Connecticut western news., 1881-04-06

1SsA 0uHubobeV 3S tu0 olDOW bu0 ObuoA U0yS by Drs. Bissell, Welch and Averill.
 A W oodbury man found den of foxes the other day, and after shooting the old one captured six of the young ones alive.
 The temperance cause is just booming in New Milford, and . temperance reading room is in contemplation. Success to the project The New Milford Gazette calls it the so cissy for the prevention of morals An ounce of prevention is worth 8 pound of Ga zette
 Joe Vaill of the Herald has been in New York eating royal dinners with Noble fami ly, and trying to buy the East River bridge river and alL
 A correspondent recently said that the dew il was in Cornwall, and now the editor of the Enquirer has captured him, ''hoots and horns," and all
 The expense of running Barnum's great con solidated show is $4,5O0 day, nearly twice as much as the daily expense Of . coun. try newspaper.
 The first train over the New England R R. from Waterbury to Danbury went through last Tuesday, with lumber for 8 new freight house at Danbury.
 or two evils, Meridan chose tho smaller, and takes the small pox, while Lawrence Barrett who wanted to show there, passes by on the other side.
 ''Th0 heart rending notes of the amateur cornet player" grateth on the sensitive ear ot the Winsted Times man, as he wendeth his way to the club-room.
 Floyd Henry Harrison Crosler, (colored) of Norfolk and Miss Jessie Harris (white) ot Canaan, have been united in wedlotk by Judge Fenn of Winsted.
 Ex-senator Wm. Fl. Barnum of Lime Rock is said to be arranging for the establishment of large car factory In West Virginia, ln l company with other business men. Walter Spencer has been promoted to con I ductor of the Danbury branch, vice Fred Seward resigned These Spencer boys were born with ticket punch in each hand.
 Torrineton is indignant because school teacher whipped the little scholars. Torring- 1 ton would probably be just as mad if the little scholars had whipped the teacher Wolcottvills mourns the death of a darkey who had double teeth all around, and could bite tsn.penny nail in two. Sad to think that death doesn't look . man in the mouth The additions to. the New Preston hotel .vin make it the best on the lake. It is ne. gotiating for sea serpent. and as fashion able resort, it will be 'juss like 'melican man."
 1 Hillsdals has been outraged. A diabolic. al unprincpled thief broke into barn the other night and stole two bags containing i've bushels of oats. The community is in arms.
 A New Preston man has just returned from Florida, bringing with him young alligator and there is no doubt that the climate of New Preston will be found hot enough the reptile.
 A New Preston lass of 18 eloped the other day with Warren youth They went te New York state. and the two were made into one good sized one, and returned to receive the bsnsdistiou.
 Cleaveland's reading and amusement rooms in Winated have been closed on account o Mr Cleaveland's inability to manage them
 owing to his absence in Hartford, where h.
 has moved his office.
 \ A Thomaaton book agent, in his pitiful ef forts to sell book to lady so worked upol the feelings of both the lady and himself tha
 both shed tears, and she bought the book |, It was touching spectacle. ! A correspondent sayssthat Northville's ex lawyer is to "have the hymeneal moose ad liusted" to "solacs his declining years. from which it is inferred that he is an ol \ man about to commit suicide. The Wins.sd Times is to run French col umn of newa and several ads in French 8 . ter this week. and Mac. is hunting over hi
 French lexicon for awoar-words to apply k hiS "parley 700" dsliuquents. B. T Westendorf of Bridgeport has eigf E prairie dogs who have lived all winter iu
 box, without eating anything. They no
 show signs of hunger. as they are beginnin to revive from their dormant condition.
 A New Hartford man recently fell. strikin
 his facs on the edge of an axe, ,inficting dee
 out three inches long, and now he wants a 0st of cross-cut teeth, 90 he can eat gree
 corn of the cob and play the harmonica at u | same time.
 Andrew Absrnsthy, Manchester sho ,, maker aged 75 years waxing weak in min
 trosolved to put an end to his earthly caree
 70 he took . rope Thursday and hung hln }. self to . peg in his barn, and all was over
 his soul was free.
 s Peter Pratt of Amenia was kicked by tv
 horses in lot recently, s, his injuries W e- lay him up for a time Owney McEnroe
 the same place was kick ed by horse fr ia days afterwards. breaking ten of his rib
 Amenia horses are not to be fooled with. ,rI Editor McArthur of the Winsted Times '~ smacking his lips in anticipation of a chick' !. pie on Thanksgiving next. A neighbor 'n his has the hen who is to lay tho egg fro
 which the chicken is to come. that will maj as delicious pie, and it promises to be
 mighty nice chicken, too" ct AGaylordsvllle missionary society has ma
 $40. during the past year, to be sent to u ,n Cannibala, and the same correspondent wi
 writes of it, tells of condition of affairs r, Gaylo-dsvlle that would seem to call for t
 exercise Of all the missionary zeal that cou bO aroused for tho improvement of hor
 moras.
 .s Tho Ray is greatly indebted for a col OA ofa very interesting book entitled the Co
 RressionAl Directory, which contains sketc k. es of the members of Congress, differing fire
 the Campaign biographies in the fact that se tells of only the good deeds of the men, wh " the latter discussed their rohberies, thro
 cut&lngs, tailor cheatings and unpaid wa rt bills.
 to A couple ofagents for Boston photograp
 ic concern got into 6 woman scrare at NJ lv walk the other day and were arrested a1 lodged in jail, together with a woman who
 they were vislting," and the nosey report
 who visited the jail to interview. csme ne 'r getting the whole top of his head knocked ~ by the landlord, at whose hotel the parti
 were stopping.
 ID n Luther G Riggs the poet editor ofthe Ms os idsn Recorder, is in hot water for saying in l
 paper that Mayor Curtis is responsible sd the small pox there. etc. The Springfe st Republican is surprised that "a town that h
 submitted these years to the inhiction Of t, au such newspapers as the Recorder and Me a iden Republican, should take any notice
 such trivial thing as small pox." az FEE. Benjamin, the big and popular col is fectionery and cigar drummer for Klb
 Brothers. has been "took" to decorate cig .I, boxes: his picture all but his immense fe 7. -being affixed, like the seal of state, to 8
 gar, named after him, "Big Sandy" whic