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Popular demand was satisfied by the appointment of Maj. Gen. George Brintou McClellan to be commander in chief, first-of the army of the Potomac, then of the armies of the whole United States. The first promotion came July 27, the second Nov. 1. 1861. It was not till the next spring, 1802. how- ever, that any fighting was done by the army of the Potomac. The quarter centennial time of that fighting has come. It finds most of the leaders on both sides gone from the scene of all earthly strife. McClellan was not onlya West Pointer, but had seen actual ser- vice iuthe Mexican war. He was born in Philadelphia in 1826. He was grad- ’ - hated from IVest Point before he was 20 years old. The most p r o m i s i n g graduates of West Point are immedi- ately assigned to the engineer corps. It is the crack corps of the regu- lar army. Young McClellan was at M’CLELLAN. once attached tn this body with the rank of sec- ond lieutenant. brilliant oili. was of the government. When- ever quick, accurato observation and scien- tific information were demanded, ho was put forward. At one time he was a government exploring engineer in Washington and Oregon territories. Again, he was one of three United States officers sent to the Crimea in ’55to study and report on the art of war in Europe. At this time he was Capt. McClellan and one of the youngest men who ever attained that rank in the country. In 1857 he resigned fromthe army and went into railroad building and engineering. When the war broke out in 1861 he was president of the eastern division of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, and lived in Cincinnati. Knowing him skilled in military matters, the Ohio people had him immediately placed at the head of the volunteer service of that state. May 14, 1801, he was made a major general in the United States army. and assigned to command the department of the Ohio. ' Shortly afterward took place his campaign in West Virginia. He did brilliant service there, service which resulted in keeping West Virginia to the Union. Then it was that he was called to Washing- ton, and placed over the army of the Potomac. The G. A. R. “boys” of today will shake their grey heads and smile sadly as they recall that time when McClellan went to Washington. According to our “American fashion, newspapers and people went wild with enthusiasm over him. He was only 34 years old, handsome and dashing. He looked the perfect soldier. People called him the “Young Napoleon,” and hailed him as the country’s dclivcrer. - All through McClellan’s letters to his wife are mentioned the ovations he received'as he'pamed through toWash- ington, and even before that. After his success in West Virginia he writes to Mrs. McClellan: “Well, it is a proud and glorious thing to see a whole people here, simple and unsophis- ticatcd, looking up to me as their deliverer from tyranny. ” Again: ' » “I had a very complimentary dispatch from'Gen. Scott last night. He said he was ‘charmed with my energy, movements and success.’ Pretty well for the old man.” AT WASHINGTON. Placed in command of the army of the Potomac headquarters at Washington, Mc- Clellan immediately proceeded to restore the troopsto prime fighting condition after the disaster of Bull Run. Anyof the peoples of Europe could not have believed that we were as ignorant of all pertaining to war as we were when McClellan took command at Washington. Gen. Barnard, his chief of en- gineers, tells how their corps had to con- tend with the want of a special engineer service. There was no properly organized train for conveying sappers’ and miners’ im- plements, intrenching tools and bridge build- ing appurtenances, etc. Axes were given to . the soldiers to carry foruse in chopping down trees, building roads, etc. The soldier carried it till he got tired and then threw it away. Next camp he got a new one; and so on. The transportation of even the pontoon equi- page fell on the already overburdened quar- tet-master’s department during the heavy canipm'gning of the Peninsula. McClellan set inimediately about building an army from the stragglers of Bull Run and from the recruits that poured in at the second call. The result of his labors was in time the splendid army of the Potomac. In the judg- ment of various good authoritiw McClellan was the best organizer and equipper of an army either side had during the war. In his memoirs McClellan writes of this time of preparation: “I passed long days in the saddle and my nights in the office—a very fatiguing life, but one which made my power felt everywhere and by every one.” He felt elated, too, by his call to Washng ton. He writes at that time: “Premdent, cabinet and Gen. Scott all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.” McClellan paid particular attention to the defenses of Washington, and in course of time made it a well fortified city. After the battle of Bull Run the Confederates were ad- vanced dangerously near to Washington. Centreville, a little town in Virginia only twenty miles southwest of Washington, was regarded as the key to the capital. After Bull Run even that was abandoned, and all the » Union army went trooping pellmell into Washington. The Confederate forces under Beauregard immediately occupied it. In- deed, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston afterward ad- vanced the Confederate lines even to Mun- son’s Hill, in an air line only six miles from Washington. For weeks the Confederate flag floated on Muusou’s Hill in plain sight of the marble dome of the Capitol. Gentreville and Manussas, both fartoo close to Washington, were the points at which the — , Confederate army ‘. -. . concentrated after ' 3? Bull Run. Beau- regard commanded it up to the end of January, 1 8 6 2 .' Then he was sent west, and Joseph E Johnston became general in chief of the Confederate _. army of the east. .5‘.\ McClellan called for more and more recruits for his - army. President GEN. JOE Jounsrort. Lincoln and the cabinet did their best to satisfy him. By the last of October McClellan hadawoll equipped army. of 134,285 men, his efi’ective force, ready for fighting. There was an aggregate of 168,818. The people expected the Young Napoleento fight. He talked about striking an effective blow and making a “short, sharp, decisive" campaign, which should finish the war. Opposed to him at Centreville and Manassas was a Confederate forcenof 50,000 effective men, ' Freddie!“ Lincoln. Was exceedingly anxious that the favorite general should strike the grand blow he had promised, “If something is not done soon,” said Lincoln, “the bottom will fall out of everything.” McClellan announced that the “crushing defeat 0.! the rebel. army at Manassas’was his object. and ' that an advance. argument it "should not be postponed beyond Nov. 25.” That date came and went, the year 1861 faded out and 186.2 was ushered in, and still no great blow was struck. In February, in a letter to President Lincoln, the general says: ”I have ever regarded our true policy as being that of fully preparing ourselves.” February passed and still no “blow,” ex- cept of the kind which one meets upon paper. By March 1 the people of the United States had run up a. debt of $600.0£0.000 in equippjpg He was really one of the mosh 'Centreville. It had lain, and prepifi'ing dmiesfi‘éhiefly that of' the Po- tomac. ' , In the months of inaction, too, with the vast and constantly increasing army lying idle at Washington. the Confederates had actually blocked the Potomac by planting batteries on the Virginia side of the Potomac some twenty- five miles belowWashington. Press and people were howling for something to be done, and President Lincoln was well nigh distracted. Gen. McClellan for some time refused even to communicate his plan of campaign to Mr. Lincoln. Once the anxious president called on the general, who sent back word that he was ill and could not see him. But next day McClellan was dressed 9nd out riding. To all attempts to urge him forward he replied that he was not ready. THE PENINSULA. o A [AK "04" ' “not“. u... .4, run WAR IN menus. Turn now to your map, run your finger down the Chesapeake bay, and stop at that f. 0' portion of Virginia between the James and . the York rivers, Run your eye up that, and you will see that it is a long tongue of" land formed by those two rivers, and lying north- west und southeast. That is “the Peninsula,” and there is where McClellan’s bottles were fought. Well up toward the upper end lies Richmond, the objective point of the army of the Potomac. Slightly to the north of Rich! mond you will notice a. long, crooked little river, which flows to the southeast, then suddenly takes a sharp turn to the south and empties into the James. That isthe Chicahominy, where much fight- ing was done, but where fevers and malaria carried off , more men than all ‘ the fighting in Vir- ginia. Within its poison breeding “- - ’ swamps