Connecticut western news., 1876-05-12

The Celebration.-The executive con- mittee for the centennial celebration in this town held another meeting Saturday after- noon last, when the following matters were voted:
 lst-That the collectors in the several districts collect their several subscriptions to the centennial celebration on or before the 17th of June next, an1 pay the same into the treasury.
 2nd-That the chairman of the executive committee, in the name of said committee, be, and is, hereby instructed to invite the different organizations ln town and iu ad joining towns to participate iu the centen nial celebration of July 4th next.
 3rd-That when we adjourn; we adjourn to meet at Academy Hall, Salisbury, on the 27th day of May, at ? o'clock p. m.
 - H. HUBBARD, Clerk pro tenn.
 After the meeting at the hall, the mem bers repaired to the grove known as the School Grove, and assisted tbe Committee on Grounds in making choice of suitable place for the erection of the speakers stand and seats for the audience A place was found which was thought would admi- rably serve for the purpose, and in such position that an audience of several thous- and could easily see and hear the speakers and be very comfortable.
 Preparations are progressing as rapidly as is necessary and with the very satisfac- tory showing, which the subscription pa pers made last Saturday, no anxiety is felt for an amount of funds amply adequate to celebration of no mean magnitude. A large brass cannon is to be furnished by the state government, who will send men to accompany it-and do the cannonading for the day. We are informed the cannon is very large one, weighing ton, and requir- ing six pounds of powder to charge. It is mounted on wheels, of course, and to many, piece of the regular ordnance of that size, and to hear and see it fired by army officers, will be no unimportant fea- ture in their days celebration. The display of fireworks in the evening will probably be quite equal toanything ever seen in this region ]; and every other feature of the days entertainment is expected will be of character appropriate to centennial eel ebration.
 Bad Taste.-The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is the editor of a religious ncwspa- per, and it is not Ut all remarkable that oth- CT religious publications, not only refuse to be reconciled to the fact that he is not gull tY of something, notwithstanding the great est combination of effort probably ever concentrated upon any object of attack has failed utterly to prove anything more than simply indiscretion on his part, with no indication of thought or rmotive of wrong, but insist that he is tad man anyway, and allude to him and some of his peculiaritles as ''Beecherisms, which they class as the ''unsound element Tn Congregationalism." " These journals ought to be aware of the fact that the majority of their readers be- lieve in the innocence of MT. Beecher, or at least they maintain charitable disposi- ton toward him, and are disposed to be- lirve hlm innocent of crime, so long as bined, have proved themselves inadequate to the task of fastening upon him any es- tablished evidence of guilt, and these cruel filings of branding MT. Beecher's ideas and ways of doing things. as "Beecherisms, ' and styling them an "unsound element in Congregationallsm," are not relished. The clash of interests in any business seldom fails to engender jealousy. and the motive for this unkind, unchristian treatment of MT. Beecher by religious publications, is perfectly transparent to the most obtuse observer of "cause and effect" Not in the history of the world has man before had such power brought to bear upon him to crush him as has Mr. Beecher, and no man but dn innocent man could haUe ,otthStooC such trial tor tWo long years and naain- tained hts existence, and religious journals in thelr attacks upon him, their brother ed itor and publisher, show exceedingly bat taste, and make manifest an amount oi jealousy discreditsble to the profession, an6 if instead, they would spend portion ot their effort searching for mote in theil own eye, their time would be as proatabll spent, and their journals more acceptable to all their readers.