Connecticut western news., 1875-08-06

Races Postponed.-ED1ToR NEws.-Fri- days Special train to Poughkeepsie is post poned to Saturday, Aug. 7th. The races are postponed one day.
 W. H. Yeomans, Supt. c. w. R. R.
 A Successful Journal.-Last Friday, while straying about Berkshire county, we chanced to drop into the new office of the Berkshire County Eagle in Plttsfeld. The Eagte's success as newspaper for the last few years has been very gratifying to it's proprietors and friends. Having few years ago changed it's quarters for more room, which it's increasing business de- manded. it continued to grow until now again short time since, their enlarged bus mess crowded them into still more ample
 rooms, where the various departments of
 their work is properly classified and syste-
 matically arranged. The Eag1e is very
 much the largest in size and circulation, of | any journal In Western Massachusetts. Its
 local columns are always full, and when a
 friend suggested the remark that Editor
 Harding wrote at least three times as much
 original matter every week for the Eagle,
 as any other editor in Berkshire county, we
 felt in no wise prepared to question the
 truth of the assertion.-But why don't you
 place the circulr tion of the Eagle at the
 head of your columns as some other papers
 do, we asked of MT. Axtell, one of the pro-
 prietors; ''That will perhaps be well
 enough" says he, 'for papers with not
 more than two or three thousand circula-
 tion; to be constantly telling people about
 the magnitude CD of their business, by car rying their circulation at the head of their
 columns in large black face type, as mer-
 chant perhaps might do by displaying a
 large sign in front of his store, informing the world of the amount of trade he is hay
 ing, but for journals doing really very
 much business he thought was scarcely in gsod taste. We rejoice with the Eagle in
 it's merited success. May it mount on
 it's wings higher and still higher toward the
 summit of fame and prosperity, till it can
 serenely observe with an Eagle's eye from
 it's towering height, the ''small fry" away
 in the depths -with-with-thei cir
 culations emblazoned at the head of their
 columns!
 The Tramp Act.-The new Tramp act
 provides that whenever any tramp applies
 to householder for lodging, clothing ol
 money, and refuses to perform reasonable
 amount of work therefor, he shall be liable to not less than two nor more than six
 months imprisonment in jail. Sheriffs,
 constables, grand jurors and selectmen, are
 authorized to arrest them without warrant and magistrates are given jurisdiction oi } such cases. It is these fellows who com } init the numerous thefts and burglaries
 with accounts of which the local columns } of our State papers have abounded of late It is hoped everybody to whom tran,1 applies for food or lodging, will enforce this new law in relation to them. It is { hard task for some good housewives tc "turn hungry man from their door," bu , safety to society demands that they shal } not feed, warm and nourish the serpen that afterwards will rise and sting then with it's poisonous fangs. If for sl1 l months this new law is strictly enforced by the whole people, the lazy vagabonds tha are filling the country with their crimes burglarizing houses, burning buildings robbing and pilfering everywhere, and wha is worse, outraging women, will be com pelled to seek ''other fields and pasture . new."
 This tramp nuisance has increased t such magnitude and become such burdel that 1t is not only no sin to refuse then food and raiment. but absolutely dangerou to nourish them and make them strong t, do their work of crime. Let eYerybod, begin aaOso with this new law, and let then regard it like the laws of the Medes and tn Persians-unalterable; and never for once under any circumstances whatever, deyiat from it. Compel every tramp who applie . for food to work and earu it before he fed, and if you cannot conveniently suppl him with work, send him away to neigh bor who will. In any event, don't give hin food until he earns it, and if he refuses t l; work, have him arrested and lodged in jail But very little of this treatment will be re
 quired to bring about complete revolution
 in the tramp business.
 I Thieves at Pine Plains.-An exchang ], says: t.
 a Strange men in the disguise of poo - tramps have been seen in the vicinity c X Pine Plains, N. Y., for several days, an y so we'll do they act their part that the goo D people of that section thought nothing c J. their presence. Occasionally one of thes :. would appear at house and ask for some e thing to eat, and on being provided wit r food would loiter about the premises fc n some time, apparently undecided as r. which direction ts take. It was while thu F, engaged doubtless that the scoundrels wei F. laying their plans for robbery, as it woul e appear from subsequent events.
 le Apparently, everything being in read n ness, on Friday night they opened all alon es the line, for miles scarcely house wit ,e any preteneion to wealth escaping the sr presence. Fortunately, at most places vi W ited they were discovered before they he IF time to accomplish their designs, so th 70 they did not succeed in making the big ha Id which they had in view, and for which the y had been accommodating for several day
 The only places at which the thieves m st with anything like success were the dep e, at the Poughkeepsie, Hartford & Bostc m railroad and the house of Stewart Enc, Els ed at Pine Plains. The first they managed st enter by means of false keys, afterwar I forcing the door of the ticket office He OF they succeeded in finding a counle of e,