Connecticut western news., 1876-12-01

town of Canton, have shown comme ndab ( public spirit and appreciation of the cen tennial by sending DO less than 9s9 of h+, citizens to study and admire the g,eates, show on earth. Of those who went l52 were males, and s7 fema es. l4s wen, from Collinsvllle 49 from Canton Ceutrs 70 from North Canton and 7s from Can ton and East Hill. Twelve persons wen the second time.
 BITTEN BY A Doe.-Leroy Jones was se verely bitten in the right wrist hy yiciou, dog on the l2th. Jones WAS asked If tn. dog was mad. and he replied II don' know about the dog, but know wal mad"
 AN UNFORTUNATE MAN Joseph, J. Jen kins fell from cherry tree last July, break ing two ribs besides other severe injuries and had just commenced work in tue shop. gain Nov. 18th. when be caught his Ief "snd uLder trip hammer, crushing "f one finger aud severely injuring two oth' rs
 ORITUARY.-Wllliam, W. Sweet, wh. died suddenly in Wiusted, Nov. 18th O heart disease. came from Brooklyn Ct [. Coll'nsville nearly forty years ago. and va, for many years well known mechanic, it ! the eur plny of the Collins Co. He wa, buried in Pleasant Valley, by the side ot his daughter Mary. who died in Collinsvills 23 years ago, aged l4 Mr Sweet was 6l years old, and leaves wicow and an sdcp ted son.
 Judge Granger. Hon. Miles, T Granger, of this village who has recent, been elected to the hi hest judicial position in the gift of the people of this state " Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors | will preside at the next session of thi, court, which will come in at New Haven Tuesday of next week. Judge Grang>r'l commission is dated Nov. l6ih. and tbi, next weeks session is the frst under his 1u risdiction. Our highly bunored fellow cil- izen is the successor of the Hon. Lafayett. 5. Foster, who has occupied tho position for s' Y.ral years past, but who vscatrs the office on account of his age, the constitu tionsl limit being 70 years. Judge F.,stel occupied seat in the United States Senat. for several years, and at the death of Presi- dent Lincoln. was made Vice Ptesiden, under President Johnson and if his sue cessor as Judge of the Supreme court ot COnnecticut, the Hon. M. T. Granger should also sometime in the future be in- yited by the people to seat in she Uuitcc States S-nste, and ultimately take the chail as VicrPresident. they would not ouly do VI Lonor to themselves. but to the offices tt which they choose him.
 Judge Granger went to Mississippi as $ preceptor in a plsntrr's family. He rese law there, and was admitted to the bar IT that state in April, ls45. Soon after tha he came north and WAS admitted to the bal m Li,ckficld in the following October. Hs was in the office of Lemau Church Esq ir this town. for tune, and in lS47 opened his first cft1ce in Canssn, occupying th' lott of MT. Couch's bat shop Practising his profession for time in the unassumin, hst loft room, he changrd hrs Ufice t rooms oyer the store now occupied h, Messrs Fuller & Peet, and finally to tn, the little office now occupl-d by Judge Hardenberxb. In 1867. just twenty yeal after he began the practice of law. he Wa elected judge of the Superior court. { position he has held until the l6,h instan. when his commission as Judge of the Su preme court is dated.
 It is | pleasure to noie the steady bu certain rlse of fellow citizen, from th more humble walks of life to positions Q honor and trust. and when such txampl. are given to young men who are beginnin, lite. the question should suggest itself |, them How is it dune? Can do il ant if so, how shall go to work 2 One wil Say. OL, he's lucky that's all there is |, it, and might work thousand years ant not reach one round higher in the ladder but Hon. Miles T Granger and every olhe man who is a self-made man, and who ha wrought out his own d'sliny, will say thA he knows DO other d, tuition of the wor, luck, but ha-d work to pull off the coat and go at that work with intelligence. en ergy, aud . will and perseverance tha know DO failure. Que difference between the success full and unsuccessful men oi tn
 world is, one does his work very softly perhaps from fear of soiling his hands. an the result of his rff.Irts is.-well hls hand are very beautiful; wh.le the other wi grasp whatever be undertakes and shak
 prosperity and success right out of it. is an insul' to his manhood to Say the Hon Milts T. Grang.r's position ss judge owe the highest tribunal in the state was dons ted tohlm by luck. Of course he possesses
 talent, capacity and ability of a superio
 order, but did the rest of us have these es
 senilals to a thousandfold greater extent
 if we were always asleep, what would " amount to? We congratulate Judge GraI ger that his able to thus pluck the rich sn . we'll earned fruits of hls years of labol Nor will he be satisfied and content to b supreme judge in the state. He sciU 2 up hiqher.
 Obituary John Carroll. E>q was hor - in The state of Maine. and di.d in Fal ] Village, Nov. IT. 1876. aged 77 year l, About forty years ago he settled in th { town of N.w Marlborough. Berkshire c" Mass. Here, in what is known ss Ml
 river h- engaged iu the manufacture (
 paper. which found ready demand in N,' York and other markets As the result ( l hls excellent business quslities. nn ent" prise. feeble in it's beg ming. steadily gre and at length hecame vast and importau The village, the churches, in short. All tt , interests of the place setm to have hs their inception. growth .ud support fTol him. He WAS their founder and life lon , supporter The large Congregational churc
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