Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 1, 1909, Page 14

An Experience of Eighty Years of Lie + ° By George Tisdale Bromley| " =i S (Continued Saturday, May 8.) / 7 S T . SR 5 V. It was .during my railroad experi-| 7he gyoq man seemed to think that]and sent the eer ahead to tecon-| p g .. CHAPTER V. e et Y et whe bad] iy T ok AR setnisd so i e e e Mungred| - Ashameduof the Mayor, e e R R L 2 From Custsm House to Steamboating uhiev;d ‘flme‘ ,::y ll:avlnl fimm‘:; would address a fifty-cent audience it| yards and found the track had been 'ros lv,he fiflng;eof ':'l;g llle?ubllcnu: i3 pink baby :ilbhon !ln little cdngyln :; 3 . : rk, wit what was nown the r:—As . wice voted | are attractive, an as presen —From S$teamboating to Hide and &:'Ru:s ‘pavement, came to Folsom of chargin; ople a dollar to’ listen | current, he then s G to return, und | Mayor William E O'homas, [ ;ausc coni- | please most housewives, to me rs}!o{vel:'eer?l brought Nim round | when about hlll-gf:.blck he found fes&l am ashamed of myself. In this to my way of thinking, and then I]the road had ,slid away behind him, | hodr of sorrow. when all Connecticut started in to pre re my lecture. This|and he could not get back to us. I mourning her irreparable (css in the had to be dgneepaat Folsom between | then sent a handear with the section | death of Gov. George ‘gl Lilley, Mayor o tramms, for had my dear wife had an|men into town for an engine to take| Thems has told a presentative of . f ' ! Horn Trading—Off to the Mines—AS| iy un invention of his own for cut- =« Railroad Conductor — Mining Ex- | ting Bfli’rlflt& —g,e 'gfi‘nn&g .mt:;er:i’ i i - i - |and as he could utilize W, Bepiadse slwaponcne = My 'Igblnr“FI‘:;:d the Natoma ditch as motive power, PURFENGs a8 A Laatureic=lne Folsom afforded him an excellent field in Sacramento— A Little Journey==| for his experiment. Very To::d.;f;:: his arrival he became convin ThaE miyc e the bluffs across the NO;‘[:I l;‘rorll'( of ed rest from the|the American river, opposite Folsom, wé:‘;-tfn: t‘::;:-cgl‘::;dofflcml tite, I w contained gold in Iarfig quanties, and mgain ready for work, and was appoint- | on the strength of his conviction a ed by Mr. Charles Minturn as mate of | company was formed and chartered the steamer Cornelia of the Stockton | under the title of the Ross Bluft Min- route. The Cornelia had just been|ing company .with the colone: as pr put in commission. She was bullt In}ident and mys=elf as secretary. The New York, and schooner-rigged she shares wera put upon the market, and had sailed from there, through the|sold like hot cakes. Men were set to Strait of Magellan to San Francisco.| work sinking a shaft, and superficial- 4 She had been thoroughly overhauled | iy it looked all right. After scme three ¥ and when I entered upon my duties I| weeks' work at the excavation I con- found everything in trim ror me to|cluded it was about time to know use to the best adwantage my past ex- | something definite with regard to the “Why?" asked T perience Long Istand Scund. It| prospects, I visited the shaft and “Weil," said she, I went up town te placed "”Th?“d and shoulders above | found it was about a hundred feet|jo some shopping and I saw all over the other steamboat men on the river, [ deep. Taking passage in the bucket,|the dead walls and fences faring and 1 soen had the Cornelia the pride | I went down to investigate, and after | yosters with your name in big let- of the bay. Everything about her was | thorough examination T was convinced | ters, announcing a lecture to be de- “ship shape and Bristol fashion” and | shat there was no more gold to be livered by you in Folsom.” ——— inkling of my intention she would | us back, but before the engine arrived | your paper that he had no comment have dissuaded me. Moreover, as a|the road had gone for a” number of | to make on the demise of our late f%1- home lecturer, I had never amounted | rods behind us, so there we were, casi- | low townsn.an. to a hill of beans, I had taken for my | away, half a mila from land and about [ Such a statement coming from the [»St.re‘ for the S..