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In Memoriam.
This tender tribute to the late Professor
Sill’s memory, is supposed to be from the
editor :— . -
“I held his letter in my hand,
And even while I read
The lightning flashed across the land
The word that he was dead.
How strange it seemed 1 His living voice
Was speaking from the page
Those courteous phrases, tersely cl‘oicc,
Light-hearted, witty sage.
I wondered what it was that died I
The man himself was here,
IIis modesty, his scholar’s pride,
His soul serene and clear.
TJCBO neither death nor time shall dim
Still this sad thing must be—
Henceforth I may not speak to him,
Though he can speak to mu,”
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ll’ritten‘ for the Norman: GAZETTE.
RECOLLECTIONS
OF A VOLUNTEER OFFICER IN THE
UNITED STATES NAVY.
Bv CAPTAIN W. C. STAPLES.
CHAPTER H.
[To be continued]
We had two good chronometcrs on
board, and according to an old navy regu—
lation had to rate them ourselves. Two
young eiisigns, just graduated from the
naval academy, had been ordered to the
ship, and Captain Parker ordered them to
help me with this duty. We first. went to
the tall flag staff in the navy yard as the
latitude and longitude were determined
at that point, but found so mncli difficulty
in using the artificial horizon on account
of tlic tremor of the ground made by pass-
ing teams, that I went to the ordnance
officer of the navy yard and stated the
case to him. He told me it would be im-
possible to get our sights there, but to go
outside of the navy yard near the base of
the Bunker Hill monument, where the
ground was firm and we would have no
difficulty in getting good observations,
and which we found to be true. But
there was a difficulty which he did not
mention, and which he probably knew
nothing of. We usually went ashore
about 9 a. m., and. as the place where we
made our observations was a favorite
promenade for the ladies, my assistants
had more than the chronometcrs to care
for. Every young lady wanted to know
what we were doing, and how we did it,
and wanted everything explained to them.
We used to have quite an audience every
morning, and generally a very intelligent
one. In fact, rating the chronometcrs be-
came so popular a duty that every young
line officer wanted to take a hand in it.
While in Boston we had three of our
young master’s mates promoted to ensigns.
I was very glad of this as they were very
worthy young men, and had studied hard
and were thoro ughly competent. They
were detached and ordered to other ships
as soon as promoted.
We had a great many visitors, some of
them prominent citizens of Bestou and
vicinity. On Sunday Father Taylor, the
celebrated sailor’s preacher, preached to
the ship’s company. His grandson, Mr.
E. A. Taft, now manager of the Merchant’s
Dispatch Transportation company, was
captain’s clerk on this part of our cruise.
In the first part of October we received
orders to report to Rear-Admiral S. P.
Lee, commanding the North Atlantic
blockading squadron, with headquarters
at Hampden Roads. As soon as we had
reported and cooled ship, the admiral or-
dered us on the blockade off New Inlet,
one of the mouths of the Cape Fear river,
below Wilmington, N. C. 'We used to lie
at anchor all day, and get underway and
cruise :all night. Take the New Inlet
light house as the centre of a :circle and
draw a circle around by the east from
beach to beachlfivc miles from.the centre,
and that was the position of the ships on
the blockade {during the night. Each
ship had a station assigned her, or a beat
Of a mile, or perhaps more, according to
the number of ships. The ship would
then slowly steam up and down on her
beat or station. It seems almost impos-
sible that each ship could be kept on her
own beat in the night, but it was seldom
they got over the line on the next "vessel’s
station. The watch officers got so used
to keeping the ships in their position that
it was an unusual occurrence when they
got over their limit of ground. On one
occasion the “Shenandoah," Captain
Ridgely, who was then senior ofi‘icer on
the station, got down on our cruising
ground. It was every dark and thick
night, and we were standing to the south-
ward. The first intimation we had of her
approach was that she crashed into our
stern, firing'ofi the port-fire attached to
our life-buoy, smashing one of our boats
and damaging our upper works consider-
ably. Aficr she had backed off clear of
us her executive officer hailed as and
wanted to know what ship we were, how
much damage, etc. Captain Ridgciy,
who had got on deck, then took a hand.
He said the first thing to us ::“You are off
your station. Your are on our station,
sir." Captain Parker was sir ’i at the
time, audeas acting as executive ofilcer.
I answered and said I thOuglit not, and
that we were on our station, and about
the middle of it at that. He hailed back :
“Go on your station at once, sir." I ain’-
swered and said, “Very well, isir;” then
turning, Ihailed the officer of the fore-
castle and asked, “Is that starboard an-
chor ready, sir ?” The answer was “All
ready.” Then I gave the order: “Stand
clear of the starboard chain, and let go
the starboard anchor.” Then I turned to-
wards thc “Shenandoah," hailed her and
said: “ You will findus here on our sta—
tion in the morning, sir.” Sure enough
middle of our cruising ground. I sup-
would not. have answered as I did, but I
was determined that neither the other
officers or myself should be blamed for the
faults on board of the flag ship. It was
wonderful how few;collisions there were,
considering how thick the vessels were.
Sometimes there were thirty off the New
Inlet entrance to the Cape Fear river.
