Connecticut western news., 1883-05-02
". M. Dow, M D., of New Haver has 8 letter in another column.

vile N J, last week. Sheridan does not profess to be checker player, still he beat Greenville's champion three games out of four.
 Ovid Gillette has made arranre. ments to wholesale and retail shad, dur. ing the present season. He can deliver them to your door, if necessary, the same day they are taken from the river. These shad know what the news is on the Hudson river, no Rip Van Wrinkle about them. Read Ovid's advertisement
 Communication from Lal:eville, requesting us to publish the condition ot MT Frederick Watson. In response to it and other enquiries, will state. MT Watson is no better. He has been ill since last Christmas, has suffered a shock of paralysis a d is confined to his bed. Was not as we'll yesterday. We cannot expect an improvement in his condition.
 You will need no specta>l when you read the advertisement of A. T. X M. Roraback in another column The figures that those insurance companies represent are so large we can see them without any difficulty, but it will bother us consistently to accumulate such for tunes ourselves. We have placed all our insurance with this agency and do not lie awake nights either, fearing the insurance companies might fail.
 -Tramps are again on the road, and visited our village, Monday. It seems cruel to refuse hungry man food, but in certain cases it is duty we owe to so- ciety. Tramps are terror, and nuisance, and while the tramp law was enforced we were rid of the pests. If our constables will invite 8 few ot these tramps to inspect the inside of the lookup we think their comrades would omit some of their proposed visits to Canaan.
 The history of the fire hydrants is this: The water company put them in at their own expense, which amounted to $4OO or more. They have never charged any rent for them, although in some villages other water companies charge rent of $25 per year for each hydrant. The company do not propose to incur any more expense, and say if property owners of this village are not interested enough in protecting their buildings to bear the expense of putting the hydrants in working order, then then they can remain in their present useless condition. To make them ser viceable at all times of year, the service pipes must be placed below the reach If frost. The estimated cost of doing this is $100. A subscription paper is low being circulated and already over me half the amount has been raised. )f course those most interested are ex- oected to subscribe literally, still all our villagers should feel an interest in this subject and contribute something. A fire could not destroy our business places, without being loss directly or indirectly to the whole community.
 Every Tuesday is market day here, ind the farmers for miles around bring their calves and farm produce and find | ready sale for them. Tuesday, April A, our streets were crowed with teams and a stranger would think Donny brook Fair was being held here. One hundred sld three calves were sold and sent market and probably over one thous- lad dollars changed hands There are several buyers and there is strong com petition among them. Often they pay more for calves than they realize for them. Another large shipment of calves was made yesterday.
 Last Friday noon as the East bound freight train on the H. & c. W. railroad was leaving Union depot an old man of portly build attempted to board the moving train. He fell between the plat form and the car, the wheel crowded his foot along on the rail but did not crush it. It was miraculous escape. The train was passing onto the siding and gradually widening the distance between the station platform and the car, other wise the man would have been rolled along and crushed to death. In future he will probably not attempt like expert ment. He is not the first man that has tried it, but all do not have so fortunate an escape.
 The measles not being content with distressing the school children, have now made an attack on the middle aged. Mrs D. l.. Freeman, Mrs Nelson Ham, Mrs James Reel and Mir Patrick Quinn are enrolled on the measley list. George Bartram's whole family, Isaac Lermond's family, na Freeman and Bessie Frank lin are also measley. By actual count there have been between 50 and 60 cases of measles in our village, and ''still there is more to follow" as the children in the primary department of the high schoo
 are coughing and showing symptoms O
 the approaching disease. Thus ia,
 there has not been fatal case, and WV
 certainly hope there may not.
 You ought to see Ensign Butts il his " ,nderful circus act. He can star
 from the steps of the Warner house
 with horse and carriage, under terrif
 ic speed, and attempting to swing
 around in circle, he can capsize the cal l riaoe and a1iphtinO safely or bis fact h.