Connecticut western news., 1892-10-06
4 GOLDEN WEDDING.

Mir and Mrs Alexander s. Harrison, formerly of Salisbury, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage on Wednesday, Sept 28th, at their home in Hartford. Numerous friends gath cred and expressed their congratula- tions, and many letters were received. Valuable gifts also, especially from the brothers and sisters. marked the occa- sion. Among the guests were an aged cousin and his wife, from Wethersfield, he being 94, and she 85 years of age. Several relatives and friends were pres snt from Salisbury; among them, the the brothers and sisters of Mrs Harri- son-Mr Charles Bissell and Mir Will liam Bissell, Mrs Walton, Mrs Hotch- kiss, and Mrs Gillette, also Mrs D. T. Warner and son. Rev l.. H. Reid and wife. formerly of Salisbury, were pres- ent and offered their congratulations.
 It was not an occasion for formal address, but MT Reid wrote as follows: "Dear Friends,
 | lou were mar ried by my distinguished Scotch name sake fifty years ago. It happened that I came to render temporary service in the pulpit which he had filled, and it was in Salisbury that our acquaintance and friendship began. There are many ties that bind us alike to that dear old town. We are proud of its history. You recall the address of Judge Church at the centennial of the town in 184l, and what was said by Gov Holley at the centennial of the nation in 1876. We glory iu the natural features of north western Connecticut, its picturesque scenery, it's forests, lakes and mountains, causing it to be styled by a newspaper writer, 'an American Scotland The highest land in Connecticut is in Salis- bury. It Is not strange that Henry Ward Beecher should have made Sails bury his summer resort for years. We glory also in it's famous iron mines, which furnished cannon for the Revolu- tionary war. Especially are we proud of the useful and distinguished men men of iron character-who have lived in or gone out from Salisbury; among them one secretary of war; three United States Senators; eight Representatives in Congress; three Chief Justices of diff ferent states; four Governors of states; besides several we'll known lawyers and clergymen We love that town also for the sake of the dear relatives and friends who are now living there, and because in that beautiful cemetery other friends and kindred are sleeping, with whom we expect to rest when our day of toll is ended. I bear in mind that recent events have given a new interest to that locality where your childhood days were passed, and that through the munifi- cence of one of your own family, 8 school has been established there which will stand as memorial of love not only, but as 8 potent instrument of good to all who in the coming years shall enjoy the advantages thus provi- ded. It has~not seemed to me fitting to celebrate an occasion like this with a formal re-marriage. That implies that the links have become impaired and weakened. while true love grows strong. CT with time. Let this be an occasion wholly of congratulations, glad time of thankfulness on your part and on ours, that God has 90 mercifully spared you, and that you have had so abundant cause for saying, surely goodness and mercy have followed us all the days oi our lives. May you live on to see many more days of good, flourish like the palm and the cedar. and fulfill in your own experience the promise to the righteous of long life, full satisfaction and abundant fruitfulness. Your many friends here and elsewhere invoke upon you and your children and grsndchil, dren the richest of Heavens blessings.
 Don't fool with indigestion. Tako Booch.