n in DES.
Terror in Tennessee Twenty»
five Years Ago.
“REMEMBER FORT PILLOV .”
.N. B. Forrest, lVliose lililitary Tactics “’as
to “Git the blast illen Thar Fust”—Ile
Generally Did lit—Campaigns in Ten-
nessce.
[Copyright, 1889, by American Press Association]
It is twenty-six years age this December
since the Confederate general Nathan Bed—
ford Forrest was operating with his cavalry
in West Tennessee. He was a man unskilled
in the military lore of the schools. But he
had a native genius for war, which made
him one of the most successful generals on
the Confederate side. What other men
learned painfully from books, he seemed to
know intuitively. He is one of the most re-
markable characters the civil war produced,
on either side.
Jan. 1, 1804, Forrest was promoted to the
rank of full major general in the Confederate
army. A command was assigned to him
which included all the Confederate troops in
northern Mississippi and W'est Tennessee.
His command was a cavalry department.
Forrest immediately proceeded to organize it,
and to prepare for the work of 1804.
Forrest’s campaigns during 1804 are the
most impertant ones of his career.
In the reorganization of the troops one di—
vision was formed of two brigades. The di-
vision commander was I-Ion. James R. Chal-
mers, now of Vicksburg, who some years ago
was a. representative in the United States
congress from Mississippi. Chalmers’ bri—
gade commanders were 0015. Robert McCul-
loch and Jeffrey Forrest, the latter a brother
of the commander. In addition to the di-
vision named there were two other brigades,
under Brig. Gen. Richardson and Col. T. H.
Bell. Forrest’s headquarters were at Oxford,
Miss.
Discipline at the time Forrest took com-
mand of the new department was very lax.
Forrest’s first work was to correct this lax-
ness. He was of a stern, almost inexorable
nature, but he needed all his powers to en-
force the discipline he had undertaken to
bring among his troops.
Early in January nineteen of his men de-
serted in a body. They left for want of
clothing, which could not be supplied. They
were. captured and . [PW
brought back. For- fi’fl» 1,. _
rest sentenced them //j§ '*¢9/’ ' ._
to be shot for de- A2 I
sertion. . fr ' , '
The sentence ’
made a profound
sensation. Preach—
ers, prominent citr
zens and ladies vis-
ited Forrest and
begged him not to
enforce the sen- -
tence. He turned 7. ”i
a deaf ear to all '4
their appeals. The
men‘s ceilins were
made and their
graves were dug.
N. B. FORREST.
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NORWALK
yet on his lips. In Barksdale’s regiment not
a. field ofiicer was left. The Confederate vic-
tory was dearly bought.
The feeling shown by Forrest at the death
of his brother was very unusual for him. He
was never a popular general with his soldiers.
His discipline was harsh, his temper passion-
ate. He had been a slave dealer before the
war. He was a man of great strength and
determination, and had been in many brawls.
GAZETTE,'WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 1889.
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On one occasion, at Memphis, where he lived, E
he had, almost single handed, rescued a ,
prisoner from a mob who were about to hang 5
him and conveyed him back to prison. Then,
planting himself on the jail steps, pistolin
hand, Forrest swore he would shoot the first 3
man who moved towards the jail. Thus,
alone, he overawed the mob, who dropped
silently away, leaving the prisoner in his cell
in safety.
At no time did Forrest, even when a. major
general in the Confederate army, hesitate to
whirl his saber in the air and slash off the .
head of a Union soldier in battle, either oili-
ccr or private. An admiring biographer
writes of him: “In hand to hand fight, with
pistol and saber, he can name twenty-nine
trophies to his personal prowess.”
Forrest was uneducated, and rough and
rude to the verge of coarseness. _
After the victory of Okolona Forrest issued
a proclamation to his men, in which were
these words:
"On they came like a blighting sirocco. At
West Point you met them. There you threw '
‘ cover of which it was possible for the Con-
yourselves across the rich prairies, a. living
bulwark to stay the desolating tide. Com~
pared with the enemy you were few in num~ ,
her, but every man became a hero. You
drove him howling back in shame, broken
and demeralized.”
