WHOLE NUMBER 1805. ‘ '.
Miss Lyddy’s Wedding Gown
BY CAROLINE F. 003318.
“Oh, missus, missus! Somefin’s done
happened !"
Blank horror and dismay were depicted
upon the face of my small African, as she
stood upon my threshold with upraised hands
and.eyeballs that seemed starting from their
sockets. Her pause was one of preparation,
for with the innate consideration of her race
she sought to break the news gently to me,
but the burden of it was too great for her,
and with the next breath she exclaimed :
“Dem pigs done chawed up Miss Lyddy’s
weddin' gown !"
“Glory,” I exclaimed (she had been pious-
ly christened Glorianna), “Glory, how did it _
happen ?"
“Dunno !" said Glory. “Pears to me dem
pigs has got Satan in ’em. Guess dey’s
’sccnded from dc ole lot what run down a
steep place inter de sea. I’ll go' an’ fetch ye
a piece."
She sped out and instantly returned with
atattercd shred of India mull that had once
been white, and still here some resemblance
toa gown. Poor Miss Lyddy! This was
all that remained of her dream of wedding
splendors. It was too pitiful! I felt at
once that the bonds of good neighborhood.
had been irretrievably broken, and that Ma-
jor Hawthorne must be made aware of this
last and worse depredation of 'his untimely
pigs.
But who would break the news to Miss
“Glory," said I, “where is she ?"
“Gone over to de buryin'-place to ’tend to
de ancestors,” answered Glory.
Poor, faithful soul, even in those last
days of her maidenhead, with the vague
terrors of matrimony and the still more ap-
palling responsibilities of unsaved heathen
souls hanging over her, she did not forget
the ancestors. Long lines of Ludkinses lay
buried in little sunken hillocks in the family
burying-place, which lay just in sight of her
sitting-room window. She herself was the
last of her race, and until within three weeks
it had seemed that the only fate which
awaited her was to live!~ out her little space
under the ancestral roof-tree and then take
her place in the silent ranks of those who
had gone before. But a change had come.
It came in the person of- a returned mis-
sionary from Micronesian Islands, who had
buried the first and second partners of his
joys and sorrows somewhere under the palm
trees of those tropical lands, and had come
back to the scenes of his youth to recruit his
healtln serve the cause and look up partner
number three. He met Miss Lyddy at a
woman's missionary meeting. He called the
next afternoon and was invited to stay to
tea. He eccepted the invitation, and the next
morning Miss Lyddy came into the room—
for I, too, domiciled under the Ludkins roof-
tree, for a consideration—and with much
hesitation andmany faint and delicate blush-
es informed methat she had promised to share
the future lot of the Rev. Nehemiah Apple-
bloom, to take care of his six children and
sustain and support him in his arduous la-
bors among the heathen of the Micronesian
Islands,
I was struck dumb with amazement.
“Miss Lydia," I said at length, “have you
duly considered this project ?”
Her thin figure quivered and her white face
that had yet a delicate remembrance of youth
in it, grew tender with feeling,
“Yes," she‘said, “I think I have. I have
always had a presentiment that I should
marry a minister or a missionary. " Admir-
able and pathetic faith! “And Mr. Apple-
bloom says he knew the moment he set eyes
upon me that I was ordained to be his wife;
, so you see it is not the surprise to either of
us that it is likely to be to our friends.
I knew then that hermind was fully made
up, so I demurred no longer, but lent my-
self at once to a discussion of the wedding,
which I plainly saw was what Miss Lyddy
desired of me.
“You will be married in church, I sup-
pose ?" .
“Oh, no,” said Miss Lyddy, with gentle
decision. “I am the last of the Ludkinscs.
All the Ludkinses have, been married at
home. I will go out from under my own
roof tree. If I must seem to forsake the
ancestors”——she paused to. regulate a little
choking in her throat—"I will at least net
forsake their traditions. I shall leave a lit-
tle money with the parish clerk, that he may
see that the graves of my dead are kept in
proper order, and I hope they will forgive
my departure; but I will at least go as a Lud-
kins should. It is my desire to be married in
grandmother's wedding-gown.”
Miss Lyddy's voice trembled, and there
was a humanity in her eyes. at which I did
not wonder, for it was much like a funeral,
after all. ~ _ .
“I thought, perhaps,” went on MlssLyddy
“if .I brought thewe'neratedhelic to you, you
would tell me if anything were necessary to
be done to fit it to me. I’don’t care for the
fashions, you know, and my grandmother, as
I remember her, was about my height, but
still, you know—something—some changes
might be advisable.”
"Certainly,",‘I said, “do bring it to me.
should so liketo see i "
“It is sprigged India (she called it Ingy)
mull. My grandfather, Captain Simon Lud-
kins, brought ith’ome from over the seas.
I’ll bring it.” ' ’
Like some, pale and gentle ghost she rose
then and went to a bureau drawer and un-
rolled from folds of linen that smelt of lav-
ender, :the fair, frail relic of Mrs. Captain
Simon Ludkins’ wedding state. It was fine
embroidered mall, the undoubted product of
Indian looms. ‘ -,
“It is lovely," I said, “and so well kept
that it will be just the thing for you. Will
you try. it on ? We can tell then just what
itneeds."
Miss Lyddy proceeded .to disrobs herself
and put on the spider-net gown. As she did
so, the changes in fashion’s mandates became
only” too evident. Ithad no waist to speak
of, and just a little lace-trimmed, putt for
sleeves. Miss Lyddy was evidently surprised.
She had not thought of this. I knew well
what the troubled look upon her face meant,
and I pitied her maiden sensibilities.
Could it be possible that her grandmother,
Mrs. Captain Ludkins had ever worn such
a gown as this ? She said not a word that
could indicate the depth of_her mortidcation‘,
but her face was a-studyfor an artist. :
“There must. he sleeves,’.' .she'm‘urmured,
after few momentsof. silent and embarrassed
contemplation. . " , I
"Yes,”I replied, cheerfully as my conj-
strained gravity would allow., “And you
might have a ficbu and a fiounce on the bot-
1031-" . .
She looked down. She had not before re-
alized that the skirt of the venerated relic
lacked full a quarter of a yard of touching the
floor.
“However could they 1" she ejaculated in
an undertone. But she quickly recOVered
herself and looked up to me cheerfully om
her spectacles. -
“How ingenious you are l" she said, with
an air of sweet relief. "I knew you would
help me out." :
We went out together and bought the
requisite mail that day, but whenwe came
to put it beside the “venerated relic" oern‘.
Captain Ludkins it was evident that time had
Io enriched the color of- the latter that the
two were most' unfortunately unlike. ;
“We can lay it out on the grass,” I said;
“these June dews are just the thing for it,
and as it will be evening nobody will in the
leastao .‘t
I
Again Miss Lyddy smiled gratefully, and
declared that my suggestion should be carried
out in the most faithful manner.
lovely name, don't you think so ?.!' said Miss
Lyddy, and she blushed and smiled like a
school-girl in her teens—had but a short
furlough, and the marriage was to transpire
the next week, so that the relic was“ put out
to bleach forthwith. It had already been
upon the grass three days and nights and-
bcen religiously watered by Miss Lyddy at
morn and noon and dewy eve, and the next
day it (was to be taken up early and put into
the dressmaker’s hands for the necessary a];
terations, when the dreadful event occurred
with which this narrative opens. ,
“Glory,” I said, “do you keep watch for
Miss Lyddy when she returns. Say nothing
about what has happened unless she misses
the gown from the grass. In that case tell
her that I thought it was bleached enough
and took it up to dry, and you don’t know
where I have put it. I am going out now,
but if she asks where, tell ,her you don't
know.”
