Connecticut western news., 1881-09-07

NOW leC somesody shoot the man ana let the pig live, and you have an example of the survival of the fittest"
 The cry of ''mad dog" broke up darkey I camp meeting at Stamford last Sunday. The shout was probably set up by some unregen- ! crate coon who had exhausted his patience waiting for the 'tamen."
 "Old Brons." the veteran passenger engi- neer of the H. R. R. made the trip from Bridgeport to Falls Village last Wednesday, distance of 67 miles, in one hour and 56 minutes, the quickest yet.
 There lives bad man named Guiteau, Who'll roast in the regions beleau; The devil will take him
 And skin him and bake him,
 And grin, as he squirms in his weau. Waterbury is getting up chorus of 75 voices. We'll. that1l do well enough if it's for campaign glee club, but if they make a church choir of it therell be some large hair pulling and back biting, won't there? ! A Spitz dog ran mad in New London the I other day, and had to be shot. In it's travels it ran into a lager beer saloon, where, after hard tussle, free lunch fiend clutched it by the throat and threw it through window.
 Uncle Toms Cabin was played in Middle town last night. The old cabin has been played with so much that there is nothing left of the original, excepting the hole in the window which Uncle Tom used to plug up with pillow.
 James Mooney and Bernard Leavy of Bridgeport were drowned by the upsetting of a fishing boat at that place last Thursday. Both leave families. Another man was in $ the boat with them, but he escaped drowning by swimming ashore.
 The Hartford papers are punching up the commissioners, to remove chief of police Chamberlain from his high position. Like the heathen Chinee, he must go. He won't let the editors play cards on the church horse block Sunday mornings.
 ] Conversation between an editor and D.D. Fact, too. Editor-"oh yes, go to church occasionally; I get hold of an item once in a while by going to church, D. D.-"Humph yes; we'll Iget hold of an item once in a while by reading the papers," Exit editor.
 A drunken tailor named John Michaelsor jumped into the drink at New Haven the other day, in an attempt at suicide, but was rescued without damage. If he had only tied his goose about his neck, there would have been a pair of 'em, and he would have stood better show.
 A Hartford sign painter says that the bar Der pole was at first the emblem of "blood letters" as barbers customarily acted as sur geons. If the pole were to-day the typical sign of the bleeder the plumber and gas-ft ter's shop would bristle with poles like qui!l' upon the fretful porcupine.
 An explosion occurred in the Wincheste armory at New Haven last Tuesday, bI which nine persons were severely injured one of whom is likely to die. The building
 was considerably damaged. The explosion took place in the room whore the cartridge
 were loaded, which is done mostly by girls
 The finest store in Hartford is that of Hart Merriam & Co.,, which contains the fines stock of goods in the city. It seems lik going through fairy-land, to visit it, and n one can resist the temptation to bring some thing away. Read their new advertisement in the NEWS this week, and see if you don
 think they keep some carpets etc. Mrs. Abby Hoyt of Morris, near Litchfiel was fatally burned the other day while at , tempting to kindle a fire with kerosene. Tn t can exploded and covered her with blazin . oil, and it was some time before help arrive
 and put it out by wrapping blankets aroun
 her: She died within a few hours, glyin
 birth prematurely to child before sho died v She was only 19 years old, and had bee
 married ten months.
 G. ". HaI has been making some in
 provements in his store in Falls Village, tn
 two departments now being moro "nsighbol
 ly," by the enlarging the aperture betwee
 them. A big stock of fall and winter cloth , ing has been put in and full case of rem
 nants of lace edgings, which will please th, t ladies. MT. Halls mammoth business is con stantly increasing. Cause why2 he keeps
 standing ad. in the NEWS.
 7 The second regiment c. V. A. will ho T their annual reunion at Woodbury on Thurs
 day. Sept. 22. Excursion tickets will be sol n on the New York & New England R R from Waterbury, Danbury and Hawleyville
 to Southbury whence stages will run Woodbury, five miles. Secretary Kilbour of Litch6eld desires that all comrades repor
 themselves by letter or in person, so tha
 they may be all ''present or accounted for
 once more.
 An eccentric old gentleman in e neighbol
 ing town, with peculiar aptitude for illus ! trating the single step from the sublime , the ridiculous, recently remarked to friend
 while passing a graveyard, in substanc t thusly: "Supposing on this beautiful Sabbat t morning, when nature is arrayed in all he
 loveliness; when the gentle zephyrs lightl Q sway the branches to and fro; when the sum mer birds gaily chant their merry song-sur
 posing Gabriel should come down and blo1
 his horn, and the sheeted dead were to ris a up and come forth-how like the devll the - would look, wouldn't they?"
 But by all odds the biggest fat mems clan
 bake of the season was that held at Roto Point last Thursday, which was attended b : fully 1000 people, and no one knows hoy much avoirdupois. They destroyed 80 bush
 els of clans, three barrels of Holsters, l a bushels of oysters, 400 pounds of bluefsh : two bushels of crabs, 1,5OO ears of corn, 5O : chickens, 25 pounds of tripe, % pounds Q