Connecticut western news., 1882-10-18
GOSHEN.

Geo. Johnson has new horse.
 MT. James Wadhams is very low. The Bunnel family have left town. Miss Mary P. White has returned to Cornwall.
 Miss Mary Maine is visiting in Wash ington.
 Mrs. John c. Lester has returned to Brooklyn.
 Miss Rosy Herald has returned from Danbury.
 Seymour Tower, in Litchfeld, is 34 feet high.
 w. Smith is teaching the Centre dis trict school.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred Miles, ST. of Lake vile, are in town.
 J. Robert Allyn is selling good apples for 50 cents per bushel.
 Monday afternoons Society meeting was thinly attended.
 When is the Goshen Mutual Improve ment Club going to organize
 MT. Wilson has arrived and opened the academy, Monday morning.
 MT. Horace Burr of Goshen has bought the Gary place in Winchester. Torringtons Water Commissioner did not quite finish Lake Hatchiloose last week.
 A New York State drover passed through town last week with 15 or 20 head of cattle bought in Winsted.
 Deacon and Mrs. Edward Norton, are doing little visiting in the southern part of the state.
 HI. N" and wife have returned from Natick trip, and report many cases of dyptheria in that city.
 Last week we had three rainy days, and there is lots of moisture lying about loose.
 Miss Bell Gray, recently returned from Europe, has arrived. Also MT. and Mrs. Frank Gray, father and mother of Miss Bell Gray, are here.
 We are interested in the literary dis cussion between ''Punch" and 'sAnon'' in the NEWS, and trust it will not be carried so far that either of these ami cable correspondents will be tempted to ''punch'' the other. B. MACARR.
 FALLS VILLAGE.
 Robert Bennett, travelling agent for 6 furniture store in Bridgeport, accom-. panied by Mrs. B., have been visiting Amesville relatives
 The office of D. W. Clarke, Esq, has been neatly painted. The work having been creditably done by Joseph Mundry
 Farmers have commenced husking out their corn which is 8 moderate croI owing to the excessive dryness of the weather when rain was needed Mucl complaint is made that the potatoe crol is decaying badly, some losing nearly half their entire yield.
 MT. Harvey Kellogg, of Toledo, Ohio is in town, having been summoned thith CT to attend the funeral of his brother.
 MT. Edward Howe of Waterbury wal in town over Sunday.
 The finest lot of fish yet taken from any stream or lake in this section, were taken last week from Tyler Pond by Messrs George V. Capron and Wm. H Jenks, which comprised sixty in mum Der, and the whole weight amounting te nearly seventy-fve pounds and the lar gest tipping the scales at four pounds They were gratuitously distributed among their friends here, after having been on exhibition at the store of the former for little while.
 The funeral of deacon Isaac Kellogg was attended from his late residence Fri day afternoon. He was 73 years of age and was life long resident of this tow1 and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was devoted adheren of the doctrines of the Congregations church, of which church at South Ca naan he was deacon, from which he vii be much missed. The funeral solemni ties were concluded at the Grassy Hil cemetery, Rev. D. M. Moore officiating
 The new millinery store was opened Monday and the advertisement will bt found in another column new goods will be constantly added as occasion re quires, and in addition to which may be found fine assortment of pictures anc frames, books, etc., at prices to suit the times.
 MT. Wm M. Merrill, of Lee, has take1 charge of the Housatonic R. R. House 8 Amesville, having commenced his duties to-day. MT. o. N. Briscoe retiring iron it's management. IDLEwmD.
 MILL. RIVER.
 c. B. Brewer is making cider at ths rate of from 20 to 25 barrels per day.
 The Ladies' Sewing Society will b' held at Mrs. William Sheldon's s on Thurs day afternoon and evening. The dance of last week was 8 yer, pleasant one. A good supper was give, by F. W. Reyes of the Mill River hotel We will call on him again.
 A box of saw dust caught fire 1T Henry Sisson's drug store, last Sunda, , morning, probably by lighted cigar, ,an' burned hole, foot across, in the floor but luckily was discovered and put out. An old fashion squirrel hunt is 'billed l for this week Wednesday, fifteen being chosen on side. The captains are E T. Blodgett and Wm. Daley. Suppe at nine o'clock at the Mill River house. CANAAN VALLEY. s,,