Connecticut western news., 1874-03-27

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 State Senator.-Charles Edwards 0
 Kent was nominated by the democrats fo
 state senator at the convention in Fall
 Village, last Tuesday.
 Sharon News.-Extra copies of I'll
 NEWS, which have been heretofore obtained
 of Gager Brothers in Sharon, can be found
 at the post-ofice in that village in the stor,
 of MT. E. F. Gillette.
 New Type. We have purchased rev
 type to be used for side headings to item
 in the Home News columns, which we
 think Is much heater and plalner than tn.
 italic we have heretofore used for this Dur
 pose. It appears for the first time thu
 week.
 The Egg season.-The season of tn,
 year for immense eggs-stories has arrived
 and is very appropriately opened by Car
 penter Raynsford of this place. He says
 he has hen that laid an egg the other day
 which measured 5-8x6 -1-5 inches, and
 which is just 5sths of an inch bigger than
 the hen. Raynsford never told lie, so oi
 course this little egg story is very nice.
 Trial Trip.-Locomotive No l3, known
 as Great Burlington, went out of the Hous.
 atomic Repair Shops at Falls Village last
 Monday. This engine has been thor.
 oughly overhauled and repaired, and with Artist Mundry's most excellent likeness of Chauncey's two hundred and one pound poodle dog on both sides of the tender. Engineer P. Bronson, one of the veteran engineer of the road, has no just cause to be ashamed of his charge.
 Broke His Leg.-Dr. A. A. Wright of North Canaan, when attending on pa- tient at East Canaan, Tuesday night of last week, broke his leg by falling through a trap door in the floor of back entry of the house he was visiting. The Doctor was passing through this back entry to look to his horse moment, and having no light, stepped into the trap door, which was carelessly left open, and which in the dark ness it was impossible to see. Both bones of his right leg are broken below the knee,
 The Thomas Orchestra.--Another larpe delegation of Western Connecticut visited Winsted last Monday evening to attend the concert given in the Opera House there bv the Theodore Thomas orchestra. Althoroh the turn out from this region on the occa- sion of Beecher's lecture was large, there was much larger number last Monday The performance of the boouet | of sixty artists was conceded by all with whom we conversed as by far much finer nan anything of the kind that ever before visited Litchfield county. To be sure if vas not on scale to command ones soul o rise within him and assert it's right to an expression in the form of tears 't joy, like the Peace Jubilee, where not 'nly musical instruments of every imagina- 'le kind in unlimited numbers were en- 'loyed, but such rude instruments as bells rtlliery and anvils were made to sing in he most perfect unison and accord with ne rest; and although, as we say above. his Thomas Orchestra lacked in numbers. nd the introduction of the bells, anyils, 5c., It was indeed an agreeable reminder I that grandest of all musical festivals of hree years ago, and was altogether an en- ertalnment worthy the efforts of the good eople of Winsted, who seem to spare no aims in providing for the amusement and lstruction of the people of the county,i in leir new and elegant Opera House.
 Foreign Art Gallery.-Ex-Gov. Hollev Tho has been spending some time in New ,ork city, sends us the following very:in- sresting account of his visit to the Foreign tallery of Art in that city: HhAHND EASE. 1ne nearest approach ave seen to foreign art gallery is now to e found at No. 12S West 14th street, in lew York. This museum of art is called 1e Cesnola collection, and the principal ( orelgn articles on exhibition are from the 'land of Cyprus, and were exhumed from t lore than 5000 tombs, between the years I S66 and 1873. They consist of some of { ne first known works of Phenician art. { I'd form the finest extant collection of f Freek glass, pottery, terra scetta vases. 1 o!ns, statues, inscriptions, bronzes. jew ' Try, bas-re!iets. &c., to be found in Amer g a. In addition to these unique, and in j 'any instances really splendid specimens C art, most of them buried many centu- 8 es before Christ, there are galleries of r aintings, both ancient and modern, which V would compensate one to examine for r ours, and even days. The whole co]lec r on is far more extensive in works of for t gn art than l supposed could be found in e is country. The expenditure of one Ii larter of dollar will admit one to an ii ,hibitlon of life (so far as dumb statues. e 'plements. inscriptions, &c., can instruct a r thousand years before the Christian a a.. l would advise every intelligent u merican who cannot conveniently cross n e ocean, to visit this collection, and es- c, cially young gentlemen and ladies, who g, 'uld acquire more satisfactory knowl- M ge of ancient art than they would by fs nply reading for months. This General o, snola is an Italian nobleman by birth ce IS soldier in the Italian Revolution of se IS; general in our war of 1865, and in in S6 uoo onoo;n%ol a..r ~ ~