Connecticut western news., 1876-06-02

as the Hyde place in Silver Street, Supt. Franklin of the Housatonic R. R., bid off a full blood Jersey heifer for $3O5. 50.
 Executive Committee Meeting.-The attendance at the meeting in this village last Saturday afternoon, appointed for the executive committee for the celebration, was very slim in fact SO few were present (only five members) that very little business was attempted. The following votes were passed:
 1st-That Daniel Pratt be, and is hereby, appointed collector to canvass all that part of the town not already canvassed.
 2nd-That the secretary notify each and every memt CT of the executive committee to be present at a meeting of said commit tee, to be held at Academy Hall, Salisbury, on Saturday, the 3rd day of June, at 2 o'clock p. m., ShGTp. (.
 3rd-That this meeting adjourn to Satur- day, June 3rd, 1876, at 2 o'clock p. m., sharp.
 Great Barrington.-Two small boys, sons of Mrs. Rupert, who arc stopping at the Sedgwick Institute in this village, went bathing in the Housatonic river last Satur- day, and one, getting into strong current, was carried beyond where he could touch bottom, and was drowning, but fortunately a young man named Calkins was planting corn near by, and hearing the cries of the boys, plunged into the river and saved the lad from watery grave. Another lad about ten years of age, who was looking on, ran with all his speed to Dr. Collins, about quarter of mile distant, crying that boy was in the river, which started the Doctor and others upon run, but they found the lad on the bank out of danger Nil. Langsdorf, while riding down the street opposite Dr. Collins residence, was by the breaking of the wagon, thrown out on the ground and severely bruised, but af- ter being cared for and resting half an hour was able to ride home. x.
 Fire at Canaan Valley.-Last Wednes- day evening, as Mir. George Thompson and another gentleman, driving home from the circus in Canaan, arrived at MT. Thomp- sons store at Canaan Valley, they detected the smell of smoke in the atmosphere. En- tering the store they found its interior on fire, aud It was only by their greatest ef- forts they succeeded in extinguishing it. The next night, (Thursday,) at about 10 o'clock in the evening. fire again broke out, which destroyed the store, distillery and two barns, one of which was very large barn. All these buildings and property were owned by Mir. Thompson. That the Thursday night fire was the work of an incendiary, there can scarcely be doubt, as the circum stances connected with Il point almost positively to such conclu- sion, and if the Thursday night fire was ig- nited by design, the attempt the night be- fore, which was so fortunately discovered 1 by Mir. Thompson and extinguished, was unquestionably also the torch of the same
 individual. The loss, MT. Thompson in-
 forms us is, on buildings and stock, $800O
 which is insured as follows: The Nortt
 British and Mercantile Insurance Go. $2,
 500; Continental $1 .5OO Litchfielc Mutu
 al $75O; Home of New York $500.
 One Hundred and Nine Years Old.-
 We are indebted to MT. John A. McArthur
 for card photograph of Lous Victor Am
 edee Henry, Frenchman now living il
 Burlington, Vermont, and who claims t
 be over one hundred and nine years old
 MT. McArthur informs us he saw him las
 Monday on the cars going to the Centen
 nial exhibition in Philadelphia, and shool
 hands and conversed with him. On th
 back of the photograph card ot this patri
 arch is printed the following concernin
 him:
 Louis Victor Amedee Henry was born il
 Cherburg, Department of de Ia Manche
 France, March 10th, 1767, as will be see
 by the certificate of his baptism. He wa q soldier in the army of Napoleon l, in hi
 campaigns in Spain, Austria, Russia an
 Germany, and was engaged in the battle o
 Waterloo. He came 10 this country 6
 years ago. and has been a resident of Bur lington, Vermont, except the first | 5 year
 of which he lived in Canada, and was frs
 Sheriff of Montreal for years. He use tobacco ninety-six years, and alcoholic liq uors quite freely; has never taken med cine of any kind retains his eyesight an
 all his faculties to a remarkable degree
 has no gray hair on his head, neither is bald or deaf Has had IA children, 5l gran
 children, and l16 great-grand children, m'
 king total of 18l descendants now living It scarcely seems possible that perso living when the Declaration of 1udepent ence was signed, is to-day alive and at tE Centennial in Philadelphia; but this ma appears to not only have been alive, at th time, but was nine years old, and had been in this country then, the event, whic was so deeply impressed upon every inhat
 itant of America, would now be pro5ab distinctly remembered by him.
 2 That Early Train.-Some time since V :, alluded to the necessity of an early tra
 on the Conn. Western road between Mile
 ton and Canaan. As it is now, the fl train going west does not reach Millertt u till nearly o'clock in the afternoon. D the locomotive and one car of Conduct o Cummings train, which stays in Millert' u over night, and does not leave that stati' o for its daily work till past 10 o'clock in | 10 forenoon, would leave Millerton in l. ' morning early enough to take passengers
 connect with the train which leaves Cana ,44 for Hartford at o'clock, and also to co s meet with the train going north on ;6 Housatonic road, leaving Canaan also a 50 o'clock; Returning, take passengers fire ,9 the early freight train (with passenger ( " attached) from Burlington and Sheffield IS the Housatonic road, also from the ca o7 train from Falls Village, and from Cana of and other stations on the Conn. Westt ,o road, all of which it could do; leaving ( oo naan on it's return at say ten or fifteen m
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