Connecticut western news., 1884-02-20

I
 The Guild will give dime sociabl
 at the Warner house next Monday even
 ing, which all are invited to attend
 Cake and coffee, together with the usua
 amusements, will help to make the even
 ing pleasant one. AS this is the las
 sociable to be given by the Guild before
 Lent it is hoped there will be Q large attendance.
 Rev D. Phillips conducted the flu. neral services of David Mccartney at Lee, Mass, yesterday. Mccartney was IT years of age. He was the son of Rev David Mccartney of Lee. On Saturday last, in company with other young men, he was skating on pond near Lee and while racing with them he skated into an opening in the ice and was drowned.
 Observing exchanges have discover ed that the greediest man after news paper is the one who will not subscribe. He Is always in waiting for the latest paper and it is not on the owners prem ises two minutes till the non-subscriber pounces upon it and, after reading it, invariably throws 1t aside with the remark that he could make 8 better paper himself -Afile1ton Telegram.
 The movement on foot will feel safe only on horseback led by a"High-muck- a-muck-high-o-high" or Jigadier BriI- dle. For explanation, see article about forming a cavalry company to protect the defenceless. The article does not inform us who the defenceless are, but as this is leap year perhaps the old bachelors are getting alarmed and ap- peal for protection.
 On arriving at our office last Satur- day morning we were informed that we had just missed call from Editor Pin ney of the Winsted Press. Sorry we were not in, but had we been in the previous night instead of being out to the Masonic ball keeping step to Neigh Dor Pinney's lively music, he would have found us in our sanctum at the usual hour. Call again.
 Salisbury Brothers, druggists at New Haven, Conn, have secured the services of MT Sherwood c. Cummings. One of the Messrs Salisbury is an inval- i'd and is going to Minnesota in hopes to regain his health and Sherwood takes his place in the drug store. Sherwood's resignation of his position in the drug store at Mt Vernon, N. Y, took effect last Saturday and on Monday he entered on his duties at New Haven.
 MT John Rodemeyer, Jr, of the Yellow Spasm was in town Sunday. He felt safer in Canaan than in Bethel. AS this needs an explanation, we will say that he has just issued advertising paper called the Yellow Spasm and he gave pen pictures of many Bethelites,-picture that only himself could draw in his inimical style. the Yellow Spasm is equal to circus.
 Our correspondents endeavor to report the births, marriages and deaths that occur in their respective towns, but they often omit to mention the clergyman's name who performs the marriage ceremony or they neglect to tell the age of a deceased person, consequently we are often unable to publish such notices ill due form in the marriage or death column.
 On Monday, the 18th, we received a letter from Prof s. A. Weaver asking us to state through the columns of the NEWS that there would be no singing school in Canaan this week. On We'd nesday night the hall will be occupied by D. s. Cowles post, No. 60, G. A. R. On Thursday, Prof Weaver, wife and child will visit Boston. While in Boston the professor will visit his old haunts, the New England Conservatory and also take in George Henschels symphony concert Saturday at Music hall.
 On Saturday evening, February 9, some one at East Canaan was either desirous of playing practical joke and did not stop to consider the possible injury they might infict, or else they were actuated by pure cussedness, for near the hozse of Henry c. Stevens they strung a barbed wire across the road leading to Canaan Valley. When MT c. H. Briggs went home that evening his horse came ill contact with the wire and received number of cuts and scratches on its breast and fore legs. Don't repeat such dangerous experi- ment.
 Officers Van Deusen of this place and Cook of Winsted make it uncom- fortable for violators of the liquor law On Monday, the 11th, they visited Mrs Beaujon's saloon at East Canaan and seized some cider brandy. February 16 they visited Alonzo Bates'place in Music hall block at Winsted and seized some whiskey and lager beer. February Is they visited George Rays fish market at Lakeville and seized some lager beer. Rays also had barrel full of water sunk beneath the cellar bottom. Ask Cook who stepped into that barrel in the dark
 Several weeks ago Jack Frost took possession of the water main leading tc the "lower corner" After digging ir several places it was discovered that COG
 feet of the pipe leading over the hill
 past Robert Van Deusen's house was
 frozen so for that distance pipe was
 laid on the surface, connected and the
 supply was established again. This