Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11

be on fire last Monday morning, and up to l this writing "Wednesday evening" is still burning. It is said about hundred acres of wood and sprout land is already burnt over. Air Brakes.-Engineer Barton of the Conn. Western road says he k1aooos the Westinghouse air brake on his locomotive has paid for itself during the past year in the one item alone of cattle killing, he be- ing able in almost every instance to stop his train before running down cattle on the track, and which in most instances could not be done with the old way of applying brakes. He says the cost of keeping it in repair has not exceeded three or four dol lars during the year. The application of the brakes is instantaneous, and can be ef- fected by the little finger and with only slight effort on the part of that member at that.
 MT. Cleveland's Dam(n m(n)s.-Mr. F. F. Cleveland of Lakevllle tells us he has built stone dam at hls mill in that village; in length AS feet, and 12 feet at the base, feet at the top and 10 feet high, and has been only nS,ae days about it; and he says it wont leak and he knows it. This sounds like an inflated assertion; but as MT. c. | (like the editor of THE NEWS and George
 Washington and his hatchet, was never known to tell lie, of course it is all true; every word of it. Mir. c. says if people don't pay him what they owe him, so he can pay for the erection of this dam, he'll
 tinker up dam(n) for their especial bene- fit; and It wont take him nine days to do it, either!
 Another Barn Burned.-Last Tuesday
 forenoon, at little past nine o'clock, flames
 were discovered pouring out of the rcof of
 a barn off in the lots at some distance east
 of Mir. .:John L. Cooper's residence on Coop
 CT Hill. The barn belonged to Mir. Cooper,
 and was full of hay and gram, all of which
 was totally destroyed. A negro was sent
 to the barn to thresh, and being stung by } hornets, loaded a gun and attempted to
 shoot down their nest, which was suspend ed in the stables, when the fire from the
 gun ignited the hay Tn the barn, and all was
 destroyed. This loss is rendered aggravat- . ing by the fact that Mr. Cooper had all his buildings insured only the day before, er-
 cepts7g thts 6aam!
 The Way They Did It.-The Mechanic . B. B. Club of Lakeville has been indulging
 in friendly contest with the Mt. Everetts
 of Egremont Last Saturday the Everetts
 came to Lakeville and beat the Mechanics
 with tally of seventeen runs, while the l Mechanics got only twenty seven; and and Monday the Mechanics accepted an in- vitation to play the same club in Sheffield
 for the championship. The Everetts came
 to the scratch promptly and played splen.
 didly, being determined to Clay out" the
 Mechanics this time with a vengeance; to wallop them to within an inch of theil : lives &c., which they did with fourteen !. runs, while the Mechanics could get only }. forty mine runs in spite of all they could . do.
 " New Track in Winsted.-The route fol ' track that will be the exclusive property . of the Conn. Western road through the D station at Winsted, was surveyed by Sur :. veyor Skunk last week. It will go through where the engine house of the Naugatucl ' road now stands, and will be constructed a
 once. The Conn. Western road has beer e subjected in many instances to serious in j. convenience at being compelled to awai 2 hn rnnuinr nf No,1rak,,olx o. Il Il the track belonging to that company, ant T this new arrangement of having track 0 e their own constructed, will be greatly t' O O their advantage. A new union engip | house will soon be built in Winsted, havin, y six stalls, three for accommodation o e Conn. Western locomotives and three fo : those of the Naugatuck company.
 Burglary in Canaan.-W Wednesday of las e week some burglars broke into Mr. McIn
 tyres blacksmith shop in Canaan, ant s stealing what tools they needed for furthe s operation, proceeded to use them to burg if larize MT. s. c. Beckley's store and pos
 office. They succeeded in getting into tn
 cellar of the store, when they were hear, a by one of MT. B.'s clerks, Mir. St. John ' who forthwith proceeded to interview then e with couple of bullets from his revolver 'r when they executed ''masterly retreat,
 after which they stole MT. Bragg's hors d and F. Watson's buggy and harness, an n rode triumphantly out of town. The d were traced to Coleman's station, lust bt le low MilleIton, where they left the horse y buggy, &c., and going on foot to Sharo ,e Station, took the cars for new field of oI
 erations, wiser, if not richer, men.
 as New Way Mail..-A new way mail wa y put on the Housatonic road this week or which will take and receive the mails at a le stations on the road. This now makes tw a. malls every week day each way on ths l. road. The new service is carried south, o
 the milk train, leaving Pittsfeld at 2. 35 F ill M., and which passes Canaan at 43o, an as going north on the evening train leavin hs Bridgeport at 5. 10 P. M., passing Canaan [r. 8.09 P. M. MT. John H. Sweet, formerl nd of Lakeville but more recently from Nau, ye atuck, is one of the new route agents an yo Mir. Andrew A. Osborne of the Bridgepo
 office the other. This will be conver
 fence long peeded on that road and o1 A we hope to see ere long established on u "I . Conn. Western road. A mail on Condut VI tor Eggleston's train both ways wou , , prove to be paying service. @2 ed, Salisbury Town Han.-Our selectmt at- are unquestionably the most patisnttrio V
 ever saw. Some months since we allud,