Connecticut western news., 1883-08-01
SOUTH CANAAN.

house all summer.
 The weather the past week has been fine for haymaking until Saturday when there were heavy showers
 Miss Ellen Prentice has remarkably beautiful tea rose, at the present time it has about 37 buds and blossoms.
 The little four years old boy of Wal, ter Kellogg has been terribly unfortu- nate, having fallen and broken his arm for the third time, he is doing well un- CT the skillful care of Dr Averill. FALLS VILLAGE.
 MT and Mrs F M Olin of Worcester. are guests in town.
 Henry Wolfe of Sparta, Wis, arrived home Monday on visit.
 MT and Mrs D E Strong of Hartford were the guests of D w Clark, last week.
 Wm Brewster, wife and child arriv- ed here, at his old home, last week from Sparta, Wisconsin.
 A glance at the birth column will show that the inhabitants of this place are in creasing. It is girl.
 MT A l. Brown has traded his white horse for light bay which is, as a road ster, of much more value.
 Harry Sheppard was home over Sun day. He was promoted few weeks ago and has one of the trains on the Spring field division with headquarters at New Haven.
 The jury case which came off before Judge D J Warner, and occupied four days last week, was one which attracted much attention and from its nature ex- cited more than ordinary interest. The parties more directly interested resided in Sharon. The plaintiff, Hattie Loucks, attended the graded senior school over which the defendent, MT Charles w Bowen, was principal. The counsel for the plaintiff were A T Roraback of Ca- naan and D T Warner of Salisbury and for the defendent, states attorney James Huntington of Woodbury, A D Warner of West Cornwall and w Baker of Shar- on. Some thirty or more witnesses were examined, among whom were four physicians Averill of Falls Village {; w W Welch of Norfolk Shears of Shar- on and Wright of Salisbury and three were present who did not testify. Many of the most prominent citizens of Sharon were present and all witnesses for the defense. The Loucks claimed that the principal had severly beaten the girl so far as to seriously impair her health, yet sought the services of law yer before consulting physician, while the two most eminent medical advisers ln the county testified from an examine ton that there was nothing found on her person to warrent such conclusion. The preponderence of testimony and the sympathies of 95 per cent of the people present were for the defendent as every right minded one should be, for the object of the suit was too apparent to Juoge otherWlse. The counsel on both sides were very able and the eloquence and undeniable prosfs which Squire Huntington offered were very con- vincing. It was proved beyond doubt that the pupil had not received more punishment than she deserved or than any teacher in the circumstances would intiict, as she was interfering in the cor rectlon of another scholar and it is not the first teacher that has had trouble from the same parties. If teacher has no right to correct or moderately punish a scholar then in the language of Squire Huntington, God pity the teachers. The only alternative left for them then if they break any rules, is to turn them out of school without further ceremony. He was loudly applauded which was speedily checked