Connecticut western news., 1882-04-05

Those dssiring Any spring work in the line of painting should read Dwight Ingraham'a adv. in another column.
 Judge Fyler of Winsted has moved to Tor. rington. He will Ego up"-to winsted daily, to attend his law business
 All the trackmsn on the line of the Nauga- tuck road struck last Saturday for an increase of 25 cents K day, but the company can't see ! it.
 Ever since the sullivan-R Ryan prize fight, the noble youth of Sharon Station have been afflicted with the boxing fever, and black eyes.
 Mrs. H. M. Holmes of Falls Village makes bow to those desiring bargains in the mil. linery line. Glance over her card in another column.
 The striking matters of Danbury have gone to work again, having lost about $20O, 900 in wages by the strike, and failing to make their point.
 A sixteen years old boy named Englehardt picked fuss with an express train near Bridgeport ,he' other night. The funeral was largely attended.
 Ex Governor Andrews was given dinner by the members of his staff, in New Haven last Thursday night, in honor of his appoint. msnt as judge of the superior court.
 This year a country brass band will fur. nish~ music for the spiritualists' state camp meeting at Mantle. This being the case the attendance of the "dsar departed" win be slim. e A man in Ne~town recently, enquired for Ar. Frost" of the Central House, but was informed that that gentleman's name waa Snow. "oh. icy my mistake" was his cool rejoinder. .7 The Bridgeport Eagle asks, 'how many times did you get fooled last Saturday ?' Why, every time we tried to ind newspape, | that didn't lead of it's locals with the above question.
 W. H. K., 8 Kent correspondent, is quite excited over the fact that "A very large focl ofawild geese passed over Kent the other day. without calling at the ministesaaI shoemaker shop for instructions.
 Card of thanks: We would extend to our friends our heartfelt thanks for their assist. ancs and sympathy in our double afaicton
 MR. AND MES. G. V. CApRoN.
 Falls Village, Ct.
 A scamp made it hot for yoke of oxen three horses and ten cows belonging to Alvin Clark of Washington, last Thursday night, by burning the barn in which they were housed and roasting them alive. .,
 The errors in the Bridgeport Morning News, which the Leader calls the Comedy o Errors, are taken up and corrected every eve ming by the Leader, which might be called the Extravaganza of Corrections.
 The family of the late wm Card of Miller ton, who was killed last October by the crimi nal carelessness of brakeman on the Thirt Avenue Elevated Railroad in New York, hav' sued that company for $5, 900 damages.
 Mrs. Parsons, who has started . rnonthl, in Wiusted called the Advocate, is said to b. loaded to the muxzle with, good intentions. She must be Vtouched of aisy" all the same for those ''good intentions" are we'll wadded l The receipts of Barnum's greatest and onli est show on earth, were $l07, 900 during th first two weeks of it's stay in New York city That's $7 900 more than the receipts of country newspaper amount to in whole yeaz The oldest man In Litchaeld is Norman Kilboufn, aged 93, who can remember dis ) tinctly when Goshen didn't hold nortgag on . single 'comet, and when harmoniou Winsted didut dream of asking for the count seat. - <. An Irish boy named Thomas Keefe wa caught on a shaft in Terryville lock factor last Saturday, and, against his will, was pu through series of gymnastlo and trapez feats that broke his arm and will give him vacation of several weeks. s2-
 Score another feather for BridGeport's csr It isn't corset sti6ening patentee this tim, nor baby elephant, but . graduate of th Columbia veterinary college, named K. A Mcclellan, who took the gold medal for sz Oellence. Bridgeport's horses are in hig glee. #
 Read c. W. Halls new adv. in anothe column. There are few in this region who d not know what an immense business Hall i doing, at his Emporium in Falls Village. H ;s one of those men who know the value C judicious, legitimate advertising, and his ad, stands in the NEWS the year round. The first murder that has occurred in Cor necticut in several weeks took place in Fail field last Friday, when Christopher Loga shot farmer named Patrick O'Hara, fo whom he had formerly worked. O'Hara hs , discharged Logan. whereupon the latter de oared he would "get square with him. Logan was arrested, but denles tho shooting
 The Senate has granted leave for tho Ger man astronomers to erect buildings on tn Capitol grounds in Hartford, to enable then ] to observe the transit of Venus in December If the astronomers had not obtained this priv ilege, Miss Venus would have been obliged t postpone her transit until the highcockalorun of the Barkhamsted light house could b, brought to terms.
 K. c. Allen and c. A Peck of New Milfor, are under bonds of $2oO. each to appear fo trial in Litohaeld this month, on charge 0 conspiracy to defraud 8 New York cigar deal CT, from whom Allen had ordered cigars which were taken from the freight office b, Peck, and both refused to pay for them. Al len admits that he was Peck,s tool in tn, transaction, and some say that Allen wa, drunk when he entered into the scheme.