Connecticut western news., 1884-11-26
LOCAL NEWS.

Wish you joyous thanksgiving.
 Merrill Humphrey is having run of fever.
 Builder E. R. Lorrain says the to- bacco warehouse is the most substantial structure he ever built.
 HI. H. Coggswell has been suffering with felon the past week and on Mon day Dr Camp lanced it.
 -George NJ. Brown of Danbury, con- ductor of Housetonic railroad, was in town last Sunday visiting relatives.
 First sleighing of the season last Wednesday. For three days the child ren improved the opportunity of coast ing.
 All departments of the high school are taking Q weeks vacation. Latin and Greek are laid aside for study of tur- key anatomy.
 Thanksgiving services will be held tomorrow at Christ church at 10:30 A. M., and in the lecture room of the NJ. E. church at 2 P. M
 Three tons of dressed poultry were yesterday transferred by the express company from the Housatonic to the H. & c. W. railroad.
 Chemist J. s. Adam of Lime Rock was in town Friday with his little sledge hammer looking for additional veins or deposits of limestone.
 George T. Johnson of Norfolk is unpacking and marking, at low figures, an immense stock of holiday goods. Look for his holiday advertisement next week.
 Mrs Bigelow has erected to the memory of her husband, Augustus Big elow, one of the finest, yet most unpre- tensious, monuments in the lower cem- etery.
 If pa comes home during the night ss badly mixed up as R. Girling's new advertisement IS this week, ma will swear he has been to the club room in- stead of the clothing emporium.
 The Housatonic railroad time table in another column has been corrected to correspond with their recent sched- ule. The principal changes are in the time of arrivals at New York and Sara toga.
 -Peirce, Lawrence & Go. are receiv- Ing from Maine 15 car loads of barrel slaves and heads. Mir D. l.. Peirce and Arthur F. Freeman were in New Haven last week experimenting the transfer of them from the boat to the cars.
 Our Goshen correspondent tavors us with the desired information regard ind Ivy mountain tower. We assure our correspondent that the kind offer to pilot s'our Canaan friends" to the tower is appreciated and will be accepted in due season.
 Justin Dewey has sold his farm in Afford to Hiram Dings of that place for S5,5OO. Included in the purchase is all the household furniture, farming uten- sils, etc.-Berkshire Courier. A few years ago Mir Dings worked Wm. Adam s farm in this place.
 -Dr James Bigelow of Altoona, Oak. has just paid flying visit to Canaan, his native town. He arrived last Friday and departed Monday afternoon, going via New York His mother, Mrs Fran ces P Bigelow, accompanies him to Dakota and will make it her home with him.
 Samuel F. Adam sailed from New York Nov. If on the steamer State o Texas, bound for Florida. He writes that they had rough passage and dur ing the storm the waves swept the decl and the water leaked through into hi room, completely drenching him. H' expects to spend the winter at Oriole Fla. and anticipates great sport Tn hunt ing and fishing.
 MT and Mrs S. l.. Nash have moved from Hartford, Conn.,, to No. 1 Han cock street, Boston, Mass. Mrs Nasl nee Miss Nellie Williams recently visit ed her friends in Canaan and Nov. | arrived in Boston, to which city he husband, who is in the employ of tn Western Union Telegraph Co.,, wa transferred some tune ago.
 Sunday night, driving-wheel axl on the engine of the H. 0. W. eas bound freight train broke when tn train was about mile east of Copakt The engine was thrown from the track but no one injured or cars damaged, ye the line was blockaded for over 12 hour the train due here at midnighr, SuI day, not arriving until Monday afte noon, and the daily morning passenge train from the Hudson river due her at 9:56A. M, did not arrive on Monda until 1r. N.