Connecticut western news., 1892-11-10
Local News.


 The Consolidated road now owns 800 miles of track.
 MT and Mrs T. A. Evans, of Bethel, visited relatives here over Sunday.
 Thanksgiving Nov 24. Someone will have something to be thankful for. Mrs Mary A. Peet is very ill and has been confined to her bed for several days.
 -Srortsmen are cautioned to look out for cases of q didn't know it was loaded"
 The Weather Bureau got left on the rain storm which it had ordered for Tuesday.
 The Berkshire Hills express on the Consolidated road will probably be run all winter.
 Thomas Carroll frep) and Edward O. Stevens (iem) are elected represent atives from Norfolk.
 D P. Wheeler. of Washington Hol- low, N. r., visited relatives here the lat ter part of the week.
 -Yeeterday afternoon an immense load of straw was upset on the H. R. R. track in this village.
 John H Peet, of Brooklyn, N. r., spent day or two in town last week, re- Turning Sunday afternoon.
 The expression "higher than Gil roy's kite" can now be changed to '.higher than Gilroy's vote"
 Money makes the mare go, but she never went her best until pneumatic tires and ball bearings came into use.
 Mrs Frederick Sanford is very i'll with typhoid fever. Her little boy is better. Miss Rachel Albright is, we un- derstand, out of danger.
 Lev Rhoades was exhibiting large live owl about the streets Inst Monday. The bird was in a box but otherwise seemed owl right. We understood Lew to say that it was Democrat.
 Fifteen cars of horses and animals belonging to the Barnum show, passed through here Saturday night for their winter quarters at Pine Plains, N. Y.
 Last Friday the wages of some of the freight conductors, brakemen and fireman on the P. R. & N. B. road were reduced but it is thought no strike will occur.
 County Coroner Higgins has ap- pointed Dr B. O. Gidman medical ex- aminer at Norfolk to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Dr w. ". Welch.
 The Indians were not cheated out of their summer this year, if any are still lingering in New England. for a more glorious October never gladdened our hearts.
 If the Hartford Courant had used its electric search light in searching foi Republican voters several evenings be- fore election the result might possibly have been different.
 w. R. Baldwin, of Jeffersonville, Ind, arrived last Saturday and is visit. ing his uncle, J. A. Underwood. M, Baldwin is the General Passenger Agent of the "Big Four" railway system. 
 Robert Marvin, of Chicago, is SO jor1rning awhile in town in hopes that 2 change of air will benefit his health which has been poor for the past three years. Mir Marvin is native of Canaan and brother of Mrs s. M. Humphrey
 Charles R. Hunt Ia native of thi town) and Luman O. Colt, republicans arc elected representatives from Winch ester. Next week we shall publish tho names of all the members of the legisla ture from Litchfeld county, also othe returns from neighboring towns.
 "A colored man chasing a black ca mp dark alley on dark night is no a black as were the homes of certail democrats during the big republican parade on Tuesday night, Nov 2.-Nor walk Hour. That was not exactly tn case during the republican parade 1T Canaan last Saturday night, although me of the democrats did not let thei G,sht shine with unusual brilliancy.
 Tuesday was mild and sunshin, day, just perfect weather for election purposes. A large vote was boiled here The struggle between the parties wa m earnest but quiet one; far differen from the bygone days of license. ope bars, drunkenness, street fights ant riots. North Canaan is to be congratu lated on the higher grade of publi sentiment which has supplanted tn former tone of morals in this town. W now have peaceable, law abiding com munity. Let us keep it so.
 From the Gowanda Herald we lear that Hi Henry, the minstrel proprietor who has been seriously ill for thirtee weeks in Cleveland. O., has so far Tt covered that he was brought to hi home in Govanda, N. r., last weei Although very weak and emaciated. b is fast recovering and will undoubtedl soon be we'll again. Our readers wi remember that Hi Henry is the ma whom Forbes Munson defrauded out ( 428. 600 unless Hi Henry can eventual recover that sum from the bankin house of N. NJ. Allen & Son.
 THE NEWS is indebted to Mir T. Gold, of West Cornwall, for copy ( xha ranonhIat oMamorial Dav Exarc;sc