Connecticut western news., 1871-11-24
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 EDITOR CONN. WESTERN NEws.
 DEAR S1R.--By the kindness of my broth CT, I have had the pleasure of reading nearly all the numbers of your spirited heb- domadal, which to me is real asesospaper {; and as he is well acquainted here and along e-shore, endeavor 10 reciprocate the favor by sending occasionally, copies of one of our dailies which, may as think, contain items of interest to him.
 Being ''to the manor born," I hail with delight all indications of thrift and increas- ing prosperity in the good old town of Salisbury, and although among the last, is your own particular enterprise, showing to outsiders that your fellow citizens are also on the upgrade. as evinced by their liberal advertising and your correspondence from the neighboring villages. The time does not seem long elapsed since knew every householder in the town; but now, even among the signatures to the advertisements ale many unfamiliar names, and in my native school district, the 18th, eff that is not changed) only one family remains of all my old neighbors; and this great change of inhabitants has been effected within. the last eighteen years. In your issue of the 27th ut. your items gatherer of ''Home news," speaks of the perils of travel from Chapinville to the Centre, particularly of the ''Dug way in the face of Steep noun tain, once famous in the annals of road making as very great improvement, and trust that yonr stick has beeu instrument tai in having the road thoroughly repaired and made safe, even for night travel. Dur ing your residence in Salisbury, il is pre- stunned that you have heard the name of that mountain spoken with several varia- tions, and if written, probably the orthog- raphy would be as diverse l will give you another variation, (of course the cor rect one ) my revered father, somewhat of an. antiquary, taught me to write it Berg Montief," (Dutch) meaning steep mountain. Thankful am that SO many of our lakes and rivers retain their Indian names, always significant and usually eu'
 
 own Housatonic, (Anglicized with an l., s'River of the Hills ;"-Wononscopomuc, singing of it's ''clear water ;.-pronouncing the last syllables with rising infection, as the natives did.
 Although somewhat amused by youI frequent jibes about the running of regu lar trains over the c. w. R. R. and tho reli(e)able information on that subjec received and given, still, are not you rather severe on the R. R. company, which has by your reports, nearly completed an un dertaking, that twenty years ago would have been deemed visionary and impracti cable, crossing Litchfield county from eas to west, only one remove from the highes land in the state; the backbone being ir Goshen. Where is there such a romantit route for railroad. Going west from Nor folk you soon have in view the Dome or Mt. Washington, and much of the Tagh kanuc range: descending to and crossing the fertile valley of the Housatonic; skirt ing those beautiful lakes and thriving vii lages to Millerton ride of twenty miles of such varied, delightful scenery, know not of elsewhere. Hoping that you vii announce prior to next June, that the road is finished and that passenger trains make their trips regularly; hoping also that may then take the ride and your hand Wishing you abundant success, am
 Yours Truly H. s. NORTON.