INVASION OF WEST TENNESSEE.
After Okolona, Forrest rested his army
awhile.
command he started on a raid into \Vest
Tennessee and Kentucky.
March 1 Forrest’s command was recruited
by three regiments of Kentuckians, who
came to him under .
command of Brig.
Gen. “Abe” Bu-
ford. The force
was now organized
into two divisions,
of which Gen. Bu—
ford commanded
the new or second
division, the first 4-7”
being still underfst:
Gen. Chalmers. ._
March 14, 1864,?
Forrest set out on
his great raid into
lVest Tennessee. He
had now 5,000 men,
according to Union
historians; according to Confederate authori-
ties, no more than 2,800 cffectives. Part of
the object of his raid was to obtain horses
and clothing for his command in Kentucky
and Tennessee.
Forrest followed the line of the Mobile and
Ohio railroad northward. The Union force
in West Tennessee was at this time small,
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J. R. CHALMEBS.
Then selecting the flower of his ‘
. account of the bitter hostility between the 3
part having been ordered to the Mississippi .
for the Banks expedition, and the greater
part of the troops being in the vicinity of
Chattanooga.
The first act of Forrest’s men was the cap-
' turo of'Jacksen, Tenn., March 23. Next day,
The hour of execution ;
arrived. The nineteen were brought out and ‘
seated upon their coffins, blindfolded. A line
of soldiers was drawn up before them with
loaded muskets, only awaiting the order to '
lire. At this moment, in the nick of time,
for the prisoners, and they were sent again to ‘
)rison.
1 Feb. 7 Polk notified Forrest that Sherman
had left Vicksburg on the Meridian expedi-
tion. A Union force had also been sent up
the Yazoo river. This Forrest was to watch.
He thereupon sent his brother, Jeffrey For—
rest, to Grenada, with 1,000 men, to make that
a post of observation. Forrest was also in-
formed by his scouts and spies that extensive
cavalry preparations were making among
the Union troops at Memphis.
At once Forrest caught the idea of a co-
operative movement between Sherman, start-
ing from Vicksburg, and a cavalry force
from Memphis.
Feb.' 11 Forrest’s chief scout, Capt. Thomas
Header-Du, reported from Memphis that a
large body of cavalry was moving out
from that place towards Holly Springs, Miss.
Forrest dispatched Chalmers with his divis-'
ion to meet them.
FIGHT AT OKOLONA, FEB. 22.
A few days later the scouts informed For-
rest that the body of cavalry had turned
. southward towards
Okolona, through
the richest region
of Mississippi. For-
rest at once set out
with all his com‘
mand to join Chal-
mers and oppose
the Union cavalry.
The Union force
was that of the ex-
; pedition of Gen.W.
Sooy Smith,
Grant’s chief of
cavalry, and Gen.
! Ben Grierson. It
Forrest’s command moved northward to meet
Smith they were filled with great rejoicing
when they entered the rich fields of the prai-
rie region of Mississippi. Plenty was some-
thing to which they had long been strangers.
Sooy Smith’s command reached “rest
Point, Miss, Feb. 21. There Forrest met
them with 3,000 mounted men. Smith and
.Grierson’s united commands numbered 7,000.
Forrest drove them back after a. skirmish.
They retreated northward towards Okolona,
pursued by Forrest, who struck them again
5Feb. 22. A general engagement followed,
and Smith and Grierson were defeated.
They retreated to Memphis with their whole
command, leaving behind them fivc guns,
which Forrest captured.
At Okolona Gen. Forrest’s youngest broth-
er, Col. Jeffrey E. Forrest, was killed. He
was the pride and favorite of the family.
Col. Forrest was mortally wounded while
leading a charge of his brigade against the
»Union front. He lived only a few minutes.
