Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09
With Natives On South Sea Island
Crew of Wrecked Whaler Spent Over Month There 50 Years Ago-Big Fight Between Monitor and Merrimae Norwich Men and Officers in the Service

The hE event of the week fifty years ago was the engagement between the Monitor and the Merrimac, in which the Monitor was the victor after a four hours fight The MsFFimac had caused eonSternatioa iii Hampton Roads when the vessel designed by John Ericsson arrived and at once made things inter esting for the rebel craft and fought one of the greatest of naval battles.
 At home the newspapers of this city and New Haven were having a spirited engagement over the number of men they had sent to the front and the number of men that had received com missions in the respective cities. New Haven was inclined to feel that jnAs- much as Governor Buckingham was from this city that it was being favor ed, but The Bulletin contended ethef- wise and showed up the fallacies,
 Hank dividends of good size we're de- clared in those days. The street light ing question was being well discussed. the gas company failing to keep the
 pipes cleared so that the gas would flow. It was Norwich by gasiight fifty years ago.
 The following are items taken from The Bulletin of 1882 for the week cor responding with that ending Sunday: March 4, ls62-rhe Thames bank has declared 9 dividend of four per cent out of the earnings of the past six months,
 If the rain that pours down as we write -midnight-keeps coming at this
 rate, We shall have more water than we'll know what to do with, fpu fel- lows down on Commercs street had better be getting the pefishable com
 modities out ot your cellars. Col J. M, Smith of the sgd Indiana regiment, which was engaged in the gallant charga which turned the scales at Fort Donelson. is a Norwich man. The whole number left behind by the Twelfth regiment was 67 sick and e5 deserters.
 TbA splendid screw steamer Thames das been chartered by the government
 at $500 8 day. She was recently
 launched at Mystic.
 Aaron Cook of Bozrah has received | the democratic nomination as senator from the Ninth district.
 There were married at Lebanon March 1 John A. Williams and Sarah 1 A. Avery, and Isaac c. Avery and
 Eliza w. Williams. by Rev. A. Liver more.
 l QldtCit Q, 4ob4- lilILA -ElA Nuliiiltto- l slons have been issued to Norwich men since the war began, 32 of which were l in connection with the Connecticut 1 regiments, in which there were three | Norwich conpanies - reGuiring nine commissioned offlcers-and p are now ] in service with the stats troops Nine 1 companies have been raised in Nor ! wich, six of which are now in service ] Eight carloads or carriages for rified l six pounders, together with one hun 1 dred tons of fixed ammunition, passed i threuSh here fast evening from Boston
 for the south, to be loaded at New l London for Governors Island.
 Norwich has sent a fraction over 1 one quarter and New Haven fraction | over ohe-ffth Of her enrolled militia
 to the war the former having 25 off
 cers and the latter 100.
 March G. 1s62-The Chelsea Savings i bank has declared semi annual divi- | dend of three per cent.
 We are informed that the reason
 why some Of the street lights in this ! vicinity have not been burning of late 1 is that the pipes have become obstruct-
 ed by the freezing up of the condensed
 gas. From 10 to 15 have become use l less from this reason. On the West