Connecticut western news., 1877-08-10

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 Bought store.-R. c. Taft of Ashley Falls has sold his stock of goods in his store in that village, to H. Macrea.
 Sabbath School Pionio.-The M. E. Sabbath schools of Lakevllle, Ore Hill aud Chapinville will join in picnic at the Twin Lakes Thursday of next week.
 Camp Telegraph. are glad to in- form our readers that arrangements are made for telegraph office at the station at the camp grounds for the meetings this year. .4 .....4.. ..
 Steel Ra1ls.-The Connecticut Western road has ordered three hundred tons of steel rails. which will be placed west of Winsted on the mountain grade. This will add about three miles of steel rails to the two already down. ' ...
 AGissionarY.-TheR Rev. George R. Fer guson, for many years pastor of the Pres byterian church in Millerton, expects to embark shortly with his family for Cape Colony, near Cape Town, Africa, to enter as teacher in the theological seminary.
 The Forum. m.--The WSadermere Weekly Forum is new paper published by the Windermere Publishing Co.,, of Walling- ford in this state. The Forum is a seven column folio, is well printed ard edited, ,and Is altogether very prescntable sheet. The editors have their sanctum in the par lnra [A of the Beach House. and evidently fare sumptuously every day.
 Wooden wedding.-Mr and Mrs. L. G. Seager celebrated their wooden wedding at their home in Iowa last Monday evening. Mrs. Seager was formerly a resident of Sheffield, her maiden name being Estella Sparks. We should have been most happy to have attended in response to 6 cordial invitation, but our horse and buggy were not at home on that particular evening. Presume they had a good time. i..
 A Strangers opinion.-A gentleman from out of town had occasion a short time since to transact some business at the Un- ion Depot in this village, and remarked to the writer that he had had great deal of business with railroads in various parts of the country, freighting, etc., but he had never before met such uniformly cour teous and gentlemanly treatment from oh the employees at station as he had re ceiyed here. X.
 [Boys. what do you think of this ED.
 T. Steele & son.-The Graphic (Nev
 York; has been Illustrating tho prominent
 business houses of Hartford, and among
 them is placed as centre piece to the page
 of Illustrations, an interior view of T
 Steele & Sons new and magnificent iewelry
 establishment. T. Steele & Sons store ii
 probably the largest jewe1ry establishment
 out of Boston, in New England; and as th
 proprietor advertises largely their patron
 age IS very extensive, and they are thu
 made one of the most reliable and stauncl
 houses in the country.
 Cattle Killed.-The milk train goinI west last Tuesday afternoon ran into som cattle at Bundy's crossing in Salisbury, ,kiA ing two of them. The cattle belonged t Patrick Cane, who, it is said, was boardln them in the street at the expense of tn town. No blame can be attached to tn railroad company, and of course under tn
 circumstances 1t cannot be he'd responsibl for the Joss of the cattle. People wh :. leave their cattle to run at large in tn streets and highways, ought to be hes strictly to account for endangering tn 3 lives of passengers by thelr liability t ! throw trains from the track.
 Mission Meeting. one hundre 3 ladies assembled in the Methodist churc 4 z in this village on Tuesday, and were aG 1 dressed by Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Hume, O ] the subject of Missions. These ladie 2 came as the representatives of the Nev Haven branch of the Woman's Board c t Missions, connected with the America 3 Board of Foreign Missions. The address S S es were highly interesting, instructive an 8 stimulating to all who were present. Tn 7 children present were shown idols and oth g CT cunosities connected with heathen wo ! ship. The meeting was a success, and wi s doubtless be productive of much good. a Fatal Accident at Scuthfeld.-A yer s sad event transpired in this place la IT Thursday, August ?. As Charles and J, t. seph Ellis, sons of Wm. Ellis, were drivin ,; their oxen from the pasture in order to 2, 1t in their hay, one of the oxen prove 's e somewhat refractory and Charles, for tt d purpose of stopping him, caught up hoo a pole and whirled it at the OK. His broth, Ig Joseph, fifteen years of age, being nea re was accidentally struck by the stick in Il 9e temple, and which penetrated to the brai
 He died from inflammation of the brain Ss
 urdsy night. The funeral was held (
 Monday, August 6, at which there was @. very large attendance of neighbors ar
 friends rendering thelr sympathy to tl
 parents and brother in their deep afflictiol