Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27

Congregational.-See notice of annual meeting in onother column.
 Changed.-The Winsted Herald has 0 hanged it's form to quarto.
 Town Meeting.-See advertisement for SD ecial Town Meeting ID another column.
 Thunder and Lightning Quite brisk shower, accompanied by lightning and thunder, visited this region lust Monday evening.
 Thanksgiving. About the year l724 Thanksgiving was postponed in Colchester for thirty days, as there was no molahses in town. This is a matter of record.
 Extra Copies. The place for the sale of extra copies of THE NEWS in this vil- lage will hereafter be at the post office ut MT. Delliber's store.
 "doin out whitewashing."-T Hart ford Times says & colored man in that city who gets an honest living by going about applying whitewash, invites custom by a sign placed over the door of his domicile containing the following:
 "0oin out whitewashing done in here. ',
 Come Again. Alexander Hyde Esq editor of the Lee Gieaner, dropped in upon us last Saturday. Nessrs Hyde & Clarke gre making the GIe0ntr one of the best papers in Western Massachusetts, and we reJoice with them in this success they SO richly merit. Now that Brother Hyde knows the way, we hope he will come again, and next time bring Mir. Clarke with him.
 Housatonio Valley Milk.-It is said that the milk business of the Housat0nic valley has proved improbable during the past year. Milk brings only four cents a quart in New York, at wholesale, and after freight and commissions are deducted, the farmers receipts are small. More trouble bus been experienced this season with sour milk than ever hefore.-Hartford Times.
 Evidence of Skil.-A sign for tn C Simsbury Free Library passed through this place on the Conn. Western road last Friday, and MT. F. R. Mallory, of Amen Id, formerly of Lakeville,) is the man who painted it. The fame of such skillful artist cant help but get abroad, anl such orders, all the way from Simsb ury, will come tumblng in, in spite of all he can do
 Live Stock by Mail.--When the mail, bag from West Goshen was opened at Go shen, the other day, mouse popped out. An attache of tho office immediately wrote back as follows: "I wish to call your at tention to the law regulating the transmit tal of live stock by mail. The mouse that arrived this A. M. from West Goshen, was stopped at this office for the reason that no stamp was attached to his tail"
 Send Him Up.-The Illustrated Christiau Weekly, says an impostor is canvassing Litchaeld county for that journal, offering as premium a map of Palestine &c., and pOcketing the money the would be sub scribers meyer after seeing him nor the pa per they subscribed for. The Weekly dcs cribes him as follows: He gives his name as Aruuah Rockwell, is of slight build, above medium height, heavy dark eye brows, heavy mustache (dyed), heavy mouth aud sancltmonious air If anybody who chances to meet this imposter will in form the publishers of the Weekly by let ter or telegraph where he can be found, he will receive the prompt attention he de- serves. Address American Track Society, l5O. Nassau Street, New York.
 The Twin Lakes Hotol.-Col. Hub bard, formerly express messenger on the Conn. Western road, has leased a hotel in New Hartford, and is now landlord there of. The Colonel, it appears. has abandon ed for the present his project of hotel at the Twin Lakes. The extraordinary WIS. dom displayed by the Winsted Herald sometime since in its statement that our assertion that the Colonel contemplated the erection of hotel at the above men toned most excellent locality for one. as being "news to him." was slightly prt ma ture. The Colonel Las too much regard for the truth to deny the fact, even were there any induccmcnt for him to do so, that he, in conversation with us, stated that he had made efforts 10 obtain land for the purpos of erecting hotel at the Twin Lakes; but as the Herald item was proba OlY as true as anything else 1t has said late ". it was scarcely worth even this late mo- tlce of It.
 Decker's Snow Plow.-Mr. Martin Decker is discouraged, and he has reason to be. For the pust five years he has blow d the walks after every snow storm, m this village, and has done his work faith fully and we'll, and as compensation has received, all told, not more than twenty dollars for the i've years work, and hr thinks the payments would foot up less han that amount. People agree 10 "chip u" and pay something reasonable, bu they do not do It. A few (prrhups three or fouD pay something. as is their habit of doing in aid of every enterprise benefiIing the public at large, but many pay nothing, and We may truthfully say. some of whom make 1t their life practice and plan, at all times to pay nothing just as hard as th' y can for any Improvements ben, fitting the public. Mir. Decker has concluded he hus worked for four dollars year as long ns ho will, and having put his foot square down, will not blow rod of snow the coming winter, lest he Is properly paid for It. Aud is be not right7