Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03

Unaccustomed to Travel.-To witness the look of surprise. astonishment, and sometimes alarm of persons taking thelr 3 first ride on train of cars is frequently 3 amusing, but the case of actual alarm, ] coupled with painful anxiety that she !; was not on the right train and was going in the wrong direction, seen on Conductor Elmore's train the other day, was almost pitiful. An aged lady who had in her long life scarcely seen train of cars, got on board here at Canaan, taking the train she was directed to take by some person at the depot, but soon after the train got under | headway she imagined she was going ex- actly the wrong way. It appears she had become ID some way completely turned around, and when the train halted at Twin Lakes station, she was certain she was
 wrong, for she ''knew the first station the Salisbury" She began to cry, aud although she was repeatedly told by the passengers and the conductor that she was right, she couldn't believe it, and sobbed as if her heart would break. She wasn't convinced , she was on the right train to reach Miller ton till she arrived at that station, and saw 'with her own eyes," she was actually in Millerton.
 Lakeville. boarders in the
 country are much fewer this season than
 before for years, and LakeYille of course
 shares in the general dearth. A few city
 boarders may be seen about occasionally, but nothing to what is usually in Lakeville . on the first of August. t......Mr. A. Bates and : family are spending few days at Block . Island. ......A car load ot Dr. Knights school went off on a vacation last Friday, most of the scholars going to their homes on visit......The Knife Factory IS one of : the busiest institutions in the land. The workmen are sure of steady work all the time, and the demand for the cutlery made there seems never to grow less. notwith- standing the depressed times. The Yankee must have his inevitable and onnipresent jack knife, and the wheels of the Holley Manufacturing Go. must keep whirling...... 2 Mir. Blacksmith Stuart is also one of the busy men of the town. He conducts the '- entire business of his shops, employing his g workmen in the different departments, and B appears to be having good deal of work. He has just finished very fine buggy for Representative Charles Bissell. The old ] family wagon of MT. s. s. Robbins is also ). in his shop for repair. This substantial Ye- hicle has now been in the family over thirty l. years, and it now seems good for nearly 1 thirty years more, all of which teaches the IT wisdom of caring for things. ''There is = more in taking proper care of what one has already earned than in earning more," is g y truism fully established. Mr. Gildersleeve, 70 who has charge of the wood work depart 'f ment is perhaps not as good rife shot ai D his illustrious namesake, Judge Gildersleeve le but he can do first-class wagon work, anc n Mir. Hubbard, the Hartford painter can or IT nament it with his brush n the highes 'g style of the art. MT. Stuart is conducting > a very successful business aud we are glaC le of it..Supt. Wood. he who waters th' so car rails, says himself and Friend Jones art 'e building trap to ''snap us up" for libelllnl eT them. Anyway, Jones is getting fat. ant se Wood knows the reason why, too......
 Judge Tupper is conspicuous by bis ab-
 sence. He is in New Milford settling 1 m contest there about the laying out of or road.
 o MHissions.-Mrs. Hume, returned mis sionary of the American Board. from In ~ dia, and Mrs. Hart, from New Haven, vii os address the ladies of North Canaan and. vi Ia c.nily, on the subject of Missions" ir tn ,s Methodist church at Canaan Depot, ol ~. ~ Tuesday next at 2 p. m. A full attend '' ance of the ladies of all the churches is re '0 quested. Mrs. Hume is to speak at SalIs
 bury on Wednesday, and at Sharon o
 Thursday.
 :. In behalf of Ladies' Auxiliary Society, i'- MRS, l.. H. REID, Pres.
 The following concerning missions is re
 ceived from Lakeville: 70. The many friends of the Woman's Mis .- sionary Society will be interested to lear . that it is proposed to hold series of mis n slonary meetings in the towns of this Yicir H ity during the coring week. The presi ~. . dent of the New Haven Branch, the wifi ''' of the Rev. Burdett Hunt, with Mrs. Hume
 whose long residence in India enables he ~ to state to us many facts of intense inte
 rest, expect to visit this part of the country
 and like Paul on his tour among the churct
 es, to see ''how we do" and also what W = are doing in aid of this worldwide work
 Those who have attended similar meeting e1 will need no other incentive to attend these -, than the memory of the deep aud tende 7" intereet which always invest these gathe .r ings wherever they are held, and those wh - have never been present may be assure VI, that they will not regret the effort made ;,- coming, or the sacrifice of time to this mo ,r'. valuable work. It is proposed that the fir
 of these meetings should be held in Nor,
 Canaan, on Tuesday, the 7lh of August; c
 Wednesday at Lakeville, and the followir K. day, Aug. g, the meeting will be held ing Sharon, Ii all the female members of ol
 is Congregational churches in this neighbo in hood will make it matter of personal ca She that these meetings shall be we'll attende
 and show their own deep interest by the on, prayers and their presence. then may V D. hope that this good cause will receive 6 es- additional impulse. and the blessing that ( ith ways follows earnest work in the Master we name, will descend upon us in renewed d. 7ed Yotion to the cause we are all pledged the serve.
 es- The society in each town will be prepa