Connecticut western news., 1872-07-19

went beyond his depth and sunk. He arose and went down the second time, and as he again came to the surface he was grasped and save by brave lad, the son of MT. k. Pltkin. This was indeed a noble act on the part of young Pitkin and is an example which other boys should study ana lmlta;e. Many young lives have been lost unIer precisely the same circumstances or tp.is affair of last Saturday, in all except thr, act of going into the water and rescu- } ing the young sufferer, instead of which his comrades would run off a distance of nearly mile perhaps, to teU somebody c bog aods droUned! and before help could get where he was, he would be drowned dozen times, if it were possible. We feel us though it would do us good to grasp the hand of the young lad, Pitkin, and congrat- ulate him on his good fortune of having a head on his shoulders
 NO Such TASng "A poster comes to us from Greenport N. Y. which has some thing to say about horse being stolen, and a reward of $lOO, being offered for the thief, etc. Here is what it says about the supposed thief:
 Supposed to have been stolen by a man giving his name as Ed. Barton. Said Bar ton was about five feet ten inches in height | weighs about 130 pounds; clothed with blue checked shirt, blue overalls, light col ored soft hat. with black band binding on hat old and dirty; old coarse stogy boo:s, and black coat had a small SCAT on right cheek near the jaw bone."
 | Ed. Barton lives in this town, and as we have little pride about the good sanding of our citizens, we desire most respectfully to shove in protest against such I,roceed- ings. When Greenport, over in York State, attempts to dress Ed. Barton up in check ed shirt, blue overalls, and old stogy boots, etc., and sends their dirty notices around trying to make folks think he has been stealing somebody's old rat-tailed nag, we think it is carrying the joke too far. This makes us indignant, Ed. Come down here and we'll fight for you any time.
 A&tley FaJs.-A new school-house is being erected few rods east of the old house in Ashley Falls. It is to be Q two- ! 0eOAy III oiAS, -cAOOS duu IS uE" signed to accommodate Q graded school. This house will supply long felt want in that village, as the small house has always been much too small for the eighty or ninety scholars, which, during the winter terms, have been crowded into it. Considerable attention is being given in the construction of this new house, to those conveniences so necessary to the health ard comfort of the scholars, and among them is q we'll which has just been completed and very sub- stantial pump has been placed in it. The house is to be finished neatly on the inside and furnished with desks and chairs of the most approved patt erns. MT. Myron An drus has the contract for doing the work, which he is to complete about the first of October. Altogether, when finished, it will be one of the finest school houses in this section of the country. Something has been said about cupola with bell, to be placed on it, but it seems that feature is not ! fully decided. This Is what is wanted to put the finishing touch to completed job. Have it by all means! When doing really good work like this, while about it will re- quire but little effort to have just 7SgAt. Don't forget the cupola and bell The new water tank at the north end of the depot at that station is completed and was filled with water last week It is about third larger than the one at the south end, which is as large as water tanks usually are, but the young stationary engine which ! so ,oloool oG %l>o after about two hours of putting and wheezing, will lift water enough to fill the two tanks. Agent Strong who has had only about one hours instruction in run ming an engine, seems to experience no trouble in keeping it Tn good running order and keeping the two tanks full. This is now regarded as the most important water station on the line of the Housatonic road. With the new houses recently con- structed on School street, the new school house, the largest depot, and most impor- tant water station on the H. R. R., the va- rious improvements about the mills; Ash ley Falls gives more evidence of enterprise and general go-ahead- -ativeness, than was ever before known there.
 Water Wheels.-We know of nothing that better represents the power of mind over matter, than the improvements which in late years have been made in the con. struction of water wheels. It is not our purpose to write history of water wheels, from the time they were first brought into the service of man to the present time, as such an account is not demanded of our time and space in this article, even if we were conversant with the historical facts concerning them, and capable of doing jus tice to the matter, but few ideas as they occurred to us while watching the working of two turbine wheels within the past week, may serve to illustrate our text :-" the power of mind over matter" It is but re- gently that to run mill, a huge overshot wheel, almost as large as the mill itself, was thought necessary to drive the ma chinery. The water poured into deep buckets placed at the end of long levers, was made to weigh them down and turn the wheel, carrying with it quite mass of machinery. This pattern of wheel was regarded as almost, if not quite, the aStinao- tun in hydraulics. Such on one has just been removed from the Washinee factory in this village, and in it's stead is placed g small turbine wheel, and being covered en- tirely over as it is, presents contrast in it's appearance, with that of the huge concern just removed, that approaches almost to the ludicrous. The idea that the insignif. cant cheese box shaped toy CD tucked away in one corner of the huge vacancy left by the wheel removed, and occupying indeed