Connecticut western news., 1880-07-28
VICINITY.
Danbury has the small pox.


 Danbury has the small pox. Collinsville has Q newspaper, the Sentinel. Some of Northville's young men are going to Florida
 The Newtown Bee is publishing history in it's columns.
 Worthwhile has flaming mill, and sighs for an obelisk.
 Higganun,. with population of 2,4le, has only five blacks.
 Winsted is talking of having Saturday trots and bicycle club. New Milford had a clam bake on Starr's Island last Wednesday. It is thought the censns will give Conneti- cut population of e00,00o.
 The Winsted bolt makers had clam bake at Long Lake last Saturday.
 Worthwhile is in raptures over 3l spears of oats, grown from single seed.
 Woodbury has crack base ball club that is vanquishing all it's opponents.
 A New Preston woman killed a black snake six feet long the other day. E Rev. MT. Lee of Winsted was presented with watch and chain last week.
 The presidential fight in Winsted, hinges on the post office question as usual.
 Two men were fatally injured by runa- way team the other night in Danbury.
 John Whalen had his finger badly smashed in turn table at Milerton the other day.
 A Pennsylvania firm have leased Landons Chapinville furnaces for a term of five years. Charles K Hunt of Winsted is stringing telephone line on the line of the Harlem R. R. The Millerten Telegram talks plain to the village fathers for not enforcing the ordinance es. ,. ..- ..- The Item man is having new press made, and will soon change the form of his paper again. .:.-
 Litchfeld jail was struck by lightning last week, and one of the prisoners slightly in- jured.
 The Episcopal church society of Bridge | water have called Rev MT. Robinson of Beth lehem.
 Idlewild has been making his brother cor resdondent "Drummer' glad with his presence in East Canaan.
 The Catholic churches of Amenia, Miller ton and Millbrook, are in charge of Rev. Father Corkery.
 A young Woodburian is now called ''papa, " and 3 correspondent is glad he is so ''success- l full at farming" The oldest apple tree in Winsted "a ''gold- on sweet"-was hewn down last week. It was set out in 178O.
 Collinsville has lots ofmoonlight promenad- CTS, with apparently only one arm each. Keep of the grass.
 The patent self acting railroad switch in- vented by Canton man, is to be used on the Conn. Western R. R. Messrs Norton of Winsted are erecting a large block for tenements, which will berent- ed at '.live in" prices.
 The Item wants the Falls Village cemetery cleaned up. What is the Item fixing to do now7 take up it's land?
 The Gazette says, "Water is to be introduc- not conducive to health. John K Shepard and wife, of West Nor folk have gone to Stony Creek, where MT. s.. expects to improve in health. A trained driving goat hitched to dimin- utive road wagon, and driven by boy, is setting the Winsted youngsters crazy. Editor Delavan of the New Milford Ray is seeking rest, and health in distant state, where he expects to stay about month. A black snake, fraction over feet and | 10 inches long was killed in New Milford the other day, and inside was found a squirrel.
 Litchfeld is full of babies, says a cores pondeut, and there are also 50 widows, 2 widowers, 5 old maids and old bachelors. A drunken man deliberately spied" 80,- OOO,ems of type for a Norwichprinter the oth- CT day. The "devil" took possession of him.
 A camp meeting is to be held at Bedding l Ct from Aug 9 to IA, and the Bethel Ledger ! is to publish daily edition during the ses sion. r--
 GeorgeN N. Abbott, New Milford mer. chant has gone to parts unknown, leaving several creditors to mourn and attach his store. " '~
 A Sherman man sold over 700 quarts O strawberries, raised on one-nlnth of an acre of land. to say nothing of the amount used by the family. ,,
 A Harwinton farmer recently hired tramp who showed his gratitude by assaulting hi' employers house keeper, nearly killing hel I with club.
 A Pine Meadow correspondent tells of al T old lady who is not blind who lives within stone's throw of the 0. W. R. R. and yet hal never seen the cars.
 The New Milford and New Preston tele phone line saves $3, for each message sent l the price usually charged for carrying from one town to the other.
 That awful Dangerous man at large" has Il been seen in every town in the state, but he doesn't seem to be at all contagious. He should have chromo.
 How funny the funny man who runs tht funny column of the New Milford Gazette is He is certainly no slouch, if he does have fits -of editorial abstraction. I Isaac Hawley's house at Hawleyville was struck by lightning recently, and two per sons were considerably shocked, and the house considerably damaged.
 Conductor Elmore's train ran into horse and wagon at Collinsvilel last Tuesday, ia tally injuring the driver, and demoishing the wagon. The horse escaped.
 A Worthwhile correspondent says the tele phone is confounded humbug, just because he has to hug his Araminta in imagination when courting oyer the wire. .4.~ A collection taken in the Pleasant Valley M. E. church recently, after special appeal from the pastor, brought in 37 cents "Sal' vation's free' in Pleasant Valley.
 Wm. Murphy of Torrington was found dead in field the other day, supposed to have died from the effects of the heat, as he was prostrated last year by sunstroke.
 Will the Hartford papers please correct their error in stating that Pine Grove camp meeting closes. Aug. 28. It is to hold o0er Sunday, and close, Monday Aug. 30.
 The New Milford Gazette man is being wis ited by "devilish good fellow' with a bot tle,-At least it would seem so; from the blood-curdling snake stories that he tells.
 A Watertown horse hitched to moving machine, refused to go recently, and rearing up, fell over back onto the machine receiving injuries from which it died in short time
 The good samaritans of Brookfeld have rafffed off an organ for the benefit of an inva- lidin destitute circumstances, who will take the money raised, $9O. and go to Cornwall, where good samaritans and old organs