Connecticut western news., 1881-09-28

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 Resolutions on the late Judge Seymour were passed by the Litchfeld County bar at Litchield last week.
 The Bridgeport Eagle says, "This must be the 'lie-in' storm D. Yes, and it must have struck the Eagle office hard.
 It is said that 200 members of the Second Conn., Heavy Artillery were present at their reunion in Woodbury on the 22d.
 Hartford has parrot that talks, sneezes, coughs, and initiates the act of vor1iting. He must be the property of ward politician.
 The military encampment at Mantle cost the state $3O,000, besides the loss to the neighborng farmers, in stolen chickens, wa termelons, etc.
 There isn't single bar in Chatham that has license. That speaks louder for the de- fiance of the rum sellers than for the integrl- ty of the authorities.
 At noon on Tuesday last not yard of cam brio could be found in any store in the city of Bridgeport, all of it having been sold for mourning decorations.
 James s. Parsons of Windham has received $475 damages from the town for the death of his horse, by lockjaw, caused by stepping on a nail in the highway.
 ''Are we all fools 2" asks a correspondent of the Woodbury Reporter. Well, that de- pends upon whether you all ask such ''can- did" questions as the above.
 Tho New Milford water company have for bidden the use of hose, for the present. The Gazette man will have to discard his low shoes, or else wash his feet, etc.
 It may sound paradoxical, butt it is an- nounced that unless it is pleasant that New Milford balloon will not go up, and when it does go up it will disappear among the clouds.
 Naugatuck is limbering up her joints and preparing for dancing school. The Re view man is getting himself in trim for danc. ing on the coat collar of the Enterprise chap.
 N. Ulrich of the Young America clothing house in Winsted, says he has stock of overcoats for men, youths and boys, that cannot be beaten anywhere, for price and quality.
 The Bridgeport cartridge shop is running IS hours day, and with little carelessness on the part of ore of the operatives it can be made to run 15 miles a second, in 10000 diff ferent directions.
 A yoke of oxen hitched to fence in Naug. atuck stamped oa nest of hornets recently, and were horribly stung before they could be liberated. The boy who unhitched them also was badly stung.
 A Bridgewater man, while cleaning out hi: we'll recently, found an old skunk and five young ones which had fallen in and drowned There is mourning in that household, wher they think of days gone by.
 Rev. Father Lynch returned from Ireland last week, arriving in Lakeville Tuesday eve ming. He was met at the train by larg' concourse of his people, headed by the band and given hearty reception.
 According to Granby correspondent ''AIr. Levi Rice was made tho happy father o two grandchildren" recently. That start ling statement indicates shockingly deprave' condition of society in Granby.
 A New Milford man named VanNostran has been arrested for drawing Q razor an threatening to shave Jay Lyon all to pieces just because the latter undertook to shay him out of his wages, as he says. The Gazette don't see how Winsted mai can get drunk, unless by smelling the breat of Litchfelder. Reckon Erwin hasn't bee ] over to Litchfeld since the temperance picnic for he says he is ''drY, dry, dry, dry and 8 dusty"
 A gentleman went into Bridgeport boo store with his son, the other day, and pul chasing geography, handed it to the boy saying, "Run to school now, quick, or tn committee will change the book again befor , you get there"
 "Landlord," said man in Q barroom in a adjacent town, as he held up glass of in spration that looked suspciously pale, ''il one particular direction you beat your Savio all hollow. He turned water into wine. bu but you turn it into all the liquors you have.
 "A painter from nowhere in particular" } circulating around in Philmont, says the Sen tinel. We frequently hear of thieves an murderers going to ''parts unknown,' but man coming from nowhere is a curiosity That painter must have sprung from Sandis field.
 New Milford claims to nave been ahicte with great deal of drunkenness lately, an the Ray says it ought to induce every vote to vote no license. That's all very wei neighbor Ray, but as majority your voter are subject to the above "affliction,' wha good'l it do?
 Henry Brinton of Falls Village has bee appointed administrator on the estate o Charry A, Dean of Lime Rock, by Probat Judge Hardenbergh and E. W. Spur an Sidney Ensign appraisers. MT. Ensign Ina declined to serve, and another appraiser vii have to be appointed.
 Connecticut's population is 622,e7S, an there are about 1000 more females thai males. This predominance of females is nor perceptible to the naked eye since hoop skirt have come into fashion again, than before when the ulsterette and Derby rendered every woman conundrum.
 The Bethel Ledger has discovered that thu word s'news" is all abreviation of North East, West, South, to indicate that editors get their information from the four points o the compass. The Ledger is mistaken. Th'