miles an hour. Daily trains
are whirled from New York to Chicago
(about one thousand miles) in twenty-six
hours. or thirty-eight miles an hour.
A dining or restaurant car attached to the
express trains would be an immense conven-
ience, enabling passengers to dispense with
the primitive and clumsy lunch-basket or ssvc
ing them the necessity of bolting an indiges-
tible apology for a meal at New Haven
Springfield, or some other point in five ortcn
minutes of stoppage. Two great and rich
cities support this monopoly. All they have.
ever asked in return for the high fans in II
sufficiency of accommodations, either I
speed high enough to reduce the trip to four
or five hours, or proper facilities for break-
ing the seven hours' fast on board. But the
line denies everything to its patrons, study-
ing its own views of self-interest first, last
and always. Not the least 0f the popular
objection to it is the rate of fare charged.
It costs $5 to go from New York to Boston,
without the privilege of stopping over any-
where. Last summer trains were run from
Chicago to Boston via the Grand Trunk
at $5 a head. and the combination of lines
concerned made money at it. But the New
York, New Haven and Hartford and its
allies have been under no competition save
from the Sound steamers, and can charge.
almost what they please. A competing all-
rail route is needed to bring down the fares
to their proper limits and to make a veteran
monopoly less offensive 'in other respects.
Long-suffering Boston, less patient than
NewYork'under grievances, is undertaking
to provide one want of the times-a really
first-class, literally fast rail communication
between the two cities. Boston has plenty
of spare capital, and has been fortunate in
' most of _her railroad‘lnvcstments. She is not
frightened by the $45,000,000 or $50,000,000
that may bc needed to build the airline,
which alone will satisfy her. Reasonable
prospects of a fair return for her money is
all she asks or expects. The promoters of
the scheme are not without good arguments. _
They claim that there is business enough be-
tween New York and Boston for the exclu-
sive support of an air-line that would have
no stopping places (for express trains) from
end to end. The distance, as the crow flies,
is but little over 170 miles. This could be
, travcsed in four hours at less than forty-
five miles an hour. The present rail distance
is 233 Illllls's. It is evident that the rival line
would have an enormous advantage over the
old concern. It is possible for even despots
to confer benefils' onciviiization—as when
the Russian czar marked out with aruler
and pencil the present railroad route between
St. P. Irrsbul‘g and M )SCOW. New York and
Boston will feel much obliged to any power
in this republican country strong enough to~
lay down a straight rail line from one city It;
the other, and by this means give a needed
lesson to a monopoly which is a disgrace to
lhe age unda standing reproach to Yankee
'enterprise ! ’
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