-er. i theme, “Folsom, and So-Forth” that)the same distance from water, and it| chief executive of Governor Lilley's appearing to be a suitable topie for | was nearly night before we were taken | lJate home is receiving on all sides the a local discourse. When I had put to- | off the cars, as boats had to be brought | condemnation it so justly deserves. A / ’ gether what I judged it would take|from Sacramento, and they were in|man who in such an heur as this can Cold Storage Fire Protec- \- me about an heur and a half to de-|great demand threughout the city it-| not soar above the heights of party| self. When we left the cars the water | creed is unfit to be at the head of anv | tion Guaranteed. was nearly up to the floors We had | municipality, S o to make several loads of our company. Aside from the better light in which | and in getting to the city we. had to|a tribute to our late citizen would front gate, and sald she: drag the boat a portion of the way | place Mayor Thoms, Governor Vit M. BRUCKNER, Furrier, “George, what in the world are you|over land and then ferry across ine|needs no eulogy from the head of our |55 Franklin Street, Norwich, Conn, oing to do?" rapids at the breaks in the embank- | city. Broader minded ard greater men " Ny 2 han Mayor Thoms have testified that | __“Pr201uThS liver, T told the minister hLe conld send out his notices and I, would be ready. The following day, on my re- turn home, my wife met me at the ment of the road. We were so much delayed by this difficult mode of travel| Goverrnor Lilley has not lived in vain p that when darkness came on we fou ui| The work he has accomplished for his | SPRING HAS ARRIVED AT 'THE ! ourselves a long mile from the city| city, state and nation is the most en- OLD STAND OF on what was known. as Poverty Ridge, | durable kind of euiogy-and one that and then the water was rushing | will live forever in the hearts of the ]83“ mml ‘ m ]m through the breaks in ihe R street| people. Requiescat in pace. I was rather cheeky on my part tq think | forced down the embankment by i he crew was the ad- | found at the bottom of that shaft than “Did you see that?' 1 asked. levee with such force that we dared H. R. D. 3 :\:‘i‘;a‘i‘i?)‘gpll:: Ozllms\'hn witnessed it | there was on top. I ordered the men es, 1 did,” was the answer. not attemot to go further. so we had{ Waterbury, April 24, g M e While mate of the Cornelia, I obtained | to quit work right there and then und | «well, sa " f vou saw that I|to remain on the Ridge all night, and Waterbury KRepuhlican. GEORGE S. DPRAPER, Prop. . leave of absence to go home, and se-|to say nothing of the prospect and Igsippose 1 will have to deliver a lec- [T need not say that it was a night of ) ured passage on the Uncle Sam. The | ould see that they were paid. Oth- | tyre:in Folsom.” terrible suspense to many of us, for Mrs. Lilley's Intentions. Just received a full line of Garden we -could know nothing of the condi- tion of our families. We only knew " said she, night before she sailed we rowed around | erwise, the chances were they wouldn’t “Ah, how foolish you ar the bay, and as we were in a zenial| get a cent. The colonel was then in|“you will only make a mood we whiled aw the hours in! San Francisco and I wrote him detail- | and th singing., Madame Thilon of the Metro- | ing my visit to the shaft and m(bn:;x'»d deatt olitan opéra house was on the steam- | that I had made an important “I can’t help it,” T responded. “but y & 2 W s yr,hn[x:nli hx()»r manager. thinking the vo- | cover: 1 requested his authority to it is for the benefit of the church, so|from a distance beyond the redch of | she was going to pack up and make :“"T‘hf‘..hAb!;n{ 3 Forbidden Pruit, cal demonstration was all in her honor, | advertise the delinguent shares to be | will have to stand it.” our assistance we could distinctly hear| ready to remove to Waterbury at her | "é:nséufi:b& ;llua’(' '},'"?.m‘;‘i:,"l" (;‘v; called to her to come on deck. When | sold, and he lost no time in issuing | That settled it at once, and my dear | the despairing cries of men, women | earliest nvenience, although the | S0 Fennessey's one and. ihree stas the small boat we were in came oppo- | the order. Meantime it was whisper- | little wife had nothing more to say.|and children who were expecting|Jewell mansion is leased until July 1.