Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
Local News.
-Reautiful moonlight nights.

Beautiful moonlight nights.
 -"Chestnut trees are in blossom and that's chestnut.
 Miss Case, of Pine Meadow, spent Sunday with the Misses Norton.
 Mrs Frederick Lane, Of Hartford, is at A. E. Mallory's for the summer.
 -Dr o. W. Camp has purchased a very fine pointer pup of P. l.. Stanton. Miss Mabel L. Watson has returned from her trip to New York and other places.
 -Abram Thorpe and George Cushing, of New Hartford, are working for B. R.. Lorrain.
 Miss Eva Corbit has come home from the Pennington, (N. J.) Seminary for the vacation. The ice cream sociable at Pilgrim church parlors on Tuesday evening was . very enjoyable affair.
 Frank Hitchcock has had his new barn painted dark red, and has removed the old barn and sheds. Miss Josephine Tuckerman and B. P. Bailey, of Jamestown, N. r., left town last Friday night.
 Joseph l.. Parsons, of Lincoln, Neb. arrived here last Thursday night. He expects to remain the rest of the month. The Rev R. F. Putnam, of Lime Rock, ,officiated at Christ church on Sun- day, having exchanged with the Rev F. w. Barnett.
 Harry Nicoll, who has been at the old Nicoll homestead in Washington vile, N. r., for the past two or three weeks, has returned.
 Quite number of the cottages at Pine Grove camp ground will be occu- pied this week but the camp meeting does not begin until Aug 22nd.
 -B. F. Jones, foreman of the Miller. ton Telegram, made us call Monday morning. MT Jones and a party oi friends are camping at Twin Lakes this week.
 -Dr H. l.. Ross and w. G. Cargill keep few buff Cochins. and last week they were pronounced the finest in the United States by we'll known poultry fancier.
 The Rev T. s. Bond, Charles Cal lendar. Mir and Mrs John N. Van Deu. sen, G. Willis Parsons and MT and Mrs H. M. Adams attended the Christian Endeavor convention at New York city last week.
 Tine excursion train to Saratoga, which passed through here at one o'clock p. m. on Monday, was compos- ed of only two passenger coaches and baggage car. No tickets were sold al this station.
 Judge A. T. Roraback has lost { very fine Jersey calf. Just before its death it was very violent and rammed it's head through fence. The symp toms seemed, on the whole, to point tt hydrophobia or delirium tremens.
 A contributor to one of our exchan ges says:
 By scattering Jumps of borax where ants intrude, I have, during twent, years never failed to cause the total dis appearance in the course of few day - AL and small red ant.
 Mrs James A. Cook, of Patterson N.J., and her little son, Sedgwicl Cook, who have recently been visiting at Dr Welchs in Norfolk and wer guests at H. P. Tracy's in Canaan tn fore part of this week, have gone t Cornwall Hollow to remain a while.
 -DrH. l.. Ross leaves here on tn 18th of August for his annual vacation He will be gone till the 17th of SepSen ber. He hopes that those who have an work for him to do will not put off COT sulting him until the last moment. Sc him at once.
 An exchange says: If 8 man ha to draw heavy wagon or push vince barrow, with bit in his mouth faster ed to his back, which pulled his hea over his shoulders so that he could nc lean forward, he would realize what horse suffers from tight checkrein. Owe five hundred veterinary surgeons Great Britain have signed paper col demning tight checkreins, and we thin the time is not far distant when ownel and drivers will become so humane as see that horses suffer no longer fro this ssrelic of barbarism."
 One of our village merchants thinl that bicycles do not save merchan any steps. He say few days since boy rode on bicycle to the store an ordered 25 cents worth of meal to delivered one-fo urth of mile distan The merchant politely informed the bt that his parents did not trade $2 wor year with him and he could not affol to travel one-half mile, to the house al return, to deliver 25 cents worth of me on which the profit is II cents. M merchant says that before the age of cycles boy would come on foot to u store and carry such package of me home in his arms or in little cart
 wheelbarrow.
 The case of Henry Stiquel vs Lot Terrier, both of East Canaan, and bo Frenchmen, was tried last Saturd morning before Justice Bennett. T