Connecticut western news., 1879-07-09

1 keeping crows out of his fields. He exploded several packs of fire crackers in his corn field, | and the birds do not molest the shoots as they greatly dislike the smell of powder. As the exploded crackers retain the scent for long time, the remedy proves efficacious for ! considerable period. Besides, the boys want no better fun than to scare away the crows in this manner-Honesteod
 | Peru, Berkshire county, has kicked up snake excitement, according to the Republi- can, which says: Edwin Shumway of Peru after a severe fight Monday, killed a black snake which measured 19 feet in length and l two feet around in the middle The reptile has inhabited for 30 years an old mill-dam belonging to the estate of c: B. Watkins, and resisted all attempts to kill it. Mr. Wat kins when alive, offered standing reward of $1O to any one who would kill it, and men often watched for it, but when the snake came out of his hole under the dam it would chase them away"
 l A singular fatality seems to be lowering over the Lynehan family in this place, and repeating it's baneful visits with alarming ra- pidity. Hardly year ago the little family plat at the cemetery remained as yet unbroken by the cruel spade that separates forever lov- ing hearts and trusting friends. To-day the three new mounds side by side stand pain | fully suggestive of the broken household, the aching void, thess unallayed grief, occasioned by the intrusion of the fell destroyer over the threshold of happy home. But five weeks ago John, the eldest of the family, was bur jed, and yesterday witnessed the burial of his widow, who died of grief at Winsted, on Sun day, having never arisen from her bed since the death of her husband. They were mar ried less than four months ago. Verify, Fin the midst of life we are in death"
 | A much needed "village improvement" is the stationing of watchman at the H. R. R. crossing near Humphreys drug store, to warn passing teams and pedestrians of ap- preaching trains. Much of the switching of | freight trains done at this station is done di- rectly over this crossing, and with four or five regular trains each way daily, to say nothing of the extras which run without re- gard to time, it is certainly dangerous spot, especially for teams. The approach to the crossing is such that, on account of the build- ings on either hand, it is impossible for a driver to see the track either way for over two or three rods, until he comes fairly upon it. Nothing but good fortune has thus far prevented any serious calamity, but several recent warnings, not to go unheeded, in the shape of narrow escapes from serious, and probably fatal accident suggest that some thing be done, without waiting for loss of life or limb to determine it's necessity.
 -One of the queer things in business is the propensity of people to seek irregular me- diums for advertising. It is unaccountable the prices that some men pay for seeing their advertisements in irregular places. Especially is this so when compared with their unwilling ness to pay anything for advertising in reg ular channels. Men will pay large sums for inserting their business cards in a section of frame in hotel, bar-room, street car, rail-
 way station, or in hotel register, or an al manac, or guide-book, orannual of one sort ol another. The by-ways they seek, or that
 successfully solicit them, are innumerable
 In this they ignore the most essential cond
 tion in advertising, namely, that it has the character and effect from the medium through which it is given to the reader Advertise
 ments thrust into irregular and unbusiness places impress the general mind that the con cern is of similar character. On the othe hand, an advertisement in a general news paper of first-class standing carries the i'm !, pression that the advertiser has standing il } his own community, which he is not afraid tc } show his neighbors, and that he does no
 shrink from competition with the best o them. If only one is going to place to buy whether he be trader or buying for his owl , use, and has to seek dealers through adver
 tisements, where will he look for them? TC
 registers, almanacs, theater bill frames, il
 railway stations, occasional advertising shee 2 or circular? On the contrary he looks to thu
 most reputable newspaper of the place, ant
 he thinks that advertising in these gives al
 assurance of the good standing of the adver
 
 , suffciency of his stock.-Erchange
 After the burning of the Lake House, il , this town, and the scattering of it's inhabi tants, male and female, to parts unxnown l the proprietor, MT. Haley of Connecticut, ant . partner, MT. Harris, also of the nutmes
 state, leased hotel in North Egremont anC
 have for some months run the place to the r great scandal, as alleged, of all the neighbor- +bor; o1;A
 have been going on there to such an extent : that the good people of the town solicited the :, officers to make some effort to break it up, bu e the local officials declined to meddle with tho place. Finally Sheriffs Wellington and Kel
 logg of thls town were appealed to, and thith CT last Saturday night, accompanied by Cut @ ting of Lee and Averill of Stockbridge, they
 went, arriving at the hotel about l2 o'clock
 MT. Harris responded to their knock on the = door and declined to admit them, but on be : ing informed who they were he asked time tt
 run up stairs and dress" before opening the , door, This was a shrewd dodge and tht |, officers knew it, and so burst in the door 1 But Harris had galned by the maneuver time v to arrange the inmates of his house in appar
 ently legal order. The inmates were Mrs Haley, her husband being absent, MT. ant ! Mrs. Harris, Hattie Pitcher and Sarah Wells = N G. Adams and Geo. H. Burrows, the two
 last belonging in Housatonic. There was ;
 bar with whisky, wine and lager, gambling : room, and all the evidences of rum selling a In the room occupied by Miss Pitcher wa :, found a watch and pair of mens' socks, anc u singularly enough, Adams, who is a mar. iet l man and one of Barrington's police officers r was found to be without stockings. He saic l he hadn't worn any in two years, and denied
 the ownership of the watch. Harris, th' ; girls, and tho two men were taken to Barring @ ton and locked up. Then the officers went tC j. Housatonic and, finding Mrs. Adams, asked
 her if she could identify the watch. She in
 nocently said it was her husbands, and a. s for the stockings, she had given them to hin 0 the previous evening as he said he was going to Harrington. She was quite alarmed at tht