The Press., 1889-05-23
STAFFORD.

SEAEkOHDs
 "A considerable portion of the cotton
 machinery of the Central Woolen Go. has
 been sold to Henry Adams of Rockville,
 and is being carried away. .t
 -Alvarado Howard and family are occu-
 pying cottage at Martha's Vineyard.
 Mir. Fl. was summoned home last week
 because of insurance matters connected with the Mineral Springs mill fire.
 The borough authorities who are often called upon to remove dead cats and dogs from ponds and streams, would be glad to catch some one in the act of placing them there.
 The cemetery association has been of the grounds The people who trample on these regulations and steal flowers and other portable decorations from the graves are of course of too low an order of intel lect to be reached by appeals to sentiment, but they do know that they are violating law, and have no right to expect any warn- ing 10 precede prosecution on the part of those whose feelings they outrage by these desecrating thefts and other lawless acts.
 Last week Monday morning it was mo- ticed that pennies and some mutilated coin were missing from the till of M. G. Moore's store on East Main-st., and the same being noticed on one or two mornings thereafter Officer Mullin was put on track. Inquiry showed that two suspected boys had been free with pennies, and on Mon day evening last Geo. Derosier of South street and Peter, Nadeau of Vest Main, boys between g and 10 years of age, were arrested. The Nadeau boy owned up to this and several other petty thefts connect ed with breaking in. He had carried home tobacco, and his parents knew that he had been stealing. He said that they were planning to have entered Moores store again tonight. They had found en- trance by the outside cellar door. The young burglars were taken before Judge Risley of the borough court on Tuesday morning, and given term at the Meriden reform school. Evidently they need edu. cation and restraint of different nature from that which comes from previous home influences.
 Charles Reynolds of Torrent Engine Go. had his left hand badly cut by falling slate while fighting the fire last Friday.
 Mrs. Emory Pierce's ice cream rooms, to be opened on Saturday afternoon, will be located in Warren's Block (2d foor), end will be open every afternoon and even ing through the season. See advertise ment.
 Less than ten years old, but confirmed criminals. This can almost be said of the two boys sentenced last Tuesday to the re- form school. They already made sys- tenn of theft, had been in at least three diff. ferent stores at night, to say nothing of simple thieving. Once they had boarded the caboose of freight train and taken money from 8 jacket hanging there. The father of one was using tobacco stolen by the boy, so the boy said, and the mother said they knew of the thieving and were waiting for MT. Mullin to come" before they told of it: Meanwhile the boy kept on stealing, and frankly told the merchant that they had been intending to come again the next night. Clearly that boy would never. become good man under such home influences. Rather would go to swell the number now chased by the statutes of our state as "confrmed criminals.' D
 Last weeks fire is likely to provoke discussion as to whether the aaueduct company is giving the borough the service implied in the contract, when four inch pipe is allowed to run at full size from the main while fire is in progress that Is putt ting in peril the entire business portion of the village. The ordinary water pressure. shown by the guage at The Press office, is 105 to 108 pounds. This is almost instant ly reduced 28 to 30 pounds when the pipe IS In use ct the River mill. It has hap. pened that while mill owners were giving exhibitions of their fire protection in the presence of insurance men the results were but it has been explained that on fire alarm being given the whole water supply was at the service of the fire department. It appeared last Friday this was not the case. Four streams from the hydrants quickly reduced the pressure to such degree that the roofs on Main street could not be wet from the street, and as these several times caught fire quite a panic prevailed. A man was sent down to cut of the River street main, and from that time the pressure increased, though of course it was harder for it to recover than to have maintained fair pressure throughout. About that time the ears of the managef of the aqueduct company must have burned fearfully. The bor- ough authorities should have the matter now settled, once for all, whether, when e ire is being fought, they can have fair pressure at the hydrants, so far as the reg alations of the aqueduct company can guarantee. The occupants of the score or more of buildings endangered last Friday are excusable for feeling warm interest n having different understanding for the future.
 VI. B. Merrow has been appointed post master at Morrow and W. B. Batchelder It Stafford.