And what was the most wonderful was
how long a ship could lie iit anchor at
sea with good anchors and chains We
rode out every gale (luring the winter of
’63 and ’64 at our anchors, sometimes
having out 120 fatlioms of chain. I never
knew of any vessel 0””16qulildl‘0ll being,r
driven on shore. But wc'uscd to get,
gifted pen of his friend, the Atlantic’s
in the morning we were about in the-
posc if I had been in the regular service 1.
sometimes, an awful shaking up when the
wind shifted and we were obliged to lie
in the trough of the sea. '
We went to Beaufort, N. 0., every
twenty—one days to cool, and scale the
boilers, and got our mails, and we were
ilicre generally five or six days. It was
not much of a picnic, as Beaufort was
nothing but an old—fashioned North Caro-
lina village, and the inhabitants were
about as friendly as we would be to a
rattlesnake. Biit going to Beaufort was a
change, and was looked forward to with
some little pleasure. It was a break in
the monotony of the blockade. The hur-
bor was full of oysters and fish. and there
was iilwaysa supply to be had.- Tiicrc
was a railroad from Morchcad City, oppo-
site Beaufort, on the same, buy, to New-
bnrii, thirty miles distant, where we had
quite a large army and naval force. \Our
officers could go up to Ncwburn and stay
thirty-six hours if they wished at any
time when the cxiginccs of the service
permitted. Our captain’s clerk, Mr. E. A.
Taft, was a practical jokcr, and many of
the officers were his victims. One day
when we were on the station oil.I New
Inlet a ship arrived frOIHfBCilllIOIt with
the mails, and soon after they were dis-
tributed Mr. Taft came into the ward-
room with the ward-room mail. IIe
handed me an official-looking document,
which purported to be an answer to my
request for leave of absence (which I had
never made) and granted mc thirty days
leave. But it had such a wretched make-
up generally that it did not require any
one very sharp to discover at once that it
was not;thc genuine article, and besides I
had never applied for leave. I had
agreed with the paymastcr, who was go—
' ing home to be married, to apply, but
concluded not to do so, as the chief on-
gineer told me the ship would have to go
liomcni the spring or early summer for
repairs to the engines and boilers. Most
oi the officers thought I applied when the
paymaster did, and there was where Mr.
Taft made a mistake. I said nothing
about the bogus leave of absence, and
soon some of the officers began to con-
gratulate inc, and in every instance I
traced the news back to Mr. Taft. Final-
ly, when he found there was no notice
taken of it, he told of it himself.
, On one of our trips to Beaufort Mr.
Taft, With two or three other officers, got
leave to go up to Newbcrn for thirty-six
hours. On the next evening all the of-
ficers returned except Mr. T. He was
left accidentally, I suppose, and there was
only one train a diiy between the places.
I was then executive officer, and reported
his absence without leave to Captain Par-
ker. Captain P. was Very angry and said
he would put Taft under arrest if he was
on board. I suggested doing it now by
sending a telegram to, Captain Davenport,
senior naval officer at ‘Ncwbern, to place
him, Taft, under arrest. and send him
down under guard. Captain Parker
consented. I wrote the dispatch, Captain
P. signed it, and I sent ii boat ashore
with it at once to the military telegraph
ofilcc. By 4 p. m. Mr. Taft, who, by the
way, was enjoying himself with some
brotlicr officers, was arrested by a corporal
of marines, kept in the guard ihouse all
night,and sent down on board with a marine
guard the next day. I think I have seen
angry men, but not'any quite so mad , as
he was. He still thinks he owes his arrest
to Captain Parker, because I sympathized
with him so "ouch. If he should see this
article I hope he will forgive me. so
The duty on thc blockade was tedious
and monotonous. The constant use of
binocular glasses was injurious to the
eyes. and the constant strain every night,
trying to see something where there was
nothing to be seen, kept the eyes red and
inflamed all the time. Many of the offi-
cers, who served any length of time on
the blockade. never altogether recovered
from the injurious effect of these glasses.
Every dark night some of those long, low
English steamers, painted a dull lead
color, would run in and it was impossible
to see them in time to stop them. They
were small carriers, and consequently
could only carry small cargoes. But it
was very annoying to see, in the morning,
sometimes as many as five of them at
anchor under Fort Fisher. We had the
satisfaction of seeing captured here three
of the vessels we had overhauled off
the coast of Maderia, and which were
now, of course, legal prizes. The “Con-
necticut," it very fast cruiser, captured
two large steamers in one day. The
“Magnolia”capturted the “Memphis," a
large steamship with 1,100 bales of cotton
on board, the most valuable prize cap-
tured by one ship during the war.
There were a great many people in the
northern states and in England who kept
saying _“the blockade is not efficient,”
“not of any account," “any good ship can
run it successfully with ordinary caution.”
Let me mention one fact. Cotton in 1864
and the early part of 1865 sold in New
York and England for $1.25 to $1.50 per
pound. Hundreds of thousands of bales
were piled along the railroads and the
steamboat landings in the confederacy,
where it could be bought for five or six
cents a pound, our currency. Does any
one require any better proof of the efil-
ciency of the blockade than this simple
fact? Our rendezvous or station during
the day was a buoy or floating stage made
of empty water casks, and floored or
decked over, and moored five miles east-
south-east from the lighthouse at New
Inlet. This buoy had a frame work about
eight feet high over it, where we used to
hang afresncl lamp every night. When
we were on the station the duty of light-
ing up the buoy was assigned to us, and
during the whole time we were on the
blockade I never saw the time we could
not lower a boat and hang the lanterns on
the buoy on account of rough weather.
