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Connecticut western news., 1874-12-25
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THOMAS STEELE & SoN. There is no question but that we are influenced and ed ucated tc a great degree by our surround ings, and we witness with delight the pro- gross our people are making in works of beauty and T. pgovement. The beautiful buildings which line our main streets. be- sides many new and tasteful residences in Hartford, show growth in culture. and the true spirit of refinement. This devel- opment of cultivated taste. and desire for Art in its purest and truest sense, has made demand for the sale of wares, not selected for their size or mere cost, so much as for perfection of form and as true copies of standard works of art. The day has come to this country when the jrweler is considered as one of the established helps to the advancement of this taste, and it is in this spirit that the firm of T. Steele & Son, of this city, understand their business. for one can hardly run through their hOl- day stock this season without not only feel ing as if the time WAS well spent, but as if on leaving the establishment they had gath cred that which in the future would make them to appreciate art in the highest sense
 This years stock we notice is richer than ever before, and among the many, the crowded space of our columns will not permit us to enumerate in detail. This firm during the past few years has import ed some of the largest and finest pieces of real classical bronze sta,uary ever offered at retail in this city. These copies of eel ebrated antique and m0dern siatuary are perfect reductions from the originals as found in Rome, Florence and Paris. On account of the extent of the stock this year an extra room has been open, d ever he store. where most of the imitation or low priced 5ronzes are kept.
 Since the establishing of the business by the senior partner in 1886, the house has grown to bt one of the institutions of Hart ford. while the development and exhibition of trout paintings of late by the younger MT. Steele will not detract from his ability 10 select goods in the best of taste-Hart- ford Eschange
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"How you do, Sallle; how you do? l nin't seed you in sch a time? How is you. nohow?" SaIlie graspipg the old darkey's hand and giving it cor lial shake, ." rse still kickiug, thank you, Uncle Tom, but 1 aint kicking high. How you getting on?' Uncle Tom, deliberately. "Well. Sallie, I'm still sticking together-in spots"
 There was great excitement at Stamford. Ct., Saturday. in cons. quence of the Shel- If calling out twenty-five miliatiamen to capture band oi robbers numbering seven persons-the family of one Jack Msckey, who have committed many dcpredstions for years. The woods were secured for hours but the thieves had fled.
 Douglass Jerrold says. in his '' Hedgehog Letters," that responsibility is all very well for folks who can have it for ready money; but 10 be obliged to run in debt for it, is enough to break the heart of an ar gel"
 A wag in "what he knows about farm ing" gives 8 very good plan to remove widows weeds. He says a good looking man has only to say "wit thou" and they wilt
 Warning-The young man who address cd young lady as ",he priestess of his sour' began life sa clAm-vender.
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sum of money, they voted it down two to one. Nevertheless another attempt is to be made. A citizens meeting was held in the basement of the Methodist church, Sat urday evening, and a committee was ap- pointed to solicit subscriptions from all in- terested in the matter, hoping that if a con siderable sum can be raised to defray the cost of 8 town building above the g., 500 above alluded to, the town would vote to furnish the balance $90O was raised on the spot, and thus the matter stands at the present writing. What the result will be cannot fortell, but thls much is certain, If the town ever expects to erect such building the present seems a very proper time to doi it.
 Since the above was written, the town hall agitation has been the cbief topic of interest, and the latest developments seem to indicate the entire success of the move ment. The citizens committee have thus far secured $l.2oO by private subscriptions and have confidence in their ability to raise 1t to $l, 800. They have also bargained for most eligible site in the center of the viii lage, on the land of Charles Prindle, and just north of his house, which will be paid for out of the citizens fund, and presented to the town with the balance of tho fund if the town shall vote to accept the same and build thereon suitable building for town purposes. Citizens of Sharon if you ex- pect to build town hall within the next century you cannot have more favorable opportunity than the present. You are obliged to erect a building for the probate records, at an estimated cost of $2 800, the enterprising citizens of this village and vii cinity have magnanimC usly come forward and are ready from their private purses to present the town with at least $l 200, and they expect to make It $l. 500 more, and All that is asked of you is $2,OOo extra, which in SO large and wealthy a town as Sharon will increase each indiyidual's tax by so small an amount that you will never feel it, and you will have town building that will be lasting monument to your wisdom and enterprise.
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WimckwOrth Ina London.
 wOOLwICH ARSENAL,
LONDON, Nov. 3Oth, 1874.

LONDON, Nov. 3Oth, 1874.
