Connecticut western news., 1881-06-08
TICLNI1Y.


 pox . It is now high sheriff Porter, of Litch6eld county.
 New Haven took snow shower very cool ly last Friday.
 Miss Libbie Stevens of East Canaan teach es school in Simsbury.
 Henry Brinton has been appointed deputy sheriff of Falls Village.
 John H. Murray's circus shows off in Wind sor Locks on the 22d inst
 C. w. Barnum has sold his trotter, Ethel, to F. Bostwick of Pine Plans, N. Y.
 Rev. S. F. Palmer has resigned his pastor ate of the Bridgewater Cong church.
 The H. R R. cornet band have ordered cap lamps and a new pair of cymbals.
 There are now 65,OOO land-locked salmon ln the streams adjacent to New Milford.
 Hail stones as big as butternuts are said to have fallen in Cornwall Bridge last week.
 A Collinsville man raises 800 barrels of cranbe.ries annually, from l5 acre marsh l
 A Bridgeport man has just been granted two patents on monuments-a grave inven- tion.
 A healthy public spirit is doing much for Salisbury, in the way of village improve ment.
 The Plainville camp meeting begins Mon day, Aug. 29, and closes the following Sat- urday.
 A New Preston residence is having $20,- 900 laid out on it in repairs and improve ments.
 A13 years old Birmingham boy was recent ly knocked through the pearly gates by base ball bat.
 A Newtown man found an army worm on his premises the other day, which he fed to the Bee
 An old lady of 80, who is totally blind, fell down the other day in Sharon, and broke her hp.
 Thompsonville has the small pox, and sev eral have died. Everybody is ordered to be vaccinated
 A Dover Plains farmer has healthy chick en with four legs What a terror it would be to flower bed.
 West Cornwall boasts two millinery shops. and four dress makers, but a shoe maker can't live there.
 Bishop.W illlams ordained three deacons into the priesthood, at St Michaels church in Litchfeld last Sunday. Two Riverton men caught 2lO trout in one day recently, and it wasn't much of a day for fronting neither. There is to be festival with strawberry short cake without bones, in the Sharon Methodist church tonight. Broad Brook has several churches, but not | a single minister, and they are sad to be l s'prospering in every way" 1 Broad Brook has cornet band and drnm corps, and would like to swap off the latter 1 for public watering trough.
 Don't fail to call on Mrs. Hull, Millerton, for your summer millinery No pains spared in selection of goods and styles. 2w.
 The Bridgeport police are mad because they are to wear the new helmet hat, like those of the New York police.
 A l5O pound devil fish was caught in Mil ford last week. It is supposed to have come out of the boot of the Chinese giant.
 The duties of Bridgeport councilmen con- slst in hunting hen hawks eggs, in Danbury swamps, for the Bridgeport scientific society
 Rev. MT Bassett concluded his pastorate with the Bethlehem Cong society last Sun day, and will remove at once to East Canaan
 Two Huntsville couples picnicked on Canaan mountain pond last week, and they didn't have to sleep in a refrigerator to keep cool. neither.
 Bridgeport has 46 orthodox physicians. four Indian medicine men and several clair voyants to ease her pains and 250 rum shops to increase them.
 Two COWS were struck by lightning, in Litchfield during recent thunder storm. and a fast colt was also taken by surprise, and struck in the back. Two Windsor Locks horses jumped into the raging canawl the other day, and but for the efforts of a couple of men, would have gone to a temperance grave
 Long Island sornd is literally strewn with potato bugs, who show their good sense by prefering death by drowning, to being blown up by powder explosions.
 People in town who own cattle, should keep them off the highway -Bethet Ledger. Does the Ledger think it's local can glean items from two story window? A horse driven by Ada Winter of Holland, daughter of the ex.sheriff, took fright at a bicvcle and ran. throwing Miss Winter out. seriously injuring her, last Friday. Ed Kilmer of Falls Village who started ed himself up, step by step, and now occu- pies a seat on a milk peddler's cart
 A Coebrook farmer failing to find hired l himself and neighbor some immigrants which were caught ''across the water"
 The H. R. R Go are building magnif- cent mail and smoking car, which will eclipse | all the others for beauty and arrangement, and make Charlie Gorham laugh right out.
 The foundation wall for the new Episcopal church in New Milford is pronounced safe, Bob Erwin having walked around on it with 1 L cIo olri in Y1o
 In Waterbury church recently, flash of i lightning made the telephone snap like car fridge, near the pulpit. and a wicked ex- change says it actually walked up the dea | cons.
 The state spirtualists are going to raise | S4.OOO to purchase a camp meeting ground at Mantle, as their departed ancestors are I dissatisfied with the one at Lake Pleasant Mass.
 A Fair Haven burglar recently stole $i5 cut the lady's dresses into shreds and dumped the lard in the soft soap tub; which goes far show that they have 'lady burglars" in Fair Haven.
 Daniel Pratt, Esq. of Salisbury went fish ing at Twin Lakes the other day and caught enough for himself and all his Eeighhors, and | gladdened the heart of hungry newspaper correspondent. A 16-months old baby was drowned in washtub in New Haven Monday, while it's mother was out hanging up clothes. Wash ing day has terrors for others besides 16 months old infants. The fire insurance companies doing busi- ! ness in thls state have SIPS, 100000 of assets and insure risks amounting to $6,232 900 900. companies located in the state having $676, 100000 of the risks. A land-Iocked salmon was caught in Rock vile the other day, weighing three pounds, IA ounces. Let's see; isn't the brook into which Editor James threw his bottle, isome where near Rockville?