Connecticut western news., 1888-01-18
WEDNESDAY, JAN. Is, 1888.
Local News.

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 Many are harvesting ice this week.
 Another January thaw-la>t Sun- day.
 -Edwarl Pease is visiting relatives at Rutherford Park, N. J.
 The mercury was down to zero again last Monday morning.
 Mrs Lowania Smith, of Nebraska, is visiting her sisters, tue Misses Norton.
 Mir and Mrs s. W. Barnes visited friends at Greenville, N. J. last we. k.
 In the Railroad Rhymes" pub- lished in last weeks NEws the date should have been 1887 instead of 1887.
 The vital statistics of the town of North Canaan for the year 1887 are as follows Births 27, deaths 20, marri. ages II.
 -J. A. Underwood is visiting his sister at Louisville, Ky. He left home two weeks ago and stopped at Chicago to visit his nephew.
 Albert Bullarl commenced clerk ing in Fuller < Peet's store last Wed nee lay, In place of Jessie Drum, who is now attending school here.
 Harry Sedgwick and family, of Corn wall Hollow, last Wednesday moved to Canaan for the winter, and perhaps longer. They are boarding at H. P. Tr.cy'a
 Ladies! If your father, husband. son, or brother neglect to pay their newspaper subscription it is your leap year privilege to nag them about i, until they do pay it.
 The middle aged as we'll as the younger portion of the community have had . glorious old time in coasting on Prospect and Main streets during the present month. Although four doubl. rippers ara in use no accident has yel occurred. Thanks to kind Providence
 William Bennett had two sheel. killed by dogs and others bitten two weeks ago. Last week he had four more sheep badly bitten and six or eigh, slightly bitten, and the same night three or four of s A. Eddy's sheep were bitt- on.
 Mrs NJ. A. Peet has rented NJ. Callehsu's houss on Prospect street. and will go to housekeeping there l.. the spring. Mr Csllehan is superinten- dent of the Northern Adirondack rail road, and he will probably take hi~ family to that region.
 The Scientific American, publishe. by Mum < Co.,, New York, present weekly to it's readers the best aud mosl reliable record of various improvements m machinery, while the scientific pro- gress of the country eau in no way b gleaned so we'll as by the regular perusal of its pages.
 -Yesterdsy was the 10th anniversar, of Mir and Mrs O. P. Gillette's marrl- age. Instead of giving them a geuuin. tin wedding their friends called on them during the afternoon and evening and presented them with provisions and other articles, which were certaiul.. more acceptable than tin shop woul,, have been.
 -Pst Maloney and his Irish Comed. Co.,, arc billed to show at Town hal, Canaan, on Ssturday evening Jan. 2l, when they will present. the laugsble play entitled (" McGiuty's Trip to the Centennial" The simple suuouuce- ment that ' Pat" will be there Is suh cient to hll the house, for everyb body knows that it Is we'll worth the price oi admission to gaze on the .'spalpeen."
 The attention O: senators and repre- sentatsves of Litchfield county, the Seats Board of Charity and all other> whom 1t may concern, Is respectful, called to the fact that there are now confined in the old jail on Litchieli Hill, with but l7 cells, between 55 anu 60 prisoners and that there will be no criminal term of the superior cour, until April.
 Many of our subscribers when remitting the cash for 8 renewal of their subscripti ms have taken occasion t., express their appreciation of and pref erence for the NEWS Their kind words gre encouraging and are appreciated. notwithstanding we do not make 2 prac- tice of publishing their letters. Tn. following from . letter dated Hartford, Jan. IA. 1858. and written by John A Decker, formerly of Falls Village, will sesve a . sample of many of the letter- received i've eat to live. w. live t.. cat, but what is home without the NEWS ?"
 -E.lward Winters, of Huntsville. was arrsignei before Justice flakes, of th.. town of Canaan, Jan 4th, for an assault upon his niece, W-lthy Winters, little girl mt quite six years of age. From