Connecticut western news., 1879-07-16

performance in Litchfc, in aid of the Con. gregational society.
 Several young bachelors in this place think keeping "bachelpr's hall' is econom. ical. So is starvation.
 MT. George Alfred of Harwinton has some corn six feet high, the stalks measuring six inches in circumference.
 Joseph Null of this place, veteran O. the rebellion, has received pension arrears tc the amount of about $500.
 It is said Bishop Simpson the famous divine will preach the sermon on Thursday Casually Me day) at camp meeting.
 Another big excursion IS to take place soon, to Rockaway Beach. The H. R. R will sell tickets at excursion rates.
 A match game of base ball will be played at East Canaan Saturday p. m. of this week between the "Norfolks' and East Canaans
 Mrs. E. w. Warner is doing good bus mess in the ice cream line, as she well de serves, as her cream is of the highest order
 We understand that w. A. Pratt of thi place has lately met with bereavement, hi adopted boy having been taken away-t' Chicago
 "A burnt child fears the fire" A litt boy recently came into Parsons store an' ooEoA Hco,,,o hot po1y worms"
 MT. F. Lawrence of Gt Burlington, Fas sett & Durant's venerable book keeper, is th guest of his son-n-law, R. VanDeusen il this place.
 Irving Ferguson, late station agent a Glendale, is the new ticket agent in thi place. Nelson Gardner goes to Pittsfeld a turnkey in the jail.
 Mrs. w. c. Gardner of Falls Village with her three daughters has gone to Mich igan to join her husband, who is tailoring il that part of the country.
 M. Knickerbocker's buggy was somewha damaged the other day, by turning out of tn road too far, and into the ditch too near, t. allow another team to pass.
 s. c. Beckley will open his store in tn Town Hall building next week, as liver pa office, and for the purpose of closing out tn remainder of his merchandise.
 On July 4th the New Haven Register is sued fac simile edition of the "Columbia Register" of July 6, 1913, which was eagerl sought after at the celebration
 A number of New Britain young me camping out at Twin Lakes regaled the Car aanites with some fine music and singing 6 the Warner House the other evening.
 The new C. w. R. R. bridge over tn Housatonic river is about completed. Tn company will build two more immediately one at w .nsted and one at Tariffville.
 s. A. Eddy, of New York Unversit son of Hiram Eddy, D. D., the well-know preacher of Jersey City, ,and formerly of Canaan is in town visiting his grandfather, Wm. Adam
 The New England granite works Hartford are erecting agranite monument the late Glover Sanford in Bridgewate weighing twenty tons and costing abol $6,OOO,
 We would call the attention of o, readers, and especially of the farmers, another communication of our correspondel X. in another column. It is interesting al practical.
 The ad. of R. Girling, Ct, Burlington, another column, is changed this week, to a nounce bargains in summer clothing, whi' is to be closed out to make room for goo for the fall trade.
 Very few summer boarders have ma their appearance in the town of Cornwall y this season. One or two more tar al feathers affairs will perhaps frighten the away entirely.-G Gazette.
 The Rev. J. F. Gleason, of Norfolk, W
 ccompany the Putnam Phalanx on their e cursion to Stony Polnt next week. he beil an honorary member of that organization al descendant of "Old Put" , -Silas E. Cheney of Litchteld, the la Horace Greeley's brother-in-law, got mad the local barber the other day and has had rival shop started where shaving costs on five cents and hair cutting ten. l On the evening of the Fourth in Norwa r bull belonging to Thomas Parkson W chained in pasture. Next morning he W found in a corn field. His chain had be stru by lightning and broken.
 The oldest building in New Milfol erected in l722, with oak timbers ninete i, inches thick, has just been razed, and the s will be occupied by $5,00O dwelling to
 built by T. Soule & Brother, for Mrs. Harr c. Boardman.
 A reunion of the Connecticut regimel which served under Gen. N. P. Banks the Department of the Gulf will be held Fenwick Grove July %. Gen. Banks W address the gathering on the ''American Y V unteer Soldier"
 -E. J. Beardsley, publisher ofthe Hillsd'
 Herald dropped in upon us the other d; f The Herald started less than six months a as three column weekly, but has been recel ly enlarged to seven columns, and is gotten in tasty style.
 7 South Canaan's mathematical prodis
 Robert Wilcox, jr, recently told Captain Ga lord who is eighty years old, how many s' z ends old he was, in less than half a minu and has performed even more rapid feats rapid computation.
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