Connecticut western news., 1882-02-15
VICINITY,

The baby elephants name is Bridgeport" l Thomaston has six doctors who are yearn- ing for the small pox to break out. 1 A Winsted man smoothed bis hand down in plating machine the other day.
 Editor James of the Thonaston Express is sick, but able to receive subscriptions
 The bachelors of Bridgeport are to have a dance soon. Ladies, bring refreshments. A Bridgeport butcher stole seven loa yes o court.
 | Sleighing in Bridgeport is like Cheney's liair-thin Tn places. Cheney says so his own self
 D A. Riker, proprietor of the Arcade" ill Ninsted, has sold out to Sharon man named l Hunter.
 A Huntsville man stayed at home from church last week Sunday, for the first time in 50 years.
 prise party the other night, attended by the cream of society.
 Wicked Pinney of the Winsted Press isn't going to lend Joe. Vaill any more shirts be- cause he has just found out that Joe smokes An explosion occurred in the Bridgeport corset shop recently. We always thought those pessy things would succumb to pres. sure one of these days.
 The Wmstei Times appears nowadays as if its type were set by moonlight, o,n of a feed bag, and the editor seems to have a style of spelling, entirely original.
 Bridgeport's Washington Park Methodist church is so much in need of grace that Brooklyn's praying band composed of % young men. has come up to abor with them An influx of young lady converts will proba ply be the result.
 A Torrington correspondent says thai Mrs Sybil Ticknors daughter is visiting hel son, Frederick Pierce, father of Wm. Pierce, thus mentioning four generations. By tht way, Syhil would have been how old if she had lived till when?
 Just because his sweetheart changed bee rooms unbeknown to him and different kinc oea girl was bar when he called beautiful young man in this place now sleeps ln th' barn. We mention this as a warning to al sweethearts. - Winsted Press.
 A CARD. The undersigned desires to ex tend her heartfelt thanks to the neighbor and friends for thelr kindly assistance ant words ot sympathy, both during the sickres and at the funeral of her late husband MRS. SUSANNA HALL . Falls Village, Feb. l4.
 The Thomasfon Express is an awful sass | sheet. as the following will show -neverthe t less it's gospel truth:-'The New Milfor y Ray publishes an account of the presentatio
 If a go,d headed caue. studded with diamond 70 pr. W H Hale, hy the citizens of Edil q burgh. Eng. It is all probably true, but W | d. Hale is an unmitigated humbug for a
 that He has got cheek enough to furnish
 first class rolling mill with brass for decad. Il as any one, who knew him when he wa S playing the ''dead beat" about Litchfiel county can attest If the citizens of Edir
 burgh had presented him with good cnH if nidlng. they would have given him his ju: c. .!eserts. and they will find it out before b o leaves them"
 5, Ike Bromley writes to the N Y. Tribun
 from Hartford as follows: "The Genius
 Connecticut" is the name given by the artis
 [ believe, to the singular winged figure ato the dome Of our new Capitol. It is fettere
 with much drapeTy of bu!gy sort. has rin l )r a wreath in each heud, which it has Ii l. | apparent use for. and seems hesitatin - whether to pitch the rings over the head ( ' he bronze Brownel-hodlrg out a hand. a Q Dudley Warner says ito see if it rains" Ii , he park below, or to crown with them th
 Putnam that teaches dancing lessons from
 pedestal a lit le way beyond l do not kno1
 the precise significance of this symbolic fe s ure, or why the 'Genius of Connecticut should carry so many wreaths and wes :, clothes that decidedly were not made for hel
 Perhaps that is the genus of Connecticut, t
 wear clothes that don't fit. I understand (
  n be Genius without them. It happens i C this case. however, that they make the ey t soar instead of the Genius. The Genius t Connecticut does not much outrank the Fis God of the Phouicians on the matter IS beauty. but what with keeping up her wing IS attending to her drapery and hold rg on [ 1 the wreaths, she has great deal more to dt ,, And 1 suppose, as matter of fact, tn > Connecticut people are much buster than tn o Phenicians used to be-"
 r Mrs. Henry Winson, who was shockingl c ssaulted in New Haven Saturday evening 0 was able to appear in the city court Wednes
 iay morning. The police felt positive tha their prisoner, Thomas Clune, was the rioh
 nan. hut Cliei N ebSter determined to sut
 e,.t the victim to a severe test She Wa . taken to the police office and nne youn
 men were selected 10 appear before her Wit me prisoner Clune Was placed near tn centre of the it,le procession. winch wa
 reatttd by DeJeciiye Brewer. The youn ulrn marched nto jle office and formed hL oaran~ " th ,Ee r.itug fully elght feet iron
 Irs. Wnson Clif Wooster, approaching
 ier. said: Mad me, want you to show u S tre man who assaulted you. Do you SC ' ilm 2 Almost before the words were spokei . Mrs Wnson arose. without assistance. tool t d step forward and, pontihg ID the directi0l ) of Clune. said in trenu,ous voice, "That il the man "N hich one ?' inquired the chiet '- That one there" was the reply, and sh 3 pointed her trembling finger in CIune's lace