Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15

can nominee for governor, will speak ln Winsted Friday evening of this week.
 Darlington n-Albert Mansfield of the station in Burlington is on vacation and MT. T. B. Strong is occupying that position during his absence. Darlington is very important passenger station for the Housa- tonic road. Last Tuesday over five hund- red and twenty-nine dollars were taken in there for passenger tickets alone. Pretty good showing for one days work
 Centennial Christian Homes.-This ar engagement to provide for Centennial visit ors good accommodations at low rates in pr1yate families, is proving quite success By letter or in person, from five hundred to one thousand persons arc daily seeking for assignment to @ home. As accommoda- tions are thus offered for twenty thousand people, churches, Sunday schools. and oth- CT large parties are being provided for in houses adjacent to each other. Nearly one | thousand of these homes are along the steam car routes by which the Exposition is reached in from ten to twenty minutes for about eight cents.
 As prices for board range from $5 to $l4 a week, and $l to $2.5O a day, all classes are suited, and the comforts and conven- | fences of home enjoyed. Rev. Edwin M. 1 Long superintends this movement. Apply l by letter or in person at his office, south east corner of Twelfth and Berks streets, D., of1 ic Ivy east of the exhibition, is open day and night, and can be easily reached by street cars from any depot
 Lakeville Clamp meeting is over and now come the different state and county fairs, but that does not stop business here. ! Merchant Roberts has just been to New York and returned with fine and we'll se- lected stock of goods. MT. Chapin, of the firm of Griggs $ Chapin, has also been to New York and has returned with new goods.....Chas. Wood, telegraph operator, has left Lakeville and gone to Hartford in the c, W.R. R. freight office. MT. Frank Gibbs has taken MT Woods place at the station for the present.... .Mr. G. H. Bundy and wife have returned after spending sev- eral months at Philadelphia and Washing
 ton...... .Chas. Day,a we'll known fisherman, went out on Lake, Wononscopomoc last week and caught two fish weighing seven pounds. .Messrs Cornell & Hoyt have just laid in full stock of house furnishing goeds..... Last Saturday morning there was a great stir around the Academy in this vil lage. Teams were driving about the streets at a great rate, and finally they all brought up at said academy and ladies and gents
 with baskets, etc., filled up the wagons, anG about sixty Good Templars started for the Twin Lakes. guess they had good time
 from the way they came back with theil
 banners floating. The morning looked {
 little like rain, and probably prevented z
 number from going. However, they hat
 a nice day and jolly good time, so they say.....Mr. M. A. Gibbs, who is in tte em
 ploY of Iron Cliff Go. at Negaunee, Lake
 Superior, has been making his family ani
 friends in Salisbury visit of two or three
 weeks, started for that cold country or
 Wednesday of this week..... Dentist Pal
 mer, one of the party who are camping ou
 near Goshen, has returned. and says the
 boys are having a good time and have caught a nice lot of fish thus far. They
 will probably return on Saturday of thi'
 week MT. G. s. Gibbs of Ore Hill ha'
 moved his carriage house across the road tt
 where his dwelling stood before it wal
 burned, and is doing it off for one of hi
 Workmen. M.
 Cattle show.-The Cattle Show ant
 Fair at Falls Village this year was fairly
 attended, but the numbers upon the grounds
 the first and second days were not up to tht
 average. The terrible drouth, the "harC
 have undoubtedly operated together to pro
 duce the cause of this manifest apathy tt
 the annual festival of the farmers in th
 region. But as the times will probably b.
 improved by another season, ,and the droutl will not be expected to play so conspicuou part, and as the Centennial will scarcely
 be carried far into ", it is presumed the next fair and show will be good enougl to more than "eyen up" on what it lack this year.
 The show of cattle the first day is said t have been pretty fair, and the exhibition O. strength by drawing with OK teams good The second day was clear and pleasant
 and everybody on the grounds appeared t
 be in good spirits and enjoying themselve , amongst the various entertainments.
 In the hall, the display of fruit was no large. Mir. s. s. Robbins had very fin plate of peaches grown in his own yard MT. J. H. Pierce of Lime Rock. plums an peaches, Dwight Andrews of Sheffield som ) splendid pears, Messrs. F. G. Dean, H. c Prindle, Wm. Brewster, M. H. Dean, E 7 D. Pratt, B. NJ. Dean, a MT Chapman Chas. Spur, Silas Wells and others exhibit } ed some very fine apples, pears and grapes 3 While examining this fruit, we were aE t pointed a committee with Mr.Milt. Robbin
 aud two or three others, to test some grap wine entered by MT. s. J. Adams of Wes Q Cornwall. We scarcely realized the neceE
 sitY of calling in MT. Robbins to assls Q us in the matter, but we choked him off il time to see enough of the wine to be able t , pronounce it, 5n our opioso1a, most exec r lent. If MT. Adams will get up a cattl a show for every day in the year and appoir a us committee to try his wlne, we'll giv r up the newspaper business and work fo D him cheap; and will promise to be on han
 early in the morning and tend strictly f, business.
 . Of course the side shelves below in tn Q building were covered with canned fruits f jars of butter. cheese, honey potatoes, ,beets 5 bread, etc., etc. But those two enormou
 suuashes from the market garden of Gam