Connecticut western news., 1880-09-08

with dark lantern appeared in the room, but went out, taking nothing, although there was jewelry in the room One of the ladies ther ran up stairs to give the alarm, and was prob | ably heard by the burglars, who were gone | when the awakened host rushed down stairs. Entering the dining room it was found that \ all Mrs Blssell's silver had been taken, and in J the summer house were found empty wine fl glasses and the remains of feast purloined
 from the cellar. They were tracked to State Line, and it is confidently hoped that they will be soon captured. The upper stories had not been entered, although many articles of value were there. The old faith that nc
 burglar would eyer enter Lakeville. is des-
 troyed, and it remai for the law, by the
 capture of these, to make them warn.ug to
 all their brothers of the craft. HEMAT TIE.
 Cornwall Hollow.
 H. G. Osborn has returned home from the
 West.
 Miss Hattie J, Miles 'returns to Mt. Hol. yoke Seminary this week.
 MT. George. l.. Harrison is suffering from
 a lung trouble. Rumor says that the above
 MT. Harrison intends to trot his fine steed a,
 Riverside Park, Canaan, next Saturday.
 Miss Baker. who has been spending few
 weeks at the Sedgwick Mansion, has returned
 to the city. ELIAS.
 ChapinvlIIe.
 MT. A. M. Stone of Hudson has been visit ing his family, who are staying here.
 Mrs E. Van Deusen has chlls and fever. ! Mir. and Mrs. A. A. Bless of Irondale were here on short visit to friends last week.
 MT. T. l.. Norton of Lakeville organized g Sunday School here last Sunday, which prom ises to be interesting to all concerned.
 Rev. Mir. White of Lakeville will preach in the church Wednesday evening. The wheel and bellows houses of the fur. mace are completed, and the main building is being framed. VER1TAs. Falls Village.
 Editor Robert Erwin of the New Milford Gazette paid this village flying visit Satur. day.
 Henry c. Crandall, Jr, will attend the autumn term of the Prospect street school al
 Bridgeport, to which place he went Monday
 Wm. H. Beebe has secured position 1T
 the H. R. k. shop, in place of Robert Elem ing, who is now fireman.
 There will be a go-as you.please walkin1
 match on the fair ground the 18th, at D. m
 for purse of $15, $LO, and $5.
 Miss Lena Decker of Kingston, N Y. ii
 visiting at Mrs. M A. Halls
 Rev. MT. Clark preached in the Cong
 church Sunday.
 John Cornell of Lakevllle was in tow1
 Thursday. Mir. Cornell is to be agent for tn,
 Singer machine in this county.
 Levinus Deming will attend the fairs a
 Armenia, Watertowp and some others witl
 two yoke of steers and the fancy cart he ex
 hibited them on at this fair last year. , 33 tickets were sold at this station for thu
 excursion to Rockaway Saturday. There ! f11I1 dc 4ho 1i,,o of
 and IS on the Naug gatuck road. Rev. MT. Belcher exchanged pulpts witl Rev. White of Lakeville, Sunday.
 Dr. J. D. Clemans started on a two weeks pleasure trip Saturday, and will stop at Chica go, DesMoiues and other places of note be ' fore he returns.
 Wm. Capron of Hudson, N. Y is at Geo v. Capron's.
 Watson Barney, on Brinton Hill, has fin : crop of peaches.
 The funeral of Wm Bristol at Bridgepo1 was largely attended by the shopmen an railroad men from this place. : Miss Alice Gilbert of Bridgeport and Mis- Hattie Owen are teaching the Amesvill graded school.
 V Mrs. Chauncey R. Morris has moved t i Bridgeport.
 y A party of 12 gentlemen from Litchfel + passed through this place on a tramp, Wed | nesday, bound for Lakeville, Bash Bish, etc > Among the number were Rev. Stars o. Sey z mour, and Hon. E. w. Seymour. y Several horses having a good record fc C speed have been entered for the races { r, Union park Sept. l5 and l6. | In regard to the matrimonial match me1 5. tioned two weeks ago, we made slight mi ,' o take in stating the age of the female membe e of the firm, which we cheerfully correct. '. IDLEwILD el West Cornwall. ,, Misses Mary Wells and Mattie Lyon, wh ,es have been visiting at MT. John Woods tt ii past three weeks, returned to New York o " Saturday last.
 Mrs. E. F. Scoville is visiting relatives B, Long Hill, Trumbull, Ct. MT. W. H. Porter of the Western Unio ,' n Telegraph Co.,, N. r., was at home over Sur ii day
 ooi Mrs. H. M Holmes returned last Monda e from her extended trip to the seaside. Id Quite number from this place attende g the Sabbath School convention held in Pin y Grove last Wednesday. rs rs Major Nickerson, Esq, of Plainville, was a. town last week.
 Id John Wood, Jr., who has been spendin r- hls vacation of two months at home, return ts to his school in New York this week D, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hall are visiting friend ,e in New Haven.
 7 Rev. 0. N. Fitch returned last Wednesda n from Chautauqua, N. Y, where he has spen Il his months vacation. L2 The Homestead View Go of Springfield Id Mass, have taken negatives of nearly all tn n particularly fine residence in this place. '. '. For the Rockaway excursion last Saturday d IS tickets were sold from this station. # Burglars entered the Foster House las e Wednesday night, taking an overcoat an q valise belonging to MT. c. H. Nichols ( $ Brooklyn, beside several other articles of les I' ser value.
 70 Mir Samuel Wilson of Bridgeport visited a ,,.- Mir. Ebert Shepard's last week. d Several from this village fshed in Mudg e pond last week for simply the "big fish, 2 which fingered in the imagination of all ez d cept one Houstan, by name, of the firm c a Cochrane Bros. who realized to the fulles i r extent the pleasure of possessing the peculia y ?, sknack" of hauling in a 40 lb. bass, nothin e but nought deducted from It's weight to al l. low for slight shrinkage. n Dea R. R. Pratt in connection with th t. farm, has been quite extensively engaged il 10 rearing poultry the past summer. He has a # present about about 200 exceeding fin F. chickens of different varieties, which will soo " be ready for market he already having mad I! one shipment for which a snug little sun F was realized. The probable reason of hi e success in this direction is owing to the fac
 that the eggs, or large proportion of then
 were matched il the new incubator he pur
 "hased last spring, thus relieving the old re
 liable hens of the tedious setting custom o
 of the more remote ages beside giving then 70 the undisputed privilege to lay eggs, scratcl