Connecticut western news., 1881-05-04

dered away from his mamma two weeks ago, and got lost, and hasn't been heard from since.
 A Norwich gardener the other day dug up Spanish coin dated 1746, which some ''sloth- full servant" of ye olden time hid in the earth,
 Case, Lockwood & Brainard of Hartford, have the contract for printing the laws passed by the late long winded, pardoning legis- lature.
 Those who wore new spring bonnets were the only ones who didn't go to sleep in church in Woodbury on the first warm Sunday of the season.
 Danbury is in ecstasies over the fact that one of the clowns in Coup's circus is ''an old Danbury boy" Danbury turns out some funny characters.
 Three Thomastonians attended the dog show in New York last week, but the Ex press doesn't tell whether they were there as spectators or-what.
 The Windsor Locks Journal man, who hasn't been married quite year, shouts in small-caps, Boy Wantedl "If at first you don't suoceed"-etc.
 A Litchield man recently sold tin ped dler lot of rags containing pocket book with $40. in bills, and now Litchield is over run with tin peddlers.
 Look out for W. Franks new advertise ment of spring goods, millinery, etc. next week. Mir. Franks store in Winsted would set any lady wild with delight
 Mrs. Steele, of Seymour, cut her throat last week on account of despondency, from i'll health, but with prompt and careful treat ment she is likely to recover. witb Un0ro faith than judgment" follow close on the heels of the late legislature, and try to get up temperance boom in Hartford.
 At the Young America clothing house, Winsted, can be found an enormous stock of straw hats, and spring and summer goods at ! prices to make your eyes stick out Misses Handlin and Bailey milliners. of Sharon, have something to say about new spring goods, etc., in another column. Read, and hand to your neighbor to read. A new fire bell in Hartford will be put in place just as soon as the fire commissioners and the manufacturers of the bell can agree to split the difference in their figures.
 Shares in the new silver mine in southing- ton, which short time ago were bought for $25 cannot now be bought for $l0O00. A strong company is to be formed, to operate the mine.
 MT. J. c. Rawn civil engineer, who was employed in the survey of the Conn. Western R. R. succeeds J. T. McManus as superintendent of the Western division of the N. Y. & N. E. R. R.
 "Death caused by intemperance' is the substance of verdict found by the coroners iury, in the case of Gustaf Juln, who fell over precpice 200 feet deep, into quarry | near Middletown last week. | Sol Freemans (colored) sons and daughters of Norfolk are under arrest for burglary Of l.. P. Phelps house, in company with "white pigger," who is color-blind. They will be tried before the superior court.
 David Northrop of New Milford had a horse stolen the other night. Officers Fur. sued the thief, and at Danbury the horse was found loose, going home. The thief was captured and put in jail to await trial. So much buzzing on the telephone wires disturbed the house holders of New Haven and the insulators were taken from the houses and put up on poles. A church sew ing society's room was connected to the ex change.
 The reunion of the Army of the Potomac is to be held in Hartford, June 9th, and there
 will be present, President Garfield and cabi
 pet, Generals Hancock. Mcclellan. Grant
 Sherman, Phil. Sheridan, Slocum and othe dignitaries.
 Horace Landon, one of the pioneer iro1
 manufacturers of this region, died at his hom in Chapiuyille last Wednesday, at the age of84 In him the last of his generation of pig irol men passes away, excepting the Hon. Wm
 H. Barnum.
 A gang of roughS in Stamford recently as saulted and foully insulted a young lady ol her way from the bedside of her dying moth
 CT, to the bedside of her dying mother, to talk . the early morning train for New York, an , she only escaped personal injury by breakin : away and running to the depot. 8 One of the best local papers received at thi v office is the Connecticut Western News, put lished at Canaan, Conn.,, John Rodemeye7 T IT,, editor. John slings Faber with fresf r 1T ness and originality that stirs up an intere: 'i in that far off Nutmeg State which we neve
 before experienced. Centr05SG (Mtssou7'
 GuGrd.
 The Windsor Locks Journal mourns b.
 cause the barroom bummers don't frequel 1 the reading room, and wants to know how the q canEbe attracted there. Just put your whisl
 bottle on the table, neighbor Addis. and l
 bel it '.free," and your fellow citizens W ' suddenly discover that the reading room IS j"pNOIQ DeneIactoT. A calatbumpian serenade in North Hill
 dale the other night, was unceremonious g broken up, when the outraged bridegroo
 rushed from his bed, put his pants on h arm, and sprang with war-whoop amor
 the ''musicans," brandishing an ax in h d hand. These midnight marauders" don
 seem to fare very well over in that country d Gaston < Granger of Winsted have form'
 a co-partnership and gone into the silver al D nickel plating business on Meadow stree r. West Winsted, and they threaten to do tn kind of work so cheaply and so nicely tn , all the old spoons and forks in the hous 7' from garret to cellar. will be hunted up al a- sent to them. Their adv. will appear in tl s. NEWS soon.
 e A water main bursted in the street at Wi 1t sted recently, and, as the water forced 1 way to the surface, hundreds of cells s.boi. n up" out of the aperture, aquirming and wri, | gling over each other in horrlfying copfusio
 and crawled of, pursued by boys and me The water pipes are full of eels, who qu 5 frequently clog them up, and impede the pas
 age of the water.
 Q Two men in Tbomaston, named Drum, an v Dingwell got pretty "eheerfnl" recently, an couple of officers who attempted to are: | them, naQ GO give Dase Drum pounding bt | fore he would consent to be taken, and wit = Dingwells jingling protestations they ha quite musical time. Drum was strung u g for 20 days, and fine of $35., and Ding d well pays $50. fine.
 Take one copy of the Conn. Wester t News, and soak it in cold water over night s in the morning you will have He stron
 enough to eat upa country printing office = doviI and al - eZ TeGzneo. Ts thot ao g We'll, you just soak your head in it for abou
 two seconds, and you'll have a mixture C slush soft and inspid enough to turn tn stomach of a rat-eating Chinaman.
 The Cogswsil-Grant case, which has mad