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Runaway Marrlages:
Bishop Nicholson, of the Milwaukee
diocese, has much faith in the efficacy
of plain speaking, and does not hesitate
to show that faith on all proper ocv
casions. Such an occasion occurred a
few days ago, when the Episcopal dio-
cesan council met in Milwaukee. Run-
away marriages was the theme of his
talk to the clergymen assembled. The
Bishop said : ”
“It is so now in Wisconsin that runa-
way couples can get married here on
almost a moment’s notice, without any
question as to whether the marriage
which is to be contracted is a proper
one. Clergymen, too, I am sorry to
say, abet these runaway couples by
marrying them for the sole purpose of
obtaining the fee, without regard to
the injury which they are thereby
bringing upon the community, and the
misery which they are sometimes en-
tailing on the very lives of the contract-
ing parties themselves.” .
That leaves nothing to be desired on
the score of frankness, and yet it is not
too severe. Clergymen who are accus-
tomed to marry eloping couples, es-
pecially in New York state, “for the
sole purpose of obtaining the fee, with-
out regard to the injury they are there—
by bringing on the community,” and
reckless of the possible or probable ruin
of lives, need to be brought up with a
round turn. This scandal has grown
out of the marrfgg) laws, which appear
to have been framed in the interest of
the elopers and indiscreet clergymen.
Under the New York laws marriages can
be kept secret for a time. There is, con-
sequently, a rush from Norwalk and
surrounding towns, and many ministers
are accused of having done their best
to encourage the influx of runaways and
ICES.
AGhasuy‘boubu _
There isa distressing belief in the
minds of a great many medical men and
electric scientists that the mode of ex-
ecution practised in; New York does
not produce instantaneous death. Al-
though the weight of scientific opinion
is in the oposite scale, this view of the
subject has many supporters, including
eminent experts in Europe and Ameri-
ca. It is reported and believed that a
number of men are now living and in
good health who were resuscitated after
being subjected to a stronger current
and severer shock than the condemned
murderers receive in the electric chair.
Society cannot afford, and the State
ought not, to permit such a matter asi
this to beleft in doubt. Electricity was
substituted for the rope on human-
itarian grounds. It was believed that
the change would enable the State to
put a convict to death in the speediest
and least painful manner possible. All
this may have been accomplished. The
doctors who have witnessed electrocu-
tions have certified to the death of the
persons in the chair, and have uniform-
1y stated that their exit from life was
instantaneous and painless. But, as We
have said, there are doctors and others,
in large numbers, who hold that “elec-
tric killing" does not kill, but simply
shocks the subject ”into a condition in
which he may or may not be sensible of
suffering.” The actual killing, they
say, comes later, and is performed by
the surgeon with his knife. ‘
If this be true, the electric chair is
an abhorrent thing, a form of torture
more hideously cruel than inspired
malice ever devised. While the prob-
abilities are against this belief and in
favor of the humane theory to which
electrocution owes its adoption, the
ghastlydoubt ought to be removed.
Medical men have volunteered to put
the matter to a test by attempting to
restore one or more electrocuted sub:
jects. The prison authorities say they
have no right to permit such an inter?
vention. But the Legislature can an-
thorize tests, and it ought to do so aft
the next session. This question once
settled in favor of the humanity of this
New York way“ of executing murderers,
other States will be inclined to adopt"
thatlplan. But until such a solution is
reached New York will have a monopoly
in electrocution.
REQQLLEQTIQNS
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WUDRRESPUNDENT.
BY THE
Editor of the Gazette.
Copyrighted 1894.
CHAPTER L?"Il.
General Ames being on the alert, as
soan as he saw the explosion, got a
small detachment through the thicket
to find the Johnnies had fled from their
entire first line of bren t-vorks and our
troops were marched up and took pos-
session of them. Among other captures
made by our men, was a little “marsh”
pony. not much larger than a sheep.
This was sent uplto General Terry’s
headquarters for me, as I was still un-
able to mount a horse. This pony pre—
sentation was made in recognition of
the share I had in the important'event
of the day before, was. a God-send to
me. General Terry was about as pain-
fully afllicted and disabled as I had
been on account of my sudden drop in-
to the uncovered well. He had an old
time carbuucle boil on the inside of his
leg, which made horse-back riding im-
possible. This greatly annoyed himl in
more ways than one. He was chafing
to meet and destroy Hoke’s army in
his front and take Wilmington, which
he was confident his troops could do.
