The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-04

Hall; Miss Dorothy Wright, daughter
 of Professor Wright; Miss P. Tyler,
 daughter of William Tyler; Miss Rhoda
 Sargent, daughter of Henry Sargent,
 and Miss Elizabeth Richards, daughter
 of Professor Eugene Richards.
 ------------------------ STORIES OF OLD CONNECTICUT
 In the double November number of
 Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly ap-
 ancient laws and law courts of Con-
 necticut.
 says the author, B. J. Hendrick,
 was excused with what was evidently
 regarded as a mild punishment. He
 was accused of uttering the words,
 By God aboard a Dutchman"
 though whether the place of the male
 faction increased the severity of the crime is not clear. This was not Kings
 first offense, as many of the good peo-
 pie testified. He was brought before the governor, who sentenced him some what in this style: *'when the son of an Egyptian blasphemed the name of God, 1t was not borne.a It is the piercing through the name of God in passion which Is the high provocation of God Whereas the rule is, let your words be yea, yea, and nay nay, and by mans word he may lose his life I hope 1t was only rash and sinful oath: some have been in the stocks and their tong ues put in cloven stick. But I hope this has not been disrespectfully done, and so I sentence that you be whipped, and in the interim be kept in the any of his compatriots reached that stage of contun1ely in their attacks upon public functionaries that has im- mortalized one Captain John Stone, of Massa chusetts, who in his blasphemous assault on Justice Ludlow, called him. to his face "Justass" Ludlow, and as a punishment was fined 100 pounds and banished from the colony under pain of death.
 Again, said Mir Hendrick, one John Jenner a New HaSener, accused in 1640 of being drunk with strong waters" was acquitted because of the extreme of the weather. Thomas Frankland, however, did not get off so easily For entertaining disorderly he was whipped, fined twen- ty shllngs and deprived of his cellar and lot, the privilege of staying in the plantation being granted to him only upon his good behavior Cellars, ap- became the scene of so many of this kind that we find an ordinance passed requiring that all persons living in cellars to find quar- ters elsewhere. Cellars, however, con- tinued to be used for this uprightecus Thus the records contain a detailed account of the saturnalia of one Joseph B. and Joseph C.--evidently the John Doe and Joe Roe of this gen. sration In court the former penitently confessed that they had drunk sack in his fathers cellar, out of the bung, with tobacco pipe, and in the cham pet out of a bottle" Against them ap- peared one sister Linge, who testified to the disgraceful behavior of the young men after these potations, and the court conceived that they deserv- ed to be severely whipped"
 Another story is to the following ef- ! 'ect:
 Once upon a time-to be more pre- ,ise, in the latter part of the eighteenth [ ,entury--there lived a worthy Connec- | icut divine named the Rev. Samuel Pe- i CTS. Peters was a picturesque person. lge in his way, but his fame rests en- irely upon the fact that he wrote a . book. This is one of the most marvel | ous works ever issued from the press. It was MT. Peters, for example, who 1rst discovered, and made known to he world, that the founder of Yale college was a Rev Thomas Peters, evil lently one of his own ancestors; that 1t Bellows Falls the water flowed so r ast that it became as hard as marble. making it possible to float crowbar ipon it. that two most marvellous the "whappermocker" and he cuba (evidently the ancestors of he jabbercock) roamed wild in the forests; and 1t is also from dr. Peters that we first learn of the fa- nous incursicn of the Wtndhan1 frogs But it was in the early jurisprudence f Connecticut that this expatiate made his most interesting discoveries. Ie informed his English readers-and aost of them believe the story devoutly 0 this day--that the citizens of the tate were forbidden by law to make nince pies, to play on any instrument f music except the drum trumpet or awsharp, and that every male must ave his hat cut round, according to
 cap"--the model preferably being the ard shell of a pumpkin In other ynrds MT Peters was the original romulgator of the Connecticut "blue aws;" and his fame as the inventor Of lany of them is secure,