Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

~~~ - AS va SSAAPSA0Ay AuS&ukky bA0 O6u9 day, and was so frightfullv burned tha she died within an hour
 The legislature forgot to adjourn last Wed aesday. but will try and go home for good to day The liquorists of Hartford feel as sort passage of the new liquor bill.
 A half dozen silver spoons marked 'Unitet States Hotel" were found secreted in an ole brick hearth in Collinsville tenement, whicf were stolen from the hotel of that rame II Hartford nearly fifty years ago.
 Bridgeport's free library has received 6 present of $l,000 worth of new books iron P. I. Bsrnum. Singularly enough he didn' have to urge them to accept, as is usually tn, case when he offers the city gift.
 Mrs O. N. Brinton of Falls Village an nounces to her patrons that she has just re ceived from New York full stock of spring suits for ladies, dolmans, spring walking jackets, etc. which she will sell at living prices
 New Milford Is about to begin the con struction of another church. So far as mum bers arc concerned it's about nip and tuck between the churches and tobacco ware houses down there and if anything, tuck is g little ahead.
 A Roxbury bride and groom seated at the table of hotel on their wedding trip, are said to have held the following aesthetic con versation: He Shall skin your pertater, honey7' She-"No, thank you dearie, I've got it already skun."
 JUST RECE1vRD.-An immense assortment of curled hair Scotch Concord Wool, and No one and two Farm Collars, which will be sold Cheap. Address 444, Centennial.
 sw44 JOHN M. MILLER.
 Lakeville, Conn.
 Palmer Post, G. A. R. of Winsted will celebrate Decoration day in becoming man. ner. and have appointed for the occasion, J F. Simmons, orator; Col A, Fl. Fenn, reader of the roll; J. E. Goodsoe, poet Captain Edward Finn. marshal. Both the Winsted bands will blow for the celebration
 One of the brightest boys graduated from Hartford high school last week is Eddie Lee, who has supported himself by office. boy work and saved over $2OO with which to enter Harvard next fall. Such well. directed energy will win Master Lee $500 a year in Harvard scholarships and keep him indepen dently square with the world throughout his course Republican.
 The Waterbury Methodist Conference ap. points to Cornwall Bridge and Ellsworth, W. F. Gilbert; Danbury, J. Pegg; Bridgeport A Booth; Litchfeld. T. J. Watt; New Mil. ford, L. P Perry; Roxbury and Washington. W. L. Douglass; West Goshen and Corn. wall Center, J. Robinson; Bethlehem. B C. Pillsbury; Cheshire, w. R. Webster; Mid. dlebury, w. Wake; Salisbury, c. B. Dusin. berre; SouthingtoD, w. Fl. Stebbins; Wood. bury, A McNicholl.
 The jury in the Malley trial at New Haven was completed last Friday, after almost four days of questioning, in which 3l6 candidates were examined before Judge Granger. The jury IS as follows: Silas Benham, joiner Hamden; Merwin w. Futile, mechanic, North Haven; Daniel Lovejoy, unemployed New Haven; Norris B. Mix, ice dealer, Hamden; Charles B. Clark, joiner, Beacon Falls; George W. Woodward, farmer, Beth. any; Robert Gates, farmer, Branford; Henry Furnam, farmer, Milford; George B. Hotch. kiss, farmer, Bethany; Ransom Chat6eld farmer. Bethany; Robert 0. Gates, Derby Stephen Hemingway, grocer, East Haven.
 A Milford boy is the author of the follow. ing beautiful tribute to the ''book. keeper which was published in the Bridgeport Eagle A book-keeper iz a man (sumtimes he iz 6 woman, but don't meme them kine), wot sits an clenes hiz phinger males al day. an eits lots ot mummy to bi seegars, an kin len the 'FOSo AAAuy S0u btIC OOSS kIl8 u6Eu up. de never haz enything to do 'cept worrit the offs boy 'caus he don't kepe hiz spit.tune clene, nur bring him letter from sum of hiz gals eyry day. He wares patten lether boots an wite necti. (stogi boots an a ten dollar sute iz good 'nough fur the boss, so he sezl an & dicky collar. Wen the book keepe, kant hook sny more mummy, he tells the boss that he iz goin ware they take in more cash an the boss mus open 8 retale store if he wants to kepe him, am going to be Ba book-keeper when gifts big"
 The investigation into the Spuyten. .Duvvel disaster, in which 8 number Of passengers were killed some time ago, shows that the accident was caused by a drunken carousaI among 8 portion of the passengers in the smoking car, during which one of the most boisterous pulled the cord to the air brake, thus bringing the train to halt The testi mony shows that John Kearney was at the head of the drunken crowd, who were dem- onstrative in fourishing bottles, jumping upon the seats, and loud in antl-monopoly speeches. One gentleman testified that the noise and rowdyism was such that he left the car. All the evidence goes to show that the ill-fatsd trip was carnival of drunken ness and boistereusneSs. The conductor stated positively that the only cause for the stoppage of the train was in pulling the air brake cord, and that thls was done by some one of the unrulY spirits in the smoking car The halt of a few moments brought another train down upon them, going at speed of forty miles an hour, and death and destruc. tion ensued. If the men responsible for the disaster had alone suffered, not many would have mouFped. .-Hargord Times.
 Jim. Johnson, the great "how-we.apples- Ne khn n-- IL the little louse ID the old fable, that perohed itself upon the lions head and piped at the top of it's weak little voice, "Here we come l'' but of course couldn't make itself heard, In his last weakly issue he courts attention by throwing a third of 8 column of borrowed phrases. bad grammar and poor spelling at our devoted head, in his mandlin, wandering way, and accuses us of attempting to deny some of his "statements" The idea, Why denials are superfuous when the very fact that Jim. Johnson is the author of state. ment, is accepted as prima faoie proof of it's falsity. especially by the editorial fraternity of this region, who know him as a wholesale stealer of paragraphs, (which, however, his readers prefer. and an unparalleled euzzler of rot-gut, as the gorgeous blossom on his capacious nose indicates. If the poor. ego- tistical braggart thinks we are going to ad. vertlse his bawdy sheet into public notice by entering into 8 protracted controversy with him, he is doomed to disappointment We don't fish for such small game. In the mean time he might devote himself to carrying out his boast which he made a few weeks ago. that he was going to ''run out the Danbury News;" as we observe the News manages to appear every week yet, besides charitably printing the Globes little edition. which John. son carries over under his arm, brother Bailey evidently taking pity on the poverty stricken "blaeksmith shop" whose working kit consists of only pair of bellows and lit. tle brown jug from which Jim. has imbibed SO much ''coffin varnish" that hs can look six ways at once, and see others as others see lim.
 BERKSHlRE COUNTY.