Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-07
Personal.

MT. H. B. Hoyt, of New Canaan. well low with cancer.
 Miss De Ette Simpson, daughter of Hon. Samuel Simpson, of Waliingford, is very i'll with malarial fever
 Mrs. Dr. w. W. Baldwin, of Ansonia, and her sister, Mrs. Colburn, sail to-day from New York for Florence, Italy. The heirs of Andrew McDerm ott, who was killed by falling embankment, have sued the city of Hartford for $5,0oO. Mir. Wm. Jones succeeds Captain Brooks as keeper of the lighthouse at Faulkners Island MT. Jones has been keeper of the Penfeld Reef light for two years.
 The firm of l.. E. Ryder & Go. has been dissolved MT. Ryder remains in sole charge. His partner, MT. Henry Ross, retires. MT. Ryder's business is large and still increasing. Miss Louise Flagg, daughter of Rev. J. B. Flagg, formerly of this city, was married to Charles Scribner, of Scribner's Sons, Thurs day, at the residence of her parents in Stam- ! ford
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Lane. of Walling- l ford, had thclr silver wedding Thursday | evening. The National band, of Walling- I ford, of which he is member, gave him a serenade.
 | MT. John H. Crossman, deputy supreme commander of Connecticut, American Legion of Honor, is about to organize branch of ! the Legion in Stamford, as he has already successfully done in Norwalk, South Norwalk
 and Bridgeport.
 | At Samuel Bishops residence on East | +Ea o;7v
 wedding of worthy couple, Mir. and Mrs.
 Albert F. Bishop, was celebrated. There were
 present friends and relatives from Clinton,
 New London, Springfield and Guilford, and the presents were very handsome. A silver l tea set was received from brothers and sis | ters, a silver cake basket from the officers of 1 the steamer Continental (of which boat Cap
 tain Bishop is first pilot) 8 silver vase from l Albert Bishop of New York, and there were other fine presents.
 ! Henry s. Allen of Company I, Fifteenth
 C.. V., BOW living in Cheshire, has just re-
 ceived back 8 Bible which was in his knapsack 1 just before the battle near Kinston, N. C., in March, 1865. His knapsack was used to
 swell dirt pile in front of hastily con
 structed rife pit and he never expected to I l Catchin, of Enfield, N. O., found it. adver- ! tised it in the Philadelphia zEnes and Cap-
 tain M. D. Munson, of Wallingford, saw the
 advertisement and thus the Bible came back
 to it's owner, who prizes it very highly. I Present at the silver wedding of Mir. and I Mrs. Julius Tyler, jr., spoken of yesterday, I were Hon. John H. Leeds and wife, James D.
 Dewell and wife, Mir. and Mrs. Julius Tyler
 (parents of the host), Fred. H. waldron and
 wife, Frank c. Bushnell and wife, Lewis D.
 Chidsey and wife, Walter Chidsey, Mir. and
 Mrs. Fred F. Andrews, Frank s. Andrew and
 wife, Seth Cruttenden and wife, Herrick P.
 Frost and wife, P. s. Crofut and wife, A. c.
 Hendrick, Norris B. Mix and wife, J. M. D.
 Hendrick and wife, Mss Hendriok, Gen. l..
 A. Dickinson and wife of Hartford, Charles
 B. Hendrick and family, Mrs. c. H. Pond,
 Charles H. Doolittle and wife, Mrs. Plant,
 Mrs. George A. Stevens, Miss Ella Cliss and
 Miss Miles; also Henry L. Atwater and wife
 of Atlanta. Ga brother and sister in law ot
 MT. Tyler, who came on expressly to attend