Connecticut western news., 1877-03-16

Monday and tLonday night, and is still fall ing this (Tucsday) morning. Oh for few or those gentle zephyrs of March to make times exciting. Rev. I. F. Gleason ex- cnanged with MT. Reed of Canaan, last oaooath......Mr. Seymour was around last week with fish and oysters for sale.....A very interesting suit was brought before Justice Crissey last Saturday, in which o. H. Cowles, the plaintiff plead his own causewlthA. T. Roraback for the defendant. The defendant says he brought sne suit to recover two or three dollars or such mat ter. which the defendant justly owes him, (and attached mow of hay which the de- fendant needed while the suit was being brought but Squire Rorsback showed to those who did not previously know it, that the suit was brought out of spite, and 1ur- thermore that the defendant did not owe the plaintiff, but that the plaintiff owed the defendant 1.99, and the impartial judge in his decision, decided that the plaintiff should pay the defendant 96 cents ana should pay the costs, HASH.
 A Base slander Refuted. .-MR. EDITOR A meeting of the Congregational Church in Sheffield was held Friday. March 10. to act upon the charges preferred against Rev. Mason Noble, IT,, by Belle l. Clark. There was full attendance of the Church MT. Noble being present. but Miss Clark was absent. After some action and lnves- tlgation, the meeting was adjourned till the following Monday, at o'clock P. M' The adjourned meeting was fully attended last Monday, by the chureh-members. and at the close of which. the following resolu- t1ons were passed unanimously.
 WHEREAS, certain charges of most scandalous character have been preferred against our pastor, the Rev. Mason Noble, ir., by Miss Belle I. Clark. and whereas. the said charges, after full investigation by the Church, have been pronounced false, with only four dissenting votes; therefore:
 RESOLVED. that there has been nothing developed in the course of this investiga- tion, tending to lmpeach the character of our pastor. as pure minister of the Cos pei. or as Christian gentleman; and that we consider him equally worthy of our loves confidence and regard. as before said charges were preferred.
 RESOLVED, that as Church. we tender to him. and to his wife, our deepest sympa- thy in this fiery trial, through which, in the providence of God, they have been called to pass. 5@'
 sheA1eld-Owing to the fact that Luna fails to shed the light of her placid coun- tenance upon you this week, her place will be occupied by lesser light. First lei me chronicle wedding which took place
 ast Wednesday evening, when Miss Lettle Tripp became Mrs. Henry c. Clark. Dur ing the latter part of the evening they were surprised by seranade, one of those relics of the barbarous ages, yclept g a''horning. Tin pans visd with ''horse fddles," anc both were eclipsed by a fish-horn solo glver by our musical young friend MT. ---- Five dogs came in handsomely on the cho- rus, and altogether it was a success, (fol the dogs The winter term of the Higt School has not yet closed. MT. Hall, ths ! principal, is very generally liked as teach CT, and possesses the happy faculty of i'm parting knowledge in pleasant manner tc those under his charge...".The school a Ashley Falls is soon to possess the new en cyclopedia, to the purchase of which, the proceeds of the exhibition were devoted ...The lecture by Mir. Germond before the Friendly Union was well attended not withstanding the unfavorable state of the weather. MT. Germond gave the young ladies some very good advice, which they will probably follow. Let the young gen. tlemen take heed and govern themselves l accordingly. Next week Mrs. Phillips is is to give reading before the Union, and Miss Eugenia Phillips will repeat the reci- tation given by her at the High School ex- hibition. ,r .... F. o. 1.
 Sheffield, No. 2,-Rev. MT. Germond gave lecture before the Friendly Union last Friday evening, subject, ''Girls." The lecture was lnterspersed with good advice and humorous anecdotes. with which the audience were highly pleased. Next Fri day evening the Union closes its sessions until next Fall. Miss Dewey, whose read ings are always interesting, will read { piece, followed by music, when "Yawcot Strauss" and the 'sEpizootic Fever will be recited by two young ladies' Man, of our Union exercises have been of hu morous character this winter, for the pas season has been unusually gloomy upo, many accounts, and we really require, something merry to break the sad monoto ny. Some old steady people. think tha we are getting "fast" in this respect, bu they have fnsgotIn tue "apple bees,
 ''husking fro.' # training" and ''electiol days" and th .nd promenades of tn
 wealthier classes, which supplied the plac
 of our literary wisdom and humor. Tn
 church audiences were unusually larg
 Sunday. the day being very pleasant, an'
 the pulpits were filled by our home pastors
 In the evening MT. Germond gave lectur
 upon Temperance, in the Methodist churc and MT. Roberts the Chicago convert mad
 remarks .....Mrs. Shepard, long residen of the Plain, has been for severs
 weeks very ill.."..Mr. Henry Clark an
 Miss l.. Tripp were married last Wedne.
 day, pleasont company being present.. ..
 At the present date we are to all appear anc in mid-winter, the snow being sever' inches deep. P. Oollinsville.-The family of Myron ( and Emma E. Broskett have been terribl
 afflicted of late. Three of their fine chi dren were suddenly stricken with putr: sore throat, and on Wednesday, Februar 2s, Maud A., aged nine. and Guy H., age one year, died. The next day Phineas M