Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-14

questioned her young namesake about he | school life and kissed her repeatedly. Wm. Richards the Englishman who mur dered fellow emigrant in Canada in July o1 last year, and who was arrested in Waterbury
 last May, has been sentenced to be hung. w. J. Linton the artist and author of this
 city, sailed for England last Saturday to be
 gone 8 year.
 D. J. Toohy, 20 years ago a Hartford cab met maker, has been elected judge of the Superior Court in California. He lives in San Francisco.
 Madame Nilsson at Hartford Sunday after noon drove with her manager, MT J H. Co., pleston, to the residence of Mark Twain, where she made long and pleasant visit.
 Miss Mary Greavy, who was assaulted Sat urday night while walking home, was recov- ering yesterday, though still somewhat pros trated from nervous excitement. She has not had hemorrhage of the lungs as was re- ported in an afternoon paper yesterday, and hopes to be at her place in the store to-day.
 The Town Clerks Charges.
 The Blame Not Justly Laid Upon Him.
 An Interview with That Oficer-Ths
 Expensive Forms.
 The town election is now approaching and the charges against Town Clerk Shuster of compelling liquor dealers to pay an extor- tionate fee for the filing of applications for licenses is revived. An interview was had with Town Clerk Shuster yesterday in refer ence to the exact facts in the matter. MT. Shuster set forth the matter in very clear light relieving himself of the charge and showing that the charges as far as he is con- cerned are only legitimate and fair and that it is owing to the form adopted by the Coun- ty Commissioners that the rate is higher here than in some places. A shorter form would have answered all purposes. The County Commissioners form is longer and costs more to notwithstanding more space. MT. Shuster took shorter form to the com- missioners but they said they could not help it-the longer form was official and they must adhere to it. MT. Shuster receives no more for filling in the long form than he would for short one. What Mr. Shuster's s duties are in the case are specified by the law which reads as follows:
 The application endorsed shall be submitted to the town clerk of the town in which the business so licensed is to carried on, who shall certify upon the that said endcrsers elector and taxpayer in said town, and saiA application shall then be transmitted to the oounty commissioners. and copy thereof including said indorse uent shall be filed with said town clerk who shall adver tse the same in some daily or weekly newspaper punlished in said town at least week for two successive weeks
 MT. Shuster wrote to the Hartford Town
 Clerk last May and found that the Hartford
 form, which is shorter than that in New Ha-
 ven county, cost $S, or $1 more in each case
 for advertising than it costs here,-so despite
 having a shorter form, Hartford liquor sellers
 pay $1 more for advertising than is paid here for a larger form. The New Haven county
 form is about twice as long as the Hartford county form.
 In Derby, comparatively small town,
 where rates of advertising are corresponding ly less than in the large cities, the local pa pers charge $5, while in New Haven the cost is only $2 more, which is cheap in propor- tion.
 The Town Clerk of Bridgeport wrote some time ago to MT. Shuster:
 am dsgusted with the law. The fee for the clerk should have been at least $2. The form used in Bridgeport is the same as the one used in Hartford. In New Lon- don the charge for applications is sc 50, the short form being used. In Waterbury the charge is $6-not $2 50 as has been stated. There, however, the town clerk does not comply with the law and advertise the appli- cations with the names of the endorsers, but only prints @ certificate that the application is on file and appends the endorsers' names. In that way five advertisements are crowded l into the space occupied by 8 single ap- plication when the New Haven form is
 used. The attempt to hold MT. Shuster responsible for the larger charges pre-. sailing in New Haven is unjust. Of course Mir. Shuster is not responsible for the length of the form. Mir. Shuster has been to much extra trouble and outlay to | accommodate New Haven liquor dealers who wanted certain information. In towns where ! the names on the registry lists printed \ alphabetically, and where there are but few ! wards, it is comparatively trihing mattez 1 for the town clerks to look up the names and see if the endorsers to applications are vot | CTS the law requires. In New Haven the | registry lists are arranged according to the ! street and number. MT. Shuster was com. 1 pelled to go to the trouble and expense oi l having these lists properly indexsd. He was ! also compelled to have the grand list indexed ! All this cost him several hundred dollars-an ! expenditure for which there was no return \ By this accommodation New Haven dealers were enabled to get the required knowledge as to what qualified persons had already | signed, thus being materially assisted in theiI | work. Scores of liquor dealers have been | thus materially assisted and accommodated | at the Town Clerks individual expense Il \ will be seen therefore a matter of business | that while so much stress has been laid on the $l0 charge, it is not Mir. Shuster's fault. as the forms are unnecessarily long and cause | the exDense complained of