Connecticut western news., 1880-06-23

Cornwall has ''sorghum boom" T. s. Gold has nearly an acre, and offers to buy . |miA to extract the juice providing his neigh bor farmers will go to raising it . .@,s
 Principal Mead of the West ,Winsted pub. lie school, while rowing on the lake recently
 was sun-struck. and for time his life wa
 despaired of, but he has recovered.
 Last weeks Winsted Press contained an open letter to Rev MT. Hallock of the 2d Cong. church, from T. M. Clarke, formerly editor of the Herald, from winch we take the liberty of making a few extracts -" < On several recent occasions you have de. claimed against the reading of secular news
 papers on the Lords day, and kadyised heads of families to provide their focks with relig ious newspapers-"at least one in every family" Quite acquiescing in this~I have not only subscribed for the ;Evangeliseff but have enioined my family against reading any but the religious column in Bills Weekly News, and the Springfield Republican. Well on last Sabbath had risen betimes-for ou, servant wished to do up her chores early te go of to 8 pic-nic-* f and I lwent up like one of Israel to her. temple, to hear o
 heavenly things the way of salvation, the echo of sweet voices from Galilee, Gethsem ane's garden. Seating myself, lowing my u0HN kOWSupOA kk10 E6A ksS NN kAtlA VfUpB9s uO where did your morning prayer lead me?-tt Galilee, Gethsemane, Calvary's HMat An mol It took me out to ;. Chicago! | brought in review all that week of ambitious and corrupt strife; ;brought in review ltha Sabbath saturnalis of intrigua, (not A6Ede nounce or censure; thanked Godlfor thedeliver ance (the nomination of Garfield and Arthur
 thanked him for ''the WsaiJfcGSsOn of the par ty," (these arc the Words) meaning, I sup pose, to thank him that all the pllnderers wht trained under the Grant flag and the Blaine flag and the Sherman flag had shaken handl and agreed to train under the Garfield flag and SO forth and'se; forth. Then the sermo, took up ,thes thems. and talked eloquent ly, eloqueatly :eloquently,-of Jesus Saviour of N"Men?i No, of Garfield "Ifweptay, Lord, sock it to these dem ocrats- -smite them hip and thigh, unify al ! shades and gradea of, republicans and rally them round the Garfield hag-wiu not craft and sophisticated world read too distin6llT be tween the lines, .Lord, give ua victorXs tha postmasterships, consuiships, .trading post l brother, that we pray, not Garfeldss no l Tilden's but TAy kingdom comel : Yo, do not wish to write over your doors, Sec \ ond Whig Church of Winsted,n,- of 'FiIs I Democratic Church." or that sort of thing
 *.' Y live may pray over a xnationaF cleo l ton we may over 8 town election which ma, I be to us of far greater importance. Ten we wax SO warm in this. early month of June l why may not expect ere the town meetin
 Tn October to enter your prayer meetings-an
 hear brother Gaston implore the Almighty t.
 help elect Lamp. Futile for constable, follow ed by neighbor Camp presenting the negativ qualities of Steve Sage, with Forbes Gamor ous for shamus O'Brien, for whateqsr hi name) and sister Wadsworth putting in tn
 claim of her district and candidate? Would n't this be pic-nicl x : Do I exagge1
 ate3 I trust not. If the temperance caus
 be so precious as your pulpit has often pro
 nounced it (and think rightly then Winste
 has seen the time when the election ofa COT
 stable was much more needful to it's Reffar
 than the election of 8 president. The COT
 stable is Winsted's Chef Executive Magistrate
 And if candidates are to be saluted* in .praye
 and sermon, why shall not our churches ;ye
 be vocal with cries for Perkins McCarty
 Jack Slocum and Futile? Very recently 70
 taught us that while the weightier matters (
 the law must be attended to, the mint an
 anise and cummin must not be neglected Ca these constables the mint and anise and cum
 min of our political system if you will, but W Emust be consistent and not while we pray ft
 Garfield leave McCarty out. "''-