Connecticut western news., 1880-08-18
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camp ground.
 Amenia had an excursion to Glen Island last Thursday.
 Gaylordsvllle tobacco growers have con- menced cutting
 Convict labor on the Danbury water works has been stopped.
 New Haven's district camp meeting began Monday, Aug. 16.
 The Barnes family reunion is to be helt at Savin Rock Aug. 26.
 The Bethel Knights of Pythias have peach festival next Tuesday. New Milford is considering the question of extending some of it's streets.
 Albert Ziglatzki and Otto Przygode have opened bakery in Winsted. V
 The New Milford telephone company is to extend it's line to Bridgewater. | West Cornwall had hail storm last week, and some tobacco was damaged.
 The Y. P T. U. of New Milford hsve a picnic at Parlor Rock tomorrow. | A Winsted laundress displays sign: "Going out to washing done here."
 A Sharon party of young people enjoyed l themselves at Bash Bish last week.
 Newtown tortures it's children by having school kept during July and August.
 The Conn. Western R. R. bridges between Norfolk and Winsted are beingirebuilt. An Amenia Union correspondent bewails the condition of the roads of that place. a.
 Prot Par of Brooklyn, with friend from Amenia, are rusticating at Twin Lakes. A Sherman minister has preached sermon on "Lessons drawn from Dr. Tanners Fast" A Philadelphia publishing house is shortly to publish new history of Litchfeld County. Millertou raised Hancock and English | banner last Saturday, and had big timeoTer A landslide in Sharon ore mine the other day fell upon German laborer and broke his leg. A correspondent tells of Woodbury man I who has ''gone to Cincinnati to return with a l bride.'
 Neal Dow's party agitated at saybrook last week. ''Vote as you pray" is the campaign | motto.
 A snapping turtle was caught in Nudge pond, Sharon, the other day, weighing 35 pounds.
 100 Italians are at work on Thomaston's new water works, which are to be completed Nov. 15.
 New Milford has chills and fever in double doses, and Millerton is beginning to feel it in her bones.
 Gen. Hawley has returned from Europe. He was the first volunteer in the war from Connecticut
 Cornelius Vanderbilt will build $5O,0 house and $l5. .OOO barn at New Hartford this summer.
 The Danbury News man went to New York the other day with hammer to get piece of the obelisk. Millerton's population has been increased by the birth of child, since the census was taken-so says the Telegram. a The man who directed letter to "Middle. town enSane Aciliam,' ought to have crawl ed into the envelope and gone there. B. Rogers of Colchester, aged 96, is reported to be the oldest mason in Con- necticut having joined the order in 1917. Amenia ladies are fond1 of fishing, and most any time the fair ones may be seen ''very contentedly dangling their heels of the bank"
 Engineer James Hyde, who runs the C. W. Cogswen resigned, has moved his family to Millerton.
 A Millerton boy has little lamb, which is
 
 every where the boy goes, ''The lamb is sure to follow"
 The 17th regiment of state volunteers holds it's reunion at Newtown the 18th; Go. K of the 18th at Unionville, the 28th the 10th at Stony Creek, Sept. 2. ~- -:....:.. No clue has been found to the perpetrators of the Millerton burglary, and the opinion seems to prevail that the search is not con. ducted m the right place. The newspapers tell of the arrest of an or gan grinder in Newburgh, who claimed to be poor having in his possession thSrty-three dOllGrs The imposterI The New Britain Observer. a ''patent out side, ,"came to hand last week about as inter- esting as ever, notwithstanding it was en. | trely blank on the inside. Engineer George Bowers, who was in- | iured in the late Botsford accident, declares | he will not run "No 14' again, as this is the third time she has ''ditched him." ' l A. Hamm IS furniture dealer in Chatham, N. Y. If he only lived in Connecticut he would be o-pun to all kinds of ridicule as 8 vender of wooden nutmegs and hams.
 Nobody having accepted his challenge for go as-you-please starving match, Sport" Campana, the ex-pedestrian, has returned to his old business of peddling pencils on the streets of Bridgeport. l A child-of MT. Frank Fancher of Norwalk while fondling cat met with strange mis- hap. The cat, without apparent provoca- tion, suddenly bit the child's tongue through, making quite serious wound. s8 sf
 Kent has martyr in man, who, while painting recently, disturbed nest of hornets who stung him severely, but he kept at his work, with the remark: 'tIf I was at work for myself, would stop and fight the pesky critters" -a The f1ange on one of the wheels of car on the through freight train broke at Shef | field last Thursday night, and the car left the track at West Cornwall, running into the de- pot platform and smashing it up considerably, besides delaying the train several hours Annie Ward Tiffanny, who appears at the | Winsted Opera House to night was connected with ''Maxwell's Broadway Theatre'' which gave five consecutive entertainments here some years ago, and was pronounced the best combination that ever visited the place. Simon Fischer of New York foolishly bet that he would be the first to land when the steamboat touched the dock. He failed, however, and his body falling into the swift tide, was carried out to sea. Five days later it came into New Haven harbor, 75 miles away. VT
 The Rev. Fra. Leo da Caracena, o. s, F., formerly Of Winsted, this state, and having charge of the Catholic churches in that place, Norfolk, Litchfeld, Goshen and Coldbrook, and who for three years past has been pro vincial of hls Order and president at Allegany, Cattaraugus county. N. r., has been reap pointed to his former pastoral charges in this diocese. @.@
 We have received copy of the Marquette Mining Journal, published at Marquette, Mich., containing lengthy account of a brilliant wedding between M. A. Gibbs and Miss Myra s. Newman. The same article, in the list of donors of wedding gifts, con-