Connecticut western news., 1890-12-10

Its OnOm1cal-BruSS0lSS soap.
 W. B. Hall < Co.'S excursion to Bridgeport occurs tomorrow, Dec 11th.
 Fuller X Peet have good assort- ment of sleds. skates, caps, hoods, silk handkerchiefs, ties, scarfs and fancy goods for the holiday trade, that are not mentioned i'll their advertisement.
 -He:-"My dear, if a husband went as prize with every cake of Brussels soap, what demand there would be for it by the ladies'" She:-"Oh they don't give away such cheap prizes with such good soap"
 A swindler representing himself to be Dr. Bacon, the Hartford oculist, IS operating in the western part of the state. He sells spectacles for BIO pair, which are probably worth about BIO dozen. In some places he gives the name of Dr. St. John. He is fraud, so look out for him if he comes this way. New Milford Gazette.
 To convince you that compositors can perform miracles we will state that the date in the copy for Chas M. Halls advertisement of his opening of holiday goods read Dec but compositor by the mere s'laying on of hands, changed the date so that it read Dec 13, when the advertisement appeared last We'd nesday. A different compositor has since performed similar miracle and now the date in the advertisement reads as it did in the copy.
 -Comical Brown and Miss Marguer- ite Bradgon drew full house last Fri day evening and pleased all by their variety entertainment consisting of vocal and instrumental music, sentimen- tai and comic songs, acts and sketches. Thirty-four years ago last spring Comi- cal Brown first appeared in Canaan and since then he has visited this place many times and he never fails to draw g crowded house. Keep coming you fun ny man, for the present and rising gen. eration need to be amused as the past one did.
 General Superintendent s. B. Opdyke Jr., of the Central New Eng land & Western Railroad, has resigned and expects to retire from h1s position as soon as his successor is appointed MT Opdyke expects to go into business for himself. lie is civil engineer, with a thorough, practical knowlege of hit profession. MT Opdyke entered railroad ing in 1879. On January 1st 1889 he be came superintendent of the old Hartford X Connecticut Western road and late1 on was given contol of the new corpora tion, the Poughkeepsie Bridge route May success attend him wherever h, locates.
 George Fitzpatrick, who works fo Frank McCarty at Charles Barnes Sons lime stone quarry, met with & painful accident last Friday morning. One o Mir McCarty's horses needed shoeing, 8 George was directed to take the aniha to blacksmith shop in this village. A , he was riding the horse down Railroa'
 street freight train was standing O
 the siding in front of the horse whe
 suddenly passenger train came rush ing down behind the horse. Such double dose of steam engines and tn noise of the passenger train frightene Z the horse and it crowded toward tn sidewalk and brought Georges right le
 in contact with post, with sufficien force to break the leg in two betwee f the knee and ankle. Notwithstandin his injuries, George clung to the hors and shouted for assistance which 500 s arrived and brought the horse unde 3 control. George was carried into Patric f Finnegan's house, and Dr 0. w. Gam
 was summoned. He soon arrived at
 companied by his brother, Dr Willia1
 Camp. who happened to be visiting hin
 The doctors reduced the fracture, an
 at 4 30 p. m. George was conveyed l oCo ku3c