Connecticut western news., 1877-07-13

mysserlous manner last Saturday evening 5 and was burned to the ground. The hous, h was unoccupied at the tune. It is said tha
 colored employee of F. F. Cooper, whos'
 daughter, Mrs. Walsh, owned the property
 went into the house about eight o'clock or
 the evening of the fire, to get a bed tha has been occupied by a carpenter who
 worked on MT. Cooper's new house las al winter, and as the fire was discovered soor 3 after he was there, it is said MT. c. enter tains the impression that he must have stepped on some matches on the floor anG ignited the house by them. We are in- formed the property wss insured for $l, ,50( l in the "Etna" of Hartford.
 The Tribune Strike.-The compositors of the New York Tribune office on Frid. } afternoon at five o'clock struck without mo- ltice. There had been negotiations for a reduction from 46 to 40 cents per thou
 sand which brought about conflict with
 the Typographical Union. New men were Instantly called in and by o'clock 40 com positors were at the cases, and the paper was
 out on time with ten pages at that. The
 paper has all the compositors it needs, and
 no members of the Union will be employed.
 When the cities are full of unemployed I printers ready and anxious for ''sit"
 whereby to earn dollar, it seems queer
 that sensible men should relinquish a per
 manent situation without asingle legitimate
 reason. The experience of strikes should
 teach people in these matters their impolicy
 especially in times when the market is
 overstocked with labor. &~ss~eLe~- Falls Village. of July passed off so quietly that number took the day
 for one of fasting and prayer, only the
 church bells didn't ring as they are wont to do on those occasions. Quite delegation
 went to Lakeville, leaving the town almost deserted. Some of the youth got out the cannon on the night of the Fourth, and made considerable racket for about two hours.... The party who went to the sea- side from here returned on Saturday eye.
 Miss Minnie Little having been i'll all the time she was gone. scholars of the M. E Sunday school give concert on Saturday evening of this week. This school has been supplied with an almost entirely new library, which, under the able supervision of L. B. Stillson, is quite an acquisition; new singing books have also been adopted......Th funeral of Franklin D. Palmer was held on Sunday, July l, Rev. Robert Hunt officiating. CL1oK.
 She Saw The Cars.-A lady who has arrived at the ripe old age of almost 90 years, and who has spent nearly the whole of her life on the hills in the northeastern part of Sheffield, and who had never seen a train of cars nearer than from her room window, about three miles away, came re- gently on visit to Ashley Falls, and by chance the house she visited was very near to the railroad, in fact. not n ore than about twenty feet away. Desirous of having a good view of the cars as they passed, when informed the train was coming, she seated herself at one of the windows nearest the track and looked with all her strength to make sure they didn't pass without her seeing them. AS the train flew by, and | which happened to be one of the fast trains recently added to the Housatonic | road, she threw up both hands, gasped once or twice and tumbled clean over on the floor. To complete this item it is only necessary to add that the old lady succeed ed in seeing the cars as they passed.
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 West Norfolk. As the wife of Rev. Edward Roys, formerly of East Canaan, now of Florida, Orange County, NewYork, and her sister, Miss Laura Roys. were journeying to Winsted on Tuesday morn ing, while near MT. H. J. Holt 8, their horse took fright at something, and by sudden spring sideways overturned the car 1age. The ladies and carriage-top were eft in pile together, the horse and run hing part proceeding on their way. The horse was stopped near the toll-gate. Miss Roys escaped with good scare and shaking up. Mrs. Roys had her head Wedged in among the fixtures of the car 'iage top and received severe bruise upon he forehead. She was taken into MT. aolt's and it was some time before she re- slized where she was, or what kind of performance she had been through. She was able to go to her mother Roys' toward evening. Mrs. Roys is to be congratulated On her narrow escape from taking her last ride, and MT. RoYs that his wife is spared 10 him, even though she carries a swelled forehead and black eye. X.
 OH-fence-ive.-MR. EDITOR It is sad to see so many people, (and poor people at !hat,) spending money and time building fences, that are no more needed than pol iwog needs tive tails; and it is only in a very primitive state that polliwog needs any tail at all. Since the law does not con- pei roadside fences to be kept up, it is ab- surd to spend millions, as we do, in need less fence.stuff, that soon rots down and is great disagreement, especially in our vil- age streets. Massachusetts has found this out, and from Williamstown to Old Stock bridge the good work of aholishing door-yard fences is rapidly going on. Any one who will take look at either of these pretty villages, will mark the pleasant, lawn-llke expanses that spread up from the well kept side walks to the doors, and won- der at our barbarous board barriers, or more warlike ''picket" fences, which, with all the paint and ornaments we can put on them, are still only signs of distrust of-our neighbors and friends ?-for horn cattle do not run in the streets, and boys can cline our cherry trees, fence or No FRNoE.
 Kent.-The ''glorious Fourth" was ob-