Connecticut western news., 1881-06-29

A respectable Bridgeporter chased "fg- ure robed in white" about half mile the oth- CT night and when he saw that he couldn't possibly catch it, he suddenly made the sur. prising discovery that it was woman, and of course gave up the chase. He thought all the time that it was ghost.
 Bridgeport had big hail storm last Sun day, which did considerable damage as punishment on the heads of those awful city snobs who called the Item man a "buck wheater," ''brushcutter'' etc. at the picnic the day before, and discovered that his hair was full of hay-seed and burdocks. 'When'd Ye come deownP"
 Addis of the Windsor Locks Journal wis., itsd Cheney of the Bridgeport Eagle the oth. CT day, and the latter starts of it's local col umn with the thrilling words: -'Pretzels, Switzer kass and swiglass lager" The Jour- nal isn't out yet-at least none has been re- ceived at this office. LATRR.-It has since come from New Canaan post office. Evident. ly somebody was little mixed
 The Bridgeport News says that the citi- zens heard ''strains of melody from the up- country wind -jammers" last Saturday. That contemptible fling explains it all, and we are glad to have found it out. That "snotty nosed idiot" who stood on the street corner ! :, until he got the wind all jammed out of him by one of the ''up. country wind jammers' whose toes he attempted to tread on, must have been none other than the local reporter of the Bridgeport News.
 The New Hartford Tribune is mad because somebody made fun of it's numerous typo graphical errors and it says, i've intend to make all such friends as they are, ashamed by doing in the future better than they hope we can do, and to astonish them into silence, if not approval" That's right MT. Tribune but before you s'astonish" them out of their boots, or make them very much ashamed, , just begin your reform by leaving off stealing items from the NEWS You are heartily well come to what paragraphs you want, to make your columns interesting, but don't forget the customary courtesy, of giving due credit. Yours truly.
 Robert Dunn, young man of Winsted, was killed by the cars at that place last Mon- day, while under the influence of liquor Dunn had got on board the train to see a couple of young fellows from Waterbury off, with whom he had been drinking, and get ting from the train after it started, he was swung around between two of the cars, under the wheels which passed over one foot, frac' turing the bone 50 as to nscessitato amputa
 
 the same night. It is said that for two yeara Dunn had been strictly temperate, and haG only "broksn over" about two weeks before the accident which caused his death. BARB
 Egleston, the Itemizer went down on th, band excursion last Saturday, and on the car, he passed around his hat among the passen gers to raise funds to buy banana. young lady took the hat from his hands, ant found inside, little bug, with gray back which she showed to her companions, wh' looked as if something pleased them. Egles ton managed to get his hat back, and crawle' into the seat in the farther corner of the ca where he occupied his time in looking mad red, and intently at the crops outside, an' wishing devoutly that he was out there pick ing punkins. He went without his banana but proved to his companions that his hea wasn't entirely empty,
 A correspondent ofthe Litchfisld Enquire alludes to the killing of pair of bald eagle at BaEtam Lake, and says they are the las of the species in that county. These bird have lived for many years on the Litch6el hills. and had been seen often in the vicinit of Bantam Lake. The bald eagle is th
 proud bird which has been adopted as our n' e tional emblem, and which the Americans al d apt to believe would be more than mate t for the British lion. The average length
 those eagles is about forty inches, and u F stretch of wing between seven and eight fee They generally build their nests in lofty trt 2 tops, on the highest hills, and near rock
 precipices. As these nests are used year a tor year and additions made to them eat D year, they sometimes become of great sig !, : With the sportsman it is matter of pride bring down the king of fowls, and though
 should know that his aim would result in Il 'r utter extinction of our emblematic bird, ,f would pull the trigger all the same. Sentime ir would find no place :n his bosom while u
 glory of bagging an eagle was in view. It m a pity, though, that the gunner did not spa Id these eagles. The species is almost sxtint g. But there is a compensation in the final dt
 trpction of the race of eagles. A larger nul ,s ber of lambs will grow up in Litchfeld cou ,S ty-more chickens will mature; and while n. great deal of patriotic sentiment is disappoil
 ed or utterly spoiled, we shall have more m ton in the market, and larger quantities eo springers for broiling Hartford Times.