The Press., 1883-08-16

Boston. This is one of the largest in tn,
 country, with show rooms, covering acres o
 floor room, stocked with every variety o
 house furniture at manufacturers and import
 CTS prices, which save about one third the re
 tail price to their customers. -
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 The Girls Library Club will have 8
 good platform made for dancing at the Ii.
 brary benefit sociable tomorrow (Friday)
 evening. The grounds at Woodlawn have
 been kindly put at their disposal, and the ingenuity of the ladies will be exercised to make as many and as great attractions as possible, and make their visitors we'll sat isfied with whatever expenditures they may make Remember-if stormy on Fri day evening will be postponed until Mon- day evening following.
 The large egg record is sent up to 63xS4 inches in measurement
 Rev. c. s. Nash of the Hartford Sem- mary, preached at the Congregational church last Sunday. The effects of vaca- ton season was seen in the choir which only numbered two singers beside the or ganist at each service.
 -Blaisdell's fish market is being re- moved to East-Main-st
 Mondays shower was timely and
 
 thunder and lightning accompanies rain in this village, as owing to the formation of the ground or other causes 1t Is not of ten that & shower passes directly over it usually diverg1ng to the north or south as it rises.
 Seth c. Eaton, whose sudden decease in this village on Tuesday will shock many friends who read this paper, was born in Holland in 1882, but spent most of his adult life in Wilmington. He was son of Dr. J. c. Eaton, who removed from Tol- land to Stafford a few years since Mr. Eaton In early life was a merchant at Will ington depot, having for his partner his father-in-law Ira Johnson, Esq. While thus engaged in business he was also railroad station agent, and much of the time Judge of Probate for the Holland district. After retiring from the mercan- tile, business, he began the study. of law with s. E. Fairfield of this village. He continued 8 resident of Wilmington until within the past year, when he removed to this village, where he had for some time had 8 law office He filed some of the most important offices in the town of Will hngton, being her representative in the legislature, also for several years select man, some of the time chairman of the board. A man of integrity, he ever held the respect of all who knew him, and faith fully discharged every public duty. He had for some time been troubled with pulmonary difficulty, but so sudden an ending was unlocked for.
 B. F. Slater was on Thursday last ar rested and brought before Justices F. A. | Harwood and J. R. Washburn, for the at tempted shooting of MT. Whitehouse. who. with and at request of Sheriff Edgerton of Holland, on Sunday morning, Aug. 5th, went to Slaters house in search of one Comstock. A hearing of the case was deferred until yesterday. Slater beino put under bond of $500, which l was furnished by Wm. Richardson. After hearing the witnesses for the state the | court adjourned until next Monday. John L.. Hunter of Wilhmantic has charge of the case. for the state, and W. A. King of Stafford for the defence
 The neighbors of Slater very evidently strongly with him. They say hat when his daughter was but 13 years old Angelo Aborn enticed her to run away with him, leaving her fathers house in the night, and going to Massachusetts, where hey were married, that she was in-treated oy her husband, and therefore left him. liter having lived with him for some time. md returned to her fathers house. Aborn claims that an intimacy which she after wards formed with the Comstock who 'omes into the case, was criminal. in fact claims to have evidence of it, and for some ime a warrant has been out for Comstock's Irrest. It is claimed that the motive in he case was revenge. There was, of course, bitter feeling on the part of Slater towards Aborn for the manner in which le had enticed his little child from her nome and made her wife at such an un- , uitable age. On Aborn's part there was 7. hown desire to be revenged on the man < vho had harbored his wife, and also gave ! helter to her alleged paramour. He and '. later, prowled about his house, and threat ned him, and the latter had been advised 0 keep within doors by neighbors who eally considered his life to be in danger. l n the posse who accompanied the sheriff il n the occasion of the shooting. it is aid was Angelo Aborn, and others who t ad annoyed and threatened Slater. and s therefore he felt that he was in peril from hem if they gained admission. This is a ne side of the story. Against it of course 8 lands the claim that it was made known D 9 Slater that his visitors were acting by h Hthority of law, and in search of a man g ho, when in that yieinity, frequented o nat house and no other place. He was V ot found there. The law gives no power t } break into mans house save to appre- t end the owner or one known to have a esidence there, and those who assume re- possibility of doing so also assume the sks. This law is construed by many to i've the power of defending one's house, yen to the taking of life, if an officer at II ,mpts to enter to apprehend any one not resident, unless the person sought aetu- | fly be in the house at the time, Of course T. man would not be likely to object to ,arch of his house unless it actually shel- V red the person sought, or unless he had Il 'ason to fear personal violence from his sitoTs; 
s s.s<r,, sss-<es q Sheriff Edgerton, in .summoning his pos a of aids to so picket the house as to pre- a snt O0mstock's escape in the darkness, t. sturally summoned Aborn, who brought e im the warrant, and, beside his brother, q hers upon the road to the place to be sited seven in all-and. he knew little Ii nothing of the parties personally, or of . leir Felations to each other, s As showing the mixed state of things n Id result of Conneotieut's divoree sys- m, at the trial was present Skaters pres t 1t wife, who is not the mother of this q sughter, also the girls mother, who used I; be Skaters wife. It is also said that ., a rmsr husband of Slater,s present wife is