Connecticut western news., 1876-05-12

Religious.-Seventeen new converts were taken into the Congregational church last Sabbath.
 Senator Barnum.-It is said Hon. Wm. H. Barnum is to be the next state senator. Have you any objections?
 Exhibit No. 1.-Among the many at fractions for visitors to Salisbury at cur centennial celebration, will be-will be-the unveiling of our tOson haU ! sacred to the memory of ye committee.
 Sad Accident. nt.-Miss Fannie Smith, when in her back yard at her residence in l this village last Tuesday afternoon, stepped on round stone and fell, breaking very badly both bones of her leg near the ankle.
 State Line Saloon.-Mr Daniel Cook is putting up new building near the state line station, to accommodate a family. It will be arranged in the basement for an eating saloon, all of which will be for rent. It will be completed in about week.
 The Wrong Sort-Another communica- tion from Mrs. Anonymous, who endeav- ors to make us think her name IS ''Mrs. Watchman," and who addresses us as J. L. Peas. We are pretty green we'll admit, but we are not that kind of "wegetable." shad.-''They say" that MT. Kenyon of Millerton is selling about this region some of the largest and finest shad for less money than anybody else. Everybody knows he can 'take lem all down" on sausage in the season of it, and now he is ahead on the shad question:.
 Flower Window.-We alluded some thing like year ago to the beautiful win dow of flowers in the house of MT. Pequig- ney in Canaan. This spring his windows look more beautiful than ever. MT. P. gives evidence of much taste in the cultiva- ton of flowers. and his love for;the beauti- full seems to increase with his years.
 Refrigerators. - Mir. Milton Robbins shipped to New York last Monday several
 of his new and justly celebrated refrigera- tors. He has arranged with MT. Carpenter
 Daniels to finish more of them and put
 them in running order, and has hired the
 entire Taylor Bros. establishment on Wash
 inee street in which to carry on the work.
 Flags.--It is suggested by prominent
 citizen that every merchant and business
 man prepare a flag of suitable size for the purpose, to display on his place of busi-
 ness on the day of our celebration. He
 went further and said: let every family be
 invited to make or obtain flag and display
 it on his or her residence, and thus give to
 the entire village an attire of centennial ) patriotism appropriate to the day.
 There's Business There. -Woodford &
 Camp have so soon given change to theil
 half column advertisement. The large
 quantities of new goods passing over the Harlem and Conn. Western roads from
 New York for this firm, make the locomo
 lives puff and wheeze like wind broker horses. "There's business there, tell ye,
 as the Cornwall Bridge minister said wher
 he threw a stone at cat and hit skunk. : Pelsonal.-The Hon. T. D. Brewster, the great blow manufacturer of Peru, Illinois : spent last Sunday with his friends in this B village. He has been in Philadelphia some
 weeks past, arranging the samples o blows, cultivators, etc., manufactured IT 7 his works, and returned last Monday to bt T present at the opening exercises of We'd ' nesday. This visit from M- B. was mucl too short, and his friends will expect h, = will do better than this before ''the summer - is past and the harvest is ended"
 Our Legislators.-Th Hartford DaCs U Post published in it's issue of last weel |" Wednesday (May ard) biographical skctcl of every member of the General Assembly It did so year ago. and it then, as now met with the appreciatiye approval of tn people. To gather, write up and properl abridge the life history of so many, canno IA be otherwise than work of great magni :, tude, and the Post is to be congratulated i it's admirable success in the undertaking and commended for its enterprise. w :, copy from that journal its remarks con " cerning our l7th district senator, and ou r Litchfield county representatives.
 d A Word of Correction.-1n the notic ,s of the late Deacon William Fitch publishe d in our last paper, there was an error in th ,c statement that his wife, Amanda Buel, wa d from Sandisfield. She was the daughter c d Major Jesse Buel,who owned and occupie ,, the farm in the south part of Salisbury O d the west road to Sharon, still known as th 10 Buel place, and now owned by James Lar d don. MaJor Buel died there in May, 1sle Il Mrs. Fitch was the sister of the late Elipl e alet Buel, whose letters. reminiscent o 7 earlier times in Salisbury, have made hi o name familiar to our readers. One of tn B. daughters of Major Buel was the mothe
 of Q. F. Sedgwick of sharon.