Connecticut western news., 1880-05-19
We are obliged for want of space to omi our Japan Letter this week.
CORRESPONDENCE.
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 Mrsand Mrs. F. Coons of Canaan made a short visit here last week.
 s. A. Turner made flying business trip to Boston Wednesday. He reached home Fri day evening"
 The Band is to be revived. It will have a good percentage of the old members and a few new ones They met for practice Satur- day evening, and the music sounded like that of days gone by. We see no reason why the band cannot flourish again.
 The place is quiet this summer with the lace shops gone, and the whip shop shut down. S. A. Turner Co., are however, do- ing good business in lash making, and the excellent quality of their goods finds for them a ready sale.
 Nearly all the mechanics are out of the place. Jas Pettis and c. N Cook are in Thomaston, the former in the clock shop, and the latter as a carpenter.
 The cheese factory works up between 5000 and 4OOO lbs. of milk per day. Their butter is ,'gilt edged"
 D. L. Pratt, the genial expressman, is, as he always has been, prompt and reliable man, and any business given him to do, will be executed like job printing, neat, quick, and cheap.
 Merchant Baldwin is sprucing up great deal about his store and barn. MT. B. has been unfortunate, in having been burned out several times but in spite of this, he keeps a good country store and is a very accomo- dating man. Besides being a store keeper he has the P O. here, which does the most business of any of the offices in town. Jas. Cook is putting up woodshed 20 X 18.t Henry Van Duesen is making hen house of ample dimensions.
 The other day. as two school boys, Arthur Gaylord and Wella Palmer were playing ball, | with a croquet mallet for bat, Palmer acci- delsally gave Gaylord severe blow just un- derithe eye brow. Had it been little lower, there would have been danger of destroying hisieye. He bore it like hero. and teacher Harmon bathed it in a soothing compond and he was soon comfortable.
 | Last Tuesday was the wedding day of MT. i ulius Turner and Miss Lizzie Kasson. The { ceremony was performed by the Rev. A N. Benedict at the house of Mir. H. | N Kasson. The near relatives of the couple were invited to witness the nuptial knot tying and brought with them some substantial and useful presents. The refreshments were plentiful consisting of cakes, fruit and candies The happy couple left for tour in the Conn river Valley. of Massachusetts. They will return this week.
 Now that we are on weddings, delicate subject to handle, we must not neglect to no l Thirty years ago, on the 14th of May, Edwi1 Baldwin took to himself wife. Last Friday evening, his friends and neighbors, came tt his house to remind him of it. He, as we'll as l his good wife, were taken co npletely by sur prise, though no one supposes they had for l gott9n the plighted troth of thirty years ago Be that as it may, some sixty people entering
 the spacious farm house helped to refresh their memories wonderfully well Their thirty years of welded life, gives the lie to the old adage, that s'the course of true love never
 runs smooth" The family is unbroken, SC far as we know, and they are happy in the
 possession of all their children, four in mum Der, happy in each other, and happy in the
 love and esteem of the community. Cook & Parsons furnished some excellent music and
 the good danes of Southield the wants of the inner man with prodigality dangerous 1 u0a dyspeptic stomach. Rev. A. N. Bene- dict made some appropriate remarks, part of
 which was serious, and part warm with good humor The party broke up soon after mid night, wishing their host and hostess many
 returns of the anniversay just celebrated. T Jas. Cook came very near crushing his foot and leg by the falling of heavy stone upon it. As it is, he is laid up with very painful
 brusing of the limb
 MT and Mrs. Anson Norton are in poor lhealth Both are sick with fever, and besides this, Mrs. N. has the humps. | TATTLE TALE Falls Village.
 Five more new platform cars will be finish. ed at the shops thls week.
 l A hen belonging to George Thomas recent
 ly layed an egg IA X IA inches.
 Edward J. Hunt of Winsted was at his
 home in Amesyille over Sunday. II Two criminal justice cases were tried here s.x .H- sz1 1c Al.o of Sandtown were brought into public notice.
 Mrs. Gilbert Street returned home Friday,
 from short visit to friends in Bridgeport James Ford. Jr. of Cornwall spent Sunday , with relatives in this place.
 John c. Wolfe is serving an apprenticeship
 at the machine shop in Amesville. The Gold vs Rogers case has been take1 to the supreme court of errors on motion O , the counsel for the defense.
 Esq. D. ". Clarke returned to this place
 from Hartford Thursday, after weeks ab sence to that place.
 3 Willie R. Hubbell has been clerking a : Baldwin & Wolfe's of late.
 a1 Mrs. Isaac Sherwood and son of Bridge
 port are at G Streets, where she will remair for few weeks for the benefit of her health | Report saith Joseph Mundry is going tt 8 Dakota after he gets that perpetual motion l. so it will work.
 MT. Frederick Sherwood of New Milford has taken the place at the paint shop of J. D Egleston, who Las resigned. 3 Mr..J. D. Egleston visited relatives in Nor
 folk last week.
 Frank Miller, an engineer on the H. R. R moved his family to Darlington Saturday : where they are to reside for the present r Mr. Miller will go to Fort Wayne, Ind, where he has been offered situation as engineer ol
 the W. St. l.. & P. R. R.
 There was quite an exciting trial of speed : between two. horsemen through the sand" ol f the flat: near Mr. H. Sheppard's, recently F Jake Puiver coming out second best
 Some unknown person attempted to burr
 the house of Mrs. Rosser Rogers on Wes ? Water street one night recently, by placing al ] armfnl of hay on the roof of the house, ant a then igniting it. It being done at a compara
 lively early hour it was discovered and ex-
 tinguished before any serious damage wa done.
 3 Anyone who has taste for Horticulture, O . love of flowers, should take look at Mrs
 John Landon's extensive collection of tulips : which contains several varieties of single ant double, and many colors
 Fl If the individual who kept a certain neigh
 borhood awake with his frantic orgies. ant
 afterward lay down by the wayside to sleeI of the effects of too much imbibing in "crook ed whiskeyr" and left his horse hitched al 3 that night, with the wagon crosswise of the
 road. should become the victim of ''cleveI . joke' if he repeats the operation, he need no complain. -+---- --. 3 Says the Item: Law seemed to be in orde1 r here yesterday. Two grand jury cases or the docket at one time" Several gentlemen in this vicinity, who ought to be conversan Q in such matters @ would like to know wha : a grand jury trial is, and when they were
 first held ln this town. Will the Item editor
 please throw a little flight" on the subject
 for it might be of inestimable value to the le 5 ornl frat hafr,ifu of tha nnnnfv and state