Year: 1874

pro and con upon the matter and the ap- pointment of two committees by the court to lay loutand appraise damages, wehaye anothere new road in prospect. It lies wholly on the Parsonage grounds, and is from thirty to forty rods long. When completed, 1t will have cost the. tosn not far from five thousand dollars. sThis cost can be put down largely to useless opposi- ton. The lesson to be learned Is obvious and yet Washington. learns very slowly. It has been through the same operation over and again and will probably con tinue to do so. But would 1t not be more economical where respectable number of citizens make not unreasonable request in regard to thing which from their nnm- bers and influence they are sure in the end to get, to grant 1t at once anu save the friction and trouble and expense of long quarrel --.-- And now q word as to the last court. l We have sometimes thought lawyers more severe and less considerate and po- lite than they onght to be. But isn't 1t astonishing how good men, will swear about travel and damages, and their neighbors going to church, &c. Iwonder l if the times are not changing for the worse rather than for the better. Are not men more selfish and less veracious than for merly. Are not nominating committees little more apt to nominate themselves to desirable offices than was the case gen. eration since? Are modesty and humility or self-sufficiency on the increase? Do men take office if they can get it. or wait till it is conferred by the public? |? Is Gen. Butler an anachronism or are there thou sands of small Buffers nowadays? And when lawyers have to deal with witnes- ses, are they obliged to assume that the evidence in nearly every case needs re- view and correction by cross-examination, and then not because of mobility so much as indisposition to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the tru tn ?" And here we suppose is to be found the explanation of the large liberty the law yers take in characterizing witnesses when they make their pleas

 Another ''sign of the times" appeared in the meeting of the Consociation at Morris. The meeting itself was small, and, with only now and then an exception, did any feel as we presume the fathers felt when they met, that the occasion was great and important. The feeling seemed to be rather that the glory of Consociation has departed. It is less to the churches, far less to the communities, than it eyer was. And that unanimous move upon the old creed was significant. It must be abridged and modified and made less Cal vanistic, and more liberal, so that any person who gives evidence of regeneration and genuine christian character, can come into the churches unobstructed by the confession of faith, and without much consideration of what his personal belief may be as to the s'doctrines." We have some doubt as to how such change will be met by the churches. for we recently heard an officer who has little doubt of the correctness of his own opinions say, that he should object to admitting per son to the church whom he believed real ly to be christian, provided the person held to the doctrine of universal salvation. Rut matfnrs arc the oania,n mt only ill the West and in the Presbyterian church, but also in the East and in the Congregational churches. We can't stand still and it would not be we'll for us to do So if we could. Moving waters are pufer than stagnant waters.

 And here we are reminded that Wara- maug Lake has now another attraction. From five to six thousand salmon were put in its waters last week. HONOR.