Connecticut western news., 1882-06-21
HERE AND THERE.

A Danbury lad who joined the Barnum cir GUS 'guv it up'' as a bad job.
 Rev. D. M. Moore exchanged pulpits. Sum- day, with Rev. Mir. White of Cornwall. Rev. John E Russell of New Haven has been hired for one year by the congregation alists.
 A New Haven man is to try his walking powers this week by walking s6O miles on the street.
 Robert Buel we'll known capitalist of Hartford died in that city, last Thursday, of paralysis
 | General Ticket Agent H. D. Averill of the Housatonic road is quite dangerously ill with congestion of the brain. .- "A romantic fool' of Shelburpe Falls took oil of Vtriol, the other night, for the "romancen 1 of the thing we suppose. | Patrick Fallon brakeman on the Nauga-, tuck road was seriously injured by falling from train last week. James Klnnevan was shot dead in New Britain Saturday night by John Kerrigan, the quarrel arising from twenty-five cent loan.
 A Winsted man has become conscience stricken and won't play the church organ any more because it is wicked to work on Sunday 1 Twenty seven Methodist Ministers were present at the convention in Meriden last We'd nesday, deciding the best way to conduct revival.
 An old, white haired man, was sheltered at the Hartford jail the other night, who claimed to have fought under Napoleon and in many memorable battles.
 1 Two unknown bodies were found in the Connecticut river at Hartford the other day ;. It is supposed that they were drowned while on fishing excursion.
 William Arnold was badly cut with piece of glass at East Hartford the other day, and for time it was feared he would bleed to death, as an artery was cut.
 o. w. Robbins was ''hauled up" at Pitts. field for violating the board of health regula. tion in regard to the drainage of some of his |
 There is considerable talk of removing the great and famous organ from the Boston Mus. ic hall on account of the incapacity of the per. sons who have handled it. Ansona people have been living on codfish lately, in order to make the bully butchers come down with their prices, which they have done, to the tune of three cents on pound.~
 A New Milford man has put up sharp edged iron in front of his store to keep the loafers from 'roosting" there too much. Good idea. Will he now invent something to make subscribers pay up.
 Several users of telephones at Fall River have been made partially deaf by holding the
 receiver at the same ear all the while. Tee. phone users beware and use the instruments
 at the ears alternately
 Wooden nutmeg generosity was set fourth
 to it's best, the other day when Justice Gar.
 dner of Ansonia, paid the fine he had imposed
 upon theft because he liked his looks The way of the good looking transgressor isn't SC hard after all
 An amateur edition of Barnum's circus per forms in Stafford Springs every Sunday after. noon, when somersaults, ,handsprings and grea
 feet(s) are presented regardless of suspender & buttons or patched pantaloons, much to ths F. amusement of the modocs gathered to chee
 them on.
 Farmers generally report the rye crol a through Connecticut as looking splendidly
 It has headed richly and has grown to a fnt
 height in spite of the lack of sunlight. Int : hay crop is assured 8 large yield beyond
 peradventure now. Weather, such as tha of to-day will soon bring corn also.-Far ] naer.
 On Thursday morning of this week. Jame : Keenan, baggage master at the Conn Westerr
 depot, at Winsted, met with a painful acci
 dent which will probably lay him up fo
 many weeks He was between two cars :, pushing them when the aange of wheel be IA hind him struck his heel, crushing his foo 5 badly. Dr. Edward Welch attends him anG u intimates that he can save the foot, but say V the bones are badly broken and that his pa
 tient will De laid up for several weeks-anc s possibly months.-Hera10. O A mixture of love and larceny, involving v Baptist deacon, a widower of few mon tn d standing, and youthful grass widow, ha |, made little sensation in the Litchfeld court ;- Josephine Lapham was accused of theft b d Dea. George B. Parmalee of Milton becaus
 she refused to restore watch he had giyt,
 her as sort of wedding present before ma, , riage. She testified that she never promise
 to marry him, and that she refused to take hi
 $35 gold watch and chain unless he woul e convey it in writing He wrote such convey
 ance, she said, kneeling by her bedside an l. dipping his pen in box of liquid shoe black
 ing, after which he prayed and slipped tn a gift and writing under her pillow. Parmale ,s denied that he conveyed the watch, but tn
 girl vas acquitted, ,-Rspg0Heaas