Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-05
An Importnnt Decision.

An Important Decision.
 The case of H. P. Hubbard vs. George P. Powell & Co. is decided for the plaintiff. This case will attract considerable attention, the parties being two of the largest advertis- ing concerns of the country, and as it involves a question of interest to newspaper men and advertisers October 1st, 1879, MT. Hubbard made written contract with George P. Rowell $ Go. for the insertion of two adver-' tisements for fifteen months for $3 500 in the newspapers of six newspaper unions, to have the position of first advertisement fol- lowing markets. October 29th, 1879, an amendment to this contract was made which provided that in cases where no markets sp- peared in the papers, or where markets were in an unfavorable position, the advertisement might be placed at ''top of next column" The defendants inserted reading notes and special notices between markets and Hub- bard's advertisements, and these notices also in many instances preceded them at the top of the column. This Hubbard claimed was breach of the contract, as he
 was to have position of first advertisement
 after markets or at the top of the next col umn to that in which markets usually ap-
 peared The defendants claimed that the word advertisement in the contract was not | used in it's broadest sense, meaning all read ing matter paid for, but that it meant ordl- nary advertisements, that is display adver l tisements, and that in putting reading and special notices ahead of MT. Hubbard's ad- vertisements they were not violating the con- tract, as these were not ordinary adver- | tisements. The court appears to have
 decided adversely to this claim. The case was first heard before Johnson T. Platt, Esq, as Committee of the Superior court. The trial was 8 very lengthy one. | Over sixteen thousand newspapers were ex- amined during the hearing, large number of depositions were taken in different parts of the country, and good many experts 1 testified, The counsel for the plaintiff were B. P. Arvine and Henry Stoddard. On the | election of the latter to the bench Simeon E.
 Baldwin was retained by the plaintiff. J. W. filling and H. E. Pardee were for the de- l fendants.
 The damages which Mir. Hubbard will re- | cover will be in the neighborhood of $2, 200. | The case was not decided by the Superior court, but was reserved by 1t for the advice 1 of the Supreme court.
 Fair Haven Items.
 Special meeting of Quinnipiac Engine Go. | No. tonight.
 No meeting of the borough officers on
 Monday night.
 l Where, oh, where is the gentle spring? Echo answers, where?
 Work in the NJ M at Adelphi lodge, F. A.
 M, No 63, last evening.
 1 H. B. Ives, the groceryman, has come out
 with 8 new delivery wagon.
 l The ''silk card'' craze is giving the card printers plenty of work.
 Quinnipiac river is frozen so that navigation
 has been suspended for day or two. | Mrs. Myra Gager is visiting with her people
 on York river, Virginia.
 Shoeing horses keeps the blacksmiths busy
 this cold winter weather.
 Some of our people will enter their fancy dogs at the kennel show.
 | Services to-day at the Episcopal and Cath | olic churches.
 Quartette church choirs are the most pop
 ular here now.
 l Mrs. John Mallory is making short visit with her sister in Wallingford. l Mrs. Frederick Moulthrop, of Troy, N. Y, | is spending few weeks here among her l former friends
 The many friends of Mir. H. l.. Parker,S ,Sthe
 popular druggist on the east side, who has | been very sick, will be much pleased to learn
  passed the night before with some rest and | much easier, and with the most favorable symptoms for his recovery.
 The Ice and recent heavy winds have car ried the Luddington ock buoy about mile | south by east from it's original position. Maurice Cain, the new mail carrier in the ! Twelfth ward, is much liked, and his efforts ' in getting the morning mail around to the ! oyster dealers nearly an hour earlier than formerly delivered are duly appreciated by ! the business men.
 The newly elected chief of the police de- pertinent in Waterbury, George Eagen, for merlv resided here and was clerk in the Phoenix House for two or three years He l has many friends who heartily congratulate him on his new appointment
 At the Methodist church, East Pearl street, on Sunday last at the morning service which was communion Sunday, there were fourteen taken into the church, six on probation, four in full fellowship and four by letter. In the evening after the service there were four baptisms. - Some of our people predict that the silk quilt now offered for sale by chances at the entertainment of the Second Company Gov ernor's Foot Guard, now at the Atheneum, will come to somebody in this vicinity. Those who come in here from Northford, Wallingford and other places north Of here report excellent sIeighing all the way until near the town line, when wheels are used in preference to runners.
 The Cable Motor and Construction compa- ny of Baltimore recently incorporated, held their first meeting recently and elected TOT president of the organization MT. D. U. Mallory. The cable motor is for street cars, and it is thought that the passenger roads in Baltimore will purchase the cable rights for their lines, but if no arrangements are made, the company will introduce the system on some of the thor oughfares themselves. The cable system works to perfection and cars can be run thus at one-third the cost of running them by horses. The system is in active operation in San Francisco and Chicago and as soon as spring opens it will be used in Philadelphia
 The borough firemen are highly pleased with the courteous treatment they received at the veterans grand ball last Monday even ing and all return their sincere and heartfelt thanks to Chief Hendrick, the reception committee and the veterans for the unbound ed and generous hospitalities shown them, and they hope at some future time to re- ciprooate.
 The Young Peoples society connected with the East Pearl street Methodist church. will hold this evening 8 musical entertain ment, vocal and instrumental, in the lecture room of the church. The music will be fine and will be we'll rendered. The proceeds will go towards furnishing 8 room in the new parsonage. The young folks have some pride and want the room they have in charge as well furnished as any other part of the parsonage, and therefore they hope to see a large attendance.
 Marks Hotel completed early in the winter | and elegantly furnished throughout, at Tar l pon Springs, Hillsborough county, Florida, l a noted resort, is owned and under charge of 1 H. L. Scranton, who resided here several l years ago and will be remembered by many l of our elderly citizens. He built and lived l for years in the house corner of East Grand | and Atwater streets, now occupied by Dr. W. 1 Fl. Thomson. He also kept for long time ! a drug store and the postofice on the east | side. The drug store is now kept by H. l.. Parker.
 The oyster trade is rather quiet now. l Very few Virginia oysters are in market. Our dealers are receiving opened oysters in barrels from the South every day. The price has advanced from twenty-five to thirty I cents per gallon for the past few days, and l there are none in this market for sale. And | oysters are very scarce in the southern markets. The oysters caught in the Sound Il help the dealers out very much this season, and the native bivalves have been in