Connecticut western news., 1879-10-22

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 New cider is four dollars per barrel at the mill -.
 A new floor is being laid in the telegraph office.
 --J L. Bragg is building barn back of his new house.. -Women's prayer meetings are held by the M. E. society.
 Hon. G. H. Hollister of Litchfeld spent the Sabbath in town. E..-The Directors passed over the Housaton-. ic R. R. last Friday. ..
 Lee people are excited over numerous re- cent highway robberies.
 Miss odell is having show window add ed to her millinery store.
 The proposed lecture course at Ct. Bar rington promises to be 8 success.
 Rev. R. Hunt of Sheffield is visiting in Pennsylvania and New York States. George W. Cowdrey has been spending a week in the vicinity of Syracuse, N. Y.
 Eli B. Bennett is elected town treasurer of Norwalk for the 52d consecutive year.
 Mir. and Mrs. David s. Draper of Great Harrington are at Mrs. H. W. Franklin's.
 MT. H. M. Adams attended the State Teachers Association in Hartford last week.
 The ladies' aid society hold their annual meeting tomorrow afternoon at Mrs J. R.. Fuller's.
 James H. Hodges of New Canaan has committed suicide because of business troubles.
 %-Hon. c. B. Bowers of New Haven was in town the other day, the guest of G. w. Peet, Esq.
 R. s. Willis, Esq, of Stamford, who is visiting friends in Mill River called on us the other day.
 Thousands of dead blue fish were seen floating down the harbor at Bridgeport the other morning.
 A valuable hoEse in Stamford was fright ened to death recently by the sight of two performing bears.
 Wells and springs in the vicinity of Col linsvile are drying up, to the inconvenience of many families.
 The shortest day, about Christmas time, will be about an hour and three quarters shorter than oday. .......= -Laborers on the c. W. R. R. gravel { train, which stops here, are filling up the pri vate boarding houses. Two children and three grandchildren of Mrs. Aaron Morse of Northfeld, have been married within year. A Woodbridge boy, while shaking wal nut tree, fell to the ground, a distance of l5 feet and was fatally injured. A canvasser for the "Cyclopedia Brittan. nica" took $l,200 worth of orders for the work in this place last week.
 W. M. Deming, photographer, now of Winsted, was in town the other day for the first time since he 'paired off," John T. Pearce, formerly proprietor of the Newtown Bee and Bethel Ledger, has opened a clothing store at Bethel.
 Miss Sarah Proctor, daughter of MT. John R Proctor of Detroit, some years ago a resident of this place, is visiting friends in town.
 The Ct Darlington Catholics are build ing their pastor, Rev. Father Hennesey, a new parsonage, to replace the one burned last spring.
 -Engineer John Greer of the c. W. R. R. locomotive "Winsted," has moved his family into the late Geo s. Gillettes house, on Main street. %
 The New York Bazar of Hartford offers extraordinary inducements to purchasers of fancy goods, trimmings, etc. See their adv. in another column.
 The receipts of the Ct. Burlington water company for the past six months were $l379, and the corporation have paid an annual div idend of 12 per cent. MT. Wm. H. Dauchy of this place, by paying of mortgage of $l,OOo, comes into # khA o%a oP %ha lot 11ysy Dauchy of Salisbury. At the Republican senatorial convention of the Berkshire District, held at Ct. Barring ton last week, Hon. Elizur Smith of Lee was nominated as candidate.
 --Dr. King of Bridgeport, a former physi- clan of this place, was in town the other day. having been summoned to visit Mrs. Law renee Gillette, who is dangerously ill.
 Capt. Paul Boyton, the celebrated Eng fish swimmer, started yesterday at the head waters of the Connecticut river, and will swim to the mouth, in his famous life saving suit.
 The old wing of the state hospital at New Haven was partly burned Wednesday, catch. ing by spark from the operating room stove i; loss $40OO. The six patients were removed safely.
 The Cornwall Bridge Iron Company have sold their whole stock of pig iron, consisting of about 2,lOo tons, and are rapidly receiving stock to commence the manufacture of more iron soon.
 At a caucus held on Wednesday at Corn