Connecticut western news., 1878-04-11

portsnt of all, sound temperance principles are instilled in early youth. Our young ladies would sooner think of jolning the ranks of 'siBgle blessedness" or of joining the Shakers, than of becoming wives of in temperate or of doubtfully prlncipled young men...... .Middlefield takes her position among maple sugar makers the same that she has for SO many years held among cat tie growers-second to none. Thousands of pounds are annually sent into market from here, and the best manufacturers are becoming pretty extensively known..... Years ago. when school teaching, had . little corpulent, important and naturally pompous appearing youngster to whom I taught his first lesson in elocution. He was from three to four years of age. was then in Connecticut, and entertained ides of my own respecting the old "Bay State" When had company. and wished to have little innocent diversion would call the young gentleman into the middle of the floor, and he would recite with great assur- ance and all the native eloquence of a Daniel Webster, the following lines. will give them in his own dialect:
 ''Dare is ole Massachusetts,;
 And fot of all of dat?
 De dirs are be-y penty,
 Aud de tattle are bery fat.
 But who live in mountains.
 Where tOuds of snow do tay,
 If dey tould det pelalah
 In de Nisidan awsy?"
 Not long since, while reading the NKws l recognized his name, and learned that his place of residence is in the far West. Did early training decide his finding his home among western people and prairies! It may have done SO. Our teaching has been, ''Just as the twig is bent the trees inclin- ed" I wonder if "Lttle Uggie" Ca pet name) has developed into as noble specl men ot man as he was of boy, and if he deservediy wins the admiration now, tha, he did then. So almost every week some old schoolmate, scholar or friend is brought to mind by reading the NEWS. M.
 Middletield, April 3, 1878.
 Lakeville Jottings.-The Hon. A. H. Holley, who recently fell from a building and injured his back, has so far recovered as to be able to be about. The school house which was occasionally inundated at time, of high water, is being raised and repaired and will be placed high and dry, and the "raging canswl" which once went through it, will hereafter caper through the large drain hnilt uOdernnuth if Mr IT Die sell, who in former years was proprietor oi the Ball & Hubbard store in Salisbury, hal moved from Sharon, where he has beer living for some tune past, to the Burial place in Lakevllle, where he will keep city boarders through the season...... Tomatoes are in blossom at the large market gardenl of Camp & Holley. and lettuce and radish- es have been dealt out to their customer for some time past. These gentlemen ar, very successful in their business of raisin, vege stables for the market. MT. Barnet a the saw mil, while removing some board the other day, came upon camp of abou two hundred potato bugs, where they hat been nicely slowed away for the winter They appeared to be in good condition anc ready for buslness......Mr. Marvin Reed new residence on the hill beyond was beau, tifully illuminated while we were in Lake vile last Monday evening. Mir. Reed ha one of the finest residences in Litcbfielt county. It is lighted with gas which i generated on the premises, and with hi street lamp, appears well at night. Some. body says he has fountain in his yard tha will throw jet in the air fourteen or fifteel feet high. We know of fountain not many miles of, which dances tn, sparkling jet over seventeen feet high, bu when somebody told us MT. Reed had taot fountains in his nicely graded yards, our spi Tit for boosting subsidized. We distinctly re member beautiful little parlor desk at Cor nell & HoYt's some time since, which ou eyes loved to feast upon every time W. went to Lakeville. but which we were too poor to buy, and we further distinctly re member that once upon 8 time when tha desk was missed frem the place that once knew it, that we were told it had beer bought by Mr. Marvin Reed. We were ir hopes Nessrs. Cornell & Hoyt would keeI that desk till we were rich enough to buy it, but all the nice things up at MT. Reeds needed just this particular desk to make everything exactly right, and it had to go. Anyway, MT. Marvin Reed is to be con graduated upon having such beautiful home.