Glory was faithful, and had besides the
natural craft of her race, and I knew that
she could be ,trusted. As ’or me, I swifty
donned my bonnet and set out to find Major
Hawthorne. It was a bright June evening,
and my walk through the meadow and the
grove that skirted Hawthorndeau would
have been a delightful one if I had borne a
mind more at ease. The Major was a gen-
tlemau by birth, but he had lived out his
fifty bachelor years in a gayAnd careless
way that had seemed to set the gentler part
of creation at defiance. In the lifetime of
his parents Hawthorndenn had been a bean-
tiful estate. It still retained many marks
of wealthy and cultivated ownership, but it
was sadly run down, as the home of ' a
bachelor is apt to be. The grove, which
had once been. the pride of the place, was
grown up to brush now, and the sore leaves
of many summers' growth rustled under my
feet as I walked through it. At one point,
coming suddenly around a thick clamp of
undergrowth, I heard a chorus of tiny snorts
and the scampering of numberless'hoofs, and
Major’s last agricultural freak, the very brood
‘of Berkshire pigs that were the source of all
my borrowed Woes. Away they scampercd,
their snouts well raised in air, and each with
a curl in its tail that seemed too ornamental
to be wholly the product of nature and to
justify the village rumor that the Major’s
own man put those tails in curl papers
every night. They had the air, of spoiled
children, every one, and were evidently the
Major‘s pets. But thathidn’t matter; they
had ruined Miss Lyddy’s wedding dress, to,
say nothing of a dozen other aggravating 'ex-
ploits which do not belong to the story, and
I was determined to have satisfactionput of
their owner.
I found the Major sitting on the piazza
with an after-dinner look upon his hand-
some, good-humored face. He rose to greet
me with an air of old-fashioned politeness,
dashed with a faint wonder that 1, a we.
man, should have had the hardihood to ap-
proach a place so little frequented by wo-
men.
"Good evening, Miss Grace. I am happy
to see you. In what can I have the honor to
serve you i’”
He had read my face and knew that I had
come on a mission.
“Major Hawthorne," I said, paying no at-
tention to his offer of a chair, “I have come
on a painful errand.”
"Sit down, madam," said the Major, po-
litely. “I cannot possibly permit a lady to'
stand on my piazz. I ought, perhaps, to ask
you to walk in, but it is rather stuffy indoors
this evening.” .
“No," I said, “I will sit here, if you
please.” To tell the truth, indoors, as seen
through the window, had not the most in-
viting look, and I was glad to compromise.
“You have, no doubt, heard"—plunging in
medias res—‘ ‘that Miss Lydia Ludkins is
about to be married.”
“Married! Miss Lydia!
No l Hadn’t
ine amazement. “Who isthe fortunate man,
pray ?"
“The Rev. Nehemiah Applebloom, a mis-
sionary to the Micronesian Islands. who has
come home to recruit his health and find a
wife."
“I know him,” said the Major. “Saw
him down at the station—"a long, lean, lank
individual—just fit for his voCation; no
temptation whatever to cannibals!’ But
what the deuce is he going to do with Miss
Lydia? What will Balsam’s Corners do
without her ?” 7
"Balaam’s Corners must do the best it
can." I said-I fear a little sharply—for my
mind was still in a most aggressive state
toward the Major. ,
' "They are to be msfried next week, and
i!
“What will become of the ‘ancestors‘ ?"
interpolated the Major, in whom surprise
seemed to have gotten the better of habitual
politeness.
“Oh, she has made arrangements with Mr.
Crow about that."
“Just like her! Dear, faithful girl. ”
The Major had all his life loved all the sex
not one—and I was not tobe beguiled by this
show of feeling. '
“She had set her heart upon being married
in her grandmother’s wedding-gown.”
“Old Mrs. Captain Simon? I remember
her well. A mighty fine woman. She never
would have gone to the ends of the :earth
with a missionary. It’s the craziest scheme
I ever heard of." ~ .
I began to feel I should never get to my
errand.
“It was put out on the grass to bleach,
being .a little yellow with age. It was a
lovely embroidered India muslin that the
old captain brought home from India him-
self." ' ’
“How well I remember him in my boy-
hood! A jolly dog! A grand-daughter of his
go of! to the Cannibal Islandsito be eaten up
’by savages! I won't have it." ’
“Her heart is set upon going,”_I continu-
ed. “The wedding~gown"7 is put out to.
bleach, and this very afternoongthose‘little
Berkshire pigs of yours—fthey are a nuisance
to the whole neighborhood, Maj ‘ rumpled
and rooted it to pieces, 'so:jtha’t','it is utterly ,
ruined." ' " " ' V
“Little black rascals 1" said _thc-Major,with
a chuckle behind his neck-cloth.
“And I have come,without her knowledge,
to tell you of it, because I was sure that, una
der the circumstances, a gentleman of your
breeding would feel in hdnor bound to make
some reparation to Miss Lydia.
The Major mused and looked at his boot
for a moment. ’
"Miss Grace," “he said at length, “I thank
you for the service you am rendered me
in this matter. Will you have the goodness
to say to Miss Ludkins, with my compli-
ments, that I shall do myself the honor to
wait upon her to-morrow morning at ten
o’clock, to adjust the unfortunate matter 1
I beg in the meantime that she will give her-
self as little solicitude as possible, for though
I cannot rosters the ancient and venerated
dry goods, I will do my best to make the loss
good." 1 ’
He bowed over my hand and the audience
was evidently concluded. Was I satisfied ?
No, indeed! What woman would not have
felt wronged to be left at the end of a mis-
sion of disinterested benevolence in such a
state of doubt and uncertainty as this. But
I was obliged to go home nevertheless, and
wait as patiently as I could for the hour of
tan. nest moraine!
knew that I had invaded a haunt of the: '
heard a word of it," said the Major in genu- .
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT", TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, ‘ 1882.
:Glory had been in hearing when the mes-
sage had been delivered to Miss Lyddy and
she too was on the watch. A't last-she send-
The Rev. Nehemiah Applebloom—“A Ned in from the hedge,her ivories all a-glisten
and her eyes wide open, and full of a rather
incomprehensiblemirth.
“He's a-comin’," ,she said; “and such a
sight 1” ‘
At that minute the gate ,clicked and up
the walk strode indeed. a most astonishing
figure. The Major had gotten himself up in
a continental suit, which he must have fished
out of the unknown depths of the ancient at-
tics at Hawthorndeau ; black velvet coat with
lace rufiles at the wrist, knee breaches, white
satin waistcoat, slippers with shoe buckles,
powdered wig and cocked )lat. He was six
feet tall, portly and.wcll formed, and be
looked every inch a Signer of the Declaration
at the very least. He was followed by his
colored man, who carried a large'brown pa-
per parcel. .
“He's co me a-courtin,’ missus," said Glory;
“ya can see it in his face.”
I had not the instinct of Glory, and doubt-
ed; but what his errand was I was dying to
know. '
But he disappeared into Miss Lydia’s par-
lor, and I was left outside to temper my im-
patience as best I could. Presently Glory.
entered on tip-toe.
“Missus, missus," she whispered. “De
do's swung open jessc de lcas' crack, an’ its
jess opposite do big murror, an’ if. ye come
out here in de hall, ye can see it all in de,
murror, as plain as day, an' it's a beep bet-
ter’n a play."
‘It was a temptation, but believe me, dear
reader, I resistedit. Only as Glory ran back
to her peeping, I followed to pull her away
and send her out doors—that was simply my
duty—and there he was full on his knees
before her, and she with that ,rapt seraphic
look upon her face which no woman ever
wears except on the most vitally interesting
occasion. But Glory disposed of, I went
back to my sewing and waited as best Icou'ld
the conclusion of the momentous interview.
