Connecticut western news., 1878-05-30

snSAa " tols mSettuR [ 1S tone lndtcateu doubt if the caller there had acted the faith ful part Tes, it is true enough that such ilbes Will waste the fine flavor of easy soci- ability. Many departure from good taste is tolerated thus far for tho sake of the cause, and to preserve acting together. The remarks of Mir. P. Russell were quot. ed ss in contrast,-"He was in earnest critical and humorous-but not discourte- ous. CMS rn|
 Great Burlington, May 18th. .,.. ,,.,.. Salisbury No. 2.--A well-known resi- dent of this village, ex-postmaster and pro prietor of variety store last week, silently folded his tent and stole away between two days, taking with him all his earthly pos sessions and the malediction of our village shoemaker, whose wife and young child dis appeared short time previously. The ex- postmaster had been an inmate of the afore- said shoemaker's family during the past year, and his disappearance so quickly fol- lowing that of the wife and child is consid cred somewhat significant. At least the suOenakcT so considers 1t. A Iu.. .; -.v. REMARKS.
 Somebody is FrGnk enough to state that the last letter in the name of the refugee alluded to above by our worthy correspond ent, is Richardson, and that it was tbs Frank Richardson who has been selling liquor for months past, inveigling into his den as many who had signed the Murphy pledge as he could, and laboring with them, to induce them to break their pledge. In a few instances we are informed he suc- ceeded. when he would remove the blue ribbons from their coats and tie them on nails in the room, as trophies of bis victory over the temperance folks. precisely as savage hangs about his lodge the scalps of his murdered victims. We were strongly censured some time since for publishing an article refecting pretty severely upon the conduct of this man. whose ''hell," as that article likened it to, was so near to the place where were held the meetings of those who were laboring in the cause of temperance, and who sold his soul destroy ing drink at fifteen drinks for twenty-five cents. We say we were censured for usirg such strong and vigorous language in the article against this man as alluded to above, because, we were told. the people thought perhaps they could get hiia to sign the pledge and give up the business, etc. Of course this IS one way to treat such case, but there is.another way, and that other way " O xynn fx, Ia lv,tf was strong, upon the good people of Salis- bury, as their duty to do. We urged the people to grasp this, their vilest enemy, working never before so zealously to drag men who were resolving to reform and were signing the Murphy pledge, down 10 his own level in degradation, doing all in his power to defeat the labors and efforts of the temperance people, and for this we were censured we say. But let us look at the result. Is this man reformed No, a thousand times no ! but instead, has dragged down again to their degradation and destruction, several who had signed the pledge and donned the blue, and these bits of blue ribbon which be removed and
  their disgrace against the lenient treatment of such man. Save Frank Richardson The Christian portion of the people might with equal proprIety attempt to convert the | devil, by tolerating and dealing gently with l iniquity on earth. Frank Richardson is aaot saved, and the lenient, easy, quiet ef- fort to save him was made at the expense | of the risk of his dragging pledge signers | down again to drunkenness. and be has caused, so we are informed. several to break their pledges, and TOW that his work | is accomplished, be has, as is almost posi-. lively known in Salisbury, broken up the family of poor shoemaker by running away with his wife. All this is the cost of trying to save Frank Richardson by dealing very gently with his iniquity. Had few of the citizens of Salisbury gone to him and told him they would give him just l5 min utes to shut up that chop or leave the country, they would have reformed Frank Richardson if there is any reform in him, and would have saved those who have now fallen. as we'll as being source of comfort to the poor shoemaker Look to Canaan What are you doing over there? do you ask? We'll tell you: Such a sum as Frank Richardson kept, and the effort by it's keeper that he made, to induce pledge signors to again drink, would not be tolera- ted in Canaan through one day. We don't pretend to amount to much over here, but such man as Frank kichardsou has made ; himself in Salisbury, would be handled without gloves here, and there would be no ' delay in attending to it either.
 ED. NEws.
 Left over from last week.
 Collinsville. The town of Canton, wedged in between Simsbury and New | is about nine miles long, and q with an average width of less than three a niles, and yet many of her sons have done ' Ter honor as follows: Rev. Heman Q Humphrey D. D., president of Amherst V College; Hector Humphrey. graduate of b { ale, and yaledictoriaD in the class of 1877 $ Vas noted lingust and president of St. C ohn's College at Annapolis, Md. Hon. Il Asbael Bliss, member of Congress from U Northern Ohio for two or more terms; Hon. - 4ucien Barbour, member of Congress from V Thomas Dyer, mayor of Chicago; ierrill l. Mills, mayor ot Detroit; Leonidas ,. Hamlin D. D., Bishop of the M. E. c hurch in Ono; Greene c. Bronson, Chief c ustice and Attorney General in the state q q f New York. Without further details, it c lay be said the sons of Canton all over the z!