Connecticut western news., 1873-01-31
Too Late.-Correspondence from Housa. tonic one GaY too late this week.


 part of the sash, which they raised and Fclambered over the telegraph instruments into the room. After hammering about the safe and various drawers for valuables and succeeding in getting large supply of nothing, they ''got out of there" and were off, having their trouble to reward them for their efforts. Agent Cogswell never hurts anybody; wouldn't cause pain to fly; but if the seven shooter that fingers around that establishment should send messenger of inquiry after these chaps that manipulate windows, whose fault is it?
 Colts WorEs.- Of the manufactories of this manufacturing State of Connecticut we think there are none greater III extent or importance than the Colt Pistol W orks, in Hartford, nor none that will call forth from the visitor more or heartier. expres- sions of admiration at the apparent abso lute perfection of everything pertaining to them. It is not our purpose to give de- tailed description of everything we saw when there few days since, as such a de scription would require an amount of me chanical knowledge not possessed by us, and not only that, but lengthy and elabo- rately written report of pistol and gun mak ing is not called for in such an article as is our purpose this shall be. Entering at the main entrance, facing the Connecticut riv- CT, we pass under the horse shoe (of super stition). over the door, symbolical of alleg- This so frequently adopted ensignia of su- perstition always excites within us 8 degree of disgust that will not be silenced, hence the forcible language used above. Imme- diately in front of us as we get inside, are working two of the four finest stationary engines in the United States, carrying shafting quarter of a mile long Cor less) running directly through the center of the room, which extends the entire length of the main building. From this line of heavy shafting myriad of belts are playing, running all manner of ways, and carrying the seven or eight hundred ma. chimes in the room, which are industriously at work at the various parts of revolvers, or we should moro correctly say, portion of them are in motion, as the works are not now running at their greatest capacity. In room above we were very much inter ested in the twenty-five or thirty Gatling guns, which were placed in battle array, mounted, some of them on carriage re- sembling very much that of field gun, and others on tripods, which seemed very practical for use in sections where wheeled vehicles would find locomotion diff ficult. These guns are very simple in their construction, and seem to work with but little more risk of disarrangement of ma chinery than would the turning of grind stone. A ''hopper' containing four hun dred cartridges is placed on the breech and with a vigorous turning of the crank it is said can be emptied in one minutes time, firing them with great accuracy the usual distance of an ordinary rifle of the best make, the empty caps pouring generous stream out at the slde of the gun. With an abundance of ammunition and two men to manage it it would seem impossible for regiment of infantry to approach and capture one of these guns, as such shower of bullets as could be poured into the ranks by oscillating the. gun, it would seem not possible for man to escape. The guns are being made at this place for the Cat ling Gun Co.,, which is supplying the vari- ous nations of the world with them. A half day at these works is indeed we'll spent
 iSnoas, Railroads, &c. Last Sunday night and Monday morning we were favor ed with another of those substantial snow storms, for which the present winter is becoming famous, about one foot in depth being added 10 what was generally regard ed as a quontlna subicit. There seems to be one feature of the present winter, as it has passed thus far, that is regarded as in deed an exceedingly fortunate one, and that is, the unusually heavy snows do not seem so frequently to bring with them Old Boreas with his frisky capers, piling the m into unseemly heaps and making locomo- ton difficult, but instead it lays where it fell, and is giving the country better sleigh ing and longer season of it than for sev- eral years before. The last storm blockad- ed the railroads to greater or less extent, and occasioned delays in the running of trains commensurate with the ability of the respective roads to clear their tracks. The hands of the Connecticut Western road | Chat road which was to be choked to death by the first snow storm) attacked the storm with their accustomed vigor and ''whizzled' it from their roadway like whirlwind bringing their trains with them with but tri. fling delays in any instance, yet usually on time while the Poughkeepsie & Eastern, another road running east and west, was floundering about, buried entirely out of sight. Last week Friday medium sized drift ensconsed itself on their road and sue cessfully held thelr entire rolling stock al bay till the Monday afternoon following, when 8 train of one car and two locomo tives managed to crawl through to Miller ton, arriving just in time to make new start on the home stretch at the commence ment of the week, with an average pros pect of getting to Poughkeepsie by Satur day night. .st....s.s. .... ...,..
 LATER.-Since writing the above the Ole Boreas alluded to has been on regular ole tear, filling the air full of snow and we announce once for all that we are through | hrappino ahnut the weather Tho u;nc blew almost hurricane last Tuesday nigh and we thought sure the Conn. Westerr railroad men would get their match thi time, as their road would be piled ''ocean. high;" but twas not enough; they s0oull not De stuck. Every train was on time tht