Connecticut western news., 1892-11-03
Local News.

Mrs Adeline Beckley arrived yester- day from Kent.
 The meeting of the Literary Society has been postponed for two weeks from tomorrow night.
 Martin Mcclure, Jr., will soon move to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He has already shipped his household goods.
 -Mr and Mrs A. w. Nlcoll, with Augustus, Albert and Willie, left this place for Yonksrs yesterday.
 Frank Reyes. of Mill River, Mass, shipped 30 dressed hogs from this sta ton to Bridgeport on Tuesday. S, John Kilmer carries one arm in 8 sling in consequence of cutting his hand quite severely with an adze several days ago.
 The fnneral of Mir Bill, the father of Eugene Bill, took place in Hartford last Friday. The cause of his death was heart disease.
 John H. Benton, of the NEWS force, had one foot severely injured last Satur- day by heavy iron shafting rolling up- on it at Union depot.
 The Rev S. R. Free, of Northfeld, Mass. has accepted a call to Chattanoo- ga, Tenn, and with Mrs Free, left on h0~1ou for khoi nouu hnrna : We hear of no Halloween capers, and we cohol6de that wheelbarrows are getting old and feeble and unable to climb trees as they did year ago.
 The work on Garfield Brothers'new lime kiln at East Canaan is progressing finely. The stone work is completed and ready for the boiler iron stack.
 Mrs Riddle, of Hartford, held a meeting in the Pilgrim church yester- day afternoon and presented the cause of the American College and Education Society.
 Eighty men have been made free- men in this town this fall. and about 50 names have been dropped from the for. mer list. The actual increase is there fore about 30 voters.
 The register of voters of this town has been printed. Accordingly, the names will all appear on one side of one sheet of paper, which will be much . more convenient than the old arrange ment.
 Mrs T. J. Dardis, of the Winsted Novelty store, will be in East Canaan for one day only on Monday, Nov 7. at the rooms of Miles Yanushwetz, and will offer for sale fine line of millinery goods and effects.-Adv.
 -One of the desks in our sanctum is now adorned with beautiful bouquet of pansies, marigolds and other flowers with some geranium leaves. They were picked out of doors yesterday (Nov 2d) and presented to us by Mrs William Weaver.
 -sfWhen this cruel war is over" next Tuesday evening we trust that neighbors will once more be abl4 to borrow ia drawing of tea" or yeast cake of each other, and resume their friendly tranquility which is always more or less disturbed by presidential campaign.
 At this writing "Wednesday at Il. 30 am. we are informed that the condi- tion of Rachel Albright is very critical. She has typhoid fever. Mrs Fred San ford and one of tho children are very ill with typhoid fever, but are not in dan gerous condition.
 By way of an experiment in per- manent roadmaking several rods of road near the post office have been construct ed under the direction of D. l.. Peirce The foupdation of the road is refuse brick and clay from the brick yard and this has been covered with gravel to a } depth of about one foot
 The popular idea that salt applied to the eyes will cause smarting is wrong! People forget that tears are always salt. A very simple remedy for weak or in famed eyes is to open and shut them several times in warm salt water. This, to have any effect, should be done sev- eral times day.-Gowanda Herald.
 The funeral of Timothy Mcclure last Friday. was perhaps the largest which has ever taken place in this town. There were 62 teams in the procession. The burial was in St. Joseph's cemetery. Frank McCarty, Thomas Shields, Michael Joyce, John Kane, Patrick Fin negan and William Cosgrove acted as pail bearers.
 Lawrence Gillette had what came near being very serious accident yes. terday. He and Frank Durant were riding in E W.Warner's long box wagon and it chanced that just as MT Gillette was sitting down MT Durant hit the horse clip with the whip, causing him to start suddenly, and MT Gillette sal down on the ground instead of on the seat. The side of his head and one cal were grazed by the wheel and bruised and scraped very severely. Dr Camr dressed and bandaged his wounds.
 The travelling public suffer grea inconvenience because the P. R. & N B train leaving Hartford at 10. 25 a. m. fails tc connect with the Housatonic R. R. trair leaving Canaan at 12. 30 (noon) for Pitts field and Albany. Both roads intend te ~.oLo that connection hut only opox