Connecticut western news., 1891-01-28
Local News.

Read Canaan Valley correspondence
 Fred B. Young is home from Dan bury for short vacation.
 -tred G. Capron was home from New Hartford over Sunday.
 Miss Elsie Rood, of Norfolk, has been visiting at O. P. Roots since Fri day.
 Mrs Theodore F. Watson and son "Teddy" have returned from their visit to Chicago.
 Temporary repairs on the c. N E. & W. road were completed Sunday night so that trains could run over the main line.
 Freddie Loder, son of Engineer Loder of the O. N. E. & W. road, was very ill last week with tonsilitis but is convalescing.
 Rev Dr Eddy went to Pawling, N. r., yesterday to deliver lecture last evening. His subject was Life in Rebel Prisons"
 Rev T. H. Barsgwanath went to Goshen, N. N, on Monday to assist Rev Dr Oakley in the revival work now in progress there.
 -Burget Lewls at Ct Harrington have lot of goods that were damaged by the flood last week and they gre now selling them at prices that will surprise you.
 The Prince of Wales is 8 collector of dogs-Bridgeport Leader The Prince should visit Canaan and take his choice out of the pyramid of dogs ire quently seen fighting on our streets.
 The Warner House was the western terminus of the 0. N. E $ W. sleeping car line from Thursday until Saturday at midnight when passengers were al- lowed to proceed and transfer twice be- fore reaching Poughkeepsie.
 -'Its e poor rule that won't work both ways" If shopping excursions to cities benefit country merchants and rural districts then of course farm pro- duce excursions from cities to country towns, by the same logic, would benefit city grocerymen and metropolitan dis tricts. See article on fourth page enti- tied ''1he Cheap Excursion Bugsboo."
 The Central New England road is "breaking in" new conductor in the person of Thomas O'Brien, Sup't. Fow ler's assistant, whose run thus far is be- tween Winsted and Hartford. The young man looks very trim in his gold banded cap, and it won't be long before he will be qualified for any position to which he may be called. Winsted Her. aid.
 -"H. N" Henry Norton) the Goshen correspondent of the Litch6eld Enquir- CT and the Winsted Herald does not get weary in we'll doing. He is faithfu' and reliable correspondent and each contribution is numbered so that every one who reads may see the record each week. His correspondence in the Litchheld Enquirer of Jan p Is num- bered 996 md in the Herald of Jan 23 il IS numbered 976. On Feb 18th he will reach the 1000 mark, a record to be justly proud of.
 The auction sale of the goods and estate belonging to the late co-partner ship of J. s. Adam & Go. took place yesterday afternoon. The real estate (the lime kiln proper and fixtures, the plant so-called) was struck off at $2425 to Mir A. w. Nicoll of Yonkers, N. Y. MT Nicoll also bid off the horse and cart, cooper stock, etc. The entire pro- perty brought S2896.3O. We understand that Mir H. J. Nicoll, son of MT A. w. Nicoll, who has been in Canaan since last September, will have the property and continue the lime making business.
 -B. P. Hutchinson of Chicago, "Old Hutch," the noted grain operator, has been forced by his son to retire from business, having lost nearly all his vast fortune in wild speculation.-Bridge port Leader.-A fitting ending of his career if the above report is true. He has frequently cornered the grain mark ct and ruined other dealers besides con- polling the poor and needy working classes to pay exhorbitant prices for the staff of life. Ills ultimate failure is an excellent warning or lesson for all who are disposed to get rich by ruinlng others.
 Mrs N. l.. O. Frost, of West Corn. wall, Conn.,, is spending the winter at Lexington, Ga. While writing under date of Jan 23d to renew her subscrip- ton to THE NEWS she remarks: ''I shall not return to West Cornwall before April or May. The weather Is mild here, with flowers iu bloom, and bright skies above us. I have not seen suow this winter, and very soon they will commence gardening in this section. While we are copying the above lines from Mrs Frosts letter we look out o tke windows in THE NEWS office and ses fifteen inches of snow on the ground and we realize the difference between the climate of Connecticut and Georgia
 The elements seem determined l. prevent the Rev T. H. Baragwanati from delivering 8 lecture at Pawling N. Y. He was booked to lecture ther, Dec 17th, and he put in an appearance but owing to the violent storm whicl