The examiner., 1886-01-02
Notes and Notings.
OFFICE: A UNION PLACE.
HARTFORD.

HARTFORD.
 The Hartford Screw company, in respons, to petition of employees, will change from monthly to fortnightly payments.
 Federal sorrow over the demise of the vice-president, is at an end The emblem: of mourning are taken down at the post office.
 A man named Phelps Bolton is reported to have died New Years morning at the Park Central hotel, of kidney complaint, the day on which he fell heir to $50 OOO left him by an aunt who died last ,June The excitement alone of such a wind-fall as this would be sufficient to carry off many 8 solid man in the best of health
 Mr. J. P. Haynes, the big-hearted pro- prietor of the biggest grocery house in the city, invited all his employees QO to a Christmas supper at Habenstein's, and then presented them each with an envelops con taining gold pen. and card wishing them Merry Christm as." The Boston Branch" is always ahead.
 Albert Parkess, boy of 12 years, was drownsd at Parkvile. Tuesday, while skating on the pond. He fell through the covered about an hour afterwards. His parents reside on Hopkins street. This is another warming for our too -enturesome youngsters, but like all others, will go un- needed.
 Union Hats for $1.OO and $2,Oo at Burke Bros.
 TIE COMMON COUNCIL.
 The. meeting of the Common Council this week was busy one, closing up the ac- counts of the year, besides the usual amount relating to sidewalks, sewers, etc. There was some suspicion that there was little crookedness somewhere in the affairs of the Street Board, and committee was appointed to investigate its proficiency in the science of book keeping.
 Before the meeting adjourned, qute a war cloud that had been brewing for some time; between the two branches of our city Parliament, burst into open hostilitles It seems that the upper House, assuming the air and dignity natural to aldermen had treated the more plebeian lower House, with supercilious contempt, insisting upon acting first upon every matter, and then neglecting to inform the other of their action, and adjourning without giving notice to the Councilmen, leaving them to 'kick their heels against the benches" till they had become tired, and felt disposed to kick something else. The chairman of the board, MT. Harbison, took the floor and indignantly recited the long list of grievances and insults they had suffered from their Aldermanic Highnesses, till "patience had ceased to be virtue. " Many aldermen were listening as he poured out vials of wrath and invective upon them. Whether this deserved rebuke will induce the alderLnanic brand to mend it's ways will remain to be seen.
 But in this republican nation is it not pitt full that in every thing like a legisla u'e, we must ape the government of England, with two houses of Parliament, which she was compelled to adopt by reason of her r1oS 1 kba h. common people. So forsooth, we must have an upper and lower House, too, though each enactment muss pass them | both. Were the members of our our city | legislature chosen by the Proportional | method, then all the people would he rep resented and the agents they elected would he much more likely to regard the interests of alt.
 CHURCH AND STATE AT "UNITY'.
 The question before the Pastors class last Sunday, at Unity church, was, Should laws be made for the especial benefit of churches?"
 The exemption of chu. ch property from taxation being the most general favor be- slowed upon them by the laws in cur coun- try, that point was considered It was held to be unjust and unequal in it's opera tion, as it increases the taxation of other property to the amount from which the | church was exempted; also, that the costly | edifice of rich church would be relieved | from much larger amount of taxation | than the plain, humble church by it's side.
 On the other hand it was suggested that churches contributed to morality good or der, and the security of property, dimin ishing crime and the cost of punishing it, which was a pecuniary benefit to society equal to the increased taxation that was necessary t1 balance the amount from which churches arc relieved. In response it was said, that on the same principle any person or institution, even a mill or factory that benefits society, sh 'uld be exempted | from taxation. But this was cons idered negative kind of favor.
 Should government provide for the sup port of 0 church as England does. An ar gument in favor of it was suggested that | if the minister was not dependent upon | his people for his position or his salary, he felt more freedom to denounce the pecu- liar sins of his congregation, that he was present ideas in advance of those of his parishiouers, when, if dependent, he dared to keep only abreast with them.
 In reply to this 1t was said that clergy mon secure in their places and independ ent of their people, would, in many cases, be led to neglect their duties, read stereo- typed sermons anl devote their time as many HI Gn6 iahu uit' U" lo4 nuhGlng ana horse racing, while the people were taxed for their support, indisc criminately, Selev- CTS or non-churchmen. In our own coun- try, though not coerced by law, it was as serted that nine-tenths of army and navy chaplains were selected from the Episcopal or High church.
 It was nearly the unanimous opinion of the class that the interest of the commu nifty as also of that of the churches would be better subserved by leaving them tD de- penl upon the voluntary support of the people.