Connecticut western news., 1895-03-14

The gang of Italians who are ohop- ping wood for charcoal on the land of Watson Rood at Ratlum near New Hartford for the Barnum Richardson O., have cut about 2,o00 cords.
 The reception at the Methodist Episcopal parsonage, to the Church and members of the congregation. will be held tomorrow evening, Feb. 10. It will be jubilee of the payment of the church debt or more strictly speaking. the debt on the parsonage.
 In speaking of the victims who have purchased "gold spects" .of ped dlers who "fourd them" an exchange very tsrsely remarks: .'These purchas- CTS have something now to hand down to posterity for thelr grandchildren to laugh at the gulfibility of their grand dad
 A report was circulated in this vil- lage last Friday to the effect that Mrs George Green, of East Canaan, had died that morning; and that Mrs McCarty, widow of Timothy McCarty, had died Thursday evening. Both reports prov ed false. Mrs McCarty was living yes- terday morning, although very feeble. Mrs Green is very weak and does not improve.
 MT A. l.. Clark, the enterprisiug merchant of West Winsted, has epgag- ed advertising space for one year in the NEWS. His first advertisement appears to-day. His store is conveniently To- cated on the corner of Main and Lake streets, directly opposite the Beardsley House, and on that site millions of dol lars worth of goods have been sold by hls predecessors, and Mir Clark pro- poses to exceed the record.
 On Thursday, March 18th at 10 a. m. large amount of personal property belonging to the estate of the late Silas O. Beers, of Cornwall, will be sold at public auction on the premises known as the Beers West farm in the town of Cornwall. The schedule includes 25 COWS. one yoke of oxen, two horses. six tons of hay, wagons, harnesses, l horse power. buzz saw and table, moving machine, and large lot of farming machinery and utensils. See posters.
 -Wm. G. Butterly, of 331 West 18th St.. New York city, advertised farm in Salisbury for sale or rent in our columns, beginning with. our issue of February '. After the adv. had run four weeks MT Butterly ordered 1t out, stating that the farm had been rented to Wm. Martin, of Town Hill, and that the adv. in the NEWS did the business. These facts prove two things, viz: That ] Mir Butterly is good man to handle real estate and that he knows how to select good advertising medium. The total eclipse of the moon came of punctuslly on time Sunday night, and we do not doubt that most of our people witnessed the sight. The eclipse, which was fine one, was com plete at 9.52. The moon was then of a dull oopper-colored. smoky hue. and presented a weird and uneanny appear auce. Astronomers expect to ascertain by this eclipse whether the moon has a satellite or no. Prof Todd, of Amherst college, and many other astronomers think that the reason the moon shines with even faint light during the eclipse is due to the refraction of the suns rays through the earth's atmosphere. It is expected by astronomers that new facts will be discovered by this eclipse as to the heat on the moon's surface and the size of that body. There will be another total eclipse of the noon on the 3d of September next, which will be the last visible in this part of the world during this century.