Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13
LOCAL NEWS.

by-Af6 dSSSluOly b1ShOUo 1OA 0L1O : benefit of Hosea Green.
 The Methodist Sunday School will give Christmas tree in the, church on Christmas night.
 The annual meeting of the Hartford and Connecticut Westen road will be held Tuesday, 18th instant, at Allyn hall.
 Oliver Root lost horse last Satur- day. It was apparently we'll and eat ing in its stable when it dropped dead.
 A year-old son of James Tierany of East Canaan, recently fell from chair and broke his arm. Dr. Camp is attend ing him.
 The Oren H. Knight Post, G. A. R. of Lime Rock, is in the full tide of suc- cessful experiment. See communication in another column.
 There will be special communion tion of Housatonic Lodge, No. 61, next Friday evening at o'clock. Work on the third degree.
 The adjourned meeting to organize a Post of the Grand Army of the Repub- lie will be held at the Warner house, Thursday evening next, at 2 o'clock. All veterans are requested to attend.
 There was no evening service last Sabbath evening at the M. B. church in consequence of the absence of Rev. Mir. Phillips, who was out of town to attend funeral.
 During the storm last Thursday, Housatonic engine ran back and forth several times to test the working quail ities of the electric signal in a storm We understand desirable perfection ; has not been attained.
 A horse belonging to teamster named O'Brien, from Norfolk, slipped and broke his leg one day last week, while being driven from the main road to Pierce, Lawrence & Co.'s lime kiln. He was immediately killed.
 The sympathy manifest for Mr. Hosea Green in the loss of his hand, is shown by the gift of five dollar bank note by MT. T. A. B. Putnam, the gentle man who is perfecting the electric sig ->nals at this station. The note which accompanied the gift bespoke the in- wardness of heart fitting philanthro- pist.
 The dancing assembly to be given next Friday evening, at Town Hall, Canaan, of which Hosea Green was one of the managers, will be given as a ben eft to MT. Green. The public will con- fer favor by patronizlng the benefit literally, as Mir. Green is @ deserving young man on whom is dependent wife and two children.
 The December Term of the Supe- rior Court opened last week, Judge Beardsley presiding. No case was ready for trial, the jury was dismissed for the term and the Court adjourned till Tues day of this week when the case of Geo. 0. Hitchcock vs. the town of Washing ton was set down for hearing in dam ages
 Mrs. Abbey Granger, mother of Judge M. T. Granger, died in this viii lage last Thursday morning in her 87th year. She was stricken with paralysis about ten days ago and gradually failed until she ''entered into rest. The fu- neral took place from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Sartial Root, last Saturday, and was largely attended, Rev. MT. Barnett of Christ Church conduct ing the services.
 "A painful accident occurred on Sun day afternoon at Millerton, N. Y. MT. Hosea Green, brakeman on the lore train" on the c. w. railroad, while coupling cars, caught his left hand be- tween the coupling, mutilating it so badly as to make amputation at the wrist necessary Mr. Green, who has boarded at the Warner house, in Canaan, was taken to his home at Ore Hill. Hosea has many friends in this place who heartily symathize with him in his irreparable loss.
 Connecticut tobacco growers are sending petitions numerously signed to congress, praying for an increase of duty to one dollar pound in Sumatra tobac- co. This tobaco, as has been said, can be used to excellent advantage for wrap pers, and being cultivated by coolie labor in the East Indies, may be sold here, unless the domestic product is protected by proper duty, so as to drive Con- necticut seed leaf out of the market. The Connecticut growers want the duty to cover all tobacco not raised in North America.
 Hon Truman Smith, of Stamford Conn, is living at the age of 91 years. The Waterbury American says MT. Smith was many years at the head of the bar in Litchfeld, several times in the state legislature and eight years in Congress; whig committee at Washing ton during the campaign of General Zachary Taylor. He was elected Sena- tor from Connecticut, but resigned be- fore his term expired to take business position. Subsequently he practiced law in the city of New York up to late date. He read the Declaration of Inde- pendence at the celebration of the fifti- eth anniversary at Litchfield OF July 4, 1926, and also fifty years later in Litch- field at the centennial celebration in 1876.
 The Canaan Cornet Band, which ap- parently has been on its last legs, so to speak, has bloomed forth with new vigor, this being the third time of ''bloom- ing" to which the aforesaid c. O. B. has been subject to within the last year. With each resurrection new set of off cers are nominated and elected with all the red tape and formality of an electoral commis sion and the officers who have carried the leadership of their respective positions are unceremoniously busted At the last election the following per. sons were unanimously elected, viz Frank Barnum, President ; H. Goodro, Vice-President Fred Bartlett, Secre- tary and Treasurer Friend Northrop, Leader. The former treasurer declined reelection on account of the enormous bond required as security for the immense surplus, which is now in the treasury.