Connecticut western news., 1879-10-08

etc; yesterday Mir. Jas. A. Root sold the
 personal property belonging to the late Sam
 uel Phillips, on the Root farm, and still there's
 more to follow.
 Mir. H. M. Adams, principal of High
 school department, and several of his schol.
 ars are making some interesting surveys of
 different elevations hereabouts. Among oth-
 CT results, they find that the North Canaan
 water works has a fall-from the top of the
 reservoir dam to the bed of the Blackberry
 river near the Elm-st. bridge-of 21SI feet,
 3 1-2 inches. They are at present at work
 getting the elevation of Canaan Mountain
 not however with the intention of removing
 1t, although no doubt their faith may be suff-
 ciently strong; but just to satisfy their curios- ity to know just the quadrilateral subtangent
 hypothenuse agtating the triangular diabo,-
 ical system of the equatorial parallelogram-
 and so forth.
 Amanda Violin, aged twenty, and living
 with her parents at Pittsfeld, left home Mon- day evening, ostensibly to spend the night
 with friend in Fairield's tenement block
 Instead of going there she went to the river 2just above the factory dam, left her shawl on
 the bank, and jumped into the stream from
 a boat fastened to the shore She was heard
 to scream once or twice, and people in the
 neighborhood hurried to the river, but half
 an hour had passed before she could be got
 out and it was another half hour before phy-
 sicians could be got to the place, and the ef-
 forts to revive her were unsuccessful. The
 only reason for her suicide is supposed
 quarrel with her lover. She left no note or
 message explaining the act
 The New Milford fair closed Friday with
 almost perfect weather The attendance i! was about half that of ths previous day. The
 receipts were $500. The total receipts for
 the four days were S1,sl6, 57. In the 2:45
 trot for a purse of $loo, four entries were
 made, but one horse was withdrawn after the first heat Patchen Maid, owned by James H. Lewis of Stratford, won in three heats,
 in 2;49, PAT 1-2, 2:45. In the 2:4O trot for
 $l:50, Sturgis Whitlock's Olive driven by
 Lewis, won in PAP, 2:43, 24O. William
 sturgis of Merwinsville reached the top of the greased pole after many attempts. Eugene
 Wood of Danbury won the sack race, and
 Washington used up New Milford in the ball game. During the fair Andrews steamboat
 carried thousand passengers,
 In Saturdays effort at Bridgeport to set
 aside the verdict against William Buchoz, convicted of murderingJ. H. Schulte at South , Norwalk, Gen. Smith offered to read his . amended motion, containing allegations con- corning newly discovered evidence, but the
 court excluded all proof except on points set a forth in tue motion fled within 24 hours after
 the verdict was rendered These relate to
 the misconduct of several jurors in holding . frequent conversations during the progress s of the trial and the court announced that they would render decision on the evening oi
 the 18th. The newly discovered evidence is hatchet, found near where Schulte was murdered and now on deposit in the South !. Norwalk bank. Detective Stark testified that A Bucholz began remark and then checked himself, saying, "Oh, that's too swimming. r This suggested the idea of searching the lo 5 cality of the murder to three persons a e South Norwalk, and in the top of beecf
 tree, whose side had been notched to make d it easier climbing, the hatchet was found, witt l. blood and hair sticking to it's back.
 The Litchf1eld North West Conference ! ac holI meeting at Salisbury, Sept. 30th. Int , churches were in some instances largely rep ' resented, and the meeting was one of grea
 interest. The principal topic of discussion }. was that of prayer-private, family, social B. pubic, etc. The following paper was adopt e ed in the running of Sunday freight trains s "The subject of Sabbath observance is press }. ing itself upon our attention, and the recen l- running of freight trains on the Lords day It in addition to those known as milk train
 brings grief and anxiety to many Christian
 hearts and calls for new medication of th
 rights and sanctities of this holy day. There
 fore resolved that we respectfully remonstrat
 against the practice named, and earnestly re W quest the officers of the Conn. Western an' Housatonic railroads, to secure such modified :. tion of their present arrangements if it cal
 be effected, as shall meet the views of the Sal
 bath observing public, and furnish no occa
 sion for the anxiety named" A committe le was appointed to confer with the officers 0 1t the roads upon the subject. The hospitalit u of the ladies of Salisbury was as usual un It bounded, who fed the multitudes most boun IS tifully in the Academy Hall. R. There are two sides to every story-an
 the item in our last issue concerning the tw N ministers who hired horse at the livery stabl >0 in this place, desiring to catch the Naugatuc
 train, and drove to Winsted in ten hours, d no exception to the general rule. It is sail of the ministers, on driving through the pictur a esque country between here and Winsted, be le came more and more infatuated with tn y beautiful scenery along their course, and whe le near the highlands in the vicinity of Wes Is Mathematical by the Conn. Westerl @, Railroad, which winds it's way snake-like le around the side ot the mountain at dizz
 height above the highway-decked from sum ,r init to base in it's autumn garb of variegate m foliage they were so enraptured with tn a. prospect, that they determined to climb to tn f. top, to view the surrounding country, Ac ,s cordingly they hitched their horse to tn a fence, and climbed up the rocky side of tn o. mountain, to the top, where they went int " ecstaces over the broad expanse of countr. if presented to view-the rippling brooks; tn