Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-06-22

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The Helping Hands society win give sale o,
useful articles, made by its members, Friday |
ries, Ice cream and cake viii be- served during
those hours. II stormy this evening tho sale will
be held Saturday evening. The members Of this
and they are working for some good purpose.
Let us encourage them in their efforts by our
Mrs. Nathan Thomas has returned to her home
here for the summer.
Rev; Mr.. Wells preached in the Congregational
The northwest School closed Tuesday for the
summer vacation.
Cheshire.
June 22.-Rev Mr.. Hoyt was In Newtown last
Sunday and preached before his old congrega-
ton Previous to his coming to Cheshire Rev:
here.
Mr.. William Spencer and wife of New York
Miss Lottie Hotchkiss is in New Britain on a
visit to her sister, Miss Belle Hotchkiss who is a
student at the Normal school.
The, green in front OF the Congregational
church has been moved, making quite an i'm
Anyone in quest of a nice, quiet place to spend
q few weeks or months In o pleasant part Of our
village-shady lawn, plenty Of room, fine, large
office town hail. etc, can find out full particu-
lars by addressing D. A. A. Buck, Cheshire,
James McCabe has built fine house and barn
Miss Lizzie and Alice Frythail started satur
Bridgeport and stayed over Sunday, visiting a
friend In that place.
June 21.-Yesterday CJune aO) s. F. Linsley
raised two very fine poles on Broadway. just east
Of the railroad station, for the North Haven Re
to unfurl to the breeze the national flag bearing
the names of Harrison and Reid, republican can
Wednesday evening, June q, previous to the
ratification meeting and banquet at Memorial
The V. l. A. committee on sidewalks has COM
menced grading this walk on the south side OF
Broadway, beginning at W. E. Dickerman's, near
the high ones. a decided ID" improyement is al.
| ready made, especially the east side of the rail
The Republican club held meeting on Mon
| day evening to perfect arrangements for the
| Wednesday evening entertainment. 1t was de-
The Poor Debtors Revenge.
| Apropos of the discussion of the i'm
prisonment for debt law in Maine, the Au
gusta Age tells asaueer story. Near foul
/ years ago an Arooostook storekeepel
named Hubbard had a man named Bank
arrested for debt. The debt had been in
CURED a few years before fer several bush
els of onions which Banks bought to plant
The onions failed to "come up" and Bank
refused to pay. Hubbard sued Banks, put
ting in the claim, in answer to Banks de
fence of the neglect of the onions to grow
that they had been planted wrong side up
"You couldn't expect them onions" clio
quently remarked Hibbard's lawyer at tn
trial, "to grow down and stick their root
up into the air and let them whip in tn
passing breeze like the frayed-out end of
clothes-line Neither could you expec
them to twist around like an ox-bow an
come up. What the defendant neede
was good boss sense in planting onion
and they would have been all right.
This eloquence prevailed and Banks wa
, ordered to pay or go to Jail. He could es
, silly have paid, but he preferred to go
jail. It was better than the poorhouat
and man would come to the poorhous
sooner or later if he allowed himself to b
imposed upon in the matter of onions
I | Then, too farming was slack in Aroostoo
4 just then, and few years in Jail woul
really pay better than harvesting poe
crops.
: Accordingly Banks went to Jail, an
Hibbard began to pay his board at the raj
t three months Hubbard began to weaker
4 and went around to the Jail and aske
' Banks when he intended to pay up and g
out Banks looked through the bars an
9 said he was quite comfortable and fe
good for ten or fifteen years yet. The
; he added the inquiry as to whether Hi
t bard still thought those onions were plan
ed wrong end up. Hubbard groane
Hubbard has now paid something over 81
: hundred dollars for board. But there
:. now a slight CLEAN of hope as the 9th
day Banks said he thought that if &
crops were good this year. and the sesst
q appeared favorable next spring, ye
o from now, he might for four hundred d.
g lars and public retraction concerning Il
o alleged wrong position of the onions, CO
sent to come out of jail and stop being
: further expense to the unfortunate stol
:. keeper.