Connecticut western news., 1878-04-04

dense volumes of smoke issuing from under the roof and through the sidee of the north west corner of house situated on Church street in thls village, owned by Dr. Cum mings, and occupied by Mrs. Caldwell and her l5 year old son, Augustus. Messrs. Geo. L. Parsons and c. Lynehan, who were passing, immediately ran into the building, and on being informed that Augustus was In the room where the explosion occurred, rushed up the stairs and opened the door, but were driven back by the smoke which poured out in suffocating density. While standing in breathless suspense. Gus walked out from the room uniOjured, and stood for some seconds speeches.; but on recovering from his first fright, and being lnterrogated as to what he had been doing, replied: 'Playing with powder, like a d-n foolw In short time the smoke had cleared away sufficiently to permit of the room being entered. The bed clothes and carpet were discovered to be on fire. By this time quite crowd had collected, l who then and there established beyond g doubt. their fidelity to ''Murphy" princi- | pies by insttuting ''cold water" cure but | ln their jealous solicitude, they well nigh oveldid the matter, and. but for few clear heads. the water would have completed tue work of demolition which the powder had left unfinished. In short space of time the ire was effectually extlnguished, and the amount of damage was investigated. It was found that the almost entire end and both sides of the house had been forced 1 outward from two to six inches; the lower | extremity of the rafters on the north side for distance Of six to eight feet, had be- | come detached from the top plate, raising the roof about an inch in places the floor was torn up, and every room in the house was strewn with plaster from the ceilings. Glass from the front upstairs window was | blown into the middle of the street. Ac- cording to the boys story, he was separat- | ing some shot from about half pound of | blasting powder. when he heard ''puh" and lnvountarily throwing back his head, heard deafening crash as the remaining portion of the powder was ignited, and re membered nothing more till he heard the men shouting to him on the stairs, when he was on the opposite side of the room from where he was at work, standing on his feet. He is slightly burned about the face and hands, but not seriously. He de- nies having been smoking, and his theory is that the explosion was occasioned by friction caused by the shot coming m con- tact with the powder in handling. Various theories are advanced ss to the cause of the explosion, but the prevailing opinion Is, that "'Gus' aoas smoking"
 Temperance Jubilee.-We were not able to attend the great temperance jubilee in Burlington last week. It appears to have been grand success. The Pittstield Eagle, which is the most enterprislng. most talent ed and altogether the best paper in Western ] Massachusetts, had it's reporter there, and We republish it's report, published the next day ('Thursday) after the jubilee.
 Tae temperance jubilee at Great Barring ton yesterday was the grandest temperance demonstration ever held in Berkshire coun- | ty. The morning train from Pi,tsfield brought eight cars loaded to over flowing, | and an extra train from Falls Village Arriv ed about 10 o'clock, bringing an addition of several hundred. At the morning meeting the spacious town hall was filled in every corner, and it soon became evident that during the rest of the day overflow meet ings would De necessary to accommodate the immense thIong.
 The meeting was opened by singing ''All hail the power of Jesus name," and after reading of the scriptures by Rev. E. Scud. | Lee, Geo. E. Russell, president of the Gt Burlington c. T. U., made a brief but fit ting address of welcome, and then lntrodu- ced Postmaster Rogers of North Adams, | who, in a stirring speech, told the story of reform in Adams. He was followed hy Daniel Upton of South Adams, in brief history of the enthusiasm ID that village. He said 1900 names were secured by Love | and Miller, but the work was allowed to stop, and 332 had since been added. After singing, Rev. Mir. Kellogg begged to be ex- cused from representing Pittsfeld, and said Rev. O. F. Clifford would answer for Pitts field when he came. F. A. Russell testified to the work done in Burlington, and Miss B. W. Greenwood, in an interesting ad- dress, concluded the morning session. The visiting delegations to the number of sever al hundreds, were regaled in Sumner hall, by bOuntitul collation. prepared by the la- dies of Great Burlington. At l.3O the con- mittee appointed for the purpose presented the following board of officers for a county temperance union, which were adopted: President, Farley A. Russell of Great Bar rngton vice presidents, Frank B. Haynes of North Adams, Daniel Upton of South Adams, Rev. o. F. Clifford of Pittsield, P. T., nOw Of Cheshire and 1O othars. racord- ing secretary, J. c. Chaffee of Lee; cores bonding secretary, G. A. Phelps of Great Burlington, and large board ot managers, headed by Postmaster Rogers of North Ad- ans.
 The afternoon trains were crowded, and FIancls Murphy and his son Edwin came on one of them. When Murphy came up on the stage there were probably 1900 or 400 in the hall, and hundreds, unable to get in, repaired to the Congregational church, where anl overflow meeting was held. Ned Murphy made the first speech at the hall, and after few remarks went to the church, where he spoke for an hour and a half. He was followed at the hall by his father, who spoke in his enthusiastic manner and then went to the church and entertained the hundreds there. Miss Green wood also spoke at the hall, and several oth CTS at the church. The streets were throHg- ed all day with blue ribbon wearers. The evening meetings were as enthusiastic as the rest. and the jubilee was the most triumph ant demonstration ever held In Berkshire Pcounly.
 Falls Village. suit between J. J. Averil, M. D. and T. Tucker, was decided in favor of the latter; Mir. Tucker recover ing $6O., and Dr. A. paying cOsts......A. T. Parsell and family left here for New Mil ford, their new home on Saturday last.