Connecticut western news., 1890-11-05
Local News.
Tar barrels are being cremated.

Tar barrels are being cremated.
 The mountains in this vicinity were white with snow last Sunday morning.
 -"Dave" Phillips, son of the Rev D. Phillips, of Lakeville, visited friends here last Saturday.
 About forty men are now employed in and around the Kelly mine near Boston Corners, N. Y.
 It is easier to slake the thirst of a bottomless barrel than to get along without Brussels soap.
 Mrs James G. Lowrey, of Pottsville, Pa, who has been visiting her sister, MrsJ s. Adam, will return home to- day.
 Charles s. Adam has 8 number of carpenters at work making extensive re- pairs and improvements on his tenant house.
 There is good supply of pigs this fall. Harry Sedgwick, of Cornwall Hollow, has 75 little squealers for sale at $2 each.
 The case of State rs. Michael Bion is assigned for trial on Tuesday after noon, Nov II, in the Superior Court at Winsted.
 The life and career of Oscar F.. Beckwith. the murderer, has just been published. The author is John M. Var ney, of Austerlitz.
 For a first-class organ, fully war ranted for six years, at lowest hving prices. call on or address w. A. DUN HAM, GenI Agent, Ashley Falls, Mass.
 LIN. VanDeusen is building con- crete walk in front of Christ church, and a concrete cross-walk from Fuller & Peet's store to H. D. Humphreys drug store.
 The work of digging the cellar for Mrs A. VanDeusen's house on East Main street is completed, and the North Canaan Water Go. will soon extend their line to a point opposite the premises.
 -E. R. Lorrain has several men at work blasting out the cellar for his new house on Prospect avenue. He is hav- ing quite a picnic with the rock, as everyone does who builds on that ave- nue.
 The registering system has been adopted by the Housatonic road. Dan bury, Bethel, Hawleyville, Branchville' and Wilson Point, are registering stations on the Danbury and Norwalk division.
 The Richmond iron company at Cheshire, Mass, are putting the fur mace in the good repair and will start up very soon on what promises to be a very good run. Considerable ore has already arrived. .......
 Rev F. w. Barnett is taking two weeks vacation. His pulpit was sup piled last Sunday by the Rev H. l. Bod ley, who is stopping at Mt Vernon, N. Y. Rev Elisha Whittlesey will supply the pulpit next Sunday.
 -Bub White, William Pond, and a young man named Simmons, went rab- bit hunting Thursday. and got eight rabbits. These with seven they didn't get. makes 15 rabbits, which is pretty fair days huntlng.-Winsted Citizen.
 The sleeping car train for Pittsfeld, leaving Bridgeport at 11.45 Saturday nights, and the New York sleeping car train, leaving Pittsfeld at 10 o'clock Sunday nights, have been discontinued on the Housatonic road for the season of 1890.
 The dependent pension law has given to the language new term. It is 'original widow" If a foreigner were to see the expression he would not un- naturally infer there was in the United States such thing as second hand widows. Journal.
 MT Harry Sedgwick, of Cornwall Hollow, was in town last Saturday. He is travelling agent for Shanley & Van Brunt, of Jersey City and Philadelphia, who are extensive dealers in fertilizers. MT Sedgwick has just returned from a successful trip through the state of Vir- ginia. He will soon move his family from Cornwall Hollow to Norfolk, Ct., where two of his children are attending the Robbins School.
 Eighteen persons assembled at towi, hall last Wednesday evening expecting to hear an agricultural political speech from Robert Pyne, of Hartford. They waited an hour but the speaker did no; put in an appearance, so the vast assem bly adjourned to their respective homes. On the following evening MT Pyn' arrived and talked to an audience of F or l5 persons. Those present say be gave them some good ideas.
 Charles E. Olds of Norwalk, gener al freight agent of the Housatonic rail road company and of the New York X New England Terminal Company, i' missing, being a defaulter, according t. General Manager Stevenson, of th' Housatonic road, to the amount o about $12OO. Mir Stevenson says tha both companies are amply protected from loss, as Olds had given bond fol much more than that sum through the Fidelity Casualty Company of New York New Milford Gazette.
 J. 5. Adam has just built labora