The Press., 1889-10-10
LOCAL TopICs-PENs'D AND scIssoRED.

LOCAL TOPICs-PENN'D AND sCIsSORED. -George Johnson and John Hanson, oi Worcester, Mass, employed at Rockville
 as masons on the new Union church build
 ing, were thrown 75 feet from the steeple last Friday morning by the breaking of a
 staging. Both were fatally injured, strik- ing on the granite foundation. Johnson s
 back was broken and his ribs were crush ed. Hanson's skull was crushed and he
 received other dangerous injuries. John Toohey, of Manchester, was on the staging
 and narrawly escaped. Johnson was % and leaves no relatives in this country. Both of the men are young Swedes, and
 have been in the employ of Darling Bros.
 for the past two years as masons' tenders.
 Hanson is single man, and has brother Joseph who lives at Worcester. Darling
 Bros. speak in high terms of both, as they
 were faithful and industrious.
 -"E. s. H." writes to the Rockville Journal Your correspondent in last l weeks Journal, "A. s. K.," is all off in
 his conjecture that iron ore was mined
 near Lake Snipsic for use in the iron
 works formerly located near or on the site
 of Adams mill.
 This blast furnace, like the iron works at Stafford Hollow, was in operation dur l ing and for some years subsequent to the | revolutionary war,-indeed much of the ordinance used by Washington's army was cast in Stafford and Rockville, but manu- factured almost entirely of bog ore, of
 which large quantities were formerly found in eastern Holland county.
 The query is also made if Lafayette slept at the old King tavern (now the towns almshouse) when making his Amer ican tour in 1924? He did not sleep there, but stopped there for few hours, and a reception was given him by the surviving veterans of the revolution residing in this vicinity, among whom was Col. Elijah Chapman of Holland, for many years eher, if of Holland county, who owned and lived on the farm now occupied by Fl. P. Rix. Col. Chapman was an old fr1end and com under him at the capture of Yorktown, and the meeting of these two veterans, af, ter separation of forty years, was said to have been very affecting.
 I notice that the Stafford Press, after stating that Lafayette did not sleep at the King tavern, retracts and admits that he did sleep there upon his trip, going from New York to Boston. This I think mis- take, as another route was taken to Boston. and he only passed through Vernon on his return journey
 My authority for all this, is the con- versation of the late William T. Cogswell, whose memory was usually accurate upon all historical and traditional questions, and if Father Cogswel was alive he would not permit misstatements like the above to go unchallenged. He was a recognized authority in all matters concerning the early history of Rockville, and extremely sensitive of historical errors.
 Asking pardon for making much of an apparently trivial matter, my apology is love of historical accuracy.
 Rev. V. M. Cleveland was installed pastor of the Congregational church al Bolton, on Tuesday. The council was held i'll the forenoon and included minis ters and delegates from the churches al
 Manchester, Andover, Columbia, Hebron, Manchester Center, Buckingham and tue South church, New Britian At the install latian services ill the afternoon, Rev. Dr. Cooper, of New Britian, delivered the sermon. The charge to the pastor was given by Rev. $. w. Robbins, of Manches. ter Center; the right hand of fellowship by Rev. c. H. Barber of Manchester, and the charge to the people by Rev. F. D. Avery of Columbia.
 ID. P. Carpenter, of Eastford, raised 10 pf ( lo,,