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Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01
New Milford.


 E. A. Wildman is so enlarsing kis tobac- co warehouse as nearly to double it's sto- rage capacity......Our people feel much gratified over the success of the district court measure, and the general opinion now seems to be, that next season the flown must erect large fire proof building which shall contain good hall, as we'll as rooms for the court, judge of probate, selectmen, etc.. IT. Soule & Brother have just put up horse barn for H. O. Warner, which is being finished off in better style than many good dwelling house. With such accommodations MT. WIS black nags ought to step high, and put their best foot forward. Farmers have commenced stripping their tobacco. Some of it for want of proper ventilation during septem- Der became heated, but sales so far as made, have been effected at remunerative prices. Six licenses have been taken out, and our executive committee propose to attend promptly to any violations of the law......Neither political party has made a it being very generally conceded that the October elections clearly foreshadow the result in November.....W daily hear won- drous tales of big apples which are being gathered: Some of them so big it IS said that nothing smaller than platform scales can take their adverdupois. They are sell ing at 50 cents per bushel; potatoes at 60 to 70 cents; chestnuts at S2.0o, and some of our old bachelors and widows arc at last going for all they are worth. Two of them, Messrs. John Addis and c. c. Carter, are tdten, at St. Johns Church on "Wednesday next at II A. M. Long may they wave.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

NRw CLOTHING HOUSE. Crosby & Go. of Poughkeepsie. the new firm who have just laid in one of tNe largest and best stocks of Ready Made Clothing in this re- zion, and are located in Hesth's mercantile building, the store formerly occupied by Heath & Cheney, No. 3sl Main Street, have way of doing business adopted by only a small portion of the mercantile world; viz: One price to a0! It is sad child can buy as chcapIy of them as one of mature years, which cannot but be an ar rangement that will satisfy all. This stock of clothing embraces every grade and col or known to the trade, and their claim of superiority of goods and workmanship is admitted by all who know tbem. and ss they say they wilt not he undersod by any house in the trade, they are getting, and justly merit heavy business. Our people when visiting F0ughkerpsie, will improve the opportunity to look in upon them.
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Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

A MAN WITHOUT AN ADvERTIsRMENT.- Talk about woman without baby, man without wife, ship without rudder. What is the lack of each of these individu- als or things to that of a man without an advertisement He is hopeless cuss, a "goner in the community" Talk of being successful in business. You might as we'll talk of ascending to the moon on greased moonbeam. People point at him in the street, and say: ''Poor Cassius has lean and hungry look" It may, however, be consoling to him to reflect that when he dies he will be advertised at last, and gratu- itously at that.-EccHanQe
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
 An editor who was going courting said Che was gong to press."
 Transactions in hair" is the heading given by Detroit editor to an account of a street fight.
 A Kansas man who went to circus thought that the Egyptian mummy was "nothing but jerked Injun."
 John D. Moves, who has been town clerk of Stonington for forty-one years, died recently, aged eighty. six years. .. Josh Billings says: Success don't konsis in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time"
 An Iowa editor recently announced that @ al." He declares he wrote it " thriving"
 If this is borrowed paper you are read ing ''drop it." Your neighbor don't pay his money to lend you.
 A gushing poet asks in the first line of 8 recent effusion, "How many weary pill grims lie?" We give it up, but experience has taught us that there are good many.
 A cheap way of getting liberality was devised by the managers of a fair in Illinois who offered premium to the oldest spinstel present. Of course nobody claimed it.
 Hear is g good business-like epitaph " Here lies Jane Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, marble cutter" This monument wal erected by her husband as tribnte to hel memory and a specimen of his work Monuments of the same style $250."
 A Western editor being asked to take tea with lady friend, accepted. While at tho table the lady observed that he had no spoon "Is it possible,' said she "that forgo to give you spoon? could not have made such mistake" "I have no spoon madam" said the editor, rising from his seat, and if you don't believe it you may search me-"
 The Chicago Tunes has received an or iginal poem on "The Burnt District al Midnight" The 102d verse reads: "Tht derrick stands still 'gainst the half finished wall. The brick piles are quiet the stones are at rest. Tomorrow they'll rise, nine or ten stories tall, in huge massive struc tures-the worst in the West"
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

