Connecticut western news., 1873-12-26
Connecticut Western News.

Post Office, Ashley Fall lA Post Office, West Cornwa ID s. c. Conn's store. Ken
 aager Brothers. Share io F. L. Pend s Co.,. Winste y Lawrenoss Drug Store Canaan . We Atan You !-Whom we will uo,
 wish . merry Christmas. We'll take it i -oh, well anything nice, you know. It 4 Day AAead. Are you wicked enoug = to ask us to work Christmas? Then W s must hand you THE NEWS one day earlie D than usual this week.
 5 Stlvsr StseI Works Hon Wm. H. Bar mum is reported to have bought the Slve Steel company's works at Roxbury E Of the e1rdck.-Two cars off the tracl l at Milertou put the freight train on the 3 Conn. Western road two hours and hall behind time last Tuesday morning
 Norfolk GraaHe.-The Hoosac tunne
 people have contracted with the Conn scti- I''N" W NotSAh u AooN IO ndul lO,UUU cuDlC IeP1
 of granite from Beecher's quarry in Nor
 folk, to be used for coping at the tunnel Got 'Em 7so.-And now the We'ch Brothers, at their stores in West Winsted
 and Norfolk, have 'gOne into' Christmas
 goods with will. They have a very fine
 lot of useful as well as ornamental fxin's
 for Ohrissmas. Go and see lem.
 Going tor His Har-The southern.
 young lady who was residing in Bridgeport
 and was sadly disappointed by the non-ap-
 pearance of her Texan lover on the we'd
 ding day, has asoertained that his absence
 was due to his capture by Indians, who at
 last accounts were going for his hair
 Christmas Tree.-The Episcopal people
 have trimmed their church in this village
 very prettily, and at o'clock this (Wed
 nesday) afternoon, will permit the little
 folks, not only to feast their eyes on beae-
 tiful christmas tree loaded heavily with
 presents, but they will as usual, be invited
 to partake thereof
 | CdnaGn.-For elegant, as well as useful,
 Christmas gifts, go 10 s. C. Beckley's store
 He is full of 'em, which he is selling very
 low; but for anything in the hne of toys.
 from two story elephant, whose trunk will
 fly upward if you pull hls tail, to an ele- gantly embossed, double recded toot bugle;
 go to Humphreys Drug Store, He's got 'em,
 In Trou61e.-The devil is in open rebel
 lion against us. He says-with remarka- ble truthfuness for him-that he has served his people at all seasons of the year through sunshine and storm, prosperity and adversity. and all that sort O thing you know, with fidelity that is truly remarka- ble; but to keep up his fire and Set type on Sundays or through the Holidays, he says is against his religion. What shall we do |? We are afraid our readers wont get a paper next week, because the devil says he won't work, and everybody knows the dev- il won't lie.
 The Hen Shoao.-The Hartford hen show is ended for this year, and we understand has been very successful affair. Con- ductor Eggleston says such an array of hen coops, each of which sent forth a noise of some sort, (many of the noises were inde- from the tenor toned crow of bantam rooster to the regular old basao of ahanghie. as was seen in Allyn Hall last week, was probably never before assembled under one roof. Such cackllng, ehirp- ing, scresehing, growing and hootipg as greeted the ears of visitors, proved to be enough to astonish all who attended.
 fdAs t'HGge.-As nearly everybody hSs had their say about Holiday goods, Mr. J B. Capron, the new jeweler of Falls Vll- age, who has not made much noise abou t thus far. should not be left out in the cold. MT. Capron has very fine stock of Christmas or Holiday purchas- 1T may desire. His goods are reliable as lis many customers are rapidly hndiug 'ut, and for the small folks. his shelves ar, ull Of those pretty things which deliSh, i he eyes of Young America. DDu'i fail to lee what Capron has in the Way of Hoh- Jay goods.
 Fine Building We have seen plans in a of Mir. Daniels of this village, i or an elegant mansion to be erected b, i'm for Mir. w. w. Snow of Ramapo, N. '. Nr. Snow is quite well known by the [ ron men hereabout, as the manager of the { 2amapo Car Wheel Foundry. His new | lome, to be built by Mr. Daniels, will be e me of the finest in the country. The plans c were drawn by Lambert S Bunnell oi a Bridgeport, and reflect much credit op u hose gentlemen as architects, We copgrat- u late Mir. Daniels for the compliment the a ecuring of this job certainly bestows up t ID him. h Mdsontc. A Masonic lecture will be de. a verse in the M. E. Church in Canaan next r tuesday evening, (Dec. 3Oth,) ) by Grand 'ecturer, c. M. Hatch of Bridgeport. All re invited to free admission. At an an- b ual and regular communication of Housa- C onic Lodge, No. 6l, F. & A. M., the off al CTS elected and appointed for the year nsuing, are as follows: J. H. Puver, el M; w. A. Hester, S. w.; F. H. Ross W Ian, J. w.; R. Van Drusen, Treas; J. B. o lawrence, sec'y; H. H. Coggswell, 8. D.: W '. Waller, J. D.; L. Lindsey, s. S.; l '' ;. Riker, J. s.; s. Malloy, Tyler; Rev. J. tt l. Lane, Chaplain; H. J. Mead, Marshal tc That Whsskey. As barrel of whiskey was ,, ring transferred from one depot iL Miller h, 'n to another one day last week, one head m the barrel came out and the whiskey very D tturally got out on the ground in hurry fin 8 the weather was a little chilly, it soon a