Connecticut western news., 1881-04-13

Edlsor Hlckox 0f the Enqu1ref, has been elected president of Litchfeld, having receiv- cd majority of the 46 votes cast in the cleo tion. l.
 Warren was showed aut1er again last We'd nesday. The principal industry of Warren is the manufacture of snow blows and wood- on shoes.
 In Meriden no children are allowed to at | tend the public schools unless they can fur. nlsh a doctors certificate that they have been vacoinated
 When it is reported in Thomaston that a man is dying, the undsrtakers gather under his window and sing, 'Im waiting, my dar. ling, for theeI"
 A track walker who had walked the Naug- atuck track from Waterbury to Thomaston for 36 years every morning with missing . trip, has just died.
 A young Woodbury man was married on March l7th, and the next day fatally injured | himself jumping. with his fellow workmen. He died on the 29th.
 Mills Bennett of New Milford, while chop ping wood the other day, struck the clothes line with his ax. which fell on his head, mak ing @ serious wound.
 Sparks from the locomotive did consider able damage to the wood land on Sanford mountain near New Milford the other day. Sparks are dangerous, but they afford lots of tun.
 New Milford has 6 new bakery, and now it is hoped that the bachelor Gazette man will stop going around with that pitiful, hungry expression that gives him away to every ob. serving person.
 The three roughs, McNamara. Keene and Flnnell charged with the murder of H. Worth Wright of North Egrsmont, at New town, have been bound over for the superior court at Danburv.
 Prof. Lee found it impossible to be in salis- bury, Lakeville and Millerton last week, to open writing schools, as announced, but will within few days.
 In Goshen there are high snow banks, and the natives are running sleighs yet. It wouldn't require very high snow bank to enable person to reach the tail of the dog. star, from Goshen
 A man selling Col. Ingersoll's books on a corner in New Haven the other day was com plained of by 8 minister. and driven off The i'ol. lectured. however, in that city Thursday night to l,500 people.
 A New Milford child got the small end of night lamp into its throat the other day, which was taken out by doctor. If it had been anything like our street lamps it would have gone out of itself.
 Superintendent J. T. McManus, of the Hartford division of the New York & New England R. R has resigned, after p years connection with the same road under it's diff terent names and managements. Bethel has robber chiet named "Black Andy, the mad highwayman," who draws vl 1a fo erl" with exquisite grace Dime novels fur nish the Sunday reading in Bethel A correspondent says that 'business is too much split up in Wtnsted to be in healthy condition" How can you expect healthy condition of affairs in place where there is competition even in the post office business? An Ore Hill fellow named Patrick McDon- aid recently got drunk on Millerton whiskey and stole Squire Hubert Williams horse | blanket, and some groceries out of the wagons under a horse shed in Millerton, then lett for parts unknown"
 At fire in New Canaan Wednesday night, the dwelling, together with seven other build | ings belonging to Stephen Hoyt's S"ns' nur- sery were burned, also the books and many thousand dollars worth of stock. Chas. Gray, l living in one of the houses was burned to death. The property was partially insured. l The Cogswell-Grant aght of Now Preston was tried before Justice Taylor last week, and resulted in Cogswell being placed under $5CO bonds to keep the place. This makes them even, as Grant, it is said, has been for some time under bonds to keep the place. and it remains to be seen if they will play the rubber, Ito See who really does." ] The changing of the name of Wolcottville. ! to sTorrington" causes no little inconvenience. It takes a newspaper five days to travel from Thomaston to Torrington, whereas, it could go to Wolcottville in half an hour. On the cars when ''Torrihgton" is called out, the passengers start, look around in puzzled way, and ask, "Is this W olcottvlle ?" Tor. ringtonians think now that s'change" isn't
 what it's cracked up 10 be.
 From letter to us written by ex-editol Marcus H, Rogers, now rusticating in Flor
 ida, we make the following extract for the
 benefit of our readers, who know him "We
 have just returned (Mrs. R. and myself, with
 three others) from a hunting and camping
 trip of eight days to the Myakka river. Ws
 got four deer, seven turkeys, lots of plume
 birds, ducks, etc., and had a fine time.
 have been on five camping and hunting trips
 into the interior, (Mrs. R. has been three
 times and we have seen lots of deer, etc
 This county of Manatee is larger than tht
 whole state of Connecticut, with only 360(
 population 30 you see it is not crowded.
 MT. and Mrs. Rogers will return north il about six weeks.
 Mss Lizzie OldGeld of West Cornwall whose advertisement appears In another col
 umn, has just returned from New York witl
 remarkably 6ne stock of hats, trimmings
 ribbons, flowers, pins, bugs, birds-and al
 of the indispensables to ''love of a bonnet
 that will make person who buys elsewhere
 go wild with jealousy. And the fashions ar'
 so bewitch ng this season i-you can get an1
 conceivable or inconceivable shape, size. qual
 ity, color, grade of beauty etc., which, wher rgged up with all the patent attachments ant
 conveniences known to modern science, can. } not help but inspire wonder and admiration
 in the observer The prices in this most sta , pie line of goods are remarkably low at Mss
 Oldield's, and the wonder is, they can be pro duced at the figures for which she offerl
 them.
 l The preliminary hearing in the case of Julls
 Delaney accused of the murder of A. C.
 Thompson, was concluded in Norwich Thurs day afternoon. The court found probable
 grounds for holding the accused to answer te the charge of manslaughter. Bonds were fixed at $6, 900, but her counsel having rep resented that she could not furnish large
 bond, they were reduced to $3.O0O During
 the courts review of the testimony Mrs. De
 lanoy became hysterical and was permitted tc
 r=tire to private room in the building. The
 testimony of her husband and children was evidently pre- arranged with 8 view of clearing
 the accused, and differed in many important
 points from that gwen by them before the
 coroner's jury In court the prosecutor char acterized the testimony of the husband as that
 of perjrrer. Mrs. Delaney will be tried al the May term of the superior court at New London. Post.