Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

WHICH uoes Juuge dllGon propose Go con fess that he has MT. Stewards body al safe and sound? Never mind the wh, and wherefore, but own up the simple fact and tell what it cost. There Ii nothing to own up in the matter. The body of Stewart, notwithstanding tn. large rewards, has not been found, anG Judge Hilton and the authorities are il complete ignorance of It's whereabouts. They let the story of the finding go to keep quiet the everlasting clatter of the New York city papers about the matter, and still hope that it will be found. Judge Hilton and the authorities be- lieve that the body will be found when they can capture the hackman who figured so extensively in the case, and this man is believed to be in Canada. Every effort is being put forth to cap- tnre this hackman, and meanwhile the Stewart case is as great mystery as ever.
 A noted New York sporting man backed O'Leary during the walking con- test in this country so heavily that he lost $80, 900 by it. Hewent to England, saw Weston, looked after his training, found that he was in good condition to win the late match, and backed him to the extent of over $1OO,O0O when the odds were ten to one against the Ameri- can. He won over 8 million dollars by the match, and has made Weston & wealthy man. Had the New Yorker lost, he would have been ruined.
 An English journal, the Saturday RsvieaO, says: What this country wants is soldiers, and soldiers we must have. We annex u large slice of country, and before we have had time to absorb, as- similate, or organize our new possession we become involved in hostilities with some new and powerful neighbor. This cannot go on for ever, and we must sooner or later choose one of two altern- atives. We must either find soldiers to fill the ranks of our army, or we must cease from further wars and conQuests. The only question is, Is the latter alternative possible?
 The most remarkable love story oi the summer is told by the Port Jervis Onaoa. Four years ago, @ gentleman of twenty-three won the heart of lady of nineteen. She was the daughter oi pious parents, and although she was moi connected with any church, looked with a feeling akin to horror on anything ap preaching scepticism. But the time came when she learned that her lover was deist; that he had no veneratior for the Bible, and took no interest ir churches. She was deeply pained by the revelation. She sent for her lover anc endeavored to convince him of his ekror but he was not satisfied with her argu ments. She finally wrote him tear stained letter bidding him goodbye forever. The lady mourned, but trieG to satisfy herself that she had acted cor rectly. Two years made her more lib eral than she had been. The more she read the more she distrusted her former decision, and she finally became quite as liberal as the lover she had discarded The lover, too, had undergone change Last winter a revival of religion took place in the city in which he was engaged in business. Suffice it to say that he united with the Church, and in a short time became zealous member. He thought over the action of his former sweetheart in disoarding him for his in. fidelity, and wrote her brief note ask. ing the privilege of once more calling on her. When she timidly apologized fol her previous dismissal of him, he, to her surp1se, defended her conduct, said she had been in the right, and in he, place he would do the same. Her heart sank at these words. She confessed the great change 1n her sentiments from being firm believer in the Bible, she had discardrd it, and with it her belief in any revealed religion. He pleaded with her, urged everything he could think of to induce her to change her mind. She could not, and told him so. He felt that he must not be yoked with an unbeliever, and gave her up.
 A strange case is that of young Will liam Blake, of Monmouth county, New Jersey. Barely twenty-three years old, the son of rich man, young man oi pure life, member of the Presbyterian Church of Allentown, recently prom. ising and ambitious student ill Princeton College, is starving himself to death In his junior year at college disease manifested itself which has since beer pronounced by the doctors to be paraly sis produced by spinal affection, ant incurable. On learning that he was t' be cripple for life, the young man los heart and hope, saying that death wa preferable to such life as lay befor him. About month ago he refused t. eat anything but toast, drinking te without milk. This diet he kept up fo two weeks. For the past sixteen day he has obstinately refused to swalloN anything but water, announcing his pur pose to starve himself to death. All tn entreaties of the family have been un availing. Although reduced nearly a skeleton, he says that he is perfectl comfortable, reads his Virgil, and chat freely with those around him. "I mea
 to die, and will, he says. There is : streak of insanity in the blood, and tn fact is now recalled that one of youn Blake's grandfathers hanged himself.
 General Sherman said at th Military Academy at Orchard Lak' Mich., the other day, that he , frequently asked by young men wh' course of study, what books will be-
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