Connecticut western news., 1880-09-08
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Hen. Straub fireman on the New Milford special, has been promoted to engineer.
 Three Millerton Sunday schools had pie. nic at Browns pine grove last Thursday. Hillsdale is building a new summer hotel, to cost $26. .oO0 and the Herald is happy. The Wolcottville Register mourns that the Torrington fair is to be passed over this fall. Mrs. L. B. Mcintyre and daughter, of H. linois are visiting Mrs. Ms. father at Sals- bury.
 In expounding New York politics, the Col linsville Sentinel speaks of ''Taminy" democ- racy.
 Litchfeld has Hancock club, with Dr. William Deming president. It has l50 mem. hers.
 AS years old deaf and dumb boy was killed by the cars at Pennington last Wed nesday.
 Isaac Miles of Harrington committed sul- eide by cutting his throat with razor last Tuesday.
 A Waterbury horse, for whom $500 had just been refused. was killed by lightning the other day.
 Miss E. W. Greenwood is to give bible readings in Chapinville church next Sunday afternoon.
 J As hold their annual reunion at Wolcottville on the 18th inst.
 Seventy five men are thrown out of em- ployment by the shutting down of the Anso- nis rolling mill.
 Engineer Walter Ferris, who recently left the H. R. R for position on the Ft. Wayne road, has returned.
 Millerton's Hancock and English club, H. %0 campaign uniforms.
 Mrs. Philo Cogswell of Bethel died the oth- or day, from injuries received by being thrown from wagon few days before | By recent change, route agents Theodore Merry and Charles Gorham double up" on the morning train south every day.
 The bracing air is frightening city people to their homes, and nearly hundred 'Sara- togo trunks" left Norfolk last week.
 A Waterbury campaign banner had to be taken down three times to correct the spell ing and repair damages done by storm.
 A E. R. R. switchman named John Mills, aged 17, had his foot run over at Bridgeport the other day, and it had to be amputated. Six children in one family in New London
 have just died with diphtheria, and an ex'
 change says "the rest are dangerously ill"
 The butt of tree which John Copp was
 felling at Mystic the other day, fell on his
 leg, and he died soon after from the injuries
 In Collinsville, village improvement ''stil
 occupies the minds'' of the people, but does
 n't interfere with the roads and sidewalks as
 yet.
 The damages sustained ny the Housatonit IR. R. at the late collision at Parlor Rock are
 estimated all the way from $l8,00O to $25, 900. Gov. .FCornell of New York has bestowed
 upon Wm. F. Hurlburt of Winsted, the title 7 of Commissioner of Deeds for New Yorl
 state.
 The Naugatuck R. R. employees are obliged
 only to be able to distinguish red, green ant white in their examination for color blind 3 ness.
 3 The stage route from Riverton to New ? Hartford is so extensively patronized that ex , tra teams have to be hired to assist in trans
 portation.
 A Plymouth man tried to pick a cartridg a to pieces with his fingers the other day. H ], wont do it again until the bullet hole in hi d thigh is healed.
 IF The barn belonging to MT Scranton c e Seymour was struck by lightning last weel and considerable grain, yoke of oxen, and n horse were burned. '- A train ran over an unknown man nea
 Bridgeport last week, and there is cause
 suspect that he was murdered and his bod,
 placed on the rails. n A Greenwich woman, who was attacked b ;. her husband W tn sickle, shot him with n pistol, the ball lodging in his leg and putin if quietus on the fray. e r Julia Raymond was fatally injured at Sout is Norwalk last Monday because her horse too e fright on crossing in front of an approachin [, train, and refused to move. 8 Woodbury is trying to make np her min n whether to build railroad or turnpike, an tt while the theorists are discussing the ques tion the natives go cross lots . In the case of Ives's appeal from probate E which involves the settlement of the estate ( U the late Christopher Wheeler, of Goshe1 uT u Judge Hitchcock has Fended decision ( $549 for the Collins heirs. Q A correspondent insiuuates that Ne, . 1 Preston merchant cuts half inch of eac ,. stick of his stick candy and mixes the ha e inch pieces with his mixed candy, then sell d the sticks for cent each. = Nearly all the members of the Winste e band declined an offer of wine at recent SCI n enade. They had probably been called fl
 at some time or another; while in a calathun
 plan band, and know what ipecac is.
 A telephone operator near New Milford
 when asked to say grace at a dinner the otE 10 CT day, mortified the party in fit of absen
 mindedness by lowing his head and shout ' ing "Hellol hellol" Force of habit. y A Bridgeport boy I years old was in l. prisoned for stealing bottle of wine, las
 week, and the little fellow sobbed an 8 screamed until he was exhausted in his cell |, Such cruelty to children should be stopped. VI The advent camp meeting at Cornwa
 Bridge is thing of the past, as the owner re F. fuses to rent it longer, much to the regret c 1t the saints, who while they predict the end (
 the world in 1881, want to lease the ground l. for another term of years. 'f A Torrington selectman, Ewriting in tn |. Register, of the poor condition of the roads i that town, says of the road leading to Gosher n "When I rode over 1t late in July, I said d. IF the road, and would have said q -the select
 men if had not been one of them."
 The Naugatuck man who caught squire Q and put it into a cage and soon afterward 1t found six little ones in there instead of one
 was surprised, say our exchanges, but the don't tell what surprised him. Was it be ]. cause there weren't more squirrels? }. MT. J. A. Bushnell of Winsted, the popula
 clothing dealer, has connected himself wit @ the Young America clothing house in tha t place, which will add greatly to the populari ty of that well known establishment. MT l- Bushnell has had a long experience in tn @ business, and everybody in this region know
 him.
 The case of Miss Anna Mccormick, for d meriy of Falls Village against John D. Ba 4 dau and Lafayette E. Baker of Bridgeport U occupied attention of Superior Court at Litch ? field the greater part of last week. The cas-
 was an action of false imprisonment. Mis- Mccormick obtained verdict in her favor 0