Connecticut western news., 1878-03-07

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 temperance town of this usually unambl- tlous place. This week 1t is said we may expect the return of some of the young la dies who have been missed from among us for few weeks past. Miss Olive Saxton who has charge of the Episcopal church, and Miss Mary Little, organist in the same church, have been at Ansonia for few weeks. Miss Minnie Field, alto singer in the same church is in New York at Mrs. Gen. Barnard's, who has kindly and nobly taken her in charge while having her eyes treated by the celebrated Dr. Agnew. The three named young ladies are expected
 home this week and Miss Sarah Butcher,
 organist of the Congregational church has
 been absent nearly all winter in Ansonia and other places. No time, as we hear, set
 for her return......The masquerade ball
 went of we'll. There was good attend :
 ance, and the costumes were we'll chosen.
 The music was splendid. A number were
 present from out of town, and all seemed
 to enjoy 1t. There was quite an amount of
 money taken in at the door, from gentle
 men spectators, at 25 cents each. Ladies
 free. ...On Thursday night last week some
 one came very near breaking into Vos-
 burgh's store. The south door had the bolt
 broken off, and was SO nearly burst in
 that very slight push would have quite
 opened 1t, and it was left in that condition.
 Probably the burglars were frightened at some noise and left. MT. John LeBarnes,
 sen., is quite unwell, and not able to leave the house. ......Mr. Henry Coon has been
 dangerously sick with lung disease, but we
 hear he is out of danger pow......Mrs. Chas. lSpurr fell and hurt her hip 90 badly that it is thought she may never be able to walk
 again without crutches.. Rev. Dr. Park
 CT of Christ church has had his vacation of one week, and is expected to have service here on Wednesday of this week.
 OCCASIONAL. , West Cornwall. rain, mud and F splosh makes out the weather programme for the last week......Last Thursday evening 3 Mir. R. P. Foster opened his house for g benefit to the West Cornwall Musical Asso- 3 citation. Although the evening was stormy = his large psrlors were we'll filled. Mss Per kins entertained the company at the house - with several selections on the piano and tho ' band gave some of their best pieces in tho r Village Hall opposite MT. Fosters house It was SO stormy they could not play ou = doors. About o'clock the brass band va f cated the Hall and the string band took pos c oooe;op Nho, known a Mr FOH. ter's that Mr. - was at the Hall witl 7 violin in hand ready for business, there wa e @ rush by the gentlemen for tickets and b. Is the ladies for shawls, and in a short tim 2 MT. Fosters parlors were almost vacated il ana those that ''tip the light fantastic toe r were raising quite dust. About 1 o'cloc @ they were called from labor to refreshment B at the Foster House, and it IS enough to sa n was got up in Mrs. Fosters best style. Al is ter refreshments the dancers returned to tn O Hall and kept MT. - busy until tn b '.wes small hoYrs." They all say they ha Il a jolly good time, if it did rain. We under ,s stand the net receipts was sixteen dollars. e ''George's" birthday was very unpleas
 ant one. By the way, Charley Wolf, hadn
 you better call that l0tb boy George Vast @ ington. The Housatonic R. R. Stock n holders meeting should have been we'll at ls tended if they all turned out as they di - here. but we hear there was only six at tn 10 meeting. Is the stock all held here, or is ], because other towns do not take any inter d est in the election of directors? There wa e that number took the cars here. Cornwa e always attends to business. They keep tn e doings of the meeting very secret for the = do not tell who was elected....St. Valentin t, must have helped Uncle Sam to pay off hi 1t debt, as most everybody had letter fror d him. Since the l4th the demand for on st cent stamps has fallen off considerable. .... n Cochrane Brothers are fixing their new stor 'r up in good shape. We hear they expect | y be in and ready for business by the lst c O March. A. o Officers and Committees. Murph . meeting last Monday evening the followin ~ ~ officers were elected, and the followin
 committees appointed:
 OFFICERS.
 President.
 A, T. Roraback. VScs-P Presidents. D Z.T. Adams, William Lawrence,
 Frank A. Peet, Wallace A. Roberts, h stephen Mslloy, William Sardam. d Corresponding Secretary. if John B. Reed.
 ,+I Rscording Secretary. I Henry P. Lynch.
 Treasurer.
 George l.. Parsons. Managers.
 d Henry c. Stevens, John r. Shields, [. Edmund D. Lawrence, Horace $. Stevens Henry M. Adams.
 e COMMITTEES. @ On Increase of Membership.
 SA Herman, w A Roberts, N Beebe d Thomas Buckley, 8 0 Cummings. Thoma l. Riley. H c Barnes Frederick Reel William Sardam, George Clark. Joseph Ives, Horac ,r Holt. Wm H Newport, Charles H Mar ]. win.
 = On Reclaim6ng tue FdNen. e u Bragg, l. Pease, H A Smith. J Cal - roll, E R Lorrain, c Lynehan jr, William # German, Stanley Barnes, George Largdon rs Henry Beardsley, George Beebe, M ! k Clark, P P Gilmore, G Beebe, R Fl Mar n win, Albert Sanford.
 ,r On Employment.
 VI Dunning, D Griffith. Cs Adams, It W Barnes. E D Lawrence, A T Roraback l, G K Goodwin, Samuel Ryder, Wm Sar Il dam. J G Lawrence, H B Stevens, w 4 it Lawrence.
 n On Relief.
 IT ~ Itavopo Chaa Gillette EdWil