Connecticut western news., 1879-02-26

UA e8SlCuitUIes bAyU NuNt bUok6 At0 HOW 0O known eases of pleuro. pneumonia among cattle in this state, but he warns farmers to look out for it.
 The ladies' aid society of the M. E. church will give Au entertainment at the | residence of Mrs. A. T. Roraback on I Thuraday evening. March 6, consisting of l charades, tableaux etc. All are cordially invited to attend.
 During Lent the services in Chris Church will be as follows; On Wednesdayst morning prayer at 9 30; evening prayer at with short lecture. Oo Fridays morning prayer at s.so. evening prayer at 7.so with lecture. Services on Sunday at the usual hours.
 A grand temperance meeting of the Canaan union is to take place In Town Hall next Tuesday evening, March 4th, when ad- dresses will be made by MT. T. l.. Norton of Lakeville and Rev. O. J. Range of Es- sex, both good speakers and earnest work ers in the cause. Give them good audi ence.
 Why have the druggists in Pitts6eld sold over one thousand bottles of PorAsKA since Novsmbsr7 Simply because the clt izens of that place have found it tho best specific for Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Sore Throat, Epizoot. Influenza, Tickling in the throat, and all throat affections they have ever tried. Try 1t yourself. ..
 We chserfullY publish the following letter from Gen. Sedgwick, which will ex- plain itself. and we very much regret that tho statement he refers to, found place in our columns last week.
 .f., SHARON, Feb. 22d, 1879. MR. HARDRNBERGH :-The statement copied into your paper last week from Po'keepele paper, touching the mental con dition of Judge Hughes of our Probate Court, is entirely without foundation. He is recovering slowly from somewhat SC rious illness, but hO symptoms of the dis ease spoken of has been developed.
 O. F. SEDGwIoK. The friends of the Rev. MT. Roys, pas. tor of the M. E. church at Milton, gave him | donation visit at the parsonage on the 9th inst. The financial result of the visit was about eighty dollars. Mr. Roys is an earn. I eat laborer in the church, and deserving ot good support. The members ot bis church express better satisfaction with his ministry than with that of some of his predecessors. |-Cor. Kingston Journal.
 Rev. MT. Roys is native of this town and his many friends here will be glad to learn that his talents and worth are SO well appreciated by those among whom he lS la boring.
 -MR. EDTToR :-Allow me through your columns to make known the fact that cer- tain parties in Car aan, on Tuesday, Feb. 18th, entered my house in Winchester Cen tre. Conn.,. during my absence. and assisted in robbing 1t of articles amounting to fifty dollars or more. will not make public the names, as the parties are respectfully con- nected, and as no ill will is harbored. Will give the parties opportunity to return the property to me without further exposure or trouble. F. c. RIGGs. | Feb. 24, 1879.
 The pupils of the High school depart ment have adopted novel method of raising money. A few weeks since. large
 proportion purchased each toy money safe, in the likeness of 'a little brown jug
 made for tho purpose. and have been rec eeiving and will continue to receive all the spare pennies, nickels and quarters possible
 until the last week of the tenn. when the jugs will all be broken. the contents deter
 mined and the proceeds laid out for book. case % much needed in their room. Dec
 lamations and dialogues are being prepared,
 and tue occasion at tho close of the term
 will be one of interest to both scholars and
 parents. X.
 A rumor whic b scene to be pre- ttywel
 founded hes it that Charles B. Andrews, a,
 present landlord of the Beardsley House,
 will on or about the first of April next. be-
 come landlord of the Clarke House, which
 has become the property of Wm. B. An
 drews of Chicago. Oscar Potter, of the
 Miller House at Lakevllle, it is said, will take the Beardsley House, and George } Stevens and his mother, Mrs. Den. Stevens will take the Miller House. It IS also re- } ported that an addition will be made to the barn m the West Village now occupied by
 part of Phillips' livery, to which, after the
 hotel changes, that portion of the above livery now kept at the Clark House stables will be removed. This may be first ot April hoax, but we tell the tale as 1t is com monly reported on the street. The parties
 chiefly interested are reticent-as usual
 Winsted Press.
 Il -Wolc0ttvills has Q remarkable coloreG woman who cures all diseases by the laying on of hands. Her name is Mrs. Edward Mix. and she herself was first cured aftel years of i'll health by the prayers and laying
 on of hands Of Second Advent preacher
 of Springfield named Allen. Itwas he who suggested to her that che had the power ot healing in her, and her first experience wal
 in curing troublesome wart under her eye After laying her hand on the protubeianct and praying for its removal 1t witherec away and dropped off Tn night. Since , then she has treated 230, some of them wiit wonderful success. A Mrs. Bnrr of Burr vile who had been sick for thirty. and con
 fined to her room for tWenty-three years, was treated on one Sunday and has been we'll and strong ever since, while . Vol cottville boy who had never walked on ac-
 count of weak ankles, was similarly cured
 She never asks for any pay from her pa
 tients as she says it would be wrong to do
 90 while doing Gods work, but she takes
 what is offered her.