Connecticut western news., 1874-09-18

come 'drefful' near doing i) and not only are we in trouble; but whole street full toward the depot are complaining because they are compelled to go through wide and deep ditch in order to get into the street-and this isn't the worst troube nobody can hitch horse to the several posts along the street, because they cant get there. Really now, Mir. Selectmcn, cant this matter be remedied?
 Connecticut Western Road.-The pas senger receipts of tEe Connecticut Western railroad for the month of August were the largest by ,500 of any one month since the road began operation, and the freight ing business for the month IS not behind last year, notwithstanding the falling off during the last eight months in the iron bus mess, which ordinarily affords an income 10 the road of $s.OoO to $lO,OOO month There are encouraging indications, howev CT, of revival of this business on the line of the road. Large sales have been made within the last few days, and it looks now as if the furnaces in the western part of tho state would soon be in operation again. n.- Hartord Couront
 Elopement at Chapinville. Brooklyn has its scandal and-and-so has Chapin- vile. Report comes to us now that the mother of three children has gobbled up two of them (the two girls, leaving the boy with it's father.) and elopcd with gay ana festive LothariO; the last seen of them be ing at Ashley Falls, where they took the cars on the Housatonic road. As we have Ut invested very heavily in scandals of late, we'll not enlarge on this, but there arc some we presume who will hayc the hardi- hood to say she has done (W)right, and that he will not regret the step he has taken when he feels the chilling blasts of old Winter(s), so surely and so very soon to Overtake them.
 An Improvement.-Th filling in and making smooth and level, the uusghtly hollow north of the Union depot in Ca naan, is one of the best jobs the village has known. This rubbish hole, so prominent to the view of everybody who came into the village by teams or the cars of either railroad, was gricvious eye sore, being so near to, as it was, the beautiful new Union depot, and with which, the contrast was anything but pleasant to contemplate. This place is now being filed by the combined labor of the Conn. Western and Housaton- ic railroads, and the citizens of Canaan; the railroads drawing the gravel and the citi- zens doing the grading, and the filthy dump hole will soon be made both useful and or namental.
 Ashley F'alls.-There now! How much better that looks! The new park fence in Ashley Falls is completed, and, as Q good neighbor said as soon as he saw it: "Noth- ing was ever done in Ashley Falls that ed- ded so much to the beauty of the place, as the fencing Tn of the park with such a neat and tasty fence. We are assured the trees will be added as soon as the proper season for transpls nting them arrives. Now let the logs be kept away, and all protected from destruction by those, whom we are tempted to believe are born 10 destroy things, and it will prove source of pleasure and comfort to the inhabitants How about the new bell for the school house? Don't forget that, and let it be a good one, too.
 Feminine Women.-And now John Q Adams Esq, of Negaunee, (formerly from Cornwall has been and gone and writ Il long article in the Negaupee Herald about woman suffrage. With much else that is good he says: God created women feminine" That assertion, Mir. John 0. you know isn't true! Talk about some women you know of as being feminine Preposterous you know better, sir Read the following, for instance: "When they tried to force Miss Gay of Independence, Missouri, into marriage against her will, she kicked the minister's hat off, knocked the young man down, and rode off on mule, with one foot on each side of hlm." Isn't Miss Gay entitled to vote? Call her feminine, if you dare, and then look out for your hat!
 Negaunee Iron Co.--A meeting of the Board of Directors was held at tue general office, 2l4 Broadway, New York on the 18th of July, and the following officers were elected:
 Hon. w. H. Barnum, Lime Rock, Conn.,, President.
 c. J. Canda, New York, Secretary and Treasurer.
 Jas. Rood, agent at Chicago.
 Thos. J. Houston, late of Salisbury iron district, Conn.,, was elected director and general manager of the company's estate at Negaunee.
 Mir. Houston came to Negaunee about one year ago as Assistant Superintendent. and immediately assumed the discharge of duties which involved great deal of careful labor. Suffice it that his work gave entire satisfaction to the stockholders of the company, and to the business public with whom he was brought in contact. He is found to be a gentleman of stern integri. ty, whose labor is performed as faithfully as the most rigid honor will dictate.-Ne- gaunee Hon Herald.
 The Poor Widder.-NR EDITOR In last weeks NEWS had the pleasure ot noticing Luna ys. Enami.' do no: see how Luna quite dare call her friend Jane Ann Simp- son such names as poor Widder Simpson, when she owns farm, dairy, together with tobacco, and her husbands clothes, and again unequivocally, the uneducated and unsophisticated Jane Ann Simpson. It seems to me that she will not learn refine ment through the public press. Luna should go and see her and try to correct her taste, and show her especially by speech and gesture that there can be no refinement in her husbands old clothes and in a friand