Connecticut western news., 1875-06-11

verely fourteen others. The loss of the company of their mill and surrounding property is placed at $25, 900. Much dam age was done to other buildings in it's imme- diate vicinity.
 Lime Rock Church the Bishops address at the ninetY-frst annual conven- ton of the Episcopal church at New Ha- ven Tuesday afternoon, de alluded to the Lime Rock church as follows:
 "Trinity church, Lime Rock, presents one of those instances of wise individual forethought, and munificent individual gen erosity, the thought of which awakens very deep feelings of joy and gratitude. It IS | the seventh instance in this diocese, in which church or chapel has been built as an individual offering to God. count it great privilege that have been permitted | to consecrate them all.
 Consists of Wild Beasts.-While inter rogating class in school in Ashley Falls the other day, the teacher asked sprightly lass of six summers: s'Of what does the Cabinet of. the United States consist ?" The six year old, not caring to have it known she had been slightly negligent in studying this particular lesson, started off with her response with great deal of energy, and as if she was going right through with it. ! ''The Cabinet of the United States consists I-consists'' teacher volunteered the suggestion "Of wild beasts ?'') ''Yes'm, of wild beasts !" If she had said the last Con gress consisted of wild beasts, who will say she would not have answered truth fully2 t+i
 ! Good Reasoning.-The Rev. George B.
 Bacon, D. D., who was one of the num- Der who objected to Henry c. Bowen serv- ing as trustee of the American Congrega- tional Union, writes in reply to commu
 nlcation signed Montague" and which
 criticised MT. Bacon's determination in re-
 lation to Mir. Bowen as stated above, and
 defends himself in an article in the New
 York papers, from which we extract the
 following paragraph, and which our read
 CTS will recognize as an argument that will
 be difficult to answer:
 There are definite and explicit grounds
 on which my recent movement can be jus tified, and which are wholly independent of my personal convictions concerning the ease just now before the court Both lparties in the case just now before the court cannot be right. One of them is
 wrong. So far as concerns the trustee whose fitness for representative position
 in the management of religious society is
 under discussion-it makes no difference
 which is right and which is wrong. He al.
 lows the public to believe that he knows all
 about the matter which is now on trial. He told me in the interview to which have
 referred that he knew all about it. If he
 does, he knows either that his pastor is a
 good man or that he is an lnfamously bad man. fihe knows that his pastor is good nan, wrongfully accused, and sits still, and not by word or gesture helps to vindicate
 that goodness-then he is not @ man to rep lresent me, at least-whOmever else he rep |. resents-in any position which my vote ef-
 fects. If he knows that his pastor is a bad man, and sits still and not by any manly word or open act helps to put him out from the position which, in that case, Is , every hour degraded and profaned; nay, more, receives from him the bread and wine of the Lords Supper, while he knows
 that the hands that break the bread and fill
 the cup are-what they are on thls hypoth- esis--then he is not man whom will
 vote for as the occupant of representa-. tive position in religious society, nor Q fellowship or social recognition. The only
 way to treat a man of this kind, as it seems
 to me, is to make him feel that the "policy
 of silence,' under either of these alterna.
 tiyes, is to be pursued st the risk of every
 social and ecclesiastical penalty which it is , possible for an indignant public sentiment l to inf1ict. The plea that he is bound to si , lence still, by any covenants-tripartite ol .other-or by obligations of honor and , friendship-is plea which will not gene
 rally be accepted. There are other obliga
 tions which, under the circumstances, may
 well be paramount, and these obligations public sentiment, nor without provoking
 public censure.
 Being Buried dAive.-"Ireneus" in tn, New York O6serger of last week says: A few days ago read, in Boston daily 7 paper, a fearful account of the burial of {
 woman alive at WestfielG, Mass. The de E scription said that the lady was buried { z year and half ago, and was recently ex . humed for burial in another lot. Som'
 persons present had the curiosity to opel the coffin, and discovered to their horror 2 that the corpse was turned over and thu z hands of the dead won an were clutched in to the hair of her head, while her buria
 clothing was torn 10 shreds in many places There would seem to be little doubt tha V she was buried alive, and that she met !. horrible death in her grave
 q have seen so many of these or yer n similar statements, all of which have prove t on inquiry to be fictitious, wicked fabrics = tions, that took the trouble to cut the ac
 count from the paper and to send it b
 mail to gentleman in Westfield, askin
 him if the facts are as therein stated Tn y return of mail brought me letter fror > him saying that the account is a sheer fat '' rication; not fabric of truth in it exceE :. that the lady was buried year or two age 'i All the rest is . mere invention to make U sensational paragraph.
 But in not one of the many papers r. which the original lie was published have l. seen the denial, and hundreds of thousand c. of people will believe as long as they liv as that in the year 1874 woman was acciden e. ally buried alive in Westfield, Mass. Agai 8, and again I have taken pains to ascertai ye the truth of stories of this kind, and in T s one case in thirty-fve years of cons.al
 watchfulness of the press, have I learne
 that there was particle of truth in the r "a port. And, if the opinion of an expert of news is worth anything, have no hesit, ,. ton in saying that do not believe there ,. any authenticated case on record, in th ,f- country, of person having been accider be ally buried while yet alive.
 aa In many places on the continent of B