The Press., 1884-08-28

largest ana pest Mllunery rOOHS III NeW I1iS- land. They have contracted with European manufacturers for the latest novelties for fall and winter season.
 s -Paine's Furniture Manufacturing Estab- lishment in Boston should be visited by all who are about to purchase new furniture. We take this method of thanking friendsi who by gifts of flowers and other helpful acts manifested kind sympathy in our recent be- reayement WILLIAM AND ADALINE WooD.
 ~ STAFFORD.
 Butterfeld's wood yard is getting to be an important local institution, and great public convenience, furnishing wood of all grades in four foot lengths or sawed and Split, from the cheapest pine or chestnut to best grade of hickory, beside slab wood, kindlings, and sacked birch bark shavings. Wood is delivered in any required quantity.
 Peaches retail now for 10 cts. per qt. blackberries, 10c Delaware grapes, 70 cents per pound; Concord grapes, 15c. ;; tomatoes, 10c. per at. i; sweet potatoes, 6c per lb.; watermelons range from 25c. to 4Oc. each. Golden sweet apples 10c. per peck; sour apples, 10 to 35 cts Musk melons are plenty and cheap. Bartlett pears sell for 15c. per qt., smaller pears 3 to 10c. Early apples are almost drug ln market, the crop sections where there are any at all being simply enormous.
 -Kerkner, the Rockville brewer, of whom Schultz of Staffordville had his beer, was pulled on Saturday by Officer Mullen, and will be tried before Justice Washburn on Monday. The same officer on Monday took tle several persons left in charge by the ruIl.away saloon keepers-Peter Sulll- van at Merriman's, Joseph Cushman at Smiths, and Tom Mullen at Remmerts. Mccarthy could not be found, though also wanted. Joseph Edson, ill charge at Van Wagner's, at the Hollow, also disappeared. The Mineral Springs Go. are having some new and heavier shafting, which IS being made by Holt & Burwen.
 LET THE FACTS APPEAR.
 MT. Editor Ut is but proper that cer tain errors or misrepresentation contained in certain article contributed to the s.Springfield Sunday Republican" by snecial correspondent of Stafford Springs, the 23d inst, should be corrected. In the article to which reference is made 1t was stated that in consequence of the failure of the prosecuting agent to accomplish cer- tain results in relation to other parties, me evidently thought there was nothing to do but seek pastures new. Now, as far as the prosecution of Schultze is concerned, | were made Gin regard to the proceedings in the place kept by him, or by the society whose bartender he is claimed to have beer. ] by the inhabitants of Stafordville, and by other parties owning manufactur- ing property there, by whom 1t was al- leged that-the place was public nuisance, and that good order and decency required that legal proceedings should be had at once for its suppression. Upon the facts contained in these statements l issued a warrant for the arrest of Schultze, upon which he was arrested and brought before me for trial upon the charges of a violation of the law alleged in the complaint against him and having plead guilty of the viola tion of the low in relation to the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, was fined the sum of fifty-one dollars, which fines added to the costs of prosecution amounted to the sum of seventy-four dollars and twenty-two cents, which amount he did not pay, and for the non-payment Of which he was committed to the Holland jail.
 The fine in this case was put at the lowest figure allowed under the law, which he plead guilty of having violated. As far as the five children axs concerned, it appears to me that fhat matter ought not to enter into the ques- ton as to whether OF not criminals should be arrested for the violation of law and punished
 
 correspondent. unless to affect the vote upon the license question at the coming election by appealing to the purses of the tax-pay yers. Again, it was stated by the Especial core spondent' that the sum of about $20O had been drawn from the town on account of H. nuor prosecutions brought by the present prosecuting agent of Stafford, which IS nearly or quite correct, but as to the statement that there are outstanding bills connected with Al. xrhJn AOOf6Oate to $7OO, there is not the slightest shadow of truth in it and if such an estimate has been made by the s'town officers" it seems to me that it must have been made through mis- apprehension of the facts, for can not be- lieve that our ''town officers" would either willingly or malieioasly so utterly and entire ly misrepresent the facts. 1 think that can safely say that four -fifths of the liquor cases brought by the prosecuting agent, MF. Hodg- son, have been brought before me, and every case thus brought, in which the town is re- sponsible for costs, has been settled by the town, and had been, long before the date of Especial correspondents" article. The above is written to remove the unfayorable rehec- tion cast upon me by the statement that a portion of the costs to be paid by the town In these cases have not been called for, ''so as to keep the facts out of the town report, which is to be closed Sept. 1st, to be printed for the E. use of the citizens just before election " No such thought ever entered my mind, and such action, in my estimation, would have been a reproach to any man, acting in an official ca pacity, whose special business is to faithfully administer justice, regardless of the fear or favor of any man, or set of men, either lndl- yidually or collectively. zzsa
 Another fact may as well be stated, viz : Some of those who have been prosecuted have repeatedly stated that not one dollar in fines should go into the town treasury if they could prevent it. by settling elsewhere and putting the money into the state treasury instead ; even if by so doing they were subjected t6 additional expense, which was the case ln every instance when appeals to the higher courts were resorted to. The evident object in so doing was to make the balance against the town as large as possible-for had the fines been paid into the town treasury, where they properly belonged, there would have been handsome balance to be credited to these prosecutions. The fact that any ex- pense has been brought upon the town in these cases, or many of them, is owing partly to the non-appearance of parties from whom seizures were made to make any claim to any of the liquors seized and destroyed. The amount of liquors destroyed at one time was seven casks of lager beer, by estimation ten gallons of ale, and several bottles of liquor of some kind. Who says that the work has proved failure? Echo answers who?
 Perhaps may be pardoned if in this con- nection I say that of the thirty cases decided