Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05


 but no conventions have as yet taken place. The meetings Are held every night. Rev. Mr. Bslcher of Falls Village will preach this evening.
 A man came into Winsted last fall and undertook to do business without advertis ing. Now he is in an inebriate asylum, store closed, and stock of goods offered by his friends at any price. We are sorry for the man, but if folks won't advertise they must suffer the consequences.-Press. At the adjourned meeting of the repre-. sentatives of Litchfeld County held last Wednesday, tax of one.quarter of mill was ordered to be raised to pay indebtedness and current expenses. They then adjourn. ed to Thursday of this week. when it is sup posed the matter of a new jail will come up.
 A shanty ten feet square in Barkham- sted affords shelter on the ground floor to . man and his wife, bedsted, stove, half dozen chairs, table, barrels, trunks, boxes and numerous nic hacks, three cats, doz- an hens and roosters and few turkeys. The family also takes boarders and lodges travellers.
 The genial phYsiognomy of Mir. Marcus H. Rogers, formerly of the Berkshire Cour- fer, beamsd upon us the other evening. He says he feels like free man instead of 8 fish out of water" since he sold the Courier. He will remove to Hartford in about two months, when he will begin in good earnest the manufacture of his folder.
 Boss carpenter Bartlett of the B. R. R. \ is putting in new ticket case at the office in Union depot. It is a large and elaborate l affair, having extra compartments for Vest erA tickets, of which large number are sold here. Fred feels as much bigger than usual as it is possible over his new piece of { furniture, and he will "watch OCT it ten derly."
 The Lakeville correspondent of the Telegram says Mr. w. E. Pettee has sur veyed lake Wononscopomoc, and in order to raise some money to help the family of the late Mir. Pitkin has proposed that our people pay 25 cents and guess at the size of it, the one guessing the correct measure ment to receive two-thirds of the amount raised, and the other third will go to the family of the deceased.
 Here it is, MT. South Canaan; you may flap your wings and crow over your December gooseberries, but we don't ask no odds of nobody on tho heavy hog question. About the time MT. Hoskins butchered bis 56ob hog. Mir. Chester Deming of this place murdered one from the same litter which weighed 562 pounds. Its no use MT. ':P, J you'd better examine your currant bushes about now-or your grape s1bor. =
 The January Term of the Superior Court commenced at Litchfield the 18th ut, Judge Hitchcock presiding. There are twenty y-seven cases on the civil jury docket, l50 on the court docket and forty new cases. Only two jury cases have been set in the trial list, but twenty court cases and one new case. It is supposed the term will be . short one on account of the duties of Gov, Andrews and Representative Graves ir
 Hartford.
 There will be concert in the chape at West Cornwall, Thursday evening, Feb. 9th, under the auspicies of the West Corn wall cornet band. Concert will consist o1
 vocal and instrumental music, quartetts
 trioes, duets and solos. Mss Mary R Hyde cf Lee. Mass, has kindly consented to sing. and all who have heard her vii
 desire to hear her again, and those wht
 have never heard her will regret it if the! 2 do not avail themselves of this opportunity 3 Deputy Sheriff Fillmore of Kent wa
 brought before New Milford justice Satur
 day charged with assaulting John k. Pier cy. The trial was adjourned one week.
 appears that Elmore met Piercy in plac 3 in the road where there was very little room
 to turn out. Piercy turned as far as possi = ble, but not enough to prevent the othe a sleigh from overturning and depositing Mir 8 Elmore and some ladies in the snow. Tn . latter gentleman felt aggrieved and heknock
 ed Mir. Piercy down. The Springfield Republican says "Sweal n Ing boxes have been put in some of the bus . mess places in Adams, and any one wh
 utters an oath in these stores is asked t
 drop five cents into the box. The proceed are to be given to some charitable ot z ject." What forsaken and isolated ap
 pearance the s'swearing boxes'' would prt
 sent in Canaan, whose communications ar
 ''yea, yea and nay, nay" and whatsoeve a more than these is heard on our streets y evll, and cemeth from-ou of town. Q Last Saturday, one of the horses Q
 Barnes limo team while standing nea
 Fuller & Peet's store, seized MT. D. [ E Pratt, who was passing, by the shoulder 0 and lifting him completely off his fee threw him violently to the ground, severe 2 ly cutting his hand on the ice. The tear Y then started on a run, and we might be sbl
 to chronicle quarter of column of brok ], en wagons, injured horses and promiscuit e in general if Grey Johnson had not grabbe 8 the reins and held on like grim death unt s he succeeded in stopping the team on tn = town hall hill.
 -SeuStOF GatOu, IeAtnlnR LnAb JuQg
 Noah )avis was about to vacate his yer
 elegible seat in the Senate and to take tha occupied by Senator Howe, after March = at once secured It for Senator Platt. It l said to be one of the most desirable seat ', in the Senate.
 We have noticed the above in some o
 our most intelligent exchanges. The ide of Judge Noah Davis vacating seat in th United States Senate, which measures eve t three feet in width. What is fame? It e to wake up in the morning and find you