Connecticut western news., 1879-11-19
Snow, snow, beautiful mud.

What hds become of our correspondents Oh, come now, please dol
 Who saw the meteroic display, and fiery rain last Thursday night?
 A Catholic ball is to be given in Town hall on Thanksgiving night.
 The Adventists were to Ego up" again last Friday. They didn't go.i
 -Litchfield is enjoying a school muddle with disgruntled taxpayers.
 HI. D. Humphrey has been putting in new amateur printing press
 The Cong. class meeting will be held to- morrow night at J. s. News.
 Miss Cora Pulver of this place is to take up her abode in Copake, N. Y.
 Miss Jennie Brown will spend her vaoa- tion with friends in Bridgeport.
 Miss Emma Hunt of Sheffield is quite se- riously i'll with congestion of the lungs
 The Winsted News appeared as half sheet last week on account of "pied" forms.
 Mrs H. W. Franklln's premises are being improved in the way of painting, grading, etc.
 A bright light like the reflection of fire was seen in the direction of Clayton last night
 MT. and Mrs. Bell of Chatham. N. Y. are visiting their daughter, Mrs. J. S. New In this place.
 A. Ives is fitting up the meat market in Cummings block, and will open it to the pub lie soon.
 New crossing plates were put in at the junction of the railroads at Union depot last Sunday.
 A shouse warming" was attended at Mrs. Sardam's residence, Canaan Valley, last Fri l day night.
 | Sidney Ensign is to erect a saw mill on the site of his factory recently burned at Huntsville.
 | A tramp printer last week broke into the cash drawer of the New Canaan Messenger and stole $40.
 Rev E. H. Roys of Housatonic is unable to preach at present on account of paralysis in one side of his face.
 A Bridgeport woman, 50 years old, has petitioned the assessors to cut down her taxes because she is an orphan.
 A subscription paper in aid of B. F. Con. sock whose barn and stock were burned last week, IS being literally signed
 Mrs. J. R. Fuller was recently elected president of the North Canaan Bible Society, and Miss S. W. Adam secretary.
 The schools of this place close the fall term next Friday. The winter term will be. gin after a two weeks vacation.
 Engineer Kib Coggswell took lay-oA the other day, and with his family visited his father, H. H. Cogswell in this place. | Norfolk, noted for it's attractions for sum- mer boarders, is receiving applications for winter accommodations from city people The Fl R. R. locomotive ''Useful," which was badly damaged by fire at Newtown re- gently is now repaired, and as good as new. A party of trappers in this place are se- curing considerable game along the Housaton- | ic river, in the shape of mink, muskrat, etc. Will Beebe, who has been summering in Canada, is at present at his home in South Canaan. He will soon return, however, to Canada.
 Carl E. F. Beer of Ct. Harrington who heretofore ran vegetable wagon through this place, cut three fingers off in hay cutter the other day.
 MT. Thomas R. Trowbrdge of Ltchfeld, formerly ''comp." in the Winsted Herald of flee, has been visiting his uncle, P. c. Cum mings in this place.
 -sartial Root tho depot master has been laying off for few days with a sore foot, in- jured by heavy iron casting falling on it while unloading freight. The next lecture of the Ct. Harrington lecture course, will be delivered next We'd nesday evening by Wallace Bruce; subject: civilian Cullen Bryant"
 Three sisters at Mansfield have married father and his two sons, all have children, and folks are trying to figure out their rela- ton ship one with another.
 Mir. E. D. Lawrence has purchased the Deacon Rood place in Sodom, and will prob ably remove his family there soon. His place on High-st. is for sale.
 Mir and Mrs. Olin Nash, on Pine Grove Camp Ground, having enjoyed five years of "better or worse," celebrate their wooden wedding next Tuesday night
 Mrs D. A. Riker gave an oyster supper and dance last night, which, although not largely attended owing to the inclemeEcy of the weather, was much enjoyed.
 While Norwalk Methodist choir were practising recently, George Whaley, 8 mem- Der of the congregation, entered and telling the singers he owned the boards in the plat. form, pulled the whole structure to pieces.l