Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26
Local News.

Will Emmons returned from the Worlds Fair, Monday.
 A rainbow by moonlight was visible at 8 o'clock last Monday evening.
 -Cabbages will be put in circulation next Tuesday evening-Halloween.
 Editor Rodemeyer, of the Winsted Herald, spent Tuesday night in town. / The railroad commissioners inspect cd the P. R & N E. road last Thursday.
 Mrs J. B. Hardenberg has pur- chased the Watson property of Mrs J. s. Corbit.
 Denny Noonan is recovering from threatened attack of typhoid pneumonia.
 Gall at Humphreys drug store and see the life-like crayon of Dr Eddy. You can get one like it free.
 -Dr Clemans and Mrs Clemans, and Miss Anna Rudge returned from the Worlds Fair last Saturday morning.
 Rev Dr Eddy has not been very we'll the past ten days, and in military parlance, has not been able to take his usual rations.
 Mir B. F. Kesser, GenI Pass. Agt. of the F.. R. & N. E. read, called at the NEWS office Tuesday and gave us what information he could about the pro- posed new time table.
 Master Raymond Weaver, aged about six years, son of the late Adelbert A. Weaver, is quite sick with typhoid fever. H His condition has remained "about the same" for several days.
 1.-Two good improvements. The se- lectmen have blasted out some of the rocks in the highway over the hill near Frank Hitchcock's, and they have widened the road on the corner near Patrick Bntt's.
 Martin Rood has been critically i'll with pneumonia for several days, and on Monday Dr Lee called Dr Bissell, of Lakeville, as counsel. MT Rood's con- dition is encouraging at this writing, "Wednesday afternoon) and his recovery is expected if no complication of di- seases develope
 MT John B. Reed has been on the sick list for more than week. At first it was feared that pleurisy would de- velop; then congestion of the liver man. ifesteA itself. but that was overcome and then typhoid fever developed. Mir Reeds condition is not alarming. and he seems somewhat better at this wri- ting "Wednesday afternoon).
 MT Irenus Elton died at Vineland, N. J. on Tuesday. He was born at Ga nsan, Aug. l2, 1797. His wife and one son survive him. The NEWS has fre- quently published items regarding the remarkable mental and physical Yigor of MT and Mrs Elton who celebrated their diamond wedding year or more ago. The next issue of the NEWS will probably contain brief sketch of MT Elton, and report of his funeral and burial which occurs to-day at Vinelaud.
 The Rev. William Ackroyd. of Stockbridge. Mass, left New York yes terday by the steamer "Teutonic" for England, word having reached him that his wife's mother is at the point of death in Manchester, Eng. Rev Ack- royd will be absent six weeks. This will necessitate the trunsposing of the fourth and fifth lectures in the lecture course of the Canaan M. E. church. During Rev Ackroyd's absence his pull pits at Sheffield and Ashley Falls will be supplied by the Rev Mir Gaylord who has been sojourning at Sheffield for several months.
 The Rev Dr John G. Oakley. oi New York city, was greeted by large and attentive audience in the M. B. church on Tuesday evening; and in just two hours time Dr Oakley took the aud. fence with him from New York city across the Atlantic to Liverpool and London, through various cities of the Continent, across the Mediterranean Sea and through the Suez canal tc Egypt and the Holy Land. and return Dr Oakley and his son made the trir last year and were the first Americans to make the journey by railroad from Jaffa to Jerusalem. It is needless tt say that Dr Oakley interested and in structed his hearers and made then clearly see, in imagination, the very same scenes that he witnessed in those historic lands.
 eDr Ross, besides being dentist, i . taxidermist and also practical joker A while since, the Doc, wishing tt amuse himself, placed very life-lik' stuffed crow on his back fence ane awaited developments. Soon gentle man of Celtic origin, whom we will cal Mike, happened along and Ross asked him if he could stone the crow off th' fence, explaining that he (the Doc wasn't specially built for throwing stones. Mike assented and threw few stones which came wide of the mark His next throw however was very clos< to the birds head and Mike, noticing how close he had thrown, instantly spoke mp: 'Ochl See the divil duel his head" Mikes next throw was bet ter than all the rest for the stone strucl the crow on the back and bounded of Mike exclaiming in astonishment "Well, he do be tough beast" Thi Celtic son then hastily withdrew witl the supersticious dread that he had beel begging rocks at Poe's raven. The mex on the scene wss one of our local sports man called Jack. who took careful ain