Connecticut western news., 1880-12-08

Truman Pierce of Southbury. whose house was burned short time since, has been given $500. by vote of the town.
 Sam. Merritt, Bridgeport's pedestrian, who can run 50 miles without stop IS to go to England to walk with Rowen for the Astley oelt.
 The Sunday Eagle is the name of new paper just started in Bridgeport. It is bright as brannew dollar, and reflects credit on it's publisher, A. l.. Cheney.
 The prisoners in Litchfeld jail had mag nifcent Thanksgiving dinner. Landlord Crossman acted as carver, and jailers Sedg- ! wick and Peck as walters.
 A miser named Rutzeman Richardson, who died in Pleasant Valley recently, aged S2, had l S20, ,O00 hidden in his cellar. He always ap- peared half clad and half starved. Salisbury's veteran undertaken, Hiram Bun dy, has given up the business to his son George, owing to the infrmity of age. Dur
 ng the past 30 years he has buried over 1000 bodies. A drunken man from Poughkeepsie was arrested in New Milford last week. He said he was painter come to paint the new stone church, the foundation of which is not yet laid. He went to Litchfeld jail for a short visit.
 | As four clergymen were descending the mountain on the Ellsworth road, in a sleigh the other day, seat broke, letting one of the number down into the bottom of the sleigh rather unceremoniously, and causing consid- erable clerical amusement.
 H. R. Colt of Litch6eld is the vice-presi- dent and acting business manager of the She- paug railroad, and he has put in 8 claim for ] S8,0Oo-a salary of $2,Ooo per year for four i years for his services. The directors have not yet acted on the matter.
 According to the Press, Winsted is to have daily paper, published by W. A. McArthur, another by Frank Slocum, new weekly call ed the Rasper, and the wicked Press talks of starting Sunday School journal devoted to politics" Bully for Winstedl Go itl Lucus Hill of New Milford, an insane man, was recently commanded by the Lord to burn his cousins distillery, but his efforts to that end failed, and he has since been taken to the Morristown, New Jersey, insane asylum, the | institution at Middetown being too full to re- ceive him.
 ! In Warren the weather is so cold that they had to hang the thermoeter on top of the church steeple in order to give the mercury plenty of room to fall, and even then it didn't have lee-way enough, so hole 27 feet deep is being dug at the base of the church under the steeple.
 Conductor Marsh of the N. Y. 6 N. E. R. R. has resigned his position. The cause is said to be, that the company wanted him to mantle, work there as a switchman all day, then take late train back to Waterbury. A very modest requirement., as it would only take lS hours per day
 | The New Milford Gazette man wants an excursion and picnic to Parlor Rock, and l talks about the croquet grounds, delicious cool breezes from the stream shady hooks, swings, ice cream, etc in a way that makes a persons blood run cold, this wintry weather. He's dangerous character, and should be muzzled.
 Bridgeport is the Utopia of newspaper men Week before last it had case of drowning, supposed suicide. fatal railroad accident, an explosion, fire @ probable cause ofman- slaughter, sudden death and steamboat collision, to say nothing of the usual street fights, drunks, deaths, marriages and other side-shows.
 The Rev J. Halstead Carroll, who, our camp meeting goiag readers will remember, delivered the eloquent temperance discourse on ''The young man in chains" at Pine Grove last year, has been asked to resign by mum Der of his congregation of the Dutch reform church at Newburgh, N. Y., for sundry req sons, and lively church fight is imminent.
 In it's National Guard Notes" the Hartford Evening Post states that Gen. Upton is busy on revised edition of his tactics which will be issued to the army and the state troops if permission can be obtained from the war de- partment. We wonder if the members of the Second Heavies will ever forget. that time at Berryville, just before the battle of Winches- ter, when Upton, who at the time was in command oi the brigade to which they be longed, took them out and "put them through" according to his new tactics, which at that time he was getting up. Such a time, and such a mixup never was known before, or since, by body of drilled men. We suppose the Heavies were the first regiment ever drill ed in those tactics, and never did they stand so completely on their heads as they did on that occasion. Upton's 'I will stand by you men of Connecticut in that terrible charge at Cold Harbor, or in the hot fight at the left O. Petersburg when the rebels were unexpect edly encountered, was never so badly needed, inspiriting though it was, as in that terribly demoralizing dril.-G Gazette.
 | President's Message. The last session of the 46th Congress com- menced last Monday, and the President sub- mitted his last annual message. The mos, notable thing about it IS his change of policy