Connecticut western news., 1879-10-22


 ward them, gesticulating wildly and snarline like a beast. The young men did not stol for further investigation, but took to theil ! heels throwing aside their guns and game bags in their flight They describe the creature as having wild fiery eyes, while froth ran down from it's mouth, and it's yells could be distinctly heard for half mile away There is a tradition in the locality that some years ago an insane man, who escaped from some lunatic asylum, found refuge in the mountain, and all efforts to capture or dis. lodge him were intellectual, and he was once seen by party of children berrying there The story is taken with considerable credence | in Williamstown and North Adams where several persons claim to have known of the lunatics escape and supposed retreat in the mountains, and it is possible that party will be made up to make further search,
 The subjoined telegram from San Fran cisco to the New York Herald refers to the bury. During his recent visit to California Rev. MT. Johnson spent his time at the house of this uncle and left him hale and hearty for one of his age This fact renders the sad news the more shocking to his family.
 SAN FRANCISCO Oct il, 1879. | At six o'clock last evening, Colonel W. B. Johnson, president, secretary and manager oi 1 the London, Liverpool & Globe Insurance com panies for the Pacific States, was thrown from | his buggy between the San Rafael railroad | station and his residence, which is only a mile distant, and sustained fracture of the skull He expired this morning at o'clock Throughout the entire business part of the city flags are set at half-mast, and heavy gloom is everywhere visible in business cir l cles. Colonel Johnson was native of New York and belonged to an old colonial family ] He was one of the oldest underwriters on the Pacific Coast and had been agent of the in- surance companies named since 1856. His sudden death will be mourned throughout in- surance circles, both in England and in the | United States as that of a man of large expe. rience and the strictest integrity. One of the men, who carried the Colonel from the road to the house of physician two hours after ward, while relating the accident to others, dropped dead
 ED NEws:-Permit correction respect ing the action of the Conference at Salisbury. Your informant reports a resolution as it was read but not as it was amended. The body voted to enter protest on record against the
 running of freight trains on the Lords day." but str1ck out the reference in the resolution to the Conn. Western R. R., and appointed committee of three to lea7n the facts in the case before hauling up before this body of representatives of churches, the officers of any one road in particular. It was thought to be more in keeping with the dignity of such a public Conference, to move with courteous re- spect for the facts, than to begin fight for a principle before we were sure that anybody
 was disposed to disregard the principle 0s c
 habit. A majority of the churches represent. ed at Salisbury do not lie along the said rail- road, and therefore were not aware of such a practice of the directors as was reported. ! The better way to meet the difficulty and se- cure quiet on the Lords day, seems to be to have petition, signed by leading citizens of
 said towns disturbed by said trains, offered to : them, than to induce body of men un- acquainted with the facts, to act hastily upon the question. Yours Respectfully
 c. N FITCH Scribe of Conference. A West Cornwall. Oct. 20, 1879.
 l The lawyers on both sides say that the } trial at New Haven of Rev. MT. Hayden for the murder of Mary stannard will last five or } six weeks. It is still believed that his fate l will depend largely on the result of the in- vestigation as to the peculiar form of the poison used and the identity ot the particular lot of arsenic that Hayden bought at Middle town, but there are hints ofthe discovery of new and important evidence, Other persons , in that vicinity are known to have purchased : arsenic about that time. The search for facts bearing on the case has been uncommonly : thorough. While the detectives in the , employ of the state have been given every facility in the prosecution of their hunt, those for the defense have not met with so cordial a reception in Rockland and vicinity. Two of
 the men in the employ of the defense who wis.
 tied Rockland were turned out of number of houses, and in several instances were pur- r sued with guns and threatened with death, if
 they did not leave the vicinity. They, how ever, no doubt meddled with affairs that did
 not concern their inquiry. It is supposed that the defense will claim that Mary Stan
 hard was killed in her home by her father and Benjamin Stevens, and that the body was
 then taken to the woods and placed where it
 was found, and they will also connect Susan Hawley with the crime.
 -"The Gate City Guard" crack military company of Atlanta, Ga., have been making an excursion through some of the Northern
 States, as far as Boston. They wore in Hart ford last Thursday, the guests of the Putnam Phalanx, and in the evening were entertained at banquet. Many distinguished citizens of
 Hartford were present, and General Hawley,
 Governor Hubbard and others made speeches
 Captain Burke, it's commander responded for
 the Company and in the course of his re-
 marks said, "he could not but think, looking
 back upon the conflict of few years ago. that all our difficulties could have been adjusted if left to the soldiers of both sections. Atlanta
 suffered from the rayages of the war, but the people have displayed enterprise and shown their power of recuperation and the secrets of success. We come to clasp your hands as our fathers of the revolution did, when faith, truth, hope, and liberty in a common cause struggled and triumphed together. We care not to revive sad memories. We come di
 vested of the equipments of war The south. ern flag has given way to another emblem un- der which we may be one and inseparable forever. [Applause.] The flag is ours