Connecticut western news., 1876-07-14
Genaral Iauell Resiened. an off,

General Jewell Resigned. an off, cial visit of Post Master General Jewell, to General Grant last Tuesday, Grant intima- ted so plainly that he would be glad to accept of the resignation of the Post Mas ter General, that MT. Jewell at once wrote one and placed it in his hands, which was immediately accepted. No special reason is assigned for this strange proceeding on the part of President Grant, and the whole country is taken by surprise. We have voted for Grant twice, and would now be glad to vote twice again, all in one day, to have him not resign, but removed. He has made himself obnoxious to all his friends as well as his foes. It is well understood we have pledged ourselves to express no political opinions, but when President Grant asks such a man as Marshall Jewell, whom everybody in his native state, of whatever political party, honors and re- spects for his integrity, ability and capaci- ty, to resign for no good reason, but mani festly to gratifY a personal feeling, we shall step aside from our accustomed coarse far enough to say that in our opln- ion, President Grant has made an ass of himself, and this is not political opinion, either.
 A Little More About Bills.--Did you hear bills cry last week because we told folks his paper was printed on the outside from blocks cast in New York city boo hoo GO! It seemed as if his little heart would burst with grief when he said Cit ain't so it ain't so!" We'll admit that he
 has not used so many of the blocks since
 we called his attention to the fact a short
 time since. He has removed the blocks
 from the outside, but the 6lOckhead inside
 is all the same: The leopard may change
 his spots, etc.. but that blockhead inside
 well, never mind folks know all about it.
 He also said something about our subscrip-
 tion list not being so large. even as is esti-
 mated, in Rowell's Newspaper Reporter,
 and puts it at 1000. Our regular and legiti-
 mate circulation is long ways beyond
 1000, and we would bet, eff we were on a
 level with bills, and did such things,) 8
 thousand dollars to cent, that our list ot
 subscribers, a0ho s0i1 pay us for their paper.
 is twenty-five per cent. larger than the
 number who have bills paper, and will pay
 him for it.
 The fact is patent in the minds of every body, who ever saw henbills or his paper that almost every individual whom he eoA
 subscriber, has never subscribed for hi paper he thrusts it upon them. In thu car wheel shops in Lime Rock, the boy to whom he sends his insipid drivelling, ar occupying their spare hours. studying up name mean enough to call it. They ga, they wont pay cent for it, as they ha, rather see the dickens coming any tim than that emetic sheet.
 In alluding to Rowells Reporter above , we ought to have added that the circulation of bills paper in that journal was so small
 it wasn't even estimated. No circulatio
 is given at all. The fact is, he has proba
 bly, the smallest legitimate paying circula
 ton of any paper in the state. Here 3 something else Rowell's Newspaper Repor CT says about bills paper:
 TWISTED, CONN.,, June 19, 1876. 8 Editors AmaericGm Newspaper Reporter f GENrLEMEN-1n recent issue of tn Winsted News we find a statement that O all the newspapers published in the count 3 the New Milford Rag and itself are th < only ones that do not use the patent ou side plan. Now we are rather inclined t admire the neatly printed, we'll selecte miscellany of all the patent papers W : have seen, and are willing to compar
 them at any time with the blacksmith makeup of this journal, which attempts criticism from decidedly weak standpoint 8 Of the paper which It attempts to clas |. with itself we have only good words to say n From the moment MT. Delevan, its able ed :, itor, assumed the management of it, it bs presented neat and tasty style, which tn Z Winsted News under it's present admins l. tration will never equal. If it were possi D ble for the News man to make presenta
 ble, readable and newsy inside, irdepent . entlY of it's contemporaries columns, e would seem better to the parties concerne e in the criticism. HI FENN.
 But what has this to do with Bills run
 ming away from Winsted and up into Can
 ada in the early years of the war,to escap Q the summary vengeance of the citizens c Winsted, who began the building of ga 6 lows to hang the contemptible poltroon, fc ! his loud mouthed disloyalty to the goverr Q ment in it's hour of distress? Is such h Benedict Arnold the democratic standar f bearer of Litchf1eld county! Will Demo 6 crats believe a word such treacherou a wretch may say Will they be influence e by this Escape gallows" Democrats; IT you pay for the sheet this miserable scam ! is thrusting upon you, he, whose name is a disgrace to Democracy, and will ere lon n become stench in your nostrils, your chi Q dren and children's children will rise u V and curse you. Pinney; what about Bill = in Washington? Whats the matter wit e him anyway He is by the ears with th Winsted Herald and the Press, and can # speak about the rest of his county conten poraries without growl, calling them a Q "patent outsides," etc.
 West CSrnwaIIs .,-.
 Our oldest inhabitant is puzzled to rt
 member such spell of hot weather. D
 Sanford keeps record of the weather, ar