Connecticut western news., 1872-05-24

grass. " Considerable tobacco will be raised here thls season. Don't hear very much about the new depot. Shall move our vil- lage over on the Housatonic road one of these days, if the O. W. R. R. Co. don't show us more consideration in regard to this matter. The Housatonic road furnish es it's stations with depots, as a good and dutiful road should. PETE. Neao NSlford.-The village of New Mil ford is certainly one of the pleasantest in the state While there few days since, we were impressed with the order and regu. larity with which everything pertaining to their village was arranged, as for instance, on the street leading from the railroad sta tion was located nearly, if not quit0 all the business houses of the place. That street appeared to be appointed for that especial purpose, and there are located the stores representing every branch of the mercan- tile business, all of which indicated the same order and regularity in their man. agement, and although all were busy with their numerous patrons, no unseemly haste
 
 through that street into the main street, we found it occupied almost exclusively with the residences of the citizens, and many of them are indeed elegant, indicating wealth and refinement. This street, SO wide and so plentifully supplied with shade trees ar- tistically arranged, must indeed be a very desirable place for the location of home. The short hour we were allowed for the purpose of looking about the village, was far from being satisfactory to us, and only served to whet our appetite to see and know more of place that appears to have suc- ceeded so admirably in establishing a sys- tenn in it's process of building up and grow ing into village.
 WSnsted.-All long and no wide-The boundary line to this thriving borough it would seem difficult task to locate. Almost before one is out of sight of Nor folk on his way east. he begins to enter Winsted, and we are not quite sure that we can truthfully say that Winsted is com posed of string O houses, manufacturing establishments and stores, from Norfolk to the Connecticut river. Nothing would check the running growth of Winsted but the largest river in the New England states. Like pumpkin vine it gives rather more attention to length thaa width, and also like that vine, sometimes grows large fruit, as for instance huge pumpkin has just blossomcd out and will soon be developed into healthy fruit, viz, the new Music Hall. This village of Winsted possesses several of the finest hotels in the country Among them is the Clarke House, which is indeed stately mansion. Finished alike outside and in, in the most attractive man. ner, and possessing every convenience guest could desire, it is hotel which mer- it's the extensive patronage it receives.
 Having occasion last week to speak of the first trot on Greenwoods park, and hay ing good reason to eulogize the afforts of the Cincinnati Philosopher" (Horace Greeley, in the fine work he did that day, we this week are obliged to drop him down peg or two. Last Saturday on the park he was defeated by c. B. Andrews Black ; and while we are about it, we will tell the so1sole ts'WtA : be scas distonceo!
 Cutie KSa1ed.-Last Friday forenoon, as Conductor Hinsdale's train was passing through the deepest and longest of the sev- eral rock cuts west of the station at West Norfolk, it ran suddenly on to four cattle, which had walked into the cut to near it's center, and killed one of them outright j; broke one leg each to two of the others be- side knocking off horns, and tanning them up badly otherwise, and severely if not fa- tally injuring the fourth. The engineer said that at one time he had all four of them up in front of his locomotive, carrying them along, but two of them were soon tumbled against the rocks on the south side of the cut and one in floundering was com ing back on the track and would have fell directly in front of the forward trucks of the rear passenger car, had she not been struck by perpendicular hanging step at- tached to the rear end of the baggage car immediately in front, and again sent back into the rocks, where she remained till the train had passed. Having since the acci- dent, noticed the peculiarities of that par ticular rock cut, we defy any engineer, however keen-sighted, to discover cattle or anything on the track till within distance ot twenty feet of them. The rocks on either side run nperpendicularly up distance of nearly, if not quite, 50 feet, and the cut represents quite an acute curve, thus hiding everything in advance.
 While writing up an account of 8 ride from Winsted late one very dark night some weeks since, we improved the oppor- tunitY to speak of the great caution exer- cised by Conductor Hinsdale and his trusty train hands, viz. !: Engineer Hatch; Bag gagemaster Lincoln and Brakeman Gal lagher, to bring us safely, though slowly, through the dangerous rocks to Salisbury, and however much we may have said to their credit at that time, we are not now disposed to take any of it back because their train has killed some cattle, and have to say in addition, that if they had had ha!f a chance to have prevented this acci- dent, the train would have been stopped and the cattle driven from the track. The engineer told us that he had "railroaded it fourteen years and had driven loco- motive six years, and altogether he had never killed as many cattle as at this acci- dent of last week.
 We say this in behalf of the road hands, because we are thoroughly convinced that on all the trains of the Conn. Western road, the hands have exercised, and. are exercis- ing the greatest possible caution in the pre- vention of accidents, amid the unusual dan