Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14
Father Boehm.

of his granddaughter on Staten Island on
 Tuesday, Dec. 2sth. He was the oldest
 clergyman in the country and probably the
 oldest in the world. -EFTs
 Henry Boehm was born in Cone stoua
 Lancaster county, Pa, on the 9th of June
 IT'S. This was immediately after the bat
 tie of Lexington, one year before the Dec
 laration of Independence, and nine years be-
 fore the Methodist Episcopal Church was
 organized. His ancestors were from
 Switzerland. When fifteen years old he
 went to learn the milling business. and
 while thus engaged he was first seized by 8 desire to devote himself to the service of
 the Lord. His father kept house of pray CT, the name of which has been handed down to posterity as .Boehm's Chapel It was the only temple of worship in that section of the state. Thither resorted Robert Strawbridge, who laid the founda-
 ton of Methodism in Mafyland; Benja- min Abbott, Richard Webster (the second
 Methodist preacher raised up in America), and many other distinguished apostles of Methodism. E 3aa f513 a' l*
 His itinerant life as preacher began in January 1900, on the Dorchester circuit, in the eastern shore of Maryland and in the Philadelphia Conference. Of his career he gave the following account at his centen- nial anniversary;
 II have witnessed with my own eyes the
 many changes in this country. When l became 8 man there were but thirteen states in thls country. witnessed the sys- tem of slavery and rejoice that have lived to see it wiped out from the land 1 knew the time when there were no steam CTS or locomotives. I have travelled over
 l60, 900 miles on horseback, and have seen the increase of cities from small towns.
 When was young man New York city only extended to Canal street, and Brook lyn was only small town with few houses. I was born nine years before the first Methodist, church was built. At the time commenced to preach there were but nineteen travelling preachers and but few commodlous churches. Our meetings were held in houses and barns then, and I have had stones hurled at me while preach ing. The time occupied in travelling with Bishop Asbury was the most import ant of my life, as was the representative Of the Church. Icrossed the Alleghany Mountains many times in thirty-slx hours, but have since done 1t in an express train in much shorter space of time. visited the state of Indiana, and went thirty-fiye miles into the the interior and only saw the faces of six human beings. hope to see the union of the Methodist Church North and South. The desire leaps strong and warm in my heart, which still beats for the welfare of the Church in which I have spent my best endeayors. In 1900 saw the first steamship at Elizabeth, N. J.; it was then saw for the first time the noble Hudson. it would be impossible to recount the many scenes through which passed. | knew all the bishops of the Church, but l for none did bear the affection I did for l Bishop Asbury. was his travelling com panion and bosom friend.n "' rr~.a
 His centennial anniversary was celebra- ted on the sth of June last, in Trinity Methodist church, Jersey city. - ..4----+
 THE Cosr OF MODERN WARFARE.-The commander-in-chief the other night, in re- spending for the army at Fishmonger's Hall, conveyed to his audience very good idea of the expense of modern ordinance when he said that every shot from the new big gun at Woolwich would cost s25. It seems large sum of money to spend for every round fired from gun, especially when we put the original cost of the weap- on itself at sl5. 900, the @m mentioned by the Duke of Cambridge, and bear in mind that in all probability scarcely five hundred shots will be fired from it from first to last. Compared with the heavy guns of fifty years ago, the artillery and ammunition of. to-day are indeed serions items of expense.
 A frst-rate line-of-battle ship in the days of Nelson, carrying 100 guns, ,supposing they were all 32pounders, would have cost but s22oo, or s2O per gun, for her whole arm- ament, while we propose for the Infexible now building at Portsmouth, an armament of four Sl-ton guns, each of which the commander-in-c chief values at 9l5,OO0. A broadside from these four guns will cost, therefore, exactly s1o0, while in the case of s2-pounder, reckoning the cannon ball tt two shillings, and the powder charge at three, no less than 400 rounds could be fired for the same money. What would be the amount of damage wrought in each Case IS, of course, another matter. The way in which the s25 per shot is made up IS at once apparent when we take into con- sideration the nature of the ammunition used.
 There arc in the first instance about 25o | pounds of gunpowder, which costs proba- ply half the total amount then comes the | flannel or serge cartridge cases to contain | the charge, and finally the chilled iron pro- Jectile. neatly turned and fitted with brass studs, weighing 125o pounds or more. So that the Duke of Cambridge does not at all | exaggerate in his estimate; but, on the contrary, if the loading apparatus and the | fuze and burster for shells, and other arti- | cles are taken into account, we believe he | somewhat understates the cost. In any case, one thing is obVious-that with such | guns and ammunition it will never do to l throw 8 shot away.-London News.
 FROZEN TO DEATH.-The dead body of David Hobbs of Bridgeport was found in the woods in Stratford on the 9th inst. He started from his residence at 464 East Main | street three weeks ago last Monday to look | tor watch he had lost the day previous while out walking Tn the woods. He has never been seen since that day which was