Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05

our friends in tnO countys 01 SASew0SA~s "~4S will ssnd us particulars of any occurrence of interest which may come under their notice. Valentines have put in their appear snce.
 Canaan Valley has dance every two wseks.I
 -Ashley Falls calls loudly for Sunday school.
 MT. Jas. Quinn is again at his post in Foote's harness shop. -Amenia ore is hauled to the Cornwall Bridge iron works by teams.
 John vosburRh, shoemaker of this place, has gone to stockbEidge.
 And now Ashley Falls is talking about starting creamery. Cheese it.
 Some Ashley Falls parties are to have e social dance in Warmers Hall soon.
 -J. R. Johnson of New Milford repeas- ed his lecture on 'SThe Times" last week.
 -Orchestra Bliss of Ct. Harrington has joined the Amy Stone troupe as cornstist. The managers of the reading room complain that somebody carries off the pa pers and magszlneS.
 Next week Friday the Salisbury 10. cal talent will present ''East Lynne" at the Town Hall in that place.I
 Miss Rhoda Pease of Collinsville, niece of the late editor of the NIws, is in towns stopping at Mr. W. A. Pratt's.
 Great Harrington has turned up-and sent up for two years and half counter feiter named Warren c. Bailey.
 We are requested to say that the schools will close their winter term March l4th. The present term is IA weeks.
 The telegraph office is undergoing ap- other change of operators, Mir. Sullivan relinquishing it to man from Bridgeport.
 A number of persons from this place attended the firemen's ball ss Ct. Barring ton Friday night, and report good time. Charles Fowler. Csnaan's popular bar Der and heretofore proprietor of ''Bache- lor's Hall," has taken unto himself part ner.
 -Charles Wood of Lakeville has received an appointment in the office of the Super intendent of the Housatonie R. R. al Bridgeport.
 70. J. Camp, president of the Connect icut Western railroad. with his two daugh. ters, has gone to Florida to be sbsent som' three weeks. s.
 -Fassett & Durant of Great Harrington had "bread show" Saturday, and gave [ barrel ot flour to the person showing thu best loaf of bread.
 B. w. Naples of the Norwalk Hou has been fued for $l0, GOO for libel by Dan. iel 0. Birdssll. What ''big bonanza" som' people think journalism is.
 The young ones enjoy themselves huge. ly on the skating rink In Central Park il this villaRe.-We allude to the patch of ic in the gravel-pit in the centre of the village
 Isn't Canaan going to succumb to tn epidemic pedestrian fever7 We have got good hall to walk in and some walkists wh' are no slouches. Agitate the thing, some body.
 -S. c. Beck:eY of this place is maxim ! good thing out of the Holman liver pad for which he has the general agency o four counties Berkshire. Dutch ess and Columbia. :. Henry 8. Willis, an amateur pedestrial of New Milford, left for Boston Wednesda, night, where he will begin on Saturday a Masonic hall walk of 2.soO quarter mile in as many quarter hours.
 Photographer Deming has been takin some interesting stereoscopic views in tn vicinity of Christ church in this place. Fl has good trade in his photograph car here as he deserves as he does good work . low prices.
 -Major Jason Whiting of Lischfeld died on Friday last in his s3d year. H was native of West Hartford, but ha lived in Litcbfield for fifty years. He wa president of the Litchaeld Mutual Fire In surance company.
 Mortimer Dutton, one of Winsted's se lectmen. has been arrested for embezzle ment and obtaining money under false pre- lenses. He plead not guilty, and was hell in $s, ,ooo bail; and the hearing was SC down for Monday.
 The HolleY Manufacturing Co, o Lakeville are running their knife shop witt 25 or 30 hands, and though sales are no very brisk, they continue to manufactur for the spring trade, giving thelr mel steady employment.
 The Bridgeport leader says pedestrian ism as money making swindle has playe, out in this city. So many have tried it {, replenlsh their exhausted financial resourc es, that the public no longer enthuse owe this class of exhibitions.
 MT. John Tripp of Millerton, who ha quite 6 reputation as pedestrian, iS to be- gin walk of one hundred and fifteen mile at Town hall in Salisbury. on Friday even ing. Feb. 7th, the feat to be accomplished in 24 consecutive hours. x
 The New EnglaAd Homestead, advertised in another column. IS Q frst-class family and farmers weekly. The Homestead il just now offering $75 in prizes to the boyl and girls who send answers to the puzzles in it's Young Folks Department.
 Who Is the one to write the history of the town of Canaan? It must be done be-