Connecticut western news., 1873-06-27

ng. Our merchants are all carrying heavy tock. Miss Ada Palmer gave concert n W ebotuck Hall last week. Miss Palmer las voice of great power and sweetness, and her singing was much admired......The NJ. E. Church repairs are rapidly approach ng completion 1.-The morning mail from his place on the N. Y. B. & M. R. R. ran off the track near Fishkill, from mis- placed switch. No one hurt.
 A GoosR QUILL.
 Specuzating.-The Hartford Courant says Berkshire county youth appeared in New York last week and traded his ances- tral farm of seventy-five acres, worth $5,- 800, for a widows house in Brooklyn worth $l3, 1000, and mortgaged for $4,oOo The widow then proceeded to her new country home and found on arrival bit of land worth in all about $6O0. She now wants to change back, and the boy is in the Tombs.-!Who is this enter prising chap with the speculative turn of mind ED. NEWS
 Our Churches.-Now that summer has arrived and strangers are among us, it IS proper to state the hours of worship, etc.. in the churches of Salisbury. In the Con gregational Church Key. Dr. Reid breaches at half-past ten o'clock The Sunday schoo! session follows. Prayer meeting in Acad- emy Hall at half-past five P. M. Rev. MT. Johnson breaches twice on the Sabbath at the St. Johns Episcopal Church. The morning service is held at half-past ten o'clock; :he afternoon service occurs at half-past four o'clock Sunday School be tween twelve and one o'clock.
 Those Otd Coins-How about those old coins which were recently resurrec:eG from their long concealment under the sand that was being removed or being sifted for d furnace in Sharon, few days since; those old chaps which would seem to have been forged few days prior to the ceremony of installing Adam ,n the garden? We are informed they are of copper, and carry a latin inscription exactly what has not been deciphered; also a lady holding wreath, I&c. They are said to be quite remarkable | in appearance, and are quite large. being perhaps l.2 inches in diameter. If they continue to appear remarkable after more extended examination, won't somebody down that way tell us some thing about it l Fires on tue lMountain.-The long con Ptinued drouth has been followed, as has frequently been the case, by extensive fires on the mouptains in this vicinity. On Fri day last fire broke out little north o1 Mt. Riga, extending north along the wes side of Bald Peak, burning over, as we art informed. more than thousand acres be longing mostly to the Millerton Iron Co.
 who also lost nearly thousand cords O
 wood cut ready for coaling. On the same day there was an extensive fire in the vi
 cinity of Bash Bish Falls, which we hea consumed some fifteen hundred cords o
 wood for MT. Miles. On the same day als
 we learn therewere fires on five different coa jobs in the northeastern part of this county
 belonging to the Barnum Richardson Co
 The high winds made it extremely difficul
 to bring the fires under control. In som
 instances the wind blew the covering fror
 the coal pits as fast as the colliers coul
 put it on. We are glad to learn that tn
 fires were all subdued by Saturday.
 l | d1o anf Pr |,
 Robbins, of the Claverack College an Hudson River Institute, is in our midst car wasting for subscribers to Critical, Ex
 planatory and Practical Commentary on tn
 Old and New Testaments,' comprisin
 about 400 pages, and written by Rev
 Robert Jamieson, D. D. of Glasgow Rev
 A. B. Fausset, A. M., York; and the Rev David Brown, D. D., Professor of Theoi , ogy, Aberdeen-persons well-knOwn in th , theological world, in this country an ' abroad. It is to be hoped that Prof. Rol bins will receive Q cordial welcome frol t those upon whom he will call, and that will dispose of many copies of this pract
 cal, scientific and popular Commentary a one in fact which should be in the hands ( ; every family. The prices are as follows J. Extra fine English cloth. $7.50. In ha .- Turkey Morocco, $lO.OO. The volum {; will be delivered to subscribers in about . month. Such men as Rev. Drs McCosl J. Schaff, Park. Caswell, Patterson. Kitchel
 Stearns, Thompson, Hopkins, Cumming
 Stowe, Furnbull, Swazey, and many oth y divines and professors of this count /. heartily endorse and commend it to tl
 Christian public.
 t. From the examlnation which have bet It able to give to the Commentary of Jami ,l son, Fausset and Brown, believe it is J. sound and judicious work it is suited (
 pecislly to general students of Gods Wor , who wish short but comprehensive col
 mentary on the whole Bible. It will be foul
 a valuable help to Sabbath school teache ; and bible class scholars, and think no o can find fault with the price asked for it.. o' W. T. SAUNDERS, ;r Kent.-The protracted drouth will affe
 the farmers of the Housatonic valley SC
 ously, unless rain soon brings relief N 7e a plant of tobacco can be ''set' with pr' a pect of life, with no moisture in the cart ,g A gentleman in Kent told us the other ds of that from $50, 900 to $40, 900 worth of t ed 'vlle weed" was annually raised in tf lis immediate vicinity, and if it should q to year as crop prove failure, It would t- riously impair business of all kinds, l
 let us have faith like an ear of corn, a ,,o it'll come out all right,
 ch Merchant Gaylord, we found while ,le conversation with him, was formerly I