Connecticut western news., 1872-06-14

! foliage being fully out and all nature ap- pears in her best attire A ride from Mil lerton to Norfolk on this road brings to the view of passengers. variety of beautiful and ever varying scenery to be rarely met { with. To commence at Norfolk, standing, as it were, on the tip top of everywhere, and taking birds eye view of the country from Sitka to Florida, step on board a Conn. Western car and proceed to descend I and view along the route to Millerton, the country in detail Passing West Norfolk ! station, and along what is known as "Stopy Lonesome" following the path of the road down the side of the mountain, looking down on the southern side, to the settle- ments, hundreds of feet below; lodging through the deep rock cuts and on over Whiting River Fill, past the depot at Canaan Valley, Gan interesting structure onward to East Canaan and Canaan. Soon after leaving the station at Canaan Juno ton. the car rolls over the Housatonic riv- CT, from 60 to 75 feet above the water, and beginningit its circuitous ascent and descent of
 
 tain, on the summit of which broad eX- panse of territory at the south, of wood land and meadow, with the Housatonic twisting about among it in almost every conceivable form, presents view, at once attractive and always admired. Dodging among the trees of the grove after leaving the hill, we soon come to the two beautiful sheets of water known as Twin Lakes oyer, drinking in the lnvliness of the scene on either ride. There is peculiarity about these two sheets of water which we have many times noticed, viz. :: the slightest the Washining, causing the waves to roll heavily, while the Washinee is nearly al- ways calm and smooth: nothing save a high wind seems to disturb it's wonted qui- etude. resembling in mineature form the two principle oceans of the world: the Atlantic and the Pacific. The scenery about these lakes is not to be surpassed. All who pass over them, if their bump of deality is at all developed, never fail of being charmed. Passing the station at Chapinville, and making slight turn through the deep rock cut, we come out on the straight, prairie like strip of road to Salisbury, where usually the slow pace nec- essary in passing the bridges oyer the lakes, is made even with the running time of the road, by an accelerated rate of speed get ting along down through the swamp and past Deacon Hutchinson's; over the bridge and crosiing, at MT. Bundy's at a mile. a. minute pace, we are quickly brought up standing by the Westinghouse air brake, at the depot in Salisbury, where all can ob. tain free and unobstructed view of Nal lory's justly celebrated masterpiece of art work surpasslng in excellency of execu- ton, anything produced by the old masters, viz. the magnificent sign on the most ven. erable building in town, GAO years old, ; bearing the sublime and cheering inscrip- tion: CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS. This last feature of Western Connecticut scenery never fails to elicit from the en. chanted beholder, his unqualified admira. ton. Taking drink at the water tank, the locomotive scampers down through the meadows and over the spile work and bridge into the station at Lakeville, the sightseeing passenger, after nasty glance at the Holly Knife factory, and the busy streets of that thriving village, takes a ser pentine route to Ore Hill, passing about half way around Lake Wononscopomoc in his trip, he has another view of lake seen cry, with series of highly cultivated hill farms in the background, forming a pic ture indeed beautiful to gaze upon. While crossing the bridge at Ore Hill station, an opportunity is offered to inspect the depths of Mother Earth. This ore bed, having been worked over 100 years, is sunk to the depth of about 100 feet below the surface and still the sturdy yeomen of these iron bound hills continue to burrow deeper anC deeper after the precious metal. Aftel leaving this station, the state line is soor passed and Millerton, with her constan screeching of locomotives and general rail road enterprise is the terminus of our jour | ney. Taking it all together, for classic ar ranging of woodland and dale; lakes rivers, mountains and hills a greater vari ety of beautiful scenery than that foune along the trip from Norfolk to Millerton will hardly be found in this section of thu country.
 | West Wnasted-Last Saturday afternoon Conductor Hinsdale allowed us just al hour and twenty minutes to 'do" Yves Winsted. which, as far as completing tn job is concerned, we made a miserable fail ure. Keeping a straight line from the de pot we made our first call on Messrs. Vim these gentlemen were absent, but we foun Friend Coe, with whom everybody in Yves ern Connecticut is acquainted, and who c course are glad to learn he is again sellill goods in West Winsted. He showed U the finest and best line of black alpacas fc the price charged for them, we ever saw but here comes Noble the boot and sho man. This man Noble we regard as tn most dangerous man in their community He inveigled us into his store, and until W crossed his threshold, we had no idea wtla ever of purchasing goods of him; had nc supposed we were in need of them or any thing of the sort. We were happy in tn thought of being we'll supplied with every thing, but, presto! how quickly we ascel tained how little we knew of what W didn't know. Those boots and those shoes trunks, valises, bags, everytASng completel upset us in our complacency. We bough a pair of boots and 8 pair of shoes, and our credit was worth anything to him, could have sold us anything and everything When he bid us buy we bought an we have to say to the many from this sec