The light on the buoy gave the blockad-
ing vessels an idea of their position, and
whether they were on the station assigned
them or non.
We had a system of signals which we
understood, and which were changed
every night, the same as a couiitersign is
changed. For instance, to night it would
be for the challenge, one flash of arcd
light and two flashes of a bright light; to
be answered by three flashes of a red
light. If any vessel you challenged could
not answer correctly at once, the orders
were to fire on her, and keep on firing
until she stopped, and as there were
always two or three guns crews kept at
quarters during the night, it did net take
long to send a ball or shell after any
strange craft. I have known blockade
runners to be hit five or six times in run-
ning in. or out, and thou escape. They
took desperate chances, and often met
with loss of life. 1
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Something that will quiet the nerves,
give strength to the body, induce refresh-
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and purify and brighten the complexion.
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for exactly this class of troubles, and are
remarkably successful in accomplishing
the ends desired, as named above. They
are useful for both men and women. Sold
by druggists. Price, 50 cents a box. See
advertisement. '
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A peculiar natural substance has been
found in Georgia—a yellow material, very
much like beeswax. which. when shaved
off with a knife, rolls up like that article.
It is a kind of a rock, and. while there is
nothing about it that burns, becomes as
hard as flint when heated.
Sleeping, Snoring, Senseleas Old Hero.
(Rev. Dr. Cuyler in Sunday School Times.)
it is‘a curious coincidence that the one
man iiiScripturc whose name is associated
with ii surfcit of water, should he the first
man who is associated with a surfcit of
wine! The hero of righteousness, who
had faced a scofiiug world, sinks like a
helpless baby under the power of alcohol,
who is no rcspecier of persons, and unless
we are very much mistaken that sleeping,
snoring, senseless old hero has been de-
pictcd before the world as a perpetual
object-lesson to teach the virtue of total
abstinence! Noah had this sorrowful fall
because he ran squarely against ii law
written by the Creator on every human
body. God has inscribed several laws on
our bodily constitutions against the use of
intoxicating beverages; they are as true
iiiid immovable as the law of gravitation.
One of these laws is that alcohol is not.
food; it positively interferes with whole-
some alimcntution. Yet millions of foolish
folks have swallowed it to help digestion
until it has burned out their stomachs.
No sensible athlete when training for a
display of muscle ever touches it. I was
told by the most famous American pedes-
trian, that nothing would he so fatal to
his success, when engaged in a great feat
of walking, as the slightest dose of whiskey
or even of wine. Science and experience
testify that alcohol, instead of nourishing
the body impoverishes it; instead of warm-
ing, it increases its liability to frame; in-
stead of prolonging life. it breeds a legion
of diseases, and with a seductive smile on
its face, it wields the stiletto of an as-
sassin. ~
When Noah began to drink wine, he
_did not stop until lie was drunk. because
there is a tendency in alcoholic beverages
to produce excess. This is a principle or
law, which every teacher should explain
to his scholars. Every intoxicant has in
it this quality, that it never satisfies but
awakens a constant. desire for more. One
glass creates a thirst for another glass.
This is not the case with any wholesome
food, or beverage. Bread and beef do, not
breed excess; one glass of milk does not
kindle a morbid thirst for two glasses
next time. A healthful beverage satisfies
healthful appetite; r. hurtful beverage,
like wine, ale orbrandy stimulates appetite
until it. becomes an uncontrollable frenzy.
Here lies the reason why it is so difficult
to use iiitoxicaiits in moderation, and why
it is so difiicult to reform on iiiebriatc.
Noah had a very clear head when he
was sober, but wine made him a fool!
Here comes in another law against alco-
holic drinks; namely, their tendency is to
strike directly for the brain. Some drinks
havean affinity for the spine, some for the
heart; buta glass of whiskey or strong
wine aims for the brain as surely as a
hound makes after a deer. When it
reaches the brain it often turns a man into
a maniac. Alcohol in striking the brain,
strikes right when mind and body meet,
strikes where it hits the immortal part,
and poisons character. Herc lies the
most tremendous argument for total
abstinence. Party on account of climate,
and partly on account of their nervous,
impulsive temperament, the American
people are in more danger from alcoholic
drinks than any other people on the globe.
I am responsible for the influence of my
example. If my use of wine, or ale, or
any alcoholic drink causes my neighbor
to stumble, then amI responsible, to a
certain degree, for his fall. The drinking
usages are the prime source of danger, as
everybody acknowledges; if I drink, then
I countenance and sustain these usages.
If I refuse to buy,use, or offer intoxicauts,
I throw my vote against both dram-drink-
ing and dram-selling. Now if it is not my
Christian duty to do my utmost to save
my temptible fellowmcn from the most
prevalent and terrible curse in the com-
munity, then where under the broad
heavens can there be a Christian duty?
~—_.—-¢op——
Mmled People Would be Happier.
If home troubles were never told to a
neighbor.
If expenses were proportioned to re-
ceipts. .
If they tried to be as agreeable as in
courtship days.
If each would remember the other was
a human being, not an angel.
If each was as kind to the other as
when they were lovers.
If fuel and provisions were laid in
during the high tide of summer work.
If both parties remembered that they
married for worse as well as for better.
If men were as thoughtful for their
wives as they were for their sweethearts.
If there were fewer silk and velvet
street costumes, and more plain, tidy house
dresses.
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“Hello!" called a female voice through
the telephone at police headquarters.
“Yes, who is it?"
