Connecticut western news., 1891-01-07
Local News.

Local News.
 Mir Fl. P. Barnum, of Wetogue, IS very ill with kidney complaint.
 -Monday's snow storm banned out about four inches more sleighing.
 -Photographer Deming has closed his gallery at Canaan for the present
 -"Curfew must not ring tonight" but the Choral Union will make Wm Smiths house ring tonight.
 Contributors are favoring ua with a shower of cat stories ed dog stories, "and still there's more to follow"
 -Messrs Junius and Lewis Rhoades and Fred Parmalee caught s1 suckers in the Blackberry river last Thursday.
 The Hartford Courant came out Nov Years day in dress of new type, which makes it present an improved appearance. -- -.
 Hay is seldom cheaper than straw, vet J. N. Van Deusen is now paying $l1 per ton for rye straw but only $S per ton for hay.
 The January thaw began business promptly with the new year, but con- cluded to take rest after working 4o consecutive hours.
 The sixth lecture in inc course will be given at town hall on Tuesday eve ming. Jan l3. by the Rev John Green leaf Oakley, D.. ID. subject: Elements of Success"
 / James Keenan, who for some years has been road master of the O. N. B. X w. road, has resigned. His place i, taken by MT Eagan from the west end of the road.
 The next meetings of the Literary society will be held at Armory hall on Friday evenings. Janpary g, at o'clock and January Is at 7.3O. All are cordial ly invited to attend.
 Mrs Lucy Crane, who boards at the Warner House, has been very Ill with . cold, which would be called la grippe were the influenza prevalent here, but she is improving.
 The Sunday mail service on the Housstonic road has been discontinued but the Sunday passenger train still runs. and Sunday papers can be obtain cd of the newsboy on the train.
 A mans ears arc placed in such way that he may catch the things that are said in front of him. A mercifn' Providence never intended that he should hear what is said behind his back.-Atchison Globe.
 A newspaper man tells his experi- ence. He says: "The longer we run newspaper and write about people and events the more we realize how utterly impossible it is to scratch every man on the spot where he itches the most"
 In editing correspondence this week we noticed that there were just exactly @ many marriages in Great Barrin gtol as mortgages recorded there during 1890. It appears that all Great Barring ton mortgages are summarily foreclosed.
 We are asked if the proposed Canaan hospital has eloped with the proposed Great Burlington casino ? Shouldn't wonder if they had skipped out over the proposed bridge across th' Housatonic river opposite this village.
 Oscar T. Earl, son of O. T. Earl, oi Bridgeport, died at the hotel in Ashle, Falls st g 40 .. m., Duc 18th, of hemor rh.ee of the lungs. Mir Earl had beer boarding at the hotel for some time and was under the care of Dr Camp, of thir place.
 For nearly month past the Meth odist parsonage has virtually been 8 hospital. The first patient was the youngest child of Rev and Mrs Barae- wanath. The little fellow was danger ously i'll for 10 days with bronchitis an'' pneumonia Mrs Barsgwanath was nex' taken i'll with Ia grippe and was yer. sick at Christmas time, About the mid de of last week the oldest Child wa taken very ill and for three or four days vss delirious. He is now rational but has symptoms of the humps.
 Miss Cordelia Fem, daughter of the late Daniel B. Fenn, died at he, home in Stockbridge, Mass, last Fri day, aged about 63 years. Several months ago she was stricken with paral ysis and has since remained in feeble condition. It will be remembered that her nurse, Miss Laura M. Stevens, died suddenly of pneumonia the 18th ofDec. Mrs Lucy Crane, now boarding at the Warner House in Canaan. was school. mate of Miss Fem and the acquaintance then formed has always been continued. Mrs Crane says: Miss Fenn was the most self-eacrificing person l ever knew Her whole life has been passed in caring for others-
 Don't fail to read Dr Talmage', New Years sermon. published on ths first page of this issue of THE NEWS. Il s .n enthusiastic yet grand and timely appeal. The preface to the sermon rightly says: Ut is . ringing battle ery to ministers and Christians every where, calling upon them to join Tn combined charge on the intrencbments of sin and Satan" Dr Tslmage descri hes the revival of 1857. He thinks tn.