Connecticut western news., 1874-12-11

The Salisbury Mills. s.-Messrs Eagles
 ton & Selleck were annoyed somewhat at
 first by the non-aErival of some parts of
 their machinery for their grist and fourii z
 mill on Washinee St., and was not ready
 for their custom quite as soon as it came
 upon them, but they are ready now, and
 have been for some little time, and are
 having already 8 large run of business
 much custom coming from distance
 from away over in New York State, for
 instance, they get considerable business.
 They have every facility for doing the best possible work, and we are informed
 by people who have patronized them, that
 no better work can be obtained anywhere.
 Just now they seem to be giving especial
 attention to the manufacture of buckwheat
 flour. and if what they have already sent out to the world is fair specimen of what
 they propose to continue to make for buck
 wheat flour, they will work up a buslnt ss
 in that department alone, which, in the
 season of it, will require the fullest capac- ny oL luCll uaCuIuSS LO CACCulG. 4uCJ
 are also having remarkable success with
 grinding wheat flour, producing 8 quality
 not surpassed anywhere. A good mill of
 this character is a convenience the people will appreciate, and all have reason to re-
 joice that such men of means and enter , prise have this on Washinee street, as are ' Messrs Eggleston & Selleck.
 Winekwsrth i'm London.
 Familiar as am with all the notoricties of thls great city, if attempt to describe
 any of them at all, must be excused, if in so doing refrain from picturing any,
 but the most prominent. The Thames Embankment and the Holbcrn Viaduct are
 recent improvements, and only those ac- customed to seeing the city previously, can z form any estimate of their immense ad- vantage. The embankmcnt has entirely
 remodeled the river front, removing miles of tumble down wharves and landings, re-
 placing them with a solid granite water front. with splendid piers fer the different . steamboat companies doing away with = the dirty, narrow and crooked streets lead :, ing to the water, and substituting a well ; lighted, splendidly paved thoroughfare of ', over 100 feet wide, so changing the sp- ; pearanCe of the city from the river, that
 it would require but very little stretch ol ; the imagination, to fancy that the Geni
 of the Arabian Knights had been at work, ~ and suddenly carried off the worst part o1 ; ;, dirty, smoky old London, and substituted ~ palaces instead for the tearing down of the old rookeries. brought into view the splen did and more modern buildings of the
 Strand & Fleet Street.-as to Holborn Via
 duct, only those who have seen the greasy
 state of the paved road and sidewalks il
 damp, foggy, and frosty weather, of Hol D. born and snow hills can realize the i'm IS mense advantage accruing therefrom + Railroad travelisg has increased enormous g ly in seven years, the Metropolitan or Un ts derground Railroad does an immense bus Il mess. It has spread itself all over the city at with so many connections. that you c, d. go 10 nearly any part of the city under. rs ground, they have derots every eight O. y ten blocks and run trains every three min y utes, with the regularity of clockwork u obviating every chance of collision by no !" allowing any one train to pass depot un. til the proceeding train has passed the mex g depot, so that there is always sigual s,a IS tion between every train, yet notwith e standing all this underground travel, ther l. are just as many omnibusses, street cars e and hacks as ever; in fact London is grow g ing SO fast, absorbing every outlaying VII T. lage and what was a suburban neighbor o hood 25 years ago, Is now densely populat ted and has inherited all the dust, dirt. an le smoke of populous cities, Just imagine tn K parish in which live, contains 24O, GOO in IL habitants.
 u Having an hour or two to spare ,rotte T. into Westminster Abbey, one of the mos 'i- interesting buildings in the city, not onI h on account of it's antiquity, but becaus 'o some of the most ilus:rious men of th s. present day lie buried there, us I wandere It around its sacred precincts, found my III self standing in what is called Poet = Corner" and large marble slab at ID at feet covered the remains of Chas Dicken ee and those who have read his works wi n- acknowledge him worthy of such res tin 10 place, at any rate on account of his publ e' life. Immediately surrounding him are tl lA tombs of Handel, Shakespeare, Olive Golt ''S smith and many others of equal note, ca ns anyone of ordinary mind, whether he he y stranger or otherwise, be in such buildin e' as Westminster Abbey, see all the beautit u- of ;te Go,bic Arcb;t.ctnra ,bo ,.;,.o