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Connecticut western news., 1871-07-14
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 The people of this village were aroused about two o'clock on the morning of the fifth of July, by an alarm of fire. It origi- mated in the basement of the building own ed and occupied by MT. Greathead, as a saloon and billiard rooms, burning every thing to the ground; also building owned by MT. G. occupied by Mir. Roe, as a boot and shoe store, and a saloon owned by James Conlin. The inmates were awaken ed by some noise, and to their surprise found the building inside in flames and bursting out in different directions, and had barely time to escape, and that with a scanty supply of wearing apparel. The cause of the fire is not known, but must have been caused by the firing of fire crack CTS near the building, which left some trace of fire unnoticed, yet some think it the work of an incendiary. MT. G's loss is esti mated at $2O, 900, insured for $1l.OO0. A part of the building was occupied by H. H Walker & Co.,, merchants. Their loss is very light as they were we'll insured. Mrs McAllister, as a milliner and dealer ir fancy goods, lost $500, no insurance. MT, Roe saved considerable of his stock, and loses very little above his insurance. Mir. Conlin's loss is nearly $looo. There was great danger of the adjoining buildings and but for the prompt assistance rendered by the people, the village would have been des troyed. ...... There is considerable building here this season. Walter w. Merrifield has new store building near his residence Ward B. Gray, new dwelling, and con templates erecting new store the coming season. The Duchess and Colum bia Rail road is doing good business, running two passenger trains each way daily, and it il thought by all, will prove an eminent sue cess. CURRRNTE CALAMo.
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ogy whether ''snn dogs' belong to the breed of Sky terriers. .-Oiling the points of nails well save elbow grease. in driving them into hard wood.-The philosophy of taking care of furniture is thus concisely summed up by The Technolo9ist: ''Keep water away from everything porous, slco- hol from varnish, aud acids from marble" The hog crop of 1870 is l5 per cent less than that of 1869, but it amounts to tsoenty million tons.-Chicago sends squsshes to Boston, which might at first seem like send ing cosls to Newcastle. e.-One factory in Prussia furnishes for the army 90, 900 cans of preserved meat daily marine losses of tho United States for the past year foot up to more than nineteen millions of dol Iars.-A spring of fresh water has been found in the rainless desert of Atacoma In South America, and has been granted to the discoverer for ten years, after which it is to belong 10 the State.-Somebody has calculated that New York spends $s, ,5ooa day for bread, and SIC. .oOO for cigars, and that the aggregate expenditure of the United States for tobaccoi all forms is not less than six hundred millions of dol lars.-A piece of flannel wet with turpen- tine, and put among woolen clothes, will keep the moths away from them.--In Cali fornia poplars grow from ten to fifteen feet in a single year.-In great Britain, during the ye 1869, mineral wealth was dug out of the earth to the amount of $l76. .260, 900; the heaviest item being l07,- 42s, 557 tons of coal.-It is reported that the famous tower of Pisa, which has had Ca leaning that way" for several centuries, is likely to fall soon; but we are inclined to think that the tower has better foundation than the story.-An attempt Is to be made to establish silk manufactory near New York on larger scale than ever before in this country, French machinery and work. men being imported for the purpose. Is stated, on good authority, that 2o,oOo per sons die annually from snake bites in Brit. ish lndia.-The French artificial stone, known as beton cotgnet, Is now made In large quantities in Brooklyn, N, Y.-During the siege of Strasbourg the cannons were heard at Baden, fifteen miles of. .-The Spanish foot is equivalent to HOS English inches; the Prussian to l2.s6 the Austrian, to l2.4b; and the Russian, to ls.76.-The narrow gauge railway. which has been SO successful in Wales, is likely to be tried quite extensively in this country and in Canada; one, line being already in opera tion in Ohio, and dozen others projected in that State and elsewhere.
