Connecticut western news., 1874-07-03

sic will be furnished for dancing.
 Restoring the Waste P1aoes.-D. J.. Warner, Esq, is employing workmen to re store the earth washed away from the lot in the rear of his house. The lot begins to look as of old.
 Patrick Lynch and assistants are busily engaged in making new bed for the water course back of his house. The soil re moved IS being carted on to his own premi - ses, thus covering up the stone and gravel in the rear of his house. Pat believes in making things look bright and fresh.
 By this change the creek will run several feet farther back than it did originally; and will be much straighter.
 The Syracuse Disaster.-On the night of the 23rd ult, while church festival was being held in the Central Baptist church of Syracuse, N. Y., at which about five hundred persons were present, the church parlor floor, forty feet square gave way, precipitating the throng fifteen feet amid broken beams and blanks, clouds of suffocating plaster and shattered furniture. Thirteen persons were killed outright and others will die. The number of wounded foots up to 133. The building, as usual in such cases, was lmperfectly constructed. The pastor, Rev. Geo. T. Bowling, and wife, went down with the rest, but they miraculously escaped with scarcely any bodily injury.
 A Model Fire Departmental would have afforded us much pleasure to have witnessed the Twenty First Annual Parade of the Norwich. N. Y., Fire Department, which came off with so much eclat, on Tuesday, June 23rd. The Chief Engineer, Rev. s. Scoville, formerly of Cornwall, ex- erts good influence among the members of the department, not only by his exam pie as a Christian minister, but by his mark ed executive ability. In his address to the members previous to the parade he gives tUo ao0rds of caution "One against drink ing intoxicating liquors-In view of all that has been done expect that no mem Der will bring reproach upon the depart ment by this indulgence"
 ''The other is against profanity-lt is an unmanly vice and entirely unworthy fire man. Let us have no more of it from any member while in the service."
 Noble sentiments these! Would that all similar and other organizations would em- brace the views of the Rev. Chief Engineer.
 Claverack College.-The commence ment exercises of this institution, under the presidence of Rev. A. Flack has just closed. It was my privilege to be present as a mem- Der of the visiting committed. The build ings of the institution are beautifully locat- ed in Claverack, Columbia county, about three miles from the city of Hudson; the presidents mansion is really a princely af fair. The examinations showed thorough ness on the part of the teachers and appli- cation on the part of the student. The class in moral philosophy attracted special attention. The military drill, reunion of the alumni, and public concert were deeply interesting. The students are taught self reliance, and that mental and moral cul- ture, combined in due proportions, are in dispensible as elements of a thorough edu- cation and well balanced character. The current of educational influence pouring out from this living fountain so pure and deep and wide, known not by rolling boul ders and noisy water falls, but by the belt of beauty, greenness and yerdure that may be seen along it's banks. Such school is great blessing, and such teacher public benefactor. W. 0. g.
 Falls Village, June 22nd, 1874.
 P. & E. R. R. and Hudson River Bridge We regret to learn that the Poughkeersie 6 Eastern railroad has been put in the hands of a receiver for the benefit of its creditors, &c- Its financial condition must be in a bad state. A New York paper states that the city of. Po'keepsie will lose $6OO,OOO, and that individuals must also lose large sums. The road is at present running under the charge of the receiver, ex-Judge Carpenter, and of course can have no immediate injurious effect upon the business of our Conn. Western road, with which it connects at the state line on the western border of this town. But we feal that in connection with the present condi- tion of financial affairs generally, it will tend to prolong the completion of the Hud son river bridge at Poughkeepsie, and that it will be long time before coal will be and elsewhere, direct by rail from Pennsyl vania mines without the expense, loss and delay of breaking bulk as it is termed, as was contemplated by the sproiectors of the bridge, and the construction of the Pough keepsie 6 Western railroad from the west ern terminus of the bridge to the Walkil valley, which extends by connections tc the coal mines, and in our view the only salvation for the road consists in the early completion of the bridge but this would call for an expenditure of money to bs counted by millions, and at the presen time the outlook is certainly dark one. A. B.
 The Widder Again.-DEER EDITOR. | u remember l writ few weeks ago re- lating to the advertisement by the Ken
 bachelor contained in ure paper. now take my pen in hand once more to let | kno that sense writ the former I have seen widder from Kent at Berton Gilbert's where she was doin some tradin, and may as well say here that it is the bes place to trade enywheres around, for he doos sell dredful cheep. Wall this widdel spoke very highly of the bachelor, and sec he had pade her Considerable atenshun d one time and mother; but sum things she sed l don't approve of, namely: his fond ness for nlavinp cards and 6ancinu I hoin1