Connecticut western news., 1881-02-09
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Sharon is having the epidemic sore eyes.
 Ice on the river at Thompsonville is over 30 inches thick.
 An Armenia COW went mad recently and had to be killed,
 Connecticut has 5000 oystermen, with a capital of $2 5Oo,OOO.
 A New Milford clothier is 10 open a branch store in Falls Village soon.
 Pinafore in Waterbury the other night net ted $zoO. to ths Waterbury club.
 Al2 years old Norwich boy is writing and illustrating history of the United States.
 The New Hartford Tribune, two months old, died all easy and natural death last week.
 Mrs. Charles Roscoe of Thomaston com. mitted suicide by takiug morphine last week.
 Judge Fyler is an Adventist, and spoke in an Advent meeting in Wolcottyille the other night.
 Norwalk's fire hydrants are frozen up, and the doors of the engine houses fastened shut with ice.
 Charles H. Noble and John E. Bates of New Milford start this week for visit to the sunny south
 The north pole has been discovered near Millerton-so the Telegram says. Send us over piece of it.
 The New'own Bee has again stopped buz- zing Giving up the ghost seems to be that papers best hold
 A Stratford man was frozen to death while hunting near the mouth of the Connecticut river the other day.
 Wm. Camp of Worthwhile has the skin of an animal which seems to have been half fox, and the other half coon ,l
 Meriden which is having big revival, has faith to believe that "the entire city will be regenerated." A big job.
 An Italian peddler claims to have been rob- bed of his watch and money by two Burdick boys at Brookfeld last week
 Norwalk has sDrunkard Combination. " Are there enough male inhabitants outside to make good sized bible class 2
 A mans frozen body was found near Gull ford the other morning. Two quart bottles of whisky were found in his pockets
 Thomaston is afflicted with a peculiar type of fever which is mot considered dangerous unless the victim mixes his medicine"
 The moving of a blaming machine weigh ing IA tons across the railroad tack at Vol cottviile recently, delayed a train some time.
 The citizens of Meriden have furnished the naughty boys of the reform with set of in struments and a brass band has been organ ized.
 Editor Addis of the Windsor Locks Jour- nal wants few tenement houses built. Are you going to ''commit' too, brother Addis Shake.
 Warrens citizens sboyeIed the snow ;away from the spire of the church the other day. so the wind could get chance at the weath. CT yane.
 The grading of the Capital grounds at Hart ford has already cost $600OO, and an addi tlonal appropriation of sl5, 900 is asked for further improvements.
 The editor of the Thomaston Express is red of living under bridge this cold wealth sr. and says that unless he can find house with more rooms in it he shall move.
 A correspondent says that there are in Cornwall five farmers whose tobacco crops last season brought them over s 900, and, their farms arc not worth more than $25,OO
 Collinsvile can truly say "mislortunes nev, 1T come single" A few days ago their news paper died and now singing school has been opened there The inhabitants are all moving to Florida.
 At the Young America clothing house. Winsted SlO, ,0OO worth of clothing, hats, caps, etc. are to be sold regardless of cost to make room for spring goods. MT. Ulrich's ad. came too late to be inserted in this issue.
 Thomaston following the example of the U g. and New Jersey has taken census, 1Du In0 Express Ol IdSL "6eh duuOuHceu GHe -esult. In 1875 she had 2,30O; now she has 1 ',225 inhabitants, a gain of 925 in five years. l Two colored boys attended high toned l masquerade ball in Bridgeport cn recent evening", and had a "boss'' time with the ,irls until some jealous Adonises knocked heir masks of and gave the whole thing way to the mortified damsels.
 i Barki amstHd drunkard insulted lady recently, Jnd l daughter O. the lady frighten- d him off by making believe she had loaded evolver The rascal was probably the 'Joe Iorgan" of Ten nights in Bar,room" hich was played there about the same me.
 The petition for the new County of Water ury includes the following towns from the ounties of New Haven and Litchfield, to wit: eacou Falls, Middlebury. Naugatuck, Ox- rd, Prospect, Seymour, Southbury, Wolcott, laterbnry, Bethlehem, Plymouth, Thomas