Connecticut western news., 1877-07-13
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To Martha's Vineyard. yor going to Martha's Vineyard this season ?-
 Have no money to go with Of course yor have no money to go with; we didn't sup pose you had any money, ard we dont know of anybody whoshas any money tc go anywhere with, but what difference does that make: ask the railway companies to (mis) trust you for your tickets, and ec right along and have good time. Mar : thas Vineyard we think is the pleasantest place to spend few days, or a few weeks 1T you choose to stay so long, ot any we nave ever visited. Take the Conn. West. ern forenoon train to Hartford arriving at
 1,17 p. m., and the Hartford, Providence & Fishkill train leaving that city at
 2.25 and arriving at Providence at
 about six in the evening. Stay in
 Providence over night and start anew
 the next morning on the Boston 6 Provi-
 dence road for New Bedford, which will
 land you on the dock at New Bedford,
 where ten steps will take you on board the steamer, which will give you a pleasant two hours sail across Buzzards Bay to Oak
 Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, and which is properly named the Cottage City of Ameri- ca. We forgot to saythat when in Hartford. buy excursion tickets at the Hartford, Providence & Fishkill ticket window, which will take you to Oak Bluffs, Mar tha's Vineyard, and return to Hartford, goodSto use any tune before Oct. l, and which will cost just exactly seven dollars for the full round trip. Now then; don't you see it is just the easiest thing in the world to go to Martha's Vineyard this sum- mer ? There are lots of distinguished peo- ble there this season, and there'Il be more when you get there. Do go! they are all expecting you.
 Coy. Hubbard's Letter.-The following letter was written by Gov. R. D. Hubbard to Key. J. G. Oakley, and was read by H. M. Knight, M. D., at the Lake vllle celebration on the Fourth:
 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
 STATE OF CONNECTICUT
 HARTFORD, July 2, 1877.
 DEAR SIR: should be delighted to join you-were able to do so-in the festivi- ties with which you propose, in the midst of your green hills and by the side of your beautiful lake. to greet the return of the nations birthday. You have, I cannot but think. double cause for such greetings.
 The Republic has safely passed through the agonies and perils of a civil war on which depended the existence of the gov ernment and the equal rights of men be- fore the law. We have come up out of the Red Sea in triumph. God be praised for the patience and courage with which He endowed US, and for the victory with which we have triumphed so gloriously.
 But the victories of arms are of them selves vulgar and barren. They are merely means to an end. We have crowned them at last with the greater victories of peace peace throughout all our borders, the devil of slavery cast out, the reign of law, order and reconciliation restored, and finally honor to whom honor is due-of civil lib ertY and rights to all the States of the Un- ion. For four long and bloody years, forty millions or us. we were fratricides; to, day we are brothers agaln, they of the Blue and they of the Gray, in better fellowship, verify believe. and in wiser liberty. Our victory then IS, not that we have conquered our enemies, but that we have gained our brethren.
 And so you do well and wisely to mark this anniversary with special accent and emphasis. Rendering all homage to the noble founders of the Republic, who counted not their lives dear in the great struggle for Revolutionary freedom, let us not forget the not less glorious services of those who on the field of battle, with still greater treasures of blood, or in the cabinet, with equal patriotism, have saved the Re- public of the fathers and the liberties of their sons.
 Accept for yourself and for all those you represent my personal salutations and the assurance of my profound respect, and be- lieve me, sir, your obedient servant. k. D. HUBBARD.
 We learn that the financial proceeds of the celebration met the highest expecta. tions of those who had the management of the affair.
 C1syton.-The Spring term of the Dis trict School taught by Mrs. B. E. C. Smith. closed on Friday last. The examination was well attended by the parents and friends of the pupils. although the register showed dearth of visitors, during the school session, which is lamentable If the | parents would give little time and atten- ton to the schools, which their children at- tend, we are sure it would conduce to the of the teacher, and the i'm provement of the pupils. Nellie and Ida Brennison, Willie F. Green, Louie Hart, Willie and Bertie Nelson, Freddie Sackett, Gertrude Warner. were not absent day of she term. Eddie and Ida VanDeusen but one-half day. The register shows but a very few tardy.marks for a school number ing Al pupils......The closing of the differ ant schools in the town of New Marlboro, was made the occasion of grand holiday for last Saturday. The committee extend ed an invitation to the different districts, for teachers and pupils particularly, and ev- erybody generelly, to meet at Lake Buel in aartsville. Although the invitation did not each us till late hour on Wednesday, yet through the prompt efforts of Messrs. L. Smith, B. Curtiss, L. Lindsey, and N Van Deusen, three double teams and one single, were secured. and a party ofiforty-three eft Clayton at an early hour, joining the ong line of teams (from other dlstricts) at Mill River, led by the Southfeld Brass