Connecticut western news., 1879-10-15

on and had her hip broken.
 Levi Beebe, the Beartown. South Lee) prophet sends the Courier the following Fweather predictions, for the coming fall: | October will be warm and pleasant, with south and east storm about the ninth to the twelfth, short storm about the twenty-fifth.
 The three or -four short storms this month l will clear off warm Most of the rain and
 snow will fall after the wind changes to the
 northwest, to clear off without much wind,
 but there will be two or three sharp, clear,
 frosty nights after these storms The first ten days of December will be warm for the sea- son, and the rain storms will be short, to clear
 off warm, and the last days will be more like
 fall than winter. The rain fall will be below
 the average, and the season will be remem-
 bered as very pleasant one
 | Wont some one agitate the question of procuring public watering trough to be To- cated in the desert in front of the Union De- pot, orat some other convenient point in this
 village. People who live at the remote parts of the town, and come to our village to trade
 or to attend some meeting, have expressed a willingness to contribute to the project. A large tank capable of holding several barrels l of water would be good investment, es- pecially if 8 fire should break out in the busi- ness part of the village. We are no more se- cure against fire than before the water works were built. To be sure we have hydrants, To- cated at different parts of the village, but of what earthly, use are fire hydrants without a foot of hose to attach to them,
 Last July three years old colt belong ing to Rev. R. Bugbee of West Hartlan6, by chance or intention, found itselP down steep deelivity on the shelf of a precipice. Here remaining days after striving vainly te get back, it made leap ofaa9 feet down the ab- rupt rock, then under the immense momentum, it plunged l8 feet over g steep place and then another leap of 3l feet over second preci- | Epice,and on it pleughed through rocks and trees till, it stopped in front of bed of large fsboulders, where evidence of stay of some time. Ifs shown by gnawed trees and earth. FHow it.escaped from this prison cannot be traced, but when found it;was sorry object
 Under skillful treatment it has recovered to such degree as to be driven at good speed. t A good many persons have puzzled them selves, no doubt, over the queer little square notch which projects from Massachusetts in- to; Connecticut about half across the northern boundary. A writer in the New Haven Reg ister explains that years ago when the boundary at the point in question was unset | cd halo to the federalist party got the state Leg@la- ture to so "gerrymander" the town of Grahby ! as to give the part included in the notch of Massachusetts. As most of the democrats in the town happened to live in the ceded part l the "federalists were thus enabled to keep their local predominance. Granby has for years been a steadtast republican town, while Southwick ir Massachusetts, which. got she ceded part has been as steadily democratic Judge Pardee of the New Haven city court has freed his mind again in re- gard to the manner of working up cases against rumsellers, in the case of saloon keeper arrested for selling on Sunday. It ap- peared that '1iquor detectives" induced the prisoners children to violate the law, in order to ssake out case. The judge said that the whole plan adopted ID the local liquor pros- ! eeution was as wrong as it would be for po- lieeman to get man drunk so that he might arrest and bring him before court for pros, ecution. He imagined these prosecutions
 came from~a certain society, and if the socie-
 ty for the prevention of crime allows it's men
 to work in this way, that society will have to change it's name to the society for the pro-
 motion of meanness. However, detective
 says orders have been given to spies not to
 buy liquor or beer at any saloon on' Sunday, and that in this case these directions were vi-
 olated,s
 | The following letter, as written by one of
 the Indians who summered at Lee, was pub
 lished in the Cleaner last week:
 Lee, Mass, Oct. 4, 1s79.-Good bye Lee, good bye East Lee and South Lee. 1 have
 been at the. Lee four months. was came to
 the Lee on the 9th of June 1879 have been
 happy here some time, some time have been
 sCrrowful l shall be sorry not to see,all the
 white people any more here. But l hope l shall be happy at school Carlisle Where
 ever that God is with me and can take care
 of me. I will not forget to pray to him every
 where go Then I shall be safe, and need
 not be afraid Jesus loves him very much, he
 is near us and he will help us call upon. him
 when they fear, l shall never forget to pray
 that God every day and night. and said oh
 Lord hear me while I pray, help me for
 know not what to say But make me to do a
 good man, have mercy upon me. Bless us all l ly rf ho1Y
 from our heart every things that is wrong,
 teach us what to do. Lead us in good ways l Now all my friends the white people in
 Lee East Lee and South Lee, am very sorry
 that am going away next Monday in the | morning and can not to see you any more ! but think perhaps sometime I will come again this country. like it first rate.
 Good by all my friends in Lee the people, From your true friend.
 HENRY c. ROMAN NOSE.
 iting his son in this place, returned Thurs day to Negaunee, Mich., having received from Dwight L. West, his son-in law, a tel egram stating that he had been burned out of house and home. A subsequent letter gave the details, briefly about as follows: A fire originating in the Marquette Depot communi- cated with other buildings in the vicinity, by means of flying shingles, etc. MT. Roots house, occupied jointly by MT. Root and MT West, standing about 90 rods from the burn ing depot took fire on the roof, from some of these sparks, and the shingles being old and combustible, the roof was soon in blaze, and as there were no men near to help extlnpuish it, they being at work at the depot, the fire had it all it's own way. Mrs. West and other ladies near by, worked strenuously to smsster the flames, but it rapidly gained headway,