Connecticut western news., 1877-11-30

story for relations sake," nor for namesake
 either: His name is George Pease, and he
 said he came fram WIlbraham in Massa
 chusetts. Our great grandfather told us
 more than hundred years ago that he ney
 CT heard of ''the subject of these remarks, 2 so we know positively he is none O our
 folks but if he was, we'd shoot ourselves with anything we could get hold of, and hasten to call our loss but gain.-Anyway; this George Pease came into this place Sun. day as professional tramp, and after being fed on milk and honey till the next (Mon- day) morning, proceeded directly to the lime kiln of Pierce, Lawrence & Co.,, and stole Patrick Doyle's overcoat, for which little ''irregularity" Chats what they call it when bank presidents steal, he was bound over by Squire Roraback to the superior court in Litchfield. He thought if some arrangement could be made so he could come out about the first of April, it would suit him pretty well. Squire Roraback ought to help him in this. ''his last request, What if he don't know as much as bag of hammers He wants good comfortable quarters through the winter, and then come out in the spring ID time to blossom, like any other Pease.
 From Negaunee.-Our good friend, T. M. Wells formerly of Salisbury, among other things Tn letter to us says:
 If we are we'll toward the north pole do not think you have any finer weather cer- tainlY than we have. It does look like snow this a. m., and we may expect it any time :; have had just enough 50 far to make the ground white. Our little town has experi- enced quite change within the past month. It is. as most new towns west are, bounti- fully supplied with saloons and well enough Reynolds, the great temperance reformer was with us two days and though he is far from being an eloquent orator, it is aston ishlng what power he has. It was gener- ally admitted that he never could arouse these northern towns, but indeed he did. After speaking ten nights he organized a Red Ribbon reform club, and we have about three hundred signers to the total ab- stinencs pledge, of men, besides the ladies have quite an organization of their own. We have rented the largest hall in town for our business, public and social meetings, and it looks encouraging for the closing of several saloons. They already complain that this country is going to the dogs, busi- ness is SO fearfully dull snd say let her go. Stop of Tickets.-That large, influential and wealthy organizations have been in times past, hard to contend against, is uni versally known; and for single individual to attempt to do battle with them, let him be however much abused, or even robbed of his property. has been looked upon as extremely rash; but it now appears, and has for some time past, that this concen- trsted strength of great companies has act ually become thelr greatest weakness, for so strongly prejudiced are the whole peo- pie against them for the reason as stated above, of their former strength, and their abuse of it against everything and eYerybo- dy weaker than themselves, that it now has become somewhat difficult for them to get justice in the courts of the land in contest with citizen. These remarks apply more directly to rail- road companies perhaps than to other large organizations, and these companies may appropriately and feelingly ask: If there is any law for or against a railway compa. nv of ho fn Last winter, as our readers will remem- Der, one Frank Giddings of VanDeusenville chose to take exceptions to the rulings of the Housatonic R. R. Co.,, as to their right to make contract. and to dictate how it shall be made: or in other words. .ap- pealed to the law to assist him lu compell- ing the Housatonlc R. R. Go. to permit him to indulge in as many ''stop-offs" as he may choose, on ticket on which were plainly printed these words: Good for one continuous passage from Pittsdeld to New York;" and the result has just been determined in the United States court in Boston, which has given it's verdict for the Housatonic company.
 We are very glad indeed to learn that the Railway company is victorious in this suit, for the s'stop-oyer" ticket business at this end of the road had become unjustly hard for the company, and unreasonable to ask it to endure. Persons coming down the road from Pittsfeld. and going to any of the local stations below, would buy a through New York ticket, as the price was necessarily lower Tn Berkshire county than further down the road in proportion to the distances, for through tickets-we say necessarily lower, and we mean by that to say that in order to save to itself the business in Berkshire County that leg,ti- mately belonged to the road. it was com pelled to sell through tickets to New York at low rates to compete with the other routes from there, and passengers buying at Pittsfeld through tickets could ride on them to stations as far south as New Mil ford. and then sell them at little lower price than New York ticket could be ob- tained at the regular office of the company at the station, andcould thus get their passage at very low fare. Nor was thls business confined to those who actually rode out part of the distance, but was by some made a regular business of buying and selling stop-of tickets; one man, as we distinctly remember making boast in our presence, of making more money in buying and selling these stop-of tickets than ln his regular business of selling White Lini- ment. .''-But this ticket business is ended, and everybody who loves fairness, justice. and equity, will be glad of it. From the New York HerGE6 was clipped the follow