Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-28
The SnaIIpor Scare AbasIng


 He then skipped town. The police have been
 The Smallpox sGare AbasIng.
 It is reasonably settled that there is to be no epidemic of smallpox in this city this season. The health department have been very diligent in their efforts to cenfne the disease to the district where it originated and have succeeded. One person has died, and another one, little Flossie Davis, is i'll, but no special danger is apprehended from a spreading of the disease. The little Davis girl is gaining little, and there is hope of saving her life.
 Fred w. Peterson Arrested For For
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 Deputy Marshal Frank M. Lovejoy and Inspector Bario arrested Frederick W. Peter son in Fair Haven yesterday afternoon for forgery. Peterson obtained $2 by forging 8 money order in Middletown April 13. At that time he was working in Middlstown and was sent by his employer to procure money order for $2 that was to be sent to l.. B. Brague of Hinsdale, Mass. This was ob- tained all right and it was put into letter
 
 opened the letter, represented himself as Brague at the postoffce and obtained the money.
 LAID AT REST.
 Funeral of mrs. Catherine Van Rens-
 salear MarsdeR, Wife Of s. l.. Mars.
 den.
 The funeral of Mrs Catherine Van Renssa- I.- |. F-e c n place yesterday afternoon from her late res- idence, No. 163 York street, at o'clock. It was 8 deeply sad and solemn occasion to many hearts. The lower rooms were filled to overfowing with sympathizing and sor- rowing friends gathered to render the last sad tribute of love and friendship for the sleeper. The day without was the brightest, most beautiful Sand most springlike of the year, and seemed in unison with the bright, genial and sunny heart of the loved one whose spirit had fled to new and far brighter scenes than any of earth. Beautiful and lovely flowers, of which the deceased was ever passionately fond, filled the room where lay the easkee with their fragrance and a sense of their beauty, and seeNed most fitting in their grace and purity and beauty for her whose soul so rejoiced in the true, the good and the beautiful. A universal sense of deep and personal bereavement pervaded the as- sembly in the presence of the mute lips which never more on earth will thrill with pleasure or bring serene joy and glad ness in the hallowed circle of friend- ship. The services were opened by Rev. MT. Willard, pastor of the Congregational church in Westville, who read the selections from Holy Writ, among which were the pas saRes: Lord, thou hast been our dwelling -Tn G. -T- + rection of the dead. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. In my fathers house are many mansions; and, what are these ar- rayed in white robes2 The impressive read ing finished, prayer was offered by Rev. MT. Munger, pastor of the United church. In the complications, Christian hope, the bangs of separation by the death of loved ones, the unutterable sorrow of the loss of deeply loved friends and companions, the blessed light which illumines the pathway to the bourne whence no traveller returns, afforded by the light from Calvary, the solace and serene hope which Christianity vouch- safes humanity, were themes brought before the attention. The prayer for the binding up of broken hearts through the light from the cross, which illumines even the darkness of the grave and speaks of blessed immor- tality beyond this transitory life, was most comforting. With the prayer the exercises closed. It was announced that the burial y. Those present then took the last sad glance at the features of the sleeper, which bore an expression beautifully calm, serene and peaceful. The interment was in the Grove street cemetery. The bearers were General K E. Bradley and Theo. D. Ba- con of this city ,son of Rev. Dr. L.W. Bacon; F. R. Ostlsr, New York city, and w. Tur- Yale, a nephew of deceased, had charge of the funeral ceremonies. The floral tributes were very numerous and very beautiful. Among those present at the funeral from out of the city were Mir. Ostler of New York and Nr. Morse and Mr. Roberts, super intendentsA At the Farrel foundry, Ansonia Illustrative of the wonders of the present age is the marvellous celerity of communica- tion with the old world. MT. Marsden on his arrival here on Wednesday sent a cable gram to the widow of the late ex-Mayor Roland Marsden of Leeds, England, brother of Mir. Marsden, receiving the reply "A World of Sympathy" in four hours. The oldest person present at the funeral was Mrs. James Brink, aged eighty-seven.
 The late Mrs. Marsden was a daughter of the eminent Professor Amos Eaton, one of the founders of the celebrated Van Renssalear institute at Troy, N. F., whose memory is held most dear at this well known institu- ton and who was also an author of various works in his line of thought and study. She ' was sister of the late Major General Eaton, who died suddenly few years ago at the | Yale Art school, and who was West Point graduate and won distinction in the U. s. A. | The deceased lady was most tenderly reared I and carefully and iberally educated, ,and was of rare mental gifts and was not only | charming intellectually, but beloved for her | rare gsntleness and goodness of heart, coupled l with most engaging and winning exterior and | manners. She was dearly beloved by legion ! of friends and when few years ago she with | her husband spent thlee years in the old | world, her reception in society of culture and I high station was such as to leave her on her | return store of most charming delightsome | She was lady of great worth \ of character and sincere Christian. For | many years she was 8 member of the Vest vile Congregational church, where she was | married to MT. Marsden thirty-fve years ego. | Of late years her health here has been deli- ar foreign tour, which MT. Marsden had projected. As the summer residence of the | family at Savin Rock her health I rallied somewhat, but for the last | year or two it had failed materially She Il was seized with what proved to be her last | Illness soon after her husband had departed f from the city on business journey to Aus Rusta, Georgia, and her case rapidly devel- | 0ped into pneumonia. A telegram reached | NIT. Marsden at Augusta last Monday after | noon apprising him of her dangerous illness, and at o'clock he had started to return, reaching here in about forty hours-a dis | ;ance of 800 miles-but, as it proved, too | ate, his beloved companion having already | passed away. She leaves a memory filled with precious significance to sa host of i friends, who will regret z nd sigh for the | ouch of Q vanished hand and the sound of r0ice that is still.