Connecticut western news., 1881-04-27

4 q, NH send us particulars of any occurrence ot s'.@ intstest which may come under their notice. ,.;' = ,.-Frmers have been blowing for some time s,ss Hpast. ,>'..' z as.,--saekers are plenty in the streams. and in ss %ss ths saloons.
 AMisa S P. Norton is in New York buying F .., ,. spring goods. -..s-Jamss sheffield is about again, after a :: severe illaess.
 Pay up your subscription We want to get E straw hat.
 :ss.< &-, ~-Miss Jsnns Adam is to open millinery : store in East Canaan. Dr. Francis P. Whittlesey of Ct Bar rington was in town Monday. ....,...-Houae.ceaning time is at hand and the l {. '4ords of creation" look cross The directors of the Housatonic R. R. went over the road last Thursday. Charles Smith, a tenant of Patrick Lynchs house, has moved to Ashley Falls.
 The pews in the Methodist church are to be sold next Saturday afternoon at ? o'clock
 "A ~~SN added to the supply of precautionary meas Ii .i ,.:. <. arss."
 Barber Colspaugh spent Sunday night in aNsw> >Milford-holding watch meeting it is spFs'unsa. A beautiful new pulpit has been placed in Christ church, the work of MT. Harmon < :. ~asesnneFhorn.
 Street sprinkling has begun, and the lt' 2 ,.. tie yard hydrapts for laying the dust are an undisguiesd blessing.
 --Boss carpenter B. R. Lorrain has 70 far rscoTsred from his late severe injuries as to be able to resume work.
 s>Aa--Butts returned from his York State visit % ~ efKss Saturday night, in sad state of fatigue andi at present of duty. Miss Jennie E. Brown opened her select school in East Canaan last Monday, with a s- good attendance of pupils. :, .,s.@-Mr. Fl. P. Barnum went to New Haven 'A'a- Monday afternoon, where he is serving as es.a- Jurefin the United States Court.
 The poles for Dr. Camps telephone line -.Ssf to 1shley Falls are all set and the work of ,~ atringing the wires will begin once.
 Mrs. l. V. Johnson of New Jersey, formerly Miss Hattie Mead, is spending few :. .s weeks at her parents in Canaan Valley. -Frank vanDeusen is making arrange msnta for the construction of hs new house on the site of the one destroyed by fire two . years ago.
 .r-, Judge Granger bought another big dark brown team last Saturday. of Peter Pratt ot Amsnia. who was in town with some nne :. looking horses
 ->-5 -Photographer Deming is to open photo graph establishment in Wsstfsld, Mass. in :; company with MT. Grant of Winsted' bis j; former partner.
 Ray F. Windsor Brathwaite of Stamford , occupied the pulpit at Christ church last Sun day, Rev MT. Bodley being absent on visit to friends in Stamford.
 Mir. Geo. H. Olds of Tyrngham, former 1. ly baggage master in this place, and station :. agent at Glendale, spent the Sabbath in town, with MT. John B. Reed
 -Suparntendent Jones is to send man from Hartford, named Litch6eld, to act as baggage master at this station, and Jerome Root will withdraw and go into the shad bus mess.
 MT. Ferris w. Henry, formerly senior partner of the firm of Henry < Watson, who carried on the mercantile business in Watson's . Alock, was in town Sunday, looking natural :.sssa iifs. .s.e
 Miss Nellie E. Richardson of Chapinvile, formerly teacher of the intermediate room of high school ip this place, spent Saturday and .s Sunday in town with her friend Miss Jennie E. Brown.
 :, The past severe winter was a pudding "for coal men, and onr local dealers come out rich as . plumber, and are painting their ..housss and devoting considerable attention to fast horses.
 The large Peet monument is being put in position in the cemetery, by Bridgeport partiss: It is the largest in the cemetery, standing g feet high. The base of the mon umsnt weighs four tons.
 The Railroad street water pipe, which has been frozen up all winter, burstsd last Sunday night beside Cummings block, and soaking the ground full, it flooded the cement floor of the meat market
 w. c. Humphrey attended at Lakevlle last Friday, the funeral of his uncle, William Jones. who died there on Weonesoay, as the agsof "A Deceased had buried four wives and six children in LakeviIe.
 Tom. Shields of the H. R. R., Canaan section. says that Dan. Thorpe, north of this piaee while blowing the other day, plowed eut 2s snakes of different varieties, which wigglsd about as lively as in midsummer.
 The side. walks in front of Humphreys and Warmers premises, are to be concreted and it is hoped that others who have the vel. fasa and good appearance of our village at heart, ]will fall into line and follow the good example get by these gsntlsmen.