Connecticut western news., 1879-06-04
4th draws nigh.

that time.
 July 4th draws nigh.
 -Open air concerts are in order these pleasant evenings.
 -The southfield band has an acquisition of three new herAs.
 There was no public demonstration here on Decoration Day.
 Rev. Mir. Lent, former N. E. pastor here, was Tn town yesterday. -Landlord Warser of the Warner House is spending few days in Hartford.
 The new houses of J. L. Bragg and Mrs. N. M. Brown are being painted.
 M. H. Rogers and wife of Hartford are visiting their old home in New Marlboro.
 Frank Hayes of New Milford claims the pedestrian championship of Litchheld County.
 -Horatio Beardsley, the veteran painter, died at his residence in East Canaan last Tuesday.
 Grove Gaylerd of Mill River serves on the Grand Jury in the United States Court at Boston.
 Mrs. Franklin's large barr was raised last Saturday-the occasion of regular old-time raising.
 -Sandisfleld boasts of having given . canvasser orders for eighteen sets of Apple tons Cyclop@dia.
 Geo. Brown and sister, children of the late supt. Brown, of Bridgeport, were ln town Wednesday.
 Two Mt. Washingtonians recently went rattlesnake hunting and killed eleven snakes in very short time. The Excelsior Mining Company of Lanesville expected to start up business about the 1st of June. Capt. Paul Boyton, the swimmer, is soon to navigate the Connecticut river from Hartford to Saybrook. l -Sandtown has had another eruption, (which terminated in an assault and battery case at Falls Village last week.
 The forthcoming reports on the recent international exposition at Paris will show Connecticut as the banner State.
 James Handlin is running Conductor Clark P. Lane's train during tho latter's confinement from his late injuries.
 The meeting called for last Saturday night to sse about purchasing fire hose was
 not attended and nothing was done.
 Rev. R. Hunt lectured on temperance
 at East Canaan last night, and no doubt gave geod talk, as it is way he has. Ernest I. Webster of Canaan Valley, al present employed in drug store at Castle ton, N. Y., is visiting his friends at home.
 The officers and managers of the Can san temperance association will meet at A. T. Reraback's office next Saturday evening. Il Rev. Mr. Emmons, said to be former
 resident of this place. preached in the M.
 E. Church last Sunday, Tn the absence oi
 Mir. Mackey. The Juvenile Temperance Union, the
 only temperance organization now alive ir Great Harrington, hold their annual meet |; ing Saturday.
 Jesse Shepard of Sheffield is at wOrh ! for G. P. Strong, timer, in this rlace. } Strong is doing considerable plumbing fol the water works.
 On the night of the 10th of June, l84l (S7 years ago), the corn crop of this vicln- } ity was completely destroyed by trost-says the old inhabitant.
 -Barkhamsted is agitating the subject o centennial celebration of the incorpera- , tion of their town, to take place the frs 3 week in September. a The case of Osborne vs. Schoverling 6 t Co. has been decided. The judgment is $l and full costs for the plaintiff. The cost , will amount to over $1O0. Several ''old bachelors" are cultivatins
 "garden sass" preparatory to giving to thu ! world, 2 Ia Horace Greeley, the benefit o what they know about farming. , We call special attention to the card o, ! Mrs. $. A. Hull in another column. La-
 dies wishing anything in the way of millin , cry will do well to give her call. . -Blackinton, Berkshire County has { musical wonder in the persen of six-year- 2 old boy, who can sing the opera of 'sPln afore" through, chromatics and all. Geo. E. Marble of New Hartford, { i, former proprietor of what is now Camp, , drug store in this place, was in town Satur
 day, looking hale, hearty and happy. A Lee man ssiust for curiosity" hal grafted pear on an elm stock, and the graf is growing vigorously. He has already re. ' ceived 362 "opinions" as to what the frui will be.
 -S. Barlow of East Canaan has invented a new kind of sidewalk and fence cembin- edaa his premises, in frent of Milo Crock CTS residence. fer which he ought to be en- titled to patent. z, -j ID. 0. Bedell of Pittsfield has the con. tract for rebuilding the Lee Episcopal
 church at $2637, which does not include the
 seating, mason work or bell. The work ii to be finished in two months.
 Mrs. Mix, the miracle worker, is said to have prayed for three days over a dead horse belonging to her husband, that il