Connecticut western news., 1873-10-24

| ft000ery s1 AmaenSd. Henry Frink s boot aud shoe store, near Pra:t's Hotel, in Amenia was entered by burglars on Friday evening and was relieved of quite an assort- lnent of goods An entrance was gained to the building by taking out large pane of glass from one of the front windows l Times
 | It would seem, by the numerous robber- ies and burglaries constantly being com mitted hereabout, as though the pIundering business had received new impetus since the panic, and thieves abound where hon "st men were wont to pursue in an honest manner an honest calling.
 4 Professor Lost in M;les' Cdge.-Lasi Friday, Professor Hitchcock of Amherst College, a son of tbe eminent geologist, president of the above named college, who is spending considerable time hereabout. "xploring Sage's Ravine and other objects of especial interest to geoiogists and admir- CTS of the sublime works of Nature which doth here abound, engaged MT. Dauchy to accompany him on an excursion among the stalactites and stalagmites of Miles Cave. Procuring of MT. Odenbreit the necessary habillments worn by explorers of the subterranean world, and candles to illumine their rugged pathway, they con- menced their descent down into the depths below. Visiting the candle factory, and ! many ot the other wonderful calcareous formations there to be found, and getting hundreds of feet below the surface, sud- denly and by some unaccountable means their lights were extinguished. Grasping spasmodically for their vest pockets to get match, they were reminded that their own clothing was in the building above, ,and the stiff rubber suits they had on were all ways too wet to keep matches in an ignita- ble condition. Slowly, yet surely, did the realizing sense of their dread situation creep over them. Impossible to be heard :; the perfect and absolute darkness intolera- ble, and every sound of their voices ren- dered Eldeous by its cavernous, sepulchral tone, and their very murmurings against fate echoing and re-echoing among those subterranean walls, and returning to them in solemn mockery. To retrace their Ser pentine route to the door of entrance through darkness that in their cases was felt, would not be possible for human be. ing to accomplish To do anything toward effecting their escape from their self i'm
 posed imprisonment, was not in their pow CT, and nothing remained but to await pa tiently the arrival of light and assistance from the upper regions, which perchance nay come if their long absence is noticed |; but who knows but that MT. Odenbreit may be called away to attend fishing party at another part of the lakes, and feeling the Professor is in charge of a trusty guide, and with mind absorbed in the busy cares of his everyday life, chance to forget the exploring party entirely, or for day or two at least. With such comforting CD thoughts and visions of nights and days spent IL this gloomiest of all gloomy cav erns, is it at all surprising that the Professor should repeat the Lords Prayer in the various languages at his command, and sing hymns of the most comforting character By no means, and we aye as- sured he did SO in the most earnest manner; But hark! a noise is heard away among those more remote chambers or galleries, and anon flicker of light dodges past an angle in the walls and-the Professor faint ed. We came away then. The explorers had been groping about in the thick dark ness about six hours, and the learned mans expressions of gratitude to Mir. Odenbreit as their delivercr, when he was r. stored 10 consciousness, can better be imagined than described. MT. o. says he spouted poetry awhile, then would suddenly dodge off in- to Greek, Latin and the five or six other languages that lay around there loose; would shy upon 8 neighboring stump and preach, and ln fact was willing to do al most anything in his line to remunerate his noble rescuer. MT. Odenbreit says he was fully rewarded for his trouble.