Connecticut western news., 1895-04-18

THURSDAY, APRIL IS, 1895
 Local News.
 Mrs R. 0. Newton is quite serious ly ill.
 There are several cases of pink eye fin town.
 -Dr and Mrs H. L. Ross spent Easter in Danbury and Bethel.
 Harvey Williams. of Danbury, call. cd on friends in Canaan last Friday.
 Bicycle season has opened. o. H. Pease has sold three new wheels thepsst week.
 Miss Lucille Godfrey, of Bridge port, is visiting her aunt, Mrs George o. Peet.
 Miss 8. P. Norton returned last week from New York with new millin- cry goods.
 -Yesterday was lovely spring day; the first one of the season. Hope there's more to follow.
 Miss J. E. Newton and R. o. New ton. IT,, of New York, spent Easter at R. o. Newton's.
 Tt is reported that all three of the children of Dr Burtch, of Salisbury, have the scarlet fever.
 A gravel sidewalk is being built from Martin McGuire's on Railroad St.. !, the bridge on Bragg St
 The closing reception of the Canaan Assembly will occur tomorrow evening. Invitations have been issued.
 -Beckley has some secondhand bi- cycles, pneumatic tires. gents size, for $25. $35 and $40. Ladies bicycle $S5. The National Dramatic Go, who were billed to appear here the 18th, dipped the town and litin Albany, N. Y. Martin Mcintyre, who is fireman on the Consolidated railroad, was home oyer Sunday for the first time sinoe last August.
 The services at Christ Church were we'll attended on Good Friday, ,and Rev. F. W. Barnett preached an excellent sermon.
 Misses Jessie Peet. Edith Barnes aud Catherine I. Adam and John G. Alan are spending their vacations at their homes here.
 -Danbury is responding to MT H.H. Bristols appeal in behalf of the Nebras- ka sufferers. and up to last Friday eve- ming had contributed S137.83.
 -G. w. Parsons and H. M. Adams will represent their churches, the Methodist and Pilgrim, in the superin- tendent's meeting next week Wednesday. Beef and kerosene arc still going up. We'll, daylight is also going up; at least the sun is getting higher every day-if we can believe the reports of early risers.
 -Our Literary society might settle the question of why people live in Nebraska and suffer when land is so cheap in this part of the country where starvation is not known. Mrs. Dr. Carter is visiting her par ents, Mir. and Mrs. Warren Mcintyre. She arrived Saturday and will remain an indefinite time. She has spent the winter in New Haven with her aunt, Miss Laura Roys.
 James Gardner, aged 80 years, a wealthy farmer of Tyringham, Mass. committed suicide by hanging himself in his tobkcco barn in said town last Sunday. For over a year he had been subject to attacks of insanity. He is survived by three sons and two daugh. ters.
 At the annual parish meeting oi Christ Church, held Monday evening these officers were elected: Joseph W Peet and Miles T. Granger, wardens Acel F. Rood, J. A. Underwood, Rollin o. Newton, D. D. Walter and Edward E Bartram, vestrymen; W. Fl. Camp, clerk and treasurer; George o. Peet and Frank Van Duesen. delegates to the di- ocesan convention. The meeting wa: we'll attended.
 Thomas Richards. we'll known by the older residents of Canaan, has writ ten us to change the address on his copy of the NEWS from Lake Hopatcong, N J., to Stevensville, Sullivan county, N '. until further notice. Mir Richard, writes, '1 shall be at Stevensville dur ing the summer, and cannot think O dispensing<with the NEWS" In reply we would say: The NEWS cannot thinl of dispensing with MT Richards.
 The adjourned meeting of the Lit erary society WAS held Monday evening Miss Bragg read very interestinl selection describing an interview of party of Americans with MT Gladston at an English rural inn. The debat on the resolution that rotation in offic conduces to the best results in gover ment like ours" was sharply conteste, and created at times much amusement