“Same woman who has telephoned you
before.”
“Well."
“That same husband of mine has taken
that same jewelry and gone to the same
saloon to pawn it for whisky."
“Well." ‘
“Well, this same woman is going over
to raise the same row about it.”
“And what do you want of us ?"
“Nothing, except that you notify the of-
ficer on the beat to keep his hands off. He
gay not be the same mau.”—-Detroit Free
ress.
RULES for the care of the sick. How to
cure diseases, its symptoms and causes.
and other information of great value will
be found in old Dr. Kaufmann’s great
book; 100 pages, flue colored plates.
Send three 2 cent stamps to pay postage
to A. P. Ordway & Co.,Boston,Mass..
aud’receive a copy free.
The gas company atEvausvilleJudiana,
reduced the price of gas40 cents per thous-
and last December, but in February rc-
stored the old figure.
“What was the matter?” was asked of
the president.
“Oh, the reduction was the failure.”
"In what respect ?"
“Failed to give us a dividend of 30 per
cent, and stockholders were kicking.”—
Wali Street News.
Glad tidings. Relief and cure of threat
and lung diseases. Fontaiue's Cure is
guaranteed to cure a cold in 12 hours.
For sale by I. A. Meeker, 11 Main Street,
Norwaik.
A young man of Montreal is moon blind,
and cannot see at all in the evening. Hc
contracted the blindness in few years ago
by sleeping on the deck of aship in the
full glare of a tropical moon. Such cases.
while very rare, are not unknown.
For the delicate and complicated difii-
cultics peculiar to women, Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound is the sover-
eign remedy.
The Pennsylvania House has passed the
Brooks high license bill. It provides that
the license in cities of the first. second and
third class shall be $500; in all other cities
$300; in boroughs $150 and in townships
$75.
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List of Patents
Issued from the U. 8. Patent Ofiice for the
week ending May 3, 1887, for the State of
Connecticut, furnished us from the office of
‘John E. Earle, Solicitor of Patents, New
Haven. Conn
E. H. Coitrell, Btoniugton. brake for driv-
ing shafts.
A. H. Emery, Stamford, michrometer guage.
G. S. Heiilon. Deep River. running gear.
A. E. Jones, Union City. button.
G. E. Harriman, Terryvilie, assignor to I’.
and F. Corbin. New Britain, lock.
F. W. Mix, New Britain, trunk or box Iiinue.
C. G. Perkins, Hartford, connection for elec-
trical a liauces. ,
J. B. ndorwood.Ne\v,Haven, assigiior 1-2 t
Honsatonic Brass 00., Derby, extension chain
for bird cages.
S. Whitlock, Birmingham, reversing mech-
anism.
- onerous. '
W. A. Kelsey, Meriden. card.
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MARK
; that will penetrate
:3 the skin WITHOUT
s “' INJURY.
Bethe Uni-l.
Beautifies the Complexion,
Eadie-tog all 8 ate. Freckles Tan, Moth
Patches, Black orms, Impurities and Die-
coiorntlonn of every kind, either within on:
the skin. It. renders the skin voracious, lien th-
fnl and brilliant. creating n complexion which is
neither artificial nor tempornfi but at once henn-
tii’nl an count In its out . It unwou-
deri‘ully‘l I”’I’nt‘hlng for chafed or Tough skin on
infants. it
I'll! CUBES
(Almost Instantly) Sunburn, Prickly flout, Chap-
ped, Bough or (ll-fell Skin; in net its results
upon all diseases of the skin are wonderful.
It Never Fails;
Price 750. per Bottle
Illa Also
PEARL’S
it makes the skin so
not! and white.
Ask Your
For It. After Unluc-
MII'S WHITE OLICEIIIII 00.. HOPEJEV Ilium".
FOULDS’
Choice, breakfast cereal is
better than oatmeal, and
is a delicious article of
, food. Prepared from
WHEAT
It‘commends itself as n
healthy and life givlng
diet,- It contains the
gluten and 1y8
GERM
of the berry and is the
foodgof all foods for all
classes. Children thrive
on it. It is a course white
M EA L
and cooks in five minutes.
Give it atrial and you Will
never be without it. All
grocers sell it or will get it
.t (70., Agts., Boston, Mass.
\“jh
Wavy
. .<‘ ,
,‘lj i), ‘o
for you. Butler, Breed
The Best in the World.
Sperry & Barnes’
Hams,
Shoulders,
Breakfast
Bacon,
—-—AN I)——
Sausage
ARE GUARANTEED
THE BES'I
in
THE MARKET
Oui- KETTLE LAB!) isZSti-lctly Pure
and Free from all Adulteration.
Look Carefully for the Brand.
We manufacture all goods bearing our brand at
our packing house in New Haven. use
inorro & Barnes, New Haven, Conn.
Ho oh. Boilo (trio
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
" LUMBER, TIMBER,
Shingles, Lath,
Doors, Sash,
Blinds, .Mbwlding‘,
W window Frames,
Piclcets, do.
Veiieeieil ilaiil Wood Work.
Hard Wood Ceiling and Flooring.
South. Norwalk, Conn.
Geo. S. Gregory.
Livery. Boarding, Sale.
Feed and Exchange
5 1: a. b 1 e s .
3W
No. 14 Knight 81.
(in rear of Horse Car Depot),
NORWAIR. CONN.
Carriages furnished ill hours.
ttention and gentlemanly drivers.
