Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-12
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 For Sale by All Druggists. young Middlebury school teacher, who was so murderously assaulted few days ago by Dan Webster, has been steadily improving. Dr. Axtelle thinks she will recover in spite of the fact that her skull is fractured.
 ANsoNIA's EXPLOSION.
 Thomas Grady, plumber, was at work in the cellar of building on Water street, An sonia, yesterday, when a boy came in and shortly went out for something and while he was gone the bottle exploded, shaking the building to its foundation.
 BRIDGEPORT sTEAMBoATs.
 The Peoples Steamboat company and the Bridgeport Steamboat company, two corpora tions which have waged bitter and profit less war against each other in the matter of rates for several years, effected g consolida- tion at joint meeting yesterday afternoon. The new company is capitalized at $500. .000, and new and large steamboat will imme- diately be built to run between Bridgeport and New York.
 There a1e many reports of the coming res- ignation of Principal J. D. Bartley of the Bridgeport high school. MT. Bartley has been disposed to retire from his present position for nearly year past because he felt overweighted with his responsible duties.
 ,nrf nh~ hao amined the project for breakwater at Black Rock harbor to Penfeld reef and south from Fairweather island has made very favora- ble report in the matter.
 srAFFoRDs EMpEzzLRR.
 Much interest is taken In Stafford Springs in the petition circulated for the release of serving out four years' sentence. He has been in prison about two years. Hicks was one of Stafford's prominent citizens up to the time of the embezzlement. He was cashier of the Stafford National bank and treasurer of the Stafford Savings bank, which institution became badly involved through him. He was also the treasurer and secre- tary of the Holland County Agricultural soci- ety and interested in hearty all of StaEord's business enterprises.
 His downfall was great blow to Stafford. It is understood that sx-Congressman Buck has interested himself in the matter.
 CHESHIRE PAST AND PRESENT. The only daughter of Hon. John Hall who reached maturity was Eunice, the fifth child. She married first MT. Samuel An drew. graduate of Yale college, 1711, and son of Rev. Samuel Andrew, who was pastor at Milford and also acting rector or presi- dent of Yale college. By him she had two daughters, one of whom married Rev. Will liam Russell (Yale 1745). and the other married Jonathan Law, jr., son of the governor. Eunice married second Cover nor Jonathan Law. Of her chil- dren by this marriage Richard Law of New London was Q member of the Conti- mental congress and chief justice of the su- preme court of Connecticut. He left a nu- merous and distinguished posterity. After Governor Laws death Eunice Hall married Colonel Joseph Pitkin, colonel of tho First regiment, 175l. and worthy member of one of Connecticut's historical families. Her epitaph, still to be seen at New Haven, reads as follows.
 "In Memory of Madam EUNICE PITKIN Relict of Col. Jos. Pitkin of Eaft Hartford. She was the only daughter of the Hon'bls JOHN HALL of WallinRford and became | first the Consort..of Mir. SAMUEL ANDREW | son of Rev. Rector Andrew And afterwards Comfort of GOVT. LAW. She was Lady dustry and Economy, For Virtue and Piety, For Kindness, Benevolence and Sociabil- ity fad for a certain No- bleneff of Spirit and Dignity | of Manners. She lived an Honor and Orns- ment To the Families with which she was connected And Died in this City June 3rd 1774 Act. 76." It must be apparent from these things that Rev. Samuel Hall had ex- 1 tensive and influential family connections, that the interest in his life and labors is by l no means confined to a single locality, but is | widespread over his native state and through out the great west, which, developed and pop- ulated since his death, now contains not few of his descendants. Oae of these, MT. Theodore Parsons Hall of Detroit, Mich., has prepared and published an interesting ac- count of his ancestor. He has also had memorial tablet of Rev. Samuel Hall, the first pastor of said church. Of this pastors early life we have but little record. Care fully reared by pious and loving pa- rents, prepared for Yale college by Rev. Samuel Whittlesey, his own pastor, he entered college at the age of seventeen, and graduated In 1716. The college was then located at ssybrook and was removed to New Haven a month after his graduation. He took the position of tutor and was sent to Wethersfisld, where he took charge of body of students who had succeeded during the controversy as to the permanent location of the college. He hold this position for three years, and subsequently, studied the. ology with Rev. Samuel Stoddard of Northampton. In 1724 parish was set off from Wallingford and named New Cheshire, and in October of the same year permission was granted to settle minister. The parish was then sparsely settled and the church at first numbered only fifteen males and fifteen or sixteen females. For several years previous to being settled MT. Hall had been preaching at intervals to the people about Cheshire. His call to the pastorate was in December, 1723, and he was ordained on December 9, 1724, tho Rev. Samuel Whittlesey preaching the ordination ser- mon. From private note book in which the pastor kept the church records we ex- tract the following: Account of ye Church: In 1724 ye church of New Cheshire was gath cred on ye Fast previous to my ordination by Rev. Chauncsy and Mr. Whittls:ey, and dc dvt .9 @ S: sg t4 a if fs o
 "9th Dec., 1724: Samuel Hall WAS ordained Pastor of ys Church of New Cheshire ye 9th day of Dsc'br., 1924. At . Church meeting in Now Cheshire, voted that ye Holy Scriptures should be publickly read on ys Sabbath, in Gods House, as part of ye public worship. Bat five dissenting votes. Test, Samuel Hall, Pastor Ist. Church." It sounds strange to us now to hear of such a vote and especially of any objections. Our early settlers in getting away from the Old Country State church, which they felt con- tainsd so much of popery, went to the ex- trsme of discarding everything which savored of that prosecuting es- tablishment. The Scripture readings as conducted over there were only part of the forms, which were hurried through with as mere forms. The Bible was not read for edification or instruction but only as part of form. Our people began after while to learn that the Scriptures might still be read edifyingly even In public. Tot all did Hence tho Ave di.senting ones.