Connecticut western news., 1880-01-21
LOCAL NEWS.


 =" We shall feel greatly obliged to any of our friends in the county, or elsewhere, who will send us particulars of any occurrence of interest which may come under their notice. The almanac insists that winter is half over.
 The writing school in this place closes tomorrow night.
 The inventory boom is about the busiest boom a-booming.
 Miss Ida Caswell is spending few weeks with friends in Ct. Harrington.
 MT. Wm. Adam has been seriously i'll, but we are pleased to report, is recovering. "A number from this place talk of going "Among the Breakers at Sheffield tonight -Chas. Parsons of East Canaan is at Pe- qusbuck, at work on the N. Y. & N. E. R. R. About 200 pickerel have recently been caught at Twin Lakes, averaging two pounds apiece.
 The sedgwick farm at Cornwall Hollow, is to be worked on shares by Daniel Studley of Ellsworth.
 Reuben Mcintyre of this place is acting as assistant to Station agent Martin New at Lime Rock.
 The fourth quarterly conference of the N E. society in this place was held on Mon day foreno-n-
 Mir. G. Humphrey, the veteran druggist, has been confined to his room with sickness for several weeks.
 The ambitious checkerists of this place talk of forming checker club, with go-as. you-please champion belt
 The I. D. D. r. Club dances show no falling of in interest, and prove the most en- ioyable occasions of the season.
 Miss Geikie has returned to Ct. Barring ton to resume her classes there, and hopes to meet her pupils in Canaan next week.
 -C. M. Humphreys new house on West Main-st is nearing completion, and will be a well arranged and comfortable dwelling.
 Mi. L. S. Parsons, assistant at G. l.. Par sons' store iu this place, is on the jury of the criminal court at Pittsfeld during the present session.
 -Mr. N. c. Ward has been spending some time in Negaunee, Mich. in company with Hon. W. Fl. Barnum and M B. Richardson of Lime Rock.
 The annual meeting of the Housatonie Milk Producers Association will be held al the Town Hall in New Milford, Tuesday January 27th, at l2.3O D. m.
 Lawyer F. E. Cleaveland of Winstet spent the Sabbath with his mother, Mrs. D A. Riker in this place. Mrs. Clark Halstea' of Winssed, also spent the Sabbath at thu same place.
 Salisbury suffers severe blow in tn death of Mrs Donald J. warner, which oc cured last Tuesday evening. She had beel in feeble health for some time past, but th immediate cause of her death''was heart dis ease.
 Rev S. B. Forbes of Winsted will lectur before the Temperance Union in Town Hal next Tuesday evening, commencing at / o'clock Mr. Forbes will give some accoun of the temperance work in Winsted during the past 2 years.
 Piper Freeman, better known in this re zion as old "Pipe," colored man living il Sheffield, froze to death in that place las Tuesday night. He was found dead on th' highway, and is supposed to have fallen in [ fit. He was 62 years of age.
 We would say to Sportsman" an anony nous correspondent, if the merits of you cause are not of sufficient importance to in duce you to accompany your communication with your bona fide name, it is not worth win dicating. Anonymous communications re ceive no attention from us.
 A grand concert is to be given in th' West Cornwall Chapel next Friday evening by the West Cornwall Cornet Band, assisted by eminent musicians from abroad, including Miss Rose Harding, the young lady cornetis of Pittsfeld. The programme is well arrang ed, and insures an evening of pleasure and profit.
 The Archdeaconry of Litchfeld met 1T Pine Meadow yesterday Cruesday,) and con tinues in session until to-day. This organiza- ton is composed of the Clergy and of repre- .ck kI,o or ishes in Litchfeld County. It has charge oi the missionary workiof the county, subject, o course, to the Bishop of the Diocese.
 A meeting of the Cong. Church and so- ciety was held at East Canaan last Friday p. ID. to take action upon the resignation of the Rev. L. H. Reid, with the following results At the church meeting, (embracing the church members) four were in favor of accepting the resignation, and 30 opposed it. In the society meeting, three were for accepting and thirteen against. A committee was appointed to wait upon MT. Reid with the result of the meet ings.
 That Falls Village correspondent of the Herald ought to know and appreciate the rep utation ot the NEWS, for enterprise, better than to ridicule 8 legitimate attempt to { 'sbfanch out" from the old and stale way of putting it; and if we see fit to say that man was swept over Niagara Falls, after jumping from suspension bridge, even if the river does run the other way, whose business is it, so long as we admit that he was ssoept? That isn't half as strange as the old story of the old woman who "swept the eobwebs from the