Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
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 T. F. watsons family, of New Milford are in Falls Village for the summer.
 Three young live foxes were captured alive by couple of Washington boys the other day. ~-.
 There are threeswomen in Litchfeld jail, two-thirds of whom went from Sandtown last week.
 Conrad Wolfe, German rumseller, of Nor wich, shot himself through the head the oth CT day.
 A deacon's house in Rockville was struck by lightning last week, and portion of it sad ly demoralized.
 A fast minister in Preston was arrested and fined last week for letting his horse trot over bridge.
 The entire stock, $4o0, 900 of the new National insurance company of Hartford has been subscribed.
 An East Haven boy caught a trout l9 inch es long the other day, which weighed three and quarter pounds.
 Saucy boys who congregate on the street corners in Windsor Locks, and use bad gram mar, are to be arrested.
 Joshua Tanning, who was killed by the cars, and buried, in Wolcottvllle last week, is alive and well, thank ye.
 Thomaston is to have 8 new depot that is, after they are satisfied that Mother Shipton's prophecy isn't coming true.
 Truman Ortoa of Woodbury died recently aged 9s. Three years ago a Mrs. People died there at the age of lO1.
 New Haven bakers have struck for higher pay. They knead bread to clothe their children, and ought to have it.
 
 50 were caused by drink. 30 more by drink, and perhaps all the rest by drink.
 "Bub." White has opened his summer re. sort at the lake in Winsted and IS having good patronage from pleasure seekers. The Ledger is indebted for some of the best soda water ever drawn in Bethel" It was favored with wink of the left eye.
 Horseback riding is all the rage in Kent, among amateurs anticipating an engagement with the oniest and biggest show on earth. | New Britain has two new cases of small pox, one in family who tear down the red l flag from their house and refuse to stay in doors.
 Litchfield has state teachers institute on the 26th, 27th and 18th of this month, and lots of language, beauty and frills are antici- pated.
 An old sinner s3 years of age. was put in the Bridgeport lock-up last Wednesday for getting drunk, but he promises never to do so some more.
 A New Preston correspondent says that the brown jug business is played out in that place. New Preston must be totally depop ulated then.
 A Suhield church society will have the first strawberry festival of the season on June 1st, with short cake, long prices: music and kiss games.
 Rev. Arthur Goodepough of Winsted was presented with purse of $40. the other day, showing that he is plenty Goodepough for his parishioners.
 At the centennial meeting of St. Paurs lodge in Litchfeld on June lst, D. c. Xiii bourn, Esq. will deliver the historical address and Rev. A. N. Lewis the poem.
 A Windsor Locks paper company has just received HOO tons Of paper rags from Egypt making B carloads. on which tue freight from New Haven was nearly $500.
 At the Plymouth quarry last week, sheet of granite was loosened by a shock from a powerful electric battery. winch measured oyer 600 feet long, aud seven feet thick.
 The editor of the Thomaston Express got a foretaste of eternity the other day, when he looked into the thermometer 10 see what time It was aud beard the mercury sizzling at l02
 MT. Evans, a we'll known bass singer. of Rockville was attacked by roughs the other night, and severely bruised with stones. It was mean in those rowdes to pound real 1 good singer like that.
 Several large farm buildings in Granhv | were burned last Saturday morning. and nine cows. two horses several hogs. and consider able grain were destroyed. Loss $5,00O, covered by insurance. l Vim. Simpson, Scotchman was found drowned in New Haven the other day. He was fireman on vessel, and fell overheard about three months ago, and the body was not 1 found until last week. Secretary Northrop of the state board of ed ucation offers five prizes amounting to $25. the girls in Clinton high school No news paper man need apply as judge.
 Congressman Miles has purchased 1000 tons of charcoal iron from the Chatham fur ! mace, as his own furnace in Copake is unable ! to meet the large demand, although it has 1 not been out of blast for number of years
 A New Milford man who has rack in the race-way ot his mill, in which he catches a good many fish, recently suspected that somebody else was catching from it; accord ingly he set trap. and the next morning found he had caught coon. A woman was found by the oad.side, dead drunk in New Milford the other day, and pnt on a wheelbarrow and wheeled to the lock up by temperance lecturer, and tried before justice Levy and fined s. and costs, in de- fault of which she went to jail. 1 A couple of valiant Mt Rigians sallied | forth from their mountain haunts the ether day, and went to Millerton in search of blood ] and whiskey. They found both. and gave the justice there a nice little amount, in cash, | to pay for their lodging in the lookup, etc.
 Rev. Father Leo of Winsted, who in as- | sisting to exhume the remains Of brother priest recently, had to open several eoaans be fore finding the right one in a New York Potter's field, is now suffering from blood poisoning from exposure in that place and task.
 new time table went into effect on the Housatonic R. R. last Monday. The princi pal change is in the running of the New Mil ford special, going south, which now leaves New Milford at 5.35 .m., arriving in Bridge port at o'clock. It formerly left New Mil ford at 1.05 a, n. arriving in Bridgeport at 83O.
 All 1FlSiHldn on tno n. h. N. tTdtH lToHl Bridgeport last Monday night was asked hy another Irshmap, ''Have ye been to Barnum's surcuss?" Yes sur " "An' was it a good surcuss7" '"Well, purity fayer, purity fayer, speaking with the indifference of man whose principal business was that of circus critic, and who had found Barnum's great combina tion as good as the average of circuses.
 As the Journal man was passing a house near Windsor Locks the other day, he saw 8