Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14

manic committee on Investigating tho
 Tweed Ring frauds, met in New Yorh
 Thursday of last week. Boss Tweed wal present and gave the history of the various offices he had held under the city govern ment. He testified to the fact that ring was formed in the board of supervisors fol passing excessive bills. We extract from Tweed's testimony given on that day the following:
 z. Was there any combination formed for political purposes? A. Yes. C. To further the ends of political par ty? A. Ia measure the combin stion was formed for this purpose.
 c. State what the combination was form ed for. A. For the purpose of returning q supervlsor of elections.
 Q. In what manner did this combination attempt to effect it's object? A. By induc. ing some member to stay away and with. hold his vote.
 Q. Was the arrangement one which con templated the payment of money to the person who stayed away? A. It was.
 z. Who was that one who stayed away i A. A man who is dead.
 v. It does not appear that you would be privileged to withhold his name for that reason, and would therefore ask his name. A. l should prefer not to answer that ques tion unless you insist upon it.
 Q. We would request you to give his | name. A. His name was Voorhis. Peter p Voorhis.
 Q. Was he member of the board of su pervisoTs? A. Yes, he was.
 c. Who were the members who made the arrangement with him? A. All the Democratic members-Walter Roche, Eli jsh F. Purdy, John R. Briggs and myself l think also that Isaac F. Bell and William 0. Connor were parties to the arrangement. Q. Do you know who made this arrange. ment? A. It was John R. Briggs.
 It certainly seems as If that name, John k. Briggs. which sayors so unpleasantly of questionable political practices; of being in collusion with Tweed to buy men to remain away from their post of duty at important meetings, that measures might be passed to assist him in robbing the city of New York it seems as if that name, John R. Briggs, sounded very familiar. Let's see did n't John R. Briggs at one time have something to do with marble quarry in our neighbor- ing town of Sheffield ?-John k. Briggs and is n't he still resident of that place : Kind to funny, is n't it2
 Later.-The above was scarcely in type when the following e further particulars J are made public in the New York papers. Now, we are very certain that name sounds familiar. This further information is as follows:
 "John K. Briggs was an intimate friend of MT. Tweed for many years, and during his term as supervisor and afterwards. partici. pated in the fruits of the Rings jobs. He owned marble quarry in Sheffield, Mass, and supplied the stone of which the court. house was built. He failed in business about two years ago, and IS now superin. tending marble works in Vermont. Mr. Tweed said, after the close of the examina- tion on Thursday, that Mir. Briggs pocketed the $2, 500 given him hy MT. Fowler to pay MT. Voorhis, and gave to Mr. Voorhls his note, which he has not yet paid."
 Lakeville Jottings.-''Now Pease, don't you say anything about it, you just keep still this time; e;-Oh, pshaw they we been stuffing you up again; way, you tell it just as it is,''-but what ails his honor, the Judge, thought we few moments after we stepped from the cars at Lakevlle the other day. We hadn't heard anything about any, thing, but Dodge was there, and as usual ready to help-to lend helping hand in such a job. He said the Colonel and James Bird went to the East Indies, where SO many Lakevillains are now in camp, and that they ate so much toast-on-snipe that MT. Bird couldn't wear his vest buttoned for the next two days, and-he sad he wouldn't tell just how much the Color el did eat. but he says his Honor has filled all Lakeville full of his big stor1es about catch ing bull-heads that would measure two inches between their eyes. The Lakeville East India (s)campers are said to be having grand time up on that southern Berkshire lake, and the Judge says they entertained himself and MT. Bird in true Delmonico style... The governor and Mrs. Holley are spending a short time at Saratoga......M MT. Loop and family, who have spent the sum- mer in Lakeville for years past, occupy MT. Kelsry's house the past two years, re- turned to New York last Saturday. MT. John l.. Merwin is confined to the house with fever......The Holley Manufacturing Co. have received medal and @ certificate ot award for their exhibit of cutlery at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia last season. The medal is of bronze and is three inches in diameter. The certificate of award is large sheet of perhaps l8x24 inches in size, around the margin of which are the coat of arms of all nations. The centre is occupied by the reading matter in- dicating the purport of the document. It is said this certificate does not accompany the medal only to mark the highest premi- ums rendered on the kinds of goods they represent. The Holley Co. is to be congratu- lated on its success in manufacturing such superior article of cutlery. Their case on exhibition contains about two hundred and twenty different patterns and styles of pocket knite, and though this case was not as large and elaborate as some on exhibi- tion there, it is thought there was certainly no larger assortment of knives that are manufactured for useful purposes. Some cases of course contained great number of knives with forty or fifty blades in them, all of which were nice to look at, but good for nothing, and dld not represent the ac-