The Washington Republican Washington County Friday January 22, 1897 Ed BARLEY left for Topeka Monday night where he has a position as clerk for Senator Morrow. Mr. Morrow offered the place to Fred POWELL first, but Mr. Powell could not afford to leave his law business and go to Topeka for $3 a day. Mr. Barley is differently situated and he was much delighted and appreciated the chance to go. He will be a good clerk for he is one of those fellows who never faily to "catch on" to everything he undertakes, besides he is a good scribe and a handy man with a typewriter. Ara DAMON nearly sustained the loss of an eye last Friday while working in the chemistry labratory of the Washington high school. In trying to reach a bottle of nitric acid on a shelf above his head, Ara in some unaccountable way let the bottle fall, splashing nearly the entire contents in his face and down his arm. One eye is swollen shut, face and had badly burned, and his wearing apparel almost ruined. It will be a few days before he resumes his chemistry experimenting. Mr. JONES and son were down from Haddam Monday. John BRACE and little daughter were here from Haddam yesterday. Rev. WHITE made a trip to Marysville Monday noon, returning in the evening. Mrs. E. T. LANDON, of Haddam, is visiting her sisters, the Misses Throop, a few days. Mrs. Lillie STEWART arrived here Tuesday from Fairbury, Neb., and is visiting Mrs. MATHEWS. Mrs. CHICK was down from Haddam Tuesday shopping and visiting her brother, S. HAWK. Miss Belle RHODES, the efficient clerk in the Racket store is suffering from an attack of la grippe. Mrs. Gratia McBROOM one of the teachers in the Barnes school came up Friday evening and returned Saturday.