UP UPUP U.
Gen. N. P. Banks’ Expedition-in
the Spring of 1864.
STATE POLICY AND COTTON. ..
Battles of Sabine Cross Roads and
Pleasant Hill.
Steele's Expedition and the Fight at Jen-
kins' Ferry—The story of n Campaign
Undertaken Against‘sound Military Judg- ‘
meat and Ending in Failure—How Col.
Bailey Floated the Fleet Over the Bed
River Rapids at Alexandria-431m Story
Told Anoi- a Quarter Century’l Lapse.
Il'he kin' of France, with forty thousand men.
Marcheg up a hill and then marched down again.
Asearlyas November, 1862, Balleck had
formed the idea of making the Red river the
base of military operations against Texas.
There were sound military reasons in its
favor, provided ithad been practicable. But
Banks, being on the ground, saw the stupend-
ous difiiculties in the way of an expedition
against Shreveport far more clearly than the
government at Washington did. .
During the year 1863 Halleck did not cease
tourge on Banks, Sherman and-Grantthe
Red river enterprise. At length, In Septem-
ber, 1863, Frank- . ~» ». _
lin's expedition . ..
against S a b in e
Pass, at the south-
west corner of Inu-
isiana, was under-
taken. It was un-
succesfiul.
Still the g0vern‘
meat urged the oc-
cupation of some
point in T o x a s .
Again, therefore, _ . _ .
Banks started all ‘_ . a; .. .'..
expedition, ' th i 3 GEN. N. P. BANKS.
time under Maj. Gen. N. J. T. Dana, and to
the Texas coast. Banks himself accompanied,
and the fleet sailed from New Orleans Oct.
26, 1863.
This enterprise was more successful. In
less than a month Banks had possessionof all
the Texas coast except Galveston Island and
the mouth of the Brazos river. Gen Dana
was left in command at Brownsville, Tex.
Banks then began to plan an attack inland
against Galveston. .
At this point once more he was urged
by Halleck to go up Red river and attack ..
Shreveport.
One of Banks’ engineers, Maj. D. C. Hous-
ton, carefully prepared a map of the Red
river country. The distance from Brashear
City to Shreveport is 344 miles. Brashear
City, at the mouth of the Atchafalaya river,
is the point whence Banks’ army started
finally. Shreveport is at the head of navi-
gation on Red river.
It is said that, having a cotton prize in
view, Banks’ minor officers did not cease to
. urge on the expedi-
tion. To this pres-
sure and that con-
, stantly made from
' - Washington, Gen;
Banks yielded.
March 7, Gen.
W. B. Franklin
moved in command
of the land force
by rail to Brasheal'
City. Gen. Banks
could not leave
New Orleans in
ADMIRAL D. D. roman. Eeffnjzgfiggt ‘38;
troops later. Powerful co—operation from the
navy was necessary. On the same day, there-
fore, March 7, Admiral Porter started up
from the mouth of Red river with a fleet of
twenty steamers, including ironclads.
Franklin'sforcc was to move up through
Bayou Teche and Opelousas to Alexandria.
He was to unite with the fleet at Alexandria.
At the close of the Meridian campaign Sher-
man went to New Orleans to consult with
Banks in regard to the Red River campaign.
As a. result he sent four divisions of the Army
of the Tennessee to aid Blinks in the expedi-
tion. They were under command of Gen. A.
J. Smith and numbered 10,000 men. Smith
had with him-besides Gen. Alfred Ellet’s ma-
rine brigade, 3,000 strong.
March 11 Smith’s army left Vicksburg in
transport steamers and joined Admiral Por-
ter on Red river.
MA? or LOUISIANA.
There was yet a fourth branch of the expo-
dition. In Arkansas, at Little Rock, was
Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele with 15,000 men.
He was notified to meet the expedition at
Shreveport, marching directly from Little
Rock to that point. Here there were three
cooperating armies, Banks’, Smith’s, Steele’s,
besides Admiral Porter’s 'fioct. To these four
branches there was no one commander. Each
was independent of the rest.
When requested first to join the expedition
Steele replied that he could not leave Little
Rock till after the election there, March 14,
the presence of his troops being necessary to
preserve the peace. And he did not leave.
Thus one of the co-operating columns failed.
UP RED RIVER.
Below Alexandria on Red river is Fort Do
Russy. Eight miles below the fort, the Con-
federates had planted heavy obstructions to
prevent the passage of Union gunboats. Ads
miral Porter’s flagship on the Red River ex-
pedition was the Black Hawk.
The obstructions planted by the Confeder-
ates consisted of a line of heavy piles driven
deep into the river bed, from bank to bank.
Below the line of piles was a. timber raft, so
dense and heavy that some of the logs were
on the bottom of the stream. In addition to
this, great numbers of trees had been cut
above the piles and floated down, branches
and all, against the already formidable ob-
struction.
III It took the gunboat crews just twelve hours
to make a passage for the fleet through this
hindrance. They drew out the piles near the
banks first, and then the rush of water helped
to do the rest.
3., While they worked. the armv and the rest
of the navy drew 03 into Bayou Atchafalaya,
near by. The fleet that cleared the obstruc-
tions was led by the gunboat Eastport.
The forces under Gen. A. J. Smith were
landed at Simsport, a hamlet on the Atoh-
afolaya bayou. As they landed, the Con-
federate guards were driven back to Fort de
Russy, above.
FORT DE RUSSY.
It was quickly decided that Smith’s force
should march by land to Fort De Russy and
make an attack in the rear of that formid-
able work. From Simsport overland to the
fort was thirty miles. The fleet was mew-
timc to move up and attack in front.
The shallow, narrow vessels required to
navigate the tributaries of the Mississippiare
very different from the steamers of the lakes
and the large, deep rivers emptying into the
Atlantic. Shallow and narrow as they were,
howcvcr, Admiral Porter’s boats had much
difilculty in reaching Fort De Russy, and
their progress was slow. When the fleet
reached Fort Do Russy on the water front," '-
the land forces were already engaged in the
war.
The Union advance, led by Gen. Mower,
mocked De Russy at 4p. 111., March 14. As
energetically as if they had not been
marching, fighting and building bridges all
day, Smith’s troops
placed themselves
in position and pre-
pared to at tack.
There was fighting
for two hours, the
passage of shot,
shell and musket
ball, between the
garrison and the
Union force. It did
little execution on
either side. By that
time Smith had his ‘ c
xholearmyinposi— ' " .
on, and gave the
order to storm the GEN. A. J. SMITH.
works. The fort and garrison were quickly
captured. At nightfall the United States
flag was flying from the fort.
The fleet had been unable to cooperate on
account of the danger of shelling the Union
soldiers, who were attacking from the rear.
