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Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
Philadelphia's wa1tzfng Mice.

Lately the employees at the Philadel- phia Geological garden have been amused by the antics of some queer little animals which are not on public exhibition. The newcomers are black and white Japa- nese waltzing mice, seven in number. When let out of their cages, they wink at each other and step gracefully forward with movement which some of the be- holders declare is bow. Head Keeper Manley whistles Annie Rooney" and the mice skip away in pairs with queer, whirling motion. When he strikes up "The Bowery," they revolve so fast that nothing can be seen but little gray balls. "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" causes them to "swing corners" and dance "all hands around" Once the owner ventured to play the ''Dead March" while they were dancing. With whisk of their tails the little rodents fled to the cages like a man pursued by the nightmare.-Phila- delphia Inquirer.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
STA TIE NE WS.

Scarlet fever is prevalent at Winsted.
 Woodbnry has received a charter for an electric railroad.
 H. T. Hickox of Washington has purchased Q t1ock of 26 sheep to try the profits of raising mutton.
 Mir Murphy the gospel temperance worker, Is going to rerpain in Connecticut during the winter.
 J. H. Stewart, of New York, has been ap- pointed consul to St. Thomas, ". T., as suc- cessor to S. B. Horne, of Winsted.
 Tbe largest hair pin manufactures in America are situated in Birmingham and Waterbury. There are only two others, one in Brooklyn and the other in Philadelphia.
 Another Yale preparatory school Is to be established. It will be in Watertown, and will be named for it's founder, Horace D. Taft, Yale s3. The number of pupils will be limi- ted to 50, and MT Taft will endeav or to place it among the leading preparatory schools of the country.
 Arrangements have been made for the big State Christian Endeavor Convention to be held Oct. 3I, ut Bridgeport. It will be the largest convention ever held in Connecticut; s000 delegates are to be present. A chorus of 300 voices will sing. The convention will be continued for two days.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
FREDERICK LA TYR ENCE.

MT Frederick Lawrence died in this village about 40 o'clock last Sunday afternoon, at the residence of his daugh. ter, Mrs N. A. Van Deusen, with whom he had made his home for several years past. For two years or more he had been confined to his room, the result of partial paralysis and softening of the brain. His funeral was attended at the house on Wednesday morning at 10 a. m. Rev T. s. Bond conducted the ser vices.
 Frederick Lawrence was born at Ca naan, Conn.,, Aug. 15, 1913. He was the son of the late William Lawrence and Lottie Rood; and here it is proper to mention that of a family of nine chil- two are now living, Mir Lorenzo Law renee and Mrs Harriet Adam who are both residents of this town. Frederick Lawrence's first business venture was copartnership with Calvin Rood in store at New Hartford. About 1852 he went to Ct. Burlington and for several years was member of the firm of Far go, Gibbs < Lawrence engaged in the mercantile business in the so called "Long Stone Store" on Main street. Then he went to New York city and for eleven or twelve years was general salesman for the wholesale dry goods firm of Cunningham, Frost & Throck- renee retired from active business about 1872 but returned to Gt Harrington and for several years was bookkeeper for different firms whenever extra help was required. He moved to Canaan about eight years ago. He was twice married; first to Elizabeth A. Pease, Jan. 1, 1888, who died May l, 1S40; second to Helen M. Pease. By the first wife he had one daughter, and by the second wife two daughters and two sons-all of whom survive.
 Mir Lawrence was one of the pro- motors or originators and an active member of the military company fromed in Canaan during the days of ''General Training"
 MT Lawrence possessed many noble and generous qualities, and he will be missed by many friends and acquaint- ances beyond the circle of his own fam ily
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
DI ED.

LAwRENcE-In this village, Oct 22, Frederick Lawrence, aged 80 years 2 months and 2 days.
 ELToN-At yineland, N. J., Oct. 24, Irenus Elton, aged 96 years, months and l2 days, native of Canaan, Conn. MrNoR-At Bridgewater, Oct. 24, Hubert Minor, aged IS years. BENToN-At Ct. Harrington, Mass., Oct. 23, Charles Benton, aged S5 years. See Ct. Harrington correspondence) HUBBELL-At New Milford, Oct. IA, Louis H., son of Henry A. Hubbell. aged IT years. EvASs-At Roxbury, Oct. IT, John Dwight Evans, aged A years. HURLBURT-At Roxbury, Oct. IS, Thalia A., wife of Col. George Hurlburt, aged 81 years and months.
 THoMPsoN-At Bridgewater, Oct. IT, Elethea B., wife of Samuel l.. Thompson, aged 64. CURT1ss-At woodbury, Sept. 2O Mary Jen- net, wife of James G. Curtiss, aged 59 HURD-At woodbury, Sept. 20, Mrs Sally Hurd. aged 95.
 vosBURaH-At Sheffield, Mass, Oct. 20, Miss Eunice Yosburgh.. McNALLY-At Housatonic, Mass, Oct. 2l, John McNally, aged 27, formerly brake man on the N. T., N. H. & H. R R. JoNEs-At winsted, Oct. 24, Mahala, wife of John Jones, aged 5S years. The deceased was sister of John Pulver of Chapinville, and Talmadge Pulver of East Canaan.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

