Connecticut western news., 1874-05-15
More Weather Ta1k.-What canr;c;or

weather and Sunday hot as midsummer. tn mercury in thermometers in this villag climbing to ninety-two, and we seemed to b
 transported in one day from the frozen re
 gions of December to the intense, sultr'
 heat of August. May seldom has so mucl
 cold weather and snow, or such intens heat as has characterized the present mont : thus far.
 Washinee Street Grist MilI.-The gris mill on Washinee street, nnder the charg l of MT. J. R. Bggleston of Mt. Riga Sta tion, is being thoroughly overhauled ant repaired. It is stripped of all it's machin- cry above and below, till now there ii nothing left but the shell of the building
 and the process of reconstruction has con menced in good earnest. There is quite {
 gang of workmen there, and the repairs art
 to bein the most thorough order, and the
 machinery to be introduced, the very bes
 that can be obtained. To have such g
 grist mill in our village as this promises tc be, will be convenience of much import
 ance, not only to our citizens alone, but tc
 the people in the surrounding villages.
 Child Drowned.-Last Monday morn
 ing, the body of little boy eight years
 old, grandson of Wm. Stevens, was found
 near the Squire Deming place in the small
 stream that runs through Clayton, (East
 Sheffield) Mass, and known as the Konka.
 pot river. The child had wandered away
 from it's home the day before, Sunday, )
 and it is thought fell into the river that
 evening and was drowned, as some men
 who happened near the place at that time
 heard splashing in the water, and think
 ing the noise was made by some ducks
 they had seen there only short time be-
 fore, gave it no further thought, but when
 the body was found the next morning near
 where they heard the noise, they conclude
 1t must have been the poor little creature
 struggling in the water.
 Sheffield Sale of Real Estate.-Mr
 Cyrus French has purchased the house of John R. Briggs for the sum of BIC, GOO, and is soon to move into it with his family.
 MT. and Mrs. Briggs will board there for
 tune while the business at the quarry con- tinues. The Salisbury people will remem.
 Der MT. French as a former resident of Chapinyille. He IS now prospering mer- chant and we think dame fortune has been very favorable to him. as his freouent changes have seemed to better his con6i- ton in worldly point of view. We hope now that MT. F. has located himself 90 handsomely, he will find time to take look at his farm house which needs so many improvements The place known as the David Pratt place was once noted for it's neat and thrifty appearance, but is fast losing it's good reputation and now while we congratulate Friend French in the possession of one of the handsomest residences in the street, we would implore his attention to his former home and hone "A word to the wise may prove sufficient.
 X.
 The District Court-The may term of the District Court came in at Winchester on Tuesday of last week, and after trying three cases and Gefaulting five, adjourned Thursday noon, to meet at New Milford on the 18th of the month for the trial of the court eases which were left out from the April term, after which It will adjourn for the summer vacation, there being no term either in June or July. The only case tried possessing any amusing features was an ac- | ton between two colored gentlemen who were brothers, and was for the value of two old faxes and the helves therein ; and which was an appeal by the defendant from the decision of justice. The parties ap- peared with hosts of sympathizing friends. and witnesses who arrayed themselves up- on opposite sides of the court room, watch ing with eager interest the varying phases of the trial. One party attempted to im- peach the other, but failed, as it was not difficult to find men who had never heard the plaintiffs honor questioned. Judg- ment was rendered for the plaintiff for $2.50 and his cost.
 All Read This.-Reader; did you ever feel the stings of poverty9 Do you know the definition of the word famines We 10, and it you could see our bank account and the bills that stare at us like spectre. you would think an abode in the realms 'mitten with the scourge If famine, would De paradise in comparison with an exist ence here among these ''promises to pay. l" If you pay your bills promptly, and have paid for this paper you read, you are hap oy; most noble specimen of a human ex stence, and may the richest blessings of 5ods Providence be yours but if tn late on the little slip with your address 'eads 73, ClS7s) it is bad. If it reads 72. knowing that you have not paid for your paper since 1872, and are from one to two years in arrears, it is deplorable but If hat date is 7l. away back to 1871, what hall we say? These men who make it a point to not pay till compelled to, are the unfortunate class of our society; at least it unfortunate to have them amongst us. Our subscribers are not the only ones who are sometimes ''long winded." We have nu- nerous accounts for advertising and job work, which are so old, they too are get ing tough. Some of these must be paid 'etore many weeks, and when we say must, we mean to say we shall try to as- . certain whether they are collectlble. Vel. want money to pay our bills and maust .ove ft.
 Washinee Factory.-Last Wednesday l orenoon we took nasty look through the actory of the Washinee Woolen Co.,, on l street in this village, an6 found l Verybody about the works as busy as they 'ould make themselves. In the weaving { oom, seven of the fourteen looms i'll the