Connecticut western news., 1876-07-07

Wm. Hunt, ID Jonn St., worcester, Mass., lo W. Mahoney, East Canaan, 800
 LAnd large number of others whose names will be added as soon as we have time to look up their accounts. s.--~. :, Eggs-aotly.-Mr. M. c. Dean of Falls Village says he has five hens that have laid over fifty dozen eggs since the first of last January. ..
 1 Executive Committee.-The celebra- ton Executive Committee will hold their final meeting in Academy Hall in this will lage at o'clock next Saturday afternoon.
 Gone to Lalkeville.-The portable pic tue gallery which for few days has been located in this village, is now erected near the post-ofice in Lakeville, where you can get four pictures for 25 cents, or four card size for 50 cents. --r -.-i-f'=.' !
 Discontinued--The stage mail between this village and Falls Village is discontinued MT Rowley of Lime Rock will hereafter carry passengers and the mails berween that village and Lime Rock station on the Housatonic Eoad.a ..., .e-.. .r et s.,
 Crowded-We have occupied so much space with our celebration this week, but little room is left for other matters. An excellent report of the celebration in Bar rington, as also other communications of interest, must wait till next week. -,'
 Sad Accident in Barrington-A prema' ture discharge of the cannon at Great Bar rington, on Tuesday. badly injured MT. Charles Phillips and MT. Royce, who were assisting in firing it on the hill east of the village. Royce, the Doctor says, will prob ably be blind, and Phillips has small chance to recover, as his arm and side are badly burned and torn. RoYces' face and eyes are filled with powder. Both men were thrown down the hill nearly 20 feet. George Decker had his hand and arm badly burned. The cause was too great haste Tn loading and not properly stopping the vent hole. z. Fire in shefield.-The Soda Springs Hotel in Sheffield. about two miles from Burlington, kept by MT. Peck, was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday evening about six o'clock. The fire was discovered while the guests (mostly ladies) were at tea, the roof around the chimney being in blaze. MT. Peck, the boarders and servants did all that was possible to put out the fire, but were not able, and Tn thirty minutes all was in ruins. Only small part of the furni ture was saved, as the house was large enough to accommodate about ono hundred boarders, but only about one dozen had ar rived. The lose is said to be about $l5ooO,
 with only $70OO insurance. z.
 The Poughkeepsie Bridge.-The Hart
 ford CourGnt says information received
 by way of New York, and from source
 that is altogether trustworthy, is to the eff
 feet that the money necessary to secure tht
 building of the Poughkeepsie bridge has
 been already pledged; that the bridge com
 pany is satisfied with the arrangements
 made, and that the work is to commence a
 once. This cannot be absolutely vouchei
 for, but is in all probability correct. It il
 a very cheerful announcement certainly fo Hartford. .= -.....
 This is really as cheerful information fo
 Salisbury, and probably for the othe
 towns on the road, and furthermore, th
 fact of the necessary amount being raiset
 can aaOso be vouched for, and the work is t,
 begin at once.
 | Ashley Falls ool.-The Ashley Fall
 school closed it's spring term June 30th The highest honor is due to Emma Abbot
 for improvement in writing and excellenc in scholarship during the past two years Having completed her public school life she purposes to begin seminary course il
 the coming autumn. Nine pupils receive prizes for punctuality, as follows: Georg , Abbott, Alfred Heaton, Frank Parmelee f Bcrtie Ashley, Cora Chapin, Jane Moore D Louise McNeil, Minnie Parmelee and Mar VanDeusen. For excellence in spellin
 prizes were awarded to Mary Van Deuse
 and Archie w. Taft. It should be men h toned that one boy, George Abbott, hs \ been neither absent nor tardy for seve terms in succession three other pupils |, this school have been punctual for six su n cesslve terms. These boys and girls wi d always be on time. and we shall hear ( Il them in the future as successful bushes l. men and women.
 II That Old Bible.-Mr. Silas Wells b, y brought the old Bible we alluded to in g
 item two or three weeks since, to show n us, ss he promised he would do. It WI l. printed in 1899, at London ''by the deputi ,r of Christopher Barker, printer to u h Queens most excellent Majesty" It WI '. translated from the Greek by Theod. Beg ia "with brief summaries and expositions ul .e on the hard places" This venerable wor ,e and we incline to the opinion it is the olde d Bible in the state, is in very good state f, preservation, for book that was qprint' d two hundred and seventY-seven years az 5. It contains quite number of Illustration ,r among which are Solomon's temple, Il n vision ot Ezekiel and pictures of all Il Ie Saints. The Psalms are set to music, Il o notes to the tunes being printed with tl
 rest. Altogether the old book is very inte
 esting; and it's great age renders 1t valu
 ble. The Bible was the property of tl d Stanley family, and as Mir. Wells first wi o was Stanley, it came in that way into is hands. MT. w. also has shown us two g g yer table spoons which he is sure are le least two hundred years old. These we 10 handed down with the Bible, from tl ; Stanley family, and he has reason to pri 1t them ss relics of more than ordinary inte q | h0Av nf oo