Connecticut western news., 1874-03-13


 day, just before taking his meals, ant
 nothing could make him deviate therefrom
 A few days since, while thus engaged, h'
 was stricken with apoplexy, and expired
 on his knees. s.-PougAkesps Nsaos.
 Stuck in Me Sn0w. George Bundy
 who went to California last Fall is now ol
 his way home. He is supposed to be showed
 in at Alta, something like 600 miles eas
 from San Francisco, and as the snow is re ported to be twenty-five feet deep on the level, and as the trains of the road are very generally demoralizsd by being off the track &c. ,&c. as also are the huge snow blows, or which is placed the chief reliance for an es cape from the snow prison,it is thought his progress will be slow for some days 10 come It is said MT. B. went 10 California to cs cape the rigors of our northern winter, as well as to see the country, and now that he is plunged into snow twenty five feet deep on the level, with no f1attering prospect of immediate escape, the wags in LakeYille are laughing in their sleeves to sec how nicely he has succeeded in running away from this winter.
 Joan CegsWe!Es FsadIe.-Haye you seen John Cogswell's fiddle? Mir. Cogswc!l is baggage master on Conductor Egglexton' s train, and to while away the time waiting at Winsted for the Milk train on the Naug- atuck road, he has constructed genuine plantation fiddle. This fiddle is remark able production of engineering skill A long cigar box with couple of holes cut in the top for the 8 holes, and stick tackled on for the neck, with the strings and bridge is the whole grand paraphernalia of the concern. As every part of it is inno- cent of paint or varnish, and without even the revenue stamp or express slips remoy- cd, il is indeed very cheerful and alto gether attractive instrument. After the train has waited at Winsted, as before mentioned, from half to three quarters of an hour, and the passengers began to swear at the prolonged delay, he seizes this cigar box fiddle. and saws off tune, Gust one tune vii! do the job, which has never yet failed to soothc the most wrathfu, and restore instantly to their countenances the most Christian like expression of fortitude and patience. John loves to be asked to play. Wont you please ask him 10 play tune for you? If you are troubled with the rheumatism, it will do you more good than streak O lightning sent thror gh your nerves from gayanic battery.
 An Zee Care.-MR. EDITOR. 1t was my few days since, to yist the Ice Cave, situated at tue base on the west side of lofty ridge of the Green Mountains in the town of Wallingford. Ice can here be found in abundance during the entire summer. The cave simply consists of a deep broad chasin, where the mountain seems to have been rent asunder, in which the dripping water freezes to such a depth that the summer warmth fails to melt it away. The gorge is densely timbered with spruce, which with it's northwesterly expo- sure and almost perpendicular mountain side ettectually screens it from the suns rays. It is of easy access, and near the highway leading from this place to East about two miles distant. Pic 1lc parties from abroad frequently come lere during the summer. The lofty ridge >f the mountain is nearly or quite inacces- 'ible to man. The sides are covered with ! dense growth of spruce, which grows nore and more dwartish as it hears the ton 1ntil vegetation entirely ceases, and bare 'ugged rocks present themselves, which Ire now covered with ice and snow, pre- enting wierd and desolate appearance. am told that fox once sealed this inaG- ;essible ridge to escape frcm the hound hat was in pursuit. It is said that ice can 's obtained several years old by cutting town through successive layers. Each years freezing can be seen by the coating >f fallen leaves, which are covered ly the 1ext winters flow. M-x.
 Walinford, Vt. March 9th, 1874.
 Funeral of 1H'. BurraM The funeral ,f the Hon. Wm. P. Burrall was largely attended in Hart ford Thursday of las, week.
 The directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.,, of which MT. Burrall was vice president, left New York on the morning of the 9th inst in one of their beautiful saloon cars, to al end the funeral of their late associate at taking with them some other friends of the deceased. The car Clover 1or IngersolD was appropriately draped and within, and with it's elegant exterior must have presented an attractive appearance, even while it's sombre trap pings indicated its melancholy mission, as t passed over that route which had been | 10 long familiar to the deceased in the days ,f his activity. The same company, wish ng still. further to testify their regard for | heir late associate, rendered the use of the | palace saloon car, (the Gov. Holley, to the Conn. Western R. R. Co. for the family's | ,se. But appreciating the fact that most | my unnecessary display was never conge- lial to the taste of Mir. Burrall, they ac- ,epted in the place of it one of the ordi- lary passenger cars so kindly offered by
 Among those present at the funeral were he Hon. Governeur Morris of Morrisania \. L. Brigham, general ticket agent of the consolidated road in New York; Wm. E. Barnett, private secretary of President Bishop; Superintendent John T. Moody, md MT. D. s. Draper, vice president of he Housatonic road; John T. Shelton, reasurer of the consolidated road; Geo. W. Beach, superintendent, and Horace Nichols, treasurer of the Naugatuck rail- cad; c. K. Averill, treasurer, II. W. superintendent, and H. c. Cogs- we'll, general agent of the Housatonic rail- oad; Judge Granger of North Canaan x,Gov. Holley of Salisbury; ex-Gov. Zomhlo of New York the Hon E R