Connecticut western news., 1874-03-13

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 Gone 10 Wiitsted-Mr. Geo. K. Barton, who has been a clerk in Gager Brothers store in Sharon for some years past has gone into the store of MessrG. M. & C. J. Camp & Go. of West Winsted George is worthy good situation just such as we are sure he has now obtained.
 | 4 Planetary Pagednt-Now that the great planet Jupiter is so near us, the op. portunity for popular acquaintance with him is worth improving. Through an or dinary opera glass two of his satellites can be seen, and common house telescope will reveal the remaining two also.
 1he Biqyest Lie Ecer Io1d-The Miller. ton correspondent of the Armenia Tunes, writing about persons in that place says:
 Talking about big ones, Col. Gardner, 1ur new oil man, is one of family of five boys, whose united height is 3ll feet 3 inches, and weight just l 1000 pounds
 All we have got to say about the above is that If Col. Gardner and his brothers each measure sixty-two feet in height, the qulck. CT they get out of the oil business and shake hands with Barnum the better. But how came they te weigh 80 ttle.-Pough- keepsis Eagle.
 "What Was THIt"-Last Tuesday af- ternoon as John Parsons, who lives on Factory street, was driving up Main street, having in his large two-horse sleigh two other men. the nsap in some way ocean e detached, and dropped suddenly to the ground. which, frightening the horses, they sprang forward, pulling Mir. Parsons over the dash board, cutting his face very bad ly and inJuring his shoulder. One of the two passengers, who was sitting in the bot tom of the sleigh, after looking at his companion some seconds, and then at himself to make sure they were both alive, suddenly blurted out :-W-h-a-t Was t-h-s-t! We presume that he has found out by this time that something trapped
 F'dltS Village DrGna6tscs Amateur Dramatic Association of Falls Village will give an entertainment in the Citizens Hall in that place next Wednesday evening, (March 18th,) to aid in the purchase of a town clock. This is indeed an admirable idea. Every village ought to have a town clock, and if dramatic associations bring about town clocks and such useful public benefactions, all villages should have one or more of them. We understand this company possesses much merit and gives indeed most excellent entertainment, and now that the proceeds are to be given for a town clock, every man, woman and child within sight or hearing of the village ought to and must go. To have tower clock would be splendid Go and have good time, and help in that way to buy one
 BeecAer m Winsted. - Henry Ward Beecher will lecture at the Opera House in Winsted next Monday evening, (March l6th,) his subject being "The Wastes and Burdens of Life" An extra train will be run from MilIerton, leaving there and passing all stations on precisely the same time as the extra that run to the Kellogg opera Thursday evening of last week It Will return 20 minutes after the lecture, and only half fare will be charged. This lec- ture of MT. Beechers is said to be one of his very best, and as the prospect of his ever delivering another in this region is said to be very slim, everybody ought to go and once more hear him, who is &C., knowledged the greatest pulpit orator in the world. The price of admission is 50 cents and 75 cents for reserved seats The prospect is good for large turnout from this way.
 4 Ministerial Firemdn.-It is not often that clergymen are called upon to warn the impenitent upon the fire that never quench- eth, and at the same time upon the fire that insurance men 30 deprecate Yet the Rev. Scoville, (formerly of Cornwall in this state,) son-in-law of the Rev. Henry Ward Bescher, is experienced in both those respects. After accepting his pasto- ral call he was called to Rescue hook and ladder company of Norwich, N. Y, in 1864, was made foreman of the same soci- ety last year, and has now, by special or dainment of the civil authorities, been olu tod af z %I,o department, and avowed hls readiness, by daylight and in the night season, to pace with the machine. We understand that Rescue hook and ladder company is com posed mainly of Congregationalists; the engine and hose will be manned by Bap- tsts.
 He Hated tO Say H.-Editor Harding of the Pittsfield EagIe, alluding to Bailey's account of his waiting at that depot till midnight fer the arrival of a train on the Boston 6 Albany R. R., says That comi- cal Bailey of the Danbury News writes very entertainiDglY about the watch po- licemen at our depot, but didn't seem to 4 know why they loitered about him so per sistently, and had apparently such serious confabs while he waited for the train the other night. We hate to say it, but jus tice to our vigilant local officers compels us to explain that they chanced to hear some body say the waiting gentleman was Bailey and remembering that a certain Bailey, who recently passed through these parts humbugging people out of their cat tie and watches, had escaped from the Windham county jail, they almost came to the conclusion that Mis Bailey was the fu- o;t;vo ood thev uvnra diacuesino amono