Connecticut western news., 1885-01-28
WEST CORNWALL.

her cousin, Miss Alice New, at R. N. | Cochrane's, last week.
 Frank Hallett of Bridgeport spent the Sabbath at A. Yutzler's.
 Theodore s. Gold Esq, returned from the New Orleans exposition, last week.
 Earl Stevens deserted the Kent tobac- co warehouse and put for home, last week.
 Miss Jennie Mallinson, who has been in New York several months, returned home, last Friday.
 The ice harvest has commenced and all are putting in a supply from the very accessible dam of the Union shear com pany's works.
 Mrs Laura Emmons is visiting her sister, Mrs J. c. Chamberlain, in
 Bridgeport.
 Mrs Noah Baldwin is reported on the sick list, also Mrs George vollmiller was seriously i'll last week.
 dime sociable will be held at Geo
 c. Harrison's, this evening, where the
 drawing for the new Remington sewing
 machine takes place.
 Messrs Walter Mallinson and Frank
 Snyder returned from the west last
 week, and surprised very pleasantly their
 friends in this vicinity. It is hardly
 probable they will return to Dakota
 again.
 Last Wednesday afternoon, according
 to the ''large posted Bill, and exciting
 cir-curious" was presented in oriental costume, at the Red House arena, to
 half score of our tradesmen, by the
 notorious ''Jersey critter" of the male persuasion, owned by Albert Shepard. Preparatory for the short journey to the , butchers block of Cochrane Bros, the glittering nose ring was gently inserted } for the special benefit of the " chief ) engineer" of all such courageous exploits the brave and muscular " Billy. |" } Lastly, the lengthy lasso was cautiously } slipped over the wide spread horns, for
 the consideration of the more fearless When the doors swung open and the , word " go" was " went " and " gone, ''
 before the tail end of the procession,
 which was being snapped like whip,
 could scarcely stop to wink. The "en-
 gineer" was about as true as " hammer ed steel" by this time to the nose lever ) and put " down brakes " whenever the t ''animile'' performed his ''feat" in mid air. All this was amusing enough 'tIll 3 the 'tristed manilla broke and then f such display of mems ''soles" ip every - direction toward mountain, rock and 3 tree, giving as a parting salutation to their leader, '' Hang to him, Bill D l One nimble brother perched on the hay ) nov, all out of breath, squeaked out, ''Do you see anything of Bill and the bull ?" Another ''George the second " t slid up an old hickory tree as if greas- t ed pole, with the agility of rat, to take 2 a birds eye view of the scene, when his l slender perch snapped and he bumped s Mother Earth with ''thousand of brick ? thud, and the object of danger 50 feet t away, performing with the sapling, that ! still had '' Bill so firmly fastened to
 it. These circumvolutions continued 9 for breathless space of time to those r in the tree tops, and not till he was
 brought to a dead stop against the stone l wall did any breath easy. At th1s epoch 3 the old army carbine was brought and s Bill shouted to his comrades, Stand = the grounds your own, my bearers, " while prepare to fire {; but owing to l his extreme exertions in trying to pre- l. serve his equilibrium, the visions of a mince meat and corned beef hash that l. danced before his mind. caused his un-
 steady hand to miss the dead center and , break the bridge of the '' critters" nose 6 instead. This was quickly followed by a few "sledge hammer" blows from the pale-fa veteran butcher, which level I ed the internal machine" to the ground F It is thought William actually turned as
 many twists while hold of that protect , ing rod, as did the serpent in Aaron's , day, and he relates in doleful tones this
 hair breadth escape with positive dec- r laration that his butchering days are
 from henceforth and forever no more
 ''bully" ones for him.