Connecticut western news., 1871-10-27


 formed a copartnership, and will soon com mence business here as carpenters and bull ders.
 Gun B,wst.-Joseph Stake, lad of about l2 or IA years of age had his hand terribly lacerated by the bursting of a gun while out hunting last Saturday.
 Episcopal Church.-We are informed there will be service in this church next Sabbath at the usual time. The Rev. MT. Johnson, of New York, will officiate.
 Dr. SteDart The dentist from Amenia will be ct Mrs. H. A. Harrison's, Lakevlle next Thursday and Friday the 2nd and 3d of Nov. - lwl6
 Daois Ore BsG.-The rails are being laid on the railroad to this mine, and it is expected it will be ready to take ore directly from the mine over this road to the Conn. Western, by the fore part of next week.
 Big Turnip-Mr. Hiram Trpp of Cha pinville, has just pulled & turnip on one of his lots which weighs l6 pounds. Good op- portunity to build house there, providing the hole from which it was taken is not too large for the cellar.
 4 Word to ''Hope. Your. poetry en- bodies some excellent ideas, and which are very prettily expressed, but the rhyme is very generally bad. Only three or four verses of the ten you sent, are all there is which rhyme at all. Give a little more attention to that and you will do nicely.
 Gone.-Mr Geo o. Kilbourne, formerly foreman of the Washinee factory in this vil- lage, has this week moved his family to Amherst, Nova Scotia, where he will act as superintendent of the mills of the Lawrence Manufacturing Co. of that place.
 "Neao Jeweler. "-The jeweler who was formerly with Mir. Tripp at Millerton, has recently established himself iu business in the drug store of Mr. G. w. Marble, in Canaan. MT. Tripp recommends him as being a first class workman. If he under stands his business as we'll as MT. Marble does the drug business, he can do all our watch tinkering.
 WhO Had N?-A correspondence from Sharon mailed three weeks ago hove in sight last Monday. This may be regarded as quick trip for letter to make, all the way from Sharon to Salisbury. This cor respondence, although valuable at the time it was written, is rather slow news at this late hour. We furnish our correspondents, envelopes with our address printed on them, and hope our postal friends will be careful and not "chuck" them into the wrong bag, when properly mailed.
 Neso LaO OfIce.-D. J. Warner, Esq. has leased the office building in Mrs. Reeds yard, near his residence, and is having g partition put in it, and otherwise arranged for his business, and will occupy it for his law office. The small building which he for so many years has occupied for all office, he will soon remove from his yard. Although this miniature house which is tc be removed is so small, as extensive law 1 business has been transacted in it for the past few years, as in many much larger and more pretentious buildings.
 Dead Horse.-Last Saturday afternoon Mir. Wm. Conklin's black horse was sud denly taken sick, and with what disease l nobody seems to know, and at 12 o'clock at night he was dead. This horse was splendid animal, and Saturday morning MT. Conklin would have refused $25O fol l him.
 1 Another.-It seems that last Saturday was very unfortunate day for horses. A! John Cannon was driving Mrs Butterleys 1 horse up short hill near Mir. T. Tylef'G house, on the road from Salisbury to Lime Rock, with barrel of cider in the wagon the horse staked. Cannon was so exasper ated at the conduct of the horse that he went back to Mrs. B's house, got yoke o1 cattle, and hitching chain about tho horses neck, proceeded to draw horse wagon, cider and all up the hill He ha6 not got under very great headway, before snap went the horses neck, and anothe faithful" animal was launched into eter nity."
 PhilSp Ph6lips. is known the worl( over, as one of the leading American vo calists, will sing in the M. B. church il Lakeville next Monday evening He ha sung to the largest and most appreciativ audiences in the United States, from Main to California. England and Scotland hav also listened to his charming music. Tn press of those countries and of the United States, is unanimous and loud in its praise of his voice, which is of such marvelou sweetness and power. We have before u 6l of these testimonials, and an almos unlimited number of them could be pro duced were it necessary. The simple an nouncemept that PHILIP PHILLIPS is to slng should fill the church in Lakeville eve beyond its capacity, and it will do it. Tn price of admission is only 50 cents.
 Ames Works.--The Amaen60 Tunes thi week published an item of news concern ing the amount of ''old iron" sold from tn Ames Iron Works in Falls village by tn Housatonic Railroad company, &c., an gives the credit of the item to the Danbur Neeos. This is all very well, but the sam appeared originally and ver6atina in th CONN. WESTERN NEWS, of October 9th, an has been copied very generally by the pa pers throughout the state. We perhap already have more credit than we deserve and it is not that which IS the occasion o any trouble to us, but we dislike very muc to have brother Benton think the Danbur Neaos such an enterprising journal as t get many original items of news fror North Western Connecticut. We desire t inform him that the field of that paper i located in an entirely different section o the state, and that they faith fully attend t. the news of that section. If the Tunes vii make a wholesale business of stealing ou