Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19

The Amenia Times of March IF, says: IS. c. Beckley, at Wassaic, met with triAing business difficulty last week, and the furnace is now out of work" Neighbor Walsh will please correct the above statement. James Beckley, instead of s. c. Beckley has been operating the Wassaic furnace.
 Through some oversight on the part of our printer the letter of H. J. Holt was not printed last week exactly as written. He wishes us to say that he used 400 lbs of Bakers potato manure to the acre and thinks that an equal share of the c edit for his fine crop was due to H. J. Baker & Bros, complete potato manure.
 Friday night, March 21, the H. X c. W. railroad company will run an extra train from Hartford to Winsted, stopping at all way stations. The train will not leave Hartford until after all the theatres are out. The Boston Ideal Opera company, also the Art and Loan exhibition are at Hartford that night
 MT B. c. Ives has sold his meat mar ket to MT D. D. Walter, who took pos session last Wednesday. Mir Walter has conducted the market for Mir Ives dur ing the past three years, and under stands the business thoroughly. He has made many friends and will retain their patronage. It is reported that Mir Ives has gone out of the meat busi- ness entirely, and has discontinued ped ding.
 We are indebted to Rev Alpheus Winter for copy of the Minutes of the eighteenth annual convention of the Connecticut Temperance Union, with annual report and addresses. It is a pamphlet of 32 pages and should be placed in every household in Connecti- cut. Just send your name and address to Rev Alpheus Winter, secretary Con
 ecticut Temperance Union, 283 Collins Street, Hartford, Conn.,, and he will send you without price, a copy of the Minutes, also catalogue of publications of National Temperance So- ciety and Publication house, 59 Reade Street, New York
 Our subscribers living in this part of the town have without exception prompt ly paid their subscription, and we heart fly thank them for their liberal patron age and cordial support We also thank all patrons in other towns, who have pald their subscription, but there are several hundred persons on our list who are yet in arrears, and to them we say, we do not ask for contribution or a gift, we simply ask you to pay what you owe us and enable us to meet our bills coming due April 1. The label on each paper shows to what time your subscrip- tlon IS paid. Some who are several years in arrear have had bills sent them time and again, but they pay no attention, and unless they settle forthwith we shall try what virtue there Is ill attorneys services.
 The friends of w. A. Roraback, in some degree approaching hls six years valuable services as assistant postmas- ter, felt that testimonial of their good will in the form of few law books would be very acceptable to one about
 0 hang out his shingle, heuce on Saturday evening they pre- sented him the following: Bishop on Criminal Law, 2vols. Baldwin's Digest, 2 vols; Swift's Digest, vols; Bonvi- CTS Law Dictionary, 2 yols.; Connecti- cut Civil Officer and Connecticut Prac- tice Act. The presentation by S. A. Eddy took place in the office of A. T. Roraba:k, Will was taken by surprise and could not overcome his emotions, in fact he was to full for utterance, but the next day he was able to be on his pins all right.