Connecticut western news., 1877-11-30

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 A Mild Winter Predicted. The signs for mild winter are considered favorable by the weather-wise, and it is predicted that the months of December and January will be open and fair. The grounds on which this prediction is based, among others, are the recent thunder storms, while the farm CTS from every section of the State note that the muskrats have built only the light, est of shelter; also, the corn-husks are very thin. November has been very mild, and some of its hot, sultry days seemed to have been sliced off from July. Without doubt 1t has been the warmest November for the past decade which makes the coal bins look fat and the poor man happy. y.-Hartford Post.
 s'spot" Them. We see by the Sims bury correspondent of the Wlnsted Herald that a man and his wife, who go by the name of left, are travelling around the country, the man giving writing lessons. ''Their mode of operation IS to find boar ding place, he saying that he is getting up classes and will pay for their board when he collects the money from his classes. His wife generally goes with him to the les. sons-and by and by they walk out togeth- CT as usual and forget to come back and settle their little board bill and perchance any other little bill they may have contract ed. left is about 60 years of age, hair quite gray and curly. His wife appears to be about ten years older. They are tolera- bly, well dressed and present good appear ance.
 Ashley Falls School. Report for the term ending Nov. 16. Length of term ten weeks: whole number of pupils A; aver age 37 1-s. Names of pupils who were neither absent nor tardy, excepting the last five who were necessarily 30, once each, and were excused: Hattie Woodward, Kitty Taft, Mary Van Deusen. Laura Fow- Ter, Anna Ruffh, George Abbott. Watson Parmelee, Frank Parmelee, Charlie Funk, Samuel Best. Cora Chapin, Mat,ie Ashley. Mary Reel, Allie Heaton and John Parme- lee. The following were not tardy; Min nie Parmelee, Mamie Hicke, Ella Funk, Fanny Jones, Hettie Heaton, Hattie Curtis, Willie Meacham, Dwight Fowler, Egbert Ashley, Douglas Best, Edwin Parmelee, Walter Dunbar, John Griffith.
 ANNIE R. LAwroN, Teacher.
 Bail-eh 2-Rudolph Bailey and Fred erick, citizens of Ashley Falls, formerly of got very drunk indeed last Mon- day afternoon while on visit to this place. was very saucy to elderly people and Frederick was disposed to administer a little wholesome correction to everybody he came in contact with. Constable New finally took them under his fostering care, and as Frederick was disposed to be stub born. Jerry's strong arm of the law yanked him fiat into tho road with the comforting remark, "To dust thou shalt return," and that mighty quick too. and in the road he lay eating and splitting dirt like pothouse politician. Tuesday forenoon they were tried before Justice Prescott, and notwith- standing the e>fact there was DO lack of Bail (eh p, in fact the Court room was chock full of Bailey, the squire sent them up on $l5O. each to the January Term at Litchfield.
 Our Thanksgiving. He couldn't help it, because he is always up to something of the sort. The Hon. Judge Granger some way or other got word to us the other day teat we needn't lay awake nights any more about Thanksgiving Turkey, for he had amongst his flock genuine edi- torial gobbler. Oh! OH! just think of 1t! Now we shall not have to take the cars and go off and make believe somebody has invited us to Thanksgiving. His Hon. or has our eternal gratitude for his kind May he live thousand years and fat such turkeys every year, But hold on Here comes Mir. Cogswell, adorned with his prosesslonal apron, and fresh from the popular market of MT. Big elow, just underneath our office, who whis- pers mysteriously about turkey; not exact ly Tulkey in Europe or Turkey in Asia, but turkey ID Canaan. Determined that the editor shall have at least ''one good square meap' in year, MT. Bigelow led one of his big turkeys down to his market and told MT. Cogswell to see to it that we were properly fed. We are indebted to MT. B, for this little courtesy.
 Salisbury .-One of those voluble family wrangles for which Mt. Riga is famous was ventilated before Justice Pratt in the Academy Hall on Friday last. Isaac sher- man and wife vs Horace Ball and wife and vice versa, were mutually charged with a breach of the peace or ID other words en- gazing in free fight near their adjoining shanties located under the brow of Mt. Riga. All of the parties have figured so frennentlv hefnre nur cnnrts in similar ca-