Connecticut western news., 1886-01-20

a pleasant day. Monday was cloudy. A snow storm commenced early Tuesday morning, but at this writing, 3 p. m. Tuesday, sleet is falling but enough snow has fallen to make very fair sleigh ing.
 David s. Cowles Post No. 60 G. A. R. will present the drama "The Confed- crate Spy" at Citizens hall, in Falls Village, Friday evening, Jan. p. Also at Village hall in Norfolk, Tuesday even ing. Jan 26 Reserved seat tickets, 35 cents, for sale at Capron's jewelry store in Falls Village, and at Messick & Cones store in Norfolk. General admission tickets only 25 cents.
 The Storrs agricural school at Mans field, Conn.,, has cost the state $32, ,0O0 which is just s32, GOO more than it is worth. The best agricultural school in the world is the common district school The state should never give 8 dollar for the support of any other schools, nor permit the school-mad theorists to swim dle the people by taxation for the SUD- port of any other schools.-W Winsted Press.
 The copy furnished us for the large posters of the David s. Cowles post drama ct Falls Village and Norfolk con- tained the names of the committee for the post as they appeared on the bills for the entertainment given ct Canaan December %, 1885. Rev. E. F. Atwood is not on the committee for the enter tainments given outside this town, and his name should not have appeared on the large posters for the drama at Falls Village and Norfolk.
 A Hartland correspondent of the New Hartford Tribune reports There have beenwithin short time three foggy spells and what little tobacco was raised in this vicinity has been taken down and nearly all stripped and is ready for the buyers. Tobacco is reported by the raisers to be frst-class whether the buyers will see it in that light remains to be seen. The crop in the Hollow is reported as sold to MT Soule of New Milford, at varying prices, running from III to 15a cents in the bundle, the latter figures to Robert Stewart & Son.
 Not . very pleasant time to have 2 picnic when the mercury is 24 degrees below zero, but still we had g regular picnic Tn our composing room until 8 o'clock last Wednesday morning bat ting with Jack Frost and trying to get papers enough printed for the morning mail, yet we did not fully succeed and were obliged to mail some damaged papers and finally to print half-sheets to make up the deficiency, for owing to some unexplained reason we evidently did not receive our usual number of "patent outsides."
 The song books Fresh Flowers" by Emma Pitt, and ''Gems for Little Sing CTS" by Elizabeth U. Emerson and Ger trude Swayne; published by Oliver. Dit son & Co.,, Boston, Mass. ,are charmingly adapted to young singers. "Fresh Flowers'' is especially adapted to the infant classes of Sunday schools, and "Gems for Little Singers" for primary and kindergarten schools. The selec- tions are excellent, "War Songs" for anniversaries and gatherings of soldiers, to which is added g selection of songs and hymns for Memorial day, also published by Oliver, Ditson & Co.,, is well con- piled and meets with great success. The new song published by them, entitled, "Only Beggar, Don't Go to the Door, |" composed by J. W. Wheeler, is quite patriotic and good.