Connecticut western news., 1879-11-26

we buHL 1061 SE0hbly ODuS0U bO any O1 our friends in the county, or elsewhere, who will send us particulars of any occurrence of interest which may come under their notice.
 A social party is to be held in Town hall this evening.
 Lee and East Lee are to be telephonical- iy connected.
 Catholic ball in Town hall this place to- morrow evening.
 Mrs. Frank F. Barnum is visiting friends ip New York State. :; .;:s
 Holiday goods have thus early put in an appearance at Humphreys.
 Read what Cornell & Hoyt have to say about a secondfalr opening.
 : Rye straw is bringing SIS per ton. Quite ''lep" from it's recent price, $4.
 The Seth Thomas clock works at Thom- aston turn out 1900 clocks per day.
 Mir. H. M, Adams has been chosen presi- dent of the Canaan temperance union.
 The Methodists of this place are arrang- ing for fair to be held about Christmas.
 Daniel Kelly, of Norwalk was recently thrown from his horse and fatally injured
 Misses Kittie and Carrie Granger are spending some time with friends in New York.
 The Salisbury Dramatic Association give a promenade concert and dance tomorrow night. ...,~~ HI G. Smiths house in Goshen was re- gently burglarized and robbed of $lO0 worth of silver.
 Two hundred new freight cars for the N. r., N. H. & H. R. R. are being built at Hartford. ..-.:
 Mill Rivers pedestrian, Mccormick, ,chal- lenges any man in Berkshire county to "A hours walk, ..
 Lee is undergoing series of burglaries and robberies, the suspected perpetrators be- ing negroes.
 Mrs. Geo. s. Gillette is visiting her sister in Leroy, N. Y., where she will remain dur ing the winter.
 The Conn. Western R. R. Go. have erect ed a new passenger depot at the Naugatuck station, Winsted
 Gen. Sedgwick of Sharon was taken dangerously sick suddenly the other day, but is now convalescent.
 MT. and Mrs. Horace Landon of Chapin- vile have returned from their trip to Penn sylvania and Michigan.
 pr. Camp and wife are spending a few days in New York Mrs c. will go to Phila- delphia before her return.
 The subject of dancing school is being agitated by the young people of this place, with Prof. Wright as teacher,
 -Ex-Senator Barnum of Lime Rock has rented a house in New York for the winter and will remove his family thither. Rev A N Benedict of Southfeld lec- lures this evening at Sandisfeld upon "The fossil remains of New England society" . -J. c. Chamberlin: proprietor of the Amer. ican House at Bridgeport has leased the Clarendon hotel at Saratoga for five years.
 Burglars were frightened away from a house in Sheffield occupied by two ladies by blast upon dinner horn the other night. .-Dr, Thorn, the portly physician who at. tended camp meeiing this year, died at his res. | idence at Mllbrcok, N Y: on the 10th inst.
 The Sandisfeld correspondent of the Courier is guilty of the following: ''Onions are good crop to raise, for they: are sure to bring a scent apiece"
 House-breakers have ransacked Governor Andrews house without success, secured $50 worth of silver plate at Goshen and $500 in money at North Cornwall.
 Thomas Ferguson of Hillsdale was ar rested the other day while descending the church steps immediately after being married, on charge of assault and battery
 A CARD: Tue undersigned wish to sin cerely thank those who contributed flowers, and otherwise assisted after the death of little Georgie. MR. AND. MRS F. N. PEETz,
 Falls Village, Conn.
 The spring which supplies the water tank near the Housatonic river bridge having dried up, the locomotive Estate Line" was obliged to draw water from one of the North Canaan Water Co.'s hydrants recently. x
 The no-license law is enforced so rigidly in Winsted that the liquor dealers have to re- sort to various expedients. The latest is an overcoat with pockets capacious enough to carry in hasks gallon of liquor. Anaerican
 J. J. Hart of Hartsville has delivered to s. ". Wright & Co.'s cheese factory the past season sos, 140 pounds of milk and in order to do it has driven one team 25l1 miles, di- vided into 375 trips, making l9 12 miles per day.
 The respectable portion of Millertonians are indignant at the disgraceful actions of gang of drunken rowdies who attend every entertainment and disturb the proceedings; and the Telegram suggests the incarceration of the leading spirits.
 A ur-years-old son of F. B. Seeley of Adams, Mass, while running about the house the other day with whistle in his mouth, accidentally fell driving the whistle through to the back part of the neck, striking the spinal column and making serious and possibly fatal wound.
 A. Ives has opened the Cummings block AL