Connecticut western news., 1880-12-08
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Norfolk is to have free reading room.
 Senator Platt goes to Washington this week
 Woodbury lost few horses with the epi- zootic
 Willard Perkins of Waterbury weighs 400 pounds.
 "The weather still continues" in New Preston. Washington is Gin the midst of shower of weddings" The Winsted firemen's annual ball comes off next Friday night. $lOOOO has been laid out in repairs on the Bridgeport police station.
 Lawyer D. c. Kilbourn of Litchfeld is in Georgia on legal business. Millerton's dramatic association is to play s.Past Redemption" soon. Lakeville's Good Templars are to celebrate their fifth anniversary soon.
 Millerton's presbyterian society held 8 masked sociable' last night. s.-
 Mrs M. L. Graham died at Salisbury of ty- phold fever last week Monday. The Chatfeld mining company at Ore Hill have reduced their force of help. Hartford's policemen have a benevolent society with $40o in the treasury.
 It is reported that the Wononsco House at r |
 The sedgwick guards of Bridgeport have voted to attend Garfeld's inauguration.
 It is thought by Bridgeport paper that the Mercy letter originated in that city.
 City editor Curtis, of the Hartford Courant, has sailed for Europe on vacation trip. A Melrose man has 5000 bushels of frozen cider apples, which he proposes to grind. Four car loads of western cattle were re ceived by New Milford farmers last week.
 Prof. Turner of New York lectured in New Milford on ''Matrimony" last Friday night.
 MT. Wm. B. Rudd of Lakeville is to be one of the aids-de-camp of Gov. Bigelows staff.
 Enfield will petition the next legislature to divide the township into three voting pre- cincts.
 A number of Chapinville families are oblig- ed to carry water long distance, for domes' tic use. The New York & New England R R. is to have double track between Willimantic and Putnam.
 Rev. T. J. Lees reading and amusement rooms in Winsted are becoming quite popu- lar resort Charles Reagan of Rockville had his hand twisted off by getting it caught by a shaft last Thursday. A barn in Bethlehem was burned by era zy young Swede, who is now in the Water bury lookup. Nineteen crops of 1880 tobacco have been sold in Cornwall at from IA to r l-2 cents through out The masons are buslly at work at the Ian don furnaces at Chapinville laying brick for a new oven. Frank Kelsey of Salisbury died in New York Nov. 26, and was brought to Salisbury for interment.
 Sara Bernhardt plays ''Frou-F Frou" in Hart ford on the 21st inst The sale of seats be- gins on the 1lth.
 The recent burglary of Beers store in Corn wall is the fifth time the store has been en- tered in ten years
 A valuable COW belonging to Cyrus E. Wet more of Roxbury, choked to death eating ap ples the other day.
 The wall supporting the 0. W, R. R track at Winsted, which gave way last summer, is about to be rebuilt
 For the first time in 50 years the Connect icut river was frozen over on Thanksgiving day. at Northampton
 Lucy VanDeusen of Chapinyille, l2 years old, has been taken to Albany for medical treatment for spinal difficulty.
 The firm of Carroll Weithauper, paper makers, of New Milford is dissolved, and MT. Carroll is to continue the business.
 The North East Game and Fish protective society held their first annual game supper at Louck's hotel. Millerton, Nov. 27. An ap- propriate poem was read by L. P. Hatch.