Connecticut western news., 1885-12-02
HERE AND THERE.

Married, near Belden, NIT Amos Lay to Miss Jane Week.
 A Day is made, Week Is lost,
 But Time should not complain,
 For there will soon be Days enough,
 To make Week again.
 Morris Go. (N. J.) Herald.
 A Cornwall correspondent of the Winsted Herald reports In our ram- bles about town we notice the Hon. Theodore S. Colds 50 milch COWS are fat enough for tho butchers stall. His large stock of younger Holsteins also look very nice indeed, but some of the Rogers families stick to the Devons, and they are very handsome cattle. The oxen are spry and good workers. Quite Q good number of farmers still send their milk to New York via West Corn wall.
 The 2,5OO miles walking match be- tween Weston and O'Leary will begin at the Metropolitan rink in Newark, N. J., Monday, December '.
 The Winsted Press says '1t IS said l that Wm. l.. Gilbert has offered to give $4, GOO to Palmer post, G. A. R., of this village to be used for the erection of soldiers monument, in any spot in the | borough of Winted which the Post may l select, either with the funds now in the | hands of the post or without them. | The fund on hand, including the Frank | Brown bequest of 5000, is about S3OO0."
 According to the annual report of the Connecticut school fund commissioner the fund as now constituted consists of bonds and mortgages amounting to $l,- 670, POS. .3l, real estate valued at Sl42,- | 25S 36, bank stock worth Sl95, 5,845.61 | and cash in the hands of the treasurer $14,S1l.46. The amount distributed | for the support of public schools since the establishment of the fund Is S7, ,O63,- | 22S26. The average dividend per year has been $92, 454. 91. .OfLitchfield's cit izens, past and present, twenty-three have been judges of Superior or supreme courts in this or other states, three of these chief justices; four have been gov
 Patrick Murphy, station agent at Westport, Connecticut, became insane November IT and was taken to Hartford the same day for treatment The atiic- ted man was president of the Fat Mems association.
 Public speakers and singers find B. H Douglass x Sons Capsicum Cough Drops sure remedy for hoarseness. Sold everywhere. Price l5 cts. per or. pound.
 At the hearing in Hartford Nov IT on the application for Receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance company, Judge Granger suggested that the two parties to the cause confer with view to seeing if the case could not be short
 
 tered into an agreement, and the plain tiffs withdrew the suit, the defense to pay costs.
 Just give B. H. DOUGLASS & SONS CAPSICUM COUGH DROPS fair trial: they will relieve your Cough in- stantly. Thousands testify to this Sold everywhere. Price 15 cts. per ar. pound.
 The Woodbury correspondent of the New Milford Gazette says: Editor Wisegarver preached an excellent ser mon in the Methodist church recently. He IS a member of the Philadelphia conference, but found change neces- sary on account of nervous affection, and having a fondness for newspaper life, purchased the Reporter of A. E. Knox. He is iu every way capable of making the paper greater success than ever before"
 "For real merit, " says one of the most celebrated Prima Donnas, ''R. H. DOUG- LASS X SONS CAPSICUM COUGH DROPS for irritation of the throat are superior to anything I have ever used. Sold everywhere. Price 15 cts. per qr. pound.
 New Milford has the electric light. The first trial of the light was made on the evening of Nov. 12, and was per- feet success. Lights were started regu-' larly Inst evening, December l.
 The two hundred and fiftieth anniyer- sary of the settlement of Saybrook was commemorated last Friday, Nov. 27. The exercises were held at 10 o'clock @. m., in the Congregational church, which was beautifully decorated with flowers. The building was filled with large audience. After an organ volun- tary by Mrs c. P. Davis and the singing of a hymn by a chorus choir, the Hon John Allen took the chair, speaking q few appropriate words of welcome, after which the Rev Mir Paine of the Congregational church offered prayer. The chairman then introduced the Rev Professor Hart of Trinity college, who read paper on The History of the Early Settlement" The Rev Dr Noah Porter, president of Yale college. spoke on "Yale College at Saybrook." The Rev Dr Lewellyn Pratt, of the Hartford seminary, read a paper on ''The Say l brook Platform" After the singing of a part of Mrs Hemans's hymn, The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the 1 Rev John E. Bushnell of Fairfield spoke on ''Say brook in the Revolution. After an organ solo from Mendelssohn had | been given by MT Frank 1. Clark, the Rev Salmon Mccall of East Haddam, spoke of "The Division of the Old Colony" The Rev s. G. Buckingham of Springfield, Mass, read an address on Minister Buckingham and Family" l Mir E NJ. Chapman then read a short poem written for the occasion by Mir George w. Bungay of New York, after which the audience united in singing "America," and the benediction was pronounced by the Rev Mir Brush of l Grace church.
 | Frederick Webster of Sheffield, Mass, died in the Massachusetts state prison | November 23. He was sentenced to prison for 3I years for committing a | felonious assault on Chester Goodale of South Egremont, in September 1879, and five other indictments, including the breaking into and robbing Edwards store in Afford. He had a wife and several children, and was about B years old when the assault on Mir Goodale was committed. It Is reported that Webster confessed just before he diel that he murdered William Silvernail, whose body was found on the railroad track near the state line in West Stock bridge few months before the Goodale assault.