Rev Dr Henry M. Stoddard, editor of the New York Observer, has bought a lot at Williamstown and will begin work at once on an elegant summer home.
 Rumor has it that it has been definite ly arranged to ase the Hartsville water power for electric light and power pur poses, and that as extensive plant as the circumstances will permit is shortly to be constructed there. A market for some of the electric light generated will be found in New Marlboro, and it is said that Mir Bloodgood's large stock establishment will be lighted from the Hartsville plant Berkshire News.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
A Saving Investment.

T pawned two beautiful pictures for $5 apiece some months ago." said man about town. "Iwas oppressed by spirit of economy at the time, and had given up my room in the hotel to go where living was cheap. I was going to put the pictures on storage, when the idea of pawning them occurred to me. Storage would have cost me about 50 month, and I should not have been insured against damage then. There was no danger of their not being well cared for by the pawnbroker, though, for it was to his interest to keep them safely, 90 that he could sell them at high figure if failed to redeem them. I had the use of the $10 for four months, and all I had to pay for that and the storage was $1.20, or per cent month. That beats any other snap ever invented. New York Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
FLYING MACHINES.
Inventor Edison Says That the Problem Is
 Sure to Be Solved.

Sure to Be Solved.
 MT. Edison laughed heartily when in- formed that Chicago was the hotbed of the world for airship inventors. q know it," he said. "They haven't found the secret yet. but they will some day. It will come."
 "Have you ever entered the airship field yourself?" asked the reporter.
 "Yes, indeed, have. I have tried a number of devices, but they haven't worked. Once placed an aerial motor on pair of Fairbanks scales and set it going. It frightened the scales, but it didn't fly" And the wizard laughed at the recollection.
 Another time rigged up an umbrel- lalike disk of shutters and connected it with rapid piston in a perpendicular cylinder. These shutters would open and shut. If could have gotten suffi- cient speed, say mile a second, the in- ertia or resistance of the air would have been as great as steel, and the quick op- eration of these shutters would have driven the machine upward, but before the airship men succeed they will have to do away with the buoyancy chamber. But the secret will come out some, day am srlre."
 Like the world at large, which ridi- culed the first locomotive, the first tele- phone and almost every great innova- tion, Edison takes a humorous view of all his experiments and seemingly en- joys failure, "I have tried all kinds of plans to explain psychical force," he said, with smile. "We experimented on hypnotism by placing a mans head in an immense magnetic plane, but 1t didn't work. We tried telepathy, too, but without success"
 "Have you any more wonders like the photograph in the experimental stage?"
 "No, nothing but the kinograph, which Is now almost perfect. It reproduces, by rapid succession of small photo graphs, every motion of an object. It was very hard to get the exact grimaces of the face or the clear workings of a mans fingers playing the piano, but we perfected it at last. was very anxious to have one on exhibition at the fair, but we did not have it finished in time."- Chicago Inter Ocean.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
Sunlight.

Apropos of the effect of exposure to sunshine in destroying microbes, Mrs. Percy Frankland, in Longman's, notes the interesting fact that exact experi- ments conducted in the lake of Geneva to ascertain by means of photographic plates the depth to which the suns rays penetrated showed that they did not reach beyond 553 feet, at which depth the intensity of the light is equal to that which is ordinarily observed on clear but moonless night.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
pHIiAprLPHiA, BEADING HrwlrsoLAsp !. !. co.
 Poughkeepsic Bridge Route.
Commencing Sunday, August Is, 1898.
 QOINQ EAeT

