Connecticut western news., 1881-01-12

aug last Wednesday night. No pains had been spared on the part of MT. and Mrs. Ii. to make the occasion an enjoyable one, and that they succeeded in their efforts is proven | hv the universal verdict of the 80 guests as- sembled that they ''never enjoyed themselves better" The guests continued to arrive un- til late in the evening, and immediately pro- ceeded to make themselves at homeland if thero is one place where person can JeeS perfectly at home, that place is at Pete Hicks Music for dancing had been procured, and the light fantastic toe was tripped until the cock crew. The presents received were nu merous and valuable, and attest the esteem in which the bride and groom are held. Among the gifts we noticed fine sofa, from Leroy, Macrae, Decker and Parsons; rocker Jacob VanTassle; rocker, Mir. and Mrs. Frank Barnum; camp chair, Mrs. Jones and Mrs, Homan; stand, W. VanTassle, w. Funk, Jas. Hamblin; box honey, Mir. and Mrs Chas. Decker; box coffee and broom, F. Hawley; hand mirror and frame, Mrs. C. w. Camp; chamber toilet set, T. Russell; pho tograph album MT. and Mrs. Geo. Stiner; dolls, frame and pipe, Emma Stiner; lantern' Mrs. w. Scoville pickle dish, Mir. and Mrs Robert Little; napkin ring, John Rodemey- CT, Jr; 12 goblets, G. L. Parsons; 12 sauce dishes, L. S. Parsons pair toilet vases anc ruit dish, MT. and Mrs. Geo. Barnum; pail toilet vases H. c. Joyner; syrup cup, w. Mcintyre; napkin rings, E. Lebree; coffee pot, Mir. and Mrs. Fred. Bushnell cake basket, Mrs. E. Conklin; com fortable Mr. and Mrs. P. H. VanTassle; l: napkins, Jas Tripp; fruit knife, G. B. Gard ner; pair cuff buttons, Frank Hitchcock water pail and potato masher, P. Condon table lamp, MT and Mrs. Frank VanDeusen Sl. cash, s w. Russell; centre table, Mrs II. C. Hastings, Geo. Sardam, Johnny Rus sell; 40 yards muslin, MT. and Mrs, Jas. G Wiley; white counterpane, MT. and Mrs. w. Warner.
 About midnight magnificent supper wa spread, to which the multitude did ample jus tice, and when one by one the guests tool their departure, they brought with them kind ly remembrances of the happy occasion, lea7 ing hearty congratulations, and good wishe to which the NEWS adds it's own.
 A melee took place in union depot las Sunday night, which but for healthy an sensible respect for the majesty of the 'a' which fortunately prevailed, would hay terminated in a bloody riot and seriou consequences. The cause of the circus wa the attempt by deputy sheriff Richmond t arrest three young men from East Canaan named Joseph Kegler, Matthew Colbert an
 Robert Colbert for refusing to pay their fare on conductor Pollards milk train, from Eas Canaan to this station, and for breach of tn peace. The fellows were under the infuenc of liquor, and ip quarrelsome mood, and il stead of submitting peaceably to the office
 they resisted, with the exception af youn
 Kegler, who was too drunk to offer resistance The officer, seeing that the other two wei , not disposed to surrender called on sewers
 bystanders to assist in capturing them, an
 the show commenced in good earnest. TT
 Colbert boys are large, muscular fellows, ar
 fought like bull dogs, knocking and kickr
 the crowd right and left. Their capture W; l rendered all the more difficult from the fa
 that in the crowd there was an element in s
 cret sympathy with them, which sympathy
 one or two instances manifested itself so fl
 grantly that it was plain to be seen that u
 slightest provocation would kindle it into
 fury that not even the fear of the law wou quell. The struggle lasted a quarter of { , hour. and was participated in by all the abl
 bodied men in town, and at last the fellow
 were secured and marched to the Stevel l House where they were placed under guar :. The next day they were brought before Ju
 tice Hardenbergh on charges of evading u e payment of fare, and resisting an officer, al IS were bound over for the April term of the S j. peror court at Litchield, Kegler in $lOO, al
 the Colberts in $200 each.