Connecticut western news., 1879-04-23

tory quail, ordered from Messina by the Salisbury game club. were let loose in Sal- isbury and vicinity, and the return of spec linens is keenly looked for. The Forest and Stream reports that partlss in Essex and Stafford Springs have ordered one hun dred for each of those towns.
 The Episcopal church at Newtown has a new pastor, and he has given notice tha, he intends te administer the sacrament every Sunday instead of once a month, as hse been the custom. Last Sunday the Senior Warden arose in meeting and said he should protest against the innovation, and others have decided opinions on the same sub ject.
 The Heusatenic correspondent of the Courier says of Rev. E. H. Roys' first ser mon there 'His sermons, if we may judge by the first. will be of the practical sort, and he will preach the gospel of salvation through Christ without much dilutlon." :" MT. Roys is one of Canaan's boys and his many friends here hope soon to see hum stationed among us.
 The Sand lots of San Francisco pro duced Kearney. What may not Sand town hope to do2 Better, we sincerely trust. Here is good field for the early eff. forts of our Reform Party" Itis good proof of what we can do fer the Nation to try our plans on small scale at home. We are ready to join such g Reform Party heart and hand. V. E..
 The recent storm brought to light hosts of apgle-worms and they could be seen ID great numbers. la Thomaston thers were millions of them to be seen fisherman in search of bait could shovel it up by the bushel on the highway. At one point in Main street, both on the sidewalks and in the street, extending for fifteen rods, mixed with the mnd and snow, were innumerabls numbers of them. In some places they were piled in solid masses sn inch deep. Some were lively and squirming, but the majority were lifeless.
 The Lakeville Academy opened fol the spring term last week as a select schoe with MT. George D. Smelling as teacher and with fiattering prospects of success Mr. Smelling has had several years expert ence as teacher in the town of Salisbury and is very well liked. He is a gentleman of rare abilities, is highly educated and il every way qualified to conduct the schoo in a manner which cannot fail to be il every way satisfactory to lboth parents ant pupils; and the people of Lakevllle are tt be congratulated upon having amongs them teacher of such capability as Mrs s possesses.
 -MUCH ESTEEMED NEWS Cannot you interesting correspondent, Anonymous, he pursuaded to tell us more of the s'Grea Mountain ?" I was greatly interested il Uncle Julius, the sawyer. the racket o whose mill used to scare away the msun tain wolves in the days of yore. He wa my contemporary, and we trod the gorge ard climbed the lodges of that wild reeio together. Even in advanced life he wa 1.-the as wildcat. And truly was hs book man withal. He could speak fou languages; the English, Greek, Latham the profane. He conversed in the latte tongue with great fuency. UNDERHLL. In tearing down the old Hen. MyeI house at Wetaug the other day, one of tn workmen discovered a small hidden cless which had been sealed up, in which wa found box containing the skeleton of child apparently about feur years old. A old copper cent was also found. The houl was built about hundred years ego. l the box with the sReleton was piece ( musty paper with the following poem: | Mourning in the household crape upon the door, Mothers darling sleeping, to awake no more; l Little marble image, colder thar the snow, Farest of the lilies that adorn her so.
 Said the stricken mother, "Raby's gone alone,
 Would let no hand guide her but my very own;
 She will meet no kindred that have gone before,
 Wi not go to strangers on the unknown shore Fearful at the portal frightened will she stand,
 In the land immortal is no mothers hand;
 Other friends are with me, could not one ha ve die
 To have met my darling on the other sides"
 And said, 70 mother, strong and trus thy faith, That can pierce the shadows of the land of death | And believe the loved one is spirit fled. l And among the blt ssed lives, and is not dead" l But there is vision brighter far than this
 Jesus gave our treasures, and the best are His.
 He who loveth sinners, straying far from home,
 Will receive the children that early to Him come. | We were favored with beautiful dis
 play of Aurora Borcalis'' on Saturds
 night between nine and ten o'clock IT
 name signifies ''NOrthern Dawn, when<
 comes the other common appellatiol
 "Northern Lights" The phenomenon h.
 never been fully explained. but is undoub
 rdly due to electricity in the atmosphere
 The Aurora, as it's name implies, IS especis
 y common in northern attitudes aRd in tt
 Arctic regions is extremely brilliant. Oi
 rentimes it exhibits the lOveliest hues of tt
 Easter Dawn" and some, perhaps, whiC
 1 has not. Pink, green and yellow are tt
 usual colors.
 The through Albany freight train lesv
 ing State Line, Mass, at 10 p. m. was pal
 tlally wrecked near Rockdale Mills, Mass
 "Wednesday morning, by some defect in tk
 track caused by the fIest coming out of tt ground. Just what was the condition
 he track that led to the accident could nt
 oe positively ascertained, as the rails an
 lies for some distance were tern up by th
 force of the derailment. The engips an
 ten of the cars went over the weak spot
 safety, but the rest of the train, consistin
 ,f five cars loaded with live stock and th
 :aboose at the rear, were thrown from th
 rails and tumbled over the low embark
 'nent. In the eanoose were Charles Rode