Connecticut western news., 1876-10-06

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 John Ee. Ward, for 3 years. Moses l.. Graham, for years. Lyman Warner, 2 years, to fill va
 cancy.
 Asylum Visitors. Peter P. Everts. LeWls P. Ashman.
 Consta6les.
 William B.Perry, Carlos w, Adams, James w. Spurr, John l.. owen, Henry Whitbeck, Andrew J. SpGrr,
 James Whalen.
 Grand Jurors.
 Moses L. Graham, John G. LandOn. William A. CrOVvell,S Sidney w. Russell David w. Stone, Albert Cook,
 Francis M. Wallace.
 Seager of Weights and Measures.
 Reuben Beckley.
 Pound Keeper.
 Jesse ThOmpsOn.
 Hayaoards.
 George Bushnell, Simeon Miller, Luke Flood, Jr., Wm. HI. WaltOR.Jr Gillian X Alderman, James J.LandOn, Geo. w. ThOrp, Ezra B. Pulver. T0aon Agent to V0te on Conn. Western
 Raitroad Stock.
 Horace LAndOn,
 The business transacted at the meeting aside from voting for officers was as fol lows, It was
 Voted, That vote of thanks be tendered to the selectmen for the economical and workmanlike manner in which they have caused the roads and bridges of the town to be worked during the past year.
 Voted, That we lay tax of nine mills on the dollar for defraying the necessary ex- penses of the town for the year ensuing.
 Voted, That Silas B. Moore be and is hereby appointed to ascertain what can be done to reduce the interest on the town bonds.
 Voted, That the selectmen of the town be directed to enquire into the rights ot Charles Selleck and all others in and to the road or highway leading from the residence of Charles Selleck to the late residence of Samuel Selleck deceased, named in the fourth clause of the warning, and the se- lectmen are directed to discontinue said road, if in their judgment they deem it right and proper to do so.
 Voted, That Robert H. Ball and Henry Hubbard be and hereby are appointed to investigate with the selectmen, their annual financial report of the town for the year ending October 2d, 1876, and make report at a subsequent meeting of the town. r The vote on the license question was l2a for and S9 against granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors.
 We Publish It Again. n.-Desiring all our readers should know precisely our reasons for removing our office to Canaan, and that it shall not escape the notice of any, we republish this week our remarks in re- lation to the matter, which appeared in last weeks NEWS.
 It has been known to quite number o1 our readers for some time past. that we have had in contemplation the removal ot our newspaper and printing office from Sal isbury to Canaan. The motive which has brought us to this conclusion has been made plain to those whom we have consul ted in relation to the matter, and we pre- sume we can make it equally plain to others who may be interested to know why Vt make the change. Before we began tho publication of THE CONN. WESTERN NEWS we studied our prospective field, having il view the best point at which to locate ou office, and found that in the northwestern part of our county. there were twenty-thret villages which would perhaps regard THl NEWS, if published in any one of them, a more nearly home paper to them than an. of the other county journals, and they wer all small villages, one seeming to posse no special or prominent advantage over an, of the otbers, and there was manifest, little or no choice amongst them. Wit this result of our survey of the field befor us, we concluded as we were then citizel of Salisbury, to locate the paper here an( await further developments. At this period in the progress of our un dertaking the Conn. Western railroad wa being graded, and exactly what effect thi new road would have upon the business CT terprise, prosperity and growth of any o these villages could only be surmised. Fac town through which the road passed enter tained hope that this enterprise, in whic it had invested it's funds to aid in its COZ siruction, and Of course in which it wa } greatly interested, would bring to it upo its completion greatly increased business 3 and would conduce largely to it's growt s and commercial importance. That the 1T g habitants of these towns were sanguine i - their anticipations of increased prosperit was, ln the very nature of things, perfectl s natural. The country had for years prio 7 to the completion of this road, enjoyed g a season of extraordinary prosperity, ever ] enterprise had been blessed with success 8 and the people had almost forgotten ths 9 the word 'faiure" was in the vocabular = of the English language. It is not surpris e Ing, then, that they counted not the cost c l. panic, depression in business, such g = the world never before saw, and such g d has been upon us now for nearly for + years, and what is the result of the complt = ton of the Conn. Western railroad T Il all of the towns in Western Connecticr through which it passes, it has brought il ,- creased facilities for travel to thelr inhab r tants, and for the transportation of me e chandise, but the panic has resolutely pr; e hibited the introduction of new industries Il and many of those that existed five year !, ago are to-day among the things that were 8 Hence it is, none of these villages, say one, offers to us advantages in the locatio IS of our newspaper enterprise, more tha e what they possessed at the commencemer !. of our project.