Connecticut western news., 1882-02-22
VICINITY.

Prof Sherlock is now fixing to Pinafore Rockville.
 Danbury has contributed $2,0Oo to the re. lief of the poor in Ireland.
 ."Mudl mudii nudlil mud II" sputters the Hilsdale Herald Oh, dry up.
 There are 20, $50 Baptists in this state who have been ducked This is no fish story.
 Hartford has 8 new newspaper called Nut meg Gratings, which ought to be all spice
 @Ex Governor Holley of Lakevills. who has been sick for some time, is improving slowly.
 The Holley cornet band of Lakeville gave an entertainment in academy hall last Friday evening.
 The Tunxis Valley Herald is the name of new paper published in Collinsvills and Unionville.
 The Kent band has disbanded-so a cores. pendent says, but some of the members say it's all blow. . =
 A wlnssed nimrod caught land locked salmon the other day weighing three and a half pouuds-by guess.
 About 2,5o0 quarts of milk is shipped every day by the Echo Farm company of Litch6eld, to New York.
 The brute Sullivan. who was too much of brute for the brute Ryan, is to give 8 sparring exhibition m Hartford soon. Millsrton is blessed with superabundance of dogs of all sizes, ages, creeds and colors, snd there is . good show for a sausage fac tory.
 Pentecost & Stebbins, the evangelists, are trying to turn the attention of Bridgeporters from the baby elephant to the lake of fire and birthstone.
 Fred. Fitch of Hartford fooled around a leather cutting machine the other day, and left finger nail ,n it. He also left the dn' ger that the nail belonged to. A IA years old boy was prosecuted for drunkenness in New Haven last Friday. They make men out of boys mighty quick in the city that is run by Yale college. A Bridgewater man is ''putting up private blacksmith shop" It would seem that a private blacksmith shop would be quite de- sirable article in any. we'll regulated household
 Pat Matthewson of New Haven is dead because ''good fyr evll" fellow;workman heaped coals on his head bucket and all while ho,sting coal at the dock last Wednes- day. :-..
 ! A1,n in Middletown last Wednesday. hut as the institution was treating all the "cranks" ii
 ct uld accommodate, they went back to Har'' ford
 The Millerton Telegram says that 'the
 many friends of A. L. Barton will be pleased
 to hear. that he was married recently" Why Deaeon9 Have his friends got a grudge against him7
 William Halpine. the Bridgeport drug clerk who recently sold oxalic acid for Ger : man salts, thus causing the death of William seits, has been bound over in $2,OOo fo
 mauslaughter.
 A new blidge for the c. ". R. R. is beins
 built at Ore Hill, and the sharp curve neal
 the station is to be strengthened. necessitat ing the removal of store standing in ths
 way of the new line.
 Addis of tho Windsor Locka Journa
 thinks it might be very enjoyable to witness the contortions of 8 lady while inhaling ga in dentists chair, providing the lady wer'
 somebody else's wife.
 !, George Crost- of Winsted was fined $3.0
 and costs for drunkenness the other day which was paid by Wellington Smith. hi'
 counsel. who also took Croston to Pine Mead
 ow and got him job.
 D A number of young ladies are taking les 2 sons in painting in room over Bob. Erwin 7 office in New Milord, and Bob. continual. a sings the first two lines of that familiar hymn j. "The Old, Old, Story"
 - The professors Of Yale College last Wed : nesday presented ex-President Woolsey witt d medal, in recognition of his 80 years con D nection with the college. It is of solid god D measuring two and two thirds inches in d |. ameter, an eighth of an inch thick, an' g weighs half pound avoirdupois. . MacArthur, the Hartford Times' Wins:e 't correspondent, says he is ''not so obtuse bu e that he can comprehend little pleasantr
 without it's being labeled Tins Is horse.' '' That's right, Mac Don't let any bartende Q flavor your liquid with the juice of dead rip g cucumber and make you believe it's lemon We have it on the authority of the black smith of the Winsted Tie-him, that butche ;. in that place is demolishlug tract of wood land tor his market The aforesaid black
 smith also sneezes his false teeth into tn
 coal bod and says he has the ''imrpession I(whatever that ia,) that somebody stuck ha
 his head. Gears and alD into gas bag. H
 seems to be having quite bad spell of il ?. We learn that Conductor Smith has decid d ed to remain at the Dsnbury station where k
 has been all winter, and will move his famil there in the spring. He IS greatly m,s>ed o
 the road. for his kind, accommodating, friend ly ways have gained him hosts of friends !. Would there were many more such conductors for many are 90 cross that they will hardi s answer question civilly. -Nemtoson Be- ,. That's SO, but the Housatonic R. R. cou V ductors are not of that stripe they're gentle men, and treat all, of high or low station, wit d c;vility.
 Father Edward Agudi, a Catholic pries n who was assistant pastor of St. Joseph d Church in Winsted has mortified his aociet ], and surprised everybody else by commitsin : the unpardonable ain of marrying. He wa