Connecticut western news., 1879-01-22

uluu uluCn, OuC now we are In the Scr0 and yellow leaf and take to it kindly-and then we don't know of anyone better able to give advice than cur esteemed cotemporary. What if you have been trying" for over month. What is a month in your exper- fence? you are good yet for . hundred years and you should not be discouraged by little disappointments or difficulties. ''Try, try again." Our neighbor of the Nesos has been over and he gave us lots of fatherly advice and we felt better, and now if our friends of the Herald and Press will do likewise we shall be all right.
 We were astounded on learning from the Canaan correspondent of our esteemed contemporary, the Courier, that ''the print lng office was also entered the same night'' of the school house burglary. In view of | the fact that the office from which the | CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS is issued is the oLly ''printing office" in town, we pre- sume this office was the one deslgnated. The ''pnnting office" wac not entered that night, save by those who have legitimate right to enter it. If this ingenious news monger, whose fabrications have re- peatedly excited comment among the Canaan readers of -the Courier, will take the pains to investigate the truth of his manufactured items, he will not only better know wherof he speaks, out will also ''enhance the popularity" of the newspaper which be "professes" to represent. i've know of no one quality 30 requisite to enhance the popularity of a newspaper, and increase it's issue," as a village correspondent who does not dscom- mode himself to siur neighbor without, movocation, and with no apparent objec, but sycophancy, and will occasionally season ais high flown rhetoric with facts, and is aot so '"Y. c." in his own conceit.
 It is familiar proyerb, that 'One ounce of prevention is worth g pound of cure." People waste great deal of time ,n useless lament after some accident has happened. They will see the probability of trouble ahead, but neglect to do some trifiing work to prevent it, or perhaps a little expense will interfere. The delay in providing the means to extinguish fires is frequent cause of regret. Some villages ..re so situated that one fire well started would destroy great an Ount of property. In such places it IS important to have con- Seniences for controlling the fiery element ,ither by mechanical apparatus, or by utilizing some natural water course. How nanY times is this precaution neglected. Time passes and nothing serious occurs, and he danger becomes SO familiar that for a while it is forgotten. Occasionally the in nshitants are alarmed by fire, which per haps does not do much damage, owing more to good luck than anything else. Then they are ready to talk about procur- ing steam pumps, and building reservoirs, out as such things touch the vital pocket, 1t all ends in words, and they go to sleep again until the next fire.
 THE WANDERING JEW.
 Squire Graves, of Litchfield, tells the following story of the venerable Truman Smith. late United States Senator. now re- siding in Stamford. Many years ago MT. smith was called to try case in North Canaan. The affair was one which called together good many witnesses and others md the rooms at the hotel were all taken
 Hr. Smith, in his absenimindedness, had neglected 10 have roOm assigned to him, aud toward midnight, having spent the evening ln preparation for the trial ol the 'norrOw, he made application to the land- 'ord for room. The host was; quite taken lback to find that more room was wanted, =or every bed was occupied. It was finally iecided that Mr. Smith would have to oc- :upy the same bed with Judge Leraan Church. Judge Church. as will be remem- 'ered by the men of those days, was oi very small stature, not larger than the aver. .ge boy of fourteen or fifteen; his head ~as round and small. albeit he was very .ble jurist. Accepting the situation, MT. }. disro ped for sleep, turned down the bed clothes, and there beheld the Judge, up over
 he back side of the couch like crooked lecked squash. "Humph !' said the sen
 tor, glaDclug around at the host, who was waiting to carry away the tallow-dip or
 hose early days. 'rhis is the first time ev
 1T had to go to bed with an interrogation
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 The Connecticut Western News con
 aims notice of the decease of Richard Smith Esq, native of Sharon, Conn, and the town where he has spent hls life. Mir. Smith was born in 1902, and was v years id at his decease. He wus graduated a, Yale college in the class of 1925, and of the members who graduated, only 25 survive Jim. Of the number, are Hon. Wm. G. Bates, Hon. Thomas Fl. Bond, Rev. Loren. % Y. Bennett. William Bliss, Rev. Ebene- ger Boyden, Dr. John s. Butler, Hon. Abijah Catlin, Dr. Daniel T. Colt, Alexan. Ter Duncan, Charles Ely, William B. Flen- ,ug, Rev. illiam Fuller, Lorenzo James, Rev. Sanford Lawton, Rev. Simeon North. Rev. Samuel Rockwell, Rev. Thomas Saw 'ge, SRev. George J. TlIlotson, Dr. Isaac VI. Ward, Rev. Wm. Wbittemo1e, Rev Joseph Whittlesey, Steven c. Williams Esq, and Hon. Geo. c. Woodruff.
 Mir. Smith studied law in Litchfield, snd vas admitted to the bar, and practiced in bat place. He also attended to the culti- 'atipn of his paternal acres, and was pa :ifcator of the town in which he lived. H. short ne was just the man that every town wants, and the man whose loss every on, teplores. He filled, to the full, the whole sphere of his duty, and has left behind him 10 better man, Westfeld (1Nass). Tunes
 A few months ago we received copy # the Penn Tan Mystery, weekly publi- cation, and kind of new departure in