Connecticut western news., 1877-08-17

8&4xAxOA0 @4Cu4Cs-4 uS c4upgUycp OA SuO Housatonic R. R. Co. will hold a picnic next Friday at Parlor Rock, beautiful grove few miles this side of Bridgeport. District Oourt. t.-The District Court has again been adjourned till next week Tues day. at .. m. Cause. sickness of Fl. B. Graves, counsel in the cases which were to have been tried. .4H -.s.a .f- s'That aams.-In the first number of the DALY NEWS we shall tell all about that matched game of croquet between Falls Village and Lakeville. Tis said it will be worth the cost of the subscription for the whole time of the meetings. Only 30 cents. 'Dont you forget it. That Daily.-Just one more chance left for you to subscribe for the DAILY NEWS. We have now good list of subscribers, and of course. as is natural, want more, 30 send along your thirty cents and have your names jotted down for the only daily pa per eyer published in radius of fifty miles. We shall try hard to give you pretty live ly paper, and one in which you will be able to see the full value of your thirty cents. Send nosO!
 The Cornwall Oelsbrahon.-We sur render large space in TIE NEws this. week to our report of the doings at the laying ot the corner store of tn @ new Con- gregationsl chapel at West Cornwall. We do this because the occasion was one of much interest; the speeches were able, and our readers, though they may never have roamed over the rock bound hills of that land of mllk and money, will regard it of sufficient importance to occupy this neces- sarY space. .... .r F7rs in Laksville.-A barn belonging to Frank Pettee in Lakeville was discovered on fire last Tuesday morning between three and four o'clock, but was not seen, it ap- pears, till 1t had got we'll under headway, aud it was totally destroyed, including hay and grain, a wagon and farming utensils. A calf was also burned with the barn. The origin of the fire is not known, but it is supposed to have been ignited by tramps, The loss Is estimated at $2,00O, which ii insured $1, 900 in the Litchfield Mutual.
 New Master Mechanic. Mir. JohI Barton, who has been engineer on ths Conn. Western road since it was opened for business, is appointed Master Mechanic of that road. Tins is certainly mos worthy appointment, and shows excellen judgment in President Camp in making SC lection of the important officers and assist ants in operating the road. MT. Barton thoroughly skilled engineer and mechan ic, and we know of no person more adapt ed to, and fitted for, the position, and VI are glad indeed to learn he is placed there
 Fowler, N. F., Aug. 6, '77- CONN WESTERN NKws:- Please send me tn camp meeting NEws. am just going int the woods for some little vacation. Fish ing is good in the lakes lying snugly aroun, in the "Big Woods" the perpetual flores threshing sway seventy-five miles towar' Lake Champlain. Not far away about miles is Bonaparte Lake, named after tn Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king of Spain, who in 1928 or 1880 bought some thousand acres of land which included in the boun daries most beautiful lake seven miles il length by five in breadth. Here is goo' trout fishing-at least the eating of on cooked in the camp was delicious. Nil Editor, you can spend your time on th camp ground, taking notes of sermon We camp out, catch our trout, cook then all by ourself, tumble about in the clea water of the Lake, shout as loud as possi bic. sing (ask Edmund about that,) if yo' like to, and do innumerable things, ant none to molest or make US afraid-unles it be an occasloral panther or wolf.-B. the way, the 'gate boy" called upon us th other day, ,and we had very pleasant visit talking over old times. You will sool hearimore about Eye olden time'' in Can aan, Salisbury. Lime Rock and Falls Vii lage.
 Goodbye until we get back out of tn woods. Yours, in the cool, refreshin shade of the grand old woods,
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 solitude;
 Nv home is in the forest where no human foC
 hath trod:
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 jp natures 0od,