lie the GEN- crumblingbones of thousands of as brave men as ever shouldered a musket. A private letter written at the time do- clares- that Casey’s (Federal) division alone lost 3,900 men from sickness during April and May. . There was serious difference of opinion about the line of march which should be taken. There was a sort of triangle of authorities to be consulted in forming the plan of campaign. One was President Lin- coln and his cabinet, another was Gen. Mc- Clellan, a third was the committee of con- gress on the conduct of the war, Senator Ben Wade, of Ohio, chairman. In January, 1862, Edwin M. Stanton became secretary of war, and thereafter was a most active element in all military affairs. President Lincoln had one plan of attack, McClellan another. The president’s plan was to move on the Confederates direct at Centre- ville and attack them in their stronghold. McClellan’s was to go down the Chesapeake and then work up to Richmond, Va, and capture the capital of the Confederacy before the army at Centreville could prevent it. It has not been decided to this day which plan was the best. Either one might have been successful if carried out quickly. As it was, there were delay and hanging back and argu- ment, while weeks and months were lost. McClellan’s plan was finally adopted. But the fact remains that from that day on McClellan regarded the authoritis at Washington as his natural enemies. In his letters during the Peninsula campaign occur such expressions asthese: . “Those hounds at Washington are after me again.” , In these words he refers to President Lin- coln and his cabinet and the congressional committee, including in the lump certain military commanders. Especially be con- ceived a deadly enmity to Secretary Stanton. March 8, 1802, the president issued his gen- eral war order No.3, directing tho‘army of the Potomac to move down the Chesapeake. The permision was given with the express condition that Washington should never be so stripped of troops as to be endangered March!) the Confederate army evacuated with 50,000 men, twenty miles from Washington oppos- ed toan army three times as large for months. March 5 Gen. Joseph E. Johnston “detected indica- tions of unusual activity in a. part . of the Federal '>~ camp.” Swiftly ' and silently there- ; upon he moved to 7 _ the south bank of ‘ the Rappahaimock, GEN' “IMZELMAN' andaftorthatthere never was’any more chance to get behind the Confederate army and take Richmond. The opportunity was lost. There was nothing for it now but to move down the Chesapeake and then work up to- ward Richmond in the face of the Confeder- ate army. Two routes were proposed, but that adopted was McClellan’s own, going to Richmond by a. march up the Peninsula, be- tween the York and the J antes rivers. The line of march is shown on our map by a dottedline. ' March 17 the army-of the Potomac began their move to Fortress Monroe. They went down the Potomac and Chesapeake bay in transports. Twenty thousand men, largely fresh recruits, had been left at Washington. All the subsequent differences and unpleasant feeling between Gen. McClellan and the authorities at Washington maybe summed up in a very few words: The president, secre- tary of war and congress were unwilling to MAGRUDEB. increase Gen. McClellan’s army by the re-. enforcements he constantly demanded be- cause they feared it would leave Washington dangerously exposed. ON TO RICHMOND. Gen. McClellan had expected the constant cooperation of the navy in the campaign of the Peninsula. Guanats and . transports were to move up the rivers,'conveying troops and supplies, and hovering as a protection to the force that moved by land between the rivers. The James river was at that time in mica of the Confederates, but the gen- eral hoped, “by rapid movements,”to open up the James river and capture Johnston’s army and Richmond before re-enforcements could arrive from the west and south. For some time previous the United States navy had been engaged in watching the Con- federatc ram Merrimac at Fortress Monroe. But the duel bean the Monitor and Merri- mac, of! Hampton Roads, March 9, and the presence of the Monitor at the forties left that point a comparatively safe baseof opera- tions. Sound military critics agree that Mc- Clellan should have taken Norfolk before starting up the Peninsula. . . But he did not- He left it, with the navy yard in full operation and the Merrimac steaming and screaming defiance about the bay. At the