Connecticut western news., 1879-08-06
The communication from Sharon is re- ceived too late for tls issue

-Dr. J. H. Osbc ?H of Southington bought the big rattlesnak lely caught in door, yard at that place a:,, has presented the rep tile to the Peabody .:seum of Yale College.
 The 18th annual clam bake of the "Fat Mans Association" will be held at Gregory Point. Norwalk, OH Thursday, Aug. IA. The annual elections of officers will take place at that time.
 -"Kib." Coggswell's family of Millerton, and the family of Rev. M. R. Lent, for merly of this place, are encamped at Pine Grove, where they will remain until after camp meeting.
 According to the Courier, the M E. Sun day schools along the line of the H. R. R from Pittstield to Housatonic are talking ur an excursion to Parlor Rock, to include a clam bake there.
 George Lord, the Bethel young man shot in the hoad on the fourth by young Lyon, has 50 far recovered as to sit up and will soon be as well as ever. His recovery is remarkable provided the bullet lodged in the brain as is supposed.
 Last Sunday Ct Burlington was visited by young tornado, followed by the heaviest shower of the season. In several fields the corn was laid flat by the wind, and gardens covered with mud and sand by the overflow of the streams.
 MT. T. s. Gold of West Cornwall, corres- bonding secretary of the State Agricultural Society was in Hartford Saturday, making preparation for the state fair which will be held in October, commencing the 9th, and last ing for four days.
 The following1 are among the boarders registered at the Warner House: Mr.and Mrs. Mortimer Judd and daughter, Miss Mary B. .Judd of Wallingford, Ct., Col and Mrs. Oliver Judd and Miss Lillie Blakes' ley of New Britain.
 The Connecticut Western Railroad Com' pany have arranged for two new excursion cars, which will be used on their road for ex- M SOAAA- pleted this week, most of the work on it be- ing through with already.
 -Trackmaster M. Connors of the branch road track, Suffeld, noticeda deep hole under two or three ties Thursday, and inquiring in- to the matter found nest with 1O2 snakes eggs in it. Each egg contained a young snake from to 10 inches long.
 -Ex-editor Rogers is enjoying himself at Block Island, R. I. In letter to us, he says: ssIt is a delightful spot-cool, genuine ocean breezes, as pure as one gets in an ocean trip abroad. Fish are plenty, and one can sleep as if listening to an hour and half ser mon"
 The contract for gliding the dome of the new capitol has been awarded to Thomas F. Burke at $1,378,sO. The contractor is re- quired to use gold twenty three carats fne the leaves to lap three-quarters of an inch to use fat oil sizing and to do the work in the best manner.
 The DAILY NEWS will contain a Busi- ness and Professional Card department, each card to occupy one-half inch space, (see "Business Cards" in another column,) and any respectable card will be inserted in the six issues for only ts0entyfue cents. Send 'em along at once.
 A row that began in @ saloon in New Britain Friday afternoon was continued in the street and resulted in the stabbing with a large pocket knife and instant death of James Brady by Michael Martin. James Stanton was also stabbed, but not seriously. The murderer is under arrest.
 A little daughter of Michael Mahoney, while playing on the railroad track at Corn wall Bridge recently, came very near being run over She was seen by Edward I. Hub bard, who rushed on the track and picked her off safely, with the fast moving train scarcely three feet from them.
 A Mir. Wilcox, lately from Sheffield, Mass, who has been at work about six weeks at the Gilbert clock works, Winsted had all the fingers and thumb cut from his right hand in planer, at which he was at work last Wednesday. A paper has been circulat' ed for his benefit and liberally contributed to-
 The Adventists who are holding their summer camp meet ing in Haddam are now cy is correct in saying
 "The world to an end shall come
 In eighteen hundred eighty-one." Nevertheless they have rented their camp ground for five years.
 Nellie Frisbie, an Otis (Mass) girl, aged l9 who had lost her good name during a years residence in Bristol, was found sick and despairing on the street day or two ago, ,and has since died with symptoms of poisoning One report is that she killed herself, and an- other that somebody had poisoned her, be- cause of disastrous intimacy with her.
 The Housatonic railroad company, in compliance with the request of one of our leading business men has placed fagman at the Centre street crossing, to give warning of approaching trains-Lee cor. Courier Won't Gone of our leading business men, make similar request to this obliging com pany, and ascertain if they will station a flag man at Humphreys crossing?
 The Rev. Dr. Lawrence s. McMahon, the Bishop-elect of Hartford, will be conse- crated next Sunday in St. Joseph's cathedral, Hartford. The following Sunday he will sol emnly dedicate the Church of the Sacred Heart at Bloomfield The corner stone of this edifce was the last one laid by the late Bish op Galberry and the completed structure will be the first dedicated by his successor.
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