The Litchfield County post., 1826-08-15
COUNTY POST.
TUESDAY, (MORN.) AUGUST Is, 1879

COUNTY POST
TUESDAY, {MORN.) AUGUST Is, 1928.
The August Term of the Superior Court
for LitchAeld County commences in this town
to-day, (l5th,) Judge DAeGErr presiding.
Allotment of Judges Of the Superior Court,
for 1867.
Summer Sittings.
Oh. J. HosMER, New-London and Windham
Counties.
Judge PETERS, Hartford. a
Judge BARNARD, Fairfield.
Judge LANMAN, New Haven and Middlesex.
Judge DAGGETr, Litchfeld and TOlland.
Winter Sittinge.
Chief Judge HosNER, Hartford County.
Judge PETERS, Fairfield and Middlesex.
Judge BARNARD, Ncw-Haven.
Judge LATMAN, Litchfield and Tolland.
Judge DAeeETT, New-LOndon and Windham.
The following extract from the North A.
nerican Review is well worthy the attention
Of the mechanicks and apprentices of this and
every considerable village in the country. It
contains the suggestions Of wisdom and expe-
renee, and might with great advantage be a.
dopted in this place. We do not wonder that
there are SO many dissipated mechanicks and
faoourers in our country: we only wonder
that there are not many more. 1t is melan-
choly fact, an incontravertible, undeniable fact,
that great majority Of masters in our coun-
try appear to consider their duty to their ap-
prentices fully performed II they keep them
closely confined to labour during regular work.
ing hours; but as to their habits, moral or re-
ligious, like Gallo, the master cares for none
Of these things. 1t 10 not therefore strange
that boys Of ardent dispositions, removed from
parental restraint, and fearing no censure, ex-
cept as they neglect their daily task,-suY-
rounded on every side by allurements to vice,
without minds capable of stripping it Of it's
Establishments and discovering its hedious de-
formity,-should incur habits directly calcu-
lated to make them wretched in life end mise
rable in death. It is the object Of mechanic
associations, many Of which have been estab-
lished in this country as well as in England,
to place before hesrising members of the va
sious crafts, motives to honorable and yirtu-
Gus life, to allure them to that course of con-
duct which leads to responsibility and wealth.
We hope the subject win be taken up in this
vicinity.
"There are now springing up in various
parts Of England, associations of mechanics
and apprentices, by whom not only libraries
are collected, but lectures are established;
and bodies of intelligent artisans are found in
a considerable number Of towns and villages,
spending one or two evenings in the week to-
gethcr, conversing on the principles of their
respective arts, or listening to the illustration
of them from an able lecturer. and he, too, in
many instances one who has risen up from a.
lnong themselves. This example is begin
ming to be followed by some of our own cit
Ses; and We see not why it might not be ex-
tended to our villages, and even to very small
villages Of a considerable dense population,
and why our farmers and manufacturers, rs
well as mechanics, might not unite to form
similar institutions.
The utility Of such institutions will not be
doubted; we would ask, why their practical
bility is any more questionable? Let ten or
twenty mechanics or farmers in any of our
villages unite, and consent to appropriate six
cents a week from their income, and they will
soon have valuable collection of books; others
will Join them, and their collection win swell
into library. With little increased exer-
ton, hey may, duy;ng three or four Of the
most leisure months Of the year, have course
OF lectures. The expense, in such a country
as this. ought not 70 be any serious objection.
II it is made such, with any, let that objec-
ton De put to shame by the example of their
English brethren. Nay, let it be put to still
greater shame. by a survey of the actual and
superluous expenditures Of the community.
We will name but single item. We ask but
for what the Snowman carries eR from oul
villages yearly, to establish libraries and lee
tureships."
RoBERr OwEE, so celebrated few years
since, for his philanthropy and disintsrssied Be-
TeUOlence, but now celebrated for infdelity, sell
fshness, and discrganization, deliver ed al