The Press., 1889-08-22
LOCAL ToPICs-PErH,D AND sCIssoRED.


 Conn. Farmer: With the appropria- tion of $50, 900 for new and adequate build ings secured, and the work in the hands of men whose intelligent and unselfish devo- tion to the institution from the first gives every assurance that the money will be honestly and wisely expended, the friends is really out from under the clouds which have so long overshadowed it. Lat us all thank God and take courage
 Never, within our knowledge, has any agricultural school, under whatever name, done SO good work in proportion to the
 money expended, as has the Storrs school. And surely never in commonwealth where the farmers approached in intelligence, land general comprehension of the advan- |fages of agricultural education those of Connecticut has so worthy an object met with such bitter and unreasonable hostility. The experiment station at New Haven had indeed much the same experience, but farmers have learned 8 great deal since that time.
 But if the opponents of the Storrs school were bitter its friends were loyal and ear nest. They never finched or turned back, they compelled the indifferent to see it's reaf merits, they won over candid oppon- ents, the legislature finally swept aside the { last resort of trickery to cripple and en- barrass the work, and only few small souls. here and there, are found to regret
 the result. No efforts will be spared to have the buildings ready for use early next year, and the class entering this fall will, without much doubt, be the first to take advantage of them.
 The outlook is better now. as far as ap- l~o fore at this season of year. The school is constantly growing in it's capacity. for even
 better work than it has already done. II is already making itself felt upon the farms and farming of the state, though the mum. Der of it's graduates is still small. We be- lieve 1t is to prove an immense power fol good, but it's beneficence will be measured by the use which the farmers of the state make of it. The means of elfhelp are te be more fully placed in their hands thar
 ever before. The faithful and able corps of instructors at Mansfield are not much
 longer to be called upon to make brick without straw. The state, in general as sembly convened, has done it's duty. Nov
 let the farmers do theirs.
 Putnam Patriot Brother James McLaugh
 lin of The Press was the object of much ob ! servation, on account of his close resemblance
 to President Harrison, at the Eastford celebra
 ton on Saturday.
 | This gross hattery of the president
 should stop right here. >, Tt is we'll to remind owners of fowls
 that by an act of the last legislature they
 are liable for damages if they allow then to trespass on grounds belonging to theil neighbOrs. The law as passed Every owner or keeper of domestic fowls l who shall allow them to trespass upon th
 premises of another person, shall be liable tt
 the owner or occupant of said premises for al
 damage done by such fowls, and if after writ ten notice has been given the owner of sait | fowls, he neglects to prevent further trespass he shall upon complaint, in each case of tres
 pass, be fined not more than seven dollars.
 -SouthbridgeHerald Mrs. JohnPearc land her little daughter, Anne Belle, o ISouth Coventry, have been spending fey
 weeks at her fathers, A. B. Weld's. He lhusband, Rev. John Pearce, is now dail expected from his return trip to England
 where he has heen visiting friends.
 l Prof. Elias Loomis LL.D., of Yal tcollege, died on the 18th, at the age of z | years. He was born in Wilmington, wa made tutor in mathematics at Yale on hi graduation in 1880, and in 1886 went t Europe, where he conducted important 1T | Yestigations in astronomy and magnetism
 He was the first to discover the return (
 Haley's comet in 1885, and computed tn Iorbit from his own observations. He wa faerve college. Ohio, until 1844, when h