Connecticut western news., 1876-05-05

morning, the body of man, which doated | down the Housatonic river. and was seen | by a gentleman as it passed in the | river near Falls Village, was taken out at Cornwall Bridge, and jury of inquest | could elicit no facts to assist in ascertain ing the cause of death, more than was evi- | dent, that he was drowned. On the body were pair of dark colored pants; rather heavy, but good pair of boots, necktie about his neck, and in his pants pocket was colored silk handkerchief. No cloth ing except what we have mentioned was on him. He had evidently been long time in the water, and the mystery as to who he was, or anything whatever concerning
 him, is as great as before the inquest.
 New Philadelphia Paper.-C. E. A.
 McGeachy, who edited the Danbury News
 while MT. Bailey was in Europe, has .asso- ciated with him Messrs. J. B, H. s. Riggs -(we are not disposed to criticise, but if
 MT. Riggs can carry all those initial letters
 without knocking all their type into pi ev- cry time he passes through the office, he
 can do what the' rest of us can't, )-We
 were about to say, MT. McGeachy has as-
 sociated with him in business, Messrs. J.
 B. H. s. Riggs and A. Curtis Bond, and
 the company propose to begin the publica-
 of new paper in Philadelphia, May 13 h,
 to be called The Sentry. It is to be an
 eight page weekly. and as the publishers
 say in their circular announcing their in
 tentions and purposes, will be ''of vital lm-
 portance to good and wicked people alike"
 MT. McGeachy is spicy writer, and with
 the assistance of the other gentlemen, will
 no doubt make newsy and valuable pa | per.
 The Oldest Wagon.-A wagon is now in
 the possession of MT. Andrew Bartholomew
 of Sheffield, which is known to be one hun-
 d7ed and twe'aty years old. This wagon
 was originally owned by the grandfather of
 Jay Bull, (now deceased) and who lived
 about mile west of Ashley Falls, and re-
 mained in the family through three genera
 tions. It was handed down from the
 grandfather to Dr. Bull, the father of Jay
 Bull, and on the decease of the Doctor,
 came into the possession of the grandson,
 Jay. MT. Meacham, the veteran wagon
 maker of Ashley Falls, informs us that in
 1886, this wagon was brought to his shop
 in that village, and he cut the wheels down,
 and made truck of it, and last week
 Thursday this same truck, which, as we
 said above, is now owned by Andrew Bar.
 tholomew, into whose possession it came
 after the decease of Jay Bull, and the sale
 of the farm, thus breaking up the family was brought to him again to be repaired
 and he put new axle in it. and it is now doing good and faithful service hauling ma
 nure on his farm. MT. Mescham says thu
 spokes are pinned into the hubs, and whict he says are evidently as solid as they eve were. He says when the wagon wal brought to him in 1886, it was to his cer
 tain knowledge, eighty years old. Thus i is; this ancient vehicle, after steady ant reliable farm service of one hundred ant
 twenty years, outliving not only it's make and his children, but doing valuable service long, loug years after his children's chil dren are passed away. We do not ask wh, can show wagon with nore honorabl record of years, because It IS to be pre- stunned another so old and yet now soun
 and in servlce cannot be found anywhere
 Lakeville.-A Village Improvement As sociation was formed in Lakeville last Sat - urday and about $20O year pledged t defray expenses of repairing sidewalks, set ting out trees, etc., etc. Saturday of thi . week the whole village will resolve itsel '' into working bee, the labor for the da ' being to set out about hundred trees
 and about the village. This makes goo ~ and vigorous start, and a send off we hay V no doubt will be fully maintained......Th V houses in various parts of the village ar :. being brushed up with new paint, amongs u which are that of MT. Kelsey on Lake ave
 Mr. Cook, at the corner of Main street an ' Porter ave-, Mir. Lot Norton on Walto ' ave-, and Dr. Knight, Cedar Grove.... V John O'Keefe, state prison convict, wh , was released last fall from a two years in '" prisonment, and has during the few month
 he has been out, visited his brother, Micha # O'Keefe of Lincoln City, few times, pal Q hlm another visit the last part of last weel g, and remained with him, enjoying his hos l pitalty till Tuesday morning of this pre- ,s ent week, when he coolly stepped to h drawer in the house, and removing sevent, ,- five dollars of hIs brothers hard earne }: money, left, somebody says, for Yor ,t state. John is evidently very bad bo, J. and did there exist an extradition treaty b a tween this state and York state, and ol ,o framed with such easy terms as to perm If our officers going there and ''snaking" ov
 the line all criminals and rascals, witho al the trouble of obtaining permit from Il l. governor, such law in fact
 is. ought to exist between every stat h. Johns chances of escaping a prop st chastisement would not be so good as thu . are at present. The ability of an offic r's pursuing fugitive from justice, to satis e. the authorities of the city, town or villa a. in any state where the criminal may la found, that the object of his search is r Y! ally and indeed the party ''wanted," oug by to be sufficient to secure his unconditior he surrender without permit from the gov y, nor, or ''any other man." There is alt h. gether too much machinery about some
 our laws The less there is about tho th- dealing with the thieves and murdere to and the more simple they are in their co s structiou, and direct 51a action, the better led will be for both Jew and Gentle. We m. cerely hope the rascally John,-an it W gar so cruel and mean to rob his own brott )n and sister,-will be speedily caught a