The Press., 1890-07-17
LOCAL ToPICs-PENN,D AND sCIssoRED.

Judge Hall has given decision in the case of J. J. Began against the New York and New England railroad company, for destroying a store-house filled with. wool shoddy. Mir. Began claimed that the building caught fire from sparks from locomotive. The judge awarded Began $13, ,O91 damages and costs. The case was, tried at the June term of the Holland coun- ty superior court, the damages claimed being $l4,OOO.
 The Providence Telegram says that the petition of the Providence, Ponagan- sett and Springfield railroad company which has been presented to the city coun- oil of that city, asking that the city guar antee the interest on it's first 4 per cent. bonds has been a subject of favorable con- ment in Providence. The established route will be 70 miles long and will pass through Thornton, South Scituate, Rockland, Eos ter Center, Killingly, Danielsonville, Elliotts and Stafford Springs. The eur. vey between Providence and Danielson. vile has already been made, and corps of 13. efficient engineers, of which Burt T. Noland is the chief, is now at work between Danielsonville and Springfield. They are at present about half way between Eliiotts and Stafford Springs, and hope to reach the latter place by the 18th. The en- gineers report that an excellent route ie being found. Engineer Noland is one of the best known engineers in the country and has been thoroughly familiar with mountainous country since his apprentice. ship. The Telegram says that the Pona- gansett people are now in a position to state positively that the road will be built if the city accedes to the company's re quest. The company does not ask for this guarantee until the road is entirely com pleted. The capitalists who are interested are ready to put thelr hands in their pocket. and pay out the necessary dollars as soon as the city of Providence says it will guar antee the interest on Sl ,OOO 900 worth of be nds.
 It is an unmitigated nuisance when peo- pie have nice fower-bed on their prem ises containing rare specimens to have a dog come along and with that peculiar sat. isfaction exhibited by canine when he scrapes forward and 8 hind foot simul. taneously backward with violent thrust and tears up a dollars worth of plants quicker than you can say ''get," and then trot merrily along for new joys in another unprotected lawn. The law ought to place owners of dogs nnder the same liability as the owners of hens, so that one man in g neighborhood abonnding with pet dogs might enjoy an equal right. to | e. plants.
 Holland County Leader The census o Rockville is not yet announced 10 a Ger tainty but the enumerators put it down as perhaps trifle less than 5000 within tn. city limits, with about 200 more just ovel the city line, which to all intents and pur | rNcooc holonv f0 tho nifu fNIo i one not to be ashamed of. One would suppose from reading some of the specia dispatches in the daily papers that ou people were fairly fainting away with dis lappointment at the result, whereas the fig
 ures come much nearer the estimate thai
 the general average. Some had though
 that they might reach $500, yetit is doubt full if there were half dozen persons wh
 put the estimate at 10000, and theirs wer
 considered wild conclusions. On tn
 whole, the figures are quite satisfactory.