NOR _ LK
ESTABLISHED 1800
VOLUi_/l_i; XE.
Norwalk Gazelle.
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LOCAL ITEJIIS
Mr. and Mrs. J. Spencer are rusticating
in Florida. _ . o
On Monday ice was out at Silver Mine
five inches thick.
Deacon A. L. Benedict has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Bethel.
Will Readman, who is employed in
Hartford,is visiting in town.
R. L. Ells is mowing away ice from
Pontoosuc lake in Pittsfield, Mass.
George B. Bunnell, the showman, of
New Haven, was in town last week.
F. H. Wildman of Danbury, spent Sun-
day with Frank Bouton in Norwalk.
E. P. H. Capron, of ’Norwalk, has been
granted letters patent for a shaft coupling.
Mrs. Noel B. Stanton is visiting her
daughter Mrs. F. W. Wood, in Danbury.
George N. Ells of Waterbury, formerly
of the GAZETTE, was in town on Monday.
Mr. W. G. Lineburg, of Bridgeport,
was over here on busmess Monday morn-
ing.
The Bridgeport police raided a couple
more bad houses Sunday night with beau-
tiful success. .
Augustus H. Raymond. of Stamford,
hanged himself on Thursday morning, for
cause unknown. ' ~ .
0. E. Wilson reports a boom in real
estate. He sold eleven building'lots in
one day last week. t, ,
Ullie Akerstrom the popular- actress is
billed to appear at Music Hall three nigh-t,
beginning March 27th.
Are we liable, after all, to realize on our
hopes for a new hotel? Friend Keeler is
more in earnest now than over before.
Barney Feeney is the happiest printer
in town, even if he is not the best looking.
The secret of his happiness will be found
in our birth column. ~ V
Louis Verlin has secured a renewal of
his lease of the Castlecoote estate :for the
year beginning April lst. '
Especial attention is called to the state-
ments of our three national banks, which
appear in another column. '
Manager Stanley has some excellent at-
tractions booked for the Opera House for
the balance of the season. ’
The first monarchial finger that is stuck
into the Brazilian pie should be lopped of!
close up to the shoulder. ’
Mr. and Mrs. D. Warren Fitch returned
home Thursday noon from a four days
visit in Washington, D. C.
John H. Haulenbeck, of Cleveland, 0.,
is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Haul-
enbeck, on Orchard street. ‘
The Dorlon House, at Gregory’s Point,
has been leased for next season by a New
York hotel man named Powers.
The Co. F minstrels are to give a per-
formance in East Net-walk soon, on the
occasion of the formal opening of the new
hall. . f '
Miss Mona Ambler, of South Norwalk,
was credited with'46 votes for the gold
and diamond necklace, in last Sunday’s
World.
Come to the GAZETTE-office for estimates
on all descriptions of job printing. Best
work. Lowest prices. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. ,
D. Hart Weeks assumed the duties and
espousibilities as junior partner in the
grocery firm of Gregory & Weeks on
Monday. .
tThe front of James L.Ambler &Sons’
I quitablc store, in the GAZETTE building
.. as been handsomely repainted by Artist
Cornell.
Senator I. N. Bartram, of Sharon, has
akeu the contract for the stone work of a.
handsome residence to be erected at
Ridgefield.
—Do not 'fail to hear the Hotchkin
I amily Concert Co.-and Bell Ringers at
. M. C. A. Hall, Wednesday evening,
. arch 12m. , -
Bridgeport’s new chief of police, Ry-
ands, has declared that there. shall be no
more Sunday concerts, sacred or secular,
in that city. '
While harvesting ice from a West Nor-
alk pond, Charles Mather and Lawrence
'eed broke through and ' had a narrow
scape from drowning. ' " , '
On Monday of last week,'tlie Rev. J.
Seymour Hoyt died very suddenly in
Michigan. Deceased was a son Benjamin
Hoyt of New Canaan.
