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Connecticut western news., 1874-04-17

GcD's oUTsnE BBLE.-I would not, says Mir. Beecher. flor all the comfort which might get from the books of the Alexandrian Library, or from the Lennox Library, give up the comfort which get but of nature. There is nothing that grews-no weed, no grass, no flower, no fruit-thst is not in some way related to God in my thoughts; and am never SO near Him as when am in the presence of His works-as when, night or day, am in that solemn cathedral, the world of Nature, and behold its ever-changing beauty. There are no such frescoes in art ss Gods hand paints in the heavens. There are DO such relations of God as come to us through Ma. ture. In the budding, blossoming days oi summer, in the fruitful days of autumn, in the days of winter. in every day of the year, there is something that is separate leaf to me in Gods outside Bible, now thai have learned to read it.
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clusions concerning one and the same thing. and with these facts in view, it is a mystery to us how these deluded people who seem to be seeking after, they know not what, can arrive at any settled faith or form of worship, that will be accepted as the actual and unadulterated truth by the diversity of opinions that will be brough, to bear upon it by the reason that abides in the large number of members who constitute the society. Of all Gods creatures, none are endowed with reason but man, and all will admit, that no work of His mighty Hand is so constantly making mistakes, and yet this reason of man is the sole reliance of kthese Florence Cosmianites for their eternal salvation.
 ITO follow up these thoughts might ena- ble us to preach quite sermon, but as we have recognized no 'call' for thls purpose, we'll drop the subject until we have the re- quired license and the accompanying white choker
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IN THE CLOUDS The balloon Le Secours, which met with an accident during the as. tension Saturday before last from San Francisco, made successful ascent the week before. A San Francisco Morntno Co0 reporter, who went up in company with others, writes: 'As the balloon neared the eastern shore of the bay and was almost directly oyer Alameda wharf it had scared to itsgreatest height-two miles and half. The Cau representative about this time had most singular ringing feel ing in his ears and was little deaf, Ab- sorbed in the glorious scenery he had ceased to care jot about the barometer or it's record, and the last point he remembers the needle creeping round to indicated lO,- 900 feet. Captain Barbier has since in formed him that, taking into account the difference in measurement, the actual height to which the balloon climbed in the Armament was Is. .OOO feet. The thermom- eter indicated a fall in the temperature to about 45 degrees, but none of the occupants of the basket experienced cold, and dd not even feel chilly. Possibly the liberal sup
 ply of champagne with which they were furnished had some influence in sustaining the animal heat. Neither was there any difficulty in breathing, but all of the party have we'll expanded chests, and beyond talking there was nothing to exercise the breathing organs. The writer had a de- clded impression that couple of miles up the voices sound very harsh and loud, but the impression was greatly weakened by what he heard aloft. To him the sounds seemed very little altered. The stiffness. the death-like calm aloft, was painful, half depressing. Except when M. Barber or his confrsre, M. Buislay, creaked about in the basket, or spoke, or popped cham. pagne cork, not the fslntest sound could be heard; but softly, as if from far.off spot, came occasionally the wierd, shrill pitch of a locomotive whistle. The balloon itself was motionless. soundless, to the party"
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Norfolk.

Does he ever eat? Does he ever sleep ? We mean that impressable fellow who all ways calls at your place of business at meal time and is so very full of apologies for disturbing you, and the only excuse he has is that he is far from home Chow you all ways wish he wasn't.) and in desperate hurry. We'll, we are blessed in this town with any quantity of such unfortunates. Really it seems they must have been born little late. To the same class belong those who are always late at church, and who seem to take particular pains to let the entire congregation know it. It is now, ,and always has been, mystery to us why those who live the nearest church are inva- riably late. What earthly good can it do them to disturb with the rustic of their silks and satins those who attend church to worship God, not man. MT. Wm. Mallory of South Norfolk was found beside the road side sleeping that sleep that knows no waking. The empty pint bottle in his pockets told the whole shameful tale. Election leaves us pretty well whipped in this vicinity. AS one prominent republi- can said he should like to ask the demo- cratic party one question, VIZ, Have you all voted? it looks much to us as if It would not De very difficult to answer this ln the aftirmstive......Four inches of snow here on Friday. How is that for spring lingering ln the lap of winter. X. X. X,
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The Alaska Seal Monopoly.

