Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
LOCAL NEWS.


 <. LOCAL NEWS. -"." We shall feel greatly obliged to any of our friends in the county, or elsewhere, who will send us particulars of any occurrence of interest which may come under their notice.
 %, CORRESPONDENTS are requested to send in their communica ations SO as to reach us on Monday of each week. as we cannot insure the insertion of any correspondence received after
 Miss Fannie Benedict closed her school last week.
 MT. Geosge s. Gillette of this place is se- riously i'll.
 The schools begin on the first Monday in September. -streng's tin-shop has been treated to a new coat of paint
 A deed, sworn to in 1910, was recorded at New Haven Tuesday. :.
 The Sheffield Good Templars have sur- rendered their chartsr.'
 Editor vaill of the W,nsted Herald is AuobAS0u44S III NOAOHduOs
 Several from this place will attend the Hartford races next week.
 A Catholic picnic was held near East Canaan last Friday afternoon.
 Geo L. Parsons has taken the agency for the Weed sewing machine.
 David Whittlesey of New York is visit- ing at his fathers, in this place.
 W. W. Underwood is organizing an or. chestra for winter amusement.
 The NEWS office graduated ''devil" re. gently, and is initiating another.
 The communication on "Biennial Ses- sions" will appear in our next issue.
 W. A. Pratt of this place sells groceries from his wagon for firm in Pittsfeld.
 J. A. Bierce, IT,, is in town for a short time. "Protracted meetings"may be expected
 The water of the Corporation is to be ex. tended up Em-st, above the Catholic church. Rev. MT. Bodley desires to meet the children of his parish at the church Saturday afternoon.
 -Pittsfeld is said to have the largest popula- ton living under one town government in the United States. A night.hawk complains that the street lamps are never lighted on dark nights-that is, hardly ever. A headless and lmbless human trunk was found in sack on an island in Stamford harbor the other day. Eugene Hunt of shshaeld. .While camping ! at Twin Lakes captured bass weighing three pounds and four ounces. The road repairers have been making im. provements on Main-st., in the way of remov. ing cobble stones from the road. A big black snake, recently killed al Union, had swallowed large striped snake which in turn contained 79 small ones. Extensive repairs are being made on one ! of the the furnaces at East Canaan by John H. Burghardt & Co., of Curtisville, Mass.
 F. s. spaulding of Norfolk, late ticket agent at this place, occupies Agent R. B Coggswell's place in New Milford this week. General Joseph R. Hawley has been se' lected as grand marshall on the occasion oi the removal of the battle flags at Hartford, septIl7.a
 It is said that the scheme of building 1 a railroad from Mill River to this place has been revived, and Engineer Keith is making the survey.
 Waterbury has an old and untenanted building, which was built by Daniel Porter ir 1875, when his only neighbors were Indians and wolves.
 We heard whisper the other day that Fuckers cornet band of Falls Village will make this place visit soon in their gorgeous l band wagon.
 It seems that Mrs. Sartoris, the daughter of Gen. Grant is not dead, as was reported but that it is her mother-in-law Mrs. Ade. laide Kemble Sartoris The wife of Acting Sup't. L. B. stillson of the H. R. R. died at Gt Harrington last Thursday. The funeral was attended al PittsHeld on Saturday. The Rev. Hiram Eddy, D. D., formerly pastor of the East Canaan Congregational Chnrch, will preach at the Pine Grove camp meeting tomorrow morning.
 Rev J. H. Lane, former pastor of the M. E. Church in this place, now located in 0UoU15 time neighbors here last week. The Chinese laundrymen in Bridgeport are terribly annoyed by boys who boot at them and throw dead cats and rats into their win dows. and stir them up generally.
 -Mr.John T. Pearce, editor of TheNewtown Bee. was pleasantly electrified Wednesday by receiving intelligence that he had drawn a $5, 900 prize in the Louisiana lottery. -J. H. Lynch of this place has purchased tract of land containing six acres, situated on elm street near the Catholic Church. We understand he contemplates erecting house on it.
 Nearly all the railroads in the State have consented to give free return tickets to the old soldiers attending the parade on the 17th