Connecticut western news., 1872-11-15

ly engaged in going through man, aad gently tapping them on the shoulder said '' Gou are right at it, aren't you; after which friendly salutation he induced them to follow him to very nicely furnished little apartment in the elegant and stately made and provided for the accom- of such distinguished individuals.
 Sunday Njsc1iefABarney McGlotten, an Irish lad of twelve summers who is stop ping q short time with his uncle, Michael Boyle, in this village, amused himself last Sabbath by pulling the rod on the water tank at 'lis station snd seeing the water fly. He finally succeeded in getting an ex- tra hitch 10 the apparatus, and in some way dIsarangrd the valv" so that he could not close it, and out the torrent of water pour ed, a stream the full s:ze of the large pipe. Becoming alarmed at what he had done, he ingloriously fled from the scene of the mischief he had created, and the water continued to rush out till the large tank was completely emptied, washing away the dirt from the ties under the track, and seriously disturbing the wontcd Sabbath quietude of Boss Track Repaircr Arnold.
 | SHgA ImpeGimeni.-Laft Tuesday evening, just before the approach of Con- ductor EggIestons train from Hartford, Il huge boulder was discovered near one of the deep rock cuts just west of the West Norfolk station, very firmly located on the track Fortunately for all concerned, As sistant Roadmasler Lane was, as he always is, just where he was wanled,- board the train and with the aid of two or three section men and little powder, he drilled and blasted the rock into manageable pieces, and hitching on the locomotive, ''snakcd' them out of the way. This pebble is said to have been estimated to weigh at least twenty tons. To stand in the pelting rain and thick darkness of such a night and drill such large and exceedingly hard rock for three and Onc-half hours was a job the boys don't care tn be called upon to dc again very soon. unless il is rcatty nec6ssa rT
 4 Chrtstittn Weehiy.-One of the bes religious publications we have seen is the Wustyafed Ch14stjan Weekly, published by the American Tract society of Boston. A: it's name indicates, it is an illustrated jour nal, the engravings being of a high orde and always interesting. It is blessed witl host of eminent writers and is ill every respect welcome weekly visitor to th' christian family. One very important ant desirable feature of this journal, is the in tcnsely interesting and exhaustive com mentarics on the lessons taughtin those Sab bath schools, which use the popular Amer ican series of Sabbath school lessons, and VI understand these lesson papers are gettin to be quite extensively used in the churche hereabouts. Somebody has intimated tha MT. F. c. French of Lime Rock is author ized to receive subscriptions for the Week gy. If this is fact, we hope and have n doubt that Mr. F. will be the recipient of large list of subscribers. Tbe price of tn
 Weekly is two dollars q year, and is eel tainly well worth it.
 4 Fire Eetinguisher.-If the method 0 extinguishing fires now being introduce by the Hartford Fire Distinguishing com pany had been placed in the building, col ner of Summer and Kingston streets, Bo! ton, there would have occurred no sue conflagation as existed Saturday and Sur day last i'll that city
 The inutilty of water thrown upon large burning surface has been clearly den onstratcd by the Chicago and Boston fires and that some other and more pcwerfu agent is needed to prevent these disastrou coullagrations is apparent to all.
 The Hartford Fire distinguishing com pany after many months of practical e1 perimeniing have now reached the fruit o success. They use carbonic acid gas in it pure state By their method it makes Il difference whether the first, or sixth, 0 tenth floor of building, or whether it confined to foot square or to 10000, tn effect is the same, the fire is extinguishe in a few seconds. Then, again, their aI paratus is always ready and so simple
 child six years of age can manage it.
 The above we clipped from the Hartfor Post of last Monday evening, and learnin that practical test of the merits of thi new agent, with the improved apparatu constructed by the Hartford Fire Extir gushing company was to be made in Har l ford last Wednesday we visited that cit for the purpose of witnessing the result. At about II o'clock 8 large party of tn heavy capitalists of Hartford, among whor were Gov. Jewell, Gen. Hawley and th Mayor, started from the Allyn House the scene of the to be conhagration.
 A frame building thirty feet long, wit pine timber of small size piled in it in
 manner to give the fire all the advantag possible to get under the most obstinat headway, and this timber saturated wit kerosene and covered with tar was ignite( and all was allowed to get thoroughly o | fire. the volumes of black smoke Tollin
 high in the air and the flames envelopin
 everything; in fact it would seem imposs 'blc to extinguish that mass of the most in
 Hamable material which was SO completel
 in the possession of the fire tiend. At
 given word, when everybody was satsfe
 that to extinguish it and preserve even
 sembance of the building would be almo
 d miracle, Major Martin, who is memb'
 of the Hartford Fire Distinguishing Go pulled the slide and let in a volume of gas l As though He who commanded the wine
 and the waters to cease, had spoken
 those surging, roaring flames, in precisel
 half moment thereafter they ceased ar
 There was great calm" To make sur
 ty doubly sure, another charge was sent il
 and another, making four in all. It wou