Connecticut western news., 1910-03-17
"REMINISCENCES
 OF BY-GONE DAYS
NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1872
Epizootic Killed Hundreds of Horses "The Old Big Fiddle" of the Sails
 bury Church Beating the Railroad Company Canaan Depot FSpished.
NOVEMBER, 1872

NOVEMBER, 1872
 1-Co-partnership of Underwood & Lawrence, Canaan, dissolved E. D. Lawrence retiring and J. A. Underwood continuing the business.
 2-Paper mill at Mill River. known as the ''lower mill" was destroyed by fire.
 2-Boss Carpenter Turner fell from the round-house in Falls Village strik- ing on his back and was seriously in- jured.
 4-John o. Merchant, Salisbury, died, age 82.
 5-A huge blast in the Chatfield ore bed at Ore Hill lifted pictures off the walls in neighboring dwellings, broke window lights and knocked teapot off stove. About barrel of powder was used.
 5-Presidential election. Greeley 6 Browns majority in Salisbury was 88. Tn North Canaan the majority of the "liberal republican ticket was 43. Cornwall gave Greeley 6 Brown 59 ma jority.
 6-About 100 horses in Winsted were sick with distemper Other towns in this vicinity reported many horses sick and dead.
 6-Articles of Association of the Sharon Valley Iron Go. were published. -Married-At North Canaan, Ed ward Roberts and Anna J Mallory, both of Norfolk
 9-Mrs Glancy's barn and three tons of hay on town hill, Salisbury, was burned.
 9-Mrs L. Mandane Hubbard, Lake vile, died, age 61.
 9-The business part of Boston was burned out
 9-Mrs. George H. Wheaton, West Cornwall, died, age 28.
 10-Barney McGlotten, a 12-years-old visitor at Michael Boyle's, Salisbury, played with a water-rod at the water tank, opened the valve and couldn't close it. The tank was completely emptied and the track badly washed out. 11-T. L. Norton, Lakeville, sold to Joseph Brinton, Falls Village. the," old big fiddle, the time -honored and cracked old fiddle, that venerable relic of sacred music, which was in the days of Auld Lang Syne. so cleverly manipulated by Wolcott Turner, until the introduction of the large organ crowded it out of the church''-The Congregational church of CaI;- {pc ckr-r7Y1 ant ir to be oyer 150 years old and is now in possession of George W. Ford of Ga naan.)
 11-S1xtieth wedding anniversary of MT. and Mrs. John Barnett, Lakeyille. Four generations were present.
 12-A twenty-ton ''pebble" rolled down on the track ill the cut west of West Norfolk station, delaying a pas senger train over three hours, until it could be drilled and blasted.
 14-T. O'Donnell's barn, Cornwall Bridge, was destroyed by fire.
 14-It was said that the horse epidem- icincreased the local travel on railroads about thirty per cent. The Litchtield and Sharon stages were discontinued In Salisbury "Mr. Hurd had seven horses sick, Mr. Ashman five, MT. Hicks two or three and others had from one to three" 17-(Sunday) H. w. Franklin. Canaan, superintendent of the Housatonic rail road, whose horses were all sick, thar messed his sturdy, slow but sure, and al- ways reliable bovines into the family carriage and drove to meeting at the East Canaan Congregational church. '
 19-Dr Knight raised the frame for a large addition to his institute in Lake vile.
 19-Alonzo Goodsell's barn, on road from Lakeville to Lime Rock, was burned, with ten tons of hay.
 1.-Two young colored men broke in- to Orrin Cables house in Cornwall Bridge and stole an accordeon and flute.
 21-Hon. George Coffing, Salisbury, died, age %.
 22-The Millerton Journal, J. B. Gould, of FishkiIl, N. Y, editor, published its first issue. .l-
 25-A French family moved from Lakeville to Winsted, consisting of fa- ther, mo ther, seven children and two dogs. AS only one child was up 70 the half fare age, two and one-half fares transported the eleven members of the family.
 26-J. Mallinson 6 Co.,, West Corn wall, were putting in cider brandy still i'll connection with their cider mill