Connecticut western news., 1873-01-03
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 Washinee Company George Cofine Dtscontinued.-Trains on the Conn . Western road do not stop at what was
 known as Canaan Valley station.
 Stu On.oard. d.-Merchant Jones of Lake
 vile, commenced the new year with very fine stock of prints. well, most every
 thing in the line of new goods.
 Raafoad SignGl.-The two railroad com
 panies will this week place large red sig
 nal bail on high support, at the corner of
 their Union depot in Canaan, to govern
 the approach of trains on each road.
 Renso0ed. telegraph instruments.
 which for years have been in Henry &
 Watson, s store in Canaan, have just been
 removed to their new quarters in the new
 Union depot, where all dispatches will be
 received hereafter 5... - .u- l Farmers Re -Union.-The committee of
 arrangements for the social reunion of the
 Farmers Club of West Cornwall, have cur thanks for kind invitation to be present
 as their meeting at the residence of the
 Hon. T. s. Gold, on Cream Hill, next
 Monday evening. .r.
 Steady Business. Henry Beecher of Canaan Mountain says he has this year, just past, from March 22d to Nov. 1st
 raised thirty chickens with 22 hens, which
 in the meantime laid 2,350 eggs. Very dil- igent industrious fowls, we should call them.
 Sad Acejdent.-We are informed that Dwight Smith, son Of Horace Smith of this village, who few years since left this town for home in the West, was fatally injured while on a train of cars Dec 18th, at Cincinnati. He lived three days after the accident.
 Csrrecti0is.-ln the commissioners mo- | tice of the estate of Walter Warner in an- other column, our types made the time of one of the days of their meeting, the 29th of April next, when they should have said the 26th day of April. The figures are now made right.
 Neo Loc0naot50e. e.-The Housatonic Rail road Co. has added another large passen- ger locomotive to their catalogue of en- zines. It is named 0. K. Averill, after the efficient and popular treasurer for the com pany. It is of the same class as the N. Thayer, David Leavitt Sc.
 AnotAer Wooden Nutnaeg .CAap.-C. F. Huntington, Esq, Litchfeld county boy, wee president of the Central Pacific rail- road, was the guiding star that brought the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad through from darkness into uight. The road is nearly completed, but forty miles remaining to be built.
 No P0ss~m'-From 'away down in ole Virginia, comes, in company with a sub scription, 25 cents to buy us genuine Havana for New Years, and with it the request, no playing possum' As we have never played 'possum' or spoker with cigar money, we promise our Southern friend we'll not commence with the Ha vana' money justreceivcd from the Land of Cotton.
 Bast Canaan.-The new depot at this station is completed and is to be occupied | Jan. 1st (New Years day.) Supt Yeo- mans has appointed Wallace A. Roberts of this place as agent of the same.-The sleigbing is fine, and the Barnum Richard son Co. are improving it by hauling i'm mense quantities of logs to their furnace saw mill.-We are having our share of weddings about now, NICK.
 F'arm Bought.-The new firm of Pierce and Lawrence of Canaan, has this week consummated the purchase of what is known assthe A. Kellogg farm, containing about 200 acres. One of their kilns for burning lime is on this farm, and their new kiln recently built, is near It. This farm con- tains q great quantity of wood, which Messrs. Pierce and Lawrence purpose to burn in their kilns. IL is said they vii drive their lime business on the high pres sure principle hereafter.
 Fiddzes, &c.-Druggist Lawrence of Ga naan, with an ear for music and an eye for business, has laid in quite stock of musi- cal instruments, consisting of little fiddles, big fiddles and occasionally ,fddlededee, as well as accordeons &c., &c. He has also quite spruce stock of jewelry, sill yer ware, lamps, chandeliers, and few boxes of those choice imported segars, as well as g full line of drugs. He is driving a big trade during the holidays.
 Manda45n Zea.-MAIE. Demorest, 8ss, Broadway, New York, is president of a new tea company, styled the "Woman's Tea Company" which proposes to import and furnish the tea-drinking world with pure. Mandarin tea, which is put up in pack ages of one pound each and sold for $1 ,5o. This tea is said to be the purest and of the most delicious flavor of any that can be ob- tained at any price, and is receiving much attention from all interested in good tea. Women are wanted for agents for it's sale.
 Thdt Caldmity.-The Amenia Tunes supposes we are suffering from calamity, because last week the NEWS was not re- ceived at that office. If every time the Times fails to reach US, we should regard it as an indication of something being busted in that office, that journal would be on bust good share of the time It also has something to say about s'patent outsides." If the publisher of that jour- nal would allow us to whisper a.f1ea in his ear, we should say Adopt them as your own, and the Times will not be compelled to change hands three or four times year in order to keop in axistanco