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Connecticut western news., 1875-06-04
Cornwall.

Cornwall.
 News is rather dry, like everything else i; never was the ground known to be SO dry at this time of the year, and if this weather continues the grass crops in this end of the town will be ruined. The remains of the late John c. Calhoun were brought to the Cornwall cemetery for interment on the 18th ult., causing our people to realize afresh that his place in Cornwall will never be filled; his contributions towards all worthy objects were large, and by his will he gave the Cornwall library two thousand dollars; also the county association one thousand dollars in addition to his large contributions before...... The pulpit is being filled at the present time by the Rev. Dr. White, D. D., whose well written sermons and able style of delivery, draw large con- gregatlons every Sunday. He forms an agreeable contrast with those which which we have had to preach for some time past......Tobacco is looking rather small for the time of the year. One of our citizens met with loss of tobacco bed in rather peculiar manner. He was engaged in wedding it when a tramping gent came along and wished to beg little cider. The citizen informed him that he had no cider for gratuitous distribution, whereupon the tramp got on the tobacco bed and begun series of gymnastics. In vain the citizen endeavored to convince him by logic that his services in that line were not required, until forbearance ceased to be virtue. and he started for his neighbors to borrow a double barreled gun. When he came back, the gent had retired, leaving the bed in a highly demoralized condition. Moral-Al- ways own a two barreled gun. x.Y.z.
Connecticut western news., 1875-06-04

I9 MT. EYarts, in his opening sentences before the jury in the Beecher case appos- itely said: ''When the scandal is promul- gated then at once there is vast class of the community tbat give it ready and a free acceptance. The idle profligates of New York believed in it, and of all these neighboripg towns. And 30 in every quar- ter where the wicked classes make their meetings and hold their gossips with sheer and smile the scandal was accepted. Why that man should err with woman, that the weakness of the flesh should yield to the temptation of the flesh, these classes said they'd known always and everywhere. and they were glad that their doctrines and opinions were being accepted among the more serious classes" The elegant orator and learned lawyer has here put sharp finger of comment upon what has been a striking pecularitY of this noted trial- 'The idle 'profigates, not only of New York and it's neighboring towns, but of all our centres of population, the bad men and frail women of the whole country have made haste to adjudge MT. Beecher guilty. In the condemnation of others they have sought excuse for themselves, and the real justice of the charge has never suggested to them moments examination; that it had been made at once enlisted their per- sonal feelings in believing that it was true -Bagtin0re American
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Ellsworth

Ellsworth .as~-e=
 Weather reports are favorable to the r.p- id growth of corn. but how about oats and grass unless we have a little moisture soon, The ground is getting very dry and roads dusty. By the way, had not somebody ought to get out and work said roads little about this time of year ?...... Our enterpris- ing neighbor, MT. E. P. Everett, is making extensive improvements on bis farm, which he measures not by acres, but by square miles......W We have an old lady in the place o3 years old, who can't be beat fol busi ness-Mrs. Harriet Frisbie-she taking the entire management of dairy farm of 150 acres. She is quite indignant towards some malicious person who started the re- port that she was going to give up the farm and turn it out to the common, and says she "shall run it as long as any farm re- mains......Mr. Julius Perry died on the 20th inst, he having been a constant invalid for thirty years of his life. He was followed to the grave by large concourse of friends and neighbors.. Some little excitement has beer caused here by the appearance of detective from Westfield, Mass, making enquiries of certain of our townspeoples
 affairs; but what for, is the question. ...... Our neighbors who have been digging for cents (sense,) for couple of weeks, have thus far made a lamentable failure: but hope on friends. .....Somebody's dogs have been stirring up Deacon Skiffs sheep....
 Miss Elizabeth Gregory is at Rome, N. Y, under treatment for cancer...... Mir. Mirum Perry is quite low with dropsy.... Don Pedro says the difference in distance be- tween him and Donkey is about two miles ......Go to Gregory's and call for black onion seed and see what be will say.
 | QUoD.
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Great Fire i'm sprinsrlo,a, Mass.

