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MONDAY, JANUARY, 5, 1891.
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REMINISCENT.
Our condensation of local reminis-
cences from the year 1818 and
from Jan. 1st, ’90, to Jan. 1st, ’91, com-
piled from the files of the GAZETTE,
will well repay a reading. These epi-
tomes of Norwalk history have been
prepared with much labor and care and
will be found full of interest to all lov-
ers of the old town.
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THAT BOUNTY.
The proprietor of the GAZETTE hav-
ing been appealed to, to make a state-
ment of his personal connection with
the question of promised bounty made
by this town to such soldiers in the ser-
vice as would re-enlist and have them-
selves credited to the quota of Nor-
walk, would state, that our best recol-
lection is that we were officially author-
ized by the authorities of the town of
Norwalk to make a pledge to our boys
in blue at the front, that a bounty of
three hundred dollars would be paidby
this town, to all who would re-enlist
and have themselves credited to Nor-
walk’s quota, under a call for more
troops. We were urged to spread this
assurance far and wide, we remember,
because at the time being in the ser-
vice of the New York Tribune and al-
most constantly at the front with special
facilities for visiting our Connecticut
regiments, we could do so without any
cost to the town. We remember so go—
ing to Fortress Monroe, to Suffolk, up
the James River and to other points in
Virginia, where our state troops were
stationed, and, in behalf of the town,
making known the pledge with which
we had been charged.
At Newport News, we gave the in-
formation to Col. Harland of the 8th,
and there met Comrade James O. J en-
nings, of Norwalk, and stated to him
the object of our visit, and asked him
to disseminate the pledge among allthe
Conn. soldiers he might meet. Mr.
Jennings now confirms our own recol-
lection of this fact. We give in this
connection the town’s action as taken
from the files of the GAZETTE for 1863 :
“At'a Special Town Meeting, held
November 27th, 1863,
Voted:—That the Committee appoint-
ed on Friday, Nov. 18th to aid in pro-
curing the enlistment of volunteers to
fill the quota of this Town, as called by
the President of the United States un-
der his last call for Three Hundred
Thousand Volunteers, be and they
hereby ; are authorized to expend
$11011 Sum or sums of money as may be
1n_their judgment necessary to accom-
Dlish the ObJGCt of their appointment,
and that the selectme‘n of this Town are
hereby authorized to borrow upon the
credit 0f the Town the money necessa-
1'3' to .meet the expenditures of said
Committee for such object.
JOHN A. WEED,
' Town Clerk.
MARTIN S. CaAw, )
WALTER C. QUINTARD, ‘.- Selectmen
JOSEPH P. Harman, )
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STANLEY LECTURE.
Henry M. Stanley is to lecture at the
Town Hall, Stamford, Friday evening,
January 23d, at 8 o’clock. Reserved
seats arenow selling at 82 each, and a
large audience of Stamford’s best peo-
JNL'IEN'I' HISTORY.
Tllslflvenis of 1818. Called from file “(ia-
cello" offlmt Period for the Readers of
1891.
In starting upon its 91 st volume, the
GAZETTE considers it appropriate to go
back over its files to the oldest volume
in the archives of its Office, and give a
resume of its contents. Unfortunately
the managers of the paper in its infancy
neglected to preserve the files for the
first eighteen years of its existence-
and consequently the oldest bound vol:
ume is that beginning May 6th, 1818.
The paper at that time was consider-
ably smaller than One-half the present
size of the GAZETTE, and contained no
Norwalk news, being devoted to mis-
cellany and general intelligence. \Ve
boil down the volume, for the edifice-
tion of our readers, as follows, the
dates referring to the issues in which
the matter appeared, the news in some
cases being over two months old be-
fore it was printeé ’
May 6th.—-A dispatch from Pittsburg,
Pa., dated April 14th, gives details of a
collision of boats" on the Alleghany
river, in which a Woman andtwo child—
red were lost. The husband of the we-
man is described as “a man about 40
years of age and decent appearance.”
