Connecticut western news., 1881-02-02

Several new books have been added to the irculating library, in which is found many and instructive volumes, and they Ire well read especially by the ladies, since Ed. Bartram was elected librarian.
 Our barber recently loaded a gun with a ,harge of salt and sent it after dog, and the eur, with almost human sagacity, started for an NJ. D. and the next seen of him he was ly ing on the front piazza awaiting the arrival of our practising physician.
 Charles Beebe, formerly ot this town, writes | from Arizona that he is engaged in sorting 1 silver from the rock in "Silver King mine in | the mountains, 30 miles below Globe City. There is a variety of reptiles, consisting ot rattlesnakes, scorpions centipedes. horned toads, etc, and ugly looking Mexicans and In dlans, who would as soon kill a white man as to look at him. The climate is warm, and like the weather here in early summer.
 The inventorying at E. w. Spurs store and lumber yard was begun last week Mon- day, and finished Friday The care of sort ing and weighing the iron and steel needed an expert, that no mistakes might occur, and it was accordingly given over to Doe" agen- tleman in whom MT. S has the fullest conf- dence, and who has "been in the Iron business the past 40 years" It is the place to buy corn, for the clerks 'throw in useful arti- cles. If you don't believe it, ask Doc"
 "Abbey's Uncle Toms Cabin Company" presented that ever popular serio-oomic drama before an appreciative audience at Cit izens Hall Saturday night. They had 800. house, the seating capacity of the hall being filled, and many were obliged to stand up where room could be found. It is under the management of Leon Washburn, proprietor of "Washburns circus," which exhibited here last summer
 The person who replies to us under the euphonious nom de plume of 'Ghost," is evl- dently little out of sorts, being very "sen- sitive," and her "bleod runs cold and needs something to warm and brace her up" For the truth of the story he refers us to "head- quarters" Now every one in the employ ot the R. R. Co. at the shops knows that re- ferring to headquarters there, means the mas ter mechanic of the II R R and who is em. ployed to oversee the work at the shops, and not to look after tsp oks." As the master mechanic is a gentleman in the broad sense | of the term, we would repei the insinuaton that he knew anything about the affair, but as the writer is willing, and refers to him, | perhaps he can be induced to give the read I CTS of the NEWS the benefit of "what he knows about ghosts TuLEwILD.
 Norfolk.
 | A dispatch last Sunday brought to us the unexpected news of the death of Mrs. Dr. Barber. It is less than two years since she | left us for her new home, with unusually bright prospects for lfe Services were held at her late residence in Waterbury by Dr.. Anderson, Tuesday morning, and a touching sermon was preached in the church here by Mir Gleason in the afternoon. Her old school pupils followed her remains to the grave.
 Several Conn Western bondholders attend ed the sessions of the railroad committee in Hartford last week. They find the free ride crop very pleasant cue for railroads bonds to bear, though not sustaining for steady di. | ct.
 Erastus Burr has sold his farm to Ed. Holt possession to be given April lst. Runol says Mir Burr intends to move to Kansas. We would remind Mir. Burr that the words o Horace Greeley were, Geo West young man."
 | There is story floating around of one C1 our citizens, who, expecting to spend last
 week away from home, thought it unnecessa- l ry to cover his water pipes because Vennol had prophesied 2 thaw. But when he return
 ed and found his family had used melted snow
 for three days, and the nearest water for his
 cattle was three.quarters of mile away, he
 ground his teeth and said, 'I shall certainly
 send the bill to Montreal"
 Nothing daunted by the exploits of the Canaan horse doctor who drove a horse put o
 town by merely looking at it and then charg
 ed three dollars for it, large party iron here attended the last I D. D. Y. dance They were gone so late we all think there must have been another ruaaway, but "Dox
 ie" says the same horse brought her home as carried her out.
 A faithful follower of Vennor, in the tir peddling trade came to grief in front of Ben
 net Hines last week. His wares spent the
 night in snow bank, and as he dragged his
 cart out along towards noun, he remarked that the Canadian thaw didn't seem very 1 wide spread.
 Harvey Loomis of Brooklyn presided at the organ last Sunday.
 The social circle at Mir. Bigelow was thinly attended on account of the bad weather Only one service Sunday, for the same req son.
 l Is the Methodist church closed permanent- 1 ly, or only for repairs in the finances? l An old Californian friend, now a student in Boston spen last week with MT. Whiting
 The early train Saturday was an hour and a half cutting it's way through a single snow drift, at which twelve men had been at work i've hours before they came.
 Mr. F. B. Land agent for fruit trees and grape vines, has been in town this week He is the only tree agent we ever saw who guar antces his goods, x. Miss Anna Lancashire is announced to give reading here Thursday evening. Miss L., who is only 20, has read during the past six months in Saratoga, P,ttsfcld, Bridgeport, New Milford, and other places, and always with unfailing success. She is Litchtield County girl and has had unusual advantages in davelnnnp her fine talent for public read-