His ardently desired purpose was thus
deterred for many days and he was
made, practically, a prisoner in his
headquarters cabin. One day sitting at
its door he observeda number of sold-
iers passing, unmistakably drunk l
Where they could have gotten their
“bug-juice” in that isolated place, was
a wonder to him and to us all. He is-
sued orders to have the most thorough
investigation of the matter made. The
Only conclusion reached was that in
some mysterious way these “drunks”
must have come from three or four
barrels of whiskey securely locked up
in a building near by With other com-
missary stores. These barrels were
uncovered and looked over and -were
found not to have been stirred from the
places. No vessels had arrived and
the intoxicant could not have been pil—
fered from ships—stores. The plot thick.
ened and the mystery deepened. The
tents of all near by soldiers were search-
ed and the lock on .the store—house
scrutinized, but no ev1dence of its hav-
ing been picked, or the building burg-
larized. could be discerned. Finally a
secret watch was set and about mid-
night, a couple of soldiers, with backs
ladened with canteens, slyly crept up
to the lower or river side of the com-
missary store house. With a shingle
one man soon hauled away a bank of
sand against the sill and disappeared.
The other man passed. his canteens into
the hole and stood guard outside.
After an hour or more, the man inside
began to pass out his burden of can-
teens. He had burrowed under the
building through the soft sand and
with his bayonet had bored 3 hole up
through the floor and into the head of
the whiskey barrels, then pressed the
nozzles of his canteens close under the
hole and filled them. This was a mOst
wasteful way of distributing whiskey
among the soldiers, but was one of the
thousand and more ingenious devices
the boys had of procuring that contra-
band fluid. ' ’ .
Early the Sunday morning following
our capture of the first rebel line of
earthworks across the peninsula, Mr.
Cook, mounted on a tall, gaunt and
swaying grey stallion, (also a rebel cap~
ture, and the same uneasy beast that
had been the cause of my backward
tumble into the well} and I, mounted on .
my diminutive Marsh pony,_rode out
along the upper or rebel side of the
long line of newly captured earthworks.
The colored troops held the lower side,
and it being Sunday, were indulging in
a general wash. Their black skins
shone like patent leather in the sun,
while their underwear was laid on top
of the earthworks to sun and, dry.
iThe colored troops not only "fought
nobly,” but in the matter of personal
cleanliness, were a pattern to many of
our white soldiers. They prided them-
selves on neat apparel, polished .shoes,
guns and equipments, not ordinarily
approached by their paler faced broth-
ers in arms. Several of these “bare-
back” soldiers espied Cook and myself
and ran up on the parapet, and shouted
back to their comrades, “Oh! look a-
here! Here cums de circus!” Then
another shouted, “No ’taint de circus,
’tall—it’s de chaplains.” Then all in
gleeful chorus made the air ring with
their honest, hearty and noisy laughter
at our laughter. It certainly was a
grotesque, mirth-provoking procession
of two most remarkably mounted camp
followers. '
Terry’s staff finally improvised a two-
wheel cart, without springs of course,
took our too fragrant feather bed and
threw it over the rudely adjusted seat,
when the army was ordered to press on
after Hoke. The first night out, after
leaving our base, the army camped in
“hollOw square,” the supply wagons
drawn around in line, as a further pro-
tection to our officers and men. Terry’s-
feather bed was lain upon the ground
and. he as comfortably disposed asa
soldier could be, who was nursing a
still inflamed “Job’s comforter”’ou his
leg. General B. Hawley and I,
pooled our blankets and thus made our
bed together on the ground, one of
comfortable warmth, for the winter’s
night. Getting, my nose from under
the blankets a ittle prior to daylight it
became benumbed with the cold and
required Vigorous rubbing to start the
circulation. My uneasiness awoke
General Hawley, and I asked if he no-
ticed how close down over us and how
bight the stars were. They did not
so into be fifty feet above our heads
seemed interested in the phenomenon,
then remarked that he was born just
across the Cape Fear river over there,
at a little town called Stewartsville.
This was a surprise to me, as I had
thought him a native of New 'York.
He said he was at Hamilton College in
New York, but was born in North
Carolina, his father having been a
Methodist clergyman and sent by his
conference to, Stewartsville.
