Connecticut western news., 1878-11-13

on that subject last Friday, Saturday ant Sunday evenings. There was a good at tendance; close, earnest attention was giv- en 10 the words spoken and the speake was thoroughly alive to the importance O. his subject. In thrilling sentences he gay, somewhat ot his own personal experience (being reformed man), and in words o glowing earnestness and fervor he urged hi hearers to believe. work, pray, and vol, right on this matter. He believed in mora suaslon for the inebrlate, and legal suasol for the rum seller and his terribl. business MT. Barry's whole soul is in the work. hi, speeches have the true ring and we wist him abundant success"
 Wont YOU please examine the coloreC label on the outside of this sheet to see how long you have been reading paper tha don't belong to you, and renew. We naus have money, and as it engenders considera ble expense for postage, etc.. to send bills to each of the thousand or over who owe us. individually, we hope you will consider
 
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 Editor NeDs.-In your last weeks is sue there was an item taken from the West Stockbridge correspondence of the Courier. In answer would say that the inn-keepet was MT. Joel Pomeroy that entertained Commodore Perry Tn his house, and that Mary Pomeroy, now Mrs. Sweet of West Stockbridge, waited on Commodore Perry at the table when there. have often heard my father say that be saw and converseG with him when hv was guest at my un- cle's house. .s; MRS. A. BIGELow.
 Canaan; Nov. II, 1878.
 While riding along the east slde of the lake at an early hour. last Friday morning. Sherman Cogswell saw strange animal in the road ahead of him. He jumped from his horse. and running, overlook it and grasping it by it's caudal appendage dashed it's brains out. It was big coon. Come NimrOds. with game as tame as this where's the use of going to Maine ?-L6tchfegd E,a. qu5qer.
 A good deal. We tried that s'caudal ap pendnge" game on coon once. only it turned out to be sk-well it wasn't coon, but we expect to reap good crop of cloth ing next fall.
 Last Sunday morning it was discovered that Knickerbocker's hardware store on Main street had been entered during the night MT. s. H. Kuickerbocker, who sleeps in 8 room over the store room, on waking in the morning. found to hls as- tonlshment that his chamber door, at the head of the stairs. Was wide open. He is positive that he locked it on going to bed, ard distinctly remembers trying the door after he had turned the key, to satisfy him. self it was locked. On going down stairs, he found the outside back door, which he also remembers having locked, open with the key on the outside. How it was poss- ble for person to unlock those Goors, and travel up and down stairs unknown to ''Sile" is what puzzles him, as be is easily aroused, and the noise usually made in un- locking dcor, would wake him instantly from the profoundest slumber. Nothing is missed from tie store, and a considerable sum of money m pair of pants banging al the foot of the bed was untouched.
 We have received copy of "Thc World of Spirits and the State of Man after Death" pamphlet of 3l pages, made up of selections from "Heaven and Hell, l" written by Emanuel Swedenborg, and orig inalIy published in l75s. in the introductory to which he says:- "It has been granted me to be admitted into the society of angels and to converse with them as one man converses with an- other; and also to see the things that exist in heaven and those that exist in hell. I have enjoyed this privilege for the space of thirteen years; and 1 am now permitted to describe the heavens and the hel!s from the testimony of my own sight and hearing" i" We wish we might see Emanuel; we've lots of questions to ask among others, we'd like to know in what degree the tor ments of hell are augmented in the case of a man who brings job to printing office at time when superabundance of more important work makes it ir convenient for the printer to do it, and insists on having it done "right off ;" then when It is done, at a sacrifice of better paying work, fails to call for it, leaving It on the printers hands, a dead loss,
 The high school in this place termi. mates the fall term next week, to begin the winter term after vacation of two weeks. Thls school is now in fyurishing condi- ton, and is extensively patronze by pupils from out of the district. Mrs. Sartia Root, in the primary department is peculiarly adapted for that position. as she has the faculty for holding the attention and win nlng the affectic ns of her little pupils her government and care being like that of mother. She has been unable, on account of sickness, to attend to her school duties the latter part of the term, but her place has been very acceptably filled by Miss Bertha Granger, an experienced teacher. The intermediate department, in charge of Miss Florence Fitch, has made rapid pro gress under her administration, and she IS well liked by her pupils. Prof. I'M. Adams in the upper room, is remarkably success tul inhis system of teaching, as be possess es the qualifications of thorough teacher. He commands at once the esteem and re- spect of his pupils, and is strict discipl- harlan, as his school is conducted on a sys- tematic principle which admits of no con fusion. In this room are studied the high. CT branches, foreign languages, etc., and here are the faculty and facilities for fitting