| granay, King = William, Black and ite the Uncle Sam, the men cried,|ed that my “important discovery” was | The superintendent of the rairoad, | and Grass Seed, whioh we offer at the Mrs, Lilley returned from Water- | lowest market price. Also the choleest that between us and them was a rag- | bury to this city and her Farmington |y o of Tmported Cordinls, consisting of ing torrent carrying death, devasta-|avenue home on the special train. Beneaicting: Chs i o 1 tion and ruin in its course, and that| Her close friends said that day (hat| " 4 - lartreuse, Creme de ailure of i, 1 you wil lbe mortified w0 " I every moment that their homes would | Undoubt=dly the associations of the | White and Dewar's Seotch Whiskes AR 20, b PaRitl o nd elin- AR s T P % P v r i lace will be peculiarly distressing to| Jameson's one and three star Irigh “Three cheers for George Bromley. one of untold wealth and the delin- | having hoard of tie project, volunteer- | be afloat ahd themselves borne with|p ; . 4 one th : i ¥ Twho is George Bromley, anyway?” | quents came & over - ez ed to run a special train on that|them. But by eleven o'c y her because it had been taken with a "r\ hu‘k:,\, z"?s”fmyn :4‘ & r%_nu-- P(I‘\?'m“('! asked the offended lady. other in their haste to put themselves | avening and charge a dollar for the |began to recede, and those sucn | view to the brllnum‘ soclal season .\'1“0,:'(‘;.:1“;('* ‘| l"}o‘““ rrmAl:an o’“-fl i 1 was introduced | jn ‘line to share the prospective divi- | round trip, all the proceeds to be do- | immediate peril were saved. Late in| which has so suddenly turned into a 0 . Later on, howe C 3 iy s Wearchegs and Burke's Stout cublein's Cock- to her. and she apologized for thinking | dends, Upon the return of Colonel(nated to the church, T was star pas- | the night we found shelter in the hyuce | Season of mourning., The incidente of | {aijs and the best assertmeni ®f the jolly party was in her honor. Russ to Iolsom, a meeting of the|genger on that trip, the superintend- |of a whole-souled, generous Irishman|the funeral were necessarily very try- | Ameriean Wines. Full line of Lager We crossed the Isthmus of Panama | shareholders ‘was called at Patterson's | ent himself, assuming my duties as|avho took us to his home, where hel ing t'n_lu- :nl‘l‘ll took all her strength bottled at brewery, Tobaceo, Cigars in two days and one night. The build-{ hotel, and a majority put in an ap- | conducto: When we arrived at|gave us hot coffee, bread and meat,to avoid collapse in the church at Wa- | and Groceries Wy L ing of the road had only been com-pearance. After the wusual routineihe church the house was full to over- | and a good fire at which to warm vur| terbury and at the grave. but she car. | STORE OPEN EVENINGS. pleted as far as Aspinwall, and we [ business had heen transacted and an|flowing, and as I entered I was greet- | almost frozen limbs. Many of us had|ried herself througk and now no ‘Phone 144-2 mar2od rode to Shagras on mules, sometimes | account of receipts/and expenditures |ed with a burst of applause. It was|eaten nothing since the day “before,) doubt will always b _=lad that she’ did . swimming in mud, sometimes on dry| rendered, ! proceeded to furnish 4 |then, for the first time, that it dawned | yet we ‘had no desire for food. The|not abandon the struggle.—The Cou- land. Tt was anything but a pleasant | complete report of my inspection of | ypon me that 1 was the man of the | anyiety about »ur ta nilies and the 1:a. | rant. irip. However, 1 arrived at home in|the mine. 1 told them piainly that | nour. he church choir opened the | certainty of their fate took away ap- i Jue course of time, and had a delight- | there was not a whit better prospect | exercises with a selection of music | petite, Soon after daylight a hoat The How of It ful visit with my family and friends, | of finding gold at the foot of ‘he whaft ad bheon practicing for three | came for us and we then learned with Pift . L f £ after which I returned to San Fran- | than there was at the topaf the bluf and 1 was delighted with the | unspeakable gratitude that all were e et oG SON: 08 { clsco and the Cornelia. But the time|and that being satisfied of the use- |<inging and wished it would keeo on | safe. though they had to b takenfron | lumber and = thiriy-eight democrats came when an able-bodied freight | jessness of the work I had ordered | indefinitely, for I kpew that when | the houses in boats. Whep I returned | #gainst it thus showing the facility clerk persuaded the owner that helthe men to quit forthwith. The shock | that ypped would have o begin. |1 found my dear ones with some “;‘,‘ ‘x\ihu\h' ,.:.Ll.