Connecticut western news., 1874-02-27
Sheffield.


 our pleasure to attend the festival and fair held in the hall by the ladies of Christs church. The entertainment was com plete success, and everybody seemed to feel happy, as good fare and good nature combined 10 make them SO. We learn that the society realized $l2o from the sales of the evening. ......On Thursday even- ing the 18th inst, a serious accident oc. cured near the house of Hopkins Candcc. MT. Charles Dewey, wife and daughter were returning at Q late hour from a friends house, when the axle of his wagon broke, throwing Mir. D. to the ground and badly breaking his leg below the knee. The horse became frightened and dragged him some fifteen rods upon the frozen ground before his wife could render him any as sistance; she jumped from the wagon and caught the horse at the head, finally stop ping him. The little girl returned to the house of Mr. c. and succeeded in making herself heard. MT. Candee hastened to Mr. Dewey to find him badly injured and his clothing torn to shreds. He conveyed him home, but it was several days before the bones could be Set, as they protrudeG from the flesh, and the limb was so much swollen......' Luna generally reports faith fully for your columns, but we notice th ere are some things of late she has failed to mention. Ladies are not supposed to know how they sell crackers in our village, but we men have chance to see. In one of our principal restaurants here man en- ters and with ravcnous appetite calls for plate of crackers 10 appease his hungry stomach. The attendant obedient- ly brings the crackers, receives his 25 cents and then feeling sorry for the poor hungry man. generously gives him glass of the rare old Jamaica to settle the crackers. We don't sell whiskey in Shef- field Our Massachusetts lx WIS forbid and our saloon keepers obey-they don't sell liquor-they sell crackers! It is said that the sick and afflicted can be accommoda- ted at our enterprising druggists (whom the law protects) without the cracker diet, and it is astonishing how many men are seized with collie and cramps on nearing the drug store. We arc temperate peo- ple!...We wonder how many of the Shef- field people saw the solemn procession which wended its way on Saturday morn ing about o'clock from the Berkshire So- da Springs in Sheffield, to this village young men and maidcns there were, who having spent the night in the may dance, returned home in broad day, looking rath- CT old for their years. Report says it was the end of the I. K. U. K.' One item worthy of note seems to have escaped the notice of yonr regular, and though it hap pened some weeks ago it will be interesting to dealers in mutton hereabouts A drovcr came through this town with large drove of sheep. He sought shelter for his flock for the night at a comfortable farm house in Southwestern Sheffield, where the farm CT received him hospitably and cared for the animals. The following morning, to his disr ay, he found that 25 of his best sheep were missing. He searched the premises, aided by this very hospitable farmer. No sheep were found thers He went on to neighboring town seeking the lost, and telling the name of the man with whom he had spent the night. He was ad- vised to return with an officer and search again, as mysterious disappearances had occurred ou that same farm before. He did so and finally tracked his sheep to dis tant barn on the farm, where he found them safely enclosed awaiting the market demands. Strange spirits inhablt thls farm, and the owner esteems 1t privilege to settle all these bills lest they be molest- ed. (Is this another case of kleptomania?) For these 25 sheep our farmer is reported to have paid $2oO anu considered them cheap at that! Sheep dealers will do well to come this way, for no better market can be found than ours.... When local items fail please send for JOHN.