The Press., 1891-08-13
WELLINGTON.


 ton. He is son of Rev. James Brainard Vinton, Burmese missionary, and a grandson of the late Rev. Justin H. Vim ton, of Wilmington, one of the pioneers of the missionary field.
 Keep in the shade this kind of wealth CT, if you can. It has been the hottest August so far, it is said, for twenty years.
 Porter Edwards wife, Emily H.. died of paralysis in Hartford last Sunday. Her age was 76.
 We hear of barbarous assault, ac- companied by robbery, on an old woman by another old woman in the northwest part of the town recently, but can get no authentic details.
 Worthington, salesman in Hovey's dry goods store, Boston, called on friends last Saturday.
 George Snow left on Tuesday to work in jewelry store in Lynn, Mass. .
 We had the pleasure of attending as an invited guest the reunion of the old fifth regiment in the fine new Putnam Phalanx hall in Hartford last Saturday, and on Sunday of listening to the ven- erable Dr. Edward Beecher in the centre church.
 Mrs. Hattie Dimock Pierce and her children have returned from Woodstock and are boarding at Osterhaut's.
 George Wilson and family drove over from Windsor last Saturday.
 Charlie Snow and family are at his mothers.
 There is succession of visitors at J. B. Carpenters, among those of the past week were Mrs. Lucius Carpenter from Woodstock, John Hay and friend of New Haven, and friends from Newark, N. J.
 We have long been an admirer of ex- Senator John J. Ingalls,, whom we re- gently met. We cannot refrain from placing among these items one of the bright sayings he gave utterance to not a great while ago: After saying that he had searched ill vain to find law in this country which does not offer equal oppor- tunities to all citizens, he used the famous picture, "The Angelus," which brought $100,00 as anillustration. "No citizen," said MT. Ingalls,, twas prevented from painting it. It.enly required few tubes of color, camel's hair brush, a small square of canvass, and brains. The pal try dauber who paints pictures for $2. apiece thinks he is victim. Rem tetigit acu. The trouble with most of us is not that we cannot get the tubes of color, the brush and the canvas, but that we lack the brains. Opportunities lie thick about us all, but it takes brains to see them and brains to use them.''
 Geo. Knight and family from Provi- dence are visiting at Lucius Eldredge's.
 UNION.
 The Booth family reunion was held at Camp Smith, Mashapaug, on Saturday last.
 (Correspondence.)
 Herbert, son of H. B. Booth is home from Springfield on visit.
 Miss Eva Robinson and sister, of South Coventry, and Miss Adella Luding- ton, of Brimfield, are stopping at J. c. Upham's.
 A good many from town are attending the Willimantic camp-meeting.
 Do not form the habit of resorting to the Jamaica ginger bottle for every trifling ill feeling. The ginger habit is even worse than the liquor habit. and drug gists and grocerymen could tell alarming stories of the enormous use of the tine ture of ginger as 8 stimrlant. Women habit, which once formed is said to be worse than liquor drinking, as it makes rapid inroads on the health and renders the victim in a short time simple-mind- ed invalid. The tincture is 95 per cent. alcohol, and the ginger itself is rank irritant, so that an ounce of Jamaica gin ger is much stronger dose than an ounce of whiskey. Hot water slipped slowly and herb teas will usually effect the cure that seems to call for ginger, and while no family should be without a little brandy or alcohol if situated far from drug store, still those remedies should be kept for emergencies and not for frequent use.
 A gravel train which left New Have Monday morning with caboose on the end containing 30 Italians collided at Blanford, on the Shore line, about 6 o'clock with 8 freight train bound for New London, and the caboose was thrown from the track. Nine of the 50 Italians were injured, two fatally. All were taken to the New Haven hospital. The engine ran through the rear car before it stopped. Engineer Benjamin and Fireman Hunt saved their lives by jumping. While the injured men were being attended to 300 Italians gathered a short distance from the station, and, arming themselves with stones and shovels, surrounded Benjamin and Hunt, who had returned to the en- zine and were trying to extinguish 8 fire which had caught in the cab. Hunt was knocked down with piece of coal, but af- terward found refuge in aneighboring shop. Benjamin moved his way through the mob with heavy piece of timber and got into the depot. The Italians were at last pacified, but were not permitted to resume work that day, as it was feared that in their then frame of mind they would injure the railroad property.
  The people who sell typewriters and | teach their customers how to use them have bothered their brains to evolve prac- tice sentences which will contain all the letters in the alphabet. Here are a ceu- pie of ingenious sentences: "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" "Jack quickly extemporized the five tow-bags." /" | bn ct of fhoco oDfn io Q orIz O hIQ