The Press., 1889-03-07
TIE laugh is on the county commissioners,

THE laugh is on the county commissioners, who, in their letter of dismissal to Prosecutor Turner, wrote sscounty commissioner" as the office from which he was deposed. Reports to the contrary notwithstanding we believe that there has been no move for the success sion save in the petition for Geo. W. Eaton of Stafford Springs, which has been too generally signed to leave much chance for another, al- though very little canvassing was done with it. This community will be generally pleased with his appointment. The very few who declined to sign it were generally those who, sickened with past experience, wished to keep clear of part in the making of any new agent, but had no objection to MT. Eaton. It is most unmistakably ''the'voice of the peep e" that MT. Eaton be appointed.
 ; We have received the Connecticut State Register which has just been issued by Secretary Walsh. It was confessedly inn possible for him to have prepared it since January l, and in the preface he gives the credit to his predecessor, Secretary L.. M. Hubbard, whose plan and work it is. The book contains over 400 pages, giving all the interesting lines of statistics and other facts that were presented in the recent register of last year, together with addi- tional information of value. There is 8 list of the indebtedness of towns and cities and the rates of taxation, % that very instructive comparison is ready at any body's hand.
 Rev. Dr. William Thompson, who hes been professor in the Hartford theologi- no1 csnoo S%o, Rourlo}Scp in 129A died at Hartford last Wednesday, aged 83, after Q brief illness of pneumonia. He had hel@ pastorate of a year at North Bridgewater, Mass. when he was called to be professor of sacred literature in the theological institute then located at East Windsor Hill. This was the parent of the present institution, and Dr. Thompson 8 connection with it lasted AZ years. Fol one of his advanced age, he had remark able hold on both his mental and physical strength. His unwillingness to retire into leisure life had as great an influence fol good on the students under him as his teaching itself, and his memory is held in high esteem by hundreds of graduates. Hartford Times President Harrison's inaugural breathes spirit of earnest, hon est devotion to his country's good, and g certain reverent tone as well, which should be taken as word of good promise and { 1 favorable augury. General Harrison says
 he has no southern policy" He demands free ballot-negroes and all-but beyond
 that, he has no plan, change nor policy te 1 offer or uphold. He hints pretty strongly
 that there isn't going to be any of tha
 'sclean sweep of office-holders to which
 both parties have been looking forward He starts out well.
 The leading article in the March Scrib
 neris that of ex-P Postmaster General Thomas l.. James on "The Railway Mail Service.
 William H. Burnham, late fellow of Johns
 Hopkins university, furnishes valuable
 article on economy in brain work. Among
 the illustrated articles of special interest
 is that of William F. Anthorp on "Heroel
 and Heroines of Wagner" in which much
 that is new is told of Wagner's philosophi
 cal purposes in: his great mucic-dramas
 William McKendrick Bangs contributes {
 dramatic short story with the title of "Ex
 tenuating Circumstances.
 The Hartford Courant on Monday pub
 lished valuable supplement, entitled "A
 Century Of Presidents" given to it's sub
 scribers in honor of inauguration day There are fine engravings of all our chie1
 executives from the s'Father of his coun Itry'' down, with biographical sketches.