Connecticut western news., 1880-12-01
VICINITY.

The telephone fever has struck New Pres- ton.
 Harwinton had scrystal wedding last week.
 Gaylordsvllle is busily engaged in sorting tobacco.
 P. T. Barnum of Bridgeport, is seriously i'll n New York.
 There are one hundred pupils in Litchtield's district school. Boyd Clarke of Winsted is to spend the winter in Colorado,
 Charles B. Lane of Litchfield has been ta- ken suddenly insane. ' New Milford is to have new road-a straight and narrow way. A Hartford company makes paper barrels Tor holding kerosene and cider.
 A Litchfeld merchant, Walter K. Rice, is settling for 20 cents on the dollar.
 A public meeting in New Milford recently vas attended by only four persons.
 Prof. Johnson of the Hillsdale Herald, IS preparing three lectures for the winter.
 Gaylordsville's band of fox hunters are making sad havoc with reynard's family.
 The navigation of the Connecticut river has closed earlier than before in AS years.
 Wm. H. Ely of Winsted is candidate fol he assistant clerkship of the house of repre- sentatives.
 Of the graduates from Yale college during the past 10 years, nine per cent have become ministers.
 Winsted gloats over an ear of corn, picked n Gen. Garfield's farm at Mentor, Ohio, by q Ninstedite.
 Giles Potter, of the state board of educa- tion, has been looking after the attendance al school, of young pupils.
 Otto Hoyt, baggage master on the Con solidated road, died of heart disease We'd nesday, in New Haven.
 A negro stole silver dollar from 8 little girls neck the other day, and was held in $l0O bonds tor the superlor court
 Rev. MT. Lightburn of New Milford lee tured last Sunday night, on "Our country our government, our religion"
 A horse belonging to James Winchell, of MiIlerton was struck and killed by the Conn. Western milk train the other day.
 A girl l2 years old came across the ocean rom the old country, to Bridgeport, without any companions to look after her, recently.
 George Miller, fifty years of age, eloped with Ledyard girl of seventeen. The man was arrested and put in jail, and the girl sent home.
 Huntington voted license by one majority, ont the seleclmen refuse to grant any licens. es, and the rumsellers will take the matter in- to court.
 The Naugatuck Weekly Review, new as- pirant for journalistic favor, is received. Itis a bright, newsy sheet, and deserves.the public patronage.
 Leonard Stone of Litch6eld fell into the hatchway of new house which he is build ing, last week Monday evening, and sustained some severe injuries.
 The Winsted Herald is arranging to publish an almanac for 1881. Every number of the Herald which contains Goshen correspond. euce is an almanac in itself.
 Licenses to sell liquor have been granted to 281 persons, and to sell beer to 2l in Hart tord next year, while there are said to be over 500 places where liquor can be bought.
 A wouldbe practical joker caused mar. riage notice to be published in the New York Herald, in which Rev Father Leo of Win sted, Catholic priest, was the reported bride groom.
 Worthwhile was thrown into state of ex- citement last week by the appearance of one constable searching for a horse-thief, and another moving a family into the street "in open day light"
 A Bethlehem man had his pipe shot out of his mouth with pistol while on his way to church. Such pist l practice on the part of an amateur might prove unhealthy, and should not be encouraged.