Connecticut western news., 1878-02-07
sharon.-The celebrated Guv Familv

sharon.-The celebrated Guy Family. with sn acquisition of four additional ar tists ts their already renowned troupe gave an entertainment in the Town hall last M06dsy evening. in conse quence of which the s'Noman Suffrage" question, which was discussed the same ev, ning. suffered. The young mems debating club have ac- cepted challenge from the club of Ame.- mia seminary. The combatants meet at the Town hall in this place on Wednesday evening. Our boys may have something to do, but we know they have. More next week.. Bishop Williams was at the Epis- copal church on Sunday. After 8 shorl but impressive sermon, the solemn cere- mony of ''laying on of hands" was attend. cd to, and eight were confirmed and admit ted to the full privileges of the church. The charge to the elect was very beautiful, and the words SO fitly chosen and SO fathsI- erly rendered by that venerable old man, just at that time and place, must have tound lodgment in each heart, and in their journeyings through life, act as a restraining influence when tempted to wal Ger. and as au incentive to all good word, and works 1.-The last qnarterly confer, ence will be held ID the M. E. church on Wednesday afternoon and evening of this week. Rev. Mr. Lull will preach in th. evening. We do not expect to entertain him as well as you Canaan people did, but will do the best We Can. >. .... The sick are all comfortable. Mrs. Luther Brown has had Au attack of dipEtheria, but at last accounts was better. We had snow storm Thursday that threatened to land Sharon in another country. The wind blew the snow all in heaps or we might have had good slei9hing; tas It is, we have no going at all. Oh. wns, weather! ARoANuM.
 Blowing Gas.-The New Haven and Bridgeport p pers have been telling nicr little story about Mir. Frank How'd of Falls Village blowing out tue gas in his room while on visit to New Haven and becon,- ing nearly suffucattd with it. We have sometimes thought the city editors of some of the minor city journals occasionally found it convenient, if not absolutely nec- essary, to strain the truth nightly to make thelr items sufficiently sensational to satisfy their readers, and their item alluded to above was undoubtedly written when there was dearth of such news, and having nothing of g specially startling character, were compelled to naGke an item or two. distortiIg the slight incident which gave them material to work with in this case, in- to paragraph of news to which they could add their display lines. Ths actual truth concerning MT. Howd's "suffocation,' as
 we are credibly informed, is he turned of the gas ID his room till the flame was extin
 guished, and went to bed, and although
 turning it till there was not erougb gas es-
 caping to keep fl lame alive, it appears il was not entirely shut tiff. or else there Wal
 a slight leak in or about the burner or pipe
 but when he awoke in the morning he no
 ticed nothing unusual and felt well as h,
 ever did. but after being up few moment
 he was somewhat dizzy and went dOwl
 stars ard out of doors. Ascertaining tha the unpleasant sensations were caustd b,
 inhaling gas. he consulted physician ant
 as precautionary measure took some med
 Icine. Thus it Was, as the New Haven pa pers had it, ''he was nearly suffucated O and as for his following out the gas'' ther
 wAs no gas blowing at all, except tha
 blown by the enterprising journals allude
 to.
 .l Iaakeyille Jcttings.-If there is any on Fthing that tagttates the average Lakevill
 mind more than another, it is the dIstric school house, which it Is unanimonsl
 agreed is pretty tffectually ditched. Tn house. which was removed some year
 tion near the knife factory, to give FOOT , for the new depot of the Conn. Wester road, was taken to hollow or large ditc ljust beyond, and sank in the ground tw . feet lower than the bottom of the ditch, S
 that when the rains descend aud beat upO
 the hill sides surrounding it. they ripple i |, beautiful bubbling little brooks down to th bottom of the natural trough, and unitin there, go dancing along over the sward, ti they reach this famous district school hous
 when they dance and ripple and bubbI
 right up through the fnor. till they fiil It | depth of from eighteen inches to two fec and until the two feet of every scholar pre' ent is put very tffeciualIy to soak iL then The teacher finds herself compelled to dis miss her school every now and then, on a' count of the inability of he scholars i . their classes 10 toe the mark accuratel standing in two feet of water. It seems | if there must have been something wrou in the original location of the building that particular spot. We suggested to a ci izrn. the propriety of raising the house get it out of the reach of high water, an were informed it would have to be lifted least forty feet heavenward to be clear ( F the foods; but what has this inuudate : school house to do with McCarrick's barns 7 Squ,re Wood says that barn has been fal ) ing for the past five years, and it has no just reached the ground. but AS one got down another goes up: The Merritt Broil CTS are building large barn for Wolco Bunnell, and are doing good job for hil too.
 OBITUARY.
 T REV. WILLIAM HALL,
 ED. NEWS. The tuner' services of Re- l M;us.rr. q .li- xu, uo held fs,.d " af WHaf Hn,