Connecticut western news., 1881-03-30

SpauldlngS house on Cottage street. Mrs. Peck takes the Adam house vacated by MT. Bragg and Rev Dr. Eddy occupies the Franklin house which Mrs. Peck leaves.
 Hon. Judge D. J. Warner now rusticat- ing in Florida, and picking aligators and shooting oranges, sent to A. T. Roraback, Esq, of this place quantity of large and luscious Florida oranges, with compliments to the rest of the legal fraternity. Some beauti
 ul specimens found their way into this office, md the 'devil" chuckled as he stained his ,hirt front.
 Rev Mir. Mackey breaches his farewell sermon at the Methodist church next Sunday. md on the Sunday following there will be no service, MT. Mackev being ID attendance at
 onference His successor will occupy the pulpit on Sunday, April l7th, and it is prob .ble that MT. Mackey will be his own suc'
 essor, as he has been here but two years,
 md the rule has been to keep the pastors .lere three years, which IS as long as they are allowed to stay ln one place.
 The water pipe bursted in front of the Warner House last Wednesday afternoon, and the water shot up out of the ground in a perfect fountain. The break was remedied Dy plumber Strong. and on Thursday 1t burst ed again within ten feet of the first break. More or less difficulty of this kind is expected. every spring as the frost leaves the ground On Monday morning it was found that the main pipe had bursted again near Parsons store during the night, and the gutters on both sides of the street were full of running water.
 Advertising cards are in brisk demand with the youngsters. It is an epidemic, and they've got it bad. About 50 times minute every merchant is asked, "Please have you got any advertising cards p and the laconic answer is almost invariably, "NO?" in italics; ; but nevertheless every boy and girl has collection numbering hundreds, and many of them, thousands. A little toddling chub about four years old, came into the sanctum ' the other day, and with his finger in his mouth, and pleading expression, lisped tim | idly, "Pease div me some valentassn' cardsh?"
 At the meeting held in the reading room
 ast Thursday night, Mr. D L. Peirce. pres | dent of the V. I. A was authorized to rent the room in town hall now occupied as store room by S. O. Beckley. for the purpose of having entertainments: lectures, etc. to ben eft the Village: Improvement Association. A committee of five was appointed by the pres ident to act as general managers, as follows: Miss W. Adam. Mrs. Sartial Root, Mrs.
 H. H Cocswell, MT. D. L.. Freeman, Rev
 I. I. Bodley. The room has been hs.ed and ,he rent easily raised in advance, and the pro
 feet cannot be otherwise than material as
 sistance to the V. l. A.
 The wedding march still continues tc
 took unto himself'' last Thursday, and witt
 his bride took Conductor Elmore's train a
 thls place for Winsted. The happy couple
 boxed too sweet for anything" and o
 course attracted considerable attention. Or the train the ubiquitous news.boy, who evi
 del ltly s'comprehended the si aation,"i entered
 the car with an armful of his I1onssuslca
 books, and, distributing them right and left
 lnnocently handed the modest bridegroom
 pamphlet bearing on the cover in loud letter Our First Babyl" The passengers ''tool in" the joke and "smole;" Joe. deposite'
 the book, tltle-page down. on the seat ahead t and tried to cut his ears off with his collar l while the blooming bride looked steadily ou s of the window. and the rosy bushes that suI
 fused her cheeks made her look all the nor
 unapproachably pretty.
 We have of late seen paragraph in
 large number of our exchanges, about ia yer g large locomotive, bearing the inscription. F
 R R." which is to go onto the N. Y. & N
 E. R. R. to be used ln hauling earth to com plete the track. It is described asa perfee v monster. bigger than Barnum's "only biggest so heayT in fact that it was considered un
 safe to put it on tI.Hoe track at Brewsers, fo
 fear it would bend the .-.ails and go dow through to China, so it was decide. 70 Df'n it up the Harlem to Milerton, thence to Can aan, and down the H. R. R. to Hawleyville where the rails are not so badly frost bitter
 as at Brewsters. It has been ''coming" fo , the last month, but hasn't yet arrived.
 our citizens see the monster coming over th
 mountain or through the lots one of thes, fine mornings, they needn't be afraid of it 9 It's perfectly harmless.
 A meeting of the Congregational society . was held last Wednesday afternoon to set
 about hiring minister to preach to them per manentlv, there having been no settled pastor during the past year. The meeting is said tc
 have been quite animated, during the dis
 cussion of the advisabllity of securing the services of Rev. MT. Free, but good feeling prevailed. The result of the meeting was ar : almost unanimous vote to endeavor to in. ! 1uce Rev. Dr. Eddy to become their pastor, with the privilege of having his residence in
 this village, he havng declined former call }. from the society, which required him to oc- tupy the parsonage at East Canaan. A con- nirtee was appointed to wait upon MT. Eddy,
 with the decision of the meeting, and he con. sented to give the subject his consideration.
 Later-Snce writing the above, we have
 learned that MT Eddy has declined to accept
 the call of the Cong. society on the ground
 that they We're not united enough. In his sermon to them last Sunday, he is sad to
 have given some broad hints and healthy ad-
 vice. He said some church fights are ben. eticial to the cause, when all unite in fighting a common foe 5ut when a society fight like
 Kilkenny cats, until there is nothing left ot them but the tips of their tails, the progress of the church is mpeded. Mr Eddy has re