The fort waggill provided for attack in this
direction, but had a magnificent water bat-
tery which, however, it was impomible touse
under thecircumstances. The great regret
of the Confederates, as expresed afterwards,
was that this battery could not be employed,
and the great regret of the Union fleet was
‘hat they were unable to co-operate with
army.
H De Russy was blown up, root and
by Gem Smith. Thus was finally '.
the work which the Confederates
to close Red river. The gar- i
'1 prisoners.
WWI “QME '
sey and its immediate vicinity. Gen; E.
him, besides Walker, were Gens. Mouton,
Green, and Richard Taylor, with their re-
spectivc commands; troops used to the pecu-
liar ambushing and hard riding and hard
fighting which characterized the war in the
Red river region. . Gen. Magruder was in
South Texas with 20,000 men. » ‘ . 5;
Kirby Smith well understood that the ob-
jective point of Banks’ expedition was Shreve-
port, at the head of navigation on Red river,
and quickly prepared to meet his foe.
After Fort Do Russy, the next point for the
Union expedition was Alexandria, on Red
river, 150 miles above where that stream
empties into the
Mississippi. By
this time, however,
the uncertain
waters of Bod
river were falling
rapidly. Difficul-
ties thickened be-
fore the advancing
_ fleet. At Alexan-
dria there are
heavy rapids in the
,. 5,, river. Aweekwas
requiredto pass the
A fleet ov e r thme,
. ,. A‘ such ascould be
conveyed over.‘ The hospital boat, the Wood-
ford, was wrecked. 5 '= .
Gen. Richard Taylor was at Alexandria
with 15,000 men when Smith’s forces began
the-march towards that place.’ Asthey ap-
proached ho- hastily retreated, leaving three
pieces of artillery. Gen. Mower entered the
place with 3,000 Union soldiers,» March 16.
Admiral Port/er was there by the river
about the sauna time, and immediately made
preparations for getting his flcc‘. above the
rapids already mentioned. By March 18 Gen.
A. J. Smith entered Alexandria with his
whole command. '
The fleet and A. J. Smith were now ready,
on time, for the journey still farther upRed
riverto Shreveport. But where was Gen.
Banks’ part, of the expedition! He had
promised to unite with Smith and Porter
March 1?.
Gen. ' Franklin had not left the Bayou
Teche region till March 13. Banks' cavalry
was under command of Gen. A. L Leo. This
reached Alexandria March 19. -
Gen. Banks himself came to Alexandria
March 24. March 26 his whole column came
in, and not till then was the Union army
ready for further advance.
The expedition must be finished and the
troops returned to the Misissl ‘by May '1.
But it was not till_March 29. , _
Porter was able to get the fleet (over the fall:
so that it could proceed on up 'the river to
Shreveport. Once over it steamed'u'p the
river to Grand Ecore.
While waiting for tho army to arrive and
for his fleet to pass the rapids at Alexandria,
Admiral Porter seized a quantity of cottonas
a naval prize; This engendered ill feeling be
tween the army and navy.
At Alexandria Gen. Alfred Eliot’s marine
brigade-had been recalled to Vicksburg. This
diminished the expedition by 3,000 men.
March28 Gen. Banks began to mova his
army up the rivu‘ from Alexandria. His
own command was under the immediate direo
tion of Gen. W. B. Franklin. Eighty miles
above Alexandria lathe town of N atchitoches,
pronou'nCed Nak-e-tosh. It is situated on
Cane river, four miles above where that
stream flows into Red river. Natchitochel
is in the heart of the great cotton district of
Louisiana. It is 100’ miles below Shreveport.
- April 2 and 3 Banks' column arrivedat
Natchitoches. The Confederates had shown
FLAGSEIP BLACK HAWK.
Alexandria. They constantly retreatedq
the river towards Shreveport, Banks’ army
following on. The Confederates here also be-
longed to Gen. Dick Taylor’s command.
Gen. A. J. Smith’s command was moving
up Red river in transports, while Banks went
over land. But th'ErIvi‘ was' "" 'eo'rap-
idly that it was impossibletoconv large
gunboats beyond Grand Ecore. are, there-
fore, Smith’s mabandonedthemspwb
and followed on . to¢ Natchitoehes by
land. . 33.?" .?-.q:~zafl. ".2;
Four days were consumml waiting for
the columns of Banks and S th to unitecnd
make ready to leave Natchitoches and march
to Shreveport, the end of the ' tiou. Not
till the morning of April 6 did 0 march be-.
gm. .
Gen. A. L. Lee’s cavalry, 8,000 strong led
the advance. Following him was Gen. T. B.
S. Ransom, with two divisions. Next came
Gen. W. H. Emory’s command. April 7
Gen. A. J. Smith‘s command followed tho
other column.
Gen. Banks did not take the route along
Rod river, but a road some twenty miles
back, across country. It led throu the
towns of Pleasant Hill and Mansflcl The
country along the Pleasant HillroM was a
pine forest. The land was sandy and barren,
and there was neither water nor forage.
The supplies for the army hadbeen ordered
to be carried up the river , in rte, con-
Geu. T. Kilby Smith, with 9,500 men as an
escort, accompanied the transports. They
were ordered to proceed up Red river to
Loggy bayou, opposite the town of Spring-
field, about thirty miles below Shreveport.
By the time Banks began the advanccto
Shreveport from Natchitocha. over the
Pleasant Hill road, April . 6, Gene. Dick
Taylor, Kirby Smith, Mouton and Green
were waiting for himwith their combined
force of veteran soldiers, 20,000 strong.
Lee’s cavalry skirmished sharply with
Confederates all the way from Natchltoches
to Pleasant Hill, a distance of thirty-six
miles. But Gen. Banks had as yet no idea of
the full number of the force in front.
Gen. Tom Green led the Confederate cav~
airy. It appeared in stronger and ever in-
creasing force. Three miles beyond‘Pleasant
Hill a cavalry fight occurredwhich lasted two
hours and in which Gen. Lee lost ninety-two
men. '
He drove the Confederates before him,
however, for a distance of six miles and then
halted. At least he apparently drove them.
The real fact was that the Confederate com-
manders were deliberatelydrawing-' Bmh'
army farther and farther in’to'theshcart of
a hostile country and aviay from his base.
The apparent retreat towards Shreveport
was a move to lead Banks on into afavoro
able position, and then with the united force
of the trans-Mimissippi Confederate mics
to fell upon and crush him. ,
SABINE CROSS ROADS, APRIL 8.
The battle of Sabine Cross Roads is called.
by Confederates the battle of‘Mansfieldu It‘
is also known as Pleasant Grove.
est, three miles from Mansfield.’ The fight‘
occurred April 8, 1864. Immediately follow;
ing Gen. Lee’s cavalry was the heavy cavalryt
sity of guarding this train", and the 'slovuncfl
with which it moved over the heavy roads,
greatly delayed both Gen. Lee and the in-
fantry columns bo-
hind the train.
