Year: 1876

alize as fact. The Conn. Western road, forming 8 junction with the Housatonic road at Canaan, gives to that place an ad- vantage vastly superior to that possessed by

 any other town ID Western Connecticut

 This junction brings it in direct communi- ! cation with the north, the south, the east

 and the west, and makes it the nominal | centre of our newspaper field of villages. That Canaan was point mostly to our

 advantage to occupy, has been apparent ! for long period of the past, but we had

 become established in Salisbury; b ad add | ed to our office from time to time the va

 rious conveniences we thought essential to

 our comfort, and to our assistance in exc

 cutting our work, till we were very reluc-

 tant about leaving it,-nor was the attach

 ment to our office the only magnet of at | traction which held us to ''old Salisbury"

 We had become acquainted with the peo l pie, and had learned to love t0 live among

 them,-and will say right here, that com

 what will or go where we may in after years, the associations and friendships

 which we have formed in Salisbury shall

 not be severed nor forgotten, for they will

 embellish the pages of our life history with

 memories that will ever cheer us to look ! back upon.

 But why do we take our office to Canaan

 now, after waiting so long time, is ques-

 tion that will naturally suggest itself to the

 mind of the reader at this point in our re- | m rE Wo xri11 toll

 pie of Canaan have built and arranged

 rooms expressly for the accommodation of

 printer, having in view the publication of

 newspaper in their village. That they

 have this inalienable right would be a

 difficult matter to question, and after an

 examination of our books and ascertaining

 that three-fourths of all our patronage

 comes from east of the Houss tonic river

 that when we mail the bundles of THE

 NEWS on publication day, se0enteep of tue

 taoenty-t7ree bundles qohich 90 to tue priraci

 pal offices in our field, pass through Canaan

 to get to their destination, we concluded

 that if Canaan MUST AND WOULD have

 newspaper, the time had evidently arrived

 when we should make the change, that has

 seemed to us as ultimately inevitable. If

 we are to have competition in our business

 it would not be discreet to permit it to oc

 cupy the most advantageous position. Ca

 naan, on account of it's railway facilities,

 is nearer to seventeen of our twenty-three

 villages than Salisbury, and should an op-

 position journal be published at that point

 in our field, it would probably operate sad

 ly to cur disadvantage, for people seldom

 drive their horses through che river to get

 to the second one to drink, if the water in

 the first IS good.

 Therefore we have concluded to remove our newspaper and printing office to Ca } naan, and hope we have succeeded in mak

 ing it clear to the minds of our readers that

 we do so because we feel compelled by the l force of circumstances to make the change. r; We are not going out of our field, but to another point, to another village which is ) fortunate in being more nearly the centre, and which is most accessible to dN our } patrons The CONN. WESTERN NEWS has not been exclusively Salisbury paper, nor shall it 1n the future be Canaan paper, but home journal for all of North Western

 Connecticut.

 7 Be kind enough to indulge us in on word more, for it is due to the good people of Salisbury to say that we do not by any r means remove our office and business to

 another locality in our field, because we

 have not been supported here. Our success } in our enterprise for the past five years, s and over, that we have been engaged in it,

 has been far beyond our most sanguine an

 ticirations. This support 1t is of course understood has not come entirely from Salisbury. but the town has gwen us its generous pro rata, and we have succeeded : here, and certainly have great reason to re- - ioice that we began the publication of oul paper in Salisbury, and are deeply indebted

 to many of its citizens for their good coun sels and advice, which have frequently beer e sought by us, and have been greatly to oul I advantage and interest to profit by.

 l. The presses, type and fixtures will be re s moved the latter part of this week.

 l. Robbery on Brush Hill.-Last week = Monday evening, when MT. and Mrs. Dwight g Merrifeld of Brush Hill returned from g e ride, they found the door of their house e had been broken open with crowbar. Il J, appears that when they left home, they lief D their hired man, Dennis O'Brlan, at worl IT in the fields a little distance away. Or n questioning OBrian on their return, they e were informed by him that at about E o'clock he happened to look toward th' IS house and saw man at the window uI V stairs. Going to the house and entering e he found two men, with whom he grappled $ but they were too strong for him and over v came him, and after getting what thel V wanted left the house aud went in the di h rection of piece of woods that he pointed e out to them. He showed MT. sMerrifel, n some scratches on hIs forehead, and bruise d on other parts of the head, and also a hol

 in his hat, where he said the robbers sho l. at hlm and the ball passed through it, shay IS ing off a lock of the hair on the top of hi is head Showing at the same time of his re D. cital of this nice little story, the place wher ,f the hair was gone)

 h This story for short time seemed l. r. satisfy Mir. M., who had previously hal h almost unlimited confidence in the man a- and who had worked for him through tn IS past summer. It is also remarked o ,n O'Brian, that he has one of the most inno s, cent and sanctimonious countenances eye h seen upon being lower than an angel D. Upon recital of the facts in the case t, in some of his neighbors and friends, it wa ty suggested to hlm that he question furthe