Connecticut western news., 1876-08-11

Ao"5en' A-S ASSC1 SHIh, JuSt Uack or IOre
 legs, 1-2 feet; height, ? feet inches
 breadth across shoulders, l5 inches; age,
 year ? weeks; color, white; breed, "Ches
 ter Whlte." This he says describes ''pel
 feet hog" if he knows anything about hogs
 We have before heard of 'sperfect hogs,
 but when they were measured "just bacl
 of the fore legs" it was to get the measur
 for vest.
 More Potato Bugs.-The early part o
 this week the potato bug pest brok
 out again. and manifestlY with renewed vigor. The gardens and fields of potatoes which for some little time have been givel rest from the ravages of the bug were found all at once literally covered with the insect in all it's stages of growth from the full grown, ten-line, stripel bug down to the smallest specimen, and all O. them exceeding industrious in their effort! to annihilate the vines. What this curse will amount to in years to come at this rate of increase can only be surmised.
 Resumed.-The Wheeler & Wilson com pany, Bridgeport, has resumed work, after being practically closed for a month. Al though it is not generally known precisely what changes have been made in the oper atlons of the factory, yet it is understood that they amount to complete revolution in the manner of conducting the affairs o1 the concern. The contract system is gen erally. but not entirely abandoned. Some ot the old contractors are now superintend ents of thelr former departments, and oth- CTS are thrown out. There has also been 8 large reduction of wages, varying according to different reports from 25 to 33 per cent.
 Two Hundred More.-There are still about two hundred of the two hundred and fifty different individuals, to whom we sent the kindly invitation to even up three or four weeks since, who have not made if manifest they hold us in that esteem we wish they did. Once more we remind them pleasantly. Won't you please hear us? We can't always beg in this manner, but we maust have our pay some way or other, and if we can't get it this way, we must get it the other; but we don't want to say anything about that. Pay us up fairly and squarely and enjoy reading paper that is paid for
 Disgraced Physicians. pr. Bracken, a young unmarrled physician in Plttsfeld, was bound over for trial by the Superior Court last week, for criminal intimacy with the young wife of Arthur Wells of Lenox.
 Dr. H. $. Streeter, an educated and skillful physician at Gray, Herkimer coun- ty, N. r., has been proved to be criminally intimate with number of his patients, young and old, including two little girls fourteen years of age. Accused of his crimes by an indignant citizen, the doctor seized butcher-knife and threatened to carve him up, but afterward fled from the town to avoid being lynched. Streeter has a wife and two young children.
 The Bea utiful Pomengranite.. Mrs. Charles Hunt of Huntsville handed in, with the name of new subscriber the other day, the most beautiful pomengranite blos- som we ever saw. It was profusely sur rounded with the long, slim leaves of the twig which bore it, and with the flower, was very charming. A pomengranite tree is rare exoctic, in fact we have grave doubts of there being another in the coun- try, and we have been intensely interested and delighted at this specimen from the rec of Mrs. H., who has our sincere thanks for it. Somebody says Mrs. Hunt has one of the finest flower gardens in Litchfeld county, remark which we presume will come very near to the truth.
 Jig Dancing in Sheffield. The good people of Sheffield. we have no doubt CD, eel highly honored at the selection of their luiet village for contest between jig lancers. The following letter from New Haven will explain itself in relation to the challenge and it's acceptance;
 NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Aug. 3, 1876. Messrs. Brown and Hayes, of Hartford |: | We, Kelleher and Smith. of New Haven, Lccept your challenge to dance contest of | louble jig, in Sheffield, Mass, on Monday, August 2lst, 1876. for the championship of | he state of Connecticut, dancing to con- ist of time, style and appearance. Judges consist of strange parties. Trusting you | will have things all arranged, we will start | 'n the first tram. From your humble ser ants. KELLEHER AND SMITH,
 New Haven Conn.
 That Cow Question.-MR. EDITOR ;- n former issue of your paper an article D relation to Horace, is said 10 reflect on he good name of this peace abiding con- nunity, and our Mir. Sherwood is anxious 0 have you inform your readers that Wash ee street does not extend to Mount Riga. Tor even to the mountain bridge. Further nore, Farmer Goodsell furnishes milk at a 'rice that makes milk stealing entirely un- necessary, even ln these hard times. It is he opinion of some that Horace took his whisky straight before giving you the ill., ormation that led to the publication of he offensive article. Otherwise his usual ood nature would have prevented him aking such an unkind mode of informing he public that his old COW was drying up.
 Humbly yours, OMEGA.
 A Horse Poor House.-We are request d by t0wnsman to ask the town fathers 0 take proper care of their horses, and not How them while feeding ID our streets, to mock down the flags which are placed on he posts of the fence around the Centen- ial tree, when they stretch their necks over to nip the grass inside. These flags have cen replaced so many times, after being roken off by these horse paupers, that it , becoming too much of steady business. Wouldn't it be good plan to build an asy- lm for old plug horses, whose owners are o poor they feel obliged to board them in he streets? Such an institution would be