Connecticut western news., 1881-08-10
-"Oh, it's jolly to be parient; don't yo' wish me joy ?''- Charles Paul, Jr.

-"Oh, it's jolly to be parionti don't you wish me joy ?"-C Charles Paul, Jr.
 Spider to fly: "Will you walk into my parlor?" Fly to spider :-:.S;* S*: :,+ :.T;';~.;i
 Mir Weston Barnes, formerly ofRedding, on the hill
 Misses c. c. and F. s. Whittlesey of this place have been enjoying the beauties of the Berkshire hills.
 The members of the Canaan cornet band desire to extend their thanks to Mrs. A. P. Bennett for cash gift.
 The Housatonic railroad track is being raised near this place, the gravel being hauled from above Ashley Falls.
 George c. Peet, son of MT. J. W. Peet, is spending the heated term at Stephen Pow ell's farm in New Marlboro.
 The more it is suggested that the Fl. R. R. extra be made Sunday paper train, the more it goes up on SatuPday.
 The storm Saturday night was accompa. nied by hail, and in Wetaug the tobacco crop was somewhat damaged.
 Camp meeting is almost here-keep sending in your subscriptions to the DAILY NEWS. Only 25 cents; Set. postage stamps taken.
 Last Thursday the mercury walked right up to 96 in the shade like little man, and had to stoop down to avoid hitting it's head against the 100 notch.
 Fred Lawrence has gone west, young man, and it is more than half-about three quarters-suspected that when Fred. returns he will have increased-by better half.
 The fall term of the district schools be- gins on Monday, September 9th, with the same force of teachers-Mr. H. M. Adams in the upper room, Miss Bertha J. Granger intermediate, and Mrs. J. M. Root, primary. The thunder storm of last Saturday night was accompanied by such brilliant pyro- technical display as is not very often wit Q0SSeQ. SOul6 Ol Lu6 udSueS WSEO Oi OoAEAkAl6 $ brightness, and full of terror for the guilty conscience-we s'pose, although we didn't mind it any.
 The band will have no more rehearsals until the first Saturday in September. The annual meeting of the band was held last Saturday night, and the old board of officers reelected, as follows: W. W. Underwood, president; F. P. Barnum, vice-president; w. H. Camp treasurer; John Rodemeyer, IT,, secretary; G. E. DeHart, leader. The band will have picnic at Twin Lakes about Sept. 1st,
 A city boy about twelve years old, board ing on farm 'snot thousand miles from here," takes great interest in the work and features of farm, and asks good many questions The other evening" as the hired man was driving the COWS home from pasture, the youth, to his great amusement, asked tTsn't that black COW bull?" Being an. swered in the affirmative, he remarked know ingly, II thought so, from the looks of his ears"
 Officer L. M. Bailey of the Bridgeport police force was in town last Saturday. He had been spending week at Sturges' hotel Huntsville with his daughter, and came here on Saturday to visit some of the scenes of his childhood, having lived in East Canaan during the early part of his life attending school in the school house which was then opposite the present school building in dis trict No. l. He moved from Canaan forty four years ago, and has been on the Bridge port police force for the past eleven years.
 -"Market day" is quite exciting for calf buyers. There are three commission mel chants who buy calves here every Tuesday, and the life of trade" is brisk. When farm. CT drives ln with calf he is met half way by the trio, who walk up to the wagon, shake hands first with the calf, then with the owner, and then take turns whispering in the farmers ear. The biggest money gets the calf, Qove is distanced in the first heat) and the lucky winner follows his prize to the de- pot, while the other two simply put their thumb in the arm holes of their vests, and gaze up the road for the next calf, whistling "Who caresl"
 Fifty new coal cars have been ordered by the Hartford $ Connecticut Western R. R Co. Owing to lack of cars the road lost the transportation of 5000 tons of coal dur ing the month of July, and they don't pro- pose to have the losses continue longer from that cause The work of repairing and re- building the bridges will continue, those at Ore Hill, Lakeville and Tarifville being! the first to be overhaulsd. Negotiations are al- SO pending for the purchase of 17 miles of steel rails, which, when laid, will make A miles, out of the total 70, of steel rail. These are gratifying indications that the present management intend to put the road on good footing and on the sure way to prosperity.
 Lawrence Yorker of Kent, formerly of this place, and familiarly known as "Bud, " eloped Saturday evening, July 30, with Mrs. Sarah Graves, wife of Chicago drummer, who was living in Kent, her husband being away most of the time. Yorker left wife, and child year and a half old, and Mrs. Graves is the mother of three children whom she left in Kent. Yorker came to this place by the through freight train north, getting