same time he expected and in- sisted on the cooperation of the Federal naval vessels in his , » campaign‘ toward Richmond. . Th a first plan was a combined land and naval attack upon Yorktown up the York river from Fortress Monroe. -« But the navy could not “co-operate,” as _ the general under- stood it should, and Gen. Webb, in his “Peninsula C a m. 7 reign.” puts that down» as McClel- lau’s first disappointment. He began the march up the Peninsula April 4, 1862. His army was divided into two columns, right and left. The right marched up along York river toward Yorktown, under Gen. Heint- Johann. The left, commanded by Gen. Keycs, followed the James river up‘ toward Williams- burg. By following the line of march upon the map, the course of the two columns will be clear. Keyes was to proceed as rapidly as might be on the west and occupy Halfway House, a point on the narrow dividing ridge whisk formed the wateifihed between the GEN. E. D. REYES. 0 item and James l'IVClS. no was to halt subs .. and by all menus prevent either the escape of the Confederate garrison at Yorktown or the , throwing in of re cnforcemciits to them. Keyes was expected to reach Halfway House April 5. But he did not. The two months’ rain of the spring of 1862 began as the Federal army began to move. The roads become at some points impassable for artil- lery. . Another thing: In all the years that the United States had been a country there never had been an accurate map mode of this port of Virginia. Of the region immediately in front of Heintzelman’s column there was no better map than the one made when the Brit- ish besieged Yorktown in 1781. A govern- ment survey of the, Peninsula. had been made in 1818, but later than that there was nothing to go by. ‘ The land before McClellan’s army was an unknownrcgion of swamp, with rain pour- iiig night and day, and lines of heavy Con- federate fortifications between it and Rich- mond. Of all this the two advancing col- umns knew nothing, except just that it rained. That was plain enough. April 5 Keyes marched five miles out, en- 1 countered the Confederate fortifications at Ioe’s Mills and stopped. Seven miles below Yorktown there was a line of fortifications quite across the solid ground of the Peninsula, which, between the head of Warwick river and York river, narrowed to three miles Besides that the Confederates had dammed the deep creeks flowing into the James and Warwick rivers, which had backed the water into impenetrable bogs. The Confederate army of the Peninsula was under the immediate'isommand of Gen. J. Baukbead Magruder. -He had prepared or begun three lines of fortification across the Peninsula The first one was seven miles below Yorktown. While McClellan had been equipping his army and getting a “good ready,” at Washingtdn, the Confederates had been fortifying between him and Richmond. It was the Warwick river and the fortifica- tions along its course which stopped McClel- lan’s army, both Heintzelman on the right and Keyes on the left. This river on the maps McClellan had access to flowed parallel with those rivers, nearly southeast. In reality it flowed across the Peninsula between ' ‘ the rivers. It made a fc rmidable barrier, fortified as it was. Keyes’ column stopped at Ioe’s Mills, on the Warwick, and encamped there. Heiiitzelman’s column approached nearer Yorktown, where it was also stopped by the Warwick. This was Magruder’s second and most important fine of fortifications. The ‘fii‘st had been abandoned March 1. The old line of fortifications thrown up by the British in 1781 had been revived by Magruder. Along the line of the Warwick, stretched across the Peninsula, were 11,000 Confederates, and this was the force opposed to McClellan with his army of 85,000 men. President Lincoln kept dispatching to him to “strikes blow.” Magruder expected an attack. His troops lay upon their arms in the trenches several days awaiting the attack. Opposite whore McClellan’s army lay. near Yorktown, there were only 5,000'southem troops. There was some skirmishing, nothing more. If McClellan had immediately attacked Magruder he could have forced his line and taken Yorktown without doubt. For six days the 5,000 Confederates held Yorktown against McClellan’s 85,000. Then it began to be plain what he was about. He was digging in the ground around Yorktown, throwing up earthworks, preparing to place heavy siege guns and go into a regular invest— ment. He cut roads and built bridges. And still it