Connecticut western news., 1878-11-20

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 MT. Webster resignrd......If Rob would start few moments sooner with his letters
 he would save himself the trouble of run.
 nlng to catch the train, also of making
 such motions upon the depot platform. e.
 Mrs Brooks is having her house rc-pant,d d
 which improves its appearance very much :.
 ......W While Mir. M. Dlvis was putting his
 horse in his stall the other night, it escaped
 rom him, causing him to hit his head up
 on beam, ii flicting a bad wound, tboueh
 not dangerous onr......Tte n'xt question
 for debate by the South Lee debating club,
 reads, l think, after this manner "Resov.
 ed, That the last war was bent fit 10 th,s
 couutry.", Messrs. French & Newman
 leading Clsputants. 1.-The High school
 boys have debate Lext Friday. The
 question is, "Resovtd, That the Negro
 should have place to himself" Affllma-
 tive, B, Meehau, E. Burke. $. McDonough.
 Negative, J. McDonough, A. Hall, Il. N.
 PixIey. O.IC
 NorfOIk.-
 The seats in the Congregational church are to be sold on Monday, the 18th inst.
 The appraisal is about $2OO less than last year, and it is hoped in view of this re duction. they will all be sold It is ncccs- Sary they should be, in ord, to pay the ,x- penses of the church. The E,na Silk Co. hnd themselves obliged to run. their mill over hours to keep up with their or ders. They send eff on an average $I, 800
 worth of silk Der month. They have es- taollshed an excellent reputation, and in spite of the hard times, are doing an ex- tensiYe business ..... Rtv. MT. Gleason will take vacation of four weeks, beginning the last of this month .....RrV, Joseph F. Gaylord wlll spend the winter m Sprinp
 field, Mass. He is not permanently Ioca- ted. hut will preach some, bis chief ohiect being rest for awhile, after very severe la DOTS at Manistee, Mich..... Samuel Curtiss intends to start for Waterloo, Iowa, about Dec. lst, to spend the winter at least. Mir. Samuel Garfield had quite a sevt re tall ln his barn Thursday, and it was feared he had sustained sever broken ribs. but his injury proved not SD Serious, aud he is ROW able 10 move about, but with some d,fficul ty....Mr. Everett Gaylord has been spend ing a few weeks here in his native town He is engaged extensively at farming in Fontinette, Mo. He reports good crons generally, with the exception of the po,a, 'o crop' SPECIAL Hollim~vippc
 Harlow A Wheelock has his new house raised and covered in Cauten street Henry Cook hes built large addition to nis house near West river street. Isaac Barnes has bought of L o. and B. O. Hig. ley large tract of wood land east of Can. ton. and put in operation a steam Saw mil to work the wood into lumber timber, ties etc...... .Barnum & Richardson ot Salisbury, have bought the wood on large tract of land on the east slope of the mountain wes, of Farmers village, (Simsburv,) and large number of choppers will fiud employmen, for some years in converting the wood into chsrcoal..... The N, W Haven and Nortn- lmptop Railroad company have, during a.. present. year, built iron bridges across ho,. great and nt'e rivers in Westfied, Msss.. ii place Oi tue wooden ones. and now the, ire putting up an iron tidge of 40 fe. { pan across tn" F ,rmihg;on river at Collins vile, in place ot the wooden one which has l 7to"d tor nearly thirty years. The Key stone Bridge C"npauy oi Pittshurg do the ~ork,a will notiulertere with the running ot the regular trains.. A n6rew Chidsey | lied in Avon Nov 2d, after a tri, f illness | of only eleven hours, agtd 59. H, was :, | brother of Milo Chidsey of Cnllinsvile Edward B 'ockwAy of Canton has been ta. Ken to Hartford hospital. .,A)ired c. Bliss, a native of Collnsville, faithful soldier in the Conn. l9tb Regiment during the war. and since holding prominent situation in the Internal R venue department at Wash. ington, hes recently been here to re visit the friends and scenes of Lis boyhood. ...... YouI Collnsyllle reports, came from Mass and commenced work for the Collins Co, Nv. z. 1881, 4T years ago, There are on. y four men now in their employ tha, worked here ut that time They are Levi Hough, Ephram Hough, Thomas N. Cbap- man and David B. Hn!e. The las name is the writer hereof. D,BH.