Connecticut western news., 1876-08-04

District Court.-The District Court, August Term, Judge Foster presiding, will come in at Falls Village on Monday next at 9 p. m. Court cases will occupy the first week and all of the time, unless jury be asked for by counsel who may be de. sirous of trying their cases by jury.
 Serious Accident. Olmstead of Chapinville fell from load of oats which he was driving home from the field Tues day afternoon, and striking on his shoulder and head very seriously injured his spine. His entire right side is paralyzed, and his recovery is thought extremely doubtful.
 Location Changed. telegraph Of flee in Ashley Falls was found to be great CT annoyance to MT. Taft in his store than he had anticipated, and he has recently suc- ceeded in getting it changed to the railway station there, and Agent "Lew" is now taking lessons in the science of letters by lightning.
 Ho for the Centennial The Nautilus Club will sail from Bridgeport on their trip to the Centennial next Monday, the 7th. They will go in large schooner, the ''Katie J. Hoyt," which is arranged to accommo- date the party. Quite number from Lskeville and the villages hereabouts will go with the club, and good time will un- be theirs.
 Venerable Labor.-Mr. Joseph o. Brin- ton of Falls Village says he has cut seven teen acres of hay, moving and pitching it himself, this season, besides SIX acres of oats, with no assistance but that of boy eleven years old, except one days work of a man in his oats. He says if he is seven- ty-five years old. he don't ask the privilege of cutting across the corners to keep up with the boYs.
 Camp Meeting.-Two weeks from next Tuesday the annual sfeast of the Taber- nacles'' will begin at the Pine Grove camp grounds between Canaan and Falls Village Several new cottages are being added to the encampment village, and soon the busy hum of camp life in the ''wilderness" will disturb the Sabbath like stiffness which has prevailed in that ''city without an inhab- itant" for so many months past.
 They Copied Our Error--It is not a little amusing to notice the item in several of our exchanges, concerning the repairs on the state prison in Middzetovn, and which of course they clipped from THR NEWS, although no credit is given, (editors sosU steaD, and to note the fact that every one of them also located the prison at Mid. dletown. To be sure it is compliment to the reputation of THE NEWS in this mani fest confidence in it's statements, and if il says the state prison of Connecticut is To- catcd at Middletown, our brothers of the quill, will ''believe it Is if it ain't so."
 Bridgeport Soldiers Monument.-The soldiers monument at Bridgeport will be dedicated August 17th. Among the invita- tions to be given are those to General Gram and the members of his cablnet, Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Butler. Hancock, Gen eral Husted and staff of New York, the Twenty-seventh regiment and the seventh battalion of the N. Y. s. N. G., and thu editors of the various country papers It is probable that the oration will be de- livered by General Hawley, and Colonel s B. Sumner will read an original poem. Base Ball.-The South Berkshire bas ball club, from the South Berkshire Insti tute in New Marlboro, came to Ashle7 Falls last Saturday and played game witl the ''Cripples" of the latter place. Th
 "Cripples" crippled the Berkshire boys
 with a score of 23 runs and, sent then
 hobbling back up the New Marlboro hill
 burdened with only 15 runs. A week ear
 Tier the 'Lone Stars" of Salisbury went t.
 Ashley Falls and the "CFipples" levele,
 'em with a score of 24 to 8. Isn't there
 club around these parts that can take th
 limp out of those Ashley Falls 'sCripples'' A Good Law.-MR EDITOR Our fel
 low toWnsman, Albert Moore, Esq, is en
 titled to the thanks of the community fo
 getting a law passed. as he is said to cer
 tainly have done, by the last session of ou
 Legislature which empowers the courts il
 the state to sentence all burglars, robber
 and thieves to twenty-five years imprison
 ment Tn state prison, in all cases where the,
 resort to the new or recent methods of af
 fecting robbery, viz: such as binding
 handcufting. gagging any person, or ad
 ministering to any person any stupifyinl
 drug or other like substance by causing hin
 to inhale the same or otherwise, with inten
 to commit any other crime punishable b,
 imprisonment The safety and welfare O
 the community certainly requires that VI
 should have laws to meet the methods ant
 devices which burglars and robbers have o l late resorted to to effect their purpose.