Connecticut western news., 1880-08-11
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Norfolk has a Garfield club.

Norfolk has Garfield club.
 The Item is throwing campaign mud.
 Tramps are numerous in Windsor again.
 A Collinsville drug clerk is only 36 inches tall.
 90 Italian laborers are working in Ply mouth.
 suffeld has Garfield and Arthur water melons.
 President Porter of Yale College is in New Milford.
 The Bridgeport police arrested 1l8 persons in July.
 The H. R. R. band are training few new members.
 New potatoes are rotting in the hill, in Litchfeld.
 The Danbury Republican is now issued semi-weekly.
 Cholera infantum is killing great many New Hartford children.
 A Collinsville writing master is one of the best rife shots in the state.
 A Wolcottville hotel runner has been fined for profanity, whatever that is.
 A Watertown woman recently fell down stairs and bit her tongue severely.
 The West Cornwall Cornet band is to have picnic at Parlor Rock next Saturday.
 A mail carriers horse turned complete somersault in Collinsville the other day.
 A Hartford man was sentenced to 20 days in jail for stealing an umbrella recently.
 Newtown has begun the good work of moving down the weeds in the streets.
 The H. R. R. Go. have built new depot at Newtown, 69x24 feet, costing $ll,O0O.
 Cornwall has more than 125 summer board CTS, and many applicants are being refused.
 The Bethel Ledger's Daily Camp meeting News is now running, and is well conducted.
 A boiler was recently made at. Hartford 8 feet in diameter 27 feet long and weighs 20 tons.
 Prof A. G. Sherlocke and sisters give a musical entertainment at Litchfeld tomorrow night.
 Kent is going to stick to it's old beverage, as it will cost $l5,O00 to put in the water works.
 R. N. Cochrane and daughter Nellie, of West Cornwall have been visiting friends in Canada
 Roberts meat market in Winsted was bur- glarized recently by boys, who did it just for change.
 Sam, Merritt walked 1O1 miles in 19 hours and 45 minutes without stop, in Bridgeport recently.
 Bicycles recently frightened horse in Vernon, which resulted in the fatal injury of the driver.
 An engineer at Collinsville recently slacken- ened the speed of his train to allow dog to get off the track.
 Sturgeon weighing 400 pounds are said to have been caught in the Conn. River near Hartford last week.
 The gross earnings of the New Milford wa ter company for the year ending August 1st, 1880, was $2,S48,9O.
 A Swede in Newtown was badly injured by being struck by the crank on @ derrick which flew out of his hands.
 The Thomaston Express says that the roads in Thomaston are the poorest in Litch- field county. Shake hands.
 An insane man escaped from the Hartford retreat a few days ago, and hung himself to the limb of tree in the woods.
 The dangerous man at large" has been captured again. This time at Northield. It is the genuine ID. M. A. L. this time.
 The contractor of the Danbury water works imports convict labor from Bridgeport for 25 cts. day, and the local workmen are wrathy.
 MT. Cooley James, who recently sold out the Wolcottville Register has had seven newspaper offices offered to him within a month.
 Charles Webster of Canaan Valley aged l5, stepped with both feet on a scythe, at Ashley Falls last week, and is now suffering with lockjaw.
 General freight agent H. c. Cogswell, Of the H. R. R., and a number of Bridgeport friends are to camp out at LakeVille, begin ming next Friday.
 Dog days seem to have soured the Items Jo-vial East Canaan correspondents stom- ach. He should cur-tai the weather, to avoid hydrophobia.
 A Falls Village man recently caught two rats at once in his steel trap. Hone of them was "white mice" we would say they belonged in Sandtown.
 Naugatuck is first in the resurrection busi. ness. A cemetery is caving in, at the edge of a high bank, and boys are using skulls and shin bones as playthings.
 Hazardvilles s tobacco crops were ruined by a hail storm last week. That region is g good field for the tobacco insurance company to canvass just about now.
 A Catholic priest broke up drunken fight in Thomaston on a recent Sunday, by taking a hand in, himself, and belaboring the contest ants over the heads with his cane.
 A boy who attempted to jump on Nauga tuck train at Ansonia, missed his footing and was horribly bruised and mangled. Hi; flesh was strewn along the track for some distance.
 A correspondent says that a Collinsville man had falling out with a whale while camping at Twin Lakes recently. There is said to be considerable "heaving up Jonah over there.
 The managers of the Consolidated R. R refuse to discharge two engineers who have been in their employ for over a quarter of 2 century, and who failed to pass the examlna tion for color blindness.
 The New Milford hose company are tc have a clam bake at Parlor Rock Sept. 9th No clam bake or picnic 5s a clam bake or pie nic unless enjoyed in the romantic dells and groves of Parlor Rock.
 Two Bethel boys, while berrying recently, saw snakes tail sticking out of a stone wall, and one of them pulled it out, the other smashing the reptiles head with stone. Ii was rattlesnake with l3 rattles.
 Two roughs who recently went to Windsor Locks to s'clean out the place." and eat somebody, got badly masticated themselves before they got through, and are now enjoy ing full swing in a ''dungeon cell"
 A Tbomaston man has caught two live rattlesnakes and will exhibit them until snow flies, when he will coil them about his horse's neck to answer the double purpose of sleigh-bells and a protection against horse thieves.
 A man at Greens Farms had a desperate fight with bull last week, defending him. self with pitch fork, which he used effective ly, nearly tearing off one of the bulls ears with it, and receiving in return fearful gore in the thigh.
 Newtown has church fight, and the peo- pie request the minister to resign. On pre-