Connecticut western news., 1876-08-11

- amount to anything; that he had ri,,e to ; matoes in his garden, and had been catine ripe tomatoes for more than three weeks We "omediately'' stepped boldly up to hin and said: "You are likely fellow. /" anf when he mumbled out something tha sounded like: ''You are another 7" accom- panying the complimentary remark with E quick and vigorous movement of inc rieht
 arm, that for an instant made us think he was going through series of calisthenic exercises right there in the street, we dodg
 ed so quickly his arm almost went out of
 Jolnt. We felt very smart that we had
 packed him down on his statement. till q
 tew hours later, when he sent in fresh from
 his vines basketfull of the finest tomatoes
 and which were fully ripe. They were cer,
 talnly very nice and MT. Mack has our thanks for the same. We can beat him on
 corn anyway, for we have stalk Son our
 farm" that is ten feet eight and three.
 fourth inches high by actual and accurate
 measurement. If MT. M can beat that
 stalk. he can trot out his corn.
 Western Grasshoppers.-A gentleman
 in this village received letter from Chero
 kee, Iowa, few days ago, from which we
 quote the following:
 We write to inform you that the grass
 hoppers in large numbers have made their
 appearance in O'Brien county and the
 northern part of this county. In O'Brien
 county we are informed that the corn crop
 has been entirely destroyed, but that great
 deal Of the wheat and oats will be saved.
 It has caused general panic, and will
 again throw northwestern Iowa into bad
 repute. There is strong south wind
 blowing to-day (July 3Ist) which may keen
 them off. We send you scrap from a
 Sioux City paper in reference to the dam-
 age done at Windom, Minn.
 WS7adoma Reporter, July 27.1
 We have taken the utmost pains to learn
 the exact situation. All seem to agree that
 the pests have never before appeared in
 such numbers. They have covered the
 ground, and grass, and crops, and trees.
 Trees at night fairly bend under their bur
 den of 'hoppers. Young forest after young
 forest has been stripped of it's leaves. and trees of several years growth are left as naked as in winter; and large fields of corn and potatoes that had escaped the early raVages have fallen victim to the incom- ing scourge. We have had grasshoppers for long time, and each year they appear thicker than the previous, but this year
 nave hatched not only in greater numbers,
 but an army of still greater proportions has appeared and is filling the ground with eggs that had just been made vacant of eggs bv 1 the warm sun.
 Lakeville.-The Lakeville members of the Nautilus Club with their invited guests started for their trip to the Centennial Ex- hlbltion at Philadelphia Monday morning. They went to Bridgeport by the Housaton. lc road, and sailed in the schooner ''Katie J. HoYt," which had been arranged for their accommodation. The following went from Lakeville: Surgeon General Knight, Commodore Stillman and wife, Purser Fisher, Commissary [of hash1 J. Brinton and wife, Mir. Tom Norton and wife. Miss Phelps, Carrie Bostwick, Miss VanAlstvne. Miss Barnum, Miss Ophelia Williams, Hen ry Dewey, Wm. Landon, Douglass Owen, Charles Wood, Gilbert Bryan, Mir. Nash, and the two Messrs. Saunders. Chaplain Vail, with his white choker and pocketful of sermons, joined the party op it's arrival at Bridgeport We are indebted to Purser Fish tor an invitation to accompany them, but duties at home forbade our going, l Quite number of white sea gulls are re- ported to have been lowering over lake Wononscopomoc for few days past. Has this fact anything to do with the Nautilus Club?
 Ex-Gov. AverillRof Danbury is expected at the Miller House this week for few | days sojourn in this pleasant region. MT. | AVeril was raised in Salisbury, and his friends and Salisbury people in general will welcome him to his old home. MT. A. Bates IS elevating the roof of the ell of his house near the depot, and will make other changes about the premises, giving him more room and improving the appearance of his house......Mr. Cornell has just con- pleted a new barn h the rear of his store, Which with other buildings and improve ments about the village are an evidence that unlike some of. the neighboring villages, at least little something is being done. ..... Messrs. Griggs & Chapin have recently put a new safe in their store, which like ''gran- ther's new red barn, it cost hunderd daul- lers."
 The Irish Temperance Question: EDITOR CONN. WEsTERN-DEAR SIR.-You will oblige us very much by publishing the following facts relating to a temperance society which has lately been organized by large portion of the Irish Catholic resi- dents of the town of Salisbury, and which has met very strong opposition from Father Lynch. It seems strange to say that clergyman, no matter to what de- nomination he might belong, should oppose such an object as that of temperance, es- peclally in Salisbury, and it is still more strange to say that he and one or two oth- CTS, in order to sustain his opposition, should invent the following false and very silly reports, viz: that we were going to organ ize Fenian society; that our rules did not say that only all these who were Catholics were entitled to membership, and that be- ing the case, any man, Protestant or Yan- tee, could join our society if he pleased. Now these reports are as false as God is true. Every one who attended our meet &la Al,a. l color of Fenianism about our organization, . and any rational being would not conceive the thought for a moment of any of our American Protestant friends joining us. . Why should they when they have an or