Connecticut western news., 1884-03-12
WEST CORNWALL.

Dr w. E. Battam will be at the Man sion house on Friday, March 21.
 MT George Stevens is quite sick at the boarding house of T. J Bosworth.
 Miss Kate Caldwald of Bridgeport is the guest of her sister, Mrs James H. Cole.
 Rev Mir Vittum spent the Sabbath under the hospitable roof of R. F. Smith Esq.
 Mrs T s. Gold returned, last Tuesday from Washington, D. O., where she has spent the winter.
 Miss Tressie Coon is on the sick list, and fears are entertained that it may prove the typhoid fever.
 The reception to have happened on Cherry Hill, last Thursday evening, IS postponed until the present week.
 Charles Whitney has caught in the last few weeks. over 300 pounds of suckers, which he rattles off at six cents per pound.
 Mir Icabod Everett has rented his farm in Ellsworth and taken up his abode with his daughter, Mrs David l.. Smith, for the present.
 George B. Harrison and sister, Katie, returned from their winters course of study at Wesleyan university, Wilbra- ham, Mass, last Wednesday.
 The North and West Cornwall church and societies raised $2254 for Ohio flood sufferers and the same has been forwarded to former resident of this town, the Rev Ward Andrews, president of Marietta college, Marietta, Ohio, for distribution.
 The Cream Hill and North Cornwall schools paid our village schools pleas ant visit, last Tuesday afternoon, coolly treating all hands to ice cream and a sleigh ride. The carnival was greatly enjoyed and will long be remembered by the juvenile population.
 Our singing school is in fourishing condition, and rapidly approaching per lection, under the careful instruction of Prof Hughes. Last Friday evening the Cornwall Bridge school attended, and the cracked chapel roof is the result of such grand swell of harmony.
 The severest ice storm for many years ragged Saturday and Sunday. The tow ering oak, elm, willow and evergreen, the pride of the hill sides, stood like weeping sentinels, loaded with their crystal burden, and in Mondays bright sunlight, shone forth in gllttering beauty.
 The dime sociable at George Hughes last Thursday evening was very largely attended, quite a delegation being pres. ent from the Hill The receipts amounted to $7.5O. Lots were cast fol the new comfortable, for which tickets had been sold to the amount of $6. 50 Mrs James H. Cole had the lucky number.
 SOUTH CANAAN.
 The evening meeting on Thursday was we'll attended.
 MT Walter Dickson and family have removed to Harwinton, and MT Rufus Whitford has removed to the house they vacated.
 MT B. P. Belden was successful il filling his ice house with fine clear ice the 4th day of March. That's Nev England weather.
 The fellowship meeting at the chapel Falls Village, was not as well attendet as it would have been, on account of tn severity of the weather.
 MT Allen Bosworth has purchased farm near MT Sherwood Millard's, an will not leave town. Mir Bosworth superintendent of the Sunday schoc and would be greatly missed.
 The heaviest ice storm ever known i this vicinity fell on Friday night an Saturday morning. Every tree, shru and bush is covered with the glitterin spangles of ice; very beautiful, but vel bad for the fruit trees, the weatht prophets say.
 There seem to be somewhat confic ing accounts of the robbery on Canaa mountain. It seems that MT Josep Snyder went to Daniel Roots to spen the night. with about $7O0 in none, (his back pay as a soldier in the lat war;, and gold watch. When he r, tired he put both the money and watc in his pantaloons pocket, and put tn bundle under his pillow. Charley Roo a grandson of Daniel Root, burst int the room, before he went to sleer snatched the pantaloons and ran. Tn pantaloons were found some distanc from the house with about eight dollar in silver, which he had neglected t remove. It seems Charley hurried t Falls Village and got on the owl trair on which he journeyed to Bridgeport and since then no trace of him has bee found. Owing to the neglect of partie in giving notice at Falls Village. whic was not done until the forenoon of tn next day, he had so much the start was easy to make his escape. NJ Brewster followed in pursuit, but wa unable to find any clue to his wherea bouts. \ good deal of sympathy is ez pressed for Mir Snyder, who was she through the neck in the late war, an } has been unable to hold his head u ever since, and for the family of Danie Root, who are much distressed at tn , evil conduct of their relative. NORFOLK.