snThe most destructive fire that ever visit ed Springfield broke out about quarter to three o'clock Sunday afternoon, and ragged furiously for three hours, sweeping through the great business ward of the city, from one corner diagonally to the other, and leaving in its track the ruins of some of the most important manufacturing and business places in the city, and of more than score of dwelling houses. The fire originated in a dangerous locality in H. M. Conkey's blaming mill on Taylor street, ,and the strong and favoring wind forced it at once through to the lumber yards and inhammable tene- ments of Warrington street, while flying cinders almost at the same time gave it a hold upon the business blocks on the west side of Main street, at the corner of Bridge, and whence it pushed diagonally across to the corner of Vernon and Water streets, devouring the heart of the square between these streets and Main and Bridge streets. The wind put it beyond control almost from the start, and but for the timely ar rival of reinforcing steamers from neigh boring towns and cities, its career would have been ended only at the river bank. It destroyed total of about forty-five build ings, of which about thirty were dwelling houses, while among the others were man ufacturing and business blocks, Second Advent church and hotel. The. total number of families burned out must be in the neighborhood of fifty, as many of the dwellings were double tenements. About two hundred men are thrown out of em.
 ployment. The total loss cannot fall short
 of a quarter of million. Happily, and il is remarkable feature of SO terrible fire,
 there was no loss of life, though severa
 serious accidents are reported.
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Kent.
 A part of the dam at the furnace was swept away the other night and will seri- ously inconvenience those who want grind ing done at the mill...... The woods on the Scatacoke Mountain caught fire on Sunday from coal pit. and burned over large tract; at this writing they are still burning ......A young man we'll known to the peo- pie of Kent has recently developed great talent as poet, and bids fair to win fame and fortune in the field of literature. AL though now writing under an assumed name, it is hoped he will ere long give his own to the world. Such rare talent as he evidently possesses should not be ''hid un. der bushel." Those who have read his first poems are loud in their praise of the delicate sentiment expressed therein. Let him not be discouraged because his first poem has been declined by one editor. Pa. tience will overcome all things, and that he may find the new field of labor more pleas ant and remunerative than the mercantile business or farming is the sincere wish of
 SoI.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Don't discuss the testimony with cat in your lap, or if you will do 1t, don't get so excited as to rub the animals back the wrong way.
 Meat me at the spelling match at Niue sic hall," was the invitation probably writ ten by one who stepped down and out on the first round.
 The boy who ran away from school to go fishing all alone, and caught himself in the lip, says he's got enough of fishing on his own hook.
 A Springfield man recently took bath in the dark. He managed well enough, only he got hold of piece of stove-black- ing instead of ssap, with marked results.
 Aboy who will yell like Tartar if g drop of water gets on his shirt when his neck is being washed. can crawlthrough ( sewer after ball and think nothing of 1t.
 A small boy in New Haven madsa . sen sation for short time by quietly transfer ring card bearing the words ''take one, ' from lot of hsndbills ID front of 6 store to basket of oranges.
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Burning of a French Catholic
 Church.
SEVENTY ONE PERSONS PERISH IN THE
 FLAMES.

One of the most terrible disasters in the history of Massachusetts occurred by the burning of the French Catholic church in South Holyoke, during evening service, in- volving the death of Fl men, women and children. Exercises had nearly closed and vesper service was being sung, when the draparies on the altar caught fire from a candle, and the walls being low, and the flames streaming up. the building was set on fire. The audience numbered about seven hundred. The people in the body of the church escaped. There was but one stairway leading from the gallery, in which human beings were packed in dense mass struggling to escape. As the flames rushed toward them, many leaped to the floor beneath. and were trsmpled to death. The gallery skirted both sides of the build ing with only one entrance from the front. The scene was fearful in extreme during the little while it lasted. for the whole was over in twenty minutes. Besides the thir- ty.six killed, the fatally wounded will carry the total loss of life up to seventy-five. The priests house. which joins on the rear, was also burned.
 Loss on the church is total, but is small, it being an old structure. The exercises had nearly closed, when the candle caught the drapery around the statue of the Virgin Mary, and the walls being low, it streamed up and caught tt @ building. The priests residence joins the church on the rear, and many escaped through an entrance to the house back of the altar. The priests ex- ertions to keep order were fruitless.- Screams of the living and moans of the dying made deafening tumult above the orders of the pastor, who worked most he roically and was personally instrumental in saving many lives and in holding servl- ces over the dying. Father Dupresne also held services over the dying. His mother was among those terribly burned. The priest lost almost everything in his resi- dence, so rapidly was the building con- stunned. The large wooden building of Jo- seph Preco, who lives near the burned church, was thrown open for the reception of the dead and wounded, and several deaths occurred in this building during the night. Several were also carried to the N. Y. Mills boarding house, and physicians gave the wounded the best medical care. Those who were too badly burned to re- cover were put under the effects of nor phine and passed away without pain.
 While the exercises were being held over the dying, most intense quiet prevailed, ,anG rough laborers knelt upon the floor witt and in the streets the wailing of the multi
 tude was pitiful to hear.
Connecticut western news., 1875-06-04

