Connecticut western news., 1896-08-27

Y. win preach at the M. E church Sunday morning.
 The Canaan base ball team play at Southdeld this afternoon and at Nor folk next Thursday.
 Edward F. Gillette and daughter, of Sharon, visited friends in Canaan last Friday and Also attended camp meeting.
 The Misses Edith Barnes, Belle Lorrain, Bessie Spaulding and Lillie Wolcott, with Mrs Beirce as chsperone, go to Twin Lakes to-day for weeks outing. They occupy Humphreys cottage.
 The annual convention of the Con- necticut State Sunday School Associa- tion was held at the Pine Grove camp ground on Tuesday. The interesting programme published in the NEWS of last week WAS carried out.
 70. s. Foster. of West Winsted, and Editor White, of Torrington. called on friends here last Saturday while en route to Fulton Chain in the Adiron- dacks where they were to remain a week. Mrs Foster and daughter are spending the summer at Fulton Chain.
 The prospectus of the David M. Hunt School, at Falls Village. for 1Se6- 9T has been issued. Frederick T, Per sons. B. A. is the new principal. The school enters upon its sixth year Tues day, Sept. Sth. The annual charge for tuition will be $40, or S10 per quarter, payable in advance.
 Rev Mir Hunter and Mrs Hunter of Brooklyn, N. Y.. have been boarding through the summer at l. F. Bronson's in East Canaan. and are still there. Mrs Hunters sister. Miss Clark, arriv- ed last week, also MT and Mrs Sidney Armstrong, and T. E. Jordan, of Brook lyn, and Paul Davidson, of Philadel- phia-
 Paul Shimmon, of Persia, gave very interesting lecture at Christ church Sunday evening on Persia and Turkey and the customs and form of government of the two countries. He said that the government of Persia was far superior to that of Turkey, and has never shown the presenting spirit so characteristic of the latter.
 At the Republican caucus held in this village Monday afternoon, ,ex-Judge A. T. Roraback and A. B. Garfield were elected delegates to the state | convention to be held at Hart ford Sept. l and 2. It is said that these gentlemen, as well as a majority of delegates thus far elected at other caucuses. favor Lorrin A Cooke for governor.
 P. K. Cogswell, of Ashley. Ind is l visiting friends in town. He arrived in Pittsfeld the 12th inst. and in Canaan last Monday. s'Kib" was the first engi- l neer who ever ran locomotive on the old Connecticut Western Railroad. He went west only about Is years ago but so great have been the changes here in the meantime that he finds but few of his old friends and acquaintances left. -Dr Ross has succeeded in raising five English ring neck pheasants. The birds are now II weeks old, about as large as large doves, but have longer necks and legs, and look very gamey and knowing. They are also very tame and eat out of the doctors hand. Dr Ross expects to get eggs from them next season, which he will set under hens and turn the chicks loose when they are large enough.
 Engineer Parrish, of the Berkshire express, lost control of his train Friday night, by the failure of the air brakes to work, and ran by the station at Brookfeld Junction, striking an engine which was waiting to take the express train to Pittsfeld. The incident gave the people concerned good scare, but nobody was seriously hurt Samuel Curtis, of Stockbridge. fireman on the express, was injured about the head aud shoulders by jumping from the en- zine.
 We were shown the other day one of the new one dollar silver certificates The predominant color is green. On the face side Is reclining female fig. ure with her arm encircling scsntily clad boy, whom she Is instructing on the folly of free coinage of silver, point ing to book of the Constitution On the reverse side are portraits of George and Martha Washington. The engrav ing is we'll executed, but the word
 tranquility" is spelled with one "l'
 where it occurs in the Constitution.
 In business letter from H. NJ
 Adams. dated Temporary Home fol
 Children, Warehouse Point, Conn.,, NJ Adams says: "We are quite accustom ed at present to our new business no
 laborious but responsible and mucl care must be exercised. We have un
 der our care 7S children; have placed twelve in good homes since our arrival . July 1. Our new school house is near ly completed and Sept. we shall hay, 60 children in school under the contro of two lady normal graduates. Mir Adams is well and somewhat at home -Samuel Groat Beckley, son of tn
 late James Beckley who was native O Canaan. has been appointed New Yorl } agent of the Kanawha Dispatch, whicl 5 is the fast freight line of the Chesapeak i Ohio Railway. A few years az, Samuel accepted & position as clerk i : the New York office of the c. < O. H is a hustler and A ceaseless worker