Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15

interest which may come under the1i- hc'lce.
 -Oae year ago tonight Tariffville vas discovered.
 .,-MiI!ertnn will be Among the Break srs" tu.hight.
 -Sile Kuickerbocker has been re-christ- ened ''Jules Verne"
 Miss Emma Hunt of Sheffield is princi- pal of the Lime Rock graded school. - e.-Rev R. Hun's friends gave him do- nation at his parsonage in Shelf Id last week.
 Tue V llage In provcment assucistion's snow blow business is doue by Mir. D. L. Peircr.
 Las, right Charlie Fowler's barber shop wes htfl c,ed with gruntiug, wheez- hg1ae pipe.
 Rev. Mir Lane's lecture on "Arti- chokes" comes off tonight in the Meth oiist church.
 John Van D usen wants girl to do house7work. See his advertisement in an o'6cr column.
 -Merwinsvlle is getting up colony of forty or moro persons to emlgrate to Kan- sas or Nebraska.
 Now is the time for surprise parties. We're at home every evening, and seldom expect evening callers.
 The Wins'ed fire department hold their tenth annual ball in the Opera House on Friday evening. Jan. l7.
 Two new houses are in process of con- struction-Mrs. N. M. Browns and J. l.. B"sgg's. Canaan's growing.
 IT Dei min Franklin had lived until xt Friday he would be just l78 years oid, but unfortunately he di 80 years ago.
 Hon. William D. Bishop of Bridge port is improving in health, but is not yet sufficiently recovered to attend to business,
 IN -xt Sunday evening R V. MT. Bar ien will deliver his promised lecture to young l, dies, and desires full attendance
 Mrs. Bridge' More of sh, field being affiIetedSvi,h dropsy, had fifty-one poun 's of water taken from her last week by Dr. Smith. r.a
 Tine pin factory in Wlnsted has re- ,iueed the salaries of, its employees. The Press says thlsis one of the immense advan- iages of resumption. ~'-Ano,her fatal case of hydrophobia is "epor,t d from North Gelerook, the victim (whose name we are unable to learn on ga- eug FU press, )dying yesterday.
 --Moses Camp, who spent bis vacation at Norfolk. returned Monday to N-w York, xheFe be is attenoing medical lectures. will: Cr0cker returned last week.
 -Cplonel Evarts of Salisbury has been .pponted aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Andrews. This appointment .rompletes the list of aides-de-camp.
 -Dr Clemans returned from his holiday rip last Saturday, having visited Worces- CT, Bi,s'ou, Providence, Brooklyn and New York. He will be at Camps drug store next Friday. .'-; ,-!Ehe morning trains on the B ston & Albany rosd cortrive to delay the morning rain south on the Housatonic road from ne half.to three quarters of an hour near every day nowadays. The ladies aid socie,y's dime party nd- strtis.d to be held at Geo. Strongs last Thursday night, Was postponed on acc"uDt ,i the storm until last night, and we sup pose, passed of pleasantly.
 The sleighing is good hereabou,s, and the streets are made cheery with the ''jin- gle jingle" of the mu ical sleigh bell. We nave heard of no grand sleiehing party pro- ice, yet, but presume it will project before July 4th.
 --Tre railroad commissioners have ren- !er,d their decision in the matter of the rail '5ad connections between tine Connecticut Western and N N,uga,u"k and the New York ,nd New England roads They fiId that no good and sufficient cruse exists for their making any regulation in relation thereto.
 ;-Dutcbess Farmer Officers from Con- 'feticgt paesed through Dover Plains on New Years evn with an escaped prisoner rpm. sLurl,fi"'d County jail named Jake 5seger,. V hom they had r"-taken at Pine Bush. on al.e west side of North river. s e. ger was committed for burglary aLd escur- Id about six weeks since.
 -Lsst Wednesday night as Cummings ram g'ing west was approaching West Norfolk, the tire of one of tn, driving wheels of the engine broke, recessitating iel.y of three and cne-half hours until a locomotive telegrapbed for from Hartford .ould arrive. Two days after an axle broke ,n the relief engine, and tire on one of the fight engines.
 The Nv Milford tobacco factories are 'till running brisk!y although large DOT ion of the crop has been sorted Nine were 'ouses are now in operation in the village, ~h!e in B:idgewsfrr, Vim. R .pdall & Co. md Robert K eler have large factories. MT. K"elcr has bought considerable quantity 'I New Milford, having taken fifteen tons from one farmer.
 Fuller and Peets store is being consid- .rably improved and moderniz d-another evidence of the advantages accrn,ng from resumption. "A new , flee is being done off in the rear of the salesroom, the little l