The Major come out at length, as smilingas
a May morning, leaving the brown paper par-
celbehind him.
It was very still in Miss Lydia's room for
a quarter of an hour, and then she too,
emerged from her retreat. Spread over her
bands was a gown‘of cream~colorcd brocade
embellished with the loveliest roses in full
bloom, with blueforgebme-nots trailing here
and there among them. It had an ample
waist, elbow sleeves, and a train a yard and
a half long.
“My dear Grace," she said, “the Major
has brought me his mother’s wedding gown
to be married in.”
. “It is beautiful," I said; “but who is to be
the bridegroom ?" . .
She smiled as angels do, and looked afar
a ,delicate flutter of pink hung out in her
cheek to deprecate her recrcancy, as she
whispered in a tone of gentle but consum-
mate triumph:
“The Major himself! Didn’t he look grand
in his knee breaches ?" .
“And Mr. Apploblooom ?"
“Major Hawthorne _will adjust that mat-.
ter.’_'
"That matter,” indeed! She spoke as
though it were already as remote from her as
the pyramids. j ,
“I congratulate you, Miss Lydia,” I said,
'growing formal, for she had behaved shame-
fully.
“Don’t blame me,” she murmured. “Ma-
jor Hawthorne declares that he has loved me
since I was a child, but never thought him-
self worthy of me (the gay deceiverl) ; and
Mr. Applebloom, you know, is only the ac-
quaintance Of a day." ‘
3 I wanted toaskherhow -she had disposed
of her presentimcnt, but I did not dare.
Major Hawthorne subscribed fifty dollars
to the Micronesianglfission and sent Mr. Ap-
plebloom elsewhere to look for a wife, and
the verdict of Balsam's Corners was that he
had done the handsome thing.
“For goodness 1" said Glory,‘ ‘ef dere wern’t
a clar’ relation between dem pigs an’ Provi-
dence den I don't know nothin’."
Miss Lydia took the same pious view of
the matter, and made the Major the {most
dainty and dignified of wives.
-—-0ur Continent.
Commodore Schut‘eldt.
rm: oraxmo or Gonna—saw Home on ma
omss quns'rron.
SAN Famorsoo. July 30.—Among the pas-
sengers by the steamer Arabic, which arrived
here yesterday, was Commodore Schufeldt.
In an interview the commodore says the
opening of Cores was his own idea in con-
ception and execution. Two years ago he
was authorized by the United States gavern-
ment to attempt the undertaking through the
medium of Japan, but failed to obtain access
to the proper authorities. Meantime events
had so ripened in Cores that it became a com-
paratively easy matter to effect his purpose
through the agency of China. Corea was
ripe for treaty, but preferred to begin with
the United States, because Commodore Schu-
feldt was personally known in Cores and be-
cause the Coreans knew they could get from
the United States a liberal treaty, excluding
opium, of which theyhave great dread, and
avoiding interference with . religious ques-
tions. Cores intimates to other nations that
the American treaty must be the basis of all
others. The treaty has also opened Corea to
China herself, which is one of the most im-
portant political events in the latter’s history
for fifty years. The Commodore thinks this
has been accomplished without giving any
offence to Japan.
Commodore Shufeldt said he received no
official notice of his recall though it was inti-
mated to him while at Yokohama. He ex-
pressed himself as being strongly opposed to
Chinese immigration and could not consider
restriction an unfriendly act towards'China,
because the privileges of Americans in that
country are restricted to a few open ports,
and trade and travel in the interior are utterly
prohibited. He said that since leaving China
he had learned that Li Hung Chang had writ-
ten to the consul general at Shanghai, asking-
if the Commodore would return to China for
the purpose of carrying out the reorganization
of the Chinese navy as his letter to ex-Senator
Sargent had awaken ed Chinese statesmen to
the absolute\vant of war power in China,and
he wished to impress upon'bis government
the fact stated in the letter.
' Horace Greeley as a_Priuter Boy.
Here in Poultney the New York Tri-
bune was founded. Here its founder washed
the forms, and carried water, and built the
fires, and didn’t sweep out the, news room,
and didn't carry out the ashes, and forgot
what he was sent after and lot the paste sour,
and lost the letters he was given to mail, and
upset the lye, and tried the usual experiments
with the fancy job type and the finest colored
inks in the way ‘of fearful and wonderful
visiting cards, and in all ways conducted
himself even as the devil always does about
a print shop. Here Greeley passed some years
of his boyhood. 'I wander about the village
thinking about the good old man, and trying
to think of the young printer. dusting out
his cases with a pair of [leaky bellows, or
“soldiering” for a big pick-hp that was next
to the'last fat thing on the book, just under
along take of solid nonpareil.—Burlington
Haulage. - ‘
W
“ HACKMETACK,” a lasting and fra-
grant perfume. Price 25 and 50 cents.
Monson Hoyt, agent. tf
”—
This is the season for caterpillar and ice-
cream. Serve, on separate dishes—Lowell
Old. Danbury.
r Mr. A. B. Hull, who is a mine of remi-
niscenses, still continues his series of “Old
Danbury” papers in the News, to which we
have often alluded. The following, which
we copy entire, is .of as much interest to
readers in Norwalk as to the people of the
northern part of the county—Ens. Guerra.)
In a previous number was given an account
of some of the earliest stage routes from Dan-
bury, andeven back to when the mail was
carried on horseback.
Mrs. Desire Gregory, who died about three
years ago, over 100 years of age, remembered
when travelers had to get to Norwalk by
their own conveyance, there being no stages,
and from thence went on sloop's to Nchork.
She used to relate that at one time, being de-
layed by contrary winds on the Sound over
Sunday, shed was brought up before the
church for traveling on the Sabbath, but it
being proven that it was necessary, the
charge was dismissed.
One of the earliest routes we find adver-
tised in the New York Commercial Advertiser
of 1797. This stage left New York every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning at
8 o'clock, and ran to Bedford thefirst day,
the second day to Dover, the third to Stock-
bridge. Mass, the fourth to Bennington, Vt.,
and a line of stages ran from South East to
Danbury, Brookfield, New Milford, &c., to
meet this line. Fare five cents per mile. In
1809 a stage line was established via Bedding
and Norwalk to New York.‘ This stage rah
once a week at first, afterwards twice a week,
and at last every day, and carried the mail. '
Mr. Parks, of_ Litchfield, was the proprietor
of a stage line from Litchfieldthrough Dan-
bury to New York at .an early date. Hiram
Barnes drove for him, and afterwards be-
came proprietor, and he, with Lyman and
Seth Addis, drove on the Norwalk route for
many years. There were many other drivers
on this line, who are well remembered for
their j'ovial good nature and accommodating
department. . Mr. Barnes was fond of a joke,
and many anecdotes are related of him. At
one time Lyman Addis fell asleep in the hay
loft, and Barnes seeing him there called for
him .as if in a great hurry. Addis being
awakened from a sound sleep, and being
confused, walked out of-a hole in the side of
the barn made to pitch hay into from a cart,
some fifteen or twenty feet from the ground.
He fell among the~stone and rubbish, and
Barnes, supposing him to be badly injured,.
called out, “ What the d-l made ybu go out
there? Are you hurt much ?" “Oh, no,"
said Addis, “ that’s the way I always go out
when I’m in a hurry." When Barnes’ stage
ran to the steamboat at Old Well'(now South
Norwalk), he changed horses at the corners
in Boston school district, Redding.
