The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-15

Sherins Booth and k. s. Austin. Schwink has escaped from that insti- tutlon several times and 1t Is now in- | tended to make sure that he does not slip away again.
 Mr. and Mrs, Elisha Whittlesey start ed yesterday for Cleveland, O., and will spend the winter In the west and the south.
 M. P. Fitzgeralds of Merlden has the contract to build D. l., Barbers house on Church street.
 | Allison B. Bartholomew, who for fif- teen years has had charge of the SCOUT Ing room at Simpson, Hall, Miller & | Co.'s works, sewers his connection with that company Saturday night, sam Bagshaw will succeed him in the posi- | ton,
 The Moss Jollity company is booked for the opera house November 22 in "McCarthy's Mishaps."
 A nine-year-old daughter of Sylvester Hull of North Farms is i'll with diph- theria.
 The annual borough election will be held this week Saturday, when a war den, three burgesses, clerk, collector, treasurer, water commissioner and other minor officers will be elected. The democrats have called a caucus for Friday evening, but as yet no republ- can caucus has been called and it is not probable that there will be as 1t is, by many, deemed the wisest course to drop party lines and unite with the more conservative element of the op- | nnCita ticket, as in years past, with the excep- tion of last year, when for the first time since the borough election was inaugurated straight republican ticket was nominated, which will be chosen, and the candidates selected for their character and capability and not for their political pull. As would be natural there are some republicans who are op- posed to the citizens ticket and favor straight out ticket Last year a re- publican caucus was held in town hall and straight out ticket was nomi- mated, although, as will be remembered, about twenty-five democrats in the rear of the hall assisted in the selection of the warden and by the votes cast suc- ceeded deciding the vote, which on the previous ballot had been very close be- | tween E. M. Judd and Horace Botsford In favor of the present incumbent, Hor- ace Botsford. At the ensuing cleo tton the warden, one burgess and the treasurer were elected, while the demo- crats got about all the rest. There has been much talk about the citizens eau GUS, which has of late been held in the Simpson block and the same has been | termed star chamber session, and other such terms, and secresy as to it's meetings has been charged, when in fact the caucus has been always an open one and it's time of being held has been noted in the daily papers, and those who wanted to know could. There is a good and sufficient reason why the citizens caucus is not held in town hall, and the ones who do the most kicking are well aware what those reasons are.
 The disadvantages of the single letter box at the depot becomes more apparent every day and unless the system is changed there is a lively probability that some one of the postal clerks will meet with a serious, if not fatal, acci- | swing himself out of the side door of the mail car before the train has stop 1 ped and run at a ten second pace back to the letter box, unlock it, scoop out l the fifty or more letters into a bag lock up the box and run and chamber up into the mail car, As the trains in the evening stop here not over minute it makes it hardship and dan- gerous work for the postal clerk. And l to make the matter worse right under l the box is an iron grating, where a let ter would get lost should one acciden- 1 tally slip out of the pile, as they are taken from the box One evening this week the clerk from the BPS train found the box nearly full and in his hurry one letter slipped out unknown to him and fell through the grating. A gentleman who was standing near thought he saw a letter go through the grating and after the train started out he informed | the night operator in the ticket office | of his suspicion and search with a | lantern among the leaves and other l rubbiSh in the cellar window under the grating brought to light the letter in | question, which was addressed to a gentleman in New York city, and per- l haps was an important letter. Only for the accident of it's discovery by an out slider in falling it might have remained in the rubbish for months if it was not l lost forever. There can be no blame attached to the postal clerk as it was not due to any carelessness on his part, l but such mishaps and perhaps some thing much worse, if a change is not soon made should be laid at the door of the government official, who should place a box at each end of the plat i form, as is the case at other stations