Connecticut western news., 1872-12-13
Sharon.

What has become of your corres- pendent, ''The Vistor?" Week after week rolls away and no notice of Sharon, it's business, or its people. Some say that he began to write too early in life, that he overtaxed his intellect, (his frame work you know is weak,) and that his literary lalora were too arduously severe to embrace the eptire season. Otb- CTS say that he ::s of A mete"ric tempera- ment, and has turned his attention to the study of Theology, abandoned worldly matters and is fitting himself for the pub lie good. A wsggish friend says, that he knows of his own knowledge that he is1 writing the funny" for the Hostetter al-
 nanac, but my opinion is that since his unanimous election to the office of Justice of the Peace, he has given his entire time to the study of our statutes, in order to dis
 charge his duties in a conscientious and
 statesmanlike manner, and too much study
 has tendency to soften the brain and
 crush the greatest of intellects. This I i'm.
 agine is the solution of this mysterious bus
 mess: Be that ss it may. we, that is the
 people, do regret that ''The Visitor" has
 tilted his former love--and left us to the
 tender mercy of such scribes as figure in
 the metropolitan papers, and who simply
 say that Sharon is pretty town but of no
 commercial importance. Sharon must be,
 always has been, and will continue to be
 we'll represented long after ''Thc Visitor
 has said his final good night, and am de-
 tcrmined, although not a professional wri-
 ter, in fact no writer at all, to give you in
 simple prose the current news of the day
 and let the people of the Commonwealth
 know that we sti.l have an existence and
 name among the powers of the earth. al-
 thnAgh The Visitor declines to say fur.
 ther concerning the home and lands of his
 ancestors. Business is looking sharply
 up, and Gager Brothers and Gillette arc fill.
 ing their coffcrs in trading way their stores are filled with buyers, and xm in
 formed that they require the services of Constable Potter to keep the crowd in or Ger, and give the people an opportunity to exchange, seridtim, their coin for articles of value and necessary use. Thus it is, with those who are active anl industrious in the pursuit of government stamps. honda, or any fixed co!aterals. May they succeed and become 'Vanderhilts'' is the wish of every customer,.....Au enterprising young man named Orton is building on New St.. to be occupied IS a store, with room for the brethercu of the Mystic Tie to gather in their faithful The building will be com pleted about May next, and will no doubt be au ornament to our tcwn......A lrOn k Smith has left us, sold his interest in his store to Deacon Woodward and gone to a wider sphere of business usefulness. We regret to loose one whose influence was eyer on the side of law and order, and ever acted for tn best interests of his na- tive town. His genial character, sterling integrity and good business talents will be appreciated wherever his lot may be cast, and the best wishes of our entire commit nifty for his future prosperity will attend him and his amiable family. .. The con- cert given by Mrs. T. Picton Rowe at her residence on Saturday last for the benefit of the missionary fund of the Episcopal Church was successful in its results. The music was of the highest order and was sp- precated by large and critical audience.
 .... The Rev. Robert Hunt the popular ana intelligent pastor of the M. E. church will have the benefit of donation visit, on Thursday, Dec. l2th, afternoon and eve ming, and I sincerely hope he may receive substantial tokens from bis congregation and his many personal friends..... Why don't you erect Town Hall in Salisbury ? It is none of my business surely; but you need one, Every town should have one, and we, that is the people, intend to build one here before the closing of the year 1873. If could only get ''The Visitor" to shake his quill in favor of hall for Sharon, am sure he wouldbe listened to by our substantial townsmen, and we should then have a secure place for our pubic records and conveniences for pub lie meetings. ......My friend Chase has fin ishcd, in wurkmanike manner, the painting of the Congregational church, and is now resting on hls we'll earned lau- res and waiting, as theclergy say, for an- other call The veterans of the place. Captain King, fudge Hunt. John Good win and Justice Kingston, are in tho erjoy' ment of most excellent health and fine spir it's, and ready at any time to engage in any enterprise for ''the good of every thing that is good" Now Mir. Eiitnr, if you de sire to inflict your readers with contiuu- ance of my infsntile scrawls, say so cate gorically' NOBODY
 Certainly, yes sir, MT. ',Nnhody': We will say SD categorically or any other go, cally that will induce you to -'iuflict" the readers of the NEWS with more of the same sort, and we say this with the full that they rather enjoy the ''in- NEWS.