Commencing Sunday. August Is. 1898.
 ooNo FAST. Lenve Canaan 2.ls a. m. tDaily Express) for Boston. arrive Hartford { 10. Boston sl6 a. m.
 Leave oanaan s.io a. m.. arrive Hartford $40 Leave Canaan e.4o a. m., arrive Hartford II .50 a. m.
 Loave Canann IA 3s D. m., arrive Hartford Q.b5 P. m., from Campbell Hall and way points. Leave Canaan 4.S5 p. m., arrive Hartford GAS Leave Cannan I'll p. m., arrive winsted 500 F. m.; from Poughkeepsie, hlllerton and Leave Canaan Isundays only) s.5S p. m. arrive Hartford GAS p. m.
 ooNe WEST. Leave Canaan SIS n. m. for Mlllerton, New York and Poughkeepsie. Leave Canaan 9.40 n. m, for Rhlnecliff. Leave Canaan i2.3s D. m. for Campbell Hall, connecting at Sllvernalls for Rhlncclin. Leave Canaan 5.t4, arrive uillerton 6.20 pm. Arrive at Canaan 8.4S p. m. from Hartford 6.S!. Leave Hartford 10 2b p.m., (Daily Exprcas)ior Philadelphia, Daltim' TO and Washington, Canaan i2.T a. m., arrive Maybrook a.00 a. m., Philadelphia, 7.b0 a. m. Leave Hartford S45 a. m. Sundays only) Ca- nam s.b5 p. m, arrive Campbell Hall 7.2e D. m.
 At Hartford with YkkEHM NYNH X 1T R R, Hartford Valley Divisions. At Simsbury and at Pine Meadow with N Y, N n & H k, Northampton Division. At winsted with \ Y N H HI B p, kauga- tuck Division.
 At Canaan with Housatonic n. \, at Miller ton and Mt Riga with Harlem Division k 70 x II k R R; at Boston Corne~ with Harlem Division N 0 & fl K II N. and N mnH, at Poughkeepsie with nYOAHk at khinecllH with Y Q 4 H RRR N. by forry to Rondout with the Ustar & Delaware Mi aaN Ma .tF s..Ge I.t.N River Ky. at Campbell Hall with NYoaw By, NYLE&W RR., PP& D RR and Waikiki Valley R R.
 W E. BAILY, B.F. kEsSER,
 Superintendent. Gcn1 Pess'E Agt Hartford, Oonns
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
Not For Joseph.

Joseph Ward Lewis, editor of the Pittsfeld Journal, announces that he has no representative aspirations and will support the democratic gentleman, Col. Phillips. People around here will remember MT Lewis as Methodist boy preacher who appeared on the camp ground some years ago. Jo is now a successful newspaper man and political orator and by the way has lately joined the Episcopal Church.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
POINT FRS.

Cider apples wanted. See adv.
 Now buy Mrs E. H. Peck's place. See adv.
 Read Geo. V. Capron's new adver- tisement.
 Now is your time to secure bargains at N. Van Deusen's store. See adv.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
NOTICE.

The rate bill of taxes on tax list of the Sharon Fire District for the year 1898 with warrant therein directing me to collect of the several persons mentioned therein the amounts assessed and set to each and said warrant being placed in my hands together with said rate bill hereby give notice that will meet said persons at the town clerk s office in said Sharon on the 4th day of Now ember, 1893, between the hours of seven and niue m. for the purpose of receiving and collecting said tax.
 WILLIAM E. KLEBEs, Collector of Taxes Shar-
 on Fire District.
 Dated, sharon, Conn.,. October Sd, 1898.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
ONE MORE.

The Great Rock Island Route has done much in the past six months to induce immigration to Kansas, Colorado. Indian Tor ritory and Teras, and any looking for obeap lands and good locations should send for now paper issued by that company. It is called the Western Trail, and will be sent frec one roar. Address Editor Western Trail. Chicago.
 JNo. SEBASTIAN.
 General Passenger Agent Chicaso
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26

The Rev Dr Philip Schaff, of Union Seminary, New York city, died of paral- ysis at his home in New York last Fri day, aged "A years. His funeral was attended on Monday. Dr Sohaff was regarded by many during his life as the greatest living authority on exegesis and church history.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
Nnt Mara NTonau

He Cbitterly)-Your answer would be different if I were rich enough to shower you with golden eagles.
 She-It might be different possibly if you should cover me so completely that couldn't see.-New York Weekly.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2e, 1893.

p9~THE NEWS is on file in the Con- neeticut building at the Worlds Fair and visitors from this region will have the opportunity to peruse letter from home by calling for this paper.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
Harry Tyler Weeds.

Harry 0. Tyler, the great bicycle rider of the Springfield club. was married last Thursday to Miss Edith M. Thomp- son, of Plattsburg, N. Y.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
HOw,S THUsr

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
 F.J CHENEY & O., Props, Toledo, 0 We, the undersigned, have known F. ]. Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac- tions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
 WALDING. KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo, Ohio.
 Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Testimonials sent free Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26

"Hsve you an ideap It may be val uable. Is it patentablep Write DuBoIs & DUBoIs. long established Patent Att torneys, Washington, D. O.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
Death OfDr. Schaf.

