Connecticut western news., 1873-05-09

Rough Treatm4at.-Last Monday, two men. Frank Bailey and Henry Ostrander, while under the influence of liquor got to fighting in Washinee street, and Bailey punished Ostrander to his satisfaction, by, breaking his jaw in two places; lifting enc eye out of his countenance and eating one of his ears. It is thought Ostrander cannot live.
 HGrJord Whiskey.-Col. Hubbard, ex- press messenger on the Conn. Western rail road, utters a grievous complaint at the Hartford folks for putting so much salt in their whiskey. He says the man who came on board at Hartford last Saturday alter noon, with 'tthree sheets in the wind, r was constant source of annoyance to him as we'll as the station agents along the line, as he net only left the train at every station to get'a drink of water, but cork-screwed his way among his express packages six or sev- en times between the stations to get at the tank in the baggage car, to get drink of Ewater, of course, The Colonel saysrlf that man can't hold four barrels of water, he doesn't know the reason why, as he drank more than that amount before he got to Millerton, to his certain knowledge.
 job Oteyosse-We have received from MT. Fl K. Arnold, of Portland, Oregon, pam : phlet entitled, Oregon as it is ; its present land future, which is a very interesting treatise of every important feature of that large state. JWhatrinterested us perhaps more than anything else, in our examina- tion of the work was the fact as stated there, tbat Oregon's coldest day during the ] winter just passed pushed the mercury in their thermometers down to only tsoo de- grees 6eloao freesingy Think of that, ye frostibitten denizens of this frigid zone, when our therniometers marked from thir- ty-two to thirty.siz degrees below zero! We would be quite willing to swop winters with Oregon, and would throw in the Spring CD month of March if they cast about any |fnsinuations that we are not giving them as much weather as they ought to have.
 Lee.:-Lee, in the central part of Berk. l N0Noty, WulCu Ado IOI Iuduy yCAIS been the grand railroad center of Western Massachusetts. Gin anticipation ) is about to realize something akin to the above men, tioned ultimatum of her hopes and aims. She has talked 'Lee & New Haven railroad for more than forty years, and having re- gently come to the conclusion that their talk alone would never push a car over the f'subs.antiaP' hills of Otis, and if they had Fany new railroads, they must .s'chip in' some of their manila paper currency, and are now coming at the matter in 2 way that has fair look for success. The grading of the Lee & New Haven railroad is par tially under contract, and with the $3OO,- 900 state aad so recently made sure to them l by the legislature of that state, they are disposed to give the work vigorous shove the coming season. to The new Lee & Hud- son road seems to have been met from the first, with more favor than the first men toned road, and although there were those ] who 'held back in the traces with much stubbornness for g time, It is now being pushed to completion as rapidly as might be expected, and as the work is now nov iEg along so favorsbly. railroad meetings are not held in that village more than three times day. Speaking of important en- terprises, we are reminded that of all that Lee has ever had to boast, there has never been anything to quite equal its hardware store, with Messrs. Sam Quackepbush and Pete Harding as floor managers. b Since "Pete" has of late given so much attention to the dog business, returning by express an the strayed CUTS that apply to him for relief, tying ticket about their necks and sending them to ''the Hon. James Levy, or some other equally distinguished individual ot York state or some other state, .' Sam y has the general supervision and manage ment of the hardware department When Mr. Q. has grown sufficiently wealthy in the dog business he contemplates the erec- ton of mammoth block, which, if built in his usual way of doing things, will be | an ornament to the village. We will not at this writing enumerate all that is worthy of special mention in the thriving village of Lee put cannot stop without alluding with tears \ in our eyes to the once prosperous and ex- tensive business of Larry Northrop, whose snare drum made music that was, so sooth- ing to the nerves of hls hard working neighbors. No longer do those rubber balloons bump the ceilings of his toy store, and no more is heard the charming accents of his five cent trumpets, as he dilates upon their merits. lis too bad! Last Saturday as we gazed with sorrow upon that place that was once hallowed by the presence of the dignifed tand sometimes indignant Larry, whose sands of life are hustling with astonishing rapidity toward the place where tin whistles and jews-harps can sing Fforevermore, and to see the floor buried an inch deep in peanut shucks was too much!
 After our tortured feelings had become sufficiently calmed, we. ascertained that the once proud Larry has been compelled to resort to quackery, selling kind of "white liniment, 7" that is warranted to heal up white oak knot hole inffifteen minutes, if the directions are followed. Larry smears himself with hisliniment and crawls through the knot hole, and drawing the hole in af- ter him, closes up business immediately with that patient. We may have occupied too much space with the once illustrious Larry, but we think not. Everybody knows him as one of the best balloon mak- | CTS in Lee, and all will read with interest anything that we choose to write of him. Larry had one redeeminp feature. He could make more motions folding the papers he sold than any other live man.