Connecticut western news., 1881-02-02


 The sedgwick guards, of Bridgeport could mt raise the necessary amount to defray ex- 1 penses of attending Garfield inauguration, ! and they will petition the legislature to send them as representatives of the national guard. The Collinsvile Sentinel, after few months existence, has gone to that beautiful land where dead beat patent medicine advertisers are unknown, and where no newspaper sub scrber can enter without showing receipt, Gin full to date"
 The "power of the press" ill the Wolcott- vile Register office was frozen up solid the other morning and all the tea kettles in the village were called into acquisition before the world was given it's weekly installment of moro intelligence; better morals To illustrate problem in primary arith- ! metlc a teacher in Waterbury school asked little boy, if he had ono sled, and his father | should give him ono moro, how many he would have then. The little fellow promptly replied, "I'd have Q nice double-ripper' A Brookfield man chased a muskrat about mile over the frozen snow, the other day, wlthout coat, bare head, with slippers on his feet. and was rewarded, after several tum- bles and slips, with success, bringing the an- imile home by the neck, dead, dead, dead
 The office of the Thomaston Express took fire during the absence of Editor James and the employees, the other evening, and but for prompt action on the part of neighbors, it would have been totally consumed. It prob' ably caught fire from the "hell-box," which the "devil' carelessiy left too near pail of water.
 A Winsted soreech owl, sympathizng with the newspaper men of that harmonious bor- ough, in the scanty item crop. and being de- cidedly partial to ''cheap grade" papers, flew to the office of Editor McArthur's Times the other night and-froze to death on the door step. The editor dropped tear, gave it a Christian burial and will erect 8 shaft.
 A horse and sleigh were found under 6 covered railroad bridge near Thomaston by the track walker early the other morning The driver had got drunk at Terryville, and the horse started on without hlm, and evi dently taking the bridge for $ shed, afte leaving the highway it took shelter under it l and but for the timely discovery by the tracl walker, the first train would have crashed in to it.
 ! tLittle Ghonnie," the Herald's Harwintol correspondent has been and gone and done it -'just what every young man should do" t. use his own words-got married. Just SCI how nice it is as he looks at it Was eve a man to blest as I? As picture the futur , my love-lit home and the beautiful compan ion who is to be it's guardian angel, sense 0 thankfulness rises in me too deep for words for surely this side of the heavenly shore Go can give to no man TO more precious gift tha that of a noble, loving wife," Whsw! Wit ) such devotion he will find that his Payne , endurable, and she that her Birden is light.
 A Georgetown young man went to be- : without light the other night, and was ho1 t rifed, on sliding between the sheets, t find there another occupant. Not being ac s customed to bed-fellows, he leapsd from th 8 bed and fled from the room. An investiga tion by the host revealed stuffed figure which had been placed in the bed by som practical joker, and suspicion at once pointe to young lady staying there. Accordingl tue victim brought the figure to her room an
 leaned it against the door in such way tha 7 when she opened it, the figure with arm outstretched. embraced her, frightening a desire for practical jokes out of her. Tn U young man. however. lights his lamp betor ooing to bed, now.