About SIX o'clock Sunday afternoon MT. Samuel B. Ferguson of Bridgeport hap pened to be in his store on Fairfield avenue, and while washing his hands at sink, stepped backward and fell down trap doorway, about seven feet, to the cellar floor. striking the corner of his head upon corner of stair in the descent. He was rendered unconscious, and remained SO un. til the next morning. When he recovered consciousness he was lying. in pool of blood. he having cut gash Tn the back of his head and bled profusely therefrom. He managed to crawl up stairs on his hands and knees, and so to the outer door, where the fresh air revived him SO that he walked home. His injuries are believed not to be serious.
Connecticut western news., 1875-06-04

LIST OF PATRNTs-Issued from the United States Patent office to citizens of Connecti. cut for week ending May 27th, 1875.
 Furnished for the CONN. WEsrKRN NEWS from the office of J. NoC. Perkins 6 Co.,, counselors at law, and solicitors for Amer ican and Foreign Patents, SIS Seventh st., Washington. D. c.
 Machines for pointing staples, J. Adt, New Haven. Fs5| Hot air furnace, s. J. Gold. Cornwall.
 Founders patterns. same.
 Operating valves, J. A. Ayres, Hartford. Chain pump bucket, K. Hoyt. Stamford. Door bell, ]. M. Johnson. Bristol.
 Wagon end gate, B. F. Bulkley, South port. ...-.. Fastening for the meeting rails of sashes, M. Judd, Wallmgford. 9atF
 Same to H. A. House, Bridgeport.
 Alarm fare registers, T. B. Doolittle, Bridgeport.
 Needle loom, J. H. Greenleaf, New Ha- ven. f.-
 Hasp for trunk locks, J. w. Mix, Terry vile. ..... - ,....
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Connecticut Westesn News.

Subscripti Om mAccOMmt.-The date on the colored slip of paper with the. name of the sub scriber shows the time t0 which the sub scriptiOn is paid thus R B. Smith 5Jul74
 indicates that MT. Smith has psd for his paper to see to it that their account, as indicated by the date on their papers, is always correct, and whR they pay for 8 arenewal of their subscription, wM observe whether their date Is changed to indicate the proper credit and in the event of an error to inform us for correction at once. No claims for errors in these accounts will hereafter be conAd- days after the payment is claimed to have been made as the regular receipt of the paper with the date to which the subscription is paid plainly printed thereon, is prima fasie evidence of it's ac ceptance as correct. J. l.. PEAsE.
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" est Cornwall.

Now hunt cut worms. Look out for tramps now-a-days......B. Cady, the itiner- ant blacksmith, was in town last week...... Phil Perkins of New Hartford spent Sun = day with Constable Howard. ....Ye cid uns of Falls Village drew full house last Fri day night..... Harry Sedgwick goes to Cal ifornia in June as special correspondent of the New York T&nes......T The Red Star B. B. c. of Falls Village played the Hickorys of this place on the grounds of the latter last Wednesday, in which the latter scored 5l to l5......The married men played ;the single men last Saturday, the latter scoring 30 to 27......We are having remarkably dry weather, and the fields are already assum- ing withered appearance in many places.
 NUF CRD.
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R. Bs. MORGAN. CT. HARRINGTON, E Mass, ,
 DEALER IN Pure Drugs,
 Medicines,
 Chemicals,

