Connecticut western news., 1878-04-18

Mrs, w. BiSSell, Wakeman, Ohio, Q 10 Wm. Hunt, 10 John St., Worcester, Mass, l2 s. Silvernail Elkhart. Ind. 3O
 Fast Day y.-To-morrow (Friday) is fast day.
 wolcottYille. and Miller are hay ing great success in Wolcottville.
 Temperance in Lakeville. T. Ro raback Esq.,, and others, will address the people of Lakeville next Saturday evening on the subject of Temperance.
 Temperance. The next meeting of the Town Temperance Society will be held in the Congregational church at East Canaan, Saturday evening, April 27. The concert exercises arranged for Sunday will be post poned.
 Depot Robbery. The depot of the Nau- gatuck railroad company at the East Ltch- field station, was broken open at an early hour last Monday morning, the safe taken out and moved off for some distance on a car. The burglars then blew the safe open. rifed it of it's contents, and threw It down the bank into the river
 Gone to Kansas-Two young men of Lakeville, Frank Egleston and Wm. Cor nell, started from that place last Monday for Kansas, the object of their visit being to look over the country with view of settling there. As they are young men of good habits and character, they will make good citizens for the West, should they conclude to locate there.
 Epis soopal. Good Friday, April l9, ser | vices 10. 30 8. me, 4 and 7.30, p. m., with sermon in the morning and lecture at 7.3O, l by Rev. MT. Johnson of Salisbury. Other days in Holy Week. 10. 30 a. m. and 7.3O p. m. Easter day, April 2l, services at 7.3O and 10. 30 a. m. and 4 p. m. At the last servlce the sacrament of Baptism will be administered. The seats are dW free.
 Salisbury Murphys.-We publish this week the remaining portion of the list oi Salisbury pledge signers. There are one thousand and ninety-three names in the town who are recorded on the side of tenn perance, and the worthy secretary, MT. J. s. Perkins, says there will be s'more to fol low" Their next temperance meeting will be held in Lakeville Saturday evening April 27th.
 ". c , not J. N.-Au item has been going the rounds of the papers that "J. N. Ward of Canaan" had been appointed su perintendent of the furnaces and business at Irondale in place of the late Mir. Phelps, all of which is correct except the name, Mr. N. c. Ward being the gen tleman appointed to that responsible DO stion, and the appointment is a most ex- cellent one.
 Postponed Ion account of Friday nex (April 19th) being Fast Day, the Teachers Institute advertised in the CONN. WESTERN NEWS of April 11th. to be held in Nortt Canaan on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 18th, 18th and 20th, is postponed one week, and is now appointed to be hec Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 25th 26th and 27th, beginning at o'clock a. m Thursday, April 25th.
 A Tramp's Work. Calvin Ticknor oi Ellsworth society, about two miles from Cornwall Bridge. was brutally assaulted by tramp last Friday morning and left in' sensible in his barn yard. A sled stake was the implement used by the tramp and the victims head bore evidence to the terrible blows he received. It is supposed robbery was the object of the attack. The would be murderer had just been furnished 6 breakfast at MT. Ticknor's house.
 Served Him Right.-The Springfield Republican says J. F. Shorey, who assisted in the Moody meetings ln that city, was ar rested in Worcester last week for an unpaic board bill of about $2O contracted some three years ago, when he was in Worcester as book agent. He claimed not to be able to pay the bill, but $40 were found on his person when he was searched at the lock up, and he was let eff by the court on pay ing the bill and the costs of the suit.
 The Hilton Scandal.-MaY God have mercy upon us all The Beecher Tiltor scandal is revived. Mrs. Hilton has con fessed her guilt of adultery with MT Beecher, and MT. Beecher confrOnts he statement with hls emphatic denial. Ev cry right minded person hoped this busi- ness was forever ended, but If it must come up again 1t IS to be hoped quick work vii be made ot it. One thing is certain: tht vacillation of Mrs. Hilton is thoroughly disgusting. To-day she says one thing.anc tomorrow will affirm precisely the contra ry, and Tn the strongest language. Nobody | knows what to believe, or what not to be leve. Under the influence of her husband she says whatever he wills she shall say. and when he is absent she contradicts it all, and verify there is no truth in her. If this most wretched woman had been sent to the insane asylum years ago, where her unsta- ble. contradictory babbling had been con fined within the walls of such an institution, to mlngle only with the incoherent mutter. ings of its miserable inmates, the world to. day would rejoice ID purer and more A lkL,e e..Io