The Press., 1884-12-11
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 HOLLAND.
 The large and commodious house 0 r Mrs. Sumner, in this village, was filled t. overhowing by her children and grand : children and grandchildren, wh' gathered with her at the homestead t have real Old-fashioned family gathering real New England Thanksgiving. Ant , so it proved to be, pleasant gathering in , deed. Mrs. Sumner is the widow of Dea Wm. A. Sumner, an old and respected resident of this town, who died some six teen years since, aged 76, leaving widow and eight children, four sons and foul daughters, all of whom are now living the youngest being past fifty years of age and the mother, Mrs. Sumner, being now in her 92 year, the oldest woman in town. woman respected by all who know her, and at this extreme old age retaining all oi her faculties. There were present at the supper six of her children, viz: The old est, Mrs. Lull, wife of Col. o. N. Lull oi of Chambersburg, Penn., for many years superintendent of the Cumberland Valley railroad Mrs. Agard, wife of R. H. Agard, formerly merchant in Hartford, now liv- ing in Holland. Mrs. Clark, wife of Mar win Clark of Coventry, and Mrs. Hunger ford, wife of W. E. Hungerford of East Haddam all of the daughters were pres ent. The sons present were Dr. E. G. wife and daughter Nellie, his other daugh- ter being absent in Dayton, Ohia. E. B. Sumner, Esq, of Willimantic, his daugh- ter Florence, and his son Willie. The other, and eldest sons, not present were Wm Sumner of Cincinnati, and Augustus Sumner of St. Louis There were present l five grandchildren and two great-grand- children, four generations, who, with oth- CT relations, made twenty two at the ta- ble, and yet with the two gobblers and the pies, and the buildings, and the fruits, and the etc., all were satisfied, and there were gathered up many baskets full of that which remained. And the rest of the acts that were done after supper, the jokes and the responses, and the political discus sions, for it came to pass that some of the sons-in-law walked not in the paths of their father-in-law, but followed after strange gods, and wele democrats, while the sons followed in the way of their fath- CT and were republicans, are they not in- delibly written in the memories of all that were present. WSllinaasstic Journal. tFRoM ''RETsEI.")
 MT. F. H. Underwood has started for New Orleans and it's worlds fair, the con- pany of which he is member making quite an exhibit of their specialties. His family have gone to Brooklyn, N. Y. Election of officers and inspection of Court adjourned s'sine dle' after three days session last week. One case was disposed of by the jury in favor of the defendant, viz J. T. Gilmer ys. Milo w. Pember. M R. West for plaintiff, A. P. Hyde and Bill for defendant. Maria Jestina Tschumi was granted divorce from John Tschumi on the ground of intolerable cruelty, and granted $55O alimony. The following prisoners plead guilty to being tramps, and were sentenced two months in states prison Walter Richards, Wm. Stanton, John Manning, John Thompson, James Gibson, Chas. Harrington. The following liquor cases were settled with the justice N. A. Hewitt, Perry G. Tripp, Chas. N. Wadsworth @ cases), Robert Hampsted, Lewis J. Wescott A cases), and Frank Edson @ cases). The cases of Daniel Lyon and Edward O'Shaughenssy were nolled.
 Last term we omitted to record the di- vorce granted Julia A. Waldo from Vol colt Waldo. Cause, intolerable cruelty.
 HAMPDEN, MASS.
 The friends of Mrs. A. H. Thompson, from Suffeld, Stafford, Monson and Hamp- den met at her home Thanksgiving to eel ebrate her 50th birthday, and while dis cusslng Foast pig, chicken pie, and oth- CT good things, presented her some fine silver ware and 8 stack of silver standard dollars, which reminded one of certain column in King Solomon's temple which was pleasant to behold.
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 For the fiscal year ending 3Oth of June, 1883, there were IT states that paid more than their expenses in the postal service. In 1874 there were only ten states in which tho receipts exceeded the expenditures, viz:
 New Hampshire. ire......................... 8 S,O58 Massachusetts. s.......................... SIG, ,9O6 Rhode Island. ........................... 124, ,638 Connecticut. .,::.;..,,..,.,..,,,,.,,... 135, ,463 New ............................. 231 1895 New Jersey. ................".."....... 143,517 Pennsylvania. .......................... 56O, ,677 Delaware. 8,162 Michigan 39, ,461 Illinois 347, 400
 Total. .....................$4,6 ,6O6 1882
 The expenses in all the other states and territories were larger than the receipts the total deficiency in them being 8,2O1,- O42
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