( iples by be could perform the duties of mate and fof the announcement was painful t But my tim and 1 was intro- | tweive or fifteen other families in po ac :;‘ : .\. ), ar I dian- freight clerk in one =alary, and T was | behold when something o different | duc by the r. I wish [ could sion of a large two-story brick Jx"\yt: News let out to seck pastures new for sub-} had heen expected, but I informed | jescribe for the fi few se on the same block on which |, A o ful P 2 2 Iae . :: sistence] them that there was money enough on ! moment I can|we lived. When the water began to mercifu rovidence fashioned us holler, ience since | come into the streets two of the rail-| = 0 tHAt ‘we. iR, GuE, Abtaciniee ] B. H. WARNDR, General Agent. | After knocging around for a few | hand to pay the miners what was due | cnly < s o old-time friend named | them as well as the modest salary of | (hat ! er known any- |road men, knowing that I was away, N ;{:’,b',,,t' P O o was aiso looking | the secretary, and leave a safficient | thi compare with them. How- | went to the house and took up the H. C. uNG-HflA‘:‘;_';’om for something to do. He had been at |surplus order up wine for the com. ) ever, T p d myself tn;ull‘.xvr. and | carpets, raised the piano and smvln:.: ONN, one time quite prosperous, but the o their spirite revived and | feeling it T had audience with | machine on boxes and placed most of fires of May and June, 1851, had swept s of the Russ Bluff Mining { me 1 regained my con the furniture in the upper story. And away his fortune and he w now | company were wound up auite cheer- | ing that they would 1 right quickly they had to work. too, seeking an opporiunity to make a new fully, considering the unpleasant dis- | applan d my u-vulc}f“ on my | for when all was done the boat came start. We talked over our affairs and | appoiniment. The auestion then | manuscript, and stepping aside from |to the front door and my wife, with prospeets, and knowing that there were | arose of what disposition should be | the desk. T saud the children, stepped in from the sec- quantities of hides end horns on the | mnde of the shaft. when it was voted T must say to the ladies and gen ond story window My youngest wverfous ranches which we could ob¢|to dig carefully around it t}yu e | men who came up free on the t Gaughter had a favorite kitten fc tain in exchange for groceries, we em- | other end up. and sell it to the gov-|with th nderstanding that *hey were | whose safety she seemed exceedingly barked in the enterprise. Mr. Joshua | ernment for a_ lighthouse. Thus end-|to furnish the applause, that unless | anxious, but before leaving the house Havensg hag a little sio named the | ed my mining cxperimu-n_l the prom- | they pay better attention they will go | she appear«d@ to have forgottem her Red Rock, which he kindly loaned us, | 1se and fulfiliment of which were so | home afoot.” anxlety, and it was lost sight of, but | swaller.” zeport Standard, Juc24S DR fing's Restoration Method What It Does for Tooihiess People as she was just the craft for our bhusi- far apart that they never came In After that there was no lack of de-|1ext day, on opening one of the 'run:‘j‘.I By means of this wonderful method ness. So we laid In a cargo of gro- | sight of each other. _ maor tion, and mv first lecture was}out jumped the kitten, the little girl | we are able to give back to a patient the full set of teeth he or she start- *d in with in the beginning. All we require is two or more teeth in each jaw to work from, and we shall not resort to plates or ordimary bridge work in the process of the work, Your mouth will be free from in- ceries from the wholesale store of I am reminded. however, of anc pronounced a succ ¥ o Sherry & Janes, on credit, to be paid | episode in connection with the mine: In July. 1859, T was detailed to take | The flood occurred on the ninth of o= for from the pmunndyar our venture, | It was in the early fifties, when charge of 11 train to take the| cember, and—by the tenth the water in every way having put it there for safe keeping. pec The first voyage was nd financlal | nora was in the midst of its famous | committee of reception from - | had receded so far as to get down to| fuocess, but not to b ompared with | poomm. I went/up there, and on m Folsom to receive Horace| thé floor of our house and 1 began to| the second: for, during our absence, |arrival was the guest at the Miner: nd a hearty recepticn he et [ 10y to clean up. ‘The “slum” was about | Sherry & Janes had tried to corner | hotel for one night. 