Connecticut western news., 1880-05-12

 interest which may come under their notice. ,.e-Comlcal Brown next Thursday night. ssss@. i. James A. Bierce Jf. is spending the week at Bridgeport. Ie&s s--H M S. Pinafore will go into port Eakeyille- tonight and at Salisbury tomorrow <. s- night light
 Miss F. A. Dean has recovered from her .sIaxs Illness, and resumed management of the in termediate school room.
 ,:.sssss.. --It will requirea locomotive capable O .1 hauling 5O cars to pull Idlewild and the Falls .'ssrtF Village Item man together again. asss. --Rev Mr. Forbes of Winsted has been ss.ss...eneaged to preach in the Cong. church Eas, Canaan, for two or three months to come. ss, I ..-Gents' straw cuffs are .'a the rage" with as young America, but whether they are woln .forseryice CT ornamentation is question.
 -0lin Nash reports everything trim and tidy about the camp ground and several cot. tage owners have recently visited Pine Grove The G.. w. R R. train recently attach ed at Millerton was taken back to Hartford. on writ of replevin last Wednesday night
 -Mr Walter Pearce, General Ticket Agent of the c. W. R. R. was in town last Saturday, ,: auditing the accounts of the Company at this station.
 - --Rev E. H. Roys of North Egremont, and Rev. J. W. Macomber of Ct. Harrington dark ened the door of our sanctum the other day. s,.,ss Call againl
 Harley Beeman of Kent and Jenny Shene of Warren both minors, recently elop. ed to New York state, and were married Naughty chhdrenl
 The indications indicate that the potato E.s bug crop will not be as heavy as. last year, although few of the "varmnts'' have been found by gardeners.
 sss. e- sse -F. E. Cleaveland, Esq. of Winsted has 4s4rsas opened place to be known as 'the Young sssH ,s-s. Mems Free Reading Rooms, and Amusement Hall.P in that place.
 Martin B. Lane, for many years con A.; ductor on the Housatouic R. R., has resigned s5s,s bis position, and will engage in farming, at his home near Kent.
 se..sss s.-- ELS Pease, the Twin Lakes artist has $. bieenin New York to deliver some, of his & .sse paintings representing Tw,n Lakes scenery, .tss..' -, and the Gray Homestead.
 Frank Warner, who boarded at the War ner House last winter is teaching school il Mill River, but failing health will not allow sass F him to attend to his duties every day.
 Miss Belle Pullman, daughter of Re\ Joseph Pullman of Winsted, has sailed fo Belfast ireland, where she will stay yea s'pnssuing her studies, preparatory to enteriD sse-ss college.
 s-s-'ss'-F Will. Roraback is running five an A.s xrhor T. everything, from tin whistle to corne band can be had, and sall for the small sum sassv.-etc.
 During the illness of Misses Mary Cum
 nings and Lillie Wooster, their schools rt spectyely in South Canaan and Sodom ar taught by Misses Minnie Peirce an Florence New
 Sherwood Cummings and Miss Lilli Wooster are sick with measles. Perhaps th sh s should be written in two separate items, bu ss Hoai sost qus nsdl pense Miss Mary Gun mings is also confined with the same disease ..,,rss..4.#-Ar special town meeting at Shefael s<s.ss. last Monday it was voted to replace tn bridge at Ashley Falls recently washe away with an iron bridge l28 feet long, an the contract for building it awarded -.... the Corrugated Metal Co. of New Berlin C
 MT F G. Looms of Hartford has bee appointed station agent of the c. W. R. R. this place, to supply the vacancy made by tl = s.. resignation of MT T. Watson and he a aae sumed charge of his duties last Saturday Sam. Ferguson, who has had some experient in the ofice is assisting Mr. Looms for u present
 A CARD-The widow and sons of tF as+a n Hum hhr.v lake this means of thanl skst ing their many friends for the kndne' shown them during the long sickness of the loved one. Also for the timely assistance the hour of their great bereavement MRS G. HUMPHREY,
 w. G. HUMPHREY,
 H. D. HUMPHREY.
 Canaan, May 10, 1882.
 Last Sunday afternoon Landlord Benja min of the Miller House, Sheffield, sustaine rather painful accident. While walking i the yard he stepped upon piece of board : which was sharp nail, point upwards, whic penetrated the sole of his slipper, and entere his ot as far as the sole and board woul allow He goes h,nping now.
 Editor Erwin of the New Milford G'
 zette mentions the theft of that keg of Frenc sS brandy from the depot in this place, and {
 once absolves this office from suspicion an demonstrates that he has learned by-obse
 vation ID the effects of connection of Frenc
 brandy and journalism, with the laconic rt mark 'sThe NEWS published as usual O e.- Wednesday
 "A grand musical and dramatic entertain naent will be given Tn the Town Hall in thi place Saturday evening Judge Duffy ( West Troy N. F., the celebrated singer will b present and will render number of his choie est selections. Mr. Dufy's fame as a singe ssssl wei known throughout the United States
 snaaa lovers of music should not fail to hea lin ssSSssss.