Connecticut western news., 1880-07-21
CORRESPONDENCE.

Ch0pRMvAlles Miss Hattie Morgan is home from Vol | cottville for vacation. MT. A. J. Spur is recovering from fever and ehills.
 Miss Hattie Gilbert is visiting friends in this vicinity. Mrs Caroline McElroy has been i'll, but is now getting better The Greenwood family of Brooklan arrived at'their summer residence in Sheffield last | week.
 It is said the furnace property has been leased for term of five years, to parties from Pennsylvania. W.Soules, who has been sick with fever, is better. VERITAs.
 On Friday, the M E. Sunday school from Canaan spent the day in our grove and upon the lake.
 Mir. George A. Dodge has fine new span of horses.
 All the places of resort are fast filling. The installation exercises of the new Hem atite chapter of Masons, on Wednesday at the Academy Hall, were fully attended. As the editor was one of the installed, and will doubt. less understand better the tecbnicalities, we will not attempt to describe the services. We wish our namesake all possible success. The party of Igentlemen from Bridgeport, who camped last year at Perch Rocks, are to come again in August. The Misses Pratt, from Brooklyn, are again at the Wononsco House. A catamaran is now sailing our waters, owned by Messrs. Palmer, Cornell, & Beers The advantage claimed for it is not in point of speed, but that it is perfectly safe, being i'm. possible to upset
 MT. Ernest Pease holds drawing class here weekly.
 Dr. Bacon and family, of New Haven, and MT. Eugene Smith and family of New York. are at the house of Geo. 0. Dodge. Several members of the Pinafore troupe went to Litchfeld to take part in the opera on Tuesday evening, 20th inst.
 A picnic from Lakeville went to Prospect Hill on Monday.
 Is it truly reported that the correspondents of the NEws are to have a union picnic thls summer? We haven't heard it so reported, but what do our correspondents think about it?-ED.
 The dances in the grove pavilion begin in August.
 Mrs Eggleston, dled at the house of her brother-in.law, MT. Goodsell, on Saturday morning. The funeral was at her old home in Boston Corners MT. Martins barn rejoices in coat of pea. green paint, and we understand the house is to be adorned with the same hue.
 HEMATITE. Norfolk.
 The Congregational service was held on the park last Sunday morning, and much credit is due MT. George W. Scoville for arranging seats so comfortably, and care taken in dis tributing singing books, etc.
 Services are being held regularly in the Methodist Church each Sunday at 2:30 p. m., making it very convenient since they have discontinued the afternoon services in the Cong. Church.
 Our list of arrivals is somewhat incomplete this week, but we are able to report the tol- lowing persons: At Norfolk House, Mr. and Mrs. David Meyer, four children, and nurse, Hartford s. V. Noxon and wife, and Franklin Clark, Plantsyille. At A. A. Spaulding's Misses Lillian J. Russell, Nellie E. Disbrow, Messrs. P. Storm and Charles Whittlesey New Haven. At Col. H. B. Knapp's, MT. and Mrs. Joseph Myers, Miss Mildred Myers, Martin, Victor, and E. Myers, New York Mrs. Susan Porter, Mrs. 0. R Childs. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Russell, Rev. Dr. N J. Burton, Hartford; Charles Bill, Spring.