The Press., 1896-02-27
STAFFORD.

two weeks business Gflp.
 Richard M. Fisk, of the First Ma tional Bank, has been in Worcester on vacation.
 B. P. Cooley has resigned as editor in-chief of the Acropolis, and is succeed ed by Miss Ruth Walker.
 -C. II. Stevenson has taken a position with E. 4. Buck & Co.,, and will com mence work next week.
 Mrs. H. B. Washburn and daughter Miss G. A. Washburn. are making 8 si2 weeks visit at Atlantic City, N. J.
 There are now about 40 members il the singing school. The course will in clude twelve lessons. A concert is to b. arranged and presented after the cours is completed.
 The special ..train for those who go t' Willimantic Saturday evening to witness .'1492" will leave this station at 6.55 Returning, it will leave Willimantic at 1. o'clock. About fifty will go from here and as many more from Monson.
 Ionic Lodge, A. F. and A. NJ, will have a banquet at the Springs House next Tuesday evening. Bissett's orches tra will furnish music. The committee of arrangements are J. Carl Converse J. NJ. Leach and J. M. Lord.
 A party of friends from Stafford gave George Rand 8 surprise party at the home of his father, Calvin Rand, last Saturday evening, in honor of his 17th birthday Refreshments were served, and pleasant social evening is reported by those who attended.
 The macadamized road has been ap preciated the past week. The warn weather has made the mud very notice able on the ordinary dirt roads, but the stone road dried off in very short time, and is a source of comfort to Gll who ride. The town will make no mistakes if liberal appropriation is made for macadamized road this year.
 -E. A. Buck & Go. announce 8 bicycle opening for Saturday afternoon and even- ing. They will have on exhibition War wick, Stearns, Eclipse, Crescent, and Pierce wheels. Refreshments will be served, and general invitation is ex- tended to the public to be present. There is to be an exhibition of gasOlene stoves at the same time.
 A teachers meeting is to be held al the Congregational church tomorrow af- ternoon and evening. Teachers from ad joining towns will be present. The order of exercises is as follows; Afternoon 200, Drawing" F. A. Verplank, SOutt Manchester 245, Geography" A. P somes, Danielson; 3.3O, "Examinatior of Schools" M. A. Warren, Collinsville Evening g--73O, ''Advisibility of Improv ing the Teaching in Public Schools" G P. Phenix, Willimantic. Since the above program has been arranged it has beer decided to hold morning session at 1( o'clock, devoted to science.
 Considerable excitement has beer caused in Rockville by the suit brought by Ex-Deputy Sheriff Mullin against the executors of the George Maxwell estate in that city, to recover penalty and costs for the failure of the executors to file ar inventory at the time the will of the late George Maxwell was probated, in 1891 The section of the general statutes under which suit is brought is 579, and reads as follows: "Anyone failing to comply il filing inventory to the court shall forfei to him who shall sue therefor $2O fol each month until he shall return such in ventory unless before suit be brought h' make an excuse for such delay acceptable to the court" Rockville newspaper meI accuse Lawyer James Fitzgerald, Jr., O being concerned in the case. MT. Fftz gerald denies all connection with the case and his statement is corroborated by MT Mullin and Lawyer Stevenson. Int amount involved is about $1, 100, anC there will undoubtedly be a sharp figh before it is paid. The case will in al probability come before the next term O superior court.
 The supreme court of errors on Fri day handed down a decision in the case O the Mineral Springs Manufacturing Co vs. John Mccarthy. This was 8 suit fo an injunction to compel the defendant t keep up pair of bars across the right o way, leading from West Main street t the new house recently erected by the de fendant..upon his land. The deed unde which defendant claims, was given b John Fuller to Jeremiah and Mary Cor 'coran in 1880, and provided that the wa, is not to be incumbered in any way or b any person whatsoever, except that tn door-steps may come one and one-hal feet into, said passage way" The plain tiff claims that the bars were reasonabl in order to enable them to use the pastur and prevent the escape of their cattle, an were not an incumbrsnce within the meaI ing of this deed. The defendant elaine they were an incumbrance and took ther down repeatedly. Hence the suit for a injunction. The case was tried at tn June term of the superior court, befor Judge Shumway, who found for the dc fendant. The plaintiff appealed to tn supreme court on the ground that Judg Shumway erred in his construction of tn deed. The case was argued in the su preme court on the first Tuesday of Jan uary, and their decision of "no error'' sus tains Judge Shumway and the claims Q the defendant. The case has excited great deal of local interest. ". w. Hyd and J. M sheehan were attorneys for tn plaintiff, and J. H. Reed and c. H. Kin for the defendant.