Connecticut western news., 1873-04-18

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 Returned.-Messrs. Daniels, Ayers. Vos- burgh and Delong, the carpenters from this village who went to Ramapo last fall to build up that village, returned last week. after building nine double and one single houses. They expec: to resume opera lions in Ramapo next September.
 Neao Music MT. Wm. c. Humphrey, at the drug store in Canaan, has just re- ceiYed a large stock of sheet music, both vocal and instrumental, and says if among his large assortment customer does not succeed in finding what he wants. he will send for any piece they will name. This will be great convenience to the musical talent of this region.
 ScAool House Contract.-The bids for the carpenter work (which of course does not include any part of the masonry or painting) on the new school house soon to be erected in this village, are as follows: G. Fl. Bundy. y............................ $3, $50 Daniels & Raynesford................. 3,150 W. NlVer......-............ 5, l25
 MT. Niver being the lowest bidder has the contract.
 Sold Out.-F. O. Andrus, who for sever. al years has been carrying on very sue cessfnl tin and stove business in Sheffield, has sold his store of goods to D. F. Ham lin, of Pitts6eld. MT. A. will now give his whole time to the pump business, which in fact he has been doing something at for some time, and proposes to pump the whole country dry with his pumps. az he says those he sells will do it.
 IHe Chase Heirs-Two or three weeks since we published an item concerning Mr. Martin Decker of this village feeling good over the fact that he was sort of snb- heir to the immense Chase estate, and now with quiet sarcasm a Maine paper remarks that ''after the Chase heirs get their sixty mill ions of dollsrs, more or less, from England, they will confer a favor by liquidating a small bill at thls of1ce." Come, Decker, pay up that Maine chap and stop his noise.
 Missionary Meeting.-Two missionaries, Messrs. Capron and Tyler, who have re- gently returned to this country from their respective fields of labor in India and South Africa, who delivered very interest," ing lectures in Academy Hall in this village last Wednesday evening. The attendance was not as large as it ought to have been, yet those who were there were amply paid. Particularly interesting was the recitation of poetry &c. in the Zulu language by tue Rev. Mir. Tyler, who has spent twenty years in Zululand, and after brief visit to this country, returns to his heather friends the 10th of next month.
 4 LGn6 SlSds.-One of the worst land slides the Conn. Western road ever had to contend with occurred at the cut just east of the Whiting River fill last Sunday night. The ground being as full of water as it could hold, and the soil of that particularly clayey character which when filled with water will run with about the consistency of melted lead, it caved off in huge breaks and ran on the track. covering it to the depth of or feet for distance of somt- thing like six rods. A train of road-hands worked all day Monday, and until ten o'clock Monday night before it was rcmoy- ed sufficiently to allow trains to pass. When we were there in the afternoon the mud seemed to cave from the em5ankment and to run in quite as fast, and by some it was thought c little faster than it could be shovelad out, and the prospect of getting the mastery of it was indeed dubious, but Roadmaster Greer was equal to the emer- gency, as we must say he usually is, let come what may, and as we said above, surprised everybody by sending the Hart ford trains. through the cut at ten o'clock that night:
 Lsc0ted.-The committee appointed to locate the school house on the school grounds in the grove in this village met last Saturday. and after careful consider ation of the matter stuck the stakes for building. Martin Harris says the reason | why they have located the buildings back | on Factory street is because the largest | number eof scholars will probably come from that street, and they operate on the plan of accommodating the many at the expense of the few. That this committee was, drunk when they stuck the stakes back in the woods,ls an idea we shall quar- rel with every time it is advanced, because they are temperance men, every one of them. Neither do they make mistakes, but circumstances alter cases sometimes, and they have concluded to meet again as a committee of the whole; reconsider the matter and see after all if it isn't really best to locate the building somewhere in the district, instead of carrying it SO far towards Mt Riga. Everybody knows that when the committee get it once fixed it will be exactly right.
 Conference Appoiatments.-The follow ing appointments were made at the annual conference of the M. B. Church, for the Rhinebeck district, at Hudson last week.
 Rhinebeck, E. B. Otherman,
 Hillsdale and Riverside, A. w. Chad wick.
 Red Hook, w. Stevens
 Germantown and Madelin, G. B. Clark.
 Hudson, 1st church, A. Mclean.
 St. Johns, to be supplied.
 Stockport, F. D. Fowler.
 Claverack and Philmont, G. W. Knapp
 West Taghkanic, J. c. Hoyt. Y
 West Galatin, H. c. Mastin.
 Union Corner and Jackson Corners. c. Sager.
 SpencWtown and Chatham Corners, J. w. Smith,
 East Chatham and Red Rock, w. A. Mackey.
 West Stockbridge and Canaan, s. P. Galloway
 North Egremont and North Hillsdale, W. Hall.
 Harlemville, Uriah Symonds.
 Hillsdale, Alfred Coons.
 Copake, J. N. Phillips.
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