Connecticut western news., 1879-08-06
for the DAILY.

Subscribe for the DAILY Ice was found near Lake. Buell. last week Monday.
 -Huckleberry pickers are too numerous to mention.
 Aren't they nobby-those hat-topped Chinese parasols7
 A. Ives has just put another meat wagon on the road.
 A Stamford German had both feet cut off by the cars last week.
 The Wolcottville Register celebrated it's 9th birthday last week.
 This week winds up the ''school ques- tion. ."-So Conformist says.
 Miss Kate Lent lectures on temperance at Hillsdale tomorrow night.
 Another 'school question" controversy is threatened in Wolcott vile.
 -C. l.. Vanderpoel has severed his connec- ton with the Hillsdale Herald.
 Miss Nellie Andrus is spending a few weeks with friends in Hartford.
 General W. B. Franklin of Hartford pass ed through this place Saturday.
 George Brown of Bridgeport paid his mother flying visit the other day.
 The wooden mill dam at Glendale was washed away during recent storm.
 Sharon is to be s'written up" and illus trated in the New York Daily Graphic.
 Mrs. Benjamin Treat of New Milford is the owner at present of 52 canary birds
 Seven rattlesnakes and four red. ladders have recently been killed in Southington.
 Rev. Mir. Macomber of Ct Darlington preached in the M E. Church last Sunday
 No more Sunday evening services will be held in the Methodist Church this month.
 HI. R. R. trains now stop at the Camp Ground station to accommodate passengers.
 Sam. Nicholson, late engineer on the O. W. R. R. is running an engine on the H. R. R.
 
 The Wat-rtown F air occurs Sept. 23, 24 and 25 Over $2.0OO is offered in premiums
 Editor Vaill's promising four-year- old colt recently made two half.mile heats in Al each.
 The old crane belonging to the H. R. R. Go. near the old freight house has fallen down. An accident near New Milford delayed the fast train north about an hour last Sat- urday.
 Robert F. Rodgers of Falls Village has gone to Hartford as night clerk in the Ameri- can House.
 A good able-bodied and willing girl is wanted, to do general housework Enquire at this office.
 The Falls Village Item came out last week, enlarged to double it's former size and as a patent inside. | Fred. Hunt, student in New York Col lege formerly of this place, is in town for three weeks stay. | Mrs. D. L. Proper of Elizaville N. Y., is visiting at Hon. Judge Granger's, her former home, in this place. There are 298 Episcopal churches, 387 ministers and 55,s52 members-a gain of 1775 during the year, in Connecticut. The Litchfeld high school is no more, and in the public school the children are in a single room and under one teacher. The annual fair and cattle show of the Eastern Duchess Agricultural Society takes place at Amenia on Sept. 3, and 4. An excursion of eight cars, from sta- tions north of here. went south yesterday, for picnic at Seaside Park, Bridgeport.
 Eliza Paul, about 12 years old, fainted away in the M. E. Church last Sunday morn- ing, on account of the excessive heat. Last Saturday the ''Wangums" B. B. c. of East Canaan defeated the "Cripples' of Ashley Falls with the score of 56 to 16.
 The NJ. E. Society's lawn party at R. Van Deusen's last Thursday was pleasant affair, the receipts amounting to over $1O.
 MT. Post, an engineer on the H. R. R. has been suspended for disobeying orders and perssting in keeping ahead of schedule time
 A horse belonging to Edwin Potter of Sharon, stallion, died recently from eating too much grass while in an overloaded con- dition.
 -Granby farmers with poultry yards are angry because local game clu b has been let ting foxes loose ln the mountains for fall sport
 Those who have not yet engaged adver- tsing space in the DAILY, and desire to do so, must give us notice before Saturday of this week. Grove Yale of Norfolk was the lucky winner of James Reels horse, wagon and har- ness, drawn by lottery at the Warner House last Saturday night. "A. M. Parmely of Bristol was gored by savage Jersey bull in Wolcott Saturday. Men with pitchforks drove the animal off, Par mely had three ribs fractured.
 Miss Lettie Walker, who formerly work ed for Miss Susan Norton in this place. died August 1st, of quick consumption, at the res- idence of her father in Troy, N. Y. T. Sedgwick Steele, Esq, of the firm of T. Steele Son of Hartford, in company with MT. H. R. Morley, Actuary of the Continental Life Insurance Company, left on Friday on