——Intelligence from “the Spanish
Main” tells of a battle between “the
Spanish under Gen. La Torre and the
Patriots under Bolivar at Hertz, situ-
ated between Caracus and Caraboose,
in which the Patriots werevictoriousf’
——a fight reported between Gen. J ack-
son’s forces and the Mickasuckee town
of Indians near Augusta,Georgia——Pen-
sionof $60 per month during life grant-
ed by Congress to Gen. Stark, now
aged 90 years.
[Here the file is incomplete, the next
number being J une 3d, and this
number is bound into the volume up-
side down—En]
June 3.—~“Two carriages were upset
last week in New York by dogs
running under the wheels
and two dreadfully hurt. 0116:0f them
is considered quite dangerous.”—-Aus-
tin Chapin, kicked in the stomach by a
horse in Hartford, died in ten hours.—
Rev. Peter Bentz, of Cocolico, Pa.,
“terminated his earthly existence
by hanging himself to the limb of a
tree.” He was discovered in the
woods, “suspended from the limb of a
tree, his feet nearly six feet from the
ground without life.”
J une 10.—In this number this adver-
tisement appears under the head of
“One cent reward:"
the 24th of April last, an indented ap-
prentice boy, by the name of Henry
Weed, about fifteen years of age: about
five feet 10 inches high; black eyes,
dark hair, a bulky nose, long heels,
quite ingenious, _but ver saucy and
disagreeable at times. A_l persons are
forbid trusting or harboring said boy
on penalty of the law. Whosoever
will take up said boy and return him to
his master, shall receive the said re-
}vard, but no chai'ges.——ELEAZ.A.B WEBB,
R. $ 9
The same issue reports a destructive
hail storm in Virginia, (May 22‘),where.
hail stones fell eight inches in circum-
ference.~—The brig Sir William Con-
greve, bound from Cadiz to Carthage-
na, took fire and all on board perished,
“including a number of passengers,
male and and female.”
June 17.——The general assembly, (01-
iver Wolcott, Governor) passed a law
qualifying as freemen every white male
inhabitant who has real or personal es:
tate exempt from taxation, etc., and
who sustains a good moral character.——
Capt. James Alston, of Nashville, Ky,
murdered his wife with an axe because
she went to bed with her clothes on.
June 24.-—A mad dog was killed in
Pittsfield, Mass, and its blood buried
in the ground, four feet from a large
and thrifty pear tree. In three days
the tree was completely wilted to its-
highest branches, and within a week it
was dead—A hailstorm in Chambers-
burg, Pa., did great damage, hail-
stones falling eleven inches in circum-
ference—“A bolt of lightning struck
the ship Solon, bound from London
for New York.” The passengers and
crew, “a great number of persons 33 in
all,” were rescued by the schooner
Poacher.—-The same issue conveyed
the cheering intelligence that “The
ship Foster from Londonderry has on
board a hog weighing 1,500 pounds.”—
This startling announcement appears:
“To ALL THE WORLD.—-I declare the
Earth is hollow and habitable within:
containing a number of solid concentric
spheres, one within the other and that
it is open at the poles 12 or 16 degrees.
I pledge my life in support of this
truth, and am ready to explore the hol-
low if the world will support and aid
me in the undertaking.
JOHN CLEVES SYMMES, of Ohio.”
A marriage license in the same issue
says: “In Stamford, after a short and
pleasing courtship of five weeks, Mr.
.William ColdgrOve to Miss Mary Lock-
wood.”
July 1,—A powder explosion in Bos-
ton killed three persons and injured
several others—This astonishing item
of news confrontsus in this number : ‘ ‘We
have been informed on (the most re-
spectable authority, that Kesler, who
Was suspended from the scaffold in
Schohar-ie county, was restored .to life
“Nd made his escape.”
