Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-22

We have received a pamphlet en- 1 titled "A brief review of the Navy London has the advantage of defensi- | bility, fresh water, iren, coal freedom | from ice, etc.
 | At a great war meeting in Breed hall on Tuesday morning and after | noon to devise measures for filling up 1 the quota of the Third Congressional , district, Hon. David Gallup of Plain field was chairman and the speakers were Hon. John T. Wait, Governor Buckingham, H. Es Starkweather Hon. Augustus Brandegee Rep-Elect to The meeting named the following county committees to call county mass meetings; for New London county, John T.. Wait Norwich, N. B. Paine New London, Richard A.
 Wheeler Stonington, Horace Smith Colchester, Israel Matson, Lyme; for
 Windham county-E H. Bugbee Kill David Gallup Plainfeld. Prescott May, Putnam, Charles MatheWson Pomfret.
 We have seven weeks before us in which to furnish HOS volunteers from this congressional district 206 of which are to come from the town of Norwich. Each town fn the district has it's own work to do and we hope there will be no holding back on the part of any of them. We must raise 150 men in the district every week to complete the quota. In this town we need 30 a week, five for each working day Let it be done as by the minute and it will be well done and surely done.
 Appointed Deputy Sheriff.
 Gilbert Billings of North Stoning- ton has been appointed deputy sheriff of New London county.
 Lieut. Henry F. Goddard of the 14th regiment arrived home Tuesday af- ternoon on a furlough
 Barn Burned in North Stonington
 Nov. 19, 1863.-A barn belonging to Henry F. Bentley in North Stonington together with a valuable horse and large quantity of hay was destroyed by fire last Saturday night, probably the work of incendiaries, Loss about 5000, no insurance.
 Under the stimulus of the bounty offered by the legislature recruiting is looking up in this city, A number of volunteers have already presented themselves at the office of the provost marshall.
 Repairing Laurel Hill Bridge.
 Work is progressing on the Laurel Hill bridge and it is believed that in the course of a few weeks it will be sufficiently strengthened to render 1t permanent until spring.
 A petition is before the town coun- cil of Westerly for permission to erect gas works and lay gas pipes in that place.
 On Tuesday of last week a five screw steamer of 500 tons burden was launched in the yard of George Green man & Go, at Mystic Bridge, Conn. She is owned by the Messrs. Green man and the Reliance Machine com pany, and is to be commanded by Captain Silas Greennan, Jr., of Vest erly.
 Recruiting Agent For Windhan County
 Nov 20, 1S63-DavId Greenslit of Hampton has received the appoint ment of recruiting agent for Wind ham county. Offices for the recep- tion of volunteers will be established in different parts of the county.
 boiler weighing ten and a half tons manufactured in New York was taken up to the armory on Franklin | street, Thursday.
 The monthly tax for October which will be in the hands of the collector today is the largest ever assumed in this division in any single month l to $58,616.03 Of this | $26, ,599.80 and manufacturers of wool SIS, ABBOT.
 Nearly Total Eclipse of The Moon
 There will be a nearly total eclipse l of the moon carly Wednesday morn | ing Nov. 25 visible throughout the | western continent Nineteen twenti- i eths of the moon will be obscured | The eclipse will be seen here at FPS | a. m., with greatest obscuration at | 408 a. m. The eclipse will end at | 5,4S duration three hours, 20 minutes. l
 Death of SeIectman Breckenridge.
 Nov. 21.-It would hardly be possi- | ble to point to a man in this commun- Ity whose death would leave a gap | more difficult to fill than that of New 1 ell c. Breckenridge. His long associ- 1 ation with the interests of the town as a business man, as a director in | our money institutions as a senator from this district as a member of the common council, as a chief engin- ger of the fire department, and for the past three years as first seIectman- has been Of most important and | valuable character. He was one of | the transformations practical working men who can be lily spared by any