Connecticut western news., 1881-06-15
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Stamford has the small pox.

Stamford has the small pox.
 Roxbury holds Sunday services in the depot
 MT. w. H. Orton of Sharon died suddenly last Friday.
 The Harlem R. R. brakemen are to be uniformed in blue.
 John McElroy has been appointed post. master at Chapinville.
 J. B. Eldridge and J. D. Bassett of Nor folk have arrived home from Kansas.
 Miss Lola Laneharte of Troy, N. Y, is visiting friends in Lakeville, her former home
 Alexander Waters assigned estate, in Winsted pays 50 cents and six mills on the dollar
 There are $50 men employed ballasting the N. Y. & N. E. R. R. between Brewsters and Hawleyvlle.
 Another N. Y. &5 N. E. R. R. brakeman was crushed while coupling cars at Plaintield last Wednesday.
 A Norwich pistol shop is lying idle for want of orders. Tn ey use poison down there to settle disputes.
 Bridgeport christians can't take any com fort on Sundays, owing to the cheap excur- sions to New York.
 A Stonington man has 54 years old um- brella, which has worked for 999 owners and keeps Lent rerpetually.
 Two new cases of summer millinery just received at Mrs. Hulps. First door north Planet House, AIillerton N, Y. 2w
 William H Woodwork of Hartford fell from his residence and was killed, while dec orating for the reunion last week.
 Bridgewater has button-ball tree which measures 25 feet and II inches in circum- terence, one foot from the ground.
 The public sign post in Bridgewater has fallen down, and all legal notices are now simply handed in to the sewing circle,
 Norwich is to have another daily paper. which will make four dailies in that city, Bustles are coming into fashion again.
 Lawrence McDermott of the Naugatuck freight house in Winsted made a misstep from a wagon, and fell, breaking his leg last week.
 Daniel Hammond of Colchester, 45 years old bachelor was found dead in his bed last Wednesday morning. Bachelors take warn ing.
 A New Haven doctor is raising bananas, expecting to reap his reward in broken bones to mend when the peelings strew the side walk.
 Will Beebe of Falls Village got his hand
  cars the other day, and sustained smashed finger.
 The children of Chief of police Hayes, of Ansonia, who was murdered by Chip Smith, have been sent to the New Haven orphan asylum.
 A Windsor Locks shoe dealer is clearing out his stock in order to have showroom to build a pair of slippers for Addis of the Journal.
 James Chaffee, a Waterbury bar tender, night The quarrel started about the price of drink.
 A Southbury minister has just been pre- sented with gold watch, by his parishioners who want the gospel expounded by New York time.
 Warehem Griswold died in Poquonock, Ct, last week He weighed 375 pounds. aad re- quired coffin l-2 feet long 30 inches wide and 22 inches deep.
 A Greenwich church society recently re. fused to allow memorial services to be held in their church on decoration day, as it would soil their new carpet.
 There were thirty, three deaths in Bridge port during the month of May -E'0gle Yes, Bridgeport is an enterprising town, but it sometimes gets left. 1
 The dead body of newly born male child 1 was discovered in a brook back of the Cap 1 itol in Hartford last Sunday. The genius of 1 Connecticut" is dropping.
 Danbury has more applicants for summer board than she can accommodate. Danbury | is becoming quite popular since that gold | mine was discovered there.
 The 2d c. V. A. are to be invited by the H. to ln1l tl,o:. annual reunion in Norfolk in 1882. This year it is to be held in Woodbury.
 A Torrngton correspondent says, There are great many strangers in town" Nebbe hey are editors who see an ''opening," the Register having recently burned out
 A false report of case of small pox the other day prompted thetWinstedltes to wash heir arms, put on clean shirt sleeve, and make tracks for the doctor shops to be "wax- nated."
 A Plymouth man recently owned a calf porn with two heads and two back bones held ogetner by the tail, but the animle died ot right when it saw the ferocious reporters locking around it. A New Canaan COW "a "valuable" COW, of killed by lightning the other day nd the blow falls all the more heavily on her 'rlef- stricken owner because she was struck ! lst before milking time. A mischievous fellow who took a wreath rom a grave in Winsted cemetery the oth r day, is called "human hyena." If he had l. ug up the coffin and desecrated the tomb he c would be simply brute. n The New Fairfield Congre gational church as struck by lightning recent Sunday. ut no lives were lost. It was rainy Sun t ay. and bad weather for new hats, so the " stayed at home. ie Now and then a small sturgeon is caught Il Ve are training one to present to the Can an News man. He's very fond of pets Ia : Windsor Locks Journal Yes, but they u usn't be under sixteen, you know. O.
 b A Danbury young man got on a 'bust" e other night, and WIS surprised the next ,; orning to find himseflying out in an orchard lr Id more busted than he anticipated. His " oney and watch had been stolen from him. oml m Miss Mary Casey of Birmingham received tl call from John Coogan, her feller last Tues " y night, who at once accused her of jilting tn m, and drew revolver and shot at her sev re al times, the third bullet striking her at the SC of the skull, inhicting 3 dangerous dc ound. The girls blg brother came TO the W scue and took the weapon away from the W. ruriated lover, and had him locked up. ne