Lee wished to leave
this train in the
rear and to “park”
it, in military
phrase, when he
found the enemy
ahowingthemselves
' heavily on his
front. Franklin
would not permit
it, but ordered him
to keep his trdn
ens. roar GREEN, 0. s. A. 01°99 *0 his 001““
After driving the
Confederates nine miles beyond Pleasant
Hill,,,IJ.eel halted and sent a memenger back
to Franklin, asking for an infantry brigade.
Franklin started one forward, but halted it
when the firing in front ceased,so that it
did not reach Lee. ,
Banks and Franklin were up to this time
not aware of the heavy force that was
waiting for them, and did not anticipates.
serious battle on the march to Shreveport. .
The Union line, from Lee at the head to
A. J. Smith‘s troops in‘the rear, struggled
thinly along over a distance of not less than
twenty-five miles. No commander was near
enough to the rest to give cfi’ectivo support
incaso of a. sudden attack. This situation
was fully taken advantage of by the Con-
i'edc'ratcs, who opened the attack.
By noon, April 8, Gen. Banks came up with
the advance of hisarmy. At Sabine Cross
Roads the road to Shreveport led over a pine
covered hill. On this bill the whole Con-
federate army made its stand, waiting for
Banks’ long, thin, straggling columns to ad-
vance, that they might fall upon them.
Gen. Lee had been ordercdto push forward
and take his train with him. Franklin had
encamped at Pleasant Hill, for in Lee’s rear.
Banks himself had ordered a brigade of in-
fantry to Lee’s support, and with this Lee
had brokencamp at daybreak and marched
forward. By noon he reached the hill at
Sabine Crow Roads, and found the Confeder-
ate army drawn up to meet him.
He wished to halt for ro-enforcements, but
theConfederates gave him no time. They
attacked him sharply. Ransom’s command
of infantry came up at this time to relieve
the other infantry brigade (Landmm's) that
had been sent to Lee.
Ransom and Lee formed a line of battle
with their slim force; and resolved to meet
the encmyas best they might. It was at
this time that Banks came upon the field.
He had passed Franklin at 10 o’clock, mov-
higlcisnygly fprward, and ordered hlflgto
had‘c'omnland 01‘ 11:0 ‘I'Foops h't‘Fort Dc nus v (:1sz up this colii‘zfii‘i'W‘Itfi the advance. ' NOW,
Kirby Smith ”was commander of them. Usenger back’to‘ Franklin, ordering him to
Mississippi Confederate department. Ufihi'
tAdmiral
themselvesin skirmishes all the way ken _
voyed by the light draught boats of the fleet. ‘,
Sabine ,
Cross Roads is at a clearing in theZpine fad:
train, consisting of 200 wagons.‘ The neceor
'_ ado fell back up the
' hill, and filed be-
. ,At the battlepf Pm
seeing the critical situation, he sent a mes-
make all has'tcto the front. Franklin waited
for the rest of his column to come up before
moving rapidly. Several messengers were
sent in succession to him, but with no effect.
Between 4 cm 5 o’clock the Confederate
army of 90,000 made a tremendous attack
along the whole - __
Union lino. Since , ‘ .:,
noon the fighting
had been in prog-
ress, but now the
engagement be-
came general.
The few Union , ,
troops that were in‘ .
the advance suffer ~
ed so heavily that
they could not. , ~
stand their ground. ,'
Banks ordered .. , .
/ '
them to fall back
{,‘inghfhewfi’fffinb; can. r. I. s. n‘Ausox.
The Confederatespursued hotly, endeavoring
.to get in their rear. The Union army we (1
then have been cut in two; Lee in front and
Franklin in the rear. In this design, however,
the Confederates were not succesful.
At 5 o’clock Franklin reached the scene of
action with Gen. Cameron's division. Frank-
Iinwas too late to save theday. The Con-
federates were in full flush of victory, and
there wasin Banks’ army no power to stop
them. They ran and rode fiercely forward
over everything, driving all before them.
The Federal left broke, and in' a little time
the whole Union force was in confused re-
treat.
The road was blocked with the heavy cav-
alry train, which added to the terror and
confusion of the hour. The rich train was
lost and taken possession of by the Confed-
erates. '
The train impeded the way so that the
troops could not even fly, and a thousand
men baldness;:t9rflensqm’s. division-Who.
taken prises“. . ' Penns'mmrbatmr
were captured~from the same division.
Several prominent Union ofilcers were
killed. Gena. Franklinj'and Ransom were
both wounded; The Union troops were chased
backward, for three miles, to Pleasant Grove.
And now mum-nu of,:the battle of
SabinoCross‘ .f‘, "
the batt19,0£-I?1§8§§n§:... _..-_t99k.olecs_ _
cam-arcs ofi'anb'mvnn. ‘
At Pleasant Grovc"was Gem-Emory’s di-
vision of the Nineteenth, corps, which had not , . ‘
yet beenfiligziggi ‘Itiw'us advancing'townrd
the frdiit’té"
was met by the "mob..of fugitives which an
hour before" had been" an 'orderly military
column. 3‘" T '1 3 ‘ - ' ,v -‘ ‘.
Emory opened ranks to allow'the flying
men to pa'm' through-,- and closed themagain
barely in'time. to meet theepsrssies zoesfedh
eratm. They came on like a torrent. Emory
ordered hi5‘_soldiers tomerve their fire till
the enemy’s.faces"wero visible; Then a ter—
rific volley" weep-cured into them. {They
wavered, but ralliedram'l came on again." ‘
The new battle looted an hour and a: half.
Gen. Dwight held Emery‘s right;,Col. Lewis
Benedict his left, with a brigade. The most
desperate eiforts of the Confederates were di-
rected against Benedict. ~ But at last some-
body had been found in the Union army who
hold his ground, and the
ff."
Confederates could
not break this lino.
-*~ ‘ . _ They failed on the
. right olso,and after
darkness had set in
4 they abandoned the
fight and withdrew
to Mansfield.
One of the- most
, ‘ accomplished of the
' 9:, Confederate c o m-
' {7/ manders,Gcn. Jean
' 5‘ Jacques Alexander
Alfred Mouton,had
fallen dead at
Pleasant G r o I: c ,
. , icrced b four ul-
MAJ. GEN. twosome. s. Afits' in as; first at-
tack on "ZEmer’s division. - Mouton it was
who had ht on, the battle of Sabine
CrossRoalis;d Dick Taylor was in'coma'
round here, siyno 12,000 men. “Banks
had no more than 8,000 in this engagement. -
Dick rsylbrhm- - orders from Kirby Smith
not to fight, but to steadily retreat, drawing
theUnion army on to Shreveport. But at
Sabine Cross Roads it was lain to him that
he had Banks at great isadvantage and
could surely gain a sweeping Confederate
victory. He could do this before Banks could
communicate with the fleet, and thus the
naval force would be cut off.
