Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15


 after, although the coal from there will be so much cleaner, no higher price will be charged for it.
 BeN Ringers.-Leavitt's celebrated troupe of Swiss bell ringers will perform in the hall in West Cornwall next Tuesday even- ing. Their performance in Lakeville last week gave very general satisfaction. At the close of this performance, a sort of general row ensued, occasioned we under stand by few ''colo'd gemeh." We are informed that razor and revolver were hourished around in very unpleasant prox- imity 10 the audience who were passing out of the hall. Such conduct should meet with prompt and decisive measures for it's suppression. A respectable auaiance has no guarantee of safety in attending places of amusement, and a remedy should at once be adopted and on every such occasion be vigorously enforced.
 Widoaos, Bachelcrs fc.-A correspon- dent writing us from Canaan this week scolds away in his most eloquent strains because Norfolk is trying to create little notoriety on her own hook by publishing to the world the exact amount of socia- bility there in existence as was evident by the innumeralion of widows. bachelors, widowers, olG maids &c., in last week $ NEWS He says that from the center of Canaan village, in the radius of one mile, there are g widows: g widowers l3 bachelors and l6 old maids Talk about your Norfolk sensations; "How wash not dish for Hiram p What comes here? A correspondent from Cornwall, who by the way appears to be u little excited on the bachelor widow question says that Corn wall proper contains just twenty two hou- ses, and in these houses are fifteen maiden adies, nine bachelors, thirteen widows and four widowers. We are not sure but in proportion to the number of houses, Corn wall is ahead of Canaan. How about this all important question ? Trot out your old maids, bachelors, widows and ''sich", and whether it be Canaan or Cornwall tu make the sacrifice, let the truth prevail, l,-''give the al his due"
 Locomotioe Boiler E.sl9osion. the locomotive Falls Village" was standing on the track of the Connecticut Western railroad at Wiustcd, about l-2 o'clock last Friday afternoon, her boiler exploded in the forward part near the smoke stack with terrible force. There were three men in the cab, but neither were injured. The locomotive was attached, head on, to eight empty flat cars, and was on a side track waiting for the passage of train, and had been standing there about twenty minutes when the explosion took place. A brake man who stood on the car directly in front was blown to the ground and received some slight injuries upon the head, and was covered with water, but not scalded. There was only no pounds pressure of steam in the boiler, with plenty of water and exactly what was the immediate cause of the ex- plosion, has not been determined. The bell was blown distance of about 100 rods, and falling on rock was broken in almost numberless pieces. The locomotive was bought of the Housatonic road, and has been ased for drawing dirt cars and .latterly for stone and derrick train. She is old and worn out, and was soon to be sold, as she will now be, for old iron. She was the first locomotive bought for the Housa tonic road by Charles Hunt after'hc became president of that road, and for strength aud speed, her model, considering hel weight, is seldom equalled by any of mod ern construction. Having spent nearly all our days in village on the line of the Housatonic road, this old locomotive, when it came on the Conn. Western road, was welcomed by us us an old friend. The poor, faithful Id "animile" is gone. Peace be to her ashes or in other words; lei her rip, alias, rest in peace.
 Dutchess and Columbia E. R.-Last Fri day we went over on the Duchess & Go lumbia railroad, having no special busi ness to call us over there, except perhaps to look around little, and see what the good people of the little dutch state ot York state were doing After leaving Mil lerton station we commenced to circulate around mountain, on the summit of which was erected a flint stone monument, repre- senting the goddess of York state or some other good looking damsei. After going up and down and around that little hill several times. we started in an exactly straight circuitous perpendicular bee lint for Shekomeko. We had noticed at oul right for several miles before arriving al Shekomeko, another railroad about half or three quarters of mile across the country, and enquired what road that was running so nearly parallel with the one on which we were riding, and were informed that it was the Duchess and Columbia road and we would soon be around on that side. The exact solution of the problem instantly flashed across our mind. We were chasing down one side of what would represent the periphery of an elegantly cut oval, and at this rate but a short time would be needed to bring us back to Millerton again. It must have been 8 task to make the northern portion of the Duchess and Columbia railroad, almost unprecedented in the annals of railroad grading. The mountains west of Millerton are piled one upon another, and that for several miles on the line this road, and as a consequence the northern terminus is necessarily very crooked, but we understand that the lower and greater part of the road is compara. lively straight. We could scarcely avoid being reminded by this short ride, of q certain road out west, where it is stated, that one standing on the rear end of the rear car of long train, could light his cigar in the furnace of the locomotive Away we went over many huge fills and through many deen cuts dndcine