Connecticut western news., 1882-01-04
VICINITY.
"Crazy" Baker of Winsted has beceme un- safe, and is to be confined in an asylum.

"Crazy" Baker of Winsted has become un- safe, and is to be confined in an asylum.
 State treasurer Nichols is very low at his home in Danbury, and his recovery is not expected.
 Hartford insurance companies will remem- Der the recent South street, New York fire $2O, 900 worth.
 The periodical Guy family who are long overdue here are taking in the towns along the Harlem road with new programme.
 A child was born in Winsted the other day weighing only two pounds and a half. It is healthy and doing wel and so is its dad, Leon Coe.
 Wallingford farmer named Chauncey Cook, aged 76, took laudanum the other day, and-two days after his family wore their best clothes
 Over 20,0 900 tons of coal awaits transporta- tion over the Consolidated road, at Belle dock, New Haven and here we christians, must sit and shiver in fear of a coal panic. A Winsted man drove home from New Hartford the other night, and found out when he got home that the bits were not in the horses mouth. Probably too many bitters at the start. .- =-
 Bolivar, the big VanAmburgh elephant who was sold in Amenia few weeks ago killed darkey attendant the other day in Philadelphia. They're worse than mules when they get color blind. l The Winsted Times is to be enlarged one column on each page, beginning this week, and the sub price reduced to one dollar. McArthur has good field for local news and ability to work it with proft if he'll only light out"
 Grove Parsons of Salisbury who assaulted Matthew Moore of that place, and actually fractured his skull last July, has finally been captured Officer Perry took him, at Pine l Meadow last week, and in default of $1 .5O0 bonds ordered by justice Pratt, he went to jail to await the sitting of the April term ol superior court. a..
 N C. Fowler, formerly proprietor of the Pitts6eld Journal, has taken position as asso ciate editor on the Meriden Republican. Fowler is jolly fellow, and the other attach es of the Republican needn't suffer from the blues while he's there, although they may be in some danger of dying that most horrible O deaths --'stalkedtodeath."
 John H. Murray, the we'll known circu; manager, died in New York last week Fri day, of pneumonia. He began show life as { banjo player in minstrel show, and was a one time the best in the country, as well as
 superior lend man." He had been in tht circus business over 20 years and was th'
 first to do away with side shows. Captain H. R. Jones of New Hartford hal purchased and assumed management of th' New Hartford Tribune, and we wish him thu best of success in his field. Those who know
 the captain speak of him as genial" center
 prising," etc, just the qualifications essentia , to success in this overcrowded field of jour nalism, and we're going to make it point t. get over to see if he smokes, at our earlies } convenience.
 The school room of MT. E s. Roberts a
 West Norfolk was entered the day befor } Christmas by some of the pupils, and the, } were actually encouraged and applauded il { their course, by the inhabtants-and eve the good natured teacher himself smiled ) approval when he found it out. The frs , intimation he had of the offence was when h came in and found a package on his desl
 with this legend-"A merry Christmas to ou teacher,' which ol being opened was foun to contain handsomely bound set Of Cow r pers Poems, besides handsome Christmas an
 New Years cards.
 Winchester and New Milford, in Litchfei' county, think that Litchfeld for count seat is quite too hard to get at, and will tr to get the next Legislature to make then
 shire towns with two jaas ard two court
 houses. Litchfeld admits that it's railroa ! facilities are poor, but claims to have tn
 best roads in the county. It maintains tha
 since most of the cases in the far-off town court, which can sit anywhere, is enough fo 1 them, and that it is unnecessary to ask tn L state to furnish two superior courts or tn people to support two jails. -Repu5liean, e The editor of the Poughkeepsie Eagle ha
 recently made trip to Hartford and returl , for the purpose of examining the differen
 railroad routes He gives the results ofhi
 inspection in Mondays paper. He conclude
 that the New York and New England roa : offers the best facilities for through travel t u New York city, but thinks that west c ' Brewsters it will not have a paying locs z traffic. The Poughkeepsie, Hartford an l Boston routes, over the Connecticut Wes:
 erl, the editor says, "carries more passenger
 in day than the New England line is eve
 likely to receive from it's direct western con ;, necton by way of Newburg. The distanc N by the two routes from Poughkeepsie t.
 Hartford is the same, and outlay of SlOO, 900 for steel rails, etc, would make the Con necticut Western route a better line fo heavy traffic than the New York and Ne, [ England route.
 BERKSHIRE COUNTY.