Gen. Forrest, on hearing of the sad event,
rode to the spot, dismounted and took his
, brother in his arms. ,
xHe held him till he
had breathed his
'last. Then Forrest
frose to his feet, and
:called in a loud,
stern voice to his
I) u g l e r : “Gaus,
sound the charge!”
:The death of Col.
3Jeff Forrest roused
the Confederates to
3f 11 r y , and they
charged with such
‘force on the Union
lines that th cse soon
'broke and fell back. .
{In the charge, however, another brave Con-
federate ofiicer, Lieut. Col. Barksdale, was
shot and died while the order to charge was
GEN. \3'. SOOY SMITH.
March 2%, they appeared before Union City,
on the northern border of Tennessee. Col.
Hawkins was in command at Union City
with 500 men. Forrest attacked and called
on Hawkins to surrender. Hawkins surren-
dered. Gen. Hurlbut says in the report on
the conduct of the war: “Contrary to the en-
trcaties, prayers and advice of all his men he
, , , . I did surrender his post with a relieving force
one of Forrest's aids rode up With a. reprleve j
within six miles of him.”
This portion of Kentucky and Tennessee
was under command of Union Brig. Gen.
Moses Brayman, with 2,330 troops, a major—
ity of them colored. They were distributed
from Paducah, Ky., to Island NO. 10, a. dis- I
tance of 160 miles, and occupied, besides the
points named, Cairo, Columbus, Hickman
and Union City. No force could be spared
from Memphis at this time to oppose Forrest.
Grierson had, indeed, gone towards Jackson
with a body of cavalry when Forrest started
on his raid, but had retired, saying he had
found Forrest “a little too strong for him.”
From Union City Forrest and his men
passed quickly to Hickman, Ky., on the Mis—
. sissippi river. The Union garrison was with-
drawn at their approach, and a. Confederate ‘
force occupied the place.
From Hickman, the Confederate leader .
passed inland to Mayfield, a village twenty-
fivo miles south of Paducah. Mayfield is
I about equidistant from Columbus, Ky., Pa-
ducah, Ky., and Cairo, Ills. From Mayfield
he could easily strike either one of these
towns, and there was no way of knowing
which one it would be.
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T E NESSEE.
FORREST IN WEST TENNESSEE.
Forrest chose Paducah as the object of his
attention. It was occupied by Union Col.
S. G. Hicks, with 650 men. March 25 Forrest
appeared there and attacked. During the
fight he summoned Col. Hicks to surrender.
“If you surrender,” wrote Forrest, “you
shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I
have to storm your works you may expect no
quarter.” .
Col. Anderson declined to surrender, and
Forrest was unable to take the fort.
'After leaving Paducah, Forrest went to
Columbus, but made no attack.
FORT PILLOW, 'APRIL 12.
April 12 Forrest suddenly appeared before
Fort Pillow, sixty-five miles above Memphis,
having marched southward after leaving
Columbus.
Fort Pillow was garrisoned by Maj. L. F.
Booth, with 550 men. In the river under the
fort was the gunboat New Era, Capt. Mar-
shall. Two hundred and sixty-two of the sol-
diers were colored. There was at this time a
feeling of intense hatred between the Union‘
ists and Secessionists of Tennessee, a. feeling
that showed itself emphatically when the
two met (-n the battlefield. Forrest’s com-
mand was composed largely of T’Vest Tennes-
seeans. ll‘he troops in Fort Pillow included ,
many loyal Tennesseeans, among them a.
command which Forrest’s biographer calls
the “the odious Thirteenth Tennessee battal-
ion.”
At the head of these was Maj. William F.
Bradford, himself a West Tennesseean. Be-
sides the bitter feeling between the loyal and
Confederate T on—
nessee soldiers, the
hatred of the Con-
federates for the
negro soldiers, at
that time newly
enlisted in the
northern army,was
doubly intensified.
Both these elements
contributed to the
.3 massacre at Fort
Pillow. Forrest ap-
peared before the
fort early in the
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morning and attacked. He himself came on
the scene at 9 o’clock. At that hour Maj.
Booth, commanding the fort, was killed. The
command fell on Maj. Bradford.