Debating the question in his own mind,
Taylor ordered Walker‘s and Mouton‘s col-
minus and Green’s cavalry to halt and mail;
a stand. While he was still considering
whethcrto ofi’cr fight Gen. Mouton opened
the battle without orders and thus settled the
question.
At Sabine Cross Roads Banks lost ncarl
3,000 of the 8,003 men engage-.1 in killc ,
wounded and prisoners. The Conicdcrcto loss
was 1,500. Sabinc Cross Road-.3 is twenty
miles west of Red river.
PLEASANT HILL, APRIL 9.
During the night Banks‘ army fell back to
Pleasant Hill, fifteen miles in the roar.
Gen. A. J. Smith’s command had been so
far behind the rest that no part of it was in
the fight at; Sabine Cross Roads. Smith-ar-
rivcd‘during-‘tho night at Pleasant Hill with
the great part of- his command. It wasvaftcr
8 o’clock in the morning of April 9 before the
last of Banks‘ defeated columnsrcached Pleas-
ant Hill. 'By the junction with Smith he had
againan army of 15,000.
But Dick Taylor had also been re~cnforced.
At dawn Gen. Churchill’s Confederate divi-
sion fromArkcnsas ' -
joinedhim and? he if '
now hadimflb men i
with which .to fall
upon Banks again.
Churchill’s division
had marched . all
night . _ -» ,
Nothing-is so dif-
side engaged in
abattle. Col. Bon-
nor, in the battle on , '
t h c C o n fedorate '
side, declares, incur. w. u. r. WALKER,
the magazine “The , C- 3» A-
Land We Love,” that Dick Taylor had at the
battle of Pleasant Hill, April '9, Only 13,000
~. men. Confederate Gen. Bee, commandiuga
‘ division in Green’s cavalry corps, says there
were less than 12,000 alltold. Gen. Kirby
Smith, who was at Shreveport, rode sixty
miles that day to reach Pleasant Hill.
. .Gen. Emory covered Banks' retreat to
Pleasant Hill, April 8. But it was hasty,~
and dead, wounded, broken ambulances, and
debris still filled the road over which fthc
Confederates followed closely next morning.
Col. Bonner says he saw one deserted ambu-
lance that contained an open cofliu, in which
was the body of a Union officer of rank.
Early April 0, the Confederates advanced
to attack Banks’ army at Pleasant Hill.
Churchill‘s division held tho right, Walker‘s
the center and Mouton’s .thc left. Mouton’s
division was commanded by Gen. Polignac, a .
French ofllcer, who had joined the Confeder-
ates. IVith Moutou’s division on the left was
he cavalry under Gen. Tom Green.
The Union line of battle was formed at
Pleasant Hill in the morning of April 0. The
battle that day was fought by A. J. Smith’s
command and the Nineteenth corps. Gen.
Emory’s division of the Nineteenth corps
formed the front. As on the evening before,
Gen. Dwight held the right and Col. law Ben-
edict the left. A large part of A. J. Smith‘s
command was held as a remrve. The wagon
trains, heavily guarded by Lee’s cavalry and
some infantry troops, were early dispatched
entho road to Grand Ecore, to be out of
A little after 5 o’clock in the afternoon
the Confederates made a tremendous at-
tack, pouring out of the pine forest in all
directions. They rushed against Emory’s
left obliquely, flanking it and driving it back
up the slope of Pleasant Hill. Benedict
strove to rally the left. A bullet struck him
in the arm '30 did not pause, but continued '
shouting orders clear and strong through the
roar of battle.
A few minutes more, and a ball went crash-
ing through his brain, and the clear voice
was silenced forever. Col. Lew Benedict, one
of' tho bravest, best beloved soldiers in the
army of the west, was dead. He was a
lawyer from Albany, N. Y., and a public
funeral was given -
tohis remains when
they reached his
home city.
Benedict’s brig-
hind Shaw’s brig-
ade, which then re-
ceived the shock of
the advancing Com 4/,
federates. - It was , ’I
the Texas cavalry ,, ,
th at formed the '
Confederate line at
this point. They ,
were among the .
most desperate COL. LEWIS nxmxcr.
fighters in the southern army. Here the
heaviest part of the battle of Pleasant Hill
took place. ..
In a few minutes, of Sweitzer’s Texan regi-
ment, there were not more than ten left.
It was the Confederate r ht, Churchill's di-
vision, that attacked the ederal left, under
Benedict. Afterashort but desperate con-
flict, Churchill was driven back, even though
re-enforced bye brigade d Walker’s division.
Walker, with his own and Polignac’s division,
- attacked the Union right, and at first gained
an advantage. Dwight’s force was driven
back to A. J. Smithb reserves. ‘But here
Smi th’s veterans met the wave of Confeder- »
ates withawave of fire that overwhelmed
and swept them back. Walker himself was
wounded. -
After dark the Confederates fell back alto-
gether. In the two days’ fightin at Sabine
om Roads and Pleasant Hill ’Bmks lost
4,000 men, the Confederatm 2,560.“ Inthese
two battles there was terrific h '
animals
NORWALK'I‘GA
”part4 in'the‘v3-fight35w11eifft'“? ~
'Blufi’, on Steele’s
'the expedition.-
. time in southwest
: _.-- ,.,.,»-_ .
Bdn'kfi’. Torin? "hid .manr W173i-
thirty-Six hours, and there was no water for
man or beast. A consultation of officers was
held and chiefly b the advice ofGen. Frank-
lin,theadvanceto breve rtwasabandcned.
The army marched back Grand Ecore, on
Red river, April 10. ‘
Both sides claimed a victory at Pleamnt
Hill. In the fighting, on the Union left,
'l‘a lor’s batterywas captured by the Con-
f crates, but retaken laterln the day. .What
advantage there was in the ht seemsto
have been'on the Union side. T e‘ Confeder‘
ates retired eight miles along the Mansfield
road after the battle. Ttléexy, too were short
of supplies,“ having tas food only. once
within forty-eight ours.
THE UNION FLEET.
Gen. Banks did not communicate with the
fleet by way of, Sabine Cross Roads on the
10th of April, according to agreement. .
The Confederates did not return to Leggy
bayou till next morning. They came then
expecting to take possession of the fleet, only
to find it had vanished. ~
Admiral Porter started the fleet down Red
river. ~
Banks‘ army reached Grand Ecore April
11. On the 12th and 18th they heard heavy
firing up the river in the direction of the
fleet, On the way down from Leggy bayou
the naval force was fired on by guerrilla
sharpshooterswith-
out intermission.
