Connecticut western news., 1881-06-01

Millerton is to have 0 bank, as the citizens are tired of seeing the Telegram folks go off every week to deposit their surplus in an out. of-town institution.
 Two Italian rag pickers, from Thompson. vile, went to jail for stealing sacks the other day. They got the kind of sacking they weren't looking for.
 While John Sloss of Ansonia was lying on the track near that place last Thursday, a train came alohfi and ran over him, killing him almost instantly.
 The front fence at the Lake View House in Litchfield has been taken down, and by this removal the house has forfeited much of it's politician patronage.
 David Allen Tower, a young Bostonian, weat to his mothers grave in Middletown last week Tuesday and standing on the mound, shot himself dead.
 Col Bllnn has been appointed deputy for New Milford, by high sheriff Porter, and the appointment gives general satisfacton-ex cepting to the evil vil-disposed.
 The Union Metallic Cartridge Co., of Bridge port comes out victorious, in a law suit with the United States Cartridge Co, and is awarded $4O367 by the court.
 County Commissioner Brooks of Torring- ton bought the first copy of the revised Tes lament sold in Hartford. He deserves to be re elected "by large majority"
 The explosion of a lamp in Danbury the other night came near sending Mrs. Sarah Stevens to that blssful abode where sellers of inferior kerosene oil never enter
 Six hundred Thompsonvillalns attended Barnum's circus in Springfield the other day, and it is estimated that they destroyed over an acre and a half of 9 inch gingerbread.
 Horace Stillman, an old democrat, of Say brook, who was in the war of 1912, and voted every democratic presidential ticket, from Jackson to Hancock, died recently, at the age of S8.
 AEWindham man recently dropped dead whils playing billiards, and as he was six points behind his antagonist, his packers got mad because he didn't have chance to fin sh the game.
 The Torrington Register office was totally consumed by fire early last Saturday morning. The building was insured for $500, and editor Hayes carried an insurance of about $2,000 on his material.
 A Roxbury boy who ran away from home year and half ago, returned. like prodigal calf, last week, and is glad to pick potato bugs at ten cents & quart, and clean out sta. bles with broken tined fork.
 A Torrington youth son of 0 poor farmer, went west to seek his fortune 8 few years ago, and is now employed by an extensive iron firm in Mexico, as travelling agent, at salary of $6, 200 and expenses paid.
 Frank Bailey, who escaped from Litchfeld iail recently, was captured last Saturday night in Ashley Falls, and taken back to Litchfield. He is under sentence for assaulting James Shultz at Clayton short time since.
 Samuel A. King, the aeronant, wants to Ego up" from Hartford July 4th. But there is to be no public celebration there, and be- sides, when the time comes to 'go," they usually go in the opposite direction.
 The Consolidated road has been petitioned to make their engines stop whistling in Wind. sor Locks, as it frightens the horses. The very first accident will be laid to the engineer who Hailed to give warning whistle" :" The telephone line between Lime Rock and Amenia, through Sharon and Sharon Valley, is finished, and Cornwall Bridge will be the next point attached There are now 42 miles of wire running out of the Barnum Richardson Co.'S. office at Lime Rock. The wife of Bridgeport drunkard sen- l fenced to pay fine and costs for drunken ness, appealed to the rum sellers for money and was successful That looks like faint glimmer of the kind of justice that hosts of ] long suffering humanity would like to see.
 Louis Normand, Thomaston Canadian, has left his whole bed and board to his wife, to whom he has been married but short time and gone to parts unknown but as the wife is good looking, and makes the best bread in town, the Express thinks he Il come | back.
 The Thomaston Express office is adorned with new sign which brother James says Ia wicked generation seeketh aiter," from which it would be inferred, by those not ac- ouainted with high moral principles of the genial editor that the Express office has gone into crooked business,
 Julius Strong of Hartford, a dissipated young man, was found dead in a barn.yard last Thursday only a short time after he had told passer-by that 'when you return you may find me dead" A post mortem eMmi, nation showed nothing to confirm the suspi cion that he committed suicide.
 The ''summer arrangement on the Shepaug R. R. goes into effect June 18th. The summer arrangement on this road differs from the winter arrangement inasmuch as the passengers jump off from the trans to pick gooseberries by the side of the track, in- stead or SlOWOdAllIR olo hlIOGiieI'
 A New Hartford officer is said to have chased a man 2,450 miles before he could ar rest him, his fees amounting to $384, and after the fellow was arrested he was fined Sl. and costs for drunkenness. If that is true, it must be that the justice made a mistake and fined the wrong man.
 Some Ansonia people are arranging to have A dance for the benefit of Chip Smith, who murdered policeman Hayes a few months since, and for whom the court IS also to ar. range a dance-at the end of rope, that is, | if the supreme court before whom he is to have.a a new trial, doesn't reverse the decision.
 A Norwich doctors wife has sued for di- vorce on the ground of intolerable cruelty. He cut her switch" ill two with the shears. | A New Haven man is also seeking divorce from his wife because, as he says she didn't arrange the crockery properly in the pantry. She probably "arranged" it over his shallow 1 pate, or in other words, addressed him in broken china. If she didn't she ought to.
 We understand now why Rodemeyer never | rrowed any more-he has been scared all his life time by women- Windsor Locks Jour- nal. No, not altogether, brother Addis; of course that "woman scrape" of yours served 1 as A warning for us but didn't stunt our | growth any, and the fact that you have for gotten to remit the amount we advanced to get you out of it, accounts for our being a trife "short" just now.
 A CARD TO THE LADIES :-Ladies visiting Millerton are invited to call and see my new stock of summer Millinery All the leading styles for Ladies and Children now ready, both trimmed and untrimmed Seeing is believing" Give us call. and be convinced that we can give you the best styles and the ! best Goods for the Lowest Prices. A city trimmer always on hand. First door North of Plaret House, Millerson, NY. S.A.HULL.