Year: 1878

We wish to say word in response to what was so kindly said by Mrs: Pease last week.

 When the late editor and proprietor of this paper was so suddenly stricken down at bls post by the ssfell Destroyer" and thus remov- ed from a position he had filled for several years with much ability and success, 1t was, ot course. generally expected that in the course of the settlement of the estate, the paper wonld change hands, As announced lastWee that change has already been made. The title has been passed, the price paid, whatever disadvantages it may labor under in other re J spects, it at least will not start on it's new career handicapped with dead weight of debt. One of the principal objects of the change has been to prevent change-a great CT or more radical change-upon the home- pathic principle of sinailia sir1itba's cro''I'"- and to secure the paper to this community and this section as permanent business enter prise, which should Ego on" like the babbling | brook of the poet.

 | "I chatter, chatter as flow

 To join the brimming river;

 For men may come and men may go, | But go on forever

 | It is not expected that the sale of the paper will render necessary any great change in eth CT respects. Mrs. Pease, who has shown so much ability and energy in it's general man

 ,a,of cT16- denly cast the responsibility upon her, has kindly consented to give us the benefit of her experience, and to aid us all in her power :; and 'sJohnny'' Rodemeyer who has developed 8 rare talent and aptitude for the business, will continue to aid in welding the scissors and singing the ink. We do not like to enter up- on an undertaking with a great flourish of trumpets, (especially when we have to do the blowing), or with vehement protestations as to the wonders we are going to perform. We would rather that our actions should speak for themselves But it is perhaps due to our readers that we should say this much, that we shall see to it that no efforts spared to make the paper deserving ofa generous pat ronage and support, and that it shall be in | fact as we'll as in name, THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS. It will continue to be pub lished as an independent journal, but we do milk-and-water nondescript concern, which is always anxious to please everybody, and III mortal dread for fear of stepping on somebody's corns. We do not mean to publish any sucE paper We mean that the NEWS shall always speak out for the truth and the right, fearless

 ly and with no uncertain sound, and if any

 body corns get trod upon, it will be owing tt

 two unfortunate circumstances. Firstly, be

 cause his toes have got corns on them, ant

 secondly, because his toes with corns on them

 are where they ought not to be. It will no

 be run as personal organ for the gratifica

 ton of personal ambition or personal vanity

 but as a public journal having for it's objec the general good and prosperity. It will b

 treated as public enterprise in which al

 have in a measure common interest, and il

 which all alike shall be treated in the spirit c ! justice and fairness. The chief interest in D local paper like this must of course centre i C it's local items and home news. We propos

 

 = department and that it shall be made as ir t teresting and full as possible, and we cordial f invite the correspondents and friends of tn :. paper everywhere to extend to us their kin

 assistance. Send us items-local items. Littl

 stones or bricks in the hands of a competer workman, Johnny is pretty good workman t will make large noble structure, beautiful behold and instructive to contemplate. Bu ! while we shall endeavOr to give to our reader l. each week all the home news and all items ( r interest, we shall at the same time try not

 forget that private citizens and families hay

 some rights which even a newspaper Is boun

 to rcspect,-that there are some private al

 fairs which no newspaper, any more than al individual, has right to intrude upon. w

 are aware that some of the local items pub

 lished in our papers are sometime criticised a

 being light and trivial, and oflittle or no puk

 lie interest, but we do not think this objection even if true. altogether valid one. The may be likened to the conversation of neigh 9 bors, which may be light and trivial, but bette thus than not talk at all. The influence upo ' them is healthtul. It tends | k create a neighborlY feeling-to draw out thei better nature to remind them that there ar

 others in the world besides themselves, an :, that they owe duties to others besides them selves. In word it tends to remind them ( that sublime precept which is the very four dation stone of the whole social fabric. ''Tho ' shalt love thy neighbor as myself" We hay T often thought that the great defect i $ society in it's present state (perhar

 it is greater in American societ l. than any other), is this want of socis intercourse. We live too much within and fc ;, ourselves. There IS too much selfshness in tn

 world We live as if this life were simply = great grab game in which he who by hook ( Dv crook succeeds in grabbing the most, is tn pest man. From the cradle to the grave " IT are engaged in a constant struggle to mak n money and get rich and for what? Not tha we may do the more good, but in ninety min :, cases out of hundred, it F. simply to enable us to live

 sdlenes s, and indulge in vulgar display an

 3stentation. With all our boasted educatio

 and knowledge. science and improvements, W haven't yet learned to laoe-And the truth the matter is, that although we love to tai 'I and boast a great deal of the civilization + Jur age, we are not half as much civilized g r. we think we are, and notwithstanding the1 II are vast multitudes of newspapers scattere IrI all over the county, doing good missionar

 worz, there is yet wide field for them ope and unoccupied. ''THE CONNECTICUT WEsIER

 NEVIS proposes to occupy one corner of i

 with head quarters at Canaan Depot where las Railroad and Photographic communicable [ 10 the four points of the compass,-Nortl ! South, East and West, thus making it gran ; ,usiness centre. and great focus of lgh

 50 please send on your subscriptions and at N fertisements, friends-the more the merrier-