Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14

ID Wltn the agent and offered to give hin b $1OOO if he would sell his farm for him a
 certain figure. Soon after, the man ap
 peared with pretended customer, whs
 agreed to take the farm at the price men
 toned. He gave MT. Youngs his note for tn, D amount and took bond for the deed. Tn, ]. agent then demanded the thousand dollar or more promised, and MT. Youngs turned '' over to him one of the notes he had re n ceived for his farm, unfortunately endors . ing the note. The holder immediately ob |. talned the money from an outside bank and l. dlsappeared.-But who was that real estate agent? His name may sound familiar to
 Salisbury ears. Won't somebody give the
 name?
 Berkshire Weather Prophet.-Up on
 Bear mountain in Berkshire county Massa- chusetts, lives one Levi Beebe, an old man } who for generation past has won local fame as weather prophet. His predic- , tions for last October, November and De- cember proved remarkably correct. As his predictions extend to this vicinity. we give
 his prophecy for January, which has
 proved truthful, so far.
 "The first ten days of January will be
 warm for the season. Wind light and va
 rlaole, With some frost or snow. The re-
 mainder of January will be colder. The
 coldest weather of the season will be in the
 last ot January and the first week of Feb
 ruary. with but few clustering days. The
 storms will be light falls of frost, snow or
 frozen fog. February, after the 9th, will
 De warm, with varying winds. mostly
 northwest and southwest, running most of l the time across each other. Till the 10th
 or March the weather will keep warm, with
 some rain. There will be more clouds than
 storms through the whole season.
 That Baby.-John Madigan's folks have ten pounds of new baby at their house. John is brakeman on Conductor Eggles. tons train, Lard although his courage is nev- CT compromised in any of the ordinary du- ties of life; can face any danger conse- quent on his, hazardous position on the train without ''ainchlng hair," he inglo
 rlously shrunk from the task of stating to us the facts in the case concerning that baby | for publication. ''That blessed baby" was good enough to be published to the world among the rest of the darlings and must be, and when on his train the other day, he hired expressman Preston to come and tell us Of it. By the time John arrives at that interesting and blissful epoch of h1s exist ence, when names run low in his catalogue and he begins to number them, it IS to be presumed his modesty will become less ap- parent. The event which so disturbed his peace of mind will be found recorded in it's proper place. ,.
 How He Watered His Horse. An ob- server of events says few days since gentleman drove to the temper ance horse watering kettle at the foot of Washlnee street in this village, and his horse being unchecked did not alight from his buggy, and the animal put his head down into the kettle out of sight almost, and as it was pretty dark the man could not see when his horse was through drink ing. Sitting composedly in his seat some minutes, and until he thought his steed had drank as much water as he ought to have, he pulled up the reigns and hitting the ani- nal cut with the whip. drove on home, httle suspecting there was not drop of water in that kettle, and hadn't been for some days. It is said he put his horse in his barn for the night, supposing him to have been we'll watered, or at least kettle watered, when in fact the poor beast was obliged to quake with thirst till the next watprInr tinoo ho1 | it is, that man doesn't know to this day that his horse went without water that night.
 A Word from Pope Bushnell.-J. l.. PEAsE. Eso-Deor Sar: By request of my Wife herewith transmit two dollars, which please credit on her account for THE NEWS and accept her kind regards. She has seen 8S summers; is uow in good health and spirits, and just this moment at the barn feeding her chickens. This day, GA years ago, we were married. Rev. Mir. Prentls of South Canaan tied the knot-neither hard nor sliding one; but it has needed no renewal. Six couples, invited guests from Salisbury, witnessed the ceremony at Captain Deming's hotel: shared the festiv- ities of the occasion; partook of as rich viands as ever graced a table in that town, and returned in the evening. Only two of those gay and festive youth are now among the living, viz: William H. Walton, Sr., of Town Hill, and one ot the triplets, Mrs. Susan Grinnell, now of Brooklyn, Susque- hannah county, Penn. She was in good health few days since. ..-o ." Sincerely yours,
 P. BUSHNELL.
 Bethany, Wayne Co.,, Pa, Jan. 8, 1876,
 The Best Heaters.-The Pittsfield Eoole of last week contains very interesting ed- itorial on means for heating our homes. It discusses at some length the merits and demerits of steam heaters, hot air furnaces etc.. quoting eminent authorities adyoca- ting some the one mode and some the oth- CTS, and closes by inviting tbose employing the various methods of heating their dwell ings, to give the result of their experience, for publication, that the best may be recog- pized. Tie suggestion is most excellent one, and one that will be of profit to the whole people to have thoroughly ventila- ted. The result of actual trial and a con- tinued use of any system of heating, IS of more value in determining the best, than thousand theories, and we follow the ex-l ample of our worthy contemporary by in viting any one in this region who feel dis posed to do so, to sent to us for publication in THE NEWS, their experience and opin- ions of the system employed by them. We