Jlfly 8.—A congratulatory and evi-
dently 1iheral andflattering account of
.the growth of New York city places the
DOPUIation for the ensuing year, at
125,000, and states that .the city . paid,
in this year (1818), “the extraordinary
tax: of 3250,000.*.7LThe‘omnipresent sea
“Runaway from the subscriber, on .
s.
l
inevitable respectable and trustwmthy
sea cap‘. .in, who made affidavit} before
a Jusl .ce of the peace, that the serpent
held 50 feet of its tail end in an upright
position out of the water, and at the
same time held its head 30 feet high
aboye the surface. This conscientious
captain solemnly asseverated, that
“The body of this serpent was larger,
in my opinion, than the mast of any
ship I ever saw.
July 15.~¢Mr. Fauldez was murdered
in Rhodes, France, in a house of ill-
fame into which he was enticed, and
where he was held down. on a table and
stabbed with a butcher knife while a
woman: held a pail to catch the blood,
which was subsequently- mixcd with
bran and fed to the liogs.-—’I‘wo women
sentenced to five months’ imprison-
ment in Great Barrington, Mass, for
stealing horses. '
July 22.—“As a.Mrs. Hosford OfflThll-
ford, Vt., was carrying a kettle of hot
water which held a pailful and a half
she hit her foot against the rocker of a,
cradle and spilt the contents of the ket-
tle in the cradle, where lay her infant
child about 6 mos. old. The child liv-
ed a few hours and expirec .” Another:
“Dr. Hardway of Virginia, was lately
killed in a rencontre with a Dr. Bacon,
in which each party used a dirk. ”
July 29.——Here comes the sea serpent
again, which was observed by Capt.
Spark, Of Salem, Mass. The serpent
was in the company of a school of
whales, and “occasionally raised his
head 10 or 12 feet from the surface of
water, and then plunged it beneath,
and while his head was under water, he
unmercifully thrashed the whales with
his tail. Capt. S. represents his body
to be about the size of a molasses
tierce.”#—The following marriage an-
nouncements will no doubt interest
our'readers : ‘ ‘InTiverton, R. I. . , 14thult.
Elder Job Borden to Miss Lois Tillson,
aged 34. Elder Borden is blind, hav-
ing lost his sight when about 16 years
of age. He was a widower almost three
months." “In Boston, after a court-
ship of 30 minutes, Mr. Benjamin
Dean to Miss Thankful Bobbins.”—
“At Roxbury, Dr. Samuel S. Masters
to Miss Abigail Squire, being his sec-
ond wife, her second husband; his for-
mer wife and her former husband are
both living and lawfully married. But
all is vanity, saith the preacher. They
lived together ten long days and
nights and parted to embrace no more.
At the same place, Mr. James Hall,
aged 22 to Miss Lucy Frisbie, a maid
of 67 ONLY-—
“If love’s a flame that’s kindled by de-
su'e, .
An old stick’s surely best because ’tis
drier.”
Aug. 5.-—A dispatch from Berlin
says: “Atdreadful fire destroyed the
town of Crentzberg. Of 234 houses,
only 11 remain. '75 families, consist-
ing of about 2,000 persons, are left
without asylum and reduced to the
greatest misery.”——The sea serpent
was seen again off Gloucester, Mass.
She (it is apparent from the reliable
and trustworthy sea captain who tells
this, that it was a “she,”) had three
young sea serpents with her.” The old
lady herself is estimated to be 200 feet
long and the three youngsters each 50
feet long.
Aug. 12.-—Two German banditti were
executed by a headsman at Stickenbut-
tel for atrocities on women. An igno-
rant woman caught a glass of their
blood and drank it for ,apoplexy.—
Thomas Hawxhurst advertises “a small
sized brindle cow lost, with brockle
face; gives a good mess of milk.”—
DanielfAnderson died in Knox county,
Tenn, at the age of 111 years.