Aunt Fox's, in Wilton, was another noted
stopping place. In 1837 opposition was so
strong that passengers were taken from Dan-
bury to New York via steamboat from South
Norwalk at -a dollar each. The stage ran
daily, and the fare 'on it was seventy-five
cents, and twenty-five cents on the boat, for
Danbury passengers. Those who were not
going to Danbury were charged seventy-five
cents for boat fare, and different prices on
the stage, according to distance. Coming
up on the boat one day, we-remarked to
Barnes:
“Isn’t this rather hard on us to pay $1.62;
to _go half way to Danbury, when Danbury
passengers have to pay only one dollar ?”
“ Buy your tickets to Danbury, you darned
fool!” saidBarnes. - . -
, All of our party afterwards bought tickets
on the boat through to Danbury. The stage
stopped at Abijah Betts' store in Wilton, and
Mr. Betts. used to come out and look over
the tickets of those going through and collect
the stage this of flu; way passengers. All
had Danbury tickets.
“This won't do,"-said Mr. Betts. “You
are only going to Reading. I know you all,
and know where you live. You must pay
me five shillings more." ,
We replied that “ we had paid the fare to
Danbury, and could go there or- not, just as
we pleased?’ _
Mr. Betts never after tried to collect the
extra fares from our party.
This stage line was run by different pro-
prietors, and although there were other fa-
cilities for going to New York, this route
does not appear to have been fully aban-
doned frbm the time it was first established
until the Danbury and Norwalk railway was
completed in 1852. The old road ran over
Break-neck Hill,but a new road, called “ the
side-cut,” was subsequently built further
west, and the stage for a number of years
ran over this road, thereby avoiding the
dreaded hill. A four, and frequently a six-
horse, coach was run on this line, but it
'dwindled down to a two-horse stage, and for
a length of time the mail was carried in a
one-horse wagon.
The steamboat John Marshall was the first
to run ’between New York and Norwalk,
commencing in 1824.
In 1826 Messrs. Plait, Patrick do 00., as
before stated, were proprietors of the stage
line, and carried passengers to the boat.
Drivers frequently ‘did errands for parties.
One day a man came running out to the stage
and asked Mr. Barnes if he could carry a
short ladder down for him. ,
“I should be very glad to accommodate
you,” said Barnes. “but I promised a man
just below here that I would take a saw-mill
down for him this morning, and I shall not
be able to take them both at a time."
It is related of Captain Benson, who was
captain of a sloop many years on the Sound
before he was connected with the steamboat,
that at one time a captain, who had just
commencedrunning a sloop, applied to Ben-
son to show him the position of a dangerous
rock in the Sound he had often heard spoken
of. “ Followme," said Capt. Benson, “and
I will show you where the rock is ." His
vessel was light, while the other was heavily
loaded. He passed directly Over the rock
without striking it, while the vessel follow-
ing nearly .took off the keel and scraped the
bottom badly. ,u There," said Capt. Benson,
“ you will always remember where that rock
is." He afterwards kept a hotel in Fairfield,
and died at a “ripe old age. ”
It was at the time the Shanghi fowls began
to be popular, and a family on the “side
out” had for a long time been urgently
requesting Barnes to get them some of the
eggs for setting. After a while he became
tired of their importunities andcousented to
get the desired eggs. He obtained wine
common hens’ eggs, boiled them in a hatter’s
dye kettle,which gave them a peculiar color,
and sold them at a very high price. After
the hen had set the regular time, Mr. Barnes
was. notified that there was no sign of the
eggs hatching. “Keep the old hen setting,”
said he; “ these Asiatic eggs are longer
hatching than the common ones. " At last
the old hen refused to set any longer, and
Barnes was notified to that effect. “ Put the
old rooster on," said he; “ he’ll fetch ’em."
In 1833 the steamboat Citizen was running
every other day from New York to Bridge-
port, stopping at Sawpits (now Port Chester),
Stamford and Norwalk, and the Flushing on
alternate days: Then there was a daily stage
to Danbury. In 1836 the Citizen ran as a
night boat from Norwalk Bridge to New
York. At this time thoFairfield and Nim-
rod were running in opposition'and afterward
the Westehester and Eairfield. Captain
Charles I’eck commanded the Fairfield 'and
Captain John Brooks the Nimrod. The oppo
sition was very bitter and strong, and the
fare as low as 125 cents at times. The fol-
lowing advertisement from the Danbury
Times shows that W. H. Banks ran a stage
in 1848 connecting with the Norwalk boat.
It wasadailyuage:_
’ EARLY RISING.
To accommodate our stage line the-steam-
boat leaves Norwalk at 7 o'clock a. m. for
New York, and consequently the stage leaves
Danbury (the Temperance House) at 2 in the
morning, and arrives at New York at 11
o’clock. This arrangement ,will induce early
rising, and, of course, promote the health of
passengers. Returning, leaves New York at
2 o’clock, and arrives in Danbury about 10.
Fare only $1. ' W. H. Banxs.
March 1, 1848. . '
When the Danbury and Norwalk railway
began to run, Mr._Banks was the first con-
ductor of it. It issaid of him that, ever
mindful of the safety find comfort of the
passengers, he made through examinations
before starting, to see that the linch-pins
were all in and everything was all right, and
that he used to stop'at the celebrated spring
below Georgetown to give the passengers a
cool drink of water. When the trains were
about to start he would cry out: “All who
are going will get on board, for when we
start, we start sudden."
Lawyer flufi‘aker’s Exploration.
Territorial Enterprise.
Some two or three weeks ago we published
in these columns a letter from F. M. Haifa-
her, the well-known ' lawyer of this city, in
be was engaged in making in the Cumber-
land mountains, ~.'l‘enh. The letter given
below shows that‘he’pas made'some curious,
if not valuable, discdverics, and also shows
but he is pretty s 'rewd at ,‘t’raclringfup~ ,
hidden things. What he has discovered
of the silver “coin of the realm.” However
we are of the opiniop thatthcrc are good
silver mines in the mountains of Tennessee.
We happen to know that there was once
found in Calf-killer creek, a stream which
lies in the central part of the state, and is a
tributary of the Caucy Fork of Cumberland
river, a lump of black sulphuret of silver
that weighed twenty-four pounds. Of this
fact, however, Mr. Huffaker is probablyig-
norant. He writes :
In my last I mentioned some of the leg-
ends of the mountains, and now I will tell
of what further I found in these wilds. It
had long been said among these mountain
people that there weref‘vari'ous land marks and
indices to be met with-in tlfe‘tiiountains, the
interpreting of which * wouldfisolve some
great mystery , and’b’éidg {baa of adven-
ture, and meeting with a mOuntaineer, who
could show me some }of these ,‘an'cient won-
ders, I accompanied {him {into the trackless
fastnesscs. . '
The first thi'ng he‘took me to was a pecul-
iar rock, set deep in the earth, ranging east to
west. Then about a half of a mile from this
was a similar rock similarly placed. I took
the bearing of these, two and proposed to
‘ follow the course northward, as they seemed
to lead to some tall‘ hills in the distance,
when my guide said, “There is an Indian cut
in the face of one of those cliffs, about
twelve miles from here.” I replied,_“We
will go and find him,” and we did. finding
him out in the face of the cliff, visible for a
long distance from many surrounding hills.
His left and seemed to be extended north-
wardly. I went in this direction around the
clifl and, came to a smaller Indian, cut in the
rock, lower down the cliff, and pointing still
northwardly. Still pursuing .the general
course about a quarter of a mile we came to
the figure of a buck, cut on the same cliff, in
the act of leaping. East of south from the
Indian, taking the bearing of these- three
objects, I found them to correspond in
general with the rocks, and to passoif the
cliff towards a branch having an easterly
course. This we explored for several miles,
till accidentally, at,a peculiar bend in this
branch, .we found But in a beech tree the
figure of a sun-perch, a fish common in these
streams, crossing the creek at right angles,
its head‘toward the west: I said, “We’ll
follow its head," which led us up a rugged
and precipitous mountain. Arriving about
half way up, we came to a branch, which
seemed to have a peculiar place on it, in that
the huge trees were missing.