Forrest went immediately to the front to f
reconnoiter.
While thus engaged two horses .
were shot under him, one after the other. He j
had invested the fort completely from the
land side on his arrival. The land about the
works was broken by hills and gullies. For—
rest’s sharpshooters occupied the eminences
and fired into the fort with deadly eflTect.
South of the fort was a deep ravine, under
federates to approach within 150 yards of the
Union works, on the south. In reconnoiter-
ing, Forrest speedily discovered this ravine,
and determined to utilize it.
He ordered Bell’s brigade to advance at
once into this ravine. They did so, and were
sheltered from the fire of the fort. About
the same time another Confederate brigade,
McCulloch’s, carried an intrenched ridge on
the southeastern face of the fort. Near this
ridge, and only sixty yards from the fort it- ;
self, was a row of cabins, which MeCulIoch
immediame seized. The Confederates were
now so close up under the fort that its guns
could not be brought to bear upon them with
advantage. _
Forrest, satisfied that he could carry the
fort by storm, sent a formal demand for sur-
render. The bearer of the summons was
Capt. Walter A. Goodman, of the staff of
Chalmers.
of truce. Firing ceased from the fortat sight
of the white flag. During the truce Forrest’s
men took advantage of the lull in the firing
to creep nearer the fort and secure better
positions.
. Grierson.
He entered the fort under a flag ,
Maj. Bradford, who now commanded the ‘
fort, replied in the name of Maj. Boot-h, who
had been dead for some hours, asking an hour
for consideration of the question of the sur-
render Of the post and gunboat.
Forrest re- ;
plied that he did not ask for the surrender of ;
the vessel, but only of the garrison.
would give twenty minutes for consultation.
At the end of that time he would storm the
works.
He'
In “Forrest’s Life” it is said he added .
to this second demand the statement that he .
could not be responsible f or the consequences ;
if obliged tostorm the place.
Tennesseeans of the two sides; also because of
the intense hatred of the Confederates towards
the negro troops. ' .
THE NEW ERA.
While the flag of truce had been pending
several Union gunboats loaded with troops
steamed up the river past the fort. One, the
Olive Branch, came towards the shore. For-
rest’s artillery fired a number of shots at
the boat, which thereupon sheered off and
on up the river. In a few minutes
Maj. Bradford’s answer was returned, declin-
ing to surrender. Thereupon the Confede-
rates sprang forward to the attack, shouting
“No quarter l” They poured over the para-
. pot on all sides.
Maj. Bradford had arranged with Capt.
Marshall, of the New Era, that in case his
men should be driven from the works they
. would retreat quickly down under shelter of
the bank. Then the gunboat would pour a
deadly fire of canister into the Confederates
who occupied the works. A signal was
agreed on. .
When, therefore, the Confederates swarm-
edinto the fort in such numbers that the
little garrison Was unable to drive them back,
the. Union soldiers, black and white, made a
run for the bank, as had been arranged.
But no gunboat was there to protect them. ‘
Capt. .Marshall had retired out of range
above the fort, and left the garrison to its
fate. Capt. Marshall was afraid that if he
attempted to go down to the fort the Confed-
erates would fire into the New Era and sink
her. This was his reason, given afterwards
in his testimony. -
The little band were thus left to the fury
of the Confederate Tennesseeans. A scene of
slaughter followed that is without parallel
in civilized war history. The flying men
were overtaken and put to death without
mercy, many of them in the most atrocious
and blood curdling manner. Lieut. Acker-
strom, of the odious ”Thirteenth Tennessee
battalion,” was nailed to the side of a house,
the nails being driven through his feet and
wrists. The house was then set on fire.
Several colored soldiers Were treated in the
same manner.
The crew of the gunboat New Era. came-
ashore next day to bury the Union dead.
They found in one place a. black man nailed
by his clothes to a tent floor, with his arms
and legs burnt nearly 011‘. A private testi-
fied that he saw a. wounded soldier buried
alive. The earth was thrown inupon him
while he was moving and breathing.
