Connecticut western news., 1881-04-27

his office a stately old clock of very ancient | architecture, in good running order, and with I . face that never has, nor does it now deny I the truth it's willing hands would teach, that | time still continues to move," and could this | ancestral relic speak it's history, it would be | undoubtedly an eventful one, bequeathed as | it has been, to father and son, from the fifth | or sixth generation, The doctors estimable | wife prizes very highly from the same source | an exceedingly fine set of china, elegantly | decorated in colors, presenting style decid- | edly of "ye olden time" They are just as | pretty as they are ancient and must have | been ''handed down" from the third and fourth generations with sacred care that not even one piece should be broken We lm- agius Mrs. s. will be obliged to serve many dishes of tea for the express purpose of test ing the merits of this antiquated set, as well as all the modern "niceties" here ..connected with the culinary department. ANON. Sheffield.
 kr. John J. Kellogg, so long sufferer, was 1 buried Sunday.
 MT. Case has rented his land, closed his house, and removed to Avon. Mrs. Thursa Sheers is ill., upon the Plain. The farmers and gardeners are very active during thls warm weather. We attended the M. K. church Sunday, and | heard Rev. MT. Macomber for the first time. He is an easy, self possessed speaker, and the | ideas he advanced were excellent. He | thought Christians should not be conformed to the world, there should be a difference; the old 'land marks" should remain. He al so expressed himself in few disconnected 1 remarks much pleased with the handsome parsonage. and requested all to feel free to IL | string" outside, He had full audience The Congregation was large as usual to hear Dr. Eddy, and hear that nearly every | seat is sold.
 There were praise meetings at both church. es Sunday evening.
 l Mr T. Wickwire is superintendent of the Congregational Sabbath School, which is in very prosperous condition under his care. CAP. New Milford.
 Work on the foundation of the new Epis- copal church progresses slowly. The church at its annual meeting last week voted to add a spire at cost of $29OO. Thus far a little more than $24. 900 have been subscribed to | the building fund.
 | The tobacco buyers have nearly all finished work for the season. About 8, 500 cases have been packed in this town during the winter, besides which enough has been shipped ln the bundle from this station to make 500 cases more. Schovsrling & Soule Bros, put up l l,675 cases, and Bristol & Staub l,2OO, the other dealers averaging six to seven hundred each. The average number of men employed in asserting was 33S.
 Since Lent weddings have been of almost daily occurrence, whilst officiating clergymen countenance the work in every legitimate way, and are blessed in purse. | nf which is nearly completed, will be one of the finest in town. A sketch of it was taken last week, from which sn engraving will be made for the Lltchheld Co. History. 0. CollinsviIIe.
 A young man driving team for Albert Dowd, was run over by loaded team April 20th, badly crushing one leg Edward Davis fell from rail road bridge near here April "A, breaking a collar bone. Williston Jones, a native and life long resi- dent of Canton, died ir Holland, Mass, April 22, aged 76 He was buried in Canton Gen. ter.
 Patrick Moore has bought the Carl Pohl
 mann place for $2,OO0. D. B. H.
 Monterey.
 F. G. Heath was the nrst man to start the blow.
 William H. Minor started from Canada with his second cargo of horses this spring, Mon. day morning His first lot were fine, and lasted only about one week, l9 of them.
 Minnie Gregory has been home from Lee,
 where she has been this winter, with lame
 arm from vaccination. : Mrs. Fl. W. Langdon has been spending a few days at her fathers, Dr. Pease's, Mill River.
 W. S. Bidwell took trip to Boston last ) week.
 } Sugaring has come to @ close, and now
 blowing is in order.
 Mrs Josiah Brewer has been removed to l Mrs s. Townsend's by the selectmen She is sick, and MT. B. is too poor to provide for her.
 We are glad to know that MT. A. B. Chap lain will pull the ribbons over the U. s. M for the coming four years.
 Peter Farley and F. May have recently
 taken boys from the State primary school ; PAUL. } Salisbury.
 rTho time of the singing of birds has
 come," and although ''winter fingered in the
 lap of spring" yet that faith in the fulfillment of the promise ''that seed time and harvest
 shall no, fail, exists, is evidenced by the vgor
 with which the farmers are prosecuting their
 spring work. The mechanics also are busy. MT Melven has repainted the Cong. church, and MT. Graham's new drug store. Mer- chant Clark is having large store room add ed to meet the requirements of his rapidly in creasing business.
 Mrs Selleck has purchased the Sparks place and moved intoit.
 The Barnard house is being put in order for the accommodation of city boarders who have found that Salisbury is good place to spend the summer in. A prominent man. ufacturer of Southern Berkshire, whose busi- ness called him into Salisbury recently, said to a gentleman residing there, "there is no scenery in Lenox or Stockbridge that sur passes what have seen here Your noun tains and lakes, your hills and valleys present an endless variety of scenery. At every step as advanced, some new aud picturesque feature met my eye" This only confirms the united testimony of those who have spent the summer here. I shall not soon forget the | look of astonishment and admiration that ap peared in the faces of two ladies from New Haven one of whom had travelled in Ger many and Switzerland, as they came to the top of Mt Prospect, After going some mo monts in silence, one of them exclaimed, "'Tis beautiful beyond description. don't be- lieve Mt Everett can be any finer than this" We didn't feel in mood to contradict her in tho least.
 l TA0 Rev. IL ii. helu auu ldullly dTe var uable acquisition to the society of Lakevills Hope the people there will make themselves so agreeable that theiri stay will be perma- nent.
 At Chapinville the Scoville brothers are continuing the improvements commenced last year on their large estate of more than 1000 acres which, when completed, will make 1 1t tho finest estate in Litchfeld County. ALIoUIs. | For the NEWS.