Connecticut western news., 1891-04-22
Local News.

J. s. Adam moved his labatory to his new place last week.
 Forty tickets were sold at this sta tion for W. B. Hall & Co., excursion to Bridgeport last Thursday.
 Rev D. c. Stone preached in Sharon last Sunday, Dr Eddy occupying the pulpit at the Pilgrim church.
 The cellar on H. D. Humphreys building lot on West Main St, is fin ished and ready for the carpenters,
 MT A. W. Nicoll. of Yonkers, N. Y., spent 8 few days last week at the War ner House, with his son, H. J. Nicoll.
 Mir Miles Ingraham, has returned from his three months sojourn atWash- ington D. O. and he is now boarding at the Warner House.
 The supply of oil at the oil kiln gave out last week, and 1t was necessary to suspend business until new supply could be obtained.
 MT and Mrs Theodore Adams have moved to East Canaan, where they have begun house keeping over the store owned by Mir Adams father. It is rumored that Dr H. A. Church has purchased the property. known as the Watson farm, situated in the north part of the village. This is the most desirable un-utilized building property in this vicinity.
 On the first day of May new train will leave Winsted at a. m., for New York, via. the O. N. E. x Harlem road, arriving in New York at 1918. and this train will leave New York at 4.3O p. m. for Winsted. ed.-Evening Citizen.
 MT Fred Loder has resigned his position as engineer on the o. N. E. x w. road and has taken similar posi- tion on the Long Island railroad. Mrs Loder and Freddie went to New York yesterday which place they will make their home.
 -"When I want drink, take it. "- Hugh O. Pentecost. ''He would be a fool to take it when he didn't want 1t. And as for taking it when he does want it, donkey can do that. But it takes a man to refuse drink when he wants it."-R. G. Burdette.
 Daniel Sullivan, who recently nov ed from Ancram, N. Y. into one of A. trip as brakeman last Friday. On his return at Copake his right hand got caught between the bumpers, crushing it badly. Dr H. A. Church dressed the wound.
 The Ridgefeld Press says: The summer scedule will go into effect on the Housatonic road and its divisions about the middle of May, when the New York and Pitts6eld express will be put on again. The express will run by the way of South Norwalk, Bethel and Hawleyville again this season.
 One who knows tells what la grippe is, and this is the way he describes it.: Twelve parts influenza, 12 parts catarrb |, 24 parts malaria, 10 parts neuralgia, 8 parts muscular rheumatism, 10 parts sciatica, parts asthma, 12 parts gastric or stomach fever, 16 parts headache and pains through the eyes, all called cold and ends up by having pneumonia.
 By request THE NEWS has frequent ly call attention to the subject of estab- fishing hospital at Canaan but the majority of Canaanites seemed indifer- ent to the project. Not so with the Osborne family, however, who have temporarily established hospital of their own. On Friday last Mrs Osborne was attacked with Ia grippe. Saturday night Mir Osborne was severely attacked with grippe accompanied by symptoms of typhoid fever Maitland Osborne Jr. began to have symptoms of the '. grippe on Friday but by sheer force oi will, kept up until Monday night when he gave up and is now confined to his bed.
 The house on the Andrew Bar tholomew farm, about one mile west o Ashley Falls, narrowly escaped being burned to the ground last Friday after noon. Charles Lyod occupies the house and one of his children, while alone was seized with the idea of what the effec. would be of applying light ed match to some straw banking under alpiazza The piazza and siding of the house were burned, and it was only by 8 great effort that the house was saved.
 It is reported that the c. N. B. W.road will soon return to their second love, (their first love was spring ant water tank near H. P. Barnums il Weatogue) the North Canaan Water Go and will erect mammoth water tanl on the side of the recently discarded water tank at Union depot and they vii then abandon their pumping station a the Black berry river. A large amour of money was expended last fall i constructing trestle, coal yard an steam hoisting apparatus near tn Blackberry river but they have neve been used and the locomotives continu to be coaled up at the old site wher the coal is hoisted in buckets attache to derrick worked by hand.
 The Litchfeld County Sunda School Superintendents Convention 8 the M. B. church in this place yestel day was rather slimly attended. Onl