On closely examining this place there was
evidence of ancient work, and near this
place. on a line with our fish, we found a
lesson with many things cut on it, some of
them almost obliterated by time. One was
a figure of a silver doll; then the trowel and
square, Masonic emblems, and an index
pointing near the center of this peculiar
spot. And here we pitched our tents and
began to dig, which, in doing, we unearthed
a hole, covered with a flat rock, about three
inches thick by three feet in diameter; and
the letters "J. H.” cut on the nether side.
This hole extended vertically about eigfi
feet, from which ran a tunnel northeasteriy
twenty-five feet. This tunnel is about eight
feet wide by four feet high, and seems to
have been excavated many years since. The
face of it is in the same substance for which
it was dug, which I have now for essay.
Another singular feature about all this is the
fact that going in a generally. south line
over this mountain you come to the back of
the big Indian, and crossing a creek to an-
other mountain, which both Indians ~ face,
about a mile distant, in a well secluded place,
is an ancient furnace where much smelting
has been done, as is evidence by the quantity
of old cinder piles around about. 1 naturally
asked myself why all this was done, and by
whom ? Everything indicates that it was
done many years since’. Of course my friend
was ready to assert that we had come to the
place where Swift had his fabled workings in
silver, and these were the marks he had made
for his general guidance. However this may
be it is evident that all this work was not
done for pastime.
A Vigorous Mushroom.
Natural-scientists will be puzzled to account
for a freak of vegetation which came-to light
at the old Niagara elevator yesterday morn-
ing. A vigorous and perfectly formed‘mush-
room was observed pushing its way upward
through the hard asphalt flooring, where the
triad of employees and the traffic of wheels
have been incessant for years. George Mil-
son, one of the foreman, was the first to dis-
cover it. ' H c says his-attention was drawn to
a slight bulge inltbe. pavement covering a
space of about a square 'foot. There seemed
to be something underneath powerful enough
to break the adamantinc surface into a score
of cracked pieces: By noon, or less than six,
hours after this, the bulge had risen at least
an additional inch. Taking one of the pieces
out of the mound, Mr. Milson saw the cause
of the unusual occurencc to be a mushroom.
It is perfectly developed with a stem two
inches in thickness and a very wide cap. N 0
break existahn’ywherc else in the floor, nor
is there any possible chance for the insertion
of mushroom seed about the spot.
As botanists claim that six weeks only are
required to produce a fungus of this sort, and
-as the present specimen tastes fresh and edi—
blc, the perplexing question arises how did
the thing get there? .4'l‘nc pavement is in'
two-layers. The upper.‘layer is seven inches
thick, and was laid hot, rolled down and
thoroughly cooled four years ago. Beneath
it is the old layer of tar and gravel, forming
the bed of the upper stratum. The soil,
therefore, is some fourteen inches below the
surface. An examination of the curiosity
was made by many .visitors during yesterday
afternoon and evenings-:Bufalo Courier.
AREYOUMADE miserable , by Indigesi
ton, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appe-
tite, Yellow Skin? Shiloh's Vitalizer 'is a
positive cure. Mon’Son Hoyt, agent. . ‘tf
—.——+(——I
Homing pigeons made the flight from Co-
lumbus, Ohio, to Newark, N'. J ., 463} miles,
[in 27h. 45m.
which'hc gave some account of explorations,
probably the den of some old counterfeitcr.
‘ Cents per line.
- NORWALK GAZETTE,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY Mlllllllll.
The second Oldest Paper in the Stnte.
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Entered at the Post Oficc at Norwalk, Coma,
as Second-Class Matter. ’
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u as (I
Special Notices 25 per centadvance on the
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Local Notice. in Reading Columns, 25
Yearly advertisers restricted to the business
contemplated at the time of contract.but are
permitted to make monthly changes 0! their ad-
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.M arriagcs and Deaths inserted gratuitously.
Obituary or Funeral Notices 15 con to per line. --
'All unusual cuts and devices 25 per cent. extra
A. H. BALDWIN, M. 1)..
no. Removed his allies to his Newltcsidcnca
i
No. 71 Wall Street, Dr. llill's place. ‘
Ilours till 9 a. m.. l to 3 and Ito 8 p. m.
ALEX. S. GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church
Teacher of
Diane-Forte, organ and Musical
Composition,
Lock Box 39. r. 0.. NORWALK. CONN.
The Norwalk Dye Works
ARE now in successful operation. Ladies’ and
Gents’_Garnrents Dyed, Cleaned or Scoured
in best possible manner, without injury to cloth.
Any shude'ot‘ color produced'which may be do
sired. Work well done and riccs reasonable.
Goods can be left at the Mi lincfii and Fancy
Store of the MISSES ST. JOHN. 3 din St.,Nor-
walk. or at MR3. ll. KftEl‘GEB’S Millincry. 89tl
> BERNARD. COHN,
MERCHANT TAILOR,—
w'nszms BUILDING, WALL 81.,
. A FULL LINE or '
Imported and Domestic Cloths
of the latest styles, constantly on hand. ' Novel-
tiesin Scotch Sailings. Satisiaction guaranteed
in every particular. 4
w. s. columns,
General Furmsluu Undertaker,
OPPOSITE HORSE R. R. DEPOT.
H'Orders attended to day or night. Residence
Main Street, 3 doors from Union Avenue,
The Norwalk fire lnsuransevco,
Has now completed its ,-
18th Successful Business Your.
Andhas not outstanding a Dolluroi unpaidlos‘scs
or of claims for losses. ’
In “If!!! “IPA" IISIIBESAT MINER IA‘IES.
WI.O.S'rnnm'. Pram, S. E. OLarsr-nns, Treas.
~ 630.3. CWLIsSec’y.
TNA l NSUBANCE Co.or HARTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
Cnpltnl 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. COWLh‘S It MERRILL,
Sole Agents for N orwalk and Vicinity.
' grape vines,
6A
REAL ESTATE.
~.\/‘. [yam-va/xMh/x/vxrxzma. aaaaa
Rare Opportunity.
qu Sale. '
HE Farm formerly owned by Charles Van
Hooscar.deccascd, consisting of Homestead of
over forty acres of line farming land, all in a good
state of cultivation, and about that acres of wood—
land._ There is at large new barn and good out-
buildings, and a line well of Water on the premis-
es, but the house IS 0! little consideration. To a
New York gentleman wishing to erect a fine
country sent, this a GRAND OPPORTUNITY.
This form rs beautifully situated about three
miles from Norwalk center, and a short distance
from the summer residence oi' Mr. W. J. Gun-
nmg. It is on elevated ground overlooking Long
Island Sound is considered a rcmurkuhl healthy
location and is of easy access. For furt er inior—
matron apply to IitA COLE. at the Shirt Manu-
factory ol' Morison & hutchinson.
Norwalk, J one 10, 188-2.
For Sale.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD of David Comatock,
. deceased, situated on Comstock Hill, about 2
miles north-west of Norwalk Bridge. it. consists
of n two-story dwelling wrth usual form our-
buildings; about 70 acres of good larm land well
watered, and easy oi' cultivation. It is situated
on high ground and has an extended view ofLong
Island Sound. and has line shade trees in front.
It Will be sold low and on reasonable terms in
order to close up the estate. Eor further inl'or-
matron a )ply to JOSIAH KELLOGG.
Norwa R, May 29, 1882.
For Sale.
