Connecticut western news., 1878-06-13

H. E. Howe, Huntsville, Conn., o'rIEr 61S M. Stevens, Chapinville, Conn.,, 1S ~. McClerrin, Chapinville, Conn.,, .t 4l5 Mrs. W. Bissell. Wakeman, Ohio, b0 Win. Hunt. 10 John St., Worcester. Mass, lS s. Slyernail Elkhart. Ind. .,g,.. r.. .s.-st " v Adjourned.-On account of the storm, the school meeting last Saturday evening was adjourned till Friday night of this week. -s 5 --t-.....r %. .4t-7 -ar'
 Another Meeting. .AThe Committee for Retaining the Fallen met last Tuesday evening with good results, and will again meet in the Conference Room at East Can aan Friday evening, June IA, for the con- venience of the members of the committee in that part of the town. It is desirable that all should be present , l-l,.,,-....
 steokbridge.- MT. David Dudley Field has prepared plan of stone tower with chime of bells, which he will erect on the green at Stockbridge, Mass, and on the same site where in the days of old Presi. dent Edwards the first mission church stood. It is to be dedicated to his grandchildren, the children of his only daughter, as they are descendants of President Edwards. The tower and bells are to be gift to the Con- gregational church in Stockbridge.
 Diphtheria in East Canaan.-Diphthe- ria is proving to be quite an epidemic in East Canaan, at least one new case on the average, is developed every day. We un- derstand an effort is to be made to deter mine the cause of the prevalence of the disease by ascertalning If possible the pres ence of defective drains, or what other cause may exist. Decaying vegetables In cellars, or anything rendering the atnos- phere impure, is said to be fruitful cause. The malady is confined mostly to the labor ing classes about the furnaces, and it is hoped yigilant search may discover the cause and lead to a stay in the progress of the disease. People should give more. at- tention to their drains. cellars. out-houses and all places in which impurities may ex- ist, for there is no doubt whatever that death by diphtheria, typhoid fever and kin dred diseases, turks in and about many homes where it is least suspected by the in- mates.
 Had to Back ut.-Let's see; what was that mans name who drove down by the side of the track the other day, going the west side of the Union depots to get around the end of the Housatonic railroad and come up on the other side to the depot !? Somebody says he came from South6eld, and in his wagon was an immense box of something that made an awful big load. and when he failed to find the end of the railroad, but instead. his path was crossed by the Conn. Western road, and he could neither turn around nor go ahead, of course his next business was to back out for dist anceof about fifteen rods,which he succeed ed Tn doing with the loss of his wagon pole, two of the wheels, and sixty or seventy bolts and nuts. Exactly how man could be so blind, or stupid, as to wedge his team in narrow spot like that, when he could plainly see ahead of him that he was driv- ing into trouble, is what ''no feller can tell" .t
 West Cornwau.-John H. Hurlburt of Lime Rock gave us temperance talk in the Chapel Sunday evening, June 2, and Last Sunday evening, 9th. we had MT. Ro- raback of Canaan. Both gentlemen had 8 full house, and everybody was we'll pleased. Now MT. Tom Norton, when do you propose to come? Our regular evening for temperance meeting is the first Sunday evening in every month. Send us word you will come, and we will warrant you full house......We hope the good peo. pie of this village, in their zeal for the tenn. perance work, will not forget and let die
 out, those pleasant entertainments we used
 to have, gotten up by the Sunday School
 Association. Say, MT. President Bosworth.
 just rally your forces and give us some
 thing, and let us die game if we have got
 to die......A. D. Warner and wife are visit
 ing friends in Southbury ....J. Mallinsor
 is enlal ging his shear works. He will
 need telephone......F Freeze out seems tc
 be the order of the day. A.
 Our Congress. "A friend of ours, who
 was recently in Washington says large 1 number of the members when he was in the
 gallery of the House of Representatives
 sat with their feet upon their desks and splt
 tobacco juice far and near, making not the ! slightest effort to use the spittoons that
 were provided for every desk, but ejected
 their copious effusions of tobacco saliva out upon the elegant carpet which covered
 the floor. To be sure, he added, nearly all
 whom be saw doing this, were members
 from the ''sunny south" where it is found
 necessary in hotels and other public places, 1 to put placards about with the following
 request: "Please do not sp6t oaa tue soGlls !'
 Then it IS such ss these who are making
 our laws! who are appropriating millions of our national dollars to make ''improve- ments" in the south, and who are contest
 ing the title of President Hayes to the office he holds and who are not only doing a
 vast amount of mischief by destroying the
 business of our country, but proving them selves to be the greatest Congress of rascals and scalawags ever convened. vaap