Connecticut western news., 1872-10-04
Commecticut Western News.

V. W. Merriaeld, Millerton. N. Y. '. L. Pond & Co.,. "insted.
 New AdveFsasOmentS.
 Opening Week Mrs. N, Riehsrdson. L n, 5 5.OO Reward Peek's Hotel.
 Election TEeEets.-We can print your | election tickets for Mondays election 1 'drefful quick" Bring 'em in early.
 FeatAer Beds.-The feather bed men are IS full of business as ever, having all they can possibly do, and all seem well pleased with their beds after they are renovated.
 Venerable and FoitAtul. is a horse in the Davis ore bed doing good days work before cart every day (Sun- days excepted, of course), whose age is twenty eight years.
 To Ram1po.-Boss Carpenter Daniels, with Carpenters Ayers, Curtis, Vosburg and fifteen or sixteen others have this week gone to Ramupo, New York, to build small lot of tenant hoases for the Ramapo car wheel company, to be occupied by the employees of that company.
 Always too Late.-Advertisements or communications of any description receiv- ed by mail onST Thursday are always too late for insertion in the NEWS the same week. Very sorry we are obliged to make the correspondence from West Winsted and Housatonic wait till next week. Please send Tuesday, if possible.
 Kent.-A match game of base ball was played between the Mschanics of Lakeville and the Riverside of Kent, on the grounds of the latter, Saturday, Sept. 2sth. Result in favor of the Mechanics, l5 to 39. As I have it from private parties l do not vouch for the score. Our boys own up badly whipped, but still hold out good grit, many expressing an intention to try them again.
 INe Harrington Fair.-The first day of the fair in Burlington last week the weath. CT was favorable and good show was the result, but the second and third days the rain nearly spoiled the whole entertainment. There was large attendance for such weather, and the glorious time was enjoy. ed CD by the crowds in wading about ankle deep in the mud, seeking shelter from thu drenchiSg storm.
 Groaoing Young Again. Weed O. Sharon, whose hair changed 30 suddenly and tmiraculously from black to white something like year ago, which fact wa
 duly chronicled in the NEWS at the time
 is returning in appearance to his youthful days again, his hair changing to it's forme
 glossy black color, or. in other words, tn
 new crop" that is coming on is black tn
 hair now from the scalp for about quarte
 of an inoh in length nearly all over his head
 being black. We congratulate the Captain
 on h1s return from his sojourn among the
 "ancient and honorable" of the land.
 Railroad 1Vme Ta6les.-The Housaonic
 railroad commenced running on neutime
 table last Monday, the changes iron the
 old table being principally as follows The
 first passenger train from Bridgeportruns
 on slight change of time from Canaan
 and stations north, and, what was tie ex
 press from Pittsfeld in the afternoon i!
 discontinued, ''second" passenger rair
 being substituted for the express, and run
 ming earlier in the afternoon. The thsougl
 freights run to State Line instead of Htts
 field. The time table of that road in tn,
 NEws is changed to correspond with tn,
 new order of things. On the Poughkeep sic & Eastern road, trains began running t,
 Millerton last Tuesday, running over tn Conn. Western track from the State Lin
 to the Duchess 6 Columbia depot intha , village. Trains for Poughkeepsie kav Millerton at 6.l8 A. A., 1.O5 and 4. 8 P
 Nj. They arrive in Millerton from Po,gh
 Seepsie at II 50 A. M., 3 os and 8 17 F M
 Large Fire in Bridgeport. The la,ges nre ever experienced in Bridgeport rok , out about six o'clock last Monday evening in the extensive lumber yard of s. 0, Nick , erson & Son, in East Bridgeport. Tn yard covered a large area, and contained F besides the lumber of all descriptions, paint shop, 8 carpenter shop. as we'll as large new plaining mill, situated near il r center, in which the fire is supposed t have originated. In less than ten minute from the time the flames were first discov , cred, they were bursting out from all side of the structure, and in ten minutes moI it was evident the yard would prove an CT ,, tire loss, as the fire rapidly radiated fro. the center. and no water could as yet t
 thrown. Within three quarters of an hor ', from the first alarm the whole yard was i . blaze, and the heavens lit up so that th " attention of people in Litchfeld, fon
 miles away, was attracted and dispstc
 sent to Hartford inquiring as to the locasio 7. of the fire. The light was also visible ' this village, in fact all around the courtl a do we hear of its being seen, as far up
 Lee, Mass. about . hundred miles distan ' About 6.3o two dwellings, situated on u northerly border of the yard, caught, ar
 in twenty minutes were leveled to tl
 ground. The office of Messrs. Nickerst s & sSon, situated in . new brick and irt @ front building at the southeasterly side g the yard, was next threatened, and so s tense was the heat that notwithstandil l. streams of water were kept constantly u t. on it, the flames several times burst fort e and it was only by unrsnitting efforts th d the building was saved from destructio 7 Mir. Nickerson. the senior partner, was }, prostrated by the shock of seeing the g l. cumulations of thirty years of active bu j. ness life swept away within single ho F. that he was taken to his house in hs o crazed condition. The younger MT. Nc If erson states that their loss cannot possib '- fall below $75, 900, and will probably rea o $1oo,ooo. The blaming mill with it's co D tents was new, some pieces of machine