Connecticut western news., 1871-12-08
Conuect;cut Western News.

 F. c. Frenchs Lime Rock Post Office Cornwall Bridge. Humphreys Drug Store Canaan Post Office Norfolk. Subscribe NO OW!-We will give the NEWS from now to January lst, 1872, for $2.Oo, to all who subscribe and pay in advance. Remember: Thirteen ma01atts for $2. co.
 Ro66ed.-There is report that a man was robbed in our Mair street last Friday night, but from all we can learniconcerning the matter, have grave doubts of its being very serious affair.
 TAanksgiosng.-Last Thursday was the coldest Thanksgiving we have had in ten years. Services were held in both churches in this village, which were rather slimly at tended. The sermons were most excellent, and it seems too bad there were so few to hear them. Why cant these sermons be repeated? Who will ask that they may be |?
 .'Venture. ."--Somebody from Sharon wrote to us over this mom dc plume. The correspondence IS good but zee want to known the true name. We think very likely we shall soon get through pumping correspondents for their name, and chuck :heir communications into the waste bas- ket. Trll us who you are and we'll pub fish what you sent.
 Street Laneps.- the lamp lighter says our street lamps are frozen, and will not burn. He labors under a mistaken idea in regard to the one ill front of MT. M. Harris residence. That burned all Tuesday night and all day Wednesday, and is blazing vigorously now. (Wednes' day evening) Thdt lamp don't freeze.
 'sPigeon Shoot. ."-On Thanksgiving morn ing, pigeon shoot took place, at Lime Rock, according to the rules of the New York Club. The day was intensly cold and windy, and the birds were all "divers. We append the score.
 A. Duane, l-l-l-l-l-5 c. W. Barnum, *O-1-l-l-l-4 w. Barnum, O-l-*O-1-0-2
 *Dead out of bounds.
 MSs,so,ner. Danbury News, iu speaking of the music at the opera house incorrectly named the band which dis coursed it, and called it the ''1ves corne1 band" For this blunder it was ''brough up standing" by an official correction, anc was informed that tAat band was the Ana uartettecornetserenadingbandofdanbu yfairfeldcountyconne onnecticutunitedstate rthamericawesternhem
 Fire Sn Collinsui1e. barn ot Brad ford Marcy, of Collinsville, was burned Saturday night with it's contents. Three valuable horses were with difficulty re moved. The public academy was slightly damaged, and the lumber yard of Alder man & Son, adjoining, caught fire, but th' greater portion of the lumber was saved Loss about $5,0OO, partially covered by insurance. It is supposed to be the worl of an incendiary.
 Frozen Om.-Mcssrs Levi & Buudy, witt their dozen men, were obliged to quit worl on the Salisbury depots during the intens' cold weather of last week. Last Tuesday their ever busy hammers were again rattlinl around them, though so cold was the weath CT that they were obliged to make then fly lively to keep the frost out. With goo' weather these depots will soon be read. 1 for the masons.
 al.-Notwithstanding the extreme colt weather for the season of the year, coal at the action sale in New York last week fell soc. per ton. Our Norfolk correspon dent this week speaks of the price of coa in Norfolk as $8, 50 per ton. This Norfoll coal goes through our village on the Conn | Western, and after climbing IA or l5 mile of mountains, is retailed for $s,5o. Goa retails in Salisbury for $500 per ton. Com ment is unnecessary.
 "On Tear. "--The Wachocastinook brook alias Mt. Riga stream, which seems t' possess such an attachment for the towi of Salisbury, as to travel over nearly ever, part of it before it finally discharges into another stream, last week became so fillet with "anchor ice," as to dam it up il numerous places along it's course, and as l consequence overhowed it's banks ant wandered over the meadows in a name seldom witnessed in the lifetime of thu "oldest inhabitant," from tue same cause.
 Fre-Last Thursday afternoon, at abou o'clock, the house owned by MT. P. L Barton, and which was only short dis tance south of his residence, and occupied 1 by widow Mercy, was discovered on fire Mrs. Mercy was at her daughters in this vii lage, eatingThanksgiving supper, and knew nothing of the destruction of her home till on her way there. When first descovered the fire had made such progress, that tc save the building or any of it's content | was impossible. In this fire Mrs. More, loses all she possessed in the world, saw the clothes she wore.
 Those Regular zraifas. s.-There is repor which is said to have come direct iron head quarters, that two passenger trains with the necessary freight trains, will com mence running regularly on the Conn Western road, between Millerton and Nev Hartford, on Monday next. This repor is in measure corroborated by the fact O one of our citizens, who is understood t. be engaged as conductor on the road, bein. ordered last Wednesday to report forth with at Winsted. These ''reports", witl which the atmosphere is filled, are valuable but on account of our constantly increasinl stock of them, will sell this, the very latest remarkably cheap.
 Burglary at East Canaan.-A burglari ous entrance was effected into the store o MT, Lyman Cunning of East Canaan ol Friday night of last week, and quite larpe amount of poods taken therefron,