Litchfield enquirer., 1874-08-06

A NEW RAILROAD.-Springfe having voted to subscribe $l50, 900 to tine Spring 1ieid and Lonsmeadow Railroad, the con- structiOn of that enterprise and it's Con- ! nectlcut connections is considered secure For the seven miles ill Massachusetts,
 there arc these $15O, ,OOO; and MT. Phelps,
 Jr., says that $50,0OO moro will be sub scribed by private parties, making up | 22O0, ,000, which is all that IS necessary to
 complete that seven miles. In Connecti-
 cut, there arc nineteen miles to be built,
 from the Massachusetts border to the | junction of tho Fishkill Railroad in East l Hartford, and also six and half miles of l branch road to make the New London con- l nection, by way of Vernon and Rockville. l For the building of these, Ellington has
 subscribed $35, 5,COO, Vernon O,OOO, and East Windsor GO,O0O, as towns, while
 $55, ,000 arc subscribed by private parties
 in East Windsor, $50, 900 by private par
 ties in South Windsor, and $33, 900 by
 private parties ill Massachusetts s-making
 in all little under $3OO,O 1000, or only
 about $12,0OO per mile. The balance
 needed, or about as much more, is ex- pected to be obtained by mortgage bonds. | If the $50, GOO additional private subscrip- | tiOns arc obtained for the portion of the l road in Massachusetts, it will not be nec- essary to mortgage this section of the line; any way 1t cannot be mortgaged 1 without the consent of tho city govern
 ment of Springfield, which, however, that government being at present branch of l the Phelps family, may be expected to be | easily obtained. The work IS expected
 to be commenced this fall, and will be fin ished and the road opened early next sum- | mer. The New London branch connec- | tion will be built in good faith, indeed. it | must be to secure tho Ellington and Yer | non subscriptions; and though SaybroOk | will represent the main line, an equally ! fair chance is promised to tho New Lon i don business NIT. Phelps looks forward
 to tho time when all these roads, which ho represents or is connected with, will be
 consolidated. making one company from l Athol, i'll Massachusetts, by tho way of l Springfield and TMrtford, to Saybrook, in
 Connecticut. ut.-'Sprin9tield RcpuGlican. l PRIVATE DRINKING IN ENGLAND.-The
 report of tho Justices of the city of Man
 chester at tho conclusion of the general
 annual licensing meeting last year, is
 among tho papers recently laid before
 Parliament. In this report tho Magis-
 trates say: '1n consequence of the great
 increase taking place in tho so-called gro-
 cers' licenses, and which tends to the in l crease of private drinking, it is impossi-
 ble to judge how far the drunken cases
 brought before tho Justices are the result
 of public or private drinking. and as the
 system extends tho difficulty will be in-
 creased. It appears from the Chief Con
 stables return that out of 6,61S persons
 apprehended and taken before the Magis-
 trates and charged with drunkennesssin l bn to1,' 5o1% A T..I no less than 1879 were persons appre- hended between F o'clock at night and 6 o'clock ill the morning, and the inference
 is that most of these cases were caused by private drinking, as all houses for the sale of Intoxicating liquors, to be consumed on
 the premises, were closed at II o'clock at night"
 George P. Warner has at last fully de- cided to replace his button factories at
 Leeds, which were washed away by the Mill river flood, and will rebuild on the site of the former mills, instead of Cook dam as was contemplated at one time.
 Mir. Warner asks for loan of $20. 900 for
 a term of years, at six per cent interest, | or that stock to that amount shall be sub
 scribed, and his request will probably be
 acceded to by Northampton capitalists It is stated that about fifteen citizens of Northampton agreed to loan Hayden, | Gere < Go. $1OO, 1000 for term of years,
 to assist them in rebuilding their brass
 works at Haydenville, while the New Ha-
 ven and Northampton Railroad Company
 will pay land damages and furnish and lay the rails and ties for the branch track
 from the main road to the proposed new
 mills. Work has been begun upon the
 mills.