Connecticut western news., 1881-11-23
VICINITY.

Tobacco is selling at 15 to 22 cents inlquity.
 Thomaston has juvenile dancing school, cobble stone gutter and the prettlest depot in the Naugatuck Valley.
 A. A. Bensel, formerly of the Bethel Ledger. is now publisher of the Printers Exchange in New York.
 A New Haven man has gold snuff box. with fifty.seven diamonds set in it. It was presented hy Napoleon Bonaparte to Mar. shal Braun.
 The Thomaston House has ''first class livery in connectionith the whouse," says the Express. We expect that new tangled library has arrived.
 Five boys, who kept ssthieves den" in an unoccupied house near Hartford, have been arrested for stealing watches, seal skin caps and other valuables.
 The Bridgeport Eagle says: "Orr inher- ent modesty will not permit us to receive un' dressed turkeys" Oh dearl But Cheney, don't you know that an undressed turkey is in full dress, while dressed turkey is naked truth?
 A little Thomaston girl dropped her doll into the river the other day, then jumped in to rescue it. Her mother jumped in to res- cue the child, and the neighbors jumped in to rescue the woman. The doll was the best jumper of the whole clique.
 The Professor will court fifteen girls at Hawes' Opera House Monday night, and it will pay the editor of the Canaan News to come down and find out how it is done
 -Bpt. Eagle. No thank you; one was a great plenty-when we were in the counting business. MT Arthur B. Corrin, music dealer of 330 Main street, Bridgeport, is giving away to all who apply, copies of pretty song, with mu- sic, entitled ''Does your heart beat true to me ?" Mr. Corrin keeps all classes of music, both vocal and instrumental, and the latest popular airs can always be found at his store. Guiteau was shot at while being transport ed from the court house to the jail in Wash ington last Saturday afternoon, by mounted stranger. The ball grazed Guiteau's wrist, but inflicted no serious injury. A man named Jones was arrested for the shooting but the authorities are unable to identify the man as the guilty one.
 New Haven is going to have two mounted policemen, which will be quite an ornament to the city. The students of Yale college are sufficient to run New Haven, and if they'd mount all their policemen-on pedestals. and set lem up on the uaantel to look at, the city would be just as well protected from the in suits of these college roughs as a. present.
 Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson, have a clean profit of S4O0, 900 for the season to divide. It is rumored that they have bought Forepaugh's and Coup's eircnses During the past season five employees were killed by accident, including Miss Daven (Margaret Powers.) who did the catapult act, eighteen snakes died from cold, and the large sea lion was killed by railroad collision.-I'sttsfeId Journal.
 The Bridgeport Eagle is vigorously adyo eating the proposed extension of the drive
 way from Seaside Park, to Black Rock MT P. T. Barnum has offered to present the land
 to the city. providing they will appropriate certain amount for putting it in shape. | Notwithstanding Mir. Barnum has done more for the city of Bridgeport than any other man, yet the city fathers always look at his liberal offers as if they were internal machines, liable ! to Ego off," or bite somebody They argue just as the peevish boy did, who thought there was some ''nasty medicine" in the mo. | lasses, just because his mother told him to | take ali he wanted" They aye afraid of this road way proposition, as usual, and some of
 the papers, too, are bucking against It
 There is no doubt that the 'sboulezard" would make one of the most delightful drives in the
 country, and connecting Seaside Park with | Black Rock, would greatly enhance the pop ularity of both termini for pleasure parties I Bridgeport don't deserve it all the same, but l for the benefit of the ''up country wind jam l mers" who want 2 spree occasionally in de- | lghtful spot, we hope 1t Will be constructed,
 and the Eagle is putting in some good work toward that end, which will be another | feather in it's tail.
 District Court at Falls Village closed its November term last week, having cleaned up the entire docket. For the week ending Noy. l2, Judge Torrance presided, and disposed of the case of Woodin vs. O'Hara an action for civil damages for assault, Tn which plaintiff
 recovers $50. Case of state vs Charles Ainsley and Rossiter Hopkins, an action on a 1 bond given by Hopkins for Ainsley, which state claims was defaulted. This was a pc culiar case Ainsley was one of the trio who ! burglar1zed YntZler's and Cochrane's store in West Cornwall On being arrested, Ainsiey
 secured Hopkins as bopdsman, and on the | day set for trial, Ainsiey was on hand, and Hopkins therefore considered himself free | from all obligation in regard to the bond, and
 claims to have formally surrendered his man. The trial was continued, and Ainsley, evi-
 dently considering Hopkins freed of all re. ] sponsibility, skipped out" Hopkins was l then held for the amount of the bond, on a
 technical point in regard to not having sur rendered the prisoner ip accordance with the
 required legal form. The question was set
 tied by Judge Torrance, who let Hopkins of | on payment of the costs incurred in the suits.
 amounting to $l25. Case of Patrick Lynch vs. Luke Flood, an action on contract for l moving building, decided in favor of plain. tiff. who recovers $l12 Case of John O. Adams gs Theodore Owen ct ux foreclosure case, decided for plaintiff. s. s. Robbins vs
 Rev. Henry J. Lynch, for rent, settled Last
 week, Judge Warner heard case of Nathan
 Hart vs H. Cowles, not decided. Treish
 man vs. Chagnot not decided. Elmira York CT vs Mary Colbert, judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $55. and costs. Interlocutory arguments were heard in three or four other cases