Connecticut western news., 1873-04-04

sNOAAAS will be no room for summer boarders from the cities. This house is getting to be al ready one of the most popular in the coun- try.
 1he Vote Aarket.-Martin Harris, who is authority on this question, says that good healthy well-fed full grown votes for next Monday are bringing but four cents each He says there was time when if man g birthright could be bought it would bring a good price. but as those who will sell them selves for the pottage are now held in such disgustingly low esteem by himself as well as everybody else, the price is reduced to four cents each, and the market is glutted at that.
 To De Le6sed.-The Armenia Times says 1t is understood that the lease of the Harlem railroad for 999 years Cor in per petuity) to the New York Central railroad will be consummated at an early date. It is also understood that the Harlem stock holders are to be guaranteed eight per cent. for which consideration they are to trans fer all the road north of Forty second St.. The Fourth and Madison Avenue and all street car and branch lines of the Harlem road will remain the exclusive property of the Harlem Compay"
 Aocjng IVme.-The floating population of the country are now in the midst of their annual horror. Carpets, f1at-irons, looking glasses, bureaus, dinner-pots, and babies piled permiscuously in a heap and carted away, while not infrequently the sonorous voice of the auctioneer is heard above the din and confusion as he cries out, ''Half-a- dollar, halfadoAarfadollafad adollaihat s hid now. give more'f ye want it! Half-a, dollar fve-eishths threc-quarters-thrcc quarters am bid-will you say dollar for this standard work octaryo..best edition half norocker extry: Three.quarters am bid. 'hree quarters three-quarters three-quarters. will ye glve any more? Three-quarters hreequarttlleequatther-qua thec-quat thee Quat one dollar shall have ?'
 OSsc0ntsnued.-The section of the Com. Western road between Lakevile and Cha pinville, which has been under the charge of MT. R. J. Arnold and his faithful gang of track-repairers, is now discontinued as d separate section, and has been merged into the sections each side of it, and Mr. Ar mold and hls men have been discharged, to lessen, of course, the expenses of the road. This is another evidence of that De- culiar kind of "'economy," which has very recently been adopted on this road, and which never fails to return profit cf 100 per cent.-out cf pocket! If the trains on this road would run at such times that it would be for the advantage of people to ride on them, the management wouldn't be compelled to resort to reduction of the working force of the road to keep thelr head above water.
 Fsre tn Ms1erton.-About ? o'clock on Friday morning the Webotuck Hall in this village was discovered to be on fire by a Mrs. Swift, a boarder at ,he P P.anet House, who, as it happened, was awakened by her
 
 awoke her husband ana he alarmed the in- matea of the house who turned out en masse to fight the fire. The building was mostly saved but badly damaged by cutting places in the roof and also by the fire and water. Ii is supposed to have been the work of an lncendiary, as it was evident to many that the back part of the building had been thoroughly saturated with kerosene oil aud then fired by some person. We have as yet been unable to ascertain the loss, but understand that Mir. Nerrifield the owner of the building, is insured to fully cover the loss. If it had not been SC fortunately discovered by Mrs. Swift, and had high wind been raging at the time, the best part of the town would in all prob. abilhy have been destroyed.
 Accidents go Lime Iock.-Last Thurs. day, Freddie Walker had his hand caught between some broken car wheels and so in. jured that it became necessary to amputate one of his fingers. Wednesday. April 2d, Frank Bornoz received an injury to his eyes by which it is feared he will lose them. The accident was caused by an explosion oi gas from one of the cupolos of the car wheel foundry. Last Saturday Almon Thorp was thrown from horse and had his hand so badly bruised as to prevent his working for few days. The horse was doundering in A snow-bank on Norton Hill nd before MT. Thorpe could extricate him. self he was injured by the sharp corks of the horses shoes. Perhaps there wasn't some loud talk around there and blessing on snowbanks! James H. Pierce was also injured by his horse while leading him to water the other day. Wouldn't it be well for an agent of some accident insurance company to call around this way2 Think he would reap harvest.
 Eighteen Pounds of Rats.-A friend from the city of Wetaug sends us the fol. lowing very amusing story:
 EDITOR NEws-My neighbor, MT. David Scott, had box of buckwheat in one of his outbuildings, and noticing that rats had gnawed hole in the box and were helping themselves rather more freely than was profitable. MF. Scott (with hls eagle eye) thought he would take sly look into the box and see what was ''thar," and found the box was pretty well filled with the var hints. Putting his wits to work to find the best way to capture them, he in the first place stopped the hole. and getting a bag placed the mouth over it. Then he made his hired man act the part of dog, by setting him to chasing them out of the box into the bag, and when they were all in used his heel to dispatch them, After he had finished dancing on them he poured them out and counted them, and found that he had taoenty-one rats, and thinking that they looked rather large, he weighed them, and had just Is pounds of rats. If anyone can beat that would like to know and n ,r,il1 -,Sr