Connecticut western news., 1876-11-24

parts in The Haymakers.' the concert will! be postponed until Christmas week. Ef- forts ars being made to arrange for course of lectures during the winter. The new graded school seeme to be running smooth. Iy, and is we'll pstroniz-d. Tn. Catholic church and society are nssing up their new parsonage. c.
 Win Start His Furnace. MT. James Beckley, son of the veteran iron maker, the late John Btckley of this place, this week starts his furnace in Chatham Vil- .age. N. Y, on sample lot of three hun- drrd tons of Iron ordered by the South Boston Iron Co.,, who will make cannon of 1t. It is said if the guns made of this iron stand the government test. Mir. Beck. ley will probably have orders for all the iron bis furnace will make. It may not be out of place to say here that the iron of which the plates were constructed for the first iron clad monitor built by Ericsson. and which sent the rebel ram ''Merimsc" limping back into it's den, was made bS the late John Beckley at his furnace in North Adams, and if the iron made by the son James proves as valuable to the gov < ernment. his name ought to be immortal ized in the history of the country.
 Jonn's New Meat Market: base ment of the new Cumming's block in thls village. has been arranged for . meat mar ket. and Mir. John E. Pulver. the Canaan meat dealer has moved hls business into it. and Is now in complete running order. The rooms are large and are kept clean and tidy, and MT John says he shall be there from early in the morning till late in the evening to serve his many customers and friends hereabout, and will have on hand at all times and always full supply of all the various kinds of meats. He informs ua he shall also keep oysters. solid meats, and at bottom figures. Now then, friends and ket right here at the centre of gravity, and there IS no need whatever, and no excuse either, for giYing your patronage to ''for- eign institutions" Pstronizs home trade, and that means. buy your rnests.of Friend John, and if he don't treat you fairly, come right up stairs and seW see about tt @ We'll staRe our reputation on John.
 Those Hand Oar Thieves.-The three men arrested last week in house of ill re. pute near Birmingham. proved to be Wm. c DAyis, Wm. Davis IT,, and Franklin Johnson three noted desperadoes of that section and whom all the circumslancea connected with thelr arrest prove almOel conclusively were the thieves run down iu the night few days since by Supt. Beach, of the NAugstuck road, with locomotive, striking the hand Car with which the scamps were carrying away their plurder, and knocking it into flinders, the pArticu' lars of which we gave ln TIE NEws lasl week. Don't you think the laws of the land are little too tame to give the world they need2 It seems as if there are more thieves than ever before, and they appeal to thrive and increase in numbers undri the present code of laws for their punish ment, and if the medicine administered h them WAS made little moro tart little more vinegar added, it would uuQuestiuna ply have sslutary effect upon their rascal ly stoinachs.
 Norfolk -"Wha, time Is it, Nr. Bran hle P this question was asked from one |" fifty tines day at the depot. but they dc not ask now, because Miss Belle EdridEs has presented the R. R. Company with | beautiful eight day clock. that lls you ex actly. Many thanks to Miss EIdridge.. The seats in the Cong Church w. re sold to the highest bidder, on Monday last of course they were or Mr.-would have bOugh, one for six snd one fourth cents and calico that exiravaRant......Mr. Fl. says in { Winsted paper of last week that tbe moderator of our last election. was fair ii comparison with some who have filled thu cases as he refused to receive the vote of [ citizen who was entitled to vote here, sl- though made an elector in Salisbury. Mr H. the moderator did not r+ j-ct your broth
 
 an -lector iD Salisbury. neither because h'
 was black but because he has been in 1 ii twice or three times and has DO business t
 vote anywhere. Too bad, how much di'
 his whisky cost HASH.
 Cornwall Bridge. John St. John iron Kent has recently opened new store . Cornwall Bridge, aud somebody says
 starts if under pretty favorable auspices The Furnace store IS jogging along At it
 average Tate of speed, having of course good trade. Miller Manvel has some tim since repaired his grist mill, adding . littl improvement here and another there q needed, painted all up in good shape, m ' it is now in a presentable condition. Fl has also repaired and painted his house. . . of which are evidences of drgree of prol F periiy everybody is glad to See in realI D and truly honest miller......Mr. Charl+ D Hall sold his farm known ss the PAngms : farm. located about mlle and half mort of that village, on the east side of th ! HOusatonic river, last Saturday to tw '- men from New York state. They wi
 take possession on the first of next Apri . It is said the oh1-ct of these men in buyiu + 'h.s farm is to open lead mine, which C said to be located there. This mlne V, l, discovered some years ago, and somethin k was done to develops it. but it is said E have been abandoned on account of lac 0 of funds.
 Sheffield Prot. Stevens of Middletowl N. Y, ~as in town last week, and gave | ) evening of song ID the N. E. Church. drew good audience in spite of the raj y a'd darkness. Prof. Stevens sings wi,