Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30

M. Stevens, Chapinville. Conn.,, II Mrs, w. Bissell. Wakeman, Ohio, 35( Wm. Hunt, 10 John St., Worcester, Mass, l6 Is s. SiYernail Elkhart. Ind. AZ New Postmaster. A. T. Roraback Esq is appointed postmaster in this village, ir place of MT. s. C. Beckley, resigned.
 Fast Day servioe.-A Fast Day ser vice will be held in the. Congregational church at Salisbury Centre, on Friday, soth inst. at 10, 30, a. n. Rev. J. G. Oakley will deliver the sermon.
 There They are Now.-Almost before the ink was cold in our comments on West Winsted merchants in another column, Messrs. Woodford & Camps full! half col umn advertisement for their spring trade is placed upon our table. It stands just over the other side in another. column. Read it.
 Found In the River.-Last Thursday g lad fishing found the remains of man in the Housatonic river about half a mile above the railroad bridge north of Ashley Falls. Very little but the skeleton re mained, the body evidently having been in the water long period of time. He was not identified and was buried in the ceme- tery at Ashley Falls.
 The storm.-If the storm of the past three or four days is the Equinoctial, it is g little tardY in its arrival, but is making up in it's protracted severity. what it lacked in punctuslity in putting in an appearance. The streams overflow their banks, and the earth is more generally filled with water than it has been before for nearly a full year, and the protracted scarcity of water is really at an end.
 Litch6eld.-Mr. Charles B. Lane, of the Bargain Store. has sold out to MT. Adam Wstts...... The milk train on the Naugatuch R. R.. Friday, ran over and killed 8 mar between Wollcottville and Winsted......A tramp, disgusted with tramping, broke ou q pane of glass at the Mansion House, 1T order, as he said, to get place to stay He was arrested and fined $5, and 30 day. in jail......The snow of the last few day. has made fine sleighing, and the farmers are busy getting up wood piles and hauling logs to the mlll. B. Holy Week.-FridaY of this week is fas day. It is Good Friday. The day proceed ing Good Friday is known in the Churcl category in England az Maunday Thursday and from ths earliest times in the history O the Church has been marked with acts o humanity on the part of the faithful. it be. ing the day that Christ washed the feet O the disciples on the eye of bis passion Good Friday is commemorative of the cru ciixlon of Christ, and is observed with tn greatest solemnity. Holy Saturday is on of rejoicing, and Easter the anniversary o the Lords resurrection.
 Cough in Barrington.-John B. Gougl will deliver his intensely interesting lecture "Circumstances," in Burlington Thursda, evening of next week. (April 5.) The far on the Housatonic road will be reduced t
 the regular excursion rates, (half fare, an
 the Through Freight going South will b
 held till after the lecture to accommodat
 all who wish to go from this way. Tn
 sale of reserved seat tickets will begin {
 ten o'clock next Monday forenoon at th
 post office ID this village, at the same tim
 in Falls Village at George W. Halls Stor, } R, c. Taft, Ashley Falls and W. H. Littl } Sheffield.
 Sharen-One of our old bachelors has nal!y taken unto himself an help-meet. E
 has long been gay deceiver, but has at la
 been caught py one of the fair sex. Ma
 their shadows never grow less, and ms
 they live to see many little shadows arour them......T The Misses Benedict have recen ) ly returned from the West, where the
 have been spending the winter.... III , Driscoll vs. Hart law suit has not come ;rial yet, and the excitement has sbated.... The communication in your last weeks D per in regard to Fl. Bissell was prematur } as he has not yet closed the bargain as T ported. Mrs. E. Sears and Miss M. Cha man, have just returned from their visit f Washington, delighted with everYthir E they saw. ONCE MoRE7 The Scandal and the snake.-Nothir have we ever heard that 80 forclbly I minds us of the story of the old farm who found frozen snake on frosty nor
 ing, and full of sympathy for the sufferil
 creature, took it to his home and tender laid it on the hearth where was burning u z cheerful family fire, and after it had |
 come warm, the treacherous and ungrat
 ful reptile sprang up and not only implar
 ed it's poisonous fangs into it's benefactc but sent it's deadly venom into every mel ' Der of his family. Of course the sna j was instantly killed. Nothing, we say, b e ever so forcibly reminded us of this stor g as the wretched scandal which has f
 some weeks past, agitated the people = Southern Berkshire, but It is 8 comfort ,t know that the swift punishment meted 0 . to the snake was instantly given to the a d thor of the poisonous imputations embc IT jed in the scandal, for she IS as deed as t
 snake-to the respectable part of the worl