Connecticut western news., 1873-07-18

Decidedly Cool-A few days since, Sheriff Rowe of Millerton had under his fatherly protection, the man who had burglariously entered the house of MT. Cornelius Pitcher in that village, and was on his way to the very safe place of abode for such public guests, and when the train on the Po'keepsie & Eastern road had backed across the state line into Connecti- cut in order to get on to their own road, MT. Burglar very coolly arose, and bidding the sheriff an affectionate adieu, stepped off the train. MT. Sheriff did everything in his power to induce hlm to ride back in to ''York state" with him: He coaxed, plead, begged and twill you walk into my parlor said the spider to the fly," but MT. Burglar said he never did like to be parlor company, and as he rather enjoyed the sal utary climate of the Nutmeg state. just thought he wouldn't at that time, although he was deeply pained to think he couldn't grant the Sheriff this trifling favor. Sheriff Rowe has two Po'keepsie & Eastern rail- road tickets to sell, which MT. Burglar very generously allowed him to keep as souuen- CTS of the occasion, and while "hoofng it" on his lonely road back to Millerton, he read those tickets over and over again, both sides and edgewise, but somehow failed ut terlY in obtaining that amount of comfort usually to be found in entertaining litera- ture.
 Laying tue Corner Stone-The laying of the corner stone for the new Episcopal church at Lime Rock last week Thursday was largely attended and the ceremonies and exercises were of a very interesting character. There were present, the Bish- op, the Rt. Rev. John Williams, D. D.; the Rev. s. R. Johnson, D. D.; Rev. Wm. Shelton, D. D.; Rev. Messrs. Johnson, Clark, Jarvis, Storrs, Jessup, and Whittle- sey. The assemblage met at the nearest
 house at the residence of Wm. A. Crow
 ell, Esq, and preceded by the choir singing
 the hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God
 Almighty" moved to the spot. We are
 indebted to the Rev. Wm. A. Johnson of
 this village for the following list of the ar
 ucles which were deposited in the stone. This catalogue MT. Johnson gives as nearly
 correct as his memory serves him, the orig
 inal and complete list being in other hands Bible
 Prayer Book,
 l Church Almanac,
 The CHURCHMAN,
 CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS, (July 4th,)
 Autograph cards of the Bishop,
 Autograph cards of Wm. ShetOn D. D.,
 Also of Rev. $. F. Jarvis, former rector, and Rev
 Various United States Coins.
 The address of the Bishop on this occa-
 sion was said to have been of unusual in
 terest; he seemingly outdoing himself There were one or two incidents attending these exercises and ceremonies which wer,
 indeed not little remarkable. They wer
 as follows: The Rev. Wm. Shelton wht was present, is a son of 4he first person or dained in this country by the first Bishop In the address of Rev. $. R. Johnson, h alluded to, and pictured to his hearers, rainbow which appeared at the laying of , corner stone in Indiana some years since and singular as it may seem, a bow of re markable beauty spanned the heavens, 500
 afterward, and was seen and admired b many who were present. l Neao Milford Saoings Bank-The legis r lative committee on banks have been occr
 pied couple of days ln hearing wit > reference to the New Milford savings bank t The hearings were at the request of MI
 John s. Turrill, treasurer of the bank, til # bank commissioners criticisms of the metl ~ ods of bookkeeping in the institution hay N ing given rise to some comments in til y Litchfeld county papers, which in hi 2 opinion did him injustice.
 The committee gave full hearing to til case, and decided that there was no call fC l, any action on their part, their acceptano t. of the bank commissioners report, inclut O ing what he had said of this bank, bein = all that was necessary. Neither the con '' missioner nor individuals, as we understan L. 1t, made any charges against the treasurer 1T integrity, but only that under defectiv n system of accounts errors might Occu
 What the commissioner said was: In th instance, no cash account was kept at al lt and the funds ot the institution were keI e with the private funds of the treasurer, | f himself keeping no private cash accoun
 no ledger account being kept of his earn Il ings or his loans, and, indeed, no ledger a' l. counts at all were kept except with indivit .s ual depositors. His practice being. at sue l. times as it was necessary for him to make
 statement of the condition of the bank, { e ascertain from his ledger the aggregat l. balance due his depositors. from memo is randum book the amount of interest re
 ceived, and expenses paid, and having n
 account by which he could determine wh' # his assets should amount to, if there ws
 any excess in his assets over what ws IS called for by this process, he claimed sue n excess as bis own private property. It wi " be seen that great injustice was liable to # done to depositors by so loose manner ( ,- keeping the accounts of the bank, as D n errors could be detected without 6 cash a IS count, and in the event of any neglect Is enter a deposit, or interest received, tL :, amount not entered would inure to the bel ID eft of the treasurer himself. Your com Y missioner ascertained as nearly as possib k from the meagre records kept; the actu g condition of the bank, finding the liabil 70 ties to be considerably larger than WI 'o stated by the treasurer in his last report, all u opened books on the proper system and il IS sisted that such system should be pursuet if -H0rtford CourGnt.
 1s What shall we say of our bank con in missioners, who for seventeen years hay ts allowed this bank to conduct business ,n this slip shod and slippery manner ?l ,p Later.-Since the above was put in typ ir we have received from our New Milfol lv correspondent, detailed account of th s" New Milford bank account business, whit ,e will give very good idea of the prese ,f sta tus of the affair in that village. d West COrnyvaIl.
 r In our report of the wrestling match ( =. July 4th we should have said that Jimn I I,s1 tore Abe's pants instead of his shirt. W
 acknowledge the error. .....Dibble Hill