Connecticut western news., 1882-04-12


 Birnie claims to have discovered quicksilver mine in Lee, and exhibits about pint of the metal in proof of his claim. He refuses h divulge the location of the treasure, and the consequence is that his story is doubted.
 The burning of the Phelps barn at Black inton is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary The loss was partially GOV cred by an insurance of $l,5oO. A horse Belonging to Representative Preston. and valued at $25O. was destroyed by the flames. Ason of Prof. Perry, and also Col. Rock. wells son of Washington, were among the thirteen students suspended from Williams College for participating in the examination paper deception Harry Garfield did not make use of the papers, through conscientious scruples.
 The Massachusetts Legislature visited the Hoosac tunnel Fast day, under charge of Sergeant.at-arms o. M. Mitchell. The party to the number of nearly three hundred, went by special train, partook of 8 collation. in Will son Hall, and after inspecting the State road l started on the return trip at 6.30 p. m. i Mrs Sparks of Austerlitz, has become in. sane, and has been placed in the Poughkeep- sic asylum, She ia daughter of Oscar E. Beckwith, the missing murderer of 0. A. Vandercook, and was driven crazy by her fathers crime. Thus has the sin of the par ept been visitsd on the unfortunate child. . E. s. Pixley, the doctor and carpenter who las. fall left Pittsnsld, where he practiced both his professions for many years, is now :. connected as ,difector and instructor with the Detroit university, one of the new Michigan medical scheols.' The terms of the institu. ton aressvsry >cheap, but it claims high staudard.-Eagle:
 Alexander Van Valkenburg of Daltou,s 56 years old, WAS examining shotgun Sunday afternooA whom one barrel of the weapon was discharged, and the load of large shot entered his right thigh, just above the knee. tearing and mutilating the flesh ia terrible manner. Amputat,on was promptly performed, and it was thought at first that the patient might recover, but he died on Monday.
 
 T Holland and Sandis9eld are to be reimbursed Respectively SIS, 900, Sl6,Oo0 and $24, GOO fol tmoney sunk in railroad interest number of years ago. This will be good news tc these towns, being burdened with deb they could not possibly lift, and growing heavier year by year, they will now be able
 to clear themselves of debt and take stand among their sister towns.-Oourier. . At town meeting holden at Mill Rive ]. within and for the tewn of New Marlboro or ,. the sd day of April 1882, Grove Gaylord wa # chosen chairman. Selectmsn for the ensu 2 ing year are Grove Gaylord. Ira N. Futile e Martin E. Sheldon. Assessors, Norman W
 Granger, William C. Kasson, Michael Cur !. tain. Town. Treasurer, Dyer Stannard |. School eemmittee, Elihu D. Harmon fo
 three years. Town Agent, Andrew J. Free :, man. Fence viewers, John J. Hart, J. Caulkins, R. D. Harmon. Collector an :, Constable, William B Can6eld. L. l. stockbridge has voted to accept the ne, o road near the depot, whereby the east eros. }, ing will be closed. and an act allowing tn 8 Eailroad commissioners to locate the new de 1. pot which the Housatonic road is to bull s next summer on the east crossing has bee y passeds A rew road, leaving the higi B. wayaoG Great Harrington few rods south of the depot, leads across to the east road nss D. John Winthrop's, Another new road hs is been accepted. crossing the neck of Lal 0. Averic at OurtistiHs, and it's length will Id l IA miles, intersecting the West Stockbridl 1t road and making one of the finest drives v- the town.-Repu6lacon.
 k Another beautiful Berkshire scandal com, F, from Pittsfeld. Mrs. James M. Gleaso or wife of 8 Pittsfeld butcher, attractive, live Tt and full of frolic, was arrested last Wends s, day afternoon and taken to the lock. k.up, f ot alleged criminal intimacy with Frank G. Ha nc rison, aged l9, clerk in Nichols bookstor 's. who was also arrested MT. Gleason hs 's' been suspicious of crooked work for son no months past, and had employed private d " tecnve 10 watch his wife. The detecti, ho saw young Harrison senter and depart fro
 
 IT. witnessed the act of criminal intercourse h 0; tween the two, in the sitting room, hims, is assuming the role of peeping Tom. throul ,e. holes bored in 8 bay window in neighbe ed ing house. The woman admits the visits "a young Harrison, but denies any criminal fence. She says the whole thing is trump ~ up by her husband, who wants to get rid
 her. An adjourned hearing of the case con zee of next Friday. ..
 The troubles in the French Catholic chur ir- were settled Monday evening by the resign
 tion of the aged priest, Father Queville mn Bishop O'Reilly and Father Garnier of Sorir
 field, arrived in town about o'clock in t
 afternoon and spent the time until the e, oi ming meeting at the residence of Fatf ls' QuevillOR, After the opening of the me
 ing Father Garnier announced the resign '4s tion, and Bishop O'Reilly accepted it, and a 37 pointed Father Desaulnier his successc
 Father Quevillon stated that his resignati mi. was on account of the indrmities of age. 8 tlv extended his good wishes to his success ar Father Quevillon came to Pittsfeld in lS1
 from Syracuse, N. Y, and has done mu ng .e,-,-Ard building up St, Johns chRreh. Fatt oD, Desaulnier, the n. neu incumbent, has been 'e' six months. assistant priest at the church.
 come here from Cohoss, N. Y,, for whi Int place he left Canada not long before He gre liked by the people here as a speaker, a ne. Bishop O'Reilly recommends him as a zealo
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