Connecticut western news., 1888-09-12
OLEOMARGARINE.


 Torrington is to have fire engine costing $4,0O0.
 Norwalk is to have new shoe facto- ry employing 150 hands.
 Hartford insurance companies sustain losses to the amount of $38, 75O by the recent fire at Baltimore. ..
 Governor Hill, of New York, says he would "rather have the support of the saloons than of the churches. Berk- shire Courier. .t- -
 Lawrence Potter and Robin Vaill, son of Editor Vaill, of the Winsted Herald, enter Q military academy at Bor dentown N. J., this week.
 Prof Frost, late of the Housatonic Valley Institute al Cornwall, has accep- ted the position Of principal of the Meriden high school.
 The 2Oth annual meeting of the Litchfeld Northern Conference will be held in West Cornwall, Wednesday, Sept 25th.
 Winsted had ireman's parade on Thursday, and it's inhabitants are very proud of the result. All the companies were uniformed and presented very satisfactory showing.
 The republicans of Winsted have built log cabin which is furnished with chairs, table and reading matter and lighted with electriclty.-[Hart- ford Courant.
 The 75th birthday of Henry c. Bowen editor of the New York Independent, was appropriately celebrated on Tues day by his ten children and eleven grandchildren.
 During the recent excavations for the new buildings at Yale college, fifteen copper pennies and twelve silver coins were found, some of them valuable tor their antiquity.
 Tobacco buyers have visited some of the Housatonic valley farmers during the past week, the prices they offer are slightly better than those prevailing last year. The crop is said to be an excellent one
 There have been large number of cases of diphtheria at Newburgh, N. Y, lately and over 40 deaths from the disease. The opening of the public schools has been postponed until the 17th instant.
 Jake Brown, the Bridgeport colored man who was sentenced to life impris- onment for killing his wife, has become insane, and if the derangement con- tinues it will necessitate his removal to the asylum at Middletown.
 A contract has been made by the Housatonic railroad company with Mir John Viola to set up iron turntables at Wilson's Point, Great Burlington and West Stockbridge, and to complete the bridge at New Milford
 Dr George M. Teeple, of the drug firm of Curtis & Teeple, of Bridgeport, died suddenly at his residence on Thursday evening. The cause of death was the bursting of a blood vessel in the head while vomiting.
 All Saints Memorial church at New Milford will be consecrated on Tuesday, September 18th, by the Bishop of the diocese, Rt Rev. J. Williams, D. D. L.. l.. D. The service will be very inter- esting one, and many clergymen will be present. !
 Eli Ransom, a Colebrook man, recent ly drove into Winsted and left his horse in the shed of the Congregational church and went on an excursion to Coney Island. The horse remained all day without food and water and a warrant has been procured by the Humane society for the arrest of the man.
 Cornwall is spoken of by an exchange as becoming popular vacation resort for clergymen. Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale college, Rev Samuel Scoville, of Stamford, Rev Wayland Spaulding, of Poughkeepsie, and Rev D. M. Pratt, of Higganum have all sought rest and recreation within its peaceful borders
 An item in the New York Press says that Fair Haven, Cayuga county, is said to be the only village in the United States that has two post offices within its corporationl limits, Fair Haven an6 North Fair Haven. Winchester, Litch field county, claims distinction in thi: matter. There are in this town, one post office in Winsted, one in Wes Winsted, one sub office midway, between these two and one in Winchester center Also four railway stations within tht