Connecticut western news., 1874-12-18
Ore Hill.

The School in District No. 8, (Ore HilD has at last opened with fair prospect of 8 good school, with Mir. E. Landon and Miss Cleveland for teachers. The school house, built at an expense of about two thousand five hundred dollars ($2, ,5Oo) would have been an ornament to the district had it been well built. As it is. it may last few years. with many repairs, some having already been made which were very necessary.
 The Brook Mining Go. of Ore Hill, have received orders for two hundred (2OO) tons of ore from Kent, which has in part been shipped by the c. W. R. R. This Is the first order they have had for some time.
 Nil. H. Weed has opened an ore mine near the Chatfield ore bed in the rear orch ard of George Bushnell. The quality is good and the prospect of ore is fair.
 Mir. James Van Deusen, of Ore Hill. has sold his house and lot to Mir. Charles Ev- erts, who has taken possession. Mr. Van Deusen has moved into the summer resi- dence of the late Porter Burrall, near Lake vile.
 The ore mines in Ancram. on the line of the Poughkeepsie & Eastern Railroad, known as the Reynolds mine, and Morgan mine, have decided to suspend business for the present on account of the hard timee.
 Mir. c. s. Maltby of Phoenix Furnace. has sent horses and few men to Yer mont, what he has had employed at the fur ace and ore bed. He is getting little short of coal and thought they would be of is working very yell at present, making 8 little over thirteen tons of iron every twenty-four hours He is working his ore mine and raising ore enough to keep his furnace running on his ownif he chooses to do SO, but he does not. He thinks 1t makes better iron to mix other ores with his own. Mir. A. J. Copp Is superintendent, and Mir. Traver is the foundryman,
 Mir. J. Spencer, the brakeman who had his hand badly smashed some three weeks ago while coupling cars on the trestle at Chapinville, is recovering very fast, and intends going to work next Monday, al though his hand now looks very bad. He belonged to Conductor Norton's train.
 The ore mine at Mt. Riga has stopped business for the present, last Wednesday. It is called the Mt. Riga Mining Go. Su perintendent Cook thinks they may do c little something after the first of JAnu- ary, preparatory to working Tn the spring.
 Quite an accident occurred at the Chat field ore bed. On Sunday night as the en' gineers were cleaning the boiler of one oi the engines. one of them was inside of the boiler and the other on top to hand him whatever he might want, both having Ian terms. They use crude oil in cleanins around the boiler which was still hot o quite warm, even enough 30 at least, tt generate gas, which took fire and exploded burning both men very badly about tL, hands and face. One of them is not ex pected 10 recover, the flesh being burned and nothing but the bone left.
 Chicken thieves are becoming quit, plenty in the western part of the town, al most every one losing some. Mir. D. Cool had few shut up, which he was takin extra pains with and had been for som time, and counting on the quantity of egg he should receive for his trouble. You ca
 judge his feelings when one morning la week he went to feed them as usual, in stead of chickens he only found their heod which some one had kindly left him fn his trouble of fattening them SO nicely.
 understand he intends to retire from tn chicken business. K