The fugitives ran wildly along the bank,
hither and thither. Many of them plunged
into the river, and were drowned or shot
while attempting to escape.
After Forrest himself rode into the works
he gave orders tostop the firing. He low-
ered the Union flag, which still floated over
the works. But the bloody tragedy was well
nigh ended by that time. Forrest reported
that at Fort Pillow he lost 80 men, while,
after the fight was over, his men buried 228
Union dead. It is to be remembered that the
Union troops did their fighting behind the
intrenchments, and therefore could not have
fallen in great numbers before the Confed-
erates entered the works. Many of them
were stain while raising their hands and beg-
ging for quarter.
Such appears to be the true story of Fort
Pillow, as gleaned from reports by both sides.
Maj. Bradford, the commander, was cap-
tured. His brother, Capt. Bradford, was
killed. After capture Maj. Bradford attempt-
ed to escape, but was retaken. The day after
the massacre at Fort Pillow, while the Con-
federates were on route to Jackson, Tenn.,
Maj. Bradford was led some distance from.
the line of march and shot dead. Forrest
was accustomed to say: “War means fight,
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T1115 was on i rived at Tupelo Juno 5.
: a force and went to meet Sturgis.
and fight means kill—we want few prison-
erg-7)
After Fort Pillow Forrest moved to Jack-
son, Tcnn. .April 13, the day after Fort
Pillow, Gen. Buford, with part of Forrest’s
army, appeared before Columbus, with a
demand for its surrender. There were negro
troops here, also, and Buford wrote to the
officer in charge:
“Should you surrender, the negroes new
in arms will be returned to their masters.
Should I be compelled ‘0 take the place by
force, no quarter will be shown negro troops
whatever. 7"
But Buford’s demand we: refuse-1‘.
not thereupon altack, but rode awn}; :
Columbus.
lie did
.id left
STURGIS’ EXPEDITION AGAINST FOR-
REST.
An army was gathered in the north as
quickly as it could be done to go against For-
- rest. Two weeks
were required to
organize it. April
30, Gen. S. D. Stur-
gis marched o ut
from Memphis with
12,000 men.
Sturgis marched
to Bolivar, Tenn.
T h e Confederate
leader established
his headquarters at
Jackson. Tenn.
Here he remained
‘ until May 2. Part
of his command, under Gen. Chalmers, went
to Oxford, Miss. May 2, Forrest broke camp
" at Jackson and set out for Tupelo, Miss.
Forrest took the road southward through
Bolivar. Near this place he encountered the
advance of Gen. Sturgis, May 3, but after a
skirmish easily escaped him and passed on.
His force had captured in Tennessee at great
quantity of supplies and many prisoners.
Forrest, in Mississippi, began recruiting a
still larger number of troops than he had be-
fore. It was resolved to send another Union
force against him. Accordingly, early in
June, Gen. Sturgis started on the march once
more. He had 9,000 infantry and artillery,
with 3.000 cavah‘y, under command of Gen.
Sturgis’ force left Memphis as a
starting point and took a southeasterly route.
Grierson’s cavalry was six miles in advance.
Forrest had been, meantime, recruiting
men and gathering supplies with great rapid-
ity. His extraordinary energy and genius as
a cavalry leader brought hundreds of Missis-
sippians and Tennesseeans to his standard.
Forrest was preparing to join Gen. Roddy at
Decatur, Ala, with Buford’s division. Chal~
mers had been sent to Selma, Ala.
Forrest left Tupelo J uno 1, and made two
days’ journey towards Decatur. Suddenly
at noon, J une 8, a dispatch was brought to
him from Maj. Gen. S. D. Lee, his superior
officer, recalling him to Tupelo. The mes-
sage said further that a heavy Union force
had moved out from Memphis, and was
marching towards Tupelo. This was Stur-
gis’ command.
