Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-16

percentage of the injuries done to individual bondholders results from such mergers.

percentage of the injuries done to individual bondholders results from such mergers.
 4th. "Any person who has been in the em- ploy of any railroad or other corporation having 6 capital of three millions or more in any capacity whatsoever for a period of twenty-five years shall be entitled to his dis charge and shall receive for life from said corporation a pension equal to two-thirds of the salary attached to the position he last oc- cupied." If corporations have no natural souls they must be supplied with artificial ones, for we live in an age of humanity.
 9th and last for the time being: ''If any brakeman porter maintain the tempera- ture of passenger car above 80 deg, after his attention has been properly and politely called to the fact, the train shall be stopped, the culprit shall be dragged out and forth with executed. Any passenger may per form the execution" The wording of these most excellent laws must, of course, be care- fully scrutinized before the legislators be al- lowed to handle them. Now, to another matter.
 If Messrs. Starbuck, Stevenson & Go. are so uncomfortably full of disinterested rail road benevolence towards the people of Con- necticut that 1t must be vented, there are plenty of directions which would not offend existing institutions. Connecticut is yearly growing in estimation as @ summer and health resort. If it's secluded bays,its wood- ed hooks rand it's breezy hill-tops were within easy reach thousands more each season would come for health and rest. For in stance; continuation of the Shepaug rail road through the towns of Goshen and Nor- folk to the village of Norfolk would open to travel lovely country high up in the air where the winds are as full of ozone as Del beck, brut. Then Litchf cid herself, the queen of New England villages, could be reached from both north and south, and all the world would rejoice thereat. There would be little money in the enterprise at starting, Mir. Starbuck; but think of the in- estimable value of kiss of gratitude on both your cheeks from a stately dame of Litchfeld, in whose thin but virgin veins the bluest of ancestral blood may have been percolating for fourscore years or more! Or, starting from WatertowH, lay your dis interested rails through Morris, Litchfeld for another kiss, Goshen or Cornwall, and so northwest to the great and growing railroad center where your own road crosses the road destined to revolutionize the coal traffic of the eastern States. Along this line benevo- lence would perhaps meet with quicker pe- New Haven direct to Norwich as the bird flies would make the Bozrahites, the East Haddamites, the Killingworthites and the Guilfordelamites all rejoice like little scriptural hills; and the Hammonassett Fish ing club would immediately get itself to- gether, pass resolutions and send you an en- grossed copy prepaid. And are there not many more spots in the State unknown to this individual where your longings could be equally well sstisfeda So do come off. Give this most tiresome parallel business most needed and final rest. Let your benev- olent orbit be attracted elsewhere. Make lonely places alive with your charities and fill eolitudes with your praises. So will your petitioners ever pray. FERNANDEZ.