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Neso York CIy Hems-The Young
 Mems Christian Association has fitted up
 room in it's new building, corner of 23d St
 and 4th Av. where persons visiting New
 York to find employment, can deposit their baggage and receive check for it's delivery
 when called for. The accommodation is without charge. The Association has also constructed an elevator for visitors to their rooms, library &c.,, who prefer to ascend perpendicularly and in sitting posture
 ......A young man by the name of Alfred B. Candfeld, who has succeeded in swind- ling several savings banks, out of about $lO O,OOO, suddenly came to grief on Mon- day, by being arrested while in the act of plying his vocation upon the National Sav- ings Institution, and held to trial. His adroit opperations were very ingenously devised. They have some very expert young lads in New York, one of the papers complains that small boys scarcely up to their teens, run along side of the street cars, and springing up with the agility of a cat, seize the hat of passenger, and dart off with it before the victim is fully aware of his loss. An enraged hatless man is soon seen on the sidewalk, enquiring for the nearest hat store, while some second hand clothing store has an additional hat. l 1.-The extreem heat of Monday last caus- ed several sun strokes, and some of the city landlords complain that the hot wealth CT is seriously interfering with their busi- ness. Some of their guests, no doubt, are in Salisbury, or on their way there, where am sure they will find commodious, residences and plenty of as cool, pure and wholesome air, as can be found anywhere at like distance from old Manhattan. l Being formerly resident of the beautiful village of Salisbury, I can speak with full knowledge of the facts. INo. ,
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FRANoE.-Twenty-fve hundred women have been sentenced to transportation to panal colony on an Island in the Southern ocean for setting fire to buildings in Paris during the late rebellion. The Island con tains population of about eo,0oo of the most savage and barbarous cannibals to be found on the globe. They eat one another whenever there is scarcity of food, and the fate of these wretched women Is too horrible to contemplate. All christian and civilized governments should remonstrate against 1t in the name of humanity and civilization.
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West Cornwall.

West COrmW01As
 MR. EDITOR :-The most important item just now is, when will the "NEws" make it's first appearance? what Is our friend Pease about? Is he going to start the paper that shall represent Western Connec- ticut, and how soon? These inquiries will be all answered very soon, if we can read the signs of the times right. As you, Mr. Editor, have requested me to furnish items for the NEWS, suppose l may consider myself as the ''wide awake correspondent belonging to the swide awake" place of West Cornwall, but for fear that your read CTS may think that you have hoaxed them, and instead of ''wide awake" correspond ent you have only very dull one will try not to trespass on their good nature or yours by too many items at once, and yet hope to be able to give them little idea of what our people are doing that is of public interest. The fire we had some time since has been chronicled in all our other papers, and it is not necessary for me to speak qf that, except perhaps that the scenery whichit furnished us for few days is being chang ed very rapidly by the new buildings that are being erected on the sites of the old ones, and at some future time will give you a full description of them. ...... The Fourth passed off in the usual way, with picnics and out door parties, back in the groves that adorn our hills. Fire crackers, torpedoes, bell ringing, &c., &c., in the yil- lages. On the Plains we witnessed very fine fire works in the evening. They were fur nished by MT. J. c. Calhoun of New York. who has country residence there. We also had the pleasure of listening to some music from our excellent Cornet Band. In our village were two balloon ascensions, one in the afternoon and the other in tue evening. They were paper balloons of large size, the largest being nearly thirty feet in diameter. They made very fine display, being of various colors, and could be seen for fifteen or twenty minutes before going out of sight. We had rather more than usual of the effects of stimulus in the shape of fight, ending with 8 number of bloody noses and bruised heads. Several arrests were made and resulted in the usual fines and costs, to pay for disturbing the peace. When shall we ever be free from that curse, intemperance which blasts and blights everything it touches? The very odor of its breathing is sickening.
