‘ NORWALK GAZETTE. ESTABLISHED 1800 VOLUME LXXXIX. Norma/k Gazette. TERMS OF SIIBSIHIIPTIIIH. 12.62:;r Two Dollars per year, in advance-1m RATES FOR ADVERTISING MID JIIB PBIITIIG Furnished on application at the Office. Ordinary and transient advs., 1 inch, 1 Week, $1.00 Each subsequent insertion, up to 4 times, 50 Half incn, half of above rates. One column, ordinary adv., one time, - One column, reading matter, one time, _ LOCALS in reading matter columns, per line. Births, Marriages and Deaths inserted free. Advertising of Funeral Notices, - - 1._00 Liberal terms to yearly and half-yearly advertis- ers, and ten per cent. discount on all advs. pre- paid for three months or over. THE GAZETTE JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT is equipped with the best iacilitles for turning out First Class Work of every description. . All orders for Printing. Engraving and Book Binding, execu- ted promptly, and will be as well and reasonably done as anywhere. 15.00 25.00 .20 LOCAL ITEJIIS. Danbury fair this week. “Joker” Russell is a driver on the horse railway. 001. F. St. John Lockwoodis threatened with pneumonia. The Episcopal Convention is holding its session in New York. The South N orwalk post-office is now lighted by electricity. "The Y. P. s. o. E. of the Baptistchurch will elect officers Friday evening. The old “elephant barn” has been torn down and removed to Winnipauk. A son was born 0) Mr. and Mrs. Her- man Monsell, of Rowayton, Monday. The N. Y. N. H.& H. railroad company issued a new time table last Monday. The Republicans are now sure of 169 votes in the House of Representatives. Several Norwalk trotters are entered for the races at the Danbury fair, this week. Frank Robinson, a carpenter, died in South Norwalk, Saturday, aged 49 years. Mr. William G. Temple, of Brooklyn, was in town visiting friends Saturday and Sunday. Attorney Seymour celebrated a rather advanced birthday, last week, for one so . youthful looking as he. Mr. Norris Clark and wife, of Washing- ton, D. C., are the guests of Wm. Acker on Orchard street, this week. Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley, the humorists, are booked to appear in Bridgeport early in November. The democratic ticket peddlers com- plain that Monday’s election was the dry- est one they ever experienced. Wm. Daskam has been promoted fr0m fireman to engineer on the D. and N. branch of the Housatonic railroad. Miss Julia Lockwood and maid, are guests at the Fitli Avenue hotel, where they expect to remain about a week. Miss Jennie Dunlap formerly instructress in literature in Wellsley College will lec- ture in Mrs. Mead’s School in October. Progress is progressing in the South. The Georgia legislature resolutely refused to adjourn in order to attend the circus. a The best friends the Democratic party has in the great west are the Saints in Utah and the half-breeds in New Mexico. The Housatonic railroad will run draw- ug room cars from Bridgeport to the llanbury fair to-day, to-morrow and Fri— day. There is a grave social objection to electric street railways. It is almost im- ossible to keep their conductors from parking. John Brennan, an inmate of the alms— ouse at Shamokin, Pa., becomes the heir 0 $2,000,000 by the death of a widowed ister in California. We are pained to learn, as we go to ress, that Mr. Benjamin Barraclough is ing seriously, and it is feared fatally, ill t his home in Brooklyn. Miss Lila Willis, of New .York city, .prano soloist and teacher of vocal music .mmcnccd vocal instructions at Mrs. ead’s Hillside school, yesterday. Charles Prowitt, of Denver, 001., is siting his brother, J. Thornton Prowitt. Charley” will be remembered as a former oprietor of the “corner drug store.” Among the Knights Templar who eat on the pilgrimage to Washington on onday were several Norwalkers who company Hamilton Commandery of ridgeport. Albert McGinnis, superintendent at the oyt & Olmstead cigar manufactory, and iss Edith Linderberger, of South Nor: .: 1k, were married last week by Rev. in Hallock. Maury Sims, son of Col. R. M. Sims, of nth Carolina, who brought in at Appo- ttox the famous flag of truce from Gen- al Lee to” General Grant, is in Boston, 0 guest of Herbert E. Hill. Officer Charles Planz of New Milford csted “Danbury Jack” and wife here, day, (Tuesday,) and took them to New lford, on charge of “holding up” a man that town, a few nights since. ' A lady entered. The First Congregational church has extended a unanimous call to Rev. Dr. , Noble, of Washington, to become its pastor, at a salary of $3,000 per year and parsonage. The slums of New York gave Congress and American politics John Morrissey, will the slums of Boston give them John L. Sullivan ? In other words, will the Democratic party repeat itself ? Johnny had been carefully raised ; any- body could see that. One day he sat upon his father’s knee in a crowded street car. “Madame,” he said, as he rose to his feet, “take my seat.” The effectiveness of the boomerang as a weapon of warfare is most unmistakably illustrated when it comes back with such tremendous force as to knock the throw- er so pitifully deep into the soup as it did on Monday. Ben Bechtel, who carried the flag of Buckingham Post, G. A. R., in the Strat- ford parade on Thursday, was the color bearer in the 72d Pensylvania regiment in the war, and a flying shell struck him down with his colors in his hands. Henry Russell’s song, “A Life on the Ocean Wave,” has been adopted as the royal march of Britain’s marines. Mr. Russell resides in London, and is now a very old man. He is the father of W. Clark Russell, the sea story writer. Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Hall removed to New York October lst, and will reside at 301 West 57th street. Mr. Hall finds this necessary on account of his large clientele in New York. He will be in Bridgeport two or three days a week to accommodate his pupils there. . It is announced that the Rev. T. B. Cunz, late Professor of German in the J ohnstown High School,who lost his fam- ily and property in the Johnstown flood, Will lecture on the catastrophe in the Con- gregational church, South Norwalk, this (Tuesday) evening. Rev. Dr. Burchard, he of “Rum, Ro- manism and Rebellion” fame. is a candi- date for the pastorate of the Presbyterian ~church at Hempstead, Long Island. The doctor has a habit of getting to the front at just about the time the public has ceased to think of him. Robert Ray Hamilton has had the good sense to press the suit for the annulment of his marriage. He can never recover from the blow his folly has dealt to his reputation, but his example will be a gOUd warning to others who. are tempted to make fools of themselves. Lenox, the paradise of society idlers, has been feting Comte Jean dc Madre for several weeks, and society circles were greatly moved when his intention to leave the town for a few days was frustrated by the detention of his trunks for board apd an unpaid livery bill of $11. '9’. Plumber Burritt has commenced the cellar on his lot purchased in rear of the Bailey cottage on the Morgan property. Lumberman Horace Hubbell has pur- chased a lot on this beautiful plot, on the opposite side of the roadway, and expects to erect a residence thereon. A colored girl attending church at Goochlaud Court House, Va., was over- come by religious excitement, and, draw- ing a razor, said she was going to kill the devil. As soon as she made this an- nouncemeut every other person in the church, believing himself to be in danger, ran away. William F. Taylor, aged 65, of Dan- bury, a prominent member of the Fair— field county bar, died suddenly Friday. He was a democrat and represented Dan- bury in the General Assembly. He was also nominee for Congress the election preceding the one in which the late W. H. Barnum was chosen. The Bridgeport News has a sea captain who laid a sea serpent yarn on the editor’s table on Saturday, according to which a snake fifty feet long and “about as round as an 8 inch stove pipe” was seen ofi’ Black Rock. The captain went to the polls the first thing Monday morning and voted the prohibition amendment. Lewis, the eldest son of Mr. Frank L. Olmstead, of West Norwalk, went coon hunting, Saturday night, and, in crossing afield, stumbled and fell, and his shot gun was discharged into his left arm, shattering the limb so badly as to ne- cessitate amputation, which was done Sunday morning. Mrs. Phila Delphia: “It seems to me those Smith girls are dressing very ex- travagantly this fall. I don’t see how it is done. Their father is nothing but a news paper reporter.” Miss Phila Delphia : “Ma, you forget. Their pa was a reporter, but he is now the Circulation liar.” Mr. George H. Raymond, the furniture dealer, will occupy the large building erected by Mr. William E. Dann, on Main street, on December 1st, and will conduct a wholesale and retail furniture business there. He has also taken a five years’ lease on the building, the lease to corn- mence on the first of next April. Artist Whitney, when he was the town’s J only photographer, took a small card picture of Connecticut’s venerable and devout Bishop Williams. He has just had this photograph enlarged to a superb crayon picture of wonderful fidelity to the living original. ' Miss Kitty Hoyt, daughter of Mr. Gould Hoyt, and who is a student at the Oswego Normal School, has been serious- ly ill there, but is now reported better. Miss Lucy, another daughter, who has been quite ill at her home on Prospect avenue, is also convalescent. The greatest known depth of the sea is in the South Atlantic Ocean, midway between the island of Tristan d’Acunlia and the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. ‘The bottom was there reached at depth of 40,236 feet, or eight and three-quarter miles, exceeding by more than 17,000 feet, the height of Mount Everest, the loftiest mountain in the world. A New Haven church entertainment sc- ciety has brought out an entirely new method of mutual introduction. The so- ciety paid a return visit to another organi- zation Monday evening, and