Litchfield enquirer., 1875-01-14
Danbury in ireland.

Bailey, of the Danbury News writes an amusing letter from which we make the following extracts:
 Galway has narrow streets, dingy stone buildings, and not particularly clean streets. One of it's buildings, or rather fragment of 8 building, was the residence of 8 gentleman named Fitz Stephen, in 1924. He was the Mayor of the town, and had one son, young Spaniard came to Galway, and was the honored guest of the Mayor and family. He stayed here for some days, the place smelling so much like home as to make him contented with the people. He had free range of the castle of the Fitz Stephens, which was then noble two-story building with a separate structure for the hens.
 But in an evil moment he fastened his eye on the heiress of considerable pro- perty across the river. The ruins of her fathers homestead are still here. Young Fitz Stephen had previously fastened one of his eyes on the same young lady, and saw with sonic trepidation that the gallant young Spaniard who wore yellow neck erchief and played on a guitar, was get ting father thick over there I know a little something myself of these guitar players. They are death on women. One of them cut me out when was mortally sure of having everything to myself, and never since could bear the sight of guitar. Young Fitz-Stephen was not made of such firm stuff as I am, and so he allowed jealousy to get the upper hand of him. There was party at her fathers castle one evening "a sort of candy -pull-to which all the young people were invited. Fitz-Stephen and the Spaniard were there. The latter took 8 lively interest in the but Fitz soured on it.
 The next morning the body of the Span iard was found in the backyarn, his throat cut from ear to ear, and his hair full of imperfectly boiled molasses. Young Fitz was charged with doing the deed, although 1t is more than likely that the deceased overdid himself at the candy have seen just such people as he, new beginners and gallant, at candy pulls. and have made it practice to always take q look in the backyard, .the next morning, for their bodies.
 The Mayor tried his son, and found him guilty, and condemned him to be execut- ed on certain day. But no one could be found to be the hangman. The young man was popular, and had many relatives and friends. They besought the Mayor to have mercy upon him, and to pardon him. They were confident he could not execute his son. On the morning of the day appointed by the old gentleman, the relatives and friends went to the house, and the first there fell back in horror at beholding dangling from front window, the the body body of ,t; the unhappy. The old ass
 Ihad talk with Galway editor on the subject of farming. He said the pov- erty of the country was due to the govern ment of England. He appeared to be quite unanimous about that I asked him if the North of Ireland was. I asked him if he could explain why prosperity existed there with poorer soil than the farms here were smiling while these were weeping. He explained, that I, being foreigner, could not understand these things. He was right about my being foreigner, bur as to not understanding ''these things" he was wrong.