Connecticut western news., 1873-10-10


 ond passenger train leaving Bridgeport at 5,25 P. M., runs on a slight change of tim e to Merwinsvilie, but on the same time as on the old table from there north. Going south, the express which left Pittsfeld at 1: 80 P M. now leaves at 9 35 P. NJ, and of course runs on an entire change of time. This train now connects with the Conn. Western train going west from Canaan. The Through Freight, which left Van Deu- senville at 2. 65 P. M., now leaves that sta tion five minutes earlier, and runs much slower than before, getting into Bridgeport at 10 o'clock r. M., instead of 9 % o'clock as before. With slight difference in time of cue train of the State Line Branch, and two or three on the Danbury Branch, con stitutes the changes wrought in the new table. Their advertisement in another col umn is corrected to correspond with the change.
 7'he Eng1iM Opera Company. By an advertisement in our columns, It will be seen that Mrs. Rowes opera company will | visit Lakeville on Thursday, the l6th inst, and perform "The Maid and Mistress" in the Academy Hall. This will be an exhi- bition of particular interest. The charm ingSprma donna, Mrs. T. Ficton Rowe, protector of the enterprise, is daughter of the Hon. Robert D. Livingston. Miss Theresa Jackson is young lady of New York percentage. The pianist, Mir. Charles Ferrars, is also an American, and has late y honored our country by his distinguished success in the conservatoire of Naples MT. Brookhouse Bowler is an Englishman, but has long been connected with every oper- atic enterprise of merit, while the opera, ''Maid and Mistress" by Finlay Finlayson, (also an Englishman) was written and con- posed amid the pastoral shades of Sharon The characters of the opera are "Lady Fanny Howard" soprano, (Mrs. T. Picton Rowe); Miss Clara Cecil, contrazto, (Miss Theresa Jackson); ''Sir Charles Lawdor." tenor, (Mr. Brookhouse Bowler); "Colonel Hugh Trevor" baritone, (Mr Finlay Fin layson.) Mrs. Rowe's company will ap- pear at Amenia, Winsted, Meriden, Water bury, Danbury, Middletown, Hartford, Sc
 Railroad Distractions The colored man, Benjamin Powers, who was arrested for placing Instructions on the track of the Housatonic railroad company last July, had his trial in Litchfield last week, and was sentenced to four years hard labor in the State prison. The evi- | 6onno oroincf T0ouoro o;. stantial, as it cannot we'll otherwise be in such cases, as it would be but one chance in many thousand if man, who was in- tent upon such mischief, being such a reck- less blunderer as to allow himself to be seen at night in the very act itself, and un- less he was actually seen, no evidence is possibly available except circumstantial This man now makes the third one who is incarcerated in the State prison by the Housatonic company for this particular of fence, and there is one more, who operates with ties &c. between Sheffield and Great Burlington, the company have an eye on, whom when they find, they expect to chuck into the furnace of one of their locomo- tves for fuel. Any engineer, who happens in any way to come in contact with this to the people, to cuff his ears with stick of wood, and very gently lay him away n the furnace of his locomotive, where It will be warm enough to take the frost out of him, and he will be exonerated by the peo. pie from all blame. The laws as passed by the last legislature concerning the plac- ing of Instructions on railroads are very severe, as is right they should be. If death h results from the wrecking of train by ob- structions pllced on the track, the penalty to tue criminal aoAo placed those o6structions there, 5s dedth. Certainly, the way of the transgressor of this law of railroad obstruc- tions is hard
 Last Mondays E2ectson-The partisan aspect at our Mondays election in this town was decidedly mixed. What the Irish sea man said of his cattle. which, in his exer- cises with them before the blow, had got \ somewhat tangled in their ''harness," ''The larboard OK is on the starboard side and the starboard OK is on the larboard side, and Jinny is hung in the rigging" is quite ap- plicable to the state of the various political parties on that occasion. Republicans were numerous on democratic tickets, and democrats on republican tickets. and the vote was almost entirely of that mixed character. On the Constitutional Amend ment, the vote in this town was 362 Yes and No; result on that question as we had anticipated, with the exception of the two nays, which is just two more than we thought there would be- For town officers there were elected
 For Registrars Voters Sidney F. Ensign, N. l.. Dexter.
 Assessors-E. D. Goodwin,J. P. McNeil, Charles Evarts.
 selectmen-C. H. Bfssell, Dwight Allyn, } Wm. Miles.
 A. Crowell. E. R. Benton, s. c. Scoville, Henry Hubbard.
 r Town Clerk and Registrar-Danl Pratt. } Treasurer Town and Town Deposit , Fund-S B. Moore.
 Constable and Collector-Wm. B. Perry.
 Agents Town Deposit Funds. B. Moore, James Van Deusen.
 School Visitors, years-J. R. Ward M. l.. Graham.
 T Asylum Visitors-P. P. Everts, c. L. Robison.
 Constables-W. B. Perry, W. E. Cutting l John Barnett Jr., John McElrcy, Jame. w. Spur, H. w. Thorp.
 s Grand Jurors-M. l.. Graham, s. P. Rus sell, James H. Barnum, John G. Landon Henry Woodwork, James Kelley. ] Sealer of Weights and Measures-Reu ben Beckley.
 Pound Keeper-Wm. Bundy. Haywards-W. Niver, M. H. Robbins = A. J. Spur, Wm. H. Walton Jr., Fred'l Evarts, Peter Smith, Edgar Sparks. 3 Fence Viewers-Wm. Bundy, Jas. Var Deusen, N. w. Clark, Martin Harris. Town Agent to vote on c. w. R. R