Connecticut western news., 1872-02-02

 tcem has passed over the road seven thou sand four hundred and eighty eight times.
 LakeOiWe. The Wooden wedding of F. c. Grant, passed off very pleasantly as all such occasions generally do. The presents were perfectly splendid. Fred Holly was on hand to enlivcn the occasion with neat little speech, in presenting basket of kindling wood expressing the hope that the fire of love would ignite as quickly and | burn as warm, and blessings mected out in bushel basketfulls, heaped up like the basket of wood. Tine presents consisted of l rocking chair, l centre table, l butchers kit, brackets, pictures, &c.,, &c., &c, too numerous to mentioh.......Dr. Bissel's barn is assuming tremendous proportions, under the direction of Ambrose Beers. ...... Bird & Miller have got their new building ready to move into. YoHoNs.
 The LakeciUe Lecture-Miss Dora V. Stoddard's lecture at the Methodist church in Lakevila last week, was very we'll atten- ded. Miss Stoddard made no allusion 10 the subject of female suffrage, but deman-
 
 doing mans work if she so desires, Teceiv Ing for the same the compensation of a man. Appropriately experimenting the lecture of Miss Stoddard came the debate on the subject of female suffrage st Mon day evening at the hall in Lakevile, by the literary society. After arguments, many and weighty had been adduced, pro and con, the chairman decided the question in the affirmative, and so far as our lyceum is concerned, the women of Salisbury have the much coveted right to exercise the elective franchise.
 Kent Cuttle Litchfield Sen*inel of last week says the cattlein Kcntare starving to death by hundreds. The cause of this star vation it gives in these words Ut is not for lack of fodder, but there is no one here to give it out to the cattle. Everybody is in Litchfield on the great will case of Seger's appeal from Probate. Kent is almost depopulatcd A special telegram to the NEWS from Kent says this statement is en- tirely incorrect so far as tue cattle are con cerncd. The Kent bovines are far from being hungry, bu, the cadAverous looking individuals who attended court in Litchfield were indeed the hungriest looking set when they returned to their homes, that the eyes of man ever gazed upon. Our informant says that Kent would, indeed be depopula' ted, if obliged to spend another season at court in Litchfield. The Sentinel, usually correct in it's statements only made the slight mistake in this case, that instead of the Kent cattle at home starving to death, the good people of Kent were famishing in Litchfield.
 The Household Physjcjan.-Subscriptio are being taken in this village, and vicinity for this valuable medical work by Ira Warren, NJ. D. Of Boston. Medical trcatises there are without number, already before tine public, but as a general rule, they have been poor affairs, written by superficial empyrics, either to make money, or to serve as an advertising medium for some vaunted specific. Here we have q book of quite different order, the produc- ton of competent physician, member of Massachusetts Medical Society,"" Its study will enable persons under all circumstances of life to guard against disease, and to un- derstand the laws of health. Especially valuable will it be in cases where something must be done instantly. The chapter on the treatment and diseases of children, should be studied by every parent, and kept readily accessible. Such work should be in every family. It comes to us well re- commended by the medical fraternity throughout the country, as one of sterling worth, and one in which the people who have it will become better informed con- corning themselves, a matter which should command their first attention.
 Bridging tue Hudson. I've have received a beautifully printed pamphlet, relating to bridging the Hudson River ut Poughkeepsie for railroad purposes and for other travel, containing an excellent wood cut of the structure, crossing the river l3O feet above the water, also two handsomeley colored and engraved maps, showing the existing and contemplated railroad rorAes between the ] east and west, which woula, probably cross the river at that point, among which we arc gratified to notice that our Connecticut Western is frequently referred to. The cost is approximated at $2, ,50O.OO pro posed railroad of nine miles on the west side F roads extending to the great coal fields ot Pennsylvania and elsewhere. We wish the proprietors of this grand and noble enter . prise perfect success. Poughkeepse is pro nounced in the pamphlet, ''the most popu lous city on the Hudson, between Albany
 and New York;" and we find by table O
 railroad distances, since the Poughkeepsi'
 and Eastern railroad has been opened, iron the junction with the Housatonic road a :, North Caanan to Poughkeepsie, is 20 mile | less than to Bridgeport, which latter plac
 has more than trebled its business, popula tion and wealth, since the tlousatOnic roat has been extended above this junction ant through the great manufacturing towns il ~ Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Tn trade from that region is immense, and = little advertising here by the Poughkeepsi D merchants and business men would, un . doubtedly now divert large portion of thi
 trade to their city.
 5 Falls Village.
 Mir. Editor-Wlllam Preston, the cham
 pion hunter and fisher of this region, me g with serious and almost fatal acciden c one day this week. He, with his son an r Almond Thorp of Lime Rock, were hunlin e foxes, and while going through the wood !, on Prospect Hill" being about ten feet il : LII 4