These hundreds of
guernllas' , "like
famished wolves,
hoped to obtain
possession of some
of the transports."
April 12 a serious
' attack was made on
the fleet 'by 2,000
Texan cavalry.
. “They fancied they
could carry gim-
boats in that nar-
row, crooked chan-
nel by infantry charges,” writes Admiral
Porter. The gunboats, however, trained
their Rodman guns upon the reckless Texans.
One of these blow oil? the head of Gen. Tom
Green, their commander.
All the fleet, about fortyofivo vessels, we:
brought safely down to Grand Ecore, April 15.
cor... BAILur.
COL. BAILEY'S DAM.
Banks’ army began its retreat to Alex-
andria April 22. On the way there was a
sharp engagement at Cano river with 8,000
Confederates under Gen. Bee. but Banks’
army reached Alexandria April 26.
The fleet also started down the river, April
should the fleet pass the rapids at Alex-
andria? ,
Itwas done by a brilliant feat of naval
engineering, for which Admiral Porter was
~ indebted tothe inventive genius of Lleut. Col.
. Joseph Bailey, engineer of the Nineteenth
corps. His plan was to build a vast log dam
below tho rapids. This would cause the
stream above to fill and float the boats over.
The plan was at first rejected Admiral
Porter declared that “if damming could have
got the fleet off, it would have been afloat
long before." -
At lost, however, Col. Bailey received per-
mission to try, and went to work with a will.
Twenty-five hundred men were put to work
felling trees. By May S the dam wzn com-
pleted, and by May 13 the'fieet was below'
the rapids.
At the conclusion of the .Red River expedi-
tion the fleet returned, to Vicksburg and
other stations along the Mississippi.
May 14, Gen. Banks evacuated Alexandria,
and continued his retreat down the river to-
ward New Orleans by way of the Atchafalaya.
May 16 there was an attack from Confeder-
ates at Mnnsura. The attacking party was
driven oflf, and the army continued on its
way to Simsport, which it reached the same
evening. The march south was still con-
tinued. May 10 there was another Confeder-
ate attack, this time at Yellow Bayou, on A.
J. Smith, by the command of Gen. Polignac.
The Confederates were only driven back with
heavy 10m. May 20 the army crossed to the
east side of tho Atchafalaya. At this point
Gen. Banks was superseded by Gen. Edward
R. S. Cnnby, who had come to take com-
mand of the trans-Mississippi military di-
vision.
The Red River expedition was atan end.
STEELE’S EXPEDITION.
The Column That Was to (Io-operate with
Banks.
Where, meanwhile, was Gen. Frederick
Steele,who had been ordered to march directly
across country from Little Rock to Shreveport
and aid Banks!
He had refused to leave Little Rock till
after the election of I March 14, 1864. There-
upon Gen. Sherman wrote to him: “If we
have to modify military plans for civil elec-
tions we had better go home."
Not- until March 28 did Steele leave Little
Rock. The distance thence to Shreveport is
225 miles. Gen. Steele had command of the
Seventh corps. He took with himfrom Little
Rock 7,000 troops, infantry and cavalry.
About the same time Gen. Thayer, com-
manding the army of the frontier, left Fort
Smith with 5,000 men, marching eastward to
join Steele at Arkadelphia, Ark. A .311
column under Col. ’ _ J 43,,
Clayton .was also ‘ ' '
started from Pine
left, to take part in
Clayton‘s f o 1' cc
marched, towards
Camden, a fortified
town of the Con-
federates, south of
Arkadclphia. ,
Tho Confederate -:
general, Ste r li n g
Price, was at that
GEN. STEELE.
Arkansas , and
Steele was obliged to disperse his force before
. continuing on th'way to Shreveport, Price’s
army being between him and that city. A
considerable portion of this Confederate force
was at Camden with Price himself.
Steele waited at Arkadelphia two days for
Gen. Thayer, who did not come. Then he
pushed on southward towards Washington,
Ark. Ho intended to flank Price at Camden
and draw him out of his fortifications. April
' 10 Steele found that he had what he desired.
Price had come out from his fortifications at
Camden and was drawn up in battle line
across Steele‘s path. This was at, Prairie
d’Anue, not far from Washington.
By this time Thay’er had efiected‘ the
junction of his force with Steele. A battle
took place at Prairie d’Anne. Price fought 3
with his infantry and cavalry, Steele mostly
with his artillery; The artillery repelled a
chargo'of the Confederates; Price tried‘to
capture the guns after dark, but without
success.
The fight was a heavy one for the force on-
gaged, and lasted through a part of three
days, April 10, 11, 12. At- daybreak of the
12th Price made a strong effert to turn
Steele’s flank. It wasunsuccesful, and after
it the Confederates retreated, not to Camden,
where they had been before, but to Wash-
ington. . ’ -
Steele was left victor of the field of Prairie,
d’Annc.
But just at this time he received from spies
and prisoners the news that Banks had been
defeated at Camden. There was now no ob-
jectin his pursuing farther the march to ~-
' He turned Sharplyrouud from
Shreveport.
wards thhin'gton
to Camden. He
must now save him-
self, as the whole
Confederate forces
y. of Prico and Kirby
.375 Smith could be
, ’; uwd against him.
' j.’ The Confederates
had also heard of
Banks’ defeat and
hastened to inter-
cept Steele’s retreat
to Little Rfick'.
But he reached
C am d o n bcfore
them, except that near the town a Confeder-
utc cavalry force under Cabcll and Gen. J.
0. Shelby was encountered. Ptcpulsing these,
Steele entered the fortified town of Camden,
April 15,111: the some time that Banks was at
Grand Room on his retreat.
Thickly and more thickly the Confederates
closed in around Steele at Camden. They
were now released from duty on Red river,
and had leisure to attend to Steele.
They'bec‘ame constantly bolder. April 18
they captured one of Steele‘s forage trains.
April 23 an empty wagon train returning
under guard to Pine Bluff was attacked b
Shelby’s cavalry. The attack was repulsed’,
but next morning, April %, Fagan’s com-.
mand attacked the train again. Pagan had
6,000 men, and the whole 240 wagonaleth
czn. “JOE” snssnr.
their escort, fell into his hands,» Marks! ‘
'~'-‘—‘"— 339.111.1102. Mucky-“9“! 25° ‘ 1
mm or san's am‘rrros.
fourth of their whole number, had been
killed and wounded. Then they-surrendered;
Anatrocious feature of the surrender was
that all negroes with the .train were shot
dead by the victors. This was’the" custom in
the trans-Mississippiponfedeiuie division.
JENKINS FERRY, APRIL 30.