1 retired ear! with, T assure vou. He wi an Inch deep. so the next day we | the sugzar market, and just as they|and about eleven o'clock was awaken- | upon at that time as the greatest moan | packed our wearing apparel and went | had bought up the last Jot in sight and [ed by a loud rapping at the front|who had ever visited Califronia, and | to San Francisco. As late as the end were about to raise prices, a ship ar- | door. here were two miners in the | glorious* results were anticipated on|of Februar 1862, the water over | rived from New York loaded down |adjoining room. and as there was only | bis return e, from I efforts in bhe- | about half of Sacramento was s | cumbrances with sugar, and the firm of Sherry & [a canvas partition between 1 could | ha f the 1t Atlantic and Pacific enough for row bouats, an st “Refore we accomplish this result Jares was numbered among the firms | easily hear all they said and did. One | rai boy and girl appeared Ve we put the gums and the natural that were. When we arrived we sold | of them went to the v ndow which | From an old er written fo my 1 how to use a pair of Ars, - our cargo of horns and hides, and not | was above the front door, and the | mother in Jun I quote this were regattas on the principa teoth in & lealthy. condition, tight- knowing who the assignees of the de- | other injuired: | count of a littlé journey taken by my- | Streets every day, and amongst the | s, no_doubt, a mat- ening the teeth which may be loose funct firm were, we divided our profits, | “What's up?” | self and iily. As conditions have | Young folks it was, nd curing pyorrhea if the patient returr.e@ our sloop with thanks to Mr. “Pedro has come home stabbed.” ch since then, the itin- | ter of deep regret when the water < aMicted with that dreadful dis- Havens, and once niore we mingled Shortly afterward I heard a heavy prove i finally drained off and the streets were THOMAS JEFFERSON KING All of the once more dry Our suffered zeve from eting-house ch of the with those who had left thieir far- | fall on the floor-below. 1 dres: away homes in the pursuit of riches, | tily and went down, and there, s twelve da; Ive of the pleas- 1 we supply are so elusive to the majority of the seek- | ed on a cot, lay Pedro, the ever spent floods (I':‘l',»v was the rhi{dv during D. D. S. prac al teeth; e et in itk own ers. with a hole his the ar). he second flood brought ¥ .ostzinstodtor 3 King' e socket jollowing ure’s plan, so One lirtle incident in c- : f a dollar, wherg the | carriage with th ter_over the ‘tops of the pews, o ittt T ‘:}_"&;"m that th rain is equally divided. the hide and horn bu must n’s knife had'been turned rouna i of carrying us 1 mll the upholstery 1 ‘h> N <D Poreet g A s oo One is to bite on these teeth relate. We had sail Peta- | the wound, taking out the pi | awn by two- splend ) 2 and ruined the Sunday-schao of the K Safe St af and use n in exactly the me luma Creek and were hound for Napa, | flesh. They turned him over | horses and driven by the be library. Everbody connected with thk Painle v and Inventor manner e would his natural having played our usual game of |about five minutes he drew last | man in Sacramen We church had so. much of his own busi- [} ' *0 " Gum” Set of teeth. They match nature’s teeth so sevep-up that morning to see who|breath. A son of the proprietress of | house in charge of a neighbor ness to attend to that no one Peeth. AN rights re- closely as to deceive experts. They wonld be captain. Parker had won | the hotel was nding near me, and | half past nine a. m. Thursday, May | give time to the meeting-house, ha rved re beautiful to look at and a souree and had gone helow, l¢ ne to san | said he | eighte=nth, we started all har m | Rev. Mr. Charlton “took off his jacket | 7 of congtant delight to the one whol the sloop, and as I w the heim That's the fourth man I've seen|high glee The first da we drove u;"‘- rolled up ‘l”\l s‘le\'v&” r:mrl all wears them headeqd for the east end of Mare Island | 4i€ on that cot in the Jast three months | forty miles over 1est road ever | alone commenced the work of repair - with a fresh, fair wind blowing, I no- |and one of them was my father.” | traveled, the hor feet sounding all ’i'l‘z ‘I"“‘-“’]“»‘ and "' “f“'l‘i‘ ‘.";‘ house., | APAINLESS PROCESS ticed we were not making the speed that ™ 1 asked. the time as though striking solid e rais three hundred dollars 5 o 2 L B . sdiis S Ak we ought to. On looking over the side} * . “th Away we ugh Mr. Cheney’s church in San Fran An impression has gone forth that there i n irgical operation 7 saw tbat the mud was within #Phen,” said 1, st and with this amount and his own oonnected with this method of restoring missing teeth. Some people | o'clock bor he got everything righted and the | where, comfortable | church looked better than before. remained all night. 