The weekly examiner., 1891-01-17
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AROUND HOME.

AROUND HOME.
 The Equal Rights Club meets at Unity parlors this Saturday afternoon at 2:30 All invited.
 The cider and cider-vinegar makers of the State held a meeting in the capitol Tuesday. They appointed a committee to look after their interests in the legislature.
 The State Board of Trade will meet in City Hall next Wednesday, It is supposed that one of the questions to be passed on will be that of securing legislation to tax the itenerant trader out of existence.
 We are to have another railroad contest, it seems, in the legislature this year. Al ready the articles of association of the New York, Bridgeport, and Eastern Railway Company have been filed in the secretary of state's office. It is the old ''parallep' scheme in new facings, and will afford some of the impecunious legislators who are patriots for revenue only, an opportu- nifty to turn an honest dollar.
 The attention of our readers is directed to the advertisement of Mum & O., pat ent solicitors, in an other column. Their name is familiar to patentees throughout the country. In connection with the pub ication of the Scientific American for the past forty-fve years they have made the drawings and specifications for more than one hundred and twenty thousand inven- tions, and their facilities for obtaining pat ents were never better than now.
 Our Board of Selectmen does not seem to be very harmonious body MT. Vest phal one of the Democratic majority, late ly accused of designs on the position of Chief of Police, which he denied, has re- signed. There were charges of favoritism made in dispensing the towns patronage, one case being referred to of the wholesale drug house of T. Sisson & O.. receiving in the last 10 years oyer $70OO, while the firm of Talcott, sFrisbie 6 Co.,, supplied goods only to the amount of $290.
 Our local daiHss relate a Imaginable inci- dent connected with the appearance of Comp troller-elect Staub the other day in the comptroIler's room in the capitol, when demanding the office. Gov. Bulkeiey hap pened in and when reference was made to the calling out of the militia MT. Staub suggested to the governor that on his own account it had better be cavalry, for he was fast runner. The governor replied that after Mir. Staub had started to run they wouldn't hunt after him very long. This, probably, will now entitle MT. Staub to the additional title of the "Hying Dutch man.
 The Hartford Board of Trade has had it's second annual meeting and elected officers. The secretary makes long report, review ing the various new enterprises recently started in our midst, and the new buildings erected and in course of construction. The city, it seems, has been having an unpre cedented period of success, while other places have suffered and are still suffering from the late financial panic. This report amongst us who have been visiting those great institutions from day to day in quest sf employment but find none. The Farm CTS Alliance was not forgotten by the sec- retary, but is the recipient of some of his choicest sarcasm. He advises that inves- tors for the future look more to home for their dividends. By the way, throughout the whole story of prosperity, there doesn't appear mention of one work ingman building home, while tho tene-. ment blocks are many.
 The return and surrender of George M
 
 Bartholomew, the celebrated defaultcr who has soiourned in Canada for nearly the past five years, was the surprise of the week for our good Christian city. There was special term of the court convened for the purpose of acting on his case, so that everything would be done with the least publicity. The pleadings of his lawyers in extenuation of the crime was interesting reading. He was now a feeble old man, nearing his 75th birthday, shattered in health; had suffered already in voluntary imprisonment; meant no wrong in stealing $500, ,000;was 8 Chris tian gentleman well known among us, and 50 forth. And it was not just the thing to send him to the State prison to herd with the vulgar criminals, but should be sent to jail where he might receive the minis trations of his devoted wife. The Judge, however, looked upon his offense as the be- setting sin of the times and thought an stexample" should be made of the culprit | in this case; so he sentenced him to one years confinement in Wethersfeld, where it was hinssd his case would be under the jurisdiction of the board of pardons- This case should serve as warming to would-be petty thieves to beware of making small appropriations the objects of their solici- tude, but when in the business at all to do