The Press., 1894-05-10


 His last pastorate was at New Bedford, Mass. He is a stirring pastor and staunch prohibitionist
 Holland County Leader: The license question is settled for Snipsic landing. MT. A. T. Thompson applied in good faith, little thinking that there would be so much objection. MT. Thompson heard the remonstrances and withdrew his peti- tion. It was perhaps wise that he did so. And now that the Snipsic enterprise is to be temperance one, let the good people take an interest in the place. No better place can be found for an outing. With out liquor it cannot fail to be a quiet place. Take your children there on pleas ant afternoons. Don't begrudge the pro- prietor the little profit he will make on a plate or two of ice cream, either. Can you do better than to hold your Sunday school picnics there? If it is a nice place, don't go to the trouble of carrying your dinner with you, but patronize the grove managers. We know how it is likely to be with radical temperance reformers !: they are apt to set up 8 great cry against ! the drink evil but when a temperance man should be encouraged, where are they? Looking to selfish interests, of course. Some of you laughed, when, l sometime ago, the Leader raised the question, "Does it pay to be good ?" Nevertheless, good people are not lavish in their encogragement of good deeds and good morals Don't let the people go back on their principles in this case They have what they called for.
 In the New Orleans Daily Picayune of April 30, In the description of the de- struction of the St. Charles hotel, is the following: 1 '.. Among the refugees as the Hotel Cos mopolitan was Rev. Father F. P. Shahan, 8 Catholic clergyman of Norwich, Conn The reverend father was guest of the ill fated hotel, having room on the fourth 1 floor. He was standing in the rotunda, | conversing with Captain Mason, when the alarm of fire was raised. He had some valuable baggage, and he hastened 1 to the elevator, in order to rescue it. The 1 elevator boy stuck to his place pluckily, | and the latter accomplished part of his ascent, when the machinery got out of order, the car stopping midway between the second and third stories. Impossible l to proceed, the clergyman was obliged to jump to the floor, and abandoning all hope of getting his valuables in time, made the best of his way down stairs and out into the street. He lost everything. At the Cosmopolitan, Night Clerk Math- | the good father, at last accounts, was still thanking heaven for his escape. l Governor Morris has appointed Davis A. Baker of Warrenville, town of Ash ford, a trustee for the State School for Boys at Meriden, vice Superintendent Samuel Thatcher of that institution, who resigned as trustee when he was appoint ed to the head of the school. The ap- general assembly. MT. Baker is well known in Eastern Connecticut as an active democrat, and by reason of years of ser. vice as town clerk, justice, judge of pro. bate, etc., also having been member oi | the state legislature. For several years he has been a director of the Stafford Savings Bank, serving upon it's loanine l committee.
 l Henry c. Bowen is now in Washing. ton arranging for his annual Fourth oi July celebration at Roseland Park, Wood. stock. The speakers so far engaged are Representatives Grow of Pennsylvania Walker of Massachusetts, and Russell o Connecticut. William Walter Phelps has also signiged his willingness to be pres ent. MT. Bowen is now arranging witt others to participate in the affair.