Connecticut western news., 1875-06-18

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 On Monday.--Will correspondents please send in their favors for next weeks NEWS on Mondoys
 Returned.-Dr. Knight has returned from his trip south, with health much i'm proved. His friends and neighbors were glad to see him at church last Sabbath.
 R. R. Oommissioners' Report.-The railroad commissioners have our thanks for bound copy of their Twenty Second An nual Report of the railroad companies of this state, to the General Assembly.
 New Dress.-The Hartford Times ap- peared last Monday in new dress through out. The ZSnaes is one of the best dailies in the state, and richly merits the prosperi- ty this indulgence in new dress betokens.
 F,rost.-Quite frost last Monday morn ing, but have not learned of it's doing any serious harm in this village, but in Miller ton, it is said to have been very destructive to gardens. Such frost at this season of the year iS very rarely seen.
 The Saw Log Question.-Two or three items were made in THE NEWS some time since concerning large logs; the amount of sawed lumber they made etc. These items have attracted the attention of an Iowa man, who writes to add word to the saw log question as understood out that way. Mir. Merwin's letter will be found in anoth- CT column.
 A Feet Item.-tHow beautiful are the feet of those that preach the Gospel. "- Landlord Bradley of the Warner House in Canaan says :'There is nothing small about me, but my feet," remark that is within two feet of the truth to our certain knowl- edge Anyway, it is no extraordinary feat for Friend Bradley to keep one of the best hotels in the country.
 Responsive Reading.-The Sabbath school of the Congregational church in this village voted last Sunday to adopt system of responsive reading of the Psalms in their school, and ordered the purchase of seventy-five copies of books, which are
 published for the purpose. This is indeed
 grand idea, and if the system or practice
 were introduced into the regular service, so
 much the better.
 The arasshoppers.-Ay young lady, for
 merlY resident of this village, writes from
 Clinton county, Missouri, where she now
 resides, concerning the grasshoppers, as follows:
 The grasshoppers have taken everything.
 Of 75 acres of corn, 3S of flax, 30 of oats, besides sorghum, potatoes and acres of
 Timothy. On this l6O acres, nothing is left
 but prairie grass and few weeds, and now
 we are waiting for the pests to take wings
 and leave, when we'll try again.
 Suggestive. one of the Tiltonian
 papers, which published with such an evi-
 dent relish from the New York Herald, the
 filthy stories against Mir. Beecher, invented
 probably by the author of the wild animal ? hoax, has taken the trouble to publish the fact that they are untrue are tissue oi ) lies from beginning to end, made entirely } out of whole cloth. Does this fact sugges
 anything2 If they kneao MT. Beechcr wal . innocent. would they say SO? To possess 3 disposition that loves rather to damn thar : to bless man, is deplorable. Rolhcking About-Mr. John Wardwel of Lakeville, who spent little tune il . Florida in the early spring,is now ramblinl , about the western country. The last VI - heard of him, he was on his way to Omaha 2 to make call on the Rev. Mir. Wright, for < merly of Lakeville. MT. Wardwell is act Il ing wisely by spending in his old age som of his time and honestly earned dollars, il " going about the country and seeing wha there is to be seen. To thus enjoy the re
 ward of his labors, instead of leaving hi ,o money for heirs to quarrel over, is indee :, far the wisest course, and is what man ,o others, who are similarly situated, ought t ,e do.
 re Court Matters. The case of Gershom Fitc l. vs. Robert Taft, for damages for overflow Id ing land caused by the erection of dam { 'n the clay works Tn Clayton, was brought b' 7e fore arbitrators, Messrs. John Cofdng ( t. Van Deusenville, Wilbur J. Langdon ( v- Monterey, and Henry L. Taft of Plttsfielt re at Ashley Falls, last week, but was ad IT, journed till some time next fall.
 g. The case of the State vs. George Thoml ce son of Canaan Valley, was tried at Norl l Canaan before Justice Prescott, Wedne Ill day and Thursday, the charge being the i It. legal sale of liquor. Roraback appeare l. for the state and Warner and Hardenberg on for the defendant. He was found guilt It. and ordered to pay fine and costs amour se ing to between $8o. and $9O., from whie v- he appealed to the Superior court. Bunker Hiu.-A large quarto shee .,' printed on paper such as newspapers we
 printed on hundred years ago, is issu' ,s by Rand. Avery 6 Go. of Boston to con
 memorate the centennial anniversary of Il pe battle of Bunker Hill, and which is ent va tied the Bunker HiU Centennias. I'll ~ sheet, containing full account of the ba of tie, with large engravings representing u ,h landing of British troops at Long Wha1 yo the battle of Bunker Hill and other even rs, of the time, is one of intense interest
 every American with spark of patriotis
 in his breast, and is one that will be pr i'd served and read and reread, as a refresh ht of the memory of that most prominent