The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-02

City hall completed Meriden will have a centennial that will mark an epoch in the citys life.
 Representative Olcott F. King of South Windsor, who was clerk of the committeeGon military affairs through the session, and secretary of3the Farm CTS Alliance, will be married in St. Johns Church in East Hartford, Tues day, October 3, to Miss Bertha B. Hay den, daughter of the late H. R. Hay den of that town, founder and editor for twenty years of the New York Weekly Underwriter. Miss Hayden is a graduate of LaseH and is a broght figure in society circles.
 The oldest survivor of the state sem ate, John w. Stoughton of South Wind sor, is 92 years old.. He was in the senate before.the ctviI-war His broth CT Lemuel stoughton, who was in the senate in 1865 and 1886, died two years ago at the. advanced age of 90. John W. Stoughton Is the father of John W. Stoughton, who is contesting the consti- tutionality of the bill passed at the last session increasing the salaries of su- perior and supreme court judges. James B.. Williams of Glastonbury, now S7 years old, is the senior survivor of the house in this, section of the state.
 He was In the lower body of the gen era1 assembly in 1863. His colleagues included the Hon. l. Luther Spencer of sufffeld, father of President. Charles L. Spencer of the First National Bank in that place; Colonel Dexter R. Wright of New Haven, who was then resident of Meriden, and Ex-Con- gressman Washington F. WilloX of Chester. Chauncey F., Cleveland, who had been governor of the state, was a member from Hampton and speaker of the house. Gernor Cleveland, who was elected chief magfstrate'%in in 1842 and 1849, considered it high honor to be returned to the general assembly twen- ty years afterwards from his town. The case Is analogous to that of Gov ernor Chamberlain, who is to be elect ed mayor of his city in few weeks. Judge Iynde Harrison of New Haven was clerk of the house, and Judge El- mer of Middletown, assistant clerk during MT, Williams year in the leg islature. MT. Williams has been one of Connecticut's most distinguished in- dustria1 captains, founding in 1S40 the great manufacturing company that bears his name. He is now so far along in life that the business ha been turned over to the management of his sons. Captain D. E. Marvin, clerk of the United States courts, District of Con- necticut, who was mentioned in the Journal and Courier's Hartford cores pondence not long ago as one of the distinguished veterans in this state, ! writes as follows concerning the sig mailing of Lees army advance:
 q had no particular function in re- porting the advance of Lees army by Pope after the retreat of our army from the battles of the Penninsular, 1 except that I was sent out from Gull peper, Va, to Thoroughfare Mountain, 1 in Madison County, thirteen miles in 1 advance of the lines, with my own company and Company I of Col.
 ;eary's Buck-tail Pennsylvania Regi- , ,nent Infantry, to hold that summit as point of observation from which i reports could be had of any movement 1 of the enemy obvefir very wide circum- ference of country, at least 75 miles in l diameter from east to west, bounded 1 by Gordonsville and fredericksburg
 on the south and by Stannardsville
 Culpeper and Little Washington on the north, and that I held that position | from about the first of August until
 about the 18th of August against all
 corners, although our position was sev-
 eral times assailed by different bands of rebel calvary.
 As far as any reporting was done, il
 was done by detachment of the U.
 S. Army Signal Corps, who were guard
 ed and defended by us under the com-
 mand and direction of a lieutenant o1
 the Signal Corps whose name I think
 was Murphy. I think he or his corps undoubtedly gave the first intimation | to Pope and Washington of the ad-
 vance of Lee from GordonsvilIe across the rolling hills between that point and | Orange court house, over which from
 different point, no less than seventy 1 batteries of rebel artillery were dis.
 tinctly observed by him and reported | more than twenty-five miles distant.
 I may say that I remained in that | position with my command until after
 the Signal Corps had left and until ]
 got word from Culpeper to fall back
 when the rebel advance was well
 abreast of my position, and I had tc
 make that retreat in the nighttime anG
 take my company's baggage wagons
 down the mountain by hand route in
 the dead of night. arriving along the public square in Culpeper after mid.