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Help Us.-Our time for canvassing for subscribers was so limited that we could not go all over our territory, and in many vil- lages, where we ought to have be thorough with the work, we could only make a nasty visit. We ask our friends who have aided us with their subscription, and whom we know feel interested in the success of our Home Newspaper, to aid us in any way that may seem to them best in increasing our subscription list. Ask your neighbors to patronize us. WStA yoatr aid we shall Snccapd
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Cornwall Bridges

Tracy Barnes committed suicide last Saturday, by shooting himself through the head He was 5s years old. An exami- nation and inquest elicited no cause for the commission of the dead. .... The farmers in this region are now very busy cutting their hay, which is estimated at not more than half the usual crop, occasioned of course, by the early drouth. h.......The fur mace is about closing out this blast, for repairs. City people are rapidly filling the various residences in our village which are usually occupied by them during the summer months, and soon our streets will swarm with the beauty, the wealthy, yea the elite of Gotham.
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Ihe Fourth ct LakeoSUe was iraugurated very early in the morning hours by sundry youth, whose burning patriotism manifest ed itself in the ringing of bells and the ex- plosion of powder. Noise put out sleep on the home base, and dreams went out on ''hy," caught by Patriotism. adopt the base ball vernacular, as that dialect is grad ually superscding the unadulterated Eng fish. "Class in Mental Arithmetic !" says the school marm, "Three times two are how many, Johnny ?" ''I don't know nor I don't care, but will bet on the 'Mechan- ics' against the Lone Star three to two." But the Fourth? We'll, we didn't celebrate here much after daylight. We sent our mu- sicians to Amenia, and our ball players to Falls Village, and the rest of us stayed at home and hood the festive cabbage, or played the athletic croquet, or exploded the patriotic cracker of the heather Chinee witnessed the fireworks at Dr. Knights in the evening, and retired seasonably in good order. The Millerton folks exhibited their fireworks early on the morning of the 9th. I attach no credit to the rumor that the fire was planned by Q reporter of the CONN. WESTERN NEWS, in order to obtain 9 first class item for the first number of first class journal......The performance of the Amenia Dramatic Club June 3Oth, was first rate. I should report it in full if it were not rather late in the day, and if had not observed among the audience the benignant countcnance of the Editor in Chief of the NEWS, whom knew to be housing for items, and would do justice to the subject. .....We are preparing smoked glass, so as to be able to gaze towards Dodge Hill the latter part of the week, for over the hill we expect to see Austin bringing the first in stallment of the CONN. WESTERN NEWS, and through the hill we hope to see the first locomotive of the Conn. Western Railroad. Nor.
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In this village, Jaly 9th, Charles, son of Wm, Conklin, aged 10 years.
 In this town, July zth at the residence of he 2 con, Charles A. Hollister; Mrs. ThankfGl Hollister -relict of the late Julius Holster-aged 30 years.
 At Falls Village, July 1lth, John n. Crosby, aged s2 years.
 At North Canaan, June 2zth, Mary, daughter of Daniel R. and Rhoda Spaulding, aged % years.
 At North Canaan, June aeth. an infant daughter of IF. Pequigney.
 At Cornwall Bridge June S6th, Russell Prescott, aged S6 years.
 At West winsted, June S0th, Carrie E. vosburg, aged months and 90 days.
 At South Kent, Ct, June 2sth, Hiram isegar, aged 4 years.
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THE TREATY RATFKD.-The treaty of Washington, concerning the Alabama and other claims pending between America and England, was ratified In the British Parlia- ment on the l7th, and arrangements for carrying out it's provisions will be at once inaugurated. It is mere coincidence that this great bond of harmony and peace be- tween the two nations should have been consummated on the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, but it viyidly brings to mind the ''more excellent way" that has been instituted tor the settlement of inter- national difficulties. It requires some cul- tivation to feel the superiority of the glory of beneficent diplomacy over that of the battlefield, but the people of these two nations-and particularly the toiling masses, on whom the brunt of the sacrifices of war always fall-are beginning to realize the grandeur of the reform, and it is by their favor that the Treaty of Washington has been carried through by their representatives in the capitals of the two nations. Doubt less 1t is not perfect treaty. and probably 1t does not completely satisfy the leading men of either nation. But it is infinitely better than war, or even the risk of war, on the subject matters in dispute. More than that, we think it is clear beyond question that the treaty provides for the fair settle ment of all the substantial American de- mands by the application of recognized American principles-and that surely, is enough. The treaty Is signal triumph of Anglo-Saxon good sense, and it is not only the best pledge of harmony that could be exchanged between the two great English speaking nations, but it is the most effca, cious blow that has been struck in modern times against the war spirit and in behalf oi universal peace.