Aug. 19.—“Married, in Southbury,
Mr. Barlow Russell, aged 16, to Miss
Carolina Castle, only 42, after an‘ anx-
ious courtship of three days.”—An
Irish child, “well made and interest-
ing is exhibited in New York. It is
four years old and weighs 122 pounds.”
‘ Aug. 26.—Tlie sea serpent was har-
pooned off Boston, with spears to
which empty casks were connected,
which were to buoy up his body after
death. He didn’t even return the bar-
rels.—'A shark was captured in Norway,
in whose stomach were discovered two
barrels 'of cats and a man in a sailor’s
suit, who had been lost in a storm the
week before. 4-
Sept. 2.——“Died, in New Canaan, a
child of Mr. Aaron Comstock, 'Jr.,'
aged 4 years. While amusing himself
around a cider mill he accidentally fell
into the ring immediately before the
wheel and was instantly crushed to
death.”——Mrs. Amos Lockwood fell
from a ledge of rocks 100 feet high in
Springfield, Vt., and was killed. ‘ She
survived the fatal catastrophe but a
short time.
Sept. 9.——This issue gracefully takes
back a marriage announcement pub-
lished the week before and says that
the marriage of Mr. John Clapp and
Miss Patty Taylor of Bethel, didn’t
come off—William Lizar of Maryland
was killed by his son, who “committed
the horrid} and unnatural deed by
striking his father with a large club On
the back of his head.”
Sept. 16.——A whale which was being
exhibited in New York stale was burn-
ed by a mob at Water10o, just because
it was found out that it was a manu-
factured whale and made of leather.—-
Alexander Ross died in Milton, N. Y.,
at the age of 120 years. At the age of
117 he joined“a respectable church,and
died in the full assurance of entering
into the joys ofzthe faithful.” 1
Sept. 23.—The death of 001. Daniel
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ported. When found he was sitting
“back of a blind raised to conceal him
from the game; his trusty rifle in :, his
hand,” the muzzle resting on a log, his
face to the breach of his gun, his rifle
cocked, his finger to the trigger, one
eye shut, the Other looking along the
barrel through the sights, and looked
as if he were alive.”
Sept. 30.-—William Williams of Man-
lius, N. Y. , furnished a solemn warning
to “those who are in the habit of mak-
ing too free use of spirituous liquors,”
by allowing himself to be found dead
about an hour after drinking six gills
of rum—Two hundred persons died of
yellow fever in New Orleans within a
week.
Oct. 7.——Ezra Knapp’s store in Stam-
ford was burglarized and robbed of
about $600 worth of goods—The sea
serpent was caught off the Massachu-
setts coast. It was estimated to weigh
eight tons. In its stomach were discov-
ered a man’s skull with the hair on, a
pair of legs in rubber boots, a man’s
backbone with the ribs on, and one
meerschaum pipe.
Oct. 14,—The store of John Tomlin-
son, “of this town,” was burglarized
by two robbers. One of them had his
skull fractured . by Mrs. Tomlinson,
who struck him with an ax.—-Ben. Al-
len, of New London, was convicted of
blasphemy and sentenced to 12 months’
imprisonment.
Oct. 21>.-—Under the head of “Died,”
this pathetic and soul-harrowing an-
nouncement occurs:
On Long Island, in the short Space of
15 minutes after the marriage ceremony
of his sister was concluded, Mr. Samuel
Woodward, aged 20. Havmg been for
some weeks afflicted With a pulmonary
complaint, from which he had but little
hopes of recovering, he was des1rous to
see his sister married before he left the
world ; she kindly consented to his re-
quest. He was comfortable that even-
ing as he had been for several days
past, walking about the house, _ took
supper with the family, and sat in his
chair during the evening. But-scarcely
had this amiable and promisnig man
witfiessed the joyful union of his Sister
wit the man of her heart. before his
eyes were closed in death. A blood
vessel broke, and being weak, he sunk
under the loss of blood and died in his
chair. How striking does this event
Show that in the midst of life we are in
the midst of death, that in the midst of
joy we are in the midst of sorrow. His
last words were: “I’m gOiug, I’m go-
ing. God have mercy on me,” and
died with a piece of wedding cake in his
hand. '
Oct. 28.—~John Van Alstyne is wanted
for the murder of ”William Huddleston,
of Sharon. Huddleston was a deputy
writ on Van Alstyne, in pursuance of
his official duty. ——Sam. Barnum. of
Danbury, “ terminated his existenceby
cutting his throat. ”
Nov. 4.«—-Thomas Pollock, in the em-
ploy of the Hudson Bay 00., in the in-
terior of North America, encountered
“ an enormous animal about 20 feet in
length, the largeness of whose belly
was enormous and nearly touched the
groum .”
