Connecticut western news., 1893-07-27
Local News.

Dog days.
 -Olmost Orgust.
 -J. B. Messenger has just painted his house.
 What are you doing for this village or this paper?
 Mrs Dr. Whittlesey is visiting al Rev B. Whittlesey's.
 Mrs Adeline Beckley returned from New Hartford yesterday.
 Horses are said to be particularly fond of the skin of a banana.
 The Episcopal Sunday school had picnic at Twin Lakes yesterday.
 -Remember the free concert by the Parker Concert Go. at town hall this evening.
 Mrs Cora Adams and son, Edward, went to Burlington, Vt., on Monday for few days visit.
 The Methodist Sunday school will have picnic at Twin Lakes next We'd nesday, Aug 2d. They leave Canaan on the $40 g. m. train.
 Rev F. w. Barnett has decided to decline the call of the Episcopal church at Glastonbury recently rendered to him.
 MT and Mrs Julius Corbit and Miss Carrie Hotchkiss still remain at Pine Orchard. Within a week MT Corbit has decidedly improved in some re- spects.
 A lawn party will be given on Gal. win Barnes lawn in Clayton on Friday evening with dancing in the old hotel. All are invited. Proceeds for benefit o1 Union chapel.
 A west bound freight train smashed Unto freight train on the bridge road m Po'keepsie on Saturday and sent two cars down the bank aud derailed anoth- CT. Nobody hurt.
 / The engine attached to west bound freight train jumped the track at 8 frog at New Hartford Wednesday evening of last week and thus blocked the track, delaying the Canaan local train three hours.
 Mrs Sherwood O. Cummings and three children, from Norwalk, arrived last week and will remain until Septem- Der. They are boasding at Mrs Hams. Sherwood" will come up occasionally from Norwalk to remain 8 day or two.
 -"How is it with you?" asked the editor of the subscriber who was dying in arrears. All looks bright before mel" gasped the subscriber. ''I thought so," said the editor; Gin about ten min utes you'll see it blaze!"-Gowanda Herald.
 | An erect attitude gives the rider g much better command of the wheel, says the Oswego Herald. It is merely a habit due to too much pernicious and unhealthy ''scorching Women who ride wheels do not stoop. Out upon this frog-squat, this hump-backed dis ease, "kyphosis bicylistarum?"
 The cholera has reappearsd at vari ous places in Europe, but stringent measures will be taken to prevent the plague getting foothold in the United States. Don't work up panic about the cholera. Just bear in mind that during the cholera times in 1882 Murray G. Hoag voted for Gen Jackson. "Mur- ray G. is still alive-but Gen Jackson saint"
 Twin Lakes is now in the midst o the camping season and encamped or Lake Washinlng are Judge Rorabacl and family, and G. P. Strong from Ca naan, T. l.. Norton and family iron Lakeville; Camp Sirius from Canaan (Freeman's Camp0 Camp Washinint from Canaan (Thompson's camp of boys; Severn's of Hartford; H. D. Humphre, and family of Canaan with the Misse Bell of Chatham, N. Y; The 18th Sepa rate Company Drum Corps of Pough keepsie; and H. A. Bishops Camp Rig from Bridgeport. Beside these camp CTS the houses and cottages which ar near the lake contain many summer wis itors.
 The case of Morris Mulville, of thi town, against Daniel Foley, of Winsted was tried before Justice Roberts in thi village son Monday. Samuel A. Her man, of Winsted, appeared for tn plaintiff and Coroner Richard T. Hie gins, of Winsted, for the defendant The plaintiff claimed that the defendan sold him colt last April for $45, whic he represented to be sound, but whic proved to have received some injury t it's stifie-joint which soon made the ani nal hopelessly lame and worthless. De fendant denied having made the repre- sentations of soundness. Judgment WE rendered for plaintiff for 9.23, bein amount paid for colt, expenses of keeE ing and costs. Defendant may appes to the Court of Common Pleas.
 Elsewhere under the caption |" Resume of Sixteen Years" will be foun Principal Adams farewell. It will be surprise to many. as it was to the ed tor, to learn that MT Adams does nt intend to remain in Canaan. We trH' that none will think we are writing a ''obituary'' when we state that M Adams will be missed in this towl missed in the school of which he WI , principal for eleven years, missed the church of which he is deacon, missed the Sunday school in which he hs taught, missed in the various depar ments of church work, missed by Dayi s. Cowles post G. A. R. missed by tf Aoasaiz society. missed at social gathe