Geo. H. Osterbank,
Special attention given to all kinds of
PAI N T I N G,
Parlor Hanging and Decorating.
Cosrtcou
1!
ALL' WORK WARRANTED.
2i Chapel Street, Norwalk,
Bml
H E ii It i II II 8 s ,
Restaurant, Cain and Smoking-Boon,
(ii-and Central Station,
42:) STREET AND 41‘“ Avasua, New Your:
Entrance from waiting room, New York. New
Haven and Hartford railroad. this
SPECIAL BARGAINS
. -——IN—-—-—
Choice Building Lots
Situated on Spring Hill, Wilton Avenue,
E. Putnam and J. Kirschbaum, Waterbury,
holder for cigar ashes, etc.
Fair Street, and Riverside Avenue. En.
quire at GAznTTu OFFICE,
Contract Work a Specialty.
Conn. ‘
GENERAL MARKET.
LOGKWOOD ll: ANDREWS.
MAIN STREET.
All kinds of the best qualities of Meats, Fish,
Clams, Vegetables, etc., are kept consthntly on
hand. and will be sold by us as low‘as can be pro-
cured at any market in Norwalk. We intend to
prove to our customers that we deserve ,their
patronage by fair and generous dealing.
ly40 LOCKWOOD .lr ANDREWS.
l wnnr rvrnvsou
—To come in and look over my siock'of—
Monuments
—— mun—-
HEADSTONES
Before they buy anything of the kind. A selection
can be made from them iiiiicii better than from a
photograph or pencil sketch. Respectfully,
P. "I. flutes.
iffi
RIVERSIDE
ooonrooi [ noooonnoo;
The grounds of this Association are
situated in the Borough of Norw‘alk, just
Hill Road and Riverside Avenue, and
may be reached by good and well-kept
roads from all directions. The cemetery.
Broad Avenues
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
crossed in every direction by the streets
so that carriages may reach cvcry plot in
the entire cemetery. Au Elegant
Receiving Vault-
of large capacity, and fitted with all
modern improvements. is llf'fll‘ llie
entrance gale.
Capacity.
The entire space is not plotted, but
52 Vault Lots, reservations for 517 single
iiiterments, and 2,102 Burial Plots are
now offered for sale at prices very favor-
able to purchasers.
Maps of the Cemetery may be seen at
the ofiicc of MR. Exos KELLOGG, the
Superintendent, on the premises; at the
office of How. JAMES W. HYAT’I‘, at the
Horse Railroad Depot; and at the office
walk. tf5
Mpat. Fish. Vegetables. &c.~
north of the Union Mills, between Spring,
is divided into twenty-two sections, with -
and suitable streets, and the contour of-
of ME. JOHN H. Limrr, at South Nor-I
Listen to Your Wife.
The Manchester Guardian, J one 8th, 1883, says :—
At one of the
“Wihdows” '
Looking on the woodland ways! With
clumps ot'rhododendrons and great masses of
May blossoms ! i i “There was an inter-
esting group. .
It included one who had been a “Cotton
spinner,” but was now so
Paralyzed l l l . '
position.
This refers to my case. .
I was first attacked Twelve years ago
“Li comoter Atuxy” ,
(A paralytic disease of nerve fibre rare] y ever cured)
and erosion several years barely able to get
with
about.
And for the last five years notable to attend
to my business, although
Many things have been done for me.
The last experiment being nerve stretching.
Two years ago I was voted into the
, Home for incur-ables ! Near Manchester.
in May, 1852. .
.I am no "advocate ;” “For anything in, the
shape of patent medicines 1”
And made many objections to my dear wife’s
constant urging to try Hop Bitters, but finally
to pacify her,— -
Consented ! l ’
I had not quite finished the first. bottle when
I felt a change come over me. This was
Saturday, November 3d. On Sunday morning
I felt so strong I said to my companions, “I
was sure I could -
Walk 1” '
So started across the floor and back
I hardl knew how to contain myself. I was all
over the case. I am gaining strength each day,
and can walk quite safe without any
“Stick 1"
Or support. . .
I am now at my own house, and hope soon to be
able to cam my own living again. I have been a
member of the Manchester ,
. “Royal Exchange?” , . , , ,.
» "For‘nearly thirty years,- and was most heartily
congratulated on going in the room on Thursday
last. Very gratefully yours, '
. JOHN Bucxsuax.
Manchester, (Eng) December 24. 1883.
Two years later am perfectly well.
, One Experience of Many.
Having experienced a great deal of
, “Trouble!” 'i'roin indigestion, so much so
- that I come near losing my
Life! . . - .
My trouble always came after eating any
1
However light.
And digestible,
For two or three hours at a time I had to go
,ihrough the most .
Excrnciaiiiig pains,
' '-Ai.id the only way I ever got” ‘
f'ltclin-i W. :
Was by throwing up all my stomach cou-
tuincd ! i No one can conceive the pains that
z I had to go through, until
'fAt last i”
I was taken l- "So that for three weeks I
lay in bed” and
Couldcat nothing I l ! .. -
, My slitl‘ci-ings were so that I called two
doctors to gnu me something that would stop
. the pain. '
. Their efforts were no good to me.
At last I hem! a good deal
f .“Abont your iinp Bitters!
' , And determined to try them.”
' i Gotabuitle—in four hoursI'iouk the cone
: tents of ,.
