Connecticut western news., 1891-11-19
Local News.

LOCdl NCNO.
 Mrs s. NJ. Humphrey is visiting relatives in Worcester, Mass.
 Floyd Vim, clerk of the Warne, House, is i'll with bilious fever.
 Mrs Soules. the wife of the c. NE &W. Aagmap, has typhoid fever.
 -Chicken-pie supper at Pilgrim Church parlors Fridsy evening. Nov 20 There are now 39 scholars in the higher department of the public school George s. Fuller and family visited relatives at Great Darlington over Sun day.
 w. H. Camp returns today from New York where he has been buying goods for the holidays
 A large elm tree near Mir Dempsey s house on Railroad street was split in two by the storm of Tuesday.
 The moon was eclipsed Sunday evening and the sun was eclipsed Mon dsy-by the clouds in both instances. George H. Bodley, son of the Rev Fl. I. Bodley, recently fell from his bi- cycle and sustained severe injury to his arm.
 Mir E. D. Lawrence has kindly pre- sented us with fine specimen of Pea cock copper ore from mine in Canada in which he was once interested.
 The Housatonic road has decided to double track the New Haven and Derby division between New Haven and Bots ford, and to order fifteen new locomo- tives.
 -Yesterday, Dr Camp had Frank Lake, who is seriously i'll with bilious fever, moved from MT Hicks boarding house to his brother James Lakes resi- dence.
 Rev Dr Hiram Eddy started at 3.35 p. m. last Sunday for Detroit, Mich, to attend the funeral of his broth CT, Rev Zachary Eddy. D. D., who died Sunday noon.
 Professor Adams went to the hos pital in Hartford on Tuesday to- go through 8 course of treatment for his wound. He expects to remain there about month.
 Rev H. Utterwick preached an able and encouraging sermon in the M. B. church last Sunday, from the text found in Colossians, III. 8: ''For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God" our we'll known citizens on reading our pleasantly about the saint and devil, was heard to say: " the devil of 8 saint is be-" meaning the associate editor. Perhaps he is not familiar with saints, and SO does not know one when he sees one.
 The Housatonic railroad excursion to New York yesterday was we'll pat ronized. The three cars on the special train were we'll filled when they reached Canaan about 8. m. Ten tickets were sold here for said train and later in the day tickets were sold for the express train
 Edward Silvernail of Millerton, 8 brakeman on the Wilson's Point freight train, fell from the top of 8 car at Bethel on Friday of last week. He broke both arms and sustained other injuries and was taken to the hospital at Danbury, where he died on Monday morning The remains were taken to Millertor for burial. Cyrus Lake of this village has taken the place made vacant by the death of Edward Silvernail
 There are some disadvantages il employing Saint" in newspaper of flee. A Cornwall man writes us unde date of Nov 18th as follows:
 "I enclose you $500 as per bill ren dered. I intended to have paid it tn, other day when called, but owing n, doubt to being so suddenly ushered in to the presence of Saint it was for gotten"
 The foregoing will doubtless lead tn Torrington Register to, conclude ths saints are scarce in Cornwall, neverthe legs it will not justify the Register il publishing the charges contained in it issue of Oct l6th.
 Two ECLIPsEs. Halloween wa eclipsed here Saturday evening in oth CT words the Halloween capers of Sat . urday evening. Oct 31 were eclipsed b the capers of Saturday evening, Nov IA On the latter date barrel perched il self upon the roof of the gate house g the railroad crossing on Main street The horse block at the Episcopal churc stood on it's head. A wheelbarro, climbed tree on Prospect avenue. Vs rious other cspers were observed in dii ferent parts of the village. On Sunda evening the moons eclipse was eclipse by clouds.
 The Canaan Citizens band. being need of some money, have decided give an entertainment of the conce kind, accordingly they have hired Je ome Mays banjo quartette of Bridgepo and will give a muslcal entertainment the town hall on Tuesday evening November "A. The programme wi consist of selections by basjo quartett pieces by the band, orchestra nusi