Nov. 11.—Robert Gibson was hanged
for the murder of George Peatross, in
Richmond, Va. He was “ launched in-
to eternity at about 2 o’clock.”--Samuel
M. Stone, son of the Rev. William
Stone, of New Canaan, “ attended
church at 7 o’clock in the evening, and
at 10 o’clock he was a corpse.”
Nov. 18.—Betts & Cannon advertise
for the return of a green silk umbrella,
which, they charitably consider, might
have been “taken from the store by
mistake.”—-A child of Mr. Sperry was
scalded by akettle of boiling cider fall-
ing on it, and the cotton, which was ap-
plied to soothe pain, became ignitedby
a candle, burned the child to a crisp.
Nov. 25.~—A woman near Boston was
killed by a butting sheep—Thomas
Burns, at East Haddsm, shot and kill-
ed Ezekiel Fox, whom he mistook for
a white cat.——A young man in Boston
got asleep on the seat of a wagon, and
fell Off ; his death was occasioned by the
wheels of a heavily loaded wagon pass-
ing over his body.
Dec. 2.—-Thc legislature passed the
following: An act to repeal part of an
act entitled an act in addition to the
statute entitled, “An act for the due
observation of the Sabbath or Lord’s
Day:” Be it enacted by the Governor
and Council and House of Representa-
tives in generalAcourt assembled, that
so much of said act as imposes a penal-
ty on the owners of the carriages 01'
drivers that are employed for carrying
United States mail through this state
on the Sabbath or Lord’s Day, be, and
the same is hereby repealed. >
Dec. 9.-—William Graves had one of
tario.—Two men in Baltimore were sen-
tenced to seven years in the penitenti-
ary for stealing. 4
Dec. 16.——A tin peddler at Easton was
discovered to have two negro children
in his cart, and on examination, one of
them was found crammed in in such a
manner, that his ears were rubbed off.
Indignant people rose and cut ofi the
fellow’s' ears—Alexander Taggert, of
South Carolina was murdered and rob-
bed by Harper Ackliss, with whom he
stayed the night before his murder.—
Mary Davis was indicted as a common
punished with a public ducking,
agreeably to the law,
Dec. 23.—Prominent mention is
made of the fact that “a machine has
been invented and is now in use at Al-
bany which will rule a ream of paper on
lbo'th sidesin ten minutes—A number
of Skeletons of dwarfs were unearthed
sheriff, and was killed while serving a -
his eyes plucked out by a hawk, in On-‘
scold in City Court of Baltimore, and l
Dec. fill-«The town of: Plattsburg,
N. Y., swept away by a cyclone.-.—Dr.
Davis advertises for the .owner of “a
merino rainwhich broke into my lot
marked with a slope the under side of
the near ear with a short tail."—-Nich-
018 8: Price announce the gratifying
fact that they will receive “wood and
most kinds of country produce in
exchange for books. " .
Jan. 6, 1819.-—George Sharp and wife
of Frankfort, N. J., were sent to jail for
bound girl to deatln—lVillam Butcher,
at I'slington, England, tied himself
hand and foot and threw himself into a
river and was drowned:
Jan. 13. —Richard Jennings of Go-
shen was murdered, being first shot to
death and then beaten out of shape
with a musket. His murderer, a ne-
gro, who had been hired to commit the
crime by an enemy of Jennings, was
captured and lynched. —Matth‘ew Mc-
Kenny died in the Orange county jail,
where he had been confined for 30
years for a small debt.
