Connecticut western news., 1876-11-24

East oanaan.-Items this week are about as scarce as Cooper ballots in our ballot box Nov.7. Everything dull DO excitement. What shall we dor Last week there was quite . rush for daily pa pers, but now all seems to be quiet and cslm ss summer eve.... .Neighbor Corbit is not behind in improvements, has c Hne new fence in front of his residence, which ! adds greatly to the general spp-arsnce, Car p.nter Smith officiating. We'll who can beat us for small place producing sarpen. lers. we can number no lxes than fifteen, fully squiped and ready for buslRsss 90 now bring on your proud monarch of the forest and we will transform them as if by magic into the finest temples ot modern ar. chItecture.. .....Well aint We getting . little h"wery-but why don't John Beebe build rev fence hast of the school house :(No 5 l the old one looks ss If it had the curvature ! ot the spine......The old blacksmith shop stands idle now, Cant we coax some wan dering smith to occupy it so we may again hear tue merry ring of the anvil, so who applies but don't all speak at once.
 Deacon Stevens now occupies his town farm. having thoroughly remodeied his house, enarging it, etc., newly pspered and painted inside, and applications of paint outside, together with the addition of blinds, r'nders it as lne looking residence as any one in our state can boast of......P. P. Brewster, the torch iron boy still holds forth. looking buoyant and bright since his new departure of Nov. 2. Says he has 8 mind of hiR own yet, but rather thinks that the stomach exerts benign influence over the mind. especially when oveIcharged with :Losty's swilr and xxx cham lightning benzlne......M Arthur Garfield, a young man in the employ of Ansou Lawrence. Jr. while cutting wood at ths'd cut his foot. Inflicting . wound that will disable hlm for some time......Mr. Geo. Crocker, in the employ of Bsrnum Rich. rdson Co.,, in at tempting to stop a runaway horse belong ing to Mr. ThOs. Bartlett, was thrown down atd ireceived injuries, but our re- porter did not say whether serious or slight. ...... Where ia Agent Roberts Tilden bap- nsr It don't appear to 'wiggle' worth a ceat. He hasn't got discouraged has he, OF has he decided to await resultsP
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 No Protection in Law.-He came into GrAham's drug store, in Salisbury. last Sat urdsy evening, and said bis name was Hen- ry Werden and that he lived in Chapin- vile. He was about nineteen years old and wore skull cap, a spotted handker- chief encircled his neck, brown woolen shirt trimmed with flannel, vest and coa, of many and curiously wrought fabrics. fol. lowed by striped pants with huge blscK patches. and boots of ancient but DO doub, honorable sign. the heel of one of which was made to do duty nearly on the top ot his foot, while the rent seams in the other at every step laughed derisively at the re
 nsrkable variety and combination of sp
 parel above, completed the adornensen, personnel of this martyr to domestic infe
 ncity. He said he ''had been tryin' to git job in Chapinvile and couldn't. and wen
 over to Canaan and there found job ane
 went hum and told his wife he had got job in Canasn and they must move ove there, whereupon his alniable spouse. in stead of cheerfully arquiescing in bis ex pressed desire to accompany him witl on e wheelbarrow, to wheresoever thu stern duties of life should call him, becam
 suddenly and extre mely wrotb at the very
 suggestion of leaving the loved soil of Cha , pinville, and her mother joining in, the dis
 cussion s"on became earnest, in fact de . cidedIy warm, for he said his wife walme, his ears right smart with her 6s doubled up once when she desired to em phasiEe . remark. and his mother inlay told him to ''psck up his duds and git i; that Mary (his wife) shouldn't go st. with him, and not satisfied with that. hi
 wife called in Dun McClen, Bi McClrn George Horton and her father, Jim Shook . all four of whom went to the wood pile l. [ get an axe to kill hlm with, ''and this gen tlsman (ths seedy youth who led a grea F calf of dog with tow striug) sot right il . there aud See the hull, <and he wanie
 Grand Juror Graham to help hiu. get wri . and have them all put in jail. Er. Grshsr , failed to sre the necrssity of wit. an D Martin Harris told him he WAS the happiet } man in the world to get on the evenin 3 train, go tD Canaan. build him s nlxnsio
 on the mUuniain in two hours time, lily ] like prince all winter and come out ric z in the spring. and let his wife and the res { of 'em Sko0k for themselves; but he cuult l. u'i ''see il" that wsy, and started out of tn : door swearing eternal vengeance on every . hody in general and Salisbury justice i f particular. And we want to ask right hrrt C tt, in this Centennial year of our great an
 slOrOus cOuntTY, ,eyery wife in ths land ca !, thus exercise her prsrogativt; Can wit ?. malice sfOrethoukht. or preprnse, maltrea
 abuse. strike with doubled fists their d. ', fenseless husbands, and there is uo pro ', tection in the law of the land Imposs l. bIe! it must not, can not be ! L-t thi
 much Shocked husband, with the rest c ', us. txclaim with the immortal Somerville
 Proud tvranta who malci0usly destroy,
 And ride OCT (us) in ruinA with indignant joy, ' Humbled in aust. SOon tO their cot hall know Heaven eur avenger, and mankind their fee.
 TIE PRIDE THAT GOES BEYnRE FALL ' '-The Paris correspondent of the Philade phia Telegraph relates the sad result C false pride in French Baroness and be , two daughters. which led 10 their being x rested for stealing. The story runs thus
 Detected with their pockets cr~mmr