Year: 1876

that Will convict the thlrtY persons WnO have threatened or lntimidated workmen employed by him. He threatens to close his entire works unless his men are protected from. the strikers. In Danbury there IS strike at P. Robinson and Co.,. s fur-blowing establishment, and on Thurs day of last week, new workman named Hanly was brutally treated by gang, as he was going to work. .-Hartford CourG1at.

 The Great Droutn SroKen.-The first rain that has fallen in this region during the past two months that has amounted to scarcely anything at all began last Sunday morning. The storm continued through Sunday, and at intervals considerable rain fell Monday. The drouth, which this storm has broken, has been the severest eyer known here. The hay and grain crops, which grew and were gathered in before the dry spell was much felt, are good, but all vegetation depending upon its growth later in the season, is entirely destroyed. May we never see the like again.

 Washinee Woolen Co.-The works of this company up on Washlnee street in this village have not been running on very full time for some time back, the demand for woolen goods, as is generally known, not having been great, but part of the machine ry is in motion, and is making some of the most beautiful yarn we ever saw, the colors being scarlet, white, mixed and blue. The company are making some of their superior water proof goods, as the demand calls for them, and certainly the goods from this mill will sell where any of that class of goods is wanted. Mr. Bower, who is the superin- tendent of the works, has an assortment of cloth for the country trade, and is selling quire extensively of them. He has also on sale some of the finest and most beautiful of rose blankets, which were made at the mill of Elias Titus and Son in Poughkeep- sic. MT. Titus is president of the Washi- nee Co.,, and is probably one of the most extensive manufacturers of woo]en goods in the country. MT. T. F. Dexter is drlv- ing sale wagon for this company, visiting all the villages hereabout, carrying their yarns and blankets, and we understand is selling large quantities of them. After presidential election MT. Bower thinks the woolen business will unquestionably ''look up' little, as well as all kinds of other business, when it is presumed all the wheels of the manutactory will be set buZzing to keep up with the trade, and we will add not only Mir. Bower but all our citizens hope soon to see these works going with full head of steam. That the right parties are at the helm of this concern is unquestiona- bly, true, and it only lacks revival of busi- ness to make this one of the most import ant industries in Western Connecticut.

 Our Worthy Poor.-There is family ln this town that is especially worthy of immediate and substantial assistance. The mother is dead, land the father, whose health is very poor indeed. In fact is able to do but very little or no work away from home, to earn bread for his family, and who lives with his small children, does the cooking, the washing and ironing, and is endeavor- ing in every possible way to keep himself and children in existence, and without call. ing upon the town for any help if he can possibly avoid it. It is said the town does assist him to perhaps dollar week, but he needs more. He has been seen many and many night within a year or two past, up till midnight and after, sewing to- gether pieces of cloth for urderclothing, and other garments for his children. He once was sexton of the Meth odlst church in Lakeville, but his health failing he was compelled to abandon that While there he earned something, but now, with hls children too young to attend to the duties of home, and no means to hire this work done for them and himself, the whole time his health will permit him to labor must of necessity be spent in cooking their food, mending thelr tattered garments, and doing all he can to keep soul and body together. Nor is this man of foreign birth-it would of course be all the same if he was,-but | he is a native American citizen. who has made an honest effort to live, but somehow fate has pulled him down, down down

 till help should now be extended to him

 and that right literally. We have a Ladies sewing circle which meets with considera ble regularity at the houses of some of its members to make up garments which they send by the barrel or box to the poor ot foreign countries, and perhaps to remote parts of our own country. Large number

 of barrels and boxes of comfortables ant clothing of all kinds, and which are vel made of good and substantial material, ,hav'

 been sent thousands and thousands of mile

 to the poor and the needy.

 This is all very good; it is nor

 than that; it is an exhibit of benevo

 lence, of Christian kindness that ali shoult

 possess; but isn't this worthy society do

 ing their work at arms length? All sec

 tions of our country, and all countries a

 for that matter, probably contain grea

 numbers of people who are poor and woul

 like to receive the assistance of the well to

 do citizens, but who are able to work an

 are in no wise worthy of help, while other

 are needy and ought to be promptly as

 sisted, and it seems altogether the best pa

 for benevolent organizations to first scare out and aid those right at their very doors

 as it were, and when the needy at home ar

 comfortable, give next attention to thos

 farther away. Our town, and undOubteC " other towns hereabout, contain familie which should be assisted. They are ou , worthy poor, and it seems as if our peopl might select the sheep from the goats this matter of determining who should b ) aided in our town and who should not, { , we'll as some agent of the poor in Ind l or Patagonia, of those there, and it is Ii : tie too bad that the great quantities of clott