Forrest at once retraced his steps, and ar-
He hastily gathered
Both
armies were on the line of the Mobile and
Ohio railway, over which Forrest started his
command northward. Near Guntown, at
Brice’s Cross Roads, the cavalry of the two
opposing forces met, J une 10. A battle fol-
lowed in which the engagement became gen-
eral. The fight is called by northern writers
the battle of Brice’s Cross Roads, by south-
ern, Tishomingo Creek.
Brice’s Cross Roads is a point four miles
west of Baldwin Station, on the Mobile and
Ohio railway. Grierson at first drove For-
rest’s cavalry back to the main body. He
sent word to Sturgis to hasten up with the
infantry.
Sturgis double quicked his men forward
under the blazing sun. They Were exhausted
when they came upon the scene, but were
rushed into the fight without any rest. Stur—
gis’ train of 200 wagons was in the road at
the front, and greatly impeded the soldiers.
No strategic or flank movements were at-
tempted by Sturgis. He threw his men into
the fight directly on the front.
' Forrest, as usual, dismounted his cavalry
to fight. He had with him three brigades—
Lyon’s, Rucker’s and Johnson’s. The battle
was managed on the part of the Confederate
commander with consummate skill. His
troops, according to their custom, after dis-
mounting, threw up a hasty entrenchment of
rails, brushwood, stones, etc. Behind this
they stood their ground and mowed down
the advancing Union soldiers. Forrest’s
command always included a large force of
sharpehooters, and there, behind the barri-
cade, these aimed with deadly precision. The
Confederate artillery also obtained accurately
the range of the opposing army, and poured
shot upon them without cessation.
Against such disadvantages the Union line
could not stand. It broke and fled back,
horses, men and wagons in inextricable cen-
fusion, along t h a
narrow, crooked
road toward Mem-
phis.
Forrest’s m e n
mounted and pur.
s u e d , cluttering
the fugitives made
a stand the next
day, June 11- They CONFEDERATE BATTLE
t u r n e d on their FLAG.
pursuers. There was a sharp fight, in which
Forrest was checked for a time, and the
army retreated in a more leisurely way.
But the flying army did not pause till it
reached Memphis. When it arrived there, it
was found Sturgis had lost his wagon train
and 3,500 men. Most of these were prisoners.
The Confederates had in the battle of
Brice’s Cross Roads only 3,200 men against
Sturgis’ 12,000. Of these they lost 640.
For the third time an expedition was sent
against the indomitable Confederate leader.
This time it was under command of the vet-
eran “Swearing A. J. Smith,” and numbered
12,000 men. The troops started July 7, from
Salisbury, Tenn., fifty miles east of Mem
down the road after
the flying Union ,7" f ‘
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Forrest was now at Tupelo, Miss, with 14,-
OOOmen. Along the line of the Mobile and
Ohio railroad Union and Confederate forces
met once more. There were four fights near
Tupelo, from July 12 to 15, in the last of
which Forrest received a painful wound in
the feet. In spite of this, however, he and
his bold riders slipped past Smith and dashed
into Memphis in broad daylight Aug. 21. He
was only in the city an hour, but this was
one of the boldest exploits of the war.
Sept. 20 Forrest made another raid into
Middle Tennessee. During his various expe-
ditions he" had destroyed many million dol-
lars’ worth of property. Nov. 16 he joined
Hood’s army, now in Tennessee. After
Hood’s disastrous defeat at Nashville, For-
rest covered with consummate ‘skill the re-
treat of the broken army to Tupelo, Miss.
Foreign Bodies in the Stomach.
A method of treatment for foreign bodies
in the stomach, which appears to be prac-
ticed with almost uniform success in both
England and on the continent, consists in the
administration, simply, of large amounts of
potatoes, to which the diet should be restrict-
id.—Herald of Health.
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In making a plan for a farm dwelling it is
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and could be omitted and afford better bed
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square landing and from thence to the second
floor. From the kitchen one passes to the
cellar under the front stairway. ‘ The usual
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elosed with lattice work to an advantage.
On the second floor are four bedrooms, an
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rear hall. There is an attic stairway to the
second floor in the position indicated in second
floor plan.