rained, and McClellan’s soldiers sick- ened and died in the swamps of the VVur- wick. ' ' One of the Confederate fortifications on the Federal right was known as Dam No. 1. April 16 a reconnaissance of the Confederate position was made here by some of Gen. William F. Smith’s men, under orders from the general in chief. The Warwick was waist deep, but some Vermonters he- roiailly waded across and gained the Confederate rifle pits, which they held for half an hour. They were forced 'to withdraw, the Confederates being quickly re- enforced. Once more some other Vermont troops were ordered across, under protection of twenty guns, the division battery. But they were met by a. heavy fire and were or- dered back. Gen. Smith was exceedingly anxious to mass the division and make a bold . break, but his chief ‘ forbade it. Smith felt sure the at- tempt would have been successful, for his men were in fighting mood. He declared the few Vermont boys per- ' s. ,3 vidual acts of he- roism than anyoth- so!" There was con- tinual bickering between the general and Washington. Mc- Clellan demanded always more troops, and the president and his cabinet refused tolet Washington be denuded. McDowell’s corps, which had remained at Washington, was to follow and join the army of the Potomac. But the president did not consider that Gen. McClellan had kept his agreementtoleave Washington sufiiciently protected, and re- fused to allow McDowell to move. This added to McClellan’s irritation and Inac- on. For quite six days McClellan had lain on the Warwick with a force .several‘ times larger'tha‘n his enemy. After that it was too late to force the Confederate line. April 10 Gen. D. H. Hill arrived with re—enforcements to the Confederates, and April 14 Gen. Joseph E. Johnston himself came and took common in place of Magruder. ‘ April 10 McClellan-writes that if Franklin’s and McCall’s divisions of McDowell’s corps could be sent him that he would at once at- tack Gloucester Point, opposite Yorktown, take it and storm Yorktown from the rear and in front by land. Franklin’s division was sent tardily and did not arrive at York- town until April 20. “A few days” after that McClellan made a reconnaissance of Glouces- ter Point. Plenty of time was taken for preparation. It was going to be a siege on a magnificent plan. Scaling ladders were made,.and by the 3d of May everything was “nearly” ready. May 4 came. and lo! the Confederates had evacuated Yorktown. The scientific siege of Yorktown had come to naught. The Confederates had delayed the Federal army at month in the swamp trenches along the War- wick line. This gave the Confederates time to recruit, organize and drill re-enforcements, till a formidable army was got together. - burg, eleven miles further up the Peninsula. Here the third line of the Confederate fortifi~ cations crossed the Peninsula. J ohnston‘s re- treat was accomplished the night of May 3. It was before Yorktown that captive war bal. Ioons began to housed. Continued on 42h page. 0 ‘Lydio E. Piukham’s Vevetahle Com- pound will cure all displacements and consequent spinal weakness and is cSpec- iilly adapted to change of life. Papa—“Ethel, you mustn’t say ‘I won’t’ to papa. It’s naught ." Ethel—“Well, but papa, what shall say when I mean I won’t ?” No Cure—No Faye—Anew dc arture in medicine! Fontaiue’s Great iscovery removes the cause of disease; namely, disease germs. This guarantee means something—for “Knowledge is power.” For sale by I. A. Meeker, 11 Main Street, Norwalk. ' If a pair of. lovers would be sure their match is made in'Hcavcu, let them get married in a balloon. We think we can cure a bad case of Backaclie quicker with one of Carter’s Smart Weed and Belladona Backache Plasteis. than by any other application, and after the Backache is cured, you can still wear the plaster without discomfort for two or three weeks or longer. This combination of Smart Weedaud Belladona is a great hit, and it is hard to find any am or ache that will not yield to it. Price 5 cents. Sold by druggists everywhere. A summer resort circular says: “No- body dresses here.” A sort of African wat- ering place. DR. R. D. SMITH says: “ ‘ Digestylin ’ was taken by my wifc‘who was suffering from indigestion, and its use has been beneficial to her." Sold b ‘all Druggists, $1.00 per bottle, or 'W. . Kidder 8;. 