Connecticut western news., 1873-06-13

which we have no doubt they richly de
 serve. They will >be assisted by severa
 adult singers.
 Sold.-The "Ticknor House," which ha
 excited SO much attention of late as tn
 abode of a ghost, was thls week sold t,
 MT. Walter R. Holmes of this town. =
 Whether it be the purpose of MT. Holme
 in purchasing this place, to speculate, O
 ''turn an honest penny" occasionally, by
 exhibiting hls newly purchased spook, W, are not informed.
 The True Cause.-Everybody is won
 dering why. It is such hard time fo
 money. Why nobody is able to pay any
 body what they owe them, and vice versa
 The secret has remained unsolved till to
 day. Our devil says it is because our Con-
 gressmen have voted it all into their owl
 pockets, and not only have voted it there
 but have put it there. .'
 FaNs Valage Ro66ery.-D of tn
 burglary and robbery at Falls Village Thursday night of last week, containing { description of the person supposed to have
 been interested in the affair on the night il question, &c., sc, from our regular Fall'
 Village correspondent, may be found undel it's proper head in our columns devoted tc local village correspondence.
 Bought c Drpg Store. Mir. w. H. Por- ter, who recently purchased the new ant elegant drug store in West Cornwall, be longing to the estate of the late George H
 Wheaton, is, finding very good trade ir that village. With Dr. Sanford to occa- sionally look about ana see that .he wheel. move along about right, we have no anxiety but what the good people of Cornwall will be faithfully and correctly served.
 E.ecarsion to Pittsfeld. The train on the Housatonic road carrying people to Bar nuns show was a heavily loaded one. Il wheeled into Pittsf1eld with nineteen long passenger cars loaded full aisles, outside platforms and all, and SO heavy was the load, that the two powerful locomotives at tached found it barely possible to move the train even at a very slow pace, getting into Pittsfeld an hour and three quarters behind time. This was an excursion "what was an excursion."'i i e@ ' -r,...- .t., .. =.
 Robbery sn Barrington.-Last Friday night the post office in Ct. Harrington was entered by burglars, by prying open the iron doors to the office with bars, and the safe was blown open and robbed of about $7oo, in stamps; $500, in money, and some bonds. The robbery was very suc- cessfully planned and executed; nobody hearing any disturbance or knowing any thing of the robbery till Saturday morning. The clothing store of J. B. Cohen, near the post office, was also entered, and two or three shelves of ready made clothing were stripped and carried away .' T"
 Runasoay,-While son of Samuel Owen was driving down Furnace Hill in Lakeville few days since, the wagon box slipped forward, hitting the horses, frightening hem, when they SC: off at full speed, and while passing uader the railroad bridge he attempted to rein them up the hill toward Dr.. Knights. but didn't succeed and the wagon struck the garden fence at MT. Woods and was tipped over, throwing out he lad, cutting him badly about the head md otherwise injuring him. The horses lere became entangled in the harness and were unable to proceed farther.
 Temperance Lecture.-The lecture and 'ocal music in Academy Hall in this village ast week Thursday, by Rev. MT. Burleigh md MT. s. B. Spinning, were very good, md were listened to with attention by the audience. We understand these gentlemen were also we'll received in Lakeville the fol- owing evening. These temperance lec- ures are all very good and pleasant to have, ut that they effect anything in staying the nceasing flow down the throats of whis- ;ey guzzlers, of "Jersey Lightning" or New England Kill-devil," we have not the emotest idea. There is not distiller, a quor seller or rum drinker in the land, but Vho knows and always has known, since e was old enough to know anything, that liquors used as g beverage is he worst enemy to mankind that exists. hey know that it's habitual use entails acrifce of everything else, body and soul 1cluded, and yet with this full knowledge the price they pay, they still choose their bode In the gutter, and temperance lectur- rs may talk thousand years, endeavoring 9 convince them of the evil effects of in emperance, and it will avail nothing. They annot convince them because they are al- eady and always have been convinced that l
 is their destruction. Something different rom simply their knowledge of it's terrible fleets upon them, is necessary to effect | emedy for this earse. The liquor interests the state fatten and grow constantly 'ronger on temperance lectures. To coaz am to abandon Its business of des- 'uction. is about as available to ring about remedy as would be the leadings of fat missionary among drove hungry cannibals, to spare his life for ,e cause of religion. The people must SC in their wrath against this vile curse, nd grappling it, hurl it to the ground and old 1t there, and at it's every attempt to 'ise it's hydrahead, increase their grip bout it's throat and choke it out of exist nee. The laws of our state of Connecti- ut are good enough everybody knows, but ley cannot or will not be enforced by the eople, in whose care they are reposed. he state of Massachusetts is succeeding ith her constabulary force, in confinlng le sale and effects of liquor to a very nall aggregate portion of her territory. hese men are hired to make it their busi- ess to fight rum, and if it is sold and peo- le become drunk. they are at least kept ut of sight, slowed away in some barn till 'ber,o something done to hide them from