Connecticut western news., 1873-07-18
New NliLfOrde

The base ball fever has put in a strong
 appearance during the past two weeks.- Three or more clubs have been organized
 and an effort made to resuscitate the olc
 s:Theantinaugs. There is enough mate
 rial here for frst-cass club, but it requires
 much time and practice to play as we'll as the old club used to do, and it hardly seems
 to pay as a steady business......O water company have discovered that their charter does not take effect until twenty days after
 the rising of the legislature, so they are
 now trying to patiently bide their time,
 when if the parties who own Cros Brook
 at point about mile northeast of the vil- lage, where it is proposed to dam it, show
 themselves willing to sell at anything like
 reasonable figure, water will be brought from there in six inch iron pipe and dis tributed about the village in four inch pipes of the same material. .....The long contin- ued drouth makes our farmers, and in fact all classes, feel blue and discouraged at the prospect for fall and winter. All the crops are suffering, ana especially tobacco the great staple here has been kept alive only
 with great effort and expense. Unless we
 have rain within ten days it must be a total
 failure. ......T The long talked of improvements
 upon Main street were actually begun last
 week. Jarvis Polly has contracted for
 building the sewer which is to be of brick
 and cement, about the shape of an egg
 with the small end down, and eighteen by
 twenty-four inches in size. After this
 comes the grading, seeding down, iron fences, fountains &c......The chief topic
 of conversation about the village and town
 for the past week has been the management
 of our savings bank by it's treasurer, John S. Terrall. Much bad or personal feeling
 has been aroused over this case, which it
 would seem might have been avoided. MT.
 Terrall feels that the article which appeared
 in the iSentjneJ some three weeks ago,
 charging him with intentional dishonesty,
 did him great injustice, and charges in re
 turn that some one in this town wrote the
 article for the purpose of so injuring his
 character as to obtain his position as treas
 urer of the bank, and the parties thus ac-
 cused feel aggrieved and resent the accusa
 ton. We think the article in the Se,ttiiaeJ
 was written by it's editor for the object
 perhaps of destroying Terralps prospect
 for the judgeship. To show either that Mr.
 Holmes, the bank commissioner, or the
 Sentjne1 had done him injustice, MT. Ter
 rall asked of the legislative committee upon
 banks tEe privilege of making statement
 before them. They consented to give him
 d hearing upon the return of MT. Holmes,
 who was absent when MT. IT. application
 was made to them. Upon his return two
 short hearings were given, when the pro-
 ceedings were quashed. MT. Holmes re-
 port had previously been accepted by the
 committee, so that there was nothing really
 for them to do unless facts proved that MT
 Holmes had erred in that report. It has
 since been claimed here that MT. Holmes
 ''backed down" from statements previously
 made concerning MT. Terrall or the bank,
 but we do not understand this to be so.- Mir. Holmes in his report says that the funds of this bank were kept with the pri-
 vatc funds of the treasurer, '.he himself
 keeping no cash account, no ledger account being kept of his earnings or his loans, and l indeed no ledger accounts at all were kept . except with individual depositors." Tc learn the condition of the bank, MT. Ter = Tall ascertained from his ledger the aggre gate balance due his depositors from memorandum book the amount of interest nI 3 account by which he could determine whal T the assets should amount to, he claimed al excess in the assets over what was called , for by this process as his own private prop erty. Banking men claim that this way ot keeping accounts has put money into Mir Terrall's pockets, which rightfully belong. to the bank, and cite in proof the facts 8 that although the bank has incurred nc , losses, and its expenses have always beer very light, yet the surplus is unreas onably small. Mir. Terrall denies that he has evel returned money to the bank which he hst = claimed as his own, yet admits that the commissioner found the liabilities of tho . bank considerably larger than he had re- , ported, but adds that the assetts were thu. increased in corresponding ratio. We un- derstand from this merely, that the liabili- , ties being found larger than they had beer reported, MT. Terrall stood ready to, ane did, nuke the assets larger, which is very like returning money 10 the bank, although i It does not of itself prove Mir. Terrall dis g honest, as it may have all been brough f about through errors and carelessness. I is now pretty generally believed that MT , Holmes, when he came here to examine tht g bank, found the liabilities of the banl somewhere from two to six thousand dol o lars more than they had ever been reported l It is also believed by many who have taker + the time and pains to investigate the case 8 that MT. Terrall has been personally bene fitted by keeping the books of the bank il
 people generally seem to coincide with MT = Holmes in accusing MT. Terrall of "cul e pable neglect" rather than dishonesty, fo D with all the stir about the bank during tn,
 past month, only one thousand of the fou }, hundred thousand dollars on deposit hav d been drawn out, and this has more thar $ been made good by new deposits. It i h getting to be felt Shat every public office 1t or servant should so transact the business
 and keep the accounts of the public, tha
 at any time he shall welcome rather thai
 fear an investigation. If MT. Terrall is th n best man for the place he now holds, w y trust he may be continued there, otherwis C let some one else take his place. We woul' IS consider Mir. Terrall's case without preju r. dlce, and neither would do injustice to tn '' commissioner who acted, we believe, i'm u partially and fairly, and whose report VI U consider reliahle C.