Connecticut western news., 1883-07-18
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| AdE WOOuDuIy AScPO4UCA Aac OAAoA SOu to an eight column folio, and asks it's readers Chow do you like it ?" Tip top much brother Knox, and long may you live to do battle for the right.
 Editor Addis of the Windsor Locks Journal was sick abed last week with intermittent fever and cholera morbus. Sorry friend Addis is sick. Hope he has recovered. Its very seldom an edi tor can live high enough to have the last named complaint.
 Charles Haywood Stratton, better known as Gen Tom Thumb, died at his house in Marlboro, July 15, of appo- plexy. He was born at Bridgeport, Ct, January 4, 1839 He leaves widow, who has been on the stage with him since their marriage in 1863. The re- mains will be taken to Bridgeport for interment.
 THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS of Canaan, began it's 18th volumn June 27. It is good paper, ably and conscien- tiously conducted, and brother Beckley deserves all the good cheer he gets and if, perchance, he gets little that isn't good, he can afford to let it slide. He has raised the subscription price to $2 per year and the sum is now not any too large Windsor Locks Journal, July 6.
 The New Milford Gazette says that W H Hale, M D, formerly of that place and who also figured as a physician in this city last year with diamond-head- ed cane, was arrested in Toledo, Ohio, few days ago and lodged in jail for pub fishing and circulating an obscene journal entitled ssHealth and Home" And the Gazette further states that M l. Delevan of the Port Ches ter Journal publishes this ''Health and Home" and originally added his name as editor.--- Bridgeport Leader.
 It is misdemeanor under the law for anyone under eighteen years of age to have any pistol or firearms of any kind in his possession. Toy pistols are in- cluded, and there is penalty for any one who provides children with such weapons. The toy pistol made away with about hundred small boys last year and it promises to do even more effective work this year. Parents having small boys to spare will see to it that they are provided with the latest ap- proved method of rapid transit. t.-T Mil lerton Telegram, July 13.
 MT Charles B Johnson, who has been at home since he left the office of the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS, has taken 8 position on the Connecticut Farmer at Hartford and will take it Monday. The Farmer celebrates the fourth, this week, by emitting its is- sue and so does the Woodbury Re porter. Neactoac,sB Bee, June 6.-Mr John son is a pleasant and agreeable gen. tleman, and we are pleased to learn of his good fortune.
 The 2Oth annual convention of the Litchfeld county Northwest Sunday school union with the churches of Canaan assembled in the Methodist church at Falls Village, June 26. Its president, Thomas l. Norton of Lake vile presided with great dignity and impartiality; and its secretary, Henry Norton of Goshen, like Thomas l., is the great leader in every reform. He is besides,a great astronomer and geolo- gist, and was the first one in Litchfield county to discover with the naked eye the planets Mercury and Uranus, and he first called the attention of the peo- pie to the wonderful marks made on the rocks by the glaciers in the early ages, which are now so plainly seen on the tops of the mountains. He traces his ancestry back to the Lord of Nor vile, who came over into England from France with William the Conqueror in the year 126O, and he was his constable. Thomas l. Norton is ineal descendant of the same ancestry, the Lord of Nor vile. The exercises were very interest ing, and the program was very well car ried out. Rev Messrs Gleason of Nor folk, Phillips of Canaan, Landon of Sharon, Lewis of Falls Village and others acquitted themselves honorably. The question box was assigned to Rev Dr Eddy of Canaan, and he was indeed master of the position. The ladies fur nished free lunch, consisting of all the delicacies of the season. It was truly good to be there.
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