Connecticut western news., 1881-11-09

Frank VanDeusen and wife of Wetaug are boarding at the Warner House, where they will remain during the winter. Their farm is occupied by a Mfr. Roper's family. Frank is now nearer to his hay and straw baling business, to which he gives his whole attention.
 = Mir Clarke Randall of New Milford, who for the past four years has been engaged in cattle raising in Colorado, visited his cousin, ". H. Camp in this place a few days last week. Mir. Randall is stationed near Trini- dad, Col. and is twenty.two miles from the nearest post office.
 Mir. Geo. W. Cowdrey has constructed a large reservoir between the old one and his house, as the upper basin forced the water with such power as to burst the pipes. The new reservoir is situated on the side of Can aan mountain not far from the reservoir of the Canaan Water Company.
 If the author of "keep your lamps trim med and burning, for the year of jubilee, !" would come around and convince the street lamp lighter that the year of jubilee is com. ing Sin few days" he would receive the thanks of the community, who are compelled on moonless night to grope in "ways that are dark"
 = Miss Jenny E. Brown of this place, who has been teaching select school in East Can aan, has accepted "call' to teach the dis trict school in Huntsville the coming winter. Miss Jenny is a good teacher, having given eminent satisfaction heretofore, and the Huntsville district is to be congratulated on it's good fortune in securing her.
 Patrick Finnegan has moved his family to Tariffville. In view of the fact that there were three Patrick Finnegans in this place, It may be well to add that the Patrick Finne. gan to whom we refer is young Patrick Fin Patrick Lynch's house. The two Patrick Finnegans who are left, will please bear in mind that they are not the Patrick Finnegans we speak of.
 Rev. w, A. Mackey is to deliver a lee. ture on Character" in Village Improvement hall next Wednesday evening, the 18th inst. Mfr. Mackey's lectures are always well worth hearing, and full house is expected. The subject is good one, and Mr. Mackeys well known style of dealing with such subjects will insure an intellectual treat. The price of ad- mission has been placed at the low figure of l5 cents. ... 5-..-....
 Prescott Brothers Edward and Martini are opening meat market in the basement of the Stevens House, and solicit their share of the public patronage. Ed. is an old hand at the business, and they have many friends hereabouts, and we predict good trade for them. There's always room for one more. |" and notwithstanding there are three meat wagons running regularly through the place, and another old established meat market in which the genial and popular Dave Walters yields the cleaver, they are all rich, and high flyers, and pile up money in the bank every year.
 Prof. W. R. North, of Cornwall, who taught the Canaan cornet band during the first few months of it's existence, and who enlisted in the United States regular army as musician last February, has been discharged and is now on his way homo. After his en- listment he was transferred to the 2lst h. fantry band and stationed at Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, where the climate so affected him, that he was unable to perform his duties, and spent most of hls time in the hospital, and at one time he was in so critical a condition that his life was despaired of Seeing that it would be hazardous to have him remain, the surgeon at Ft. Vancouver had him discharged from the service. Wills. old friends in this region will congratulate him on his good fortune, and receive him with open arms, and the Canaan cornet band will dance a hornpipe on picket fence.
 A party of six yourg men, representing the beauty, wealth, intelligence and virtue Of the place, chartered special car for Falls Village last Thursday night to attend the cir GUS, leaving this place at about 7.l5 p. m. They worked their passage on the double crank, in a drenching rain which wet them through and through, arriving at Amesville at 7.s4 having made the distance, about five miles, in nineteen minutes. At Amesville they lifted their train from the track, deposit. ed 1t on the banks of the beautiful Housatonic, then walked down to the village and took in the g oaks of the clowns, the fluffy dresses of the ''undisputed queens of the arena" and the decidedly flat ''concert" at the close of the ''monster aggregation of wonders" beneath the waterproof canvass that keeps the occu. pants dry when the sun shines, but which was about as effectively waterproof" that night as sheet of mosquito netting would have been. After the show the railroad in. spectors stood around outside awhile in the rain, to dry of, then proceeded to lubricate the gearings, cog.wheels, cranks, elbows, joints and internal apparatus of their ''spe- cial," which took about three hours, and started for home about one o'clock. The dis tance to the hand-car house was made in half an hour, including several stops, one to allow one of the engineers to unite himself from Q double bow not into which the crank had tied him by crawling into his o~crcUar pockot in ita re~elstiVus another to permit victim number two, to chase his hat 8 quarter of a mlle into the swamp near Sand town. They arrived home about half past one. laid their special train tenderly to rest near the upper switch, and dispersed, singing "Wen all go home on hand-car, before the break of day."
 The wedding business still continues good, from which fact some weather prophets nredict A hard winter while others insist that