Connecticut western news., 1881-02-23
VICINIT '.

VICINITY.
 Roxbury has had eight deaths since Jan. lst.
 Roxbury is to have spelling school t-i-o.n, tion.
 Bristol is afflicted with fatal disease ,mong horses.
 The Shepaug Railroad is q nuisance, says a correspondent.
 Jasper Miller of Nassaic died of paraly- tic shock last week.
 Tho New Milford Gazette man was much valentined last week.
 Eastman's College. Poughbeepsie, doesn't admit colored students.
 The Item hears that another band is to be organized in Falls Village.
 The bridges in Roxbury suffered consider able damage from the late freshet.
 Col H. P Harris of Lakeville lost val uable COW recently, from over eating.
 Mrs. Lucinda Barlow of Brookield cele- brated her 9Oth birthday on the 1lth inst.
 North Adams negro went to jail last Friday in default of costs for a $l. drunk.
 The members of the new Millerton cornet band have presented their leader with a new oornet.
 WIG. Root, son of the late Sheriff Root, of Pittsfield is on a three months visit to Mexico.
 John Mason of Reynolds Bridge assaulted his wife with a knife, while drunk last week, and wont to jail to repent.
 Thousands of bushels of oysters have been destroyed at the Fair Haven oyster beds by the low water and thick ice. Bishop Simpson dedicated the new $3G,- 900 Methodist chapel at Stamford It was erected by Oliver and William Hoyt. Elder Grant is going to 'revive' Thom' aston sinners forty dollars worth, that amount having been raised to defray expenses. A New Haven man recently placed in the insane retreat labors under tho hallucinator that cuckoo has made it's nest inside o him.
 David Eggleston and wife, of Millerton ex' pect to celebrate their golden wedding next November. Invitations have already been sent out
 A grand fox hunt is to take place soon in Middletown to get rid of the foxes which abound in such numbers as to mako them q nuisance.
 Two daughters of L B. Merriam were stop ped by a thief on a Hartford street the other evening, a small hand. bag was taken from one of them.
 A Brookfield correspondent asks, 'Whc got valentine?' It was young fellow ir this place we believe, who got it in several doses and colors. P. T. Barnum is said to have the largest horse in the world, at the circus headquarters in Bridgeport. It stands 22 hands high, and welghs 28oO pounds.
 A bill is before the legislature, to prevent premature burials and providing for the appli- cation of scientific tests to dead bodies tc demonstrate that life is extrict.
 Reynolds Bridge has an inhabitant who gets drunk, turns his family out of doors and calls them back, kisses and makes up' whel he gets sober repeating the operation al regular intervals A New Haven servant girl lost $500. ir cash the other day, which she carried sewed to her underskirt It was found by gentle man and returned to the owner who deposi ted it in bank forthwith
 The ice on the Housatonic river has broken up in many places, and in consequence the river is damned at Southviile. Unless the Southvillains mend their ways they will find themselves in the same predicament some day.
 A Bridgeport cat awakens the servant girl every morning by knocking on her bedroom door, purr suaut to long established prac tice, which it finds to be very a-mew-sing.- - Ne,o Milford Gazette. Oh, fan him quick,
 
 somebody.
 A Woodbury man, on going to his barn the other morning, found that during the night one of the steers had got loose and tossed COW into the manager, where she lay on her back when found, and knocked the horn off from another.
 a1, of Trh less than half are now living, and has con ferred II ,909 regular degrees and 923 hon orary. Trinity has SIS alumni and has con ferred lls5 degrees in course and 367 hon orary, while Wesleyan's alumni number 1928, and 125l regular degrees and 223 hon. orary have been bestowed. The first degree conferred by Yale was in l7o2, by Trinity in 1897 and by Wesleyanin lss3.-Repu6tican,