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Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
WEST CORNW ALL.

Miss Bertha Smith, of Cortland, N. Y. ', is with friends on Cream Hill.
 Mrs John E. Hoagland, of New York, is visiting at George 0. Harrison's.
 Rev D. M. Pratt and family, of Port land, are at the old home for their sum- mer vacation.
 port, are boarding at Dwight Rogers.
 John Wood left on Monday for few days in New York.
 Mrs T. s. Gold has been visiting friends in Hartford and vicinity the past week.
 Miss M. E. Bacon, of New Haven, is summer guest at Rogers Farm.
 Miss Annie H. Scoville and several friends are stopping for few weeks at Lake View cottage on Cream Hill.
 Mrs R. R. Wheeler. of Pawling, NY, ', is making her annual visit here.
 Frank Hallett, of Bridgeport, spent Sunday in town.
 Mrs Earl Stevens, of Brookfeld, is with her mother for few weeks.
 Misses Grace Hubbard, Aida Trow- bridge and Mabel Hosmer, of Sandusky , Ohio, have arrived at Point Lookout cottage for the summer.
 Orders are coming in almost daily for the fine crayon work at O. M. Halls who furnishes an elegant frame and easel with the copying for only $500.
 Our delegation of Christian Endeav- ors from Cornwall has returned from New York with glowing accounts of the Convention and sight seeing.
 Mrs Helen Page visited friends in Poughkeepsie the past week.
 Mrs Riddle, of Hartford, will speak in the chapel next Sunday evening. She is State secretary of the society for founding colleges.
 Dr B. Sanford is on the sick list, Dr Carter attends him.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
GREAT HARRINGTON.

A Special meeting of the fire district is called to meet at the town hall to- morrow at 9 p. m. The meeting is call ed for the purpose of authorizing the district to issue scrip or bonds not ex ceeding $45, 900 to be called the Great Harrington Water scrip for the purpose of paying the cost and expenses of the property and franchise of the Great Burlington water company, the said property having been surrendered to the fire district. Also to see if the dis trict will appropriate $2O,O 900 for the purpose of repairing and extending the pipes and enlarging the reservoirs of the Great Harrington water company and the Berkshire Heights water com pany.
 The Hugh Anderson property on Castle street has been sold to H. O.. Wooden who has occupied it for the past three years.
 The Unitarians held service in Grand Army hall Sunday morning and evening. oAsINA's PRELIMINARY TRIAL.
 The preliminary trial of Martin Casi- na for the alleged murder of John Del lea, in @ coal burners cabin at Muddy Brook the night of July 4, was held be- fore Judge Shores in the District court Monday forenoon. No special facts ex- cept those already published in the pa pers were brought out The first wit ness, James McCarty, who resides about 40 rods from the cabin, testified to go- ing there at o'clock i'll the morning. with his son Frank, and finding the body of John Dellea dead on the floor | with Martin Casina wounded and lying on straw bed. Dr Small. the medical examiner, who was notified by McCarty, gave evidence that with Deputy Sheriff Douglass he arrived at the cabin about 2. 80 a. m. and found pool of blood five feet outside the door, also blood spots 30 feet in g diagonal direction from the door. Inside the shanty was the dead man lying on his right arm at full length on the floor. The wounded man was in drunken stupor. The autopsy on the body of John Dellea the next day disclosed a bullet which had nearly circled the brain, causing instant death. The face showed many contu- sions, with clotted blood under the skin. Mrs Perrie Butler, a French woman who resides in the neighbor- hood and was early at the scene of the tragedy, told the court where she found the revolver with blood stains on it, and she also traced blood to the cabin door. John Dellea came to her house Satur- day evening proceeding the affair and enquired if a keg of lager had been brought over in the stage from Great Harrington for him. She answered that none had been left at her house, but it was found by Dellea at another place on the road and Dellea took it to the cabin. Other witnesses gave rather unimportant evidence and Casina was committed to jail at Pittsfeld to await action by the grand jury. His wounds, evidently in ficted by his own hand after Dellea met his death, are healing and it IS probable he will ultimately recover.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
sMITHsoN AND HIS REPUTATION.
He May Have Been Poor Actor, but
 His Heart Was in the Right Place.