1 found I wonder how many there of old acquaintances | remember the “Pony Express inches of the top of thg water, so I stage leave here for immediately called up all hands. and up came Parker and asked, “What's t four o’clock in the morning,” he I, said, “Mud,” and took in all |answered arrived at have written in to kuow if we bore down into the bone and put the testh in on pegs ! Others have an idea we set the 1ew teeth into sockets where the i ! sail, and when the tide had finished “Then, ia I. “book me for an in- the time v pleas- | “Peny” was a small, one-horse con- natural teeth w originally going out we found that we were | side seat” and I left deeply impre ock the next moru- | cern carrying a mail never exceeding | it is quite natural that some uathinking people would ask such q.ies- about five miles from land and three | with the uncertainty of life in a min- pa City where 3 twenty-five or thirty pound The | Do P T S Sanwened: we. will stath thet miles from water, and for a wmile |ing camp, particularly in Sonora, arrived a htiul ride of four | regular overland mail, in 1861, car- Py I e . rnci el AR ¥ astern we could trace our wake through In 1857 T was granted a _leave of ab- | hours, all t spirit Here I{ried letters and pape at the usual || there is ro boring, no cutting, no i ia tion about this method, nuth- the mud. Put fortunat tide had been running out y ing about the work that is painful while it is being done or afterwaed Patients leave the office with these teeth In place and at ence begin for us the [sence by the railroad cBMhpany, and |met more old acquaintances and spent | rates, and ranged from fifteen hun- hour he- | went to my eastern home for my fam- | a few days visiting friends in the val-| dred to forty-five hundred pounas, fore we fetched up, conseauently we |ily—my wife, two daughters and two | # At nine o'clock one morning we | The Pony Express was a at 1 % z 0 " floated about till twelve o'clock that | sons. They were delighted with the {left Napa for Sonoma. tution. It grew out of a desire to ob- wing meat, eating candy, toast. or anyihing elge with the same com- night, and nished our voyage to}prospect of the reunion and the new |about four hours was tain as speedy communication with fort they would enjoy if every tooth In their heud had grown there. apa, wher Bupper at 't taken food we arrived in time for | home, and accompanied me to Sacra- | beaut by hotel. and not having [ mento, where some of the happiest | dreamed ¢ since breakfast. we were | years of my li ve heen spent the east as possible, a desire which trengthened by the obvious need | of tihe federal authorities to he ir anythir the road most of the way along the It we ¢ouldn’t promise this and make goed on the promise. the <Re staration Method wo not be a success. It would be no better than “Nin condition to eat whatever was in| It was during my railroad experi- |cf the Coast Ra and the v touch with the union men of the cox ordinary bridgework or partial plat ) sigh When T was about to suggest | ence that T made my fi appearance | some of the highcst points of the val-|in case that the already ir z | to Parker that he had better let up as |as a public lectur. Folsom, at that | leys and rdvines below was truly mag-| war cloud did not pass harmli WE ARE GENERAL PRACTITIONERS we were to take br morning, his chair b fast there in the | time, had the unique reputation of ke down, and as | hav Senator William ards joined the within view | overhead. It w *ad out be- | Gwin, who afte cent When we cam g more churches than saloons | Sonoma Val lay all sp All Forms of Dentistry Treated by Experts. it he was the captain that day. It added | within its limits. but unfortunately {fore us, with vineyards and orchargs | federates, who was the first to While the Restoration Method is our great specialt~ we