Siam, it is said, can boast of tailles cats with purple eyes.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26

season a new schedule will go into effect on the F., R. < x E road Sunday, which will affect passenger trains as follows:
 GOING WEST.
 Leave Winsted 705 a. m., Canaan 755, connecting at Boston Corners with Harlem train for New York and arriving at Poughkeepsie at 10.10.
 Leave Hartford 15 a. 'm.. Canaan 10 34, arrive Millerton 11.12.
 Leave Hartford 1920 a. m, arrive Canaan 12.38 p. m., leave 12.45, arrive Campbell Hall 5.15. Leave Hartford 3.25 p. m, Canaan 5 A, arrive Millerton 6 20.
 Night expresses and Sunday trains unchanged.
 GOING EAST.
 Leave Millerton $50 a. m., Canaan g. 40, arrive Hartford 1150.
 Leave Campbell Hall 8.55 a. m., ar rive Canaan 1239 p. nn., leave 124 45, ar rive Hartford 255. Leave Millerton 3 15 p. m., Canaan 3 53, connecting at Winsted with Naug- atuck trains, arrive Hartford 630. Leave Po'keepsie 5. 10 p. m., Boston Corners 6.36. Canaan 7.18, arrive Win. sted 8.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
BORN.
M A R R HE'D.

New York. Oct. 16, a son to Mr
 and Mrs G. Otto Elterich, of Clayton, Mass.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient without the supplemental laws of good breeding.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26

SANFoRD-MEsIcK-At the home of the brides uncle, Louis F. Payne, Chatham, N. Y., Oct 1s.by Rev George Brown, Walter E. Sanford, Judge of the District court of Southern Berkshire, and Miss Katharine M. Mesick, of Brooklyn N. Y.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
New Time Table.

If the time tables can be printed in season new schedule will go into effect on the P. R. X N B road Sunday, which will affect passenger trains as follows:
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
WANTED!

AT ONCE, few carloads of Cider Apples delivered at Canaan. Price paid, 30 cent per cwt.
 JNo. N. VAN DEUsEN. Canaan, Oct. 26, 1893.
Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
South Downs 6 Short Horns
 For Sale.

Choice yearlings and ram lambs. The get of registered and prize rams. Also three Short Horn bull calves. One calved Oct. 31st, 1892 the others March, 1893 All from re- corded sire and dams. WM. s. WILCOX. Sheffield Oct. Q, 1898.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-03-17

Mr.. Gladstone has been summoned to an
audience with the Queen.
Consul-General New authorizes an abso-
lutte denial 10 all the stories and rumors OF
defalcations in the consular office at London
and states that there is no foundation what
ever for the stories.
The steamship Silvertown has arrived at
Valparaiso with 300 miles OF new cattle
with which to duplicate the line from Mex.
leo to Lima. The Silvertown will begin
laying the cable from Chorillos on March Il.
The British Columbian Legislature has
passed resolution urging the Dominion
Government TO take steps toward securing n
thorough examination at the port of depart
IRE OF vessels coming from Asiatic ports.
A band OF robbers broke into the house OF
n steward named Hipoluo, in Abalate,
Province OF tuenCa, Spain, killed the five in
mates, aud carried OFT all small articles OF
value in the house.
The weeks festivities with which the or
rival of the steamship New York al South.
amptOn has been celebrated closed with n
banquet gwen by the Southampton city gov
eminent to the directors OF the American
line, the captain ofthe New York. and the
directors Of the railway between Southamp.
ton and London.
Mrs. Wilson. the daughter of Hem;
Schuher, the o dest American resident in
Panama, WAS ont boating with Capt. Shack
ford and Miss Wilson. The boat swamped
and the three were thrown into the water.
Mrs. Wilson was drowned, Capt. Shackford
and Miss Wilson being rescued.
An imperial ukase at St. Petersburg alI-
thorizes the issue of an internal loan of
l00,OOO,0OO OF credit ronbles at Az per cent,
The loan Is to be placed by the sale Of bonds
by the Imperial Bank. The Imperial Bank
has given notice that it will undertake
henceforth the purchase and sale OF foreign
drafts and the issue Of bills Of exchange for
places abroad.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-03-17
News I'm General,

