Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31

Ball Playing.-This game is as general thing conducive to good health, and one that should be encouraged provided suita- ble spot is selected but when our Main street is daily taken up by crowd of boys and men for the purpose of indulging in ball playing it is time to enter protest. A is decidedly a poor ball ground horses are constantly belng fright ened, and life and limb are in danger. These individuals have been thus far only mildly rebuked. It is to be hoped that street ball playing will be discontinued in the future, thereby preventing the necsssi l. tY of taking legal measures for it's suppress sion. OBSERVER.
 Another Flood.-This time it is Pitts- burgh and Alleghany City, Pa., (which have suffered. On Sunday evening these cities were visited by terrible calamity in the shape of flood. It is held that the cause of the disaster was the bursting of water spout. The water descended in vast tor rents, and in the twinkling of an eye the streets were flooded. Hundreds of houses were swept away. and the loss of life is stated at between 100 and 200. The pecu- niary loss is estimated at $3,OOO,O ,OoO. Two immense black clouds heralded the ap- proach of the calamity. They met and poured their torrents upon the sister cities. Truly this is year of calamities!
 Our Legislature.-0u legislature has re- fused to grant the request of the selectmen of this town to abate our state tax for the year on account of the damage which the inhabitants of the town have sustained by the late deluge, but the same august legisla- ture passed an act giving $1O,OOO to the sufferers by like disaster in another state. We had supposed that charity began al home first, but we are now taught that oul charity must first begin in Massachusetts, and end there, &c.,, &c. If our records could show like those of Massachusetts, thai we had hung women and Quakers for witch craft, perhaps the wise Solons in our legis- lature would have granted our request.
 Does It Pay ?--Now that the college boat races at Saratoga are over, the simple question that comes to our mind IS Does Il pay?' Is the result attained worth the ex penditure of time and strength required, O. the strain upon health and morals which i | involves? Is the victory, when gained, { thing to be highly prized, and what is i worth? In what does it differ from thu victory gained by our prize fighter, or by one horse over another? Is it thing tC be proud of, or does it, in any particular contribute to the improvement of student Tn the subjects of their college course, O fit them to become wiser. more learned, O better men than those who do not engage
 in them? These are questions that ar
 worth pondering; and if they are ponderet faithfully and conscientiously, the answe that must be given will be that these youn
 gentlemen are paying too great price fo
 the whistle
 California Beef.-MR. EDITOR. lear
 from the Hartford CoatrGnt that H. A Botsford & Co., are causing the good pee
 pie of our now sole state capital to almos
 leap with joy by placing before ther
 slaughtered beef direct from California
 brought in refrigerator cars, ice packed
 tec., at the rate of two car loads per week
 and it is described as sweet, juicy and tel
 der; as much different fir om the beef C
 cattle which are slaughtered at the 'end C
 a starved and jolted journey, as saddle (
 venison is different from side of sol
 leather Henry A. Botsford, Esq, th
 head of that enterprising company, fe'
 years ago.was one of the respectable fe
 low citizens of this town, and High Sheri
 of our county; and notwithstanding he
 held in high esteem and respect by the pe'
 pie here, and who undoubtedly wish hil
 and his company success and large prof
 in this new undertaking, indeed it seems |
 the same paper that they have very stror , encouragement, and that many famili are now buying the California beef ar
 will have no other; that the call for it h.
 steadily increased since the first car los
 arrived, and that it is far superior to 'tl
 average beef they have had to wrestle vii
 in that city, Yet we very much dout
 indeed we will not now admit that o, worthy friend car bring beef from the Ps cific coast which is of a superior quality that of cattle fattened in his own nati
 town, Salisbury, and daily brought to O doors, though he may bring it packed in iceberg and with telegraph speed. But 3 we at present have but little beef to dispo , of here, beyond our own wants, we W :. not break friendship over the matter, on r just send us a good cut, Henry, and pc
 haps you may then convert us to the Cal
 fornia article. SUGAR HILL 2 New England Commercial Company. = A company with the above name has jr been incorporated by our legislature. T = incorporators named are Wm. H. Barnur f Oliver D. Seymour, James Otis, Elisha 8 Riu, John N. Goodwin, John R. Ball, Be e jamin Flint, I. H. Newton and R. T. M n son. The company is organized for t n purpose of doing business and opening u
 developed regions in China, Japan, Afri and elsewhere. The company is authc :, ized to purchase, sell, ship, transport a 1 deal in the goods, wares and merchand of those countries purchase, bold a . convey al! such real estate and property ;, the business may require, and may, un6 ,o ,o the authority of the governments of tho II countries, engage in public works necess ~e l ry to develop and increase the commel /, thereof, and to facilitate the commerce 1 ~ n tween them and the United State, and a that purpose may issue not exceeding
 amount two thirds of the cash capital, W