Connecticut western news., 1892-10-20
Local News.

Local News.
 Miss Florence Thomson returned to New York last Monday.
 The concrete sidewalk near the school house was rebuilt last week.
 Mrs Harlan P. Tracy was in New York from Monday till last night of this week.
 Ed Warner has got up steam-in his new heater which warns the entire hotel.
 Il. Foote points with pardonable pride to his fine large crop of growing onions.
 Joseph Lefingwell, of Clayton, Mass. ,has returned to Chicago to resume his medical studies.
 Many man thinks he can read 8 woman like book till he tries to shut her up.-Philadelphia Times.
 Miss Colligan is now the telegraph operator in the train dispatcher's office at the union depot in this village.
 Fuller & Peet's large bay horse died last week. It was the big horse formerly owned by Frank Hitchcock.
 The mercury scored 73 degrees at noon last Friday and Saturday, which is not usual at this season of the year.
 To be perfectly honest with you, Christopher, we are sort of glad that we were discovered. d.-Norwalk Gazette.
 -Dr and Mrs Clemans and Henry Reed were present in New York last week during the Columbian celebration.
 Prof Fl. M Adams sprained his ankle quite badly last week Friday, but managed to attend to his duties at the school.
 We understand that the Philadel- phia & Reading people are prayerfully considering the last report of the rail road commissioners.
 John Lorrigan has been making more havoc with the birds. On Monday he killed 12 woodcock and three ruffed grouse alias psrtridges.
 Last Sundays visitors. A. O. Brainard, of Ct. Harrington, Edward ID. Norton. of Pittsfeld, Major How'd and Benjamin Ball, of Amesville.
 The cellar for H. D. Humphrey s tenant house on West Main street is completed, and the carpenters have commenced work on the frame for the house.
 -LRev F. w. Barnett is taking a vaoa- tion. He left last week and will be ab- sent one more Sunday. Rev E. Whit tlesey oficiated at Christ church last Sunday.
 The Rev Frederick Thompson. principal of the Canaan Academy, con- ducted the services and preached at St. Georges church at Lee last Sunday in the absence of the rector.
 Rev T. S. Bond returned last Fri day from his trip to Virginia He has kindly consented to give our readers next week some account of what he did and saw while he was away.
 John Ryan has decided to build a house on the site of the one recently de- stroyed by fire. The masons are now at work fixing up the cellar walls which were only slightly injured by the fire.
 The religious man who can't get in- to an argument on religion without be- coming mad enough to swear is of about as much to religion as a dynamite car trldge is to cook stove.-N. Y. Herald.
 A partial eclipse of the sun will occur today (Thursday) which will be visible throughout the whole of North America. It will commence in this re- : zion about noon, 1906 p. m., and ends at 3.07 p. m.
 Mrs Harlow Roots friends are hap py to hear that she is not going to move this fall as has recently been reported Mrs Root has rented of Mrs A. K Rhoades the Knickerbocker place where she has resided for the past sev en years. She has full control of the land, house and barn until April 1st 1893.
 There was head-on collision be tween two freight trains near Collins vile Monday afternoon. The trains were going slowly and consequently nc great harm was done. The pilots of tn, engines were demolished and the truck of one engine and three or four car1 were derailed, and the 5.44 west bound passenger train was more than two hour late. It is said that flag had been sen out but somehow it was not seen.
 The Hon. Robert E.. DeForest, mem ber of Congress from the Fourth dls trict of Connecticut, will address meet ing ct the town hall in this village ol tho 26th inst ct 8 o'clock p. m. Thi appearance of MT DeForest on the stuml in our town has been looked for wit considerable interest. The Hon Joh J. Phelan will also speak on the politi cal issues of the day. We do not doub that all will like to hear what the Dem ocrats propose to do to increase tn prosperity of the country, or, in othe words, to hear their side of the case.
 We had very pleasant chat wit