Connecticut western news., 1878-02-07


 muzzle their dogs on and after Tuesday oi next week. Their notice in legal form will be found in another column. As such ac- ton has been and is being taken in all the towns about, 1t is discreet and proper for our town to go and do likewise, for grain of prevention in dealing with hydrophobia is worth more than au the cure known, for notwithstanding ths great numbers of rem- edies published, none has yet been found to be always reliable. Therefore. if you are the proprietor of dorg. read the notice in sr other column, and at once invest some of your government bonds in a muzzle.
 Huntsville.-The invalids mentioned last week are getting better.."..The snow between here and Falls Village is from nothing In some places, to four feet deep in others. Splendid travelling. The Messrs. Hanchett, Dean, Judd & Co.,, are drawing some splendid logs to J. N. Will. cox's mill. .Myron Dean has to run his grist mill night at day to grind all the grain that comes to him......A dog belong ing to Ingersoll Reed went mad last week aud was killed. Another belonging to Har- low Roo, ,livlng about two miles from bere. went mad about the same time, and it is It . ported that he was killed. Hope he didn't bite any body but Harlow, nor him either. He knew his dog had been badly bitten by the dog that made . raid through here 8 few weeks ago, but refused to kill him till he run mad......W What is the difference bt : tween scientific pugil.st and man with cold in his head? Auswer-The one knows hls blows, and the other blows his nose.
 Jog.
 South Canaan.-The Home entertain
 nent on Wednt sday evening passed of very pleasantly. The music Gns,rumentsD thanks to Messrs. holcomb, Dean and Ran dall, was very good ard highly appreciated d by the audience. ''Arabells's Poor R la tons" and ''Checkmate" met with approval and the shorter dialogues, recitations, etc., were good and gave general satisfaction. ... The last of the dogs who were bitten is now killed and we breathe freer than we have done; the two last killed belonging to Mrs. Reed and Mr. Harlow Root Both develop ed symptoms of madness it is sald....... The weather is fertile topic Of conversation, the snow, the high wind which followed 1t, and the severe cold have shown us that winter has not laid aside his sceptre. Can- dlemus Day ''cold and clear" is said to be an evil omen for the coming Spring ..... e. The Spring catalogues are beginning 10 ar. rive and one's thoughts begin to dwrll on the early plants started in the house, but they will have to wait little yet. Isup
 pose It would not do to say what seedsmen
 we prefer; it might be an advertisement. l X. winter.-The first snow of the season
 amounting to anything like genuine win
 ter storm came down upon us in company
 with decidedly fresh breeze from the nol' 2
 east last Thursday. which piled it in heap'
 as fast as 1t fell; and with the mercury II
 thermometers several degrees below zert
 two or three mornings since. one is lead fo
 the first time this wint4f to think calmly O the Sunny South. with its summer sunshine
 its flowers, It's tropical fruits, oranges ban
 anas, yams, aIlieators, sea beans and niR-
 gers. Our venerable friend, John Ward,
 well of Lakeville. wrote us few days sine,
 that he should start that day lor Florida
 and expressed the hope of seeing us dowl
 that way, and for moment our heart leap
 ed with joy at the very thought of onc'
 more gazing upon the secesh countenanc of the renowned l. l. Hite of Mellonvills
 (ssk Judge Mooreof Salisbury about ''H Hi I,e," as the Englishman eallrd him), bu
 glance at our bank accodnt-only fifteel
 cents in the treasury-persuaded us at orc
 that on account of ''business engagements we should not be able to go this winter. , Robbery at Tarlfville We want {, Lear nothing more about there being n' r hell, when men exist, who are 30 indescrib ably mean ss to rob the dead in euch a ter rible disaster as that at TaIiffville. Jnme , Sayers. resident of Tariffville. and wb,
 was at the wreck immediately after the sC
 cldent. has been arrested for robbiDg tn dead bodies of those killed. He has ac . knowledged the crime, and said he sas others doing so, and thought he too, woul : get all he could Among the properi found at Sayers' house. is 6 pair of gol spectacles which are recognized as havln belonged to Mrs. Wm. Jones of Lskeville who was killed at this disaster. Irstea of going to the assistance of the large nun
 bers of wounded and dying. whose shriek and groans of distress were heart.rendin in the extreme, he deliberately goes abou . his Hrndish work of robbing those wh cannot prevent his doing SO. s \ there IS DO hell for such man, then ther / is big screw loose somewhere m the gen
 eral managemen for things eternal and ev
 erlasting.
 :. The Weather To Oome.-1n the latte part of December we clipped from th l. P,ttsfield EGgge the following communities
 ton prognosticating the weather for si
 months beginning January lst, intending
 publish it to give people an opportunity v observe the accuracy of the Canadian wes :. ther prophet; but somehow, it got misla' end did not come to our notice till now However, nothing is evidently lost by tt delay, for all will be able to onserve the r, markable accuracy of his calculations ft the month Of January and the beginning ( February. The communication is as io
 lows:
 \, Perhaps your readers would like to kno what the weather is to be for the next 8 's months. You have 'sOId Probability