Connecticut western news., 1878-04-04

safely lodged in his appointed place to- night, we shall be somewhat surprised. We should judge half the inhabitants of the vil- lage were changing quarters indeed we never knew such mania for moving as has taken possession of people of ali classes on this first day of April, 1878. In our next we will give the programme.....M .Mr. Ander- son, who has been so successfully working for the cause of temperance in Millerton, N. Y., the past week, is expected to ad- dress the Temperance Reform Club in the Town Hall tonight (Monday). The ladies have been invited to participate in the exer- cises, but after passing through the ordeal of moving, we fear they may not all be in an angelic frame of mind, and as for my wife should prefer to hear her lecture be- hind the scenes, if at ali, on that evening". As Joel Whitford was driving towards town with wagon load of milk in cans, the axle broke and the contents emptied in the ditch. We have heard of land flow Ing with milk and honey, but this is dubbed the milk and water country.......O Our village was startled on Wednesday last by the an nouncement that R. K. Woodward, having decided to throw off this mortal coil. had committed suicide; but fortunately (as he thought on after consideration the ball found more of job than it had bargained for, and could not penetrate the skull, scarcely fracturing it. The injured man il is thought will survive.....D. H. Cole is in "Peck" of trouble. His housekeeper has left him and he is keeping bachelors hall His "boy" and son are boarding with him ......Joe. Ryan and wife have permanently left Sharon to make their home in Paw lings, where Nr. Ryan's business is located ]. He is fire carriage trimmer and all wish him prosperity. Isaac Wilson of New York has been in town. Rev H. c. Humphrey leaves Tuesday morning for the annual con. terence......T. l.. Hart is lying dangerously ill with lung fever......The household goods belonging to Mrs. John Chase were sold on Saturday last at public auction ... Mrs. Geo, Coles has been improving her cottage by putting large windows on the south side, more particularly to accommodate her plants which are very beautiful.
 ARoANUN.
 The Legislative Excursion In assist ing the Conn. Western road by relieving il ot Its obligation to pay its taxes due to the state. the Legislature, which adjourned last Thursday, has certainly done most credi. table thing, whatever else may have been its record. The road, in its struggles to be- come one of the established institutions of the state, has encountered many difficulties, which. with the unprecedented times fol business during the past few years, has made it poor. The new management did a glorious work for the road all last summer every dollar that could be spared being ex pended in repairing the road, and in repair. ing and rebuilding the bridges, and the first and uppermost thought in the minds of all in authority, and notably SO in President Camp, was that the road should De safe. Everything else was made subservient to that one idea of safety. The road was cer tainly doing well, and economy was made 8 study and practised in every department, when that horror of horrors, Tarffville. came upon it. To say nothing of the loss of life and limb by this most terrible acci dent, the loss to the railway company IT cars entirely destroyed, to repair their crush. ed locomotives, rebuild the bridge, and 6 thousand little etceteras incident to such 6 catastrophe, was & buyden almost too great to bear, and this little assistance of relief by the legislature, at this particularly opportune moment, is, as we said above, a most cred. itable thing for it to do.
 Grateful for this kindly and deserving as. sistance, the company last Friday. the day after their adjournment, invited ss many members as might fad it convenient to do so, to 8 pleasant ride over its line, from Hartford to Millerton and return. After the dinner at the hotel, several were invited to speak from the steps of the hotel, among whom was Mir. Gallagher, a member from New Haven, whose remarks concerning the relief extended to the Western road. were loudly applauded. MT. Gallagher was fol- lowed by others. who expressed substantial ly the same sentiments. President Camp being called out, expressed. in behalf of the company, his gratitude for tho aid the road had received at the hands of the gentlemen ot the Legislature. He improved the to allude to MT. Butler, who was present, as the "father of the road ; for to him, probably more than to anybody else, was due the credit of the road being to-day in existence; his design in doing SO, manifestly being to call out MT. Butler with a speech, when suddenly one of the heav- fest men in Millerton (heavy only ln avolr- dupois). and who owes us eleven dollars and twenty-three cents, which we cannot collect, or the same reason that all others whom he owes cannot get their pay of him, simply and because it Is not colIectable, stepped forward and swinging his hat blurt- ed out: ''Three cheers for George H. Brown" At first nobody seemed to under stand what the man meant; every cOunte- nance as each looked inquiringly at the oth- CT, seemed to say. "Who's' said anything about George Fl. Brown!" After time it became apparent that the aforesaid man who owes us eleven dollars and twenty tEIee cents, and which we cannot collect. and which he is not honest enough to pay, was offended because Mir. Camp spoke a pleasant word for the zeal of MT. Butler in the lnclpient stages of the construction of the Connecticut Western road, and evident 'y regarding Mir. George H. Brown as about Inc only man who had done anything tow Arl forwarding the enterprise of the road, he wCs unable to conceal bis ill breeding, and thrust himself forward and into the nresenca md attentinn nE iho diat;rn,,;nhnd