Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-18
WAR TIME NEWS OF 50 YEARS AGO
Six and Quarter Ton Boiler For Axe Handle Factory at Greenevile-McGee House Burned in Preston-Frank H. Arms Given Paymasters Assistant Appointment in the Navy.

the jail, whose terms of service have | nearly expired took the place of the strikers in unloading one vessel yes- terday. The Mystic ship yards are full of business. Mallory has three stealn- CTS on the stocks. At Greeman's yard two side-wheel steamers are nearly finished. and they are laying the keel of another, and at Oldfield four steamers are on the stocks.
 A large, side wheel steamer with 4,aa0 arms, among other rn,ngs for
 the rebel government, ran into the
 port of velosco, after being driven off
 from Galveston by our fleet. She got
 ashore in the bay. and the blockading
 gunboat attempted to capture her but
 was driven off by the rebel shore bat
 terries, whose guns were Of longer
 range than our own She subse-
 quently got off and proceeded into
 port. Deserters report that she had
 been loaded with HOO bales of cotton.
 April IA, 1S64.-Five recruits were
 accepted yesterday.
 Exhibiting Sea Cat.
 A sea cat which was caught the
 other day in Little Narragansett Bay,
 at Westerly, has been brought to this
 city, and is to be seen at 5T Main street, opposite the store of D. B.
 Miner The exhibition is for the ben
 eft of poor soldier who lost his arm
 in the service of his country. Ad- nlittanee 10 cents, children half price.
 Lieut. Louis W. Jackson, of the 1st
 Connecticut Artillery, is dismissed
 from the military service for conduct mtn, unless, before the 20th he makes satisfactory defence to the charge against him.
 April 15, 1ss4.-The steamer City of New York has been thoroughly re-
 paired. and last night resumed her regular trips.
 Union Cow Slaughtered. The Union COW. formerly owned by L. W. Carroll and exhibited by him at the Agricultural fair last fall, has been fattened and killed. She weighed d alive 1890 pounds, dressed, 10s0 pounds and yielded 15o pounds of tallow. About one o'clock Thursday morn- ing one of the city watchmen heard a noise in the grocery store of N. l.. Cole, on Franklin square. Striking match he looked in and saw a man there. Nothing had been disturbed. A detachment of the First Colorado Calvary had fight with party of Cheyennes on the north side of Platte river A strong detachment of troops have been sent against the Indians in various directions. Some uneasiness is caused by there conductt. They are making great efforts to obtain arms and ammunition.
 Apr1l lb, t6O4.-Ine 1Dtn AeS iIleut now lacks about 200 men of the max imum, and great efforts are now being made in New Haven to fill it. A detachment of the 12th Massa- chusetts Regiment, numbering 130 men, who have been for some time, stationed on Galloupe's Island, In Boston Harbor. passed through the city last evening on the boat train to rejoin their regiment in the army oi the Potomac.
 Last evening sixty pieces of artil- lery consisting of 12 pounders and smooth bore howitzers, with caissons attached were forwarded the Wash ington over the New Jersey road. They
 are to be taken to the army of the
 Potomac.
 Rebel deserters say there IS 2 for
 forndale battery erected in Fort Sum- ter facing the channel north of the fort, and that 1t has seven rified guns of thirty and sixty pounds calibre. The Canonicus, Ironclad, at Charles twon, Mass. will go into commission
 today Saturday, and sails immedi- ately for the south.