Connecticut western news., 1879-06-11

was in towa last week delivering the copies, which are finely executed, and give good satisfaction.
 Little Freddie Tripp, son of MT. Hiram Tripp of Chapinville, showed us the other day, not exactly the mythologlcal roc's egg, but gosh.all. jo-fired big hens egg, measur- ing 7xs 8 inches, and weighing 5 ounces. Most as big as the hen that laid it.
 The Winsted Herald's reporters had 8 | convention at the Beardsley House, Win sted, on Monday of last week, and were highly entertained by Editor Joe. Vaill who. by the way, celebrated his tn we'd ding on the. same day. Many happy re turns, Joe.
 -Mr. J. L. Bragg's new house will be ready for occupancy next week. It is To- cated on one of the rleasantest sites in the town, and is built with special reference to convenience and comfort, rather than out side appearance. Deacon Hinsdale of Winchester will occupy it when finished.
 Marvin says of all the places he ever fshed his efforts were attended with the most satisfactory results at Lake Mudge.- | Sharon Cor. And he says, too, that suck CTS grew there to goodly size.-Gum sucks CTS, we suspect, as his mustache Is worn so thin that it has ceased to make him round- shouldered.
 R. F. Foster, of the late firm of Pratt & Foster of West Cornwall, has left that place for parts unknown, taking, it is said, all his worldly effects, This move is quite a surprise to his friends, as he was prom inent member of the church, and favorably known. His conduct is attributed to de- slre to free himself from his family.
 Rev. H. H. Hayden's trial for the murder of Mary Stannard has been again postponed. the prosecution being unpre- pared. This seems very hard on him, as he has already been ln the New Haven Jail 34 weeks. His wife comes from Rockland to see him as often as her means will per- init, but be does not allow his children to visit him as he does not care to have them remember seeing their father in jail. In the notice of the Salisbury dramat- ics in our last the name of Miss E. B. Jew ell as Mrs. Puffy (by some blunder of MS. or types) was omitted, when it should have been one of the first to be mentioned for the excelency with which the part was taken and sustained. And in speaking ot Daniels, Puffy, the words well done' should have come before the word through out." G. Y. P. Last Thursday while Rod Wooster was moving in Hon. c. W. Peet's yard, Jessie Frank Peet's little daughter, came un- observed up behind hlm and fell down
 just as the scythe swung around
 cutting her severely on the lief arm just below the elbow. The won- T der is she was not more seriously hurt . Rod thought she must have been cut t'
 pieces when he picked her up.
 It The first grand excursion of the seasel l. from Bridgeport to Coney Island take g place Friday, June 27. The magnifcen
 steamer "Grand Republic" two full bras !. bands, . grand good time and low prices :. the programme. An excursion train will b run on the Housatonic R. R. to accemmo
 date those along the line who desire to talk
 advantage of this opportunity. The fal IS for the round trip, from this place to Cone l. Island and return, is only $2.5o Hess tha Ill use raru 10 New York. The train leav,
 this place at 500 a. m. The steamer stol ,e at New York both ways.
 as Mrs. Seth w. Scofeld of Stamfol k met with very painful accident on Mor
 day. While in the act of hanging oV
 clothes on line stretched from the secor S story window of her dwelling 10 8 pole = the yard, the pulley block near her har ~ SS became detached and the weight of the W "' clothes pulled her out of the window, al
 some distance from the house. Fallil he heavily to the ground, distance of nd least 20 feet, Mrs. Scofeld had the this hone of her right leg broken and was all at considerably bruised about the head. Sl
 is 70 years old. and will not probably su rn vive her injuries.
 
 1t committed suicide in Sherman. Event, in five years ago. a man named Barnum hul
 himself in the house where Edwin Hoy s now under death sentence, killed his fathe in About ten years later Mrs. Henry Brig Isr hung herself. Following her death car n- that of her son who shot himself. Geor
 Briggs, nephew of Henry. drowned hir
 self. His son Royal hung himself fe np months later. Next was Charles. cousin l' George, who hung himself. A son of Hut "n ted Briggs, another branch of the famil eA shot himself. The last in the ghastly re
 ord was the hanging of Orton Sunday nigl
 At temperance meeting held last wi -. ter in certain township in Connecticut | '. ministerwho was presiding proposed tl '3' the exercises should commence with [
 reading of a chapter from the Bible ;but, pm discovering that he had left his glasses 'n, home, said that he would not try to make p- selection but would read wherever by chanced to open the book. According
 he opened to the third chapter of Proverl S,. This was read without incident till suGde nc ly his mind became confused and his vol aar faltered as he read So shall thy barns i'm filled with plenty and thy presses sh
 burst ont aoitA neao soine"-amid the upro
 ing smiles of the audience. .-EnQuirer. ard
 w Last Monday as Arthur E. and Alb ,co Knowles were at work near Wood Gre ,bs 'nS'r a''en'ion was "iieS'0u oy 'n0 nolSe
 singular actions of some crows. On goi