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Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
Sheffield.

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 Improvements continue in this usually quiet place......The inhabitants have So many visits from stragglers, claiming to have no homes, that it is thought necessary to put up hotel for their accommodation. with supplies sufficient provided, to keep them from starving and freezing. It is thought that the poorer the fare they are obliged to take up with, the fewer appli- cants there will be......Two or three weeks since rumor went the rounds, that a new doctor of great skill was practicing here, had partly bought house and was making arrangements to start a hospital on large scale but this week we can only say that he has suddenly disappeared, and the same vacancy is here that was before he placed himself in our midst. %. Our worthy depot agent. MT. Gardner, has left Sheffield and gone to Pittsfeld, to jail-not as criminal however, but to turn the key Oh those who are criminals. A man from Canaan takes his place in the depot here. ..... Henry Can held, for many years a salesman for Bos- ton firm, has hired to company in New York, to do the same business at larger salary ......A young man came to town on Thursday night, week or two since, and made stopping place at the Rev. Mason Noble's. where he purposes making long visit. Weight 10 lbs. Congratulations.
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EllSWOrth.

News of late has been scarcer than chest. nuts. By the way, when family of five persons marches to market Monday morn ing with each bushel of chestnuts, after having sold out clean Saturday night, isn't it rather suggestive of-of-well-fami devotions held in the grove on Sunday ?- You bet! ED. ......Mr. Berry's team ran away one day last week, throwing himself, wife and another lady from the carriage, and injuring them slightly. The horses ran about two miles and shook up things generally, but no very serious damage re- sulted......Mr. H. Dunbar has just enlarged his already spacious dwelling. It is now one of the most convenient and extensive in the village......We have one man here who has nice crop of buckwheat rotting on the ground. Cause why? he "didn't seem to get around to harvest it." MT. c F. Peck raised twenty-four bushels of potatoes on one twelfth of an acre of ground...... .Messrs. Conover and Studley are making it lively among the cider sp- ples.. ......Several interesting events expected to come off shortly. We will report in due tlme......Oh we came near forgetting the eclipse which came around this way and found us watching, minus moon, in the ''wee sma' hours. ," QUAD.
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HWMtSVilles

Huntsville.
 MR. EDITOR Fl have read with great in terest your most excellent paper, but find nothing said of Huntsville. Allow me to inform your readers that there is such 8 place as Huntsville, whose inhabitants are full of enterprise, and do some things in this world of labor and business worthy of notice, as well as some other things. Per haps some of us fail to get to church as often as the people of some other villages, and the reason may be because we cannot spare the time, and may be that is not the reason. At any rate, we have before now heard something about "where the treasure is, there will the heart be also." The corn and potato crops are far better than we had expected they would be, and with butter at 40 cents pound, the dairy men netd not complain, unless it be at the rapid failure of the fall feed......The lecture in our school house not long since, by MT. Robert Rogers, on temperance, was lis tened to with much attention, and think some good resulted from it. MT. Rogers is member of the M. E. Church, in Falls Village, also member of the Good Tenn. plars order in that village. The story of MT. Rogers previous life, up to within a year or two, as told by himself will con vince anybody that he was lifted from the filthy gutter to the position of honor and responsibility which he now occupies, and will also convince all that the way of the transgressor, who pays the price of rum by the sacrifice of body, soul and everything worth living for in this world, is as hard as the way Of the transgressor in any other direction. May he be rewarded with abun- dant success in his noble effort to do good to others, whom. he sees in danger akin to that which dragged him into the gutter, ls the wish of an OLD CITIZEN.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
Ressemler Steel.