Our government leases this fishery for $50, ,Ooo year, and $2.OO royalty on every skin, the number of skins to be taken each year being limited to 100000 under this lease over s0o.o .ooO skins are in fact taken every year, which makes monopoly Tn which there is an immense amount of prof it. The subject is under discussion in con- gress.
 ''Mr. Schumacher said that the Fur Com pany was organised by Henry Havens and A. s. Willetts of New York, and was now entirely in the hands of European Jews. He denounced it as the most gigantic swindle of the age. Both Mir. Schumacher and MT. Beck gave figures to show the enormous profits made by the monopoly. A lady's suit of seal skin contains, accord ing to Mir. Beck, but three skins, which cost the company $2.6o each, and yet these suits are sold in New York at $2Oo to 5000. Mir. Beck said that sending man like Elliott to catch the Fur Company, would be like sending South Down lamb to Texas to catch wolves. He wanted an engineer officer of high standing and posi- tion detailed to do the work"
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Sh eftield No. 2.

Sheffield No. 9.
 Who ever knew such weather at this time of year. This morning (Monday, April l3th.) the sun shines brightly, but the ground is frozen hard and covered with snow. The last few days have been almost as cold as mid-winter. The weath- CT seems to have affected the spirits and temper of the people, particularly those who have families to support, and can get no work until the weather moderates; now this shows the great want here: A beauti full town, with plenty of room suitable, and no manufacturing to give employment, to the laborer in all seasons. It makes it very hard for those whose families depend on their daily labor for food and clothing It is to be regretted that some of the ener- gy of the adjoining towns cannot extend to this, ana money be invested in manufac- turing of different kinds, which would, if properly managed, increase their money faster than any other way. One perscn can do very little alone that has been tried in years past. Something would be pro posed by one person who would be ready to use his means, and would talk with oth- CT moneyed men, who would also think it a good thing, but do not believe it would amount to anything; and of course it would not if they would do anything but talk......Tuesday-Thc weather is more mlld, and there is prospect of Spring, or chance to do spring work...... Last night MT. French's store and the depot were bro ken into, not much being taken however, except some stamps, au overcoat and pair of boots.... Last Monday it was appointed there would be society meeting, and the people collected and were ready for busi- ness. when they were obliged to adjourn, us the secretary had not his report ready something that has never happened here efore......Teachers have been provided for the different school districts ln this town, and some dissatisfaction is manifest: Some If the experienced teachers who are de- pendent on teaching for d living, are left without occupation, while some young and inexperienced ones, who have wealthy pa rents, and are not in need, are given the chance, DITTo,
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West COrnwRIR.

West COrmwaIn.
 T. L. Hart has gone to Sharon to live. Cochrane & Carter have started their meat wagons...... Deacon Beebe says if he only knew who wrote that article in the Enquir. er......The D. Y. w. Y. K. society have taken rooms in the Bee Hiye," aud have fitted them up for lodge room, &c...... John Lamont has gone to Waverly, N. Y.. on visit to his parents......John Miner, formerly with Pratt & Foster, was in town this week. He looks hale and hearty. .. .. .. The Sabbath School Association gave an entertainment in the hall last "Wednesday evening. which was in all it's appointments highly interesting affair. The singing of Mrs. J. A. Cochrane, Mss Carrie Barnum, and Messrs. Hughes, Mallinson and La mont was enthusiastically encored, and re- spondcd to in very appropriate manner. Miss Sarah Miller also rendered her part:iu highly satisfactory style. These enter tainments are acquiring a justly merited appreciation, and it is hoped they will keep them up. NuF CED.
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Falls Village and Annesville.

