Connecticut western news., 1881-03-09
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 garden. Falls Village is to have a masquerade ball after Lent.
 The Hartford Cutlery Co.'S. employers had a big ball recently.
 The Ltoh6eld telegraph office was struck ! by lightning last week.
 John Duncan of Sherman cut his finger of l in machine recently.
 Two new hat factories are to be built in | Daubury, by the Fosters.
 A Hartford County man was arrested for cruelty to COW the other day. 1
 Geo. w. Hall has 500 bushels of rose po- tatoes to sell, at Falls Village.
 The genius of Connecticut" on the top of the state house is getting rusty. A woman in Bridgeport claims to have 25O 900 cancelled postage stamps.
 Rev. MT. Kay of Gaylordsville is to be giv- en donation next Friday night. New Milford had 'sheet and pillow case" masquerade party the other night. A Tariffville pauper committed suicide re- ! gently by cutting his throat from ear to ear.
 "Its Lent. "-Telegrana. Well, you need mt be so short; we didn't ask to borrow it. Two young men in New Milford start April 1 1, for St. Paul, where they will make their home.
 The bankrupt estate of Alexander Waters at Winsted is to be sold at auction next Sat urday.
 Litchfeld stores are ''running" one another on the price of four, and the citizens smile aloud.
 A hog weighing s47 pounds. belonging to George Mooney at Hollowville, was killed last week.
 It is said that the Springfield branch rail l. road from Tariffvills to that city is to be re- vived.
 A Torrngton man, for some time afflicted with swollen knee, has had the leg amputat- ed above the knee.
 Ell. Churchill. a prominent citizen of New Britain, shot himself dead last Friday temporarily insane.
 A company for the manufacture of horse shoes has been organized in Shelton, with capital of f$25O,Ooo | A Waterbury man, aged 66 was drowned by falling off bridge into the river at that place the other night. II Ell. Stickney, formerly editor of the Rock vile Journal, has opened bank in Colorado They are bound to rise.
 Elmer W. Hubbard of Plainville has been nominated by Senator Joe. Hawley for { cadetship at West Point.
 Col. H. F. Harris of Lakeville has been appointed quartermaster general of the Put nam Phalanx of Hartford.
 Dr. F. G. Higgins has opened a dentists office in Millerton, and solicits the patronage of the tooth aching public. A Norwich farmer named Wm. Miller dropped dead, of heart disease, while milking cow last Sunday morning.
 Conductor Alfred Beers of the Naugatuck road, has just finished the 31st consecutive year of his service on that road. A big fire in South Windsor last Friday destroyed two barns, two tobacco sheds, three acres of hanging tobacco and one COW. A union depot is to be built by the Hous atomic, Shepaug and New York and New Eng land Railroads at HawleyvLle the junction of these roads.
 Windsor Locks has the whooping cough, : measles, fresh shad, no eggs land league, an ice blockade, temperance revival, and the Journal.
 , Chauncey Ellen, who, TOT injuries received, sued the New Haven & Northampton R. R for $1O,OOO damages has been awarded $1,OOO by a jury.
 Lightning set the New Milford telephone office on fire last week, burning up some pa pers but the fire was extinguished before much damage was done. | A carload of odd fellows went from New Milford to Danbury to visit their brethren there last Friday. They returned in a special car, Every odd indeed sir" l A Boston drummer got crazy drunk in a Danbury hotel, and jumped out of window, spraining his ankle he is now nursing it at the Danbury Wooster House.
 Rev. MT. Llghtburn of New Milford preached last Sunday night, on Everlasting Punishment" It is sincerely to be hoped that the Gazette man was present.
 MT. Porter, the Plymouth druggist, for vii plating the license law, goes to jail for five months and pays fine of $500, and his clerk pays $95, and takes two months in jail.
 A Torrington correspondent interests the Herald readers by giving them list of the lmanacs for 1881 which he has, footing up just seven, and two calendars to hang up. 1 A large cloud of mist rising from the river in the rear of 8 large clothing store in Win. sted the other day, brought crowd to the spot, who thought the building was on fire.
 A tramp recently applied for work to Geo. Green of Sherman. He was given employ. ment, for which he showed his gratitude by forging a note on his benefactor, and running away.
 The N. Y. N. E. R. R. which carries on ! a wholesale butchery of it's employees, had an- other accident last Thursday, when whole freight train was thrown from the track, and completely wrecked, engine and all, at Hop River, near the scene of the late fatal acci. dent some of the train hands were injured.