Connecticut western news., 1881-03-23
Gardeners ars getting

-:-Gardeners ars getting is their spring work. F ,s
 The bands caps have arrived, apd also the hmps. t,g
 -. G. Root spent the sabbath with friends n GiendAle, Mass. : Several communications tabridged this week for want of rooua-
 Thanks for a generous.dsAatioa 5i Acake from theSmith anniversary.
 Next week Friday is '.all fools daY..n. QA that day one fool is as good as another-and better. ...- ;
 -Wm. Hayward is to remoyes his 'famiiy to Falls Village, where hethas 'a position if the R. R. shops. @'i "
 A horse belonging to 4. B. Garfield ran away at East Canaan last Saturday, smashing up the buggy considerably.
 , Miss Minnie Deming. has been spending 8 week with her brother, Wilbur M. Deming.'' photographer in Hartford.
 Wanted. A few yardsoeapging poetry -at this ofacs. Must be the genuine article, with the tradc-mark blown in tl5s.bot' ! .tle. --.. = .s' s''s
 John T. Nerthrop' who is ROW working the Mead place in Canaan Valley, is to have charge of the Dr. Smith farm in this place the coming year. =~.s:
 s-Engineer Dick, Russell.who has besa. .ep- toying . vacation of a few weeks, which hs :. spent s'down towards Florida," has rethr1sd to his duties on the H. R. B.
 The meeting for forming the literary or ganization was called for to;mo5row night at the reading room, instead of. last Thursday night, as announced laat week. k..,y
 :: Mr. Henry Hanchstso East Canaan has moved hisfamily into the Geo, Gillette house on West maiu-st A desirable. acquisition to the citizens of Canaan Depot. l: --Ths steel rail gang on the c. ". R. R. will be going through this placeina sw,days, toward Hartford; they are working steadily, and are now between Salisbury and this place. ,t :sf
 -Dr. W. D. Camp and 1iso of Copsks; N. r.. formerly of this place, were in town. last week, visiting Dr. c. W. Camp. with whom the Dr. attended the funeral of his father in Norfolk. < :,
 Mfr. G. B. Gardner returned with hia bride last Sunday afternoon, from pleasant trip to his former home on the Hudson liver and they have settled down to the enjoyment of their honeymoon
 Prot Green of Danbury gives lessons in vocal music every Friday, at the Stevens House. The Professor is highly recommend ed, and will undoubtedly secure goodly class of pupils whom he has had 8 fair trial. ,; -Mr. Frank M. Platt of Richmond, Mass. !, with his bride. stopped at the Warner House last Wednesday night. Canaan is getting accustomed to the ''wedding march,r ah8 Eumors indicate other thew dsparturesr
 A drunken man imprisoned himself in one of the outbuildings of the Warner House sast Saturday night, and kept the whole s1eighborhood awake with his drunken yslls, until Butts got up and escorted him out of the village. ..~, :. Mir. Patrick Quinn, who is working .the Ferris farm. says he has single litter of ls pigs about two weeks old, and thinks he fii entitled to credit mark for raising them all, to that age, not one of the whole litter hav- ing died. :
 Rev. Mason Noble, Jr. of Sheffield has rented Congressman Miles house near Twin Lakes, where he will spend the summsr. The dominic is greatly attached to the Lakes, aid Is as skillfui fisherman as any who "plows the wave' there. :.; S:it
 MT. H. H. Cogswell has curiosity 1t his depot restaurant, in the shape of asnumt Der of strawberry plants in blossom .-.., He hap besn experimenting with them, and the res salts are highly satisfactory. It is seldom fhat strawberries can be seen in blossom in 1faEch. | ,,I !, Hugh Carlin of East Canaan got afunil last Sunday evening and, being in fora rowii assaulted James Tyrrany. and smashed sevsr5 Al windows in his house, for which ittle1 amusement he WIS brought bs6ore2 Justice [ Roberts last Monday, and bound otsr to che April term of the superior lcourt, and eailing to secure bonds, he went to jail. ---'< We have received, copy of MT. F. H. Giddings' pamphlet, Railroads and Teie-
 
 Arsxshs s-Who Shall Control them2" Mr. Gid- Sinas>is one of the ablest writers of the day, on political economy and this pamphlet shows a thscouea aeqasin.ance with the subject of which ittreats. We regret that it was res ssivsd so late that we can give no space for lev extracts. Copies can be procured of MT. Giddings at the Courier office. Ct. Darlington, at 20 cents each. -s.- .:"
 IA correspondent in the Hartford Times speaks thus truthfully of Superintendent Jones of the Conn. Western R R.. |, We venture to say that there are few more I ,afe, intelligent and prudent railroad manag- ', ,rs than Mr. Jopes, the superintendent, whO has had the entire management of the road lince it has been in the hands of the trustee. ( Be is practical railroad man who has made s ailroading the study and business Of his life, nd who devotes to it all his time, energy and alsnts He attends to his own business aud l hat alone, and does not occupy his time in Q ndnlging in petty iealouses and intrigues to e satifY mere personal spite and ambition. th