Connecticut western news., 1874-10-23


 specifying the towns to which each person 30 enumerated belongs; shall make returns to the Seeretary of the Board 0f School Visitors of the town having jurisdiction over the district of the receipts and eXpen- ditures, and statistics in accordance with blank forms furnished by the Secretary Ot the State Board of -Educatiei,.----
 The attention of District Committees is of the State. The School Visitors have been much annoyed by failure on the part of committees to perform the duties required by law. The Board of Visitors have decided that the law must be fully complied with by all visitors, district com : mittees and teachers, or the full penalty of their neglect exacted. No money can hereafter be drawn from the treasury of the town. for school expenses. except on the certificate of the School Visitor.
 The town having given the School Visi- tors power to supply the teachers, in the several districts, it is not intended 10 ignore the district committees, or the wishes of the districts by putting obnoxious teachers upon them. The Visitors ought to know the competency of teachers better than the committees and the town ought to em ploy the persons they are compelledto pay. By consulting the committees. and consid- ering the wishes of the districts, we ought to obtain corps of teachers whom, by em ploying continuously in the same schools, and instructing in a uniform sys- tenn of teaching, as far as practicable, we ought to make superior to those in towns continuing the old system, and we shall class the good effects of the change in the more rapid advancement of our children. The Secretary of the Board of Visitors feels confident that, hy the close of the year, he can make the wisdom of the change very apparent. ..,.
 ]. H. HURLBuRT.
 Secretary Board of School Visitors.
 At a joint meeting of the, Board of Sc lectmen and School Visitors, held on Sat urday, the 10th day, of October, 1874. it was voted to divide the school money the same as last year. Attest .. ". ".- ..-. ,,5 l.. H. HURLBUET, Sec'y. 5
 At meeting of the Board of schoo Visitors held on Saturday, Oct. 10th. 1874, J. K. Ward was chosen chairman, !. H. Hurlburt. secretary, and J. H. Hurlburt and Rev. G. B. Ferguson, examining com. mittee.
 l Voted, To make the whole Board acting visitors, who are to act under the direction aud by the assignment of the Secretary. l Voted, That the Secretary he required tc make an abstract from the laws of tho State, in relation to the dnties of distric comnlittees, atlding such notes and com ments of his own'as may be deemed neces sary, aud publish the same in the CoNNEc T1cUT WESTERN NEWS, and in the form oi circular letter for distribution.
 Toted, To adjourn to Saturday, Novem Der 7th, 1874, and to request the presence of the distrct committees, and require tho teachers to be present at that tune. Attes
 J. H. HURLBuRT,
 Secretary Board of School Visitors.
 A Living EHching.-We have received { story entitled "A Living Etching, writer by young married man, giving sketcl of his life during the past six years, ant portraying his unlawful love for a beauti full young lady residing in his family. Fol a true story, and we are informed that this is truein it's every detail, it is unquestionably picture of one of the saddest cases of un- holy love, of passion blind to every prin 1 ciple of right in domestic government ant accountability, that has ever been presented to the view of criticising public. This man, SO utterly incapable ot mastering this love, bordering, as it were, on madness and SO completely in the power of his fail charmer, is indeed sn object of pity bu, wha, shall we say of young lady, who as the story states. is received in family young in years and experience in battling with thls world of diversity. is invited there because she is an orphan; homeless, friendless, struggling under every disadvan- tage to maintain an existence, and purely out of sympathy is asked to. find \ home there, takes advantage of the great weak ness of the husband and father, and leads him along; or rather at first allows him to become fascinated by her charms, and af- terward encouraging him, step by step; and at one time when he would tear himself from the damnable hallucination. she, in the language of the story, "Flashed an electric glance straight info his eyes, and in one second his senses were bewildered" And so subtle was she in this hellish work, slowly but surely weaving about this fam fly her web of destruction, that she might we'll challenge old Nick himself for skill inl its execution, and so adroitly conducted that the noble wife, whose domestic life was being SO rapidly extinguished, could never detect the slightest indication of an improper intimacy existing between them. To be sure she recognized the fact that her husband WAS becoming more and more es. tranged from her, but evidence of the true source of this terrible fact she could not discover. As we have said above, what can be said of young female-we'll no longer call her lody-who will do all this ? who will bring such misery to a young wife, and that wife her own cousin May the great God, who can forgive sevent y times seven timcs." have mercy on her soul and forgive her! We could do noth- ing of the sort
 This story will be particularly interesting to our readers because of its asserted truth fulness and it's local character, as certain mysterious hints Tn 8 private note from the writer, seem to lead 10 the belief that the characters portrayed in the story are now living and moving in the good society of