Connecticut western news., 1891-01-21
Fuller & Peet are taking inventory

Fuller $ Peet are taking inventory this week.
 The dancing class will meet tonight at town hall.
 MT and Mrs H w. Watson gave 8 dinner party last Thursday evening to 8 limited number of friends.
 Political affairs in Connecticut were in such a condition last Monday that Governor Bulkeley considered it his duty to issue the proclamation which is found in another column.
 -Waramaug Tribe I. O. R. NJ. will hold soiree at the Opera House in Winsted on Friday evening, Jan 23. A company of ghost dancers, fresh from the Pine Ridge agency, will be an attractive feature of the evening.
 Someone tacetiously remarks that the age of miracles has not passed but has only just begun, inasmuch as the Connecticut House of Representatives can prolong day two weeks, whereas Joshua prolonged day only about "A hours.
 An exchange says: The time when the furnaces and railways of our planet will have exhausted the available depos- it's of coal Is getting more and more ev . dently remote. In eastern Asia alone. coal enough is known to exist to sup ply the world for the next 15OO years.
 Since the announcement that Miss Elaine Goodale, the poetess, and Dr Charles A. Eastman, a Sioux Indian, were soon to be married, the metropoli- tan as we'll as the country newspapers have made many comments concerning said intended marriage, but we have observed no unfavorable comment. Gen Armstrong, who knows both, says it is a capital match.
 The women have won on the ques- tion of admitting the members of their sex to the Methodist general conference. The vote of the churches reported to date is nearly 300, 900. with a majority in favor of the women of over 75, GOO. Some sections of the country are yet to be heard from, but the additional re- turns will not materially affect these figures.
 Foot t. toot-toot- -iingle-jingle- jingle-yip-yip-yip; ;fish-horns, sleigh bells and merry shouts brought our vil Iagers to their windows at about 5.3O o'clock last evening to see N N.S. Stevens six-in-hand conveying 8 jolly party of East Canaan people on g sleigh ride to Sheffield or Ct Harrington. The party returned about II p. m. with the loco motive headlight still shining from the dashboard.
 The supper given by the ladies for the benefit of the Canaan Citizens band, at town hall last evening, was success m every way. The variety and quality of the eatables would satisfy an epicure, and the quantity was overwhelming. The receipts were $65. Band music, piano music, violin music, and vocal music were furnished through the even ing. There was such quantity of pro- visions left that it was decided to give 25 cent dinner from 12 to p. m. to- day, the proceeds to be given to the Village Improvement association.
 "A Frenchman by the name of Emile Groselande, who worked on coal bush in the south part of the town of Corn wall, committed suicide January 3d by banging himself to tree near said coal bush. He had fits of insanity and inn agined that officers from the old country were after him for some crime commit ted there. He is the same person who was brought before Justice Bennett at midnight on the l4th of Oct, charged with raising Sheol generally at the home of Paul Tournier in this village For said offence he was fined $5 and c ,sts. He refused to pay his fine, there fore he was taken to Litchfield jail, but after staying there over night he paid his fine and was liberated.