Connecticut western news., 1878-05-16

arrangements for full and complete re-
 port in next weeks NEWS, of the trial of
 Ten Eyck, giving detailed report of all the proceedings to the, end, ifindeed the end l of the trial will be reached so soon. Wei shall again use the map of the section Tn ! which the murder was commitel, which l will be found convenient to refer to when ! reading the testimony.
 Sheffield d-The dreadful murder trial is l to commence in Sheffield today, and a | large number of witnesses have gone from Sheffield, many of them knowing nothing that will help the case either way; they merely prove the man a liar, and that every
 one knows him to be without more proof.
 The three merchants have been ohllged to
 leave their business and be on hand just to
 testify that the negro was not in either of
 the stores the day when he said he was. There is great deal cf anxiety felt for fear
 that Ten Eyck may possibly be cleared. That does not seem possible. as they seem
 to have every proof excepting seeing the blows struck. fine should be released
 there are many more who would expect to
 he murdered, as he has made dreadful
 threats. .. Mr. Walter Miner had fine span of black horses, and while blowing
 last week one of them got his leg broken.
 One of George Cooks horses was drowned d few days since. Meat reddlers are plen- tY this season, four running regularly y.......
 There is very little sickness in the town now 1; one solitary case of fever. and that quite light. .Ephraim Brewers little
 child was buried yesterday. Had convul-
 sions which the doctor thought might have been caused by something poison having been eaten. The weather has been very cold for several days, and 8 heavy frost
 was expected, but the wind kept it off
 pretty well until last night, when there was
 white frost, but it is to be hoped that it will not kill the fruit. G.
 Sharon.-The cold winds and frosty
 nights of the past week have put check
 upon vegetation, which with rapid strides
 was marching on to maturity. Many of the
 gardens in town which were wonderfully
 forward are blackened with frost, but what
 we most fear is the effect on fruit. Large
 congregations assembled in the several
 churches yesterday, and tue Catholics gath.
 cred for worship in the Town Hall. Tho
 Congregational Sabbath School was reor
 ganHed and the following officers elected
 for the ensuing year: J. B. Smith, super
 intendent, with c. Roberts as second Rob ert Goodwin. librarian and F. Hotchkiss
 assistant. The Sharon Sabbath schools ar , large and nourishing; they are each man , aged by an efficient corps of officers an, teachers, and we trust the good seed g. e prayerfullY sown will eventually yiel Q much fruit. The Rev Mir. Whaley i I domicled at the parsonage but hls wife wi v ! not arrive before the lst of June. e......A nel i sidewalk is being made from the store o t A. 0. Woodward on the south into tn v Smithe neighborhood. We are glad to SC e the Village Improvement society making 8 l. reasonable start....... The several societie e concentrated at the Congregational churc e on Sunday evening where they held an r t teresting union temperance meeting, whic y wasiaddressed by MT. Pratt, whose repol S and remarks were listened te with much ir e terest. Rev. H. N. Bangs of Dover Plain ] addressed the people at the stated meetin k last Monday evening. We would call pal ticular attention to the excellent condito v of the roads as far as worked. MT. Wir chester, who has the supervision of tn n whole thing, is doing a most thorough wor S The base ball club of Sharon called tn
 "Llve Oaks" played match game with tn f seminary boys on Wednesday, at that plac
 They were not as liveQy) when they return ed they got worsted......A fine Woods ol gan was earned from the warerooms of H l. c. Rowley on Saturday last. Purchaser h G. Gillette, Lime Rock. The Terrett
 place is undergoing extensive repairs exter
 nally, the new piaZzass fresh paint, &c. h changing it very materially. Wye . is changing his house by raising and enlare n ling it, making his place much more attract 4 i've as well as comfortable. Dwight Ee l. gleston is doing the work..... Mrs. Georg # Wilbur has gone to Western New York fc D the summer.. .Messrs. Walton 6 Fraye if nave started a coal yard at Sharon Valle V ......M. F. Whitney IS expected in dail Q with another fine lot of stock. .Dr. H. E fl Williams of New York was in town las o week. ......F. Carter, in the lower part of th = town, had the cream stolen from his car }, of milk one night last week. k........ Mrs. Get r Walton of Sharon Valley proposes having e baby show at her house next Saturday a F. i ternoon. Mrs. A. B. Bullion and daugl 1. ter are spending week in Troy, NY.
 If ARoANUM. o Cornwall -Frosts are the order of the da D and early vegetables are poor stock to hol just now. Nearly all our farmers have fiji shed planting anticipating an early sprin. 'e but the weather for the past few days wi ls hardly justify that conclusion ..... A nun + vicinity of what is known as milk fever '' a disease for which there appears 10 be [ cure......M. Beers $ Sons have just return l. ed from New York with a large stock 10 goods which they say are to be sold at vel Il low figures. They report quotations for he B. ring and oranges as rather high for the sle ss der purse of thls comm munitY We ha' E an individual in this locality who has ma( it business for the past two months lo travel around and shoot small birds for Il As purpose of stutt1ng them. Now he has Ut more idea how to stuff bird properly ,ht as Sitting Bull has of the ten commandment r 'nd it seems pity to sec beautiful bi S idnsfnrmed SO es to resemble ball " r>ck rolled in feathers and stuck | IA !No knitting needles. but of late be