ESTABLISHED 1800.
Volume LXXXVII.
‘ An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests.
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NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887.
.33:
R. B. CRAUFURD.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES. RIC-Al.
ESTATE AND INSURANCE,
31 DIAIN STREET, - - NOIKVVi-llJi,
GE O.WARD Int-Luca,
HARDENBROOK'S BLOCK. WALL STREET,
FAMILY GROCERIES,
i. BELDEN llURLBU’l‘T.
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
Room No. 4. Up Stairs.
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK, CONN.
JAMES '1'. RUSSELL,
Attorneu uni Counselor at Law
a Gazette Building,
NORWALK, - CONN.
' IVALEX. S. GIBSON,
Organist of let Congregational Church. Waterbury,
Teacher of
Pianoforte, Organ and Musical
Composition,
Lock Box 39 P. 0.. NORWALK. CONN.
—-—:AND:-—
(:orwwment Claims.
My sole business. Thousands have ltights
Neglected. Address, free of charge, or visit.
GEN. w. E. NOBLE,
91 Stratford Avenue. Bridgeport, Conn
a? TNA INSURANCE (30., of HARTFORD.
. Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL AND ASSETS, SS,902,272.04.
Insures against loss and damage by Fire. on
terms adopted to the hazard and consistent with
the laws of compensation. COWLES at MERRILL,
Sole Agents for Norwallt anu vicinity.
THE
Norwalk Fire Insurance Co.
Has now completed its
18th SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR
And has not outstandingadol of unpaid losses
or claims for losses. No sou company insures
for less.
W. C. STREET, Pres. S. .E. Ours-run, Trees.
GEO. R. CowmilL Secretary. .
L. E. QUINTARD,
Successor to w. E. Qumran,
UNDERTAKER & EMBALMER.
OPPOSITE HORSE RAILROAD DEPOT.
Residence 143 Main Street. Telephone communi-
cation wlth otllce and residence.
Kuliri, Loe‘b a. 00.,
Bankers,
30 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK,
nave consumer on awn
A Selection of Choice investment Securities.
WCorrespoudence of Bankers, Brokers and
Investoni Solicited. ems
Express.
Patronize the old reliable
ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY.
LOW RATES AND PROMPT DELIVERY.
Branch Office, Norwalk. at S. K. Stanley’s;
Main Office at Depot, South Norwalk. tilt
. L. rim. Agent.
c. n. FRANKIE,
THE HAIRG UTTER,
No. l Gazette Building.
HOT AND COLD BATl-IS.
Gedney House,
Broadway and 401k Street,
NEW YORK.
ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN .
EVERYTHING FIRST-CLASS
Restaurant in Connection with the Hotel.
Rooms at $1.00 Per Day and Upwards.
Bragh é‘ DeIflyn,
tfll PROPRIETORS.
St. Denis Hotel,
-——AND—
TAYLOR’S R ESTAU RANT
Cor. Broadway and 11th St.,
NEW YORK.
‘EU ROPEAN PLAN,
lOOMS, $1.00 PER DAY AND UPWARDS.
CENTRALLY LOCATED.
Best llestsnrsnt in the City Prices Moderate.
3m4
WILLIAM TAYLOR. Propietor.
F.Kooouu.
Merchant Tailor.
Has received a full line of Spring :and Summer
Imported Suitings and Pantaioonings. '
Spring and Summer Overcoats.
A fine assertment of Spring and' Summer Over-
coatings at reasonable rates. 13-36
All Work Done by Flrst-Class Workman!
SA TISFAC’TION G UARA NTEED!
13 and 15 lists Street. Harwell. Oonn.
w. 11. MEEKER,
Plunlrlno, Steam enol Gas Flttlun,
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.
Sanitary Plumbing, and Ventilation, and Low
Pressure Steam Healing, a Specialty.
PLUMBERS’ SUPPLIES.
Pipe and Fitting for Water, Steam and Gas.
Agent for the Florida Low Pressure Boiler.
Facilities fo Cutting and Threading all Sizes of
Pipe. mtf
O. E. WILSON,
General Insurance in lleal Estate Agent.
Money to Loan.
Stocks, Bonds, &c., Bought and Sold,
and Loans Negotiated at Lowest
Rates of Interest.
nioou NO. 3 GAZETTE BUILDING,
Noawamt, CONN.
I WANT EVERYBODY
-—To come in and look over my stock of—-
Monuments
-— asp—-
HEADSTONES
llcfore they buy anything of the kind. A selection
can be made from them much better than from fl
photolrmph or pencil sketch. Respectfully,
P. W. Bates.
Seven YearsExperience in U. 8. Patent Office
Geo. R. Byington,
SOLICITOR 0F
PATENTS.
Fireman’s Insurance Building ,
WASHINGTON. D. c.
Extension Callers before ComcesaSpeelali)
115
Early Rising.
"God bless the man who first invented sleep !"
So Sancho Panzatsaid, and so say I ;
,And bless him, also. that he didn’t keep
His great discovery to himself; nor try
To make it——as the lucky fellow might—s
A close monopoly by patent right!
Yes, bless the man who first invented sleep,
(I really-can’t avoid the iteration ;)
But blast the man, with curses loud and deep,
Whate’er the rascal's name, or age, or Slfiiiliil,
Who first invt nted. and wont round advising.
That artificial cut-oil —0.\l’l}I‘ rising !
—-Jonlv G. Saxon.
C..—
Fragment.
The night is Ibo mother of the «lay, the Winter
of the Spring, -
And over‘upon old decay the greenest mosses
cling.
Behind the cloud the starlight lurks. through
showers the sunbeanfs f'iili,
For God who lovetii all His works. has left this
hope with all. Wurl'ralu.