One] 1 i 1
Next day I was out of bed,
seen a
"Sick l” , ,
Hour, from the same 0 use since.
have recoiiiiin-iided it to hundreds of
others. You have no sucu
“Advuciiie as I run.”
Gso. KENDALL, Allston. Boston, Mass.
and have not
i George F. Quintard
* —-—ilasopencil a———
“ FIRST-CLASS
—AT—-——
, lo. 5 Wall Street,
Opposite to J. B. Ells’ Furniture Rooms.
' Everything new and fresh. and will be sold
cheap as can be bought in town.
i
i
I ifil'lloii't fail to give as a call.
-LASGER’S
TIME nononnn
“OLD BRIDGE STORE}?
But that is a matter of little
these piping times of severe
sell me.
claim by coming and examin
With any other feeling than
I do.
and Cooking Implements of
In my
depended upon——
NO OTHER CONCERN S
B. S. BLASCER's is th
‘ BI
Nearly half a. century ago my store was christened
as above, and has since been known and honored among
the old residents of N orwalk. .by that, appropriate name.
consequence to the public in
BUSINESS, COMPETITION.
The one important question to purchasers is where can
we get the '
Best Goods for the LeastMoneyI
From time to time the report comes to me that some of
my near neighbors have boasted that they could under-
N 0 one who has ever tested the truth of such a.
ing my carefully selected and
UNEXCELLED STOCK OF GOODS
and the extremely low prices at which I offer the same
has ever left
“ The on: Bridge Store,”
that no one in the trade can
or does offer greater inducements to cash customers than
I have the choicest exhibits of ‘
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN
(income? a cnassWaaEs.
Also about every conceivable device for Table
Furnishing, Mantel Decoration, with House Cleaning
every description. Call and
examine and be convinced that my statements are strict-
iv true as to my carefully selected, stock of the
onion onions on lorioiios on tools
line are. . .-. .-
Sold at the Lowest Possible Prices.
We strive to strictly attend to our own business.
We never run down or misrepresent other dealers, and
we ask simply a chance to show our customersbur stock
and let them satisfy themselves; but One thing’may be
HALL UNDERSELL ME l
The times, the times, the age, the age—
The “Old Bridge Store” is all the rage;
Tell of the town or city, where they keep
Such goods at once so rich and yet so cheap!
For of all cheap stores beneath the sun,
e cheapest one!
5. BLASC ER.
Norwalk, April 4th, 1887.
That he could only hear to lie in a reclining '
.cuocnnr,
,"10 19”» .
ROYAL lawn; ‘
"’1 II .
%n\ . i. ,8.“
. Abs lutely Pure.
This Powder never varies. A .marvel of pure
strength and wholesomeness. More economic
than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in com-
petition with the multitude of low test, short
weight, allnm or phosphate powders.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER 00.,106 Wall St., N. Y.
reoregoryw"
Desire to state that in addition to a‘ full line of
_ Drugs, Proprietary Medicines and Druggists'
Sundries they are prepared to receive
orders for '
Silk. Cotton or ' Linen
«ELAsTrO Hose
For varicose or enlarged veins. Warranted to
' lit, and at. reduced rates. ,
They also desire to state that they have accepted
the agency of the New York Vaccine 00., and will
keep a supply of . '
PURE BOVINE VACCINE VIRUS
Constantly on hand.
They have in stock Electric Batteries, which
will be sold at close figures. They carry also a full
assorthut of Keystone Writing Paper Packets.
. DEBENTURE BONDS
-—AND—-
‘6‘ 0 lo Guaranteed Monitors
0f the New England Loan and Trust Co.
This is one of the oldest, most conservative and
scccessful institutions dealing in such securities.
Eleven years' experience without a‘ dollar of loss
to investors.
Each $100,000 of debentured is secured by $102,-
000 of mortga es, assigned to and deposited with
the Farmers’ can and Trust Co., New York. trus-
tee.B Itptcrest payable at Bank of New Nork,
lliortgages from best Corn-Producing regions of
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri.
For full information enquire of till
0. E, Wilson.
ii hill 7 Bill llfllll. .Pill‘ill Mill‘lflfliifii
——-OF THE—
Eqflt'able Mortgage Co., Kansas City.
Incorporated—Capital, $000,000.
Principal and Interest Guaranteed.
Security from three to six times the amduut of
loan. Coupon Bonds. Interest payable in New
York. Also, 1y34
Six per cent. chonture Bonds of the
Middlesex Banking Company, of
Middletown, Conn.
Organized under the banking laws of the State
of Connecticut. Coupons payable in New York.
R. B. CRAUFURD,
Agent, 31 Main Street, Norwalk.
' Joseph B. Ells.
—DEALER IN—
FURNITURE,
L'PHOLSTERED AND FOLDING CHAIRS,
wmn BEDS, marmssns, &c., &c.,
I .
OPPOSITE HORSE RAILW'AY DEPOT,
NORWALK. CONN. ms
LESSONS IN FRENCH.
, non BAIRD’S INSTITUTE.
Prof. LaLa/ndc,
Widelykuown as the director of the French Depart-
ment of the Summer School of Languages at
Chatanqua. will. come twice a week to Miss Baird's
Institute to give Lessons in French. A limited
number of pupils outside of the school will be
admitted to these classes.
For circulars and other information apply to
Miss N. F. BAIRD.
R e m e m b e r z
The Best floats in‘ Norwalk g
—-ARE SOLD AT—
WIXSON’S HAREE’I‘, ON THE BRIDGE.
