The Press., 1883-11-22

] Among other features of New York's eel ebration, next week, there will be an ex- tensive steamboat parade. It is expected that between three and four hundred ves- sels of all classes will be in line.
 The Norwalk Hour figures up that there are twenty. two railroads in the state, each of which is liable to penalty of $25 for not using the New York time in its time t,bles, and calls on the state treasurer to collect the sloney, $550, for the use of the state
 The Springfield Republican, s prospectus, self, but we will rise to remark that well informed men in this section who are not r-aders of either the daily or weekly edi- tion of The Republican are scarce. It is a model newspaper, aud finds it's way as such to all parts of New England, and to estray New Englanders all over the coun- try.
 Isaac H. Bromley will close his connec- tion with the NewY York Tribune and assume the editorial chair on the Commercial Ad- 7ertiser. Mr. Bromley is thoroughly known and esteemed in Connecticut, his services on the Norwich Bulletin, and later on the Evening Post having been highly appreciated and marking him as one of
 he brightest of journalists.
 After the election was over Gen. Butler withdrew the objectionable candidate he had twice nominated for police justice at Charleston and substituted the name of a equitable and competent colored man.
 This nomination has been promptly con- irmed by the executive council, as the | first one would have been if it had been a | lecent one. The Youths Companion, of Boston, is 1 the brightest and best of papers for young people, giving more than two hundred stories yearly by the most noted authors, including J. T. Trowbridge, William Black, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Hardy,
 Mrs. Oliphant and many others, besides scientific articles by eminent specialists, tales of adventure by noted travellers, pa | ;)ers of encouragement and advice by men
 md women of ability and experience, and 1 'eminiscences and anecdotes of famous 1 people. With a circulation rapidly ap- preaching 350,O ,OOO copies a week, the 1 Youths Companion can well afford to spread such 8 feast before its patrons; and spreading such feast, it is no wonder it 1as such tremendous circulation.
 The board of pa1dons appointed under the law at the last legislature organized at Hartford Tuesday. It will have jurisdic- ton for granting communication of punish ment, conditional or absolute, from state prison" and for removing the pardoning power from the legislature, where 1t has
 ested heretofore. Notices of petitions for pardons are to be published, and the ,tate's attorney who tried cases, and the warden of the state-prison, are to be noti- lied of times of hearing applications for re- lease. The board consists of Gov. Waller, Chief Justice Park, A. D. Burr of Hart ford, Dr. Francis Bacon of New Haven, Edward Harland of Norwich George P. Mclean of Simsbury was chosen clerk. Among the prisoners to be heard are Cos tigan, the Somers murderer, who has served out his sentence, and is now working out
 he time of fine imposed.
 Providence Press, Nov. 16: Connecti- cuts situation with regard to the adoption "f the new standard is peculiar. The state legislature, in the session of 1881, passed a law providing that ''the standard of time for the meridian of the city hall in New York shall be, and Is hereby made, the standard of time for this state" The word meridian" in the above quotation, is now a serious stumbling block. Had it simply been enacted that "the time of the city nall of New York shall be-" etc., all would be plain sailing, for, of course, the city hall of New York will adopt the new stand ard time. But ''the meridian of the city hall of New York" cannot well be changed, nor the time based thereon. But Connec- icut will adopt the new time all the same, it being generally agreed to connive at the violation of the above law until the new which meets in January, can repeal it. But the. spectacle of whole state openly uniting to violate its own law is unique. ..