Connecticut western news., 1878-09-12
Circus.

Then what?
 Hickory nuts?
 Or melon-colic?
 Bring on that wood.
 Brushed out your ulster9
 Some valuable correspondence crowd ed out this week.
 Fuller & Peet are grading and clearing away the rubbish around their store.
 A platform dance IS to be held at Bar nuns at Twin Lakes Saturday night.
 Druggist Humphrey is making gutter and improving the sidewalk in front of his store.
 Quite number from this place attend ed Buffers lecture at Ct. Burlington, last Friday night.
 The H. R. R. Co. have ordered 600 tons more of steel rails, which will be laid immediately.
 Fred Runde, formerly tailor in this place, is now doing business in Indian Or chard, Mass.
 Those half.dozen apples given to us by Mrs. Bettiee tue other day, were leetle the incest we ever saw. Hon. David s. Draper, vice-president of the H. R. R., is in town, stopping at Mrs. E. W. Franklin's.
 The recent cold snap, suggestive of felt hats and gloves, sent many of our sum- mer boarders back to the city. Master Ned. Swift, grandson of Rev. Dr.. Eldridge of Norfolk, is to attend the school of Rev. Mir. Reid in this place. The sacrament of the Lords Supper was administered at the M. E. Church last Sabbath, and quarterly collection taken up. Next Sabbath the Rev. MT. Barden of the M. B. Church, will exchange pulpits with Rev. MT. Reid of the Congregational Church at East Canaan.
 A ball is to be given at the Norfolk House. Norfolk, on Friday evening, Sept. 2oth, with music and prompting by Messrs. White and Wright, of Winsted. ..s Cornelius Gleason of Wolcotville lost 8 little daughter Wednesday by death from poison. She found bottle of corrosive sublimate, and drank the contents. The silver wedding of MT. and Mrs. E. H. Barnes of this place occurs Thurs day, Sept. 18th, and that of Mir. and Mrs. H. w. Barnes, on Friday Sept. 2Oth. As the fowl train" going north was ! leaving this station the other night, the king bolt, attaching the truck of one of the cars to the body, became loosened. and dragged to Ashley Falls before It was dls- ! covered. .....
 Among the awards gwen to American exhibitors at Paris, are two to Barnum Richardson 6 Co.,, of Salisbury. one fol | their exhibit of car wheels, and the other, for their pig iron. One being gold, and the other, bronze medal. l -E. B. Gillette of Canaan Mountain, l who was so unfortunate as to lose hls barns l by fire some weeks since, has commenced { to erect new barn 26x3O, and will shortly | build another 32x40. E. R. Lorrain of | East Canaan has the contract for the work 1 "A grand temperance mass meeting is now contemplated at Lakeville, the latter l part of next week. The names of several | prominent speakers have been suggested, 1 and from present indications, another op- portunity will be given to the friends ot temperance, for feast of good things. The Amy Stone Dramatic Alliance, render "Led Astray" at the Opera House, Winsted, the 2Sth inst. Doesn't this troupe owe our village an entertainment to offset the disappointment caused by the ron-ap- pearance of the promised "Pearl of SavoY'' soma time since?
 Tho anonymous communication on 'sThe Village Shoemaker" pinned on our office door the other night, IS well written, and we would like to publish It. but the writer should know that the observance of newspaper tactics requires publishers 10 discard anonymous communications. -One night last week. about II o'clock, the inmates of house on West Main St. were startled by suspicious noises in the hen-roost, and on opening the back door, the disturbance subsided. The morning, however, revealed dead chicken in the back yard, and evidences of human prowl- CTS.
 An amateur equestrian, while riding at break-neck speed down Main St. the other day his only reins. halter tied around the horses neck; in some manner lost control of the animal, which shied to one side of the road, throwing it's rider agalnst Geo. Strong's fence, breaking the two bottom boards.
 About fifty excursion tickets were sold at this station Monday morning for Rocka way Beach, but few went from this place. Norfolk, Salisbury, East Canaan and South field were well represented, also the towns north of here from the fact that there were 300 aboard the train when it left this sta tlon.
 Will those Ashley Falls youngsters, who were bragging so loudly of the strings of trout they had just caught in Konkapot brooks, few days ago, please remember that there is a heavy fine for each trout caught between July lst, and April 18th, and that if inc sheriff hnaaa,era 2 tn ornt hnld