.9—
Wrz‘ttcn for the Norman: Guerra.
RECOLLECTION S
OF A VOLUNTEER OFFICER IN THE
UNITED STATES NAVY.
Br CAPTAIN W. C. Snares.
CHAPTER lv.- .
[To be continued]
Great preparations were being made in
Cadiz, when we arrived there, for the re-
ception of the queen, Isabella II, who was
about to pay her first visit there. All the
foreign men of war were invited to join
the Spanish fleet and go to the mouth of
l "th’e‘Gandalquiver to act as a guard of hon-
or aud convey‘"tll'e'-queen in the royal
yacht fromAtbat point to Cadiz, as she
came from Seville iu the yacht.
Captain Craven was some years before
decorated with the Spanish order of
Isabella for gallantry displayed off the
coast of Cuba, while he was in command
of the U. S. steamer “Crusader," in ms-
cuing and saving the lives of the crew of
a Spanish ship. The United States ships,
visiting Cadiz during the war, lost nothing
on account of Capt. C. possessing that
little bit of ribbon. ._
The “Tuscarora" was assigned the post
of honor on the starboard quarter of the
royal yacht. Some thirty ships of war of
all nations joined the procession. It was
a beautiful day and a splendid sight.
About 2 p. m.i the yacht came out of the
Gandalquiver. All the ships fired national
salutes, manned yards and cheered ship.
All the men of war were dressed with
flags and covered with bunting from their
trucks to the rails. From the mouth of
the Gaudalquiver to Cadiz, a distance of
eighteen miles, there was a race. The
yacht was a pretty fast boat, and when
we got to the entrance of Cadiz harbor
she had only two vessels in company with
her—a new Spanish frigate, the “Isabella ,
Second," (named after the queen), and
ourselves. After we came to anchor wc
fired another salute, manned yards; cheer-
cd ship. etc. As soon as the salute was
fii'cd an officer from the queen came on
board and complimcuted Captain Craven
for thebeautiful appearance of the ship,
and the manner.~ in which she was dressed
with flags. The club houses were thrown
open to our officers, invitations to recep-
tions, balls, dinners and the opera were
thrust upon us. Captain Craven was
generally obliged, as a matter of etiquette,
to attend them, accompanied by two or
three officers as a staff. '
The queen was received with more than
ordinary enthusiasm, but only a few years
afterwards the inhabitants of the same
city headed a revolution, which deposed
and banished her from the country;
Our next move was to Medcriu. At
that time there were a great many English
steamers on the way to run the blockade
that made Maderia a coaliug station. As
they all took on board their contrabrand
cargoes after they arrived at Bermuda or
Nassau we could find nothing on board to
condemn them, and had to let them go.
But we used to bother them. We over-
hauled one of them one day after a chase
of some four hours, and; could not find
anything suspicious, not even a scrap of
paper, and let her go. Her majesty’s
steamer “Leopard” got away from her
anchorage as soon as we did, but being
only an eight knot ship she dropped be-
hind. After wc' let the blockade-runner
go and turned back towards Maderia, and
.the captain thinking we had put a prize
crew on board the blockade-runner stood
on in chase and fired guns to make her
heave to. We saw him chasing and firing
until out of sight. That time. we had the
laugh on the Englishman.
The officers were always allowed to go
on shore, leaving enough on board to take
care of the ship.
The climate of Muderia is as near per.
foot as any in the world—the extreme
range being less than twenty degrees at
Funchal on the south Side. In fact on
the island you can get almost any temper-
ature you want in a distance of seven
'miles. At Funchal bannanas, oranges,
lemons and other tropical fruits grow in
abundance. Three miles above on the
elevated lands are apples, pears and fruits
of the temperate zone. And still higher
up on the mountains you find it cold and,
at certain seasons, there is snow. The
island is one vast hospital for consump-
tivcs from the British Islands. They are
not subject to the volcanic disturbances
and earthquakes here that they are at the
Azores, and the air is much dryer. There
are a number of good hotels, and many
fine residences.
The streets are paved with round stones
which have become very smooth by
wearing, and the principal vehicles for
riding or the transportation of merchan-
dise are on runners like our sleds. We
used to ride on horseback to a convent,
some two and a half miles, send our
horses back by a pcou or servant, and get
on one of these sleds with seats like one
of our sleighs, and come straight down
into the city like a rifle shot. One of the
natives stands on the hind part of each
runner to steer them. I never heard of
any one being hurt on them, although
these bills are very steep and it seems
almost like fiyiug,’n tort of tropical to-
boggan. '
The thermometer ranges from severity
to eighty-four, and seldom gets under or
over these figures. The hedges, on either
side of the street, are generally heliotrope
or geranium, which grow here to enor—
mous proportions. In early morning the
perfume is almost overpowering.
A day or two after our arrival the
“Onward," Captain Nichols, came in from
her cruise and anchored close to us. The
British channel fleet, seven ships, also
came in, and amongst them were the
famous iron clads “Warrior” and “Black
Prince.” Aparty of our officers visited
these ships, and were received very
courteously by the English ofilcers and
the Armstrong guns were worked for our
benefit. It is singular that' any country
that goes to work and spends two years
in building 1! ship will, by the time she is
finished, find out that the labor is a dead
loss, as some other nation will have in-
vented ordnance which will pierce her
armor. So it was with these ships by the
time they Were finished (1862). Our mou-
itors had gulls which could break through
their heaviest plating. These ships were
very fast, bilt the consumption of coal
was fearful. They could only carry coal
for about seven days, if forced to extreme
speed which was about 15 knots an hour,
with the “Onward," which left for" the
United States, We regretted this very
much. Not only on account of the society
of heroflicers,but our genial captain’s clerk ,
Mr. Robert Craven, took passage in her
for home. He had by his cordial good
fellowship endeared himself to the officers
and ship’s company. Wililc in England
he was instrumental in getting up a very
creditable ship library by subscription,
and acted as librarian until he joined the
“Onward" for his passage home. It must
be u very unpopular person, who cube a
member of your family fora year and not
be regretted when he leaves. But this
‘young gentleman was a favorite with the
whole ship’s company, and the regret
,whcn he left the ship was sincere and
universal. - .
