Connecticut western news., 1888-05-02

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 Soda water has arrived.
 Trailing arbutus is in bloom.
 Franklin Brown is slowly improv- ing.
 Miss Nellie Moon was in town over Sunday.
 A. T. Roraback was in New York last week. Nelson Scott is home from Water bury for short vacation.
 Mrs L. V. Smith visited Mrs Nelson McNeil at Lime Rock last week.
 E. l.. Johnson of Newtown has been visiting friends in town this week. Thomas Paul accidentally ran a pitchfork tine through his hand last Saturday.
 Reuben Mcintyre has accepted the job of fireman on the Wilson Point freight train
 Mrs E. R. Lorraine and daughter. Belle, returned Saturday from their visit at New Milford.
 The tn ermometer was reported to be 118 c in the shade-no. no, we mean in the sun-last Friday.
 Irving Barnes is home on vaca- tion until September, from his medical studies in New York. ... A new and excellent sidewalk has recently been constructed between Dr. Eddy's and s. W. Barnes
 M. J. Callahan has been in town since Saturday. He will move his fam fly to Santa Clara, N. Y., this week.
 HI. M Adams has rented s. A. Ed dy's largest house, opposite J. A. Un- defwood's sash and blind factory.
 K. J. Munson of Millerton, N. Y., visited relatives here Monday. He re- turned last week from his southern and western trip.
 A. E. Mallory recently bought 8 handsome dark bay horse, but it don't match very we'll with his iron horse except in speed.
 Rev D. c. Stone visited New Ha- ven last week. He also went to New York to wish Rev. A. M. Boolgoorjoo box royaye for Turkey.
 -Messrs. A. P. Briggs and George W. Cowdry are the delegates from this town to the democratic convention which meets in Hartford to-day.
 R. W. Ford, formerly proprietor of of the Wononsco House, Lakeville, but latterly of Hartford, has taken the po- sition of clerk of the Warner House.
 Several Canaanites attended Maud Banks show at Ct Burlington last Thursday evening, but were not very well pleased with the entertainment.
 Delinquent taxpayers begin to be- HeVe in Merciful Providence inasmuch as the tax collector is afflicted with rheumatism, which retards his official duties.
 About ITO tickets were sold for the excursion to Hartford last Wednesday about 75 from this station and the remainder from East Canaan and Nor: folk.
 -J. s. Adam & Co.'S kiln is now run ming very nicely. The first week the mortar in the lining was damp and pro duced . steam, which to a certain ex tent slaked the lime and retarded the draft or combustion.
 The Hartford Times says: Engi meer Edward Bross, formerly resident of Winsted, and in charge of an engine on the Connecticut Western road, was Killed recently in railroad smash-ur in Florida.
 MT Louis B. Rood, of New York, { former resident of Canaan, died oI Saturday last. His remains will b' brought here this Wednesday, after noon and funeral services held in tn NJ. E. church at l o'clock p. m.
 HI. NJ. Irons, of New Egypt, N. J sends us the notice of the death of MT Marsh Holcomb, and he also writes "I cannot refrain from adding that ul to the last weeks of her life your pape was looked for with great eagerness Her memory travelled over nearly ninet years, embracing 8 great portion of tn history of Litchfeld county.
 -Some of the agents of the Connec ticut Humane society are issuing order to the butchers and farmers in genera to do away with that inhuman act of tie ing calves legs tobring them to market It has got to cease, and more sensibl plan than a crate has been suggested Every farmer is supposed to be possess ed of bag with loop string in the op ening. The calf is placed in the bag the string drawn around his neck and i .aken to market in 8 comfortable posi- tion.-I Hartford Evening Post.
 For nearly three years Mrs P. Cummings has been suffering with scirrhous cancer of the left breast. Sh recently visited New Haven and cousu tad Harlan P. Cole, M. D., Prof ( Surgery, Hahnemann Medical College Chicago. Ill. It was decided to remov the cancer by the use of the knif. Accordingly Mrs Cummings returne home and on Tuesday of last week D Cole and his assistant visited Nil