Connecticut western news., 1872-06-28

~~A~~Ae seen piece of cheese nearly sixty years old, but the above is the oldest cake we have ever heard of, unless it was good square st0mach-ache.
 Hss Got 'Ens.-We have heard it whis pered that Merchant Jones, of Lakevilie, has one of the largest aud finest stocks of goods in the country, and he seems deter mined to sell them if low figures will do it. MT Jones is very we'll known in this region, and those who know him, k,aoao that when he says such and such goods are first-class, that his statements are every time up and down-facts! He proposes next week to tell the readers of the NEWS something about those goods, in the form of an advertise ment. Look out for it.
 Kent-A fire broke out in a coal bush on Mt. Algo last Saturday and did great deal of damage. We hear there were up- wards of 500 cords of wood burnt, which was partly set ready for covering. This loss must be heavy on the owners who we understand are the Kent Iron Co. and col- Her named Pleasant. The fire was still burning after dark. and from the top of Mt. Algo must have been visible for a great distance in all directions.
 CGmped Omt.-Last Saturday afternoon. the 30 pupils from the Hillside seminary of Norwalk. down near New York, who have been encamping by the side of the Twin Lakes since the Tuesday previous. loaded on to Conductor Yeoman's train for Ca uaan, where they took the express on the Housatonic road for home. They brought with them their tents. and all the apparatus necessary for few days sojourn on the banks of those beautiful lakes. Their time was spent hunting, fishing, and strolling over the hills and adjacent country, their cook preparing for them their savory dishes of game and fish. which their capacities, made keen by their rambles and the pure atmosphere of the country, relished far more that the pastry of the city. They ex- pressed themselves as delighted with their visit. .-
 "StM LSUes. "-Something like ten years ago report reached the ears of the cores pendent in this town of one of the Litch- field papers, that MT. Thos. Swift, wool buyer of extensive acquaintance in this re- zion, was dead, and being desirous of se- curing an item of some sort, penned 8 most excellent obituary notice of MT. Swift, and had It published in Litchfeld. In ia dry time it is some times discouraging to at tempt to get anything into the shape of an item and have it come out all right. If one attempts to kill somebody in an item, that Mir. Somebody IS sure to put in an appear ance just in time to spoil all the sublimi:y to be obtained from an item of that charac ter. Last Tuesday this MT. Swift who has been so long dead, met in the street the identical correspondent who penned such an eloquent obituary of him ten years ago Each of course congratulated the other or his fine appearance after the long Rip Var Wrinkle sleep of MT. Swift.
 Our Insect EnemSes.-A man who ha. been lifelong resident of this region, ant who knows thing or two concerning tht signs of the times, informs us that the pres ent season has been and is very favorable for large crop of fruit. He says the cur culio or plum weevil, were prevented iron stinging the fruit by the cold and we weather in the latter part of May and tn fore part of the present month, and as consequence the tfees are holding thei fruit instead of it's being thrown to tn
 ground by the stinging of that troublesom' insect. He says the currant worms ha'
 commenced their depredations on tn
 currant bushes, but the same storms fxe'
 them out so that they have not since don
 much mischief, and the bushes are not onl,
 loaded with their foliage but with an abun
 dance of entrants.
 ArisonG 4p.-Last Monday evening W
 received call from an old schoolmate, MT Albert Decker, who is located in business a Gila Bend, Arizona Territory. "Al." tell
 us that notwithstanding the slight troubl
 they experience from the Apache indians who frequently make them friendly call and many times as souvenir of their visit
 take a lock of hair of one or more of tn ? inhabitants, he rather likes the countr and thinks he will stay awhile, forty 0
 fifty years for instance.-He has man friends at the East, and as his trip hom
 this time has cost him only about $50e. O( t and his expense back to his business wi g be of about equal amount, he can of cours l. afford to visit them often. He appears e be natural born pioneer, and if Gila Ben
 should become too thickly settled in a ye' v or two, we shall expect to get orders frol d him to change the address of his NEWS to e more distant cline.
 y Lost Weeks NEws.-Last week, by
 fortunate combination of circumstance 1t we succeeded in transferring the editori Ie harness to the shoulders of our esteem' 70 friend and scholar, MT. T. l.. Norto 70 the worthy cashier of the Savings Bank 8. Lakeville, and being thus released fro
 the editorial treadmill, we took up our lii of march to Boston to attend the World TO Jubilee. That last weeks NEWS was u 10 usually newsy, our readers will bear amI f. testimony, and that MT. Norton and ,t spicy local itemizer, covered themselves n. over with glory, all who saw a copy of t ,u NEWS of last week know to be fact, a
 we feel that they will congratulate us
 our success in securing such able assistan U in our time ofneed, We have only to a 1s in this connection, that we are under ev 9y lasting obligations to these gentlemen, a ~ ~ any COW -hidings for harsh paragraphs, v ,a' of course be respectfully rendered to the .o as all the honors and perquisites of th 0N office are justly their own property.
 Fourth of Jaly.-It will be remembe an, that last week. Editor Norton said in