We were in Mnderlu on this Occasion
some three or four weeks, and had plenty
of'exercisc in chasing'aud searching sus-
picious vessels, (blockade runners).
Almost every day one would come in for
coal, and We would always go Oilt and
overhaul them in hopes of finding some-
thing cOntrablind, but their papers were
always straight, and we had to allow them
to go. We knew they were going into an
unlawful business, but we ware unable to
prevent it. We spent the fall of 1882,
tween Maderia, Cadiz and Gibraltar. On
one occasion we called at Tangier, in
Morrocco, and gave Mr. DeLong, the U.
S. minister to the Morocco States. passage
to Gibraltar. The streets of Tangier are
very narrow and crooked, and not kept
very clean. It seemed to me that it would
be a worse life to live there, than it would
to go to sea, as there is no society, and it
was not considered safe for any foreigner
to ride very far outside of the walls unless
accompanied by an escort of soldiers.
Another singular thing was that it seemed
strange to be in Africa only about two or
three hours after being ill Gibraltar, a
' large European town.
The Moore scemto have lost their high
rank of civilization and knowledge of the
fine arts, more particularly architecture,
after they were driven from Europe back
to Africa. You see in Africa no such
splendid palm-cs and cities as were built
by them ill Spain and Portugal. The
Alhambra iind Alcazer are the work 'of
the Moors, and no finer specimens of
architecture are to be found in southern
Europe. The buildings in Tangier are‘
very plain, and that city is considered the
finest in Morocco
While the ship was lying in Cadiz a
party of the officers visited Seville, the
capital of Audalausiu, and situated on the
banks of thc Gandalquivcr. It is a bean-
tiful city, and lies in a very pretty situ-
ation. We procured photographic copies
of some of the most famous of Murrilo’s
paintings, and visited the Alcnzer, and
many other noted places.
he also visited the celebrated wine
vsults of Xercs, (sherry) the largest wine
vaults in the world. There were cusks of
wine seventy years old, and which had
the bottom of the hold of a Spanish ship.
It was sent to sea to give it flavor and
color by the constant motion of the ship.
Captain ("raven and- each of the officers
accompanying him were given a glass of
wine made in the same year in which
they were born. This is considered a
great compliment there, and the superin-
tendent,- an old Spanish gentleman, was
very polite and patient in explaining
everything to us.
Some of our officers also attended a
number of biili fights. One of them de-
clared he was going to attend every bull
fight he had a chance to attend until he
saw the bull get "even with the man. and,
sure enough, at a fight a few miles from
Cadiz, the bullkilled a man, and I sup-
pose he (the officer) was satisfied.
We generally laid in port from ten days
to two Weeks, and, as the “Kearsarge”
had been thoroughly overhauled attCadiz,
we Were daily expecting Orders to come
'to the United States. At last, in the
early part of March, 1868, we got orders
for home. We sailed from Cadiz in the.
middle of March, and stopped in Maderia
for coal. 'From there we went to Fayal.
and then to Philadelphia, where we ar-
rived in the middle of April.
Then we got orders to put the ship in
first-class order for cruising. I don’t . be. '
lieve any ship in the history of our navy
was so continuously under steam as the
“Tuscarora” was from November 20th,
1861, to April 15th, 1868.
‘All the line officers except myself were
detached. Captain Craven was succeeded
in the command by Captain Win. A.
Parker; Lieut..Commander M. P. Jtnes
by Lieut.-Commuuder F. H. Baker as
executive officer. Our crew was taken
out and put on board the receiving
ship, and the ship was. put in the
hands of the machinists and mechanics
of the navy yard. Work was hurried
on as rapidly as possible, but as
the ship had been under steam almost
constantly for seventeen months the boil-
ers and engines needed extensive repairs.
At that time this navy yard was full of
ships for repairs, and wherever there was
achence fora man to strike a blow the
man was there. The iron clad “Galena”
was in the yard overhauling after her
fight at Fort Darling, on the James. She
was badly torn up. Her armor was not'
,of much use except to guard against
muskctry.
Short leaves of absence were given to
the officers, and not more than a week in
any instance. '
List of Patents
Issued from the U. S. Patent Ofiice for two
weeks ending April 12, 1887, for the State of
Connecticut, furnished as from the office of
John E. Eerie, Solicitor of Patents, New
Haven.Couu
S. F. Adam. Middletown. ws‘tch for the
blind. .
A. Edmundsou, Lime Rock, out wheel.
J. H. C. Batchelder. Merideu, steam engine
attachment.
0. A. Bailey, Middletowu, mold for orment-
ing cake.
8. TJ Byonrmssiguor to New Haven Watch
00., New Haven, stem winding and setting
watch; -
Same, tool for setting pallet jewels. .
8. A.Field, Putnam, heating drum for fur-
naces and sfovee..
J. S. and J. Fray, Bridgeport, fool handle.
L. Garrignes, Waterville, feed roll.
T. Langston. Meridcii, lamp. -
F. W. Mix, New Britain, mortise lock.
garments. , _
F. W. Read, Bridgeport, and H. Knight,
assignors to Read Carpet 00., producing color
effects in ingrain car etc. , ,
B. F. Rico and A. .‘Trubeo, Hartford,ailto-
matic grain scale.
