Connecticut western news., 1886-07-28


 having ruined many fields of the weed there. Hail also damaged the crop to considerable extent over iu the Housa- tonic valley. If tobacco is worth rais- ing it is worth protecting by insurance -TW Winsted Herald
 -"The Chinese (fans) must go," also the Swiss Qawn) and the Roman drap- ery), with Hamburgs, India lawn, para sols and large assortment of summer goods, all must go at R, H. Moore $ summer clearing sales at Great Barring ton, to make room for his fall stock. Now accept bargains when they are thrust upon you. See Mir. Moore's new advertisement.
 A coaching party from Tivoli, N. Y., tc the White mountains and return dined at the Warner House last Thurs day on their way home. They travelled with two s'Tally Ho" coaches and eight horses. A part of their number return ed home by rail from Springfield but the following registered at the Warner House: Mir and Mrs R. R. Livingston, New York; Miss Liliie Violet, New Or leans; Miss Campbell, Miss Mary Otis, Miss Martha Otis, Mir Marion Story, MT Ed P. Livingston, Mir R. l.. Clarkson, and MT F. Egerton Webb, New York.
 There has been some very handsome monuments erected in the East Canaan cemetery of late-a tall spire monument of very dark Vermont marble on the | family lot of John Lawrence; cottage monument with drapery on the lot of the late Nancy Lawrence and enclosed the lot with marble posts and railing which looks very substantial; also one for MT Pulver which is very handsome design. They are very finely finished and the work is tastefully done. They were all furnished from F. O. Andrus' s monumental works at Sheffield.
 Mrs Lizzie Johnson Emmons, wife of Charles J. Emmons of New Britain, and daughter-in-law of Charles Emmons of Canaan, died of quick consumption at the residence of her mother, Mrs Beach, widow of Smith Beach, at East Cornwall, on Saturday, July IT, aged 37 years. She was an exemplary christian and had been an active member of the New Britain Methodist church for 16 or more years and for number of years a faithful teacher in the Sabbath school. Her Joss will be deeply felt. Much sympathy is expressed for the bereaved husband, also for the little son, II months old, who is left motherless. The remains were taken to New Britain. where her funeral was attended at the residence of Fred Goodrich on Monday, July 19, at p. m., Rev Edward Bray of Southing- ton officiating. Burial at New Britain. l Conductor Michael Madden of the H. < 0. w. railroad is a faithful, relia- ble, courteous and popular employe, as his record fully proves. He entered the service of the original Connecticut Wes- tern railroad company soon after that corporation obtained its charter. He was employed in building the road and i has been identified with the company through its varied history and reorgan- ization, retaining his position as con- ductor until to-day he is the only man of the original compliment Of train men left on the road. In fact, none of the original board of directors, or officers o the road remain in the company's ser vice. Unlike "The last Rose of Sum, mer," he endures the hardships of win ter in twice daily crossing Norfolk hills yet"All his lovely Companions are faded and gone;" but we hope he will be re tained until the bonds reach par, whicl doubtless will be as long as any mal
 will want to live f
 At the July term of the superio
 court held at Pittsfeld, Mass, July 20
 Albert B. Dean, aged 21 years, of Can
 aan, Conn.,, was convicted of attempted
 rape on Lizzie Scoville, aged II years
 little granddaughter of Dr Scoville o
 Ashley Falls. The assault was commit
 ted April 28 as the child was on her wa
 home from school Judge Rockwell sen
 fenced Dean to 10 years in the stat prison at Boston with one day solitary The Pittsfeld Sun publishes the follow ing incident of the trial:-
 Mrs Dean, the aged mother of tn , young man sentenced to 10 years in tn
 state prison by Judge Rockwell O , Tuesday, was terribly affected by tn
 blow. She sat breathless awaiting tn
 sentence and when it was read she brok out in vail that was pitiful to heal Tears ran down her wrinkled cheek
 and she crept rather than walked to tn
 dock and hung on the boys neck an kissed and wept oyer him in the mos heart-broken way. She followed him l the wagon and then went sobbing an ! moaning on the street, occasional , kneeling on the sidewalk with her fac turned to the skies, her hands held u
 and piteous prayers gurgling from he t lips.
 U From the summit of the little kno : back of F. A. Peet's residence a fir view of Hon Robbins Battell's tower c l. Bearmountain in Salisbury can be o1 . tained. From the orchard few roc 'f southeast of said knoll magnificent vie e well repays for the few steps thither. 4 Il you face the east, at your right looms U | 10 md o11 -4o,. ola1 e ing away beyond Norfolk, while in tl