Connecticut western news., 1884-05-07
WEST CORNWALL.

home in Salisbury.
 MT James A. Ford is quite unwell, being obliged to lay by for a few days for repairs.
 Mrs David Ross and daughter Sadie, from New York, are at Mir Houstan Cochrane's for the greater part of the summer
 Dr w. E. Weed, formerly of Bridge port, is located here for the present and comes highly recommended by the med ical faculty.
 i Eddie Baldwins recovery from mea- sles is quite slow. He is now scarcely able to be out, in consequence of in famed eyes.
 The advertised letters in this office, May 6, are directed to Miss Mary E. Kelsey, MT Antoine Bazon, Damien Choquette, M. Reicherl, Louis Eiard
 Last week MT Charles Snyder observ- ed huge bird in its aerial flight, ,leveled the rifle and brought low mammoth fish hawk, measuring nearly 6 foot from tip to tip.
 MT and Mrs Arthur D. Warner spent the Sabbath in town. Their worldly possessions were moved on Monday last to Woodbury, where they are perma- nently to reside.
 James H. Cochrane and George s. Stevens were attracted southward via Housatonic railroad, to spend the Sab bath; the former in Bridgeport; the latter at Gaylordsville.
 Work in the foundry wound up with Saturdays setting sun. Messrs Humes l oY ha In cose workmen, are to continue their la- bors in Lime Rock under the guardian ship of Edward Amundson.
 A favorite bullet of the Bramah and Plymouth Rock notoriety now under the care of MT Wm $. Dean, has recent ly immortalized herself by manufactur- ing pair of double yolked eggs, each measuring 61 by inches and both weighed s! ounces.
 The cavalry company recently organ ized in this part of the county, meet at Falls Village every Saturday for drill. | The present members from Cornwall are Harry Sedgwick, George Harrison, Will liam and Edward Brush, Charles Gold, Walter Hart, George Brewster, Harvey | Osborne.
 Rev Wayland Spaulding, late minis terial supply for this parish, has receiv- ed a call to the first Congregational church of Poughkeepsie, N. Y; also Rev Edward A. Chase, late candidate for the vacant pulpit, from Hartford Theo- logical seminary, has received call to Hampden, Mass.
 The death of Mrs Lorilla Adams, wid-
 ow of the late Dea Samuel Adams, oc-
 cured at the residence of her son on April %. She had lived to the advanc-
 ed age of 73, and was woman of untir-
 ing energy. The funeral was attended
 on Tuesday, April 29, the Rev D. M.
 Moore of Falls Village officiating.
 MT A. Miller, proprietor of the Man
 sion house of this place, put up at the
 Wagner house, Bridgeport, one night
 last week and in extinguishing the gas,
 accidentally turned the key of the fixture
 too far without being aware of 1t and
 the gas escaped into the room. The
 following morning the odor was traced
 to MT Millers room and the door bro-
 ken open where he was found in an un-
 conscious state. A physician was i'm
 mediately summoned and he was short
 ly brought out of danger and was able to return home by the evening train. , On the night of May 1, valuable l COW was stolen from the premises o1
 Mrs Harvey Baldwin at North Cornwall.
 Sheriff Baldwin started in pursuit, trac. ed the theft and property to Kent 5 thence to South Dover and Poughkeep sic and both were captured five miles west of the Hudson river on Saturday afternoon. The theft was the noted "bie I injun, named Harris, who has been ab ? sent from this region about two years Q His return is likely to be followed by { r still longer absence. A preliminary ex ! animation was held in Lawyer Kicker . sons office on Monday and the prisone, e being put under 5000 bonds, was i'm h mediately taken to Litchfeld to awai e further proceedings of the court. FALLS VILLAGE.
 Mrs Chauncy Hunt is visiting il , town.
 R. B. Alden of Boston spent the Sab + bath in this village.
 s Robert N. Mills has been consider t ably indisposed for some time. | Farmers hereabout complain consid l. erably of the dry weather and rain i indeed sadly needed.
 Lewis Cady has built large and ca
 pacious refrigerator adjoining his abba - tois, in anticipation of hot weather. l. Mrs J. $. Brewster returned on Sat Q urday from six weeks visit to he ). sister, Mrs Milton Chapman in Waverly p NY.
 o Amesville has wine garden now ant as ''all the boys" say that the beverag g Is dilicious 1t will probably be well pat 'f ronized. A large quantity of herbs al l so on hand.
 ,e Rev Dr Hiram Eddy will preach i of the Congregational church next Sunda -e May II in exchange with MT Moore l. Large congregations will probabl D. listen to both divines. n Rev Dr Eddy will deliver lecture i rs the NJ. E. church on Friday evening C a. this week, on the subject of 'Love r. Courtship and Marriage" commencin SC at ' 80 o'clock. An admission fee of } t, cts will be charged.
 K The bridge crossing the canal near tn ld arch is in miserable condition and q, K mands immediate attention. big roc |. stops up one dangerous hole and sl, O. from dry goods box covers anotho
 Some one will get hurt there yet an
 then the town will have little bill { le settle.
 J. Charlie Barney has again distinguish ne ed himself; this time he will probabl Q land in States prison. One day la , week he went to Nathaniel Green ln hoc 's, and went up stairs to change his cloth, re and as he had done the same thing b O. fore no notice was taken of 1t until or
 of the domestics on gong to make u IL the beds found in MT Henry Scott 1g room (another man employed by \ P. Green) small chest broken open an
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