Connecticut western news., 1878-09-12

fend their action in the matter, and meet objections with req son and common sense, feeling assured that they have acted for the best interests of the schools of the town. SCHOOL VISITOR.
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 Mir. Henry J. Holt has returned from his trip through the West, and reports good time, having seen about all the West slnce the middle of May ......Rev. l.. H. Hallock of Winsted supplied the pulpit of Rev: J. F. Gleason last Sabbath and preached very interesting sermon in the forenoon, from Romans, lst chapter, goth verse ; touching bri, fly upon his trip to the Sand wIch Islands. In the afternoon he gave a pleasant descriptive account of the sand wich Islands the social and religious hab- its of the natives. Prof. Sloeckle of Yale | college presided at the organ........A beauti- | ful rustic bridge has been placed over Net tleton brook, near the residence of the late Rev. Dr. Edridge the design being fur. nlshed by Rev. Mr. Bassett.. The city | hoarders have nearly all left for home. ...... Quite number from this place attended tue RockawaY Beach excursion last Mon day, and report an enjoyable time in spite of the fact that$hey were obliged to start at 5 o'clock a. m.......... Deacon Joseph N. | Cowles started for New York last Sunday. .......The cemetery trouble is at last ended having been tried by all the respective courts in the State, and by each decided in favor of the town. Much interest is mani. fested in the manner in which a portion of the new addition of three and one-half acres is being graded, laid out, etc. This work is under the supervision of MT. Mo Clune, a landscape gardener from Hartford with the assistance of fifteen Norfolk men About two acres of the recent addition are | under improvement, and the care and skill ful workmanship being expended thereon | will make it one of the most attractive anC beautiful cemeterles in the State. Two ca pacious drives extend the whole length ot | the lot, one in the centre and one on tho south side besides number of broad anC spacious walks. Along the north side, fol lowing the mammoth and beautiful higt wall recently built, are being laid out forty family burial lots. of uniform size anC shape, with a neat walk around each. Be tween the centre and south drives are lalc out lots, in circles, half and quarter circles with neatness and systematic regularity which characterizes them as the handiwort of thorough master of his business. Or the extreme south side is a forest, through which, in several places, openings have been made, leading to the picturesque Black berry river fifty feet below and tht prospect through these vistas are mos beautiful. Imagine looking through al opening in dense cluster of foliage, at al old idle mill, suggesting the ruins of an an cit nt castle in Merry England or at { double cascade, where two streams o sparkling water unite just before plunginl over a small cataract. While these grane improvements are. being wrought in fitting and laying out the new grounds, the origin al cemetery is being vastly beautified by grading. laying out of walks, drives, etc These improvements render the appearanc, of our cemetery more cheerful; more sug gestive of a Paradise, where we should tread lightly the sod which covers thos, that have ''gone before," than the grim dreary ''burying-ground" of the past. It' appearance exerts a comforting influence over the hereaved who are called to mourn the death of some friend, to know that they are laid to rest in this beautiful, shady, ar tistically arranged cemetery, instead of { cold, gloomy, ghostly swamp. These i'm provements have engendereG so much eX pense that the question is frequently asked Who foots the bill ?" t'Is the town able tt lquidate the indebtedness necessarily incur red 2' The question IS easily answered, a other similar questions have been the eX pense is assumed by that public-spirlte' pbilanthropist, Hon. Robblps Battell whose heart and purse are ever open to tn poor and needy, as well as to the essentia improvements of his native town.
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