Connecticut western news., 1881-08-10


 send something each week if possible. Don't wait until you can gather full column to send Gall at once," but let us hear from you from week to week, if you can't give more than two items at 8 time, remembering that ne,es is not improved by age. Falls Village.
 Albert Sheppard is visiting Hartford and Springfield relatives.
 MT. Nelson Brinton of New York has been spending the past two weeks at his fathers home in this village.
 Miss Katy Card of Bridgeport is visiting relatives in Amesville
 Calvin Hill of New Hartford was the guest of friends in this locality last week.
 MT. E. Landon, travelling agent for the Holley Manufacturing Go. of Lakeville, was in town Saturday.
 Mrs. D. K. Colepaugh is i'll, and Mrs. Theodore Watson is suffering from chils and fever.
 MT. J. D. Yale of Winsted was in town one day last week.
 A teamster in the employ of MT. Edward Howe, of Lime Rock station died recently of "Bright's disease" and the funeral was held Thursday, Rev. Moore officiating. .
 Mrs. H. c. Crandall and Mrs. H. M. Holmes are spending few days at the sea side.
 Mrs. J. A. Belcher and son, of Sheffield, were at Mir. J. Landon's over Sunday.
 Court has adjourned a few weeks, when a few cases in which judge Warner is disquali- fed will probably be tried.
 A party of ten from here had a picnic at Lake Buel Saturday, who arrived home all the way from II o'clock p. m. till six o'clock in the afternoon of the next day.
 The city wards" in this place were given picnic on the fair ground Friday. They will return to New York city Thursday.
 The shower Saturday night was the heav- lest that has has passed over this place this season, and the highways were badly washed.
 MT. Colepaugh will keep bakers bread, cakes, etc., in addition to his other articles on sale.
 hardy annuals adorn the lawn of Mrs. John nine varieties of fuchsias, nearly forty varie. ties of pelargoniums, tuberoses, colsns'l pam sies, and many others. 1DLEwILD. Goshen.
 Prof. Loomis of Yale College called on Mr. Henry Norton last week. He is Professor oi astronomy. MT. Henry s. Wooster of New Haven is spending few days with his friends here. Mrs. John W. Brooks and son of Torr:ng ton. and MT. Hubert Foote of Canton are wis iting at MT. Henry Norton's. The Center school has closed for vacation | Nellie Roche has not been absent g single day during the term, and Mamie Grandall bu one day.
 During the severe thunder storm saturda, night, the house of Dr. North was struck b. lightning. It entered the roof near the chim ney, tearing off some shingles and smashin, some crockery in the garrett It then passed to the lower part of the house and went ou at the cistern. Fortunately no one was in jured B. B. West Cornwall.
 At the annual school meeting held las Thursday evening, MT. Joseph Mallnson wal elected committee for the ensuing year. MT. c. E. Baldwin is quite unwell, being confined to the bed from the effects of a sligh sunstroke,
 Mrs. B. P. Foster left on Monday for tw' weeks among the Adiropdacks, to recuper ate. aohAoth Q. b, fathers. conductor J. R. Smith, .. ' :. lage. Later.-No he didn't, either. he wasscarried by, and forgot to get off the train until the brakeman hollered ''Lee"] Edward Kahler is home again for short time, having severed his connection in the shear shop at Brookfeld.
 Rev. Apheus Winters, secretary of the state temperance union, will give an address in the chapel next Sabbath evening. Mrs. Mitchell and daughter from New York are guests at Mrs. Geo. Volmiller's. Lieut.. Joseph Houstan and family, who have been visiting relatives at this place the past two weeks, have rented rooms in New York, to which place they went on Monday.
 Thomas Fenn, instead of paying his com. pliments to Glendale, as reported last week has been at the old farm in Ellsworth, get. ting his raven locks comfortably filled with hay seed, as well as his ''money grabbers pretty thoroughly stuck with thistles, pointed with Canadian virtue. He is again planted behind the counter, wonderfully picked up under home treatment, and acknowledges with a very genteel bow, that his vacation trip was not northward as he anticipated, whereupon we most cheertully give him the benefit Of correction.
 ANON. Cornwall Bridge.
 ED. NKws:-Having seen nothing lately by way of correspondence from this and sur rounding villages, in the NEWS give you a few items:
 The greatest excitement is the surveying of new proposed railroad from New York, to connect with the western railroads, The surveyors are making it headquarters with landlord Curtis, where they answer innumer- able questions after their days work, some having the impression their vines and fig trees will be destroyed whilst others rejoice at the prospects of new road
 It was our pleasure to call on our estima. ble friend, Daniel Hall, who is the most pop. ular and busy man in Ellsworth society. We were surprised at the vast amount of business he was conducting, he having within the past five months sawed board measuring over eighty thousand feet plumber, and the bush- els of grain he has ground the past year, sur passes any former year. He is now putting in a buckwheat run of stone, entirely new. Something long needed by his neighbors. He will also add soon to the other powers a steam engine and in the way of turning out first-class work, and his honorable way of dealing, the future as well as the present gen. erations, will call him blessed.
 We are sorry to announce the death of the oldest man in in Cornwall, major Seth Pierce who died alter short illness, at Cornwall Plains. He was graduate of Yale college and has followed farming for 8 number of years, and arrived at the age of 97 years. He was in this village on Thursday last, well and hearty, but died on Saturday.
 The tobacco crop is looking finely; only few days late. The farmers have almost fin ished having and harvesting, the crops being good.
 The funeral of Mrs. Hosea Wells was at. tended at the M. E. Church on Thursday, Rev. MT. Gilbert conducting the services. Mrs. Wells died at New Hartford after short illness, at the advanced age of ss years.
 The Cornwall Bridge Iron Co.,. not to be behind the times, have telephone in their office. A great convenience, as it connects Lime Rock and the other furnaces, ore beds, etc. The company were obliged to suspend casting few days to put in new pipes, and