The Literary Association will hold their last meeting on Friday evening. The sub. jected for discussion is-Resolved, 'Tha, tue Press should be subjected to legal re. strictions.' The leading disputants are Lee r. Dean Esq, and Wm Blodgett. think it no more than right that the Press should know what weighty subjects are being ar gued and decided upon over here, for upon this decision may depend their future sue cess.... The election passed off without any great stir. The salutary effects of our li- cense law was plainly to be seen on that day, for as nearly as figures can compute, only two barrels CA gallons to the barrel) of the sure death was dealt out, while men only staggered by the dozens instead of scores. We have surely got to the bot tom of this thing......Mr. Looms preached his farewell sermon two Sa5baths ago. which was an able discourse. In going frem this place to his new field of labor be
 leaves many warm and lasting friends. ..... Rev. MT. Newman of West Stockbridge supplied the chapel pulpit last Sabbath eco. On account of the scarcity of houses, Dr. Averlll has been obliged to move to Ames- vile. Why don't some of our capitalists build some houses? for more are needed. .. The new locomotive, Henry s. Leayitt,
 struck her smoke stack against tue bridge at Lennox Furnace on Saturday, which slightly injured her appearance. The question now arises, Which is best to raise the bridge or lower the track? Send down to Boston and let the senate vote on it..... George Leavenworth has just returned from short vacation, and is looking quite refreshed UNCLE JOHN.
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w est Goshen.

west GOshehs
 As have not seen West Goshen repre- scnted in your paper, desire to say there is such place as West Goshen, and think some of the readers of your paper would like to know what the inhabitants are about. Business is quite brisk here now. MT. E. Wickwire has rented the old grist mill and saw mill, and is running them night and day, also is running shin gle machine in one end of the grist mill, and is doing thriving business. He in. vtes his customers to fetch on ther grain and logs. Success to Ed...... Lucas Hurl- butt tS Co, are doing good business. They are buying large quantities of cheese and shipping it to all parts of the world; also their deal in the merchsntile line is very heavy......Turpenton has rented the old tannery. Whitney, our stage driver, Is sick and confined to his housa. There Is quite stir in the way of buying and sell ing and moving. w. Allyn has moved back to Goshen Center; Daniel Harvey has sold his tarm to Morris Futile and has gone to Rochester. Joseph Wooster has sold his farm to his son, and will leave soon...... Joseph Watson and Sarah Allyn were mar rieG the other morning at the Congregation al church and took the train for parts un- known......Our contemplating K. G. Roberts, the proprietor of the cotton mill, is making preparations to do heavy business in the manufacture of yarns. He has enlarged his mill and Is fitting 1t up with new ma chinery. He is one of the owners of large cotton mill in South Carolina, from which he is receiving large quantities of single yarn, which is sent here to be doubled, twisted, bleached and fulled. and sent to market. One firm in New York has ] contract for all the yarn the company Can make, Cotton yarn can be manufac- tured at the South for half what it can be here, as cotton can be bought there for about five cents, and here for about sixteen cents, and the labor can be obtained for half what It costs here. The mill is run ming and doing large business. They are sending off daily about 600 pounds of yarn, and still they cannot fill their orders. The company employ about 30 hands. Ru- nor says B. G. Roberts owns large plan. tation south, and is raising large quanti ties of cotton, also the owner of large amount of city property. Is the owner of one building worth one hundred thousand dollars. H. Bennett and F. Knicker- booker superintend the mill, who are the right men in the right place. s. Bennett and Daniel Adams run the bleaching de- partment and dye housc. Our SIDE.
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The report of the Michigan railroad con- missioner shows that that state is one of the foremost in the country in the number and value of it's railroads. in proportion to it's population. On the 1st of January, there were $500 miles of completed rail. road in the state, valued at $ll5, ,ooo, 900, whose running expenses were last year more than $2o. .25o, 900, and whose earnings were $s2, 100000. The rates of freight on the state roads are lower than in most of the other states, and are but a little over ons-third of what they were in 1864. All the roads, except four, are supplied with air brakes.
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A SP1TzENBKRGEN GOLD SNAP.'-Says a writer; 'No description can give an ade- quate idea of the intense rigor of tho six months winter in Spitzbergen. Stones crack with the noise of thunder; in crowd. cd hut the breath of the occupants will fall in flakes of snow wine and spirits turn to Ice; the snow burns like caustic; if iron touches the skin it brings the flesh away with 1t; the soles of your stockings may be burned of your feet before you feel the slightest warmth from the fire; linen taken out Of boiling water instantly stiffens to the consistency of wooden board and heated stones will not prevent the sheets of the bed from freezing. If these are tho ef- fects of Q climate within an air.tight. fire warmed, crowded hut. what must they be among the dark, storm-lashed mountain peaks outside ?''
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TwERD's REFoRMAT1oN.-Aw writer in Old and Nsso, on the Rights of Tweed and other conyicts, argues that convicts have a right to be treated with view to their ref ormation. He says: People say that Tweed has got what he deserves that probably he will die before his term is ended; .hat he will manage to escape; that he will man
 age to be pardoned out; any thing that i'm plies guilt, death or evasion. Has any sug
 gestion been made by any human being that the poor old man can be cured. Has any minister preached the duty of Chris tians. or the power of Christianity, te make him good manf Has any newspa per, either religious, secular or sectaria1 asserted itp Probably most people would
 at first. at any rate, either laugh at the sug gestioB, or be displeased at it as frivolous.
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Imperial Gift to n Western College.