Jan. 20.——Miss Sarah Simpson fell
dead on a ballroom floor in New York,
while dancing, in consequence of “ex-
cessively tight lacing of her corsets.”—
“TheQueen of England died on the17th
of November in the 75th year of her
age.” This item was over two months
Old before it reached the paper.
Jan. 27. —Mr. Evers of Effingham
county, Georgia, “inhumanly murder-
ed a Mrs. Jones” and was jailed. —The
clothes of a little girl, aged six years, in
Danvers, Mass. while warming herself
before a stove, took fire and the child
was roasted to death. ‘
Feb. 3. —Mr. Charles Thorp of Ulster
county was crushed to death by a tree
which he was felling—Hugh Curry
murdered his wife in New York by cut-
ting her throat with a scythe.
Feb. 10. n—In this issue this marriage
notice appears: “At Hampton Falls,
Mr. JohnSanborn, aged 57, to Miss
Lydia Stanyon, aged 82. NO joke, but
encouragement to old maids and bach-
elors. ”—A crazy man jumped from the
roof of a three—story house in New
York and broke both legs—Small pox
raging in Lancaster, Pa., and a large
number of deaths reported.
Feb. 1’7.—-Gen. Armistead Mason of
Virginia was killed in a duel by John
M. McCarthy—Thomas Colwell died
in Portsca. England, at the age of 113
years.
Feb. 24.—The announcement is
made by Charles \Vorrell, that “the
Danbury it: Norwalk accommodation
stage will commence running on the
20th of March, by the way of Bethel,
to perform its regular trips through the
season.”*James Munks hanged in
Pennsylvania for the murder of Reu—
ben Gould.
March 3,—Thc negotiations with
Spain are brought to a close and Flor-
ida is ceded to the United States—A
“very splendid dinner” was given Gen.
Andrew Jackson, at Tammany Hall, in
New York, by “about 400 respectable
citizens.”
March 10. «Flora Ferguson, colored,
died at Smyrna at the age of 130 years,
and John Collins died in Kentucky,
aged 102 years—Two men in Pennsyl-
vania sentenced to 10 years in prison
for murder.
March 17,—A terrible firezin Peters-
burg, Va. , destroys nearly the entire
town—Two brothers drowned by the
upsetting of a boat at Bushwick, L. I.
——Col. William Tathan, in Richmond,
Va., deliberately placed himself in
front of a cannon which was being fir-
ed as a military salute, and was liter-
ally blown to atoms.
March 24. ——Green peas sold for $12 a
bushel in Charleston. —VVilliam Betts
offers six cents reward for the return
of his “indented girl, Polly Nash,” who
ran away.——Samuel B. Grumman of
Pittsfield advertises for the return of
Eli Northrop, “an indented apprentice
to the shoemaking business. ”
March 31.——A large meteor “about
two-thirds the size of the moon when
full,” was observed to explode over
Vermont. —A disastrous fire in Savan-
nah burned a large number of build-
ings.
April 7.-“The new and elegant
steamship Savannah is to leave New
York harbor tO—morrow. Who would
have had courage twenty years ago' to
hazard a prediction that in the year
1819 a ship of 300 tons burden would
be builtin the port of New York to navi-
gate the Atlantic, propelled by steam?
uch,’ however, is the fact.”—A soldier
on guard at a camp in Pittsfield shot at
another soldier who refused to give the
password, and missed his mark, but
succeeded in killing a comrade who
was lying shed in a building close by.
The death of Mrs. Harriet P. Lally
occurred yesterday afternoon at her
residence, No. 539 Second avenue,
Lansingburgh, after an illness of less
than a week. Mrs. Lally, while out
riding with her son, Frederick Lally,
last Saturday was thrown from the
sleigh by a runaway horse dashing
into the cutter in which she was riding.
