Connecticut western news., 1876-11-03

WL1 De auueu ae eOOu aS We nave tAWS " AOoA up their accounts.1
 Rock of Agss.-''Rock of Ages," hymn very popular with most all denomi- nations, was composed one hundred years ago Sunday. r.-..
 Chilly.-Last Monday morning, early. the mercury in thermometers in this village marked 19 deg, . point considerably lower than it has before reached this season.
 Election Tickets.-Of course everybody will remember that we print the election tickets that win every time. Bring or send in your orders early, and be sure to have the names written plainly. Let there be no mistakes made.
 Steel Rails.-The cargo of steel rails lately received by the Housatonic railroad company are being laid above Stepney. From Bridgeport to the place where thls work is in progress, the track has all been relaid with steel rails.
 Seriously Burned. .-Gracie, a little thr ee. year-old daughter of Landlord Dudley of Falls Village, while toying with matches last Saturday, accidentally set her dress on fire with one of them, and was quite se- riously burned about the neck, arms and shoulders before the fire could be extin- guished.
 Interesting Tablss.-The column of ta- bles on the last page of TIE NEWS this week can not be otherwise than interesting to our readers at this particular time. To study the tables of votes of the various states for few of the past elections, will profitablY occupy the last hours before the election next Tuesday.
 Exoursion to Bridgsport.-To accom- modate those who wish to attend the great Hayes and Wheeler mass meeting in Bridgeport next Saturday, which will be addressed by the Hon. James G. Blaine, Hon. Henry 0. Robinson and Hon. Samuel Fessenden, the Housatonic RR. Co. will sell excursion tickets from Canaan and all stations below, to Bridgeport and return for half price. These tickets are goot only for that day (Saturday).
 Almanacs.-Last week we had occasion to allude in ar item to the old Farmers Al manac, by Robert B. Thomas, and now VI have before us copy of the new edition
 for 1877. fresh from the publishers, Messrs Brewer & Tileston of Boston. What bet ter evidence is necessary that TIE NEWS il read by everybody Even the very hub o the universe, Boston, depends upon it fo
 the facts in the case. Send to Brewer { Tileston, Boston, for your old Farmer
 Almanacs.
 That Ball Game.-Mr. George Blodgett
 one of the champion Wetaug Antideluvia
 base ball players, says our report of th
 game of his club in the Wetaug meadow
 two or three weeks since, was remarkabl
 correct in its every detail with one excel
 tion. He says it was Messrs. Decker an
 Bsrnum who went up to sse Scott's eide and not himself as we reported it, and tn fun of it is, he says Scott now wishes the
 hadn't looked at it so hard. MT. $. ma have cider on hand next spring, but if 1
 does he will have to live on short ratiol
 all winter.
 A Housatonlo Trapper. Housatol ie river is being trapped by a profession trapper. who travels down the r!ver vii 7 two boats, a tent and some 200 traps, mo, l ing down about two miles each day. E : began at Pittsfeld week ago, and on Sa day had already 308 muskrats and two C g ters. He says after an experience of tive 9 ty years in trapping, he never before VI d on river where the muskrats were SO this @ and good as on the Hcusatonic, and d proposes, if bis good luck continues, to fe Il low the rlver to the mouth. He has . co Q tract with the Gunthers of New York, vi 1T pay him twenty cents each for muskrai 0 making his weeks work yield him six = dollars.
 Burglars in Clayton.-At about o'clo, n last Thursday morning MT. Jacob Ro, was aroused from his slumbers by sor
 one trying to raise the window Tn hls be-
 room, which was fastened down, but th
 could raise 1t little, and probably th ,r thought they might loosen the fastenings d working at it, as they seemed to be doi IS when be heard them. He rose from l ,e bed and endeavored to assist them by "a H. ing the window for them and telling the ee to Come on" but they seemed to slie k, his assistance as they ''skedaddled" pret e. lively. Uncle Jacob is not SO easily scar ,a if he is an old man. He'll stand in { Ill foreground with some younger men no e. Mr. Benjamin Curtiss and daugh se started for the Centennial on Monday .le this week......The district school closed ut Saturday last the fall term Miss Clara E E. mons, teacher. She expects to resume |