Connecticut western news., 1881-06-29
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A Northfeld woman was found dead in her house the other day.
 Parlor Rock picnic grounds will have a good patronage this season.
 Bridgeport has g cigar dealer named Klop' stock. Probably wants winding up.
 A New Preston correspondent says "Sul- livan's pig got the best of him again"
 Route agent Geo. N. Hanchstt of the H. R. R., and wife, are visiting in Orange, N. J.
 A telegraph line is being constructed by the Fl. R. R. Go. from Danbury to Hawley- vile. @
 According to the Winsted Times, the days begin to shorten, and the heat begins to hotten.
 s'Pinafore" strikes Bridgeport with the full force of it's nonsensical but musical glbberish tonight.
 A Sherman blacksmith is said to be "un- able to attend to his business" Where are his neighbors2
 Kensngton has plenty strawberries at 10 cents quart and plenty of lager at $1. and costs, per drunk.
 Gen. "Joe" Hawlsy of Hartford is visiting his aged and infirm father Rev. J. R. Haw- ley at Westfeld, Mass.
 A Bridgewater barn is being reformed by EOSIAAAk1 4OSAAAAS "A~ @SAA~~A~0 ed by reliable reporter.
 John Hunt, Rockville man 80 years old, | was fatally injured by 8 train on the New | England road last Monday. T
 Ahira Hosford of Falls Village, a long. time | fireman on the H. R. R. has just been pro- l noted to the post of engineer. An Ansonia woman has recently married Polish Count, widower, with several little II Dnlo %oh ho,voakMoTiT~ with There is a porpoise in the Housatonic river near Derby, which was probably put there on porpoise to give the Eagle an itsn. Litch6eld is filling up with summer board CTS, and the latter are filling up with the "bracing atmosphere" of Ltchield.
 The Norwich Daily Star has ''sparkled a moment, then vanished away" It died after a short existence, becauss-it had to. l New Milford is to have new Episcopal church, and the Gazette man is hunting over his prayer book, to learn to keep the place.
 Rents bridge is finally completed, and in this one particular at least, it double-dfs- counts both the Brooklyn and Poughkeepqe bridges.
 The firm of Afford & Clarke, furniture dealers of Winsted, has dissolved MT. Edward Clarke retiring. MT. Afford will continue at | the OlQ SGAnu"
 | A Tor1ington woman with child in her arms recently fell down 8 flight of stairs, the child's skull was crushed and the woman
 badly injured.
 Will. L. Brown, formerly of Falls Village, , while attempting to board 8 moving Nauga- tuck train in Winstsd the other day, fell and had his shoulder dislocated.
 Two Bridgewater men fought the other | H. If nnod off q phnDk nf his ear and one lip for handful of the hair and the nose of his antagonist.
 The Eagle says that Bridgeport firm sbips goods to Bermuda and BuImah, and /, are expecting an order from the Cannibal ls' lands. They deal in red shirts.
 Somebody broke into the Church of the Redeemer in Bridgeport the other night ano stole seven dollars that the children had con J. tributed to send to the Cannibals | The professions in Meriden have organized base ball hines, and have lots of fun. Ih' lawyers are "cock o'the roost' thus far, having l. beaten the insurance men and doctors. Fl A chandelier ln Bedding church fell dow of the other Sunday night during service, settini the oil on fire, and frightening the congre
 uation into the belief that it was ''kingdon B. come."
 n A Bridgewater family is being visited b friends from Mentor. Ohio. the home of tn ,, President; and they are looked Gnon by tn
 Bridgewaterians with wonderment and '0e'
 mouths.
 }. The other night Dr. Welch's horse in Nor folk, who thought he would like to sleep ul , V stars, got up and mounted the stairs in tht l. barn and it was necessary to build platform ,f to get him down.
 When Sheffield invited all lovers of berries
 and girls to attend festival, Erwin of the e New Milford Gazette blacked his big boots l. put on his other shirt started out to borrow e quarter, d-got left.
 r T. Donovan, formerly one of the proprie
 tors of the Danbury News, has purchased the
 Danbury Globe, and will advocate temper ,t ance and politics straight, which is sort oi o oil and water mixture. A New Haven boy catches rats as easily as
 a cat can do it. He grabs them back of the y ears as they run into their holes, and caught
 l2 out of IA the other day, ,.as they were frightened out of an ash heap. D The New Milford Fox Hunters have pic. i. nic and glass ball hunt on the 4th They n are brave and ferocious set-these fox hun.
 ters. They aren't afraid of the most savagest . fox in the grove near the village.
 A Sufield correspondent gives the following
 double jointed recipe for the extermination of l. potato bugs s:-ssKill lem, d-n 'em." The
 latter clause seems to be more popular than
 the first and is about as ef6cacious. <, A little girl seven years old was found floating in a row boat fast asleep last Satur day, on Long Island Sound. She was picked ? up by an oyster boat and restored to her par. ents. She had dritted nearly across the
 Sound.
 A milk peddler furnishes the nutrimsnt - and ideas-which are like angels visits,
 Item, who in turn lends them to the Gazette. We had given the latter credit for having moro powder of it's own. 5 A Newington man named Thomas Markley, attempted to cut his throat with scyths which was hanging in tree last Saturday, but his
 f.Adam's apple" was so tough that it nicked the scythe all up, and he gave up the attempt, Ijust to save the scYthe.
 Somebody has been trampling down New
 Milford mans flower bed for three years past, and yet the flowers are growing Queer soil down there; must be something like our roads, tramping it down don't do it any harm, nor very mighty sight of good.
 Mir. Morsy of Bantam fell dead few days ago, and jury of inquest made the astonish. ing discovery that the cause of his death was unknown. It has since been discovered that he has a son-in-law, and disintermsnt was talked of, but 8 correspondent says ''nothing has been done about it, and probably never | will be-"
 Charles s. Buell. of Campville has discov. cred an efficient method of avoiding appear anoe at court as witness. He was summon to appear in that capacity on case the other day, and being unwilling to go, he went to his barn and ''hanged himself with rope"