When the Grand Duke Alexis was trav. eling in the United States, the Delta Upsi lon Society of Marietta College elected him member. Tine passed by, and it was supposed he had ignored the whole matter, but last week the chapter received box expressed, prepaid from St. Peters burg, containing sixteen volumes. six of them in their native tongue, and the re- mainder translated into English. The pack age was sealed with four seals, bearing the impress of the Russian imperial coat of arme, and to the oil-cloth covering was stitched placard bearing the directions and this: From the compton of the au- gust children of their imperial majesties ; the four corners of the placard being seal ed, as we have described above. A letter was received by the chapter about the same time from the Russian consul at New York, inclosing letter from high official at St.. Petersburg, and list of the contents of the package.-Maristtd (O) Register.
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Connecticut Western News.

Subscription Accountable date on the colored slip of paper with the name of the sub scriber, shows the time to which the sub. scriPtiOn is paid thus. k. B. smith 5Jul74
 indicates that M Smith has paid for his paper to see to 1t that their account as indicated by the date on their papers, is always correct, and when they pay for a renewal of their subscription will observe whether their date is changed to indicate
 the proper credit, and in the event of an error to inform us for correction at once. No claims for errors in these accounts will hereafter be consid- cred, unless presented within thirty days after the payment is claimed to have been made as the regular receipt of tho paper with the printed thereon, is prima face evidence of its ac
 ceptance as correct. J. L. PEAsE
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Parson Brownlow of Tennessee is taken to his seat in the senate at twelve and car ried back to his solitary house at five. There is no color in the tall, pale, dark haired man except in his eyes, which grow rest less when anything in the debate excite. him. He never speaks, nor moves, nol smiles, nor calls 8 page, nor talks to { neighbor. He is afflicted with a terrible palsy, which makes him quiver and trem ble continually, but the old man means te die with his harness on, and sits there b, the door on the left of the presidents seat biding his time.
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Kent.

