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- Connecticut has a uew dog law with sorae new and good features. Every dog must be registered with tha town clerk ou or -betore Hay 1, each year, and Í2.1Ó lee or tax paid at the time of registration for each male dog and $6.15 tor each female dog. Every dog must a collar marked with the owuer's name aud the registered uumber, and anyoue niay kill at sight auy dog not 30 registered and collared and get ïl tur the A Í7 fine or 30 days impiïsouinent, or both, is iinposuil upon the owner or keeper of au uuregietered dog, aud it is made the duty. of prosecutiug oincers and graud juroi-8 to prosecute for Ifttions ot the law. A fine of $7 or 30 days inipriaonment is also imposed upon auyoue who kills a duly registered aud collared dog, iu addition to the value of the dog The town pays for all damages to shoep or cattle done by dogs, and recovers iu tull from the owners of the dogs : that is it they are not as worth" less as the curs which do the dimage. - " Friends, whisky brought me to this : tor whisky I am to be executed to-day. Let whisky alone ; it oaused me to bo hung by the neck. I say to all of you, leave whisky alone," were the last words of Jacksou EJwards who was hung in Louisiana a few days ago. We have n't a bit of doubt that there is a very big devil in whisky, aud that Edwards' advice to ' let it alone " was sound. But theu it is high ime for public opinión to charge at least a tortion of the wrong-doing and crime directly upou the criminal rather than the poor whisky which was in him. The whisky is not to ilame for being drank, but the man for driukng it ; drunkenness does not excuse crime but aggravates it, and the soouer these two principies are recognized the better. " Let whisky lone," but if you won't don't think to whitewash yourself by charging your vices and rimes upon whisky. - A " subscriber " writes us : "Can you not all the attention aud induce the School Board o plant some shade trees in front, and in the oy's play-yard of the First ward school buildng 't The street in front of that school-house ught to look better, and the boys ought to ïave some shade to play in during the hot ays. Now is the time to do it if at all." A ood suggestion in part. Two or three trees ught to be put out on the street line ; but as o the play-grounds we are not so certain. Boys prize play-grouuds the more as they are nobstructed. A few trees grouped in corners, o rest uuder, inight be well. - It is officially announced that William P. fisbett is to resume the position of political ditor of the Pontiac Bül Poster, the publishr, Mr. Kelly, giving his time to the local and usiness departments ot the paper. Mr. "isbett is a vigorou writer and the BUI Poster, nder his management, will be a power in the oming political campaign. - "Another Victory for Eight : " that's the teading under which the Courier chroniules ie verdict iu the case of the Farmera' store gainst (ieorge W. Hays and suretie?. Bro. aal hHS more confidence in courts when they ecide in his favor than when a decree is itered up against him. Aud that's the differnce twixt tweedledum aud tweedledee.