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In painting, it is suggested that the first
story he a. rich buff, the second story a
lighter, more yellow color, the body of the
gablesa light orange tint. The trimmings
and shutters, to unite this combination,
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of the porch ceiling should be the same tint
as the gable. By trimmings is meant the ex-
terior window and other casings, the porch
columns, balusters and rail and gutters
molding. The under side of the cornice
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body. This, with the dark color to the gut-
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This house was built in Indiana as per fol-
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SCHEDULE OF COST.
Building, first floor finish oak, second floor
finish pine ............................... $2,100
Privy vaults .................................. 35
Cisterns and connections, 50 barrels ......... 50
Well, connections and pump ................ 35
Walks of brick ............................... 133
Fences, tight board 200, picket 100 ..........
Plumbing, cellar sink, kitchen sink, bath
tub, water closet, wash stand, street wash-
er, cistern water ......................... 250
Four mantels and grates, average cost, $35. 140
200
Furnace ................................. .
Total. .................................... $2,950
LOUIS H. GIBSON.
Here is a unique Masonic event. On board
the special train which conveyed the M. TV.
grand master and his officers to New Castle,
New South “Tales, for the banquet, every
one was a. Mason. The engine driver, fire-
man, guard and conductor, as also the serv-
ants attending his excellency, were all Ma-
sons.
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GUARANTEED.
The only medicines sold by druggists, under
a positive aranteo from their manufact-
urers, that t ey will do just what is claimed
for them—that 13, benefit or cure in all cases
of diseases for which they are recommended,
or the money paid for them will be promptly
refunded—are Dr. Pierce’s world-famed spe-
cifics, manufactured by World’s Dispensary
Medical Association. of Buffalo, N Y.
Dr, Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures
all diseases arismg from a torpid or deranged
liver, or .from impure blood, as Dyspepsia. or
Indigestion, Pimples. Blotches, Emotions.
Salt-rheum, Tether, Erysipelas, and Scrotu-
lous Sores and Swellings. Consumption, or
Lung-scrofula. is also cured by this won-
derful remedy, if taken in time.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the
world-famed remedy for all those chronic
weaknesses and distressing derangements so
commontoAmerican women. It is a most
potent, invigorating, restorative tonic, or
strength giver, imparting tone and vigor to
the whole system. As a soothing nervine it
is unequaled. See guarantee printed on the
bottle- wrapper and faithfully carried out
for many years.
Copyright, 1888, by WORLD'S DIS. MED. Ass’N.
"a ' .- tarrh in the Head by the
proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh lztemedy. By
ts mild, soothing and healing properties, it
cures the worst cases. no matter of how long
standing. By druggists, 50 cents.
The Idea. of an Eye Dear
Is the ideal of those
who deal in the eye. -. . ‘
SLEEPER’S 4‘
EYE.
Is the best selling
and finest 10 cent
cigar 111 America to-
day.
’i rude-m urn .
N. 5‘. SLEEPER £3 (:0..-
Factory, Boston.
Sililf I
Dougie Wagons,
Single Wagons,
Road Carts,
Horse Carts,
Goat
Wood,
Grain.
Flour,
Hay,
Straw
#AND—
Building Material,
Ha Br
South Norwalk.
For Sale at a. Sacrifice.
Will be sold if applied 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 $8,000, and
will be sold for
$5,000 with only
$1,500 down.
to satisfac-
tory party.
1m33 Enquire at GAZETTE OFFICE.
TRAITS
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OIL. PASTEL 0R CRAYO
Elegant work, at lowest PriCes, by
E. T. WHITNEY,
Formerly of Norwalk. Leave orders at Art De
partment of BOSTON STORE, 2d Floor, Nor
walk, Conn. 36
large Office Room to Rem.
N GAZETTE Building, second floor fron
formerly editorial rooms of the GAZE'I'I‘ ;
POE.
Enquire of
CHAS._OLMSTEAD, N orwalk.
Norwalk Chronicler