Connecticut western news., 1891-03-11
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The travelling is as bad as can be; about half of the road is bare and then we have snow banks anywhere from 4 changes are to be made this spring among our inhabitants. Mir Henry Nickerson is to move to West Cornwall, MT Parmalee from Sharon takes his place. Wilbur Wells, who has occupied the John Kellogg place, goes to Milton, and Walter Wells takes his place. A. Turbury leaves the Pierce place and has taken farm of Rufus Frink. Geo Kroll is to move to Warren. Frank Whitcomb has removed to the Garner place, and John Palmer has taken the farm that he occupied -. Mir and Mrs William Randell are visiting at Mir Chas Peirce's. ...... .Dea Baldwin visited his uncle in Plymouth last week, We re- gret to learn that Mir Frank Baldwin, brother of Messrs T. R. & P R. Bald win of this village, Is afflicted with a swelling of cancerons nature and 1t l. thought to be incurable . .Wm Bonnet, has purchased, of MT Whitney of Sharon. fine pair of horses. ... .Wm Vail has purchased fine colt of Fred Harrison
 The following extracts from letter written by Miss Hattie Bennett from Havana, Cuba, may be interesting to your readers:-''We arrived here on Feb IS, and were about three hours l getting off the steamer. No steamers or l any ships can land at @ dock except opanlsh vessels; others anchor in the harbor, and being surrounded on all sides by Spanish men of war present a forbldding aspect to unaccustomed eyes. It IS wonderful sight as we come in past the old fort of Mono Castle on one side, and the heights of La Cabana with 1 flags (red and yellow) flying. The pilot comes aud takes us little further on and then the Custom house and Board of Health officers who alone can give a landing permit. The Custom house officials were rather difficult to get along with. Women with hand bags were counted dangerous and all the passen- gers had to yield them up land not too gracefully as we'll as all keys to trunks Eeven shawls in straps were examined
 They did not come out of the custom house till the next day and such num- Der of right-down mad men and women one seldom sees. They took us ashore in some picturesque little rowboats, the boatmen being dressed entirely in white and it was a pretty sight. The city is Spanish in every particular; not a chim- ney, stove or window in the buildings, only solid massive doors with heavy iron gratings inside, from which I should iufer that life as we'll as property was only safe here when we'll protected. We visited 8 sugar plantation also a coffee and pineapple plantation about twenty miles from the city and felt we'll repaid for our hot, dusty journey by the interesting sights we saw on the route.
 It is very hot and dry at this season and tourists are getting away fast: month earlier would have been more desir- able time. We will remain here a week or so and las Cuba and Jamaica are quarantined against each other. one for small pox and the other for yellow i i fever) then go to Tampa, Florida , ! There is one thing remarkable about this letter, considering it was written by lady. The word ''lovely" occurs but once and that in describing the Spanish ladies, and when one woman admits that another woman is "lovely'' you can just bet your life she is.