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Stockton
Daily Independent
Stockton,
San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>THURSDAY, 8 OCT 1863<<
CHURCH BELL FOR COPPEROPOLIS - A steel bell from the celebrated foundry in
Sheffield,
England, (in weight, about equal to that of the Presbyterian Church in this city), was forwarded yesterday by Messrs. W. FOGARTY & Co., to Copperopolis, where it will be erected upon a Catholic church now in progress of building. Its music will wake the slumbering echoes of the hills for miles around the village and week after week it will invite an assembly of worshippers to the foot of the altar, occasionally sounding a requiem over the green graves of loved ones, and never failing, under whatever circumstances, to cast a chastening spell over the spirit of all who cherish a recollection of the music of church bells in other lands.