The Press., 1890-01-16

The 9ress,
 Thursday Evening, Jan. Is, 1890.
 JAaEsMoLAUaHL1N & soN, PUBLISHERS. s15O per year. S1.25 when paid strictly in advance TIE grip has affected attendance at the state grange at Willimantic this week, ,ebut al large and highly interested company is pres ton.
 TIE state agricultural society has reelected it's old officers, including President James A. Bell, Secretaries Andross and Gold, Treasurer Yale, and among the vice-presidents Judge W. D. Holman of Holland.
 NEW YORK city claims to have nearly mil lion and three-quarters of inhabitants, and is desirous that the next census be taken before the state adds to its state prison accommoda- tions, as it is proposing to do.
 
 A CYCLONE swept through the city of St. Louis on Sunday, unroofng and destroying buildings. Three persons were killed and others injured will die. The damage to was over $1OO, 1000. .s.
 THERE will be convention of the Prohi- bitionists of Holland County at Whites Opera House, Rockville, January 18th, commencing at 10 a. m. Chairman Dickey of the State committee will be present.
 WAR symptoms are vanishing across the pond. England and Portugaps issue about possessions in Africa is likely to be settled in the only possible way-the little dog giving up the bone to the big dog; the bone which most likely properly belongs to the aforesaid little dog.
 THE steamer City of Worcester went ashore on Bartlett's Reef about 1 o'clock Sunday morning because of the fog, and was much damaged. All the passengere were safely gotten off, and wrecking vessels labored hard to save the fine steamer, and will probably succeed in doing so but with considerable damage.
 BRISTOL, one of the large villages of the state, is likely to have democratic post master, upon recommendation of many leading republicans, endorsed by that of Congressman Sin,onds. This is a good symptom. In Springfield, Mass, many republicans are asking that Col. Rice, the present democratic postmaster, be retain ed. There are lots of good reasons why he should be, and the same reasons prob. ably existed at the time of bis appointment in favor of the retention of his predc cessor
 CALVIN s. BR1cE has been elected U. s. senator from Ohio. The question of eligibili. ty is raised, Mir. Brice having voting resi-. dence in Ohio, but really living in New York city, with summer residence at Newport, E. I. The law stipulates that congressman must be an inhabitant of the state, and Mas sachusetts congressman-electw was once denied his seat, who was an elector In that state, but had for years been government employee 1T Washington, though having home there at boarding house only. However, MT. Brice ii likely to be given his seat. -...
  VIM. D. KELLEY, congressman from Pennsyl vania, who died at the Riggs House in Wash ington last Thursday evening, has been con tinuousjy in congress since 1860, and wal called, therefore, 'sthe father of the house. He was also sometimes called ssPig-iron Kel ly" because of hls zeal as a protectionist, tho he was in early life free trader. The i'm mediate cause of Judge Kelley's death wa, intestinal catarrh, brought on by cold con tracted during Christmas week. For som, years, however, he has been almost constan sufferer from cancerous growth in the sid, of the face, which was removed about si1 years ago by surgical operation. The relic thus obtained was only temporary, and sine, that time it has developed so rapidly during the past year that it must soon have conquer ed him had he not earlier fallen a victim tt the catarrhal affection. He was nearly 7t years old.
 MANY MEN are more widely known thai was Stephen A. Hubbard, managing editor o the Hartford Courant, who died on Saturday but few men could so certainly count ever, acquaintance as friend. Sterling qualities big kind heart, and an honest straightfor wardness of action in every instance, won fo him confidence, esteem, love, graduated b, the degree of acquaintance. In the issue 0 this paper for Jan. 2d, a sketch of MT. Hub bard was copied from Hartford letter to tn Springfield Republican. That letter by n' means exhausted the topic in its eulogisti sense, but this article is the briefer for hay ing so recently published that. There art many mourners to-day among those who call ed this quiet, unobtrusive, great-hearted brainy and discerning man, friend. THE death of the dowager empress August of Germany brings to mind the famous bur lesque upon the dramatic messages, so widel, published, which the Old Kaiser was wont t send her from the battle fields during tn Franco-German war: -"
 ''I write to tell you, dearest 'Gusta, We have had another buster.
 Ten thousand Frenehmen gone below; Praise God from whom all blessings how." Hartford Post: Speaking of Putnam reminds me that Senator l.. H. Fulle