Connecticut western news., 1877-04-13

If poets pick it to pieces SO!
 True. saddest words we maidens know, Are those. i've are without beau" And if our hearts be rent in twain,
 Our tears indeed must fall like rain;
 Yet manly smiles the wounds might heal, And then how happy we should feel! Our lives were then no longer dark,
 If they were lighted by ''a spark"
 We need no longer cultivate
 Fields in such an urproductive state. Alas for toil Alas for 'Field!"
 If poems only, were the yield;
 But latent talent brought to light,
 Gives ''laugh in our sleeves"-classic right; And t'wails" draw out another name. To 'sseek. forsooth, for ''sounding fame!" So let us bring forth laurels now,
 To twine about that noble brow!
 OBSERVER.
 In Trouble.-A young Irish woman from Bethlehem. Conn.,, was left in Sprng- field, Mass., on Saturday evening in a de- plorable condition, being lured there by 8 promise of marriage from man who took this means of securing $500 which she had saved from her wages as servant. His name is given as Earl Yale, and he is sad to belong in Sandisfeld, but to have lived some time at Winsted. and more recently at Bethlehem where he worked on farm This girl was on neighboring farm, and their acquaintance ripened into an engage ment which was to have been consumma. ted in Springfield Saturday night. On leaving home she took her hoarded earn ings with her and was induced to commit them to his care. Arriving at Springfield at 7S0 in the evening, he placed her in a hack and pad her fare to the Haynes House, promising 10 rejoin her az soon as he could find Catholic priest to tie the knot. She waited reasonable tune before she became convinced of his treachery, and no keener disappointment can be imagined. He is supposed to have left the city on one of the evening trains.
 Kent,-A jury of inquest was held Sun day morning oyer the body of Franklin Barney, found Saturday On Walter Pages mountain farm. Barney. who was part negro and part Spaniard came to this place some years ago, was basket maker, and for 8 time lived among the Indians a, Scsghticoke. From the testimony given at the inquest it seems that on the night of February l2 he was with some others al the house of Lewis Morey. had been drink. ing, and at about midnight took two pails and started to go to George Browns. about half mile distant. for cider. He never returned, but strange to say, no search was made for him, and Brown testifies that he did not come to his house. Last Friday 8 man crossing the fields fouud the pails, and the next day, crossing again, found the body lying on rock, in the next lot, partly under some rails. He was lying on his side, with his hand grasping his knife under his face, which was slightly cut. Various opinions are held as to the cause of bis death, some thinking he froze to death, as it was a very cold night, and others enter tain suspicious of foul play. The jury did not bring in any verdict, but adjourned for further testimony. X.
 The Poisonous spitz.-A despatch from | Lowell, Mass., to the New York Tribune of April 6, says:
 Mrs. Eliza Strout, of Chelmsford, Mass. who was bitten by Spitz dog some little time ago, died today (April 6,) of hydro phobla, after inten,e suffering.
 With the multiplicity of testimony con. stantly being developed, of the result of the bite of the Spliz being sure death in almost, if not every casc, It IS certainly one of the most incomprehensible facts extani, that people who possess and manifest good judgement in all other matters, will contin ue week after week and month after month to harbor in the bosom of their family, thlE very pretty but trescherous and deadly an imal. Instances are being constantly re- ported in the papers where these creatures have bitten the hand that has for perhaps weeks and months fed them with their da ly food. and the victims have died deaths the most horrible It is scarcely necessary to add that in such cases the ''dog is thP7a in stantly killed" Do the people who harbo1 these dogs realize that their pet may some tune or other implant it's beautiful and poi sonous teeth in the person of some member of their family ,and that this child or parent as the case may be, may die death more errible thar scarcely can be imagiD ed? Does it pay to nourish and protect such risk ? Any sane person will say al once, No ! and thousand times No fol all the spitz dogs in the world are no price or remuneration whatever for the life oi my boy or my girl; or my father ol mother. It certainly is commendablt thing to do to cause Spitz dog to be de stroyed after the Gaa6naaS has 9igeaa to aoan' person the hydrophob6a, but isn't It not on ly wiser, but tke imperative duty of al owners of such dogs, to cause them to ht destroyed 6efore they have murdered hu man being; to cause them to be killed witt no delay? And we say further, that i ought to be regarded as duty that eacl owes to his fellow man, to shoot Spit dog at sight, regarding it's instant destruc ton as necessary to the safety ot the hu lman family as that of rattlesuake.3