on the cloth- ing of each person present was a tag hear. ing the wearer’s name, and all were given to vnderstand that no introductions were necessary. Mr. George W. Childs is always doing some good act. His public spirit is only equalled by his personal generosity. The portraits of Grant, Sheridan and Sherman which he gave to the United States Mili- taryAcademy at West Point are admirable additions to that great institution, and their formal presentation was an event of great enjoyment to a distinguished assem- blage. The English language was used in open- ing an international congress, last week, for the first time in history. French is the diplomatic language of Europe, and it has been hitherto uniformly used in such gatherings. English and Spanish will will divide the sessions of the present congress, and the two tongues are spoken more widely than any others on the globe. _Barnum and Bailey’s circus went into winter quarters at Bridgeport Monday. The performers were dismissed at Altoona until they receive the summons to go to EurOpe. The animals reached Bridge- port in good condition. During the rail- road journey one of the ponies gave birth toa colt. Both reached Bridgeport all right, one of the employcs stating that the colt rode part of the way in a Saratoga trunk. The use of the same name for a state and the capital of the United States is alreadya prolific source of confusion.— Washington Post. In the judgment of some of the most eminent business men and statesmen of the west, Congress made a grave error in not christening the new territory in honor of the highest mountain of this hemis- phere, Tacoma, instead of Washington, which can only and always produce “confusion” especially in the postal ser- vice. As it is now admitted to the full sisterhood of states its citiZens can now change its congressmen, if they choose. 1n the list of medals and prizes, an- nounced by President Carnot at the Paris Exposition, Sunday, several Connecticut industries come in for a share. Gold medals were awarded to the Colt’s fire arms exhibit. and the American Writing Machine company’s display. Beside these the Winchester Repeating Arms company of New Haven takes a grand prize, and the Yale Manufacturing company of Stamford, the Meriden Britannia company and the Union Metallic Cartridge com- pany of Bridgeport, receive gold medals. The friends of the Constitutional Amend- ment are justly indignant atthe selection of so active and pronounced partisans of the rum interest as keepers of the Prohib- ition and Anti-Prohibition ballot-box at the Town House. The indecency of the conduct of one of the parties in trying to coax and coerce voters to cast a ballot against the Amendment, was brought to the attention of the parties in charge of the election, but as our temperance friends say, without rebuke or securing any change in the offensive conduct of the box keeper. ' Charles Pratt, confidential book-keeper, secretary and cashier of the H. Wales Lines 00., of Meriden, was arrested Wed- nesday evening for embezzlement, and Friday morning at a preliminary hearing was held under $4000 for two weeks and failed to secure bonds. His embezzle- ment amounts to $10,000, covers various periods since 1882, and was accomplished by false entries, made principally in the pay-rolls. Pratt confessed in these words: “It is the same old story of living beyond one’s means. I am a thief.” Hehas been prominent in the social and religious life of the city, which rendered the shock to his circle of friends and the community only the greater. He held the offices of alderman, treasurer of the First church and was an ofiicer in many local organiza- tions. He received an ample salary, but he lived extravagently and dealt consider- ably in bucket shops. President Lines has treated him with great leniency out of regard for his wife and daughter. .13 apparently a bright scholar. An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests. NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1889. Ladies’ entertainment at the Methodist chvreh, this Wednesday evening. For the first time in its history, the Yale Law school now numbers among its pupils an Indian. He is an educated fellow,and Among the students who have entered the school this term, is an Italian, the first of the sons of sunny Italy to enter this institution. His name is Signor Paul Russo, and he has been employed as court interpreter in New Haven for several years. Thursday morning a trump picked up in front of the Boston Store, a roll of flannel shirting worth about $15 and walked off with it. The proprietor was informed of the matter, and he sent two of the; clerks in pursuit of him. They captured him in a saloon on Water street, and with the assistance of Sheriff Toner he waslanded in the lockup. The next morning he was brought before Judge Selleck, and gave his name as John Roe, of West Virginia. He was fined $7 and costs. Having no funds he was sent to Bridgeport. Clark Universm was dedicated at Worcester,'Mass., on Tuesday, will