We perceive by an extract from Lon don Times that MT. A. l.. Holley, of New York, in reading paper before our Asso- citation of English Engineers, has given quite an extended account of the methods of manufacturing steel rails from the Bes- semer steel in this country. We make single extract from this pa per to show the facilities for making such rails here. One establishment only is se lected for illustration, that of the Edgar Thomson mill, at Plttsburg, Pa. This mill is 46O feet long by 100 feet wide, and has an iron framed roof carried on iron col umns. The capacity of the mill is 20C tons per day. After detailing more fully the processes the extract continues thus
 ''1n conclusion, Mir. Holley gave some interesting particulars of American rolling mill practice. Ingots are changed hot from the moulds to the relocating furnaces. A blooming train, fitted with Fritz's power feeding tables, rolis the product of pair ot 5-ton Bessemer converters-viz., l50 tons per 24 hours; but such a train has rolled al the rate of 300 tons per day. The time ot rolling Ain. ingot to a Tin. bloom, in le to IS passes, is from l-2 to minutes and the work is done by two men and | boy. The product of single train of Tai rolls, when there is sufficient heating capa- city, is 200 tons per day. Some mills have averaged more than this, on iron rails. A Gin. to Tin. bloom is rolled into 65lb. rail oy l3 to l5 passes, in l l2 to 34 min utes. The speed of blooming rolls is 40 to 45 revolutions; of rail rolls. 75 to 80. Int fuel for gas furnaces is about 40Olb. pei ton of product tor each re-heat; and the saving of oxidation is per cent. on iroL and somewhat less on steel. The most i'm portant improvement now wanted is mach lnery for handling the bars by steam power at the rail mills, where bars are rolled 6O feet long. The paper was well received, and in the discussion which followed, ilf reading, testimony was borne by severa members to the excellence of American practice in rolling mills."
 It is stated elsewhere that the Bessemel process has been improved upon 80 much m this country that there are no mills in England that can turn out as many tons oi rails per day from given number ot heat CTS and rolls, as is done in several mills in America.
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The Boston Clothing Stores.

Everybody has heard much of what are known in all parts of the country as sBos- ton Clothing Stores." yet comparatively very few indeed know anything of their origin, or of the manner in which tn ey are conducted, We clip from an exchange the following concerning them:
 Jordan, Clark & Co.,, of Boston, are rep resented by twenty-two large Boston Clothing Stores," situated in the principal cities of the United States. including Al bany, Chicago, Troy, St. Louis, Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Toledo, and other large and hourishing places. The grand manufacturing and distributing depot is at Boston, where Jordan, Clark 6 Co.,, in ad- dition to supplying their numerous retail branches, do an immense business as manu featuring jobbers.
 There can be DO doubt whatever that the firm above named is engaged in the most gigantic retail enterprise ever established in any country, and it must have required un- bounded faith in human nature to en- courage a firm to inaugurate programme which involves such widespread distribu- tion of an immense capital. --,. ... ..
 The origin of this grand chain of stores dates back only eight years. The sudden popularity which the Boston Clothing Stores" have attained is, no doubt, in great measure due to the lone price 3 sys- tenn, which distinguishes their operations The charge is uniform all over the country. The prices of the Boston goods are ticketed upon them at tho manufactory, and the suite of clothes that costs $I0 in the '.Bos- ton Clothing Store" in Albany, will be
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
Falls Village.

Our citizens are making some improve ments, which adds quite little to the looks of our village. MT. U. H. Miner is repair ing his store and sheds, and proposes to have his buildings kept in shape. Landlord Dudley and G. w. Hall have been treating their houses 10 coat of paint. The new residence of E. w. Spur and w. J. Can field are being rapidly ompleted and are in the hands of skilled painters, who will make them pleasant and attractive. Mir. J. A. Decker has built new blacksmith shop near what is known as the sand bank, and is ready for business. We trust our village is not only undergoing temporal improve ments, but IS also being improved morally. Notwithstanding Falls Village has borne a hard name in the years that have passed and has been charged, and perhaps justly too, as being the most incorporate and most degraded town of any of it's size in Christendom, she is so far reclaimed, that it may be we'll for the ''banner temperance towns" to look to their laurels. The license question WAS again voted upon by ballot at the October meeting, and notwithstanding every wire was pulled to procure license. she came out from the conflict of the day crowned with temperance victory, having for the second time said that to permit men to deal out death, for one hundred dollars year, was a wrong that her conscience compelled her to discountenance, a crime with which she would not be disgraced, a legislative liberty which she emphatically condemned. A large share of this success must be credited to the Good Templars, who have labored diligently since the or ganization of their society. A prohibition ticket. introduced at the aforesaid meeting. was east by forty as good men as North western Connecticut affords. Our good natured jeweler MT. G. V. Capron, like most other industrious men, occasion ally needs a little respite, and few days since as he was indulging his wearied self in a little outdoor sport, having with him a dog and gun-got strayed off onto the Cobble, in South Canaan, where his dog picked a muss with varmint which seemed to be rather of a disagreeable animal to have any unpleasantness with, and accordingly tested his skill as marksman upon it, and found it to be twenty-four pound wild cat.
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Cornwall Bridge.

