Connecticut western news., 1874-03-13

PIcSoLC NIlllHs ClalrVOyanJ. YentrllO quist and slelght-of-hand, performer and
 botanic physician, and yet the people ar
 not all happy......B Bird Brown, whose nam graced the columns of THE NEWS las
 week, in connection with the gallant re
 pulse of the invaders of the poor house
 sWears vengeance on the man that put hi:
 name in print, and declares that if he fin0l
 out the offending party he will stick {.
 him till he treats......Mr. E. Winckworth
 lately in the employ of the Holley M'f'l
 Co.,, has taken position with A. F. Rob-
 erts......The advertisement for dog, ,whicl
 was inserted in THE NEWS a short timt
 since, having met with such gratifying
 response from our village and elsewhere
 we are tempted to make known to the pub
 lie that we have a large assortment of cats
 in this village to dispose of. We vii
 guarantee the average Lakevllle cat to pos
 sess tenacity of purpose and strength ot
 lung rarely met with, and to have as many
 good points as any other cat. JUAN.
 FGFe Gn CaNGdn.-About l2 o'clock las
 Thursday night, fire broke out in the room
 ln-the north part of the building known as
 tie Cummings store, located on the corner
 of the street opposite Warmers hotel. This
 room was occupied by E. l.. Vary as a
 watch and clcck repairing shop. The
 flames, when discovered were emerging
 from the roof, and quickly spreading, en-
 veloped the whole upper part of the build ing, rendering it impossible to save any thing, even in Lawyer Roraback's office, which was located in the south room of the second story, and of course there was not the slightest chance to remove anything from the jewellers department. The | church bell was rung, and as the train, re- turning with it's Oad of 'Fra Diavolos, " drove into tha: station just at that time, its locomotive was made to send forth it's notes of alarm by series of prolonged whistles. The goods ill the millinery store on the ground floor were nearly all removed,a and carpets spread on and around Fuller & Peets store, Strong's tin store and the harness shop only few feet to the north, which were kept so saturated with water that those buildings, although severe ly scorched, were saved. The flames shot high in the air.and rained showers of sparks on the Warner House, Humphreys drug l store and other buildings at the south. the | slight wind, what there was of it. being from the north, ) but the constant attend ance of somebody on those roots with pails of water, effectully prevented their becoming ignited. The burning building was soon level with the ground, when ef- forts were instituted for the recovery from the ruins, of Lawyer Roraback's safe. The pieces of burning timbers were removed as quickly as possible and ladder pushed in
 to the cellar, down which man went and fastened chain about It, which was grap-- pied by those above and the safe hauled up out of it's bed of fire and douscd with wa- ter until it was cool enough to open. In this safe were deposited bonds and notes for collection and other valuable papers. which were found we'll preserved The safe was 'Wilder's patent" made in ls4s, and from it's appearance after its one hours test in the fire, it was thought it would have hardly served to keep from destruc- tion, it's contents another hour. The jew clers loss is represented as light. He is in sured for $500. Miss Susan Norton. the milliner, will lose perhaps $50 Oo, with no insurance. Lawyer Roraback loses his entire library and office furniture, amount ing to about $500, he also having no in- surance. The loss of the building, which was partly occupied by the own CT, Mr. Cummings, as warehouse, with what he had in it, is put at about $l50O., on winch there was no insuran ec. The cause of the fire is not known. MT, Vary, who occupied the room in which the fire was first discovered, was absent during the evening at the opera in Winsted and returned on the midnight train. He says he left everything sacly and right in his room. and nothing further is known about it.
 1oDn Neoting.-The sober and or der loving citizens of the town of Salisbury met in convention at the town hall in this village, last Saturday afternoon, to see what action they would take for the con- trol and management of the sale of intoxi- eating liquors. This assembly was one that will long be celebrated as a model of parliamentary order and decorum. There were two classes of our citizens in ttend ance, as there were two sides to the ques- tion to be discussed. Early in the after noon ''the people" began to arrive, and with such revere nee did some of them re- gard the place made sacred by their votes, | they entered the spacious entrance hall on their hands and knees, and with 'Yes', in their hand to vote in favor of the grant ing ot licenses, they groped about looking for place to deposit it, when Mer- l chant Jewell came along, and holding out his hat received such votes and put them, with Ames money, "where they would do | the most good" After order was restored (by Sheriff Cutting, with a club, char man was chosen and the meeting called it. self organized, 'when D. J. Warner Esq. introduced a resolution, which substan- tially expressed the purport of the warn ing, and made speech in it's favor, after which discussion arose as to the manner of taking the vote. A motion was made to divide the house-N-o oh no, whis pered the audience perched on the benches away in front.-"I move that the vote be taken by ballot" says another, yes, bal o-t y-e-s-s-s S, screached the aforesaid au- dlence. D. T. Warner introduced reso- lution to license hotels, and made speech in it's favor, which the chairman ruled as not pertinent with the business called for in the warning. Harlow Harris moved to strike out the word mot" before recom- mend in the phrase not to recommend any