00., Manufacturing Chemists, 83 John st., N. Y. The girl who IOVes William ucvcr asks ' her father to foot her Bill. ' Breakfast use. is a pearly white. semi-transparent fluid. having a re- markable affinity or the skin. The only article yet knowntochemistry that will penetrate - theskin WITHOUT » - * ' INJURY. Hebre- slng. . Beautifies the Complexnon, . Eradicator: ll 8 ts Freckles Tan, Moth Patches, Black Worms, lmpurIties and Dis- colorntions of ever kind, either within our the skin. It renders t e skin pure,clenri has th- fnl and Irllllant, creating a complexion which is neither cial nor temporary but at once beau- tiful and rain ti its out . It isawon- dermiiy fit! thi'ili‘gnxorll chefs or yrough skin on infants. it. I'J.‘ CURES (Almost Instantly) Sunburn. Prieklylleahvcknp- sell. noun or cit-(ed Skin: in fact its results upon all diseases of the skin are wonderful.‘ It Never Fails. Price 75c.psr Dottie Ilse Also P E A III. ’ S White Glycerine - SOAP, itmakea the skin so soft and white. Ask Your . Drugglst For It. After Uni-[o man's WHITE ILYOEIIIE GIL. PIOPS.,IIEW “AWL". ' y JOSEPH MADE A coon romr roe Pflanaou when hecorneredEgyptian ~ wheat, but Foulds scored a better one with WHEAT ODD! HEAL.‘ Now, ladies, the weather is growing hot, and if you - willusclessmeatand more Germ Meal, you’ll save money, time and temper; your husbands will relish it. your children will thrive on it, and 5 minutes cooks it. All grocers sell It; 2 in packages, 15c. If you nev- er try anything now, don’t try this, no matter if it is better than oatmeal. Butler, lireed d: (10., AGENTS, BOSTON. The Best in the World. Sperry & Barnes’ Hams, Shoulders, Bacon, -———AND—. Sausage ARE GUARANTEED " THE BESl " in THE MARKET Our‘KETTLE LARD is Strictly 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. tf38 Suerru 8o Barnes, New Haven, Conn. Hutch. Belle ouCo MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN LUMBER, rumours, Shingles, La Ht, .. Dom-s, Sash, Blinds, .JIIoudrlinfi, Window Frames, Piclcclrs, éf'c. lleneeieii Hard Wood Work. llaro Wuoil Celtiogaed Flooring. South Norwiilk, Conn. Geo. S. Gregory. Livery. Boarding, Sale, Feed and Exchange S t a. b 1 e s . 'No. 14 Knight so (.u rear of Horse Car Depot), NORWALK, CONN. ill hours. Courteou Carriages furnished 1! ttcntion and gentlemanly dl'lVEl'B. Geo. H. Osterbank, Special attention given to all kinds of P A I N T I N - G , Paner Hanging out Decorator. Contract W'orlc a Specialty. “ ALL WORK WARRANTED. 21 Chapel Street. Norwalk, Conn. oml HENRY floss,. Restaurant, Cafe and Sonoliuu Room, Grand Central Station, 429 SrizEE'r AND 4m AVENUE, NEW Your: Entrance from waiting room, New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad. - this SPECIAL BARGAINS ‘ . .__.m__.. Choice Building Lots Situated on Spring Hill, Wilton Avenue, Fair Street, and Riverside Avenue. Eu- . quire at GAZETTE Omen, Beer's We": ' GENERAL MARKET. Meat. Fish, Vegetables. doc. LOCKWOOD Se ANDREWS. MAIN STREET. Allklnds of the best qualities of Meals, Fish, Clams, Vegetables, etc., are kept constantly on hand. and will be sold by us as low as can be pro- cured at any market in Norwalk. We Iutend to prove to our customers that we deserve their patronage by fair and generous dealing. Iy-ii) LUCKWOOD a ANDREWS. i wont tyraisooi ——To come In and look over my stock of— Mona me n-ts — -ANn-'-— HEADSTONES Before they buy anything of the kind. A selection can be made from them much better than from it photograph or pencil sketch. 'Iicspcctfully, P. W. Bates. lib . RIVERSIDE - writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here nearly - our bab was permanently cured of a serious pro- ' Tris PAhsN'rs. . cases where persons are sick or pining away from returner nssoenrrou. ; firmly believing they :have no equal for family . use. ' WARREN, Scipio, N. Y. The grounds of this Association are situated iii 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 l roads from all directions. The cemetery I is divided into twenty-two sections, with Broad Avenues and suitable streets, and the contour of the land is such that every taste may be . gratified iii 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 every plot in the entire ccmctci'y.. An Elegant Receiving Vault of large capacity, and fitted with all modern improvements, is near the. entrance gate. Capacity. The entire space is not plotted, but 52 Vault Lots, reservations for 517 single intermeuts, and 2,102 Burial Plots are now offered for sale at prices very favor- able to purchasers. M A. P’ S . .Maps of the Cemetery may be seen at the office of Mn. ENos KELLOGG, the Superintendent, on the