The editor of western paper alludes in his last number to his contemporary Gas the blue nosed babbler across the way" !" and charges him with running his arms to the shoulders in the filthy muck of politi- cal fraud" His friend, not to be outdone in energy, replies, and says that ''the dan- nel mouthed Poll parrot of the adulterated Spirit is liar, a villain and a candidate for the gallows." Our beloved country is sate while these pure and able men control the formation of public opinion.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

GRATIFYING SoIKNT1F1o INFoRNATIoN.-1f there is anything that we like in scientif- ic work it is clearne ss. When, therefore, we read recently, m medical volume, that ''the thalamaoptici are the essentials of the senstry tracts, as the corpora starlata are of the motor," we felt completely happy, because we perceived at once, with stereo- scopic distinctness, precisely what the au- thor meant. What he means is, of course, that the thalmioptical are the essentials of the senstry tracts, as the corpora starlats are of the motor. The information is es- pecially gratifying. because we must all be impressed with the conviction that if the thalamioptical had not been essentials of senstry tracts, existence would at once have become disgusting and uncomfortable burden, and woman's love a hollow mock cry. As it is, we are filled with holy and satisfying calm.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

THOSE BUILDING LoTs-The supply was not equal to the demand accordingly, Mir. Frederick Bushnell, appreciating the wants of the public, has thrown his lots into the market. Geo. w. Peet. Esq, still has a "few more sites left desirable for busi- ness purposes, residences, burial lots, or Q race course. I am agent for Messrs Pcet and Bushnell, and at any time will furnish full information to purchasers. Af
 D. T. WARNRR.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01
The RinderPcst-Cattle and Horse
 Disease.

The Rinderpcst-Cattle and Horse
 Disease.
 The cattle disease or the horse disease which is the same thing, is so near upon us that any information with regard to the nature of the disease, as a preventative is now become worthy of an equal share of attention with politics. By the microscope the disease is discovered to be caused by an imalcule or mscroscopic insects, the virus ova of which is innoculated in the first in stance, by the bite of flies, and this is the way the disease spreads so rapidly. A weak solution of carbolic acid, or carbolic acid soap suds, as wash, will keep off the flies no matter how greedy they may be for their drop of blood; while at the same time it is the best disinfectant known. When the virus is once innoculated into the bloodno outside washing can do the an- imal afflicted any good, and there is no other alternative but to use those remedies known to be destructive to insects Cfor all insects breathe through the pores of the skin which they use for lungs) which at the same time do not endanger animal life.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

HE CHICAGO WHEAT CoRNER. A wealthy firm determines to increase it's wealth to an enormous extent by trem en- dous venture. It associates some oth .ers with itself to get control of all the wheat brought to market within certain D, ,.riot l of time. It calculates the amount of moneJ, required to do this, and by arrang emen t with the banks obtains possession of It. To make the matter quite secure, it stablishe 8 an understanding with the railro ad man a. gers, according to which they agree to transport no more than q certa in limit d amount day by day during the ime dete, r. mined, nd by clever manipula' sion of tn e grain receipts issued by the ele vator com-- panies. it Can withdraw from. market a large portion of their stores
 The matter being thus careFi fully arr.mged- the parties privy to it pro ,ceed to tn Ex- change. and close with ever ry proposal made to them to deliver grain at stated pt ice at dates within the perioe.. Myriads of bush els are sold to them While the grain ie elf is harvesting. The time comes to fulfill the contracts. There is not grain enough to meet the demand, except in the hands of the Ring The prize goes up and up. Brok- CT atter broker fails. The Ring is on the point or sweeping into its coffers the Iunos or all who have had dealings with it. ,3nt leading railroad fails to com- ply Wr .h the understood agreement. It nfin' $ in great and increasing quantities of Wheat. The receipts mount up, to quanti-
 ty which it exceeds the money and credit
 of the Ring to control. The corner fails.
 and the firm which planned it is ruined not
 enriched
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

NRw SHoR SHOP. Edwin R. Negus has fitted up the room which aas formerly been occupied ny MT. Hurd,. as livery stable office, for boot and shoe shop. MT. Nepus has worked several years at the business of making and repairing boots and shoes, and is fully competent to give satis- faction to all who may become his custom CTS. He is now ready for business.
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Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01
ChApimviERe.


