Connecticut western news., 1879-09-10
Cool nights.

Cool nights.
 The potato rot is very bad in this vicinity. ! -Barkhamsted celebrates it's centennial to-day.
 Cider mill owners are beginning to bid for apples.
 Master Irwin Freeman is sick with ty- phoid fever.
 The recent diphtheria epidemic seems to be subsiding.
 The schools opened last Monday with good attendance.
 S., A. Eddy returns to New York University next week.
 A seres of free medical lectures in Town Hall, beg ns tonight.
 The Cornwall Bridge Advent camp meet ing closed last Monday.
 -Rev. Dr. Eddy spoke on temperance in Winsted last Tuesday night.
 Mrs. W. T. Ferguson of this place is v:s- ting at her old home in Winsted.
 Frank Lindsey of Clayton is studying law in the office of A. T. Roraback.
 Rev. MT. Hunt lectures on temperance at East Canaan next Tuesday night.
 Miss Hattie Wilcox, the telegraph opera tor at this place is having 8 vacation.
 Lawyer Dunham of Stockb1idge will crate at tbe Otis cattle show on the 18th inst,
 Has tbe prominent business man. peS'- tioped for fsgmau for Humphreys crossing?
 MT and Mrs Samuel G. Rider celebrate their wooden Hedd;ug on Tuesday, Sept. 18th.
 The old lower furnace blew out last Sat urday. It VII sSart up in about three weeks.
 We have received from Wm. Bennett's field stalk of corn Il feet, nine inches long, Nextl
 Willard Underwood is recovering from severe illness, havng been threatened wioh typhoid fever.
 John Shields, the learned blacksmith, has returned home from Northheld, where he has been working at h;s aade.
 -G. E. sou'es of Chapinville lately caught a snappiog turtle tbat weighed 35 pounds. How is thaS for 8 fresh water lakeP
 The village street lamps are now in the care of Master Willie Shields, his predecessor hay ing Clicked ous' qui;e suddenly.
 An itinerant orchestra entertained the people hereabouts last Thursday evening, closing with the usual "hat exercise"
 -Hindman Barney, the one-armed temper ance lecturer, will give an address in the Methodist Church next Sunday night.
 Miss Ella Mcintyre is expected home this week from Delhi, N. Y., where she went with Rev. MT. Barden's family in April. At the present session of the United States District Court at New Haven Ira &. Bunnell of Canaan is on the Grand Jury. A strange white bird over SIX feet high
  the marshes along the Connecticut liver. Only ten tickets sold at th's station for the K. P. ezcu sion last Friday. There were s;xty-.wo sold for the one that weot the week before.
 A preliminary survey was begun last Thursday for railroad fom this place to Mill River. A corps of eng;reers from N. Y. are doing the work. Mir. Sylvanus Butter of New Haven has prepared very elaborate map of the locality of the Ssannard murder for the use of the State at the coming trial of MT. Hayden.
 w. C,ocler of East Csuaan goes to New York this week to attend the winter term of She New York Upivers:::y, the p,elim- mary term of which commences next Monday.
 MT. Gilbert Ireland, who has been a boarder at Rev. NJ. Re:d's during the sum- mer, departed for his home in New York last week. He expects to enter Princeton College this winter.
 An excursion started from Bridgeport t last Sunday for Coney ls'ard- The severe storm prevented lsrdiog, and they wee not able to reach home until four o'clock Monday morning.
 -Tbe old State house at New Haven is re- ported to be in @ very weak condition and E- able to fall down at any time. It is not considered worth while to repair it, ard the probabilities are that it will soon be re- moved.
 At the R. R. picnic last Saturday mem- Der of Fuckers band was struck by swing and bruised slightly in the face; his instru- ment also was damaged. These high swings at picn;cs are dangerous things aud should be better guarded
 At recent liquor trial in Winsted an irate dealer broke out as follows: "Judge, there's no use of yocr trying to stop liquor selling. Just as long as there is 8 cents profit on 10 cent drink, rum will be sold, and no one can stop it.'
 John Van Horn, brakeman on the H. R. R. lately had barrow escape. While stopping car, the hand wheel of the brake came of and he fell on the track. He jump ed away just in the nick of time, the wheels grazing his legs as he did SO.
 The daily camp-meeting edition of the Connecticut Western News, published at Piue Grove, Canaan, Conn. has been a very cred itable undertaking and has given the neus and proceedings of the meeting in very accept able shape. We hope it has been financial success, as it was worthy of large patron age-FishkM Standard. h &Tbsnks:ait IVES; there's millions ip t.