Adjt.~Gen. Porter has commissioned Will
lam Cary Sanger of Brooklyn, TO be Colonel
aud assistant chief OF artillery.
c. +. Lindsey OF Oneida. y. Y, a promi-
nent business man, who recently assigned,
committed suicide by hanging himself In the
cellar of bis store. A deep cash was also
found cut In his throat.
The Toronto, Ogdensburg and Montreal
Navigation Company has been organized
with well-known New York millionaire at
its head. The company will run three
large steamers, capable of carrying 5000 pas
sengers, between Toronto, Rochester, Os-
wego, Montreal aud other points.
The Allan line steamer Asyrian arrived at
Montreal after verv rough passage. The
Asyrian crossed the Banks in clear seas. She
came about 30 miles south of Sable Island,
the route supposed to have been taken by
the NarOnic, but reports having seen nothing
OF the missing vessel.
In the case of the State against NJ. +.
Moran, charged with conspiracy and intimi-
dation at Fairmont West Va, the jury,
after being out few minutes, returned a
verdict of guilty. Moran is the president OF
District No. II. United Mine Workers OF
America, comprising the state Of w est Viz
ginia, and was indicted for melting the riots
AT the Castor coal mines last August.
Representative Grcenlee (Rcp.) introduced
in the Kansas House an amendment to the
Australian Ballot bill. which prob bits the
appointment Us election judges of members
OF n party which had fused with another
party at a previous election. The PROPOSE
tion was carried by vote Of IS to 0, and the
Senate concurred. The Popusts supported
the measure. The amendment is aimed at
the Democracy.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-03-17
FLOODS AND ICE G0R8ES.
Railroad Tracks Under Water
Roads Imp tssable and Serious
Damage Done.

The trains on the Erie and Wyoming
Railroad bound for Wilkesbarre could get
no further than Port Blanchard owing to
the floods.
At Pittston, Pa. the water is % feet above
low water mark and the excitement is great
on the west side, where small boats are In
use transferring people to their homes.
At Coxton the Lehigh Valley road yards
present sorry spectacle. The IL shifting
tracks are under several feet Of water. A
frame building used by the railroaders is
floating about aud the telegraph station has
boon aha pdonod.
The Bloomsbury division OF the Delaware,
Lackawana Il Western Railroad is under
four feet Of water for distance OF four
miles.
The same state of affairs exists In the case
OF Cedar creek, which flows into the main
Loup near Fullerton.
Several bridges on the branch ofthe Union
Pacific were carried out.
Nebraska-Adyces from points along
north, middle and south Loup rivers, in the
central portion Of the state, report great
damage being done along those streams by
high wattr and Ice.
Michgan-An ice gorge has formed in the
Grand river over four miles In length. The
water has come up TX feet in "a hours and
is rapidly rising.
Main street easements are flooded. I4um-
Der and wood yards are aloat there being
one foot q water already IN sqmetp Y Feet Of
no% .sT On the ...s1m H65fs Lyons is In great
danger OF being washed away.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-03-17
CONDENSED NEWS OF THE DAY.


Harvard has challenged the Yale fresh
men for a race nj New London next June.
She has also sent challenge to Columbis.
Yale will reply 10 Harvard by demanding
that Cornell be admitted 10 the race.
Capt Pond, Assistant Quartermaster
United States Army has completed the re-
cording Of the deeds OF the land given by
the citizens OF Bennington, VT, and its vicin-
ity TO the Government for the new military
post. The post will be known as Fort Ethan
Allen.
While Conductor G. +. Littlefield of the
Great Falls and Rollinsford branch of The
Boston & Maine railroad was coupling cars
in the yard at Somersworth. \. H., his
right hand was caught and three fingers
were so badly crushed as TO render the am.
putation OF two Of them necessary.
The cases OF typhoi6 fever in Newbury-
port are fewer in number at present than at
any previous time since the first of January,
during which month there were 30 cases.
There were ~ many more IN February.
The winter cholera has apparently spent It's
force, and the cases of mumps are growing
less.
G. G. Rice's general store at Chester. VT,
was Quilted by fire n few nights ago. Loss,
5000; insurance, S4000.
Rev. 2. NJ McKenna, acting pastor of St.
Patrick Church Of Norwich, CT, announced
to his peOpc on Sunday that an orphans
home would be established Immediately for
the parish.
The man who was found dead near Elm
wood. Ct, the other day. has been identified
as Tom McKiernan, New Haven saloon
keeper. 1t is case of suicide, but the rea-
son for ii has not TRANSFERRED.
Michael Costigan, workman in the paper
mills at Bellows Falls, VT, was killed by
being struck by crank shaft. He was A.
years old, and leaves awife and two children
living in North Walpole.