Connecticut western news., 1880-08-25
Local News.

-Wm. Washburn of Madalin, N. r., former resident of this place, is visiting friends in town.
 -The NEWS office enjoyed pleasant call tern R. R., Monday evening.
 The north end of the union depot plat form on the H. R. R. side is being raised, add ing greatly to the convenience.
 The old bob-tailed locomotive Estate Line" is running the c. W. R. R. gravel train in place of the ''Winsted, " damaged by the collision last Monday. 4.e 4.
 The fellow who stole green squash from garden in town the other night, think ing it was a watermelon, was little green himselG and rather squashy.
 Mrs. Wm. Dayton and two daughters, of Ansonia, and Miss Abbie W. Jones of Brook lyn, daughter of the late B. D. Jones of Mil lerton are visiting at Mrs G. Humphreys in this place.
 Photographer Hall of Ct. Burlington has photographs of Bash Bish, Stages Ravine, Canaan Falls, Camp Grounds, Salisbury lakes, Lakeville lake, Monument Mt., Bar rington, Stockbrldge, Lenox, etc.
 -Mr. C. H. Brush. formerly of the Dan bury post office, has been appointed route agent on the Conn. Western R. R. route, to relieve MT. J. Weed. His predecessor MT. Frank Welton, has been appointed relief on the Housatonic R. R route
 -Strayed or stolen The comb belonging to the composing room of the NEWS office, with nearly full set of teeth, GA in number, auburn hair sprinkled with black; is not quite lively enough to '.crawl off on it's ear" It is valued not so much for its intrinsic merit as for the efficient service it has given, and for the good it might yet have done.
 In our local mention of our advertisers in yesterdays DAILY we unwittingly omitted to call attention to the ads. of A. T. & M. Ror- aback, insurance agents, and VanDeusen & Mead of the camp ground boarding houses Both are good firms, offering paying invest- ments, and no more could the prudent man feel at ease without the protection of the for mer, than could the epicurean without the goodies of the latter Give them both trial
 The expected fire hose has arrived, and is pronounced satisfactory by able judges. oe dad ,fo pieces, each 50 feet long. A fine brass noz- gle three feet in length, capable of giving an inch and a quarter stream, together with couplings. spanners etc. accompany the hose. This makes really serviceable outfit, and in case of fire, with our six hydrants, we can now cope with it with reasonablehope of success. Chief engineer Strong, assisted by Volun' teer company, tested one piece of the hose Saturday p. m., to the entire satisfaction of all. A stream seventy five in height and over one hundred feet on the level was thrown.
 Much interest attended the services jn Christ Church last Sunday morning, it being the last sermon preached by the rector, the Rev. H. I. Bodley, prior to his departure for Europe. A large congregation was gathered, completely filling the church, and the impress i've services preceding the sermon, were made more.so by the thought that this was to be the last service conducted by the pastor for some months. The sermon was suitable to the occasion, the text being the 2Oth chapter of Exodus, 1lth verse. The subject was Rest. The fact is particular and important, said MT. BodleY, that after He finished cre- ating, God rested He pronounced the work good. He worked six days and rested on the seventh and blessed that day and hallowed it. This is an example for all men. One seventh of our time should be given to rest; God exacts, and our systems require it. It is common for all men to neglect to take proper and necessary rest, and in this they not only work injury, personal in it's results, but afford opportunity for the commission oi sin. The preacher said he was struck, when first coming to this section of the country, with the large number of cases of insanity in this locality. This is mainly chargeable to constant drudgery in any one line of work There would not be now in Connecticut two asylums for the care of the insane if this were not so. The trouble comes chiefly from a want of rest. We live too fast. We are too anxious to do in our single selves what twenty ought to do. We defeat our own ef- forts by striving to do more than we ought. Sunday is spent planning for the week, and the week in pushing the work planned Gods example then comes forcibly to all men, and they cannot afford to neglect the warning The Sabbath was made for man. It is day for rest Scientific men urge that period of rest is beneficial not only to the human sys7 tenn, but even to land and machinery. The question then arises as to what the nature of our rest shall be- Gods rest was passing %N ,&&na rNV VoftN A