Connecticut western news., 1878-07-04
OBITUARY.
JOSEPH l.. PEAsE.

cord the death of a friend; even to one' whose religion teaches him it is 8 mere| passing from one state of life to another.I| The ties of nature are very strong and can not be severed without 6 pang. God meansI us to look up trustingly to Him in our af fictions, but the same God gives us human1 eyes wherewith to weep. and copious tears| to shed. He designs that we should feel| when His hand is laid upon us or ours. Tet, lest the burden weigh us down when| struggling to bear up alone, He teaches man| to feel for man. Then let us thank HimI for that common sympathy which causes each to bear for other, that makes it possi- ble for us to ''rejoice with them that do re- joice, and weep with them that weep"
 Our little community is called upon alI this time to impart this loving sympathy toI the family of one of it's most active andI public spirited members. It has also al sorrow of it's own to bear. at it's own loss The body which loses limb must suffer as| . whole. So also the family, and the body polite the domestic and the village circle| must feel grief if they lose member. es peciallY an important one. The formerI has lost it's head, husband and father ;I the latter member whose interests were| peculiarly identified with those of the whole community. It matters little that he has been comparatively recent conner to dwell aming us. He was already known to the people of Canaan through the NEWS, of which he has been editor and propnetor for some years past, either here or in our neighborhood. Aud since his removal hither we have been brought into contacl with him at least once each week through the medium of his press and pen. Hence his rapid strides in making and filling d place before unoccupied among us place now empty, like his vacant chair place we fain would drape with sad memories in our hearts, even as the scene of his daily task is hung with signs of mourning.
 But any feelings of our own, what arc they! What can they be when compared with the sorrows of a home left desolate 1! The house-band gone; who can so well bind all the members into one7 The home just made, with It's cheer, and comforts, and attractlveness; the goal of calm rest and ripe manhood reached but all laid low at Q single blow by death The waters of the fountain SO musical and glad before, now seem like streams of tears for head of the house lying dead. Yes, one would al most look to see each plant and blade ot grass, and tree, with heads bowed down. snd all bedewed with glistening tears. For he whose hand has planted them lies cold and motionless beneath the sod.
 God grant that husband, father. friend may dwell foSever where no tears can come, or partings be; where the fountains are from that stream which flows from the great white throne, and where are the homes of aA who love a Heavenly Father.
 B.
 Since the last issue of the Connecticut Western News, it's founder. editor and pro prietor has closed his earthly career. He died at his residence in this village about 10. 46 .. m., on Sunday last. So brief was his last illness that the announcement oi his death came as a shock as well as 8 sor. fowto all of his friends and associates. Bat it needed not the almost tragic abrupt ness of his departure to create 8 deep and painful sensation in Canaan. and through this section of the state, for he was widely known and respected in all the relations of life. His illness dates back to June 22.
 Mr. Pease was porn at Ashley Falls, Mass, Jan. 2, 184O. He remained with his father until about 1859, acquiring a very liberal education. For three years he act cd as clerk in T. B. Strong's and David Scott's stores at Ashley Falls. He then was engaged for two years in the store ot Finding this too laborious for his health. he engaged in the photographing business, drst with the Ingraham Bros., of Westfield, and then with the Moore Bros. of Spring. held, Mass. He then removed to Lee, Mass, where he continued photographirg about four years, removing to Salisbury in 1870, and to Canaan in the fall ot 1876.
 Mr. Pease was marrled in 1862, to Mss Lizzie Scoville, daughter of Doctor Sec. vile ot Ashley Falls. He leaves wife and two little boys, aged respectively IF and IA, to mourn his loss.
 In the spring of 1877 he purchased g beautiful building lot about 80 rods north of this village, and in the following summer he erected fine house upon the same During all of last season and the present one he had been very busily engaged ir laying out and beautifying the grounds death he had one of the most attractive residences in the village. In the year 1870 Mr. Pease conceived the project of publish ing newspaper in the northwestern par ot Litchheld County, and in July. 1871 thu first copy of the NEWS was issued at Sails bury.-A strange coincidence connected with the history of his newspaper an( death was the fact that the NEWS had beer in existence just seven years last week Although the paper was started unde unfavorable circumstances, and man predicted that it would be short lived, ye by the zealous, persevering efforts of It's ed itor, it took. Gin the language of it's motto, ''NuHG VestigiG Retrorsuna." and to.da, it's circulation ranks well among the loca papers of the state. -.- -..-.-
 Mr. Pesse was the only man that eve published daily paper in Lltchfield Cour ty, that being the daily camp meeting ed tion of last year. He loved his paper al dently, and was very much concerne about it's publication to the last.
 He was man of courage,mora intellet tusi and physical. He was a man of in pulses and munitions. He never waited { hear the opinions of others in order to moo ulate the expression of his own, and shap them to some private end, but spoke as b thought. and thought as b breathed, with spontaniety vital as hi life. The influence of his paper was eve upon the right side.
 The private character of MT. Pease wa without stain, and he was one of the trr est friends who ever lived. He was COT sistent member of the Congregations church.
 He was public spirited in high degre and was ever awake to all things concerr ing the general welfare. He was an ca nest friend and supporter of the Village In provement Society, Free Reading Rool Assoclstion, and Temperance Organizatio of his village.
 In his death. his profession has lost on of its prominent and worthy members; th town an influential and valued citizen, an the public at large. an active and earneG friend of all it's best interests. R.
 SALIsBURY.-The unexpected intelligenc of the death of the editor of the NEW