dif- fer in‘ important particulars from any other. It will have no faculty and no set curriculum, but individual departments of instruction and investigation instead. The usual diversion of studies into schools, under the titles of arts, science, law, and medicine, will be ignored, though the studies of all these will be included in the instruction provided. The main intent and scope of the university is to furnish schools'fifor all-round investigation. Its plan has been carefully thought out by Prof. G. Stanley Hall, late of JOh n Hop- kins. »‘ Frank flatten, late Ex-P. M. General and now editor of the Washington Post states the truth anent civil service law in the follow. ing blunt way:- The whole thing was brought forth in political cowardice and hypocrisy. Neither party is honestly in favor of it. Men of all parties damn it. Republican members of Congress are to-day telling their constituents as an excuse for not carrying out pledges made before the election" that they cannot help it. That it is because of. the civil ser- vice aw. If these men are not lying to their nstituents they will refuse to vote money to lenger continue this fraud, which they are constantly damning. Their con- tsituents have made up their minds to find out if they are honest in their expressions of disapproval of the fraud. The test will be made at the coming session of Congress. Ex-l’ostmaster-General James, in the October Forum, and ex-Postmaster-Gen- eral Dickinson, in the October North Am- erican Renfew, writes in detail of reforms which they deem necessary to the postal service. Wherefore the New York World pertinently suggests that with two such cxperts’pleading for radical changes it is difficult to doubt that such changes are needed, particularly when we refiéct that a system covering 403,976 miles of mail routes, costing $67,000,000 annually and employing 60,000 postmasters and 170,000 persons, is conducted under laws which have not been altered in any substantial way for a hundred years, and which were framed for the management of a business smaller than that of a single ofiice in any second-rate city today. Our reverend and revered fellow towns- man, Rev. S. B. S. Bissell, had a narrow escape from a most serious injury while on a visit to a friend’s house in Redding last Wednesday evening. He was passing up stairs to retire for the night, and when at the top of the flight, in to him, some unaccountable way, but doubtless owing to his blindness, he turned about and stepped off the first stair. losing his bal- lance and falling down the flight of fifteen steps to the floor below. Strangely enough, while badly shaken up and his hip severely bruised, he received no ser- ious injury. Our older readers will recall the fact that his venerated father, Clark Bissell, when at about the same age, had a similar fall down the rear stairs of the Bissell mansion and from which he never recovered. These duplication of acci- dents are not to be so attributable to he- redity as to the fact that history oftimes repeats itself. It is a matter for congrat- ulation and rejoicing that our venerable friend escaped all serious harm. Aracy summer letter from Litchfleld, sent us during our absence, contains the following well deserved commendatory notice of Miss Sara Smith’s new school at that historic seat of learning: A new school for girls has been started in Litchfield, which deserves to succeed since it promises to be a truly home school, Where one can trust their daugh- ters to be cared for intelligently in body and mind. This Lake View Hall is on the beautiful South street adjoining the historic Oliver Wolcott house now owned by lonel Sanford of the U. S. army, and just elow the residence of J ud ge Andrews. Two pleasant houses, with large cheerful nicely furnished rooms, will not seem the dreaded boarding school which one pic- tures as they think of sending homesick daughters from under the home-roof. One would imagine that even in winter the girls might find Litchficld charming, and that there might be as famous a school reputation in its future as in the past when Judges Gould and Reeve had their law school here, and Miss Pierce her school for girls. Chief Lockwood, accompanied by Bur- gess Sloan, raided a barn on Hoyt street last Sunday where a gang of boys were in the habit of playing cards. As the ofli- cials approached the barn, the young gamblers made rediculoue efforts to escape without exposing their identity, but it was of no use and the name of each boy was taken for future reference as he jumped from the loft. They were kids averring about 15 years of age, and well connected. It is now currently announced that our friend Keelcr is going to heal his wounds of defeat for Borough warden, by going in for the presidency of the reorganized Fairfield County Bank, in January, and that Warden Coolidge is to anodyne his reluctant withdrawal from the mayoralty by running next year for State Senator. We hope this is true, for all that friend . Coolidge needs to do to make himself the most