Col. Ike Hill of New York is credited
with this Spiteful remark: “It takes a New
Democrat or an Indiana Republican to
beat his own party.”
Mr. Mlchael Shoedy will remove his
house at Winnipauk from its present loca-
tioh to his corner lot at the corner of
Main and River streets.
And here it is, a whole year of Benja-
min‘l’arrison’s administration and yet
Norwalk lb still plodding along with a
democratic postmaster. -
Joseph Ginjo a South Norwalk Italian, ,
paid Judge Knapp $2 and costs on Sutiir-
day for attempting to seduce an Italian
girl only eleven years of age.
The young men who hang about the
Allen House, corner Water and Chapel
streets, are liable soon to be astonished by
a raid on the part of the police. .
Beginning this week, the employees at
the shirt factory are making several hours
over-time each night, on an unusually
large order for women’s shirts.
We gladly welcome the return of our
aforetimo New Canaan correspondent, to
the old Gaza'r'i‘n’s columns, and we know
our readers will also appreciate it.
Mr. Charles Hoyt, in alighting from a
horse ear yesterday afternoon, fell and
sprained his ankle, and in consequence
will probably be laid up for sometime.
Assemblyman Burns, of Yonkers, N.
Y.,is catching up with European progress
by introducing a bill to prevent roads and
streets from crossing railroad tracks at
grade. _
Wm. H. Kingsbuiy prevented a house
from burning on Monday night, by his
prompt discovery of an incipient fire re—
sulting from an over—heated stove in his
room. ,
If the ice crop about Norwalk proves a
totalzfailure, we have the consolation of
knowing that Maine has a million tons
labeled “Norwalk,” all ready to slide down
to us.
Peter .Olseng of West-port, came. over
here and got drunk-on Wednesday, and
was “Chieagoed” by Judge Austin. He
' is now in jail occupying the, stool of re-
pentance.
Samuel Osborn, of Wilton, has been
granted a patent on a checking and
uncliecking device for harnesses, and
Otto Noack, of Stamford, has just put-
ented a vise.
The few articles left here on storage by
the Rev. Edward Anderson have been
shipped to Danielsonville, Conu.. where
the fighting parson hasaccepted a lucra-
tive call" to settle.
_ Mr. Ed. Goldschmidt says there is no
truth in the report that he has put in abill
for damages resulting from the recent
railroan accident. and states that he never
had any intention of doing so.
Captain S. C. Kingma'n, inspector of
rifle practice of the Fourth regiment, .has
sold his residence in Bridgeport, and, it
is said, will remove to Washington, Conn.,
and engage in the milling business.
Coolidge & Lockwood advertise to sell
at public auction, on Thursday, 27th inst.,
the house‘and lot on East avenue belong-
ing to Asa Smith. This will be a splendid
opportunity to secure an elegant residence.
A couple of detectives from New York
are in towu on the track of a slick rascal
who collects a couple of dollars in ad-
vance on an order for a life size crayon
portrait and for-gets to show up Willi the
picture. '
Four.hundred English ballet girls have
arrived in Bridgeport for the spectacular
features of the Barnum show, and it is
remarked that Bridgeport is overrun with
“chippies.” Now what are “chippies.”
any way ? -
R. J. Walsh, secretary of state, who has
been secretary of the Republican state
committee has resigned this latter office
because. he has not time to attend to it
owing to his duties as judge and as secre.
tary to state.
—Sale of seats now - going on at Pin-
neo's for the Hotchkin Family Concert
and Bell Ringers.
The Fanclier Shoe Manufacturing Co ,
of Bridgeport, formerly of Norwalk, has
just purchased a lot in Bridgeport on
which will be erected a large tenement
block for the accommodation of the em-
ployes of the firm.
James Hamilton of|_South Norwalk de-
feated Henry Pennoyer of Westport, in a
billiard contest on Monday evening, mak-
200 points to|Penuoyer’s 167. There were
some remarkable shots by both these ac-
complished experts.
