Connecticut western news., 1892-03-31

Tuesday. Price was from to 62 cents per pound.
 Mrs s. M. Humphrey returned on Saturday from her six months stay in Worcester. Mass.
 The spring term at the high school begins April 11th. Prof H. M. Adams will then resume his duties.
 Hereafter MT and Mrs Thomas Ab- be will reside in the east. Mrs Abbe arrived here yesterday afternoon.
 Mrs K. B. Daily goes to Kingston, N. Y. to-day to visit her brother, Dr Mack Eddy, for about two weeks.
 Henry G. Williams returned this week from New York state bringing home with him good sturdy team of black horses.
 Tomorrow will be the first of April; and no doubt very many of the pretty speckled April fools will get into the fishing baskets before night. --Thirty.two horses, purchased in England, for the Bloodgood stock farm at New Marlboro arrived here in two palace horse cars Tuesday evening. Next Tuesday evening the Agassiz Society will meet at the house of Miss s. W. Adam. A full attendance is de- sired as new officers are to be elected. -"Get Q move on you" does not at present apply to East Canaan. It is said that thirty-two families there will change locations but only few leave town.
 Mrs William Smith will occupy one of the front rooms in the Cummings block this summer for dressmaking, and Miss Lucy A. Smith will be with her aunt, Mrs Waller.
 Edwin Barnes has moved into Michael Madden's house on Church street and MT and Mrs William O'Brien and James Fitzgerald have moved into Edwin Barnes house on Railroad street.
 Tt is not often that man contem- plating going into the practice of any profession is tormented with the fear that he will have too much business, but there was just such case as that in town last week.
 Mrs Fl. N. Adams was called by telegram to South Manchester, Satur- day, on account of the severe sickness, pneumonia, of her sister Miss Alice Dawson. She died before Mrs Adams arrived Saturday noon.
 Some weeks we might possibly publish more local items tor at least more rumors) than we record, but we keep ID mind Josh Billings remark, ''It is better not to know so much, than to know so many things that are not true"
 The milk factory at Wassaic, N. Y. will pay the following prices for milk during the next six months: April, Sc; May, 2ic; June, Pc; July, 2ic; August, 2ac; September, cents, which is quarter of cent better on June than last year. The Amenia Union correspondent of the Amenia Times says: "Newton Reed is not as we'll as usual. No special disease, but increasing debility" We have the impression that Newton Reed taught the district school in Canaan about fifty years ago.
 A case is reported of a man down at Conewango as having blind staggers contracted from regularly reading his neighbours newspapers. If people were affected that way in this locality it would be difficult to build a hospital large enough to hold the patients.- Gowanda Herald. l The following is taken from re- cent issue of the Litchfeld County | Leader:
 The drum corps of Falls Village has completed it's organization and is un- | der the instruction of David W. Stone of Lakeville Much credit is due F. B. How'd for his labors in behalf of the corps, and it has chosen him its general manager and treasurer l According to Lieutenant Totten of Yale College the beginning of Judg. ment" occurred the 2Oth inst, and on the 29th inst the Devil was let loose for seven years. Our only comment on
 Totten's theory Is this, to wit, Tuesday was bright and sunny day and we do not blame the Devil for getting out ii
 he had the chance.
 The ninety third annual session of the New York Conference of the Meth. odist Episcopal Church convened yes. terday in the Park Avenue church, New York city. Bishop Foss presided. The committee meetings were held Tuesday and the Rev T. s. Bond left Canaan
 Monday noon in order to attend them.
 The New York Conference always con.
 venes on the Wednesday before the first
 Monday in April.
 With sadness we record the death
 of Mir Frank w. Bronson, son of MI
 Horace R. Bronson, of Sheffield, Mass
 Frank died suddenly, of pneumonia, al Waterbury, Conn, last Monday, after ar illness of only five days. His age wa,
 39 years. He leaves 8 wife. Twenty
 years ago this spring Frank came te
 Canaan and entered the employ of 8, O
 Beckley, who at that time was a mer
 chant at Canaan. Frank served two