Kent.
 Mir. Griggs has recently removed from Harrington to the store an house in this village formerly occupied by the late Dea con Fuller, and is having the store repainted by Nr. Ashnan...".Mr. Watson has re moved his goods to his new store, and will soon visit the city for new supply, which he says he will sell at prices that will defy all competition. His calico ball last Tues day evening was we'll attended, and made pleasant ending of our winter festivities. All present improved the excellent music furnished by Whites Band, from Winsted. till the "wee sma' hours," and those who were unavoidably absent missed one of the most pleasant parties of the season MT. George Hopson of Bridgeport has pur. chased the Deacon Barnum place, and is having it thoroughly repaired. So1.
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Horseaesh is still consumed in large quantities in Paris. During the first six months of 1873, 5,ls6 horses were sold for eating. The heart, liver, brains and tongue are eaten like those of an OK. The horses purchased for the market bring $25 to Sso in gold. The new trade increases the val. ue of used up horses not deceased, by more than &2o each. So that the wealth of France is increased by about eighty mil. lions of dollars for the use of horseflesh for food.
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The Russian nation is the one which speaks the most languages and which speaks them the best. One may go through Germany and not hear word of French spoken, but he will be sure to hear it when he reaches the frontier of Russia. The Russian schools and gymnasts for girls ar of the highest excellence, and in some of the girls' schools in Moscow the dresses are all brown, to prevent the bad feelings which might arise from comparison of dresses and toilsts,
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A gentleman from Philadelphia let loose carrier pigeon at the depot in Elizabeth, N. J., at lo.20 A. M. on Thursday. Upon his arrival in New York he ascertained, by telegraph, that 1t had reached home at II o'clock A. M.. thus flying distance of ss miles in % minutes.
Connecticut western news., 1874-04-17

MOWERS AND HAYR Wilbur & Van Benschoten, Salisbury, Ct.. arc agents for the Buckeye M''wer and Reaper in the towns of Canaan, North Canaan, Norfolk and Salisbury. Extra parts constantly on hand also agents for the celebrated Wisner self-discharging sulky Hay Rake. This rake has no superior. (s.00)-l2w4o
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Dissolution.

HNHE copartnership heretofore existing under
 N the firm name of Adam X Ives, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. III persons having unsettled accounts with this firm will pleaee cail and settle them immediately with William Adam Snd, as interest win be charged after April 18th, 1874 ADAM q IVES.
 Esst Canaan, April 1st, ls14, 1wte
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Nonle Aelrs.

a*a We shall feel greatly obliged to any of our ! friends in the county or elsewhere, who will send
 particulars of any occurrences of interest which | may come under their notice
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DIE D..

In this village April 18th, Mrs. Catherine sel- lick, aged 9l years.
 In South Norfolk, April 10th, Wm. Mallory, aged 67 years, formerly from Washington, Conn.
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Auction.
tion on SATURDAY, APRIL 18TH !,

At o'clock P. M, my entire stocE and farming utensils, viz. One pair matched young herses. work horsea, cows, yearling, i SOW with pig, lumber wagone, two'eeat spring do., BnRxy l Bob Lumber Sleigh, Bob Pleasure Sleigh Eu reka Mower, Bryant Tanning Mn. i Corp shelier, Lightning Saw, Forks, Shoveis, &c,, ,Ac. Aiso, two tons hrst quality Hay. TERMS.-An sums under &iO cash ali anna of &l0 and over, approved notes payable at salie. bury ssvings Bank, months without intersst if paid when due. if not, interest rom date.
 HENRY BUSHNELL
 Lakeville, April 18th, 1874. iw4eS
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Aem5 Adpertisetueuts.
Notice.

WHRREAs my wife, Ella c. Hart, has left my w bed and board without just cause or provo cation, hereby forbid any person harboring or trusting her on ny account, ,as shall pay no debts of her contracting after this date.
 WILLIAM HART. Norfolk, April 18th, 1874. aw4o
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BOR N .

At Mt. Riga, April 9th, son to Luther Sardam, At Ore Hill. April 9th, son to Hiram Hiss. roadt.