Connecticut western news., 1873-01-17

The Dd0ss Bed-Within the past three weeks, there were more tons of ore ship ped from the Davis bed with teams, than ever before in the same length of time. There were about 15, 900 tons of ore ship ped from that bed in 1872. These figures are from that pit alone, and when is added the 8 mounts shipped from the several other beds in town, nearly every one of which has raised almost, if not quite as much, something of an idea may be form ed of the freighting furnished the Conn. Western railroad company, from the town of Salisbury.
 Republican Delegates. At Republican meeting held at the hotel of E. Y. More house in Norfolk, January 9th, 1873, the following delegates were chosen State Conventional. L. Whiting, H. H. Riggs, s. D. Northway, J. N. Cowles. es.-Congress- ional Convention-J. K. Shepard, Nr W. Welch, E. Y. Morehouse, R. P. Pendleton; Senatorial Convention Burr, 8. s. Vail c. J. Leavenworth, Henry G. Smith Town Committee-J. N. Cowles, E. Y. Warehouse, R. I. Crissey, Wm. A. Spaulding, and Alva s. Cowles.
 J.K. SHEPARD, Chairman. .
 Waterbury AlmGnacs.-We have re- ceived from our honored friend, Mr. E. Buell. of Waterbury, copy of the Water bury Almanac, "calculated for the hori- zon and meridian of Waterbury, It is published by the American Printing Go. of that city, and contains large amount of matter and statistics of Waterbury, which cannot but be of great interest to the in habitanas of the Nauga.uck Valley. Gun Waterbury friend will be interested to know that it hangs iu our sanctum and is regard ed as one of the most important regula tors of the office. .....The office of the American Printing Co.,, above alluded to, was partially destroyed by fire on the morning of January 3d. The enterprise of that company would not allow such g triaing CD accident to produce 0any inter ruption in the regularity of the issue of their Weekly American, and it went to press Con the presses of their magnanimous cotemporaries) and was issued at it's regu- lar time. Such evidence of true pluck is always admired.
 Salisbury Bible Society.-The anniversa- ry meeting of the Salisbury Bible Society was held at the NJ. E. Church at Lakeville last Sabbath. Addresses were made by Rev. Mr. Gilbert, the New England Secre- tary of the American Bible Society; Dea- con Graham and Dr.. Knight. The Sails bury Bible Society was organized in 1S4l by a union of all of the ecclesiastical societies in town two of which, Ohe Methodist and Congregational still remain in the organi- zation. It has raised by contributions over $4, ,OOo during its existence, and over $3, 800 of that sum has been donated to the parent society. It may not be generally known that the Depositary of the Society, Mr. Wm. Jones, has at all times fine collection of Bibles and Testaments which are sold at very low rates. At the meeting last Sabbath it was voted that every family in town destitute of the Scriptures, that would receive copy, should be furnished one at the expense of the Society. Any person desiring copy or wishing to supply a needy one, are requested to apply to Dr. Reid, Mir. Bouton or either of the Sabbath School Superintendents. The. exercises were much enlivened by the excellent sing ing of the choir of the M E. Church.
 Increased Supsc,iption. subscrip ton list of the NEWS has grown very rap idly within the last few weeks, and it is now away ahead of what the most san guine had thought possible to be obtained. Since starting the publication of the NEWS, we have never in one instance personally solicited subscription and the large an6 (almost unprecedented in country journal ism,) constantly increasing columns of sub scribers' names have come to us as the leg itimate result of the establishment of g in Western Litchfeld County To our subscribers and patrons, to each an6 every one of them, we have to say thank you Thanks for all this patronage; and to the infnitesimally small number who are reading the NEWS and have not paid fol it, we desire to say,-very carefully ol course,-Does it pay to be classed as one of that small number? Think of thit matter seriously, and your good sense wll urge you to pay the printer. A convincing evidence of our increased subscription lis is in the fact that last week, the mail bags which have usually been equal'to the em- ergency, would not hold the entire edition of tue NEWS, and as consequence the large packages for Canaan, East Canaan and Cha pinville, as well as some smallt packages could not possibly be crammeG in, and Postmaster Richardson was com pelled to hold them oyer another day This is bad business, as it is important tha the NEWS should be regularly received by it's readers. We contemplate asking Supt Yeomans, (and we are sure he will gran the request to hitch a dump car on th' rear end of his Fridays mail train, or which to dump the large editions of tht CONN. WESTERN NEWS for transportation.
 Wandering S1sOts.-Two or three weeks since we received shot from battery To- cated at the south of us, and being severely stung, whirled about barbette gun an( let drive, not knowing exactly where i might hit, but determined to make it hi somewhere. To our surprise the bomt struck bang right in the Amenia Tsme office. This was bad state of affairs, ant last Saturday afternoon we went dowr there to repair damages, if any. Almos as soon as we entered the sanctum ot Bro