Connecticut western news., 1896-06-04
THURSDAY. JUNE 4. 1896.
Local News.

Local News.
 Next Monday will be "circus day in Canaan.
 Mrs Junius Rhoades visited New York and Yonkers the past week.
 Miss Weltha Ann Beckley is more comfortable than she was 8 week ago. Edward McCarty is about to build . house for himself on Railroad street. Postmaster Hinman, of Great Bar rington, visited friends here last Satur- day.
 Mrs John D. Seacord, of Lee, Mass, visited relatives here from Friday until Monday.
 Mrs Thomas Bonner is visiting in Springfield, Mass. She went there Tuesday.
 Charles Rodemeyer was at home from South Norwalk from Friday until Monday.
 -Mra Beckwith, of West6eld, Mass, is visiting relatives here. She arrived last Thursday.
 Don't forget that SauteIle's circus exhibits in Canaan next Monday. Get your dimes ready.
 -Jairus Warmers house in Western Sheffield is being painted by Francis H. Tiffany, of New Boston.
 Miss Bridget Kirwan, at Frank Miller's, Twin Lakes, is quite ill, hay ing sustained shock recently.
 -F. R. Collin returned on Monday from vacation of two or three weeks passed in Millerton and Pine Plains.
 About 100 tickets were sold for the P. R. & N. E. excursion to New York last Friday. Three from this station. William T. Richards, of Newport. R. l., the we'll known marine painter, was the guest of Miss Bridges last week and part of this.
 On Memorial day delegation of veterans from New York city decorated the grave of General John Sedgwick at Cornwall Hollow.
 Xavier Chattleton, of Canaan, has been granted an additional pension of $2 per month from January 22, 1896, through Attorney James P. Shelly. of Winsted.
 -Barnum & Bailey's circus exhibit ed at Po'keepsie yesterday. Several excursion tickets were sold at this sta ton. The big show exhibits at Water bury the 9th, Ansonia the 9th, New Haven the 10th. Meriden the 11th.
 -Messrs A. F. Rood and Myron N. Clark are too we'll and favorally known in this section to need any recommend from the NEWS, but we wish you to observe what N. A. McNeil & Co.'S new advertisement says about them.
 The meeting of Mountain County Pomona Grange No. 4 held at the town hall yesterday was a large and enthus iastic gathering. The program was 2 very interesting one. A full report oi the meeting will appear in the nexi issue of the NEWS, June II.
 As Lawrence Yorker was blowing on Friday one of the inside traces go unlocked and while Mir Yorker wa. hooking it up again one of the horse. kicked him with both hind feet, on, hoof striking him in the arm and tn, other in the ribs. Mir Yorker was dis abled till Monday when he went tx work again.
 -Sautelle's circus will exhibit Mon day afternoon and evening on Gillette lot on West Main street. Sig Sautelle' show was here last year and gave entir satisfaction and is considered one o the best one-ring circuses on the road The attaches of the circus are quiet orderly company and Canaan peopl like to have Sig. Sautelle visit tn town. Let's all go to the circus and b happy.
 State Senator Donald T. Warne of Salisbury, has been appointed by the Supreme and Super for court iudges state's attorney in tn place of James Huntington. of Wood bury. MT Huntington has held tn position for p years, discharging hi duties in very efficient manner Judge Warner is a first rate lawyer very quick in his perceptions and wi make an admirable prosecuting officer The salary is s1, 600 year.
 Among the interesting features ( day night by Rev w R. Stocking, th Persian missionary, was the recitatio of the Lords Prayer in the Aramai Syrian dialect. which is the languaa spoken by our Lord. The le, turer also initiated the cry of th muezzin, who in Moslem lands, fiy times each day, calls the faithful t prayer from one of the high, slendt towers or minarets of the mosque. IT cry includes the formula, .sthere is D God but God and Mohammed is h prophet" It is weird musical char and can be heard for miles in the pee, liar air of the East.