Connecticut western news., 1891-11-19
MT. J. F. Cubley, of Wassaic N. Y visited relafiyes here this week.

1 Lawyer w. A. tOraDdcK OI 1OTrluB- ton visited relatives here over Sunday.
 J. G. Beckley visited J. Sedgwick Tracy at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. over Sun. day.
 A large buttonball tree in Mrs. Wm J. Thomson's 8 front yard was blown down last week.
 The number of calves shipped on Tuesday wss 31. Prices were from 4 to 6i cents per pound.
 i We remember one season with two weeks of sleighing in November. 'It can't be did" this season.
 Mrs R. c. Newton and Mrs Kellogg returned on Tuesday of last week from New York City, where they have been visiting relatives and friends.
 -J.S.Adam expects to go to Shulls- burgh, Wis. early in December to except position as chemist. MT Adam $ family will remain ln Canaan for the present.
 1 W. B. Hall & Go request us to re- mind our readers of the excursion to Bridgeport which takes place on Satul- day of this week. Full particulars are given in the advertising columns.
 Miss Lucy Smith was home over Sunday from the New England Conser- vatory of Music at Boston. Sue return ed to Boston on Monday accompanied by Miss Minnie Peirce, who will study music at said Conservatory.
 | Miss Pearl Ham arrived home from the New Britain Normal school last Fri, day with a broken bone near the ankle, caused by fall in the gymnasium on Monday of last week. She will soon be able to resume her studies.
 MT Barlow is opening lime stone quarry on his land on the ridge across the Black berry river back of J.S Adam s house. His object is to obtain stone for building purposes He is also build ing bridge over the river at that point | The Housatopic railroad has just ordered six more immense locomotives from the Rogers works at Patterson, N. J. The engines are of most modern type and they are necessary to accommodate the constantly increasing freight traffic of the road. | Mrs s. s. Johnson, who was injur | k1,o koh Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, near Stree ] ter, Ill. two years ago, has just efected a settlement with the railroad company, whereby sue secures the sum of $6, 500. Norfolk Tower.
 | -Junius Rhoades and Jim Drake were out hunting last week and killed four cartridges "proper pronouucia- tion." ruffed grouse) although the birds are very scarce and wild this season. Their success was due to the co-opera- ton of Jim's handsome pointer, most remarkable animal as he assures us. 1 Great improvements were made last week on the highway and side walk near s. A. Eddy's tenant house, by the carting of lime chips afterwards covered with earth on the former and the addition of more gravel to the lat ter Messrs H. D. Humphrey and W. Fl. Camp have also profited by the ex- cavations made by Fuller & Peet for their new storc.
 Rev Robt Hunt received this Thurs day) morning a very peculiar fish from a friend in Amenia. The fish was caught in one of the ponds near that place and has the body of bass, it's mouth resem- bling that of the sucker. while the skin is like that of the cat fish, without scales. This curiosity weighs exactly eleven pounds, and none who have yet seen it can give it name.-Pawling Journal.
 While the Rev Mir Utterwick was out driving with his daughter last week, an incident occurred which was not on the programme. The horse, usually we'll conducted animal, whether by req son of being unexpectedly admonished to accelerate its moven. ents, or from a spirit of mere jocosity and love of fun, suddenly placed both its hind feet over the dashboard in front of the astonished divine. The Reverend gentleman with remarkable presence of mind first plsc. ed his daughter on soft grassy spot on the bank and then speedily extricated the steed from position which had be. come at once embarrassing and uncom fortable to him without any other mis hap. Mir Utterwick and his daughter are to be congratulated.
 The new (but fourth) survey for { railroad from Canaan to Mill River was begun yesterday. The line starts from point on the Central New England S Western railroad 1n front of s. C.. Beck
 ley's garden or orchard near the frs crossing east of Union depot. It the1 : curves to the left through the rock GU into s. A. Eddy's orchard and meadow thence in a straight line through thu Watson meadow or brick yard to poin north but near Jacobs Brothers barr on. Elm street where it passes unde said street, then curves to the north an, passes east of Judge Granger's hous and swings to the right around the hil near Patrick Britt's and thence to tb lime kilns of Charles Barnes Sons. branch from the main line near Patric l Britt's will intersect the Housatoni
 road at or near the Charles Barnes , Sons siding. so called, on the Housa , tonic road about one mile north c