Connecticut western news., 1872-11-15
Counccticut Western News.
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Dry Goods Weatherby, KnOus X Peton Great Attractions, Wing & Grswold Jamaica Ginger CIV. Williams X Co Wax Flowers L. c. Randall Fine Diamonds, T. Steele X Son Canned Goods A. N. Ncgus Strayeu or Stolen, w. M. Barnum Probate Notice Est. of Geo. II. Doty That Wrdding The Diamond Wedding notice handed in is unavoidably crowded out this week. Next week we will attend to it.
 Good For Rti1ro0ds.-It is said that the horse disease has increased the local travel on railroads about 90 per cent. No great loss without gain somewhere, you know.
 Burn Burncd-Last Saturday night, barn with about three tons of hay, on Town Hill, belonging to an Irish woman by the name of Clancy was destroyed by fire.
 G6lmg West- Mr. Aaron Reyes and wife of West Norfolk will start for Drs Moines, Iowa, next week, to spend the winter with their son who is engaged in mercantile house there.
 GJshen.-Nearly all the horses in town are more or less affected by the horse dis ease-H. J. Smith has had a paralytic shock, whereby he has lost the use of one arm.-Mud is knee-deep all over town Election passed off very quietly. c. X B. got 6 majority: A CITIZEN.
 ScAoo1 Meet6,og. the Special District School Meeting, at the Grove School house in this village tomorrow | (Saturday) evening, to see what IS to be done about building a new school house Let there be a generous turnout, and the matter receive the the attention it deserves
 More LigAt.-Comc "Chawles," tinker up those street lamps, so that by the time the present moon is gone, they will shine brighter; yes, outshine even Old Sol him. self, aud not compel the pedestrians of our crowded streets to grope their way along in the blackness of almost impenetrable dark ness. during the next absence of the moon.
 Cornac0U B356ge.-The horse disease has travelled as far down as Cornwall Bridge, and business there begins to suffer. The Litchfield' stage has suspended work on ac count of the disease, and the Sharon stage, which somebody says come into that viii lage last Monday, horseback, and started ! for home on foot, was not expected to put in appearance again for the present.
 To School 6y RaI.-Several scholars from the villages oi Scotland, Tariffvile and Bloomfield, attend school at Hartford, going in on the morning train on the Conn. Western road and returning at night. Two or three scholars from Grants station at- tend school in West Winsted, they in like manner golnG to and returning from school on the morning and evening train.
 7He D0ris Bed--At the stables of the horses at work in the Davis ore bed, extra precautions are being taken to slave off the prevailing horse epidemic, and keep it at q safe distance from the horses. The stables are kept thoroughly dsinfected bYa liberal 1 use of Chloride of Lime and Carbolic acid, and thus far the efforts of those in charge nave proved successful.
 7'he Dl$tempcr horse disease seems to have become firmly located in this sec ton. a large number of horses being sick and others constantly coming down with the ma laly. In this village, MT. Hurd has horses sick. MT. Ashman 5, Mir. Hicks or and others have from one to three. MT. s. Sec vile of Chapinvile has sick 1 8 large num.Ier ill LakeYilc are ''uuder the weather" as well as those ill all the ore beds, except tn 0 Davis bed, which, with its generous use of disinfectants has thus far kept clear of it.
 -Mystes3ous-A fe " days since, Mrs. J. Warner of Sheffield al. Scovered piece of thread protrudlng from .he fieshy part ot the leg, below the knee ot her infant child. With the aid of knife, about two thirds of the full length of needle W 'as found at tached to the thread and was extracted. Exactly how that needle came there Is not known, but it is presumed that while creep ing about the floor it entered the flesh; and if it was the cause of any unusual worry ing on the part of the child, it was un- doubtedly attributed 10 some other cause.
 4 'LeeNe' Eater-"Why don't the esTly start out luter?" has been frequently asl1et for some weeks past. Of course it isn't 'HX pected we know much more about the ;sr- engagement of the running of trains on tlis ) than others, but we feel quite safe in say
 ing that so soon as Superintendent Ye0-
 mans learns that it is universally desired by
 the patrons of the road, as it seems to be.
 he will twist about the figures in the new timetable for the winter arrangement, tt bring about this result.
 That OJd Big FI0dIe.-Have all the churcl goers, who ill the days of Auld LRng Syne
 listened to the soul-stirring strains of th'
 ''big fiddle, in the Congregational churcl 8 in this village, which for so many year ,. was so cleverly manipulated by MT. Vol Q Q colt Turner, and later, and in fact till tll a introduction of the large organ whicl l. crowded it out of the church, by MI a Thomas Norton, forgotten this faithful ol h servant By no means have they fOrgottc
 it, and our allusion to it will instantly re
 call to their minds many pleasant gather J. ing under the same roof which every Sab ir bath still shelters those whom, in the n wanderings from their old and their nativ ir home, they have left behind them. The l. will be interested to learn that the same ol 'f fiddle; this time honored and cracked ol b. fiddle is still in existence. Mir. Tom. Nol y ton, with Q fidelity characteristic of u is man, has faithfully, and with the tendere .. care watched over this venerable relict ( u sacred music, till last Monday, when it WI le thought that financially considered, if n'