Connecticut western news., 1873-06-06

OOSlneSS this season. Cnelr numerous 1Telgnt
 trains containing from 30 to 40 cars each,
 and not only the regular trains, but extra
 freights are run almost every day.
 1Ae GAost. have but little to report
 concerning the Ticknor House ghost this
 week. There seems to have been no fur
 ther visible demonstrations on the part of
 her spookship. A party of five or six, among
 whom was 8 reporter for New York daily | journal, visited the haunted house last
 Monday night, and remained nearly all
 night without seeing or hearing anything
 strange or ghostly. We were informed by
 the reporter mentioned above, that the party sat in one of the rooms with lighted can
 dle, and aoGtched tue Haunted room through Gn open door! To hunt spooks on night the moon shines as brightly as it did Mon day night, and with lighted candle, may be successful in other cases, but for that reason or some other, no spook was seen on the occasion mentioned. We have had further interview with MT. Fenn, who, with his family SO suddenly decided to leave that abode, and he says it makes not the
 slightest difference to him how many may
 hereafter visit the house and hear or see
 nothing strange, there was something the
 night that he stayed there that he regards as
 indeed mysterious. The son cannot be
 talked or laughed into the belief that what
 he saw was delusion. He seems to think
 if he knows anything, (and we believe
 there are none but who regard him as b ing
 a bright intelligent lad,) he saw woman
 dressed in white walking about his door,
 and into his room and stood looking at him
 a moment or two. and that her movements
 about were perfectly noiseless. Mir. Fenn
 says he is no believer ln ghosts, and soont
 believe in them, but to explain or assign
 cause for the singular manifestations and
 noises about that house the night he stayed
 there he cannot do it. We understand that
 the story reported by MT. -Deushom, as
 stated in THE NEWS two weeks since is } substantiated
 Wuss0ic.-Down below Millerton a few
 miles on the Harlem railroad in New York state, IS located one of the most romantic and beautiful country villages we ever saw.
 Struggled among some of the lOftest noun
 tain peaks whose towering heads rise thou
 sands of feet toward the clouds, and, sur rounding the village as they do, seem to
 stand as sentinels, holding it more securely than ever the mammoth walls of an ancient city, is the village of Wassaic. Making
 no pretension to anything of a remarkable character in the wayiof business enterprise,
 prefering the quiet enjoyment and satisfac-
 ton of knowing they are about as well
 provided for as their neighbors of other , villages, in all that conduces to make life
 tolerable, to the emptiness of a worldwide 5 notoriety for great things, they ypursue daily the even tenor of their ways and rejoice in their ability to do so. The above are the , impressions left on cur mind after our visit there last Friday afternoon, and although
 as we said above, they make no noise abroad of what they are doing, they are
 very far from being idle. A walk through
 the large establishment for condensing milk also visit to and through the fur mace would dispel any such idea that chanced to be laying around loose. Forty seven years ago the spring just passed, Mr. Noah Gridley put in an appearance at what is now known as Wassalc, and which at that time contained no more than here and there farm house. A company was formed for the smelling of iron, Tn which ) he was small owner He subsequently 3 became sole owner and manager, and built the furnace that now stands, and which is
 indeed one of the most conveniently arranged in the country, as for instance the
 the patent coal pits for charring it: the charcoal goes to story below for use in E melting the iron ore, and the iron runs s down hill all the way till it gets on to the cars. A huge steam ore crusher, whose voracious nav, like the horse leach, con
 stantly cries give, mashes the ore to the re-
 quired size without the old, tedious and expensive process of baking and breaking with sledges, is made to render increasing ' service on the bank beyond. The furnace and entire works are now exclusively owned g by N. Gridley & Son. and we are permitted
 " Suy Iuob CnC HUI u1uuC GuOI6 IS r to none made anywhere. MT. N. Gridley 7 is what is termed a self-made man, and is ' very wealthy, and made all his wealth at y this furnace. A story told of his first
 hundred dollars will serve to convey an idea of the stuff of which he IS made. n When young and ''hired-man." he 2 formed determination to save one hun. s dred dollars every year. As the first year + was drawing to close, he found himself o sadly in need of pair of new boots, but l. an examination into the condition of his g finances divulged the fact that if he in- IS dulged in that luxury, he would sacrifice al al hope of securing the hundred dollars by l, the time the year was up. He went with e out the boots.
 5. A very important and interesting enter g. prise in Wassaic is the milk condensine IS factory. About twelve thousand quart! le of milk are received daily from the farmer' Ill of the surrounding country and condensed IT at these works. The milk is put into large IS conical shaped copper wells, in which it ii le boiled from five to ten minutes. after whicl IS it is carried to the story above in pipes, ant y into the huge vacuum pans, in which it i IS again boiled about three hours, which will ,d carry away all impurities as well as abou f. one-fourth the volumn of the fluid, leayin, in it of the consistency of thick cream. Thl oe last boiling and cleansing complete
 the condensing process. It is then takel ,o again to the story below in 40 quart mill " cans and nlaced into larre vats of ic