Connecticut western news., 1871-10-27

pose the South Canaan Literary Society, ill | securing such expensive talent to lecture [ before them. It rarely occurs that such a lecturer as Josh" can be got to visit the small villages in this section and if the church is not crowded to overfiowing on this occasion, we shall be sadly dsappoin- ted, yet we are assured that arrangements are completed to accommodate at least four hundred. Let's all go and hear "Josh. Read the lecture advertisement in another column.
 Good Music-The Singing at the Con- gregational church in this village, is always good; and particularly so was it last Sab bath. We have no inclination to boast, but we think we are not far from right, when we say that few churches in the state enjoy better music than this. It is an established fact that Professor Stillman has but few, if any, compeers in this re- zion, as an organist. We understand that he has about come to the conclusion 10 ask the Salisbury Choral Union to learn new cantata, which he thinks is far supe- rior to the ''Haymakers," which they so creditably performed last winter. If it is as good as that, all will be satisfied. We are glad to hear of this, as we think it hardly worth while to coufine this combi- nation of rare musical talent to the church service.
 Barachmatit drive around Barack- matiff mountain, on the road from Salisbury 1 to Chapinville, on very dark night seems to us would be attended with considerable danger to anybody, however well acquain- ted they might be with the road, and for stranger, exceedingly hazardous. The road 1 is very narrow, and to run off the west side
 and tumble down the almost perpendicular dec!ivity of 50, 80, or 100 feet, as it may be,
 would likely result in the death of the oc-
 cupant of vehicle or the horse, or both.
 Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run, for
 the town to build substantial fence or
 the damages resulting from serious acci-
 dent? It may be true that for so many
 years no accident of moment has occurre6
 there, yet all will admit that it is a very
 dangerous place on dark night.
 Canaan Literary Soc5ety-The good
 people of Canaan 'Junction" have estab-
 lished an organization called the Canaan
 Literary Association, and have chosen the
 following officers for the same. E. D.
 Lawrence, president; B. M. Rood vice.
 president and A. T. Roraback, secretary
 and treasurer. For trustees, R. VanDeu- sen, $. c. Beckley and G. s. Gillett. They
 hold regular meetings every Thursday even
 ing, and thus far have met with success far beyond their expectations, as there is
 manifested a much greater interest in the
 matter than was anticipated. The debates on the various questions develop an amount
 and style of orato1y and sound reasoning,
 that the people of that village need not by
 any means be ashamed to have generally
 known exists there. This is step in the
 right direction, and with the fine instru.
 mental and vocal music which is introduced
 at intervals during these meetings, forms
 an evenings entertainment which is not
 only very social and pleasant amuse
 ment, but is source of information and
 instruction which is indeed valuable As
 we said last week, why can't we have just
 such an organization in this village? Who
 will make a move in the matter
 HSstory.-A very good history of the town of Salisbury is contained in Judge
 Churchs Centenial address, but this hls torical account of the town is only exten , ded from it's settlement in l74O to IS4O and much has occurred since that time that
 is worthy of historical record, and we hope that somebody will take heed to the sugges ton of a correspondent in a recent mum , Der of the NEWS, and write up history of the town to the present time, nor arc we
 satisfied with a history of the town of Sal
 isbury: A history of any and of all tho townsin North Western Connecticut, would be of interest not only to the inhabitant, of those towns, but to those of other towns and we cordially invite any who are con versant with the historical facts of the several towns, to write up q history ot their town from it's settlement to the pres
 ent time, and we will gladly publish these records of events. In this way, the his tories can be preserved by preservation of the copies of the NEWS which contain them, or readily republshed in book form direct from the NEWS. Let's have aW these towns: Norfolk; Canaan; Cornwall; Kent . Sharon and Salisbury we'll and authen tically written up. What say the histori ans of these towns? Will you do it? Thes, winter months is just the time to do it Let us hear from a1 of you this winter Gather up the facts and mingle anon! them every amusing and interesting anec dote in connection with these historica = records, that can be culled from forme
 events, to make the communications O l deep interest to aU.
 l. Lake0SNe.-A good audiance was in at tendance at the exhibition of the chi!drel s of the M. B. Sabbath school at Lakevill hall last Friday Eve. The various dialogues @ songs &c were we'll rendered, and gay e universal satisfaction. The sum of thirty e dollars was realized from the performances which we understand is to be devoted t' s the purchase of an organ for the church s ...... Road master Greer has been changin: s tracks here at Lakeville placing the mail u track when the turnout was first laid ant '- gsce versG. Some one said that the yves l. end of that handsome structure, the bridge ' was to be moved to accommodate the nev order of things; but nothing has been sai' @ to us about it and so we are not dispose'
 to believe the report One thing, we ar $ happy to say we know to be true, and tha l. is that regular trains will be run over thi e end of the road just as soon as e0e1ytASn e is a.en1u - The many friends in tnwn a