Connecticut western news., 1899-06-29


 stating that Miss Josephine Sullivan, who married Dr Holihan at Great Bar rington, was formerly telegraph opera tor here, as the young lady who was here was Miss Julia Sullivan.
 A number attended the reception given by Mr and Mrs H. B. Lyles at the Lawrence house" Tuesday afternoon from 4 to o'clock. A delicious lunch was served. Miss Laura Chapin of Lakeville favored the guests with a so- prano solo.
 The mercury record at noon for the last seven days is as follows: 77-79-65- 67-79 77-74. Showery on Friday even- ing. On Saturday it rained more or less from 3 p. m. to 10 p. m., also on Sunday forenoon. A few drops of rain fell about II a. m. yesterday.
 The annual struggle for base ball supremacy between East Canaan and Canaan came off last Saturday, but those fellows up east didn't make very determined effort and Canaan made 19 runs in one inning. This was too much of pace to keep up, however, and the final score stood Canaan 32, East Ca- naan 10.
 Rev MT Cronmiller of Egremont, Mass. preached in the Pilgrim church last Sunday morning from the text, These things ye ought to have done, and not to haveleft the others undone." 7" He urged his hearers to cultivate syme- try of mind, spirit and body, and he cited the late William E. Gladstone as an example of a symetrical man. The Poughkeepsie Eagle says: '"The Poughkeepsie & Eastern Railroad is hauling in large quantities of ore from Amenia and Sylvan Lake for the Poughkeepsie furnace. No ore has been brought in from there in five years, and the starting up of the furnace makes good business all around. There is also prospect of starting up the mines at Ancram and the Columbia mines. The chances are that the min ing operations on the borders of this county will be booming again soon."
 Henry D. Reed met with painful accident on Monday afternoon. While cleaning his bicycle he accidentally caught the third finger of his right hand between the chain and sprocket, and as the wheels were turning the digit was run through one turn of the sprocket The first joint of the finger was badly smashed, the bones broken and the flesh badly lacerated and crushed. Henry immediately called on Dr Avis and had the member dressed and he has hopes of saving the entire finger.
 The June number of the Connecti. cut Magazine has very interesting ar- ticle entitled Negro Slavery in Con- necticut." It states that in 1776 Rev Samuel Hopkins, pastor of church in Housatonic, (now Great Burlington, Mass. but native of Waterbury, issued dialogue" which had great infu- ence in driving slavery from this state. The first emancipation law was passed by our General Assembly in 1784 referr- ing to negroes born after that date. This law and an addition passed in 1797 worked silently and steadily and when in 1848 slavery was abolished in Con- necticut forever there were only six slaves surviving in the state.
 Mrs Walter Cobine died at her home on Reed street Sunday evening about o'clock of consumption. The funeral was held at the house Monday afternoon and the remains taken Tues- day to Otego, N. Y. for burial. Her husband Ia conductor on the O. N E. J | and her father and mother were at her deathbed Mrs Cobine was Miss Anna Fiske and was born twenty-six years ago in Delhi, N. Y. Her parents are Frank and Hannah Fiske who have been with her for several months. MT and Mrs Cobine have lived in Canaan few years but Mrs Cobine's health had been very frail even before they came here from Otsego county. Rev N. s. Boardman officiated at the services here. The cas- ket was covered with ashes of roses cloth, and on it lay beautiful pillow and wreath.
 Road Commissioner Mac Donald did not exactly climb tree last week as he has been reported but he did show the soles of his shoes and did some fence yaulting worthy of a hurdle runner. The facts are that on Wednes- day evening J. H. Roraback took Mac Donald up on hill on Hardenbergh Brothers farm to get look at the country through which the Canaan & Berkshire trolley is to run. Now the Hardenbergh boys have got bull who knows that road commissioners prov ince IS not in pasture lot and he also concluded that Lawyer Roraback was an easy mark and he started their way. Mir Roraback thought to frighten the bovine by demonstration and gesticu- lation but the bull is a stranger in town and he wot not. Then began the sprinting and it would have done Edi, tor Bolles' heart good to have seen how that bull got Mac Donald on the run. And Roraback, though of more avoir- dupois, was crowding him for first place. The fence was gained, and as neither gentleman has ever been known to be Ion the fence" they got on the safe side. Mac Donald has concluded that hereafter he will stay in the road, where he belongs.