Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22
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 A new watch to rival the Waterbury is manufactured in Thomaston.
 Danbury will apply for charter at the next session of the legislature.
 A stock company will soon be orga- nized te work the Bristol copper mine.
 New Milford has equipped it's fire department with a hook and ladder truck and accompaniments. Woodbury young ladies have orga- nized two base ball hines called the Dandies and Dudes.
 Ex-President Barnard, of Columbi college and Mrs Barnard are occupying their summer home in Litchfield.
 New England farmers will learn with pleasure that bird has appeared in Maryland which feeds upon the potato bug.
 Michael J. Butler, of Waterbury, employed in the Housatonic yards at Bridgeport, fell from train near New Haven and was fatally injured.
 General Harrison's 55th birthday occurred the 2Oth inst. He celebrated it by starting on his fishing trip to Middle Bass Island
 Twelve of the members of the old Litchfeld county regiment, the 18th, which formed part of Sheridan's army of the Shenandoah in 1864, are residing in Torrington.
 A coincidence the New York World points out: Gen Grant was buried on the second Saturday of August 1885. Gen Sheridan was buried on the second Saturday of August, 1888. Seth Green, United States fish commissioner, is critically i'll at his home in Rochester. The physicians fear that his death may occur at any moment.
 Major-G General John M Scofeld, by virtue of seniority in rank will assume the command of the army of the United States, left vacant by the death of General Sheridan.
 The second annual fair and cattle show of the Harlem Valley Agricultural Association will be held at Lakeside Park, Pawling, N. Y, on August 28th, 29th and 3Oth.
 The material used in the erection of the new depot for the H. x C. W. rail- road at Hartford will be light granite and red brick. It is to be two stories high and 2S 100 feet in size surmoun- ted by tower
 The building to be used for the new shoe factory in Winsted will soon be ready for occupation, and this enter prise will add materially to the growth of the borough.
 Litchield citizens desire more abundant water supply. but fear to introduce one into the town on the ground that it may bring malaria, which has never yet been known there.
 The court house at Winsted is ready to be turned over to the county con- missioners, and balance of $s721 of the appropriation of $1O,O0O made by the town of Winchester remaining unex- pended.
 Col James B. Gay, formerly resi- dent of Sharon, Conn, died at Wilkes barre, Pa, on the morning of August 18th. He was pay-master and secreta- ry of the Laflin Powder company.
 A reader of the Newtown Bee says that buffalo bugs can be killed out of carpets by applying equal parts of camphor, saltpeter, and borax, pulver- ized, sprinkled under the carpet and occasionally around the carpets edge.
 Six of the fourteen tons of white paper manufactured by the Bridgeport Paper Go. daily are used by the New York Journal, and the New York Press and Boston Herald take large part of the other eight tons.
 William H. May, editor of the Bridgeport Sun, was assaulted on We'd nesday, by an ex-alderman of that city, but received no serious injury. The assault resulted from quarrel in which the editor accused the alderman of dishonesty.
 Fred Allan, brakeman on the H. < x O. w. railroad while engaged in coupling cars last Saturday near the Winsted station had his left hand badly crushed by being caught between the bumpers of two freight cars Dr B. H. Welch dressed the wounded hand and hopes to save all the fugers. George G. Bishop, S6, of South Nor walk, who died Sunday evening, was for many years the agent of the Union Manufacturing company and was it's largest stockholder, and was director in other large companies. He began life poor boy and accumulated con-