Connecticut western news., 1877-12-28


 M. E. Association used to give us.. .... Has the last committee forgotten their appoint. mert ?.....It appears that the throat disease is not all with the fowls, as most everybody you meet has sore throat with red flannel around 1t......It looks ss if it might be g good time for doctors; ''Where is our new doctor9" There is no need of having the toothache long; If you will only take ride up to Charles Preston, he will jerk them out in good shape. We have this evidence from one that knowe......T The teachers and oldest scholars of the W. c. s. s. are re- quested to meet at Deacon R. R. Pratt'i Friday evening of this week. B. Aunt Jane and Maurice. .-MR. .ED1ruR:-
 thort I'd write leetIe note,
 To see if you could tell
 What 'tis that troutles frend Vernier,
 And if he isn't well.
 He use to be ''so happy" once;
 Last summer believe;
 And now it seems as if he did
 Do nothing else but grieYe.
 l allus read his poums OCT.
 And that-ar one last Woek,
 It made me feel 90 dretful bad
 That could hardly speak.
 He sed that what he's looking for
 Was not in ''halls of mirth,"
 And finally he couldn't find
 Upon this ''dreary earth"
 But he should hev to git away
 To that-ar ''warmer place;"
 And there he thUrt p'raps he'd find
 What here there want no trace.
 do believe he's lookin' for
 That stuff we've hetrd folks tell,
 They have to fix out matches with,
 And which is made in heaven. q couldn't seem to git that to rhyme some howl
 If that's the case, when he gifts raound,
 He won't no more complain
 Ahanut his dretful lonesome spells
 There'll be ''cards" for Your
 AUNT JANE. The Negro, Ten Eyck. We have re- ceived a lengthy communication from Gull ford Centre, N Y. which bears unmista-. kable evidence of having been written by parties more interested in the welfare of the negro, Ten Eyck, than would seem health ful to the cause of justice. This writer asks space in our columns to plead the cause of Ten Eyck, and manifests more zeal in his behalf than seems natural for disinterested citizen of the great state of New York, and after careful perusal of this plea. we can- not do away with the impression that there is s'cat in the meal" somewhere. Ten Eyck made serious threats against MT. and Mrs. Stillman, and they Were murdere- most brutally butchered. Ten Eyck may be innocent of this terrible murder, but h- has been terror to every neighborhood he has lived in for years past, and to give hlm the benefit of any doubt that may be iDge- niously worked into plea in hls behalf. preferring that ten guilty persons Nke hina should go unpunished, than that one. like him, innocent ot this particular crime, should hang, is questionable doctrine, and if all other desperadoes who are as danger ous to life and limb az Ten Eyck has the of being, are-we don't want killed, but-hung by the neck till they are rendered harmless as doves," the earth would be r:d of great curse.
 In Pittsfeld Jail.-We improved the cp- portunity last Friday while in P.ttsfeId, to do ourselves the honor of paying visit to the renowned Ten Eyck who is accused of the murder of MT. and Mrs. Stillman of Sheffield. We found that gentleman re. c.ining on his bed in his cell in Pittsfeld Jail, reading. In response to salutation by Jailer Gardner, who accompanied us on our rounds of the jail. Ten Eyck made a very successful attempt to be cheerful, and one would almost imagine him awaiting the coming of 'me joyful event, instead of his trial for his life. We are informed that he has suddenly become very pious, writing Jesus," etc., but the enormous lie he told Monday of last week reflects on the sheer. " ot his religion. It was observed by those who have charge of the crockery, knives, etc., employed in giving out the rations to the prisoners, that one knife was missing. and inquiry of the hall men di- vulged the fact that no knife was received from Ten Eyck's cell. MT. Gardner al once visited Ten Eyck, who informed him that no knife Was given to him when the ra:ions were served. This was known, by the system employed in the prison, to be an ''error" on the part Of the distinguished prisoner, and thorough search was insti .uted. going through the straw in his bed, as well as examining every other part ot hls cell. but no knife was found, and the search abandoned. but MT. Gardner could not be reconciled and another examination was determined upon. This time the bed was removed to the prison barn and all the straw carefully taken from it Tn handfuls. and a cautious sitting of it found the los, knife, very nicely wrapped in paper and placed in such way that nothing but the thorough search MT. Gardner made would be likely to find it. As thls lie failed Ten Eyck. he supplemented it with another, stating when he learned it was found, that the hall man made him plesent of it. We didn't ask him what use he designed to