While Mrs. Lally sustained no appar-
ently serious injuries the fright caused '
by the accident was such as to make
her unconscious, and she did not re—
cover her vital energy. Mrs. Lally
was about sixt years of age. She was
the widow of eorge A. Lally, of Lan-
singburgh, and formerly of Norwalk,
Conn., whose death occurred several
years ago. Mrs. Lally was a lifelong
resident Of Lansingburgh, being a
daughter of Capt. Richard 'Hanford,
Whofor many Iyears was well-known in
the village. he deceased was a lady
of wide culture, and by her char-min
character had gained a wide circle 0
friends. Of Trinity Episcopal church
she had been for man years a mem- :-
ber. She is survive by two sons,
George A. Lall of Chicago and Fred-
erick Lally. of ansin burgh. Levi C.
Hanford, of Norwa , Conn., is a
brother of the deceased—{Troy Times,
ec. 27th. "
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BOY ‘INSTEAD OF A GIRL.
A NEW BRUNSWICK WOMAN SOLVES
THE SERVANT QUESTION.
The Little Negro Game on Trial for a
Week, but He Liked the Place So Well
He Has Adopted tho Family—He Does
Housework as Well as a Girl.
"I think,” said Mrs. Henry Archibald,
as she settled herself in one of the comfort-
able seats in the ladies’ parlor of the parish
building to wait for the opening of the
meeting of the New Brunswick Married
Women’s guild, “that I have got right
down to the bottom of the hired girl ques- .
tion.” ..
“Oh, dear, I wish I could say as much!”
responded Mrs. Oxtoby, with a sigh.
“Have you secured that perfect jewel of a
girl we have been looln'ng for all our lives?”
“No, I have not. I have got down so far
that I have no girl at all.” '
“No girl at all!”
“None at all. I’ve 'got a boy——a little col-
ored boy.”
“Good gracious! Why, of What earthly
use to you is a little colored boy? What
can he do?”
“Well, that is pretty hard to say. 1
have only had him three days, and during
that time I find that he can do anything 1
tell him to do, and a good many more
things that I don’t want him to do. But,
do you know, I rather like ‘thc little
moke,’ as my husband calls him. He is a
new sensation and keeps us all alive.”
“Where did you get him?”
“The other morning when Mr. Archi—
bald was going out I said to him: ‘Henry,
that last girl has gone ofl’. Iwish you
would send me a little boy to carry coal
and sweep the pavement. Neither Mn-
tilda nor I is able-to do such things, and
we wouldn’t want to if we were able.’
About 9 o’clock that morning a little,
short, chubby, bullet headed, bright eyed
colored boy . came into the out kitchen
where Matilda wzm making an effort to
wash:thenbr%kfast~dishes. The first-thing
I heard was 'Matilda in argument with
him:
TAKEN eUNDER PROTEST.
“‘I have nothing'for you. Get away
. 7
fromdrere.
“ ‘Ix'doesn’t. want nuflin. ’
“"Well, clearoutathen.’
“ ‘I’s:gwine to-wnk.’
““ClearoutJtellzyou!’ Whack! Whack!
“ ‘Now,.you' jess-zrlet me alone, you. gal.
Ef yomdon’t, afohmdeLawd I s’prise ye!’
“I thought it was-time to interfere, and
went out. Matilda had broken the broom
over him, andithe=boy was backed up in a
corner preparing to ward off an attack
with the rolling pin. I told Matilda to de-
sist, and asked the boy what he wanted.
“ ‘Gemman downtown done tole me to
come-heah to wuk.’
“ ‘Was it Mr. Archibald?’
“ ‘Dunno, ma’am. He were a fat, four
eyed man, an’ he had done slipped froo his
har.’
