Connecticut western news., 1896-10-15
Local News.

LOCdl NCWS.
 To-day is Lincoln day, legal holi- day.
 Mrs J. G. Root is spending a few days at Niverville, N. Y,
 Editor John Rodemeyer, of South Norwalk was in town yesterday.
 Miss s. P. Norton and Miss Lucy Beebe were in New York last week.
 Fred R. Collin started Monday for few days sojourn in the Adirondacks. Mrs Frederick Thompson's furni- ture is being moved to Pleasant Valley, N. Y.
 MT and Mrs John Nicoll, of New Haven, are at Warren McIntyre's for Q months stay.
 Water froze Friday night. Snow flakes were in the air at Norfolk one day last week.
 Mir and Mrs A. W. Nicon are ex- pected to return to-day from carriage trip to Orange Co.,, N. Y.
 Irving Roberts will move into Thomas Bonner's tenant house about Nov. l. when Edward McCarty vacates. Mrs Lyman Dunning returned Monday from a three weeks visit at Utica, Oneida and Johnsonville, N. Y. Rev W. A. Mackey and wife, of Rhinebeck, N. r., are expected to ar rive at Mrs Mary 0. Corbit's to-day for a visit.
 Mrs John Drummond, of Cam bridge, Mass, formerly of East Canaan and Lakeville, is visiting old friends in town.
 M. l.. Osborne, Jr., has sold out his bakery business to Charles Fuller. Maitland left yesterday for Wappingers Falls, N. r., to visit friends.
 Rev T. F. Bannon delivered an ad- mirable discourse at St. Joseph's church Sunday morning, taking for his text, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self.
 The D. s. Cowles G. A. R. post and w. R. Corps were inspected last night respectively by Peter Turner, of Lake vile. and Mrs Harriet Bodge, of Hart ford.
 A new time table will take effect on the P. R. & N. B. R. R. tomorrow, Oct. 10th. Train No. z. which now runs to Poughkeepsie, will go no further than Millerton.
 HI. D. Humphrey, wife and daugh- ter went to Chatham, N. r., to attend the marriage of their cousin, Miss Camilla Bell, to Mir Cornelius M. Pull yer this Thursday evening.
 -Dr Fl, L. Ross is now using pro- cess of extracting teeth. that is absolute ly painless. Most of the painless pro- cesses are sort of licensed torture, but Dr Ross new system is just what the term implies-absolutely painless.
 MT and Mrs A s. Bigelow and Mrs Henry Stackpole, of Boston, and Mrs Thomas Leaning, of Philadelphia, with tally ho coach, spent Friday night at the Warner House on their way from Boston to New York.
 This is the season of the year wher diphtheria, scarlet fever, and other ma hgnant diseases rage. Preventives art better than cures, and every attention should be paid to the sanitary condition of the village and the homes. Miller ton Telegram,
 -J. G. Beckley, the dancing teacher IS introducing @ new lancers in hi classes this week. It is called tn, ,'.New Woman" and Is especially pretty in the first and fifth numbers. He Ii also using another new lancers called the Park"
 The report of the sportsman's fowl ing piece is now heard throughout tn neighboring woods. and the report 0 the sportsman himself is now hear, throughout the neighborhood grocer ies, and we wonder no more at tn nerve of the campaign speaker.
 The following is an extract from letter of Kansas farmer. The lette is dated Sept. 28, 1896. eff this damna ble silver craze was stopped, I thin, there would be better times, and would not be such hard task to pa little debt.''
 Edward Carman, resident of O. naan about 25 years ago, called on ol friends here last week. He has recent ly lived in Cohoes, N. Y, but will thi week move his family to West Winste where he has entered the employ of M Burwell, the lumber dealer.
 Michael Eagan, of Pittsfeld, Mass was found guilty of assault with felo1 ious intent in the Superior court l, Litchfeld last week and sentenced f one years imprisonment in jail. It wi be remembered that the offense W, committed at this village early in Au, ust last. the attack being made on M Robert Stevens.
 Golden rod is now said to produ, disease in man and beast. The sta veterinarian of Wisconsin says the go den rod is the cause of the disease r sembling consumption that has d stroyed thousands of horses in his sta and Michigan. The horses eat tl plant, go into decline and was away, both blood and tissue being d stroyed. The only remedy is to destrc the plant. Hartford Tribune.
 The Winsted Evening Citizen Oct. says: "The local officers of u