Connecticut western news., 1884-06-11

| ed permission from the United States court to bring suit against the New Eng land railroad company for damages. Haygord Courant, June 5.-Mr Knick- erbocker was brother of Mrs Nelson Ham of this place.
 Many lawns and gardens in this village are unprotected with fences and complaint is made that gardens are be- ing trampled and damaged by COWS, whose owners allow them to roam about the street every morning until convent ent to drive them to pasture. You would not intentionally injure your neighbors' property and please do not allow them to further suffer by your neglect.
 Rev E. F. Atwood of Bridgewater, will supply the Congregational pulpit at East Canaan for three months, com mencing August l. If pastor and church are we'll pleased with each oth- CT at the end of the three months Rev Atwood will remain. Efforts are being made to have Rev William G. Pierce of Champaign, H., spend his vacation at Canaan and supply the pulpit during July.
 Some have the impression that the citizens provided David s. Cowles post with dinner at the Warner house Me morial day. This is wrong impression. The post neither expected nor desired the citizens to furnish them a dinner. In accordance with vote passed sever- al weeks ago, each member of the post paid for his dinner. The post also gave $17.05 from their funds and thus the expenses of the day were settled.
 Mrs I. J. Church of this place and Rev G. M. Wilkins and sister of New town, sailed from New York last Thurs day on the steamer Celtic, bound for Liverpool. They expect to remain abroad year or more. After visiting England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales they will make an extended tour of the continent, spending considerable time in Sweden and Norway. We wish them pleasant journey and safe return.
 A sad accident occurred last Thurs day at Canaan Valley, while raising MT Miles B. Tobey's new barn. One of the large ''bents'' had been hoisted to near ly an upright position, when the foot of the post slipped, letting the entire bent fall striking MT James Deerstyne, of New Marlboro, on the forehead, crush ing his skull and instantly killing him. MT Deerstyne was single man, car penter in the employ of MT Harvey Decker. Many assisting at the raising barely escaped injury.
 Mrs George P. Strong and daughter, who have been visiting friends at Hins- dale, Mass, Hudson and Kinderhook, N. Y, and Lenox, Mass, since May 31, arrived home Monday evening. Mrs Strong's sister, Mrs M. D. Smith of Ashley Falls, accompanied them until reaching Hudson, where she will remain several weeks. Last Saturday MT Strong met his wife and daughter at Lenox and remained over Sunday, visiting Mug gins,' as he calls his brother-in-law, Mir George Coggswen.
 Mrs Levi s. Beebe of South Canaan recently presented us with map of the state of New York, published by Hum phrey Phelps, 1929. This map, size 16x20, is quite curiosity, showing the post routes and canals. There are no railways marked on the map, but ''pro- posed route of Great Western railway between Tappan on the Hudson river and Erie, Penn. is marked out. The Erie railroad was afterward built on cer- tain portions of this proposed route, though it diverges far from it at each terminus, also at many other points. The. profile of the Western (Erie) canal is given, also the Northern canal On the margin of the map are tables of dis tances between principal cities and towns, also Q statistical table of popu- lation, names of daily newspapers, etc.
 The Savage reading at Village Im- provement hall, Tuesday evening, June 3, was listened to by small, but appre- ciatiye audience. Miss Savage has a voice of wonderful power and compass and her selections were well calculated to display it, and reminded us of the story about the man who played the violin with great vigor and being asked if he played by note or by ear, replied "nathur, by main strinth, be jaburs. , Canaan people have about come to the conclusion that 1t is time to call halt on the modern style of public reading, which too much resembles the sensa- tional, the exciting, blood curdling dra- mas witnessed in many theatres, where the star actress or the heavy tragedian franticly clutches the air, raves up and down the stage, goes into mysteries or does some desperate deed. Now all this may possibly be elocution, reading, or even art, nevertheless it is not as pleasing to an audience as the good old style of reading, where the ideas, the sentiments of the author were clear ly brought out and the acting was dis pensed with.