Connecticut western news., 1879-07-16
CORRESPONDENCE.
Salisbury.

Salisbury.
 MIR. ED1Ton Having looked in vain for | some weeks for the Salisbury correspondence, we venture a few items for the NEws not that they plenty, vet we think the pretty thriv- ing village of Salisbury with all its activity, worthy of note among its ncighboring villages.
 Not few city boarders are enjoying country life here with fishing, hunting, and rusticating generally.
 Rev. c. l.. Kitchel has recently purchased handsome new horse and carriage
 D. T. Warner has much improved the ex- terior of his village property nan-st. by rcpainting, etc.
 Mrs. Mary Woodward of Sharon is spending the summer at home with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Samuel Elliott. Mrs. Daniel Pratt has gone to Scranton, Pa., to care for her son Schuyler Pratt, who is suf- fering with rheumatics, Mrs. Paul Hertcr, who for the past two years has suffered much from several canoe rs, is very low.
 | Earnest s. Pease. our popular young artist 1 of Twin Lakes, is instructing class of young ladies in this village in the art of fourshing the pencil and brush.
 Wm Conklin is again to engage in tie butchcring business, and will open market this week. Y. ChapimvilIe.
 The summer term of the school in this place has closed.
 Work on the railroad bridge over the lake will be resumed this week.
 Mrs, Horace Landon has been sick long f. IL |. r i will not recover.
 The people here were startled to hear of the death of Mrs. Emma Lynehan. She was the daughter of Mrs. Emily Wright. They moved from here last spring, Mrs. Wright intending to make her home with her daughter and son. in-law, both of whom now dcad She has the sympathy of her friends, having lost both of her daughters in less than a year.
 VER1TAs.
 Clayton.
 Mir. L. A. Smith and wife of this place are
 visiting their son, Dr. G. F. Smith, in Stotts-
 vile, N. Y.
 The advent of MT. H. A. Sheldon of Bingham
 ton, N. Y. into this place, caused quite com
 motion, owing to the manner in which he
 came, and the time of his arrival. We pre- sume he had pleasant ride, but think we
 should prefer to make the journey in a quick
 CT way than on horseback.
 Mrs. Pitcher, mother of Wm Austin of this place, had shock of the numb palsy last
 Thursday, but has partially recovered from it. Rasberries are in full blast, and there are a , good many of them, but should think bv the { number of berry pickers one sees, there mt st
 be two persons to one berry. AsTERIsK. } Ct. Harrington.
 . Ct. Burlington and North Egrcmont have been having little excitement for few days , past about supposed murder of a woman liv- I ing near W inchell pond. The story is told by
 a nine year old boy, that about 10 days ago his
 father and mother had quarrel, and the t father struck the mother across the breast 9 with club, and knocked her down, and that
 his mother cried and made loud noise, and
 his father then struck her cn the head tC
 make her keep still, which killed her, and his
 father then took the body and sunk it in the o pond and told tho boy if he said anything about it he would drown him. It is said the 5 woman has been missing about ten days. Par. V ties have been searching tho pond for severa e days but have not as have learned found tho l. body. The man l am told is ill the lockuI , waiting developments. It is said there arc !. signs of blood on the floor where the boy say. :, his mothers head lay when she died. The
 story came out by some one overhoaring tht man talking to the boy, asking him if he hat E ;old anything about his stealing crowbar ol y killing his mother. The boy said he had not o and the father said eff you do tell will xii l. you." Some think there is not much but 1t story got up by enemies. The man says hi wife has eloped with another man. Partit, , got head light of an engine to search tho : pond in the night, but the result I have no
 learned. z. 5 New Milford.
 e Gen. Casey, of regular army fame, is spend a ing the summer here. g George F. Pixley takes the leadership of tn; 1T cornet band in place ofA. w. Soule resigned e and new members have joined the band whicl 5 has been reorganized. Il small steamboat has been put upon tn, T. Housatonic here and does quite a business il . taking out excursion parties and others whC T wish to venture forth upon the " face of th' u great deep.'
 t The directors of The New Milford Agricult l. ura Association have purchased for fair pur ' poses 2S acres of land nearly opposite the vii " hge upon the west side of the river, most O U which belonged to F. T. Brewer and Col. Wm J. Starr
 ' A l2-hour walking match took place il
 Beach's. Hall last Saturday with Frank Haye e and Henry l.. Willis as contestants. The hal n is small and untavorable for large scores, yc n Hayes made 62 miles.
 n A night blooming cereus from the conscrva a tory of Mrs. D. c. Sanford was on exhibition a O. Noble's drug store last Thursday eve, and un | folded three blossoms
 n Tobacco plants are getting good root hol' ,t and were helped considerably in this busines q by inches of water which fell last Frida, L. night.
 n Having is being pushed. il Potatoes promise big yield. Col. Blinn ha |. already dug 23 bushels on his small gardel h and hasn't really put his mind on it either. C.
 East Canaan.
 '' Sunday evening service at the Conference l. room was unusually entertaining and instruct U i've. Many practical points were brought out >- which will long be remembered by the writer u relating to the recent absence of Rev. MT
 Reid and what he gathered up in the way O :, items of interest," among other things the diff L, ference in the department of people which ont Il will notice when travelling. We trust som' of the observations made will be practical les sons to all who listened. , ] M.s Sarah Warner is expectinp soon to re