The coming day was big with events
and glorious victory. Our army drove
Hoke up to and through Wilmington,
the rebels fleeing from us as fast as
legs could carry them. Hoke had some
nine thousand Union prisoners at Wi -
mington, brought there to prevent
their recapture by Sherman and when
Terry approached the city, he hustled
off all who could walk and loaded all
the sick and disabled he could, on 'plat-
form cars, to avert our taking them.
The wust cases, he abandoned to our
care and keeping. Some were so starv-
ed, they couldn’t stand upright, others
were sick and diseased, and all terribly
afilicted with scurvy. One poor soldier
was so eaten up with scurvy he had
become idiotic and could neither tell
his regiment or name. It was a pitiful
sight.
Arriving at Wilmington we were
soon treated to an unexpected surprise
and delight. It was the similtaneous
arrival there of Mrs. Gen. Hawley and
Mrs. Gen. Barlow, she who made the
daring horseback ride through the
rebel fire at Gettysburg, to reach her
wounded husband. These good ladies
at once opened a hospital for the sick
and used-up captive wrecks, left by
Hoke, and also the sick and wounded
of Terry’s men. This self imposed
hospital duty was continuously per-
formed by these self—sacrificing and
patriotic ladies, uuiil the heat of sum:
met and overwork, made invalids of
them both. Mrs. Gen. Barlow’soon dy-
ing and Mrs. Hawley continuing a
sufferer until her end came a few brief
months ago in Washington.
Before evacuating Wilmington Hoke
found time to burn two rebel privatsers,
his naval and military stores and a
large quantity of cotton. On the morn-
ing of the 22d of February General
Terry’s army marched into Wilming—
ton unopposed. We lost only about
200 men in taking it, and Hoke over'
1,000, with 65 guns and a large quantity
of ammunition. General Couch with
adivision and Colonel Upham of the
15th Connecticut, were sent chasing
after the fleeing Hoke, Upham, how—
ever, getting-the worst of the pursuit,
as he got flanked by a portion of Hoke’s
troops and lost 700 of his men. Hoke
then advanced on Scofield, when Couch
came to his aid and Hoke retreated
across the Neuse, and finally fled to the
rescue of Johnston, then threatened by
Sherman. -
On the morning of the 24th of Febru-
ary, I was at the wharf in Wilmington,
when a little steamer hardly larger
than a sound going freight tug came up
to the dock. I soon learned that it was
to bear dispatches to Grant. Somehow
an instant and irresistible impulse in-
duced me to jump on board and sail for
Fortress Monroe, which I did. I sent
a note back to Gen. Terry, explaining
my sudden and abrupt departure. in-
stead of returning to ,Washington on
the General Lyon, as he had arranged
for me to do. The General Lyon was
to sail two days later and carry a full
load of our Sle and wounded to the
hospitals at Baltimore and Washington.
An Adams Express agent from Nor-
walk, Charles Frederick St. John by
name, was on the General Lyon and in
charge of all that company’s consign-
ments on that steamer. I requested
Gen. Terry to send my haversack, con-
taining all my clothing, to Washington,
by St. John, which he did. The name
of our little propeller was the “El Cid.”
and strangely enough she was built at
Goodspead Landing on the Connecticut
river, for a Cuban company. There
was no coal for our boat at Wilmington
and our captain loaded up. with wood
and steamed down to Fort Fisher where
he expected to find coal. On arriving
at Fisher no coal was found and getting
'more wood. the captain put to sea, all
signs betokeuing clear weather. Sev-
eral hours before rounding Hatteras, it
began to rain and blow “great guns.”
The little ship having no cargo or bal-
last, danced about like a cork. At day-
break I asked the captain where we
were, as it was impossible to see three
lengths from the ship in any direction.
He said we were drifting rapidly to-
wards Nassau. N. P., and before night
he thought we would go ashore there.
In trying to keep steerage on our craft
we had burned up all our fuel and all
the movable wood-work about the ship.
