Connecticut western news., 1880-10-06
VICINITY
Thomaston has two brass bands.

Thomaston has two brass bands. The Danbury fair begins to day. sharon is to have Hancock club. \ Sharon's summer boarders are departing. | A petrifed stump has been found in Go- shen.
 New Hartfords Dublin" has & new French
 doctor.
 They are still picking raspberriss in West Hartland.
 "The face of nature is beginning to fade" in Colebrook.
 They gather chestnuts on Sunday down
 in Danbury.
 The Sunday services on Norfolk park have
 been discontinued.
 Thomaston republicans call their headquar-
 ters sthe wigwam."
 The ministers of Danbury all preached nc license last Sunday.
 Winsted is about to be plunged into anoth. CT school tax muddle. ! Woodbury's sidewalks are said to be "a disgrace to the town" ! Collinsville had 8 regular old.fashioned husking bee last week. ! A $4,O0O bridge is being built by the Ali Line R. R. at Chester. Wlnsted talks of opening another place o \ amusements, reading, etc. A Plymouth boy had his hip fractured by playing foot ball last week. Two establishments in Guilford are canning 1000 cans of tomatoes day. \ Miss Mary Rouse of Winsted has gone via California to the Sandwich Islands. Wolcottville tried to get the people inter- ested in free fair, but it didn't work. The Harwinton free fair began yesterday. One of the features will be baby show. Winsted has "Frederick Miles Company, Boys in Blue," with good membership. Woodbury's "Boys in Blue" have disorgan- ized, owing to too many would.be officers.
 Allen St. John, formerly of this place, is in Kankakee, Ill. attending his sick father. Canaan Valleys cemetery is being improv- ed, another evidence of returning prosper l ity."
 Lawyers Graves and Hollister of 1itchfeld talked politics" in Roxbury last Thursday night.
 The sum of SloO has been appropriated for the Litchfeld Village Improvement Associ. stion.
  sLewis Knapp was terribly drunk Thursday night" A Roxbury man raised this year 100 bush els of early rose potatoes on one.half acre oi ground. A man and wife have just entered the freshman class at Wesleyan university Mid dletown.
 Gen. Grant is to visit Hartford next week and preparations are being made for a big reception.
 A New Hartford correspondent says: "the census enumerators have at last received their pay"
 An unknown tramp died in a Rockville saloon, recently, and was buried by the town authorizes
 Kent is to have a new iron bridge, and the place is besieged with would-be contractors for the job. A Windsor Locks woman has been arrested for knocking her husband down and black. ing his eye. 'Eli Perkins, generally known as the big. gest liar in the world, is to lecture in Win sted Oct. 25.
 The democratic candidate for high sheriff of Litchfeld county will be nominated at Litchfeld to-day. Monroe has a cave, in which were found, at depth of 50 feet, spring of water and an ancient wolf trap. Oliver Hoyt of Stamford has been nomi- mated senator for the third term by the repub- licans of the 18th district.
 Winsted had hot fight on the license question, but the no license party was vic- torious by majority of one! xl>. VU D D N.,s aA Norfolk, was badly hurt by timber falling on him, while working on Sunday. A party of men from Plainville have been having months camping out" in Maine. They have been converted to fusionism. The Cornwall democrats elected their en- tire ticket with the exception of town clerk. License was carried by large majority. Barkhamsted, Torrington and Woodbury, which went democratic, or divided" four years ago, went republican last Monday. The Herald is going into the astronomical business pretty strongly, and is showing up Jupiter's moons, "as through glass, darkly." A young peoples paper has just been start ed in Thomaston, and like every other new paper, promises to supply long felt want. |. Mrs. Hingley of Canton, who recently had half her tongue removed, is recovering, and can now speak little, but not distinctly. The police commissioners of Bridgeport have reduced the salaries of their officers | from $50 to TO per month, and increased the force.
 ! George Skinner of Sharon has been to New York, and thinks if that city keeps on grow ing it will be quite place in few years | more
 ! &. n1 %ha chills and fever, both at the same time but in different localities, as the two cant flourish together.
 The locomotive of the c. w. R. R. freight ! train ran in to portion of the train at Win ssed the other day smashing a flat car, and causing some delay. The Constitutional amendment providing ! for the appointment of judges by the legis- lature upon nomination by the Governor, was carried by large majority. P. T. Barnum gives $l 1000 towards estab- ! fishing a room for amusements and reading, to which young men can go, who would oth- erwise frequent rum shops. It is currently reported that the Thompsons of Winsted will permanently close up their saloon, and it is also currently reported that they wont do any such thing. MeTflGt n. DFoWua aReu auou1 oA oaA S was found dead in his bed at Suf6eld last ! week. It is pronounced a case of suicide, and attributed emphatically to rum. A Aiddlebury mans house was entered by ! tramps the other night. who, after stealing all the food they wanted, set fire to the building, which burned down with all it's contents. \ Partially insured.
 Benjamin Treats house in New Milford caught fire, it is supposed from the explosion of lamp, last Thursday morning, but was saved from total destruction by the arrival of the fire department. MT. Treat and wife narrowly escaped suffocation. A Sharon correspondent, speaking of the abundant apple crop, says:-"The cider mills ! ~ro Rlle1 +o nverAovv;p0 with them and all