Connecticut western news., 1881-03-30

1uo duuudl EeACluS Ol Lne peWS OI LAS Lakevlle M. E Church will take place at the ] Church on Saturday afternoon of this week, i (Aprll 2,) at o'clock. By order of Official l Board.
 A Thompsonville undertaken who has been in business there for 37 years, has buried | 3, ,OOO persons-more than half the present population of the town. There are lots of doctors there. Danbury is having red hot temperance revival. In case the evangelists succeed in shutting up the saloons, there will be two or | three first class newspaper establishments for sale at bargain.
 The postmaster at East Litchfeld is 8l years old, and a correspondent thinks that because he is probably the oldest post master | in the country he should have been appointed Postmaster General.
 l Rev. H. H. Hayden, whose recent trial for the murder of Mary Stannard, outwinded the moral law, has given up exhibiting himself on | the platform, and is now at work in a carriage shop in Naugatuck.
 l The Rev. Hugh Montgomery of Norwich, | is entitled to 8 credit mark for his persever- ance. He has prosecuted 134 liquor sellers within the past IA months, all but nine of whom were convicted.
 | The Newtown Bee is to be started again by R. Il Smith of the Springfield Republican cd itorial staff, and will undoubtedly prove sue cess this time, as 1t should be- with all the dead head advertising it gets.
 An effort is being made by the Winsted greenbackers to get Gen. Weaver to deliver lecture :here soon. Pinney of the Press will
 probably send the same religious reporter that ''took" Beecher's lecture.
 HI. N" of Goshen has seen wild geese. grass birds and robins thus early. As thev
 were on the wing, of course they came within
 the focus of his legitimate calling-the dis covery of ''heavenly bodies."
 Prof. J M. Lee, the popular writing
 teacher, is to form classes in Salisbury.
 Lakeville and Millerton next week. The
 Prof. understands his business, and made
 some good writers in this place last winter. Il committee arranging for a recent social
 party in Falls Village, according to the Item
 Hworked without bungling in this instance, !"
 which impressed Egleston as belng so re-
 markable that he made a three-inch item of it
 Geo. M. Landers of New Britain. Charles Benedict of Waterbury and Representative Seward of Putnam have been appointed com
 missioners to take charge of the l75,000 ap propriated to build new normal school al New Britain.
 Planz. New Affords barber had an excit. ing chase, gun in hand, after 8 rat, in his ) house the other day. During the race Plan2
 mistook his own foot for an immense rat, and shot at it, sending 8 ball clean through it. , the ball lodging n the sole of his shoe, He keeps sixteen cats now.
 . Mir. Faxon, the recently elected post mas ter of Hartford, has resigned the office, abC
 accepted the presidency of the Hartforo 3 Trust Company. His reason for resigninp the post office was because the salary is ln- adequate to warrant the employment of clerk.
 sufficient to do the duties of the office, and 3 have anything left.
 The other day woman was sweeping in
 the bottom Of sn elevator well, in Bridge
 port corset factory, and while she was there somebody lowered the elevator. She dropped
 on her hands and knees, and caught the struc @ ture, weighing 400 pounds. on her back, hold e ing 1t there until it was raised, and sustaining
 no material injury.
 h would respectfully announce to the peop n of Falls and Vicinity, that have opened {
 clothing store i'll Miners block, Falls Village If and have large variety of spring and sum [. mer clothing which will sell at living prices
 and hope by fair and honorable dealing t.
 merit share ofthe public patronage. 2 L. NE1sNER
 l 4 wedding under tree, in wagon, by tn
 light of the silver moon and lantern, wa Q one of the sensations of Thamaeton on tn night oi St. Patrck's ay-and all becaus :. the W Ellington bridegroom got his license il l. Thomaston, and discovered little too late il the day that the ceremony couldn't legally b ), performed in Wilmington.
 ' The suicide of Warren Silvernail et th r. Salisbury toRl farm on Sunday the 2Ot s inst was horrible case Ejlvernail is said t h have been partially deranged, and while in on
 of hls depressed moods he took his pocke e knife. slashed his arms right and left cuttn at great gashes in the muscular parts then rip r ped open his abdomen, and tearing out hi
 ntestines, cut thel1 +; pieces and threw ther T on the floor. A Qeat and dumb. idotic won |. an alone witnessed the awful deed. and sf o managed after while to make the fac known. A physician was at once called, wh
 replaced the eptrails, but the man was be '. yond all hope of recovery, and died in 8 fe1 Y, hours. He gave as his reason for the deeC Ill just before he dIed, that he would rather d;
 than work " Some three years ago he liv, 'v at Sandtown. He was a veteran of the 2 d C. V. A. and attended the reunlon in tli es place last September.
 Hon. Gideon H. Hollister, a we'll know x and prominent lawyer of Litchfeld, died las s' Thursday of pneumonia MT Hollister wa ' 62 years old; graduated from Yale in 1s4( the classmate of ex Gov Ingersoll, and othe in distinguished men ;:Whrie iD college he wa to elected class poet president of Livonia socie in ty and was n editor on the Yale Liter; r
 uagazipe Was admitted to the bar in lS42
 ami lad pvactised most of the tune since n N-~n clerk af the county court, stst al He had o-, --t'vA- and for neall 2 senator and represen,. --:"isfe
 two years, l86S-G9. he was U. 5. n,,. ,t resident, and consul general near Port a, $ Prince. He was author of several vel e known books, including history of Connect
 lcut, which is considered standard autho,itv q His historical romance, ''Mount Hope, o1
 Philip King of the Wampanoags," also had . large sale He leaves son, student i, Trinity College, Hartford.
 r HALLS GRAND OPENING. :: Geo. w. Hall of Falls IS to have a sserant Il spring opening" next Saturday. when ali de-
 sirng bargains as are bargains" will do vel
 to be there. It will repay anybody to lool ', through his large store which is packed , from cellar to garrett with goods. The gro cery department on the north side. is ir
 charge of Bison Hornbeck and booked pe1 9 John Belden and surely no one who goes there can resist the temptation ol polite at. tentlon and low prices to come away lo;ded
 with goods. In the clothing and dry g, ods
 department, Will Ferguson. formerly of this place, is monarch of all he surveys, and is kep, constantly busy too. Mir. Hall has put in
 $6,OOO worth of spring and summer clotthinp, and the large piles grow daily smaller You
 can get mans suit for from $5. to $25. in
 the latest styles. The bargains in dry gcods
 Tt mna 'ts, etc. are surprising. And furniture
 -,hy bless you there's more furniture up
 stars aud carpets too-than you can shake
 a stick at, and at such remarkably loup nr;oo.
 that ny young man who goes there will de.