Connecticut western news., 1874-03-27

oA WCnI tO ALUduy duu 1OuuU tuG QOCel WI
 away up in an out of the way place, an
 which would rent for only just enough pay the interest on perhaps quarter of tn
 amount it was represented to be worth b
 Mr. Smith, and not only that, but it ws
 already mortgaged for it's full value, Al
 other result of his Albany visit was to a:
 certain that the notes against the Alban
 parties, which he held Tn payment for tn
 hotel property, were worth absolutely
 nothing. Seeing there was "a nigger il
 the fence somewhere" he hastened home
 and when Mir. Smith came to his house las
 Monday to drive off his farm stock. hi
 gates were found fastened, the blanks {,
 the bridge that leads from the highway tt
 his house taken up, and his efforts to SC
 cure the property resisted at every point
 Giving up the contest at that time he re 1 tired, since which time no further demon stration has been made that we hay. learned of.
 Thus the case stands, at least in the
 minds of the people. Some seem to think il Messrs. Blake and Belcher have got the worst end of fair bargain, it is theil lookout and they must suffer the conse quences, while others regard it as nothing 1 short of an adroitly planned and skillfully executed swindle, the only purpose o f the pretended purchasers being to run off and sell the personal property and realize on the notes they have received as their com. mission, and then they were ready for the original owners, Messrs. Blake and Belchcr. to toreclose on the mortgages they had re. tanned as security, and resume possession ot their farms, minus the personal property, and to step up to the captains office at the banks and pay the commission notes, Thus It is: Our readers have both sides as 1t is heard on the street in the work shon and stores of the town. They can draw their own inference
 Good Schools s.--MR. EDITOR. The val ue to any town of good schools can hardly be oVerestimated. They do service never to be forgotten for the pupils who are trained in them. The Chinese have a prov erb to the effect that, education elevates the sons of poor men above the rich. , This proyerb is everywhere verified in our own country where there has been the foresight and the public spirit to provide superior facilities for education. But it would be mistake to suppose that the ad- vantage of good schools is restricted to those educated in them. Their beneficial effects appear in almost endless directions. The intelligence with which public business IS conducted in town meetings by town committees and town officers, depends largely on the schooling which those men received in early life. It is desirable for town to have among its younger citizens agoodly number of as thoroughly educated men as the academy or the high school can furnish, from which to select it's town officers, to furnish it's proportion of county officers, to send to the legislature those who Will do their town no discredit by their boorishness. Not the smallest adyantape to be reaped from we'll conducted schools. is the stimulus which they give to business enterprises. Let class of boys and girls, the best scholars that the various districts can furnish, be brought together in a scheol ot higher grade-a select school from the whole town, let their education be carried forward together, and there will be reared body of citizens prepared to cooperate in future public and business eterp1ises. Scat. ter those choicest youths of the town. send hem off to be educated, and the loss is immense. All education cannot be SO thor 'ugh, or so salutary in'its moral influence Ibroad, as in good schools it would be at lome. And then the town loses the inter- 'st of those who could help it the most, in lome Improvements. It loses the benefit 'f trained band, whose education togeth- 1T, whose common sympathies and con- 1 non attachment to their native place, l would lead to great and most desirable con- equences. Such men are tbe first to ap- l 'reciate and to utilize the material re- ources around them. For example. .had 'alls Village tor the last twenty years maintained schools of a high order, its advantages for manufactur- 1g purposes, could scarcely ere this have ailed to be improved. Again it is for the rogress of a community to attract intelli- ent and we'll to do families. One effectual leans of drawing upon such class is to roVide excellent schools. A large cotton actory would visiblyincrease the population ut without introducing, in any consider Ole degree, the elements which improve 'ciety. A thorough system of graded 'hools, wherever practicable, crowned lth high school, would bring the fami- es, which if not through the parents, yet trough their children, would sooner or ter yielG in abundance all true elements social and material advancement With the rest of the profit to village from kcellcnt schools, increased value which icy put upon real estate. The better the 'hools the more favorably are values in e real estate market affected. Moderate , lcellence does not make them known uch beyond their own limits, while deci- , 'd superiority renders them conspicuous. using the town or village where they are , cated to be equally sought by those with t lildren to educate. Land and houses near S 'lleges, normal schools, and successful | 'ademies and high schools, illustrate the t 'ward effect upon real estate of flourish s g educational institutions. The pecuniary l ltlay for superior iistitutlons of learning is ( ade up several times over by the increased t lue of property in their neigbborhood. r
 X. ( 1nrOns Mud and politics seem to be the only i7ersal topics of interest in town at pres t. and to my mind they are very happily