Connecticut western news., 1875-03-12
Connecticut Western News.

Post Office, Ashley Falls Post Office, West Cornwall S. c, Conn's store, Kent E. F. Gillette. Sharon The ''Emporium,'' West Winsted F. L. Pond & Co.,. Wihted Lawrences D1g Store Canaan
 Subscription Accountable date on the colored slip of paper with the name of the sub scriber, shows the time to which the sub ScriPtiOM is paid thus. R. B. Smith 5Jul74 indicates that MT. Smith has paid for his paper to see to it that their account, as indicated by the date on their papers, is always correct, and when they pay for renewal of their subscription, will observe whether their date is changed to indicate the proper credit, and ill the event of an error to inform us for correction at once. No claims foi srrSrs r9 in these accounts will hereattef De days after the payment is claimed to have been made as the regular receipt of the paper with the printed thereon, is prima facie evidence of it's ac ceptance as correct. J. l.. PEAsE.
 Shovel it Of.-Hadn't you better shovel the snow from your roofs before it makes you trouble?
 Harbor F'rozen.-A note from MT, George H. Lee of Bridgeport says in fifty years the harbor in that place has not been so entirely frozen.
 Concert in Millerton.-Th Amenis Glee Club, which filled full house tull ol most excellent entertainment in Lake vile week or two since, gave ther "Olt Folks Concert" at Barton's Hall in Miller ton last Wednesday evening.
 Frozen vegetables.-The complain tcat potatoes and apples have frozen tLi! winter that never before knew the effect! of frost, is universal. The protracted an( intense cold has penetrated farther ane deeper than has before been known by th' ''oldest inhabitant."
 Wants E1ail.-'Hail gentle spring
 ethereal mildness come," and be quicE about it, -EgcAange.
 Hail! Ant satisfied with four feet O snow CD the ground Want foot or tw. of hal, eh ? and then talk about etherea mildness. Yougotothunder
 Awful Mean.-Ge George Griffin, who ha had the NEWS sent to him when he was il Cornwall Bridge to the amount of $500 has left that village owing not only for hi paper, but, friend informs us, ev(lrybod, who would trust him. If this is true, seems as if it was an awful mean way l. get along in the world.
 Narrow Escape.-While the Rev. Fath CT Lynch was driving from Falls Vilag to Lakeville last Friday, and when cross ing bridge, the structure gave way an prccipltated himself, horse and buggy int the water. He, fortunately was very littl injured and succeeded in getting the hors and buggy out without great daaage l. either.
 Hartford Axle Works.-The Harttor Axle Works at Norfolk are now under tn management of Mir. D. s. Hunter, former ly of this city, who is well qualified for tn position which he fills. The con pany ar now running full force of 35 men, an are rarely able to keep up with their O. ders. The axle has proved to be enc c the best made in the world.-Hartfoq
 Post.
 More Storm.-Cne of the most sever
 storms of the season visited this region la!
 Sunday and Sunday night. Somethin
 more than foot in depth was piled on th already deeply covered earth. With tw : locomotives each, the passenger trair , were run only slightly behind time on tL
 Conn. Western road, but the freight trai1 , were laid up for day.
 Fire in New Preston.-The store of \ s. Beeman in New Preston was burne last Sunday night and was total loss. I'll fire was discovered about midnight, whe
 the building was all in blaze. The she and barn adjoining were saved by the gre' efforts of the neighbors, aided by the heav
 snow storm prevailing at the tim
 Amount of insurance, not known. Cat F'ood.-A family in Clayton, (E: Shef1eld) Mass, subsist upon Cats. The have eaten nearly all the cats in u l neighborhood and contemplate moving ( the first of April into new section whe provision" is more plenty. Wont som. ! body, in the interest of humanity, cat' chise these cot-eating people on the conso ) enation of events which rendered it Cd egorically necessary that they shou 7 subsist upon cats, and let US know?
 The. Lost, Found.-The Pittsield Eag has story to the effect that Bessie Turn, of Beecher-Tilton notoriety, is a longlo daughter of Bartlett McDermott, now Ii, ing in Lee, Mass, who placed her, wi two sons, when children, In an orphan as
 lum in Brooklyn, on account of the dea z of their mother. They were afterwar' adopted by different persons, and he 10 trace of them for twelve years, when Il boys mere discovered, but not the daug , ter, whose whereabout was not discovert til! the developments of the Beecher sea dal appeared.
 S He Is Found In one of our lette
 written last summer from Liverpool, En-
 land, we alluded to wayward son, Jol
 Tanner, who, as his father inform
 US, was 'rollickipg about Ameri'
 somewhere" We urged him in very strol language to communicate with his parent n and let his venerable and most wortl = father and mother know his whereabout g Strange as it may seem, THE NEWS fou1 y this rollicking lad away down in Millvie e Escambia Co.,, Florida, and the other d e brought letter from MT. s. A. Floy 'e written in b;s beba1f ;nf,ruinr ue omo