Connecticut western news., 1873-11-28
F3lfs Village, Salisbury and
 East CamARne
AZ sERN BY THE EYES OF A STRANGER.

Slon as 1OloWg:
 FALLS VILLAGE, CoNN., Oct 3oth.
 Mir. Rollin Cooke, formerly clerk il
 the Iron Bank in this small villages youni Widower with two children, was married {,
 Miss Rose Terry of Hartford, writer O
 delightful verses fer the IndeprnIent
 Rose Ferry Cooke is many years the senio
 of her husband; her hair is quite gray
 while she is gay, petite lady, who dresse youthfully, and is very social and pleasin, lA manner. The happy couple-indeet they are 50, despite the disparity of year
 are now residing at Winsted, eighteen
 miles from Falls Village. Rose Terry ha
 brother who was general in the lat, war.
 This very peaceful and picturesque vii.
 lage, within sound of the whistles of fv,
 railroads, lies on each side of the Housa
 tonic in the town of Salisbury, the extrem,
 northwest corner of Connecticut. A cred
 ulous old lady told me that Salisbury re-
 ceived It's name from a man whose name il
 was, who once tied colored servant gir
 to his horses tail and dragged her till she
 was dead. His penalty, to be hung wher he should be one hundred years old, was never enforced. although the wretch lived to that age. It is most probable that Sails bury was christened by some friends oi Salisbury in England.
 The falls and rapids in the river that sug gested the eognomen of this post-ofice center, are wild lovely and fascinating. There are properly two falls, perhaps an eighth of mile apart. The lower and lar. ger one, just above which bridge for the transit of cars and engines to the railroad conpany's shops. is angularly spanned, would measure about fifty feet perpendicu- lar. It bounds. surses and foams, in a broken slope, either glad or angry for lta escape from the upper fall, over many a jagged impeachment, in beisterous play, tu- mutt, roar and giant like dance. It is easi- CT to appreciate such cataract than Mag ara OF Yosemite; it is more enjoyable, be- cause lees awfully grand and overwhelming to the imagination. The wideued tide is here very rapid and roek-disturbed; chan nels of dark wate in curvine strips divide Wbite ribbons of liquid commotion below and under the bridge whose open spaces hold the eye downward in almost fatal fas- cination. as one walks over it, dizzy and dcafened by relentless whizEing and roar ing. To-day, with friends who have most kindly entertained one recently a stranger to them, Ar. Brinton and family of Brin- ton Hill, left the carriage near the bank and crossed and re-crossed the wild flood. It made me shiver in the keen air, while the glowing enthusiasm awakened by the scene dispelled the appearance of danger that might follow misstep or whirling brain. Iwonder that SO little is generally known at distance of the peerless natural beauty of the Housatonic.
 Falls Village has circle wreath of high hills that are monuments for six or seven towns. On one of the eminences is the highest ground in the state of Connecticut. simply called Prospect Hill. One is Sugar Hill, one Cream Hill, etc. I did not hear of Butter or Bread Hill. Here was man ufactured during, and at the close of, the war, the best rined cannon in the world, by tho inventor. Horatio Ames, since deceased. He worked three years experimenting, ex pending large sums of money before he accomplished what nations had not done. It is said that bis success was complete. and that his guns have stood the test of being loaded to the muzzle with powder and ball and fired, and that no oth- CT guns have ever borne half the test that constitute the trial of these. In his last illness he was constantly talking of the steel coSes After making about $4OO, ,0OO worth of guns, not content with having constructed what was already the best can non in the world, he concluded to line wrought iron gun, put together in rings, with steel. After his ded.h the precise plan was carried out to successful comple- ton. l read description in local paper of the process of manufacturing and test ing. The United States government took one of the smallest sized cannon to Wash ington and tried every way that could be thought of to burst it, but it was not cracked or injured in the ordeals. The steel Things or cores were put in after the guns were outwardly completed. They were heated red-hot, and while thus expanded, the core, larger than the aperture before heating, was inserted There were but three steel-cofed canAons finished. The government bought these. They were only recently taken from Falls Village to the Brooklyn navy yard.
 There are extensive iron beds in the hills of Salisbury. From eight 10 twelve thous- and tons of pig iron is yearly msnufac- tured at each of the several furnaces in the region. The iron is very tough and hard and makes the best car wheels made 1 in the United States. There is a manufac- tory in Salisbury where eighty car wheels 1 weighing from i've to six hundred pounds apiece, are finished in a day. Formerly the iron was here refined and sent to the l government Iron works for making mus ketsj and anchors have been manufac- ! tured in Salisbury from two hundred up to ton in weight. The various ore beds that | have been worked are separately named | Indian, Old Hill, Orchard, etc. A bold, ! rocky and wooded height, called Gallows | Hill, rises from the Brinton Hill slope near l the house and on the farm of MT. Brinton, l which l climbed yesterday morning. From 1 this point, an opening in the evergreen | forest on level rock-foor, yielding to the | feet with its carpet of grey moss, we saw | . misty outline of the Catskill mountains, fifty miles away in the west. A little low CT down and farther on we saw into live | towns and three states, Massachusetts, Con. so named, ss the legend runs, because an Indian hung himself on its top with strip ot bark to tall hemloek tree. It lowered | so high above its neighbors that it could be | seen many miles around in conspicuous, lonely independence. Lovers of nature's l sublimities and beauties, come next sum- mer to Salisbury and Falls Village and ex- perience thrills of awed delight and appre- ciation. It is not necessary for you all 1 to take that most desirable pilgrimage to Mariposa and Yosemite. You can here be charmed and your souls enlarged by con- munion with God through hls works.
 My attention was called to the fact that through this Litchfield county the southern sides of the hills are ragged and often steep rock, while the northern are wooded and sloping. East Canaan, where the balloon seeking the eastern air current dropped to tha earth ia an adioininn tozrn if m,