are general very much to his mortificatton. And | the churches were all in debt, while | for mi and miles, and in the center| feasibility of a fast overland mail, dental practition s well. From the simplest filling to the mest in vet.he was one of the best men I ever | the saloons were doing a thriving,busi- | the city of Sonoma, looking like a as to point out the danger to tric piece of porcelain work, our experts are®at the service of the knew nes A new minisier had been in- |speck upon il cultivated the Panama gteamer route ana 3ub After retiring the hide and|stalied to preside over one of the d - luvlain, 1 wis it s as uthern Overland stage route, d to us wuld secession become anytki more g found it | than a threat. April 3, 1860, was the somewhere up in the mining, region. | the indebtnednes Lecturing talent j all we could ask. and we remained five | gate settled on for the inuguration of Nothing came amiss with me at th was not very plentiful in those days |days. We had heard several persons{the enterprise. and ten days the limit time, so of course I On my | which will account for my being speak a striking resemblance be- | time between Francisco and St way to my d ination 1 concluded to Jupon. The minister had heen sue tween our daughter Mary and little | Joseph. The mail was rried from s«top over one day at Sacramento in|ful in securing the services of A. A. icia Vallejo, but thought nothing in Francisco to Sacramento by boat, order to secure an outside seat on the | Sargent, J. Ross Brown, Dr. Briggs. t until the dayv we called on ( and it was from the latter city that stage, with the driver. I heard some | Dr. Peck and a few « more or when, afi we were the real start wg made. The first talk of a r )ad being started down |less well known as pubiic speakers 1 partor, Mrs. Vallejo ¢ express went through on time, and on the R stree; levee, and thought it | At the close f Dr. Peck's lecture, | Mary to | d her, and very inuel | ¢laborate preparations were ade to would n my line to go and inspect | which was del] red to an audience wgitated, It seemed| w ome the rid with the tern | the work. 1 my great surprise, I|that about half filled the h stran ired wh mail. Both San Pfancisco and Sacra- discovered the contractor an old | doctor inquired of the new n one of t mento were alive with enthusiasm, 0 such work well, much better th it could be the operators employed here are ali men of They need to be to do the Restoration work, Bunglers would not be tolerated in our office for a day, neither would dental students. We demand the finished craftsman, both at the oper- ating chair and .in the laborato KING DENTAL PARLORS, Dr. Jackson, Manager. Fran&lin Square, Norwich, Conn, apr12TuThs Naturally we wou done.in a one- the very highest horn business, in § I was offered | burdened churches and he inqugurated | to give «n i a position as manager of a mue|a course of lecture v how in order to reduce | On arriving at the was family showed us : friend from my native town who wasg | this was about the size of the audi-|reotype + little daughter In Sacramento the whole city<turned s pleased to s as 1 to meet | ences- that generilly listened to the | died abo ths befor out with guns, bells, bands and any- him. After 1al ec on of | lectures, and was told that it was an | emblance ! thing e that could relied upon e S L XY it ik SR TR . T notes and e of news average ho eneral ‘ooked upon to make®a noise. No time was lost in o k7o ‘Now, where are you going?” sald| “weil" sai . Peck, “how are you | decp sigh, with te { conveying the precious packet to the he, coming out | turned away + hide imer for the rest of the trip, and “I am on my way to take charge of “Oh, we are more than paying ex- | After the r ve whigh as the announcement of its probable a mine up in the meuntaine” said L | penses.” ing scene had cat T u ¥, i1 | gerival had been made in the evening - L . ‘Oh, damn the mine,” gaid he, for- Now," sald Dr. Peck, “you just get @ glorious tim Ve red tiworeh |pepérs from the stages of the theaters, getting for the moment his early pious | 3 Bromley to deliver a lecture for|ihe vinevards, drank the luscious Cal- | the city was awake and ready when 1raining. on just siay here and|you” ifornin wine, and had free uccess teo > at midnight. The Califor- ) ’ y take charge of the con v St e i "““""1““‘“ "Do_you think he would?" inquired | he mensc strawherry grounds, the band paraded, the fire beils were or building this roac ur mine is | the minister. general, hiz wife amd mily doing rung, and the fire companies, having an uncertainty, but this job Is a sure “You just try him.” adviged the :lac- | in thelr power to make us fe turned out to find ther was no fir® -8 t° 8 ino'. ln .Mk' : thing tor, and the it thing ! knew there j fectly at home i AMary re-| joined in tne procession.hich escorg- His argument was convincing and I|came a letter from- the minister tell- | ceived ihe linn's share of attention.