Connecticut western news., 1875-04-30

pondence is crowded out. It wiz dc nice y for next week, as it is too good to spoil in one week.
 Another Lot sold.-Mr. Wheeler, the miller, who recently came into this village from Litchfeld, and purchased the Horace Ball place, has added to his domain, by the purchase of F. Bushnell the lot just east of his residence.
 Is Successful. Miss Holcomb, the new milliner in LakevllIe is already receiving large trade, and is meeting with very de- served success too, we are assured, her many customers being exceedingly well pleased with her work.
 More Room.-Mr. E. w. Spur, reali zing the need of more room for his in creased business in Lakeville, has pur- chased of Messrs. rupper & Wood another ample plat of ground, on which it is his purpose to erect more buildings.
 The New Catholic Church The Cath olic church edifice iu Lakevile is being pushed forward in it's process of construc- ton as rapidly as possible. It is to be large structure, and when completed, will be one of the finest in this section of the country. It will have large bell, and large clock will adorn the tower, and which will announce in thunder tones the onward march of old Father Time. This is as it should be. This people have done noble work in the cause of temperance, and now let them worship in new church, and let it be good one too.
 Those Postal Invitations.-Yes, they are simply invitations to ''give us a lift," and prefer to not have them considered as duns; | those postal cards which we have been sending to those year or two in arrears, we are talking about now. To regard them as duns is an expression little harsh. We need money very much to pay what we owe (and we are determined to do that if it takes the last dried apple in the house, )and we use the postals purely for the purpose of economy. Don't get excited because we ask you to help us, but give us the ben eft of that kindly disposition to help the needy (and who is more needy than the printer) which we know you possess Hard times hard times! you say and you are right. The times ore hard, but you cant do without your local paper and we rejoice it is SO. It is one of the necessaries of life and-well, we don't want you to dis tress yourself in paying for it either, and you needn't give us so much as bite of your apple, but let us have the core and we'll be satisfied.
 Grand Excursion to Bridgeport. The Housatonic R. R. Go. will sell excursion tickets to all who desire to attend Barnum s Great Roman Hlppodrome in Bridgeport Monday next, (May srd. as follows:
 To Bridgeport and return from
 Burlington, $500; Sheffield, $2. 85 Ashley Falls, 2.75 Canaan, 2.75 Falls Village, 2.5O Lime Rock 2.5O West Cornwall 225 Cornwall Bridge 2. 95 Kent 200 Merwinsville 200
 &c sc. sc.
 Tickets for the Hippodrome can be ob- tained of the R. R. agents at the several stations at 50 cents each. That Barnum has brought out something that will far eclipse anything ever before attempted by him, and something really monstrous as well as superbly grand, there is no ques- tion, and the opportunity offered by the Housatonic road to visit it in Bridgeport next Monday wiz unquestionebly be large y improved. The excursion tickets are good to go on any regular train Monday, and return on special after the evenings entertainment is concluded.
 The Horse Dootor.-Wont you please ask Mr. Martin Harris to tell you the Horse Doctor story, and if he is in hurry and cant spend the time, try Mir. Robert Ball, or any of the others of that enterprising ''hoss class' of ten pupils. "You see' this class paid Professor Fenton who said
 "Ef that hoss what's got the nuralligy
 kicks at me. do lick that hoss? NO sjr ! I steps up to that hoss and pats that hoss on his neck :"-We were about to say that the ''hoss class" paid the Professor fifty dollars in advance for six lessons, and two of the course were given, and when the time for the third had arrived, the Profes-
 sor sent telegram in his stead, saying He had such hard cod he couldn't con duct the third lesson till the following week, and although four or five months have come and gone since the telegraph lesson, the following week" has not ar rived, but Messrs Ball, Harris & Go. art ], still looking for it. Of course the Profes- , sor "what treas hosses for the nuralligy, ? will not disappoint his boss pupils after h gets oyer his cold.
 Large Fire in Egremont.-About nin' o'clock last Sunday evening, fire was dis
 covered on the roof of Brusie's hotel, ant
 before adequate help arrived, the building was so thoroughly Tn flames it could not b' saved. MT. Honlinson, the landlord, los all his furniture. A harness shop, wagon shop and shed near the burning hote = caught fire from it and also were destroyed : and at one time it seemed impossible t' save Mir. Loomis Joyner's store, but by al most superhuman efforts it was tinaIl, saved, although the roof and one side wer l badly burned. The timely arrival and eff cient aid of the Burlington fire department undoubtedly contributed largely to the fina mastery of the destroying element, and th citizens of Egremont are unqueStionabi.. 3 deeply grateful for the noble and praise g worthy efforts of their neighboring village : in this, their time of need. It is impossibl f to determine the cause of the fire, as 3 originated, or at least was first seen, in