Connecticut western news., 1881-11-16
VICINITY.

Birmingham is to build new Catholic church to cost $50.000.
 Foreman Williams of the Winsted Herald office, has little nonpareil "devl" of his own at his house.
 The county commissioners have thus far licensed four drug stores and the Clarke House in Winsted.
 The Bridgeport Leader, with it's accustomed accuracy. locates the recent fatal accident to Mr. Morris, at Ct Harrington.
 Yale kicked Harvard out of sight, at their foot ball match in New Haven last Saturday. The game was witnessed by 2.000 people.
 A New Haven colored church was sold d. auction last Friday for $86. "Will brudder Cicero Shakespeare please pass de sasser" The trial of Guiteau began Monday before Judge Cox at Washington, D. c. It is thought probable that the trial will last three months
 The Eagle says that last week was spay day" in Bridgeport. Yes, about twelve o'clock last week. we suppose, wasn't it, Cheney7 .~-
 Wm. Card of Columbia, aged sl, voted his roth annual ticket last Tuesday, having never missed an election since he was 2l years of age.
 The Windsor Locks Journal says it is very muddy, and we wish it was muddler. Great Guns man go to Pitts6eld and be happy in your element.
 Hawleyville is erecting three story ho- tel, which is more 70 the notion of the loafers who have to crawl under the depot platform when it rains.
 Thomas Cornell of Kingston purchased the Rhinebeck 6 Connecticut R. R. at auction last Friday, the sale being made under a mortgage foreclosure.
 The annual Thanksgiving proclamations, with the usual peace and prosperity, tender mercies, bountiful harvests, no pestilence nor famine clauses, are at hand. E. E. Benjamin, (''Big Sandy'0 is now sell. ing cigars and tobacco for himself. and travels by team, driving fancy decorated wagon, and he reports good business. A ''hard looking old customer" was arFest- ed as a vagrant in New Milford the other day. Soft looking customers are not molest- ed, hence the Gazette appears regularly. Prof. PinaEore Sherlocke presented that worn out opera in New Britain last week, with local assistance and the performance was pronounced worthy of a critical audience. ' The Winsted friends of "Bub." White, the l favorite orchestra leader and snowman, are to give him complimentary benefit in the opera house next Saturday night He deserves it. Rev. L. P. Cressey, Methodist minister of Putnam, evidently concluding that his flock | needed more physical treatment than spirit ual has abandoned the pulpit and gone to doctoring.
 James Carroll, Millerten barber was re. gently arrested for stealing dog, but he escaped from the sheriff, and is now at large. The Telegram never sausage dog gone bar. | berous scallawag.
 It will soon be time for editors to eat tur- key.-Gleaner. That's very true; and it will also soon be time for turtles to fly. But supposing Thanksgiving were already here where's your turkey?
 The gold headed cane, voted for at the Catholic fair at Lakeville last week, was pre-. sented to Mr. L. P. Ashman, he having re- ceived the largest support. The cane netted the church over $3,600.
 Erwin, of the New Milford Gazette, in- forms his readers very profusely that 'that billiard table arrived Wednesday" which &C., counts for the unusual amount of clippings in the Gazette oflast week.
 The Winsted Herald and New Hartford Tribune are each trying to prove that the other is ''small potatoes and few in hill 1" and from the manner in which they buckle to , it, we have no doubt both will succeed.