Connecticut western news., 1880-01-14
LOCAL NEWS.

= We shall feel greatly obliged to any oi
 will send us particulars of any occurrence oi interest which may come under their notice.
 Miss Nettie Spur of Chapinville is visit ing in California.
 -Wm. B. Rudd and son of Lakeville are visiting in Lyons, N. '. We are compelled to abridge some of our correspondence this week.
 Who saw Venus in conjunction with the moon last Thursday morning7 The Cornwall Bridge Iron Co. cast on an average s-4 tons ofiron per day. -Ex-editor Rogers of the Courier is visit ing at his old home in Ct. Harrington. The freight business of the Housatonic R. R. is larger than ever before in its history. Fishing at Twin Lakes is good at present, and fishermen are carrying away some beau. ties.
 -Beartown Beebe predicts an old fashion ed winter. February will be colder than Jan. uary.
 Augustus Bigelow's farm, midway be- tween this place and East Canaan, is offered for sale.
 w. B. Smith of Pine Meadow has been appointed prosecuting agent for Winsted and vicinity.
 The Canaan Dramatic Association are preparing for an entertainment to be given in few weeks.
 Sam Ferguson o66ciates as c W R R station agent in the absence of Representa- tive T Watson.
 Might watches with illuminated dials are the rage at present, and several persons in this place carry them. The third dance of the L D. D. Y Club which WAS to have been held last Friday night, was postponed. one week.
 -B. J. Bradley is making extensive re. pairs on the Miller House at Ct. Harrington, which is to be conducted strictly as a tem- perance hotel
 Mrs. H. P. Barnum of Wetaug has calla plant four feet in length, containing blossom four and three-quarters inches vide by six and one-quarter long.
 The new officers of Housatonic Lodge, No. 61, F. & A. M. were publicly installed last evening, and Masonic address was given by Rev. R. Hunt.
 The "Great Metropolitan Combination" |" announced to appear in this place last Satur- day night, didn't come. It is said they dis banded at Pawling, N. Y.
 A meeting of the Congregational society is called at the Conference Room next Friday at p. m., to take action with reference to Rev. MT. Reid's resignation. Mrs. T. F. Watson and child are visiting at Hon. D. Brewster's at Falls Village. Mr. Watson went to Hartford yesterday to attend to his legislative duties as representative. Considerable rye straw is being hauled from this place to Mill River, where the Paper Co. pay SIS. per ton. A very short time ago it was drug on the market at $4. per ton. The H. R. R. Co.'S. freight yard at Bridge port, now being improved, will, when oom- pleted, be one of the best arranged in New England; the improvements costing 825, ,O0O. The daughter of the late Dr. Thorn, the portly physician who was so prominent at the last camp meeting, has taken her fathers practice in Duchess County, and is doing ! well.
 We are requested to correct statement made by our Lime Rock correspondent two weeks ago. that MT. James T. Levi had sold his residence to MT. Adams, the chemist no such transfer was made.
 Prof. J. M. Lee will close his school at Amesviile next Friday evening, when he will have given his pupils IA lessons for dozen. We hear he intends to open schools Tn Win sted, New Hartford and Norfolk soon.
 A woman named Elm. Carpenter, an in- mate of the aims house in Sharon, claims to be the mother of Mary stannard, for whose murder the Rev. Hayden is now on trial, and says she gave her to Charles stannard several years ago.
 The new Masonic hall at Lakeville is to be dedicated next Friday at 2,sO, m, and the ofioers-elect of Montgomery Lodge, No. ls, F 6 A M will be publicly installed in the eve- ming, when an address will be delivered by Wm Wallace Lee, Pc N of Connecticut.
 -sheppard's jubilee singers attracted a good audience at M. E. Church last Wednes- day night, and the concert was highly appre- ciated. MT. Sheppard gave portion of his experence in slavery, having been slave for 25 years, and the property of Gen. Robert Lee.
 -"Among the Breakers" will be perform ed at Town Hall, Sheffield, Mass, by a con- pany of star actors, Jan. 2lst, also the grand oratorio, "Ye Sons of Israel" by twelve voicea Trains will be in waiting after the entertainment to carry passengers north and south. Tickets for sale by E. c. Burtch at Sheffield. All seats reserved. 25 cents and s5 cents, according to locality.
 Mir. Henry Bryant, g talented Hartford artist, has recently completed, for Frank L. Pope of Elizabeth. N. J., an exquisite land scape painting of Washinee, the larger of the 1 Twin Lakes, of Salisbury, Ct. The view is from the high ground on the northeast, look. ing across the lake and the island toward Sal sbury village, and the work is pronounced by judges, to be one of unusual merit. -C0urSer.
 The Berkshire Courier announces "off-