Connecticut western news., 1881-10-26

reported as being intensely interesting, and if clerical appetites are anything to judge by, their owners had first-class jamboree Was little sorry that any among those who pro. fess to ''love the Lord, and their neighbor as themselves" should hiss the Rev. Leonard W. Bacon for airing bis ideas on Temperance, contending that license was preferable to no license. It's free country, and no thing or question has less than two sides to it.
 Bro. Pinney has very sensible article on violation of the Sunday law, and cites the Beardsley Scythe Go. as offenders Now there is hardly morning. afternoon or eve ming church service in this town of aristocrat- ic piety, but what is outraged by the hooting and clanking oftrains of the H. & c. w. R. R., and common decency demands a change.
 There IS to be wedding next Wednesday a. m. at the lst (Parson Lee's) church, and the parties most interested (beyent the fond parients) are MT. l.. L. Camp and Miss Lot tie Loomis. It is generally looked upon as a good swap and Mrs. Grundy says Amen.
 The new block down east looks very well now. The front stagings are removed, and the pressed brick and chseled marble can be seen, but the cutting down the grand old elms
 
 tie short of vandalism.
 The old-gold color of the second story of the Winsted Silver Plate Co.'S. Works is not, as some suppose, sample of their gold plat ing. but peculiar tint taken on. on ''yaller day." and seems to stay.
 Does 1t follow that Ian Alvord will be eternally in debt just because he marries into family that's forever Owen?
 The handsomest baby on exhibition at the | Harwinton fair was about the color of a baked pumpkin, and it's ladder and mudder a good deal blacker than the ace of diamonds. Dr. Welch is 8 good old soul. and has en. deared himself professionally. far and near, (especially to the undertaker,) but his reek- ing barnyard, cess pool and general catch-all, belchlng foul odors into the very heart of our much governed village, suggest malaria of the l first quality. Please abate it, Dr.
 | They do say that Fred. Moore is about to commence building bolt factory near the l gas works, and 1t would seem to be very sensible operation for him.
 The water in Long Lake is feet and 4 inches below high water mark, and still, | Peck uses hogshead of it to wash quart of clans, Phillips mill dam full to wash a ] buggy, the Clarke House good sized lake, 1 mornings, to wash the tobacco spittle of the evening before from it's front entrance, and everybody else in proportion; meanwhile the manufacturers sit quietly and see it go on.
 On Friday afternoon, Oct 2lst, a lad named Garfield, in the employ of the Strong man ufacturing O., was fooling with the belt to g machine, which was being adjusted for him when he was caught and jerked to the ceiling overhead. He returned to the floor iron which he started, minus two thumbs.
 He can't so long as memory fingers,
 Finger his thumbs, or thumb his fingers WRANGLER. Canaan VaIleys
 There have been no incendiary fires recent ly.
 Mrs. James Benedict, formerly of this place but for the last twenty. three years resident of Minnesota. has been visiting her old friends and neighbors here. She will spend the winter with relatives in Hartford
 The Sabbath School recently organized d the school house, is hourishing finely. It hal an able superintendent in Deacon Abel G Stevens. Rev. Amos Benedict has preached regularly at the school house once in three weeks; his discourses are always instructive and interesting, and show him to be preach CT of more than ordinary ability.
 There is a general feeling of dissatisfactio1 among the tax payers in this district in regart to the repairing of the highways this season l the sum of about three hundred dollars hay ing been paid out of the town treasury fo
 that purpose, and but a small portion of tn
 roads have been repaired at all. Now tn question is, what amount would have beer required to put all of our roads in prope repair? And because some of our tax payer , have seen fit to criticise the acts of @ certai town official who has had the superinten dence of the roads in this district, and who's duty it is to see that the money appropriate l for that purpose is judiciously expended, hi ] ire is aroused, and he retorts by calling then
 Hottentets. Now, if the Hottentots as people, are opposed to having their none , squandered or taken from them without fal equivalent, then perhaps they deserve the az pellation, for the feeling of dissatisfaction
 universal, and men of good judgment sa. } that all of the work done on the highway ) could have been done for less than half tn money expended. But if the said official dig
 nitary will adhere strictly to his expressed . determination to have no more to do with tn roads Tn this district, he will be entitled t. the lasting gratitude of :he tax paying Hot } tentots of this district, and also of the who'll 7 town. ONE OF FEM.