Connecticut western news., 1893-03-09

-"Sliding down life's toboggan" is the latest equivalent for ''going to the dogs"
 The Rev F. Thompson will preach every Friday night during Lent in Christ church.
 Literary Society to-mo orrow Friday night. Come and bring your girl. A lively debate is expected.
 Miss Genevieve Davis is studying art in New York. We understand she. is at the Academy of Design. Burton A. Peirce and A. A. Hub bard attended the inauguration ceremo- nies at Washington on Saturday.
 The United States Express Go. has secured foot-hold on the P. & R road and began operations on the 1st inst. J. G. Root is agent.
 70. D. Stone, (Chuck), Adams Ex- press messenger, has been transferred from the P. R. & N. B. road to run from Winsted to Bridgeport, on the Naugatuck road.
 Rev T. Ramon delivered short, but very earnest, discourse in St Jo- seph's church, Sunday morning, on the words of the gospel of St Matthew: "Go ye also into the vineyard" What do you think of man who refuses to let two little boys laden with a sack of flour, ride with him, when he was all alone with big double sleigh? That's the kind of hogs, not fit for sau- sage.-Millerton Telegram. We breathe easier. Mrs President Cleveland has put her foot down on crinoline, and that settles it. Not by virtue of the size of the foot, however, but by the good sense that actuated ''the first lady of the land. ''-Shore Line Times.
 The selectmen have called special town meeting for Saturday Q1th) after noon at 2 o'clock to take action on the report of the committee on the town hall and town and probate records mat ter There should be full attendance of the tax payers.
 Every taxpayer should attend the special town meeting to be held at the town hall on Saturday at 2p. m., and vote either for or against the pur- chase of the town hall property at $4, ,0O0. Don't shirk your duty. Don't stay away from the meeting and leave the responsibility upon few and then kick against whatever action is taken.
 Y-On Wednesday evening of last week the P. R & N. E. train due at Canaan at I'll p. m., got stalled in a snow drift between Mt. Riga and State Line. , It did not reach Canaan until about 930 p. m., consequently several Canaanites and many Norfolkers who intended to attend the American band concert at Winsted were compelled to remain at home.
 The remains of Mrs Julia Lamson, mother of Mrs John H. Pulver, were brought here Saturday afternoon and inferred in the Lower cemetery. The deceased lived and died at Russell, Mass Her death occurred on Thursday March 2d. The cause of her death was old age, as she had no disease. Her age was 78. Her husband and their four children, two sons and two daughters, survive her.
 The Norwalk Gazette says: The interesting announcement is made that Col w. H. Stevenson is about to open an office in Bridgeport for the practice of lay. Although not generally kno wn it is fact that Col Stevenson years ago found time while acting as superintend- ent of the Shore Line division of tho Consolidated railroad to study law and pass a creditable examination for ad mission to the bar. Colonel will mako a speciality of eases involving railroad interests.
 If the Rev Dr McGlynn and Henry George could be placed on an average farm, somewhere in New England, and be compelled to earn their living off it, they would probably come to the con- clusion that private ownership in land | is not such very desirable privilege as they seem to imagine. Indeed, the difficulty of finding good, reliable men to do farm work is very serious mat ter. If Messrs McGlynn and George would preach up the doctrine that it Is the duty of everybody to own land and take care of it they would have some reason on their side.
 W. G. Cargill returned last Friday from business trip of about two months in the southern states. He went as far south as Texas. He says that business in the south is booming better than it has been for ten years. The bounty paid to sugar raisers has given a tre- mendous impetus to that industry. Tho raising of rice has also been begun in Louisiana and the state has made a very large appropriation for the free distribu- tion of rice in pound packages at the Worlds fair, by way of advertising Lou isiana rice. MT Cargill was astonished at the prevalence of lynching all through the South. He also witnessed the New Orleans Carnival. One feature of the Carnival week which especially impress ed him was the unchecked lawlessuess to which the city is given up while the Carnival lasts.
 V-The railroads were partly blockad- ed again last Thursday with snow driv- en upon the tracks by the strong March wind All the south bound trains on the Housatonic road were behind time, I 4 L T. IL