B. A. Treat, Wailingford, spring vehicle.
G. Watkiueou, assignor to L. Cendco 00.,
New Haven, making rubber boots and shoes.
0. H. Yerrin tun,rChéshire. neeignor to F.
Beecher tit E. \ files, New Haven, head rest
L. J. Atwood. assiguor to Plume & Atwood,
Waterbnr , oil burner.
Same, s cc nail.
Same. lamp burner.
C. E. Billings, Hartford, expansive bit.
A. H. Emery,‘Stamford, iiiichrometer gage.
Same, miohrorueter gage for internal and
external measurements.
H. 0. Bart, Unionvilie, manufacture of table
knives.
E. S. Holchlsiss, Bridgeport, saw setting
tool. . 4
E. Y. Judd, Hartford, repeating mechanism
for clocks. ' ‘ '
S. L. Marsdcn, New Haven. stone and ore
breaker.
F. W. Mix, New Britain padlock.
F. J. Murphy and A. ll. Bundle,
machine for widening-hats. . ,
J. North, Middlefown, lifting jack.
' r , nations.
0. Caspar, Meriden, clock case.
H. ilk-Eagles. sssigiior, to Bo are .k Hamil-
ton Co., We "f
Daubu ry .
rbufygi'pooh-drfor .
G. S. Barkeiitiu', assiguor tc P. at F. Corbin,
New Britain, hinge;
they gsve'as their limit. We parted here
and the winter foilo'wing in cruising be-_
made three voyages around the world in -
I. Newman, New Haven, button fastening for.
A Mighty Lively "Wreck."
[From the Washingtrigutloprespondent of the
1' he.
The. “physical wreck” at the head of
the Pension Office, called otherwise John
C. Black, may be "incapable of any
effort" when he wants to secure for him-
self‘ apensiongreaterthau that paid to
any other soldier, but he is a mighty lively
“wreck" when he has an opportunity to
vent'his malignant hatred of Republicans
upon those unfortunate enough to he
placed under his official charge. For
some time new General Black has us-
slduously devoted his time, not to improv—
ing the discipline and efficiency of his
bureau, which needs both sadly, but to
weeding out Republicans. In this con-
genial tusk the maimed and crippled
soldier seems to have been the especial
object of the Commissioner's “pernicious
activity." 'They Were thc first to be
singled out as his victims. It would be a
weary task to follow the catalogue which
makes up the record of discharges in the
Pension .Bureau for the last year. Iwill
confine myself to a few conspicuous ex-
amples only, which occurred within the
last week or two, and which fear of in-
stant dismissal alone has until now pre-
vented the colleagues of the unfortunate
men still remaining in office from making
generally known. ,
It is a thing worthy of note that General
Black-whenever possible fills the vacancy
created through the dismissal of a Union
Soldier by the appointment of an ex-Rebel.
It seems to give him pleasure. It is like
adding so much insult to injury. Thus
be discharged the other day Mr. Curtis, as
brave a soldier as ever shouldered musket
in defence of the Union. Mr. Curtis had
upon his body the scars of four bullets.
One of these passed through his lungs and
left him a consumptive. Upon his wages
earned in the Pension Bureau depended a
large family. But all this went for noth-
ing in the eyes, of the “physical wreck."
Mr. Curtis was perhaps not wreck enough.
Even the rcmonstrances of the commander
of Lincoln Post No. 8, of which Curtis
was a member, availed nothing. General
Black refused to interfere or suspend his
“pernicious activity" in the case, saying
that the “pressure" for places from all
sides was too great. ' He couldn’t with-
stand it. The place of Curtis, the
wounded veteran, was filled by an able-
bodied and presumably “unreconstructcd
rebel," McCsndlish by name.
John Richmond, u one-legged soldier,
was dismissed last week. There were no
charges against him. He was not even
considered an “offensive partisan,” but his
place was wanted, and I suppose that by
this time a rebel who prates about having
“returned to his father’s house and come
,to stay" fills it. The pay of a one-armed
soldier, Cress by name, was reduced $400
at about the same time, and the salary of
another one-urmed soldier, whose name I
am not at liberty to give for the present.
cut down from 81,600 to $1,200.
It is this singling out of loyal Union
soldiers as his victims, which makes Gen-
eral Black's official conduct so despicable
and stamps him when he goes about the
country telling confiding army posts of his
love for the soldier as the monumental
humbug of the administration. But he
achieved the pinnacle of his fame as an
active “wreck" yesterday when be dis-
charge} by one stroke of his pen. without
a moment’s warning, forty.eigiit clerks,
most of them veterans, and all, it is said,
from Indiana. What made so drastic a
move necessary at this time does not ap-
pear, except it to be the Administration’s
promise to reward Democratic workers in
Indiana. It certainly could not have been
lack of work, for'oniy a little more than
a month ago General Black was beseech-
ing Congress to give him a greater num-
ber of clerks so that he could quickly pay
the poor veterans of the Mexican War.
Ever since, as everybody knows, he has
been depicting the parsimony of Congress
and calling heaven to witness that he
meant to do right by the Southern people
who fought in that war. General Black
thinks probably that he can make these
wholesale discharges with impunity now
that the Senate is not in session and Gen-
eral Harrison is no longer a member of the
committee which investigated the truth of
the monstrous charges which he saw fit
to make against his predecessor in a pub-
lic decument, without the rcmotest
scintilla even of a proof or evidence of
any kind. That committee, by the way,
has not reported yet, and may determine
to overhaul the “physical wreck” once
more before it gets through with him.
