Connecticut western news., 1881-04-27

Norwich cemeteries will soon set up 52 headstones at the unmarked graves of veter- an soldiers.
 New Milford boys are warned to go over back of the mountain to do their shooting, to avoid hitting Curtiss Colepaut h nose. Last Thursday night fire destroyed the barn, carriage house. cows hogs and hay, belonging to Mrs. Wycoffe at Bloomfield.
 Bridgewater has village improvement as- sociation which is requested by correspond ent to remove it's headquarters to Mexico.
 A bridge builder on the Consolidated road, broke three of his ribs the other day by slip l ping as he was prying up 8 rail with crow bar.
 R. s. Frary leaves the choir of the Thom- aston Congregational church, to accept the leadership of the choir of one of Winsteds churches.
 The Connecticut Western Railroad will be reorganized by the first mortgage bondhold- CTS, at Allyn Hall, Hartford, on Wednesday, May 25th.
 A Hotchkissville employee was struck in the shoulder by piece of an emery wheel which exploded the other day, and quite se riously hurt.
 A Windsor Locks man having prepared himself by taking lessons in elocution, danc- ing and seven-up, has launched out as gro cery drummer.
 The astronomical students of Yale betray their apprehension of the earth's total des. truction by inviting Moody to hold meetings at the College soon. ~... There is weeping and wailing and gnash- ing of teeth in Windsor Locks. The teach CT in the school has ordered a change in the arithmetics and gsographies. A wood- shed in Bristol was burned, to- gether with 'capacity for 25o cords of wood" last Tuesday. The capacity has been en- larged at the expense of the building. "Chip' Smith, who murdered chief of Po- lice Hayes at Ansonia few months ago, was | found guilty last week, of murder in the first degree. Sentence was reserved for a few days.
 In Union City recently a child was born | with one hand turned backward. He'll have | to turn his back to man to shake hands with him, and can't thumb his nose at the l school ma-am.
 A lunatic who escaped recently from the Middlstown asylum. called on Mrs. Commo dore Vanderbilt and told her that he was messenger sent from God to marry her. She didn't believe 1t.
 John Cough of New Milford, fell from his horse the other day, and dislocated his elbow joints. and broke his arm, besldss inhicting 8 severe compound fracture on the rock on which he struck.
 John O'Hara, pugnacious character, of ChapinYille, was sentenced to three months imprisonment by the superior court at Litch- field last week, for assaultlng blacksmith Woodin some time since.
 A lady in Elmwood has piecsd a bed-quilt containing 3,876 pieces, and another with 3.O6O pieces-but what shall it profit her when de great day comes' If her newspaper subscription isn't paid up? l An insane man in Torrington, although he acted strangely, in claiming all the fine houses in town as his own, etc. wasn't called crazy until he hugged hired girl, and then he was packed of to retreat A Polish immigrant with $20O in his pcck- ct, and wife and seven children under his arm, arrived in New Haven the other day, and after the sharpers had interviewed him he had the wife and children left. | Wv Huntley, young man employed by the Collins company at Collinsville, was seriously injured on Monday oflast week, by being in some way caught in the machinery and thrown distance of l2 feet.
 The astounding news" of a bachelor friends marriage knocks all the resolution out of the Gazette man, and now he's looking for some good. handsome, accomplished, prac- tical, able-bodied female to support him.
 Three women succeeded in keeping quiet at a recent mum sociable in Thomaston. They had just got their new false teeth, and as they weren't used to them they were liable to loosen them by the wiggle of the tongue Attention is called to Mrs. H. M. Holmes adv. in another column. Read and ponder on the bargains you can secure there, and when the "gude wife" calls for new spring bonnet, tell her to go and see Mrs. Holmes.
 PIT. Barnum talked temperance in Wash ington last week Sunday night and said that no drinking men were employed by his ''onli est and biggest show on earth-and also that one ticket admits to every tent on the ground
 A man in Norwalk has just given up using tobacco, after being addicted to it's use fol over 70 years. He says he thinks it injures him. That man has brilliant future before him, as any man has who shows willingness to give an article fair trial.
 Wm. P. Bronson. a veteran of the Seventh Connecticut of New Haven has just received back pension to the amount of $6, 700, and will get $50. a msnth hereafter. A man don't lose anything by butchering for Uncle Sam-if he only lives long enough.
 The slow-going Shepaug R. R. has finally succeeded in killing man. The theory is advanced, that he was walking on the track , behind the lightning express" and caught his foot in the weeds, and stumbled, striking his head against the bumper of the rear car
 An Irishman who had "been in this coun. trv only short time" drove pair of horses on the track in front of train in Bridgeport. the other day. and was killed, together with the horses He probably thought the train would recognize his right to the road, as g new conner.
 A Woodbury correspondent, writing oi the number of people in that place who are dangerously sick, cheers the afflicted ores and their friends thusly: "One by one the Master is calling them to himself, and the places that knew them shall know them no more forever"
 A Bridgeport jewelry clerk made his doxie present of a $l0O. pair of diamond ear rings recently, and she thought it was ''real mean' when police officer took them away from her, saying that the young man had bor- rowed them from the showcase when his en- ployer wasn't looking
 A woman at Warehouse Point went into a liquor saloon the other day to implore the keeper not to sell her husband any more rum, and she pleaded so forcibly. and straight from the shoulder, that the bully had to put an oyster over his eye to hide the little stars that danced and twinkled before him.
 It is coming to pretty pass, in this SO. called free country, when a man can't ham mer his own wife without having fuss made about it. Only last week gentleman in New Haven was sentenced to four months mpris- onment, just for knocking his wife down with stove poker. kicking her, jamming her head through pane of glass, and cutting little gash five inches long in her face,