Connecticut western news., 1874-09-25

Mrs. Fanny COwles. s................ ........... 93 Mrs. Belinda s Adams. s...................... 88 MT. Almerin Gillette. te......................... S3 Mrs. Flora MarVln... ............................ o2 Mrs. Mary Ferguson. '''''' '.............. 8l Dr. Miles Belden. ........................... 30 MT. Charles Lewis. ........................... 78 Mrs. Aln ina Gillette. te........................ 78 Mrs. Lydia W. Peet. et....................... IS Mrs F. A. Gillette. ........................ "
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 Of the descendants of Mir. Almerin, who has been married over half century, not one has died since his marriage, although they are numerous, comprising children, grand children and great grandchildren.
 Read This.-It is proposed to make bee next Friday of Mir. N. L. Dexter's neigh bors and the people of this section general ly, to give him lift Tn filling in with gravel about the dam he is reconstructing at his mill near his residence. He will have all in readiness to receive his friends to- morrow. (Friday,) and it is hoped the good people hereabout will make manifest gen. erous amount of substantial neighborly sympathy on the occasion alluded to, and extend to him helping hand to aid him in repairing the serious damage to his mill property by the relentless floods, of last spring. Bring your teams; or if you have no team or cant bring one for any reason, shoulder your pick or shovel, and go forth cheerfully for days work in aid of a neighbor in his time of need. Il may be your turn next to meet with dsaster,in some form, and you may be the next man to need the sympathy and assistance of your nelghbors. Show yourself worthy of such aid by your willingness to respond prompt ly to an invitation such as this is designed now to be. Let there be large turnout, and remember that you are wanted there to 'boss the job.
 Slander.-MR, EDITOR Believing it a duty to contradict a slanderous report cir culated in Sharon, that my brother-in-law Jonathan Thorne, had his property attached on account of collecting money belonging to the estate of the late Muford Thorne, hereby state that such report is a.maliciouE fabrication, he never having attempted to collect cent or otherwise tried to defrauc the heirs. On the contrary he has acted in the most generous and honorable man ner throughout the whole business pertain ing to said estate. AS to his present diff culty, suffice it to say it is caused by tho base ingratitude of one whom he befriend- ed in -h hour of need. We, his relatives know the whole circumstance connected with the case, and have closed our door unnecessary and uncalled for trouble. Hi old friends in Pine Plains deeply sympa- thize with him, but feel assured that he vii soon recover hls losses and come out of thi ordeal wiser man with regard to consider ing all people as honest as himself.
 Yours respectf'y,
 JACOB BOWMAN, Administrator of the estate of the late Mul
 ford Thorne.
 Pine Plains. Sept. 17th, 1874.
 Litch6eld Law School.-It is worthy o notice that the first law school in the coun try of any considerable note was founde in the town of Litchfield, next to Bethle hem, where Dr. BellamY lived. Bellamy' school was begun at least twenty-five year before the revolutionary war The lay school at Litchfeld owed it's origin to Tap ping Reeve, native of Long Island,a grad uate at Nassau Hall, a son-in-law of Presi dent Burr and brcther-in-law of Aaro Burr, vice-president of the United States and was begun in 1784. just after the revo lution was over. Some time before the en of the century Judge Reeve invited Jame Gould, a lawyer in Litchfield, graduate o Yale college in 1791, to take part in the in struction. They continued partners in tn school until 1920, when Judge Reeve hay ing retired, Judge Gould became the hea of the school, and ere long associated witt himself for time Jabez w. Huntington afterwards senator of the United States an judge of the supreme court ot Connecticut
 Down to 1883, when Judge Gould, abou five years before his death, discontinued hi lectures, there had been educated at Litct field, according to MT. Hollister (History c Conn, Vol. 2, 597), 1,524 lawyers from a
 parts of the United States, of whom Is
 were from the Southern States. In th number are included fifteen United State senators, five cabinet officers in the gener, government, ten governors of states, lift
 members of congress, forty judges of tt
 highest state courts, and two judges of il supreme court of the United States. .-Har ford Post.
 ] Serious Aooident.-Last Saturday eve 5 Ing Conductor Eggleston's train was sil : nailed at the Twin Lakes station to sto
 but as the signal was not displayed soc
 enough, or else not sufficiently distinct
 be readily seen, the train ran some rods the station before it could be stopped, aft : which it proceeded. to back up again to u = platform for the passengers. As soon
 the train passed the station, James Morr o sey, young man employed on the farm MT. Sidney Russell in Wetaug, started ( = after it, running along on the track, al o not noticing, in the darkness, the train W s backing up, but thinking instead it was g ing slowly forward ard had not yet COT to full stop, was knocked under the c se and his left arm run over and terrib :, crushed A piece of his scalp about thr l' inches square was torn up and hung ov in his eye, and his back was severely rak l. by the brake timbers as they passed ov " him. Colonel Hubbard, who chanced :. be in the rear car at the time, and W 'e standing with the door open, saw the m
 coming on the track and instantly scream
 out to him to Get off the track; get g. the track, or you'll get run oyer,' but son es how couldn't make him comprehend w danger till too late. Doctors Bissell a w Qrto1 of Iakeuilla attandad him Satr