.Dr. Fred. Uhle, of Bridgeport, spent the
Sabbath with his parents in this town.
He reports business brisk in the dental
line in Bridgeport, which means that the
peOple of that city are bountifully blessed
with the toothache.
There will be a modest celebration to-
day at the alinshouse, ofthe 100th birth-
day of Aunt Betsey Saunders, in which
the Selectmen and other friends of Aunt
Betsey Will participate.
Some of the ice dealers ’round about us
set about harvesting ice from the ponds
on Sunday. In view of the treachery of
the weather clerk, they argued that it was
safe to act on the principle, the better the
day the better the ice. '
The revival meetings now being held in
the Methodist church are attended with
gratifying results. The interest is great
and constantly increasing, and the Rev.
Dr. VanAlstyne is indefatigable in his
labors for the salvation of souls.
Norwalk isn’t liable to be obliged to re-
sort to the extreme measures recently
adopted by the town of Stonlngton, where
the entire police-force was suspended for
four days. because he used to go to sleep
when he ought to be walking his boat.
Oscar, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.
Smith, died at the home of his parents, on
the Westport road, early Wednesday
morning, aged 25 years. He had been
sick for several weeks with brain trouble.
The funeral was attended yesterday after-
noon.
A cynic remarked Thursday that “one
of the young men who was converted at a
revival meeting the other night was smok-
ing cigarettes the next day.” Well, what
of it? It is no indication that his conver-
sion wasn’t genuine. On the contrary. it
shows that he is preparing himself for
death.—-Record.
Leslie Gamble rescued two of Albert
Geib’s children from drowning on Mon-
day, at the mill pond in East Norwalk.
The children had fallen through the ice, -
and it was only after a desperate struggle
that Mr. Gamble succeeded in dragging
them out.
Franklin, Ohio, is excited over a new
born boy babe whose head is seven times
the normal size. Better save that boy to
ruin for the State legislature or make a
candidate of him for Mr. Dana to support
for President, he so dislikes big bowels
and a small head.
"—-A number of young people from Nor-
walk are attending the Merrill Business
' College, Stamford, availing themselves of
tlie’su’pe'rfior advantages .of that Institu-
tion. Springtcrm commences March .19.
Secure a seat at once and enter for a
course of study on above date.
New Canaan is tobave a new and com-
modious Opera House, which will go to
bear out the assertion recently made by
the Messenger, that some one-horse enter-
tainments are mistaken in the notion that
New Canaan is “out in' the: woods,” and
that “everything goes,” there.
Mr. Carmi Hubbell is the :happy father
of a bran new bright and bouncing baby
girl who came to his home on Friday last.’
For a man accustomed to handling noth-
ing but mails, Carmi handles the little
female just as naturally and with as much
motli'erly tenderness as you could. '
The backbone of winter is broken,
crushed, pulverized. No ice crop will we
get, you bet. The last lingering hope we
might have cherished that winter would
yet brace up for an old-fashioned freeze,
was knocked on the head Monday when
John Ronk blossomed out under a straw
hat.
Birds of a feather don’t always get on
well together. Young Miller, who recent-
ly stole a horse in Lewisboro, went to
New York and got into company that was
sharper, if not worse, than himself, and
was robbed of his ill gotten gains. It is
questionable, after all, if there is “honor
among thieves.”
The twenty-fourth annual commence—
ment exercises of the New York College
of Dentistry, took place last evening, in
Chickering hall. Will L. Weed, of this
place is a member of the graduating class,
and hereafter will have the authority. in
the shape of a diploma, to affix D. D. S.
to his name. ’
Adams’ Express company, although it
does not have the service of the House-
tonic railroad. still has offices in the fol-
lowing places :—Norwalk, South Norwalk,
Bridgeport, New Haven, Danbury, Derby,
. Ansonia,‘Bethel, Hawleyville, Brookfield
Center, Brookfield, Still River, New Mil-
ford, Canaan, Ashley Falls, Shefiield,
Great Barrington.
