Connecticut western news., 1873-09-26

ly due our Chicago friend, R. F. Mitchell Esq, for his kindness in promptly sendin;
 us over the wires the news of the recen
 fire in Chicago, also for his more detailed
 account by mail which appears iii anothe column. Although the destruction o
 property was not what it at first threatened
 to be, the people were badly frightened
 and we'll they might be, as they have learn
 ed by sore experience to become alarmed
 at large fires. By MT. Aitchells kindnes
 we were enabled to give to portion of ou
 readers the news of fire raging in Chicago
 before they could get it from Hartford O
 New York, and made us the only countr,
 paper in the region, with one exception
 that gave anything of it last week.
 Ihe Capitol Question.-And indeed it il
 a capstag question to discuss just at this
 particular time. At our October election
 our people are to vote yes, or no, on the
 question of one capital or two, and wheth-
 CT it is to be located in Hartford or New
 Haven. We have perfect right to discuss
 this question, as it is not politics in its gen
 eral sense, or if it is, our readers will not
 SO regard it in our case, and will suffer us
 to discuss it freely, as it is a matter that ill
 terests all alike, whether democrat or re-
 publican, jew or gentle. We said some thing about dtscussang tMs question. Ii needs no discussion whatever, as it is per fectly plain in the minds of all our readers, that if the states of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and almost score of others in the Union, large enough to swallow d dozen Nutmeg states, can manage to get along with one capitol, our state can, and it is simply ridiculous that it does not. Where shall this one capital be located is one of the questions that interests every citizen in the Commonwealth. Shall it be in New Haven? or Hartford That the central part of state Is the place, other things being equal, to locate it's capital, also requires no argument. Every voter in every town in North Western Connecticut should make it their special business next election day to be at the poles and vote,- well, yes; vote as they want to, and we shall be very much disappointed if there is one, just one, who does not vote for one capital only, and that one to be located where it can be readily reached from all parts of the state, and that place is HARTFORD.
 Cattle IStoao Notes-This wee k we pub fish the remainder of the premiums given at the cattle show and fair ut Falls Village There were several matters connected with this show of cattle that we wished to allude to, but the slip of paper containing our jottings has got mislaid. and we only draw from our memory, which serves us quite poorly in this instance. It was remarked concerning the great number of cattle on exhibition, so much larger than ever before, and it is quite right that the credit of show ing very much the largest number of them should be given to the town of Cornwall, and that the very questionable credit of keeping at home, away from the exhibi- tion, not only the greatest number of cat tie but the largest quantity of everything else, justly belongs to the town of Salisbu- ry. This sounds remarkably well for town so rich in everything that would con- tribute to the interest of cattle show and fair Considerable complaint was heard from those who brought flowers for exhi- bition in the hall, of their being merciless- ly stripped from the tables and stands, and when the owners came for them they found nothing to come for. A large share of the flowers came from Southern Shelf field, and to bring them so far to aid in making our fair interesting and attractive, and have them robbed.is much too bad, and the officers of the society will probably see that the offense is not repeated another year. Among the large and fine cattle, the yoke owned by H. H. Copeland, which weighed nearly 5000 pounds, received about as much attention as any, and the most excellently framed steers owned and driven by young son of Mir. Henry c. Stevens of East Canaan, were very much admired.
 TAe Potato Question. . The potato owners in this section seem to be on a strife on the score of large ones. MT. John P. Walton, who could not allow our friend, Lawyer Warner, go longer unfed, as we week or two since, brought up into the street the other day peck of the same sort he is now filling his cellar with; or in other words he brought with him just nine potatoes. He no longer stops to measure, but counts them; thirty-six to the bushel every time. Merchant French of Lime Rock whispered something to us the other day, about an esculent lifted out of his hundred acre lot, that weighed some thing like two and half pounds. If Mir. French was ever known to exaggerate, we should insist upon our political friend "Sid' stepping across and looking up the facts, and if he said it was so, it would be any way, even if there wasn't potato in Lime Rock as large as lump of coal. Nobody will doubt Mir. Els word. after they have read his new editorial, No. ?, in his large square advertisement in another column. They can't. Such eloquence would peel the gloss clean off every flint stone it struck,-but here comes another potato. Beni. Ball has shown us one which he says came off the farm CD of Horace Ball, and which weighs exactly three pounds to the square foot. Postmaster Richardson says that potato weighed three pounds Oh his scales, so that fixes it as fact Now that this monster has taken the premium at Bar rington this week, it is to be quartered and peddled about town. Still they come Everybody is surely crazy on the potato question! MT. Wm. H. Walton says his brother John doesn't know anything about