Connecticut western news., 1871-11-17
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4 "dUW DFe60W ASc0pe.-AasG 1ucS- day as Conductor Cogswclls train, working between Canaan and Norfolk, was backing down the hill from Norfolk, at high rate of speed, Q small child Twas discovered away ahead on the track, and by the almost superhuman efforts of the engineer and train hands, the train was stopped just as the brake timbers of the car ahead strnck the child, and gently tumbled it down be- tween the ties, where fortunately it had not been filled in with gravel. The child appeared to be not in the least injured by its remarkable railroad experience.
 Peerless Potatoes-Mr. Robt. Ball of this village, who by the way was the lucky individual that got package by express the other day, addressed to him thus, ''R. Bawl, Salberry, Conn, ,"-says he planted one-half bushelo of potatoes this past season, and they yielded him 26 bushels, which of course is equivalent to 52 to but what does Dexter care for that, since he raised, so he says, 70 bushels of the same kind of potatoes from l bushel planted This
 
 yield for ''Salberry' soil. But just hold on one moment, talk about prolific pota- toes, MT. George Barnum of Wetang, just came into our sGnctatm, with two 5ushel bag full of four flat turnips; weight of the four just 25 pounds. Friend Hub bard who happens to be handy by, says he cant coax Sheriff Adams to buy quarter of one for his winters supply. He says he wont fill his cellar with more than half a quarter, anyhow.
 TAe "Osd Falls Vjlldge.-This venerable locomotive, which for so many years faith fully served the Housatonic Railroad com pany, as both passenger and freight engine. and which was purchased by the Conn. Western Co.,, few months since, is get ting in a very bad condition. Its f1ues are nearly burned out and are constantly burst ing, and 1t needs just such an engineer as is now running it, viz; MT. w. J. Fowler, to s'keep soul and body together It will probably go into the shop very soon to be thoroughly overhauled and repaired, We understand that it was the first locomotive purchased by Mr. Chas. Hunt, after he became president of the Housatonic road, and as a consequence, is well along in years. Mir. Fowler has had nine years experience as locomotive engineer, and has worked nearly four years in the Bald win Locomotive works in Philadelphia, Penn., and appears to understand by every breath of the monster. its precise physical condition. Mir. Fowler probably would prefer better machine, but very likely is just where the company want man of his experience, that the old broken down engine may be kept together little longer to do yet few more days work.
 r LakeoiNe Depots. Tue grading for the passenger depot in Lakeyille, has been executed in very creditable manner by the employees of the Davis ore bed, who were employed by the railroad company for that work. The freight depot is fin ished, and the passenger depot is progress ing to rapid completion, the slate roof being on, and all enclosed. We inadver- tantly; by mistake; through error,-as Tom Norton sometimes says, when he gets slightly mixed, got the wrong depot on the right side and the right depot on the wrong side, recently when we announced that the passenger depot was to be on the same side of the track as the knife manu- factory, and the freight house on the op- posite side. The railroad company, with our consent of course, concluded to place them Uice UerSd to our announcement, and thus they are located. The main track which was recently moved from tits final resting place. to accommodate the depot, we concluded to allow the company to move around again, and in fact to play with it as much as they choose, if they will ''be careful and not go too near the water, " and it was chucked over into another ''final resting place" the other day
 | Ldter-The AneniG Times of this week is just received, and in it we find a com munication from that infallible and exem- plary correspondent from Lakeville, who, with his superabundance of newspaper talent, wades into us most unmercifully, in regard to the error in the location of the depots above alluded to. We have to in- form this aspirant for literary honors, that our information at that time was obtained from what we supposed to be a reliable source, and if possessed of the peculiar faculty of ''seeing double" we think it better than to have vision so exceedingly dim, as to not he able to discern the fact of the utter impossibility of ascertaining GnythSng concerning the maneuyers of the Conn. Western railroad, that can be regar- ded as reliable, and consequently be led by this blindness to make such hallabaloo, because somebody made mistake.
 The Lyceum.-At the meeting in the Academy hall last Monday evening, for mutual consultation in regard to the estab- lishment of lyceum, or debating society in Salisbury, we were much and very agrceably surprised at the amount of inter est there was manifested. We were re- joiced at the early appearance of delega- ton from Lakevllle, who were heartily welcomed by the clapping of hands. The meeting was organized for the business of the evening, by choosing Dea. M. l.. Graham chairman, and J. L. Pease, secre- tary. After remarks by Mcssrs T. L. Nor ton; D. T. Warner; Dan1 Pratt; Henry Hubbard and others, in which there ap- peared to be perfect unanimity of sentiment in regard to the benefits to be derived from the establishment of debating society here in Salisbury, it was voted that the Chair appoint committee on permanent organization, to consist of five individuals, and who should report at the next meeting.