“ ‘That must be your father,’ I said to
Matilda. She glared at the boy, who
dodged and threw up his hands as if ex~
pccting a blow.
" ‘What is your name?’
“ ‘Silas Moorehouse. ma’am. My mam-
my lives on Cream ridge, an’ Fee a strong
boy for 12 years old,’ he rattled Off as if he
were saying a lesson. ‘I’ll do anything
you wants, ina’ani, cose I’se Willin’ to wuk
an I’se offle hungry.’
“ ‘Poor little soul!’ said Matilda, ‘lie
shan’t be hungry around here,’ and in a .
minute she had a big piece of pie in the
boy’s fist.
“Well, the boy ate his pic, carried coal,
finished washing the dishes, swept up the
kitchen and cleaned up the yard. Then he
had his dinner, and was washing up the
dishes again when there came a prolonged
whistle from the alley alongside the house.
“ "Scuse me a minute,’ said Silas and
ran out. In a second there was a terrible
fight going on outside the alley, with noise
enough for a dozen people in a. row. I
nearly fainted, thinking somebody was go
ing to be killed from the noise they were
making, but Matilda went out and leaned
on the fence. In five minutes Silas had
sent his adversary howling out of the alley,
and Matilda came in holding Silas at arm’s
length to keep his nose from bleeding on
her dress. She put his head under the
hydrant, washed his face, bathed his nose
andfinally got the bleeding stopped.
MAKES HIMSELF SOLID.
“ ‘Silas, you’re a young hero,’ said Ma-
tilda. soothingly. ‘You licked him, didn’t
you?’ '
" ‘Course I did. I ain’t gwine to have no
wuffless young niggahs a-fooliu’ aroun’ my
place of business.’
“From that ti me Silas was Matilda’s
friend. He did his work well. and appear—e
ed happy over it, for he Whistled until he
made my head ache, and when be polished
the stove he did it with two brushes, beat-
ing time with noise enough for a drum
corps. '
“The first night when the work was
done I said to Silas: ‘That is all to-night.
You can come back about 7 o’clock in the
morning,’ and I gave him fifty cents. He
gave me a. strange, wistful look, and say
ing ‘Good night, ma’am,’ went out, shut-
ting the kitchen door softly after him. I
thought no more of the matter until I
came down in the morning to find Silas
sitting in front of the stove with his feetin
a bucket of hot water and Matilda giving
him hot coffee.
“ ‘What is the matter with Silas?’ I asked
Matilda.
“ ‘Nothing much, mother,’ she answered,
“only I found him nearly perished with
cold out in the woodshed, where he has
been all night.’ .
“ ‘Why, child,’ I said, ‘Why did you not
go home?’ ,
“ ‘1 isn’t gwine home no moah.’
" ‘\Vhy, Silas? W by won’t you go home?’
" ‘Ef I go back to de ridge dey’ll club me
and take my fifty cents away.’
“Gradually I got the boy’s story from
him. His father and mother were both
dead, and he had no home in reality. The
story he had told me about his mother on
Cream ridge had been taught him by the
idle and worthless colored people who sent
him out to hunt work and took his money
from him whenever he earned any. The
second night Silas slept'in a warm bed in
the garret, and was the first one up in
the house in the morning. When Matilda
came down he had a roaring fire in the
kitchen, the kettle boiling and the front
pavement swept. He told her confidenti-
ally as he took his half dollar out of his
mouth and handed it to her:
“ ‘I’se nevvah gwine away from heah no
moah. I’se done ’dapted you and you
mother an’ you fodder, an’ I don’t need no
wages.’ ”—-—Ncw York Vv'orld.
,4. Lucky Fellow.
Bilkins—So Goodlieart, who was once
engaged to you, has married Miss Sweetie,
eh? \Vcll, he’s a lucky fellow. , ‘
Mrs. Bilkins—Do you know Miss Sweetie?
Bilkins—No, but I know you.'—New
York W’éekl y. 7 ’ '
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