Arbitrary in his moods, malignant in
spirit, fawning when fawning pays, and
arrogant in bistreatment of subordinates
when it is state to do so, General,Black
displays in the administration of his office
all the characteristics of a petty tyrant.
He is in turn umartinet and a tartuffc.
Diflideucc does not enter into his com.
position. Vanity and conceit are about
equally divided in his character. Over-
bearing, ill~uatured and intolerant, assum-
ing in the presence of his superiors at
times the attitude of genius unappreciated,
he is the laughing-stock of official Wash.
ington. The poor devils employed near
him tremble at his vagaries. He fines
them for clerical errors by requesting
them to take a few days leave of absence
without pay. He subjects them to a num-
ber of silly and degrading annoyances.
A man who returned to the building after
office hours the other day to get an um-
brella which he had left in his room was
fined $50 or its equivalent in time.
The Pension Office in the only public
office in Washington where newspaper
correspondents are required to exhibit a
pass before being admitted after 2 o’clock.
To reach the presence of the Commis-
sioner is as hazardous an undertaking as
to seek an interview with the Grand
Llama. It is such silly rules and perform-
ances which make General Black the
laughing stock of the town and have
earned for him the sobriquet of the "mou-
umeutal humbug” of the Administration.
Hay fever asthma. Relief guaranteed.
Fontaine’s Cure. For sale by druggists,
and I. A. Meeker, 11 Main Street,Norwalk.
A Cruel Dialogue at theToboggau Slide.
—-Shc: “Oh, I’m afraid my ears are fro.
zeal Won’t you take some snow and thaw
them out?” He: “I’m afraid they couldn’t
spare the snow."—B_urliiigton Free Press.
If you are weak and ion uid use Lydia
E. Pinkbam’s Vegetable. ompound. It
is a positive remedy. Physicans use and
prescribe it freely.
Noyes Barber, of South Norwalk, a vet~
eran of the First Conn. heavy artilleryis at
the hospital in this city being treated fora
partial paralysis of his lower"limbs.—
Bridgeport Post. >
Won‘rn Tait Dontans to any family, is
Dr. Kaufmann’s book-on diseases; finely
illustrated plates from life; don’t be hum-
bugged, but cure yourself. Send three 2
cent stumps, to pay postage, to A. P Ord-
way do 00., Boston, Mass, and receive a
(:0 y free.
be space-writing reporter will write
seven columns about nothing, and aftcrhe
has finished will run on for'hours about
the garrulity of the female sex. Consist-
cncy, thy name is not mam—Boston Tran-
‘ cript.
Glad tidings. Relief and cure of throat
and lung diseases. Fontaine’s Cure is
uaranteed to cure a cold in 12 hours.
For sale by I. A. Meeker, 11 Main Street,
Norwalk. '
Dennis Crane who had not seen Kate
Carrol, from Norwalk, for seven years, till
Monday, and who celebrated the event by
going around to several saloons with her
and afterwards kicking her and pulling
her about the streets. had his career ended
for a mouth at least, by Officer Ennis.—
Hartfiird Post.
—’
NURSERY annulus.
THE PROBABLE ORIGIN OF “MOTHER
GOOSE'S MELODIES."
"Little Jack fiorner"-“Cinderello and
the Glass Slippor'l—“Bluo- Ronni."
“Whittlngton and His Cut"-“'l‘lio
Babes III the Wood." ' .
A. correspondent has asked for the origin of
“Mother Goose's Melodies." I have paid some
attention to the subject and am' satisfied that
the mental? them originated with Elizabeth
Foster, who became the second wife of Mr.
Isaac Vet-goose. Her daughter ,nlarried
~Thomas Fleet, who in 1715 established a
printing house in Pudding lanc, Boston. It
was for theamusemelit of his children (her
grandchildren) that she chanted her pleasing
dittics. l-Ir. Fleet, her son-ill-law, issirrd the
rhymes in n book, which met with a wonder.
,ful stile. Mr. Nowell boots at this story and
talks in a bewilderingly leaf-lied way; says
they are synonyms of French tales, dating: as
far back as the time of Chafinmagnc and Ru-
dolf of Burgundy. He quotes Perruult‘s vol~
time of tales published in 1697, and entitled
“Cantos do mu. inero l’ch,” and the writings
of the satirist Rognier, who lived a. century
before Perrault. Mr. Nowell doesn’t present
much proof of his assertion, and to give it
here would not be of much importance.
It might surprise you were: to tell you that
many of the rhymes and int. dents in fiction
had a hardpali of facts for their. foundation.
I have only space to cull: ”intention to a. few.
Take for instance the fami tdi’nulsery rhyme
of “Little Jack Homer.” 'lhero are several
versions of the story upon which it is founded.
One version is that the abbot of Glastonbury
had offended Henry VII by building his
kitchen so substantially that the destroyers of
the monasteries were unable to throw it down.
In a rage the king sent for tho abbot, who,
hoping to uppcwo the monarch. sent to him
the steward, John Homer, with a wonderful
pie, the interior of which was composed of the.
title deeds of twelve mailers. But as John
Homer sat in the corner of the wagon that
carried him to the king ho was induced by
curiosity v to. lift the crust and to abstract
. therefrom a title deed, which on his safe re-
turn home hc showed to the abbot and told
.him that the king had given it to him for a
reward. The deed was that of the manor of
Wells. The second version .of the story
changes the scene to Wells and the steward to
Col. Horner, and the king hangs the abbot.
The third version changes Wells to Malls and
the colonel to a country lad.