premises; at the office of How. JAMES W. HYATT, at the Horse Railroad Depot; and at the office of MR. JOHN H. Lionr, at South Nor- walk. tf5 IroiiiNo Elva- LONG YEARS. -, New Bloomfield, Miss, Jan. 2,1886. llor Btrrshs Co:— I wish to say to you that I have been suffering for the last five years With a severe itching all over. i have heard of Hop Bitters and have tried it. I have used up four bottles, and it has done me more good than all the doctors and medicines that they could use on or with me. I am old and poor but feel to bless you for such a relief from your medicine and lament of the doctors. I have had iliieeu doctors at me. one gave me seven ounces of solution of arsenic; auot ef took four quarts of blood from me. All they could tell was that it was skin sickness. Now, after these four bottles of your medicine, I am well and my skin is well, clean and smooth as ever. ,3 ' HENRY KNOCHE. Goon \VORDS—FROII Goon Amosirr.—_ ' t ' ’ We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your Hop Bitters. We never had any- thing like it, and never heard of the like. The thirty years, and has seen the rise of Hostetter’s Vinegar and all other hitters and patent medl- ciues,bnt never did any of them in their best days,;begin to have the run that Hop Bitters have. " ‘ We can’t get enough of them. We are out of them half the time. ' From letter to flop Bitters Co. from BsNrON, MYxss it 00.. Wholesale Druggists, Cleveland, 0. Goon son Bursa—“We are pleased to say that tracted rregularity of the bowels by the use of Hop Bitters by its mother, which-at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength.”— MISERABLENESS. The most wonderful and marvelous success in a condition of mlserableness that no one knows what ails them (profitable patients for doctors), is obtained by theuse of Hop Bitters. They begin to cure from the first dose, and keep it up until perfect. health and strength is restored. WICKED FOR CLEBGYMEN. “I believe it to be all wrong and even wicked for clergemen and other public men to be led into giv- ing testimonials to quack doctors or vile stuffs culled medicines, but When a really meritorious article is made up of common valuable remedies known to all. and that all physicians use and trust in daily, we should freely commend it. I there- fore cheerfully and heartily commend Hop Bitters for the good they have done me and my friends, le11 not be without them."——Rsv. E. It. A GOOD Acconxr.—“To sum it up, six long years of bedridden sickness and enduring costing $200 per year, total $1,200, all of which was stopped by three bottles of Bop Bitters taken by my wife. who hos done her own housework for a year since without the loss of a day. and I want everybodyto know it for their benefit.”—JonN \VEEXS, Butler. Never Forget This. If you are sick Hop Bitters will surely aid Nature in making you well when all else fails. If you are costive or dyspeptic, or are suffering from any other of the numerous diseases of the stomach or bowels it is your owndault if you remain ill, for Hop Bitters is a sovereign remedy in all such complaints. If you are wasting away with any form of Kid- ney disease, stop tempting Death this moment, and turn for a cure to flop Bitters. If you are nervous use Hop Bitters. If you are a frequenter, or a resident of a miss- matlc district,barricade your system against the sc iurge of all coautrles—malarlal epidemic, bili- paqs and intermittent fevers—by the use of Hop tiers. ' If you have rough pimply or sallow skin, bad breath, pains and aches, and, feel miserable gen- erally, Hop Bitters will give you a fair skin, rich blood, and sweetest breath and health. That poor, bedridden, invalid wife, sister mother or daughter, can be made the picture 0 health with 110p Bitters. costing but a trlfie. Will you let them suffer ? In short they cure all diseases of the Stomach, Bowels. Blood, Liver, Nerves, Kidneys, Bright’s Disease. $1,000 will be paid for a case they will not cure or help. George F. Quintard ' ' FIRST-GLASS GROCERY. -——AT— No. 5 Wall Street, Opposite to J. B. Ells’ Furniture Rooms. Everything new and fresh, and will be sold at . cheap as can be bought in town. Won't fall to give us a call. .BLASCER’S I'l‘llIiE' HONonEii “OLD BRIDGE STORE.” 