Connecticut western news., 1879-03-12

The pulpit of Christ Church was occu- pied by Rev D. G. Andrews of St. James Church, Ct. Burlington last Sunday. and we regret that we are unable to give s sum. mary of his sermon in our religious depart ment.
 Peter Lampman, . Lakeville saloon keeper, was arrested recently for selling liquor without license. This Is the sec on6 indictment against him within a short time. Lampman and others have applied for licenses and been refused.
 Robert Van Deusen butchered Tuesday at Burlington. Elijah N. Hubbard's thor ough.brsd Durham bull, which has taken . first premium at the fair for three years. The animal weighed 2,l7O pounds on the hoof, and dressed over l, ,5OO.
 The Steveps House in this place has changed managers. and will hereafter be conducted by F. K. Cleaveland. Esq. ot Winsted, who has placed Mir. Edward Bierce of that place in charge for the pres eut. Mr. Rlker will go to Winsted.
 At the annual meeting of the Vlllag' Improvement Association at '. B. Reeds last Friday night the old board of officers was reelected the subject of Illuminating Railroad street. and the grading of the park were discussed, but nothing definite was de cided upon.
 A. P. Cleggett, Jr., champion checker player ot the state, has accepted the chal lenge of |. R. Patterson to play & series ot sixteen games of checkers for the state championship, in Hartford Tuesday after noon and evening. Eight games are to bt played at each sitting.
 Read s. c. Beckley's advertisement oi the Holman liver pad in another column These remedies have proved wonderfully effective wherever they have been tried Mr. B. is meeting with good success in sell ing these remedies, and has established b. cal agencies in neighboring towns.
 The young gentlemen of the Soutt Berkshire Institute will give free gymnas tic exhibition at the institute gymnaslun next Monday evening. The closing exhi- bilion of the winter term will be held in th' chapel of the institute ou Thursday eve'g. 2Osh inst. The spring term begins Monday March 3lst.
 The winter term of the public school of this place closes this week, and the pu- pils have been making preparations for a' exhibition to be held tomorrow (TEursday evening in Town Hall, consisting of dec. lsmations, dialogues, recitstions, singing etc. The proceeds are to benefit the school Admission 20 and 25 cents. Tickets fo sale at the post office.
 The Winsted revival of religion prove m inestimable boon to that borough, ,havin awakened the editor of the Press, ''th wickedest paper in the state," to a con victing sense of his sinfulness, and tha journal walls in ar agony of despair, ''Whs must we do to be saved ?" and entreatingl implores answers to the awful question Tell him, somebody.
 Some kesner played pretty good jok on Jim Ksene, the great grain operator tn other day. He forged Jlm's name to tel egrsphic order on Chicago broker to SC 5000, 900 bushels of wheat on Jim's ac count The wheat was sold and the pric went down from s6 to 93. It is of course wrong to forge even Jim Keene's name, b, then, in case like this the penalty ought be fine of Sl. It is dog eat dog, Pedestrian Butcher succeeded in b second attempt to walk l75 miles in hours at Ct. Burlington, finishing the tram at s:3s Saturday evening, 9 minutes ahea of time. His friends say he could hay finished at 5 o'clock, as he took the wal very easy in the afternoon, making mi on the average in l4l-4 minutes. He ", off the track about 6 hours of the AS. Aft finishing his exploit he walked the rest { the 4s hours for his own amusement.
 A second Joyce Heath dled at the DO, house on Wallins Hill recently. She W
 known as "Old Aunt Jinny," and old sl
 was beyond the power of living man to te
 tlfy. She called herself anywhere from
 hundred to hundred and thirty-fve yea
 of age, and of course she remembert
 George Washington, Julius Cesar and 1
 sthem fellers." She was buried in Nc
 folk, and as a compromise her relativ
 call her one hundred and eighteen yes
 old. Pres.
 The dime party at Mrs. A. T. Ror } backs last Thursday night was we'll atte D.
 I'd in spite of the inclement weather, al
 all reported themselves please d with the ( tertainment received at the hands of MI R. The charades, singing, tableaux, ''sou
 shing-to-eat," etc., were enjoyed by 6
 but, as is always the case, there were sor
 ':meddlesome" gossips present, who we constantly talking and jabbering while o of the most interesting charades was pr gressing- .
 -Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmi, is dead. He died where he was born, New Britain. the 9th inst. He was bo Dec. 10, 1910. At the age of IS, he 2 , prentlced himself 10 blacksmith, and h, lung learned the trade he followed it at i | tervals for several years. MT. Burritt chiefly distinguished as linguist. Wh working at the anvil he studied Greek. L In, French aud other languages, and at |
 age of thirty, be had become more or ls familiar with all the languages of Euroy
 and several of Asia, including Hebre
 Syriac. Chaldaic, Samaritan and Ethiopia
 At Lakeville recently, case of assal
 and battery was tried before Justice Tu
 ner. The complainant was Mrs. Monoh