Monday afternoon as MT. Lemuel Berry, of Ellsworth, was coming down the hill beyond MT. Bonney's shop, the king bolt to the carriage broke, leaving the occupants and part of the carriage, while the horses with the forward wheels ran down into the village, jumped the fence into Dr. Heady's yard, through the yard, and over the fence into the road on the other side, through the bridge and part way up Ellsworth bill before stopping. No one was seriously hurt......On Thursday evening, a horse, being tired of standing in front of one of the saloons, started, as was supposed, for home, but through some mistake got upset in the neighborhood of Mir. Sturges hog pen, where he was found next morning. ... The Cornwall Bridge Iron Company ship ped twenty bushels of chestnuts last week. They seem to be very plenty this year,. The M. E. Society are holding meetings in the store house near the depot. while their church is being repaired. They have it fixed up so that it looks quite like church side......Coon hunting seems to be ln order these moonlight nights. Some of the young men were out about two hours Saturday night and caught quite fine one, weighing fourteen pounds. C.H.J.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
North GOShells

All quiet along the line. Items few and far between......Lyman Hall recently sold out the last of a drove of cattle numbering over 400, which were driven out here from St. Lawrence Co.,, N. Y......John Barton, of Goshen Center will teach in the school opposite the II. B. Church, instead of Miss Ida Geer, as incorrectly reported last week. The term begins on Monday next. ......The South Norfolk School Will open about the first of December....12 cans of milk are sent daily from this neighborhood 05a Conn. Western R. R. and the number will soon be increased. ...... Hiram Apley had his shoulder injured by fall from an apple tree not long since......C .Chestnuts are to be found in abundance. Several bushels were gathered during the fine weather of last week. Your reporter, with an eye to the future, has already laid by plentiful supply for the winter evenings. AL.
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found duplicated, at the same price, in the corresponding establishment ln Chicago.
 Each store is under the charge of a super intendent, who is personally responsible for all goods sent, at the prices marked. If be undersells this price, he loses to the amour, abated
 The extensive manufacturing operations of Jordan, Clark & Go. are not confined to merely cutting and putting together the goods, as they have controlling interest in two large eastern woolen mills, Tn which great portion of the raw material Is made. Some idea of the capital of this firm may be inferred from the fact that all their raw material is purchased for cash.
 The goods are sold at prices varying from $S to $40 for sn entire suit. The cheap goods are cut as fashionable as the best, as the head cutter in Boston, who receives a salary of 1000 year, knows no difference in quality.
 In this connection it may suffice to point moral, to say that Jordan, Clark 6 Co.,, and their representatives. are among the most liberal advertisers in the country, and attribute much of their success to that fact.
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Sheffield No. 2.

