Connecticut western news., 1894-03-29

-C. K. Hunt of Wit sted. was here last Saturday on business.
 Mir and Mrs Geo, c, Peet returned Monday from Bridgeport
 -Hymen 8. Jacobs was the first man to pay his tax on the new list
 John G. Beckley went to Albany and Elnora, N. Y. last week, returning Sunday.
 The literary society will meet to- morrow (Fridayl evening st s o'clock, precisely. Edward E. Bartrsm and family will occupy a portion of James Lakes house after April 1st
 Mrs Geo, B Cogswell and daughter Clara, of Pittsfeld, Mass, are guests of relatives in this village. The annual meeting of Christ church parish will be held at the church on Monday evening at 7.So.
 Rev Samuel F. Adam. who is or ganinng parish in Newark, N. !. was home day or two the fore part of this week.
 Somewhat Marchy this week. About 20 degrees above Zero Monday morning; l2 above Tuesday morning and Is or so Wednesday morning
 Bert French, manager, will open bakery. fruit and vegetable store in the first house east of Union depot, on April 2d Give him a call
 A picked nine of railroad men play cd ball with the Canaan Academy club on Saturday afternoon, the score result ing: Railroad Men l5. Academy 9.
 Judge Granger has negotiated a horse trade with George W. Hall, of Falls Village, and now has span of bays instead of the bay and white span,
 The Social Assembly at Town Hall on Tuesday evening was we'll attended. Music was furnished by local talent The Assemblies will occur once week hereafter.
 Tobacco in bales to the amount of 14, 1S6 lbs, raised by several Sheffield farmers, was shipped from this station on Tuesday to F. Ripley < O., of Avon. to be sorted.
 A bright moon ushered Easter but at sunrise leaden clouds obscured the sun and before noon rain fell in fitful showers with snow and rain at intervals during the rest of the day.
 About 15 900 young trout landed at the Ne~tovn station on Tuesday noon, from Lime Rock, consigned to Senator M. J. Houhhan. They were placed in streams the same day.-Newtown Bee.
 The services at Christ church on Good Friday were we'll attended. Rev Elisha Whittlesey assisted the rector in the ritual services and also preached remarkably thoughtful and finely word- ed sermon from the text selected from Mark Xv. 39.
 The latest fad in footwear is the yellow rubber. The fashion had its ori- gin in Chicago. Every day black rub bers are too conspicuous when worn on yellow shoes and . western genius has come to the rescue. The new rubbers ora abonk half an sneb kon
 New York city has a Hebrew popu- lation of 300. 900. which is a larger num- Der of Hebrews than are found in all of Palestine.-New Hartford Tribune. Why not change the name of New York city to Jerusalem inasmuch as Canaan does not adopt the name of Jerusalem?
 The Canaan Literary society is wrestling with the proposition that ''the bachelor Is happier than the married man" Of course there Is only one side to the question. There isn't 8 married man in the whole world so happy as bachelor-when he's engaged. South Norwalk News.
 An auction will be held at the late residence of Hannah Harrison, in Corn wall Hollow. on Thursday, April 9th, a. 10 a0 am. Twelve new milch COWS, lpair ssags, Cooley crsamer, l wood sled. about ton of barb wire. and a lot of household goods besides other articles will be sold.
 The subscription paper of the V. l. A. was met quite hberally on its pre- sentation this year s93 being sub scribed. Several new names were add cd and there are probably more who will contribute later. Anyone now wishing to subscribe are referred to G Willis Parsons, treasurer. Of course the fire in the furnace at the Pilgrim church is allowed to go out every Sunday night after services are ended. but last Sunday night whoever was acting as sexton forgot to close some windows that had been left open for ventilation. Result, all the beautiful flowers and plants used in the Easter service were found frozen Monday morn ing.
 On Tuesday morning as Peter Col ligan and his sister, Miss Lizzie, were on their way to this village, their horse took fright at a wagon in which was 8 calf, shied out of the road up onto the bank and overturned the wagon, threw the occupants out on the ground and ran away. Peter escaped without in jury but Lizzie cut her lip and was badly bruised.
 | Fred Parmalee was before Justice Fuller on Saturday for trial on two charges of offering liquor for sale. In