Connecticut western news., 1874-01-16


 particular spot; going, as he would have to in one place, through..a small forest of scrubs, brush and small timber. and be left a half mile below, on very clear. nice, pretty place to deposit him, may seem clear to some, but almost all our citizens think that if regiment of men should go over that dam, one at time, and if one could struggle along and get as far down as this man was found, he would have to come out of the stream and go by land.
 The question will be asked, what motive was there to murder this man, if murdered he was. It cannot be surmised there was an intent to commit murder for robbery or anything else, but theory is advanced by some as follows that after leaving Mr. Lynch's, he fell among others, whom he joined on grand drunk, and which ter minated in fight, conducted in that beast ly; brutish manner characteristic of some drunken fights, and in the melee was kicked to death or killed by blows from stones or other sharp instruments, and after it was found he could not be restored, the plan of taking hat, coat, Sc. to the stream above, was part of ''put up job," to mislead Tn the detection of the true cause of death. What further action will be taken in this case, we are not informed, but that further attention should be given to it, is the opin- ion Of many.
 1Hose Me0ing ROcEs.-CoNN. WESTERN NEWS. A correspondent of yours, in your issue of January 9th, 1874, makes some enquiries respecting the moving rocks in the Washinee lake. The greater number of the rocks. or rather boulders, lie near the northwestern shore of the lake, and within hundred rods of the Twin Lakes station. They are of all sizes. from a square foot up to one of eight feet in length and four by four feet in width and helght. Some of them are with half their height above the surface of the water, and all of them in water not exceeding 1-2 feet in depth. The shoal water extends in some points thirty or forty rods from the shore. The movement takes place only in the win ter, and always shoreward, and the distance travelled is probably not uniformly the same from year to year. It is generally supposed by those who have observed the workings of the ice in our lakes, that it expands in severe cold weather and pushes from the center towards the shore. Where the shore is not too precipitous, it is frequently forced up the banks three or four feet, or washing, pile up in masses few feet from the shore. These rocks in the Washining all lie in shoal water, on & sandy and gray ely bottom, and when. imbedded in ice from l2 to 20 inches in thickness, are car ried by the expansion of perhaps one hun dred acres of ice. Mounds of gravel i'm mediately before them, and depression in their rear, indicate their change of locality. The track of the largest rock is plainly to be seen for several rods. There is also on the shore of the lake ridge evidently formed by the picking up of rocks by the ice in ages past, similar to those noticed by your correspondent near Pittsfeld, Mass. But, Dr. R., come down some still day in May or June next and investigate the mat ter yourself. and if you will give an old friend day or two's notice l should be much pleased to meet you there. N.
 F. S.-1t may be asked why these phe- nomena are not witnessed in other lakes. In reply I would state that in many of our lakes the water deepens too rapidly from the shore to have them strongly marked. Also there are few, or none, in this vicini- ty which have powders scattered in such shoal water, and on such sandy or gray ely bottom. N.
 Lakeville, Jan. 12th, 1874,
 Distressing Suicide. e.-Thursday evening of last week, Clan. sth,) John A. Shute, a New York ''drummer," 26 years of age, and who .appeared to have been con- nected with the firm of Wm. Shute & Co.,, AT & 429 West 18th street. New York, ar rived at the Dudley House in Falls Village He was shown to a room, and the next morning after his breakfast. walked over to the tin store of Mir. Dean, ostensibly for the purpose of seeing him on some busi- ness. As Mir. Dean was away, he returned to the hotel to await his arrival home. He was seen to pass through the hall of the Dudley House and up stairs at about II o'clock in the forenoon. At noon, lady belonging to the house cssayed to go into his room, but found the door locked, and hearing him in there, went directly away, and nothing more was thought about him, except the fact that he had not been at din- ner or tea Friday, but was supposed to be somewhere about the village on business j; nothing unusual having been observed in his conduct to occasion thought that any thing was..wrong with him. At about 10 o'clock Saturday forenoon, chambermaid attempted to go into his room to make up the bed for the morning, and found his door locked. Notifying Landlord Dudley of the fact, he, with his clerk ascended to the room, and observing through the key hole disarrangement of the room furni- ture, creating in his mind an impression that all was not right, succeeded in push ing the key of the door, which was on the inside, out on the floor, and unlocked the door, when he discovered young Shute sus- pended by his neck with his neck tic, in the closet ot his room. This clothes press is very small, being perhaps four feet one way by two and half the other. Through this small room, large square timber of the house passes diagonally, at an angle of about 45 degrees. This timber stands out from the inside wall, leaving space be- tween it and the wall of eight and three quarter inches. Above on the wall back of this timber was a row of clothes hooks, also two or three at each of the two ends of the room. One hook on each of the