—--AND FOR THE——
Lowest Prices for Cash.
PLATES on BEEF, 5 cents per lb; CORNED
BEEF, from 5 to 10 cents per 1b. 1 will not be
nndersold for the Best Qua.ities of Meat. Poultry
Drawn to Order. lyi
James E. W'iwson.
27 Wall Street.
For New or Old Houses.
BURGLAR—ALARMS—BURGLAR.
HOTEL OR HOUSE ANNUNCIATORS.
ELECTRIC DOOR BELLS.
ELECTRIC GAS ATTACHMENTS.
ELECTRIC CALL BELLS.
THERMOSTATIC HEAT INDICATORS.
Burglar Alarms and every description of Elec-
trical Attachments put in order. Also, for sale,
new or second-hand Telegraph Wire for Grape
Arbors or Fencing. and the best English make
for Clothes Lines. For further particulars call on
or address - 4m 6
J. H. HOY'I',
Western Union Telegraph Office. Nor-walk, ,Conn.
Coolidge & Lockwood,
No. 9 Main Street,
REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE.
Houses for Sale or to Rent.
Special Attention Paid to the Care 0
Real Estate and Collection of Rents.
Several Desirable Furnished Houses to
Rent for the summer months.
Valuable Dock Property for Sale or to
Rent.
Over 100 Building Lots in all parts of'
the town for sale.
' Those coiitciiipiating building will find
it to their advantage to see maps of lots at
this office.
Money to Loan on Real Estate Security.
House on Benedict Form for Sale;
price. $1,400. 1y11
0110106
BUILDING LOTS
'FOR SALE
On Wilton Avenue
——AND——
, .
San Sauce? ‘ Plot.
APPLY TO
A. Til. llYINGTON,
l , GAZETTE OFFICE.
ALAS! "Z.
Alas for all high hopes and all desiresi .
Like leaves in yellow autumn time they fall.
Alas for prayers and psalms. and love‘s pure
fires. '
One silence and one darkness ends them all.
Alas for all mankind-used, fleeting race!
Alas, my love. for you and me alas!
Some day death holds us in a. close embrace;
We, too, like all the rest. from earth must pass.
Alas! to think we shall forget some hours
Whereof the memory like love’s planet glows-
Forget them. as the year her withered flowers—
Forget them, as the sun forgets the rose.
Our kccnest rapture. our most deep despair,
Ourt‘liopes, our dreads, our laughter and our
ars. .
Shall be no more at all upon the air—
No more at all through all the endless years.
We shall be mute beneath the grass and dew—
Wo shall be very mute there, in death‘s state-
And you will be as I, and I as you—
Ouo sameness shed upon us, and one fate.
—Ph.ilip Bourke Murstou in The Independent.
A. T. STEWART’S ARPOiNTMENT.
Lost His-Chance of Becoming a. States-
man—Left; Out in the Cold.
Nobody dreamed then that Mr. Stewart
would be appointed secretary of the treasury,
but before the 4th of March the place was of-
fered to him. As the world knows hewas
appointed and confirmed, and then it was dis-
covered that he was ineligible. A forgotten
law prohibited any one interested in imports
from holding the office of secretary of the
treasury. Stewart had been immenselygm—
.tifiedat the offer, and was anxious .to hold the .
post. He proposed to turn over his great bus-
iness to trustees for the space of four years,
the entire profits to be devoted to some public
or charitable purpose inwhich heshopld, not
be interested. _
But the device was insufficient to obviate
the difficulty and another secremry was ap-
pointed in his steed. Thus Stewart. lost; his
chance of becoming a statesman. The presi-
dent could find another secretary of the trees? ’9'
my, but Stewart had no other prcsulent to "
turn to. He became .9. plain- drygoodsman.
again, without place, or power, .or public
career. To be so near a, great position, and.
yet to lose it; to be appointed and confirmed,
and even congratulated; to have made his
arrangements, and, doubtless, determined on
hisappointmentsin advance, and yet to be
dasheddown to private life, was. hard. ,But
besides this, Stewart thought that some of
the importance or' influence which had' been
offered him shouldhave been allowed to re-
main. He even wanted to retain a. little of
the patronage, which might have teen his
bad he entered ofiice. , ~
I went out of the country in May, 1869,
and returned in the next September. 0n
arriving at New York I went to Jilin-Stew-
art’s great store, as I had been used to'do be—
fore Grimt was president, and spent an hour
with him in private talk. I ' was amazed at
the tone of his conversation. He did not ex—
pect, he said. to enjoy the influence he had
once anticipated, but even the few favors he
asked had been withheld. The personal friends
he had expected to advance were overlooked,
or their claims belittled, if not ignored. Judge
Hilton, his lifelong asssociate and intimate,
he had hoped would be appointed collector of
New York, and a. relative of his wife he
wanted made consul at Havre. The collector—
ship was gone irretrievably to another, and
instead of Havre his relative was ofi‘ercd Bor-
deaux. He wanted me to represent this to
the government. But the government was
made up;-the carriage was full; the train had
started, and those who had not succeeded in
entering could hardly expect to be treated
like regular passengers. Stewart was out in
the cold. He saw the president occasionally
after this, and entertained him when he came
to New York; but their intimacy was at an
ei'id.—A dam Badeau’s Letter. ‘ -
A YOUNG AMERICAN’S EXPERIENCE.
