Connecticut western news., 1888-01-11
OLEOMARGARLNE.

Hay is selling at $2O per ton in Cheshire, Conn.
 Only matrimonial matches are made at the Sulphur Springs of Virginia.
 A Poet sings "A little farther oh I shall find rest" Keep him moving.
 The Rev Dr T. Dewitt Talmage has been chosen chaplain of the Thirteenth regiment New York National Guard. to succeed the late Rev Henry Ward Beecher. .--'.l,
 The Rev Edward Anderson, chaplain in cheif of the G. A. R will deliver 8 lecture for the benefit of Palmer Post, at the rink in Winsted on Friday even- n., Jan 13. .~....
 Nothing succeeds like success. A year ago 8 young man came to Lee county to make his fortune, with only a valise and $2 in his pocket, he's got the valise yet and great hopes of catching the man who borrowed the $2.
 James Hendricks. brother of the late Vice President Hendricks died at Shelby vile, Ind, Jan after few days illness with lung fever, aged 56 He was the last member of the Hendricks family. and is the third to die within the last year.
 The twenty second annual meet lg of the Connecticut Temperance Union will be held in the first Methodist church at New Haven, January 18t4i Addresses will be delivered by J. N. C&o~o~c o~1 Do~ IT,. MIA ~kl,,,r og Me-, York. Rev Dr Reed, of New Haven; Rev Dr Blake. of New London and Mrs E. l.. Mclaughlin of Boston. <e<4ts ;
 Theodore Hilton is living in remotc quartAr of Paris in by no means affiuent circumstances. His dress is almost shabby and with his ha1r hanging about his shoulders he presents peculiar of the French capital. He does little literary work now and then, but writes with no regularity. ..,
 Wellington B. Smith, Winsted's pro- scouting attorney, is just now receiving many compliments from the good peo- pie of Terrvville for the effective mann- .ner in which he has pushed to the wall numerous violators of the license law there. And the bad people down there are supposed to cuss him with equal emphasis Winsted Herald.
 In coasting accident at .Torrington Friday night Miss Kittie Miller had a hip broken and was probably internally injured, and Miss May Marian and William Cooper were painfully bruised. The victims were among 8 party who were on double ripper when the steering apparatus became disarranged, causing collision with @ post. 'S
 We have been shown a remarahle time piece in the office of Abiel Rald- win, which ante-dates Grandfather's Clock by at least 100 years. Its geneal- ngv can be traced back over 200 years It is of French origin, very simple iu it's construction, with but four wheels. striking one every hour, and is good time-keeper. It was owned by the first Whittlesey who came to this town, and is now in the possession of Mrs Dr Brown, who is' the great great daughter of the aforesaid John Whittle:, sey. Long life to it -[ [Washington: Conn. correspondence in Litchheld Enquirer. :" N Y.
 The Hartford Courant publishes the. following story: Rector Capers of Lan; caster, Pa, says that when he was in South Carolina the colored population was good deal disturbed in mind ny the building in the town of Unitarian church. They spoke of it among them- selves as the "no-hell' church. On-. night it was burned down, Great was the rejoicing among the black champ ions of orthodoxy, says Rector Capers. 'sNow dem wicked sinners will come into de fol, ," they shouted. '1f deS can't stop de fah in dis worl'. dey can't stop it in de mex. Hallelujah!D no hell church burned down!' r -.sOn Saturday. Dec. 31, the body o. Harrison Ferris, the .' Lone Fisherman was found in eight feet of water at Waramaug Lake, near New Preston. His sled, milk-pail. hat and mitt+ns were frozen in the ice, above the body. He was last seen on Monday, Dec 26th at which time he visited the village ami purchased new pair of skates. It i> thought that he skated on to the thi' ice and struggled to get out until be became thoroughly chilled and the, gave up and went to the bottom, as til. new skates were found strapped to his feet. He was 51 years of age, and fn, IT years had lived alone in smal, house on the shore of the lake. He was veteran of the rebellion. and will, his pension he built the house where he resided. =
 The Litchfeld Enquirer says: Eli Bunker, who died recently, was half: breed Indian, the last of the Cornwall Bunker family. About thirty years ago he bought a small place in the southwest part of Goshen. inst south of Mohawk mountain and tower, and ha,t resided there until his death, most of the time alone. For 8 number of vear> he supported himself by basket making and the tillage of his land, always -hav- ing an excellent garden with some vegetables to sell. Latterly he had been provided for from the Indian fund of the Schagticoke tribe in Kent, Conn.,, to which he belonged. This fund is controlled by the State and is in the hands of an Indian agent appointed annually by the court. He was buried near his relatives in Cornwall"