Connecticut western news., 1880-03-31

The annual meeting of the reading room association is postponed until Friday evening, April g. aa - A slurring communication from neigh; boring town is respectfully declined" If the author who evidently is not suffering with information of the brain, wants his neighbor to ''stay to home with his fanaly Sunday eve- nings and go to bed early" he should just i step over and make the modest request, which will undoubtedly be complied with. The NEWS isn't acting as cats-paw for that kind of nuts at present. and it earnestly deprecates a cowardly disposition to insult neighbor through public newspaper, without just provocation, or even the redeeming feature of strained wit.
 Senator Peet from this District, in the legislature last week, offered a resolution of manner in which he presided over the delib- erations of the Senate during the recent ses- sion, and supported his resolution in brief address, as follows:
 In offering this resolution beg leave to ex. press my hearty thanks to His Honor, the Lieutenant Governor for the kind and impar- tial manner in which he has presided over the Senate during this session. This is the thir- tieth year of my acquaintance with him. ] have served with him in public life, and have been on intimate terms with him for many years in private life. I have many times made him my adviser and conf1dant in cases where felt the need of wise counsel shall | always reverence his love of truth, his fidelity to his friends, and his fearlessness in speaking his mind on all questions involving the inter est and honor of the state. As the years roll on, and one after another of our little band falls by the wayside, the memories of this session may grow dim but think the last to be obliterated will be the venerable form anC kind face of the patriarch who has so impar tally presided over our deliberations. The resolution was passed Unanimously.
 Tho matrimonial budget which the NEws launched upon the world last week, was re ceived with much enthusiasm hereabouts, tht large majority of the list whose sense of per ception was sharp enough 10 see and appreci ciate the spirit in which it was written, taking it as good joke. Several proposals were re ceived on postal cards within six hours afte the edition was printed, and they have beer pouring in ever since, so fast that Postmaste Roraback thinks of breaking in" another as sistant. Some. of the victims of last week say that flair play is a jewel" and demand th' publication of a list of the marriageable ladie' of this place, demand from which we shrinl
 in holy horror. We can listen, withou blenching, to disaffected bachelors threat of horse-whipping, tar-and-feathering, and tn grim proposal to furnish a corpse for first class funeral. All this rolls off our imper turbable equanimity like water from duck back; but when we are called upon to rous and face the fury of a woman scorned, w beg to be excused Although there is not
 "marriageable" fair one but whose vanit would be tckled with such mention, ye the proverbial contrariness of ''the critter would crop out in desire to haul the luckles writer over the coals, and scratch his eye out one by one; j" then after splitting fire lik salamander, they would smooth down thei ruffled plumage and purchase half dozen ex tra copies to send to friends. No, thank you we couldn't do the subject justice. However ''Evangeline" evidently meant business il her letter of two weeks ago, and to her W appeal in behalf of the bachelors, for list c the damsels of our village, as potent ae cessory to her "grand reform;" for the spark are being kindled into flame in the manl
 breasts of Canaan's delinquents, and she mus keep piing on the kindlings. and strike whil the iron is hot if she expects to see her gran 7 reform successfully carried out. So com again to the front Evangeline, and show u g your suffering friends magnolia balm, puff
 frizzles, paint and all The ages are unimpo
 tant, as probably none are over IT. A libef1
 space in the marriage column will be reserve if for the inevitable.