Connecticut western news., 1876-07-21

of the stage mail is felt rather more by | some than perhaps was anticipated. With | us it is really quite loss. A large part of | our newspaper field is on the Housatonic | railroad below Canaan, and with our pres ent mail facilities communication mailed | to us in the morning from Falls Village, Lime Rock or any of the villages below, cannot reach our table till about half past seven in the evening, and as we have a pretty large correspondence from those places, it is many times very much to our disadvantage to receive it so late. The ac- commodation to the general public is prob- ably not sufficient to guarantee the contin uance of this mail, and we cannot therefore expect it will ever be re-established, and what cannot be cured must of course be en- dured
 School Reoord.-In MT. Hiserodt's de- partment in the graded school in this will lage, for the term just closed, prizes were awarded to John Weible and Emma Mel win for rank and spelling. The following have stood the highest in their arithmetic classes during the term: Charles Whit beck, Lorin Eggleston, George Melvin, Lois Warner, Hattie Parsons and Emma Dan lels. The following have neither been ab- sent or tardy: Jennie Weible, Emma Dan iels, Emma Melvin the following but one day: Charles Pease. Edwin Pease, John Weible, Birdellia Johnson, George Melvin and Chas. Whitbeck. During the last year Latin and philosophy have been introduced. The average attendance for the term has been 25.
 MT. Hiserodt has been very successful here as teacher, and the people are sorry he is not to return for the winter term. Mrs Ostrom, who has had charge of the lower department, has also given the best of satisfaction, and it is hoped she will again be secured as teacher.
 Riga Fishing. is it about Don T. and MT. Bower going fishing on Mt. Riga pond last week and forgetting to bring their fish home. Did those young fishing ladies who accompanied them distract their atten- ton and make them forgetful, or did they really catch any fish We know that mountain air is wonderfully exhilarating. and taken in connection with the surround ing influences, on that occasion, may have made these expert fishermen oblivious. Anyway, there IS something about the at mosphere of Riga that possesses charm
 for the disciples of Izaac, and it is some thing we can't explain. It is said people frequently forget to bring away their fish Riga cordial, soothing syrup, huckleberry jam, pine tree balm, wine of the woods
 No; none of these sounds like it. The
 fame of Riga having reached Canaan, Law yer Roraback came over and Don
 showed him the way up the mountain Wed
 nesday morning, and helped him fish all
 dGy. It is said the fish were so abundant
 about their boat that they almost swampeG
 it, but when they came home at night, they
 said upon thelr oaths they hadn't seen {
 fish; that the weather 'Hfavoralbe anG
 they couldn't get bite. That mountalr
 air is wonderful. Roraback says he rathe
 likes it: Thinks he shall move his office ul
 there and stay all summer.
 Clerical Troubles.-MR EDITOR Here
 is an item you ought to have had two o
 three weeks ago, but it's importance de mands that you should have it now, evel
 though it is late. Recently young and un
 married aspirant fer clerical honors was in l, troduced to the desk ill our Kent Episcopa church for 8 trial sermon. It was in th
 evening and the church was well filled
 and it is said q don't know how true it is
 because 1 never notice such features in al audience, although strongly marked as i
 was on this occrsion,l that good share o
 hls hearers were single ladies, who wished
 for the first time to see their (perbaps) flu ture pastor. It lsn't at all strar Re that al unsophisticated bachelor, fresh from hi : studies, should be slightly embarrassed Q hls first appearance before a new audience and by no means strange when his audi F ence was almost entirely composed o beautiful young ladies. He laid his scr
 mon on the table in the vestry room. a , was quite proper for him to do, but whel
 he went for it, To and behold it was NO, EST. This was dilemma not calculated to becalm his nerves, as might be expected 7 Swift courieIs were dispatched to his lodg ings for some notes, a sort of skeleton of sermon he proposed to fill out for anothe occasion, and just as he had his thought
 collected on this, he chanced to open D book and there was his sermon! Who dlt f this or was it an involuntary act result
 ing from his bewilderment at his sur
 roundings. To be sure the congregation 5 wondered at the delay, but-well. neve g mind about the rest. Misery likes compa n ny, and he was comforted when he hear, Q that the reverend gentleman from anothe village, who was on exchange with ou
 Congregational minister the same morn
 Ing, broke his false teeth at breakfast, an, was consequently com pelled to gum hi = sermon. Verify our clerlcal friends hay
 their troubles as we'll as the rest of us. 0 Get a Canopy.-We understand perfect j. ly that all our readers are early risers, fol a lowing our example of course, but if ther 2 should be one or two among the numbc 9 who do not always awaken before the in e dustrious and omnipresent fly, which sallie !, forth to his daily ayocation at about hali
 past four, and manifests his love and es
 teem for the human family by making t his first business to hop into the eyes of a d sleepers; and if perchance these exccssiv, e ly warm nights the bed linen gets astray s the beautiful little insect will meandt a from the summit of the nose to the pima n cle of the great toe with an agility truly a
 tonishing, and on the return will wall
 from nor-east to sou-west by nor-nor-we of your frame till every square inch I, your body has been traYersed by him, to st o of course if you are all there; we say,
 there are any of our readers who ,recei, 'O thesn cordial rraatinua in tha s,ar,, nor