popular man in this Senatorial dis- trict is to induce the rest of the people to view him as he views himself. The following statistics respecting Con- necticut will interest readers :—The per- ' centage of lands in this state not in farms is 2.09; of productive land 53.0; of wood- land, 20.8; of productive farm area, 5.3. The tillage is 30.6; grass lands, 36.3; woodland, 26.4; unproductive, 6.7. In 1888 there were 18 acres of corn to each 1,000 acres of land surface, or 5,977 acres; one acre of wheat to each 1,000 acres of land surface, or 2,149 acres; and 13 acres of oats to each 1,000 acres of land surface, or 39,811 acres. The average yield of corn per acre was 29.7; of wheat, 1.7 ; of cats, 28.2. The value of horses per head is $81.23; of cattle, $21.83; of milch cows, $32.2; of sheep, $3.47; of swine, $9.98. The proportion of rural to total pepulation is 18. The average value of land per acre is $49.35. There are 30,598 farms, of which 89.8 are cultivated by owners, 6.3 by tennant money rental, and 3.9 on shares. The Chicago Herald, hitherto the most zealous of all the western supporters of Mr. Cleveland, has experienced a sudden change. While still conceding “the in- tegrity, the high purpose, and the excel- lent tone of the Cleveland administration,” it has now come to the conclusion that “in the administration of Grover Cleveland there was too much Cleveland and too lit- tle Democracy. There was too much aristocracy and too little Democracy. There was too much of a disposition to consult the wishes of Republicans and to ignore the wishes of Democrats. There were too many apologies, too much hu- mility, too much sensitivcness to Mug- wump criticism, too many antechambers, too many lackeys, and too many card bearers. It honored and it discredited Democrats at one and the same time. It called into places of great conspicuity some of the foremost donkeys of the age. It left in retirement the heroes of a party which, even in defeat, never faltered in its devotion to principle, and which, in vie- tory, deserved from its own creatures something better than derision and ne- glect.” This is one of the most notable Democratic deliverances of the year. The Herald was regarded as unalterably and everlastingly for Cleveland. It is an out. and-out free trade paper and has given Cleveland unbounded praise for his al- leged courage in facing the tariff fight. Our owu republican administration may possibly learn wisdom from this criticism of the converted Chicago Herald. —Messrs. \V. B. Hall & Co., of Bridge- port, with their new room, elevator and new stock are under full headway with the fall trade. The Standard thus speaks of them:——The season, though trifle unpleas- ant as to weather, has been in all other re spects auspicious for W. B. Hall & Co. They sell about as many goods when winds beat and rains fall as when the sun smiles. This may appear as an incredulity without explanation, and the reason such is the case is the known clockwork regularity with which this firm conducts business. As in the zodiacal world, so with them, the days, the months, and the four seasons have cer- tain features which call for the transactions of certain things. Thus when Summer opens, the shelves and counters are found loaded with all the ladies hOpe .for in the fair season. If its beginning is unpropitious, all the same, the lines of goods are obtained, placed on view and offered for sale, and if the Summer ends with any considerablevol- ume of them unsold, away they go at final price, medium or low, any figure to dispose of them, to make space for Autumn. The last named season is here, and the visitor is not. only ushered into a store for all practi- cal purposes new but embellished with a . prodigious full stock, which. while it is in- viting, may foo causes emanating from con- ditions of weather, lay over in December, in which case the usual sacrifice of the whole businesa at low prices will be made, to move the stock out of sight. These repeated oper- ations for seasons seem to change and meet each other, as it were, oftener as we grow older, now and then result in an accumula- tion, the value of which manifests itself a month or two after the holidays, and then the firm come to the front with their red ticket arrangement, which hos hitherto and probably always will result in a complete clearing out of the store’s conflnts. Just now the shopper may find all the splendors of all the markets of the world’s dry goods are well aggregated, and offered low. There is no article a lady wants that cannot in this firm’s store be found on call, from a five cent handkerchief to the $800 Persian shawl. Right here should be stated that in the line of dress silks, since the admiradle chtnges in the store’s interior, the display is complete, and the qualities and the prices just what they should be. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR NUMBER 41. James Henry :Iont has purchase the Water street liquor store of Alonzo Kelly, with whom he has for some years been connected. “Hen" has a host of friends in town and it is not likely that the busi- ness will retrograde under his proprietor- ship. Seth Twambley, the engineer of the wrecked train on the Rock Island road, confesses that he was drunk. Here is a man destined to imprisonment and dis- grace, not that he was a villain, or had it in his heart to do any man harm, or to in- jure the people under his care. He will be punished, not for murder, but because be exercised his legal right to make him- self the irresponSible agent of alcohol; in other words, for being drunk on duty. Y. M. C. A. Book Receptions. It has been the custom of the Norwalk Y. M. C. A. to hald an annual book recep- tion for the book reception for the benefit of the library. As a result of these gath- erings the Y. M. C. A. has now an excel- lent library of four hundred well selected books. The third annual will be held on Tuesday evening, October 15, and all friends of the assocmtion are invited to attend bringing with them some interest- ing book, or, if more convenient, a volun- tary offering of money for the library can be deposited in the box at the door. It is the aim of the committee in charge to make this reception the beginning of a. series of enjoyable social gatherings to be held at intervalsfiduring the season. A plessmg musical and literary programme will be provided for Tuesday evening. Contributed. , I took a longer ramble than common this week, my brother-in-law on his bicy- cle and yours truly in one of Bill Dann’s carriages. After going about five miles N. W. by W. due W. we struck what seemed to have been a village. There was one horse hitched to a post. Looked as though he had been hitched there for a month, for he had dug a big hole near the sidewalk, and stood there splashing water as though he werehired to sprinkle the street. ' There were three other posts and holes all full of water. Sidewalks splashed with water and mud, and just as my brother-in-law‘askcd what place is this, a man came rushing down the centre of the street, stopping with asurprised look when he saw a carriage and a bicycle at the same time. My brother-in-law says, “What place is this ?” “Wa’ll, this is the borough.” “What borough ?" “Canaan borough.” “Where are all the people?” “Most everybody’s gone over to the Weed lot to see the Messenger play ball, and I guess the rest are gone over to the town clerk’s office trying to help make out the report for the town meeting. You see the town voted to print a book this year and so pass all bills closed up September lst, so as to give the Selectmen time to write it up. They’ve been at it ever since and try as they will it won’t come right. Some think there ain’t going to be any book at all. Some think there’s been more money spent than there has. Some think the selected men are ashamed to put it in the book.” My brother-in—law inquired, “How many selected men are therein Canaan borough?” “Wa’ll, don’t know. There’s been more’n a dozen trying to get the book wrote right, but she don’t come. One man says he’s only the tail and he can’t wag the dog. Another says he don’t know anything about it. Another one’s been too busy cutting down hills in one place and making them in another to take time to write a book. So the book ain’t wrote and nobody knows anything about matters, and everybody says taxes are going on all the time.” My brother— iu-law says, “Your borough seems quiet. Ishould not think your taxes could be very high.” “Wa’ll, where everybody at- tends to their own business and every- body else to theirs, there ain’t much time to spend for the public. So things all go to pieces and taxes are high. You stran- gers,where come from, Norwalk ? Know Ike Lee? Got half pint in your pocket? Come over to town clerk’s office and see if you can’t help write the town book. This is a close town. No license, no town book. Got a Chinese laundry though, and just look at that nice hotel. Not a drop ’licit liquor. How can you expect a town to boom? Everybody that ain’t at the ball game or trying to write that town book are minding their business, you see that’s only me.” JIM. AA_ A Confederate’s Widow Pensioned. Mrs. Mary Pierson of West Virginia has just received a heavy pension, which recalls an unusual and long-forgotten tragedy. At the breaking out of the war her husband was an ardent southerner. She favored the Union, as did those of her children 01.1 ’ enough to understand the matter. Finally the eldest son, Harry, joined the Union army. His angry father swore he would kill the first Yankee soldier he saw. In 1861 a squad of eighteen Union soldiers stopped in front of his house. The lieuten- ant, not thinking of danger, climbed upon the fence and sat down. Pierson shot him dead. In revenge the soldiers killed Pierson and three of his children. The son Harry was killed in battle. The mother, and sev- eral children, have lived in poverty until now.. She is seventy-five years old. The 3811:1110“ is on account of her son Harry’s ea .
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