Connecticut western news., 1874-04-03

Too Late.-Millerton correspondence too late for this week.
 Election Day.-1t will be capital time to step in and pay your subscription to THE NEWS when you come into town to vote next week. Don't you think SOP Please don't forget it.
 Congregetional-Meetings are to be held in the school house in Ashley Falls by the Congregational people of that place, the Rev. MT. Noble of Sheffield officiating. The first meeting will be held Sabbath af ternoon, April 18th.
 Those Election Tickets.-1f you cant bring in your orders for election votes ear ly, bring them as early as you can, and we'll give them to you as neat as new apron and quicker than powder.
 Rum in New Milford.--The ladies of New Milford have really gone to work on the hearts and consciences of rum sellers in their town after the fashion of the Ohio ladies, and if you don't believe they mean business, read the communication from our New Milford correspondent this week.
 Poetical.-Brother Luther G. Riggs of the Meriden Recorder is unquestionably one of the few really good poets of the time. He is constantly giving to the columns of the Recorder, poetical compositions that are not injured in comparison with the best the country has known. We congrat- ulate him on his rare talent.
 Depot Lamps.-Superintendent Frank. lin of the Housatonic R. R. has erected some beautiful lamps on the Housatonic side of the new Union depot in Canaan, which most excellent example has been fol. lowed by the Conn. Western road, by erect. ing like number on their side. They are exactly the right thing in the right place.
 Runaway.-Last Friday, as Mir. James H. Landon of Sharon was driving past Hubbell & Oapren's foundry, near the sharon line, some men brought out some iron and threw it down, the rattle of which frightened his horse, who ran upon bank, throwing out MT. Landon and young lad and hired man, whe were riding with him, MT. l.. quite seriously.
 Stereoscopic Views.-The Dexter Broth CTS, photographers in this village have just been making some very fine stereoscopic views of various points of interest herea bout. also some of the finest we ever saw of Bashbish scenery. The view they have of the old rock in the grove near what was known as the grove school house, and which our older citizens formerly knew as Rostrum rock, is really very fine. They have negatives of the streets and various other points of interest in this village and vicinity.
 A Sheep shearing story.-A man from South Canaan came into our office the oth- CT day and said MT. James M. Hill, the re- nowned lamp lighter of Salisbury, sheared in one day at his house, commencing some time after sun rise and finishing before six o'clock at night, one hundred aqaI taco Meep, which, as MT. Hill caught all the sheep himself and alone, he thinks can't be beat. MT. Hill says if the flock of sheep hadn't run out, he don't know ex- actly how many he would have sheared, but is sure he should have stripped the jackets from at least one hundred and twenty-five. Such is the man who lights the street lamps in Salisbury.
 A Grand Time.-Oh,i it is joyful to think of it! You who subscribed to the fund for the payment of the old debt of the Con- gregational society in this village, and who agreed to walk up to the captains office on the first day of April and fork over,' will rejoice with ns that the time has arrived The doors at the bank will be open at nine o'clock in the morning hereafter and the performance will begin immediately. Mr. Tom Norton will boss the job, and each in his turn will be served (with receipt for the amount of hls subscription.) The pro. cession loaded with treasure waiting fo, their turn is expected to be large, and alto gether it will undoubtedly be an occasion long to be remembered. Reader; are you one of the fortunate donors2 If not we grieve for you, and if you cant do any bet ter, call on us and we'll divide the honorl we possess in the transaction, and although our amount is small, indeed quite SO, well be generous with you.-We never could bear to see fellow sufferer left out in thu cold.
 Horse sto1en.-A horse and wagon be longing to Mir. John B. Owen of Soutl Canaan, was stolen from the yard of MT. L
 Wickham in Huntsville. last Sunday even ing. MT. Owen was attending meeting il
 Huntsville, and had hitched his horse il
 Mir. Wickham's yard, and when he re,
 turned from the meeting, horse, wagon ant
 harness were gone. MT. Owen offers a re
 ward of $20.0O for the return of his prop
 erty, which he describes as follows: A ba,
 mare, with white blaze in forehead, whicl
 was the only change or deviation in colo
 from pure bay; heavy mane and tail
 eight or nine years old; pony build; in
 clined to be skittish and has generally
 wide-awake and startled look. She wa
 harnessed to square box business wagon
 which was old fashioned in style, havini small fore wheels. It is hoped he may re cover his property and the thief be dul,
 punished. [LATRR.-see correspondence No. 2 iron
 Falls Village, for the rest of this hors, ) stery.-ED. NEws.1