The Press., 1886-01-28

21 years of age shall be employed over 10 hours, all under Is and over 15 are to be recorded as to age and place of birth, chll- dren under IS cannot be employed unless certified by a physician, as being of physical capacity for work required. No child under Is to be employed about ma chinery dangerous to life and limb, or in mining, glass making, rag-sorting, lead, arsenic, or brick works, or III the making of explosives, or ill any place not properly ventilated and provided with fire escapes.
 P. NJ. AUGUR, the states pomologist, makes very good argument for keeping the Storrs agricultural school where 1t is. He writes to the Hartford Times, and we copy the article on page l. Mir. Augur IS a man of sturdy common sense, emi- nently practical, and his views therefore carry weight. He cannot be said to be locally biased, being a resident of Middle ford i'll MiddleseX county and the local ity question is bigger factor in the mat ter than the people of Holland county are aware of It is manifestly the purpose of | the agitators to get an advantage by loosening the present moorings of the school, and once loosened to bear it to the west of the Connecticut river. The talk of faulty title and interested motives on the part of Mir. Storrs is all 8 cover to this, The matter of title eau and will be made satisfactory, but men in the west part of the state are determined to rob
 this section of the only state institution it can boast.
 It looks as if 1t were policy for other
 towns in Holland county to, rather than 1 try to get the school away from Mansfield,
 make a united stand to keep it in Tol- l land county at all, and that the best way l to do this is to keep 1t where it Is. All
 Eastern Connecticut should feel local
 pride in defeating the will of the man who said that the school should not remain
 east of the river Holland county is a
 little part of the state and used to being
 snubbed because of insignificance ill size.
 She holds this school by virtue of the | liberality of one of her sons i'll endowlng
 the same, and should mark we'll the men
 who want to take 1t from her because etGSb Ol IllC OOuA6CblCuG IINGI ID uO E14hOC
 for it" We commend the closing para
 graph of MT. Augur's letter to the espec-
 iaI attention of the people of Mansfield.
 THE scheme Is revived again of having
 the state assume the indebtedness of
 towns when incurred in building railroads.
 It would be as proper to have the state
 assume the debt incurred by the towns in
 lodging the drafts in the late rebellion,
 and 1t wouldn't be proper at all to do that.
 The scheme would tax certain towns to
 pay for railroads built expressly to divert
 business from them to certain other towns. , -
 IT will be gratifying to business men of
 this part of the state if Gov. Harrison shall appoint to the office of insurance
 commissioner Col. Joseph Selden of Nor wich, gentleman of the highest grade of business ability, integrity of character, and specially conversant with the details , of insurance business.
 ONIoNs.-Why do not our farmers raise more onions? It is an easy matter to
 grow 800 bushels per acre, and. they are , now worth $l per DusheL Many garden crops must be sent to market in small
 quantities each day, but onions can De
 sent all at once and are marketed as easily r as potatoes or corn.-- Let the boys try a 5 small patch this spring. The Joseph Har- . ris Seed Co.,, Moreton Farm, Rochester, . N. Y., are large onion growers, and raise : the best of seed. They let the boys and girls under fifteen years of age have seed for their own use at D per cent. discount from regular catalogue rates. This is a genuine offer. Send for the catalogue and try their onion seed. It is warranted fresh, crop of 1885, and of the highest 2T quality. Old onion seed will not grow. , Look out for it. New seed is scarce nnd 7 high, but no experienced onion grower sows any other.