Connecticut western news., 1876-08-25

urea anu eISuty ReruelS, anu WclgneQ near ly pound and half. This is certainly very large ear for season with so much drouth. We were not aware before that Friend Crowell had sueA large ears CD.
 Hartford Races.-The Third Annual Summer Meeting of the Connecticut Stock Breeders Association will be held at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, Conn. Tuesday, We'd nesday, Thursday and Friday, August 29th, 3Oth, 3lst and Sept. 1st, 1876. The horses entered this year aref better than ever be- fore, and rare sport may be expected every day.
 The track being the finest in the country, the officers of the society, men of exper fence in turf matters, we predict very pleasant time and abundance of rare sport.
 District Court.-The case of Albert J. Bostwick ct al vs. Reuben Parmelly was the first one tried last week. Judgment re- serveI. Sedgwick for plaintiffs, Warner and Son for defendant.
 M. c. Jewell vs. Eugene Wolf, dis closure of garnishee, and Ellen o. Butterly vs. Moore c. Jewell were tried together, as the first depended on the latter.
 Ezra l. Dudley ct al vs. Lyman Munson still on trial at Tuesday noon. A. D. War ner and Graves for plaintiffs, Don. and D. J. Warner for defendants. The jury summoned to be in attendance at the present term are Ralph H. Moore, David Strong, Hiram Perkins, Charles AL word from Winchester, Stephen H. Mason, Anson J. Allen, Sylvester Pettibone and Geo. F. Douglass from New Hartford, Har- vey 0. Smith and Wm. H. Hubbard from Barkhamsted,! Chas. H. Miller, Moses F. Grant, Geo. R. Bigelow and Henry ]. Holt | from Norfolk.
 Rome and Pompeii.-In June last Rev. J. G. Oakley of Lakevile. delivered lec ture at the academy in that place on Gre land and the Irish." The lecturer had a full house, and the lecture was every way very successful. By special request MT. Oakley will deliver second lecture on his travels ln Europe at the Lakeville M. B. Church on Thursday evening, Sept. 7th, at 7:30 o'clock. The subject is ''Rome and Pompeii." These two most interesting cities of the world were visited by Mir. Oakley last sumner.
 The lecture will commence by an ac- count of journey of eight miles under the Alps through the Mt. Cenis tunnel, and thence along the Apenines to Rome. After describing the wonders of Rome and Pom peii, the lecture will conclude with de- scription of ascending Mount Vesuvius in the night. The admission will be 25 cents The proceeds are for the benefit of the Ladies Aid Society of Lakeville M. B. Church. Let there be large turnout to hear the wonders of Rome and Pompeii
 A Centenarian.-There is an old Irish lady living with Mrs. Shields in Canaan who claims to be over hundred years old: She says that she has been in this country more than three score years (she counts her years by the score), and was married in Ireland to her husband Qong since dead) when she was two score years old, and lived there after that event four years be- fore she came to America, thus making her. self, according to her own account, to be one hundred and four years old. Her name is Nancy Horrigan, Her step- daughter, Mrs. Linnehan, who is herself over seventy-four years old, claims she has evidence she regards as perfectly trust worthy, that makes her out to be over hundred and seven years old, and another account goes still further and calls her at least one hundred and ten. She has all her natural teeth except one; her memory seems good and we are informed her appe- tite is excellent, but she IS entirely blind. She doesn't look to be older than perhaps between eighty and ninety, but the Iron constitution for which the Irish people are noted, may give her vigor at hundred years, possessed by weaker race at eighty. At any rate, if she is hundred and four, or seven or ten years old, she appears now as if she would make good race for at least another score.
 That Poem.-ED1ToR CONN. WESTERN NEws:-I saw the following in your paper of July 2Ist, under the head of s'Not Political Campaign :''
 The New York Herald says that the two parties have been unfortunate iu the selection of candidates for President and Vice-Pres!dent, as their names won't ryhme, and thus we shall have no poetry in the campaign. The Heragd adds: We have received two poems already on Tilden and Hendricks, which we publish as terrible ex- amples to warn our poets forever from wrestling with such Jaw breaking subjects for verse. One is from Republican the other IS from Democrat. They are equal ly infamous. The Republican monster writes;
 l The fight they'll get killed in, Tho they dodge about and blend tricks; We'll scalp old Sammy Tilden And likewise Tommy Hendricks. The Democratic demon utters the fol- | lowing discordant shriek: Our ticket wants no gildin', In the game we'll take the ten tricks. Hurrah for Sammy Tilden | And tiger for Tom Hendricks. Now, Mr. Editor of THE NEws, I thought when saw the above l would respond to it, and I send you some verses to show the N. Y. Herald that you have some one that has made something that they call poem. l think that some smart musician would set some music to it and call it campaign song. but that part is beyond my reach. l should not have any objections to having it sung at the political gatherings in the coming campaign. Below is tho poem.
 Yours truly,
 Illinois, Aug. 16. '76. L. CS.J. CAMPAIGN POEM. All hail the power of honest ways, | And all come out and vote for Hayes, | All hail to honest revealers,
 And next November vote for Wheeler,
 And to such honor give praise, | Also give respect to honest Hayes
 And don't laugh at honest revealers, | And give due honor to this man Wheeler: | And when you know those honest ways
 Always stick to them as aid this man Hayes, And don't despise such honest reYealers | And think of the honor ba for a1n