Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01
sr.rr NEWS Jorr1NGs.

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 Arrested-Other Notes.
 Mrs. August Miller of Simsbury was in l Hartford yesterday to visit her husband, who is sick at the hospital. She rode up l town in a red car and when she got out l she forgot to take along her hand satchel. | Her loss was not discovered until she was about to purchase ticket at the depot. The satchel contained five bank books, l three belonging to Mrs. Miller and two to | her husband, the whole showing deposits for about 5000. She notified the police, and after @ long and anxious search the satchel and all was found at the street car office all right.
 FROM YALE LAW SCHOOL.
 Rev. E. E. Aiken of Newington expects to return to China in August or September. William P. Aiken expects to graduate from Yale law school in June and afterward to settle in Rutland, Vt.
 IN FULL RANKS.
 E. F. Durand division, U. R. K. F., of Waterbury, has received general orders in- forming them that the annual field day of the uniformed rank would be held at Will limantio June IA. The division expects to attend with full ranks.
 A STURDY OLD VETERAN. Comrade Joshua Barstow, who has passed his sighty-third birthday, was in the ranks with the members of Sedgwick post in Norwich on Monday, took in the entire march, and was at the evening ser vices in the Breed opera house. The Bull letin says: He is one of the most active men of his years in eastern Connecticut. DIED IN NORWICH.
 Mrs. John Willard died at her home in Norwich Monday evening after short ill., ness with pleuro pneumonia. Mrs. Will l lard was born in Norwich and was gradu- ated with honors in the class of 1860 by | the Norwich free academy. Of late years she had resided with her father, the Hon. Amos w. Prentice, on Broadway. Mrs. Willard's only child is MT. Amos P. Dor | rance, who several years ago went to Mon | tana in search of health, and is now owner of large ranch at Lincoln, Deer Ledge county, in that state.
 NO LICENSES FOR THE CIRCUS FAK1Rs.
 M1DDLErowN, May 31.-Chief of Police
 Chapman sat down very effectually to-day
 on the fakirs following the Forepaugh
 show. Not license was granted for them
 to ply their trade, and every precaution
 taken by the police and Detective Kellogg
 of the Pinkerton staff to prevent the large
 number of bucoic gentry in the city from
 being defrauded by the fakir's wiles.
 A GUnEoRD MAN ARRESTED IN BRIDGE PORT.
 l BRIDGEPORT, May 31.-E. A. Crittenden
 of Guilford was arrested here to-day for
 distributing obscene literature upon the
 streets.
 THREE HUNDRED CONFIRMED.
 Three hundred children and adults were confirmed in St. Mary's Star of the Sea
 church at New London on Sunday by the Rt. Rev. Bishop McMahon. The ceremony
 WAS witnessed by the largest congregation ever assembled in the church.
 THE SALVATION ARMY.
 Tho Rev. MT. Micou before his morning i sermon in Waterbury Sunday, said> he
 felt it his duty citizen as we'll as 8
 clergyman to protest against the assault on the Salvation army people. They 7 were here as preachers of the gospel and
 might nat accept their methods or symps-
 thize with all their views, they had the right of citizens, and their motives were
 good. The local clergy had their hands full. and snch help for special class who
 might be reached by them and not by others was welcome.
 3 CONNECTICUT LIBRARIANS - MEETING OF
 THE STATE ASSOCIATION AT WEST WIN , sTED.
 The Connecticut Library association meeting in West Winstead Monday was 7 held at the Beardsley library with an at.
 tendance of twenty-five. The meeting was called to order at il o'clock by Presi. :, dent Van Name of Yale college. and G. M
 Darlington of the board of trustee of the , Beardsley library made an address of vel @ come, paying tribute to the memory o1
 Elliott Beardsley, prominent citizen ot Winsted, whose widow endowed the |, library in 1874 with $10, 900 half for books
 and half for fund, which, with the addi. " tion of yearly subscriptions, makes it use- !, ful to schools, art clubs and readers on ; special topics.
 ], President Van Name emphasized the fact
 that the association met for the first time [ not in city, but in borough, a part of
 one of the towns whose libraries were tc . show it's best work. He spoke of the late 5 New Hampshire, which, like Massachusetts f l offer $1OO for books to any town giving f l from $12 50 to $50, according to it's valua
 tion. He also reviewed the New YorB
 scEool library acts of 1888 and later
 through the decline of libraries and the | l diversion of money granted them to other ' uses, to the present laws which place schoo a libraries in the neighborhood. This law 8 it is hoped, will stop the scandalous mis- ? management of libraries in New York n Forrest Morgan of Hartford read a1 n able and interesting paper on "Tht F Library and the Business Man," including V in this class all, whether in business o1 f professional life, who are between the | Isok. T. l.
 read nothing but newspapers and light
 books of the day. Scholars and the multi
 tude, he said, know what they want, but
 the business class does not, and never D wants the same thing two weeks in sue a cession, as list shows, which reads as ii a made by lunatic. It includes the Die s tionary of National Biograpny, book or @ horology, congressional documents, Japa
 nese sketches, the English Peerage, {
 United States Census of 1S4O, Kant''
 Kritik, Bancroft's Native Races, American 0 Notes and Queries, and book on building @ stones. These are all in the line of ont IF mans business, and such men cannot buy
 all the books they need, and if they conld e would have no use for them after the neec ,. was over. Venice, Holland, New Eng e land, Connecticut, have all been societies '. munity is greater than the glory of tn, unit.
 :. There can be no more important work ol e library than to furnish guidance and tt
 give tradesman the power to rise abov'
 his trade. Scholars influence the business F class, and they in their turn infuenc, Q those intellectually below them. This in huence should tell in the honest and clean > ly administration of public affairs. 7. After 8 discussion on methods of charg e ing books and an exhibition of cards
 stamps, etc., used in some half-dozen Ii
 braries, the association dined at the
 Beardsley house, and then, by the court 7. esy of Henry Gay of the board of trustee
 of the library, went to drive over tn, boulevard, which before the summer ii lt over will be opened around Highland B lake.
 The afternoon session was opened witt j. 8 paper by H. F. Bassett, of the Sila, > Bronson library, Waterbury, on "Libra o ries in Ancient Waterbury" which once Q included some 130 square miles and had al g g the close of the last century, and in tht first quarter of the nineteenth, at least ter + libraries. One was in Naugatuck, then
 called Salem, and several volumes and the
 record book are now in possession of the
 Bronson library. Middlebury, Wolcott e Waterbury, Watertown, Thomastor
 and Plymouth had them, and "Juvenile'' @ and "Minors' libraries are known to # have existed. These small town libraries a had great influence on Bronson Alcott ' his cousin, William Alcott, and on Silai
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