Connecticut western news., 1878-03-14

tie. The price MT. Eldrldge was to pay was well enough, being the fare one way of the sixty men it was said he desired. and twenty dollars month. for a year. and nothing to do but to ride three mules, cook thelr own rations and see to the cattle. There was but one thing in the way of these Canaan young men being hired, and sent on to the front, and that was; Mr. Eld7idge didn't aoa7at to Aire anybody @
 The Housatonic Railroad-H. D. Av- erill, general ticket agent of the Housatonic railroad has issued the following notice:
 Until further orders, station agents will sell tickets and check baggage for Albany and the West. by the 10 10 m. train from Bridgeport. arriving in Albany at 8. % pm
 and 55 p. m. train from Bridgeport, Gar irving in Albany at 1O.3O D. m.) Both trains make close connections at State Line with Boston & Albany fast trains."
 Through tickets are sold at reduced rates, and baggage checked from this station and Falls Village, to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. Through tickets for the West can be obtained at the Union depot in this place, and baggage checked through.
 New Marlborough the annual Town meeting held in this town March the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year:
 Town Clerk, Seth Pease; Selectmen, L. P. Reyes, T. G. Carroll, Wm. Gibson; As sessors, Grove Gaylord. H. N. Adams, N w. Granger; Treasurer, D. Stanard; School Committee, H. D. Sisson; Tax Collector, Phineas Pettis; Road Commissioners, L. P. Reyes for three years, Stephen Powell for two years, William H. Sardam for one year; Constable, E. E. stanard; Town Agent, G. w. Sisson. Expenses of the Town the past year: Contingent, $887.26; Support of the poor. $l,O49.88; Highways and bridges, $3.O49 50; Schoole, $3. l9O 56 Town officers $738 "A; State tax, $72O. .OO; County tax, $l, ,633 40. Total, $ll. .269.s Temperance House. MT. B. w. War
 her of the Warner House, has decided to make his hotel strictly temperance house., and to attest his sincerity has come forward and signed the pledge, and his name may be found in the supplementary list of sign CTS in another column. This is certainly a manly ard noble stand to take, and now that MT. Warner has done this, every good frieud to order, and to the peace and qulet of the neighbOrhOod. must render him what patronage and assistance it is possible to K tend to him. This it is expected sll will do. We have not yet been informed 'official : ly" of lINr. Riker's decision in relation to the matter. The Stevens House has been, and is now, good hotel, and we have no hesitation in saying the proprietor will dc about the right thing in any event.
 Masonic Lecture in Sheffield Rev.
 Philip GermOnd delivered most excellent
 lecture before the citizens of Sheffield n Union hall on Wednesday evening of last
 week. There has for years been grea
 prejudice felt in this town against Free
 Masonry. Therefore petition was sent tc
 MT. Germond from some of his Brother
 the subject. He very readily compiled, ,anc
 we wish his lecture might be printed tt
 bene fit many who did not get out 10 hea
 it. Some who boast of their hatred to Ma
 sorry were not present. We suppose fo
 fear of being converted. Mir. Germono
 spoke the truth boldly, ard gave his fellow
 Masons some good advice as to the necessi- ty of their living up to their professions
 We learned from the speaker that profanity and intoxication are strictly forbidden by l io 1ox, n1 foo Sk {o h,
 fraternity sometimes break. to the injury of the cause here and elsewhere. w
 Burlington Savings Bank.-The ssv-
 ings bank of Great Burlington has by , unanimous vote of the trustees been placed
 under the direction of the State Bank Com missioner, and he is expected to come t Burlington very soon and consult with tn trustees of the institution in the matter ] It is self evident that no bank can loan it money so as to pay fair div idends to the de ) positors, and still keep funds to meet de r mands of payment on thirty days notice t the amount of over $sO, ,OOO. which is de B manded in the first week in April, Tn bank has securities on hich they can real ize double that amount in one week, but i . these times there would be a sacrifice whic
 would weaken the bank and would in ih end bring loss on depositors, especial those who did not get their pay first. ri , better to wait and get full dollar, even it is only worth 90 cents. z. n Lakeville. The Salisbury Game # Els if Protective Co. met at the Miller House
 this place on the evening of March 9th o Officers for the ensuing year were chose d as follows: Ebert EgglestOn, president !. Wm. H. Williams, secretary; Wm. B 2 Perry. treasurer The Club have done an if are doing much to restock our waters wit 70 fish and to protect our game birds. ThrOug h their exertions forty thousand young lan( h locked salmon have been placed in the wa
 ters of Salisbury and more are to be put iu
 They are now negotiating for fiftythousan l. young brook trout, with which to restoc is our streams. and they have also aent to M y Ge orge H. Owen, U. s. Consul at Messin, l. Sicily, for two hundred migratory quai l. which will be turned out to breed on the r.1 arrival, and which will be from the first { 7. the fifteenth of June next. The exper l. ment of introducing this game bird has a D ready been tried by Judge Evar,s of Ntr C mont, and with the most satisfactory Ie t. suits. The Club is doing good woIk al, e merits the approval and support ofsour cit Is Zens. OPTIC. The Babylonisn Willow.-This remarl
 able and very beautiful willow, and whic
 makes one of the most desirable and beau t. tiful lawn trees, can now be obtained b Il all who desire it, of Prof. B. G. NorthroI