Connecticut western news., 1886-10-20
HERE AND THERE.

 ast term of court at Litchfeld.
 George s. Rowe is appointed receiybr of the estate of R. s. Frary, Winstedl
 Lewis A. Garfield of Washington re- ports a crop of 300 bushels of Rose and Burbank potatoes from three fourths of an acre of ground.
 Two citizens of Lafayette, Ind, went to law about three cents, and after each had spent over $100 in showing his grit tho case was thrown out of court.
 The Bridgeport sash and blind manu- featuring company has made an assign ment with liabilities said to exceed $1S,- GOO and small assets.
 w. B. Allen, who has conducted a dry goods store at New Milford for the past 25 years. is closing out his business on account of continued i'll health.
 The Rev. John Smith, Methodist of South Vernon, Mass, was killed by the cars Friday afternoon, while walking on the track of the New London Northern railroad.
 The grape crop along the Hudson valley is enormously large Returns from 36 points show that the gross ton mage will exceed that of last year by 5000 tons.
 An adjourned meeting of the repre- sentatives of Litchfield county will be held at Litchfield November 16, to take action on the question of locating the county seat.
 The Torrington correspondent of the Thomaston Express says: "Ash Barrel Jim" was in town Sunday. He claims to be the first convert of the Salvation Army in America.
 The Winsted Advertiser says: Clifford Bristol, the rising young lawyer, late of this city, has gone to Canada to help es- tablish colony in company with Bar tholomew and several other noted indi- viduals.
 Crows are so numerous in the town of Waterford that at the town meeting re- centay held it was voted to pay five cents apiece for their extermination and al- ready large pumber have been shot.
 "Why is small boy like woman?" said New Hartford man to his trouble some wife No response. s'Because he will make man grown" said the conun- drumist. t.-Ne,c Haryord Tribune.
 The Poughkeepsie Eagle of October IS devotes column and half to an ac count of the work on the bridge. It says the preliminary examinations have all been made The contractors know the condition of all the work begun by their under way and in very short time 500 men will be employed there. Every thing reads like business. - Haryord Cou7dnt
 The following is vouched for by good authority: A woman lives in this village who has been in this country IT years and has eight children. During that time she has never been attended by Q physician, nor have her children ever taken Q dose of medicine, and further they are clothed the same in winter as in summer with the exception that they wear shoes and stockings during the cold seasons. Ihomasto,e Express.
 Eli Bailey of Brookfeld, Conn, and Edward Griffin went hunting on We'd nesday morning last. While Bailey was raising his gun to shoot squirrel, he brought the trigger in contact with Q ring strap in pair of rubber boots which he wore. The gun was dis charged, the contents striking Bailey in the face and head, killing him instantly. He leaves @ wife and three small chil- dren, the youngest but five days old.
 The Gaylordsville correspondent of the New Milford Gazette says A few Sabbaths ago IT persons were received in full connection into the Methodist church, as the fruits of Miss Swift's la- bors last winter, notwithstanding the criticisms of the Gazette e-Rev MT Hoag of Norfolk, formerly of this place, made us short visit on Tuesday, looking after ministerial help. He has revival at Norfolk. Some 30 persons have em- braced Christianity and among the num- Der are 20 young men.
 Bayard T. Putnam of the United States survey, committed suicide last Tuesday or Wednesday. His body was found on Thursday, hangiug to a tree on the summit of the mountain about four miles northwest of the famous cen traI shaft of the Hoosac tunnel near North Adams, Mass. Putnam had been troubled with temporary attacks of in sanity, but had been considered much better this year than last. He was about 3S years old, married and had @ small child. His family were left in Newport.
 The most common way of detecting @ twenty cent piece from quarter of a dollar, says bank cashier, is by the milling on the edge of the circumfer- ence. The first thing person does is to run his finger around the edges, and if he finds it milled he at once takes it for a quarter. This is not always safe way, as many twenty cent pieces have been purposely milled in order to de ceive. The safest way to detect one from the other. and the one that few know, is to observe the eagle on the back. On the quarter piece the eagle is looking over it's right wing and On the twenty cent piece over the left wing.
 The corner stone of the extension tc the Methodist Episcopal church edifice at Millerton, N Y, was laid with appro priate ceremonies on Monday, October II, by Rev Dr G. S. Hare, the presiding elder. The preliminary exercises were held in the lecture room. The pastor, Rev w. R. Webster, conducted the ser. vices and number of other clergymer participated. In response to Dr Hare's appeal $40O was raised then and there. A large number of articles and copies o1 newspapers and periodicals, also very interesting historical record of the church, prepared by MT H. B. Eagles ton, were deposited in sealed box ir the corner stone.
 The New Haven Palladium tells of 6 wonderfully small child, the daughter of David K. and Emily Peck Mix, who are now visiting the baby's grandmother in New Haven. It says: "The infant is two months and two days old and weighs
 two and a half pounds. She was borr at Long Lake in the Adirondacks, where her parents have heretofore resided, is ( well-formed child md healthy and car