Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-13

charging an entrance fee: We hope the Beach brothers will for their own interest cancel such an undertaking. The thunder storm which passed over this place Tuesday about noon was welcome visitor as the streets had commenced to be very dusty.
 Regular meeting Mason Rogers post No. 2, G. A. R., on Thursday evening. southington. June 12.-Messrs. Joseph and Thomas Medley and Lauren Thorpe of this place are enpsged in reopening an old mine in New l town for Neriden parties. It IS supposed to ! contain silver.
 M. A. Danill, proprietor of Hotel Central, | convicted of illegal liquor selling, has been I confined in Hartford jail since last Thurs ! day, being unable to raise the $2O0 or more | necessary to pay his fine and costs. | The farmers are complaining of new pest | It is a small brown worm, about one-e1ghtn | of an inch long, which attacks the grapevines \ and eats the grapes and leaves, completely | riddling the vines. Nothing of the kind has ever annoyed fruit growers here before, al least to any noticeable extent. On some they | are very numerous and destructive. Birmingham.
 June 12.-At the Sixth school district an' | nual meeting, to be held week after next an excellent exhibit will be made of ths | bond of S1 ,000 will be cancelled, thus re | ducing the debt to $s,000. No money haf | been borrowed during the year, and an ad- ditional room will be equipped for the com 1 ing year. The school Is crowded, and the High school department is In highly pros' porous condition.
 The new grand lists for the towns of Derby | and Ansonia have been filed with the respeo- tive town clerks and show the wealth of the old town of Derby to have been distributed | in the ratio of 62 per cent. for Ansonla ano 38 per cent. for the present town ot Derby In the new town of Derby the real estate If I divided as subjoined list shows. In thlt I enumeration is given a list Of those assessed
 for $10, 900 and over.
 The grand list of the old town was $4, ,7oS, 125; the list of the town of Ansonia is $2, l 919,507, and the old lists and the new agre' | to dollar. The two new lists show Ansoni' \ to have 62 per cent. of the taxable property
 while Derby has 39 per cent.
 The taxable property Of the town ot DerDl is distributed as follows:
 Houses S25 5-e, valuation $891 ,047; stores $170, $50; land, Z, AT acres, valuation, $9S, 508; manufactories, $91 800: horses, $16, 800
 cattle, $49, ,060; sheep, $35; carriages, s13. .9O5
 time-pieces, $5, ,266; pianos, $5, l4o; turnle9G
 and libraries, $4, ,025; bank stock, 0,9lO
 insurance stock, $3, ,S80; wharf and turnpik
 stock, $1, 500; other stocks, $2,520; railroa'
 bonds, G37 ,295; city corporation bonds, $2,
 900; amt employed in trade and merchan
 dising, $110,750; investments in manu
 featuring operations, $156, TOO; vessels, s4,
 157; money at interest, $s,250; money ol
 deposit, $9,260; all other taxable property
 s57, ,250; 10 per cent. additional, $10,903
 property of soldiers not taxed, 45,547; sun
 total, $1 ,7S9,618.
 The largest taxpayers in Derby are A. B
 & 0. B. filling, who are assessed for $S9 670.
 A list of the taxpayers of Derby and An
 sonia whose property valuation exceeds $1O, 900 follows: