Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22

Little Ray Smith, grandson of Rev. A. N. Benedict died at Bridgeport Monday morn-.s ing. Mrs B. went there on Tuesday, and Mr. B. followed from North Adams.
 Will Parsons came home last week. H9 has been sick seven weeks at East Granby.
 Miss Daisy Benedict left for Bridgeport Saturday. She may be absent all winter.
 Edwin Baldwin has been canvassing for paper, giving sixteen chromos and twelve pa pers, all for $l .O0. Mr. Benedict being absent, MT. R. Worth ington occupied the desk Sunday morning.
 TATTLE TALE. Chr pinvlEIe. The Sunday School will observe Christmas l by Temperance celebration and Christmas | tree. Mir. Walter Holmes is quite feeble, being confined to his room. His daughter Frs. Bonrdman, is not yet well.
 Mr. c. l.. NIcElroy, who has been i'll since his visit to Michigan, is convalescent. The workmen have stopped work on the furnace for the present.
 The Scoville Bros. will make no more i'm provemonts on their farms until spring, and have also stopped building.
 The wells in this vicinity are all dry yet, and many families are obliged to go quite a distance for water.
 The ice men learned a lesson last year by neglecting to fill their ice houses in the sea son. and are improving the present good time. VERITAS. West Cornwall.
 Miss Anna Yutzler arrived home from Bridgeport last Wednesday to spend the holi- days.
 Rev, C. N Fitch exchanged with Rev. Wm Wake of Cornwall Bridge last Sabbath.
 An enjoyable time was had at the ditin;e sociabe held at MT. John Woods last Thurs day evening.
 Fred Yutzler has on hand a full line of con. fectionery for Christmas which is arranged in a most tasty as well as attractive manner.
 The last meeting of the Sabbath School Association for the year drew crowded house, and the exercises proved exceedingly interesting and amusing. The singing, which added in no small measure to the success of the entertainment, was rendered in an admir- able manner by dife rent members of the choir Geo. Hughes saug Kitty of Coloraine," /" iEI hs usual fine style. Miss Emma Mem. mott sang "Long Ago" with great cearness ot voice and expression. A quartette, In the
 
 bright light" by Mrs. James A. Cochrane, Mrs R P. Foster T. J. Bosworth and;W. c. Hart, was loudly applanded and worthy of special mention. Nellie and Dell Cochrane, two sweet little singers, dressed in their tat tered garments sang very effecting a pretty song entitled, "nomeless tonight" The readings dialogues, etc., interspersed with the singing, were ofa most interesting nature, the characters appearing in very antique and appropriate costumes. The closing feature was a tableau, given under beautiful colored lights, representing Sunrise, Moon, Sunset and Midnight, Miss Lizzie Oldfeld as a rep. resentative of the above, to say the least vote of thanks were tendered to the com , mittee for another of these pleasant entertain ments, and the verdict of all was, 'the last and best" ANON. Norfolk.
 A crazy woman stirred up quite commo tion here last Tuesday night. She had spen y several daya with Miss Fields, in the eas part of the town, when, late Tuesday after Q noon, she went out for walk, unbeknown t. any one, and did not come back. The faml called help, and number of men searched fo her all night, without success. They follow ed her tracks for a couple of miles, till the, 5 were lost iu the woods. She has since turn eli up, safe and sound in New Marlboro. s Mir. Gleason preached a historical discours on the Pilgrims, last Sunday afternoon. Mex g week the morning sermon will be in memor of the dead of 1880, and in the afternoon vii be Christmas exercises by the Sunday school
 Tho church has decided 10 continue tn
 Weekly Offering system for another year. e John Kirby died suddenly Wednesday al l. tcrnoon of inflammation of the bowels Hi funeral was attended at the Catholic ohurc 0 Saturday morLing
 h Salmon Swift has sold his house and farr in West Norfolk to Abel Camp, and is gon d t. spend the winter in Coebrook The las
 time we saw Sal. he was congratulating him
 self because CoIebrook man had dscovere
 a remarkable resemblance in him to Gen, Gal |, ield
 MT Clark left here for his home in Plants
 vile last week. He has spent so much of hi '' time in town for the past two years, that W u all feel greatly interested ill him, and hi
 struggles for health There is report ths $ wktn he returns ID the spring he will buy n house He took Charlie Fields along to watc l. over himself and his horse.
 The last sociable at Mir. Buffers passed o @ very pleasantly. There were torty-tive pres '. cut and eatables enough for hundred. " ) wonder ii the ladies accomplish as much wit
 tneir needles in the afternoon as we gentle l. men do with our knives and forks in the eve ,- ming Some of the young folks tried to star l. a dance, but were summarily nipped in th
 bud. But they had their time in sleigl '. FlNc alteF, "lhci ldsteu, HoLe Ol LIS hnOW nov ', long. Tie next gathering will be at Ml
 IInllock's.
 The Mission Circle cleared $25 by thei , oyster supper and Christmas tree Wednes day night, though there were not as man
 there as usual.
 MT Joseph Cone, ot Hartford formerly 0 ' this place, has been very sick for some time N but is now pronounced out of danger MT Halock has been shut up in the lsoue the last two weeks, for the first time in man