Connecticut western news., 1879-04-23
Spring at last.

Miss Clara Marvin is visiting friends ia Bridgeport, her former home.
 Miss s. F. Merton has been to New York purchasing spring millinery.
 Van Amburgh's circus started on the war path from Amenia last week.
 There was sleighlng in this place last Saturday morning-such as it was.
 Erwin, of the New Milford Gazette is d pedestrian. He learned it at Bull Run.
 George Merwin, a Brookfield boy,. cat off his thumb last week, in hay cutter. ! Gen. John A. Dix died at his residence in New York Monday night, aged 8l years.
 A reduction has been made in the wages of the pin factory operatives in Win sted. s.
 Miss Ellen D. Peirce of this place. takes charge of the Lime Rock school this spnng.
 According to report, about 200 acres of tobacco will be sent out in Brookfield this year.
 A fine coach dog suffering with hydro phobia was killed n New Milford the other day.
 -'sTrade dollars not taken here' is the inscription at the ticket office window in Union depot. . Last Sunday night the cellar of the Stevens House was entered. and quantity. of meat stolen. = Father Lynch is having the grounds around the church and house in Lakeville filled ia and bedded up. Rev. Mir. Hunt of Sheffield preached the funeral sermon of Mrs. Marvin last Fhurstay in this place. '
 -The Smith Paper Go. of Lee have pur- chased a fire steamer and organized com pany among their operatives.
 A ''soclal hop" is announced to. be given at the Stevens House tonight. Mu- sic by w. B. Whites band.
 Mrs. M. Humphrey is gradually recov- -ring from her recent severe illness of pneu- nonla, but is yet very weak.
 MT. James H. Lynch of this place has secured position as night clerk of the Mansion House at Springfield, Mass.
 John P. Shields, Canaan's learned blacksmith and poet was at home last week, but departed Monday for Northfield. -Griggs 6 Chapin are G. B. Gardner's authorized Lakeyille agents for receiving orders for jewelry, watch repairing etc. Service is being held in the Catholic | Church in this place to-day, and it is said d marriage ceremony is to be performed. Rev. MT. Mackey moved his house. hold goods last Saturday into the house va cated by Rev. MT. Barden. on Church-st
 U. Deming Perkins declines to- accept the office of President of the Borough ot | Litchfield, to which he was elected recent ly.
 -Twenty-eight kegs of lager were rolled out of one car on Saturday, to help 8 little in carrying no-license Rockville over Sun l day.
 MT. James H. Hill has moved from the Camp Ground and is occupying rooms in the house of MT. T. H. Palmer of Falls Vii. lage.
 The report that H. M. s. Pinafore was to be presented in Town Hall y an operatic company last week, proved to be false alarm. | -Sandtownreaped harvest of beef last week Thursday, the thirty head of cattR killsd by the accident being placed at then iisposal.
 Benjamin Loomis, of Egremont. and Miss Elizabeth Kimberly, of Housatonic, were married last week after courtship ot 25 years.
 The other day George Bullard, sen Of the late Edward Bullard, was severely klck. rd about the head by.a horse belonging 1 to H. c. Williams.
 A traveller for an Albany photograph lng establishment has taken and filled sev -ral orders for large copies in India ink, in this place. exhibiting some fine work. A cheese factory has been opened on Cream Hill, North Cornwall, by the coop eration of several farmers under the super vision of MT. Walter Smith of Goshen. D. w. Clark Esq, lately with Cover nor Andrews, Litchfield. has opened law nff1ce in Falls Village. MT. Clark is good lawyer and we wish him abundant success. Thomas Wolfe of Thomaston recently got a thrashing for abusingia horse. He prosecuted the man who assaulted him, and vas prosecuted in turn for beating the horse.
 At the auction sale of securities in Bos- ton on Saturday Connecticut Western bond of $l, 900 brought 17 4 per cent. The New York and New England 7's brought i0434. Old Boston, Hartford a1d Erie't brought 36 5.8. The recent judgment against that road fer ever million is only subsequent to these bonds, and 30 doe., no, affect themg