Connecticut western news., 1883-10-24
LOCAL. NEWS.

ssAIr Sheriff! I tinks dot man Had ley ish gone"
 Mrs o. R. Camp is visiting in Kent and Newtown.
 Mrs J. l.. Pease and son Charlie are visiting at Rutherford Park, NJ.
 Mir R. A. Brewster of Oneonta, N Y..visited at G. B. Gardner's, this week -Messrs o. T. and W. B. Futile oi Minneapolis, Minn., visited friends in town, last week.
 Rev Mir and Mrs Barnett returned, last week, from Philadelphia and visit with friends in Newtown.
 MT Howard Deming and wife of South Greece, N. Y, are visiting his father, Mir Chester Denring.
 MT George E. Taft and wife will start for Boston, Thursday afternoon, to visit the foreign exhibition
 The Peak sisters will please accept our thanks for large loaf of frosted II, last Thursday evening.
 Mrs Louise Baldwin and her son, Mr William Baldwin, from Louisville, Ky, arrived in Canaan, last Wednesday, and are visiting at Mir J.A Underwood's S.
 About 100 books will soon be pur- chased for the Douglas library and patrons are requested to send to the librarian names of any books they may desire to have added to the library.
 The New England road will sell excursion tickets from Hartford to Boston at $1. 50, good for three days from Friday, October 26 This affords good opportunity to visit the foreign exhibi- tion.
 -Mr Warren Mcintyre and daughter, Miss Ella, have driven to Amenia, N r., and are taking in the races and visiting friends elsewhere. David Holmes is tending the blacksmith shop during their absence.
 Regular communication of Housa- tonic lodge, No 61, F. and A. M.. .Satur- day evening, October 27. Work on third degree. A full attendance is re- quested, as visiting brethren are expect ed from different lodges.
 MT Ezra B. Sparks, formerly route agent on the Housatonic railroad, but of late years connected with the Dover Plains IN. '. hotel, died last Saturday ct the Hudson River hospital. He had been in poor health for some time.
 The route agents on the Housatonic road are unable to assort the large quan- titles. of mail which they receive at pres ent. When the train left this station last Monday at 9:34 A II, there were eight large sacks of papers still unas- sorted which had been received from the Boston and Albany road.
 MT Frank Callaghan, tenant farmer for MT George ". Cowdrey at East Canaan, has raised a pumpkin that weighs Fl pounds. MT A. P. Briggs weighed the pumpkin, so there can be no mistake about 1t; and furthermore Al says it would make him just one dessert of pie. We believe Al, for we never knew him to desert pie.
 We have received copy of the Artisan, published on the 10th and 25tl of every month at Nashville, Tenn. I is 36 page magazine, size 10!x15, foul columns per page. It is devoted tc manufacturing milling, mining ant mercantile interests and to developing the resources of the South. The term of subscription are only 8 per year. I Is perfect encyclopaedia of valuable information We read and admired i before knowing who published it. Ol second examination we discovered tn editor in chief is Pitkin c. Wright, for merly of Canaan Judge Wright we'll qualified to edit the Artisan, as tn magazine itself bears witness.
 The Peak sisters from Pike's peal displayed their various attractions a Village Improvement hal, last Thursda evening, which proved to be yer sstaking" and Imaginable farce. The at fractions of the sisters were describe, by the eldest sister, who portrayed i glowing terms the individual taste ( each sister The abilities of some wer particularly striking and showed wha only years of constant practice coul attain. The portrait of the groul painted by the artist sister, showed III usual skill; the delicate coloring of tn background and pathetic expressio given to each sister was exquisite. I'll original poem reeited by one of u younger sisters ehcited a round applause. The poem has become deci' edly popular since it's first public rend tion and is now one of the popul, songs of the day. We refer to "'Twil kle, Twinkle, Little Star.'' We migl % on indefinitely in order to descril the evenings enjoyment, but space lacking. Twenty dollars was u financial result of the entertainment.