Connecticut western news., 1881-09-28

the fair
 Jas. c. Pettbone and Miss M. A. Brigham have been on visit to friends in Norfolk and Winsted.
 The new school house in the Wadsworth district is a credit to the town. Its cost was about $525. It has a seating capacity for about 25, a hard finished wall, and good black boards. The seats came from the house of | O. D. Case, < Co. Hartford. Henry Ford has purchased horse of sey- moro Darlington of Monterey. Miss Alice Babb has closed her school at Cold Spring, Otis. She will not return. Rev. A. N. Benedict preached 8 very able sermon on Passive Life from the text "In SO much as ye did it not unto tue least of these, ye did it not unto me-"
 "Home againl" Mrs. Hotchkiss. The church was appropriately draped on Sunday.
 The water is very low at the whip shop. There is also scarcity about the village. A stroke of lightning has kindled fire in Dry Hill.
 Schools throughout the town closed on Monday.
 Some of the enthusiastic took in the Otis fair. Irwin has shingled his barn with boards. (Ans. to desire for locals by ye editor.) TATrLE TALE. Goshen.
 MT. Benjamin Smith, who has been away summering, has returned to Goshen.
 Mrs. Barnum who has been spending some. time in Cornwall, is home again. A large drove of cattle passed through town last Wednesday, en'route for Torring. ton.
 Mrs. Harriet Cook, who died recently, left $500. to the Sabbath school of the lst Congregational church of Goshen.
 Work has commenced on the front walll of the new part of the cemetery, under the di- rection of stone mason Fowler, of Torrington The work looks finely thus far. | The news of President Garfeld's death cast 8 shadow over the whole town people of all parties feel his loss deeply PEW. Falls Village.
 A new gravel walk has been made from Chapel street to the Cong. church.
 Mr. John Belden returned Wednesday from a visit to Boston.
 The thermometer indicated 900 in the shade here Sunday afternoon.
 Mrs. Niblo, a sister of MT. Wm. Dalein re. siding in Illinois and whom he had not seen in 25 years, returned home Wednesday, after two weeks visit.
 The M E. ladies' aid society met Friday with Mrs. o. M. Brinton. There were forty present, including several ladies from the oth- CT society. A pleasant time was had by all who attended, and it netted them quite sum.
 Out of respect to the late President of the United States, union services of both denom- nations were held at the M. E. church Mon- day.
 Lyman Finkle has rented the apartment which MT. Burghardt vacates in Amesville, we are informed, and will go to housekeep- ing.
 A. P. Chapman has traded his fancy fast pacing carriage horse with Phillips & Go. of Winsted, for horse and carriage.
 Schools were closed in this section Monday, and some of the public ediHcss were draped in mourning, including both churches. A large collection of pretty frost flowers were placed on the communion table at the Cong. church.
 Messrs. Capron, Mundry and D. K. Cole. paugh tried their luck at angling in Long Pond last Wednesday, and several three pound bass was the result. Charles Beebe, who has been mining in the Silver King district, Arizona, for 8 year or so past, is visiting his parents at South Canaan The s'redskins" are on the war path in that territory, and the ''palefaces" are inclined to value their scalp too highly to risk 1t among savages.
 The Sheppard jubilee singers" gave an en- tertaining vocal concert at citisens hall Satur. day night, before a moderate sized audience. The usual disturbance by few noisy individ. uals in the rear of the hall, was quelled after moral suasion proved to be of no avail, by janitor appearing before them with 8 police mans weapon, large "billy." and the sight of that club seemed to have the magical ef- feet, for he had no occasion to use it. Why, a dose of soothing syrup could not have had more queting effect.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Mcdonald and Mrs Hillyer have gone to South Easton, Pa, on a visit.
 Mrs. Holcomb of Amesville has gone to Defiance, Kansas on few weeks visit, to which place she went Monday. IDLEwILp. Amesvi'le.
 Moving is considered spring evil, as a general thing, but this place is an exception, and IS taking fall move.
 Pierre Mundry takes one of the two new houses just completed by the B. R. Co, and Mir. Gilbert Street of Bridgeport the other Mir. Street went from here last spring, and has found it not beneficial to his health near the sound, and now returns to his old position in the car shops
 Wallace Burghardt goes to Leavenworth, Kan, as first engineer in a glucose factory. His family will vacate the house of Mrs. Flint, and remain in Stockbridge, Mass, for the present.
 John 0. Wolfe has taken his trunk and the good wishes of his many friends, and will locate in Ft Wayne, Ind, where he has DO. stion in the machine shops of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R. R. John has been leader of the H. R. R. cornet band for two years. What will become of the band? is a question.
 Edward Gillette has been calling on his many friends here, and left for the West Nor: day morning. Come again, Ed, with Mrs. G. next time.
 Henry Wolfe, IT,, has a new canopy tp buggy. "Now look out, Maria ]" l AGnrranld han l.oA holo.