Connecticut western news., 1880-05-12
CORRESPONDENCE.
E@lHs Village

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 Comical Brown has billed this place for a concert, Friday evening
 The Congregational ladies' aid society meet Friday D. m. with Miss s. L. Perry.
 Mrs E. c. Cowdrey has been adding to her .tock of millinery goods.
 A small party of young people from this place and Amesville interviewed" Mt Pros pect Sunday.
 Ahp Mott, who for some time past has been at work in Huntington, West Va., returned home last week.
 F.C Brown has been confined to the house for several days with fever, but is now slow iy recuperating.
 MT. Geo. H. Brown will move his family This community is the loser, while the people of c. B. are to be congratulated.
 Mr. Henry Wolfe has added another mu' sical instrument to his household; piano this time which came Friday.
 Wm. Card of Bridgeport is spending few | days with friends in this vicinity.
 Sidney Spencer, an employe on the Fl. R. R. | has moved into the house with Myron Beebe | on Prospect.st.
 The funeral of Reuben Barnum was attend. 1 ed at the house of his brother last Thursday. ! He was 54 years of age, and his remains were taken to Grassy Hill for interment!
  week to the house with congestion of the lungs, but is now able to be around again.
 One of the Weatogue farmers planted his field corn last week
 Messrs. G. W. Capron. W. H. Jenks, and Sidney Reed went out on fishing excursion Friday, and were rewarded with a string of 59 trout
 A new road is being opened south of this village, it being an extension of Railroad-st to the southward of the Canteld property, thence easterly, connecting with Prospect St Mr. J. F. Bartlett has graded the lawn in front of his residence, and intends making other improvements, which when finished will add greatly to the looks, as well as to the val ! ue of his property. The railroad bridge near the shops, upon examination (south end) Saturday, was found | to have settled some three inches, but the master bridge builder and his men soon put 1 things to rights, and it is now considered safe again.
 Rev. D. Moore, having been called away to attend the funeral of his father at Orange, Mass, the Congregational pulpit was occupied by Rev. MT. Barclay of Kent The Congregational choiriwas assisted Sum- day by two flutes: H. R. Wolfe and W. L. Brown, which IS great addition. The cholr sang unusually well, the fact of which is at tributuable in part, no doubt, to the removal of that ''beautiful" ornament, (nay, fr.ud l should sayj in the corner. We were shown by Mrs. John Landon of Amesville, a"New Life" geranium. which is a novelty in the plant line; the petals are very
 finely variegated, and it is greatly admired. ! It was introduced from Henderson's Floricul- tIral gardens in New York.
 John Devoran, Fl. R. R. employe, while running a hand car near the Catholic church, \ fho hon 1o in lnfh and
 before it could be stopped, it caught his arm,
 breaking it in three places. It was dressed
 by Dr. Averil.
 l Commencing the l7th inst, there will be stage run daily between this place, Hunts vile, and Cornwall Hollow by which the pub 1 lie in general will be greatly benefited. Four Iprcposals were sent in to the P. M., which
 were sent to the P. o. department at Wash.
 ington, and s. w. Bradley being the lowest
 bidder, receives the route. The stage will ar- rive here at 9.3O 8. m., and leave at l2.3O p. m.
 Since G. W. Halls advertisement appeared l in the NEWS, he has been dolng a rushing buslness ID the ready made clothing depart. ment. It is purchased of a large clothing house in Boston, through their agent, MT. lC M. Newton. One day recently MT. Hall sold fourteen suits.
 Mrs. H. Wolfe returned Thursday from
 New York, with large stock of ladies' and
 misses hats. The most attractive are the Elmwood, Fernclfe, Idlewild CD Brighton, , La Belle, and Steinway. In late issue of the NEWS we made men . ton of large egg layed by one of MT. c Browns hens of the Houdan species, 3.4 X 8 inches in size, and asked "who could beat <kthat 2" to which the gentlemanly editor oI
 the New Milford Gazette responds, that 'any one can, give them a fork. With (to) the point, Editor Erwin; correct Dr. F. N
 Bennett of Newtown replies that he has g
 common barnyard fowl which recently layed
 an egg 10. Egg timber must be plenti ful down in Newlown But the idea of g !; sleek speckled white crested Houdan being
 outdone by a common barnyard fowl; hu :; initiating ito the hen) isn't it? Nevertheless l. while there's life there's hope. Let the ole
 hen try again, MT. Brown; we'll bet on tht
 Houdan
 HCousideration," says the Item. Why tha word expresses what you should have showr when you asked me for convincing proof' O a what did not give on my own authority ,; We were vel fortified in our position, anC - therefore will make no retrograde move . ment. The facts concerning the engines a'
 xe have stated them, according to oul
 Iauthorties. are incontrovertible. but unde the circumstances, and for obvious reasons WI ' can well afford to be generous. We wish thu sditor well. 1DLEwILD.
 Cornwall Rrldgee
 Jerome Bennett of Cornwall has just fin
 ished a job of cutting cord wood, having GU
 the past winter some 300 cords, which he ii l' to burn into charcoal, and send to this fur :. mace. MT. Bennett says he will match hi D son George against any man in this coun'l . lchopping wood at any time they may agre'
 on.
 F Daaiel w. Manvsl, who was 30 seriously r injured two weeks ago, we are pleased 10 say # IS improving under the skillful carc of pr
 Edward Sanford and the efficient nurse, Geo W. Manvel who are constantly with him # Landlord Curtiss has been paperlng ant c painting his hotel, and IS now building # veranda on the east side, which will adt grt atly to tho appearance of the hotel Wm :, Dean of West Cornwall manages thejob. James A. Bierce is having lis house neatl, e painted. James Eddo of Sharon is the artist P. Miss Katie Sabin has opened milliner ant :. dress making establishment, and our villager do not have to ride twenty miles to buy lt .'bunnet."
 l. Mrs. Zalmon Mallory is quite sick witl if nervous fever.
 None of our villagers went fronting Sun V day, it was too hot; the attendance at ch ircl l. was small probably owing to the weather. yl George Brown goes to New York to buy ;. spring and summer stock of goods for tn
 Cornwall Bridge Iron Go. this week. 'r Russel Bierce has the charge of the Cos y books, and can be found in his office whel r, not fishing or exercising his trotter. "a City boarders are beginning to land here ;. and seem happy to get away from hot bricks VI Garden makers are thick. w. P. s n Goshen. o Mrs Chas Stacking has returned iron Waterbury where she has been spending thu e winter.
 d Last Monday ae Edward Norton Jr. ant
 hls aunt Mrs; E. N. Gaylord were return