HE undersigned oil‘ers lor sale his place on
Prospect ilill, N orwalk, within a few min-
utes walk of the central part or the town, and of
easy access to N. Y. d’. N. i. it, it. The house is
two stories and Mansurd roof; has 13 rooms with
all the modern conveniences, w itcr, as, both
room,&c. The grounds are to ly it out in
lawn, garden, and orchard, with an abundance
of choice lruit. Un-thc‘placc are barn,carriugc
house. cow stable and laundry; fino view of Long
attractive and healthful. Address
R. B. CltAUl‘URD, National Bank of Norwalk.
Real Estate for Sale. '
URSUANT to an order of the Court of Pro-
Date for the District of Norwalk the sub.-
scribcr offers for sale the House and Lot belong-
ing to the Estate ol'Mary Navy decenscd,situntcd
in ,Norwalk on Cliil'Avcnuo, at “The Rocks.” Lot
60xi50 wrth convenient house,good well ol‘water,
&c. A splendiducllanee to buy a homestead at a.
small price. GEO. L. MILLER,
'ti Administrator.
House For Sale.
0. _8 CAMP STREET. house has 9 rooms
With gas, portable furnace, cistern of water,
Borough water on premises. Also a large barn
.wrth stabhn for several horses, fruit trees.
c,
Also for Sale.
The Cottage House and lot opposite the res!-
dence of Mr. Charles E. St. John, Main Street.
Forpartlculars apply at GAZETTE OFFICE.
To Let.
. THE large, commodious front room in Gazette
Building just vacated by Francis McKeon.
,lt‘uil particulars of
DJ. STURGES;
For Sale or to Rent.
HE well-knowu Farm at Winnipauk, formerly'
owned by Morgan T.Sm1th, is offered for
sale or to rent. The Farm contains some 40 acres
or improved land, in good condition, a commodi-
ous and convenient'resrdence, barns,&c. Poa-
sessron given immediately. Price low and terms
can . For further articulars enquire at the
‘FA BFIELD COUN ‘1' NATIONAL BANK. ii
To Rent.
A PLACE on the Winnipauk nond.nearthe
head of Main Street. A comfortable House,
small Barn,Gardcn, Orchard. large front yard,
grass plots, and plenty of land. Apply to B. J.
TURGES, Gazette Building.
To Rent.
DWELLING containing 9 rooms. Also 4
rooms suitable for offices, over G. & S. H.
Holmes’Grocery Store.Main Street. For artic-
ula-rs applyto L8] C. C. BE , S.-
' . To Let-
THE Large Hull,recently occupied by the Odd
Fellewsmt the low yearly rental of 8l50.
Full particulars of the agent, B. J. STURGES,
No. 4 Gazette, Building.
Farm for Sale.
H E Homestead of the late Seth Hickok, com-
uated in New Canaanmear the Reservoir of the
Norwalk Water Works. It has a good Dwelling
House, Barn, and other out-buildings thereon. It
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 hf. HICKOK, or
RUSSELL L. HALL. New Canaan. “It
For Sale or to Rent.
A House and One Acre of Land, on Prospect
Hill. .
Ma be had on reasonable terms. A l to
y E. W. STUART.
N orwalk, March 16th, 1881. 12tf
. Notice.
THE undersigned having sold out all his inter-
est in the Hardware, and House and Sign
Painting Business heretofore conducted by him
at No.30 Main St., to his son, William Hindley,
Jr.,would return his thanks to this community
for the patronage accorded him and respectfully
ask for a. continuance of the same to his succes-
sor. Ifersons havrng unsettled accounts with the
subscriber are requested to‘ call and settle the
same immediately. .
WILLIAM HINDLE Y.
Norwalk, Jan. 16th, 1882. 4
rsanuss s. LOCKWOOD,
Fashionable Draper and Tailor
GENTS’ FURNISHING EMPORIUH
MainStroet,Norwalk.Oonn.
Tn- MODEL
Hair Dressings; Bath Rooms
Wall Street, Up Stairs.
cleanliness, Comfort, Artistic Workmanship and
gentlemanly Attendance are leading features of
this establishmen t.
E. APELL, Proprietor.
'G‘re'o. Ward Selleck ,
Hus in his New Store,
VHARDEIIRMK'S HEW ILOGI,‘WM|. STREET,
A complete assortment of the bestclass of
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, FRUITS,
aeufor family usc,at Popular Prices. His stock,
is at all times fresh and good.nnd will stand com-
arison with those of any Grocerin town. Call
in and leave your orders. Qati‘
GLEAILIIESS IS “IT I'll IODLIIESS.
G. A. PRANKE’S
having and Hair Cutting Saloon,
to: A
Plea-Int Shave;
‘ Aral-tle llnlr Cyst, or
' Thorough Shampoo
CALL a'r . ‘
Mr....I‘ranke’s Hair Cutting Saloon,
No. l GAZETTE BUILDING.
Particular attention given to Ladies and Child-
ren’s flair Cutting and Shampooing.
AT HOME TO EVERYBODY.
Hot and ColdWater Baths
E. E M 0 V A. 1.:
To the Basement of 58 Wall Street,
Next door below Jackson Brothers'.
E. BEACH,
House and Sign Painting,
Paper Hanging and Kalsomining,
Residence—Lewis Street,
NORWALK, - - -‘ - CONN.
All work entrusted £0.11!!! shall be promptly
reasonably and well done. A share of the public
patronage solicited. ' 33st
. , . . Notice.
.UNDER instructions and by power of attorney
I shall prosecute all persons trespassing
upon the grounds or premises of A. ll., or if. S.
Byington. BENJAMIN J. S'i‘UitCES.
Norwalk. May 15th, 1382. .
PURE MILK.
Delivered in Norwalk and South Nurwalk, at
your door, every morning
AT 6 CENTS PER. QUART,
By REMSON Buos.
Peter L. Guigue,
llllllliilllxlllllllill
"Union Ave, North of‘ltlorw'ulk‘
' Cornetery, Norwmk, Conn.
Dealer in Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and .Vegetablc Plants. Fruit and
Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Vines. Cut
Flowers always on hand and all sorts of De-
signs in Flowers arranged to order.
Grading and Reofitting Cemetery Plots
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
22“ GEO; F. BELDEN, Winnipnuk, Conn.
FOR SALE.
f two very desirable Building Lots on Wes
Main street. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale. ‘
HE well known property of WILLIAM C.
STREET, situated on . igh Street, In the Bor-
ough of Norwalk.contalnmg one acre of ground
fronting on High and Main. Streets, wrth commo~
diona Dwelling Housc,wrth all the, modern un-
provemcnts, large Barn, and out buildings, and
one-h ‘ of'smai house on Main Street. leor fur
therp cularsenqulrc of BUBR SMITH, Agent.
Norwalk, April 11th, 1881. , - lfiti
FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS wi_llbuy
a. small lace on the hill_eaat of Winnlpau
facing the ounsbury A; Brssell Factory. A
chance i'or a poor man tosecure ahome olhrs
own. Apply at the GAZETTE OFFlCE. tltf
Farm for Sale. .
THE subscriber oil‘ers his Farm for_sale, situa-
ted in the Tovvn of Greenfield, In Saratoga
Co., in the state of New York, nine miles from
Saratoga Springs. It so pleasontly situated 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
born 30 by 40, wagon house and stebling, hay loft
over the same, 23 by 43, and grainery 16 by is.
Will be soldeheap; part at the purchase money
can remrin on mortgage if desired, or will ex-
change lorvillage property For-further articne
lars inqgiire of S LAS P. TU' LE,
, .
Norwalk. Conn,
. .
DesrrableProperty forsale.
A Very desirable place on East Avenue.
