The Press., 1884-02-28
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LOCAL TopICs-PENN,D AND sCIssoRED
Some friends in Galignani's Messenge

LOCAL TOPICS-PENN,D AND SCISSORED
 Some friends in Galignani's Messenge
 (Paris) says of Miss Elizabeth Beach, wht went down with the shipwrecked City O Columbus ''She came to Paris to stud,y French Her personal attractions ant her intellectual gifts made for her many friends. But the charm of her grace anG culture was crowned by spirit of earnest
 happy, all-pervading piety which was ire
 sistible. Wishing to perfect herself in the knowledge and practice of the French Ian
 guage, she secured as 8 teacher one of the best professors in Paris. He was an un
 believer. but at once became interested II her sincerity. As subjects for French con
 versation he asked her to recount to him anything that had most interested her.
 She listened attentively to Pasteur Der. sier, and one Monday morning repeated all that she could of his sermon. The professor was interested not only in the language, but in the matter, asking hel where she had heard that. The third Monday he was still more impressed, and exclaimed T must hear that preacher fol myself. He did so not only once, but many times, and became 8 changed man. ,
 Rockville and Willimantic are mem bers of the new Connecticut ball club league, which embraces the clubs of some half dozen villages and cities, and vii
 test the question of which of the lot will spend the most money in salarying base ball experts. It is hard to see what local pride either, place can feel in success o1 loss, as the players do not necessarily rep. resent the locality that employs them any further than to bear its name, wear its uniform, and live upon it's contributions. And after season of ill-feeling, scoldine at one another, and exchange of charges ot unfairness and "ungentlemanly' " action, the blaze will die out ill smoke, and three months after it will be forgotten which club got away with the most games, and whichever one did will be reviled by thos that didn't, and by the communities which backed them. Stafford Springs don't see the sense of expending $500 to $1 800, as some villages will do this year, in sending 8 corp of base ball players, hired from New York, Boston, or any other place, to go about the country and represent it on the diamond field. One-tenth of the sum that Rockville and Willimantic will expend this year ill this way put into our public l. brary would add to the pleasure and profit of the village for many years to come. During the past two years liberal contribu- tions of citizens have given us good COT net band. There are always good objects of this kind to be fostered, and those who are expected to ''come down" in aid of To- cal benefits ought to have voice in nam ing the object of their benefactions. Too often they don't. Impecunious, impulsive ones too often decide what the community needs to give it ''tone," and then fairly bully its support upon the community We suspect that our sister villages best brains are not behind these moves to salary clubs of non-residents to represent them.
 [Willimantic Journal
 MURDER IN LEBANON. HARVEY CHAPPELI
 MURDERED IN HIS HoUsE-THE HoUsT
 RANsACKED-NO CLUE TO THE MURDERERs
 About four o'clock on Wednesday after noon, MT. Moves, tree agent, went ts the house of Harvey Chappell, well te do farmer, residing short distance iron
 Kick hill in Lebanon. MT. Chappell was a bachelor and has resided alone for sever al years. Upon reaching the house MT
 Moves discovered that the door leading in
 to the l. was open, and looking in wa mortified to see the body of MT. Chapel
 on the floor, and beside it pool of blood
 A square lin and glass lantern stood o2
 the floor about foot frem his head, anG near by were his spectacles and winter cap An ordinary leaf table had beer placed against the door leading into the , kitchen. There was no evidence of 6 struggle, but the house had been thorough ly ransacked, drawers, trunks, chests, etc
 , were opened and their contents examined , Upon going to the barn, the doors ct which were also open, it was found that Z the stock had not been cared for since ths previous evening. Coroner Park visited
 the premises and an examination was mad by Dr. Barber. On the floor were two tumblers, one of them broken, and on wis f iting the cellar, the door of the wine eel . lar was found unlocked and open, and a. empty pitcher there. Dr. Barbers exam
 ination revealed compound fracture a the frontal bone of the skull, extending from point above the right eye some two 5 inches in length and one and half breadth, the bone being crushed and de pressed on the brain. There was sligh ', abrasion on the nose, and one eye gave ev , idence of having been struck. The "hear , case, , in which MT. Chappel carried hi money, was found, but it had been robbed of its contents. The appearance of ths
 wounds indicated that they had been in
 fiicted with club, and that two or more blows had been struck. After the med ical examination Coroner Park turned ? over the body to MT. John Champlin O South Willington, nephew of the deceas ! ed, with permit for burial. In looking through case of drawers, which the mur derer or murderers had previously gon' through, pocket-book containing $5 was found, which had been overlooked by tho
 thieves. A package of papers containing memoranda of stocks, bonds and money transactions with Frank Johnson of Nor wich, had been examined and left. Tn, house had been thoroughly ransacked downstairs and up-stalrs, even letters hay ing been opened and every other recepta :, , ole ill which there was supposition tha . money might be found But the job wa :, Eso thoroughly done, that not a clue wa left whereby to trace out the perpetrators The circumstances of the doors of tn
 barn being left open leads to the conclu
 sion that MT. Chappen was at the bar s doing the chores in ;, the evening, and fo 9 some reason went to the house., expeotin. e to return and finish the work, He nigh x have seen the man or men enter the house or possibly light moving about azd wen
 in to ascertain who was there. In the al j. sence of any signs of struggle, it is prot s able that he was waylaid and the fats ' blows struck as soon as he entered tn d room He was last seen alive between fiv e and six o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. !, is evident that the murder was committe | p Al -- f --- | IT. s-..--