Steele ascertained that Kirby Smith with
his whole army was on the way to Camden.
It was necesary for Steeleto make hiaway
back to Little Rock with all haste, if indeed
.there was yet time.
Camden is on the left bank of the Washita.
April 28 Steele erased this» river, and re;
tested eastward towards the. Sabine river.
April 80 he had reachedJenkins Ferry, on
the Sabine. ~, He had escaped from Cauideri.
but he was not in time to escape Kirby
Smith. ' ' ' ’ -' r ' '
Part of Steele's 'comman'd hadalready
crossed the iatfine, lwhen the gonfedersj’e
armyovertoo tem,edb Smi in in.
it bloody battle followed;y It Wen
ours. '
Gen. S. A. Ricewas in immtdiate oom-'
-"-'-"-"-"~'It"‘.‘d€’.\1.'-Hex :.e.«.-. :- ~ ,, k 42-
17, from Grand Ecoro toAlexandria. How .
pursuit of Price to- ‘
and took the road ‘
chargeafia’vmes‘fbht w" are lib-fl~ Y
repulsed. It was a very desperate fight, 'At
first it was sustained by two brigades alone,
those that had not yet crossed the 11".
Then Gen. Rico brought Ieonfm
Once the Confederates broke the Union ,
but it was restored. The artillery could ’
be used and it wasamusket ball butt]; ~._ -'
At noon the Confederates gave up the
fight and withdrew. They had left 8,
men on that bloody field. The Mon force
lost I3'00.
- Steele’s force continued their Weary way
on to Little Rock, leavin behind on the bat»
tie field a burial 15mm tho Confeder-
ates took prisoner. tcelo was menaced, With
dangers behind and before. His horses were
without food and could not pull the _ over
the mirv roads, and the men th 1768 took,
hold. So they dragged slowly outcwards
Little Rock. Atleng'th May 2, foot sore.
rugged and half starved, they reached the
cit .
The Red River expedition, “undertaken as
a measure of state polio ,” was a failure. 2
that failure two- of Arkansas -
nearly all of Louisiana fell 52811131700911-
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HOUSATO-NIC. RAILROAD.
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Corrected February 4th, 1859.
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I". C. PAYNE, Superintendent.
A. W. Prams, General Passenger Agent.
New York, New Haven &
Hartfordj: Railroad.
DECEMBER 230, 1888.7
NE“! Your: DIVISION.
Trains leave South Norwalk as follows:—
For New York—Accommodation trains at
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. anywhere In New York or Its vicinity.
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. 11.10.1251,: a 19th, 1889.
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MANUFACTURED BY
ecu-71mm
ROYAL STARCH co.
new HAVEN‘OONN.
ALL USE
‘ ' PEARL’S.
FOR THE
COMPLEXIIIII IIIIII SKIN.
Boa-tiles; Whitman, Pal-Ines. Acknowl-
edged by Chemists to be the only preparationlsnown
thatwin‘ "retire ‘ innand " ‘ n11
- “ “‘ of the akin without injury.
Cures Chopped Hands and
Chafed Skin Instantly.
Cold at Drugglets'. Price, so cents.
‘-—~ - 7 7 surname
A BOON!“ ’ “IE“.
Vaginal
‘ "GABTBB'B
onlyfilthenaml suggestsbntnam
”.mteed. act-botticaom your
arugula. andtryit. It may-avenu-
wm'lnfiium la u send
to
Jim“ of price it zmnb'cchptly gar-5::
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T“. 01am: Hampton. Congo. 00.,
Geo. S. Gregory.
Livery, Boarding, Sale,
Feed and Exchange
Ss'tablem.
~.’-‘ 7
‘v
no. 14. naught s1.
(lnrear of Horse Car Depot),
NORWAIR, e CONN.
Carriages furnished at all hours.
tennon and gentlemauly drivers,
WANTED.
rrLss rorlrors 0N10NS,BUTTEB sees.
a E 200 ONS or rootrai AND
mm one ton actions. Wm pay cash or
sell on Commission. Our daily Market Reports
forwarded every day.
3- M. BALLARD &. 00..
Courteo
Merchants, _.
743 Myrtle 118.,BI‘IIIIIIIII,'N. Y.
Middlesex Banking company.
0F MIDDLETOWN, CONN.
Organized under charter from the State of Con-
’ necticut; capital $500,000.
'6 per cent. Investment Bonds at Par and Accrued
' - Interest.
B. CRAUFUBD, Agent,
Room 2 Masonic Building.
General Produce Commission,
WHITE GLveEnmE'
INDIAN EDUCATION.
Commissioner Oberly Thinks It Should Be
Compulsory.
There is still a difference in opinion in some l
states regarding the advisability of compul— 1
sory education, but it would seem that there
could be no dissent from Indian Commissioner
Oberly’s conclusion that compulsory educa-
tion is necessary for the Indians. In many
clues Indian parents have shown themselves
honestly dasirous of promoting the welfare
of their children. The Indian is beginning
torealize the fact that he must “learn the
white man’s ways,” or perish from the face
of the earth, but it is still necessary to reckon
with a vast mass of prejudice, ignorance and
inherited preferences. In other words, it' is
inevitable that many of the Indians should
be treated more or less like children, and com—
pelled to take medicine necessary and helpful,
but unpalatable. This education, as Mr.
Oberly well says. should be on those princi-
ples of compulsion which are recognized as
legitimate in the free commonwealths, and
which, while requiring the Indian to be edu-
cated for civilized life and self support, leave
with his parents the liberty to choose be-
tween the government and the private school,
so long as the latter conforms to the proper
standards. The sensible recommendations
are made that the standards should be
uniform, and that tho oliiciul tenure of the
teachers should be permanent, and removals
made only for inefficiency and other unfit-
ucss.
It is certainly true that the lndiau must be
taught how to labor, and also that it is his
duty to work. ’l‘hismcuns that the schools
shouldincludo manual training in their cur-
riculum, and the children should be in-
structed in the use of agricultural imple-
ments, the carpenter’s saw and plane, the
stone mason’s trowel, the tailor’s needle and
the shoemakcr’s owl. The enervating com-
munism of the reservation system cannot be
allowed to continue much longer; and with
the allotment of land in scveralty there will
com-c an immediate incentive to work, and
this must he made intelligent. “If the In-
dian will not learn,” says Mr. Oborlcy, “if he
will continue to persist in saying, 'I am con-
tent—let me alone,’ then the guardian must
act for the ward, and do for him the good
service that he denounces as a bad service.
The government must thus, in duty to the
public, compel the Indian to come out from
his isolation into the civil‘mcd way that he
does not desire to cuter, into citizenship, and
into ussimilationwith the masses of the re-
public. ”—l-‘rank Leslie’s Newspaper.
