Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-30
Personally Conducted Campaign.

March %. 1S62-We know a candi- date in this vicinity who goes around saying and doing such queer things that his biography for the time in cluded between nomination and elec- ton would make a complete budget ot fun, He says l am paying this year for black republican votes 90 cents, and for abolltionists g cents. ] won have 8 Breckenridge vote at any price.
 Hon James English, congressman from New Haven, announced the pro- motion of Colonel A. H. Terry of the Seventh C. V. as brigadier general He was colonel of the Second C. V. in the three months service.
 Reimbursinu War Expenses.
 March 27 1S62-Governor Bucking- ham has received from the government a certificate of indebtedness amount ing to $500, 0e0 towards reimbursins Connecticut for war expenses.
 Everybody will be glad to hear that our respected town clerk. Othniel Ga ger, after several months cont1ne- ment to his house from the effects of fall from the cars has sufficiently recovered to be able to attend to the business of his office.
 The steamer City of Norwich is now building at the Englis shipyard, foot of Tenth street, at New York, for the Norwich & New York Transportation company. It is 200 feet long, 96 foot beam, 12 foot depth of hold and 15O ton burthen.
 Pay for Families
 March 2s, 1s62-The members of the 18th c. " have allotted $6,204.50, a month of their pay, to their families through the benevolent efforts of El- liott Beardsley and Charles c, John | son, esq, commissioners appointed fol this purpose.
 A patent has been awarded to John D. CrQcker of Norwich for improved machine for cutting corl1s for stop | pers.
 The property on Broadway, opposite } the Little Plain, owned ard lately oc- | cupied by Edwin Gavit. was sold al auction on Thursday. Joseph c. Lamt was the purchaser, at $6,550.
 The new propeller which has beer l the past winter in process of con struction at the yard of Thomas T ! Wetnore, near the rolling mill, is now | completed and will probably be launch cd some day next week.
 1 There are now about sixty men al l Fort Trumbull, besides six deserterS 1 from Connecticut regiments, who arc | confined there. A considerable DOT l ton of the 14th regiment, U. s. A. 1 will soon be sent to Fort Trumbull 1 amounting to several hundred soldiers
 Confidence in Their Colonel. March 29, 1862-A letter from c private of the Eigth c. V, after tho ! battle at Newborn, says of Colone Harland; I think that the colonel ha' | confidence in his men now that ht never had before, and he is not afraid | now but they will follow wherever ht 1 leads them. And he is known by hi | regiment to be as cool a man in actioI 1 as ever drew a sword.
 The Killingly Transcript relates that | there is a man now living in New l London county, 92 years ot age, wht l has lived under three different gov ernments, and has lived in three diff | ferent towns and has never moved ou l of the house in which he was born, ol l changed his residence. This is a sin gular circumstance. Mir. Simon HazeI | lived first under the monarchy O | George ", then under the COnfed- eracy ,and last under our own gool i government. And he first resided In thu 1 town of Norwich which was subse quently divided and out of which tn town of Franklin was formed, Whicl includes his residence; and in 1S6 that part of Franklin where he resid- ed was included in the present tOwl of Sprague.
 Fifty-nine blacksnakes were l5illet few days since on the farm of Rus ! sell Lamb, in Ledyard.