Connecticut western news., 1876-05-26
Sheffield.

News items are scarce at present...".The |
 reports of failures among business men in
 surrounding towns have a dsheartening
 effect upon our village. IL has been report
 ed that firm had failed here, but the ru-
 nor had no foundation; in fact the store is l
 thronged with customers from home and
 abroad, and those who go away with view to make better barg .ns, find that they can l trade more to their satisfaction with our | accommodating merchants.....Dr. Train
 has returned from his winter sojourn at the South much improved in looks and health
 He was warmly welcomed by friends and
 former patients, who have missed his ge-
 nial ways and attentions in sickness...... We
 have had cold snap of weather. Did you
 start for Florida? We would like to know
 where to address-that is all Our public
 halls for some time have been in frequent
 requisition for readings, lectures and other
 entertainments. Prof. Easily gave read
 ing, eliciting much laughter and applause.
 Mrs. Rupert lectured week ago Monday
 night. She related many interesting scenes
 of the war, with which she was associated
 She was called the Daughter of the Rcgi-
 ment......The Swiss bell ringers held forth
 in the town hall one evening last week, and
 though they made the greatest parade with
 advertisements they performed the least to
 the satisfaction of the small audience.
 These small, itinerant engines draw consid-
 erable money out of She field, but it takes Burlington to put on the bIg pumps; and
 not only are tickets sold, but the people
 also......Our high school numbers from 90
 to 30 pupils this summer. Many of the 'rosebuds' who clustered around their teacher last winter are teaching in Board man district, Brush hill and other localities; but his frequent worship at our little chapel
 enables him to bear their absence with be- coming fo1titude......As young man was returning home to his residence on the plain one evening, he saw two ill-looking tramps leaning over the gate and one of them with an. oath, told him to run or he would shoot him. He obeyed, but a ball = from pistol just missed him........An at tempt, it is supposed, was made to fire g , house on the Plain, as kindlings and win , dow sill were found half burned in pile near the house. The object was probably : plunder, as the family is unlikely to have enemies......Sever gipsy teams passed 1 through the village and encsmped mile u above the Pain......On Sunday evening 8
 tidy looking woman, unlike the usua 5 tramp, came to our door. We asked her i1 and beard her sorrowful story. She was 1T search of her husband, Johnny while ol T. Q spree, he had taken thirty-fv dollars ard ran away. He is a good man, said she and has such beautiful brown eyes, but he J will have such running spells. I have heard - he was among the gypsies, and if he hears s I am after him, and is sure, he will TUT again. so have to be very quiet in my en u quiries. Fortunately we had seen the gay Lothario and could give her accurate infor : nation; but alas for woman's love and wo . mans hopes, the gypsies were missing nex . morning and Johnny was running again. .. I agree with Luna in her ministerial views. , Like her namesake she shines very fair ir u her judgment as we'll as otherwise. .,,... Dec ( oration day is not observed here with any
 public demonstrations, although flowers are s laid upon the graves of soldiers by theil
 friends We have men living among us | who were the first to shoulder the musket- t worthy, quiet and unobtrusive men-whc j. say but little publicly; and find that suct l. men did the fighting. Muscular force great size, oratory and eioquence are not the VI marks of courage always, though such abil j. ities win praise while the real soldier i. o forgotten. To illustrate, some time since U while we were visiting an aged friend, he e son, man of thirty years rushed into tht u room, exclaimlng in terror, Hide me, moth y CT; the sheriff is having time with som' e tramps and he is coming for me to hell U him. Quick as a flash, with mother u devotion, she lifted feather bed ant '' helped him deposit six feet of powerful It muscular manhood next to the straw. Al 5 was soon qulet; not ripple stirred th .e outside spread, when suddenly noisy lit o tie fellow of fourteen started up, and seiz '. ing a rope exclaimed: Let him lie grand lu ma and the sheriff will fix 'em, and ou e' he rushed. When the sheriff had come an' III departed, up jumped the feathered hero an' is ravished our ears for an hour with tales o 'e his great achievements......W have hear 1o but little of the intended celebration tn II 18th of June, (we have not even been aske o' for money,) but we saw notice wit y something of the programme written, an ~ we know it is coming. The town made ls good choice of officers we shall have no m m tive talent enough te make good time ra none come from abroad but quite mum " Der are expected who were formerly fror m Sheffield. What we undertake here gene av orally succeeds...... ...One thing more; vii at you permit foreigner to make sngges aG ton in relation to that town hall of yours se Could you not call meeting of the tow of and agree to locate some incident of tn v- Revolution within it's walls-a massacre J love scene, or the signing of some import
 ant paper, and write to the commission
 Before council could be called or burea e. for scandal established to get at the bottom ne facts, it woull be standing side by sid hIe with the Chinese pagoda at Philadelphia mi connecting Salisbury and fame forever.
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