|ed the messenger from the dock to stayed with him “pon the comple- | ing me all about the course of lectures | T largest bervies und prettiest flow- | the office—all because news only ten tion of the road the directors appoint- | and asking me when it would be con- | €18 were picked for her, ¢d me conductor on the passenger | venient for -me to deliver one of the | quite in earnest whe tra wherz 1 ren and they weoe | days old had come to hand. On the ihe Steam, Gas, Water Specialties of all kind POWER MACHINERY FOR CUTTING AND THREADIN v wished | first west-bound trip the rider between ained for nine vedrs, [ course. My first thought was that s to leave her with ti a whi Folsom apd Sacramento the firsc corductor on the first railroad | somebody had been guying him, but | It seemed hard to refuse m. On|]and his leg broken. He was met In buidt on the west side of the continent | on further reflection I concluded that |leaving Sonomu, where we stayed at| this plight by the Wells Fargo stage, of North America. Thet railroad was | he was in dead earnest, so I apswered | the hotel kept by “Tony” Oakes, a grcat | and a specia twenty-two iniles longh and connected | his letter but declined the proffered | friend of mine, we started at six « Mr. J. G. McCall, now connected with Sacamento with the town of Folsom.|honor. My letter was more elaborate | In the morning for Lakeville, dists the Southern Pa The fare was two d 's each way, | than was necessary to accomplish the | #bout fourteen miles, where we took j pany. volunteered to ri and twenty-five cents purpose, and the outcome of the cor- | the S senger neglected to provide himself | respondence was to bring the minister | hors with a ticket before cwming on board. | to the depot, where he sought me out | & Occasiona some inquisitive passen- |and introduced himself, with the de- There are not ger would inquire as to the final des- | sign of persuading me to change my‘| who remember tination of that extra two bit, and | mind and appear on the platform. with the politeness which has made 1 aslced, “What have you been chare - the railroad conductor famou: the p ing for tickets?” the engineer to go slow | anything i worid over. T would answer that it “Tifty cents.” nd with care, as it 1 rained heav- | of a gentleman After the war broke was nonc of his business. All he had “Well.” =aid 1, “if T deliver a lecture for forty-eight hours. | was afesid | 2ut an additional pledge of loyalty to to do wis to pay . and I would look | it will be my first appearance and the | there might be breaks in the road. | the union was added. after its final destination. There were | tickets must be one dollar, for if it ed without aifficulty for The news of the election of K. D. no belli puaches in those days, and |Is a success it will be worth a dollar to s when we discovered thaf | Baker ¢f Oregon to a seat in-the sen- consequently two boards of directors | listen to, and if it is a failure I want | the American river had overflowed its| ate of %he Unitea States was received died poor, but the conductor kept|to go down in a blaze of glory at a|banks and was just riging over the | with great enthusiasm in Caiifornia! right on attending te hiz-business, dolar a head.” roadbed. 1 detached the locomotive ' and the public rejaicing went ahead agent of the company, railroad com- for him and n Francisco boat, and all hand brought the first pony mail into Sac- and carriage, arrived at eleven | ramento only an hour and a half late Kvery “Pony” employe was required » doubi, alivel to sign a pledge in which he bound nento flood of | himself “not to use profans iengoage to get drunk. not to gamble, not to treat animals cruelly., and not to do e Send us your orders. the morning of December s usual with the tral ROBERT BROWN ESTATE, 65, 57, 59 West Main Strast. ; d'eiephone: 133.