He May Have Been Poor Actor, but
 His Heart Was in tIie Right Place.
 Smithson, once an actor, has had for long time the reputation of being a cold hearted, designing, crafty fellow. He has come by this reputation gradually, no one knows exactly when the first symptoms of coldness showed them selves. Some of his old time acquaint snces say that since the day following his summary dismissal from the Play we'll company Smithson has been d changed man. Not few ofthem think that there is now no hope for him There are a few optimists, however, who believe that in Smithsop's heart there still burns a flame of kindliness that only needs to be fed to make him the whole souled, splendid fellow he was c few years ago.
 This small band of optimists met in the flat of one of their number the other night. The conversation drifted from one subject to another. They talked of the propositions for membership in the Players, and about other subjects of in- terest to actor folk. Finally, Augustus Frankville said. "Fellows, have good news about Smithson."
 "Goodl what is itY' they all cried in chorus.
 "Well," continued Frankville, "I was walking down Sixth avenue from the park this afternoon when 1 saw him walking about block ahead Of me in a most shiftless and dejected manner. From what 1 could see of him 1 was sure that he was desperately hungry. His general appearance was bad. concluded to keep an eye on him and to find out if possible how he was keep ing body and soul together. He is too proud to beg from his former friends, you know.
 "He went on few blocks, hesitated before saloon and went in through the side door, which was just opposite the free lunch counter. I went into the sa- loon through the front door and stood at the bar within two feet of him. It was late in the afternoon and the free lunch had mostly disappeared. There was left only one piece of corned beef and two miserable slices of bread. Smithson made for that counter totally oblivious to everything and with as much decorum as one could expect from hungry man. "He lost no time in making a sand wich out of what remained on the lunch counter. He looked at it eagerly and was about to eat it when dirty little hand appeared under the small swing ing door and tugged at his coat At the same time in a sharp whisper there came this appeal from the owner of the hand: Say, mister, give us sandwich? Pm hungry
 "Poor old Smithson cast one glance at the sandwich and another at the dirty hand of the street boy. In an instant he put the sandwich into the dirty hand. The lunch counter was left bare and Smithson's stomach was empty. tell you, fellows, old, broken down Smith son has been maligned."
 Smithson's reputation is not so bad now.-New York Tribune.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
MUNTSVILLE.

Our usually quiet community has been quite favored with visitors during the past week Miss B. Mulford, of the D. M. Hunt school, was the guest of Mrs W. l.. Willard; Mrs s. Plue and three children of Danbury, at Mrs Fun mons; Mrs A. M. Jaqua of Egremont, at S. Ensign's; Mrs Charles Vendover and son of Waterbury, at c. B. Han chett's; Miss M. Lane of Kent, at D. H. Deans; David Oakes of Coxsackie. at O. E. Chase's; Miss Edna Kingsley of Pittsfield, Mass, at w. H. Blodgett's
 H. E. Wetherell and family of Bridge port, have arrived at 'Meadow Brook Farm where they will spend the sum- mer.
 Mrs N. J. Dean is visiting friends in Orange and Carteret, N. J. She was also in attendance at the NationalEndea- vor convention held at New York last week.
 Miss Jennie Chase was the guest of Mrs B. O. Gidman at Norfolk for a couple of days last week.
 At 0. B. Hanchett's the Fourth was observed in a most enjoyable manner. On invitation forty relatives and friends assembled to discuss the merits of chicken-pie, baked bluefsh, and clans, etc. An extra good time is reported, which is all the praise necessary Frank Nichols, not to be outdone, per formed some daring feats on the stone boat, being assisted by "Nig'' the 26 year old colt. While leisurely taking his way to the stable, driven by Frank standing on the stone-boat, a momen- tary thrill of patriotism seized the boy, the result being the firing off of a bunch of tire-cracker. As the crackers explo. ded, enthusiasm seized the. horse who started on run thereby mixing boy and crackers indiscriminately on the floor of the boat Frank escaped with few slight burns, but says he is glad that Fourth of July doesen't come but once a year.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
CANAAN VALLEY.

