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annual report.The Report of the Selectmen, for the pest year, i* just out of the press of the Meriden Steam Printing Company. It is printed in large, plain type, on heavy book paper. The expenses of t'ie Almshouse have been $11,896.90, and ol outside poor, $1,056.90,—total lor poor ol the tosrn, $12 953.8S. This is well. The poor have we with us always; and the poor should always be well-cared for. Besides, the town has paid out $741.04 in support of the poo r of other towns. The repairs on Town Hall, including seats, grading, bank wall and sidewalk, water apparatus and two lumaces, with gas and coal, tools up (7.076. But money expended in this direction has not been thrown away, and we know that the taxpayers uniformly approve ol the improve inents and repairs in our public building. There has been expended on bridges, mostly built with a view to permanency, mad including bridges swept away by the flood, the sum of $10,388-84. But work done in this direction will last for a century. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and our selectmen have unilormly followed out this excellent maxim. The repairs on roads and highways has cost $5-747-77- But all these repairs were needed, and it would have been poor economy to have continued our poor streets and kept the money in the treasury. The stationery’ and school account foots up $18,554-45- The estimated cost of schools for the coming year is $24,000. The inventory of property u $60,416 50. The liabilities account shows Bonds, $82,000; Notes, $53,977r ECONOMICAL TOWN MANAGEMENT.The Report ol the Selectmen shows that the affairs of the town have been most economically managed, the pastFrom the New Haven Daily News.It is estimated that the losses to owners of horses of vehicles,causod by the cobble stone pavements of the city, over what the wear and tear would be were the street pavements smooth, amounts to many thousands of dollars annually. For this there appears, at present, to be no remedy, as none of the new styles of pavements appear to be sufficiently durable to resist for any period of time the immense transportation and travel to which those of large cities are subjected. Now, as this is a large sutn.and the saving of* it, or half of it even, to owners of horses and vehicles is a matter deserving of serious consideration. With a view to remedying the difficulty to some extent at least, we suggest the laying on Chapel street of two tracks similar to those on which the passenger railway cars now run, but which 6hall be for the use of wagons,carts, drays, etc. These could be laid, one on each side of the street, between the present railroad tracks and the curb, and sufficiently far from the latter to prevent interference with the loading of drays and wagons in front of stores. The wagon track would, ot course, require to be a little heavier than that of the railroad, as the travel over it would be more continuous, and many of the loads are heavier than the cars. If it be asked what advantage would be gained by such tracks, our answer is, that the loaded vehicles.havinsr a smooth surfaceLOCAL MATTFRS-TOWN ELECTION.REPUBLICAN TICK I T XLECTBD BY 25O MA-JOllTY.The following it the Ticket ■« choten :SELECTMENGEORGE GAY, OLIVER RICE, NELSON PAYNE.ASSESSORS, loteph Mortc, Bela Carter,BOARD OP RELIEF.Eli Butler, Othniel Ives,Owen B. Arnold, William A. Reed,Lemuel J. Curtiss.GRAND JURORS.Frank G. Otis, 11.Dwight Hotchkiss Aralicl Harvey, Louis Dreher,Abel H. Snow, Edwin 11. Loomis.CONSTABLES.James E Belden, William F. Hall,Hosea B. Harvey, Samuel O. Church,William N. Beach, Asa G. Foster,Hiram Richmond. CCNSTABLE AND COLLECTOR.Erwin D. Hall.TREASURER.Henry T. Wilcox.TREASURER TOWN DEPOSIT FUNDS.Henry T. WilcoxAGENTS OF TOWN DEPOSIT FUNDS. George W. Lyon, John W. Miles,Charles L. CpbamREGISTRAR OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.John H. Bsrio.SEALER OF WEIGHTS.Joseph T..Beckett.SEALER OF DRY MRASURR.Joseph T. Beckett.SEALER OF WINE MEASURE.James E. Belden.AGENT TO CONVEY REAL ESTATE. John Ives.FENCE VIEWERSLevi Yale, Exekiel Hall,Canfield Goods peed ,Ze rad Eaton.POUND KEEPERS.Levi Vale, William H. Yale,Alfred E. Camp, Edward C. Allen,Canfield Goodspeed.CENTER CHURCH.At the Center Congregational church, last Sabbath afternoon, the pastor, Iter. Joseph J. Woolley,preached from Hebrews iv, 9—“There iwmaineth a rest for the people of Cod. The idee of rest risee above all other considerations in the human heart. It ia the great ultimate need of our nature. It is also the highest provision Ood has mads to meet that need. The summit of all bliss and the eud of all work andWhether it is because we are so constituted, or whether it is the grandest form uf providing for human happince*, iiirculod by the Almighty, it meets us sn every hand as a ue-ceasity. It is the boon that comes not only to the sick and weary, but al prosperous. It ia Natura e Ilia. It ia God's description of Heaven.Notice the power of language. It did not require the pomp and display of imagery or expression to convey to our minds the docp-est and fullest feelings of hope and rapture, the most lovely and desirable quality of heaven. One little word has done it ell. That word is “ Rest. How full of