Connecticut western news., 1876-09-22
LakevilIe. The boys spoken of in THE

Lakeville. boys spoken of in THE NEWS week or two since as camping out in Goshen, got back on Friday last They say they had jolly good time, and caught in one day forty or more pounds of fish. | They caught during the time they were there about two hundred pounds of fish, How is that for fishing ?.....Joseph Bissell, son of Doctor Bissell, has gone to New Haven to enter Yale College. Joe is going to follow his fathers example, and is fitting himself to practice as physician......Th Hayes and Wheeler club of Salisbury met at Academy Hall in this village on Satur- day evening last. The meeting was called to order by T. L. Norton, president, after which the glee club gave us one of their campaign songs. After the reading of the minutes of the last meeting by the secreta- rY, MT. D. J. Warner addressed the meet ing briefly but to the point. Then another song by the glee club and MT. D. T. War ner took the floor. Don is a good, wide awake fellow, and a good talker, and we hope to hear from him again during the campaign. .... Harness Maker Miller has just put out new sign, and that means busi ness. When you wish anything in Johns line give him call and he will do the square thing by you......Judd Brothers, who have been sick for time, are at their place of business and will tend to the wants of their customers. M.
 Bogus Piano Names.-We are indebted to MT. J. R. Benjamin of Winsted for the following catalogue of names, which have been quite extensively put upon inferior pianos to deceive the public. It would be we'll for those having in contemplation the purchase of 8 piano. to clip out and pre- serve thls list for reference, and thus be fortified against deception:
 For Steinway & Sons-Stanley & Sons, Steinmoay d Sons, Stannsy & Co.,, Stein metz 6 Sons, Shumway 6 Sons, Steinway's Patent.
 For Chickering (Chickering & Sons)- Chichring and Sons, Chichering and Sons, ering's Patent.
 For Decker Bros.-Decker and Bros., Decker & Bros, Becker Bros., Bekr Bros., Decker and Co.,, J. Decker.
 For Weber (Albert Weber)-Webber, Weber and Go.
 For Knabe (Wm. Knabe & Go. )-Krabe, Kenabe, Knabe and Go.
 For Geo. Steck and Co.-Stack and Co.,, Strik and Co.,, Geo. Stecke.
 For Haines Bros.-Haynes Bros.. Balnes Bros.
 For Patent Arion New York Simpson and Co. .)-Arion Piano, New York.
 For Bacon and Karr-Bacon and Son, Raven, Raven and Co.
 For Hazleton Bros. -Hazleman Bros., Hazletine Bros.
 For Durham Ounham and Sons)-Dun- ham & Co.,, The Patent .Dunham, Dun hams Patent.
 The following pianos are not recom- mended
 Empire, Great Union, Fifth Avenue, New York Piano Co.,, Gem, c. F. Lighte and Co.,, Mendelsshom, Steiner and Co.,, Thalberg, Bradbury and Co.,, Grand Union, Hader,
 Philip Phillips.
 The Price of School Books.-It was one of the fundamental principles of our government that there should be no tax on education, hence the origin of free schools, and the encouragement given to the young in every strata of society to attend them, but the prices that have been put upon the text books for our schools few years past, would tend to the belief that we are drift ing back toward the middle or dark ages, when book was treasure that but very few indeed could possess, for the prices charged for the comparatively few then in existence, were fabulous, and the entire for tune of some of the wealthy would be ne cessary to make the purchase. To-day the cost of one copy of "Mitchelps Modern Geography" is one dollar and seventy-fve cents, and "Mitchell's Primary Geogra- phy," seventy-fve cents. All other books cost in proportion to their size, etc., basing the calculation on the prices given above. This is an extortion against which the peo- pie should rebel and they would most sure ly do so if there could be an organized con- cert of action in relation to the matter. 1 Upon the poor, who, as is frequently the case, are compelled to buy school books for large family of children, these unreason- ably large prices must bear very heavily, and as if the burden: was not enough, every now and then a new class of books will be introduced, and the old must be discarded and the new substituted. Books, like the geographies mentioned. and all others that are used in our schools, and which are sold by the million, supplying the schools of the land, should be sold for at least half the prices now charged for them. Why; we could in our office make a duplicate copy of some of these works, for about the price one copy instead of million. The remedy for this system of robping the people we can not suggest, unless 1t be that everybody will make it manifest, in any way they choose, that they entertain righteous in dignation toward the powers that be, in this matter of school text books, and general agitation of the subject may bring about g wholesome change.
 Theodore Hilton ''Very Sleepy."-The New York ISmoes of the 17th says about o'clock last Saturday morning young mar whose name IS said to be Wood boarded the first Atlantic express car on the Hudson River road at East Albany, and asked tho porter if lady whom he described was or the car. The stranger said the lady wal
 his wife, and that he had come from New
 York to meet her. The porter gave tht stranger the number of the lady's berth ol , the sleeping car Plattsburg, and entering the car, which was dimly lighted, Woot groped his way along till he came to th
 berth indicated, and drawing aside the cur
 foi, b;c bopJc iYo fo oIuol1op hio rrifo