The Fourth passed off very quietly, a few frecrackers being the extent of pa- triotism displayed here. ,
 Crops are looking we'll, but having is progressing slowly owing to our fre- quent rains.
 Miss Lucy Rockwell has been quite sick for several months, but is now on the fair road to recovery.
 Mrs Samuel Gates, of Dalton, Mass. is visiting her sick grandfather and grandmother, Mir and Mrs Bateman Brooks.
 Wilbur Brinton, of Torrington, and Edna Bunnell, of Waterbury, are vis- ting their grandfather, MT Ira Bunnell.
 Miss Mary Wright, of Ct Harrington, Mass, spent several days last week with Mrs Levi Leffingwell.
 The many friends here of Miss Clara Bottum, of East Canaan, were happy to meet her last week after her long ab- sence.
 Miss Minnie Sardam spent the Fourth at MT Wm Dunham's in She efield, Mass.
 Charles w. Benton is quite sick and is threatened with typhoid fever.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
THURSDAY, JULY IA, 1892.
THE HOMESTEAD TROUBLE.

It is many years since this country has witnessed so bloody a conflict be- tween Capital and Labor as the one at Homestead near Pittsburg, Pa., of last week. We do not think there was any ground in this case for strike, but we note with satisfaction this failure of Capital to maintain it's view of dispu- ted question by the high handed meth cd of sending hired band of irrespon- sible men, armed with rifles, to shoot down those who opposed them. The success of this attempt would have es- tablished dangerous precedent. The power and influence of Capital in this country are already great enough.
 There is need of tribunals of arbitra- tion armed with authority to cite the parties before them and decide disputes of this character and enforce their de- cisions.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
ODDS AND ENDS.

A sensible Cupid is unpopular.
 A kindly feeling cannot fail to touch the heart.
 Some men think alike and some don't think at all.
 After all, we are not so much better than our neighbors.
 Children should be encouraged in the love and care of pets.
 Paris is trifie too white on bright day. It hurts the eyes.
 When hot applications are ordered, let them be hot, not warm.
 Rustling skirts are decidedly the thing with European ladies of fashion.
 Of the foreign merchants in Chicago only twenty-seven are Americans.
 Some extraordinary finds have at times been made within the trunks of trees.
 The daily consumption of salt in St. Louis is said to be nearly 1000 pounds. In making tea all the water necessary should be poured on at the first drawing.
 No man is on the side of God who is not willing to receive all of Gods truth. It is so much easier to tell other peo- pie how to walk than it is to show them how.
 Sweden enumerates over 100, 900 head of reindeer among her domesticated ami mals.
 Trust is requisite, and his own brains must determine who and what is worthy of trust.
 De Musset always wrote at night in a room brilliantly lighted up with lamps and candles. The area of Europe in acres is 2,3S4,- 854, ,949, of which 725, ,6s5, ,617, or 30 per cent, are forest.
 Truth crushed to earth will rise again, and a mustache once down is not neces- sarily down forever.
 The Horse Accident Prevention society in London reports that twice as many horses fall upon asphalt as upon wood pavements. s&
 The negroes of the West Indies eat baked snakes and the palm worm fried in fat, but they cannot be induced to eat stewed rabbit.
 The 64,000 candle power corona of arc lights around the torch of the statue of Liberty is to be replaced by one of lo0,- 900 candle power.
 According to a dispatch received from Mexico, Mo, a vast quantity of frogs fell near there during a heavy rain storm. One man claims to have seen 5000 or 10000 on one farm. The frogs were of all sizes and alive.
 Printing was invented at Mentz. bv Gutenberg, in 1450; introdnoed into England in 1471.
 There is in the yard of P. Peek, on First street, at Palstxa, Fla, quite q curiosity in the shape of an orange tree only seven inches in height, but contain ing perfect orange.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
CORN W TALL.

