New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-29
GENERAL NOTES.

new chime of bells, which is said to be the
largest in the country. has been presented to Holy
Trinity Church. Philadelphia, by Mr. Joseph e. Temple
II was made in Belgium, and consists Of twenty.eght
| beLs the heaviest OF which weighs $500 pounds.
| street pedler In Detroit who, having exc
planned the merits Of article In his stock to poe
sble customer other day found that he was talking
to reporter faced the music and submitted to inter
He declared that the business heathfal and
steadyj thah knowledge Of goods and men and cities
made his success certain; that his family lived
Chicago much respected by their neghbors who hadn
the remotest idea what his occupation was hat he was
going home this week TO attend his daughters wedding;
and that his git TO the bride would be check Tor Co.,
The French arsenals, where the work of trans
forming the French Navy is going are scenes Of great
activity Besides the work begun In previous years.
which Is steadily advancing the following vessels
have been begun within the past twelve months: The
Charles Marcel and the Brennus, iron-clads Of 1000
horsepower EACH former IN Touon the latter In the
Lorent dock ard, eight ironclad gunboats from 375
400 horse power the Cherbourg Lorent and Roche
fort dock yards cruiser OF 1880 horsepower, IN the
Brest dock yard Ave station despatch boats in the Tou-
lOn Torrent and Lockport dockyards two large trans
port ships, in the Rochefort dockyard three fleet de-
spach boats In che Roohefort and Lorient Dock ards;
the yaaiour and the CoHdOr~in the Toaon and Roche
fort dockysrds aud two smaller torpedo boats In the
T0ulOn dock-yard.
There stands on Third South-st, Salt Lake
whose walls covered with many coats Of white
wash that the nature OF the material Of which they
made is completely concealed. Plaster figures painted
In brilliant colors, flaming curtains, and at the windows
varegated frnges OF tssuepaper contrast Enthusiastically
with dazzling Wilderness of the walls. and convince
the spectator that the OF the premises must BIO
himself singular combination. And so he is; indeed
the nhabiran far stranger than the habitation He
is Norwegian Mormon, fifty years old SO far from
having numerous wives he has no wife at all, bustead
lastly keeps promise which he made more than thirty
years ago to girl whom he married her deathbed,
thai ne would never marry again. He lives entirely
alone and admits that oppressed by tine solitude OF
which ne never admits YlstOr On several
occasions he has felt inclined marry, and the Mormon
bis6ops nave urged him 70 take that straight
salvaton but the recollection OF his promise mas anyways
interpOsed.
Wethersfeld has always claimed the dis
tincton which authorities Colonial history generally
concede having the first settlement IN Connects
cut But now, a long letter to The Hartford COurcnt
H. Hayden OF Windsor Locks, disputes this claim
in behalf Windsor aud establishes pretty
good case. He makes it clear that September 49,
1888 william Holmes aud other Plymouth colonlsts
sailed up the Connecticut River and landed at windsor,
where they built house and fortified it against the In
dans This was two years before the Wetherseld set
Element was begun. "There TO be no question
about date" says Thursdays Hare1 Pdtdd'um
'the point dispute being whether Holmes really es-
tablished settlement this time, or merely, as stated
by Bancroft built clearinghouse for the purpose Oh
dealing with the Indians. Upon this point Mr.. Hayden
auotes from several writers the time and seems TO
pretty satisfactorily establish the ract that Nndsor.
from its very beginning, something more tnan
tradng-pOst. On the whole are inclined 10 thlnk
that Mr. HAYDEN has fairly established his point tbat 70
Windsor and Wetherslield belongs the credit OF
being the first English settem9n In CONNECTICUT ana
this settlement begun just TWO centuries anda
half ago yesterday"