Connecticut western news., 1872-04-19

4 Good Sh0t.-H. K. Hicks shot 8 loon in the south twin lakes at Chapinville, last week Wednesday, which measured four feet and four inches from tip to tip of it's wings, He is said to have killed the bird at distance of 80 rods.
 Dramattc.-The Millerton dramatic asso- citation will play their popular comedy ''Everybody's Friend," at the Academy hall in Lakeville, next Tuesday evening, April 23rd. We hope this popular compa- psny will receive the full house they de- serve.
 The Best.-We know of no better paper | devoted to the mechanical arts, than the American Artisan. Every machinest or other mechanic should have it. It is pub lished weekly and its cost is only $2 8 yaAr. Address American Artisan, New York City. and get it. Auctson. the Auction to- morrow, (Ssturday,) at II o'clock in the forenoon, of the Lee Farm, at the farm house on the corner of the roads leading to Chapinville and Canaan, from Salisbury. This is a rare opportunity to get very de- sirable property at the lowest auction fig ure. Read again the advertisement in an- other column.
 Dentsstry. pr. Stewart, who visits Lakeville semi-occssionally, is meeting with unlocked for success. He administers ''laughing gas' freely, and always with the most pleasing effects. MT. s. contemplates opening an office in this village about the first of June. His next visit at Mrs. Harri-
 sons. professionally, will be Thursday and Friday, May 2d and 3rd. 2w40*
 Concluded to Wait.-As the Hartford
 train was passing through the deep rock
 cuts just this side of Winsted last Tuesday
 evening, it was stopped and asked to wait
 just a little until the four ton rock which
 had just tumbled on the track, could be
 drilled and blasted out of the way. To &C.,
 commodate the rock, they of course wait
 ed twenty-five minutes or whereabouts.
 IHat Famous March.-Prof. Corners, of
 Yale college, after an examination of va
 rious authentic records, reports the past
 month of March the coldest March within
 the past hundred years. Last Tuesday
 night abou. two inches of snow fell, and
 the weather throughout the week has been
 cold and windy with frequent "April
 showers cf s'soU. Good time to hustle in
 the garden vegetables.
 Mss Kellogg.-At recent Nilsson opera
 in New York, an usher handed to Clara
 Louise Kellogg, who occupied box and
 was listening to Nilsson, an exquisite bou-
 quet, accompanied by a note saying: "We
 love our best own gifted Clara Louise Kel- logg." But few counties, in this or any
 other country, can raise such singers as
 Miss Kellogg. Litchfeld county can do it. We grow 'em here.
 Stocking Up.-M. c. Jewell, one of our
 popular merchants, is in New York buying ! goods for the spring trade. He seems de- termined to check the flow of trade going } east on the Conn. Western road, from
 this region, if he has to bring A. T. Stew
 arts entire New York establishment up here to it. MT. Jewell is enterprising and abound to win," if good goods and low
 prices will do it.
 Audit is said the four feet of mud on
 the track of the Duchess and Columbia railroad for short section between Miller
 ton and Pine Plains, delayed the running of trains on that road for two or three days. It is certain that such an enterprising and successful road as the Duchess and Colum- bia would not suffer four feet of mud to detain the running of their trains long, even if the four foot mud extended the whole length of it's line.
 Mss Ma'y J. Bradley.-This lady, who has been before the public but six or elght
 months, we learn is already gaining for
 herself an enviable reputation as a reader, and in her readings, indicates rare talent as delineator of character. Miss Bradley is pupil of Prof. Mark Bailey of Old Yale 3 in New Haven, and we feel assured in as- F serting that she is fully competent to not only instruct in these readings which she B is giving, but to furnish an entertainment which will indeed be worth attending. She will give one of her readings in Academy . hall next Monday evening, April p, mak. 9 ing selections from Shakespeare, Longfellow, f Tennyson and Mrs. Browning; also humor. 8 ous extracts from Dickens, Mrs. Caudle's a Lectures, Widow Bedott Papers, &c., &c' : Price of admission, 25 cents.
 Side Wasks.-Mr. Editor:-Our village 5 has some reputation for having good side walks, aad those who have expended SC much labor and money to make them what they are, may feel just pride in having , contributed 30 much towards the comfor and convenience of the public. But some of our young men seem to think that al this labor and expense has been for tht purpose of making nice place for then to play ball and have taken possession o1 :. them for that purpose, much to the annoy ,, ance of those passing along the streets particularly the ladies who very justly com
 plain of it.
 Now the writer has no desire to interfer' g. or in any way abridge the recreation, o1 8 manly sports of the young men, and has nc 'r doubt that moments reflection will con 3, vince them of the impropriety of using thu e sidewalk for such purpose, and tha 7, they will select some other place for thu E exercise of their favorite pastime.
 n Occasionally, too, there may be seen { at half civilized man leading or riding hors 3. along the sidewalk. Now we wish it to b. k distinctly understood that the sidewalk d were made for the comfort and conven c. fence of pedestrians, ard not for playing n ball or pitching quoits; and that the high y way is for horses, carriages and cattle.
 CITIZEN.