Making Golx'l Throne. 7
The silver is brought from the Bank of
England in cakes weighing about 1,000
ounces. To secure the necessary degree of
tenacity a certain proportion of copper is
added, and the alloyed metal, in the 'form of
cylindrical bars, is next thoroughly heated.
The hammering process follows, and the bars,
originally about two feet in length and two
inches in diameter, but now half as long
again and proportionately thinner, arc in
the next place filed and rubbed until their
surfaces are perfectly even. “That we may
call the second part of the process begins with
the laying on of leaf after loaf of gold in the
proportion of '2 per cent. Afterward each
bar is wrapped in paper and well heated in a
charcoll fire. A sort of vise stands ready,
and in it, bar after bar as it comes from the
fire, is fixed and thoroughly burnished. All
trace of its silver original has now disap-
peared, and the bar is ready for conversion
into wire. This is accomplished by drawing
is from 100 to 150 times through over dimin-
ishing holes in steel plates; and finally, when
the capabilities of this metal have beencx-
hausted, through apertures in diamonds, ru-
bies or sapphires. .
The delicate wire thus obtained must" now
be passed through the steel rollers of one of
Herr Krupp’s little “fiatting mills.” This
brings us to the final process—the spinning
of the flattened wire round silk, to form the
golden thread of commerce. These spinning
machines are worked by water, although two
steam engines are to be found in the factory;
for water power is considered to be more reg-
ular and even in its action. There is a small
home demand for the round wire for the
adornment of cpaulets, etc; but thc bulk of
the manufactured article finds its way in the
shape of silky gold thread to India and the
far east generally, where it is converted by
skilled native labor into those gorgeous
cloths and tissues in which the heart of the
Oriental delights. What a wonderful prop-
erty does gold possess in its malleabilityl It
is asserted that every ounce of the bars whose
fortunes we have followed with no little in-
tercst, each containing only 2 per cent. of
gold, will run to the length of from 500
yards to 2,500 yards, and the amazing figure
of 5,000 yards is on record. This latter thread
would be finer than human hair, but l(ho ex-
treme limit is not even yet reached—Cham-
bers’ J onrnsl.
A Tm’incd Goat.
A traveler in the Holy Land, says Mr.
Holder, was one day ficpped on the road by
an Arab, who said he wanted to showhim
. how his trained goat performed. The trav-
eler, nothing loath at being entertained where
such a. novelty was hardly to be expected,
expressed his willingness and tho perform-
ance commenced.
The Arab dismounted from a miserable
donkey, spread a small carpet upon the
ground and called up a demure looking goat
that had been following behind. From a
bag the man first took a number of blocks,
six inches long, cylindrical in shape and two
inches across the top and placed four upon
the carpet at a small distance apart. The
goat immediately stepped upon them, care
fully putting a foot upon each block. Now
the Arab placedin his mouth a small reed
musical instrument and began to drone a
monotonous air that was evidently appre-
ciated by the goat, as it pricked up its cars
and assumed a position of deep attention.
Without stopping his music the Arab then
lifted one of the goats fore feet and slipped
under it another cylinder, and repeated the
operation under all its hoofs. In this way
the goat was gradually lifted until finally the
pillars of wood were four feet from the ground,
the patient animal preserving its balance per-
fectly and appearing as if standing on stilts.
That the music, if it could be called music,
"was an important factor in this performance
was very evident, for the moment it ceased
the goat began to waver and tremble; but
upon the strains being revived the animal
seemed to acquire fresh confidence. When
the music entirely ceased it toppled over and
fell to the ground.
The next trick, if we may so term it, was
to build up the columns in an uneven manner,
so that finally they were removed from under
the fore feet, the animal standing upon its
hind legs on the pillars' , three feet in height.
—Philadelphia Times.
The Only Objection.
A certain politician holding office nowin
Wasth' 11 comes from Gilead —, and he
is proud of his native town. It is told of
him that on one occasion a visiting clergyman
preached in the village church, and during
the course of his remarks he exclaimed: “Is
there no balmin Gilead?” Mr. Blank jumped
to his feet at once. “Of course there is,” he
sung out to the horror of the congregation;
“but you can’t get it on Sunday.”-Washmg~
ton Critic.
" ' "HOWWTTTARTE‘DZT
I:
he Account a“: Two Serious Disaster!
5 which came Without Warning-now
to Keep Out of the Pit of Danger.
~. Mr. Wflllam z. Coulton, of Worcester, Muse.
walked rapidly to catch a train, thus getting
into a perspiration. and carelessly sat in a
draught after the train had started. The next
day he was in bed with physicians attendina
him. and the third day he died.
‘ . .. Mrs. Frederick Mun.
ton, residing on Com-
monwealth Avenue
Boston, contracted a
severe cold while at-
tending an evening
7/; reception, which so
6, impaired her health
fi % 4that she never ref
’x . covered from it,-
3‘ - . am eficcts.
The reader says these were only colds! Very
true. But do you not know t x
at nearly all
known diseases start from colds?
They are
slight beginnings, but how frightful their end-
ing! It is only a slight cold, but it goes to. the
lungs and causes pneumonia and consumption;
only acold that flies to the heart and causes
instant death; on] a cold that settles in the
kidneys, liver an bladder, and brings final
death. with lingering agony. No man ever died
of kldne or b adder disease who did not first
take col ; no woman ever become a confirmed
invalid who could not trace Its origin to a cold.
Such being the terrible truth. the necessity of
guarding these first beginnings In time must be
plain to all.
Dr. Gardiner, of the American Medical Col-
loge, recentl said: " While most colds go
direct to the idneys
or bladder, I have
never known a case
where if taken in
time, by the prepa~
ration known as
Hunt's Remedy.
they could not be
urcd and expelled
tom the system.
But. wherethe cold ' Ii n
is allowed to linger, I. ‘ f . I’l'r‘
inmostcascaitrc- f I/ ]/
suits in continued . u ..
ill health or, death.
This great Remedy is superior to anything now
known to doctors or medical institutions for
the cure of kidney or bladder diseases or for
female troubles, and I endorse it most
heartily.“ , 3
, The dan er of small bcgmnm s are too often
overlooke . Take them in time Use the right
1943ch and only such remedy as has been
endorsed by the highest authorities and has
proven its worth by years of popularity.
The Handsomest Lady in Norwalk.
Remarkcd to a friend the other day that
she knewKemp’s Balsam for the throat
and-lungs was a superior remedy, as it
stopped her cough instantly when other
remedies-had no effect whatever. So to
preve this andconvince you of no merit
any druggist will give you a sample bot
tie free. Lapse size 50c. and $1.
a“ ._.. -W .75.?" 3....-,
mm --z:- 7—, ._
YOUTH "and 3mm
, Can be Obtained
av uemo.