Spices, --..- s-.- Cooking Soda,
 Cream Tartar, Toilet Articles,
 Fine Sponges,
 COlOgnes.
 Perfumeries, --. Family Dye Stuffs,
 Patent Medicines, Choice Confectionery, Imported and Domestic Cigars, Saratoga Spring Waters, Soda Water, with genuine Fruit Syrups,
 Ginger Ale, on draught
 and in Bottles,
 Hair, Nail, Tooth and
 Cloth Brushes, Handkerchief Bxtracts-Lubns', Rummel's Edes', Farina's Hoyt's and Morgan's. Morgan's Tooth Washes and Powders; Hand Mirrors.
 Prescriptions carefully prepared. WHITE ROCK POTASH. Best in Market) Garden, Field and Flower Seeds, Truxses. Sup porters, Shoulder Braces and Bird Cages. Morgan's Pure FlavOring Extracts.
 Made direct from the huit. ,0 Morgan's Dyspepsia Dittcrs. Sample bot Orders from out of town promptly attended to.
 R. E. MORGAN 4U% Summers Building, Gt, RAsSpGtVn, Mass,
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We've All Our Angel Side.

From Trolling and Hoping" The huge, rough stones from out the mine, Unsightly and unfair. Have gems of purest metal hid Beneath the surface there; Few rocks SO bare but to their nights Some tiny moss plant clings, And round the peak go desolate, The sea bird sits and sings. Believe me. too, that rugged souls Beneath their rudeness hide, Much that is beautiful and good; We've all our angel side. In all there is an inner depth, A far of secret way, Where. through the windows of the sonl, God sends His smiling ray; In every human heart there is A faithful sounding chord That may be struck. unknown to us, By some sweet, loving word. The wa, ward heart in vain may try Its softer thoughts to hide, Some unexpected tone reveals It has it's angel side: Despised and low, and trodden down, Dark with the shade of sin, Deciphering not these halo lights Which God hath it within, Cropping about iE utmost night,
 Poor prisoned souls there are Who guess not what Life's meaning is, Nor dream of Heaven afar. Oh that some gentle hand of love Their stumbling steps would guide. And show them that amidst it all Life has it's angel side. Brutal and mean and dark enough,
 God knows some natures are, But He, compassionate, comes near,
 And shall we stand afar! Our cruse of oil will not grow less
 If shared with hearty hand, For words of peace, and looks of love, Few natures can withstand. Love is the mighty conqueror,
 Love is the beauteous guide. Love, with her beaming eye, can see
 We've all our angel side.
Connecticut western news., 1875-06-04
NO the Court of Probate of the District of

V0 the Court of Probate of the District of
 The application of Jeremiah Fuller, admins. rator of the estate of Ashbel Fuler,late of Kent, in said district deceased, respectfully showeth against saidAstate, exceeded the value Of the per sonsl estate, which can be sold without prejudice .ss % widSw nS ,hs and hsir by the amount Of & order of said Court made on the 18th day of Feb ruary, 1875. dire citing him to sell so much of the real estate of said deceased Ashbel Fuller as would raise said sum of $s, 900 90 after giving notice as directed, sold and conveyed at private sale to 1srrit Raton or said Kent, certain lot parcel or land with the buildings thoreon for the sum of six thsusand two hundred and nfty dol lars, as will more fully appear by said order and debts and charges allowed by said court against said estate now remaining unpaid after disposing of ssid real estate as aforesaid, is seventeen hun dred and fifty and 90-1O0 dollars.
 And that the appraised value of the real estate now remaining unsold win exceed the debts and charges specified in said order of sale on the bal 70 situated that the same cannot be benehcially diytd cd Tor the purpose of eale.
 said real estate. inventoredis ten thousand and eight hundred dollars and the amount of said real s sssts now 4nsold as invsntoried, is four thous: all the debts and charges allowed by said Court is eight thousand and S0-10e doliarp. and that the to Burritt Eston, as aforesaid fs $i 7So so seven teen hundred and fifty and 90-lo0. And that said real estate unseld is described follows, to-wit
 oouAuSu hUItuSEiy Uy lSnu ConNeycu Sy talu es- tate to BHrritt Eaton; east by the Housatonic railroad; sOath by Moses Smith's, John Segar's and Jerome Gibbs land, and west by the high way, with dwelling house, store and barn stand ing thereon. s-r-. .a
 He therefore prays the Court to order said real estate to be sold. and to empower him or some other meet person to sell the same pursuant to tho statute in such case made and provided.
 JEREMIAH FULLER, Administrator.
 Dated at Kent, Conn.,, May 20th, A. D. 1S75. RIsTRIcT OF KENT PROBATE COURT ss. D Kent, May a0th, A. D. 1875.
 Ordered that the foregoing application be heard and determined at the Probate Office in Kent on the 7th day of June, A. D. 1875. at one o'clock in the afternoon, and that notice thereof be publish ed in some weekly newspaper published in Litch- field county, and posted on the sign post nearest te said real estate in the same town. and return make of the notice pursuant to this order.
 lw47 JEROME F. GIBBS, Judge.
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DIE D.

