Connecticut western news., 1877-04-20

Ashley Falls.-Building in Ashley Falll
 is rather more brisk this spring than usual
 MT. Dunbar's new house is nearly complet
 ed and ready for him to occupy. Land
 lord Ferris, of the Ashley Falls House, iE
 about commencing the erection of new
 harness shop on bis land on Church Street.
 It is the purpose of MT. Ferris to erect, pro
 vide with tools and stock frst-class har
 ness shop, and which will be opened fol
 business as soon as completed, by Curtland
 Parsons......Mr. Blacksmith Fowler is build.
 ing wagon shop and horse shed by the
 side of his blacksmith shop on Railroad
 Street. The veteran wagon maker Mr.
 Hiram Meacham will occupy the new
 shop when completed......M MT. George Pease
 has repaired and arranged the old building
 near the bridge for wagon shop and black
 smith shop. It was in this building that
 MT. Grove D. Griffith hammered out good
 farm on his anvil, and is now enjoying in
 his declining years the fruits of his indus
 try. Thus it is with three wagon shops
 and three blacksmith shops, things ought to
 be kept in good repair.
 Oolllnsville.-W.W w. Bidwell, Esq our village lawyer. is building him new office and also for holding Justices courts in...... John label is building a new twostorY house on the new road south of CollinsYille. by John F. Wheelock architect and builder
 ......Station Agent Alonzo Warner has been appointed station agent at Canton station on the Conn. Western railroad in place of E. R. Hough resigned. Frederick Ronald had his hand caught under falling trip hammer, April l2, badly breaking some of the bones......Dr. G. R. Shepherd has re- moved to the late residence of J. E. Good man...,..P Paul Rivers who was run over by team January 27 and badly hurt is now around on crutohes.. .....A fire was discover ed few days since in the attic of one of o. z. Higgins tenements near the depot. which was extinguisbed with slight damage. The fire originated in barrel of hens feathers, remote from 8 chimney, and where no fire had been used......One of the large maple trees in front of the residence of James Spencer on Main street, has re- gently been cut down because it was dying. ,.....Bishop Williams administered the rite of confirmation to two males and eight fe- males at Trinity Episcopal church In Col linsville, April 6,.,...Mrs. Condace Moses died at Skaneatelas, N. Y., March 3l, aged 96 years. She was native of Canton, where she spent the early part of her life. ......Augustus H. Barbour has returned from Detroit and bought out the firm of Williams & Wheeler, and will continue the mercantile business in the same place as his father, the late Samuel Barbour.
 Falls Village.-Are you going to the Cir GUS Probably, this village never pre- sented so gay an appearance as at present. The many -colored posters of the Van Am burgh Go. adorp every barn and shed, be- side an immense bulletin board facing on Main and Railroad streets, and appearances indicate very large attendance on Friday next......G. V. Capron has been fishing. He, in company with George Hanchett, Miners popular salesman, caught twenty seven fine trout on MondaY,.,...E E. N. Ian don, Esq was in town over Sunday. Ed. looks as spruce as Spanish count......W. J. Garfield is terracing in front of his resi- dence on Maple Ave. Swan does the ''bask- ing."" ""....The Congregational Society has purchased dne pipe organ. MT. Brnton of Lakeville put it in place last week, and it was used for the first time on Sunday last...... The Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. Church are having the interior of their church painted. It is nearly finished and presents very neat appearance. Doc. ''Clem" bosses the job Joseph MundrY IS the artist..... Mrs. E. c. Cowdrey has re- turned from New York with large line of millinery and fancy goods. Give her call. ......T. Tucker has been painting the interi or of his drug store......Rev. J. W. Selleck was appointed to the Methodist pastorate here, at the last conference, Rev. w. c. Smith goes to Brewsters, N. l., and leaves many warm friends here......A "bed-quilt party for the benefit of the M E. church ia for Wednesday evening in Citi- zens' Hall.....A new letter-case is to be ad- ded to the Post Office this week, containing lock boxes......G. w. Halls stock of Sum- mer clothing arrives this week don't fail to see it...... Mark Barnum has moved from the Herman block to the house formerly occupied by M. E. Green on R. R. Street. ......Croquet is in full blast, and all the old veterans have reported for duty .....Several men were discharged from the employ of the H. R. Go. on Saturday night; retrench. ment the cause. CL1oK.
 Cornwall Bridge. your issue some some time ago your correspondent from Pufingham conveyed the impression that the public generally failed to appreciate the services of 'Zal," as gunner at the inaugur- al celebration. His your correspondent's) ears could not have been as prominent as & certain quadruped that have in my mind, and which he had some experience in driving while in the service of Uncle Sam, if he failed to hear the laundering reports of ''Zal's" guns reverberating from the hills surrounding this valley. "Zal," with his genial nature, takes the joke cleverly, and promises to give at some future time, your correspondent and his neighbors a pressing invitation to invest in glass and putty for repairs. Business here IS mov- ing very sluggishly; many of the laboring men have failed to find permanent employ ment. Money has become obsolete, and if there is ever time when men can with true thankfulness say, Blessed be noth- ing, it will be when the Tax Collector makes bis appearance......In In or6er that the friends of s Reed and V E McNeil