 It has been said by somebody that oul common schools are the distinguishing blessing of our land, for they are the edu- cators of the great mass of people, hence the good people have seen the importance of raising the educational standard in their common schools, and in order to meet the urgent necessities of our rapidly increasing population, so that the rising generation can be thoroughly educated at home. Thus the time has already arrived, when the intelligent people of Connecticut have contributed literally from their abundance towards the elevation of the common schools in which their children, the future arbitors of the republic, are to be educated. However that may be, our town authorities have seen fit some way or other to cripple our common schools, by cutting down the necessary means to sustain them, in the face of the law that says they shall be free. dee have again been secured and the winter term commenced last Monday. It is hoped that parents will take more interest in the regular attendance of their children, as their interest does not end in the perfection of the teachers. No; it is with your child and follows your child through life. It is linked with his very being and ceases l not when he arrives at the age of manhood or womanhood, and starts forth to battle with the trials and vicissitudes of life...... Landau & Go. have just put in new hearth, the old one having given out. New gas pipes have arrived and will soon be in position, and the smelling of ore and burn ing of charcoal will be resumed in few days. Charles Humes resumed the foun- dership in place of Frank Wells, who goes to Wassaac on the Harlem railroad. The said Humes has just traded hls place with Timothy Tucker for his farm, (bettel known as the Col. Bartlett farm), giving him in exchange $4,5OO, and James s Woodin has bought the said Humes place of MT. Tucker for $2, 200, and wishing te retire, on account of declining health, iron his trade, offers his village property fol sale. M. J. Rowe, the excellent miller is bound not to be beaten in making whea flour, and challenges the world to compete with him......O Our new depot is fine look ing edifice, and when finished will undoubt edly be very convenient, as the office, la dies and gentlemen's rooms are upon on' floor. We understand that the temporary depot here is to be removed to your village to be used for guard house tor the edifc' that lies north of your freight depot.
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 FWe beg pardon, but feel obliged to sa! that we were compelled to submit, thougl with tears as large as potatoes tumblinl down our cheeks, to the removal of th' above mentioned "edifce" from our midst and our valued correspondent will b obliged to anchor his guard house in tn lake near Chapinville. as ye edifice is doinl duty down among the turtles and bullhead of that beautiful sheet of water.-ED.]
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

A new steamer for the Stonington line is on the stocks at Greenport, Long Island. The new boat will be eighty feet longer than the Stonington or Narragansett.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01
Falls Village.

Our Young Americas, to the number of seven or eight have for some time been re- hearsing their parts preparatory to giving 8 grand concert and theatrical entertainment i; programmes of which will be forthcoming in due time. It is but giving talent and per severance their just rewards to say, that al though these theatricals have not been wit messed by outsiders their vocal and instru- mental music has been heard, and pre- nounced by musical critics to be of the very first order The entertainment will no doubt be every way worthy of encourage ment and patronage.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01
Dl E D..

In North Goshen, Oct. 18th, Mrs. Sarah Hart wife of Nelson Hart; aged GA years.
 At Monterey, Mass, Oct. 26th, Mrs. Rachel Bronson formerly of Lincoln. Nebraska, wher C her husband now resides. aged A years.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01
M AR RI E D.

At Kent Rev. Elisha Whittlesey. MT. Sidney Reed of Cornwall to Miss Sarah Hoag of Kent
 At Goshen, Oct 23rd, by Rev. Hagen. assisted by Rev Brown, Morris Futile Jr. to Miss J. Ro- selle Merwin, daughter of Deacon Harvey Merwin.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01
4u11e Aews.