Also, a few choice Building Lots situated on
Osborn Avenue. for sale cheap. '
Also. a nicely located [louse and Lot on Mer-
wxn Street near West Avenuc.l‘or sale at a bar-
gain, Enquire of '
fll S. E. OSBORN,East Avenue,
“ t
or to D. W, Fitch, W est Avenue.
' Small Place for Sale.
SMALL, two-story House, with one acre of
Land, near Broad River Bridge, is offered
for sale at a low pr'ee, to close an estate. En
quire at- the GAZETT OFFICE. 6
‘ For Sale Cheap.
Better than low interest Bonds.
A‘ House on Fair Street.
Apply to B. J. Sturgcs.
.. ,._....__.
. J. Holden Iiurlbutt, .
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
llooul No. 4-, Cu Struts,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK.
Notice.
l‘llE subscriber would announce that he has
disposed of his_ well~known Livery Stable
and equipments to his son Horace L. Dunn, who
will hereafter run the establishment himself.
Grateful and thankful for the long continued
patronage bestowco upon him by the public, the
subscriber would request a. continuance of the
Same to his successor, feeling confident that he
will merit untiriescrve the confidence ofthe pub-
lic generally.
WILLIAM E . DANN.
Norwalk. Oct. 4th, 188]. -
Free Reacflng Room.
I ”is is a comfortable room lifted up for the
1‘ benellt oi the public generally.sltuatcd on
east side of South Main Street.over Road’s Jew-
elry Store, Clark and Lane’s Block, nearly 0 pp-
sitc Railroad Depot, South Norwalk, Ct. t is
open lrom 9 u. m.. to 9:45 p. m. The room is well
lighted, warm and comfortable. It IS supplied
with- tour dailies, two weeklres. and several
men y papers and journals, beanie a number of
instr 'tive and interesting books.
COFFEE ROOM.
There is a Coffee Room on the same floor and a
lady in attendance from 9 n. m.. to 9:45 p. m., to
serve HOME MADE articles mentioned below,
at the following prices: _ .
[Cup of (loll‘ec,.w1th crackes, . -
l‘Curi oi'Tea,‘wrth Crackers, 7 . - .
Cocoa - - - - -
Brown Bread and.Butter, - . -
Sandwich, - - -
Cake, - - .~ .. .
Doughnuts, - - - -
i'leco ol'i'le, . - -
Crullers, _ - - - -
“lull, 7 . - - 0
Pork and Beans, wrth daud butter :3
u
as
Is
is
as
- n
H
mavens-aver
l promptly attended to. 3m21
.43.: "5..
[Stowe] Cyst)" -
Island Sound and surrounding country. Locality -
prisingabout 75acres of tillable ground sit- ,
of_
l
5 cents
0. '
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VOL. m..-NUMBER 32
DABBYS
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FLUID.
A Household Article for Universal
Family Use.
For Scarlet and
Typhoid Fever-s,
Diphtheria, Sull-
vntlon, Ulcer-rated
Eradicator;
MARIA“ Sore Throat, Small
' ' Pox, Measles, and
' “Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting on
the Sick should use it freely. Scarlet Fever has
never been known to spread where the Fluid was
used. Yellow Fever has been cured with it after
black vomit hurl taken place. The worst
cases of Diphtheria yield to it.
FevererlandSloerer-
sons refreshed and
Bed‘Sores prevent.
ed by bathing with
Darby: Fluid.
Impure Airs made .
harmless and purified.
For Sore Throat it is a
sure cure.
Contn on drstroycd.
. For: osted Feet,
Chllblains, P I I e a,
Chafinga, etc,
Rheumatism cured.
Boll; White Complex-
iona secured by its use. '-
Ship Fever prevented. ..
To urlfy the Breath, Diphtheria
Prevented.
sauna-Pox
an
'PITTING or Small
Pox PREVENTED
A member of my fam-
y was taken with
Snmll-pox. I usedthe
Fluid‘; the patient was
not delirious, was not
pitted, and was about
the house again in three
weeks, and no others
had it. —J. W. PARK-
v Philadelphia.
INSO‘
0 cause the Teeth. :
it can't be surpassed.
‘Catan'ls relieved and
cured.
. En sipelaaeured.
Burnsrelievcdinstantly.
The physicians here
Scars prevented. use Darb s Fluid ve
“33‘0” cured: successfully in the nearly-
8 0“. shealed ”Wall" ment of Diphtheria.
An Anflgtegformumal A' STOLLENWERCK’
'or Vegetable Poisons, Greensboro, “3'
Stings, etc. Totter dried up.
Cholera prevented.
Ulcer-s purified and
healed.
In cases 011103“: is
should be used about
the corpse—it will
prevent any unplm-
ant smell.
The eminentPhy.
slolun, J. MARION
ms, 3!. 1)., New
York, say: .“I am
convmced rof. Darbys
cued‘ Prophylactic Fluid is a.
voluab c disinfectant."
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
I tasti to'the ill'ost excellent qualities of Prof.
' phylactic Fluid. As adisinf'ectant and
detergent it Is both theoretically and practically
superior to any preparation with which I an ac-
quarnted.—N. T. LUHON, Prof. Chemistry.
Dar-bye Fluid ls Recommended
Hon.'Ar.aanan I-I. STEPHENS, of Georgi;
Rev. CHAS. F _, Darius, D.D., Church of the
Strangers, N. Y.;
£03., LnCon-rx, Columbia. Prof. , University, S.C.
ev. A. J. BATTLE, Profl, Mercer University;
Rev. Giro. F. Pmacn, Bishop M. E. Church.
ISPENSABLE T0 EVERY HOME.
Perfectly harmless. Used internally or
externally for Man dr Bast. ‘
The fluid has been thoro lsly tested, and we
have abundant evidence that fins done everything
here clmmed. For fuller information get of your
' Druggsst a pamphlet or send to the proprietors,
_J. H. ZEILIN Jr (70.,
Mg Chemists, PHILADELPHIA.
I used the Fluid during
our present afilicnon with
Scarlet Fever with de-
cided advantage. It . is
indispensable to the sick-
room.—War. I". SAND-
sonn, Eyrie',‘Ala. ‘
Scarlet Fever '
flick Headache and rclicv .
dam to a. bilious state of it
linens, Nausea, Drowsin
Pain in the Side, {.- 3. 2
able success has been shown in caring
' a 4"!
{L
. . ,.
O 15‘ ‘ " uh
-. 'PI. 1: 3'3 ‘
Headache. yet Carter‘s
valuable in Conszi-
this annoying complu‘
nll disorders of the s'. . .. ..
and regulate the bowels. E - ..
Ache they would be 0‘
suffer from this dis
natcly their goodne
who once try them will
able in so many ways that till 1
to do without them. But aft
Is the bane of so many lives that Elorui - where w-
make our great boast. Cur pills curc it wint.
others do not. '
Carter's Litilc’Livcr Pills are very = .
very easy to take. 021-: or two pills iii
They are strictly vegetable and do but.
purge, both their gentle notion please n'. -
use them. u vials at ‘25 cents: rive fr: ‘1. . .. .-
' by druggists everywhere, or sent by i‘
CARTER BEEP/ISLE 1:.
How Tor-l: {:in.
J. G. GREGORY N. (30., Agents for Norwalk.
J. G. GREGORY & CO.
DRUG-GISTS,
_ Successors to EDWARD,P. WEED.
No. 38 Wall Street, Norwalk, Ch,
invite the attention of the public to theircomplete
stock of
Pure Medicines and Drugs,
and a full line of
& FANCY ARTICLES.
Also dealers in
TOILET
Pure Wines& Liquors for
Medicinal Purposes.
slciuns’ pre BCriptions.
