Connecticut western news., 1881-07-20
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Welton's Waterbury laundry was burned last Sunday morning.
 A new factory is being built in Thompson. vile for the manufacture of burial caskets.
 George W. Peet's barns in. Salisbury were destroyed by fire last week Monday morning
 Charles Arnold of Danielsonvilie was drowned while swimming after pond lilies last Sunday.
 A Canton man says the tax on his little yaller dog is as heavy as on his $4OO. horse, and he's mad about it.
 A Bridgeport boy named Louis Botsford swapped of one of his legs for a short ride on freight train the other day. The Meriden reform school was badly dam aged by a storm last week, to the delight of the naughty boys who live there. Two Stamford brothers, both doctors named Powell, take turns nursing each other and being nursed through the small pox. It was the son of a New Milford man | named Jennings who invented the apparatus used to keep the presidents s,ck-room cool. A New Milford woman took laudanum
 with suicidal intent last Thursday, but the doctors got stomach pump and took it back. New Haven's policemen are not allowed to
 talk to anybody now, and the city reporters have to buzz the barbers for sensational news. A young Scotch brakeman on the New Eng land road had his arm crushed, at Danbury, last Wednesday, and it has been amputated. Jay V. Olds of Bridgeport the other day, borrowed $1, 100 from his step-mother with out her knowledge, and is now repenting un- der bonds.
 Kent is to father 8 of the poor New York f oPx a1xo in, holf nf the benevolent Evening Post fresh air as sociatlon.
 It is reported that five Japanese are to es- tablish factory for the manufacture of Jap- anese articles at Newtown. Tea drinkers, take notice.
 The Falls Village Item is to be removed quite paper in Falls Village, and we are sorry to see him carry it of.
 Josh Dakin was arrested in Millerton the other day, for stealing dog. He made his own plea before the court, and argued so elo- quently, that the justice acquitted him, and fined the dog.
 The chief of gang of gypsies encamped in tent near Millerton recently was arrested horses, whereupon he 'folded his like the Arab, and silently stole away"
 A Sherman says that if the people of that place don't ''wake up and connect themselves by telephone to New Milford' he will leave the place. and his fellow citizens thlnk either event will be "village improvement"
 A Norwich man said he saw "lager bot. ties going into the cellar of clergyman" the other day. Hush, manl they contained Congress" water-such as inspires senator ial courtesy" during the "all nights sessions.
 Forty sharks, averaging seven feet in length, were caught in the river at Guilford the other day. That's where the Item man is going, to see if he can find better treatment than he got from the ''lan6 sharks" of Bridge port.
 A horse hitched to truck wagon disputed the right of way with engineer Bronson of conductor Thomas train at Bridgeport last Saturday afternoon, but finally waived his right, after being tossed up onto the smoke stack and having his wagon smashed into kindling wook.
 The veterans of the Forty -niHth Mass. achusetts volunteers will have reunion at Seaside Park, Bridgeport, this month as a l compliment to Col. S. B. Sumner of that city 1 who was lieutenant colonel of the regiment 1 Of course they'll have a poetical poem and 1 other liquid coloring.
 The Kent correspondent who reported re- gently that the floor of the reservoir was tbult up of solid masonery 20 feet above the | dam,' now says it was typographical er- TOT ;" it should have read '.ttoona /" Well, that does alter the sense-cbanging it from 8 error to an orthographical blun- der.
 Brakeman Niles Dean, of the H. R. R, .,and baggage master Woodruff, had serious mis- haps, on the milk train going south last afternoon while crossing the bridge below New Milford. The Ray says, "Dean was on the top of the car and was struck by he staging. Woodruff was looking, and probably leaning, out of the side door when le was also struck by the staging. Both nen were taken to Bridgeport and telegram ays that Dean has cut l.2 inches long on ,is head,'