On hauling myself back to the cabin by
a r0pe stretched .along the belaying
pins, I saw that the side rails of the
cabin stairs. all the shelves, doors, ta-
bles andberths had been torn out and
pitched into the fire room to keep steer-
age on. and save the boat from founder-
ing. From the companion way stairs I
saw the ship take a toboggan slide down
a prodigious wave, strike her blunt
nose against the ascending billow, and
then a great wave sweep the forward
deck, cook-house range and all, and
lea guard rail, off into the sea.
captain got his dreadfully sea sick and
terrified wife forward to be with him in
the pilot house. The tempest howled
like the Well of the lost, and altogether
we were_having an exhilerating time of
it. Pulling myself by the rope again,
out to the pilot house and asking the
captain if we were likely to drift ashore
at Nassau before dark, he replied we
would, as the Wind and tide were drift-
ing us thitherward with great volocity.
He had scarce uttered these words,
when the ship ”struck heavily upon a
sand bar. Instantly the water receded
and we were left high and dry on a
clean and hard bar of sand. In another
moment, a second huge wave floated
our ship over the bar, and close; to a
numbered buoy. “Well, I declare,
that is Hatteras Inlet buoy,” excitedly
shouted the captain, and he instantly
ordered the anchor dropped. The
dense. fog soon lifted and to the utter
astonishment of all, we were not a bun-
dred feet‘ from Hatteras Inlet light-
house. Like shipwrecked St. Paul
an looked as large as saucers. He,
whenlhe sighted the three Taverns, we
The ‘
thanked God and took courage. The
Dumps were tried and the ship found
not to have opened a seam by pounding
on the bar, a compliment to her _Con-
necticut builders. Coal was quicklv
put aboard and all agreeing to “stand
by the ship,” the El Cid’s nose was at
once pointed for Fortress Monroe.
There was one other passenger, Gen.
"Jack” Casement of Ohio, going home
on sick leave. He was very sea sick, as
I was not, yet in our most terrifying
moments when adrift at sea, he would
overcOme, or effectually conceal his
fear, by psalm singing. I never en-
countered such a genius. With his
head over a basin, his empty stomach
heaving like a pair of bellows, he would
keep up his singing at the top of his
stentorian voice and never lose his tune
but catching on just where he broke 011'
in his retching. Thus he kept up his
own and my Spirits, to “concert pitch,”
through all our peril and distress.
Late on the afternoon of the next
day, March 4th, I reached Washington.
Lincoln and Johnson had that day been
inaugurated, but I was on hand to at-
tend the inaugural ball, with a party of
home friends, who had come over from
New York for that purpose, and thus I
kept a pledge made my wife before go—
ing to Fisher, that I would surely be
back in time for this function, by the
narrow margin of three hours. A little
later and the country was shocked by
the dreadful news that the steamer Gen.
Lyon had burned at sea, with her prec-
ious freight of hundreds of Union
soldiers and all on board. St. John,
who had my effects in his keeping was
also lost, with the five to six hundred
other victims of that apalling disaster.
He left a wife and a young son and
daughter here, to mourn his terrible
and untimely end. His widow long
since joined him in the spirit land. but
his two children, now grown to adult
age, are still residents of Norwalk.
Whats. distinct providence it was
that I should on a sudden impulse, have
jumped on board the El Cid, to suffer
shipwreck, instead of awaiting a few
hours, the sailing of the larger and
faster steamer General Lyon, as I
otherwise would have done, and thus
added one more to that sickening holo-
caust. No circumstance in all my
eventful life, ever so deeply impressed
me as this distinct providential direct-
ing of my steps away from the fated
General Lyon.
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An Important Arrest.
Thomas Burns was attacked on
Franklin avenue yesterday and came
down town and asked Captain Dann
for protection. The latter walked as
far as Jackson’s when ' he stopped and
said he was not going any farther in
the rain. Burns started on and re-
marked that the police were frauds.
Captaln Dann immediately placed him
under arrest on the charge of intoxica-
tion and breach of the peace. This
morning, before Judge Hubbell, it
came out in the testimony that Burns
did not drink. He admitted calling the
officer a fraud, Judge Hubbell evident-
sized up the case and fined Burns 35
and suspended sentence.
A
Seeley Wins Again.
In the 25-mile road race at J emaica,
L. I. yesterday, 0. Ford Seeley won
two prizes. One, a Liberty bicycle,
for best time; the other, a cask of bran-
dy for thirtieth position. There were
105 starters. Seeley was scratch man,
crossing the tape in 1 h. 9 m. 46 2-5 s.,
beating his own record by several min-
utes, and also breaking the record for
the course.