FRANK '1‘. BYATT,
2.9:...
ALL branches of Dentistry performed at rea-
sonable prices, and the best of materials
used. Allworkwnrranted, _ _
Chloe and Residence, West Avcnuc,adjorning
Methodist Parsonage, Norwalk.
Open Evenings.
Dr. D. Hitchcock,
Cor. of West Avenue and
Berkeley Place,
Third house below the Methodist Church.
Office Hours from 7 to 9 a. m.. 2 to 3, and 7 to 8
n. m. -
Purchasing ”Agent and Maneuver,
HE subscribers will act as Purchasing Agents
and Messengers between N orwullr and N ew
.York, dallyi. Orders and packages received at
Theodore napp’s, South N or-wulk, and Beneé
dict’s News Room, Post Oilice, Norwalk.
EDWIN K. SELLECK, with J nines McCrcery at
00., takes Go'elock train.
D. R. SELLECK, takes 7:45 a. m. train.
PENSIONS.
Pensions and Bount cs got for
all Soldiers of my own and other
Regiments, &c.~
W. H. NOBLE.
BRIDGEPOBT, CONN.
c. T. Leonard a Son,
COAL, wooo,
Masons’ Matefials,
O E M E N T P I P E
For Drains, Sewers, W olls, &c. ,
Careful attention paid to the dispensingof phg.
8
At Lowest Cash Prices.
Drains and Wells Dug and Piped
‘ AlsoSochgentfor
Fateut Tinder Wood ,
The Cheapest and BestKimiling out . Tryii
66‘ Branch Office at I! . S. Betts' DrugStore
NE W, .MABKET !
No. 6 Main Street, Norwal, s t.
' THE BEST on
- Beef, Veal, Mutton, Lamb, Pork,
. EXAMS, POULTRY, £01.. ulwnys 0n lltlllll at very
season. Try me: I will try to suit.
limit: W. F. LOCKWOOD, late wrlhA dams Bros.
lowestmarkctprices. GAME olrtll l-Limls in its’
A Waltz Quardrille.
ELLA WHEELER.
The band was playing a waltze quadrille—
I felt as light as a wind-blown feather,
As we floated away at-the caller's will
Through the intricate mazy dance together,
Like a mimic army our lines were meeting,
Slowly advancing, and then retreating,
All decked in their bright array, ‘
And back and forth to the music's rhyme
We moved together, and all Lhe time
I knew you were going away.
The fold of your strong arm sent a thrill
From heart to brain as we gently glided
Like leaves on;the waves of that waltz quad-
fine, a
Parlcd, met, and again divided,
You drifting onatway and I |auothcr,
Then suddenly turning and facing‘ each
other, ’
Then off in the blithe chase,
Tuen airly back to our places swaying,
While every beat of the music seemed say-
ing
That you Were going away.
I said to my heart, “Let us take our fill
Of mirth and pleasuremnd love and laugh-
ter. ,
For it all must end with this waltz quadrille,
And life will he never the same life affer.
O! llltlt the caller might go on calling—
Ol that'the music might go on falling
Like it shower of silver spray——
While we whirled on to the vast forevw,
Where no hem ts break and no ties cher, —
And no one goes away." _ .
A clamor, imrash, and the band was still.
71‘was the end of the dream and the end of
the measure. I
[The last low notes of that waltz quadrille ,
.Seemed like a dirge over the death of
pleasure. . b
You said good night, and the spell was. over
Too warm for a friend and too cold fora
lover—-
There was nothing more to say;
But the lights looked dim, and the dances
weary, ' '
And the music was sad, and the hall was
dreary
After you went away.
The S“ eel Country Cousins.
How dear to the heart are the sweet country
cousins,
When dog-days of Summer begin to draw
near, .
. When bricks have grown hot and when sun-
strokes by dozens
Fill body with anguish and bosom with
— fear! -
'The green waving fields and the sweet-smell-
ing breezes,
The ’scaping from turmoil to quiet and
calm,
The rich, creamy milk which the ready hand
seizes, . ' »
And e’en the brown cousins who live on the
farm;
The plain country cousins, the uncultured
cousins
The sweet country cousins who live on the
farm. ' '
The sweet country cousins! Oh, are n’t they
a treasure ?
How handy to have. at the vacation time!
And paying .one's board is a too costly
pleasure ,
When all can be had without spending a
dime
How pleasant to live on rich cream and ripe
berries, '
Fresh, golden-hucd butter and cakes light
and warm,
Freejusc of the horse, the carts and the
wherries
Of sweet county cousins who live on the
farm!
The plain country cousins, the uncultured
cousins,
The sweet country cousins who live on the
farm! -
How dear are the sweet country cousins in
summer! '
How fragrant the meadow,-romantic the
down!
But straightway your faces begin to grow
glummen
At thoughts of their visit next winter to
town ‘
The theatre, the concert, the lecture, the
_. m0“?!
Expended in tickets! the thoughts gives a
qualm; ‘
The sequel of summer is not quite so funny—
Why don’t the sweet cousins remain on
their farm r , . ‘
The brownwisaged cousins, the great awk-
ward cousins, .
- The clad-hopper cousins should stay on their
farm
Hes- Happlest Years.
(New Orleans TimerDemocrat.)
Here's a story told me yesterday. About
thirty years ago Judge Cincinnatus I‘eeplea
-—bless his great memory l—found it Deceit-
sary to order a tanner out of hisrlaw ofilce in
Hall county. The tanner was a podr,‘shift-
less fellow named Wilson, and shortly after
drifted to Atlanta,where be secured 'work at
fifty cents a day. In 1868 Judge People's
went to New York on important financial
business for the state. He was directed to
the great linking house of R. T. ‘Wilson & -
Co. He sent up his card, and after waiting
a while was ushered into an elegant office.
A fine looking man introduced himselfgas
Wilson, and reminded the Judge that he'was
the poor tanner he had ordered out of his of-
fice many years ago. Judge Peepies,_thor-
oughly astonished, never dreamed’that thil
ex-tauner was the head of the bank, but
thought he was probably related to the pro-
prietor and had secured a clerkship. Mr.
Wilson invited the Judge to dine-with him,
and at five o’clock the; Judge found himself
in one of the finest houses on Fifth avenue.
While awaiting his boat a snperbdady enter-
tained him, ,and Judge; Peoples was-over-
whelmed with the conscimlsness that the day
laborer had really become the‘great banker.
He then became uneasy for fear he should
drop some allusion to thc:humble origin of
the husband of the splendidlady to whom he
was talking. At length she said:
“Judge Peoples, where do you think I
spent the two happiest years of my life ?”
The Judge thought of Paris, Saratoga, and
Venice, but was hesitating when Mrs. Wilson
lIid: .
“Why, at papa Wilson‘s log cabin in Hall
county, where my husband took me when we
were first married." '
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A female dentist is having a hard time of it
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pursuing an unwomanly vocation, and the
clergy of St. John and St. Levi's churches
have prohibited their people from having
anythiugto do with her- .
0
WHY WILL YOU cough when Shiloh's
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You need not deal adeath blow to theDin-
winian theory by saying “Man descriiuied
fruit the uwukcy, but u lml tllil tlu: ‘luunkey
(lL‘MmlIll hum P" The monkey tleécerfd-d
from tirctrce. - . ‘
' wow—~—.—~ >
SHILOH’S CATARRII REMEDY—a
positive cure for Cntarrh, Diplltllu-ia and
Canker Month. Monson Hoyt, ngerltf ‘tf
Denver Man : Is it proper for a man to
pass a birthday without getting drunk? Quite
a matter of taste, sir. . u '
Norwalk Chronicler