Miss Maggie Kellogg, of Chicago, is visiting with her aunts in this village.
 Fred Clark paid Cornwall short visit last week.
 Charles Curtis and family, of Bristol, visited with his father, Eber Curtis, last week.
 A number of Wm Vaill's grandchil- dren from Danbury are visiting him.
 Miss Mary Payne has rented her house for the season and has gone to live in Canary Bird Cottage"
 William Wilcox is seriously ill. He has kind of lead poison affecting his liver and it is not thought that he can live long.
 Most of the farmers improved the fine weather of last week in getting hay. They have trouble in finding help. There are men enough in town but they won't work unless they are driven to It by dire necessity.
 The tobacco crop is late as 8 general rule this year. A few early pieces re- ceived a set back by the hail of last week Sunday but are now recovering.
 o. B. Wilcox has been making a marked improvement in the interior of his house, painting and decorating.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
PRACTICAL COOKING.

An Englishwoman Teaching Working
 People Economical Cooking.
 About 200 women and girls are now attending the cookery demonstration class in the shipbuilding district of Govan. Miss Gordon, the demonstrater has been specially trained for her work and is at once a skillful cook and a clev- CT teacher. Her method of work is es- sentially practical. Assisted by the more advanced of her pupils, and in full view of the others, she makes soups dresses vegetables and manufactures dishes of various kinds. The fire by which she cooks is an ordinary open grate of the sort found in most work mems houses, and the saucepans and other utensils are all of the simplest de scription.
 This is 8 matter of importance, as cookery demonstrations involving the use of costly apparatus are worse than useless for workingmen's wives The things made are, as a rule. of the most inexpensive kind, and they all depend for their value upon careful seasoning and cookery rather than costly ingre- dients; for the demonstrator never for gets that the chief object of the school is to teach poor women how to provide nutritious food for their families at the least possible cost.
 Soups are great feature of this class pupils being shown how to make up ward of twenty different kinds--all savory, nutritious and inexpensive During the lesson the cost of each thing Is given in detail. Thus, enough mock turtle soup for six persons costs Is. 2d, the same quantity of sheepshead broth 81fd.; of fish soup, 3d., and of barley and beef bone broth, 4d. One of the things specially taught is how to cook potatoes properly-a difficult feat in its way. At the same time great efforts are made to induce people to use lentils peas, beans, rice and macaroni
 Proof is afforded them, too, that many of the so called weeds which grow wild by the roadside-sorrel, for instance are delicious in soups and salads. In her lectures Miss Gordon lays the greatest emphasis on the necessity for variety in ] food, insisting that the most wholesome dish loses many of its nutritive qualities If eaten day after day. She shows, too how this variety could easily be obtained if, instead of always buying beef and mutton, people would just occasionally have & rabbit, some fish, or even liver In full course of lectures the demon strator teaches her pupils not only how to cook beef and mutton in every imag- inable way, but how to make a great variety of buildings, omelets, scones and cakes, as well as every kind of sick room delicacy, and even poultices.
 She teaches them, too, that most diff cult of arts-how to season what they make. At the close of each demonstra- ton the various dishes are sold in half penny portions-an arrangement which has the double advantage of defraying the cost of the materials used, and en. ables those present to test the quality of the food.-London Letter.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
A Company of Soldiers Prostrated.

Nineteen soldiers were marching along the highway at Bourges to reach the artillery practice ground when thur derstorm broke over them and in min ute drenched them all to the skin. They began trotting, put had not ad- vanced much when a terrible stroke of lightning came and in an instant laid the whole detachment prostrate on the ground. After short time some of the men recovered and rose to their feet. They called to their comrades, who rallied and rose slowly one after an other. But four remained immovable. They were taken to the hospital. Three were restored to life, but the fourth was dead. He had a deep wound on the crown of his head and his chest was burned as over a Chicago Herald
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
Austrian Jew Baiters Thrashe ed.