.*s We shall feel greatly obliged to any of our friends in the county, or elsewhere who will send particulars of any occurrences of interest which may come under their notice.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

Eg f| JOB PRINTING in any style done in the best manner, at short notice and at the VERY LOWEST PRICES. -Ea -6A
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01
Win8teds

Winsted.
 Last Saturday noon, Daniel Geer, a brakeman on the Naugatuck R. R., in at tempting to get on train while it was in motion, by stepping between two fiat cars loaded with coal, just as he had raised him. self from the ground with hand upon each car, lost his hold and fell on the track between the rails, portion of the train passing over him mangling him in a most shocking manner tho wheels going over both his thighs, breaking one leg in three places and the other in two, also breaking an arm three times besides crushing and bruising his body. He was able to speak once just after the train cleared him and then immediately expired. He leaves 8 wife and several children. The cause of his falling was wholly accidental, and no blame can be charged to the railroad com pany or any of the train hands......The sev- eIal new blocks that arc in process of erec- ton in the village are progressing as fast as the weather will allow. The season having been so wet, brick laying has been in terrupted nearly half the time slnce the walls of the Music Hall building were com menced, but they now are so nearly com pleted that this week will see the outside walls all up, and preparations are already made fer immediately putting on the roof. The front of this and Wetmore's new block make nearly one hundred feet of the heavi- est iron front of any block in the whole western part of Cornecticut......T. Baird has moved his drug and grocery store into his new quarters in Hallett $ Gilman's block and taken his post office with him, very greatly improving his own and the public's accommodation and convenience. H.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01
West Cornwall.

West Cornwall.
 A man by the name of Willard, living on the ''Barrack", got little too much poor whiskey down, one day last week, and took it into his head to shoot Ingersoll Reed, for which he was arrested and brought before Justice T. l.. Hart, who bound him over to the Superior Court for trial. Willard said he procured the whiskey in Falls Village which accounts for his bel ligerent acts......G. H. Crandall has lately lost two valuable COWS by the milk fever. ......R. N. Cocharane has had his dwelling house painted, which improves it's appear ance muchly...... "Geo. A." has gone into training for his coming wheelbarrow per- formance......G. H. Wheaton, A. Miller and Wm. Howard. have taken out licenses for selling liquor. is selling for seven dollars per hundred; beef nine to ten; chickens fifteen cents per pound alive. ......N Mrs. H. c. Crandall has just returned from New York with new stock of choice millinery goods, which she is selling at ex- ceedingly low prices. H. G.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01
q GOsheM.

GOSheMs
 c. J. Soudantis improving the looks and comfort of the "Goshen House" by build ing veranda on south and west side. Soudsnt if wide awake to the wants of his numerous patrons......The cool weather seems to have tendency to sharpen the appetites of our citizens and create a de mand for more beef, therefore our popular butcher, Sanford, butchers three times a week to meet the demand. Tuesday morn ing there was good skating on small ponds alongside the roads. A CITIZEN.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

CHEAP F rNERALs IN LONDON. Mulford W rites from London to California paper: ''- All about London you see adver- tised 'che ap funerals You can be shroud- ed, coftir Ied and buried, with four mourn CTS, for about twenty dollars. Of course these m or rners do mt know who you are. where yc'u came from, or where you are gong to, but they will look as if you were sne iAsf friend they had ex, >ected to nave on ear th, with yard of black crape dang hng nd waving from their ats like no man pirate flags, and when you are cover eo up they will adjourn to tue near st pub lsc house, ard over their porter and cneese Prsy for some one else to die as 80, m as possible. with cash enough to be mou. vned over. No cash to mourners. All tn csc professional Nnourners have red faces a. od bottled noses, black suits, second hand. , we'll linked at the seams, and black gloves: one-third too large. The friends and re,a- lives within the carriages have all the out ward semblance of woe on them. Tine last appear contented, and may never enjoy a. ride in coach, save on such mournful oc-- cssions
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