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 But that is a. matter of little consequence to the public in these piping times of severe Busris'nss comps-summon. The one important question we get the Best Goods for the Least Money! . From time to time the report comes to me thatsome of my near neighbors have boasted that they could under- , N 0 one who has ever tested the truth of sucha claim by coming and examining my carefully selected and UNEXCE-LLED STOCIK 0F GOODS and the extremely low prices at which I offer the same has ever left ‘“ The Old Bridge Store,” With any other feeling than 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 CROCKERY- 85 GLASS'W'ARES. Also about every conceivable device for Table Furnishing, Mantel Decoration, with House Cleaning and Cooking Implements of every description. examine and be convinced that my statements are strict- lv true as to my carefully selected stock of the honest Unoltttes out Varieties of Goods In my 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 customers our stock and let them satisfy themselves _; but one thing may be sell me. I do. depended upon— - NO OTHER CONCERN SHALL UNDERSELL MEI 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, B. S. BLASCER‘S is the B. S. B‘LA'SCER. Norwalk, April'lth, 1887. by that appropriate name. to purchasers is Where can Call and cheapest one! Bidgeport W. B. Special Ofi‘cri’ng. We offer 150 Best Fitting and Best Quality Jerse s in Blacks and Colors that were he ht to selIat $2.50 and 33. Price only 81.50. as ' ’ 75. cENrs. Another ldttuot all sizes w . andtl.50. Price 75. ) era ”25 md . Jersey Jackets. One lot best French Cord. Genuine 'I'sfl Made, Elegant Bound, Best Fitting. Price T351”- this is the Jacket New York stores are selling at 810. Surfs. An elegantvarie in Cloth Im rtel C h- mero. Check and P aids, iron; 38. “9;“: Best St les Tailor Made Suits. Tailor nits made to order. . Wraps. Cloth, 88 and upward. Salon, 811 and upward, Jet Trimmed Grena- dines in Brocade and Jets, 89 and upward. triTn large .Itlll‘l? of elaggut Imported Fabrics, me w: ocean nestc t' ' that defy competition. » P Jets at prices Gloves. .Ladies’ and Misses’ 8 tin and Summer Silk, Tafeta and Lisle ThigeadgGloves. These Gloves were made expressly for our trade. and for fit and durability cannot be excelled. We have the largest assortment ever shown in this city, and we shall ofi'er them at prices which we know cannot be approached. Kid Gloves. Five specie] lots under price. Paras-also. AT AN ENORMOUS REDUCTION. An opportunity for the ladies of New Eng- land to secure genuine values at prices within the reach of the most economical purchaser. NOTE i_'1'he extreme cold and backward season had a do reusing effect upon manufac- llrers, especnal y in this particular branch, many of whom find enormous accumulations on hand and with our great outlet we have been enabled to secure large qualities of really first-class goods at rices ositively ruinous to ’ the makers. In or or to ispose of these large lots, we mark them at prices that will dispose of the same at once. ' W. E. Hall (b 00., Cor. Iain and Cannon Sta, Bridgeport. Misses St. John, FINE MILLINERY Fancy Goods. —We have an elegant assortment of— SPRINIi AND SUMNER IIILLINERY, Which we are offering at Very Low Prices. A full line of MOURNING, both made and un- made, constantly ou hand. . FANCY GOODS OF ALL KINDS. HAIR Goons a s ialt . Frizzes and Bangs In all one late’st styi’ee; y OLD GRAPE MADE EQUAL TO NEW 'By the Schriver Patent Process, for which we have the agency. We also have the agency for the MADAME GRISWOLD CORSET. A Perfect Fit Guaranteed. MISSES s'r. JonN, Miss Agnes Fitch, 49 Main Street, —0ffers all the latest novelties in— IIILLINERY' IiIIIIIIS, —Conslsting_ of— RlIlIlfllll,-F10W8l‘l out Triunious ‘ Of all kinds ; Hats and Bonnets In the most desirable shapes and colors. (Jen tcmcri Gloves —AT— Centcmer-i Prices. [311114 Fachtt’s Easter Opening. ——0n and after— TUESDAY, APRIL 5th. All are cordially invited to call and inspect our styles. We feel confident this will surpass any opening display in thistown this season. A visit will fully reward an attendance. . Our Dlsplsyo TRIIIIMED HA TS Will be very fine and In every Shape and Color. It has been our carOful endeavor to send cards to all. , If any omissions have occurred they have been unintentional. and we take this occasion to say to all “COME.” WW2 snail each Tuesday during the season exhibit Novsurrss 1N Mimusmr. FAWOETT'S, 3 WATER 8T2, 73 MAIN ST., Norwalk. So; Norwalk. Peat Moss Steele nouns. FARM. WAGONS. Fertilizers, Air Slashed Lime, Land Plaster -AND-—~ Drain Pipe, -—AT— non liro’.
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