Connecticut western news., 1876-11-10

Village Improvemsnt.-The Litchfeld Village Improvement Society have paid out $2, .9l this year for village improve ments.
 stlll Lower.-The Bridgeport Boat Go. announces still further reduction in fare to Philadelphia, their excursion tickets now being put at $45O instead of s5. Their advertisement tells the rest.
 November Dandelions.-Quite a large number of dandelions were found in full bloom on Washinet street ID Salisbury one day last week. This is probably not often seen at this season of the year.
 Among the Killed At the terrible rail- road accident on the Delaware, Lacka- wana & Western RR. last week, among the killed was Warren Bragg of Clayville, N. J.. brother of James L. Bragg, Esq, of this town.
 Woods on Fire "A right smart blaze
 
 Mir. Gibson Gillett's land on the side of the mountain south of Lime Rock last Satur- day forenoon. It blazed and smoked fu- riously for two or three hours, when it was got under control and extinguished.
 New Physloian.-Falls Village. it ap- pears. is to have, or perhaps more proper ly speaking already has, new physician in the person of J. B. Heath of South Lee. Mir. Heath's practice is sllopathic. or the old school. He is pretty wellrecommend ed, and If successful will probably find business in his new field.
 More Thieves. Pat. Doyle. who lives in Konkspot. lost six turkeys one night last week. Is this the result of the Thanksgiving Proclsmations we publishsd last week9 It is Q great comfort that thieves. as well as other folks. can't live always. To attend the funeral of full | 6edged thief is better than @ circus. Caught Him at It.-A lady walking from Lakeville to Salisbury on the railroad track tomeeting last Sunday, came suddenly upon man ss she ''rounded curve" who was sitting on the ground. and around him, spread out on the grass evidently for his examination and inspection, were lot of tools, consisting of cold chisels, nippers, pincers, etc., etc., in fact what was prob. ably full set of burglars tools.
 Stole His Honey.--Some vagahond
 thief stole hive of bees from it's position
 near the house of Christian Rupff in Ash
 ley Falls one day last week. Mr. Rupff it
 q hard working and very worthy man. and can i'll afford to suffer loss even so small
 as that of hive of honey. We repeat oul
 request of a week or two since. Won
 somebody please shoot two or three of th'
 thieves that have infested this region so re
 gently. We'll give si1ty-two and g hal
 cents a head for them to make items of
 The price of course is too high, more thai
 they are worth for anything else, but vel be generous this once.
 What Is It?-A strangs animal was sho : in tree last Friday on the mountain wes ) of Falls Village, and was exhibited in Salii 5 bury the following day. Nobody seem able to determine the species of the cres ture. and it is unquestionably a stranyer 3 this cline. One who saw the animal d. E scribes it as follows: A trifle taller than g fox, with head and ears very like that an t imal. Its tail, instead of being large an h,ach 8hok rNRN sc S1s fhn fn1r /, , It being short. Its feet resemble those of d dog, legs long and body slim. ana eviden y built expressly for speed. It's color f said to be dun or mouse color. Nov d then. who can give name to this creature 't We have searched thoroughly Johnson d Natural History, and can find nothing th. 1T comports with the description given abov' 1T What is it?
 Fax Are Fax.-It may not be fa' .' woIth mentioning, but 1t is fact for 8
 that, that twenty seven hundred votes vel J printed in our office for the election Tue day in Salisbury, viz for the entire sta 2 ticket and the r, presentatIves (tha regul' e ticket of presidential electors being printe at central office and furnished the tow Tn advance) and every name on every tic
 ct we printed was elected, and not ms Il (with the presidential exception alluded 1t aboye) not man goted for on tickets prsn n ed ct other offices aoas elected NO. n d oneI We printed the tickets for Hira at Briggs of this town, and he was electe is running away ahead of his ticket. W y printed the votes for Smith and Wooster e- Norfolk. and of course they were electe v- and those other Norfolk fellows who we ,e to Winsted after their tickets got beat, IS we knew they would; and didn't we s s- SO in last weeks NEws2 Fax are fa, UT Gentlemen can't blame us for their m in fortunes of Tuesday. We gave them fl
 warning.