Connecticut western news., 1893-08-10
Local News.
MT and Mrs Julius Corbit returned from Pine Orchard last Saturday.

from Pine Orchard last Saturday.
 A counterfeit $5 bill with vignette of Gen Grant on it is in circulation.
 Mrs s. M. Humphrey went to Worcester, Mass, last week to visit friends.
 William Ferguson, of Bridgeport aud his son Harry are visiting at Dr C.. W. Camps.
 Miss Sarah Ferguson, clerk in the Canaan post office. is taking two weeks vacation.
 The E. w. Spurr Go. have shipped a carload of white oak to New Haven for carriage stock. Miss Sarah Sedgwick, of Patterson, N. J., visited at H. P. Tracy's several days this week and last.
 -E. D Lawrence and H. o. Barnes returned from their trip to the Thous- and Islands on Saturday.
 Mrs Patrick Fitzgerald fell on the cellar stairs at her house on Friday afternoon and broke her arm.
 Miss Mary K. Watson returned this week from visit with Mrs D. s. Proper at Glenco Mills. N. Y.
 MT and Mrs John D. Seacord are spending the summer in Lenox, Mass. 1, where Mir Seacord is tutoring.
 Peter Hicks has moved into his new house and John Parmelee now oc- cupies the house vacated by MT Hicks
 Mrs Wm J. Thomson and her daughter Florence are staying at the Rectory. Jamieson and Hugo are at T. Fenn Bigelow's.
 -BicycIists are now having the wheels and gearing of their machines enameled in bright colors. We saw one lately with sky blue wheels.
 Harry M. Doty, of the Chatham (N. Y.) Courier, John B. Trsver and Frank Fl. Bristol. all of Chatham. N. Y., were in town last Friday making 8 bicycle tour in this region.
 Fred Bailey, one of the sought for combatants, of the Twin Lakes disturb snce. voluntarily appeared last week and went to Salisbury and settled, pay ing something over $2O.
 Miss Amanda Langdon, of the town of Salisbury, graduate of the State Normal School. has been engaged to teach in the intermediate department of the school in this village for the coming school year.
 Rev Mir Livingstone, of South Egg remont, Mass, occupied the Pilgrim church pulpit last Sunday morning, in exchange with Rev O. D. Milliken, and preached an excellent sermon from the text recorded in St John xiv, g.
 It may be a chestnut" to some, but we think there are many who do not know that it is fact that the name of the borough of Winsted was formed by taking the first syllable of Winches- ter and the last syllable of Barkhamsted.
 pr H. L. Ross has just stuffed and mounted pair of humming birds, male and female, and has the little creatures perched on twigs in most lifelike atti- tudes. They belong to the ruby throat ed species. that being the only one foupd in this latitude,
 MT and Mrs Theodore Thomson, of New York, are at Dr Church's. MT Thomson, who is brother of the late Rev Wm J. Thomson, at one time pas tor of the East Canaan Cong'l church, is an architect, and it is reported that g new house will be erected. on the site of the one recently burned. in 60 days
 The Parker Concert Go. gave final public concert in the town hall on Thursday night. The hall was pretty well filled. The program consisted oi choruses by the singing class organized by MT Parker, solos by MT and Mir Parker and trio by Mrs Dr Camp, Mir Parker and Mrs MacLauren. Rev A. B MacLauren, of Brooklyn, N. Y., gave { humorous recitation. The singing wal very good. N
 Another head-on collision occurred on the P. R. & N. E. last Thursda, morning at 1O.30, about three miles from Winsted. It was between tw, freight trains. The trains did no come together with much force and s' the damage to the engines is limited t the smashing of the pilots and the bat tering of the front parts, and nobod was injured. Four cars were badl wrecked, one partly and about six in iured. The engineers were Hoga on one train and Toomey on the other The track was put in order by fiv o'clock. It was said that Toomey ha the right of way.
 -NoTIcE-To the people of Canaa and vicinity. have opened fin merchant tailor shop at Canaan and am now fully prepared to take order for fall and winter suits. I have yer nice line of samples from which to selec Remember that carry nothing but tn best line of goods, of English and Frenc manufacture. Remember that l don send your order to New York or Bosto and have the clothes make up in th sweater shops, and that l would nc make you believe it is CUSTOM MADE an give you 8 READY MADE suit for cUsTo PRICE Remember that I have been years in the trade and understand m busiuess we'll. Remember that Il clothes are made right here in my shol guarantee stylish cut and fir class fit, good and fine sewing. R member that have worked in the be
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