Connecticut western news., 1892-10-27
Local News.

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 Have you SEEN those $50.OO two- seated wagons at Cargill'sp
 Samuel A. Eddy returned from Chicago last Monday.
 Miss Jones returned to her home in Fredonia, N. r., yesterday.
 -Millerton, N. Y. is gong to have sn electric light plant, at cost of $6,OO0 to $7,OOO. 'e" Mir and Mrs w. A. Hiester left here Monday morning for their home at Ell, mira, N. Y.
 Miss Anna Rudge is spending her vacation at Boston, Mass. whither she went last Thursday.
 Three excursion tickets were sold at this station last Friday for the Bridge port Columbus Day celebration.
 -E. w. Warner has just added three good new horses to his livery stable. He bought them in New York state.
 There was collision between two freight trains on the P. R. & N. B. road eara Saturday morning, near Lloyd, N. Y.
 There will be another Republican rally at the town hall in this village on the 2d of November. It is not yet known who will address the meeting.
 The Housetonic R. R. Go. has dis :, continued for the winter the Sunday night sleeping car train which left Ca- naan at II 38 D. m. for Bridgeport and New York.
 Isaac Lermond has been very i'll for two weeks with pneumonia, at his broth er's in Camden, Me. He is still very sick, but reports yesterday were more favorable.
 -THE NEWS and it's readers are in- debted to the Rev T. s. Bond for the very interesting and instructive article published today under the caption of "Virginia Pencillings."
 MT Curtiss, of Norfolk, 2 skilled road maker, has begun the repairing of roads in the east part of the town. He uses the patent scraper and is assisted by D. l.. Peirce's man and team.
 Mir and Mrs Levinus M. Swift. for merly of Cornwall, Conn.,. but for near ly 90 years residents of Washington Ter ritory, were in town several days last week. They have not yet sold thelr property near Spokane Falls, Wash. but will spend the winter at Wheaton, Ill.
 Last Tuesday, as Harry Nicoll was looking through . small hole into the stack of his lime kiln, the lime sudden ly settled and some particles of hot lime were thrown into his eyes He was unable to see anything for several hours, but we are happy to say that his eyes were we'll again yesterday.
 Property is still booming on Gran ite Avenue. w. G. Oargill purchased the J, l.. Bragg lot and managed to keep it five days. Dr H. l.. Ross was the fortunate purchaser. We understand that the Dr. is to erect fine house on this lot very soon. The prospects are good for three or four houses being built on thIs avenue early in the spring. An exchange says: It is amusing to observe the different kinds of hats worn by the ladies, just now: new win ter hats, fall hats, summer hats, lace hats, straw hats, velvet hats, hats with out any trimmings, hats with leather bands and buckles, hats trimmed with ribbons and velvets, hats profusely dec. orated with feathers, pon pons, flowers and dead birds, hats of indescribable shapes and styles, and hats.
 -Dr Geo F. Lewis, of Collinsville, invited the editor of the NEWS to come i to Collinsville last Tuesday and take ar object lesson in road making. The ed itor could not conveniently accept the invitation Tn person but he urged Mir D l.. Peirce, one of North Canaan's roaG agents, to go to Collinsville on said date MT Peirce kindly consented, was hand somely entertained by Dr Lewis, ant witnessed the nsod,1s operd,adi of making Macadam road. Next week, Mir Peirct will tell the readers of the NEWS wha . Collinsville is doing in the line of roat making.
 n oI dispatch was received at this statiol that freight car had broken loose nea Norfolk. and was coming down tn grade to Canaan, "playing it alone" a they say in euchre. A crowd gathere at once on the depot platform waitin in breathless suspense to see th runaway come tearing through tn yard. But she did not tear. and afte awhile the knowing ones began to sa that she must be in the ditch some where, that of course she would jun the track. Shortly after one o'clock the west bound passenger train arrive and those on board reported that the had overtaken the runaway about half mile west of the Whiting fill, where hsd stopped on the track.
 On Got. 18th tho Berkshire Courit offered prize of five dollar gol piece to the writer of the best compos tion of not over eight hundred word written with Columbus as subject b any scholar in the Ct. Harrington hig school. The writers were given 8 days in which to prepare their compos tions. Twenty-one competitors respo n'