Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-05

Personal.
Coroner Mix was away in New York yes

Coroner Mix was away III New YORK yes
terday.
Ex-senator Eaton has returned home from
Washington.
Bishop Hendricken of Providence, former
ly of the diocese of Hartford, is seriously i'll.
Mr. Massena Clark is out again after an
illness of seven OF eight days which confined
him to his residence.
Young Mr.. Forsyth, son of Mr.. Thomas
Forsyth of the Elm City Dye works, is slow
ly recovering from his long illness.
Ex-Governor Bigelow and Mr.. S. B. But
Ter, of Chapel street, left this city yesterday
and they will sail for Europe to-day.
Mr.. Edward D. Robbins, a Hartford bust
ness man, and Mr.. Hine of the State board
of education sail for Europe to-day on the
same steamer.
Professor Brush, of Yale, and family, and
Charles Dickerman and Miss Dickerman, of
New Haven, were registered at Geneva May
%, and William B. Wooster was registered
at Florence.
Justin K. Sage of Cromwell, aged seventy
three, fell from a building upon picket
fence, Wednesday afternoon, and was killed.
He was treasurer of Washington lodge, F.
and A. M, ana q director III one OF IuOr0
Middletown banking institutions.
Henry Richardson, a brass moulder at the
Peck Brothers factory, Franklin street, left
yesterday for his old home in London, Onta-
rio, where he will take charge of a brass
moulding shop. The best wishes of his
shopmates and of the firm go with him.
The late Rev. E. E. johnson of Trinity
college, Hartford, was a most devoted and
sanity man and an earnest scholar. His
memory is highly revered by those who
knew him. At the Ascension day service at
Trinity church, Hartford, an elegant altar
and chancel rail given in his honor by the
parish and friends in general of the late rec
tor was consecrated. Many clergymen took
part and the church was filed.
Theodore Winthrop.
June 4, 1886.
To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
While perusing my Christian Leader
this week, my eye fell upon an ar ticle signed
emily L. Sherwood" and calling to mind
the brilliant wife of lawyer in Washington,
who, with her family, made my first visit to
that city exceedingly pleasant. I began at
once to read, knowing that this welcome cor
respondent of many periodicals East and
ting satisfaction. As I came to the closing
paragraph felt that must share it with your
readers by your kind permission for there are
many still in this beautiful" City of Elms''who
honor the name and revere the memory of
the author and hero, Theodore Winthrop,
whose grave in Grove street cemetery bears
doubtless still the tokens of remembrance
given on Memorial day. This is the para
graph:
the other day saw no mention in any paper, by
any of of its NEST notable reasons
sound of fife and drum and all the pageantry of an
army forgot that there once belonged to the
hero, though he died in an insignificant skirmish at
little Bethel Fam. Sh0 helped sss s.E TO york
Seventh regiment ilIustrious. l mean Theodore
Winthrop, man who will be held IN loving remem-
ed by some men and women as superior to martial
or solderly qualities, With tear in my eye FL
grave for the pleasure his genius has given to me
and the world that still remembers him"
My heart echoes Mrs. Sherwood's apprecia-
tive words and in thus sending them to col
umns where New Haven eyes may rest upon
them help her to place her fragrant bios
SONS on that honored grave. His
comrades, living and dead, may
have shared, and doubtless did, his manli-
ness and heroism, but few of them had his
genius, as they themselves would cheerfully
acknowledge. Major Winthrop was a writer
gifted with rare ability to pen graphic
sketches of war experiences, and have often
found myself indebted to him when I have
secured attractive pages for record volume
of the war. Among the graves which I most
prefer to visit, and to which take my patri-
otto or literary guests, is the grave of Theo-
dore Winthrop, the wielder of both sword
and pen. "Finis coronat opus" Honored
be his memory PHEBE A. HANAFoRD.
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