meaning it Is to the sick, to the tried, to the burdened, to the sorrowful, to the bereaved, to the troubled. Job even applies it to the grave, “There the wicked ceaee from troubling and the weary are at reet. It is not however in the combination of five little letters, that this power finds its birth; it is in the deep lougiug of the soul. Deeper than hanger, stronger than thirst, is this want of our nature. Take off every covering, enlist every pleasure, rob evaty work of its weariness and every trial of ita iting, and even then you find this good feature. It is so universal and so ingrained that God has translated it, and calls it heaven,—“ There remaineth a rest for the people of God.There are two important things to be considered in this thought of real. The first is. this rest is for the people of God, end it is the future. Said God to Denial,—that most remarkable, serene and faithful man,—in the last words of hie prophecy, “ But go thy way till the end be, for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of tha days. The most ■uggestive thought that comes to us from the hush and quiet sf our cemeteries, is reet; endhearers, asking, Wl what disposition would you Are they your eons, father ? your daughters,mother i your f' and loved ones’ FAt the West Ueridio Baptist church, the Hoimon of Hr. Walker was listened to with great interest. The text was, “Is thins heart right ? ” After explaining the context, the speaker went on to show some of the attribute* of a right heart. First, a right heart will have Clirist on its tfirone. Second, a right heart will bo a kind and tender heart. Third, a right heart will be a forgiving heart The preacher then spoke qf the courageous heart, a loyal heart, a humtfie heart, a heart of love to God and man. Hqgoad, each an heart is prtiaot- sod future happi-wUl h* passport toness. Third, it wlft ht heaven.At the Center Dei Mr. Barrelle .The honee was chant performed b able, on account lt;it was sung. The pawfcr In the evening die-coursed excellently on the “Five Foolish Vlr-REED’8 GAP, WALLINGFORD.Reed's Gap, in Wallingford, made famous by the Air Line railroad company killing half a dozen men with glycerine, and making a great fuM over half a dozen diamond drills, while cutting through twenty feet of trap roek, a distance of twenty rode or lew, was so called, because of the former residence, at that point, of an old Dutchman, who rejoiced in the name of Heed. He waa a revolutionary pensioner. and his bounty-land chanced to he located in this section Here he came to dwell, and here he squatted, with his little family (which after a time increased iu numbers), in a little cabin house, which occupied the site on the eontnwest bank of the southerly on-trance to the railroad cut. The venerable Reed le spoken of as leading a sort of Gypsy life, with his family, and many were the distant neighbors in Wallingford end Durham who from time to Urns missed now a sheep or lamb, and now a hen, or turkey, or pig, as the might be. The Dutchman at the Gap wee of being the abstractor, bu Stolen property could beAt the State Reform School, the regular monthly conceit waa held, the audience room beiog crowded. Mr, Oayiord made very in-etructive remarks, warning the bove to bo sure and gut in the right current' or life’s Journey, end stick to it. Dr. Hatch also spoke in an interesting meaner, as he always does.In the Meriden Town Election, Mocdey, tha Republican majority ranges from one hundred and eeventy-fltre to two hundred andfifty.Our friend Lauren G. Brown received thisHis market is overflowing with good things; he is hononMein his treatment of his customers and exceedingly obliging,therefore receives a largo Node.The young liaHaa and young gentle-of the tendermen ” of the tender age ot from aix to elevan gave a surprise party, Thursday evening, to Miss Ueorgie Post. The Juveniles lallled in force, took Hobart atjwet by atonn, and axpe-rienced a highly enjoyable time.cence In these little matters of bnainees, and they bad been taaght that all white animals with fleece on their backs were white rabbits. One day, the old Dutchman and his eldest sons were absent on buainecs, when a deputation of Durham gentlemen visited the Gap, in search of two eheep winch had “strayed away , he night previous. Observing the children playing out of door, the yonngstera were enquired of aa to whether they bed seen any sheep about their houae. No, wa ain't seen no sheep, wae the reply of one ; but there's two white rabbits down cellar.” The party mada a tour of inspection into the lower regions, and there, behind the chimney, sure enough, were the missing sheep. The old dwelling was pulled down many years ago.aud the property was sequestered to the town. The Gap, eo-celleil, is simply an interval or natural pass between two parallel ranges of mountain*, tha northerly brow of the easterly monatain continuing an eighth of a rnilu beyond the Hintherly face of the west mountain—the twa-being e quarter of a mile apart, thus lormiaa a paaa or defije, en a level with the surrounding
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Meriden Literary Recorder
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Wed, Oct 05, 1870
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