Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06

You'll have to try again, Hiram this time on strawberries. That's your best hold. Strawberries and cucumbers.
 Last Thursday afternoon, while two sons of John Goodman of E E4st Litchfield were blasting rocks, premature discharge blew the elder into the air distance of ten feet, with no bodily damage but the loss of two fingers, which were injured by the tamping-iron which he was holding at the time. The iron has not yet been found.
 We have received copy of the Na- tjonaal Prohi6itionist, published by F. M. Bennis, l5O4 Pine St., St. Louis. The Prohibitionist is fearless and outspoken in It's denunci iations of the evils of intemper- ance and the rum traffic wherever it finds them. This paper should be taken in every family It is published semi-monthly at $l ,OO per year. Send for specimen copy free.
 Here's an item taken from the West Stockbridge correspondence of the Courier.
  body that remembers anybody that remem- bers this octogenarian or her father, the inn keeper? Mrs. Sweet, who is now in good health, at the age of 84 relates that in 1872 her father was an inn-keeper at Can aan, Ct. and that she waited upon the table at which sat Com. Perry, who was a guest there while on his way west, where that great naval victory was won."
 Last Monday afternoon we mailed to a party in Lakeville, package of printed matter, which left the post office in this place in the bag for the o'clock train west that pm. This morning we received note from the Lakeville party, saying that said package was not received until Tuesday afternoon. When in the nine- teenth century, this age of rapid transit and rapid advancement, with all the facilities afforded, it takes taoenty hours to carry an Is ounce package distance of eight miles, it is time the system was investigated.
 Last Saturday afternoon, as MT. Geo.
 
 was hauling corn stalks from the field, the forward end of the load on which he was riding, began to slide, and there being IC standard on the rigging to support it, and to which he could cling, he was preclpitat ed on to his team, which instantly ran throwing him under the wheels, which ran over his right leg, breaking it about mid way between the knee and ankle, and put ting the ankle out of joint. This little jot will cost him about two months of pros tratlon and incapacitate him for manual la Dor during the winter.
 A gentleman who travels extensively all over the Eastern States, having recently had occasion to ride over the Housatonit | road, says that in all of his travels, he hal never received that s'uniform courtesey anG genuine kind treatment" which he received ] at the hands of the H. R.. R. officials ane employees. This is only a.reiteration o 1 the universal sentiment of the entire travel | ing public who patronize this road, anG who know when they ask ciYll questlor of conductor or other employee, they may expect gentlemanly and cheerful an swer. instead of the short surly, bull -doe snap assumed by subordinates of some other roads.
 A Teachers Institute will be held II Plymouth, beginning Wednesday evening November 18th, and closing Saturday noon ] under the supervision of the secretary O the board of education, aided by Prof. Marl Bailey. Yale College; Colonel Homer B Sprague, principal of the Girls High School of Boston; M. s. Crosby, superintendent of schools, Waterbury. Chas. Northend superintendent of schools, and J. H. Peck principal of High School, New Britain c. Stockwell, principal of Arsenal School Hartford; Mark Putnam, principal of th Woolsey School, New Haven I. N. Car ton and H. E. Sawyer, of the State Morn g School 1; w. l. Marshall and others. Tn names of the lecturers engaged promise session of great interest and profit.
 The 'Union Bible Service" held ID tn NJ. E, church last Sunday evening was o an interesting character, and well attended The services were opened by Rev. MI Reid, who made few statements with re gard to the town bible society; it's origin and early record. This society was orgal ized over 20 years ago, and for some tim during it's early existence, was conductc | DitE, hnt fr>r of late, it has been allowed to run down and now that new life had been infused in to the state bible association, MT. Rei urged revivifcation of the old interest i nual meetings to commemorate the anu versaries of its formation, of which Sunda evenings service was one. Rev. MT. Bsl den spoke of the parent association in th country, which was organized in Philadel phia in 1908. Others followed in quic succession, throughout the country; an united into a National Society in lSI( Mir. B. alluded to the magnitude of the en terprise of the National Bible Publishin Co.,, who print so many copies of the Scrll lures, in so many differens styles and size and in eighty diterent languages, an which are furnished at such low prices to leave no margin for profit, and to thos who are lunable to purchase them, they al given ''without money and without price,
 The election yesterday in this pac was spirited and exciting from morning ii night. Voters began to arrive in good SC, son, together with the usual delegation o lookers-on, composed of half grown boy! and their country cousins, and as large