Connecticut western news., 1879-12-03

Frank Van Deusen has purchased the "old school house" of MT. Wm. Adam and will remove it to his farm near Dutcber's bridge, to be converted into dwelling house. The price paid was $40. A farmers convention is to be held un- der the auspices of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture, at Willimantic, on December 17, IS and 1s, 1879. An interesting and instruct i've programme is arranged.
 Gong class meeting tomorrow evening at Deacon Hi1sdale's. Methodist ladies' aid society tomorrow p. m. at Mrs. Coggswelrs There will be a praise meeting in the M. E. Church next Sabbath evening.
 The foundations for Cornelius Wander bilt's $5O,OOO English cottage on Pennington avenue, Hartford, have been laid, requiring 100000 bricks for the cellar partitions. The house is to have tower sixty feet high.
 -Claudius Harvey of Rockville kicked reporter of the Hartford Sunday Journal out of his hotel and had to pay $1 and costs for the privilege. He says he got his moneys worth and would like to try it over again. A subscriber in Wisconsin sends us a renewal of his subscription to the NEWS with the following gratuity: 'T could not very well get along without the NEWS, for every time that I get it feel as though I had got letter from home"
 Edwin Harney of Higganum had hen which appeared to to be in ill health and he killed it the other day. On dressing the fowl he found cause for the hens low spirits in the shape of twelve full grown eggs in the shell which the hen was unable to lay
 Escaping steam. .on the steamer Adelphi in Norwalk harbor last week produced sen- sation among the passengers, who supposed another explosion at hand. Ladies fainted, and there was the usual consternation, but the alarm was unnecessary, as the accident was trivial.
 When Rev. E. ,E. Lamb of Collinsville asked his congregation how many would at- tend Thanksgiving services only 20 arose whereupon he said: "We will have no meet ing on Thanksgiving day. If the people leave God out of their Thanksgiving they may soon leave Him out of the Sabbath" l Game to eat turkey in Canaan MT. and Mrs. F. s. Gray of Sheffield at H. H. Cogs- wells; Charlie Marvin of Sharon at G. Humphrey's W. M. Deming of Winsted at his father c. M. Demings; Miss Nellie An. drus, school teacher at Salisbury, at her mothers, Mrs. N. Ham.
 William B. Riddle of Norwich, charged with poisoning his wife, will probably be in. dicted by the Grand Jury at the opening ot the January term of the Superior Court at New London, and tried during the term. Ex State Attorney Daniel Chadwick has beer :. added to counsel for the defense.
 We have had "Kelly boom," although not as wide spread as our neighbors in Yorl State recently enjoyed. It originated in ar alleged assault of Frank Kelly upon his em
 ployer, George Benedict, last Friday morning and resulted in the arraignment of Kelly be
 fore Justice Prescott, by whom he was ac quilted.
 E-Rev. MT. Hallock of Winsted preached
 last Sunday night on 'the murder of Michae
 Quinlan," who, it will be remembered, was ia tally injured iby being struck by the locomo tive "Canaan," near New Hartford fev
 weeks ago, and the jury of inquest summon e ed to investigate found ''that no blame shoul 1 be attached to the Railroad company or it
 employees"
 The newly elected board of directors c n the Conn. Western road met in Hartford Sat
 urday, and made choice of the following off
 COTS for the ensuing year: President, c. " Camp; vice president c. T. Hillyer; treas
 urer, Wm. L. Gilbert; secretary, E. E
 Beardsley; superintendent, John F. Jones J. executive committee, T. M Allyn, A. H. Ho s ly, Lent B. Merriam.
 The Burlington Hawkeye's adv. appear d in our columns this week. The Hawkey e stands head and shoulders above any othe
 humorous paper in this country, andIfor new !, and general information. is second to aone Q To 7eU subscribers we will send the NEW
 and Hawkeye one year for $2 25. The reg
 ular subscription price of the Hawkeye i l. $2.OO, and that of the NEWS $l.5O. !. The coroner's jury in the case of J. D Long, who was found dead in barn in Meri
 den, met Friday afternoon, and after listen
 ing to the reading of 100 pages of testimony ' including that of the physicians who hay a made post mortem examination and wh !. had found no trace of any kind of poison g brought in a verdict that 'the deceased cam
 to his death from some cause to the jury un f known"
 d Frank Hitchcock came into our sanctu1 D yesterday with a countenance as serene as
 soliciting subscriptions for church fair, an
 after treading on our toes in fruitless CT
 deavor to make dancing masters bow, an kicking over chair in recovering first pc
 sition,' deliberately drew from his pocket
 sprig of trailing arbutus with several thrlvin t buds, which he picked at the 'Lower Col j. ner," muttered laconically: Trailing arbutu
 n Uecemoer; note It, ana olsappeared.
 New Haven is so flooded with lawyer a that recent law.s school graduates have har ,- work to live. Not a few sleep in their ofice l. putting out their pint kettles each mornin t. for milk, which with crackers affords the
 heartiest meal. Drawing writs at less tha regular rates and gong shares with consts ;, bles has been resorted to. But this has o,
 casoned the formation of the junior bar as J. sociation which believes in square dealing h whenever there is any business to be obtai1