Connecticut western news., 1882-04-19

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 One of the NEws' correspondents is poet iH shs third degree, as the following outbreak will show, being the superscription CD the envelope containing his last communi- cation:
 Oht carry me along ct rapid rate Ts Lischnsld Couoty. Connecticut state; In Canaan Post Ofics let me lay
 Till the Editor of the NEWS shall bear me
 away.
 Hon Judge N. T. Granger of this place presides at the trial of the Malley boys and Blanche Douglass for the murder of Jennie Cramsr, which began in New Haven yestsr, day. States attorney Doolittls and c. K. Bush are the lawyers for the prosecution, and 8. E. Jones, W. 0. Case, Judge BIydenburg and J. Fox for defense. The trial will be
 lengthy one, and watched with intense in' 5eress throughout the country.
 Eight years ago the voters Of this town
 aid "FTdt lockupp' The lookup didn't fiat wor. a cent Eight years hence, the coste f entertaining criminals. drunkards, assault .rs ard ba,rerers in hotel parlors, feeding hem on the fat Ct the land ct transient rates. md employing keepers will have amounted to a sum sufficient to build lookup with ,rown stone front and bay windows and give ne contractor nice little steal" besides Last week Cassimir Boinay, his two sons, Alexander and August of sAndtown, and Tohn Riego of Winsted. were arrested and ken to Winsted on the old assault and bat t,ry scrimmage with Mayor Hall and Julia Johnson, which was adjourned last fall. The ease was nolled on payment ot the costs by the Boinays and Rlego, which amounted to bout Sll6 States Attorney Huntington warned the whole crowd that if he heard any nore noise from Sandtown. somebody would rear something drop
 We have been asked to request Main
 'r..-ters to stop throwing their coal ashes T the road. and to clean up the heaps already
 posi- ed there Guess not If they will
 rnsent tn substitute something that will be | e1 gu in for a street cleaning bureau
 th-rwise we don't propose to request the
 emoval of a good source of local items not "a long shot Don't disturb the ash heaps, ,-ntlemeu, until the fag or truce flutters in
 ne breeze from the bald headed cupola on -op of the NEw4 office.
 nf .oreslls was seen in the northern heavens ast Sunday night, by those who were out ste The young fellow who witnessed ii shiIe ou his way hom. from ''doxies" house about midnight. took it as good omen. 8 sort of forecast of the bright future awaiting him-and his mind was so busy with the oiissiul thoughts It inspired, and recollections ai the sweet, soft scene he had just Jeff, that he forgot to stop when be got to bis house, anI walked three miles beyond before corn on his little toe recalled his dreamy thoughts 70 the stern realities of this mundane sphere.
 The funeral of the late Charles W. Frank. lin was largely attended last Sunday. The re mains were inferred in ''Lower Corner" ceme' tery Mir. Franklin was the last male sur vivor of an old family. In 1745 his grand father. John Franklin, came to this town and built log house on the very spot where the present Franklin residence now stands, near East Canaan. The present house was also built by John Franklip g few years after his first settlement, snd here his son, Silas Frank lin, and grandson Charles w., our subject were born, lived and died. Deceased leaves a widow, but no children. Tie late superin. sendent Fl. W. Franklin was his nephew.
 Julia Johnson, of Sandtowp, appeared to Eye locar in the sanctum last Thursday, to contradict the paragraph in the NEWS last week which said that according to Aleek. Boinay's story, she fired . revolver at his (aleck's) bride Julia insists that she had ao words with the Boinays, but that her sister, Mrs Pierce had the conversation with hem, and that Aleck fired the shot Julia thinks the paragraph referred to did her groas injustice and she requests us, in the ln. tarests of fair play. to state her side of the
 
 understand that she "doesn't allow her head tn be trouhled ID the least ith thoughts of AIeck Boinay. nor his Irish woman" This we have done. and we now retire penitently from the painful scene.
 Presiding Elder Sanford had the follow ing in his report, submitted to the recent
 conference: "The annual gatherings at the Pine Grove Camp Meeting have been seasons of great spiritual benefit to the thousands .sho have enjoyed them. As this beautiful <r,re is located within the bounds of this district it IS proper for us to state that during he four years a Si.00o note given by the Association as balance for the original pur
 hase has been cancelled. The personal ,roperty has more than doubled in value, the sss"clstion has expended from $l200 to $l- "0 for imprn nvements on ther property, or more -..uch needed improvements We gre glad to state that the interest in this very lealthy and favorite resort as place of wor- hip has been greatly increased"
 An intoxicated rustic attempted to get ,ooard Cummings train after it started last Monday at Union depot, and missing his hold, fell down on his knees between the cars .ousrely on the track. A bystander at once shouted to the engineer who stopped the r4iu almost instantly, and the awkward chap vas released from his devotional attitude on the rail, nearly frightened to death. He climbed into the car, sat in his seat and hung same evening Billy German ('Buffalo Bill'