The Press., 1888-04-19


 ALREADY $25, ,OOO has been subscribed fol the widow of Chief Justice Waite. Such ac ton is creditable, and pays. Let men wht give their services to their country for tith' of the compensation that their talents would enable them to earn in professional life fee that 8 grateful country will remember the families they leave behind them, and we shal see fewer public men yielding to the tempta tions that beset official life. Don't let it be said that an honest man cannot afford to take office.
 THE annual report of the trustees of the Storrs agricultural school gives an engraving of the new laboratory, neat cottage style building now nearly completed. It is one story, ceilings 13 feet high, with attics for storage. It is 35x64, with opened and closed porches, heated by furnace and lighted by gas, IT windows for light, 2 and approved methods of ventilation and for carrying of gases Cost, $7, ,OOO. The new barn, to cost $3,OO0, will be ready for the next harvest. It will be 4OxSO feet. The need of the barn is apparent from the statement of the super intendent showing that the farms capacity to carry stock has been doubled within four years, and is likely to be doubled again within z four years time. This increase has not been made by outlaYs for fertilizers or labor, but by developing home resonrees.,
 The class to June 15, 1888, contains 9 members, as follows:
 Willette L. Alley, Greenwich. Wesley R. Coe, Middlefeld. Henry B. Hubbard, Middletown. George H. Knowles, Rockville. Keeney B: Loomis, =. =. ,.-> So. Manchester. Harry L. Quinlan, '> +.: Hartford Charles W. Roberts, Middletown. Clarence H. Savage, East Berlin. Chares A. Wheeler, Trumbull.
 Connecticut Home: Prosecuting Agent -Hodgson; Deputy Sheriff Fiske and Charles Reynolds searched the Springs House last fweeksona Tarrant They found room that smelled strongly of whisky, and in it few small liquor glasses, and sugar bowl and cork-screw. In moving half cabinet sewing machine, bottles were heard to rattle, and a key was asked for, but refused. A key was found, however, and the whisky was found, several bottles of it. The hearing on the seizure is set down for for next Saturday (14th). The proprietor, w. A. Segar, is also to be arrested on charges of reputation" and keeping for sale." A curious feature of the situation is that, while particular pains were taken to bring the facts of the search before the editor of the Stafford Press within half an hour after the occurrence, the last issue of the republican Press contained not word about the affair. The owner of the hotel property is Hon. Julius Converse, a promi- nent republican and a few years ago candi- date for state treasurer. The case excites much interest.
 The Press can afford to give a home circu- lation to this item refecting upon it's course. Here in Stafford the public knows what the course of this paper has been, and to this public we can submit the question if The Press has not better earned the i'll will of the saloon element than has any individual pro- hibitionist, or even the entire prohibition club combined, which, we may remark, the saloon keepers do not particularly dread, regarding it as dividing rather than a unifying agent among their opposers. Concerning the poll tics of the owner of the Springs House, why was it not stated that the landlord also is an intense partisan, probably never voted a scratched ticket in his life, and wouldn't vote for the editor of The Press for any, office; also that he was the landlord when it recently passed into the ownership of MT. Converse The ownership of the building would make no difference in the matter of allusion to this case by The Press. We own to dislike to having any odium connected with our hotel, and regret the evidence that liquor is sold there, at the same time rejoice in the belief that it is not drinking resort, and that those served there are generally transient guests. We could wish that it might be thoroughly temperance house. But we are not called up- on to defend the landlord. We did not pub fish the facts of the seizure, and the neither discreet nor courteous correspondent of the Home knows that we often defer mention of such cases until they come to trial, and the editor of that paper also knows that after nearly every issue of sheet some accidental omissions of what should have been part of it's contents comes to the mind of it's conduct or. Which of these causes led to the omis- sion is nobody's business, however. We might say, though, that the friend who saw the paragraph and called our attention to it (we never saw above a half dozen issues of the Home since it's publication began) was in search of information about Willimantic affair, which he expected to find and didn't, which illustrates point we have made. Con- corning The Press' politics-it never had 8 dollar of aid from any party or any member of any party except the party to which The Home assumes sthat it belongs. Gan the Home say as much? Further: It never had a dollars donation from Gny party or politi- clan, and it has never dealt with any party except in business like manner, and has treated all parties alike in the matter of gratuities, etc., as it's prohibition friends here will say. The Press has convictions, as has any honest man or journal, and they are not for sale.