The Press., 1884-03-27
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 SOUTH COVENTRY.
 Maple syrup making and piping frogs March 24th. Who says that we are to be engaged in the making of syrup until frogs pipe in '85.
 The grass is beginning to look quite green on well-cared-for land.
 MT. Sheldon leaves the boarding house at Eagleville and will occupy his residence near N. Boynton this season.
 The remains of Mrs. Ruth Page were inferred here Friday by the side of her first husband, Chas. Brace.
 Mrs. John Payne has calla which stands four feet III night, the diameter of the top of the plant being five feet, length | of leaves fifteen inches, and it has several buds. Mrs. Payne sets the plant out of doors during the summer and withholds water. In October she removes 1t to the house, places the pot in dish, and in the dish pours boiling water daily. This calla is of the common variety.
 The literary entertainment of Monday evening was success. Reading, Mrs. E. F. Tracy Reclamation, McCarty read 1 ing, Annie H. Freeman reading, R. w.. Barber; dialogue-Thorn among Roses. Where all do well it may not be best to particularize, but ''they say" that Aggie Kingsbury's acting was ''just splendid. The funeral of Mrs Sally w., wife of the late Wm. Porter, was attended at the Porter homestead, Monday, by Rev. F. B. Jenkins. Mrs. Porte has been for many years resident of this town having united ! with the Congregational church Sept. 9th, 1818-Rev. Chauncey Booth, pastor. The church on the hill was the extent of her Sabbath days journey, and thither she went with her children in the days when family church going was a rule but seldom broken. She leaves one son, Thos. K., of New York, and four daughters. Her age was eighty-fve.
 Rev. w. w. Ellis is improving, but is not yet able to go out.
 Another green house. The one owned by Wm. Reynolds is taking on this tint. | A new jeweler, at J.B. Carmon's store.
 Farmers club tomorrow evening.
 B. F. Gardner has been hired on the road, to help carry the big bar.
 NORTH COVENTRY.
 A colored girl, Emma Freeman, was arrested last week for stealing, and taken before Judge Brewster. She was sen- tenced to the Industrial school, Middle town, for 3 years, or till she is IS years oi age.
 HI. M. Kingsbury has bought and moved on to the Porter Loomis place.
 ASHFORD.
 wEsrFoRD.
 Mrs. Prudence, wife of D. J. Annidon, a most estimable woman, died very sud denly in an epileptic fit last Sunday.
 -7x8 inches around and four ounces weight is the record of an egg laid by one of s. s. Stowell's hens.
 CORRESPONDENCE.
 Speaking few weeks since of our ex- emption from floods, one of our old inhab- itants reminds us that we have had some experience in cyclones here in Westford. He calls to mind one which visited the place in Sept. 1877, at what was called the general training. The day was cloudy, the wind east. It went back into the south east and increased into hurricane in the evening, sweeping through on the east side of the hill, prostrating and up roofing trees in it's course. It burst in the house on the hill, near where the school feet of the plastering, laths, joists and all J and the other on the peWs in the other part of the gallery, and bursting out one of the.west windows. It also levelled the sheds on the west side, and passed on as far as Ellington. There is some uncertain Il ty in regard to the year-whether 1t was 1877, or earlier. Will some of the ''old in- habitants'' decide the matter, giving us al so their reeolleetions in regard to the force and effects of the cyclone. It does not seem to have been nearly as destructive as the one in Wallingford, to say nothing about that of some four or five years since.
 To judge by extracts in the papers from Queen Victoria's Journal, "John Browns soup' must be marching on in the eastern hemisphere as much as during oul war it was in the wostern-only it was not the soul of the same John Brown. We see no reason why even a queen should not be attached to eerYant, and, despite his faults, honor him as man. Probably the scions of nobility who are shocked by : her impropriety in making so much of him , are faultless. May we not consider her re gard for him as g compliment to the whole : communality of decent people in her king dom? We venture the remark that she is , forced to respect the personality of the Scotch, man by man, more than she does ) that of the English, and that an enyiouf and almost unconscious suspicion of this , is at the foundation of much of the unfavor able criticism passed upon her. There is as much reason why the king should ''hon or all men" as that all men should ''hono1 f the king" What would :Dr. Johnson say anent the Scotch were lie now alive to sec the respect with which they are regarded by royalty itself.
 The entertainment given by the West ford dramatic club was success, they : showing much talent and ability. w hope the day is not far distant when the same will be repeated or something given equally as good.
 Theodore Lyon has gone to Bostor for few days, and MT. John Slatery hai has departed for Hartford. In the latter , Westford loses her champion checker play CT. c. TOLLAND.
 Rev MT. Crafts expects to close his Ia } bors at the Lee church and Wesley chape next Sunday March 3Qth. He having beer , called to supply the pulpit of the Meth