Connecticut western news., 1878-10-16
Its school weather.
 -Guess there's ice in it.

Dominic Hunts genial countenance beamed upon us Monday.
 -Is'nt it about time for another legal scrimage from Sandtown?
 All of our merchants now take trade dollars at one hundred cents each. Auction at Beckley's store, of'articles to numerous to mentIon," tonight.
 -Chestnuts are scarce, apples plenty, and pancake timber 40 cents per bushel.
 Falls Village, or the town of Canaan, has recently adopted Harper's Biographies
 The number of pupils at High school was increased by two last Monday morn ing.
 George Oles, of Van Deusenville, Mass, formerly of this place, was in town Mon day.
 -Barnum Richardson Company are run ming two furnaces at full blast at East Canaan.
 Mir. Horace Barnum says he picked dish of delicious raspberries in his garden the other day.
 Tom Brown superintends the unload ing of the ore from the cars on the H. R. R. side-track.
 The New York Evening Post (weekly,) from now till Jan. lst for 20 cents. See advertisement.
 The East Canaan marble quarry looks as deserted and lonesome as bury ing ground on Mount Riga.
 MT. George Benedict, on the Peirce & Lawrence farm, has just picked the last from fine tree of peaches.
 The melancholy days have come, just right for oysters, and Bassetts got lem, too, in his fruit cart. Nice big ones,
 All boys who want to be made men should meet at Hardenbergh's office on Wednesda Oct. 23. See lad"
 Schuyler Colfax IS to lecture in New Milford, early in November, on ''The Life and Character of Abraham Llncoln."
 Mir D. L. Peirce is putting hls side walk in tip-top trim for the winter, as is al- so his neighbor, MT. George Gillette.
 Landlord Warner of the Warner House has taken down the old swinging sign, and will suspend new and more elaborate one.
 The selectmen of Canaan, as elected according to number of votes, should read Wm. Ferguson, Luman Foot, Lyman Dun- ming.
 Pretty cold now a-days to sit with a gal on a horse block on East Main. or any other street of Sunday night until Nea'Iy 10 o'clock.
 Carpenter Lorrain with large gang of men. have nearly completed their labors which have found employment for them all the season.
 MT. and Mrs. Wm. Sardam have the heartfelt sympathy of the entire communl' ty in their recent bereavement occasioned by the death of an only son.
 Last Sunday afternoon the milk train on the c. w. R. R. struck COW belong ing to Everardus Ives, near Whiting river fill. breaking two of it's legs.
 The excursion to Lakevi!e over the c. w. R. R, to be held last Friday, was | postponed on account of unfavorable weather, to Friday of this week.
 MT Robert H. Marvin, who lett this place some time since for work in the west, has been heard from at Chicago. where he has "struck ile" in a lumber yard.
 Capt. John s. Jewett. an old and prominent resident of Sharon, dropped dead in the road near his residence last Sunday evening about o'clock, of apo' plexY.
 Hunting seems 10 be the favorlte pas l tune with the unemployed, who report squirrels in abundance. One of our local sportsmen brought in fine string of game the other day.
 The registrars of voters for this town, will be in the town hall to morrow, (Thurs- day.) from a. m. till p. m., for the pur- pose of receiving the applications of those to be made voters.
 A brakeman on the Harlem railroad was thrown out of baggage car door near Milerton while the train was under head. way, striking on his head aud shoulders, but rose uninjured. Charles Fowler laid on our desk the other day, a large screech owl, which he shot last Sunday night. It it a beautiful creature it's graceful form suggesting an oyergrown bull-frog.
 John Roraback, son of James Rora- back of Sheffield, who shot himself through the hand some weeks since, is conYales. cing rapidly, notwithstanding the extent of the injury sustained.
 Among the appointments of the post office department for the week ending Oct. 12, officially promulgated, is that of Chas. T. Connolly, postmaster at South Canaan, Litchfield county, Conn.
 The young lady who eloped with a Cornwall Bridge Adonis from the Camp Ground during the late meeting. has repent ed her choice, and is again under her fathers ] roof, ''never, neVermore to stray"