Connecticut western news., 1885-04-15
HERE AND THERE.

April went out like a lamb" sa, :, Fritz. Wait while, sonny; if Apr @ should go out like turpentined terri' @ you'll be sorry you said that. .-NorWd
 Gazette
 . The plan of Vice-President Reed fC having the railroad tracks at Hartfor pass above Asylum street and for built ing an elevated depot there, the tot expense to be $25O, GOO, has been adop ed by the special commission represen ing the state commissioners, the city an the railroad companies.
 One of the saddest cases of family be reavement that has lately been recorde is that of family in North Bridgeport which has in less than 8 weeks tim
 been reduced from six to two persons
 Thursday, March 26, Frank Cromwell
 died, aged six years; on Saturday Ella
 Cromwell died, aged eight years; ol
 Sunday Lewis Cromwell died, aged Il
 months. These were children of Olive
 and Eliza J. Cromwell. Yesterday Eliza
 the mother, died at the age of p years
 leaving her husband with one daughter five years of age. The children were first afflicted with measles, which dis ease was contracted by the mother, pneumonia following quickly with the above results. - Bridgeport .Samdd''d, April l.
 The war cloud in Europe is bigger than a mans hand. It now seems prob able that England will in a day or two declare war with Russia. The prices of breadstuffs are rapidly advancing in Flu rope and America.
 Representative Shaw, a democratic member of the Illinois legislature, died on Saturday. The legislature is again a tie on party questions and the result of the contests for U. s. senator is thus still further postponed.
 A dispatch dated Newark, N. J.,April 13, says: Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen's s condition is unchanged, and he is still weak and unconscious.
 The short haul bill has passed both branches of the legislature.
 General Grants condition remains nearly unchanged and there is no per manent improvement, although at times he appears quite comfortable, but these respites are followed by seasons of rest lessness, suffering and exhaustion, and ''he is growing weaker-sometimes al- most imperceptably, but nevertheless weaker. On the average he will prob- ably be weaker each succeeding week until he dies. There is ground for hop ing that the patient will live until he is carried away by the cancer itself. That may be two or three months possibly, ,or by 6 remote chance even longer. If he dies before the cancer kills him it will probably be of strangulation by swell ing in the throat, or ss 8 result of hem orrhage, or else from py@mia."
 Many republican postmasters in Connecticut undoubtedly could have held their office during Cleveland's ad- ministration, had they last fall obeyed the civil service rules and attended strict ly to the duties of their office, instead of taking prominent part in the canvass,  using their official authority or influence with voters, and making themselves and Blaineism odious.
 John H. Templeton of Millerton. N. Y., died April II, in the 46th year of his age. His funeral was attended yesterday at the Presbyterian church in that village. Rev W. G. Westervelt and Rev Robert Hunt conducted the services at the church and Rev R. Hunt officiated as chaplain in the ceremonies of masonic burial. MT Templeton had been postmaster at Millerton for seven years and was much respected.
 Agent Norton of the Housatonic road says: since March l business has picked up considerably, but that last winter was the very dullest one he had ever known. Fireman Ezra D. Baker, for eight years employed on the Housatonic road, has left railroading and is now en- gineer at the Terry clock factory Des- pite the indictment weather H. A. Mason at East Windsor chopped and piled 56 cords of wood during the month of March, walking three miles each way to and from his work. Rockwell Post is represented on the staff of the com mander-in-chief of the G. A. R. by Col Walter Cutting A new counterfeit $20 gold piece, of date of 1880, made it's appearance in Boston Tuesday. It is made almost entirely of lead, from 8 cast of genuine coin and battery gild- ed. It is of good appearance, and has metallic ring, but is readily detected by its light weight and 8 slight cut will at once reveal the base metal beneath the thin gold coating. At least one was passed in Boston on Tuesday. This is the first counterfeit of the double eagle ever reported John Pomeroy of West Stockbridge Centre is ill with fever. Last week he lost fine Jersey COW for which he paid $500. Mir Pomeroy is of the firm of Houghtaling & Pomeroy, merchants, in Housatonic. Recently they purchased horse of J. Dewell, of his own raising, and another of E. To- bey, to drive together. On April 1 the Hudson mining company at West Stockbridge Centre increased the pay of it's employees from 90 cents to $1 per day. The workmen demanded $1.25, which L f......l H. l.e eL ----...1- xrr