New Bond Strlct.
Regarding the refusal of the new
board of county commissioners to if.
cense a place in Greenwich. the Bridge-
port Post says :
In is just hinted that the new board
will not be so free to grant licenses a
was the old one in cases where the re-3
monstrance against it is strong.
Hymeneal.
Miss Emma Scofield of New Canaan
were married by Bev. T. K. Noble of
this city, yesterday, that being their
idea of the prOper celebration of Inde—
pendence day. They went to their
newly furnished rooms in the S. W.
Gregory residence on West avenue.
~Newsboys granted to sell the GA-
, zsr'rn.
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‘ 'cracker.
Mr. George Waters of Norwalk, and:
INDEPEWGE DllY.
The Glorious Fourth Quietly Ob-
served in Norwalk.
Comparatively Few Accidents.
The glorious Fourth in Norwalk was
made somewhat inglorious by a severe
and continued rain storm. The day. at
this end of the town, contrary to all pre-
cedent was ushered in without the usual
ringing of church bells, firing of-mor-
tars, cannon, etc.
This was especially true on the out-
skirts of the city, brought about prob--
ably by the request made through the'
local press that no noisy demonstrations
be made in certain neighborhoods
where people were dangerously sick. -
In the business part of the city there
was a large fund of noise, and several
free-for—all fights, mention of which will
be ftund elsewhere in these col-
umns.
The several fire companies kept open
house and entertained their friends. A
crowd of celebraters secured a quantity
of boxes and crates, and piling them
twenty or thirty feet high set fire to
them in front of the Pioneer truck
house and close to the sidewalk. The
flames threatened setting {adjoining
buildings on fire, and a line of hose was
attached to the Hoyt street hydrant and
the buildings thoroughly drenched with
water.
There was a number of drunks on the
street in the morning, but they were,
as one biblous man asserted, “harmless
patriotic jags.”
It commenced raining about 10 o’clock
which put a dampner on the proposed
enjoyment of many. At noon it was
raining for fair, and in the afternoon
there was a perfect Fairfield County
Agricultural fair rain.
There were comparitively few acci-
dents and those not of a serious nature.
As usual the small boy went to bed
tired out and his father in his morning
devotions thanked the day was over and
no one had been killed.
The ten-mile bicycle race between
Lambert Shutskey and J. H. Louder
attracted a large crowd to the church
Green in the morning. Both men had
been in training for the race for several.
days. The start was made at about 10
o’clock. Louder crossed the tape on
the first half of the race about half a
length ahead of Shutskey. Time, 15 m.
29% seconds. Shutskey seemed to be
letting Louder set the pace. Shutskey
came in a winner leaving Louder about
200 feet behind him. Time, 30 m. 58%
seconds. Both men appeared fresh at
the close of the race. Considerable
money changed hands on the result.
NOTES.
Owing to the rain the picnic of 00. D
was an almost comple‘e failure, it being
impossible to run off any of the events
advertised. There was but a small
crowd present at the grounds. Several
out-of-town companies gave a very
creditable parade in the morning head-
ed by the Old Well band. The rain
also prevented the proposed sham
battle.
Grocer Donnelly reports the largest
sale of powder since he has been in bus:
iness.
The guests at the Town Farm cele-
brated by exploding ”ten pounds of pow-
der in the town cannon.
Owing to the rain the Gun club shoot
was not the success that it was expect-
ed it would be. However, there was
some exellent shooting. A nimrod from
New Haven did some unusually fine
shboting. .
There was quite a display of fireworks
in the evening from private residences,
but they were not of the elaborate na-
ture of previous years.
There was a lively row on Wall street,
Wednesday night. Later the fight was
renewed on Main street, and repeated
on River street. The . fighters, John
Nooney and Joe Carroll wére placed
under arrest as was also J ohn Williams.
They were realeased yesterday morn-
ing, under bonds. This morning they
were given a hearing before Judge
Hubbell. The cases of Carroll and Wil-
liams was continued until the 10th and
that of Nooney until the 19th.
acoinun'rs.
A ladlnamed Broadhurst was severely
burned about the face at East Norwalk, .
Wednesday, while examining, into the
exploslve qualities of a large dynamite
Dr. Baku prescribed for the
youngster.
