Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-21
Board of Selectmen. !.

hOAfO O1 SclecCmens
 At meeting of the Board of Selectmen
 last evening all the members of the Board
 were present, Selectman Andrew presiding. Sylvanus Butler further explained the pro-
 posed widening of North Quinnipiac street. All but Selectman Beecher favored road
 way three rods wide and an eight foot side-
 walk. After considerable discussion the mat
 ter was laid on the table until the next meet
 ing.
 The recommendation of the tax commis- sion in regard to delinquent taxpayers who paid their back taxes before September 1st, to be released on 8 basis of six per cent. in- terest, was accepted by the Board. The tax of Jacob Snyder United States pensioner, was abated on recommendation of the tax commission.
 The applications of Mrs. McCook, of East l street, and of Thomas Cunningham, of Frank lin street, for the repair of division fences, ! was referred to the appropriate committee. Bills amounting to $1,217.s4 were ap- 1 proved.
 The application of Solomon Mead to sub. l let his contract for strengthening West river ! at West bridge was referred to the appropri- l aGo COnmltL6o WlCQ power.
 Selectman Andrew reported that the Board of Health were willing to pay two men for every single team, for the removal of gar | bage by the town, at the rate of $1.5O each, | and one man for double team at the same rate, the Board of Health to furnish one man to an intermediate station to go after the bar I rels placed there to receive the garbage. Ad. l journed.
 Obituary.
 Mary Brainerd, who recently died at Mill stone, N. J., aged 72 years, the wife of Ammi ! Bailey Clark, and mother of Mrs. N. L. Gar. 1 field, of this city, WAS the daughter of the ! late Rev. Israel Brainerd, prominent Pres. byterian clergyman in the early part of the | century, located in Oneida county, N. Y. From her earliest youth she was remarkable | for her beauty, grace and high intellectual endowments. Her Christian character 1 through life was bright and beauti 1 ful. She married A. B. Clark, a large cot. l ton manufacturer of Oneida county, and for l over forty years her home at Ciark's Mills, N. Y., was the center of rare social life. Her
 large hearted hospitality and genial dis | position endeared her to all who knew her. | Mrs. Clark was the mother of four children, l all of whom, with her husband, survive her. Some seven years ago the family moved to Millstone, N. J., and here Mrs. Clark drew
 around her large circle of refined and cul-
 tured people, who, with her family, mourn her loss. Last year the venerable couple eel l ebrated their golden wedding Her benevo. l lent nature made her active in every good l cause, and her last days work was preparing l articles to be sent to the cyclone sufferers of
 the West. She retired in usual health after
 an evening spent cheerfully with her family
 and shortly after passed peacefully away, dy- ! ing without pain, translated as it were, with | the same pleasant smile, peculiar to her life, lingering on her face. She was laid in the beautiful cemetery in Somerville, few miles | from her late home. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord-yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labors.''