Connecticut western news., 1880-04-14

Mike O'Hara, while intoxicated last Mon. day. accused Sheriff Richmond of burning his house about year ago. and dared MT. R. out to fight. He even attempted to strike the of- ficer, when he immediately dropped some' thing" and his face looked like butcher shop.
 The mud which accumulated on the wheels of one of the Paper Co.'S. wagons, be- tween Mill River and this place, one day last week, after freezing fast, made difference Of 700 pounds in the weight of the wagon. They resembled the massive wheels of circus band chariot.
 Hon. Geo. W. Peet is preparing to make extensive improvements upon his residence. A new roof is to be put on, house remodeled inside and out, het and cold water conducted to all parts efthe house, apparatus for light. ing with gas, etc. An office is also to be Eerected near the house.
 In appropriating the proceeds of the ex- hibition last term, ten dollars were used to secure the State appropriation (an equal sum) for this year, to purchase reference books, apparatus, maps, etc., in this school district This makes an aggregate sum of eighty dol lars appropriated to the district for aids in in- struction during the past three years.
 The Winsted Herald now appears as a folio, it's original form, instead of @ quarto. The size has also been reduced. and is now the same as the NEWS. Neighbor Vaill af. firms, however, that the reduction in inches doesn't mean diminution of it's general ex- cellence, and the appearance of that trans formed, wide-awake journal says so too
 The Item is trying to get Falls Village enthused in the matter of a public park. We've got one "in the works" in this place, which it is hoped will be completed this sum- mer. All we want is little more public spirit. The NEWS thinks of heading sub- scription list Ca la Herald,) with $OOo,ooo toward the completion of the park. Who'll follow suit? /
 -Welch < Johnson of Norfolk, make their best bow to our readers this week, and offer a dazzling list ofeverything that everybody wants, at their neat and well filled drug store. Their stock of drugs, medicines and fancy articles is an unusually Hne and varied one, ard prescriptions are compounded with accuracy and skill. Now that "spring is coming" your house will need @ new coat of paint inside or outside, or both, and nowhere in Litchfeld County can finer assortment of the standard paints be found, and at more reasonable prices than at Welch & Johnson's. Read their adv. it tells just what you want to know.
 The cellar is completed for the new house which L. Foote's boss harness maker, James Quinn, is erecting on West Msin.st., and Lorrain's gang of rushers will make it lively for the carpenter work next week. Jimmy is a likely and industrious fellow, and, having spent three years amid the din and restless ness of army life, he will know how to fully the value of home of his own, where he can enjoy the sleep of the righteous, without fear of being rouse0 with the call to "Pack upi" and "Fall in" as on the camping grounds, during the bloody Rebellion, where he lost leg in the service of his country.
 MT. Luman Foote of this place has rep utation as a skillful and successful cultivator of strawberries, and his strawberry garden this year, promises to produce more fruit, and of better growth than ever before. The plants and vines were never in better condi- tion, being cut and trained to produce the best results. His garden covers about one.eighth of an acre of fground, from which he expects - barring damage by the elements, or loss by the thieving propensities of Y oung America to gather l, l,oOO quarts They are of the evil son Seeding" variety, fine flavor and good size, and several hundred plants of the "Shsrpless Seeding" variety are to be set out this season.
 Rev. Dr. Orville Dewey, who was born only fourteen years after William Ellery Chan ming, is now living in scholarly retirement at Sheffield, Mass. He was s6 years old the 2Sth of last month. When a young clergy man and a fresh convert to Unitarian views, he was appointed Dr. Channing's assistant, and thirty seven years ago, at the Church of the Messiah in New York, he delivered an ell. oquent and appreciative discourse, upon the life, writings and example of the divine whose memory he so much revered. In 1859 he was settled as pastor over the Unitarian Church in Church Green in Boston. and retir. ed to his present home after four years scr vice.-Hartford Post.
 The tendency to go west is leading to the formation of colonization societies in a good many of our eastern centers. Recently sev- eral such colonies has gone from Massachu. sets. Now comes 8 report of 8 large one going from New York state, from Delaware, Greene, Ulster, and Schoharie counties. Not less than five hundred families have gone to Kansas or Nebraska. They have formed an organization and have town all made, ex- cept that they have not yet decided where to put it. No traficking in any kind of liquor is to be allowed, and 1t is to be strict moral community. It will pitch its tents May 1st. The colonists are people of some property, and, it is said, mean business.-COurGnt.
 We have heard some whisperings about getting up Colony in this section, but the project seems to languish for want of bold, enterprising leader. Who will be the Moses ? Don't all speak at once.
 The last vestiges of ''the old school house" have been removed by Frank Van- Deusen, who will reconstruct the edifce at wetaug, as dwelling house. In tearing down the structure book was found which a trio of mischievous urchins had thrown un. derneath the floor to spite the owner, nearly Rft,r xnara an, Snnna of fha narficinanfs ara