B. C. Lyncs, of'Danbury, brother of the
late Dr. Lynes, of Norwalk, is called upon
to realize the vicissitudes of chicken
raising by incubation. A little over one
week ago he had 135 hatched by the
unmotherly process, and placed them in a
broader, where they were divided] into
two lots. A few nights ago a terrible
fatality overtook one of the lots. A lamp
went out and 59 perished.
Theacme of cruelty was reached in a~
South Norwalk case where a wife, when-
ever she was“put out” by her husband,in—
sisted in sleeping with her feet on the pil—
low and her head at the foot of the bed.
The poor man could not sleep a wink all
night, on account of the danger of being
braincdshould one of those feet roll over
and hit him on the head. The poor fellow
has applied for a divorce and if he gets it-
will move to. Chicago—Amend; Sentinel;—
An Enterprising Republican. Journal, especially devoted. to Local News and Interests.
,NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1890.
According to the Messenger, a large per-
centage of the younger element in New
Canaan prefer to attend a dance or 3.9.
minstrel show two or three times a week
rather than go to church once. In this
respect the young people of New Canaan
are vastly different from the young people
Of Norwalk.
A prominent republican said the other
day, “At:cepting as a criterion of the in-
tentions of the democratic administration
of the“ borough government, the present
condition of our streets, and especially the
present police regulations, 1 am unable to
see where we have any cause to mourn the
fact that we were defeated last fall.”
The employees of the Roth & Gold-
schmidt corset shop will be given a half
holiday on Saturday, in honor of the fact
that that. day will be the tenth anniversary
of the establishment of the firm in this
town. 0n the same day those who have
been with the firm since its starting will
be given afprescnt to commemorate the
event.
Winfield Scott, for a number of years
in charge of George S. Gregory’s livery
stables, will remove to Ridgefield the first
of next month, where he will conduct a
dairy" and stock farm. Mr. Gregory loses
a valuable assistant, popular with the
traveling public. Mr. Scott makes the
change principally on account of his
health. ”—
Mrs. Caroline Matheis, wife of Joseph
Matheis, died at her home, No. 38 Ward
streetfiWeduesday, aged 61 years. The
funeral was attended on Saturday,
afternoon. The cause of her death was a
paralytic"‘stroke. Her husband and four
children, Henry, Joseph, jr., Mrs. Fred.
Keisler and Mrs. Patrick Gallagher, sur-t
vive her."
The police saw a number of men in the
Norwalk bank monkeying with the lock
at midnight on Thursday night, and set
about capturing the burglars. The latter,
finding themselves detected, immediately
owned up that they were all "right, and
confessed that the intestines of the com-
plicated lock were out of kilter and the
safe could not be. opened. They were
experts from the safe factory, sent for to
lie] the bank folks out of their difficulty.
— wort.
.A meetingof the Norwalk Board of
Trade was/held on Saturday. The report
on ptinti’ngwasheardand adopted and
the president was appointed'a committee
on printing. E. J. Hill and F. St.John
Lockwood were appointed a committee to
the general convention in New Haven. A
meeting was called for Tuesday, the 18th
inst., at 10:0’clock, to meet the party who
are goingxthrough the Simonds foundry
with a view of locating thereon.
Mr. G. N. Sovereign is-compiling matter
for a~commercial history of four cities in
connecticut—Daubury, .the Norwalks,
Stamford and Bridgeport—to be published
by the Acme Publishing Co., of New York
in the near future; It will, contain reviews .
ot the principal industries of the various
cities, with biographies and portraits of,
the prominent business and professional
men. Mr. Sovereign informs us that"
wherever the work has been done it has
alwaysggiven excellent satisfaction .