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FaIs Viuage.-The Ames Iron Works in Falls Village, which were recently purchas- ed by the Housatonic Railroad Co.,, are being partly taken down, and will soon be rcmodeled and rearranged for the repair shops of that road...... Peter Mahon, a resi- dent of Falls Village when going across the bridge at Amesville, from the west side, on the night of July 4th, fell from the bridge to distance of or 10 feet, to the rocks beneath. He was not found till the next morning about 8 o'clock. His neck, skull and shoulder were broken.....J. B. Brad ford's new house which is built on the site of the one burned Nov. 3lst, 1870, is nearly completed. It is very large and commo- dious building, with excellent taste dis played in it's architecture, and occupies one of the pleasantest lots in the village.
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On the Raa.-Monday, while standing in the door of our sanctuna, engineer Cogs- we'll winked at us from his engine, standing at the time back of the church. Two and seven.eighths minutes was all the time need ed to pack our luggage and get on board for trip to Canaan, on the Conn. Western Railroad. A ride through the many groves i; the deep cuts dug from solid rock; across the twin lakes on ''stilts, and up over the mountain, is indeed a rare treat. The scenery from Salisbury to Canaan on this road, is really grand, and, we are told, that from Canaan to Norfolk it is very fine, but for this we cannot vouch, as we never have been east on the route farther than Canaan. Thanks to sKih," we hope he will wink at us again sometime.
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Our village indulged in & bit of jubilee last Saturday afternoon. At about five o'clock, the Railroad men heM reached some distance beyond the Congre gational church in laying the rails, when they were ordered to quit work, and the engine +'State Line, No. l." with its train of cars backed into the depot, or at least to the place where it is supposed our depot is to be loca ted; viz, to the rear of the Congregational church. A greeting from the Connecticut Western Railroad presented to us in the form of a prolonged whistle from the loco motive, was responded to by the ringing of the church bells and the firing of cannon. A pro- cession was then formed by the sturdy track layers, which proceeded to the table hastily prepared by the ladies of our village. At this stage of the proceedings, the Lake vile Brass Band, in their large band wagon drawn by four splendid steeds, Furnished gratuiously from the Livery Stable in our village,) arrived upon the ground, and al- though little tardy, made that easily for gotten by the fine music discoursed by them. A 4CW AcLuolhS WCAC AouC ny Iu0 ACSlucHI of the meeting, A. Moore, Esq, extending to the laborors hearty welcome to the repast, when D. T. Warner, Esq, was introduced, who, with most excellent language, con- graduated the men upor the completion of the road thus far. A few we'll chosen words by MT. P. L. Barton, who was the next and last speaker, expressing the feelings of our people upon the arrival of the Iron horse in our village, closed the speaking. The sixty or eighty men, who listened attentively to the speaking, were then served with re-
 treatments, after which MT. Harlow Harris. in behalf of the laborers, expressed their thanks, and with three hearty cheers for Salisbury, marched to their train. With a farewell whistle they moved toward Canaan, well pleased with the entertainment so has tily prepared by our citizens.
 l. is rather an agreeable coincidence, that without moments previous thought or premedition on the part of anybody, the first press that was ever in the town-so far as we have been able to ascertain, ,-chanced to be brought into our village the same day, and almost the same hour, that the locomo- tive entered it. Thus. the two engines of civilization keep pace with each other
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Accident. t.-Charley Powell, the we'll known catcher of the Mechanics Base Ball Club of Lakeville, was quite seriously wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun in the Ihands of Landlord Robinson, while snipe hunting on the J. H. Bostwick farm Monday eve. The charge, consisting of fine bird shot, was lodged nearly all over his body, at a distance of not more than four or five rods. Intervening bushes. how ever, broke the force of the shot, aud it is hoped that he will suffer only temporary inconvenience.
