Connecticut western news., 1873-03-28

Spring WeGther.-Fine spring weather last Friday and Saturday up at and about The snow blew as in mid win ter. and 90 blockaded some of the trains on the Housatonic railroad at or near Dewey's station, that considerable shoveling was necessary to get them through. Robert Thomas in his almanac says this is Spring weather. Why Robert!
 S!eigAing. to-day Friday) there has been during the past winter one hun dred and twenty days, or four months of thirty days each, continuous sleighing. Our 'oldest inhabitant" is unusually reti cent about this long period of uninterrupt- ed sledding, he not being able to summon from the unfathomed depths of his honor ed memory parallel case.
 Goshen.-Clark. the mail carrier, man. ages to ge! through to West Cornwall now a.days without compass to steer by. Dr. Brundage talks of locating here again. A bluebird was found frozen stiff the other day. Bad place this for bluebirds. l.. H. & Allyn have just opened a nice lot of spring goods. Cook & Porter will do the same thing in few days. Miss Howe's school will close next week for the regular spring vacation. 20.
 Mapls Sugar.-Mr. Frederick G. Dean, of Falls Village, is ahead, so far as we have learned, in making maple sugar. Last Wednesday he was in thls village with a load fresh from the trees, and 8 finer lot of sugarI we never saw. luwas absolutely pure, being entirely free from brown sugar which usually finds its way into the earliest sugar, and was indeed toothsome. Mr Dean thinks the present season will be a very favorable one for maple sugar.
 Election 7ickets.-Ho all ye 'politx folks" ye who want tickets printed for the election a week from next Monday. We are now prepared to print your votes more neatly and cheaply than ever before. as we are better prepared. Bring or send in tue tickets as early as you can, and to avoid the possibility of mistake, ha0e every name sorStten very plasnIy. We have every | the least possible time and for the least amount of money.
 Confdence Hen.-A young dentist by the name of Boyinton has just run away | from PouYhkeepsie, in debt, and leaving behind him, one account says, several ladies to whom he was engaged. .-Amsnia Times.
 We know aYoung dentist who didn't run away from this village in debt, because he never came here, but he advertised in THE NEWS several months that he aod. coming here from Bangall, N. Y., and then not only never came, but never paid for his advertising and we cannot coax him tc pay. The first three letters of his name are B. D. Seaman.
 Republican Nomtnattons.-At the Re publican Senatorial Convention of the l7tt district, at Falls Village last Tuesday Mir. John Hopson of Kent was nominated for senator, but upon report of E. w Spur esq.,, that he would not accept tht nomination, MT. John K. Shepard, behnl the next highest candidate in the ballot was unanimously nominated. The conven tion then proceeded to appoint 8 senatoria committee for the ensuing year, which re suited in the choice of Geo. W. Hall, o Canaan, Robt. Van Deusen, of North Ga naan, Silas c. Beers, Cornwall.
 Geo. w. Hall, Secretary.
 Personal. Our esteemed friend D. T Warner, esq.,, who has been suffering se verely for some months past with chron ic disease. has stolen silently away to quaf the inyigorating waters of the Columbi, springs. in New York state, hoping to re- ceive temporary relief from his rheumatic tortures, if not a permanent cure. May we not expect-and we were about to say have we not c right to erpect-a line or two from his ever-thrilling pen, descriptive o the place and its surroundings? Tell us oh ye favored son of Blackstone, of tn, magic power of those waters that speak tt the idisease- tracked frame; that drive tn, enemy from witt in aud pronounce a bene dlction of peace to the tortured soul
 4 Physscstn. weeks since cor respondent of the NEWS alluded to the neet of physician in this village one wht would los among us, and we are pleased t say that the item was seen by a member O tho New York Academy of Medicine, who immediately wrote concerning the matte to Postmaster Richardson, of this village Mir. R. handed the communication to on, of our people, who has been correspond ing with the physician, and we are now able to say that the prospects are very flat tering for his settling among us. In speak ing of our need of resident physician, ou correspondent in his communication som, weeks since was not understood as reflect ing in the slightest degree upon the skill O our present Lakeville physicians. but advo cated the need of one who should reside il this village, and whose services could nor readily be obtained in cases that demanded immediate attention.
 School Rscord.-The winter term o eleven weeks of school at the Academy II this village, under the tuition of Miss A Cleaveland, closed last Friday. The fol lowing is the scholars record:
 Eugene Lebree, Charley Lebree, Charley White, Henry Pratt and Hattie Niver hav not been absent during the term. Eugen, Lebree, tardy not once. Charley Lebre tardy twice. Henry Pratt and Hattie Nj yer once. Sammie Weible and Sammi Niver absent one day. John Osrander Jennie Arnold and Maria Walton eacl were absent two days. Maria Walton tar dy not once. Jennie Arnold once. Mul. dice Woodwork, Clara Arnold and Loi Warner were not tardy during the term but were absent more than three days ant