Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10

Keely Motor stool.-Few shares Keely Motor stock are offered for sale on Wall street in New York. Want any?
 School Meeting.-Rememb the school meeting at the grove school house in this village next Monday evening at z o'clock.
 The Governors Letter.-A very in teresting letter is received from Gov. Hol- ley, written from Edinburgh, Scotland, but came too late for this week. Will publish it next week.
 Home from Abroad.-Mr. Sidney P. Ensign of Lime Rock, who went to Eng land last June in company with MT. and Mrs. Charles Barnum, returned home Wed nesday of last week.
 Hand Crushed.-Theodore Bratherton, brakeman on Conductor Ellsworths train on the Housatonic railroad, while unload ing freight at Botsford, Monday morning, had his left hand badly crushed by a heavy package falling on it. -..
 Mayor Eastman.-Have you ever seer Mayor Eastman of Poughkeepsiee We saw him iu the Charter Oak dining rooms ir Hartford last Friday. He came in and took off his coat and hat and hung them on { hook and said he wanted "Some darn nice steak" O
 Barrington.-MR. EDrroR.-Mr. Frank Durant of the firm of Fassett s Durant oi the City Store. while running with the fire engine for practice, accidentally got his leg under the wheel and broke the bone real the ankle. Doctor Camp gave him some chloroform and brandy and then put hi: leg in order and sent him home. X. Dangerous Spot.-Of course railing ol protection of any sort will not be erected on the curve of the road near Mir. N. L. Dexter's house on Washinee street, til somebody breaks his neck there. It ism best It should be, as it will be so much eas fer to do it after one or two are killed thar before. A very narrow escape from de struction occurred there thIs week. Those Two Potatoes. - MT. Wm Raynsford says he don't want to make much noise about it, but while digging po- tatoes the other day, he pried out two that he thought were pretty large. His first thought was to bring them up into the street and show them to folks, but not hay ing stone boat to draw them on, wa: compelled to leave them at home.
 | West Winsted.-Moses Camp, senio member of the mercantile firm of M. & c J. Camp & Co.,, died at his residence a West Winsted of paralysis and cholera mor bus at ten o'clock Monday evening, aget seventy two. He was lifelong residen of that village and we'll known through al that region, where he was highly esteemed as prominent business man and citizen.
 On the Move.-The Dutchess Citsze1
 has moved to Pine Plains. This is the thir'
 time it has moved in as many months.- 1 R0ooelps Reporter.
 We think it must have moved again, ant
 this time out of existence, as we have seel
 nothing of it since it put in its first appear
 ance at Pine Plains. Sigh dam, where al
 thou
 News Agent Wanted.-We want
 smart active boy to sell extra copies c
 THE NEWS in Falls Village. MT. Eggles
 ton, who has attended to it for year C
 two past has been compelled to abandon
 on account of time to give to it; this pre-
 ent week being the last he will sell then
 Now then, where is the next boy wh thinks he can sell from 25 to 35 or mo- copies each week, earning for so doing very large salary. Let him speak, addres ing a line to us at once telling us what | thinks about it.
 Cathohc.-MR ED1ToR.--High Mass W celebrated in the Catholic church last Su1 day in Canaan for the second time since u church was built and the first time und the ministration of the Rev. Father Lyme
 The attendance was very large; in ia : larger than eyer before congregated in th Q church, and great interest was manifest !, in the proceedings. The singing of t Misses Day and of Mir. Dolet of Winst !. was very fine, and the organ playing Q Mrs. Lewis of Falls Village most excellel "> \. X. r. Heavy F'reighting.-The Conn. Weste sr road is enjoying large freight traffic, ta ,- ing the rolling stock of the road heavily J. do the work. Last Monday morning > freight train from Millerton came into | a station with thirty-nine long cars, seve e. of which it was compelled to leave he m not being able to take them over the grat l. between here and Canaan. We understa C. another long side track is soon to be put d. at this station, tie one here, although abt n, quarter of a mile long, not being su It. cient for what is required.
 Ashley F'a1ls.-The people of Ash j Falls have raised money to purchase
 telegraph instruments, and it is thought ,. office will be opened in the store of R.. Taft this present week. This is an ext - lent idea, and one the people we dare ~ will never regret having acted upon. " revenue for an office there isn't expected s be large, but the convenience will am W pay for the expenditure....Th new e :, etery in Ashley Falls is now complei " and, as we have once before said, is one ue the finest in this section. The new mo 9s ment just erected there to the memory '1 the late Archibald Taft and the decea '' members of his family, is indeed an
 gant shaft. It is wrought out of that IT ,le beautiful of all marbles, Italian, and Dc ,at a very high polish. It is worthy mel
 rial.