The Press., 1889-03-28
LOCAL roprCs-pENN,D AND sClssoRED.

LOCAL TOPICS -PENN'D AND sClSSORED.
 -Dimock, of Holland, warmly advocated in the house of representatives on We'd nesday of last week the bill for the aboli- ton of capital punishment. Mir. Dimock, who is clerk of the superior court of Tol- land county, where there has never been but one execution, said that should man be sentenced to be hung in Holland courts, he would resign from the court, rather than abet a judicial murder. Both MT. Dimock and others who favored the aboli- tion were warmly applauded, but the ma jority of the votes were against them on the passage of the bill
 There is remarkable clergyman in ing of Crystal Lake grange he read a pa- per on "atmospherie air. "(D The Record would be mighty glad to get hold of his ideas on the other varieties of air.-N0r- aOich Record.
 Tt is said on the streets of Stafford Springs that Prosecutor Fay will be s'bounced" at the next meeting of the county commissioners. It is said by par ties who, while not overmuch in sympa- thy with temperance reform, have been suspiciously correct in predicting what the county commissioners were going to do If he is to be bounced for going for saloon and billiard room keepers who vio. late the law by allowing minors to ire. quent their places, it will be an outrage. For of all the diabolical acts of those who live on the vices of men the worst is the inducing of young boys to "come in" es' pecially of the children of people of means, spl, ko khnSn of in o1 l lowance of spending money. We have seen too many young boys of good tend encies lead to the wrong turning not to feel warmly on this subject. Prosecutor Fay is on the right track. The curse oi the liquor saloons is not that they gratify the wants of the confirmed inebriate, but that they systematically recruit the de. pleting ranks of their patrons. Keep the boys who haven't formed appetites outside of these places. They don't care for the drink at first, but the ''social" glass taken as matter of form between games of bil lizards, or in contempt of the meanness that would "burn the shingles off a mans house," soon gets an added relish from habit, and the thirst that grows with its own gratifit ion, until it tastes good, ever when drank in ''solitude."
 We don't know what charges are made if any, against Prosecutor Fay. There ii a feeling in Stafford among temperance people that it would have been better i he had kept away from here last week, bu he is not likely to repeat that visit, ant that action was probably from misunder standing. Certainly temperance people il Stafford are not urging his removal.
 Charles Perkins, an employe of Ansel Arnold & Co.,, was almost instantly killed in the New York and New England freight yard at Willimantic, Friday. He wal driving load of hay when his horse be came frightened by the cars and he wa thrown under the wagon and run over fracturing his skull and breaking his neck He leaves widow and three children.
 John Gilman, of Worcester, who i keeping railroad projects constantly be fore the people, thus speaks of one of hi pet schemes, before alluded to in this pa per, and one of several advocated in tn last issue of his U. s. Farm Register: WORCESTER HARTFORD R. R.
 The Worcester X Hartford R. R. is onl continuance of the Boston and Worceste line, and stepping stone for the Unite States Central, which is proposed to folio, the Boston & Albany R. R. from Worcet
 ter to East Brookfeld (also the Boston
 Albany R. R. from Westboro to Worcester unless the towns of Shrewsbury, North
 boro and Hudson secure the route throug
 their towns), or build new line frol Worcester through Leicester and Spence
 (which has been surveyed, and the max , mum grade is only 72 feet per mile for
 miles, going east), then follow the valle , from East Brookfield through Sturbridg
 Fiskdale, Brimfeld, Holland, Shawvill'
 Wales, Hydeville, Stafford Hollow, Sta
 ford Springs, Rockville, to Hartfort
 Conn. (shortening the line from Boston New York nearly IS miles over the pop i. lar Boston & Albany R. R., which is tt T, best line between Worcester and Ne
 York, and far superior to any other all-ra st route of to-day), thence follow the Ne ] l York, New Haven X Hartford R. R. I New York city the main line to continr from Hartford westerly on the Connect K !: cut Western to Poughkeepsie Bridge; ar 5e new line is here proposed to Pittsbur lc Penn., thence continue westerly to Chic J. go and Omaha, on lines already bull al here connecting with the great Union P Id cifc, making one continuous line fro
 ocean to ocean, and should all be und = one management.
 Mansfield grange, No. GA, celebrat' it's second anniversary March 13. The l erary entertainment was opened wi music and paper entitled "The histo of our grange" by H. P. Chamberlain, { ter which each member answered the fe lowing questions Why did I join u grange? What has the grange done f me? What can I do for the grange? paid fine of ten cents. Later in the eve ing several members of Wangumbal
 grange, who were present, made pleasil
 remarks.
 Holland County Leader A Stonin
 ton correspondent says: "Some years as
 Andrew J. Gurley came with his family
 Stonington from the wilds of Tolial
 county. When the borough instituted tl
 system of street lights he became the ligt
 CT thereof, and proved faithful to his d
 ties. A year or more ago an aged pare
 died in Holland county, and our neighb here was obliged under the will to recei,