Connecticut western news., 1877-05-25

 the cream was excellent and by the way that biscuit flew around the room should judge that was also appreciated. The receipts amounted to $2O......A new fence is being built around Union Park, and looks much better than the dilapidated old struc- ture that has dis-grsced it 80 long......Con- siderable interest is manifested in the Fall meeting and it IS to be hoped that every one will turn out and add their share toward making the Exhibition successful and interesting ne......Frank E. How'd of Sugar Hill has been ill with the quinsy for some six weeks, but is now able to be about some. His father has also been quite sick......A neck-tie party in Citizens Hall on Friday evening is in anticipation by the young folks. Ice cream, strawberries, etc......E. J. Hornbeck, one of CIV. Halls salesmen, spent the Sabbath at his home in Kingston, N. Y. It is to be presumed that Bison is pretty well Posted over there. -"eenG noe O postal " "......I suppose G. W. Hall intends to have COO sometime this Summer, for saw .frame back of the store the other day. CLICK. Clayton.-Mr. Wm. Shultz has moved bis family to the Smith District, some three miles from here. The house he has just vacated is owned by Robert Taft, and it is rumored, will be rented to Poles, employees at the clay works..... MT. M. Nelson is put ting quite different look on the front of c. c. Barnes store, in the shape of two large show windows. This will be quite an improvement in the way of displaying his fine line of goods, and will doubtless help to swell the already lengthy list of custom CTS which his o5liging manner and honest dealing have secured hlm...... We wonder if Mrs. Benj. Curtiss and Mrs. l.. Lindsey are trying to rival each other In the line of choice house plants. Each has large va riety, and fine display of floral beauties, which awaken universal admiration. We saw among Mrs. Curtiss' collection, love- ly calla lily, bearing magnificent twin blos- soms of astonishing size. Mrs. l.. displays | in turn an oleander some eight feet in height, bearing heavy clusters of blossoms, in size resembling the damask rose, aLd numberless buds. We would be willing to take some trouble to call and see it when it | is in full bloom...".The one universal and prolific theme among our farmers seems to be divided into two heads, viz.: "The 'Ta- ter Bugs," and 1.-The what to do with them." Now AND THEN. West Cornwall. so lately brown and bare, is putting on her robes of lovely terder green, and the,delicate petals of ap- pie and pear blossoms float on every breeze. Pale innocents and violets are scattered in profusion along the roadside. The lovely Housatonic laves the feet of the beautiful mountains, winding through the valley past qulet farmhouses and village greens; one imasines only quietness and joy in each cottage. One home in thls lovely valley on the margin of the river is left desolate i; the hearthstone cold and dark. while the wife seeks fitful pleasures elsewhere, and the husband, stricken with grief and shame, seeks to drown his sorrows in the ''fowlng bowl" and wanders aimlessly about the streets. She for whom he toiled and saved has been led astray by the tempter. and glife seems scarcely worth having. Many hearts mourn their dead, but those who mourn the living, who are yet dead to them are to be pitied. How can husbands and wives so lightly break the most solemn VOWS be SO recreant to duty {? Surely the sweetness they hoped to quaf must be imbittered by remorse. (essence of hell, ,)and
 it may be that they need our pity more
 than those sinned against, for surely the
 great Controller of events will deal justly; J.
 Commendable Candor.-It is certainly
 very refreshing in these intensely DO
 litical times, to see purely par tisan journal come forward and frank ly acknowledge merit possessed by officials of the opposite party. It is la mentable fact that such case is almost un known in the annals of modern journalism but an instance of this kind has actually
 occurred, and that within the present week
 The Hartford Tunes has frankly and man :, fully accorded to President Hayes credl
 for the course he has pursued since he hal
 been the Nations chief executive. Tba journal approves of the Presidents South ern policy in particular, aud has spoken ir
 detail of much else it has been its pleasure F to allude to as commendable, and has thu manifested a spirit of fairness and cando1 refreshing to contemplate. In the Tune of Tuesday evening we extract paragraph
 or two from an editorial on the report tha Mir. Tilden had obtained further very i'm portant testimony, and was about to begi1 contest for the presidency, etc., whict
 we give below:
 It does no good to stir up public feeling
 by any revival of the old story that Presi dent Tilden is going into contest of MT Hayes' title to the Presidency. Wha good, pray, can be gained now, by any at
 tempt to upset the existing administration It is more than doubtful if, with all tht proof that could be wished for, this could l now be done. The attempt would only
 disturb the public order, and unsettle mans
 faith in the fixedness of our form of gov erument. MT. Hayes is manifestly doing 3 good and patriotic work; let him be sus ,ained in whatever he does that is right l He makes some bad appointments; and hii
 civil service reform does not promise tC yield all that has been claimed for it. But he seems to be trying to do well, and per r haps to be acting on his own motto-"He b. st serves his party who best serves his country" Let us treat him fairly and not abuge him at all points and grant him rso
 good impulses. The good of the country
 requires that, if he must hold the office he
 should be sustained in doing right.