Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19
VICINITY.

dockeneerryS Leroy Journal IS deau, aiter few short months existence.
 The district court-Judge Warner and jury -is still in session in Winsted.
 Miles Rockwell received his commission as postmaster at Canaan Valley last week.
 The Mddlesex County commissioners will raise the price oflicense from $lOo. to $2oo. Canton's three selectmen are all named Case, two being republicans and the other democrat.
 Wm. D. Bishop of Bridgeport has been re- elected as director of the Western Union Telegraph Co.
 Hartford has new amateur newspaper called the Spy, named after Ewing the New Haven crusader.
 Foreman Ball, of the Birmingham foundry received probably fatal injuries last week, by falling from crane.
 A baby was born in Meriden lately, having nine teeth. Another evidence of the pro- gressiveness of the age.
 The Winsted lecture association held it's annual meeting last Monday night, to organ ize for the coming season.
 Thomas Clancy, brakeman on the Con. solidated road, was killed by falling from freight train last Tuesday.
 The wicked Press suggests to the clergy, that they pray for the Sabbath.breaking church members of Winsted.
 Two men in New Milford tobacco ware. house stripped and sampled ,465 pounds of tobacco in five days recently.
 The New Milford Gazette man shall have credit mark for honesty. He says that his best items are clipped from the NEWS. | Lay aside the little straw hat, Fold the little fan with care; Seek not parasoi and duster- They have climbed the garret stair. A "lver colored" dog is advertised as "found," in the Ray. New Preston folks will think, from the description, that it's a white dog.
 The New Hartford Tribune man walls, "Oh where, oh where is the watering trough?" Wont somebody please get a pail and water Lim.
 Meriden is to have hotel ''worthy of the city" A hotel, to be worthy of a large per cent of Meridens citizens, should have grated windows.
 Old Sport Brdgeports would-be pedestri' an, sold peanuts at the Danbury fair, and was arrested and locked up for choking a small boy.
 The Brook Pit Mining Go. at Ore Hill mined 5,3oO tons of ore during the month of September, and 900 tons within the last three mouths.
 Miss Fannie Parnell, sister of the great Irish leader now imprisoned in Dublin, lec- tured on the Land League, in Middletown last Monday night.
 "Don't touch the chestnuts" in Winsted's public park, as it injures the trees, but you may shoot or stone the happy little birds that warble their warb in the branches.
 Rev. S. Free of Stafford Springs, formerly
 of New Marlboro, has resigned his pastorate
 at Stafford Springs, and will accept call tc the Wilimantic Congregational church.
 The protracted case of Horace Stanart against the town of Norfolk, for damages tt plaintiffs wife, resulting from defective roads was terminated in Stanards recovering $266 [ The house and farm buildings of Alber B Kelsey in Colebrook were burned last Tues day night. Insured for $500. It must b.
 the Canaan Valley fre-bug is migrating east ward.
 ? Hart, Merriam Co., of Hartford were sue ] cessful in securing the contract for cushion , ing and carpeting the new Congregat' ona church in Bolton Centre. A Boston firm fig 1, ured against them. 3 A pumpkin weighing :orty-seven pounds and measuring 20x44 inches was picked il Warren last week. Warren has long sine gone into history as a propagator of pump
 kins and "widders." A freight train ran into the caboose of an
 other freight train on the Naugatuck R. R at Waterbury last Friday, wrecking severa cars, bruising few passengers, and serious ly injuring fireman. George Washington Freeman, New Brit
 ain darkey, brother of the Ansonia ravisher , made beastly assault on Maggie Boyle, nin'
 years old, recently, and is in Hartford jail il default of $500. bonds. Messrs. Sidney Ensign, J. F. Millspaugl and H. E. Wetherell are the Falls Vilag
 jurors drawn to attend the October term o f superior court at Litchfield. The two latte
 have been excused from serving. The house of Oscar Hill. of Burrvile wa broken into while the family were in Win t sted last Thursday, and robbed of articles o , jewelry worth about $50 The moral is, wea all your jewelry when you go out 3 Amos Clark of Worthwhile fell from a tre' f last week, breaking his collar bone, and frac turing some of hls ribs. He was probabl. picking some of the 'luscous pairs" tha
 cheered the Ray office so cheerfully. The New Hartford Tribune says that no body in that town is perfect 'only God anc the angels" Now that headquarters ii geographically located, who will strive to be an angel and with the angels stand?" Thomas Mullin of Chapinviile, who as
 saulted James s. Woodin some months since
 ard who was only recently captured plead , guilty in the superior court last week, anC was sentenced to one years imprisonment. When it was suggested that P. T. Barnun might do more for Bethel. his former home than he had done, the old snowman remarked that he intended to be no better than Proyi f dence, who only helps those who help them