Why even the story of “Cinderella and the
Glass Slipper" dates back to classic times. Bur-
ton, in his “Anatomy of Melancholy,” quotes
from Elihu u fabulous incident upon which
the story of .Cinderella was undoubtedly
founded. “Rudolphc was the fairest lady in
her days in all Egypt. She went to wash her,
and by chance (her maids meanwhile looked
but» carelessly to her clothes) an eagle stoic
away one of her shoes and laid it inthe lap of
Psammeticus, the king of Egypt, at Menu
phis. He wondered at the excellency of the
shoe and pretty foot, but more aquillm fac-
tum (at the deed of the eagle) . at the manner of
the bringing of it, and caused forthwith proc-
lamation to be made that she that owned that
shoe should come presently to his court. The
virgin came and was forthwith married to
the king." Now it did not. require much in-
ventive genius to change the story a little,
bring in the godmother, the rats and the
pumpkins, the ball, the stroke of twelve, the
flight, the haughty sisters, the advent of the
couriers, the Worshipfulness of the prince and
all that. ' -
I'erriiult, the author of “Blue Beard,"
founded his story on the history of a real
person. The orignsl was Giles de Reta, lord
of Laval, who was made“ marshal of France
in 1429. He was Born in 1406, and fought
under the command of Joan of Arc. He
lived like a king in his castle, had a guard of
honor, fifty choristers, musicians, etc. and
squandered his substance in riotous living.
Then he took to studying sorcery and magic.
Ho decayed little boys and girls into his cas-
tle, arid there immolated them with Pagan
rites. On Oct. 26, 1440, then being 34 years
old, he was burned in the city of Nantes, in
. the prweiice of a vast multitude. The rec-
ords of his trial, which lasted a month, are
preserved among the manuscripts of the pub-
lic library in Paris. In one of his castles the
bones of forty-six and another of eighty_
children were found. Marshal do Retz was
certainly the type of Pcrrault’s story. In his
lifetime. he was known by the sobriquet of
Barbe Bleu.
The story of Whittlngtoon (lord mayor of
London) and his cat is borrowed from the
east. Sir William Gore Ousely, speaking of
the origin of the name of an island in the
Persian gulf, says that in the Tenth century
one Keis, the son of a poor widow in Sirnf,
embarked for India with his sole property,
which consisted of a cat. “He fortunately
arrived there at atime when the palace was
so infested by rats that they invaded the
king’s food, and us were employed to
drive them away from the royal banquet.
Keis produced his cat; the noxious animals
disappeared. He was magnificently re-
warded, sent for his mother and brother, and
settled on the island which was subsequently
calledtufter him.
The popular legend of the “Babes in the
Wood” was a disguised recital of the reported
murder of his young nephews by Richard
III. Throughout the tale there is a marked
resemblance to several leading facts connected
with the king and his brother’s children, as
well as a correspondence with lfistorlcal de-
tails. In an old black letter copy of the
ballad there is crude seprenntation of 'a
stag, which is significant, because astag was
the‘badge of the unfortunate Edward V.—
“Observer” in Philadelphia Call.
Fooling a High Toned Audience.
The “little German band” was lucky that
happened to play under-the Belmont windows
the other afternoon. They were a fair speci-
men of their kind, blaring and noisy, yet cor-
rect in their time and all together in move-
ment from long practice. The butler of the
Belmont: started out to drive them away, for
they interrupted the music within, but Mm.
Belmont ordered him to invite them in. A
happy thought had struck her. “Ladies and
gentlemen,” said the master of ceremonies,
five minutes later, '“a party of our friends
have consented to give an imitation of a street
. band. I now have the pleasure of introduc-
ing them.” Then the six members of the
organization filed awkwardly into place and
played a piece. The audience delightedly de-
clared that the mimicry was perfect, especially
the make up of the players, who were recalled
» half a dozen times. “Would you take them
_for anything but genuine street stragglers?”
was asked of_a belle. “Indeed, yes,” she con-
fidently replied; “they’re very clever in their
mimicry, but one can always tell gentlemen,
no matter how disguised. I am dying to find
out who they arel”—American Musician.
Heated by Internal Gas.
The earth’s internal heat is now being
forced into practical service at Perth. where
the deepest artedan well in the, world is being
sunk to supply hot water'for public baths and
other purposes. . A depth of 8,120 feet has
been reached and-the well supplies daily 170,- '
000 gallons of water heated to 150 dogs. Fab-
renheia—Chicago' Tribune. .
THE PERIPATETIC SAUSAGE MAN.
Cincinnati's "Over the Rhine"—Wanderc
lug Food Peddlers in New York.
There is a section ofCincinnati which is
known by the title of “Over the Rhine. ” The
Rhine is a canal, and the section beyond it is
largely inhabited by Germans. There are
several theatres and concert gardens in this
district, in which beer drinking goes on along
with the performances, and one of the feat
urea of the place is the sausage vendor. He
is u peripatetio person who keeps a basket
filled with slices of rye bread and a can of
boiled sausages, each as big as your finger.
One of these sausages between two slices of
bread spread with horse radish costs five
cents, and it is the most popular dainty that
I know of in the town. .
The wandering sausagemanhas become a-
familiar part Of the night life of New York ‘
now. He brings his wares into saloons, and
sells them at the street camera I noticed one
in the Bowery the other night who had a
quite pretentious outfit and looked as if he
had come to stay. The New York sausages
are about double the size of the watern ones.
The price, too, is double. But here they-throw
some mustard in with the horse radish and
put Oleomargarine on the bread. The refine-
ment of metropolitan taste is met also with a
side dish, without which the boiled sausage is
hardly complete. Our local sausage men sup-
ply sauerkrant with the sausage for an ad-
ditional nickel. .
