Connecticut western news., 1875-04-16
Spring Work.-We saw man making

Spring Work.-We saw @ man making garden in Ashley Falls last Saturday:
 Some Cali. HI. s. Goodwin of Sodon, is the proprietor of very motherly COW, who presides over her family of three calves, all of recent origin.
 Small Pox.-This dreaded disease, small pox, has broken out in Riverton. As the house in which the disease hes shown itself is securely fenced in, it is sthought the spread of the malady will be prevented.
 New Drug Store.-Negotiation are in process for the purchase, so we are inform cd, of the store in Ashley Falls owned by MT. Thurston. to be converted into a drug store. A very desirable project, and we hope will meet with success.
 Accident at Chapinville. Monday morning while George T. Wilbur, son of Dewitt c. Wilbur of Chspinville, was cleaning out an old gun barrel with powder, he received the charge on his breast and face. Luckely there were no shot in the barrel but as it is, he will be disfgured for life. Dr. Thompson of this village was summoned and dressed the wounds.
 Serious Accident.-A German, who has been employed by the Hon. Wm. H. Barnum as gardener &c, opened the reser- voir for gasoline near MT. Richardson's house in Lime Rock, the other day to see how much there was in there, and being unable 10 ascertain on account of the darkness in the tank, lighted match to assist him, when the gasoline became ignited and exploded. The mans hands and face were very badly burned.
 Those Postal Cards-We are sending to those of our subscribers who are two or three years iE arrears, statement of their account with us, and as there are so many of them, we make use of postal cards for the purpose and as we find it necessary 10 use them simply on the score of economy, we hope none will take offence, but will receive them pleasantly, and kindly heed the request they contain, and assist us by paying up and getting ''even" once more.
 The Largest Blast-The new furnace of the Barnum Richardson Co.,. at East Canaan, which began its present blast May lst 1873, and which, it is expected will continue till July, has made up ts April llth, just one hundred weeks including last week, seven thousand seven hundred and thirty-five tons of iron. This, even now, is very much the largest blast ever made; at least in this section of the country, and when completed, if it should continue to work we'll as expected. till July. will certainly be the largest.
 Saw Log Items.-The workmen at Chapin's saw-mill in Ashley Falls, have averaged more than hundred logs day sawed, for some time past. They sawed a hundred logs as they averaged, and as they were drawed into the mill to them, Wednes- day of last week, in eight hours! Two men who worked as spry as they could, were scarcely able to keep the mill clear of lumber and slabs, which were piled near by. They sawed fifteen hundred and fifty
 
 and twenty minutes. One log twelve fee! long made eight hundred and thirty feet of lumber. How about these figures MT. Boss Sawyer Cleveland Rather guess you'll have to look over your records again to beat them. eh?
 Deacon Smith Awakened.-And now Deacon Richard Smith, the editor and publisher of the Cincinnati Gazette, who has been in deep slumber all through the great Brooklyn scandal trial up to the time MT. Beecher is called to the witness stand to speak in his own defence, now jumps high in the air as if stung by musket shot, and howls about the testimony of Beecher being Y" Net the talk of rational beings" and concludes by saying:
 In the case of any other man than Bcecher, and of any other people than this Beecher-Tilton set, merciless con- struction would be placed on these express ions; but this sloppy lot must not be held | to the usual moral accountability. Their true inwardness was always frothing and boiling oyer. And tnis is Deacon Richard Smith who calls Beecher, Hilton, MOulton & Co.,, the Beecher- Triton set, and alludes to them again as "the sloppy lot." expressions in such admirable keeping with the high and lofty sentiment that is presumed to occupy place in his ecclesiastical breast; equal, or nearly 80 at least, to the great Rev. Dr. Talmadge's "Will somebody burn g rag, J as alluded to in THE NEWS of last week.
 Mir. ..Beecher's..own testimony has wrought great change in the minds of the people of the world, change decidedly favoring his innocence, and now some of the most infuencial workers in the Congregational Churches, some who occupy the highest positions, appear to be exceedingly nettle- some, and unusually industrious in their efforts to (evidently SO at least, bias the minds of the people against the innocence and purity of Henry Ward Beecher. We are member of the great family of Congregationalists, and feel it not only our right, but duty to speak against this injus- tice 10 Mir. Beecher in this, the time of his great trial. If he is guilty, the tribunal before which he is being tired will prove him SO and we shall know it; but why this unseemly haste to prejudge him guilty by members of his own christian family ? Members of other denominations, also the worlds people are ready, even now, to take Mir. B. at his word and believe him innocent. Is it possible Congregstionslists are less charitable toward member of their own family, than the soorlGs people!