Connecticut western news., 1892-09-08
Mrs Chas H. Briggs is at Dr 0. W.

| from trip to Saratoga.
 -"Thad" Downing went yesterday to attend the Chatham, (N.Y fair.
 It is now considered quite the ''proper caper' to sell your house and take board and lodging at the hotel.
 Miss Ada Mcintyre left on Satur- day for Coxsackie, N. Y. and other places; she will be absent about two weeks.
 John Richardson, of New Haven, who formerly lived in this vicinity, and his daughter, spent Sunday at Sheridan Barnes
 Poor unfortunate Prohibition Iowa has just paid its state debt. Has any rum-ridden state such record ?-Pacif- ic Baptist.
 No man has a right to complain that home IS unpleasant, until he has done every thing in his power to make it pleasant.
 $. W. Barnes, wife and two sons re- turned Thursday from the1r two weeks trip to Saratoga, Lake George, and Pownal, Vt.
 The Christ church Sunday school picnic took place at Twin Lakes last Thursday. It was pretty chilly. but all had good time.
 An exchange tells us that the ladies are using Scotch plaid very freely just at present. It is used for waists, dress trimmings and entire dresses.
 Have you sent your western friends a book of North Canaan? You can get them at Humphreys and Camps drug stores and at c. H. Pease's office.
 -"No farmer is wise enough to cheat Nature," but he is frequently foolish enough to think that he can get along without his town or county paper.
 MT Hook, who was lately trainmas- ter of the P. R & N. E., is now conduc- tor on the train which leaves Canaan for
 
 turn leaves Canaan at 4.55 p. m.
 There will be peach festival at the Methodist church parlors, Friday even- ing of thls week; also sale of aprons. plants, bulbs etc. All are cordially in vited.
 James Reel is building 19 by 20 foot l. on his barn opposite Patrick Fitzgerald's, and will change it into q dwelling house and erect 8 wall in front of it and fill in behind the wall as he has done at the house.
 l Frederick A. Spaulding whose death occurred in Norfolk last week was an old and respected citizen of that i town. He was a member of the Gener- al Assembly of that town in 1856 and has held various town offices. We are informed that Master Me chanic Hawthorne and Roadmaster John Eagan of the P. R. & N .E. road have re- signed. M. M. Garry, bridge builder has resumed his duties as such. It is also said that Charles Keane, master cal builder, handed in his resignation. We are informed that when one o the Italians, who were working on the section at East Canaan, went to get { pail of water recently, he had the water thrown over him and the pail broken to pieces. The next day, it is said, the whole gang of twelve men left, owing to the above related occurrence. | An exchange remarks that a news paper writer seldom has any particula individual in view penning genera truths. Hence it often happens that { score of people are led by an accus ing conscience to put on a shoe whicl is as tight fit as though it had beer made especially for each of them.
 Charles Lees Great London Show drew good sized audiences here last Fri day afternoon and evening. The aero batic and athletic feats were first clas in every respect but there was marked absence of horseback riding which wa 8 disappointment to many who expecte' to witness an old time circus.
 The concert in the band stand ol Saturday evening was first class. Tn
 band played some of their favorites an, did it well. The next concert, whic will probably be on the 17th, promise to be good one, as the boys have sey eral pieces in preparation which the
 intend to give us on that occasion. j Last Monday, Edward Clifford, fol
 merly of Rochester, N. Y, fireman O the P. R. & N. E. road, and Miss Celi Ryan, of this place, were quietly mai
 ried by Rev T. Ramon at St Joseph church. MT and Mrs Clifford will 2
 once begin house keeping in apartment in Patrick Lynch's house. They hay our best wishes.
 , Nobody ever loses anything b = assisting reporters to obtain news, or b 7 sending it to the newspapers. Ever s newspaper is grateful for such favor aud as surely as the pendulum swings 5 the opposite end of it's arc, so surely wi @ it happen that the reporter or his pap' @ will be able at some time to return tt
 favor with interest at one hundred fol,
 New Haven Palladium. - The Poughkeepsie News Pre- l. gives the following remedy for choler d and for the benefit of the community J. large it may not be amiss at this tin }. when the cholera stories are frighte y ing so many, to republish it: "Tal r equal parts of tincture of cayenn | oy,iupo fin of ch,, horh e