Connecticut western news., 1873-04-04

| F. h. fono & Co., Wlnfted Lawrsncs's Drug Store Canaan. 1 House Sold.-Mr. Albert Melius has bought the house in this village known as the Paul Herter place.
 Ttose IIckets.-Renembe ber we can print those election tickets better and cheaper than ever before. Send in your orders as early as you can, and sorite ths nonass plasn- Iy.
 Contracted Bundy gave in a bid two thousand dollars lower than the highest bid handed in at Falls Village, for the building of the new court house there, and has obtained the contract for the work. bought of Martin Harris the large double building in this village, now occupied by MT. Fl. and will repair and arrange It for 8 hotel 90 soon as he can consistently do so. 7Ae Stass WSH Case Judge Moore gave his decision in the Stiles will case last Fri day. as announced. He did not sustain the will and the counsel took an appeal to | rhe Superior Court, which is holden in Lilchheld this present mouth.
 Rece;pts.-Subscribers to THE NEWS al ] ways. have the date at which their subscrip tion expires on the little slip with their uame, which is on every paper they receive. This date is understood to be hesr receipt of payment to the date mentioned, and no further receipt is needed.
 4 False Notice. marriage notice of Walter M. Smith and Adel T. Tracy, in West Cornwall, as published in THE NEWS last week has proved 70 be entirely false. The party who forged the name to the note as vouching for it's correctness, will receive the attention which this case demands. Ioaca.-We have received a copy of S large pamphlet entitled "The Msnufactur- ing, Agricultural and Industrial Resources of Iowa." work containing reliable and valuable information for those who con- template visit or home in the far West. Anybody can obtain copy of this inter esting work by sending their address to A. R. Fulton, Des Moines, Iowa.
 l Drug Busipess Sold-Mr. Geo. E. Mar ble of Falls Village has sold lis drug store and business to MT. Timothy Tucker of this town, who has taken possession of the store and is conducting the business. Why MT. Marble sold such 8 snug little business as he seemed to have there, and now that he has solo, where he is going are particulars we have not learned. Mr Tucker has our best wishee for success in his enterprise.
 Barnunss Shoac.-P. T. Barnum will soon start out from New York for tour through most of the states of the Union. with what he calls the crowniug triumph'of his life: an exhibition two or three times more extensive than any show that ever travelled; which he will transport entirely by cars, requiring four or five long trains of twenty-five or thirty cars each. It IS expected he will exhibit somewhere in this region, but exactly where we have not learned.
 Only Two Hundred and Sirty MSl1sons- Mir. Martin Decker, of this village is feel ing pretty rich already over the fact, as he says, that hls grandmother. Abigail Chase, and her husband, the late John LangdOn. are legitimate heirs to the immense Chas" estate. coming from Englani, which h, says foots up at the attractive sum of $26O, COG, ,OOO. Mir. Decker says if he never gets a cent of these mil ions of his property they can't cheat hiln out of feeling good over it, Gnya0ay.
 GosAen.-It is reported that Philo Cum mings has sold his place in West Goshen and will remove to Litchfield. ... Clark says he actually saw live robin this morn ing. An alarm of dre. given by Miss Caroline Cook, was caused by the bursting of kerosene lamp. Chester Riley caught a pail of water and dashed on the burning oil, which luckily extinsuished the flame and saved the house and contents. The snowbanks are settling just little now-a- days. Dog days will probably cause them
 to disappear. Po.
 The Land of Goshen.-The N. Y. Eoen-
 6ng MaI says that the land of Goshen
 among the hills in the western part of
 Massachusetts [hut instead of that state the
 writer means Connecticut has been de-
 lightful abode during this lively winter. "A lonely traveller among it's palid snow
 drifts reports that he found big barn bur
 jed to the ridge pole, with forlorn calf on the summit tugging desperately at 8 little wisp of hay protruding from swallow ; hole at the very top of the gable. This is scene for an artist
 'Itoas Too Bad.-A couple who seemed
 to be possessed with a hankering to live
 with each other, ''for better or for worse, !"
 ushered themselves into the presence of
 Justice Pratt in this village last Monday
 and besought him to make them no longer twain, but one. The cruel justice, after ! ascertaining few facts, among which were that the would-be groom was of the
 tender age of eighteen years and had no , father, mother or guardian, facts which of course they thought he need not have in-
 quired about, wouldn't pronounce those charming words to them-man and wife
 and as they left his office he says they were the sorriest looking couple he ever
 missed of marrying.
 3 Sharon.-Andrew Dowd, rose of Shar- on, started Saturday from Sharon to visit a 3 sister who was sick in Cornwall. He ar rived via Connecticut Western in Hartford ) all right, indulged in frequent potations of 3 Hartford benzine, and then left for Middle 7 town, fortified with 8 pint bottle of the
 ''critter." He arrived there duly, via branch road, started of. got stuck in the mud. was arrested by the police, lodged in the lookup over night, about the most un4
 clean specimen of humanity ever seen.