Connecticut western news., 1885-01-28

l post, last Wednesday evening.
 A snow storm commenced Friday night and made good sleighing, but an other thaw on Saturday afternoon anG Sunday spoiled 1t, although yesterday morning the mercury was below zero.
 The Pine Plains Herald says ''There are thirty-t two thousand miles O. elevated railway in New York city. Golly what elevated figures. Neigh Dor Hoag we will believe your story il you will take off 31, 969 miles.
 In former times, at this season ot the year, after having January thaw il was customary to remark ''the back bone of winter is broken" This winter does not appear to have any backb bone. Per haps some bank cashier has taken 1t t, Canada.
 Joseph L. Leffingwel of Clayton, Mass, disappeared Saturday morning, Jan. 24. He Is Is years old, weighs l6L pounds, 5! feet high. His father, Lew Lefingwell, offers suitable reward for his return or for information ot his whereabouts.
 There is something to be learned from our Goshen correspondence every week. One lesson was Be deacon If you want to be a successful fisher man." Our Canaan ex-hsh peddler thinks if he could only have Dea Wad hams luck, it would pay better to catch fish than to peddle them. This week our correspondent has moral for the boys.
 The roller skating craze has struck a number of places in this vicinity. Al ready Winsted has splendid rink, and now Unionville, Great Harrington, Mil lerton and Pine Plains have caught the infection and will build rinks. There is no danger that these rinks will be the scene of matches at saving wood for poor widows or orphans.
 -Messrs E. R. Lorrain and c. H. Johnson were in New York last week and were shown through Mir B. Grotta's five story tobacco warehouse, 148 Water street. They were we'll pleased with the evidence of thrift and prosperity and report that Mir Grotta sells tobacco only by the case or bale, and does not manufacture cigars or retail tobacco, not withstanding some persons have circu- lated such story.
 To illustrate how an item gets twist ed going the rounds of the papers, we clip the following from the Poughkeep- sic Eagle of Jan. 24:-
 Mr.and Mrs. Gillettee of Canaan, Mass, have just celebrated their rseventeethwed- anniversary in the house in which MT. Gillettee was born and has lived for nine ty years.
 Our readers know what the original item was and can enjoy the comp' sition and typographical errors of the above
 A fair sized audience greeted Rev E. F. Atwood at Village Improvement hall last Friday evening and listened att tentively to his instructive lecture, 'The Wonderland of the Gr,at Northwest. !" The dominic says he talked 60 minutes, but 1t did not seem over 20 minutes so interesting was the lecture. We would gladly have listened another hour, in fact 1t would require ses eral hours to do the subject justice and even then the half would not be told, but the Rev will soon give us another feast, entitled: "rhe North American Indians, Their Past, Present and Future"
 -''Did he kill the owl ?' Yes, Rev David Phillips hit the mark in his ex crllent lecture to young people, last Sunday evening. Subject: Elements of success, or the boy who wins" The advice was excellent and the lecture was worthy of large audience. Wherever the dominic is stationed in the coming conference he ought to deliver that lec- ture during his first two instead of his fast two months residence then he will have the satisfaction of witnessing the g 'od resulting from such splendid lecture.
 Rev O. J. Range of Guilford deliv- cred one of his characteristic temperance lectures in the M E church last Mon lay evening. He does not weary an au- dience with an array of statistics of liquor annually consumed, or the num- Der of drunkards 1t causes, but confines himself to stating the effect of alcohol on the human system and how it pois- ons and destroys mans physical, men, tai and moral faculties; in other words he breaches temperance from physi- ological, financial, social and religious standpoint, and he never fails to inter- est and instruct an audience. -Yesterday forenoon as A. J. Ander- son, S. A. Eddy's tenant farmer, was crossing the H. x c. W. railroad track near the Catholic church, with a span of horses, the 10:38 train came rushing past and collided with the team, killing one horse instantly and iniuring the other so it had to be shot to put it out of misery. MT Anderson leaped from the wagon and was only slightly injur. ed, although 1t was narrow escape fol had he remained in the wagon he un doubtedly would have been thrown 1T front of the locomotive. The wagon
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