In a Prater restaurant few evenings ago a young and clean shaven man was seated alone at a table with glass of beer before him. Three men came in and sat down at the same table. They thought the beardless youth was Jew and began to annoy him. For some time he kept perfectly quiet and pretended not to notice them. As they continued to amuse themselves, suddenly he sprang up and faced the three, who had risen simultaneously. Without saying a word he placed himself in boxing attitude, and in few seconds the three "Jew" baiters lay in heap on the floor with their faces bruised. On recovering they left the place. The young man sat down and called for more beer. He is an Eng hsh jockey, the winner of several of this seasons races in Vienna.-Vienna Cor. London News.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
&IOO REWARD. &IOO

The readers of the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only pos itive cure now known to the medical fraterni- ty. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting di- rectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the founda- tion of the dise,se. and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature In doing its work. The pro- prietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure, Send for list of testimonials.
 Address, E. J. CHxxzx ' Ce., Toledo, ohie. SS-sold hy Druggists, 7o e.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
FALLS VILLAGE.

F. O. Harrison, with four-in- hand, took & load of 15 picniokers to Twin Lakes Saturday, returning via Salisbury, Lake vile and Lime Rock.
 John Wolfe and wife, from Patterson, N. J. spent a portion of the week with relatives in this vicinity.
 Mrs James Schofield and child, of Bridgeport, also her mother, Mrs Lun- dy, are at the H. R. R. House to remain month.
 Miss Minnie Gilbert gave her school a picnic in the pine grove near the fair ground few days since.
 Harvey Kellogg, wife and grandchild, from Toledo, Ohio, are visiting relatives here and will remain quite awhile.
 Miss Kittie Lannergan, of Orange, N. J., is guest of Miss Belle Hanchett who has returned from school in that city to spend her vacation.
 Several of the young people went to Twin Lakes Friday evening to enjoy a row OCT the placid waters of Lake Wash ming, and had damp time returning homeward.
 Dr H. o. Crandall and wife, of Stock bridge, visited his home last week, driv- ing in with fine span.
 Dr Stockwell, house surgeon of Bellevue Hospital, New York city, was in town on brief visit last week.
 Dr F. s. Skiff and wife returned Sun day from weeks visit at Ellsworth. Dr Lee of Canaan took charge of his patients during his absence.
 Misses Bertha Wickwire, Clara Brin- ton, Louise and Minnie Ruiger went to New York to attend the convention of the Endeavor society last week.
 Three children of Rev F. J. Belcher, of Peekskill, are visiting relatives in this village.
 The rye crop all through this section is large and cradlers will soon be at work harvesting it.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
EAST CANAAN.

Michael Casey killed rattlesnake 4 feet long on Canaan Mountain last week He carried nine rattles as rear guard which would make him eleven years old.
 James Benedict, of De Witt, Iowa, is visiting Edward Rose.
 MT and Mrs James Beckwith, of Pitts field, Mass, were at H. B. Holt's last week.
 Miss Emma Melvin and Miss Lena Roberts have been hired to teach the school in this district for the fall term.
 For report of the runaway, see Clay ton correspondence which was in type before the East Canaan correspondence was received. ED. NEws.)
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
4 Query for a New York Club.

A paragraph appears in one of the daily papers under this heading: Car negie Complimented-The University Club Entertains Him at a Banquet. Following this is an account of the ban quet- MT. Carnegie was, in the opinion of the reporter, apparently the guest of honor. As he puts it, 'the members en- tertained Andrew Carnegie and ex- President White, of Cornell university" '" If the reporter thought as we do, the precedence should have been thus, 'Ex- President White, of Cornell, and Mir. Andrew Carnegie"
 But why should the University club entertain MT. Andrew Carnegie? He is opposed to university education, and says so very frankly. He wrote a series of letters to the New York Tribune on the folly of the higher education. He has of course right to his opinion, but, holding such opinions, why should the University club do him honoraSau Francisco Arponaut