The Press., 1889-02-21
LOCAL ToPICs-PENN,D AND sClssoRED.

LOCAL TOPICs-PENN'D AND sClssORED.
 To speak of the town of Union to 6 New Haven man is like exhibiting scarlet flag to thoroughbred bull, and invariably calls forth diatribe on the 'rotten borough system of representa- tion." Clarence Deming has just been trotting around in the well-trodden little circle before the legislative committee on constitutional amendments, and rehearsing the well-worn story. During his remarks the town of Union, with it's 118 votes, was compared to New Haven with it's IT, ,SO0- one voter in Union being equivalent to 151 in New Haven in tue choice of representa- tives, and consequently in the election of 1 governor when the election devolves upon the legislature. A citizen who should move from Union to New Haven would lose 150- 151sts of his citizenship-would be almost disfranchised. But MT. Dening touches lightly upon supreme privilege that the New Havener enjoys over the Union man. By removing his residence to Union he can multiply his representa- tive privileges by just 15l, while the Union man will surrender just so much of his birthright by going to New Haven. When this fact is understood we shall look for a great migration from the city by the Sound
 
 haps the result of great boom in corner lots upon the streets of Union. The peo- pie who have populated New Haven of course did not understand the condition of } affairs and of the blunder of the ignorant men who wrote the constitution of Con- necticut, and established the present con. dltlon of things under land in spite of) which the state has struggled along 10 honor and prosperity, or they would have chosen the elysian fields of Union with , the exalted privileges of citizenship there in preference to the disfranchised and . stricken city by the sea, whose growth, , commerce and industry is undoubtedly 80 cramped by the overshadowing privileges of the arrogant, purse proud and infuen- tial statesmen from Union.
 At the Orcutt family reunion in Staf- ford, in 1886, the interest was much heightened by the presence and remarks , of Rsv. N. w. Bixby of Iowa, 8 descend ant of David Orcutt and who over 40 years ago migrated from New Hampshire to Iowa. MT. Bixby is said to have the best genealogical record in existence of the Or cutt family. The Strawberry Point Iowa, Press gives an account of over column'e length of the celebration of his 8Oth birth day at his home in Ladonville Jan. 18th in which children and friends joined, in : cludlng members of the Baptist church of which he had been for forty years pas tor.
 At meeting of the Union Chapel SO ciety held Wednesday evening at the house of l.. A. Durkee at Mansfield depot, fol the purpose of organization, MT. w. H l Corbett was chosen chairman and Mir. H P. Topliff, clerk. The following officer : were elected H. F. Topliff of South Gov entry, president w. H. Corbett, secre . tary; F. McCullum, treasurer; George A s Huntington, Lyman A. Durkee and Chas
 l.. Bosworth, society committee :; Mrs. F McCullum, Miss Mary J. Tilden, Mrs. E t R. Dimock, MT. c. L. ~Bosworth and Mir
 G. A. Huntington, committee on charel To \ \ cation to report at future meeting. Ad s s journed two weeks.
 ! The Willimantic Journal we'll says ? ''Twenty-eight students are now in attend
 ance at the Storrs Agricultural school, ant
 this number is more than can be we'll ac s commodated. Many applications were re
 fused last fall for lack of room. It ough n to be an easy matter to convince the gen . eral assembly of the importance and i'm
 perative need of new buildings, and secur, [ an adoption of the trustees recommends
 tion that an appropriation be made for tn, :. purpose at the present session of the body.
 70. c. Hum has been appointed post : master at East Longmeadow, Mass, il 2 2 place of A. H. Calkins, resigned. Mir. Hum IS enlarging and improving his store build : ing to accommodate his increasing busi - ness. =.
 Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, the ablest leade y in the ranks of the w. C. T. U., will de liver an address in Putnam on Friday evening, March 1st. Mrs. Foster comes tt F Connecticut by invitation of the Stat' f Temperance Society, to speak before th' # legislature in behalf of the constitutions 9 amendment, which is going to be passed and submitted to the people for their ap proval. In this work Mrs. Foster has nt o equal among women, being gifted witl 7 eloquence and remarkable reasoning pow - CTS. Her whole soul is in1amed with zea l. for the temperance cause, to which her lift r r has been devoted, and her success great il !, accomplishing good in great variety o ways.
 LJ. Danford Ruby, Staffords vel IT known antiquarian poet, has assets that ' accepted at his own admitted valuation
 would exceed the grand list of Tollant
 county, and at the ordinary rate of taxa
 tion, as so valued, would quickly extin
 guish every town, borough or district ta,
 in Stafford. His latest discovery of unex
 pected wealth in his possession is sprin,
 upon land owned by him in the east par l. of the town, which he declares to be th
 most wonderful specimen of natures dis : tillation in existence, sparkling as cham :. pagne, sweet as nectar, and wholesome al
 concentrated apothecary shop. Wonder
 full results are predicted by the owner wher
 it's merits shall have brought it into use
 MT. Ruby's theory is that it starts in
 vein of coal, and is filtered through de
 posit of the purest silver. To most peo
 pie the possession of the coal and silve
 mines would be good fortune enough, bu o to one owning such valuable articles as MT
 Ruby feels sure he possesses, such trifie
 are the merest bagatelle. Mir. Ruby ha : kindly contributed the following to Tn -l Press
 FOR THE NATION.
 President Cleveland, one of the nations mob
 lest men,
 Long may he live for years to come, \ Harrison and Morton too.
 The land flows with milk and honey, The tariff, the duty on shoddy, fur and wool
 Johnny Bull is quiet passive and still