Connecticut western news., 1880-09-29

 will continue until Saturday.
 Conductor Emmons of the H. R. R. is lay ing off with chills and fever.
 A new water wheel is being made in Win sted for the Chapinville furnace.
 Bridgeport had whistling match recently, with two prizes of of $50. and 1925.
 The New York Dominican fathers are hold ing seven days mission at Winsted.
 Jas. A. Bushnell's place at Winsted has been sold to E. V. Norton for g., 1000.
 The Newtown Bee, after a short but var jed experience, has given up the ghost.
 Edward Johnson's house at New Hartford was burned last week. Insurance $500.
 The West Winsted post office has just been authorized to issue Italian money orders.
 Senator Eaton and Col Fem addressed the Winsted democracy last Thursday night.
 Millerton ladies have published a powerful appeal to the voters, for no license vote. A Norwich woman was nearly killed re- gently by an explosion of charcoal in the stove.
 The late smash.up on the N. Y. 6 N. H. spoiled carload of hats shipped from Dan bury.
 A Litchfeld store was burglarized the oth- CT night, and BIO. worth of boots and shoes stolen.
 The treasurer of Norwalk, who has held office for 51 consecutive years, declines re- nomination.
 As New Hartford didn't succeed in estab- fishing an inebriate asylum, she is fixing up the cemetery.
 Judge Seymour and wife, of Litchfeld eel ebrate the 5Oth anniversary of their mar riage Oct. 5th.
 The Spiritualists of Connecticut held their annual convention at Willimantic last Satur- day and Sunday. Yale College is to have new athletic grounds, and more than $10,0O0 has already been subscribed New Hartford is to have a new church, but | recent efforts to establish an inebriate asylum ] there, fell through. A pair of Meriden canaries have brood of birdlings every month. They have produced | 57 since February. A Bristol German has committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor because of lack of employment. The Greenbackers of the fourth congress sional district have nominated Frank E.. ! Cleaveland of Winsted. Amy Stone appears at the Opera House in ! SHSs<tHHVSj the Little Leopard of France" | A Winsted politician gives the definition of political economy, as 'the greatest number of votes with the least moneyW 1 They adopt more resolutions in one week down in New Milford than 8 temperance club could promulgate in two months.
 New Milford has 291 families that do not attend church. and 234 protestant children who do not attend Sunday school.
 If Woodbury builds the proposed railroad a Bethlehem man promises to give and deliver ties enough to lay mile of track.
 A Hancock flag was pulled down and torr to shreds by Yale students at New Haven the other night, which almost led to riot.
 New London's children are dying with diptheria. 28 died in l9 days recently; the cause is attributed to ineffective sewarage.
 The force of the Shepaug R. E. has beer examined for color blindness, and the Dan bury News says he passed the examination
 A New Haven young man who hired tean and was gone longer than he agreed, paid the expenses of searching for him as horse thief.
 A Bridgeport man who had been on a con tinual spree for six months, was unceremoni opsly cut short in his happiness by being ar rested.
 A Canton man fell recently while hanging tobacco, and pole, which fell at the same time, struck him in the side, injuring him in formally.
 \ The Catholic total abstinence union held it's l1th annusl convention at Danbury las Tuesday. It has 2,277 members, and 4; societies.
 The New Haven democratic and Garfelt legons are to have big debate next montl with the greenback candidate for governor as president.
 A number of prisoners were placed in tht Naugatuck lookup recently, and all of then escaped excepting drunken man who could Tt navigate.
 Will. Watson, conductor of the passenger train on the Danbury Branch, and station agent at Danbury has resigned the position and will Ego west" New Hartford has six delegates in the county jail, viz: two drunkards, one clothing thief, one horse thief, one burglar, and one would-be murderer.
 A Collnsvile horse attached to carriage containing lady, ran away the other day throwing the lady out, bruising her consider ably and smashing the carriage. Inc sOpnS ana 1resnmen Of Of Wesleyan University, Mlddletown, had desperate bat tie with rotten eggs the other night, which it is said, was never equaled in the annals ot the college.
 Two Italians were caught by land slide in ditch which they were digging for the Thomaston water works the other day, and nearly buried, but were dug out by their fel. low workmen.
 A Winsted man, after loading one barrel of his double-barreled gun, left it cooked, and proceeded to load the other barrel when the first charge went off, taking the fore finger of ! his right hand.
 Ernest Moses, the dangerous man at l large" who escaped trom''the Middletown asy. lum last May has not yet been found. He is suspected of the murder of the two old la dies at Avon last summer. 1 Air brakes on passenger train prevented a serious accident on the Naugatuck R. R. at Wolcottville the other day, when freight 1 car on a switch track was too close to the switch to clear the main track.
 New Milford citizens at recent meeting adopted resolutions deprecating license law and advocating total abstinence as the only remedy for the "giant evil." The voters were warned to vote against license. A sharon man instead Of staying at home and reading his Bible, went hunting, last Sun- day, and as natural consequence, his gun ex. ploded, filled his face with powder and gun barrels, and convinced him that Sunday is not | much of day for hunting. sona'N" 'N"dv threw stone through window in Winsted-prosS.aeb osSably boys. The Press says 'Winsted contains num.e or inferior ooys, it candidates for the reform sci.H"ol;; and whom the police should lock up, who call such deviltry as this fun Willimantic's new cotton mill was "dedicat- ed" with big time the other day. It is the