Connecticut western news., 1881-01-26

 young man in the face, quite seriously last week. The Housatonic milk producers association ' held it's annual meeting at New Milford yes . terdaY.
 A New London woman fell in fit upon the cook stove the other day, and was burned to death.
 The runaway couple from Roxbury, spoken of in our last, were captured in Bridgeport last week.
 John Brannigan of Bridgeport cut his throat; in a fit iof delrium tremens last Thursday.
 Edwin McNeil has been appointed superin' tendent and general freight agent ofthe she- paug R. R.
 Naugatuck had big horse race on the ice | the other day which was witnessed by large | crowd of spectators. A farm in Woodbury owned by Wm. R. Futile has been in the possession of the Tut tie family for 225 years.
 The Press suggests that ice will be so cheap next summer that dollars worth can b. bought with trade dollar. \ A HGfwinton man stepped on a tack which penetrated his boot and stuck into his foot. few days ago, and narrowly escaped lockjaw.
 During the past year the state has expend ed $5I5,000 for criminals, paupers and hu mane institutions, and $235, 900 for education.
 Rev. T. J. Lee of winsted discoursed last Sunday evening, on "Some newly discovered Ipeculiarities in Winsted social and religious life." [ Gen. Joe Hawley of Hartford was last week elected United States senator for six years from March 4th, to succeed Senator W. W. Eaton.
 ! A Greenwich man was brutallY assaulted by three men with clubs, as he was cleaning out his stables the other day and beaten in sensible.
 An explosion in the Wheeler $ Wilson sewing machine works at Bridgeport last week injured four men, one of whom has since died.
 A Harwinton correspondent ''expects to eat another piece of wedding cake soon." It's 8 cold day when they can't eat wedding cake in Harwinton.
 Il Edwin Monroe's team was run into at '" "Sssshington, this county, by boys sliding down hill, ss,he other day, and Mir. Monroe , was seriously injured.
 The Naugatuck Review has 6 "Police News" Column devoted to local court doings, and it is shockingly full too. Naugatuck is ) an enterprising place.
 It is reported that Col. Robert c. Ingersoll has bought magnificent country seat at Greenwich, and it is also reported that he haS not done anything of the kind. A drunken young man named Rowe fell against hot stove in freight car containing apples. on Nillerton side track the other night, and was severely burned. The house of N c. Peters at Chester wap destroyed by fire last Wednesday night, and Peters perished in the flames, his charred remains being taken from the ruins g A Litch6eld man lets his horses starve tt f death, and tho carcasses lie where they die g until decay makes them a nuisance to ths g neighbors. Henry Bergh is called for. - When P. T. Barnum was in the most dan gerous stage of his recent sickness, Bosto1 e man telegraphed him: "They say you ar' s dying. Don't do it. Your mission is not ye g fulfilled"
 A Hartford coasting club has double rip
 per seating 26 persons, finely painted, up holstered with scarlet plush, having a larg headlight and plenty O. machinery for steer 'r Ing and stopping it.
 Dr. E. A. Palmer of Lakevile is to remov g to Nebraska in March. where he will engag
 in his profession dentistry. In his removs le Lakeville loses one of it's most desirable cit
 zens, but will congratulate Nebraska on it if possession.
 The emptylng ofa tobacco pipe into a bo !. of dry sawdust in Bakers & Brinsmade'
 store at Washington, came very near burnln the building, the family living overhead de
 tecting the smoke in the night and extin
 gushing the fire.
 The Gazette informs the Woodbury Re porter that most folks do mot sit on chair
 when they are courting." Of course the
 don't, Robert. As general thing the chair '' made nowadays are not strong enough-an
 even sofas have been known to beg.
 The eloquent young elocutionist, Clifford
 Dempsey, will give one of his entertainin a' readings at Lakeville hall next Monday eve
 ming, Jan 3lst MT. Dempsey appears UT es der the auspices of the Good Templars, wh
 will be directly benefited by large attend n ance.
 A young man fell from Harlem R. R Id freight car onto the track while the train WA
 in motion near Mlllerton recently, and wa o pushed along on the snow by the brake bean
 for quite distance before he was diecovere o and extricated by brakeman. He was con
 siderably bruised.
 n The Connecticut Temperance Union helt
 Es fifteenth annual convention in the city 0 ;, Meriden on Wednesday of last week, witt
 morning. afternoon, and evening sessions
 Several of the vital questions of the great re form were discussed with freedom and spirit
 In debating the expediency of making an eff - fort to secure the enactment of stringen
 ProhibitorY Bill, placed before the genera s assembly by committee from the Union
 last January, considerable warmth and anima a ton was evinced, and after about two hours
 discussion, it was voted to petition it's enact