The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-21

probably be disbanded at the close of
 camp The company has but few
 men in camp and their captain, Lath-
 rop, is not with them, for the reason, it is said that so few of his men an- peared for camp duty. Before the dis banding of the company, if this meas use is decided upon, the affairs Of the | company will be subjected to court of inquiry. The company this week has nearly as many absentees as has the entire Third regiment, there being
 only fifty-three of it's members in camp.
 Governor Coffin had expected to pre-
 sent to those of the four regiments en-
 titled to them the long service medals Wednesday, but it was found that the ceremony required so much time that
 the medals could not be presented to all the regiments on the same day. The | medals of members of the Second reg iment were presented yesterday after noon immediately after reglmental drill. Governor Coffin, accompanied by
 members, of his staff, rode over to Col onel Burpee's quarters, where he was received iii a fitting manner by the col onel The men who had earned the medals were summoned and stationed in a line in front of Colonel Burpee's | tent, the field officers of the regiment being drawn in a line at right angles | to this line. Governor Coffin made brief preliminary remarks, saylng II
 gave him great pleasure to thus reward | the long and faitlfu services of the men for the state. He then called for- | ward each man to receive his medal and complimented each one. The guard detail from the Second regiment yesterday was as follows: Off,
 fcer of the day, Captain W. " Pearn of company II; officer of the guard, Lieut.. P. F. Reynolds of company p; supernumerary officer of the guard, Lieut. Charles Smith of company F; Sergeants Patrick Dannaher of com pany G, w. F. Beardsley of company E, A. M. Osborne of company F, Cor porals c. E. Pronman of company l. B. A. Young of company A, William Doolittle of company B, A. r. Payne of company K Musician Frank Anderson of company H.
 The details from the New Haven companies were as follows: Company F, Privates Purite, North, Thomas. Su- pernumerary Private Craft; company c, Privates Brennan, Burke, Gilbuly
 Mcclure, ,Supernumerary Private Seery; company D, Privates T. Kenney, J.
 Kinney, J. J. Kenan, o. Kirst, J. Ma
 gee, Supernumerary J. Johnson; com pany B, Privates McMillan, Henry Ocherson; company E. Privates Della ney, Raffile, Reed, Supernumerary Haul ser; company K of Wallingford, Cor poral Payne, Privates c. Todd and w. Todd.
 The Second regiment band each day ing quality of music equalled by few bands in New England.
 The ladies at headquarters are en- thusiastic in their praise of the band and consider it the best in the brigade A concert was given by the band in
 front of Colonel Burpee's quarters last evening, and the following program was played:
 "Col. Tyler's March"
 Overture-"S "Semiramide". .... Rossini
 Picolo Duet-"Golden Robin Polka" ...... .... ...., ............ .Bousquet
 Messrs. Guilford and Hegel.
 "Reminiscences of Meyerbeer.' | "Miserere" from "Il Trovatore." Duet, trombone and cornet, Messrs. Gould and Hoare. "The Racket at Gilligan's." The last number was played at the
 concert at headquarters Wednesday night, and was repeated last evening by special request,
 Comrade Sharpe of Guilford, a mem-
 Der of Admiral Foote post, visited Gen
 eral Peck at headquarters yesterday. He took with him to camp the auto
 graph book of Admiral Foote post
 This book contains the signatures of some of the most prominent men In military circles and in civic life in the past quarter century, among them be- ing the autograph signature of General Sheridan, General Sherman, James G. Blaine, Colonel Fred Grant, General Dickinson and Colonel Howe, past de- partment commanders, Colonel w. B. Wooster, H. Clay Trumbull, war chap lain of the old Tenth C. w., Governor Lounsbury, Senator o. H. Platt, War ner Miller Commanders in Chief of the G. A. R. Vesey, Kountz, Weisner, Adams and LaWlor, ex-Governor Bur- leigh of Maine, ex-Governor Bracket of Massachusetts, ex-Governor Morris, ex-Governor Bulkeley, General Faulk- ner, U. s. A.; Horatio c. King, ex-Gov- ernor Woodbury of Vermont and Gov ernor Coffin.
 STRAY SHOTS.
 Among the visitors at headuuarters were Lieutenant Zalinsky of the Sec ond U. s. Artillery stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, Colonel Granger of the late Governor Norris staff, Colonel Morse, exAssistant Quartermaster General, Prof. Sheath of Yale and wife.
 rs. o. Vincent Coffin arrived at the governors headquarters yesterday morning, accompanied by Mrs. Ray, Miss Bessie Ray, Miss Grace Camp and Colonel Campbell of Middletown.
 Carlton B. Hoadley was one of the New Haven visitors at camp yester- day.
 Ex-Lieutenant Ball, Mir Mainline, Robert Youngerman, Frank Younger man and Major Blakeslee visited Com pany E.
 MT and Mrs. Michael Dillon, John McCue, George White and James Par ish visited Quartermaster Dillon of Col onel Burpee's staff.
 Mrs. Munger, Miss Ida Hammond Miss Stanton, Mrs. Crane, Miss Bessie Crane, and Miss Goodrich of New Ha- ven visited Private Snyder of the Grays. Other visitors to the Grays were s. c. Fleetwood, Samuel Punder- son, J. Cunningham, Edward Knight.