Connecticut western news., 1871-12-15

York with large assortment of Holiday goods. Call in and look at them.
 Our Ssde Walks.-Mr. Daniel Pratt is conducting the work on our sike walks and will carry the the work on them from the Episcopal church to the railroad crossing near MT. Bundy's. He says his job is already half completed, and so far as we have seen, is well done.
 Ihat Coal Question. Since the NEWS of last week made it's appearance, some con- siderable enquiry has been made concern ing the ''coal" item, where we stated that our advices for Norfolk informed us that coal was there retailing at $8.50 when in Salisbury it was sold for $9.OO To satisfy all, will our correspondent be kind enough to say next week whether the $9.5O coal was chestnut coal, or stove size.
 Ihe La1iputiop Ad0ertiser.-We have been handed a newspaper which is pub lished in Litchfield and called the Lillipu- ton Advertiser, and which approaches in size nearer to the microscopic journals, published in Paris during the late war, than any we have ever seen. It is monthly publication and the copy for De- cember which is before us, is number of volume l. It is folio, and q page of it measures precisely 5-S inches wide and 3-S inches long. It must require a vast amount of enterprise and capital to run journal of that size.
 The two following items are from our ink singing Lakevillain.
 More Courage Ma7a Wisdom.-An un- known heroic dog made courageous bat intellectual attempt to stop the freight train at Lakeville the other day, by placing one of his rear legs before the engine. The leg stopped: the train did not. The cur incuared this occurrence by not recurring 60 the current warning; Look out for the bell when the engine rings"
 IhGnk You-The thanks of the Wa chocastinook Lifts. are due and are hereby rendered to Mir. William Jones, for his kindness in publicly advertising their meet ing of last Monday evening. He marched upon his advertising tour, with the elastic step of one who serves his country for his country's good. 1he Nesos.-Within the past week we have established four new agencies for the receipt of subscriptions and sale of extra copies of the NEWS; viz, at the Post offices in Ashley Falls; and West Cornwall, and at Fuller & Co.'S store in Kent and with Mr. Samuel L. Gager in Sharon. In sub scribing for the NEWS, it will be found very convenient to hand in the subscrip- ton at any of the places mentioned at the head of this column. We hope soon to establish more of these agencies. We have received thus far, more encourage ment from the people of North Western Connecticut in the establishment of this enterprise, than we had anticipated, and we feel deeply grateful for the interest manifested in our success. We expect to keep the NEWS at as high position in jour nalism it already fortunately has obtained, and if it be possible shall make it better.
 IAe "W5nsted. Conn. Western locomotive made her first trip through our village to Millerton last Tuesday forenoon, taking the regular freight train. It is of the same class of engine as the ''City of Hartford" and Salisbury" and looks very much like them. After taking its first drink at the water tank here, it was cut loose from the train, which had been pushed ahead of it, and went to the upper part of the switch to take out another car, and while it was gone, the train which it had left at the tank concluded mo doubt, that if they got to Millerton on time, they must be moving along, even if they had to go alone, and away they went down he- hind the hill out of sight. We have n't heard whether they concluded to hold up after a time, and allow the engine, which was lahoring hard to keep in sight of them, to catch up and hitch on and take it along with them.
 Heagy PorE.-Mr. Editor MT. John Russell of Wetaug killed five hogs last week Thursday, the combined weights of which was 259O pounds. Three of these were spring pigs, the weight of the three being at the small figure of llO6 pounds. The weight of the two old hogs, were res spectively 76O and 724 pounds, the last weight being the mother of litter of eleven pigs the past spring, the three spring pigs mentioned above being three of this litter. Their respective weights were 412 :; 3sO; and A3l4 pounds. The amount of corn used in fattening all of the above mentioned pork was forty two bushels, all of which was ground and tolled, except that part of the amount fed them in the ear, during the last two weeks before they were butchered. This last two weeks of feeding the corn on the cob, it is thought did not add pound to their weight. The two old hogs were. two years old last month, and were not put in the pen and fed on meal till the middle of September last, It is thought that if they were shut up and commenced feeding meal the first of Au- gust, four hundred pounds would have been added to their weight. The expense of growing this pork will not exceed four cents per pound including everything. I would recommend the farmer to get Mr. Russell's breed of hogs, and they will have no trouble in competing with Western pork, for with this breed you can grow pork for four cent per pound, and with good care, for less than that figure. VAN. Ore Hill.
 A short time since, horse working in the ore bed dropped dead before the cart. He seemed to be in the best of healt hand capable of doing a great deal of work just