Connecticut western news., 1876-09-01

Comrade. The Seventh Annual Reun- ion of companies I, B, and band, First Conn. Heavy Artillery, will be held at Wolcottville, Wednesday, Sept. 9th, 1776. You are especially requested to attend. Al good time is expected, with expenses as light as possible. If you can not meet us send letter to be read. Make it your es- pecial business to notify all comrades that come under your observations. Notify me of your intention at your earliest con- Yenience. By order of the Committee.
 J. G. BRoTHwELL, Sec'Y.
 Those Mean Thieves.-SunGay evening of last week, some scamps entered the grounds of MT. Grove D. Griffith of Ashley Falls while himself and family were out to the evening meeting, and stole large num- Der of his melons. MT. G. says he should not care so much if they had taken what they wanted to eat, although he is not par ticularly pleased to have anything stolen 1 from him, but when the rascals took not only what they wanted, but tore up the vines and cut up large number of melons, and almost all he had for that matter, and scattered the pieces about his yard and all over his front piazza, it was simply villain ous. We had no idea there were in Ash ley Falls, any boys or young men so con- temtibly mean, so utterly lost to what would be regarded as common decency, as to become party to such an affair, and we hope yet to learn that the thieves came from some other place.
 Cattle Show.-The Falls Village Cattle Show and Fair, and the fall meeting of the Union Park Horse Association will be held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Sept 1 l2, l3 and IA. Are you ready for it? How about those sample squashes, turnips and pumpkins, that two-year-old heifer and prize bull calf; are they ready for the ex- hibitlon? Are the best woolen blankets, the mems half hose, rag carpets and best ten yards of diaper for the ladies' depart ment fully completed ? Remember, less than two weeks remain before they will be wanted to adorn the walls and cases in the exhibition hall. To be sure, the drouth has dried everything up, but you must for get that, and come on with the fruits of your industry. Let's have good show of everything and grand good time anyway. Thursday, the horse day, of course will be largely attended. Over $500 in premiums are offered, the largest purse being $35O, open to all horses, viz: $2OO, $1OO and
 $50. The next best purse is for horses that have never trotteG better than 2:36, viz $lOO, $50, and $25. The 2:45 horses fol. low with purses of s 80, $40 and $2O. Two other races will be trotted for small purses
 of $40, $20 and $lO each race for 2;50 and
 8 minute horses. Thus it will be seen, the stakes gre liberal and good trot is in store
 for the lovers of the''turf." ''Don't you for
 get it.''
 The Centennial Nautilus. Nauti-
 Jus club, which left Philadelphia in their
 schooner Saturday morning last at ? or
 3 o'clock in the morning, arrived at their
 homes in Connecticut Thursday afternoon.
 A few of the party, becoming wearied with
 their long voyage, left the schooner at New
 York, and came home by rall, arriving a day earlier. Adverse winds and no winds
 at all operated to retard their progress.
 Somebody says they appeared part of the
 time as if they had lost something, and
 some portion of the party were looking
 over the rail as the ship tackled here and
 there, going part of the time toward Eng. land and cnnoatin1oc in ho Hiraotion of
 South America, evidently searching fol
 the lost, and by the looks of their counte. nances, it was plainly manifest they were
 pretty much discouraged, pretty thoroughly demoralized at their loss. Of course no body will town up" that they were seq sick, but as all of them found it about all the business they could comfortably attend to, to see what was going on over the side of the ship, it is presumed they have al
 least heard of such sensation (saiors say , it is not disease) as sea sickness. Five f days (nearly) from Philadelphia to Bridge
 port almost time enough to cross the At , lantic; but they had a good time, we art 1 told. The company took our Brother Vail l of the HerGId, who went on board as thu f chaplain, removed his white choker, snatch ed his sermons from his pocket, and afte ! charcoaling his face, put pair of clogs or . his feet and told him to ''cut Ter down" O. 2 they would throw him to the tiny whale t that thereabout abound. You won't believt , it,but they do say 'Joc" can beat the worlt ; as jig dancer, and the club has takel r from him his license to preach, sold bis ser 2 mons and invested the proceeds in burn 9 cork.
 Camp Meeting ng.-''They have turnet
 away thelr ears from the truth" were th
 first words that we heard as we en l. tered the grounds of the Pine Grove caml l. meeting fast Tuesday forenoon. Tn e speaker in his predatory remarks, just pre- }, vious to announcing his text on thes = words: ''They have turned away their ear o from the ruth" had unquestionably sai 1t something that interested his hearers, fo y how could he say anything on a quotatio D SO fraught with potent meaning, and nc ]. interest everybody. It is very proper ], say the words did not in any sense apply b bis audience on that occasion, for he ha n their undivided attention. But what ser ar mon there is ln those words, ''They hay d turned away their ears from the truth ; y and it may be added that anathema maraI W atha will be most surely written indeibl te upon the lives of ell who do "turn ava 10 their ears from the truth" The mcetin as Tuesday was very pleasant one, the a es tendance numbering perhaps three hunt st red or four hundred.
 y The attendance during the last part .