Connecticut western news., 1891-08-20

Rev Hiram Eddy, ID. h., occupied the pulpit at the Pilgrim church last Sunday morning
 M. l. Osborne, ST., attended re- union of his regiment, the 29th Maine Volunteers, at Portland, last week.
 Judge Roraback is camping on Mt Riga, with Lawyers Warner, of Salis- bury, and Nickerson, of West Cornwall.
 The annual convention of the county commissioners of the state will be held at Norwich, on Thursday, August 27th.
 The excursion to Saratoga via c. N. B. X W. road last Saturday was not largely patronized. No tickets were sold from this station.
 Eleven heavily loaded cars made up the S. H. Harris Division of Odd Fellows excursion from Bridgeport to Pittsfeld last Saturday.
 No Camp Meeting trains are run this week, though excursion tickets for Pine Grove, good on all regular trains are sold from all stations.
 At the annual state convention of the O. U. A. M. for Connecticut and Rhode Island, F. c. Clark, of Falls Village, was elected Vice-Councillor.
 Martin Rood, clerk at Fuller x Peet's, is having his vacation, which he is spending in New York and elsewhere. Watson Hardenbergh takes his place in the store.
 Mir and Mrs D. L. Freeman and Miss Minnie Peirce returned from two weeks sojourn at Chateaugay Lake in the Adirondacks. Misses Alice Peirce and Lena Freeman remained and are to board there during the summer months.
 The New York College of Veterin- ary Surgeons offers to the Board of Ag- riculture a free scholarship for the benefit of some worthy young man of limited means. Applications should be made to the secretary, T. s. Gold, West Cornwall, Conn.
 At the Methodist church last Sun day morning, the Rev B. c. Warren, of Sheffield, preached most excellent ser mon from John III-9. In the evening the Rev T. s. Bond delivered sermon full of practicable every day hints from IT. Corinthians II-2.
 Last Monday Mrs Maria Adam and Mrs Lucy Crane changed their board ing place from the Warner House, where they have been for the past year, to Mrs Smiths. Mrs Crane is recovering rapid ly from the severe injury she received July 1st, by falling down the stairs at the hotel.
 The fifth excursion for Saratoga via Housatonic road passed here at 1.15 p. m. last Monday. President Harri- son and party are at Saratoga this week and on account of the unusual rush the number of tickets for the Housatonic excursion was limited, yet there were nine we'll filled cars.
 An excursion train of four passen- ger coaches and one baggage car over the 0. N. B. & w. road conveying the members of the Putnam Phalanx and their friends to Saratoga passed here at II 8. m. Tuesday. They remain in Sar- atoga short time, when they start for Bennington, Vt, to attend the dedica- tion of the soldiers monument. An alligator measuring about 2} feet in length has been seen by several parties in the Blackberry river near this village. He is sad to have his posi- tion upon 8 particular log, and at the least disturbance to take refuge at the bottom of the stream. Whether this is 8 1 genuine crocodilus lucius that has been seen or the ghost of the pickerel story told by the Twin Lakes campers last week, is questioned by some.
 There is mystery connected witl certain streams and lakes in our vicinity which it would be we'll for fish loving people to have investigated. Some time during the month of April a Paper Mill Pond little north of ths village of Sheffield, Mass, the fish be gan dying and washing ashore, whicl continued for some days, until the shor' of the pond was lined with the deai bodies of the fish, in some places to thu depth of foot or more. Last week similar occurance was in Mad River a Winsted, when for many hours larg fish ly1ng dead upon the top of th water hoated down the stream. Agai1 last week at Nyack, N. Y, the peopl were mystified on Tuesday morning l. find the shores of small lake west c the village lined with thousands of tisl which had died during the night. On occurance of this kind might be passe but three of so similar nature shoul at least have an investigation.
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