Connecticut western news., 1880-11-10
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Voodbury pines for a Town hall.

Woodbury pines for Town hall
 A Litchfeld cat eats an ear of raw corn daily.
 Congressman Miles plurality in the 4th dis trict was 665.
 Two persons pershed in fire at South bury last week.
 The tobacco crop in Kent is selling rapidly and at good figures.
 A Norwalk man aged s3 has just married gushing damsel of 82.
 Amos Hawley of southville has made over 500 barrels of cider in two months.
 Salisbury elected James R. Eggeston (rep and Edward Barton (dem.) representatives.
 The safe in Thompsonville market was entered and robbed of $lOO. the other night
 Workmen have commenced the foundation of the new Episcopal church in New Milford
 The foreman of the Danbury News office i: the happy possessor of a $l00,0O0 boy baby
 The H. R. R. band of Falls Village is to bt uniformed, and we'll the boys deserve it, too
 There is wild buffalo on the mountain near Cornwall, which has been shot at severa times.
 Millerton is raising money to organize a brass band. Go in boys, but you've got business.
 ha TTopoofnpfo r;yar than ever before in the memory of the oldest inhabitants.
 George Kingston prisoner in the Haddam jail stabbed himself perhaps fatally in the bowels the other day.
 A Kent man while working on steel re. gently, accidentally got bit of the metal into
 Russell Bierce, republican, was elected rep resentative from Cornwall, town naturally democratic, over Virgil McNeil, by 174 ma. jority.
 The Telegram judges from the number of cider barrels passing through Millerton's streets, that a good many have lost their blue ribbons.
 Owing to low water a cider mill in Els worth has shut down, and Q correspondent feelng,y effuses as follows: "The mill can never grind with the water that is past"
 After mature delberation the New Milford Gazette comes to the conclusion that "the main reason why the republicans were suc- cessful was the fact that they outvoted us. ]"
 The first through boat from New York since June z, arrived at Hartford last We'd nesday, the extreme low water making it inn possible to navigate the regular craft the en- tire distance.
 Burton Smith, Danbury boy aged l9 had his nose blown off by the explosion of gun recently. Four years ago he accidently shot Q bullet into his abdomen, which was subse- quently taken out of hls back
 A Newtown man ran against a post the other night, which so enraged him that he ''haued off" and struck it with his fist with such force as to break one of his knuckles. 1 u6I uG Wuo Ouu WlooA thuA
 Geo. Silvernail of West Cornwall was ar rested by Fred Yutzler last Thursday charg- ed with stealing lap robes and shawls. He was convicted and 8 ntenced,. to pay fine and costs, amounting to $56. and 10 days in ail.
 As result of Garfeld's election Nathan Ulrich will wheel M. W. Dowd from one end ,f Wlnsted to the other on wheelbarrow, to- lay according to an agreement made before election. No pcstponement on account of he weather. The Housatonic milk train due at Bridge port at alf-past eight Thursday evening ran ,ver n pair of horses at Kent and killed them | ,oth. The train had been divided for the | purpose of makinga flying switch, and the lorses, which were running away, ran in be- ween the two sections and were struck by the | ne in the rear. The horses were badly cut ID, the driver was hurt, and the forward end f the first car was thrown from the rails, ausing considerable delay. ]