GLINTIlII’S
WITCHHAZEL
——...
don in the
suns”...
iLIIimpulritIcl féomlil: again» In
III e a O
’ Flesh “or-nu and all...
Burn. gives the complexion a freshman and maniac.
which cannot be obtained by an other, even b the dangerous-col
arsenic. It Is unequaled as a stiller of a handiilnflnln'the
skin and makingltaoft, clear and white. Witch Hazel oil-t Clo-m
Is not a paint or powder to cover up the im rifles of the skill.
but a gamedy that heals perfectly and converts e some to enviable
beantv. Price of 1:1:1 box 96:. For Sale BY ALL DRUGGYS’I‘S.
VII'I'GII IIAIEI. TRACT GO. GLIIITIIIVIU.‘ “II.
A few months ago I commenced to use F; F. 1".
Nos. 1 and 2. for baldness on the crown of my
head. The spot 13 all haired over, and looks as
good as the rest of my head. I am very much
pleased, and would highly recommend It to {any
One who Is bald or wants thicker hair.
F. 15.,COLEBIAN, Engineer, 18 Park Row. '
Fechter’s Famous {5,2 {imam
FAI R I GO" Doesnotcontalnan'
poisonous (nor-eat
_ cute or meta
It will surely bring about anewgrowthcfhair unless
the roots are entirely dried up, which occurs-in not
morc’thant dillvehacases cum hundred. Cases of m
years 8 an ' b .
Ila to can H II
$I.ooo REWARD mruunr
summon Nos. 1 and a, price a. per
heads entirelyorpartially bald. No. .gpflfl750fllfl
per bottle manvaluablo as a woman. Infill
renew the growth of hair that is falling out, keep it
mooth anal glossy and. remove all dandruff. Special
course of treatment $0.0. solicited.
F. F. F. istorsnlebyalldruggisborwinbclentby
us on receipt ofprice. Send for history of the remedy
and genuine testimonials n-omthcae who have usedit.
Got this out and send to some bald-headed friend.
FECIITEB REMEDY 00., NEWHAVBN, CT.
Ilse Fulrleen Tar Soup for Toilet, Ball and Nursery.
it Is Pearle-I for the Complexion, Chopped lind- or Ito-3h akin.
For Sale at II. R. Hale’s Drug Store.
THE HEAT V
'German Remedy.
Imums Flili THE sci?
For those death] Ladies in delicate
Bihous Spells, dc- calih, who are all
end on. SCI. ndown,shoulduse
xrruns, it will our ULruun Drums.
Operatives whoarc
closely confined in Cleanse the vitiated
X the mills and work. . 109d when you see x
shops; Clerks, who Is Impurities burst-
do not procure suf- 'ng through the skin
flclent excreme, and ' Pimplcs,Blotches,
all whoare confined d Sores. Rely on
in doors, should use 17er mans,
SULrnuI: mums. nd health will fol-
They Will not then ow. '
.be weak and sickly. -————
‘ —————z—— SULPHUR Brr'rnns
General chility will cure Liver Com-
needs agentle tonic faint. D9n’t_bedis-
Use SULPHUR Brr. couragedutwfllcure
runs, and you w on.
not be troubled.
X
X
__
—— SULPHUR Ems.
Don't be without a brill build youup and
bottle. Try it; you makeyou strong and .
willnot regret it. Ihealthy. "
Sulphur Bitters.
sus-
Send two 3c. stamps to A. I’. 0rdway&Cc.
Lawrence, Mass, and receive anelcgnnt set 0
Fancy Cards free. _
erere will learn 0
l l LE 8 remedy Figure by addressin
11
Turns: a: 00., 78 Nessa treat, New YorECiU-
ALL DIIUGGIS'I‘S. Iy44
Instant relief. Final cure in 10
days and never returns. No
gu e, no salve, no suppository.
a simp e
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS. 1m.
Uriai’r‘aE‘stUicua.
Wei-ranted absolutely pure
Cocoa, from which the excess d
Oil has been removed. It has more
than three times the strength
of Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrow.
root or Sugar. and is therefore far
more economiul, costing less than
' one cent a cup. It is delicious,
, nourishing. strengthening. casilydi-
gested. and admirably adapted for in-
valxds' aswellasforpersonsinhealth.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
W. BIKER & 00., 1101011331313 HE,
0F PRCGIIESS!
s-Sl I M PROVEM ENTS
union In K heIii‘uoftrndc,”audifyou
s. scan uni-latest improved goods, you cannot
c how lively tmdc is, or how hard out competi—
to work to keep within sight of us.
your retailcx fur the Juxucs Mo 13' 53 Shoe, or
‘ - s' 54 Shoe, accordin, to your needs.
Iuiue unless having our name
on the solcs. Yourrernilcr
is so stnmprd if you insist
nut insist, some retailers
...1‘crier shoes upon which
UNEXCELLED
‘ STYLE UNEDUALLEIJ
__ m DURABILITY
e- mm «=—
> ERFECTION
a: -
Such has been the rccev-I nregrcss in. on:
Industry that we are now nblc In allirm that
Meuns‘ 54 Shoe is in every rcspcct equal Io
which only a few years ago were retailer] of or.
ten dollars. If on will try on a pair you “all
vinced that we 0 not cxaucormr-. '
Ours arclheoriginnl 53:11:11 34 success! .. out" \
Imitate oursystcm of ImsIm-ss :zrn- unable to on. 3 .4
with us in quality of factory prmIm-Is.
In our lines wuurc the largest 111a1111fizcilln'1‘s In ‘
United States.
Shoes from our celebrated mam-v -- :- wt
by wide-awake retailers in all p i
country. We will place them easilv .u '
reach in any state or territory if you “-1.1 . .. '
cent in a postal card and write to us.
James Means & Co.,4l Lincoln 82.. Boston, ‘
A. H. nor-r & son-P.
Gm-IS 37 Wall 3L, IIIIIWBIII, CI.
For Sale at a. Sacrifice.
VVllI be sold It‘applicd for soon,
TEN ROOM COTTAGE.
within five minutes walk of the
bridge, with never failing well of
excellent water, and a cistern
holding three hundred hogs-
heads, for laundry purposes
all modern improvements
conveniences, etc. Cost
owner $58,000, and
will be sold for
$5,000 with only
$1,500 down.
to satisfac-
tory party.
1m33 Enquireat GAZETTE OFFICE.
Cho1ce
BUILDING LOTS
(0N INSTALLMENT PLAN.)
FOR ,SALE
0n Wilton Avenue
-—AND—
San Sous/i Plot.
APPLY TO
A. ll. BYINGTON,
GAZETTE OFFICE.
Norwalk Chronicler