 Woolwich Arsenal, Is believe. the larg- est factory in England for war material. It is open for public inspection, by order from the War office two days week. It is five miles around the walls, and there are 1000 men by day and 5000 men by night, and judging from the crowding saw, there must be room for 10000 more. There is also an IS inch narrow gauge railway laid in every direction, worked by locomotives that had been out in the Ashantee war. On entering the shops, the first machine that you notice is for making rifle bullets. The lead is fed to the machine from drum in long coil, solid like wire, and the bullets drop from the machine at the rate of about 100 per minute. The Snyder bullet re- quires three machines to perfect it, whereas the Martini requires but one. This last mentioned is the weapon with which the army is now being equipped, it requires but four movements to load and fire, and it is possible to fire 35 shots per minute. The furnaces are ftted with every improvement for draft and reduce the pig iron and old material, such as shot and shell and old cannon, into liquid in an incredibly short time. saw them casting shot for the Woolwich Infants," nice little weapon. the largest when completed Will weigh Sl tons. The one 1 saw weighed 35 tons, it fires 8 conical shot or rather shell, weigh ing TOO pounds, and the cost of firing, in cluding the loading of the shell and the powder to propel it, is just $6o. %. The gun is made by coiling up 8 strip of SIX inch square iron, then welding it solid, un- der the steam hammer. and shrinking it on to a steel core. This steam hammer is worth mentioning, there are twelve boilers generating steam to work 1t. Its dead weight IS 40 tons, and strikes when use d to it's full force .0O0 tons (one thousand tons). l can't describe the anvil on which it strikes, it is one of the largest castings in the world, and the foundation is laid in solid granite 50 feet deep. The tongs used weigh 20 tons, and are over 40 feet long, and the derrick for hoisting the castings raise 100 tons when ne cessary. There are acres of shot and shell piled op Is feet high, condemned and only waiting their turn to be melted aud cast into more mod
 ern projectiles. There are hundreds of guns that have cost anywhere from $2, 900 to $lO,O0o condemned in the same way, as useless In the face of such weapons as the Infant" which will throw 700 pound shot miles, and will at a reasonable range pierce an armor plate l4 inches thick. The cost of an Infant" is about $l5. 900, for 35 ton gun, and of course the 80 ton gun in the same proportion. In the liar, ness department one would think there was enough to supply the world, but no, John Bull" keeps few on hand in case of any emergency ss he has 10000 sets of artillery and light cavalry harness in this one store room of his. Of course it is an immense job to take care of it all, and there are hun. dreds of men employed on 1t all the time. hope to see the Mint next week, and if have time will send letter describing it.
 E. WNcKwoRTH
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sharon.

ShNrOMs
 Your correspondent pleads guilty to the charge of not having kept you posted in events that have transpired In this vicinity, for the past few weeks, but pleads in exten- uation of his heinous crime want of time. So' ial festivities are the order of the day, in fact, the number of weekly and social gatherings is 80 large that 1 think may safely Say Sharon was never SO gay and festive before. To particularize somewhat t..e Literary Society holds Il meeting every Monday evening at the house of one.of it's members, the exercises consisting of read ings, declamations, compositions, music, debates and charades.
 The Terpschorcan club, composed of 8 select number of young ladies and gentle :. men, has a meeting about once in two weeks ut BartTam's hotel. at which, as it's name implies, dancing is made a specially. The Episcopalians and Methodists each have weekly sociables, which are largely attended, and are very pleasant and inter +sting; these with an occasional party of a more private nature affords very comfort able modlcum of weekly entertainments. Friend Warmer from Cornwall, came 1 down on the vendors of Jersey lightning like wolf on the fold, q week or two since, and brought three of them before Justice Prndle for trial. Two plead guilty and forked over the neces sary amount of grecnbacks to satisfy the outraged law, the ,hird stood trial and brought sufficient tes- timony, as he thought to establish his in nocence, but the memorable judge fined him one dollar and costs, and he still hay ing faith in his ability 10 vanquish the State appealed to the Superior Court.
 We are just now affected with periodi- cal spasm on the town hall question. Some four weeks ago the commissioners appoint rd to carry out the provisions of law passed by the last Legislature, requiring towns to furnish fire proof Repositories for probate records, visited this village, and finding this town utterly destitute in iha, resrect, in conjunction with the select men obtained Site and instituted arrangements for having fire proof building erected toI that purpose, whereupon a number of cti- zens who for years have been z''alous ad' yocates of the erection of commOdiOus town hall, thinking as the building ordered by the commissioners is 10 cost about $2, 800, now was the time to carry out thell project, by addng few thousand dollars to the above sum. called town meeting Io get the sense of the people upon the propo. sition, but the voters did not respond with that alacrity which was expected, but being probably somewhat sore from certain little irregularities of the past year. by which the town has suffered loss of e considerable
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A SToRY OF CHARITY.-A letter. from Newport to the Providene Journal tells this shocking story of the way that public charity is dispensed in Rhobe Island, and that state is probably not alone in it's un
 pleasant record. This is typical of the whole spirit of such management at pres ent through the country although an exsg- gerated case. It says:-A most singular story has been related to us by 8 gentle
 man of this city, who says T have no req son to doubt the truthfulness of the state ment. It Is as follows viz: In a certain town in Rhode Island, the parents of two children, boy and girl, died, leaving the friendless orphans to the cold world, A meeting of the authorities of that town was holden to decide upon some action that would relieve the town of the expense of supporting these children. The matter was discussed freely at this meeting, and at an adjourned meeting held at a private residence, the children were necessarily present, and this was the way in which the case was managed by these christian men. The boy was told to go into an adjoining room, where he would find a man asleep, in certain pocket of whose clothing was five cent piece, and he was to bring it to the committee. The boy obeyed the order. The girl was sent to another room where was woman sleeping, and from whose pocket piece of money, or script. was to be taken. She obeyed the instructions given her, and the children were arrested upon charge of petty larceny. were tried and found guilty, and were sentenced to the state reform school during their minor ity. Can such things be here In Rhode Island. Our informant believes the state ment made to him "by friend who knew the facts" to be true. The name of the town we withhold for the present. The children are at the present time inmates of the reform school Gas we understsnd). Is not this fit subject for investigation
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West Cornwall.