, At therecent session of the criminal side
of the superior court an effort was made
to induce Jacob Schools to plead guilty to
the charge of murder in the second degree
and take a- life sentence in state’sjprison.
He flatly refused and saidhe would plead
guilty to the charge of manslaughter if he‘
could be assured that the sentence wOuld
be five years in state’s. prison and that he
would be pensioned at the expiration of
his term. Such an agreement could not
be entertained by the state.
Brigadier General T. L. Watson has ap-
pointed» Capt. Louis VanKeuren of Bridge-
port assistant adjutant general of the bri—
gade, -to succeed Col. Joseph T. Elliott.
No call for the election of a Colonel of the
4th regiment to succeed Col. Watson has
yet been issued, In the meantime Lient..
Col. Skinner onyinsted is in command.
- It is thought the latter will be elected to
the Colonelcy,iand that Capt. Rowe of
Winsted will be appointed adjutant- to
succeed Capt. VanKeureu.
Building notes from the‘New Haven
Record :—
E. J. Hill, a prominent lumber dealer,
predicts that there will be more building
in Norwalk this year than last.
W. B. E. Lockwood is to build a new
brick block on Wall street, to contain three
stores. Docks are to be built in the rear.
.W. B. Rider is drawing plans for a cot-
tage for Gen. Taylor, to be built on the
corner of Clay and Spring streets.
Miner D. Randall has the contract to
build the new Methodist church in East
Norwalk. '
The following special agents in the cen»
sus department for this state have been
appointed: George E._Taft, Hartford, for
Hartford county; W. N. King, Tolland,
for Tolland county; J. Birney Tuttle, New
Haven, for the city of New Haven; John
W. Hills, Waterbury, for New Haven
county outside of the city of New Haven;
F. H. Alvord, Middletown, for Middlesex
county; Henry N. Valentine, Darieu, for
Fairfield county; Lyman Dunning, Canaan,
for Litchfield county. The appointments
'for New London and Windham counties
have ’not yet been made. ,
r .
The billiard tables in the rooms of the
Norwalk Club have been re-covered and
put in first rate repair, and it is expected
that a’ couple of billiard experts from New
York, friends of President Lee, will visit
the rooms some evening this week, when
a pleasant exhibition of fine playing will
probably be given. '
. There is no truth in the report tlial Col.
Sam Daskaml contemplates putting out to
sea in his steam launch to tie a rope
around one of those enormous icebergs
that have disputed the right of way with
some of the trans-Atlantic steamships of
late, and tow it into port in order to stip-
ply the local ice market._
A great property is a great responsibili--
ty. The Astor estate bequeathed by John
Jacob to William Waldorf Astor yields an
, income of twelve million dollars a year.
When John Jacob Astor made his last will
and testament he thought of the public
_ out of whom his ancestors made this vast
property of three hundred-millions, but he
thought of it only to the extent of one-
third of one per cent. of the entire for-
tune. Not so did Peabody think, did
Girard think, did John Hopkins think, as
the splendid bent factions they made show
and will show into the far future.
To-day there are in Connecticut about
2,600 legalized saloons. Piitting'the av-
erage sales at $15 per day, (which is cer-
tainly very low), would make a daily
expenditure of $38,000 or $12,168,000 per
ysar. This makes no allowance at all for
Sunday sales or liquor sold in unlicensed
saloons. This, remember, is only a low
estimate of the money that goes directly
over the bar of the legalized drain shop.
This vast expenditure, instead of being a
blessing, is a positive curse, causing a
large part of the pauperism, crime and
insanity which is a direct draft and bur-
den to every honest industry in the state.
“My first speech,” said Chauncey M.
