Connecticut western news., 1893-11-09
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  The Catholic fair recently held at New Brit ain netted $3,000.
 Rev and Mrs Charles Dixon, of Monroe, re- gently celebrated their golden wedding anni- versary.
 four cartridges in two days in and around Litchf1eld.
 Charles Hurd, of Aspetuck, is the cham pion squirrel hunter, having killed 70 this fall. He has made the remarkable record of killing 2S grays in Sl shots.
 The Hartford Courant, the oldest newspa- per in America, entered upon it's 130th year Oct. 29. The newspaper is old but not bit old fashioned.
 The property of Editor Peck, of the Nauga- tuck Enterprise, has been attached for libel in the interest of the chief of police of that place. Gorham D. Abbott, of Winsted, has found his voice after 30 years. When child he be- came deaf and dumb through scarlet fever. The Ansonia selectmen find more applicants for work at $1 a day than they can take care of.
 Manager Vaill says that 75. GOO people from Connecticut have attended the Worlds Fair. The tunnel which Is to increase WInsted's water supply by diverting the water of Rugg brook into Crystal lake has been excavated a distance of nearly 2S00 feet into the mount ain. Only about 450 feet remain to be exca- vated. The workmen can now hear each others drills through the solid wall of rock. The jury in the Hawley murder trial at Bridgeport failed to agree and were dis charged last Thursday after session of 12 hours or more. Mrs Florence Hawley is therefore again a free woman. The jury stood eight for verdict of manslaughter and four aequittal.
 New Preston has set sn example to other hill county towns by building row of town horse sheds.
 : General A. H. Embler, ex-adjutant-general of the state, has received from the secretary of war medal for distinguished gallantry at Boydton Plank Road, Va., on Oct. 27, 1864. The medal Is made from the metal of old cannon captured from the Confederates du- ring the war, and is one of the most valuable testimonials given by the government to it's brave old soldiers.
 Apostle Patzouris Greek, who has been in the confectionery business at Danbury for some time, has fallen heir to 8 handsome for tune. He irherits over $6o0 ,0O0 by the death of an uncle In Greece. He intends to live in London and engage in a large wholesale bus mess.
 The Winsted Herald says there are AS cases of scarlet fever in Winsted.
 Here Is the rollicking school yell of the freshman class of the Stamford High school: ]: "Rah-boom- Zip-boom-ahl Hlp-zoo, rah-zoo, Jimmy blow your nahzooi Ipsi- dixil High School Freshmenp ted the sixty-fourth anniversary of their mar riage on Friday, Oct. 27 at their home in Brooklyn. MT Beecher is the second son of the Rev Lyman Beecher, and was born in 1908, seven years before his father settled in Litchfleld.-Enquirer.
 Deep River farmer raises peculiar kind of apples. They are hollow in the center, so much so that by shaking them the seeds make a sound similar to a child's rattle.
 
 New Haven Coal Consumers Union expect to get coal for $4 a ton by buying at the mines. John R. Mead, of New London, has been nominated by the President for consul at San Domingo.
 Barkhamsted and Colebrook will ask the next legislature to reimburse them for the five bridges built or rebuilt in those towns the past year. They will take the Hartford bridge as a precedent for state liquidation of bridge expenses.
 English walnuts are apt to prove not quite hardy in the lowlands of Connecticut but on the hills they do well. On Great Hill they ripen perfectly and are much superior in flavor to those brought from warmer climes. They are easy to grow, not requiring many years growth before they begin to bear. As to the profit, they retail now at fifteen cents a pound, while the hickory nuts scarcely bring two cents pound.
 Mrs Thomas Grady, of Ansonia, was gored by COW while.trying to milk her recently. The COW had been eating apples and was in a bad mood.
 Winsted has grave yard thieves, who steal
 
 Milford has clothes line thieves, who one night last week stole 250 handkerchiefs and large amount of fine clothing from the line in the yard of Ingleside School.
 Large quantities of hemlock wood are used at Birmingham In the manufacture of postal cards and other paper stock.
 Martin Kilcourse, a section foreman on the Berkshire Division. living at Gaylordsville, in fit of insanity committed suicide Sunday evening, Oct. 29, by jumping headfirst into a well in his back yard. MT Kilcourss was 2s years old and leaves wife and two small children.
 The First Congregational church of Mid dletown celebrated its 225th anniversary Sunday, Nov. 5.
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