West Cornwall.
 Mr. E B. Wctherel has sold his dwell ing house 10 Mrs. Mundry, and gives pos session. on Jan. l, 1875.
 Snow to the depth of about four inches fell last Sunday, and we are having zero weather.
 T. $ Gold, N. Hart, and Harry Sedg- wick of this town, attended the late meet ing of the State Board of Agriculture in Woodstock, Conn.
 Edgar c. Emmons, the youthful lec- turer' gave temperance lecture in the Village Hall, last Friday evening. and those 0 who were present speak very highly of it.
 The Housatonic railroad now issue tickets fer the through freight train going north, which will be appreciated by the public as it is very great convenience.
 Last Monday night three healthy look ing trsmps applied to Selectman Shepard for lodgings, and were refused, whereupon they went to his woodpile and appropria- ted wood with which they kindled a fire by the roadside, and encampcd for the night. Conse quently, Mir. Shepard had them ar. rested as vagrants and brought before O. $. Fitch, Esq, who sentenced them each to 30 days in jail.
 NUF CED.
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THE DECEPTIVE SMALL Boy -" Passing by one Gf the city schools yesterday" says Burlington (1owa) paper. we listened to the scholars singing "Oh how love my teacher dear" There was one boy. with Il voice like a tornado. wto was so rnlhuslas tic that he emphasized every other word, and roared, On how l love my teacher dear with vim that left no possible doubt of his affection. Ten minutes after that boy had been stood on the llne for putting shOemaker's WAX on his teachers chair, got three demert marks for drawing picture of her with red chalk On the back of an at las, been we'll shaken for putting Il bent pin in smother boys char, scolded fur whist ling out loud. sentenced 10 stay after school for drawing ink moustaches on hIs face and hlacking the end of another hoy's nose, and soundly whipped for slapping lhr'e hun dred thirty nine spit balls up against the ceiling, and throwing one big one into \ girls ear. You can't believe half u boy says when he sings"
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Sheffield


 In glanCing over the items from this town printed ir the last NEWS, read some things before unbeknown to me. Now, Mir. Printer, either you must learn to read properly or l must learn to write legibly; for one of us was in fault last week. You m de me to say that the topic of Dr Bel lows lecture was concerning the Se0en- teersh Century; it should have read: Two Thirds of the Nineteea,h Century," Also, it was stated that IMr. Little had been hold ing meetings in She field; the name of this gentleman who goes about doing good is Littletirld, name quite inappropriate for man of such influence The meetings begun by these gentlemen were continued by the pastors during the week, and they propose to hold them during this week as there Is considerable interest felt in the community.
 The Farmers Festival took place at Miler's Hotel, the evening of the l7tb. More than POO guests were present. The supper was success, for the worthy land lady never fails to please her guests on such OCCASIONS. Numerous speeches were made by representatives from the different towns. and the party broke up at an early hour, the people living north returning on the train.
 The funeral services of the wife of Earl Lee. formerly of this place, were at fnD6.E of tho honoo nf hia hrOthor S..th Lee, in Western Sheffield, on Sunday after, noon.
 The Sunday School of the Copgrega- tional Church expect 10 pass pleasant Christmas Eve at the house of Mrs. George Cook.
 The Episcopalians celebrate Christmas as usual, with Tree for the children.
 The Methodist church is to be reopen ed the 29th of this month. Bishop James is to preach the opening sermon on that day, and several clergymen from abroad are expected to be present All who have once heard Bishop James will need no greater attraction to draw them to the church than the thought of hearing him again. We trust the church will be filled to the utmost We read with interest each week tho columns of u 6. NEWS, but of late we look in vain for intelligence from Kent anG Falls Village. What has become of the Sun of Kent, which formerly illumined the NEWS? We would like to hear from these places through your paper. Ir%A