Connecticut western news., 1881-12-07

A full attendance of Masons is requested at the installation next Saturday evening.
 The sociable in Village Improvement Hall last night was well attended, and a financial success.
 The minstrel and variety show to be given next Friday night in Town Hall will undoubtedly draw a large attendance. as home talent always does The proceeds are to be devoted to the Canaan cornet band and will be expended in music lessons for the coming winter, and it is hoped that our citizens will turn out in force, and good delegations are expected from the surrounding villages. The boys will do their best to give every one ther moneys worth of amusement, and although 1t is their first attempt at minstrel show, they feel confident that they have satisfactory programme arranged, and that they will be we'll received. The price of general admission is 25 cents, reserved seats 35, children 15. Tickets go on sale at Camps drug store this morning, "Wednesday at o'clock, where diagram of the hall can be seen. Get your tickets early, and thus secure good seats Out of town parties can secure seats by send- ing cash to W. H. Camp enclosing 3 cent stamp for postage. Doors open at 2, begins at 7.45 Underwood's orchestra will furnish music. The programme is as follows: Overture, Orchestra,
 Opening chorus, by full company, introduc- | ing songs, jokes, etc.
 Darkey speech, Shakespeare" Orchestra.
 | Comic Selection.
 Dutch and Irish dialogue, introducing "Jimmy Lahey" and Pete Hicks "iDjun." | Orchestra.
 Clog dance.
 Speech, "Wonan's Rights.' Orchestra.
 Comic Selection. Concluding with the laughable farce, "An Editors Troubles"
 The following from the New Milford Gazette may interest tobacco raisers in this section :-
 Our Bridgewater correspondent has a word | to say for the farmers in that section about l their being "docked" on their tobacco. One case he mentions should excite no especial sympathy And that is of the farmer who was compelled 10 return home with his to- | bacco, as the buyer refused to receive it be cause he had no place to store it. The un derstanding is when the tobacco is bought that the raiser shall deliver it when it is called for by the buyer. This particular raiser
 loaded his tobacco and took it to the buyer without notifying the latter of his intentions
 and had no one but himself to blame that ht had to return with it.. As to the complaints
 about docking" the dealers have word tt say. They contract that the tobacco shall bt
 in certain condition, and devoid of certain defects When the tobacco is delivered anG
 does not come up to the contract signed by the seller, then the purchaser throws out th' defective tobacco, or makes the seller throw off a percentage from the average price | Human nature is the same in the dealer as il the raiser and we do not doubt that tricky dealers can be found. But there are trick,
 raisers, too, and the dodges played by then
 to increase the weight of their tobacco be
 yond legitimate point are not as scarce al
 they ought to be- We recollect of hearing
 one winter of stones being found m bundle
 of tobacco when being delivered. Ard thel
 dealers complain that some of the tobacco
 actually wet by the seller in order to in
 crease the weight It was but recently that
 case of this kind occurred, and we understan
 the seller was ''docked" fifty per cent. for hi l tr.ck is thus damaging the tobacco in order l.
 increase the weight, because he had sold hi crop little cheaper than some of his neigh
 bors. How much he gained by his thicker
 is yet to be computed. For one thing tn
 dealers cannot be too severely censured an
 that is purchasing tobacco in the field, 0 before it is sufficiently cured to know wha l they are buyinp If every farmer in this sec
 ton would refuse to sell his tobacco until
 is cured and then sell it just as it is, we woul hear but very little of this ''docking" bushes and the farmers would be the gathers in tn end. As it is, the farmer contracts to delve
 his tobacco in a certain condition and fire from certain defects, for certain price, bu
 when the delivery is made large percertaa
 of them are unable to do so, and are cons T uuentlv i'docked :"