Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
Find MT Ward Nichols letter in another column and read.

The Newtown Bee reports local to bacco sales at from 5 to 10 cents pei pound.
 Our correspondents will please read the notice on the second page and send in their correspondence without 1 fail.
 Prof W. W. Dayton visits this place next Friday evening, in the town hall, and if you doubt his ability Ho carry out all he advertisers, just go and See for yourselves. Those who attended before were well satisfied.
 The New Milford Ray Gazette pub. fishes very complete history of o' Johns parish from its organization ul to the present time, together with 8 full account of the consecration of the new edifce, which took place last Thursday.
 The New England Homestead be- lieves our farming pays better than is usually supposed and will try to prov. it by six prizes for the best kept farm account for the year beginning April l The prizes are all farm machines, lead ing off with $3O Leonard mower
 Newtown Bee.
 The arrangements for the music al Christ church, Easter Sunday. which i. years past has been conducted in man ner to make it one of the pleasing fea- lures of the services, will be quite elaD- crate this year.. The evening service will be devoted to the children, win. will sing carols and other appropriat, music.
 1 The freight and passenger business on the Hartford and Connecticut Wes- tern road is increasing, the average monthly receipts aggregating from $11, ,OOO to S12,OOO in excess of what they were year ago. Considerable new work will be done this year unde, the management of Superintendent Jones. .-Hmyord Post.
 Bethel is to have another meat and fish market. That Rodemeyer's appe- tite must be a tremendous one. An other bakery soon "A man entered the Item office last week, took off his overcoat, undercoat and vest, saying nothing meanwhile. Our new partner started~ for the door, our compositor crawled behind the press, and the local found things looking dangerous. It was false alarm, however, for he was a peddler of Q patent suspender. It didn't take long to bounce him, when he found we were short of funds. [Dan- bury Item.
 The Canaan correspondent in the Valley Ledger of the 18th has the fol lowing :-
 The chimney on Tom Browns hou e took fire last Sunday night, for the 98th time, and but for the energetic meas ures of the neighbors the flying sparks might have fired adjoining buildings. The authorities should see to it that this old chimney is properly repaired The dramatic association will present the ss Ticket of Leave Man in Sails bury on April 3d and in Falls Village on the 9th. They make their debut n this place on Friday evening, the 30ih inst.
 William II. Gibson, in Harper's Weekly, receives this compliment if ID the London Academy. But when we discover that the artist is also the au thor of '' Highways and Byways," VI began to read and we fonnl ourselves unable to stop till we got to the end 1 We feel that we have here far nor, than is in most American books, 8 gen uine product of the soil. Mr Gibsol is doubtless known to maay of our read CTS throu ,sh his thoroughly interesting articles in Harper's Monthly Magazine i if not personally. He is Newtowl boy and spent several years at the Gun nery.in Washington, Ct.
 The Litchfield court of common
 pleas bill, we understand, will be re
 ported favorably by the judiciary con
 mittee and will probably become law
 The hearing before the committeo las
 week was attended by quite large de
 egation of representative men. Th
 New Milford Ray and Gazette i ! voicing the sentiment Of New Milfor
 says:-We understand that Falls Villae and New Milford will make no obiectio
 to this scheme provided certain imno , tant concessions are granted IT pri .cipal of these are: Flat the suri
 diction of the district court shall l , raised from $1, GOO to $2, GOO; that cas- : of appeal from probate court and cor missioners which now % to the sup l rior court shall be givea t's .'' l;stri ! court, and that there shall be concurra l jurisdiction, so that cases to be tried
 8 certain term in certain district m: :, be entered, if desired, at the prev1o1 term in another district, so saving the I from going over, perhaps, 6 who # term.
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