Connecticut western news., 1880-04-21

in which you fulfull all your business engage ments. They feel that all your work is done on the square. Please take this trick which your friends thus play upon you in this light, and may the tribe of the Scovilles never be less.
 On opening the envelope, Mir. Scoville found fifty five dollars in cash, with instruc- tions to procure the best ice casket the country affords, for which Mr. Scoyille wishes to express his sincere thanks. SPECIAL.
 List of letters remaining in the post office at Norfolk, Conn, unclaimed: James B. Atwater, James H Bliss, Mrs. E. Brong, Joseph Callignar, Patrick Delany, Lewis Eadie, George Kassam, Mary Miller, F. M. calling for the above, please say advertised.
 MRS. ANN E. WoLCoTT, Postmistress. Falls Village.
 P. Bronson, the oldest engineer in actual service on the H. R. R has been in the ser vice of the Go. 36 years.
 Mrs. Wm. Hubbell and daughter spent last week with friends in Bridgeport and returned to their home in Amesville Saturday
 The Congregational ladies' aid society meet Wednesday D. m. of this week, with Mrs. U . H. Miner All are cordially invited to at tend.
 Geo. V Capron added fine lot of watches, jewelry and silverware to his stock of goods last week.
 Mrs. Dr. Averill and daughter, who have been on visit to friends in Thomaston, Ct returned home Saturday evening.
 The ladies' aid society of the Nj. E. church meet Wednesday p. m. with Mrs. John Lan- don in Amesville.
 The whooping cough is prevailing to great extent in this town and vicinity.
 Edmund Landon of Lakevile spent Sunday with relatives in Amesville.
 W. J. Turner has accepted situation in the store of W. I. Sparks & Go. of Norfolk, to which place he went last week.
 Cornelius Pulver is now in the employ of Dr. J. J. Averill as hostler.
 A position in Fuckers cornet band to fill a vacancy. has been rendered Fred. A. Bart. lett, the NEWS agent, which he has accepted. He IS the youngest member, and will play the tenor horn.
 Mss Hattie Hosford and Mrs. David Watts are seriously i'll with pneumonia, and doubts of their recovery have been enter tained by their friends
 Miss Sophia L. Perry visited friends in Lakeville last week, and Ralph Fields oi Sheffield officiated at the telegraph office dur ing her absence.
 The case of Gold vs. Rogers, over the title to l6 acre wood lot, in court the last term has been decided by Judge Fyler, in favor of the plainIiff.
 Henry Crandall, Jr., has been chosen sex ton of the Congregational church, vice E. L. Brown, resigned.
 Rev B. M. Moore of the Congregational churches of this village and South Canaan, has been elected to the pastorate for another year by both societies, which he has accepted.
 The H. R. R. Go. have received several thousand feet of lumber from the famous Georgia pineries, which have been unloaded at this station. Several sticks are 10 X l6 inches in thickness, and over fifty feet in length.
 About p. m. last week Tuesday, an alarm of fire was given here, which was ascertained to be an old house on Charles Deans farm mile below here. It was unoccupied, and it was thought to be the work of an incendiary
 The two new locomotives ordered by the Fl. R. R. Go. from the Rogers works at Pat terson, N. J., have arrived at Bridgeport, and will be used on the through freight trains They are when coaled up, of about 50 tons weight, and are said to be capable of hauling 50 loaded cars.
 C.. R. Morris of Amesville has been offered a situation as master mechanic of the eastern
  the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific, with office at Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He has accepted the position, and will assume the duties of the f fee about the first of May
 Dr. James F. Preston is trying to get colony started for Dakota Territory.
 A letter dated at New Haven, Vt, July 29th, and written over half century ago, was found by lady in this village near her resi- dence where it had evidently lain for long time, for portion of the writing was scarcely legible. It was written by lady to her fath- CT, who had been in the service of the Amer ican army in the Revolutionary war, and was for a time stationed at Fort Ticonderoga, She with companion started from here for New Haven, Vt. in private conveyance, and gave minute description of the journey thither. She speaks of tremendous hail storm, which was the worst ever known by those who witnessed it, which broke out all the glass on the north side of the buildings, and did great damage to the fields of grain.
 lDLEWILD.
 The entertainment given by the Village Im- provement Society was success. The par ticipants acquitted themselves with credit As amateur actors they were entitled to praise; as public benefciaries, to the thanks of the village people.
 Sunday morning about half-past four, the early riser might have noticed peculiar vision in the eastern sky. It was caused by the close conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury. These planets were about seventy miles apart, so near each other they could be seen together in the telescope. Jupiter with his four moons, the giant planet of the brother hood, with full but soft light, Mercury with dazzling brightness, deep colored, the infant of the planets that circle around the sun, as- sisted in forming one of the charming pictures that at intervals adorn the heavens. It could be seen until the opening eyelids the morn 1immed the picture with sunlight; and great Jupiter with his four moons, en train in their srandness and the brilliant but wayward Mercury began parting. Moons will come md go ere they meet again.
 MORE C. ANON. Goshen. MT. Edward Norton of Delaware is visiting 1t MT. Albert Wadhams' Miss Libbie Palme is visiting friends in | New Haven, and Miss c. B. Smith is on a | wo weeks visit to New York. In burning over ground last Wednesday, | wo or three fires got beyond control and con | siderable damage was done in different parts | # the town. Miss Clara Hurlburt has returned from a | weeks visit in Washington. MT. Daniel Lucas is no better. Mr. Page, ather of Mrs. George Crandall, is also quite ick.
 A sociable is to be held at the parsonage lext Wednesday evening.
 Miss Nellie Wheeler began her school in Cast street Monday, and Miss Jennie Herald Q West Goshen.
 MT. F. A. Lucas and wife are both con- ned to the house with rheumatism.
 We hear rumors of wedding soon. The Goshen reporters are not satisfied to emain stationary. but try to improve each veek. I am trying to learn more about the eavenly bodies, and Mir. Henry Norton tells le that on Thursday morning, when the great ,oE4l 4lI,. 4.x.l