Connecticut western news., 1881-03-09

p this way if they could find some grass to walk on. A Winsted boy is now ready to die. He ,as received from President Garfield his pho' ograph and autograph as response to letter ,f reorganization written by the boy just after the election.
 Timothy Naher, the strongest man in New Haven, died in that city last Tuesday. He has been known to lift 1b0O fpounds dead weight, and to suspend 600 pounds from his middle finger.
 A correspondent in the New Milford Ray, pleading for the release of Chas. J. Allen of that place, from state prison where he is serving out life sentence for murder, says that Allen was not to blams-rum did it.
 At liquor seizure in Plymouth recently, a tug was taken, labeled "aconits" but which contained bourbon whiskey. The man who owned the liquor says, that the county com- rnissioners who granted him the license drank from that jug.
 It is reported that during the recent thaw, a large barn near New Milford, standing be- side river, was caught by a landslide, car' ried across the river on the ice and deposited on the other side without damage to the barn or it's contents.
 Two Torrington Hollow boys had a fight one of them sustained some broken ribs; the father of the injured boy threatened to shoot the other boy, and the latter's father is loaded with grand jurors, shot guns and law suits, Awaiting developments"
 Mrs. Mary A. Livermore is to lecture in Winsted the 24th inst. on "What shall we do with our daughters" If Mary is really in earnest, we would respectfully suggest that she send them to this place-or any other place where girls are so scarce that it costs $lo. to get the nitten.
 Burt T. Winters of Chestnut Land, nea, New Milford, was frozen to death last weel Monday morning while travelling in a storm with companion. They got lost in tht storm, being very drunk, and young Winters being unable to navigate, sank down ant froze to death. His age was 20 years. Just received at 444 Centennial Avenue Lakeville, an immense assortment of Ladies and Gents Trunks, also large assortment o Horse Collars. Whips, and everything in thu saddlery line, all of which will be sold cheal to make room, for more is coming. Yours Centennially, 8w37 J. M. MILLER. l xWe arc in receipt of specimen mum Der of Nellis' Floral Instructor, published a tho noted Mohawk Valley Seed Gardens, To cated at Canajoharie, N. Y. We are informe that at these Gardens large quantities of bot vegetable and flower seeds are annually grow and put up. and sold direct to the planter,
 feature that cannot be over estimated. Tn proprietor, A. c. Nellis, offers great induce ments in the seed line, both to the wholesal and retail trade, and offers to send sampl number of his beautiful quarterly and pacl ct of choice vegetable OF flower seeds for
 So. stamp.
 Il Since the stock of the Danbury < Norwal
 R.R. Company has been placed on the stoe
 list of the stock board of New York, sever
 sales of the stock have been reported, and
 consequence thereof many rxpors have bee circulated with reference to such sales mos
 If not all of them, are doubtless incorree
 From what information we have been able
 obtaln we think we are justified in sayir that the principal owners have not sold ou that the stock has not been sold to 6 come
 ting or competing road but that the sal . that have been made are purely for inves ment, and we believe the purchasers ha,
 made . good thing by their purchases. VI are informed thst the road earned last ye over and above all ordinary expenses, mo
 than ten per cent and that the earnings far the current year, from Nov. l, 1880 Feb. 1, 1881, show quite a handsome ga
 over last year. Those best posted belle that the road can earn handsome dividends future. The main track, except about t1
 and one-half miles, is nog laid with ste
 rails, and the road bed, equipments, dspo
 &c. are all the first clsss.-Noraoalk c
 zette.
 s Many of our readers will regret to learn p the death of Mrs. Thaddsus Peck, which o
 cured Wednesday morning, at her residen
 in Stratford, from dose of poisonous linime
 taken by mistake. Mrs. Peck had been i'll f about week with rheumatic trouble, b
 was getting better. She had two kinds medicine, one to be taken internally, and t other for external application. The latt
 contained large proportion of beladonn
 which is strong poison when swallowe 3 About 63o o'clock Monday evening, she we
 to take dose of the internal medicine 8 cording to directions, but through some mi take got hold of the wrong bottle and sw, f lowed lot of the belladonna liniment, takin
 as has since been learned, sufficient quan
 ty to kill half 8 dozen persons. She afte wards remarked to her daughter that h medicine tasted strangely that evening. Lat
 she passed into stupor, still ignorant of u
 error she had made. Her daughter at fir , Esupposed it to be an attack of paralysis, b
 subsequent investigation disclosed the re state of the case. Emetics were then admir-
 istered, but the action of the poison had pa } alyzed the stomach so that it would not re
 pond aud no relief could be obtained in th way. The attending physician declared tn
 resuscitation was impossible, but her daugl ter and MT. T. E. Peck, her son, determine
 to leave nothing unt,i jed and labored uninte mittingly hour after hour, to counteract tt
 effects of the poison and restore consciou
 ness. By the administration of ssmorphin
 stimulants and friction, such encouraging re
 suits were obtained that even the doct,