Connecticut western news., 1877-03-02

A Good Pig.-Mr. Pepoon Jacobs of
 this village butchered six months old | Berkshire pig last Tuesday. that weighed | when dressed three hundred and nlne pounds. | Diamonds-The Home Journal objects l to the wearing of diamonds when travelling l because it is vulgar. It is a position which
 we assumed years ago, and we are glad to say that no one connected with this paper
 has ever been guilty of such vulgarity. We
 have occasionally taken ride with law yer, but there are some depths to which
 we cannot sink.
 Clayton.-MR. ED1ToR.-Did you ever
 attend 8 real jolly ''Candy pull," and don't
 you wish you had been among the favored
 ones up here The affair came off at the
 house of John M. Roys, who yields the
 ''stick" SO successfully in the district ad
 joining Clayton, known as the Sodom District, in Canaan, having served in the
 same capacity for two consecutive terms
 of last year, among the Claytonians. He
 proposed to unite hls pupils of the two dis
 tricts in the evenings entertainment above
 mentioned. The plan met with the very
 hearty approval of the children, and oyer
 forty of them assembled at an early hour,
 at the house of their instructor, where
 might already be seen the golden syrup un-
 dergoing rapid transformation into sticks,
 twists, and curlicues, all delightfully."- tooth
 some. Another wonderfully attractive fea-
 tpre of the evening was in the shape of
 mammoth basket holding something over a
 bushel of ''pop corn," huge snowy kernels
 fresh from the t1ve wire peppers on duty.
 Altogether it was very delightful occa-
 siop. if one might judge by the merry voices and gleeful laughter which filled the
 evening hours and one which the chll- dren will long remember. MT Roys exerts himself to please his pupils in various ways but DO one knows better thsn he, how to say ssNo," and none better than his pupils, what he means by it. His perfect inde- pendence, is doubtless the secret of his . wonderful success as teacher. The ex- animation of his school will take place on Friday of this week, and everybody intends ! to be present, and expects an interesting i entertainment. Now AND THEN.
 Lecture.-A lecture will be given in this
 village, next Sunday evening, in the Roman
 Catholic church, by the Rev. ". A. Harty. g subject;-"The Popes-Their Struggles y and their triumphs." Tickets for sale al |, MT. F. Pequigney's in this village. and E. Joseph Kegler's, East Canaan. The sub e ject is one of deep interest to all classes o1 f of our community-Catholic and non-Cath d olic,- and no doubt will be ably treated by 8 the Rev. lecturer, who has spent severa o ' ears in Rome. The lecture was delivered o last Sunday in Lakeville in St. Mary'' r, church, before very large audience. ant e we feel certain that it will be we'll patron l. ized in Canaan. The Hartford Cour07at il l. speaking of this lecture, which was recent .s ly delivered in Hartford for the benefit O e the poor in that city, says: & The Popes- B. Their Struggles and their Triumphs,' wa e the subject of lecture of uncommon mer ,f it delivered in Allyn Hall in this city Sun 1t day evening by the Key. w. A. Harty o d St. Mary's church, New Haven, to sarg E. audience. Father Harty having beel
 formerly pastor of St. Patrlck's in this city
 is well known to the Catholics of Hartford " and his great popularity among them re Y. ceived ample proof last evening The lee II ture was replete with interesting infcrma l. tion, and especially in the latter part wa '' marked with passages of great beauty en'
 eloauence. The subject was treated with It degree of ability ralely to be met with in s y young an orator, and fully sustained Fathe 'S Harty's reputation ss 8 speaker of grea ], promise. On the platform were seated o Right Key. Bishop Galberry, the Rev g Father Walsh of St. Joseph's, and severa e other prominent gentlemen"
 Cough in winsted.-We are very glat < to tell people this week that John B
 Cough will lecture at Music Hall in Wins ted, Wednesday evening of next week - (March 7th) and that extra trains will TUT on the Conn. Western road from Millerton ' The train going over will probably be TUT = at the same hour that it has usually gone
 when going to these Winsted entertain ments, passing Canaan about 6 o'clock il V the evening, and will return after the lee
 ture. The bills which will probably bt !. sent out later in the week will give the ex " act tune of passing the several stations - - The fare will be at the usual excursion
 rates; viz. half price, or, the pay for ons '' way. The price of reserved seat tickets te $ the lecture will be 50 cents and 75 cents ac n ., cording to location, and will be for sale or
 and after o'clock, A. M., Saturday, MaIct
 Sd, at the following places: At Cowles 6 Eldridge's, Norfolk, at the post office ir I. this village and post office in Salisbury, a if Robbins, Burrall & Co.'S in Lakeville. It il d entirely unnecessary for us to say anything l. about Jobn B. Cough as Lecturer. Every V body knows he probably has no equal 1T n the world as lecturer. Henry Wari ia Beecher as pulpit orator, and John B
 Cough as lecturer, stand without 8 peel e in their respective professions. Mir e Coughs subject for next weeks lecture Q ''Blunders," seems to be one that oanno s fail to be intensely interesting, and the V prospect now is that very large number
 will go from this region. Buy your tickets 6 early and thus secure the best seats They ,- will not be on sale in places out of WinsteG r only until Wednesday morning. Buy 6e a fore Wednesday, morning.
 d Collinsville. lady in Collinsville los, I a valuable ring, and failing to fiud it thought t she must have dropped it in the stove when l cooking. The ashes were saved and care a fullv looked oyer when she waa continent 8 that some small yellow particles were the