Connecticut western news., 1893-02-16

to the 18th inst at one o'clock.
 The Misses Kitty M. and Caroline T. Granger returned on Friday from their four weeks visit in Washington, D. O.
 The next meeting of the Housatonic Valley Methodist Ministers association will be held at Canaan on Tuesday, March IA.
 -Rhoades & Stanton have moved their steam saw mill to West Stock bridge, Mass, where they have con- tract to saw 400, 900 feet of lumber.
 The snow storm of Thursday even- ing turned to rain before morning and landed plenty of water ln the reservoir, and everywhere else for that matter.
 The young folks greatly enjoyed skating on the lake in front of Union de- pot last week. They had bonfire on the ice last Thursday evening.
 A good skating pond is an admira- ble thing for this village but the rail road companies can hardly afford to maintain one at the expense of prevent ing people from driving up to their de- pot.
 Miss Minnie Deming, who has been confined to her bed for nearly three weeks with rheumatism or neuralgia and nervous prostration, is improving and sat up about an hour, for the first time, last Monday.
 About sixty people of this village availed themselves of B. w. Warner free ride to Lime Rock last Thureday Four two-horse sleighs were provided All enjoyed the ride and the sociable and dance at the Casino very much.
 Superintendent Hopson of the Hous- atomic road visited Canaan last Satur- day and inspected the Union depot building. We are informed that he was somewhat surprised at it's neglected condition and also that he stated that extensive repairs and improvements would soon be made on the building.
 Connecticut never gets left A Mystic man has for years furnished the Thanksgiving turkey for the White House and now Bridgeport firm has received orders to supply the butter. When anything extra good is wanted by the people, from girls to cider, Connec ticut is called upon to furnish it.-An sonia Sentinel.
 Now comes another discovery af fecting the new Columbian postage stamps. It is made by the New York Sun and it is that, whereas, in the one cent stamp, Columbus is represented as being in sight of land and wearing 6 smooth face, in the two cent variety the same gentleman appears on land twelve hours later with magnificent set oi whiskers. .-Danbury News.
 The E. W. Spur Co.'S. steam saw mill is in operation on Mrs M W. Ward farm near this village. Quite com fortable house and barn have been built near the mill, and the big trees are be, ing felled and rapidly converted into lumber and cord wood. Everything moves along like clock work, and it is worth journey to the mill to witness such quick transformation of the forest into lumber.
 -J. P. Aopson, superintendent ot the Berkshire divisio,4, and Roadmaste, Clarke were in consultation with John B. Reed last Saturday in regard to the skating pond near the depot. It was finally agreed on MT Reeds suggestion that the. trackmen should dig ditcl under the track near the eastern end oi the platform and thus drain the water off into hole among the rocks whicl were used to fill in where the platform now is.
 At the meeting of the literary socie. ty last Friday night Mrs Dr Adam read timely and interesting paper on the Hawaiian question. Miss Bragg ant Miss Spaulding read selections with very decided elocutionary effect. The vote on the debate, after hearing the able arguments on both sides of the question, establishes the fact that it i, not conducive to the good of the coun try that United States senators should hold office forsmore than one term.
 Last Friday morning MT Campbell the superintendent of H.K Bloodgood stock farm in New Marlboro, and anoth CT gentleman were driven down iron the farm behind two of MT Bloodgood' powerful hackneys. They started t, cross the miniature Artic ocean near tht Union depot, expecting to encounte nothing but water, but the horses brok' through the ice under foot of wate and were so frightened that they whirl ed around and started to run and wer only prevented by the most vigorous eff forts of the driver. The driver slippe, off the box and fell flat in the icy water while MT Campbell. who. jumped out was wet to the knees, in which condi ton he boarded the g. 25 train for New York. Soon after the R. R. Go. order ed barriers to be put up across the ap breaches to the depot On the previou day pair of horses belonging to tn Misses Eldridge, of Norfolk, had bro ken through this ice.
 The Blackberry river "got full again last Friday, It was out all Thurs day night, and drank more water tha1 it could hold. Early Friday mornin, large fields of heavy ice came dow