Connecticut western news., 1872-12-13


 Canaan, and it is hoped sufficient encour- sgement will be given to this enterprise to make it success. Buy your tickets early. Norfolk. seems to have got pretty well settled down into winter quar- ters. The Norfolk House is being repaired sad made ready for its numerous city boarders who throng there during the sum. mer season. The store formerly occupied by Mr Reyes is now remodeled and finish cd off into large parlor and other rooms, which are ''let into" and made e part of the hotel. Landlord Warehouse may just ly congratulate himself in having one of :he finest hotels in, Western Connecticut, as it is admitted by all who visit him. His rooms from garret to cellar are finished and furnished in tho latest and most elegant style. and those who make his home their home are always satisfied with the accom- mediation and prices. Nr. MOrehouse is natural born landlord. and always succeeds in treating his patrons in such 2 manner that they somehow. manage to call again, when within hundred miles of him, or less but here comes the boys sliding down hill. Somebody says they draw their sleds during the rest of the day. Watch Tinker Wolcott hes laid in pretty good supply of Christmas things and sich, and with, bis watch tinkerIng manages to keep pretty busy. Somebody says something abou, the old works of the Conn. Arms Go. being put in order for some new business, and that J. B. Augur, Esq, has bought tue Ryan privilege, but as we presume our cor respondent will tell us all about it, we'll leave the field entirely to him.
 Waterbury.-Th following pleasant correspondence was received j-u-s-t too late for last weeks NEWS.
 :. "WEDNESDAY, Dec. 4.
 have something against thee, Friend Pease., I noticed in your paper last week you had been making excursions up and down the beautiful valley of the Naugatuck, taking note of its manufacsories and wit messing the ingenuity of our Yankees sDd their skill in doing business. You seem, to lavish ell your praise upon Wolcotville and the wonders they performed on . stick of wood. .*..
 There is place further down the valley, "we all know it is city," aud if you had called there you wouldl have found people that were always glad to welcome anybody from old Salisbury and give them the free dom of the city. Iwonld have taken you | to mill where throw . coil of wire into the hopper, and it works along and comes out of tue machine, beautiful pins, .all:stuck on paper, and visitors are presented with a paper or two to keep themselves pinned up. We make hooks and eyes to hook you up; buttons to button you up susprnders to hold your unmentionables ur, and brass kettles big enough to boil you up. We can accommodate you with anything that was ever made. should have liked so have introduced you to some of our news paper men. Why! chat with Editor Cook, who is the father of printers, would in ten or fifteen minutes frightened up your ideas SO much, your subscribers would in sist upon tvO papers q Bssk instead of one. Come and we will show you wonders that will leave Wolcotviile away back in the shade. Don't go by us again.
 Yours eruly,s E. BuEL.
 [Somebody else whispers in another part of the saule n1issive:
 ''Come aGain, and come in the month of birds and roses, and we will show you about and you shall have warm welcome.
 These kind friends in Waterbury may rest assured their kind invitations to see Waterbury, and to see it in the pleasant months of Summer, will be safely stored away in our memory. Win friend Buel remember us kindly to Father Cook, (allu- ded to abovel and tell him we expect to give him an opportunity to brighten up our ideas. so that our readers may get the two papers each week instead of the one.-Ed. NEWS.
 Coughs Leets.re-John B. Cough, de livere6 his lecture, Rloquence and Ora tors" in the 2nd Cong, Church in West Winsted last Tuesday evening to large and interesting audience, Delegations from the stations on the sConn. Western road from Millerton loadsd into tho afternoon train until it arrived at Norfolk, where a car, which was standing on the side track and which was loaded with Norfolkers, was taken on. The large church was full ss indeed it is not necessary for us to say, as everybody knows that Cough never speaks to any but full houses. After about q half hour musical treat on the organ, manipulated by Prof. Stillman of Lake vile, Cough made his appearance and well-there he goes, a. very .diminutivc and unassuming man, wading up through the long center aisle toward the platform. Removing his overcoat and overshoea, and seating himself in the big chair just 2 l-2 seconds, he winked to the the gentleman near him who arose and said he had the renewed pleasure of intro ducing Mir. John B. Cough. Eloquence and Orators" as we have once before said W bS OA AAB EcAu&k AHs A0 uC commenced to speak we hustled out our book, and being determined to note down the prominent points of his discourse, to serve out to those who were not fortu- nate enough to hear him, commenced writing. and got along very well and heard him define his subject, Eloquence, which he did by saying that it was thought conveyed to others minds, accompanied by actions; the taking right hold of men's hearts and welding them at will. Much else was embodied in his dihni,ion, but SO completely spell-bound were we, by the magic influence of his eloquent tongue from the unceasing flow of words