Connecticut western news., 1879-04-09

The annual meeting of Christ Church Parish will be held at the church. on Easter Monday, April l4lb, at l012 o'clock, for the purpose of electing officers for the en- sning year. and of transacting such other necessary business as shall legally come be- fore said meeting. H. G. WILLIAMS,
 Parish Clerk.
 Tt would look as though the Winsted temperance party were inclined to be some- what earnest in crowding the rumsellers The saloon men have little hope now that it will blow over very soon, and have un- dertaken e slde-pecket evident ly not daring to keep their liquor anywhere ese.-Herald.
 Andrew Barnes of Nepaug, having suf fered from repeated depredations on hls poultry from foxes, recently killed . cat, and charging it with strychnine, placed it in pasture, and the next day found dead fox and skunk lying near. and the next morning another fox was found dead near there, and since then peace and quietness relgu 0uOuS HIS Pouluy.
 As Landlord Warner, of the Warner House with his little boy, was driving along Water street last Friday night, they were met by a team from Falls Village, and both turned out, but in some way the hind wheels of both vehicles got ''locked," and Warner's axle was broken off, himself and the boy thrown out on the frozen ground and thelr faces badly scratched and bruised. The boy received deep gash over the eye which was sewed up by Dr. Camp, who says It need net necessarily leave scar. The wagon was badly damaged.
 This beng "Holy Week." the services in Christ Church are frequent and of most interesting character. The hours for the remainder of the week are as follows: {: Wednesday, 9 30 a. m. and p. m.; Thurs day, 9.3O a. no. and Holy Communion 7.3o p. m. Good Friday being also the day sci apart by the Governor as East Day." 10 30 a. ID. and 7.3O p. m. saturday-Easter Even, g. 30 a. n. and 7.3O p. m. Services on Easter Day at the usual Sunday hours. 1O45 .. m. and 6.30 p. ID. The seats in Christ Church are free and all are invited to these services.
 It is probably generally remembered that some years ago--in 1873-Congress passed law providing for the erection oi durable beadstones over the graves of SOL diers of the regular and volunteer forces ot the United States whose remains are inter red in the National Military Cemeteries. This law has been carried out, and the graves of the Nations dead in these cem- eteries are now permanently marked. Al the instance of the War Department, Con gress has recently authorized the erection of similar hesdstones over the graves of the Union soldiers who are buried in private and village cemeteries. This will be done as soon as the necessary arrangements Can be made. h the meantime the Quarter master General. at Washington, will al once proceed to collect the necessary in formation as to where these headstones art required. All persons having any knowl- edge of the burial places of soldiers in pri- vate cemeteries whose graves are not mark ed, are requested to communicate the fact to the Quartermaster General, and give reg ime4t, company, and date of death of de- ceased, if known. Similar information is desired from parties in charge of such cem eteries. Of course it is not intended to fur nish headstones for graves over which mon un,ents have already been erected by rela- tives or friends of the deceased.
 Editor of the NEws:-The New Yort conference of the Methodist Episcopa church began its s9th session in Trinit, church, Newburgh, N. Y. on Wednesday April 2d, at 9 o'clock a. m., Bishop Merrill presiding. The conference was opened with appropriate religious exerclses, con dncted by the Bishop. The conference roll was then called aud about l50 minister answered to their names The New Yoll conference is one of the oldest and larges ia the church. Its territory embraces th' counties of Ulster, Sullivan. Delaware Green, and the most of Orange on the yves side of the Hudson river. On the east side it includes the larger part of New Yorl City, the counties of Westchester, Putnam Duchess, Columbia, aud part of Rocklsnd and also part of Berkshire in Mass, ant Litchfield in Conn. There are nearly 3O' members of the conference, about three e fourths of the number being in the activ work of the ministry. Only two member have died during the year, Wm. P. Abbo, of New York. and J. Croft o! Peekskill The last banned was the father of the wifi of Rev. P. Germond, known to many o your readers. ca Tuesday evening he wen to the post office for bis evening mall when be was seen 10 stagger. and befor assistance could reach him he fell to th floor, and expired almost instantly. Tn conference will be in session about 8 week A report of tue business of the conferenc would take up too much space in you paper, but perhaps these brief notes will b of interest to many of your readers who d.
 not see the N. Y. Dailies.
 E. H. w. HARDEN.
 The criminal term of the Superior Cour in Hartford has been occupied for a coupl of weeks in the trial of Allen, Hamlin an
 Davls for the murder of ShipmaD, th
 watchman in the State prison at Wethers field. Sept. 2, 1877, in an att. mpt hy Ale and HamliD to escape. Hamlin and DAvi when arraigned elected to be tried ry th Court under a statute then in force. Thi statute has been since repealed, but is i
 force SO far as these cases are concerne and has been held constitutional by the Su nreme Court of Errors. Hamlin and DaYj