Connecticut western news., 1881-07-27
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 James Macken of Litchfield is in jail for debt.
 New Haven expended $6, 125 on her luna. tics last year.
 The Millerton cornet band is to give a con. cert soon. One, two, play.
 Rev. L. Fl. Reid preached in the Millerton Presbyterian church last Sunday.
 Beef is higher now in Litchfeld than at any time since the COW jumped over the moon.
 The Weed band of Hartford had an ex- cursion to Nantasket beach last Saturday.
 Mashapaug, Holland county has John w. Winch for postmaster, as successor to Buck.
 Meriden's factories and gin mills are all running on full time, and are crowded with business.
 A crazy woman in her night clothes was arrested in Hartford about midnight last Thursday.
 Charlottesville has 8 cider fountain that makes night bumming serious, for the order loving citizens.
 Three men were arrested in New Britain last Thursday, for being drunk, right in the midst of having.
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 A mad dog was killed in Sharon the other day, whereupon the owner got great sight madder than the dog was.
 Bridgeport has base ball club composed of corset makers that are said to be good stayers with lots of back bone.
 New Haven is to send 10000, 900 more cartridges to the Turkish government The Turkish government is great hunter.
 A temperance tent in Waterbury was set on fire last Thursday night, presumably by some crazy, disappointed office seeker.
 Frank Hyde of Bridgeport, who represents the Sharps Rifle Co. is making for himself a big reputation as marksman in England.
 Marshall Jewell, ex-governor ot this state, has been elected one of the vice-presidents of the Atlanta, (Georgia) cotton exposition.
 Horse.thieves are operating" in the vicin- ity of Millerton, according to the Telegram. Their operations are watched with interest.
 The rolling stock of tho Connecticut West ern R. R. is to be largely increased, and a large quantity of steel ralls is to be ordered.
 The Telegram reports some Handsome improvements" in a MIlerton bar room, which neighbor Deacon notices in his calls as cru sader.
 The state railroad commissioners have de- cided to have the locomotive whistling dis continued in New London, as it wakes the baby.
 New Milfords lamp posts are being painted bright color so that the natives can see them in the night, and avoid running against them.
 Millerton is prepared to furnish hydro phobia and delirium tremens in quantities to suit. In useless dogs and poor rum, she de- ies competition.
 Frank Wsingasten of Middletown stole SAP from Rev. B. A. Smith recently, with which he got himself and his friends gloriously drunk five times.
 A Warehouse Point butcher caught seven sturgeon weighing 1700 pounds at 8 gsingle haul in his net last Wednesday, The largest weighed $50 pounds. the Valley Democrat. Like all other new papers, it comes to fill hitherto unoccupied sphere, and to get rich.
 Russell Bishop of Stamford, ten years old, was recently killed by falling from tree into which he had "clunb" to sprout potatoes &C., cording to dads orders,
 Louis Hart of New Haven has been ap. pointed manager of the Meriden telegraph office. He is nephew of Mrs. J. A. Macdonald of this place.
 The Hartford Chinese students are study ing the telephone and it's construction, and tne machines are constantly buzzing with An Sins mluchtaa bliges tlalkee.
 It is estimated that 100000 bushels of charcoal will have been burned in tseewtoWn this summer, oyer three-fourths of it being for the Barnum Richardson Go.
 A black man with the paradoxical name of White, shot another darkey named Cherry in Hartford last Monday morning, in a quarrel, which got to be quite personal.
 George T. Coles of Hartford was shot by married woman named Mrs. Coleman in New York last week. The woman claimed he had seduced and betrayed her-poor thing.
 The milk traffic is said to be better on the Shepaug R. R. than it ever was before. Al most every day the engineer has to get off his engine and drive the cows from the track.
 A New London Chinaman named Hung Wah, was drowned recently. He went in bathing, and the cat-fshes got to playing with his g-tail and drew his head under
 James Muldoon of Hartford, fell from the roof of four story house last week, and lodged on clothes.line, where he slept clothes-pin fashion until the cock crew twice.
 This is the way Roxbury correspondent talks: 'Myren Odelfs mother, and her bus. band, MT. Camp, it is reported, are coming to town and expect to build a house Rear her son's."
 General Grant will not accept the invita- tion to attend the reunion of the Palmer tribe at Stonington, as he has finally struck a job, after fouF yeaYs tramp, and don't want to lose it.
 P, T. Barnum has just received a letter from another discoverer of perpetual motion, which he filed away among the hundreds of others from discoverers of the same im- possibility.
 Rev. Mr. Freeland of Thomaston was taken suddenly sick just after beginning his sermon the other Sunday, and was obliged to dismiss his congregation before they had had their nap half out.
 John Hailer, the Bridgeport saloon keep CT who drank corrosive sublmate with the in- tention of committing suicide, about two weeks ago. died in the New Haven hospital last Wednesday.
 A man named Bates, who was on his way to Providence to engage in the undertaking business, furnished corpse to begin business with, by getting in front of a railroad train and being run over.
 Three men fell 25 feet from a scaffold in Stamford last Friday, and one sustained two broken legs, another broken arm, and the last broke both ankles, one wrist, and the third commandment
 A Sharon man killed snake with scythe as he was moving the other day. There is always double danger Of cutting fellows feet and boots all to pieces in attempting to kill a snake with scythe.
 Vernon people have been paid claims amounting to S5O,931 by Hartford life in- suranoe company. Kinship in Vernon is es- teemed according to the amount of insurance shown by relatives policy. : A four years old Hartford boy named Dan- el Foley learned a lesson on stealing rides