The Press., 1884-04-03
LOCAL TOPICS-PENN,D AND SCISSORED.

writes of the "Hill milk farm'' in South Coventry MT. Burgess has fine herd of excellent milkers to which lie proposes to add as the rapidly increasing demand for their products shall require and if there is any virtue in good care, good hay, wheat, shorts aud corn meal the lacteal fluid will soon be flowing from Babcock Hill like spring freshets down the Ohio river.
 a A call upon MT. Norman Babcock who resides across the way from. and the form CT owner of the farm above alluded to, af- forded an opportunity of seeing those fan cy Jerseys about which we had heard so much.- MT. Babcook has at present few very choice specimens of pure boods from the most aristocratic families-whose title to nobility can be traced by direct descent from the old king of all the Jerseys him. self-each of which has been selected with much care regardless of cost, and for which he has already been offered and refused prices that to dealers in ordinary stock would be deemed fabulous. Although ill the opinion of the owner not the most val uable, still, the two years old heifer, Lady Jane Gray, from dam Princess Beatrice. by Duke of Connaught, Gf rightly we remem- Der name and pedigree) with her beautiful gazele-like eyes, black ebony colored horns and skin of old gold, is the animal that ill our judgment most nearly reaches imagination's ideal of perfection and stands to-day queen of the herd peerless in Tol- land county.
 Meriden Republican MILF. Cham berlain goes to the Storrs Agricultural school to take charge of agricultural mat ters there, as professor of agriculture
 Mrs. Chamberlain will be matron of the institution. The school will certainly re- ceive great acquisition in Mr. Chamber lain, whose knowledge of practical farm ing is not excelled by any man iu the state
 His leaving Merlden will be matter of general regret, and at the reform school.
 with which he has been identified for so many years, he will be greatly missed both
 by the superintendent, trustees and off cers, between whom and MT. Chamberlain
 the best feelings and kindly relations have
 always existed. MT. Chamberlin goes tc
 Mansfield because he believes he can place
 the school there on footing that will jus
 tify the best anticipations of its friends
 aud the position gives him the opportuni
 ty of entering heartily into work whicE
 he love. He regrets leaving the reform
 ations there, but the best of friends mus
 part. MT. Chamberlain has been farmer
 at the State Reform School ill Meriden. -Wah-kwim Miller has taken novc [ way to work off his story wares. "Sealet unto him, a Mormon story, is being pub i lished simultaneously in number of wee's l lies, The Press being honored with chanc
 to be one of the number. When a write II seeks =a 1narket in that way 1t would SseeI 2 to indicate sluggish demand for his wares I Hartford Times Captain Walter Peas , of Scitico will celebrate his tooth birthd |, , tomorrow, Saturday, March 29th. II
 was born Tn Enfield, March 29. 1784, an , now lives in Scitico, only few rods fror f where he was born, and on land that ha
 never been out of the Pease family. H f is descendent of John Pease, one of tn f six men that bought of the Indian chic . Nottatuck the tract of land of which E.
 field is part. He remembers when thtr
 was no bridge across the Connecticut rivel r and of going to Hartford with his fathe e with lumber on raft, ill freshet time, an l going up the Little river as far as the Col t jail' at foot of Pearl street with the raft 3 He carried the first Hartford Times on tn l east side of the river, when his brother t Dr. John Chauncey Pease, and John M e Niles of Hartford were its editors. H has always been staunoh democrat, an hopes to see another democratic presider in the white house. He remembers whe
 Washington was inaugurated president ( the United States. He has had five chi ! dren-all living. He lived with his wi v 68 years-her death being the only one 9 the family. He has two aged sisters Ii, 3 ingsin Hartford
 The N. B. Homestead reports recen tobacco sales in Somers: s. w. Russo ; 92c in bundle, George Cooley 12 and 4 ! Samuel P. Hulburt 12 and Sc, Lorin Gri f wold 15-8-5o, George G. Mixter 14o thro ' Charles Hubbard 1Oc through, Henr
 Wardwell 9c in bundle.
 ) According to the Windham Count : Transcript there is in DanielsonvilIe l Frenchman whose family, including eli > dren and grandchildren, could operate d small factory and constitute village
 themselves. He is S6 years old, has be-
 married twice, and has had thirteen chi
 dren by each wife. But the most remarl g able feature of the case is that the twent,