Depew recently. “was delivered at a re-
publican meeting in Peekskill, N. Y., my
entire place,‘oue weekqaftcr I had gradu-
ated from Yale college. My father and
his brothers and their entire families were
democrats. The change in one member
of the family was so pronounced and ac-
tive in their political affiliation created
great excitement in the town, and led my
hard-headed» Dutch father to say: ‘If
you have a'promis‘ing son, of whose future
you expect to be proud, and you want to
make a d—d fool of him, send him to a
Yankee college.’ ” '
The will of ex-Gov. James E. English
was filed for- probate Faiday afternoon.
The executor named therein is Henry Fos-
ter English, the only son of the deceased
man. The will makes the following public
bequests: To the Connecticut State Hos-
pital, $20,000 for free beds; to the Shef-
field Scientific. School, $20,000 to found a
professorship in mathematics; to the Yale
College Library, $10,000; to the New Ha-
ven Orphan Asylum, $5,000, and to St.
Francis’s Orphan Asylum, $5,000. Mrs.
English was, it is said, amply provided for
in an ante-nuptial agreement. The will,
. however, gives her the house, barn, horses,
carriages, furniture in the house, platc,&c.
The rest of the property goes to his son,
Henry F. English. The estate is estimat-
ed to be worth $2,000,000.
The policemeu’s nightly routine isn’t
always as smooth or free from exhilarat.
ing incident as might be supposed by
those who observe the blue-coated guar-
dians of the peace leisurely‘ambling along
the streets, swinging their clubs in the
early evening. Hardly a night passes
without bringing with it a flavor of spice
to help while away the long hours. One
night last week the patrolmen werecalled
into a building on Wall street, to extin-
guish an incipient fire caused by the care-
less handliug of a lamp by a drunken
woman. A few nights later they were
summoned to enter apartments on the
same street where a half dozen lively citi-
zens were holding high carnival, drinking,
carousing, fighting, and making life a
miserable nightmare for the neighbors.
The festive crowd of guests were expedi—
tibusly hustled out, and the hosts were
emphatically enjoined to preserve quiet
for the rest of the night on penalty of
arrest. '
Last week Congress seemed to he get-
ting into grave trouble over the location
of the world’s fair, and several cities were
making my faces at each other and call-
ing hard names, because one or the other
seemed for the time, to be in the ascend-
ency.. In order that wiser counsel might
prevail, we suggested as a compromise
that the Fair. come to Westport. And
now up jumps the Norwalk GAZETTE and
says, “when the final tug of war comes, it
will be a wise move for our local board of
trade to send a committee consisting, say,
of E. J. Hill, J. W. Hyatt, “Grover” Wil-
son and John H. Leeto the seat of war to A
set forth the beauties and advantages of
our Norwalk as a good place to hold the
Fair. May be we’ll get it yet. you bet.”
Now this is very unkind in our neighbor.
We, were part. and parcel of old Norwalk
up to 1835, when we swarmed and left the
old hive, and have been tugging for our-
selves ever since, and now to take this last
crumb from us is too cruel to contemplate.
—Weatporter.
Don’t whine neighbor; take it like ' a
philosopher. You know all’s Fair in love
been poisoned rather than‘devoured.‘ . '
and war, ..
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR
NUMBER 1 l.
About thelfirst of April Mrs. Ezra Cur-
tis will occupy the George N. Ells place
on West avenue, and Lorenzo E115 and
family will move into the Robert Ells
homestead corner Northavenue and Camp
street, vacated by his sister, Mrs. Curtis.
The Oleander Garden saloon business
has been bought out by Con Howard, the
marble man. Mr. John Bray, the former
proprietor, has, for some time, been con-
templating a return to Providence, R. 1.,
and it was no great surprise to his friends
to hear that the transfer had been made.
Mr. Bi'ay has made many friends since
his advent tolthis town, who will regret
his departure. Mr. Howard is a well
known and pdpulary ng man, and will
easily retain the irate which the place
has worked up. His brother Robert will
be associatedlwitli him in its management.
The event to which many Norwaik
people have been looking forward to
with interest, took place last Sunday
morning in the beautiful church of the
Holy Comforter, Staten Island. The Rev.
