Connecticut western news., 1874-02-20

~@'uo"6" Ne!Y lkcly sulppcu some tlme l before the celebration of tue wedding last Wednesday evening, case containing a beautiful gold lined and solid silver sugar , sitter and cream spoon, was received by express by MT, Barnum, with the compli- ments of Mir. and Mrs. J. A. Porter of 1ankton, Dakota, also of MT. and Mrs. Henry Brooks and Son of Mineral Springs, Dakota They seemed to have lost none
 or thelr beauty while on their long jour
 ney, as they were indeed beautiful.
 All the above collection was truly very
 elegant. They were of the latest designs
 and of the finest and best quality and Mir.
 and Mrs. Barnum can be congratulated on
 having in quantity and quality of silver
 ware, what few can boast of.
 After the repast, all assembled as near
 to the speaker as possible, when Prof.
 J. K. Hurlburt addressed the bride and
 groom of quarter of a century as fol-
 lows:
 ME. AND MRS BAHNuM:-On thls the
 tventy-fifth anniversary of your vadd;n "
 your friends and neighbors have gathered
 here to testify their appreciation of your
 worth, and the estimation in which you are
 1eld by the people of this community.
 iwenty-tive years is long period in the
 life ot an individual. What feelings must
 crowd themselves into your minds AS vou
 stand here at this station on the great hioh
 way ot life, and take a retrospect of all
 inese years What joys and sorrows, what
 hopes and disappointments rise before you!
 1hls IS pleasurable occasion, yet not with | of
 or the past must have. With all the pleas
 Ing associations rise memories of necircted | opportunities and duties unfulfilled. These
 must not present themselves to mar inc
 pleasure Of this occasion. Silver memories
 must throng the mind to night, and we
 must forget the memorable blow of time and
 imagine ourselves in the hey-day of vouth
 once more. But must revert to the pleas
 ing duty which has been assign"d me. of
 presenting to you, in the name of all these
 your friends and neighbors, these beautiful tokens of affection. 1t is not their intrinsic
 worth which will make them valuable io you, but the kindly feeling which has prompted their bestowal. Whenever in the future your eyes rest upon these articles, may Inc sight of them bring to your minds those hallOwed associations of friendship which they will always represent. May thelr reception and use afford you the snme happiness which their presentation has giv en us; that you may live to the expiration or another quarter of a century to celebrate your golden wedding, and that, when you nave enacted It's last anniversary, you may be prepared to enter upon tue endowment Of an everlasting wedding day in the man sion above, is tho prayer of your friends.
 The remarks we made some weeks since, concerning the reply of MT. Martin Harris of this village, on similar occa- sion, will apply to MT. Barnum on this. Like our nations President, he is not a man of words, "and his gratitude needed not the aid of an eloquen: tongue to make it. self known. Mostened eyes spoke plain ly the fact that the assembled friends had taken their hearts by storm Nothing more need be said on this point All who | were there know about it, and that is enough.
 After the above ceremony, the rooms were cleared and to the notes of the yio- lin, nimble feet kept time till one, two. and for ought We know, three o'clock, and thus ended one of those most pleasant of all parties, the silver wedding of Mir. and | Mrs. James H. Barnum.
 7he Whiskey War-The plan adopted by the good people of Falls Village and town of Canaan generally in suppressing the liquor traffic, is working so satisfacto- rily, the citizens of this town have con- cluded to pursue the same course A pc tition has been largely circulated through out the town and signed, asking the select men to call town meeting for the pur pose of appointing committee of five persons, whose business it shall be 10 pros ecute all infringements of the law in re- gard to the sale of intoxicating liquors also to instruct the sclectmen to grant no more licenses whatever. This looks like coming nearer to success in handling and managing this curse than anything ever before attempted here. It is some thing like the Constabulary law of Massa- chusetts, only that law is more 60. In officers are appointed whose sole business is to prosecute illegal rum, md for the purpose of defraying the ex- penses of this ConstabularY, fund is created by the fines imposed upon rum sell lers who are prosecuted for infrngements ( ot the rum law. All liquors seized are de- { stroyed and the dealers arc so constantly 1 by these officers, as we'll as the { heavy expense attendant upon the prose- cution of the business in that state, reduces the traffic to condition that affords the | people almost absolute freedom from its I influences. Men, whose | interests are allied to rum whose wish is s father to the thought, tell us that the Con law of Massachusetts is a fail i Ire; that as much rum is sold there to-day | IS ever &c. &c. This statement contains ( 10 truth whatever, is fact every inhabi- ' ant of that state, who tells what he knows 10 be the truth, will verify. If men { become intoxicated, they are generally [ sept hid from the world, and not allowed ' o thrust their dIsgustingy beastly pres s ,nce upon people who desire to be free i rom them, and In that if nothing more, he law Is success. The fund created by t 'um fines, is always more than sufficient to ( pay the expense of that department of the 1 'tate government, and annually contributes | IS surplus to the common treasury. Thus 6 We say ; in so far as this new arrangement 'f managing She rum question approaches { he constabulary law of Massachusetts, just { 10 far it is success, and if prosecuted with | zeal. will work up a solution of the vexed ( question that will afford more satisfaction ' han anything ever before attempted t Further accounts of the Ohio Whskey War arc given on the outside of THE [ NEWS this week. {