Connecticut western news., 1874-11-13

brought into our office last Friday. It was
 ''stur ner," but having mislaid the paper
 containing the figures, and the owner hay
 ing taken the ''animal" away with him, we
 can't give the exact size. But here come
 three from Mr. M c. Dean of Falls Village,
 one of which measured 26 inches long and | the other two A inches; their weight being about six pounds each. Large as these beets are, they are infinitesimally small in com
 parison with the beat Essex presented to Ben Butler last week Tuesday.
 In Trouble.-Mr. John A. McArthur, of this village, IS in trouble. Somebody en- tered lis premises the other day ana stole a
 pair of boots. Mir. McA. says he could
 manage to get along with the loss of one
 pair of boots, but the scamp took one of a
 pair of coarse boots and one of pair of
 fine ones, and while wearing the mis
 matched pair thus left behind, he is tor
 mented with the constantly conflicting i'm
 presslons, as he looks first at one boot and
 then at the other, that one side of him is
 ''dressed up" and he is on his way to church,
 a circus, Fourth of July or some other cele-
 bration, while the other has started on its
 regular aud legitimate business of persuad-
 ing uneasy labocrs of the folly of rebelling
 against a well ordered management. He
 thinks if there IS any truth in the old adage:
 "Honor among thieves," the rascal will
 come back and trade even with him. MT.
 McA. will not be exactlng about it, and the
 thief may have whichever pair he wants, if
 he'll only trade.
 That Red sip.-Our mailing clerk has
 finally got mad; yes, mad as cross-cn saw. He has written In large letters on 8
 huge blackboard near his department in the office the names of some of our sub
 scribers, who are a year or two behind in
 thelr payments of subscriptions, so as to re- : mind him, while mailing papers, to paste across those sent to them the large red strip. on which IS printed in large type
 PLEASE PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION!
 LOOK AT YOUR DATE AND SEE HOW FAR t YOU ARE BEHIND!" And do,you blame him [ t He seems to think that our delinquent sub- g scribers are perhaps honest enough, and, if :, they could once be reminded of the fact @ that they are so far behind. would pay up y at once, and he has determined to paste IT these strips on their papers till the matter
 is brought properly before them, Eff il takes all summer" to do it. When mar o gets two years in arrears for his paper, we
 think it neighborly kindness to him. to :, allow our mailer to carry out his plan 0'ad |, tntor1a hiDe of the fact. and every paper
 sent to him, hereafter, will have strir n pasted on it, ttll it is paid up. There may
 be some, however. who are far behind, and
 on whose papers he will not paste the sliE E at present, hut as he is working up tho n csse," he will get to their names before c many weeks; but we hope this ''word to tn, e wise" will prove sufficient, and that theJ n will 'even up" before he gets chance a a them. H-tt Telegraph Messages. virtue of
 message by telegraph depends almost in
 variably upon it's being transmitted Gt onoe ], and if the whole number in the United e States which every year are rendered oe nt Il value whatever, by tardy transmission, wa known to the world outside of telegraph ], dom, it would probably deyelope percentag ?, of loss to the patrons of the wires, tha IS would astonlsh 'even the very elect" l n frequently occurs that a message, if sen Id inside of an hour after its receipt at al
 office, will be valuable to the sender, but t v be delayed an hour and half wouli rende l. It "better to have never been born," and If would seem that on lines doing only sma n amount of business, at any time, messag .n might be got off without serious delay; bu re too frequently it is the case that it canno ,n be, and in fact so frequently, that patro re has no assurance of any benefit or satisfst IT, ton for the money he pays for the trani
 mission of a message, after he deposits
 in an office. If operators are conversin H. over the line, their chat must be complete ne before they are to be disturbed; or, if on H. station is sending 8 report of their day ne work to another, as for instance betwee ;" West Winsted and Winsted. they ought nc t. to be broken, even if they do require tn 1T exclusive use of the wire for an hour { E. complete their report, which, in fact, bo u could carry on foot, travelling the whol !" distance between the offices in ten minute
 time, and nothing can be done but sit wit D. folded hands and wait till the hour, whic %, may be of vital importance to your messag' od is consumed, and, if finally transmitted, to he late to be of any service, save to the tell rt- graph company, who would receive the to pay for it. It is not our purpose here he suggest a remedy, as that is not in our lir be of business; but that better state of thing ds should be brought about in this matte lis there is not question. Is the fault wit ng the offices in the larger places9 Is it b all cause they find it beneath their dignity el, condcscend to notice ''call' from one by the smaller offices? Or is it because Il
 operators of some of the smaller offices al of not sufficiently posted to get the line fro ite those, whose business is of little or no COT ,ot sequence, for that which they may have ( ,il- greater moment?
 Canaan's Ghost.-FRIEND PEAsR: A gho %n story has been circulating here for the pa "e two weeks, and with so much of the i Ae' credible, that l have taken some pains inform myself of the truth of the matte ', and would give for the benefit of your re, "i ders the following facts, which are vouch, 'N for as true It appear that one night, abo Ae two weeks since, two young men, accon ' panied by lady, returned from Lakeyil ~ on the evening train and stopped off .., n' Foley's Station, and, taking the main ro ''n to Wetague, at d pair of bars, on the sou