ACCIDENT AT VEsUvIUs.-The ReUSstG of Naples contains the following account. of the loss of two gentlemen in the crater of Vesuvius, who. with great temerity, insist ed on being lowered to the dark cavern i'm medlately below the orifice of the crater :-' A party was formed to ascend Mount Ve- suVius on Friday afternoon. consisting of two Americans, three Englishmen, and one Frenchman. The tourists began the ascent over hillocks and boulders of lava until the vicinity of the crater was reached, when Messrs. James Wilcox and Francois Lemuir an American and Frenchman, insisted on being lowered down to the cavern which is formed below the mouth of the volcano. The guides, who provided themselves with ropes for that purpose, complied with the request of the foreigners and lowered them down. The mountain being perfectly quiet no danger was anticipated, but when one of the party above the crater called out to the adventurers, no answer was returned The guides, growing anxious, cried ''Gen- tlemen, it would be better for you to hold on to the ends of the ropes" Still the ropes remained slack, and no answer came from the murky cavern below. Twenty minutes passed and the adventurers were yet silent. It was then proposed that one of the guides should be lowered and hold on to ropes un- til he had investigated the appearance oi the cavern's base. He had fairly entered when he cried out loudly, ''Up, up, there's nothing here but very narrow rock" As far as any living person can tell, the unfor
 tunate strangers were hurled into the abyss
 of Mount Vesuvius.
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SALISBURY. CONN.
Friday Morning, Nov. 1, 1872.

A CHILD IN NEW HAVEN STOLEN AND THROWN DOWN A WRLL.-On Thursday af- tern oon two year old daughter of Alex aneier Foo te, a New Haven fish and oyster de aler, resi- ding at 347 Howard avenue (Oy- ster FoinD,- was taken by some person un- known and shrown into we'll and killed The child sd been left on the floor in the sitting room, and when the mother had re- turned from ul1 stairs the child was gone. It is thought: some enemy of Mir. Foote committed u ,e fendish crime out of rc- Venge. The only clue to the perpctrator is that several persons have recently seen a man hanging: around the house, who, when asked his bu siness, would give no explana- tion
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

A PRETTY LUNATo.-The Yonkers GG- zette says: "On Wednesday last while off cer Smith was on duty at the depot of the N. R. c. 6 H. R. R, R., his attention was called by the conductor of one of the Yon- kers specials to young lady of prepossess- ing appearance and fashionably dressed.
 The conductor had his attention drawn to her by her strange conduct When asked for her ticket she stared about vacantly, and taking her pocket book from her pock- ct showed the contents, which only amounted to one cent, and then folding It up again replaced it in her pocket and smiled as though she appreciated her own action. She refused to speak or notice any further application for her ticket. Officer requested her to accompany him, which she did, conducting herself in amost grace ful and dignified manner At the police station she refused to speak. Captain Man gin thinking that she might probably be deaf and dumb, wrote down a number of questions on slate and the young lady wrote large "B' as an answer to each. Dr. Jenkins was called ID, and on his or der the unfortunate young lady was con. veyed to St. Johns Riverside Hospital. while there she wrote down on 8 piece of paper Ella, several times, and under that several times Thompson, and in another place ''74 Hamil ton." When this was found Capt. Mangin asked her whether ii meant Brooklyn or New York, but she would not answer. The captain telegraph, ed to "A Hamilton street, N. Y. and "A Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn, and from the latter place the young lady's mother re- piled and immediately came to Yonkers and took her daughter home with her. The young lady belongs to one of the leading families in the ''city of churches" and has suffered from this serious malady fol about two years.
Connecticut western news., 1872-11-01

New Advertls0memtss
 New Goods, FIG French. Dissolution, Underwood & Lawrence CommissionersNotice, Estate of Horatio Ames. Caruenters Wanted, J. T. Levi