Connecticut western news., 1879-06-25

by D. W. Clark, Esq, who will also deliy- or an oration.
 That sensational Otis Cannibal story has been exploded, and turns out to be sequel to the big Canaan Snake scare of last spring. Smith, the ''cannibal," lives in Otis, and the story of his cannibalistic propensities grew out of scare he gave 8 half.witted boy by his yarns and threats to eat him alive.
 Last Friday Mir. H. H. Cogswell of this place picked five quarts of strawberries from his beds, of the ''Monarch of the West" variety, fully one third of which would measure each from four and one half to five and one-half inches in circum- ference, and one measuring six inches. Can any one beat that?
 The Danbury News reports shower of frogs about an inch long near that place June 11th. ''Major Wood and wife drove through them finding it impossible to pass without doing so. MT. Wood says the number ot frogs could be estimated at mil lions. The ground as far as the eye could reach was covered with them"
 A man calling himself Dr. Bacon of New York a prefessed temperance lecturer, wanted to work up the cause in Tyringham, but he didn't get much encouragement and he left the town without paying his bills.- E0gle. Yes. he's'been here, too, and tried to hire a man at $3. % per day and expens- es to travel with him as ''companion." ."
 According to the Amenia Times, there seems to be nothing new in the Vinegar murder case. No new arrests have been made since the negro, Smith, was discharg- ed, but there is a strong undercurrent of public feeling regarding the affair which will eventually compel energetic action. There is an universal conviction that Smith is the guilty party and should be brought to justice.
 While Samuel Johnson of West Stock bridge, Mass., brakeman on the H. R. R. through freight train, was stepping from the caboose to freight car, near Stepney last Wednesday night, he missed his hold in some way and fell between the cars, the caboose running over him, cutting off one leg and an arm. and smashing his head out of all human semblance. He was 23 years old and leaves father and mother. The ladies of Canaan and Salisbury, in visiting Millerton for millinery, are invited to call on Mrs. s. A. Hull, who has just re- turned from New York with large and splendid assortment of ladies' and children's hats and bonnets. Ladies favoring us with call shall be guaranteed good bargains and fashionable styles. Store nearly opposite Conn. Western R, R. lower depot. MRs. s. A. HULL, Millerton, May 29, 1879. 4w4e
 The outspoken editor of the Wolcott vile Register doesn't take much stock ir Mrs. Mix's miracles. and last week, after rapping her firm champion, the New Mil ford Ray, over the knuckles, expresses him self as follows: "When she enters the rolt of being able to cure diseases by the specia interposition of God, we freely and fear lessly say that we consider her an unmiti gated humbug, our esteemed cetemporary, the editor of the Rag. to the contrary, not withstanding."
 An amusing story is told of Dr. Ly, man Beecher by a correspondent of th Hartford Times. When he was preachin, at Litchfield he was passionately fond o fishing, and the preparatory lecture bell on Fridsy afternoon found him standing knee deep in a neighboring pond, trolling fo pickerel, while his coat pockets were file with fish. Net having time l. change his clothes, he marched with hi pole to the church, and entered the pulpi with his boots filled with water and tn plckerel kicking in his pocket. Notwith standing his condition the divine preache one of his most impressive discourses.
 Last week tortoise, moss-grewn an nobody can tell how aged, was found il the marble yard of N. Bolles. Upon it plastron was found the date of 1883, an some other indistinct characters which wer supposed to be an older date, and the initial 5. B. J. s. Gum. who is skilled paleC grsphist and an authority on such subjects thinks the obscure date anc the Initials B. were placed upon the animal 75 year ago by Simeon Patterson, father of J. G Patterson of Hartford fame, who then car ried on the marble and tombstone bushes ut this same location. The animal, after thorough examination, was let go, to liv another hundred years.-Neao Preston Coz Enquirer.
 Mrs. Alice Ives Seymour, daughter o Mr. George R. Ives, and native and long time resident of Ct. Burlington, who ha been made famous as the foreign ("Octavi Hensel') correspondent of the New Tor Home Journal, is mentioned as follows il a late issue of that paper: 'The Honorabl Alice Seymour COctavia HenselD has bee appointed to attend the imperial princesses daughters of their imperial and royal High nesses Carl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria and Marie TEerese, Archduchess of Austri and Princess de Toscane. Mrs. Seymou will during the coming summer instruct th young Archduke Ferdinand, nephew of th Emperor Franz Josef. in the English Ian guage. "- Courier.
 The following law and lswcase are ts ken from the records of the New Have colony in 1869. The statute says: s'Whc soever shall inveigle or draw the affection of any maide or maide-servant, either { himself or others, without first gaining tn consent of her parents, shall pay to tn plaatation for the first offense, 4Os; the sec