Connecticut western news., 1888-08-08

The M. E. Sunday school picnic at Twin Lakes this Wednesday, after noon.
 MT Thomas Abbe and sister, of Hartford, Conn.,, visited at The Grove" last week.
 Col Adrian Terry, brother of Maj. Gen. A. II. Terry, and family are visit ing at The Grove" Mrs Rose Terry Cook and husband, of Pittsfeld, Mass, are also expected for short visit.
 West Main street needs but one more improvement to render its appear ance charming, viz: many of the trees near the sidewalk need trimming. Some of the dwellers there have already trim med the trees in front of their premises but others neglect this duty. A portion of East Main street has been greatly improved by trimming the trees and 1t Is hoped that the entire TOW of stately elms will receive like attention.
 The carpenter work on the exterior of Julius Corbit's new house is nearly completed and one coat of paint has already been applied. The mason work on the interior is virtually completed j; all the ceilings and walls are hard finished and no paper hangings will be used at present. The edifice presents an imposing appearance. The lawn will be graded Q gentle slope from the street up, and when the entire premi- ses are finished it will be one of the finest places in town.
 -" Keep it out of the paper," is the request the local newspaper man re- ceives almost every week. To oblige often costs considerable, though the party making the request often thinks it hardly worth thank you." The sub scribers expect the news, and there is always wonder when for sweet charity them-an item on the street and in everybodoy's mouth is not in the paper. The editor who works honestly for the good of his town, will, as far as possi- ble, suppress all items that will dero- gate from the interest and good of his town ; but he rarely gets credit for this. A failure to note some scandal or row is often attributed to fear or favor, rather than the true reason-a desire to protect and perpetuate the fair name of the town -LNew Era.
 Last Friday forenoon, as Thomas Bartlett, of East Canaan, was peddling vegetables in this village, he left his horse in front of Q residence on East Main street while he stepped to the door. The horse immediately started on run, and in turning corner all the vegetables were thrown from the wagon, and the horse ran through Main street and jumped the fence into MT Drums yard on West Main street. Sev- eral persons attemped to stop the run away but did not succeed. Fortunately no one was injured and the only dam age done was broken shaft. That horse should be securely hitched when ever its owner leaves him in the street.
 Editor Beckley, of the Connecticut Western News, thinks that the prohibit tionists are injuring the cause of temperance Winsted Advertiser.
 Neighbor Godsoe, that is more sweeping statement than we made. Our remarks were in reference to the prohi- bition campaign in Litchfeld county only, and were drawn forth by che odious methods of some prominent prohibitionists in this county. Please quote us correctly ; the following is exactly what we did say in the NEWS of July 18th |:
 We believe in temperance we advo- cate it and we practice it and we would not lay straw in the way of the temperance cause, but at the same time we honestly believe that the methods of conducting the prohibition campaign in Litchfield county will injure the temperance cause far more than 1t will advance 1t.
 The Millerton ball team visited Canaan last Thursday and started to play game with the Canaan nine, and it promised to be quite interesting until the third inning, when it became evi- dent that the umpire was troubled with "change of sig ht" or something else, as it was impossible for the Canaan pitcher to get a ball over the plate and equally impossible for the Millerton pitcher to get one anywhere else, and after pitching what everyone who saw them (except the umpire) considered strikes and having them called "balls" until he was tired out, the Canaan pitcher threw up the game in the fourth inning, the score standing to in favor of Millerton.