Show A very old lady and a very old gentleman discovered in connecticut NEW HAVEN conn dec 3 within a week your our correspondent has visited the oldest oldest man and the oldest woman in connecticut bothof both of whom are interesting characters the oldest woman is mrs nancy coley a colored woman who lives in a tumble down cottage in easton A written statement by A osborn former town clerk gives evidence that this woman first saw the light at hill lilli a portion of the town of fairfield in this state on november 1 19 1779 this making her years of age agu her black skin is wrinkled like parchment and her tottering st steps epsy sunken eyes and husky broken broker voice v bic all go to prove her extreme age her mind wanders but her hea hearing and remain wonderful wonderfully lv good she cannot read at her birg birth tradition has it she was so small that she was placed in a pewter teapot and the cover closed she was a frail girl she says she can remember when at t 6 years of age the soldiers of abe state returned home from the revolution when 20 years of age aunt nancy married for her first husband castiles Ua stiles nichols I 1 and ani had by him twelve children of these only two aro now alive her first husband died in 1864 and the following year vear she married for a second time james fairies coley a man of 70 Q this remarkable old woman prides herself upon the fact that she has been beell an inveterate snuff taker for over 90 00 years and she is as devoted to the habit now as ever before in her life she began the hab bab habit it when 15 years of a ageana cand tells queer stories of her trials in procuring the article of luxury during the tile war of 1812 and in later times nothing will delight her heart more than a package of strong old caboy cabos the stronger the better the oldest man in the state is walter pease of hazardville Haz ardville who was born in the thy village march li 1 1 1784 up to his looth birthday lie he had been in excellent health mr ahir pease has the honor of having voted for james madison in 1808 as for every democratic president since on oil the last election lay day a carriage decorated with toc toe national colors was prepared for the ven erable politician la in which amid the cheers of the villagers hy he was conveyed to the polls at etl eil enfold fold foid where lie probably cast his hallot ballot for lor cleveland mr pease ilease comes of a noted family of which judge lorin lonn pease rease and aud ex governor marshall pease of texas are members ills wife died in 1874 1814 but he has five chil chii children dreir three sons and two daughters beside ten grzann grandchildren eh and thirteen great grandchild dren in different parts of the e country in appearance mr pease would woul d not ge be taken for a man so aged ills his scanty hair Is as white as snow and ills his face I 1 is s wrinkled but liis his eyes are bright and ills his teeth as sound as when wien a boy of 15 he lle has never had a tooth extracted and never suffered from the toothache mr air pease remembers president ing tons binau inauguration titration and the gloom that enveloped the country at the news of his its ils death in 1799 17 99 lie lle hesayo gays says he be expects to live many years yet globe democrat |