Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02

i A 1eW oays ago Michael Okeefe, who works Tn the Davis ore bed at Lakeville, met with sad accident. The embankment gave way and large quantity of earth fell upon him, crushing him severely. An unknown woman about 70 years old was killed at Stratford Monday while walking on the Naugatuck railroad track. She had $545 and two baggage checks from New Haven to Great Burlington, Mass, on her person.
 | s. A. Herman, Esq.,, of Winsted has been having an encounter with the mis- chievous little god with bow and arrows. and came off second best. with shaft plumb through the heart. The marriage column tells the sequel.
 Mrs. Parker, the last of the Glastonbury Smith sisters. sticks to her principles, and has had her COWS seized once more for tax es. Her husband bid off the animals for $79, the amount of the taxes and costs, and departed with his bride.
 -Hartford has replaced her per cent. town bonds with 1-2 per cents. to the amount of $780, 900. thus saving in the matter of interest $l1, ,25o per annum. The new bonds were all placed at an average premium of about per cent.
 The house of Burr Pinney in Winsted was struck by lightning Friday evening (the 27th), and the bath room and parlor were damaged to the extent of about $l0O. The family were seated at the tea table, but were not affected by the shock.
 A little two-year old son of Edwin Angevine of Middletown fell into hogs head of water that was sunk in the yard, and was drowned. The servant girl went to it to get some water and left the cover off. The little fellow was playing and fell in.
 At the meeting of the Judges in Hart ford on Tuesday the following allotment of { terms for the coming year was made for Litchfeld county: 1st Tuesday of Sept, Culver; 1st Tuesday of November, Gran ger; 4th Tuesday of January, Hovey; 1st Tuesday in April. Carpenter.
 There is an eccentric tramp in Lltch- field county known as the leather man. He lives h cave in Roxbury winters, and at ether seasons wanders from town to town begging his way. His entire dress, hat in cluded, consists of old boot legs tied to- gether with leather strings. He never utters werd.
 St. Msry's Congregation, of Lakeville advertise ''picnic on a grand scale.' to be held at Perch Rock, Lake Wononscopomoc, July 4th, the amusements te include dancing, wheelbarrow racing sack racing, grand boat race for prize of $lO and the championship of Litchdeld county. Train leaves here going West at 9.53 a. m. Fare for round trip 50 cents.
 Alfred Elson, the pedestrian, who be gan the self-impesed task on Monday last of walking from New London to Norwich and back twice daily for week, completed his walk Saturday night. having travelled over that dusty, hllly road for week, mak- ing his sixty miles day when the ther- mometer was in the nineties, without ap- parently being the worse for it.
 James Mars, co,ored, aged s9 years, of Norfolk, was visiting in Winsted recently when he encountered MT. Elizur D. Munger of Dundee, Mich, whom he had net seen fer 46 years. Mars is probably the only man living who was born and sold into slav. cry in Connecticut. The father of MT. Nun, ger purchased Mars when he was child. When he was 10 years old the institution of slavery died out in this state.
 The work of completing the capitol dome at Hartford will be commenced next week and the copper roofing will be through with by the latter part of July. The plas- tering of the rotunda is in progress, and the : repairs on the dome piers will be hurried forward as rapidly as possible. But in spite of the finest workmanship the inserted plugs of granite, necessary fer filling the drill holes for pouring in type metal, will remain visible.
 The entrees for the summer crops in the Housatonic agricultural society at Ct. Burlington this year are: One acre spring wheat, 3; five acres rye, 15; three acres rye, 20; one acre rye, 26; five acres oats, l9; three acres oats, 26; one acre oats, 29; one acre barley, 5; half acre sowed corn, IL; three acres cultivated grass, 20; vege- table gardens. 6 flower gardens, z; apple orchards, ?; pear orchard, l 1; total, 19O. Last year there were 243 entries. Mir. B. B. Stilson has been canvassing Danbury in the service of the Connecticut Bible society. He has found 61O foreign families and 1856 American in the town He found 63 Protestant families without the Bible. Of 5O4 Roman Catholic families 205 bad the Douay scriptures, and GA pur- chased the Bible. There were 7l8 families who did not claim to attend public worship. There were 45O children between the ages of four anG sixteen years eff age who do not attend Sunday school.
 The Lakeville correspondent of the Telegram says: ''On last Monday as John Dunn was driving one of the teams lately purchased by the Chatfield Mining Co.,. the horses become suddenly frightened and backed over one of the banks, which is about twenty feet high. As they were about to go over it, the driver jumped off and es- caped unhurt, and the team, strange to say, although falling from such height with the heavy cart, which in some manner turn ed over on top of them. escaped with only 1 8 few scratches"
 | -Jeru Phillips, worthless New Mil ford negro, while drunk Friday afternoon,