Sheffield No. 9.
 We wish that these beautiful Indian Summer days might last forever, for we can appreciate best the warm days when they are about to depart. Everybody is driving out lately to enjoy our good roads and beautiful scenery. Even the black smith, who has inhabited the plain for nearly fifty years, was tempted from his anvil the other day by the pleasant weather and actually journeyed to Ashley Falls. this being the first time tbis gentleman ever saw the village of Ashley Falls. We think it worthy of mention. This is what he says, so it must be true. Though decided lY home body we can speak for MT. G. that he attends strictly to his business and is an example of industry and perseverance. .... MT. Toles lecture in the Congregational Church was well appreciated and the sing ing of the Little Wanderers much praised. ......The Friendly Union proves success as usual, and Sheffield can now boast of library of about 400 volumes. besides our church library. Dr. Dewey is expected to deliver the. lecture before the Union this week, and no doubt it will be flne Iris whispered abroad that Nelson Gardner is going to jail. Yes, and it's true too! The question is often asked what he has done to deserve such confinement, but no satis factory reply has yet been made. We hesr it said that he is'to be Turnkey there, and hope he may behave while in Jail with as much propriety as he has ever done in Sheffield. MT. Gray succeeds MT Gardner as station agent here. ..... There is pros- pect of our having lookup in Sheffield for the accommodation of the tramps who frequent the place much to the annoyance of every one. We hope the building will soon be erected......A sermon was preached by one of our Reverends on Sunday last who spoke particularly on the sin of sloth- fitness, and he pictured tue slothful man so plainly that some saw their own likeness and one who owns a fine residence in the village, also much neglected place just little out, was seen before sundown that very day propping up his decaying barn doors and tumbling fences at the home stead. This place was once one of the best kept in town, now it is an emblem of decay and ruin. That sermon was good l one. Give us another. We all need re- newing spiritually, for laziness is com mon sin......Some repairs are talked about at the M. B. Church, and it is hoped the | winter may not find them undone......A l lecture is advertised to be given by the re- nowned Father Beeson in the Town Hall. | Tuesday evening. We trust the audience will be large, as many will be interested to hear the news from Captain Jacks wid- ow,' for this lecturer halls from the region | where the poor Indians murdered so many whites not long ago, and he comes here to speak in behalf of the persecuted Indsons. | ...... There was wedding the other night at the parsonage and the 'Joe' of the viii age was united Tn matrlmony to Frances Lampman. Joe's days of southern slavery | are over, but he is to try another kind now.
 DAVID.
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CRMa0ns
 On the l7th a man came to Canaan De pot, representing himself as a travelling agent for firm in Boston, and, after call
 ing at the stores here, hired horse and wagon of MT. Bradley, at the Warner
 House, for two or three days, representing that he was collecting bills. and drove-as has since been found out-to Hillsdale and thence to Roundout and back to Hyde lark Ca distance of some 70 miles). in the short space of six hours. When he drove up to the public house of MT. Hill, in Hyde Park, the horse dropped dead in the har- ness. He then engaged man to bury the horse, and remained over night, saying he had owned the horse for some time and it had never before showed any sign of sick ness! In payment for his lodging he offered a new $2O bill, which aroused suspicion in the mind of MT. Hill, and he refused to accept it. He then said: 'sTake me to Poughkeepsie, where have a friend, and Twill make it all right" This was done and when he reached the city, he, under the excuse of looking up his friend, escaped from MT. Hill, who secured an officer and followed after him some distance, but he succeeded in making good his escape.
 When he left Canaan and crossed the Con necticut Railroad, another man was seen to get in the wagon with him, and at Pough- keepsie the same man with package in his hand was seen with him. The supposi
 tion is that they were of the company who broke the bank short time since at Mil ford. N. H. He is described as having a wen on the right side of the neck and hay ing large scar under the ear. Mir. Bradley received his harness and wagon Monday. The horse was good roadster and valued at about $2OO Surely we need lock-up for such travelling thieves in this place. Work has commenced in repairing the bridge on the new road over the Blackberry River. just south of Canaan depot. a. Two new bridges have been built in the Rood district. Mir. Cornish Rood came near meeting with an accident in driving over one, while it was under repair. The bridge gave way, and himself and team were thrown into the water, but all escaped with no harm. Mr. Knickerbocker is adding to the shed at his lumber yard. .... The con. cert of the children from the ssHome of the Little Wanderers" was a success. They will find welcome again among the hospi- table people of this place. C.. 4
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ShRrOms


