Connecticut western news., 1880-05-05

boy, and he has sent for several thousand dollars worth of jewelry and watches, besides, which will be here in few days. Gardner is the only man in town who is getting rich.
 -"Roast beef roast pork, veal steak and ceGI shdd," is the way Katie, the pretty waiter girl at Warner's announced the bill of fare the other day, but she corrected herself as quickly as she could overcome her blush ing confusion, and sweetly lisped Baked shad."
 -Dr. F. N. Bennett of Newtown says Idle wilds 3-4 8 inch egg is nowhere con- pared with one of the same kind of fruit which he has, laid by a common barnyard fowl, which measures X 10 inches. The size of the egg is no more of anss anomaly than the fact that the hen can afford to lay them for l2 cents dozen, the present price.
 Tho East Canaan correspondent of the Falls Village Item says:
 An "Evangeliue Party" was held at the residence of Burton Ives on Tuesday evening. The occasion was highly enjoyed by the la 'ies. and they are to be congratulated on se- curing "equal rights and privileges" with the ''lords of creation" Th,s ''grand reform" is he outgrowth of the work of that ''noble re- 'ormer" Evangeline, in the neighboring vil- lage of Canaan.
 Last Saturday night, about 10 o'clock, young man living not far from this village was seen to approach the door of house on Railroad street and carry away two quart milk pail hanging by the door knob. The young man has fair reputation for honesty, and the manner of his carrying away the pal indicated to the vigilant observer who saw the proceeding, that his intention was to "borrow It" rather than steal it, but unless he cares to read an uninteresting "personal' he will do we'll to return it at once.
 Clarence Tompbour of New Baltimore N Y. has reopened the Cummings block meat market for the sale of fresh shad during the shad season, and is disposing oflarge quanti' ties of them at very low prices. MT. T. and his associate Geo. Tronson, are young men of pluck and energy, as is attested by the fact that between last Wednesday afternoon the date of their arrivaD and Saturday night, they disposed of about 500 shad, much to the sur prise of the villagers who expected to see two discouraged and disgusted shad-owes before the week was out.
 Following is list of the jurors drawn from adjoining towns for the May term of the District court in session at Winsted: North Canaan Frederick Watson, Edmund D. Lawrence, Ira s. Bunnen.
 Cornwall Chas lH. Harrison, Ingersol Reed, Geo. W. Studley, Hiram G. Dean, Silas c. Beers.
 Sharon. Enoch P Everett Chas. E. Ben. ton, John Boyd, Ezra Bartram, Albert J. Bostwick
 Kent. Lewis S. Northrup, Frank Evitts, Peter Skif Ezra Barnum, Frederick N. Nal lory.
 MT. Theodore F. Watson, for the past five or six years 0. w. R. R. station agent in this place, has accepted position as H. R. R. agent at New Milford, and will remove his family there at once. MT. Watson and his estilnable wife have made many warm friends during their residence among us, and much regret is expressed that circumstances have combined to bring about severance of this pleasant relationship. MT. W. is to be con- graduated upon securing much better posi- ton than he held here, and New Milford.soci- ety is to be congratulated upon such desir- able acquisition to their ranks. Later advices indicate that Sandtown has not concluded to relapse into quiet insignia- canoe, "by large majority" The commu- nity is now basking in 8 complication of diff faculties and law suits, involving some of the most "'specable" and influential bredering and sistering on the plains, in all manner of unrighteousness Mayor Hall does his pret. tiest to keep his constituents in check, but with the entire settlement so indiscriminate- ly social, and anon pounding, prosecuting and prosecuting each other, he thinks he will have to call out the ''malcious officers" and subdue them at the point of the bayonet.
 The Democratic State convention was held in Hartford last Wednesday, and the following delegates to represent the state al the national convention at Cincinnati were chosen:
 At Large. First District, Alfred E. Burr Hartford; Second, WilliamE Parsons, New Haven; Third David A. Wells, Norwich Fourth, W illiam H Barnum, Salisbury.
 County Delegates. Hartford. Jeffrey O. Phelps, Simsbury Holland, Jabez l.. White Bolton; New Haven, Samuel Simpson, Wal
 ngford; Middlesex Curtis Bacon, Middle town; New London, Ralph Wheeler New London Windham, T W. Greenslit, Killing ly; Fairfield, Jonathan E. Wheeler, West port; Litchfeld, Henry B. Graves, Litch6eld
 Boys are scooping out suckers with theil hands. from Underwood brook, some of which weigh nearly two pounds, says the Conn Western News, and for the life of us we can not tell which weigh the two pounds, the hands, the suckers or the boys.-Neao MI ford Gazette.
 Now you think you're awful smart don't you? Perhaps if you should read tha over again you couldn't, "for the life of you tell but what the scoops were sucking out mil ponds from Underwood's hands, weighing two tish-hooks and jack-knife heavier thar the intellect of the New Milford Gazette which isn't a ''supposable suppositon" But don't bumfuzz!e your wits any longer over the feats of Canaan fisher-boys. Just turn youl attention to the solution ofthat much cusseG and discussed question as to whether anybody
 in particular is mixed up directly or indirectly in the ownership of your old 'patent outside.
 At meeting of the Litchfeld County Association, held April 27, 1880, the follow ing resolutions on the death of Henry M Knight, NJ. D., of Lakeville, Ct., were unani