Connecticut western news., 1893-01-26

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 Don't forget that Dr McGlynn will lecture in Millerton, N Y. Feb 2. His subject will be 'Labor and its Deserts. i" | -S. w. Barnes has been confined to the house week with 8 severe cold or bronchial difficulty but he is improving rapidly.
 The P. R. & N. E. road will cover all the open culverts along their line, and drain tile are now being laid between Winsted and Canton.
 Mrs Dr Camp, who has been suffer ing with rheumatism and neuralgia for some time past, is now much better and expects to be up soon.
 Eaton & Robbins paper mill at East Lee, Mass, was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. Loss about $15, GOO. Insured for $8,O0O.
 The price for buffalo robes ranges from one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars. A man who owns fine buffalo robe has valuable prize. -Go- wanda Herald.
 The Toronto Globe reports that the precaution of boiling the water has cer- tainly brought about decrease in cases of typhoid fever. It is surely a very simple remedy.
 The second annual ball of the Mag nolia Social Club will be held at the town hall on Friday evening, Feb. 3d. Tickets for lady and gent 75 cents. Good music furnished. See posters.
 John German, of Philadelphia, 8 brakeman on Conductor Payne's train on the P. R. & N. E. road, was killed at Simsbury last Thursday by being crush ed between two cars. German was about IS years of age.
 II shall vacate my present store the first of April. Until that date I will sell my stock of stoves, tinware, etc., at cost rather than move it. I will also sell one set of timers tools and one set of piping tools at bargain.
 A. l.. BROWN, Norfolk, Conn.
 MT Patrick Lynch will be 80 years old on Saturday of this week. By the way, we forgot to mention that MT Will liam Watson was 30 years old the 18th inst. Boys so we'll and active as those just mentioned should not be sensitive about their age but should be proud of it.
 | The New Preston correspondent of the Litchield Enquirer remarks: ! General Hawley and Edward Murphy are alike in that they got there and are both Senators rs-but-there the compali- son ends. The pivotal state is the biggest. but the Nutmeg State has got the timber that makes the shingles. Talk about quivers full of arrows Senator Peter Pascoe of Marquette is the father of seventeen children boys and girls-and he is proud of all of 'em. There's a coincidence in this thing. Representative John Jones of Marquette district has seventeen children, repre- senting all sizes, shapes and ages.-Lan- sing Republican. Tt is reported that the Pennsylvania & Reading Railroad Company have pur chased the Kinderhook and Hudson Railroad and that the line will be ex- tended from Hudson to Silvernails to connect with the P. R. x N. E. The object is to make 8 direct rail route for coal from Pennsylvania to Vermont Millerton Telegram.
 In its report of the Elton diamond wedding the Vineland Evening Journal neglected to state that the aged couple are both in possession of their faculties to wonderful degree. This is especially true of Mir Elton, whose intellect is per- fectly clear and who keeps himself well posted on all the events of the day, be- ing an assiduous reader of the New York daily papers and the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS.
 A good friend in Hartford, who up . derstands the ''trials and tribulations' of country editors, sends The NEWS the verses entitled ''The Editors Lament. 7" He remarks that the verses were found near place where some workmen were blasting rocks for cellar. It is sup posed the workmen were the men who could not pay for their newspaper. The verses indicate that the editors hopes were like the rocks, to wit, blasted.
 IN. S. Stevens & Go. have been very busy lately filling half of the large barn on the Nathan Watson place with first class, IA inch ice from the Housatonic river. They will probably store as many as 25O loads. They have had from nine to twelve teams, and perhaps 20 men at work. It was quite a sight to see the great blocks of ice, two or three at time, being snaked up the chute from the river by horse power.
 Plumbers are proverbially wicked The aphorism, "No salvation for plumb CTS" expresses a generally accepted truth. Just now, however, during the ''cold snap," the plumbers are enjoying a temporary prosperity. As evidence of this we note that George P. Strong has recently put ill steam heater at Miss Bridges house, and has also en- larged his two windows on Railroad street so that he can make very effec- tive display of his stock.
 While in New Haven, one afternoon a few weeks ago, the writer was intro A- YrI- ID