Connecticut western news., 1881-08-03
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\ Monday for Dakota.
 l Several Lime Rock families have been camping out at Twin Lakes. -...- Hartford supports 90 insane paupers, fifty of whom are in the Middletown asylum. Mrs. A. Working of Plantsvllle had three children at one sitting" last week, but they all died.
 | The Barnes family will hold thelr annual re- union at Seaside Park, Bridgeport, on the | 25th inst.
 Editor Rowley of the Amena Times is making it lively for the blue-fsh at Double Beach, Ct.
 Gen. Grant has finally accepted the invita- tion to attend the Palmer family reunion at Stonlngton. .7#. A Hillsdale farmer has oats standing six feet high. which will probably have to be cut down with an ax.
 James Smibert of Westport was recently | found dead, near that place. with marks of violence upon him.
 s. R. Hart of Bristol found tramp in his barn the other night whom he had arrested and sent to jail for 20 days. | A Norwich pistol company has gone into insolvency, but too late to prevent good many mangled hands and heads.
 A piano factory at Deep River was burned down last Sunday; damage $l5O, ,OOO and 100 hands thrown out of employment. Meriden will sskeep 6 stiff upper lip" for a while. Charley Norton, the light weight champion fighter of England is there. New Milford, not content with getting on a train six days in the week, is petitioning the H. R. R. for a Sunday paper train. | Ro1o don, a Canterburian is held in $l ,OOO for try ing to ravish Mrs. Chas. Geer of Lisbon.
 Madigan of the Newtown Chronicle, is mad again.because dog days necessitate his buy ing box of paper collars every ten days.
 s'Cradles empty, babies gone," is the way it was announced on a Thomaston programme recently. Must refer to bankrupt baby | farmer. | A Dover politician named Farrar has eloped with a girl named Ida Littledeld, leaving good looking business and paying | wife behind.
 Gov Bigelow was given a grand compli- mentary hop at the Hotel Katterskill. at Cats kill mountains last Friday night This hotel has zoo guests.
 The Naugatuck R. R. has just received 25 new freight cars, for the transportation of big eggs and small kegs to the office of the Thomaston Express. .... -.. E l Hartford's sewers are used for all sorts oi purposes. A few days ago the body of a child apparently about week old was found in sewer in that city.
 | Bucholz, the convicted murderer of Schults of Norwalk, had fight with brother con- vict in the state prison the other day, and was stabbed in the arm.
 New Milford's Odd Fellows. have an ex' cursion to Parlor Rock tomorrow. If they're all as odd as Erwin of the Gazette, they'll come home odder than theylwent.
 The Cornwall Sasr in it's last weeks issue, bids goodbye to this wicked world, and an nounces itself tale that is told. It has run it's race; it has twinkled it's twink.
 A Meriden woman the other day took two table spoonfuls of Paris green, and three glasses of beer, but the doctors think they can save her life in spite of the beer.
 Captain F. Sherwood of Westport, one oi the triplets who celebrated their 10th birth. day last November, died the other day. This makes twins of the remaining two.
 A bakery belonging to W. c. Cypher oi Litchfeld was sold by the sheriff recently, and now the late proprietor can't sign his own name without giving his commercial standing An Indian idol" was recently plowed uE in Woodbury, and they don't know whether it's a god or devil. If it has handle on and holds about two gallons, it's Woodbury god.
 John Fl. Murray's circus, which showed in this place last year, gives us the go-bJ this season, and holds forth in Millerton nex Friday A menagerie has recently been add ed to it.
 A peddler has been arrested and fined $5 and costs near Litchfeld, for cheating woman on the price of shawl. When even the pack peddlers begin to cheat, who can be trusted?
 A New Haven carpenter broke his back last Saturday, by falling through "chimney breast" He will probably die, but even il he should recover, his legs will always be paralyzed.
 Pomeroy Higley of Canton lost two calves recently in singular manner. They sud denly started on backward run, going in 2 circle, and after whirling in this way for 6 short time fell dead.
 A Litchfeld correspondent says, "The friends of MT. and Mrs. Daniel J. Slack vii be interested to know that they have become the parents of son." Whew! the friends are to be congratulated. Charles Collins of New Hartford sails fol Europe in search of pleasure. Strange tha people will go so far from home in search o that article, when the neighbours peach or chard is only over the fence.
 A farmers wagon containing a load o wood was demolished by Housatonic trair at New Milford last wednesday, where it hae become stuck on the track, and the owner failed to signal the engineer in time.
 A new democratic weekly has been started in Birmingham bYsW. S. Hockenberry. for merlv of Winsted It is called the Derby Journal. and will be sharp and spicy, as that's the kind of Hockenberry its editor is.
 Johnny Roach, New Haven drunkard came into court the other day dressed in { blanket, with his head badly cut. He wal found drunk with his pants of, which he hae removed to bandags the cut on his head, but forgot to do it.
 Captain "Jack" Slocum of Winsted dieo last Saturday after brief illness, at the age of 36. He was the last deputy sheriff o1 Winsted, and late captain of the Steele Guard Co., L Fourth c. N. G., and has filed mum Der of borough offices.
 Sandtown has had another breaking out, and of course poor Sam Watkins has had to catch it, as usual. Last Saturday night vacant shanty near the camp ground station belonging to Merritt Spaulding, was burned and Monday night 8 tenement belonging to ID. R. Spaulding, situated near s'point O rocks