The Press., 1885-03-19
COVENTRY.
SOUTH COVENTRY.

A s. Parker local editor and business manager of Coventry Local Register.
 Work on the roads is to be commenced April lst. Six hands are hired in this par ish.
 Il. A. Hall is selling at cast the assign ed merchandise of B. A. Rathbun.
 The real estate of the late E.P. Hutch. inson, which was sold at auction Monday, did not bring two dollars per acre--the Bear swamp lot of 40 acres, S76 and the Bunker Hill property $10a.
 The last quarterly conference of the M. E. church was held last evening, and the stewards of the preceding year were reelected also J. D. Wilson, district stew ard, J. H. Freeman. recording steward.
 4 Will Grant has bought a farm and has removed there
 Carlos Tilden is again ill.
 School in district l closes next week.
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 The regular monthly temperance meeting wiil be held at tne Town Hall Sunday evening, March 22d, at o'clock D. III. This Is a citizens meeting, and ali are cordially invited to attend The Staf- ford glee club will furnish the music, and good speakers are expected to make short addresses. Come and bring your family
 -Some more steam pipe Is being put Ill the court room back of the jurors chairs, which will make their places more com fortable in cold day.
 Arrangements are being made for d series of revival meetings here soon.
 The annual report of the Connecticut agricultural experiment station contains many suggestions particularly valuable to farmers at this time of year when they are trying to settle the question of fertilizers for the coming seasons crops. A total number of 272 fertilizers analyses have been made by Prof. Johnson and his as- sistants, including IF different brands of fertilizers legally offered for sale by the state during the year. Many homemade fertilizers and waste products, used as ma nure, have also been examined, as we'll as feeding stuffs.
 Concerning Especial manures" for crops, Prof Johnson says that ''the use of such fertilZ-rs implies uniformity of soil that Is not commonly met with, aud a greater knowledge of the characters of the soil and the jaws of vegetable nutrition than we now possess, and for this reasOn they Ill., not be relied on to supply the wants of particular crops on soil of adverse charac- ter.
 The market value of several substal ces for pnosphatlc fertlllzarS IS given ln the following figures, which are liable to some change with time: Ground b )ne $29 Der ton; It fuse bone, black, $22 Charleston rucA SS8. 75, and sulphurlc acid | 'nt@ p*r pouud. With those familiar with the proc ess, supe phosphate is manufactured eco nomicaly but commonly it 1. better 10 purchase II of reliable sources. The anal ysls of hen manure Is stated, placing i's valuation at $14.51 per ton. Wood ashes, at market rates, would be worth about $9 a ton, but samples of b1ick-kiln ashes ex- amined contained three fifths of sand and brick dust, and would be rated in market at only $4 ton. Chestnut wood ashes was poorer in quality than ashes from harder wood. The great benefit winch the analysis of the fertilizers offered in llarket has been to both vendors and purchasers, is shown by their value as proved by these and by driving poor stuff out of the market.
 Forty-fye samples of seeds were tested in the laboratory and garden. Fifteen of these were of quite inferior quality, and three of them were absolutely worthless.
 "Evr since the war;" says Louisville of the New York Sun, Louisville has afforded absolute immunity to gamblers. Faro, keno, and poker rooms have fiourished on every square in the bus mess portions of the city. The gamblers have been all-powerful. They have prac- tically controlled city politics. Eighteen faro banks have kept open doors within one block of the city hall. Richard Watts, who owns an interest in several gambling houses and is building new one on thoroughfare, is member of the city council and chairman of the finance committee. Several other members of the council are notorious gamblers. Edward chief of the fire department, is professional gambler. Six weeks ago the Louisville Commercial began war on the amblers, and has kept It up continually ever since. The pressure of public opin- ion was so strong that today (Friday )chief of police Whallen issued an order that gamblers must go, and tonight, for the first time in over twenty years, every gam bling house in the city is closed"
 Rents are coming down in New York. Real estate men report as an illustrative incident that a suite of Broadway offices, near Courtland street, which rented last year 1OI ipO,OOU, LldS HOW U6eu E6QCeQ TOT S2, 600. The big, ten-story buildings make room more abundant, and at the same time business with the brokers, the best ten ants, is at very low ebb. Still the great buildings increase. The Astors are about to replace their old office tenements on the south side of Pine street with a ten-story structure which will run through to Vail street. Up town the expensive flats, of over $2, ,O0O y ar, rent slowly, as they are the favorite homes of the brokers, and conc ssions are made to keep good tenants.
 The Mormons will probably be disap- pointed in their expectations of favor from the present administration. They are swarming up the Idaho Valley, and are active in colonizing in Montana. Idaho and Arizona They look upon the accession of the democrats to power as a personal victory. But the president has expressed himselfin vigorous terms against their debasing system, and will, no doubt, do what he can to stamp it out.
 Dr. William Thompson of the Hartford Seminary, has received intell- genee of the death of his son, Professor Charles c. Thompson, which occurred Monday night at Terre Haute, Indiana. Professor Thompson was widely known as a technologist, and at the time of his death was at the head of the Rose Technical In stitute, Terre Haute. Deceased was forty- eight years old and was the only surviving son of Dr. ThOmnson