Connecticut western news., 1879-11-12

-On Thursday morning, Oct. l7, Alfred ' Mabbett, l3 years old, compositor in the Transcript office, North Adams, Mass, mys
 teriously disappeared, and all efforts thus fal
 to learn what became of him have proved flu ! tile. Any person who may have knowledge
 of his whereabouts, and will send information | to his father, Samuel Mabbett, at North Ad
 ans, will gain the lasting gratitude of the ! boys parents. He is described as follows
 Tall for his age and rather thin dark hair
 light blue eyes, light complexion; wore dark ! clothes and black soft felt hat. He has he's
 ltating way and when spoken to is apt to
 drop his head to one side; may be identified
 by scar, over an inch long, on the back ot his head
 Charles L. Ford. son of H. T. Ford of
 Amboy, H., formerly of West Stockbridge, started from Amboy on the 18th of October,
 with his family, for Jewell county, Kansas,
 intending to settle there. On arriving at Red
 Cloud, Nebraska, he was met by his uncle, S..
 T. Crampton, with team to take him to his
 new home The wagon provided for MT.
 Ford contained loaded gun of which fact he was ignorant, and while putting trunk in
 to the back part of the wagon, the gun went
 of, and it's contents were discharged into the
 lower part of his body, wounding him so se-
 verely that he died three days after and his
 +o1y hoo1x 4c
 tered there in just one week from the day he
 left there.-C0urier.
 A clergyman residing in this city has little story he tells about a young preacher who succeeded @ veteran pastor in rural dis trict. As he entered the new field the elder cautioned him as to the idiosyncrasies of his flock as follows:-;'My boy, in serving the Lord among this people counsel you to ex- ercise righteous judgment. Do not preach temperance, for we have prominent liquor dealers in the midst of the congregation The divorce system will not bear criticism here for some of the first members of our society are of tEat class. But young man, when you feel high spiritual pressure within you, go for the Mormons. It is upon that unregener- ate class that the vengeance of the Lord can be visited with safety." This is ''oficial"- Norwich Bulletin.
 In July 1878, Amos June of Greenwich was shot by Eli Carpenter, colored boy. The ball entered the left breast and remained in his body. August 3l, while in the field June instantaneously died. A post mortem revealed the fact that the bullet had passed through the left lung and penetrated the heart, the boy living 54 days in this condition. The case is an exceptional one to the medical fraternity. An inquest was held and verdict rendered charging Eli Carpenter with criminal negligence. A warrant was issued for his arrest, but he was not to be found. On Wednesday, Oct. 29, ex-Deputy Sheriff New man discovered the boy Carpenter passing through Mlamus, and immediately took him into custody He was committed to Bridge port to await the action of the Superior Court.
 The Housatonic milk train met with a slight accident about three miles above New Milford Monday night The newsboy on the train due here at 5:45 placed his trunk on the platform of a car and in going around curve it fell off and lay upon the track unnoticed until the milk train came along It lay close enough to the rails to throw the trucks of the rods with the driving wheels on the rail and the other wheels off and then stopped In covering the twenty rods one or two cattle guards were passed over.-The train which leaves this city at 4:55 stopped at the station below until three minutes after it's leaving time and then went on and met man coming back to give notice of the accident. It then went on slowly and hitched on to the other engine was back in place and ready to pro- ceed, The accident did no damage to speak of beyond the delay, but had the train plunged off the bank the result would have been much more serious. The train which leaves here at nine o'clock in the evening did not go out until about ten.-Bpt StandarG.
 John McAulife, now on trial in Bridge port before Judges Loomis and Culver, is charged with the murder of his wife, February 2, 1879. On that day McAuliffe and his wife were heard quarreling in their apartments, and later she was found lying on the floor near the bed. The bed and the floor were covered with blood. Mrs. McAulife said her husband had struck her, but made no particu- lar accusation against him. She had wound at the upper edge of the forehead, from which the blood came. She speedily lapsed into state of insensibility, and about o'clock died. McAuliffe, on being arrested, den1ed the killing, but profanely expressed his sat sfacton over his wifes death She drank to excess and they lived unhappily and wretch edly. McAuliffe suggested that his wife re- eeived her wound by falling out of the bed and striking her head on the corner of the trunk. In searching the tenement the police ound a common case knife with the end of he blade bent over As the blade fitted the | wound exactly, the officers concluded that | his was the instrument with which the wound | vas inflicted.
 We have received copy of the Unver- fty Quarterly, publication issued by the tudents of New York University, of New fork City, the editors of which were encamp- d at Twin Lakes during the past summer Ve take from the Quarterly the following 'em. The prospective book mentioned there l will be interesting to all Canaanites in gen. ral, and certain young men in particular if 1e author gives faithful account of aH their dventures. Sam. Eddy's name will probably ppear on the title page of the book, as he