Warner, the young son of Reporter
Hallock of the Danbury News, while.
examining some gunpowder with ‘a‘
piece of lighted punk on Orchard street,
received flashlight evidence that powder
will ignite. and sacrificed his eyebrows,
eyelashes, and part of his hair in the in-
vestigation. The young son of a Nor-
wiilk reporter was with him but escaped
injury.
A carelessly pointed sky-rocket bored
a hole through the glass i‘rT-thendoor {at
Bailwitz , Bros. store on Main street,
Wednesday night, and severely wound—
ed a kit of mackerel.
Patrick Slattery had one of his hands
severely burned by the explosion of a
cannon cracker which he held in his
hand when the cracker was in an ex-
plosive mood. '
John Hogan has a wound on his right
leg caused by a large fire cracker.
A lad named Ira Lockwood lost his"
eyebrows and a portion of his hair
while he was introducing some powder
to a piece of lighted punk.
In attempting to send a sky rocket
Heavenwardlast evening, Rev. F. E.
Robbins severely burned one of his
hands.
While engaged in shaving his face
yesterday, mail carrier Bennett gave
himself an ugly cut on the neck. The
explosion of a fire-cracker he assigns
as the cause. ' ‘~ _ .
George Wardwell is laid up with a
badly burned foot and leg, the result; of
the explosion of a dynamite cracker.
His trousers were badly burned as was
also a large section of the. cuticle on his
leg. »'
In Bridgeport the cannon cracker
scored a hand, a part of a nose, two
eyes and several fingers. .
At New Britain, Turn hall was dam-
aged $1,200 by a bunch of cannon
crackers setting it on fire.
At Danbury. Walter Smith, a mem-
ber of Co. G, had four fingers of his "
right hand blown off by the accidental
discharge of a gun. '
At Milford, Arthur Downs was struck
in the eye by a. cannon cracker and
will lose the sight.
’-
l-ias He Skipped ?
It is reported that a certain contract
tor and carpenter has skipped out of
town, leaving a number of creditors to
mourn his absence.
Ate up His Corn.
A cow got into letter-carrier Percy
Glendenning’s garden on the night of
the 3d, and celebrated the 4th by eat»
ing up all of Percy’s new corn, cabbage,
and other garden truck.
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Seriously Ill.
Webster Belden is seriously ill at his
home on East avenue and it is not
believed that he can survive more than
a day or two longer. He is suffering
with quick consumption.
New Prosecuting Agent.
Attorney Edward M. Lockwood has
been appointed by the County commisu
sioners prosecuting liquor agent for
Norwalk. Mr. Lockwood will no doubt
make it very interesting for violaters
of the liquor law.
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Brutal Assault.
William Louden assaulted William
Joseph at Winnipauk, last night. When
Mrs. Joseph interfered, L-ouden threw
her down and put his knee on her
breast and clutched her by the throat.
She called for help and a number of
men pulled Louden off.
Wrestllng Match.
There was a first-class wrestling
match between Dr. A. H. Baldwin and
W. K. Maples in the vacant lot on
Isaacs street, Wednesday afternoon.
The crowd voted the doctor as being
the better wrestler of the two.
Wrecked.h
A phaeton carriage belonging to
Liveryman Magner, in which was seat—
ed George Wakeman, collapsed. on
Wall street last night. Two wheels of
the carriage were thoroughly demolish-
ed. Cause, railroad tracks.
A Severe Fall. ,
Mrs. Frederick Belden fell down
stairs at her residence on East avenue
Wednesday. or i was very painfully in—
jured. She was alone in the house at
the time, with the exception of her ' sou
Webster, who is seriously ill, and it
was some time before the neighbors
learned of the accident and went to her
assistance.
The Sick. ' .
Miss Josephine J ennings is very sick
at her home on Camp street.
Mr. George 0. Keeler’s condition is
reported today as being quite critical.
Mrs. Betsy A. Holmes is reported as
being somewhat better this morning.
Mrs. George Meeker is very sick at
the home of hereon on Camp street.
'She has been confined to her bed for
the past eight weeks. .
Mrs. Stephen H. Holmes’ condition
remains about the same with little or
no hopes of her recovery. ,
The venerable Mrs. Phebe J .7 St.
John is seriously sick at the home of
her daughter Mrs. A. B. Hill on Camp
l street.
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Norwalk Chronicler