W. C. Richardson, late the preacher in St.
Paul’s church, Norwalk, was ordained to
the priesthood by BishOp Potter of New
York. Mr. Richardson had been trans-
ferred by BishOp Williams to the diocese
of New York, having bet-u engaged at St.
Bartholomew’s church,:]New York, and
hence was ordained at the usual Lenten
ordination. In the afternoon he preached
to a large congregation at St. Bartholo—
mew’s and was greeted by many Norwalk
friends in the church at the close of the
service.
.._..__.
The {United States fish commissioner
have received an exhaustive report from
Captain Plait of the United States navy
with reference to the oyster industry as
pursued in Connecticut waters. Captain
Plait has been engaged for some time in
examining into the habits of the Connecti
cut oysters, and he has been especially in-
terested in trying to find out the cause for
the killing off of so many of the bivalves.
In his report to the fish commissioners he
states that the cause of the great mortality
among the oysters during the past few
years is not due so much to the ravages of
the starfish but has been due to the en-
croachment of mud on the oyster beds and
to the accumulations of refuse that have
coated the bottom of Long Island sound in
many. places. He thinks the oysters have
Mossrs. B. Adams, James H. Knapp,
A._‘Dickcrman, John H. Knapp, J. J.
Asch, E. Hill, E. Beard, John H. Ferris,
A. Solmans and R. H. Rowan have
presented Douglas Fowler Post, G. A. R.,
withaMemorial Record Book designed
to record in authentic form the individual
histories of the soldiers of the late war.
The Record is a book containing 200
memorial pages. steel engraved, made
expressly for the Post. and with blank
space for filling in on each page, which is
designed for one member, the army ser-
vice, as fully as it can [be obtained, signed
by the veteran himself, expressing the
wish for the burial under Grand Army
regulations, and has also a blank for such
resolutions as may be passed after his
decease. It has also an index, appendix
and a burial record, making-Ia; complete
history of every comrade for preservation.
It is designed to be kept with the Post
until the last member shall be its guar-
dian, whose duty it shall be to see that
after him it shall the deposited in such
archives of the State‘or Nationas will
preserve it for all time. ,
Fred H. Nichols, of Bridgeport, claims
to be the youngest soldier of the late wai-
who enlisted in Connecticut, if not all
New England. He was born in East
Hampton, June 26, 1858, and enlisted .in
1862, at the age of 14, in Company ,
Twenty-first Connecticut Volunteers, and
served until June 5, 1865. Mr. Nichols
would like to hear from any soldier of the
war younger'than himself who carried a
musket and did a soldier’s duty. He has
received letters of congratulation from ex-
Governors Bigeloufand Lounsbury, Gov-
ernor Bulkeley, and other prominent
gentlemen. The adjutant-general is satis-
fied that he is the youngest soldier of the
State—Hartford Times. .
Mr. Nichols’ record as a youthful sol
dier, is a good one, but we havemhere in
Norwalk, a veteran who, although not a,
Connecticut volunteer, was thrilled witha
patriotic thirst for the glories of war at a
still more tender age. Mr. R. M. Rose, of
this town is convinced that he was the
youngest volunteer soldier who shouldered
a musket in all the United States-armies
during the war. He has compared
records with all the “youngest veterans”
who are so profusely coming to . the front
in these days, and has not yet found one
who can properly dispute his claim to the
distinction. He was born August 13th,
1848, enlisted in the 6lst Ohio volunteers
on Feb. 17th, 1862, at the age of 13 years
and six months, and served all through
the war. He was known by his comrades °
as “the baby of the regiment.” -Mr.\Ros€ -. '
says there might have been children 3'
slightly younger than himself Who went
into the service as drummer boys, but he
does not include such in his comparisons,
and he has yet to learn of a younger vet-
eran than himself, who carried a knapsack
and musket and was a real, hopes-to die
soldier, as he was.
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