At Clayton. (East shefaeld) May 29th, Hoses Gardner, aged 65 years. Ft -t
 At wolcottvile, May 18th, Vincent Barber, aged A years.
 At Litchfeld, May 18th. Sarah L., oldest daugh- ter of Leonard Stone. aged 2 years.
 At Goshen, May 18th. MT. Henry A. Lucas aged 56 years.
 At Stamford, May a1st Charles H., son of the Rev. c. 8. Henry, D. D formerly of Litchfeld.
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Aame Mews.

=. We shaalfeel greatly obliged to any Of ou
 friends in the county, or elsewhere, who wiA send us particulars ofany oconnence of fi0terestwhich may come undertheirnotiCe.
Connecticut western news., 1875-06-04
M AR RTE D..

At Wolcottville, May 25th SolQn B. Johnson formerly editor of the Litchheld Sentinel, and Miss Martha Allen daughter of Nelson Allen Esq, of Wolcottville.
 At Winsted, May 90th, by Rev. B. T. Abbott, Wm. A. Pratt and Susan L. Austin, both of Win chester.
 At Wolcottville, May 27th, by the Rev. s. K. Smith, MT. Frank W. Butler and Miss Emma c. Crippen, daughter of Silas Crippen Ksq.
Connecticut western news., 1875-06-04

NEGLECTED CRLLARs.-It is not probable that the amount of sickness bred in cellars can ever be accurately estimated, but there is no doubt that many mysterious cases of typhoid and scarlet levers, rheumatism and ague, may be correctly traced to the mala- rious effluvia emanating from these neg lected corners. Old boxes, bins and barrels which have contained vegetable matter, meat, fish, etc. ,need thorough overhauling, because when standing in dark corner they look empty, and there may be poison left sticking on the sides and bottom to af- feet the health of the household. The work of cleansing is often left to the wo- men and boys of the family. A man had much better leave his work day, to make thorough examination and publication of the cellar, than to be unduly anxious about getting in his crops in extra season. After all garbage is carried out, let the ceilings and walls be faithfully brushed with an old broom, and if this is done once month, the atmosphere will be all the sweeter. Use plenty of lime, and in dry weather keep l
 the doors and windows open part of ev- cry day. Old tin and wooden ware should not be allowed to stsnd year after year up- on the cellar shelves. If it is not fit to be used, throw 1t away. Apropos of the above remarks comes the following from the Do, yer Plains correspondent of the Amenis Times: Four of the family of Samuel Benson, living one and half miles east of our village, are lying sick with pneumonia. This is a rather remarkable circumstance that father and three sons and another of the family just taken down should be sick from this disease at the same time. We have made inquiries as to the probable cause, and from the best information we can get, we believe that their sickness has been produced by leaving vegetable matter to decay in tbe cellar of the house. Mir. Benson and one of the sons are in dan generous state.