There is a vendor who makes a trade in
chicken and turkey sandwiches and another
who sells hard boiled eggs exclusively. A
man now makes the rounds nightly with a
basket load of fried oysters, which he sells at
the rate of two for five cents. As the oyster
houses charge at least thirty cents for half a
dozen fried oysters itinust be manifest either
that they make a greatdeel of profit or this
humble tradesmen loses money. He looked fat
and clean and happy, however. The old time
crab and lobster men, who used to purvey
midnight banquets to the revelers in our pub-
lic houses, seem to have entirely vanished in'
the new crop of rivals the growth of gastro-
nomic taste has brought into existence.—
Alfred Trumble in New York News.
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on. oral soon,
Opposite to J. B. Ells’ Furniture Rooms.
Everyihing new and fresh. and will be sold
cheap as can be bought in town.
Won’t fell to give at a cell.
PERSONS WISHING T0 MA‘ MONEY
—lN———-
Stools, Grain, Provisions and (Ill,
—SHOULD INVESTIGATE— .
Laurie & Co’s. system of Dealing
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'leii Dollars will, for example, cover ten $100
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QUOTATIONS WIRED.
Orders and Margins Received by Telegram or Mail.
LAURIE a co., ,
STOCK. BROKERS,
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experience and high standing in the Grain and
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The grounds of this Association are
situated in' the Borough of Norwalk, just
north of the Union Mills, between Spring
Hill Road and Riverside Avenue, and
may be reached by good and well-kept
roads frOm all directions. The cemetery
is divided into twenty-two sections, with
Blood Avenues
and suitable streets, and the contour of
the land is such that every taste may be
gratified in the selection of plots.'. The
avenues are so arranged as to afford
an almost ' ‘ '
Continuous Drive
to all the different sections, and are
Croesedin every direction by the streets
sOthat carriages may reach every plot in
theentire cemetery. An Elegant
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of‘jlargc capacity,, and fitted with all
modern improvements, is near, the
entrance gate. ' ‘
Capacity; . I y. "
The entire space file not plotted, but
52 Vault Lots, reservations for 517‘ single
intermeuts, and 2,102 Burial Plots are
now ofieredfor sale at prices very favor.
able to purchasers. '
MAPS.
Maps of the Cemetery may be seen pt
the office of Mn. Enos Kantooo, the
Superintendent, on the premises; at the
office of How. James W. Hvarr, at the
Horse Railroad Depot; and at the ofilce
of Mn. Jens II. LIGHT, at South Nor.
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LESSONS IN rashes.
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Prof. LaLande,
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Institute to give Lessons in French. A limited
. number of pupils outsideof the school will be
admitted to these classes.
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For circulars and other information apply to
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SOUTH NOR WALK.
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UNION AVEN UE,
North of Norwallr Cemetery,
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. ri-il-z LIGHT or: LOVE. .- 3
Fair is the flush of the summer dam
When the gate of pearl uncloees, ..
As it glimmers along the dewy lawn ; .
And shimmers amid the roses; '- ' -
As it wakes the littledrups of dew " -
To quiveriugs of delight, '
And threads the aisles of the forest through
On the trail‘ of the flying night.
Soft is the gleam of the summer stars
When the feverish day is over,
When the toys are afloat in silvery cars,
And the dusky moth is a rover,
When over- the couch of the dreaming flowers'
The mists of the fountain creep,
And the languid’ears of the drowsy hours
Are wooed by song of the deep.
But the dazzling hues of the morning fall, ’
_ And dull are its golden latices, ‘
And all the light of the stars grow pale .
In my dorlingfs tender glances;
For the stars may burn with a thousand dya.
And a myriad sunbeam fall,
But the light of love in a woman’s eyes
Is the purest light of all.
-Sarnucl Miriturn Peck in New Orleans Times-
Democrat.
POET WILL CARLETON’S DOUBLE.
. Ln?
The Peculiar Annoyances of the Author
of “Farm Ballads."
Several years ago the editor of a little
country paper, of which he was the business
head, reporter and oocas, ioually the typeset-
ter, awoke to find himse' lf famous. Through
the medium of the poets’ corner in The Hills-
dale Standard, Will Carleton gave his farm
ballads to the country. They were homely,
pathetic, and humorous; they dealt withpec» -
ple’and subjectsut hand and they gained for
the author a wide reputation._ , ., . .
“After I left college}? Said Mr. Carleton,
“I weutto Chicago and from there to Hills—
dale, where I edited The Standard. The po-
sition of an editor of a country paper has its
perquisites. The townspeople consider him a ’
good man to know“; they rather hope he will
“put them in the paper” and show their best
side accordingly. As a lecturer I find it is
very pleasant to get my readers face to face.
Of course, the editor ‘meets his readers face to
face also. but then he doesen’t know it and
they don’t know him. - '
“I found the southern people most genial
and enthusiastic; they would even break out
into a yell now and again as an expression of
their pleasure. ~
‘fMy first. poem, I believ . of those I after-
ward published, was cal ed ‘Co'ver Them
Over.’ It was a Decoration day poem and
has been set to music and sung on the anni-
versary at many different places. Most of
my poems were made up of incidents of real
life and the characteristics of people I have
known. They were exaggerated, of' course,
as everything has to be exaggerated in art
and literature to be natural. I never went
abroad for my subjects. I think my most
characteristic trait is that I have found good
material near at home. There isnouso going
abroad for gold if we can dig it up in our own
garden."
Mr. Carleton speaks with feeling of a
“double” he has bad. There lately came be-
fore the public another Will Carleton, a
quondam actor and a playwright, who coolly
passed himself off as the author of the “Farm
Ballads,” and in that capacity sold sundry
manuscripts to eager journalists dirt cheap.
This person, moreover, was heinously bib-
ulous. A friend came to the genuine poet
one day and said lugubriously: “My dear fei-
low this is awful. Why will you drink so!
Presently your reputation will be gone. My
sister tells me that a friend of hers saw you
the other day dead drunk in a railway car.”
This sort of thing began at length to make
Carleton a misanthrope. Bills for every
manner of thing he never bought poured in
upon him. When he returned from lecturing
tours hiswife would say: “Dear, you are very
extravagant; why do you need a $10 can-fags
ride every day?”
Finally his bogus “Mr. Hyde” ran to the
end of his rope. One day he stufled paper
and rags into the chinks of his apartment in
New York city, turned on the gas and died.
Then the papers printed eulogies. Some said
that Will Carleton’s body should rest in con-
secrated ground. Others mourned the tragic
terminus of his life and condoned his Sin.
And away down in Louisville, Ky., the au-
thentic bard tore his iron gray locks and bit-
terly answered telegrams by the score—Phil.
adelphia Press.
Snowballlng in Son Francisco.
The Chinese fared badly, but amply re<
venged themselves when opportunity offered.
About? o’clock in the morning those who
had started out to their work in down town'
cigt factories and shoe shops were met with
a fusiliade of snowballs, and very few of them
got past Kearney street. The majority re-
turned to their quarters and remained in
Chinatown throughout the day. Whenever
a Chinese assayed to area the “dead line" of
Kearney street he was made a target by
hundreds of boys and men, and if he had the
audacityto throw a snowball in return In
was counted fortunate if hexescaped being
knocked down, kicked and beaten as several
of them were. All around the plaza, in front
of the old city hall and the polls» station such
scenes were repeated throughout the day.
Retiring within the precincts of Chinatown,
the Mongols had their revenge in a merciless
pelting of any white man who dared show
himself there. Hidden in doorways, they
would wait until the ventumsome white was
well within range and then make a simul-
taneous assault is him. If he returned
their fire they would treat him as their breth-
ren were treated at the plum, rolling him in
the mud and pelting him with. snow. Many
of the Chinese stationed, themselves upon
roofs, where they were safe from missiles
thrown from the streets. and from these posi-
tions hard rolled balls of wet snow were
buried upon passers by, inflicting serious
blows in many instances. From the roof of
a building on Jackson street ten or a. dozen.
Celestials kept up avolley of misiles upon the
crowd who thronged the corner of Jackson-
and Kearney streets. In some instances rival
groups of whites and Chinese occupied roofs
on opposite sides of streets and carried an
battles with that safe distance between them.
-—San Francisco Chronicle.
Wouldn’t Spoil the Dinner.
An old war veteran, who had been through
half a dozen campaign, and was not very
particular about what he ate, was invited out
to a swell dinner party. He sat rlinost
directly opposite the hostess, and was painful-
ly conscious that every move he made could
be obServed by her. Suddenly, at the height
of the festivities, the veteran came across a
caterpillar in his salad. A furtive glance at
the hostess disclosed the fact that she too had
discovered the embarrassing circumstance.
, It was a critical moment, but the old soldier
was equal to the accession Without changing
a muscle he gathered up the caterpillar with
a forkful of the salad and swallowai bothl
The look of gratitude which he received from
his hostess a few minutes later warmed the
very cookies of his heart. In due time the
story leaked out, and when somebody asked
the old campaigner how he liked caterpillar
mind, the reply came like a hot shot: “Do you
take me for a man who would spoil a dinner
party for a little thing like a caterpillar-PL—
Detroit Free Press. ' ‘
More power, it is stated. is distributed in
Boston by electricity than in any other Amer-
ican city. if not in the world.
Knowledge of aLanguage. >
People who have never studied a foreign '
language do not understand the immense
difference that exists between a literary and
a colloquial knowledge of a language. Know -
ing that a person can read or translate French
or German with ease, many suppose that as a
matter of course hocanaiso converse. Noth—
ing can befurther from the truth. A man may
be able to read French with perfect ease, and
yet have the greatest difilculty in compre-
bending it when spoken, and be utterly an.
able tocarry on the simplest conversation.
Thisisnearly always the. case with college
bred men. They know French and German
by the eye, not by the ear, and while they
probably possess a. decidedly greater grammat-
ical knowledge than the majority of natives
of those countries, would have the. greatest
imaginable difficulty in asking for the sim-
plest directions in those languages The same
applies to an even greater extent in the
classics. Accomplished classical scholars
speak Latin with little or no case, and never
dreamof attempting to speak Greek. But
with the literature of each tongue they are
perfectly familiar, and read without thinking
of consulting a lexicon. This is all very well
with the classics, but in my opinion our great
institutions of learning make a great mistake
when they so entirely subordinate, the col-
loquial to the literary use of modern lan-
guages.—GlobeDemocrat.
Could Prove a Lullaby. '
“But, your honor,” said the prisoner, “I am
not guilty of; this crime. I have three wit-
nesses who will swear that at the hour when
this man was robbed I was at home, in my
own chamber, taking care of my baby.”
“Yes, your honor,” glibly added the pris-
oner’s counsel, “that is strictly true. We can
prove a lullaby, your honor.”—Youth's Corn-
panion.
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Origin of Arbor Day.
The honor of originating Arbor day be-
longs to ex~Governor J. Sterling Morton, of
Nebraska. The first proclamation for the ob-
servance of such a day was made at his sug-
gestion, and it is said that 12.000,000trees
were planted on the day time designated.—
Chicago?“ 1.-....“
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