Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-22
Board of Se1ectnen.

Solomon Mead Replies to the City Engi-
 neer-Bjake Street Improvements-The
 Tax Commission Dectsions-Other Mat
 ters of Interest.
 regular meeting of the Board of Select men was held last evening present, Select men Andrew (presiding), Reynolds, Cooper, Hugo, Feldman, Beecher and Sperry.
 Solomon Mead appeared before the Board and presented report in reply to that of City Engineer Fowler, in which he claimed that the extra cost claimed was no fault of his. The extra work he said was occasioned by changes made by the direction of the gineers. The paper of Mir. Mead, the con- tractor, and that of the city engineer were referred to the joint committee on roads and bridges with power to act.
 John c. Hollister appeared before the Board and asked that the Board join him in an order for the sale of certain property belong l ing to Roswell Munson, the petitioner being the conservator of said Munson. Granted. Town Agent Reynolds stated that Ex-Gov- ernor Ingersoll, who had in abeyance the I legality of improvements on Blake street, l had not yet been able to make his report,
 owing to press of business in the Supreme 1 Court of Errors. He would make his report l at an early day.
 In regard to the improvement of North | Quinnipiac street, and which was referred to l the Committee on Roads and Bridges at the l last meeting, the committee reported prog l ress.
 The recommendations of the Tax commit tee that the taxes of Charles G. Kimberly, Antonette E. Johnson, Isaac w. Hine, Mary | Gaffney, Theodore A. Futile and Elizabeth ! Kane be abated, as recommended by the com | mittee, were passed.
 A recommendation from the same commit
 tee that taxes paid with interest and princi- pal at six per cent before April 1st, 1883,
 shall be full and complete discharge was passed.
 vices in the strengthening of West river,
 amounting to $303, came from the city as the towns share of the sane.
 Town Agent Reynolds said it was under
 stood that there should be no expense to the
 town on account of engineering.
 The matter was referred to the joint com
 mittee of city and town.
 The Town Agent reported that the town l was now cutting ice on the pond at the new 1 town farm. He said that they were cutting !, ten thousand tons to the acre and were get ting S7 1,2 cents per ton, which included the ! carting. About ten acres are flooded. Bills were approved as follows Salaries $500; general account, Ss51325; roads ant bridges, $387; outside poor, $425; con
 struction, $331.5O; new farm $42.75 l alnlshouse, $391.5O; interest $7SO.7G hos
 pital for insane, s250 G3.
 The matter of building an ice house ad , joining the pond at the new town farm wa , considered, but no decision was reached E Town Agent Reynolds and others though that an ice house for storage purposes coul be built this season which would be prof , ! to the town.
 Native Land of the MIdnight Sum. A correspondent says: ''The Swedis
 Lutherans of this city are making extensiv , preparations for grand Christmas festivs to be held next Monday evening in the Swed $ Lutheran Hall, room 12, second floor. Insu, s ance building. All Scandinavian people c this city and vicinity are heartily welcome
 to the festival. They intend in a fraternf
 manner to congratulate each other and reca
 the memory and early feeling which the originally experienced at Christmas time A | their native land of the midnight sum-
 Personal :, John B. Cough lectures in Bridgepor
 Tuesday evening, January 1G.
 MT. Gurdon Colt, son of the late Rev. M Colt of Bridgeport, has received informatio that his brother, Mir. Forester Colt, is sic . with lung trouble in China and wants hil
 to come there and bring him home to tn > country. Mir. Colt is very i'll and it '- thought he may not live to reach home. H
 I 'l many years.
 10 Alfred A. Rundale has been nominated 'o postmaster at Greenwich. 70 Rev. Dr. Stiher, lately pastor of Il N Wooster Square Baptist church. returned | --' this city yesterday to remain through tl r. holidays. His family are still residing in tn 'f city. A very large number of friends wis him all success, and will be glad to see hin ! He is professor of the exegesis of the Ne F. Testament in Crozier Baptist College, Che m l ter, Penn.
 If Accidents
 Yesterday afternoon Q deaf and dumb "
 man named Ann Boyle, who is employed
 I. Strouse's corset factory Frankl of street, while passing up Wooster street abo In p. m., when in front of No. 132, fell a, r, broke her leg. She was taken into her e,
 ployer's house, who lived directly opposit
 and later she was taken to the house of M, Is Shaw, her sister, at No. 49 Putnam stre' xt 1 where she boarded. Dr. Mailhouse " ', on sent for, but being unwell could not atte lie the woman. The Town Agent was then I IT, tiied and he promptly ordered the to, :. taken to the hospital where she was prop at Iy cared for.
 ,st It was reported at the police office l. lis evening that man who fell on Elm street ef- front of Divinity Hall last evening was tax ''S into the Divinity building and properly ca,
 for. He was apparently taken in fit a ill those who saw him were of the opinion u an 1t was P. B. O'Brien