Connecticut western news., 1879-09-03
bad about Rarus.

&-Hr. Jay Underwood is making quite ex- tsnsive repairs about his premises.
 -.--Only one scholar has died in this school district during the past two years
 "A Aiddle6eld farmer has 25 cats, and keeps Q COW expressly to supply them with nilk
 ,-Nra Miles Smith is still lying in critical condition at the house Of Peet Pelton in East Canaan.
 The remains of Lauren Rood who died In. Hartford, were brought here for interment Aag. 30. From 4o00 to 5000 veterans are expected sat Hartford when the battle-Aags are removed so.ths Capitol.
 The Berkshire Paper Co. have received over 400 tons of freight at this depot during the last month.
 There is said to be fifty Chinamen in Memphis but no cases of fever among them in the past two years.
 "A weeks camp-meeting by the Advent ists in grove owned by them near Otis vil- hgs began yesterday.
 .:-Quite large party from Lime Rock have been rusticating on Canaan Mountain, near the pond, during the past week.
 --Last Friday freight car was backed of ths track, by the Main-st. crossing, in conse- sueace of an open switch No damage done except . few minutes delay.
 -Ira D. sankey and wife are guests of Spsncer Gee at Winsted Numerous meet inss are held at which MT. Sankey delights the people with his singing .... t--Tha September Term of the Superior Court commenced in Litchfeld yesterday, Judge Culver presiding. The District Court alaoseommenced a term at New Milford last Monday
 -Ths ordinary travel over the Housatonic rallrQad Is on the steady increase, and the soad carried last month some 10000 more passengers than in the corresponding month lassy year.
 -Rx Selectman Dutton of Winsted, arrest ed Aume time ago for misappropriating the towns funds while in office, has been surren- ssld jail,
 There will be trustee's auction sale at 5 the Ate residence of J. N. Van Deusen in .North Canaan, September 6, 1s7s consisting :. of harnesses, wagons, etc, and interest in a hAypress.
 -George Munroe, the dime novel publisher, shasgiven &2, 900 annuity to Dalhousie College si1 Halifax. If he wonld only let up, it would Do | far better thing for the young folks than 1Ail his money.
 :. --Mr. William Noonan of this place hrought into our office one day last week, a isafof tobacco which measured three feet two inchss in length and 22 inches in width Can any one beat that2
 IA young clerk in Holyoke spent six hours in 8 refrigerator the other day, having hsena imprisoned by mistake. He felt on coming out as thongh he had been entertained 8s 2 23aBQtOn6Dl6 cQuFcu SOCldUle.
 4-Senator Eaton and wife passed through this, place last Monday on their way, it is pre- samear to Lime Rock, on visit to Senator Barnum The Senator looked as though the ssnasorial duties agreed with him remarkably wslLs3
 -Tte cool weather has hastened the de- parture of many city boarders hereabouts. Mr. Blasdell and family and Mrs. Murdock of New York City, who have been spending the season on the old Watson place, left last Thursday.
 -Haf century ago Emmons Rudge of Hartford was fined $40 and costs for selling fec in the summer. The traffic was alleged to be dangerous to public health. The world has grown wiser than the lawmakers of those sgood old days"
 The wife of the Rev. Mir. Townsend of Chatham, N. r, has been spending few days it Dr. Belden's. MT. Townsend was a former clergyman in these parts, and will per hapa b remembered by some of the residents ef Canaan and Falls Village
 -It h reported that the microscopic exam ination of the remains of Mary Stannard has resulted in finding in the fatal wound in her neck a minute speck of steel which fits nick in Rev. H H. Hayden's knife, which has also bsen subjected to careful examination.
 4TKs county commissioners of the several sountiss of the state held meeting in Hart Ssrd last Wednesday and resolved. to grade the license. fee for the sale of liquors according to she quantity sold, the law now giving them 8 aiseretion to charge from $10o to $500.
 That man can't be convicted" said Clerk H. T. Blake, in the Superior Court, as 6 prisoner raised himself upon pair of osten- tatious crutches to plead to the charge ol being atramp. "No man, he continued, s'can hS conyiesed of vagrancy who las visible neaasof support.
 --The indications are that the Cattle Show at Falls Village next week, Tuesday, Wednes syand Thursday will be the largest and mos successful that has been held there for years The faEmers are having revival and they ar ell going not only with their sisters and thei cousins and their aunts, but with their stocl and produce.
 The Trial of Rev. H. H. Hayden for tn murder of Mary Stannard at Rockland, Conn fone year agol, will begin betVeen Sept. 9t and Oct. lst and will undoubtedly occup from six to eight weeks time, at which tn hess legal and scientific talent of the Stat wiil be engaged. The Shore Line Times, pub