Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06

anu Ieaoer or the Amesv1lle Band, an(
 now of Fort Wayne, Indiana, is spend
 ing few weeks at his fathers in Ames
 vile. t-
 MT. and Mrs. John l.. Bassett of Stam
 ford, Conn, Mrs. Chas. B. Bartlett an,
 daughter of St. Louis, MT. and Mis- Edith Entwistle of New York city, ar, visiting at MT. John F. Bartletts. East Canaan.
 N. $. Stevens is attending school a Wlbraham, Mass.
 The carpets for the church have no yet been laid, but we expect them t, be soon.
 MT. and Mrs. Burt Ives entertained the young people of this place last Fri day evening, their commodious barn fol the time being converted into dancing hall. All concede 8 grand time.
 Rev. Wm. G. Peirce of Illinois, preach ed a very interesting sermon to the remnant who were left at our church Ang. 27. A large part of the congrega. tlon attended the campmeeting services.
 The people of our quiet little place are getting quite excited over the hume. rous depredations which have been com. mltted from time to time upon thei1 gardens and poultry houses. Last week the thieves had an accession of bravery and entered, during the night, the house of MT. Everardus Ives, relieving him of quite quantity of provisions, which they evidently considered was super fuous. Expectations were also com mitted upon the pantries of Messrs. Caulkins, Gaylord and Pelton.
 On Wednesday last 8 poor, tired Prussian who had imbibed too freely of the ardent, lay down to rest near the depot, and while thus reclining was re- lieved of between fifty and sixty dollars. Suspicion pointed to one Reuben Ford as the guilty man. Being person who IS not usually encountered with filthy lucre, but who that evening and the next day seemed to be possessed of an abundance, he was arrested and an examination held before Justice Rob- erts, who found sufficient evidence against him to send him to Litchffield.
 We find that inadvertently we have trodden upon the tender corns of the other correspondent from this place and that Semi-Occasionali" is personally aggrieved by some of the items sent by us. Our information in regard to Mr. Fox was received from his most estima- ble lady, and we supposed it to be au- thorlty. The reported case of diphthe- r1a to which we referred was at the up- per furnace. From what "Semi-Occa- 'lonal' writes, we suppose there has been genuine case of the terrible dis ease in some other locality, and which nas not been reported until by your correspondent last week.
 SEMu-O OCCASIONALLY.
 Goshen. Dr. Buels wife, of Litchfield, is dead. Geo. Beach of Hartford was in town ast week.
 There was Grange picnic at Will looks, Tuesday.
 Joseph Wooster has his residence early shingled.
 Misses Ellen and Mary Foote have 9turned to N. Y.
 It is exceedingly dry-no rain of any onsequence in weeks.
 The Rev. Burdet Hart of Fair Haven, reached here Sunday, week.
 Henry Gaylord of Falls Village, spent Wednesday L ..t his home.
 The Goshen reservoir covers 20 acres, nd will hold 52,OOO, ,o0O gallons.
 Miss Etta Bartholomew of Bristol, and liss Hubbard of Boston, are in town. Some of our young people had pie lc at Silver Pond, Tuesday, Aug. 29. Chas. Kennon, Geo. Lamphrie and Ed. orton 2nd, have gone to Phillips Acad- ny.
 MT. Stocking has IS boarders, and has rned away over a hundred whom he 'uld not accommodate. The stone work on the Goshen reser- 'ir IS finished, but the shovelers will ave employment until snow flies. ( Lewis Norton, N. J. Johnson, MT. ( owler and wife, Fred Miles and wife, ] Id Miss Carrie Norton, have left town. E. r. Norton, 8 former correspond ' 1t of the NEWS, has been afflicted with $ carbuncle on his elbow. All are hap , to learn that he is improving. The Huntsville charcoal teamsters who t @ drawing from the north bush, draw ( om 30 to 40 hundred to load, and i e horses, some of them hardly weigh f poo lbs. BRADFORD MACARp q
 Ct. Harrington. A mountain ash tree in the Doctor s 'llin's yard, has pear scion grafted in s @ of the limbs, which has several pears t owinging on it. t The selectmen under the instruction n the town are building about 300 feet o wall which will average about 12 feet ( height to hold the bank where the t ghway is being raised and widened \ posite the Durant place. The work of r uling earth and stone has been in j1 ogress for month, at the rate of 100 h 'ds per day, and the job bids fair to c Id out for two months or more. The b VII pay $2,5oO of the expense and Mrs. n 'pkins the balance of the expense, u llch will amount to $3,OOO or more p 's, Hopkins will put an iron railing fl d concrete walk on top of the wall tc !e improvement joins Mrs. H. s nron- u