Connecticut western news., 1873-03-21

ton will not arrive at Lakeville till twenty minutes to nine o'clock, instead of at the advertised time. He is compelled to wait for the Poughkeepse & Eastern train, and he says, and everybody knows, that train has never within the knowledge of the old est inhabitant been on time, and he seldom or ever gets to Lakevlle till the time men, tioned. We announce for those who go to Lakeville to evening entertainments the above time. so that they will not be hurried out of Academy Hall before the lecture or what-not is more than half through, to spend an hour with Col. Tupper at the de- pot. The Colonel is most excellent con- pany. and we go to Lakeville almost every week to see him, but when people go to a lecture he wants them to get the full value of their money. Hereafter if Conductor Hinsdale attempts to leave Lakevile before his usud1 time (2O minutes to 9 o'clock) a committee of invitation will be appointed to invite him to hold on a while
 Sharon.-Friend Pease: 1 noticed in your last weeks issue that Salisbury had purchased safe costing thirty dollars for the safe keeping of her public records.
 The good people of Sharon have been agi-
 tatin& the subject of building town hall
 for some time past. Recently a town
 meeting was called to test the question,
 when it was decided by large maj jority
 that we would not build another town hall. Unfortunately for the town of sharon
 they have paid six hundred dollars for a
 room on the second floor of our public
 house for the transaction of town business
 A committee of five was appointed at the
 meeting named to ascertain the cost of
 erecting building with a good ire-proot
 vault for the safe keeping of our public
 records, whose duty i: is to report at a flu
 ture meeting. So far so good, but procrus-
 tination Is the thief of time. and unless we
 whip up, Salisbury may get ahead of US.
 The people of Sharon are under moral ob-
 ligation to furnish safe place to keep the
 records and, files of the court of probate for
 the towns composing the district of Shar-
 on. When it WAS first established, which
 was in l755, Col. John Williams of Shar-
 on Was the first judge of the court ; after
 his death, in l774 Col. Porter of Salisbury
 was appointed; subsequently Gen. Stcr-
 ling and Judge Church; also Judge Bur
 rall of Canaan. In lS45 Canaan was set
 off as separate district and her representa-
 lives asked the legislature for the books
 and files of the court for the district of
 Sharon, Salisbury being counted between
 Canaan and Sharon, but we objected and
 the legislature decided to let us have them.
 It is now our duty to provide safe place
 for them. If our town and probate rec
 ords should be burnt it would be loss that
 money could not restore. Now what we
 need in Sharon is safe building for our
 public records; village hall for public
 lectures and other gatherings, and savings bank for the benefit of people in moderate circumstances to place small sums saved
 from their earnings. If our people of abundant means would take hold of this
 subject in earnest we should soon accom-
 plish so good service to the town.
 O. &. IHe Lcctures-The lectures of the Hon. B. G. Northrop. secretary of the board of education, and the commissioners sent to
 this country by the Chinese government, in the interest of education, at Academy Hall
 last Tuesday night called out full house, the hall being so full that many were l obliged to stand. MT. Northrops lecture, F which was by no means lengthy, was pro f foundly interesting, and was worth going F long distance to hear He made some , statements concerning the number of indi-
 viduals who own all the landed property ir England, also the number in Scotland f Gin both instances the number being less , thelr eyes in astonshment. MT. N. is { very fine speaker, and was listened to witt { the strictest attention. . At the close of hi! f remarks he introduced one of the Chinese commissioners. MT. Yung Wing, who ad- ! dressed the audience at considerable length : He expressed himself very well for Chi ] naman, and although his language was no as fluent as that of MT. Northrop, as coult a not be expected it would be, his ideas wer,
 very good and he managed to make hi
 hearers readily understand him. In th' '- course of his remarks he said that the pres ent system of education in China, which il
 many characteristics is very similar to ou ,, , own, dated back four thousand years, ant said that this system, or at least many o e it's features, had tendency to contract tn ' intellect; that it was not expansive enough l. yet he was proud, very poud, of the litera > ture of China and at this point, becomin, e well warmed with his subject, he spok y with great earnestness and power w t were sorry not to be permitted to hear hin o through, and feel sure we lost much e Yung Wing visits this town as he said a !. his lecture, for the purpose of seeing ou II iron mines and examining our process o ' making iron, and the people cannot but b e grateful 10 our board of education for be ing instrumental in getting such lecturer ' here.
 e Socia1 Gathering. Twas one of th 1t most beautiful of winter evenings; tn l. full moon Illuminating the whole country e whic was buried in the seven hundred Co d less) storms of the past winter, and Tor is Norton was already there. He with Dl d Knight were among those who had gon h before, when John came along with tn !. sbays." Mr. Burrall said that Mrs. Dodg
 was rattling around in the middle sleig
 seat, and there was plenty of room for tw
 more. The eight feet of snow in the roa up Parks Hill crowded us out into the lots but when we got there we found nearly a r of them waiting for us. Although Nil y Wm. Parks said he was made an invali F that morning by an attack of that peculiar aL lu arnriua atinr snasrnndic aEfnntion oE th