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 Bookcases of every style are furnished at low pricas at Paine's Furniture Warerooms, AS Canal St., Boston, Send for Photos. and price list.
 Forbes & Wallace, Springfield, have just received their fall importation of Nonparell velveteens in all the new and desirable colors. This is the only real substitute for Lyons silk velvet. <.
 -S5O, ,OOO dollars worth of new furniture is offered for sale at auction by D. Barns of Springfield in another column. No such sale has ever before occurred in that city. Every body will want to go to the sale. Great bar gains will be sure to be had.
 Forbes & Wallace, Springfield, offer anoth- CT load of blankets at extremely low prices. You can save from $1 to $3,according to quail ity Don't lail to see what they are offering at $2. 50, $3.5O, $4 and $5. They have 100 bales of comfortables at prices to suit all.
 STAFFORD.
 The annual meeting of the corporators of the Stafford Springs Library Associa- ton will be held at the library room on Monday next at p. m.
 Charles U. Brooks of Holland will show at the fair among his farm products samples of white elephant potatoes. of which he has raised 45 bushels on 27 rods of ground, and from one basket of seed. Three potatoes weighed s lbs, 2 oz., one of these 3 lbs., 2 OF.
 Three pounds, two and one-half ounces Will the big potatoe record end here? R. s. Beebe, merchant at the Hol, low, finds such a sample in lot brought in by MT. Cummings of the Washbrlrn district
 W. N. Thompson, recently of Thomp- son < Whiton, started for Los Angeles, Cal, on Tuesday He is accompanied by Rev. B. F. Elliott, who has a brother at that place. MT. Thompsons family re- main here while he is prospecting for new location, better suited to his physical condition.
 A son of Henry M Benton, 6 years old, was drowned in the Mineral Springs pond on Friday last. His parents lived on Tolland-ave, and the little fellow had been out of their sight but half hour at most. He had always been very obedient about keeping away from the water, but on this occasion went with some boys of his age and younger to play about an old raft that was near the shore. The story can be only gathered from these boys, who were mostly Canadians and not fluent in English. It is supposed that the raft be- gan floating out of the shadows, and that one boys jump for shore gave 1t further impetus, and that the Benton boy either jumped OF fell into water beyond his depth. His mother, missing him, called his name, and finally one of his companions came and told her that he ''was in the water and couldn't get out." A rush to the water side was made, and John Lahea, who was passing, went in, finding the body in about eight feet of water. All efforts were made to revive him, and Dr. Newton was quick ly on the spot, but nothing could be done. Mr. Benton, who has 8 large family, was remembered by his brothers of Harmony Temple of Honor in the sensible form of small cash subscription, and for this and the many forms of aid that the sympathy of friends took the parents desire The Press to return their heartfelt thanks. A STATEMENT FROM MRS. ACORN, IN THE
 SLATER CASE.
 To THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS A little while ago Angelo Aborn made statement in your paper He referred to my father and myself so unjustly that you will, I trust, pardon me for writing these lines.
 What crime has my father committed against Angelo Aborn? Let me answer and my answer shall differ from MT. Aborn's, as the truth always differs from falsehood.
 When I was fourteen years old Angelo Aborn inveigled me into a marriage with him. People say :; and say justly-that even-at that age I should have known bet ter than to leave father, who had always been to me the best of fathers, and entrrlst myself to man like Angelo Aborn. Very well admit it. I can only say that if h, hor hot o4 could but know the grief and misery and wretchedness that have been mine since, their blame would be changed to a woman's pity.
 I lived with him over three years. We were utterly unlike-at least hope so. I tried to be good wife to him. Whatever may have been his conduct or treatment of me pass 1t by now. At the proper time shall make my charges, and in the proper place. I shall prove them, word for word, syllable for syllable. It is enough to say that my health gave out under the work of trying to support him by my own labor, and l wrote to my father to take me home
 My father refused. I again wrote to him, begging to be sheltered, at least, if not forgiven, and my father told me to come home. I came home, and at once my husband began to charge me with in fidelity to him. During her last sickness I had nursed Mrs. Comstock, and with her husband, who is Mr. Aborn's cousin, he charges me with committing crime. He gathers together lot of letters, spreads them here and there, reads them to his friends, and leaves them at various places.
 Were those letters written by me? No Even he does not claim that. They were letters which he alleges were written to me. And I would here suggest that the number of that kind of letters, purporting to come from Mr. Comstock, would be limited only by my husbands ability to write them and his supply of stamps with which to mail them. In reply to his charge, say it is false l-false from be- ginning to end. am ready to stand be- fore any court, in answer to it, and my an swer will be always the same ! He says he does not want to arrest me Does he then think it more honorable and more manly to crush my reputation by reports and islanders to which I can make no reply, than to arraign me before a court where can prove my innoeenee !? Perhaps it is more honorable; but do not think so
 And then, on that night when my fath- eris house was attacked, when men broke through the door and, revolver in hand,