 It is not very difficult matter to write an article if one has something to write about, but ordinarily there is so little that transpires in this quiet village worthy of record that your correspondent not having the happy genius of making something out of nothing finds himself utterly unable to make weekly contribution. The princi- pie event of the week is to be the celebra- tion of the fiftieth anniversary of the mar riage of the Hon. z. Bissell, of Sharon Valley, on Tuesday evening. About three hundred invitations have been sent out, and judging from his wide spread popular ity as politician, and from the respect and esteem in which he is held by his numerous friends, large assemblsge may be expected. book club has been formed here on somewhat novel but very sensible plan. Twenty-three ladies com pose the club, each pays two dollars into the treasury, and with the sum thus real ized the president selects and purchases twenty books. A slip containing the names of the members of the clubis pasted on the cover of each book and they then are distributed one to each member. At the end of fifteen days they all pass the volume then in their hands to the member whose name appears next below their own on the printed list and so on around the circle until each member shall have read the twenty-three volumes, they are then to be disposed of as majority of the club shall think proper, and new lot obtained. In country villages where there are no pub lie libraries the plan affords very eco nomical way of obtaining a. large amount of reading matter. ALPHA.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
MAR REED.

At Kent, Oct. goth, Burritt Eaton Esq. to Miss Sophia Judd.
 At Kent, Oct. Fist, MT. - Whittlesey, of Pres ton to Miss Abby Straight, of Kent.
 At Kent, Oct. 22nd, the Rev. Mr. Jessup, of St. Andrews parish to Miss Blair.
 At Bethlehem, Ct., Oct 14th, at the residence of Lewis c. sherman by Rev Laine. Arthur D. War ner, Esq, of West Cornwall to Miss Julia J. Sher- man, of Bethlehem.
 At West Cornwall, Oct. 22d, by Rev. c. N. Fitch, at the residence of Mr. Sam'l Wilson, MT. Horace M. Wilson to Miss Sarah k. Gardiner, of New York City. [New York papers please copyl
 At Congregational Church in Lanesboro, on the evening of the 22d inst, by the Rev. J. Sturgis Pearce, Rector of St. Johns Church, Northampton, Mass, Mir J. Frank Hemming, of Salisbury, Ct, to Miss Mary Tower, youngest daughter of Hon. Justus Tower of Lanesboro.
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ClaytOms

Clayton
 Extra meetings have been held at Clay ton school house for the past two or three weeks, under the charge of the Rev. J. H. Lane, with very marked success. There is some hope yet of reformation in that border district, of which 30 much has been said on both sides of the state hne......Mr. Robert Taft, who has charge of the Clay worke has added another new dry house, also large barn and one new tenant house within . few months, beside improving several of the buildings formerly owned by the firn......Mr. Nelson has also built a new house, so there is some improvement going on even here. PENHoLDER.
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New MilfOrde

The silver wedding of Mir. and Mrs. H. s. Beeman, of New Preston, came off at
 this place, Oct. 18th, An elegan. supper
 was provided at the New England House, at which place the guests were also re- ceived, whilst the dancing took place at McMahon's Hall, and was continued into the small hours of morning. A large and expensive silver tray and tea set were among the numerous gifts... The base ball tournament which occurred last week seemed to draw together a good deal of muscle and some skill. Clubs from various parts of the county gathered to compete for the prize of a handsome bat with silver mountings and ball, which was offered to the club which should keep it's opponents down to the lowest score. Play con- menced on Tuesday, and Friday noon it appeared that the Mechanics of Lakeville and Pastimes of this place had made the best scores on record. ID the afternoon the two clubs played off for the prize which was won by the Mechanics. Saturday af- ternoon the T. B. of Bridgeport played an exhibition game with a nine picked from Mechanics and Pastimes and beat them 54 to 3. Three years ago we had 6 club here which practiced every week and played remarkably strong game and of course received good deal of encourage ment and support, but it was mostly broken up through the removal of some of its members and the interest in the game seems to have nearly died out. The Pas times have practiced very little if any this summer and can scarcely get out full nine for a matched game. Prosecutions have been commenced against ten of our liquor dealers. The trial commenced on Tuesdry and creates good deal of excite ment and talk. Will give result next week. c.