Connecticut western news., 1882-03-08
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last week, of diphtheria.
 The goats running at large in Bridgeport are to be prosecuted by the authorities.
 The District court is in session in Falls Village this week. Judge Warner presiding.
 Danbury has riotous hatters' strike, and a barber named Pakulski. Both are jaw breakers.
 There is neither sleighlng nor wheeling in Brookield, so the natives get about on the wings of scandal"
 Pictures from the "Life of Christ" "Ten nights in barroom" etc were shown in Academy Hall last Saturday night.
 Friday and the druggists immediately fired up thelr soda fountains for summer business
 The legislature has been legislating in the interest of fish, eels and bees, notwithstand- ing these domestic animals employed no lob Dyists.
 Mir. and Mrs. Schoverlng, of New Milford have gone on a six weeks visit to Florida Verlly the tobacco business panneth out like a plumbers.
 A gang of sneaks entered the Birmingham cemetery last Thursday night and knocked down and broke 25 gravestones, dolng $l, QUO worth of damage.
 Fairfield county has COW that has given birth to eight calves within eleven months- tour at time. Fairfield county cattle are not at all asthetic
 New Hartford talent is cooking and prim. ing itself to play ten nights in barroom. We suppose the one that holds out the long, est will ''set lem up."
 Talk about accommodation Mir. J. Reed of Sharon has suspended work on his new house because the noise of the hammer ana saw disturbed a sick neighbor.
 Waterbury has case of small pox and also case of variolold, winch, the Bridgeport Leader says, are happily" confined to one fau4iy. What < happy family that must be l
 Mrs. Hughes. mother ofJ. Wade Hughes, Esq. of Sharon, had a severe fall recently, ana reeelved injuries that were at first thought regarded with apprehension, but she is now improving.
 Edward Lowell is to marry Ella Everett in Ellsworth next Wednesday. If Everst, proves to be an unhappy match it won't be because Edward doesn't Lowell as much as he should. GA fan. quick }
 CARD OF THANKS. We would take this method ot thanking our friends for their kinc assistance and sympathy in the hour ot sor. row aud bereavement.
 MR. AND MRS. c. v. CAPRo>.
 Falts Village.
 The Newtown Chronicle has been sued for libel of John P. Eagap, and editor Mad.gan, lu itemi zing the fact in his local columus, says, Eagan estimates hls reputation al S3,0OO. We wouldn't give two cents tor it.
 In Northtield March came in like mud turtle;" in Watertown it came in like ''Niobe;" in New Hartford like drowned rot. ID Pittstield like ''the most lamb like ot lambs." The question now arises, what dld March come in hke7
 W G. Grauniss. travelling agent for Ben. nett q Sloan of New Haven, has purchased the lllerest ot the mercantile nrm of Gauung S Eimore in Lltchfeld, and will retire from the road to assume charge about Aprli 1sI ja a oolG aud good fellow, but he can't slng. <
 Geo. Botsford, who pushed the cars out ',n the main track at Newtown short time since, causing collision with the midnight freight, has been adjudged insane by the phy slciaus, and was taken to the asylum last week, subject to the order ot the court A verdict Of Insanity covers a multitude of sins.
 Editor Mabbett's success with the Meridei penny Evening Press, has led another fellow to start new penny paper there, and it is also said that Riggs Recorder is to be issuso as penny evening paper. Meriden will be d much paperized city httie while, a, least, or until somebody's capital elopes with nls courage.
 New Hartford rowdies congregate on tn. stoop ot the hotel, Sundays, and insult ladies "ho pass. Ii somebody would pick up the stoop, rowdies and all, and dump the whole ouslness lnto the Pennington, it would be a o.esslng, and ladies could pass without get ing thelr ears aud dress skuts 1uIl of obscen- ty and tobacco julce.
 A substitute resolution has been reported y tue legislature committee, authorlzlug tue Connecticut W estern k. R. to build branch Jau from Colllnsvllle south to tue state line 0 buy aud operate tue Rhiueb.ck < Ccnneu. cut k. R, aud any other roads or portlors 'i roads necessary for the completion ot through llne to the Hudson rlver, and fn- 'reaslng It's capital stock to $3,OOO,uOO.
 McArthur, the Winsted correspondent O: hartford Times. says that parties are rying to work up daily newspaper boom in Nlnsted, and says something about the of fools and the cautiousnsss of ngels In view ot the fact that Mac llnself once talked of luhlcting a daily upon hat harmonious borough, but Was discourag- d, the above insnuation implies good deal I t-of well, call 1t modesty, although that sn't the orthodox name for It. Bridgeport is indeed 8 favored city. Her st ot celebrities isn't couuned to Barnum's l iggest and onliest show on earth, with us 1 aby elephant, but she has also 8 married ! atholic priest, old Sport, score of corset l tltener inventors, all grades Of feminine l eauty, from the sublime to the ridiculous, a | rize fighting rum seller, more saloons to the