Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17

"eT X. are 90 as to be around, but with 7 4aher sore craniums. Arthur. youngest son of E M. Turner is ill with scarlet fe- yer; the only case thus far...... United meet ings are being held by the Congregational and Methodist churches. The latter was crowded on Sunday eve. and considerable interest is nsnifested......L. c. Hunt was in town over Sunday. ......Mrs. E. c. Cow drey has got lots of pictures for decorating. ......Ssy, Squire Pease, Mark Barnum. en- eineer of No. 2" on the H. R. R. says you have got nice house. but it's always awful dark when he passes there, and wants to have you ''illuminate" little. Now why don't you ''let you let your light shine ?" CLICK.
 The Wheelock Plano. Forbes of West Winsted has recently introduced among his stock of pianos, new piano known as the Wheelock piano. This in- strument is made by MT. Wheelock, 9 young man who has been engaged as an employe in the manufacture of pianos for several years. and now has begun the man. ufacture of them for himself, making those that will bear his name. Mr. w., we are informed. is piano builder of rare skill and ability, and is enthusiastic Tn his deter imitation to make the best pianos in the world. He has conducted the manufacture of them on his own responsibility only about two years, but has already produced instruments ahead of any we have ever. heard. The Wheelock piano at the store of MT. Forbes is certainly the best instru- ment of the sort we ever saw or heardss The tone is more full, more noble, and -al- together more delightful than we eyer ex- pected to hear in piano. We are inclined to the opinion that Friend Forbes would much prefer we should extol the merits Of his Chickering's. for he certainly. loves to sell a Chickering piano, and we can say for him, az everybody already knows, that a Chickeriug piano is about good enough for anybody. but this Wheelock piano is as far ahead of Chickeriug, as Chickering is ahead of 8 jewsharp:-that's rather too much contrast. but it's far superior in strument to Chickering piano. or that of any other make we ever heard. This young man, Wheelock, has certainly struck the right track. In this introduction of bis pianos, he has put the price low, the price being COT siderably over than that of other first class makes, but we had rather have this Wheelock plano we saw at MT. Forbes few days since. than any other and hundred and Atty dollars, boot money. We never saw Mir. Wheelock, nor ever heard of him till we saw this piano, and we give him this good square notice because we love to speak of true merit when we find it.
 About Savings Banks The whole peo- pie of the country appear to be thoroughly aroused about the soundness of sayings banks, and it requires but slight show or semblence of anything that can be ~distort- ed into an evidence of weakness, to set . whole region in blaze of suspicion ard alarm. Everybody knows. and the savings | banks never hesitate to acknowledge, that ! the past two or three years have been try ing ones for savings banks; and so they have been trying years for everybody and everything else; and while in the ranks Of most trusted individuals, companies and corporations, the slaughter has been terri ble. whole flies of them tumbling before inc murderous fire and crossa fire of old s'Hard Times while men who were thought to be of almost immaculate purity nave been weighed and found dreadfully wanting: taken from the Sabbath School and the sanctuary, where they were Upright and shining lights" clothed with the garh of righteousness directly to the prison and placed in the cell of the felon. msrch- ed to the work shop ln company with the lowest, the vilest and most criminal wretch es that curse the earth, their garb of right eousness exchanged for the stripe of the condemned, and their noble brow of purity of Christian love and fortitude," blacken- cd by the infamous stamp of THIEF. DE- | FAULTER, etc. we Say when such things are made common, almost everyday occur rences in our land, is it at all strange that a savings bank here and there. and which probably and upquestionsbly were the weakest amongst the number of such insti- tutions, fell with the almost common lot of the rest of distressed humanity9 and be- cause some have gone down, does that ef- feet the others. that may be, as our cores pondent sand last week of the Falls Village bank, ''0s sound as c rock 7" We do not blame people for being nervous about their hard earned dollars They do not want them all swept away, as it were, in a day !; and we should be very sorry to have any thing we might say influence any person to
 put his money and trust in any bank. or to check him or change him in his determips- ton to withdraw his funds from 8 bank,
 and have him afterwards lose it, but we
 really and candidly think there is no req sonable cause for alarm at any of the say ings banks in this region. To be sure the collateral held by some of these banks, like
 that of all others, (real estate), has depre
 ciated in value, and perhaps and probably if all the depositors should at once demand I their loans, and compel any oneof our banks to realize by forced sale on their securities it very likely would embsrrass it for little, | and until it had time to recover from such 8 shock; but we have no hesitation iny saying we think it would 'sstsnd the storm :" but
 how would it be m such an emergency witn that class of our people, and the class IS 8 large one, who have found it expedient to seek loans from these banks. and have mortgaged their real estate for security :? Does not A eenae.ess run on a savings bank
 mean ruin, swift and complete. to those
 ~h" have borrowed money, and whose Tea estate apa.st 5s sold at Gny price to rsaliz.