Connecticut western news., 1876-04-21
ssNdighty Cheap."-Taft in Ashley Fall

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 ssMighty Cheap."-Taft in Ashley Falls is selling goods "mighty cheap" Go and see if what we say isn't as true as anything else we say, eh2
 That Pattern.-If you will hand in to this office, the dress pattern you found on the street few days since, we will return 1t to the owner.
 Adams' Eoonomy.-Constable Adams has bought pair of green spectacles for his COW. and now feeds her on shavings. Economy is wealth"
 wanted.-Immediately, Guy Hawkes.: Enquire first door, basement, town hall building, Salisbury. ''Trust in God, but keep your powder dry"
 Personal.-Mrs. Eldridge and daughter, who have been spending the past winter at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, re- turned to their home in Norfolk last week. Re-opened The ladies of Falls Village and vicinity will be glad to learn that the Boston millinery rooms are re-opened, and they are invited to examine stock of mil linery which no doubt will be replete with the novelties of the season. X. Town Hall vs. Look-Up.-It was sug gested at first to build town-hall and have lookup in an out of the way corner of I,,,k &ho 1oHn hop in ho work appears to be to 6uild'G lock-up and haoe town hGN Sp H!-In other words
 ''Take hold of the tail and cut the dog off. :" Gone to Van Deusenville.-Mr. George Olds, who has for some years been one of the fixtures of the Union depot in Canaan, has been assigned responsible position al the depot in Van Deusenville. MT. Olds' 1 genial countenance was always comfort
 for the travelling public to look upon, and
 he will be sadly missed by those who have
 SO often seen him there. The new arrange
 ment may be very pleasant for Van Deu-
 senville, but what's Canaan going to do2
 Railroad Hands strike.-Laborers on
 the Rhinebeck & Connecticut railroad
 struck last Monday for an increase of wa
 ges from dollar to a dollar and twenty five cents. The demand was refused.
 Tuesday night Italian laborers were sent
 from New York city to take their places,
 and Wednesday morning the strikers
 marched in body to the headquarters of
 the Italians and ordered them to leave the
 place, declaring that they would not be
 permitted to work. S
 Pete Quackenbush.-Do you know Pe-
 ter Quackenbush You ought to, for he ! is worth knowing. He lives in Lee and had large hardware store, but sold it s few weeks since, and the place that knew l him, knows somebody else now. "Pete' is particular friend of ours, and when we go to Lee, we always go to see him. He sings bass in the Episcopal church ant
 keeps yellow dog, which he says is very
 learned beast. "Pete" is very conssten
 in his opinions: He says he thinks Mir ] Bcecher is guilty of something, and th' g Lee & Hudson railroad a grand success.
 That Town Hall Committee.-Did 70, !, attend the funeral2 The town hall com ' mittee are of course dead, or we should D have heard at least a kttle something iron a !, tn. m and the Salisbury town hall, as , i noW StGnds @ is monument to their mem ,. ory. The Hon. P. L. Barton said the othe r. day: ''The people of the town, are ready ,. and Gngious, to be taxed to build ney d town hall, and why cant we have one e e That's the question, Who is responsiblefo 'r the delay? If it is not the committee ar r. pointed Ny the town to attend to the ore $ liminary arrangements; obtaining plans d cost of construction, etc., etc., then who i ss it? The question that the whol Ill people just at this time would be glad t til have that committee answer is: Why don is you do the work assigned you by the towr or rand-whatinthunderyouuptosnyway! be Suicide at Norfolk.-A young Frencl Ill man at Norfolk named Joseph Parsor on committed suicide on Wednesday last h is shooting himself through the head N #, cause can be assigned for the act, as tt E. JOuuS Anou W ao III AO Wuy cnUATraSSeQ in n, ID any unpleasant circumstances. He live ce with an older brother, and the two had bee nt to an auction together in the early part ( m m the day, and returning home about noe
 Joseph went into an old house which stoe or in the rear of the dwelling and immediate tn tn was heard the report of pistol. On g he ing to the place the young man was four mt quite dead with bullet hole through b r1itt 1t head and the empty pistol by his side. E 'or left some money with letter, requestir es that all his debts should be paid, biddir Ills Ills goodbye to his relatives and friends, al
 asking that his mother, who lives in Ve 'ef mont, should be telegraphed to al once.
 was about "A or 26 years old, and " an looked upon as steady, industrious youl
 man TCSo efa al Ro,aa