Connecticut western news., 1881-09-14
VICINITY.

The Danbury fair VIII be held Oct. 9th to 10th.
 A Bridgeport child ate fly paper recently, and was poisoned.
 Winsted steamer sTunxls" has been sold, and so has the purchaser.
 Ben. Hogan, the converted prize fighter is holding religious meetings in Winsted.
 Prof. Johnson's Hilsdale Classical Insti- ute commenced the fall term last Monday.
 The Mllerton cornet band gave concert last night, to assist in raising funds to buy uniforms.
 Tariffville is to have a silk manufactory, to be called the Amer Silk Co.,, with capital of s2 100000.
 The West Cornwall cornet band will have another excursion and picnic at Parlor Rock on Saturday, the 24th- w. M. Rockefeller of Greenwich has s1OO, 900 worth of blooded horses. We'll bet he uses big English. The temperance folks of Winsted added to their supply of liquor by going through Stacks saloon the other day. Johnny Sherwood, 10 years old, was drowned in Windsor locks canal last Thurs day, while collecting flood wood. | A Thompsonville undertaken has raised 25 bushels of potatoes from peck of seed. He's planter, from the word go. | Wm. Goes, a New Haven man was found kneeling beside his bed, dead. last Friday. He is supposed to have dled in fit.
 Andrew Mallia of Thompsonville' was con siderably bunged up by jumping from mov' ing train near that place last Friday.
 The H. R. R. cornet band desire to extend thanks to MT. and Mrs. Lyman Munson fol coyrtesies extended last Saturday night.
 A New Milford man has cottage at Lake Waramaug, which he has named Lazy Tod ge. l Now let somebody define the word egotism,
 Yesterday was observed throughout this state, as day of prayer for the recovery of the President, appointed by Governor Big elow.
 J. H. Vaill of the Winsted Herald, was elected president of the Weekly Press associ. | ation at their annual meeting in Hartford last Monday.
 Wm Sault of Meriden died from rum drinking last Wednesday. In this age of progress and improvement, it seems almost | incredible.
 MT. o. F. Potter, formerly of the Wo- nonsco House, Lakeville, is to succeed H. L. | Warner as landlord of the Beardsley House l in Winsted.
 For performing an abortion with fatal ef- 1 feet, on young woman some six months ago. Dr. Chas. Powell of Stamford was arrested | last Thursday. John L. Jones of Lime Rock killed rattle snake at that place the other day, that meas ured three and one half feet long, and had eleven rattles.
 The Malley boys of New Haven are charg- ed with killing Jennie Cramer in five different shapes, sizes and varieties of murder, includ- ing the latest styles. Miss Cora Frary and her grandmother of Bridgeport, were seriously injured by falling from their carriage while the horse was run ming away last Friday. Guiteau was hung in effgy at Seymour be- tween the Garfield and Arthur poles last week.. Guiteaus life doesn't seem to be held at the yalue of an f-i.p
 Thompsonville shipped 225 cases of tobac- co last week. Enough to make 225, 1862 small boys so sick that circus has no more charms for them than wood-pile.
 Superintendent Stillson and his ''gude wife" gave their friends a private picnic at Parlor Rock last Wednesday, which was at- tended by about carload.
 Prof. J. M. Lee, the writing teacher, is to be in this vicinity soon, to open writing schools. The building of his mansion in New Haven has prevented his coming sooner.
 The New Milford Ray reprints a number of our paragraphs under the heading of "Rodemeyer's Rap-sodies," indicating that the Ray takes ''stick" in it's light beYerag- es.
 Several fellows who went to New Milford to see the circus the other day found the big gest part of the menagerie in the district court-any way, they paid more for seeing it than the rest of the show. Full-largely so