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RIor IN NEW YORK CITY.-The annual parade of the Orangemen ih New York city Wednesday, was the occasion of most serious and bloody riot. As we go to press, the killed is reported at 50, and the wound ed at 100. Among the latter was Col. James Fisk. The mob opened on the militia with Q cannon, but they were very soon defeated, and 1t is hoped no farther difficulty will be experienced.
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Sad Accident.-Our citizens were shocked last Saturday morning by the report, it proved too true-that son of MT. Wm. Conklin, ,-Charles,-a lad about 10 years old, was killed at the Railroad. It appears that the lad ran by the side of car loaded with ties, which were being tumbled off by several men on the top of them. One of the ties in falling, hit the hoy and knocked him down. It struck the ground on its end and falling lengthwise, fell across his chest and head. His skull was badly fractured, the blood running copiously from his ears. He fingered in great agony till little past 12 o'clock Sunday noon, when death came to his relief. It appears no blame is attached to anybody. His parents in their sudden and deep aff1iction, have the sympathies of the community.
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Independence Day.-Very soon after 12 o'clock on the night of the 3rd, heavy cannon placed back of the Congregational church in this village, announced the arrival of the anniversary of our Independence. Immediately the village bells added, with joyful tongues, their evidence of delight at the return ot the day which made us free, and sounded forth a most hearty, yet ex- ceedingly noisy welcome. The contest between cannon and bells, as to which could make the most noise over the event, waged hot and heavy for two hours, when by mutual consent cessasion of hostilities was effected, but was resumed at o'clock. None but the deaf that night enjoyed a wink of sleep. Further than this night hilarity, no effort at celebration was made m this village.
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To the People of Western COnnecti.
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10 the FGOptC OK "eAteFm COnmectA~
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 We, whose names are hereunto annexed, have noticed to our regret, an article in the LStchJield Sentinel of the 7th inst, stating that the newspaper about to be published in this town, to be called the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS, twill be in the Republi- can interest,"" and that ssthe radicals have put their hands in their pockets to start the News" Supposing that large portion of the patrons of the NEWS, have become so, with the full understanding that it should stand aloof from all Political parties, we have made sufficient inquiries &c, to fully convince and satisfy us that the statements above alluded to, are totally and unquali- fiedly false and untrue; tending, if not designed. to injure the reputation of the paper and to pkeveEt additional subscrip- lions to its list, &c., &c. We feel assured that the NEWS, while in the hands of the present proprietor, at least, will always pursue strictly mental course, and that no other course has ever been entertained or designed by the proprietor. And now, we cordially unite in recommending the CoN. NEoT1oUT WESTERN NEWS to all who are deslrous of sustaining a respectable family newspaper, totally exempt from all party matters, aud such paper we believe is fol the interest of the community to sustain. Signed.
 ALBERT MOORE, SIDNEY P. ENSIGN,
 R. H. BALL, ERAsTUs D. GOODWIN DAN'L PRATT, P. L. BARTON. The above named gentlemen, who have thus kindly presented us with statement of the result of their inquiries concerning the political management of the NEWS most surely have our sincere thanks. Be ing stanch Democrats, with the interests o their party at heart, their statements canno for moment be doubted. We arc really sorry that the Sentinel should give publicit, to such assersions, without knowing mor, of their truthfulness, and, regarding th, Editor of that journal as gentleman, WI can view it in no other light, but that of al oversight on his part.-[ED. NEWS.
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Passenger accommodations are now furnished on the Sunday milk train from Bridgeport to new York, which connects with the one from Pitssheld.