Connecticut western news., 1878-06-20

writer in the Hartford Times speaks of her experience in preserving strawberries and other fruits as follows:-
 Last year tired saving fruit without cooking. have now unopered and appar- ently unchanged bottle of gooseberries put up last year. have this summer used strawberries after they had been three weeks bottled, just as fresh as new. Last year kept them for months. Take solid oness wash them carefully, and shall hereafter leave the hulls on, and fill the jar full, then turn in cold water to the brim cover. and seal and turn the jar bottom-end up, and if 1t does not leak at once, the ber- ries will stay fresh till eaten.
 South Canaan. Mir. and Mrs. Levi Bee be had their house-warming on Friday evening, l4th inst. Quite company were present, and the dancing was kept up till 8 late hour. The honse has been repaired both inside and out, and presents 8 very neat appearance......Mr. Moore, who SUD- pllcs the pulpits at this church and the Chapel at Falls Village, is well liked, and brings out good congregatlons...... Mrs. Prentiss IS greatly improved in health. and able to be about her house again.........The few warm days have brought vegetation forward very rapidly, and the season now seems nearly as forward as usual.
 Please Heed This.-It is only necessary for quite large number of our subscribers, to ask them to examine the date by their name on their paper, and if they find them selves in arrears, will at once pay for their renewals. We desire once more to call at- tention to the fact. We constantly need money, fand must constantly be receiv- ing our pay or we should soon be in trou- ble, for pond into which no water flows, but which is constantly being dreamed, will soon cease to turn the wheels of the mill. Therefore we say, if you are in arrears. please send us the small amount due. It IS these small amounts; small, each taken alone, that aggregate the sum of our exist, ence.. Please think of this, and realize the importance to us of the small amount you owe us.
 Total Eclipse of the sun.-On the 29th
 of July 8 total eclipse of the sun takes
 place under such circumstances as to pre-
 sent opportunities that occur scarcely once
 In generation, for the study of some oi
 the most interesting phenomena with whict
 astronomers have to do. The path of tht
 totality of this eclipse runs diagonally across
 the centre of the United States from Mon tana to Texas, and is somewhere about IA
 miles wide. Many of the best points fo
 observing the eclipse are therefore directl!
 accessible by railroad, and several expedi.
 tions might be sent out fully equipped t
 as many different points, without spendinl
 90 much money upon them all as it woul,
 ordinarily take to equip single expedition
 to more distant point.
 The Temperance Meeting. The meet
 ing at Town Hall last Saturday evening uu
 der the auspices of our temperance organiz
 ation was, without exception, the Rost in
 teresting that has ever been held here. Tn
 best of order prevailed, and aspirit of good 4 fellowship seemed manifest amongst tn entire audience. We were very sorry t find the hall was not SO well filled as it ha
 been at previous meetin9A but tn fact that this Is the busiest seasdA with tn farmer, and, as for that matters with a others who have work of any kind to do and the fatigue of the labors of full wee would tend to woo the wearied husbandma
 and craftsman to that rest of which the. stood in SO much need, instead of makin the effort required to ''turn out" to tn meeting, as they may have previously d. signed to have done is the only reason W can assign as cause why the house we not full to ovelflowing :-But there was very good audience, and we have only } say to those who did not attend, that prob ably better speaking was never heard i Canaan than that of Saturday evening. Al ter prayer by the Rev. MT. Bates of N braska, President Roraback introduced M IT. l.. Morton, who took for hls text, th
 word Temperance. This text he divide
 into the number of heads there are lei ters in inc word, and which were as fo : lows
 T.-Thorough. E.-Earnest.
 : M.-Method.
 P.-Perseversnce.
 Enlightenment.
 Il R.-Religion.
 s1 A.-Activity.
 al N.-Necessity. nl C.-CharitY.
 sl Enthusiasm
 ,- These heads, or sub-texts, he applied ' this work of temperance, and from eae e made remarks, which in the aggregate fo
 med his lecture entire. The selection these sub-heads to his lecture from the le ters forming the word itself, Temperanc P was certainly very ingenious as well as a . propriate, and the able manner in whit ,l ,. MT. Norton handled his subject under { U it's various subdivisions shows knowled o and experience in this work of saving h manity from the terrible curse of intempe D ance, it is a most excellent idea to have pc ' sessed by one who will make such good u u of it as does Mir. T. L. Norton. MT. N. 10 an orator of no mean order, and hls addre here Saturday evening was regarded as o
 entertaining, instructive and very interei l. ing to listen to. At the close of MT. Nt D tons remarks. <Mr. E. s. Adams of M
 River was introduced, but as the time of t y assembling of the meeting was late. | l. hour had now become so far advanced