The Press., 1890-06-12
sOMERs.

3s. tC0fro&pQ0aence.l
 Miss Lucinda Pomsroy and her sister,
 Mils Hasrist, spent last week in Saratoga,
 -AIhs sot1ersville base bali nine defeated ths TAlcottviiis nine last Saturday by score of 13 to9. They are to play the Holyokes the coming Saturday ct Somersville.
 "A family from Monson, Mass., {named Hunter), have moved into the Ransom house, oppoiits J. B. Dimock's HI. J. Shaw is spending the week with his sister in Northampton, Mass.
 -Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Moore were sum- Inoned to Belchertown, Mass, this week to attend the funeral of MT. Moore's mother. The spring term of the select school is to tional church Wednesday evening, June 18th. 70. M. Needham spent last Sunday at Nj antic, Conn. 5'.- MANSF1 Ea4D.
 Prof. John Fl. Washburn and wife (lee Martha Merrow) formerly of the Storrs school, but now of the Rhode Island agri- cultural school at Kingston, where Prof. Waahburn is principal, are, blessed with a little daughter, born few days ago. Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D., of Brook lyn. M K, iasto preach in the Second Con gregational church, Mansfield, on Sunday,
 the 18th, and is expected to remain thro' the following week and deliver an address at the graduating exercises of Storrs Agri-
 cultural School on Friday, the 2Oth. The class-day exercises at the Storrs School in Mansfeld will take place on Thurs day evening, luna IS, and the Commencement exercises will be held Friday afternoon, June 2O, beginning at i.30 P. m. The baccslaur-
 cate serl4oa will bs delivered by Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, of Plymouth church, on Sun day evening. The following afS tho names of the graduating class Ernst H. Brandt Merrill E. Brown, Wilbur L. 6oodsnouah, Charles J. Gilmore, Latham Hull, Uaaltoa E
 Lane, Clarence B. Lane, Chafles B. Pemsroy, jr., George Meth, Robert c. Shepard, A. Cari Sternberg, jr., J. Hunter Weems, Willis L. Wetmore.
 -Wiilimantic is having it's innings with
 mad dogs. ,4.
 Congressman Simonds has introduced . new patent law which has this feature five years after date of thsissue of patent, either the patentee or some one interested in the patent, shall pay tax of ten dol lars CT the patent shall expire five years after tax of twenty-five dollars shall be paid in order to keep the patent alive. The object of this bill is to keep open tae field for invention by allowing those patents which have not been improved or pushed " @n0Scc0c&uA CAus M t1k90, HI U&U0G t0ut other inventors may take the advantage of fsuch lapse. The tax cannot be regarded
 as severe upon any patent that is of value | n itself.
 | The Thorne Type setting Machine com- tpany of Hartford have just completed . Icontract to furnish wealthy western cor lporation with twenty seven hundred of |their type-setting and distributing ma: chimes, a certain number to be be deliv. tered monthly until the completion of the Iorder. Probably so large an order for Imaehinery of any kind never before came
 to Hartford, involving as it does about four millions of dollars. l..
 Hartford's net city debt is 81 ,O9S, IF. .67 and the net town debt $t, 109, ,749. 51, .
 total of g, ,2O5, ,867. Is. In 1880 the total lindsbtedness was $2, ,614, AT 13, 50 that in nine years the amount that Hartford owes was reduced $408, ,609. 95. :.
 During the month of April the immigra. tions into this country numbered GA, ,212,
 an increase over the corresponding month of 1889 Of 1907. Since July 1 the immi.
 grations were 318, ,615, an increase over the Epreceding year of 3O3.