In a Hotel of; Nice During the 'Recent
Earthquake—Excited Women.
It was a fearful sensation. The first in-
stant, when barely awake, I concluded it was
an Indian bandit who had adopted the origi-
nal method of getting under his victim's bed,
of shaking the wits out of him, and leaving
him in such astute of exhaustion that he '
might plunder the place at his leisure. On
the strength of the first thought, being a. per-
son who never waits for that desirable but
belated article, second thought, I naturally
enough called out with a truly American ac-
cent, the only, one at my disposal, ‘fQuit
that!” The sound of my own voice brought
me to a full realization. and I instantly knew
that it must be an earthquake. Some say it
was a mafier of twenty seconds; sonic gener-
ally concede it to have been a matter of forty
seconds, while the ambitious newspaper cor-
respondents have boldly made it a. {motion
short of a minute. I am told that, if it had
lasted as long as sixty seconds, none of us
would have been left to tell the tale, and that
every house in Nice would have fallen to the
ground like a pack of cards from the hands of
an awkward dealer.
At all events it seemed along time. To lie
in a. little iron bedstead and have it rocked
bye. great, unseen power; to sec the walls
moving about you and the roof cracking
above you; to hear the cries of terrified
women; to have the awful apprehension that
your next moment will be your last moment,
is not a pretty or a pleasant picture, and
when itis an actual reality it is something
beyond human description—something which,
once felt leaves a horrible recollection. Yet
now that the danger is over I am glad to
have been here, an to have what was really
a thrilling experience. Born with a. some-
times unfortunately keen sense of the ridicu-
lous, I, even in the midst of danger, fear and
distress, unconsciously absorbed the amusing
features of the situation—for, as is often the
case, there were many. Above that awful
rumble of the earth’s interior I heard the
shrill cry of a woman: “Let me out! Break
open the door!” Ah, these women; they are
first in war, peace or earthquake.
Clad in a distressingly small number of
man’s accustomed garments, I dashed out
into the hall, where I was instantly, con-
fronted by two excited females and that some
voice: “You are a man. You must know.
0h, do tell us. What is it?” Without wait-
ing an answer—where is the woman who
ever does-she turned upon me and said: “Oh,
you stupid man; it is an earthquake, and you
know it is an earthquake, but yen stand
there dumb and stupid. You are a fool."
Next I ran against a tough looking English-
man, who actually grabbed me and started
thus: “When I was in India. in ’57 there wzm
an eart'h”—-~ but I had escaped. I had some
aristocratic and wealthy, lends who could
afford the luxury of a bed ul, costlysuit of
apartments on the first _‘ , ‘When I reached.
their door it had beemfiiiabont seven min-
utes since the first ghéck; then came the sec-
oud, strong but more brief.—Nice Cor. Cour--
ierJournal. ' ’ ‘ ’
One Way to Save Mandy.
“I never go to Chicago,” said‘n. pale, John
Oakhurst style of fa‘ro dealer, f‘t'r'fil'iout get—
ting bi'oke. No matter how firmlyI—make up
my mind not to do it, I always fun , a fare
game and always lose. There see“ to be a
fatality about it. Often and of ,V have
been embarrassed for money “i 0 pay
railroad fare ' away, always
and a”
on bad terms with myself ‘ Win. mouth
afterward. On one occasion?" I divided
my money and gave half of’ it to Par-
son Davies, with strict instructious not to let
me have it until I was Oil" my way to the
train. That same day I got broke as usual,
immediately hunted up Davies and made
such a strong talk to him that he becama dis-
gusted, gave mo back my money and told me
never to come in his place again. By night I
hadn’t a. cent. _ ' ' ‘ ‘ ,
“The next trip I mass to the city, however,
I struck a scheme that. I am thinking about
patenting. In the evening I felt the old fas-
cination creeping over me, and sat down and
tried to reason with myself. I knew if I gave
some of my money to a friend to keep for me
I would be certain to make him give it back,
and that it was no use to try to stay away
from the game. Finally, by Jove! I hit it. I
got an envelope 03 the hotel clerk, put half
my roll in it, directed it to myself, stamped
it; and put ii; iii the mail box. You can bet I
didn’t get that money till next :morning.
Uncle Sam wouldn’t give it up until the mail
carrier came around, and then I posted it
again and kept up the operation until I was
ready to leave. ldidn’t have to borrow for
a railroad ticket that trip.”—El Peso Latter.
Royalty Not to Be Envied.
The announcement of the dementia of
Princes Thyra of Denmark will hardly pro-
voke much surprise among those who are uc~
uainted with the peculiar character of hei-
husband, the Duke of Cumberland. 'The lat-
ter, who is a claimant both of the ducky of
Brunswick and of the defunct Engdom of
Hanover, is one of the most unpopular noble-
man. so called, in Europe. The first Duke of
Cumberland was as cross-eyed morally as he
was physically; his father was blind from his
youth, while the present duke was born with-
out o nose. Nor does Princess. Thyra come
from a more healthy stock. Both of her
parents are stone deaf, while her sister, the
Princess of Wales, is hard of hearing and. her-
brother, Prince Waldemar, is almost blind.
‘The duke being one of the most wealthy
princes in Europe, his plate alone weighing
twelve tons, it isexceediugly remarkably that
the duchess should have been sent to an
asylum instead of being cared for at one of
her husband’s numerous residences. 1N9!
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