Connecticut western news., 1873-07-18

but will extend to any in the United States. Those who do not pay inside of three months. we shall insist upon the regular terms given at the head of the first page of THE NEws, namely 225 win be charged" and such subscribers must pay their own postage.
 Neao 7elegraqoh EQujpment.-N poles and new and better wire will soon occupy the place of the old along the line of the Housatonic railroad.
 Large S,toke.-Mr. Frederick Pierce of Lime Rock last Saturday killed near his a rattlesnake five feet long, and which had thirteen Iattles.
 Too Late.-The most excellent cores pondence from Collinsvil!e and the Round Lake camp meeting are just "leetle' too late for thls week. Next week will fix them out.
 Hand Up.-The owner desires us to say that the person who borrowed" large telescope Cor spyglass) from tent on the island at ''Twin Lakes," last Friday, July llth. may save himself considerable trouble by lesvieg the glass at this office.
 Ashley Falls Sabbath Sc1ool:-The con- cert of the Sabbath school at the Ashley Falls M. E. Church last Sabbath evening, was cne of the most successful of anything of the kind ever before there. The chil- dren acted their part remarkably well, and it altogether was very pleasant and profit able entertainment.
 Sunday Quoit PstcAing.-We are in formed that some of the Hammertown folks do up large share of their quoit pitching on Sunday, and not few go in swimming in places where they are exposed to the view of the people travelling on the road. Is this quite the right way 50 do things9 We presume when they come to think the matter over, they will find it quite convenient to do all their quoit pitching on week days. and will hunt out more re tired place to swim.
 Horses and IhSeoes.-It has heen ascer- tained that the horses found in the hands of the supposed horse thieves in the Buel Green woods in Ashley Falls few days since, belong in Lanesboro, a village few miles north of Pittsfield in Massachusetts. The man who called at the house of James Hlseroadt in this village the next morning and asked for breakfast, and who subse- quently hired to Wm. Clarke to work on his farm, and was to return the next day and go to work, but who failed to do SO, is supposed to be one of these thieves.
 'DGrn the EEpease. ."-The telegraph op orators of the lower part of the Housatonie road met at Merwinsville last Friday for g grand and general good time. The forces were marshalled by their very efficient cap tain, Miss Katie Murphy. the head grand operator at Bridgeport. Their host, the operator at Merwinsville, became enthusi- astic at the reception of so many distin- guished guests, and said he would furnish all the peanuts and crackers the company wanted if it cost as much as fifteen or six teen cents. Darn the expense at such g time as this, anyway.
 Hasn't TSnse.-Merchant Jones of Lake vile says he doesn't know but his adver- tisement in THE NEWS is well enough as i now is, but he had thought if he and th' boys could get time, they would figure ou a better one. Thus it always is: All tha is necessary for merchants to do to pu themselves in such shape that they can get time to change their advertisements, i
 to get large stock of everything anybody
 will want, and sell 1t at figure that can
 be beat ID the state, and then let folk
 know all about it by advertising it in tn newspapers. This plan never fails of SC curing success.
 Clam Bake.-How about the clam bak
 at the repair shops of the Housatonic rail road company at Falls Village July 4th
 When the invitation to attend from Mir. ( R. Morris, the popular Master Mechanic 0 the road was received at this office, " were buzzing along the Chicago, Burlingto & Quincy road west of Chicago, and c
 course could not respond, but our reader ought to have been informed of that littl aa affair long ere this. Why didn't somebod | tell us about it? To attend clam bakes al ;, our richest treats and we are very sorry W A couldn't see how it was done there on th
 Fourth. We subjoin the following accou1
 of the ''bake," which we clip from the Le
 Cleaner:
 Quite a successful celebration of tf x Fourth was held at the shops of the Hous }. atomic railroad company, at Falls Villag n Conn. It was arranged and carried out |
 the wOrkmen, and was certainly as credit !, ble and successful an affair as any one cou el wish. Eleven bushels of clams, three hu
 dred lemons, sixty quarts of ice cream, ,ar
 mountains of cake were consumed. IT dining room pro-tem was made out of Il
 carpenters shop. The tables, each near ! eighty feet long, accommodated about tH r. hundred individuals, and were set twic Ih Nearly four hundred persons graced the o r, cssion with their presence, and it is not te much to say that not an unseemly wo
 was uttered, while everything moved
 harmoniously that the whole affair is tl l. admiration of every visitor. No intox 8, eating drinks were permitted on the groun ns no fireworks were exploded {; no tobact is smoked, and consequently we have no a, 50 cidents to record. The spacious hall ov is the machine shop was used as ball roor tn and large number of guests participat as in the dance. A special train was in a Id tendance when the dancing ceased, at abo ,h half-past twelve, to carry home the visitor is Cheers both loud and deep were given f
 the day we celebrate, and the railroad COT
 fpany. And 30 the day ended.